The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-15
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.
The output Of the gins at Stroud this
year so far reaches ia bales
A c. DoIde is getting out the Mountain
Park Eagle. and making a good paper
of It.
John ". Phillips. q prominent young
Republican Of Custer county. died last
week.
Yesterday the hunters were out pop
ping il 10 the quail, the season OF which
is now on
A Kansas man claims to have been rob
bed o. $3.50 in checks at Lawton one
night last week.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes are
gathering together into little camps 70
face the winter
The county commissioners OF Garfield
county have let the contract for eighteen
new steel bridges.
L F. Grove is now publishing the
AIinco Minstrel. Lew Hornbeck seems TO
have quit il again.
The B. E. S. line officials are now
talking of extending the railroad from
Vernon, Texas. TO the Gulf.
When an Uncle Toms Cabin show gets
as far down in the Indian territory as
Rush Springs, it becomes unpopular
The men in favor Of single statehood
are not saying very much just now.
Single statehood can't get its feet on the
ground.
The Texas legislature recently memoir
allied congress TO give the white folk OF
the Indian territory a stable form Of gov
eminent.
Indian correspondence in the Arapahoe
Bee: 'Messrs. Big Eagle and Woman
Heart are making fence posts for
4 ~ =
The Democratic club at Oklahoma City
the silk Stockings That win settle its
hash so far as influence in the next
convention is concerned
W. c. Long. Republican candidate for
mayor of Lawton, moved TO Kingisher
county in 1883. was elected clerk there and
afterward was in the banking and lumber
business at AIva. Did he ever live in
Barber county, Kansas?
Guy Welsh. it viii be remembered, was
TO have been made register Of the Alva
land office, at the request Of General
Grosvenor. II - now said that Grosve-
nor has written Welsh that he viii prob
ably not be able 70 get the job for him.
One mile south of independence lives
! Grandpa Lung. Last week a party Of
overland travellers came along. They had
a sick horse. He wouldn't eat, and dur
ing the night he lay down and died. The
campers left him with Grandpa Lung
telling him 10 bury him and they would
later return and pay for the job
Grandpa Lung took a log chain, tied ii
around the horses hing legs. and dragged
him off 10 the bone-yard. When they
reached the bone yard the dead horse
began to kick. Grandpa released him,
took him home, and he is now In tip-top
shape. The campers have not returned
with the funeral expenses.
Independence Courier: on last Tues
day morning II. P. Grow being naturally
anxious TO learn how his new cistern was
holding, and also the depth of water, was
giving a critical inspection when his spec
tacle box. containing the spectacles, fell
into the cistern. Henry CIevenger, who IS
stopping with the Crows, volunteered To
rescue them. He brought a ladder, set
it. and made the decent in safety, and
had returned almost TO tire top when the
I ladder fell apart In the middle. precipitat-
ing him TO the surface of the five foot Of
water; but he didn't stop there-he
plunged to the bottom with a gutteral
ughl and was compelled to remain there
until succor came from above. He chung
to the spectacles like a drowning man TO
q straw.
Lawton News: The Indian convert to
Christianity is often truer TO his profess
sion than many Of his white brethren.
A touching instance Of the honesty Snd
sincerity of an Indian convert occurred
in p LawtOn restaurant recently. The
Indian. man of mature years, entered
the restaurant and took his seat at the
table. He was dressed like a white man
and was an intelligent looking man. But
he seemed nervous and III at ease and ap-
peared to be undecided about something
This was noticed by parties present. who
attributed it to a want of familiarity
with the white mans table manners. FL
nalIy he won a moral victory over him
self Raising his hands above the table
he said TO those present. Me Jesus
Man" and proceeded to ask Gods bless
ing on the food hefora him.