The State Democrat. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 1894 Page: 2 of 4
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PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
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Mon, L,. Blx] or, JEd'r
NORMAN. . • • WK. T>
As EVEN* the best goods cannot ad-
vertise themselves until they ars hold,
they should themselves first lw adver-
tised in order to insure their i
OF THE WEEK.
( Iranrd from tlic I'otir ( ornfr of
Ihe n orlii and Condensed in Short
*'A El'kol'kan princedoesn't amount
to much," says an eastern conterapor-
ary, ••until after ho lias been reported
engaged to an American girl."
His debts do, however, hence the en-
gagement.
Advf.rtiskks who frequently change
their mediums and met hods should re-
member that a constant dropping will
not wear away the atom-, to any ap-
preciable extent, when the drops fall
on different parts of it.
A stoke full of goods unsold repre-
sents so much money lying idle. 'J"ho
cost of willing the goods by advertis-
ing them would, in some « uses, lie
less than the. interest which would
otherwise accrue on the unsold stock.
Charles Rier was struck by a train
at Jefferson City, Mo., Monday and
killed.
Albert, the 14-year-old son of £*,
Seatnon, a well-to-do farmer of Hoi-
''•r««r |.li. fnr ilio I ]HIU| township, 111.. falally kicked
Harried Head. r . l,y „ harte Siimluy night.
Richard Lawrence died Thursday at ' M- «'• Robi,""n, of Meridian Mis«..
(Imrlslon, 111., fr,.„, ll.c effects of on and instantly killed l,y
•verdosc of morphine. " 'r'-i"1" whll° '■""•*''>1."' l"' "
tie on the Mobile aud Ohio road.
Mrs. Martha Johnson died Thursday !
«t Moberlv. Mo., from injuries rceeiv "M- •
«1 in a pusoliue explosion Saturday. I l"",lU'r '"r I'"' S"'" nitar,ui
; at Kenton Harbor, committed suicide
Mr. and Mr-. J. ' tellers were kill in |lh Sunday nlglit bv taking
i'd at Kdon. O., by a W abash train an . morphine
hour after their wedding last Friday j
ujg|jk t eorge 11. Wheeler, a farmer living
• •n lireen's llayou, was driving home
Mary . Mill Saturday lu-ou.'ht suit Saturday, when his team rau away.
county ( ireuit Court wheeler was thrown against a tree
against the city of Sedalia. Mo., for and Instantly killed.
£.*>000, for a fall sustained upon an al-
lege.l defective sidewalk. I' vil1 Nl UVU>'' one of the most
prominent men of Nebraska, was
illness of .lames Anthony hjU)t nnt| jijiipj while hunting near
I roude, of London, the historian, has J l rcmoIlt Mouday by the accidental
ha sorions turn that it Is ,|lMharBe of a gun. '
The marriage of Justin McCarthy's
son to Cissy Loftus of the London
music halls appears to have created a
good deal of a sensation in England.
Hitherto it has been tin- almost exelu-
sive privilege of sprigs of the English
nobility to marry the-, -dashing artists.
Now the commoners arc huving a
chance.
Tiik universe will move along now
with less friction, and fewer stars will
bo seen to fall, since the American as-
sociation for <tho advancement of .sci-
ence in session nt Brooklyn reached a
conclusion as to the behavior of allyl-
malonic, allyl-acetio and (ethylidena-
proprionic acids when boiled with
caustic soda solution.
There is very little hope for the
progjess and eventual civilization of
Russia. Thirty Cossacks In-longing
to a regiment stationed at Terek have
just been beaten and cut to death with
the knout for mutiny. What can 1*
expected of a government which is
exemplified in the bomb of the nihilist
and the knout of the czar.
A Washington correspondent writes
that the White house is becoming di-
lapidated, because it is getting its
first coat of paint in two years. Tho
paint which is put on tho White house
must bo rather worse than the so-
called paint commonly used for house-
painting now-n-days if it will only
look fresh for a single year.
The whole world has heard of tho
horror of the destruction of l'ompoii
by voleanie eruption, for more than
eighteen hundred years, and yet tho
loss of life in that catastrophe was in-
considerable. In our forest fires whole
villages are swept out of cxistonco and
hundreds of lives are sacrificed in a
few minutes. And think of tho horror
of such a calamity!
The island of St. Helena, where
Napoleon passed so many years of his
life in banishment, is to become a
health resort. Since tho opening of
the Suez canal tho inhabitants have
Buffered severely from a money point
of view, as fewer ships touch thero
than in former years. The people
want some other source of income and
have adopted this plan.
According to a recent pamphlet by
an Italian doctor a sure way of restor-
ing life in eases of syncope is to hold
tho patient's tongue firmly. After two
other doctors had worked for an hour
without result over a young man who
was apparently drowned, he thrust a
spoon into the patient's mouth, seized
the tongue, and worked it violently
until the patient gave signs of life.
Will it come to pass that the
several heavily timbered states will
haves to maintain sylvan firo depart-
ment in order not only to prevent a
wholesale destruction of projwrty. but
a wholesale destruction of life as well?
If not fire departments with dammed
up streams to draw from, then firo
patrols and some kind of ingenious
way to arrest the progress of flames
e.nd so avert awful human hecatombs.
taken
now feared he will not recovc
was born April 53, 1 HI8, at Darling-
ton, Devonshire.
(ieorge Loughton.of Lafayette, Intl.,
aged 22, employed in the construction
if the new Motion trail road shops, was
Saturday crushed to death by the fall
>f a derrick, which had iu hoist a
large piece of stoue.
A dispatch received in London from
Seoul,Corea, dated September 10, says
that the Japanese force moving from
iensen has completely routed the
Chinese at Sing Chuen Roth sides
.ire reported to have lost heavily.
