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GROVE INDIAN TERRITORY FRIDAY MARCH 23 1906
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PECK’S BAD
BOY WITH
THE CIRCUS
By HON GEORGE W PECK
Author of"Pedc’sB&d Boy Abroad' Etc
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iCopjrrltftit by J B Bowles)
The Circus People Visit a Southern
Plantation — Pa the Gisr-t and the
Pat Woman Are Chased by Blood-
hounds — The Bad Boy “Buns the
Gauntlet’'
Cee but pa Is sore at me He has
been disgusted with me before but he
never had it in for me so serious as
he has now I guess the whole show
would breathe easier if I should fall off
the train some dark night when it was
stormy and we were crossing a high
bridge over a stream that was out of
its banks on account of a freshet
It was all on account of our taking
an afternoon off on a Sunday at Rich-
mond An old planter that used to be
in the circus business before the war
“Here M Confederate I
thought It would bring back old recol-
lections to him and give us a taste of
country life in the south if he invited
all of us performers managers freaks
and everything to spend the day on
his plantation and go nutting for
chestnuts and hickory nuts pick apples
and run them through a cider mill and
drink self-made cider and have a good
time
We all appreciated the invitation
and after breakfast we rode out in tire
country to his plantation in carriages
and express wagons and began to do
the plantation The fat lady and the
midgets rode out together in a load of
cotton and when they got to the house
they had to be picked like ducks and
they looked as though they had been
tarred and feathered
The planter gave us' a line luncheon
of fried chicken and corn pone and
cider and pa acted as the boss of the
circus folks while the planter and his
I Veiled Murder and Ban
family with about 100 negroes passed
things around They all seemed to be
interested in seeing how much stuff
the fat lady and the giant could bold
without putting up sideboards to keep
the food from falling oil If pa hadn’t
told the negroes not to feed the fat
lady and the giant any more there
would have been two circus funerals
the next day '
I got acquainted with a boy that was
the planter's son and while the rest
were eating and drinking the boy
showed me a pack of hounds that are
kept for trailing criminals and negroes
who have looked sassy at white wom-
en The trouble with negroes is that
they all look alike and If one com-
mits a crime they can prove an alibi
cause every last negro will swear that
at tbe time the crime was committed
the suspected man was attending a
prayer meeting so they have to have
hounds that can be taken to the place
where the crime was committed and
they And the negro’s track and they
follow it till they tree him The
hounds do not bite the nogro like we
used to hear about but they Just fol-
low hiiitlll he is treed and then they
bark as much aV to say: “Ah there
Mr Nigges- you just stay where you
are till the sheriff comes to fetch
you” and Mr Negro just turns pale
handful of anise seed around the sole
and he stays on a limb till the
sheriff comes with his lynching tools
When the sheriff pulls a gun the
negro confesses right there and the
deputy sheriff brings the rope
" I asked the boy If the hounds would
trail a white man without hurting
lum and he said if you put anise seed
on their shoes the hounds will trail
’em all right so we put up a job
to have some fun The boy gave me
some anise seed and told me to put
it on the shoes of anybody I wanted
trailed and after they got out In the
woods he would put the hounds on
the trail and the people would have
to get up trees or have their pants
chewed but the dogs would not hurt
anybody
Well it made me laugh to think
about it I went to pa and told him
his shoes were all covered with re-1
Virginia dust and I took my hand-
kerchief and dusted them off and
made him hold up his foot like a horse
that is being shod Then I put a
and in his shoes He said it was
mighty kind in me to do it Then T
went to the giant and brushed the
dust oil his shoes and put two hand-
fuls of anise seed in them aud he
Am Not a Union Prisons'”
said I was a nice boy I told the fa$
woman about tbe dust on her tele-
scope valises and I rubbed it off and
