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VOL. IX.
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, FRIDAY, AU< i. 20, 1897.
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ARKANSAS RACE WAR PETEHMIHKD AS EVER.
I Striking Miners Show No Signs of Weak-
THREE MEN KILLED-ONE • ' *•
FATALLY INJURED. | P'TTSBrao. Pa., Aug. 16.—A leaden
sky anil titful showers contributed to
the feeling of depression which ex-
Negro Charged with Murder Kenuted isted at the miners' camps at Turtle
Arreit—oiitrer nnd Negro iioth Kein- and Plum Creeks yesterday. The men
forced and • Pitched tuttle Fought— ; huddled together for shelter under the
Hegroea Fled and a Poue In Pursuit. | «oinmiseary tents, and. having noth-
ing else to do, put in the time smok-
Litti.b Rock, Ark., Aug. 16.—The
bloodiest race riot that has occurred
in Arkausas in months took place at
Palarm station, thirty miles from Lit-
tle Rock, last evening. Three men
are dead, another fatally wounded
and two others injured. The dead
are: Harrison Korr, a negro, shot all
to pieces; Charles Peters, colored,
ing and discussing the strike in all its
phases The spirit of aggressiveness,
however, has largely died out. The
same gritn determination to 6tick it
out until starvation brings defeat or
their efforts bring victory is apparent,
but there are no propositions to attain
their ends by force, or to go contrary
to the she tiff's orders.
Yesterday afternoon there
killed outright; Charles Andry, white, large mass meeting at Plum Creek,
shot through the heart. | About 1,000 strikers and 200 miners
The seriously injured are: J. T. from the Plum Creek mine were pres*
Clarke, jr.: telegraph operator, shot ent Speeches were made by President
through the shoulder, probably
fatally; D. R. Owens, white, deputy
sheriff of Perry county, shot through
the groin, seriously.
C Owens, a deputy sheriff from Perry
county, had a warrant for Harrison
Korr, a negro, charged with murder.
When he attempted to make the ar-
rest at Palarm, Korr opened lire on
the officer The first shot struck
Owens in the groin. The bullet
striking silver coin in the trousers
pocket, glanced and inflicted a serious
wound. The money in Owens' pocket
probably saved his life. Andry and
Clarke went to Owens' assistance and
five or six negroes joined in with Korr-
A pitched battle ensued, hi which over
fifty shots were fired.
When tho shooting was over, Andry
and Peters lay dead, Clarke had got
into his oflice and fell on the floor.
Owens was lying in a ditch near the
station and Korr and the remainder
of his companions had disappeared.
TIic entire town was at the scene of
Ratchford, Samuel Oompers, Ja:
Sovereign and the local leaders. The
meeting was orderly and there was n<
interference from tho deputies.
BIGGEST ADVANCE OF ALL.
September Wheat In Chicago Sella at
H5 Cent*.
Chicago, Aug 14.—The biggest ad-
vance of the seuson occurred in the
Chicago wheat market to-day. The
September price went up 2J-tf cents
during the regular session and there
was a further advance of a cent on
the "curb" right after the market
closed, carrying September wheat up
to 85 cents, the highest price yet
reached. "Calls'' for Monday sold at
88 cents and above, showing how very
bullish is the sentiment among
traders.
Swimmer and Comradei Minting.
New York, Aug. 10.—The Time®
says that David Dalton, a well known
the shooting and a posso started in j swimmer, whose feats attracted atten-
pursuitofthe fleeing negroes. Har- tion at the Worl l's fair, Fred Peters
rison Korr was found lying dead in the 1 of New Bedford, Mass , and Walter
road a mile away, literally shot to Arnold of Boston are missing. Dalton,
pieces, blood running from five wounds , according to the Times, attempted to
in his bod}'. The other negroes who ; swim from Coney Island to Sandy
participated in the bloody affair con- Hook lightship, a distanco of fourteen
tlnued their flight and have not yet | miles, the two men accompanying him
been captured. j in a boat It is feared that all three
The whole country is in a fever of have been swept away to sea.
excitement and should Korr's asso-
ciates be captured they will never
come to trial.
CONDENSED NEWS.
Many towns in Western Kansas are
unable to get cars to haul wheat.
SENATOR GEORGE DEAD Albert Hial, the well known New
York music hall manager, is dead.
Th. Mississippi Statesman and .Inrlst j Th<J Un|<m IrQn Worl[, San Fnm.
Succumbs to a Protracted Illness. | c[sco wm supply diagonal artnor tor
Mississippi Citv, Miss., Aug. 10.—j the Wisconsin at S300 a ton.
United States Senator J. Z. George Figures riven out at the patent office
died here at 2:40 o'clock Saturday ■ show ,hat a con8iderable proportion
afternoon. lie had been suffering | of lnvcntors nre women.
from heart disease come months and n;.. 1-. 1 . u- 1
... ,, , - . ... ,. . The Dingley law rates on bicycle*
had been unable to be in Washington nre ,Ik#lv toshutollt Alnoricnn
at the opening of Congress last Be- , from Ger th „ ri)talllltlon.
cember. Later he arrived in that citv, .. , . . .
but was compelled to go to Garfield French makers of straw hats are
hospital Sinee his removal to hll "apla* harveat supplying sunbon
home here, his case had been conceded ne_. °r ,orses"
to be hopeless | Tho mil>'or °< Lincoln, Neb., has re-
. moved the chief of police for making
war on the gamblers.
Slashed Five Policemen. ,, , . . , , , , . ..
