Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 23, 1905 Page: 2 of 12
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CARNEY ENTERPRISE FBOGS OF COMMERCE
BY H. S. Ill Kill RT.
CARNEY,
OKL. A
RAISING THEM FOR MARKET A
PROFITABLE PURSUIT.
NEW STATE NEWS.
One hundred cases to determine the
possessory rights to Indian lands were
up beforo the Intruders' court at Ard-
more last week.
When From Two and a Half to Three
vears Old They Are At Their Best
As a Delicacy—One Species Useful
As a Weather Prophet.
A Knights of Pythias lodge, with |
more than forty members, was Insti-
tuted at Wewoka last week.
' Congressman Murphy of Missouri
has Introduced a bill providing for the
predion of a $250,000 public building
nt Muskogee.
The Chickasaw legislature has ad-
journed until January 29, when the
Choctaw council also convenes. The
two bodies have a number of Import-
ant matters In common that must be
disposed of before tribal relations
cease. It la expected that a settle-
ment of these affairs will be effected
fit the forthcoming session.
A bill has been Introduced In con-
press establishing an additional re-
cordlag district at Wilburton.
Notice of a general reduction in fire
Insurance In Indian Territory, to take
cffect in January, has been sent out
from the office of the insurance rating
bureau.
W. B. Johnson has resigned the posi-
tion of United States district attorney
for the southern district of Indian Ter
ritory. He has held the position for
eight years.
People who have made the study of
animals, especially water animals, a
life work, know that the frog possesses
almost as many peculiar characteris-
tics as a human being.
The bull frog, the eatable species,
comes from the lakes and low lands
of Pennsylvania, Maryland. Louisiana
Tulsa Is making an effort to secure
a wireless telegraph station In that
city.
The resolutions of the national
council of the Osage nation requesting
that if Oklahoma Is granted statehood
that the Osage nation be made a
county, with Pawhuska as the county
seat, has been forwarded to Senator
Ueveridge at Washington.
1 What is said to be the largest gas
■well yet discovered In the Indian Ter-
ritory was brought in one mile west
of Okmulgee Inst week. Gas was
struck at a depth of 1,350 feet, and the
estimated flow Is between seven and
nine million cubic feet.
Dr. U. L. Russell of Oklahoma City
lias completed his studies m Europe
ivnd will return to America about the
llrst of January.
^ John Mooney, a clerk In Kennedy
Bros, dry goods store at Oklahoma
City, has just fallen heir to $75,000,
loft him by an uncle, who recently died
In Ireland.
Fred Hagen, an Oklahoma City de-
tective, has begun suit against G. W.
Garrison, sheriff of Oklahoma county,
for damages In the sum of $6,000. The
complaint alleges that the sheriff ac-
cused the detective of standing in
with a bunch of crooks.
A Real Old "Bull."
and along the marshes of the Great
Lakes. It is said that there is more
trouble and less money about a frog
farm than there is about any other
business.
The better class of frog farmer has
from two to six ponds where he
breeds and raises his frogs. In this
way he can keep the frogs of different
ages in different ponds.
Frog eggs are about the size of pin
heads, and are laid in a slimy, jelly-
like substance that partially protects
them. From 400 to 800 eggs are the
epawn of a single female. The eggs
hatch the tadpole or pollywog. This
In turn becomes a baby frog. Between
the time of change from tadpole to
frog about a year elapses, and it
takes the frog about two and a half
or I.Vee years to.grow large enough
for market. They are better around
the age of five years than at any other
time; after that they become tough.
It is a very hard matter to separate
the frogs at different ages for they
must have mud in the bottom of their
pools or they will not hatch, so no
floor can be placed there, and they
easily dig under any wall that can be
built.
After he Is big enough to market
the frog is caught with a bull's eye
lantern. This Is flashed in his eyes
at night, blinding him long enough to
be captured. In the daytime the ani-
mal is shy and will not allow a person
to approach, but when he Is once
scared from a place It is safe to say
he will return there as soon as the
person has gone. When caught and
worried or teased he will cry almost
like a baby.
In a hard season when, small fish
and Insects are scarce, the frog eats
his own families, it being a case of
the biggest frog getting the most to
eat. It is no uncommon thing to
catch a bullfrog that has another in
its stomach half its own size that it
has devoured In a hungry moment.
They can stay under water from
that it will seldom touch a dead car-
cass. The beetle or other Insects
must move before the frog will touch
It,
There Is one species of the eat-
able frog that Is known as the spring
frog. It grows in the springs on farms
and ranches and Is considered to be
more palatable than the bull frog, but
is smaller. Farmers who have these
frogs in their springs refuse to allow
them to be killed, claiming that they
purify the water. This makes them
harder to get and they are more ex-
pensive than the other variety.
The tree, or marsh frog, It noted as
being one of the best weather proph-
ets that lives. He always cries be-
foro a rain. He is about three inches
in length, but is not fit for food.
Some are sold as weather prophets,
but the demand does not pay one to
raise them.
The land frog, or toad, Is a well-
known species and is good for nothing
that is known of. It served its pur-
pose when it inspired Mark Twain to
write "The Jumping Frog." There
are many superstitions about it,
though. One is that if you ctep on
one you are sure to stump your toe
later. Another is that if one is touch-
ed with the hand a wart will grow
where the human and frog skin come
in contact. They build what is known
as the "devil's umbrella." It looks
like a mushroom, but is poisonous.
In certain sections of the country it
has been known to rain frogs.
The last of the common species is
the horned frog. It lives in the South-
west on the dry, arid regions of Ari-
zona, Utah and New Mexico, and lives
on desert mice and insects. They
have never been known to drink waier
and, like the toad, is good for nothing.
