The Cordell Weekly Beacon. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1903 Page: 2 of 10
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CORDELL BEACOt*.
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8. C. Dlll.NKTTe, Ktiitor.
CORDELL,
OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Geary's new opera huuse will soon be
•ready lor occupancy.
Judge Townsend has appointed H. E.- .
iFoster of Ardmore as receiver for the
'bank of the Chickasaw patiun.
Alfc'ashington special • states that
Chairman Bixbv of- t he Dawes commis-
sion, has stated that the commission
will,bo ready to go out Wf business on
December 31, lt>04. \
.ft,
..v.
Hi the t«wns along the Katy that
•re advertised as division points, train-
men will have "to double badr-several
times in a day to make enough money
to keep the wolf from the door.
—■*——- t"
Oklahoma City has decided to hold a
fat stock show in connection with the
cattlemen's convention to.be held in that
•place "February 23 tt> 2C
John W. Seaver, charged with beating
♦o <}eath Frank tlgin. an inmate of the
asylum at Norman, hnji returned vol-
untarily and given himself up to the
officials.
Nee-Hah-Ko-lIohn. an Ozaukee Tndian,
aged 26, was found dead in the highway
near the Su «n|) fjox Indian.agency, as
the Alleged rfepult of uiinking a mixture
of lemon extract anu peppernient.
Work on tMfc rTewfederal jail at Vinita
has commenced.
HAD A GOOD TIME
COLONEL PRATT AND SCOUTS BOLD
A REUNION
MR9. BOOTH TUCKER KILLED
Have
SPIRIT OF OCCASION MADE EDUCATIONAl
(Inilents of Carlisle Formulated IM«n*
for Celabratloa—Wholly lllhrtal from
t'sual lndlaa Festivities'—Indians and
Scouts Male* Addrenneft
ANADARKO: Col. W. L. Pratt, sn
perintendent of the Indian school at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, met a number <*f
the Caddo sceuts who were under bis
command at Ft. Arbuckle during the
years 1867-8, and also a delegation of
the Fort Sill Indian scouts in the years
1874-75 which included the affiliated
Indians belonging to the agency and the
prisoners who were with him in 1875-
i*8a and the returned students of Carlisle
in this section.
The event was one of the most in-
teresting that has ever occurred in iiiis
seet^pn. The Anadarko band, composed
of white citizens and Indians led by a
Carlisle graduate furnished the music.
There was an ox roast, after which
scouts and students representing the
various tribes made addresses, followed
by an address by Col. Pratt. The spirit
if the occassion was wholly educational
ind in the interests of good citizens'tip.
This affair was gotten up by return
students and was much different from
the annual smoke dance given near Ft.
?ill by Quanah Parker at the xame time,
ft is a historical fact that on the ground
It does not look as if the old Fort
Reno was to be abolished, a js reported
* that tne Fifth regular cavaHy, now ia
.the Philippines is to be returned to n.e Vhere Anadarko now stands was "fought
United States and Rationed at Fori th<1 ficrc*pt battle of th(1 Washita in the
*RenW A large amount of hay and pro-
visions are now being stored there.
The Salvationist Reported to
Been Killed in Wreck
DEAN LAivtu, MO.: The wreck of the
east bound Santa Fe California limited
train here was even more disastrous
than appeared at first. Besides Mra
Kinma Booth-Tucker, wife of the com-
mander of the Salvation Army in Amer-
ica, who was so seriously injured that
sfte died within two lioura, twenty-nine
other persons were injured. This takes
•no account of those who were merely
bruised and were able to continue their
journeys. Colonel Thomas C. Holland
manager of the Salvation Army colony
at Amity, Col., is still alive, but he can-
not live long, and two or three others
of the injured are in a critical condition.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Colonel Hol-
land were the only occupants of the
tourist sleeper, which waa first to leave
the rails, and which crashed into the
Water tank. They were both found un-
conscious and were taken into the sta-
tion waiting rooin, where Mrs. Booth-
Tucker was placed upon a mattress. Sur-
gical aid was given her by Dr. Hunter,
of Pittsburg, Ka ., who was a fellow
passenger on the train. The aid was of
no avail, however. Her skull waa frac-
tured and she died two hours after the
accident. She was unconscious all the
time. She moaned pitifully for a ehort
time, but her moanings ceased when
her clothing was loosened. The fracture
was in her left forehead.