_ , ,,, Pamphlets calculated to strengthen
Pittsburo, Pa., Aug. 0 -lames El- opp„5ition to thc fcdcrat oourt5 Bre tc
bert, arrested as a suspicious charac- be distributed broadcast over Kansas,
ter and supposed to be an Anarchist, I
created big excitement at the police
INTERNATIONAL DUEL
ITALIAN AND FRENCH NO-
BLEMEN CROSS SWORDS.
Frenchman Gets Worit of It—Prince
Henri of Orleun* Seriously Woumled
—Caused by i rltlcisnt of llie Italian
Army In Abtaslula hy the l.attcr.
ONE THOUSAND MORE.
WOODMEN RIOT.
Two Itlg Slilps Sail for Alaska With 1ts4 la Hand Fight Hot ween Fulton
Eager Gold Seekers. and Itock Island Citizens.
Victoria, 11. C.. Aug. 10—There Fulton, 111., Aug. 16.—The long
were in Victoria this morning close 1 itanding tight between this town and
upon 1,000 men of every class and llock Island, HI., for the location of
from every part of tne world, who the headquarters of the Modern Wood-
were crazy to get started on the long men of America culminated yesterday
trip to the new Eldorado. These men In a hand-to-hand light between scores
! had tickets which will carry them tc , of partisans of the respective towns in
j Skaguay bay on the big collier Bris- | which a number of persons were seri-
Paris, Aug. 10.-The Count of Turin j tcl or the steamer Islander, both of ously injured.
and Prince llenri of Orleans fought a whlch sailed to-day- The Bristol has A party was made up in Rock Island
duel with swords at 5 o'clock yester- j been fitted with bunks for men and and plans were made for a raid on the
day morning at the Boies de Marc- stalls for horses from the bottom of Fulton headquarters, with tho object
chaux at Vaneiesson. II Leontieff her hold to the top of her cabin deck, of forcibly taking possession of the
acted as umpire. Tho fighting was I and every bunk and stall is occupied, | books, records, etc., of the order and
most determined and lasted twenty-
IN THE NEW COUNTRY.
OKI.AIIOMA AM) indian territory
six minutes. There were five engage-
ments, of which two were at close
quarters. Prince Henri received two
serious wounds, in the right shoulder
and the right side of the abdomen.
The Count of Turin was wounded in j
close upon .'.00 men going on the Bris- : removing the oflice of Head Clerk
tol, and jnst as many horses and j Ilawes to Bock Island. A train was
mules. Even the big collier is filled chartered, consisting of three coaches,
up. the food for those animals and the a baggage car and two box cars, and
outfits for the men taking up an iin« j the invaders were soon on their way
tnense amount of space. j to Fulton Tho inhabitants of the
The Islander has just as big a crowd, lattor town were forewarned, how-
! but much of the space on her is taken ?ver. A fire alarm was sounded nnd
the right hand. Prince Henri
taken to the residence of the Due de UP a contingent of mounted police, lines of hose were laid to the points
Clinrtruse uud received medical at- i ">« horses' dotfs nn(1 outfits. They
tendance. ! realise that they huvc a winter's trip
The condition of Prince Henri cr ! before them before the reach Dawson
Orleans is as satisfactory as could be *-'ty, and are taking dogs and sleighs.
expected. The doctors, nfter con- \ . Horses will be taken as far as pos-
sulfation, expressed thc opinion that j ®ihle, and when they are of no more
no important organ was touched, but I use^will be killed and used as food
absolute rest Is necessary for recovery
Choctaw is to hare a distillery.
West Perry has been incorporated.
Norman is to have a new mill and
elevator.
A wholesale cotton buying firm is to
locate at Chaudler.
Arapaho., has fir all J succeeded in j FL lliblon ha, been visited hyc.pl-
■ecuring a cotton gin. u]j|)U am, the|r v|,H „woU(, |10p,.s „f
A Payne county man is raising d og future greatness for tho town.
for the Klondyke market.
Hennessey has shipped 250 car load
of wheat since the first of June.
Medford is a choice location for a
flour mill.
There are aeveral thousand acres of
wheat yet in shock in Grant county.
Booming Oklahoma's big wheat yield
has not appriciably lowered the price
of it
A cowboy preacher is delivering
noctural sermons on the streets of
Vinita.
Tecumseh is to have a big cotton
compress which will be built in time
for fall use.
An Okla. bridegroom got seared at
what was ahead of him and hid out j barber at Perry.
until friends reassured him. | The Indians arc fast adopting the
Oklahoma is breaking its record as
an agricultural country.
Stillwater is to have a flour mill of
100 barrels capacity per day.
A telephone line will be established
between Tahlequah and Wagoner.
A cainp meeting at Pawnee has de-
ciminated the crop of yellow-leggetl
chickens.
The CI ul f. Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad is to be brought up to first-
class condition.
Tin-papers are attempting all sorts
of humorous remarks about the woman
Owing to rumors at Naplos and else-
where, the public hurl not expectcd a
duel to come off. It was, therefore,
quite private.
It appears that the police had been
unusually active uud had ordered the
foresters to watch carefully all places
likely to be chosen for the encounter,
but everybody was deceived by the
report from Naples and by the un-
usually early hour chosen.
The Temps says that tho wound in
the abdomen of Prince Henri is seri-
ous. but not alarming. Had the Count
of Turin's steel gone half a centimeter
deeper, the Intestines would have
been perforated. After his wound had
received a preliminary dressing, Prince
Henri walked to his carriage unaided.
