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VOL 3
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Cleveland County Leader
LEXINGTON, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, .11 LY L'0,]89f .
NUMIIKK 2!)
EL I'ASO IS m,[ (iEi).
RIO GRANDE OVERFLOWS
AND FLOODS THE TOWN.
M ny Adobe IIoiimw HIc>lt \wu> Inlinhl-
tantH Forced to Fire From Their Hoiiivh
Crriif l>HinaRo Done to Growing
Crops by the I imndut ion.
Kt. Paso, Texas, July 1<>.~ The Kio
Grande is pouring a greater flood of
water into this valley than for many
years before. It has steadily risen for
several days, nnd last night it jumped
up nearly a foot, covering a large part
of the lower town. This part of the
city was supposed to be protected by a
well-built levee, but the river broke in
below the termination of the levee
and backed up.nearly to the Santa Fe
rack s.
The houses in this section of town
are chiefly adobe or unburncd brick,
and as the water surrounds them they
melt away. If the river rises much
higher hundreds of houses will dis
appear in the Hood. Already more
than a score of them have succumbed
to the water, and many families have
taken refuge in the houses of their
friends on the higher ground. Citizens
who live in comfortable adobe houses
in the Second ward were hurried out
of their houses before daybreak this
morning, some of them barely petting
out before their dwellings went down.
It is reported that the overflow in the
valley near the towns of Ysleta and
San Flisaris. is doing great damage to
crops. Not less than 100 houses have
been swept away, and many poor
"Mexicans atv left homeless. There is
no telling what course the channel of
the river will take before the Hood
subsides. Floods like the present one
always change the bed of the river,
and it is believed I'nele Sain will lose
several square miles of territory by
the river moving further northeast
Information from San Marcial, N. M.,
is to the effect that the river is still
rising.
A BIG FAILURE.
The < ioipliell t ootoiiithion < oinpitny in
the IIuihIh of Iteeelvent.
Kansas City, Mo., July 1.1.—George
K Black and George A. Neal have
been appointed by I'nited States .Judge
Phillips receivers for the Campbell
Commission company. The company
is an Illinois corporation, doing a
cattle commission business in Kansas
City, St. Louis, Chicago, South Omaha
and Fort Worth. The main office is in
this city, .lames II. Campbell of Chica-
go is the president and George E.
Hlack of Kansas City the treasurer.
Mr. Hlack has conducted the active
management. The business dates
back many years in Chicago and St
Louis, The present organization was
effected in May, 180.'. The money in-
volved is set by the Metropolitan
National bank, which made applica-
tion for the receivers, at ?*." •:,ooo. The
bank loaned the company $10,000 in
June and has bought paper to the sum
of $3t,450, being the notes of various
persons, indorsed by the Campbell
company. The receivers are ordered
to continue the business for the bene-
fit of creditors.
( onvernation itt Long; Knnge.
Colorado Si-iunus, Col., July 10.—
Professors Kurrell and Davenport of
the University of Illinois, claim to have
discovered by accident that if a person
places himself near the center of the
east side of the rock north of the en-
trance of the Garden of the Gods, and
anot her stands upon the hill opposite,
across the valley about a third of a
mile, a common conversation can be
distinctly heard between the two.
Ntill More Forget! liond*.
Dayton, Ohio, July lft. .More spnri- j
ous bonds are daily turning up as the j
creditors of X. T. Lewis, the fugitive I
broker of Frbana, arc heard from, but
they are all in the same line. Forged
bonds were used as collateral only
and those issued by Lewis are genuine
as far as known. It is dow believed
that not less than $300,000 of the
forged bonds were hypothecated.
\ Nhcoh Hotel In Ashufl.
m on, M-- July 15. The Mereh
ants* hotel owned and operated by
Mrs. Barbara Holmes, with practically
all the contents, was consumed by fire
at 4 o'clock this morning- The loss on
the frame building and contents is
I'cOOO; insurance j:.'.M0. The origin
of the lire is not known. Thomas J.
Trew's billiard hall, adjoining was
damaged $1 -n with no insurance.
FongreNNninn Kominn Head.
Van da i.i a. III., July 1^.—Frederick
Kemann. representative for the
Eighteenth Illinois congressional dis-
trict. died yesterday at his residence
in this city. Mr. Kemann was elected
last fall ;is a Republican, defeating
Lane. Democrat. lie was an active
member of the <■. A. K., and had for
years been prominent in politics iu his
• h ti i.• i
I oloreil I'olll Irlnn llcellnen Office.
Topkka, Kan., July Ml. Bruce, the
noted Leavenworth colored politician,
hits declined the position to which ho
wis appointed in the ofllce of secre-
tary of state, and Charles Martin of
Salina, who was one of the reading
clerks in the last house of representa-
tives. has been appointed to till the va-
cancy.
