The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-16
Outlines Of Oklahoma

The Dawes commission might as wei ask
congress TO make their tenure life one
1t is said there Will be several sensations
in regard to the burst bank at FL Reno.
If the Indian Territory was annexed 10
Arkansas that state would be worse MS
shapen than Maine.
a man at Oklahoma City IS being sued
for 500 damages on the charge OF improp-
erly tilling rented ground.
Ed. Adams, a farmer in Payne county.
takes six Perkins Journals. Five OF them
ne sends to friends in the east.
While the railroad building continues ii
might be a good idea TO leave little land
on the map for farming purposes
People are getting tired Of takers One
appeared at Perry the other day selling a
book, and not a man bought copy.
Senator Hoar promises that the oppo-
nents to me confirmation of Marshal
Thompson shall have full audience
No one seems TO know what Dennis
Flynn IS in Washington for. Perhaps he
inst drifted back there from force of habit.
Mrs. Selwynn Douglass is getting up
very interesting column OF woman's club
news for the Oklahoma City Times-Jour-
nal.
Frank O'Niell, the Santa Fe agent al
Purcell, is rapidly coming 10 the front
His superiors have recently complimented
him highly.
A bakery at Oklahoma City was broken
into the other night and SO worth Of can
dies taken. That thief Is already suffi-
GENTLY punished.
The Arkansas papers are in favor Of an
nexing the Indian Territory 10 that state
The government viii never do 1t, no mat
ter what Arkansas wants.
Don Quixote Hews is a southerner. He
has a better use OF the English Language
than nine men out OF ten and can occa-
sionally run in Latin phrase that spits
fire.
In the Sac and Fox Sunday school al
the little Indians are supplied with pen
mes. Each little Indian drops penny into
the collection box and is satisfied he is d
Christian.
Everything shows new life in Oklahoma.
An old white horse at Perry who has no;
been known to have his eyes open in six
years, brisked up the other morning and
ran away.
The editor OF the Chandler Telegram says
he thinks Guthrie is the best town in the
territory, but he is getting extremely tired
of the Guthrie papers habit of giving east
ern Oklahoma a bad name.
There is more kin visiting Oklahoma peo-
pie from other states at present than ever
before in the history of the territory. Kin
from Maine to California have evidently
heard of that big wheat crop.
Enid Wave: There is a tremendous lot
of sly work being done now by numerous
candidates for delegate TO congress OF all
parties, but the booms will all show up in
the spring time and a whole lot of them
will suffer an early decay and something
like horse laugh may awaken our sum-
bering earthquake.
Jas K. Allen, formerly editor of the Sen
tnel, in Saltwater, is now an instructor
in the Moqui Indian schools at Keams Can
yon, Arizona. Regarding that tribe he
writes the Gazette: These Indians are
certainly primitive. The customs and ideas
of one thousand years ago are handed down
to date without modification"
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Last night
the sheriff of Bosque county, Texas, passed
through the city en- route from Tecumseh,
taking with him back TO Texas TO stand
trial for murder. the man who was known
at Tecumseh as NJ. w. Lee, but whose
real name is Galbraith, who murdered a
man twenty-three years ago in Bosque
county. Habeas corpus proceedings have
been pushed hard in Lees case to prevent
his being taken to, Texas. but the identifi-
cation was so positive as to leave no doubt
OF his being the right man.