The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-08
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


The corn crop in the Kickapoo country
viii be larger than it ever was before.
An Enid philosopher says: Every dog
has his day. The cat IS on the nigh,
force"
When Governor Barnes goes down to
Washington ne dons a silk hat Just al
ter crossing the Maryland line.
Kay county is getting e great reputa-
ton. Every man who touches IL reports
back to the folks at home Paradise
Next year Oklahoma viii prepare 70
take the Trans-Misssissippi congress al
Houston, just as 1t took II at Wichita
Mr.. Grimes is assured Of the appoint
ment as census supervisor. Not only is
Merriam for him, but also the president.
Billy Walkers successor at Anadarko
has not yet arrived and Billy is beginning
TO hope that the government Will do him
justice.
All over northern Oklahoma and south
ern Kansas Sunday it raiTled continually.
The next thing viii be q whoop against
too much rain.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance compa-
MES. provided for by the last legislature
are already coming IN handy in paying
farmers losses from hail.
The supreme court IS expected TO decide
soon whether Judge Burford is right or
movals in the strip are not legal.
Oklahoma City is the first city in the
territory to have a row with a railroad
over the location Of a switch. Hitherto
all Oklahoma towns were mighty glad TO
get the switch.
Judge Irwin has made his first import
ant decision, that Indian property &C
qUired from the government is not taxa
BILE; that property acquired by the Indian
from other sources is.
Agent Pollock Of the Usage nation, IN
mistreating the intruders IS brewing trou-
bic for himself. He has been ordered
down to Washington once and he may
get another summons.
Nelson NJ. Jones, who was found guilty
of being responsible for the Indian burn
ing near E,arlboro, has been sentenced TO
twenty-one years in the penitentiary. The
sentence is regarded as light.
Many of the squawmen in the territory
in addition to their frame houses have
a teepee erected near by, where their
squaw wives occasionally like 10 repair
and loaf An Indian is an Indian.
In pardoning George Paxton OF Pawnee
from the penitenuary, Governor Barnes
stipulated that he remain out of the ter
ritory for three years. That is what should
have been done in the presidential pardon
of Clyde Mattox.
When the wheat money is in pocket
this year the Oklahoma farmer will put
some of it in a base-burner stove. Part
Of every winter in Oklahoma demands
a good base-burner, but it is hard for
a man to think so during the summer.
Il is said that Governor Barnes has not
gone TO Washington TO try to interfere
with Grimes appointment, but to have
a general understanding with the inte-
rior department as to al future appoint
ments; whether he Is TO be consulted
hereafter or not.
Oklahoma is having the same experience
exactly that southern Kansas has had
so long, that IS isolated cases Of crop
failure. In several sections the crops Will
be skinny, in others gorgeOusly abund-
ant. Sometimes there Will be a strip Of
country a few miles wide which Will get
no rain for several months, while the
rest of the. country has plenty.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Mr.. Jo-
seph GersOn has received an invitation
to attend the golden wedding Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elias Michaels, of Louisiana, No
Mr.. GersOn was present at the marriage
Of the couple fifty years ago, in Europe.
He came to America with them and they
settled in Quincy, I'll, and he in Chi
cago. He says that in a few months he
got so hOmesick 10 see the young couple
who were his only friends in America
that he walked all the way from Chicago
TO Quincy, a distance Of $50 miles. Il
took him six weeks to accomplish the
journey. At that time no swift flying eX-
press carried the passengers from one Of
those cities to the other. Mr. Gerson de-
clares that he is going to attend the golden
wedding.