The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

right.
Kingfsher is to have a milkmaid's con-
vention soon.
The assessors will begin their work en-
next TUESDAY.
There are 1900 Indians on the kiowa and
Comauche reservation.
The green goods fend is getting in
his work at Oklahoma City.
The county seat and land Office bees are
| buzzng in Hennessey's bonnet.
The machinery for a new pressed-brick
plant is on the ground at Hennessey.
A Guthrie man was sentenced to thirty
| days IL Jail for stealing an axe from sa-
loon,
The Minco Minstrel says the weather
this week is a sample from the Cherokee
strip.
The Bee says that there are 1000 good
quarters Of land in G county awaiting set
| Element
The payment of s29, 600 grass money to
| the Kiowas and Comanches is now going
on at Anadarko
The mining fever has struck Minco and
every body is providing himself with a
pick and shovel.
| The Clipper says the best land in the
strip is strip twenty miles wide, from
Hennessey to Caldwell.
The Minstrel says that we must not give
up the Wichita reservation, and that it
Will fud some way to bust" it.
a. S. Whitehead retires from the editor
ship OF the 'PauPs Valley Enterprise"
aud is succeeded by the Enterprise Pub
fishing company.
After the United States gets through
with its work, says the Fargo Press, the
homesteader will have no cause to fear
dishonest attorneys. Blood-sucking con-
tests will be constant menace to the
homeseeker
The county clerks of the different co un-
ties in Oklahoma, in session in Guthris,
have organized society for mutual bene-
fit. j. Ii. Havinghorst, of Guthrie, was
elected president, and w. C. Long. Of
kiugfsher, secretary. They were given
nice banquet by Frank Greer.
The county commissioners of Logan
county have purchased property in GuCu-
RE into which they will move the cells of
the old county Jail and construct a suit
able Jail, thus obviating the necessity of
the county keeping its prisoners in the
federal Jail.
Mrs Frank Greer has been appointed by
Governor Seay TO collect material from the
territory to be used in the construction of
the Columbian liberty bell. The material
to be used is to consist of Old coins, metal,
etc, to be collected from all over the ter
ritory, which will be melted and used as
r ba -, h.
of a huge bell.
The local Office at kinghsher has re-
ceived decision from the secretary of the
interior in the case of Aaron Short VS..
George w. Fletcher. This is a case in
which the land affected is valuable claim
adjoining the town of Dover The evil
dence shows that Short was made drunk
by several interested parties and while in
a state of intoXication he signed a rein
Guishment to the land in question, south
east quarter of section 2, township j., |
north, range west Indian meridian. |
George w. Fletcher fled at once on the |
land in dispute. The secretary holds and |
cites numerous decisions in support. that |!
an agreement made with an intoxicated |
person is of no effect. He therefore orders !
Fletcher's entry held for cancellation.
kingfsher Free Press: The committee /
on roads and bridges, of the Commercial |
club, consisting of John Jordan, J. c. |
Smith of the Peoples bank, II. L. Horner
and J. l. Admire, visited the town of |
Dover Friday last for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the citizens views on the bridge /
question. Every man was alert to the
situation. There were no dissenters; the !
farmers especially were enthusiastic for
the movement, and the townspeople will
lay no straws in the way of its progress
the day was stormy and the
wind raw and cutting the committee in
its investigation piled up and down the
river for distance of two miles ON either
side of the railroad bridge, and made n
careful examination of all sites proposed.
After interviewing the people on the sub
ject, getting their views, and considering
the most feasible crossings, the committee
decided TO report in favor of bridge
across that muddy old barrier, at point
about half mile above or west of the rail
road bridger This bridge will lead up to
what is known as the Lee-Taylor quarter
mile road. This will give the people east
Of the road abundant room for bridge
five or six miles down the river.