The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-07
Outlines of Oklahoma

OUtitn0S OF OkldTOmd
DeFord will not get TO be marshal. He
ought to quiet his soul on that point.
with Btedler's pull it is wonder he did
not run for the marshalship himself
The way in which Dennis Flynn has re-
tired from politics IS really wonderful 10 be-
hold
Amos Ewing, il turns out, was appointed
by Governor Barnes at the personal re-
quest Of Mckinley.
A Newkirk man walked into the Arkan-
sas river ard caught SD-pound catfish
with his bare hands.
Up TO last Saturday evening the Bank OF
Grant at Medford had paid out $4,000 for
wheat since threshing began
There is nothing in the way of the ap-
pointment of Bill Grimes as marshal yet
That appointment would settle all difficult
ties.
The opposition to Barnes say that he is
rot the administration and that when they
fight him they are not fighting the admin
istrat:on.
It. ]. Palmer OF Medford is holding onto
that postoffice for dear life until the storm
blows over Flynn and Barnes are both
for Palmer
1t is reported that Judge McAtee's friends
IN Washington, the senators from Mary
land and Virginia, are also on the trail OF
Governor Barnes.
DeFord's friends should remember that
DeFord's single and unsupported evidence
is not going TO force Governor Barnes 10
resign. Not this year.
End will celebrate an anniversary Of Au-
gust Is. Several fine speeches will be
made, but no counterfeit run for claims
viii be again attempted.
Postmaster-General Gary IS close friend
of DeFord's and that is why the postmas-
ter-general is figuring in a fight that is en-
tlrely outside of his department.
The squabble over the marshalship mat
ter definitely settled that all the judges
shall remain until the expiration OF Their
terms-even Keaton. They all feel con-
siderably easier
The country correspondent in the Alva
Review breaks out il this way right In the
midst of his personals: LAS the earth
makes its revolutions around. so man works
out his destiny
j. ]. Burke has started the Globe, a Sun
cay paper. at Oklahoma CITY. Burke f.
one of the best newspaper men in the west.
Anything in the newspaper line he has ever
touched his shown this.
Oklahoma City doesn't want to become
so interested in politics that she will forge&
that Sapulpa bonus. That is worth more
than all the politics Oklahoma Will have IN
the next twenty years.
II should be remembered apropos of Ok
lahoma's political rows. that II Oklahoma
were a state everything would BE- referred
10 United States senators. AS 1; is now
the president must take all the respons:-
bility on himself. and as he does not urder-
stand conditions in the territory, he Dies
many things a politician living in the ter
ritory would not do.
Perry Democrat: Judge Parish has
peculiar suit on hand. He is the attorney
for L. H. Graham, a well known citizen
of this place. and against Wilson Romeo
Graham. an Arapahoe Indian. or the Ara
pahoe tribe or the United States, but it is
uncertain which. The circumstances are
of November, 1864. the United States troops
fought a battle with the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek. Colorado
the face of the earth. After the massacre.
for that IS what it was, Mr.. Graham, VINO
was a corporal in the Fourth Colorado
avalry. the regiment engaged in the fight
found an Indian boy or the field whom he
.aptured and carried into camp. The boy |
was about years old and Mr.. Graham OBJ /
aimed permission TO adopt him and at the |
expiration of his services took him home
With him 10 Indiana. The lad was kept !
Ind sent to school for about three years /
when the government learned of his where
lbouts and caused him to be returned &c /
lis tribe. Mr.. Graham put in a claim for /
he boys care and education 10 the council I
II the tribe for $500 and this was allowed. /
,ut for some reason the claim was never 1
,aid Judge Parish has sent the claim to /
he interior department which now, to-
,ether with interest, amounts TO something |
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