The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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THE KIEL PRESS.
KIKI -
OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA \ N II INDIAN TEBBITOKV
W. H. Coyle will build a grain ele-
vator at Ripley.
A fair association has been organized
in Grant county.
The "Texas Association of Okla-
homa" has been organized.
The new opera house at Kingfisher
lias a seating capacity of tiOO.
Troops are being removed from tort
Riley to Forts Reno and Sill.
Logan county claims to have market-
ed the first ear of wheat at Kansas City.
Lincoln county commissioners are to
let a contract for a new jail on June 21.
The Santa Fe depot at Curtis, Wood-
ward county, lias heen robbed and
burned.
The "Orient" railroad builders are
hiring all the men and teams that can
be secured.
The Sae and Fox Indians are dancing
their ghost dance, in expectation of
the Messiah.
Six new brick business buildings arc
commenced or being prepared for in
Tecumseh.
Weather for wheat harvesting has
never been better, generally not so
.favorable.
A Noble county pastor lias a suit for
,his salary which lias reached the tenth
trial in the courts.
Day county assessors figure out an
increase in taxable property of $1,000,-
000 over last year.
A Sunday ball game at Ponca ( lty
resulted in a light. An attempt was
'made to stop the game.
Cleveland county has been trans-
ferred to the third judicial district—
Judge Irwin's district.
The telephone exchange at Norman
is to have a new switchboard with a
■capacity of "00 phones.
A new town is projected at the cross-
ing of the Arkansas river by the Santa
Fe's Pawnee extension.
' The lire insurance agents of Okla-
homa will meet July 2 to organize and
enter the national association.
A new jail to cost $H,(>00 is contracted
for in Perry. It is to be paid for in
sixteen quarterly installments.
.1. (.'. Pingrey, an Oklahoma delegate
to Philadelphia, had a leg broken by
the fall of a hotel elevator there.
There are said to be eighteen can-
didates for the fusion nominee for
register of deeds ill Kay county.
A meeting has been held in Post Oak !
canon, Wichita mountains, and a min-
ing district organized. I here were
1 :.:J present.
The premature publication of a mar-
riage caused the prospective bride to
refuse to marry after the license had
been procured.
The army worm came too late to in-
jure the wheal, but they are damaging
oats and. in some localities are strip
ping corn liehls bare.
I . S. District Attorney Seotliorn is
laid up by a. kick from a liorse. He
was trimming a colt's fetlock and the
kicking drove the scissors into his leg.
Many snapshots are being taken of
harvest scencs in Oklahoma, the pic-
tures, or many of them, being designed
for sending to friends in eastern states.
The Choctaw road has offered to
oring a ear load of bronchos from
Weatherford, Texas, to be used by the
>\vboys in their contests at the rough
riders' reunion.
Of the students in attendance at the
University of Oklahoma last year. 1 1 1
were sons or difughters of farmers.
The sheriff of Kay county has ordered !
all saloons closed oil Sunday. A tight 1
against slot machines is also in prog-
ress.
The Rock Island lias 21 bridges to
build between Mountain View and
Granite, the longest one. to span the
north fork of Red river, will be ■)■>" feet
long. A large bridge crew is now at
work. The company has a crusher at
work preparing ballast.
Milan Cowlcs, a farmer near Kremlin,
was injured, probably fatally, by a
train while going home from town,
lie was accustomed to walking on the
railroad track.
A strong gale occurred in Central
Oklahoma on the ISth, doing no im-
portant damage, but it was searey.
The young fruit was thinned out but
there is enough left on the trees for
the good of the crop. Wheat was in
the shock. Farther north the wheat
was-nearly all standing and dead ripe,
Smu tvas lodged badly.
The Indian Territory hardware deal
ers propose to organize.
The Creeks and C'hoctaws are to play
ball at the rough riders' reunion.
'orn in the Chickasaw nation is high-
er than a horse s head and is now tas-
sel ing.
Adam Regnier has Ih'cii arrested at
Danville, 111., for murdeo committed
at Colgate, I. T.
Indian Agent Stoucli of the Darling-
ton agency, has sent in liis report to
the Interior department.
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory
millers have organized anil will pledge
faith with the Kansas millers.
O. D. liotkin, brother of Congress-
man Itotkin, of Kansas, died at his
home at Gray Horse, O. T., aged 04
years.
Lieutenant R. C. Day has s"nt $10
from the Philippines to the Rough
Riders reunion, ile was with the boys
in C. '.ia.
On July 3 and 17 and August 7 and
21 the M. K. it T. will sell tickets to
all points in Indian Territory at great
ly reduced rates.
