The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Andrew Jackson Seay says that he will
be senator before Havens.
What has become of the Memorial Day
| celebrations in Oklahoma?
The newspaper fellows are all entoytng
that special by courier" Kickapoo joke
The Ponca City Courier has consolidated
with and bought out the Cross Resident
The Kickapoo Indians are said 10 be
very vile, but they are better than the
sooners.
Ponca City is getting up Fourth Of
July celebration. Special trains Will be
run into the town.
The sooners have tried 20 get a footing
in society for a long time and they ap-
pear to have at last succeeded
Yesterday Marshal Nix received a $1,000
check for the killing of Tulsa Jack II
will be divided among the deputies.
Jerre Johnson OF the Kildare Journal
is thinking of putting this ticket at the
head of his column: Caldwell and In
gals.
Probably the worst sold boomers were
those on bicycles. They weren't In II
with the horsemen. Horses can jump
bitches.
The Indians are already getting on to
advertising for a stolen horse in the Ponca
City Courier.
Nearly every newspaper in the country.
this paper included. tried 10 be funny by
punning upon the word Kickapoo and
failed ANONYMOUSLY.
Young men who think OF clipping with
any of the Oklahoma City girls would
better call on Sheriff DeFord and get his |
permission beforehand
About the only man that was hurt at |
the Kickapoo opening was A young man |
in Choctaw City saloon who was looking !
TO see II a revolver was loaded.
AS soon as the presses can be pu. I'D 1
the opposition papers in the Kickapoo |
country will begin to inform the tax
payers that they have been robbed.
While the run was being made for the
Kickapoo country the Guthrie school |
board stole a march on the citizens and /
had an old fashioned row All TO itself.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: The Kick
apoos are in no sense civilized. They are
harmless. because they have learned that
swift retribution follows murder but be-
yond that one instance of obedience to the
demands OF civilization. they are no |
further advanced In civilized habits OF life. |
or desires, than their an
wear the primitive form Of dress. using
government blankets in place OF skins.
Their houses are built OF bent poles tied
together with rawhide thong and matched
with the bark OF the forest trees. The
'squaw patches" are no bigger and no
better titled than they were 800 years ago.
The food is prepared just as il was when
the pilgrims set foot upon Plymouth Rock.
except that now q few iron pots and tin
pans have come into possession OF the
tribe. The papooses are tied 10 boards !
and strapped 20 the backs of their mothers
a mode Of carrying children THAI has never
changed in this tribe The kIckapOOs
stubborniy refuse 70 learn the English /
language, and those who have been forced
20 learn II, refuse to speak =. They are
lust as fond OF whlskey as any other In
ilans. Just as big liars, more diseased
han any except the Cheyennes. and the
most filthy nation in Oklahoma. FoFtu-
IL tely the tribe IS small. there being less
han 80 men, women and children. The
number IS not likely 70 Increase. The
possession OF choice valley farms viii
induce few whites 20 intermsrry among
hem. but the Infusion Of The blood Of
White man who would marry one 81 those
quaNd creatures for the good eighty
lcres she VIII bring him. wlu not bring
lex LIE % the Impoverished c0nstItu-
ions.