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Cleveland County Leader.
VOL.: 2 " , _
general news.
Condensed for Co„Ven|en„ of IIur.
rie<l Rca I era*
A motioc has been made in the
chancery Co,,"1 to sell the Memphis-
MeL~ lVna?.rhC by thc f'^tees.
Messrs. A. 1). Uwynn and U. J
gan.
Wor-
was
Mrs. Sarah A. Cleveland
burned to death in Utirange
hnday night. She fell asleep heW
dress Bnd U,U flamcs
Now
Martin "m Mulahy- ed - Tears, and
martin Moore, aged f,o vcars wppp
suffocated by smoke during- a fi're that
Yorkelf T.N° V 'Va'-1
JorUCity, I Imrsday night.
inItI!IrarS,,!!eWopen tllc ,Br?e safe
clal ri i", <"'OVO' *11- l ank Tllurs-
♦ hin 8 H,'"' !nn(1° 1UV«.V " itli every-
thing o( value in the vault The loss
b-inU „mn<1,pnpe.l's is est'n'ated by thc
bank officials to be $:ir.,000.
The official inquiry into the cause
I'°"i8vllle & .leffersonville
idge disaster will begin next Mon-
day morn,nP at 10 o'clock. The coro-
icr has impaneled his jury and sum-
moned about forty witnesses.
erT^rCui,rn.atio" ot CaPt in Thrash,
er, who has been for four years Unit-
en state* revenue agent, lately in i
Charge of Tennessee and Kentucky and
has been accepted to take effect .lan'u- CC)I1
ary 8. His successor is Major Clark, a bac
ot. Louis man. ♦ •«
The Red Star steamship Bhynlard
which arrived at New York late Sat-
urday night after a fourteen days-
voyage from Antwerp brought in ten
1,8 ««" injured from being thrown
around the decks during the succes-
sion of gales which pounded the ship
for eleven days.
Tuesday morning at the Cincinnati
Southern railway shops. Chatanoogr,,
< harles Ueckcrt, white, and Jestie
i^ang. colored, were instantly killed
h.v an explosion of the boiler of ar.
engine They were repairing the en
gine, when lieekert struck a bolt by
mistake, causing the explosion of a
steam flue.
Every man in the employ of the
hicago City Railway company from
'he president down, ;i,000 in all, have
been vaccinated, all in a bunch. He-
cause of the smallpox scare now on,
orders for general vaccination were is-
sued, and for five days three doctors
were kept busy.
At White Pine, Tex., ,1. M. Fain was
shot and instantly killed Tuesday af-
ternoon by Policeman Smith, lain
was married last Tuesday The day
following he had a bitter quarrel with
Smith. They met Tuesday in the de-
pot and Kain drawing a knife started
toward Smith, who drew his revolver
and fired one shot.
At a special meeting of the chamber
of commerce in Portland, Ore., Friday,
resolutions were introduced, contra-
dicting and condemning the state-
ments contained in (ieneral Penover's
J hristinas letter to President Cleve-
land. After a heated debate the res-
olutions were referred to a committee
of seven for amendment.
A llonn to Iluninnlty.
A number of our great and mnst In
vcterate-tobacco smokeisand ehewers
have quit the use of the filthy weed.
J he tahsmanic article that i!o-s the
work is No-to-bac. The reform was
itarted by Aaron (iorber, who was a
conhrmed slave for many years to the
use of tobacco, lie tried the ue of
iNo-to-bac, and to his great surprise
and dehg-ht it cured him. lion. C. W.
Ashcoin, who had been smoking for
Sixty years, tried No-to-buc, and it
cured liiin. Col. Samuel Stontener.
who would eat up tobacco like ti cow
eats-hay, tried this wonderful remedy,
and even Samuel after all his years Jif
slavery, lost the des'ro. .1. C. Voider
Leasing Evans Krank Hell, <ieorge It
May, C. O. Skillington, IXan on liobi-
nctt, I-rank Hershberger. John Shinn
and others have since tried No to l.ac
and in every case they report, not only
a cure of thc tobacco habit, but a won-
lei-ful improvement in their general
physical and mental condition, all of
which goes to show that the use of to-
bfccco had'been injurious to them in
more ways than ona,
All of the above gentlemen are so
well pleased with the results that we
do not hesitate to join them in rccom
mending it to suffering humanity, as
we have thoroughly investigated' and
are satisfied that Xo-to-bac does the
work well and is a boon to mankind.
