The Democrat-Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DEMOCRAT-TOPIC
QCINCT T. BROWN, Kdltor.
C1KO. W. TKACY, I'oblliher.
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITOBT
Cattle are dying with Texas fever at
Wagoner. I. T.
Lincoln county has 80,000 acres
planted in cotton.
Old Camp Supply is becoming noted
as a summer resort
A converted circus clown is preach-
ing on the streets of Wagoner, I. T.
The next G. A. U. encampment will
be held at Kingfisher, October 0, 7 and
6 th.
Cattle shipments from Checotah de-
pot the past week run up to thirty-
seven ears.
Ten thousand dollars a year in pen
sions are received by the old soldiers j falfa gave
of Lincoln county.
.Some one tried to destroy the Salli- | P°un<ls from second cultin*' made
*aw jail, and the citizcns offer $50 re
The grain buyers at Enid are fight-
ing the county scaleB and buying
wheat weighed on their private scales
only.
The vrav in which Colonel Freeman
of the Of ages is keeping low and let-
ting everybody forget him is some-
thing wonderful to behold.
A large shipment of cotton was
made from Sapulpa last week, con-
sisting of 300 bales from the Sue and
Fox Agency and consigned to a St,
Loll is firm.
A special meeting of the city council
of El Keno will be called for the pur-
pose of considering a proposed long
distance telephone between Oklahoma
and El Keno.
Twenty Indians waddled into El
Reno the other day and fell on the edi-
tor of the Star's neck and begged him
to help them retain a few of their
their wives.
At the Oklahoma experiment station,
on upland prairie soil, an acre of al-
2975 pounds of hay from
| first cutting, made May 19, and 2575
ward for the miscreant.
Governor Harris has issued his proc-
lamation calling together the Chicka-
aw legislature on the 19th inst.
I June 2
Oklahoma's cotton crop for this year
is estimated at 150,000 bales. At last
! year's prices, and the indications are
that prices will be even better than
then, the crop wili bring over five mil-
The Hardesty Herald says, "wheat i ,.
J • l lion dollars.
crop of Heaver county is short this j
Jpear, but the yield of cowlets and bul- j A washing machine agent in Potta-
Jets is immense." watomie county met a woman of nerve
i . ... . , ' recently. He sold her the machine for
South McAlester talks of dropping ^ '
the South from its title and becoming
simply McAlester, calling the old town
North McAlester.
It develops that the bridge at Free-
man's terry, sixty-tivo miles down the
river, is the Noble avenue bridge, that
floated away from Guthrie. It will
not be brought back.
George Theiss, the Kansas cattle
man, has brought suit in Custer coun-
ty, Ok., on some unbonded warrants.
This will be a test case that will in
810, five to be paid down and to be re-
turned if the machine did not suit. It
failed to suit, but the agent refused to
return the 85. The woman made the
agent ''dig up" the money at the muz-
zle of a Winchester.
The report of the agricultural ex-
periment station with wheat this year
says: "Large yields of wheat were se-
| cured from the upland prairie soil. No
! manure was applied and the treatment
{ of the soil was not exceptional, save in
, . , , ,, - ti • ! deen plowing. In variety of tests
volve thousands of dollars to the van- • y b J
, , , eighty-three plats, usually of one-for-
ous counties of Oklahoma. ° J ' J
' tieth of an acre, gaye an average yield
Since ^ptember last the Northern j q{ bu;,leU per ftcre The larffe8t
district of the Indian territorial court j
has sentenced to Fort Leavenworth j
penitentiary, 31 persons, to Columbus,
O., penitentiary, 80 persons, 4 to re-
form school, and there now remains 57
persons to be sentenced, but not yet
taken away. Making a total of 258
persons sentenced to the penitentiary
since the above date. There are now
pending 35 indictments for felony in
this district, and 72 misdemeanor cases.
Nineteen of these are murder cases.
The board of regents of the terri-
torial normal school will meet at Ed-
mond on .'uly 22 to receive bids for the
completion of the school building and
to employ teachers and order the con-
struction of the new normal at Alva.
The Edmond normal is in a flourishing j
condition. The revenue this year will j
be amply sufficient to pay the regular |
running expenses, with the addition I
of a new teacher, to complete the
building, and a new laboratory, and
A colony from Minnesota will invade
Oklahoma soon.
