The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-17
oKLAHoMA OUTLINES.

| Ihe SCrlp Is OUT Oh s6dLuo quo once more.
That proclamation must be coming by
| freight.
The Beaver county fair is in full sway
| this week.
] The Guthrie Capital is now published in
the evening.
The Guthrie laundries publish full list
of their patrons.
Every other man has tip on when the
new lands open
1t is frequently exclaimed that President
Harrison doesn't proclaim
| The big statehood convention will hold
forth at Oklahoma City week from to-
day.
| Norman claims to have the best brass
band in Oklahoma, and Lexington next
best.
The prospective opening of the new
lands has doomed the horse trade in Okla
homa.
The street sprinkler man at Ell Reno has
to have a rain every thirty days to Keep
even with the dust.
Every train that pulls into Oklahoma
now is loaded and some of the men passen-
| gers are loaded on top of that
Oklahoma is said to have the best ex-
| hibit at the Kansas fair at Topeka Now
| it wants TO try its hand Oh THE Kansas
| fair.
The Edmond Sun is publishing map
of Oklahoma with Edmond looming up
| like bulldog among crowd OF little
| poodles.
The Oklahoma City Gazette uses the
word sooner" in a new way, 1t says that
some men are bound TO sooner" into the
new lands.
Old growers say the growth of the cotton
stalk this year is too rank. There are
some cases where the soil of Oklahoma
overdOes it little.
There is not so much talk about the
"hegira" as there was on April ". The
| fellows who knew most OF the dead Ian
guage have gone back east long ago.
The saloon men of the Chickasaw nation
propose to test the matter and see whether
they can sell beer in the nation. They
will be backed by the beer companies and
will make hard fight in their endeavor
to win.
A curious feature of trade has lately been
unearthed at Reno City, where IL is aYered
that one of her merchants had sold a Gus
toner some salt meat which proved to be
in a condition of decomposition and unfit
for human use. When informed of the
fact by the customer afterwards, he replied
that it surely could not be the meat that
was spoiled, it must have been the salt.
Guthrie Capital: AT a certain real estate
office In the city the following sign was
displayed yesterday: For sale-Lots in
the Sac and Fox county seat. The only
exclusive agency for the sale of these
lots" The sign was intended as joke,
but the fact that within two hours fifty
conclusively that the country IS full OF
suckers anxious to be caught.
Judge Green rendered a very important
decision at the opening of the district
court Monday morning. The case in ques-
tion was peculiar one and has no prece-
dent on record anywhere. A year ago
Thomas Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lin
coin, an Iowa Indian, was taken to the
Chillocco Indian schools in the Cherokee
strip. Thomas did not like it there and
his father did not like to have him away
from home. He was allowed TO return
home on visit last month, but on Aug
ust 30 was taken back to the school by
force The father did not like this and
consulting attorneys had writ of habeas
corpus issued compelling the school au
thorities to produce the boy in court and
give reason why he should not be returned
to the custody of his father. The case
came mp for hearing Saturday and was ar
gued extensively on both sides-the
government claiming they had authority
TO take and enforce the attendance Of ln-
dian children az the government schools.
Judge Green decided that the boy
should be returned to his father We
give below brief synopsis Of his decision;
The case is q peculiar one and presents
for the first time the question of how far
the government can go in taking Indian
children from their parents and placing
them in the custody of government
schools | have looked over all the appro-
priations for the support OF the Indian
schools and find no authority given TO
force children to attend. Congress recog-
nizing that there was no such provision at
the last session, passed an act authorizing
the commissioner of Indian affairs to
make and enforce rules which shall secure
the attendance of all Indian children ut
the schools maintained for them. The
court can find no such rules on record and
therefore must conclude that they have
not been established.
1t has always been the policy of the gov
eminent In dealing with Indians to do
nothing without obtaining their consent.
Congress has provided for the maintenance
of Indian schools, and has also made late
provision that the Indians who have taken
lands in severalty shall still have the
benefit of these schools. But they made
no provisions for the superintendent OF
these schools to take children without the
recognizes the rights of a father to the
custody of child. The father is the nat
ural guardian of child, whether he be an
Indian or a white man An Indian has
the same love and affection; the society of
his child is as dear to him as white faith
er's. In this case it will be great oppres-
sion to take the boy from his father. even
though it be best for the boy in the end.
There is no law by which the boy can be
taLan from his father or by which he can
be retained in school after he is there.
Therefore the custody Of the boy is given
to the father and ne is discharged from
the schools
This decision becomes a very important
one when it is remembered that one-half
of the scholars in all the Indian schools |
are there without their parents conse mt.
A general rush will probably now be |
made by the Indians 70 take these children |
home and congress will have to make some |
provision TO retain the scholars or the |
schools will soon be empty.