The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

is considered.
4 new lumber company has been organ
lied at Guthrie.
per at Tecumseh.
1t is unlawful in Oklahoma to kill deer
after January 81.
The Cheyenne Indians call the Christian
God 1.-The Bible man"
Has anybody received letter from ex-
Governor Steele since he left the territory
Fisher and Murphy, the perjurers, have
been found guilty by the supreme court.
The people in southern Oklahoma are
watching for blue birds, yiolets and spring
fever.
Delegates to the National Republican
convention will be selected at Oklahoma
City. March 2.
Edgar A. Sweet and j. c. Dean, promi-
nent lawyers of Oklahoma City, have
formed partnership.
The supreme court holds that the last
legislature created the Office Of register of
deeds by implication.
Everybody who was guest OF Governor
Seay's inaugural ball is now a member OF
the 1907 of Oklahoma.
John P. Jones of Hennessey is mentioned
as one of the delegates to the national Re
publican convention from Oklahoma.
In the new country to the east the six
months limit has expired and settlers are
coming in and taking possession of their
farms.
Secretary Martin is receiving a number
of fine compliments from the press for the
able manner in which he filed the inter
regnum.
F. Caruther., a missionary among
the Cheyenne Indians, says the ghost
dance is only a religious ceremony and a
sign of advancement.
There was another freight train wreck
near Seward on the Santa Fe the other
day This is the second at this place
within the last two months.
c. F. Parker, sheriff of County A, has
been arrested on a complaint filed by Cora
Carson, charging him with bastardy.
The sheriff claims it is an attempt at
blackmail, and proposes to fight it to the
bitter end None of his friends believe the
story.
Beaver Advocate: we hear some say
yep, going to the Cherokee strip when she
opens" Go, then. You will never be
missed here. and the strip will not be bene-
fitted by your arrival. You are too shift
less, my friend. 4 fortune is not made by
hitting" every new country but by estab-
fishing a residence and using the motto
root hog or die"
1attar from, Colonel Poru etatar that
the Greek delegates who are now in Wash
ington have stated to Secretary Noble that
their nation was anxious to sell large
slice off the western side of their reserva-
ton to the government. This strikes Sec
rotary Noble very favorabiy and by his
and through the energy
of Colonel Ross a commission will be APP
pointed at an early day to treat with the
Creeks for the land.
At the first election in Logan county,
Oklahoma, Miss Cora Diehl was elected
register on the Peoples ticket After the
election the point was raised by the oppo-
sition that the laws of the territory did
not provide for any such Office although it
was admitted that it was very necessary
office. The same question was then sprung
in the other counties, and the Logan
county case was put into court as q test
case. While it was pending the different
county clerks were required to do the re-
cording of deeds and such other work as
belonged to the registers office.
Monday the supreme court decided that
there was such an office and that Miss
Diehl should draw the fees for her full
term. This was the last decision rendered
before Judge Seay retired from the beach
to be sworn IN as governor.
Report of one Of the most horrible cases
of restitution and suffering on record
comes from the Pottowatomie reservation.
When the lands were opened II. V. Bur
nett and family, consisting of his wife and
three children and his brother, went into
the Pottowatomie from the Chickasaw
country, having come from southern Mis-
souri,. They secured a claim, but being
poor and without sufficient food or shelter
they suffered much. Finally they deter
mined to go to some town, and started in
a wagon, but being overtaken by a recent
blizzard took refuge in an old shed. Here
they were all taken with the grip and lay
without cover or fire for several days
When passers-by discovered them the
father WAS dead. The mother and children
were taken to farm house and every
thing possible done for them, but the
mother died in few minutes. The two |
older children, whose limbs and vitals were |
frozen, soon followed. The baby whom |
,he mother held to her breast and wrapped !
n her own clothes, still lives. The brother, |
who is a grown man, was not so badly !
rozen, and will live, but his reason is |
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