' he cost is trifling a dollar a box—
and the makers, The Sterling Remedy
company, have so much faith in Xo-to-
bac that they absolutely guarantee
three boxes to cure any case, or refund
money. One box in every instance in
the above, effected a cure, with one or
two exceptions. Xo-to-bac has a won-
derful sale upon its merits alone
throughout the United States, and can
be secured at almost any drug store in
t his country or Canada, and it. is made
by Dio Sterling Remedy company
Chicago office. 13 Randolph street;
^ork ottic-, jo Spruce street.
LfcMNGTON, OKLAHOMA Ti:I!I;no];Y. SATURDAY, .lAM'AliY 13, ]«)).
the TWO mtiuro
Coiwl *>n«Pil Va...y ..r 1 .... ...
News Of Oklahoma at?d f«,
(linn Ten ituriftN.
Newkirk ha
an election
this week,
very sick
'• 'lore U t.ilk of
men's association,
rldne
has moved molwOKLD'S FAIR BURNED.
territorial lire- |
Airs. Dennis Flynn is still very siclJ'aSt M°"day'
ashington.
A girl named Annie Rooney teaches
school near Edmond.
I lark left for Washington
1"lfty attorneys were
the bar at Perry Monday
admitted to
liss Xoe of Edmond recently said
Judge Dale adjourned court at Perry i J c'_s "t " cei"° i°ny at Oklahoma City
U, ,,,, I ' ' ouifL
ium IhePrets, Everett. Pa., Dec
IS, W?3. I /
I A cipiiii ^;iies from Perkins
I centily soli/ f Jy fI, .'00.
., Mrs. Klizabetli 4jrc,-n. one of the
o!dest persons in Iliddcftud, Me., died
Thursday night, aged D3. llbfi was a
sister of Captain John F. Hartley
assistant secretary of the UniteJ
States treasury.
Thc American Association of Breed-
ers of .lacks and .lennets met Friday
at the Maxwell house, Nashville.
President Leonard ot Missouri, w&ire-
elected president, and J. U. Fultou
secretary. '
for the term Saturday.
The Enid postoflice is n money order I
ottice, commencing Monday.
Kingfisher has an institution called
tile southern Fur company.
As far north as Enid the children
are still running- barefoot.
Nam Small has left Oklahoma City
and the sinners feel safer.
i he society ladies of Oklahoma C'itv
received New Year's day.
x,van^s to be connectea
with Enid by a mail route.
I he demand for residences is con-
stantly increasing-in El l.'eno.
The merchants of Perry do a large
business with the Otoe Indian^.
The Presbyterians will be the first
to erect a church in Enid.
The merchants of Enid have pre-
sented city Marshal Charles ltell with
a gold star.
Sid Clarke may be able to put a bi<
bug in Chairman Wheeler s ear.
The Perry Enid & Pacific has nc
gone into the hands of a receiver.
Fire Chief Powell of El
'V wol',<1 s appropriation for
Oklahoma was si.-,,000. (If this amount
only S'.*,244.40 was used.
A nterry-g i-ronnd at Stillwater wa
sold last week for ?;, ,) on a f 1,000
mortgage.
Ardmore has a horse with a coat of
wool as thick and white us that
| the back of a she ,'p.
According to the Herald El R
( more than doubled its population and
wealth the last year.
There is a prevailing fear in Oklaho-
ma that Mrs. I,ease having lost Iter
job, will move to Oklahoma.
Wall v
SOME OF THE
BUILDINGS IN
Manufacturers'
PRINCIPAL
ASHES.
II il 11 (ti II .Untie llull,
Caaino and tlio iVrUtylc in It «iln<-Be-
lieved to Have llccu >ot on I'ire l v
Tramps.
