The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-30
OUTLINES OF okLAHoMA.


Twenty-seveu banks were organized in
the Indian territory IN the last year.
E 3. Robertson has been appointed
postmaster OF the city OF Manchester
Those little green bugs down in Texas
have had the gan 10 attack even the
corn
Next year al the raisers If wheat n
Oklahoma win pasture their fields Il
pays
Winfield Scott. a prominent eatleman
Of Texas, well known il Oklahoma, died
last week.
That city election aght at El Reno gives
indications OF hanging on beyond its legit-
innate time.
The appointment OF Crimes 10 be score
tary strengthens the administration OF
jenkins a whole lot.
The Indians can't help kicking on al
iotment Il IS second nature. And It
doesn't cut any ice.
The same kind o. excitement now pre-
vailing at Beaumont viii some day be
repeated in eastern Oklahoma.
The flies have reached the Indian ter
ritory in their northern fight, and the
merchants are advertising screens.
F. T. Cook has chartered a printing
company which viii do business at Cor
cell Cook runs the paper at Cloud
Chief.
Secretary Hitchcock is credited with
being primarily responsible for Grimes
appointment. He had met Grimes. and
liked him.
The rug peddler Is now a bright spot
on the Oklahoma landscape. The average
rug peddler can take an o. towel and
display it in the light so that Il looks like
damask-
The other night at Pawhuska a lamp
! exploded in a closed room in hotel.
There was absolutely no draft. and the
| fire burned itself out before IL was dis
covereda at all
It is now feared that President NcKin-
| ley appointed Grimes without consulting
| Welch Of the Perry Times. But WEIGH
may approve Of II and thus save an en-
barrassing situation.
| It is stin TO be decided whether that
strip of land recently jumped on the east
/ of Custer and Washita counties is sub
/ ject to entry. Some Of the fellows may
find that they were too quick.
! Some Of the horse-play in Oklahoma
/ towns is a little rough. The other day
at WeatherfOrd a cashier Of a bank,
who had the good fortune to get mar
/ ried, was taken TO q pond By a chart
vari party and ducked.
The other day out near Arspahoe the
/ bridge builders Of the Choctaw were or
/ dered 10 burn unused bridge timbers.
| This seemed a needless waste. so they
/ gave them to the Indians. Later the
| bridge builders wanted some OF the tim
| Der back and took some from an Indian
named Amant- He had the bridge build
| ers arrested at once. and under the law
| they Will have to pay for their own luu-
/ Der
Purcell Register: Ad Moore, a Potta-
watOmie Indian, we'll known here and at
Lexington. was killed at Ada about 1880
| last Saturday night He was sitting IN
| the White Elephant restaurant when
| some one walked TO the door and fred.
shooting him through the heart and
| causing instant death. The shooter then
! disappeared in the darkness Dan Black
l burn was arrested by Deputy Marshal
| Bob hester on suspicion. Moore's last
| appearance before the pubic here was a
| few months since, when he beat up a
| couple Of ino1ensive tramps without any
| provocation and was heavily fined in the
police court.
Pawnee Democrat: A nefarious and
| diabolicsl device known as a merry-g0-
| round has taken up its temporary abode
| on the vacant lot west OF the Times
| Democrat office. II Is propelled by steam
and by the nickels Of the suckers that
| patronize il. AL day and half through
| the night a wheezy and battle-scarred or
| gan attached to the contraption grinds
| out so-called popular airs The music
| n when not MARRIED by the screech OF
| a broken reed OF a false note is unique
| for its lack of harmony and time, and
for the subtle influence 1t exerts over the
children (some Of them adults and their
| redskinned imitators. When the unmerry
| merry-go-round moves TO some less for
| tunate community the Times-Democrat
VIII offer up a song Of rejoicing from a
| fun heart and temporarily reduce the
| price OF subscription. The nerry-go-
/ rounds are town-injuring snare and
delusion. They corrupt morals By caus-
ing cuss words among those located in
hte vicinity, and they take away dollars