The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Colonel Bradley of Kingfsher IS a del
egate to the statehood convention today.
The German organization. the Sons OF
Herman. is growing rapidly in Oklahoma
The future OF the Indian will be decided
double quick If the Indian starts an up
rising
lieve that Guthrie has the capital copy
righted-
The people who burned the Indians are
said 10 be the most religious people n the
territory.
The sale of Dick Morgans digest of the
laws OF Oklahoma is said TO be rapidly
increasing.
millinery stock at Perry which was
taken by a chattel mortgage will be sold
at auction January 10.
Governor Barnes will smile very broad
Iy tomorrow if no action is taken in re-
gard to statehood at Kingfsher.
Today the great statehood convention
meets at Kingfisher. Lots OF good En-
glish language is bound TO be shed.
The Perry Enterprise says that Okla
homa can not secure statehood from this
congress. but it can secure free homes
If EarIboro has in really been attacked.
the attack was true TO the Indian nature
The smallest town in sight was selected.
The thing for the government to do is
to wipe out the existing conditions in the
Indian Territory. Not TO do so is crime
If Earlboro has been raided by Indians
If is TO be hoped that the editor OF the
Plain Dealer escaped. He is a good fell
low.
he
the burning of the two Indians in the
Seminole country in the first place was a
mistake.
Freeman Miller is not the first poet who
ever had matrimonial trouble. II seems
to be a special grudge Providence has
against poets.
If it comes TO a straight-out contest be-
tween the whites and the reds in the In
dian Territory the reds will last about
three seconds.
There have been a good many Indian
scares in the past. People will not believe
that Earlboro has been raided until they
can hear definitely.
On December 81 there had been $500 en-
tries at the Mangum land Office and Jim
Kelly had presented to the government
| seventy thousand dollars.
In case of a real Indian outbreak Okla
homa could mobilize the peddlers and "a
kers in the territory and SEND them out
to fight the Indians and then lose moth re-.
It should not be forgotten that a half
breed is worse than an Indian when 1t
comes to cruelty. There can be no uprts-
ing of Indians. 1t will be an uprising OF
half-breeds.
The Ardmore kids are addicted TO the
frolicsome habit of throwing red pepper
into the eyes of country youngsters and
the farmers are beginning to boycott the
| town on that accoU-sC.
There are seventeen men in Edmond
| who are working on patent devices or va
| rious kinds and in the country surround
| ing there are at least five men puZZling
! their brains over schemes for perpetual
! motion.
! Oklahoma City Times-Journal: new
banking company has been organized to
| take the name, First National Bank
| Elk Governor Renfrow is president, James
| H Wheeler of the Bank of Commerce.
| is cashier, and ]. NJ. Curtice is vice pres
! ident. The capital stock is 100000 The
Bank of Commerce is to be merged with
| the new bank, and the business will be
| conducted in the First National Bank
| block The stockholders Will include Gov
| ernor Renfrow Mr.. Curtice, Mr.. ]. B..
| Wheeler. Mr.. Alvey and others. 1t will be
a particularly strong bank, having the
largest banking capital in the territory.
The stockholders and officers too, are
known, not only as men of means, but
as excellent citizens.