The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Secretary Martin is visiting in the east.
Jake Admire seems to be ''agin" state
hood.
FL Reno is fishing after a Kelley cure
! institute.
The Salvation Army recently decamped
| from Frisco on foot.
The Democratic territorial committee
meets at Guthrie today.
| Norman is getting ready for some start
! ling local divorce cases.
The Cheyenne country will open April 1,
but it will be no April fool.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians re-
ceived their annuity goods last week.
The worlds fair commissioners will
meet at FL Reno week from Friday.
The amount of mail matter at Norman
has almost doubled within the last year.
A Kansas Oklahoma base ball league is
to be formed at Arkansas City this month.
Just put pin here. Oklahoma is build
ing colleges and universities before Gala
bosses and jails.
According to Bee Guthrey of Saltwater,
the Italian weather of Oklahoma has
so5ered up again.
Frank Leslie's weekly of Jan. % con-
tains an excellent portrait of Governor
Seay and brief sketch of his life.
President Harrison has got his apology
from Chill, and he might as well appoint
Oklahoma's new judge without delay.
George +. Brown of FL Reno has been
chosen by the people of his town as one of
he oil IF ha
country.
The marketing of hay has just begun.
Several car loads day are now being
shipped. There are still thousands of tons
in the country.
The Oklahoma Standard. published at
Clayton, Payne county, after brief sus-
pension again comes to the front with Fl.
f. Sharp as editor.
The Kickapoo Indians speak Spanish.
Several people in Edmond also speak Span
ish, and the result is the town is a great
favorite with the Indians
In recent letter, the assistant secre-
tary OF the interior states that the cutting
Of timber on school land for any purpose
whatever is a violation of the law. Les
sees of school land should be careful in re-
gard to this, and should not lay them
selves liable to punishment.
Edmond Sun: Every farmer that planted
Kaffir corn last season is loud in his praise
of it, and viii double the acreage OF that
cereal the coming season. There is no
question but what il is one of the best
crops the farmers can raise for feeding
purposes. 1t is a sure CROP for it grows in
dry weather aud is one of the best that
can be planted on the sod.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: A difficulty /
of considerable magnitude is going TO be /
encountered in connection with the organ |
ization of the extreme western counties in I
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation, /
unless other legislation Is had They will 4
settle up slowly and we apprehend that /
two years, and possibly three, VIII elap-e 1
before all the land is taken. Until they f.
are sufficiently populated to be enabled to 4
support county organization, those 1
should be attached to organized
NJ. Kirwin Murray, who has just re-
turned from visit 70 the Pawnee, Otoe
and Missouri Indian tribes. reports that
the grip is fast killing the Indians of. The
Otoes only mum bered about $40 souls. and
rs many as sixteen died dnring the last
week These Indians generally bury their
dead by rolling the bodies up ia blankets
md then placing a rswhide on the outside
nd putting TIE body IN the top Of a tall
rec. The bodies generally remain there a
Tear or more and then fall 10 pieces The
bones are never gathered up, but are al
owed to remain there II not destroyed b.
animals.
The modes Of punishment among the
Cheyenne Indians = sometimes most
blocking, because q the radical departure
rom established moral laws and occasion
lily OF eveu the natural laws which govern
intercourse among The beasts q the field.
For instance. woman had been discov-
red violating certain law Twenty-Five
nen solemuiy deliberate upon the cbarac-
er 81 the punishment and conclude 81
.arh becoming the executloaer O. ths law,
.he sentence being that the same law
hou!e be violated twenty Eve more times
n the shortest spare o. tiEse possible. j;
Ices seem while such bsrbsrous Customs
,revaiI IN America. aBd in The heart a
lis great nation. thaf sse cAn p! afford 70
pare single miss ozary tor Agrsea or ans
.sheE foreign Couatrr
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