The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-19
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| OkLAdOMA OOI blNES.
A single lot sold in Ell Reno this week
| for $500.
Chief Justic Green spends the holidays
at Mt Carmel, Illinois.
Tecumseh is lacking in some things, one
of which is a shoemaker.
| Somebody is claiming that Tecumseh is
Republican in its politics.
The Catholic church people at Purcell
are arranging for big fair.
The big gristmills at Oklahoma City
and Guthrie are running full blast.
Three deer is the maximum that any
hunting party has yet brought in.
The five civilized tribes lobby is said
to be the strongest in Washington.
The treasurer of Canadian county says
taxes are being paid up at rapid rate.
One contest at Oklahoma City takes up
600 pages of closely typewriter evidence. 4
District court at Guthrie will adjourn
the last of the week until the January
term.
The mayor of Oklahoma City says If the
variety theater goes, so must the Salvation
Army.
Santa Claus in his travels in Oklahoma
will probably find great many defective
fues.
The only cotton compress in the Indian
Territory, the one at Ardmore has been
burned.
Chief Mayes was born in Georgia in 1888
His father was white, his mother of
mixed blood.
1t is claimed that the Cherokee commits
sion will have smooth sailing now that
Chief Mayes is dead.
School in Paul's Valley doesn't open
until January first. The Indians are
little afraid of school.
A Texas boy thinks he could sell Okla
homa papers in Texas if each paper con-
tanned a chrome picture.
Governor Martin sent his well-wishes to
the statehood convention, but Governor
Steele was notheard from
1t is claimed that favoritism is shown in
the enforcement of the concealed weapon
ordinance at Oklahoma City.
Work has commenced on Judge Seay's
house at Kingfsher. 1t will be the big
gest residence in the territory.
1t is common saying down at FL Reno
that there is only one thing heater than
Will Owens paper and that is VIII, him
self.
The old man who stays on top in Okla
homa has to be rustler. The young man
is everywhere and has his finger in every
pie.
According to Bekemeyer, in the Okla
homa City Gazette, Ledru Guthrie was the
''tickledest" man in the statehood conven-
ton.
There is no use tal<ing;the squawman is
not an Indian and his children are not,
and the government will crowd the facts
down his throat some day.
The white man, the negro and the In
dian make up Oklahoma's patriotic popu-
lation. 1t is the Red, White and Black
under the red, white and blue.
In the Cherokee nation the fields are
still white with the feecy staple, the price
being so low that a good many farmers
seem to be Indifferent whether it is picked
out or not.
There is a prominent legal light in
Oklahoma of whom il is claimed that
never profane word passed his lips until
one day he tried to find something in the
Oklahoma statutes.
Now that the Cherokee nation is without
a head, President Harrison might order
Governor Martin to extend his power over
that benighted people This would be one
step towards statehood.
One of the best stories of the seas on
is told on Judge Seav. At the last term
OF court in kingfsher county number of
indictments were returned by the grand
Jury against the gamblers. They were
brought before him for sentence and
disposed of in turn. Among them was a
smart Alec and upon pleading guilty the
Judge said: Il will fine you $50 and cost"
and stopped. jumping 10 his feet, the
gambler interrupted the judge with an
impudent air and impairment manner
and said, reaching around 10 his hip
pocket: Judge. l think l have just
about that amount in my - pocket
Judge Seay at once responded, just as II
he had not been interrupted and was
finishing out the sentences, and ninety
DAYS in jail Have you got that in your
- pocket" It Is said that the gambler
wilted, and when his term expired jumped
the town TO keep from being iezsed TO
death.
lard pronounces peanut culture in OKLA
hona a flattering success. He expert
meated with FIVE acres last season, ths.
being his first attempt 20 grow the crop
here or elsewhere He planted in lghs
sandy loan, and the cultivation given The
crop was not as thorough as tha; given
the cotton in an adjoining field Gophe-s
did great deal OF mischief before be
learned how 70 trap them, and iEcn that
source lie attributes = loss q . per eent.
which lie IS now satisfied can be almost
wholly avoided hereafter Mr. Gi.iArd last
year also suffered loss from planting too
eayiy-befoEe tie ground was skorousbiY
warmed After the trs. frOst he besAs
harvesting ~ iiftiaS e-ca vine Up Ga: 81 ]