The Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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CHANDLER PUBLICIST
W. H. FRENCH, Editor wad M&ngr'r.
MRS. 0. 0. FRENCH, Associate Ed'r
CHANDLER, - - O. T.
OKLAHOMA ANI> INDIAN TERRITOR*
Muskogee Catholics have held a fair
which netted them 8250.
Shop lifters are making* thing's lively
for the stores at Purcell.
Two stores at Provence were de-
stroyed by fire the other night.
A lodge of the Knights of Pythias is
soon to be organized at Spiro, I. T.
■ ! Tulsa has opened a telephone ex-
Yukon is crying for more buildings i change with eighty subscribers,
for rent. I Indian Commissioner Jones is for
Leonard J. Thompson has been ap- J shutting off annuities to Indians,
pointed postmaster at Lahoma, Woods , Ex-Indian Agent Wisdom is now a
county. ( licensed auctioneer of the Creek Na-
The Caddo country is a popular . tion.
hunting ground for Indians as well as j A («. A. R post has been organized
whites. j at Pauls Valley with a membership of
The Eastern Oklahoma Railroad , <>f ten.
company has secured right-of-way as A negro was shot to death while try-
far out as Pawnee. j ing to effect an entrance into the resi-
A telephone line is being constructed
from Eufaula to Fort Smith, a distance
of seventy-five miles.
The postoffices at Stroud and Paw-
huska, O. T., will become presidential
on January 1; salaries of postmasters
will be $1,000 each.
The fall term of the United States
court at Ardmore has on its doekct
fifteen murder eases and a large num-
ber of whiskey cases.
, Governor Itarnes will not name a sec-
retary of the livestock sanitary board
to succeed Dr. Italian!, resigned, until
his return from Washington.
Mr. MeRae, of Arkansas has intro-
duced a bill to extend the limits and laws
of the territory of Oklahoma, and for
statehood, to .include the Indian Terri-
tory.
Mr. Flynn is at work t rying to secure
the appoint ment of two Oklahomansas
supervisors of erection of public build-
ings, etc., in the Kiowa-Comanche
country.
Hon. Thos. Ryan's visit to Mountain
View revived the confidence of citizens.
Trade is fast picking up and improve-
ments going on. Lots are being taken
on lease, quite lively.
The mail between Optima, in Reaver
pounty, and Shade, is carried pony ex-
press fashion with relays. This is
probably the only survival of pony ex-
press in the United States.
The condition of Oklahoma's wheat
crop at present is such as to indicate a
record-breaking yield for next season.
The outlook for the great crop of 1807
was no better at this time of year.
dence of a Waco citizen
General W. E. Hardy, secretary and
treasurer of the Kavv Indians in Okla-
homa, is in Washington.
Several of the newspapers of the ter-
ritory are dinning at the farmers not
to mortgage their farms.
The directors of the Santa Fe took a
short tour in Oklahoma after holding
their annual meeting in Topeka.
Major G. W. II. Htrouch, a retired
army officer, is to succeed Major Wood-
son as Indian agent at Darlington, X.
T.
At Berlin 2.000 pounds of salt was
marketed in one day. It was manu-
factured at the Canyon Springs salt
works.
In his report Governor Barnes sailed
into the people who have tried to give
Oklahoma an unmerited cyclone repu-
tation.
Delegate Flynn is doing what he can
to forward Horace Speed's chances
for appointment as district attorney fo«
(oklahoma.
The anti- saloon league lias been or-
ganized at Bartlesville, and its mem-
bership includes nearly every business
man in town.
An armadillo has been captured in
the Indian Territory. It is a species of
the anteater, and the first ever found
in that country.
There is a whole lot of capital ma-
neuvering in the railroad building in
Oklahoma. There is going to be a hot
rustle for the capital.
Jim Kelley, receiver at the ^Mangum
land ofHee and Speaker Henderson of
\ inita claims the only fullblood In- | the national house of representatives,
were born near each other in Scotland
and crossed the ocean together.
dian who has been admitted to a Phi
Jteta Kappa college fraternity. He is
p. W. C. Duncan, who was a mt mbcr
of the society at Dartmouth college.
