The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Indians patriotism disappears with
his rations.
The farmers of Oklahoma are cutting
up-their corn crop.
Guthrie has had its first bad fire. a
residence was burned.
The Canadian County bank. by Messrs.
Wright q Wright, has opened at FL Reno.
The grass crops of Oklahoma this year
will probably equal the value of the wheat
crops.
The next thing in order will be the ap-
piIcation to congress for admission as a
state.
Horace Speed don't talk much while he
is IN the east, but when he does it is about
Oklahoma.
The 81 Reno Herald is in favor of re-
vision OF Webster's dictionary for the use
OF Democratic conventions
The intruder's name in the Choctaw, ma
ton appears to be Deunis. This means
more immigration to Oklahoma.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe allotting
agents better get move on them. They
may hear something from Washington.
Some of the fellows east of Guthrie are
sleeping with their boots on, so that the
opening proclamation will not take them
by surprise.
Judge Green has decided that the city
Indebtedness of Guthrie is valid The city
authorities will take an appeal to the
supreme court.
The Chickasaw Chieftain is fighting for
allotment in that nation. 1t thinks com
munity tenure is dangerous in that it may
be unconstitutional and open to violation
by the government
Talbot, a member of the legislature
from Canadian county, Will go to Mis-
souri, this winter to q law school, IL
might be a good idea for the whole kit and
posse of the last legislature TO initiate Mr.
Talbot.
A tobacco stalk is exhibited at the Okla
homa City Gazette Office Friday morning
which bore twenty-one leaves One of the
leaves measured twenty-one inches from
stem to tip and fifteen inches across. 1t
was raised on the claim of Joseph Markan
in section 9-l1-3
Contractor Spencer of the Choctaw rail
road, has stored his grading tools and
moved his teams to Yukon, where they
Will be put out on pasture until the steele
and ties arrive. He thinks this will be in
week or ten days, when the track laying
viii begin at once.
A Cheyenne Indian was asked recently
how much he gave for handsome saddle
He held up five fingers $50. TOO much, :"
said white man standing near The In
dian nodded and said, Bad man at
agency. Heap cheat poor INDIAN The
Ipdians are said to be paving good prices
Tor everything, as they have tat pocket
books.
James z. Arnold. of Crutcho valley. in
Oklahoma county, lost twenty tons of hay
from fire Saturday night. The Arnolds
mad received lntimatiOn that their hay
would be fired, and so had several men on
guard. But in spite of their precautions
the lncendlaries got in their work on two
stacks of ten tons each. One of the guards
was on top of stack of baled hay $50
yards away. and when the fire started
could distinctly see the form of man
moving away from the burning stack.
They are quite we'll satisfied who the in
cendlary Is, and will soon have him under
arrest.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: It is disap-
pointing to find after travelling fifty miles
TO witness an Indian council meeting that
OF the participants are white
people, dressed in the ordinary civilized
garb and talking the English language as
as any other white people. The
place selected for the Pottawatomie cour-
Gil is sunlcIently picturesque and romantic
TO have deserved better treatment The
council should have been made up of noble
red men In war paint and feathers Moth
ing short OF this would have satisfied the
Ilmes-Jo urnai reporter. However in the
case of the Pottawatomies such demon
stratIon could hardly take place, as a full
blooded POttawatOmie Indian Is Il rare
product, half breeds are not numerous.
and those who show no trace of Indian
blood largely predominant. They all speak
English and in only few instances is the
native tongue used at all.
The Indian who palmed himself off on
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians last
winter as the messiah was registered at
the Commercial hotel at Oklahoma City
sunday. He Is an Arapahoe Indian from
the Shoshone agency in Dakota. and bears
the warlike name of Sitting Bull. He had
his two wives, his mother and his five
children, and the appearance of the family
Indicates prosperity If all his religious
ventures PANIED out as we'll as his last
mission to the territory he must
be rich, for while here last winter
he got in presents 500 head of cattle and a
large herd OF horses. He had with him
the following letter:
SHosHoNE AGENCY, July 80. 1891.
Permission is hereby given this Arapa-
hoe Indian, Sitting Bull and family, to
visit Oklahoma territory for the PURPOSE
If attending to his horses and cattle |
owned by him in said territory. ask that !
ne be kindly treated by all whites that he /
may meet.
JOHN FOSTER, L. s. Indian Agent.
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