The Enid Democrat. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 67, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 26, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ENID DEMOCRAT.
L. G. M AIR, Publisher.
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A funeral procession in Oklahoma: Why 1 South McAlester in the terrl-
torae times goes ten miles to a ceuie- *ory Un&wn es Mich? Where is Nortl)
tery.
A great Okla. man om'o Raid that
cur debts were evidences of our pros-
peiity.
A Cititlirie music teacher baa a private
class of three girls in the State Indus-
trial school.
The First National hank at South
McAlester, with a capital of 0,000,
has been opened.
Alfred Son, the slayer of Treasurer
Hoffman of 11, county, was sent to the
penitentiary for life.
Payne county woman is under arrest ,
charged with poisoning MM) head of
cattle for her husband.
The driver of the Chandler express
carried a package to Shawnee the oth-
er day containing S--,(H)0.
That black boa which the Enid belle i
lost on a country road is still chasing
Alkili Ike across the prairies.
A Woods county man says that the
farme-is i f that county are getting
ready to go in hard on cotton.
Dealers in Oklahoma are already en-
gaging cotton seed. There will be a
big demand for it iu the spring.
A little four-year-old girl at lexing-
ton pulled a kettle of boiling water
from the stove and was fatally burned.
A Woodward dressmaker announces
that the new fashionable color, green,
makes St, Patrick's day extend the
whole year round.
The next legislature is already fig-
uring on how to get transportation.
Oklahoma got the transportation habit
from both Kansas and Texas.
No Man's Land once sent a delegate
to congress and congress threw him
out just as it threw Nelson from tlie
Indian Territory out the other day.
An Okla. farmer plants his potatoes
in the fall and covers them with straw
during the winter. He says the yield
is much larger than from those plant-
ed in the spring.
The Okla. newspapers preparing
to educate the people up to the fact
that it isn't refined to get your job
work done somewhere else and then
ask the newspapers to putt your show.
The Ilomeseeker's Guide has been
established at tommftnehe, 1. T., and
will hover around until the Wichita
reservation and tho Kiowa country are
opened.
An Oklahoma paper in speaking of
tho death of George W. l'erris of the
big wheel says: "Such is fate.'' Ferris
died a peaceful death and was an old
man. Did tlie editor think he ought to
have been immortal.
Most of tlie Okla. papers have w ith-
drawn their foolish protests against
"cards of thanks" ami are printing
thein. The little graces of life arc too
few and far between to license the des-
structlon of auy of them.
A farmer wrote to an Oklahoma law-
yer the other day as follows: "Will you
please tell me where you learned to
write? I have u boy I wish to send to
school, and I am afraid he may hit on
the same school that yon went to."
An Oklahoma farmer became enrag-
ed the other evening at au unruly cow
and picked up a good sized rock and
burled it at the brute. The rock miss-
ed the cow and glanced from a stone
fence, striking his wife on tho head
sud making a painful wound.
The price of corn now being contract-
ed to feeders and others is from 12 to
J8 cents per bushel, with an average in
the corn-raising, cattle-feeding coun-
ties of between 1 r> and 16 cents. Forty
per cent of the crop is likely to be sold
st these prices before January. The
number of cattle to be fattened is about
Vie same us last year.
Gus Ivey, of Tahlequah, has skipped
'.he country, leaving many creditors,
li'ey was the secretary of the Chero-
kee board of education from which he
is a defaulter of about S.'i.OOO. He also
owes a number of Cherokee® and
wholesale houses, and altogether he is
ihort some 120,000. Whiskey wus the
cause of Ivey's wri ng doing.
A man at Moore Is trying to secure
government protection on a combina-
tion of machinery which is run by tho
power of gravitation, or in other words
a gravitation engine. He has spent a
long life in working on the invention
and now claims to have it perfected
is and read} to give the benefits of his
labor to the world, as soon us they
will furnish him protection. The pat-
ent laws protcct devices, 6ut not prin-
ciples, hence his difficulty in securing
protection. II is discovery is a princi-
ple and not a device.
