The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-11
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Some sort of ferocious scrap is on in
Lincoln county about the county print
ing.
election of Dennis Flynn And that set
ties that.
Free homes was knocked off ;be Indian
appropriation bill. 1t will Lave 10 be
voted upon separately.
1t is regarded as certain in o.Ticial> cir
cIes in Washington that Agent Pollock
OF the Osages viii retire April 80.
The Ancient Order Of United Ribbers
seems 10 have been trying to get Grimes
ana Flynn TO get up a situation.
Ed Ingle. who edited the Norman Tran
script for so many years, will move TO
West Virginia and start q newspaper
The Ponca City Courier notes exulting-
~ that some of the wheat in that vicin-
ity is tall enough to wave in the wind. -
The United States supreme court an
nounces that it has no jurisdiction IN
the Clerk Caffrey case Of Oklahoma City.
The Kiowa and Comaa3ae country "a
not included IN free homes. The .ands
there will have to be paid for by tae set
tiers.
Grandpa Chambers, seventy years old.
walked from WelIston to Carney the
other day in two hours. The distance is
eleven miles.
A woman living near Ponca City lost
on the road the other day. purse con-
tanning two s. bills, and she has the
faith to advertise for them.
From all appearances and from all
statements In local newspapers the only
peach trees the late frost hurt were at
the experiment station, saltwater.
It is not possible to get up a Reoubli-
can row in the territory just now. The
Republicans have rowed UNI they are
tired. They are together. aud viii win.
Charles Bickel has discovered that
some one has been trying to pry him out
head down in WASHINGTON must ocbe
over Oklahoma.
The free homes measure has done more
to acquaint the people Of Oklahoma with
the procedure of national legislation than
all the civn government textbooks they
studied in their youth.
Not a man comes back from washing
ton who does not say that free homes
will pass. And yet the bin must have
a big fight before it. The letter writing
campaign should not cease now.
Mayor Hensley of FL Reno at the next
editorial association meeting viii read a
paper entitled: How a newspaper man
would run Oklahoma" He would ad-
wise with the other newspaper men or get
into trouble.
The only two men in Oklahoma for
Dewey are Frank O'Neil of Oklahoma
City and Major Crozier Of Cushing
O'Neili is for Dewey because he IS re-
lated to him, and Major Crozier IS for
him out of sympathy.
Postmaster BuTkeholder Of Jennings
has been studying all his life just how
he would defend himself in case he was
ever held up. But last Saturday night,
when a highwayman told him 10 put his
hands up, his hands went Up like they
were attached to pulley ropes.
It is reported from Washington that
there is not among the papers on the
Barnes case which Secretary Hitchcock
Will send to the senate single line
showing that the department in any Of
its branches or divisions ever recommend
ed the removal Of Governor Barnes.
Blackwell Spoon: A petition was pre-
scented to Judge Haines at Newkirk this
week praying for his influence in having
Harley Fair pardoned. The petition was
gotten up by the mother and sisters Of
Fair, and contained over 100 names
Fair, it will be remembered. killed Prof.
Carver and burned his house over his
body on a claim east Of town on New
Years day, two years ago.
Shoughnassee, the famous old chief of
the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, died
at his home on the Pottawatomie reser-
walton, near Nadeau, Jackson county,
Kan, Saturday, Of quick consumption.
He was buried with full Indian rites In
his own dooryard, by the side OF his wife.
who 6ied a wear ago Ghouq,hua ssea wa
over 30 years old. and. while never trou-
blesome to the whites in recent years.
was tenacious Of aboriginal customs and
privileges and Jealous Of white encroach-
ment and dictation. He viii be succeed
ed by a more progressive chief.