The Times-Record. (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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Ik* Timet Recor4 P«»lt*Ala« t*
BLACKWELL,
OKI.A. TEE.
Twenly-ttwo lliousniid Ikies of cot- Work ou the vtl«r«l cullfitj tl l-aug*
ton hiTf been hauled into tiulhrie this slon is prc^ressia^ rnpidly.
season. Walnut lop* are being shipped out ol
Itip trouble* alwiul the ac-hool land* the Seminole nation by the car load,
the Cherokee Sirip are slid to be Everythin# h on the boom in Okla-
UUMOM* A Nil INIIIAN TBKHirOltf
The frame is up for the new distlll-
ery at Cross*.
The Hoard of Trade of Lehigh 1*
talking up electric light* for their
town.
A Noble county man got hi* hand
badly crushed in a feed mill one day
last week.
The farmer* of I>ogan county have
begun to burn off their farms for
spring plowing.
A large catamount was killed one
day la*t week by a boy a few miles
south of I'll r cell.
An Oklahoma paper says it is not
neeeasary to grease the toboggan to
the eycave before June 1.
The People's Hank at Tulsa it build-
ing a large stone vault for protection
against fire and thieves.
Thomas McGeescy, the father of one
of the burned Indiana, says he wants
to see the law take its course.
A man from Oreer county is visiting
Noble county and the local papera
apeak of him just as if he miraculously
came from Mara
A Payne county farmer sued unothcr
fanner for bringing hog cholera into
the neighborhood. The jury heard the
request for diimages and said "Nit."
Prof. Palmer lias been selected by
the county superintendent of Custer
county to conduct the Normal Insti-
tute for that county at Arapahoe in
August.
The contractors will put 5,000 men
to work on the Sapulpa extension.
They may have a hard time getting
them. Railroad building is harder
than cotton picking.
A few more rains in Oklahoma and
the waters will begin to ooze out down
iboul the Arkausaw border, and then
ook out for another Mississippi valley
overflow.
The representatives of the govern-
ment are quietly but persistently press-
ing the investigation of the Seminole
Indian burning aud almost every day-
fresh arrests are reported.
Forty-seven thousand, seven hun-
dred aud forty-three is the number of
bales of cotton that have been mar-
keted in Ardmore. They are yet in
hope of reaching the 50,000 mark.
Work on the big railroad six miles
west of Sapulpa has commenced. The
big cut is mostly ssndstone. although
in places three or four feet of earth can
lie removed with plows and scrapers.
In many places, however, blasting
will begin at the surface.
At a Congregational church meeting
In Lincoln county last week, the wife
of the pastor arose aud charged him
with cruelty and neglect and unchris-
tian conduct, ller charges produced a
great sensation, and before it abated
the husband resigned as pastor. T he
couple hava two children and came
from Kan as several years ago.
For the first time in the history of
the public schools at tluthrie the
teachers have received for salary war-
rants worth one hundred cents on the
dollar. The warrants are immediately
coining. i homa territory aud the people all have
Cotton is still tiring marketed in con- money,
sidrrable quantities in the Cheyenne uiuthrie puts the tramps that wan-
country. der through the city to work on tha
The real border town of Oklnhoma streets
now is Stroud. W here did that name The charge against Major Woolsey
OOVKT OF 1NQF1HY
MISS WILLAHD DEAD. /
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INVESTIGATION OF MAINE
DISASTER BEGUN.
t>KM*d on Laurence’* itory. ha* been
lUiniued.
Twelve carloads of cotton were ship-
ped from Guthrie to Galveaton one day
last week.
A farmer named Ott living near Yu-
— ----------- kon had four hoga amothered by •
The home of Mr. Wilson, a Garfield btraw stack blowing oter on them,
county farmer, was wrecked by light-
ning one night last week The iumutes
come from?
Farmers in the vicinity of Ardmore
have considerable land broken for tha
spring sowing.
The first half day of Stroud’s eiist-
ence, fifteen thousand dollars worth of
lota were sold.
Captain Mg«brr I>»nle» All Srw»p«»P*r
Interview* With Him— T»»* »!•!"•’•
Cipher (ode and t«I Heeorered —
Photograph* of ,h* IVrscS
President of «h« W fc T V. »'*••
Aw*? After Thrs* Week.’ Illosu.
