The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-06
Outlines OF Oklahoma

NuLlttOS " IN tdftOfflA
The blizzard IS making it mighty IN
comfortable for the Rock Island graders
! in Beaver county.
It is claimed that the Rock Islands ex-
tension from Liberal VIII run rs miles
without q curve.
The Ponca agency harm burned the
other night. It was fun OF hay ana the
( loss is about 1900.
Legislative trouble goes in waves. As
I in Oklahoma, 50 all over the country
/ legislatures are quiet
Opuma, town in Beaver county which
the Rock Island extension from Liberal
viii strike. is on boom.
Is q Southwestern Normal school gong
to be established2 The people Of Man
gum and Granite say yes.
/ The principal item about the census OF
( Oklahoma is the wonderful number Of
( equi-sized towns the territory contains.
! The government has appropriated $500
for new buildings and improvements On
old ones for the Apache prisoners at Fort
Sill
The council territorial. at Guthrie.
Monday. killed nineteen bills in two
hours which stands as the record 50
early in a session.
/ The Ponca City Courier remarks that
( while Mrs. Nation may occasionally fail
10 find joint, she never fails 70 ind
a newspaper reporter.
/ Unless the necessary bills for twon-
{ site location and county division lines
pass az this session Of congress, there
/ viii be no opening next August.
/ The waterworks contractor at Pawnee
has shipped IN some boilers which do
not suit the citizens, and the council has
/ been asked to make an investigation.
/ The secretary of the interior means to
move on the Wichita reservation at
once. He has asked for a big appropri-
alton to complete the Wichita aHot-
ments.
The Last Frontier. of Oklahoma City.
claims that there ara no curly-headed
Indians. The hair of Indians IS octag
onal in formation; that Of the Caucas-
ian round.
Hardesty, a well known town In
Beaver county, win probably disappear.
The new railroad does not strike It. Il
can see the smoke, and win probably
move over.
According to the Woodward Dispatch.
in discussion as to what Anakes the
world go round: "A pint viii make Il
hum a little, but q gallon Will make it
last longer"
clubs which have been touring Okla
homa. solicited business on the trip, ard
offended lot of their customers. They
were supposed to be out for pleasure, and
for that reason were entertained
Inquiry BY the editor OF the Hardesty
Herald: ''Why is it that most fellows
after they get their first thirteen-dollar-
and-six-bits-more or less-in a bank, go
strutting about with a check book pro-
truding from one OF the other of their
upper vest pockets?"
Ponca City Courier; An exciting Incl
dent occurred at Newkirk this morning
4 deaf and dumb boy was put In jail
for a few days on some trivial offenss
When he was released some Of the boys
persuaded him that ne was entitled to s.
a day for the time he was imprisoned
He took q written demand to County At
torney Pinkham, and when ne refused
to pay the deaf and dumb fellow pulled
a revolver and shot at him twice When
Sheriff Balm rushed IN the fellow fired
once at him. and WAS then arrested.
The officers should arrest the fellows
who made a fool OF the unfortunate
young man.
Last Frontier Last month there died
at St Lois, Mo, a grandson of one OF
teh original c0lonists who settled at the
O4d traQlng post which was 1Ounded on
the present site Of that city in 1863. The
family name OF this man, Charles Pierre
Choutean sometimes wrongfully spelled
Choteau, has been a synonym for bust
ness enterprise and activity throughout
the western part Of the Mississippi val
ley for more than a century. the Chou
teaus being at the head OF the great fur
trade which resulted in much Of the
early exploring and led 70 the ultimate
development of the west. That the hun
tiers, trappers and traders IN their en-
10y extended their opera tons over what
is now known as the Oklahoma country
is almost certain. as there is a station
by that name on the NJ, K & T. rail-
way IN the Cherokee country and on
the map accompanying Msrcy's Report
IS a Chouteau creek marked az a tribu-
tary Of the South Canadian river. while
a trading post known as "Chouteaus g
was located opposite the mouth OF the
cresk. in what Is now, apparently, either
Cleveland or Canadian county. Okla
homa