The People's Press. (Perkins, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1905 Page: 2 of 12
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OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL
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and waa relntH by Commissioner
1*14 ib«ir lat'w- loatottics i! K a*
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Tb« •twrlfir ptaa la4of**4 bjr th*
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at>protaJ of po*'*l c|«rfca prarMcallp
all (nor lb« country. ia tb»t r«l?wty
mall ci*rks wfco bar* br. n in tha
•rnlra for iblny ■ > ar* or who h*»a
bn« incapacitate! for further wrrva
on th* r *»4 by r«aaon of Injuries r*-
r ivrd In the line or duty. should ba
a'»r«tnti*d lo prc*l !«-ntUl postoffices.
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thai any ra*olu'.«>n In th* mrntge-
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two. ritrptloU. could probably b*
e*tertnln*d a« a basis of negillation*.
Th. »«• Inrludr the foil »w!nt
The rrolon of lh* Hu«i*n !•*««
to the l.la«>tun* pen.n«ula. comprising
port Arthur an4 Dnlnv; the evac-j- m' Ot of pcrlnl affair* woul l be affect-
a*)<>n of the entire province of Man- «*d by the enactm< nt of auch a law.
Gullet of Tishomingo. the evld* ice , rhurt#. Ib<, [rilt„ni on to China of while the!r cipa-lty for administer-
ahowlna the youth's action to have pfjy privilege* Ru»a;a mav have In Ing the affair* of the offlc«»a would
be«n in iwlf d«-f«*nae. .h„ prov|nc<.# and lh* remcnltlon br unijueatlooably be much higher than
I T*uaala of the pr nclple of the op n J that of average Incumbent at ti*
door: the e»a«lon to Janan of 'h^ ( present tlm*.
Kaatern railway bel >w Harbin,
through northern Manchuria to Vladl ! TEXAS FEVER SPREADING
two t**rt of tw*«iy «e*b« *ara. a«*
C!aninf ibu t«ar u I* »a i
ii ir»ttar«l for boy*
and t«fl« fraa ii* far® *ko ar* «a-
abl« lo |ea»* boaie for a n« »"att«
Tb* na<liM par*«i«4 ar» II** atork.
•tock Judging, bortlmlmr *. dairying,
poultry, aoita and rnn*. atork Nd»
Ing ww ng and cooking (for gtrl«l,
'and alao ibr common aehool atudl**.
Governor Ferguaon haa nan*er|
Chandb r aa the place for holding the
next encampmcnt of the Oklihonm
guards, and the dale Is s«t for the
week beginning October 15th. The ^
citizens of fhandler have ralat'd $500 tl»rtoratP ovrr Korea; the grant
for the encampment expenses.
vostok. to remain Russian property;
A deputy sheriff at Shawnee burned
eleven slot machines and considerable
other gambling material. Twenty-
one other slot macn'nes are In the
hands of the sheriff awaiting an or-
der from the district Judge as to their
dlsposltlan.
strength of Russia In far eastern
wfitf rs.
As a whole. th« terms are regard-
, A ' ed as exceedingly hard by the Rus-
One of the largest real estate s,ans jn addition to the two prin-
changes ever recorded in this section cipaJ confll(!on8 whlch cannot be ac-
was the transfer of the Indianola cept„d undPr \jr. Witte's instructions,
building at Muskogee to the Canadian thogp rP,atIng to the limiting of Ru<s-
Valley Trust company. The stnir- gIan naya] power ,n the far east and
ture Is five stories high, and the price thg graRting 0f fishing rights upon
paid was $70,000. th£ pussian littoral are considered
" particularly offensive to amour pv
Samuel Conlbree, aged seventeen q{ the,r and of 8uch a
the r>>cognlt'on of the Japanese pro- In the Cherokee Nation Thousands cf
of ! Cattle Have Died From the Disease
fishing right a to Janan ti Siberian j GUTHRIE: Dr. Leslie J. Allen, a
lltloral northward from Vladivostok | federal inspector, Bays that more thin
to the Pehrlng rea: tfie relinquish- ( 5000 head of cattle have died in the
ment to Japan of the Russian war- l cherokee nation of Texas fever within
ships Interned In neutral ports. Fin- | the last two weeks. He has made a
al'y, a limitation upon the naval trip on horseback In the vicinity of
Vinita, Claremore and Noweta, and
reports that one hundred deaths In
single h«rds are common, and that
apparently the disease Is firmly estab-
lished throughout the nation. The
quarantine law has not been enforced
in this district, and the country is
badly Infected with southern cattle.
Nothing can be done to stop the dis-
ease now .and Dr. Allen believes en-
tire herds will be wiped out.
