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MANDY'S MANDOLIN.
My gal's Jest come from boardln' school
An' what do yew suppose
She's fetched to while away the time,
Hesldes her style an' clothes?
It looks 'bout like a crook neck squash,
Except the handle's straight.
An' it's got strings, an' all them things,
An' Mandy thinks it's great!
I guess she's named It for herself,
She calls it "mandylln;"
It's soinethln' like a liddle, tho'
It ain't so wide an" thin.
She don't saw 'crost it with no bow
Hut picks an' picks away,
An' keeps a-plckln', seeniH to me,
But don't git down to play.
Now I like music, but 1 want
Some noise; a hull brass band
Ain't none tew much for me, but this
Thing I can't understand.
It's "tinkle, tinkle, tweedle-dee,"
Or "pinky, panky, ping,"
With Mandy's fingers slidin' up
An' down each tiny string.
An' Mandy she says "paw" an' "maw,"
An' picks her mandylln,
An' gits her skimpy uresses on
An' asts the neighbors in.
Then all thet we kin hear except
When some one's ast to nIiik
Is "tinkle, tinkle, tweedle-dee,"
Or "pinky, panky, ping."
Maybe it's all right, 1 hope it is.
But I'll be called a "Jay"
Kf they had any sech affairs
'Way back in our day.
No, Bir; an' I'll be called a chump,
Or soinethln' wiihs ag'in
Kf I'd a-marrled ma ef she
lied picked a mandylin!
—N. Y. Sun.
THE
SPENDERS
A Tale of the Third Generation
By HARRY LEON WILSON
• I
| "She bought It," explained his sister,
(or an Italian woman who keeps a
little tobacco shop down in Rlvlngton
street. A man goes around to repaint
them, you know, but hers was so bat-
tered that this man told her It wasn't
worth painting again, and she'd better
get another, and the woman said she
didn't know what to do because they
cost $25 and one doesn't last very long.
The bad boys whittle him and throw
him down, and the people going along
the street put their shoes up to tie
them and step on his feet, and they
scratch matches on his face, and when
she goes out and says that isn't right
they tell her she's too fresh. And so
ma gave her $25 for a new one."
"But she has to support five children,
and her husband hasn't been able to
work for three years, since he fell
through a tiro escape where he was
sleeping one hot night," pleaded Mrs.
Uines, "and I think I'd rather stay
here this summer. Just think of all
those poor babies when the weather
j gets hot. I never thought there were
! so many babies in the world."
| "Well, have your own way," said her
| son. "If you've started out to look
t after all the babies in New York you
j won't have any time left to play the
I races, I'll promise you that."
"Why, my son, I never—"
"But sis here would probably rather
do other things."
"I think," said Psyche, "I'd like
I Newport—Mrs. Drelmer says I should
t not think of going any place else,
i Only, of course, I can't go there alone.
She says she would be glad to chape-
rone me, but her husband hasn t had
a very good year In Wall street, and
she's afraid she won't be able to go
herself."
i "Maybe," began Mrs. Uines, "if
j you'd otter—"
"Oh! she'd be offended," exclaimed
Psyche.
"I'm not so sure of that," said her
brother, "not if you suggest it in the
i right way—put it on the ground that
j you'll he quite helpless without her,
and that she'd oblige you world wltn-
| out end and all that. The more I see
I of people here the more I think they're
j qiiite reasonable in little matters like
that. They look at them in the right
! light. Just lead up to it delicately
i with Mrs. Drelmer and see. Then if
Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Cotnpuuy.
CHATTER XIV.—Continued.
