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distance of each other, the orders’ ‘And I'm Just as loyal as I was
against communication of any kind then, protested Jennings, "only they
had become exacting, for it was evi- caught me down here trying to help
AT THE DESERT’S MARGE.
dent that Burnside was marshaling his
grand divisions for a move.
In the early summer time, when he
I cun stili recall, though the lapse Is tong
Since that spectral hour of even song.
How the sun from the desert sky-line
made
The pyramids cast a wedge of shade
Toward the tawny river, and how the
moon,
Over the minarets peering soon.
Kiting the segment of shadow back,
I.ung and peaked and purple-blai k.
While the Sphinx, Inscrutable, brooded
by,
And the gaunt hats gathered momently.
Swooping and circling here and there,
l.tke evil dreams. In the haunted air:
And a great flumingo. winged 111 llight,
A giant rose In the gloaming light.
I still can hear from far aloof.
Drifting out from a wattled roof
And a blistered clay wall bare and mean.
The cheerless chant of the fellaheen —
A medley of shrilly barbarous bars
Jangling and Jostling up to the stars.
I still can catch, divinely blent,
The clove and citron and Jasmine scent
From the distant gardens and orchards
blown
Out to the marge of the desert zone;
And still can feel about me cast
The clutching spell of the veiled and vast
And never-fathomed wide sand sca-
ns ancient magic and mystery.
Here might the power of wonder ope—
The mystical lotus-bloom of Hope—
Showing a calyx where, opal-wise,
Glisten the dews of Paradise.
Here might the dreams that the Prophet
Urew—
Marvel and miracle—come true:
The genll-guarded gales of Die m
Kisc from their Inlintte depths of gloom;
Heaven descend, and Its portals swing
Back with ethereal eadenclng.
And a voice of more than mortal breath
Whisper the secret of life and death.
—t'Union Scollard, in the Century.
The Iron
Brigade
A STORY OF THE ARMY
OF THE POTOMAC
ByGEN.CHARLES KING
Author of “Norman Holt," “Th« Colonel’*
Daughter, *-• Fort Fr*yne,” Etc.
Copyright. 1002. by (i. W. I>i!Iuigliam (Jo.
CHAPTER
l_)r. Chilton,
XX.—CONTISl tD.
to whom he had
written on almost any provocation and
who had gratefultv and promptly an
«we red his Sharpsburg missive, giving
young Pelham's message, now wrote
not at all. ‘‘He seems sad and brood-
ing,'’ said Jack, in the one letter lhai
young gentleman had managed to
send through since his incarceration.
Jack was well enough to resume duty
and most eager for exchange, but ne-
gotiations hung’fire unaccountably, so
said he, and Benton thought he knew
Ihe reason why. Lonnsberry had been
back again in Richmond over six
weeks now, exchanged and restored
to his old and influential post in the
war department. Lounsbarry cduld
be counted on to lose no chance to in-
jure the Chiltons, father or son. and
so long as it was possible he W’ould
block all plan to exchange Jack Chil-
ton. thereby lending color to the stories
spread about in Virginia that pool
Jack rather tried to be caught and to
stay caught, such hard fighting as his
fellow Virginians had to do being little
to his taste. It would have burned
ltiu heart out with fury had he known
It, but few of us begin to realize the
half of what Is whispered to our detri-
ment, else there would he deportation
of sensitive souls or deserved destruc-
tion In the army of detractors. Jack
was nearly mad with misery when told
of Stuart’s impudent dash at Cham-
bersourg and the second circling of the
Army of the Potomac. He was then
just beginning to stump around quite
comfortably. Elinor and the squire
had returned to the west, the former
with red-rimmed eyes and pallid
cheeks. No one knew how she hail
sorrowed over the sad news about
I.adue. It was that, though, that
seemed to bleak the Ice of Rosalie's
reserve, for now, for the first time,
the Virginia girl read ihe secret of her
Wisconsin would-he friend, and melted
to her Instantly. It was that, though
they rarely spoke his name, that led
to the letters now passing frequently
between them. It was through thnt
correspondence the sisterhood began
that, despite trial and trouble, proved
eventually so sure an alliance in lime
of need.
