The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-13

OkLAHoaIA OUTLINES.

Payne county sends memorial to tbs
legislature praying for the enactment Of {
stringent prohibitory liquor law.
The man TaIton, arrested at Purcell
some ago for a brutal murder at Clare
more. has been tried and convicted OF The
crime and sentenced 10 be hung
H. L. White. the new county surveyor o.
Logan county, had MS hou4= burnt dow
tea miles southeast OF Guthrie last Thurs.
! day. II can2ht afire from the stove.
Purcell Register: Judge Bryant admit
ted J. W. Hooker. ". E Hooker and j. f
Martin, charged with killing ". ". Jolly
TO bail J. w Hooker in the sum OF s..
jG0, w L. Hooker $3.50, aud J, l. Mar
tin, 1900. which was giveo. The case i:
set for The April term of court.
! The Santa Fe railroad company has
issued orders aud official bulletins saying
! they Will give one fare rate from Denver
/ ST. Louis. Kansas City, Galveston and all
! intermediate points to Guthrie on account
! OF the big strip convention to be held IN
/ Guthrie on the 18th. These special rates
will apply on the entire Frisco aud Gull
! lines and the Santa Ie and its branches.
| 1t is possible that congress may forestall
| the convention by passing the strip pur-
chase bill before that time
Guthrie Capital: A charter has been
applied for by the Fort Smith, Guthrie
and Western Railway company The in
corporators are @. Fl. Healy and S 3
Weir of Beaver county, aud several elst-
ern capitalists The charter recites that
the name of the corporation shall be the
Fort Smith, Guthrie and Western Railway
company; that the purpose for which the
corporation is formed is to construct,
maintain and operate a standard guage
railway, commencing at a point near to
and opposite Fort Smith, Ark, in the
Indian territory, thence northwesterly
through county A, or near Chandler, into
Logan county, passing through or near
Guthrie to kingfsher county, near King
fisher, thence through county c into
county d, near Cautonment, thence
along or near the North Fork of the
Canadian river, through the Cherokee
outlet, to Beaver county, thence westerly
along Or near the Beaver river 70 the line
of New Mexico.
The following is an extract from Agent
Bennett's forthcoming report to the de-
partment:
Indian courts have been baked in the
enforcement of the laws against their own
citizens, Indian executive officers have
been forced to defend damage suits brought
in the United States Court by non-citiZens
who have connived with citizens to escape
the operation of Indian laws and again
the diversity in the rulings of the several
United States courts upon questions OF
law governing affairs in the Indian cOuu-
try have prove to be not only q serious am
noyance but positive injury. A few of
these entanglements exist without cause;
many more would nos exist were the eX-
elusive original jurisdiction, both civil
ana criminal, vested in the United States
court for the Indian Territory, and 10 this
end congress ought to take early action
Yet perfection in the judicial system can
not be reached until citizens and non-citi-
Zeus alike are protected by Il law to which
all are alike arnenable This will only be
when the Indians recognise in statehood
the highest form o! self-goyernment; when
they discard the idea that the federal
government is a foreign power to which
their interests cannot be entrusted without
surrender of the right of seif-gDyern-
ment guaranteed them III their treaties;
when they throw OF the yoke of guardian
ship which they have so long outgrown,
and in the halls of state and congress,
through Their own representatives. take "a
part III tne enactment oL Tue laws govern
ing their interests. These Indians cannot
of their own volition pass from their po-
sition of dependency To which the general
government has subjected them so long.
to the rights OF citizenship. IL therefore
depends upon congress TO furnish such
legislative assistance as is needed TO effect
he transition. They should not be sub
jected to department. restraint, but should
be allowed 10 asseme the responsibilities
os citizenship as rapidly rs possible. Any
legislation to that end should be gradual,
but persistent, keeping the purpose con-
stantly ia view"