Hid, Not Know II Wim l,oH«leil.
Hkan Laki , Mo., July 10 Theodore
Kirkman of Kansas < ity was accident-
ally shot through the brain and killed
here by George Maeckel. Both were
employes of the Vales Ice company,
which has large ice houses here. They
were playing with n shotgun and tlid
not know it was loaded.
I.yncltlng In Kentucky.
\Yin< iiksikk, Ivy., July 16.—Two
hundred masked men went to the jail
early this morning and lynched Hob
Ilagirnrd, a mulatto, charged with hav-
ing assaulted a young white woman.
Nine Yearn for a llank Wrecker.
Kkoki k, Iowa, July 16.—In the fed-
eral court to-day Judge Woolson sen- j
tenced ex-State Senator K. It Cassatt, I
the Pel la bank wrecker, to nine years
in the Anamosa penitentiary.
LATE N1£WS NOTES.
Sunday was the French Fourth o
J u ly.
Three people were killed by a tor
nado at Cherry Hill. N. J.
Fx President Harrison is at ('ami
Dodd, near Old Forge, in the Adiron-
dack s.
The Cordage company is to he reor-
ganized by New York and Boston
ban Iters.
Heavy rain., fell all over Nebraska
Saturday night. Crop reports arc all
encouraging.
Gene. Johnson, adopted son of Show-
man Dan Rice, died in the Sandusky,
Ohio, poorhousc.
An elevated bicycle road is to be
constructed between Milwaukee and
I hicago. it is to be sixteen feet wide.
Fare ten cents.
Reports of threshing operations
throughout the winter wheat region
continue to be disappointing, says the
Modern Miller.
Flora Gcdeon and Mary Totnasch of
Cleveland capsized a row boat and
were drowned. They tried to ex-
change seats.
. The agricultural department is get-
ting up a bulletin on the world's mar-
kets.
Assistant Postmaster (ieneral Max-
well has put his foot down on any
more postoffices being named Trilby.
The postofticc department has de-
lined to fire Postmaster MeShea of
! CONVENTION C.
MISSOURI DEMOCRATS TO
MEET AUGUST o.
The State Committee Dechlen hya Vote of
12 to 2, to Call i% Silver Convention to
Convene nt IVrtle Spring* ami Connlder
the Financial Qucttion non Delegates.
St. Lot is. Mo., July 10. By a vote of
12 to 2 the Democratic state central
committee decided to call ti state silver
convention. The convention will be
held at IVrtle Springs. The date fixed
was August 6, 1805. J. I?. Thomas of
the Third and A. C. Steuver of the
Tenth district, were the only ones vot
against the proposed convention.
Chairman Maflltt cast his own vote and
two proxies which he held for a con-
vention. On June I the committee met
and voted 10to ft against holding a con-
vention to consider the financial ques-
tion and this change has been brought
about by the friends of silver, who
have been agitating the question ever
since.
In executive session the committee
fixed the basis of representation in the
convention atone delegate to every ftoo
votes and fraction over :.\">0of the Cleve-
land vote of 1802. This will make a
convention of about 000delegates. The
chairman and secretary were instruct-
ed to prepare and issue the official call
..I,, ,. i , . . < • o> piepmc mm issue i no omci
Iruilty prove<l j The commitU-c tlicn niljiiurm-d,
Clerk Kerr of the house is protesting
against paying a tax on goods carried
into the Cherokee country for railroad
men.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rankin of Pittsburg,
Pa., gave birth to three girls and a
boy.
Fire a' Sioux City, Iowa, destroyed
the National Linseed Oil works at that
place.
Kansas cattlemen arc kicking to
Governor Morrill against fees charged
for inspection.
The French line steamship Nor-
mandie had a narrow escape from fire
while at sea.
A wreck occurred on the Big Four
at White Sulphur, Ohio, one person
being killed.
Fort Worth business men think the
trusts will act cautiously in Texas
when the anti-trust law goes into
effect.
Isaac Huffman ami Marshall Garner
hacked one another to pieces with
knives in Shelby county, Kentucky.
Engineer A1 Horner and Fireman
AI Devino were killed in a wreck on
the Texas and Pacific near Fort Worth.
California pioneers arc raising funds
for a Fremont monument.
Siam's American adviser, a man
named < lieelc, from North Carolina, is
dead.
The Illinois legislature will attempt
to smoke out the boodlcrs.
The Progressive Adv
started at Caddo, Ind. Tcr., by Choc
taw Republicans.
I'he Japanese government represses
-omincnt by press or popu-
BIBLES FOR THE WORLD
Nearly Two Million Volumes Sent Out
by the American Society l.a*t Year.