"You know it's ao. ma," the daughter she's willing to go with you, your sum-
went on, accusingly. "One night last mer will be provided for, except that
winter when you were away we dined t we shall both have to look in upon
at the Balldridge's, in Eighty-sixth j Mrs. Juzzlebraggin here now and then
street, and the pavements were so I to see that she doesn't overplay the
sleety the horses couldn't stand, so J game and get sick herself, and make
Col. Balldrldge brought us home in the sure that they don't get her vaccina-
Elevated, about 11 o'clock. Well, at Hon mark away from her. And, ma,
one of the stations a big policeman you'll have to come off on the yacht
got on with a little baby all wrapped i once or twice, just to give it tone. '
•up In red flannel. He'd found it in an It appeared that Percival had been
areaway, nearly covered with snow— right In supposing that Mrs. Drelmer
where some one had left It, ami he was might be led to regard Psyche s pro-
taking it down to police headquarters, : posal in a light entirely rational. She
he said. Well, ma went crazy right 1 was reluctant, at first, it is true.
away. She made him undo it, and then "It's awfully dear of you to ask me.
she insisted on holding it all the way | child, but really, I'm afraid it will be
down to Thirty-third street. One man | quite impossible. Ohljgflor reasons
said it migut be president of the ■, which you, of course, With your end-
United States, some day; and Col. j less bank account, cannot at all com-
lialldridge said: 'Yes, it has unknown ! prebend. You see we old New York
possibilities—it may even be a presi- [ families have a secure position here
dent's wife'—just like that. But I | by right of birth; and even when we
thought ma would be demented. It are forced to practice little economies
was all fat and so warm and sleepy it in dress and household management it
could hardly hold its eyes open, and | doesn't count against us—so long as
touched a drop now in over three
weeks. My doctor says I must let it
be for at least two months, and I mean
to stick by him. Awfully kind of you,
though!"
CHAPTER XV.
THE SIGHT OK A NEW BKAfTT. AND
SOME ADVIHS FROM HIOBEB.
In from the shining sea late one aft-
ernoon steamed the Viluca. As her
chain was rattling through the hawse-
hole, Percival, with his sister and
Mauburn. came on deck.
"Why, there's the Chicago—Higbee's
yacht."
"That's the boat," said Mauburn,
"that's been piling the white water up
in front of her all afternoon trying to
overhaul us."
"There's Millie Higbee and old Silas,
now."
"And, as I live," exclaimed Psyche.
"there's the Baron de Palliac between
them!"
"Sure enough," said her brother.
"We must call ma up to see htm
dressed In those sweet, pretty yachting
flannels. Oh, there you are!" as Mrs.
Bines joined them. "Just take this
glass and treat yourself to a look at
your old friend, the baron. You'll no-
tice he has one on—see—they're wav-
ing to us."
"Doesn't the baron look just too dis-
tinguished beside Mr. Higbee?" said
Psyche, watching them.
"And doesn't Higbee look just too
Chicago beside the baron?" replied her
brother.
The Higbee craft cut her way grace-
fully up to an anchorage near the Vi-
luca, and launches from both yachts
now prepared to land their people.
At the landing Percival telephoned for
a carriage. While they were waiting
the Higbee party came ashore.
"Hello!" said Higbee. "if I'd known
that was you we was chasing I'd have
put on steam and left you out of
sight."
"It's much better you didn't recog-
nize us; these boiler explosions are so
messy."
"Know the baron here?"
"Of course we know the baron. Ah.
baron!"
"Ah. ha! very charmed ,Mr. Bines and
Miss Bines; it is of a long time that
we are not encountered."
He was radiant; they had never be-
fore seen him thus. Mrs. Higbee hov-
ered near him with an air of proud
ownership. Pretty Millie Higbee posed
gracefully at her side.
"This your carriage?" asked Higbee;
"i must telephone for one myself. Go-
ing to the Mayson? So are we. See
you again to-night. We're off for Bar
Harbor early to-morrow."
"Looks as if there were something
doing there," said Percival, as they
drove off the wharf.
"Of course, stupid!" said his sister;
that's plain; only it isn't doing, it's
already done. Isn't it funny, ma?"
'For a French peison," observed ! tables, where his host
Mrs. Bines, guardedly, "I always liked
the baron."
Of course," said her son. to Man-
burn's mystification, "and the noblest
men on this earth have to wear 'em."
