The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-03
is DRINKING BLOOD
STARTLING STORY IN REGARD TO
PROFESSOR HALLECK
report is Current in Oklahoma that He has
shipped for Cuba and in All Likelihood
is Right at the Head of the insurgents
Making All Sorts of Havoc Against the
Dreaded Despot of Spain-W While there
is Nothing Authentic, it is Too Much
Like the Professor to Disbelieve-G Cen
eral News of Oklahoma

Like the Professor TO DISSATISFACTION
eraI News of Oklahoma
Guthrie, o. T, Nov. 2.-(SpeciaL)-
Rather astounding news IS going over
the territory this week. II relates to
Professor E. L. Halleck. Professor
Halleck is one of the best known men
in Oklahoma. Years ago he was su-
perintendent Of public schools in Wich-
ita. After Oklahoma was opened he
represented the Wichita Eagle in Guth-
ire as its correspondent for years.
His figure is well known TO all Okla
Romans. Tall and square he is exceed
ingly nervous and his long and rather
scant beard is constantly shaken in his
own excitement
The news that touches on Professor
Halleck and that has caused the boys"
to open their eyes is the statement from
Oklahoma City that Professor Halleck
has gone to Cuba and Joined the insur-
gents. While no ground of authority
for this statement is given n is SO like
the professor that it would be sacrilege
to disbelieve it. The last heard of the
professor was from Galveston. Three
weeks ago, it is said, he took ship and
sailed for the isle that is grooming under
Cuban tyrrany.
Professor Halleck was a great man
for drilling school boys. In the schools
at Oklahoma City he had the children
so drilled that on the ringing Of an
alarm they would rise instantly and
march out in a little less than a sec
ond.
So that 1t is not hard matter for
the people Of Oklahoma to imagine the
fflrtr n< h. ~ n
lot of black-eyed and swarthy Cubans
climbing up the battlements and sock
ing il to the Spanish forces. In fact,
1t is no effort for the average Oklaho-
man to imag ine Professor Halleck, bare
headed, with his beard dripping gore,
and his mouth in full play dancing an
Irish jig on the heated carcass of Cen
eral Campos. The very image of the
professor jumping into a Spanish regi-
ment and then scedaddling back TO the
brush and crawling into a hollow log
is enough to give his old friends in
southern Kansas and Oklahoma con-
niption fit.
If it should turn out that Halleck is
in Cuba he will settle the matter def
nitely himself. For he is a great writ
er and it will not be long until the Eagle
or some other paper will receive long
letter from the professor telling how he
knocked the false teeth out of three or
four cross-eyed Don Quixotes.
Meanwhile other news comes from the
professor from Oak Park, near Chicago.
Recently his wife got a divorce from
him in Chicago with alimony. Now it
turns out that Mrs. Halleck has receiv
ed 5000, 900, left her by the death of an
uncle in Alabama
This is also rather hard luck for the
professor, but he still has many friends
in the territory. He may have his
faults but he is a distinct type of west
ern life and fits ups and downs and after
pie who will welcome him back to Ok
lahoma.
MORE EVICTIONS EXPECTED
A dispatch from Washington says:
Colonel Dickson, special agent in the
Indian bureau, is off for the west to look
after matters in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. 1t is understood that some
complaints have reached the depart
ment about certain matters connected
with the Sac and Fox agency, and the
colonel is directed to look into the work
ings Of the agency. Then it appears
that he is given special instructions to
attend to the business of Indian citi-
Zens, leasing their lands 10 whites.
Colonel Dickson is directed 10 explain
the position of the department to all
the agents, and the agents are directed
to report to the Indian department all
leases held by whites over Indian citi-
Zens in violation of the order covered
in these dispatches last night BY this
means ii is proposed to have a roll COM
pleted of all parties who are not hold
ing lands under leases with the Indians.
where the department has not approved
the business operation between the
white man and the Indian. AS fast as
reports are made TO the department by
= a n Sc hn In faly H.
hand, and the whites holding the leases
will be directed TO conform with de-
partmental plan. and then. should they
continue to refuse to comply. the de-
partment, according to the present plan,
will proceed to evict all who insist up
on violating the departmental order
1t is estimated at the department that
they will have no little rouble in enforc-
ing he order. They expect, in fact, TO
be compelled 70 evict some parties very
soon. and Will avail themselves of the
first opportunity TO snatch white man
of a lease by way of showing what il
is proposed TO do 10 all. BY this means
Ii is believed that two or three energet-
&c evictions will bring about the under
standing that Il is intended TO enforce
the new order, and that much of the
trouble will be ended when this is shown
to be the determined policy OF the de-
pdrtment. Quite a number OF letters
have been received from Oklahoma. in
sisting that il is unfair FOR the depart
ment TO interefere with the business ar
rangements of the citizen Indians. and
the claim Is further made that the de-
partment cannot take this position and
maintain il under the law. as the citi-
zen Indians are not wards OF the gov
eminent, and they are no longer unders
the protection of the government. But
IL is proposed by the officials 10 fight
the matter in courts should a case be
taken to the courts for the purpose OF
testing the legality OF official action. In
the meant time Colonel Dickson will have
general supervision and direct the new
deal, and will set the machinery in mo-
ton with which IL is proposed 10 dis
turb all the lease business in Oklahoma
The colonel is referred TO in the daprt-
ment as one Of the best men IN the ser
vice. and having been appointed from
Illinois. he is supposed 10 not be afraid
or work. and also possessed OF some
practical ideas. But however that
may be. whether he makes the usual
interior department botch OF the whole
matter will be known better after he
gets thrcug with his work
FREEMAN IN 1T AGAIN.
Important cases are on trial at Paw
nee before Judge Bierer Of the Fourth
Oklahoma judicial district All half
breed Usage Indians, all white citizens
OF the Usage nation, except United
States traders, have made war on In
dian Agent Colonel J. 3. Freeman OF
the Usage nation The editors OF Okla
homa and Indian Territory have made
war on Colonel Freeman for the treat
ment Of Editor Tinchor OF the Wsh-
Shah-She News. which was published az
Pawhuska, but after its continuous
roasting OF Colonel Freeman. he cOnfs-
Gated his property and evicted Editor
Tinchor from the nation. Suit for dam
ages was brought; Colonel Freeman
also stopped the building OF a bridge
across the Arkansas river at Black
burn and confiscated the lumber He