The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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Oklahoma will make lots of new resolu-
tions, New Years.
The sooner business is completely broken
| up at Oklahoma City.
The Cherokee strip will probably make
it. 1t looks that way.
Governor Steele will be in Washington
| this time next month.
| The school bill is good ways of, it
seems, from graduation.
Governor Steele wss not forgotten at FL
Reno, Thanksgiving day.
| A high official was drunk at Guthrie the
other night, so the papers say.
Gardenhire is working up reputation
as something OF speechifier.
Reno City is late about it, but it has
finally organized literary society.
1t is not improbable that Gardenhire
wants to be governor of Oklahoma some
day.
The Denver News thinks that Oklahoma
has as good claim to statehood as Nevada
has.
The assets of the Commercial bank at
Guthrie exceed the liabilities nearly so,
0O0.
The chances are that Kingfsher will get
the capital. Ii already has the Salvation
army.
Twenty-Five degrees was the lowest the
thermometer got down in Oklahoma in
November.
The first complete map of Oklahoma
county has just been submitted by the
county surveyor.
There are one or two men in Oklahoma
who claim that Senator Plumb is not a
friend TO the territory.
The Perkins Independent, Terrill's
paper, says Guthrie Is sure TO lose the
capital through mismanagement.
Some of the Santa Fe track laborers be-
tween Guthrie and Arkansas City have
asked to leave their stations, fearing mas
sacre.
The FL Reno lovers will soon have to
take their arms away when they come to
corner. The town Is to have electric
lights.
Judge Clark has taken up his residence
permanently at Oklahoma City, and will
be joined by his family from Wisconsin,
shortly.
Lewis is the victim in scrapping match
the second. In the short time that it is
left to the legislature, the legislators ought
to contine their implements of warfare to
their tongues.
there should ever come a time when King
fisher can do Oklahoma City a favor she
Will be guilty OF the baSest ingratitude if
she does not do it.
FL Reno Eagle: Several wagon loads of
strip" wire passed through the city
Wednesday, en- route to the Chickasaw
country, the cattle men having no further
use for their fences In the outlet.
In writing up the amateur performance
of the Bells of Bonneville, " the dramatic
critic of the Guthrie News says of one of
the characters showed his Kansas culture
by calling the place "Cornville" instead of
Bonneville.
The government has already confiscated
the small punches of cattle left in the strip
and missed by cattlemen. The improve
mentS will revert to the Cherokee Indians,
and the few hundred people living in diff
ferent portions OF the land will be driven
out.
Last December there were sixteen cloud
less days, eight partly cloudy aud six
cloudy deys. Total precipitation, 557
inches. Number of days on which OIL inch
or more of precipitation fell, z. Dates of
frost, 3rd, 18th, 18th, 10th. Solar hales,
18th, 18th. Thunder storms, 9th.
Mr. Harvey, the first delegate from the
new territory of Oklahoma, was sworn in
by himself, says Washington dispatch.
There was general craning of necks to
see the first man in congress from Okla
homa. The galleries seemed to think he
ought TO appear in buckskin trousers,
spurs, wooden shirt, and a cowboy hat.
Instead they saw a studiOus looking
slightly bent, and neatly dressed gentle
man of middle age. In fact, the only thing
about Mr.. Harvey's debut which savored |
of the wild west was his introduction in |
Bishop w. Perkins most sonorous tones |
Mr. Springer, who rejoices in his share of !
the responsibility for the addition of Okla |
homa 20 the list of territories, stood just |
behind Mr.. Harvey when the oath was adj |
ministered, and beamed like a young |
father upon his first born.
Senator Plumb says in a letter: In my
judgment it will not be possible to secure /
the admission of Oklahoma as "A state dur
ing the present session of congress. The 1
admission of a territory containing less /
than 25 900 people and having practically /
no taxable valuation would be looked up
on with great disfavor by the older states
II would be practically impossible for your
people to bear the burden OF state gov
How could we justify ourselves
in admitting Oklahoma and excluding
Arizona and New Mexicoy A great many
Of our people doubted the propriety Of !
Idaho and Wyoming and yet
the smallest Of these has four times your
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taxable valuation and twenty times your |
area feel quite sure that very large
proportion OF your people would protest
against admission, and it would be practi-
ally impossible to secure any votes for
.he project of congress.
Parties in from Frisco Wednesday report
he people OF that village and vicinity
much exercised over the reports of the !
Indian uprising and alarmed for fear that
hey will make raid through that section
If the country Frisco is only fourteen
niles from the line Of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservation and would not be
for company of the Indians to
ross the line and devastate the country.
IN Monday evening reports came, puT- / (
JoTting to be from scouts, that party Of
Indians were coming, and great excite
nsnt prevailed. There was hurryinR to ,
md fro. getting out guns and ammGni
ion, hurrying the women and children /
nto the strongest building in town (kel-
,er's drug stOre) and getting ready 10 give
he redskins as warm reception as posi- ]
lie. The meu formed themselves into a |
company, some sixty strong, armed with
vi sorts OF weapons, and X the Indians I
lad come they would have been met /
,rayeiy, but ammunition was scarce aD1 {
{ was feared that al resistance w0ul1 be
lnavailing. Scouts were sent out 70 give
IOtice Of the arrival Of the enemy and ]
Until u O'Clock at night all was suspense !
/ hen, however. the scouts returned with
he news that II was a false alarm. as s.
borough scouting Of the country had
allied 70 discover any Indians, and the
women and children were sent home.
ruarts were placed around ths village, ,
nd even now the country "a patrolled and 1
ae town guarded. IL is a regular dime
oyel episode