The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


Oklahoma doesn't want to be known as
the state of Jefferson II ali. az All.
Matthew Stanley QUAY. when he gets
into fight is something Of a slayer
The people OF New Mexico must be
sorry now that that senatorial committee
ever came.
At a box party in Lawton the other
night in which boxes were aucti0ned of.
enc brought So
At the last payment the school teachers
OF Lawton were paid in cash instead Of
warrants. as heretofore.
The members of the Democratic terrific
rial central committee VIII get together
in Guthrie next Tuesday.
The Indian territory has found
friend in Washington at last-the senate
committee on territories
Lawton is collecting fund to send
nan down TO Washington on matters
connected with the lot sale fund.
Oklahoma isn't exactly pleased. but she
I Is a smiling spring cay compared 20 New
Mexico. after the load that senat orial
committee handed her.
That visit Of tie senate subcommittee
t. the territories was highly perfunctory.
The committee knew what it was going
t report before il started
some day, and when that day comes. Ok
lahoma viii have a hand in the electoral
college. IL viii hardly be fer Beverage.
At the Blackwell College the other night
the subject of the debate VAS this doleful
ore: Resolved. That the signs of the
times indicate the downfall OF the re-
public"
Beverage evidently does not favor state
hood Tor Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory as one state. 1t is a move he is
making TO kill ali statehood for the pres
ent time.
Mountain Park was recently on the edge
Of coal famine, when the railroad
stepped in and brought up a car load of
ccal from Texas. 1t was doled out Ia ap-
plicants in lGct-pound lots.
Frank Robertson. of Blackwell has a
branch of mistletoe in his window which
the News says is attracting much atten-
ton. What is il doing in window?
What's the matter with the door?
out in Woods county the Prairie View
Literary society will next week debate
this outlandish question: Resolved.
That a team Of mules is of more value TO
q man of twenty-one than a wife
The local reporter of the Fl Reno Amer
lean was Friday night robbed while
sleeping. Of his pantafoous and IS in
homa, robbery of newspaper man is
held to be piracy and is punishable by
death.
J. W. Jamison was selling some patent
tights at Alva. The city marshal got a
hUBch and arrested Jamison on the sus-
picion that he was az embezzler from
Indiana. Jamison got q lawyer who went
BEFORE court. had Jamiscn released. and
the court assessed the costs against the
city marshal
Enid Wave: The Dawes commission
doing an internal. eternal aud Internal
business in the Indian territory for these
many years past, has issued another pre-
olamation which covers three times the
space in a newspaper as the presidents
message did. 1t tells all about the In
oians as il did last year and the year
tefore. and on and on away back during
the past centuries, the commission has
been in existence. 1t gives figures and
figures. hut ii fails TO tell the people the
one great thing they desire To know so
Well. and that is simply, when is the
Dawes commission going 20 get through
With its arduous duties The people
would like 2 lapse Of fifteen years be-
fore the commission is heard from again.
and then only as its work comes UP IN
history. If the commission was limited 20
six months TO finish its work it would &c.
through on time, hut as il IS now unlim-
tied its labors are liable to be strung out
through all eternity.