Nkw York, July 10.—The seventy-
ninth annual report of the American
Bible society, which covers the work
of that organization in printing and
circulating the scriptures during the
past fiscal year, has just been pub-
lished. The society has distributed
more volumes in China during the
year than in any preceding year since
it began its operation there. In
Japan, too, the committee has
been able to accomplish a great
deal of work among the soldiers of
ti*e Japanese army. More than 1,500,-
000 bibles, testaments and integral
portions of the bible were printed by
the society within.the year, over 1,000,-
<>00 of them on the presses in the bible
house and the others in foreign lands.
Through purchases of additional vol
umes the total number printed and
procured by the society amounted to
I,9ft8,ti74 copies. Of these 947,103 vol-
umes were issued from the bible
house, 101,100 copies were scut to the
foreign lands and are not counted
among the issues in foreign countries.
Of the issues of '.'47,10.'$ volumes from
the bible 1 e, 84ft,007 have been for
the home s\ ply.
all adv
laee in its action.
I raverse City. Charlcoix, Tlioinpson-
ville. < leary and other Michigan towns
are hemmed in by forest fires.
James F. I land ley, a Muncic, Ind.,
stone mason and two sisters in Arkan-
sas are heirs to a $600,000 estate iu Cal-
ifornia.
The government is gradually gett ing
its new money order blanks into use.
The big gun test on the new mon-
itor. Araphitrite, has proven successful.
A commission has been appointed to
treat with the Klackfoot Indians for
the cession of a part of their reserva
lion
Germany is now drawing the line at
American dried apples.
Register Hammock of the Woodward.
Ok., land office, has resigned.
Ex-Senator Martin of Kansas, says
the Democrats' onlv hope is in free
silv
Foreigner* Shut On,.
Pittsburg, Pa.. July 16.—The na-
tional convention of the Window Class
ate has been | Workers of America put up the bars
against foreign glass blowers by adopt,
ing a resolution increasing the initia-
tion fee from $200 to £500. It is fur-
ther provided that the applicant Tor
membership must have i cen a resident
of this country for five years prior to
his application; that during that time
he shall not have worked in any glass
house, and that he shall be a natural
ized citizen of the Fnited States.
Citil War Imminent.
San Salvador, July l«.—Feeling
here against the government is at
fever heat. Last night four of the
police guarding the palace were found
murdered. Several other murders
have occurred and an outbreak is ex-
pected at any moment-. Troops are
kept constantly under arms and a
number of officers, whose loyalt\ to
President Guiierrez is doubted, were
dismissed from the service yesterday.
Aid for the Irish.
Nkw ^ okk, July 10.- At a meeting
of the trustees of the Irish National
The president has appointed Klmer ' L'<'ernt'on of ^mer'ca John I). Crim
C. Trueblood postmaster at Maryville, | 111'ns'the treasurer, was instructed t<-
Mc
Kx-Police Inspector W. W. McLauglt-
lin of \cw York was admitted to
ooo bail.
John Lee Dixon, superintendent of
the Pen well colliery at Pana, 111., was
crushed to death.
West Baden Springs, Ind., has been
discovered to be the Monte Carlo of
America.
Secretary Hoke Smith denies that he
has any aspirations to be a senator
from Georgia.
I he agricultural department is con-
ducting Mime interesting tests of soils
and fertilizers.
A Washington secret society has an
experience of being repaid money by a
gambler and fleeced by a preacher.
The Naval War college is studying
probable plans of attack on the Atlan-
tic seaboard if I nek' Sam should get
into a row with John Bull.
A Business Men's league committee
is actively endeavoring to secure both
the national conventions of 1896 lor
St. Louis.
Dr. Toiuas Zewski, Cerman army
surgeon, has been expelled from the
service for refusing to light a duel.
Apparently the scheme 1o build an
electric road from St. Louis to Chicago
has collapsed.
A. M. Kennedy of Delaware, Morris
county. Ivan , is dead, after a fast of
sixty-eight days.
The French chaml>er of deputies
Massed ;t bill abolishing all faxes on
drinks less than fifteen per cent alco
no).
Senator Marion Butler of Ncrtli Car-
olina says he believes the Populists
will carry Kentucky at the coming
election,
George \\. Drake of Jackson, Ivy,, I
the famous mountain detective, lias |
been missing since July 4.
cable $5,000 in aid of the election fund
of the Irish Parliamentary party
Steps were also taken to reach rich
sympathizers with the Irish cause who
are now absent from the citv. It is
expected an additional $5,0oo will be
cabled by the end of the week.
Murder nnd Suicide.
