Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 45, Ed. 2 Saturday, February 5, 1898 Page: 3 of 4
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TWO SOLUTIONS.
W. T. Little Writes on Statehood tor
Oklahoma.
SINGLE OR DOUBLE THE QUESTIONS
Xew Mate* Are ".\ot Welcomed To
ttiMterhood"--Mometliiujr of the
History of I he Terri-
torlet*.
In the hear^ of histiry s greatest nation
there presents legislative, executive and
judicial anomalies, impending art, science
literature, Invention and agriculture.
Where a single executive should prevail,
there Is a regime of one white and five
red governors, five times that number of
chiefs and five times that number of sub-
chiefs. Where one representative legisla-
ture should formulate rules of action,
thirty separate and distinct bodies re-
strict and authorize. Where the oneness
of American jurisprudence should guard
public weal, conflicting laws of cosmopol-
itan white, medly-blooded black and mul-
ti-mixed red are yet extant.
This problem has the two solutions of
single or double statehood. The former
is preferable to anything, the latter to
territorial continuance. Though for the
now, one is improbable; for the other,
that same one can be certain. Granting
statehood within present limit, congress
retaining jurisdiction of boundarv exten-
so diametric in this regard"* The first was
created over the second's protest, the sec-
ond will be born despite itself. A fine
place for harmony, indeed, after traveling
still another eight years in opposite dt
rections.
New states are not "welcomed to the
sisterhood." "Inns" do not tike kindly
to the dividing of power new sena
tors and congressmen. It is aid that ter-
ritories, as dumping ground, are worth
more to individual states than they cost
the nation. Carpet-bagging need not be
put in vogue. Party managers in states
have friends in territories, and the powers
can pay off a few old scores by the ap-
pointment of a few oil* sores. In a meas
urc beginning wi/h Kentucky, Spain's
offer to open the Mississippi to states de
e hiring their independence scared con-
gress into more gracious consideration of
outlying areas, and led Pennsylvania to
make it treason for a portion of her ter-
ritory to declare for statehood or hold
meetings with that end in v.ew. That
sentiment has perpetuated itself. To a
less degree, in half conscious and half
correct way, It has largely come to be
the feeling of the East toward the West.
For them to know the trans-Mississippi
country has, in excess of theirs, sufficient
arable surface to make eighty-five states
like Rhode Island, is for them to know
their political supremacy must end.
HISTORY OF TERRITORIES.
Law creating the first territory stipula-
ted for 60,000 people being granted state
government, congress specifically retain-
ing the authority for the drawing of state
lines., I'pon establishing the second terri-
tory, this 60,000 provisions w is renewed
and the right to destermlne boundaries
again insisted upon. Oklahoma has 300,-
000 people. Are five men today in the
West not as good as one man then in that
East? When, If at ail. was congress guil-
ty of laches In the matter of perpetuating
her right to determine boundaries?
Tennessee, the first to pass from terri-
torial to state government, began a sixty
year series of admissions largely depend-
ent on pro and con slavery sentiment of
slon, would but continue Oklahoma's time
honored piece-meal method of acquiring | dominant party. Since that issue's
area. Territorial government for the five
tribes would not make impossible their
taking up, we having ensconced ourselves
behind a constitution conditioned by con-
gress for such emergency. As sequence,
in future law or treaty, diplomacy would
effect their blending, rather than bringing
into one state. Should an act of congress
territoralize them prior to our admission,
safely entrenched therein would be the
teeming gems of double statehood. Among
them arc those today advising separate
and 'immediate statehood wlhtout terri-
torial intervention. Indeed such consum-
mation is not of the impossible. On April
-ill, 1891, the Muscogee Phoenix published
a column article from the "Echo Hutka"
in advocacy of the Springer bill effort to
effect immediate statehood for the five
tribes. If eligible then, how much more
so now! Nor is Arkansas dormant in her
ambition to absorb the five tribes.
INDIANS DO NOT FAVOR IT.
Precedent affords no argument that
state areas are immutable so far as con-
cern expansion, but who will instance
their coming? States, and territories in
a measure, hold semblance of a sovereign-
tl individually coveted and nationally
compelled. To give this up. to put aside
tne splendor of standing alone, Is more
than could be expected of the five tribes
under autonomy, and they evidently do
not want to absorb us. Over and above
all people known to history, they would
be the last for such surrender. The at-
tempted state of Frankland, along with
her imperial trapping, became a part of
Tennessee. That assembly of Transyl-
vania and her congressional delegate
passed into the history of another state.
