The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Perry claims to be underlaid with coal.
The Times says the cattle near Okarche
have the Texas fever and q number have
| died.
1t is rumored that the land Office at
Beaver is to be consolidated with the one
at Woodward.
The Arapahoe Argus says that strip
boomers are filing on claims in q county
vt the rate of fifty per day.
Judge Burford of the Third judicial dis
trct was the seventh man to place his
homestead papers On file at Enid.
John l. Ollie. ex-register of the Guthrie
land office, has claim on the southwest
quarter of 30 23-6, and adjoins Enid sta
ton.
Ia the case of the Territory of Okla
homa, J. R. Clark plaintiff, VS.. j. K.
Quein, defendant, the supreme court fail
ed to sustain the nandamus on technical
points of law.
Kingisher Free Press. Jake Guthrie.
the Cherokee Iudian who owned the alloi-
ment next to Enid, was in the city Mon
day and Tuesday The Free Press had
the pleasure af seeing him made a citizen
of the United States He is almost
white man. having only one-eighth Chero-
kee blood iu his veins.
Kingfsher Free Press: Joseph Bradon
of Cooper township was in the city Tues
day. He is an enierprising farmer. He
has probably the finest fish pond in the
territory. 1t is horse shoe in form, about
one hundred feet wide and eighty rods
lad vvtt sail
chauel catfish.
Times journal: Judge Scott and Miss
Adam Curnutt came up from Norman yet
ter.!ay. The Judge has closed the term at
Norman. He disposed Of l2i cases in nine
and half days session. and continued
only eleven. 1t is good record, and If
kept ap Will clear tue dockets OF every
county in the district.
Bridge Foreman McCann gives some in
terestiny facts concerning the repairing OF
the Rock Island bridge across the South
Canadian. The first engine was sent over
il at 8 O'Clock Wednesday night, but the
bridge will not be completed entirely for
a bout forty DAYS. Its whole length is
.. .2S feet, or little over bali mile in
length. The extent of the washout WAS
/, I53 feet. The rebuilding OF this WAS not
only exciting but dangerous. on account
of the ouickssnds. Sometimes several
teams would be nuder al once, and il took
\ small army of men TO watch the horses. |
cut the harness and help them out when |
they began to sink The qnicSsands are /
very heavy in this river, and IN pail OF !
water there Will settle three inches OF |
quicksand Although the banks OF the |
river are only about three feet high, the |
current will wash channel twenty-sevea |
feet deep, and the quicksand IS SO strong |
that it viii snap eff heavy piles
In the annual report of the condition of /
Affairs Of the Indians ander his supervis- /
ion. Agent Moore OF the Quapa~ agency, |
gives some interesting information. As a |
rule. he says, all of the eight tribes OF the /
a geDcy are DESTROYS of taking land in sew
crafty, and TO be admitted to citizenship /
With the granting of statehood TO Okla
hoEla The Quapaws themselves have /
IN ade a.lo:menGs 10 theif own membeTs, /
with only two eissenters, and they, with /
the Miamas ard peorias, are anxious TO /
make division OF their surplus lands and
sell the same and make final settlement |
with the government. The Ssnecxs aud
the Shawnees Of Inc nxency are mainly !
iesirous of tie same advancement 70 indie
pendent citizenship.
Guthrie News: Lee Raymond, farmer
living about twelve miles ives; OF the
city. found in the brush On bis farm the
5leached skeleton of n nlan- The skull
looked as II il had been smashed 10 An
.snpls Jug was found n.sr tts skesc;oa.