gave her feet a dose of anise seed that
ought to have paralyzed a pack of
hounds She wanted to hug me and
let me kiss her but I said I passed
and she said she would do as much for
me some time
About this time the planter took the
lead and they all went across a pas-
ture into the woods and began knock-
ing nuts off the trees All through
the woods there were signs: “No Tres-
passing” and “Beware of the Dogs”
but the planter said to never mini
the signs I told the boy to let the
dogs loose on the trail in about half
an hour and I went along with the
folks and I told pa I had seen a pack
of bloodhounds that would eat people
alive and if he heard hounds barking
to run like a whitehead and climb a
tree I got with the giant who is
Between the Giant’s Legs
a coward in his own right and told
him the only trouble about these
great plantations in the south was the
wild dogs that Inhabited the moun-
tains that would not hesitate to attack'
a man if they got good and hungry
but there was no danger to him be-
cause he was a good sprinter and
could outrun a jack rabbit The giant
wanted to go back to the house ’cause
he said he didn't want to run no foot
race with hounds and he had seen the
sign to beware of the dogs I
never ought to have done it ’cause
the fat woman looks es though she
was built a purpose for apoplexy
but I told her as a friend not to
load herself down with nuts but to
travel light so if the wild dogs came
(town to raid the plantation she could
crawl in a hole out of sight till the
dogs had eaten some of the men She
came near fainting right there before
the dogs got busy
Thero wore about 20 negroes throw-
ing clubs at the nuts and everybody
wns hating a big time The trapeze
performers were squirreling up among
the limbs when suddenly In the dis-
tance came the bay of the pack of
bloodhounds and every negro turned
pale and got ready to climb a tree
The planter stopped to listen and when
cne of the managers of the show asked
him what was the matter he said:
“You can search me sah If that is
my pack of hounds a crime has been
committed and the sheriff has start-
ed the pack on the trail of the crim-
inal sah because the dogs are never
turned loose except for business”
Then the planter yelled to the nig-
gers and said: “If any of youall are
guilty of crime you best get scarce or
pick out your tree and get up it
mighty sudden ’cause the hounds
haven’t been fed lately” Every col-
ored man picked a tree and the
hounds kept coming Anally showing
up jumping the fence and entering the
woods and the planter cut a club to
beat o'ff the dogs Pa looked as inno-
cent as John Wanamaker’s picture
addressing a Sunday school the giant
saw the dogs and 'started for a tall
tree and the fat lady said she couldn’t
And any hole big enough to hide in
and '"the idea” If there were not men
enough to protect a lady
Well I never expect to see anything
so fine as the way those hounds run
with their noses to the ground scat-
tered in three packs one pack on the
trail of each of the three whose shoes
I had doctored When they got near
us they broke up and went around
everywhere that pa and the giant and
the fat lady had walked and fell over
each other but finally one pack went
to the tall tree where the giant had
climbed to the first limb and stood on
their hind legs and barked a salute to
him Jle trembled so I was afraid
he would fall off but he wound his
arms and legs around the tree and
began to cry The planter told him
whatever crime he had committed It
was all up with him
The part of the pack that was on
pa’s trail began to close in on pa
snd I said: "Pa if yon don't want to
be dog meat it Is up to you to climb
and you better get a move on or I
shall be an orphan mighty quick
'cause the dogs are starving” Pa
made a couple of quick jumps and
grabbed a limb of a hickory tree and
was pulling himself up and repeating
prayers when the leading dog reached
up his nose and smelled pa’s shoes
when the intelligent animal gave a
bark and a yell to the other dogs as
much as to say: “That’s the Identical
cuss Eat him alive"
He grabbed about a double hand-
ful of the cloth of pa’s clothes right
below where his suspenders button on
and held on and shook pa real hard but
the cloth was lough and didn't tear
Pa suddenly seemed to be endowed
