The Democrat-Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DEMOCRAT-TOPIC
QCINCY T BROWN, Editor.
OEO. W.TBACI. PoblUher.
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA
OKI.AHOMA AND INDIA* TERRITORY
Infected cn.nch bugs can be bought
t an Arapahoe drug store.
Decoration Day orators are in de-
mand throughout Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma chinch bug has pass-
id in his checks. Too much wet.
Three new churches are to be erected
in Davis, I. T., in the near future.
W. M. Newell (coloredi has resigned
as a member of the board of regents of
Langston.
A catfish weighing about fifty pounds
was caught in Sand Creek, Indian Ter-
ritory. recently.
Decoration Day will be fittingly ob-
fcerved at the I'nited States National
cemetery at Fort Gibson, I. T.
Farmers on the Washita complain
seriously that cut worms are doing
great damage to growing crops.
A small worm, known to the horti-
culturists as a leaf roller, is playing
havoc with the orchards around Vinita.
The farmers of (Irant county are al-
ready drawing plans of those new
houses they intend to build when they
sell their wheat.
Al>out twenty bridges, a half dozen
of them large ones, have gone out in
Logan comity. The prospect for re-
placing them is not encouraging.
The town of Springer, I. T , which
was partially overflowed during the re-
cent heavy rains, is to be moved to
higher ground west of the present site.
R. M. Hudson, a farmer living near
Bedford, Ok., was visited by masked
men last week and ordered to leave
the country undei penalty of hanging
He left for Missouri with his five year
old child. Hudson says he recognized
the leader of the mob as the man who
wanted Mrs. Hudson to leave him.
For several years it lias been appar-
ent that it was but a question of time
until the exorbitant prices demanded
by the manufacturers of bicycles
would have to take a tumble. That
this theory has now become a condi*
tion is apparent to those who have
investigated the strictly high grade
wheel just placed on the market by
the Harrah <i Stewart Mfg. Co., of
Des Moines, la.
The recent floods in Oklahoma have
caused the engineer corps of the Sa-
pulpa railroad to do a good deal of
their recent, work over. They found
many of the grades they had establish-
ed in Deep Ford valley were below
high water mark. The dispatch with
which the new locations are being
made would indicate that that line
will be built at once.
Instructions have been issued by
Comm.'sioner of the General Land
Office Hermann, to the registers and
receivers of the various I'nited States
land oflices, under the provisions of
section 6, act of June 10, 18!)i , which
provides that homestead settlers on all
■eded Indian reservations are hereby
granted an extention of one year in
which to make the payments now pro-
rided by law.
Henry W. Scott, late judge of Okla-
homa, but now of New York City, has
blossomed forth as a railroad mag-
nate. With Kansas. Missouri and oth-
er New York parties, lie has incorpor-
ated the Kansas City, Northeastern A
Gulf Railway company, with a capital
itock of 81.000.000. The line is pro-
jected to run through Eastern Kansas,
Eastern Oklahoma and Texas to some
point on the gulf, and will Inter be ex-
tended to Chicago.
Tho law forbidding citizens of the
west fork of Cabin creek in the Indian
territory, who have been suffering a
great deal lately by the depredations
of saddle and harness thieves are pre-
paring to organize a mutual protec-
tion society.
After the inspection of ties that will
lie made in the Indian territory soon,
there will be no more ties received by
the Katy in the Indian territory on ac-
count of tho tangled condition of af-
fnirs in that section of the allotment
quest ion.
Canadian county farmers arc laying
up a bright crown somewhere in the
hereafter. They have revived the
good old custom of planting fruit trees
along the public highways for the re-
freshment of the weary traveler.
Throughout the Indian territory the
peach trees are loaded beyond their
strength and the fruit has a most
healthy appearance. The most teri-
ou* question is how to save the trees
from breaking under their loads.
There will also be a bountiful yieM of
fruit* of all kinds.
Alva has voted ',000 bonds to erect
• school house.
