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The Leger Plaindeaier,
By JNO. R. DANIEL.
LEGER.
OKLAHOMA.
THE TWIN TERRITORIES.
Enid is raising a bonus for a sksei
plant.
A territorial charter has been issued
to the Blackwell commercial club.
Dr. White refuses to be smallpox
physician of Canadian county any longer
Some owners of Cottonwood farm?
near Guthrie are asking $10,000 for ltK
acres.
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.
Latest Reliable News Gathered with Special Aim to Please
the Wishes of Our Readers.
SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT.
J. J. Burke, editor of the Transcript
has been appointed postmaster at Nor-
man.
A picture in which arc grouped 30t
Muskogee babies is on exhibition ir.
that town.
Miss Made Thomas has purchased the
Beaver Herald. She was local editor
two years
The Oklahoma City Commercial club !
is planning a trade excursion to Fort j
Smith, Ark.
Mrs., Washington Green, aged 115
years, is the oldest colored person in '
Logan county.
Cotton shipments from Chandler foi j
the season just closing aggregate at this |
time nearly 14,000 bales.
A bank has been established at Foss.
John H. Hosier is president and G. W.
Wagoner, vice president.
Aslier has voted to incorporate as a
village. There were 153 votes for the
proposition and none against it.
the city’s funds.
Dr. Hensley, of Okmulgee, was arrest-
ed in the United States court room at
Muskogee ou a charge of introducing
and selling liquor.
A petition is being extensively circu
lated asking for the opening to settle-
ment of the wood reserve west of Mar-
low in Comanche county.
Sheriff Thompson, of Caddo county,
has landed two alleged horse thieves in
the El Reno jail for safe keeping. They
were captured by Marshal Flowers, ol
Araphoe.
Solomon Hotenia, the Choctaw, bet-
ter known as the witch killer, is undei
sentence to be hanged February 14, for
killing an old woman accused of being
an old witch.
The Santa Fe located its depot at
Cushing a mile and a half west of the
business portion of the town. Kicking
did no good, and merchants will move
to the new location.
The Choctaw road has a new manager
in the person of H. G. Clark, formerly
of the Missouri Pacific. Mr. Wood
former manager has been made chair-
man of the board of directors.
General Pleasant Porter has gone to
Washington in the interest of Creek
legislation. Hp has made the trip so
often that he knows every whistling
station, says the Kansas City Star.
The city waterworks bonds carried
and Tonkawa will have a system of
waterworks second to none in the ter-
ritory. Mains will be laid to the nniver-
iity, which is now ready for the roof.
A Guthrie mining company is pre-
paring to enter into extensive mineral
development operations in the "Wichita
mountains next spring. The company
elaims to have a $80,000 financial back
bone.
The New Counties of Caddo, Kiowa and
Comanche Not Entitled to Money,
Guthrie: The auditor announced
the semi-anuual apportionment of the
common school fund derived from the
territorial revenues. It was made on
January 31 and will bo di.;tiibated at
once. The statement show's a total of
children of school age in the territory
to be 116,949 and the per capita to bo
(lristributed 1)3 cents. The total amount
in the treasury is $133,887.95; the total
amount to be distributed $135,825.57;
tho blaance in the treasury $1,075.54.
The following shows tho number of
school children in each county and the
apportionment of tho fund.
Scholars.
Amt.
Beaver
1,017
*
973.71
Baino
3,455
*
3,213.15.
Canadian
5,578
$
5,187.54
Cleveland
$
6,251.44
Custer
3,959
*
3,681.87
Dav
1,138
%
1,058.34
Dowev
3,570
%
3,320.10
Gurfleld
7.418
i
6,898.74
Grant
5,912
*
5,198.16
Greer
9,295
*
8,644.35
Kay
6,753
£
6,280.29
Kingfisher
6,970
*
6,482.10
Lincoln
9,676
$
8,997,68
Ixignn
8,605
4
8,002.65
Noble
3,828
«
3,560.04
Oklahoma
9.C00
*
8,928.00
Pawnee
5,562
*
5,172.06
Payne
8,135
£
7,505 55
Pottawatomie
11,252
$
10,464.36
Roger Mills
3,304
t
3,072,72
Washita
6,606
4
6,227.28
Woods.
12,963
4
12,055.59
Woodward
4,611
4
4,288.25
Total
146,049
4
135,825.57
The three new
countries
of
Caddo,
Kiowa anil Comanche are
not
as yet
legally organized
in order to receive a
portion c f the fund. The api>ortionment
was prepared by Deputy Auditor E. P.
McCabe.
CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE.
Kogartling Kxpulnion from Indian
Terri-
tory for Non-Payment of Tribal Tax.
Washington : Representative Steph-
ens of Texas has offered a resolution
directing the speaker of the house to ap-
point a committee of five members to
investigate charges that citizens of the
United States have been unlawfully
and forcibly removed from the »udian
Territory by order of the secretary of
the interior and to suggest legislation
that will prevent a repetition of such
outrages. The resolution states that
complaints have been made that reput-
able citizens, including the mayors aud
aldermeu of towns, have been forcibly ,
removed by the Indian police, that! indicates that the man was drunk
May He Trouble Y«t.
Asher, O. T.: Another chapter hav
been added to tho story of the killing of
Mart West, a white boy, near Violet
Springs, by Cephas Bruner, a negro.
The shooting took place about Christ-
mas time. Last Friday a brother ol
Bruner was called from his cabin in the
teminole nation and was shot dead by
unknown parties. After the body was
found there was much excitement and
negroes made many threats to visit the
vicinity of Violet Springs and wreck
vengeance on the white settlers. The
negroes believe that the killing of Bru-
ner was done by the relatives of West,
who waskilled by Cephas Bruner. Noth-
ing has happened, however, and it is
thought that tho matter has blown over.
JUDICIARY INCREASED.
Tfr<* Senate Hill Panned Kn larging Ok la*
honin'* Supreme Court.
Washington: The senate passed the
bill introduced by Mr. Fairbanks pro-
viding for two additional justices of the
supreme court for Oklahoma. The sal-
aides of the justices of the supreme court
were fixed at $4,500. It is now $3,000.
The court under the Fairbanks bill, con-
sists of a chief justice and six associate
justices.
In the report accompanying the bill,
the phenomenal growth of Oklahoma is
referred to aud tho fact cited that 100,
000 population had been added by the
organization of three new' counties.
Under the terms of the new bill, the
territory will be divided into seven
judicial districts.
In Oklahoma the United States attor-
ney receives a salary of $5,000 a year
and office and traveling expenses, while
his duties are not so burdensome as eith-
er of the judges. The United States
marshal also receives a salary of $5,000
and an allowance for expenses when
away from home.
In the Indian territory adjoining Ok-
lahoma, where the jurisdiction of the
court is practically the same and the
burdens no greater, the judges receive
an annual salary of $5,000 aud an allow'-
ance for expenses when away from home.
Ilody and Mottles Found.
Chickasha : The body of a dead man
was discovered at a ]K>int one mile
southeast of the line by Messrs. Cox and
Perry. The l>ody was lying in a ditch;
the shoes of the dead man were found
by his side, also two empty quart bot-
tles and a half pint of wine. Every -
and pulled off his shoes, placed his hat
under his head and laid down to sleep
and died from effects of cold. The body
lias been identified as that of Dan Ford,
a railroad laborer.
The Choctaws Improvement.
Oklahoma City: The Choctaw
TEACH THEM TO FARM.
Chilocco School to Be Principal Agrl
cultural School for Indians.
Washington: Incompliance withe
request from A. W Jones, commission-
er of Indian uffairt, S. M. McCowaip
recently appointed superintendent of
the Chilocco Indian school in Kay
county, Oklahoma, is in Washington
for a conference. It is the intention of
tho commission of Indian affairs to
make the Chiloceo school the principal
agricultural school for Indians in the
United States. Jt will have, if the
plans of tho Indian bureau are carried
out, the game standing as in an agri-
cultural school that Carlisle and Haskell
have as industrial schools.
At the school there are 8,300 acres of
land, all of which will be under culti-
vation within three years, and the inten-
tion is to increase the attendance to
twelve hundred. Mr. MeCow’an was
selected from all the school superinten-
dents in the United States to develop
this work. Ho has been thirteen years
in the work and comes from Phoenix,
Ariz. The agricultural lands which
form the Chilocco reservation are as
rich as any in Oklahoma. The change
in tho management of the Chilocco
school is the first important step in the
work of teaching the Indians to take
care of their allotments.
“We will teach the Indians to farm,”
said Mr. McGowan “just tho same as
the progressive farmers of Kansas and
Oklahoma. We w'ill try to make the
institution self sustaining by putting
under cultivation or devoting to stock
farming every acre of the oighty-six
hundred. Not a single detail of pro-
gressive fanning will lx1 neglected and
the Indians will do the work.”
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT,
Maurlct* It. Arkey a Clerk Killed
Discharge of a Revolver.
