The Hennessey Press. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 17, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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GENERAL NEWS IN BBIEF
PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
GJtanrd from the Four Corner of
the World and Condensed in short
Paragraphs for the C onvenienc e of
Hurried Headers.
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Tha Prime MloUler of RoamMU hu XHE TWO TERRITORIES.
resigned.
John Bruce Ford died at Brooklyn
Friday
« The screwmen of New Orleans are
on a strike.
Karon Belbt ol
CONGRESSIONAL AND
SUMMARY.
LOCAL
Japan
Aft earthquake was felt
Tuesday.
The Kin? of Greece has arrived at
Fiume.
Judge Moore of Las Animas, Colo-
rado, is dead.
Chief Hazen has discovered another
new 85 counterfeit.
3Ex-President Harrison started for
New York Tuesday.
Barings liquidation has been extend-
ed! over another year.
President Cleveland has left Buz-
/;rds Bay for New York.
five cases of cholera are reported
from Konegsburg, I'rusia.
The British ship Evesham Abbey is
on a bar off San Francisco.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg1 says
the Czarina has become ill.
The estimated cotton crop of the
.•urrent season is 8,885,000 bales.
Nothing1 has been heard from the
s"eamer Falc on since the last leport
' Teadel & Sons of Salt Lake City,
failed Wednesday. Liabilities S.'OO,-
DOO.
The Sixth Mexican infantry has
been ordered to the Guatemala fron-
tier.
The Marchioness of Queensberry
!*a obtained a divorce from her hus-
band.
Henry Klutc, a well-known band-
master, died at Sidney, N. 11., Thurs-
day.
Father Chiniqui, the famous ex-
priest is at the point of death at Mon-
treal.
Commodore William E. Hopkins,
aged 73, died in San Francisco Thurs-
day.
Colonel Garriek of the regular army,
retired, died at Washington Thurs-
day.
Dr. Heimbold, of Extract of Bucliu
fame, died Thursday at Trenton, New
Jersey.
Cisterns and wells in New Orleans
are nearly dry and a water famine is
feared.
The Central hotel at Raton, N. M.,
burned to the ground Wednesday
morning.
Rutherford B. Hays, jr. and Miss II.
(Matt, of Columbus, O., were married
Wednesday.
An Anti-Horsethief Association was
organized Tuesday night at Arkansas
City, Kansas.
At Bay City Tuesday a kick was
.nade against the Canadian duty on
broomsticks.
The Big Four shops at Wabash, Ind.,
tvere completely destroyed by fire
Tuesday night.
Hon. Tom Reed spoke to 2,COO stock-
men at Chicago Tuesday and was
1 ludly cheered.
At Neosho, Mo., Wednesday, E. M.
Knotts, while cleaning a well found a
petrified man,
George Hill was fatally stabbed by
Clarence Neal near Manhattan, Kan.,
Wednesday night.
In a quarrel at Smithville, Texas,
Wednesday, Frank Scott killed Chas.
i'hapell and Ed. Turner.
The meeting of the American Mis-
sionary association at Lowell, Mass.,
was largely attended.
Charlie Purcell, a well known socie-
ty young man and musician, died at
Wellington, Kan , Tuesday.
The district attorney of Wisconsin
it preparing new charges against the
officers of the I'lankinton bank.
Ex-Prime Minister
Sweeden is dead.
Bayard addressed a big meeting at
Wilmington Friday.
The President held a cabinet meeting
I at Washington, Friday.
The British bark, Woodbine, has
been wrecked near Natal.
Ex-President Harrison did not start
for New York -Monday.
The (iovernor of Pernumbuce, Huen-
os Ayres, has been deposed.
Ex-Mayor Iicath of Chicago, was
found dead in his bed Monday.
The Texas train robbers were sight-
ed south of Gordon Monday.
The crew of the Allice T. Boardman
was landed at Harve Monday.
The Free Thought Federation of
America is in session at Chicago.
The remains of Chief Justice Lamar
arrived at Oxford. Miss., Friday, ntw..
6Proeeedings are on hand in New Jer-
sey to dissolve the tobacco trust.
Joel Patterson, the oldest sett er of
Jackson county, Mo., died Friday.
News in General of Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory I'ertatnlns to
the Pale Face and the Ited Mt ..
