The Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CLAREMORE MESSENGER
c±
oremorr,
- Ind. T r.
TWO TERRITORIES IN BRIEF
lawton oltleens have organ I tod a
ehamber of commerce.
The Kiowa connty normal will bo
ild at Hobart from July 20 to August
*
The B1 Rf-no Mill and Elevator com-
Xy, ia ereoting a big elevator at An-
rko, _____
Excavation ha« been made for the
•reotion of a new CathoUo church at
Okarohe.
A braaa band reunion is talked of for
'Oklahoma and Indian Territory to be
keld at Lawton.
Fallis' two banks have consolidated
end will run under the charter of the
First Bank of Fallis.
Three men were arrested at Weleetka
on the charge of theft of freight en-
(mated to their care.
A oompany ie incorporated at Enid
for |000,000 to conatrnct and operate an
•leotnc atreet railway.
It ia reported that the mayor of Ster-
ling was arrested recently for forging
names to liquor license.
Edge Brother's atore at Lohlgh waa
recently entered by burglars and a
■mall amount secured by them.
Capt Ralmer, of Company M, Okla-
homa National Guard, liae been ap-
pointed major of the national guard.
W. O. Urbach, a soldier from Fort
Sill, deserted and was arrested in Law-
ton. He was taken back to the fort.
The Mountain Park & El Paso Rail-
road company has established head-
quarters in the town of Mountain Park.
Okemah, is to have a fine three-story
hotel, to be built on Broadway. It will
be one of the best hotela in the Terri-
tory.
Brnnes Krober, a German 24 years
old, hanged himself in his house, east
of Thomas, because a 17-year-old girl
refused to marry him.
The Chandler postoffice has been rais-
ed a notch—it is now in the list of sec-
ond-olass offices with tho postmaster's
■alary fixed at |2,000.
The people of Fort Towson. I. T., a
new town on the Arkansas and Choc-
taw road, will oelebrate the Fourth of
July with a big barbecue.
Oklahoma City has secured the Shaw-
nee base ball club and now Shawnee ii
making pretty faces at the Enid team
with the hopes of securing it.
Milburn is to have a picnio and cele
bration June 25th, in the interest oi
good roads. The local commercial
elub is back of the proposition.
A test kiln of brick was opened by the
Weeletka Brick company last week. The
brick was of a fine quality and the com-
pany thinks they have a bonanza.
D. W. Taylor, a lineman for the
Western "Union Telegraph company
was bitten by a oopperhead snake near
Durant. His arm was badly swollen.
The Indian offloe announces that sec.
V tion line roads inuBt be opened before
old roads are closed and the opening
must take place as soon aa wheat has
been cut.
Chickasha now has a fisherman and
hunter's paradise in the shape of a lnke,
formed when the Wichita river took a
notion to change its course during the
V recent high water.
Work has been commenced on the
f; 120-foot stand pipe for the Muskogee
' water works. The first section lias been
pnt in place and to the Phoenix re-
porter it looks like a washtwb.
The first barrel ot Comanche oounty
\ 0H Will be sold at auction on the street
J corner. The oil is from the well upon
' the Beal addition to Lawton at a depth
of 118 feet, and is said to produce forty
four gallons of oil per day.
Oklahoma City is to have a new
packing company, with C. G. Jones at
}'• president; George Sholberg, secretary
and Bart leonard, treasurer. Capital
stock, $200,000, to be increased to $250.
000 within the next sixty days.
As the result of a quarrel at a rural
, dance near Stroud, Ok., Riley Minds
an onlooker, was shot and instantly
killed, and Tom Reynolds was fatally
-• gtabbed. David Cook also received
5 serious stabs.
ID!
TI** ot fnlun Depot. Kansas City, During tha RmuI Floods.
COURT CITIZENS CASES.
main* n« tho Matter Now Pending Before
lotted Mates Nil promo Court,
Ardmore. Regarding tha status of the
court citizens cases, Hon. O. L. Her-
bert. who has just returned from Wash-
ington, said:
On Juue 1 tha supreme court of the
United States allowed L. L. Blake, on
behalf of himself and those represent
FOR BETTER LAWS.
