THE PEOPLE'S VOICE.
•Iiulir.- Ihomw' .ourt will couvene Koulh McAlester fc overrun
agnin at Vinita on the ;«th. | do^s.
I<aod tiling* are averaging three* Kitty Hester, the famous Kingfi&hci
J day at the Woodward land office. Ally, got a new record at Newkirk tlx
Up to .late Bill liolton has not plead- otl,er d,y-
OKLAHOMA
OK I.A Hon % AND INDIAN TKUKITOKY
The El Iteno cotton compreM han a
are department of its own.
At leabt one-third of tiarficld coun-
ty k mammoth wheat crop is in the
baud* of the farmers.
A whisky distillery is to Ite located
*t C ret*. It will have a capacity of
forty gallon* per day.
Away over in the triangle country
lots of cotton huf« ifone to waste be-
caiibe there v/as no one to pick it
The < handler News Mty* that nearly
rrery loan company in the west is rac-
ing after Lincoln county farm loaun.
Tramps and other iuuniirratin# fowls
•re jio v traveling southward, where
they will s|>end the winter months.
If Outhrie and OUIahoiua City t!
look out in their anxiety to build roads
from Sapulpa they will make Sapulpa
the railroad center.
A special election will be held to fill
the vacancy in the Cherokee counc
3,1 used by the death of .Mr. McLan^h
lin, of Delaware district
The Ardinorite tells a story of itspos
lesion of a rattlesnake's skin six feet
ind one-half inch in length, and
twelve inches in cireninference.
The will of John Hcattie of Oklaho
ma county has been probated. II
pives his property to six cousins in
Gotland. Heat tie was murdered.
The Oklahoma city Times-Journal
Iiiinks that a few days after President
Itobinson returns from hU trip over
Sapulpa route, actual grading will l>3
(fin.
The corn crop alon^ the Arknnsas
river in the Cherokee strip is said to be
ijood this year. Farmers report an
average of from SO \o bushels to the
icre.
1 he Oklahoma City pension at torney
who was recently sent to the penitcn
tiary for pension fraud, is in the ho*
Pita I there being treated for the mor-
phine habit
James \ouuj£er was moving from
(orsicana to ( ale, Indian territory
when the team ran away in descending
ft hill and Mrs. Younger's right leg
ivas crushed and alao the right leg of
her baby.
The Colored Citizen of Fort (Jibson
says the race has been taught by white
teachers long enough, and further as-
serts that the colored people have just
as good material for teachers as the
whites could furnish.
A slick duck claiming to represent a
Ft. Smith whisky house worked the
boys of South McAlester to a queen's
taste recently. He took orders to the
amount of $3.50, collected the cash in
advance and went. The boys waited
but the whisky that they paid for nev-
er came.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal
•ays: It is hard to tell whether the
ncrenge of wheat sown this fall in this
county has been increased or diiuinitih-
rd over the acreage sown last j*ear.
Owing to the drouth it might seem to
be diminished; but the high price and
{food crop has &lso been a big incentive
to increase the acreage, though it is
no doubt a fact that many farmer
have not sown as much as they would
have sown had the full been more fa^
rorable.
I he average Oklahoman is properly
prepared to comfortably live through
the approaching winter. He has en.
joyed a gocjd crop the past season and
has received a good price for his pro-
ducts, thus placing him in splendid
cirenin.stances. The wheat, cotton and
fruit yield has been better that ever
lie fore while the corn crop is turning
out moderately well. What else has
he to do but care for his stock and sit
bv a warm lire during the chilly blasts
of winter? Let him enjoy his much
deserved rest.
cd guilty to that, charge of matrimony
Chandler has a reading roo.a which
has just been thro* open to the pub-
lic.
A worm is eating the roots of the
loco plant in Heaver county and rapid-
idly killing it off.
Steve Dog is the name of a wealthy
Indian farmer on the Illinois river not
far from Tahlequah.
J. K. Finney, a prouiiuent railroad
man, fell from his train at Perry re-
cently and was painfully injured.
Deputy Marshal Emmert last tteek
arrested Jimpson Jones, on a charge of
grand larceny and landed him in jail
at Antlers.
