The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Otoes are taking their land in
severalty
| Edward has an election today to donate
$1,000 TO the normal school.
The Guthrie nine beat the Saltwater
boys again and is still benign.
Cigarettes are said to be killing off the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians.
! There is a faction in the Creek nation
named the Poor Peoples party"
They talk more about ''carpet-bags' at
| kingfsher than at any other town in the
! territory.
/ bread that is not made from Jones High
| Patent"
August is here, but the lands are not
| open. But there is nothing gained by get
ting restless.
street railway so bad is because they know
| they will have free passes.
This time last year there hadn't been
| rain for so long that the grass on the
Cherokee strip had curled up and died.
No Mans Land is about to have a social
lstlc community. The propagation OF the
scheme Is at work in the different states of
the union.
When an Indian likes thing tolerably
well he says good" when he is pleased he
says "g-o-o-O-o-o-d," and when he is per-
fectly satisfied, heap good"
John Gillobie, of the Guthrie News, is
said to be an excellent poet, but the prob
ability is that he never saw a word that
would rhyme with his own name.
The Oklahoma News calls the Oklahoma
watermelon large lurid, lucious and
hebrlcous." That sounds good deal like
1t tastes in the vicinity of Langston City.
The st. Joseph Gazette says former
well-to-do Kansas farmer, who is over 6
feet high and weighs nearly 200 pounds, is
stranded in Oklahoma and is selling bou-
quets of wild flowers for living.
The Democratic party of Oklahoma is
"agin" statehood. The Democratic paper
of Oklahoma, the Gazette, recently said:
Statehood must come through party agi-
tation, but woe to the party who aims 10
secure its defeat"
McMasters calls J. J. Burke of the
Times-Journal a cOrn-husker Now, any,
body who knows Burke, knows that the
only thing that he has to do with corn IS
when he opens his mouth over five rows OF
gram on a roasting ear.
A farmer near Oklahoma City had the
hail come and destroy his young cotton
last spring. He at once planted the
ground in corn which is now in tassle. II
the corn had failed he would have put in
potatoes. You can't down an Oklahoma
farmer.
Today at Guthrie in parade. Frank |
Greer and w. z. Thompson will sit on the |
back seat of the same buggy. A year or |
SO ago, the people wouldn't have come out |
on the street, in this case, for fear of being |
hit by the bullets.
Oklahoma farmers are complaining that |
sportsmen are violating the game law /
every day. One farmer reports that man |
killed fawn on his place few days ago. |
He had, himself, many opportunities to /
kill the same fawn, but had tried to pro- |
tect the animals life
Considerable commotion is being caused |
il the northwest by A recent decision of |
United States court that children born of |
Indian women who have citizen husbands, /
follow the status of the father and are cit
liens of the United States and conse-
quently incompetent to hold land by vir-
tue OF their tribal relations. Much spec
ulauon is following this decision as to the
effect it Will have upon the lands east of
Oklahoma just allotted. A somewhat
hasty examination of the agreements with
these tribes leads Us, says the Times-J our
nal, to believe that the matter is fully
provided for and that the children of
squaw men will be secure in their allot-
ments. This is certainly the case with the
PottawatOmes.