The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-15
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Sidney Clarke has reacted Washington
with an arm-load OF statehood statistics
The city of Anadarko now has a popu-
lation OF 3.1e9, and VIII soon have its sec
ond wind.
Everybody. it seems. is confirmed. and
quiet again reigNs supreme and the goose
hangs high.
The plan for a train load Of Okla
Romans 10 visit Washington for statehood
viii hardly pan out.
Curtis bill. making the Indian country
an organized territory provides that the
capital shall be at Muskogee.
Attorney General Strang has gone TO
the new country 10 instruct the county
officers TO be less eXtravagant-
A H Classen for register Of the land
Office. and William =. Young for re
ceiver. landed a. Oklahoma City.
Dennis Flynn is bringing 10 play all
his splendid energy on the statehood bill.
It is a cinch that he Will get it passed.
Senator Beverage. of Indiana. is at the
head Of the senate committee On terrific
ries and viii have a heap to do with
helping statehood slorg.
While digging a well on Island park,
at Guthrie, workmen FAR beneath the
surface came across some elk teeth. an
elm tree trunk and the skeleton Of buf-
falO.
Business men say that all lines of retail
trade are being overdone in some Of the
recently settled parts Of Oklahoma. and
that some Of the merchants viii have 10
so 70 the wall.
One Populist Oklahoma editor last week
was paralvzed to discover after his pa
per was printed. that in the roast he
gave Roosevelt he had absent -minGcdly
Used the name Mckinley instead of
Roosevelt.
At yinita the nonresident citizens have
finally whacked up their tribal tax. They
paid 1t andsr protest. it is one fourth of
1 per cent on invoices of purchased goods.
Refusal 10 pay meant expulsion from
the nation.
EDDY. of Minnesota, says that II he
had his way every alternate section on
every Indian reservation would be open
to white settlement. He would mix up
the Indian with civilization in that way,
until the Indian would just have 70 i'm
prove.
Tom Ferguson has appointed Editor
Bimber as a Worlds fair commissioner.
The public has an impression that not
so long ago Ferguson and <imber were
shying rocks at each other over the
question of farmers mortgasing their
farms
Matt Brown, city marshal Of Alva. has
issued the following notice: Any and
ali persons found in Ava on and after
this date without any visible means OF
support, will be arrested and given time
to leave or show cause why they will
not and anyone found cut after midnight
that is suspicious, Will be run in. l Will
stop this night proving IL it takes an
extra force of men, while / am city
marshal Virtue. life and property must
and viii be protected
Cheyenne Sunbeam: Three Young men
named Jefcoats. one named Stuart and
another named Wilson, living in the Red
Moon neighborhood have been arrested
for breaking into the store Of Doc Little.
in Day county, ana taking therefrom 500
pounds Of -four, d quantity of tobacco
and a general assortment of merchan-
disc All the goods were recovered. The
same parties are charged with breaking
into the Red Moon pOstOffice and stealing
SIS. which has also been recovered. The
store in Day county is some twelve or
fifteen miles from Red Noon.