Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-02

Robert L. Lindsay, an attorney at 312
East Twelfth street. Kansas City, does
not own as big slice of property IN OK
lahoma as he evidently thought he did
He laid claim to fifty-four townships, or
about 1,250.0O0 acres, in Beaver county, but
it is doubtful if he will have to pay taxes
on the land.
A few weeks ago ]. V. Vickers, of Tomb
stone A. T., leased thirty-siX sections of
school lands in Beaver county and The
Journal printed the story of it. Mr.. Lind
say read this and addressed the following
letter to the Arizona purchaser:
VIII you please inform me if you have
leased lands west of the 102d degree of
longitude in Beaver county? If SO, it will
come in conflict with me as I own all
lands west of that line"
Mr.. VickerS referred the letter to School
Land Commissioner Charles II. Filson, who
wrote Lindsay:
yer county, and what you expect to do
with sections l6 and S6, which you evil
IDENTIFY inclosed in your pasture? Our spe-
and we shall await his report as to the
amount of land you have inclosed.''
NIT yraadbe gsRed M yon the fs
day; !,i, .,,o - lands &, .,o u... and -.
the registers office in Beaver, Beaver
county, o. T. L do not care to make ap-
plication to lease my own land. You are
rather hasty in your conclusions l have
ly advise me how you (oklahoma) OBJ
tanned title to sections 16 and 1852"
AS the school lands cannot be obtained
for use except through the land leasing
department, and as the United States gov
ernment. at the time of the Louisiana
in the territories for school purposes, Mr..
Lindsay's claim on the property will hardly
hold good: Commissioner Filson fears the
Kansas City man has been worked by
some smooth speculator.
Syl Dixon, the grain man of Southwest
Kansas, is making arrangements to take
a decorated flour train from Reno, o. T.,
to New York this summer. The train is
to consist OF twenty cars filled with the
vertise the towns and counties of the ter
ritory. The train will be gayly decorated
A band Is to be carried along and 1T will
give free concerts every night. All of the
travelling will be done in the daytime, the
train laying over in the larger cities on
the road. The crowd of passengers is to
be composed of about forty persons who
will represent the different interests and
localities. A number of Oklahoma orators
will be in the party and they viii crate on
Oklahoma's greatness at every station at
which the train stops The trip will be
made over the Rock Island and Baltimore
&, Ohio railroads.
Professor A. C. Scott became president
of the Agricultural and Mechanical college
at saltwater yesteEaaXy royessor Wsprozv r.
poets to move to Illinois and 1t Is under
stood that he will devote his time to writ
Ing on agricultural and live stock subjects.
He has a book on "Stock Raising in
course of preparation.
F. c. Burtis, a graduate of the Kansas
Years Years S a professor ] Or in that Institution. has
arrived to take charge OF the experiment
station as director. He will occupy the
chair of agriculture.
William T Little, of Perry, has received
an appointment as appraiser of the Dawes
r,l,fnh &c a nrlS In ha
| Indian Territory. His application was in
dorsed by Dennis Flynn and w. M. Jen.
kns;, Mr.. Little Is & brother Iti r OF Colone,
| is proud of his relative, although he be-
| lieves that politically his soldier brother
| is in the wrong.
This is a story which the boys" are
telling on Attorney General Cunningham
and Superintendent Hopkins. AS is well
known, Cunningham is way up on law ana
knows all of the secrets of Masonry, while
| Hopkins has spent his life teaching school.
| The education of both men along agricul-
| tural lines has been slightly neglected but
the new Reid law makes them members of
the board of commissioners for grain in
| A few days ago Joe Norris, of the school
land Office brought in a few sheaves of
wheat, from his farm and hung them above
| his desk. A few minutes later Cunning
ham and Hopkins happened in;
! MY, what splendid oats that is" ex-
claimed Cunningham, glancing up at the
You call that oats?" laughed Hopkins.
| You must have been raised in Arkansas.
| WHY, man, that isn't oats. that's rye"
| And the two gentlemen went out to pre-
pare a set of rules for the guidance OF
Grain Inspector Prouty.
Because H. H. Bockfnger,- a Guthrie
cripple, did not appreciate the truth of the
| old adage about the bird in the hand, he
is without property in the capital city to-
day while he might have owned 120 acres
| For three years after the opening, 16
acres of valuable real estate in West Guth
| rie was the subject of litigation, severa
parties contending for its possession. Jane!
W. Feagins, a Santa Fe section hand, wa:
contested by Ezra Naples, q deputy mar
shal who had been sent in with a company
before the opening to help preserve peace
Both men were sooners. The land also wa.
claimed for townsite purposes and H H
Bockfinger, who came after the openin.
signal, contested the whole crowd.
}, The land Office officials, John l. Dilley
register, and c. NJ. Barnes, now governor
lreceivers decided that both Feagins ant