The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-31
Outlines Of Oklahoma

An FL Reno student has discovered that
the Bible mentions the eye 5s4 times
Fifteen Indians were whipped by the or
der of an Indian court the other day.
Colonel Biackwelfs rents from the town
OF that name amount 10 1900 a month
The Seminole Indians have crept in under
the Dawes blanket Their heads are level
Durrant says that the Lord Is on his side.
He hasn't heard about Bob Neff's friend
ship for him. too.
Lacey, chairman OF public lands COM
mittes Of the house, says that there is little
OF no hope for free homes becoming fact.
BY law passed in the last Congress- all
Indians become citizens CT the United
States tomorrow, provided they can speak
English.
The Kansas papers have story to the
effect that a mob OF one hundred citizens
stormed the burst bank OF El Reno the
other evening
Unless Callahan does something for free
homes soon. it viii be more apparen, than
ever that Oklahoma will pay S,co.ooo for
Flynn's defeat
Jesse Shaw has quit Enid forever, so he
writes back 10 friend. The End Wave
says that in Jesse the town loses the best
crap shooter it ever had.
There is only one question in the world
harder TO understand that the financial
question-and that is the Indian complica-
tions of the five civilized tribes.
Lacey Of Iowa says that people of Okla
hona showed they did not want free homes
when they voted Flynn down. and he IS
not very enthusiastic for the bill now.
An old Kansas idea has crept down into
Oklahoma. II consists in newspaper pub
fishing the picture of crowded street IN
It's town and labelling il: Stree; scene on
a dull day"
Away out IN Roger Mills county a Christ
mas tree is a big thing. When L was
brought to town a few days before Christ
mas it got long notice in the paper. II
was brought ninety miles.
The eastern papers are again running a
fake about Temple Houston accompanied
with an alleged portrait. Houston never
had a photograph taken until he sat for
one al Ell Reno the other day.
All the jails in the Indian Territory have
recently been investigated and will be
cleaned up. Miss Dawes saw some of them
and her heart was so touched that she went
back TO Washington and IS ag.tat.ng in ia
yor of better prisons for the territory. and
with effect.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Some
Kickapoo Indians were N the store of Ma
lone. Dunn & Co. this morning listening TO
the Edison gramophone talk and sing
They couldn't understand 1t at all They
looked all over and under it, peeked into
the horn, ard at last the old chief remark
ed: TT heap talk and heap sing, but d
thing no eat.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Postmaster
Beidler in an artistic manner, has hung
quantity of mistletoe above.the stamp WIZ
cow. Yesterday shy maiden, judged 10 be
about th:rty-seven winters, approached the
window to purchase stamp. The spinste-
at the same instant she perceived she was
under the msstletoe, saw a young man ap-
preaching hurriedly. His intentions were
perfectly legitimate, but the maiden mis-
took them, and with a little scream she
jumped from under the mistletoe and
whisKed out of the door, leaving her
change at the window.
Poncs City Courier: william Ward. jail
or at Newkirk under Sheriff Pierce. has
just received a pack of man-trailing blood
hounds. The dogs are of the red-boned
black diamond breed. and are a ferocious
koxng set of animals. Owing 10 the fact
that number of parties have eluded the
officers by crossing the Arkansas river and
concealing themselves in the timber in the
Kaw and Usage reservations, where the
is but sparsely settled. the Of
ficers, by crossing the Arkansas river and
these dogs work as they are expected to,
they will prove quite an aid in running
down criminals