The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Monday. Judge Burford presiding.
f. T. Cook, formerly of Oklahoma City,
has purchased the Cloud Chief Herald.
The jury in the Terrill trial is composed
of nine Peoples party men,, two Democrats
and one Republican.
The negroes of North Kingfsher have
employed an sattorney aud will ask Judge
Burford for mandamus to compel the
school board to admit their children to the
schools.
The Forest Park Electric Street Rail
way company asks the city of Guthrie fol
a twenty years. franchise on the streets
and alleys of that city. The council is de-
batting the ACCESSIBILITY of granting the
| same.
Lots of folks are waiting around Minco
for the opening of the Wichita reserya
ton. The Minstrel says if no strings
break it will pop wide open in March next.
We pulled too hard on the harness last
spring and broke a ting.
The Ministerial association of this Guth-
RE district will be held at Kingflsher on
Oct. IL, u and ID. An interesting program
has been arranged for the occasion, and
the attendance promises to be large On
| Wednesday evening, Oct. II, there will be
temperance mass meeting.
1t is said that the man who sent the dis
patch from Deming. n. NJ, announcing
the capture of the Daltons was not Deputy
| Marshal Williams as was first supposed,
but member of the Dalton gang. Mar
shall Williams has not been seen or heard
| from since he went to New Mexico and
grave fears are expressed for his safety.
The Minco Minstrel says the Missouri
ans are about to take the country over this
way, A delegation was here last Satur-
day and went on out to county H; this
week we hear Of a colony coming iii few
days, and one evening OF this week two
Missourians dropped in on their return
from trip out west, but we failed to see
them. Missouri is coming to the front
now in good style.
As the meaning of the word Oklahoma
is now going the rounds we notice the fol-
lowing explanation by John G. Reid in
the Mid Continent, which will no doubt
be read with interest by those interested
in the subject:
Inotice in your correspondence a letter
from J. B. North, Kingfisher, o. T., which
opens with mistake, am sure, that
should be corrected. He says: "The word
Oklahoma, in the Indian language, means
beautiful land" Now resident Of Ok
lahoma ought to know, and whoever has
the audacity to correct him, should be
very sure of his ground The son of onesof
the old missionaries to the Choctaws, N.Y.
self as familiar with the tongue up to six
- wit ha NJ
may be pardoned for differing from your
correspondent. l have always taken the
word to be Choctaw, and meaning, as 1T
certainly does precisely in Choctaw, Red
People" One of the elders in the church
where l first professed Christ twenty-six
years ago, was one 'Sh'kopahoma,' and we
all understood his name to mean Red
Feather The Red river bounding the
Choctaw nation on the south, was always
BOX Homa' l turn to my Choctaw
hymnbook, and read what once sung,
under the English title OF Christ Loves
His People,"
Chihowa okchaya ahli,
Uba ish binili ma.
Chin okla puta hullot
1sh apeiahalchaSke.
Which very freely translated is:
Oh, living and true God,
Seated on high,
Thy people whom Thou lowest
Raise to Thee their cry.
Again, in verse second, we sang:
Chi holtopa Chisus NUT,
Okla noma huliot.
Thy dear Tor holyl Jesus,
Loves all his people still
In Matthew 81, where We read that the
"multitudes" were gathered unto him, the
Choctaw has it "oklo." ''the people. "
Psalm I, Ill, ''praise him all We people,
is rendered in the Choctaw psalter, Okla
puta noma kut hush aiokapahanchaske."
1 might easily multiply proofs. But, what
ever the source OF ]. B. North's inforn1a-
ton or the correctness of his statement,
the fact remains that okla homa" is, by a
singular coincidence, also a Choctaw
word, and signifies literally "ths red
people" whose principal possession OF the
territory would most naturally suggest
the name which would commemorate the
fact. Further, unless my memory IL
greatly at fault, years ago there was