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TERRITORY TOPICS
Horse’ Kick Fatal — Alfr?d F
Miller tbe 17-year-old son of Robert
W Miller a prominent merchant and
farmer of Falrmount who was kick
d twice by a vicious horse In the
stomach is dead
Bonus for Railroad — The towns
along the line of the Paul's Valley
- railroad which was Incorporated this
week to run from the Indian Terri
‘ tory coal fields to Wichita Falls
Tex are evincing great Interest In
the line At Paul's Valley a bonus
of 21000 was raised In twenty-one
minutes and $9000 more will be rais-
ed soon
Ban on Roping Contests — United
States Judge Dickerson of the South-
ern district of Indian Territory issued
an edict that no more steer roping
contests will be tolerated In his dls-
trict He holds that the laws of Ar-
kansas under which the territory is
governed prohibits bull fights and
he claims that these roping contests
are of the same nature
To Keep Out Johnson Grass —
Secretary McNabb of the state board
of agriculture filed a request with the
board asking that the quarantine now
existing against tbe importation of
cotton seed from boll weevil districts
be extended to prevent the introduc-
tion of Johnson grass seed Into Okla-
homa This grass Is a first cousin of
the sorghum family and one of the
worst pests In the Southwest
Charged With Child Murder — Dr
E F Schwartz of Enid a as arrest-
ed on a warrant charging him with
the murder of an Infant child It is
claimed the child was bom strong
and healthy and that the doctor put-
ting it in a grip carried it to h's
office where he allowed it to die The
Justice before whom the doctor was
arraigned fixed his ball at $5000
which he could not furnish and he is
now In the custody of the sheriff
Would Like to Know — G H Payne
who lives near Plaster Okla would
like to learn the whereabouts of rela-
tives of a ten-year-old boy who came
to his home about two months ago
claiming that his name is Harry Tee-
son and that his father John Tee-
son lived near Bessie Okla No such
man can be found at Bessie Tbe
boy is small for his age of light com-
plexion and seemingly of German par-
entage Want Brick Plant— At Paul’s Va'-
ley efforts are being made to locate a
brick plant Not less than half a doz-
en brick business blocks would begin
construction were It not for the high
price of brick that has to be shipped
in Brick and tile clay exists in great
quantities close to this place and
brick plant would be a paying thing
from the start T I Hamm secre-
tary of the commercial club of this
place slates that liberal concessions
in tbe matter of site can be secured
More About Oklahoma Fruit — T
H Montgomery of Arcadia has an
orchard that is worth bragging about
Mr Montgomery has just sold bar-
reled and delivered to the depot at
Arcadia 2000 bushels of apples Be-
side this he has at least 500 bushels
of late winter apples yet to pick
These apples were all sold for CO
cents per bushel on track at Arcadia
Mr Montgomery has also sold this
year over 200 bushels of plums at $1
per bushel 200 crates of berries at
$250 per crate and several tons of
grapes at $40 per ton The peach
crop this year being a failure cuts out
at least $1000 from the Income of the
Montgomery farm
Quarantine Tlcky Pastures — Secre-
tary Thomas Mon-Ik of the Oklaho-
ma live stock sanitary board has no-
tified the sheriff of Pawnee county
to place in immediate quarantine any
pasture In that county where tlcky
cattle are found without waiting for
instructions from tbe sanitary board
and to t-eport the matter to the board
when the quarantining Is done Re-
ports from Glencoe state that several
cases of Texas fever have been found
in a pasture near there but that some
of tbe sick cattle had been treated
succearfully ’
Big Chiefs Confer— It Is reported
by Sankadotle the famous medicine
man and minister of the Kiowa In-
dians that Indian Ageht James F
Randlott of Anadarko has called to-
gether representatives of the KIows
Comanche and Caddo tribes to con-
sider tbe opening of some of the pas-
ture lands in the three counties and
memorialize congress as to the con-
clusions drawn Chief Quanah Par-
ker of the Comanches Chief Ine
Wolf of the Caddoes and Sankadotle
medicine man of tbe Klowas will be
present at this conference
Quail Plentiful at Lawton — So
plentiful have the quail become this
summer that a covey of about twenty-
five have taken up their abode In the
outskirts of the city of Lawton They
OKLA have not been molested by the town
people
Laundryman Released — Sam Joy
the Chinese laundryman who was
