The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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IN THE NEW COUNTRY.
BRIEF BITS OF GENERAL NEWS
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
Oklah°™ft and the Indian Territory with
Their General and Local Lore.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERKITORY
Medford is a choice location for u
lour mill.
The camp meeting on black Bear
Creek still continues.
The Eastern Star delegates praised
Perry for the manner in which tliey
were entertained.
City laborers, in digging a ditch at
Cloud Chief found a small amount of
gold-bearing sand.
About sixty-tive tourists, looking for
locations in Oklahoma, arrived in (iar-
field county last week.
The school fund of the Cherokee Na-
tion in 1835 was 850,000. The annual
interest this year was about $40,000.
A farmer who has just received a
check for SHOO for yheat, remarked
that wheat raising beat politics in Ok-
lahoma.
Next winter will be the happiest of
seasons for Oklaliotnans, with plenty
of gooil canned fruits and money at
their command.
Oklahoma people are busy now—the
husbands with the cotton-picking and
the wives preparing different fruits for
the winter season.
Blackwell has a few men who have
been told they can play poker and they
occupy a good share of their time try-
ing to demonstrate it.
A kid. went into an Oklahoma saloon
recently and bought a man's size drink
of whisky. He said it '-was hot. hot
Stuff, but he wanted to l>e tough."
The trustees of Mulhall have been
in Guthrie with an application to ex-
tend the corporate limits of that town
by taking in Si) acres on the east and
80 acres on the west
The Oklahoma department <>. A. 15.
took 10,000 circulars to Buffalo to dis-
tribute among the old soldiers. The
circulars will do ranch to advertise Ok-
lahoma in the east.
John Wootka, a Creek Indian, who
was sentenced to be shot on .Tune 15th
by the judge of the Eufala district for
the killing of Isotn Deer, near Eufala.
I. T., last spring, and who made his
escape has been captured by Deputy
Marshal .Brown, who turned him over
to the Creek authorities and received a
reward for his capture. Wootka will
be sentenced and shot as soon as court
convenes again at Eufala.
The Rock Island rail way is at pres-
ent experiencing heavier business in
merchandise-add nearly as heavy busi
ness in grain as w 8 handled in 1802
On account of the increased traffic it
has been necessary to place a train-
master at Goodland, Kan., and Mr. W.
R. Morton, a conductor on the western
division has teen appointed to that po-
sition. *It has been necessary to in-
crease the yard forces at Abilene, En-
terprise, Kan , North and South Enid
Kingfishsher and Hennessey, Okla.
This, from the Lehigh Leader, is not
strictly an Indian Territory item, but
its good: "A Zulu youth cannot inarry
a girl unless he has whipped her broth ,
ers and given her father a fall, de-
manded. in addition. This makes a
courtship more exciting than choco-
late carmels and gum drops: hv.t the
Zulu maiden who has four brothers
weighing lsi) pound.-, each an-' measur-
ing fifty inches around the ".vaist, gen
erally dies an old maid, while the girl
whose brothers are wi.ak and sickly
and whose parent lias broken his leg
at a primary is alv av* overrun with
prosposals."
I'erry has not liuil a ut*a i'n the past
month.
Wagoner seems to be threatened with
a boom.
Afton is to have a bank in the near
future.
Work on the Muskogee and Wagoner
telephone line will begin at once.
They are going to have a telephone
line between Pawnee anil Perry.
The Teachers' Normal at Shawnee
was a successful aggregation of intel-
lectual training of young ideas.
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Look out for the fakirs r>f all kinds:
the prosperity of the Oklahoma farmer
has gone abroad and there js, or will
be, all kinds of schemes concocted to
get his money.
If the Cherokee Nation is under the
laws of Arkansas as to misdemeanors,
liow is it that whole neighborhoods of
Indians assemble on the streams and
take wagon loads of fish by buckeye
poisoning.
More than 100 ears of watermelons
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have been shipped out o,f Guthrie this
season. One hundred more cars could
easily b<* filled should a market offer.
Thousands of big'' lueious melons are.
decaying in the fields.
The bugus telegram that was sent
out regarding the big delegation of
Cherokees who were to visit tlie grave
of a dead chief in Kentucky, has caused
people of Louisville to ask their I Gov-
ernor to prevent the Indian invasion.
This shows how little some people
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know of the Cherokees, who are more
civilized than some of the feudal
"tribes," of the Kentucky hills.