Onrr. a riiinaman, won
t horse at a Christmas rafle in (inthrie.
j > ally threw with the dice.
been presented wilh'a wuvenh- "'ad^ torhw%$t l'""'"1 llttS,boc?. an'est
fitI K r'?1 women, red, white, am
l lie ( apital Xatonal bank ot (luth- ^'^ck, on the streets of Caddo.
riehas l-'2,84il.8J in individual de-
posits.
The First National Hank of Oklaho-
ma City has 8118,583.f>0 individu il de-
posits.
1 lie city of El Keno appropriated
i ^4.50 the other uig-ht to pay a man for
j "i*auliii£ and buryiu^ six dead dogs."
John 1*. .Tones, a lleiin«'ssey man
who was known all over the territory,
. sil*tfle statehood lost a wann friend has skipped by the light of the moon,
in the death of Judiro Monroe nf vi.
Duncan. ^ . Almost, erery man in Beaver county
j |ia® extra load in his gun for Onus-
Arkansas tobacco is advertised as a 1,Cl; man who got up the secession
great luxury over in the vicinity of urti^es.
Clayton. J 1
- The dark eejl in the L'uit<>d btafes
jnil at (iuthrie has not beeu used for a
long time.
^The Iveeley institute at Oklahoma
.celebrated its second anniversary
on Siil^YMi
Tin* Knights of Pythias- of King-!
flshej;,IravC' tlieii fourth annual ball if the Indians are all corral->d into
• a unary 1. ^ ^ " one •eparatc state we ma| •>. \ ■
vine president recognii-u ' s -natoi
| In1 mediately after the opening Mr.
1). I'.. Cook, of Newkirk started a
school. It was the first in the Chero-
kee strip.
The local man on the Enid Wave has
issued a uknse restricting <ieb ie ill
the city council on a uotlon'to adjourn
to three hours.
At Southampton while a cylinder ' phone system
was being sunk at the wharf to be
used by the American line of steam-
ships. it exploded and is said to hare
caused the death of several workmen
who arc missing.
hnid has "begun to believe that life ! warMi-on-tt, -
lisnot worth living without « ! Mmgue.
• 1"rancis 1 heodore Walton, known as
'Plunger ' Walton, lessee of the (Jraini
hotel, 1234, Iboadway. New York, lias
made an asignment to Charles L. Wal-
ton. with preferences ainoiintiny- to
$200,000. _ Poor business caused the
failure.
tele-
j T he eastern papers are publishing u
11 is denied that the member* of the ' ^n:" K'"«^'".imtinsr n liorsc
A London paper publishes an article
in reference to the Columbian exposi-
tion. in which it says that perfect
chaos prevails in the management or
ex-management of the fair, and that
unless some superior authority comes
to the rescue the prospects of anv
British exhibitor getting his goods
back safely are extremely remote.
The Pacific mail steamships after
February 1, will perforin once a week
mail service b-tween New York and
Colon, instead of thirty-six trips a
The four years'contract with
ft W<iuires the company
triPs il year
I wjl.tunil callus-, fears and tlfty-
* uiy BurJticsl operutiou: Do*^el' iialf of
IractteJib at reason iblo price..
liKXiy'ITOM . . 'f the
HAICK '& TKANSfSi
The secretary of siate and the Brit-
ish embassy are pursuing negotiations
for an agreement upon regulations to
police Reining sea. ft is important
that these regulations should lie
agreed upon before the opening ,,f the
sealing season.
The manager of Midway Plaisanec,
dancers wlioare engaged at St. Louis,
has skipped out and left them witlu .
funds. Thursday some of the troupi
became engaged in a general light at
the hotel where Miey were st ppin^
and a number of them were badly cut
and bruised.
The (lefendaht's attorneys lilc<
brief Friday as the preliminary step
towards next Fridays hearing, by thu
appellate court, of the appeal from
.ludge Stein's order, imposing lines for
contempt of court upon the world':,
fair directors and Director (Ieneral
(ieorge It. Davis.
