The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PEOPLE S VOICE.
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA
Ui« Standard Oil com pauy is mi id to
hivt bought up a mwntly discovered
oil well In Ihiyne county.
W. R. liMiley, tfhAiffd with eritnln- |
ally Uhrtultiinr a IVyear-old girl of i
Noble county, wan arrested by Sheriff
in tliit county, but wan having troub-
le with hi* wife on account of a mini
named Willi*ma. Later the couple
Mi'paruted mid were divorced. Mandel's
father sent him $10,ooo from Prussia,
and later, while on a IKhhitf ex|H dl*
lion he mysterfoualy disappeared.
J. II. late*, one of the Chrlatain
gang of outlaw* ha* been arretted In
the Pottawatomie country and pluccd
In jail. He in n member of the noto-
rloua gang which has for morf than
rx\\ on this
OKI.AIIOMA AM) INDIAN 1 I K*1 TO**
tender a Chickaaaw law even In-
diana are forbidden to kill game ex-
cept for Iinme«llate uae.
The \V. II. Coyle Commission eompa-
ny of Logan county hna paid out 0I4.V
mi for cotton ao far thla season.
Near Uimli a few night* since, John
Clink, aged 10, ahot and killed hi* 1%
year old broiher Samuel, It wa* a
ea*« of "didn't know it wa* loaded."
Judge McAtee and Mr*. Kllaaheth
,1 II. Pintt weiv married ls*t week in
kuiiNa* City. Hi* Oklahoma friend*
arc *howcring In congratulation*, an
the Judge i* a prime favorite through-
out the Territory.
The akeleton of an unknown man
waa found on llunhy creek, eight mile*
from South Mc Mester, Thur*day. The
sUull waa found smashed and every in-
dication ia that murder hud been com-
mitted.
Near IViwaon in Noble county, Mr*.
John Monty gave birth on \Yedue*dav
evening to triplet*, all boy*. All of
litem are living. She nainad them
William Mckinley, William Jenuiliga
llrvan and John Sherman.
Four years a^ro the people of tlreer
county voted for president, I'hcv
have not moved but they cannot voU j olmltcl mortga>r
.«• |MvsUl. nt four your* Intor. that is ; Trier hat no property In the
thi* fall. Thla i* the first time thla
baa ever happened in America.
If the southern people intend to re-
duce their cotton acreage in tinier to
keep the market up they are simply
making a mistake Oklahoma in the
next few year* will simply till up 'he
vacancy in the number of acre*.
It l said the Maybell mine at Vic-
tor. Colorado, owned by Mcasra. Nix,
llavighorat. lYaaier, llalsell and oth-
er* of lAigan county, has been robl ed
of f.NO.OOO worth of gold. The stutT
was placed in l*ag* and carted off.
Albert Kimball, a>*ed It. who wa*
abot in the knee last week by Victor
Smith, aged l«V both of whom lived in
l.<V*n county. is improving ami will
soon be able to ho about* There is
considerable myslerv alvu! the ntTair,
and whether young Kinitial 1 waa ahot
purpoaely or aceldcntally is unknown.
A spooney young couple of Crant
county wen* walking backward in the
middle of the nvid, looking at the
moon. IVetty mhw, they run against
something, then parted company, both
going beavenwanl, one in n northwest-
erly direction and the other to the
south. They had hjiokoil upon a re-
clining mule.
Three boya make from six to ten
dollar* weekly by picking cotton after
nightfall on one of the side Sis., in the
county seat of l<ogan county. From
eight to twenty pound* of cotton is
wasted daily by buyers, who. after
yanking a sample from a b*lc. throw
it on the street. Cotton sells at seven
dollar* * hundred peund-n and the boys
with their big aacUs are growing rich.