1! it though Elinor wrote In many a
page of her brother, and in only a few
referred to Paul—and then only as
’’he" or "him"—Rosalie would write
only of the latter. Ordinarily this
would have led to resentment and a
breach. Now it did not, for what Rosa-
lie hail to say was stirring new hope
j hated to leave the front and longed to
push on to Richmond or Charlottes-
ville, Benton had been summoned to
Washington. Now, when he longed to
go *o Washington, there was prospect
of a midwinter uash across the Rap-
pahannock. News of the Chiltons was
sorely disquieting. Rosalie would not
write. Jack, in prison camp, could
not. except to kindred, and the doctor
evidently shrank from writing. It
was a winter of courts-martial at the
capital, and several such tribunals
were in session, trying officers of vari-
ous grades. Many new regiments had
come and were held about the city
un'il suitably drilled and disciplined.
As a consequence the avenues again
were alive with uniforms, the hotels
crowded, and many thrifty households
were ’’coining” money taking hoarders.
Mention has been made of Dr. Chil-
ton's sister, with whom they were
again dwelling after their return from
the summer seashore. Being only
moderately well-to-do, and besieged
with applications, she had yielded to
pressure and let two of her rooms to
officers sojourning in the city. Then
one of these, ordered west, begged
leave to present a successor, a major
of a new regiment, who, being a
"smart” lawyer, had been assigned to
duty as a judge advocate of a court
for th? trial of officers of rank in the
volunteers. When the squire wrote
that McKinnon had been appointed
major of a newly raised regiment and
ordered with It to Annapolis, Fred
Benton felt, so great was his antipa-
thy. a vague sensation of annoyance
and chagrin Three weeks later when
Col. Goff, of the-teenth, came down
to pay the Iron Brigade a two-days'
visit, the young stall' officer was con-
founded to hear that Maj. McKinnon
had just found domicile under the same
roof that shielded Dr. Chilton and the
lady of his love. It meant mischief
and Benton knew it.
One bleak December morning Ben-
ton had ridden with his general down
the river bank on the Stafford side
and sat watching the work of the
engineers. The pontoon wagons were
being run to the front, and many an
officer and man looked at the heavy,
ungainly boats and the long loads of
balk and chess, then studied the dis-
tant line of heights across the stream,
some folks of mine that were sick and
nigh starving-”
But the general shut him off impa-
tiently, He was giving ear to the
words of the captain, who had ridden
closer.
"Col. Hammond ordered his ar-
rest. sir. because of papers in his |hks-
session. showing he was mixed up in
the aiding of Confederates—officers—
across the Potomac. They got one of
'em loo weak to ride. He’s in that am-
bulance yonder* and the dragoon
pointed to the yellow-painted vehicle
coming bouncing among the ruts and
ridges of the frozen roadway. A faint
moan issued from beneath the canvas
cover as the driver reined up. and Ben-
ton, moved by compassion, urgerf hi3
horse past the silent, passive column
and peered in through the opening at
the back. The next instant he was out
of saddle, and the rear sitring bent un-
der his weight as he leaped upon the
steps. Then they heard his voice in
tones of mingled grief, joy and amaze:
"PauFf Paul! Dear old boy, don't you
know me?”
CHAPTER XXI.
“IMMEDIATE."
saying little but thinking much. Who-
ever sought to storm that crest had a
prec ious job on hand, was an expurga-
tion of the way In which the average
veteran expressed his individual views.
Atid while seated in saddle, shivering
in the wind blowing front th<* distant
Chesapeake, and wishing the chief
would quit his comments on the orders
of the corps commander and trot home
to dinner, Benton caught sight of a
little column of cavalry riding deject-
edly in from the far left flank. Horses
jailed, men disgusted, and three or
four prisoners In their v.ake looked
worst of all. "Where d’ye s'pose those
dam-fools have come from?” asked
Ihe general, cheerfully. “Captain.'' he
cried, hailing the officer in command,
"what you got there?”
The officer touched his cap. turned
out of column, so as not to halt the
methodlca: march, rode up toward the
general and sa'd: "Prisoners, sir, taken
by one of our scouting parties a few
miles down, and sent In by us, for most
of these horses with me have to bo
shod.”
By this time the greater part of the
troop. In their ugly light blue over-
coats, hail plodded by, and the squad
of prisoners came footing It wearily
BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN.
Over the useless slaughter of the field
of Fredericksburg it were best to draw
the veil. Far down at the left flank the
old brigade groped its way through
dripping fog and lay in line of battle,
having little to do but wait orders, and
catching only occasional shots front
the southern guns along the heights.