El Reno lire department lain
hose Christmas eve.
, Johnny-Little-Man-Wai path is at
the head of the Second Reader class in
the public school at Watonga.
The Santa Fe train that went
through Oklahoma Friday night had
twenty-seven guards on board.
A meeting of bachelors and widow-
ers is announced at Rattle Snake
Roost, in Arapahoe, this week-.
Adams, who shot Couch, is still in
the Kansas penitcntiarv. lie reads
the Oklahoma ( ity papers closely.
The city school bonds of Hennessey
have been sold for M,(>«<). The money
. | hi Ino jail yard at El Reno. The iall
up their jn the picture looks like a mUlion-dol
lar castle. ■
Sidney Hark says that copies of all
the territorial papers will be of use in
arguing for statehood and he wants
ti.cm sent to the National lioU
Washington,
<>f course if the Indian territory
admitted with Oklahoma, the fngi-
ti \es from justice in Texas. Kansas,
Arkansas and New Mexico, will lose a
t iysting place. Hut this country is
not being run for the criminals.
According to tlio Enid Wave William
Henry Harrison Jasper Jones made ap-
plication the other dsiv to file on a
Will be used to build' a school 7,uYl\i- tlmt"
' ■' S i A
lam-'o CmUtrce;
r Ti
K
in the damage suit of James >
Rhodes, of the Minnesota coal com
bine, against the legislators who forci-
bly seized liis books, the supreme
court as the referee in the case has de
, cided that each of the seven legis.'a
tors must pay Rhodes $roo The stuti
I't oprietoi**1^ liH-ve to foot the bill.
,r "oCNrr 1 A• Utah, the .larvis.Conkl,,
IransfiTti r.aionnblc. Your putruingnolTcit-"r,CaR° Company has tiled suit foi
"closure of a mortgage amount-
_^g tto over 82,070,000, involving the
/great irrigation canal system, cover
; ing a vast tract lying between the
northern shore of the (treat Salt Lake
and the southern boundary of Idaho
The lllackstouc Ituilding and Loan
association of St. Louis has assigned
to Henry O. Seigmnnt. Inability tc
find the books or Secretary Lindborn
puts a sensational phase upon the
aft a i r. it is impossible to leant th<
assets and liabilities, though esti
mates place each at about .•f.'VOOO
Lindborn was bonded for $20,000.
The Chicago, Minneapolis ,fc O.naht
vestibule limited dashed through the
small town of Fulrchild, Wis., and
struck a broken rail on aeiyve at that
place. The engine and two coachei
W. T. KING.
DRAYMAN
Daily trips to and//'I'Viu.ni'u,,'
LKXINGT(>NT, - is but 200
—.mi day to day
OH • r onon is a thing of the
A terrible punishment according to
I report, has been inflicted upon a wo-
) man in Pondeland, ,vho was accused
of causing the death of her child by
• witchcraft. l'he woman was bound
I to a stake planted in tli" middle of nil
I ant hill and her body stripped of all
I clothing, was smeared from head to
foot with grease. The ants attracted
|bv the grease s . anned nil over I lie
|lifortunale ereatuiv and cven'uallv
'evouied her
The Pueblo (Col.) Dally Journal
|>uhlishcs its ti est issue tomorrow af-
Senator John M 1'almer is one of
Itlie bondsmen of Charles Whitctulr
who is charged with killing an Indian
over in the Osage country.
Deer must be getting scarce or the
Oklahoma hunters uncommonly poor
\\ . II, Riley of El Reno spent
days hunting in the Wichita mi tlio part of the
country recently and brought down Okluhoma.
only one deer.
name lapped over on an ail-
uartcr that had already be
hots,
ten
,1 uning <
tiled on.
War depart inent statistics show that
ihe Indihu does not t,s(j the sights on
a rille and can not shoot in the same
class with the white man. This, in a
mea-ure explains tlie luaguiticeut in-
difference to Indian warpath scares
people of Western
Secretary Lowe has granted a char-
ter to the Hoard of Trade of Newkirk
™ rg-ini/.atl-n l£ : harlered f r (if't>
years \vith a capital of 81,0(H), The
stock is divided into loo shares of the
par value of Sin each.