Oklahoma farmers are all building
new granaries.
The Hlaine County Salt Works are
doing a rushing business.
Secretary Jenkins, acting Governor,
bears his honors gracefully.
The fall term of the territorial uni-
versity commences September 15.
The machinery for Guthrie's new
electric light plant is on the ground.
Oklahoma farmers are determined to
hold their wheat and oats for a higher
price.
Henry Niblett has been arrested at
Ardmore on a charge of criminal as-
sault-
Lincoln comity shipped 10,000 head
of hogs last year and will do even bet-
ter this year.
The large vineyards of Oklahoma
county will crush their grapes into
wine tlWs year.
El Reno's pet alligator recently es-
caped and the people are shedding
crocodile tears.
Cloud Chief is proud of the fact that
she has no empty business rooms with-
in her borber.
The Hennessey grain buyers light
down upon a load of wheat like vul-
tures on a dead carcass.
The little girls of Yukon are respon-
sible for the putting up of a watering
trough at the public well in that city.
It has been decided that, under the
law members of the Oklahoma Nation,
al Guard are exempt from poll or road
tax.
A movement is on foot to hold a re-
union of the Blue and the Grav for the
CONGRESSIONAL,
Washington. July 17.—The House
agreed to the partial conference re-
port on the general deficiency appro-
priation bill, and then concurred in
the Senate amendment fixing the limit
of cost of armor plate for the three
battleships now building at $300 per
ton. This was the main point still in
dispute between the two houses. A
strong effort was made to induce the
House to agree to a substitute proposi-
tion fixing the limit at 8400, as recom-
mended by the secretary of the navy,
but after a three hours' debate the
IIoust', by a vote of 14'! to 45, concur-
red in the Senate amendment.
On motion of Mr. Broderick, Repub-
lican, of Kansas, the Senate resolution
directing the secretary of war to issue
1,000 tents for the use of the Grand
Army encampment at Leavenworth,
Kan., next October, was adopted.
Washington, July 17.—The open
session of the Senate was brief and
uneventful yesterday. The Harris
resolution relating to the Union Pa-
cific was further discussed. At 1:30
the Senate went into executive ses-
sion, remaining behind closed doors
until 6 o'clock and then adjourned
until to-day.
Washington, July 16.—Pacific rail-
road affairs occupied the attention of
the Senate throughout yesterday, and
the Harris resolution relating to the
pending judicial proceedings against
the Union Pacific road finally went
over until to-day.
Washington, July 16.—No business
was transacted by the House yester-
day. Immediately after the journal
was approved, a recess was taken on
Mr. Cannon's motion until to-day, Mr.
Cannon having giving assurances to
Mr. Bailey that in his opinion a par-
tial or complete conference report on
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
Indian territory about the last of Aug- i the deficiency bill would be ready by
ust. that time.
Jack Ilartzell, known as "One-Armed
Jack,'' attempted suicide at Perry by
yield was at the rate of 57. the smallest
19 •"> bushels per acre. Eight plats
gave yields of over fifty bushels per
acre. On account of rain some of the
plats were not harvested until overly
ripe. In the time sowing tests the
largest yield was from first sowing—
September 15; nearly as large as from
sowing September 25; good yields from
came from sowing October 5, with
marked decrease from later sowings
The first sowing was cut seven days
earlier tluiu any of the others. The
straw from the plats sown earliest and
latest stood up better than that of the '
plats sown in October. Subsoiling
made small digerence in the yield of
grain. In general the straw was tall-
er on the subsoiled plats. The sub- j
soiling lands held much more of the
rains falling duiing the cutting sea-
son. Rolling the soil before drillirg
the wheat gave a marked increase in |
yield from the early, a slight increase
I Washington, July '.5.—The Senate
. j was in a deadlock yesterday for
swallowing laudanum. He was pump- several hours, with business at a
ed out. standstill, while calls of the Senate,
The little child of Henry Armstrong ! roll calls and other parliamentary ex-
of Bartlesville, I. T., died from the 1 pedients were resorted to. It was due
effects of concentrated lye it drank to the effort to secure action on the
some time ago ! resolutions of Mr. Harris, of Kansas,
[ designed to prevent the disposal of
Senator Nishtycot, alias Jeff Davis, the government lien OD the , nion Pa.
a Sac and Fox Indian, who lives in cific railway, under the terms of the
Lincoln county, has three wives and alleged agreement. There were many
twenty-two children. roll calls on Mr. Harris' motion to con-
Ardmore will entertain the Indian sider the resolution, quorums appear-
Territory grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.
