The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.

The election takes place next Tuesday,
! February Sd.
| Choctaw City wants dry goods store.
/ 4 first-claSs opening for some one with
small capital.
/ Mr. Young observation-disclosures. is
1 the chivalrous title one Oklahoma editor
| applies 10 another.
/ Text books for the public schoolsNhave
/ not yet been adopted but probably Will De
/ in three or four weeks
/ The regular quarterly examination OF
/ teachers will be held in Saltwater Jan. 80
/ and 81, today and tomorrow.
| Miss Olivet Thornley,. of neAr Cimarron
| City has been selected as one OF the
teachers in the city schools at Guthrie
| Delegate to Congress Harvey IS conf
/ dent congress will appropriate S0OUOO
more for the benefit of the destitute IN
/ Oklahoma.
| Farmers are very busy blowing and pre-
/ pairing for spring crops. The wheat crop
| of the Panhandle is beauty 10 behold
/ saltwater Farmer.
| Garden truck is so plentiful and succu-
/ lent that the people are feeding their stock
/ on it-that is some of them are, in some
| places, on some kinds of truck.
/ Guthrie News: The stir has already
begun, the merchants are stocking up pre-
paratory TO the opening of the lands east
, of here. Already many strangers have
/ arrived
| An enumeration of the children between
and u is called for by Superintendent
! Lawhead Report the facts as they were
( Jan. /, distinguishing between male and
/ female. and between white and colored
/ The political pot is bubbling up stronger
| Just now than il has at any time. The
/ contest appears to be Steele and anti
/ Steele, but what that has 70 DO with local
and county elective Offices Is not clear
| The new church in course of construc-
/ ton at Britton VIII cost not less than $1,000
/ when completed, aud the Gazette says 1t
| will be second only to the Baptist binding
in Oklahoma City as the incest church III
/ the territory.
! The order of county commissioners num-
! boring the school townships of the county
is overruled by the terri orial board, and 1t
! is ordered that the legal designation OF a
school township shall be that of the land
survey township that constitutes major
| part.
| According TO published call a meeting of
/ Master Masons of Saltwater and vicinity,
was held at that place, Saturday evening,
/ the 18th. 1t was decided to organize
/ lodge at Saltwater. The hall Will he fitted
| days.
Acting Commissioner Strong of the
| general land Office says settlers upon
/ school lands in Oklahoma who have set
| tied upon them with view to purchasing
same, to the extent of 100 acres, will not
] be disturbed by the government, but per
mitted to remain pending action by the
/ legislature fixing terms and prices upon
said lands No one will be permitted to
| occupy or enclose more than 100 acres.
! The only trouble with Oklahoma farm
| ing is (said Lewis Laws, candidate for
clerk, a. he showed a party of men last
| Sunday fields of green wheat beside the
| freshly broken ground for spring crops)that
| the farmer has no time TO loaf; man can
/ plant corn here the year around. And
/ then he looked Iongngly oyer toward his
undulating and fertile domain" encircled
with pure, purllng, ripping stream
/ Guthrie News