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(PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I THE TWO TEKRITOi: i i>
J. L. ABERNETHY,
Attorney-at-Law.
LEXINGTON, o OKLAHOMA.
Will prctlce in all thi> courts of Oliliiliom.
•r 11*1 Ihi1 Indifiii Tirritovy, nud give prompt at-
tention to liasiiu'fi*,
Ht-flVnt by p< vmit-fcion to Hon.-I K .lours, t .
S. Minatov, ArleVbsii ; lion .lame* W Hutlcr,
JikIro or Third, .ludleiili t ircuit. llateeville.
Ark; Hon John II Mrrnlili. .Indite of Sixteenth
Judicial circuit, KymiIiiz Shade. Ark-
R. E. THACKER.
PHYSC1AN AMD SURGEON.
^SXISOTON, ... OKLAHOMA,
lit
J. H, EVEREST,4
AttorneyAt-Law.
OKLAHOMA < II V, - O. T.
Land Orticp prnr-ticc a Specially. Office room
iL Opera Ho nut* Block.
J. P. BUttOHFItILD,
SXS The Olil Ki'liniilo
H A C K M A X !
Makes liourlv trip* to and irmn Purcell
< all he found i:i Ir- lit « 1 tlio | otdofhee in
I'tin-elL ami in trout of Ahermitliy \s store
in Lexington.
L. GWYNNE
Justio© of Peace
AXn Attorney-at-Law.
LKXINO VoN PHK< INCT.
Will prscllco in 1'roba11* nml District Courts
Itral Estate papers carefully pvepareJ.
<'ullerliops holiclto i uud veil it lances prompt-'
ly made.
C. L. IiOTSFORD,
LA WYEE.
Practice in all coil *ts.
0!li<c Sen well Building, Norman, O.T.
SHOTO HOUSE !
IteBt ^I O'l a «l« y house in Hie «'ity. Don't for
get to etop with nie when in Lexington.
Mrs, Sallic: Story, Proprietor
LKX1MITOX, OKLAHOMA.
Dr. GEO. P. JOHNSTON"
Kv- Miiynm A !'. A s. mi I Ruck 1mI:iu'I Hallways.
Twenty Veil* Experience.
PHYSIGIAH AND SURGEOM.
fap-Oltiee o er «iri tilth's Drug Ho re
Lexington, Oklahoma.
DH. J. C. McNEES,
P;tys cianand Surgeon.
(Uli. o with Judge Abcrnuthy in the little
l ri< k bkek. up stairs. North Main S'.riet.
LEXINGTON. - O. T.
Calls Promptly Attended. Eirlv and L ite
A. T. 11 osh. C. \V. 13 re wep.
ROSS x- MR EWER,
I , A W V K IIS!
Will itractiee hi (lie Territorial ami Fed-
eral Courts, the Local Laml OHice ami the
1 apartments at Washington.
J AS. A. SHAVER,
1ST OTARY PUBLIC
STENOGRAPH Eli and TYPE WUITKR.
Special atteiiiion given to the taking or Dep-
opfcitious. All Natorial w ork ixeeutcil prompt-
ly. LEXINGTON, U. T.
A. NiCODEMUS,
Attorney-at Law,
Will practice in all the Cnm*b .
LEXINGTON, - - - OKLAHOMA.
A. P. HAMMEK,
-A-ttomoy La,w.
OKLAHOMA LITV, - . O. T.
Will urnctiee in all the Courts of the Terri-
tory. Land oliice prncliee a Snee.ilty
Koomt 5 and iopo-n llou-oh ock, Land offlra
huihiiuc Lock box *i7.
PURCELL DENTAL OFFICE.
Drs. McCONN & SEWLLL,
DENTISTS.
PURCELL, I. T
NEAL SMITH,
NOT-AJRY PUBLIC.
LEXINGTON. - OKLAHOMA.
oflieo with L. L Wynne.
A. A. DUNN, M.D.,
PHYSICIAN (HI SURGEON.
office In Purcell National Hank
W; T. KING.
Dijay
\ I A N"
CONGRESSIONAL AND
SUMMARY.
