The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The statehood idea seems to have fallen
from grace.
Corn is selling for 81 per bushel in the
Sac and Fox
In this excitement what has become of
Shawneetown?
By the time the first snow flies, claims
are going to be cheap on the east
Horace Speed says the Cherokee people
think all the world of the government.
How IN the world did the government
ever come to select Tecumseh as name!
No man selects his own neighbors in
Oklahoma unless be pays for the privilege.
The Hennessey Clipper is advocating
suuatter sovereignty for the Cherokee
strip.
The man who came to Oklahoma to
look for an opening has not been dlsap-
pointed.
ANY number of applications have been
made to file on land that has been allotted
to the Indians.
1t cost 81 50 to ride from Oklahoma City
to Tecumseh in regular conveyance. The
railroads are not lin 1t.
Oklahoma City Gazette: The race was
not TO abe swift when a soldiers declara-
tory was seeking the same quarter section.
An Oklahoma City man, l. c. Smith $
claim in the new country has bearing
orchard on it. five acres broken and fenced.
Water in Chandler was selling on Tues
day afternoon at Is cents drink, and AT
Tecumseh at ) cents, or % cents pallful
Now, when Democrats say the present
administration doesn't know what 1t IS do
ing, they cite the sight of the site OF
Chandler.
The secretary of the interior had $4,000
copies of the schedule OF lands printed for
distribution on Tuesday morning. Not
one of them has ever been heard of up to
date.
At one place on the PottawatOnie line
! a man on foot and one horseback both
started for the same claim. half mile dis
! tant. Owing to the rough condition of
| the ground to be travelled over the man on
! foot got to the claim first.
! Oklahoma Times-J Journal: Mrs. Graham
! of Kingfisher rode from the kickapoo line
| to a claim east of Tecumseh. She sue
ceeded in getting on the land ahead of all
| Others, but when she got here yesterday
afternoon she found fling on her claim.
| Twenty five in one company. who went
from Norman, all got on allotted lands.
! Three of them were up to file at Oklahoma
! City and on comparing the number OF the
! lands with the records at the land ONCE
| they found that the entire company got on
allotted lands
A man attempted to coon it, across
Deep Fork Monday night, and when right
| in the midst of the stream he missed his
! footing and plunged down into the water.
! He was obliged to call for help from the
boomers to get out His attempt to take
advantage ended disastrously with him.
Here is case of powerful rustliDg for a
woman. Tuesday Mrs. BTemerman rode
! from directly east of Purcell fifteen miles
| into the reservation, selected her claiin
/ and got back to Purcell by 9 O'Clock Al
| 3 O'Clock she took the morning traih TOT
! Oklahoma City, and by 10 CLOCK w eanes'
day morning she had her filing made
| Oklahoma Times-Journal: A great dea
/ OF money will be taken out of Oklahoma
by the United States government Ia The
/ next five wears for the lands thrown open
to settlement. Half Of Oklahoma proper
! will be commuted at p per acre aud The
/ remainder of the territory except No Man :
Land is 20 be paid for at 81 y and l59 pet
I acre The amount Viii reach S4O,VSlUp
none of which the government needs tc
nav current expenses. There ought 10 be
siren uous efforts 60 get certain per cent
of the amount set apart for the maInten
anee OF institutions OF higher education
/ Twenty-Five per cent. Of The amount would
make nice endowment
The papers are telling a story OF how
/ Kansas Insu adopted novel way Of col
( lectiug a small debt from citizen OF Ok
lahonaa. he went direct TO Oklahoma
CITY and procured a warrant for MS debt
or's arrest and followed him 20 the line o.
the puttowatomie couatry and about nv
minutes before noon he caused his aTreSt
1 sooner than take any chsnces Ct losing
claim the debtor put his hand IL bis peck
81 aud paid the claim Tue money wa
SCARCELY transferred from one hand TO an
other when the signal wss fired and To-
debtor stuck the spurs 10 the SIDES o. IA
horse sud made the race for claim
In the United States marshal's office q
Dallas is "A curiosity wlth tragic record
IL lainr NJ, less than the stone or wn5cs
AT and Eph NARROW smpGtsie1 the leg
OF their dead brother during ne attack .
the mob in Young county u vii Oe =
mem kered that the tOar Aar.0Es w=s'
caaiued hy the legs ia pairs. aad IN th'
dasrb struggle. AFTER one " eaca Tsa3F VA
saot down the living brothers prepared
for deadly action by relieving themselye
( az fh.. corpses IN the msoneT stated ~
sto.,a = almost circular. about fourfeez
ipcbes in diameter. four inches thlcEs aaS
lis upper side = blood
Bill Haekney does net agree with oths'
Z Oklahoma statesmen tssf EDe teTFlsoTj
should aAopr statehood this v.ases. ans
be giyrs some good rezSoas for his opln-
isD- He tanks that She people should
t-corn- better acquainted Hs lays that
i Scriefr there is in a formative state. 50 "a