The trial of Fred Rogers, on the
•hargc of killing Louis Kcrnodle, at
Clarksville, Ark. several months u«u , „ot tI1jllr0<|
ame to a close Saturday, lie was !
found guilty of manslaughter, and Tiic "(lauloi " says that the Compte
(fiven five years in the penitentiary. lle llanssonviilo basin his possession
and will shortly publish the political
Kmperor I rune. Joseph Kuve a „f u^&mte do Paris, head
formal reception at lludn Castle Satur- „ftllt> , of ,,r,wh„
James Slut/., living near Rock port.
Mo., while handling a loaded rille
Saturday, aeeidently discharged the
gun, instantly killing his 10-year-old
daughter. The bullet penetrated her
heart
Ambrose Johnson,a wealthy farmer,
committed suicide last week by hang-
ing himself in the barn with his mis-
pcudcrs. lle had been in poor health
for a few weeks and became mentally
unbalanced.
Mrs. tfmocker, of Sheffield, Ala ,
was struck by lightning Monday
while in the b.itli room of her home
bathing her child, tind rendered mi-
conscious fur an hour. The child was
lay to the members of the delegations.
His majesty made a speech, in which
he dwelt upon the peaceful aspect of
Lurope and the friendly relations ex-
isting between the Powers.
An aUcmpt was made to fire the
tenement house , No. 03 Norfolk street
in which 100 people were sleeping,
Friday morning. Tho fire was put
3Ut and it was discovered that the cel-
lar of the building had been sprinkled
with kerosene and then fired.
lllack diphtheria has made its ap-
pearance in Anderson, Ind., and one
leath has resulted. It was in North
Anderson Saturday night, among the
I glass workers. There is much alarm,
is the disease is causing many deaths
iu this section of the state. It is al-
| most invariably fatal.
The dead body of William Fritz, a
well-known citizen of San Antonio,
wan found in the San Antonio river,
just below the city, Saturday after-
noon. Mr. Fritz went fishing in tho
morning and it is supposed he affl-
uently fell into the river. He is 50
years of ago and leaves a wife andsev-
! eral children.
Mrs. Frederick Thics, the wife of a
stock man, living near HI wood, Mo.,
gored to death by a bull last
died a few days ago.
Frank Tabot, a young man of Astor-
ia, 111., committed suicide Sunday
night by taking carbolic acid. The
act was committed at a farm house
where he was employed. Financial
embarrassment was the cause.
John Cannon, a popular young son
of Lishep Carl ,J. Cannon, shot him-
self through the heart Saturday. His
parents were opposed to a marriage
he desired to contract and he conclud-
ed life was no longer worth living.
Mrs. Louisa Locke, aged TI years,
died Monday morning. !n her death
I'nion county, lo., loses her first white
settler. Mrs. Locke came to I'nion
county in 1N.M) with her husband. She
gave birth to the first white child in
the comity, except Mormon.'
Adam Law.a prosperous farmer neat
Mil at. Mo., attempted suicide Sunday
night by slashing his face with a razor
and trying to beat out his brains with
a sledgehammer, lie gave as his reas-
on that he was afraid that he was go-
ing to ctarve to death. He is worth
37:., 004.
Michael See, one of the largest land
owners in the neighborhood of New
Florence, Mo., tell dead Monday morn-
ing of apoplexv. He was no years o.d
| is she was crossing a pasture to visit „nd had a large family of children,
.v neighbor. The brute stood over her Hjn |10me farm consisted of acres
prostrate form when life was gone aud
was shot and killed by tin- husband
>f the dead woman before the body
could be removed.
I he ltrltish cruiser Ringarooma,
which went ashore September 0 on a
"cef off Mallicolla Island, New lie-
brides, and it is feared would become
i total wreck, has been floated, thanks
to the assistance rendered by the
Hi-itish war-ships, Dart. Lizzard and
Wallaroo and the French cruisers
Seorff and Louantc, The Ringarooina
s now at Port Sandwich.
E. Cooper a wealthy fai
fourteen miles north of Tu
living
calo
of fine prairie land, well stocked with
high bred cattle and horses.
Planters find that the negroes have
made a combine to raise cotton pick-
ing from 50c to fiOe a hundred pounds.
The planters say that cotton at f c
will not admit of a raise on picking,
an I they have sent to the southern
counties for Mexicans to take theit
place*. The move of the planters has
excited the negroes ami they are hold-
lug meetings.
The First National bank of Nevada,
Mo., is in receipt of a letter from the
'ontinental bank of St. Louis, in re
Philadelphia is likely to loose a
notable monument in the noble old
elm tree that has so long over-
shadowed Walnut street just liclow
Broad. Mrs. Dudus Lippineott, who
has long defended tho old tree from
threatened destruction, has just died,
and it is likely soon to bo removed.
The great tree shadow* the whole
width of the street, ami its largest
limbs overhang tho opposite sidewalk.
This is what • Vanity Fair," of Lon-
don. said the other day about Kudyard
Kipling: ''Five years ago Kudyard
Kipling left India to see China. Japan
slid America, after which ho catne to
Loudon and got married, lie has now
tnade his home in Vermont of Central
America, and when ho has ] Missed
seven years in the study of the |m>ople
among whom he dwells we may exjiect
to have a great work on that country
which has in it the making of several
empires.*1
Mr. Ei waui Atkinson predietsthat
this "country will In come within a
very short time the greatest agricul-
tural, manufacturing, shipbuilding and
commercial country in tho world."
But not only Yankees, oven British
statisticians foretell It.
The discovery of new gold fields Ir.
Alaska does not surprise old pmspect-
ors. There is probably a great deal
of undiscovered and almost undiscov-
erable treasure in the old placer
grounds <>f California and thejicw ones
on the Yukon river.