TSTew Barber Shop.
(Two doors West oT tln sboto Home )
1IENRV MORI 17, Prop.
LOCAI
suppers uro the fait
Newi m General of Oklnlir
the Indian Territory Her taint ng tt>
the Pale Face and the Red >Uu.
Kildare has got natural "gas.
Can any self-respected man approve
luch an injustice.
Eighty bales of cotton were brought
.nto Guthrie one day last week.
The violin which took the prize at
the world's fair has just turned up at
Dklahoma City.
The depositors of the O county bank
ire hopeful that that institution will
:>pon up again.
Hevi llorsch, a Mcnonitc missionary,
i A. W. Moltnuery b tmfuevr auyi-
j Intendcnt of the Cheyenne school at
El Reno.
\}ui boitun su\ that the govern
ment will locate an "^nctian scjiOtL.
WoodwarfL
Minco pic, it has just been discover-
ed by a territorial politician,is perren-
ial in Oklahoma.
The Indian police at this time of
the year arc very busy gathering in
the school children. What a time
Poor Lo must have.
Several papers are making' the
charge that the wood-haulers in the
Wichita reservation are arrested by
the deputy marshals much more cour-
s located at Arapaho© working among | ageously i«,Hn the outlaws,
ihc Cheyenne Indians. „„ i
! Tho Rotk Island is running- harvest
}>ig Foot Nell is an individual in Ok- excursions into Texas, but most of the
.ahoma City, who has a great faculty peopie nevci. get there. While they
;or petting into trouble. arc ^oing' through Oklahoma they yet
A Nebraska man found an old flint ; stuck on the lay of the land and de-
lock, in style over a hundred years j cifle to get off and inspect the country.
go, last week in Q county. | Capt grwin .1. Smith, of ltenison
It was two weeks before the body { Texas, was unpointed General Attor-
jf Mrs. Mel'eak, who was drowned in ney for the Chickasaw Nation by Gov.
Skeleton creek, was recovered. 1 l'almer Moslcy, the newly elected ex-
The average watermelon .in Beaver 11 is one of the beht Posltlon9
jounty will furnish nourishment and
ttomach ache to a whole township.
The fair at Stillwater closed last
neck. It was a success and showed
evidences of Oklahoma's prosperity.
"A N KiUURING ON DIVIDINO
jh' he Bowery kingdom.
THREE NEW NATIONS TO BE MADE
the
pen
in the Nation, and was secured over
I tive applicants. Mr. Smith is a native
i of Grayson county, Texas, a^id is not
j yet out of his twenties.
A queer circumstance has come to
light in Oklahoma, where a father and
Casey and Larson, the two prisoners j mother traded their daughter to a
who escaped from the Oklahoma jail young* farmer, who lived adjoining
have been capturcd at Carthage, Mis- them, for two cows, with the under-
*ouri. j standing that lie should keep her two
The civil service examination for the ' years and if he did i^ot like her at
mail service and the Indian schools is Ihe end of that time he could return
laking placo at Oklahoma City this her to her parents. Since then the
^•ec^ girl has given birth to a child, and it
^ I is reported that he is going to return
the girl to licr parents.
I'nder a new law the Pottawatomics
arc enabled to 'sell their land. The
absentee Shawnees will have the same
right.
The national treasury of the Chick
asaw nation is loeated in Paul \ alley. |
The tribe tells this opeuly.
nothing in it.
The man supposed to bo the u r
derer of Inkinish was captt:r.f£- 1
Deputy Marshal Madsen, Tbur&i
acar Kingfisher.
A printer in Oklahoma was i««ni
fied by people from Texas Ly t
clothes he wore. He had not Leo
Texas for six years either.
"If we could keep the atmospher«*-i
where it is" says an i<>kluhoniW ^
m talking of the wind, "we v
have the ti nest climate in the v. o .
A Tennessee man who c< i.<
north to take in Oklahoma \v«>> Li
in to the extent of a good ma iv
lars by some sharpers at (flUa
City.
