The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-20
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Perhaps the W. c. T. L. viii not ad-
nit Oklahoma to statehood
-Ninety-nine filings were made on home
steads in the Woodward land office last
week.
During the next four years the poll
tician who is on to his Job in Oklahoma
viii keep shy OF deals.
The Stroud Messenger calls Billy
Creyeyes. an Indian, heir consuuaptive
10 the Ozaukie throne
There is no question OF the rich COP
per deposits OF Beaver county. ana some
day the Black Mesa" viii be famous.
Some OF the papers say that Governor
jenkins was summoned TO Washington.
He wasn't He went on his own accord.
IN Union township. Lincoln county.
there is q sect known as Evening-Hghts
Their preacher is blind man named
Walker.
Governor Jenkins is to see President
Roosevelt today. Jenkins thinks he will
be sustained. He is. in fact, in very seri-
Gus danger.
The Stroud Messenger reports an cpl
demic Of sore throat in its Part OF Okla
homa- 1t IS accompanied by a fever. but
is not diphtheria.
why kiss was like a poodle in a re-
frigerator- She gave it up. He said
Because it's dog on nice"
Crazy Snake, who tried TO be Aguinaldo
10 the Creek nation, is now at liberty and
recent traveller says that he is still talk
ing bitterly against the whites.
Wellington and Pond Creek played a
game OF football. The Vidette an
nounces the score as follows: Yelling
ton, IS; Pond Greek, Nit Louie"
Fifty-eight homes In Chandler are
painted green. Green is overdone in
almost all western towns Nature fur
nishes enough of that pigment
At Woodward young man sat down on
the edge of the depot platform TO wait
for the train. He forgot the train and
when it arrived it took his right leg OF.
Joe Donahoe. who was shot at Kill
dare last week, was once a prominent
kansan: was rich and held in high es-
TEEN. He lost his riches through litiga-
t ion.
Some miscreant recently. stole the pipes
from the grave OF the late lamented
Strutting Turkey in eastern Oklahoma.
and the surveying Indians are hot under
the collar.
Harry GiIstrap. of Chandler. says he
can't see for the life OF him why he can't
be for single statehood and for Dennis
tlynn, who is not for single statehood,
at one and the same time.
Matt Duhr knows more Indian than
any man in the territory. and he can
put the Indian color on a story till il
looks like beaded moccasin. Duhr
should turn himself loose and publish a
book.
Many little boys in Oklahoma are
named Flynn. Here is an item from
Home Valley" in Oklahoma county:
Little Flynn Dunn is partly paraIyzed
bright little fellow. and it is sad to
see him helpless"
Suggestion in the Enid Eagle: THAT
committee recently appointed by the
council to see to the erection Of a fence
about the waterworks reservoir. is max
ing a mistake by deferring the matter
Children play about the reservoir every
day. One kid is worth a whole lot OF
fence"
pretty Cherokee girl of twenty years,
known among her tribes-people as Lost
Bird and among the whites as Miss Ora
V. Ecdleman, is the editor and proprl-
etor of Twin Territories. an illustrated
magazine published in the Indian terri
tory and devoted to the interests of the
Indians of that territory and Oklaho-
ma, Lost Birds" father Is OF German
descent, her mother a full blooded Cher
okee. She speaks the Cherokee language
with fuency; she speaks German, too,
but English better than either.
Ralston Free Press: DR.. Stafford was
called across the river last Sunday to
attend Stephen Nail an Usage Indian.
who had received serious injuries in an
Indian melee the night before over on
Dobe creek 1t seems that Son-ket-she
Ponea Indian. and his wife were there
visiting, and on Saturday night a general
fracas was started in which Son-ket-she
and his wife, Stephen Nail and two or
three others took a hand. All the par
ties, it is said, bear evidences of having
been in mix. but Nail got decidedly the
worst Of it. There are four distinct CASH
es In his head. two TO four inches long.
and a bad cut which looks like a knife
wound, just at the point Of the left hip
His wounds are serious, his recovery
still being considered doubtful. AS FAR
as we have been able 10 learn no arrests
have been made, nor can we say how
the trouble started