Fla., was assassinated Saturday night -,,m' to 1,18 forged school bonds of
i two miles from his home, while re- i Vernon county which have turned up
turning from a trip to the city He lately in St. Loui .. The writer says
was found Sunday morning with his the man who holds the bonds on
head and body filled with bullets. J s«, 0 l District No. IT, Vernon county,
' Cooper went to town Saturday and Pr°cnrrd.it from Robert Murry. Sev-
sold two bales of cotton. He was oml Vernon county school bonds
| shot from ambush on his way home I hBVU recently turned up in St. Louis,
and nibbed. The Milt Harry Line Steamer, Rluq
Joseph Fletcher, check weiglunan Wing, Capt. Chris (J. Young, on her
at Monarch mine, owned by the Teller VTay from Cairo to Memphis, sunk last
• t oal i ompany, was cut to pieces Sat- Saturday at noon at Craighead Point,
urday morning while trying to pre- j Qfty niiies above Memphis, in fifteen
vent a wieck. 1 fteen tlut cars had feetof water and will prove a total
broken loose from tho engine and !oss. she lind on board at the time
were running down grade on the mine bales of c >tton. She was valued
switch ot a fearful speed, ami 1-letch- at $oooo and insured for 83000, The
i fearing a wreck attempted to i rew arrived at Memphis on the tow,
jump the traiu to set the brakes, when Uncle Billy.
he fell under the wheels, fifteen cars
passing over his body. Conrad Kngweller, a prominent and
Six survivors of the persons aboard. Pr«)8P«'r"' s business man. was found
the Chinese transport Chean, which in °,Uce- in lho rear of hit>
stranded in the Che Tung Puss recent- 'n
ly with 1400 troops aboard, while on
the way to the Island of Formosa,
have arrived at Shanghai. It was an-
! nounced that, in spite of the panic
. 111., Saturday morning
by his wife, file was sitting on the
floor, leaning back against some bar-
rels, wit h a revolver loose in his right
hand and a bullet hole in his right
that prevailed on the transport alter temple. Jealously is the cause,
she went ashore, all the troops and
He
a native of Switzerland,
were saved in the ship's boats lK*r of Annonia Lodge, No. Old. I. O.
but the six persons who reached a,ul tl,e Hreibund, carrying a
Miantrhai say that they estimate that life insurance policy in the latter for
about oo soldiers were drowned in s,00°- aml leaves " widow and nine
the Che Tung Pass. year-old daughter.
Col. Thomas J. Dolan, the prominent The livery stable of J. C. Calvin ol
Democrat .- politician, was adjudged Ft. Worth, together with twenty
insane iu the insane court at Chicago, three h-*ad of horses, was destroyed
Thursday. Col. Dolan was found by lire last Tuesday morning. Ksli
wandering about the streets several mated loss 810,000. The tire originat
days ago. and since has been kept in ed from the explosion of a coal oi
confinement. lamp.
The monarchists are still chafing un Governor West of Utah, has refused
der the new form of government at to interfere in the en of Enoch Davis
Rio do Janeiro, and it is said that they who murdered his w ile at Provo in
have not yet abandoned the hope of January 1892, and there seems now nc
re-establishing the monarchy. In I earthly power that can prevent him
fact, reports are curreut that they are from being shot to death. The Ana!
at the present time engaged in organ- preparations have been going on and
izing a revolution. i everything is ready for the execution.
The way a man looks at things do-
ponds mainly on his environment.
While a philosopher who lives in tho
West is busy laying down rules for
longevity, Colonel Iti i Mill, who live.-
in Now York, is an enthusiastic advo-
cate of suicide.
William Waldouk A stow regrets
that he was born in America, but
America does not regret that William
Waldorf has l>econie a naturalized
a* ti-
ll
petty
game, but the country is one ahead so
far.
Jt'st as the VanderbUts have ap-
parently deeided to restore their fam-
ily skeletons to the closets of their
marble palaces, the Astorsbring theirs
out again. William Coleman Drayton
has begun a suit for divorce from his
wife, the daughter of Mrs. W illiam
Astor.
If wheels can lie manufactured that
can run at twice the speed with which
bicycles arc now driven in our streets,
pcdostrianiain in our cities may
soon become a lost art. The name of
th« n«w machine U the unicycle
The steam valve broke on a traction
engine being moved by Homei Phillips,
at Marshall, Mo., anil before the
horses could be detached they were
sea.Jed to death. Mr. Phililps was
severely scalded tryiug to unhitch the
team.
A R. Kennedy, of Cripple Creek, was
nominated Saturday by acclamation
for State Senator from El Paso and
Douglass counties. Mr. Kennedy
1 iu response, said the paiainout issue
was law and order, not silver. The
state and congressional platforms
were endorsed.
Governor Stoue Thursday appointed
Dariel Donahoc Inspector of Oils at
the city of Holla. Mo., for a term elid-
ing June 1, lH'.ni.
J. C. FeIters aud Miss Nellie Muun
were married Tuesday night Weil
ncsday night they wore both killed by
a train while crossing the Wabash
track in a buggy at Kdon, O.
Governor Stoni. Auditor Stoue,
.state Treasurer ICvans, of Mississippi,
were arrested Itst Mouday for issuing
special state warrants bearlug a alm-
liilidtt to I niied Mates currency
A score of the members of Company
II, Oth Regiment of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, who attended
the encampment at Gettysburg, are
down with typhoid fever in its worst
form Private Nelson Tearlson died
Saturday night und Privates Siles ami
llarbri are not expected to live. The
men ure supposed to have drunk pol-
luted water at Gettysburg.
Miss F.-telle Robertson unit Prof.
Alonzo Stiigg, the Yale athlete, now
of the University of Chicago, were
luu.iicd lu AH iuu, New York, Tato
1 day.
Thomas Dunj by of Nevada, Mo.
wound up a spree the other morning
by taking a heavy dose of morphine,
lie told the two doctors who had cull
ed in that he had taken the drug t-
see how much it would take to kii'
j him.
The ex-union soldiers of Hamiltor
| county, Iowa, are holding a two-days
reunion at Williams. Congressiuat
Dolliver addressed the assembly.
The Calhoun Carrier, the only news
paper in Calhouu, Henry uuunXy. Mo.
did not appear Thu.sday It faile<-
1 for the want ef patroiiuge
'THE TWO TERRITORIES.
