Cleveland County Leader (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 22, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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LEXINGTON LEADER.
t. D. I.YDJCK, Editor.
GEO. 1). LATHAM, Bus.
M|[t
LEXINGTON,
OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA ANII INDIAN TlililllTOllV
The catalogue of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college will be issued
in a few days.
Many Oklahoma farmers are plow-
ng and getting1 ready to put in anoth-
er big crop of wheat.
Five Canadian county teachers have
gone to California to attend the meet-
ing of the national association.
Caterpillars of several sizes and
breeds are eating the leaves oil the
shade trees in many places in Oklaho-
ma county.
A Pawnee county man lias been sent
to the insane asylum for beating liis
children without mercy, lie should
be kept there.
Fred Ferguson, the Oklahoma coun-
ty man supposed to have been hit by a
train, has recovered and he says his
injuries wore not caused by a train,
but by two negro footpads who slug-
ged him and robbed him of sixteen
dollars.
The sheriff of Payne county claims • ',cres of ground.
chicken thieves 'xty-two pounds.
Oklahoma territory is making a rap-
id advancement
Crime is decreasing in the territory
but the gun is yet a useful personal
ornament.
Talaliina has decided not to incor-
porate until the townsito appraisers
have surveyed the town.
There will be a lot of watermelons
raised in Oklahoma this year. Every
farmer in the territory always raises a
patch of melons.
Bill Walker has parted company
with Geronimo and the other Indians.
Bill has had his fill of taking up the
red man's burden.
Most of the school boards held meet-
ings last week and made 20 mill levies.
In a great many instances the school
term is being extended a month.
The assessors of Kingfisher county
found only forty-four dogs in the
county. The owners must have tied
them in the barn when the assessors
came along.
The murmur is spreading over Okla-
homa that corn will be only 10 cents a
bushel. This is crossing a very rick-
ety old bridge when you are a month
away from it.
J. B. Kimmey, a Noble county farm-
er, who lives on Black Bear, raised
2,300 bushels of wheat on seventy-two
The wheat tested
that the Scroggins
now in jail in Logan county are want-
ed in various places for various crimes
ranging from murder down to hen
grabbing. He says they are about the
worst gang that ever broke loose in
Oklahoma.
Governor Johnson, of the Chickasaw
nation, has called a special session of
the legislature for the purpose of in-
vestigating the per capita payment
act United States Inspector Wright,
who, it is said, demanded the investi-
gation, has arrived upon the scene
and some startling developments are
looked for.
The Indian is a simple creature in
some things. Ordinarily he will hold
a dollar till the eagle screams. But
the other day a band of Tonkawas
passed through nn Oklahoma town on
their way to visit the Caddoes. They
bought a number of watermelons
about tho size of eocoanuts and paid
30 cents each for them.
Tho work of educating and Chris-
tianizing the Indians of Anadarko has
suffered a loss in the death of Portia
Hendricks, a Wichita girl, 2S years old
She had been educated at Lincoln in-
stitute, Philadelphia. Eight years
ago she accepted a position in one of
the government schools at Anadarko,
where she exerted considerable influ-
ence. She was stricken with con
sumption last wiuter, and died a few
days ago.
Two Wichita Indians have been
lodged in the Logan county federal
jeil on the charge of cattle stealing.
One is Kskory Wicks, an old chief of
the tribe, and the other. Roland Stev-
enson, is a graduate of Carlisle. It i
charged that they stole a number of
cattle from the herds pastured on the'
reservation. It is claimed that they
intended to use the stolen cattle for a
barbecue at a great ghost dance feast
held by the tribe on tho Fourth of
July.
i'or the past few days a curious kind
of bug has been tlying around in Ca-
nadian countj'. It is a cross between
a chinch bug and a Hessian fly. Its
formation is small, color black, with
white stripe on the back and side.
Unlike the two insects mentioned
above, it does not attack vegetation,
but is worse than chiggcrs, deer fii
or mosquito.-, on human beings and
animals. \\ hercver the insect bites a
swelling forms and produces an itch-
ing sensation.
