The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-15
Outlines OF Oklahoma


Oklahoma City accuses Guthrie Of pad
ding for her census.
There IS a general rcer ali over the ter
ritoTy about defective sidewalks.
The bonds for the new city han at
Newkirk carried By , majority.
George " Collins, Of Ponca city, has
patented q new razor sharDensr
Newkirk claims she is building ths
prize bank building II he territory
Jerre Johnson, tha Newkirk editor, is
growing younger looking very day
The Ch0ctaw railroad VIII enlarge its
passenger station az Cklahoma City.
The Woods County News has chris
tened Oklahoma The Daisy state"
a county scat fight in The near future
Is said To be booked for Kay county.
Newkirk's football team beat St. Johns
college eleven Of Winfield, last week u
to Q.
The Orient road bought the farmers
railroad grades from bi0wa 10 august
but viii not use l.
The santa F. trains through Oklahoma
are again b=irg ran by train dispatches
from Arkansas City.
It is said that President Mckinley has
long had his eve on an ohio man Tor
governor of Oklahoma
The experiment station al Saltwater
viii not be entirely satisfactory until il
tries its hand at Belgian hares.
Taxes are now payable from this time
on until the third Monday in January,
after which they become delinquent.
BY a typographical error the Newkirl1
Herald calls Indians redskins" They
are usually too dirty to make the error
pass.
The Newkirk Democrat IS inclined to
fight Sid Clarke for the pres dency of ths
council, because Of clarke's statehood
ideas.
Roy Farrell Greene. OF Oklahoma,
known we'll in the strip. had two Of bis
poems recently reprinted in Current liz
erature.
A Perry hardware man insists In his
advertisement that you can 80 bare
foot all winter" II you viii put in his
kind of a stove.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat says
that congress should let Oklahoma in as
a state before the expiration Of the pres
ent short session.
To the fellows who kick on the IN
creased expenses of statehood the Med
ford Star says: statehood Is expensive,
but 50 is manhood"
If the Comanche country is opened
August 6. and it viii be probably, it VAL
be hot enough around the border to fry
eggs on a sunbeam
The Noble county grand jury has in
dicted ex-Indian Agent Sharpe for hay
ing received q bride. Sharpe now lives
in Maryland; he will come back TO Ok
lahoma for trial.
Wellington Nail: John r Blanton, Of
Hazleton, who has been working with q
surveying crew IN Kiowa and COmanche
reservat ton was in the city today on his
way home. Only six months time was
allowed for making a.lOtmeuts, and the
time expired December s. About 200 a.
lotments have been made, and there are
1850 more to make before the reserva-
ton can be opened for settlement. Con-
gress must make provision for furthsr
work by appropriadng money for the
purpose and extending the time. Mr.
Blanton says that Delegate Flynn writes
the surveyors that there Is no doubt
they viii be sent back to work again In
a few days, and that enough crews WI
be employed to push the work and get
it finished some time next August. Only
three crews have been employed on the
work and after six months hard labor
less than one-fourth Of their task was
finished It viii be necessary to have at
least ten crews to finish making allot-
ments in time for opening the reserva-
ton next fall Br. Blanton says the In
dams are selecting the best lands, and
as their families average from seven to
ten children. and each Of them IS eutf-
tied to 100 acres. a single family often
takes nearly haf a township in a body
upon some creek or fine valley, leaving
only hills and waterless prairie for the
future white settler. One Indian who
had seven children. he says. wanted a
quarter section Of land for one child that
was dead and a quarter section for an
other vet unborn