The Coalgate Courier. (Coalgate, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1902 Page: 4 of 15
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STEVENS & HICKMAM FublUfcet
COALGATK - - - I T
NEWS IN NUTSHELLS
Slidell La Lad a $25000 fire
tralford Tex wants & college
t Straw berry season is about over
Magnolia iMss w ill Lave a $100-
a)00 cotton mill
Biloxi entertained Mississippi's
Being’s Daughters
Tarboro N C is to Lave a $50-
006 guano factory
Work on the Mexican Central
road w ill be pushed
President Barrows of Oberlin
(0) college is dead
A $4000000 oil mill is to be
erected at Chattanooga Tenn
Much damage was done by the
flood in the vicinity of Cordell Ok
Three handsome brick buildings
bnrned at Newark Ark Loss $20-
OOO' -
Peter Labouisse a famous cotton
’speculator passed away at 'New Or-
leans i S P King of Sherman who was
accidentally shot at Memphis Ilall
county died
‘ Han Kow China is to have a po-
lice force An American is to be su-
perintendent Luther Jenkins a boy of Meri-
dian Miss died from excessive ci-
garette smoking
John Barker was found ‘ dead in
a field near El Reno On his person
found $200
I’he Kansas City Southern rail-
way depot at Bloomsburg Texj was
destroyed by fire
i Richard Lowe' 17- years old
drowned in the North Canadian riv-
er near El Ren Ok
ft
There were eighteen graduates of
the Agricultural and Mechanical col-
lege of Oklahoma at Guthrie "
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The ruins of a city have -b:en
found in Mexico which is believed to
have been submerged 3000 years ago
Hon A J Russell speaker of
the Mississippi house of representa-
tives was found dead in bed at Ox-
ford Dr J L Bryant was found dead
near Texarkana A revolver was
clutched in his right hand and -the
barrel in his mouth
( Indian Territory Medical associa-
tion met at South McAlester Dr
Clinton of Tulsa was elected presi-
dent Quackery was denounced
) Halsutaa Mlsco a full blood was
elected chief of the Seminoles de-
feating John F Brown a half breed
who is completing his fourth term
Dressed beef steers sold at llie
Kansas City stockyards on the pth
at $7 60 per hundred pounds The
animals were from Missouri and
Kansas Those from the former
atate were Shorthorns i
Texas Woman’s Press association
which met at Waco holds next
year’s convention at El Paso Mrs
Fred B Robinson of Waco News
elected president and Mrs Kate II
Makemason of Georgetown recording
secretary
Democratic congressional conven-
tion for the Fifth Texas district
nominated at Waxahachie Jack Beall
of that city as its candidate for con-
gress Prof Penn of the Methodist Epis-
copal church is projecting a negro
young people’s Christian and edu-
cational congress to he held at At-
lanta Ga Aug C to 11
One of the members of the New
York Suicide club in compliance
with tlm demands of the organiza-
tion shuffled off this mortal coil
Poison in beer was tbe method he
purt-ued
CHARGES 0F
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The Papers 'Senator Culberson is
In Possession Of
PRIVATE’S STORY IS STARTLING
Jilt Allegations Should They Trove to be
True Reveal Cruelties that Are
Truly Tvrrible
Washington June 10 — Secretary
Root declines to make known any-
thing as to the course of action of
the war department in the matter
of the war charges filed against
Lieut Arnold of the Fourth cavalry
and SergL Matthews of the same
regiment for alleged cruelties to Fil-
ipinos beyond the statement that he
has ordered the trial of the ser-
geant by court-martial and an in-
vestigation of the charges against
Lieut Arnold with a view to deter-
mining future action in this case
Col Crowder of the judge advo-
cate general’s department is con-
ducting the investigation of the
Arnold case
All the officers at the depart-
ments through whose hands the pa-
pers passed also deny most emphat-
ically any responsibility for the al-
leged leakage
The papers consist of the charges
made by Private Andrew K Weir
against Lieut Arnold and Capt
West's report of his investigation
Weir asserted that the torures in-
flicted by 'American soldiers were
as great as those inflicted by Fili-
pinos' He told of a case which he
witnessed in which under orders
from Lieut Arnold Sergt Edwards
tortured a prisoner to make him
confess to crime The Filipino was
first tortured by the water cure “A
6mall stick” says Weir “about eight
inches long and a half inch in diam-
eter was put between the man’s
jaws A soldier held the man’s head
down by pressing on the end of the
stick Another sat oh the man’s
stomach and still another sat on the
man’s legs Edwards had the bucket
of water at hand water was poured
down the man’s throat While down
he was whipped and beaten unmerci-
fully He was then stood up and
asked to confess He did not He
was then beaten and clubbed again
I do not think that a square inch
of the man’s body was left untouch-
ed He was kicked a rope was
thrown across a beam the man
strung up by tbe thumbs another
rope was tied to his ankles and his
feet jerked from under him While
up he was beaten”
Weir threatened to report Lieut
Arnold and Arnold threatened to
courtmartial him' for insubordina-
tion The prisoner did not confess
Another of Arnold’s methods of