GAY YOUNG SENATE BRIDEGROOMS.
GROOMS
Muskogee now -has deposit
for the purpose of building schools.
Three $25,000 6uildings will be begun at
once, two fo?i whites and for the
negroes. Five' hundred children We at
present unprepared for on account in-
efficient buildings.
Nearly $75,000 worth of cotton has
Indian campaign of 1874-75, which re-
lulted in the final subjugation of the re-
bellions element of the Kiowas, Coman-
;hcs, Cheyenne* and Arapahoes.
CREDITORS WILL FILE St'IT
Tliejr Have Conihlied Against Secretary
Hlfrlirock
.ANADARKO: The creditors of Caddo
I WOI III Ul rui l"M !l«* | , , . .
been mirketed at-Wuintinj already this I eount.v and the col,nt>' commoner,
season. * - have hatched a scheme by which they
The scarcity of women in Shattuck has
prompted the thirty-six l a<-helors of the
town to talk earneirtl^gbout organizing
a matrimonial club and^nding east for
a tiydn load the fair aex.
Oleta inhabitants ace vc.va«i .at tne
Santa Fe for changing to the station
name of Whitehead and a mass meeting
has been called to draft resolutions oj
indignation. V *
Thrre are 11,511 pupils of the common
tchools in Lincoln Aunty this year, afc-
increase of 1,035 over last year.
The superintendent of schools at
Chickasha is having considerable trouble
to find places lor the 1,150 scholars in
the public schools. More buildings are
needed.
CHICAGO: The body of Mrs. Booth-
Tucker arrived in Chicago and the body
was taken to the Princess Rink, where it
laid in state. The funeral services
were conducted by Colonel Charles Sow- j
Jon, attended by Commander Booth-
Tucker. The body left for New York.
Commander Booth-Tucker, w ho ar-
rived in Chicago, expecting to join his
wife here, was prostrated by the shocK
of Mrs. Booth-Tucker's death. At the
Salvation Army headquarters, where he
appeared soon after hia arrival, he de-
clined to be interviewed, and denied
himself to all but his intimate friends.
Ensign Agnew, speaking for the com-
mander, said that he had thus far made
no plans for the immediate future.
Commander Booth-Tucker was met at
the railway station by Salvation Army ,
officials, mid was taken in a carriage Present Dissatisfaction May Cause i RePor* from Mexico Deniea Attempt
RELATIONS STRAINED
NOTHING IN IT
An electric "line-trolly wije.gpt crossed
with telephone wires at Soutii McAlester
and did great damage to the telephone
exchange and caused a fire fright. A
aerious fire waa narrowly averted.
At the lot sale in Durant the price paid
ranged from $30 to $170 per lot. A large
crowd waa present and the bidding was
apirited.
The First State Ban.}; of Prague will
soon increase jt« capital stock and or-
gtfnize as a national ifenk.
The interurban electric line company,
m> operate between Oklahoma.. City and
Guthrie, will establish a park at the
latter place with Chas. E. Hod kins of
Joplin, Mo., in charge..
Durirtg the past year there "have been
built and placed in operation, or are
now well under course of construction,
in the Indian Territory me«e fh^n>1.00t)
miles of railroads." As a^part of these
additions and extensions and new lines
which into Oklahoma the mileage.
wUljuwJtl 'total of mo* ihan 1,70H
miles.
Tfce/sorftract for<the new; $4#.noO M.
rchift-ft^at Oklahoma Citv has been
E.tc' _
awarded to the Groan Construction.JL'o..
CTosse, \Vis.
