The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Oklahoma is full of Queens of the NJ

Oklahoma is full of Queens of the May.
FL Reno is getting twenty-ton ice
plant.
The organization of the territorial mill
tia has been begun.
Some people in Oklahoma think the Ter
rllls will hang, surely.
The five civilized tribes are making an
organized move against Intruders.
The Indian agent will pass over $50, 900
to the Sac and Fox Indians, this week.
The assessor in Oklahoma at this time
should be man with a great big heart as
well as sharp eyes.
There isn't going to be any knees worn
out OF trousers in praying for rain this
summer III Oklahoma.
There is rumor that the Oklahoma ed
itors will charter car to go to Denver.
That sounds dreadfully fishy.
Nancy Harlan, Cherokee, at Table
quah, Is 81 and does work for seven in the
family and reads and sews without
glasses.
Some fellow roasts Purcell in Texas
paper. He says that half the population
are marshals and the other half con-
stables.
Sam Paul's case at Paris in. which he
was mol pressed by the prosecuting attor-
ney'S instructions.
Einita has the honor of being the only
place in the Indian territory that has ever
had q fair. But it Will have to relinquish
that fame after this fall.
There is such thing as wearing news
item out. The Canadian river has got on
buster" so often that the papers don't
mention 1t any longer.
The Oklahoma papers ought not to run
down Kansas. What is good for Kansas
is good for Oklahoma. When one fails
the other can not prosper.
The man who left Oklahoma last fall
will be back this summer to see the fine
fields and will want to borrow money TO
hire strong man to kick him.
The poets will have to fix it up some
way, so that there can be two kingdoms
in Oklahoma this year, as both cotton and
corn are going to be kings.
When Jay Gould said that South Neal
lister would be the metropolis of the ter
ritory he made every town in Oklahoma
his enemy from Orlando to Lexington.
What is the matter with Thompson of
the Guthrie News? He says: Boys and
dupes only want to marry beautiful
women" Grover Cleveland is dupe,
tQen.
The Guthrie land office, according to in
structious from the interior department,
is fast closing up the cases on hand and
clearing its slate. 1t will positively wind
up all the contests by June 30.
An oddly in the line of religion is
Holiness revival conducted in sod school
house one mile north of Columbia by
three women preachers They are attract
ing large crowds, holding services every
night.
Purcell Register: There is kicking at
vigorous rate among the adopted white
citizens of the Choctaw nation over the
bill passed by the council providing for
the distribution of the money to be re-
ceived from the United States for the
leased lands. A man or woman with only
the faintest trace of Choctaw blood gets a
pro rate of the money, but the white man
who has married an Indian cannot get a
cent There is also some dissatisfaction
over the appropriations made by
the council to pay expenses Of the commits
sioners that will go TO Washington to
close up the trade, $4,000 having been set
aside for that purpose, which the kickers
claim is quite a large sum for SIX persons
to eXpend in the time in which the matter
should be concluded. They say that the
Choctaw statesmen are not given to close
figuring anyway, as just before adjourn !
ment the council passed a bill appropri |
ating 81. 500 to meet the expenses OF the !
special session, when these expenses do I
not exceed 50 500