The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Choctaw conncil met at Tuskahoma
Monday.
The country that has just been settled
up is now settling down.
Oklahoma got two great big splashing
steady rains last week
A man does not have to have claim in
the new land to have claim on 1t.
One of the principal industries of the
new country is delirium tremens.
What has become of the man who used
to howl about the mail service in Okla
homa.
There is one thing that is always to be
gotten in the new lands, and that is a big
appetite.
The freight depot at FL Reno is too
small to hold all the goods shipped into
that point.
A man in the Sac and Fox country
claims to have made twenty-five miles IN
forty minutes.
The book agent is pestering Oklahoma.
Where poverty is not there is the book
agent always.
The Santa Fe railroad has had its picnic.
Next time, the Rock Island will have
slice of the pie.
The most popular way of starving in the
new country will probably be by starting
up newspapers.
The farmers of Oklahoma will sow an
immense acreage of wheat during the next
fifteen days time.
Senator Dawes will take a good unpre-
judiced look at Oklahoma, and his opinion
of it will be interesting.
The administration will do the right
thing in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe al
lotments-depend upon it.
The man who wanders over to the east
with a little CASH about the time OF the
first snow is going to get claim cheap.
Beaver. away off from nowhere, is the
most moral town i'll the territory. 1t costs
81 so for every shot within the city limits.
fla mans stomach doesn't agree with
him in Oklahoma the first thing he does
is to 90 out and condemn Governor Steele.
OF course about half the men who went
into the new lands came back, but that
was better than having them there doing
nothing.
A patent medicine fakir at Purcell has
turned into a Methodist preacher. There
is no use talking, Oklahoma has wonder
full climate.
The man who makes fun of the "Jay-
hawkers'' in Oklahoma is powerful care
full that the fellow he is talking to is
smaller than he is.
Overcoats are not very easy garments to
race in, and that is why so many OF the
boomers are irving to crowd themselves
down in their pants pockets.
A good many of the fellows who went
over into PoUtlahoma to go to the legls-
lature will be flying high If they get to be
janitor of the county building.
There is only one way which would
bring on more kicking than by opening
the lands at given hour and day. 1t
would be by fixing no hour or day.
Frank Greer: A week ago the fare to
Chandler was SIS Saturday it had
dropped to S4 and today it is Sl.50. Next
week you can go for nothing-if you walk
The Ell Reno Eagle is the largest country
weekly newspaper published west of the
Mississippi. VIII Diyen never knows
when TO stop when it comes to getting up
a good paper.
Judge Green of Oklahoma has decided
to attend school With the "hookey"
season fairly inaugurated, how many
thousands of American boys will weep be-
cause they were born white
A senate committee will visit Tahleqush
in November, to discuss with the leaders
of the tribe the question OF opening the
Cherokee strip. The general opinion IN
Washington now IS that the CherokeeS
will agree TO the sale, At 81 % per acre, the
price offered by the commission last spring
Whirlwind says ne cannot understand
about the Indians having 10 take their
land in severalty and it makes him feel
like fighting, but II he could go to WASH
iugton and have a talk with the president
he might understand il all right. Whirl
wind really should take trip 70 Wash
iDgton. 1t would open his eyes.
Saltwater Gazette: Scores of teams vet
pass through Saltwater every day bound
for the new counties. Most OF the wagons
are loaded with household goods, and the
general appearance OF the hoTne-seekers
indicates that they have burnt the
bridges behind them" and are in Okla
homa 10 stay. These men can get claims
in the new lands fully as cheaply as those
who made the race Tor them.
There seems 70 be little doubt that the
coming session OF the council viii sell the
strip TO the United States Intimate
friends Of Chief Mayes state tEat be fayors
the sale and viii so recon mend IN his an
Iual message. The mass OF the Cherokee
people are despondent in this matter since
Judge Green's decision has been made and
are anxious 70 have some disposition made
Of the Iand az once