The contract for building the Colorado,
Oklahoma and Texas railrfhil Dun-
can, 1. T., to Lawton, O. T., ha* bet-n
lolhu Miasoirri «n^d Kansas
_ %oi^t£uation*"cajii|«ariv and \\V>ris is .to.
negin at*Coiura<;f t he line
f*r#"L?W.frio Hobart. O. T.. and from
i>uncan to Ardmore, 1. T., will be let in
a few days. 4
The richest gold find yet discovered fti
will get some money from the town lot
fund which Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock has safely put away in St.
Louis.
A number of creditors have bona Cde
*)ills against the county and the com-
missioners are anxious that all just
debts be paid, but the secretary of the
interior refuses to pay them because the
lebts were not authorized by the interior
department.
The creditors and the county commis-
sioners have decided to take the ques-
tion into the district court and there
sk a judgement, which the interior de-
partment will be forced to pay.
The creditors have all combined and
placed their bills in the hands of a trus-
tee, who is to bring the suit and col-
lect" aU. the indebtedness. C. L ED is.
cashier of the First National hank of
this city has been elected trustee, and
Attorney J. Perry will take the case
into court.
Th chairman of the board of county
commissioners has promised that the
board will confess judgement for all j'r t
claims. Whcn'this is done it will re-
main only to ask the district court to
issue judgement funding bonds. * '
Towns Can Condemn Land
ARDMORK: United States .Tudje
15>Wisend j£saU-red an important decis-
ion as *sr rijfnt -of n unicipalUies in
the Indian Territory to condemn Indian
lands for public imnrovem'Mit*. The out-
o^hefd^itffon was due to an action
brcrtight to vcond(*mn ninety acres of
land upon the Pennington river outside
of the city limits of Tishomingo, for
wateew^rks purposes. Sit w * contend
ed that "the city had t\S authority to
condemn the land, but Judge Townsend
decided otherwise. It is pnpumed that
under the ^ame authority towns can con-
demn land for cemeteries and other pub-
lic purposes without regard to the five-
acre limit as fixed in the Atoka agree-
ment. *
direct to headquarters. No mention of
his wife's death was made on the way,
however, and the newspapers were with-
held from him. The arrangements were
that Commander Tucker and hia wife
were to meet -ere, Mrs. Tucker arriv-
ing from the west at about the same
hour as her husband, and they were to
have begui? a ten days' campaign.
SMALL POX IN PENNSYLVANIA
Break Between Canada and England
J/ALIFAX: The declaration that |
on Life of Diaz
WASHINGTON: It was rumored
, . . _ . ^ Lthat an assassin had made an attempt
present relations between Canada and oil the ,ife of Pre8idtmt Dlaz> blIt the
Great Britain cannot enst much longer J folIowlng dlspatch a3 at th0
was made by the Halifax Chrpnicle. statG department would disprove It:
the leading newspaper supporter in :
"General Clayton, United States tin-
award tbe Chronicle expresses what it
Sixteen Cases Reported in the City 0f i claims to be unanimous dissatisfaction
Allegheny : of Canadians at the action of the Brlt-
PITTSRURG, PA.: Allegheny will i9h government in the matter. The
be quarantined to protect the outside PaPer says:
public from smallpox contagion if the ' This Alaskan episode has made It
board of health is able to carry out its I c,ear that our listing relations to
threats. The state quarantine officer th0 emPlre cannot be continued mucl.
on October 19 notified the superintend-1 ,on^er- We are even now at the part
ent of the Allegheny board of health ln* of the "*'ays- Our subordinate
that the state had decided to quaran ; P°si,ion has heen so clearly and so
tine the city within five davg unless | humilltstiugly revealed that it must
the laws regulating the control of con- become utterly unendurable.
the maritime provinces in the liberal , bassador at the City of Mex,co> has in-
party. In an unusually outspoken edi- formed the secretary of state that the
torial on the recent Alaska boundarv
taglous diseases were enforced. The
time limit has expired but. because
of the appeals of prominent citizens,
it was extended. The city officials de-
clare a quarantine will not be de-
clared; that it is unnecessary ant'
merely a political play.
PITTSBURG: City Solicitor S. G.
