The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1901 Page: 2 of 4
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OKLAHOMA AND INDIAXTIRBITOBT
Several inches of snow fell shout El
Reno on December 8.
There Is s large amount of baled hay
in the Cherokee strip.
There was four Inches of Snow at
Guthrie on lleoember 13.
Some farmers of Northern Oklahoma
are feeding flaxseed meal.
The Iowa Indians at the Sac and Fox
agency get 915,000 this week.
There were eight holdups reported in
Pawnee between dark and midnight.
Prisoners in Logan county jail must
hereafter do hard labor. So says Judge
Burford.
lloy Mills and three others are re*
ported as killed in a street fight at
Mangurn.
Taxes in Oklahoma become delin-
quent and penalty is added on the third
Monday in January.
Governor Ferguson announoes that
ho will not participate in the division
of territorial patronage.
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Millers' association held a session in
Oklahoma City on the 13th.
Blackwell people spared no effort to
give the Kay county teachers a good
•time at their association meeting.
The bonus money deposited by unsuc-
eessful bidders for leases on school lands
is being returned os fast as possible.
Prairie fire ran about ten miles over
allotments, mostly belonging to In-
dians. This occurred south of Hobart.
Bricklayers and contractors of Okla-
homa City have agreed on a scale of
62Jtf cents per hour and eight hours a
day.
. The Presbyterians of Watonga have
named their church Ferguson Chapel
in honor of their townsman, the gov-
ernor.
The treasurer and ex-treasurer of
Dewey county are in a contest in court
over a quarrel over the transfer of the
county funds.
At Granite, O. T., Sam Pepper shot
Hush Arby, Leonard McDonald and
Tom Thurman. The two latter are
fatally wounded.
In and near Enid live descendants or
near relatives of John C. Calhoun,
Stephen Grover Cleveland, Abraham
Lincoln and Zachary Taylor.
Several thousand cattle are in the
western part of Comanche county with-
out inspection. They have been taken
possession of by the sheriff.
Gordon Lillie has established a buf-
falo ranch south of Pawnee, with the
Intention to try and prevent the buf-
faloes from becoming extinct.
C. D. Bunker has secured for the uni-
versity at Norman enough material to
Sapnlpa la bow oalled "City of Da»
tiny."
There are now 10,000 names of Creeki
listed to receive deeds.
United States court opened at Ard-
more on December 10.
Cattle stealing is quite common in In-
dian Territory just now.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
the Ardmore waterworks bonds.
Ardmore is reaching after the next
session of the Chickasaw Teachers' nor-
mal.
The Creek Land and Development
company of Muskogee has incorpora-
ted.
Sleet and snow fell Bt Ardmore on
Decembers. It was followed by a cold
wave.
Coalgate has its first plate glass win-
dows and others will be ordered right
away.
The first deeds are being given to
Creek Indians for their homestead se-
lections.
The boiler in J. II. McNeil's gin nt
Sneed, I. T.. exploded and Mr. McNeil
was injured.
A meeting was held nt Marietta, I.
T., to petition congress to locate a
county seat there.
There is a report current that federal
officers now located ut Muskogee are to
be moved to Okmulgee.
W. U. McCarley's drug store at Col-
bert, I. T., has been robbed of jewelry,
cigars and other articles.
Benj. L. Robertson lias been named
as postmaster at Purcell, and Geo. B.
Broderick at Holdenvillo.
The town of Canadian is somewhat
fearful that the railroad junction will
be made four miles sonth of the town.
Hunters are blamed for starting
forest and prairie fires in the Choctaw
nation, whicli have done much damage.
Tile Farmers’ Asphalt company has
been chartered. Theeompany proposes
to develop asphalt beds in the Chicka-
saw country.
Miss Allen Schmidt, of South Mc-
Alester, is appointed secretary of Re-
bekali assembly for Indian Territory,
vice Mrs. Olive Martin, deceased.
Judge McAtee found no room at Pond
Creek in which to hold court. lie or-
dered the sheriff to prepare a room
charging the expense to the county.
It was announced in the Kansas City
commercial club that the effort to se-
cure an extension of the Santa Fe into
Indian Territory to Tulsa, had failed.