The surmise regarding the Baron de
Palliac and Millie Higbee proved to
be correct. Percival came upon Higbee
wilt be a bully ad.; and It kept the
women quiet," he concluded, apolo-
getically.
"The baron's a good fellow," said
Percival.
"'Sure." replied Higbee. "They're all
good fellows. Hank had the makln's
of a good fellow In him. And say.
young man, that reminds me; I hear
all kinds of reports about your getting
to be one yourself. Now I knew your
father, Daniel J. Bines, and I liked
him. and I like you; and I hope you
won't get huffy, but from what they
tell me you ain't doing yourself a bit
of good."
"Don't believe all you hear," laughed
Percival.
"Well, I'll tell you one thing plain,
if you was my son, you'd fade right
back to the packing house along with
Henry-boy. It's a pity you ain't got
some one to shut down on you that
way. They tell me you got your fa-
ther's capacity for carrying liquor, and
I hear you're known from one end of
Broadway to the other as Uie easiest
mark that ever came to^^^h 'i ney
say you couldn't walk deep
without spending money. Excuse
my plain speaking, but them are two
reputations that are mighty hard lo
live up to beyond a certain limit.
They've put lots of good weight-car-
riers off the track before they was due
to £o. I hear you got pinched In that
wheat deal of Burman's?"
"Oh, only for a few hundred thou-
sand. The reports of our losses were
exaggerated. And we stood to win
over—"
"Yes—you stood to win, and then
you went 'way back and set down.' as
the saying is. But it ain't the money.
You've got too much of that, anyway.
Lord knows. It's this everlasting hul-
labaloo and the drink that goes with
it, and the general trifling sort of a
dub it makes out of a young fellow.
It's a pity you ain't my son; that's all
I got to say. I want to see you agaiu
along in September after I get back
from San Francisco; I'm going to try
to get you interested in some business.
That'd be good for you."
"You're kind. Mr. Higbee. and really
HAVE MANY IDEAS
BOLTON SET FREE
PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA HAVE
DIFFERENT VIEWS ON NEW
STATE CONSTITUTION
Former Clerk of Legislature is Exoner-
ated of a Murder Charge.
| PERRY: Hon. T. H. Doyle has re-
j turned from New Mexico, where he
j went last week to defend L. D. Bolton,
I in his preliminary trial for the klll-
| Ing of Carl Gilg at Clayton.
1 Gilg was a wealthy rancher and has
been engaged In the sheep business in
POLITICAL PARTIES PECULIARLY APART I that country for thirty years.
Mr. Bolton had been beaten up by
other parties and shot Gilg, who was
an innocent bystander, by mistake.
The latter exonerated Bolton by say-
ing his death came by fate and that
Bolton was not to blame.
Bolton Is considered to be insane,
yet on account of the high standing
of the deceased prejudice is very much
against him.
Since the fight he has been unable
to leave bis lied and was carried to
and from the court room at the court
house.
Chief Justice Mills has ordered him
removed to a sanitarium if his health
does not improve at once.
Mr. Bolton has a homestead in Bea-
ver county and has been engaged in
the real estate business at Clayton. At
the time of the shooting he was making
an active canvass for delegate to the
constitutional convention from the
Heaver district. His family has moved
to Clayton to be with him until his
trial the midde of September. Bolton
Prohibitionists Have Issued Their Ul-
timatum, Labor and Farmers Get To-
gether and Initiative and Refern-
dum Seems a Favorite
The question of paramount import-
ance to Oklahoma now is, "What prin-
cjples shall be Incorporated in the
constitution of the new state?"
The Prohibitionists have gone far-
ther than any other class of citizens,
and have issued the ultimatum that
every candidate who desires the sup-
port of the anti-saloon element must
publicly pledge himself In favor of a
state prohibition law. The Socialists
are active and are working to secure
the incorporation of some of the pet
principles of that party in the basic
law of Oklahoma. The Socialists have
some ideas in common with the Demo-
crats and Populists as to what the con-
stitution should contain. They desire
t' e initiative and referendum, and the
most rigid control of railroads by the j moved from Perry some years ago t
state. The labor unions of the two
territories arc also active and have
called a convention to meet at Shawnee
for the purpose of discussing what
they will stand for in the constitu-
tional convention. Farmer's unions,
with several thousand members in the
two territories, are organized along
labor union lines.
