The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-10
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Oklahoma City greenhouse burnt
Monday. Loss, $500.
A great many of the wild turkeys shot
this year have white meat.
If you want to make Jake Admire mad
address him as colonel"
There hasn't been fist fight in Edmond
for month. This is good record
Oklahoma City will cease to be mill
tary post, by order of the secretary of war,
Marshal Grimes says that IN the strip
last summer he saw wolf run down a
deer.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
will scare away deer il white hunters are
around.
Judge Seay's name is pronounced "See"
You will want 20 know this, maybe, in a
day or two.
1t is good plan this time of year for the
Oklahoma farmer to rest up by blowing
fire guards.
Oklahoma is great country for statu
quo. That's what's the matter with the
governorship business now.
Judge Clark, Monday. appointed Captain
A. L. Jackson United States commits
sioner, vice A. c. Scott, resigned.
A. c. Scott says J. w. johnson of Okla
lahOma City will be the Democratic nomi-
nee for congressional delegate next year.
The Oklahoma papers are chuck full of
advertising. 1t was wise man who said:
by their newspapers We shall know
them"
Oklahoma is not worrying much about
A new governor. Governor Martin is a
home man, and that's what Oklahoma
asked for.
Somebody makes the astonishing declar-
alton that in the Indian nation the Indians
are more intelligent than the whites of
the same place.
\ non-citizen recently got judgment
against a sheriff of the Cherokee nation
He asked for SO, 500
The Creek council has passed law
prohibiting smoking during session time
and the Cherokee council has prohibited
the using of tobacco in the senate cham
bers.
Tom Stumbaugh of Edmond sees the
necessity of getting women to come to
Oklahoma. He announces that Okla
hOma air does not take the curl out of
bands.
Governor Jones, the head of the Choc-
taw nation, is pacific savage, clad in
store clothes, which look as if he donned
them with the aid of pitchfork He
wears stubby gray mustache. a porteut-
tous watch chain and diamond pin nest
ling in a sky-blue cravat He talks very
little English.
The various candidates for the execu-
tive chair are puzzled about ths rumor
that Governor Steele is to return, and are
wondering whether a vacation under any
other name would seem as delusive.
Oklahoma City Times-J ournal: The re-
moval of the troops stationed here. and
the abandonment Of the post adjoining
this city, may be stayed for a time, but the
contamination can be delayed only a few
months at most.
The Oklahoma CITY Times gives the fol-
lowing interesting article on the capture
of Willey's contederates. who killed Jack
Thornton. 1t viii repay reading:
Deputy Marshal Joe Mack came in from
the Sac and Fox agency last night bring
ing the news Of the capture by Deputy
Marshal John Jones and posse OF Sam
Lasley. one OF the murderers of George
Thornton, and three others of the gang,
viz: Cesar Jack, Alex Scott aud Peter
Hampden. He also reports a running
fight with Captain Wiley ADD one of his
companions, in which the latter's horse
was shot aud the man captured, but Wiley
got away. Jones and his posse, consisting
of Joe Mack, Ike Steele and Lon Poland,
have been in the Creek country for some
time on the trail of WiIlry's gang On
Thanksgiving they discovered their camp
about thirty-five miles northeast Of the
Sac and Fox agency. II was about 10
O'Clock In the morning when they first came
upon the camp and il was deserted
10y the outlaws bus they had left their
horses near by, 80 that the officers knew
their quarry could not be far away. Tax
ing possession OF the horses they awaited
the return OF the gang, and soon saw sam
Lasley coming down the side Of "a hiii
towards the camp. As he came into camp,
not thinking of danger, be WAS ordered 10