The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 24, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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Tilt; TWO TERRITOHIES
News in (lenrral of oklahoma and
the Indian Territory Pertaining to
the Palo Kat e and the Red Man.
Perry Democrats will nominate a
ticket on March 10.
The firemen of the territory or-
ganized :it Oklahoma City Feb. 1.
J. E. Soule has been made statistic-
ian for Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tories.
After three or four disastrous fires j
Purcell has begun to thiuk of a lire de-
partment
An Gl Reno man has had to pay $10
for trying to give a battle to the Sal
vation ariny.
•' Mayor Moore will investigate
charges of corruption against the city
officers of Enid.
Henry Redman wai found guilty of
manslaughter at Chandler Friday, lie
murdered his wife.
What is the matte- with the poets
of Oklahoma'.' Even the suow docs
not bring them out.
The society of Ponca is to give a
hatchet party soon. It is to be hoped
that they wiil bury it.
TTay-way-coo-lah, that is. Sugar, an
Iowa Indian of prominence, died at
the age of 75 last week.
A Cherokee Indian was given fifty
lashes on the back one day last week
for stealing a horse.
Minco has become a great lumber
point.
It is a fact that electrocution is le-
gal in Oklahoma.
The trial of Ira N Terrill began at
Chandler before Judge Bierer Friday.
Russell Briggs has been appointed a
member of the Guthrie towusite board.
Dennis Flynn is doing all he can to
have the Comanche country thrown
open.
Alva is expecting a party of one
hundred fam lies from Nebraska this
month.
The Arapahoe Bee has a correspond-
ent with the nom de plume of "Dude
in Exile."
A woman has been poisoned at Ok-
lahoma City from breathing the fumes
of gasoline.
Owing to a slight change in the
ozone the Oklahoma boy is not tlyiug
kites this week.
The Milligan ease which was tried
at Oklahoma City will be appealed to
the supreme court.
What do the Indians do during a
cold snap? They always seem to come
through all right.
Marshal Nix has issued a circular
calling his deputies to time. He
should be commended.
The climate of Oklahoma will be
back in a day or two with a pro-
nounced Italian accent.
Henry Asp has returned from Wash-
! ington and reportsthe statehood ques-
' tion progressing slowly.
" Judge Scott of Oklahoma City fined ( lu.8ter \ Arthi.r has been appoint-
the court stenographer Sp for being in)e ter fol. tho lmiu„s of ti
tardy one day last week., | t.oun{„ He Hve„ m.ar Arapahoe
A large cave has been discovered on
the claim of Samuel Walker in the . atrain
Cherokee Strip, a few miles south of, th(,seml sorae of the lan(1 viUes.
Caldwell.
The skies of Oklahoma have cleared
The only clouds now are
Enid has caused more general liquid
hades in the Cnited States senate j
t han any other Oklahoma town, past
or present.
Henry Asp savs that Oklahoma will
be admitted without the live tribes,
but that provision will be made to ad-
mit them later.
The way to get the real horrors of
pioneer life on the Strip is to live in
New York and read the newspapers.
. Since the annexation fever has
j struck Perry, Arkansas City will feel
the necessity of moving further up in
, Kansas.
Mrs. Charles Laflore who died re-
.Johnston, the mind reader who can
find a pinhead blindfolded in a big
_, | cave, ought to turn his attention to
eently in the (hiekasaw nation was hllIlti Tom Kin
said to bo the prettiest Indian woman
who ever lived. I At Pond Creek every storekeeper is
riM ... .. . . . 1 expected to have a ladder that will
The Dal ton gung has been captured rei[oh to thc t of his b,liuUnR. This
aia,n' 'S uU rl"ht' " d7l'Kn,:is for protection against lire.
.'ifrect the Dal ton gang and it pleases i
the deputy marshals. i Wolf hunting has become very
1 popular in the vicinity of Enid. Sev-
, Thc„c®?? nf territory against [,ra| fine wolvos an(1 u great deal of
John Mllligan for the murder of Mr. I , whisUy have been destroyed by
and Mrs. (.ibbs < lark on Nov. 3, is on 'tlu, Ilunte„/
trial at Oklahoma (lty,
T , . . . . . . It is pretty hard to tell how the av-
Johnston, the mind reader. Is jfivlnjr j era(fc ',,el./y prize flght lh to
come out unless you are posted as to
his show in Oklahoma. There is not <
. . . , . conic uui uimnn >wit in*- .......I... . ■ —
a greater hypnotist on the road than thl. relations of the referee.
he. His strong points are delicate ,'th t contestants.
tests.