Iailtan Territory liar Association Slem-
orallsos Congress fo* Improvement.
South McAlektkr : The Indian Ter-
ritory Bar Association concluded its
aunual session here with a banquet, aud
memorialized congress for the passage
of the following laws:
To abolish tribal taxes oil non-citi-
zens; the extension of national bank
this docket of the Chickasaw citizen
ship court, to file a motion against the
the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizenship
court, its judges and clerk, praying the
suproms court to restrain said citizen-
ship court from trying snid cases until
October 10, 1WW, the U. S. Joins case,
pending in the supreme court, is set
down for final adjudication. The mo-
tion was taken under advisement by
the court until the 10th day of October,
1003, and if the the petition, which is
in substauce the same as that tiled by U.
S. Joins, prevails, all those represented
in it will have their rights protected,
and the test case rendered by the court
NEW SCIENCE HALL
Tho Hoard of Regents Award Contract lat
Naw I'nlvorsltf Building
Norman : At a recent meeting of the
board of regents held here, the contract
for the science hall, to take the place of
tha building burned some months ago,
was awarded to Sinclair & Howe of Ok
lahoma City for $31,500. Thia building
will be located between the old and new
buildings. The preliminary drawings
for the Carnegie Library was also ap
proved.
Prof. Cole of Philadelphia waa elected
to the chair of economics. Prof. Nvilbui
H. Humphrey, a graduate of Harvard
will take Prof. Parringtnns plaae
HOBLITY SLAIN
King ind Quwn of Servia
bers of Household Attminated
PRETENDER TOTHRONE PROCLAIMED KING
and tho fact under which it was ron-1 adopted by a vote of 20 to 8 Officers
dered, if the theory presented by tho j were elected aa follows: vr
Joins cane be corruot. will be held null
hmiI void, aud a decisiou of this kind
will destroy the effect of tlw judgment
in the test case rendered by the citizen-
ship court, entitled the Choctaw and
Chickusaw "Nation vs. J. T. Hiddle et
al., handed down by that court De-
cember 17, 1002. The supreme oourt
adjourned June 1, and had not the time
to consider the petition filed by the
persons named in the motion presented
by L. L. Blake and others. My opinion
is that the filing of the motion, and the
taking ef tha same under advisement by
the supreme oourt until October, should
at least restrain the citizenship court
from attempting to exercise jurisdiction
in any of the cases transferred to it,
aud embraced in the petition for the
writ; as above stated.
institutions and individuals; to make
women eligible to appointment as no-
taries public; the purchase of Choctaw
coal lands as a school fund for the ter-
ritory; fo give the federal courts, ex-
elusive jurisdiction over Indian estates ^h~"of Engiish during the latter'*
in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations j absence ^ additional instructor ol
and to permit appointment of non-citi-1 mathematipg wai also employed. A
zens as guardians in the Creek nation; mn:ority 0f the present faculty will
to permit companies of recognized j renJRjn
standing to act as executors and admin'
istrators. The animal memorial to
congress to yrant bail to persons con-
victed of bailable offenses pending ap-
peal and a resolution for immediate
single statehood with Oklahoma were
H. Cornegay, Vinita; secretary, F. H.
Kellogg, South McAlester; treasurer,
J. Fannin, South McAlester; vice-pres-
idents, W. I. Gilbert, Duncan; G. T.
Ralls, Atoka; S. C. Fullertou, Miami;
William Mellett, Muskogee, exeontive
committee; S. Guerrer, South Mc-
Alester; J. S. TruitJ, Afton; A. Eddie-
man. Ardmore; P. C. West. Muskogee,
Delegates to national assooia^on; C. L.
Jackson, Muskogee; J. F. Sharp,
Purcell.