Oklahoma's county fairs next fall
will be jubilee celebrations. Oklaho-
ma will furnish the biggest of every
kind of fruit and grain this year and
everybody is happy and prosperous.
The mission at the Whirlwind sta-
tion of the Kpiscopal church, has a
vested choir of Cheyenne children-
Tho vestments were provided by the
Indian Hope association of Philadel-
phia. The Kpiscopal church at its
missions in western Oklahoma, has
singing in both the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe languages.
At Syria, twenty miles south of
Alva, is a colony of nine families of
■Syrians, who came from Damascus.
Notwithstanding the neighborhood of
Dnmuscus they think they are now
nearer the garden of Eden than ever
before in their lives.
Baron Karl von liydingsward, who
Secured a divorce in Oklahoma county
a couple of years ago, is now conduct-
ing a wood carving institute in New
York City. Art Journals speak in
very highly commendatory terms of
his work.
In the Enid land district there are
200 quarter sections of land and
there have been 10,000 homestead en-
tries. There is a good deal of crowd-
ing for Oklahoma farms.
In front of the hut of the average
Indian of the five tribes is a small
mortar in which the family grinds its
corn for bread. The principal food of
the civilized Indian is corn.
There is now on deposit in the banks
of Oklahoma about $700,000 which
is about 8100,000 more than was held
by the banks when their former state-
ments were made three months ago.
This is a remarkable gain when the
season is considered. It is not ordin-
arily a money gathering period. On
the contrary, it is a money consuming
season when farmers' bank accounts
dwindle.
Private Secretary Fred Wenner is
busily engaged gathering .statistics for
the governor's forthcoming annual re-
port to the secretary of the interior.
The report will be illustrated with
farm scenes, cotton, corn and wheat
fields, and will be very elaborate,
showing the progress the territory lias
made in material wealth and develop-
ment since the governor's last annual
report. The whole territory is deeply
concerned in this report, and Secretary
Wenner will be grateful for all the
facts the people will furnish him that
Choctaw Indians hare demanded
that striking miners be removed from
the territory.
A territory paper fears that another
rain will completely ruin the nubbin
crop in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is now shipping apples
and peaches to Kansas, Colorado and
other near-by states.
Oklahoma has had plenty of rain,
and there has been plenty of time to
plow—the tassel and the silk will do
the rest,
Th<^assistant county attorney of Ca-
nadian county was recently fined one
dollar and costs for whipping a neigh-
bor's nine-year-old boy.
One man near Lamont, Grant coun-
ty, got 90 bushels of oats to-the acre.
J. A. Aikins of the same county, se-
cured 320 bushels from six acres.
Home-grown peaches are very cheap
in Oklahoma this season. They are
of a splendid fiavor and many of them
are being shipped out of the territory
to less favored states.
School Land Commissioner Charles
II. IT. son has received from the Kan-
sas, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad §795. 75,
proceeds from the condemnation of
school lands in Kay county. The
money was deposited with Territorial
Treasurer F M. Thompson. The Kan-
sas, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad is an
extension of the Frisco line south from
Arkansas City.
This has been a splendid season for
all kinds of crops and everything that
has been planted has made a wonder"
growth. Wheat, oats, corn and in
fact many different kinds of grain
is making yields that is just at pres"
ent attracting much attention from
the eastern states. The fruit crop,
too, is goiug beyond the expectations
of all concerned. Heal estate is ad-
vancing accordingly.
The abstract of the condition of the
national banks of Oklahoma at the
close of the business on Juno 30, as
reported to the comptroller of the cur-
rency shows the average reserve held
at 47.10 per cent against 49.70 per cent
on April 5. Loans and discounts in-
creased from $730,087 to $799,391;
stocks and securities decreased from
$73,300 to $.">4,580. Gold coin increased
from 35,537 to $40,395. Total specie
from 77,494 to 885,540. Local money
reserve from $125,021 to $1,217,001.
Representatives of twelve Indian
tribes are holding a big dance two
m'les east of Red Rock. The dance
has been in progress several days.
