The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-26
Outlines of Oklahoma

The last from Attorney General Nc
Kenua is that Thompson viii not be ap-
| pointed.
The chances are that no marshal viii be
appointed for Oklahoma until after the
1 election.
| As a political boss Secretary Jenkins Is
| getting 10 be of the opinion that he has
| had about enough.
Mrs. R. a Cameron Of Alva was Bit
| ten by centipede last week. but ammonia
killed the poison at once.
Charles H. Love. boy preacher. eigh-
teen years OF age. is holding forth in Ok
| lahonla in a sermon on Love.
| One of the best stationary engineers in
| the territory is Ed. Freeland OF Jefferson.
| He is only eighteen years Of age
It would be a terrible thing II Cullom
| OF Illinois should run that brother In as
| United States marshal Of Oklahoma.
Guthrie did smart thing when 1t deter
mined to spread fifty thousand copies OF
| Governor Barnes message in the east.
There is going 10 be a row over the
way things have been conducted in the
| Usage country and a thorough ciean-out-
John Day, who runs a threshing ma
| chine near Alva, has threshed, this year,
| $1,000 bushels OF wheat and has not had
single breakdown.
| The Oklahoma weeklies are publishing
| Governor Barnes message as a supple
| ment. Subscribers should take il out and
| mail IL to people in the east.
! If Grimes should be appointed marshal II
| might offend Secretary Jenkins. But as
Jenkins has a good job. he should expect
| TO be offended some OF the time.
E. E. Bray of the Enid Coming Events,
has sued Isenberg of the Wave for S. OcC
| damages. Issnberg ordinarily would pay
| s., 600 over easily, but in this case he will
| make a fight.
It is a fact which some OF the anti
| Flynn politicians should take note OF. that
| Flynn paper last year is an anti-Flynn
paper today. Every editor has remained
| faithful to the ex-delegate.
| L. II. Lemons has bought the FL Reno
| Republican. He says that a clique OF Re-
| publicans has been formed in that town
| to run the politics and he HOSTS the black
| flag and warns them that the fight is on.
| They may squeeze Lemons.
| Dan Peery OF FL Reno will have his por-
| trait in McMaster's next monthly. Nc
| to stay indoors until after the magazine
appears, so that his fine face will not be-
come so common that people will not
have a curiosity TO see il.
The Enid Eagle gets off good one on
some Populist politicians. 1t says that
they complain that last year they were
running for office when they should have
been putting in wheat, and two years ago
hay
should have been running for office.
Gushing Herald: The Iowa Indians are
indulg!ng in the grand annual autumnal
medicine dance on their sacred stamping
ground between Headquarters and Dug
out Creek, a few miles below Perkins.
The Heather sanctum sanctorum is hid
den and forbidden TO those who never rode
the savage Indian goat; venerable meGi-
cine men, white-scarers and other initiated
scarecrows can enter the holy of hoEes.
The drink large draughts of semi-intox-
icating beverage and swallow powerful
emetics for the purpose of fortifying them
selves against evil spirits that Ike TO enter
them in the shape OF sickness, and they
vomit up the little devils that took posses
SION of their kidneys and livers. Believing
that hollow trees are favorite abodes OF
imps in the shape of snakes, they gener-
ally put their mouths to knot-holes. and
vomit into the hollow tree for the purpose
of killing their arch enemies hidden with
in. The medicine dance ceremonies con-
tain few grains of common white mans
sense, because some OF the medicines ia
ken cleanse the blood, and consequently
drive or keep away sickness from the
thoroughly purged Indians, bat neverthe-
less, the Iowas are dying out at fearful