The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-27
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City's grist mill will start up
July the first.
There will be three marriages in Nor
man this week.
There are some mountains in the Chey.
enne and Arapahoe country.
According to some. there is but one
more month until the opening.
Thompson, of the Guthrie News, claims
to tell ap Oklahoma farmer by his grin.
AS the Irishman said, the Fourth of July
is going to be galus day in Oklahoma.
The East Guthrie decision has given
Secretary Noble boom in Logan county.
Both Creek and Cherokee nations have
three candidates in the field for principal
chief.
Work on the waterworks tower at Ok
lahoma City has begun. How is that for
high?
Some of the wheat straw of this years
growth was sold at F't. Reno the other day
at SO per ton.
Where did Ike slang phrase Honest
Iuuh" originate? Are Indians consider
ed particularly honesti
A pocketbook that will not hold a silver
dollar is no good at FL Reno. The Indians
are paid wholly in silver,
Inc IutDriS NEWS tulukS tudb ihe etIdy
stock that runs over your garden has big
ger feet than the common cattle.
If the present enthusiasm keeps up
much longer, Guthrie will begin talking
about building state capital pretty soon.
Veeder Paine will appeal to the supreme
court from the decision of the secretary OF
the interior On the East Guthrie townsite
case.
Beaver Advocate: Any man who has
capital in the shape of good scythe can
do good loan business in this city for
few weeks.
Those elected from the Pottowatomie
reservation are collecting at Choctaw City.
1t is said the population of the town has
been doubled through this source.
The Indians are reaping harvest of
silver. and the white mans harvest Is
golden. 1t is only the tough element in
the territory that has too much brass
Miss Helen Clark the Blacbfoot Indian
woman recently appointed special ailot-
ting agent has finished allotting the lands
of the Tonkawa Indians and will next
visit the Poncas and Pawnees.
Topeka Journal: The people who squat
ted on the lands of the Chickasaw Indians
disappeared in haste when they heard the
Indians were coming each armed with a
The first Sunday school ever organized
in Oklahoma was organized in Beaver
over four years ago by Rev. r. A. Allen, of
the Methodist Episcopal church south
aud Rev. Il. Al. Overstreet, OF the Old
School Presbyterian church.
Beaver Tribune: A number of western
people were down Saturday and filed on
their claims. All the choice claims in the
surveyed part of the county are now being
taken. The west half of the county,a sec
about eighty miles long by thirty-four
wide will be surveyed at once by Capt.
Hack bush, who has the contract. In that
part of the county Is some beautiful land
which will be taken as soon as surveyed.
The Indians do not look favorable upon
the advent of railroads into their reserya-
tions. An old Indian woman who had
taken her allotment on Deep Fork went
to Alloting Agent Walker few days ago
and wanted her allotment changed. She
said that she had been told that railroad
would be built along Deep Fork, which
would spoil that part OF the reservation
tor her.
Oklahoma City Journal:-C p. Walker
came in from the Sac and Fox country
last night and brings cheering news 80
far the agents have succeeded IN allotlng
over 500 of the $50 70 be allotted and by
July 23rd, the ailotments can all be closed
and the schedule be ready TO send on 70
Washington Nobody knows how long
the interior department viii require 70 ap-
prove the work OF the agents, OuI II ls not
probable that more than thirty days VIII
be required, and it may not require over
two or three weeks. BY this calculation
the land win be ready for opening 70 set
Element sometime in August.