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NORMAN TRANSCRIPT.
NORMAN,
O. T
OKLAHOMA AMD INDIAN TKHRirOB*
School lnnds leases are in greater
demand than ever before.
• iovernor Karnes has named March
0:i as Arbor Pay this year.
The Epworth League of Oklahoma
meets at IC1 Keno March 12.
A convention hall is projected at
Oklahoma City to cost $50,(>00.
A two thousand dollar fire at Ton-
kawa destroyed I'. Williams and Co's
store.
Hilly Bolton was elected sergeant-at-
nrms of the National Editorial Asso-
ciation.
The mill fire at Newkirk damaged
most of the 18,000 bushel stock of
wheat.
E. C. Hnmill. from Oklahoma, has a
number of restaurants in the Philip-
pines.
Noble county is estimated to have a
25 per cent larger acreage of wheat than
last year.
Dr. A. H. .Jackson, of El Reno, it is
haid, is soon to be made an inspector of
Indian agencies.
Sheriff Pierce, of Kay county, has
quarantined 340 head of cattle which
are afflicted with ticks.
< iambiing houses pay 875 a month
and siot machines 87 a month into the
Oklahoma City treasury.
The farmers of Custer county have
voted on the matter and decided em-
phatically for free grass.
A gain in population of between two
and three thousand during the past
year is claimed by Guthrie.
The peanut raisers of Payne county
are more than pleased with the cash
receipts from their last crop.
The Mennonite congregation, five
miles northwest of Cordell, has dedi-
cated a new church building.
According to reports from Arapahoe,
the Choctaw Company is to build a line
to that town from Weatherford.
Most all the freights for several
small towns west of Dover are taken
from the railroad there on wagons.
There is a scarcity of teachers in
Lincoln county, so many of them have
gone into active business enterprises.
A patent from the United States to
the city of Guthrie for Highland park
has been received. This tract contains
67 acres.
Frank Niblack left a legacy of SI00
to the Presbyterian church at Chandler.
It is to be used to erect a belfry and to
buy a bell.
The $23,000 library building in Okla-
homa City is to be of Carthage stone
and pressed brick; two stories and a
basement. It will be 105 by 74 feet.
M. E. Richardson and L. D. Skelton,
of Blackwell, are the Oklahoma direc-
tors of the Cherry vale Vitrified Brick
company, which was chartered recent-
ly.
The Woodward land office made a
record during the month of February,
when 150 original homestead entries
were made. During January 138 en-
tries. were made, this being the highest
number during the history of the
office.
The secretary of the territorial bank-
ing board has issued a charter to the
Peoples bank of Altus. Greer county.
The capital stock is 525,000 and the in-
corporators are .1. A. Henry, C. High-
tower, J. R. McMahan and William C.
Baker.
Watonga Republican: There are
more voters in Blaine county this year
than there were votes cast at the elec-
tion of 1898. Two hundred and twen-
ty-three of these new votes are Repub-
licans.
Tom Woosley recently made a visit
to his old home in Iowa, and after his
return wrote the following opinion for
his Mulhall Enterprise: When a man
begins to think that, after all there may
be places as good as Oklahoma, he goes
to his native state for a couple of months
and then returns completely cured.
A large broom factory is one of the
to be institutions of Oklahoma City.
It costs 850 and 30 days in jail to be
caught with concealed weapons in Rip-
ley.
Shawnee has 10 drug stores. 3 furni-
ture stores. 32 groceries, 10 saloons, 4
barber shops. 0 livery stables, a num-
ber of restaurants. 2 saddlery and har-
ness shops, a building and loan asso-
ciation, a splendid waterworks, and an
excellent telephone system connecting
residences and business quarters as
well as offices of every description.
Thomas Sanford, of Garfield county,
has been appointed chief clerk to Cen-
sus Supervisor Conkling.