Porter, of Allegheny City, stated that
If Dr. Batt or any other state officer
tries to quarantine the city he will or-
der his arrest. A sworn statement by
Dr. Thomas Scandfett, director of pub-
lic safety of Allegheny, states that
there are but sixteen cases of small-
pox in Allegheny, which is located di-
rectly across the river from Pittsburg
and has a population of 1C0.000.
The Chronicle adds that there are
now only two courses open for Canada
—complete legislative independence
within the empire, acknowledging the
sovereignty of the King of England
alone on th« status of an independent
nation. The paper says there is much
to commend the latter step in particu-
lar, bccause it would free Canada from
the danger of being ever embroiled
with the United States on account of
Us European connection and at the
same time it would secure for the do-
minion the benefit of the protection ol
the Monroe doctrine.
WANTED ! Y THE
-School Land Morr«l Ankit Attorney Gen-
eral What to I>o I
(fTtfTftRIE: The territorial sehool
land board asked Attorney <.<>ner«l .L C.
Koblierte for an opinion of importance
regarding the possession of valuable
tracts of land in' central Oklahqma.
'there w$*e numerous homesteaders in
thif Cljeicne-Arapahoe country, which
was op«n«4 to settlement in 1806, who
secured only a fraction of a quarter
section of land. This was caused bv the
fact that th« eastern boundary of the
Cheyenne coAnrtjcy did rot follow section
lines, and the OWow who located next
the Wichita mountains was made by a to thc "*®,ern boundary in many in
miwrs *mlH H N'iMiST* ViTTgle Parle ™r,irw recefrtd only a part of a
claim.
With the methods now In use seven-
tenths of the force in coal- is wasted.
A few years ago the waste was nine,
tenths. Mr. Edison declares that a
bucketful of coal should urive an ex-
press train from New York to Phila-
delphia. and a few for.s be sufficient
for the largest ocean steamship,
whose bunkers must now hold thou.<
ands. The Oceanic consumes a ton of
coal every three minutes, or abt it 3ve
hundred tons a day.
report of an attempt upon the life of
President Diaz is without foundation."
In view of the precise statement of
the attack on the president, contained
in the newspaper dispatches 'from
Guanajuato, the wholesale denial of
the affair by Ambassador Clayton Is
only to be explained to the satisfaction
of the officials uere by the assumption
that the ambassador was himself in
the City of Mexico and not at the
scene of tbe affair, and that he simply
accepted an official statement issued
by the Mexican authorities, who had
their own reasons for belittling ths
matter.
MEXICO Ciii: General Mena, the
only minister now in the capital, has
received a dispatch from President
Diaz saying that the reported attack
on his life is absolutely untrue. He
says Toscano was drunk and took a
sensational way of celebrating. No
one, or even the cab occupied by th*
president, was hiL
Shot His Tormentor
NOWATA: While a freight train
waq coming through Sageeyah, on the
Missouri Pacific, about twenty-five
miles south of this town, some town
boys threw rocks at the train crew.
One man, W. E. Burroughs immediate-
ly reached for a gun and shot Leonard
Simmons through the head, Inflicting
a probable fatal wound. Burroughs
gave himself up. Trainmen claim
stoning trains has heen a common oc-
currence at this point for a long time,
and so much so that it has become
dangerous for trainmen to expose
themSelves.
SHORT NEARLY $60,000
mountain near Craterville, ore assavjng
Si1' 7 Ml Tho e a m n i n li \ •« ' nit !■
*^7itn Th« ; li «r X1"* When the Kiowa nv«|#*htion
and every foot of the mountain uT** in iKl, there** a*
inff staked 11 ProT"lon all; such hoBi< >teader\
" la* altAVS . i . ■ _. j 11 *
liawton's city coiucil has jfranted s
franchise to use the streets nnd alleVs
for putting in a gas system. Frank Mr-
Masters is the party securing it and the
i Tewrm* ♦lie^piii.Wa tlx ^hff aclieif-
' TVlflHi * I plant
■ ~ar<irtv time at appraised value.
Ned and George Crombie. two colored
boys residing near Guthrie, recently
van Lured a large eagle.
