The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-24
Outlines OF Oklahoma


There is In territorial banks on deposit
the comfortable sum OF si07e.o1z.12
Miss Emma Knauss, OF saltwater. viii
soon leave for Africa to serve as a mis-
sionary.
If the Creeks get over into Oklahoma
they win last about three seconds. stand
ard time.
At last reports President Mckinley was
not forHfying the White House against
AIr. Mekke, esquire.
Ell Reno has a gold coin mining CON-
pany which expects TO gnaw into the
Wichita mountains.
Judge Bradford. OF South McAlester.
says that Oklahoma City viii be the
capital Of the single state.
There is whole lot of smoke and
probably not enough fire 10 light pipe
in that Snake Indian uprising.
The Creek Indians are mixed Indian
negro race for the most part. Nekko,
the rebel chief, Is a half-breed.
THE Last Frontier" is a magazine
newspapr published at Oklahoma City,
dealing with the Kiowa country.
Dennis Flynn has recovered from his
attack OF the grip, which ne had to have
down in Washington 10 be IN line with
the rest of congress.
DR.. Camp should be appointed by the
legislature 10 stand in readiness ct all
times 10 huri a medical dictionary at
any o0streperous member.
FL Reno is talking OF forming a golf
club. 10 be strictly in ths swim. Money
can be saved on the links by using prai-
RE dog homes for the holes.
The Arapahoe Bee charges that Frank
Greer has purchased the Woodward soap
Ia - 49, p
on members Of the legislature.
Mekko, the rebel Snake Indian. has
posted a notice informing all Indians that
any Indian employing a white man viii
be fined Sle0 and receive fifty lsshes on
the bare back.
The American National bank, The new
institution at Oklahoma City, has elect
ed its officers, as follows: ". S. Search
president; S. z. Moss, vice-president; J.
S. Corley, cashier.
Laptah Mekko is making II hot for
the United States of America. This
must greatly please some Of those Chick
asaw nation editors who like this nation
only when a Democrat is president.
Noah Hardy has been appointed to a
clerkship in the school land office at
Guthrie. The appointment came with
out solicitation 10 Mr. Hardy at Ton
kawa, and at first he could not believe
his ewes.
Charles Curtis thinks that in very
few years the free homes provision viii
be extended to the land in the Kiowa
and Wichita countries. But the free
homes law does not now apply to them.
Copper and coal have been found in
western Beaver county, and there is big
excitement in the vicinity
Those opposed to new buildings for the
territory IN Oklahoma say that the fed
eral statute plainly provides against
territorial Indebtedness in excess of one
per cent Of the total assessed property
value, and inasmuch as the Indebtedness
of the territory is already nearly that
much no buildings can be provided for
OF the Rock Islands new extension
from Liberal the editor OF the Hard ssty
Herald says: The Herald editor Wis
tied Liberal last Saturday and Sunday.
The town was filed with strangers
mostly men shipped in by the Rock Is
land to work on the extension land some
Of them are tough-lookers. Grading out
fits-sluShers, wheel-scrapers, etc.-were
Ties are piled high in a dou-
bic row, along a spur extending south
east from the round house. A large ice
house has been erected along the track
a snort distance east OF the round mouse.
Outfits are pulling out daily 10 work on
the extension, and from what we could
learn, the grade is TO be completed as
soon as possible TO Pony creek breaks
between February 1st and 18th. and
the track viii be put down as soon as
the grade is compIeted-about thirty
miles from the Tyrone pens. Al the Pony
creek end Of the road switch or two
viii be put in and ties, rails and bridge
supplies viii be unloade6 at that point.
It IS not improbable that a town of i'm
portance will spring up at the Pony
creek end Of the road. Liberal is Of the
opinion that it-Liberal, Of course-will
be made both a passenger and a freight
iivision. Some. allege that the plan fer
\ big round house for Liberal has al
ready been submitted and approved, and
that the number of stalls therein goes to
prove the above claim f"