The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-11
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.
Miss Bessie Graves IS queen Of the E


Miss Bessie Graves IS queen OF the Eiks
Carnival, al Guthrie. this week
The city council OF Perry IS gaining
praise granting new sidewalk petitions.
The Indian asents are issuing orders
against canp-tires on the reservations.
Up 10 date there has been no wild rush
TO the gold fields Of the Wichita mount
aims.
The capitalists sim continue to start
new banks in Oklahoma The territory
has nearly enough.
II is lawful under the statutes Of Ok
lahoma 10 catch a deer between October
and September l.
Geuda Springs mud is row being sold
by the drug stores in Oklahoma for the
cure Of cOrns and bunions-
J. II. Clapp. the retiring county treas
urer OF Kay. was given farewell ban
quet in Newkirk Tuesday evening.
Judge Burford has had town named
after him out in western Oklahoma. and
now knows what greatness really feels
like.
The interior department viii do q grand
good thing II il VIII take steps TO stop the
plague Of smallpox among the Indian
tribes.
The people Of Indian territory are get
ting on to the number OF Kansas men
who are coming among them as Office
holders
The Okmulgee Commercial club viii dis
tribute car load of seed wheat among
the farmers in the vicinity IN order 70 en-
courage the cultivation OF that cereal.
One thing the government should
change-it should take the Arkansas stat
utes away from Indian territory and give
that domain the statutes Of some progress
sive state.
Some Of the Oklahoma papers which
think Oklahoma this time viii tie Up with
New Mexico and Arizona in demand for
statehood. mistake. Oklahoma viii 90 il
alone this time.
At Arapahoe there are a lot of town
cows which run around loose ana eat
out Of the farmers wagons. The farmers
have resolved on revenge. and have pur-
chased steel traps 70 put IN their sack Of
oats when they visit the burg.
II. ". Mclaughlin. OF Arkansas City.
who Won the last winning number liz the
drawing for the Lawton district, is Of
the opinion that although he had 70 take
the last choice, he got a very fine claim.
II is in the shape as Woods a mile long
and d quarter OF mile wide.
An Indian recently called on the editor
OF the Pawhuska Journal and seemed
wounded when the editor put up al The
NftAA'f@
When the editor recovered ne asked the
Indian If he had seen any skunks lately.
and the Indian said that he had killed
seven on mis- way 20 the office, but that
he hadn't noticed anything.
Gushing Herald: Deputy Sheriff Dob
son brought Ed Condit through town yes
terday on his way TO Saltwater Mr.
Condit is charged with trying % burn
down Ed Spencers cotton gin al Shafter
on last Tuesday night. Wilbur Spencer
was sleeping in the Sin and heard the
man as he struck the match. Mr.. Spencer
got out of bed and picked zap a Winches-
ter rifle. He saw the man as he was
running away, and fred three shots at
him. Information was then brought
against Condit, charging him with the
crime. Condit lives about a mile from
Spencer's gin. He says he can easily
prove himself innocent. as he was at
home with his family at the time Of the
attempted incendiarism- He had returned
at p. n. the day previous from the
Strip, where he had been at work. Spen-
Ger Brothers evidently have some vicious
enemies in that neck Of the woods. as il
is only short time ago that an attempt
was made at night 10 XII one of the
Spencer boys