The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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Territorial
Topic.
ClUINt'V T. BKOWN, Editor.
UliO. W. TBACV, Pul.ll.hcr,
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TER1UTOIC*
The Woods count) institute num-
bers 111 in attendance.
The young1 ladies of David are too
«hy to ride bicycles.
It only cost Jo.25 cents to have the
weeds cut in a good sized Oklahoma
town.
A firm in Logan county advertises
hardware, harness and coffins.
The Kingfisher county institute is
overflowing with pretty schoolmarms.
Colored Baptists are building astone
church in Wells township, lliaine
county.
One hundred and fifty teachers arc
enrolled at the Kingfisher county nor-
inal school.
Corn cutting is in progress about
Charter Oak. It is three weeks earlier
than laBt year.
In some parts of western Oklahoma
shade at this time of year is more
Watermelons are said to be scarce in
l'ayne county.
It is too dry to plow for wheat in
Woods county.
0 x Cutting corn and is now the order
in Kinfisher county.
Logan county lias opened up her to-
mato canning factory.
A quick and efficient method of sui-
szthe sus- j
Thomas Benton of Oklahoma conn-1!-',/' ,'ooln« ' of Coalgate won a horse
ty has been pardoned from the ncni- „ . ,^heres •omcthing
Out in "ti county the preacher ha
been feeding the editor.
A man in Cleveland county wants to
trade peaches for pork.
I!- II. West has filed a new list of
charges against Judge Kilgore.
Old soldiers and settlers of Payne
county w ill hold a reunion Aug. 1U-21.
The territory papers are still doubt-
precious than gold. The only place riously hurting him when he st
from the peni- ! ■0mcthI
tentlary. Three years ago he shot his .. . " '
wife's father. i 1 °tton picking is on in full blast in
C.F. Winton and Robt. L. Owens ahu^dTed and^l ^ ™ C°nta
are putting in a plant for makihg ce- ' ' b""n''
ment plaster, on an Indian allotment L, , M'"'e TIlornlli11. residing in
in Kay county. j ,cvclaad county, died last week, at
The chief Of police at Talequah, I. T. | "dv",lc,'d a*e ot 101 y" s.
and the deputy sheriff were killed colored man named Lee of Okla-
and the sheriff mortally wounded in a ! ,° C0.Unly '"'S invent,,<1 steam
fight last Tuesday. j e"S>'inc tl,at promises great things.
The fifth year of the University of *PealdnK of crops, Sir. Schartz of
Oklahoma begins September 10. This '' .lna county has 75 acres of corn
promises to be the greatest year in | w1'' avera°u 70 bushels per acre,
point of attendance in the history of! The Creek council while in session
the institution. ; last week, passed a bill for taking a
While a Kay county man was gath- j sP''clal census and appointed a corn-
ering corn the other day a branch on mittee of five to confer with the Dawes
which he was standing gave way i commission.
0
it is sometimes found is under the bed
of a wagon.
*!rs. T. A. Davis, of the town of
Davis, was bitten by a pet squirrel
und had to have her arm amputated.
More new cotton gins arc going up
in Oklahoma. The outlook now is
that the cotton crop will bo something
immense.
ruck
Governor Jackson of
the Choctaw
A gentleman named Swindler is
running for treasurer in Blaine coun-
ty. The people of that county evi-
dently think there's nothing" in a
name.
'The real estate men and printers of
Kingfisher county had a game of ball,
Saturday, in which the printers
swiped the earth with the real estate
chappies.
Kaffir corn is being planted in large
quantities on the oat and wheat stub-
hie in Oklahoma. The farmers can
get two crops a year from the same
piece of ground by this method.
The castor bean crop of Oklahoma
IS estimated at 150,000 bushels. It has
all been sold to St. Louis and Kansas
City dealers for 80 cents per bushel.
That means a nice thing for the castor
bean raisers in the territory.
'In Noble county a man had some
men arretted for gambling with him.
