The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-30
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

OhLAEOMA OUTLINES.
The settler in the new country doesn't
want to be too old or he may be sooner.
The PottawAtomie tribe has two fac
tions-the prairie band and the citizens
band.
The editor of the Wynnewood Herald
had roasting ears off his own place last
Sunday.
The Democratic papers of Oklahoma
will ask the next congress to make Okla
homa state.
The most dangerous weapons band OF
Indians can be armed with Is a couple
dozen jugs of whisky.
There is getting to be less of man here
but family in Kansas" in Oklahoma. And
there should be less of it.
Oklahoma will grow as much in tae next
year as it did in the first day OF its exis-
tence and that is saying good deal.
BY the time this YEARS crops are hsr-
vested, some OF the Oklahoma farmers will
want TO move in town and start bank.
An Oklahoma man has method to kill
the wheat pests He would feed them
pumpkin seeds and choke them TO death.
There will be big public dinner at Ok
lahoma City on the Fourth. A novel fea.
ture is to be the fact that everything served
will be of Oklahoma production.
Congressman Harvey thinks that the
order for eiecting intruders from the In
dian country is folly by the department.,
injury to whites and complete destruction
to the Indians.
The opening of the new country will
wipe out many feuds in Oklahoma. The
fellows who have lost in contests will go
a. Nf LAM nd 10
down in contentment.
Occasionally McMasters of the Oklaho-
ma City Gazette will run off into philoso-
ply. He says: Poverty is the best po-
liceman, it will keep man sober when the
terrors of police judge will run him tank
full
The taking of testimony in the Greer
county case is now proceeding at Wash
ington. Oral testimony is being taken
and of course official surveys will be sub
mitted. Many think that Greer county
belongs to Oklahoma and that thesupreme
court will so decide
Purcell Topic: The acreage of cotton
planted in this nation this year is esti-
mated to be twenty per cent. greater than
last. Present indications give assurance
of much greater yield. The shipment
from Purcell will undoubtedly exceed
10000 bales.
E. Bee Guthrie: A Kansas exchange
tells of some corn that is mine feet high"
That may do very well for Kansas, but
things are different here Payne county
farmers have gone through their fields and
pulled out all the stalks no taller than
that. They thought they were suckers"
In several instances in the Sac and Fox
country allotment, the Indians have aban-
dOned their improvements to take allot-
ments elsewhere III the reservation. The
allotments are nOw practically made and
there remains several of these improve
ments unclaimed by anyone. They gener
ally have few acres broken, hut or rude
log house and on some places there are
bearing orchards. The claims including
the improvements are good, and the only
reason the places were abandoned was
that the rest of the clan TO which the own
ers belonged decided to take land in some
other portion of the reserve and family
ties are too strong among them to remain
behind. The white people will soon pick
up these abandoned places and probably
will rejoice if they have escaped their rela-
lions. That's the difference between In
dians and whites.
Purcell Times: Saturday evening as the
mail carrier from the east laid down the
pouch he said: 81. witnessed a sight yes
terday that | never want to have repeated.
| asked him to sit down and tell us all
about it. "Wel." said he. las | passed
through Wewaka yesterday they were
to shoot murderer. He WAS
and about four weeks ago he
and another Seminole had quarrel,
during which he killed him with Il hoe
and then chopped him into pieces. He was
tried according to the Seminole law, found
guilty and sentenced to be shot At Q
o'clock in the morning he was brought to
the council room and told that he had but
two hours to live. He walked around the
council grounds as cool as If he had come
to council, shook hands and chatted
freely with his friends until the council
bell tolled the hour OF doom. The captain
of the light horse then came forward and
told him TO prepare for death. He pointed
to a fat rock about 100 yards away and
told him 10 sit on it and face the crowd.
lie walked with a steady step, sat on the
rock and folded his arms across his breast.
The captain then took his own handker-
chief from his pocket and bandaged his
ewes. Then he beckoned to two Of his
light horse to advance. He took their
threw out all the cartridges
and refilled them from his own belt.
Nov" said be, when | give the word,
fire at the top button of his coat" After
stepping back few feet, he gave the
word, two sharp reports following each
other other within seconds difference
were heard The condemned man did not
fall, but drew up his arms aud twitched
lervousiy. Two of the light horses ran
took him by the arms and laid
him on his back on the grass, where be
lied ia two minutes. All on the ground
we're then allowed to look at the dead
man. Then a coffin was taken from the
wagon, the corpse was placed in it, the lid
screwed down and he was buried a short
distance from the council house with the
greatest respect.