The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES
Aud Guthrie has the capital.

] Aud Guthrie has the capital.
Why didn't the legislature do it long
ago?
What will be the big town of the Chero-
kee strip?
! i Frank Greer thinks the best thing about
/ Oklahoma;s book of laws is the binding.
| Governor Steele cannot veto the adjourn
ment. And what's more, he doesn't want
| to.
| Mulhall will have a calico balr' New
Years eve. \ calico ball ought TO be pop
ular.
The Mulhall Monitor must be prosper
Gus. 1t was anything but "blue" this
week.
/ Currin,s last word was 81 know shall
never warm another legislative seat in this
| territory"
! Kansas is the child of Kansas The
| legislature sang John Browns Body" at
the adjournment.
William Higgie, of Oklahoma City, has
| been made territorial treasurer. lie Is
| formerly of Girard, Kan.
| Guthrie is to have new Democratic pa
| per. This will be cheerful news 10 people
/ who like to read obituaries.
| Oklahoma City feels pretty well after all
4 from the fact that il was the only town
| that was named twice for the capital.
At the final adjournment the different
members compljmented one another very
prettily. 1t was all right Nobody else
would,
! The pages of the legislature are said to
have cried at the adjournment OF the leg
! islauure. Poor little things, they didn't
know any better.
/ Emporia Republican: The Indian dis
l ht1f he
| legislature is still making belllGerent
demonstrations.
Lawrence Journal: The Oklahoma legis-
| lature has adjourned. The remainder OF
the regular army can now be sent north 10
chase Sioux Ghosts.
Most of the Oklahoma editors who wrote
Christmas articles mad 10 stop two or
three times to strike at the flies that came
buZZing around their heads
Ottawa Republican: An Oklahoma milk
mans team ran away and n man who was
looking for claim. shortly after, thought
he had found veritable Canaan.
The Guthrie News states that immedi-
ately after the adjournment of the Iegls-
lature huge pile of buffalo chips was set
on fire on the government acre and the
city fumigated.
Chas. Brown, commonly known as
Brown of Logan" has been appointed by
! Governor Steele, attorney general or
| Oklahoma, and the council. before adjourn
ment, confirmed the appointment.
Colonel Shanklin, of the Guthrie board
of townsite commissioners, in an inter
view, says Oklahoma has a bright ana
| glorious future before 1t. He says the
present stringency in the money market
has been keenly felt in Oklahoma, but
those who have investments there he De
! heves will eventually reap good returns
Probably the oldest inhabItant in the
| Indian territory, both in point of years ana
continued residence, is John Cudgeu, col
ored, aged 80 years, whose home IS with
the Seminole Indians on the reservation
thirty miles east of Purcell In fact the
old man is member of that Indian tribe,
and is entitled to as much consideration
from the government as one OF the
chiefs. Cudgell for more than Sixty
years was slave of the various Seminole
chiefs who flourished in the early part OF
this century and made it inter esting for
the government several times by their out
breaks and extended excursions on the
war path. During the early ana stub-
bOrnly contested battles that the SeulInoles
gave the government, his duty, Cut' CELL
says, was to accompany Chief Billy Bt'w-
legs everywhere he went. In battle I've
would carry the firearms, ammunition ana
implements of battle which the chief
might be called upon to use. Cudgell
begun his history with the tribe while
Napoleon was at the height OF his glory
and ''armies fed from him in disgrace and
monarchs trembled on their thrones"
Cudgell was then a boy and had been
stolen from a Georgia plantation by the
Indians. Cudgell continued to remain
the slave of the deceased chiefs
family long after the war closed.
Through his faithfuluess be came
into possession of considerable of the prop
erty belonging to the family, such as
horses and cattle, for the Seminoles be-
came quite thrifty Immediately after en-
tering upon their new lands. Cudgell has
had a wife for almost every score of years
of his life He is now living with his fifth,
having buried four others. The number
of his offspring has accordingly been
large twenty-siX of whom now survive,
and are the parents of children to the
number of something near 100. Many OF
his great grand children are grown. The
inter marriages of his descendants with
the Seminoles have been so frequent that
il is now difficult to de ect the negro blood
in their children. The patriarch of this
great family apparently IS a active as he
was seventy years ago, and takes an equal
part in the cultivation of the soil and
raising cotton Cudgell has remarkably
clear memory for one of his years, consld-
ering the fact that he was raised In say
age Indian tribe. and does not now know
a single letter OF the alphabet