The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-30
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES


did the best.
Corn in Oklahoma at present is bringing
50 TO 40 cents.
1t is said that three of the Daltons are In
the Usage country
The Canadian county Alliance has de-
cided to build grist mill.
The townsite of Frisco has been survey
ed and the new plat accepted.
The G. a. r. of Kingisher passed reso-
lutions on the death of Senator Plumb.
vii turkeys from the Indian Territory
are served up in New York City restaur-
ants.
In the five civilized tribes there are fit
teen white people to one full blooded In
dian.
Jacob Admire must have been hurt
pretty severely. He is still confined to his
room.
The recent treaty with the Cherokees for
the sale of the strip must be ratified before
March 4, 1898
Christmas was the coolest day so far in
Oklahoma. The thermometer got within
ten degrees of zero.
The sensational papers, the Police Ga
zette for instance, devote great deal OF
space recently to Oklahoma.
The Kingfisher Free Press has no hest
| fancy in saying that Governor Steele is the
best governor Oklahoma ever had.
Some of the Oklahoma papers are still
calling upon the worlds fair commission
ers from Oklahoma to resign in favor OF
home men.
President Marvel of the Santa Fe rail
road, and the Carey-Lombard Lumber
company each gave $1,000 towards the
Norman university.
Delegate Harvey was relying on Senator
| Plumb to get great many measures per-
tanning to Oklahoma through the senate,
and his death is very perplexing.
! The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are
! willing to take their allotmentS and are
anxiously awaiting the return of the alb
sent alloting agents and the new ones
| soon to be appointed.
! The copper-colored Choctaws dislike the
black-skinned negroes, and have adopted
a law for their exclusion from the Choc-
| taw country. The Choctaws dislike the
whites not less than the blacks, and hold
| that they themselves are the cream of
creation.
Congressman Harvey has a bill prepared
throwing the Cherokee strip open TO set
Element at once which he will introduce
Immediately after congress convenes, jan
uary 5th, and has assurances that it will
be warmly supported by the majority in
the lower house.
Payne Hawk: A well was being bored
on Mrs. Greenwood's place about nine
miles east of this city and water was
found but it was so salty it could not be
used at all. One gallon of it was boiled
down in an open vessel and it produced a
quarter of a pound of pure salt. How do
you like that? Call at this office to see
sample of the salt.
Major Peter Roman, agent of the Flat
head Indians in western Montana, recent
ly purchased -blooded and ugly-faced
bulldog, not to guard his pleasant quar-
tiers at the Flathead agency, but to give
his Indian wards new subject to study in
the animal kingdom. The appearance of
this strange quadruped caused as much
excitement among these untutored sons of
the forest as behemoth of the Palezoic
dye WOulu diOuSc ny d Suuueu appearance
on Main street The chiefs held a long
consultation over the characteristics of
the animal, and finally decided to call him
a good, bad dog" The first adjective is
doubtless caused by certain Indian di-
plomacy to be exercised in addressing the
animal, while the latter is evidence of the
red mans regard for the truth at all
times At all events the name is worth
studying.
A rather close question has been decided
by the land Office at Oklahoma City. In
the Page Renfro contest the decision is in
favor Of the latter. This was purely case
OF prior settlement, neither party charg
ing soonerism or abandonment. The de-
cision is in Renfro's favor because the
point from where he left the line was
proved to be nearer the land in controversy
than the poin from which Page rode, and
while Renfro had plain travelled road to
reach the claim Page rode over the hills
and through the sand and timber without
having any road or trail to follow-there-
fore, argues the register and receiver, it is
fair to suppose Renfro reached the land
first. 1t was pretty close call, however,
and close question.
Negroes are called black white men by
the Indians, and colored recruits or soldiers
are known as buffalo soldiers, from the |
fact that the curly, black hair growing |
upon their craniums resembles that which |
adorns the American bison The Indians |
are quite friendly with the descendants of
Ham aud affiliate with them much more |
readily than they do with their pale-face |
brethren. The red men as a rule hold /
their colored brethren in high esteem. and |
the admiration is evidently mutual, as |
there are large number of negroes |
living with and among the Indians of /
the territory. The negroes work faith
fully for the original occupants of the |
great west, and it is difficult to decide /
it is for this reason, the fact that
they are also members of colored race, or
from the emblance they bear in their
curly black hair to the beloved buffalo
the animal which at one time was made to
furnish shelter, food and clothes for the