The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

A lot IN Guthrie SoId MONDAY Ior eA,0D
Track laying on the Choctaw is progress
| ing.
The Cumberland Presbyterians at Nor
man will build a church.
Mayor Spengel of Guthrie issued q
Thanksgiving proclamation.
A band of Caddoes have started out on a
! journey to find the Messiah.
1t is said that the Wichita and Caddo
| Indians are eager for allotment.
Frank Greer is working heart and soul
! for new hotel at Guthrie.
| One firm at Norman shipped Isl bales
of cotton to Galveston in one week.
The covered wagons wend their way
into Oklahoma, the whole year round.
The demand for farm lands were never
SO great as it is now in Canadian county.
Oklahoma has never paid much atten-
ton to Thanksgiving. But she viii this
year.
From June 4th to Oct. 18th the receipts
of Norman were 1898 and its expenses
S627s5
| pay for their orchards from the proceeds
of them.
The deputy marshals met at Ardmore
last week and thirteen new members were
added to the roll
| One of the principal streets of Chandler
is called Marvel. after the president of the
Santa Fe system.
Tecumseh boasts that it is one day older
than Chandler. But they came mighty
near being twins.
The woman who played the mermaid in
her husbands museum has been sued for
divorce at Oklahoma City.
One of the toasts at the Ell Reno ban
quet was: Oklahoma Statutes-Wonder-
fully and Fearfully Made"
This is the first Thanksgiving Day that
Oklahoma has really been licensed to re-
joice And she should do it.
Oklahoma is about the only country in
the United States where the mortality
among the wild turkeys on Thanksgiving
Day is almost as great as that among the
tame.
The Shawnees are making arrangements
to organize G. A. r. post at this place,
and if they succeed Tecumseh will have
the only Indian G. A. r. in the United
States.
You can always find one man in Okla
homa who says that the coming winter is
going to be unusually severe and another
one who knows by all the signs that it is
to be uncommonly mild
Ed Grant was on Saturday awarded the
contract to build the bridge across the
CimRrron, six miles west of Guthrie, for
81. 400. He agrees to have the bridge com
pleted within ninety days.
The courts of Dakota have decided that
an Indian cannot legally become bonds
man as he is the ward of the government
which at any time can repudiate any OF
his contracts with or without his consent.
Lewis Holland, the soldier who shot
Sheriff Parker and others at Chandler,
was brought over to Guthrie on Saturday
evening and lodged in Jail, having been
placed under 81, 500 bond at his prelimin-
airy HEARING.
ThUeivil docket at Muskogee will be
taken up on the 9th inst The suit for
partition of the lands of the Cherokee ma
ton and outlet will not be tried this term,
as there is legal questions first to settle
which will go to the spring term.
The Shawnee Indians will make applica-
ton at the February term of the district
court to be held at Tecumseh, to become
citizens of the United States They are AS
well-behaved and law-abiding class of peo-
pie as you will find anywhere.
Judge Harvey favors selling the Kicka-
poo lands for the benefit of the public
schools, or for an endowment for institu-
tions for higher education. He thinks it
would be far better to sell the land on
long time and easy payments than to have
the occupants expend their all in lawsuits.
The longest, and to the Indian Territory
the most important, land suit ever insti-
tuted in this country is that fled at Nus
kogee by several Creeks praying for the
parttioning of the lands of their tribe. 1t
is generally thought by lawyers that the
action will lie and that the Indian prob
lem has been at last solved.
G. NJ. Scott, an old Indian scout, living
near Arkansas City, has wolves, foxes,
owls and prairie dogs on his place, where
he can see them whenever he glances from
the windows Of his quiet home. He de-
lights to hear the wolves howl and the
Owls nooG d6 nlehG, as DC SAYS Inc OH Ia
miliar sounds of the pioneer days make
him sleep better"
FL Reno Eagle: Inspectors Weigel aud
Scothorn returned from the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country, Thursday, having com
pleted the work Of inspecting the proposed
sites of the county seats of the new coun
ties The seats were first designated by
the interior department people, and these
gentlemen were sent to sit as judges on
the selections. to approve or disapprove
In two or three instances they have recon-
mended changes, on account of distance
from water or roughness of the country,
but, generally, the selected sites were ap-
proved.