Cashion Advance. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1902 Page: 2 of 8
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CASHION ADVANCE
CASHION,
OKLA.
OKLAHOMA ANO INDIAN TERRITORY
The Itlnclcwelt commercial club ha*
incorporated.
Hobart has scheduled a fireman's
ball for Fab. IS.
Four men robbed the postofflcc at
Kreralln of Sto.
l'ond Creek is to have two rural de-
livery mail routes.
Stillwater proposes to raise a bonus
to secure the Katy.
The Guthrie postofflce did a business
of Ss^',000 in January'.
A second electric light and heating
plant is in sipht for El Keno.
The Santa l'e is talking1 about build-
ing a Union station at Guthrie.
The corner stone of the new city hall
at Guthrie is to be laid on Feb. 12.
Range stock in western Oklahoma are
reported to be in excellent condition.
Surveyors reached Guthrie to begin
work on the Katy line from Stevens, I.
T.
The Woods county cattlemen's con-
vention is to be held at Cleo on Febru-
ary 21.
Forty-two charter members have
been secured for a Masonic lodge at
Hobart.
A board of pension examiners has
been named to have their headquarters
at Anadarko.
Roosevelt is the name given to a new
railroad town between Hobart and
Mountain View.
A company with a capital of $r>00,000
in s been organized at Cleo for working
the copper mines.
The laws of the Saes and Foxes pro-
vide punishment for crimes by lashes
on the bare back.
Watonga is ready to fulfill its con-
tract, with the Hock Island railroad to
build to that place.
.1. J. Iturke, editor of the Norman
Transcript, has been appointed post-
master at Norman.
James Milden of Winfield, while go-
ing to the Frisco depot at Blackwell,
fell and broke his arm.
There is an effort being made at
Washington to remove the El Reno
land otllcc to Anadarko.
.1. W. Bern raised 18 bales of cotton
from IS acres, near Stroud. He re-
ceived $720 for the cotton.
Relinquishment were first sold as
high as $2,500. Now good claims are
selling from $800 to $1,.100.
An El ltcno delegation went to con-
fer with the Katy officials relative to
their building the road to that town.
Hugo Levy, a traveling liquor sales-
man, was found at the depot at Guthrie
with a well developed case of small-
l'ox. %
John J. Boles has been confirmed as
register of the land office at Guthrie,
and Wm. E. Young as receiver at Okla-
homa City.
The Indiana society of Oklahoma is
to hold its annual meeting on Feb. 22.
James Whiteomb Riley is expected to
be one of the speakers.
A gang of thieves have been robbing
the freight cars in the Rock Island
yards at Anadarko, and five of them
have been arrested by the local police.
There are 12,980 Indians in Oulaho-
me, divided as follows: Iowas, 89;
Tonka was, !">8; Apaches, 172; Kaws, 213;
Kiekapoos, 240; Otoes, 372; Shawnee,
f>07; Sac and Fox, 528; I'oncas, 50;
J'awnce.s, O.'iO; Pottawatomies, 1,700;
Wiehitas, 925; Apapahoes, 9S1; Kiowas,
1.139; Comanches, 1,500; Osages, 1,798.
W. A. lvnipe, of Perkins, sold for W.
H. Coyle, of Guthrie, 800 acres of land
in the Cimarron bottoms for $15,000
in cash.
As a result of investigations by the
grand jury an expert accountant will
be employed to look over the affairs of
Noble county.
Hud Weyburn with three stolen
horses from l'ond Creek has been cap-
tuaed at Claremore, I. T.
A. J. Ross, of Alva, has tendered his
resignation as a member of the board
of education for normal schools.
Nearly every El Reno man who drew
a claim is preparing to move onto it
and some of them have already built
substantial houses.
The Oklahoma City postofllce sold
stamps to the amount of 83,07;t in
January. That office puts out an
average of 100 postul money orders a
day.
Elk City, Roger Mills county, is less
than a year old and has a population
of over 1,000, with fiO business firms.
The town is on the extension of the
Choctaw railroad.
Tulsa has two uew tir* engines.
Purcell is already preparing for a
big stock show in April.
Golden I'ass is the name of a new
town 17 miles northwest of Lawton.
The Blackwell building' and loan
association has taken out a charter.
The Chickasha cold storage rooms in
the ice plant, burned at a loss of $3,000.
t.'ity Marshal llopkius of Chickasha
has found a pair of blood hounds which
he will give a trial.