Pliny Soper has been appointed gen-
eral attorney for the Creek nation by
Pleasant Porter, the principal chief.
Soper is to get a salary of 8,5000 a year.
The bonus on the leasing of the gra-
zing lands in the western part of the
Kiowa country amounts to 883.470,73;
and on the agricultural lands in the
eastern part to SSI,80S.83.
Duck Williams, a Creek Indian 84
years old, died at Eufaula, recently.
make a fine museum of wild animals. 'He wa8 one of the si?!R,rs of the la;t
They will be mounted and put on
.hibition. ,
The sheriff of Comanche county has
given out his determination to close
the gambling places, honkatonk shows
and dance halls of Lawton, and to keep
them closed.
Delegate Flynn's statehood bill for
Oklahoma names May 13 for the elec-
tion of delegates to a constitutional
convention, which is fixed by the bill to
meet on June 17, 1902.
The town of Asher, south of Shawnee,
O. T., is BO days old. The Hock Island
is expected to be finished to the place
in January. It already has a popula-
tion of nearly i,0<)0 people. The town
is on tlie Canadian river and in about
the best farming section of Pottawato-
mie county.
John Dunlap and W. Hutchinson,
while drunk drove along the railroad
track out of Chandler and were run
into by train. They were not much
hurt, but lay in a drunken stupor until
found.
The territorial board of education is
told by Attorney General Strang that
a teacher's certificate issued b3' the
board is not a legal certificate.
It is estimated that the bonus on
leases of school lands in the Wichita
country will reach 850.0(H). The entire
bonus fund will reach 8200,000.
The children of the publie schools of
Oklahoma City donated $81.50 to be
used in purchasing books for the pupils'
department in ttie Carnegie library.
Contracts have been signed and the
Choctaw will begin work on both end
of its line from liartshorne, I. T., to
Guthrie. The line will be 140 miles
Jong.
Bush Ardry. manager of a cotton gin
at Port, Washita county, was killed in
a saloon at that village. Garrett Thur-
man and L. S. McDonald each received
a bullet.
The Citizens' State bank of Peckham
has been robiie.d of over $2,900. Blood
hounds tracki^d the burglars by a
erooked trail to the Frisco depot at
Blackwell.
Joseph T. Long, of Aline, Woods
count}-, met Miss Fannie Farriss, of
Kansas City, Mo., as she arrived on the
train at Alva, and they went at once to
the probate judge's office and were mar-
ried within twenty minutes after meet-
ing. They had been corresponding for
a year, but had neaer seen each other
before.
Both the Woods claim and Miss Beals’
claim adjoining Lawton, are being
platted for townsite purposes, and will
be commuted on December 16; both of
them at one time, if the contest on
•Woods' commoting does not stop him.
From Olastee, Greer county, the
pmoke from nine cotton gins can be
counted. The gins are located at place*
here named, and the amount of cotton
already ginned at them is given; Olne-
*ee, 1,400 bales: Altos, nearly 1,200;
Eldorado. 1,150; Navajo. 1,000; Yeldell.
1,000; Crossroads, M0. and Blair 1,500.
treaty with the Creeks before they
moved to Indian Territory.
Secretary C. O. French, of the live-
stock sanitary commission, lias resigned.
Three men are after the position. They
are Charles Bickel, W. T. Judkins and
Editor Bishop, of the Cleo Chieftain.
Twelve names for Indian Territory
have been suggested: Jefferson, Lin-
coln, Indianola, Columbia, Katakee-
nole, Quintribia, McKinley, Indiahoma,1
Terihoma, Waterloo, Inuncomity, Omev
Ha-
Kingfisher's new water works tower
has a capacity of 100,000 gallons; new;
electric lights are in operation; both
the property of the city. The walls of
the new court house are completed tc
the second story.
A Chicago company has taken a fran-
chise for an electric railway to connect
South McAlester, Krebs, Alderson, Car
bon and Hnileyville, ]. T. The line
will be about 40 miles long.
The Creek council has confirmed the
appointment by Governor Porter, of I).
M. Hodge, of Elam: T. W. I’erryman,
of Tulsa; Roily MeKintoch, of Checotah.
and Amos McIntosh, of Senora, to look
after the interests of the Creek Indians
in Washington in ail matters that come
before congress or the interior depart-
ment relative to Indian affairs.