Alva Pioneer; A few weeks ago
nearly eveiy business firm around the
square agreed to place a barrel of salt
water in handy proximity to their
places of business, lint very few have
lone so. A scarcity of barrel;
•xctise .
the
left the track and smashed into t
lii.ie house and broke off two tele
graph poles, lint no person was soi l
oti sly injured. Trafllc >vus dela yet
ten hours.
Mr. Wilson, one of thc best hnnwr
moon. It will appear as an after- ,,ull,ol'itlt,s "" «nnnce, and edltoro
QD paper until about March I. am! I lnv,>slor's Review published ii
sue a Sunday morning edition with n I 1-ondoii, says, Inau article publisliec
ill report. After March 1st it u.j|| in liis paper, that if the •ffafrs of tin
•mo out both morning anil evening Ihlllk of I'iuglund are a lowed todrlf
lie Journal plant Includes a large job I heretofore since th • act of Isbi i'
•intlng dcpartineiit and binder' in " crisis mpareil uitl
Idition to the only li thogi a piiin-| u 1;cilupse will < I v.-111
nnt bet wen lienver and sail l i nn <llc •""Ignlll ance. Little ii
fco. K, J, Laud Is the prime ir.ovc, ! '« < «". he says, or tvo bank s trm
the enterprise its iHuiiagcr'uud '•"Udithin, and the direetois arc re
inaflng editor | sponsible 1 for the iiiishaiidling o
* bu State I'roi Idciit fund
Killikiiiick, or kinnikiniek. which
tlio Indians are in the habit of mixing
with tobacco, is rapidly bteomlar ex-
tinct. Several plants have received
this name which have no right to it.
The true herb is the inside bark of a
young willow.
According to Attorney llarrold .Na-
than the depositors of the Madison
Square bank are going to bring civil
suits against the directors of the bunk
to recover from them individually the
9110,000 alleged to hnvo been deposit
od Aug ist ? and s.
The operators of the Kidd mines
west of liellair, ()., have posted no-
tices of 10 per cent reductions to go
into effect January 1. I'lie men will
resist the reduction and a strike may
ensue. Thc Troll mines posted u sim-
ilar notice, but later withdrew it
i The territory of Oklahoma lias at
this time six Lpiscopal, Hi.", Methodist,
twenty-live ttepttat, twenty-tour Con-
gregational, tucirty-live Catholic and
twenty-four Presbyterian churches,
three Kpworth Leagues, and lifty
Christian Hndcavor societies.
!, Assistant Secretary Reynohls of the
interior has made an important dc-
e'e-ion in the |>ousif>n case of Jam " 10.
II irrison. Harrison'( pension is re-
voked because, as allege'1, it, was
shown that he incurred Ins wound
while not in pursuit of duty, but on
pleasure bent.
I hi-, letter is said to have h'ca re-
ceived by an Oklahoma superintend-
ent of schools:
"mr.~ Superintendent of Schools
Want a provitunal Cirtitlieatn to teach
School till next regular exautitig day
School will be ill Township -of ranee
i: of-Co o !C Ter"
CincAno, Jan. —The world's fair
Pompeii catno last night. A rushing
volcano of tlame, huge gotliic arehi-
teetnre tumbling into chaos, bewil-
dei'ed mobs of people—alt were there
under a great starry sky of Italian
clearness, with Lake Michigan's broad
expanse a second Mediterranean.
Probably no more magnificent, yet
terrifying,spectacle has ever b3en wit-
nessed this side of the Atlantic.
It was long after dark when belated
people returning fioiu work to their
homes in the southern suburbs along
the. elevate t road, familiar to hun-
dreds of thousands of world's fair
visitors noticed a constantly enlarg-
ing column of fire ascending sky ward
in the East.
<.'oll;t|)«o or tlio I'oriniylc.