The dancers are decorated with paint,
beads and feathers, bells and very few
clothes. Many Indians are encamped
about the place participating in tho
festivities in various ways. Several
people with cameras have been to the
NEWS NOTES.
will aid in making the report com- ; scene, but have had to use the utmost
plete. diplomacy to secure any pictures,
,, . ., . , the Indians are greatly opposed to the
The recent heavy rains in the Chick-
. ' , .. , cameras
asaw nation have caused a portion of
the cotton crop to become somewhat
spotted. Grass is causing the farmers
a great deal of trouble, but with dry
weather for the next month, tho farm-
ers will catch up with their work.
The prospects are flattering, and un-
less ■ boll worms appear, there is no
reason that the yield in the Chickasaw
nation will not be the largest in years.
It is thought that the crop will be
larger than t lie average for this sec-
tion. It is estimated that the corn
crop will be the largest in the history
of the Indian territory. The late rains
have damaged the small grain1 to con-
siderable extent. The oats crop is
very large, the yield being forty to
sixty bushels to the acre. The acre-
age in wheat has been small, and the
wheat crop will be short. Considera-
ble damage has been done to this crop
by rain.
In some parts of the Chickasaw na-
tion the apple crop is so largo that
hogs '.re turned into tho orchards to
eat the apples, which have been
crowded off the trees.
There is said to he a diamond on the
Oklahoma line of the Santa Fe which
has served as a shirt-stud at the wed-
dings of four engineers, four conduc-
tors, two lamp men, one wiper, five
firemen and sixteen brakemen. It is
just passed around, and when a man
asks for the loan of tho diamond the
boys rush up and congratulate him.
President Scott, of the Agricultural
college, is going to make that institu-
tion the marvel of Oklahoma, depend
upon it lie is just now putting out a
superior quality of advertising matter
and ho should keep it up Scott is
pure gold.
Silver Brown, an Omaha Inillan vis-
ited the Otoe* and danced with them
last week.
as n mark
dance tho Indians took their guest on
a fishing trip and and showed him
over their reservation.
Governor Barnes has commenced
work on his annual report to the sec-
retary of the interior, which he prom-
ises this year will eclipse the two
magnificent reports he has already
made. Secretary Wenner is gathering
and compiling statistics and other in-
formation and making selections of
photographs to illustrate the report,
and every effort possible is being made
to make the report complete and ac-
curate in every detail. The governor
desires very much to obtain more
scenes of fruit trees loaded with fruit,
loaded grape vines, wheat fields in
shock, harvesting and threshing
scenes, cotton and corn fields, farm
homes, orchards, etc., and persons
having such views should send them
in at once. All views not used in the
report will be returned postpaid to
the sender.
A cut of President David R. Boyd of
the territorial university, was printed
in tho July number of the American
School Journal. President Boyd is
director for Oklahoma of the National
Educational association.
Joe Sherman, cattle inspcctoi of the
territory, is in Oklahoma county look-
ing up the reports of the killing of de-
ceased cattle for beef. He has appoint-
ed a local inspector for Oklahoma
county. The inspector found evidence
that sick cattle had been kil'ed and
prosecutions may follow.
A Baptist college is to be located
some place in Oklahoma. This was
decided upon by the Oklahoma Baptist
convention which was recently held
in Garfield county, and a committee
was also appointed to select tho loca-
tion.
W. II. Darrough of Wyandotte, a
former resident of Oklahoma county.
They gave him two ponies [ has been appointed census enumerator
of their esteem. After the for the Indian territory. Mr. I)ar-
1«JI ... t . . . I . a I. ... .. 1 i u.,x<aU nn<l n v./lnl/iml t (I IlilVll I I fl t* t'«> 1/
rough and ex-dclegate Dave Harvey
are the founders of the town of Wyan-
dotte. .
Lightning struck the dome of the
capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., causing
about $100 damage.
Mrs. Ida A. Flagler, wife of the
Standard Oil magnate, is hopelessly
insane. She has in her own right
property valued at $1,200,000.
It is believed that tho volunteer
forces now being enlisted for the Phil-
ippines eventually will be made part
of the regular army.
Eleven buildings burned in a fire at
Wagoner, Ind Ter., causing a loss of
$25,000.
