The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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Estd. 1889. Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, Thursday, November 14, 1901.
Vol. 12. No. 47
•DR.*
RICES
cream
BaiVino Powder,
Is the Most Economical
Greater in leavening strength, a spoon,
ful raises more dough, or goes further.
Working uniformly and perfectly, it
makes the bread and cake always light
and beautiful, and there is never a waste
of good flour, sugar, butter and eggs.
While it actually costs less to make a
batch of biscuit with the Price Baking
Powder than with the so-called cheap
powders, there is the additional advan-
tage of better and more healthful food.
KANSAS SHERIFF
FOOT PAD TACKLES'MILLER.
Sam Lands On His Jaw and Makes
Get-Away While Robber Re-
covers—Stillwater’s First.
Price Baking Powder Co.,
Chicago.
Note.—Alum powders should not be
used, no matter how cheap they are.
They induce dyspepsia, liver complaint
and kidney trouble.
Two of the Escaping Territoiy Con-
victs From Kansas Peniten-
tiary Capture a
Sheriff.
PAYNE COUNTY DELEGATES-
The Statehood Convention at Mus-
kogee Will be Well Repre-
sented From Payne
County.
At the county convention Saturday
to elect sixteen delegates to represent
this county at the coming statehood
convention to be held at Muskogee, In-
dian Territory, the following named
gentlemen were elected:
John P. Hickman, Lafe Speer, VV. A.
Knipe, L. K Miller, Freeman E. Mil-
ler, J. L Mathews, I. O. Diggs, L. E.
Taylor, J. It. Clark, Webster Full, J.
C. Noll, J. W. Garner, L. D. Teter, J.
A. Hert, John Hale and Dr. W. H.
Scott.
his knife, he challenged Carter to
fight. Carter let drive a heavy blow
with bis fist, striking Campbell over
the heart, which felled him to the
ground, where lie expired without a
tremor. Carter was arrested.
A Big Bird.
A huge American eagle measuring
six feet, three inches from tip to tip,
was brought to town this morning
from nine miles northeast of town
where it was killed by A1 Billings. The
big bird attracted considerable atten-
on the street, as it was generally sup-
posed there were no more in the coun-
try. Prof. Stevens of the college se-
cured the bird and will mount it. It
will make a valuable addition to his al-
ready fine collection.
School Roport, District No. 15.
Reyort of school in district No. 15
Payne county, Oklahoma, for the
A Popular Edition. month ending November 1,1001:
Work is in progress for the Times- ’Number of boys enrolled............21
Journal’s New Year’s edition. This] " girls “ ........... 21
edition will be patterned after the j Total..........................42
Twentieth Century edition of a year ; Average daily a tend.*n e of boys 10
ago, but will be superior in every re- i “ “ girls 14
spect. Tins features will be the same,
but will be more carefully worked out.
The press work will be the finest ever
produced in newspaper work and the
paper will be a seven column quarto,
instead of six column, which was the
size of the Twentieth Century edition.
Not a line of advertising will be car-
ried, the only returns to the publish-
ers being from the sale of tne papers.
It is not a direct money-making ven-
ture but the publishers hope to get re-
turns from the advertising it will give
the Times-Journal.—Oklahoma City
Times-Journal.
Killed Him With His Fist-
.Enid, O. T., Nov. 9,-Joe Carter killed
Ed Campbell one-half mile east of this
city at 6 o’clock this evening, by strik-
ing him over the heart with his fist.
Campbell was 44 years old, and had
followed Carter about the city all day
today threatening bis life. Carter ig
22 years old and of a wiry build. Both
were farmers, living east of the city.
Campbell followed Carter out of the
city and flourished a knife in his face,
threatening him. Then, layiug aside
total...30
Number of tardiness..............,.18
“ neither absent or tardy......4
“ of days taught............. 20
Total attendance in days..........603
Per cent of attendance..............72
The names of the pupils neither ab-
sent nor tardy for the month are:
Maggie Fortner, Trune Fortner.
Willie Foitnerand Ray Nickols.
M. E. Basil,
Teacher.
Notice ter PubMcatlon.
Land Office at Perry, Okla., Nov. u ioor.
Notice Is hereby given that the following-
niinied settler has tiled notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before J. K. Clark
Probate Judge of Payne County, Oklahoma at
Stillwater, Oklahoma, on Dec. 27, 1901, viz: W
George Martin Ford
for the N % of Nw % Sec 21, Twp 20 N R 2 E I M
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Lard Ford, John ltroddrick, Odden Moore,
Joseph Hummel. Alt of Eden, Okla.
Alfred H. Boles.