Cimarron terrtiory, merged into Oklaho-
ma, does duty as Beaver county, while
her delegate to congress, the garrulous
Dr. Chase, is merely memory. Had these
men received congressional recognition.
Frankland and Transylvania would be the
names of two states, and Cimarron terri-
tory would have moved eastward in ab-
sorbing Oklahoma instead of Oklahoma
moving westward to absorb Cimarron ter-
ritory, or No Man's Land as It after-
wards be came known.
Immediate statehood, be it entirety or
present boundary, is our only hope of ever
extending a commonwealth from New
Mexico to Missouri. Dawes commission
treaties under which no state govern-
ment is expected for eignt years are be-
ing pushed with zeal and considered with
some favor. This work is most injurious
to Oklahoma. Saving that interregnum
tribal affiliations, commerce and politics
would have centred in and cemented, pre-
senting an impregnable front especially
in the matter of locating state institu-
tions. Not artifice or reason could adjust
sucK differences; and congress would not
be asked to coerce. Those arguing furth-
er delay must both absorb this commis-
sion's work and defeat the establishing
of state or territorial rule over that coun-
try's present limits. Having no influence
with either, they become obstructionalists
favoring yet another eight years of ter-
ritorial tampering.
Here franchises are legal without being
royal; yet, In territories as compared with
states, one sees small, tossing of the
ready cap in air" on national election day.
Only hope of statehood saves them from
that political narcotic so universally per
meating the disfranchised D strict of Col-
umbia.
CAPITAL QUESTION.
The capital question of itself marks the
obstructionalist as afalse prophet. Points
on the Hudson. Delaware and Potomac
rivers were ambitious of the national cap-
ital. After four futile efforts to enter the
confederation, Kentucky was hurriedly
admitted before so much as having a con-
stitution, Virginia's one motive in relin-
quishing this domain being the strength-
ing of Potomac claims on the capital.
But even then, as now, capital site locat-
ors were alert. New fork released Ver-
mont, and congress legislated her into
statehood before the Kentucky act be-
came operative. In this mannerand for
these reasons were admitted the four-
teenth and fifteenth states. Since wit-
nessing a great republic toy with state-
hood in obeyance to natlnoal capital loca-
tion, after seeing Oklahoma's first legis-
lature devote the best hours of a one hun-
dred and twenty day session to the unset-
tling of acapltal for 81.8M4 unsettled peo-
ple, can the obstructionalist, after eight
years more of tribal cementing, or per-
haps statutory autonomy, expect to bring
into unity of such opinion two interests
adjustment, application for admission by
states "in touch" with "t .e powers is
said to be "inopportune." Oklahoma files
her moral protest and demands a finger
In the pie. Her surplusage of young
statecraft and old state graft should at
least have a turn at Alaska. Hawaii and
Cuba. Do I touch a responsive cord?
But could Oklahoma sustain herself un-
til the coming of single statehood, and
could she perpetuate herself should doub-
le statehood finally prevail? Comparisons
are often unpleasant and some times ob-
noxious; however, it 1$ only through con-
trast the diamond mars the mud. The
best test of Oklahoma's eligibility is a
comparison with states. As authority for
these astonishing figures, 1 give you the
government under which we live:
Population when admitted.
Oklahoma . 27.">,387
Alabama 127,901
California 92.597
Vermont 85.425
Ic*aho 84,385
Embracing all periods of state acquisi-
tion, these four remote commonwealths,
representative of the governments de-
mands in this regard, were admitted with
populations averaging about one-third
that of Oklahoma. The witch burners.
Chinese and "Gresaers" of Vermont, Cal-
ifornia and Idaho, with an aggregate pop-
ulation of less than Oklahoma, were ad-
mitted as three states—che two former
then more sovereign than we can ever
hope to be.
True Property Valuation after Admit-
ted:
Oklahoma $48,285,124
Wisconsin 42,056,595
Kansas 31.327,895
Iowa
Florida
23.714.638
22,882,2.0
So far as concerns property valuation,
a dollar will buy twice as much for Ok-
lahoma in 1897 as it would for Florida in
1845, and yet the former's more than
doubles the latter's admission figures.
