Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
News from Ok. and |. rs.


The Pond Creek Echo and Pioneer
have consolidated. The Echo succeed
ing.
A rumor is extant that the land Office
at Guthrie, o. T., will soon be removed to
Ell Reno.
A man can't walk a mile straight
ahead in Oklahoma without stepping on
a county seat fight.
Captain Dodd, as per orders received,
has removed Co. F; third cavalry, from
Pond Greek, back to Fort Riley. Kansas.
E. L. Cline, of Pond Greek, has sold
| the Pioneer of that place to the Parker
Bros, publishers of the Echo, a spicy
weekly of that town.
Prairie fires have been doing much
damage in Lincoln county, O., T., with
one fatality reported. Mrs. John Hall
was burned to death.
Section Is in every township of the
Strip was reserved, subject to the act of
congress. No action has been taken by
congress and said section Is can not be
sold or leased.
Eleven hundred petitions for citiz en-
ship were introduced in the Cherokee
senate in a single day, and most of
these petitioners are undoubtedly Cher
okees by blood.
A proclamation has been issued by
Governor Renfrow declaring Pond Creek
a city of the first class, and calling an
election to be held in that city Deem
Der Sth for the purpose Of electing city
officers.
The new court house at Enid is to be
two stories high and 45x46 feet in size
nicely finished, inside and out. The
commissioners have not yet awarded the
contract for the construction of the
building.
Enid Daily Enterprise: Rev. F. Eos
ter, of Haven, Kansas will arrive in this
CITY next week and will Immediately en-
ter upon his duties as pastor OF the
Congregational church A church build
ing will soon be erected.
Commissioner Lamoreaux says that
no assessment for the payment Of the ex-
penses of surveying and plating town
sites in the Cherokee strip is necessary,
as the expenses are betrayed from con-
gressional appropriation.
Captain J. G. Smith, one of the few
remaining old-time boomer associates of
Captain Couch and Dave Payne. is now
developing a fine farm in the Pott coun-
try, but never tires of telling of the
happenings in the good old days. He is
still hale and hearty.
Land office officials at Enid caused
the arrest of Thomas Haines and T.
Payne on the charge of altering land
office papers to defraud settlers. The
plan was to so change the filings that
new settlers could be deluded into buy
ing already prepared filings. It is said
number of other men are implicated
and will be arrested.
Topeka Journal: J. M. Turner, who
has been for many years an employe at
the state insane asylum, together with
his brother William, have started stock
farm at the town of Newkirk, Cherokee
strip. They propose to grow up with
the country. They have sent carload
of horses and carload of corn to be
placed in the immense stables they have
erected there.
The meeting of the grand lodge I. o.
0. F., at Guthrie, closed with the cleo
ton of the following grand officers for
the next year: Grand master, G. G. New
man, of Ell Reno; deputy grand master,
D. n Frazier, Of Chandler; grand secre-
tary, J. NJ. Cramer, of Oklahoma City;
grand treasurer, James Enslee, of Hen
messy. The order is growing very rap
idly in the territory.
Governor Jones, of the Choctaws, has
asked the government at Washington to
devise plan to defeat the lobby there.
He says that these gentry, pets of the
interior department., have, within six
years, taken S1,300,000 of Choctaw
funds in the form of fees; that these
fees have been approved in tribal coun-
Gil by use of bribery and that there
never was a reasonable basis for the
payment of the fees.
We noticed last week very interesting
interview in the Kansas City Times with
ex-Chief Bushyhead on the subject of
statehood. The old mans head is as
level on that as on most every other
question that has any reference to the
Cherokee nation or the five tribes. If
the five tribes were to unite in one
straight Indian government, as suggest
ed Chief Bushyhead would be elected
its governor by Observation-Disclosures
Chieftain.
A conference of lawyers, assembled at
Enid, declared it their opinion that the
proclamation of the government recently
opening the Strip unlawfully takes the
power of designating the situation of
the different county seats They declare
that this privilege belongs to the people
alone, and that the only proper and
lawful way of naming county seats is
by the voice of the people at called cleo
tions. The lawyers appointed commit
tee to visit the governor and seek his
opinion on the subject. If they are sus-
taiped tbov cav on o1action will no ~ IIod