The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-25
running all winter-oklahoma City

running all winter-oklahoma City
Journal.
At Oklahoma City the canning factory
| question is being quite generally discussed
on the streets. and the Journal thinks the
| chances are good for some enterprlslng
man who has had experience IL the busl-
ness to get up stock company.
Oklahoma City Journal: Attorney
General Miller has issued orders TO move
all United States prisoners TO Wichita,
unless the court would sit here again in
side Of sixty days. Sheriff peSord took
a good sized batch away with him day
or two ago.
| The Monitor says: Give car loads Of
etc. arrived in Mulhall last Saturday
| from the east. the owners of the same
arriving Sunday. Still they come 10 IaIr
| Oklahoma TO make their future homes"
| The Choctaw road now has all the
money it needs TO pay off outstanding IN
| debtedness and also 10 continue building
| operations. Everything Is moving the
| ChoctaB's way now and we may expect
| soon 70 derive the benefits or q cross rOSsu.
oklahoma City Journal.
| The cause of education is sure making
progress in the territory. The Gazette
| says precocious child In one of Oklahoma
| City's private schools after tweDty-three
minutes laborious strain on composition
| on Wood" submitted the following: a
peiece of wood can be chawped VII a axe
They are great people. down in Okla
bona, to do one thing st time. Ihey
are Just now devoting themselves TO local
and county politics, and the way they are
making the gravel fly beats hen Il
scratchin.'' When the cruel war is over
the papers will have time and room to tAIA
al l.
We clip this week from the Indian Git
izen, what purports TO be the complete
census of the five civilized tribes. The
total population is placed at 177,7S2 The
Indian population is 50.647: colored, l1,124;
whites, 100, All: of which 1874 are IN the
Chickasaw nation. The estimate Of the
Chickasaw natives is placed at S,464.
Indian Arrow: There is bill now pend
ing before the congress of the United
States providing for the admission OF the
Indian territory into the union as state:
Are we ready? For fear that such bill
might become law in the near future we
would advise the sale of the strip and an
increase of our school funds, a larger
number of schools, the reopening Of our
high schools and the election OF a chief
who will endeavor to briug about this
result, that we may be as well prepared
for the emergency as possible, believing as
we do that we had better gointO the union
as intelligent educated. Christian people
rather than lot of ignoramOuSes with a
few acres of land.
The Oklahoma City Times sums mp the
situation in the territory as follows: Ii
cannot be disguised that there are among
us many deserving poor people who need
the assistance that the government Is
giving. 1t is, however, no worse here than
in many old states. 1t is "a fact that dona-
lions have been sent from Oklahoma TO the
drouth-smitten portions Of Kansas and
Nebraska, There is no occasion foI
chagrin in receiving aid from the traes-
uries of the United States under the
peculiar circumstances. This country
was opened to settlement after crop time
in 1889 1t was dry last year, and little OF
no crop was raised, but no worse than IN
other places. Now we must care tor the
needy The administration recognizes the
existing fact. More money as well as
seed for spring must and will be provided.