The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-16
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The work OF putting in the asphalt
pavement in Oklahoma City viii begin to
morrow.
/ Geronimo. who is 50 years old. rode in a
( pony race al Oklahoma City the other
day. and Won
Judge Psncoast is on his way to the
Hall OF Fame. by making q strenuous
| fight against the slot machine.
C. P. Munson, living near Shawnee, has
! had Ella Blackburn arrested for whip
( ping him. NeighbOrhOOd quarrel
Next Saturday VIII he a great day in
/ Watonga. Tom Ferguson and Dennis
Flynn will make the weiAin ring.
/ = rich family Thurman by name. re-
Gently built a dfteen-room house in Elk
I county, out in Roger Mills county.
Bird Mcguire IS making an ideal cam
I pa-gn. His audiences are big. he is miss
I ing no locality and his speech is telling
Abe SIulkey IS holding revival services
in Oklahoma again and bouncing onto the
/ choir for its vanity with Cld-time sue
cess.
Nobody has heard Of Bm Cross saying
anything about joint debate with Nc
CURE. And Cross hopes 70 one VIII men
ton IL
IN speaking Of the modern Indian in the
five civilized tribes the Oklahoma City
Tlmes-Journal says that the Untutored
! savage has beer considerably bleached-
\ trotter at Oklahoma City named
! Candy won. one, TWO. three, the other day
and the women who bet on him no doubt
called him with one voice, The sweet
/ thing"
1t would be interesting to know If any
Oklahoma court has a record showing
where an Indian. charged with anything
from drunkenness 10 horse stealing, was
ever acquitted.
The fusionists nominated r. NJ. Camp
bell over Todd tor the council and the
Lincoln county delegation. il is said. an
nOunced that Lincoln county would cut
Campbell TO pieces at the polls.
one Democratic orator down in Com
anche county makes the attack on the Re
publicans that they did not leave any Of
the land in the new country Tor farming
purposes. having occupied 1t all for town
sites.
Here is the latest sensational story from
the Indian territory. planter applied
worms. Afterward seven men and women
who were picking the cotton inhaled the
dust and were killed.
The Republican campaign in Caddo
county was opened last Wednesday by a
big barbecue on i ranch. Three beeves
were cooked for fourteen hours over q
slow fire, and one thousand loaves Of
bread were given out.
In an Oklahoma town. the other day
a merchant had 10 go out on the street
a few minutes. so he took his wealth. put
II in a shot sack. ana hid il. When he re-
turned. few minutes later. the money
was gone. The merchant had a man he
suspected arrested. but the court released
him The next time he hides anything
he will take an inventory of the human
beings on the quarter section.
South McAlester Capital: The supple
mental treaty in the Choctaw and Chick
esaw nations viii be carried by hand
some majority. The indians are ready
for a division Of the lands al once. Early
allotment means early settlement and de-
velopment OF the great country that is
now barren waste; it means that an en-
ergetic farmer can lease lands at "A rca-
sonable figure ana be in a position 10 buy
a small farm when the first restrictions
regarding the sale of lands is legally
moved. Such opportunities will bring
thousands of farmers into the two ma
tons and viii start the bali Of progress
in motion, and at least set at rest the
uncertainty that mas so long handicapped
the entire Indian country