People of Sulphur, I. T., get en-
couragement that Sulphur will be
made a national park.
The Chichasaw townsite commission-
ers have been appraising Ardmore
town lots since .Ian, 27.
At Provence, 1. T., Walter Cliilds was
shot and killed by '.lla Pitts, the re-
sult of a lovers' quarrel.
President A. M. Scott of the A. & M.
College at Stillwater, is in Washington
in the interest of the college.
T. A. Walton, of Clay, who uses
crutches, bad a fall at Cherokee break-
ing his legs. His crutches slipped.
Chief Porter, of the Creeks, has been
called to Washington to confer with
Secretary Hitchcock on matters now
pending.
A fire started in the college green-
house at Stillwater, but the city tire
boys put it out. Considerable damage
was done.
Sam Johnson and Bill Sullivan, two
followers of Crazy Snake, the belliger-
ent Creek, are in the federal prison at
Muskogee.
Judge Townsend at Ardmore decided
that a forfeit put up on a horse race can
be taken down before the race was to
have came off.
A dispatch from South McAlester
says that there has been a heavy loss of
cattle in the Choctaw nation from the
severe weather.
The Woodward and Quanah railroad
company has been chartered to build a
line from Woodward to Quanah, Texas,
128 miles long.
Preston Fox, a big negro of Musko-
gee, is likely to get the heaviest pun-
ishment available for almost pounding
his wife to death.
The treaty agreed upon by the
Dawes commission and Clioctaws and
Chichasaws has been forwarded to
Secretary Hitchcock.
A list of towns is given in Indian
Territory and Oklahoma which are to
be supplied with automatic phones,
requiring no "central" girls.
Mr. Curtis says that none of the
items in the Indian Territory appro-
priation bill will be made public until
it has been reported to the house.
The steel on the Choctaw extension
south of Tecumseh has been laid to
Little River. The road will reach the
South Canadian river by February 15.
John Coombs, a negro prisoner at
Webber Falls, was chained about the
ankles and in that position was frozen
so that the flesh of his feet sloughed
off.
D. Paty of Checotah was called upon
by the bank there to pay a note sent to
the bank for collection. He took it
and destroyed it. He was arrested and
is under bond for $500.
El Reno is pleased with its prospects.
In addition to an electric light plant it
is proposed that the Rock Island and
Choctaw stations be connected by a
trolley line, the power to be furnished
by the light plant.
A lot jumper on the townsite of
Mounds, I. T., who had entered upon
the lots by force and erected buildings,
was arrested, fined and sentenced to
jail, but the jail sentence was remitted.
This settles hundreds of similar cases
in Indian Territory and provides a safe
title by possession to town lots.
Mayor Fielding Lewis of South Mc-
Alester is in Washington working for
tiie passage of Moon's statehood bill.
It is said that at one time of recent
date there were 1,000 ears of coal held
back from shipment at South McAles-
ter.
Graders on the Ozark, Cherokee Cen-
tral near Tahlequah have unearthed a
quantity of stone ruins. Among them
was an ancient stone battlea.v a bronze
war club and a lot of bronze imple-
ments, which find their counterpart in
ruins of Mexico and Peru.
Work on the new city hall at Okla-
homa City is delayed by the refusal of
union men to work with non-union
laborers who wait upon them.
Governor Ferguson has ordered the
ilrwjkards and morphine fiends turned
out of the insane asylum, and cites the
law requiring counties to provide for
the care of these classes.
A party of Kansas ministers has ask-
ed Governor Ferguson to prepare an
itinerary for them while they, with
their wives, visit Indian schools and
the less civilized tribes.
MARKETS CORRECTED DAILY.
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
The pangf of professional passers of
forged checks lias been working Kan-
sas City, Mo.
The transport Sheridan reached
Manila on Jaa. 27, with 10 cases of
measles on board.
A thousand Maoris, of New Zealand,
have volunteered to join the lJritisli
army in South Africa.
The navy department asks an appro-
priation to experiment on the use of
Texas crude oil for the navy.
1 he < ruiser Urooklyn has been or-
dered home from Hong Kong to New
York by way of the Suez canal.
The w orld's visible supply of cotton
is 4,503,:i:i7 bales; of this the total of
American cotton is 3,0Sfl.l77 bales.
S. M. Edwards, for '.'7 consecutive
years probate judge at Mexico, Mo.,
has resigned at the ago of 70 years.
