The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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The Cheyenne allotting agents meet at
Darlington tomorrow.
The colored editor of the Langston Her
aid is said to be a Democrat.
Governor T. T. Crittenden, of Missouri,
is president of the Ell Reno town company.
The Dalton boys were United States
deputy marshals, under President Cleve-
land.
There is one newspaper at Oklahoma
City, at least, that will not quit for want
of rocks"
There is one place in Oklahoma called
Cowville and there are any number of
bully towns.
The Oklahoma City Gazette charges the
train robbery up to the dead real estate
market At Guthrie
The biggest Fourth of July in the terri
tory is said to be in preparation at Bart
letsville IN the Indian country.
The society editor of the Edmond News
says it is improper to your father and
mother as dad and IMAM"
The statutes of Oklahoma provides for
the appointment OF commissioner of
dispositions, by the district judge, for each
county in the territory.
1t is told on good authority that Thomp-
son, of the Guthrie News, has had chip
sewed on the shoulder of the coat he is
going to wear to the Press association at
Oklahoma City.
One of the train robbers Saturday night
was recognized as Baily, whose father
lives fifteen miles northeast of Guthrie.
There seems to be no doubt about the
Daltons being the leaders of the gang.
A quo warranto has been filed in the dis
trict court of Beaver county to remove
Judge Mathews from office. The pro-
ceedings are based on the fact that
Mathews has a family residing i'll Ohio.
The aggregate amount of reward offered
for the capture of the Dalton boys is ST.
900. Added to this, the Wells-fargo offers
to give any one recovering the money
stolen Saturday night % per cent OF the
same.
Near Saltwater n man supposed to have
the leprosy is hiding in the timber, and
when he makes his appearance to ask Tor
food the kind hearted people of that sec
ton take down their Wlncbesters ana run
him into the woods again.
A man was trying to overtake a friend
on the streets of Guthrie, day before yes
terday, and finally howled out: Hold
upn' The friend sprang into the air.
turned a double back-action somersauit
and had shelled out fifty cents and q VAT
erbury watch before he discovered that he
was not in the hands OF train robbers.
A man who was once a trader among the
kiCkapoos for five years says they are the
most honest people on earth. 1hey never
dispute an account and pay promptly
when they get their money from the
government. They never dicker for an ar
ticle, buying If il suits them. 1hey know
what the amount is, and they never permit
their debts to exceed it. Occasionally there
is a bad Indian" but he Is generally a
half-breed, and the other Indians ostTaclZe
him.
Oklahoma City Journal: An ordinary
mortal who knows nothing about law, may
not be a competent Judge, but II does seem
to such people that much unnecessary
time of the court is often consumed IN
frivolous acts and questions. For IN
stance, a few days ago an unimportant
case was called and twelve jurors had been
called to the box. Ten out or twelve OF
them said they knew neither the complain
ing witness, nor had they ever heard OF
the conpIaining witness, nor had they
eyer heard of the case before. yet an at
torney consumed more than an hour In
I'D examination Of the jurors
tonching the possibility OF there
hsing biased or prejudiced for or
against the defendent. When man
s[rrars that he knows neither the parties
TO the suit nor the facts, nor reputed lacls.
In the case. il would seem 10 orGlIary
nlortals as though no bias could possibly
exist. IL may be good practice 70 say and
Do ali the unnecessary things the coar.
will peemit. but Ii Is certainly not good
sense.