Old hands under fire, the veterans—
officers anti men—lay close and kept
still. Their Titles could effect nothing
against an enemy uphill and behind
entrenchments. New ltands, not yet
used to battle, were not so quiet, and
the gallant colonel of the great battal-
ion of Wolverines, big almost as the
rest of the brigade, thought it neces-
sary to ride tip and down his line, ex-
horting his men to steadiness in loud
and powerful voice. “It lets ’em know
I'm here," said he. to the expostulunt
commander of the next door regiment.
"I see,” said the latter, as a volley
flashed down front Early's fellows
along the crest, "and it also lets the
enemy. Your men will be steadier
without the telling." which reasoning
the colonel pondered over and accepted.
He and his thoroughbreds were sikjII-
ing for a chance to show their nrigh-
Ixirs front the adjoining states that
they were quite as vallanL. as the
vaunted old brigade “Give us half a
chance.” said he, "and then—you look
out for the Wolverines."
But neither Fredericksburg nor
Chaneellor8ville, nor Virginia, nor even
Maryland afforded the longed-lor op-
portunity. Not until the midsummer
morning of the first day at Gettysburg
did their time come, but when it came
it proved a test the like of which had
never bepn met before, even in that
hard-fighting, hard-hammered com-
mand.
Meanwhile, what had not befallen
other actors in «ur story—notably the
Damon and Pythias of the ante-bellum
days, Benton and Paul l^tdue.
"Seems to have 'bout as many friends
among the rebs as he has on our side
of the line.' had the division com-
mander remarked of Benton, though in
a moment of exaggerated biliousness,
the day after the retreat from the
southern shore. Fred's new general
had come in for a rasping front the
corps commander, because the lead-
ing brigade took the wrong road in
the rain and darkness, and so delayed
matters over an hour. It happened
tha* Benton had guided the division
to its fiist position on the field: that
he had been sent to find Gen. Frank-
lin; that when he returned with a
message from the latter officer, the
division was in motion, and the com-
mander had ridden off to apeak with
Gibbon or somebody else, and Benton
followed, of course, in search of Ills
chief, instead of staying with the head
of column. Finding himself rebuked,
the general reprimanded Benton in the
presence and hearing of officers and
men. Benton's heart and temper being
both sore and tried, he had replied
with much spirit, if not subordination,
to the effect that the message he was
charged to '’eliver admitted of no de-
lay; that If the general had been where
he belonged there would have been no
delay; and that sooner than submit
to such injustice he would ask to be
relieved from stnff duty forthwith, and
wrote that very night to Ills olu friend
and general, then a member of an im-
porlant military tribunal at Washing-
ton, begging his advice and Interven-
tion. and telling him. of course, the
story of poor Endue.
But. being coupled with another, that
story was now almost an old one at the
capital, for thither had the poor lad
been sent and Jennings with him;
Paul looking, Indeed, "mote dead than
The>S were details which Ladue
could not reveal at the time. He had
revived sufficiently to recognize Benton
and to speak feebly a few momenta;
but that very night, in the fog and
darkness, was begun the building of
the bridges, the crossing of the ler;
gtand division, and Fred cottltl only
leave his poor friend with the sur-
geons and hasten back to his duty.
Four days later, when he would have
ridden to the hospital camp in search
of him, it was too late. Urgent orders
had come from Stanton himself, the
great and growing war secretary, to
send the prisoner patient thither as
soon as he could be moved. Jennings
had already gone tinder strong guard,
and oil Benton could learn at the mo-
ment was that there had been a break
from prison camp; that, aitled by resi-
dents of Baltimore anti of Charles
county, some confederate officers had
escaped to the Potomac; and. while
some of the party had succeeded in
crossing, one boat hail been fired on
and swamped. Two of the officers
had been captured, one being poor
Paul, who hail been nearly drowned,
and was found in a fisherman's hut not
tar from Mathias Point. Two of the
party were still at latge. Arrests of
suspected civilians had been made,
both in Washington and Baltimore.
Hnd certain secret service officials had
been summarily discharged by order
of the secretary, as being unworthy
to hold positions of such trust and
responsibility.
“Stanton is a terror," said Fred’s
informant, a staff officer just from
Washington. “God help the man that
has to bump up against Stanton just
now!"