J. P. Lane killed a 250 pound bear in
Clear Creek mountains west of Clayton,
L T., and sold it at Antlers, for 830.
The total population of Indian Ter-
ritorp is 338,000, of which 125,000 are
Indian and native born. The nativit}
of the rest is given a>: Missouri. 33,
000; Texas. 62,000; Pennsylvania, 3,JOB;
Georgia. 8,000; Indiana, 5,105; Illinois,
9,245: Iowa, 2,702: Arkansas, 12.000
Tennessee, 18,000; Mississippi. 10,000
Kansas, 9,980 The above list is inter
esting as it throws some light on tlx
territory's possible politics.
Charley Denny, a school teacher in
the Creek nation, is supposed to he tin
head of a gang of horse thieves. He
was caught and confessed, but while
being taken to* Eufaula a confederate
helped him to get away.
John and Owen Danohoo are under
arrest at Ardmore for stealing a con
and bringing it to sell to a town butch-
er.
Dennis Flynn’s bill names county
seats at Cbickasha, Rush Springs, Co-
manche. Paul's Valley. Davis and Ard-
more.
The Creek Indians are rapidly ma-
king selection* of their homesteads.
They are selecting a homestead of 4C
acres to which they will soon lie given
a deed, aad the forty acres will be in-
alienable for twenty-one years.
8. L. Hall, A sewing machine repair
man. was found dead by the roadstdf
near Eufaula. It is supposed that lx
died from cold.
The Citizens' National bank of Erie
Springs, L T., has had its organization
approved by the comptroller of the cur
A CHRISTMAS WAIT.
By Emma Alice Browne.
Break In the dreary East, and bring the
Light!
Rise, holy Christmas morning! Break
and bring
The blossom of our hope—the stainless
King—
For weary Is the night!
Strange darkness wraps the haggard
mountain rim;
And worn with failure, spent with grief
and loss.
From the pathetic shadow of His Cross
We yearn and cry to Him.
Sad pilgrims, burdened with unshrlven
sin.
Oppressed, and cowering ’neath the chas-
tening rod.
We humbly seek the path His feet have
trod.
And strive to enter in.
His anger is so slow—tils love so great—
Tho' we have wandered In forbidden
ways.
Spurned and denied Him. all our fruit-
less days,
He calls us long and late.
We are so poor! Of all the squandered
years
We bring no tithes of oil. or corn, or
wine.
Nor any ottering to His spotless shrine.
Save penitential tears.
We are so friendless, in our abject need
We tan but cry to Him In bitter stress;
Vet He will not despise our nakedness.
Nor break the bruised reed.
Hard was the lot for His contentment
spread;
Rough was His garb, and rude His lent-
en fare;
In all the earth He had not anywhere
To lay his weary head!
His patience Is so long, His wrath so
slow,
Tho' mocked and scoffed. Insulted and
denied.
Beaten with many stripes, and crucified,
He will not bid us go.
By all the anguishe of His laden breast—
Tite bloody sweat—the sleepless agony—
The pangs and pennance of Gethsemane—
tie givc-th the weary rest.
Break In the dreary East, oh, morning!
Rise
With healing in thy holy wings, and
bring
Fruition of our hope—the promised
King.
And blameless Sacrifice!
A sudden pulse of waking life we hear
Throb la the hush of hollow glade and
dell;
The bills take up their olden canticle:
“Behold! The Pawn is near!"
And far against the soft snroral glow.
Peak over peak the kindling summits
burn;
The vales, rejoicing, seem to lift and
yearn
Thro’ curling mists below.
And far along the radiant heights of
morn
A sudden burst of choral triumph swells,
The sweet Te Deum o: an hundred bells—
And lo! “Messiah's born!"
And all the burden of our grief and sin
Is lifted from our souls forevermore.
As humbly Knocking at the Master s door
He bids us enter In.
