The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-06-16
Outlines of Oklahoma. a.

OutIlU0S OF ONtdSiOHto'
A cigar dealer In Guthrie is booming
Barnes on the ground that he prefers do
mestic officials 10 imported
The new time-card of the Santa Fe makes
Newkirk a nag station by mistake The
train always stops at Newkirk.
In the town of O'Keene in Blaine county.
Is John A Martin Post, G. A. r. John
A. Martin was a governor OF Kansas.
At Pawnee the other night two fellows
tried 10 break jail and were absolutely frus-
trated. the only case on record in Okla
homa.
Postoffice fight hint IN the Watonga Re-
publican: Soar not too high. Your fall
Will be more crushing. This will be under
stood later on
1t Is said that Bill Walker and Governor
Barnes have had little talk and raked
the clouds OF the sky and that everything
| is sunshine at Norman now.
Another reason Callahan Is loafing in Ok
lahoma is for the purpose of attending the
central committee meeting at FL Keno
where Vincsnt'S successor is 10 be chosen
Governor Barnes IS said TO be keeping
steadily In mind the gorgeous thought which
consists in wondering what the Barnes men
would have got had Flynn been made gov
| ernor.
| The members OF the Enid school board
may not know much about subtraction. d.
vision or fractions but on multiplication
| they are great-four of the members being
| fzthers OF twins.
"korns of Kay called on the governor
the other day. korns of Kay was an awful
| Flynn man and Barnes treated Korns 80
nice he could hardly get his smile through
| the door when he departed.
| Lincoln Mckinley intimates that Cover
nor Barnes wanted jenkins for secretary.
II is feared that while Mckinley made a
| good guess on who was to be governor he
| is not on the inside in the secretary mat
| ter.
| Jake Admire. who is usually on the inside,
| says that Lincoln Mckinley could have had
| the Newkirk postoffice but he had endorsed
the other man. Korns says that Mckinley
| kicked on Lambert even after ne was ap-
| pointed.
The Rock Island train went through Enid
| the other night at sixty miles an hour.
Isenberg was sitting before his CRATE smok-
| ing and the suction of the passing train
| was great enough to yank Isenberg's pipe
out Of his hand and jerk it up the chimney.
Five miles south Of Watonga one day last
| week hail storm pelted the day-lights out
| OF a strip of country which a hail storm
had visited just few weeks previous. All
| westerners know that there are hail
| strips which are visited every year by
| such storms. The formation OF the sur
rounding country has something TO do with
the cold precipitation.
That Kay county farmer who has replied
| to Mrs. Leases poem on Victoria gave her
! a hot shot when he wrote:
In your mind all the talent and genius.
By heaven is bestowed on a few;
For instance such people as Bryan,
]. ]. ingalls,. Jerry Simpson and you.
Ponca City Courier: Big Snake was q
Ponca chief twenty years ago. He was a
man of influence in his tribe and gathered
many braves around him. After the tribe
was located at the reservation, he decided
to go to Ei Reno. and with his men started
out against the remonstrance of the agent
Major Whiteman. Cour.ers were sent ou,
and the little company was taken in and
placed in the guard house. Big Snake was
kept in confinement for some time and was
somewhat subdued when ne got back TO hi:
sQuaws. But later he became obsterperous
again. and caused a lot of trouble, so 9
company of militia was sent for. and hi
was TO be transported TO Florida TO the In
dian prisons. When he was told or rs
sentence in Sherburn's store. he answered
that he would go II he could take his
squaws but on refusal he wouldn't so, and
struck the captain in the face with his fist
The captain returned the blow with a blow
with his scabbard on the side OF Big Snake:
head which would have laid out an ordinary
man. but only served TO enrage Big Snake
He stepped back and ran his hand into The
folds of his blanket which girthed his waist
snd with demoniac expression upon hi'
face drew forth a heavy glitterng bowie
knife and sprang with a cry of rage upor
the captain. Had not an officer luckily
had his hand on his revolver and quickly
drawing it fired point blank upon Biz
Snake. the captain would have fallen under
the murdereous knife, but a bullet crashed
into the Indian chiefs forehead, and he fei
dead IN his tracks. The killing causec
great excitement among the tribe, 10 whom
garbled reports of the affair were sent. and
several hundred OF them, very angry at th'
soldiers. gathered about the agency and 4
was some time before serenity again spread
| over the reservation