The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Daniels ear trumpet could probably tell
some tales.
Was Oklahoma Browns prohibition
measure joke?
The house is so very devout. 1t took
three days off for Sunday.
Norman is still winking at the Okla
hOma City land Office in the dark.
There is no town in Oklahoma more ap-
propriately named than Lexington
The Oklahoma giant has little bit of
woman for a wife, only six feet high.
The condition of affairs in Oklahoma is
getting to resemble the French revolution
| more every day.
Speaker Daniels was doing Oklahoma
the same time President Harrison was
doing" Kansas.
The evidence in the Payne VS.. Grimmer
contest case has been filed with the presi
dent of the council.
There is no doubt that some of the mem
bers are making name for themselves,
and it is Dennis Mudd.
The word 'shacks'' is becoming so IN
common in Oklahoma that the papers put
it in quotation marks.
Governor Steele is possibly Withholding
his signature until he can receive a cast
iron suit from the foundry.
Compbell, the editor of the Hennessey
Clipper, is in Guthrie He must be nice
fellow if he talks like he reads.
Matthews was born in Indiana, but he
doesn't expect TO gain any Republican
votes in Oklahoma on that score.
1t has not been discovered yet who is the
wit of the legislature, though just at pres
ent the joke seems to be on Guthrie.
The Choctaw construction train and
crew are now at FL Reno making all pre-
parations to begin track laying in day or
two.
The cotton receipts at Purcell last week
were 2S2 bales, and the total number for
the season 500. Prices range from 81. 10 TO
80. 20 per cwt.
The old Norman depot has been moved
to Purcell. That may look strange to some
people, but it is on record that the Santa
Fe railroad has moved whole towns
The Oklahoma City Journal says Mccoy
is a Greenback- None OF the boys have
ever been in swimming with Matthews
and they don't know what color his Is.
J. G. Mccoy hadn't been in Oklahoma
for two month until the time of his nomi-
nation. 1t isn't always fatal for man to
leave himself in the hands of his friends.
A Guthrie man has bet his dog against
an Oklahoma City mans jack-knife that
the governor will veto the bill. No Won
der the feeling in the territory Is SO in
tense.
The trip to Galveston will come off just
after the election. 1t might be a good idea
for some of the fresh members TO bottle
up some saltwater air aud bring it home
with them.
If the Guthrie Democrat had watched
closely it would have discovered that the
EAGLE published "Classen's HumOr'
some two weeks before it appeared i'll the
Edmond Sun.
Oklahoma City Journal: The patent for
the 160 acres was received by Chairman
Sweet, of the TOWNSHIP board, yesterday
morning and is now on record. The allott-
ing is still going on, and the trustees hope
to finish that work by this evening, and
probably on Monday the making out of
deeds will commence. The trustees are
working faithfully and endeavoring to get
through with the matter as soon as pos
sible. The trustees of Guthrie have been
at work allotting for a month, and are only
about two-thirds through.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Mr. J. +.
Douglass, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
territory, who visited the exhibition last
night, placed on exhibition there today a
very old relic. 1t is a sabre which was car
ried in the revolutionary war by Mr.. Doug
lass great-grandtather, Gen. Logan Doug
lass. and was in several battles under Gen.
Washington 1t was also in the war
of 1S12-14, where it was carried by Col.
Benjamin Douglas, son of Gen. Logan
Douglas and grandfather of the present
owner of the relic. Col Douglas also car
ried it in the Greek war and at the battle
of Horseshoe in three successive blows
with the sabre cleaved off the heads of as
many Indians and with the fourth blow
disabled another This sabre Is now 10
years old. Its handle is made of an ALI
gators tusk and the weapon was originally
silver mounted, but age and usage has re-
moved nearly all the plating. During the
late rebellion the sabre was almost com
pletely DESTROYED by bushwhackers Mr..
Douglas exhibited this weaken at the
Philadelphia centennial and has twice
shown it at the Kansas City exposition
He intends to also place it on exhibition
at the worlds fair at Chicago in 1892. The
leather case which is shown with the
sabre is the original ease made for the
weapon.
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