Sr. Joski'ii, Mo., July 10. (ieorge
Wells, a rich young farmer, living
near Craig, had trouble with his wife
a week ago, and she returned to her
parents. He called on her yesterday
and demanded that she retract the
charges made against him. She re
fused, and he shot at her twice, cans
in it fatal wounds. Wells then sent a
I ii I let through his own brain, dying
insta ntly.
One of llie ChriHtlan ftang Arrented,
Oklahoma Citv, ok., July 10.—Tel lis
Welsh, a member of the Christain
s?ang, was arrested at his fathers
house, twelve miles east of this citv,
last night. He had gone there after
supplies and the officers, learning of
his presence from a neighbor, mii
rounded the house ami lay in wait
until morning. He is wanted for
highway robbery, and though only l«
years of age, is regarded a* a desper-
ate man.
Work oil the Cpper Mlmioiirl.
Washington, July 10. —Captain II.
I Hodges reports to the chief of en
gineers upon the improvements of the
upper Missouri above Sioux City, lows.
About $ 103,40? have been expended
during the year, chiefly in removing
obstructions, dredging and work on
the banks of the river at various
points.
Little Interest In Nllver.
Atlanta, Ga., July In. —.Reports
from meetings helti throughout the
The Eastern brewers are credited N,ato yesterday to elect delegates to
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with being favorable to an increased
tax on beer by way of improving the
financial income at the treasury, ami
at the same time force Western beer
out of the Kastern market.
The American navv vessel Columbia
was badly damaged in the dry dock at
Southampton, England.
Archbishop Guillion of Oaxaca,
Mexico, has inherited from an English
relative $13,000.000 In gold.
the free silver convention to be held at
Griffin on Thursday, indicate a general
lack of interest. The unexpected lack
of interest is attributed to tin- mixed
character of the convention, which
will include Populists and Hepubli
cans, causing the Democrats to lose
interest in it.
Another massacre of Christians in
Armenia by Turkish soldiers is aid to
be imnent.
LIBERALS SNOWED UNDER.
IteHultn of l.rit ish lilect imiH, So Far,
Show a Itijj Victory Tor the CiiionlfdM.
London, July 10.— The total results
of the parliamentary elections, for
which returns have been made, are as
follows: Conservatives. l.m; Liberal
Unionists, 21: Liberals. \t; Purnollites,
•1; McCarthyites, i; Labor, 1. Total,
204. As compared with the parliament
which has just been dissolved, twenty
four scats thus returned show gains
for the Cnionists and live are gains
for the Liberals. There is intense ev
citement in London streets, as a result
of the elections. The theaters and
restaurants are almost deserted.
Two of the men best known in
America, whose success has been an-
nounced. arc Henry M. Stanley, the
African explorer, who made one un-
successful campaign for parliament,
and John Burns, the lalnir Ifaider, who
visited the I'nited Suites lust winter.
'Another labor leader, J. Kicr llardic,
who has been noted for his eccentric
attire in the house, loses his seat. The
four Conservative candidates for the
four divisions of Antrim in Ireland,
were returned. The announcement
that Mr. Stanley was elected was Re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheering,
mingled with considerable hooting and
hissing.
HANGED BY A MOB.
Take i'wo Colored Men Out of .1 all and
Hang Them in ArkiiUMH.
Camiu-.n. Ark., July 1ft. About 12
o'clock Saturday night, at Hampton,
thirty miles east of here, two negroes
were mobbed by seventy-five men.
Two weeks ago a white man named
Martin was killed by three negroes.
Two of them were arrested ami placed
in jail. A mob gathered several nights
ago, but were persuaded to desist.
Saturday night there was another
gathering, and seventy-five determined
men marched to the jail and demanded
of the sheriff' the surrender of the mur-
derers. It was useless to resist such a
force with but n handful of men to sum-
mon to his aid. so the keys were deliv-
ered to ilie mob. The culprits were
carried to the neighboring forest and
hanged to trees. The men were not,
masked and made no effort to conceal
their identity. Two years ago a race
riot occurred in Calhoun county. The
negroes greatly outnumber the whites,
and further trouble is expected.
WARRANTS FOR LYNCHERS
Joint keeper* of Strong City Areuite Their
Cncmicft of ii Mob IMtirdcr.
Emporia, Kan., July 10.—Forsevcral
weeks detectives have been at work
securing evidence against the men
who lynched (ieorge Hose at Cotton-
wood Falls a year ago last May. To-
Aay or to-morrow twenty five arrests
will be made and cxcitement prevails
at Cottonwood Falls and Strong City.
The men who closed the Strong City
joints last week are said to be the men
who are to be arrested for the lynch-
ing and the joint people and their
friends are behind the work of the de
tectives. The best people in Chase
county fear serious troubio before the
<|iiarrcl is settled, as there is bad blood
on both sides.
