The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

! Tomorrow is the date Of the school fund
convention at Guthrie
There is creek in County A called Bell
cow. Why not cow-belli
A Beaver county man has seventeen
heads of cabbage on one stalk.
A herd of 900 cattle from New Mexico
passed through Beaver last week.
The Yukon Courier has changed hands
Hester McClintock is now editress.
Dennis Flynn thinks maybe the new
governor will be Fassett of New York.
A party of Saltwater people went coon
hunting last week andigot two 'possums.
Next spring, Guthrie and Oklahoma
City will begin to talk of street railways.
Oklahoma never grows tired of building
bridges. And it is good thing she does
not.
The Cheyenne Indians of Segar colony
sold /, 800 bushels of wheat at Minco the
other day.
There are several things missing in Ok
lahoma this year, and one of them is the
cry for aid.
1t has become so that it takes pretty
lucky hunting party to bring back more
than one deer.
The first thing you know the first baby
born in Oklahoma will be big enough to
send to school.
It begins to look like the trade in ther-
mometers was going to be good in Okla
homa this winter.
1t looks like trivial gmatter, but Okla
homa cannot nfford to sight its exhibition
at the worlds fair. d
The common trade between Northern
Oklahoma and Southern Kansas is sweet
potatoes for apples.
In Oklahoma corn brings five cents more
on the bushel in inland towns than in
towns on the railroad.
An Arkansas City Alliance paper is out
for Professor Hallock for senator on the
strength and size of his head.
Delegate Harvey has the softest snap in
the territory. He gets 5000 year for
three years and 1000 mileage.
The Kingfsher Free Press thinks that
'the resignation of Governor Steele at this
time is a misfortune to the territory"
Two Chickasaw toughs went into Lex
ington last week and INDUCED in the in
imitable sport Of shooting at the town"
Maybe it is to be an Indiana man and
the president will wait until after Thanks
giving so as not to spoil the day for Okla
homa people.
Society item in a Beaver paper: The
Clear creek maidens are in good cheer for
Perry Chilcott is at home again, and he
didn't bring that Kansas widow.
1t is fact that the clothes some Okla
homa people are wrapping aroond their
pumps to keep them from freezing are bet
ter clothes than they wore three years
ago.
II Democratic president should be
elected next time, there is something like
two hundred men in Oklahoma who are
Republicans now, who will prove that
they have been Democrats all their lives.
"The Cherokee Indians want to sell
their land" says Mr.. o. J. Hall, large
cattle grower in the Indian Territory,
land we must do something to satisfy
them. At present commissioners from
Washington are on the spot consulting
with the local council as to some arrange
ment of the ma6ter. The government has
offered several times what any people but
those with whom it has to deal would have
considered a very good price, but without
any result so far. While the Indians
possess the strip OF country they will cause
endless trouble TO the authorities, as well
as to the stockmen. For instance, new
law has been passed changing the date
when cattle from Texas and other quarters
can be sent in to Craze from the 18th OF
April to some time in March. This may
be good for the native cattle, but 1t viii
not be for others. The reason assigned FOR
this change is tha: disease IS produced
when the stock is put In 50 late in The
warm weather. do nos believe there Is
anything in the statement The Indians
wanted the change and Is bad 70 Be maca"