The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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IN THE NEW COUNTRY.
BRIEF BITS OF GENERAL NEWS
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
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OKLAHOMA AMO IMU AM TKKIUTOKT
Choctaw in to have a distillery.
West Perry has been Incorporated.
Norman Is to have a new mill aud
•levator.
A wholessle cotton buying tirin ll to
locate at Chaudler.
Arapahoe has fli ally succeeded in
securing a cotton gia.
Hennessey has shipped ?50 car loads
of wheat since the first of June.
The Creek Indinns in council have
voted against woman suffrage.
The enterprising people of Murietta
have started a railroad fund with $200.
Chickashu has a man named Snow,
and he came near melting the other
day.
Muskogee has struck oil and derricks
and tanks arc being put up to secure a
good yield.
One fanner near Choctaw City, Ok.,
will have nearly three tons of grapes
this sesson.
The commissioners of Kay county
have placed S3000 insurance on the
court house.
A new postoftice has been establish
ed in the Kiekapoo Nation, and will go
under the name of the Kiekapoo post-
office with Elino Cook as postmaster.
The El Reno foundry and machine
ahop will be in running order just as
soon as the building can be completed
and the machinery placed in position.
One of the best paying establish-
ments in Oklahoma is a cement aud
plaster factory two miles west of New-
kirk. The material is found there in
abundance.
There is a big probability that the
Sapulpa extension will not touch Sa-
pulpa but will be built around the
town on account of the neighboring
rough country.
D. H. Ainsworth, who was a cleric
in a land office in Kansas, under Harri-
son’s admistration, has been appointed
clerk in the Guthrie land office at a
salary of Si,000 a year.
The squabble over the marshalship
matter definitely settled that all the
judges in Oklahoma shall remain until
the experation of their terms. They
feel considerably easier.
It does not take a very close observer
to note that a successful business man
counts a permanent place in a paper
for his advertisement as of as much
value as a permanent place of busi-
ness. Frequent changes of an adver-
tisement’s position are as bad as fre-
quent removals of place of business
Some of the statehood papers claim
that the Choctaw election cuts little
figure, as the Indians are wards of the
government, and as such are entirely
subject to govei’nment control. When
the proper time comes congress will
prescribe what shall be done to open
up the territory to final settlement.
Near Blackwell on August 6th a man
named John Williams, while loading a
wagon with millet, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. One
of his horses was also struck, but has
recovered. The wagon and load of
millet were burned. Several stacks
of wheat have been struck by light-
ning in this sec'ion and consumed.
Heavy rains have fallen within the
past few days and the corn crop is as-
sured. The corn crop is looking bet-
ter about Blackwell than at any other
place in Kay county.
A (smp of Woodmen will I* organ-
lad Ibis week Yukon.
A I'syne county man U raUingd og
far the Klondyke market.
Booming Oklahoma's big wheat yield
has not apprk-lably lowered tlm price
of IL
A cowboy preacher la delivering
noctural terutoiu on the streets of
Vintla.
Tecuiuseh U to have a big cotton
compress which will be built In time
for fall um».
A Newkirk man walked into the Ar-
kanaaa river and caught a 60-pound
cattish with his bare hnuda.
Three government surveying parties
are now in the field making an official
survey of the ('hickanaw nation.
The Indians are fast adopting the
customs of the white*. Indian boys
are learning to smoke cigarettes.
Miss Ollle Walker, daughter of tho
mayor of Fort Gibson, is the most tul-
ented artist in the Indian country.
The Gainesville, McAleater and St
Louis railroad surveyors are within
Oklahoma la Invoking its record at
an agricultural country.
Stillwater Is to have a flour mil! of
100 barrels capacity per day.
A telephone lioe will lie established
between Tahlcquah ami Wugoner.
A camp meeting at Pawnee has do*
ciiniqatod the crop of yellow-legged
chickens.
The (iulf, Colorado and Santa Fa
Railroad is to he brought up to flntr
class condition.
The first annual reunion of the old
soldiers of Pawt ce county will be held
at Ralston September a, 0 and 10.
A barn was struck by lightning at
Chouteau recently. The building was
set on fire and burned down with Its
cun tents.
