The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-03
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

L VI 0Ht01sOtts0s
DR.. A L. Share of Kinghsher. who Is at
tending Callahan. says that his fever is nov
entirely broken.
L. H. Stone has long exhaustive and In
teresting letter on cotton in the last edi
ton OF the Pond Greek Vidette-
The country school houses and churche
| in Oklahoma were nearly all the scenes o
watch parties New Years eve.
/ The Kingfisher Refcrmer comes neare
being the official Populist mouthp,ece Il
Oklahoma now than any other paper.
| The present low price Of cotton in Okla
homa is due to the fact that the last pick
ing. which is dirty and bad and graded low
| is coming in.
| Last week there was an immense amour
of travel in Oklahoma. This was causeC
| by the statesmen using their annual passses
| for the last time.
The Oklahoman Of Oklahoma City say.
| firmly that Dennis Flynn's first choice fol
governor is Joe McNeal, and his secont
! choice Governor Seay.
Coal Oil Sammy was injured in q run
away at Pond Creek recently. Is he the
same coal oil man who fourished in ar
early day in Guthrie?
The Probate judge at Guthrie does rush
ing business with men who come in from
the eastern country and meet their betroth.
ed at the Guthrie depots.
The Guthrie Capital recently published q
cotton edition and has received compliments
from the Hanover National and the Chase
National Banks of New York City.
Nunc pro tune predominated at the las
term of court at Enid according to tbs
Wave ana at the next term Quarantine
lines and contempts are to have a mono
poly.
Curtis Jones, Of Guthrie, who has beer
a government. scout since 1875 will leave
for Cuba this week. He is really going
and therein differs from the other Guthrie
sympathizers.
The Ft. Reno team is still on deck not
withstanding its recent defeat by the Ar
kansas City Football club. The Fort team
claims that the referees decision at Ar
kansas City beat them.
Oklahoma has had an "infare" In King
fisher county Bruce Apologize and Tidy
Prebble were married and Applegate's IA
Their gave an infare. People who never
attended hot old infare don't know what
life is.
The Norman Transcript editor writes
from Ohio that his Oklahoma mistletoe was
greatly admired along the way and that II
car load of mistletoe could have been had
at Chicago depot Christmas eve he could
have sold it for $780,
The Oklahoma City Tmes-Journal does
not agree with the protest against the PEN
alties for non-payment of taxes in Okla
homa. This paper says that tax-paying
can not be made easy and that the penal
ties are necessary and not extraordinarily
burdensome
The editor of the Enid Wave says that
when a woman burns her finger she ties
Il up neatly to keep it in good condition TO
show to her husband when he comes home
and get sympathy. When man burns
his finger he cusses, kicks the stove up
sets the table. cusses some more and for
gets all about it. The Wave concludes
that one is love; the other busienss.
Guthrie Leader: ''Scarface Charley"
whose death in the Indian Territory is an
nounced, was the last survivor of a band
of Modoc warriors whose cruel massacre
of Brigader General Candy and Rev. DIR.
Thomas in the lava beds of northern Cali
AOAAid III 1861 SuOChcQ Inc ClSu4ZtQ WOElu-
General Candy DR.. Thomas and Indian
Inspector A. b. Meacham, acting as a
peace commission to treat with the hostile
Modocs under Captain Jack, met the In
dams at a point agreed upon. unarmed and
without military escort, and, after a few
conversation, were set upon by
the savages. General Candy and DR..
Thomas were instantly killed. and Meacham
was left for dead he b,,r ho
was subsequently rescued and recovered.
Four of the Indian chiefs who instigated
the massacre-Captain Jack, Scouchin,
Black Dave and Black Jim-were after
ward captured by General jeff c. Davis
command. and. after trial by military CON-
mission, were hanged at Fit. Klamath. Ore
Though leading warrior of the tribe,
Scarface Charley was not then a chief He
always claimed that, though present at
The scene of the massacre. he was I'm no
way responsible for it. He was generally
believed by all the people of the lava bed
region, to whom he was well known. Scar
face was not a wild or blanket Indian-in
fact, he was not Nodoc Indian at all, but
4 refugee from the Rouge River Indians,
who had taken a Modoc wife and settled
Town with her people. He was a very in
elligent Indian, spoke English passably
we'll. and had associated a great deal with
he whites up TO the time of the Modoc out
Freak. After the execution of the leaders
n the massacre the remnant OF the tribe
vas shipped TO the Indian Territory. and |
here being none of Captain Jacks descend |
,nts left. nor none of Scouchin's, Scarface |
vas chosen chief. or rather installed as |
uch by the government authorities. Scar |
ace took his name from long, deep cash |
N his right cheek. which he had got in /
ome fight with his own tribe in Oregon. |
lie was IS years old at the time of his |
leath.