The Count of Turin, accompanied by
his seconds, left Paris for Italy, lie
was not experiencing any special dis-
tress from his wounds.
The duel grew out of certain criti-
cisms made by Prince Henri of Or-
leans upon the conduit of the Italian
oflicers and soldiers while prisoner of
the Emperor Menelik in Abyssinia.
These criticisms were published early
in duly in the New York Herald and
thc Paris Figaro, for which Prince
for dogs. A few of the men are going
up with the idea of purchasing cheap
outfits from men who become dis-
couraged and are turning back, but
most of them are well provided for,
and ail are taking pack animals, they
having in this respect, taken the ad-
vice of men who went before and have
NO STRIKE IN KANSAS.
written of the difficulty of securing! Cornelius O'Brien, Rook Island, injured
animals or Indians to pack goods i 'u arms; Albert Spencer, Rock Islund,
across the pass. i face cut; Walter Fowler, Fulton, head
cut; Charles Weinl>erger. Hock Island,
head cut; T. Burns, Rock Island, head
cut; R. Winter, Rock Islund, cut over
right eye; 0. W. Sample. Rock Island,
head and face cut; James Mulcahv,
Rock Island, head cut, considered
serious; Andrew Lunheiui, Fulton,
head injured, considered serious; L V.
Eyckhart, Rock Island, head cut.
A score of others were more or less
here it was thought tho Rock Island
ers would be most likely to disembark.
The arrival of the special train was
tho signal for hostilities to begin.
There was intense feeling on both
sides, and a great variety of weapons,
this combination resulting in the fol-
lowing casualties:
Will Bennett, city marshal of Fill | °ne farmer near Choctaw City, Ok.,
ton, head cut, believed to bo fatally will have nearly three tons of grapes
liurt; W. H. Flaunagnn, head badly j this season.
3ut; James Carrier, head cut: Ed Bare,
head and arms injured; Chris Miller, j
Lyons, la., head cut: P. J. Casey, |
Moline, III., head badly injured.
Oklahoma and Indianola (tho coming
imo of the five-tribes country) papers i
•e making faces at each other over
The Creek Indians in council have ,j,e statehood question.
voted against woman suffrage.
The enterprising people of Marietta
have started a railroad fund with $-00 i
Muskogee ban struck oil and derricks
and tauks are being put up to secure a
good yield.
Miners and Operatoi
•tlcally Agr<
Pittsburg, Kan , Aug. 10 — At 2:3C
yesterday morning, after being in ses-
sion all night in the parlors of the
Hotel Stilwell, the miners and tho op-
erators in conference came to a par-
tial agreement, the concessions made
The commissioners of Kay county
have placed 83000 insurance
court house.
Miss Bessie Welch, an Indian girl.
: has an essay in the Memphis Appeal
that would do credit to any college
I professors daughter.
Returns from every county in Okla-
1 homa give an average for the whole
territory of more than twenty bushels
of wheat to the acre.
To show how things are booming ui
Oklahoma it may be said thnt an old
school building iu Stillwater is being
bruised and cut. The fight lasted for turned into a cotton gin.
being such as to agree for the speedy j an hour or more, rocks, clubs and mis- Chelsea, I. T., tried to be incorpora-
settlement of all differences. The I 'N" of every description bclnn ted, but failed, and the hopes of those
meeting adjourned to meet to-day. 1 wielded industriously by the opposing
The agreement which is to bo signed j forces. The Fultonites finally got the
then is as follows: better of the fight and Deputy Sheriff
The miners are to receive 52 cents , Farley effected the arrest of Head At-
for mine-run coal in the summer and j torney Johnson of the Modern Wood-
82?$ cents for screened coal. Fifty- raen. OQ« of the Rock Island party,
eight cents tor mine-run coal in the and a number of his companions.
winter and S 7 cents for screened coal i
- , Heading for the Klondike
Henri has been writing of his travels | P«r t-on. be ml-monthly pay, com Tacoma Wash 10—Nearly
every Klondiker leaving Tacoma pro-
vides himself with a copy of the Bible
dirt, and 82 per day for day hands In l"nd Shakespeare. Booksellers here
the agreement reached the miners supply of these books has
have (rained a partial victory, and the ^entirely exhausted .luringthe
concessions made will undoubtedly j ^'° we®cs nn'
bring the disputes of the miner, and | ■^k have bcen pl
operators to a peaceful termination.
customs of the whites. Indian boys
are learning to smoke cigarettes.
Miss Ollio Walker, daughter of the
mayor of Fort Otbson, is the most tal-
ented artist in the Indian country.
The first, annual reunion of the old
soldiers of Pawnee county will be held
at Ralston September 8, 0 and 10.
The (iainesyille, McAlester and St.
Louis railroad surveyors are within
twenty-five miles of Coalgate, I. T.
Jim York of Muldrow recently buried
a favorite dog in u coffin and has a life
size picture of the canine in his best
room.
A barn was struck by lightning nt
Thc building was
ed down with its
The Chiekaskia Veteran nssi
will hold its annual reunion at Day-
ton's j^rove on the Chiekaskia river,
south of Corbon, from August the -41ii .
to 81th.
Edgar Flourney, ouc of the party j
protecting a melon-patch from the I
depredations of thieves, was accident-
ally shot aud fatally wounded near
o wanted municipal oflice
nrn like a dark brown thud.
station by slashing five polict
with a razor. Elbert, after cutting
his way through thc guard of fifteen
policemen, made his eseape from thc
station by jumping sixty feet from a
rear window, hotly pursued by ofli-
cers, while blood streamed from their
wounds. After a chase of several
squares, Officer Coreless finally fired
his revolver, the bullet taking effect in
the prisoner's right arm, and he was
then captured.