The strike among the coal miners at
Indian Territory seems likely to end
soon. The head of the union for that
district is advising the men to return
to work.
Rock Island officials visited Musko-
gee, in their private car, while on their
way to Chickasha, where they went to
procure more land for a new depot and
' additional tracks.
S. W. Kelly, of Kansas had a carload
of hay seized for non payment of roval-
I ty. U. S. Commissioner Don Carlos, of
Vinita decides that be cannot recover
for it. lie will appeal.
A sensational trial was heard in tlha
1'nited States court at South McAles-
ter, in which a dressmaker had brought
suit against the proprietor of a dry
goods store for slander.
Fire started in a restaurant in Du-
rant, 1. T.. anil fifteen business houses
were destroyed with their stocks of
goods. Durant is the largest town be-
tween South McAlester and Denison.
The Tuskahoma party, in convention
nominated G. \N . Dukes, of 'I alihani,
for principal chief of the ' lioctaw na-
tion, in opposition to Dr. K. N. \\ right,
I of Atoka, the nominee of the L'nion
I party.
| Twenty-two stolen horses were re-
I covered in the Creek country. They
I had been re-branded for shipment. One
! of the thieves wascaptured and hanged
and another one was shot but he got
away.
The full blood Cherokees are refusing
to be enrolled by census enumerators
because they fear that their work will
be used for their enrollment by the
Dawes Commission. They repudiate
the enroll"1 'lit by that commission.
On the committee to notify President
McKinley of his nomination arc P. L.
Soper, of the Indian Territory and W.
J. French, of Oklahoma. T
Governor Roosevelt are lb*. \\
Williams, of Indian Territory,
Prin<'ev. of Oklahoma.
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Mr. Sol Blevins, near Neal, O. T.
is harvesting 120 acres of tine wheat,
has six acres of potatoes, between
twenty-five and thirty acres of
cotton, thirty acres of corn and between
100 and 200 acres of pasture and hay,
anil not a poor crop 011 the place.
The Indian Territory Medical asso-
ciation has been in session at Wagoner.
Officers were elected as follows: Dr.
Leroy Long, of Caddo, president: Dr.
Gardner, of Oologah, vice president;
Dr. J. N. Fain, of Wagoner, second
5 vice president: Dr. Fred S. Clinton, of
of Tulsa, secretary and treasurer. Ad-
| journment was taken to meet at Mus-
' kogee. December next.
At mine number 8, at Krele. I. T.,
\ Jack C. Jones was killed and J. M.
! Boxendale seriously injured while tim-
j beritig to prevent the fall of slate.
| Captain Jack KUis. chief of Indian
j police. 11. O. Love, permit collector,
and li. L. Reams, tax collector of the
1 Chickasaw nation, are in Ardmore for
^ the purpose of collecting the tribal
! taxes. Captain Kllis said the 1'nited
j States is assisting the tribal authori-
; ties in collecting these taxes in a legal
I manner and intimated that delinquent
merchants would be ejected.
1 It is believed that 1,000 Knights of
Kliarassau will be in Oklahoma City
I during the rough riifers' reunion.
J. 10. Benedict, superintendent of Ii.-
I dian Territory schools, has been visit-
ing the various normal schools in the
| territory and reports that educational
| interests are advancing all along the
line. At the Tahlequah normal 125
! teachers are in attendance: at Tuska-
| homa seventy-five and at Eufaula for-
! ty-tive. The other normals are also
| well attended and the interest this
j year is greater than ever.
To drum beat and heart beat
A soldier marches by;
There is color in his check,
There is courage in his eye;
Yet to drum beat and heart heat.
In a moment he must die.
By star-light and moon-light
He seeks the Briton's camp.
He hears the rustling flag
And the armed sentry's tramp;
And the star light and moon light
His silent wanderings lamp.
With slow tread and still tread,
He scans the tented line;
And he counts the battery guns
By the gaunt and shadowy pine,
And his slow tread and still tread
Give no warning sign.
The dark wave, the plumed wave!
It meets his eager glance,
And it sparkles neath the stars
Like the glimmer of a lance,—
A dark wave, a plumed wave,
On an emerald expanse.
A sharp clang, a steel clang!
And terror in the sound,
For the sentry, falcon-eved.
In the camp a spy hatli found;
With a sharp clang, a steel clang
The patriot is bound.
With calm brow, steady brow,
He listens to his doom;
In his look there is no fear,
Nor a shadow-trace of gloom;
But with calm brow, and steady bi*ow,
He robes him for the tomb.