They were bailed out. They had the
accusing man arrested for the same
crime. He was jailed, and is still
there, having failed to get bail.
Tuesday ufternoon a 12-year-old
son of Joe Fitzpatrick, postmaster and
storekeeper at Koroma, climbed upon
a threshing machine to hand a man
some change, when his foot was caught
in a couple of revolving cog wheels,
literally tearing his foot from the log.'
We understand that 40,000 bushels
of corn have been contracted for by a
man Kay countp, at a rate of eight
cents per bushel. Estimating the
yield per acre at sixty bushels, this
would make only St. 80 per acre for
the entire crop. When the seed and
expense of harvesting and cultivating
an acre of ground is taken from a
gross product of 84,SO, it doesn't hjavc
the farmer much.
U,C gr°Uml | has called an extra session of
An Arapahoe man writes from Mis- ! tlle council for the purpose of taking
souri that his wife is first, his pocket- i ni'tion to Prevent the Dawes commis-
boolc second and his politics third in j S'°" froln enrolling the citizens,
his affections. Such men can illy be] There is a church in Lincoln county
spared from Oklahoma. j that keeps a pair of coffin trestles ex-
Mrs. Blanche Carr of Oklahoma is n l>08ed near the pulpit, mute admonU
successful young contributor to the I tions that man is but
periodical press. She has written ,'s "le place to get y
costly ring of diamonds. Seemed ill and
upset. Did not follow to France, hav-
ing no instructions to leave England."
The last, the very last hope was gone!
\ tola and Eustace Grant had fled to-
short sketches for Vogue, Munsey's,
the Mid-Continent and The Southern.
^ Hilton is a new postoffice located in
North Kickapoo township, Lincoln
county. At present it lias only a
weekly mail, but after August 20th,
it will receive mail tri-weekly.
The original Oklahoma boomer died
the other day. Down the long vista
of the years weary eyes see a succes-
sion of deaths, each labeled as the
passing of the "original Oklahoma
boomer."
An oufit composed of four old wag-
ons, ten men and two women arc trav-
eling through Oklahoma under the as-
sumed name of circus. That must be j
"Col. Foster's Great New York Shows'"
resurected.
ed.
mortal. There
your funeral preacli-
by the
not
cur-
Robert Ross, colored, was drowned
in the Grand river at Fort Gibson last
Monday. To avoid arrest he jumped
into the river, and as he could
swim, was carried under
rent and drowned.
The Logan county board of commis-
sioners called in and cancelled 51,000
in county bonds Monday. This makes
¥11,000 in all called in and cancelled
by the present board who
COffiVA
f
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION.-
CHAl'TEIt V. — rCoxn&UED.)
Although physical strength is an ac-
cident, or at the most an inheritance, no
man likes to confess that another is
Immeasurably his superior In muscular
power. So, it is with feelings of keen
annoyance that I am obliged to relate
the result of that hand-to-hand strug-
gle. I was strong, and had measuerd
my strength with many, but never with
such a man as this. The moment we
closed I felt that I should be conquered;
that right does not always gain the vie-1
tory. Grant's arms were like bars of j for a time-table.
Iron, the girth of his chest almost ab-
normal; moreover, he stood two inches
'■"Her than I did. Had I been told that
iny man could have lifted me from my
feet, carried me through two open doors
*nd finally thrown me staggering, into
the center of the roadway, I hould have
laughed the idea to scorn. But Eustace
Grant did all this, and shut and bolted
the outer door before I could recover
myself.
Mad with the rage of defeat, I grasped
the railings and panted for breath. I
cursed Eustace Grant. I cursed my
faithless wife. I cursed myself and my
impotence. Such was my stats that,
could I have obtained a pistol, I would
have waited on that door-step and shot
the man who had betrayed me, as soon
as he had emerged from his place of
safety—shot him dead without com-
punction. Nor was my mind any way
soothed by hearing the window thrown
up, and seeing my hat tossed out con-
temptuously. I was fain to stoop and
pick it up, in order to save myself from
becoming an object of curiosity to pa3s-
ers-by.
