The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.


1t is believed that the cattle business Is
on eve OF great boom.
An Edmond man has set out 90, 600
strawberry plants on his claim.
A great curiosity in Oklahoma is 3
stream of water without fork to 1t.
Congressman Mansur thinks the Chero-
kee slip will be thrown open next April OF
May.
Oklahoma City is having alocal row. II
will do the town no good and help rival
towns.
The county seat wars are on in the new
country, where even the new counties
have not been marked OF.
Melon vines are said to grow twice as
fast near Lincoln and Langston City as at
any other place in Oklahoma.
Kingfsher ran in a scoop on all the
other towns in Oklahoma, by coming out
with the first spring Messiah.
E. St. John, the general manager of the
Rock Island. during his recent trip
through Oklahoma, took photographs
with Kodak.
The unique statement comes from George
Garden hire that man of average height
walking on the top of a Payne county
wheat field would be ten feet high.
ipgton waiting the return of the president,
when they will transfer their interest in
the Cheyenne lands and receive the money
from the government
An application for the pardon of Will
lam Mccartney. convicted of murder In
the second degree in Canadian county and
sentenced to ten years IN the penltentlary.
will be made to Governor Steele on June
%, 1891.
Saltwater voted $4,000 bonds for the
agricultural college Monday. Not one
vote was cast against the bonds. 1t was
the day of the regu. ar municipal election
and consequently held under the Austria
liam system.
Guthrie Capital: Marshal Grimes and
Judge Seay left kingfisher yesterday for
went overland and took guns and fishing
tackle with them. They make great
pair on tour of this kind, but never
catch any fish or kill any game.
Oklahoma City Journal: The money
for the first payment of the Sac and Fox
fund is now at the express office strongly
guarded by the soldiers. All the soldiers
now in camp will go as an escort when
Col Patrick takes the money over to the
agency. After the payment is made the
troops here will go 10 the Chickasaw
country TO assist IN removing the IN
truders.
Guthrie Capital: Yesterday eleven
timber cutters with j. w. Jordan aud
Mike Mayfieid as leaders were arrested
near Cimarron Ferry, northeast of here,
and Mayfleld claim To have the proper
authority from the Cherokee people
enabling them to cut this timber and when
arrested they had in their possession over
30 600 feet of fine walnut timber worth a
sum. The walnut timber
now growing in the Indian territory is the
very best of all that remains in the United
States and that thieves and unauthorized
or parties should go in and
slash it right and left, marketing the best,
seems bad indeed.
Globe-Democrat: William Darlington,
one of the oldest employees of the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indian agencies. passed
through this city yesterday on his way to
Philadelphia, where he is going to spend Il
short leave of absence among relatives
Mr.. Darlington is son of the first Indian
agent for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes in
the Indian territory, after whom the pres
ent agency is named, and is of good old
Quaker stock He has been continually
employed in various capacities at the
agency for over twenty years, and has seen
a good many changes taking place among
these sons Of the prairie. He was present
last week when a special agent of the in
terror department had census taken Of
these Indians preparatory to the distribu-
ton of per capita allotment of several
hundred thousand dollars, which the gov
is dividing among them in part
payment for certain lands which they have
coded to the United States, and also pre-
paratory to taking lands in severalty at
the rate of 160 acres per individual, which,
according to the same treaty, they are en-
titled to- 1.-The prairie for miles around
the agency was covered, " said Mr.. Darling
ton, with tents of these two tribes, and
presented lively appearance. The chiefs
and sub-chiefs were bury marshalIng
their tribes in order to make them appear
to the best advantage, and to see that no
buck. squaw or papoose was overlooked
in the count, and thereby deprived of his,
her or it's legacy. All were happy, laugh
ing and merry among the two trlbes-all
but one young buck, upon whose other |
wise calm and stolid features could dis
tinctly be noticed certain mental dis |
turbance, kind of fear mixed with evil |
He was seen repeatedly !
going into and emerging from a small
white tepee melted close SO the river bank |
and every time he emerged from this tenn !
porary abode he would shade his eyes /
with his hands and look toward the sun /
to see if the hour appointed for the census |
had arrived The cause of his fear and /
worry was inquired inio and developed |
be fact that in bis wigwam, stretched |
upon couch supplied by mother earth |
and her yelvetry green heritage, lay his !
chosen partner for better or for worse, ex-
pecting every minute TO present - her |
iege lord the fruit of a years wedlock. /
She could not be moved so as to join the |
that was soon TO be formed and |
to pass before the counter of noses waiting /
hem at the agency, nor did there appear /
any possibility Of a count of the yet 4
unborn infant. The Indian looked sad IN !
and well he might. The ex-
grew stronger Every minute |
he tension was almost TOO acute TO be Ell
lured any longer. the sun was rapidly /
nearing the zenith The hour appointed 4
was close at hand, and yet no sign OF relief, /
10 possible prospect for Il per capita and |
60 acre farm for the poor squaw and one
.or her unborn babe. Then, ali OF u SUD
len, veil Of mixed surprise and delight
was heard emansting from the tepee. y
,rowd rapidly gathered. and the news was
yiven out that twins were born. W hat I
transformation from sadness TO supreme
oy in the features, IN the eyes, and in the
-oice OF the proud father as he announces |
% the world that he Is the rightiul Claim
INT TO a full section Of land in the beauti-
nj Canadian valley, and 10 greenbacks
enough TO comfortably stock II and erect
hereon a dwelling for her whose services
n that momentous time exceeded his
lopes and surpassed his expectations
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