14 in the (Jhcjeiikt;
: their clairns fi In
which jomed lie
as aliOVe desejTb^A \
iiMintgy couhlj-JijJl But
the Kitwa iftuntJQA
Cheyenne reservation on the east. lJut
there was a second provision that ail of
sections 33 and 1.3 sjiould be resfyved for
pulXh: building,pii*p<4ses. and -in yuiyr
mis*in'*tatlee* sfftS.nr 3T rrf IS b'5tfld
against the piece of a claim of soine
homesteader in the Cheyenne country.
This prohibited the homestep^er frou>
filling out his claim-
Expert Accountants Employed Show
Oklahoma City Away Short
OKLAHOMA CIT : The experts
employed by the city . council last
spring to go over tbe several accounts
of the city have finished their work
£ <1 made a detailed report of the con
dition .of each department. The books
tfere gone over during the period from
April 13, 1897 to April 03, 1903. The
report shows especial looseness in thp
conduct of the pollee apd court offi-
cials. The total "shortage* Irregulari-
ties and discrepancies" and as shown
by the report foot up to 157,270 77. An
attorney will be employed and paid
a commission to enforce payments of
amount® due the city.
Tbe «(ffip cfmal from Lake Huron, ,+n
Georgian Dv. almost due south, to
Lake Ontario, near Toronto, upon
which work has been in progress for
several years, will shorten the lak*
route £>0 fifties^ Thevhtghe^t pol^t 4s
C0« reertiigher than-flake Ontario and
a drop of sixty six feet In four miles at
Petersboro marie necessary the build
ing of the largest locks of the kind <2
the world. They are now cumvlHixl.
DURING OPEN SEASON
WILL CALL A STRIKE
Over 20,000 Miners to Be Called Out
in District No. 15
DENVER: A special to the Repub-
lican from Trinidad, Colo., says the
authority from President Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers for the cal-
ling of a strike of coal miners In dis-
trict No. 15 was brought by "mother"
Jones who returned from Indianapolis
and it is understood that next Monday
Is the date fixed for the walkout. This
could not be positively confirmed, but
President Wm. Howels of district No.
15 admitted that the strike would be
called but said the call had not yet
been completed. It Is understood that
over 20,000 men will be Involved.
FEDERATION OF WOMEN
The Government Will Protect lt Own t Annual Westing Will Be Held at Ard-
Quarantine Line * D Pr"Pared
GUTHRIE: Secretary Tom Morris meeting of
of the Oklahoma Live Stock Sanltarv the F"le™t,on of Woninn's Clubs of
board has received from the Bureau of jOk,ahoma an(J Indian Territory will be
Animal Industry its ruling regarding !here November 3, 4 and 5. The
thf protection of the federal quaran
tine line in Oklahoma during the open
season here: the government, as re-
quested by the Oklahoma l>oar$, will
guard its own line. The ruling is as
follows:
"From November 1st to December
31. 1$02, Inclusive, cattle from said
district may be moved to the non-in-
fested area In the territory of Okla-
homa after inspection start upon the
written permission of an inspector of
the bureau of animal Industry. In
the sbs^nce of suOh Inspection and
permission all movement of cattle
from the quarantine district to points
outside of such district in the state
of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennes-
see.* Tlxas and California, Missouri,
Kansas, and the territories of Arizona
and New Mexico, is prohibited, except
as provided for Immediate slaughter."
meetings will be heiu In the elegant
club rooms of the Elks, which have
been decorated for the occasion.
Among the visitors who will be pres-
ent Include Mrs. Denison, president of
the general Federation of Women's
Clubs of New York City: Mrs. Lewis
of Kansas, president of the Federated
Clubs; Mrs. Platte-Decker, Colorado,
president Women's Clubs; Mrs. Rob-
ert J. Burdette, National secretary:
Mrs. Calloway (Pauline Periwinkle)
of Texas, president Federated Clubs,
and Mrs. Mary Wynne Smoot (Aunt
Luclndy), Texas.
There will be a large number of
delegates and alternates in attendance,
and the annual session gives nromlse
of being the most successful ever
held.
The ladles' clubs of Ardmore ar«
completing arrangements for the en-
tertainment of the visitors.
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