Ex-Chief Justice Green is visiting in
Oklahoma at present.
The new legislature will probably
change the boundaries of some of the
Strip counties.
Delegates representing the five civil-
red tribes nu t at South McAlester
and passed resolutions in which tbey
agree to allot their lands, providing a
union with Oklahoma is never formed.
The free homes bill in the senate fol-
lows the immigration bill, which is
now passed.
Gristmill Jones of Oklahoma Citv
would take the governorship if it
should come along.
An Oklahoma man has a dog that
chews tobacco and drinks beer like a
temperance lecturer.
| McAlester?
The Oklahoma City council pud the
electric lig) company are in dispute
' ;:s to rates UN ' a lawsuit will fulluW.
A Kay ccu.ity man should njt get
' too far into that race for governor un
til he finds out whether McKinley's
memory works back as far as 18S8.
j A great many people from El Reno
| go to Oklahoma City to get married
IN WOMAN'S CORNER.
INTERESTING READING FOR
DAMES AND DAMSELS.
have frequently been called upon to
dissolve the ties thus thoughtlessly en-
tered Into, sometimes, it is sad to re-
late, with the connivance of ministers
of the gospel and magistrates who
On Viotorian railway "station mis-
tresses" are rapidly replacing station
masters. Over 200 women are now
holding tlie post and they do the work
as well as men. Their average annual
. „ 1 anrl a great many from Oklahoma Cit,
A Guthrie man is advertising for 10
, , , , , ,, „„ ,„ ,„„i,„ go to El lleno on the same mission,
cents the knowledge of now to inula
whisky without a still. I The most sensible thing the fellows
An Okla. county farmer lins 2S.000 j iu Oklahoma ever did was to wait un-
bushels of wheat which he is holding til McKlnley is seated before beginning
for one dollar per bushel. lhe contest for spoils. It means inuci
, ,, in the outcome.
The Free Homes bill will probably
A western Okla paper which save
that Edison is worth his weight in gold
is rebuked by another paper which
lieorge Orner of Enid and Governor SJIyS t lia.t his weight in diamonds is
Seay are visiting the territory over to- j a even.
have its greatest trouble when it gets
back into the house conference.
Ooiifllp About tho Fashions — Fro<*k of
Red l'oplin for a MIm A Fall-Length
Gurmrnt—Danger iu Mock
—Tho Care of ltcea.
ought to know better than to play the I salary I. 100, ^rhereaa the statioo
I part they do in these affairs.
master received S650.
j The buffoonery of the bicyclists,
Marriages ' whose doings were exploited in thesa
• columns recently, was bad enough,
but the worst feature is the notion ot
tho promoters of tho affair that a di-
vine ordinance is a good thing to joke
with as an evening's sport. This
leaves a painful impression on highly
devout minds, and a h«lf-eontemptu
T cannot be said
that boucle cloth
has come in again,
for It never went
out, but it is more
fashionable than
ever this year. The
loops upon the sur-
face of the cloth
are arranged with
less regularity, be-
Russia will take a general censua t
the empire on Februrary 9th, (January
28 old style) next. The enumeration
will begin two or th-ee weeks earlier
In the more remote districts of Siberia
and central Asia.
Beventy-two races inhabiting the
world communicate witli each other In
ous one on even worldly minds. If a g,o04 different tongues, and confess to
clergyman were to announce that a
baptizing pool would be opened some
evening, either in the church or else-
where, and that he would perform the
rite of baptism as a public entertain-
ment on the fattest woman or the tail-
ing often scattered ; est man in the neighborhood, there
gether. Now what does this mean.