PREPARING TO DIE
The painters of Chiokashahave organ
l7,ed a branch of the brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers
of America- The new organization
statue o&t With a membership of ten
"* Knights of Pythias of Oklahoma will
hold their grand lodge at Hobart in Oc-
- -tober. -The lodge there has already
commenced plans for the erection of an
' opera house in which the session will
beheld.
Mre. Wells, a school teacher four
miles north of Mountain Park, has been
' arretted for severe corporal punishment
of an eight-year-old pupil, the son of
W H. Bean. She admits the punish-
i meB| tofllcted was, perhaps, too severe.
:; (i TUe judge fined her $10 and cost.
Sheriff Baker of Cleveland county,
' receatly turned into the treasury more
" '' than $8,200 collected on delinquent tax
1' 'warrants. The warrants were in the
""'handa o« tha officer jnst sixty days,
tat the sum collected, it is consider-
trf thL be established an excellent
CLOSED THE BANKS
Bank f:*aminer Cooper Think* Institu-
tions Not lo tiood Condition
Lawton: The banks belonging to
Rnfus Connella at Indiahoma, Hallis
and Hedrick have been closed by Bank
Examiner Cooper. The banks had a
capital of $5,000 each and it is not be-
lieved that the total deposits exceeded
$30,000.
The principal stockholder, Mr. Rui'us
Connella, is an extensive dealer in
school furniture and supplies, and has
been engaged in building school houses.
He was in all cases paid in school War-
rants or school bonds. Tue bonds were
saleable but the warrants found slow
sale outside. Because of thia he turns
over ti his banks. They are safe aud
collatera', but being slow of sale they
sould not be turned into cash to meet
the demands of depositors. Conse-
■juence was that the cash ran far below
the legal requirement with little pros-
pect of converting the collateral.
It is believed that tho depositors can
be paid in full, as the face value of the
wsets is considerably in excess of the
liability to depositors.
MILITARY MATTZRS
Oklahoma National Guards Got a Slice of
The lllok Apportionment
Guthrie : Adjutant General Burlin-
game has received a telegram from the
adjutant general, at Washington, in-
forming him that tho apportionment by
the war department of the $ii,000,000
appropriated by the Dick bill had been
partially made, and that Oklahoma's
share to date amounted to 17,072.37.
Under the general appropriation bill for
national guard, Oklahoma will get on
luly 1, about as much more and when
the reports are all in from the various
itates and territories so that the full
imount provided by the Dick bill can
be apportioned, it is oxpeoted that Okla-
homa will receive about $7,000addition-
al. This will give about 121,000 to the
territory for her national guards, and
will be sufficient to meet the improve-
ments contemplated l>y Governor Fer-
guson and General Burlingame. New
Sjuiib for the battery at, Oklahoma City
will be provided; the signal corps will
be recruited and equipped, aud the en-
gineers department at Lawton will be
sared for. A sum of money will also
remain for the purchase of new uniforms
as provided by the recent orler.
Charles Barrett, tho Condemns* Mur-
derer (letting ltoadjr to Meet Ills Ciod
South McAlester. Charles Barrett,
condemned to die ou the scaffold July
17 for murder, has been taken from main
federal jail buildiug where he has been
since liis arrest, and placed in the small
barricaded hospital building within the
jail stockade. He is the sole occupant
of the building. Barrett stated co his
minister that he desired to get away
from the great throng of prisoners in
order that lie might give study to the
pre!>aration he ia making to die a Chris-
tian.
When told that he was to be moved
to the hospital building in order that he
could have more privacy and receive
better accommodations both in matter
of food aud bedding, the prisoner was
mnch pleased and made the change
without a word of protest. Barrett has
informed the guard* that he does not
desire to read the newspapers. He
wants to be left alone with his Bible.
to amount and
time.
Kmauelpatloii Day Celebration
Chickasha: The colored people of
the six recording districts which have
Chickasha as a center aud the troops
from Ft. Reno have joined forces and
will hold a monster celebration of eman-
cipation day at the fair grounds here
June 19. Excursions are promised lrom
Oklahoma City, El Reno, Lawton and
an enormous crowd is anticipated. -
BARNES' BOARD TO BE PAID
Attorney General llobberU Itules That
Commission Must be Paid for Service
Guthrie: Attorney General J. C.