torture Weir said was to cut a strip
of flesh just above the ankle of the
prisoner The 6trip was then attach-
ed to a stick and the stick was then
coiled with a 6trip of flesh Weir saw
a man who had been treated in this
wav and who was then put to work
in the road with other prisoners
Weir charged that Lieut Arnold
had his men take an old man to a
stream and keep him under water
until he was unconscious
Was an Accident
Forney Tex: Jim Everetts col-
ored wns accidentally killed at
Klondyke a negro resort in this
town He was shot through the
abdomen and only lived a short
while
-
Lon Lee on trial at Dallas charg-
ed with rape was given twenty
years
Taxing Timbered Land
Newton Tex: County Judge C
A Woods has received 4 letter from
the1 controller at'Austin In'which
the controller rules that all timber
on school lands owned by individ-
uals or corporatios is taxable prop-
erty notwithstanding the fact that
the title to the land on which the
timber stands is still vested in the
state Under this letter the county
judge will instruct the tax assessor
to place all such property which is
not rendered for taxation thereof
and at the same time prepare a sup-
plemental roll covering this class of
property for the year 1901 if it is
not rendered and paid for that year
This class of property has never
been rendered in Newton county
The value of this ejass of property
in the counties of southeast Texas
runs into the millions and if render-
ed will swell the tax values consider-
ably and thereby greatly lessen the
6tate and county tax ‘
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Threw a Bull
Laredo Tex: A bull fight was
given on the Flazas de Tor or of
Nuevo Laredo Mex the unique fea-
ture of which was the successful per-
formance of Romulus the famous
Mexican wrestler who succeeded iu
throwing a wild bull from the not-
ed San Luis Potosi ranch Romulus
grappled the hull and threw him at
the first attempt Onf bull was kill-
ed hut no horses hurt
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Bombarded for Rain
Taylor Tex: Experiments were
made here Saturday afternoon by
shooting the clouds with dynamite
in an effort to produce rain The
wmtardment was carried on al-
most the entire afternoon' but with
no result The explosions could be
leard for miles around and sounded
as if a battle was in progress farm-
ers flocked to town to find out wlat
was the matter
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Indiana Protest
Guthrie Ok:' At a meeting of
white and Indian citizens of Osage
nation a petition to the secretary of
the interior was signed asking that
a franchise to build through the res-
ervation be refused the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway unless
the company constructs the road
through Pahuska'the Osage capital
The survey misses Pawhuska six
miles
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- Rejoins Russellville Church
Little Rock: Gov Davis accept-
ed the invitation of the Baptist
church of Russellville his home and
rejoined it -
The governor’s friends claim this
is a vindication of him by his home
people against the action of the Sec-
ond Baptist church of Little Rock
in withdrawing fellowship from him
It is alleged further by the govern-
or’s friends that the action taken by
the Little Rock church was the re-
sult of resentment for the part he
took in the race for United States
senator '
—
Missouri Tragedy
Chillicothe Mo : In a street fight
here Harvey Gibbons has been shot
and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law
John Galvin the result of
an old grudge Galvin is under ar-
rest — — -
Howard Peak of Fort Worth was
elected president of the Travelers’
Protective association
Killed His Wife
Valley View Ky: John LafToon
killed his wife at their home
LafToon and his wife and small
son had just eaten dinner when
LafToon secured an ax and brained
his wife The blade was found im-
bedded in the woman’s head
After he had committted the deed
he closed the doors of the room
locked them and told a neighbor
TOOK HIM TO TASK
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President Roosevelt Is Scored by
Richardson for Ills
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ADDRESS ON DECORATION DAY
Hie Ceegreunias From Alabaaa Declares
that the Remarks os lyechlags la
the South Were Uniecessary
Washington June 9 — General
debate on the anti-anarcliy bill clos-
ed Friday
Tho incident of the day was a
speech by Mr Richardson an Ala-
bama Democrat condemning the
president in severe language for his
references 'in his Memeorial Day
oration at Arlington to the epithets
applied to Lincoln and Grant dur-
ing the Civil war and for his allu-
sions to lyncliings He declared
that the president’s rebaarks violat-
ed the proprieties of the occasion
lie recalled the visit of the late
President ' McKinley to Huntsville
Ala over a year ago and the recep-
tion given him by the Confederate
and Union veterans The noble
sentiments Mr McKinley uttered
upon that occasion Mr Richard-
son said endeared him to the south
He told of the great sorrow felt
there when ‘Mr McKinley fell at
Bulalo Reluctant as he was to do
so Mr Richardson said he felt it
his painful duty tb'-contrast Mr