The old town clock in a prominent
There has only been one lynching Okla. town has become inch u com-
aud one hanging in Oklahomas's his- ' mon liar that it can't look an honest
tory, aud she ought to keep it down to man in the eye, and keeps its hands
that. ; before its fuce all the time.
in Kingfisher county the jury failed More holiday presents have been sold
I to convict Mr. Swiskey for introducing this year than at any time in the his-
I liquor to the Indians. Aud with that tory of Oklahoma. It is no doubt due
name, too. j 10 the vast amount of money brought
What is more glorious to our people ! u' Oklahoma by our present mammoth
than to have autumn weather up to 1 cotton crop.
Christmas. Such is invariably the case
in Oklahoma.
A disastrous fire visited Shawnee re-
cently and consumed a whole block in
The
in a design on the cloth, but the boucle
elTcct remains. A lovely boucle cloth
was worn on Broadway the other day
by a writer well known as a successful
maker of books. Her taste In dress
Is as trim as her literary style, and Bho
can always boast of something new.
This coat was a gray-green boucle. It
was cut almost straight, with slightly
sloping sides. The front was double-
breasted in a new way and fastened
with large clear green buttons. Down
the middle of the front was a strapping
that looked like a blind opening. The
novel feature of the coat was the bind-
ing, which was of gray suede. This
gave a very elegant appearance to the
about 1,000 religions. The number of
men and women is very nearly equal,
the average longevity of both aexea be*
ing only about 38 years, about one-
third of the population dying befora
the ago of aeventeen.
This country is now growing a larg-
er part of the mustard put up in Eng-
land as well as in this country, and
! California is raising the larger part of
it The mustard seed has just been
i harvested in California, and probably
has invited during the week, and j ruQ £q i6 000i000 pounds, oi
which was Influenced in no large de- •
would be no more sacrilege than thero
is in a mock wedding gotten up for a
public show. The clergyman officiat-
ing at the bicycle wedding mentioned
has himself reached the conclusion
that the affair was a mistake. There
is ground for the criticism which it
gree whatever by any prejudice against |
"the institutional church." It was j
simply an illustration of the care that !
must be taken in cultivating the gos-
pei of relaxation, or in making re-
ligion popular, to prevent the thought-
less or the foolish from going to an J
absurd extreme.—Ex.
lJJOO.OOO pounds more than the crop ol
1UXK)
5.
A Logan county sclioolmarm walks | business portion of the town,
around a section of land every evening j 1,lss is estimated at 850.000 The town
has no fire facilities, and only the
The populists of Cleveland county
will ask the next legislature to change
the name of the county to Hrjan.
after school. It takes muscle to teach
the Brown county iilea show to shoot.
Oklahoma ought to come to be known
at the Mistletoe state. The territory j
is one of the few places in the west
where a girl can be kissed under the
mistletoe just as it grows.
There is only one river in the world
which has less water in it than the Ar-
kansas river. This is tho South Cana-
dian. The sand in the Arkansas is
damp. It is powder dry in the Cana-
dian.
An Enid girl lost a black feather boa
on a country road and advertised for it.
She won't get it. It is probably chas-
ing some poor fellow who got too much
Enid whisky in him and started to ride
home.
This year's increase in the acreage of
alfalfa is put by correspondents at 23
per cent. Assessor's returns show the
year's area in kaflir corn as 373,058
acres, a gain of 188,860 acres, or 102.53
per cent
A "Jack the 11 agger" has developed
in Norman, lie pretends that he can,
not skate, and grabs girls on the ice-
under psetenso of trying to hold him-
self up. But before the girl gets away
she finds herself hugged.
An old fashioned man who makes
his wife get up and start the morning
fires lives in Guthrie, and he heats
his house with a furnace which blew
off a lot of gas the other morning and
knocked the good woman against the
wall.
Shipping mistletoe has now become
quite an important industry, eastern
and northern cities wanting it for the
holiday season. This evergreen para-
site grows in great profusion in the
Indian Territory and many beautiful
specimens are being shipped out east
daily.
Mr. Red Horse of Canadian county
stole a white horse. Judge Tarsney
called tho case the other day. Mr.