CONGRESSIONAL AND LOCAL
SUMMARY.
A'rwi in fieneral of Oklahoma nn.I
the Indian Territory Pertaining to
the Pale Face and the lted Man.
Lightning killed Lafayette I'cake
near Mulhall last week.
Secretary Lowe, of Guthrie, was 50
years old last Wednesday.
Henry Hammer of Seward left last
week as a missionary to Morocco.
Guthrie hus a new notary public in
the person of Miss Kate Ycamans.
The last heavy rain beat a good deal
of the cotton which had opened into
the ground.
Near Edmond a gouple of farmers
have combined to prevent hunting up-
on their land.
There Is an article about shooting
game dated Kingfisher going the
rounds of all the easterii news papers,
George Ward, a Tecumseh printer,
who married a compositor named Miss
Tapley, has been arrested on the
charge of bigamy.
John K. Richards of Pond Creek,
wus given one month in jail by the
federal court at Wichita for selling
liquor without a license.
There was u rumor that a cyclone
passed the towns of .Icntiing and Min-
ing and blew fifty houses to atoms
a few dayi ago. A young lady ami
two children were killed and several
people injured. Houses caught Hre
at Mining and a conflagration follow-
ed.
The Supreme Court decides that all
Indians who have taken ullottinents
must puy tuxes on all their personal
property, including improvements on
their land which is held in trust by
the government and is nontaxable.
The Indians have all, heretofore, es-
caped all taxation.
John Hrusha, a well-known cattle-
man was stabbed and fatally wound-
•d at Dale, thirty miles cast of Okla-
homa City, Sunduy, by Clem Kennedy,
;i half-breed. The affray took place
in a suloon. llrusha owns one of the
claims adjoining Oklahoma City, and
is wealthy.
The Chicago, Hock Island and Paci
, tic road have made a generous offer to
farmers living along their line in the
territory, in that the company will
furnish 26,000 bushels of seed wheat.
This wheat to b' distributed, with-
out charge, under the direction of a
comin'.tte of not less than three nor
more than live members, to be select-
ed by the farmers at a meeting of
l their delegates, to be held at Round
Pond, <>. T., on Thursday, September
at 1 o'clock.
War seems to be again on in Cedar
county. In the past ten days four
Indians have been killed. It appears
that several Indians got too much lire
water aboard und started out to have
a good time They went all through
the set t i.'tnent, but from what could
be learned, no serious harm w as done.
However, a great many were angered
at the way they did and organized a
party to hunt them up. Albert Jack
son was one of the victims. He was
sick in bed when they came to his
house, dragged him out of the bed ami
into his yard, and shot him about tlfty
times. This promiscuous bushwhack
ing and killing all over this nation is
what is giving it a bad name abroad,
an I is a thing that will eventually
break up the tribal government. It is
sheer nonsense for the Indians to ask
to be allowed to retain their present
autonomy and then to continue this
lawlessness among themselves.
Men are shot down without
any provocation atall, sometimes; ami
again, with the slightest provocation,
they are dragged from their homes
and shot to pieces. They seem to
have had their old savage nature re-
vived, and have lost all their civiliza-
tion.
Quite a sensation was caused at
Perry last week when Mrs Annie Me-
lt innon filed a counter petition to her
husband's petition for divorce. Dnn-
can C. McKinnon filed suit against his
wife on July 111. and personal service
was obtained on Mis. McKinnon in
Chicago, where McKinnon had taken
his wife to enter their duughtcr
in college. Mrs. McKinnon was
not aware that lies husband
had any intentions to aban-
don her till she received service. Mc-
Kinnon took his wife and daughter to
Chicago a year ago last August and
then came immediately to the open-
ing of the Cherokee Strip and obtain-
ed a claim next to his wife's niece.
When Mrs. McKinnon got news that
her husband was suing for divorce
she came here at once and took posses-
sion of her husband's farm and resi-
dence. and asked the district court for
510,000 alimony. She also filed a
crosspctition charging her husband
with an infidelity at different places
in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and
especially with her niece, a well-
known belle from Wichita, Kansas.
McKinnon is worth several thousand
dollars, and is the general western
agent for the New York Life insur-
ance company. lie is well-known in
Kansas and Texas.
The Cherokee Strip, as a civilized
community, is a year old.
Mosley, the new Chickasaw govern-
or, is an Indian The man he succeed-
ed was a white man.
The Supremo Court ought to look it
up nnd see if it is really safe to get
married in Oklahoma.
The alligator-man, a freak of nature
on the half-and half plan, is now fak-
ing Oklahoma City.
The government will send an officer
to the Oklahoma University, it is said,
to drill the students in attendance
there.
Gehard II. Witte has been appointed
postmaster at Witteville in the Choc-
taw Nation.
Muskogee is voting on the most pop-
ular young lady in town. And when
it is decided the fortunate girl will be
allowed to first start the machinery of
the new electric light plant.
The sheriff of Pottawatomie couuty
has offered 418 pieces of property for
sale.
Oklahoma City enthusiasts are cer-
tain of gas and boring on a large scale
has begun just outside tho business
portion.
John W. Childress has purchased
the Rush Springs Light of W. R.
Orme.
( ov. Moteley, of the Chickasaw na-
tion, has ordered the sheriff with a
posse to cut down the telephone poles
between Ardmore und Oainesville.
The Governor claims that they never
had a franchise.
Robt. W. Rlack and Harry fiacon of
Guthrie. Oklahoma, has entered suit
Id the U S. Court ut Washington, D.
( to recover a share ot the 875,000
which was paid to David M Koss out
of the Choctaw claim lobby fund.
Two Guthrie Mercantile houses went
to the wall Monday.
The sale of the reservation at Okla-
homa <"ity comes off on September 20
and continues three days.
A new postofHce has l een establish-
ed ot Sofka, Creek Nation, and Win.
F. Hurton appointed postmaster.
Jack Mosier, of Cleveland county, at-
tempted to break a mule to ride and
was thrown twenty feet and killed at
the first trial.