Robberts of Oklahoma has given an opin-
ion of importance, holding that L. W.
Baxter, territorial auditor, must issue
warrants to pay the board appointed by
Gov. C. M. Barnes for service rendered
in locating the Southwestern Oklahoma
normal sohool at Weatherford. Mr.
Baxter, as auditor, has already paid one
board, appointed by Gov. Jenkins for
locating this same institution at Gran-
ite, but the supreme court has hold the
Jenkins board an illegal body, and
therefore the Barnes commission must
be paid for its services.
Apprameinenta Delayed
Vinita: The Cherokee towus/te
commission with headquarters in this
town received notioe from Indian In
spector J. George Wright that the com
mission would uot resume the work of
townsite appraisements until September
1 on account of lack of available funds
for carrying on the work. Vinita is
the only town that has been completed
and no deeds can be hitd in other Chero-
kee towns until the commission finishes
its work of appraisement
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
I'nllod States Government Will Dart
Party In Western Oklahoma
Guthrie: The United States geo-
logical survey will have a party in the
field in Western Oklahoma during the
summer, conducting investigations on
the water supply of that region. Tlis
party will be in charge of Prof. Gould
of the Oklahoma university, resident
hydrographer of the survey, who hai
been collecting well and spring recordi
through! the terrritory during tho last
year. It is planned to outfit at Wood-
ward, Okla., and work west np Beavei
creek and the Cimarron river, carrying
on two lines of reconnaissance. Par-
ticular attention will be paid to wellt
and springs, depth to water, kind ol
water, etc., throughout the region, al-
though geological subjects will not bt>
neglected. Samples of water will be
collected and returned to the university
for analysis.
The party will travel the entire length
of Beaver county, 800 miles, touching
Southwest Kansas and Southeast Colo-
rado and will probably go as far intc
New Mexico as the Rocky mountains.
From this point the party will cross to
the South Canadian river and will fol-
low it east to Oklahoma, and then work
as far south as the Red river.
Notes will be taken and a report oi
the work with particular reference to
the water supply will be submitted to
the department at Washington.
WILL BE ENROLLED
Dr. Rhea and Family Will Share in tha
Allotment of the Clin, taws
Dennison, Tex. : Dr. James Rhea ot
Sterrett, I. T'., has received notice that
the decision of the Dawes commission
refusing him enrollment has been re-
versed, and he and all his family will
be enrolled as Choctaws, and will share
in all distributions or Choctaw lands
and moneys. He had been refused en
rollment by the Dawes commission on
the grounds that he lived in Dennison.
Texas, when the Curtis act went into
effect, and was therefore debarred from
citizenship. Through the instrumen-
tality of Congressman Ratidell this de-
cision was reversed by the interior de-
partment and Dr. Rhea and family wil
get their just due.
Oklahoma $0,130
Washington: The war department
made announcement of the provision
sppointment to the states and terri-
tories of the 50 per ceet of the |3,000,
000 appropriation money for arming
and supplying the militia to correspond
with the regular army. These items
ippenr: Alabama, $24,240; Arkansas,
|I2,8l5; Louisiana, $18,758; Mississippi,
|12,477; Tennessee, $14,597; Testis, |26,
145; Oklahoma, $6.730-
James Dent, an aged Logan county
farmer was walking on the railroad
track when he wu killed by a Uaiu
near Seward.
A petition has been circulated by the
attorneys of Lawton to have a sped a
jndge appointed to hold a special term
of the district court to clean up the
docket. The Lawton bar will make an
effort to have a new district formed
with a new jndge in charge.