Simpson said Red Horse and the white
horse had disappeared, which was a
horse on tho court. If Tarsney had in the territory,
fined him that would hayc been a horse
of another color.
A fakir struck Logan Co. the other
day selling tooth wash. He would cast
out a long rope and ask everybody to
take hold, and he would give them an
electric shock. When everybody l.ad
hold he would yell: ''This is the big-
best line of suckers I ever caught" A
Guthrie man got hold of the rope and
took it away from the fakir in revenge.
Hon. Sam Powell, of Wagoner, I. T.,
who spent last winter in Washington
as tho accredited representative of the
Indian territory in the interest of town-
site legislation, stopped over at Ard-
more to-day en route south, says the
Ardmorite. When asked what would
be done iu the interest of the territory
legislation at the coming session of
congress, Mr. Powell said: "1 believe
the time is right for the passage of an
equitable towusite bill measure for the
relief of the townsites iu the five civil-
ized tribes. I will leave for Washing-
ton in about a week. We propose to
push the "Curtis bill," now l>efore the
senate, with the Flynn townsite clause
added to the measure. Or. Leo 11 Ben-
nett (former Indian agent) of Musko-
gee, I. T., will also lobby congress in
the interest of the proposed townsite
bilL"
A I'onea City girl, according to Jrrre
Johnson, says that love i> an itching at
heart that you can't scratch.
An Oklahoma editor*ays that, "hope"
will cause a "man to bear his bosom
and rush into the fiercest gehenna of
the contest." He ought to get rid of it
if it treats him like that
Frank Greer says there isno"Arkau-
saw gang" in Oklahoma politics."
A farmer living near Cloud Chief
was found in his bed with a bulleUhole
in his head one morning last week.
; quiet weather prevented the whole
I business from burning.
At the local contest at Norman Inst
week to select an orator to represent
the terntotial university at the orator-
ical contest that takes place at Guthrie
the 19th inst., E. W. Johnson won first
honors. His subject was "Education,
the Bulwark of Liberty."
A Washington special 6ays: Repre-
sentative Hows, of New York, has in-
troduced a bill to revoke coal, oil and
mineral leases for lands in the Indiau
Territory that have not produced such
within the last three years. The bill
also provides that no leases are to be
made hereafter except with the ap-
proval of congress.
Now that the new legislature, pledg-
ed to a reduction of all salaries, is
about to meet, the sheriffs of Oklaho-
ma have suddenly remembered that
they have not been very socini during
the past two years and have callcd a
meeting of all the sheriffs in the terri-
tory to meet at the enpitol tliersof on
December 19, "to get better acquainted
and plan for the better appreheuding
of all criminals."
The commissioner of the general
land office has given out an important
decision on the sooner question. The
case in question is that of Clias. A. By-
ers vs. Win. M. Allison. Byers con-
tested Allison's filing of a fine quarter
section of land near the Sac and Fox j
agency, alleging that Allison was a
sooner. Allison did not deny being in
the country, but c'aimed that by vir-
tue of his having been in the employ
of the government (appointed by Gov
ernor Steele to survey the towusite of
Chandler) and not having tiled on any
land for five months after the openinj,
and then only after liaviug bought a
relinquishment, that he was justly en-
titled to a tiling. The point decided
is, that Allison being in the rcscrva
tion at the hour it was opened to set-
tlement was thereby disqualified, not-
withstanding he neither sought nor ob-
tained any advantage by his presence
A Washington special says: "The
parliament ury advantage won b) Sen-
ator Pettigrc v for the free homes bill
has entirely changed legislative condi-
tions with respect to' it without in any
degree increasing the chauces of it be-
coming a law. Enough opposition has
been manifested to make it certain
that the debate will be protractcd and
that the issue will at least be doubt,
and, besides, the president has signifi-
ed in an unmistakable manner his pur
pose to veto this bill if it shall renefi
him. Since, however, the subject ha*
been givcu new legislative life and Is
about to engross legislative attention,
it is worth while to know that under
this bill the settlers in Oklahoma
would be relieved from the payment of
§15,058,402 which they hail agre.ed to
pay for lands that cost the govern-
ment over eighteen million dollars, as
follows: Cherokee Outlet, $7,370,410;
Pawnee, 8423,300; Tonkawa, $172,375;
Sac and Fox, $*55,070; Iowa, 3258,785;
Pottawatomie. $;is5,3lft; Cheyenne and
Arapahoe, $5,350,843; Kickapoo, $127,-
555; Wichita, $614,435. Mr. Pettigrew,
however, is not especially concerned in
the saving of this 6um to Oklahoma.
