The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-31
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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Next Monday is Kinfisher day.
The legislators still get their four dollars
day.
The territorial Alliance is in session at
Edmond.
Cleveland county's new court house is
almost completed.
There is terrible row among the county
officers of Cleveland.
Oklahoma has some agricultural ex-
hibits in the Texas fairs.
Some day Oklahoma will have a senator
who was born in Kansas.
Clark calls Wimberly kid" Now
watch Wimberly goat Clark.
The land office at Oklahoma City is said
to be doing that kind of a business.
What became of the colored university
that Charles Francis Adams WAS TO endOwy
Terrill evidently believes in rising at a
point of a gun more than at Il point OF
order
Harry Cotton has turned farmer, but ne
can't educate himself to wear his pants IN
his boots.
Occasionally an Oklahoma paper comes
out and objects TO mushroom boom strlk-
ing It's town.
Judge Harvey is said to have already
picked out the place on the flag for the star
of Oklahoma.
Grimes has just finished an official tour
of the territory. The territory doesn't like
! Grimes any more than he does it.
There are just as many brick-masons
employed in Oklahoma City today as there
was before the capital question was
| preached.
/ A fta,- no hn Ia
homa papers will get down to business
and find out who the champion cotton
| picker is.
| 1t looks very much like the wild schemes
that were prevalent at the converting of
! the legislature have been succeeded by
wilder ones.
| 1t is said that the Pottawatomies think
/ they should have eighty acres each for
] their children, the same as the Sac and
/ Fox got. and for that reason are opposing
a fultillment of their recent treaty.
! One man met another walking up an
| alley in Guthrie the other day with large
| demijOhn on his arm. where are you go
! ing with THAR" ne called out. "Going?1
| he answered, I'm going to chloroform
! that legislature"
| County Attorney Smock of Cleveland
county, has rendered his resignation to
the governor, believing that to be the only
| solution of the trouble existing between
! himself and Sheriff Lytle Night before
last many of the prominent Republicans
of the county met and unanimously re-
solved to ask Governor Steele not to accept
| the resignation.
Minco Minstrel: White men, married
| to Indian women, now in the reservations
west of us, are, by official order, reduced to
the employment Of one man only outside
of their families. Some of them have
farms that would require the assistance Of
several men to cultivate them, but they
can only employ one. Another order COM
pels these same men to put all stock under
their control in the same brand and then
swear they own them. Bitter doses, these.
but it don't pay TO monkey too much with
Uncle Sam.
One hundred of the leading citizens of
Chickasaw nation have undertaken in
systematic manner to force the dissolution
of the tribal government and the division
of the land. The plan is to sue in the
proper court, after having first become
naturaliZed citizens of the United States,
for a partition of the tribal lands, setting
forth in their petitions that they have an
undivided interest in the tribal lands. and
that they now desire their portion set OF
so as to include their homestead and the
substantial Improvements they have put
upon the surrounding lands They will
follow the course that heirs would have TO
go through to secure division Of an es-
tate. II they are beaten Ia the lower
courts they will carry il up TO the supreme
court. The leaders in the movement are
Sam Paul and Murray.
Fl Reno Herald:-The celebrated case of
the L. 5 vs. Laura Mercer, alias St Clair
alias Foster. was tried in the L. ;. court in
this CITY last week The government was
represented by w. r. kirkpatrick and II.
Palmer, the trial lasted three days. The
defendant was charged with stealing
twelve ponies. the property of Big Belly,
an Arapahoe Indian. The Jury after be-
ing out three minutes returned a verdict
of not guilty. The defendant is a hand
some woman of 20 years OF age and that
alone attracted crowded house during
the trial. She claims TO be one quarter
Cherokee and Is possessed of plenty of this
worlds goods. She was raised in the sad
die from the age of : years and can throw
a lasso equal to any cowboy on the range.
She is a cousin OF the noted Belle star,
who was murdered in the Cherokee coun-
try a short time ago, and who was at one
time the wife of one Of the noted Younger
boys. She is also a distant relative Of
Bushyhead, ex chief OF the Cherokee ma
ton She was present in No Man 's-Laud /
IN 1856 when a man was hunted down by
gang OF thieves and took shelter in her sod
house and when the mob appeared she
stepped to the door and stood them OF /
with her revolver. She has the appearance [
Of lady and has iron nerve and ind0rni- I
table will. She was educated ~ Carlisle. /
p, and is a writer Of some note for east !
ern papers.
The Oklahoma City Journal is making |
praisewOrthy effort Here il an article 20 I
that effect: II is headed a serious state |
OF affairs; Another murder A cold !
blooded, dastardly, damnable, horrible !
murder. Two hard working, inoffensive. I
onest, respected citizens shot down in cold 4
blood IN their door yard Two men hur
ried into the presence OF their Maker by I
ambushed as.assiIs Two honest set
tiers endes voring 70 make home in this
beautiful land done 70 death by dAmnable
scoundrels. That Is one picture. Two
honest settlers coming 10 town In the
evening n purchase needed supplies for
their families. Without a harmful thought
for anyone. with goodwill toward every
one and thinking no evil nor that evil may
be visited upon them in one short hour
one 81 them j. dead and the other seriO1s-
" crippled for weeks Il not for life. They
have been OllOwed By drunken white
man and Indian and shot down like dogs
That is the second picture. 4 man well
thought Of by his rough "
speech. perhaps, but great % heart, has
little difficulty with an associate. he
throws mp both hands and declares his
delenseless condition H gets u deilber-
ai@iy in the neck aud falls dead Ia j.
tracks. That is a third picture In
the early evening a man stops ~
a settlers house and asks him - help
hunt lost horse. Toget her they 20 laugh
.ng and chatting along when suddenly.
from an ambush. CONES fash q nsnle
and the settler falls dead with the top o.
h.s head torn OF. That j. fourth picture
A young boy go~S % visit has sTseiheart I