James Bigheart of the Osage country
had thirty of his horses stolen in one
(light. A negro saw the horses near
Okmulgee later and the officers are
now trying to locate them and the Howard Fielding has been appointed
thieves. ' superintendent of construction af new
Leo I ''"hidings in Kiowa and Comanche res
Mrs. A. O. Nichols, wife of the terri-
! torial auditor under Governor Renfrow,
i is dead. She was formerly Miss ltelle
Hittenhouse, one of the most accurate
stenographers of Guthrie and Perry.
ervations, a job which pays 810 a day.
The appointment was secured throagh
Delegate Flynn.
(* as par Edwards of Southern Kansas
has been appointed to the superinten-
dence' of the Ponca City Indian school,
made vacant by the resignation of
William E. Light, wno went to the
Pawnee school in a like capacity.
Purcell and Lexington carried off
Sam'l Powell of Wagner, O. T.
E. Rennet of Muskogee, 1. T., United
Btates Marshal Thomson, of O. T., and
W. E. Hardy, secretary and treasurer
of the Kaw Indians, are a few among
territory men who are in Washington.
Daugherty, I. T., was raided and five
horses taken. A washwoman's clothes
line was robbed. A gold watch was
stolen from a show case. W. L. Thom
as had his wagon loaded ready to start
to Oklahoma and a number of articles the honors in the recent inter-high
were stolen from the wagon. school recitation contest in the Indian
At the special session of the Chero- I Territory. Representatives from the
kee council Chief ltufflngton recom- 1>lmls Valley, Wynnewood. Davis, U-x-
mended the employment of expert injrton and Ardmore schools also purj
copyists for making a correct copy of j tkipateu.
the authenticated Cherokee laws for The United States Indian agent at
the Dawes commission, and some action Atosa is strictly enforcing his orders to
for collecting the $4,000,000 claim seize the guns, dogs, etc., of all non-
against the government. He also Bora-1 citizen hnntei*s. He declares that he
inated the delegation to Washington, will prosecute them to recover the $.~ 00
and recommended the passage of the penalty prescribed by the revised stat
miscellaneous claim bill.
A bill by Senator Cockrell provides
for a grant of way through the Indian
•Territory to the Gulf.
The Cherokee national council has
passed a bill prohibiting United States
citizens from grazing cattle in the
Cherokee nation and requesting the
secretary of the interior to eject them
from the limits of the Cherokee conn-
utes of the United States.
A would-be assassin fired thVough a
window at John Finley in Mangum,
while Finley was at a desk writing.
The bullet hit the side of a stove and
was deflected and Finley was unharmed.
Cleveland Triangle: Jake Shepard
was out on the hill south of town, when
his dog began barking up a stump.
Jake went over and broke up the stump
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try. The Cherokees claim that their with his ax. There were only sixteen
lamds are overrun with the herds of j copperheads in it. The largest was
white men to the exclusion of the do-
mestic cattle of the small Indian farm-
ers.
If all the men who are in the busi-
ness should suddenly resolve to intro-
four feet and eight inches long, and
the rest were about two feet and a half
in length.
The Kansas boys broke their engage-
ment with the Oklahoma boys, anil
duee no more liquor to the thirsting there was no inter-state football game,
red men some of the sessions of the' And the Territory boys will always he-
courts on the borders of Oklahoma | lieve that they would have paralyzed
would have to be passed. i the Jay hawkers.
At Talequah the auditor's oftlec was The Oklahoma stock sanitary coin-
looted and a number of certificates j mission confirmed the appointment of
were stolen. A fraudulent credit of K. E. Ilahn as live stock inspector, to
#4,038 was also entered on the auditor's J succeed Kzra Maple. As regents of the
books. It is thought that thousands Agricultural and Mechanical college,
of dollars worth of stolen and forged | they decided to spend $30.(KM) of the
certificates are atioat over the Chero- i Senator Morrill fund in equipping de-
kee Nation. j partments of the college.
