The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-12
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Otoe.
July II will be warm day in Okla
homa. The Republicans meet on that
| date.
There is quarrel in Roosmore county
seat of ''H, over the location Of the court
! house.
Flynn, Admire. A c. Scott and Harvey
are the entries for the delegate race for
congress
White Eagle has declared the war off
| As nigh, be expected he showed the
white feather.
S. L. Overstreet, the new register of The
! Guthrie land Office received his commits
sion on Thursday.
The man who used to make business
getting arrested for selling whisky to the
Indians is taking a vacation.
Governor Seay is seeking the opinion of
the Republicans in regard to the reconven-
ing of the Oklahoma legislature.
Governor Seay has been granted leave
of absence and an escort and will visit the
Indian Territory in the near future.
kingfsher Free Press: The condition
of the negroes who claim to be destitute is
unchanged. The agent who brought them
here should take them back to Tennessee
A Guthrie boy for joke on mis- mother
advertised over her name for a husband
The result is that the boy now has step
father to lam him if he cuts up any more
such capers.
The red, white and black ball game was
beaten at Kingfisher A smart aleck won
s. by betting an advertising bill on the
game. The Mexican concluded his game
wasn't SO sure.
Reports are current that great frauds
are being perpetrated by locators. Every
piece of land that is vacant, is being occu-
pied regardless of the fact that it has been
legally entered at the land office.
The Republican county convention of
Logan county for the selection of dele
gates to the congressional convention will
be held on May "a The delegates will be
instructed for Dennis Flynn, of course.
FL Reno Courier: Mrs. David failed to
get divorce yesterday from her husband
The facts brought out in regard to her
flirting propensites and correspondence
with a single man had something to do
with the denial of her petition. She was
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allowed monthly payment from Mr.
David for its support
The United States man-of-war Concord
while stopping at Helena, Ark, on her
way to the Memphis bridge Inauguration,
caused great excitement among the ne
groes. No goveSnment cruiser had been
so far up the Mississippi river since the
war, and the story was widely circulated
among the credulous darkies that the YES
sci had been sent to take them all to Okla
homa.
Who is the Brigader General Charles
Sherman Parrish of Orlando? He writes
in warlike letter to the governor asking
for fifty mounted men. equipped with
arms and rations to pursue the horse
thieves OF course, the governor has no
troops under his command He has also
written letter to the EAGLE charging the
Cherokee commission with boodling. Come
out General Parrish, and identify your
self.
One day this week while S. W. Frost, a
stockman of DOugherty, was exploring an
unfrequented locality of the Arbuckle
mountains, about six miles west of that
place he found an old fertilization made of
huge powders rolled together so as to
enclose a space os about fifteen feet in
diameter inside, and while looking about
he discovered an old musket marked ~,
S." When he picked it up the woodwork
under the barrel fell to pieces. The lock
was gone and Mr. Frost thinks the old
gun must have been there fifty or sixty
years.
Arkansas City Dispatch: Mr.. Campbell
who came back from the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country few days ago says
there was gaeat deal of crooked work
done in allotting those lands and in open
ing them to settlement. a squaw man in
formed him that it was a common thing
for the Indians to wrap up cats and dogs
in blankets to represent pappooseS and
that the allotting agents knowingly allot-
ted lands to these bogus babies. He says,
too, that men with money had no diff
Guilty in passing the soldiers and getting
into that country before the time fixed by
the presidents proclamation.
The Hennessey Clipper wants law en-
acted with provision, that no person.
unless he be cattle baron or a deputy
United States marshal who has been on
the strip since the French made their voy-
age up the Canadian river, should be al
lowed to enter upon, occupy or acquire
title TO any lands therein, except enough
thereof tor burial purposes, and further
provision provisO that his heirs should not
be allowed to remain therein, and that
should he or his heirs buy, after the prop
erty has been decided, and the grave and
fearful charge of soonerism can be proven,
they should be disposed and the lands
revert back to a cattle king or Cherokee
Indian"
Beaver Advo cate: A person not familiar
with the prairies cannot conceive what "A
misfortune it is to be lost thereon, aud
at this season of the year. A
man lost on the prairie is the most com
pletely lost man in the world. II he lose |
his bearings on cloudy day, there is no |
landmark on the almost interminabe |
stretch of level expanse 10 aid him in de- |
termining the points of the compass-not |
a hill. tree or habitation. II IS far worse |
than to De lost in the timber, for there be 1
can at least find shelter and fuel in abun- |
dance The safest way, when lost on these |
prairies is to travel until you strike 4
draw" then follow it down. Il will 1
eventually lead 20 water course, along 1
which person will not travel many miles |
before reaching hsbitation OF man.
Ever hear Governor Seay's version Of 1
how Silver Dick Bland beat him for 4
congress- inquired John CardwelI, OF 4
Guthrie. Ok, n ST. Louis There is 4
much larger Republican vote 10 BANDS I
district than is generally known, and the 4
only reason Republican haan't represent
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