The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

down on the papers OF Oklahoma
The police Judge of Oklahoma City gets
$500 a year, according to the journal.
Many colored men are said to be buying
out white homesteaders In the Oklahoma
Theodore Merschaert. the new Catholic
Bishop of the Indian Territory, will reside
at Guthrie.
A Guthrie man threatens to emigrate
unless the fiddlers OF that town learn
some new tunes.
The Guthrie News thinks the marriage
license business is going 70 PICK up IN
Oklahoma this fall.
The farmers in the vicinity of Crescent
CITY have banded together and Will oulld
big granary TO hold their wheat. That's
business.
People who attend the camp meeting at
Oklahoma City should remember that
there are no sooners in religion. You can't
get there too quick.
The secretary of the interior has turned
the intruder question entirely over TO
Agent Bennett with orders to use his best
Judgment in the continuation OF the eject
ments. This ends the war, as Agent Ben
nett has always boen opposed TO EJECT
ments.
A small colored boy ran away from
home in Oklahoma, stole a horse from To-
peka, was arrested, tried and sent to the
reform school until he becomes OF age
When he was sentenced the boy remarked
that he had received what he wanted, ana
that he had done the stealing with the IN
tention of getting to the school
Oklahoma Times-J ournal: It Is now
quite certain that the new lands VIII not
open before October lst, and unless the
department at Washington is pressed TO
Htr-Orl- II ha still later In
the season before it is proclaimed open.
Congressman Harvey Is doing all IN ms
power to get all the new lands opened
early in the fall so that the new settlers
NAV have time to prepare for winter, ana
the business men OF this city should take
the matter in hand and assist. II Judge
Harvey can show that there is az urgent
demand for the Immediate opening OF the
new lands the secretary of the interior
will doubtless take the work up at once
and soon have the office work completed.
But unless it can be and Is shown that
there is an urgent demand for it the work
is apt to be left until the clerks return
from their summer vacations.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of horses
and mules have been sold by one firm,
that of E. f. Mitchell & Co., to the Z. ana
A. Indians during the past three months,
saws the FL Reno Eagle The Indians lived
cept two and these would have done so had
they received as much money as they eX-
pected to- Each had bought team OF
mules and not having been paid as much
as they expected TO get, each returned one
mule. Most of this stock, together Win
wagons and harness, were sold on time De-
fore the Indians received any of the pay
for their lands and the result of the trans
action, which is now about completed,
speaks well for Mr.. MithelPs management
and the honesty of the Indians. The
chances(0 taken by Mr.. Mitchell were
marvellous to behold and the honesty OF
the Indians, in this particular instance, Is
the talk OF the day.
Judge Harvey tells pretty good joke on
himself and Postmaster HickoX, OF ri
Reno. While he was at Ell Reno last wee
visiting, he and Mr.. Hickox drove out to
the allotting camps in the Cheyenne and
| Arapahoe reservation. 1t grew quite dark
before they reached the vicinity of Fort
Reno on their return home, and they got
out of the travelled road. The judge got
out of the buggy to find the trail again,
| and after working back and forth over the
| level valley for quarter of an hour be
| struck well-beaten road. Supposlng, OF
| course, that it could be no other than a
road leading to FL Reno or the fort, the
| horses were got into the road, the Judge
again took his place in the buggy and they
started on their way rejoicing over theli
| good luck After driving a half hour the
| road began to look quite familiar even 10
! Judge Harvey, who was all entire stranger
! there. Finally Hickox got out OF the
| buggy and began careful examination OF
the road, when he discovered that they
were driving round and round on the
| Indian race track.
Within the past two weeks number OF
l. LII Ia init rod
! States district courts of FL Reno, King
| fisher and Beaver counties, alleging tres
! pass of cattle upon those portions OF the
! Cherokee strip and the Cheyenne and
| Arapahoe reservations that are attached
| to the above court districts. The com
| plants have been filed by w. ID. Rodaen,
| Of this city, and the damages alleged
amount to $40, 600, or 81 for each head OF
! cattle. Half of these damages 90 TO the
| informant and the other to the Indians
| The complaints are filed in behalf of the
| government and the cases will be tried al
| the September and October terms of the
| courts of the various districts. These suits
| have been brought against ID. X. FAINT
Clay & Forest, doyle & Co. Wagner &
| Co., j. Y. Andrews, Wilson Bros. Perry
! & Co, and the Messrs. AddingtOn and
| Sugs An old section Of the United States
| law provides that when any individual Oh
corporation shall craze cattle on Indian
| lands without authority, he or 1t shall be
| liable to a fine of 81 per head for all cattle
50 grazed, one-half of the fine TO go to the
person informing aud the other half to the
| Indian tribe owning the lands.
J. D. Boggs writing to the Medicine
| Lodge Index has this to say in reference tC
! educating the Cheyenne Indians: The
memory of the Cheyenne is truly wonder
| full 1t is almost impossible for the teach
| IN Ia thpr1 TpaH GfnlV their les
| sons over more than once, but when they
come up to recite they have It all memOr
! lied aud it is there indeliblY But wheL
| the education is complete the scholar Is 10
! better than the iliiterate savage, for tho
| education of the dusky scholar IS Lard
| aside. and all the accoutrements, aud tht
! breech-clOut and blanket are again don
ned, and they clip hair no more.
| have formed the acquaintance Of q
! few Cheyennes that are truly brilliant
/ in intellect and one especially shall
/ ALWAYS remember for his wonderful reel
/ tation of Poe's Raven a few evenings
| ago. I had known this scamp FOR some
| time and il was not until he told me last
evening that Lord TenuysOn's To Sleep
was brainless rattle that / knew he could
/ speak English He is thoroughly prof
| Gent in all ancient and modern history
| and takes a deep interest IN the political
! swaying Of the world generally and is con
versant with all the standard works o
/ the philosophers, poets and historians, but
/ last spring at the ghost dance be lad
/ twenty-four silver rings inserted IN his
/ ears.
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
and So the Fight Ended
1 And John G.
| .r,--,5 -. 80 ,.af-y,-, ore Alloy Nc.