The chief of the Creek nation wont. j •« Kan., and brought
... ti.m.edl.ta e*n..i. taken. ||, hack on a requUltlon la...od bj, Octrer-
ll.lnh. a * en. . ithonhl hare l*cu tak- | Renfrow.
en long ago and that the government tieorge Kengle, a 17-year-ohl boy,
if It had done ao would liuvc saved was nrreaUd and lodged In the South
money. McAlester Jnll, Satunlay. charged with
«hei*lore Mandcl of Prussia la lu the burning of Spencer academy a faw
Noble county In aeareh of a brother ( night* ago. lu which tire four Choctaw
who, when Inst lieurd from, waa living j boya lost their live*.
Mr. John Miller. cen*us commission
er of the ClilcUasaw nation, waa in
Purcell the latter part of the week-
ami waa kept very busy enrolling the
tribe, mostly Intermarried citizens.
ll« left for Minco where he will con-
tinue hi* work.
Ilarrv St. John, who wa* out on a
9lo,oon bond, and whose trial, for the
murder of his wife, haabeen postponed
severn 1 times, died st V o'clock Snttir-
duy ufternoon in Logan county, lie
two year* terrorize.! Southern <>kla- j |,a,j grippe nrnl wokiicU two weeks
ho.nn. The I'll r la tain brother,, the He was :ts years of lige nm( |lis trjnl
leader* who e.eapeil from the Oklaho- f(ir wlft, lu[mier |ln,l lH-en set for tlii
ma ihiunty jail some uiontha ago, have, tt.nu 0( court.
up t«> this time, evaded the marshals. ,
1 W. H Mason of Lincoln county, who
A. M Tyler of Oklahoma ha. **-en , l)pwr,wlf„ R|>Tt>ral monlh^
arn>*teil in Knnsa. t itv on two In- #fl(, ,lpfnl(ulr<l tlu, territorial whool
.lletmento, eharirlnff him with obtain- Kj dl.,wr„nent of joik) bv issuing
Inir money nn.ler false p.vten«e ami (ri|l,M.)lo<>l lnni| l)0t.n
porjurjf. lie represented to a ..took j K>nklls nm, wU1 b broo|ht
linn in Knnsa, t ity that he had seven- Wk t„ oUUhoma for trial 111) will
ty-Hve head of cattle, 1(H) hoga and
5,000 bualicla of corn in kay county j
Oklahoma. The company loaned him |
Southern extension waa com-
pleted as far stmtli as Wakita, Grant
unity, Saturday, and track lnying
Territory. | began at once. Keceiver Walker and
A new fad, the latest out. has at ruck General Manager Bradford were all
Pawhuska and is called the gold and , over the road last week and will with-
ftilvcr social. Kach girl takes * baaket j in u few days officially announce the
well filled with nil the delicacies of . route from Wakita to a crossing with
the season and cover* it with a yellow ; the Uoclt Island.
or white cloth to suit her political j Governor It en fro w has issued an or
preference The young man aelects ^cr allowing cat tie from nonth of the
hi* l^asket and then pays at the rate quarantine line to enter Oklahoma for
of a quarter cent per pound for the feeding purposes. Cattle desiring to
owner. Kach purchaser gets to lift oross x\xo \\ne must. however, be given
his price on the scales, and the silver n bill of health by the territorial in-
iad gets to kiss liis girl l t times to the apector or veterinarian before crossing
gold stand«ni lad's 1. A great schema ; the quarantine. This is done to open
-for the silver boys. I up a home market for the enormous
Annie K. IVnn, formerly of St. Louis corn crop of the territory.
probably get n pen service.
The ivo(k of grading the llutchln-
pn perty and he gave
which was put on
obtained a divorce from her luislmnd.
little K Peiin, in Noble ronnty Tucs-
.lames Swimmer, n full-blood Chero-
kee. and Henry Williams, a colored boy
daw She charged that he w as app*r- > 0f were hanged in the national jail
ently a moral and religions man W- j yarti at Talequali Friday last Swim-
foro their marriage, but turned out to j mcr knied Kli lialbridge, also a Cher-
be a gambler and saloon kec|>er. At 0Uee. in a feud. They were gunning
the time of their marriage she hail i for one another, but Swimmer got the
S ,000 in an Arkansas City Kan., Kmk. j drop. Williams crime was the mar-
aud a claim in the strip worth (3,000 1 ,jer of another colored boy named
more. Peuu Induced her to draw the Crockett Mackey. lie made a confes
money from the bank and s« ll the &ion and professed conversion.
