The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,
IYPHER.

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Edmund vets all guzzles in sight with
| four saloons.
Edmund has not only graded schools
| but also graded streets.
| Harry Cavanaugh, Guthrie boy, has
| been admitted to West Point.
Kingfsher has the appearance of cir
Gus being in town every day now.
| Roasting ears are on the market in
Oklahoma and more are getting pulled.
| It is impossible to mortgage land in
| Oklahoma, but the whole territory is in
| soak.
The $4,000 of silver for the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians weighed 1920
pounds.
Brennan. the man who killed Sam
Wood, used to hold down lot in Okla
homa City
The board of regents of the agriculture
college have organized. r. j. Barker is
president, Amos Ewing treasurer.
The next time the Indian commission
visits the Kickapoo Indians they will
probably take a gatling gun along.
Jake Admire says that his paper will
pay most attention to agriculture, and he
didn't say it for the Alliance to hear 1t
either.
~ hcSCEuuitIG III LisC SEtdb tH4CA
Black Hawk was in Oklahoma City the
other day. His name is Walter Battice,
and he lives in the Sac and Fox country.
Ed X. Watts, who edited the Mulhall
Monitor, is now running the Bulletin, at
Bingham, Utah. He has just founded the
Bulletin. Its subscription rate is s.
year.
The Oklahoma City Gazette speaks of
Helen Clarke. the Blackfoot Indian, y
and Thomson Of the Guthrie News wants
to know how McMasters knows that her
feet are black.
A Pottawatomie Indian said in his
graduating essay the other day, IN speak
ing Of the Indians progress: Long ago
we used to killed with flint knifes and
hatchets; now, we can handle Win
chesters."
Oklahoma City Journal: The Bermuda
grass which was planted on the canal
banks is rapidly spreading out all over the
banks IL would be good idea 70 plant
Bermuda grass along every street IN the
city. 1t kills out every vest1ge OF weeds
and wild grass and makes as good a turf
as blue grass.
Oklahoma City Journal: The general
laud commissioner decision on the ap-
peal in the meandered stream cases has
been received az this Office. Il Is an i'm
portant decision as IL effects the title 70
property worth a good many thousand
dollars When the land Offices AZ King
fisher and Guthrie first opened for bust
ness several entries crossing the North
Canadian river were accepted, bat later j,
was discovered tina. the stream was mean
Gered and consequently ali other appllcA
tions 70 file on both sides Of the river were
rejected. and those who had SO fled were
ordered TO elect which which portion they
would choose, IL being the intention 20
cancel the entries and make new ones. in
Guiding bur one side Of the river. Appeals
were taken IN both classes Of cases
After lapse Of two years decision -
reached a. Washington In = letter hc-
comparing the order it Is stated that the
subject has been thoroughly investigated,
and while IL IS found that the stream
was meancsred by tie surveyor, yet tie
North Canadian "a found By retere5ce
20 TIE field notes. not 20 bx stream
which comes under the class q n1s4ndere1
streams TIE rule a. laid d0w1 By tie
secretary Of tie interior at tes date this
country was surveyed. ls7l-sS, was that
al nAvigxble streams. and al natural
arteries o. internal communication should
be meandesed. Later the minimum saze
Of such streams was axe1 a. t1yee chains.
while 10 is t~and that The averEAgs widtn
Of the Norta Canadian for = loo miles a
less than one aE1 bali eAKlns. Ias eoa-
elusioa % ths.esose thai tas nsS1osrznz