The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-19
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

| T. J. Daniels has been appointed treas
urer of o county.
Payne county is the only one in Okla
homa that has public printer"
| The Saltwater Gazette is the official
paper OF Payne county. 1t does the work
Tor nothing.
| The new Kerfoot hotel at FL Reno was
| opened Monday. 1t contains sixty rooms
and is said to DO the daest house In the
| territory.
| The Cherokee towns on the Rock Island
road are the most prosperous. Those
loves haven't any rivals like those on the
Santa Fe. Over $4,000 worth of lots
have been sold in the Rock Island towns
he past few days.
The present is not a time for idleness
with the Oklahoma farmer, say the
Norman Transcript. He can still put up
hay, break ground and prepare for wheat.
In TACT, there never is a time in his coun-
try that the farmer cannot find something
to do 20 advantage.
Dade Kyle the man that rode that little
gray pony, ii at threw dir. in the eyes of
three thousand boomers, to the Lone Cot
Gonwoed spring is going to mako sum
ner resort of it He says the water
analysed by DR.. Rector was pronounced
p1rer and containing more medicinal
properties than the celebrated Waukesha
water.
Many of the settlers in Beaver county
have for years been Twin: on claims there
without filing upon the land. Lately they
are beginning to find out that the country
is settling up more rapidly aud in course
OF time they have to file or run chance
of losing all improvements made by them
days after settlement
In the EAGLES write up of North Enid
the enterprising Tribune was omitted
through mistake. Messrs. Whitaker
Bros. are rustlers and have provided the
Tribune with new type, presses run by
steam and in fact everything belonging
TO first class printing Office is sphinx span
new. The people of North Enid may well
be proud of the Tribune.
The Pond Greek Echo is the latest addi-
ton to the newspaper catalogue of Okla
homa. 1t is a spicy 4-page paper. we'll
edited and mechanically neat and artistic.
to like the situation very much. as we'll rs
the novelty of printing and editing paper
under the same roof with an esteemed
contemporary, with only crack in the
floor dividing both institutions.
The Sioux near the Rosebud reservation
are holding ghost dance with variations.
These consist in compelling everybody
else to step work, and entering tents and
camps and houses, helping themselves to
whatever takes their fancy, threatening
whoever resists them. The settlers are
by way of making. convincing
against the proceedings.
Leader: Fred NJ. Beall was re-indicted
by the grand jury yesterday on the charge
of killing T. K. Mckennon. in front of
Lilies drug store last spring. A capias
was at once issued and placed in the hands
of Sheriff Painter, who went to Oklahoma
City aud brought back Beall. He was
lodged in the county iail to await trial
The prisoner was transferred to OkIaho-
ma City on a change of venue. He looks
none the worse for his long confinement,
save an anxious look in the eyes. He has
received good treatment at the hauds Of
the people of Oklahoma City.
In speaking OF Oklahoma mineral de-
posits the Leader saws: In Greer county |
several old Spanish silver mines have been |
and near Willow Springs in the /
strip a shaft has been sunk and zinc found |!
"a paying quantities. just east Of Perry |
coal crops out on the surface and several !
ne veins have been opened. A company !
vas formed last week to open lead mines
N the Pawnee reservation. lead having |
been found there where the Indians have |
oeen digging it up for years and making |
heir own bullets. This company will at
.empt to secure land enough to build a |
mining town and put in smeiters.