Three trainloads of catt'e were
seventeen {rJap Qf theIr ^^try and of such a | shipped from the territory west of El
years, is in Jail at Shawnee upon tne humij1,tjng character as to be inad- j Reno a short ti'ne ago. Cattlemen
charge of stealing watches and goods m,?sable are becomlng alarmed at the Texa?
aarvaMi* imi an i*
I* ®a4tii«4* •boat* "t
g a rotiairy It* *l«ftp
men u4 matrrlal. w
t* youns ai^a and wrto$-
sa anl ltd an Terr 1» y
a*rd wot go to o?b*r •«*««-* for a first
etui i*<rbalcal and *-l«-nslflr «*duc 1-
ik>n. It* gradual** in agrtculiur* ,
•e'ence and ni*ebaa!*ai. *l*ctrlcal and gmmmar. anthmrUr. g<-«-graphy. bla-
dvll *Bgla*arlng ar* bavlag moat ro- tory. writing and •pclling. and tb*
markable »urc«-»* In winning and e**m*nt* of cbemlairy. to!any and
holding good p •*itlon«. F««'ltng thit entomology.
ibla record I* a v*ry cr*dliabl«» roe. Anolh< r ahort coura* la tb* »!ght
lb* authorltiea of ih* oil*** bar* r* we*k»* count* In gen*rai agrlcultur*
e*ntly i*iu*d an lllu»trat<*d bookler. and dairying for Oklahoma farmar*.
•howlng tb* work of the graduates, a Tfcla courae cxtroda tbl* year from
copy of wblcb will be sent upon ap-, January 2 to February 23. 1&0C. It
plication. consists of lectures and practical
to the value of $1,000 from a pawn
broker at that place. He had dis-
posed of a portion or the stolen ar-
ticles, aud was preparing to leave
the country when caught.
John Meisburger, the fifteen-year-
old boy who. a year ago, was caught
tampering with United States mail,
was taken to the reform school at
Washington for a term of five years.
He was under bond for good behavior,
but was caught stealing freight from |
the Frisco depot, and his bondsmen j
surrendered him to the federal au- :
thoritles.
The Japanese, on the contrary, as
Baron Komura announced at the con-
ference, consider them mod^rat?»
contending they but represent a fair
! com pen?a'ion for the expenses of the
war and the victories they have
achieved on land and sea, their sole
! purpose being to attain the objects
for which they have fought, the spoils
! claimed being only such as they are
I legitimately entitled to as the result
of their artillery and naval succssses.
An elderly person is a mighty poor
Judge of a circus.
. , A NEW STYLE OF MONEY ORDER
W. P. Harr, assistant attorney in A
the department of Justice at Washing- Department to Issue Paper
ton, is in Guthrie preparing evidence p >w,air«t Fornerv
In the criminal case against T. A. i PrCOf flCry,
Neal, former district court clerk, now WASHINGTON: Before leav ng
under bond for the alleged embezzle- for his vacation, the postmaster gen-
ment of $20,000 court funds. I eral, Mr. Cortelyou, authorized a new
: form of money order which. It Is be-
fevcr scare.
Petiticn for Pardon
GUTHRIE: Governor Ferguson
has been asked to pardon Horace C.
Campbell, who was sentenced to a
year and a half in the penitentiary
from Lawton for perjury. He was
convicted on a charge of having given
perjured testimony in the case against
George Moran for the murder of tba
Beemblosson boy, during the opening
of the country. The petition Is signed
by many persons who know Campbell,
who is more than fifty years of age.
Complete cours> a are given In agrl
culture. engineering (mcchintca'.
electrical and civil), and general sci-
ence and literature A great many
people have gotten the Idea, from the
words "agricultural and mechanical."
that the college teaches practically
nothing but agriculture and mechan-
ics. This Is a great m stake. Ample
Instruction is given In the languages
(English. Lat n, German), raathe
matlcs. all of the sciences, literature,
history, political economy, etc. For
young women there is a splendidly
equipped department of domestic
economy, where cooking. sewing,
serving, hygiene, sanitation—in a
word, homemaking—are taught, both
theoretically and practically.
The practical . is insisted upon in
all lines of scientifc and technical
studies. Recitations are heard dur-
A KANSAS ENOCH ARDEN
work on all subjres connected with
farming and stockralalng. horticul-
ture. dairying, ateam engines and
boilers, etc.
There Is atlll a shorter courae of
one week—January 915. 1906—de-
voted to- stock Judging and seed selec-
tion. ttc.. with sessions every night
for the consideration of problems con-
fronting Oklahoma farmers.
Special railroad rates wi'l be se-
cured. and an attendance of five hun-
dred farmers is expected this year.
A complete business course Is giv-
en, including stenography, type-
writing, bookkeeping, banking, com-
mercial arithmetic, English, etc.
A gymnasium is now in course of
construction and a well known athlete
of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri
has been engaged as physical direc-
tor.
sas for several years. He says he
and his wife had a little tilt at Solo-
Eightsen Years Ago Charles Bennett mon, which caused him to leave home.