What was I to do? My mind at pres-
why had I not kept my vow rf
killing him when his dream of joy wn„
at its height? Simply because I knew
not where to look for him. He and his
no less guilty companion had left no
trace behind them—no clew that might
be followed until it brought me face to
face with them. I had made inquiries
and inquiries were still being made on
my behalf; but as yet I had not discov-
ered Grant's hiding place. He seemed
to be a man with, so far as I could as-
certain, no friends or connections. Mjss
Rossiter, with whom he or Viola might
have corresponded, died two days after
the elopement. Her brother I found
but he could give me no intelligence.
Mr. Monok.the solicitor, acting, he said
on instructions, refused to give me any!
So I could do nothing but grind my
lCuntIlIth«°hinLlny teeth; 1 bU my I tee,h' an,i ]ong for hour "when my
pie instructions!
must
given the fool am- I happen
would trust no one biUmyseYf. Tthrew H^TaS.? ^ ^ 8°IitUd°
fo[-I um^hle. XXTa^rain'1? I T/h t'* ,nisanth'« b i
could catch, was there a steamer which | geance.
Each day found me
. , - | "'ure cynical and misanthropical; but
Was there a train I | each day I renewed my vow of ven-
them go, and my curse go with them T. T n'ter h°"r broo,li"« bis
will not take, at present one sten in nur hi i i*°Uld haVG thought the s°n of
suit. I will have vengeance ^>iU ven 0n My °' his cholce-
geance by waiting will be the more com- summer «ift m°nths passod- Spring,
Plete. See! she must love this man mad- won" mak « Utl'lo *,°ame 3Dd
ly, even as I loved her or she wmifl n making little difference to me.
not have done this thing.' He, too, must °° -®-1 f°rCe<i myse,f to
bard to reduce the debt nf ♦h" I eDt °°Uld only grasp one fact—that
the debt of the county Grant had, by some diabolical means
and get the finances in good shape.
A Kay connty man who wa„„
pleased with the way the sister stand
ing next to liiin in church was singing
turned to her and said, speaking- of
the song: "What's the matter with
your liosanna?" She knocked
h i in
IThe rumor that a colored baby was
born in Logan county with a mouth |(lo,vn before he had a chance to e
full of teeth, and that it spoke just matters. Her name was Anna
three words and then died, lias created j The court house at Grand n„
—4**. ,;rB
A „ „, . .. , was totaUy destroyed and all county
A. i. late, the largest grape grow- records were lost except those in the
er in Shawnee county, sold 17,500 j offices of probate judge and supcrin
pounds of grapes to a Lincoln county | tendent. Four thousand dollars worth
banker for shipment, but by some j of county bonds, registered and signec
misunderstanding no car hud been se- are missing. They were either burn
cured, and the twelve wagon loads of j °d or stolen. The origin of the fire \
grapes were returned to Mr. Tate and j a mystery. There was very little in
he made them into wine. | surance on the
T. II. Campbell of Woodward county 1 thri% People of Day o
exhibits "Johnson grass'' T feet and "" almost irreparable loi
two inches high. It is claimed that
the Johnson grass makes fine feed for
stock, and the advantage in such a
crop is that it is only sown once and
property and the
ounty sustain
loss.
The Agricultural board of regents,
the governor and territorial votcrina
rian have declared that Texas fever ol
a contagious nature exists in Oklaho-
A few days ago the mail stage be-
tween O'Keene and Lacey was robbed.
Hempmeyer, the driver, testified that
the stage was stopped and plundered
by Bill Doolin and Dynamite Dick,
and told a tragic story about the way
he was treated by the fiendish outlaws.
Wednesday Hempmoyer was arrested
for robbing his own stage and he has
since confessed. Thus another of Hill
Doolin's crimes turns out to have been
committed by someone else.