A little excitement was created at
Fort Towneon the other day by a large
book pursued by hounds running
through the principal street of the town
Three or four shots were fired at it aa
it passed through, but as the gnns were
loaded with small shot it waa only
slightly wonnded. ' '
King Alexander and Qnoon Draga Victims
of Conspiracy—Chief Conspirators ars
All Men ol High Itank Who Actod In
Consort of the Army
Bki<okadr : A military conspiracy,
whloh subsequent eventa ahow had the
sympathy of th* majority of the Servian
people, was carried out and King Alex-
ander aud Qaeen Draga, her two broth-
ers aud several ministers were assas-
sinated.
Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, pre-
tender to the throne, hua been pro-
claimed King by the army, and there ia
tvery reason to believe that thia decis-
ion will be confirmed by tho Servian
Parliament, which had been summoned
to meet on June 15.
The revolution was executed without
any opposition on the part of the people
of Belgrade, and tho capital and the
country remain quiet.
While the main outline of ersBts
whloh took plaoe within the royal pal-
ace are known, the details are conflict-
ing, owing to the extraordinary secrecy
with which the plot was oontrived and
oarried out. The chief conspirators are
all men of high rank, who acted in oon-
cert with the army. The participation
of tha latter In the assassination, which
blotted out the Obrouovitch dynasty,
whloh has ruled Servia with a short in-
termission for nearly a century, is
mainly due to tha attitude of King
Alexander and his consort toward the
officers of the array, whom he always
treated with scant oourtsey. His de-
sire to remove the war school from Bel-
grade to Shebatz particularly gave the
officers offense. This ia a sinister in
the history of the Obronovitch house,
being the thirty-fifth anniversary of the
ascension of King Alexander's grand
uncle, Michael, who was done to death
by ngents of Alexander Karageorge
vitch, then leading member of the
house which has long disputed the
throne of Servia against the Obrono
vitch family, and whoee head, Prince
Peter Karageorgevitch, has been pro'
claimed king.
Dissatisfaction against King Alexan
der's rule has been great since the sus'
pension of the constitution last April,
and it is from that time the military
plot dates.
The organization of the bloody deed
was carried out with consummate skilL
The king for the last two months waa
thrown off his gusrd by the apparent
quistude on the reception of his recent
coup d'etat. In the mean time the con-
spirators had deoided on June 10 as the
date for the execution of the revolution
for reaaous: firstly, it is the anniversary
of the murder of King Alexander's
grand uncle, Michael; and secondly,
because it was feared that further de
lay would permit the Skupshina to set-
tle the succession to the throne accord-
ing to the king's wishes, and it was be
lieved that the brother of the hated
queen would be his choice. The prime
movers of the plot were Ljubmoir
Sohickovice and Vogislav Velikovios,
who have entered the new cabinet as
ministers of justice and finance, respec
tively. M. Schiokovics was condemned
to twenty years' penal servitude for an
attempt to assassinate former King
Milan.
The king and queen passed the eve of
their death quietly. They attended
choral festival, then took supper in the
Konak, and afterward retired to rest.
Meantime the conspirators held a meet-
ing at Kalimegden Park. The Sixth
infantry regiment, which was chosen to
carry out the coup d'etat, was recently
punished for having used its weapons
against a crowd of demonstrators.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TM Annual * soling o« the Hlslerlsal
Mwolaty al Oklaheesa Oily
An account of the luiunal meeting of
the territorial historical goeioty as give*
In the Daily Oklahomaa is herewith
appended:
"The regular annual meeting ef the
Oklahoma historical eociety occurred in
this city et the Carnegie library. The
meeting was not largely attended, but
it waa one of the most interesting and
business like the society ever held
Presideut Lincoln MoKinley of New
kirk called tho moeting to order and
Secretary I n Wharton of Perry, kept
the records The principal business
transacted waa the discussion of moans
for increasing tho value of the eociety
and the selection of a new board of di-
rectors. Custodian Sidney Clark gate
a verbal report of his efforts to gathes
historical matter for the eociety, and
has aooomplishod much in this line.