With three political parties and the
labor unions standing for the initiative
and referendum, this principle of gov-
ernment will probably bring up the
greatest amount of discussion in the
convention, with the possible excep-
tion of the prohibition question. The
plan which exists in Oregon and South
Dakota seems to be the favorite one
I appreciate all you say; but you'll see | with Oklahomans. The law there pro-
Hobart and from there was chosen as
the chief clerk of the lower house
the Seventh Oklahoma assembly.
HE OBJECTS TO COOLIES
of
I believe she'd have kept it then and
there if the policeman would have let
her. She made him promise to get it
-a bottle of warm milk the first thing,
and borrowed $20 of the colonel to give
to the policeman to get it tilings with
and then all the way down
against the authorities for
we stay here. Now, Newport is dif-
ferent. One cannot economize grace-
fully there—not even one of us. There
are quiet and very decent places for
those of us that must. But at Newport
one must not fall behind in display. A
he talked sense of loyalty to the others, a no-
allowing i blesse oblige, compels one to be
finch things—as if they could help it— | lavish as those flamboyant outsiders
and when we got home she cried—you | who go there. One doesn't want them
know you did, ma—and you pretended to report, you know, that such and
it was toothache—and ever since then such families of our smart set are fall-
she's been perfectly datt about babies, ing behind for lack of means. So,
Why, whenever she sees a woman go- while we of the real stock are chummy
ing along with one she thinks the poor enough here, where there are only us
thing is going to leave it some place; in a position to observe ourselves,
and now she's in with those charity ; there is a sort of tacit agreement that
workers and says she won't leave New only those shall go to Newport who
York at all this summer." ;are able to keep up the pace. One
1 "I don't care," protested the guilty need not, for one season or so. be a
mother, "it would have frozen to death cottager; but. for example, in the mat-
in just a little while, and it's done so ter of uress, one must be sinfully lav-
often. Why, up at the Catholic Pro-I ish. Really, child, 1 could spend three
tectory they put out a basket at the ' months in the Engadine for the price
side door, so a body can leave their of one decent month at Newport; the
liaby In it and ring the lell and run parasols, gloves, fans, shoes, 'frillies'
away; and they get one twice a week —enough to stock the Rue de la Paix,
sometimes; and this was such a sweet, to say nothing of gowns—but why do
fat little baby with big blue eyes, and il run on? Here am I with a few sim
its forehead wrinkled, and it was all pie summer things, fit enough indeed
puckered up around its little nose—" for the quiet place we shall reach for
"And that isn't the worst of it." the July and august, but ab-so-lute-ly im-
relentless daughter broke in. "She possible for Newport—so say no more
gets begging letters by the score and about It. dear. You're a sweet—but it's
gives money to all sorts of people, and madness to think of it."
a man from the Charities Organiza- ; "And I had," reported Psyche to her
tion, who had heard about it, came j mother that night, "such a time get-
and warned her that they were im ting her to agree. At first she wouldn't
postors—only she doesn't care. Do you j listen at all. Then, after I'd just fair-
know, there was a poor old blind worn ly begged her, she admitted she might
an with a dismal, wheezy organ down because she's taken such a fancy to
at Broadway and Twenty-third street j me and hates to leave me—but she
—the organ would hardly play at all, ! was sensitive about what people might
and just one wretched tune—only the say. I told her they'd never have a
woman wasn't L.ind at all. we found j chance to say a word; and she was
out—and ma bought her a nice new anxious Perce should know, because
organ that cost $75 and had it taken lshe says he's so cynical about New
up to her. Well, she found out through j York people since that Milbrey girl
me settle down pretty soon, quick as I
get my bearings, and be a credit to
the state of Montana."
