The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

1t is only little time now until the Ok
lahoma statehood convention.
The FL Reno Eagle thinks the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe lands will be opened before
| Christmas.
| Guthrie's public schools will open Oct
B. Those of Oklahoma City will begin
next Monday.
| They are all the time talking about driv-
| ing the cattlemen off the strip. What
they want to do is to drive the mems cattle
! of.
The Kingfsher Democrat-News has
again changed hands, Mr. Ed Ellis selling
ont to A. P. Shaw, formerly of Holton,
Kan.
Since the last storm the Oklahoma City
man keeps boat in the back end of his
store that he may use in case OF emer-
gency.
Over six inches of rain fell at Oklahoma
| 9th within two hours Tuesday night and
a regular fusillade Of hailstones as big as
soda biscuits.
1t is too bad that Oklahoma City did not
| save some of thoSs big hailStoneS for ex-
hibition at the worlds fair. This would
have been scoop on Guthrie.
A man drove twenty miles in an OK
team to see thesgame or base ball at Okla
homa City. Yet the Oklahoma papers
some times poke Kansas under the ribs
for having so many cranks.
Mr.. Dorman, the signal service man at
Oklahoma City, says he never saw any
thing like the storm there Tuesday night.
A man sees good many things in OKLA
homa that can't be seen elsewhere.
The explosive rain producing theory is
borne out by the fact that Oklahoma City.
where two base ball clubs have been
quarrelling for three days, was imme-
diately after visited by the biggest rain on
record in the history of Oklahoma.
There is one advantage about opening
the new lands that hadn't been counted
upon. Many men who have come out
cided TO buy claims in Oklahoma, instead
of taking chances in making the run.
The county commissioners of Logan
county have finished fixing the tax levy of
that county, and Guthrie property holders
will have to pay 80 81, COO Outside the
city the levy will be about s. 10 on the
thousand The items, including the levy
Of the territorial board are: Territorial
tax, mills; county schools, 10 mills; sepa-
rate schools, mills; principal of the
bonded Indebtedness, 80 mills; interest on
bonded Indebtedness, 2 mills; township
road tax, mills; township road tax where
voted, 10 mills; taxes due, l21a mills. The
assessors report shows the total valuation
of taxable property to be 81, 2780 S6.
FL Reno Eagle: Allotting Agent Nc
PheTson, who was in the city On Tuesday,
stated that he had received assurances
that three more agents would be appoint
ed Immediately, and two others in short
time, and that the department was de-
termined to have the work completed at
the easiest possible moment. He was
confident that they would complete the
work within ninety days. and equally con-
fident that not an acre of the eastern res
ervations will be thrown open to settle
ment until the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
country comes in. Mr.. Tackett, chief of
the force, brings up figures to show that
in spite of the roar that has gone up along
the line over what has been termed the
laziness of the allotters, they have done all
that human beings could do, and they
have accomplished more in six weeks than
the eastern allotters did in as many
months Up to date more than 500 allot-
ments have been made, and with the force
thoroughly organized much better head
way can be made. From present indica-
tions the lands will be opened before
Christmas, and the thousands that will
arrive here before that time will make FL
Reno the most booming city in the great
southwest