Among the valuable historical records
be hae been able to add to the society s
collection are valuable documents bear-
ing on the legislation out of whloh Ok-
lahoma aa she stands today is evolved,
the records in the Qreer county deoia
ion, making it a part of Oklahoma, and
donations from T. C. Thoburn of Pea-
body, Kansas, in the shape of a copy ol
Macy'a report on the early history ol
Oklahoma, and flies of the Oklahoma
War Chief, the official organ of the or-
riginal Oklahoma boomers, which was
published at Caldwell, Kausas, from
Col. Sam Crocker, ef thia city, togethei
with a large portrait of Captain Couch.
"The election of a board of directors
resulted in the selection of the follow-
ing;
W. P Campbell, Waukomis; Franls
Greer, Guthrie; Lincoln MoKinley.
Newkirk; Lon Whaiton, Perry; Roy
Stafford, Oklahoma City; Jasper Sipes,
Oklahoma City; J. B. Thoburn, Guth.
rie; Kd. R. Felt, Edmond; J.C. Welsh,
Perry; Frank Northnp. Oklahoma City;
. W. McNeill, Guthrie.
Senator Sidney Clark, Col. Sam
Crocker of this city, Presideut D. R.
Boyd of the Norman university, nnd
Frank McMasters of Lawton wers
elected life honorary members of the
association. Votes of thanks for do
nations in the shape of historical mat-
ter Were extended to T. C. Thoburn ol
Peabody, Kansas, SenatorSidn«y Clark,
Colonel Samuel Crocker and W. P.
Campbell.
"The board of direotors selected the
following officers, after which tlia meet-
ing adjourned: President, Lincoln Mc-
Kinly, of Newkirk; first vice-president,
Jaaper Sqies of Oklahoma City; second
vice-president, Ed. R. Felt of Edmond;
secretary, Lon Wharton of Perry;
treasurer, Jos. W. McNeal of Guthrie.
STATEHOOD FIGHT
MORE ABOUT LEASES
The Oklahoma Kepubllcan Central Com.
mltteo Called to Meet .lime S'i
Guthrie: Cash M. Cade, chairman,
has issued a call to the republican cen-
tral committee of Oklahoma to meet in
Guthrie on the afternoon of June 22 for
the purpose of discussing the measure
necessary in the fight for statehood. He
says he issues the call at the urgent re-
quest of many of the leading republi-
cans of the territory, and all republi-
can workers are invited to moet with the
oommittee. It iB stated that the com-
mittee will declare unconditionally for
immediate statehood separate from
Indian Territory.
This is the result of the recent visit
to the territory of Secretary Hitchcock
of the interior department. This action
of the committee will forestall the con-
vention to be held by the single state-
hood advocates of both territories at
Shawnee on June 24.
Senators Piatt, Quay and Quarlee
will leave Washington sometime next
August for a trip over the territories of
Oklahoma, Indian 'Territoy, Arizona,
and New Mexico. They will represent
a senate oommitte on territories, and
will have a report to make at the next
session of congress.
TO SAVE HIS NECK
Two Bisters of Murderer yoenan Petition
Governor to Com mo to Sentence
Guthrie ; Two sisters of Thomas P.
Qnenan called on Governor Ferguson
to state that formal papers will be filed
with him in the future to petition him
to commute to life imprisonment the
death sentence passed upon Quefian for
the murder of his wife in Oklahoma
City in January, 1900. Only recently
the United States supreme court held
that Qnenan must hang. If the gov-
ernor's decision ie against commuta-
tion the sisters will appeal to Presi-
dent Rooeevelt
Indian Agent Kevelves Additional In
strnctlons Regarding Leases
MctsKOGEft: Iudian Inspector Zeverly
lias received more detailed information
form the interior department in regard
V> the restrictions which will be placed
on gas and oil leases in the Cherokee
and Creek nations. A form has also
been sent to be used by the parties
making application for the approval of
such leases. The form recites the
different leases which are to be ap-
proved, in detail, and contains an affi-
davit that the applicant is not directly
interested in any other leases or appli
cations for leases, the lands embraced
i-i which would, with the tracts covered
in tho leases presented, make more than
4,800 acres.
