Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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CARNEY ENTERPRISE
BY H. S. IlIRIim.
CARNEY,
OKL.A
NOTES OF TWO TERRITORlfff
The third annual session of Indian
Territory dentist# met In Ardmore
last week.
The Midland Valley shops at Musko-
gee, now under construction, will be
completed during the month of June.
Perry's waterwarks bonds, worth
130,000 have been sold to Nuveen &
Company of Chicago at par.
A census of the town of Davis has
been ordered taken by the council with
a view of fixing the taxation for the
Improvements of streets.
The First Presbyterian church :it
Ravia was dedicated last week. The
church Is a handsome one and is the
iprlde of the town.
1 City Assessor Otis Gregory of Bar-
tlesville says that the assessed valua-
tion of that city will be over a million
and a half dollars. He also estimates
that the population is 0,000, as com
pared with 3,100 a year ago.
! C. K. Poe, private secretary of Jus-
tice Holmes of the United States su-
preme court, will locate In Bartles-
ville for the practice of law. In a
letter to a friend in that city he said
he would open an office there some
time in June.
The party to disburse the million-
dollar Choctaw-Chickasaw townsite
payment will I/eave Muskogee June 1.
The party wllPbe In charge of Inspec-
tor Beede and will be equipped with
tentfs, bedding, oooklng utensils and 9
cook.
While riding a cultivator, Sylvester
Frlsler, living near Shawnee, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed. His body was taken to St.
Marys, Kansas, for burial.
A. V. Kinney of Muskogee and Bert
Estes of South McAlester are plan-
ning to establish a circuit of summer
theaters in Indian Territory. They are
now considering the towns of Musko-
gee, South McAlester, Sulphur, Ard-
more and Shawnee, Oklahoma, as the
cities they will include.
In the drill contest between forester
teams, which was one of the big
features of the territorial encampment
of the Modern Woodmen of America
In session In Guthrie last week, the
first prize of $100 went to the Oklaho-
ma City team, the second prize of $50
was secured by the team from El
Reno, the third prize of f25 was won
by representatives from the Nardin
camp.
1 Muskogee will be burning natural
gas before September 1st, If the plans
of a company now planning a pipe
line Is carried out. Gas will be piped
from the Ramonia field at a cost of
nearly half a million dollars. The
rate at which natural gas will be fur-
nished to consumers will not exceed
thirty-five cents a thousand cubic foot
and there Is a possibility that the
cost may not be over twenty-five cents.
Tulsa Is so confident that statehood
Is coming In a short time that the
citizens have arranged for a two-days'
demonstration which will follow the
announcement of the passage of tho
statehood bill. A massive parade, rep-
resenting every society and associa-
tion of the city, will take place. Mer-
chants are already preparing floats
and everything will be in readiness !o
celebrate the event.
SHERIFF'S LONG CHASE
INVESTIGATE MINERAL VALUES
Custer County Official Follows Forger
Through Several States
ARAPAHOE: After a chase of 2,000
miles, Sheriff Barney Davis of Custer
county has succeeded in lauding W. E.
Hill, wanted on the charge of forgery,
and now has his prisoner safe in the
county Jail here. Hill waived a prelim-
inary hearing and was held to the
grand Jury under $1,000 bond, which
he was unable to give.
Hill is said to have worked the
check game In probably a dozen Okla-
homa towns last October. He stuck
the Custer County State bank for $400,
the Butler State bank for $350, the
Foss bank for $200, the Sayre bank
for $300 and the Elk City bank for
$150, a total of $1,400 in large amounts
in addition to numerous small checks.
Sheriff Davis started out on Hill's
trail and followed the forger through
Mexico, Arizona and nearly all of thp
western states, finally nabbing him at
Los Angeles. Hill showed fight when
arrested, but was disarmed by a Los
Angeles deputy sheriff. Several times
the Custer county sheriff got to a
town before his man left, but Hill suc-
ceeded in evading him at every place.
WIFE MURDERER CONVICTED
Robert Cotton Convicted at Salisaw
and a Death Sentence Given
""SALISAW: In the United States
court here the case of Robert Cotton
charged with the murder of his wife
Cynthia Cotton, at Vinita, was con-
victed after a three days' trial. The
Jury returned a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree, and the
penalty Is death by hanging. Mrs.