Superintendent Cameron si •
If the county commissioner* fh
provide schools for colored chiW1'
the children can attend any *cio >1
that is open.
The boys have the laugh on Marshal
Nix. llurglars got into his house the
other night ami Mrs. Nix drove them
away, while, it is said, Mr. Nix drop-
ped in a faint.
The parents of the little girl, Cietha
Last week Mrs. John McCominis, a
white woman living in the Osage P es*
ervation.was called as a witness in the
I'nited States court against several
There is ■ (>s ge Indians, among them being Le
i ban A^iles aud Wamanko. Saturday,
W.-t ma-
ife of
Miles
Id -tyer
er
i at
• inn)a uf tl#a1 1 im* *ift(c' trie<i to kill
■ the ^rJplftirtnt. {!.>*{?,"Tor thei
* t Wy of'thb t^*o ehiblrcn born to tliem
and for an absolute divorce.
At exactly o'clock p. m. Monday At
the Pushmataha Court grounds, in
Jackson county, thirty miles east of
Caddo, Jim Allen, a full-Wooded Choc-
taw Indian, about '«.'4 years old, paid
I'orter who was hurt .some time ago ! (lu, (k,a(h p01,aUy ,)y bt,ing shot. He
at Terry, by the falling of the grand lWl,(1 ollly ci|fht minutes. When the
stand at a base ball game, will prob- junlr 0f'._ arrived a dog barked and he
ably sue for damages. , turned his Ilea.i to the dog just as
A whole family by the name of Heputy Sheriff ltob Jackson shot him
Higginbotham was arrested a few^ through the heart with a 4!-calibre
days ago, charged with coMfitf*"v ! iucli^tv
They having tried to intimidate
by the name of Cutwright au<?
him to leave the country.
Great excitement | prevails ot
report that the Cheyenne liulit
■ bout to go on the warpath,'
arc driving the cattle off tho
and any resistenee on the par
cattlemen is met with a hJi 1
from Winchesters.
It is reported tliat a fa mill
ing in a wagon between Ir
Waukomis, last Sunday, met •
fearful accident. It seems ti*.:
of powder was in tho wagili
can of gasoline. The powde
way became ignited when, o
an cr.plosion occurred, blot
wagon into smithereens audj
burning the whole family.
lie did not move for a
• Jumself back
I flu
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t
la
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her ■
itto remnfal ot
litiUy Trip* to ami from I urc.ll
I i:*lNfiTON, • - • " ° T.
F. P. MOSELY,
Attorney-at Law.
LEXINGTON, o o o o o O. T.
[J-Will prsctioe iu DUtrict, l'lobat# Md
Juttlre Convii.
The War Department is tut
energy to carry out tho dirtv,v4**u«-oi '
congress concerning tho removal of ' Geronimo is going lo *V.e unloaded
Geronimo and his band from Mount
Vernon Harracks. Ala. General How-
ard, commanding department of the
nyst, has just ordered Lieutenant Al-
ien Capron, Fiftieth infantry, with
Company I. Twelfth Infantry (India-
na), with all the Indian prisoners at
Mount Vernon Harracks, except Ks-
Kin-in-Zln, and his baud of about for-
tv Hu Carlos Indians, to proceod
"i.
in
Oklahoma and at the same time (Voops
are being removed from Oklahoma
Territory. Tho people of Oklahoma
think that if Arizona has a grievance,
Oklahoma's complaint is doubly just.
Fort Supply is especially needed in
Oklahoma siuco Geronimo and his
savage band of Apaches have been
brought back so near their old famil-
iar haunts in New Mexico. Forts Sill
without delay to Fort Sill, I. T., where and Supply are on tlio extreme out-
Lrxjv.i i<
Okl.allom i.
fhn\ i*c dnlr <"ittln? in I work pertaining
<« a tii>i clam harht i fihop, m*a>lynnd prorapi
Iv executed kn etylhliM neat ami clean, ( all
o'nee and v« u nil) n'eo I no in\l9ntioti in repeat
) oin \ '*• i I ' n' i i"i g t ih> i l o .