I lie fire had been burning less tliaa
an hour when a thunderous crash of
falling timber and a trem-udoui shout
went up from the crowd announcing
the collapse of the Peristyle. A mo-
ment later another .terrlfle yell from
the crowd told that tin; Liberal Arts
building had caught tire, and that the
whole exposition was threatened. \
dramatic incident marked thc destruc-
tion of the Peristyle. One ot the lad-
ders bearing up a group of tireinen
fell with the columns and one of tlio
heroic fighters went down to death
while a number of others suffered In-
juries mote or less severe, l'he sky
was livid, brilliant at this time with
falling sparks, many of wiiieh fell
away to the north, showering tlio
roofs ,,f tile Art Palace. Women's
building and tlio various state strue-
uroi with fire.
Whirlwinds of blazing embers were
being carried from the end of the
ourt of Honor furthest from the Ad-
ministration building high over Ihe
n ililimoth 1-n<ji of ih.' Liberal Arts
buiUiioi". tile largest structure on
earth. The great golden statue of
thf republic could be seen lifting her
iibi-iy e: defiantly almost through
the clouds vii KinokS afid flame
St: rtp.l la t.'ia < nm , ll,itl,|i..7.
'tuv Hreirtad in Ilia Casino, u t
civ it tilt \r ' 't.'imil building said |
south ' tir- Peristyle 1 ( asitio I
ivas <j •- tly devourei^ snl th • i^nes
sur - d north o:i t ip of tli3 P.-ri I
and dropping n nl.- a sec.mt line
lire along the ha ■ of the'>Mumu
l'he flumes then sprang thr .iL.h ti,- ;
Music hall, which corresponds at the
r.orth end of the Peristyle to tin; Cas-
ino it the south.
While tli - lire was burirng there
was one of the inuit singular and fas-
cinating sights of the night. Aloag
tin1 t >p of the Peristyle were scores of
statues 'l b • spe -ta -le for those peo
pie fortunate enough to be on thc
sidewalk just easi of tli" Peristyle was
that, of a succcssi >n of gigantic hu-
man beings plunging on * after an-
other headlong into the watc-s of It ho
lake below.
The origin of the Ii
revenge ou t!io pa
of tram os. The
In the Music lull
before the linnet bro
two vagal onds out of Musii
told them to fiud iiu irters
NEWS NOTES.
Judge II M I'orterdled at his homo
m Mohcrly, Mo.
l.corge W. Savage. Tinted States
consul at Dundee, Scotland, is dead.
a',1',1' l!!',itlsl,' 8tinier Volga was lost,
<> M he \\ .nd w ant islands with 0.V)
I mnese aboard.
Kent.i -Icy Democrats nominated thc
Non. Wiliiatn Lindsay for I niteil
Mates senator. ||0 |la(1 no opponent
in t ic Held.
An Iron Mountain engine blow up
"Car Newport, Ark., and the fireman
and brakemnn and forty-eight head o
cattlo were killed.
A eoiupany has been incorporatei'
t" ■ "iiId a railroad from Kentonvillc
Ai'i; to the Missouri lino.
Kx-Vico President, Morton has un
del-gone a successful surgical opera
lion on his left foot in Paris. Ili
euro is only a question of a few days
ihe Kansas Federation of Labo
passed a resolution denouncing Labo
Commissioner Todd and censuring th
governor for standing by him.
Ivx-Vice President Levi P. Morton
now in I ill-is, has completely recovere
f on, the effects of the surgical ope,
foot ! Jnn recently upon his let
It is sai l that Kolbltes, Populist
anil He publicans are to unito to clec
Kolb governor of Alabama
Sister Clemen tine, a nurse at SI
Josephs hospital, Springfield. III.
was crushed to death by a fall in-
elevator. '
w. II llommer, financial secretar
of a switchman's aid lodge al Littl'
Luck, Ark., has left home, taking th
lodge s funds with him.
l'he London Telegraph says that tli
proposal to add Utah, Arizona ail
iVmv Mexico to the states of tli
American I nlon will probably invol*
the I n j ted States in enibarrassinen]
inorc ditticull to surmount than an
thus far experienced.
hvcry man in the employ* of ti
Chicago City railway company, fr
tlie president down, .1,000 in all h
be,'ii vaccinated, all in a bunch', I
cause of the smallpox scare now o
The secretary of state and ti,
Ijittisli ambassador are putsuingncg <
tliitioiis for an cut upon reg
iations to police Rehring sea.
lirnn.-'ii i n 111 grants who have 1
cctiUy arrived at Haiti,norc have be
swindled ill (icrmany by parlies who
induced (hem to change their good
inoiiey for notes of the late Southern
y onfeileracy.