A covering of two inches of solid ice
covered the southern part of West
Virginia and the sleet was still fall-
ing.
Norfolk, N'a., lost in a recent lire the
Atlantic hotel, the Columbia office
building, the Albccmal Hats and ;i bloclc
of stores.
An independent glass company of
Pittsburg, l*a., has voluntarily ad-
vanced the wages of its unskilled men
ten per cent.
The (Jood Roads convention of New
\ork state asks the legislature to ap-
propriate S.'0,000,000 for the improve-
ment of highways.
Because Mrs. Secretary l,ong is a
lover of home the fashionable people of
\\ ashington do not approve of her, but
the nation loves her for it.
Congressman Curtis refuses to take
any action concerning the appointment
of postmasters until within six weeks
from the time a vacancy will occur.
On a rural delivery route out of
Millersburg, Ohio, there are 400 to
serve of whom 117 bear the came of
Miller, and many of them have the
same initials.
I'rof. ( has. \V. Pearson will bs asked
to resign from the faculty of the North-
west University (M. E.) at Chicago,
because of his declaration against the
infalability of the liible.
A. Dean Cooper, treasurer of the
(iraliam Paper Company of St.. Louis,
was killed in his bath house for his
diamonds. A negro named Strother,
who had charge of the bath house is
thought to be the guilty party.
The postmaster at Washington, Pa.,
says t hat much mail matter is addressed
to his office to the names of high offi-
cials in Washington, 1). C. Much other
mail is received for Washington, I).
people but the postmaster, not know-
ing them, can only send their mail to
the dead letter office.
A packing house is arranged for
Denver, Col., with a half million dollar
capital.
The Chicago board of education has
reduced the salaries of ri00 grade
teachers.
Secretary Hitchcock has asked con
gress to increase the salary of Tom
Ilyan, his lirst assistant, from $4,500 to
S<1,000 a year.
A steamer reached New York the
other day, from Porto Rico, with
1,780,650 cigars on board. This is the
largest cargo ever received from l'orto
Rico.
Mrs. Kd. Kushner and two children
were burned to death in their home at
Waterloo. Iowa. Another was fatally
burned and three others injured. An
overturned lamp caused ths lire.
ike 11 si. inn.
Bridge And Terminals Estimatsd to
Cost $10,000,000.
TOTAL LENGTH 8,800 FEET.
New York, Feb. 8.—Negotiations
have almost been completed in this
city and in Canada for the construction
of a bridge across St. Lawrence river
at Montreal, which is to be one of the
largest of its class in the world. The
bridge to be constructed is the Royal
Albert bridge, from Montreal to
Longueil, and the Montreal 11 ridge
Company has entered into a contract j
with the Atlas Construction Company
to erect it.
The construction company plans to
begin work on the bridge as soon as ■
aid already pledged by the province of !
Quebec and the city of Montreal be- ;
comes available. The estimate cost of ,
the bridge with its terminals is 810.- j
000,000.
The total length of the bridge is to I
be 8,800 feet. The main span, the
cantilever, which will be the largest of 1
its kind in the continent, will be 1,200
feet long. The height of the bridge
above water will be 150 feet and its
width eighty-three feet, providing for
a double track steam railway and two
sidewalks. The weight of steel in the
structure will be about 74,000,000
pounds and there will be 90,000 cubic 1
yards of masonry. Thirteen different
lines of railway will have access to the
bridge.
Fatal Sower Explosion.
Chicago, Feb. 8.—Thirteen lives were
lost, many persons slightly injured,
two buildings were wrecked and $50,000 I
damage done by an explosion of gas at '
the intersection of Twenty-second
street and Archer avenue. It will be
difficult to ascertain whether illumina- ;
ting gas exploded or whether the mains •
were broken by an explosion of s?wer
gas. There was a glare of fire from
man holes far along the streets.
——
Krhops of the .Storms.
.Madrid, Feb. 8.—The authorities of
many Spanish towns are assisting those
who suffered in the rccent storms with
provisions. The snow storms in Spain J
continue.
Rains and snow in Portugal have
caused inundations. There have been
several wrecks on the coast, and some
loss of life. There is much misery at
Oporto as a result of the snow.
THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE.
Anothrl Imhiulun Cniml Koute, the* Sixn
Itli&t, in i rg«Ml In Senate.