Miner Pugilist Winn.
Rich Hill, Mo., Aug. 10.—A prize
fight was fought to a finish on the
state line of Kansas and Missouri, n
little over a do/en miles west of Rich
Hill at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing, between Ouy Gordon, a miner
pugilist of mine No. 15, and Ralph
Holmes, of Foster. Mo. The stako
was $.' 0 and a few side bets. Four
rounds were fought. Holmes was
bested In every round, and at the end
of the fourt h was unable to respond to
the call of time. Gordon was there-
upon declared the winner.
It is reported from Chicago that the
Dingloy tariff on crockery will cause
a 10 or 15 per cent advance in prices.
It is officially announced that Ethan
A. Hitchcock of St. Louis has accepted
the position of minister to Russia.
The boll worm is after .tton in
Texas. Not much damage h .s been
done yet.
Mrs. Angell's mother testifies that
her daughter was never married to
Jay Gould.
The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions will Bend two ministars to
the Klondike country.
Professor Lincoln of Wisconsin I'ni
versity was disfigured for life by un
explosion in his laboratory*.
Fire destroyed half the business
part of Cleveland, Ok. It is said the
fire was of incendiary origin
Ten Missouri Pacific freight cars
were wrecked between Neal and To-
ronto, Kan. Loss 83" .000.
Tho Populists. Democrats and Silver
Republicans of Wyandotte county,
Kan., will fuse on a county ticket.
Populists, Democrats nnd Silver Re-
publicans of Harvey county, Kan.,
have nominated a fusion county ticket.
Ex-Congressman Treloar has pur-
chased the Mexico. Mo., Tribune, the
ly Republican paper in Audrain
in Abyssinia, which began last Feb-
ruary.
Enthaslaun la Home.
Rome. Aug. 10.--The news of the re-
sult of the duel has been received
with the greatest enthusiasm. Crowds
fill the streets, cheering for the Count
of Turin and the army, and calling
upon the bands in the public squares
to play the royal hymn. Many of thc
houses are decorated with flags in
honor of the result, and all newspa-
pers have issued special editions of the
encounter. Extra guards have been
mounted at the French embassy and
consulate. Congratulatory telegi
j mcncing with September 15.
dollar and eighty cents for entry yard-
nd 10 cents per box for loading I
HARPER'S JOINT WAR.
fflchtls to Ho Proaeruted for Negle.
• a largt
id by telegraph.
' A party of twelve from Missouri, who
bought their outfits here Saturday,
| took with them eight copies of the
1 Illble and twelve copies of Shakes-
t , peare.
of HUr- Can oval Laid to Rent.
Wichita, Kan, Aug. 10.—Tho trou- | sudrid, Aug. 10.—The funeral of
bleat Harper over the joint recently j Senor Canovas Del Castillo yesterday
opened at that place is increasing. : wa3 ft most touching and solemn cere-
are showered upon members of the i The temperance people have organized niony. A peculiar poignant scene en-
royal family from all parts of Italy, a secret movement and are rnising sueii ns the Duke of Sotomayor, Mar
d many have been received from funds with which to prosecute May
abroad. Muir and County Attorney Jones. An
QThe general belief is that King executive committee of the Home
Humbert must liavo acquiesced in the League has been appointed, with in-
count's action. It is unlikely thnt any structions to raid the saloon and pros-
diplomatic complications will ensue, ecute every city and counfcy official
Emperor William has telegraphed the who is guilty of neglecting his duty.
count his warmest congratulations. 0Mayor Muir and his associates say
At the principal cafes champagno flews ' that the policy of local license by great heart."
freely to-night in toasts to the Count monthly fine is hacked by the scnti-
of Turin, whose *>opularity is now • ment of a majority of the community
boundless. ! and that they do not intond to con-
ccde a thing to the temperance agita-
tors.
It is reported that several hundred
dollars have been raised to prosecute
paign against the jointists and
lhal Martinez Campos, Marquis l'azo
De LaMerrzed and the other pall
bearers listed the coffin, Senora Cano-
vas in a clear, firm tone, said: "I de-
sire that all should know I forgive the
the assassin. It is thc greatest sacri-
fice I can make; but I make it for the
sake of what I know of my husband's
KLONDIKE HAS A RIVAL.
larvrlotifl Gold I)l roverlr« Lately Hc-
San Fkancibcc
Creek is Klondik
Aug. JO.—Coffe
More Cattle Dlppnd.
Fort Worth. Texas, Aug. 11.—More
cattle with ticks were dipped yester-
day in the course of the experiments
by the bureau of animal industry. A
per cent solution of chloro naph'ho*
as used and th
val.
Marvelous ,l'e oit.v "nd county officials who wink weight cents a head. Dr. Nogaard,
lien-s comes from Trinity eounty. In I at th? "U,'SC,'! 7°Uti"n ot the Prohibi-
Morrison gulch, two miles from the 1 ^ 1 w- I "Ion meetings of all tho
scene of the discovery made by tho | are being held, and radical
Graves brothers last week, 818,(Wo was | me 8«r<! * <* *«•• heplo t™u*>le
taken out Saturday afternoon. | s. '"xPMt<!d Incitement runs very
Two raen are finding 84U in each pan I 1 ^ *'
and other dispatches received tell of |
claims that are paying 8l' 0 a pan.