Nry Yohk. Feb 19 -Miss Frances
E Willard, president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance I'nion. died
shortly after midnight this morning,
at the Hotel Eiqpire, this city.
At the bedside of Miss Willard at
the time of her death were her niece,
Mrs. W. W. llaldwin, Mrs. L. M. N.
Washington. Feb. Id. —Th* Navy
department received a dispatch this
morning from Admiral Sieard, in com-
mand of the North Atlantic squadron,
giving the detail of the court of In-
quiry to investigate the Maine disas-
ter. It is as follows: Captuin Samp-
son, president of the court; 1 aptain
Chadwick, Lieutenant Commander
Schrocder and Lieutenant Commander
Mifcrix.
W a sin no ton, Feb. it —The naval
A man named McC.uire m.ved to Ok Wjk(iinNOTO!( Keb. 31.-The uav.
—■-I-. ^
lleaa ('illuming, who livea near Pond children.
llort Harr's little girl at Marshal)
. _ from a buggy lulo A | „u |,itt*n bv a mad <
burked-wire fence
by being thrown from a buggy into A WM bitten by a mad dog last Sunday.
A mad stone was applied, bill it failed
Several men who have hern scouring to adhers.
the Wichita mountains for gold have ^ Lognn county woman offered I
returned and report that the only gold tramp a p)5tc of biscuit the other day
in the Wichita country is that made off nnd he informed her that they were
of the wheat, cotton and corn crops. uol for a do(f to eab
They report that the climate there is
excellent and the farmers are exceed-
ingly prosperous. »
A delegation of Cheyennes and Arap-
ahoe* have gone to Washington to con-
fer with the authorities in regard to
certain claims which were filed against
the tribes for depredations committed
years ago, when hey were “heap bad
Injuns" They think they run a risk
of having their trust funds broken iDto
in order to pay the damages.
'.'Senator Pettigrew, from the coin
The pastor of the Christian church
in (iuthrie was presented with a horse,
phaeton anil harness by hie congrega-
tion as a valentine present.
Fox Daiinenberg, a prominent Cher-
okee Indian, left Chelsea last week for
the Klondike. A number of other In-
dians will leave in a few days and fol-
low the example set by the white peo-
ple.
The general round-up of Oklahoma
cattle will take place March 35th. Hy
•.Senator Pettigrew, from the com (h|g ^ ,here wlll ala0 be a meeting
mittee of Indian Affairs bus favorably ^ ^ eJfcuUve committei. 0, t]ie Ok-
reported the hill for the purchase of tahomR Uve stock Association to ur-
l.nd and the construction of an asy- e {oj. t, i|lspectioD o( caul* dur-
lum for insane Indians within the jur- ^ of lg0(j
isdictiou of tlie United State*. lhe
bill i* amended so that 875,000 instead Chief Isparhecher and a number of
of 8150,000 is appropriated for the pur-I the leaders of the Creek tribe of In-
poge- disus, all full-bloods, are bolding a
meeting at Okmulgee, the capital ol
Some of the Cheyennes and Arapa ; ^ nation It is now reported that
lu»s are kicking about the manner iu | ^ luJians bave bl,en called together
which the government deals out beef ^ fonsult regardin|j tbe advisability
to them They want it in the old way q( submittln(J lhe aUotment qnestior
-shot down on the prairie and let ^ g yote o( the membera o( the (. reek
them take beef, offals and all. lhe ^
government proposes to make them
take their beef in a civilized manner 1 It is Mini that Chairman Lacey of the
and has a regular butcher to do the House committee on public lands has
work. ! evolved a clever scheme for blocking
The Purcell Register says; There is
• the free homes amendment to the In
ere S ,lian appropriation bill when it gets
a small gap in a mail route over In the ^ to lhp ,|oul>e H„ will try ^ ha«
Pottawatomie country, which onr peo- # eUuM a(Ue(l which wlu exempt from
pie, for their own benefit, should have ^ igions of tbe )nw au ]njiaD
closed. This is between Hnckhead and fruit ,andR Thia would make ihe bill
apply to Oklahoma only, and would
Valley View The two places are only
three and one*ei(?hth miles apart yet a
letter from Buck head to Valley \ iew
must come here, go up to Oklahoma
City, out to Tecumaeh, by way of
Shawnee, anil then go on to it* desti-
nation, traveling nearly one hundred
miles to cover the distance of over of ' rpe ho|nea are proparin(, to make
three miles. A letter for this place ^ ^ fight posgible UOl!er the cir-
mtist go to Tecumaeh and over the
lose the votes of all the Northwestern
members who sre interested now be-
cause the bill applies to Indian lands
in the Dakotas, Idaho, Montana aud
Minnesota. It is a clever plan, hut it
may not work, because of the friends
same route just described.