The Kansas City Star says that
Shuwnee has a new brand of whisky
called Nightingulc. as every one sings
who drink* it
1 hey bum wood in opeu lire pi aces
in Ardmore and two children were
painfully burned last week by their
clothes taking fire.
Hud Cox, from near the mouth of the
Cimarron, has been arrested for being
implicated in the bogus Indian war-
rants at Tulsa, I. T.
A whisky peddler was captured at
( olbert station last week who had in
his possession seven and a half gallons
in jugs uud thirty bottles of case
goods.
Some K1 Ueno fellows have returned
from a hunt in the Wichita mountains.
1 hey came iu the back way and de-
posited several tons of quartz iu their
cellars.
i ho cotton gin of South Oklahoma
City is in trouble. The employes com-
plain that they have received no pay.
Some one has filed a mechanic's lien
on the place.
District court adjourned at Norman
last week. All of the cases against
the old county oflicials were dismissed
or judgment rendered in favor of the
defendants.
The Wichita country must open or
the cattlemen there will have no more
cattle left to drive out of the country.
The boomers accumulating on the bor-
der will eat them up.
The editor of the Hennessey Kicker
has just finished sowing 100 acres of
wheat and if he raises a good crop will
have plenty of "dough" whether his
subscribers pay or not.
1 he new jail at Tecumseh is com-
pleted und the next term of the dis-
trict court will be held in the new
court house. The old I uilding will be
used for school purposes.
A young lady and gentleman were to
have been married at South McAlester
ecently. 1 he license had been se-
cured and the minister was present
but the lady refused to wed.
There will be wailing of teeth and
gnashing of garments on the part of
the Indian territory when Oklahoma is
made a state and divides the state in-
stitutions up among itself.
The gin at Vcruou burned down last
Monday, Many bales of cotton were
consumed and the whole plant a total
loss. This will be a great draw back
to Vernon as there is much cotton in
the field to be ginned.
B. IJ. Terrill who lives some three
miles southeast of Orlando has beaten
them all on pie melons. The vine
covers six square rods and is 5 inches
in circumference near the roots. It
has over 100 melons and the largest
three weigh 70 pounds each, and the
smallest 10 pounds.
At a bar meeting held by the attor-
neys of Atoka recently a vigorous pro-
test was drawn up and scut to the
attorney general of the United States,
I lie towu of Lahoma is being moved
from its old site to a new one a mil#
south.
8ouie express the opinion thst Chel
sea will lie incorporated under the Ar
kansas laws in January.
liie total number of pensioners in
Oklahoma is 6,132, making an annual
disbursement of t711,209.1«.
The elevation of Roger Mills county
above sea level runs from 3,500 feet on
the west to 2,000 feet on the east line.
Beryl Cox, under guard and undei
bond for $15,000, escaped from the
guard at \ inita, but was recaptured at
Tulsa.
J he people of El Reno now talk to
one another over the telephone, just
like they do in Chicago and other first-
class cities.
Chief Irparcercher of the Creeks, has
called a special council of Kings ami
Warriors to investigate the fraudulent
warrant mutter.
Perhaps 50,000 head of cattle entered
Uio Indian territory froiu Texas last
week. They will consume some of the
surplus corn, hay and fodder of the
farmers.
SCIENTIFIC P01NTERS. b?ln,",h", *'?";?or 1
• i while brains of lmbcciles
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOV-
ERY AND INVENTION
'!•• Ctllliallon of Animal. Nothing
N.w Indrr the Hun \ l>t ftam
That la a Wnurter I'm ruling
>1.1 tut. on Railroad*.
CO nneera,
may not
weigh over 30 ounces. While this may
ka and probably 1b true, the question
arise* as to whether quantity is the
thin* to be sought after In the brain.
Many of our Intellectual giants have
been exceedingly small men, with
heads that cmlil by no possibility con-
tain a CO-ounce brain. We live far
above the level where power, ability
and greatness car. be measured with
a pocket rule, a tape line or a pair of
scales. Quality so far outranks quan-
tity that it is not to be mentioned in
. (he game connection. By ingenuity,
sma portion of I deftness and forethought a man may
the profit to he de- | perform prodigies of labor without the
exercise of as much muscle as othtr
men would employ in doing a tithe
of the work. It would be interesting
If the British association would give
us the exact size, weight, etc., of the
brains of noted individuals by name.