.. , . , , The Comanche Indians will make a
Alva claims that the name of the hastlv mistako .f they attempt to
river on which Alva is situated is fdu off the settlers because tl.ey are
named Alva or Alba and was named , , the cattlemen. If the Indians
by Cortez in honor of a Spanish noble- lv;lllv want t(, diu they 8ave
lnan' themselves the expense of fooling
At a meeting of the ministerial as-1 with the settlers, l'russic acid is
sociation of El Reno, a resolution was cheap.
adopted by a unanimous vote that any T] f t th t bnl has boon intro.
member of a church who dances or a«oed In the I'nited States senate to
plays cards, at either public or private j , th unlversitv of oklahoma has
gatherings. will not be regarded as in I ^ a mill(r,e(i "feeling of surprise
good standing by the association. ;in(, imlignatio"„ amonsr the people of
A number of times during the past Norman, where the institution was lo-
few months specials have appeared in eated by the first territorial legisla-
the Chicago and St. Louis papers from lure anil has been in operation nearly
La Fayette, I nd., containing accounts wo years. The building cost 51-1,0)).
of the exploits of Engine Brady, who It is regarded as one of the most ku?-
claimed to be a I'nited States deputy cessful institutions in the territory,
marshal fro... Oklahoma, and was William (VHara is teaching school at
there recovering from wounds re- | ...
eeived in a battle with the Dalton |(ollege Corners six nnles east or Hen-
gang. It was related how the gover- nessev. Last Wednesday evening
nor of Oklahoma had sent for him and 1 Fred Smith's boy stood at the head of
put him in charge of an expedition the class in spelling, but missed a
against the Daltons, that a battle had word and had to step down, and when
ensued in which twenty-three outlaws it came his turn to speil he refused to
and thirteen marshals were killed, he | spell or even to try. The teacher in-
being thc only surv vor, and numer-j sisted that he should ma'• an effort,
ous other Munchausen stories in the ' lie still refused and squared himself
same line. As it was evident from the ! in Corbett style. Three rounds were
first that brady was an impostor, an j fought and O'Hara won. After supper
effort was made to ascertain who lie n rap was heard at the door of the
was, and it has just been developed ■ teacher's boarding house and the
that he formerly worked for the Santa I father of the boy was there to see
Fe at Newton, and afterwards came to j him. Both contestants fought to a
Oklahoma for a short time with his | finish and O'Hara won in this battle,
wife and then deserted her. She is j Saturday O'Hara t ame to to.vn and
now suing him for a divorce for deser- j swore out a warrant before Judge
tion and cruelty. He never was a j Perkins for assault and battery,
marshal, never saw the Daltons, never Smith pleaded guilty and the judge
was wounded and no such battles as I lined Inin S" and costs and ten days in
the one he described ever occurred. | jail at Kingfisher.
A philanthropist has come forward The Perry board of trade unfurls a
in Oklahoma county to announce that bright red Hag to the breeze to an-
the peach crop is uninjured. j nounce when a meeting is to be held.
Some of the people in Enid think
that $.">5,000 is too much for water
works and are kicking on the call of
the mayor for on election to vote that
Who ever saw an Oklahoma man
vith boots like the ones the gentle-
man on the grand seal of Oklahoma
In the case of Sprout vs. Durland,
the Oklahoma supreme court has ren-
Caspcr Steel was shot and killed by
his brother, Henry, Saturday evening
tiered a decision of great importance • about 5 o'clock at Omega, a town in
!to settlers upon government land ev- the western part of Kingfisher county,
try where. Heretofore when several Casper was a young man about 22
parties were claiming the same piece years of age and lived with his parents
bf land, contesting each other, both on g, claim some distance from Omega.