cumstances.
work at Havana to-day. This news
came to the navy department from
Admiral Sieard at Key West, Captain
Sigsbee was heard from late last
night He wired:
"Only most experienced wrecking
divers can do effective work on the
Maine. In the upper works 1 can use
service divers. Did some work to-day,
but with little success. Will do bet-
ter to-morrow. Harts of the Maine,
especially the superstructure and con-
nections, are -one confused mass of
metal."
Another brief telegram from C aji-
tain Sigsbee read: "Haclie, which
means that the coast survey steamer
has arrived at Havana, bringing on
board all the diving apparatus sent
from the squadron.
The newspaper reproductions of
photographs taken of the wreck were
studied with much Interest by the
naval officers here, tircat surprise
was expressed at the extent of the
wreck and the vast mass of steel and
Iron heaped in the forward part of the
ship was a particular object of atten-
tion. The experts who had first
ventured the theory of r bursting
boiler as the_ cause of the destruc-
tion claim to" find strong reinforce-
ments in the pictures for that
belief. The great mass of metal
appears to be thrown up over the
boiler space and not over the forward
magazine, while the forcing apart of
the forward body of the hull, they
say, might have been accomplished by
the enormous expansive power of the
high pressure steam carried in these
boilers with their shells more than an
inch thick. As to what caused a boiler
to explode; whether a dUyuised bomb
in the coal, low water or faulty con-
struction, they do not now undertake
to say.
Captain Sigsbee to-day sent two tel-
egrams to the navy department on the
subject of Interviews with him. The
first merely said; "I have consist-
ently refrained froA expressing any
opinion of the Maine disaster.’
Later In the day he wired; "No
newspaper divers have been used on
the wreck of the Maine. One man en-
gaged by me was subsequently bought
up hy a newspaper. 1 declined his
services. Subsequently on bis being
unconditionally released.! might have
used him in charge of an officer in re-
covering bodies, but decided not to do
so. Any interviews with me, if print-
[ ed, are untrue.”
FRANCES E. WILLARD.
Stevens, vice president of the W. C. T.
F ; Miss Anna M. Cordon, Miss Wil-
lard's secretary, and Dr. Alfred K.
UHL Miss Willard had been ill for
about three weeks.
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KANSAS PACIFIC SOLD
l nlun l’sclftr R*ur*»nl*»llon Commute,
Only Unifier —a7.ooo.ooo I at*rest Loss
Tot’KKA, Kan.. Feb. 17.—The reor-
ganization committee of the Union
Pacific was the only bidder and is the
pmstlmser of the Kansas Pacific rail-
way. of which the first sale was made
in Topeka vesterday. Promptly at 11
o'clock W. ’i). Cornish of St Paul, the
special master appointed to sell the
road, standing on the brick pavement
in front of the Union Pacific depot in
North Topeka, began to read the or-
der of sale under the government lien.
Yesterday's sale was to realize on the
claim of the United States govern-
ment for the bonds issued at the rate
of $15,000 per mile to aid in the con-
struction of the first 393 15-100 miles
of the road, amounting to 80,303,000.
The order provided originally that the
sale should not be made for less than
83,500,000, but before Judge Sanborn,
in St Louis Saturday, the reorganiza-
tion committee agreed to hid the full
amount of the bonds, the government
to lose the interest, amounting to
over $7,000,000.
