The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
new hotel will be erected at NARROW by

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A new hotel will be erected at NARROW By
/ SnIythe Bros.
! The senate committee has recommended
statehood for Oklahoma.
The Argus is the name of new Demo
cratic paper published at Arapahoe.
Marshal Clay of Norman shot and killed
! a much-waDted horseIhief a few days ago
The gap in the Chock,aw between Okla
/ bona City and McAIlister will be closed
and trains running inside of six months
! The best girls in the world are in Okla
| homa. They remember that their mothers
are human beings and sometimes get
| tired.
state Capital: The desire for the best
| possible insignia for seal for Oklahoma
| should enlist a good deal OF interest, and
models should be sent TO this Office. Let's
have unique and an artistic one
! NARROW is one of the growing towns on
! the Rock Island, about fifty miles south OF
Minco 1t is surrounded by fine farmin z
country and is the supply point for the
great cattle ranches of the Chickasaw
nation.
The farmers of Oklahoma noticing the
national agitation for good roads are all in
for it, They want the legislature to make
better law than is now in force, so that
roads will De taken care or under differ
ent system of supervision. Roads are a
necessity in Oklahoma, more SO, probably,
than elsewhere OF account of lesser mile
age Of railroads.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are
doing good deal of fencing. They are
exceedingly jealous of the rights that come
with realty ownership, and the fencing Is
more to assert authority over their own
uudisputed domain than for purposes of
pasGurage. They permit no trespass, and
the man who cuts tree or mows the grass
is certain to hear from the owner. Twenty
years ago the Indian would have avenged
the wrong with his trusty rife; now he
goes into the courts. He has great faith in
the justice of the court and looks with
reverence upon its protecting influence.
For the first time in number of years
wild pigeons are reported to have appeared
in the Indian Territory, Choctaw nation,
in the pineries. About twelve years ago
wild pigeons TO the numbers of millions
nestled in the mountains east of String
town, !. T. Captain Judy of St. Louis
employed about 100 men trapping them
for the market, gun clubs. etc. 1t is said
that Captain Judy cleared $4,000. He
shipped them to ali sections of the United
States by the car load, having so fixed 1t
that the Choctaw authorities would per
nit no one else to disturb the pigeons.
A correspondent just returned from a
trip to the Kiowa and COmanche Indian
country says he was surprised to find
there at this season of the year at least
$50, 900 head of cattle belonging TO cattle
men. These cattle are held under grazing
leases from the Indians which do not eX-
pire until September, 1893. The cattlemen
and nonprogressve Indians have formed a
combination and are working to prevent
the opening of the country to settlement.
The Indians say that they will derive al
most as much money from leases as inter-
est upon purchase money for their lands
and still bave their lands left. The more
enlightened Indians, however, are for an
early opening of the country.
There is considerable excitement among
the Usage Indians over the report that vast
treasures lie buried near the mouth of the
Cow Skin river According to the story,
which has been handed down for four gen
erations yesrs ago there was serious trouble
between the Spaniards and Usage Indians
and after a hard struggle the Spaniards
were forced to retreat, and they were going
down Spring river on fiat boats. When
they came upon the shoals at the mouth OF
the Cow Skin river their boats were 50
heavily laden they could not pass over and
they were forced to take off two large ket
ties of gold and bury them there with
number Of articles that wopld retard their
escape. A Shawnee Indian who visited
Mexico some time afterward was told of
the buried wealth, and since then the in
formation has been handed down from
generation 10 generation, but not until
now has it created any interest.