It has just been discovered that all
the important papers in the prelim-
inary hearing of the Jester case at
Mexico, Mo., twenty years ago, have
been lost or stolen. Nothing more
than a tradition of the hearing re-
mains.
The assessable value of all property
In Kansas is $327,175,107, against
$323,644,464 in 1898, an increase of
$3,550,643.
The Cole and Miller county Congres-
sional primaries were carried by
Judge Shackleford, to succeed the late
Richard Bland in Congress.
A party of thirteen Sioux Indians,
traveling with a Wild West show, has
been left stranded in.Germany.
Henry A. Peed of Warrensburg, Mo.,
and George W. Whitsett of Carthage,
Mo., have been appointed captains in
the volunteer ariny. They were cap-
tains in the Fourth and Fifth Mis-
souri regiments.
The Dslaware Indians have filed a
protest against the capitalists who
have secured leases from the Chero-
kees on their land. They complain
that their possessions have been
wrongfully leased away, and that the
syndicate is a trespasser.
One was killed, two will die, and
three others were dangerously wound-
e d as the result of a street battle at
New Boston, Texas.
The big Texas cattle trust will prob-
ably fall through. New York capital-
ists fear the Texas anti-trust laws.
Solon Detwiler, editor of tho Enid
Coming Events, committed suicide in
a Guthrie, Okla., hotel by taking mor-
phine.
Andrew Carnegie has offered East
Liverpool, Ohio, $50,000 for a memorial
library if it will furnish a free site.
President McKipley has bought a
team of Wisconsin driving horses for
$3,000.
The 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
P. J. Staley of Columbus, Mo., died of
hydrophobia, resulting from a mad
dog's bite.
Admiral Dewey has filed his claim
for naval bounty growing out of the
battle of Manila bay. It is expected
4.000 or 5,000 claims will be filed, and
Dewey's case is to be a test one.
The patent office last year granted
25,404 patents out of a total applica-
tion of 41,930.
John Q. Bridges, a pioneer settler
of Sedalia, Mo., died at tho age of SS
years.
James Reed lias brought suit for I *'*" V"*TV""
„ , ... " , ,, Bian physician
$25,000 against the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas at Sedalia, it being the
first suit to be brought there under
the fellow-servant law.
D. P. Bailey, former private secre-
tary of tho late 1!. 1*. Bland, has an-
nounced himself as a candidate to suc-
ceed Mr. Bland.
American soldiers tore dowa a Ger-
man flag hoisted above a hotel in
Honolulu July 4. Tho matter has
been reported to tho German govern-
ment and serious .complications may
follow.
The lower courts of Illinois have
decided that the Pullman and Billings
heirs must pay an inheritance tax.
The new battleships, Kearsage,
Kentucky, Alabama and Wisconsin,
being built at Newport News, are
nearly completed.
Nebraska towns are preparing for a
state reception to the First Nebraska
regiment, which is expected to reach
San Francisco within two weeks.
Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert C. Smith,
in charge of the quartermaster's de-
pot in St Louis, diod suddenly at his
home there.
Governor McLaurin of Mississippi
has attained suoh n lead in the county
primaries that his election as senator
is practically assured.
Govornor Rogers of Washington
writes another letter to Governor
Sayers, in which he says he believes
the states aro unable to control trusts.
Among the unique claims recently
presented as a result of the civil war
is ono, just disallowed, asking for re-
j irnburseraetit for the failure of claim-
i ant's crops while he was $orviug in
the army. ,
A'. C. T. U. crusaders raided^a resort*
in Kingston, Mo., where, it is said,
liquor was sofd aud a poker game was
conducted. . *
John D. Davis and wife of New York
have started in an automobile on their
journey to San Francisco, being the
f^st to attempt tho trip across tho
continent.
Tho United American Glue company
was formed at New York with a cap-
ital of $35,000,000.
Representative Hawley of Texan
made a statement in Washington ap-
pealing to tho public every where to
come to the rescue of the Hood suf-
ferers.
There was a pitcher who once prom-
ised to be one of the best in the busi-
ness who dropped out of fast company
in a strange way, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He was Darby, and
when he disappeared he was pitching
for Detroit One morning the team
was making a trip across Michigan.