South McAlester has no end of shale. Western cattlemen will get together
A brick company there is increasing its ; to device ways and means of opposing
plant to a capacity of 75,000 a day. A the action of the railroads in putting
contract has been secured to furnish j in the system of charging by the hun-
1!\0,000 brick for the new Masonic tem- dred pounds instead of by the carload,
pie at Den'oton, lexas. farm eaRt of Orlando, George
A iraud in Cherokee certificates was , Doll man, a young man, had prepared a
unearthed in the senate by Senator; gun and loaded it before starting on a
Ijeach presenting certain national cer- j hunt. A little boy in the house, the
CHAPTER XI.—(Continued.)
In an instant, however, she had re-
covered herself. Quick as lightning,
she turned to the table again, seized
the china slop basin, and, raising the
cup, was just about to empty the
whole of the contents, when, as
though detecting her intention, a de-
taining hand was laid upon her arm,
and Falkland, in his suavest tones,
said—
"Ah, that is for Major Brown! Will
you not give it to him?"
"Oh. do not trouble,please, Miss Lut-
trell!" exclaimed Brown, who at that
moment appeared in the window. "Let
me fetch it myself!"—and before Eve-
lyn was even aware of what was hap-
pening he had taken the cup of coffee
from her hand and, turning to the
sugar basin, was carefully searching
for a piece of sugar of the exact size
he required.
"You—you will not like that!" gasp-
ed Evelyn, making a quick movement
forward, with an expression of ab-
solute perplexity upon her face. "Let
me get you another cup—that is not
strong enough!"
"No, certainly not, thank you! This
is delicious!" declared the Major, help-
ing himself to some cream; and, be-
fore she had even time to utter an-
other word, Evelyn saw him pass out
on the veranda and, to her horror, act-
ually raise the cup to his lips.
It was too terrible! She made one
despairing effort to reach him, one
vain attempt to dash the cup from
his hand. Hut what was ^ seemed
suddenly to hold her back, to rise up
like a cloud before her eyes? She
passed her hand in a dazed, bewildered
manner across her forehead, made one
staggering step forward, and then,
with an instinctive sense of preserva-
tion, grasped hold of the arm of a
chair and sank back among the cush-
ions perfectly unconscious.
CHAPTER XII.
"Yes, Evelyn—it is quite true. I
never saw you looking so pale before.
thought of the fearful alternative—the
thought that even then Major Brown
might be lying under the influence of
some frightful narcotic, perhaps per-
fectly unconscious.
As long as she lived never would she
forget the wretchedness she endured
as hour after hour she lay awake,
watching wearily for the first streaks
of dawn to break through the closely-
drawn blinds. Still, when even eight
had been struck in muffled tones from
the depths of the little leather travel-
ing case—even then, what was there
to b<i learned?
Parker looked thoroughly puzzled
when questioned for news of Major
Brown.
"Major Brown, miss? Why, there is
nothing amiss with him!" she had re-
turned decidedly. "He looked as well
as anybody need last night when I saw
him fanning you down stairs."
But what small comfort poor Evelyn
derived from this information was
speedily destroyed by the maid's an-
nouncement a little later that the
major had evidently overslept himself
that morning, as. in passing down the
corridor, she had noticed that long
after the usual time his door was
closed, and his boots and hot water
were waiting on the mat outside.
It was thus that Evelyn, in a state
of strange hopelessness, had dressed
and gone downstairs. She had pre-
pared herself for the worst. She felt
she would not be astonished then
whatever happened, and yet every step
which sounded on the corridor, every
time a waiter entered the room, she
started up as white as ashes, dreading
the news that might come.
It was, therefore, almost as great a
shock when, chancing to look out of
the window, she beheld, strolling leis-
urely across the lawn, a tall, well-built
figure, which she recognized at a glance
as the major's. And this had been the
cause of Lady Howard's remark con-
cerning the necessity for some little
•BEG PARDON. MISS, IS THIS FOR YOU?"
tificatcs and asking that they be re-
ferred to the committee on claims. On
investigation it was fouud that they
b d been cancelled by the auditor, and
the reference was refused.
son of Moses Lyeter, picked up the
weapon playfully and discharged it in
Dollinan s face, making a bad wound,
which, however, was not necessarily
fatal.