0U1L BUDGET 0E FUN.
SOME COOD JOKES. ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.
Th. Utilisation of Animalf.
*'E betf va|ue of
' the ox is only
rived from this
useful animal. In-
stead of 40 per cent
waste that was for-
merly the natural
conieq uence of
slaughter, under I Generalization is very well, but there
present manage- 'ire a great many thinking persons
mftut, the only loss, according to one | who would like to know how many
of our popular writers, is 'the expiring | nlen have brains that weigh CO ounces,
breath of the beast." There is no part
riiat part of the 'Frisco railroad be-
tween Seneca, Mo., anil Sapulpa, i. T.,
will be sold December 18th at public
salo at the depot iu Vinita by order of
the court.
\\. S. has ton, who has a reach near
Minneola, has been using for a year
past hypo sulphate of soda for preven-
tion of black leg in cattle. It is a
good remedy.
The socalled owners of the laud on
which the town of Marlow stands,
have warned the occupants of lots in
that town to tjuit and deliver up to
them the possession of the same.
A prominent border newspaper says:
What has become of the old fashioned
cowboy, who used to ride into our city
on his bucking bronco from the range
with lariat and Winchester swinging
from his saddle ami when lie walked
the streets in his high-heeled boots,
the 4 clinkety-clanU" of his spurs could
be heard a block away? lie was the
king of the town. He took the best on
sigh) nnd when lie left the town, he
rode down Main street, shooting out
windows and terrorizing the people,
lie made news items plenty and then
business good. Civilization has made
him memory only, but business is
still good, though news items are
seaice. Some days it would prove a
relief if the old fashioned
would return.
or parcel of it that does not find its
use during the workijig-up of the many
elements of which It Is composed. One-
third only of the creature can be used
for food. This is why butchers and
meat market men make such a point
of the necessity for getting big prices
for the small utilizable portion. But
the expert makes paper out of the un-
digested food, butterine reappears
from the finer portions of the fat, the
mattress-maker nnd the mason find
good uses for the hair; ox-tail soup
has Its legitimate basis; neat's-foot oil
is made in considerable quantities, al-
most a pint being secured from each
foot. The larger bones are worth $80
a ton; the bones of the fore legs nre
used for collar buttons, parasol han-
dles and jewelry, and bring $30 a ton.
The little bones are burned for bone
black, the dust and line scraps will
feed poultry, and even the water In
which the bones and certain portions
of the refuse are boiled is available for
Slue; gelatin comes from the sinews,
the hoofs and horns are of ftreat value
in making fancy articles, and the hide
goes to the tanner, to come out of his
hands as leather. Even the blood is
carefully saved, and goes to refineries,
ar is compressed into articles of
rious sorts. The actual cash value of
i beef animal Is. therefore, by
means confined to the eatable portions.
Till® IV t Kit in I® m Won tier.
Mrs. J. Vail, the wife of a farmer
near Newburg, N. Y., owns a ram
called Dick that is perhaps the most
intelligent creature of the sheep kind
in tile state. His time is divided be
tween the cows and the dairy. Mrs.
Vail calls Dick when the churning is
rrady, and he responds cheerfully. The
big churn has a dasher which is con
netted on the outside of the dairy with
the wheel which Dick turns round and
round until .the work is ended. As-
tho butter forms the wheel turns hard
er, and then Dick works with a will
bleating as he works. He seems
know his work is almost finished, and
when at last the butter has come be
jumps off the wheel and takes a nap
but If a cow happens to low he is
away in an instant to the pasture
find out what is the matter. He churns
120 quarts of cream at a time.
Dick takes the twenty-five cows to
the pasture In the morning and brings
them home at night. In the morning
he Is frisky and allows them to loiter
and eat grass n the wayside, but at
night he is in a great hurry, and if a
cow stops he butts away unmercifully
If one strays away he will keep all the
rest waiting until lie finds the truan
cowboy
The Ponca City Courier says: Big
(loose is one of the I'onca Indians who
is becoming prosperous, and whose
prosperity is perfectly plain to be seen,
lie has just bought a handsome car-
riage for the use of his family, which
cost liim 8100. He has a tight shed
nnd a eloth cover to protect the vehi-
cle from the weather. When he comes
to town with his family well and taste-
fully dressed in a carriage behind a
spirited and well caparisoned team, he
is a living rebuke of those who claim
the full blood Indian is not subject to
the influences of civilization. Ilis wife
keeps her house neatly and cares for
their six children with all the tender-
ness and solicitude of a white mother
who lias the advantage of the teach-
ings of generations before her. Mrs.
