The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-17
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Some OF the planters say that there is
a bale Of cotton TO the acre in sight
now.
When the Woods and Beal claims are
added to Lawton The city win be mile
square.
Barry. the alleged Oklahoma City per
jurer. is now in the custody OF Chief
Cochran.
Down in Shawnee they still have base
ball pitchers who hold the opposing clubs
at their mercy"
Ed Moore. who killed Dan Majors east
OF Guthrie, two months ago. has been
held without bond.
The authorities OF Oklahoma City have
gone TO Colorado 10 get Barry, the wit
ness who skipped out.
The marshals and policemen OF Okla
homa and the Indian territory met at
Oklahoma City yesterday
The Shawnee Herald is publishing forty
three announcements OF aspirants who
want Democratic nominations.
The excursions from Iowa and Illinois
have begun TO arrive and the real estate
men are as lively as grasshODpers II
August.
Ike Rush, who is running for register
Of deeds in Lincoln county. was once in
the politics OF Kingan county. Kansas.
which has put out only experts.
A man named ]. T. Smith, a harvest
hand. reclined near a railroad track at
Bliss 10 sleep. He carelessiy tossed his
hand over the rail and train came along
and cut it OF.
with oats making sixty bushels TO the
acre" remarked the Oklahoma horse. Y
Gao xr-l,xy my ~ a-.r eli dnFaS fharl
out 10 me IN a tin-cup. lie ought 10 take
the scoop shovel
The Lawton Enterprise relates the case
OF one Brown who filed up on safka and
was brought before the police Judge. Mr..
Brown admitted that he had been drunk.
hut insisted that he did not remember
who hit him.
The gambling dens of Shawnee have
been closed by President Spencer. Of the
council. 1t is understood that the places
are closed forever. and then the Herald
prints this statement: Mr.. Spencer says
that the law must be obeyed or they
will have TO set out of business.
over in eastern Oklahoma the other day
youth who had been on a spree for a
month went home and began abusing his
chair and she retreated TO another room.
He knocked the door down and she
emptied a shotgun at him and killed him.
The grafters at Lawton are pretty
smooth. young man from Texas went
into a gambling resort and lost So He
vas thinking of making a roar when a
policeman arrested him for gambling. and
he paid the policeman 80 to let him escape
The policeman was a fake, a gambler
rugged up for the occasion.
The Shawnee Quill expresses its opinion
OF the noble red man as follows: The
strangest being on Garth is an Indian.
He is the only man whose habits are act
ually fixed. He dresses IN summer and
winter alike. in the harvest garments,
and nearly always labors and perspires
during the heated months under a big
wooden blanket and a heavy mop of hair
that would pad a good-sjzed mattress.
His movements are stealthy and his step
is soft and cat-like. but yet he is not
sneaking nor TO be watched 70 keep him
from breaking into your house aud steai-
ing your valuables. He often exhibits
considerable good nature and some abil-
ity. but he was never known 10 laugh
aloud. and has no conception OF a joke
or felicitous remark. When sober he IS
easily controlled but when drunk. is a
veritable demon and hog combined. While
he picks up and makes use OF little OF
the white mans luggage he despises
all else Of that kind, except the mOnoto-
nous drivel of his tribal tongue. He is
shiftless. INDECENT. in fact, woefully lazy.
and no amount of example in business ac-
tivity has the least effect upon him. HIS
attachment for his people may be deep
and fervent but he gives as little man
Hesitation OF genuine friendship as does
our animals Of the field. \ strange beinS
l. Indian