It was now some 3li hours after
Fred's serious difference wlQi his di-
vision commander. He had sent an
urgent appeal to his old general to be
set free from further contact with these
things lie almost loathed. He looked
for answer within the week, and, tak-
ing advantage of the permission, cold-
ly accorded him by the chief of staff,
to be absent over night, he had gone,
licavy-hearted, to his old friends of the
Iron Brigade, and sought at their hands
SiTJSL
Oklahoma News
STATEHOOD BILLS COMPARED.
The speculation a* to the conditions
under which Oklahoma will get state-
hood tills winter. If either of the bills
now before the house should be passed,
makes It of interest to compare the
prominent features of these two bills
and the Hamilton omnibus bill passed
by the last congress, hut ultimately
defeated on account of the UuUInger
amendment. Of course, both the Ham-
ilton bills united the fortunes of Ari-
zona and New Mexico with those of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, but
In the Oklahoma part there are radi-
cal differences between the various
bills.
In the matter of the capital loct-
tior, the first Hamilton bill placed the
capital at Guthrie until 1910; the pres-
ent Hamilton bill until 1915, giving the
legislature power to provide for its lo-
cation thereafter; the McGuire hill un-
til 1910, with provision thnt Its loca-
tion thereafter shall be decided by a
majority vote of the people.
towns. The McGuire bill provides for
three districts, with Muskogee, Tulsa,
tfouth McAlester. Ardmore. Lawton,
Oklahoma City. Guthrie. Enid and
Alva as court towns.
Five congressional districts are pro-
vided tn each of the Hamilton bill*,
and seven In the McGuire bilk Each
of the Hamilton blits provides »
$5,000,000 indemnity fund for Indian
Territory, to offset the school lands in
Oklahoma. The McGuire bill raises
tills to $10,000,000.
The McGuire bill provides for the
removal of restrictions to the sale of
Indian lands, and for a drainage re-
clamation fund, both of which are en-
tirely absent from both of the Hamil-
ton bills. _
Farmer at Point of Death.
As the result of a quarrel between
George W. May and George W. Koont*.
two farmers living near Ingersott.
which occurred November 7, In which
It Is said May struck Koontz on the
%For the expense of the constitutional “^ult'of the* Pi jury!" w hlch*hi*
_ . .. 4 I mm « L .. I I .... 4 I I ,i lie /\ % i K ill a - I ^
developed seriously. Koontz being at
convention the first Hamilton bill ap-
propriated $75,000, as does the Mc-
Guire bill, while the present Hamilton
bill provides $100,000. The increase Is
said by Mr. Hamilton to have been
made on estimates from the secretary
of Oklahoma
the point of dentil.
Sentry Now in Guard House.
Sentry Charles B. Hastings, who
was guarding Fred Wallace and Geo.
W. Mlinger, military prisoners, when
A clause for the restriction of the tppy escaped has been plnced tn the
wile of Intoxicating llqvors In the In- guard house nt Fort Slit to await In-
dian country for ten year* appeared vestlgutlon ns to whether or not he
tn the first Hamilton bill. This clause assisted the prisoners to free them-
vvas not. however, a part of the orlg- j selves. No trace of the deserters has
Inal bill, but vvns inserted ns an
amendment, ns was the GalUnger
amendment, providing for prohibition
for twenty-one year*. The McGuire
hilt provides for the cession to the
federal government of the power to
control the sale of liquor to Indians.
. .. , , „ . The new Hum on h i makes no men-
the sympathy and consolation to be 1 ne "y
,1 „ , . . .. tlon of the liquor question,
expected of men who had themselves
fell that the official atmosphere was
frigid where once it had been so fair.
Anti it was here, on Thursday morning.
while breakfasting with the genial
The Sulphur Springs reservation was
not mentioned In the first Hamilton
act and bill, as the act creating the
reservation had not been passed at
ibeen found.
Woman Murderously Assaulted.
Mrs. Dave Donaldson, divorced wife
of Dave Donaldson, was murderously
I attacked at night In her rooms In New-
kirk hy Boh Donaldson, brother of her
former husband. She Is of Indian
blood and had Ju?t received $900 from
the quarterly payment of tribal funds
by the government.
Carmen Again in Hard Luck.
Fire completely destroyed the
---------------- --------- | that time. Both the present hills io!o frossfleld building and the Dorn
commander of the Black Hals and lis-| jur|,jB|Ctioti over the reservation to the building. In the heart of the business
tening to his philosophic advice to
"take things coolly” and that "all
would come right," he was surprised by
the coming of a cavalry orderly,
United States.