The Dominie used to complain some-
times about the character of the stories
•he rest of us told. He said they were
too economical in their use of the ele-
ment of truth. And truth was so
cheap, and also so interesting, he
would say. We were always ready to
admit that It was interesting, but were
not so free to acknowledge it3 cheap-
ness. Like ether exotics it seemed to
us expensive. Fiction, being so much
more easily produced, appeared to hr
the true mental pr-'vender in the Corn
Cob Club, a soda! Institution where
we decided questions of great pith and
moment by the aid of the civilizing
and ennobling influence of tobacco in-
cinerated in cob-pipes. The Dominie
had quit smoking when he entered the
ministry, but ho always said I he cobs
smelt good, so we had hopes of his
reclamation: besides, the air was usu-
ally so thick that he ansorhed enough
to bring him up in a large measure,
to the high philosophic plane occupied
by the rest of us.
It happened on Christmas Eve that
somebody told a story appropriate
enough to the season so far as the sub-
ject went, but palpably impossible con-
sittered as a happening. At least the
Dominie said it v.as. and threatened to
tell a Christmas story himself; and
being counseled by the Professor, who
was classical in his language, to “blaze
■wav,” the good man complied as fol-
lows:
There uaed to be a young m»n
named Stanwix who was rector of a
church at a little town In New Jersey
ra'led Appleburg. Very amiable young
man. not long In the ministry, and un-
married. Nice-looking chap, too, and
a bright fellow, but he had bis trials
at Applebnrg. Mainly it was the wo-
olen—they thought be ought to marry
and of course th»y were right. But
thinking so wasn't enough for those
dear Appleburg ladies; with the true
feminine desire to help they resolved
to see that he did marry. But here
sgaln they showed a universal feml-
njM trait by refusing to combine sad
work together. They all labored hard
enough, hut Independently, and each
with a view to inducing the minister
to marry a different woman.
It had been going on thus for some
months when Christmas approached.
Now of course there isn’t much you
can give any man for Christmas—slip-
pers and pipes and shot-guns and slip-
pers. And in the case of a parson it's
still worse—you've got to drop oft the
pipes and shotguns, leaving only slip-
pers—and slippers. Of course there arc
book-marks and easy chairs, but the
first are trivial and the latter expen-
sive; besides, if he is unmarried ana
you are of the opposite sex, and in the
same state, you will see that you ought
to give him something made with your
own fair hands, and you can’t make an
easy chair. So slippers It had to be
for the Rev. M. Stanwix. especially
after his landlady had been sounded
on the subject and reported that the
poor man didn’t have a slipper to his
name.
Well, the result was, of course, that
the whole hundred and thirty-six mar-
riageable ladies at Appleburg went to
work on slippers; and a few of the
flock who already had husbands also
began slippers, out of the goodness of
their hearts, probably, or maybe think-
ing that they might be. widows some
day and might as well have a pair to
their credit. The slaughter of plush
and embroidery materials was some-
thing cyclonic, and the local shoe-
maker had to sit up nights pegging on
soles. Even unfortunate little Jane
Wilkinson went at a pair 'hammer and
tongs, though everybody said she
hadn't a ghost of a show. In the first
place Jane was too young—her older
sister Katharine was conceded to have
a right to enter for the contest, but it
was universally held that Jane had no
right to compete ut all. besides be-
ing too young—she was really nineteen
or twenty—she was also plain. She
might have a certain girlish prettiness,
but not the beauty which the wife of
so handsome a shepherd as the Rev.
Mr. Stanwix should have. Further-
more, Jane was in no other way adapt-
ed for the position—she had been a
good dc-al of a tomboy, and was yet, for
that matter; she was frivolous and
careless, and was always putting her
foot in it. The first time the pastor
had called at the Wilkinson house,
and while Katherine was entertaining
him in the parlor in the most ap-
proved and circumspect manner, Jane
had blundered in, and inside of five
minutes asked him why he didn't get
married—all the girls Bald he ought
to. Jane had explained to everybody
that she meant it as a joke, but it hao
generally been pronounced ill-timed
and in bad taste.
But poor Jane kept working away on
her slippers regardless of the talk
Everybody said that Jane’s slippers
wouldn't fit, or that they would both
be for one foot, or that she would get
the hepls sewed on the toe end. or
something. Jane finally put on the
finishing touches and then packed them
in a pasteboard box and tied it with
pink ribbon.