Near Lone Chimney, Ok., the Indians
are having buffalo dances.
J The payment of grass-iease money-
was begun at Fort Sill May 2'lth.
The contract has been signed for a
j new electric light plant in Guthrie.
A Guthrie a little colored boy named
| Harris was badly bitten and torn about
the face by a vicious dog
! The second annual convention of the
j western district Epworth League will
I be held in El Reno .lutie 1, " and X
| In Cleveland county an egg hatched
that produced a perfectly formed chick-
en with two heads, four legs and four
| wings.
j Many of the Oklahoma farmers are
having their wheat crop insured from
loss by hail. The premium is'2.j cents
an acre.
The damage done to crops by the
I late heavy rains in the neighborhood
i i.t Mannsville, I. T., will tie hard to
j estimate.
I The patrons of the Buffalo school in
Kingfisher county will erect a brick
i building this summer. It will be twen-
j ty-Hve by forty feet
George Kuhlman, a wealthy real es-
tate owner of Oklahoma City, commit-
ted suicide by shooting himself through
the head. He lived in Nebraska before
he came to Oklahoma.
The fruit crop in Oklahoma and the
i Indian territory is to immense that the
| folks down there are almost ashamed
| to tell about it for fear of being set
down as able-bodied liars.
J The people of West Guthrie are still
j working hard to restore their homes
i and efface the traces of the flood, but
it will be a long time before all traces
of the water's ravages disappear.
Homer Adkins of Moore, Ok., thinks
he has discovered a gravity engine, and
wants all nations to agree to pay him
a royalty on it; otherwise he will de-
j stroy the engine and let the secret die
with him.
Attorneys for the M. K. and T. rail-
j way made final agreement before the
Imwes and Cherokee commissions at
I Tahlequah May 20th The Delaware
tribe of Indians, who have been adopt-
: ed by the < herokees, filed a claim for
J 175,000 acres of land, based on a com-
I pact, made between these tribes. This
| is worth nearly 81 ,M10,000.
The Logan county commissioner held
a meeting May 17th and discussed
plans for rebuilding the county bridges
destroyed by the flood. A committee
from the (iuthrie club conferred with
the board. The county fund is not
sufficient to rebuild the bridges and it
will be necessary for the board to make
contracts with bridge companies on
easy payments. The board will meet
bridge contractors on May "7 and dis-
cuss terms for rebuilding the Cimarron
bridge of steel. Guthrie merchants
are also anxious to see the Seward
bridge over the Cottonwood replaced
at an early date.
Large quantities of remarkably pure
salt are being shipped to all parts of
the territory from the Crystal salt
v.-orks, near O'Keene in Blaine county.
The salt is manufactured from a fpring
on the claim of Miss Laura White,
formerly of Western Kansas, who,
with her sister, Miss Charlotte White,
operates the plant which turns out
about thirty barrels every twenty-four
hours. These young women made the
run into the Cheyenne country and
took claims. From the profits of their
salt industry they expect to pay their
way through college. The spring from
which the salt water flows is a large
one, and makes the water of a large
stream near by strongly saline.
The 12-year-old son of Farmer John-
son, residing seven miles southeast
of Guthrie, fell outof a wagon recently
and sustained injuries from which he
died a few hours later.
: A young farmer living near Arapa-
hoe, Ok., was pressed for the. payment
of a bill by his doctor who was going
to attach his team of mules to secure
the claim. The young man came to
town and awoke the probate judge at
i o'clock in the morning and was mar-
ried. A married man's team is exempt
from execution.
Secretary Lowe granted charters to
the following new corporations: Mor-
rison Cemetery association, of Morri-
son; capital stock, $300. North Enid
Pharmacy, North Enid; capital stock,
81,000; Augusta Townsite company,
Augusta; capital stock, 8000.
Recently one of Custer county's farm-
ers took his hogs to El Reno and sold
them. On his return home he found
the hog buyer had paid him too much
money anil ho promptly returned the
overplus. The buyer is still very low,
b".t may recover.