August 10, and that thriving city will
no doubt do justice to the occasion.
ing and disappearing, and from 12 to
5 o'clock no final vote on the motion
was secured. It finally went over
j over until to-day.
D. A. Hook of Leavenworth and; Washington, July 15.—Representa-
Governor Barnes of Oklahoma are the i tive Simpson of Kansas yesterday in-
new vice presidents of the Republican j troduced in the House a resolution di-
League for Kansas and Oklahoma, re- reeling the speaker to appoint a com-
mittee of five to investigate the sugar
spectne y. | truSf The resolution is preceded by
The reunion of the Northeastern Ok- two whereases, the first of which de-
lahoma Veterans' association will be clares that it is "currently asserted"
held at Old Pond Creek, August 11, 12, that the American Sugar Refining
13, 14 and 15. The speakers advertised company has. in violation of law. ere
are Governor Barnes, Harper Cunning- j
ham, Bernard Kelly, Tom Anderson, !
Levi Ferguson, A. C Scott, A. J. Seay,
expend nearly 83.000 for books. 1 he i frora j)le middle and a decrease from
ichool is out of debt and is conducted
Dn a cash basis.
In different parts of Oklahoma a
plant of the watermelon family called
'pie melon" is grown to a moderate ex-
tent. The melons resemble water-
melons, but are solid meated, thus
more resembling the common citron.
They frequently weigh twenty pounds
or more each. They grow rapidly and
the yield of melons is large, but no
definite statement as to exact yield is
available. A number of farmers re-
port being well pleased with them as
food for their cattle, hogs or poultry.
The rind is tough and the melons must
be cut or broken. Hogs will eat the
pulp, leaving the rind.
Many are making preparations for a
jrand rush into the Kiowa and Com-
mche country on October 21. There
are thousands of acres of fine land
which will become public domain on
expiration of the Medicine Lodge
treaty which occurs on that date.
Major Woodson's friends should not
get excited about false reports of an
Indian uprising. The average news-
paper correspondent thinks there ia
only one good reason for the Indian's
existence—the news value of his up-
rising faculty.
Harper Cunningham will soon visit
Major Woodson's Indians and persuade
them that polygamy is wrong. But he
might better have a care. Old medi-
cine Horse is armed with a copy of the
Bible and will spring a section of th«
history of King Solomon on him.
A movement is again being agitated
to put up a monument to Captain
Payne, the Oklahoma boomer. He is
buried near Anthony, Kan., and the
pioneers of Oklahoma think his bones
should rest within the land he helped
to get for homes for all but himself.
J. S. S. Ilassler, Frank Greer and Tom
Sowaid.
Miss Grace Allen, of Fredonia, Kan.,
is under arrest in Lincoln county,
charged with poisoning a young lady
ated a "gigantic monopoly," and the
second that said corporation, "by the
use of watered stock, by unfair com-
petition and by illegal combination
has crushed out legitimate competition
to an extent which gives it the power
to depress the price of the raw mate-
rial and to advance the price of the
manufactured article at will, thus
throttling the cane and beet agricul-
the late sown plats. In comparing re-
sults from sowing with different quan-
tities of seed, the largest yield from
one plat was from sowing at the rate
of five pecks, but generally the best
yield came from sowing six pecks per
acre. The variety plats were sown at
the rate of four pecks per acre. The
wheat was all sown with a press drill
with drill rows six inches apart. The
seed was from the poor crop of 1896,
grown on the farm. The plats were
long and narrow to better secure uni-
formity of soil. The yields were prob-
ab'y somewhat increased from the fact
that two feet spaecs were left between
the different plats, giving more space
lor the roots of the outside drill rows."
Miller Smith of Jefferson, Ok. known
in the third legislative assembly as
"Shoestring Smith," has fallen heir to
$20,000 since quitting politics.
Mrs. W. P. Ross, of Fort Gibson, I.
