The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-06
OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.

Payne county has the largest school pop
uiation of any county in the territor,
compared to its size =
| The prospects are favorable for larg
crop or cotton in Payne county this veal
ana saltwater wants gin.
| The register of the United States lans
Office has arrived in Beaver and the offic,
VIII be open for business the first week i,
April.
| The farmers about Beaver are kind O
crowdlng the season. Some of them hays
| nnlshed their spring blowing. says the
| Advocate.
The material is on the ground for the
new Presbyterian church in Saltwater
The Hawk says it will be splendid build
ing and will soon be pushed to completion
A postal clerk in Arkansas has just been
arrested for throwing mail into the
streams to save himself the trouble of dis
tributing it. The Gazette thinks he must
have several relations or imitators on the
routes in Oklahoma.
The committee on location of the Metho-
dist college in Oklahoma will be at Brit
ton during the dedicatory services this
week. Ii is the intention to fix upon the
location OF the college at as early date as
posi- bic, probably within few days after
this visit.
A number OF Creek Indians were in the
city this afternoon conferring with United
States Marshal DeFord in regard to two
friends of theirs who disappeared about
the 22d of last month. They fear that
there has been foul dealing. Oklahoma
City Journal.
The first man the soldiers arrested in the
Cherokee strip during the present raid was
j. w. Jordan, citizen OF the Cherokee
nation. Secretary Noble is determined to
show the Cherokee nation that as long as
the title to the outlet is in dispute they
have no more right TO occupy and use it
than the boomers.
The Oklahoma City Gazette is something
of boomer. Here is the way it talks up
It's town: To-day it is the foremost city
IN the indian territory, without rival
from Wichita on the north to Fort Worth
on the south. 1t is the most populOus,
most central, most progressive and most
wealthy city in the Indian territory"
The Gazette interviewed one of the col
ored exodusters from the south recently
arrived in Guthrie and here is what it
learned, in his own language: "De cullud
preachers all tole us Oklahoma was de
promised land and dot ole Massa Linkum's
son was dar to meet us. Yves all done
eoan to Gufrie and from dar well be card
foah. All de niggas is cummin and
dab won't be enuf niggahs left in my
country TO eat de postum and coon crap
dis summahP'
In speaking of the Cherokee strip, the
Minco Minstrel says: mo cattlemen can
settle there, no Indian can remain there
1t is holy ground that no one must touch,
and no steps are being taken to remove
the veil of sanctity spread over it by the
benharrlson order of priests. Owing to
a Tan fn n..fn
our midst it delights us to fret the souls
Of the priests by informing them that
rows fly over the land in defiance OF
heir centuriOns, and coyotes nightly hold
Pagan revel in high and low places We
are tempted, too, to harrow the pious soul
If the high priest Benharrison that the
lngodly are likely to make firewood of
possession of his Holy Land anyhow"
Read this and laugh, but k- p off the
"trip.
before the United States district court |
yesterday that may involve the owner
hip of the Cherokees to the Cherokee out
ct. Pursuant to the order of the secretary |
Il the interior to clear the strip of the |
;herOkeeS as well as boomers, company
# cavalry under the command of Lieut.. |
1. j. Goldman, made raid on the stone
.uafry, winch mas Deen wOrhed for several /
ears near Chillocco, stopping work ana
caring up mile and a half of track
branching in from the Santa Fe railroad.
yesterday Mr.. James Brizzolare, promi-
ent lawyer and attorney for the Chero-
ees and Mr.. w. w. Ross. brother of the
treasurer of the Cherokee nation, ap-
cared before Judge Green, asking for a
emporary restraining order against the
Inited States troops, which was granted
he argument on the case will come up
n the Goth of this month. 1t is under
TODD that the whole question of the Chero-
ees' title to the strip Will be raised but
neither the court Will allow it to come in
+ not is TO be seen.