The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.


The Chickasha Advertiser has been sold
| to w. Il. Orme, who is editing the Ex-
press
Judge Clark is in Tecumseh where be
has opened the first term of court ever held
in county B.
The Ferd Helm Brewing company is
contemplating the erection Of :hirty-ton
ice plant at Oklahoma City.
| The Ardmore Chieftain says the Choc-
| taw gubernatorial campaign is getting
mighty close to bloodshed, and some OF
the leaders are taking precautions against
assassination.
Oklahoma postmasters have had their
salaries raised as follows: Guthrie. from
$500 to $500: Kingfsher, $3.50 to 81, 400;
Norman, LOCO TO 81. 800: Oklahoma City,
$1,000 to $1,000
1t is reported that John Bly,, who only
few days ago escaped from the Wichita
| Jail, Is once more al his old haunts near
! Choctaw City. 4 man near that city
claims to have been held up aud robbed by
Bly,.
! a colored girl named Wand Neil living
in Guthrie accidentally shot herself, while
| making a bed revolver fell out OF IL upon
the floor, discharging a bullet which
lodged in the calf of her leg. The wound
| is not serious.
State Capital: a strong posse of men
from Saltwater were in the city yesterday
morlng, having come on chase after Al
Gilmer who killed Walter Hoag in Payne
county some time ago. This is the same
man who was found east of Orlando in a
piece of woods with his head cut off. II
has not been generally known that the
slayer of this man had been found.
Judge Shackelford OF the federal court
at Muskogee declared as the law that all
contracts for occupancy of the lands of the
Cherokees between citizens Of the United
States and citizens of the Cherokee nation,
unless made in accordance with the laws
Of the Cherokee nation, were void and
that any occupancy of or any work upon
the Cherokee lands under such agreement
was unlawful, but that the officers or
judicial authorities of the nation were not
sufficient authority to determine the ques-
ton.
The Muskogee Phoenix says that the
practice Of mortgaging personal property
and crops has become universal in that
country from the fact that land is in
alienable. The curse of debt seems to
come everywhere in some shape, yet state
hood and home markets, with civilization |
and all its improvements, would vastly |
help the Indian territory. Allotments
which could be neither sold nor mortgaged |
would give man a permanency of resi- |
dence which would be of great value in |
securing credit.
Free Press: Captain J. Y. Admire has |
the honor to have served as private secre- /
tary to Colonel John w, Foster now sec
rotary of state, thirty years ago. Colonel |
Foster was then colonel of the Sixty filth |
Indiana infantry, Was in command of the /
southwestern division of Kentucky, head
quarters at Henderson, KY. and Captain
Admire was then a sergeant of Company
K. of that regiment. When he left his |
colonel confidential service he did so to |
accept a commission as second lieutenant |
signed by Oliver p Mor on which was
given to him upon the special recommend |
alton OF Colonel Foster.
Times-Journal: Mr.. C. H. Nafus re-
ceived letter the other day from a
nephew up at Burt, in northern Iowa,
WEICtcH uiv IiS SldtFS tudu SOti -
from four to eight inches high, and most
farmers had plowed it once, and that oats
had not began to head yet. He wants 10
know the drawbacks to this country, and
before answering. Mr.. Nafus says, he will
have to have assistance from somebody
longer in the country than he has been. as
he knows of no drawbacks. Mr.. Nafus
will hunt long while before h9 finds Il
man who knows OF a drawback This
is just about rs near perfect rs
nature makes them.
Beaver Democrat: J. &. Murphy is up
from Gate City this week He finished
shearing his flock of LOO head of sheep
As his feeces average eight
pounds, his wool clip is about 1860
pounds, worth at the ranch Is cents per
pound. or a total value of 5000. Mr..
Murphy had ewes which clipped IA to AZ
pounds Of wool and have raised lamb.
These sheep were fed some during the
winter. The cost of feed for the last year
per head, Mr.. Murphy estimates at Is
cents, or the price of one pound of wool.
This gives him $40 net from each sheep
to pay for labor and interest on money in
vested, with the increase Of the flock not
considered. There is money in sheep rails
ing in this locality.