Last Monday night North Knid was
visited by u very destructive fire which
caused u great loss to the busiuess
portion of the city, und left a good
muny business men without a dollar.
An Oklahoma woman has been hon-
ored, in tho person of Mrs. Cora Wood-
ing, to a government positiou. She
lias been appointed matrou of the FL
Shaw, Montana, Indian school with a
salary of 8< <)<) a year.
Dick Ilolleman, a tough character,
more familiarly known by the ulius of
"Jack Spaiiiaru," was shot and killed
late Sunday near Marietta by Jim
1'Spainaid had served a term
at Ardmore for larceny.
Two youthful horse thieves, Johnny
and Jackson llaston, were arrested
east of Perry Sunday. The boys are
nine and eleven years old, and have a
dozen stolen horses in their possession.
The boys confessed their crime and
suid they wanted money to go West
About ten o'clock last Sunday night
a murder was committed at >Waukoin-
is. Robert Powell, a recent urrival
from Texas, better known as "seven-
up," shot aud killed Win. Kidd, a car-
penter. They met on the streets and
had soino words. Powell drew his
six-shooter and shot Kidd three times
in the abdomen.
About r.00 Cheyenne Indians are in
camp near Henuessy, on their way to
nay their annual visit to the Otoe
Reservation. They held a powpow, and
had a big sun und war dance. Among
their numbers are the celebrated old
warriors, Yellow Dog, White Hear and
Red Moon, who have participated in
all the numerous Indian outbreaks
in the eurly 70s.
A number of the crack shots in the
United States Army are stationed at
Fort Sill and the following have al-
ready gone to Fort Sheridan to take
part In the contest there this month:
Sergeant John Omellette, Troop I,
Sergeant Funk, Troop II, .'id cavalry;
First Sergeant Laskowski, Sergeant
Otto Sydow and Private Klkins, Co. C
und Sergeant Duuiels, Co, ti., 13th In-
fantry.
Lawyers in the territory bitterly
complain over the recent decision of
Judge Ucott with reference to the di-
vorce law being unconstitutional. It
is believed that when the legislature
convenes, a law will be passed legaliz-
ing the marriages so fur contracted
and thus straighten the matter. In
meantime, however, parties effected
by the recent decision must live apart
or run the risk of gettiuginto trouble.
Ruffalo Jones, who is working up
interest in the Populist railroad,
which is projected to run from Port
liolivar, near Halveston, to Chicago
and Manatoba, was in Perry last week,
t he road is called the Gulf and Inter-
state, and Mr. Jones says that the
grading is done out of Port Bolivar
seventy miles, and steel rails will be
put down within the next sixty days.
Grading will begin in Kansas in u few
days. Mr. Jones is president of a con-
struction company building the road,
an«l he is also a director.
News received at Minco of a terrible
murder by outlaws of an Indian nam-
ed In-ki-aish. Dr. T. J. Strum, who
lives among the Caddos on Cobb creek,
tells the story. There is a formidable
band of outlaws whose rendezvous is
in the Wichita mountains and who
prey upon the settlers almost nightly.
The agent sent a young Caddo Indian
policeman, In-kl-nisli, without uni-
form, to ferret out the hiding place of
these outlaws. They discovered that
they had been tracked and decided to
revenge themselves on the ln-ki-nish
family. Wednesday, the father of
this young man, the elder In-ki nish,
and some companions were out hunt-
ing deer in his pasture on a little
stream called Lake creek. In-ki-nish
became separated from his compan-
ions and rode into a canyon, fallowing
some deer tracks. He was seized by
the outlaws who were laying for him,
ami was tied to a tree and shot. Six
shots were fired into him, and then he
was taken to a swainp and thrown in.
In this condition was he found a day
or two after the tragedy by the In-
dians an l whites of that section who
knew not what had happened to In-ki-
nish until his body was found. A
posse wus organized and gave pursuit.
They followed the trail across the
river, uround in the bottoms on the
north side, nnd discovered that the
gang bad simply doubled on their
track, recrossed the Cunadiau and
were again back in the reservation. It
is evident that the outlaws were mak-
ing foi some hiding place In the W ich-
ita mountains, in the Kiowa or Com-
manche country.
Governor Renfrow has appointed II.
D. Lowe as eoronor of P county.
The legislature upportioninent com-
mittee lias filed its report with the
governor.
United States Pension Agent Stock-
slager was prosecuting pension frauds
before United States Commissioner R.
M. Grubbs, at Atoka, I. T. last week.
W. S. (irecne, postmaster at Wiley, I.
IT.; I. S. Wolf, Kemp and Jackson
Alexandraare charged with conspiracy
to defraud the government in person-
ating William Caldwell, who has been
dead for ten years.
Men who were divorced in Oklaho-
ma. and are married again, can leave
their second wives, but how about
their seeond wives?
There is a report out that a man
1 named W. N. Rhodes of Sedalia, Mo.,
was hanged in the Cherokee strip.
There is nothing in it. Nobody has
ever been hanged in Oklahoma proper
j or In the strip.
Catholocism is represented in Okla-
homa by twenty-two priests.
Over 500 cases are on the docket in
K county two-thirds of them being
^ criminal.
It is thought that if the Indiana ate
made to pay taxes they can insist on
voting.
Mulhall is makir? preparations for
the soldiers' reunion to be held iu that
place beginning on October IsL
It is daiined that quite a number of
men in Oklahoma are confronted with
the charge of having two wives. Wait
until the mother-in-laws are heard
froiu.
Guthrie is to build several new
school buildings and bonds for that
purpose we *e voted on and carried last
DEMOCRAT MATTERS.
repudiate the Traitors.
Here and there throughout Mr. Wil-
son's remarkably able and brave speech
at Martinsburg, he touched ou the
causes leading to the failure of com-
plete tariff reform, and pleaded the in-
justice of holding the faithful respon-
sible for the sins of the faithless. Ho
said;
You know by what influence this
was brought ab.mt. * • * The country
knows and h story will know where to
put the responsibility for any failure
to redeem our pledge to the people.
