The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.


Governor Steeles veto meant Harveys
nomination.
Dennis Flynn will not run for congress
this time But he is young yet.
If Oklahoma depended on consistency
for jewels it would not be very wealthy.
Bill Nye has brother in Oklahoma
But there is nothing funny about that
The real estate dealers are not looking
on the capital bill as a mascot any longer.
The editor of the Mulhall Monitor has
gone of on an editorial excursion by him
self
There are too many people in Oklahoma
who would just as lief have relief, who DO
not need it.
Last week the Guthrie papers were
abusing Daniels. This week they cannot
sugar him too much.
Kingfsher and Guthrie were so sweet on
each other two months ago. But then
how tempus does fugit.
The Choctaw tracklayers are delayed by
a couple of injunctions gotten out by the
homesteaders near FL Reno.
The Canadian river is full again. This
stream would be a continual menace if
Oklahoma should happen to go for prohi-
bition.
The Indian commission is doing more
for the capital question than the legisla-
ture, if Governor Steele's suggestion TO
make geography is acted upon.
The Oklahoma City papers say IL would
be unsafe for Governor Steele to come per
sonally to that town. Oklahoma is more
pioneer" today than it has been yet.
Emporia Republican: A stranger view
ing the disorderly scenes daily enacted in
the Oklahoma legislature would be con
WINGED that he had stumbled upon a Dem
ocratic state convention.
The Legislature is liable to give up its
trip to Galveston, as the Santa Fe cannot
give members passes without violating the
interstate commerce law. Kingfsher is
located on the Rock Island route.
There is still lots of cotton in the country
to be picked, and great deal more that
is stored away in one. place or another
Loads are still coming in and the depot
platforms are piled up with cotton bales
The cotton crop has helped US out might
lily, says the Oklahoma City Journal.
FL Reno Eagle:-The Choctaw construc-
ton train arrived in this city early Tues-
day morning, and the work of tracklay-
ing is now In active progress, with every
possibility that connection with the
Santa Fe at Oklahoma City will be made
within sixty days. This will open the
market to the great coal fields at Ardmore,
from which supplies can be drawn until
the road can be completed to McAllester.
where the greatest deposit of the best
coal between the Alleghanies and the
Rockies exist.
But, not alone as a coal road. will the
Choctaw be of benefit to ElReno and TO
Canadian county and to Oklahoma. It's
route to McAlester to Little Rock is for
many miles through vast pineries and be
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Arkansas lumber will be laid down here
very much cheaper than is now brought
from the northern markets. Again, the
Choctaw is merely the western extension
of the Lehigh Valley, will be a direct
through line from this city to the Allan
tic, and will be the greatest passenger
thorOughfare on the conttinen.
Old Tom Star, one of the most notorious
outlaws and deperadoes in the world is
dead. He died Tuesday last at his home
south of this place on the Canadian river.
He was only a terror TO the Cherokee
nation. But has been at peace with the
world for over twenty years. He was per
haps the only man known TO the worlds
history who made solemn treaty of peace
and amity with sovereign nation, which
he did with the Cherokee nation It was
estimated by the Cherokee legislature 10
1867, when discussing the proposition Of
peace, that he had killed about seventy
men. At the breaking out OF the
there were rewards aggregating 5000
offered for his head Excepting bis
brother-in-law, Bill West, whom Star
killed, he was the most powerful man in
the Cherokee nation. He was full-blood
Cherokee, aud stood six feet and five
inches in his moccaEins. The origin
of Tom Star is somewhat merged in OBJ
scurity. He was born in Georgia
and that is all he knows. In 1855
Tom came west with the Cherokees, with
his father. Stars father was also bad"
man and was killed by a sheriff's posse
while resisting arrest, He died In Toms
arms. Tom swore dire vengeance on the
posse and Rfterward killed every man in
il. This was the beginning Of Tom Stars
career. He had two brothers. Bean and
Ellis. who have long since gene 20 the
happy hunting grounds with their boots
on.' Old Tom had three sons. one OF them
being the husband OF little Belle Star, who
gained n reputation OF the most daring e
male outlaw in the west. or perhaps in the
world. and who was killed in the Greek
nation last summer. Her husband was
also killed few months ago BY deputy
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