with superhuman strength for he
arew himself up on the limb and
raised the dog from the ground and
all the pack came around the tree
and set up a howl that scared' pa bo
the perspiration rolled off him and he
Lad a chill so he shook like the ague
Pa yelled to the planter who was
holding up the fat lady and Baid:
“Here Mr Confederate I am not a
union prisoner and I want you to
unlock your dog's jaws and free me
’cause I can’t hold up a 90-pound dog
by my suspenders much longer If
this is southern hospitality I don’t
want to be entertained no more” The
planter leaned the fat lady against a
tiee and went to pa’s tree and took
the dog by the hind legs and pulled
him off
The planter yelled to the negroes to
come down and help handle the dogs
but Just then the boy who started the
dogs on the trail at my request came
up whistling with a dog whip in his
band and all the dogs surrounded him
and he made them lay down and roll
over All of the scared people comedown
from their perches in the trees and
surrounded the boy and the dogs and
the dogs panted and lolled as though
they had been having a nice run for
their money The old planter asked
his boy how the dogs had happened
to get loose and that fool boy told the
whole thing how I had asked him to
let the pack run and how I had put
anise seed in the shoes of pa the
giant and the fat lady Then you
ought to have seen what they did
to me The planter said they usually
had a lynching when the dogs made
a run but that was impossible in this
case so he suggested that they make
me run the gantlet I didn’t know
what runr'-ig the gantlet was but
efter pa had told me he Bhouid disown
me from that moment I said I was
willing to run any gantlet so they all
cut switches and formed in two lines
and let me run down between their
I thought it would be fun but when I
started and every last man gave me a
cut across the end of my back' with a
hickory switch I yelled murder and
run between the giant’s legs and
tackled him like football I toppled
him over against the next man and
that man hit the giant in the stomach
and everybody began to fight and the
festivities broke up
I went to the house with the boy
and the dogs and we set the dogs on
a mess of cats and treed everything
ellve on the plantation Finally the
whole crowd came back to the house
and had another lunch with mint
julep and champagne and then every-
body was hugging some one and cry-
ing on each other's neck and swear-
ing that the war was over and that
the north and the south were one and
inseparable and the two together could
whip the whole world
Pa somehow saw double I was
standing alone smarting from the
switching I got when pa came up to
me and said: “I want you two boys
to understand that I don’t want any
more experiments played on me t
can take a joke as well as anybody
but when you set a hundred dogs on
my trail I am no gentleman Beef
Now we will go back to tbe show”
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days
latereatlnsr Items Gathered from Al
parte of the World Condenie
Into Small Ppaee for the V
Beaeflt of Oar Readers
Personal
Countess Bonl de Castellano former-
ly Anna Gould has amended her pe-
tition in the French courts and now
asks for absolute divorce from her hus-
band s "
President Roosevelt has been made
an honorary member of a Missouri
camp of the United '‘'etorans an or-
ganization of union hnd confederate
soldiers ' m
John D Rockefeller Jr has re-
signed as a director of the Missouri
Pacific railroad
Judge W C Marshall of the su-
preme court of Missouri has tendered
his resignation to Gov Folk to take
effect op April 1 -
John H Tennant 'former president
of the defunct Tennent Shoe company
of St Louis has been arrested on a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses
A plot to kill Rev Charles H Park-
hurst was recently discovered and
frustrated in New York
Public Printer Oscar J Ricketts hps
resigned his position to engage In pri-
vate business
8- H Kauffman: president of the
Washington Evening Star and presi-
dent of the Corcoran art gallery is
dead at his ‘home jig Washington He
was 77 years old
Secretary Root has been invited to
visit Chile on his coming trip to the pan
American conference at Rio de Jan-
eiro ’
Andrew Carnegie has given $50000
