The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The supreme court will not meet again
until June.
Major Herriott is going to build another
| brick "edifice' in Guthrie.
Louisiana cypress is advertised in Ok
lahoma for sidewalk material
Mrs. d. NJ. Ross. who used to live in
Guthrie, died in Washington, d. c., the
other day.
1t is only the full-bloods among the
Osages who want to be separated from
Oklahoma.
After all the legislature appears to
Renfrow less.
Work on the Choctaw has stopped TO
await the arrival of some lumber to
build bridge.
The new Oklahoma libel law makes it
possible 20 tell the truth unless there is
malice behind it,
Colonel Blackwell talks just as though
he really meant to build railroad. The
old man is liable to do it.
1t is said that President Cleveland
will hereafter veto all railroad rights-of-
way through the territory.
The Guthrie Leader wants the electric
lights run all night to scare OFF the
burglars. That will not do it.
Inspector Newton, who came to Okla
homa to investigate the charges against
Judge Scott. has returned to Washing
ton.
Cannon-Ball Green Occupied a seat next
to Pitzer in the council the other day
and watched the judge handle the legisla-
tive ribbons.
Although the Usage Indians are very
rich the government treats them like
children, and it is hard work for an Usage
to get his money.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that majority of the people of the ter
ritory are not for capital punishment.
Who knows? 1t cannot be said that they
are not until a vote is taken.
Judge Scott was in the railroad wreck
south of Guthrie the other night and the
Chandler News says that when the shock
came he thought the result of that H.
vestigation in Washington mad begun
to arrive.
On March 10. the townsite board of
Perry decided the lot contest of Rhoda A.
Morehead and Laura Isenhour VS.. Charlie
Colcord, in favor of the latter. On APP
peal, the commissioner of the general
land Office has affirmed the decision. The
Brogan streets, and is one of the most
valuable in the city.
There are grave fears that President
Cleveland will veto the Oklahoma Central
bill. giving the same reasons that he
gave for vetoing the Kansas City, Okla
homa and Pacific, viz: That the Indians
had not given their consent to the pass
age of the bill. Its friends are working
for it, however, and il is hoped il can
be shown to the presidents satisfaction
that the same conditions do not exist
in this as in the Kansas City. Oklahoma
and Pacific bill.
About year ego the store of Andrew
Mcguire, in Licoln county, was robbed
by masked men. John Forbes and Sam
Lowe were arrested for the crime. but az
the trial McGuire's testimony was such
as to clear them. OF late testimony has
developed indicating that Mcclure had
been paid by the thieves to testify In
their behalf. and a few days ago he was
arrested in Kansas and brought back
here and jailed at Chandler on the charge
Of compromising felony.
A great source Of future wealth for the
Indian Territory, which will one day be in
cluded in Oklahoma, is the oil deposits
which underlie thousands of acres of the
land. At one place near Wewoka, in
digging well, a strong flow of oil was
struck, but the Indians filled the hole
up for fear white people would overrun
the country. At Oil Springs, in the Chick
asaw nation, south of the Arbuckle noun
tains. there is a spring, the waters OF
which are always covered with oil. and
the sediment around the spring has for
years been used for axle grease. At
many other places in the territory oil
has been discovered or the indications of
it are so strong as to create the belief
that the records of the Pennsylvania oil
fields will yet be equalled in the Indian
Territory.