That affair of last night has quite
upset you. You had better take Sam-
bo for a good run this morning, in
the hope of bringing back some color
to your cheeks; and. as Mrs. Courte-
nay has just told me that her hus-
band has been called suddenly to Lon-
don and will not be able to accompany
her to the theater to-night, I shall
send to say you will be delighted to
accept the offer of the ticket if only
she will be so good as to chaperon
you. I believe, child, a little excite-
ment will do you all the good in the
world."
Evelyn's only answer was a faint
sigh as she leaned back in her chair
and clasped her hands above her head.
At that moment, with her head throb-
bing continuously and the feeling of
utter weariness, which was the result of
a sleepless night and hours of inexpli-
cable worry, the very idea of play was
intolerable to her. She seemed to have
lived days instead of hours Blnce the
events of the previous evening—since
that terrible moment when she had
suddenly lost consciousness, to re-
member nothing more until she found
herself lying on her own bed, with her
aunt's maid, who had evidently been
left to keep watch, fast asleep in a
chair by her side.
And then how utterly helpless she
had felt when vivid recollections of
all that happened rose up in horrible
distinctness before her mind! What
could she do? Alas, nothing—nothing
whatever! She had no actual knowl-
edge that Falkland had administered
anything to Major Brown. She could
give no reasons for supposing that the
coffee which he had handed to him
had been drugged. If she roused the
whole hotel she could not possibly
■tate anything for a fact. Yet at the
j tame time the was haunted by the
her eyes upon the stage, where they
remained for the rest of the scene.
She had held herself aloof from
him most carefully all the day, never .
venturing downstairs at any time when
he was likely to be ab.jut, and, though
in one instance she had had the mis-
fortune to encounter him, she had pre-
served the strictest silence regarding
the previous night's proceedings, not
even asking if he had managed to se-
cure the forged check, nor evincing
any curiosity as to the means he had
adopted.
'Beg pardon, miss, but is this let-
ter for you? A messenger has just
brought it from the 'Georse,' and
asked for it to be given to you himme-
diately."
The words borne to Evelvn's ears
above the strains of one of Sullivan's
most popular airs made her look up
in surprise, to And herself 'onfronted
by a small program boy, who was
holding out for her inspection a note
directed in her aunt's handwriting to
"Miss Luttrell—Stalls. No. 14."
"Dear me, I hope there is nothing
wrong!" murmured Mrs. Cour'.enay in
agitated tones.
(To be continued.)
THE 0PEEA IN CHILE,
THERE SOCIETY IS SEEN AT
ITS BEST.
excitement as a diversion from her
thoughts!
And perhaps Lady Howard had
never spoken with greater wisdom;
for, having satisfied herself on the
score of the enp of coffee, which she
had quite made up her mind had been
fatally drugged, all the feelings of hor-
ror which Evelyn had experienced
when the suspicion of the forgery had
first fallen upon Major Brown, but
which she had forgotten in the alarm
that followed, returned to her now
with a force which seemed ten times
increased In its intensity.
Never before in her life had Eve-
lyn known a day which proved itself
so interminably long as did this partic-
ular morning and afternoon. To see,
to speak to, Major Brown again was
impossible; and so, rather than under-
go the risk of a meeting with him she
absolutely shut her ears to all of Lady
Howard's entreaties and remained in
strict seclusion in her own room, never
once during the whole of the day ven-
turing out of her cuBtomary rambles.
It was thus probably through sheer
weariness that Evelyn, tired to death
by her own society and conflicting
thoughts, at last gave in to Lady How-
ard's persuasions, and allowed herself
to be driven off under the chaperonage
of Mrs. Courtenay to the little seaside
theater.
The house was packed to overflow-
ing, and a loud burst of applause was
greeting the appearance of the princi-
pal actress, when Evelyn, bending for-
ward to catch lier program, which had
fallen to the ground, caught a glimpse
of the occupant of the seat next but
one to Mrs. Courtenay
Instantly a flush of annoyance rose
to her face as she re>ogni ed the in-
dividual in question .is Gilbert Falk-
land, Turning away quiekly, uhe fixed
TOLD OF ANIMALS.
