The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Nine hundred pupils attended the G TIL
RE public school the first day of the ses-
| sion.
Perry has done one sensible thing if
nothing else: it mum bered its street rua-
ming one way and gave the cross streets
the letters OF the alphabet.
The officers of county p are: R. G. Ed
| ward, probate judge; j. c. Scruggs. sheriff;
Joseph Blackburn, clerk; J. L. HARRISON,
treasurer; S. III. Harris, ttorney
There is not always special significance
in name, but it is worthy of remark that
a law shingle sticks out in one of the
streets of Perry bearing the firm name of
Quick, Justice & Journey.
lie is said that the sooners seem to be in
majority on the bottoms. And the chances
are that u majority of them will be in the
bottom-of some prison cell-sooner Or
later, If they remain there.
Paymaster Major Smith arrived in Perry
"Wednesday, and paid off Company G,
Thirteenth infantry. The pay roll is
something over $4,000. The boys in blue
will remain in Perry all winter, SO it is
said.
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is progressing as rapidly towards cityhood
as the best OF them. Fully seventy-fve
buildings are in the course of construction
ana business lots are selling from 500 TO
$500.
The people who rushed to the strip are
not all thieves and cntthroats as some dis
appointed ones would have the world be.
lieve. A number of found articles and
stray animals are being advertised by the
finders.
The poor settlers in the strip are certain
ly having hard time Of it. After endur-
ing the dust for a week they will now suf
fer from the damp, cold weather. But
they'll come out all right: they've got the
grit to get there
Guthrie Capital: "What big differ
ence little water makes. That is what
the people in the new towns think" And
from the fuss you have been making on
the subject the past fortnight, the people
of your town think the same.
ID. c. knoderer has in posse ssion at Pond
Creek a horse that he caught running
loose on the prairie near that point, that
he desires the owner to claim. The horse
is l6 hands high, 6 or years old, OF dark
bay in color, aud had on double bride.
Liberty, the new town located and laid
out by Z. p. McCahe for the benefit of the
negroes who prefer town life to residence
in the country, is four miles northeast of
Perry, near the Poncs reservation line.
The Santa Fe Is giving countenance to the
scheme by building depot there.
Perry Times: Among the big men here
from Wichitt;-uen who We're power in
the boom of 1887 and know how to make
things hum, is II. g. Lee. Harry Hill,
George Strong. Judge j. Z. Henley, Judge
Musalier and Sol Arkush, They have lost
none of their old time boom spirit and are
buying iots and building with great hopes.
The repor: that the town OF Blackwell
had been raided by desperadoes and people
had been driven away is an exsggeration.
4 gang OF fellows were in town Sunday
and fired their rerolvers ia the sir to make |
people believe them pad men. The officers
arrested five leaders and gave them a
chunk of law and that is all that is needed
at this time or in the future.
The Indian Journal says there is no
power on Gods green earth that can pre-
vent some change being brough. about ia /
tie five tribes, and ii the Indians sit back
tvo years longer without proposing a
change. It viii bet dollars TO douchuuts
tuey VIII ind themselves the iail and Ok
iahoma the kite. But the Joaruai nseda't
fret. the Indians have been in contact with
the enterprising whites these years 10
purpose. Look at the sixty aliotments in /
the strip
The Seventh Day Adventists will hold |
thei. annual camp meeting near Okla /
noma City. beginning the sS;h instant and |
continue until Oct :. The camp will De /
located in tie timber south OF the fair /
ground on Mr.. Cslhoan's place. Most OF I
The territories viii bs representei. and !.