The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-09
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| The old treasurer of Noble county turned
over TO the new treasurer a1.S7lSs in cash.
! A two-year-old child on farm just east
of Perry died the other day from drinking a
pint of whisky.
The young men in Boston who broke up
the Oklahoma spirituslist's meeting were
fined IS apiece.
| Edward Claunch of Woodward county is
driving up one herd of 1000 cattle from
Knox county Texas.
| The Indians are now at It. Last Satur-
| day Mr. Big Bear sued Mrs Little Bear
Woman for a divorce in FL Reno.
| The Oklahoma legislature should play as
much poker as possible. The more poker
| the less Questionable legislation.
| Major Mcnamara. the Guthrie newspaper
man. is now wearing diamonds in an east
ern city. He is publishing labor paper.
| The Perry Academy company, religious
school, will open up for pupils next Mon
| day. Professor o. T Robinson as princi-
| pal.
| The county commissioners of Oklahoma
county have required the new treasurer 10
secure $4,000 additional security on his
| bond.
| MI. Jenkins of Newkirk could add several
pounds OF starch TO his boom by visiting
Mckinley at Canton and getting it into the
| papers.
1. n. Terril has invented a machine which
will grab torpedo by the tail and twist
II of thus Gripping ii and saving the lives
OF the people.
| At Oklahoma City a woman has gone
| crazy over the death of her baby. She was
| tossing it up when a nail in the low ceiling
| pierced its soft spot.
Frank Greer says a whole lot of common
whisky peddlers have been exalted into the
dignity of outlaws through the agency OF
| the fake correspondents.
The Ell Reno Star says that the leading
| candidate for the postofice in that town
| got his cinch by once carrying Dennis
Flynn's grip to the depot.
Has any one ever heard Joe McNeal say
that he wanted TO be governor of Okla
homa? The chances are that McNeal
wouldn't be worried with the place.
Ada Perkins, whose father was killed on
he Perkins road. now says that the muir
6erers were white men and followed her
father and herself from Payne county.
Judge Cundiff has applied for a writ of
habeas corpus TO get out of the Norman
asylum. Examinations do not come for
six months and that is the only way he can
get out.
IL turns out that the cattlemen in the
Wichita country are not fighting the open
ing of that country for the crushing reason
that there are no cattlemen in the Wichita
country.
At Perry recently a merchant tried 10
move his stock to Missouri to avoid paying
taxes on it. But the sheriff caught the
stock in the car and the merchant rustled
up town and paid down ss3 to the treasurer.
Bob Neff, down in Kay county, is having
hard time getting his place as probate
Judge The Republicans all through the
campaign contended that Bob was not eligi-
BILE. The courts will decide II while Peck
ham will I'LL the place, having been ap-
pointed by the county commissioners.
FL Reno Star: "'Gewhiteke' is Indian.
II means fight, charge. attack. advance,
collections of r. L. Historical society. vol.
l.. page 149. There is no Indian word for
father Eliot in the Indian Bible uses
Gosh for God, and Our Heavenly Father
the same word when swearing in anger,
and the Indians prefixed Gosh TO Gewheto-
Ike, and seventy years ago Gosh all Whit
cutt' was phrase in common use. called
deacons swearing; it may fairly be trans
lated God and the battle Indian words
for formidable to the eye are sometimes
very pretty when traced TO their roots;
thus young girls are 'squog' from star
When grown to manageable young ladies,
'nungsquog' which means 'twinkling stars