The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-17
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


Communication with the Usage country
has been opened up from Ponca City.
Judge and Mrs Burford celebrated the
twenty-fourth anniversary of their we'd
ding at Guthrie, Thursday night
The work of condemning ground for
the right of way of the Kinghsher-Guth-
RE road. has commenced near Seward.
An attempt TO rob the bank at Yukon
was unsuccessful because the robbers
didn't know the vault was unlocked
Judge BurweT has decided that streets
in Oklahoma City can run across the
Santa Fe right OF way If the city desires
tracks or no tracks.
Mayor Hensley refers to the ribbon ped
dler he thrashed at Ell Reno as a pot
/ bellied fake, Mayor Hensley believes in
patronizing home industries.
Newkirk Journal: Such Oklahoma Dem
/ ocrats as Senator Marum, Temple Hous-
ton, and Judge Diggs are against Bryan.
They are against his anti-expansion SEN
timents. Marum is for Stone. of Mis-
souri,
The train jumpers attacked the crew
of a Santa Fe ballast train at Edmond
Thursday and riot ensued. One boy
got his head peeled with a pistol ball
and a trainman had three OF his ribs
broken.
The annual report OF the Choctaw, Ok
! lahoma and Gulf for 1899 showed the net
earnings for that road and mines con-
nected with it to have been S71ea01, an
| increase of S119,110 over 1898. The surplus
of 1899 amounts to S54S,6S an increase
over 1898 of s12,114.
/ President Morgan's address before the
Free Homes convention appears TO have
Lea =, A. 49,
duction he says the laws applicable to
Oklahoma lands are without form and
ought to be void. which shows that Dick
has Scripture on his side, too.
A great shaking up is beginning in all
! the territory. Governor Barnes wants
semi-arid lands coded TO the territory.
A bill has been introduced IN congress
| limiting leases in the Kiowa country TO
one year, and another bill has been intro
duced requiring all settlers in the Indian
! territory not on government land to get
out within thirty days, and making return
| punishable by fine.
| Cleveland Triangle: As long as the sale
| of school lands is one of the measures OF
| the statehood bill, we are opposed to It,
! The speculation in public lands during the
| past is enough 10 show that IL should
| not be INDUCED in. The rent as it stands
] now Tar exceeds the amount OF interest
that would be secured if the lands were
sold and the amount deposited at the best
rates obtainable. Everyone knows that
now the rentals on school leases are re-
markably low and if the rental should
| be raised 100 per cent they would not be
| as expensive as renting land. which Is
| decided. Kansas, Nebras ska. and, in fact
nearly ali of the states, can testify tC
| the falling off of receipts owing to the
sale Of such lands. To be sure, 1t would
be a good thing for spectators, but il
would be robbing the best school sys-
tenn in the United States.
Blackwell Times-Record In a recent
issue of the Chandler News mention was
made of the fact that Mulhall had q
prominent citizen by the of Sidebottom
and added that Chandler could furnish
| the Topp. The Guthrie Capital. in cart
ing about for the other parts of tbs
building, found that Ponca City could
! furnish Wainscott and Kingfisher the
| Whole House. The Perry Republican
says if 1t is desired to build an observ-
atory, Perry can furnish the Hightower
If you run out of material for that house
and will come TO Blackwell we can fur
| nish you Rock for the foundation: a
! Gross, Of Butts for the doors, and Keves
| to lock them; Sink and a Cook for the
! kitchen, Sheets for the beds, all kinds
| of Smiths to do the work, and can paint
| it Brown, Gray or Black after it IS fin
/ ished.