Per Cent of Families on Ownea Farms.
Oklahoma 95.05
Indiana 70.75
Texas 50.77
Georgia 4i.:*i)
Mississippi .37.73
Whatever there is in this International-
ly endless demand for homes has certain-
ly been given consideration here among
a people owning what they create.
Per Cent of Families Occupying and Own-
ing Incumbered Farms.
Kansas 55.48
Iowa 53.29
New Jersey 48.91
Vermont 44.53
Oklahoma |
The absence of farm mortgage statistics
is immaterial; as all points would be to
the right of decimal point.
Per Cent of Foreign Born.
Rhode Island
California
Massachusetts
New York
Oklahoma
Per Cent of Foreign Parentage
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Utah
Oklahoma
While, as a state, Oklahoma would
countenance the nations of Anheuser-
Busch, Tri-Color and Sh. m roc it, she could
not be expected 10 brook the pig-tailed
Mandarin or Highbinder, Mollle McGuire,
Danite or Mafia.
Per Cent of Colored Population.
South Carolina 59.R5
Mississippi 57.58
Louisiana 49.99
Georgia 46.74
•Oklahoma c.66
The few whites of these four states well
might favor Oklahoma's admission, with
the end in view of gaining a friend at
court during race wars and Voudoo pan-
ics.
Total Population to Each Teacher in Pub-
lic Common Schools.
Louisiana 114
New Jersey ... 324
Connecticut 232
Massachusetts .. 216
•Oklahoma 144
If these commonwealths are short of
teachers on account of not having suffi-
cient number o- educated adults, Oklaho-
ma can furnish an endless chain of edu-
cational competency, of course those un-
fortunate states would just be required
to show the good faith of sufficient school
levy.
Number of Newspaper for Each ").'H>>
Population.
•Oklahoma .19
Illinois 19
Pennsylvania 13
Texas n
A abama . u
iiot desiring to work when it rained and
not needing a roof during fair weather,
kept a famous Arkansas home from ever
being under cover. So with illiterate
states, and newspaper. Papers are with-
out value, as the people cannot read; and
there Is no use of learning to read, where
they have no newspapers.
Number of Churco Organizations for each
50,000 Population.
Oklahoma 95
New Jersey 70
New York 65
Rhode Island 55
Massachusetts 35
Just so long as Oklahoma remains terri-
tory, no church • xtension fund will be
sent to either New York or M 1 sa hu-
Number of Women at Gain.i Occupation
In Each jo, >00 Population.
Massachusetts r, 630
New York 4.2S0
Virginia 3.210
Kentu< ky 2.215
Oklahoma sr.5
Western gallantry thanks beneficence
for a country and condition permitting
men to make a living for women, extend-
ing sympathy to those congested states
where womankind is seen to toil and
never smile.
Number of Prisoners for Each ."v).000 Pop-
ulation.
Nevada 100
California 141
Massachusetts 123
York
.21.88
.20.53
.30.76
.30.32
.29.31
.26.19
. 0.04
.78.98
.73.69
.66.28
11.69
19.854
16.6(52
Number of Indians.
South Dakota
Californal
•Oklahoma
Washington 11.Id
Minnesota 10.096
Of course the scalping knife and toma-
hawk, In states of excessive Indian popu-
lation, like Californal and Souco Dakota,
are sources of constant menace, but it Is
believed Oklahoma's remoteness would
make us reasonably safe during their In-
dian uprisings.
•Oklahoma 21
And old Massachusetts is about fiv
times as immoral as Oklanoma!
Per Cent of Illiterate.
Louisiana 4.-,.$
Delaware 14..'
Rhode Island 9.J.
Massachusetts 6.!i
Oklahoma 5.4
Great dread Is felt here that. Hun like,
ignorant hordes from these illiterate
states will overrun our native narks and
endless plains, destroying college build-
ings and putting libraries to ae torch
The adjutant general woul- be asked to
ill out the militia, but the people fear
no protection would be given anything but
the synagogues.
Number of Insane for Each 50,000 Popu
lutlon.
Nevada 199.
California 151.
New York 14s.
Connecticut
Oklahoma 25.!
Death Rate Per Thousand
Rhode Island
New York
Massachusetts
Ohio 13.59
Oklahoma • 5 ^9
These states, seemingly of the place and
in the age of the mental and physical de-
might well take on new blood. Or
perhaps an excessive vigor creates their
apparent decline, the same as by contrast
the diamond mars the mud.