Preference rights tn the lessees for
the purchase of school lands were not
mentioned In the first Hamilton bill,
splashed with mud, who bore a missive i,ut provision of that sort Is made In
addressed by the adjutant-general of
the division and marked •’Immediate.*’
With a word of apology to Col. Fair-
child and his officers. Benton tore it
open, and two papers fell out. One
read;
"Capt. Benton: Enclosed Just re-
ceived. The general says you better
come this way where the necessary
orders will meet you, and you can get
what luggage yon need. There will he
steamers going all the evening.
“(Signed) BREWSTER. A. A. O.”
The second was a telegram to the
commanding general. —th division.
—th corps, and bore the singular re-
semblance to one received on almost
the same ground some seven months
previous:
"Secretary of War desires to sec
Capt. Benton of your staff at once.
Take first boat. Intermediate com-
manders notified. No dela>
"L. THOMAS. Adjutant-General.”
[To B*> Continued.]
ONE THING LEFT FOR HIM.
both of the new bills. A memorial
adopted by the last Oklahoma legis-
lature asked Mr. Hamilton to make
I this change In his bill.
In the disposition of school lands,
the first Hamilton hill provide i «Hat
they should lie divide I among tlie
state university, university prepara-
tory. normal schools. A. & M. college,
the negro university, ns the state leg-
islature might provide. Both the new
bills give one-third tn the university
snd university preparatory school, one-
third to the A. * M. college and the
negro university.
In public grunts the first Hamilton
hill gave 200,000 acres as an endow-
ment to the state university, and 160.-
000 acres to the A. &• M. college. Both
of the present tdlls give 250.000 acres
to each of these schools. 100,000 acres
each to the preparatory s< hoot and the
negro university, and the same amount
to each of the three normal -chools.
la the assignment of federal court
districts, the first Hamilton hill pro-
vided for two districts, with Muskogee,
Guthrie and Oklahoma t'lty as court
towns. The new Hamilton bill also
! had two districts, with Muskogee. Vln-
\ ml the nest Tklnu for Those Who ! Ita. South McAlester. Ardmore. Guth-
rie, Oklahoma Ulty and Enid ns court
Hail to l.lNteii to III*
Hull I ns.
“I don’t know what the world's com-
ing to!" growled the testy old gentle-
man in the corner of the compartment,
relates London Tit-Bits. “Talk about
individual rights, where are they?"
The other passengers were apparent-
sectIon at Carmen. The Stillwell ho-
tel nnd ttie Carmen National Bank. on
either side of the burned buildings,
were slightly damaged, but were saved
from serious loss.
Ate Poisoned Tablets.
The two-year-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Hill, living In the country
near Lahoma. died from eating a box
of tablet*. The baby was playing
around the room and while the mother
was out of the house a moment found
the poison and ate It. dying In a few
minutes.
Bichlorido for Quinine.
Through a mistake Mrs. W. C.
Withers, living on a farm In Payne
county, gave her 5-year-old son
Charles a dose of bichloride of mer-
cury which caused his death a few
horns later. She took the wrong bot-
tle from the shelf, thinking It was
quinine. _
Children Eloped at Lawton.
George Bhaw. the 18-year-old son of
t’lty Water Commissioner \V. C. Shaw,
of Lawton, eloped with Miss Lillian
Lewis, aged 16 years. They were
married at Anadurko. Their parents
have become reconciled.
1,000.000 Gasser at Ponce City.
The seventh well of the Ponca City
Gas Company, recently brought In.
shows a tested flow of over 1,000.000
feet per day.
The executive committee
the business men
charge of the arrangements for the
Frantz Inaugural Is headed by John H.
Colt era I, who v.-us a delegate to the
Republican national < onventloti la-t
ly content to listen, so the man with!*®1*1' a"d Include* Judge Frank Da e,
Frank H. Greer, editor of the State
1TFMK OF INTFKKST IN OKLAHOMA
named hy • Eva Stapleton, aged 3 year*, daugh-
tlie disordered liver continued:
“If I walk on the footpath. I get
Jammed between a couple of perambu-
lators; if 1 stand a moment. I'm or-
dered to move on by the police; if I
attempt to cross the street, some l’ool
of a cyclist is bound to Imperil his
worthless neck and my limits by ar-
ranging a collision; if I travel by tr.im
or 'bus. I can’t choose my company;
If I took to swimming to and from
the office, some idiot tn a boat would
brain me with an oar; if I fly But
what's the good of talking? I wonder
ir there’s ona single. aolt'.ary thing I
could do without fear of molestation?”