Statehood for Oklahoma is the one
thing. Uncle Sam will see it before
very long.
There are only It* ticket* la Ui
feld in N county
Norman celebrated the completion
ol its water works system last week.
There is only one tribe of blue-eyed
Indians on earth. They live in Mexi-
co.
The Choctaw senate has passed a
law prohibiting non-residents from
erecting buildings.
Governor Renfrow has appointed A.
N. Shencer of Yukon, a delegate to
John Schmook, law partner of Hon. the good roads congress.
John I. Dille, accidently shot himself |
WEATHER AND WIND.
while hunting Monday, which will re
suit in disabling one hand for life.
Mr. Schmook is one of El Reno's
brightest young lawyers and the sad
accident is regretted by all.
A desperate fight occurred at Tahle-
quah in the jail between Elix Levy,
Cliule Starr and Bob Dalton, all of
whom are under sentence of death.
Levy got possession of a razor and
made an assault on the other two
prisoners, cutting Starr fatally, when
he was knocl d senseless by Dalton,
who used a chair, fracturing Levy's
skull and otherwise injuring him so
he cannot recover.
Jim Cook, brother of the leader of
the noted Cook gang of desperadoes,
who was under arrest for murder, has
made his escape from Tahlequah.
While in charge of two guards he
made a break for liberty, and after
Registration of women at Denver al- giving his captors a severe tussel got
free from them. Although hampered
by a heavy chain locked about his
wrist and ankle, he outran the guards
and warded off the bullets directed
at him.
most equals the registration of men
All Socialists workingmen's organi
zations dissolved at Koine Monday.
At Springfield, O., ex-Police Judge
Dorris fled after fleecing people of
$20,000.
Fire- destroyed the S">0,000 home of
Cassimer Work at Cincinnati, Monday.
It was reported in France Monday
that Roumania had joined the tripple
alliance.
One of the supposed robbers of
Greenfield's store was found dead
Monday.
The organization of the type found-
ers was completed at New York last
Friday,
Two German scientists—Dr. Lent i
and Dr. Krebshar—have teen killed j
in Africa.
Deputy Sheriff P. K. Albert has re-
turned to Guthrie from the Creek
country, bringing a gruesome relic.
On the Canadian river near Thurber,
lie found a pair of rusty handcuffs,
clasping the arms of a skeleton which
had been partly torn to pieces by wild
animals. It was all that remained of
some prisoner, who had undoubtedly
escaped from his guards some time in
the past and perished.
C. M. Cox, a widower with two
children, a boy aged 8 and a boy aged
11 years, lived about eight miles south
of Ardmore. Mr. Cox who is about 70
years old, was filling a lamp from a
five-gallon oil can. The oil became
KBurglars stole $2,000 from the Farm- ' ignited and the can was dropped into
ers and Mechanics bank i;f Malvern, the flames, which spread rapidly, and
la., Friday.
Sylvester Yenglc and two children
were killed by lightning at Caldwell,
0., Monday.
Lieutenant Kirby lias been relieved
of duty in Kentucky, and ordered to
Ft. Reno, 0. T.
At Birmingham, Ala., Friday, the
eminent southern lawyer, William B.
Brooks, dropped dead.
Baron Baring died in l.ondon Mon-
day. He was financial secretary to
the treasury in 186S.
A fiend supposed to be a Chinaman,
poisoned twenty persons at Colusa,
Cal., Monday.
Colonel Strong was notified of his
nomination by the New York State
Democracy Monday.
The government of Guatemala is
dispatching large forces of troops tc
the Mexican border.
Three engineers have been appoint-
ed to conduct the steam trial of the
Ericson Wednesday.
Dr. Irwin, surgeon of the Marine
hospital service of London, reports
cholera diminishing.
The jury in the Flood trial at San
Francisco Monday stood nine to three
in favor of conviction.
Six men were buried under a build-
ing at St. Paul Monday and two ol
them were injured fatally.
Editor Boeglin of the Moniteur has
been vanished from Rome. The Mon-
iteur was a church organ.
Bids were opened by.Judge Jenkins
Monday for the receivers certificate^
of the Northern Pacific.
John Criswell of Mexico, Mo., was
(tilled by John Miller, whose daughter
it is alleged Criswell had ruined.