NATIVE BORN CITIZENS.
If it be in the least measure true that
any part of America is ior the intelligent
offspring of the nations' founders, then
must immediate statehood concession
come. In a s-ries of three each, there are
state's containing, in round numbers, two
and a quarter million negroes, one and
a half million illiterate over ten years of
age. one million each of foreign born
Irish and German, five hundred thousand
foreign born Scandinavians, one hundred
thousand Chinese and seventy thousand
foreign born Mexicans, while a foreign
born Oklahoman is a curiosity. Many of
these people are our best and most pro-
gressive element, but none spring from
ancestry making it possible that states
might be and that territories might be-
ocme. So, why their right are greater
than ours is not made plain.
I hat ineffctive July cad for provisional
government eight years ago was followed
by territorial organization some few
months later. The governor's plan for
statehood within ayear was reluctantly
given up on account of that season's
drouth. Since, statehood conventions and
convictions have floundered not flourish-
ed, having been constantly crucified by
appointive office and capital city aspira-
tions. Had Oklahoma's first governor, the
iron handed, self-willed Steele, remained,
single statehood would have long since
been an accomplished fact.
TERRITORIAL PRESS.
The territorial press association has de-
clared in favor of immediate statehood,
extending congress unqualified proxy on
boundaries. For eight years these papers
have recorded the gets and regrets of
these people. The community's best in-
terests are their best advancements, and
they have truly spoken the hopes of the
masses. Arrayed against this, one Is cer-
tain to find, at least, appointees chancing
to be persona non grata with the fran-
chiser. An appellate pie-eater; a few pay-
rollers holding philosophic discernment as
between appointive and elect.ve tenure,
that most genial banker now luxuriating
on territorial deposits, along with the us-
ual horde of warrant speculators; a gen-
tleman quoting North Dakota state ex-
pense, all forgetful of her 78 per cent for-
eign blood; democrats afraid of double
and republicans fearful of single state-
hood, along with populists suspicion of
state, territory, chaos or monarchy; par-
ties in good standing around school fund
headquarters; along with personal friends
and beneficiaries of the entire list, large-
ly constitute the obstructionist's forces.
RIPE FOR A STATE.
This official rabble, garble,- this tommy-
rot talk of Oklahoma not being able to
get along, financially, without perpetuat-
ing paternal favor, is booby ism with a pie
stained bib. AH such would have the na-
tion consider this territory an eleemosy-
nary institution, a pigmy rather than a
magnifii enee. Oklahoma ought to kick
the states off her crib, not cry to stay In
it. She is strong enough to rule through
force, rather than win by arousing pity.
Ere statehood, with even present boun-
dary, could be effcted, a one and one-half
mill tax or fourteen cents per capita
would exceed all congressional aid now
being granted us as a territory. Addition-
al permanency of the people's constitu-
tion would so increase warrant v*tluts
and business volume as to many tine-
overcome the half mill. Oklahoma has
got another cord up her sleeve. Within
the safe corn and cotton belts of h r pres-
ent area, there are 8,303 square mil 's occu-
pied by Indians. Once opened to white
settlement, these six reservations have
a capacity for adding fifty per cent to the
state's population and production.
On tin 23d of May. 1896, Congressman
Scranton, from the committee on terri-
tories. el.ised that committee's report in
these words: "In the opinion of the com-
mittee no territory has ever been better
ti11ed to enter the Union as a state." Such
was the report on Oklahoma before she
raised two crops In one, and while more
than oie -flfth of her area ts st'll Indian
reservation. To say. as do some, that
congress will ignore us, Is to have lost
faith in ones own government. Let a
convention be held, putting none but Ro-
mans on guard. That party brigade at
well div—ed, some say, capable, penlble,
polished gentlemen, but there can be no
harm in franchisers passing an opinion,
so let us have a constitution.
CHOCTA WTREATY.
