The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Kingfsher county has sown 100000 acres
to wheat.
Oklahoma City wants her principal
streets paved
j II. Hebard has severed his connection
with the Tecumseh Herald.
w. \. Mccartney of kingfsher wants
to be president of the council.
Kingtisher Democracy Is united upon
demanding that Virgil VI. Hobbs be the
next governor.
Mr. j. f. Safer has severed bis conneo-
ton with the Saltwater Gazette, and Mr..
J. w. Meats now controls the paper.
The principal of the Hennessey schools
has skipped to parts unknown, leaving
several merchants of that city TO mourn
over his departure.
Hon. William T. Reagan, who is well
known through the territory, is candi-
date for the appointment to the federal
judgeship of the territory.
Charley Gilkey and Robert Galbreath of
Edmond on Monday saw two timber or
gray wolves, but had 10 gun and had To
allow the wolves to depart IN peace.
The Indian payment will be divided up
this time. y part will be paid ut Darling
ton, the balance at Cantonementand oegar
colony. Darlington will probably, get
about So, 900 out of the 500, 600,
A meeting has been held at FL Reno for
the purpose of taking steps toward build
ing a railroad from that city to the Rocky
mountains under the name Of the Denver
and FL Reno.
j c. Mann of Garrett, Beaver county,
was found dead on the prairie near his
home a few days ago. From all appear
auces his team had ran away with him, III
fictiug fatal injuries.
Under Oklahoma law the eighty acres
upon which the house and other improve
ments have been placed cannot be mort
gagged. This is wise provision and should
be maintained. The other eighty can be
mortgaged, which III case of necessity will
tide one over.
A letter was picked up in the streets Of
FL Reno few days ago, written by young
fellow who had been there about four
months, to his father in Kansas. l. read
rs follows: Dear dad. almighty mean
men get office here; you had better come
down Immediately.
The ladies Of Duncan, down in the
Chickasaw nation. gave hound party
the other night. McMasters, OF the OKLA
homa Gazette. asks: Now, who in thun-
der, ever heard Of hound party before'
We have be,srd of parties being bounded I
but this new idea Is a rag shaker.
Those interested in the early history OF
the Cherokee Indians and their removal
from Georgia aud Tennessee viii read the
II --sl lot. Ia ~
Dalton, in the north Of Georgia, rs miles
south OF Chattanooga. Tenn. rich in war
memories, has other traditions OF a more
pleasant kind, and among them is one
about John Howard Payne. When the
Cherokees were corraiIed for expectation
from north Georgia and east Tennessee TO
what is now the Indian Territory, Payne
was one OF the whites 1t the frontier set
element of Cross Plains, loca. ell where
Dalton now stands. Many Of the Indians.
loath 10 leave the homes Of their CHI Fih0o1 /
aud Of their tribe for generations, tried
very ingenious met hOds ofdodgiag the Off
GERS. Payne several times shielded them
Com plant was made against hun, war
rant was issued. and he was arrested after
wards by Sheriff Underwood At the home
OF old John Ross hereditary chief Of the
Cherokees. whose log cabin stands IA the
now suburbs Of Chattanooga. Payne, ev-
identity with the thoughts Of the homeless
Indians in his mind, began 10 sing tile first
,tauza % his now world-fsned song. then
unpublished, "Houe, Sweet Home. Tie
pioneer sheriff stood as the words fell [
upon hi, ear What song IS THAR" ne /
asked, as the first verse ended. 'It il a
little composition Of my own. answered /
Payne sing me some m5re-siag AL q 4.
8H' exclaimed the tc5ut!eEsnag. Aud (
Payne did sing St with such spirit and ua-
der=-.,ndtuE that the s1eriTs feelings got I
tue better # BIN, aud re told Payne that .
ne could hep tie Indians - much - he f.
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