Albert Spaulding and mother, living
near Venton, Iowa, were bound and
gagged Tuesday and robbed of 81,300.
A five story brick building at 420
Wells street. Chicago, collapsed and
buryed several workmen in the ruins.
Charges were brought against the
mayor of Toledo Monday night for
illegally cliauging the system of pub-
lic accounting.
A conference of iron men represent-
ing 150,000 ironworkers is in session at
Indianapolis. No strike is contem-
plated.
Monday it was discovered that the
remains of Contractor Tinslcy were
stolen f.om their grave at St. Joseph,
Mo.
Fifty delegates from all parts of the
country met at Kansas City Monday
for the purpose of organizing a new
switchmen's union
During th# past week the failures
have been 253 in the United States,
against 341 last year, and forty-three
in Canada, against twenty-nine last [ p'itai, and had
year- 1 ed.
Private advices received at Copen-
hagen Monday say the czar passed a
good night and feels stronger.
Nathan Austin, of Shiner, Texas,
struck Reeves Smith over the head
with a beer bottle, Killing him.
General Booth, of London, was giv-
en a inagnificient ovation at Music
hall, in New York, Monday night.
! An order was wade at Washington
j Monday to fill Indian agencies from
now henceforth with army officers.
An earthquake shock was felt at
San Diego and Los Angeles Tuesday.
No damage was done at either place.
Dr. J. M. Coylcendall, a prominent
physician of Chicago, lias disappeared,
lie is accused of forging' several notes.
The Cunard liner, Lucania, arrived
nt Liverpool Friday, having broken
| the fastest time on record by twenty-
five minutes.
George Goldman, :i farmer, 4S years
old, of English, Ind.. while mentally
deranged, killed his wife with a flat
iron Thursday night, and then emptied
the contents of a double-barreled shot
gun in his own brain. Goldman had
pent a few months in the insane lios-
bcen pronounced cur-
the old man and two children was so
badly burned that the boy died soon
after. The little girl died Sunday
morning, and the father can live but
a short time.
The feeling of Oklahoma at large is
still for statehood. The prospects of
adjustment of affairs with the five
tribes are brightening. The report of
the Dawes commission will have great
weight with congress, and when old
veteran, Senator Dawes, who from
time immemorial has championed the
Indian, prejudiced as he was 'by east-
ern sentimentality, but actuated by
the purest motives, comes in, urgfing
as the only feasable way the early ap-
portionment of lands in severalty,
speedy action will be taken.
The Senate Wednesday afternoon
passed the amnesty bill at Tuskahoma,
which, if it passes the house will give
the Wilburton prisoners their freedom.
This is the last resort for Silon Lewis,
who is under sentence to be shot Nov.
5, and the Indian agent has notified
his attorneys that the Interior De-
partment will not interfere any fur-
ther in the case. The council adjour-
ned Friday and there has not been
a general law of importance
passed yet. The bill in reference to
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
way right of way was laid over until
next council meeting.
( apt. I!. H. Pratt's fifteenth annual
report ot the Carlisle, Pa., Indian
School shows a successful year, with
advances in all departments. In that
time only one death has occurred.
There are now on farms, 493 boys and
328 girls. No punil in the school has
ever been brought from a reservation
by force. The attendance was small-
er than last year. The present num-
ber o! pupils is 602, of whom 358 are
boys and 244 girls. The new pupils
number 152, and 175 have been return-
ed to agencies. Forty-four tribes are
now represented at the sshool, the
principal ones being: Oneida, 74;
Sioux, G2; Chippewa, 58; Apache, 57;
Seneca, 42; Cherokee, 33; Assinaboine,
31; Pigeon, 23; Pueblo, 24; Nez Forces,
21; Osage, 20: Ottawa, 20; Tuscarora,
10; Crow, 17; Shawnee, 12: Winccbago,
11.
The capture of the desperadoes re-
sponsible for the depredations in the
territory cannot much longer be de-
layed. Marshals are on the trail of
the men who committed the Monday
night's robberies and are pressing
them closely. Chief Harris of the
Cherokee Nation, has offered a reward
of $500 for the capture of Bill Cook,
the gang's leader, dead "or alive. All
of the light horse guards and all In-
dian police have been summoned for
duty, and all United States Marshals
of the territory have been put on the
| trail. In addition there are the spec-
ial officers of the railway and express
companies, making a total of between
i five hundred and six hundred men
ready to commence concerted action
immediately
Bill Cook, the outlaw, is winning
thousands over to statehood for the
Indian territory every day.