Guthrie: Mauriee B. Arkey, a
clothing salesman was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of a revolver. A
customer was in the Grand Leader store,
where Arkey was employed, trying on a
coat and in removing his old clothes he
carlessly laid a revolver on them, when
the clerk undertook to move them the
gun fell to the floor and was discharged
the bullet entering Arkey’s heart, kill-
ing him instantly.
business houses have been closed and
the owners deprived of the use of their
property because they w'ould not pay
money illegally demanded by the Indi-
ans for taxes, and that the secretary
of the interior aud the commissioner of
Indian affairs have “abused and prosti-
tuted certain laws to the mercenary building a new round house here and
purpose of blackmail aud extortion,” j otherwise fitting up their division head -
—i "-1.....f-n- quarters. An order has been placed
for more rolling stock and motive pow'-
er to meet the demands of the increas-
ing freight and jiassenger traffic of the
system. The order is for sixty Baldwin
engines Two of these engines will be
delivered this month and twenty-four
in March and the balance during the
year. Two thousand freight cars have
been ordered to be delivered in the near
future. Several of the new engines
will be used out of this city. The re-
pair work ou all the Oklahoma City
engines will be done here with the com-
pletion of the round house.
TOO MUCH BOOZE.
Will Gales Shot by Accident While in a
State of Intoxication.
Oklahoma City: Will Gates, single,
head bottler at Chas. Frost’s bottling
works received a ballet wound over the
left eye and from the effects of which
be will die. Gates was alone in the
place when found and thei-e is no doubt
but. that the injury was self-inflicted.
Two companions had been with hint a
short time before and knew he had a re-
volver, as he had made threats to use it.
He was at the time badly under the in-
i finence of liquor.
and have unlawfully threatened citi-
zens with expulsion unless they paid
money for certain taxes, for which
they were not legally liable.
GOVERNOR SAYS REINSTATE.
Deputy Game Warden f*onld lo l>e Put
In Position Again.
El. Reno: Momlters of the El Reno
Gun club have complained to Governor
Ferguson of C. M. Keigor of Pond
Creek, territory game warden, in sus-
pending Deputy Warden Gould of El
Reno. Gould, they claim, has been the
most vigilant and successful deputy in
Oklahoma this seuson and has confiscat-
ed thousands of ]*>nnds of game killed
by pot hnnters for shipment to Kansas
SCHOOL LAND MONEY.
Statement of Htiftine** in tlic School
Land Oltlce for January.
Guthrie: Secretary J. J. Houston
has made a statement of the business
done in the schi>ol land office for the
month of January. The balance on hand
of the common school fund aggregated
$31,840.83. Of this amount $25,000 has
been turned over to the territorial treas-
urer for the common schools to be dis-
tributed by him.
The amount to the credit of the coni-
CALLS IT ANARCHY.
fndgo ltyan In a Heathlng Charge Snys
Hood ling l» Anarchy.
ST. Louis : In a most scathing charge
o the grand jury which w’as ordered to
lontinuo investigation begun by the
previous body into the charges of bribery
:n connection with St. I-iouis and Sub-
irbin railway legislaton, Judge Ryaa
(aid:
“The work and report of the last
jrand jury revealed aopaling conditions
touching bribery of public officials.
These revelations indicate that men in
high positions in the social lifo ami
commercial activity of this community
have in their endeavor to secure public
franchise for private gain, not hesitated
to bribe members of the municipal as-
jcmbly to betray the public, interests
*nd welfare they were elected to protect.
“No graver danger exists in our midst
than this infamous method of robbing
the people by corrupting their trusted
representatives. It is a menace to our
civic and political life. It is anarcy,
for it strikes and insidious and deadly
blow at go eminent.
“It substitutes the debauching mon-
eyed power of criminally responsible
combinations and corporations acting
through their venal agent or hirelings
and unscrupulous public officers, for
the lawfully constituted authority vest-
ed by the people in the municipal leg-
islative body to be by it honestly and
faithfully administered.
“The higher the position of the per-
sons who bribe, or are bribed, tho great-
er is their moral responsibility, be
cause the more potent for evil is their
wicked example, but to all who so of-
fend, l>e they high or low, powerful or
humble, there should be meted out cer-
tain, swift aud severe punishment.
“It is urged to continue promptly and
vigorously this investigation both as to
past offenses of this kind, which are
not barred by limitation and as to pres-
ent offending, if any there be of a simi-
lar nature.
“Have a care that none who are in-
nocent shall be branded, but have equal
care that none escape being brought to
the bar of justice who are in your best
judgment on the evidence presented,
guilty.” __
WATER BUR Y’SBIG FIRE
The Connecticut Town Nearly Wiped Oiu
by Flames—Loss $3,000,000.