The perfecting of single statehood would
complete congressional policy adopted
nearly a century ago. Prior to the na-
tional constitution Indian states were con-
template!. in 1820 a Choctaw treaty op-
ened the formative period for an Indian
state extending from Arkansas to what
has since come to be Texas. The forfeit-
ure of now occupancy resulted In the
treaty of 1886, containing elaborate prep-
arations for territorial government. Af-
ter eight years of tribal lethargy, rail-
roads established a congressional lobby
whose efforts to terrltorlalization failed
on account of tribal jealousies. From 1820
to 1879 the locating of tribes therein, to
be followed by a state comprising what
is now the two territories, was a well de-
fined government policy. Diplomacy, du-
plicity, sophistry, matrimony and avarice,
usually on the part of the white and red
alike, have made impossible that racial
consumatlon, but the original intent of
area may be kept Intact.
\\ hile governments are by the consent
of governed, their purpose is the aggre-
gate good, and that cati be the best serv-
ed under a state constitution. Every pos-
sible consideration ha.s been accorded tri-
bal organization, but the government's
determination to r longer serve a few at
the expense of the many is now unalter-
able. The squawman and the one-eight-
b.ood magnate must open their manor
houses and part-pastures to what is then
left for the Indian rank and . .e. Their
opportunities are temptations, their pow-
ers a menace. Neither mental or phys-
ical 'degenerates, those objecting to the
responsibilities of full cL zenship with the
government under whose flag their exis-
tence is perpetual are unwilling rather
than incapable. Tribal disintegration is
national assimilation. Autonomy would
financially, enshrine i.ieir few tattered
remnants of the true Lo, and enshroud
an arrogant, usurping element. In tribal
council true Indianlsm can no longer raise
a palsied hand of racial impulse. These
five tribes are no longer tribes. Popula-
tions among their pseudo-governments
has a less "quantity" of Indian blood than
has South Dakota, California, Washing-
ton. Minnesota or Oklahoma, and prob-
able a larger per cent of white American
parentage than fuiiy one-half the states
of this Union.
The tepee has gone, the hunt is o'er,
the essential Idea of Indianization under
which these treaties w re drawn, Is a
thing extinct. Immediate admission for
Oklahoma would logically lead up to state
boundaries as contemplated by congress-
ional policy of 1*20. Insuring the greatest
good to the greatest number. At least.
If this plan fail, all else were futile. In
either event Oklahoma, efficient and suffi-
cient, is amply able to sustain her people
and a million more. Obstructlonallst's ar-
gument is the lonesome howl of the coy-
ote. the unpatriotic voice of greed, the
tremor of political sordidness. the death
knell of appointive emolument. Some of
tie hist named class could be elected, and
many are in the ranks, f /orlng admis-
sion. Uncle Sam is now asking: "Whom
shall I release unto you, Barabbas, or
Jesus who is called the Christ? What is
it you want in your midst, chaos, or
statehood?" The result depends entirely
on whether the people, or the territorial
beneficiaries, make answer back.
•When available, the territorial figur
of 1S96 have been used.—[Will T. Little,
McMaster's Magazine for January.
POSTMASTER SHOT
Postmaster Rhine ot Wellston Shot
Dead at His Door.
DOUBLE BARREL SHOT GUN USED.
struck Him in hm. Midc llc iHed in
Three Hours*--.Iim Taylor (lie
in I'm*.
milt.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
COMPANY "A" WILL, SELECT OF-
FICERS JANUARY 31 ST.
Territory of Oklahoma, Company "A"
1st Regiment, OK. N. G.
Guthrie, Jan. 2S, 1S98.
Special Orders No. 1.
In accordance with Par. 7, Special Or-
ders No. 2, A. G. ()., I hereby order an
election to be held at the armory by the
officers and men of Co. "A," 1st Regi-
ment, OK. N. (}., January 31st, 1898, ai
8 p. m., to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Second Lieutenant
Chas. E. Brewer.
By order of Capt. D. B. Arrell.
WILLIAM POWERS,
First Sergeant Co. "A," First Regi-
ment, OK. N. G.
Federal Jailer Jones says there Is
something wrong about the prison and
what it is he cannot decide. He now
has but thirteen boarders and he is
trying to learn why more do not put in
an appearance. He says he feeds them
well, lets them sleep as long as they
wish, but they seldom stay more than
three months at a time.
The little son of R. R. Carlin, the
real estate man, while riding on a pair
of house moving trucks this morning
lost his balance and fell under one of
the rollers. Luckily the roller was a
light one and outside of a few scratches
the little fellow escaped unhurt.
