The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Statesman says Hennessey wants a
cotton gin.
The bridge fight in Kingfsher county
still wakes warm.
Cotton pickers are as scarce in Okla
homa as section hands are in Kansas.
The mill at Kingfsher is grinding grain.
and Hennessey wants one OF her own.
The Minco Minstrel says the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe country will be open soon
and then Minco will be in the fun.
Two colored men were arrested at Okla
homa City Sunday for having shotguns in
their possession, and fined $50 and costs
each.
Eight members of the surveying corps
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe allotting
agents returned to Ell Reno Frustrated
with malaria.
Minco Minstrel: The war cry from Okla
homa now is: Statehood for Oklahoma
with an enabling act to gather in the rest
OF the Indian territory"
Mrs. Ryan and her daughter, of Okla
homa City. are improving and will be able
to appear as witnesses against the negresS,
Carrie Hewlett, a. the preliminary trial
A young man named Luther GLASGOW.
living near Leon, shot and instantly killed
himself the other day while fOoling with
an old pistol which he did not know was
loaded.
Classen, of the Edmond Sun, thinks
that the secretary of the interior should
prohibit the sale Of Intoxicating liquors in
the new country for some time after the
opening.
Edmond Sun: Secretary Noble Is cut
ting down expenses. Townsite board No
q must do their own clerical work. If
that provision could have sayedi s., 900 or
$500 for Edmond, it should have been
done before this.
The bachelors of Yukon and vicinity
gave reception and ball last Monday at
Ferris Hail. and q grand good time was
had. The Frisco Times says the bachelors
were on their good behavior and evidently
understood the art of entertaining to per-
lection.
Saltwater Gazette: Hon. G. W. Gard
enhire returned last week from Kansas,
where he has been looking after the grain
and fruits OF his Kansas farm. He says he
has good corn on his farm, but only eight
miles east the corn is ruined by dry
weather.
The unusal scene of a parent giving up
to the officers of the law as
criminals was enacted at Ardmore last |
week. A preachers two boys had stolen |
horses and when they returned home the |
father turned them over to the law for |
punishment.
Mrs. Rock says railroads believe in and |
practice the doctrine of casting your
bread upon the waters" Last fall they /
furnished the farmers Of Oklahoma with |
their seed wheat, and now the roads are /
doing profitable business in freighting |
Oklahoma's wheat crop TO market.
Kingisher News Oklahoma, the lit
lie territory on the map could fill to over
lowing not only one canning factory, but
)ne TO every township. No vegetable
known to the canning business is not
grown here in prOfusion and for at least
100 days, running away beyond the usual
y used products of the central states.
The saloonists in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations misiDteTpreted Judge
3ryant's decision ON the sale of beer in
paying the penalty. All of them have
,een arrested and fined that did not have
evenue license LOsted conspicuOusly in
heir places of business. The path of the
awbTeaker is tortuous
Hennessey clipper: Corn that was
planted on the wheat stubbIe after the
wheat was harvested, is now in roasting
ar and looking line. Mr.. T. J. Brown
las fine field just southwest of town that
viii, with anything like an ordinary fall,
-ieId forty or fifty bushels to the acre.
lie will have thirty bushelso of wheat from
he same ground.
Judge Amos Green contends that there
no authority for the punishment of per-
ons committing perjury in land cases.
he oaths required iii these land cases. he
avs, are imposed by order of the secretary
f the interior, ant not because of a statu
DRY requirement He argues that the ,
rhine of perjury Goes not lie except where
expressly provided by statutory provision.
he point will be raised in the Rich case
n application for a writ of habeas corpus. [
State Capital: g. H. Marx deputy mar
bal of Payne NIFTY and United States /
equity marshal or the Usage country,
aries a white ahdled, 45-calibFe revolver
randed Bob Da,ton." He ran the Dali
9ns and four of their pals into a close !
lace in the Usage country last fall, on a !
barge of selling whisky TO the Indians. !
ob loaned one man his revolver and belt
nd started him after Marx. who was too {
luch for him. He disarmed his pursuer I
nd carries the Ibyolyer and belt as a !
)uvenir of the occasion. Marx is one of
ne bravest officers who have ever done
.ryice in the TERRITORY.
State Capital: Che Oklahoma Publish Y
* company filed Its charter with the sec Il
y
ltion provide fot the publication Of a
ally Democratic paper in Oklahoma City.
IdeT exclusive Democratic auspices. with c
capital stock of $4,000. . per cent Of
hch shall be PAD up before business be- o
ms The plan o9the company is TO pur- d
lase the OklahoIl a City Gazette and con- .
tidate it with the Press, Of this city.
be new paper Is 20 be edited by Judge
I'd Mrs Rock An agreement has been
ached with McAsasters about the price
be paid for { Ie Press plant About
so is between them on the good will, b
It an agreeaentes expected within a day
two.
The Cherokee Commission aud two OF
e head chiefs OF the Kickapoo tribe have G
me 10 Washington TO complete negotia-
1Bs for the KicEapoo reservation. The
ibe numbers les. than 300 and it is their
sire to take tbei5 lands al the southeast
rner Of their esirvstion in a. tract SIX
lies wide from last TO west and north
om the North Canadian far enough 70 +
commOdate the whole tribs- They will d
quire about two townships This will
ave about I60(no acres Of land 70 be p
ened 10 white settlement IL includes
me OF the finest land IN the two terri =
ries and the poorest Of il IS worth racing
r TIE North Canadian YaIlev for TWEEN
miles VIII be ogssned for settlement. u
from two 10 Eve miles IN width and az
n and productive ss any alluvial soil
er seen. Borzses ing the valiey j. good
- oak aud hickisry upland. aud beyond
az prairie. The little "souaw patches"
the valley givi evidence % what the
oductive qualities 81 the soil are. snd
] slopes show e 10 be 1De fruis
antry-
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