The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-18
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

last Sunday and put some OF the peach
| blossoms to sleep.
Three women OF Ponca City went out
| Sunday and distributed 500 Easter eggs
among the children OF the town
The trans Mississippi congress IS now
in session in Houston The attendance
from Oklahoma is not very heavy.
1t rained in Oklahoma Easter Sunday.
! and according to all prophetic law il Will
now rain on seven successive Sundays.
| Under the cover OF arranging some po-
| litical deals, Bill Walker is travelling over
the territory, ii is said. agitating for the
Beers.
That mule-agent Of the British govern
ment is worrying Oklahoma thoroughly.
Last week he was out in Roger Mills
county
The writing up Of candidates has begun
in Oklahoma and good many compli-
mentary things are said without fear
of successful contradiction
The grand jury out in Roger Mills
county notified the sheriff that he must
see that all business houses in that
| county keep closed on Sunday.
The anti-Flynn papers can hold their
tongues no longer. They are now assert
| ing that the free homes bill will not
pass; that It was never intended to
| pass it,
John Van Nest of Augusta was taking
EN- off the bat In a Sunday game Of
| baseball. He wore no mask and the ball
reached his features and knocked him
out fat
Two young men at Norman, the other
day, rugged up a third wheel TO a bicycle
and put the affair on the railroad track
and went to Oklahoma City in little
over an hour.
Dennis Flynn has got another extern
sion for payment for the settlers in Ok
| lahoma which will be of good use should
free homes fail. The act extends the
time year from July l next
Cash Cade of Shawnee is out in a spir-
tied interview against the mayor of
Shawnee for dereliction of duty in let
ting a beautiful natural park be destroy
ed by campers and cut-across roads.
In the city park at Shawnee a fine oak
tree, sixty feet high, is being cut down.
The man who allows that should be i'm
peached. No man who ever planted an
oak tree and waited to see it get sixty
feet high would ever cut one down.
The Shawnee Democrat has turned re-
former. A young man in that city prom
ised mis- best girl to quit smoking cigar
cites. He has broken the pledge and the
Democrat says that If he doesn't quit
smoking them by May l, it will publish
his name.
Every body in Oklahoma feels that he
could run a newspaper. But some night
he attends a surprise party and the hos
tess asks him to write up a little account
of the event for the local paper He
smokes eighteen CIGARS uses up two
reams of paper, four gallons of ink and
wrecks nineteen pens in getting out
about a Northumberland account, sign
ed, ''One Who Was There"
The Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
thought to cut off the marriages of ad-
Venturous white men with their richly
endowed maidens, so they placed the cost
of a marriage license at 81, 900. That
non-citizen young men are not falling
over each other in their rush to become
adopted Choctaws and Chickasaws, is
evidenced by the fact that up to date
not a license has been issued
When Washington Irving was in Okla
homa the Pawnees were the terrOrs of
the country. Irving reports this: ''Our
veteran hunter, old Ryan, on our halt
ing to camp had gone OFF on foot in
company with a young disciple Dat old
man viii have his brains knocked out by
the Pawnees yet" said Beatte 0he
guide). "He tink he know everything
but he don't know Pawnees anyhow"
If you want to make a man living on
an Indian reservation mad, defend the
Indian Rights association before him.
The Indian Rights association is a we'll
meaning body of sentimental friends OF
the Red Man in the east The assocla-
ton is very powerful In Washington,
and If the association thinks an agent
is not doing right, 1t complains to the
department and causes all kinds of trou-
Bile. Any man who has been tramped
on by an Indian agent can hunt up the
Indian Rights association thenceforth. In
the particular of listening to all idle
tales the association is weak.
President Mckinley has had so much
trouble with the Usage nation that he
has decided to appoint in place Of an
agent, a commission OF three to manage
the affairs of the tribe, consisting Of
John Golobie, Bill Walker and Harper
This is the infOrma ton
ex-Speaker Daniels has from Washing
ton. The plan is also said to contem-
plate a proposition made to the president
recently by Colonel Blackwellthe erection
on the Usage nation of a large prison
for the safe-keeping Of Geronimo. and
when he is captured AguinaldO, and other
savage rebels against the government.
Usage Journal: DR.. c. A Eastman,
physician at the schools at Carlisle. Pa,
returned north Sunday morning after a
short visit here. He took with him a
Of Usage girls who Will enter
that institution Of learning. The girls
who went were Nellie Buffalo, Mary
AIKEN, Ethel Bryant, and Bessie Gibson
They are all orphan girls. and with the
exception Of Mary AIKEN all are full
bloods. They range about fourteen or
fifteen years of age. DR.. Eastman IS
a full-blooded Sioux Indian, but Is one
Of the best educated men among mis- I
race. The position he holds shows that /
there is a chance for the advancement 4
Of the indian.