THIRTY NINTH DAY.
Senator Morgan mrule un cxten ><1 speech on
thr le-fal anil constitutional questions raised
by tli« Philippine revenue bill.
Thf sniato parsed without comment a r> m
luti. il ns.-mtf f r information alunit. • . ▼
Laws" put in force by the Philippine commis-
sion.
A long discussion was hatl over the bill to
increase the salaries of judges.
The >enute by ievolution ordered a general
inquiry by the Indian affairs commlitee into
the matter of leasing mineral lands by Indians,
and into th«' itU'hontvof the interior d-part
merit to approve such leases.
Mr. Stephens (Tex.) would by a resolution
create a committee of tlve to investigate r --
mo?als from Indian Territory on ex partag
orders from the interior departm nl and ' M
suggest legislation to prevent su m outrages.
There is a bill before the house to make a
county of the Osage and Kaw reservations,
with Pawhuska as its county seat.
40th day.
The house rassed the bill granting the right
of way through Oklahomu and Indian Territory
t« the Knid and Anadarko railroad, with the
right to build a lino from (Jeary. Ok., to South
Mo Vlester. ' r.
The house passed the senate bill to prevent
Ih • sale of ti rearms opium and liquors in the
New Hebrides islands.
Eulogies on the life and public services of
Representative Hrosius of Pennsylvania tilled
most of the session.
4 1ST day.
The s"n; te held another spirited debate on
the Philippine tariff bill in which Senator
Carmack (Tenn.) made his tlrst speech in t .e
senate which was well received.
The senate defeated tlie amendment to the
measure for increasing the sa aries of judj; 4s by
a vote of 15 to 44, which amendment provided
for an increase of salary of members of the
cabinet.
The house devoted much of the session in de-
bating the oleomargarine bill. The opponents
attempted to tili u*ter against the hill but
favored the substitute ofrerel which would
prevent the sale of that article disguised as
butter.
Mr. Blakeny (Md.) hns a bill in the houso
limiting the price of sleeping car tickets on in-
terstate mii w:t v lit es
Mr. Bower sock (Ks.) Introduced a bill pro S
vidivg that absentee W\a dotte Indians may
select * ' acres each of public land, udicret er sub-
ject to entry, or may sell such right at not less
ti an £1.*- > an acre This in relinquishment of
the.r share in th" funds provided by law.
Mr. Ueed< r iK .ns.) Iota a bill to increase all
pensi us of s :diers over .<> years old by $i0 a
:..onth with a limit of $l ) of total pension.
J2ND DAY.
After discussion the scna*" passed the bill
for an increase of per cent of the salaries of
federal judges, ufter voting down all amend-
ments.
The defloi' n \v appropriation bill was taken
up and discussed.
John l \ l ryden was sworn In as successor t
Senator Wm .1. sewallof N'e v.lers< v cb-cas. J-
Senator IClkins. who is chairman of the inteV-
state commerce commission, introduced a bill.
glvmg the commission powi r to tlx railroad
rates under certain cir umstances a'ter hear-
ing complaints of discrimination: appeal to be
taken to the fe ieral c iurts. Th • hi 1 also au-
thorizes pooling for inalntenant e of rates, their
contracts to do so to be lile i with the commis-
sion. The commission is empowered to pass
upon the fairness of such contriiC^s.
Senator Hoar i r st rife 1 a petition for the
suspension of hostilities in the Phi ippines.
Senator Jones (Ark ) has a bill m the senate
to inert ase Mexican war pensions from .$* to $13
a month.
Senator Harris (Kans ) introduced a bill to
Kite th© K C N-Eastern and Gulf company
the right to bridge the Missouri river at Park-
ville Mo.
iluilgp llurforri After Help.
Washington, I). Feb. s. The i
house committee on judiciary gave ti !
hearing* to .Judge liurford on his bill
providing for additional .associate jus- ;
tices of the supreme court of Oklahoma
Territory. The judge made r. very
strong presentation of the case, setting '
forth the necessity for an increase in !
the judiciary and also urged that the |
salaries of the judges be increased.
•lamalcn Iiam Prosperous Year.
Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 8.—At the
opening of the colonial legislature here,
the governor of Jamaica, Sir Agustus
Hemming, announced for the first time
in many years a slight surplus in the
transactions of the year. The improve- '
ment in financial condition is due, in a I
great measure, to the growth of the
fruit trade between Jamaica and the
United States and England.
