The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-29
Outlines OF Oklahoma

The snake band Of Creek Indians
seems to have been scotched.
Eight hundred dollars have been raised
/ for the cashion monument fund
The anxiety OF washington about the
safety Of the Dawes commission is anus
I ing.
As was TO be expected. the Indian war
scare was principally scare II did no
good
senator Havens of Enid gave the wo-
man Sunragists Of Oklahoma a JOLT last
week.
The Guthrie Leader caught the Okla
homa City oklahoman up on SAYING the
Ia grippe"
In southern Oklahoma the farmers are
piowing for oats. An early spring is an
ticipated.
This viii propably be the last state
hood convention but che. Statehood IS
sure coming.
It is claimed that the present legisla-
ture has lots OF men in it who never
saw mint julep.
The Tecumsed Republican claims for a
local undertaken that he has made his
business a life study.
Greek Nancy. an aged Cherokee, was
born when the tribe was in Georgia and
came west as a child in 1SS2-
Hunter Williams said OF the death Of
Queen Victoria: Both womankind and
empire have lost queen"
Isenberg, OF Enid, is at Guthrie this
week attending the legislature and thank
ing heaven he isn't a legislator.
There is smallpox on the Kiowa reser-
walton, and the sooner who has broken
into the reservation VIII have no trouble
in breaking out.
The Enid Wave is SO hot at all stste-
hood conventions that hereafter every
thing it says Of them viii be CHARGED
for, space rates.
Bill Hackney has returned to Winfield
The next step VIII be TO Guthrie. IN
fact. Bill ought TO attend the statehood
convention tomorrow.
II H. Howard, Of Oklahoma City.
would Ike to scoot under Governor
Barnes office, 1t is said, when Governor
Barnes gets out from under.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
near Bridgeport are not getting up any
war scares. They are cutting hre-wood
and fence-posts and making sponduux
Says 2 country correspondent in the
Glencoe Mirror: Land that was thought
once BY some people not to be worth a
little stick with their name on il, is now
selling for So per acre.
Involved observation by a country cor
respondent in the Jefferson Rust er:
Loves ell right and it's ali right to
love, and a certain young lady in this
neighborhood says she would If she could
get loved
It was expected that yesterday at Mus
kogee, II. c. Roper. the last OF the men
resting under the charge Of having burn
ed the Seminole Indians near Ear boro,
would be discharged. His was the last
case, and if he were discharged the In
cident is closed.
n. W Msnire. in China, writes home
to Norman: 7 make but slow progress
in learning the Chinese language, It IS
the hardest language in the world to &C
quire, so pronounced by the Japanese,
and their speech is nearer akin to 1t
than that of any other people. There is
but one word in the whole range of the
Chinese language that is pronounced the
same and means the same in both En-
glish and Chinese, and that is shallow
There are not only thousands Of words,
but thousands Of characters to learn,
each with different phases of meaning
according to position, so that even Elihu
Burritt, the learned blacksmith himself.
had he lived from the time of the hoad
to the present moment, could scarcely
master it..