The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-02
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The Capital says that during 1889 prop
erty in Guthrie advanced from . to 800
per cent.
From this on Oklahoma City win insist
on being known as the Gretna Green OF
Oklahoma, too.
| The last spike in the road TO Perkins
was driven last Saturday at noon in the
| midst of great concourse
| The whole territory. extends congratula-
! tons to Mr.. and Mrs. Havinhorst. and
wishes them a happy New Year.
| Arthur Hunter, son of Mrs. VI. T. Hun
| ter of Chandler, has returned after a
! three years stay in Southern Alaska.
| The clerks OF Guthrie have succeeded
( b getting their employees TO close stores
at SEQ. except on Saturday evenings.
| The most classic thing in the territory
| when it IS completed viii be the Masonic
temple in Guthrie. It looks like the Pa
las Athene
The Oklahoma City papers announce
/ that an educational light while in attend
ance on the school teachers meeting
bowled Up.
Whether Cuban chickenpox or smallpox
the disease which has been prevalent &
some sections of Oklahoma left the We
tins badly marked.
Buffalo jones is down in washington
asking the government TO set aside q res
ervation for the purpose Of preseryatiye
breeding OF the buffalo.
AT Norman a cook put a ham Ia tin
boiler TO cook He then fastened the
lid down good ana tight. steam general
ed ard the boiler blew up.
A number of the ladies of Guthrie re-
ceived New Years calls yesterday. This
is the only tolace in Oklahoma the Gus
tom is regularly observed.
The verdict of not guilty in the E. S.
Stone case at Pond Greek recently was
unusual Stone killed Jake Spidel, and
ne was acquitted because Of Spiders bull
lying nature
In nearly every paper issued in Okla
lloma last week there was a savage howl
from somebody that the road in his part
of the country was particularly bad. As
matter of fact, the roads everywhere
were bad.
The Enid WAVE, in bidding goodbye
to the old year said, among other things:
THE Wave never has said, never will
say, that it is here to stay, because the
saying is an old-time, worthless, Mis-
souri, chestnut; however, II looks very
much like the Wave was here TO stay"
Probate Judge Asa Jones OF Oklahoma
county. should be taken TO the Texas
jine and told to keep out of the territory.
An clipping party called on him late at
night to get up and perform the cere-
mony and he refused. a Probate judge
who will do that has no business in Okla
homa. What are probate judges for,
anyway?
At Langston. the other night, man
heard noise in his chicken-coop. He
investigated and detected a bear. He
loaded a revolutionary musket and let
drive. but the bear never WINGED. He
called on his neighbors. who arrived with
Mausers, Krag-JorgensOns and MeXirns,
and all blazed away. When the bear had
enough of it he walked up and surveyed
the party, and proved to be pig.
Sapulpa Light: Mrs. Harrison had quite
a lively experience with a catamount last
Monday. She heard pack of hounds
making a big noise short distance from
her home, and thinking, perhaps, that her
hogs were in trouble, she went to make
an investigation. The lady was somewhat
startled to find that the dogs had a large
catamount instead of hogs at bay. She
called to a young lady who is visiting
al her home TO bring a gun which hap
pened to be loaded with buckshCt She
shot at the animal twice, but missed both
times. The dogs, in the meantime, kept
the catamounts so busy that it had no
time to pay its respects TO the brave
ladies who were energetically bombarding
the wild creature with large rocks. Two
of the dogs finally got the catamount
across a log, where they held II until
Mrs. Harrison beat it to death with
large club. They intend to have the skin
stuffed.
One Of the important acts passed by
the Chickasaw legislature at its last ses-
sion has been approved by President Nc
Kinley. The act provides that any non
citizen shall reside in the indian territory
for at least two years before he can pro-
cure a Chickasaw marriage license and
marry a Chickasaw woman. and thereby
become an intermarried citizen of the
Chickasaw nation. This bill was passed
by the legislature on account of a great
many white men who were going into the
Indian country ana marrying the Chicl1a-
saw girls. many Of them with a view
to obtaining intermarried citizenship and
a share in the rich lands Of the Chick
asaw nation. Any non-citizen, who mar
ries 4 Chickasaw now. without the re-
quired residence cf two years, can only
marry under the laws Of Texas. Arkan-
sas. or other surrounding states, and y
entitled to privileges or rights not given
to other citizens. or course. the wife
win secure her allotment of land, but
the husband viii have no such share.