Governor Barnes has named five of
the ten delegates who will represent
the territory at large in the Trans-Mis-
sissippi Commercial Congress, which
will be held this year in Houston,
Texas, April i7 to L'l. The delegates
named are O. R. Fegan, Frank Dale
and Frank Greer, of Guthrie: W. F.
Mead of Kingfisher, and J. B. Charles
of Stroud. The remaining five dele-
gates will be announced at a later date.
Grain dealers at Enid buy an avcrag«
of 84,000 a day.
A commercial club has been organ-
ized at Woodward.
No quarantine exists now on the
Osage Indian reservation.
Ardmore has a new fire engine and
has named it the "L. C. Slaughter."
Early vegetables are being planted
at Wynnewood, and oat sowing com-
menced this week.
The two territories have an insurance
rating bureau, conducted by Ralph G
Moore as inspector.
United States court is in session at
Pauls Valley this week, Judge Hosea
Townsend presiding.
One firm shipped 300 wagon loads of
goods from Ponca City to Cray Horse
during the past pear.
Assessors were early at work among
cattle, to catch them before removal
from their jurisdiction.
The Conway Telephone company now
covers the Choctaw nation with other
than the Bell instrument.
J. H. Trigigon. a squatter living near
Caddo, disappeared and his family are
held pending an investigation.
Warning has been given the Creek
Indians that they have no authority to
sell timber on their allotments.
John Law and Ben Weeks, two boys,
quarreled at the Methodist church at
Ardmore, and Weeks was stabbed.
Rush Springs suffered by fire which
destroyed several business buildings,
including the the Land Mark office.
Colonel Roy Hoffman is to deliver
the annual address during the com-
mencement exercises at the Edmond
Normal school.
The celebrated case of the Wichitas
versus the Cliiekasaws and Choetaws
was argued in the supreme court. The
case involves the question of title tc
the leased district.
General S. B. Bradford, of Ardmore;
James Todd, of Checotah, Mr. Gibbons,
of Muskogee and Judge Tollete, of Tahl-
equah, I. T., are in Washington, in
connection with matters relating to
proposed legislation affecting their
people.
Some bills passed the house that ina'
terially effect the territory. They are:
To appoint an inspector to treat with
the Indians for the opening of the nen
tral strips in the Kiowa and Comanche
country, upon which Mountain View
is located; ratifying the agreement
with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
Indians in Oklahoma and lo open their
reservation to settlement; donating
eighty acres of land to the city of EI
Reno for cemetery purposes.
The abstract of the condition of the
national banks of the Indian Territory,
at the close of the business on February
13. as reported to the comptroller oi
the currency, shows the average ri
serve to have been 28.23 per cent, against
20.27 per cent on December 2. Loans
and discounts increased from 82,002,84?
to 82,201,035, stocks and securities from
Sll,8'.'4 to 810,100; gold coin from 820,
507 to 838,707; total specie, from 887,
502 to 8120,340; lawful money reserve,
from 8100,017 to 8188,040; individual
deposits, from 81,818,740 to $1,010;823.
A delegation of Cheyennes and Ara-
pahoes from the Darlington agency
will attend the big council which is tu
be held at Guthrie some time in April.
For some time past small bands of
Kiowas and Comanches, Apaches, Cad-
docs. Otoes, Osages and other Indian
Territory Indians have been visiting
among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
for the purpose of getting them to join
hands and get up a monster petition t
present to the Great Father at Wash-
ington asking for the privilege to (
gani/.e a Territorial Indian Proteeti
association.
The Oklahoma school land board
adopted a rule that no lease contest
would be entertained unless the rights
or interests of the territory are involve!
or the contestant shows that he ha:
been deprived of a lease through fraud.
Tt seems that under recent act of
congress the government will furnish
free trees to farmers to plant under
certain regulations. W. I,. Hall of the
government tree department will as-
certain the wauls of i lie farmers and
explain the government tree plan tu
them.
