The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Seven men are said to control the affairs
of the Chickassw nation.
The FL Reno Eagle prints three column
pen picture of Oklahoma this week.
The Register says the Canadian river
and the Purcell beer drinkers have both
been in the same Ak this week-awfuily
dry.
James E. Kelso is the sole proprietor OF
the court house of county II. It is an
''iron-clad" building and James has leased
it to the county for three years.
The Santa Fe has begun sixty-four
foot addition TO its present freight depot
at Oklahoma City. Pleasant Office rooms
will be built in the south end of the new
part.
The Ell Reno Eagle thinks that Sheriff
Shelby might have used his bloodhounds
to good advantage in trailing the bank
| robbers had he had the dogs trained and
thought of it in time.
Times Journal: Charley Stewart says
he has sure cure for Texas fever. If
there is anybody whose stock is DYING
with the fever, they are advised to see him
and get some of the medicine which he
will give free.
Judge Green arrived in Guthrie Tuesday
from his home in Illinois He is looking
much better than he did when he left
Guthrie. The fact is that the judge had
worked very hard for several months prior
to his taking the rest.
The annual report of the United States
attorney for the Indian Territory to the
solicitor OF the treasury shows that there
has been $4,000 in fines assessed and S15,-
COO collected. 1t further shows that least
80 per cent of the accused have been con-
victed
To those who are bothered with the
miserable little pest, the chigre, the Ed
mond Sun recommends the use of gaso-
line, rub it on freely as soon as you are
made aware of their presence and we think
you will bless the editor for the sugges-
ton.
Captain Burt OF Arkansas City says
that cattle stealing on the Kaw reserva-
ton has become so frequent that extra
cowboys at night herd the cattle Both
gangs OF herGers, day and night, are
armed and will shoot if they catch any
one stealing cattle.
have votes, the tone of the press upon
what is good Indian will soon exhibit a
radical change. The Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoes have nearly 1000 men of voting age.
They will hereafter be known as our re-
spected aboriginal fellow citizens.
Ell Reno Eagle: Joe Hickox has been re-
appointed additional Indian farmer" for
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of To-
dians. Joe is a practical farmer and is a
general favorite with the Indians as well
as the government Although he is
Democrat, Uncle Sam cannot do without
him it seems.
During the excavation for the new Nc
kennon hotel spring of water was struck
that flows a stream of the purest and cold
est water in the city The spring was un-
earthed several feet underneath the sur
face OF the rock strata, and a stream OF
water an inch through bubbles up from
the earth Everyone that has tasted it
pronounces it wonderfully pure. The
News says that when the hotel is COM
pleted arrangements will be made TO force
1t to the various rooms of the building
Guthrie News: In the secretary's office
yesterday, bids for leases of the school
lands in the Cheyenne and Arapahos
country were opened and filed. The leases
were extended over period of two and a
half years and the bids for the same
average from S2S to $l05 per quarter sec
tion. Bids are now in for nearly all the
school lands Of that territory, and the
terms are either cash or gilt-edged secur-
ity. 1t is a matter worthy of note that
farmers are the principal bidders and that
the security clause in the contract is prac-
tically dead, the bidders in nearly all the
cases pay cash for ne rights.