The Itellows of the bull frog is heard
throughout the two territories.
Farmers are bringing in sample
bunches of wheat from three to six
feet long and the heads are just form-
ing.
A force of men have been put at
work on the Tecumseh railroad, re-
pairing the damage caused by the re-
cent rains.
The Kickapoo Indians will doubtless
send a delegation to Washington to
deny the story that they took a bath
last winter.
The Quanah mail wagon rnired down
in Red river recently with about 250
| pounds of mail and a Greer county edi-
I tor on board.
j Kingfisher county people have writ-
ten Governor Renfrow asking him to
i fix July ,'i as a legal holiday, since July
4 cornea on Sunday.
Doetr*ss Mumces is considered the
! foremost medicine woman among the
Sac atfil Fox Indians. She makes
many professional call in the wigwams
on Cuchie creek.
James Kirk<vood, president of the
Territorial Free Home league, is mak-
ing timely preparations to present the
peoples' prayer for free homes to the
ooming session of congress.
Many elderly Indians of the Cuchie
tillage recently died from a sort of
swelled head. The same disease is
prevalent among the white people, but
unfortunately, it never proves fatal.
Thi Oklahoma fruit growers have
formed an association for the purpose
of finding the best market for the
p«ach and grape crop which will be the
largest in the history of the country.
Navajoe, in Greer county, Oklahoma,
is on a boom. The gold fever is raging
high, there are six shafts that are run-
ning at full blast. The big blasts that
are set off can be heard for several
■niles. The gold excitement is running
high and there are several new miners
in town.
Chief Isparhecher has instructed the
prosecuting attorney of Muskogee dis-
trict, to give all parties holding illegal
interior pastures thirty days notice to
raise same and if they do not follow
instructions the light horsemen will be
ordered to cut pastures found standing
at the end of that time.
The gracious home of Major and Mrs.
Woolsey, at Ponca Agency, was the
scene of an i legant reception and ban-
quet recently, given to the employes of
the different Indian schools under the
major's dispensation, as a farewell to
the pleasant relations which have ex-
isted for the past four years.
It is said by those who ought to
know, including the Indians, that no
Indian was ever killed by lightning.
Of course the red brother ascribes his
extra good luck in the special case to
this race being the chosen people of
God. A Pawnee claims that once, be-
fore the country was settled by the
whites, some cowboys paid him 82 to
stand outside of their tent during a
terrific thunderstorm to act as a sort
of lightning rod. One dog was killed
ten feet from "the tent and no other
damage was done.
"Rattlesnake Springs," on a school
section in Ponca township, Lincoln
county, about twelve miles southeast
from Cushing, is not only a highly ro-
mantic geological curiosity, but has
also some semi-historical reminders.
The caverns in the fantastically shaped
sand rocks were often in the good old
cowboy t.imes, the hiding places of out-
laws and even honest adventurers.
Hundreds of names are engraved on
the rocks, one of which is that of Jesse
James. If those labrynthine Rattle-
snake caverns could speak, they would
relate many daring plans made in
their secluded paths.
The Oklahoma City club has con-
tracted with II. P. Pennington, of Ard-
more, to construct a compress in that
city with a capacity of 0.000.
Itlaine county citizens have organ-
ized a new anti-horse thief association.
It was chartered May 17th by Secre-
tary Lowe. The officers are: L. F.
Prazier, president, Watonga; A. M.
H/l, vice president; W. W. lludklns,
secretary; II. W. Lewis, treasurer, L.
E. Morley, marshal, and Hale Perriue,
organizer. All but the president live
at Judson, Blaine county.
John W. Light, of Chickasha, I. T..
will have something like 17,000 head
of cattle in his pasture this summer.
He has just brought up 0,000 head from
Texas.
Governor W. C. Renfrow and Treas-
urer Turner have received invitations
to attend the Trans-Mississippi com-
mercial congress at Salt Lake City,
Utah, July 14 17. Goyernor Renfrow
was asked to appoint ten delegates at
large from Oklahoma, but preferred to
have Governor Iturnes make the ap-
pointments.
