The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-22
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

The Langston Herald claims to have
2, 700 paid subscribers.
Norman is counting on road between
that place and Tecumseh.
A convention of the colored people was
held at Kingtisher yesterday.
The grand jury has brought indictments
against gamblers at Guthrie.
There is some kicking on the two worlds
fair commissioners from Oklahoma.
The city of Guthrie will pay 500 toward
| the construction of road to Chandler
Not to be outdone by Guthrie, Kingfsh-
er will also have a chrysanthemum fair.
The Dover Journal has discovered that
| its town does not want newspaper and
quit.
Cotton reached the lowest price hast
week ever known in the history OF that
staple.
The "boys" at Hennessey are taking up
a subscription to have sign put over the
postoffice.
The school fund convention decided to
send delegation to Washington to work
with congress.
| The authorities IN Oklahoma are getting
down to business. A man has been arrest
ed at Guthrie for pointing gun.
The Caddo Indians are trying to find
Messiah. But they will not fnd Messiah
before Oklahoma finds governor.
A man has been arrested at Guthrie for
stealing an overcoat, which does not
speak very well for Oklahoma as winter
res ort.
Occasionally man bobs up in the east
and says people will starve down IN Okla
homa this winter, but he is not very
numerous.
While James Admire edits the King
fisher Free Press, it isn't at all unlikely
that he allows his father to run in an ar
ticle once in a while.
Dennis Flynn, A c. Scott and Horace
Speed are trio of young men in the terri
tory VINO can lock arms and make the fur
fly, politically. in Oklahoma.
New men are coming up in public affairs
daily in Oklahoma 1t wouldn't be at all
surprising if the most of the personnel of
politics in Oklahoma was changed in a
couple of years.
When the Messiah craze started among
the Indians OF the territory a year ago the
affiliated tribes accupying the Wichita
reservation became Jealous converts to the
new belief and at once inaugurated a
grand ghost dance in honor of his COM
ing This dance was kept up continu-
ously until month ago when after dane
ing eleven months and see nothing of the
Savior number of the dancers became
dissenters aud withdrew from the circle.
For a week the two factions quarreled over
the matter, but compromise was finally
effected by an agreement to send two dis
senters and three believers as a committee
to interview His Majesty, all to abide by
the decision of the committee. Accord
ingly fund of 500 WAS collected and
Nisasstah, chief of the Wichitas; Laurie |
Tatum, a Waco; Jack Harry, Delaware; |
Squirrel aud Bill Wilson, Caddos, de- |
parted for Walkers Lake, Nevada. A |
day or two they return to the |
reservation and the Wichita and |
Caddo tribes have been called to meet |
in solemn council now in few days to |
hear the formal report of the delegation,
and to agree upon tribal decision in re-
ference to the Messiah. Just what the |
Indians saw or heard it is impossible to |
say, but they were evidently disappointed, |
as after repeated questioning the leader of /
the delegation finally vouchsafed the fol
lowing information: "Was somewhere
California, this side No catch him Jesus"