The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-08

Bishop Meershaert will be given pub
lie reception at Ell Reno Saturday, Novem
Der IA
Chandler is getting ready for winter
The boomer tent is already thing of the
past there.
1t is extremely dangerous for man tc
go into Oklahoma with carpet bag just
at present.
Thirty to fifty wagon loads of freight ar
rives daily from Guthrie and Edmond for
Chandler.
There are not so many men with Hon
orable' before their names in Oklahoma
as there used to be.
Oklahoma has seen what would have be-
come of the Alliance in the territory if it
| had undertaken to run,
Some men claim that the capital fight
will be opened up Immediately arter the
new governor takes his seat.
OF course, 1t is Judge Seay. Jake Ad-
mire knew it was from the first or he
would have been in the race himself.
"Grist Mill'' Jones of Oklahoma City
thinks that the result of the election in
New York means early statehood for Okla
bona
If Judge Seay should get the governor
ship, it will deVolve on Bill Hackney to
explain why he moved from Kansas so
suddenly.
What an awful howl would go up if
President Harrison should appoint a
really original Oklahoma man for COVER
moran Indian.
All cotton raisers in Oklahoma will next
year plant their seeds a little earlier, as it
has been clearly demonstrated this year
that the early cotton turned out much
better than that planted later.
The legality of the herd law Of Okla
homa was sustained by Judge Seay IN a
recent case in Canadian county, so far as it
applies TO all the counties except that Sec
ton which exempted Beaver county from
its provisions.
Ell Reno Eagle: Eckelberry holds the
first government patent ever issued for
land in Canadian county. He received it
this week. 1t bears date Of September lst
and the signature of President Harrison,
and covers the quarter section of land
proved up by Mr. Eckelberry, mile and a
half north of this city.
The fling in the Muskogee, l. 7. court
of a petition in equity for number of
Cherokee Indians asking the partition and
allotment in severalty of nearly IA 900, 600
acres of land OF the Cherokee Indians is
creating quite stir among the Indians of
the civilized tribes. 1t is thought to be
the largest land suit ever instituted in
America.
Says the Chandler News: To prove to
the sceptic that Chandler is not by any
means the rocky-unsightly-tow that
it has been reported, we site this one trans
fer in real estate Last Tuesday NJ. P.
Wright sold lot in block 76 to Eva Oar
row tor $575 spot cash and no fictitious
price at that either The same lot sold
two weeks ago for $780, How is that for
an advance In value and Chandler is still
fairly-good townsite-thank you.
il Weir of Choctaw City, is one of
Oklahoma's citizens who has had varied
experience during his life. For fifteen
years he was a missionary in Liberia and
made nine voyages between this and that
country During his residence in that
country he was appointed representative
of Great Britain to make a treaty with
several inland tribes in Africa and made
the journey of 1000 miles across the CONT
nent of Africa and made treaty with the
tribes by which they released 10 English
sailors and soldiers they had taken into
custody and held in bondage. The journey
took fourteen months, through unknown
dangers, but he made it and returned I'M
scathed. He is finely educated colored
man.
Observer Dorman's weather report for
Oklahoma for October shows that the mean
temperature for the month has been COS,
a very nice October temperature. The
warmest day was the 26th 90 deg, and the
coolest the 9th, SO deg The greatest
daily range of temperature was 80 deg, on
the 9Th. The prevailing direction of the
wind was the southeast and the greatest
velocity was thirty-four miles, on the 1st.
The number of days on which more than
hundredth of an inch of rain fell was four.
There were twenty-five cloudless days,
four partly and two entirely cloudy.