The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
Oklahoma is to have a real live Giro,

next mODbH.
The eastern papers call Oklahoma people
earth hungerers.
Saltwater has an epidemic of mumps
and whooping cough.
Some of the new towns are probably
talking street car lines.
Bishop Meerschaert was given grand
reception at Norman last night
The contract will be let for the district
high school, at Norman, on April p.
The Pabst Brewing company will bnild
a cold storage house at Hennessey.
1t is expected that lands in the old part
of Oklahoma will now double in value.
Lieutenant Glennon, surgeon of Camp
Oklahoma, has been transferred to Fort
Sill
At the next opening if anybody is killed
it will be the fake newspaper correspond
ents
The mob at Oklahoma City will proba-
bly, settle all lines at the land office for the
future.
| The lawyers are smiling over the har
vest of contests that the new opening is to
spring
Colonel Patrick has completed pay
ment of 1900 to Big Jim's band of Upper
Pawnees
The Santa Fe has suspended all work on
the depot buildings in Oklahoma until af-
ter June l.
The man with the counterfeit money
will be getting his work in, in the new
country, in a few days.
The young business men of Edmond, O.
T., have organized a club which is to be
known as the Edmond Social club
There will be kick coming from the
| taxpayers in some of the new counties
owing to the fact that the Indians are not
taxed
Work on the Norman State bank has
been delayed on account of the failure of
the architect to furnish plans ard specifi-
cations.
The last few days men had to wait fully
forty-eight hours in the line before the
Oklahoma City land Office before they
could file.
The Chickasaw National convention
meets at Tishomingo on Tuesday May
3rd, and will nominate full set Of officers
| from governor down.
Orders have been issued by the postal
department to employ temporary mail
service to the new county towns at once,
pending the letting of regular contracts.
One of the employees at Seeger's school
estimates that nine out of ten of those who
took claims were sooners. The country
was completely overrup long before noon
of the 10Th.
Men who come back from the new coun-
try and pronounce it worthless will prob
ably remember that men came back at the
opening of Oklahoma and said the land
was no good.
| 1t is rumored that Governor Byrd will
call special session of the legislature in
order to consider taking important steps
toward the cession of their lands to the
! United States.
| Philadelphia Record: A new town in
Oklahoma, three days old, has millinery
store in full feather. The van of civiliza-
tion would be duller than prison van but
for the gay touch of the spring bonnet.
Dead horses were scattered taickly
everywhere along the roads from the
line to the new county seats. a great
many lost more dollars worth of horse
| flesh than they gained in town lots.
Guthrie Capital: George H. Case, war
den of the Kansas penitentiary, is in the
city to make his quarterly settlement
with Secretary Martin for the keeping of
Oklahoma prisoners in that institution.
Twelve of Oklahomas citizens are now
sojourning there
Many horses were stolen, and in the
Washita river a dozen wagons were
smashed. Many of those who went to the
line in wagons there embarrassed their
animals, tied one to the wagon and rode
the other after a claim. Thieves got in
their work during the absence of the
owners, who, on their return, found their
horses missing,
Tecumseh Republican: a question has
come up as to whether the town lots of
this city are subject to taxation or not. AS
no deeds were issued until after Jan. l, |
1892, it is difficult TO understand whether
lots so decided under the law, can be
assessed. An opinion from the attorney
general has been asked and probably il |
will be forthcoming in time to settle the
matter.
At Oklahoma City the plans of those
who had been standing in line for ten and
fifteen days Were broken up by mob go
ing in and taking possession OF the hall |
way that leads to the land office The
fighting and clubbing of the officers did /
no good and with n madness that deffed /.
opposition the crowd held its place and |
the land Office opened for business, wait
ing upon the first who presented their /
papers.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: People some /
times Geaounce newspapers for publishing
sensational accounts that have but little /
truth for basis, but the publishers DO 4
not print tenth OF that class Of matter /
that comes TO them through seemingly re- \
liable sources. Yesterday a sturdy honest /
hooking farmer asserted that be saw eight 1
men shot dead by soldiers an hour and a /
half before the opening. The old liar filed 1
in all the minutest details of the shocking /
ira. e ly aud was glib with answers TO ali I
questions put TO him.
Guthrie News: Mr. A. H Waite re 4
turned yesterday from a weeks trip TO /
Beaver county. He states that the tough /
character OF that country i much exag-
gerated. They had lost many OF their /
primitive class Of citizens. and those now 1
remaining are prosperous people, They l
loosely divide their population into cat /
tlemen and Ersugers. Although the chief /
industry of the country is cattle raising.
yet considerable farming IS done lie .
stopped in Beaver City several days aud
found the people wei!-to-do aud very &C /
commodatinE
Sterling Deserved L.