The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-07
Outlines of Oklahoma

| The postiffice at Jefferson viii begin q
| money order business October l.
1t is suggested that the name OF the
| Indian territory when 1t becomes a state
shall be Sequoyah.
John Hinkle of Perkins says the new
wireless biography Will be snap for the
| Misrepresentation crank
Every time Dennis Flynn gets on train
at Guthrie all the papers announce that
he has gone TO Washington.
II is understood that IN few days Rev
erend Upchurch Of Arapahoe VIII take the
Arapahoe posioffice to his arms.
The Purcell Register says that the Sapul-
pa extension will go neither TO Oklahoma
City nor to Guthrie. but to Purcell
Hennessey and Perry. in the northern
part of Oklahoma, had their first bales
as soon as the towns n the southern por-
ton.
1t is just barely possible that the story
that there is scarcity of cotton plckers
in Oklahoma has been slightly over
worked.
Custer county has raised thirteen sue
raised corn every year before the country
was opened.
Seymour Price after looking over the
remnants has decided that register OF the
Oklahoma City land Office would about
fl his hunger.
The Guthrie people claim that Gr:st NH
Jones is working Oklahoma City for
money; and that the Frisco will not ex-
tend it's Line from Sapulpa.
Kester Of Kingfisher is not telling any
one, but he has a filley which he is going
TO put on the track against Star Pointer
the first opportunity he gets.
FL Reno Star: John Kelso has about
forty bales OF cotton that he held over
from last season. A buyer who just found
il out has been on his trail all day.
Jailer Banks of Arapahoe was guarding
Alvah Culley the other day when Culey
grabbed Banks hand in his teeth and
wouldn't let go until ne was choked loose.
The biggest haw-haw in the territory
can be heard by telling a Custer county
man thai Custer county lies beyond the
rain-belt. Custer county never had a crop
failure.
Anna Butler. the daughter of Tom But
Ter of Custer county, died in Junction
City last week and was buried in Okla
homa She was a bright woman and a
special favorite of the neighborhood.
In speaking of the supreme courts de-
cision OF the one per cent limitation, the
T.mes-Journal says that casual deficit
will become as much of a nightmare as
"statu quo" used to be in Oklahoma.
Ell Reno Star: An Indian living near
Colony, has forty acres of extra fire cot
ton in cultivation. There is no reason why
nearly every Indian in the country
shouldn't raise a few acres of this staple
crop.
The Eckes family at Chandler. who
prosecuted Mss Allen, have broken out
into print. They should remain quiet.
They did not conduct themselves becom-
ingly in the case at all and threw public
sympathy TO Miss Allen.
Two of the Indians whom Major Crozier
of Gushing converted TO Christianity have
back-slid, and the Major, in sorrow and
chagrin, threatens to accept the place or
chief of the mounted police which Great
Britain has offered him, and set out for
Klondike.
Matt Duhr, the only original and kalei-
doscopic authority on the great American
Indian. has not quit writing for the Cush-
ing Herald, as reported. Duhr Will con-
tinue as hitherto TO yank the secrets OF
the tribe from the freckled bosom OF the
terra Gotta savage.
Pawnee Dispatch: Six Springfield rifles,
pattern '73, used by the Pawnee police n
former days, were sold to the highest BID
der by Sheriff Lake yesterday. Each gun
brought $l.J0, total OF ss0V win TINS
addition to the government treasury we
should be safe from any immediate issue
OF bonds.