The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

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| The Cherokee commission are now at
| Thalequah.
The Otoe Indians are said to be dead set
against allotment.
The Beaver papers claim for their town
that they have champion.
L N Terrill had the honor TO be the first
man to occupy the Saltwater Jail
The senate committee on Indian affairs
will arrive at Tahlequah tomorrow.
A man killed three turkeys with one
load last week in the Cheyenne country. ~
The loag looked for rain has been getting
in its work the last week in Oklahoma.
The Frisco literary society has decided
that women should have right to vote.
The normal school at Edmond began
its first term Monday with twenty five
students enrolled.
Judge Shackleford lately sent man to
jail for six months for calling him liar,
when on the bench.
The streets Of Purcell on Saturdays are
so crowded that man can walk for blocks
on the backs OF horses.
school burned Friday morning. Loss
$500. Origin unknown.
A new kind of watermelon has been dis
covered that will grow in winter. This
will please Oklahoma.
A Christmas excursion is promised over
the Choctaw line from Oklahoma City to
FL Reno, all the way by rail
Down in Oklahoma the careless hunter
has begun to go to his funeral and draw
his gun over the fence after him.
The Oklahoma City Gazette is in favor
of J ohm L. Sullivan for governor. There
is one thing sure, if he was, McMasters
wouldn't criticize him.
An Oklahoms City man is to eat thirty
quail. Frank Greer thinks there are any
number of men in Oklahoma who have
eaten that much crow.
There are one or two men in Oklahoma
who away down in the bottom OF their
hearts. don't believe that the next govern
or will be an Oklahoma man.
The townsite of Tecumseh was entered
Thursday before the Oklahoma land office
and Judge Asher left for Tecumseh to pre-
pare TO issue deeds to town lots.
Nobody mas mentioned him so far. but 1t
is given out by authorities that Tackett.
the chief of the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe
allotting agents is to be governor.
Probably the reason a great many men
think that Mr.. Martin should be appoint
ed is because it would give them chance
to get the Secretaryship left vacant.
Judge Tackett is an old soldier with one
arm: he is a close friend of the president
he is a Hoosier: and he has just been sum-
moned TO Washington. This may serve
as something of a telescope to look into
the future with.
The Cherokee Telephone. an Indian
paper. says: 1.-The Delaware Indians have
just received s454, eco, being one-half of the
sum given them by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory. There has
never been an instance Of such benevolence
toward an equal number of white men in
this country"
The forthcoming decision OF Judge
Shackleford as TO the title Of the Chero-
KEGS 20 the strip will be awaited with in
terest by the entire territory. The ques-
tion comes up before the Mnskogee court
in A case brought by the Cherokee Live
Stock association against the Tom Green
Cattle company, and will be tried at the
present term Judge Shsckleford Is con
ceded 10 rank with the ablest iurists OF the
country: and his decision will come pretty
lear indicating the true status OF the case
Postmaster Heckox of FL Reno on the
Cheyenues aud Arzpahoes; The Indians
expended their S2JO, 900 as jrdiciously. /
think, as that many white people would
have done with money similarly obtained
They bought horses. wagons, harness,
blankets aud iumber for building houses
a good many bought sewing machines,
and the squaws use them, too. Il Is not
an uncommon sight to sec the latest i'm
proved sewing machine and other articles
u a canvas tepee. 4 few we're vain /
enough TO spend ali their money fgr /
trinkets and flaming prints. blankets and /
parasols. bat a. rule the money could +
not have been better invested