The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 21, 1904 Page: 2 of 12
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Muskogee Ci meter.
W. H. TWINE Editor.
MUSKOGEE
IND. TER.
NEW STATE NOTES.
Yalo will Celebrate her Beconri an
nlvorsary with a picnic August Js'
mid 2d.
W. J. Sullivan has boon appointed
travoling freight und passenger ngcnl
of the Mldlaud Valley road ut Mu
kogce.
The town ol Phillips a suburb ol
Coalgulo has petitioned the United
States court at Atoka for authority t
Incorporate.
The city council at Hobarl has
levied a tax at the rato of seventeen
inllls. Fou i mills aro for water ami
for fire supply.
The Missouri Kansas & Texas Rail-
road company has suffered more from
Tijgh water in Kansas and the Indian
Territory this year than over before
j.ln tiro history of that line.
iM. Tho five-year-old child of Bryant
i 4 Church living near Stroud was In
Htantly killed by falling under the
. wheels of a steam thresher last week.
Jim Phillips while resisting arrest
at McLoud was shot by MaYshal Mc-
Coy. Tho bullet struck Phillips In
tho lower jaw fracturing that pari
-ol' his anatomy.
I
t. According to tho Democrat EIReno
will havo a proposition for a packing
1 house presented shortly. If tho meat
workers' stiiko continues long It may
-' bo a good thing.
Twonty-fivo men wcro mustered
into service at Tulsa last week by
' Lieutenant F. It. Kenney of tji?
' United States army corps.
" J. M. Bryan in custody at llolmrf
' since May Jst for tho murder of r
' neighboring farmer has been roleased
on a $10000 bond pending tho con.
x' veiling of the grand Jury.
Cloo is to have a cotton gin. II.
W. Hutchinson one of her on.'rprlsi
. Ing citizens has purchased the m
chlnory and will have it in operation
J'or the coming crop.
Those Interested hi holding n
county fair in Roger Mills county
will moot at Berlin on the 23d Inst
o select a place and time and mako
othor arrangements.
"While laboring in tho harvest field
Mrs.".lnmcs Tish of Woods county
sufforcd a sunstroke and as a result
has lost her mind. Slio has been
takon to tho asylum for the insane.
Indian Agent Shoenfelt who 13 In
Washington is arranging for tho pay-
ment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
. town site fund to tho members of
thoso tribes of Indians. Tho sum ag-
gregates about $-10 por capita to oyorv
man woman and child In tho Choctaw
- . and Chickasaw nntlons.
W. 13. Halley has begun boring for
oil on tho Goddard place south of
South McAlescer. Tho contract is to
Blnk a well 2000 foot unless ou in
paying quantities Is struck soonor.
. This Is tho first exploration for oil in
tho vicinity of South McAlestor in
lifteen years.
Ilighwater of tho Cpttonwood under-
mined tho plant of tho Guthrie Gas
Manufacturing company causing tho
walls of Its building to fall. The plant
ivas- butM'ecqntly orected at a cost of
Uojodo. - Worlunon havo begun re-
pairing tho damage which will bo
largo.
BEE STINGS CURED RHEUMATISM
Fortunate Farmer First to Prove Effi-
cacy of Remedy. f
Thcro was an invalid farmer near
Franklin Mass. "was. an invalid far-
mcr" now is a vigorous one1 Harri-
son Willoughby. For yoara he had
been a sufferer from acuto rheuma-
tism and in tho nervousness ho know
ho said at night "would God tho day
wcro hero and said at dawn would
God tho day were dead."
It happened that a few weeks ago
ho wandered amid tho bee hives of a
neighbor swinging along on hip
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AliMMil A DtE hWE MCllViHCi 4TlfK IiUiT CulUO
tuner t&JCUMrtIiOM
crutches. Ono of tho supports weir
Into a soft bit of ground he lurchei
sideways ho tipped over a hive.
Instantly about tho man helpless
to run away swarmed tho angry cloud
of honey makers and their warriors
ito madly unfortunately strove to
neat them" off. They launched sting
after sting Into his skin he became
semi-unconscious from agony.
Finally pcoplo came and rescued
him. He was put to bod and the phy-
sicians applied soothing limo water
and tho other things they kno.w but
they said they had little hope that
Mr. Willolighby could survive the tor-
riblo stings.
But he did pull through and ono
morning ho was thirsty. There was
no ono nbar and before ho know It
ho had jumped out of bed and gone
to tho bathroom.
As he raised tho water to his lips
ho thought of something and almost
dropped tho glass. Whore was that
rheumatism?
And truly with tho going away of
tho Irritation of the boos' stings had
the rheumatism gone too.
So Willoughby is a well man to-
day and whilo ho admits that tho
remedy was heroic ho says ho Is stilj
thankful to thoso boos.
Had No Need to Peep.
E. E. Rice is famous in theatrical
Annuls for tho "Amazonian Marches"
which ho featured in his various at-
tractions. Ono night thoro was n
groat commotion behind the scones
and Mr. Rico wont back to investi
gate. He found a
scared youth in
p o r i 1 of rough
usago at tho hands
of an indignant
mob of scene shift-
ers. "Now what is
the troublo?" do-
mai'dcd the mana-
ger after effecting
a heroic rescue.