In the long night, the still night,
He kneels upon the sod,
Aid the brutal guards withhold
E'en the precious Word of God;
In the long night, the still night,
He walks where Christ has trod.
'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn,
He dies upon the tree,
And he mourns that he can lose
But one life for liberty;—
And in the blue morn, the sunny morn,
His spirit-wings are free.
But his last words, his message words
They burn, lest friendly eye
Should read how proud and calm
A patriot could die,
With his last words,his message words,
A soldier's battle-cry!
From Fame Leaf and from Angel Leaf,
From Monument and Urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His history shall learn.
And on Fame Leaf and Angel L«eaf
The name of Hale shall burn.
its bell was used to summon the peo-
ple to worship, to toll for their funer-
als, and to tell them at 9 o'clock each
night that it was time to rake up the
fires and go to bed. In 1797 it was
bought by a son of Capt. John Parker
and removed to his homestead, re-
maining there for nearly a centnry.
Then it was purchased by the Lex-
ington Historical society, restored to
its original appearance and replaced
on Belfry hill.
Three buildings of great historical
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" LEXINGTON AND "
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The village of Lexington lies about
ten miles northwest ol Boston. 1 he
first settlement, was made there in
1040 near the site of what afterwards
became known as the Buckman Tav-
ern. There still remain in the village
several well-preserved bouses which
were standing at the time of the bat-
tle of Lexington 12;") years ago. 1 hey
have been well cared fcr and have un-
dergone little change. They add much
to the historic interest of the place
and are annually visited by thousands
of tourists. The local historical society
has placrd tablets 011 them enumerat-
ing the dates and facts of especial in-
terest.
Lexington Common is in the form
of a triangle and stands nearly in the
center of the village. At the time of
the fight on April 19, 177."), it was an
open space and used as a drill ground
for the militia. Today it is a beautiful
park. At the southern end of the tri-
angle is what is known as the Pulpit
monument, in the form of a granite
pedestal surmounted by an open Hlble.
This monument stands on the site of
the first three churches built by the
colonists. Just behind it. properly
protected, is a thrifty elm which was
set out by Gen. Grant 25 years ago
on the centennial anniversary of the
battle. Near the northwest corner of
the Common is the Minute-men mon-
ument, at the foot of which are buried
those killed in the battle. It is quaint-
ly inscribed and bears the names of
those whose last resting place It
marks. In 1824 Lafayette was given
a public reception in front of this
monument, and fourteen survivors of
Capt. "Parker's men shook hands with
him. Near the northeast corner of
the Common is a huge boulder mark-
ing the place where Parker's men were
drawn up. Engraved on the boulder
is a musket and Capt. Parker's com-
mand to his men.
The original church on the Common
had no steeple and a belfry was erect-
ed near by. In 17G1 a new belfry was
erected on Belfry hill, just to the west
of the Common. From this belfry rang
out the alarm on that memorable
morning 125 years ago. The belfry
remained on the hill until 1791; then
it was removed to the Common and
THE HANCOCK-CLARK HOUSH.
LEXINGTON. MASS.
interest stand one opposite each of th
three sides of the Common. To the
east is the Merriam House, known at
the time as the Buckman Tavern, the-
rendezvous of the minute-men. It
was fired on by the British regulars-
and the bullet holes can still be seen.
To the west of the Common is the
Monroe house, built in 172S. A bullet
passed through the glass over the
door and imbedded itself in a bureau.
The bureau, bullet and all, is in the
possession of one of Monroe's descend-
ants at Chicopee, Mass.
At the north of the Common is til*
Harrington house,at the door of which
the original owner died with his head
in his wife's lap the morning of April
19, 1775.
Only 100 rods northeast of the Com-
mon is the famous Hancock-Clais .
house. The original part of the house,
which is now the rear L, as shown in
the Illustration, was erected in 1698 by
Rev. John Hancock. His son built the
two-story front in 1734. After Rev.
John Hancock's death it passed
the hands of Rev. Jonas Clark, wV •
had married Hancock's granddaugh-
ter. The ministry of John Hancock
and Jonas Clark extended over a pe-
riod of 105 years. Young John Han-
cock and Samuel Adams were hiding
with Rev. Jonas Clark in this house
when warned to flee by Paul Revere..
—A. M. D.
A man ought to show the same con-
sideration for his wife's pleasure after
they are married as before.
A man never accomplishes much till
he has got something behind him to b
ashamed of.
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Campbell, W. P. The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1900, newspaper, June 28, 1900; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102594/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.