After they had gone away Percival
sat revolving the paternal warnings of
Higbee. He considered them seriously.
He decided he ought to think more
about what he was doing and what he
should do. He decided, too, that ho
could think better with something me-
chanical to occupy his hands. He took
a cab and was driven to the local
branch of his favorite temple of chance.
His host welcomed him at the door.
"Ah. Mr. Bines, a little recreation,
eh? Your favorite dealer, Dutson, is
here to-night, if you prefer bank."
, Passing through the crowded, bright-
j ly-lighted rooms to one of the faro
vides that the people have a right to
propose any measure to he enacted by
the legislature, and if the same is not
enacted to compel a submission of it
President Gompers of American Fed-
eration of Labor Criticises Ad-
ministration
WASHINGTON: Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation
of Labor, is out in a signed statement
criticising the action of the isthmian
Canal commission in introducing
Chinese laborto the work of construct-
ing the Panama canal. He says:
In the most extraordinary manner
the eight hour law is annulled in the
greatest public work ever undertaken
by the government under the pre-
tense that conditions there are dif-
ferent than they are in the United
States. It must appeal to the variest
to the vote of the electors of the state j tyro that if eight hours work is lt-
to determine whether it should become [ garded as sufficient in the compaia-
a law. The people also have the right j lively temperate zone of the I nited
to require that any action of the leg- States, certainly ten, eleven and even
islature be submitted to the vote of j more hours of labor a day in the pest^
the electors for their expression as to ! ilential and Miasmatic atmosphere of
promptly se-
cured a seat for him. he played medi-
tatively until one o'clock; adding ma-
terially to his host's reasons for believ-
ing he had done wisely to follow his
New York clients to their summer an-
nex.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
whether it should become a law.
The Republicans are greatly divided
on many of the important issues, some
favoring the initiative and referen-
dum, some wanting the state institu-
tions under civil service regulations,
some wanting a Republican constitu-
tional convention that will draft a Re-
publican document, some wanting a
railroad commission with fullest possi-
ble powers, some wanting a corpora-
tion commissioner to be elected by the
people, with supervision over the
chartering and admission to the state
of all corporations other than trans-
portation, telegraph and telephone
companies, and some wanting a gen-
eral primary law for the nomination
of all public officers, including United
States senators. Other issues that will
receive support from all parties are
liberal homestead and exemption pro-
| visions and a reasonable tax exemption
I to heads of families while residents
I of the state; permitting the state to
engage in any business deemed bene-
know of the mysterious "Katie King," j ficial and for public interest; prohibit
| who is stated by such a scien.ific an- : ing common carriers from producing
thority as Sir William Crookes to hive or dealing In commodities hauled by
materialized several times in the pre -
ence of himself and of other perso s,
and whom he photographed. Pr f.
Charles Richet. an almost equally welt-
known man of science, who has loi g
studied such ques;ions, has just made
the acquaintance of a new materi .liz d
spook, who gives his name as "Bien
PHOTOGRAPHING GHOSTS.
Story of a Remarkable Spook That
Was Found by an Eminent
Psychist.
All interested in psychical reseirch
them: a graduated land, inheritance
and income tax; franchises and taxa-
tion purposes and a provision that no
law enacted by a two-thirds majority
shall ever be held unconstitutional but
shall be deemed an amendment to the
constitution.
"THERE'S THE BARON."
this man from the Organization that
the woman had pawned the new organ
for $20 and was still playing on the
old on*5. She didn't want a new one
because it was too cheerful; It didn't
make people sad when they heard It.
like her old one did. And yesterday
ma bought an Indian—"
"A what?" asked her brother, in
amazement
"An Indian—a tobacco Rign."
"You don't mean it? One of those
lads that stand out in front and pper
under their hands to see what pale
faces are moving into the house across
the street? Say, ma. what you going
to do witn him? There isn't much
room here, you know."
