The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Hc SCuOOl iuuu COUteuSlOA IlCClS al
Guthrie next Thursday.
From henceforth the Cherokee strip viii
lead the van of agitations in the public
mind of Oklahoma
| OF course President Morrison should
not appoint sooner governor, but he
might appoint governor sooner.
The Cherokees had better quit dillydal-
! lying or the Great Father" will not only
open up on them but also open up their
| land.
A Guthrie physician, in a recent medi-
cal publication, says: 1.-The waters of the
Cimarron are salty and said to be as good
as sea water for bathing"
There are still some people in the world
who do not read or hear. Some boys play
ed the snipe-hunting trick on a man at
Oklahoma City the other night.
Drunken Indians are a common sight in
Oklahoma, although there is heavy pen
atty for selling whisky to Indians. Some
day somebody viii get their fingers in the
trap
Clint Stout, who, stout as he is, has a
weakness for game, has made wager at
Oklahoma City that he can eat quail a
day Tor thirty days. He ate his first quail
Thursday
St. Joseph News: Miss Nevada johnson
of Guthrie was married yesterday TO II
blanket Indian The poor girl must have
needed the blanket badly, considering that
all Indian goes with it.
Oklahoma will be entitled to two votes
in the Republican national convention.
That means one from the east and one
from the west. Who shall they be? There
are also two alternates.
A. c. Scott, the editor of the Oklahoma
City Times-J Journal, is a good writer. Be
sides, he is rs good an orator as writer;
rs good singer as orator. and as fine
piano player as singer. He is an all
around man.
The Indian is surely learning the white
mans ways. jackson Fletcher, the man
who was sentenced to he shot at Caddo Oh
Oct. 30, has acted just as a white man
would have done under the circumstances
skipped.
A peculiar anamoly of the law is that
certain crimes committed on Indian reser-
vations in a territory are tribal in the ter
ritorial courts, while the same Offenses
committed on Indian reservations in II
state are subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States.
just before the close of the NJ. E South
conference at Oklahoma City, Bishop
Hendrix announced the following APP
pointments for the Oklahoma districts: 4.
j. Morley, presiding elder-Oklahoma
City station, J. NJ. Gross; East Oklahoma
circuit, p. Il. McWhorter; West Oklahoma
circuit, d. ID. Wailiek; Moore circuit, ID. |
w. Hughes; Little River circuit, j. p. |
Lane; Lexington, C.. T. Robert; Saltwater
circuit. Webster Full; East Edmond, p. |
S. Kerne; Kingfisher, +. NJ. Sherwood; !
Minco and Ell Reno, II. j. Brown; Nor |
man, Edmond and Guthrie TO be supplied. |
Chief Mayes in his message to the Cher |
ckee council, kicks vigorously against the I
sale of the strip, but he evidently sees that |
it has got to go. In the windup of his /
message he says: ga proposition to buy |
the outlet will again be submitted to you /
during this session, and something viii |
have to be done. Let US guard the Chero-
KEGS interests as much as we can. 1t the |
sale Is made 10 the United States, it must |
be done through "A revision of the treaty of
1886, by which the land may be conveyed /
10 the government for other purposes
,han the settlement of friendly Indians is
understood, and has been part
" carried out. Then let our relations
With the United States be more accurately
defined, and let every right that belongs
% the Cherokees be permanently secured.
Let many Objectionable and oppressive
eatures OF the treaty of 1866 that were
orced upon the Cherokees at the close of
he war be stricken from it as condition
If the sale"
Choctaw Herald: A few days ago a
Herald reporter was informed that lady
marshal was on board the Choctaw train
With two prisoners in charge. This being
omething new for even our western coun-
ry the reporter dropped everything and
made wild scoot for the depot. He
ound seated complacently behind two
prisoners al exceedingly pretty little lady
fla pronounced brunette type, wearing n
,road brimmed white hat, buck skin
doves and a dress tAat set of her shapely
orm to perfection. A rather ferocious
ooking revolver was buckled around her
waist aud her face in its outlines showed
m unusual amount of determination. The
title lady was the posse or guard employ
d by Deputy United States Marshal b. c.
'antrel and bad in charge Isom and Alex
Warner, two notorious whisky peddlers.
they are engaged in ferretiag cut the mys-
cry of q very celebrated murder case with
very prospect OF success.
General Custer in Wild Life on the
plains: Unlike most mountains, the
Wichita cannot properly be called range
T chain, but more correctly collection or
.roup; as many of the highest and most
eautiful are detached, and stand on
evel plaia solitary and alone. They
re mainly composed of granite, the huge
locks of which exhibit numerous shades
beautiful colors, crimson, purple, yel-
0w, and green predominstIug- They are
onical in shape. and seem To have but
title resemblance to the soil npon which
hey are founded. They rise abruptly
rom level suFface-sO level aud unob-
tructed thai il would be an easy matter
. drive a carriage 70 any point of the cir
umference at the base-and yet 50 steep
nd broken are the sides that il Is only
ere aud there that it is possible TO ascend
BEN. From the foot Of every mountain
ours a stream OF limpid water OF almost
y coldness-
EXCHANGE SHOTS.