Cotton was found dead, having been
stabbed seventeen times.
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty
of manslaughter against George Tyree.
The convicted man is 23 years old, and
a son of William H. Tyree, of Walnut
Grove, Ark., and belongs to a promi-
nent family. He killed a cotton planter
near Salisaw last January in a dispute |
over wages. Judge Parker will start
in on the Stewart murder case this
week and as soon as it is disposed of
the White and Vann murder cases
will be tried. He will dispose of six
murder cases during the two weeks'
term of his court.
Monasteries in Belgium.
The number of convents and monas-
teries in Belgium, and especially at
Bruges, has increased with wonderful
rapidity. In 1846 there were 779 such in-
stitutions in the country with a mem-
bership of 12,000 men and women. In
1900 there were 2,500 institutions with a
membership of 38,000. Practically one-
third of the buildings in Bruges belong
to religious societies.
Intoxicants in Switzerland.
In Switzerland a state monopoly
covers both the distillation and sale
of all intoxicants, and much good has
already resulted, at the same time
bringing in an annual revenue to the
government of $1,000,000. This
money Is distributed among the can-
tons, with the proviso that ten per
cent, be sent in combating intemper-
ance.
Sleep and Memory.
Seven hours of sleep is the minimum
amount required by the average person,
according to Prof. Weygand of the Uni-
versity of Wurzgurg. He ascertained
experimentally that reduction of tho
usual period of sleep by three hours
diminishes the power of the memory by
one-half. Fasting, he found, had a
much loss Injurious effect.
Long Litigation.
In 1613 certain villages of Lorraine
sued the department of forests in de-
fense of the right to cut wood in a
certain forest. After nearly three
centuries of litigation the supreme
court at Leipsic has Just given a
final decision against the department
and condemned It to pay all costs.
Clause In Indian Appropriation Bill
Provides for Detailed Report
WASHINGTON: Complete agree-
ment has been reached by the con-
ferees on the Indian appropriation bill
on all points of dispute between the
senate and house and the report has
been signed. A compromise provision
relating to the coal lands of the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw nations was adopt-
ed by the conferees, as follows.
That the secretary of the Interior
Is hereby authorized and directed to
make practical and exhaustive invest-
igation of the character, extent and
value of the coal deposits In and under
the segregated coal lands of the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, In-
dian Territory; and the expenses
thereof, not exceeding the sum of
$00,000, shall be paid out of the funds
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw na-
tions In the treasury of the United
States; provided that any and all in-
formation obtained under the provis-
ions of this act shall be available at
all times for the use of the congress
and its committees.
Several railroads in Indian Territory
have been trying to gain control of the
coal lands from the Indians by lease
or purchase at a ridiculously inade-
quate price. Senator LaFollette op-
posed the scheme in the senate in the
(Uscusslon of the Curtis bill. He
stated that the lands were worth four
billion dollars and that the roads
would obtain them for a few million.
The price put upon lands by LaFollette
is believed to be too large, but the
difference between the value and what
the roads want to pay Is enormous
CRIME OF LOVE-MAD MAN
Spurning His Love, Miss Johns Is
Killed by James Reed
SHAWNEE; James Reed, grocer,
aged 48, shot and killed Miss Ollle
Johns, aged 18, three miles south of
this city. Their bodies being found
about twelve hours after the crime.
Reed was enamored of Miss Johns and
started from her home at Tecumseh,
ostensibly to drive to Shawnee. Their
buggy was found with the horse tied
to a pole and their bodies lay In a
field near the road. The girl had evi-
dently spurned Reed; Jumping from
the buggy and running into the field.
Two shots in her body Indicated that
he struck her with the revolver and
then struggled with her. Her clothing
was in tatters, one heel being torn
from her shoe and finger marks indi-
cated that he choked her. Two more
shots in her brain brought death and
then Reed walked away a few feet
and fired two shots into his own brair
Both parties were prominent.
GLENN LEASES REFUSED
Secretary Hitchcock Sustains Inspect-
or McLaughlin In Charge of Bribery
WASHINGTON: Secretary Hitch-
cock has turned down the Glenn Oil
leases in Osage nation because of al-
leged bribery of the members of tko
Osage council as developed by Inspect-
or McLaughlin's investigation.