Big (ioooe, as well as her husband, is
well liked by their neighbors.
A prominent Oklahoma paper says:
Tho squaw man of the five tribes has
at last received a setback. For a gen-
eration be lias been preyingAipon tho
i Indian and by taking his squaws to
i marriage has been taldng about cvery-
thing else worth taking with them.
Preventing Accidents on Rallroacli
An ingenious inventor has been test-
ng a device Intended to prevent rail-
■oad accidents such a.s occur through
he carelessness or forgetfulness of
iraln employes. There is a dial con-
taining fifteen pointers, which are piv-
Jted at equal distances around Its cen-
ter. The dial bears upon it figures
ihowing the distance to be traveled.
This is located directly in front of the
;ngineer, and when he receives orders
Oe sets one of the pointers for a local-
ity one mile below the distance to Lc
traversed before he Is required to stop.
An Indicator throws the pointer off -.1
the proper location and sets a whistle
blowing. The sound continues for
about a quarter of a mile; thus the en-
gineer is warned of his proximity to
his halting place. This device is ill
rery well, hut It presupposes
imount of carelessness not particular-
ly desirable in railroad employes.
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2Q-
Tttff'r'fl..."
oi
Nothing New Under the Ku
Horseless carriages are old. More
!han a century ago Oliver Evans, ap
prenticed to a wagonmaker in Phlla
. -I-.
/ , : I I
K- \
HOW DICK CHURNS MILK.
and with a few butts he chases them
all home.
In the month of April Dick was tak-
en to the brook, thoroughly washed
and then shorn.
The ItepniH of 1'tant*.
Almost every ebservant child is
aware of the fact that many plants
fold up their petals or close up their
leaveH on the approach of darkness.
The difference in the appearance of
plants under such circumstances is re-
markable. Scientists tell us that sleep
is quite as necessary to plants as to
animals, or at least periods of repoBe
during which the raveled thread of
exertion may be knitted up, A Nor-
wegian experimenter was led to inves-
tigate the sleep of plants and to find
out how much repose and what sort
Over at. Pawnee the other day a cou-
ple of jokers took some greenhorn* out
at midnight on a turkey hunt and af-
ter gett ng them out quite a ways
slipped away from them, went home
and slept the sleep of the just The
tenderfeet, thinking they had acci-
dentally missed their companions kept
on und were just lucky enough to run
into a bunch of wild turkey and bag
two. On getting back to towu they
learned of the attempted joke but put
the jokers to confusion by producing
the turkeys. As u sequet the jokers
received a package marked collect
from Chicago, which, when paid for
and opened, proved to be the clcan-
ricked bones of the turkeys and now
there is war in camp.
The Hardesty Herald says the white
people diil do the Indians a great in-
justice by taking their lands away
from them and forcing them to adopt
their ways and costoms. Very rarely
is this sentiment met with in Oklaho-
ma.
Mr Sparks, living just over the line
in the Creek nation, was absent from
borne for a few days and during his ab-
sence some one entered his house, stole
one sack cf flour, eighty pounds of
meat and drove off eleven head of
llOgB.
asking that the prisoners in the Atoka I °7" ""V *"* SByS thftt
federal district be kept in jail at Atoka i V'\" 'CCOmtt a" «<lopted member of
instead of being sent to Sovtb McAles- ' " " '8 "" an alul ns
| such can not become a citizen of tho
I United States by naturalization, like a
foreign-born citizen. Having become
i an aborigine lie has to remain an abor-
igine until the government sees fit to
make him p. citizen by u special act of
congress. Such is the decision of tho
ter and placed in jail.