farm, iwket*sl the money and then ;
abautlomsl licr. ! The thin! quarterly payment to tin
v. . _ 4. , • iKag\ Indians, ronsistingof over SHK .-
News iMines mim l.ufauln. I. T.. that ^
....... . . ooo. is being i>aid this weeu. Keporta
the old i rock chief and gtwernor. Is " 1
, . , . . . . i aw that hundred* of gamblers nn at
kcr. is very sick at his home on I ,
Paw huska and that the few marshals
jvirh
Salt i'reek, and will very likelv nev..
illness, whieh has j Rrr lx"vrrle" to P^nont •\<;Pre.iat,onv
,, " Two gamblers. Jones and r.vans, bun-
lle is { ^
coed a gang of full bloods Tuesday
j night and the men ran the gamblers
out of town and. it is reported, beat
recover from th
been U|>on him for some time
a full blood Indian of much practical j
common sense and quaint wisdom, but
he declines to bo treated by any regu-
lar physician, his only attendant be-
ing a Creek medicine man. who is try-
ing to cure him of "snake* and terra-
pin," whatever that is. The old medi-
cine man is very queer acting, but is
work, and says that the
IVII Manning .vcupted Frldav in the I * «*' > '">*'• «**>«* to 1,i:-
1,K « «w,ntv .lis,riot > nrt. The I remedy, bnt he has not yet been
promeention fciilert to prvrfnee any di. I able to rx>aoh the- terrapin."
NH , \ vlcncc. all the tcstimoi y toeing I Mrs. Mahalda Starlvr. a WillWti wo
cinM.mstantial. 1 lie main fenturos roan, was arrested Monday by IVputy
aro the sv.p|vv^st intimacy Wtwcenthe I Sheriff lltx^ks and l.xlgtsl in the l*>gan
defendant and the deceaHed"s wife, the J county jail. The woman is charged
pre\ v vt r.ir ce tvn.;uct w her. v.-"orm w : li infant , .c. AK>ut s \ months
e*i of the cvme and traces l<Nitr.ng ago the dead Kxl^ of a negrochild was
fr\Nni the aeeneof tbe htmnculetowards found in the i'ottonwixvi. Officers
The trial of the ease of Territory vs.
throve 11. lluntlev i^r the mnnter of j
snak
them to death on Turkey Creek.
Joseph Pentecost, of Logan county,
is lying very low from the effects of a
bite from a spider. Within the \ *st
three weeks more than a doxen per-
sons in this vicinity have been bitten
and one death occurred. The spider
is a little black one. and quick as a
flash of lightning it leaps at a victim
and fastens its f*ngs. sending its pois-
on direct to the heart and 1 rain, ai d
those who are bitten suffer bad effects
for months after the lirst aickness is
gone.
Friday night C. R. McLung. who
'ives on the Chieaska river, wsis shat
the defendant s home.
CV.ef Justice Spr-.rger of t^e Indian r.o cicw to the dent-ity of *he child or
Territory «*nrt of appea v has render- j ta cruel slayer. 0:Vt-er lLxiks. how-
a d<v v . «)• , h . vohes the title ever, did not cease his search, and the
to the <\al r.Wic prv^^crtv >wr.ittsl bv ;irrest ov M>*u.'..-,y was the result* It
t^c i i\ Jt>,.M a and tinlf mil- j alleged that Mrs. Staiber . (-
w*\ and iV.wiing affecting jv\>pert\ j mother of the child and killed i^, ron-
in the Choctaw nat. ^n to the value of j sivtering the bat* too much of an n-
•trx-cra'. .^ns In br>cf. " V.c dec;
ar.x
cnmbrance.
; strong tcstir
made an investigation but could obtain by a mob and seriously wounded. His
wife was hit several times. McClung
had taken up some stray hogs ami put
them in a pen. la the n.ghi half a
doxen men came to turn them out, and
McOtnng shot at them three times.