Frank Garret, a colored man, was
severely injured at White Eagle last
Saturday, by getting his feet caught
between the draw bars of two freight
ears. Garrett is a colored man and is
in the employ of Keller & Gibbs, cat-
tle raisers of Clifton Texas. He was
in charge of stock going to Kansas
City. While climbing between the
cars, in punching up the cattle, his
feet were caught by the draw bars
and badly mashed.
An Oklahoma farmer has struck a
plan by which he says he can destroy
the chinch bugs in a corn field. When
the bugs attack the corn, lie goes into
the field at noon and cuts down the
first two rows of corn. The hot sun
sours the sap and the bugs will al-
ways eat a down stalk first and in do-
ing this eat the sour corn, which
them. He says two rows on the
attacked is always sufficient
all the bugs attacking that field.
It is stated that the
season are the finest
Oklahoma.
The Chinch Bugs .line and the Hot
Winds club are two aptly named ball
teams of Kay county.
makes three crops a year. Opinions j ma- "ml ordered the Kiowa, Ponea.
di Teras to its merits, as once started j 0,°c. Kaw and Osage Indian reserva-
it "takes" every crop on the farm. tions and the counties of Cleveland,
An Oklahoma county man, who don't ' ''oUmv<.taitiie, Canadian, Oklahoma,
believe in banks, kept h;« valuables j ,'incoln. l'ayne, Logan, Noble and
in a box which lie buried in a dugout I 1>awnee quarantined, prohibiting the
adjoining his house. While he "was | ,!lkinS of cattle from these section-
out walking with his wife the other j jn'° ot',er Parts of the territory under
evening, somo one came along, dug
up the box. and skipped out. That
Induced Viola to leave me and give her-
self to him. For awhile my course
seemed limited to one issue; I must
wait here, outsido his house, until at
last he came forth. Then I must dog
his footsteps until they led me to the
faithless woman who had ruined my
life and brought me to shame. X
groaned at the thought of what little
more than twelve hours had done. This
morning I was the happiest man in
England; to-night I was the most mis-
erable!
So for hours I walked up and down in
front of the house which held the trai-
tor. I saw the lights extinguished.
Once or twice I saw the blind drawn
aside, and guessed that Grant was look-
ing out to see if I had left my post. No,
you traitor! you villain! I am still there,'
lull them into false security. Let ti em
dieam their dream of happiness, e fen
as I dreamed mine. Then I will l nd
them and strike!
For I swore that sooner or later, by
fair means or foul, Eustace Grant g11" ild
die by niv hand!
CHAPTER VI.
HATE the task of
describing what
manner of life I led
during the next two
years. I hate the
memory of every
thing connected
with that time. I
wish it could be
blotted out from my
mind. Two years
„ which hold no
n, no thought of my own, to which I
can look back with any pleasure. I must
write of that wretched time, but I will
make its record as short as possible
Nevertheless, I will be candid, and
enmn 33 batI a "gUt as truth
compels. I do not seek to excuse my
self by saying that many another in my
place would have acted as I acted I
hope there are few in the world who
have passed through such grief and
shame as mine.
At first, without for the moment los-
ing sight of the vengeance I meant to
or Paris, in hope of finding distrac-
tion and forgetfuiness. My efforts
availed nothing, and I returned to my
home more moody and miserable than
when I left it.
I had, for the sake of occupation,
performed a task until now postponed.
I went through my reputed father's
letters and private papers. I found
nothing that in any way bore upon my-
self, except a written account of the
shipwreck, and my birth on the barren
rock. It was signed by the narrator.
Although the existence of this paper
made no difference to me, I put it away
under lock and key. Yet, for all I cared,
the whole world might know that Ju-
lian Loraine was not my father. Such
trivial things as accidents of birth were
now matters of indifference to me.