shuvlng, 10 i t-ntii buiv cultliig .A ceuti
the Indians will bo placed iu charge
of Lieutenant 11. L. Scott, Seventh
cavaliv- All of the property of the
Indians worth the cost of transporta-
tion will be taken to Fort Sill and es-
pecially door*, window sash, etc., of
use in the construction of new quar-
ters. Mount Vernon barracks will
then be abandoned as an army post
>f oklahoma and tho Indian
Territory and soldiers ought to be
kept garrisoned in them until all tho
reservations iu the territory are open-
ed to white settlement. A strenuous
protest should be sent by the people
of Western Oklahoma to the War Im-
part ment at Washington against the
abandonment of Fort Supply.
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S\TI UDAY, (KTOMKU (S, 1801.
NUMBER K)
vest ON HILX.
• real Hcutm lo lie f'nt Inio hole,
dont Monarchic* Whirli Will lie
IhcoiI Vndflr llm Itulo of Xanvo
l'rinrcKg The .laps Are Doing
Some I'retl.jr '(nil I' lEtiring
on the Future.
Loxdox, Oct. So confident is
Japan, according to reliable author
ity, of achieving the conquest of China
with out serious trouble that the Jap-
anese oHieials are figuring already on
dividing the Jlowcry kingdom int
independent monarchies which will
be pi aced under the rule of native
prinocs, one of whom will be Li Hung
Chang. If necessary, Japan will call
a coiifcrcnec of the powers to decide
the matter.
It is also reported that Russia lias
notitied L th Japan and ( hina thrt it
will not intcrfcrt! with the war in the
Last unless Japan should attempt to
ar.nex Core a
Ani insuri'etion is said to have
broken out in the province of Shang-
hai Tung. '1 he result of the uprisin
or it s nature is not known
Dispatches received h 'e at Sliang
hai from TienTsin report that private
advices have reached there from
Pekin warni ig all foreigners from
gOinjg to the capital, th;• roads and
wate rw ays from Lung Chow to Pekin
beinjif alive with soldiers hostile to all
Europeans. Several British residents
of l'ekin have Lo^n assaulted
elud ing Mr. Tours, interpreter of the
Hritish legation, Dr. Dudgeon and
othe r-i who were journeying south.
It. is reported here that Sung Kuei,
the emperor's father-in-law, is taking
5,000 picked Manchus to Kivan, where
he has been appointed to the chief
command. The Kashgan corps, num-
bering 'JO,000 men, is expected to ar-
.rive at Pekin shortly. All the foreign
drilled troops in the provinces of
She in Si, Ho Fan, Shan See, Sliang
Tun;^, IIti N in, 11 u Pey and Kiang
Ze . sent to ver Pekin. are massing
•at 'Fung Chow under General Liu
Thry number V5,000 men
It is reported that the Taotai Shun.,
j.(chief magistrate of the district! lias
left TienTsin, having been implica-
ted with others in furnishing in forma-
tion to Japan of the movements of tho
Chinese forces on land and sea. lie
is be lieved to have escaped to Japan
He is thought to have been tho person
who has kept the Japanese s« well
informed of the movements of the
Chinese ships and it is said that it was
he who notified the agents of the
Japa nese army of the ICow Sluing ex-
pedition, which resulted in the sink
ing < f that transport and drowning of
over' 1,000 Chinese soldier
'Fine Japanese troops, it is stated in
Jnomnese advices, are rapidly a|>-
pi taehing Moukden, the capital of
th • Chinese province ofa Manchuria.
Imprisoned for Dih-IIIii-.
Hf;ri.in, Oct. 2. Herr Von Kidder*
lin-\Vachter, Prussian minister to
Hamiburg, and llerr Pott dorf editor
of the Kladderadatsch have each been
cond emned to four months' imprison-
ment in a fortress for fighting ■ duel.
Four of a family I'e rlalt.
Kr.NOsiiA, Wis., Oct 2 The resi*
deiKte of l'>. H. Pierce of Wilniot. Wi .,
was destroyed by lire Saturday]
ic sons, with ag-s r.tnging from
* years, and a daughter IS years
perished in the Humes.