Spanish Itch In Horses
Guthrie : The Oklahoma Live Stock
Sanitary Commission was notified of
Spanish itch or mauge in a herd cf fif-
teen horses and the farm was quaran-
tined. The owner recently purchased
a horse in Omaha, Neb., and he believes
it had the disease. Secretary Morris
atates that this is the first case of horses
having the Spanish itch, which Is pre-
valent among cattle.
BLOOMFIED SEMINARY
Tho Chickasaw National School for Glrlt
Closes lie School Year
The Bloomtield seminary, the Ohiak.
asaw national school for girls olosed its
yearly session last week. The school u
situated eight miles east of Denison.
The enrollment of pupils at the sohool
just closed was largest ever known in
history of Bloomfield. The Chickasaw
legislature has raised the quote <4
Bloomfield to 100 pupils, and, as usual,
the enrollment ran over the quota allot-
ted to the school, the total enrollment
during the school year just ended being
115. The average attendance was 10U.
and the attendance on the last day was
105.
The looation of Bloomfield Is ideal for
a school, on account ita healthfulness.
It is on a high point at the edge of the
prairie aud timbered country, and has
splendid natnral drainage in every di-
rection. One thing, important in any
school, is looked after in Bloomfield and
that is the sanitation. The sanitary
conditions are practically perfect, and
everything is kept sorupuously clean
and healthful. As a result there has
been no sickness during the session just
closed.
Owing to the fact that the last session
of the Chickasaw legislature authorized
and created a revision of textbooks to be
used in Chickasaw school, the grade*
at Bloomfield were raised and one more
year's work was added to tfte coarse ol
study; on this account there waa u«
graduating class this year.
FORMER MAYOR ACCUSED
L, M. Co*, of Wichita, Arrested for For.
gery and Embemslemeat
Wichita, Kas. : Former Mayor L.
M. Cox was arrested on two warrants
sworn out by Jesse Leland, city clerk,
charging him with forgery and embez-
zlement of $2,058.40 belonging to th«
city. Cox is the father-in-law of Fred
Dold, manager of the Dold Packing
Company. During the last administra-
tion of Mayor McLean, Cox held the
position of assistant oity clerk, and it is
alleged that, while acting in this capac-
ity, he falsified the city's payroll by
inserting names of fictitious persona.
He would then indorse the vouchers by
forging City Clerk Leland's name and
cash them at the bank. Cox waived
preliminary examination and waa re-
leased on $2,000 bond.
Engina Corpse Organising.
"Lawton: A government engineer!
corpe will be organized here at onca
Captain Joaeph K, Tuttle will be th«
recruiting officer and the company will
be oomposed of 104 men. An order te
this effect haa been made by Adjutant
General Burlingame.
Murderer round at Wllbnrloa
Wilburton: James Wright, alias
Charles Nailer, waa arrested here on
;hargo of murder. It is claimed that
m February 16, 1895 at Salt Lake,
Utah, Wright murdered three boys and
to cofoeal the crime, took the bodies
rat on a lake, cut the ice and put the
todies in the water. He waa located in
one of the Degun mines and word was
tent down for him to come out. He re-
fused to do so until the offleers sent the
handcuffs down and allowed him to
put them on. The authorities have
been notified of the ar*e«t.
Charged With Rape
Ardmore : J. W. Sykes, a physician,
has been placed in jail here, charged
with rape upon his fourteen-year-old
step-daughter. In the examining trial
the girl testified that he had mads
numerous assaults for the past five
years, and that he had threatened bet
with instant death if she informed any-
one. The mother of the girl became
suspicious, but was afraid to tell the of-
ficers. A few days ago, while Sykes
waa absent, an ofHoer happened to pass
the home and the mother told him and
Sykes waa put under arrest, and bound
over to the grand jory w^hout bail.
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Jennings, H. The Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1903, newspaper, June 19, 1903; Claremore, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc177946/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.