The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-06
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.

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GUTHRIE. o. T.. March 5.-The following
letter, under date of Washington, Feb go
was received by the governor yesterday:
Acknowledging the receipt of your
| letter or the 23d inst, accepting the pro-
Visions OF the act OF congress providing for
a more complete endowment of agricul-
| tural and mec hanical colleges, approved
Aug. 30, 1890, have 60 state that proper
certificate has this day been forwarded to
/ the secretary of the treasury, showing that
| the territory is entitled to the first INSTALL
ment of $1,000 due it under the act re-
! ferred to. The draft for the amount stated
| will be made payable to the territorial
| treasurer. JOHN w. NOBLE"
Owing to the loose legislation of that
legislature. the acceptance of the condi-
| tons by Oklahoma was not satisfactory.
Governor Seay, by great personal efforts,
satisfied the department aud now the
agricultural college has the money.
The governor has received letter from
Commissioner Carter authorizing him to
lease the school sections sixteen and thir-
ty-six in the former Sac and Fox, Potta-
watomie and absentee Shawnee reserva-
tlons. Sealed bids will be received by the
governor At his Office in the city of Guthrie
up to and including the second day OF
April. 1895. The lands will be leased for u
period not exceeding three years from the
J.
Will be permitted to leaase more than 100
acres. The lessees will not be allowed to
cut or remove any timber and parties de-
string TO lease will be required 10 state in
their application how much (if any) OF the
land they desire to lease, IS covered by
timber; also the qualify and character of
the land. No land will be leased for less
reasonably worth and no bids will be ac-
cepted for less than twenty-five (S25) per
quarter section. Lessees may at the eX-
piration of the time for which their lease
Is made remove their improvements.
Parties desiring time Will be required to
give approved personal security. Where
cash is paid for ithe first years rental no
security will be required for deferred pay
ments.
No preference will be given to parties
who have settled upon or have improve
meuts on any of said lands. and any person
living upon any of said lands or having
improvements thereon will be REQUIRED TO
give Immediate possession to the success
full bidder, and he will not be permitted to
remove such improvement, or any part
thereof.
All bids will be open on the fourth day
of April, 1892, and the successful bidder
will be given ten days in which to apply tor
his lease and execute his part of the con-
tract
Judge Green returned today from Illi-
nois, where he has been to attend the mar
riage of his daughter. The regular March
term of court will open Monday next.
Court Is in session at Norman. Two
horse thieves are to be tried.
Marshal Grimes is in kingfisher.
Special Examiner HaZen is looking over
the different departments.
Messrs. Scanell, Thomas, Parker and
Barton have been summoned to appear at
Wichita on the Sth as witnesses for the
kinsley Exchange bank that has been
sued by Earl w. Spencer for false impris-
onment. Mr.. Spencer left his personal
note in the defunct bank for several thou
sand dollars. w. II. Raft, father of the
chief deputy of the marshal's Office, is the
attorney for the bank.