The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-08
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Lone VOLTS petition for an injunction
has been denied and Wolf feels Ionelier
! than ever.
Senator Nelson's great speech on state
rood will not last longer than another
week or two.
Bill Cross located astraddle a prancing
troncho led the statehood procession at
| Oklahoma City.
I Some Of the eastern papers are express
ing the fear that Quay may ask state
hood for Venezuela.
The statehood fight in the senate Will
soon be blocking antitrust legislation.
That is too bad. too.
Bereridse is making the hardest fight
among the senators against statehood.
/ his is probably at Hanna's dictation
William jenkins. formerly governor
.as at the Oklahoma City convention.
advocating immediate single statehood.
The school land lessees who want 70
own the school lands eventually are go
I ins TO hold mass convention in Okla
/ homa.
Two members OF the Muskogee delega-
ton nearly came TO blows at the Okla
ho,na City statehood convention. That
was too bad.
The Oklahoma sportsmen are liable 10
ask the next legislature 10 prohibit the
sale OF birds in Oklahoma even on the
/ home market.
If an extra session comes. the state
hood advocates cannot be blamed. They
are ready for a vote The Beverage
obstructionists viii be TO blame
Henry Furman. of Ardmore. in a
speech at Oklahoma City. said: We
Will fight double statehood till hell freezes
over and the little devils are skating ON
the ice.
When Foraker makes his speech for
statehood he will take the hide off the
senate subcommittee for writing down
only the unfavorablc things they found
IT. New Mexico.
Senator Fairbanks IS helping Oklahoma
to statehood. Fairbanks is going TO run
for president and Oklahoma delega-
ton TO the national convention might
III in mighty nice
In that Lone Wolf case the District of
Columbia judges that the Indians are
the wards of the guardian nation and that
guardians judgment is superior TO the
wards.
The folks in western Oklahoma who
have made fun of the Orient the last
two years will not confess that they ever
did to their grandchildren. The Orient is
going to be one of the big things Of the
world.
The Chickasha delegation to the state
hood convention at Oklahoma City car
ried handkerchiefs on which was printed
''One thousand delegates from Chickasha
for single statehood. January 6. 1900
Wipe the double statehood dust out Of
your eye"
The city council at Watonga failed 10
provide an ordinance which would call
for bond election. The bond election
was held all right. the bonds carried and
" ere issued, but were declared Illegal be
cause of the failure of the council to
pass a preliminary ordinance.
Delegate Dennis Flynn has introduced
il the house a bill providing that it shall
be lawful for the commissioner of the
general land office TO sell for not less
than SO % an acre any isolated or dis
connected tract of land of less than one
quarter section of the public domain of
Oklahoma after such lands have been
oren TO settlement for three years. Not
more than 160 acres are to be sold to
one person. Mr.. Flynn also introduced
bill providing that the United States
court in the Western district of tie
Indian territory shall be held at Netunka
and Bristol.