The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-01-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The El Reno Democrat has put on
new dress.
Yukon seems to have the strongest pull
on the penitentlary.
The white population of Oklahoma is
estimated at 175,000,
The Sunbeam says that the range cattle
Of that county are rolling fat,
The Tmes-J ournal has put in a new
water motor To run lis press-s.
Nine persons were fined $5 and costs,
each, for cutting timber on the strip.
There Is a man in Oklahoma City who
has waited fifteen years for the strip to
open.
Hon. D. c. Farnsworth will introduce
bill locating a normal school at Hen
nessey.
The sooner clause of the strip bill ap-
plies to persons ''entering upon"-not
merely to persons who ''eDter upon and
occupy"
The Indians who oppose single state
hood, says the Gazette, are like those who
oppose death; certain to be gathered in.
willing or unwilling.
Messrs. Mckinney g. Carr have COM
menced the publication of a neat and
newsy sheet called the Sunbeam, at
Cheyenne, Roger Q. Mills county.
Attorney General Brown has gone over
the statutes Of Oklahoma and marked the
Inconsistencies of the thing and will sub
NIT it to the legislature for correction.
The Santa Fe railroad sent passes 20
every member of the present legislature
except the Hon. Harper Cunningham Of
Guthrie. One member Of the house, Hon.
John Beattie Of Oklahoma, returned his
to the road
Ii anyone doubts that the strip is being
settled, says the Arkansas Valley Demo-
crat, let him go to Chilocco creek, six
miles south of Arkansas City; or, if you
don't want TO go to that trouble. look ont
OF the car window on the east side of the
track. Aud they are not Cherokeesl If
the soldiers are to come, let's have them
early.
Arkansas Valley Democrat: Why don't
the president call out the troops and ar
rest the gang of outlaws on the Cana
river, in the Cherokee nation, that have
been there for years and terrorized the
whole southern border of this state in
stead of chasing after few peaceful strip
settlers?
Colonel Ross of Guthrie, who is in
Washington in the interest of Oklohoma,
writes as follows concerning the strip bill:
After great labor and close attention we
have succeeded in getting bill through
the house much more favorable than l ex-
pected, to open the strip We will get it
{ hrrr,ryh Ia l.
it goes to conference we will get it shaped !
to suit us. The fact is that we will get |
about what we want.
The new water tanks erected at Fort !
Reno at Il cost of $500 burst Thursday |
when filed for the first time. They were
26 it, in diameter and IS ft. deep and |
stood on scaffolding 3S #. high. The rush
of the falling mass of water wrecked one |
end of the large stables, washing the /
horses away and leaving another stable in /
q bad condition. The loss W i'll reach S., 0OO |
The tanks lad not been accepted by the |
government, aud the loss will fall on the |
contractors. The cause was poor material |
used in the construction.
Arkansas Valley Democrat: On the |
Cana river, in the Cherokee nation, is q /
band Of outlaws that has been there for |
years Their location is about eighty |
miles east of Arkansas City, and not more /
than twenty miles south OF Coffeyville. /
1t is at this place that the Daltons con- /
Cealed themselves for months, and at this /
time Harry Starr, Nat Newcomb and n ,
dozen others lived there undsturbed. /
Deputy marshsls seldom 20 into that sec
tion, and when they do, it is not safe to |
have less than a half 2 dozen men. AT /
this place Henry Starr killed Deputy Mar !
shaI Floyd Wilson. These men formerly F.
occupied the mouth of the Cimarron river,
until three companies of the Fifth and !
and Tenth regiments, United States cav .
airy, drove them out. and Jordan and his /
Cherokee colony moved in.