IWouldlive upon thc land, keeping up Henry, a married man, owned and
n continual warfare for years, or one conducted a hotel and store in town,
would drive the other off by main j|] feeling ha I existed, growing out
force and hold possession while the of the ownership of a pony. Henry
{contest case dragge I along through had been to Kingfisher, and on his re-
tlie land office and interior depart- turn f ,und Casper at his hotel. He
nicut In this decision the supreme remarked: "You always come around
court holds that the courts of the sec-
tion where the land is located may
Jake action in the matter, inquire into
the respective rights of the parties and
award possession of tho land to the
here when I am gone: I'll just kill
you." Casper started away and
as he passed out at the door the ball
from Henry's revolver entered his
l>nek near the shoulder blade, passing
proper person, rending suit in the in- iiirou(,i, killing him in-tantly.
tenor department. One important |(enry was taken into custody at
clause reads: "It is the duty of the once A coroner's iurv was impaneled
Courts in dealing with such matters to Sunday and a verdict' rendered in ac-
exercise its equity powers and see to it eordance with tin- above facts, lien-
that posession is given to the person
who, under the laws of congress is en-
titled thereto."
As much as the strip people may
liuffer from the cold weather it is a
Mire thing that you will not see some
fellow bobbing up in New York or
Pennsylvania asking for aid.
The Kiowa and Comanche Indians
have assumed a warlike attitude and
threaten to drive the cattlemen and
•tock from their reservations, because
I hey have received no grass lease pay-
ment since October. The wire fonses
i re being cut and cattle butchered bv
the Indians, many of whom are des-
perate at the lessees. The situation
r A*
was taken to Kingfisher Sunday
evening where 'ie is now in jail.
The report of the state forestry
commissioner says that experiments
at Ogallah point to the black and hon-
ey locust as the best trees to plant in
tlie northwest.
A charter has been taken out by the
Canadian Milling company of El lieno
with a capital stock of $."i0,000.
David Wallace, a blacksmith at Hen-
nessey, has beer, arrested on the
charge of counterfeiting. He has been
seen in the company of a gang of I
counterfeiters who scaped from the I
officers last week. Sheriff Washburn
will become alarming unless the mon- found moulds and spurious coin in his
cy due them, which amounts to abyut possession and locked him up.
&60.000.
ifj 5-* \ J- (; A I "V l^WQ ! The American ship Willie Heed, Cap-
^ 1 J 1 ' j tain Forbes, which sailed trout Ilur-
' wick on Feb. 8, for New York, has
Gleaned from the Four Corners of been wrecked off St. Vallcrie. Th<t
the world and Condensed in short cre v of twenty-one men wt re *aved.
Paragraph* for the Convenience of i -4 . „
Hurried Headers. , °1n' of,.the dormitories ut the hose-
, bud Indian ageucy m South Dakota
was burned Friday. The less is ?r n.-
The federal grand jury at Chicago The building accommodated 'JoO
Saturday returned an indictment children, some of whom narrowly es-
charging Lieutenant Maney with the / caped.
™,"rp^r CaP,ai" Hedbei'g, at Fort RoWrt 0refn nnd j MoClolkeyi ac.
a / cuse J of being the leaders of tho mob
Investigation shows that the recent which drove Mine Superintendent 11.
blizzard totally destroyed the peach II. Locke out of Cripple Creek a few
and plum crop of Southern Illinois, weeks ago, were acquitted at Colorado
while cherries and currants are badly Springs Friday.
damaged..
' M r. Sweeney, the remarkable
l.ie World says that Tom l.ibson . high jumper, who cleared 6 feet P.
Hiawatha boy who studied te.egraphy inL.hes in lloston Saturday, creating a
went to Chicago and worked on the llt.,v record indoors, said in a recent
board of trade, and has made #100,000 intervlcw that he is certal|l he c.an
by lucky deals. easily increase the outdoor record this
Attorney Scanlan continued his ad-, summer.
dress for the prosecution in the Cong!:-1 Thp A R |lrooks Jcwelr_ com^ny<
I n case Saturday lie finished Mon- at 417 North Fourth street, St. l ouis
f , ;Ved y Attornev assigned to the St. Louis Trust coin-
1 '* ° u 11 cus • j pajiy as trustee for creditors Saturday,
The county commissioners of Wyan- i entire stock of watches, jewi-lry,
dotte county have adopted resolutions accounts, etc Thc assets are estimat-
for the building of a new $00,000 j ed at $.'2,000.
