The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-16
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Temple Houston is delivering a lecture
in Oklahoma called Antiquities OF Amer
| lea"
| Tomorrow is the day set apart by the
legislature of Oklahoma as a holiday for
| Dick Plunkett
Souvenir hunters have already carried
| away the tree around which those two
Indians were burned.
All fear of carpet-baggers in Oklahoma
| is gone. The judges will all be Oklahoma
men And that is all right
| 1t is said to be the purpose OF the Rock
| Island sooner or later TO build to the coal
| fields in eastern Indian territory.
| It is now Judge Burweu as well as
Judge Burford. Mckinley seems to have
prediction for that first syllable.
Rosenbaum has asked for board of in
quiry. The public will now have TO wait
while divers are examining Colonel Stiles
| Oklahoma's militia should quit fooling.
| The first thing to do is 10 fire the rapidly
disappearing egg-throwers from its ranks
A man in Woods county received his
commission for postmaster on FEBRUARY
"A and he calls 1t his valentine from Uncle
Sam.
Editor Allison of the Chandler Telegram
rebukes President Mckinley for not GUST
ing more Democrats from Oklahoma
snaps.
Oklahoma is now engaged in discovering
whether in military affairs eggs belong
TO the commissary or ordnance depart
ment.
John ]. Curran of Earlboro has pulled
out for the klondike. He says he will
write letters back TO the Earlboro Plain
People.
10 Orr~t ~
follows: Congress took Oklahoma's SIS
00o000 for free homes and is using it 10
bluff SPAIN
Tecumseh and Shawnee have decided 10
scrap over the county seat and in one
section at least the war with Spain will
be forgotten speedily.
Jim Duffy of Ell Reno is all packed I'D
and is ready 10 go 10 Cuba on three min
utes notice, or even minute and a half
II the department says so.
One of the best indications Of the fact
that Harry Thompson is making a fine
marshal is that he doesn't have his depu-
ties and friends rushing 10 the papers
eternaliy with the report that he is.
II there is war Major Woodson of Oar
nngton will give up his job 10 go TO battle.
There will be lot OF politicians. how
ever. who will be willing TO save the Chey-
enne Indians while Major is doing SER
vice for the country
There is a hot fight in Blaine county.
This IS one of Tom Ferguson's newspaper
head lines: "Oh Jerusalem. Jerusalem!
Thou who swatteth the boodlers. swipeth
the coal oil and taxeth ten per cent a
month to those who come unto thee
Ponca City Courier: A jury has been
impaneled in the case of the territory
ir AZ he
at Newkirk. Fair is charged with muir
dering Prof. Carver on his claim near
Blackwell and then burning the house
down. 1t seems that the evidence is
largely circumstantial.
The prorate business at the Usage pay
ments has stopped. Formerly and for
years the traders whom the Indians owed,
got together and each put in the amount
the Indians owed him. Then the Indian
came with his check and the amount to
be paid by it was prorated among the
creditors. Last week the prorate scheme
was stopped and every trader went iudi-
vidualIy after the Indian and the checks.
Some of the traders came away out ahead
while others were left in the hole.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: United
States Marshal Thompson has without
doubt the most valuable farm in Okla
homa- 1t is not the largest, but IL will
most certainly bring better returns than
farms two or three times as large that
are devoted to grain growing. Mr.. Thomp-
son now has 200 acres of alfalfa which Is
already old enough to yield marvellous
crops of hay-last summer five tons per
acre. He now has 400 acres more pre-
pared for sowing IN alfalfa The income
from that farm will be worth more than
the salary of any federal office within
the gift of the president