THEATRICAL TOPICS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
SAYINGS AND DOINCS OF THE
PLAYERFOLK,
j-amij Davenport Han tome Out a. a
Defender of the French StaRB- Doe«
Not .lumlfy Ita Di«rec rd for Decency
—Interesting Nem mid lioa.lp,
ANNY Davenport
vigorously defends
the French stage,
but it is only from
the art point of
view. She does not
undertake to justi-
fy its frequent de-
fiance of what we
regard as decency.
"The most enlight-
ened stage today is
that of France," asserts the American
tragedienne, "because in that countr>
dramatists have been in most instances
allowed to write without other than
political restrictions. In all that per-
tains to social life, in the uses and
abuses of all social pleasures, in a
treatment of dramatic evils and public
social vices, the French dramatists
have not found their pens sheathed
either by those in open authority or
by the more influential but less
straightforward Mrs. Grundy. This be-
ing true it appears to me the mora
strange that America, which is usually
keen to keep pace with the swiftest
In the race for achievement, should,
even in a desultory fashion, give ear
to silly tirades againBt the French
drama. Thanks to the energetic liter-
ary prudes, who as a rule monopolize
public utterance, anything from the
French is now immediately stamped
as being horribly immoral, and a very
large unthinking class accept this
stigma as just. Moreover the cry is
sent up that the public taste in this
country is rapidly declining, and the
cliam is made that sooner or later the
American public will be as loose in its
morals as the whole French people are
supposed to be by the circulation of
this foolish talk. And all this is
charged against the stage because
Frenchmen write good plays and
Americans produce them. What a ser-
mon on frivolity is 'Frou-Frou,' what
warning a^iinst a moral misstep is
'Odette,' what an eloquent exhortation
to the young is 'Camille!'"
Said by Jefferson.
Joseph Jefferson recently said to one
of his audiences: "An anecdote that
might interest you is of a picture in
an English museum, painted by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, in which an angel is
seen to be endeavoring to draw Davy
Garrick toward its own realm, repre-
sented by serious matters of life, and
then another figure, representing
comedy, attempting to draw him in its
direction. Reynolds never finished it;
that is to say, in completing it he con-
veyed the idea that Garrick was still
undecided. But he himself (Reynolds)
told Garrick that he supposed he would
select tragedy. Garrick said he didn't
know about tragedy, but that comedy
Itself was 'a serious business.' I have
found, myself, that there is no satire
in this."
Fortesque In Vaudeville.
George H. Fortescue of "Evangeline"
fame is having a vaudeville sketch
written around him. Although hig
FORTESQUE'S NEW VENTURE.
Bketch is to last but twenty minutes, in
order to accommodate his personality,
it will have to be over six yards in
circumference. It is to be called "The
Girl From Hoboken," and Walter
Howe, a young Australian actor, is to
play the role of the villain from New
York.
.Mm. Campbell Kayw So.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell has been in-
terviewed—this time for the English
Illustrated Magazine. She has been
talking, of course, about the characters
she has impersonated, and tells us that
he favorites are Juliet, Rosalind and
Lady Teazle. For the rest: "Do you
know how I revel in comedy? You
would not have thought it? No, don't
say you are like some of the
critics, who will hove it I can only do
Mrs. Tanqueray. That was a lovely
part, I own; so too, was Mrs. Ehbsmith.
But believe me—no, don't wait and
see! Only, when you think of me, don't
let It be as the heroine of a melo-
drama! You had better believe the
crltlc/i than that!"
A company of troops from Ft. Sill
are making a ten day test of the new
short rations—two pounds of food a
! day.
A 825,0000 subscription was made by
an anonymous donor to the Princess of
Wales fund for a dinner to London's
poor during jubilee week.
Forest fires burned Martin Wicks'
i three children to death while he and
! his wife were away from their home
near Greshain, Wis., hunting stray
j stock.