BUSINESS REVIEW. I
Oun. Ceports it IVr'cct I'looil of Order*
• >n In tlie Commcrchil World.
Nmv Vouk, July I... R. G. Dun «!fc
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
A business flood so strong and rapid
that conservatives fear it may do harm
is out of season in July. But the sea
sons this year lap over and crowd
each other. May frosts and frights,
it is now evident, kept back much bus-
iness that would naturally have been
finished before midsummer, and the
delayed accumulation of one season
gets in the way of efforts to begin an-
other on time. But the volunicof bus-
iness, however, it may be assured, is
remarkably large for t he month' even
•n a good year. The exaggerated fears
about crops have passed, the syndicate
is believed both able and determined
to protect the treasury, and the time
draws near when the marketing of
new crop." will turn into a national
balance if speculation does not hinder.
The week has been notable for a sen-
sational fall iu wheat of Se in two
days, followed by recovery of 5c,
t hough neither accords any interpre-
tation of the quite disregarded gov-
ernment. report. The sudden drop in
prices was the result of speculation
rather than commercial influence.
Labor controversies in woolen mills
liavo generally resulted against the
\"orkcrs, although some advanco in
vages has been obtained, but a strike
ef carpet weavers at Philadelphia
p.lready affects several thousand and
threatens to include many more, an
advance of 7Ji cents being demanded,
while the market for goods is so dull
and weak that manufacturers natur-
1 l.v refused. Cotton goods continue
ictive and strong with comparatively
little difficulty as to labor. The North-
ern mills have taken little over 100,000
bales in the past three months, since
cotton was below 7 cents, but with
cotton bought cheap for five months
ahead, they are able to do good
business.
The failures this week have been
253, against 247 last vear.
Shot lliM Young Wife.
Arhmoio, Ind. Tct July Hi A sad
tragedy was enacted here about i |
o'clock yesterday morning. Or. A. R. '
Adams, leading dentist, of this city, j
living on Court street, shot his young
and beautiful wife, killing her in-j
stantly. Mrs. Adams had gotten up
in the night to close a window and her
husband was awakened l v the noise, i
There had bet
the neighborhood lately. In the dark-
ness. supposing the form of his wife!
was that of a burglar. In? st i/.cd his
pistol and tired A -cream and his
wife's voice answered the pistol shot. i
Mrs. Adams sank to the floor a corpse.
Sim never spoke. Dr. and Mrs. Adams
had been married less than two yeai •
Dr. Adams is ncarl / crazed with grief.
In Ncnt tirny ItloomerH.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 15.—Miss
Jessie Kohinson, a handsome young
lady of 20, who resides at ftH John
street, this city, has completed ar-
rangemcnts to make a bicycle run from
Chicago to the City of Mexico, a dis-
tance of 3,ooo miles. Miss Robinson
will leave ('hicago August 10, clad in
neat gray bloomers, and expects to ar-
rive in Mexico September 17.
Nebraska Wheat Harvest.
Omaiia, Neb., July 1ft.—Wheat har-
vest is in full blast throughout the
state. The yield is fully up to expec-
tations. The crop will average two-
thirds of a full crop. The corn crop is
estimated at 1*8,000,000 bushels, and
its condition was never better. The
oats yield is not as heavy as estimated,
being less than two-thirds of a crop.
More Laborer* Mado Happy.
Birmingham, Ala., July in. The
Tennessee Coal, iron and Bail road
company has announced an advance
of fen per cent- in wages of 1,500 tipple-
men, drivers and outside mine labor-
ers in response to a request made by
them.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Muni I'ay Indian Ilehta.
Washington, July i:. Secretary
Smith has requested flic treasury de-
partment to pay the ?«.oo,noo duetto
the \c/. Perce . Indians in Idaho foi
t heir lauds sold to the government a
year ago. The payment was stopped
two inont lis ago tin account of charges
of fraud of various sorts. These have
been proved unfounded, and there h
no further reason for dela v. The
t ribe comprises I,S "• persons, each of
whom w ill receive a little over
A Woman to Hang.
I''oh i Smith, Ark., July lft. May A.
Kittening, tieorge Washington Ira
/.icr nnd Richard Calhoun were sen
tenced iu the I nited States court thii
morning to be hanged October I.
When Mrs. Kittening was asked if she
had anything to say why sentence
should not be passed mob bcr, sht
► aid only that all she had left in this
world was a husband s love and a
broken heart. Thc.v all took their
sentences courageously.
Stuart doing lllglit Ahead.
Dai.i.ah, Texas, July in. The ad
verse opinion of Attorney (ieneral
Crane to the legality of the Corbett-
Fit/.simmons contest created no sur-
prise at fight, headquarters. It will be
claimed that the license law
the payment of v..no has tie
repealed. Meantime Dan Stuart is
going ahead with his preparation for
the fight.