T., lias, perhaps, the oldest piano in
the territory. It was brought there
by General Belknap, former com-
mander of that post, and was pre-
sented to Mrs. Ross as a bridal present
over fifty years ago. This was one of
the best instruments made in that day
and had some narrow escapes during
the war.
Only one Indian was converted to
Christianity by Major Crozier, the fa-
mous Episcopalion of Cushing, last
week. He had two Indians who were
ready to be confirmed but one of them
didn't get her drass finished in time.
This is probably a fact: "A White
Rock man loyed a Perry girl and gave
her a plain gold ring. They fell out
and the man started in to replevin tha
ring through the courts, The girl
sent the ring back and prevented him
from making a large green, corrugated
monkey of himself."
and her mother. 1 he latter is dead, turists with one hand and grasping
Jealously prompted the deed, both the purses of the consumers with the
women being in love with the same other."
man. Before being arrested Miss Al- J The committee authorized by the
len attempted to commit suicide, but | resolution is empowered to send for
. i m.„ „;.,„ir persons and papers, and to investigate
was prevented, lhe rivals are school f r ,
the methods of the company; its effect
teac lers. j Up0n agriculture and commerce "as
The hardware dealers of Oklahoma j well as the enhanced cost of one of the
met in semi-annual session at Okla-j necessaries of life," and the committee
homa City for the discussion of trade i is directed to report their findings,
nrospects, and it was the general con- a,ld' if the faets warrant it, a bill in-
census of opinion that the outlook for stituti"* Proceedings by the attorney
. general in quo warranto to annul the
the fall trade was lig i me tn . . corporative existence of the trust.
L. Frick resigned his position as secre- j
tary of the association, and is succeed- , Washington, July 14.—The price to
ed by W. W. Stone of Guthrie. The be paid for armor plate for the three
next meeting will be held December j new battleships now in course of con-
28 iu Oklahoma City. I struetion was the theme of extended,
, , _ , and at times, lively debate in the Sen-
A gentleman ef color at South McAl- Bte yesterday. Late in the day an
ester, I. T., struck his wife a blow on | amen(jment to the deficiency appropri-
tlie forehead with the sharp edge of a | atoin bill was agreed to, restricting
hatchet because she chidcd him for ! the price of armor plate to S3')0 per
lavishing his affections on another ! ton, or $125 less than the amendment
woman. The blow felled her to the 1 reported by the committee and recorn-
ground, bat did not seriously injure tended by the navy department as
® the minimum r«t.« unrentable to the
her.
The Grant county Milling compauy I
of Jefferson have issued a circular pro-
j claiming that their 100-barrel mill will j
open August 1; an exchange mill ex- j
clusively; farmers depositing their
I wheat and taking their flour at will.
Governor Barnes has decided to re-
move the board of regents of the Still- , cupied the attention of the Senate
water Agricultural college and of the ! yesterday. The deficiency appropria-
ble minimum rate acceptable to the
armor contractors.
Another amendment inserted in the
bill directed the secretary of the navy
to investigate as to the establishment
of a government armor factory and to
report to the next session of Congress.
Washington, July 13.—A discussion
of Union Pacific railroad affairs oc-
Minister Hoshi of Japan says that
the Japan Herald's report that his
country will seize Hawaii is without
foundation.
Many Kentuckians have asked Gov-
ernor Bradley to pardon George Din-
ning, the negro who killed a man
while defending his home.
Merrill Ragan was shot from am-
bush near Armington, 111., by William
Veroy, who charges Ragan with his
daughter's ruin.
Fred Washington, a distant relative
of the Father of his country, was
frightfully and fatally mangled in a
runaway at f-cdalia.
Harvest hands in Kansas want
double pay for working 16 hours per
day and five meals.
Kansas trainmen are Qimporting
tramps in Kansas and selling them to
the farmers at fifty cents and $1 per
head.
A Georgia negro ate seven water-
melons for a reward of fifty cents and
died.
Frank Marion, of Wichita, Kan.,
while asleep, was robbed of $300 by
two companions at Nevada, Mo.
Near 500 picnickers were poisoned
by eating ham in sandwiches near
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. No deaths
occurred.
The President pardoned Robert M.
Allen, sentenced to five years in the
Missouri penitentiary for mail rob-
bery.