BREIDENTHAL IS OUT.
Cra/y Nrhrankan'a Crlnio
Qrkklky, Neb., Aug. 10.—Yesterday
morning John D. Maw, a farmer liv-
ing a few miles from here, attacked county.
his married daughter, Mary .1 Attorney^Jeneral Crow and Insur-
Hughes, with a hammer. He crushed uce (Commissioner Orear of Missouri
her skull, inflicting fatal Injuries. He ! nre proparing to wage war on the in-
drove the family from the house and surance combine.
net fire to it, and then fired thc wheat ; Congressman Ashley II. Wright was
stacks and barns. Maw, who is 00
years old, has been mentally unbal-
anced for years, but was thought
harmless. 11c is in jail.
Anaronda Welcome Hryan NoUllv
Anaconda, Mont., Aug. 16.—Amid
the booming of cannon, rattle of
musketry and cheers of 1,000 people,
tho train bearing William J. Hryan
and party arrived here last night At
the Montana hotel, Mr. Itryan spoke
from the balcony, and was followed
by Senator Mantel and Congressman
Hart man and Marcus Daly. Mrs.
Hryan made her appearance for a
moment and was cheered.
(iolll Tried by Court-.Martial.
Vkkgkha, Spain, Aug. 10.—Mlche
Angiollllo, alias (iolli, was tried here
yesterday morning by court martial
for the murder of Senor Canovas del
( astillo at thc baths of Santa Agueda
on August 8. The court consisted of
n lieutenant colonel and six caotains
of artillery. All the statements of
Angiollllo were submitted in writing.
Tho sentence of the court-martial will
not bo divulged until It has been con-
tinned by tho supreme council of wur.
Military Illryrle Corp*.
St. Louis, Mo.. Aug. 10.—Lieutenant
•lames Moss and thc members of the
bicycle corps of the Twenty-fifth regi-
ment, lT. S. A., will leave Jefferson
barracks to-day and return by rail to
their regiment at Fort Missoula, Mont
When Lieutenant Moss reaches Mis-
soula his first duty will be to prepare
a detailed report of the trip and for-
ward it to ti war department.
Potato llllRht In Ireland
IHhmn. Au;. irt —A potato blight
it. ravaging the coup ties of Clare and
Prices ha ve quadrupled
Klondyke has been overshadowed
If all the reports ar^; true, and every
indication is that not a single exag-
geration has been given out The
news of these fabulous strikes comes
from reliable newspaper men, and
everybody here believes each report
Forty-two thousand dollars was the
valuo of the great pile of pure gold
taken from the lllue Jay mine by the
brothers, John B. and II. 11. Graves.
These men to-day deposited their
treasure in tho mint for coinage. In
its original state in the gravel it was
all in one piece, and was next to the
largest nugget ever found in the state,
the largest being worth about 8100,000
more. It was broken by tho eager
miners in getting it out Originally
it was three feet long.sixteen to eight-
een inches wide at the widest part,
five inches thick at the big end and
one at thc smaller, It weighed 2,400
Succeeded by Taylor Hldilln a* Leadoi
of the Kaimaa Popullata.
Toi'kka, Kan., Aug. 14.— John W.
Breidenthal. who has been chairman
of the Populist state central commit-
tee for the past five years, during
which time he has twice piloted thc
Populists to victory, resigned last
night Taylor Riddle of Marion was
elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Kiddle
was a district member of the commit-
tee, and his elevation to the chairman-
ship left a vacancy there which was
filled by the election of Dr. E. V.
Wharton of Yates Center. E. J. West-
gate of (iarden City was chosen as a
member of the executive committee.
The Populists of the state were al-
most a unit in demanding that Brcid-
enthnl remain as chairman, but ho
was determined to quit.
who has charge of the experii
could say no more than that the tick
causes Texas fever and that cattle
without ticks cannot infect other
cattle. The first lot dipped have not
been injuriously affected, but it is
probable that they will have to be
dipped again.
In Ever for Silver.
Washington, Aug. 10.—Senator
Stewart of Nevada requests the publi-
cation of a denial of recent interviews
with him on the subject of silver and
finance. He says: "There appears to
have been a conspiracy to misrepre-
sent me and my colleague. Neither
of us have given out the interviews
reported, nor any other interviews at
variance with our life long devotion
to the free and unlimited coinage of
diver by the United States alone at
the ratio of 10 to I."
found dead in his sitting room by hit
wife at his home in North Adams,
Mass.
Osman Digna, the famous Dervish
general, has been summoned by the
Khalifa to make a final stand against
the Anglo-Egyptian expedition
Reese A Downey, who own a 135 I OIie at the smaller, It weighed 2,400 1 Senator Teller
acre apple orchard a few miles east of ounces. Dknvkr, Colo , Aug. 10.—Senator
Atchison, sold their entire crop to Since the Graves brothers left their 1 Teller arrived here yesterday and In-
New York men for 814,00(1. j mine to bring down their (fold, they | lends to remain in Colorado until fall.
Miss Adelaide Fairbank.onlv dnutfli- ! {l:'vu learned that another pocket has | In an interview lie expressed himself
been opened, and in less than five 1 a5 st , , to a combination
hours two men took out an even 840,- 1
000. There is plenty of gold in sight.
nnd all indications point to the taking
out of 8i,000,0')0 from that mine.
To Klondlko by
Mil 'I
Aug. 10. -M- Aye
of Oakland, propt
Hughs,
ter of the Indiana Senator, was mar-
ried without her parents knowledge
to Dr. Horacc R. Allen. Jr.
