The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-11
OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.

OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.
/ A gang of counterfeiters is Showing the
queer" in Oklahoma
District court for Canadian county con-
venes at Ell Reno on Friday. April 8.
Governor W. n, Jones, of the Choctaw
nation. is dangerously sick with pneu-
nonia.
The Democrats OF Oklahoma City will
hold primaries on the 10th to choose candl-
dates for city Offices
The Chieftain says the mineral resources
of the Chickasaw and Ch0ctaw nations
are being rapidly developed.
C. P. Walker, of Oklahoma City, has
been appointed special alloting agent and
will be assigned to the Sac and Fox coun-
try.
The negro question is still the all alb
sorbing one at Guthrie. What to do with
the great influx of impecunious sojourners
is puzzle. And still they come.
1t is being reported that great capital
scheme is being planned. and the 2isla-
| ture is TO be reconvened for the purpose of
furthering the scheme.-Hennessey Clip
per-
AS thoroughgoing newspaper the
Chickasaw Chieftain is Jlm-dandy: it
| isn't excelled in the Beautiful Land. 1t it
ready.
A convention has been called in the
Cherokee nation to meet at Vinita for the
| purpose of placing in nomination candi-
date for chief and second chief on a third
ticket.
| The state of Oklahoma will be bounded
| By Colorado and Kansas on the north, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas on the east, Texas on
the south, and Texas and New Mexico on
| the west.
| Cards are out announcing the marriage
this evening OF Mr.. McGlinchey, of the
popular Dowdeu- McGlinchey Mercantile
| company, and Miss Jessie Klein, in Okla
| homa City.
The fact that an Oklahoma editor was
called out of bed, few nights ago to re-
| ceiye subscription is unimpeachable evil
| dence of the remarkable prosperity of that
! booming land.
| Iowa chiefs have gone to Washington
with a memorial to President Harrison,
| praying that their treaty with the United
States government for the sale OF their
| land be ratified and their lands allo tied
before spring.
| Prospectively the Ell Reno Eagle thinks
Ell Reno is 81 000 600 better off than she
| was one week ago. She expects to get the
| bulk OF the money paid by the government
to the Indians in the contiguous territory
west and south.
Canadian county together with the
county of Kingfisher, will be enlarged.
Congress has authorized the secretary of
the interior to extend the lines Of the
counties already located, and the lines
will be extended
The Oklahoma City Gazette, published
in town where the town site board have
been at work for the past year, remarks:
81 the pyDpuSpS 0f fha town site bOa rdS
were paid in lots they would own every
village and city in the territory" Thrifty
siters
The old gag about man deliberately
lying on a stack of burning hay came near
being exemplified in Kingisher the other
day. That is to say, the World told Of
two kids In that town who set fire to a
stack of hay and then climbed up on top
of it, in which perilOus position they were
discovered in the nick Of time to rescue
them alive.
Sound sense from the Chickasaw Chief
tain: The sacredness of Indian treaties is
like the sacredness of precedent. What
answered very we'll yesterday may not fill
the requirements of today. AS wise men
change their opinions, SO the government
must change its policies. Uncle Sam must
deal with the Indian as he is; not as he
was.
There are 1876 acres of land in the
Chlckasaw nation. If every acre of this |
land were allotted in severalty among the
Chickasaw people there would be about
POO acres per capita; or 5000 acres to a |
family of five. The Guthrie Capital says
at present not one blood Indian in twenty |
controls the acreage that would be his fee |
simple under allotment. The noble abort |
ginee seems to be losing his identity.
Oklahoma City Journal: There were 600
mo- al thr;a ord
from Fort Worth, but the city council was |
hurriedly called together to pass quaran- |
tine ordinance. After passing the ordi- |
nance the authorities telegraphed to Fort |
Worth that the negroes would not be per |
mitted to stop there. This prevented their |
but it is probably best for the negroes to |
remain where they are for while yet.
Tha assurance given the Indians of the |
cizilized tribes that they will not lose |
their tribal rights by becoming citizens of |
the United States, seems to have had a |
Statutory effect upon them. The Muldrow
Register says that not long since it was
stated in its columns that about twenty
Cherokee citizens of this (Sequoyah) dis
trict were about to apply for Q. 5. citizan
ship. Since that time further movement
has been made and now fifty or more
CherOkees, by blood, residents of this
district having decided to join the move
ment, and many more about to follow.
The Chickasaw presbytery of the Pres
byterian church met at Paul's Valley.
March 3. Rev D. X. Crochet, of Illinois,
was received and appointed to take charge
of the church at Purcell and Norman
Three other ministers were also received
Rev Alberson, from Newton, Kan, was
appointed Sabbath school missionary for
the western district of Oklahoma, Rev..
7. Aughry, of Pauls Valley, was elected
commissioner to the general assembly, |
which convenes at Detroit, Mich, the
third Thursday IN May, with Rev. Shell
don as alternate r. H. Cuppage, elder,
of Guthrie, was elected lay commissioner,
with A S. Sherwood, of this city, alter
nate. Measures were taken TO bring the
present needs of Oklahoma before the
Home Missions society, that more liberal
appropriations for the erections OF
churches and maintenance of ministers