We hove a r ight to hold our own faith-
less servants to that responsibility
which duty and party fidelity placed
upon them. * 9 * We may ourselve.;
denounce or bitterly condemn those
that failed us in this tight.
Mr. Wilson is perfectly justified in
the assertion that the faithful arc
privileged to condemn the faithless.
Indeed, it has become a matter of self-
defense and party -safety. The people
were hardly more incensed against the
traitors themselves than against their
party associates who sought to shield
und protect them. They claimed, and
with perfect right, that defense of
traitors was winking at. if not absolute
condouatiou of. treachery. They re-
fused to mukc allowance for •'con-
gressional courtesy," and they rebell • I
agaiust the consideration shown to tho
"nameless senators." If the demo-
cratic party continues to countenuncc
in its ranks men who are notoriously
untrustworthy and false to every prin-
ciple; if it consorts with men of this
stamp, and excuses their baseness on
the plea of democratic "independence
of thought," tho people cannot be cx-
p.'cted to place further confidence in
the party or its professions, lint when
the faithful not only condemn the
faithless, but refuse to associate with
or be led by them, then they cun ap-
peal to tho renewed confidence of the
country.
Perhaps "congressional courtesy"
will not allow the candidates for re-
election to call by name the men who
have betrayed them, to breathe the
sacred names of Gorman and Hill and
Murphy and Smith and llrice— and
whom else? Hut at least they can
"bitterly condemn" them co'lcctively.
and give their solcmu assurance that
the Democratic part}' washes its hands
of the inelodorous gang. They can
join Mr. Wilson in earnest condem-
nation, and Mr. Cleveland in telling
the people to bo on their guard against
traitors in the camp, aud turn such
traitors out of the council ehunibers
and the confidence of tho party at the
first opportunity. The Dcmocrutic
parly must make an example of the
I'onspirators or forfeit the trust of the
country. It must not only repudiate
them in the campaign speeches, but
carry the professions into effect practi-
cally. Kandallisui was a pretty effect-
ive agent against the Democratic par-
ty, but Gormanisui will finish it iu u
very few months. The safety of the
party then lies in the prompt over-
throw of Gormanism and llillisin and
Hrlceisin and all of the isms which are
born of deceit and treachery and cow-
ardice. If every congressman will boas
outspoken as Mr. Wilson and will give
undoubted proofs of his sincerity, the
people may be appeased and once more
appeuled to in safety.—Star.
On Tl « Wrong Track.
Two distinguished orators raised
their voices in behalf of the Republi-
can part}* in Maine on September 8. Al
Rangor the Hon. William McKinley,
Governor of Ohio, spoke and at lledde-
ford the Hon Thomas II* Reed. ex-
Speaker of the House held forth. Roth
ure Presidential aspirants ami more
than any two men iu the country have
a right to voice the purposes of the
party in the future. The burden ol
the song of each was that the present
Democratic administration is responsi-
ble for tho panic the blighting effects
of which ure now happily disappearing
under the influence of nn improved
economic system.
It has been shown time and again
that the recent industrial paralysis
was the logical result of iniquitous tax
laws which robbed the people of their
earnings to fatten the purses of trusts
und monopolies. For nearly four
years money was drawn fromithe pock-
ets of the people in excess of the needs
of the government to the extent of
more than a thousand million dollars a
year. This cruel oraft upon the re-
sources and energies of the people had
so completely exhausted and prostrated
them, that they were left absolutely
unable to purchase the necessities of
life nnd tho comforts, conveniences
and implements of their various avo-
cations, und the consequences was that
without demand for their products,
the manufacturing industries of tho
country were forced to suspend opera-
tions. These are the facts and they
are so palpable that proof is needed to
impress them on intelligent minds.
In the face of these conditions what
must be thought of political leaders
who will address audien es with such
ceptive sophistries on their tongues as
were employed by Messrs. McKinley
and Reed on that day. Is there any
business man. mechanic, or laborer,
who would be deceived by such rub-
bish'.1 The facts are obvious, they ure
accessible to all the people, nnd though
in the sparsely settled regions of
Maine, they may not have penetrated
the reason of the voters, tney are well
understood elsewhere.
The Republican orators must take an-
other track if they hope to accomplish
anything.
DrstmyiiiK Republican ThioIr.
Two weeks ago the Times called at-
tention to the anti-trust features of
the new tariff bill, and though it was
then made plain that under the opera-
tions of the bill it would be impossible
for trusts to restrain trnde an . nnnip
iilate prices as it would for ;i bar of
pig metal to fly, the matter has not
received that consideration at the
hands of the press that its importance
deserves. Section seventy*three of the
new law provides "that every combin-
ation, conspiracy, trust agreement or
contract is hereby declared to be con-
trary to public policy, illegal and void
when the same is made by or between
two or more persons or corpora-
tions, either of whom is engaged in
importing any foreign article f 'om a
foreign country into the Uuited Mates,
and when such combination, con-
spiracy. trust, agreement or contract
is intended to operate in restraint of
lawful trade or free competition in
lawful trade or commerce or to in-
crease the market price in any part of
the United States of any article or
articles imported or intended to be im-
ported into the United States, or of
any manufacture into which such im-
ported articles enter or is intended to
enter."
This feature of tho bill was Intro-
duced by Senator Morgan of Alabama,
who must have had in mind the sugar
trust when he was preparing it. It is
a well-known fact that nt least six-
tenths of the raw sugar consumed by
the trust is imported, so that it is clear-
ly und unquestionably amenable to that
provision of the law. Hut it applies
with equal exactness to the steel
trusts, the cordage trust, and most
other trusts. Hesseiner steel is pro-
duced by mixing Cuban with domestic
ores. The cordage trust imports a
arge proportion of the flax it uses,
and the other trusts import raw ma-
terials from which to munufuctuiv
their wares.—Kansas City Times.