The two zebras sent by the emperot
of Abyssinia to Queen Victoria have
reached England, to the climate and
fare of which the zoological gardens
is now doing its best to accustom
them.
Here is a dog story. A short time
ago a sheep dog owned by a person
at Robin Hood's bay, near Whitby,
England, was dispatched by train to
Liverpool and from there was removed
to Egremont, where it was housed in
the back yard of the residence of Mr.
Coulson. The following morning the
dog had disappeared, and notices
which were distributed about Liver-
pool, Birkenhead and district elicited
no response. Rover, however, arrived
in a week or so at Robin Hood's bay,
weary and lame, and bearing an un-
mistakable appearance of having had
a long journey. The dog had jumped
a high wall in order to escape and
afterward crossed the Mersey, and sub-
sequently traveled 170 miles in order
to reach his destination.
A remarkable case of animal eccen-
tricity 6as been discovered near Cay-
uga lake, New York state. In a high
tree a large white cat, which would
weigh probably twenty-five pounds,
has taken up its abode, and from all
observation has been there for several
years. It is seldom seen in daylight,
but prowls about at night after food,
living on birds, squirrels and other
animals that it can master. It is shy
of any of the human kind, and cannot
be approached. In its midnight per-
egrinations it visits the cottages and
anything eatable left outside generally
disappears. A few days ago the cat
was seen lying stretched out on a
limb, like a squirrel, and when a
stone was thrown at it the animal rose
up and jumped, like a flying squirrel,
from limb to limb and tree to. tree,
until it disappeared.
Not lfeoolier's PrHjer.
One of the older newspaper men told
a story the other day. "Browning was
one of the best reporters to get out of
work that ever broke into the busi-
ness," he said. "The city editor sent
him down to report Henry Ward
Beecher one time, and he came in
about 11 o'clock with his 'stuff' ready
for the printer. He had taken no
notes, but had made a running long-
hand report. He told how the church
looked, who were on the rostrum
about the pulpit, and how Mr. Beecher
rose and lifted his hands and said, very
solemnly: 'After this manner, there-
fore, pray ye.* Then Browning added,
in parenthesis, 'Turn rule for Lord's
prayer.' He meant to copy that ver-
batim from the office Bible when he
got to his desk, but forgot it, and the
parenthesis was only to guide the
printer. So the paper came out in the
morning with a good picture of Brook-
lyn's famous preacher, and his im-
pressive manner of saying, 'After this
manner, therefore, pray ye. Turn rule
for Lord's prayer.' Which really
wasn't what the eloquent orator had
said at all."—Chicago Post.
Dull t Cry.
The mere giving away to tears, or to
the outward expression of anger, will
result for the moment in making the
Inner grief or anger more acutely felt,
says Prof. James of Harvard. There
is no more useful precept in one's
self-dlsclpllne than that which bids us
pay primary attention to what we do
and express, and not to care too much
for what we feel. If we only don't
ppeal: the complaining or insulting
word that we shall regret as long as
we live, our feelings themselves will
presently be calmer and better, with
no particular guidance from us on
their own account. Action seems to
follow feeling, but really action and
feeling go together; and by regulating
the action which is under the direct
control of the will we can indirectly
regulate the feeling, which is not.
Ilia Misfortune.
Teacher—Try to remember this: Mil-
ton, the poet, was blind. Do you
think you can remember it? Bobby
Smart—Yes, ma'am. Teacher—Now,
what was Milton's great misfortune?
Bobby Smart—He was a poet.—Colum-
bus (Ohio) State Journal,
To dread danger from the progress
of any truth, physical, moral, or re-
ligious, U to manifest a want of failb
In God's power, or. In His will to main-
tain bis own came.