A parliamentary committee has rec-
ommended to the French deputies a
moderate tax on theater tickets, a
heavy tax on passes and the abolition
of season tickets.
Fifteen thousand persons attended
the political picnic at Hughesville.
Ma, and heard speeches by Congi
: of the silver Republicans with McKin-
• ley Republicans in this state this fall.
On the money question he suid: "It is
thc purpose, xndoubtedly, of this ad-
ministration to retire the greenbacks
| and treasury notes and perfect a sys-
tem by which the national banks will
be authorized to issue all paper
j money. Their next move will be to
Korean 1'rlnre Cremated.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The body of
Pom Kwang Soh, the former Corean
minister to this country, whose death
occurred here last Friday, was yester-
uv wukicw ^a,V cre,na*e(l according to the ex- j retire silver, and then bank notes will
men Dookery, Clark and Cooney and Pfpssei1 wishes of the deceased, and „ot be legal tender. What will be the
others. ashes placed in the keeping of the j result? The administration will have
It is rumored in Wall street that Prcsent ,n5nlsU'r-Ch5n J>0'n Y«- L ter succeeded in making gold tho only
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels,! * ««ay be returned to Corea. money by which debts can bo paid,
whoso term soon expires, has been In- Hall I>rlft« Three Feet m*iv debts will have to l>e paid in the
Pueblo. CoL. Aug. 10. —Storms vellow meUL"
around Pueblo yesterday afternoon Mope RtrlkB injunctions
damaged railroads north, east and | pAI|.itKH1„ Ilo w. Va„ Aug. 16.-Im-
Oakland, Cal
real estate ma
to establish ba!
.luneau and Da
is With him in
he can induce those interested in the
scheme to subscribe $.',000 M. Aver,
who has evolved this plan, is an old
balloonist and says the scheme is prac
ticahle He says the trip from Juneau
to Dawson City ought to bo made in
twenty-four hours.
Flood of Wheat at 'Frlnno.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.—Tho se.i
wall is blotkeU with whrat. whieh
has been pouring into this citv for
some days past from all sections of the
state. Five steamers are alongside
discharging wheat, and the huge
sheds, which are 1,000 fe.it long by '.'00
wide, are filled to their utmost ca-
pacity.
Wichita has secured one fare for the
round trip to the Fair there the last of
September and first of October from all
points in Oklahoma.
Kinkfisher county fruit men are
pompously proud of their peaches this I
season. Ami then "there are others"
who grow this delicious fruit !
A Guthrie beau gave his best girl u Chouteau recently.
the ' jeweled garter. She afterwards went set on fire and bur
back and him and he now wants it re- contents.
turned. Uut she isn't built that way About 200 Sacs are getting ready to
pilgrimate to the Otoe reservation for
the purpose of purtaking of a festive
! pony smoke.
The name Klondyke, in the Indian
j dialect, means "plenty of fish." It
would be in order now to change it to
"plenty of suckers."
The Red Rock bridge, near Perry, is
being built, notwithstanding many
Tulsa recently. I farmers refused to contribute to the
A Noble county man has his saddle la,ldaMa •'■""•prise.
trimmed in suakeakin. The snake wa Each Cueyenne nnd Arapahoe Indian
eight feet long and ss big around as ' gets $7.03 interest at the present pay-
11 your lower limb, and was killed on ment. Last year they got 8T.91, which
I ltlackbear. 1 shows that the tribe is decreasing.
As soon as the townsltes question is I ]n connection .villi the enormous cot . It Is a noteworthy thinjf about Indian
settled there will be such an area of [ ton crop to be handled this season P«P s *vho ™ sent to white univeralr
come, the universal complaint from j li®"- "' l "" Uleir *od
cotton raisers that there will not be | Enounce the encroachment of lb*
half enough cotton pickers to gather i white people.
the cotton. Knowing tho scarcity of cotton pick.
, , . , ,, ' ers for this season those who are her#
A bushel of corn makes four gallons | . , . . _ .
, , . , , .. , . . f k*v<* concluded to raise the price of
of whiskv which retail at 815. Out of . ., .
. , • wages and a warm time is anticipated
this the government gets #.t, the rail-
roads 81, the manufacturer $3.75, the
vender 87, the farmer 25 cents and the
drinker the jim-jams sometimes.
An Oklahoma girl advertised for a
husband. She found him, and adver-
tisement anil wedding outfit cost 8110.
Within eleven months her husband
died leaving her $5000 insurance on his
life. Who fenys advertising does not
pay?
The. Guthrie Leader says: It is abso-
lutely ustonishing the number of boxes
of peaches and barrels of melons w hich
nre daily expressed both north and
south from this point Over 235 boxes
of peaches were expressed to Dallas
and Claremore in one duy last week.
White men who have married a Cher-
okee wife since December 0, 1895, will
not be placed on the roll by the Dawes
commission o- any other tribunal.
This will be news to many a poor, de-
luded adopted citizen who was not
adopted, but adapted, and who has
just begin to feel like a real "Injun."
Anotiicr special lias been sent out
from El Reno regarding a recent dis-
covery of gold which says: "There has
been :i great deal said for and against
the alleged gold miues in the Wichita
of the Indian language, and he says it I mountains, but it was proven today
Is dying out, and will soon be number- i 11,1,1 Kold doM exUtlhe «nouDtoin«,
Id with the buffalo. n,t lh t an excellent quality.