bridge across the Kansas river-at Tur-1 J„dge Ilradley, of the supreme
tier a few miles this side of kansas courlk nfu.r n^ing to counsel for
each side, Saturday morning fixed
A commercial agreement between March 8 as the date of the beginning
France and lJolivia was signed at of the hearing of the suit of Madeline
Paris Friday, llolivia concedes the Pollard against Representative lireck*
most favorceJ treatm*nt to France, i en ridge of Kentucky.
Postmaster Ilessing, of Chicago, will
. T ii / apjvear before the house committee on
It .s reported that 1!. II Payne of p,lsl„|,i(.cs ani, postl.„lu|s s,1(irtlVi
St. Louis assistant general passenger wl„.n |.()stma.stor nissell wi,!
agent of the Missouri Fac flc railway „ (lpsinlbil„v ()f a
is soon to be made assistant general ,, t ,«• • .• e
, .. , ... rat«' postottice appropriation for the
passenger agent of the Union Pacitic ♦. „ i,...., ♦ . .1
& Omaha | cities iu the country.
Thc Herlin Reichsanzeiger publishes A fort>st Arc is burning in the moun-
a list of a commission of sixteen ap- ^a'Ils northwest of ( olorado Spiings,
pointed t > inquire into the silver ques- ^ 'n neighborhood of the Mani-
tion. The list includes Herrs Arendt, tou mining' camp The fire is fanned
Bamberger, Kordoriff, Mirbach, Alst .V a tiff brecxe and is making great
and Schlorlemes. , headway. It is supposed to have
... , started from a miners' campflre.
I)r. A. Dunlap died Friday evening
at Springfield. O. He was a delegate * hve-story building at- 23ft and 238
to the worlds medical congress at nroe st|' ,«'t, Chicago, was cleaned
London in 1681. and one of the earliest ollt ,fire Saturday night. The Chi-
physicians to de: lonstratc the opera- ca^,° 1 °>* autl Fancy tioods company
tiou of laparotomy. suffered a loss of 152.5,000, and the Cal-
umet Wall Paper company lost S' 0,000,
A lai e wine cellar at St.-HollenaJ lioth concerns wee ful'y insured.
Ga., owned bv (1. It. Crane and rcntid ,,
by John B." Pike, burned Saturday. J1,e ""Hington (la.) Fire and Tor-
Two hundred thousand gallons <" f nai1." Insurance company, doing a
wine were destroyed. The loss is es- l lsinessof S-S.O00,(i(i0, assigned Fridaj
HE TOLD A NEW ST0BY.
BUT THEY SMO IT SOUNDED
OLD TO THEM.
and France concedes thc minimum to
Bolivia.
ti mated at $30-,000.
At Monte Vista. Col., Tuesday morn-
lay
night. Had risks in Texas and at
southern points aro said to be the
. , ^ cause. No statement was made and
i ig, hd Smith, . ; years old stabbed but little information can be obtained#
his father, M. Smith, inflicting a fa-
tal wound. The son, who was intoxi- [ Half thc able bodied men of Trini-
cated, became enraged when his fa- dad, Colo., are engaged in a hunt for
tiier reproved him for drinking. , Charles Moore, a laborer, who is
The house committe
lands has approved Mr. Kyle's bill 10 rm . r-, • ,, • ,,
supply a detieiency in the land grant ' . ' , V f H." .
to the university of Mississippi, by ^ J\1 ?Ut.'' nd?,T "'"I)1'. ,ShoU'1!
empowering the governor to give title • ,11K ' ls '''te'y that he will
to the university to not more than 3,- e ^ 111 ltH '
nn hi in cused repeated criminal assaults
Kvle's bill to uPon Dougherty, an 8-year-old
040 acres, or one township.