Disappeared From Solomon j Bennett is willing to effect a reconclli-
TOPEKA. KAS.: About eighteen ation with his wife now, but she
years ago Charles Bennett. a farmer refuses to consent. Mrs. Bennett saya
' ,. , 01 • 1 she prefers to remain a "widow dur*
who resided near So omon.• started . ^ reatother „fe. „er h„sband
from his home to Marion w.th a load wffl reUlrn h s Arkansas farm.
of corn. That was tha last seen of
him by his family until a few days
ago. After a search covering m:ra
than a year his wife and children
give him up for dead. The children
National Party Wins
TISHOMINGO: Returns from all
counties in the Chickasaw nation of
the election held last week show that
grew up and married. The mother tha national, or Jonnson, party will
CHANGE FORM OF BIDS
In
A Second Choice to be Allowed
Big Pasture Lease*
ANADARKO: Ind»an Agent Rand-
lett has received instructions from
Secretary Hitchcock, ordering him in
the matter of leasing the half million
acres of Indian pasture land to change
Samuel Freeman, a farmer whosr iieved. will be proof against alteration the forms ^ bi(js heretofore sent, and
home was near Yale, died from the
effects of poison. Several other
members of his family are In a pre-
carious condition. The poison Is be-
lieved to have come from a pot In
which coffee was made for the family
meal.
remained a "widow." They all re-
moved to Topeka, where the mother
Is now conducting a rooming house.
Recently Bennett appeared. He ha3
been operating a fruit farm in Arkan-
control the legislature, having elect-
ed eleven of the twenty members of
the house. The senate holds over,
and is also controlled by the national
party.
SEED FOR OKLAHOMA FARMS
Large Quantities of Red Turkey Va-
rietyof Wheat to be Planted
OKLAHOMA CITY: S. V. Topping,
secretary of the Oklahoma Millers" as-
sociation, has gone to Kansas City and
Chicago to secure the new seed wheat
for the farmers of Oklahoma, accord-
ing to a proposition «y the millers an!
grain dealers to supply the farmers
with fresh seed wheat for this fall s
sowing. While In Chicago Mr. To;
Frederick Langenberg, president of
the Stroud Fair aasociation. says the
reports of cotton pests in Lincoln
county are nafoanded. and that so far
tberc are bo evidences of tbe boll
weevil or other Insects He says cot
ton conditions la that part of tbe ter
rttory are very satisfactory.
Claremore ba* granted a fraachts*
for an electric street railway. T. 8
Claaben of KaHrwefl * the pro
■Krter of tb* *nteeprt*e It Is pm
po*ed to connect tie town of date
with tb* radtms
at the hands of forgers. The post- ; to auow all bidders on these lands to
office department has been greatly an- make a second choice in their pro-
noyed by the operations of persons ; posals. One deposit of ten per cent
who purchase money orders for small per acre will suffice for both bids.
amounts and raise them, passing them and of tbe first choice of the anpli- p..ng will make an effort to secure a
on me-chants after office Hours A1 cant ls refused, he bas an equal I retfwced railroad rat* on shipments
tbouth the direct loss fails entlr ly i chance 00 the second bid. While no ( Qf ^ wheat
on those who a-cept orders, the de bid wl" ** "l.fr I During the past month Mr. Topping
oartment refusing to ca?h them ex- one-quarter section, atill. since any mrnnge& with different miller*
1 .... - .. person may lease aa many as four I . —*_ — »_ v— _#
THE SHERIFF PAID THE REWARD
cent as originally drawn, there baa 4. . . , , — — . - —
tnen a he*vy Indirect expense in- w'p4r,le quarters, tbe second choice |he wb#at tbey will take At | "turning him up." Murphy paid the
and grain men as to bow much of
Logan County Officer Locates a Long
Lost Negro
GUTHRIE: Richard Thomas, a
negro wanted for *he killing of John
Inman, near Sparks, last October,
was arrested last week near Coyle by
Sheriff Murphy of Logan county.
Thomas shot at his landlord, but ac-
cidentally killed an Innocent bystand-
er. Sheriff Murphy has been looking
for Thomas for a long time. He could
get no reward from the territory, be-
cause the case was not one of murder
In the first degree. The other day n
negro came to Sheriff Murphy and
said he knew where Thomas was.
but that he bad to have money for
Tolvrd In tbe pursuit, arrest and con-
viction of tbe offenders.
Tbe fori* ad pted will be issued as
wnti as tb* new pla'es can be p-«-
pared and otbsr necessary prflini-
ur«* in tbe wny <nn be made
daily Inquiries from al" *ectlon*
of tbe rnlted State* cancerwlag
Cnra a R P Hobeon. of Mrrtmmr ***** of tbene lnndn.
fune will spe*b nt tbe Logan tnssty j We ban ufl ■ nuniirr f J
Clntts^n. que a fnr\ when they ewt people *j>
privilege really gives one p»r*oa as wn)1 points a* much a* three carload* negro $25 of bts own money. Thomas
many as eight chances to secure a haTe for. and otber den - wns found working In n railroad
given onarter sect km. m wiu take one or two cars. a« camp
tbe demand la their respective loca'l ______
ties warrant. From tbe Inquiries re- ' Blackwell Presbyterian* bave lat
tb* enntmet far n 9C.««a rbnrcb bnild-
According to Colonel Randlett there
ls no 1*4 «p m tbe great number of
reived it
up tb*4r mftnda.
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Strickland, C. A. The People's Press. (Perkins, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1905, newspaper, August 17, 1905; Perkins, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc304869/m1/2/: accessed March 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.