Watkrbury, Conn. : For ten hour*
flames, fanned by high winds held
sway over the business portion of this
city, causing a loss that will exceed
three million dollars. The best portion
of the business district, forming a tri-
angle bounded on the north by the Ex-
change Place, on the west by Bank
street, south by Grand Street and ou
the east by Main Street was almost
willed ont. The fire started in the big
store of Reid & Hughes Dry Goods Co.
on Bank street. About the time the
firemen supposed they had the fames
under control, a second fire bi'oke out
in Scovil House, the city’s leading hotel
and the establishment was completely
wrecked. Tho occupants of the hotel
were forced to seek the streets in theii
night clothes. The fire' burned over
fonr acres of the city’s best business
fection. Among the prominent, build-
ings totally destroyed ure the block oc
cupied by the Reid & Hughes Dry
Goods Co., the plant of Waterbury
American, Masonic Temple, the Scoville
and Franklin honses, the W. L. Daug
las Bhoe Co., the Johnson block, Salva
tiou Army Workingmen’s Home and
scores of other buildings. In all about
Hugo Levy, a traveling man repre-
lentiug a Kansas City liquor house was
ILscovered at Guthrie with a well de-
veloped case of smalliiox and the board
af health took charge of him and will j at once,
iave him cared for.
Mint Hooserelt Will Not Figure,
Washington: Whitelaw Reid has iu-
ny pot nuuievw un Alice Roosevelt, the eldest
City and St. Louis. He made, several j hter ()f tho pre8i,lent, to aecom
weeks ago, a heavy seizure, aud, like ! hiin {() Umd(m as his guest when
other deputies, sold and gave away tne ; ho ^ fo att„I1(I thfi ooronation of
.... . _ . i he goes to attend the coronation
game, retaining the proceeds. Keiger j Ki E(lwar(, It is tll(, present ex.
demanded half the money, which Gould | tion of Hooflevelt to arail
refused to pay him Keiger suspended hf>r*qf of thia opportunity to see Lon-
Gouh from duty. Governor *erguson (,on Lu, if feh(l dnes ghe wlil have uo
said that Keiger must reinstate Gould fafus ^ ^ gi l of a ,
and wrote to Keiger telling hime to do
United States Attorney Pliny Sopci
is in Washington looking after Indian
Territory legislation. He has a map j
prepared dividing the Indian Territory j
Into twenty-nine counties as an organiz-] the district court of Katie Worrell.
TO SET ASIDE DIVORCE.
Woman Claim* Divorce wa* fi ran led
riirnti£li Misrepresentation,
Guthrie: A case has been filed in
Ml territory, and will draw a bill cm
oodying these features.
United States Marshal Tompson ha4 • 0fy as a man. He drove an ice
taken the oath of office and entered | vva,.-ou while in this city. He had sov-
apon his second term as United States j enit thousand dollars worth of property
marshal. Mr. Thompson went up to) Illinois. He married and returned to
Perry to take the oath of office owing | Canton and now his first wife files a
to the absence of Judge Burford. All j motion to vacate the judgment claiming
the field and office deputies were reap- that he got tli * divorce by misrepresen-
tation and under fraud.
The local attorneys who are working
on the ca-Hi are Mintonys & Jon< s and
in arms against the gambeliug dens of [ j q Strang. The attorneys in
that city ami declare that the gambler
must go. The agitation is due to the
recent fatal shooting soraje in one of
American girl, and will not figure in
the coronation ceremonies in any way.
To Bring Hark Horwtlikf.
Guthrie : A requisition on the gov
eraor of Texas for the arrest of W. W.
Montgomery, in jail in Beaumont, wa*
issued by Governor Ferguson and given
to William Painter, sheriff of Comanche
county, who will firing Montgomery to
Worrell got a divorce passing himself i Oklahoma. Montgomery is charged
with the theft of a team of horses and
a buggy at Lawton about five months
ago. He has been traced -through ser-
mon school indemnity fund reaches j 0™ hundred of the most prominet
$5,371.57. A check for $4,500 payable to houseB were burned out.
the treasurer has been issued by Mr.
Houston. The college fund reaches
Pardon KrfuMd.
Bt. Paul: The state board of par-
$13,334.47 and $10,700of this amount was dons has refused to grant the petition
tgaiust Chas. Worrell, of Canton, 111.