The attorneys of ex-Hanker Reid of
Kansas City, Mo., whose case was set
for trial in the criminal court there
Tuesday, auplied for a change of
venue, and Judge Wofford sent the
At St. Louis Friday the grand jury
returned a number of important in-
dictments, among them being one
against .Jail (Juard Rickaby, who
Train Robber Marion Hedgepeth said,
aided the robber in his attempt to es-
case to Cay county, where he wilfbe S''P.e' Kickah-V "charged in the in-
tried at the April term of court. His <ilctraent wltl> aiding a felon toes-
bond was fixed at 8".,000. i caPe-
The fishing smack Emma, of New 'T1}eT, win be a coclnng main at
London. Conn., with ten men aboard J'''''" ,!raeg s pit, Leavenworth, 0,1
is believed to have foundered off Fire " ednesday evening of next week,
island (N. Y.) in Monday night's '"D"™ ""'I Council Bluffs birds will
storm. Another imack reports hav- J"111 0 against 'lopeka, Kan. I.ach
ing seen the Emma Tuesday strug- wiH he for $20 a side and Slot)
gling with the heavy seas, but lost °n the After the main
sight of her soon afterwards. It is there will lie "hack fighting" galore
probable that she was blown out to bL'tween birds of neighboring towns,
sea or down the Jersey coast. Champion Jim Corbett told a New
The snow storm of Sunday was gen-' ^ ! u reporter that he had cleared
eral from the Rockies to the Atlantic over S^l.odO with liis theatrical com-
The western, central and northeastern ['a 1 ^ 11' |lpe th-feat^tl Mitchell,^ and
states areall blanketed in white. In * ' * ' * * 1 '
Kansas the storm was the worst seen
many years. Snow fell to the
he thinks if the business continues
good he will be a licli man before his
_ vv, ^tl fight with Jackson. "I am takin
depth of 12 inches and was* accompa- Sare of m-v money. to°'" he said, "but
nied by a driving wind that caused it 1 lim. ?ot (,ePrlving myself of thc ne-
to drift badly. Railroad traflic was cess^'es life.
almost entirely suspended on all The attorney for A. M. Pullman of
roa<is, while in the cities street and San Diego. Cal., an American citizen,
electric car traflic was impossible. No who is being detained in a Mexican
deaths are reported up to Tuesday. In prison at Knsenado, has received f
Oklahoma the storm gave vent to all telegram from Representative How-
its fury and the new settlers in the ors, who says that Secretary (Jresliam
Cherokee Strip suffered g.-oatly. At has sent t sharp message to the Mexi*
Led Rock .Ijiiues, Blount and can government, demanding the re-
family are aim st frozen to death, lease of Mr Pullman on bail and a
Mrs. 1' annie Spencer, a homesteader, full explanation as to his impriscn-
12 miles from Cross, was found frozen ment.
stiff. James Mulligan, living 4 miles .T
south ot Perry was frozen to death, ' ear 1 ittsburg, I a.. Tuesday, high-
and his partner died IT. minutes after "'•i.Vnien knocked down Peter Major, a
being found from exposure At Ponca nnd after beat;ng him into in-
Mrs. Cramer and her children were sensibility, robbed him, and then
found in a coyote's burrow ten yards P,ared his body across the Pittsburg,
from the house, frozen stiff. Col. Hen- Virginia Charleston railroad. He
ry Melton, a cowboy, was found near w?s discovered by a detective a few
Newkirk, dead under his horse. A "linutes before a west bound freight
family named Sears, living near Wood- tni 'n was '',lu at that point. Five
ward, were found frozen to death. It mon sl'spected of the crime have been
is thought that after the snow melts arrested,
that many dead settlers along with A telegram from Galesburg, 111., to
hundreds^ of dead cattle will be the effect that the pay car notices
found. At Cross. Sherman Stone and posted last week by the Chicago, Bur-
family were found with their throats 1 ington & Quincy at Omaha for a pay
cut from ear to ear, and on a table day on Feb. 15 had been taken down,
"car was found the following note: was shown General Manager Hol-
a . £one; Monie frozen to dredge, who said that whi e the road
death; the rest of us freezing; I hav was hard up, it had money enough to
killed my family and now kill myself pay itsemployes on time, "lie thought
to prevent further suffering. God there was little significance in the
lave mercy on us. Stone was a matter, as the storm might have inter-
omesteader and lived in a tent. At fered somewhat with the movements
Galveston, lex., the thermometer reg- j of the pay car.