It is rumored that the grass pay-
ment of the Kiowas and Commanches,
so long delayed will begin about the
tenth of next month.
The papers down at Oklahoma City
are calling on each other to let loose
the dogs of war, and right now when
hydrophobia is the most dangerous,
too.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
of Guthrie are going to give a baby
show. The still hunt for judges is
now in progress with most of the men
in town hiding out.
Coroner Brown was Saturday after-
noon called to Dover, to investigate a
ease there. A colored baby about two
weeks old was found in a straw stack
there, dead, with its head beaten in.
The postofliee and drug store of F.
Z. Halley at Whitehead Hills was rob-
bed Friday night. The combination
on the safe was knocked off, a hole
drilled and the safe blown open with
dynamite. About $200 was secured.
Richard Crittenden is reported to
have been murdered by the Cook gang.
Crittenden was a member of the
sheriff's posse that first attacked the
Cooks. He soon afterwards joined
the Cooks but was murdered for fear
he would betray them.
Lieutenant Maury Niekols, acting
Indian agent at Anadarko, has issued
a notice requiring all persons, not en-
gaged in missionary work and who
have no permit from the Indian
agent to vacate the Wichita, Kiowa
and Commanche reservations within
sixty days or they will be removed.
A runner just in from west of Grand |
river, reported to the Cherokee militia
stationed at Fort Gibson that the
Cook gang is in hiding in a cave three
miles northwest of this place. Chero-
kee Bill, a half-breed negro, and one
of the most desperate men in the
gang, was seen in that vicinity about
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
■bilil F *ltU n*aralat*d to Sam* Es-
tent bj Atmospheric Change*.
A writer in the American Journal of
Psychology for this year discusses the
subject from the view of common ex-
perience and presents some facts that
• are interesting as well as leading in
their directness. He says: "The head
j of a factory employing three thousand
workmen said: 'We reckon that a dis-
agreeable day yields about ten per
cent less work than a delightful day,
j and we thus have to count this as
j a factor in our profit and
loss account.' Accidents aro more
numerous in factories on bad days. A
. railroad man never proposes changes
i to his superior if the weather is not
propitious. Fair days make men ac-
{ cessible and generous, and open to
| consider new problems favorably.
Some say that opinions reached in
j best weather states are safest to in-
vest on." Other facts aro mentioned
| in the psychical and physiological rela-
| tion as "Wreather often affects logic,
and many men's most syllogystic con-
clusions are varied by heat and cold.
i * * * The knee jerk seems proved
to have another factor. It is not
strange if the eyo, e. g., which wants
the normal stimulus in long, dark
weather, causes other changes."
Temperament is a fundamental fac-
j tor in sensitiveness to atmospheric
| changes, that type of it called the
mental being the mora intensely af-
j fected, while the bilious type may ex-
| hibit by comparison the more capri-
cious or morbid impressions, says the
; Phrenological Journal. The mental
t manifestations as a rule, however, de-
pend upon the organism primarily. If
the culture is good, i. e., the faculties
have been trained to co-ordinate, har-
monious action, and the elements that
contribute to serenity and self-control
have been well developed, weather
conditions will not operate like other
! parts of the environment, and
self-training will show adap-
tation and self-repression. The "nerv-
ous,' excitable, irascible person
is he who has not learned to control
feeling and expression and it is he who
finds fault with his surroundings and
imputes uncanny conduct to them.
That there are functional states of the
body that predispose one to mental
depression or exhilaration we are
ready to admit. A torpid liver, a
chronic catarrh, a rheumatic joint and
even an old corn may render ono sus-
ceptible to weather changes, the phys-
ical ailment producing a nerve reac-
tion that is keenly felt at the spinal
centers and, may test the spirit. Mind,
however, is superior to matter, or
rather constituted for superiority.
Fairly organized, carefully developed
runner states that there are sixteen and trained, it will exhibit that superi-
horses staked in a pasture near this ority by its pose and calmness in eir-
cave and this fact leads to the belief cumstances that are disagreeable or
j painful to the physical sense.
Kentucky liurgoo.