Grasshoppers have appeared in great
numbers in the western part of Barton
county, Kansas. Cornfields have been
seriously damaged by them.
Miss Lou Dingley, a niece of Con-
gressman Dingley, 30 years of age, and
engaged to another, eloped and mar-
ried W. E. Had ley of San Diego, Cal.
Robert Downing is said to have of-
fered the daughter of Sam Small an
engagement with his company next
year. Her father is said to not be op-
posed to her ambition to go on the
stage.
The Phillipsburg, Kan , creamery
was opened with a public meeting and
jubilation. A line of creameries is to
be opened along the Rock Island road
in Western Kansas and Eastern Col-
orado.
The government of Colombia has
offered for sale the exclusive right for
the manufacture and sale of matches
in that country for twenty-five years
for $128,100. The present price of
matches must be reduced 10 to 20 per
cent.
Upwards of 1,000 rioters were killed
about Calcutta, India.
Turks captured and destroyed Kala-
kaba in North Tliessaly.
Iowa gold Democrats nominated a
state ticket with John Cliggett for
governor.
The majority of Nebraska farmers
think farming do?s not pay.
Mrs. Bradbury, who eloped from
San Francisco, is penitent already.
A religious sect in Russia preaches
and practices suicide by starvation.
Fully 300 lives were lost and 810, -
000.000 damage done by recent floods
in France.
Sixty tons of American butter await
shipment to Australia from Van-
couver.
At its Fourth of July celebration
Tammany hissed Cleveland and
cheered Bryan.
The Nashville conference of middle-
of-the-road Pops decided to reorganize
the party.
Duluth reports four killed by lightj
ning. four burned to death and one
drowned.
This year's Christian Endeavor con-
vention at San Francisco is a record
breaker for attendance.
Four people were fatally and a score
more seriously injured in a trolly ear
collision in Pittsburg.
Nine people were killed and five
badly injured by a boiler explosion in
a Tennessee wheat held.
Ten Pittsburg breweries have con-
solidated and twenty-six Detroit ones
are figuring on a sale to an English
syndicate.
Miss Frances Hayes, daughter of the
ex-President,is to marry Ensign Harry
E. Smith of Fremont, Ohio.
Misses .Tosie Saunders and Marv
Arber, of Little Rock, and Jake and
Joe Dante, of Pine lllnff,weredrowned
while boating.
Bertram Hill, a 6-year-old San Fran-
cisco boy, was carried off by a balloou
and fell 1,00!) feet or more and was
dashed to pieces.
Charles Broadhurst discovered a
burned bridge near Cottonwood, Cal.,
and flagged a Christian Endeavor spe-
cial just in time.
Dan Christie and May McDonald, of
| Itasca, Wis., and Burton McCurry, of
Omaha, were drowned at West Su-
perior, Wis., by their boat capsizing,
j A British warship has grabbed three
of the Solomon group of islands.
The British military commission has
{shipped 1,100 horses from Buenos
| Ayres to Capetown.
colored normal school and they will be
asked to hand in their resignations.
Mr. Potter, living eight miles west
of Manchester, Ok., is the owner of a
pig weighing forty pounds, which has
four well-developed front feet. The
additional feet come out just below
the knee joint, reach well to the ground
and are perfect in shape and appear-
ance, with hoofs, though the feet are
hardly as large as the main front fecit
ticn bill was taken up early in the
day, and Mr. Morgan proposed an
amendment designed to prevent the
consummation of the agreement made
some time since for the settlement of
the government's claims against the
road Mr. Morgan spoke throughout
the day, severely arranging the Pacific
railroad managers. Later in the day
the entire subject was disposed of by
the withdrawal of the paragraph to
which Mr. Morgan had offered his
amendment.
COULD NOT EAT
The Affliction Which Befell a Fort
Scott Lady.
FORT SCOTT, K/l;!.—" I have taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia and
to purify my blood, with excellent results.
I was so that I could not eat anything
without distress, but since taking a few
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla my food
does not distress me, and I have felt better
In every way. I believe it to be the best
of blood medicinesand gladly recommend
it to otha'f." Eva Craig.
O; lit- are tasteless, mtlil, eftee-
TIOOU b flllh me. Alt druggists. 2SC.
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