The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-21
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Some of the Oklahoma papers keep stand
ing the line: Beware of street takers.
The Purcell Review calls the Com
manche country ''the Indian Denmark
There is something rotten in it
At Purcell the electric light wires are
being taken down and viii be removed TO
Terrill, Texas.
E. F. Mitchell of FL Reno, has already
shipped three carloads OF m.stle-toe to
eastern states
The Arapahoe Bee says 1t is glad the
people of Greer county got thir homes
free and not sorry. as the Eagle quoted H.
How soon people drop man Lee. OF
Tecumseh. had TO accompany the sheriff
to Texas because ne could not raise 500
bond.
The fellows who are ridiculing General
Hews should remember that there were
times when Captain Payne doomed things
on an empty stomach.
A woman is travelling over Oklahoma
lecturing on phrenoiogy. Every day in
Oklahoma reveals some new scheme for
the people 10 spend their money foolishly
on.
VI. L. Thomas, the new postmaster at
Pond Creek. and editor of the Grant Coun-
L.
ter off as they are-that is. without state
hood.
Two farmers in Enid the other day got so
hot discussing the comparative Poland
China purity of their hogs that they final
" bet their farms, including the hogs. on
the same.
Harvey Brawdy, the Oklahoma farmer
who jumped from a Choctaw train. has
had a piece of his skull removed which
measures an inch and half broad by three
inches long.
The Taloga Advocate notifies its read
ers that Mrs. Luetgert has returned. Mr..
Luetgert when he hears of this will be very
glad. But the Advocate should produce
her in evidence.
The friends of Lee, at Tecumseh, say that
at the time Lee is accused OF killing a
man, 1t was not thought TO amount to
anything on the borders of Texas to shoot
another man down.
The son of S. S. Heddle Of Pond Creek
recently died in Scotland. His name was
DR.. Matthew Heddle. and he was famous
as professor of chemistry. University of
st. Andrews, Edinburgh.
The Congregational church at Pond
Creek will have Christmas tree. Those
come and put them on the line for distri-
button" Why not use the tree?
The Oklahoma City Times-J ournal says
that Frank McMaster Will not be delega te
TO the statehood convention. The chances
are, just the same. that McMaster win
draw up the resolutions which will pass.
The nest where all the big lies are laid
in Arapahoe is the case of the burning
of ~ Ona
accused Mr.. Hughes, a county officer, OF
moving his piano out of the building the
day before it burned. Hughes now comes
forward and mourns the fact that ne never
owned a piano.
Gushing Herald: The Iowa Indian school
| a few miles below Perkins, is nearly a
total failure as far as attendance is con-
cerned. Last year they loudly objected 10
having to send their children to Chi
| locco, or some other distant schools. Then
! they got permission and help 10 a good
! school right in their midst. When in care
| of the regular government schoolmasters
| the Indian children were made TO behave
| themselves and study. Now, being near
| their paternaI wigwams, they run away
| from school, and are not driven back by
| their parents. The teachers of the Iowa
| home school are often compelled TO be all
| to themselves during school hours.
Gushing Herald: Council creek, in east
| ern Payne county. got its name from the
| nine days Indian council held on its woody
| banks by a delegate convention of Paw
nees. about thirty years ago. The govern
ment having concluded to locate the tribe
| near the lower Cimarron, fifty warriors.
| medicine men and soothsayers went from
| their wigwams on the plains of Kansas
| Nebraska, to the Indian Territory TO spy
/ out their intended new land. They made
| a protracted halt on Council creek, and
| after powwowwing eight long days. and
most OF the nights. they agreed to be gen.
| orally d!sgusted with their new future
earthly hunting ground and objected 10
ever living there. But on the ninth day
| innumerable red-headed woodpeckers few
| noisily round about the camp. A soul
| cheering chorus of joyful whoops went
out of fifty Pawnee throats. Considering
| the Ted-headed woodpecker a feathered
| elder brother from the reservation above
| the clouds, they hailed them with delight
and after the soothsayers held consider
able OF a noisy confab with the scarlet
| headed messengers from the spirit land.
! all fifty with one accord, agreed to return
| up north, and return soon with the whola
| PaWuea And rhav dfd