The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.


U. S. Grant is a well known citizen o
Ell Reno.
A new town thirty miles west of E
Reno is to be called Ashley.
In the poem which Terrill wrote in jai
he favors free whisky.
The Salvation Army is preparing to lay
siege to Oklahoma City.
The Payne Hawk office exhibits a sprig
of prairie grass eleven feet high.
The Cherokee nation celebrated the
death of the desperate Tom Starr.
Governor Steele is talking up the open,
| ing of the new lands in the east. This
will help out.
Bee Guthrey is exercised as to whether
Governor Steele is going to take claim in
the new lands.
The Kickapoos are ready to treat this
time. But just as soon as the commits
sioners get there they will retreat.
It is reasonable to believe that several
! people are counting on the honor of hav-
ing the first child born III the new lands.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are
] taking steps to improve the breed of their
cattle and are buying thoroughbred stock.
The Perkins bridge is to be completed
! this week. This is the first wagon road
| bridge across the Cimarron in Oklahoma.
Governor Steele will be in Oklahoma on
| the opening day. So that il he comes
! back in hurry you can expect something
to pop.
The last game between the Guthrie and
Oklahoma City baseball clubs came out 13
to 13. Thirteen was an unlucky number
for both sides this time.
In Oklahoma it is possible to cover a
wagon with pistol. But that isn't the
kind of covering that keeps the rain out,
and You are liable to be arrested.
j. j. Burke notes in the Oklahoma
Times Journal that the territorial statutes
provide that school warrants shall be ac-
cepted in payment for school taxes
Balmaceda, the Chilian outcast, could
hide himself successfully from his pursuers
If be could secure a position as clerk in an
Oklahoma store that doesn't advertize.
Photographs are being taken of points
in the new lands by the dozen. 1t is said
that they are used by the boomers in Sc
lectihg claims, which is highly improba-
BILE.
That was a nice thing for Marshal
Grimes to do for Mrs. Short. Railroad
companies as a rule are hard things to get
money out of, but Grimes seems TO possess
the secret.
Hon. L. G. Perryman has been reelected
principal chief of she Creeks for another
period of four years. There were four can
didates in the field, but Perryman had
majority over all of them.
The Guthrie Press says that while it is
doubtful whether Grover Cleveland is the
heir apparent of the Democratic party,
there is every reason to believe that he
will soon be 4 parent.
Kansaus are known rs Jayhawkers,
Missourians as Pukes, Illinois people as
Suckers. Oklahoma people will be known
as "Sooners." That isn't very nice, but
neither is "Jayhawkers"
Ell Reno Eagle: The next term Of the
United States district court in this city
will be a big thing. There are already
nearly 200 cases on the docket, and more
are being added almost daily. One deputy
marshal docketed tWenty-six new cases
Monday.
The allotters on the Washita give glow
ing accounts of that country as a paradise
for hunters. They say that deer are as
plentiful as rabbits, wild turkeys come
right up TO the camp 70 eat and be eaten, /
aud the streams are alive with FISH. The
allOtteTs' bill OF fare is largely made up OF
game.
The Cherokees have never been awarring |
tribe. Coming ot savage race. IL IS some |
thing remarkable that they have been able |
TO prosper by the arts OF peace IN time !
past to the extent OF owning areas Of land, /
equal il size 70 a great empire The fol- |
lowing account OF their real estate trans 1
actions. clipped from the St. Louis Chroa- !
icle, will be read with especial interest i
while the Cherokees are attracting such i
wide spread attention:
Since ISL the Cherokses have made /
AZ treaties with the United States
and have decided 70 il 4
81. 600, 900 acres Of land. Il was in i772
they ceded TO the whites, the northern
portion of Kentucky, where Covington
now STANDS. AT other times they disposed
Of Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and
sections OF ether states. Gradually their
domain contracted and they
lost their hold on western Missouri. The |
government organized the Indian Terri
tory in 1884 and they retrested 10 this !
refuge, receiving over I2.ee9 coo acres Of
choicest lands, located ia the Eorthern and
eastern sections Of the territory. A short
period OF undisturbed quiet followed and
then the Osagss appeared, wanting 4
home. The Cberokees surrendered loeD.
10 acres for cash. Next sney sold strips
81 lands IN Kansas, each time pOckeftng
arge sums 9f money. Now they md
themselves driven 20 the extremity Of sell
ling their last possessions. oE OF iE1lct1nzI