The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

in Edmond.
The Indian commissioners have arrived
in Oklahoma.
Langston, the negro settlement, mas
twenty-five houses
Work on the Choctaw road at Oklahoma
City has been resumed.
Adams has goto out an injunction against
the intruders on his land
West Oklahoma, the new town. has a.
ready developed two factions.
Fat cattle, as they are all over the west,
are very scarce In Oklahoma.
The old Noble Democrat will reappear
some time soon at Lexington.
Oklahoma will have a holiday this
month in remembrance of the famous
twenty second.
The further Oklahoma gets away from
its last legislature, the more prosperous
II seems to grow.
The Guthrie Capital claims that the first
brick block in Oklahoma was the Guthrie
National Bank building.
The mistake the organs Of the territory
make is IN paving any attention TO the
undigpified slams" at Governor Steele.
II is estimated that there are 1900 acres
of growing wheat in Oklahoma county.
Whew! Nobody will eat rye bread this
fall.
Oklahoma does not want any war just at
present. After its crop of wheat, corn,
oats, fax and cotton is in. it may consent
to gnaw at the Dago's ear awhile
There are some desperate characters in
Oklahoma. Occasionally some wilful. de
liberate crime is made pubic. which Is the
work of their hands. Who are tney'
From what state do they hail?
An Oklahoma City man offers hun
dred dollars to the person who can prove
that he was in the territory before noon
April 81. 1889 Here is way for the
''sooners" to vindicate themselves.
The Indian commissioners will be in
Oklahoma in a few days to negotiate with
the Kickapoo Indians for the allotment of
their lands The negotiations will be
carried on at Choctaw City. When the
commissioners We're down IN the kickapOo
country last summer they came pretty
near starving, and Choctaw City was the
first place they struck on leaving the res
ervation where they could obtain whole
some food. The corn bread that the land
lady baked for them there suited Cover
nor Jerome so we'll that he j. determined
to hold the conference at Choctaw City.
The payment of the $50 $50 to the Sac
and Fox Indians will be made by Agent
Patrick, who has received orders TO that
effect. 1t will be made in three payments
of 500, 900 each, and the first payment must
be made within sixty days from the time
the work of allotment began. which was
on March 10. Within very few days
after the first payment is made, the second
OF SEC, 900 will he distributed and shortly
after the third. The merchants OF Guthrie
and Oklahoma City have agents among
the Indians soliciting trade They will get
a slice of the big sum.
The Guthrie News reporter is always
dramatic if not interesting. This is from
his pen. He treats the murder lightly.
Mr.. Sullivan calmly walked into the News
Office about o'clock last evening, and,
has been killed two and a half miles west
of here!" This simple statement was
enough-in the absence of society news
to call for the services of the individual
representing that department.. Charley"
the hackman, was called and Mr.. A. H.
Crabb, on invitation, consented to accom-
pany the reporter to the scene OF the kill
ing Get up there" and with the kind
persuasion of the lash the jaded livery
team trots two and one-half miles west
ward. A draw was reached, and. as it was
an up and down place, Charley" then and
there called n halt and would go no farth
er, but consented TO let the reporter take
one of the hack" lights and proceed.
This was acceptable. Any courtesy is APP
preciated in this country, and more especi-
ally when one is running down" a kill
ing. A half mile further on, and after
crossing n number of deep gulches man
with a double barrelled shotgun and a
Winchester rifle as means of safety
breaks the stiffness of the night with
"H-a-ltp' The short hair of the re-
porter stood on end az the word halt"
was uttered. With it the tri ggers to
the shotgun were pulled back. A timid
explanation was made, and, then Sher-
man Watkins lowered the hammers of his
shotgun, and, gentlemanly piloted the
News man and Mr.. Crabb to where his
dead father lay. At the house were
Charley Grant and Mr.. Meade watching
over the corpse. One single coal oil lamp
served to illuminate the scene Means
and sobs are heard. and. in the stiffness of
the night it is ascsrtained that they emf
nate from ''dugout" close by. There,
the wife of the dead man and the mother
Of nine children was stretched on cot"
bemoaning her loss. Doctor Ketchum and
Doctor Cotteral, with Sheriff HiXon and
his deputy. Morris Roebecker. and ID. B.
aud Frank Ratcliff were, for
few minutes. spectators, and viewed, in
silence, the dead body of the old man Wat !
kins A jury was empaneled by Sheriff
Hixon and the finding was that Mr.. Wat |
hins was killed by Mr. Carter Five buck !
shot wounds were discovered by Doctors /
and Cotteral. The cause of the |
killing seems to have been from an old /.
lei Oh borhood trouble, and. the facts con /
,erning which had best be told in the court /
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