Then she got he- other Christmas
presents ready. Sh( had a lot of hand-
kerchiefs for an aunt, and a shopping
)-ag for a married sister, and a little
knit shawl for her grandmother, and
a pair of skates for a boy cousin, and
various other thing- for divers other
persons, including a fine meerschaum
pipe and a pound of his favorite smok-
ing tobacco for her brother who was
at college, and who wouldn't be home
till New Year's. Each thing sue care-
fully put up in a box or bundle and
laid It away.
‘1 he day before Christmas was a
never-to-be-forgotten time for the
Rev. Mr. Stanwix. Slippers just came
down on him like an Egyptian plague.
Along about four o'clock Stanwix
got crowded out of his room—slippers
piled half way to the ceiling—and had
For ten minutes nothing came, and he
was just starting down to ask the
landlady if she couldn't put a cot in
the hall so he could go to bed, when
in came another box. It was from
Jane—just her luck, of course, to bo
late and strike him when he was all
worked up to the bursting point. But
let us draw a veil over the scene right
here and leave the poor man alone as
he opens Jane's box.
It was not more than half-past nine
tho next morning when the Rev. Mr.
Stanwix mounted the Wilkinson steps
and tugged at the door bell. He asked
for Jane. It seemed rather queer, but
they ushered him into the parlor and
sent Jane in. Well, to make a long
story short, it wasn’t ten minutes
until he had the thing all fixed up. He
had his chair drawn close up beside
her end of the sofa.
"Jane," he was saying, “I've loved
you ever since the first day I saw you,
but I never knew it until I opened
your box.”
"Then you liked them, did you?
I'm so glad,” murmured Jane.
“I should say 1 did! Why, it’s one
of the finest meerschaums I ever saw,
and that tobacco used to be my favor-
ite brand at college. But, Jane, how
did you know I used to smoke, and
was dying to begin again?”
Jane had stopped breathing at the
word meerschaum. Now she caught
her breath, and for once in her life
rose to the occasion and didn’t put her
foot in it. She simply looked up at
him and smiled demurely.
“Oh, I guessed it,” she said.
“It wa3 the best guess you ever
made. I should have died last night
amidst that awful landslide of siippers
if I hadn’t smoked about half of that
tobacco. 1 mean to keep on smoking
how—that is, if you don’t object,
dear?"
Jane scored again.
"I rather like the smell of good to-
"MOVED INTO THE HALL.”
baeco," she said.—Saturday Evening
Post.
Ijl
WHY DON'T YOU GET MARRIED?"
to put a chair out in the hall and sit
theie with an alia* of the world In his
lap writing his Christmas sermon on
it Mighty tough sermon it was. too,
and got tougher as the slippers contin-
ued to arrive. Fact is. he was getting
pretty mad: and every new pair sent
M* temperature up five degrees. Con-
sequently. at ten o'clock he was just
boiling. Of course be couldn't swear
but tbe way he tramped up and down
that hall and ground bia teeth really
amounted to the same thing. The
arriving slippers now began to fall off.
lie Only Religion* Service.
An old Spanish church at Santa
Cruz.. Cal., has long since been aban-
doned to the bats and the rats. No
religious service is held there except
once a year—on Christmas Eve. Ex-
ternally the church looks like a stable
and has no furniture except a magnifi-
cent brass chandelier. The floor and
walls are if stone, and on the eastern
side there is a manger, looking through
the bars of which one sees the scenes
of nativity, with the towers of castles
and palaces in the distance. In the
foreground the Virgin sits by the man-
ger holding the Infant Savior, with
St. Joseph leaning over her and the
wise men offering sheep, oxen and
various precious gifts.
Outside this interior stable there are
Agues of men carrying sheep and
calves on th'-ir shoulders, hastening to
the sacred scene.
In this chapel worshipers remain all
night on their knees. The manger side
or ’he old church Is against the east
■ 1 high upon which is the only
window in the edifice, so that the first
rays of the morning sun irradiate the
scenes of the nativity, which come as
a roseate glow, and as soon as thi3
teaches the worshipers they leave the
church, light cigarettes and begin
their festivities.