An Adirondack Hotel la AmIip*.
ram A, N. Y., Oct. '!■—The Mir*
'.ake house, "n lake llacid waa
Lui'iIUmI to tlio ground last night The
loss will ! • abont 81 >o,ooo, the insur-
ance; being one-half that miiu
liior .1 pli ^ledilt'a U ifo Ilea l.
iCAoo, ( ct. '. M rs. Med HI, t ho
wifci < f Joseph Med ill, editor of the
( htoago Tribune, died at Blmnhurst
ill., this morning
NEWS NOTES.
The 1'iiitcd Mates stipiem court
t s UcJ,obcr S.
Pffntlng works at Leeds Englaud«
.Wci'ic burned. The lo > >0o,0(j().
M n Katherlne Robert - ceU brated
Bar hundredth birthday at Topeka(
K a n .
e Rio Grande is out of its banks
is encroaching on the American
miter ( oates bui ceedsColonel John
ikerill as editor «•! the Ntw
k Morning Advert « r.
ood Iv Tliompson, c x-snperlnlend-
! of public instruction of Arkan-
died of paralysis.
lie ease "i < aptain Howgatt will
clayed to give the government
tu prepare for t rial
I lie Dal ton gang has crossed the
river Into r< xi • and the Putt*
He towns' banks are strongly
■ 11a rded.
m is said Colonel Zenis B KUissIa
lo sin « -ed (itiiii*i al Hngor a com
iff of the department of Call*
in- governmsnt punlo I over In*
it oi ti portei • rcgai I ng tho
tnde of governments with which
proclt v i reat it i hn?c been nbro*
d.
The MlNanurl Senator Predicts Ills
i'.leetlnn a* Governor of New York.
Kansas City, Oct 2—Senator Vest
arrived last night on the Missouri Pa-
cific from Sedalia. To nigh the spoke
at the Auditorium to a packed house.
After his Kansas City speech Senator
Vest will make twenty others in the
various cities of the state.
The senator predicted the election
of Hill, whom he considered a most
remarkable man, and continuing, ho
6aid: 4,I do not regard Hill as a great
man, or as the possessor of a great in-
tellect, but hi is a great worker,with-
out any a petite or passions, and is
what you might term a political cor-
poration.
Senator IFM represents the lighting
Democracy of New York. He voted
against the tariff bill on account of
the income tax and not because ho
objected to its provisions as to tariff
duties on sugar or anything else, lie
agreed with Gorman and Hricc on
every part of the bill except the in-
come tax. To that he was irre-
vocably opposed for two* rea-
sons: Fi's . because lie wanted
to strengthen himself with
business men and capitalists of
New York, who had always been
against h i and for Cleveland; sec-
ond, becai.se he didn't want to drive
from the Democratic party in New
York the m« n who make liberal sub-
scriptions f t campaigns. Hill is a
practical ]>• liticiati and if he has any
sent iment it is hatred to Cleveland.
4 lie determined not to give up his
hold in New York whatever might
happen, and lie played tho opposition
there to the income tax as his trump
card. As to Tammany, which rules
the party in New York, it is governed
by the sachems, who are either rich
men now or are expecting to bo rich.
The rank and file of that organization
receive their orders and obey without
question Of course, the Tammany
leaders are against an income tax,
ami Hill knew it.
"New York polities is a strange
business, and money is an important
factor. Morton will be bled till he
will give up no more and Hill will
have all the money he needs. I think
Hill will beat him."
value of foreign coin9.
The Secretary of I he Treasury Com-
pile!* With the Act of August ttS.
i Washington, Oct. 2.—The director
of the mint has estimated, and tho
secretary proclaimed, the value of
foreign coins as required by scetion
25 of the act of August 28, 18'J4. The
changes made are as follows:
Vuluo. Value
July October.
