The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-08
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
aloga wants a better mail service.


The Hennessey Clipper says that Okla
homa must have statehood.
Electricity will be the motive power Ear
Guthrie's new street railway
A Guthrie newspaper man attended
church last Sunday. Wonder if a change
of politics had anything co do with IT.
The Capital says there are scores of sin
core wishes ali over the territory for the
tearly recovery OF Secretary Martin. No
public officer in Oklahoma has more gen
uine friends than Judge Martin.
The Accident says Taloga Is. destined t.
/ become the leading town in the c. & A
country. Ii has the advantage in location
and all the essentials necessary TO build
up good town. and is not III adjunct of
any other city. therefore. is independent
Southeast Canadian county has been
captured by bachelors. at Yukon there
IS a bachelors club with seventy-two
members and at Thurston there is club
! OF thirty-eight mani ers. NIne-tenJhs of
! the letters sent out from Thurston have
| the title Miss prefxed TO the names.
! A number OF horses. ia all several car
loads. shipped in from Chicago and ether
northern points have found ready sale
in Oklahoma recently. The demand is
/ chiefly for mares, watch the farmers want
| for breeding. These are bought now princi-
pally~on ehattel security and the racu that
they must be kept over the winter indi-
GATES Il strong confidence that agriculture
Will be a grand success in this territory.
The Edmond Democrat says that the
people want TO see to it that our public in
situations get the land that is justly due
| them. There should be two sections III
each township reserved in the strip which
will shortly comein This will give our
Normal school about 10000 acres for the
upbuildinS and maintenance of this insti-
tuition which is SO essential to the welfare
Of the people, as it fits and prepares teach
ers to properly handle The common schools
of the territory.
The Chandler News calls 1r a meeting
of the citizens of its town and those of
Tecumseh. the object of the mesting being
to drovide for survey from Coffeyvile
Kan, to Purcell. L T., through the Usage
nation, county az and county b This
to be done Immediately, aud maps. plats,
profles and estimates to be submitted to
the officials of the Missouri, Kansas and
lave then adopt this route on their line
through Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
from Coffeeville, Kan, to Vernon, Texas.
The county seat of Lincoln county is get,
ting hustle on il.
The comm issioner of the general land
Office has reversed his former decision and
holds that all PERSONS who have made
homestead entries and comuted the same
prior to March ,, 1880 are qualified 10
make homestead entry OF lands in the
Che yenne and.Arapahoe country, notwii h
standing the former entries. ln fact the
principles announced in this decision ap-
ply with equal force to all the lands now
opened To entry III this territory, or that
may hereafter be opened to entry long
the homestead laws applicable thereto |
remain as they how are
Governor Seay is in receipt of letter /.
from Ernest ~ Rieman, Los Angeles. (
Cal, asking that a county in Oklahoma |
be named after him. He states that he !
was secretary of Payne's Oklahoma col /
ony, and thinks some such honor is due
him. Mr.. Rieman says he has been sur
veyor since The close of the war and has
surveyed all the colony towns. am, be
lie says, JnS FOUNDER OF ARKANSAS lily, /
Kan, and built the first frame building in /
that city | founded Ge,Ida Springs, En- !
glewood and Santa Fe in Kansas; Beaver /
City, No Mans Land: Seymour, Vernon, |
Knox, Benjamin and River City in Texas |
| have operated on the frontier of Kansas,
Indian Territory and Texas for twenty
years and l should be recognized by the
naming of a county after me in Oklahoma.
Acting Commissioner Stone in letter
to citizen of Ell Reno has the following
to say in regard to settlement upon the
Cheyenne aud Arapahoe lands which will
be of interest to All parties concerned. The
commissioner says: I'm reply to your
letter inquiring how long does the settler
on Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands have to
reside thereon before he can prove up and
pay for them / have To say that five
years residence is required except in cases
where the applicant is entitled TO credit
for military service: inasmuch as section
2,30l of the revised statutes does not apply
to these lands being the Sc ctIon which al!
lows communications norris there any special
statute allowing payment thereof at an
earlier period than five years rate 81. 80
acre, first haif Of the amount required
within two years from date of the origiu-
al entry -