The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

A lot sold in Guthrie last week for $4,000.
to cut wheat
Langston has a new paper and it is
printed in black ink.
| The season in Oklahoma is almost a
month ahead of Kansas.
| The worst whisky in the territory is said
| to be sold at Choctaw City.
| There are twice as many book agents as
there are lightning rod dealers.
| The Guthrie News refers to the Indian
| soldiers as Red Men in Blue"
! The Payne county commissioners have
| issued script TO build 81, 500 court house.
Guthrie has three street sprinklers, still
the saloon-keepers are expected to put
their dust.
o. Y. G.. does not stand for ooh. no
good' in the territory, but for Oklahoma
National Guards.
A man has written up Guthrie in Ger
man paper. 1t would not do for an Okla
homa City man TO translate It,
Guthrie Capital: From craftsmanship
to poetry and from poetry perhaps TO the
gallOws is the drift of Ira \. Terrill.
The prisoners in the Oklahoma City jail
have kangaroo court that no civilized
authorities set down on it?
The idea that all white settlers have TO
leave the Chickasaw nation seems TO be q
mistake. 1t is simply the intruders who
will not pay the IS tax that the govern
ment imposes who will either have 10
comply or leave.
Visitors to the Pott country say that in
many places the hills seem covered with
snow, so thickly is the country overgrowu
with wild Strawberries that are now in
bloom. This is destined TO become one OF
the finest fruit countries IN the United
States.
There have been So contests fled since
the opening Of the Oklahoma City land
Office. About 400 cases have been heard.
Guthrie and kingfsher turned over 10
this Office 600 cases Not more than half
the contests represent cases which will
come to trial, and often three. four and
even five contests will be consolidated.
Mr. Walker who is allotting agent in
the Sac and Fox country. in writing Of the
customs OF the people gives the following
incident; We are going 70 aliot claim
70 a woman next week whose husband be
longed 10 the council and he left her aud |
went TO living with another squaw. When
he went back TO get his blankets and
other worldly effects taat go TO make up
the home OF q blanket Indian she wife
No. u hammered him so that he had 70
have his head tied up He had the coun- |
CT! meet and demonstrated his bad usage /
by his black eyes. The council OF the |
noble red men voted her out OF the tribe I
and ordered the agent 20 strike her name 4
off the annuity roll, but the com missioner 4
of Indian affairs thought the tribe needed /
more such women and ordered her name /
kept on the roll They have marriage I
law but not divorce Law.
Tahlequah Telephone: The loving deTo- /
ton Of a mother 50 her child IS almost as 4
enduring a. the heavens above. and Is not .
10 he compared TO earthly things This
fact has ula8y times been sxernplsfed, ans 8
the extreme haraships undergone .zs. i
week by Mrs. Nancy Sixkllier, mother !
OF the two Dannawas boys who were !
hanged at this place Friday. was ouly /
another suhs,antiaring instance OF this 4
assertion After learning that the prsEea-
pal chief had refused TO pardon her boss
or commute their death sentence tie csa
Lady was Wild with grief, asGd asieriniaes1
70 20 20 the chief n person sad maze
last appeal 20 him for Their lives BE
distance from A1s. S.xA.4.sss ss1ss 70