Isaac Rhine w as shot and
killed last night about 12:30 in his
store at Wellston, a small town in Lin-
coln county, southwest of Chandler
about four and one-half miles. He war
called to the door and without one word
of warning was fired upon by a man
outside the door. The assassin used a
double-barrel shot gun and both
charges entered the left side tearing
away the abdomen.
The assassin called at the si of
Postmaster Rhine about 12:10 an I by
knocking on the door of the st at
aroused Miss Rhine, who occupied .>
room over the store, directly over th-
porch. She looked out of the wmdov
and inquired what was wanted. The
man replied that his wife was sick an I
I10 wanted some medicine. Miss Rhine
called her father and he pulled on his
trousers without putting on his shirt
and coat, and taking the light in his
hand went down stairs. The stairs en-
tered the living rooms upstairs from
the front end of the store. When Mr.
Rhine reached the foot of the stairs
and started to open the door tlie as-
sassin fired both barrels of a shot gun
through the glass door. The shot
struck Postmaster Rhine in the right
side just below the ribs, tearing away
a greater portion of the abdomen
Upon hearing the shot Miss Rhine op-
ened the upstairs window and looking
out saw a man named Jim Taylor
slowly walking away carrying the gun
in his hand. She commenced to scream
for help and Taylor turned and point-
ed the gun at her and commanded hei
to lie silent or he would kill her. She
ran from the window, and together
with a younger sister, she ran out the
door at the rear of the store and arous-
ed the neighbors.
THE BODY FOUND.
With several neighbors the two girls
returned to the postoffice, forced the
back door open and went in. Upon en-
tering. the younger sister stumbled
over the body of her father lying on the
floor. After the shot was fired Mr.
Rhine evidently started to run out the
back of the store and fell to the floor
just in front of the door. Mr. Rhine
was placed on a cot in the store and a
doctor summoned, but the shot had
done its deadly work and he died three
hours later. He was conscious to the
last and w hen asked who fired the shot
he replied, "Jim Taylor."
Why Taylor wished to take Mr.
Rhine's life is rapped in mystery To
all knowledge of his relatives and
friends Mr. Rhine had always been on
the best of terms with Taylor. Yester-
day afternoon Taylor called at the
store and settled a small account which
he had and talked pleasant with Miss
Rhine while being waited on.
Mr. Rhine moved to Oklahoma about
eight years ago and for two years
leased a farm two miles east of this
city. When the Kickapoo country op-
ened he settled on a farm close to
Wellston, and with his wife and four
children resided on the farm, until a
short time ago when he sold his farm
and opened the general store at Wells-
ton. About three months ago he was
appointed postmaster. He is a man of
fifty years of age and well liked by all
who knew him. During his candidacy
considerable feeling was created be-
tween himself and his opponents, but
all that trouble had been settled.
TAYLOR VERY JEALOUS.
Jim Taylor, the man who did the
shooting, is a young man of about
twenty-eight years. He has resided on
a claim near Wellston since the Kick-
apoo opening and was generally liked j
by those who knew him. About six
weeks ago he was married to a young
widow of the neighborhood. He is in-
sanely jealous of his wife and this is
thought by many to be the cause of his
rash act.
Last night about 10 o'clock Taylor
purchased some shot at one of the
stores at Welston, but nothing out of
the usual was thought of it at the time.
After purchasing the shot he loaded a
number of shells and then went to Mr.
Rhine's store and called him out and
shot him. After leaving the store he
cut across fields in a northwesternly
direction evedently heading for this
city. About 2 o'clock a farmer who
was returning home from Guthrie met
Taylor In the road. Taylor asked the
farmer which direction Wellston was
and also if the farmer had heard of any
trouble over at the post-office. Tay-
lor said that he heard some shots ovei
that way and he thought that maybe
some one had been hurt. The farmer
said that he had nothing. Taylor, in-
stead of going toward Wellston turned
and proceeded 011 west.
As son as the excitement of the shoot-
county was riotIfl.nl. He telephoned
FUneheart unci posses were Bent
out to capture Taylor but up to this
tlnm nothing has been heart! of him.
Jim Taylor ts j feet 6 inches In height.
Weight 160 poti'ls; dark uuliurn hair,
mustache shade lighter than his heavy
sh-i«g> ej ebrows, de>*p set eyes wears
dark suit with black duck coat.
JUDGE PANC0AST MARRIED.
NOW IN WASHINGTON SPENDING
THE HONEYMOON.