No tnai Fan In Srotlamt,
In consequence of the Presbyterian
form of church government, as consti-
tuted by John Knox and his toadju-
lors on the model of the ecclesiastical
polity of Calvin, having taken such
Arm root in Scotland the festival of
Christmas, w th other ootr.nw-mo-alive
celebrations retained from the Roman
caiendar by tbe Anglicans 3ml Luth-
erans. is comparatively unknown in
’hat country, at least in the lowlands
The tendency to mirth and jollity at
.he close of the year, which seem*
•lmo-ii inherent in human nature, has
n north Britain been for the most
iart transferred from Christmas and
Christmas Eve to New Year's day and
e preceding evening, known by the
appellation of Hogmenay. In many
parts of the highlands of Scotland,
however, and also In the county of
Forfar, and one or two other districts,
the day (or general merry-making It
Christmas.
Washington, D. C., Deo. J4.—The in-
terior department has sent out a ruling
on proving up claims for townsite pur-
poses, which is here given.
“Department of the Interior, •
• “General Land office,
"Washington, D. C., Deo. 10, 1901.
"Register and Receiver, Lawton, O. T.
"Gentlemen:—Referring to the regis-
ter's letter of the S3rd instant, replying
to letter “A” of November 23, as to
jrour needs of blank form 4-301, appli-
cations to enter under cash system in
which you refer to section 22 of the act
Bf Moy B, 1890, (26 8tat., 81,) you are
advised that ou November 20, 1901, the
honorable secretary of the interior in
passing upon the application of Arthur
Y. Boswell for the commutation of his
homestead entry, under section 24 of
said act, held that commutations under
that act did not come under the pro-
visions of the general homestead and
townsite laws, under which entries
could be made in the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache reservations, and that,
therefore, commutation of homestead
entries for townsite pu-poses, under
section 22 of the aet of May 2, 1890,
could not be made in said reservations.
Very respectfully,
“B1NGER HERMAN,Commissioner”
Under this construction of the law,
Miss Beal and James R. Wood will be
prohibited from proving up theirclaims
at Lawton for townsite purposes.
They had published notices, and De-
zember 16 was the day set for their
proofs. It looks now like the only
thing they can do is to wait for the
expiration of the fourteen months limit
applicable to all lands.
The decision also effects a number of
projected townsites where the entry-
men expected to pay 810 per acre and
get a patent under the general town-
site law.
Froihet* In New York.
New York, Dec. 17.—Warm weather
pnd rain, followed by high winds, have
resulted in fearful damage all over
[New York state. The snows in the
Northern section* thawed rapidly caus-
ing the rivers and creeks to rise, and
£he valleys were inundated. Heavy
rain followed accompanied by wind of
great velocity. Trains were blocked
for hours, landslides were frequent and
in the. lowlands and valleys hundreds
of dwellings were flooded, while the
damage to farm lands and buildings is
very great. Few lives so far have been
lost.
At Troy the damage from wind and
rain is estimated at<850.1)00 and the
electric car service to Albany is sus-
pended.
Logs valued at 875.000 were swept
away on East Canada creek, north of
Herkimer.
Twenty bridges on the Lehigh val-
ley railroad south of Auburn were
washed away. These are taken from a
large number of reports recieved. Near-
ly all of Pennsylvania is suffering from
the floods.
Holiday Rate* Higher.
Topeka, Dec. 12. —Kansas railways
|iiave raised the holiday rate from one
fare to a fare and a third. The one-
fare rate was the rate last year, and it
applied to all points west of the Mis-
souri river. East of the Missouri river
the rate was a fare and a third last
year. The official announcement of
holiday rates has been made by the
Santa Fc, Rock Island and other roads.
The rates will be the same on all
roads.
MlMlonarle* Mast do It.
Constantinople, Dec. 17.—It is under-
stood here that the legations have
handed over the case of Miss Ellen M.
Stone and Madame Tsilka to the mis-
sionaries, in the hope that the latter
will he aL'.e to convince the brigands
that the sum subscribed in the United
States is the actual amount of money
availalilc for the ransom of the cap-
tives. It is reported that the authori-
ties at Washington have cabled to
Spencer Eddy, the United States charge
d'affaires, approving of this course.
Leave* It nil to Flynn.