istered 18 degrees below zero, with ice | _
two inches thick and ground frozen as I The rescuers at work in the Gay-
hard as a tock, it rained, sleeted and 'ort' mine did not make much head-
snowed, and Sunday night a norther' way to-day. At 3 o'clock this after-
blew at the rate of forty miles an noon there was another cave-in of tho
hour. Cattle suffered severely in the roof, which wrecked the inside of the
western part of the state. Chicago mine badly, and the rescuers were
suffered severely and all railway traf- compelled to retreat. Great lissures
fie was stopped. Missouri, Iowa. Ne- i liave now appeared on the earth's sur-
braska, W isconsin. New York, Miehi-! face over the mine, and a number of
gau and Kentucky, have all suffered bouses are in danger of toppling over,
from the effects of the worst storm in It is the general opinion of those who
many years. Wires are down'and full best understand the situation that the
details cannot be obtained at'presem ",en must have perished.
Frank \V. Randolf, one of the best1 At Atlantic, la.. Tuesday Judge Dee-
known attorneys of Kansas City. Mo . f'u'r is- ed orders that Receiver
died as his home there Monday. Tv- ~lc'n'<c be made a party defendant in
phoid fever, superinduced by la grippe the prosecution of the managers of the
was the cause, lie was born in Ma- defunct Cuss County bank. This is the
rysville. Mo., in 1801. In 1890 he was sensation of the day, as Steinke has
the assistant city counsel -of Kansas hitherto not been suspected of any
City. He was a prominent Knight connection with the frauds charged.
Templar and a Mystic Shrincr. ^ ; The special grand jury is busy exain-
,. .... ining witnesses in the case.
The police of Atchison, Kan., tool;
a Mrs. Franklin out of a car r.f house- Ex-Secretary Hen jamin Tracy sum-
hold goods billed to Omaha, Tuesday. mPl.' "P lbe evidence in the John Y,
She was beating her way from I)eca- McKsns case <or_tbe prosecution Sat-
tur, 111., She had S'!'> and had been urday. Jusncr Jianlett then charged
put in the car by her husband, who the jur.V' and they went out at half
did not want to pay her car fare! She past 3 o'clock. At midnight they had
had been in the car three days and not arrived at a verdict, and were
nearly frozen. | locked up till morning.
lion lh Colon*! • M urdrron* Hoar Hm
Kirk«*<t to l>«ath l v t* I'lg That llutl
|tt life Antony a Neighbor'*
Mules—lu Mortal Combat.
Four men wore sitting about tho
little station of Lone liock, out in
Wisconsin, one night waiting for u
ruin They wero on their way up
to Itichlan 1 Center, where court wus
in session, says tho Chicago Herald.
1'hoy were good friends, as strangers
at a railway station usually aro, and
they wero telling each other stories.
The la t narrative li.i l been about a
, LOTS OF LIVER.
' The Interior W~ultli of an AII-AruuuJ
Kli^rk. i
It Is about a big flsh that 1 writ*,!
but It is a true story. 1 saw tho flub.
I took his dimensions by actual]
measurement, and I saw his livor.
In the annals of Cape rod, pub-!
lished by the Kev. Mr. Freeman in
1868, he mention* that in 180.H Pro-1
vincetown had a regulation relatlujf4
to tho carca «0H of whaloH, hliarUn.
horse mackerel, etc , which required!
that they be towed below lo*v waU r|
mark, which would indicate that-'
thchc marine animal* were >-o com-
mon as to b«i in some degree ofTonsivo'
in wann weather.
Many of them w< re enptiirod for
their oil. Jii^ht whales yielded
twenty, forty, eighty and sometime*
mule, and that reminded a gentle- j 100 barrels; grampus, one, two or
man from Indiana of a muie his
father ouce had. £o he told this
btory:
••My father was a native of Vir-
ginia, but he went to huliaf.a in tho
early years and settled in Boono
county. He started in to raise hogs,
and he did pretty well. Hut he had
one hog that would always get out of
throe, blackflsh, one barrel, sharks,
from one gallon to seven or eight
barrels, porpoise two gallon?, ami a
boatload of dogl i yielded about ouo
barrel ol oil.