Fire destroyed the Crossfleld &
Dorn business buildings at Carmen
last week, entailing a loss of $10,000.
The SUUwell hotel and Carmen Na-
tional Bank buildings were saved by
hard work upon the part of the fire-
men.
Th* Oklahoma and Indian Territory
division of the Texas Cotton Seed
Crushers' association was organized in
Oklahoma City last week. George
Dashner of Ardmore was elected presi-
dent and P. A. Morris of Ada, secre-
tary.
Sam# Hat.
/
Awfully simple. Simply-awful.
If you believe that the same hat
suits every woman, look at these
sketches.
Tree Frogs.
twenty to thirty minutes, when they
come to the surface for air. Their
«or&t enemy is the large fish. In
ponds where fish are also raised the
fish live entirely on the frogs.
Another peculiarity of the frog Is
Automobile Rates at Tonopah.
"Tonopah is the place where money
circulates," remarked R. E. Mulcahey,
stock broker. "I was over there the
other day with several friends, and at
4 o'clock in the afternoon we engaged
an automobile to take us to Bullfrog.
We could have taken a train as far
as Goldfleld the next morning, but we
didn't want to wait. It is a twelve
hour trip by automobile from Tono-
pah to Bullfrog, and we decided we
would be able to stand the strain.
So we summoned the automobile.
•"What's the tariff?' I asked the
chauffeur as we were about to start.
" 'Three hundred dollars,' he said.
"'Ha, ha! Pretty good joke,' I said.
'Now, seriously, what the charge?'
" 'Three hundred dollars,' he re-
peated.
"And I'll be baked for a lobster if
that wasn't the charge. It was the
regular tariff, and he wouldn't come
down'a nickel. And as we had to be
in Bullfrog the next morning we paid
the $300."—San Francisco Chronicle.
Have a Surplus of Venison.
There are so many deer around
Phillips, Me., dead and alive, that
several families have been trying very
hard to find out what to do with their
venison. One lady has been trying
to turn a whole deer into mincemeat.
When last heard from she had a wash-
tub full of material for mince "pies,
and having decided that sho wants to
eat an apple pie or two next year, she
has given up in despair and decided
to corn down the rest.
Settled Legal Tangle.
County Judge Alexander of Little
ton. Col., unable to decide the dis-
puted parentage of liaby Ru'h Sher-
lock, ended tho caso by ta+ 4ng the
cMld into his own home.
First Aid
Brown had been attending a first-
did class and was eager for an oppor-
tunity of displaying his knowledge.
One day an old gentleman fell down
in the street and seemed to be unable
to arise.
Brown was on the spot in an Instant.
"It's a broken leg, sir, I can tell by
the way you fell. Just allow me."
Brown snapped his walking stick In
two, tore up his pocket handkerchief,
and proceeded to tie on the improvised
splints, only to be stopped by a smack
in the chest from the old gent.
"What the dickens are you doing?"
stormed the old man; "there's nothing
the matter with me. Can't you tell a
wooden leg when you see one? Klnd'.y
remove these things and assist me to
rise.
Tickets, Please
' Tickets, please, gentlemen," said
the collector, and they were all shown
save that of a poor, feeble old gentle-
man who searched all his pockets in
vain for the brief, and the fellow-pas-
sengers growled exceedingly.
"Train is waiting for you, sir," went
on the collector.
"Why, there it is in your mouth, sir.
all the time! Right away!"
And the train moved on.
' Do you suffer much from absence
of mind?" asked a satiracal passenger.
"Absence of mind be hanged!" re-
turned the poor feeble old gentleman.
"I was sucking the date off a last
week's ticket!"
A Man of Business
Barber—Poor Jim has been to an in-
sane asylum through broodin' over dull
business. He and me has worked side
by side for years. We both brooded a
good deal. No money in our business
now.
Victim—What's the matter with it?
Barber—Prices too low. Unless a
customer takes a shampoo or some-
thing, it doesn't pay to shave or hair-
cut. Poor Jim! I caught him trying
to cut a customer's throat because he
refused a shampoo, and so i had to
have the poor fellow locked up. Makes
me very melancholy. Sometimes I
feel sorry I didn't let him slash all he
wanted to. It might have saved his
reason. Shampoo, sir?
Alarmed Patient—Y-e-s.
Stands Head.
There is something about Hunt'®
Lightning Oil that no other liniment
possesses. Others may be good, but
It i3 surely the best. It does all you
recommend It for, and more. For
sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, aches
and pains, it has no equal on earth.
It stands head on my medicine shelf.
Very truly yours,
T. J. Brownlow,
Livingston, Tenn.
How They Managed It
They sat together in the firelight
glow ruminating on past days.
"Don't you remember, darling," said
Mr. Honeysuckle to his wife, "don't
you remember when your father for-
bade me the house?"
"Yes," was the reply, "and when
mother wouldn't let me out of her sight
not for one minute."
"And I had made up my mind to go
off and dig for gold on the frozen
Klondike?"
"Ah, yes, and I frightened father
into thinking I was In a decline."
Then they both gazed into the Are,
and together they sighed and mur-
mured, "Weren't those happy days?"
Moral reflection, child, is the way
tine thinks when contemplating tho
mistakes of somebody else.
Lewis' single Binder costs more than
other 5c cigars. Smokers know why.
Your denier or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
The strength oi a lost love is hard to
estimate by the sorrow shown over it.
The path of duty is through the cus-
tom liouso.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 23, 1905, newspaper, December 23, 1905; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142225/m1/2/?q=no+child+left+behind: accessed June 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.