The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-17
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Times-Journal says that Oklahoma
| City has so carpenters.
In the postal service Oklahoma City
is known as plain Oklahoma
The cattlemen of Ponca City lost very
| few cattle during the cold spell
| Between February and February Is
twelve persons have died at Enid
Oklahoma City wants an oil refinery.
Soap could be made of the by-product-
The case against j. NJ. Lee, treasurer OF
/ Kingisher county has been dismissed.
Al Jennings is trying TO prove an abb,
but ne is going 10 have a rocky old time
| doing il.
Messrs. Allen and Staples. Kentucky
gentlemen, VIII establish a distillery at
Oklahoma City.
haIf-tone cut OF Senator Havens' bull
calf has been made from q photograph,
and viii be published.
Marcy Dow and Mart W Ziele. two
piay-actors, now appearing at Oklahoma
| City. were married Monday.
The Santa Fe at Oklahoma City is try
ing 70 prevent by an Injunction. the city
from opening up a street over its tracks.
A Washita county cheese-msker can sell
four times as much of his cheese as he
can make. 1t is called the Shellup cheese.
Sergeant-at-arms Smith OF the council.
was one of the men who tried 10 get
Cimmarron territory Beaver county; No
Mans Land, admitted as state.
1t is announced that the fight on Agent
Pollock of the Osages, has let up. Among
other things ii was charged he was a
Democrat
In one school district a very popular
young lady failed 20 pass her examination
for continuance as a teacher, and the dis
trict is trying 10 retain her any way.
II is said there is a scheme on foot TO
repeal the present school book law just
before the session ends and provide for
having the school books printed in the
territory.
The Ponca City Courier doubts very
much whether the Rough Riders are nu-
cessful organiza ton They can take in
honorary members.
Charitable people at Oklahoma City
have been relieving a poor woman only
to discover that her lazy husband and
son returned from loafng around saloons
10 eat the good things they had contrib
uted.
During the cold spell a man named Scott
was found starving and frozen and sick
with pneumonia with his family in a tent
I'm Oklahoma City. The man has since
died and the county is caring for the
family.
The Perry Enterprise calls on the leg
islature to locate the territorial institu-
tons, and says Perry prefers an educa-
tional institution, and If II can't get that,
will take the penitentiary or the insane
asylum.
A. W. Hurley has been appointed leas-
ing clerk and disbursing agent of Oar
lington. HIS bonds have been placed at
$4,000. Mr.. Hurley viii have charge of
leasing Indian allotments and paying In
dams, whose lands are leased, the money
obtained.
This paper announced the death OF Cow
ah-shenka last evening. Since the paper
was printed it has been learned that he
was murdered. He was at the Usage
dance house on Salt Creek with numerous
other Indians. The Indians tell that one
head with a club in a drunken frenzy I'M
til he fell in a heap in the corner. The
next morning he was frozen stin. The
boys claim he froze to death, but the prob
abilities are that he was killed by the
blows on the head. There are no laws
IN the Usage country 10 punish one Indian
for killing another. so the trouble viii be
settled by arbitration between members
of the two families. Cow-ah-shenka'
family will probably be compensated by
a number of ponies for the death of its
head