I el ler of ('o'orado, savs he
admission of I * tali,
N,"v Mexico and Oklahoma
is sa
1 to be
t of a couple
solitary tfuard
a/r, that just
>ut he kicked
hall and
lie re.
mother of llellc
J hey left in tin.' direction of t'i<; (,'asi-
no ami soon att-r the tire br. ce out.
and m ever t iling on the ^rouuds
wa> terror and confusion.
Ihcliic boats and engines on tin'
lakeside had subdued the Haines iu
the ashes of tin* Peristyle and in tho
lower collonaile of the southeast side
of the Liberal Arts building, and
hopes \v re raised that the tire had
been subdued. Hut shortlv after 11
p. in. the Hames ^ t beyond control
up in th top pronieuade of the Arts
buil lintf- and the main aisle of the
building was a 111 is, of H imes arising
from the burning brands which ea:n^
from above.
Three tourists have lost their lives
in attempting to ascend the higher of
thc two peaks of the (Iross (iloolcner.
Dr. Kohn a body has been recovered!
but those ot his companions, believed
to have been named IMek and I>. 1'as-
sau have not yet been found.
'A chillier has been granted to the
Wester n I'nion Telephone Company,
of Perry, Oklahoma." The object of1
the organization is to construct ami
a telephone exchange and lines,
in and betwecu Enid, Perry, still- 1
water and Pawnee, and siich other
cities and towns as the companv mav '
deem advisable. The company has a '
capital of ^*5,000 and its charter is
good for twenty-one years.
I '• 1 here is a righteous protest against
the fee-grubbing deputy marshals who
1 arrest people on the charge of cutting
government timber without cause.
'Hint thing has been done so much
; that several lawyers in Arapahoe have
banded together and will defend the
| victims of such arrests free of charge.
j A few days ago a young lady ot Per-
kins stepped into a grocery store ear-
ryiug a half do/en spring chickc in In
her embarrassment she placed them
ter. and t lie young clerk
fvo her, "Will they lay
To which she stammered,
they are roosters." The
say that the clerk inav re-
I liree days airo ti
ages awaiting shipi
iDg was; Ma|) ..factl
way Plaisauce, l.'Ji
Woman's, sio; II
Transportation, c
Electricity,
and I,«.'Ui sc
making a
Less thim 11,( oo
shipped away
>' numix
cut in e
rcrs. 11,0
l.'UMi; 1 i lie A
Ilorticiiltun
o- Mining
i\>ii i n fun
d in ether buildings,
cf 23,054 pa< ' igcs
packages hi. be
prior to December
Of pack-
I'll lillild-
iTt: Mid-
Who 11orsowhippe<l.f; West
■ -"I n t Se.lalia wcr.v liJu'nd over
<■ ",.,o of felonious assault.
New \orkortieials have taken stepi
to ,v •• vo the unemployed of the
metropolis by giving them work. j
David Load in, a justice of the peace
aged 07. cut his throat at Shelbvville,
Imo. railure to secure a political ai -
pointment is said to have driven Lou-
den to take his life.
liovernor Flower in his message t<
the Nevv \ orlc legislature, announce*
that Hie state is free from debt, and
recommends lh.it measures b- taken
to do away with direct taxation
Mrs. Kii/.a Miirlev
Starr, died at Dal la?
A new sherill made a bungling
liunging William Farmer
loosa, Ala.
The Kansas Federation of Labor ha
tleiuanded ot (iovcrnor Lewelling th
removal of State Labor ( ommissione
1 odd.
