The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
John McShea has been appointed post.
master at Hennessey.
CD. Wrightsman, of Tecumseh. has
been appointed county attorney of Co.
| county-the Pawnee reservation.
I D. w. Marquart who was appointed on
the townsite board of Kildare has been
transferred to the Pond Creek board.
Lots of shippers who went to see the
Cherokee strip wers outstripped by the
sooners and barely had strength and stuff
enough 10 get away.
The Guthrie Capital calls 'em Hokey's
| iintseed sooners. Good cogromen; but.
sooner or later, the honest, law-abidiug,
homeseeker will rour them in spite of their
| oleogenosity.
| The Santa Fee railroad sent 1000 cars of
| freight into the Cherokee strip during the
| last three days The Rock Island sent
| ninety cars of lumber across the line on
Sunday alone.
There is such a universal kick against
the Hoke Smith booth scheme that it is as
good as settled that it will not be employed
i'll opening the Kickapoo lands that are to
come in" shortly.
The Strip stripped Purcell of very nearly
all her population last week, but the Reg
lister consoles itself with the belief That
they will drift back as soon as the rush is
over, wiser and better people.
Cards are out for the marriage OF Mr..
H. A. Frost aud Miss Eliza Ei!ig, to take
place at the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. c.
IL, III bo rad
evening. Sept. 2lst at o'clock.
The Purcell Register says Colonel Blute
Davidson he's resigned the Office of United
States commissioner at that place and
PauPs Valley, preferrng that course to
inviting the trouble that must necessarily
follow his holding court at the Valley, at
which place his life has been openly aud
violently threatened.
The Chickasaw legislature was to vote
Tuesday on the question OF moving the
capitol of that nation from Tishomingo to
Davis, and the opinion OF the best posted
among them was the proposition would
carry. Davis is on the Santa Fe. south of
Pauts Valley, and is central point. The
result of the vote is not yet known.
The wonderful development of Perry
into permanent metropolitan proportions
has already developed spirit of raging
envy at Guthrie. Here is a sample ebulli.
tion from the Guthrie News OF Tuesday:
PERRY is the land of sooners and disease.
1t will be the graveyard of the world in a
month. It heats the Sahara desert. It's
water is salt, and its awful sandstorms
will destroy hnman sight in thirty days"
Black we'll, the new town of the middle
Chikaskia river country. takes its name
from the Indian citizen who staked his al
lotment at that point. One Of the chief
advantages it has is its ample supply of
pure and wholesome Water. The town is
about half way between the Santa Fee and
Rock Island railroads and has daily COM
munication with both by stage lines.
Among the many sufferers ON the
Cherokee strip is ex-Attorney General S.
B. Bradford. of Kansas, who has joined
the Perry boom. Mr.. Bradford had his
pocket picked of all his money and even
his certificate of registration in Arkansas
City, but he managed to get through the
ina and today his banner, IS. 3. Brad
ford, Attorney at Law" waves victori-
Ously il the dust-ladsn breeze of the city
or Perry.
The strip as a whole is al! right. and.w Il
be one of the most fertils PORTIONS of
Oklahoma. The dry weather which has
prevailed all over the country the past six
weeks has had very bad eff
feet on the strip, burning up the
drying up the streams and
giving 1T several black eyes. No unset
tied country could endure it better than
the strip has done. and few good rains
will bnt very different face upon it,
The Blackwell Eagle is the first bona
ide newspaper printed and published in
the new lands. 1t is a 7-column folio all
home print, aud from the amount of local
contained in the initial mum
ber-issued two days before the formal
opening of the strip, one would judge
that it has the substantial backing as
we'll as the stamina to make it sue
cessfuI venture The Eagles editor and
publisher is J. W. Henthorne. newspaper
man of experience and good Judgment.
Oklahoma Press Gazette: 'Ths whole
sale merchants of Wichita expect great
rush of business from the strip and
Wichita consequently. has made arrange
ments for another BOOM" That's right.
And why not? No other point, with
facilities for supplying every demand, that
may come from the new country can
supply it as promptly by twelve to forty
eight hours as Wichita. 1t is purely
matter of business, with no sentimentin it,
A Washington special to the Oklahoma
City Times-Journal says an order was is-
sued at the interior Tuesday sGspsndinS
the first payment for those holding claims
in the Pottawatomie country indefinitely.
The payment is due at the land office on
the 22nd inst, and the object is TO see
what congress will do with the Flynn bill.
which is pending. The bill provided that
those having claims on the Pottawatomie
and the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe shall be allowed two years to max e
or shall be allowed to commute
If the claimants so desire.
0uxzs~s<@1sss
EXCHANGE EPITOAE3,
Contradictory.
"Can keep my lips from chappinf"