W. F. G. Pond, a conductor on the
Choctaw with Miss Florence Snyder, of
(iirard. Kas., waked up the probate
judge at two o'clock in the morning
and were married.
During the hail and wind storm a
party of friends took refuge behind :i
schoolhouse five miles- southwest of
Weatherford. The house was blown
from its foundation, demolishing a
wagon, killing one horse and breaking
a leg of one of the men. The school
was in session at the time, but none of
the pupils were hurt.
A. E. Pratt, who operated a saw mill
at Perry, was found dead in bed. His
bedfellow knew nothing of it until he
got up in the morning.
Chas. Blood Smith, of Topeka. has
been appointed as special assistant
United States attorney to prosecute the
Creek warrant cases.
J. II. Huckleberry, of Salisaw. the
newly appointed assistant United
States attorney, for the Northern dis.
trict of the Indian Territory, is the
first Iuiiian to hold such an oHice any-
where. .
Teachers for Country Schools.
In a recent article on the teaching
of agriculture in the public schools,
we named as one of the obstacles, the
iack of qualified teachers. That is ono
of the greatest flaws in our present
district school system and Is the chief
cause of what some of the older gen-
eration call "the decay of our common
schools" though it is the natural re-
sult of changed conditions.
Our New England fathers and
mothers tell us that in the days of
their youth "teaching country school"
was a more honored calling than It is
today. Money was scarce then and
the number of occupations outside oi
farming was limited. The compensa-
tion was not large, less than half the
sum paid in most country districts
now, hut a dollar then meant more
and went further. The farms of sixty
and seventy years ago were little in-
dependencies whereon raw material
were manufactured Into foods and
fabrics for home consumption, the sur-
plus being converted into the cash
needed for taxeB, postage, and a few
other necessary Incidentals.
The student at that time felt he had
a special claim on the country school
and his lien was generally allowed. By
Its help the poor boy was able to strug-
gle through college. The school of
course profited by conditions that
brought to its doors as instructors the
brightest, moat ambitious young men
in the community whose wits had been
sharpened by college associations, and
the fact that they were themselves en-
thusiastic students lent a zest and
originality to their teaching that the
mechanical methods of normal schools
are not able to impart. With no
grades to interfere, the work could be
adjusted to the relative capacities of
the scholars; the bright students were
pushed forward at a smart pace and
the dull oues were not unduly hurried.
Many a man today whose memory
runs back to one of those New Eng-
land schools, attributes whatever meas-
ure of success he has achieved to the
stimulating influence of one or more
of those student teachers.
Times have changed vastly since
those days of simple living and high
Ideals, and though by far the largest
stream by which our colleges are fed
still comes from the farms, the coun-
try school no longer tempts the student
with the lean purse because there are
many other avenues of temporary em-
ployment open to him that pay better.
The country school l as therefore be-
come the special spoil in many places,
of the undeveloped girl who has grad-
uated from the grammar school of the
nearest town with enough knowledge
to enable her to procure a second
grade certificate. She seldom has as-
pirations for a higher education but
lather resorts to teaching as a tem-
porary makeshift by which to provide
herself with wedding finery or pocket
money.
Sometimes, it is true, the budding
teacher who plans to make it a pro-
fession, tries her "prentice hand" on
the country school, but there are no
inducements to stay, and as soon as
she can secure a pocition in a town
school where her salary will be larger,
where the work is organized, and her
responsibility is lessened, the small
rural school house knows her no more.
Under such a series of indifferent
and transient instructors it is small
wonder if the country school has de-
clined, and there seems little hope of
bettering it until it can bo made to
pay enough to secure the services of
talented men and women who teach in
the true sense of the word and who are
willing to make it a profession. Leg-
islators have begun to realize that so
long as the schools are scattered
through farming districts for the con-
venience of a handful of scholars,
there is little hope of elevating the
grade of instructors, and out of this
conviction has come the effort to con-
solidate country schools. Wherever
tried it has been found satisfactory.