__' _Register.
Lost:—On Monday November*4, a
gray wollen shawl somewher^ between
the new bridge across Stillwater about
seven miles southeast of Stillwater and
town. Finder will be rewarded by
leaving same at Gazette office.
A Sunday special dispatch from To-
peka. Kansas, relutes in a three col-
umn article, the experience of the
sheriff and posse of Shawnee county,
six miles south of Top-ka, v\ ho at-
tempted to capture two of the escaping
convicts from the Kansas penitentiary.
The sheriff was notified of the presence
in the neighborhood of the convicts
about noon Sunday, and at once left
for the scene with a posse. The con-
victs were soon sighted and a running
fight took place in which ^the convicts
were chased through an orchard and
past, a farm house, so the sheriff
thought. But instead of going past
the house they ran into it, and the
sheriff, being acquainted with the
farmer.-on coming up went into the
house to inquire if the convicts had
been seen, when he was held up and
his guns taken away from him. Then
they told him tJ take a chair and stay
awhile. For more than three hours
the sheriff sat in a chair, covered by a
six-shooter j^t the hands of one of the
convicts. The house was entirely sur-
rounded by a big posse of deputy sher-
iffs and Top#ka policemen and citizens
living in the vicinity, but they were
powerless to do anything. Notice was
served on,Them that if they made any
attempt td come into the house or
fired a shot* the 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 had to brush
almost up against members or the
posse. After they got away it was so
dark that no attempt was made to
hunt them down, and the posse dis-
persed.
A FINE COUNTRY.
A. F. Mood Writes An Interesting
Letter From Western Ca-
nada- Immigration
Rush On.
Wetaskiwin, Nov. 5, 1901
Editor Gazettr :
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’
Wetaskiwin forty five miles south of
Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta.
We have been out forty five miles in
the country, and have visited several
threshing outfits. Oats are making
from 75 to 112 bushels per acre, barley
50 to 75. This may seem big for the
Bayne county farmer, still it is the
truth. This is w hat is called a mixed
farming country ; the main tiling here
is stock and it is the finest country on
earth for stock.
People are rushing in here by the
train load from the United Stutes.
Some are buying as high as eight to
ten sections. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas
and Oklahoma are weil represented
here ; tw o thirds of the people here are
from the states. 1 Onderstund from
good authority that one hundred and
thirty thousand people filed on land in
Alberta district since 1901, with the
country still crow ied with people lo-
cating. Hotels are all crowded and it
is almost impossible to get a team at
livery stables. If the rush keeps on
this way till spring, it will be some-
thing like the El Reno rush was in
July.
Verv few people are coming in here
from the foreign countrys. The Ca-
nadians here say they want farmers
from the states, and want the foreign
immigration stopped.
The weather has been fine up to Nov-
ember 1st. We have 90 miles to make
in the country this week if the weather
will permit, and then we shall start
sack about November 14.
A. F. Mood.
While going to his room from his
place of business lust niglir, 8am .Mil-
ler, the dry goods merchant, was met
on the walk west of the Abercrombie
residence by a man wlm asked him for
a match. As 8am tendered the match
his wrist was seized by the man with
out' hand w hile with the ot her he push-
ed a gun into Miller’s face and de-
manded his money. Miller works too
hard for his cash to give it away, be-
sides he didn’t like the man’s manner,
so he landed a sw ift one on his jaw and
did the best sprinting job of his life
towards his room while the would-be
spender of Sam’s wherew ithal was re-
covering his equilibrium.
Mr. Miller secured a gun aft >r reach-
ing his room and went hack in search
of the fellow but he had evidently gbt-
ton away, for nowhere could he be
found.
This is Stillwater’s first lesson in
foot-padism, and we hope such an oc-
currence may not be repeated £in our
city. However, if we are to have a run
or this sort of work this winter, and
this is rhe beginning of it, there will
either be ,some new graves in the Pot-
ters’ field or a large addition of names
on the register at the jailer’s hoarding
house in the corner of the court house
square, for otir officers will got ’em.
USED A KNIFE
STATEHOOD PLANS
Another Campaign Began At Mus-
kogee This Week. Conven-
tion November 14-
Jesse Hall Attempts To Do Some
Carving On The Person
Of Curt Morris.
At Kessler’s saloon yesterday even-
ing a fight took place in which a kni'e
played a conspicious part. The princi-
pals in the affair were Jesse Hall who
lives in the country and Curt Morris a
young man who lives in the city. They
got into a friendly scuffle and not hav-
ing sufficient control over their re-
spective tempers, soon merged it into
a fight. In the mixup Hall used a
knife cutting Morris slightly across
the hack and slashing his coat in sev-
eral places.