unconditionally to Drury college at
Springfield Mo
K S Inui a Japanese Btudent won
first honors In the annual oratorical
contest of the University of Michigan
recently He ' received $100 in gold
and the Chicago alumni medal His
subject was the “Mission of New Ja-
pan” Rear Admiral Endicott has been re-
appointed chief of the bureau of yards
and docks of the navy department
He will continue as a member of the
Isthmian canal commission
A farewell hanqupt was -recently
tendered” Gen J Franklin Bell by tho
student officers at the Fort Leaven-
worth college Gen Bell assumes the
duties of chief of staff of the army
on April 1
Herr Johann Most the celebrated
anarchist died recently In Cincin-
nati of erysipelas
Former President Grover Cleveland
recently celebrated his 69th birthday
Former Gov David R Francis of
Missouri has declined the appointment
of special messenger to thank Euro-
pean governments for their partici-
pation in the world’s fair at St Louis
Mrs Caroline Johnson mother of
the governor of Minnesota is dead
in St Paul
CouftrCMional
Congress has been’ asked to appro-
priate $1200000 for a geological sur-
vey building in Washington
As a result of the recent caucus the
house republicans by a vote of 126 to
35 agreed to stand bj the statehood
bill as It passed the house and ask the
senate for a conference on the measure
The written report of Senator Till-
man on the railroad rate bill was re-
cently read in full to the senate an
unusual distinction ' ’
Secretary Bonaparte declared be-
fore the house committee on naval
affairs recently that tbe midshipmen
at Annapolis had conspired to prevent
a high standard of scholarship at the
naval academy
The senate has passed ta resolution
calling on the secretary of war for all
ye ports of the recent attacl: of United
States troops on Mount Dajo near
Jolo in the Sulu islands
Western representatives in congress
are being bombarded with thousands
of telegrams asking them to support
the statehood bill as amended by the
senate
In a recent street car accident In
Omaha one man was killed and seven
persons injured three perhaps fatally
' Miscellaneous -
The St Louis court o) appeals' has
decided that the state law does not
require hunters to take out licenses to
hunt in their own county
Boston recently celebrated the an-
niversary of the evacuation of the city
by the British troops with more than
the usual ceremonies
The will of Susan B Anthony has
been filed for probate in Rochester
N Y The estate amounts to about
$10000 all of which Is left to the
cause of woman suffrage
Kansus City Mo recently raised
nearly $300000 in 24 days for the pur-
pose of erecting a Y M C A building
David E Sherrick former auditor of
Indiana has been convicted of embez-
zlement of the stato’s funds
The total loss in the 19 Russian
provinces investigated by special com-
missions Inquiring Into agrarian
troubles of last year was $15500000
The president has announced that he
will dbfer appointing a successor to
Justice Brown of the supreme court
until late summer or early full
The lower house of the Ohio legis-
lature has pussed a bill increasing
saloon llccnrcs in the state from $350
to $1000
The telegraphers and station agents
of the Southern railway have aqpepted
the new wage scale proposed' by the
officials of the company -
A weak attempt was made by a mob
In Omaha recently to lynch several
prisoners confined In the Jail After
the mob had broken down the jail door
they were driven away by a force of 40
policemen
Damaging testimony against the rail-
roads and the Standard Oil company
has been submitted to the intretate
commerce commission at the investiga-
tion at Kansas City by the Indepen-
dent refiners of Kansas showing rank
discrimination and a systematic cam-
paign of harassment
Salt Lake Utah was recently visited
by a violent wind and rain storm
followed by the fiercest blizzard ever
known there Much damage to pro-
perty was reported
Officials of the government are grati-
fied with the recent decisions of
United States supreme court against
the trusts The first application of
the decision will be in the pending
cases agalust the packers at Chicago
and will also have an important bear-
ing on the investigation of the Stand-
ard Oil company
The annual report of the Tobacco