The men returned the tire. In all
twenty shots were gred. Mrs. Mc-
Clung went to her husband's assist-
ance and she w-as shot in the foot and
hand. McClung is fatally wounded.
Severn" nteriv.arried c ' v.scf :\.r-
eell were refused plr.ccs on the cer.sus
roll beca use *.W r marn^re was no* in
accordance with the Ch cKi,saw aw.
wl..ch stuMi'.atcs a man mr.stbc.ve
in the Chkkasaw nalkxi for
ere ar-
te ii e
he fcna
T Ada
It s said that Hooks ha>
or.v aga inst the woman.
court at Okmulgee has
decree, handed down
:t A .s . .i
ss a roar. :ar«
LATE NEWS NOTES.
Ex-President Jack King of tha Mer-
chants' National bank. Home, Ua, U
accused of eiul>ez&lciuent.
Randolph 1 alia, a farmer, living
near Kirniinghaui, Ala., wua murdered
and robbed by two negroea.
John A Wylie, a Santa Fe aection
foreman, was run down and fatally
injured by a train ucar Uuthrie.
At Kuoxville. Arlc , K. K. Atwell,
United States depute marshal, waa
fatally ahot by Johu and Jim ltobin-
aou.
Two negroes were lyuclicd near
Toadvllle, Alu.t for tho murder of
Farmer Will*.
Judge Henjutuin K. Turner fell dead
at liia home iu Kahoku. Mo.
At Ch*plin, Ky., during a political
meeting. William Kecliug, wa* shot
dead while in a crowd.
The lossea of Suicide Marsh, cashier
of the i *pe Ann Savings bank of
Gloucester, Mass., are growing, as re-
vealed by examinations.
The Mississippi river commission
has submitted to Secretary Lamont
the schedule for improvements ou the
lower river.
Will January, the boy who mur-
dered his father near Farber, Mo,
was convicted of murder iu the sec-
ond degree aud received a ten year
sentence.
The remains of the late George Du
Mauricr were cremated.
Oscar Wilde wHl be released within
six month*, ami it Is said that his
wife will rejoin him.
While iu Paris the czar gave a
luncheon to the French royal family,
which is causing comment
At Austin, Minn , the Minnesota
conference of the M. R church voted
82 to 17 iu favor of admitting women
as delegates to the gcueral confer-
ence.
Long distance telephone connecting
Sedalia with Clinton ami othei towns
in Southern Missouri is in operation.
Sedalia is now ablo to talk with thir*
ty-flve towns south of that citv.
Serious prairie lires are reported
from Manitoba.
United States deputy marshals are
trailing CJeorge Taylor, the Meek*
murderer, in the ludian Territory.
William Satterfield, who assassin-
ated John McCullough at Dallas,
Texas, fatally shot a member of a
posse that was trying to capture him.
Dillard Ragland, a messenger in the
treasury department, committed sui-
cide because he had not enough money
to pay his wedding expenses.
The receipt of a green goods circular
made "Old Iloss" Hoey so angry that
he is now trying to run dowu the
gang.
One hundred and thirty-eight miners
from Joplin. Mo, have gone to work
at Leadvilie, Colo.
Dr. A. C. Patterson, confidential
clerk to the superintendent of St.
Klixabeth'a hospital for the Insane
was found to be 815,000 short in his
accounts.
A Dutch transport shin has been
lost off Spain's coast, presumably with
all on board.
lyier, Texas. Car and Lumber com-
pany was plared in the hands of a re-
ceiver. Liabilities, $?o0,000; asset*
9?oo,ooa
William Jav Koerner, a newspaper
artist, is held in New York for the
murder of Rosie A. Redgate on the
street.
W A. Clark, the millionaire con-
gressman of Butte City, Mont, will
establish a big beet sugar factory at
Ananeim, California.
John Ruskin, who gave up his wife
to John Millais, and has been melan-
choly. has improved noticeably since
the latter s death.
Baltimore won the deciding game of
the Temple Cup series by a score of
5 to ti
At Spokane. Wash.. Lena Jurgeson
and Robb U v^uinn agreed to commit
suicide together: She kept tne agree-
ment bnt he "flunked."