McKinley’s 'sentiments at Hunts-
ville with Mr Roosevelt’s remarks
at Arlington on May Ҥ0
He then read that portion of
President Roosevelt’s speech in
which he referred to the epithets
applied to Grant' and Lincoln and
the resolution' passed by the Con-
federate congress denouncing the
methods of warfare employed by the
Union armies
Mr Richardson said he should
not so forget his environments as
to characterize as 'it deserved the
language which came from the pres-
ident ofithfe United Sfates upon a
solemn memorial occasion when
honor was being doneto the thou-
sands of brave dead who died in de-
fense of their flag but he would
dare to say that it would have been
far more appropriate if the presi-
dent had referred upon that occasion-the
magnanimous terms
which Gen Grant accorded Lee at
Appomattox which had done so
much to reconcile the divided sec-
tions “I doubt whether there i3” he
said “a brave Federal soldier within
the sound of my voice who would
have uttered the sentiments ex-
pressed by the president even in
the heat of debate much less upon
Memorial day I dare say the pro-
prieties of the occasion were violat-
ed when the president referred to
what had been said about Lincoln
in the heat of blood when men were
aiming at each other’s lives”
Mr Richardson also condemned
the president’s references to lynch-
ings in the south
A Mythioal Widow
Paris: A Fannin county men en-
tered a plea of guilty before County
Judge Hodges to five charges of
swindling and was fined $10 and
sentenced to ten days in jail in each
case It was claimed that he had
been going around town several days
soliciting contributions of cash
clothing and provisions representing
that a widow in the country had
lost everything by fire and was des-
titute with a large family of little
children He pocketed the cash
and sent the clothing and provisions
to his Fannin county home the al-
leged widow being a mythical per-
1 Investigation Asked J!
Austin: In view of the fact that
mosL of the charges made against
the management of theConfederate
home by the legist 'Sommittoj
have been disprovA Jt an in-
vestigation conductecHmy the board
of managers of the institution the
following letter addressed to Gen
Iv M Van Zandt" commander-in-
chief of the Confederate organiza-
tion in Texas will be read with
no little interest:
-Austin Tex June G — General:
Since the state assumed control of
the onfederate home there have
been occasional complaints of mis-
management etc ‘ s
Gen Hardeman was hounded to
death by charges of dereliction
which upon investigation were dis-
proven His sucoessor Gen Shelly
fared no better for 'unfortunately
the home has Always had some mal-
contents incorrigible fault-finders
ready and anxious at all times by
misrepresentation to bring discredit
at the home and approbriumof its
management
The recent report by Hon Travis
Henderson's investigating commit-
tee if it had been correct would
have indicated a condition of affairs
in the hospital censurable in the
surgeon inexcusable on the part of
the management and deserving the
condemnation of all who feel an in-
terest in the home and the welfare
of its inmates ‘ ‘
Under the ' direction ojf the gov-
ernor the board of managers made
report:- -
Our sense of duty to ourselves
and to the large number of inmates
of the home who are happy con-
tented and duly grateful to the
state for its bcneficiences impels
us to invite from you the appoint-
ment of a committee of Confeder-
ates who shall come to the home
unannounced who will make an in-
vestigation so thorough and ex-
hausting as to leave no subsequent
ground for complaint as to the pres-
ent management and its desire to
administerthe affairs of the home
in a spirit of kindness and justic
to the inmates and worthy of the
great 'trust confided to them
Signed by R Y King superin-
tendent captain company A Eighth
cavalry Terry Rangers Dennis
Corwin quartermaster Green’s reg-
iment Sibley’s brigade J B Rog-
ers president hoard Eighth Texas
cavalry Terry Rangers W T
Wroe company I Green’s regiment
Sibley’s brigade A W Mclver
company II Second Texas D S
Chesher Lieut Tilmore’s regiment
E P Reynolds adjutant Six-
teenth Missouri infantry and adjut-
ant United States army board of
managers j
Killing at Seguin
Seguin Tex: Cameron Riley waa-
6hot and killed in this city Miles
MsGehee and Walter ChesnerJ both
of San Marcos were shortly after
arrested and lodge in the county jail
to answer to the charge of murder
The three were at a chile ’stand-
when apparently without warning
a shot rang out1 Riley shortly afte
told an officer that he was' shot and)
expired in about thirty minutes
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Died of Hydrophobia
Hillsboro Tex : Cecil the 7-year-1
old son of Mr and Mrs M D'
Hammer died at tbeir home near
Abbott of hydrophobia He was bit-
ten by a dog about' six rcontlis ago
which in a day or two had fits and
was killed The child seemed to bo-
all right until recently
Bill Passed
Washington: Th senate passed
the bill to tratify tho supplemental
agreement with the Creek Indians
British troops wiljf “stand fast'
until surrender of oBers is coat-
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