The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-07
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Santa Fe night train now stops at
Noble.
The police of Guthrie are out in smart
new uniforms.
Meetings of taxpayers are quite common
over the territory.
The snow on Jan. l extended into the
Chickasaw nation.
Bill Hackney has gone to Washington in
the interest of the Santa Fe railroad
A carload of colored people from Ala
bama reached Oklahoma via Santa Fe
Tuesday.
The Indian conference of the NJ. +.
church meets at Norman today, Bishop
Newman presiding.
Governor Seay is at present in attend
ance at the supreme court at Guthrie,
which convened Tuesday.
Mr. Mccoy, who was spoken of as a
likely governor for Oklahoma, got the
prime ministership to Liberia.
The man who started that canard that
Governor Steele was to return must feel
mighty small about this time.
The Oklahoma City Gazette prophesies
that the Sam Paul murder will be the
leading argument for statehood.
Ii he has a hole the man who always
claimed that the new governor would be
an Indiana man had better get into 1t.
Governor Seay will now be forced to see
how many men in the territory would
make him an excellent private secretary.
The Cherokee Indians are at last coming
to their senses. They have ratified the
agreement of the commission TO sell the
strip.
Now if the Democratic congressman are
not too tight with their purse strings the
Cherokee strip will be opened this spring,
sure.
On an average, the prisoners at Okla
homa City try to break Jail about once
week Another attempt was made last
week.
The United States offers 500 reward for
the capture of Captain Wiley, murderer
of George Thornton, and the same for a.
Rogers, the slayer of Lee Taylor
1t is becoming realized in Oklahoma
that perjury Is a crime. -Four years at
hard labor in a penitentiary Is no joke. 4
man must not lie in an Oklahoma court.
John Murphy, who was convicted Of
perjury at Oklahoma City, and George
Fisher were each sentenced 70 four years
at hard labor in the Columbus, o., peni-
Tertiary.
The first iatimation Governor Seay had
of the appointment was congratulstory
telegram from a G. Scott, his chief oppo-
nent. \. c. Scott knows how 70 do
thing neatly.
Ex-Governor Smallvood Of the Cboctsw
nation, who recently died AZ the age OF g.
during the war was a chaplain IN the Con-
federate service. He had held Office among
the Choctaws since the age cf IS.
One Indictment was found By the grand
Jury at Oklahoma City for perjury in con
nection with the enfry q the new lands.
It Is against Mrs. Sadie Woodruff in a con
test filed for land adjoining Tecunssh.
The Oklahoma City amateur opera com
pany met with such sUceess IN the recent
production % Chimes az Normandy.
that they viii reproduce IL AZ Norman.
Norman aud Normandy are pretty near
alike.
The severe penalties beiaS attached ia
Oklahoma for perjury may appear, a. arzt
glance, nothing less than cruei. but *
must BE- Remembered that perjury as
trade IN OklAhoEna courts must bs broken
up. or all justice snd law becomes farce.
oklahoma T5mss-Journ2l: Oklahoma
people realize that the appointment Of Ar.
Perkins a. senator IS a good thlng for tie
territorv. In h.na We viii have "a friend
~ court worth having The mass meet
iaE saturday night se1t him the following
message 81 cougratn3stsou. To Senator
Perktu.. Topeka. Kan: TIE c.tIzsss q OK
lzbona CIsy. IN mass meeting essen biesl.
extend hearty con Erafulat80us On yogr zp-
poiutrueut-
TIE Rigorous measures of tie 0klaho-Gs
courts sgaiass peE5ursrs, while & nasy
work = hardship On some victim who j. 20
guIisIev than another. WHO goes ua.de;ect-
I'd. j. the only efficient rszthod e breaking
up uefari0us cassaga. The oozsEt mus.
h~ve resDees from TIE witness CT tbErg -
- justice a. a. AID GEaiE ~ CosFG t-a-s