held by the coroner's jury as an ac-
cessory to the murder of Orrin D
Hugg at Calumet on September 9 has
been released by order of the county
attorney
Now a Curiosity — A Itoll weevil
was found in a cotton field near Alt us
last week and was considered enough
of a curiosity to be taken to town for
exhibition 8 D Day who found the
weevil thinks that there are only a
few of them and will try to extermi-
nate them at once m
Indian Dies in Jail— Willie Fixlco
an Indian aged 25 who was charged
with murdering two persons died in
the United States Jail at Muskogee of
consumption He was bound over by
Commissioner Stanford of Wewoka
and has been In jail since November
24 1904
Cowbell Brigade Drilling — Near
Prague the Robinson creek cowbell
brigade is drilling preparatory to ser-
enading Jim Swlnley and his fourth
wife Jim carries the muchly married
men’s belt The handsome hero of
four weddings is only about 35 yea’-s
of age Jim’s marriage and funeral
expenses took many dollars out of his
barrel
In the Potato Belt— Between Mus
kogee and Fort Gibson In the Arkan-
sas river valley there are more than
500 acres of second crop potatoes that
promise a tremendous yield Connell
Rogers who Is one of the wealthiest
planters in that section says that his
fields will average 200 bushels of po-
tatoes to the acre There are other
fields just as good as his
Bank Reorganized — The Farmers
and Merchants' bank of Kiel has been
reorganized with the controlling in-
terest in the hands of H W Sipe and
R Pappe A considerable amount of
the bank’s stock was held by the Den-
ver Savings bank which failed re-
cently and proved to be a good asset
for that bank as it was bourht for l'0
cents on the dollar by the local capi-
talists who now have control of the
bank
Widower Got Lonesome — Cec'arlng
that he was too lonesome Henry How-
ler residing near Keokuk Falls was
married to an Indian widow Four
days ago his first wife was buried
Howler said that It was awful lone-
some in his house after the funeral
and he Induced the widow to declare
that those were her sentiments too
The extra hasty marriage caused a
perfect whirlwind of tongue lashing
in the Howler neighborhood
Territory Mayors to Organize —
Mayor Watts of Wagoner I T has
Inaugurated a movement to organize
the mayors of all the towns and cities
In Indian Territory He has sent no-
tices to a large number of them re-
questing a meeting at which steps
will be taken toward securing author-
ity from congress to collect taxes
from railroads entering tbelr respec-
tive cities Under the law no railroad
tax is collectable in Indian Territory ”
Companies Fight for It — The Wood-
ward Cotton company has been grant-
ed a franchise by the city council to
furnlHh the city of Woodward with
electric lights and power for twenty
years The Woodward Electric Light
and Power company has also been
asking for a franchise which will
probably be granted at the next meet-
ing of the council The real fight be-
tween the two ronrerns Is for city
lighting and It la being hotly contest-
ed Mountain Lions Ate Colt — In the
Wichita mountains a colt belonging
to P O Milfkan a miner who lives
near Mount Scott was killed by two
mountain lions As Millkan went
home he heard a disturbance among
his horses and noticed that all of
them had encircled one' of the colls
to protect It while the other was
missing In the moonlight he saw
two mountain lions devouring the
missing colt
Will Hold Broomcorn— -The d scov-
ery of tbe scheme by which Illinois
broomcorn buyers buy Oklahoma
broomcorn ship It to Illinois rebale
It and sell It as the Illinois product
has resulted- In the organization of
the broomcorn growers In Day Wood-
ward and Beaver counties to ho’d
tbelr crop until a price can be recur-
cd similar to that which Is being paid
In Illinois for broomcorn which Is ad-
mitted to be of practically the same
quality aa that raised In Oklahoma
Tbe price there la from $90 to $100
per ton while here It runs from $45
to $G9 What Is practically a boycott
has been levied against lhe Illinois
buyers In some localities
Railway Survey Started— Prellmlne
ary survey has begun on the Paul’s
Valley railway from the Choctaw na-
tion via this point to Wichita Falls
Love Affair Caused 8ulcide — Miss
Grace Ford despondent over a love
affair committed eulclde at Blnger
In the northern part of Caddo county
by taking a large dose of strychnine
dying fifteen minutes after the fatal
dose was taken
Alfalfa Seed Scarce — There Is a
scarcity of alfalfa seed on the mar-
kets In Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory at this time and the extraordi-