Herldcd \kuIiinI Sloan.
K\nhas <Try, Mo , July i f. —Judge
(iantt, in the supreme court at Jeff'cr
son City to-day, decided that W. M.
Sloan brought his contest for the
office of county marshal in the wrong
court. The decision is generally taken
to mean that W. M Sloan will not get
I lie office to which t he people elected
him, and that it will go to J. B. Kesh-
lear.
Return of the Prodigal,
Lkxinoton, Ky . July 10, tieorgc
W Drake, tho famous mountain i!>
tective, who disappeared a week or
more ago. has returned to his home In
Compton, Wolfe county lie says he
was rol.bed of over $1,(MH) in St. Jo-
soph, Mo. He 'intends, he says, to
straighten out all his hu incss affairs
and to lead a la tter life. His wife has
forgiven him.
tiilbert, Montague & Co., and F. A.
Hibbard A Co., ('hicago board of trade
firms, have failed.
Mrs. Phil Conklin committed suicide
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, by pouring coal
oil on her person and setting lire to it.
J. T. Cameron, a Per-y, Ok., u Inde-
ral burglaries in j sale merchant, has regained his voice
after being dumb for six months,
(ieorge W. Weeks, a prominent in-
; suranee man of Marshalltowu, Iowa,
j is charged with the embezzlement of
; $8,ooo.
J The Democratic convention of Sedg-
wick county, Kansas, indorsed the
Populist county ticket after a hot
i fight, and declared for free silver
j coinage.
| Bray, the stepson of ex-Consul Wal-
j ler, is trying t,o arouse feeling against
the administration for not acting more
j vigorously in behalf of the imprisoned
| ex-consul.
The Chinese loan was opened in
i Berlin and almost immediately closed,
as more money than was necessary
' was subscribed.
IN THE NEW COUNTRY I The • diool board at Oklahoma City
j contemplates taking out $26,000 cy-
clone insurance.
BRIEF BITS of general news i
FROM THE TERRITORIES. '",0 l",h001 1;in" board 'vl11 not Wfo
| any more land in the Kickapoo coun*
OUIalmmn niul the tndlnn Territory
with Their II ti duet of (ioncrnl nni
Local Lore Itemized for the ('ou-
venleiico of llie General Uundar
bar-
I Stl«-
equiring
Lannio Vcgily, a well-known and
wealthy young man of St. Joseph, has
been indicted for the murder of Krncst
| Tracy two months ago.
John Owens of Quitman, Mo., a
wealthy stockman, while intoxicated,
laid down on the railway track and
was giound to pieces by a train.
C. O. Davis, banker of Last Peru,
Iowa, hi disappeared with $10,000 of
the bank's fund lie has been missing
since July r . The bank Is in the hands
of a receiver.
While reviewing the militia at ( amp
Lincoln at Springfield, the horse which
(Jovernor A It geld rod. reared and fell
backward. The governor slid out of
the saddle just in time to escape in-
jury.
At St Louis the Lancaster
hers* Sunday closing law has bee
tained in the court of criminal' <
tion, a line of $•. :, being assessed
against ( liarles Stoet/.er, a barber, for
keeping open Sunday. June 'The
ease was bitterly contested and an ap-
peal was taken.
1'rank Rose, alias Fox, a smooth
burglar wanted in one-half the states
of the union, has been arretted at St.
Joseph.
The state department will not allow
the original Declaration of Indepen-
dence to be taken to the Atlanta ex-
position.
A judicial order has been mado for
(lie Mill. Ill tli1 ^ Li. hjjii, IV.,rill mill
st Louis within four weeks. It will
be bought by the reorganization com-
mittee iind turned over to the Caira
Short Line.
One hundred and fifty Cincinnati
horse shocrs are on a strike for higher
wages, shorter hours and union con-
trol of shops.
It has been definite
have a bull fight at *the
and International c\oos
be given in the Mexican
grounds.
Alva has 19 lawyers.
Eg-Mayor W. J. (iault of Oklahoma
City, is very sick.
Hay is said to be bringing J?r> per ton
in the Strip counties.
Tho Choctaw railroad will soon be
building in the Seminole country.
At Woodward a man has been put
under bonds not to assay any more
gold ore.
The Choctaw contractor-* arc paying
men 25 cents an hour ami want more
of them.
Ralph Bcaumon*. is now down in
Texas making speeches.
The east end of the Choctaw rail-
road reached tho Sout1. Canadian river
Monday.
Day county lias a per capita wealth
of SI,200, the largest of any county in
tho United States.
