The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Il Will be just cool enough to make a
foot-race enjoyable.
The man who would sooner be sooner
than later, later, will get left.
The Rock Island will be completed to its
Texas connection by July l, 1892.
A conservative estimate says 30. 600 peo-
pie will enter the new lands on the first
day
Jake Admire is out for Dennis Flynn
for congress if Harvey doesn't want it
again.
1t is all out Of style, of course, but Okla
homa just now, has got on an awfnlly big
hustle.
just remember that if you are on the
land at 1885, a. m. Tuesday, you are
sooner.
The gamblers driven out of Ell Reno and
Kingfisher have now descended on Okla
homa City.
There will be good many men get
there next Tuesday whose names will not
be Eli, either.
The superintendent of public inssruc
ton will not be appointed until after the
schools are established.
Some of the members of the National
party in the Choctaw nation are threaten
ed with assassination.
Ben Clark, the Fort Reno scout, says
that the ghost dance idea is increasing
among the Indians, Instead of decreasing
In notifying all appointees Governor
Seay closes by expressing the hope that
they viii indulge in no town lot or claim
speculation.
A movement has been inaugurated to
secure land Office at one of the new
county seats in the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe country.
After this the Cheyenne Iudian can in
troduce all the whisky he wants into his
system or the territory and not be gobbled
by deputy marsbals.
Governor Seay requires of the probate
judges that they meet him at his office at
Guthrie, Friday. April 10, for consultation
and to receive instructions
Mrs Marion Rock resigned her place as
worlds fair commissioner of Logan county
on account of her removal from Guthrie
and Mrs. G. ". Barnes has been appointed
in her place,
FL Reno Courier: The Indians have put
up big tent near the Richardson Lumber
company where they entertain the pale
faces with war dances. Admission %
cents and the privilege to dance with
squaw thrown i'll.
Oklahoma Times Journal: Oscar Lee
resigned as clerk of county b, and will
henceforth make Oklahoma City his home.
n. f. Hewitt, editor of the Republican, is
acting as county clerk, having been ap-
pointed deputy by Mr.. Lee.
The line at the Oklahoma City land
Office now numbers sixty. The men in
line have organized, electins president and
secretary. Mr.; Jay is president and Walter
Jennison is secretary. The roll is called
three times dry, and man absent twice
at roll call forfeits his place.
The Oklahoma press says: Drs. Rolater
and Thompson are called to the house of
Mr.. Rosenblatt, four miles west of this
city, to perform the sacred Hebrew custom.
that is, circumcision, as Il rabbi could not
be secured. This is the first service of the
kind in Oklahoma.
This item is going all over the United
States and is just now favorite with the
New York papers: For the first time in
the history of national political conven-
tions the next Republican national con-
vention will have as a delegate "A full
blooded Indian. He will represent
Oklahoma.
The crowd of boomers at KingfiSher is
filling the town to OVERLOOKING. When
they are called together to hear the news
or an address, thousands of them come
forth from houses in town and from camps
along the creeks Several thousand were
out night before last to hear the governor,
who explained fully the methods Of secur-
ing land, town lots. etc.
Guthrie Capital: The movement to at
tach the Seminole nation TO county 3, for
judicial purposes, is one of economy and
justice. 1t is an outrage TO compel these
people to travel tc the Fort Smith court
going 160 miles overland or 800 miles by
railway when they could have as good
court facilities at Tecumseh less than
twenty-five miles from their homes. Every
citizen of Oklahoma should interest him
self in this matter.
L. j. Morgan. commissioner of Indian
affairs, directed Agent S. Patrick of Sac
and Fox agency to call the Pottawatomie
Indians together and have them express
their views as to where they wished to
have school for their children. Whether
they would have it connected with the
Shawnee school, at Shawneetown or built
in some other part of the country. The
Pottawatomies met and voted unani-
mously; first, against the Shawnee school
of ShawneetowD; second. in favor Of the
schools of Sacred Heart.
Governor Seay will approve the bonds
of the new county Judges, administer the
oath of office to them and deliver the COM
missions OF all other officials in their re-
spective counties into their hands, aud
will charge them with their safe delivery
and the administration of the oath of
Office TO each The county commissioners
will Immediately resolve themselves into
a court for the approval of their bonds by
the county judge for the purpose of in
specting and approving the bonds of other
officials. Ali the officials are instructed
to report at the county seat towns as soon
after the opening of the lands as practi-
cable although it il is neither expected or
desired that any shall abridge their rights
of entering homesteads or town property
by entering the prohibited territory until
the hour arrives.
The reports that all the best lands OF the
have been taken By the Indi-
ans are absurd The Indians located along
living streams where che-e was more or
less timber without regard to the charae-
ter OF the land, and in many instances
com pletely overlooked the finest bottom
lands for allotments Of inferior rough land
to be near their friends, for it is Indian
like 10 be located by families and rs nearly