The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
The city council of Enid charges $50 8
per month for city saloon license: payAbi
quarterly.
Twenty to thirty Indians trading in
town every day is something Rusl
Springs thinks too good to make light of
Bob Donnell, an Oklahoma City sport
was shot at Perry Saturday night. TIL
wound was thought to be fatal. Tn
scrap grew out of game of stud poker.
The situation and outlook in the Pot
country is encouraging The cotton cro1
will he an excellent one. and corn, grair
and vegetables all that could be wished
for.
Water was found at Alva in inexhausti-
BILE quantities. soft as ralnwater and pure
as snow, at depth of thirty feet. 1t is al
most artesian in supply and runs nearly
to the surface.
The report that the Chickasaw legisla
| ture had voted to move the capital of the
nation to Davis is denied, and it is the be-
lief Of many that the capital will remain
| at Tishomingo.
Citizens of Perry are supplying them
! selves with wells. The Post says the re-
port that water could not be obtained is a
mistake. Good water can be found at a
depth of twenty-five feet.
| Perry already has two daily aud three
weekly papers. The Post, penny daily,
made its first appearance Saturday. 1t
contains the filings at the land Office as
they are made every day.
| a large number of Arapahoe Indians
passed through Watonga on Wednesday
OF last week on their way to Left Hands
camp, thirteen miles south of Watonga,
where they are holding their medicine
dance.
At NARROW, last Wednesday, an old
man attempted to cross the railroad
ahead of an approaching train: the engine
struck the wagon. knocking it into moth
ing. Fortunately, the man and horses
escaped injury.
The spiritual welfare Of the people CT
Enid is carefully looked after The Daily
Enterprise says already a half dozen de-
nominations, Including the Salvation
Army, are represented and hold regular
services in that city.
A large number of farmers are already
moving their families onto claims in the
new country. Most Of them go prepared
to thoroughly stock and improve their
farms, and by next spring the strip will
have the appearance of an old-settled
country.
Orlando merchants have had an expert
ence iii trade that they will never forget.
The day after the rush the stores in that
town were practically without goods of
any kind. They stocked up in short order,
however, and are in the commercial swim
again as large as ever.
The extortionate prices that prevailed
for Il day or two after the opening have
given way before the enterprise OF wide
awake tradesmen, and now anything in
the line of legitimate merchandise may be
had at all the new towns at the same
prices charged throughout the country.
The Watonga Republican hasn't weak
ened one whit in its amours for its imme-
diate section of the beautiful land. 1t
says there has not been a country in any
world since the establishment OF the uni
verse that would produce bigger crops
than have been produced this year in
Blaine county, Oklahoma.
Hon. Dennis Flynn has introduced
bill in the house to ratify the agreement
made with the Wichita tribe and
throw that country open to settle
ment. 1t reserves section 16,
10, So and 33 for educational purposes, pro-
vides that the land shall be entered at
81 % Per acre and that the Communication
provision shall apply after fourteen
months residence
Oklahoma City elected as delegates to
the statehood convention to be held at
Purcell next Saturday: Messrs. Frank
j. II. Woods, C. G. Jones, W.
j. Donovan, John H. Beatty, o. II. Vio-
let, ID. c. Lewis, Charles Reddick, j. S.
Lindsay. B. +. Williams Samuel Croker,
J. N. Fishtmaster, j. w. Johnson. L. P.
Ross, J. II. Mccartney, DR.. d. G. Gum,
Major ID. ID. Leach and J. j. Burke.
Commissions for the following appoint
ments by Governor Renfrow were issued
Friday and Saturday from the secretary's
office at Guthrie.
S. H. Bradley, justice of the peace for
Enid. o county.
George E. Clayton, justice of the peace
for Perry, county P.
Benjamin 8. Smith, county attorney for
n. county.
Arthur o. Kincaid, county clerk for N
county.
Pawnee, the county seat of o county, |
being off the lines of railroad aud tee- |
graph. has not figured as conspicuously as |
the railroad points, but promises to be |
one of the best towns in the new country |
nevertheless. The town has 200 people and |
has had but little dust. 1t is in horse |
shoe of the Black Bear river. clear rock |
bottom stream, with abundant timber, and |
he town has thus been protected from the |
dust storms experienced by the other strip |
towns. The allotments will not be much |
Of an injury TO the county, rs the Indians |
are all Well TO do and will spend lots of |
money at Pawnee. The farming land of /
that county is magnificent and the county |
vi II Drava "A rich