Now my big fish was called a
shark, though ic was not of tho'
man-eating or s lovcl-nosod variety,1
says the Belfast Ago. Mr N M At-!
the pen and make trouble with tho wood, a distinguished and practical)
other stock. No matter how high , iethyologist of Province town, pro-
they built that pen he would always ( nouoced the lish
climb out—go over it hand over | sea olophant, and
hand, just liko a sailor.
would put on unothcr course of rails
clear around, ami in a day oi two
ho would climb over that. Then
another course, and in a few days lie
would get over that. too. So they
dually built a pen so high for him
that they had to work with ladder
a liver shark, or
considered it rare,
n ti rely win to
and as handsome in form as a muck-j
erel. lie was caught in M152, inside!
of what is called Long Point, forming
an outer boundary of Provin*-clown si
beautiful harbor. j
The fishermen had sprdad their!
seines there .for mackerel and thin1
to got the top rail on the fence. And big lish had got en' ingled in them'
yet he wont over
• Next farm to that of ray father
was one belonging to .Judge Bottom.
He raised mules He had the darn
dest, biggest lot of mules you ever
saw. And they could outkick a man
at the world's fair. Ho didn't do a
very good business with them for
some reason or another, though he
deserved to, and ho finally fell into
all about him. so that ho wan easi
il.v|
III.-'
my father's debt.
ways good friends
he would take one of the mules to
square tho account. The judge
agreed to that kind of a trade, but
thought ho should have some boot.
So father gave him a little pig in tho
bargain. And the judgo Look tho
pig home and put it into the lot with
his mules. And it stayed there and
throve and got fat. Jt became a
handsome pig, and almost the finest
in tho county. Everybody in the
neighborhood was proud of it.
••Well, sir, one time this big,
climbing gentleman pig of my fath-
er's concluded ho was due to climb
tho fence again, and so over he went.
iefi him high and dry. Being at'
that time engaged in business 2nj
Province town I was invited to visitl
the mojister and see him cut up for;
the purpose of extracting hi-) liver, i
By the way, all the oil of a shark is
iu his liver, while that of a whale, oft
courso, is iu hi* flesh or I lubber, li
But they wero al- 1 took a rule an I measured this shark,
and father said I and f«*md his length to be just thir-
ty-ono feet, the breadth of his tail-
was seven feet and his cireumTereiico
in tho thickest part sixteen feet
I have stated that the liver of this
shark weighed two tons, and this isJ
how it was determined: The liver
was cut in pieces and pitched into a
dory; the dory carried a ton and a
( half in weight besides the rower,
i has been Droved, bringing her down
j to her upper streak; thc dory was
I twice loaded dec]) with this liver.and
so the fishorman thought, the weight
was nearly three tons, but to ho
j within bounds I concluded to call it
two t ns, and so it is recorded
He had tushes about seven inches ! this veracious chronicle. After the
long, and every timo ho got out of
tho pen he killed somo other pig. 1
forgot to tell that iu its proper
place. Kvery time he got out ho
kil.od another hog; cut it all to
pieeos with his awful tushes. And
so he was going down the road
toward the judge's farm,
his terrible jaws and
threats at tho whole male
tion. And there ho caino
gnashing
grunting
hog erea-
upon this
oil had been tried out I found that it'
made soven barrels full, and was
worth at that time &TJ0.
JiHt a Mnlh'i' of I'lutfi.
••Does your mother give you cofTce
at every meal?"
Tommy—I don't know. J
"Why don't you?"
Tommy -Well, 'cause mother calls
it coffee, but the boarders call it
horrid.—inter Ocean.
InrrotM* III Dlvorre*.
There has been an increase of 1*?7
per cent in the number of divorces
granted in this country from 1867 to
1H8G. In the same time there ha*
been an increase in population of < 0
per cent.
RARE AND READABLE.
Skates with pneumatic tired rollers
have been invented.
Paris fruit dealers paint their stock
to make it appear ripe.