"I didn't buy him for myself," re-
plied Mrs. Bines, with dignity; "I
wouldn't want such an objecL"
made such a set for him; and at last
she called me a dear and consented,
though she'd been looking forward to
a quiet summer. To-morrow early we
start out for the shops."
So it came tuat the three members
of the Bines family pursued during the
summer their respective careers of di-
version under conditions most satis-
factory to each.
The steam yacht Viluca. chartered
by Percival, was put into commission
early in June. Her first cruiHe of ten
days was a signal triumph. His eight
guests were the men with whom he
had played poker so tirelessly during
the winter. Perhaps the most illumin-
ating log of that cruise may bo found
in the reply of one of them whom Per-
cival Invited for another early in July.
"Much obliged, old man, but I haven't
in the meditative enjoyment of his
after-dinner cigar, out on the broid
piazza.
"I s'pose you're on," he began; "the
girl's engaged to that Frenchy."
I congratulate him," said Percival.
heartily.
"A real baron," continued Higbee.
"I looked him up and made sure of
that; title's good as wheat. God knows
that never would 'a' got me, out the
madam was set on it, and the girl, too.
and 1 had to give in. It seemed to
be a question of him or some actor.
The madam said I'd had my way about
Hank, putting' his poor stubby
to the grindstone out there in Chi-
cago, and makin' a plain insignificant
business man out of him, and I'd ought
to let her have her way with the girl,
being that I couldn't expect her to go
to work, too. So Mil will work the
society end. I says to the madam, I
says: 'All right, have your own way;
and we'll see whether make more
out of the girl than I make out of the
boy,' I says. But it ain't going to be
all digging up. I've made the baron
promise to go Into business with me,
and though I ain't told him yet, I'm
going to put out a line of Higbee's
thin-sliced ham and bacon in glass
jars with his crest on 'cm for the
French trade. This baron'll cost me
more'n that sign I showed you coming
out of the old town, and he won't give
any such returns, but the crest jn them
jars, printed In throe color* and gold,
Boa." Of course, M. Richet tcok eveiy
possible precaution against imposture.
It is true that some years ago he was
repeatedly taken in by a spurious me-
dium, whom he himself eventua ly j
showed up. In the present case the
medium is a Mile. Martha B—, who
is betrothed to the son. a French
naval officer, now decea ed, of General
and Mme. Noel, in whose vi.la at Al-
I giers the ghost in question was made
| flesh temporarily on several even! gs
last September. The sean es took
place in a room sufficiently lit for pe -
sons to see each other well and to read
the time by their watches easily. Djors
j and windows were duly barred and
j sealed, all usual precautions egii.st
j fraud being otserve l.
Mile. Martha was put into a traite
In a corner of 1he room behind drawn
curtains, and left there alone. The
apparition eventually came out from
behind the curtains. It was t at of a
dark-complexioned man c'.ad en ir-!y
in wliiie, wearing a turban, and round
the forehead a band of some bright
j metal, portions of it being go d. The
" ghost walked among the spectators,
shook hands with them repeatedly, his
touch feeling like that of an ordinary
living human being, and kissed Mie.
Noel. Vrflt. Richet placed against his
mouth a phial containing a solution of |
baryta, which the ghost's breath trail -
formed into carbonate of baryta, as in
the case of ordinary respiration. The
materialized phantom appeared on sev-
eral different evenings. Once he w s
seen to sink through the floor ii the
middle of the room and to arise agiin
immediately from arother part of the
floor. Finally he spoke, presumably in
French, though that point is not speci-
fied. and said that he was "Bien Boi,"
formerly a priest in India. Prof. Ki h-
et himself photographed the phanti m
by flashlight, and the pictures of the
gathering, with the apparition am nig
them, can be seen.
Carl Holtschue, a Rough Rider, is
a candidate for postaster for Oklaho-
ma City against Elmer E. Brown, the
present incumbent.
the Panama zone are not only improp-
er but outrageous and brutal.
"The existing law excluded Chinese
laborers and coolies from the United
States or any of its possessions. The
Panama canal zone is a possession
and it as much a violation of the
law to bring Chinese coolies there as
it is in other portions of our country.'