All through the Republican regime
the trusts were quiet, because they got
all they demanded and no question-
asked. It was under McKinleyism ;
that the sugar trust made its enorm-
ous profits and fastened Its.grip on the
country. The trust dictated the sugar
tariff in the McKinley bill .and made {
Its tens of millions out of it. It is
mly under a Democratic administra-
tion that the trust hus met with op
position so positive and determined
that it has to come into the light and
make its war upon the people openly |
and avowedly. — Huston Post
Once we were in favor of female suf-
frage, but now we are ready to flop, i
Why'.' Once our locks were as dark as |
the raven's wings, and our manly form i
straight as an arro, but look at us now.
Our mind was us clear as a bell, but
now we are bordering on the realniK of
insanity. Why'.' Ask the short halre I ;
women nnd the long tailed men who !
have made life a burden to us for j
several years past. The dead line has j
Im'cii reached We have got to flop or
go to an in-one asylum Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Populist papers which assert
that the Democratic ticket in Kansas
is supported only by the so-called stal
warts of ISO-.', will be thoroughly un-
deceived when election day rolL
around. They will discover then that
the ticket is not only supported by a
inited und confident Democracy, but
y a good part of the latu Populist
arty as well.
The appropriations made at this
s-ssion of« ongress are just 8?h,835,
less than those made at the last *ch-
s on Slowly but surely the Demo
cratio party is getting the expend-
itures of the government do.vn ton
busiues* basis.—Chetopa Democrat.
The Rurlingame Chroni •- tells how
the sugar trusts operates hi Kansas.
! The trust in New York fixes th e
| wholesale price of sugar at every rail-
way station in the United Stutes. For
instance the price for Rurlingame has
been fixed for 00 cents above New-
York price and no jobber dare sell a
pound a cent less. The trust has
forced every jobber into this agree
ment und bear in mind this was done
while we had free trade in raw sugar,
and a very low price on refined. We
quote: One Kansas jobber refused to
enter such au ugrcement. " All right''
I was the response of the trust agent to
him. and ort' he went. Hut a little
i later he sent an order to his broker for
a ear of sugar and waited the usual
time but no sugar came. He tele
graphed and received word that they
were short and could not ship it. He
; waited again but none came. He fi-
nally went to Kansas City but could
get no satisfaction and had to go clear
to Chicago and cuter the trust.s agree-
ment, when they had plenty of sugar
! for him.
•'lie closing down of the sorghum
sugar mills of Kansas will be pointed
! to us a result of the tariff bill, but as
a matter of fact, it is no such thing.
| Under that most mischievous and inde-
fensible form of protection, the Imitnty.
tho number of sorghum sugar mills in
the State has been reduced from six to
two, showing plainly that something
was wrong. Now the repeal of the
bounty comes as a convenient excuse
for closing down the other two. It will
not do for Kansas to give up the inanu
faetnreof sugar, but until the industry
can bo placed on a basis where it will
not languish even with artificial stimu-
lation the State will have to depend
upon its other many independent and
unprotected means of livlihood.—Kan-
sas City Times.
.'resident Cleveland's views on the
tariff were known of all mankind.
And because they were known, the
people - the plain, plodding, unbought
and unpurchaseable people— forced hit*
nomination in spite of all the bosses,
trainers and politic il wwithereocks in
his own party and compelled his elect
ion in spite of all the boodlers, official
papsuekers and fat-fryers in the op-
posing party. Everybody knew Mr.
Cleveland's views on the silver question
but the great majority knew t hut we
needed just such a man to steer us into
tariff reform We elected Tilden on
this platform in 'to. We elected Cleve-
land on it in '02 which means that tin
people after due deliberation have de-
eided against protection. This is not
a "do nothing" Congress.
(Irovkk Ci.r.vKi.A xn: The millims
of our countrymen who have fought
bravely und well for tariff reform
should be exhorted to continue the
struggle, bodly challenging open war-
fare and constantly guarding against
treachery and halfheurtedness in their
camp. Tariff reform will not b set-
tled until it is honestly nnd fairly set
tied in the interest and to the benefit
of a patient ami long-suffering people.
Gkovkh Ci.kvki.and: The trusts and
combinations tho communism of
pelf—whose machinations have pre-
vented us from reaching the success
we deserve should not be forgotten or
forgiven. We shall recover from our
astonishment at their exhibition of
power, and if then tho question is forc-
ed upon us whether they shull submit
to the free legislative will of the peo-
ple's representative or shall dictate the
laws which the people must obey, we
will accept that issue as one involving
tho integrity and safety of American
institutions.
"McKinley's is the schedule we're
fighting for." was declared by the
president of the sugar trust during the
tariff struggle. It is not diflicultto
s -e what candidate would receive the
large>t contribution from the com-
bines that are piling up riches at the
expense of the masses who are striving
to regain control of their own re-
-Dc'roit Free l*ress.
Mr.ny a Kansas politician wonI I fiop
were he sure that his "open letter"
would be published. The love-for-
notoriety bump on the head of the.
average Kansas "statesman" can be
seen a long way off.
A New Jersey man bus figured that
the appropriations required by Pop-
ulist bills in Congress, foot up the sum
totul of ono trillion of dollars. The
sum is insignificant in itself when we
con .ider the capacity of the newpaper
and job presses now employed in the
I'nitcd States but where we would
like to ask, is the government note
paper to come from?
perhaps ChainpCiurk in calling Tom
Recti the Saul of the Republican party
has in min i that part of the Scripture ,
which narrates that the bittle Went
sore against £sul; and the arch is hit
him."
MAMMOTH SUPPLY KITCHEN.
| Provldenre Institution Which la Con-
stantly Valuing In Patronage.
The Supply Kitchen at Providence,
lays tho Journal of that city, has
low been in exiatonto considerably
&ver two months, and progress in
lho work which it has undertaken
Is tho verdict from those who are
jlosoly connected with it. Sinco it
Irst started many improvements
ind additions have boon made, and
the method of running tho institu-
tion has become more systematized.
