The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Guthrie is on the verge of a mayoralty
fight.
Oklahoma City is to have cotton COM
press.
The census of the town of Norman was
taken last week.
Norman is not very large, but it is big
enough to have comedy company.
The board of tourist trustees of Okla
homa county are in Edmond, this week
Oklahoma has a historical Hennessey.
He was killed, not by Italians but Indians.
Judge Burford, of Oklahoma City, be-
lieves that Oklahoma can make her marx
In beet sugar.
The aid business is wound up for this
winter. All but $500 of the first appropria-
ton is expended.
The farmers of Oklahoma will have to
hustle. The most unhealthy place IN the
world for the enrolling clerk at Washing
ton is Oklahoma.
Hamlin Sawyer, editor of the Oklahoma
City Times, has been extended the thanks
OF the Oklahoma county farmers for his
efforts for seed wheat.
There are large groves OF walnut tees
in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country.
Some OF these trees measure as much ss
IOuf leeb IN diameter.
Sacred Heart is the name of town in
the Pottawatomie country; It will soon
be IN Oklahoma. Sacred Heart, Okla
homa," sounds queer at first.
The Kickapoo Indians had big feast at
kickapoo town one day last week. Among
the favorite dishes served, roasted dogs
flesh was partaken of with great relish.
The Guthrie Capital speaks of Oklahoma
fu ic
thing in that While Guthrie is only
few miles from Oklahoma City, the towns
are of entirely different make up.
Governor Steele is said to be very much
put out by mistake which occurred in
the bill opening the reservations to settle
ment. the original bill provided for
counties of 900 square miles. which was
amended by the conference to 7O0 square
miles, but the amendment was not put
into the bill and it was signed with the
900 square miles provision. This viii
necessitate the forming or the Sac and
Fox, Iowa and Pottawatomie reservations
into one county.
Some day the big springs at Caddo will
be utilized more extensively than they are
at present. They well up out of the very
crest of the hill, eighty feet above the
Canadian valley. and sixty feet above Ell
Reno. The flow is sufficient for city of
the crest of the ride to get down into the
valley so much water was encountered
that it was almost impossible to complete
the work. The road is now utilizing
portion of this flow by running it into
tank below to supply the engines. The
water is absolutely free from injurious or
harmful minerals or organic matter, and
has low temperature being fully ten de-
grees lower than the water obtained from
the wells in the valley below
Oklahoma City Journal: The taking of
land in severalty by the different tribes of
Indians and their advancement to citizen
ship will introduce a new and somewhat
uncertain factor into the politics of the
country. As rule they will be entirely
unreliable; voting as immediate interest
may dictate, gnd swayed by motives en-
tirely beyond the knowledge or control of
the whites. There is, however, one notable
exception: The Cherokees are enthusiastic
politicians and have well defined party
affiliations. During the war about two
thirds of them went with the south and
the others with the north Since that
time the tendency has been toward the
Republican party, until now they are
very nearly equally divided. They are
enthusiastic workers for men of their
choice
Muskogee Phoenix: Judge Stidham has
the distinction of being the oldest living
delegate who ever went to Washington
from the Indian territory. He was dele
gate from the Greek nation to Washing
ton in the year 1913, at the time Polk
was president of the United States. He
has been in Washington as a regular or
special delegate from the Greek nation
twenty-five times. The first claim that
was ever presented in Washington by the
Creeks and successfully prosecuted was
presented by Judge Stidham and associ-
ates about forty-three years ago. The
judges first trip to Washington was by
a peculiar route. He started from old
agency, rode horseback to Fit. Gibson and
took boat to the mouth of Arkansas
river, thence up the Mississippi to the
mouth of the Ohio thence up the Ohio
to Pittsburg, thence up the Monongahela
to Brownsville, then by the stage to Cum
berland, Md, and thence by "steam cars"
to Washington. It took three weeks to
make the trip. 1t can now be made in
two days and a half. Judge Stidham
came to the Creek nation in 1929 and is
believed to be the Oldest of the old settlers
now alive. He was first public officer in
1887, under the old Creek government
when the council met occasionally, made
and executed its own laws. He was APP
pointed supreme judge in 1867 and with
the exception of few years has held that
position continuously to the present time.
Judge Stidham is still active and bids fair
to visit Washington several times more as
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