About 200 Sacs are getting ready to
pllgrimate to the Otoe reservation for
the purpose of purtakiug of a festive
pony smoke.
The name Klondyke, iu the Indian
dialect means “plenty of Ush.’’ ll
would be in order now to chunge it to
“plenty of suckers.”
The Red Rock bridge, near Perry, is
being built, notwithstanding many
contribute to the
twenty-five miles of Coalgate, I. T.
Jim York of Mu Id row recently buried j farmers refused to
u favorite dog in u coffin und has a life laudable enterprise,
size picture of the canine iu his best
room.
To show how things are booming in
Oklahoma it may be suid that an old
school building in Stillwater is being
turned into a cotton gin.
Miss Ressie Welch, an Indian girl,
has an essay in the Memphis Appeal
that would do credit to any college
professors daughter.
Chelsea, I. T., tried to be incorpora-
ted, but failed, and the hopes of those
who wanted municipal office went
down like a dark brown thud.
R. Rhodes of Lehigh, I. T., has in-
vented a flea trap, which takes in the
pesky little acrobats with alarcity.
Rhodes ought to make a fortune in
Western Arkansas.
George Camiehael, special agent of
the general land office, has issued a
warning against cutting timber on the
United States military reservation
known as “Council Grove.”
The famous breach of promise suit
at Perry has been compromised and the
fellows who were sitting around to
gorge themselves on the testimony are
threatening to leave the town.
An Oklahoma prisoner escaped from
jail the other day while the turnkey
and the city marshal were having a
discussion as to whether a tadpole fin-
ally became a butter-fly or a frog.
The Sac and Fox postoffice robbers
have been captured and jailed at Guth-
rie. It seems that the robbery was
planned last May by a man named
Spurgeon, who gave one of the robbers
named Live a $20 bill to take to the
office and get changed in order to find
out where the cash was kept. The
purpose of the robbery originally was
to raise money to put up a bond for a
pal who was in jail at Muscoogee.
Cumberledge, the man who was in
jail, managed to get his bond and se-
cure his liberty before the robbery was
committed, but the robbers thought it
a shame to let a little thing like that
upset all their calculations, so ahead
they went and committed the robbery
anyway. But a small sum was real-
ized from the robbery, about $6.*), and
when the dividing-up time came, Spur-
geon allowed the others to keep it all,
saying that they could pay his share to
him after they had assisted him in
robbing a train. This would seem to
indicate that, although amateurs, the
organization was on mischief bent, and
but for their prompt detection and in-
carceration would have caused consid-
erable trouble.
Each Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian
gets S7.93 interest at the present pay-
ment. Last year they got 87.91, which
shows that tho tribe is decreasing.
It is a noteworthy thing about Indian
pupils who are sent to white universi-
ties, that all their essays betnoan and
denounce the encrouchrnent of the
white people.
Knowing the scarcity of cotton pick,
ers for this season those who are here
have eoucluded to raise the priee of
wages and a warm time is anticipated
all around.
Following are the appointments of
postmasters in the Indian territory:
Gordon, Choctaw nation, W. II. Hul-
sey, vice J. G. Maxwell, resigned; Rush
Springs, Chickasaw nation, Theodore
Davis, vice F. R. Blakely, removed.
While there has just been harvested
in Oklahoma the greatest crop that has
been produced ou an equal area of
land in the United States, the promises
of an immense cotton crop are even
better than has just been realized from
the great cerael.
A charter has been issued by Secre-
tary Jenkins to the Lexington & North-
western Roilroad company with a eap-
tal stock of $100,000. The road is to be
built from Lexington in a northwest-
erly direction, connecting with the
Santa Fe near Norman.
During the past two years no lesa
than ten skeletons of human beings
have been found on and near East
Sandstone Creek, each showing that
they had laid where found for many
years. Their condition made it im-
possible to determine whether they
were the remains of Indians or whites.
E. V. Eck of Sharon, Kan., offei s a
liberal reward for information as to
the whereabouts of his son, who ieft
heme July 22. He left with two men
driving a mule team and spring wagon.
They were headed for the Strip when
last hoard from. The boy was 10 years
old, stout build, light hair cut short,
blue eyes, and wore a large straw hat,
shirt and blue overalls when he left
home.
