The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-22
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

This seems to be one glbernstorisl DIFF
hculty that he has no faetional side 70
| The city council Of Blackwell has order
ed that the residences OF the city be num-
bered.
1t is to be hoped that Blackwell can
reach that same chamber OF gas again.
There is possibility that Secretary
Hitchcock Is playing a game of freeze out
with Governor jenkins
Rooseveit's way of handling gubernat-
orial situations is q great saving on rail-
road fare TO Oklahoma politicians
Before the end Of the week Horace
Speed VIII know all about the situation
and what is really intended But Horace
won't talk.
The Shawnee Democrat has already
moved so far into the future that it can
see q clash between Horace Speed and
Dennis Flynn.
The Guthrie Capitals Washington cor
respondent says that Governor jenkins
viii be re-appOinted all right, that he has
been exonerated-
According to Bob Nen Herr Most is not
sister 10 John Most but is one and the
same person, which is the most that can
be made out of it.
Every secretary of the interior since
Oklahoma was opened is remembered il
the territory by some name, of a county
or town. except Hoke Smith.
President Roosevelt Will not recommend
statehood in his coming message and the
". c. T. L. will think il was because the
". c. T. L. asked him not to.
The MuskOgee resolutions for single
statehood will probably be sprung against
Flynn in Washington this winter when
he tries TO get statehood for Oklahoma.
There are men in the territory IL they
should see President Roosevelt adyans-
ing with the governorship on a silver
platter would turn and run for their
lives.
Complaint is made that over a hundred
negroes have beeen driven OF their lands
in KiOwaland. II that is true there will
be a row and the federal government viii
take hand.
Several of the Democratic editors of the
territory have resolved to keep q running
fight up on Tom Ferguson for year. And
as Tom never was out OF a fight in hts
life he is feeling comfortable.
Oklahoma has had five governors in
twelve years. If Governor Jenkins is not
retained, Governor Barnes and Governor
Renfrow will be the only territorial gov
errors who ever served one fun term.
There is much sympathy for Governor
Jenkins throughout the territory. The
feeling is that he did not intend 10 make
anything out OF the sanitarium deal for
himself, but was merely taking care %
friends.
Long ago Colonel Blackwell named
street in the city of his name King Ds-
vid. The council got together the other
night and changed the name to Oklahoma
avenue. And that will make Colonel
Blackwell snort.
There is much interest in Oklahoma
over the struggle between Richard Ker-
ems and Secretary Hitchcock in Wash
ington on federal patronage in Missouri.
II Kerens wins. Secretary Hitchcock will
resign from the cabinet, and Oklahoma
viii have to be introduced 10 a total
stranger.
The Wichita mountain miners are hav-
ing all kinds of trouble. One kind is with
the agrieulturist: the other with the sec
rotary OF the interior Here is a way out
of one trouble suggested by the Wiidman
Miner: The homesteaders are not yet
satisfied. One has built "A house within I
about 200 feet OF the Lone Jack shaft,
which is about s. feet deep and ASSAY
ing $50 to the ton, and not yard square
of agricultural land in two miles. IL ap-
pears to US that heavy blasting is going
to be very annoying 10 the family. and I
it is hardly probable that Mr. Armstrong
will suspend operations on that ac-
count" The other trouble is recorded (
by the Miner as follows: The miners 1
Of this community have for some time +
been preparing TO meet what they regard /
as one of the most wanton and violent 4
invasions of their rights under the min
eTal laws of the country. The proposition /
to be met is the position taken by the I
of the interior in advising the !
commissioner OF Indian affairs to en-
ploy the Indian police 10 evict all miners
from Indian alIotments. The secretary
IS seriously in error but his decision has
The force Of law. and all miners affected
BY the ruling ought to be prepared 70
ioln in an honest way 10 assert and pro-
-ect their legal rights. And those who :
are not personally affected should lend
heir support 10 their neighbors, who ask
only that the law be enforced