The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-06
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Several thousand Creeks are at Musko-
gee claiming allotments.
Colonel Blackwell has written John
Sherman on his successful death.
Mrs. Hatch thinks that Clyde Mattox
| was justified in resentIng Swinney's at
tack
Clyde Mattox, dead or alive. has done
| a thing which will knock pardons out for
many years.
Swinney. the man whom Clyde Mattox
killed. has a brother in the penitentiary
at Lansing.
Sid Clarke and Tom Doyle were both
| born in Massachusetts,, within a few miles
| of earh other.
The Guthrie Leader made its city fight
by calling everybody on the opposition
ticket ''bilkers."
Shawnee will have to have about three
weeks TO come out Of the collapse follow
! ing that election.
Judge Burford says that he will fine the
next man who comes into the court room
with pistol. $50.
Robb. Republican candidate for mayor
at Kingisher. was beaten by Bennett,
Citizens candidate, by Il votes.
When Governor Barnes was in st. Louis
the other day he met and told Powell
Clayton about life in Oklahoma.
W. P. Foulk of Kay county recently
sold 200 pounds of white fish in Guthrie,
which We're taken from his own pond.
Tom Shockey, an ex-Rough Rider, has
been arrested, charged with completely in
the killing OF Swinney by Clyde Mattox.
The Ponca City Courier thinks that the
appointment of Pickard chief clerk OF
Hainers court is chock full of signii-
canoe
William Trueblood Of Tecumseh has
been summoned before the grand jury TO
tell what he knows about Doodle in the
legislature.
It is said that the extension of the Pecos
Valley road to Roswell, New Mexico. has
greatly increased travel over that portion
of the Santa Fe.
A physician who is doing advertising
at Shawnee, says positively that married
women consulting him must be accom-
panied by their husbands.
A Kansas City woman came into Ponca
City the other day to vindicate herself
with a black-snake. The local papers do
not say that she succeeded.
The Oklahoma spring candidates who
were defeated by few votes should know
that there are just !, 456. 7S9 reasons for a
man being defeated when he just misses
it.
Advertisement in the Chickasha Gazette:
about one barrel of slop day is wasted
at the Rock Island hotel. We are re-
quested to say that any one who can use
the same is welcome to it.
An idea from the Chickasha Gazette:
America will ultimately fall like Rome
and over her ruins will rise a monument
bearing the inscription, 'Hic jacet the
policy of benevolent assimilation.
Chandler News: The smallpox among
the Sac and Fox Indians is confined en-
tirely TO the band that is camped on
Euche creek, about five miles from Cush-
ing. There have been altogether IS cases
in the band, and up to yesterday there
had been q deaths. The disease is under
perfect control now, those infected hav-
ing been under rigid guard for some time.
Indian Agent Patrick reports that every
Indian under his charge has been vaccin-
ated When Uncle Sam takes hold of a
matter he is pretty thorough and in hand
ling the smallpox neglects nothing. The
only Indians who have died are those
who had never been vaccinated, and
those who are now sick have a mild form
of varioloid In some cases the agent
and physicians had trouble in yaccindting
the Indians, bht they always succeeded.
One thing which grieved the Indians was
the killing of their dogs. but they sub
mitted when they saw that the white man
knew better how to take care of them
than their medicine men did.