A traveler from the South described
recently one of the oldest and most
popular dishes in Kentucky, which is
known as "burgoo." It is an outdoor
concoction and many massive pots of it
are said to have simmered over a hot
lire in the open at political gatherings
in Kentucky. The making of "burgoo"
is thus described: In the bottom of
the big pot some red pepper pods are
thrown, then potatoes, tomatoes and
corn added; then a half dozen nicely
dressed prairie chickens aro thrown
into the pot, and also a half dozen of
the fattest farm yard chickens are
added; then a couple of dozon soft-shell
crabs and three or four young squir-
rels aro thrown on the heap. Enough
clear spring or well water is poured
into the caldron barely to float the
varied contents and then the fire is
started. It must be allowed to sim-
mer slowly for six hours, and an old
superstition is that it must bo stirred
with a hickory stick in order to give it
the best flavor.
that the entire gang is fortified in this
cave.
John Connor,a very prominent mem-
ber of the Osage tribe of Indians, was
in Guthrie Friday, and states that the
tribe will undoubtedly reach an agree-
ment with the Government Commis-
sioners now treating with them. The
agreement will be, he thinks, that
the land of the tribe will be divided
equally among the members, giving
about 865 acres to each individual. Of
this land, each one will receive a title
in fee simple to 160 acres in five years
and i60 acres in twenty,five years, the
remainder of each one's share to be
sold in small tracts to the highest bid-
der, the proceeds to revert to the in-
dividual allottee for improvements on
the two-quarters retained.
Governor Wm. C. Renfrow, of Okla-
noma territory, has submitted his an-
nual report to the Secretary of the In-
terior. The general condition of the
territory, he sums up in the following:
"Oklahoma's progress has been steady
and rapid ever since April 22. 1880.
Capital has as yet not sought invest-
ment to any great extent in Oklaho-
ma, but there has been a real and sub-
stantial increase in wealth from the al-
most unlimited natural resources of
the territory, and it now furnishes
one of the best fields for capital in the
United States." The report by the
county clerks of the territory to the
auditor on February 1, 1S94, showed
the population to be 212,625, but the
Governor estimated it at 250,000. The
taxable value of the territory is $19,- '
947,922.
Eighteen hundred dollars is the
price now on the heads of the leaders ;
of the Cook gauR. Chief Harris ot the
Cherokee Nation, offers a reward for
each of the Cooks. The Pacific Ex-
press company' and the Missouri Pa-
cific railroad have offered $5C0 each j
for the Cooks, and the United States [
lias issued a reward of $."00 for each
of the leaders, dead or alive. Tues-
day began an active campaign to run j
down the bandits. A special train at j
noon took a force of officers up the
road to their whereabouts, but is un-
derstood that they could not get
horses and could not get out until
supplied. Attorney General Onley i
wired United States Attorney Jack- J
son at Muskogee Tuesday to see that i
a competent force of officers was put
in the field and the outlaws arrested.
Besides murder and
is interfering with
interstate comtm «•••
ibbery tl.e band
service and
.Mm Was a Dandy.
Cyrene, who dances with much
! fervor and grace is an exceptionally
moral young woman. During a re-
cent engagement in Philadelphia, she
i was leisurely strolling along a quiet
thoroughfare, and came upon two
street urchins who were endeavoring
j to destroy the features of each other's
faces. Cyrene after parting the young-
J stcrs, spoke to the larger one.
"This is shameful, a great big boy
beating such a little fellow. Don't
you go to Sunday school?"
"Yes'm."
"Do you learn to fight there?"
"No'rn."
"Do you swear and say bad words?"
"Well, I ain't much on it myself,
but Jimmy dero's a dandy. Cuss fer
do lady, Jim."—Truth.
rutting; Memoir in His l'lace.
"Ef you wuz me, mum," said the
fierce-looking, shaggy-haired tramp,
stopping inside the door as he spoke!
"and hadn't had a bite fur twenty-four
hours, would you git down on your
knees an' beg for a mouthful of cold
victuals, or would you feel like
had a right to a square meal
help yerself?"
"I think I'd see if the folks kept a
dog about the house," replied the
square-jawed woman, starting for the
woodshed, "bsfor.? I put ofi any aim.
And if they had—"
But he didn'l wait.
you
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