Professor Waugh of the Agrh ul-
tural college, is very sick at Still-
water, with malaria fever.
Architect Davkl Douglass of Okla-
homa City, is preparing the plans for
the Yukon high school building.
Tho president has appointed Wil-
liam H. Anderson of Kcntuclcy Jo be
register of the land ofllce at ISnid.
The Sanatorium for the Insane, at
Norman, which was injured by last
Sunday's wind, will soon bo repaired.
Harry Cavanaugh, tho first cadet
appointed to West Point from Okla-
homa graduated fourteenth iu a class
of 50.
Governor Renfrow, 'vho is recover-
ing slowly from his recent severe i.l-
ness, has gone to Las Veg\s, N. M., to
recuperate.
Instead of haying blue grass, the
public square at Perry i« growing iu
oats ju.st to show tho visitors what
Oklahoma soil can do.
About 125 Oklahomans ai b attending
the National Educational association
at Denver. Most of them will spend
the hummer in i oiorado.
A former well lenowu citizen of
Wichita, Albort Basley, died at his
home near Pond Creek Friday. The
remains wore taken to Wichita for
burial and the funeral services con-
ducted by tlie Masons,
The huge machinery for tho big
stone mill at Perry is now being plac-
ed iu positiou. The mill is of 200 bar-
rel capacity, and the elevator, now al-
most completed and connected there-
with, has a capacity of 40(1,000 bushels.
A dispatch from Gut brio says that
t'.o wealthy Texas slockiucn, Haw-
kins and Smiley, havo been arrested
and jailed in Washita county, charged
with tho murder of Perry Parri ii, the
cattleman found shot through the
ho ad a few daysngo.
A farmer, Thomas L. Blake, living
near Waukomis, -vhile working in a
field Friday, dug up fo ir skeletons,
supposed to be those of three brothers
named Fowler, and the 1 I year-old son
of one o! them, who mysteriously dis-
appeared in 1871. Old settlers re-
member that in I lie fall of that year
the Fowlers started out from Caldwell
with four teams hcav ly loaded with
government freight for Fort Reno or
Foit Sill, and wero never heard of
or seen after passing tho place where
lCnid now stands. investigations
\ were made at the time, but no clue
could bo found as to the whereabout
of either the men or the goods
Secretary Hoke Smith has rendered
a decision in the ease of Curnutt vs.
Jones, which is of much importance
to many settlers in Oklahoma. James
D. Jones lived near ti.o edge of tho ter-
ritory previous to tho opening, and
was accustomed to crors tho border
on frequent trips to Oklahoma Sta-
tion. which was the nearest railway
ststion nnd market. On these tri
fry until September,
Nim Wyatt, a brother of the notor-
ious Zip, lives in Payne count)', and is
a respectable citizen.
F. R. Ctoode and 0. A. Crowder pro-
pose to bdild a windmill manufactory
somewhere in Oklahoma.
Colonel Anderson, the now register
of the Enid land ofllce, was once a
State senator in Kentucky.
Frank Ilindman, who has a farm
north of Guthrie, is already putting
watermelons on tho market.
Mrs. Jones, wife of tho Oklahoma
City marshal who was killed, has re-
ceived $;t,' 00 from the A. 0. U. W.
Tho son of B. 11. Baber of Guthrie,
was dragged neveral blocks by a cow
tho other day, and Bcrionrdy injured.
A party of 100 from the Indian terri-
tory have secured scats for the Cor-
bctt-Fitzsimuions fight at Dallas, and
will go down iu a special car.
A*, the last meet-lug of tho Histori-
cal society at Xormun, M. L. Bixler
of Norman was elected picsident,
Will T. Little of Perry, was elected
custodian, and A. C. Doldeof Newkirk,
was elected treasurer, vico Mr. Phil-
lips, resigned.
Colonel Cone, who had charge of the
Oklahoma exhibit at the World's Fair,
has been appointed to tako charge of
and superintend tho exhibit to bo
made by Texas at tho Atlanta Cotton
■ xposition, which will be the largest
S ato exhibit at Atlanta.
A dispatch from Eufaln I. T.,says:
An extra session of the Creek council
has been called by Second Chief Ed-
wa d Bullet to meet at Okmulgee, the
capital, July 17. 'l'ho session is called
for the purpose of deciding the pres-
ent, controversy as to which set of na-
tional officers are now entitled to their
ofllees and to end tho dual govern-
ment urdcr which the country has
been su Iter ing for severs^ weeks.
Frank Burcaugard of Cloud Chief,
Ok., has a meteoric specimen which
fell on the Washita river July 3. When
it st rue.'-c the earth it set the prairie
grass on fire. The meteor weighs
i:> pou.ids, has a decidedly ferrugin-
ous appearance and closely resembles
slag from an iron furnace. Mr. Bu-
rcaugard will display the specimen at
the Dallas State Futt*and Atlanta Ex-
position.
