The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-12
1t Ell Reno, will be Governor seay's pri-

at FL Reno, will be Governor Seay's pri
! vate secretary.
6. II. Ross of Saltwater belonged to the
same regiment with Senators PETER anC
Perkins of Kansas,
In Oklahoma the governorship is re
| garded as the stepping stone next TO tbs
! United States senate.
Governor Seay's full name is Abran
/ Jefferson Seay. He is called jeff among
his intimate friends.
There is only one paper in the territory
which is not satisfied with the appoint
ment of Governor Seay.
The Oklahoma City Gazette thinks state
hood would double the value Of property
| in Oklahoma within thirty days.
! Horace Speed has received instructions
from Washington to push the perjury
cases, but he didn't need the instructions.
| Secretary Noble has asked congress tC
appropriate Sl5, 600 to complete the allot-
ment of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
lands.
The red man is pretty shrewd. There is
only one kind of white man that be can't
| occasionally razze dazzle, and that is the
| pioneer and trader.
The Choctaw construction train nc
! longer carries passengers between FL Reno
and Oklahoma City. as it is constantly
| needed in track-laying.
The little town of Moore want a physi-
clan, but no doctor wants the job unless
the people will give him guarantee that
they will get sick occasionally.
The modern Indian does not dream of
Happy hunting grounds" His IDEA of
heaven is where the vegetation is all to-
bacco plant and rivers flow forty rod rot
gut"
Judge Seay desires to remain on the
bench until he can dispose of forty or fifty
Cases which he now holds under advise
ment. Otherwise the cases will have to
be argued over again.
Jake Admire: One or two more such
cracks as the Governor Seay business, ana
the two Oklahoma delegates to the Rrpub-
hcan national convention will vote for
Hon. Benjamin Harrison.
Judge Foster Of Guthrie was the first
man in Oklahoma to agitate the state
hood question. He did so in the shape Of
a bill calling constitutional convention,
which he introduced into the council
During the month of December, 1890,
eleven carloads of lumber We're received in
Norman. During the same month in 1891.
twenty-eight carloads were received
That's a good indication were of how Nor
man Is growing.
January 81 is the last day of grace on the
payment of taxes After that date II pen
atty will be added of per cent month
for the first three months, 2 per cent a
month for the second three months, and
per cent a month thereafter.
There is a mound or butte in the south
ern part of the Arapahoe reservation
which the Indians believe to be haunted.
1t covers an acre of ground and rises abb
ruptly to the height of hundred foet,
says the Times-J ournaL Surrounding the
hill is turret of stone, and resting on the
turret is huge boulder which, from some
points OF view, takes the form robed
man. 1t takes but a slight stretch Of the
Indians fancy to people the entire mound
with ghosts, with the big boulder the
medicine man of the spectral tribe. The
Indians will hot take allotments within
five miles of the mound, and nothing short
of serious accident will detain them near
it after the sun goes down.