1MU MM
Bolivian of Bolivia f) 4)7 50.401
1 olo of Central American
states 457 .1*4
: Sli in<*hHl Tael of China. flrtl .IW">
Halk wiiu Tan I of Oh n i 7.S3 .7HI
i Tien Tain Tael of China ,Ti7
Ce l-'oo T«el of China ... .17
I'e oof Colombia 4 7 .4rti
Su M of K. uador 4? 7 4'V4
Rupee of India *217 . "20
Yen of Japan 4! :i .Sot)
Dollar of Mexico . .. 407 .fWM
so1 of Peru w . tot
Rouble of Riisnia .'fitJ .871
Ifabbub of Tripoli 413 .418
The estimate of the value of coins
of countries having a single silver
standard is made up on the average
price of silver for the three months
ending September 21), 1*04, viz:
$0.04127. There has been added to
the list the Tien Tsin and Choo Foo
i taels of China. These values are
stated to govern in the settlement of
custom duties.
Heir to Many Millions.
Chicago, Oct. 2. — ' Hen" Price, clerk
of the Cook eouuty jail for more than
fourteen years, is, it is said, between
$:!,000,000 and #:>,000,0U()0 richer than
he was a week ago. This is tho
amount of property left to him by
his father, whose death occurred re-
cently. It is scattered over America,
Kngland and Australia, and until a
solicitor can get a complete inventory
of the property the value will not be
k now n.
a Populist Organ Change* I ditors.
M \MH M.I , Mo . (>'•!. 3 Th I peo-
ple's Record, the Populist organ of
Saline county, has changed Lands,
Kditor Keller being deposed and Miss
Mary O'Neill installed as editress.
The managing committee concluded
that a change was demanded and
bought Keller out.
New Zealand Wants American Trade.
San Francisco, Oct. Joseph
Howard Wi tho ford, representing the
New Zealand government, is hero on
his way to Washington t< urge upon
the president and tho secretary of
state the desirability of stimulating
trade between the i nitod States and
the Australian colonies.
a Veteran Illinois lid it or Drad.
Lkwihto.n, III., Oct. —J. M. David-
son, editor uf the Carthage, 111., Re-
publican, died hero last night, aged
lii'i. lie founded a paper at Canton,
111., the Fulton Democrat at Lewis-
ton. iii., and the Nquutter aud Sov-
ereign at Havana, 111. lie has owned
and edited the Carthage Republican
for thirty-five years.
Ovnr One Hundred .Mooiifthltierq.
Ashland, Ky., Oct 2. —This after-
noon Fnlted States Marshal Greer and
his deputies left for Louisville with
11Mi moonshiners just from the upper
Rig Sandy valley. The party is made
up of women b. vs and men, some of
the latter typical desperadoes.
The I hot-law Council Meeti.
Tuskahoma, I. T, Oct. — The
< lioteaw council convened here this
morning and will be in session nearly
live weeks. It is thought a hill will
be passed accepting tlr* proposition
to treat with tho Dawes commission.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
Ev-l,otlery Hohm Kline Accuses Kansas
State onieialfl of Bribery.
Tovf.ka, Kan., Oct. 3.—The Repub-
lican state central committee Satur-
day gave out some sensational letters
and an atlidavit concerning the al-
leged connection of tho state adminis-
tration with the lottery gamblers of
Kansas City, Kan. The letters were
written by "state Senator Edwin Tay-
lor of Wyandotte county and Peter
W. Kline, once the boss lottery gam-
bler of Kansas City, Kan. The affi-
davit was made by Judge S. S. Sharpo
of Kansas City, Kan., and is given as
corroborative evidence of some of tho
charges made by Kline in his letter,
which was written in reply to one
from Senator Taylor asking Kline to
make a clean breast of his alleged
connection with the state administra-
tion. The letter is especially in-
teresting because it is the first utter-
ance of any consequence by him
concerning his supposed dealings with
Private Secretary Close, Attorney
General Little and other Populists
close to Governor#Lewelling.
The last part of Kline's letter makes
some sensational statements, lie says:
"When the senatorial investigation
was made at Kansas City, Kan., Fred
Close, private secretary of the gov-
ernor. and (L K. Hathaway, assistant
hank commissioner, came from To-
peka and requested that 1 go to
Chicago where I could not bo subpic-
nacd before the investigating com-
mittee, and said that if 1 would keep
out of the state of Kansas they
would see that I was not compelled
to appear before that investigating
committee.
