The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-02-05
Outlines of Oklahoma.
Two lots In East Guthrie sold the 9th
day for $500.

Two lots In East Guthrie sold the other
day for $500
Is IT possible that both Jake Admire and
jenkins are to be secretary OF the terri
tory?
Jenkins made a mistake IN getting out
of the gubernatorial race. Nothing wins
in politics like staying.
That rule that no one was to make a race
for an appointment until after March I.
seems TO be little bit frazzled-
Up to last Saturday there had been intro
duced in the Oklahoma legislature 90 bills.
three of which had become laws.
The bar of Perry gave a farewell ban
quet to Joe Lafferty the other night fi
which Nuns Extra Dry figured.
There viii be Wild rush from Okla
homa in some direction when Mckinley an
nouuces his secretary of the interior.
Lee KiIrain has been brought back to ths
federal jail at Guthrie from which he
escaped months ago with Bill Dooiin-
Dennis Flynn sent a telegram to every
daily paper in the territory announcing
that he intended TO run for governor.
The Oklahoma legislature seems bent on
making II as hard 20 get married there as
il was formerly easy to get divorce
A prominent business man in Oklahoma
City IS threatened with a 5000 damage
suit for alleged assault on young woman.
Tom Doyle the other day moved as an
amendment that the holding OF the Office
of county superintendent be restricted TO
women.
The gubernatorial fight IS now on. The
boom OF the big guns has begun and many
a postoffice aspirant IS trembling in the
balance.
Tom McRea Of Arkansas writes 10 a
friend in Fl Reno that the success of the
free homes measure rests largely with the
speaker.
Congress is liable TO ratify the Choctaw
treaty. The Indians are frightened about
it. They had fair warning Il is too late
10 kick now.
A bill has been introduced IN the legisla-
ture preventing any man who uses opium
or morphine from holding Office. practicing
law or getting married.
1t must have been Governor Seay's with
drawal that brought out Flynn. He con-
cluded probably TO get into the race. in
order to make it exciting.
The Johnson railroad bill is said to be par
ticularly vicious and Will do nothing espec-
tally, except prevent new lines of road in
Oklahoma from being built.
The five civilized tribes are now beginn-
ing to see that the people who warned them
to hurry up and agree with the Dawes com
mission two years ago were their friends.
Enid Wave: Delegate-elect J. Y. Gala
han was in the city the other day. but. not
having any particular use for Democrats
since the election his visit was popotistical
exclusively.
The Shawnee Capital has taken up arms
against Flynn and sides with the Barnes
boom. It says the governorship would
shorten rather than brighten Dennis
Flynn's career.
There are 1000 heads of families in the
nation who claim they are of In
dian blood but who have been rejected by
the Dawes commission. These, Secretary
Francis has ordered out OF the nation.
Captain Woodson. agent of the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians. has received let
ter from General Porter, asking for a num-
ber OF Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians to
march In the inaugural parade on March
4. band of fifty reds will be sent to the
capital as requested.
At Shawnee the other day a creditor took
a blanket away from an Indian and Poor
Lo wandered around town all DAY with his
stomach exposed. That thing ought TO
stop. The Indian tries to be civilized by
getting in debt and the white people make
his savage by taking his wearing apparel
away from him.