“Yes." replied a burly navvy in the
cottier. "You might die, guv'nor!"
Into the somber current of the western I after. Foremost of these a tall, thln-
gtrl's monotonous life Rosalie had j faced, ungainly specimen, dressed In
amazed and rejoiced her, about the end „ne of those self-same cavalry over- alive." for a strange, eventful history
of October, by the assurance lhat she
believed Capt. Lamar to lie totally mis-
taken. It was true, she admitted, that
Paul Lndue had not been seen with
Ewell's division, but neither hud Ew-
ell, as yet—for the latter had not be-
come accustomed to a cork leg -yet she
hail tiding* front “friends" who. she
would not say—thnt Paul Ladue was
still nllve when borne trom the awful
coats-, glanced curiously at the general had been his ever since the dreadful
from under hi* broad-brimmed slouch morning north of Sharpsburg that
hat; threw a look over the blue-nosed
watery-eyed pair of orderlies at his
back, and tlion on Benton and a broth-
er aide, sit ling a few yards aside; then
Instantly a flash or recognition shot
over his face, anil he called aloud;
"There, captain. There’s a gentle-
man who will vouch for what 1 say.
I stretched him senseless In front of Gib-
bon's furious gun*. "Killed." said La-
front of Gibbon's guns, then belching Ask Capt. Benton
canister In double round*. "More dead
than alive he looked. 1 said her Inform-
ant, but while she had no tidings of
his present whereabouts, nelthtf was
there any record of his death.
All this was presently sent to Fred
on the Rappahannock, ami made him
the more eager to communicate with
some one aero** that modern Ruhl-
con—Nome one who cottltl speak ad-
visedly. But though there were places
near the fords tip stream where the
cavalry vedettes eat long hours It. nod-
dle, facing Slid often within balling
It was our friend Jennings, he of the
stone house and the Warrenton pike,
ami Jennlng* would not be denied.
mar and other officer* who saw him
borge away In a blanket. "Mortally
wounded." said the hospital attendants
who first ministered to him. back of
the Hunker church, where reigned
confusion Inexpressible owing to the
appalling number of those needing^
surgical aid. How he got there or be- |
yond, Paul never knew until long 1
thereafter. Tender-hearted Virginians
Knew VV'liMt He \\ n» Doing.
An Indian t nlet was crossing a w ide
and rapid stream In a canoe with his
mother, who wa* very old. and his
wife. The canoe upset and the chief
► warn out with his mother, though
the old squaw begged him to save his
wife and leave her to drown, as she
had not many moons to live, anyway.
When he reached the shore some of
the tribe who had witnessed the event
questioned the aoundnoBs of hi* Judg-
ment. for the *ame leison given by
the old squaw; hut the chief put an
end to the discussion with this remark.
’’Ugh' get heap more squaw! Never
get another mother!" J. D. Anderson
In Notes and Queries.
He plunged into a voluble story to Ihe had concealed him until be wa* well
Untuning chief, de*plte the efforts of an enough to move about. Odd as It may
Irish trooper to prod him forward. | seem, the most practicable way Tor
"D'yott know him?’’ asked the gen- southern soldier to go from 'h< Poto-
,,ri.i *h„rt|v, a* he turned to Benton mac to his own people wa* by way of
•’ll# soys you do." ! tha north. Through the kind Vlrgln-
“I saw him once or twice, sir," was Ians, civilian clothing wa* bought for
the guarded answer. "I do not know their Interesting captive, and by nild
Itlm further than lhat he held Gen Me- November Paul wag *«fdy under th“
Dowell's pass r.nd went In and out of roof of a well-to-do and m >*t active
our lines ■! will last aumtner." | southern sympathlxar In Ualllmora.
Too Comfortable.
Mrs. Wood I sympathize with you
deeply. It must be very painful to
lore * fortune.
Mrs. tlluck—It's terrible. When wo
were rich we used nothing hut the
mi st exquliRe antique furniture, but
It's all gone, every place.