The total amount which would be
saved the settlers everywhere undei
this bill is $35,700,078.
In the Ft. Sill country it is said the
rocks are piled together in heaps and
will make a little trouble with farm-
ing.
> I'Kfil
Borne Down With Infirmities.
finds its surest solace io the benignant tont«
aid afforded by Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters,
whioh counteracts rheumatic and malarial tend*
encioa, relieves growing inactivity of the kid'
neys, and is the finest remedy extaat for disor-
ders of the stomach, liTer nod bowels. Nervous-
ness, too, with which old people ro very apt t®
be afflicted, ia promptly relieved by It.
Alaska is destined to be a great min-
ing country. The prospectors are con-
stantly reporting now discoveries. Tho
mines adjacent to Circle City and Forty
Mile are not overcrowded with miners
and no distress is reported from these
localities. It is thought that too many
miners went to Cooks Inlet.
The only fire-lightning facilities of
the city of Gloucester, England, are
those provided separately by insurance
companies. When an alarm is sound-
ed th*1 firemen will not put out the fire
if tfc.e building is insured by a rival
company.
Steamship building on the Clyde has
taken a boom of late. One Glasgow
firm recently received an order for
fourteen steamers of from four to six
thousand tons, and nine other stoam-
ers were ordered the same week.
In a hard-water district an ample
supply of rain water should be collect-
ed for cooking and laundry purposes.
There arS^in the Butte, Mont., min-
ing district 4000 patented claims, 300C
of which are silver and 1000 copper.
HANDSOME STREET DRESS—From "Toilette."
Stored rain water is less palatable
than good spring water, its flatness be-
ing due to lack of oxygenation.
The works for extending the Argen*
tine railway system into Bolivia are
being actively pushed on.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
TaUe Laxative Dromo Quinino Tablets. AH
Druggiait refund the money if It faiLu to cure. £5o
Ground water loses much organio
matter in poroelating through the soil.
Water may become offensivo through
Mie growth of minute plants.
Drinking water may produce typhoid
fever, malaria and cholera.
Japan has 41 cities of over 10,000 In-
habitants.
Minnesota has a girl's agricultural
sohooL
coat without adding terribly to the
cost. It Is whispered that this woman
designs her own coats and makes her
seamstress sew together strips of suede
from the tops of her cast-off gloves for
her coat bindings, but be that as it
may, the coat was as neat a thing as
has traveled Broadway. It was worn
over a skirt of green and black striped
cheviot upon a gray ground.—Ex.
Red Poplin for Miai.
This very handsome frock is de-
signed of poplin, bright red in color,
with garniture of cream and yellow
| «!lk cord forming a scroll pattern on
I tlie drep points, whiih turn back from
J the plain in^ot at the front. Encircling
the waist is a bt It of satin ribbon,
! which extends dow/i one side of tho
Tlie Care of Hops.
