The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-29
Outlines of Oklahoma

Talk about a railroad from Arkansas
City to Blackwell has sprung up again
Oklahoma City expects to have ao.eoo
people within the nexl three years
Governor Renfrow has just socked 81 500
into Oklahoma City residence property.
The storm east of Perry the other night
burned out the telephone wire TO Paw
nee.
A telephone line viii be constructed be-
tween Canadian, Texas. and Cheyenne,
Roger Mills county.
When the SapuIpa extension is compiet-
ed Oklahoma viii be nearer ST Louis by
100 miles than il is
The cattle men in Coulanche county
have been knocked out by congress. And
that's good thing
Governor Barnes has probably prevent
ed the reduction of the Perry land ofhce-
II was the only thing for him TO do
A bill has been passed by congress max
ing Santa Fe the permanent capital OF
New Mexico. Here is q hint 10 Guthrie
Nearly all the church socials and cob
webb socials and such in Oklahoma now
have a graphophone part to the program.
The Enid Wave says that if Tom Reed
sees Barnes in Washington, Reed Is la
BILE TO be more against free homes than
ever.
Frank McMaster confesses what is true
of every man in the territory-he says
| he has been on all sides of the statehood
| question
A large lodge of the Sons of Hermann
! has been organized at Enid. The order
| is becoming very strong in all parts OF
| Oklahoma
Callahan is probably responsible fol-
| knocking the cattle men out in the Com
| anche country and he deserves the praise
| and thanks Of the boomers.
The exclusion of the white lessees from
| the Otoe agency reservation, il Is said
/ had changed all the Otoes into rantanker
| Gus champions of allotment.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal calli
| on the city council to investigate the pc
| lice judge of that city thoroughly and no
compromise the case in any way
Judge Tarnsney is tired of Oklahoma
| Yet to hear the Democrats talk one woulC
suppose that Oklahoma is more sure Il
| be permanently Democratic than Mis-
| souri,.
At Medford the other day the supply o
coal ran short and the people prevailed
on the coal operators to allow them L
take a car which was consigned to Man
| chester.
A Jersey COW at Cheyenne has had al
| increase in family of seven in fifty-thre
| weeks A year ago she had two heife
calves One of these calves had twins, tn
other had one calf; now the original heife
has Just given birth TO twins again
Calves in that country sell from So t
SIS a head.
Guthrie Capital: Prof. F. D. Harnder
county superintendent of Pawnee county
is over consulting Territorial Superintend
ent Hopkins about why the Indian chill
dren of Pawnee county were left out i
the last apportionment of school Ian
funds There are 229 Indian children o
school age in that county. Superintend
ent Hopkins, after carefully examinin
the law, said the omission was a misun
| Outstanding as to whether these Indian
| are citizens, but the attorney general ha
since decided that the government ftsel1
by the bill opening the strip and allotin
these lands, made them citizens, and the
have voting and exercising all the right
of citizens Prof. Hopkins said it is no'
too late to include them in this apportion
ment. but the amount-about $3.50 to Paw
nee-wiIl be made good in the next appor
tionment The visit of County Superin
tendent Harnden was, therefore, salts
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