The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Inc ClmarrOn Is very llgn ana rising.
'Plant rye'' goes along with the ''tur-
nip eXhortation
Secretary Noble has not forgotten the
old soldiers of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma needs 5000 bushels of seed
wheat.-An Oklahoma paper.
There have been several winners"
named, but today he will have to be elect
ed.
The secretary of the Territory has pur-
chased forty new desks for the legislators
to pound.
Everybody can tell you the process by
which their candidate will get there. Don't
you believe him.
The county commissioners of Oklahoma
county appointed eleven road Overseers
last Wednesday.
An assistant will run Senator Bixler's
paper, the Norman Advance, while he Is
away in Guthrie.
Several Oklahoma papers are fighting
the idea of an eXtention of time TO the
Cherokee Cattlemen.
The first thing the majority of the men
OF Oklahoma wnen they get up this morn
ing Will do-pole out for the polls
People haven't had the expense of build
ing sidewalks in Oklahoma this year, aud
nobody has had to walk in mud.
Hunters down in Oklahoma complain
of the prairie chickens biting them
The birds lose their teeth, however,
the first OF next month.
If your candidate is elected you will
probably go down town tomorrow morn
ing and talk it over with the boys" If
your candidate is defeated you viii 20 10
church with your wife.
The Iowa, sac and Fox, Pottawatomie
and kickapOo reservations are overrun
with parties from Oklahoma and the
states at present, spying out the land and
getting ready for the opening of those
reservations, says the journal. The
ChickasaW country, too, is not disregarded,
a good many being down there with
view of getting leases and holding on TO
them as claims when that country comes
in.
The altitude of the different points on
the Santa Re from Winfield to Purcell has
recently been taken. and Oklahoma City
Is found to have the greatest. II is 81
feet above the level Of the sea, while Guth-
RE is but 1901. Norman : altitude is .252
feet. Red Rock, in the Cherokee strip, has
the least altitude
Mr.. Martin, the secretary of the territory.
desires 10 draw the attention of the mem
bers Of the territorial legislature that they
have the county clerks OF their respective
counties issue their certificates OF mem Der
ship, and that they send the same in before
the meeting OF the legislature. The secre-
tary Is getting everything ready for it, con
vening and he states that it i necessary
that these certificates be III before that
time.
Last fall and spring here was a strong
effort made 20 induce the farmers 10 plant
cotton. This was urged by the seedsmen
and others who had knowledge and who
have had experince IN similar countries TO
this. Today the farmers and settlers who
acted on this advice have good cotton
crop and are prosperous IN a greater or les
degree TO the extent 10 which the expert
advice was followed. Says the Oklahoma
City journal
Over in the Seminole country the In
dians have a law that a watermelon thief
shall be subject 10 twenty lashes ~ some
public place The whipping day j. set
apart as = kind Cf holiday, the whole
nelghbOrhOOd assembling 10 witness the
sport, for sport il Is 70 al but the victim.
who suffers more from disgrace than from
physical pain as the lash j. 50 lightly ay-
piled as 20 ln1llct but little pain.
Guthrie NewsI The Iogras. Kfckauoos
and Sac and Fox tribes during the last
week held big dance which lasted four
days. IL was he annual medicine or yrGr-
ship dance. Even Indians belonging 70
the Iowa tribe from Nebraska came 70 IL
The dancing plat of ground rpsembled
somewhat a circus ring. IL was about one
hundred feet II diameter and the CIrcum-
ference was path made d dirt thrown I'D
on either side. Around this path n solemn
weird and uncauuy procession the dancers
followed each other. None but the men
dance the medicine dance. but the sguavys
are allowed 70 look On and help In beating
the tOm-ton and II singing the merits q
some noble buck who j. dancing. These
songs are al exactly the same. 10 the m
prscticed CIVILIZED ear, but 10 the savage
soul they are probably a. varied ~ Amer /
can songs An Indian. nevertheless, sings
A. II be were IN a dismal PRISON and his
music j. Ike the wall IL torture Its /
7vierd monotone and the jerky ret solemn !
movements Il the dancers. together WIKI I.
the t0m-tom and the Jingle jaazle q +
sleigh -. i ald bangles, al In unison 81 % f.
time. MAKE deep Impression On ore Ia /
this special caoCe almost - Esar-icI patel +.
The place % holding u was about Use (
miles east 81 this Iowa village. which has 4
for some time beeu resert - a. sacred 4
ground " te1 the coEnu5 sion freAte1 .
with fhs Iywas rheg asked that th.s land 4
Is reserved. o4I tAe commissioner tod /.