An Oklahoma paper sa3's: "An ex
perimenter by the name of Morris, liv-
ing on the east side, grafted a prune
bud on a wild sand plum tree branch
two years ago. This year he finds that
his experiment is a success. Large
prunes an inch in diameter are hang-
ing on the grafted branch in abund-
ance, while the native sand plums are
quite small. This is a great discovery.
If the farmers will carry out the dis-
covery by budding the sand plum bush-
es Oklahoma will soon be full of
prunes.
Oklahoma was organized as a terri-
tory in May, lN'.K), a little more than
seven years ago, having been cut off
fronj the Indian territory. At that
time the population of the territory
was 00,000- 000 male and 27,000 fe-
male. On admission of Oklahoma as a
territory there were not 100 miles of
railroad within its border. On Janu-
ary 1, 180(5, it was 4:i0, and is now near"
ly GOO miles. Oklahoma is modern in
some other respects. There are enroll-
ed in the Oklahoma schools more than
88,000 pupils and there are nearly ^,000
teachers there. The territory contains
(10,000 individual farm owners with big
•ciops of cereals, cotton and fruit, with
uo mortgage indebtedness.
The date for holding the Cleveland
county fair has been set for dates of
September 28, 2!), 30 and October 1,
and it has been so arranged as to not
conflict with any meeting with any
near by associations, which ought to
insure a good attendance and good
representation in every line. The co-
operation of nearly all the horsemen
of the territory has been assured, and
from inquiries made and advices re-
ceived it can readily be guessed that a
favorable exhibit will be made and
that many of the best horses of the
country will be entered for the races.
With such favfirablc crop conditions us
exist, there is no apparent reason why
the agricultural exhibits should not by
far exceed anything ever shown in Ok-
lahoma. The payment of premiums is
guaranteed in full and if the people
will but do their share toward making
exhibits, displays, and attend the fair,
a success in every particular will be
made.
The fellows at Guthrie are playing
the wheat market hard.
Perry claims to be the leading hog
market of the territory.
Eight miles northwest of McAlester
there., is a huge mound of red granite.
A baking-powder factory iu Purcell
will help to raise prosperity in that
city.
Cotton is ginned for $3 a bale of 540
pounds and is compressed for 50 cents
a bale.
Kay county will this year receive as
her apportionment for school land
leases $1,293.50.
Two colored men at Muskogee cut
and slashed each other recently over n
brunette damsel.1
Perry has a iady barber That's
nothing, however, as Woods county
has a lady ball team,
Alleged business men of El Reno
were beaten out of $225 recently by a
fake advertising scheme.
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Oklahoma's wheat farms will now go
behind the scenes and Oklahoma's
plantation will take the middle of the
stage.
Oklahoma militiamen are not allow-
ed'to enter, private houses in search of
private: soldiers who may be iyit vis-
iting.
The reunion of the Blue ;ind the
Gray at Cushing was a great event and
the town faifljPspread itself as an en-
tertainer.
The Kansas Sacs have gone visiting
to the Otoe reservation and will return
' via the Iowa village where they expect
to hold a pow-wow.
A farmer sold S24T) worth of wheat last
week, in Alva, and it is reported that
he lost it till in a poker game, Satur-
day night and Sunday.
Pete Sausa, a Pottawatomie Indian
who was adopted by the Sac and Fox
tribe when he was 12 years old, is now
captain of Indian police.
A Cleveland county, Oklahoma, man
lias just harvested his plum crop from
less than an acre, and as a result has
S250 in his inside pocket.
An Oklahoma county farmer has
made thirteen barrels of wine from
grapes raised this veal- and expects to
secure 800 gallons more.
Oklanoma City donated $34,375 in
real estate and $5,950 iu cash to the
Sapulpa railroad extension. Fifty
thousand is the notch aimed at.
Professor Boyd, of the Territorial
I'rfiversity at Norman, says the attend-
ance this year will probably be doub>
led and prospects are good for a flour-
ishing voar in every way.
The report that the town of Chand-
ler would have to put up an additional
$50,000 for the Sapulpa railroad exten-
sion is untrue, and Chandler people
are heaving sighs of relief.
From six to eight car loads of peaches
are being shipped out of Oklahoma
every day *nd the local market is so
glutted 'hat the most lueious varieties
bring only 30 cents per bushel.