The action involves sixty-four thou-
sand acres. Investigation was started
by a New York concern which claimed
that they had bid more for .leases tfaa,.
J. S. Glenn.
Gov. Frank Frantz, who was the In-
dian agent at the time, and whose
name was brought into the scandal
In published reports, says he did not
make any recommendation on these
leases and was away from the res-
ervation when the council made the
leases. He says that the reported cor-
ruption must have occurred off the
reservation, as he had advised Glenn
to make no propositions except in
open council and In writing.
It is reported that the department
will take steps to prosecute the mem-
bers of the Osage council who are al-
leged to have accepted bribes.
MARKET REPORTS
CASH GRAIN MARKET
rl
Kansas City
WHEAT—No. 2 hard, 79@83c; No.
3 hard, 77@81c. No. 2 red, 90@92c;
No. 3 red, 86@91c.
Chicago
WHEAT—No. 2 red, 91®93c; No. 3
red 87@90c; No, 2 hard, 85@88c; No.
3 hard, 78@85c.
CORN—No. 2, 49c; No. 3, 48c.
OATS—No. 2, 33c; No. 3, 32c.
LIVE STOCK MARKET
Chicago
CATTLE—Beeves, $4.00@5.85; cows
and heifers, $1.60@4.80; calves, $4.50
@6.75; stockers and feeders, $2.85@
4.75.
HOGS—Mixed and butchers, $6.25®
6.50; good heavy, $6.40@C.50; rough
heavy, $0.15@6.30; light, $6.30@6.47}6;
pigs, $5.30@6.35.
SHEEP—Sheep, $3.50@G.20; year-
lings, $5.60@C.50. lambs, $5.50@6.75.
Kansas City
CATTLE—Choice export and dressed
beef steers, $5.25@5.55; fair to good,
$4.25@5.30; western fed steers, $3.75@
5.30; stockers and feeders, $3.25fS-4.50;
southern steers, $3.50@4.50; southern
cows, $2.50@4.00; native cows, $3.50@
4.50; native heifers, $3.40®5.25; bulls,
$3.00@4.50; calves, $3.25@6.25.
HOGS—Top, $6.45; bulk of sales,
$6.30®6.40; heavy, $6.30®6.45; pack-
ers, $6.27%@6.45; pigs and light, $5.40
@6.30.
SHEEP—Native lambs, $6.00@7.50.
fed sheep and yearlings, $5.00@6.30;
western clipped yearlings, $5.25@6.25;
western clipped sheep, $5.00@6.00;
stockers and feeders, $3.50@5.00.
The Frisco Get6 the Largest Vote
OKLAHOMA CITY: To decide the
preference as to the route for the
Kentucky home-going, I. M. Holcomb
of this city sent E«stal cards to all
known natives of Kentucky in Okla-
homa asking them to vote on the ques-
tlon. As a result, the Frisco re-
ceived a majority of the votes, aud
has been designated as the official
route. To prepare for this the Frisco
will operate a train known as the
special "Home-Comers' ■' train, which
will leave Oklahoma City at 5 p. m. on
June 11, arriving at Louisville at 7 p.
m. June 12. This train will carry
standard and tourist sleeping cars
and free reclining chair cars, all run-
ning through to Louisville without
change. Persons going on this trip
should consult agents of the roads as
to particulars.
FIFTY GAMBLERS ARRESTED
Police at Muskogee Did a Good Job at
Housecleaning
MUSKOGEE. Six United States
deputy marshals Saturday raided the
gambling houses of this city, arrested
fifty men and burned all the gambling
paraphernalia. Three houses were
raided. Each was full of players and
bystanders. All the men arrested were
taken to Jail, where most of them gave
bond. The officers took most of the
gambling layouts to some vacant lots
in the north part of town and burned
them. Much of this was elegant ma-
hogany furniture, and some of the
gamblers succeeded in getting away
with a few pieces of the furniture
while the officers were making the
raid. The destroyed furniture was
valued at several thousand dollars.
It has been generally known here
for a few days that the town was wide
open, and the gamblers had been mak-
ing so bold as to operate In broad day-
light. The officers walled until Satur.
day afternoon, when they knew th®
gambling houses would be full, and
then made the raid.
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