The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-08
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

OhLA 6OAA OOlLlNE
Okarche has an eye to business, and to
get ready to do business on business prin-
ciples. To this end she is to have busi-
ness college.
It is reported that the Rock Island is
| getting ready TO build branch road into
the kiowa and Comanche country. 1t is
not Yet decided whether it will build from
Chickasha or FL Reno.
According to the report CT the county
uperintendent. Blaine county now con-
! taius 1918 children of school age, and has
now twenty-five schools in progress, IN
buildings furnished by organized districts.
| Some time ago an eight-ounce specimen
| of lead ore was picked up on the Frank
| Butts claim, near Oklahoma City. The
| Times-Jourual says it is pretty nearly
! pure lead, and if it is discovered in guam
| tity as rich as the specimen fortunes await
those who get possession OF the property.
Governor Seay has recently appointed
Henry Asp of Guthrie, H. Overholser of
Oklahoma City, J. Y. Admire of King
fisher, ID. W. Marquart of Norman and
John Ollie as delegates to a national ship
canal convention TO be held in Washing
ton Jan. II
The settlers in the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe country are required to pay $l20 at the
end of TWO years residence on their home
steads. The Hennessey Review sees no
justice in this burden being placed on
them by congress aud asks that it Will be
removed at an early day.
Sheriff Painter, Clerk Havighorst, At
torney Huston, Judge Lawrence Recorder
Dodson, Treasurer Stiles, Coroner Reder,
Surveyor White and Commissioners Ath-
erton and Smith are the officers who were
elected last November and who are now i'll
charge of the official affairs of Logan
county.
Oklahoma City Times: On his way to
Oklahoma City yesterday Colonel Patrick
secured boar's tusk that measures nine
inches in length and is nearly an inch in
thickness. The animal was years old and
had run wild nearly all his lie in the
woods. He was battling with an enor-
nous bulldog when killed and had the
dog actually impaled on one of his huge
tusks when rifle ball brought him down.
Guthrie Capital: Judge Green announced
from the bench Thursday afternoon that
clared the Smith Townsend land case of
Edmond cannot be advanced on the docket
on account of the crowded business of the
court. This being the first Oklahoma
case on the docket, it is judged that it
will take three years before Oklahoma
cases will lie reached.
Colonel Patrick informs the Times
Journal that the Sac and Fox Indians
have more children in school this year
than ever before. They patronize the
agency school altogether for the reason
that at that school the children are board
ed aud clothed, while neither boarding nor
clothing would be furnished in connection
with the district schools. The KickaDoOs
have sent twelve IS school this year, the
first of the tribe that have been gotten into
school,
Governor Seay has sent letter to the
county clerk and treasurer of every county
in the territory asking that they make il
report of the financial standing of their
county, its bonded Indebtedness, its real
estate value, taxable property, sale of
county warrants, amount of mortgages on
its real estate. etc. The governors last
report to the secretary of the interior con-
tanned much Of such data, but he evident
ly desires to make the record a. complete
as possible before turning his office over TO
his successor.
Guthrie News: Deputy Madsen of the
United States marshaPs office, exhibited
to the reporter some days ago a counter
feiting outfit consisting of moulds, dies
and the like, besides quite number OF
silver dollars, five-dollar gold coins and
specimens of other denominations. Tie
outfit was found south OF here and shows
plainly that some queer" work is going
on in this territory. II is also noticed
that there is an unusually large amount
Of spurious money in circulation over the
tie rritory. 1t would lie we'll to keep a
sharp lookout in this line