The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Hennessey claims to ship more grain
than any other town in the territory.
Probate Judge Workman of county D
has proved up the townsite of Faloga.
Another newspaper man has been nom
mated for office. This time it is G. II.
Allen of Okarche.
According to the census of 1890, there
were 2449, 2293 Indians in the United States
and 80, 567 in Alaska.
Tecumseh will have separate schools,
the board having rented a building aud
hired colored teacher for the colored
children.
The fall meeting of Chickasaw Presby-
terry of the Presbyterian church meets
next week at Ell Reno, opening Tuesday
night with sermon by the retiring moder-
ator, Rev. S. p. Myers of Saltwater.
The water works Mt Kingsfsher PROPOSE
tion carried by a vote of 225 to SO. The
Free Press says work will be commenced at
once and within ninety days from ratifica-
ton of contract our water works will be
running.
Last Sunday night, as Charles Beaver. q
deputy marshal and Indian police, was
asleep in his camp in the Creek country,
an unknown Indian rode up and shot him
through the right side. the ball coming
out near the spine. Beaver WAS brought
to Shawnee Mission, where his wounds
were dressed. AT present it is thought he
will recover
On the night of the 9Th inst. the post
Office at Mckinley, sixteen and one half
Ic;a k~oH
and stamps, money and cards were taken.
In the postoffice building was also stock
of groceries, and the robber took a goodly
share of them. After diligent search "a
portion of the goods were found secreeted
in "a baystack on the farm Of negro
named Howard, who after a hard tussle
was captured and in default of $500 bail
languishes i'll Jail.
Walter Pain met with a sad loss last
Tuesday noon, by having his team burned
to death in his fathers barn In the south
part of Hennessy. Just at noon, while
most of the people were at dinner. the fire
alarm was souned, and on investigation it
was found that the barn of j. d. Pain was
on fire. 1t seems, says the Clipper, that
some one had thrown a cigar stub into
pile of hay at the north end OF the barn or
else had been smoking about there and set
the hay on fire. The barn was full of hay
and feed, and everything being as dry
finder, in a very short time the barn was
wrapped in flames. Two fiue horses,
valued at Eve hundred dollars, We're
burned aud considerable amount Of feed
destroyed.
In striking refutation of the wretched
theory that the Indian is intractabie TO
the habits. practice, and restraints of
civilization is Carlos MontaZuma, agency
physician at White Rock, New. DR.. Montn-
yuma is a full blooded Apache. who
twenty years ago arrived in Chicago from
Arizona, as unpromising as any OF his peo-
pie, and began studies that, earnestly pur-
sued, led him through the Illinois uni
versity and secured to him degree of the
Chicago Medical college. The Apsches
are believed 10 be the most savage, relent-
less, and defiant Of American Indians, but
the Western Shoshone agency has brilliant
proof OF the power Of education TO trans
form them into valuable citizens. DR..
declares: THE Indian ques-
ton will cease 10 be problem when the
enforces the compulsory edu /
cation of the Indian-not on reservations
or near them, but among civilized CON- |
munities.