The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Grist Mill Jones has added g, coo In I'm
provements TO his mill.
Keokuk Falls is in the extreme north
east corner of county B.
s. Guthrie Chinaman ordered s65 worth
of opium by express the other day,
The Otoe and Nez Perez reservation viii
probably be opened with the strip.
The latest fake at Guthrie was that the
TerrllIs had escaped from the Saltwater
Jail.
A convention of the colored men Of the
territory was held at Kingfisher yester-
day.
Oklahoma City is on the verge of a beer
war which would be more appreciated
next July.
Miss Helen Clarke, the alloting agent,
Will finish the alloting of the Otoe lands
this week.
Marshal Grimes has received another in
stallment of federal money to defray court
expenses.
In the West Oklahoma townsite case at
Oklahoma City, the first witness occupied
the stand all day.
The agent of the Usage Indians Is &C
cused of advising them against taking
their lands in seyeralty.
Secretary Noble is no SLOUGH boomer
himself when it comes TO writing mp the
advantages of Oklahoma.
Dennis Flynn is hunting for the man
who started the story that he was dark
horse in the race for governor.
Nobody seems to know anything about
that dispatch from Tahlequah saying that
the Cherokee commission were successful
1t was probably fake
The Minco Minstrel gives the population
OF the Chickasaw nation at the following
figures: Indians, 3,474, whites, 49. 444;
negroes, probably about 2,0O0
The Muskogee Phoenix advocates the
doing away with the Indian annuity pay
ments, claiming rightly that the Indians
will never become industrious or good
citizens until it is done.
In the matter of fame, Frank Greer
thinks he can recognize some OF the bread
that has been cast upan the water in the
past. And he is right. Oklahoma has a
good name everywhere.
The Rock Island road has begun work
on the extension of their branch from
Minco into Texas, where it will connect
with a road leading to the gulf Every
train now carries car loads of men, teams
and grading tools out TO Minco.
Governor Martin has been requested to
aid colony of | negroes to come to
Oklahoma from the south. The colony
had been organized, but could not raise
money enough to pay their fares. He of
course can do nothing to aid them.
E. S. o. Bierne of Atoka is writing a
comprehensive history of the five civilized
tribes, to be published in the near future
The volume will contain brief history Of
each tribe their customs, habits and life
in their old reservations and in the Indian
Territory.
The Pabst Brewing company have be-
gun work on a thirty ton ice plant at King
fisher. The city has contracted with the
ice factory to furnish the city water, the
price fixed upon being 81, 500 per year. The
city puts in and owns the mains, stand
tower, etc.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: We shall
make no more definite promises about the
Choctaw till we see the smoke of the con-
struction train, but we have letter from
South McAlester saying, "the material is
on the way and Spencer will begin work
about Dec l."
According to the Gazette the freight re-
ceipts of the Santa Fe at Oklahoma City
will easily average SIS, 600 q month and
the sale of passenger tickets will swell the
total TO nearly $50. co., making a grand
total of nearly 800, 600 for the years bust
ness at this one point
William Berkey, Jr., of Geuda has
evolved scheme to prevent ''soonerism"
when the strip opens up. His idea is for
the president to issue passes to be given TO
the people along the line just before the
hour set for going upon the lands. Those
who have no passes when they go to the
registers Office must have gone into the
country the night before the opening, and
are therefore "sooners." 1t is not plain
how Mr.. Berkey's plan will prevent a
sooner" from getting pass from friend
who goes in legally.