The Christian boys, the outlaws who
broi.e jail at OUlanoina City recently*
havo been located near Paoli, I. T.,
with the girl, Jesuo K. l indley, who
.• irrifd the revolvers to them while in
t ie jail. Tho officers who havo beeu
watching them say from their actions
it is evident they havo been getting a
gang together to make an easy near-
by haul to replenish their cxchequev
and then skip for the less accessible
portion of tho country. The officer®
expect to stop their plans, however,
by capturing them in a few days.
A dispatch from Ardmore says a
tcrrilie electric, rain and wind storiA
« pt oyer that section Sunday night,
doing great damage. Tti some locali-
ties tho force of the tfind equaU*<3
that of a tornado. The main force of
the storm spent itself about 15 mile#
southeast of and near Marietta, I. T«
where a number of houses were blown
down. A man named Hudson was
uilled by lightning at Bob Statiou, 30
miles south of Ardmore. At Kl Ben
Guthrie, ChiehssUn and Hennessey, se-
vere wiud, hail and rain storms nro Im-
ported. Many buildings were 0am-
i red and bridge, washed away, but no
one killed or injured.
Tli a Rock Island r«ad is strengthen-
ing its bridge at Minco and tho Sants
Fe is doing the same at Purcell and
( inadiau ( ity, in anticipation of a bif
riso of the Canadian river. They art
building tall towers on cither end to
rtretch tho wires on. Heretofore the
wires have been struug across tht
bridges but a change has been made
so that if the bridges should go, tele-
graphic communication would not be
disturbed. I' is said that the Iudians
he selected a tract that ho liked and ! for home reason predict that, the larg-
on opening day mado the race to it on >• t flood in tho history of the Caaa-
horscback with the rt t of the crowd. «lian if, due this year, and it is a well
Tho question was whether his | n I;nown fact that they have been leav-
vious visits made him a sooner, n l ug tho low lands during tho pa-*!
disqualified him as nn outrvman. The three weeks to escape it.
pla
Ided to
i States
H will
< on t he
sesretary says the stiictest eonstrn ■
tion might do this, b ' tin' iic i in-
clined to the grratosi p s«-iblo liberty
in such cases, ami ho sustains Jone
title to tho land.
Douglas, the janitor of the Firs? Na-
tional biink at Oklahoma Ci'y, was
scrubbing out the bank Monday ni i
about 10 30 o'clock, when he lc
i e, ash, a. d baiv that t
glass window hud beeu
With a yell the janitor bounded out
through tho hole to the .UlowalU, mi l
found the man who ha I broken the
window still standing there. Ho win
found to be an insane man who had
tried to 6teal an express wagon that
morning A policeman took him in
charge- Douglas sat fa> ing the ho
in the window the rest of tho night,
uriacri with a big revolver.
Ono day ls*t week 23 car load * of
flour wero shipped from Kildare t
Texas.
The Snots Fohas four miles of tra U
in Pay no county and it pays over
91,000 taxes on it.
The electric lights were turned on
at Perry Tuesday night. The hand
played upon the streets and the v o!
city was one blsze of glory with t *
arc lights.
George W. Stone, a former re- detr
of Perry, was brought in Wedm 'ay
on a requisition from F Worth, Tc\.,
on s charge of grand larceny.
.Tames nnd John McMain, two poor
farmers living near Pawnee, were In
Guthrie tho other day, saducr and wi-
ser man than they were two months
'o. They toid of how they were bun-
coed by a crook named J. D. Wait*
man, who claimed to be a wealthy res-
ident of Colorado. He boarded with
the McMains, and was very free with
, money, of which he seemed to havo
plenty. Ue induced tho McMains to
sell their clalint and household goods
and go with him to Colorado by prom-
ising to make them managers of large
ranches at very largo salaries. He ob-
tained about SI,000 from them nnd
went to Arkansas City, where the Me-
Main and their families were o meet
him, but they spent throe days there
waiting for Waltman to show up,
• liich ho, of course, failed to do.
Dispatch from New York, July 12:
Two I'nited Stat.es . arehals who
were taking John 13. Bittell from Outh
rie, O I' , to Kings county jail to serve
a« ven years' sentence for forge y,
lowetl him to walk out of the Co
nn'politan hotel while they were ttllc-
ui^ m the ofllce, Marshal William M.
Nix and Frank Merrick notified tho
poUoi't
The ball game between Enid and
Kingfisher for tho i haiiipion-hip of
Oklahoma, was played nt \a ikomis
nn tho Fourth, resulting in vi t ny for
Knid. The score stood l • to u.
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