The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-08
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

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Ends fire last Sunday night cost the
people there s.. 900.
Oklahoma at the last election cast 1000
more votes than South Carolina.
Duncan, Indian Territory. has a little
paper called The Little Duncanite.'
Two young men Of Chandler sent W ].
Bryan a barrel of mistletoe Christmas
C. B Snow of Oakland is experimenting
| with the raising of coffee In Oklahoma.
There is an organized movement in the
vicinity Of Perkins to stop hunting on
farms.
! Oscar Epstein of Guthrie has secured a
/ divorce from his wife who lives IN London
England.
One of the synonyms of cow-stealing in
| Oklahoma is Ito steal a rope with a bovine
attached
| The ladies of Guthrie were the only ones
| in the west who kept open house New
| Years Day.
| Mrs. C. p Walker of Oklahoma City ap-
pears to be the only woman in line for a
! legislative clerkship.
| AT Cushing the other day the county at
torney was arrested for discharging gun
| near the court house.
At Cushing Christmas day ]. p. Heren
set turkey dinner in the open air to sixty
| persons as a result OF an election bet.
The city council of Oklahoma City has
asked the supreme court 10 assign Judge
Keaton to the Oklahoma City district
The county treasurer of Logan county,
Mr.. Rittengusch, celebrated his induction
Into Office with banquet to his friends.
By a misunderstanding Guthrie billed a
poultry show and a lawyers meeting on
the same day. The ministers were entirely
forgotten.
A son of a woman who had been ram
pant for the curfew ordinance at Guthrie
was one of the first to be arrested under
the new law.
New Hope Seminary. school for girls
maintained by the Chickasaw nation, burn
ed to the ground the other night. 1t was
located at Cameron.
]. R. Holloway the life insurance agent at
Oklahoma City, has received a fine music
box from his company as a reward for the
policies he has written.
]. w. Wilson at the Bar association in
Guthrie yesterday maintained that the pow
ers of the courts should be centralized I'M
der the federal government.
The editor of the Ponca City Courier
vas down in Oklahoma City the other day
and he says the sentiment for Flynn for
governor in that town is unanimous.
Curley Chief and Harry Coon, Pawnees,
have gone to Washington 10 try to get
$4,000 out of the government for tribal
lands which have been disposed Of Who
pays their fare? The man who will get
part of the rake-off. whoever he is
There are few cases of white caps in
Oklahoma. The Pawnee T:mes-Democrat
give an instance: Our readers will remem- |
Der the circumstance of jim Reed and Joe
Robelier being arrested for carrying off
rope with Charles Gasserts COW attached TO |
one end of it, the circumstances of Robe |
lier's attempt TO suicide and of his subse- !
ouent incarceration in the territorial in
frmary at Norman for insanity. After |
Reed and Robeliers arrest il was claimed /
that he and others were engaged in sys- |
tematic and wholesale endeavor to purloin
all the property except real estate in that
township. They were not particular about
the value of the articles stolen. the |
only question with them was, does it be-
long to somebody else? If ii did they /
would take it. AS result nearly every one
in that community has lost something,
ranging in value from pair of mules down
TO trap off a neck-yoke. OF course the
citizens down there didn't feel very kindly
toward fSODeller or his aDDetOrS, so Christ /
mas eve while good people were singing OF
peace on earth and good will toward men"
while little children were peeping with
drowsey eyes from drowsey beds, hoping
to catch old Santa Claus in his advent
down the chimney with his load of presents
and ardent lovers were plighting their
roth anew with many kisses beneath the
swinging mistletoe bough. the citizens of
Bryan and vicinity armed themselves, and
their faces with hideous masks
set forth to warn those they suspected of
wrong. TO leave the country. The first per-
son the visited was Mrs. Robelier the wife
If the insane Joe. They reached her house
between and 3 o'clock Christmas morn
rg; calling her 10 the door the leader
hrust revolver IN her face and informed
Ter that she would be given until 10 o'clock
hat morning to get out of the country |
That If she failed to comply with their or .
lers they would call again and infiict such |
,ains and penalties as might seem TO them |
ust. After leaving the Robelier place they .
allied at the home of Charley Young and
warned him TO keep away from Robeliers ;
'lace or they would feel called upon 10
isit him again for the purpose OF seeing
hat their orders were obeyed. There were &
bout twenty persons in the mob, six OF !
HON were recognized and their names
re now in the hands of the officers and |
hey will probably be called upon 70 ex-
lain