The plan certainly has much to recom-
mend it. First, economy: one good
building can be erected and well equip-
ped for less than it costs to build the
Isolated little school houses forlorn
and neglected that mark the crossings
of section line roads, not to mention
the saving in the cost of repairs and
the money invested in school lots.
True, the transportation of pupils must
be provided for, but that is neither a
difficult nor expensive matter in rural
districts where horses are numerous
and (in the winter) idle for the most
part. Concentration encourages a bet-
ter school organization, cuts down the
number of teachers required and en-
ables the districts thus combined to
pay salaries that will command ability.
We look to see these consolidated
schools take the place, to a certain ex-
tent of the late lamented New England
Academy, which was such a feeder for
the colleges, for we feel sure they will
as irresistibly attract the ambitious
boys and girls within the sphere of
their Influence.
In such schools the teaching of agri-
culture may yet be made a practical
feature. Viewer in this light they will
offer new openings to the graduates
of our agricultural colleges who should
be specially fitted for such lines of
work. They more than all others
should be able to show the relation-
ship of agriculture to other branches
of knowledge, and above all, they
should be capable of arousing enthu-
siasm for their specialty. With such
guides our children would be led into
the fields instead of away from them.
They would learn to feel a more intel-
ligent and practical Interest in the
tillage of the soil and we would need
fewer recipes for keeping boys on the
farm. ,
Seeding to Oranfc
io the Farmers' Review:—It may
geem strange to some readers, but it
is true that hundreds of farmers be
lieve that grass and clover must b«
sown among wheat, oats, barley oi
some similar crop in order to obtain
a stand. The grain, they say, acts at
a nurse to the young grass or clover,
and they must get a better catch, also
that these plants protect the weak lit-
tle fellows from the heat of the sun.
This has no foundation In fact. Clover
and grass are not affected by the heat
or sunlight any more than grains at
the same stage of development. In
fact, to obtain heaviest yields it will
bo found best practice to sow separ-
ately, especially in dry climates and
seasons where the moisture supply is
likely to prove Insufficient for either
crop. When the season is dry, Instead
of acting as a nurse, as is claimed, tho
grain is the very worst of robbers. It
is older, stronger, more deeply rooted
and thus better able to obtain the
moisture in the soil, thus preventing
the weaker plants among it from get-
ting their share.
Sown separately upon well-prepared
arable 60il, both clover and grass will
germinate well, make quick growth,
often bear seed heads the first sea-
son, and if soil and cultural conditions
he favorable, a good crop of hay may
frequently be harvested. Weeds that
get a start may be mowed down; the
smaller ones will soon be smothered
out If the seeding be heavy. For this
mowing the cutter bar should be set
to cut about six inches high.
M. a ICAINS.
SNAKE RIVER VALLEY
A Complete Byatein of Irrigation Be-
IUtm the Anxiety About Ralu That
Prevail* In Other J'art of tli United
States—lul nod Went Compared.
Strain Plowing.
«We notice that one writer on agri-
cultural subjects says that steam till-
age may be advantageously adopted
by wealthy farmers, and he enumerates
some of its advantages. The verdict,
however, of thirty years' trial has tn-
dicated that the place for the steam
plow has not yet been found. Elec-
trical arrangements may be made that
will give good results in tillage, but
the steam plow and the cultivator lack
the one great essential to make them
successful—the ability to economize
power. The steam plow, or, rather,
plowing machine, must use a large
per cent of its energy getting over the
ground, and this expense of force in-
creases as the softness of the ground
increases. So great is this obstacle
that some of the manufacturers of
these machines have built wooden
walks that were carried by the engines,
and had to be placed before the ma-
chines whenever they were working in
any but the hardest fields. No imple-
ment can succeed in our agriculture
that cannot show a margin of profit
for its use over ordinary tools and
methods. At present the margin of
profit is in favor of the tools and
methods we now have. It was found
by the Inventors of steam plowing ma-
chines that the cost of providing water
for the making of steam was even of
more consequence than the furnishing
of fuel. When we consider that much
of the work of farm implements has to
be done on lands that are deficient in
water supply, we can imagine some-
thing of the cost of providing enough
water to develop force enough to plow
a hundred-acre field.
