The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City is on the scent of a
sewer.
Yukon's other name is said to be
boom"
| The Cherokee commission will be in Fl
Reno this week
| A watermelon vine in bloom is reported
from Payne county.
| When will the president begin to extend
| the cattlemen's time again?
Kingfsher, on May 4, Will try an cleo
ton under the Australian system for the
first time.
In eastern Oklahoma it is all right for
the Pott to call the kettle black. The
Pott is red.
There are people in Oklahoma now who
never heard of Aliit Reynolds. Oklahoma
is growing old fast.
The Oklahoma Gazette lately credited
the wrong woman with the birth of child
and had TO apologize.
The Kingfsher News is an Alliance
paper. We are sure OF 1t. 1t spells
''tricksters'' with an "x''
The Canadian Courier is better paper
than the Frisco Herald ever was. Yet the
same man edits them BOTH
Oklahoma is getting the reputation of
Judge Green's account, too.
A good many people who are raising
gardens this spring in Oklahoma are also
running newspaper on the side.
Smedley Darlington, one of the richest
men in the United States, will visit Okla
homa soon. He is of Philadelphia.
In summer, her papers claim that Okla
homa is a summer resort and in winter, a
winter resort. Oklahoma is happy med
ium all around
When a white man gets full in Okla
homa he paints the town red, but that is
no sign that when the red man gets full,
he paints the town white.
Your voice is husky" said an Okla
homa cotton field to a corn field near by.
That doesn't matter" replied the corn
field, Il don't bole up like you do, any
way"
There is Pawnee Indian in Oklahoma
called Walking Son" When the Indian
becomes surrounded by the amenities of
civilization, he will probably change his
name to Street Car Fare. -
There is going to be an enormous crop
OF wild plums and grapes upon the river
this year Last year they were all killed
by the late frosts, but this year they did
not put out in time to be injured and the
bushes ana vines are loaded.
The rendezvous Of q band of robbers,
and horsethieves has been dis
covered In the Greek country. This band
Is made up of the remnants of several or
ganlZed gangs that have been scattered
Some of these are of the notorious Jim and
Belle Starr band. They are thoroughly
organized, and it is supposed they have
their eyes on the money about to be paid
out to the Sac and Fox Indians.
The Wichita and Caddo country will be
opened simultaneously with that of the |
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation. The |
Choctaws and Chickasaws will be paid |
nearly s3,0000 900 for their supposed inter |
est IN the lands, but the government does |
not propose to pay the WichitaS and |
Caddos anything, it seems. as no treaty or |
agreement with them was every ratified |
by congress, and it appears to be Uncle !
Sans intention TO ignore all claims of the !
Wichitas and Caddos. However, these In
dams Will be given the privilege of taking |
allotments on their present domain, which |
is a fine body of land. The Indians are |
still Ignorant of the governments inten- |
ton, and until the allottIng agents re- !
celve their instructions there will remain |
some doubt in regard to the matter.
Judge Seay has recently administered a
couple of severe rebukes to juries over at
In one instance q Jury
Drought III verdict OF not guilty IN the
case OF the principal IN a cattle stealing
case, but found the two accomplices
guilty. The judge received the verdict
md dismissed the jury from further
service. Ia an attempted rape case the
Jury found the accused guilty, but recon-
nended clemcncy in pronouncing sentence
N this case, the judge in passing sentence
aid: Il shall make the sentence light
because from the action of the jury in
clemencV / take il that in |
his country this class of crime is not con-
idered a serious one" II would be diff
icult to include more sarcasm in a single
entence.