SUES FOR MILLION DOLLARS
Norman Woman Was Cheated Out o.
Valuable Mineral Land.
NORMAN: Attorneys for Mvs.
: .lane Lovell, of Norman, have com-
menced a suit in the United Suites
I court at Duiuth, Minn., against a big
! iron ore firm for $1,000,000, charging
that the firm had secured a deed from
j their client to forty acres of valuable
(ire. The suit is to seL aside the deed
> and to recover pay for the ore already
taken out. The contention is that
representatives of the firm visited
owners of the land some years ago, and
; by representing that the property was
, practically worthless, secured deeds
for nominal sums, Mrs. Lovell reeeiv-
i ing less than $100 for the forty acres
she sold. Several other suits, similar
i to this one, have been brought by oth-
' ers who allege they were defrauded
of their lands and the company has
I settled some of these by paying large
J sums.
! Tulsa's new park was formally
opened Tuesday by a reunion of Ohio
and Indiana people of that section.
Congressman T. 11. Scroggins, of
Xenla, O.. delivered an address.
DAVD L. PAYNE BOOMERS
Big Gathering Will Be Held at Tonka-
wa on November 28.
At a meeting of the Payne Memor-
THE METHODISTS MEET
District Epworth League Conference
at Edmond Resolutes.
EDMOND: The district conference
ial association held at Tonkawa last and Epworth League convention of the
Oklahoma City district was held in the
First Methodist church of Edmond,
during the week. A resolution, pre-
sented by Rev. A. M. VirDen, was
adopted, asking the annual conference
to provide for an annual summer
school' of theology to be held for a
period of ten days at Epworth univers-
ity, for the special benefit of the un-
dergraduates, at the close of which
shall be held the regular conference
examinations.
The committee on temperance sub-
mitted resolutions, which wore adopt-
ed, pledging themslves to do all in
their power to seure the election of
delegates to the constitutional conven-
tion favorable to prohibition. A com-
mittee composed of Revs. VirDen of
Edmond, Rainsberger of Cushing, and
McCreary of Choctaw, was named on
week it was decided to hold a big
conventu n of "Boomers" at Tonkawa,
November 28. The G. A. R. of the ter-. 1
ritory, the territorial press and the
HistoHc.il Societies of Kansas and Ok-
lahoma will be invited to attend and be
represented on the program.
The* followers of Payne are widely
scattered, and an effort will be made
to bring them together at this meet-
ing.
The Payne Memorial association
was organized April 20, 1901, at Bra-
man. The purpose was to have the
remains of David L. Payne removed
from the cemetery at Wellington and
buried at Guthrie; also to secure funds
to erect a monument over the grave.
The officers are: President, Capt.
Louis Weythman, Tonkawa; first vice
president, P. E. Watkins, Braman;
second vice president, D. W. Stallings, I the dangers that confront the church
Blackwell; recording secretary, W. J.
Krebs; corresponding secretary, T. N.
Athey, Blackwell.
in the new state. It was voted to hold
the next session of the district confer-
ence at Chandler.
Lawton District Enlarged.
WASHINGTON; The general land
office, by order effective October 1.
changed the boundaries of the El Reno
and Lawton districts so that all Kiowa
lands to be disposed of will come
within the Lawton district. This af-
fects the two most northern pastures,
but is planned so that all the business
can be handled from one office.
Frisco Extension to Cornish.
From official headquarters comes
\ the announcement that work on the
j grading of the Frisco extension from
| Oklahoma City to Cornish, I. T., where
| connection will be made with the
Rock Island railway, will be commenc-
ed at once under the supervision of
! A. L. Phillips, engineer in charge of
j the preliminary work, who has been
Instructed to open headquarters in Ok-
E1 Reno is trying to raise a $20,00o j lahoma City. The work of purchasing
bonus to secure a large pottery con j the right of way is progressing rapld-
•ern. I Ly and will be finished shoutly.
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