The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-03

Oklahoma statute. Hon. W. 7. Walker.
registerer of the T. S. land office at Beaver
aud Grant Stanley have formed partner
ship and will Office in Perry.
The bluecoats having taken turn at
corrupting the people OF the strip. the
BON bazine and tamborine folk are prepar-
ing for an advance into the land to try
their power of reformation.
Aiya Chronicle, Vol. 1, No. /: Where
there was one week ago an nnbroken waste
OK prairie land is now thriving little city
OF more than ], 900 Inhabitants Such Is
the brief yet wonderful history of Alya.
The North Enid Tribune says John
Toxic, man looking for a location for a
Towering mill, - WAS in that city Friday
John is evidently from Orient. but he
must have taken the queue from Il Yankee.
The regular examinations OF applicants
for certificates as pharmacists will be held
the first Tuesday in October. today, at
Oklahoma City. Ali persons expecting TO
DO a drug business in the strip Will be ex-
pecteh to comply with the provisions of
the pharmacy law. a
Delegate Flynn introduced bill in coz
gress Saturday empowering the governor
of Oklahoma to lease sections Is, Is, 80
and 36 of each congressional wuship OF
the Cherokee strip for term of three
years. This is the land reserved for the
public institutions OF the territory.
Muscogee Phoenix: Sam Fry, full
blood Choctaw. was convicted In the Pash :
mataha district court this week Of man
slaughter. He murdered his own brother,
Willie Fry. near Bennington in she early
part OF July. His sentence was 100 lashes
on his back. The killing was diabolical
one aud had he been tried in the United
States court all the lawyers in the country
could not have saved his neck.
Under the laws of Oklahoma a residence
of six months in the territory is required
to entitie person the right to vote. II
this law is observed 10 the letter only those
who went into the strip from Oklahoma
proper will be allowed 10 vote at the
pending municipal elections. A mass
meeting Was held at Perry Friday and
resolutions adopted asking congress for
immediate relief through joint reso!u-
ton.
Guthrie's interest in the statehood ques-
ton is eXemplified in the fact that she did
not think it worth while to send delegates
to Purcell to attend the convention held
there Saturday. This circumstance taken
in connection with Guthrie's we.l-kuown
enterprise in pushing things she is in-
terested in makes it look kind o queer.
1t was mistake, tho inadvsrtent, per-
haps.
The main reliance for statehood is found
in the following facts aud fgnres which
will form a summary Of the memorial to
be presented to congress: Oklahoma was
organized on the 22nd day of April. 1859.
at that time it's population was nearly e.
600. Ia 1892 its voters numbered g, 900. 1t
is claimed by the statehood executive COM
mittee that the settlement of the Cherokee
strip has brought the population up TO
275 900. and the. taxable wealth Of the ter
ritory to S59,0O0,Oo0 These figures bring
the population to u higher point than that
of any other territory at the time of adj
mission.
Perry Times: The government ordered
two wells struck on the TOWNSHIP of Perry.
The contractors were to furnish a given
number of feet of water to complete their
contract. At thirty feet the dicgers found
fine water, but were afraid the vein was
not strong enough. They dug down rs
feet and there struck an abundance of
water but it was salty. Many people who
were here the first few days went away
with the impression that water was hard
to get at this point and was poor when
procured. Since then over fifty wells
have been struck and fine water in abund-
ance has been found at an average depth
o. thirty feet.
Perry Democrat: Messrs. Hoffman of
Texas and Hollensworth of Kansas, two
men who got Oil the same lot on c street
west of the square on the day of the open
ing. concluded, as announced in the Dem
ocrat, to settle the contest by making the
race over again on the same horses. They
left this morning for Orlando with Messrs
Harris and Jones as judges to start them
promptly at IL O'clock at the line. and
Messrs. Pichett and Ford are left OH the
lot as judges to see who arrives first. This
is the most peculiar way of settling cou-
test on record. Kansas won the race and
lot. Time, 30 minutes; distance. l014 miles