The other papers I burned. I did not
read one-half of them. They clearly
showed what manner of man was
JnlianLoraine before heboughtHerstal
Abbey and settled down to t\e life of a
recluse. My life, I told myself, was
spoiled spoiled by a woman's treach-
ery! And yet I could not bring mysell
to hate her. No-let the truth be known
I loved her even now—loved her, al-
though she was living in shame with
my enemy. I hungered, I craved for a
sight of her face. The touch of her
hand would have thrilled me as of old.
Although I told myself that were she at
ta.,e on the traitor, Eustace Grant I my feet praying for Pardon I would
set myself the task of forgetting the ' spurn her and east her from me. I knev
me, I knev
that I lied. I knew that if Viola came
to me—if my eyes once more met hers
I should throw all manhood's pride to
the winds, and—such was the strength
of my passion take this faithless wom-
an to my heart, and hold her there un-
til, as I told myself bitterly, some fresh
lover robbed me again.
Such being my true feeling, picture
one morning, I found
my table—a letter ad-
man will pin his faith in banks in the
future.
heavy penalty.
Two full-blooded Osage Indians,
Rain Door and Charlie Kralier held up
the Grey Horse stage coach in Oa -e
I County in regular outlaw fashion and
The native court at Wetnmpka, I T
imposed several unusual sentences. I secured 83.-.0 in cash and three gold
Isaac McGirt received 100 lashes upon ! patches and gutted two mail pouches
his bare back for stealing a cow. For I "lu driver, Henry Somers, and Mar
breaking into a house Lumka Harjo I tin Tllylor> il hardware drummer from
got 500 lashes. Others sustained simi- ! Pittsbm'g, Pa., were shot for refusing
lar punishment. The lashes were in- i to th,'°w up their hands.
dieted by a man upon horseback. I'p-
on his third conviction of cattle theft
Jesse Thloeco was sentenced to death.
The board of Ka
wounds
Tuylci
county commis-
sioners made the following levy for
expenses for the ensuing year: Terri-
torial fund, 4 mills; salaries fund, 5
mills; court fund, 3 mills; contingent
fund, 2.5 mills; road and bridge fund,
2 mills; poor and insane fund, 1 mill-
sinking fund, 1.5 mills; county school
fund, 3 mills; total 24.5 mills, the
present levy is l.l mills less than that
made last year.
not serious. Five persons
in the stage were robbed, including a
lady Indian teacher
Basye of Indiana.
named Nellie
In an Oklahoma hotel the following
sign is said to be posted up; "If your
room gets too warm, open the window
and see the fire-escape. If you nrc
fond of athletics and like jumping,
lift up the mattress and see the bed
spring. If your lamp goes out, take a
feather out of the pillow; it is light
enough for any room. Don't worry
to kill about paying your bill; the house is
j supported by the foundation.
tomatoes this \ Blaine county has had good rains ii
ver raised iu I abundance.
The collectors will start out Aug
20 to collect the last half of the per
sonal taxes of 1M95.
A
kills
side
Two years ago, William Barrel! of
Oklahoma county, had a valuable cow
that died from the effect of of blood
poisoning caused l.y ear ticks. At ti
time he took out a lot of the ticks
from the cow's ears and placed them
in a tin box, with small holes in the
cover and expressed the box to Albert
Denn at Kansas City, who is the state
veterinary inspector for Kansas
About nine months ago, Mr. Iiarrell
called upon Mr. Dean for information
| regarding the ticks and the box was
| taken down and the contents examined
and it was found that the ticks were
alive and in a most vigorous condition,
i I he ticks are still alive, although they
j have not tasted food for two years
; This shows the tenacity of thl
j hold on to life to be equal
hold on a calf's ear. —Live
| spec tor.
j North Logan county will have
Sunday school rally in Rose lliil towu-
sliip August 27.
e ticks to
lo their
Stock In-
and shall be there until you come out.' ( false woman who had fled from my side
Then I will dog you to the bitter end. 1 vowed I would destroy the love I bore
The hours w6nt by, the dawn began ' her and 'earn to look upon her wi'h
to break. Still—an object of curiosity, j scorn and contempt, as the basest of her
if not suspicion, to the policeman—I j sex- the thought of suing for a d
kept my post, and should have kept it j vorce entered my head I banished it at
for hours longer, had it not all at once i once- 1 cared not to resume my free-
occurred to me that so long as I was 1 dom- So long as I was bound to one
there, so long would Grant remain I woman, there was no chance of my be-
where he was. I must perforce keep I ing cajoled and deceived by another if my emotlon when,
watch until I could find some one to j ever 1 couM be fool enough to love and a letter lying on "
whom the task might be deputed. j ''us' another woman as I had loved dressed to me in Viola's handwriting!