An organ grinder and monkey visited
the Euchie Indians recently, and when
the monkey took his little cap and
started to take up a collection, they
fleft like a broke sinner from a Salva-
tion Army girl.
A Kingfisher county farmer while
making hay a few days ago got into
an old fashioned bumble 'bee's nest.
One of the bees took the liberty to
piinct'U'e the haymaker's epidermis.
This Made 'tlio old gentleman angry
and lie avenged his injury by setting
fire to the bumble bee's nest. The
nest was destroyed, with most of the
bees: also sixty acres of excellent un-
cut liay'and a lot of hay in the stack.
The next nest of bumble bees he finds
he will drown.
Nervousness and Insomnia.
A PROMINENT FARMER OF KAN-
SAS FINDS A CURE.
From the Capital. St. John, Kansas.
Hearing that J. H. Detwiler, a prosperous
farmer who resides about three miles east
of St. John, Kansas, had been using Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills with marvelous bene-
ficial results, a reporter of the Kansas City
Star called upon him for an interview re-
garding the matter. We found Mr. Det-
wiler a tall, and apparently well preserved
man of seventy years. Upon our interro-
gating him concerning his use of Pink Piils
he gave us the following, and with his en-
tire eonsent to its publication.
'•I had been troubled for several years
with extreme nervousness. At first it did
not prevent me from attending to my farm
duties. About three years ago. however, I
began to grow rapidly worse, then my
nights beeairte sleepless, and 1 could not
aleep two hours iu an entire night. 1 be-
came terribly atfected too with indigestion.
1 became alarmed at my condition, and con-
sulted a physician. One doctor told me
the trouble was insomnia, and took his
medicine for that, hut without relief. An-
other told me it was nervous prostration,
but his medicine had no more affect that,
the same amount of water Finally, see-
ing Dr. Williams' Pink Pills advertised,
and noticing particularly the testimony of
a person who hud been cured by them of a
very similar disease to mine, 1 determined
to try them. I called upon our local drug-
gist,"Mr. J. Stivers.and procured a supply.
I began taking them, add iu a very short
time my nervousness was less severe. After
I had ^iveu them a thorough trial. 1 found
myself entirely cured. 1 can now lie down
at night and go to sleep without the slight-
est trouble. Furthermore the cure has
been permanent, and I can recommend
Pink Pills to all who are afllicted as 1 was,
for their equal cannot bo found.
Df\ Williams' Pink Pills tor Pale People
nre now given to the public as an unfailing
blood builder anil nerve restorer, curing ail
l'orms of weakness arising from a watery
condition of tlio blood or shattered nerves.
The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents
a box. or six boxes for £2.50 (they are never
sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing
Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y. _
It always seems au effort for soma
men to bee good natured.
Head the Advertisements.
You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting .study and
will put you ih the way of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
tisers are reliable, tliey.send what they
advertise.
Find the man who is competent and
willing to work and" notice the worth-
less people hanging onto his skirts.
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Mrs. Wiu:<low'i Noottiin;; Syrup
For phll'lr n t- thing.softons the gum*.reduces inllam.
utioil, allttya pain, cures wind colic. 2.J cents a boltlo,
Every man is secretly proud if his
beard is stiff and hard to cut"1, he be-
icves a stitf beard means more of 4
man.
My doctor said I would die. but I'iso's
Cure for Consumption cured me.—Amos
Kelner, Cherry Valley, Ills,, Nov. 23, '95.
Some people get the swell head' just
because they live in a big town.
No-To-Bao for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c, $1. All druggists.
The finest peach in the world is the
little old seedling. The finest man in
the world is a natural man, without
any art of cultivation.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Your rival nearly always has dim-
ples. • «
Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c. If C. C. C, fail, druggists refund money.
We'll bet that we can spend a week
in a kitchen and cook better than half
t he women who hire out as cooks.
WICHITA BUSINESS HOUSES.
Mnmlolins. Guitars,
Violins Everything
kept in a Urst-class
Musie Store". Wholesale and Hetail. Any price
duplicated in tli* United Slates.
TIIOS SHAW. Wichita, Kans.
CURES WHIHE ALL CISE I AILS.
°i-3 Hesi 1 : Syrui. Ta-i. - > .1. Osc
jq! In time. Soldbydn.L i.t-i.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1897, newspaper, September 3, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115350/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.