The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-25
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

The thermometer has begun to be in it.
The Oklahoma has a warm side for the
sun.
People in Oklahoma have taken off their
ear muffs, at least.
There has been some reaping by moon
light in Oklahoma this week.
There is going to be boom in two-story
farm houses in Oklahoma this fall.
A Kansas tourist says Oklahoma looks
as old this spring as the oldest county in
Kansas.
They don't consider it prophesy in Ok
lahoma to predict rain on Sunday. 1t is d
sure thing.
The song of the reaper is about over in
Oklahoma and the threshing machine has
begun bass solo.
The opening of the new country may be
exciting, but it will never be what the
opening of Oklahoma was.
The failure of the commissioners to
negotiate success sfully with the kickapoo
Indians is charged to the hot weather.
The greatest good that has come to Ok
lahoma this spring is a negation. The
eastern papers have quit lying about her.
The Orlando base ball club played the
Mulhalls, and it took up all the spare
score.
The allotting plan may not be success
so far as the Indian is concerned, but
the white settler will not make a failure
out of it,
The city council of Guthrie has author
zed the mayor to call an election to vote
$4,000 in city bonds for the construction
of waterwOrks.
The Pottawatomie farmers are anxious
to have the land thrown open to settle
ment this fall. 1t will give them a good
market for all their farm products at good
prices.
a prominent Norman man has gone to
Texas for bride. As far as home in
Oklahoma is concerned, it is getting TO be
nip and tuck between the Kansas and
Texas girl.
The more thrifty of the Pottawatomie
Indians are now enjoying luscious peaches,
none finer in the United States, as a reward
for their well-directed husbahdry in the
past. The fruit produced in that country
shows what may be expected ofOklahoma.
Fruits OF all kinds will prove pever-failIng.
The Pottawatomies and Shawnees bave
played a white man s trick on the ailotting
agent, and IN consequence there is tTou bic.
1t has lately been discovered that some
Indian families have secured allotments
probably borrowed their neighbours
papooses to show the agent, returning
them in time for the parents TO use them.
Purcell Register: Speculations as to
where the leading town of the Potta-
watomie country will be located now
engage the attention of prospective
boomers, who anticipate making
fortunes in town lots. Grifflnstien's
ranch. and Shawneetowu are the points
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the location of the county seat.
Oklahoma City Journal: Notwithstand-
ing the fact that there have been a large
number of killings in Oklahoma, and some
OF them cold-blooded murders the only
person 10 suffer the extreme penalty of the
law is Eddie Belden. who hangs at Wichita
on Friday Doubtless the punishment is
just. but if a poor. haIf-witted boy Is to
suffer the penalty of his misdeeds, Others
who have been equally as guilty of the
crime should be dealt with in like man
ner
Bullfrog, a l4-year-old Pottawatomie
boy, was brought in from the reservation
yesterday by jim DeFord He had run
away from the Chiliocco school. and had
walked all the way home. going six DAYS.
be says, without food It is the fourth
time he has run away from school. and
each time has made the distance between
Chillocco and his home on foot. He SAYS
he can so ten days without anything 10
eat.
Oklahoma City Journal: There is an at
tempt 20 work a scheme il connection
with the Indian allotmeuts, which will re-
taTd the opening OF the lands 70 settlement
II i Is carried OUT The gentleman who
informed Us OF the scheme had the follow
ing offer made 20 him, which in itself
fully explains the scheme: An Indian had
tine valley claim worth ali the way from
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for the gentleman for $500 while he would
apply for change OF allotment 70 a less
desirable claim. The transfer would be
done 50 quietly that no one would know
II had been made. He would lay claim 70
his first allotment and 1--we on il, thus
keeping Others of, until the buyer could
come from the line and take IT, The
scheme would not work. but IL the attempt
Is made 10 carry il out the opening viii be
delayed, for the department would be
obliged 70 take time 20 examine into the
applications for transfers