The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-11
ghs aaeha DAILY Saturday z1orano zsebuary
United States marshal, and that i

United States marshal, and that is
| Growers
The Oklahoma legislature has memoir
| allied congress to pass an act allowing
| Indians who have taken sands in seVeralty
| to sell their allotments. While there is
| little prospect that such provision viii
| be made by congress this year, there can
| be little doubt that it will be done before
| many years eiapse.
| According 10 a Washington special the
| Choctaw Indians are temporarily in the
soup. so far as their g. GEO. G00is concerned.
The dispatch says: The last congress, as a
part of its Indian bill, gave the Choctaws
nearly So 600. coo for what was called their
equity in the Cheyenne and ATapahoe
lands, which were recently opened for
settlement The president signed the bill
because he would nave TO veto the whole
bill If he got at this part, but he told
Treasurer Foster not TO pay it. This cou-
gress he sent that item of the old bill back
and recommends it repeal The senate re-
fused TO do this. Then the deed from the
Choctaws to the United States was made
out and sent TO the president for bis ap-
prevail IL has been in his hands for
months. Today he sent 1t to Secretary
Noble. with objections. Harrison does
not intend to pay this money. He doesn't
think it a right claim, and the govern
ment is out of money, anyway, SO the
Choctaws will have to walt for Cleveland
to come IN, at least.
Oklahoma Press:-County Superinten-
dent of Schools Bollinger received letter
this morning from a ''tendertoot" school
ma'am living ia Washington, d. c., who
wants to come out here and ingraft into
our public school system eastern ideas as
to the manner of teaching young ideas
how to shoot The writer has been a
teacher in the public schools of Maryland,
but 'longs TO journey to the boUndiess
west and grow up with the country" as
she expressed it IN her letter. The Press
would inform the young lady that just at
present there seem to be more teachers
than pupils in Oklahoma, but if she has
any desire to own half interest in q
choice l60-acre farm there are plenty OF
fine young fellows holding down claims
who are longing for the genial and CHEEKY
companionship of young womauhood.
FL Reno Herald: The great curiosity Of
the age is now on exhibition three doors
east of the Canadian County bank on
Woodson street. 1t is a petritied man III
perfect shape and form and completely
stone like. 1t was found in a cave in the
Guadalupe mountains in New Mexico.
He was accidently found by q hunting
party who happened to see a form stand
ing at the mouth of the cave and prompt
ed by curiosity began search which re-
~ Z ~. q
man imbedded in the rock some 400 feet
back in the cave. Hs was chisled out
Mr.. Vivian, who is one of the commission
ers OF the worlds fair, has the body in
charge and is showing it in connection
with the gun until such time as it is need
ed to place with the collections for the
world fair. The body has the semblance
of being a white man but nobody knows
how it got there or how long it has been
there.
Evening Gazette: In the case of II. s.
Butler this morning the court, before en-
teriug sentence, maze the following sta.e-
ment: The party was arrested under an
ordinance OF this city, charged with forni-
cation. The statute of this territory makes
neither fornication nor adultery crime.
Therefore this is city case under the or
dinances and therefore civil case. | shall
fine the defendant 500 and $54.65 costs,
and order that he stand committed until
the fine and costs are paid, in the city Jail
This is an extraordinary decision, because
if it is a civil case the Judgment is civil
and the party defendant cannot be I'M
prsoned for debt. The statute gives the
city no authority for regulating or pun
ishing crimes. If the territory had failed
to punish murder the city council would
have possessed no authority to condemn it.