Barnyard and Chemical Manure.
It has been reported, and doubtless
correctly, that the gardeners near the
big cities find that there is a limit to
the use of chemical manures, but that
by putting on more barnyard manure
the soil is able to give good results
from an increased application of chem-
ical manures. While this should bo
borne in mind by every man that is
using large quantities of commercial
fertilizers, it also involves a principle
that affects us in all branches of farm-
ing. That principle is that the chem-
ical effect of the barnyard manure is
of value. The acids that are set loose
operate on the insoluble plant food in
the soil and make it soluble. Barn-
yard manure in undergoing decomposi-
tion, liberates corbouic acid, and this
takes hold of the soil elements and sets
loose plant food. The value of the
barnyard manure cannot, therefore, be
told by figuring out the commercial
value or cost of the elements it con-
tains. Thus, a ton of barnyard manure
might show up so many pounds of each
of the constituents, and this might be
supposed of the same value as chemi-
cals in their ordinary or commercial
form. The barnyard manure, however,
possesses the power of decomposition,
which process is of direct value to the
soil. This fact makes it the more ad-
visable to apply manure fresh, that its
decomposition may go on in the land,
and thus the soil and plants get the
full benefit of the process.
RICHEST FARMINO COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD.
We are permitted to publish an ex-
tract from a private letter written by
a gentleman who has recently been
devoting his time to the personal in-
vestigation of practical farming by ir-
rigation In the west. His vivid por-
trayal of the advantages of that sys-
tem will no doubt interest our readers.
He says:
There is a vast, an immeasurable
difference between farming In tho east
and farming in the west. If the farm-
ers of the east could only be made to
understand the advantages enjoyed by
their western brethren, I verily believe
there would soon be no land for set-
tlement In the great Irrigation states.
The irrigation farmer has absolute
certainty of crop, and certainty of Its
perfect maturity. He never plants
that he does not reap, and when I say
reap I don't mean the reaping of scat-
tered stands of half matured grain
such as the eastern farmer cuts at the
close of a dry season; but the reap-
ing of fields that frequently average 50
bushels of wheat to the acre—every
grain of which has reached tho perfec-
tion of development. There is no
anxious scanning of the skies for the
'cloud no larger than a man's hand'
and fervent prayers that it may en-
velop the heavens and send down wa-
ter to the thirsty fields. The Irriga-
tion farmer never thinks about rain.
He watches his growing crops, and the
day and the hour moisture Is needed,
he is out with his hoe flooding his
fields with water from canals that
skirt them.
"Everything grows In the west that
grows anywhere else in the United
States north of Tennessee. Potatoes
frequently yield 600 bushels to the
acre, and barley Is grown far better
than any raised In the east. The
fruits are delicious. I never saw any
to compare with those grown In Idaho,
where apples, peaches, plums, cherries,
pears, apricots abound, and where
there are thousands of acres of Italian
and German prunes which I am told
have made fortunes for their owners.
"To my mind, Idaho is the best wa-
tered and most inviting arid state in
the Union. I made a careful Investiga-
tion of the great Snake River valley
in that state, along and tributary to
the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and
saw there evidences of prosperity such
as I have never seen elsewhere In the
United States. This v.onderful valley
is said to contain over 8,000,000 acres
of arable land. It Is threaded with
great irrigation canals in every direc-
tion, and there are vast tracts await-
ing only the touch of the farmer to
make them productive. The sun doesn't
shln6 on finer or more fertile land.
When I saw thd happy homes, the well
filled granaries, the sleek, fat stock,
and the smile on the face of nature
reflected in a smile of contentment on
the faces of the farmers, my heart
went out in pity to the thousands in
the east who are struggling along from
year to year, tolling against adverse
climatic conditions, and never know-
ing how Boca a drouth will wipe out
the profits of prosperous years.