Manila Cigars by the .Million.
San Francisco, Feb. 3. — Private ad-
vices from Manila state that there are
over two million cigars on the way
from the Philippines to this country.
It is thought that by the middle of
March, at the latest, there will be ten
times th it number consigned to Amer-
ica. Of the shipment now coming, 000,
000 alone are for one firm in this eitv.
(iruml Secretary Kent Found.
Topeka, Feb. 8.— I). \V. Kent, grand
secretary of the Kansas grand lodge of
Odd Fellows, who defaulted last year
for about S9,000 and disappeared, has
been located in Costa Rico. There is
no extradition treaty with that repub-
lic. He is stranded there and is pros-
pecting in the mines.
His brother in Illinois owed him
SI,000 on purchase of horses from him
and this amount has been secured.
Kent was bonded in a security company
for S3,000, payment of which is refused,
and suit will be brought for the full
amount.
To Itrduee l>a\Ten CommUsioii
Washington, Feb. t\. The subcom-
mittee of the committee having charge
of the Indian appropriation bill, will
report to the house in a few days. An
important section reduces the member-
ship of the Dawes commission from live
to three. Appropriations are author-
ized by which the attendance of the
Haskell institute can be increased to
7.* o and the attendance to the Chilocco
school in Oklahoma to 600.
Mr. Cockran (Mo.) presented a resolution In
the house asking Paul Kruger to visit this
country and appropriating £.!'>,uuii for his ent£^
taining. ^
I 3RD DAY.
The legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill was reported to the house
The house agreed to have another day of
general debate and one day of live minute de-
bate on the oleo bill and then vote on it.
Mr Newlands (Nevada) introduced a joint
resolution inviting Cuba to becomes part of
the Pnited States, and meantime to reduce the
duty on sugar from Cuba > percent.
Representative Khea. of the Third Kentucky
district, is to lose his seat to McKenzfo Moss,
on contest.
The house committee on merchant marine
ieported the senate bill equalizing the inspec-
tion fees and privileges of foreign ships enter-
ing our ports with li e fees • n l privileges fixed
by countries from whioh they came. The bill
applies particularly to Canadian vessels which
have heretofore paid no such fees in American^
ports. ^
44TH DAY.
Senator Mvson (III. has introduced a bill to
limit the effect of the regulation of interstate
commerce between the several stales, in
goods, wares and merchandise wholly or in
part manufactured by convict labor, or in any
prison or reformatory.
For four hours the senate had the Philippine
tariff bill again under consideration. All of the
committee amendments were ad pted. The
speeches were largely of a political nature.
Senator Scott (W. Va > in a speech advocated
un investigation of the San Bias route for the
isthmian canal which he said could be con-
structed for one-fourth necessary for any other
route. He said this route, including a live mile
tunnel would be only :te miles long connecting
the i iuif of San Mas with I'earl Island harbor.
Senatar Ilansbough (.V I)) spoke on irriga-
tion of arid lands, and the appropriate n /
receipts from sale of public lands for this pui-^
pose.
The senate passed an appropriation of
000 lor a posto'tlce bul ding in Few York city;
also a bill giving Oklahoma two more judges.
The house spent most of the session on the
legislative, executive and judicial appropriation
bill. There were no important amendments,
and but little debate.
Mr Griffith (Ind. offered a hill to provide a
coupon eurren y, for convenient sending by
mail.
Kntire Fuinlly Dies by Natural Gas.
Krie, Pa., Feb. 8.—The entire family
of Grant Shirley, a railroad brakcmanl
including his wife and five children,
were overcome by escaping fuel gas at
their home last night. Neighbors
forced an entrance to the house and
found one child, ;i 7-year-old boy,dea
The mother and two other childreir
are still unconcious. Shirley was
away on his run. The fire in the heat-
er went out during the night and an
increase in pressure filled the house
to suffocation.
Scurvy at Nome.
Seattle, Feb. 0. — Mail by steamer
from the north brings news that scurvy
is prevailing in and about Nome to a k
alarming degree. A great lack of avl
kinds of fresh vegetables was apparent.
Many of the poor prospectors who were
unable to get out in the fall are "hi-
bernating" in their cabins and it is
among this class that the most pro-
nounced eases of scurvy arc found.
1 he poor of Nome are proving a heavy
tax on the charity of the ca np. Desti-
tution was general.
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