»»*v IVUW --
The Osage Indian payment which
An examination of the records in the h^e off ,agt nei_.l Iubel
MAGAZINE lllll NOT IH.OW IT.
register of deed* office in Oklahoma
county, discloses the fine prosperity
showing: The number of real estate
mortgages filed since January 1, 1898,
is 63. The number of releases on real
estate imirtgage* tiled since .lauuayy L
1898, is 79. The number of real estate
mortgages given to non-residents or
should have come off last Dect-Ulbei Lieutenant CommsnJer Harnett of the
has not yet been made. A great dea surer? Host Itarhe Tsik,.
of trouble has been experienced and il | Havana, Feb. £1. — Lieutenant Com-
is probablo that the payment will not , mander Harnett of the survey boat
lie made for some time yeU Th* trou- Bache said yesterday
. , ,, ! "You want the facts? 1 can tell
ble ha. arisen over the roll and the de- there are niliety.five chances out
partment at Washington is still work a bunjrej that the investigation
ing on it Many Indians were taken wijj sbow that the forward magazine
To Kitl*o the Mata*
Washington, Feb. 19.—At the re-
quest of lhe Secretary of the Navy,
Mr. Houtelle, chairman of the naval
committee, the House passed a joint
resolution appropriating 8300,030 for
raising the battle ship Maine.
The resolution offered in the Senate
by Mr. llule, appropriating 8300,000
for raising the battleship Maine and
saving what property could be saved,
was passed by the Senate without ob-
jection, being amended so as to »U\
thorize the secretary to direct that
the bodies of officers and sailers bo
brought to the I nited States for in-
terment
The House has also passed a resolu-
tion similar to that passed by the Sen-
ate relative to the Maine.
Havana, Feb. 17. —Out of 354, the
total number of the crew of the
Maine, 96 were saved. Therefore, the
actual number of dead is 358.
dollar, las warrants arc iijioii,',*,. ing ou iu .... will show tnav xnc iorwaru mugutiuu
paid after being issued by Treasurer mortgages given to non-res e r ^ lhe rou aoule time ago. but most of o{ Maine did not blow up first, if
Bronson with the exception of a few their agent* since January 1, 1898, ta them eaUblUhed their claims and man- it exploded at all. and that it was not
on the county fund These will be , ?«■ The number of real estate mort- restored. The department | the cause of the terrible consequences
r.,d Z :r.I the county .up.rlnte»d. given to residents of the county
ent apportions the county fund, de- which are likely to £ held, since Jan
rived from public school land leases "Ary 1, 1898. is 35, llut one real estate
morttfaL't* was Riven to a bank or a
Mrs. and Miss Rhine, the wi o am oWcer of the three other mort-
daughtcr of the recently assassinated
To K*rp Aw my rrom Cabo.
Washington, Feb. 21.—All south*
goinR merchant ships have been ad-
vised by Secretary of the Navy Long,
who from the first has been among
the most conservative of the govern-
ment officials In Washington and who
has contended that the destruction of
the Maine was due to accident, to pro-
ceed carefully and cautiously and to
vnem ------------------------------- I it exploded at all. and that it was not
aged to be restored. The department the cause of the terrible consequences
s;rr»ro^r
removed ninety-two name, from the care n .cm iny makes this an almost , tbe Navy,
roll, hut It is no, yet definitely known ‘^^“Thidwi .....
daughter of the recently assassinated '•«* ^ ° ^ and probably will not be until the pay- ha, ^Vere, con.lderablc sums of
post master at Wellston. are protesting “-'ages tiled since January 1. • . raent is made. The Indians, ns well at money with letters and other personal
against the appointment of Thomas ’ Oklahoma th* tr*d*rS'. 1
Craddock to the office. l hev chum ^ u llorrowinp bul little foreign
that Craddock secured the bulk of his .........■ foreign mort-
"chapUDi' Chhiw ick. of the Maine. ll>is caution is regarded as very sig-
r .... . mficant.
that Craddock secured the bulk o, us ^ ^ ^ bcylB|f off (oreig„ mort.
endorsements through misrepresents- | • a( R ra id rale.
lion and that the majority of the peo a
pla of Wellston signed his petition There is a movement on fool to start
upon 111* statement that Rhine's family a surveying corps to locate a railroad
did not want the office. In the mean- from Texarkana via Lehigh and Atoka. and jq and 13 and 33 in the Clieroket
time Mr. Craddock's appointment Inis thence to Oklahoma City and Alva via #trip lH,ion(ra exclusively to that part
been made and he is only waiting the Kingfisher. This route will I oklahoma or is a heritage common
receipt of hi. commission to take charge with the Texas A l'aeiflc, Missouri 1 a ^ ^ who,e u,rritorv, to l(f sbared
of the office. | clflc and Hittshnrg and Oulf at lexar- by all public insUlutions in th«
The Oklahoma Live SUx'k Asaocia-1 kaua, one a line to New Orleans, »n u,rritorv forced to an issue if
tion Its* determined to exterminate, if "(her a close connection o le *■'" ' pian8 now on fool in the strip, partie-
possible', the wolves that infest the «>»»• *'* ot‘"’r jl'ettlerly in the western part, are carried
ranges of Oklahoma and annually de- district of 1‘*xas- 1 e , ouL laying aside the merits of th*
K dollars worth of | be through a rich coal, lumber and
incuv ib - ------------.... | money wuu .owe, - 0.,..v..... r—-----i Spsln OrUer* X.IIOU OUO t'srtrlilge*.
