The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Edmond Sun is to come out in a. new
dress soon.
School land rentals must be paid into
the territorial treasury.
The ailctting agents can now resume
work and be ready by springtime.
1t is unoficially announced that Tecum-
sch is to have deep water harbor.
The last payment, so, 900. to the Sac and
Fox for their lands has just been made.
The city council of FL Reno is discussing
water works and electric light franchises.
Everything is lovely if the house viii
act squarely in the Cherokee strip matter.
The Kelley institute at Oklahoma City
mails 5000 advertising circulars every
week.
That YVES a great feat-getting the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe appropriation through
congress.
The Grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythias meets at Oklahoma City next
Monday.
A big government school is being erected
at the Segar colony in the Cheyenne
country.
Horace Speed has gone to Washington
to help along with Oklahoma legislation
ia congress.
Mr. Harvey's bill providing for three ad-
ditional associate judges for the Oklahoma
supreme court was introduced Tuesday.
Minco rs the end of the Rock Island and
the beginning of the extension. IS said TO
be at present the liyeliest place in the ter
ritory.
Ex-Governor Click of Kansas is inter-
ested in Ell Reno. In an interview, he
says it will make the biggest city in the
territory.
There is an old blanket Indian at FL
Reno named White Buffalo who plays the
piano like an artist His favorite song is
Nearer, Ny God, TO Thee"
The Oklahoma City Gazette states a pc
culiar possibility: All the mean fighting
whisky seems to be frozen up, as the po-
lice court hadn't a case this morning.
So it seems thatex-Governor Steele never
wanted to remain governor of Oklahoma
long before he ever came west. The funny
thing about that is that nobody guessed it.
The bank of Indian territory at Guthrie.
has received set of new silver fractional
coins The half dollars, quarters and
dimes have liberty head similar to that
on the dollar and a much handsomer and
more warlike looking eagle on the reverse
One portion of Oklahoma county has
adopted resolutions against the rate of
taxation. The preamble declares the as
sessment of taxes in this county to be 80
per cent. on full valuation of property,
which if assessed throughout the entire
county would exceed all money Eow in
circulation.
Oklahom Times-Journal: The treaty
with the Kickapoos cannot be ratified by
congress much under a month, and it will
take probably four months more to make
the allotments, so that at the very best
that country cannot be thrown open to
settlement before the middle of the sum-
mer.
The Iowa Indians have no cause for COM
plant of bad treatment from the govern
ment. There are, all told, but about 100 of
them, about twenty-five families. Between
this and seeding time they will receive
S15, coo worth of seeds, implements and
live stock, $1,000 TO each family. This
alone seems pretty liberal, but besides the
stocking up OF their farms. they are to be
paid 500 per capita annually for fifteen
years, or over 500 to each family. They
have each good farm which By leasing
will bring at least $50 apiece each year.
Then to make sure that no injustice is
done these poor Indians, the government
pays for the education of their children,
and exempts them from taxation. tits not
bad to be an Indian.
1t took nerve TO arrest the whisky ped
oilers in the Indian Territory few years
ago, says the Times-J Journal. They were
the toughest men in the United States,
and generally escaped criminals from the
states While Major Neal was agent of
the Sac and Fox, some five years ago. Bill
and John Wade and Frank Starr, mem
bers of the notorious Bell Starr gang.
drove into the agency with barrel of
whisky, and within plain view of the
agents quarters, began to sell whisky to
the Indians, two of the-eutfit all the while
firing into the houses at the agency. They
sold as long as any of the Indians had
money to buy, and then drove leisurely
away This act of bravado, however,
aroused the United States marshais, and
in a few days Bill and John Wade were
captured. The officers could find
nothing more serious than the wbis-
ky selling against the two, but
Starr had committed a couple !
of murders in Texas. and was wanted in |
that state to be tried for those crimes ,
So Bill and John Wade were offered their !
liberty if they would assist in Starts !
capture. They agreed to the proposition, /
and in a very few days Starr was in the I
custody of the marshal, and was after /
wards turned over to Texas, where he got /
a life sentence At that time the Indian /
territory was sheltering hundreds Of just |
such men.