"Lands can be had in this Snake
River valley almost for the asking,
but they are going, day by day. The
Oregon Short Line is making extra-
ordinary efforts to bring tho advan-
tages of Idaho to the notice of eastern
farmers, and Is flooding the country
with conservatively written descriptions
of the state. Write to the General Pas-
senger Agent of this Railroad at Salt
Lake for printed matter about Idaho,
and read It carefully. It will be a
revelation to you and I sincerely be-
lieve will end in your removal to the
west."
Corn Shipping: Ports.
New York has dropped from first to
second p'lace in tho shipment of corn
abroad, Baltimore standing first with
exportation of 40,000,000 bushels In
1899. Philadelphia takes third place,
with New Orleans fourth. In the ex-
portation of cereals the gulf ports have
made great gains of late years. In
wheat exportation New York Is still
first, but the shipments are declining,
while Galveston. Texas, Is second, with
shipments rapidly Increasing.
Blood Humot
Are Cured by
Hood's A
Sarsaparilla
••I always take
Hood's Sarsaparilla 14
the Spring and It is
the best blood purifier
I know of." Mils
Peablk GairriH, Bald*
win, Mich.
"Eruptions that
came on my face hare
all disappeared slncel
began taking Hood'®
All Eruptions. Sarsuparllla. It cured
my father of catarrh.".
Alpha Hamii.to>{.
Bloomington, Ind.
"I had scrofula sored
all over my back and
face. I began taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and in a few weeks I
could not see any sign
of the sores." Otho B;
Moore, Mount Hope,
Wis.
It Purifies
the Blood.
Cures
Eradicates
Scrofula.
nitio Grai s.
From Farmers' Review: I am fre-
quently asked about what I know of
tho methods of ftartiug bluegrass. In
these ends It is now never sown. It
is the one grass universally present,
if we reap it. it is where we have not
sown; or If we gather it, It is where
we have uot strewed. But men do
come from abroad to gather and thrash
it. A neighbor whom I questioned, he
being an Eastern man, said four quarts
of seed to the acre is about right, and
he has had experience in the matter.
It is without doubt the best pasture
gra.'-t; in the world. It fattens, and
stock never get tired of it. Poultry
and hogs are fond of it, and it in-
creases the yield of eggs, and the quan-
tity of lard. In those places In the
fields where it has been suffered to
grow all the season, horses and cattle
pasture on it, nor will they leave It
for the best of hay, unless it be well-
cured clover, brown as a berry. The
poorest excuse for pasture with us. and
as hay, is redtop. Quackgrass is su-
perior to it. However, it is not a per-
sistent grass in these parts; it is found
only now and then In some draw
which is liable to wash.
EDWARD B. BEATON.
Suggested mi the C o e of the Sodded
Frenzy of Elephant*.
"I told you the other day about the
Sultan of Zanzibar's clock," said Rob-
ert Crawford, "but there was another
thing I heard of while in that country
which Is not without Interest. The
Sultan used to take me round to show
me the place and of what its trade con-
sisted. It is the greatest clove raising
country In the world, and as such con-
veys comfort and courage to out be-
tween the acts theater goers the world
over. Other spices and coeoanut rope
are also important features of their ex-1
port trade. But in addition to the
sale of that which they raise within
their own borders their revenues are
largely increased by the trade in ivory.