Beginning with the May term of the
United States court at Muskogee, up to
its close, which was August 6th, there
were 105 -convictions for felony, three
were for murder, one for manslaugh*
ter, and the others fer felony, ranging
for various crimes and sentences from
a year and a day up to life sentence.
There were 180 jail sentences. About
5 per cent of these cases which were
presented were dismissed and noU
prosecued.
Aelt*«M If r*ti f*r TIm>«*»I«m - IV* Vu
WUtl«c I* Mvari lt«r Ml«4.
For many year* the yuuua w*w»»
had rolled upon L'lyaere. Hhe b*l
brought him number Ire* parkas** of
choice cigarette*, a* well a* d!v*r«
»P*clmena of the more axpMMlv* genui
cigar, aaya the 8t. Louie l*oet-IMapateb.
She had repeatedly purchaeed tliketa
for varloue celebrated prixe-flghta and
after eacortlng him thither would e#e
to U that he bad plenty of iemoa
cream puffa to munch upon during th«
Intervals of sturglng. Many and many
an evening had she aeeieted him In In-
creasing the numerale upon hie poor,
hard-working mamma's coal and gas
billi, and she hud seen four several
seta of new spring* added to the par-
lor sofa. But hitherto she bad not
stood up like a—-er woman and bold-
ly declared her love for him and re-
quested to be allowed to pay alt his
expenses in the future, Iu considera-
tion of his donning her Inst name.
But upon this sppclal evening In
question Ulysses had her dead to
rights. It may have been the witching
golf costume in old gold and baby
blue that he wore or the shy grace with
which he placed his tiny palm in hers.
However, be thU as It may, she could
no longer restrain herself, but Impuls-
ively threw h<*r arms about his frail,
shrinking figure and drew him tender-
ly toward her. As her lips rose from
his she lovingly murmured; "This kiss
tells you my secret.” And Ulysses, as
he furtively removed some cut plug
from his mouth, found an opportunity
to observe: “Would you—you—mind—
raying—It—over—again ?”
Helling l.l«|iior from a Hlrycle.
Samuel Coffee of Paulson, Armstrong
county, is in jail on charges of Illegal
liquor selling. Mr. Coffee ran the
original bicycle speak-easy. He pur-
chased a '97 model bicycle and carted
his stock in trade about on his wheel.
When he met a party of men they all
drank from the same canteen, which
was fastened securely to the frame of
his wheel. He was supplied with a
large bottle fuil of bfg sugar pills;these
pills he retailed at 20 cents each. H«
called himself a doctor, and gave each
of his patients a drink from his tin can
to wash the pill down. He is said to
have had the largest and most lucra-
tive medical practice in Armstrong
county.—Philadelphia Ledger,
Beware or Intemperance.
A little school girl in the rural dia-*
tricts of Georgia was told to write a
composition on “Temperance.” Sh*
turned out the following: “Temper-
ance is more better than whisky. Whis-
ky is ten cents a drink, and lots of it.
My pa drinks whisky. He has been full
113 times. One night he came horn*
late and ma went out and cut som*
hickories and walloped him good. Then
she ducked his head in a tub of soap-
suds and locked him up in the barn.
And the next morning my pa said h*
reckon he’d swear off.”—Exchange.
A Costly Strike.
The officials of the London Cabdriv-
ers’ Trade Union have issued a state-
ment of accounts with reference to tha
late strike of privileged railway cab-
drivers, in which it is stated that the
total cost of the dispute, which lasted
eight months, was £20,000, £19,000 of
which was subscribed by the street cab
Irivers.
Business.
“She’s going to ride a wheel to reduce
her weight.” “No!” “Yes, and she
means business, too. You ought to see
the lovely pink chiffon sweater she’a
having made.” Now and then the hand
that never rocked a thing would, never-
theless, develop very great capabilities
along certain lines.—Detroit Journal.
Well Kqulpperi.
“Rumduff, I see, has gone into profes-
sional baseball." “Why, what does ha
know about the game?” “Nothing; h*
has become an umpire.”—North Ameri-
can.
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Beeman, Frank E. The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1897, newspaper, August 21, 1897; Choctaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405462/m1/3/: accessed July 3, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.