Lady Jane is the owner of two line
colonies of bees that were presented to
her during the present year. Some one
has casually examined the hives, and
finds that they contain a large amoun)
of honey. She does not know how to
manage them so as to get the honey,
and having read very interesting arti-
cles oil; bees, she writes to ask if she
can secure the honey without destroy-
ing the bees, and, if so, how is it to
be done? Answer: Whatever you do,
pray do not destroy the bees. This is
cruel and unprofitable. It is like kill-
ing the goose that lays the golden egg,
If you are not accustomed to handling
bees, you probably could not take oul
the honey with any assurance of safet}
to yourself or the future of the honej
producers. An expert blows a littl«
smoke from the bee-smoker into th<
hive, lifts off the cover, takes out sev-
eral of the frames- not, however, mor<
than one-third—rearranges those thai
remain, and covers the tops of th«
frames with a cushion of chaff 01
leaves. This keeps the bees warm ant
comfortable, and assures them sufli
cient honey to keep them through the
winter and bring them into anothei
season in most excellent condition.
I'ull-I.rngth Garment.
A useful full-length evening or car-
riase wrap for cold weather is made 01
cloth or velvet, with combination lining
of wadded silk plush edging of fur
Full loo;is oi mirolr velvet to matet
hat eaught up at each side of the col-
lar. The garment is of circular shape,
the fullness forming a wide Watteau
lr. the center of the back.
Nicaragua prohibits rubber exporta-
tion.
The musical bicycle plays a it goes.
Ohio boasts of a girl watchmaker.
Paris police carry dark lanterna.
The South has 500 cotton milla.
China ha* women pile drivers
Theexpenseofdoctors'bills. Keepyourblood
f"r®, your digestion good aud your system
"jular at this season by taking a course of
Sarsaparii!a
T^e_Best—in faot the Ono True Blood Purlflw.
Vi • a PH I c "the only pills to take
IlOOa S i 1113 uood'sfiftMStmrUkL
PATENTS, TRADE MARKS
Kxamln&tlon and Advtc* M to r*t«ntabtllt7 of ! •
▼•niion. Bend for "Inventors' Guide, or How to Qfttft
Patent." O'FAKRELL A SON. Washington, D. O.
An Oklahoma man who had to be i pkirt, terminating in loops. At the
vaccinated to suvc his life insurance
policy says the ne-:t time he will lose
his police ami save his life.
40klahoma City has a metropolitan
pick-pocket, lie relieved u youutf lady
of 810 the other day.
Oklahoma City has a committee ont
buying up the right-of-way for the ex-
tension of the Frisco from Sapulpa.
reck the frock is prettily dressed with
wreaths oj ribbon
If ihe family, particularly IU young
er memberH, grow tired of the whole-
some aud economical bread pudding
as it is usually served, try cooking it
In custard itups. Tlirsc arc first but-
wncrr n or . .<r a . (hen filled with pudding
Not a few g'drty glrfc thltA HI I ln „ 0f ho:
huge Joke to participate In a mock r„v,r ,arh one with a tiny
marriage vet such events have often - _.« 1 i i n 1
led to serious embarrassments. Mar- | spo'^ful^ briBht-cotored
r''*e Is a matter too serious to be
trilled with. Judges In the courts
a meringue. In tills form the despised
1 pud'ing will take a new lease of IKe,
DRUG STORE FOR SALE!
Or would tako partner if R«gi>tared- Baat
Bargain iu Uie Stale. Wrte.
IIH. HHILTON,
Wichita. Kanpai.
821 West Douglas^ Avunne.
■ a f\Vf Manager and Agents wanted
M U I for Dr. Kay a Utt riue ionic, no
mo ey required until pooda are aold "Woman
hood " a Valuable book et on female diseases
lite. i r. 11 J. Ksv Medical Co., Omuh*, Nstx
OPIUMh^drunxennes$
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t r.i DR. J.L.STEPHENS,
BLISS CO. A SI
mail anywhere.
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Our Native Herbs E?.Xt"!
lor 65c in postage stamps. THI HERB
DiTrilTC 30y*ars eij*r1 nc*. *ketch fora*-
r.MCnld- vice. (l. )M>ftm>,lMtf prin. raamin*rU.fc
1**1.Office I buaua * \v «*v«r, McUill Uldfw a h.L>.U
& Bwt Couch Syrup. Tastos Good. 1
Li. ia tiui*. 8<>id by druggtaU.
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