Judge Caldwell has decided that do-
raest c liquor bearing a foreign brand
is a fraud, and liabie to seizare De-
cision concerned a St Louis distillery.
Serious gales on the English coast
have caused much damage to shipping
and loss of life.
A revenue cutter and a federal war
*h'.p are watching filibusters on F1 r-
ida s coast The Dauntless. Commo-
dore and Three Friends are kept
under constant surveilancc.
General George H Sheridan died at
the Soldiers' home at Hamnton. V*.
v* am biers are reported to be fleecinr
the <.>sages out of the.r government
money.
The I.eadville mines are all prepar-
ing to x un undrr guard.
The loss by the Guayaquil, Ecaudor,
£re is over S o.V
lien. Troche, governor of Paris dur-
ing the Franco-Prussian war. is dead.
The cxar waa greeted w in & most
er.thns.astic oration on his v^sii to
France.
Rev. Lanr. an evangelist at S-ewa-d,
Ok la., said that ail women wfc.- dance
are immoral. He was almost beaten
to a j-i.y by two farmers and a
ber of women.
The Canadian Par fc :e"egraph op-
era i ors won t.^e.r atr.ka
In an elect on row at Elbert^n. Ga.,
two local politicians were fatal y ahot.
Two trains z xei np .a a rear-end
rol -sioaat Argentine, Kan. but ao
one was k .lied
At Italy's rec nest lax _rra i r.>n
When a man has a little time In
which to improve hia mind, he spends
it In thinking what the women ought
to do.
Are you better than your father? If
not, you are not keeping pace with
mankind. Humanity ia growing bet-
ter all the time. Your duty i* to im-
prove all the time.
Give a boy a piece of work to do, and
he spends half of the time in inventing
some contrivauce to muku his work
asler.
Too many people have tho errone-
ona idea that if it is proper to lie while
sleeping it is all right to keep it up
while doing business.
8TATE OF Olim. tTfT OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COUNTY.
Frank J. Cheney mnkrn oath that hf Is
th* senior partner of the firm of F. J. Che
n*y A Co.. doing business In the City of
Toledo. County and Stat*' aforesaid, an-1
that enid firm will psv the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for ca"h and
•very cnae of catarrh that cannot be cured
by tha use of Hall's ratsrrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before n.e and subscribed in
my presenoo thla Ith day of December,
A D. 1*SG.
(Seal.) A. W OLE A HON.
Notary Public.
Halt's Catarrh Cure Is isken Internally
and acta directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system Send for testi-
monials, free
F. J CHENEY A CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists. 75'.
Our idea of iujustice ia to make a
fakir pay license and permit a man to
discus* politics free.
Cascnret* stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
People get in the habit of whining
While cutting teeth und they never get
over it entirely.
P rl .well, are wearing the Moras
hat this fall. It i* broad-brimmed
grey felt, aueh aa the MarquU wore
when he was killed by the Tuarega.
The Danube flow, through countrie,
in whieh 53 languages and dialects are /
spoken. It bears on its current four-
tlfths of the commerce of Eastern Eu-
ec-mm ::ed sc
c.ie.
Tiriter will
a*.low ih
e A*5er?ram
cm acr. Raxcr
■oft* to pa*ts
i he Daraa-
ne . e*
I: Knowles
wa- k . e- nj
r robbers at
TTank-.n
Texas
Just to show how things go by con-
traries. probably the poorest pedes-
trian in Kansas ia Mr. lloofer of Wa-
verly. -
An old mau never knows how sprite-
ly he can be until his hat blows off his
head and skips off in the direction of a
mud puddle.
to erne a colo in onk °at-
(p.i.,, r uvfitlVB Urotno Quinine Tablets. AH
refuuU mu money II U tu.l, locure.-^i
Everyone would be thankful if hia
deeds were recorded on his face in hiero-
glyphics instead of such plain writing.
Every man whose own village never
heard from him thinks the whole world
will hear from him Borne iluy.
