The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| The Guthrie ice plant will double its ca
pacity this fall.
Edmond News: The cattle in the strip
will go-to grass.
! Forty cars of wheat have been shipped
| from Hennessey this season.
The Guthrie papers sound just like they
did the first month after the opening.
Capital is coming into Oklahoma, but it
is not the kind that has to be located.
Burnett. Bill Griffenstein's town is
going to have brick building right away.
Kingfsher has still got IFS eye peeled for
any poor drouth-stricken districts in the
east.
The Caddo Indianis very shrewd. 1t is
said that he can give Yankee pointers on
| trading.
The biggest thing on the Guthrie wheat
| market, according TO Frank Greer, Is the
| farmers smile.
just enough rain in Oklahoma TO make
| blowing for wheat easy. Everything
comes just right this year.
1t looks as though FL Reno was going
! to come sailing in under the wire with the
first street railway in Oklahoma.
When that proclamation comes it will
| be like every man in Oklahoma was struck
by lightning. What a scramble there
will be.
The Oklahoma City base ball club is
getting up into Kansas to find clubs TO
beat. The Wellington club has sue
cumbed.
The Oklahoma papers are ready to get
special edition out as quick as you can say
Jack Robinson" The proclamation will
not come unawareS.
Some days there are as high as ten car
loads of watermelonS shipped north from
Oklahoma Oklahoma better fight shy or
1t will come to be known as the water
melon state.
Some Oklahoma man, who stands in at
the White House, ought to get President
Harrison to give him the pen with which
he signs the proclamation throwing open
the new lands.
Thomas A. Osborne, of Topeka. and
James Geary, of Oklahoma City have Sc
cured the franchise for line of stree
railway on the principal streets of FL
Reno. The ordinance provides they shall
begin work within thirty days and have it
finished and cars running in six months.
FL Reno Eagle: The Indians are slow
about accepting money for their lands.
Notwithstanding the fact that thousands
OF dollars await their acceptance at Oar
Hngton, there are but few calls at the
paying teller's desk, and there is no telling
when the siXty-seven thousa nd dollars re-
naming will be paid.
Oklahoma City Journal: Mack Nichols,
a farmer living neal Moore, was waylaid
and Shot last Friday evening while work
ing in bis field He was shot from am
bush with Winchester, the ball taking
effect in the jaw and face. He is said to
be in a critical condition The shooting
Is supposed to have been done by Sam
Stafford, as it is alleged he had made
threats that he would kill Nichols if he
did not leave the country. They had had
trouble over land contest. Sheriff
Smith, Of Cleveland county, is out with
warrant for Stafford,
There is swamp in the Cheyenne coun- |
try known as Devils Swamp" which is |
being tapped a feeder to the South |
Fork Irrigation company. This name was |
given 1t by the Indians many years ago, |
and tradition points out many historical !
points where fierce and bloody encounters /
took place between the various tribes of /
dusky warriors who made periodical trips !
through here In pursuit of game or to sat |
isfy the rowing disposition that is born /
and bred in Indians. Among some of the |
most thrilling events commemorative of !
the name of Devils Swamp" was fight |
between the Cheyenne and Arapahoe |
tribes, whereby the former tribe drove |
several hundred of the latter into the |
swamp and they were drowned.
The territorial board of equalization
has been busy in adjusting the unequal
assessments of property in the several
counties. The following values are equal
lied by the board: Agricultural lands in
Cleveland and Canadian counties value at
s. per acre; Oklahoma county s. per acre;
Kingflsher and Logan counties at 81 per
acre, and Payne county at 81 per acre
The value per head of horses, SIS; mules,
S37; cattle, IS So sheep, 81; hogs, $50;
wagons, $l3; carriages, $3.50 gold
watches, $40; silver watches, s. so On
railroad property of the Santa Fe and
Rock Island, the value of the main track
was fixed at 5000 per mile; side track,
s., 800 per mile The rolling stock, build
ings and platforms, tools and materials.
the same value as returned by the railroad
The main track OF the Choc-
taw road is valued at 50, 900 per mile. anu
side track at 81, 500 per mile; the rolling
stock, buildings and platforms, tools and
of the ChOctaw road is valued
at the assessment of the county Five
Pullman palace sleeping cars used on the
Santa Fe road are valued at Sc, 600