nary price of $9 per bushel la being
asked by the farmers for the present
crop
Bacone University Opens — The
Baptist Indian university at Bacone
opened with a good attendance The
school is conducted under the super-
vision of a board of directors connect-
ed with the Baptist church and is lo-'
cated about three miles northeast of
Muskogee
Gas at Sulphur I T— While drill-
ing a well on the west side of Sul-
phur at a depth of 210 feet a fine
flow of gas has been found A match
was touched to tbe gas and It burn-
ed steadily It Is believed that tbe
aupply Is sufficient to heat and light
the town and a franchise will be ask-
ed -
Requisition for Murder 8uspects—
Governor Ferguson has Issued a re-
quisition on the governor of Oregon
for Sam Green and Pete Whitehead
charged with the murder of Sheriff
Jack Bullard of Roger Mills county
In 1902 Mrs Sam Green Richard
Green and Otis Stuhl were also In
eluded in tbe indictment
Commissioner Resigns — Alexand-
er Richmond United States commis-
sioner at Wewoka Western district
tendered his resignation and it was
accepted Don R Frazier a deputy
In the recorder’s office at Eufaula has
been appointed to succeed him The
office pays $1500 a year Richmond
goes to Muskogee to practice law
Indians Suffer as Usual— At Law-
ton last week several boys were
caught climbing on a merry-'go-round
which was In operation there and col-
lecting ticketa from Indians who were
enjoying a ride and then jumping off
They would Bell these tickets to oth-
er Indians at a slightly reduced price
and in that way had worked up a good
trade
Three Charged With Arson — In the
United States commissioner's court
at Ardmore Dr T F Harrison Asa
Barnes and Tom Godfrey well known
citizens of Eastman were given an
examining trial on a charge of arson
in connection with the burning of a
store at Eastman recently Commis-
sioner Robnet held tbd defendants to
await the action of tbe grand Jury
Bond was given by the defendants
To Put Lid On— Mayor Woods'de
of Chickanha and Judge Dickerson
of the Southern district propose to
enforce the laws against gambling and
the introduction and sale of liquor
here Judge Dickerson recently ad-
dressed a letter to the mayor asking
that the federal authorities he allow-
ed fo assist in putting tbe lid on
ChickaHha Mayor Woodside replied
that any assistance would be appre
elated
Osage Payment Slow — The Sep-
tember payment of the Osuge Indians
at Pawhuska Is being made now Be-
fore an Indian can draw his money
he must show tbe agent conclusively
that he has delivered his child If be
has any to the school teacher for en-
rollment The Indian hates to relin-
quish his children under any condi-
tions So he keeps them at home as
long as be ran and finally takes them
to the school house gets an affidavit
showing the same goes down to the
disbursing agent and draws his
money
a of their own making In France the
Negro Separate 8taterA call has dea of paln glrl woul)I be laughed
-- at Yet French women are not ea a
rule what la ' called beautiful They
only know tb6 value of a aweet ex-
pression and n little taste In dress”
been Issued for a convention of the
Negro Suffrage League of Indian Ter-
ritory to be held at Okmulgee Sep-
tember 28 The object of the meet-
ing Is to give the negro citizens a
chance to express themselves on
statehood President Rentle of the
league says that tbe recent suffrage
league convention held here with
delegates from both territories at
which resolutions were adopted de-
claring for statehood with Oklahoma
does not represent the sentiment of
the colored pontile a maloHly of
whom favn- separate statehood but
wers outvoted In the meeting by the
Oklahoma delegatee
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B-q Wolf Round Up — Arrange-
ments are being made for a big wo'f
rotipilun In the vlclnltv of Untile
mnuntiln vest of Paul’s Valpy to
take place shout the 16th of October
War -on Jenninirs who has the bunt
p’annlnr has strange) in connect'on
and coo-H-rat'on with sverl nI
weJf buVers for a Mf peek of bounds
and I e‘4-r- be'n't 'r'l?cn to l-'in-ers
over the Chickasaw nation lo per
tftlpa
TOO FAR FROM THE BOWERY
New Yorker Would Not Build Houso
in Canadian Woods
He was such a typical New Yorket
thatfhe seemed strangely out of place
In the queer little lumber village way
up In the Canadian woods where hie
duties as a lumber Inapector called
him And hla talk which was ever of
the pontes” and the race track
teemed even more locongruoua In a
place where the white men talked ot