"The new furniture whbh you have
hero looks very comfortable.'*
"That'a the trouble. It la so comfort-
able that 1 am continually reminded
of the awful fact that It la not antique
-Tlt-BlU.
Capital: Leslie G. Nlblack. editor of
the Leader; John Goloble. erilor of
the State Register; Charles H. Ftl-
son, territorial chairman; J. 11. Nor-
ris, clerk of the district court here;
Representative 1. It. Levy, Mayor John
W. Duke and Major II W. Penter-st.
of Governor Ferguson'* staff. While
the local committee will have charge
of the arrangements. It will be made a
territorial affair and Invitations will
be sent to the mayors an civic or-
ganization- of the other Oklahoma
cities to participate. According to the
plan* now undor way, the Inaugura-
tion will be by far the btggst thing
of the kind that Oklahoma has ev-r
seen.
Thomas Glggon* was senteced nt
Anadarko by the Uaddo county dis-
trict court to ninety-nine years In the
penitentiary on the charge of killing
T. C. Renfro.
A fire which started about midnight
completely destroyed the barns and
gianarle* on the Clarence Crldor farm.
Just south of Cordell, with a loss of
$2,500 and only $700lnsman< e.
In a rear end collision on the Rock
Island just north of Waurlka. Freight
Conductor J. Cnrne* was !n*l*nlly
kilted, nnd Brukemnn Hptingileld fat-
ally injured.
Musgrove served three years In the
ntmy and had a good record.
At an curly hour In the morning
burned to death at Mountain Park. It
is not known how the little one'*
clothing wu* Ignited. There were sev-
eral small children In the adjoining
room at the time who ran to her,
throwing water on the sufferer and
finally tearing the clothing from th •
child, but she wa* so badly burnel
that she tiled a few hour* later.
The number of Ofage annuitant* on
the rolls for the payment Just conclud-
ed reaches 1.983. a decided lncrea<e
for tb*‘ present quarter. Thl* Include*
the eight children of white men who
were placed thereon by order of the
secretary <>f the Interior. The total In-
crease for this payment wa* fifty-one.
The killing of Charles I). Jone«. a
negro soldier of Company F. Twenty-
fifth infantry, by Policeman A! Stone-
man here last July has been Investi-
gated by the grand Jury, but no Indict-
ment was returned as the evidence
Meotced to show that Stonemaii was
Just Ifled.
Mr* Harriet J. Harrow, who was In
her 100th ye*r. died nt the home of
Iter son, A. Harrow, at Mustang. Hh»
wa* horn In 1806. and lacked but a few
month* of completing u century of
life. The body wa* taken to her oil
home In Iowa for burial.
The Oklahoma county farmers’ In-
stitute. at Oklahoma City, hy an un-
animous vote advocated that agricul-
ture be taught by text book In th*
common school* of the territory.
“Duly one year. That’a nothing. I
put In two years In the Philippines,
and. that * certainly wor-e than leav-
en worth.'*
Announcement bn* been made of the
Kremlin wn* visited l>> n disastrous I ippolntment of Amos Ewing, who ha*
fire, which hy hard work was finally been one of the prominent member*
controlled, after the following pliices of the McGuire organisation, us aur-
of business ware destroyed: Gum- I tloneer of the town lot sale, whlth wilt
mer’s Hons, general rtore; Harris' commence nt I’awhuska on Junuury 3.
butcher shop, Ishmuet’a limber shop j b. peter*, who conducted a gen-
Ading's saloon; a restaurant, billiard j #n| merchandise establishment at
hub and blacksmith shop. The loss Is j Lexington, disappeared leaving the •»-
estimated at $13,000, with about l'*°‘ ubllihmtnt In charge of the clerk*,
third* Insurance. The bu*lnes* was taken In charge by
Th* prelimlnurv trial of El met sheriff Bryant of Cleveland county.
tTsnce, charged with the killing of W tl- The business was taken III charge hr
ter Hhehan and wounding of Henry i sheriff liryunt of Cleveland county.
M.tdolll. at Havre. wa*> held at t’hey- The easel* are said to be between
enne. re-lilting In Vance being held $9,000 and $10,000. which It Is claimed
to the gt and Jury w IIhuttfe bait.
will uboul offset the llablllHeo.
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Rehfield, E. T. Okeene Eagle. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1905, newspaper, December 29, 1905; Okeene, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1170708/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.