The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-30
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Eighty indictments were returned by
the grand jury in Logan county.
The next time. Colonel Stiles should not
go TO war with blank cartridges.
There is said TO be rumor floating
around TO the effect that carpet-bag-
ger viii succeed Judge McAtee.
One of the curious things about Okla
homa runaways is that about the only
thing injured in every case is hitching-
post.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal has
a dispatch from South McAlester saying
there is no truth in the report of a cy-
clone there.
If there is any attempt TO make free
homes an issue in Oklahoma this fan IL
will probably be obscured by a campaign
in favor of free Cuba
Last Saturday night the wind blew so
hard at Ell Reno that several men made
their families into flying sQuadrons and
sailed for their cycaves.
An attempt is already being made TO
pardon Rev. Berry, the Pawnee banker.
out of the pen. Berry is the man who
went to prison unconducted.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that Stiles should not offer his resigna-
ton to the territory, but should continue
to hunt down those egg-throwers.
BelIigerency is now an established fact
at Enid. All the newspapers there are
lined up against the Wave and smokeless
editorials are being rammed tight down
into all guns.
Clark Hudson has started the Guthrie
Register. having quit the Representative.
The Register will have hard time of it.
y1rHS of ON,
any paper he touches.
One of the best men in the territory
is Sheriff Nicholas of Custer county whom
Judge Tarsney fined the other day for not
attending TO his duties. Tarsney must
be eating the wrong kind Of pie.
The honkey-tonk people of Oklahoma
have started out with tent show. They
gave an exhibition in Edmond the other
day and the Normal students and pro-
fessors attended. This will never do.
The other day ARIEL, of the Guthrie
militia, passed Colonel Stiles on the
street and refused to salute his superior
officer. Stiles at once had him arrested
and he may be court-martialed. The mi
litia row is getting to be farcical.
Pawnee Democrat: On Wednesday
morning the case of the territory VS.. J.
Mclaughlin, charged with the murder of
an Usage Indian. was dismissed. the coun-
ty attorney having filed a motion TO that
effect, alleging that he did not think the
evidence would warrant a conviction. and
that in such case the county should not
be put to the expense OF a trial OF the
case. This case has been pending for
about two years. The case grew out OF
difficulty which Mclaughlin had with
three other parties. and during the en-
counter the Indian was struck on the head
with club. but we understand it is not
positively certain that Mclaughlin was
the party who used the club.
This, from the Guthrie Leader, is prob
ably colored little: Rev. William Bur-
well, pastor of the Colored Baptist church,
at Langston, has disappeared. Burwell
has been holding a revival at Langston.
His pulpit remarks are very forcible and
strong; in fact, too strong for a minis
ter to use. For a few days BurweIls
flock tolerated his insulting talk, but
when the divine got personal and said
that the women of Langston were not
virtuouS and should be scourged by
whips" the congregation called
a halt. One of Burwen's features was
to impersonate the actions and words and
of certain members of his
On Friday night Rev. Bur-
well roasted his congregation TO a finish.
AT L O'Clock that night mob of 200 en-
ragged people burst in the door of Bur
wells room. They were armed with guns
and ropes and yelled like demons Ruth
lessly aroused from his slumbers, Bur-
well fought with the desperation of sin
He fought the leaders of the mob with
shoes, chairs and hatchets, and finally
getting hold Of a knife, began slashing
right and left. Several negroes were cut
by the frightened preacher. Finally a
rope was placed about BurwelIs neck and
he was dragged into the street Burwell
still retained his knife, and finally with
a dexterous stroke he cut the rope and
for dear life. Ye gods, how he
ran. He may be running yet. BurwelTs
effects were tumbled out of his house and
destroyed, and ii is not likely he will ever
return to Langston. About five weeks ago
Burwell was in Guthrie and held a re-
vival at the Baptist church. His words
were vitriolic and an intense feeling was
stirred up against the divine among the
colored people. 1t is said he roasted the
members of his own church and question
ed the purity of many colored women of
the city. The atmosphere here finally be-
come too hot for Burwell and he hasten
ed to Iangston. where his life for