The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 241, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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QeVoted to The Interests of Stillwater.
Stillwater. Oklahoma. Tuesday Evening, November 12, 1901.
Two of the Escaping Territory Con-
victs From Kansas Peniten-
tiary Capture a
Sheriff.
A Sunday special dispatch from To
pekti. Kansas, relates in h three col-
umn urtiele, the experience of th?
sheriff and posse of Shawnee county,
six miles south of Topeka, who at-j
tempted to capture two of the escaping
convicts from the Kansas penitentiary.
The sheriff was notiiicd of the presence
in the neighborhood of the convicts
about noon Sunday, and at once left
for the scene w ith a posse. The con-
victs were soon sighted and it running
light took place in which the convicts
reception at m. e, church.
Rev. Goosch and Wife Received
Last Night by Members of the
Church—A. Very Pleasant
Occasion.
£ STILLWATER jj
The I4argest, liveliest
jjj and Healthiest City in *
Jj, Kastern Oklahoma. jjj
($4-.00 per year
No. 241
nn di a?,!
Another Campaign Began At Mus-
kogee This Week. Conven-
November 14.
tion
'I lie reception to the pastor and wife (
under theau.pCw of the ^cfie'sCircle ! Muskogee, I. T„ Nov. II-On Nov-
'he Jl. h. church la-t night was a | emher 14 w ill begin another campaign
' ' e The choir rendered i of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
some excellent music, followed by a ! for statehood. On that date a conven-
chip
music.
welcome address by Mr. liyers. This
addn-ss was short and to the point and
so full di real sincerity that the new
pastor and family could rot'mistake
their welcome among us.
Hev (tooscIi responded to this ad-
dress in a most happy manner, causing
the members and friends of the church
tu feel they had not erred in extend-
ing « welcome to this genial pastor and
his cultured wife.
M rs Stevenson sang one of her iinest
solos which was most heartily appre-
iated. To this lady also is due much
... . w. iw mis laujf ju?u is uu« n
edthrough an orchard and of the credit for the very tasteful
were
put a farm house, so the sheriff beautiful decoration!
thought. Hut instead of going past
the house they ran into it, and the
iltt riff, being acquainted w ith the
farmer, on coming up went into the
house to inquire if ti onvicts had
been seen, when he was held up and
his otitis taken away from him. Then
they told him t > take a chair and stay
affhile For more than three hours
the sheriff sat in a chair, covered by a
lix-shooter in the hands of one of the
convicts. Fhe house was entirely sur-
r<mnded by a big |iossh of deputy sher-
iffs and Tope kit policemen and citizens
living in the vicinity, but they were
powerless to do anything Notice was
*er\"<! tin them that if they niittie any
ittempt to come into the house or
lirt-il a shot, tin sheriff would be killed
When the convicts were ready to
leave at nightfall, another notice of
that character was served, and they
were permitted to make their escape,
though by doing so they ha 1 to brush
tlmort up against members of the
posse. After they got away it was so
dars that no attempt wit* made to
hunt them down, ami the posse dis-
persed
is he an escaped convict?
a iid
tion of delegates from both territories
will meet here to outlina a plan of ac-
tion with which togo before congress
at the coming session. Indications
are that the meeting will be more
harmonious and effective than other
similar i:.eetings held during the pnst
two years. At some of these there
has been manifested a spirit of rivalry,
not to say jealousy, that has made the
result of little value. The growing
importance of Oklahoma, and the
organization that the territorial form
of government has given to the politi-
cal parties there, has aroused the
GRAND
of the church, j dwellers in the Indian Territory w ith
In this work she was ably assisted by |u doubt or the good intentions , f their
M.^dames Harry Swope and Wikoff. j neighbors. The people here have a
1 lie company then repaired to the | peculiar position as citizens. They are
lecture room where, from table* in j tenae members of the common-
different booths, waited upon by young wealth. The live civilized tribes of
bitlies of the church, dainty wfreah-1 Indiant—the Creeks, Cherokees, Choc-
tin[ tits wen served taws, Seminole* and CI.ickasaws—ab-
hvcryone went way feeling better | solutely own all the lard in the terri-
tor this evening spent in social inter- ^ tory, a section as large as Ohio, prac-
! tic.illy, and they exercise the manage-
A FIN? miTNTRV j nicut ot affairs, except such as are held
A. r llNli LUUIN in!, lby the federal government. The
| whites are simply here on su If ranee I
Interesting1 ,ult*5lre in a fjir in(*ependent con- j
® | dition than the dwellers in any other
part of the nation. To be sure, they i
j outnumber the Indians three to one.
i Of the 400,0 0 residents in the terri-
tory, only 85,000 are Indians in any
shade of blood. But the land is theirs
i while in Oklahoma the settlers ar*
their ow n masters.
A, F. Mood Writes An
Letter From Western Ca-
nada. Immigration
Rush On.
1901.
A Hobo With a Shaved Head And
Ingenious Clothes in Town
This Morning-
A little su pressed excitement
t ul- ii among tin* officers thi> morning
over the report that a probable es-
caped convict from the Federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kansas, stayed in
town last night, and bad slept in the
liaj loft of the Morris livery barn.
