The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

The Salvation Army girls are making
things interesting at Ponca City.
Jack Stillwell, Ell Reno's police judge, is
10 Chicago, the guest of his friend, Buffalo
Bill.
The city election campaign at Perry is
warming up in regulation Kansas Okla
homa style.
The Medford Monitor is a Peoples party
paper and claims to be the Oldest Peoples
party paper in the strip.
They are boring for gas at Kildare
That is not necessary with surface gas SO
plentiful all over the strip.
A pair of licenses" was the desire of an
IS year-old Norman youth who wanted to
wed Mirandy Jane aged IA.
Receptions at which such substantials
rs chicken salad are served, are popular
among the ladies of kingfisher.
The Lexington Leader man is aweary Of
running a paper for fun aud glory, and
demands that his readers pay up"
Ponca City will have a depot and side
tracks in a short time, and indications are
that postmaster will be appointed very
soon.
Chairman Holman of the committee on
Indian affairs is quite active on measures
relative to the Indian and Oklahoma ter
ritories.
A new town has been started on the sur
vey Of the Hutchinson and Southern rail-
road, fourteen miles northwest of Pond
Creek. 1t has been named Waketa.
The Enid Eagle advises the citizens Of
that city to keep barrels of water near
their houses to be used in case of fire.
They will also be used instead of frewater
Chandler News: The Guthrie News had
better study the geography of Oklahoma.
1t says that the kickapoo lands join Okla
homa on the east. The kickapoo lies al
most wholly in Lincoln county. with cor
ners in Pottawatomie and Oklahoma
counties.
Capital It is too bad that the strip was
opened up Just at its worst condition.
While the summer had had plenty Of rain
and large crops were raised within its
latitude, just at that time it was dry.
Now, after rain, it looks again different.
The grass along the valleys has started
again and the country looks green.
Senator Harris of the Chocsav nation
has introduced a bill granting amnesty to
ali persons charged with political crime
in the late trouble, from August lSa2 to
Oct. l, 1885, against the Choctaw nation.
1t i, thought that the bill will pass aud
that Governor Jones will sign it. All
parties are DESTROYS Of laying DOWN"
Cross Resident: There is CONSTANT
stream OF homeseekers pouring into Cross
aud the larger portion is making invest
meats. The princeiy advantage of the
surrounding: country. the magnificent
farming district, the immense wealth of
the nei Shboring Indians. who per force
must trade here, the transceudent beauty
of location, the pre-emineut assurance OF
future development: all these compel
business man to stop here
There are Deaely ,0oo,o acres of school
land in the strip aud ad jsceut reservations
recently opened TO settlement. Governor
Reufrow is daily receiving hundreds OF
letters from parties ia all parts of the west
aud southwest inquIring about these
Lands, whether they are for sale, how to
settle or them etc, and for she informa-
ton OF the public the governor states that
the school lands are no. for sale and will
not be until after III. territory becomes
a state At present they can only be
leased. and ~ SOON as he receives his in
strncsions from the secretary OF the
interior within few weeks st the
farthestl he will advertise for bids for said
lands upon certain given date, all leases
10 be Tor three years. Payments may be
made IN cash or by notes OF approved Sc
curity, and all business connected with
leasing mnst be transacted with the gov
ernor at Guthrie. No priority will be
gained ny any person settling upon any Of
the school lands before the time of leasing,
and no provisions have vet been made
whereby settler can secure a second