The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-29

him the freedom of the city on golden
| platter, and fill him up on beer and pref
| zels-at his own expense. Jay wants to
be careful how he disappoints the people
| of Oklahoma City IN this way, and es-
pecially the newspaper men; aud it is only
| out of consideration for his family that
| they do not proceed to roast" him for
this disappointment. Jay and George and
| Edith and Little Jay and Little George
and Little Edith were all expected, but
not one OF them came 1t was certainly
| too bad.
! Oklahoma City Journal: An accident
which had fatal ending 10 a fine team OF
horses and came near being fatal to The
man who was driving them, happened at
night about shutdown. The hired man OF
Joe Platt, who lives some four miles east
or town, was returning home aud at
| tempted to cross the river at the ford
below the bridge. The river was high
and the current so swift that it swept the
horses from their feet. In their Struggle
they got into still deeper water, dragging
! the wagon with them. The bed of the
latter came loose from the running gear
and upset, throwing the man into the
water. He came up and clinging to the
| box was swept down the river hundred
yards or more, the box turning over and
| over with him. Two young men who
witnessed the accident courageoUsly
plunged into the current and went to his
| rescue, getting him just on the verge Of a
huge pile of drift wood, under which the
next turn Of the box would have taken
| him, and bringing him TO land. He was
! nearly goLe as 1t was, but recovered IN 8
| short time and was taken to a neighbor-
| ing house and put TO bed. The horses
drowned before the eyes of the spectators,
| 1t being impossible TO. rescue them owing
! no re n
current. The wagon and harness were
| recovered.
| Ell Reno Eagle: The principal streams
of the territory and the names given them
by the Indians, as related to an Eagle re-
porter, by Ben Clarke, the post interpreter
at Fort Reno, who was chief of scouts up
on the western frontier in the early days,
is as follows: The Arkansas is known to
the Cheyennes as Flint river, the Cimarron
as Bull river, the North Fork as Wolf
river, the Canadian as Red river, the
Washita as Lodge Pole and the Red as
Bitter Water river. The Indian names
are very appropriate, it would seem,
for IN the bed of the Arkansas
flint was found from which the
Indians made their arrow heads. The
banks of the Cimarron were almost con-
stantly lined with buffalo, aud, naturally
enough, they named it the Bull in honor
of their most esteemed and useful pro
Queer of food, clothing and shelter. They
named the Washita the Lodge Pole from
the fact that trees from which they made
lodge poles grew along its banks in pro-
fusion. Wolves were plentiful along the
North Fork, the water of the Canadian
was red, and that of the Red was bitter,
and accordingly they were named in ac-
cordance with their merits or dement's.
The Beaver was known as the Beaver for
the simple reason that beaver made that
branch of the North Fork their home, and
when the Indians wanted to partake of
that toothsome morsel baked beaver
tail, " be relied upon that river TO furnish
the desired delicacy The hundreds of
smaller streams were named in the same
manner, but not always as appropriately
as were the longer streams.