Soni< >iie noticed that his head had
recently been shaved and that his de-
scription tallied with that of the taller
man of the two n h i captured the Kan •
>le rifT Sunday, but before thestory
t the proper ollicers the fellow
had gone and was nowhere to be found.
Hi" last account the Gazette Elective
had of |)in, he was headed for the
treek nation.
Some think thi* is the same party
ulio made an unsuccessful attempt to
hold up Sam Miller hist niulit.
Wetaskiwm, Nov.
Editor (Ia/tttk :
I send you a few words from the Al-
berta country, and if you wish to give
it space in your valuable paper, you
may hear from us later. We are at
Wetaskiwm forty live miles south of
Kd moil ton, in the Province of Alberta.
We have been out forty-five miles in
the country, and have visited several
threshing outfits Oats are rtiaking
from 75 to 112 bushels per acre, barley
50 to 75. This may seem big for the
Payne county farmer, still it is the
truth. This is what is called a mixed
i farming country : the main thing here
i> st ck and it i* the finest country on
' u " enrth for stock.
People arc rushing in here by the
train loud from the United States.
Some are buying as high as eight to
ten sections. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas
and Oklahoma are well represented
here ; two thirds of the people here are
from the states. 1 understand from
good authority that.one hundred and
thirty thousand people filed on land in
Alberta district since 1901, with the
country still crow 'ed with people lo-
cating. Hotels are all crowded and it
is almost impossible to get a team at
livery stables. If the rush keep* on
this way till spring, it will be some-
thing like the K1 Keno rush was in
Chrysanthemum Exhibit.
Hie Ladies' Aid Society of the Pres-
byterian church will hold their annual
plant exhibit and flower social at tin
corner of Main anil Ninth streets,
•lit)' afternoon and evening, November
lieautiful drills by the children,
Pitdny booths and refreshment tallies
will tie some of the attractions. Kvery-
<>"'■ having plants is invited to display
""'m and compete for one of the four
beautiful prizes. One of the most de-
sirable prizes was contributed by the
wide-awake and enterprising mer-
chants, (irmly Jtros. 1'riz.es are given
follows:
I ti/e fop best chrysanthemum, prize
"r bent col lection of chrysanthemums,
I'fize fur best house plant and prize for
'est collection of house plants. Ail-
mission lo cents.
July.
Verv feu people are coming in here
fn in the foreign eountrys. The Ca-
nadians here say they want farmers
from the states, and want the foreign
I immigration stopped.
I The weather has been line up to Nov-
| ember 1st. We have H I miles to make
''* i in the country this week if the weather
will p rmit, and then we shall start
back about November 14.
A. K. Moon.
Topeka, Nov. In.—(Special.) I'at
Bennett, a notorious outlaw in South-
ern Kansas, w ho is wanted in Oklaho-
ma for murder, has been located and
will soon be apprehended. JauiesUib-
sun, a deputy marshal at Weldon, I. T.
has got Iieniiott spotted niitl is now
hi1 after him. Dennett lias committed
all sorts of depredations along tin
Southern Kansas border, and only a
few weeks ago got away from the
sheriff of Montgomery county after an
exciting light.
As business has advanced, the inter-
ests of investment and of development
have overshadowed political considera |
tions in both territories, and the move- \
nient now in progress is for the better-
ment of this line of interest rather
than for the obtaining of political
plums solely. The outside world does
not realize fully how great is the busi-
ness advancement in the Southwest,
nor how rapidly capital is developing
the marvelous resources of this prac-
tically virgin region During the past
decade there has been a constant cur-
tailing of the agricultural section of
the plains. The opening of the west-
ern end of the territory, now known
its Oklahoma, gave homes to nearly
half a million people, and yet the
Western states arc steadily gaining in
population I'he whites have come to
this end ot the territory under leases,
and as resident* on government town
sites, to do lie business of the con ntry
regions. They have waited and hoped
for another opening that would give
them ill- I'll.ti; ot I he ti v.- t ribes. but
withoii any eneoiiingement so far as a
free gift is conctirned. There will be
an opening, it is already under way
but it will be a sale of the Indian
lands not a gift.
Midnight in Chinatown.
An early attraction to be presented
ul'1 his theatre is W (I. Edmunds' big
sensational novelty ''Midnight in
Chinatown," a story of the Hidden
(lute City, San Francisco. A large
east of .'U characters are required, and
splendid scenic environment will en-
hance the beauty of the production.
The story np"iis at a summer resort
in the mountains, where the heroine
is coerced by a false friend into almost
ail elopement with the villian of the
play, which is thwarted, however, by
the hero, who, in shielding Ins fiancee,
is compelled to acquiesce to a charge
of attempted murder. The tcenes
change rapidly to San Fnun isco Hay,
anil the prison in which the hero is in-
carcerated, anil ihe home of the hero-
ine, from which she is abducted and
taken to an opium den controlled by
the villian, ami from whence she is
icsctied by the hero and a body uf po-
lice at the elimlix of one of the most
sensational scenes ever presented to
the public.
COSTIH] ISTIGrXIT
Sensatiouol leSo-Drama
China Town
A Story of the Golden Gate. A
Play Containing Heart In-
terest. An Exact
Reproduction
-of an-
opiu/v\ DE/SI
Story Cast
# SPECIAL SCENERY
Seats now on Sale at
Hands Drug Store.
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