The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

The Smith perjury Case is still on trial il
the district court at Guthrie.
| The Chieftain says there will be NOR,
wheat and less cotton raised in the Chick
asaw nation next season.
Judge W. r. Asher, of Tecumseh, wa!
married on the 18th instant at Council
Bluffs, Iowa. to Miss Tessie B. Ryan.
/ The United States prisoners from Okla
homa are now being sentenced to Still
water, MINI. instead of Columbus, O..
and Joliet, Ill.
| Judge J. L. Speer, of county A, shipped
| e fine specimen of Oklahoma rattlesnaks
| to the Smithsonian geological institution
Washington, D. c., Monday.
An immense amount of hay was cut and
stacked in Oklahoma the past season, and
| it will put many dollars in circulation.
Oklahoma hay classes high on the market.
The Capital says William Grimes has
| finished threshing 1000 bushels of wheat
off of forty acres of ground, near that city.
Forty bushels per acre is magnificent
crop.
The Indian Arrow says the Cherokee
merchants are selling goods to the Indians
W ~ RNAN ouS VA VIC uehSy AStCAsCA AOA
the sale of the strip This argues that the
sale is all o. K.
The early cotton crop in some portions
OF the nation has been pretty well picked.
The late cotton has not opened up yet.
The yield this year is reported about an
average crop.-Ardmore Chieftain:
The Methodist Episcopal church, south,
has decided to build u school at Cameron,
Cherokee nation, similar to the one they
have at Muskogee. Muldrow offered 81, 600
to secure the school, Weber Falls S., 900
and Cameron s4,055, which gave it to the
latter.
Rock Island road in Kingfsher county,
ranks among the more prosperous and
rapidly growing cities in the territory 1t
has an enterprising population of some
800. and surrounded as it is, by a fine agri-
cultural country, its future is indeed
promising
Saltwater Hawk: A gentleman from
the east end of the county left at this
office fine specimen of coal found on his
claim in this county this week. 1t is
good quality OF coal and he expresses him.
self as being confident that there is plenty
of it here.
j.. *. Keepers of Oiathe, Kan, has en-
tered into contract with three men in
Oklahoma City by the terms of which
canning factory is to be locat-
ed there with capacity OF 10000
cans per day. Puns on the
''can" won't go. Oklahoma City says she
WILL and that settles it.
There is now 30 longer a question but
that the Kiowa and Comanche lands will
soon belong to the United States. The
kiowa3, the most intractab,e of all the
Indians who occupy that reservation, are
now signing. This will give to the world,
after about 5000 indians have been allot-
ted, something over 2,500.000 acres of as
fine lands as there in the southwest
Chickasha Express.
In an interview with a Guthrie News
reporter Captain Hill, of that city, stated
that the required number Of the Indians
of the kiowa and Comanche reservation
have signed the treaty proposed by the
Chs rokee commission, and that in his
opinion the lands just mentioned would
come in at the same time the strip did.
Fully four-ffths of the tribe just men
toned have signed" said Mr.. Hill, ''cr
total number of 456 -
Zack Mulhall of Mulhall, O. T., is
for the statement that the
Cherokee strip is now clear of cattle,
Mulhall is connected with the stock de-
partment of the Santa Fc road, and there
fore sees both sides OF the matter. The
Guthrie Capital quotes him as saying:
The Cherokee strip is clear of cattle from
one end to the other for the first time since
inc white man visited the country, and 1t
will probably remain so. Boomers have
burned all the grass, so there will be no
show for cattle there this winter, even
should any attempt to return them be
made