Captain Griggs of the steamer Par-
nell shot a carrier pigeon in the mid-
; die of Lake Erie,which had a diamond
stud with a silver tag attached, sug-
gestive of smuggling.
j The new submarine boat the Hol-
land which may revolutionize warfare
! has been launched at Elizabeth. N. J.
Its motive power when submerged is a
dynamo and when on the surface is a
gasoline engine.
1 Sixty mill hands, mostly educated
I men are under arrest at Moscow, and
] will be sent to Siberia without trial
for planning a big mill strike. That's
the way Russia solves the labor prob-
lem. Chicago building contractors,
employers and other business men are
at the head of the movement to organ-
ize to fight the labor trust. Lockouts,
wage reductions and boycotts are
threatened to force labor to terms.
Mrs. Adaline Miller hung herself by
her shoestrings in the Kalamazoo,
I Mich., asylum.
i Allie Maupin and Fate Morris were
drowned while boating in a pond near
Hennessey, Okla.
i Citizens of Toronto, Ontairo, have at
I last voted to allow the running of
; street ears on Sunday.
Mayor Harrison will make war on
gambling in Chicago.
Clarence Wolf, aged 19, mistook his
brother George for a burglar and shot
and killed him at Dayton, Ohio.
John R. McLean has begun his cam-
paign to oust Mark Hanna from the
Senate, and to take his seat.
Frank Machmer, an insane Philadel-
phia boy of 19, cut the throat of Mabel
Kurtz, aged 8, and she will probably
die.
Major General Forsythe has been re-
tired.
A new nail and wire trust is being
formed at Pittsburg.
, General Gomez declares against au-
, tonomy or annexation to America,
j Two Russian officers and 100 soldiers
were killed in a railway accident.
Masked men held up a Southern Pa-
cific train at Lozier, Texas, and got
810,000.
John Bloor, secretary of the Mon-
tana Senate, was sent to jail one year
for hiding a bill.
John Wanamaker thinks a new
party will be organized as a protest
against bossism.
The Philadelphia monument to
George Washington was unveiled by
President McKinley, who delivered a
brief tribute to Washington's memory.
Frank A. Vanderlip of Chicago will
succeed Scott Wike as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury.
Professor Barnard of Nashville trav-
eled twelve miles on his flying machine
the other evening.
John Smith, a Chicago negro candi-
date for a naval cadetship, has arrived
in Annapolis and created a sensation.
President W. P. Nichols of the New
Orleans Bank of Commerce was given
three years in the "pen" for embezzle-
ment.
W. D. Bradford, a San Francisco
millionaire, is contesting the spitting
law. He was sent to jail for spitting
in street cars.
Dave Cotton, Henry Williams and
Sabe Stewart, three negroes, were
lynched at Itosebend, Tex., for at-
tempting to assault a white girl.
Four Sydney daily papers were fined
§">00 each for contempt of court by im-
proper comment on the Frank Butler
murder trial.
The Cunarder Lucaniamade the run
to Queenstown in 5 days 14 hours and
54 minutes traveling 21.80 knots per
hour and breaking the ocean record.
Stephen R. Mallory, son of the Con-
federate naval secretary, was elected
senator iroin Florida on the twenty-
fifth ballot. He is a Chicago platform
man.
William Watt and Charles Feirdach,
brickyard employes of Burlington,
Iowa, are near death's doOr from
drinking embalming fluid.
State Senator McMullin of Arkansas
shot at Editor J. N. Smithee of the
Little Rock Gazette, for editorial
strictures on railroad legislation.
John Rosenberg, a convict in San
Quentin prison confessed to killing
Blanche Lamont to save Durrant's
neck but it soon developed however
that he did not land in America until
six months after the Emanuel church
murders occurred.
Governor Stephens, in a letter to
the Jefferson City, Mo., Democratic
club, says the Democratic gold bolters
must repent if they desire to return to
the regular Democratic fold and prom-
ise allegiance to the Chicago platform,
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