The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

/! A Norman man is building race track
near that city.
Guthrie has granted franchise for a
| telephone system.
The News wants the stumps cut out OF
the streets at Chandler.
| Duncan has a pressed brick machine
with capacity of 5000 per day.
The Terrall Times calls for bank, a
board of trade, mill and an elevator.
| Terrall wants another lumber yard at
/ thatpoint in order to have competition.
| The grand jury at Purcell returned 215
indictments, 155 of which were for gam
bling.
Messrs. Peel and Perkins say that the
| strip must open if they do have to rider
! through.
Kingfsher is after the ''pen" and will
not be satisfied with anything else unless
it be the capital.
The Wichita reservation will be opened
with the strip, as an amendment to that
effect is to be made in the senate.
A Young lady tried to commit suicide at
Oklahoma City by taking 240 grains of
arsenic, which proved to be TOO big dose
to be effective.
Miss White of Norman has been offered
lucrative position in the schools of Mon
tana, but thinks Cleveland county good
enough for her.
Paschal Fish, a Shawnee Indian 95 years
old, was frozen to death in the Choctaw
nation early this month. He was the old
est of the Shawnee tribe.
The bill appropriating 800 for the
purpose of indeXing the Oklahoma
statutes was killed in the house day or
two ago but perhaps will be resucitated.
1t provides that Hons J. L. Brown and r.
G.. Edwards of Oklahoma City shall do the
work.
Duncan Banner: A company is now
being formed for the purpose of erecting
5000 hotel at this place, and we
are assured by the promoters of this much
needed enterprise that stock enough has
already been spoken for to build the hotel
at once. The building will be of pressed
brick, sc feet front by so feet back, and TO
contain So rooms, and will probably be
located on Walnut street.
Chickasha Express: The Guthrie CORE
spondent of the Dallas News says the
Cheyenne Indians in Roger @ Mills coun-
tv have gone crazy again on the ghost
dance, and that they have assumed war
like attitude. In fact he reports that they
have killed one white man. We never
heard of such stuff as some OF the specials
from this country are giving to the world.
The Cheyenne Indians are glad they are
living with white people and are not
thinking of any trouble.
Professor w. w, Hutto of the agri-
cultural college writes the following letter
to the Home, Field and Forum: Farmers
in the vicinity of Saltwater, Payne county,
Ok, will do we'll to acquaint them
selves with a small shrub, having
nodding white flowers and growing
in low, sandy places, known as the
stag2er bush or stagger weed, Andromeda
Marina. 1t was not known that this weed
was to be found in this locality until re-
Gently, and the discovery of its presence
was as follows: A farmer, Mr. Fred kautz,
who lives few miles southeast OF Still
water, lost, during the month of Septem-
Der, 1891, ten head of horses. His neigh
bors lost horses al or about the same time,
and it was believed some one was poison
ing the animals. Mr.. kautz determined
to find out, if possible, whether or not the
animals had been poisoned. Taking from
an animal, which had been very healthy,
portions of the stomach, the liver, tie
lungs, the blood, the heart, the flesh from
the breast and the food found in the stom
ach and the intestines he boxed and sent
them to the chemist in the Kansas State
second box was sent a few
days later from another diseased animal.
These horses, in nearly every instance,
would act very much as animals do when
suffering from blind staggers. At times
they seemed 10 lose entire control Of the
body, would stagger backward aud
fall, but in n short time recover
and apparently be again in a
normal condition. Quite a year has
elapsed siuce the boxes were sent, but !
nothing came from them until last week, |
when Mr.. Kautz was informed that both !
and arsenic were present in |
variable quantities in the package. In the /
first, nine grains of arsenic were found, but !
the analysis was not satisfactory, due TO 4
the presence of alcohol in considerable 1
quantities, which had been given the animal I
While sick In the second, nineteen grains 4
of strychuine were found. The presence +
OF the leaves OF the bush in the food sent /
was evidence of the manner of obtaining /
the poison. The letter received by Mr.. 1
kautZ proceeded to describe the animal I
actions, which was a true description for 4
nearly all the cases. The letter further i
stated that the weed does not contain the /
poison until bitten by frost Tue action I
OF tine frost seems to produce the poison. /
The presence of this obnoxious weed need /
not annoy any one if q little precaution be /
taken. Do not cut grass for hay after
frost unless sure there j 10 stagger weed 4
on your moving ground Do not pasture
YOUR horses after frost, but feed good hay.