The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-10
Outlines OF Oklahoma

Kay county is getting as many railroads
as Oklahoma county
There was fusion gain n Beaver coun-
/ ty this last election.
The hung jury in the trial Of Douglass
81 Purcell is a great surprise.
1t one place in Oklahoma, It is claimed,
the farmers head kSfir corr with shot
guns.
Dr. War Eagle. an Indian. is making
money at Poaea City selling beaded
work
Doc Stutsman IS now on trial in Okla
homa City. It = thought he viii be ac-
Quilted
The Ponca City Courier thinks that the
scheme OF bonding the territory for $3.50,
900 is dream OF the Times-joUrnsL
Professor J. H. Ledge-wood has sever
cd his connection with the city schools
OF Medford. having been elected county
superintendent.
The Populists of oklahoma now con-
cede that keatons being an appoilte
OF Grover Cleveland had something 10
do with the election.
The report abroad over the territory
that Dennis Flynn is worth $4,000 i
one of the most beautiful pieces of fiction
written since Bulwer Lytton died
Thel politicians and people generally in
Oklahoma Will learn some day that Judge
Burford grows bigger. the bigger the SIX
uation with which ne has 10 grspple.
The Ponca City Courier announces thar
Powell Clayton has been appointed am
bassador TO Mexico. Occasionally Arkan-
sas news creeps into the Oklahoma pa
pers.
A man at FL Reno wants the Populist
and Democratic territorial committees
to meet and call a convention o. both
parties for the purpose of forming new
party.
Frank McMaster in his ma>az.ns this
month illustrates the Oklahoma City pO-
that Seymour Price Will cut cut and
frame.
In all their history but one editor has
been killed in the two territories. And
the jury in the trial OF the man who shot
the editor, hung. The editors now know
where they stand.
II is plain to be seen that there is 60
ing to be lots of lightning in that iegis.a-
ture. There ought to be more business
Pliny Rutledge, colored. at Oklahoma
City, was jailed for stealing On overcoat.
Once out on bond he began intimidating
the witnesses for the prosecution and ne
was capped back in jail again.
Frank AIcMaster is strongly of the opin-
ion that a boom is a thing not TO avoid
but TO court This is correct. but when
a man has an after-bOom headache he
has the privilege OF condemning booms
entirely. But he Will drink EN- down
again. just the same.
Oklahoma City Times Journal: The on
~ asset left 70 the tribal governments OF
the Indian Territory are the mineral
lands. Were it not for holding these
lands in common, tribal relations could
be dissolved in a few years. As long as
these lands are held in common l. viii
be necessary TO keep up the tribal rela-
tons This will soon become difficult
and expensive. The government ought 10
buy all the Indian Territory mineral lands
and present them to the territory as a
public school fund endowment.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: The result
of a hung jury in the Douglass murder
trial at Purcell. Will result quite likely
in an acquittal at the next trial. Douglass
has many friends and he and his friends
are leaders of oplnion-moulding in the
Chickasaw nation. Editor Williams IS
dead. His friends have forgotten him
Sympathy that was for Williams al his
death has changed 10 Douglass. But s,!il
the fact remains that Williams was cru
ellly murdered without any cause, and
no jury's verdict can efface that fact
from the minds of calm men. and the
fact win, regardless of the public SYM
pathy, haunt Douglass and blast his life
as much as had he spent the balance OF
it in q penitentiary.