Zanzibar is the greatest market for
South African ivory, which is brought
there in large quantities from the in-
terior. This ivory is placed in large
warehouses, from which it is either
sold at once or else held therein for A
better market. The man in charge
of these warehouses was a very in*
teresting character—an expert io
ivory. He told me many curious thing®
about it, and among others propounded
the following theory as an explanation
of why elephants go mad and occa,-
sionally run amuck: In the warehouse
were a pair of magnificent tusks, meas-
uring 14 feet from tip to tip, which Id
life must have been carried by a ver-
itable Goliath among elephants. The
expert in showing me these tusks
pointed out the fact that while one of
the tusk3 was complete and flawless,
the other was broken off at the point
and showed deep scratches and abra-
sions throughout its length. 'Now/
eald he, 'if you will look near the basft
you will find a hole made by decay;
that had struck into the nerves and
given that elephant a toothache, and
think what a toothache of toothache^
a fourteen-foot tooth must have held«'
In his efforts to relieve this pain the
elephant rubbed his tusk against rocks
and trees and drove It into the earth,
which mutilated it in the manner yoyfc
see here. I have frequently come acroMf
places where an elephant has ripped
up great spaces in a forest and tortt
down trees, and I am positive tht^B
toothac.. was the cause of this frenzy.'
An elephant in a circus going suddenly
mad and killing his keeper Is not ad
uncommon thing, but I'll wager thMf
In nine cases out of ten If they would
properly Investigate the matter they,
would find that the brute's suddett
frenzy sprung from so ordinary ft
cause as common, everyday tooth*
ache.' "—New York Tribune.
A Curious ArcldcnT.
A curious accident took place at
Brookfleld, Ind. A local freight train
was backed into a siding to allow a
fast freight train to pass. The switch
was left open, however, and the iast
freight, traveling at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, dashed into it. The
crews of both trains Jumped. The im-
pact of the collision was so severe as to
drive the tender of the stationary train
off its truck, and telescoping a cattle
car, which was loaded with coal, It
rested half on the top of the third
car. On the fast freight a car loaded
▼Jth hogs was telescoped by one load-
ed with shelled corn, and the animals
not killed in the collision were smoth-
ered by the corn. It is said that the
locomotives are so Interlocked that
dynamite will be required to separate
them.
Holy Rite Depended on Tos* of a Penny,
By the toss of a penny it was underJ
taken a while ago to decide on thai
consecration of a cemetery in England,
The town was Stow Market, a plaed
of about 5,000 inhabitants, in Suffolk
county. The district council of the town
met to decide upon what parts of the
burying ground should be consecrated,
and, as no agreement could be reached]
W. C. Ransom, one of the councilors,
met the chairman at the cemetery and
with him flipped a penny. Hanson)
wan and chose a strip at the left side
of the ground to be consecrated. Th<J
two parties to the flip reported the re«
suit of the choice to the council, but
the rest of that honorable body re-
fused to accept this me-ms of arriving
at a decision. In the meantime the
church authorities made up their
minds to apply to the courts, for a
mandamus to compel the rite of conse«
sratlon to be carried out decently andf
In order.
Unrequited love must be a species of
heart failure.
Suppression of honest investigation
means retrogression.
The skeleton in a woman's closet is
usually some other female.
The wife of a policeman should not
expect him to give up his club.
The Oldest Tree.
The oldest tree Jn the world, it Is
said, is a cypress tree in Mexico, which
measures 120 feet above the has-?, and
which is believed to be 6,000 years old,
and more ancient than the baobab tree
of Africa, which is said to have lived
5,700 years.
Senator Wolcotfs Flue Law l ibrary.
Senator Wolcott's famous law library
in Denver Is the envy of the Colorado
bar. The senator recently refused a«
offer of J50,000 for its 10.000 volume^
That the late Lord Playfair's namai
did not belie his principles is empha-
sized by a recent remark of the Hon.
James Bryce: "Whenever Playfaifj
made a statement, you knew it waa(
right." Toward friend or rival, it ig
never fair play to deal in inaccuracies.'
Senator Clark of Montana is said toj
be an accomplished linguist In French,;
German. Italian and Spanish. But
if his accusers arc to be believed 'h«|
also thoroughly understands the only,
universal language, for is it not a
proverb that "rnojvy taiki ?"
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Burke, J. J. The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1900, newspaper, March 22, 1900; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186647/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.