Guthrie, Ok.. Dec. 14.—Governor Fer-
guson was asked the question as to
whether he would lie expected to make
endorsements for patronage in Oklaho-
ma. To this question lie replieu: “I
know notiiing about this matter, and
do not know whether my recommenda-
tion is expected or not. I would prefer
to leave all such matters to Delegate
Flynn, as I will probably have enough
business of my own to attend to. I
would very much prefer not to la1 mixed
up in Oklahoma patronage affairs.”
Attend an All-Hound Fraud.
Omaha, Dec. 17.—When Carl Athcno
wakes up from his five days' sleep lie
may lie confronted by two wives.
Athene, whose right name is said to lie
Mo.Mam gal. was buried alive in a grave
in a vacant downtown lot in hypnotic
sleep.
According to Mrs. Lottie McMnnigal
she is his lawful wife and the present
Mrs. Athcno is a usurper.
Atheno is the son of a physician of
the name of McMnnigal at Harper,
Kansas.
lntermllng AdUre** PromlMd.
Topeka. Dee. 12.—John M. Stahl,
editor of the Farmers’ Call of Chicago,
and for many years secretary of the
Farmers' National congress, will make
nn address in January la-fore the Kan-
sas Mate Board of Agriculture, with
the title of “Three New Farm Hands."
These new farm hands are free rural
mail delivery: the farm telephone and
elementary ngricnllure taught in the
district schools. The address will he
delivered in Representative hall proba-
bly on the evening of Jannarv 8
Monitors Tillman and MoLaurm, 01. wqa
Carolina, reopened tholr oqntroverny in to* ajfin-
atti. It aptiear* that Tillman d*ma*4a iflut
McLsurln lio ept out of the Democraticraijoui
of tits senate boonusa ho favora a prat*'Air*
tariff. Tho Inoidant gained late root among the
""Senator Fry (Maine) introduced h'« shi(
■ubNldv bill.
Senator Hoar (Maan.) Introduced a bill re-
questing the preddent. If he shall deenf It prac-
ticable. to nagotlato with other couhtrtM k
Jointly sot aside some Uland to which Mraopa
guilty of anarchistic act* or teachings shall M
sent and guarded; also a hill giving In* United
Htntei Jurisdiction of lynching, punishing that
crime with death.
Bills were Introduaed: Granting leg sons of
land for »b* use of industrial InillMtlqr- *—
ted on the publie domain: to prr
(mmlgnttibnt providing a code 01
1 or liol lawn for •
There wee a I urge attendance «n the houae to
hear ibe announcement of oommltteea*
■ IOHTH DAT.
The senate did little but routine butlnesa be*
fore going Into executive bourdon on tbe Ray*
Pftunoefoto treaty a nick met with full ap*
provnl. •
Senator Morgan introduced a bill providing
for tho construction of tho Isthmian canal. Ib
provides an aggregate of SlttJ.OfM.ngo. of which
$>,001),1100 it to be Immediately available.
There were more anarchy bllla Introduced, j
The houae adopted a concurrent resolution fop
a holiday recesH from Thursday, December 10,
to Monday, January ti.
Mr. Grow (Pa.) spoke tor an hour on tbs pros-
pective legislation for tho Philippines. He
argued that the ooniAjiutlon gave congress
power to govern the Philippine* accordiug to its
The house received from Secretary Gage a
liat of deficiency appropriations of several'
branches of the government service, aggrega-
ting $4.3n4,Q;m.
Mr. Ryan (X. Y.) has a hill authorizing the ^
stats department to expend suoti amount as ta Y
necessary to securo the ransom of Stone.
Mr. Wilcox (Hawaii) has a bill far the retiring
of tho Hawaiian silver coinage.
The house adjourned until Friday.
ninth DAT.
In the list of appointments confirmed by the
senate are J. M. simpson internal revenue col-
lector for Kansas, nnd William B Blghatn, of
Kansas, consul general nt Cape Town, South
Africa.
The Henatecommittee on the isthmian canal
bill reported favorably upon the bill provldlni
forgetting the right of way from Nicaragua ai
Costa Rica
The senate passed the house resolution to afiJ
Journ from December l» to January fl.
Tho new isthmian ransl treaty was discussed
by Senators Sjxxtner Money an&l Foraker Mr'
Money was not satisfied with tho treaty bus
would not oppose it.
