The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-05
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

! In one neighborhood in Custer county
mountain lion is carrying of young
pigs.
In the Republican party a good many
county states aEe being broken this fall.
! Louis Desnoya is building sixteen
room house on his ranch in the Usage
country.
+ The star of Judge Freeland. a leading
( Republican OF Grant county, is said to
! be strong in the ascendant.
| Tom Ferguson in his Watonga Repub-
/ lican, goes after the opposition like a
house On fire picking up legs and run
ming of.
+ Dan Peery is calling on Mckinley to
withdraw the troops from Pekin. Ii
Hung Chang viii appreciate this inter
cession.
! The confession of McInturf, in Custer
county, viii probably clear up a bad
1 condition Of affairs in some portions of
/ that country.
That ugly shirt Bob Nen is wearing
around is one of the penalties of poll
tics. II is probably Dictated By the CEN
j trail committee.
/ The sheriff was called upon TO preserve
order at Democratic primary in
country township in. Kingfsher county
! last week.
I
documents on the nortn-bound Santa Re
train the other day and has not been
able to recover them.
/ Since the completion of the railroad
to Mangum the only parts OF Oklahoma
inaccessible by rail are Blaine and
Dewey counties. And the Orient will Tx
them.
! Isabella Crawford, who has long been
doing missionary work among the Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes, has received word
/ from the department that her mission
will be allotted 100 acres.
A. V Fawcett. Democratic candidate
for governor of Washington, is cousin
+ of Bob Forrest of FL Reno their moth
ers being sisters. Fawcett and Forrest
were raised together on an Illinois farm.
The country precincts of Canadian
county have always been kicking on a
primary system in making Democratic
| nominations. One was inaugUrated to
please them, and the towns got all the
| best of it.
In one Strip county the cry is raised
( that a nominee on one ticket is hold
/ ing office in Kansas. 1t has been
! long time since this protest was heard.
Shortly after the Strip was opened it
was common.
! 1t never rains but it pours. I. D. Cur
rel of Custer county threshed his wheat
last week and it panned out so heavy
that he came into town to brag about
prosperity and how good fortune was to
him, when a lawyer told him to hold
/ his tongue a moment until he could in
/ form him that the department had grant
ed him (CurrelD pension.
/ In the McInturf case at Arapahoe, Nc
Inturf in confessing told Sow he had told
/ his little brother to testify that on the
Sunday night the murder was commit
! ted that his brother came home from
church and went TO bed early. This the
little fellow did. And McInturf who
confessed, said it was ne thought of
( starting his little brother on the road of
/ life shielding a crime that persuaded him
to come out and tell the whole truth.
Stroud Messenger: The lean. Iank, ca
daverous and sad-eyed Indians that come
sometimes into this town to trade, are
Euchies They live all on Polecat, Salt
and Deep Fork creeks; they mum Der
about 100, are very temperate in their
/ habits, work more than any Indians of
Oklahoma and Indian territories, and
/ they are mostly small and puny. except
ing the Jim Browns and Big Ponds, who
are tall and muscular half-savages.
None of the Euchies are blanket In
dams" Their language and religion is
much different from that OF neighbor
redskins, they being descendants of a
distant Rocky Mountain tribe, who ran
away from their ancient hunting grounds
about fifty years ago, wandered as far
! south as the mouth OF the present
Euchie creek, about twenty-five miles
north of Stroud, where they were beaten
! in several battles and finally captured
and enslaved by the powerful Muskoges
or Creek Indians. The Creeks still con
slider them under their yoke, and have
tried repeatedly to defraud them Of their
share Of land and tribal money.