At 7 o'clock I was able to gain ad- ! am' 'rus'ed Viola. I f°re it open with a cry of delight; I
mission to an old-fashioned family and ' Besides, I shrunk from the exposure pressed !t to my lips. Had not her
commercial inn which stood some short i 1 shrunk flom the thought of being fingers touched it? Then I read. It
distance off. The bay window of the made a pubIio laughing stock, as a man W3S but one line:
coffee room commanded a view of ,vhosewiffhad!eft him a fortnight after "lt you kllew a11, you might forgive.'
Grant's houee. Here I seated myself 1 bel marr'ase. No; I would teach my- * knew all!" What more was
and, having obtained a London direc- ! selt to scorn- loathe, forget her-that Ulere to know? 1 knew that she had
tory, wrote and dispatched a letter to a Was a"' me w'thout a word or sign of warn-
well-known private detective, request- 1 . But how to foi"get? If I cursed her ing that Bhe had fle<1' accompanied by
ing that a clever, trustworthy man ''y <'ay'1 dreamed of her by night. Then f "If" who 'oved her passionately
might be at once sent to me. Then, from °
the window of the hotel, I resumed my
watch.
At 9 o'clock the man whom I had
summoned arrived. I told him what to
do. He was to wait until he saw Grant
depart. He was to follow him and
having ascertained his destination, was
to telegraph to me at once. Then I left
the accursed spot, went back to my
hotel, and tried to sleep.
As I entered the room which Viola
and I had occupied, I could almost per-
suade myself that I had dreamed the
events of the last twenty-four hours. |
All her personal effects were as she left
them; her gloves, her brushes, her toi-
let indispensables were all there. Even
her watch she had left behind her She
broke the spring at the seaside and
there was no time to get It repaired
before we started for the continent- be-
sides, I had intended buying her a new
she came to me, sweet and pure as I
thought her on the day when I made
; her my wife. I saw her soft eyes, her
graceful form; I heard her fresh young
loving voice, and in my dreams was
happy, for I could never dream evil of
j her. But again and again, when I
i awoke, and remembered what she now
was, I sobbed as few strong men permit
:ncmselves to sob, and then only in the
dead of night, when none can hear or
see them.
1■would forget! I swore I would for-
get. So, in search of forgetfuiness, I
plunged into a whirl of fierce dissipa-
tion. l became to all appearance the
most reckless of a reckless set. I
gambled for large sums. I lost or won
thousands at a sitting; yet only proved
to myself that I was as indifferent to
money as I was to everything save the
loss of \ iola. Curiously enough, I did
not ruin myself at the gambling-table.
On the whole, I won largely, and so con-
long before I ever set eyes upon her;
that they were, somewhere or other,
hidden from pursuit. Heaven! what
more could I wish to know?
(TO HI! continued.)
BOY CRAB FISHERS.
They
.Slimy
0Deln PaHS' JO"m°rr°w—yes, to-mor- stantly that' myluck" becam
-ow we | word. My luck! I smiled bitterly as
a by-
row would be Thursday—to-morro„ „„ . „„lu. luc
had proposed crossing to Prance Heav .
ens! what did it all mean' T" ?p°ke of me as "lucky Loraine."
. I6lln. ev.cry way to force the mem-
Capture Shellfish In the
Mud Above Low Water.