trust shows profits for 1905 of $25212-
285 William Carr a negro was recently
lynched in Louisiana for stealing a
cow
As the result of the heavy snow
in the mountains of Colorado many
towns and mining camps are In great
danger from avalanches Many hair-
breadth escapes have been reported
The Iowa legislature has passed a
resolution calling upon Gov Cummins
to make good his charges that rail-
road Influence was used to defeat the
state primary bill ’
A plot to massacre JewB and revolu-
tionists In which many high Russian
officials were implicated has been dis-
covered in St Petersburg Premier
Witte In a 'cabinet meeting Insisted
on the suppression of the conspiracy
The new French cabinet has an-
nounced that it will carry out the poli-
cies of the former ministry regarding
separation of church and state and the
Moroccan question
The Moroccan conference at Alge-
clras has reached a peculiar stage It
is completely helpless to solve the
deadlock which has arisen over the
remaining details of the police and
bank questions
The Christian Herald lias now col-
lected aud sent to the state depart-
ment for transmission to Japan the
sum of $80000 for the relief of tho
famine sufferers
Marshal Darrough of Indian ter-
ritory who has been hunting down the
murderers of his deputies declares the
fullblood preachers are responsible for
most of the ill feeling among the Cher-
okees In an impassioned speech before the
New York insurance legislative com-
mittee Andrew Humllton former legis-
lative agent denounced the trustees of
the New York Life Insurance company
as curs The speech created a great
sensation
The total number of Christian En-
deavor societies throughout the world
is now 67512
The Phoenix line steamer British
King bound for Antwerp from New
York recently foundered at sea
Twenty-eight of the crew of 56 Were
drowned
The worst railroad wreck Bince the
Eden disaster of August 1904 occurred
recently near Pueblo Col when two
passenger trains going at full speed
met head on Fire added to the
horror of the collision and nearly all
of the bodies of the dead were con-
sumed Tbe fatalities are estimated
at 35 aud the injured at 40
In reply to a query by the secretary
of war Maj Gen Wood cabled a denial
that there wns any wanton slaughter
of women and children in the recent
battle with Moros near Jolo
The Jews residing in Vladivostok
have been given three days to leave
the city
Many of the Jewish refugees sent
back to the Baltic ports of Russia by
England were shot by the authorities
as suspects without a trial
The executive board of the United
Mine Workers has Indorsed the strike
of the miners In the Irwin field of
Pennsylvania About 10000 workmen
are involved
Frank McHugh formerly feather-
weight champion of the world has
been sentenced to the Ohio peniten-
tiary for highway robbery
One man was killed and a number
of others injured by a mammoth
snowbllde which wrecked the Camp
Bird mine buildings near Ouray Col
recently
The finance committee of the New
York Life Insurance company has
agreed to refund $148000 given 'as
political contributions In recent presl
dential campaigns
A baby was born on a Chicago
trolley car recently The car was
stopped and the mother walked to a
drug store carrying her child They
wore afterwards sent to a hospital
Four persons were burned to death
recently in a hotel fire in Tustln Mich
The national convention of the
United Mine Workers of America has
sustained the action of President
Mitchell in declaring the offices of
president of the Pittsburg district
held by Patrick Dolan vacant A
motion to expel Dolan from the union
wan laid over for future consideration
A committee of prominent men of
New York propose the erection of a
monument in memory of Joseph Jef-
ferson the actor in Central park that
city -
HADLEY OETH FACTS
Attorney General Wins Vital Point
in Oil Suit
Standard Oil Attorney Make A ti-
nt ton — Recent lleclalon s of
npreme Court Help to Se-
cure Delred Testimony
St LouIb Mo — The postponed
hearing In the ouster suit Instituted by
Attorney General Hadley against the
Standard Republic and Waters-Plerce
companies was resumed Monday be-
fore Special Commissioner Anthony
“Do the stockholders of the Republio
company hold this stock for them-
selves or In the interests of others?”