All tlu (i:*rman war.,hips ere to Lo
hands came over to that side of the \ painted a cinnamon yellow,
schoolhouso and looked with batod j A one-legged bandit held up a New
breath at the fight. York man and rifled Ins pockets of
••They expected to see tho big hog j so >.
from my father's place tear his foe | ' Rwmhd |amps hare been placed
t > pieces in a moment liut what; Knglish railway, on the penny in the-
was their surprise to see the hand- I sjofc p-afl
j At least fifty giants, whose heights
range from eight to nine feet six
inches, want positions with the Barnuiu
! & Bailey show. ,
Death has been unusually severe to
1 the family of A. .1. Stuhrlc of Louis-
ville, removing twelve members of tho
! family in the past two years.
1 A German jeweler has introduced a
gruesome charm for the watch chain
in the form of a tiny receptacle for a
jn I portion of the ashes of cremated
! friends.
A correspondent of Ciatncland claims
to have seen in Texas an owl lift a
Many ' rattlesnake a few feet in the air and
■ drop it several times until tho reptile
said a J was disabled; then the bird grasped
the victim and flew away with it. 1
Turkey and Servia, two countries
Adonis among swine from tho mule
pon of tho judge.
••It was Sunday and the people
wore at services in tho sehoolhouse
And they looked out of tho window
and saw with horror tho meeting of
that terrible swine slayer and the
judgo's beauty. And they held their
breaths with terror as the two came
together. The hogs looked at each
other for a moment, snapping and
sniffing the ground, and then at it
they rushed and began tossing at eaoh
other Iz. the side, and the people
quit listening to the sermon and the
preacher quit preaching, and all
soinest of pigs turn about with his
tail to his enemy at tho most critical
moment of tho fight, and deliver a
kicK, exactly like that of a mule,
directly between tho oyesof tho most
terrible boar in tho country! And
fatal. It was totally
aim it was instant
tho kick was
unexpected,
death."
••You say
that happened
asked another of thc
father's farm
Indiana?1
travelers
••Yes: on my
Boono county."
44You aro a liar. That
started from my grandfather1
in Seneca county. New York.
a timo have I heard "
••Hold on, there, hold on,"
third man. "Your grandfather's
farm be hanged! That story was
story
town
started in t anada. My father told it : which have been so often at war
to me when I was a boy. and then it
was very old. It concerned the j
earliest traditions of tho province of
Ontario. This is tho way it "
44When you fellows git through
lying about that ]U2," said a native.
,41 d< n't mind telling you the truth 1
of it. Tho light between them pigs
went o!T right out hero in .Juneau !
county, and I can prove it by "
"There comes the train," said the
man whose father had lived in !
Boono county, Indiana. And that
was the end of their quarrel.
II" II is Itppu Doing It.
44You must make allowance for i
(Jeorge," said Mrs. (largoylo, plead-
ing with her husband to overlook his :
son's extravagance.
••I do," replied Mr. (iargoyle, "and 1
[ think an allowance of $1, ) > > a year \
is amply sufficient."— Detroit Free
Press.
Ancintit ISttok*.
Some very uncient books aro to bo
found in tho sacred relics of Ceylon.
They are formed of palm leaves, writ-
ten upon with a metal pen. and are
bound merely by a silken -trin£.
against each other during centuries
and whoso frontiers are not indicated
everywhere by natural obstacles, have
agreed to mark those frontiers by a
Continuous line of iron wire.
Tho fire commissioners of Boston
are considering the feasibility of put-
ting in a pipe for salt water through
the dangerous fire district of the city.
The commissioners believe that salt
water can be pumped from the harbor
for fighting lire with good results.
A piece < f property in the business
center of Chicago w is leasjd recently
for ninety-nine years at a rental th. t
establishes the value of t.lo land ;•!
$127 a square foot to-day. £145 a foot
after 1901 and $i09 a square foot after
1900. This is reputed to h;.' the high-
est valuation of Chicjgo land y« i
established.
A form of sport very popular i?/
Normandy is that of Hying kites,
which are, some of them, of very largt*
dimensions. There has been a compe-
tition recently at Rouen, on tlu-
heights of St Catharine. The vie
torious kite rose to the height of 8,50i
feet, anil would have so.n-e j higher
but for l&cu. of string
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