The crab fishermen who catch the
delicate shellfish with net or line have
now got competitors in the business
who have it in their power to sell very
cheap, says the San Francisco Call.
They can sell cheap because there is
littlo work for them to do and they
nearly always make good hauls. The
new rivals are the boys who loaf
around the water front below Channel
street. Some time ago several thousand
piles were anchored in the bay and as
they floated about a colony of crabs
found them just the things to sun
themselves on. In fart, they found
them so pleasant they forgot
. - to get oft
Sleep with mv mind In tMc >,, , I * l"eu m every way to force the mem ,1 the ti(Ie went down. All that was
unattainable I a er in the 7 W8S °ry of V,0,a floni mind. For awhUe n®ce<*ary for the boys to do was to
for something to do ti t ^ Say ^ drank to e«e fh°, °Ut P'Ck lh°"1 «oon as
of any hope I went to Viola°a r,MT PPr, "S 1 h°Pei1 t0 kil1 myself. In these crabs heanl u,c sound of footsteps
and asked if she had bJen there to day.' the year F UnWOrtby Ways 1 passPd alf *?U-!d..d.rop off the "ut in
No, not since yesterday morning. This | Then came the reaction
the servants rather
Miss Rossiter was very
were with her now.
In my present state of mind, I cared
leading. I sickened at the sight of my
boon companions. ■
A ( leveland county young man let ! A certain Oklahoma mayor went
his bride's papa take her home for ! bliml °" 8uiu,uy «"d allowed the sa-
kecps. That fellow don't deserve a I 1000S to kt'op
wife. F / ti
The county attorney of Pottawat- fndUn Urrilory 'lo Uie Chic," fr0'" U'C
oime county, has put a quietus on tlon were Indians.
base ball and similar sports, on Sun. ti., i
day, in that county. '... .°"m corn cr"Ps in «ome local-
' j Itics by heavy rains.
An irrigated potato field of 03 acres
in Oklahoma county yields from 4''5
bushels to 500 bushels of potatoes per
acre or a total of 25,000 bushels, at a
market value of $10,000.
A man in Oklahoma has found a new
agoconvcn- | "a.v tokiH chinch bugs. When they
start into a field, go into the corn at
noonday and break down three rows of
stalks The hot sun sours th
and that kills the chinch bugs
juie
Everything wis
weariness; nothing brought the flush of
knew that the motive which kept viola I my chpok or carried me
nothing for the old lady's illness; but I
from her side when"suffer'n^mus't^lle ! '°If.T®lmaway from my grief. Sud
a strong one. Yet, little a woman'who j pursuits 'Tw T, baCk "P°n a" my
could leave her husband, as she had left i , down to Herstal Ab-
me, would reck for the ailments of a
friend!
Curses on her false, fair face!
The hours passeA, somehow. At three
?'clock a telegraph taessage was brought
me. I tore It open. It was from Folke-
stone, and ran so:
"Followed him here. He left by Bou-
logne boat. Was joined on pier by lady
Tall, closely veiled, fair hair. Wore
.! Was now at my disposal,
and with as supreme a contempt for
mankind as ever my predecessor felt
I buried myself even as he had done '
And people around said that eccen-
trlclty ran in families, and that young
er'. steps"6 ^ f<"l0WlDg in hls fath
But why during these months had I
not sought the excitement of revenging
myself upon the man who had wronged
stead of striking the cool waters of the
bay would drop into a sticky pool of
slimy black mud. In this position they
could do nothing to help themselves
and It was not long before they were
served "cracked" on free lunch coun-
ters. The boys do very well at the
work, often catching several dozen in a
day. But it is impossible to conceive
of a more dirty job. They become cov-
ered with the ill-scented black slime.
However, they don't object to that, but
rather think it adds to the hilarity of
the pastime.
Justice.
The crime is charged before the bar;
The jury then doth sit
To see which one of them shall hang-
The murderer or It.
—Detroit Tribune,
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Brown, Quincey T. The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1896, newspaper, August 21, 1896; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115732/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.