The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma is 2-year-old, and a daisy.
The townsite board has been ordered tc
Reno City.
Guthrie's cotton gin will be ready for
work, July 1.
Frank Greer thinks that too much ma
chlnery is ruin to farmers
And now looking back over two years,
did Joe ever find his mule?
Guthrie ''sides in" with Ell Reno, against
kingfisher and Oklahoma City.
An Usage Indian was in Saltwater last
week with ''Caw-tsaasinka" for name.
The Oklahoma papers did not publish
anything Wednesday. 1t was the sacred
twenty second.
Oklahoma, when it comes to be a state,
, will want to send Judge Green to the
United States senate.
Judge Green has declared Cord v Diehl
register of deeds The case will be taken
to the supreme court.
The Saltwater Jail is only twelve by
fourteen feet, but as high as twelve pris
oners have slept in it in one night.
The Hennessey Clipper says there will
be ons hundred binders and headers go
out to the farmers from Hennessey this
summer.
the great recent influx of Republican
statesmen is solely owing to the probable
location of the new county seats.
A card has been sent to each one of the
expectant newspapers visitors asking if he
desires the saloons closed during his visit
at Oklahoma City. This is funny.
Arkansas City Dispatch: A man from
Guthrie was in town today to get legal
advice about suing for divorce from his
wife on the grounds that she smokes too
many cigars. He says he wouldn't mind
her smoking reasonable amount, four or
five day but when she goes in excess it
mars his domestic felicity. The man is
not to blame. Smoking is almost as bad
as chewing gum.
Judge Green Tuesday passed on the mo-
ton to admit the Terrils TO bail. He de-
clared that they were not entitled to bail.
1t is said the Terrills did some tall swear
ing when they heard the verdict. They
raved like pirates at the court and the
people who would keep them locked up
when they had pressing business that de-
manded their attention.
Payne Hawk: Judge Peter Perrier. of
the Usage nation has been in this city all
week attending court. and from him we
ELECTED few facts which will no doubt be
of interest to our readers. Every member
of that tribe, old or young, is worth S35,-
900 and four sections of land besides what
personal property they may accumulate.
The money they receive from Cattlemen
goes into the treasury, and every white
man in the nation has TO pay 81 per month |
for his permit to stay, and he can only |
stay ten days without a permit. this also !
goes into the treasury, and thus they pay |
the expenses of the government. They |
have no Jail nor penitentiary, and the !
judge gave as a reason for this that they |
to frir nm hal
in various ways A murderer is tied to /
tree and shot by twelve men; for man |
slaughter one hundred ticks upon the bare |
back is the punishment All cases be
tween members of the tribe are settled |
there in their own courts. all cases be-
tween members of different tribes or an
Indian and n white man are tried here at |
Saltwater in the district court. A negro |
will not be granted permit to stay in the
nation, and in all the Usage country there
is but one negro. and he Is allowed TO stay
on account OF having displayed great
bravery at one time in rescuing his mas
ter. He is known as old Albert and is
nearly 100 years Old.