The day was hot and the cars dirty,
and when, near midday, the train stop-
ped at a pretty little town, Darby look-
ed out at a cool -creek flowing down
into the woods and remarked:
"That would be a great place to fisli
on a day like this."
One of the other players saUL "Why
don't you get off and go fishing?
"Believe I will," replied Darby, as
he sauntered out on the platform of
the car. No one thought any more of
the matter until the train was miles
down the country. Then some one
remarked that Darby was missing. He
never rejoined the club, but turned up
at home in the fall and has never been
back in fast company since.
"The funniest decision I ever saw on
a hall field," said George Becker of the
Louisvilles, "was given down in a lit-
tle country town in Indiana while I
was playing with the Chicago club. We
had an off day, and Billy Moran and I
went down as a battery to some town
that had a grudge against a neighbor-
ing village. I went in to pitch and we
had the other club beaten, to death.
">long in the seventh inning the
bases were full with two out and the
batter hit a little grounder' down to
me. I picked the ball up and tossed it
underhand to first, twenty feet ahead
of the runner, and started to the bench
when the umpire called me back and
said: 'Not out.' I demanded to know
why the man was not out and he re-
plied:
" 'The rules say you must throw the
ball to first and you pitched it under-
hand.'
"I laughed so hard that I came near
letting the other club beat us out. I
never disruted that man's decisions
again."
James Ryan is an observing fellow.
His latest discovery was made last fall.
Jimmy was out walking in Washington
and returned to the hotel out of breatk
ind dragged half a dozen players down
to the capitol lawn to see a game of
ball. Far over on the south side of
the east esplanade is a statue of Chris-
topher Columbus. The discoverer is
represented standing on a pedestal
with one foot advanced, his right arm
swung high above his head and in his
right hand a globe. Jimmy dragged
the ball players over to the statne and
then, pointing across the lawn, showed
the statute of George Washington. The
father of his country stands facing
the discoverer with hands outstretch-
ed. Ryan pointed out that Columbus
is poising to pitch the ball and W ash-
ington is in exact position to catch it
ANIMALS THAT COUNT.
Wonderful IinsKlan Horse That Knows
"Up to Twenty-Five."
Dr. Timovieff, a distinguished Itus-
has computed that
crows can count ten, parrots four, doga
twenty-four and cats six. Dr. Tim-
ovieff found one horse belonging to a
peasant that, when ploughing, always
stopped to rest at the twentieth fur-
row, no more and no less. He also
drove after one horse that had been
trained to stop for a feed after every
twenty-fivo versts. On a familiar road
this made uniform feeding places.
Once, however, on a road this horse
had never before traveled, it stopped
for food after traveling only twenty-
two versts. The doctor watched care-
fully in returning over the same road,
and saw how tho horse had made its
mistake. In tho course of the twenty-
two versts, which were nil carefully
marked by the telegraph company,
were three other stones similar to the
verst signs. These tho horse had seen
and counted, being, of course, unable
to distinguish them from the others.
For Ilouftokffpcn.
Fee that your linen is washed clean. Use
"Faultless Starch," dean irons, follow di-
rectious giron on psi-La^e and perfect re-
sult* will follow. All grocers sull "Faultless
Starch," largo package, 10c.
To succeed with a woman, a man
must bo half a snake and half a flow
"Uneasy Lies the Head
That Wears a Crown."
But such are not the only uneasy heads.
Overworked, harrassed, anxious people of
all ages and boih sexes are uneasy with
aches, pains, impure blood, disordered
stomachs, deranged kidneys and liner.
For all such, Hood's Sarsaparilta is the
effective and faultless cure. It infuse*-
fresh life through purified blood.
KILL THEM
Tbos® pour© destroy eru, th©
nouwhoM Kited.
Dutcher'o Fly Killer
not onlv kills the parent fly, but
nrrvrnts rrpnuluotioa. A •nooi
prevents rrprot
will kill a quart.
A*U your Druir r1«t or orooer.
mii. mum wuo u>. Jt u**".
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