The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-10
OUTLINES oE OKLAHOMA.

In Oklahoma blackjack wood is sold in
chunks or in stove lengths.
Guthrie expects it's new Santa Fe depot
to be completed some time this spring.
The Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and
Wichita Indians are to be given S7a.0o0 OF
grass lease money.
A Kiowa Indian maiden Is lecturing
over the territory 10 get money 10 COM
plete her education.
Thirty DAYS remain in which original
homesteaders may fle on claims drawn
at FL Reno.
MAJOR Ross Glffin, OF Kansas City. has
been made agent for the Sac and Fox
Indians.
Postmaster Douglas. of Alva. was re-
appointed all right That kitten in the
mail sack was lucky.
The postonice at Lawton IS handling
1850 pieces OF mail daily, and is crying
TO Washington for help.
The football season is still vigorous
along the Rock Island railroad At least
one game is pulled OF a week.
Al Coyle man is building a cycave.
He must be a weather prophet. Okla
horna had no cyclones last year.
The Enid Wave now confesses that
Tom Ferguson IS making a better gov
ernor than the Wave thought he would
make.
There is more travel to the square inch
of sitting space on the Oklahoma and
Eastern railroad than on any other road
in the west.
At coyote hunt 10 be held in Cold
water township. Grant county. on jan
uary %. Winchesters are barred. Only
shot-guns may be used.
The Perry Republican says that sew
eral towns are grooming themselves for
the proposed orphans home that the
liquor dealers viii establish.
A Hghtning-rod peddler has been yank-
ed up at Perry, charged with being in
sane it win be well for him If a farmer
| jury does not get hold of him.
Isenberg notes that a great many of the
! railroads which the newspapers have
built in Oklahoma do not have TO go 10
the expense OF having Look Out for the
Cars signs painted.
Here is a peculiarly worded advertise
ment in the Coyle Clipper: The white
| citizens OF Coyle and vicinity should call
at our barber shop when in need OF any
thing IN our line.
Wichita mountains from Lawton would
cause many of the old miners TO pinch
themselves 10 be sure they were awake
and not in Colorado.
The Enid Wave relates a father
| scheme TO make money for his boy. The
father bought q bottle OF whisky for %
cents and then gave the empty bottle 10
the son, who sold it for penny.
Chandler Tribune: while the first
settlers a few miles southwest from IN
gals. Payne county, were digging their
first wells. they found some very curious
egg-shaped and hens egg-sized rocks
that seemed 10 be chunks OF pure cop
per. The glittertng stones were found
about twelve feet below the surface. One
well-digger, near Olive Grove. took some
of the odd specimens TO Director Neal.
OF the Saltwater experiment station, but
no report about their true inwardness'
has been made. Hunters in search OF
hidden treasures might find some valua-
BILE stun in the unexplored bowels of the
Olive Grove earth.
Since the ruling OF Judge Townsend that
the intercourse laws are valid. which in
a measure regulates affairs between
whites and Indians in this country, tri-
bal authorities are enforcing tribal taxes
for the first time since the merchants
obtained an injunction against the Indian
officials some time ago. restraining them
from closing their stores for refusing 10
pay these taxes. Intercourse laws were
contested on the ground that they We're
obsolete, but Judge Townsend held that
these laws were legal and dissolves the
injunction. In some instances authori-
pay the tax and they viii be elected from
the domain as intruders. Non-citizens
viii appeal from Judge Townsends de-
cision, but pending this appeal tribal au-
thorities are seeking to enforce collection
of the taxes.