The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-13

vey of a road to the west line of King
| fisher county.
The bridge north of here across the
| Canadian river is about TO wash away.
The county commissioners and large
| number of citizens were at the river Tues
day trying to save it.
c county has been organized and diyid-
ed into precincts as provided by law, and
named Watonga, Cheyenne and Cimarron,
respectively. Elisha Penny has been APP
| pointed justice of the peace for Watonga
| and George Detroit trustee Three petit
| lions for saloons are filed and one license
| issued.
Watonga Rustler: This country is full
| of game of all kinds, deer. wild turkey,
wild cats, coons, both black and ring
| tailed, bears, panthers, wolves and coy
| otes The Indians are now engaged in
capturing the bear cubs. They we're pa
| rading the streets one day last week with
two, which were readily sold. Curran &
King are the happy owners of as fine a
| little bruin as you ever saw.
The Kingfsher Free Press says unless
| congress passes a bill authorizing Okla
homa TO have an election, the Legislature
| will have to be called together. Ii the
| legislature is to be specially convened, it
must be done so that its work could be
done prior TO August %, because on that
day the term of service of the legisla-
| ture expires, the members thereof having
entered upon their duties August a. 1890,
and their term of service is fixed by the
organic act at two years. SO August 20
next the present Oklahoma legislature
dies of old age. If this is not done, Okla
homa will not have representative IN
Washington, the county officers will hold
on indefinitely and there will be no law to
call another legislature.
Washington Post: Guthrie is the
Invest, most progressive and wide-awake
three year old town in the Union" said
Colonel Ross, the leading lawyer of Okla
homa's metropolis, at the Arlington.
1--WE took the census just IA few days ago
for assessment purposes, and found
bona fide population of 9. IT'S people. There
are twenty fine blocks of stone and brick,
four strong banks, and as good schools as
can be found anywhere. Oklahoma has
entirely recovered from that first disas-
trous year of drouth a crop failure. We
will soon have added to our area the mag
nifcent Cherokee outlet, with its 5000, 900
acres ofthe finest farming lands west of
Mississippi river; the country now occu-
pied by the Comanches, Klowas and
Apaches, also a magnificent region, and
sooner or later Greer county, now claimed
by the state of Texas, but which in reality
belongs to the general government. "This
will give us total of not far from 80, 000,
600 acres, and combine this with the Indi-
an territory. the land occupied by the
five civilized tribes, and you have
an area greater than the State
of Missouri. Why not make state of it?
That is just what will be done, and a
splendid state it will be. Oklahoma by
itself is not large enough. Unite it with
the civilized tribes and the problem is
solved. The only thing in the way is to
get the consent of the latter, which is
merely question Of time. just as soon
as they begin to divide up their lands sew
orally the entering wedge of statehood Is
driven. So long as the old tribal way of
holding their lands in common prevails
among the Chorokees, Chickasaws and
others so long will statehood be deferred.
But the Indians themselves realize that
they will have to submit to the inevitable
very soon and predict the formation of
the new state inside the next five years"