... . t m i i An Indian, with his squaw and little
of Lehigh, I. T., has in- . .
. . . . , girl, came in this morning to do some
trap, which takes in the j * ' ,
arcitv trai"nf?- ' -v one or more
' ' ' stores before they found what they
wanted. After buying 80 worth of
goods the 'buck' hundod the clerk an
Qaorge Camlehael, special sgent : OTal Bhl|,ed piece of metal that looked
,he general land oflice, has Issued s hk<. lirllhH in payment for what he had
..rnlng against cutting timber on the , re(,fiT(.,, Tne clerl( toU1 the Indian
L'nlted States military reservation hjt mumy „a| „„ Kood hut u,„ Imliln
mown as "Council tlrove." | UlW ))im he W|M ,.,.0Zy. -|'he propric-
The famous breach of promise suit j ^,r caiQe in and the place of metal was ' ter, and the other
it Perry has been compromised and the i,an<lo«l to him. He took it to the bank !
ellows who were sitting around to UU(j ^ju, c-astiier pronounced the metal J
forge themselves on the testimony are an(j n,,. piece was worth 810. ' There were 180 jail sentences. About
hreatening to leave the town. | The Indian had twelve pieces in all '• per cent of these cases which were
An Oklahoma prisoner escaped from and said he dug tliera out of the Wich- presented were dismissed and noil
ail the other day while the turnkey its mountains and his squaw flattened prosecued.
ind the city marshal were having a t hem out on a piece of iron When he Marshal (Jrady of the Central dis-
H&cusSion as to whether a tadpole fin- found the nuggets they were of differ- ti ict, has hit upon the novel plan of
illy beesme a butter-Hy or a frog. ent shapes. It is definitely stated that publishing tho names of jurors who
It does not take a very close observer tfold exist in the Wichita mountains f;lil to render verdicts of guilty against
'rt note that a successful businessman and it is the belief down here that it violators of law and jusiicc in cases
counts a permanent place in a paper will not be long before there will be a ; rising before the commissioner's
for his advertisement ns of as much rush for the gold fields of the Wichita ' court, and adds that they will not be
country. The cattle barons will do a iked to serve on a jury any more,
everything in their power to keep the xrnie influential papers denounce this
people out of the mountains but their , • m ies of compulsion of jurors as a
efforts will be futile." 1 dflsh move to get more fees.
The furiners throughout Oklahoma A camp of Woodmen will be organ*
and thc Indian territories seem to be | izd this week Yukon.
Abont a dozen human freaks with
home building in the Indian territory
an was never witnessed in the west.
A new postoflico has been establish-
ed in the Kickapoo Nation, and will go
under the name of the Kickapoo post-
, office with Elmo Cook as postmaster.
I The El Reno foundry and machine-
ihop will be in running order just as ;
! loon as the building can be completed |
tnd the machinery placcd in position
Lightning struck an Oklahoma house
I ind a young man was knockcd sense-
ess for a time His sister who was
itanding on a newspaper was not in-
jured.
The city of Chandler is looking up
I ind is prosperous. There was only
:>ne cyclone in the western part of Lin-
coln county this year aud Chandler
j lad it
One of the best paying establish-
j nents iu Oklahoma is a cement and
ilaater factory two miles west of New-
kirk. The material is found there in
I ibundance.
There is a big probability that the
Hspulpa extension will not touch Sa-
|>ulpu but will be built around the
town on account of the neighboring
rough country.
The Pauls Valley High school needs a
music room, and Miss Nettie Childres,
teacher of music and elocution, con-
ceived the idea of trades display to
raise the funds.
A man under the employ of the
Smithsonian institute has made a study
R. Rhode*
rented a flea
>esky little
iUiodes ought to ii
Western Arkansas.
fortuo
all around.
Following are thc appointments of
postmasters in the Indian territory:
(iordon, Choctaw nation, W. II 11 ul-
sey, vice .1. G. Maxwell, resigned Rush
Springs, Chickasaw nation, ThnxtaM
Davis, vice F. R. Blakely, removed.
While there has just been barrelled
in Oklahoma the greatest crop that has
been produced on an equal area of
land in the United States, the promises
of an immense cotton crop are even
better than has just been realized from
the great cerael.
A charter has been issued by Secre-
tary Jenkins to the Lexington A North-
western Roilroad company with a oap-
tal stock of 8100,000. The road is to be
built from Lexington in a northwest-
erly direction, connecting with the
Snnta Fe near Norman.
During the past two years no less
than ten skeletons of human beiugs
have been found on and near Enst
Sandstone Creek, each showing that
they had laid where found for many
years. Their condition made it im-
possible to determine whether they
were the remains of Indians or whites.
E V. Eck of Sharon, Kan., offeis a
liberal reward for information as to
the whereabouts of his son, who left
home July 22. He left with two men
driving a mule team and spring wagon.
They were headed for the Strip when
last heard from. The boy was 10 years
old, stout build, light hair cut short,
blue eyes, and wore a large straw hat,
shirt and blue overalls when he left
home.
lleginning with the May term of the
United States court at Muskogee, up to
its close, which wus August Otli, there
were 105 convictions for felony, three
were for murder, one for manslaugh"
felony, ranging
imes and sentences from
, a year and a day up to life sentence.
There i
value as u permanent place of busi-
ness. Fiequent changes of an adver-
tisement's position are as bad as fre-
quent removals of place of business
Recently Hennessey built out one
road leading into town nine miles,
eelf
vited to accept the presidency of a
trust company.
