The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Mulhall complains of an epidemic of
chicken thieves.
The surplus lands of the Kiowa and
Comanche country will make IL, 500 happy
homes.
Logan county is the only point in the
territory so far where the Peoples party
and the Democrats nave been able to fuse
in local politics.
The city election in Ell Reno. owing to
Irregularities in the papers forwarded the
governor, will not take place until after
the regular fall election.
Fort Reno's celebrated mounted band
will be present in Chicago at the dedica-
ton of the worlds fair buildings on the
| % instant. This one of the two only
mounted bands in the United States.
J. z. Over of Beaver county has a field
of alfalfa that he has harvested two heavy
crops of hay from. and it has now another
good crop of hay besides an excellent crop
OF seed
There will be an old soldiers reunion in
Morain's grove, Bismarck township, Lo-
gan county, next Thursday, Friday and
| Saturday. 1t will be good place for can
J
[ force.
| The people in the vicinity of Red Rock
Springs have decided to name that pre-
cinct maple Grove" instead of Red Rock.
They have two very fine maple groves
from which the name is taken.
! n. 4. Hewett editor of the Tecumseh
| Republican. has been notified that his
pension claim, amounting to 5000, has
| been allowed, which moves the Times
Journal to exclaim: Goodness, what will
an editor do with so much moiky!
An amusing incident happened in the
| Edmond schools one day last week. The
teacher while instructing class as to
| where the different races of people came
| from, asked where the colored people came
| from. From Guthrie" shouted young
| urchin.
Farmers should keep a sharp lookout
for two swlndlers that are going around
through the territory. One of them pur-
ports to be after crop statistics and the
other has a remonstrance against high
taxes. Both ask farmers to sign their
names to papers which afterwards turn up
as promisory notes
The Indians have an extensive dance |!
some place down the Canadian river from
Watonga. Both the Cheyenne and the |
Arapahoe are participating. And by order |
of the agents no white man is to be al |
lowed on the ground. The Rustler says |
this is somewhat extraordinary, and asks
if any one can tell us the reason.
The TOWNSHIP board of Ell Reno has set |
Ali the contests in the business portion of |
town for the 10Th instant, when contest
ants and contestees will be required to de-
posit fee of $50, to defray expenses of the
trial for one day, when the cases will be
continued or postponed until some future
date. The patent has not yet arrived and
no decisions have been rendered.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Wray, writing from Fort
Sill to friend in Chickasna, has the fol-
lowing to say about the negotiations be-
between the commissioners and the CO.
manche, kiowa and Apache indians:
1.-The chiefs of the Cornauche, kiowa and
Apaches are now signing over their rights
to their surplus land to the United Sta ties
government, for the consideration of
81, 500 900 and 100 acres per head. The eX-
ira $500, 900 is left to the action of congress, |
whether they are to receive it or not.
A few nights ago lady boarded train
No. 40S at Oklahoma City, bound for Kan
sas City to visit friends She was a years
of age, had been married about six years
and had seven children the oldest of which
was years auu months Of age. She
took sleeper and after the Pullman con-
ductor and porter and Mark Thomas, the
brakeman, assisted her to the train, Mark
and the porter assisted her in putting the
little ones to bed, five of them being laid
crosswse in tht berth, while the mother
and the youngest pair of twins took the
upper berth.
Ell Reno Eagle: 1t is virtually settled
that the ChocUaw Will resume the exten-
sion Of lis line to the mines from Oklahoma
City at an early day. One of tie directors
of the kali-Inla line has offered to COM
pete the road from FL Reno to the mines.
and it is thought the proposition will be
accepted G. B. kirkbride is the name of
the gentleman who proposes to complete
the road and he and Receiver Chaddick
aud Major Shellenberger and Others are in
terestiug themselves in tue extension of
the system TO Little Rock. the line to be
known as the Inter-Oceanic and toe Great
Western, which will afterwards be cousoli-
dated with the Choctaw. The money for
the survey of this line is already subscrib
ed and the preliminary work VIII begin in
IA short time. The Choctaw will make FL
Reno the distributing point for the terri
tory, as wholesale house and manufac-
tories will locate where the largest terri
tory can be reached abe easiest. 1ae |
Chectaw has bad much to do with the up
building Of the city aud with the compile
ton of the Rock Island southern extern
sion next month. FL Reno viii boom as
she never doomed before. Tie company Is
now making arrangements 10 put in
depot al this city.
They Would Run Them Out
F from the Oklahoma state Capital.