We have noticed that the people
without any sense get along about as
well as the other kiniL
The more perfect and ideal a night
is for sleeping the longer and louder
the baby tests its lungs. Such is life.
Troubles ought to bo taxed. Then,
as the assessor came around, we would
all bo free from them.
Fito's Cure for Consumption has saved
hie large doctor bills.—C. L. Baker,
Kegel.t Sq., Philadelphia. Fa.. Dec. 8, ".'o.
Isn't it about as bad to rob a man of
his peace as it is of his money?
Pray for death before you are old
tnd helpless.
The words on the dollar, "In God
We Trust," are intended a a pointer
to the business man. The man who
trusts liod nnd gets the cash from his
•ustomers is the successful merchant
Blood Is essential at this season In oHertokeej
up the health tone nnd resist the sudden change*
iu temperature and exposure to disease genua.
Sarsaparilla
The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
We don't believe marriage is a sue
cess with the mau who uses bachelor's
button*.
When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c, 25c.
A woman has a doctor in every town
she visits.
C e*a ( oo(h Italian
and b* t It will break tpt
e.Mw It 1* &lv*js reliable.
You will run across a man oftener
whose boarding house suits him, than
one who is suited with his home.
TIHT JOYFUL FEELING
With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal cleanli-
ness, which follows the use of i*yrup of
Fig«. is unknown to the few who have n<>t
prv :resaed beyond the old-time medicines
and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered
but never accepted by the «eli-intonated.
Nothing is more inconsistent than
for the preacher to preach more truth
than he is willing to practice.
Ju«t try a 10c box of Cascaret*. the finest
liver and bowel regulator ever made.
| The man who is not willing to live
without sin, may always have to live
with it
Mrs. M in low't Swoihini; Sj-mp
u 11 _ are purely vepetaWa,
H00d S PlllS carefully prepared. 23c.
TIB Best
Watemrcof
Goat
In tha
WORLD I
Tit nsn BRAND BMCKEtt It *irr nt«d w.tfr
me Jf laii ouiv.nt,'. • ——-
;roof, tnd will kwp ywi dry la Uio hsrdetiiitona. TU
jew PuMMEL SLKXER Us Perfect rWIng coat, and
se?er th«enur«isd<lls. B*wsreof lmltaUoas. Don t
>ur s oo*t If the " Fifth Brsnd" li not on It. Iu j«trs^
fW*. A. J. TOWER. Bolton.
DRUGS.
A complete sloe* of uac 08 for sale cheap, la
tolee I13U0.00.
Good reason for selhn«.
FRANK BCSUBT,
Wichita. Kna.
PATENTS.
PaLomcej
30 year* eip*r enoe. sketch for SO-
PATENTS, TRADE MARKS
Fiamlnstlon and Adrlce m t Patentability of Ia-
t\. Send for "InTentor*' Otilde. >-r How tc
Patent.N O'FAKULL a SOS. Wa*bincU>n, D. a
| We wish a soiled character could be
sent to the laundry and fixed up like
« shirt.
GURIS WHf.Rfc ALL J I ^
Best Cooglt Syrupy. Tastes Use
in ttms. S...J by
Keae to explain
la*^*
Otto R. Aadersoa and Ona H.nd-
lelie of Lillle Rorir aaaoe tn ensre-
cessfc. aiiemp: to po.son ikemse.vsa.
V .^ior. MSB of Cc*:2t ie Less^ps ia*
STANDARD OF THE WORLD.
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]ora:;.<t of an iraMaiac rone .- :«e
ftar
ace.ar. ae^duauaes
Fraaeis W. arc :s r >tirr 1
ra^: Araetiaa1 tc va ntiam
tea-gcarte > New ^ ; r*.
A crrti
ical public have c:t the se.il of unqu.i
approvi! on Columbus.
FCPE MFG. CO.. Hartford. Conn.
Bcanrt Sst^es cr.i ir -«• fv « c u and H CoTur.-.Has
net prz>pcrir ia your , let us know
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1896, newspaper, October 16, 1896; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116887/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.