Last month cxponsos wore nearly
paid, but tho goal has not been
tiuito leached as yet It is thought,
however, that with tho present at-
tendance, which averages 3 • > daily,
money sufficient will lie taken to
make both endsmoet after all necos-
sary articles for running tho kitchen
have been procured. Most of the
cooking is now done in tho collar,
ind a largo oven for baking has boon
put in, a bulkhoad has been added
ind a screened cupboard in tho res-
taurant for tho cooked food on hand
nas recently boon finished. All
these improvements have drained
heavily on tho funds of tho associa-
tion and the money taken in dally
from tho patrons. Two Aladdin
ovens aro now kept in operation day
and night, lieans and moats being
put in just before the kitchen is
closed and coming out in tho morn-
ing all ready to bo used. A dumb
waiter from tho cellar to tho first
floor now carries tho food up after
it is cooked.
An innovation introduced recently
is steak and chops for breakfast,
costing ton cents un order. Tho
family trade is constantly Increasing
aud cold ham and all kinds of baked
meats, broad and soup are sold in
large quantities. An encourag-
ing feature in connection with
tho patronage of tho kitchen
is that tho saino persons who
came whon it was first opened
aro still among the number to bo
soon thero, either procuring food to
take away or getting it at the long
counters to eat at tho room The
pricos continue the same and tho
menus furnish a considerable variety
to chooso from Tho following is
one of tho dinner bills of faro for
ono day last week: ( lain chowder,
baked haddock, boiled cod, roast
beof, corned beef, roast lamb, roast
pork, bakod boans, potatoes, corn,
tomatoes. Indian pudding, boiled
nee, rhubarb pie. apple pio, prune
pie. brown and whito broad, bananas,
tea, colTeo and in ilk. Tho items
vary from two to six cents in cost.
Saturday is the busiest day of tho
woek, and sometimes as many as 500
aro fed oil that day. Tho question
now before tho manugemont Is tho
feasibility of opening for a short
time on Sunday. Tho kitchen is
closed on that day aud a good many
who depend on tho restaurant for food
havo now to go clsowhoro or provido
for themselves at their home-.
RAISING A BRIDGE.
Lifted live leet Without Interrupting
l( ilro:t(t Truffle.
The raising of a bridge in Switzer-
land upon tho line of the Interna-
tional railway,from Paris to Vienna,
has attractod considerable attention
from the methods pursued The oc-
casion for the change, says Locomo-
tive Engineering, was that tho river
crossed--the Rhino had lost in tho
sectional area of the passage lietwoen
thoplors, about twenty-five per cent
in thirteen years, owing to the do-
position of gravel nnd sediment,
while the high water lovel had risen
to such an extent as to pilo floating
debris six foot deep on tho bridge
floor in times of flood. Tho altera-
tions included somo reinforcoments,
besides tho raising of tho whole
structure about live foet The
bridge was continuous over a center
pier, and had two main vertical
posts thero and four vortical ond
posts. To each of theso posts an
inclined strut was attachod in a
transverse vertical piano, present-
ing a surface for tho top of
a hydraulic jack to act upon. Eight
special 100-ton jacks wore used, with
an eight-inch stroke and a working
pressure of 400 atmospheres, the
piston being nearly 0.7 in diameter.
Tho fluid used was a mixture of
iwator, alcohol and glycerine. Six-
teen men operated tho jacks,
tholr movements boing synchronized
by a code of signals designed to
secure uniformity of action. Tho
bridge was raised a foot or two by
short lifts, followed by thoroughly
blocking, and then building under
ono oourso of cut stono masonry.
Tho total load was 64(i tons, nnd tho
maximum loud on a singlo jack was
eighty-sovon tons. Tho bridge was
raised in four stages during inter-
vals betwoen trains. Tho longest
interval betwoon trains was about
two hours. Tho woight of trains
was rigidly restricted during tho
time the bridge was undergoing re-
pairs, and their speed was limited to
three milos an hour iu crossing tho
bridgo. In addition, a special block
system was organized upon that sec-
tion of tho lino upon which the
bridgo is located, so that operations
could bo suspended and tho track re-
stored live minutos before tho ar-
rival of a train at the site.
Sleep, the Oreat I'liy^lelan.
Sleep us a prolonger of life is up-
held by a curious calculation which
appeared iu a recent medical work
on tho digestive organs and fac-
ulties. Tho duration of human lifo
may bo ascertained by tho pulsa-
tions of tho body. Say a man lives
to 70 years, his heart boating 60 to
tho minute; tho pulsations in that
time foot up to 2,207,620,000. If by
intemperance or any other cause ho
raises pulsation to 76 n minute, tho
same number of pulsations would be
finished in 66 years, thereby ab-
breviating his lifo by 1 I years. And
as tho number of pulsations Is loss
in u slooping than itia waking state,
It stands to reason that a long
sleeper has a much bettor prospect
of a long lifo than a person who is
satisfied with short naps. Napoleon
I., who slept vory little, did not at-
tain old ago; Ucnorat Hutlor, who
could sleep at will, rounded out a
good ripe sheaf of yeats.
*1 lm Wot al 'HiilTerer.
Indignant Resident Croat heav-
ens, man! what do you mean by
bringing around r. wlicozy old hand-
organ. nt! out ff t'mo, and tortiii iiift
everybody in lho neighborhood?
Organgrlnder, plalntlvol.s -Well,
if it's bad for you, wlion v"ii only
havo to listen to it for five minutes,
how do you think I llko it, when I
have to listen to it s,ll day long.
suing il lm t!p.
lloine said of Savoye, a inodioere
diplomat appointed nnbassador to
Frankfort by Lamartlno in 1M48:
"Ordinarily ho is insune, but ho has
lucid moments wheu ho Is only
stupid." - Argonaut.
•Does your wife put up all her can
stttfT herself?" "Certainly. Self-pros
ervatioa is th« tint law of natura '
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