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

Wheat and rye in Oklahoma are heading
out.
Okarche has been written up in New
| York paper.
A man can get divorce in ninety days
in Oklahoma.
Wa:onga has forty houses in course OF
| construction.
| The Indian scare seems to be only q
nervous trouble
A Guthrie firm is putting in wholesale
house at Watonga.
| Oklahoma strawberries will be ready for
market in few days.
The Fort Reno and Oklahoma City base
ball clubs cross bats today.
The old sod shanty is holding its own
| and its owner in the new country.
Delegates TO the county convention were
elected at Oklahoma City, Saturday.
A very heavy rain, almost a cloud burst,
fell at Watonga last Saturday night.
A new town in county G will be estab-
lished, eighteen miles west of Kingfsher
The Ministerial association of the Guth-
RE district is being held in Saltwater this
week.
Okeene, the name of the new town in G
county, is a contraction of Oklahoma and
Cheyenne.
Rev. friedrich W. Hawley is now minis
ter Of the Presbyterian church at Okla
homa City.
Water, good water, can be had at a
depth of twenty-five to fifty feet anywhere
in c county.
Probate Judge Clevinger of county G
has entered the townsite of Arapahoe at
the Oklahoma City land office.
Hon. Dennis Flynn is reported to have
already made the grand rounds of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe counties.
Saltwater Gazette: The building on the
college grounds will all be completed by
the time specified in the contracts.
Delegate Harvey has written that he
will be at home this week and attend the
committee meeting at Ell Reno on May t.
Several parties at FL Reno have been ar
rested for violating the injunctions that
were served in connection with land Jump
ing.
Governor Seay has issued a proclama-
nor Steele's quarantine proclamation of
last summer, and allowing all settlers in
the new lands to bring in cattle and other
live stock from the north.
A North Carolina full-blood Cherokee.
who is a college graduate and recently
travelled in this nation says that he finds
that one adopted white citizen of this ma
ton who married Cherokee woman,
controls more land grazing Texas cattle
than is cultivated by all the full-bloods in
the five tribes of with the intruders
thrown in.
Chickasaw Chieftian: Whit Hyden,
who returned from his booming expe-
dition Saturday, got fine claim in the
North Canadian valley few miles above
the county seat, Ell Reno He was offered
81 900 for his REIMBURSEMENT, but refused
several ran for the same claim, and he
had two contestants whom he had to buy
off at 500 apiece. Mr.. Hyden is we'll
pleased with the new country and his
prospects there.
Two miles south of Cheyenne, in county
r, is monument designating the place |
where Custer killed 500 Cheyenne ponies !
in 1868. He was after San Tanta and Big |
Tree. When Custer came on them he |
found 1900 Cheyenne warriors He had |
only 400 men. To attack meant massacre. |
There were six inches of snow on the |
ground and the horses had little feed. Con- |
cealing his own horses in rayine, Custer
stole up the Washita bottom with his men |
on foot, found l 800 Indian ponies and at |
dawn killed them. The warriors were |
thus precluded from pursuit. The bones of |
those 1,500 ponies yet strew the ground for
a half-mile square.
Hennessey Clipper: A gentleman Just In
from the @. and A. country says that on
Monday evening he slipped into the coun-
try, and being familiar with the lay of the
aud made his way to Watonga, with the
Intention of being on the ground early
There is bunch of black jacks few
miles east of the town, and to this be
made his way, intending to keep out of
sight and get an early start; but when he
arrived there he found plenty OF company,
here being about 200 or more ahead of
him. He says that during his night ride
le passed many people, and that great
many choice claims were taken as far out
Is the county seat at half past twelve.
FL Reno Courier: At o'clock this
morning as VIM. Elliott was passing by
he house of James Mcdonald, who came
lere from No Mans Land, he was called
q and found the Mcdonald family sick
nd one child dead. Mr.. Mcdonald ask
elliott to take his team and mortgage
hem for money TO pay doctors bills and
unersl expenses, but Mr.. Elliott and Mr..
. Young came to this city and by sub
cription raised S17 for the family. They
xtend thanks to the people of Ell Reno
or their liberality. The funeral of the
hid takes place today at the II. E
hurch.