The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| The Guthrie company wants hose-not
half hose.
| What has become of the Payne Hawk
Is it dead?
Watermelons are coming Oh the market
in Oklahoma.
There are twenty-five cases on the su-
preme court docket.
1t is as good as understood that state
hood is likelihood.
Guthrie News: East Guthrie has been
almost entirely freed from Payne.
A man in Oklahoma county has been
offered s., 600 for his claim, but he refused.
There is only one Bill Little in Okla
homa City, but there are several little
| bills,
| After all, the doctors are having the
worst time of anybody in Oklahoma this
year.
By the middle of summer it begins to
look like Oklahoma would be engaged in a
free for all fight for the Indian trade.
There will be no big celebration of the
| Fourth in Canadian county this year.
| They will go visiting the Santa Fe towns.
The Alliance orators are going to take
up the cudgel against the cattle barons, as
a means to strengthen their party in Okla
homa.
/ If the crowd that is chasing the Dalton
| boys Will come back they viii find that
there is steady demand for good harvest
hands in Oklahoma just now.
The effort to get the Oklahoma City and
| Guthrie base ball clubs together again,
calls upon the officers to enforce the law
against carrying concealed weapons.
Judge Cease, of Norman, while crossing
the river at Purcell in an open bus, tipped
| -f,
now says he will sue the hack line for
damages.
| A 12-year-old son of John Windsor. liv-
ing in Payne county, was killed by light
| ming one evening last week, and his smaller
brother nearly burned to death from the
| same stroke.
Arkansas City Traveller: J. A. McCor-
mick came up from POnca yesterday,
where he has been for TWO weeks past
| holding 2, 500 head of cattle waiting until
the river should go down so he could cross
them into his pasture on the Usage reserva-
ton. About 5000 head of cattle crossed
the river at Ponca, Friday. Thursday
Bert roped lis head of calves and took
them over in a skiff Friday morning
they were all back again, having swan
over during the night. Some of the calves
were not week old. 1t is safe to say he
did not carry the calves over again in a
Skill. lie SWdM lHttn Over JUST bD6 SdtklG
as big steer.
The term of the district court just com
pleted at Norman by Judge Clark shows
wonderful record. There were 260 cases
docketed, and of these nearly 200 were dis
posed of in the sixty day session. Every
case on the docket which was ready for
trial was taken up and tried The judge
worked all day and until IL o'clock at
night to clear the docket and he succeeded.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe allotments
will be made into two tracts, which will
hinder the work somewhat. That is, each
Indian is to receive eighty acres OF farming
land and eighty acres of grazing land. IL
is not likely that many Indians will be
able to get their land in one tract. There
are 8, 800 Indians, which makes practically
6,0G0 allotments.
Up to date the Oklahoma City land of
flee has disposed of nearly 200 cases which
have been tried and ninety-one cases
which have been tried and remain I'M
decided. There are $50 cases docketed
which have not yet been tried. The num-
Der OF cases fled nearly equals the number
tried, so there is only slight diminution
of the number on hand.
One of the participants in the prize
fight that is soon to take place in Guth-
RE works a half hour every day in black
smith shop to make him strong. If he
wants something real hard to do, he can
go around to the Capital office and try to
persuade Frank Greer that Oklahoma City
is going TO make bigger town than
Guthrie.
The Minco Minstrel saws that the preiu- |
dice of the full-blood Chickasaw is being
used TO his destruction. One class gets
the money and another class gets improY-
ed farms, while the full blood is kicked off |
into the brush out of the way and told to
keep up q howl against division of the do /
main. Some of these days he will wake /
up to what is going on, and there will be /
fun along the line. But if he will not use |
the land there is DO reason why some one /
else should not. The land is valuable and /
others see 1t; they also use it.
All the claim holders of Oklahoma have |
been greatly interested in knowing |
whethnr they could, after committing or /
relinq gushing their claims in Oklahoma |
proper, go into the lands soon TO be opened |
east or west and again homestead. i. i. !
Kelley. who lives on Capitol hill, has the /
following letter from the general land |
office: II the homestead that you allege
you relinquished May Is, 1891, was entered /
prior to March ?, 1859, you may. if other
wise qualified, make entry, but if you
initiated the claim subsequent to said
right is exhausted. Very respectfully.
W. VI. STONE, Acting Com missioner.
This is very important, and coming
from this place OF official authority,
settles the matter. Mr. keiley's letter
was directed 10 Secretary Noble, who
answered that be had referred ii TO the
general land Office. which brought the
above letter. Many Oklahoma proper
farmers were expecting TO take land again ]
in the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Pottowatomie
or Cheyenne and Arspahoe lands, bsliey-
ing the amendment made TO the law by
the last congress would permit them 10 90
SO, but 1t seems they were wrong
FL Reno Eagle, The Indians still retain
their love Of self decoration aud some Of
them take especial delight n appearing as
ridiculous as possible, when compared
with the customs adopted by the civilized
Indians Flour SACKS seem 70 retain their
old time standard OF eXcellency and are
still a formidable rival OF calico when
IL comes 70 selecting 8 dress pattern.
erty may have something 20 do with their
selection at present but IN the olde1 time
the big injun who was decked N -four
sacks bedecked with red roses. sne4t Of
wheat or some other emblem, wAs su-
pFemely happy and could not 6e induced |
to part with MS attire for any considers-
ticn. At che time -four SACKS became 50
popular that their contents fresh from The
mill. was dumped ont up0a the ground
and left 70 20 70 waste. TIA. the SACKS
mi ght be procured and saved for wearing
apparel Many Of thu Indians still wear
and other wearing apparel manu-
featured from the beloved -four sack. AMI
just the other day al old sGEaw WAS 90
served by the writer. AZ the &gency. E5o
wore al apron made from > four sack
upon which the words For Family Use
OBly" sppeared IN box car lstters, and Oh
her biankec appeared - Nc Is II the
motto j. observed there u 10 aoubs saA;
the quality viii ever be disputed