The Guthrie Leader says: The move
on foot to build a viadirjt on Noble
avenue is a good one and should receive
the hearty encouragement of every-
body. As proposed the viaduct will
commence at Second street on Noble United States court of appeals bv a
avenue and extend over the Santa Fe suit for divorce by a white woman who
railroad tracks and the Cottonwood married a Cherokee Indian. The Iu-
river into West Guthrie. Too much j dian divorced her according to tribal
cannot he said in favor of this step, laws but the woman wanted some of
us it will be a lasting benefit on every his property and asked for divorce in
hand, even economical in the long run. the courts of the country. The court
It will obviate the necessity, of building ?f appeals holds that having become
a bridge over the Cottonwood, will i„. an Indian, the question of divorce was
sure safety to travelers who are com- within the jurisdiction of the tribe
pelled to cross the railroad tracks at This will be a troublesome decision for
the foot of the lull and will give the j a great many men and women who
Santa Pe road a clean sweep of tracks have married among the live tribes,
in which to do necessary switching | Their only solution is the final solu-
without causing a blockade of people lion of the government of the five
and teams every time a freight car has j tribes. Until then they will have to
remain Indians.
... ' man u ,1° committed A tire in the Kiekapoo country north-
suicide in the Payne county jail re- cast of Shawnee, burned
cently, after being arrested for stuffing | bay stacks und fences
the jury box, had a rough time of it in ti r* t i it i ,
Oklahoma, lip « >       I Cushing Herald says: live years
,1^1 ui i i tin i was most necessary for their well hp-
win lhe 8tUdy '"«• subjected bulbs and twigs to
□f steam. While studying he came the vapor of chloroform with the result
across an old work describing an at- that the plants showed the most "e
mospheric engine, and was so strongly markable subsequent developments
impressed with compressed air as a If it be true that chloroform takes the
motive power that he entered upon a place of natural sleep in plants, the rc-
series of crude, boyish experiments, lation between plant and animal life
and was soon satisfied that compressed in this particular must be very unlike
air was the best motive power for the ~"
class of vehicles he contemplated, i
well as all kinds of light machiner
His crude experiments, showing the
feasibility of his plans and Ideas, in-
stead of gaining him fame and renown
ar even respectful attention, called
lown on him universal ridicule and op-
probium, and he abandoned his scheme
n this regard to escape the charge of
.nsanity.
The turnpike proprietors not only
ieclined to negotiate with him, but de-
:lared that his device would destroy
:he roads, frighten the horses, and,
sven if successful, would ruin the lead-
ing industries of the country. Then he
gave up In despair and abandoned his
project. He consigned his pet, the
Th# Cook and the laut Ntove or th«
Tragedy of the Kitchen—Th« lli. ycl*
Freak t'ader   Celtic Lent -Flotsam
aad Jettam.
A Frank FartUan.
(Th« Harvard man to the Vaiaar tfrl.,
AIDI5N, very fair
are you,
And your ryes ar*
"bonnle biue"—
(Violet);
Your faee It Is th*
HWeCtC8t.
Your form the trim-
ly lieateut.
Kver met.
And the .softness of
your cheek.
And your algebra
and Ureek,
Perfect are;
And that lustrous azure eyC
Recognizes In the sky
Kvery star.
You have pouting, piquant lips;
\ou can doubtless an ellipse
Calculate.
And but for your eye of blue,
I bad certainly from you
Met my fate.
But though its beams lie bright as ertr
A Harvard man they never
Could prevail.
Since from out those depths of blue
Ltams too plain the hated hue
Of "old Yale!" —Jan.
A* He Saw It.
"I don't suppose there will ever be
another American play like 'Uncle
loms Cabin,'" said the theatrical
man.
"Is it still before the public?" in-
quired the man in the sweater.
Of course it is. It has run for
nearly fifty years. And it'll run for
fifty years more."
Well, that's pretty good, of course;
but I don't see any sense in making
so much to do about a little thing like
a century run."—Washington Star.
A Natural Mistake.
Sleep is supposed to be a gradual re
storer. An anaesthetic produces
state simulating death. If, as medical
science tells us. a very high grade of
recuperative power Is an evidence of
great vitality as its absence Is a mark
of deterioration, is it proper to con-
clude that the ten porary trance of
bulbs and plants cmsed by chloroform
may indicate that their vitality is far
in advance of Hut of tho human fam
ily"
fasey (pointing to person wearing
cycling sweater).—"Git onto de dude
wid his shurt on wrong."