"It'ing convinced that Governor
Lew'clling and Attorney General Lit-
tle did not intend to keep their eon-
tract with me in regard to protection
that they had entered into and that
they had entered into an arrange-
ment with other parties to carry on
tho lottery business in Kansas City,
Kan., ami this opinion being con-
tinued by the fact that K.
Fox *Vr Co., M. Ottens,. C. A.
Gale A Co , and Winn A Co., had
opened up lotteries and made public
drawings in the month of September,
I immediately opened up correspond-
ence with the Louisiana Lottery com-
pany and told them that I believed
that I could have the lottery business
in the state of Kansas suppressed. Hy
appointment I met their attorney,
Air. Henderson, at Chicago October
II and ent red into a written con-
tract. which I now hold with him, to
suppress all lotteries in Kansas for
the consideration of $25,000 to bo
paid in payments of $5,000 each,
3"t,ooo in cash, which was to be paid
on October 1 L ISW.l; $5,000 to be paid
November 15, lH'.i.'t; S5,ooo to be paid
February 15 1894? $5*000 May 15, 1804,
and *v..ooo July 15, 1804. Attorney
General Little was to receive $20,000
of this money and 1 was to receive
$5,000.
4'Of the $.5,000 paid mo in cash by
the attorney at Chicago, when I ar-
rived at Kansas City I sent $1,000 to
Mr. Little in crisp *100 bills as per
agreement. Mr. Little at once, as
the records at Kansas City, Kan., will
show. entered prosecutions against
the lottery companies. When ho came
down to prosecute the case I inet him
and asked him if he had received the
$l,0oo I sent him and he said that he
had and 1 then showed him tho con-
tract which I had made with the Lou-
isiana lottery company, aud which I
now hold, and he agreed to nnd ap-
proved the contract. Hut for some
reason best known to himself (and
others) he has failed to carry out hi*
part of it and clos? up the lotteries as
lie agreed to do, although he would
have received $10, )0o more money in
the aggregate $20,000 for simply do-
ing his official duty. The only nat-
ural conclusion is that it has been
more profitable for Attorney General
Little to follow the course that has
been pursued in Kansas City, Kan.,by
the gang in control there since that
time. And now the Louisiana lottery
company has demanded of me that I
reimburse them the $5,000 with inter-
est which they furnished mo under
the contract. $l,ooo of which Mr. Lit-
tle himself received.
"The result of my connection with
this administration has been that they
have robbed me of every dollar that
I had. My advances of money to
tliein, and my losses of property be-
cause of their broken promises
amounts to $2.'1,500. I have even been
compelled to pawn the jewelry of my
wife iu order to pay them money
which they demanded. I mortgaged
my ollice furniture to secure funds to
comply with their demands and when
I could uo longer raise money to pay
tliein I lost ail that I had and to-day
I am poor ami without means while
they are enjoying illicit gains upon ti
questionable business disreputably
conducted and that the nubile may
know the true character of these men
who have b^en posing for the last two
years as reformers. I am constrained
to make this statement voluntarily.1'
O'llonuelf Challenges I it/.
Boston, Mass., UcpL 20. -William
A. Grady, manager of Pugllst J. J.
Corbett, has issued tho following
dial lenge:
4 I hereby challenge Robert Fitz-
siunnons to right me to a finish under
Marquis ofQueensbury rules for *5.ono
a side and the largest purse offered
by any reputable club. As evidence
of good faith, I have this day deposit-
ed $1,000 with David Blanchard of
Boston. 1 have never been beaten,
never been knocked down, and I
claim first chance at this man who
aspires to the world's ehampioushin.
1 will meet Mr. Fit/.simmous or his
representative iu New York any day
next week iu order to arrange tho
preliminaries of the match.
Stkvk o'Donnkll."
Lahut Thompson, the noted &cul|>>
tor, died at the state hospital at Mid*
dlotown, N. Y.
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