The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-09
oKLAHoMA OUTLINES.

There are over 1000 lots in the TOWNSHIP
of Tecumseh.
The Saltwater Gazette believes that
statehood is mo 60
Ell Reno is having her tarn at the excit-
ing game of land decisions.
The Democratic organization at Nor
man Is called the Mills club.
The honest settler in Oklahoma has no
greater friend than Secretary Noble.
A territorial Sunday school convention
will be held at Ell Reno on the 18th inst.
A doctor has been cured of the morphine
habit at the Oklahoma City Kelley insti-
tute.
Mort Bixler of Norman says no weather
nrophet in the world understands Okla
homa.
The Methodists of Oklahoma City are
going to improve their church editice SS,ooo
worth.
There are two vacancies now in Okla
hona-world's fair commissioner and as
sociate justice.
A bic crowd of Edmond people attended
Governor Seay's reception at Oklahoma
City Saturday.
Miles has resigned aud another kick
from Oklahoma will soon have passed into
innocuous desuetude,
Tecumseh Republican: The new jail has
been rooted and now there is no danger oil
the guests being sunstruck.
John d. Miles of Lawrence, Kan,
worlds fair commissioner for Oklahoma,
has resigned. An Oklahoma man Will sue
coed him.
The deer are rapidly disappearing from
the Indian Territory. One firm III Mus
kogee shipped in one week 1850 skins TO
! Germany.
The Oklahoma normal debated the ques-
ton the other day, Single life Is prefera-
BILE to married life," which was unani-
mously decided in the affirmative.
An ex- governor of Kansas, an ex-goV-
ernor of Missouri and an ext nlted States
| marshal were knocked out of the box by
the reversal of the Foreman decision on
the FL Reno TOWNSHIP.
Oklahoma Gazette: Seven thousand five
| hundred bills have already been introduced
| into this congress, and yet 1t Is very mncn
] behind the Oklahoma legislature, winch
| nearly doubled that number.
A two story stone front brick block is
one of the late improvements on MAN
street in Purcell. 1t is said to have COST
SC, 900. 1t is to be occupied by bank, ano
the upstairs will be rented for Offices This
| is the second brick block IN that city.
Oklahoma Times journal: 1t seems tG
! be a settled fact that the Creek Indians
are disposed to sell slice off the west side
| of their reservation. The territory they
propose to sell contains valuable farming
| land, excellent oak and walnut timber anc
rich deposits of coal.
1t is said that Ardmore is increasing IL
population at the rate of 800 inhabitants
annually. The entire north half Of the
town, which is the part on which the bes1
improvements are being made, Is built
upon land held under the Chicasaw laws
by ''saaw' man, who collects 30 cents
per foot from every white occupant tannu
ally.
The Muscogee Phoenix thus describes
little pastime INDUCED in by prominen'
men in the territory: Prosecuting AttOr
ney Burney Mcintosh and Tom Boone hat
q shooting match a few miles west o
Eufala Monday. They emptied their W IN
chesters at each other, but it is though
that neither was hurt. The trouble wa
brought on by a claim dispute"
The cotton compress at Ardmore j
proving a big thing for that town. 1t
claimed~by the proprietors of the plan
that so far 30, 600 bales have been com
pressed there this season. People within
a few miles of Gainesville market thei
cotton at Ardmore because of bette
market, made so by the compress. In
claim is made that 30. 600 bales OF cottor
were marketed at Ardmor9 this season
and many bales coming in daily.
No city in the territory has its finances
in better shape than Still%ater, says TIT
Gazette A few weeks ago, when the mrs
payment of the interest," on the collcg'
bonds become due our city dads borrowe'
the money aud paid it, giving their notes
payable one-half on February / and the re
mainder on May /. After the giving OF
the notes the revenues OF the city from
fines was enough to meet the payment o
the first note, and Mayor knopiock IN
| forms US that the other note can be dis
posed of in the same way. the tax levy
/ will take car Of the lands in the future.
Bv an act of the Chickasaw Legislature
last October an annual rental IS being col
! lected from the whites occupying lots II
the towns or farm lands IN that nation
The law requires that each Chieksaw ciii
zen collects whatever rental IS sgTeet
mon with the renter and then suru ore
10 per cent. 10 the Chickasaw collector
who IS citizen Of the nation, By the nam
of Fisher, q former merchant AT Iisho
mingo aud very intelligent man. Mr.
Fisher is far from being an Indian an'
would be taken for white, successful
I merchant Of Texas.