asked Attorney General Hadley of Wil-
liam T McKee secretary of the Re-
public Oil company after stating by
om shares in that company were
held
“I destre to know" interrupted Al-
fred D Eddy general western counsel
for the Standard Oil company “what
the attorney-general seeks to show
by this question”
“I seek to show that this stock is
held for the Standard Oil company”
replied Mr Hadley
“Then I will save you the trouble”
Mr Eddy returned "for the purposes
of this litigation this fact will be ad-
mitted” The fact for which Hadley has
fought long and hard had at last been
admitted by the Standard Oil com-
pany that the three employes of the
Standard company who hold the stock
of the Republic Oil company hold It
for Borne one else — the Standard Oil
company The Republic Oil company
Is now disposed of No more testi-
mony is needed to make it clearly an
outlaw in the state of Missouri
The points brought out in the testi-
mony summed up stand as follows:
That stock of the Republic Oil com-
pany is held by Individuals for the
Standard Oil company
That Frank Wilson assistant secre-
tary to W G Rockefeller president
of the Standard Oil is a Republio
stockholder'
That the Waters-Pierce Oil compauy
bought oil from Standard Oil refineries
That in payment for oil bought by
the Waters-Plerce Oil company from
the Atlantic Refinery of Philadelphia
an alleged independent concern the
checks since 1904 have been sent to
26 Broadway New York headquarters
of the Standard Oil company
That stock in the Waters-Pierce Oil
company is held by M M VanBuren
nephew of John Archbold an official
of the Standard Oil company
That Charles M Adams secretary of
the Waters-Plerce Oil company visit-
ed 26 Broadway to discuss the affairs
of the WaterB-Pierce company with
Standard Oil officers
In accordance - with the ruling of
the Bupreme court officers of the Re-
public and Waters-Pierce companies
testified and books and papers from
both companies were produced as evi-
dence It was anticipated that C L
Nichols president of the Republio
c ompany would be called to the wit-
ness stand Monday but after secretary
McKee had finished his testimony It
was announced by Attorney General
Hadley that the presence of Mr Nich-
ols at this time would be waived on
the ground that Mr McKee had given
all the information desired at the
present time Depositions taken in
Cleveland and in Oklahoma City were
offered in evidence and objected to by
counsel for the defense but the objec-
tions were over ruled and the deposi-
tions admitted
I’roiuinmi t HiiMMlAn Kx it‘l (
Odessa Russia — A nephew of the
late Interior Minister Siplnguine and a
leading candidate of the constitution-
al democrats for election to the nation-
al assembly has been expelled from
Odessa
Htiow Worth Millions to K annas
Topeka Kan — "The snow
with moderate temperature of which
reports are coming in from all direc-
tions is an inestimable blessing” said
Secretary of State Board of Agriculture
F D Coburn Monday There is not
a county in Kansas to which such a
snow is not worth $1000000 In fact
no one can figure Us importance and
the promise It holds
Labor Leadort in Wanhlnirtou
Washington D C — In response
to the call of President Sumuel Gom-
pers the executive council of the
American Federation of labor began a
several days session here Monday All
the members of the council expect
President John Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers are present
To ComaiiMian Jutlire Grave'
Jefferson City Mo — Governor
Folk announced Monday- morning that
on April 1 he would commission Judge
W W Graves of Butler judge of the
supreme court to succeed Judge Mai
shall resigned In the event Judge Mar-
shall does not withdraw his resigna-
tion before that time
Increased Heard for Simpkins
Boise Idaho — Governor Gooding
announced Monday evening that he
had Increased to $2000 the amount ol
the reward offered -for the arrest ot
L J Simpkins wanted for complic-
ity In the Steunenberg murder
Blnek Sen Mutineer Shot
St — Petersburg Russia Former
Lieut Schmidt who commanded ths
vessels of the Black Sea fleet which
mutinied in November of lost year
was shot Monday at Otchakoff with
three of bis sailors
INDIAN TERRITORY NEWS
1 y 1 '
'Probably the”TnOst4fficlqnt Bysfgtp '
In the world of protecting the Indlft '
In his rights Is maintained by the Ur)-
ion Indian agency at Muskogee whites
administers the laws ofcungress add
the regulations of the- secretary of the
Interior for the purpodq' of keeping '
the fullblood in possession of his
worldly goods Everyjfpot of land the
fullblood sells must be alienated with
the 'consent of the interior department
either through the removal of his re-