Clancy.—"Phwat's wrong about it?"
Casey—"Can't yez Bee he's got th'
lb beholnd instld uv in front? Is it
bloind yez are?"
There Wat Tumult In tlio City.
New York Editor—"Good heavens,
but Philadelphia is a slow town1 I just
mn across a new illustration of th(
fact."
Assistant—"What was it? Did the
sun set a couple of hours after dark?"
Editor "No, they had a case of sui-
cide there the other day and there
wasn't a reporter on the scene until
after the police had been notified."
What lie Keally Feared.
"What! you wish me to pay in ad-
vance?" said an inexperienced rider to
a livery stable proprietor. "Are you
afraid I shan't come back with the
horse?"
"Ahem! It is just possible the horsa
may come back without you," retortet!
the man of the stable.—Sketch.
THIS DID NOT SUCCEED.
The Flow of Korku.
This is the name applied to a singu-
lar phenomenon described at the re-
cent Toronto meeting of the British
Association for the Advance of Science
The experimenters, Messrs. Adams and
Nicholson, placed accurately fitting
columns of Carrara marble in specially
prepared tubes of Swedish iron, and
subjected them to extreme pressure
gradually applied. The marble yield-
ed like a plastic substance and caused
the enclosing tube to bulge out. The
deformed marble was afterward sliced
across and examined, with the micro-
scope. It remained firm and compact,
though it was not so hard as the origi-
nal rock. These experiments, which
are to be continued, are regarded as
to be moved.
Van Martin, the
numerous
.'team wagon, to limbo, and applied his lmI,ortant to geologists from the light
engine to mill wheels and other
poses in art and manufacturing.
they may throw on changes in
earth's crust.
Not the Keanon, Though.
Customer—"Look here, all the but-
tons came off this coat the first time
I wore it."
Soakembaum—"Yes? So many beo-
bles admire dot coat dot you schwell
mit pride and burst dose puttons off
Ain't it?"
Hie Natural Variety.
the
He was under arrest most
of the time for something or other.
City Engineer Chamberlain of Okla-
homa City disputes the government'*
flgureu on the altitude of Oklahoma
City. Chamberlain says Oklahoma
City s altitude is 1231; the government
says it is 1130. The government's
measure was nadc by an aneroid ther-
mometer.
ago Cusper Stitt planted a peek of
I peach stones .n the virgin soil of Payne
county. This year he harvested over
400 bushels from liis seedlings and
found twenty-eight different kinds of
peaches as the result of that peck
seeds. He has seventeen entirely new
varieties, some of them being much
larger than any of the costly budded
fruit.
Klr.e of the ltralii.
The British Association for the ad-
vancement of Science at its annual
meeting took up among other things
the study of the structure of human
beings, it comments on the manner
in which the human anatomy is put
together in order to give grace and
freedom of action. These peculiarities
are to a great extent wanting in the
lower animals. The marked
Ancient Vtaelerla.
Modern discoveries concerning the
origin of diseases have brought the lit-
tle organisms called bacteria into so
much prominerc? that seaich has been
made to ascertain if they existed dur-
ing the early geological periods. A few
months ago tho fact was announced
that Monsieur Regnault had discovered
bacteria in coal. Continuing his re-
searches, he found evidence that bac-
teria were probably coeval with the
appearance of organic life on the
i. ... , - superior- i lci it
t. of the hand over the forepaw of first
It i1 ranhT Thcj a,,r;c"vege,abie
that the brnlna „ if„v . J ald 5"es' !lS W('" as ,he bonps arl(1 '"eth
at their birth than those oTilrlsTi? ' of nnir,ia's' "m as1"1" thpy belonged
Kidder—"What caused the death of
your cook?"
Kodder—"Gas."
Kidder—"Did she blow it out?"
Kodder—"No; It blew her out."
Reforo nnd After.
Hurly ' I p to thirty a woman's
great fear in life seems to be lest ohe
won't get the right man."
Hurly—"Yes, and after that her chief
concern seems to be lest she won't get
any man at all.'' •