Marshal Annis arrested Hall and his
trial was set for 10 o’clock this morn-
ing, he being held under a firteen, dol-
lar bond meanwhile. He failed to ap-
pear at the time set, however, and the
bond was forfeited.
Morris pleaded guilty to a breach of
the pease and appeased the offentled
dignity of the city to the extent of a
few “plunks.”
Stolen!
Ten dollar reward Columbia
Chainless Bicycle No. 6670; Model 05,
black enamel, nickel handle bars and
rubber is off one pedal. A reward of
«lo will be paid for the return of the
wheel in good shape and information
leading to the conviction of the thief.
H. B. Bullkn,
Stillwater, Okla.
Your attention is called to the half
page “ad” in this paper, of the South-
west Stockman-Farmer. Read it care-
fully. This firm is perfectly reliuble
and publishes one of the best farm
journals in the west. Take this oppor-
tunity to become a subscriber.
Railway Contract Let.
Oklahoma City, Ckla.t Nov. 13-
Mayor Jones, president of the Oklaho-
ma City and Western Itallway, has re-
turned from an overland trip to Texas
where he has been in the interest of
the road. He said today that a con-
tract had beei\ let for the construction
of 180 miles of roadbed.
The band boyg have secured the ser-
vices of Mr. Hoffman, an efficient in-
structor, and expects to go to work at
once. A band is a good thing, we need
one, and are going to have one. Do
all you can for the band.
Muskogee, I. T., Nov. 11.—On Nov-
ember 14 will begin another campaign
of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
for statehood. On that date a conven
lion of delegates from both territories
will meet here to outline a plan of ac
tion with which to go before congre
at the coming session. Indications
are that the meeting will be more
harmonious and effective than other
similar meetings held during the pas'
two years. ;\t some of these there
has been manifested a spirit of rivalry
not to ffliy jealousy, that lias made the
result of little value. The growing
importance of Oklahoma, and the
organisation that the territorial form
of government has given to the politi
cal parties there, has aroused
dwellers in the Indian Territory with
a doubt of the good intentions of their
neighbors. The people here have a
peculiar position as citizens. They«~
in no sense members of the comm
wealth. The five civilized tribes o
Indians—the Creeks, Cherokees, Cht^
taws, Seminoles and CLickasaws—a
solutely own all the lard in the ter
tory, a s ction as large as Ohio, pre;
i,cully, and they exercise the manage
incut ot affairs, except such asarehel
by the federal government. Th
whites are simply here on suffran
and are in a far less independent con
dition than the dwellers in any other
part of the nation. To be sure, thl
outnumber the Indians three to
Of the 400,0 0 residents in the
tory, only 85,000 are Indians in
shade of blood. But,the land la
while in Oklahoma the settlers
their own masters.
As business has advanced, the Ip!
eats of investment and of deve*
have overshadowed political!
tidus in both territories.and <
ment now in program is for
ment of this line of intern*
than for the obtaining of:'
plums solely. The outside
not realize fully hoar great
ness advancement in the -I
nor how-rapidly capital is deve!
the marvelous resources of this
tically virgin region. During the ,
decade there has been a constant cJ
tailing of the Agricultural section
the plains. The opening of the ws.
ern end of the territory, now kite
as Oklahoma, gave homes to m
half a million people, and yet
Western states are steadily gaining
population. The whites have come
this end oi the territory uhder le;
and as residonta on government to
sites, to do the business of the count
regions. They have waited and h«.
for another opening that would g"iv
them the lands of the five tribes, bui
without any encouragement so far as I
free gift is concerned. There will
an opening, it is already under way
hut it will be a sale of the Indian
lands not a gift.
IS HE AN ESCAPED CONVICT?
A Hobo With a Shared Head Am
Ingenious Olothesin Town
ThiB Morning.
A little supressed excitement pre
vailed among the officers this mornini
over the report that a probable e»
caped convict from the Federal prisoi
at Leavenworth, Kansas, stayed i
town last night, and had slept in th
hay loft of the Morris livery barf
Someone noticed that his head he
lvcently been shaved and that his de
scription tallied with that of the tall
man of the two who captured the Kan
sas sheriff Sunday, but before thesur
got to the proper officers the tello
had gone and was nowhere to be found
The last account the Gazette dntectiv
had of him he was headed -for th
Greek nation.
Borne think this is the same part
who made an unsuccessful attempt t<
bold up Sam Miller last night.
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Neerman, C. F. The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1901, newspaper, November 14, 1901; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1075949/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.