strictions or the posting of his land to
be sold to the highest bidder through
the Creek land sales division of the
agency The fullblood cannot sell nor
incumber his homestead for a period
of 21 years and can only alienate the
other portion of his allotment with
the consent and under the supervision
of the government He is not allowed
to lease his land for agricultural pur-
poses for a period of over five years
and he cannot lease it for mineral
purposes except with the approval of
the interior department and upon
proof being submitted that he is re-
ceiving adequate compensation for the
lease As a result of this Bystem
the fullblood Indlun is fast learning
the fundamental principles of business
and at the same time is building a
home for himself and children upon
his homestead which cannot be sold
nor incumbered for 21 years
Ike Gilstrap the deputy United
States marshal who was killed in a
battle with the Wickliffe gang neat
Kansas was one of the earliest set-
tlers of Tulsa and is well known to
the old timers He at one time farmed
what is now North Tulsa Later he
entered the employ of the Frisco rail-
road as section foreman and was sent
to Dawson From there he went to
Vinita He was appointed a deputy
by United States Marshal W H Dar-
rough four years ago
Burglars blew open the safe in the-
bank at Inola but secured less than
$5 in cash A man was arrested there
who refuses to give his name and la
unknown In that section At the jail
he refuses to give any other name
than John Doe When arrested he
had a complete kit of burglar’s tools
There were two safes in the bank The
burglars blew open the wrong one
The other had several thousand dol-
lars in it
The Rock Island business at Chick-
asha during the month of January
showed' an increase of 102 per cent
over the same month last year and
the business for February was 111
per cent in excess of that in Febru
ary 1905 This is a record-breaking
business Nothing like it has ever
been attained before and it shows
better than any other barometer what
Chickasha is doing in a business way
A suit has been filed in the federal
court at Muskogee which purposes to
bring Secretary Hitchcock and Indian
Inspector J George Wright into court
at Muskogee to show reasons why the
coal leases of the Sans Bois Coal com-
pany at South McAlester should be
canceled and will test the authority of
the secretary of the interior to Impose
certain requirements on coal lessees In
the Choctaw nation
Horace Hoskins one of the four ne-
groes arrested at Muskogee on a charge
of perjury upon requisitions issued
by the governor of Arkansas died of
fright Although released on ball his
fear of being taken to Arkansas fotr
trial increased until his mind became
unbalanced and he died Before hlH
arrest lie was In robust health and his
physician attributes his death solely
to fright
The city council of Tulsa has au-
thorized an expense of $1500 a year
for library purposes to maintain a
$15000 Carnegie library which An-
drew Carnegie has agreed to give
Tulsa providing it furnishes a site
Mr Carnegie will be immediately no-
tified The Tulsa Women’s club was
instrumental in securing the library
The Tulsa Ice and Packing company
recently organized has completed ar-
rangemenls for its large packing de-
partment which will be housed in a
brick building 350x220 feet It will
have a daily capacity at first of 100
hogs and twenty-five beeves
The Commercial club of Tulsa has
wired the Commercial clubs of Kan-
sas City St Joseph St Louis Chica-
go Topeka Omaha and Des Moines
to urge the representatives of their
respective states to support the amend-
ed statehood bill
Burglars entered the Frisco depot at
Chlckasha by breaking a window
They secured $80 and checks amount-
ing to $1200 ail of them on local
banks The safe wus ruined and val-
uable papers destroyed
United States Marshal Porter has
appointed Virge Wilson former citv
marshal of Leon field deputy for tho
Marietta district vice Deputy Bur-
gess resigned
Tulsa lias announced itself a can-
didate for the capital of the new state
of Oklahoma and when the constitu-
tional convention Is held will make a
formal fight for it
By bringing in a gas well 9 Vi
miles south of Tulsa the gas pro-
ducing 'territory is enlarged the
distance between Tulsa and the well
that being the lower end ot gas de-
velopment The well is producing 9-
000000 feet of gas per day and the
roar was heard three miles
Rev Ralph J Limb 17 years a mis-
sionary of the Presbyterian church in
Indian Territory has been called to
the pastorate of the First Presbyterian
church at Bnrtlesville The congre-
gation lias begun the erection of a
$9000 edifice
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