“shorts” and "outa” ‘‘two by twelves’
and ’’slloa" and all the rest of the
(ergon of a lumber mill One day the
superintendent of the plant who had
taken a great fancy to the young New
Yorker and who apparently loved to
llBten to the Inspector’s stories of how
be "won three hundred on Rosebea”
and other profitable operations against
the ring told him he ought to Invest
some of his winnings In n piece of
land near the mill build a cottage and
bring his family up there for the sum-
mer The New Yorker looked at him
In silence for s minute Then he eject-
ed a long stream of tobacco juice and
ejaculated slowly ‘’What build a
house here! Say when I build a cot-
tage It’ll be at Corey and it won’t be
far from the track That's as straight
a tip as you’ll ever get”
GOLDFISH-HAD CHARMED LIFE
Rescued from Sportive Cat It Had
Suffered No Harm
An Englishman writes 'to a London
newspaper: "I have had for two years
a goldfish which had survived the oc-
casional accidents of defective water
lupply and the too Intimate compan-
ionship of playful kittens Yesterday
I missed her from her accustomed
place in the crystal bowl and panic-
stricken searched the neighborhood In
vain Even the garden unlikely spot
was desperately explored Returning
I saw to my horror In a corner of the
house remote from the gold-fish room
the usually well-behaved cat toying
with the escaped flsb Rescue was the
work of a moment To my astonish-
ment on dropping the flsb back Into
the bowl she flapped her fins
breathed heavily and swam about with
her usual sangfroid”
Would Protect Poor Bachelor
An English clergyman baa taken
up tbe cudgels on behalf of the un-
wary bachelors of bis parish who
may be caught In tbe net of those
who may prove thriftless wives He
strongly advises them td Insist upon
inspecting the credentials of the fair
maids who covet their favor before
committing themselves by proposing
They ere to Insist upon tbe produc-
tion of certificates guaranteeing the
young woman to be proficient In nee-
dlework breadmaking and potato
boiling Sock darning and dish wash-
ing are evidently optional subjects
On meriting approval the damsel Is
entitled in return to ask (or certifi-
cates Indicating competency on tbe
part of tbe Impetuous lover to grow
flowers and vegetables
Tramp Had Humor
At the sidewalk of one of tbe ferry
houses in New York stood a police ve-
hicle backed against the curb await-
ing lta load Walking leisurely In the
center ofthe pushing racing - mob
from a landing ferry boat was a tramp
ail rags but placid of manner At bis
aide walked a bluecoat who led him
to the waiting patrol wagon Aa tbe
tramp a as about to enter be bethought
himself and standing on the wagon
steps be leaned far out to one side
and to tbe driver he called In the
drawling voice of a bored boulevar-
dler: "Home James!”
French Women Not Beautiful
‘I have seen many women In
France” says an observer ”wbo In
England or America woulj be called
plain but who are commonly spoken
of as la belle Mme A or B They
have no beauty whatever beyond that
Royal Women Gamesters
Anne Boleyn was an Inveterate
gambler as the privy purse expense
qf her royal husband abundantly tes-
tify and Indeed Catherine of Aragon
was the only one of Henry’s half-
dozen wives who had not a passion
for tbe card table ”Your noble wife”
Erasmus once said to Henry "spends
that time In reading the aacred vol-
ume which other princesses occupy
in cards and dice”
Help of Both Needed
We are going to Memphis to at-
tend the convention of the Credit
Men’s Association and see If we can't
git 'em to forglt tha past We have
always been S' friend of the credit
men and the railroad men Without
(he assistance of the former we could
not live In this here bum town and
without the latter we never could git
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ON ITS OWN RAILS
A railroad with lta own ralla extending
from one Important city to another has
decided advanuurea oxer a line depend-
ing on connectioua to trecento tha aame
distance Through rails inaura quicker
service entirely obviating tiresome de-
lay arising from eonnoctlona tni-eed
ThU la why THE KATV with
It own rail from St Lou I and Kansas
City to Kotwton aalveaton and (tan
Antonio baa adrantagra over other lines
between the aame points
Through trains wTtb
PCLLMAN SLEEPERS
AND CHAIR CARS
are run between St Louli
and Kanaaa City and nil
principal Texas cities
You atep Into tbe ears
at St IjOuIb or Kansas
City and are net com-
pelled to leave them un-
til your destination is
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