At the last term of court in this city.
turned over to the treasurer. The pub
lie building fund has a balance of
$12,508.12 and a check amounting to
$10,000 was issued to the treasurer. The
balance to the credit of Greer county
section 13, aggregating $510.98. The bal-
ance to the credit of tha Greer county
tiection 33, reaches $714 and a check
was issued on this fund for $200.
The whole sum to be divided among
the educational institutions of the ter-
ritory reaches $72,099.17 making $14,-
119.83 for each of the five instintions.
Santa F« Stop* Tipping.
Chicago: Hereafter waiters in din-
ng cars anti in eating houses connected
with the Santa Fc railroad will not bo
I permitted to solicit by word or action
tipis from petrous.
An order has just been sent ont from
the tlining car department of this sys
tern instructing conductors of cars and
managers of station restaurants to care
for an absolute pardon for James and
Cole Younger, who are now out of
prison on parole. Thus tho two noted
convicts must remain in the borders of
Minnesota.
Keely Institute Burned.
Dwight, III. : The city of Dwight
suffered a $300,000 fire loss. The great
labratory of the Keelv Institute wus
completely destroyed, together with the
Livingston hotel, owned my the Keelv
Compiany. Guests and employes escap-
'd without injury.
One Guilty, Other Acquitted.
El Reno: Tho jury in the trial of
William Creagerand F. E. Herring, cat-
tlemen indicted for the murder of
Colonel Roland, another cattleman in
Mills county in 1900, brought in a sealed
verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the
first degree against Creager and acquit
ted Herring. The shooting was ovot
fally watch the actions of waiters when \ s0me unsettled accounts.
pointed and sworn into office.
The people of South McAlester are up :
. they are serving meals, and if there is th<
ral states. He tnueled in < )klahoma ( s]jjTkt«**,t suspicion that any of them are
several years Belling school furniture.
BARRETT TO WASHINGTON.
The
Able Sliawncp Kditor lo
Int««reAt of Matfhood.
Work ii.
| attempting fo force tips cither through
I inattention or other offensive action
tho guilty person is to lie instantly dis-
charged.
Recently then* has been considerabb
Shawnee: Chas. F. Bairett, editor c0?plajnt *ro“ herons of all of
of the
gates
Herald, and one of the three dele-
te Washington selected at the
the South McAlester gaming houses.
If111 For A New County.
Washington: Representative Crow
ley of Illinois, introduced in the house a
bill provhling that all territory in Ok la
homa known as the Osage and Kai..-a
Indian reservation be made one county
to be known as < ‘sage county, with tin
ocuntj seat at Pawhuska.
the Illinois conrt will be h -re in the
interest o, their x-'lcdin^ i Muskogee single statehood convention.1
‘ ’ has gone to Washington in the inter-
term of court,
in this city will probably figure in the
ta.se.
William Fro pie* I* Sick.
Oklahoma City: William T. Peo-
ples. charged with the murder of Eugene
railroads about poor service where uc
tow were given.
Want More Lfnirmy Kxcrritrtl.
Guthrie: F. J. Mali lamer, G.
terost of the sinplo statehood bill now I Han and H. J. Cnllen,
I w
all of Wellston,
s i McLaut
, the com
c I to live i
(T«iX*i
;tiun in
lty
till
this
Mrs
h< 7 7c
city, is very ill in
Peoples has gone
res in Gaine&ville,
I before congress. Mr. Barrett expects to!
I remain in Washington six weeks or two I Ferguson _ and
I months and goes ladened with statistics
and arguments on single statehood
i which cannot fail to make an impres-
sion. Everybody in this section feels
that while the cause in an important
one. It will be in safe bands with hum
have been m the city to see Governor
the school land board
about timber cutting on school land e
They think more leniency shonld be ex-
ercised. especially where the timber is
of small valne and removed to cnltivatc
tbe land, as is being done around WVlLi-
ton. The board talked fairly and
promised closer investigation.
Lyman J. Gage, ex-secretury of the
treasury, has refused a position with
the International Banking Association
of New' York, carrying with it a salary
of $100,000 a year.
Flynn’s bill, authorizing the settlor*
on the lauds surrounding tho towns of
, Holwrt, Anad&rko and Lawton, »o take
other lands in lieu of the lands now
held, and permitting the towns t<
thereby ex]*uid beyond the limits pro-
1 scribed by the opening proclamation,
was favorably reported by the secretary
of the interior.
O. W Coffete, charge 1 with tnurdei
of George Montgomery, the Santa Fe
detective, was bound over to await
action of the grand jnry in Mnnfii
His pr» .umnarv trial took place at
‘ Wmfiekl, Kansas.
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