J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City won
the Kansas City Star cup from Sim
Glover of Rochester. N. Y., by a score
of 92 to 84. In a match shot at 100 live
birds in Rochester.
11. S. Snyder, a Sheldon. Mo., farmer
back from the Klondike, said at Seda-
lia that he had found gold worth $575
In eleven days and would return in
thc spring, but that tho hardships of
the country could hardly be exagger-
ated.
One-half of the Devil's backbone, the
rocky fortress of the Hatfields in West
Virginia, was shattered by dynamite
by a sheriff's posse Several of the
ud there is only a supply for two posse were wounded, but tho Iiatfieldt
south. Twenty miles north of Pueblo J mediaU,,y upon Judge Jackson's
/"'ft ' i^rCf 'j"11" U!* !1I| turn from his vacation Saturday night,
drifted to a depth of three feet In „ u C(Jurt he.rd J *...
■oino places while covering the surface 1
Chicago, Aug. 1 .—Charles W. Clif
ford, who killed his wife and hluisell
yesterday, was a member of the fain
ous Oreely Arctic expedition and tool,
part in the killing of Henry, whore
hunger had driven to steal part of the
supplies portioned out to others.
Illl
of the ground three inches.
I tlons for injunctions in six
1 against Fred Dilcher, et al, leaders of
the mining strike in Fayette county.
^ In each case an injunction was granted.
iu vnths.
escaped
Senator Toller on injuuctlont.
DlCNVfcK, Colo., Aug. 10.—"Hereto-
fore it has been supposed to be the , ....
province of the courts to punish men ' ""H* ® ■'•n,Ur to * Cor'*ct# _
for crimes committed," suid Senator ' AW *"A c!sco, Aug. 13. —The Chi-
Teller, in discussing the injunctions | l"!Se minister at W ashington proposes
against the striking coal miners, "but
uow it seems to be the accepted idea u*° 1* country
Kf.y Wkbt, F!a . \ug. It—Late Ha- r'
j vaua advices state that a Spanish spy, I ue
, Miguel Uesta, was hanged without a
| trial by Ualdemere Acosta. a promi-
nent Cuban leader. Uesta had been
! employed by Weyler to visit Acosta's
camp aud assassinate him.
to correct the Chinese calendar now in
hich was calcu-
that the courts can punish men for V""' at Kong. *"" 1«one .layout
crimes which somebody alleges they I ,rue' n"*0?'"* whe? '
may commit."
lllaekll
Mascoutah, UL. Aug. 16. — Uotnuge ie,,u oulof the
salts for 125,000 each against the llll- . The bov w<
nols Central and Mobile \ Ohio rail- , , ,
Salts
Aug. 10.—Damage
roads were begun yesterday by R. D
ntry, uo'a'uo"v nee"bein'g marte"iZr Ko«trl' * telegraph operator ot liel'.e
difference in longitude , ho claims to be u v,c< im o! the ">• ' °D<i cultivation,
blacklist sines lnrJl 1
placing three hundred wagon londs of holding to their wheat for au advance- j
grass and straw thereon. With one j ment of price. These farmers are in ^
exception not a mail living on the road fair circumstances this year and are
furnished a bit of the material. uot'coinpelled to shove their wiieat on
Suit has been brought by the count r , th" I,re"Dl l,,arl"!l
attorney of Kingfisher county against It Is hoped that sugar will keep on
the ex-county treasurer and his bonds- 1 climbing until it becomes so expensive,
men to recover an alleged deficit of ays an exchange, that girls will no
817,000, which is the amount of money longer experiment in eako baking,
paid out by said official in redeeming Every time a girl Is seized with a
warrants that were issued iu excess of yearning to work, she goes out into
the statutory 4 per cent limit the kitchen and mixes up a cake.
Oklahoma territory reports an In- 1 A woman at Enid attended Uncle
•resi * of 87.000,000 in its sssessed val- Tom's Cabin show the other night and
luriug the past year. The total nearly fainted when Uncle Tom died,
ale values atuouut to f31,541,5C3. This was foolish Uncle Tom has been
„ grandson of Senator Nlshcoeat, d"ln>! lhl,t evorv "i*l,t ,or forlJ'
near Cushing, aged 1« years, is a na- i nd " >"e<1 ll "h Bm l)"Uo -
tural born image maker. He kills Thc Delaware® of the Wichita reser-
most of his time in malting nearly per- vation held a council recently on thc
feet mud horses, dogs und other ob- Washita near the home of Jim Hob, the
ts out of the plastic Euchio creek head man of tho Delaware tribe.
ould surely become a The council was called to look after
■enowned sculptor if his pre-emiuent some financial interests of the Delu-
talent would receive proper develop- wares In connection with the Chero'
kee country.
illrty whitish hair and whito glassy
eyes are existing on Snake Creek iu the
reek nation. Their hair is somewhat
kinky, but stands out nearly straight
They use a peculiar jargon, many ex-
pressions resembling the clucking of
hens snd the unplausant noise made
by belligerent geese. Eastern curioai-
osity hunters might do worse than ac-
quire the nondescripts for their dime
museums.
About half the editors in Oklahoma
own a carriage and on Sunday after-
noons they go out aud visit farmers.
The editors who do this sre the editors
who make a success. The same thing
was true of Kansas in early newspaper
days.
Creek council has been called to meet
on August 24, to consider the matter
of treating with Dawes commission. It
is proposed that the Indians shsll vote
in the district on the matter and that
ouncll shall receive such votes as flnal
instruction*
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