The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-20
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Possibly the Dawes commission can not
see why that board OF inquiry is In such
q hurry
IL Judge Burford wants to do brave
act he should put on his armor and attack
the bottomless steinnug evil IN Guthrie
1t is thought at Perry that the city can
have no election because the city has no
general fund How fortunate for Perry
The hot bread habit is said 10 BE spread
ing au over Oklahoma II was brought
from the south and took like smallpox
among the northerners-
Mckinley has had two things during his
administration which cught TO turn him
gIay-the Maine difficulty and the mar
shall contest OF Oklahoma
An Oklahoma man wrote back 20 ais
brother in New York state the ether day;
"Doa't so to Cuba There is more oxygen
and less lead In the afr Of Oklahoma aud
the pay IS better"
During the war excitement OF the last
three weeks there has been only one girl
baby born IN all Oklahoma. at least only
one is mentioned in the newspapers The
American people are quick to prepare
The mild winter appears 10 have been
very hard on many of the older people OF
oklahoma Hardly a paper comes cut
without a death notice. and the deceased
is usually grandfather or grandmother.
Some OF the pictures Of the starving Gu
bans look more terrible than did Tom
Irwin's descriptions OF Oklahomans when
he went gadding about the east four
years ago praying for aid. Where is
Tom?
NO war for me-" said Guthrie man
I last Wednesday. Il have been through
one war and that was enough for me"
What war was that7' asked a by
I stander. The Stevens county war up IN
I Kansas. he replied.
I woman sent out 70 e. Reno 70 write
up a beef issue reported 10 the New York
/ Evening Post recently that II was RELIEF
10 get out Of Fl Reno. The town should
/ call in a body on the editor of the Even
+ ing Post and lick him.
/ The Pawnee Indians are said 20 be very
anxious 10 fight the Spanisrds- OR. IN
/ other words, they are anxious for the gov
ernment TO remove the ban against the
surgical operation practieed BY the Red
/ Man on the human top-knot.
/ There is a bright side TO the fact that
/ while there are lots OF men doing nothing
( In Oklahoma at the same moment there
/ is an untitled demand for laboreFs. The
/ fellows who refuse TO 60 TO work want
/ 70 be statesmen. and the country needs
statesmen.
/ Harley Fair. who has been convicted OF
murder In the first degree for killing Pro-
I fessor Carver near Blackwell last fan.
| will be sentenced 20 the penitentiary Tor
/ life. There is just enough Kansas tn the
/ blood Of Oklahoma 10 prevent the juries
from bringing in verdicts 10 hang.
While the Spanish fleet was quietly
skimming up the Cimrnaron the other
Sci sa.Ha ftss.i
out into the stream and filed of the
screw propeller. The spanish government;
will claim an indemnity from saltwater
TO which. under the marine laws % OK
Iahoma, she is entitled.
! Bill Walker Is coming right TO the front
As a common citizen ne was MIR Walker.
/ Then, when he announced himself as q
candidate for the Usage agency he be-
came Major Walker. the other day ne
came mighty near getting a.. and the
newspapers talked OF Colonel Walker. IL
will be General when he finally lands the
place.
Women will be neighborly. Mrs. Phil
lip Herschel Of Logan county. who died
the other day. could not speak word
of English but the women % the neigh
borhood often called on her and conycrsed
with her by motions She was generally
liked in the neighborhood. although people
had to guess at everything she said to
I them.
/ a farmer near Jefferson has on his farm
an ancient battlefield. a Lot Of MeXi-
cans with a train load Of gold were pass
ing through the country once Indians
attacked them and Killed them. There Is
1 a legend that the Indians buried the Mex
leans and their gold with them Recently
the farmer has had 10 prohibit people
from digging up the soil on his farm hunt
ing fog that gold. IL is quite likely the
Indians buried that gold. MI.