the traders, sre becoming impatient property from the bodies taken from New Yohk, Fob. lr.—An order for
and unless the payment comes off soon the wreck. In one case the initials 3,000,000 Mauser rifle cartridges,
it probablv will cause considerable can be seen on the coat lining and charged with anti-phrite powder, has
hardships as the Indians are heavily may serve to Identify the body of the been placed with a powder firm in this
* * . wearer, but the harbor water Is *o city by the Spanish government The
in »le »t to t u ra> irs. filthy that the marks are nearly illeg- order was given through a contract-^
The question of whether the money Ible, Chaplain ChldwJck is one of the ing agent, who has ao far managed to
derived from the leasing of section* 16 hardest worked officers, and upon him conceal his identity. The powder, as
» — • *• •--- devolved some of the most repulsive its name implies, is smokeless. Itist
duties of the situation. used by the Russian, English and
German armies.
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stroy thousands of dollars worth of be through a rich coal, nm>rr . ruM. ni os t person* who express the in-
property. Tl.e as-oclatlon offer* 8 " Agricultural district, an. w‘ ______ sulvea w»Bt inch an adjustment as will
each tor the scalps of a full-grewn wolf
and 810 each for the scalps of whelps.
The total value of a full-grown wolf is
$35, as the commissioners of Woodward
county pay a premium of $3 and tlie
scalp lias a market value ot $3. It
might seem that killing wolves would
be a lucrative employment, bnt as a
matter of fact, the difficulty of catch-
ing the wolves is so great that the pro-
El* Are not big.
case it can be cons,,mated It will ,n- * ^ ^ o( ^ ,trip feel
tcre.t every great railroad sys em m . are cootrlbotiDg more than
the sonthwea. and prove s feeder s- the|r ahare to lh, fulld* for which th.
^c.ll, valuable to roads having deep wfr, wt M,de. Thev nant
water connections, tars leaving Okla- ^ uinJ of an e,,„alixa'ion. but. at
boma with agricultural produeU can t. pr.igrcsaive citizens,
be loaded on their r.dnru with m.r- 1 not K.n, sacritlo. in an,
chandiae. c.ml and lumber. Oklahoma - ^ h and d,re]op.nent o'
should liberally encourage such enter- - o} llfc,ahowa>
pri*e*.
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liivm Rerover M«lnr Dornmentft.
Havana. Fch. 31.—A dispatch has Queen Regent to the freelilent
been received from Bear Admiral 81- Washington, Feb. IS.—President
card that the lighthouse tender Man- McKinley to-day received Scnor Dubo-
grovc has left Key West for Havana sie, charge d'affaires of Spain, who
with a court of inquiry anirtuiditional had been commanded by the queen
divers and apparatus. Neither Span- regent of Spain to bear in person to
Ish or Cuban divers will be employed, the president her expression of pro-
Yesterday divers recovered the cipher found sorrow over the calamity to the
code book, the log of the Maine, and Maine The message was brief nnd
many official and private paper* heartfelt, expressing the sorrow of
-- the queeu aud her people.
Regrets of Vise*?*’* Commander. --:--—
Washington, Feb 31.—The follow- s<h»«ft«r to pin? Ives
Ing telegram was received by Secre- Chicago, Feb. £1.—Jako Schaeffer
tary Long from New York: *nd Frank C. Ives had a lengthy con-
"When I arrived at New York. I ference in this city and decided to
heard of the Maino disaster. We feel settle their differences by u 600-point
very deep sorrow, and send our eon- game, \8-inch balk line, for the bil-
dolences for the dead and their fami- hard championship of the world. The
lies. EULATE, game will bo flayed iu Central Musi*
"Captain Spanish Cruiser Vizcaya.” | balk
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