('he FlnMt Opera flouse In the World
-—Those of London and Even I*aris Not
Excepted—The Go.ernment Guarantee,
the Company's Expenses. V
Santiago Cor. Chicago Record: To
Eec the aristocracy of Santiago at its
best one must attend the opera, which
is given four nights each week during
the winter season by an Italian com-
pany brought from Milan, Italy, and
its performances are as perfect here
as there. The opera house, which is
one qf the finest in the world, sur-
passing everything in London, and
equal to anything we have in the
United States, is owned by the muni-
cipality, and equipped with costumes,
properties and scenery for all th
Standard operas and everything ne*r
that is successful in Paris or other
European musical centers. The house
is furnshed free of cost and the city
government gives the manager a sub-
sidy of $40,000 a year in cash. The
seats and boxes are sold by subscrip-
tions for a season of sixty nights, a&
in New York, and are paid for in ad-
vance. There is usually a guaranty
fund also to protect the manager from
financial loss. Those who lease boxes
and seats for the season often sublet
them to strangers, and it is not con-
sidered an impropriety, so that people
who are spending only a few days in
the city can go to the box office and
obtain seats by paying the regular
rates. The same company appears
thirty nights during the season al
Valparaiso under similar conditions
and with a smaller subsidy. The
singers in the chorus as well as the
orchestra are all Italians, and tb'j
principal ballet dancers also come
from Milan. The soloists are first-
class. The people will not tolerate
anything else, and the audiences are
quite as interesting as the performers,
for the dressing and the display of
jewels is equal to that seen at the
Covent Garden in London, the Grand
Opera House in Paris or the Metro-
politan in New York. It surpasses the
displays at Berlin and other cities of
Germany, where the people go to hear
the music and not to show their
clothes. There is a large foyer in
which the people promenade between
the acts, refreshment rooms where
ices, wines, sandwiches and other
light refreshments are served, a
gentleman's cafe, a smoking room and
other conveniences. The president of
the republic has a large box on one
side of the stage and the mayor of
the city has one on the other side,
which are ex-oflicio, and a novelty t
have never seen before is mourning,
boxes, protected by screens, in which
people who are not wearing colors or
going Into society can see without be-
ing seen, and enjoy the music iii re-
tirement. Above the footlights upon
the stage is a long row of funnels-
which communicate the music by tele-
phone to different residences of the
city.
Th«> (iMfl of lh< IrIhim!.
Laughter and tears, ordinary hopes
and pleasures, and even joy itself, and
bright gaiety, and the swift spontane-
ous imaginations of susceptible na-
tures—all this, of course, is to be
found with the island Gael, as with his.
fellows elsewhere. But every here and
there are some who have in their
minds the inheritance from the dim
past of their race, and are oppressor
as no other people are oppressed by
the gloom of a strife between spiritual
emotion and material facts. It is the-
brains of dreamers such as thesa
which clear the mental life of a com-
munity; and it is these brains are
the mysterious looms which weave-
the tragic and sorrowful tapestries of
Celtic thought. It were madness to
suppose that life in the island con-
sists of nothing but sadness or melan-
choly. It is not so, nor need not be so,
for the Gael is the creature of shadow
and shine. But whatever the people
are the brain of the Gael hears a music
sadder than any music there is, and
has for its cloudy sky a gloom that
shall not go; for the end is near, and
on the westernmost shores of these re-
mote isles the voice of Celtic sorrow
may be heard crying, "Cha till, cha
till, cha till, mi tuille." ("I will re-
turn, I will return, I will return no
•nore.")—Fiona MacLeod.
Her Cooln«M Saved Her.
According to her story of It, ther#
Was one woman survivor aboard the
wrecked Scotsman who retained her
presence of mind throughout the dread-
ful ordeal. She was one of thirteen
women who was let down by ropes into
one of the lifeboats, and before she
was let down she had the thoughtful-
ness to go to her stateroom and put a
flask of whisky Into her satchel, which
she fastened to her life preserver. The
sea was high, and the four sailors In
charge of the life boat became ex-
hausted by their herculean task of
managing the boat and baling out the
waves which threatened to swamp
them. It was at this critical juncture
that the whisky was brought into
requisition, so that everybody in the
boat was finally rescued. It is their
testimony that it was the contents of
the flask that saved them.—Kansas
City Journal.
The Difference.
"Wherein does the man differ from
the lower animals?" asked the profes-
Bor. And the youth answered without
hesitation: "He can ride a bicycle."—
Washington Star.
He that Is of a merry heart hath a
eontlnual feast—Bible.
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