Chairman Ray, of the house Judiciary com-
mittee. is to name a special committee to in-
vestigate the power4 of congress and report a
measure to punish attacks on the president, and
to neal with anarchists.
The Indian committee does not endorse the
secretary's suggestion that four men bo added
to the Dawes c.vr mission. Mr. Curtis will in-
sist that the commission be reduced to one man
Inst o<l.
Mr Jackson (Kansas) 1ms a bill to raise the
pensions of veterans who have passed the age
or To.
TENTH DAT.
The house committoe on Interstate and for-
eign commerce decided upon a favorable report
on the Hepburn bill tor the construction of the
Nicaraguan cunal and the chairman was direct-
ed to urge prompt action upon it by the house.
Mr. Cur is (Kansas) has introduced a bill for
payment 01 overtime labor to about 00 laborer*
at Fort Leavenworth for several years past,
Mr. Scott (Kansas) h»is u bill authorizing the
imposing of license and occupation tax on per-
sons engaged In commerce outside their states.
Mr. Caiderheud (Kansas) presented petitions
asking for mii amendment to the constitution de-
fining legal marriage.
Mr. Calderhead has a bill which provides for
pensions to the lSth and l'Jth Kansas cavalry
volunteers.
There is a bill in the house granting right of
wav and alternate sections of land for u trans-
Alaskan railroad from look's Inlot to Bering
Strait, HV) miles. This is the rond that
General Manager Frey, of the Santa Fe, Is at
the head of.
Trains Meet at Full Speed.
Rockford, 111., Dec. 17.—Failure on
the part of a conductor to obey orders
is supposed to have been the cause of a
head-on collision on the Illinois Gen*
tral railroad between Irene and Perrys
ville. The two trains were the east--
bound passenger train No. 4 and a
through freight from Chicago, going*
w^st. As a result, eight people are
dead or missing and eleven Injure-.
Both trains were at full speed when
they met on a curve.
Cattle From Galveston.
Galveston, Dec. 17.—When the Brit-
ish steamship Ikbal, of the Gulf Trans-
port line, sails, which will be inside of
a week, she will take as part of her
cargo 300 fat cattle for Liverpool.
These cattle will be brought here from
Fort Worth by rail the day before the.
steamer is to sail. It is an experimen-
tal shipment, ami if it proves profitable
to the shippers other and larger ship-
ments will be made.
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Indian* May U*m Mineral Band.
Guthrie, Okla., Dee. 17.—The Indian
agent of the Kiowa an.l Comanche
tribes have received a decision of the
attorney general of the United States
that valuable mineral deposits, which]
may be found upon land allotted inj
severalty to an Indian are not with-l
held from the allottee or reserved to
the United States and that they cannot
be acquired under the mineral law, but
that such land may, with approval of
the ccommissioner of Indian affairs be
leased by the allottee tinder the general
statute relating' to the giving of mining
leases by Indian allottees.
Sued Mai non Keeper For Daumgr*.
Guthrie, O. T., Dec. 16.—\Y. H. Davis,
a farmer living in this county, has in-
stituted a suit in the district court
against .1. C. Anient 31 To. and the Fi-
delity Deposit Company, their sureties,
for damages amounting to 81,000.
Davis avers that Ament «fc Co. sold
liquor to his 15-year-old son; that ho
became intoxicated and bruised his
father and mother thus endangering
their lives.
Archil la It op 4'lmppelle Itrtaroi
New York, Dee. 17.—Archbishop
Chappclle, of New Orleans, lately papal
delegate to the l’hilippines, has return-
ed from Europe. Mgr. Chappellc was
sent to Manila by the pope in 1899, all
the suggestion of President McKinley,1
to settle the friar question. On tho
way home he stopped at Rome, and he
will make his report to President
Roosevelt. The arehbiahop declined to
discuss his mission abroad before mak-
ing his report to the Washington
authorities.
PfMt talven K««ilhl*|,
Guthrie. Dee. 12.—The policy of th*
new administration in regard to public
affairs will be to give every official act
out to the press of the territory. In
order that the people will have an op-
portunity of knowing what is being
done. The reports from all the de-
partments will be given on* and gen-
eral information which has never been
placed before tbe public, in regard to
the affairs of the territory will beoomfe
public property In the columns of the
newspaper*.
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