Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Saltwater saw mills are doing g
| buZZing business.
The Knights of Pythias will institute
their lodge at Guthrie this evening.
saltwater is to have a lumber yard and
! try some other besides Oklahoma lumber
The Standard says it is sorry but Still
water didn't have time to observe Thanks
| giving.
! The president made slight reference TO
| the captain" but he credited him to
| Guthrie
| Oklahoma has fifteen weekly and six
daily newspapers and they are all good
ones, too.
The Muskogee court holds that Okla
homa is still Indian Territory within
| the meaning OF tie statute.
The churches are so popular in Okla
homa that the aisles are flled I'D with
extra chairs. This seldom happens out
side of Oklahoma or outside OF a theater.
The young men of Cherokee City have
organized a coon hunting association, with
a paid-up stock sufficient for the purchase
OF dogs etc. The company have Toasted
several times On coon, stuffed with oysters.
The Eufaula court has been grinding
out justice this week. As result one
man has been assessed one hundred iashes
pies live stock to his own use.-Indan
Journal.
Two Purcell ladies were sitting by an
open window while the choir was pract C.
ing in one of our churches How loudly
they sing tonight" Yes, returned the
other. thinking of the crickets IN the
grass, land it is said they do it all with
their hind legs"
The owner of the toll bridge south of
Oklahoma City has doubled on his
charges. The people south of the city
have always objected TO paying tor the
privilege of getting into the city, and are
kicking harder than ever.
The president is in favor OF the indians
holding land in severalty Speaking or
Alaskan matters, he says. 1--WE have for
tunately not exteaGed TO Alaska the mis-.
taken policy of establishing reservations
for the Indian tribes, and can deal with
them from the beginning as individuals
with. / am sure, better results The 10.
poor Indian viii have 10 get his mind
tutored.
Norman Transcript: Occasionally some
Oklahomaite receives letter from eastern
friends ad moulshing hin TO be careful OF
the Indians in this Wild country. Such
advice Is entirely supernuous- The Indians
are proving themselves TO be fully capable
OF taking care of number one. Thousands
of them are looked after by cur generous
government and thousands OF others have
fine farms OF thousands OF acres each
The indians OF the territory are all right.
Rev II. r Voth, of the Mennonite mis-
sion. at Darlington, has probably the
finest museum OF Indian curIos!t!es in the
territory His collection WAS gathered
among the seventeen diaeren tribes, aud
embraces everything that could deIigh.
the savage or interest tie civilized mind
Bows arrows, tOmahawks, war clahs
scaip!ng knives, uoccasins, etc, are there
in profusion, but the articles which at
tract the most attention and are regarded
with awe are hunting shirt and par O.
lesgins, Of bucksk.D, heavily trimmed
with human hair. taken from scalps
raised by the governments pete years
ago.-Reno City Eagle.
The great prairie fire. south ana ives. Of
the fort last Saturday night, caused con-
sternstiou fer while among the cattle
men William and Henry Fraz. owned |
about Thousand cattle, and the flames
we've rapidly deroGrinx their range. The
gentlemen sew that something must be |
doae 70 protect their pasture 50 they killed |
a steer stripped y OF its hide, split tn |
animal lengthwtse. attached one ED Of
their lsrsats TO tie hind and fore leg Of CSC
Of tee halye. and tie other end to the