The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-13
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA

Chandler has raised 81. 600 Of the IS. go
bonus necessary 10 secure the Choctaw
Cor that town.
!. United States Attorney Horace Speed is
said 70 be the best posted man on west
ern railroads in Oklahoma
The building of the Katy to Ell Reno
viii greatly increase that city's chances
of securing the capital Of the state OF
Oklahoma.
! Governor Ferguson's Arbor day procla-
/ nation is said TO be the most fiowery
document on record at the territorial sec
retary's Office.
/ 1t is said that Ex-Governor Barnes. At
/ torney General Strang and others are
/ considering a proposition To invest money
/ in the Blaine county salt fields.
| Professor T. ". Conway. OF Sterling.
Kan, is a formidable candidate for the
presidency OF the Ava Normal. Cover
nor Ferguson knew him years ago.
1 Norman is 10 be a city Of the hrst-elass.
! Governor Ferguson has issued = procla-
nation 10 this effect The question comes
1 up, why was not this done before?
I The new territorial coal oil inspector.
! John II. Dillon, was railroad man in
1 his early days Probably at that time he
( learned TO know the quality OF oils
Chief Justice John II Burford will re-
a Turn - NOllil4C rum - d7.tl4iiE tlEi II q
few days. His ideas concerning the pass
| ing OF the statehood bill wiz be inter
| esting.
1t is predicted in Guthrie that Ed
/ Korns, of Newkirk. and d. 7. Smith, OF
+ Cashion, viii be retained as deputy coal
oil inspectors by the new Inspector, John
II. Dillon
Edgar Jones stirred up lot OF talk
among the Democrats with his primary
| election scheme. Possibly Mr. Jones viii
have something more 10 say on the same
| line later on.
I'll Reno has again settled down to bus
/ mess with the announcement that Fort
Reno is not 10 be abolished. El Reno is
very much in line for the good things OF
\ the territory.
already making announcements in the
county newspapers. Greer county will
have warm time long before election
day.
1t would have been great surprise TO
Oklahoma had not W T. Bolton been
! elected secretary of the CattIemens assoc
citation. Mr.. Bolton is always talking
association to the caJtlemen.
| The Anadarko officers fear n mob If
the men charged with the murder OF
Frank Smith and George Beck are taken
there. The intense feeling has not sub
sided in that part OF Oklahoma.
Bob Neff. in Blackwell News: There
seems to be a willingness upon the part
of old Oklahoma for the Strip 10 have
the penitentary and insane asylum. We
presume she will exhibit a like willing
ness TO fill them also.
The proposition to move the governors
office 10 another building in Guthrie is
not settled. II the location of the offlce
ever had anything TO do with the re
moval of governors, it would be lucky
thing to move from the hoodoo.
This is the latest argument of the single
sta tehooders: That in case there is double
statehood Oklahoma will not be able to
regulate rates on coal from the Indian
come to Kansas and see how beautifully
Kansas regulates rates on Kansas coal.
Iawton Democrat: Richard Tivis. an
aged colored man who drew number in
the FL Reno lottery, and who fled On
quarter section sixteen miles west OF
Lawton, dropped dead this morning OF
dropsy. He was an eX-uniO nsoldier and
DIRE wa pension. At the time OF death
he was 50 years old and married.
Perry Republican: The gentlemen who
have been sinking for water on the Case
lots have decide dto turn the prospect
mole into permanent wen. IL will be in
creased IN size 10 twenty-five feet IN
diameter anG walled with brick. The
depth viii depend upon the character of
the earth to be taken out of the well.
though il is hoped that no obstacle in the
way Of rock may he encountered short of
twenty-five or thirty feet. The water
supply is very promising.