Fi'-m The State Capital Bureau, 610 lit h St.
Washington. Feb. 2.—Judge John L.
I'an- oast of Perry. Oklahoma, was mar-
ried In Cincinnati last week to Mrs.
Bryan Perry. He and his bride are
now in Washington upending the honey,
moon, while the judge is also looking
after his candidacy* for associate jus-
tice t>t the Oklahoma supreme court.
The bride is a woman of considerable
means and much culture.
SHOT AN OFFICER.
Ol'TI WVS \T WonDWAD MAKi: A:
HOT TIME.
Woodward Feb. i officers attempt*
ed to arrest two suspicious characters
here Saturday evening on the charge
of stealing horses. The men resisted,
but one, giving his name as J..hn Led-
man, was finally jailed. His pal shot
at Officer Mynatt three times in suc-
ee sion and • scaped in the darkness
• art ying with him a broken arm from
the deputy's gun. A posse is in pur-
suit. I'etore and nf! r the arrest the
conduct of the prisoner was such as to
lead to the almost certain inclusion
that an attempt would have be.-n made
to rob the depot had the plans not been
interfered with.
HUNDREDS DYING,
Newfoundland Cut Off From Food By
Fearful Blizzards.
Ki*l,r rill an Frozen I ■■ !(> j,.,.
Mtnrviiiff Union! in !*ljjli( ,,f
Food- \« Keller.
N. w York. Feb. 1—The Red Cross
Line steamship Portia arrived today-
four days overdue from St. Johns, N.
I1 . and Halifax, after a desperate en-
counter with pack ice off the New-
foundland coast and with a harrowing
tale of blizzards there and destitution
in the coast section of that country.
Hundreds of men. women and chil-
dren dead or dying from exposure and
starvation with abundance close by
and hundreds more threatened with a
like fate are the brief details of the
condition of affairs brought by the
Portia.
Four days the Portia was pennetf
in huge Arctic flores in plain sight of
St. Johns unable to move. She manag-
ed to escape by the merest accident.
Many other craft, several of them re-
lief vessels sent by the Canadian gov-
ernment to succor destitute fishermen,
had to abandon their errands of mercy
and return to St. Johns, where they
were still in the ice, when the Portia
struggled Into clear water.
Close to where the Portia lay the
big steamship Virginia was locked
tight. She had been sent north by the
Canadian government with food for the
starving fishermen, but a short dis-
tance up the coast she found the routo
securely blocked and was forced to re-
turn to port to prevent being ice bound
all winter. Refore her departure news
bad reached St. Johns that unless as-
sistance was promptly despatched the
unroftunate inhabitants would soon be
beyond relief.
Among the detained fleet at St. Johns
were a dozen or more sailing vessels
loaded with codfish for England and
Brazil.
The city of St. Johns was In a terri-
ble condition on account of the bliz-
zard. The streets w. re rendered im-
passable, the railroads suspended work
and the poor were suffering through
hunger and cold. Prices of food had
advanced until they were beyond the
reach of the poor.
When the Portia was working her
way out to sea she was closely followed
by the bark Flora and these two ves-
sels were the only ones that succeeded
in leaving St. Johns. Several miles off
shore the Portia passed the steamer
Grand Lake fast in the ice and in a
perilous condition.
The steamer Virginia was released
from her perilous position after the de-
parture of the Portia from St. Johns,
and the position of the rest of the dis-
tressed fleet has been reported by tele-
graph to be relieved.
MORE RESIDENCES NEEDED.
THE CAPITAL CITY CANNOT MEET
THE DEMAND.
Nothing speaks better of the growth
and prosperity of a city than the lack
of desirable rental residences. The de-
mand for residences in our city is sur-
prising and at this date there is not
a single tenable house to be secured.
Capital could not be invested to a bet-
ter advantage than in building a num-
ber of residences for tenants. Our real
estate men are being < ontinually in-
quired of for this kind of property and
are utterly unable to supply the de-
mand. Let some of our capitalists in-
vest a few thousand dollars In this di-
rection and they can realize from fif-
teen to twenty per cent on their Invest-
ment annually. Who will be the first
one to inaugurate a move of this kind?
One of our most carefuj business men
bought a piece of residence property
recently for $750, and is now renting it
for $15 per month. What could one
invest their money in that would give
ing was over Sheriff Gebke of Lincoln them better returns?
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