All' Hsoo. C dl.T c.iiinlv, Ala . JoK
( lowers killed his brother in a lit of
an_rci\ t.'ie outcome of a quarrel over
a cli-ht of eighty cent«.
La Id win & Co., and Atkinson a
•"soii.s, grain dealers and operator
wi nt under at Fowler, Ind.. f,
$'J50,OO).
A powder-hou-c was blown up an«
a man fatally hurt at a coal shaftnc
W eir City, Kansas.
Adviser, from Sierra Leone, Scne-
Xambia, arc that the Hritish captain
of colonial police and twenty-six men
hail l>« n killed by the French.
at
job
I'li.sca
ar
At
[>iiiii,
Horace
Washing
lied for a
re ma i ill n g
, on tl^
i emaS|
there?
: - X-o si i
[ doctors
cover.
The oHieials in
land olliees iu th
upon to answer many que
and questions, bat the ottice at I'n Id i fl''1"' 'l'he total loss to exhibit,', will
charge of the
i territory at
vurio us
called
last. Most of the good
were foreign exhibits.
Shortly after 11 o'clock, four I
men were eaug t beneath a ci <>sh
falling timbers just outside the Man-
ufactures'building. Stream of water
were instantly p urcd upon the mass
and soon the injured men were h-
moved 'J'helr names could not bo
ascertained by ihe chief, but it. was
said all of the men were unconscious
when rescued and that two of them
uro fatally injured.
I'mitilei,I IIlKMrnil.otl.il, Talk*.
Al midnight I'reside nt lll^jjin-
bothain said lie h id been iu the burn-
ing building over t'\o hours: tliut the
roof had burned an I fallen, but that
fortunately none of tlio exhibits were
ill range of the falling enib-rs "1
should siy," said he, "that the lost by
than b\'
received a letter thc other lay which
contained a poser. The inquiry was
as follows: ' Whet must a fellow do
to hold his claim when his wife refuses
to go with him to live on It?" As the
law compels a married man to have
his family with him, the officials did
not feel equal to the task of telling
him how to proceed to britiir the
bctte half to time.
letters water would be much great
* 1 TI.« total loss to ex1
I b 100,000. Of
enough, but
not e
loss is
uow fairly under contrt
no more I'e 11\ Ml told
nirse the
the lire is
, and there h
the contents
of the Liberal Arts building did ml
execcd Sd,o > ',imij in value. Into the
Oisino I'enst.vie and Musi< h ill th.'re
is no loss. We should not regret their
burniug, as it I-. the elicnp-st way to
remove ♦ liein,
nit the
Speed, of 'iliial
ion wliere he \
con fere n <*e with th
11 i^ I''*ared t
(ripple alliance is menu «i bv i (l
riots in Sicily, uhich ivutirt j i\^
being fomented by the French.
Sidney Clark, ( hairtmu of the Okla-
>inmiltcu appointed
invention, reached
•day a 7 arid will
speedily be followed b- the other
iiii'inlier. of Ihe e iminlttee. who pro-
Jjoao now to get down to work in real
ca r n est.
A11 explosion of turpentine In a hard-
vyure store nt Flint, Mich, wrecked
Unit building and a number of others
partially
At Deep llottom. Ivan., Will Connor,
colored^ Slabbed Tom Hunt, colored,
twice near the heart, scve in
vessel, from which ho died
lioinu st itehood
'iI the Klng8sher
Washington yoste
a bio...i
instantly.
>rgia editor-
start a daily
Sun Snail, tli * He
angeiist, propose« to
paper at Oklahoiu i City
i be ironmaster* of Austria and
llungiir\ have agreed to renew the
iron ring for another three yearn.
Asa Wheeler, a tanner, fell through
bridge near Fake < ontrarw Mo , and
was killed.
<• \\ ichert, a cigar manufacturer
ind merchant of Nev.ton, Kan, fell
I ad of anoplex / wliile out with
.riends lie leaves a family well
••ared for.
The h.tnli
hank at (Ire
identified ill <
who ti
ii Ihdge
(Us 11 (a 11
' I t rob the
Mo. .has been
f Windsoa*.
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