"I I was only
peeping Into ono
of tho drosslnn
rooms" gasped tho terrified youth.
"Humph!" commented tho manager
who perceived that tho offondor had
boon sufficiently punished. '-'I will
mako you out a pass for a seat In tho
parquet. You will havo a hotter view
there." New York Times.
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SI SI
Rattlesnake Put Up Fight.
While on tho road from Allenstown
N. H. to Manchester Thomas W.
Lano notlcod a black object in tho
road. Taking his whip from the
socket ho npproachod tho object
which proved to bo a rattlesnake. Mr.
T.ano attacked tho snako and was sur-
prised to soo it strlko boldly In rmls-
tonco. Raining blows upon tho roplilo
Mr. Lano retreatod. Fully fifteen feet
of ground war. covorod In tUo retrent
boforo tho mako wv kllll. Tho
snako was killed. Tho suako was a
larpro one and had nlre rattles.
MOTH CAUSE OF EPIDEMIC.
Residents of Boston Suburbs Smart-
inn Under Visitation.
A now epidemic from a wholly un-
looked for quarter has for the past
fow wecks been spreading among tho
peoplo in tho more open sections of
Somcrvillo tho Newtons Arlington
Watertown Waltham and nearly tho
whole of tho rural locality north of
Ooston until hundreds of people liv-
ing In tho vicinity of the swarming
places of tho brown-tall caterpillars
WHY TOM "LOST INTEREST."
fH
antXjti
Magnified Spines of Brown-Tailed
Moth
aro already suffering from Its ravages
and recently so many now cases havo
boon added to tho list that tho epi-
demic has now begun to .bo regarded
most seriously.
Reports from the board of health in
Nowton from Somervillo and from Ar-
lington all agree that tho painful skin
disease caused by tho flying spines of
tho thousands of caterpillars swarm-
ing in those districts lias already been
tho cause of great annoyance and suf-
fering. Tho epidemic is caused by tho
minute spiked hairs of tho brown-
tailed caterpillar coming in contact
with tho skin of people living in tho
infested districts.
A Mexican "Wonder.
JTho physicians of tho Juarez hos-
pital had something very unusual to
talk about all day recently. Ramon
Esplnosa who was murdered some
threo or four days ago was taken to
tho hospital for an autopsy.
When tho physicians were sawing
tho skull tho saw touched a strange
object and as tho physician attempted
to contlnuo -his work tho saw was
broken In two pieces. Another saw
was brought and tho skull opened
when It was found that tho strange
object was a big steel pleco half tho
blade of a knifo that evidently had
been there for years. Even tho 'scar
produced by tho wound had already
disappeared from tho man's forehead.
How this man could llvo with the
stool pleco In his skull Is .something
that physicians hnvo been unablo to
oxplaln. Mexican Herald.
Monkey Trap.
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feiA.
Would Attend Church but He Didn't
Like "de Pastorage."
Maj. E. T. D. Myers president of
tho rich littlo road over whose rails
all southbound trains must run be-
tween Washington and Richmond has
a family servant a butler to whom
he is much attached.
Tom" is prominent In all matters
concerning his church and it was
therefore with
somo surprise that
the major discov-
ered him cleaning
silver one Sunday
afternoon recently
during church
hours.
"Tom" ho said
"what in thunder
aro you doing
there? Why aren't
you at church?"
"Ain't had time
tuh go dls even-
ing Major sun."
"Nonsense" answered tho major
testily. "You always havo time to go
to church. Stop dawdling thero and
be off with you. Are you a backslid-
er?" "Nawsuh dat I ain't" answered
Tom. "De chu'eh suits me mighty
well. I'se a Dickon in hit en I laiks
de music en de prars en do solemn-
ness; but tell you de trufe Major I
don't like do pastorage en dat's
hoccum I'se lost Intrust." New York
Times.
Tho greedy monkey Is thus mado an
easy captive for having once grabbed
the nut ho holds on and cannot with-
draw his hand.
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Immense Cr.sk Made in California.
A cask recently constructed for a
California firm has put tho famous
tun of Heidelberg completely In tho
background. It is mado cf California
red wood throughout and the selec-
tion of tho timber and making re-
quired two years. Eleven out of
every twelve trees selected wero re-
jected as unsuitable. Two ontire
trains of wagons were needed to con-
vey the selected timber to tho vine-
yard. Tho hoops of the cask which
aro of tho finest steel weigh eighteen
tons whilo the completed cask ls"38
feet high and 78 foot in circumfer-
ence and large enough to form a
three-story house where 300 people
could dine in comfort.
Ancient English Pastime.
A curious clause taking ono right
back to tho middle ages appoars In
the title deeds of a house in tho vil-
lage of Offham in Kent Eng. This
Is that tho owner of tho house must
keep In good repair tllo village quin-
tain which still swings on Us stout
oaken post boforo the house.
One end of tho swinging crossbar
of this quintain (said to be tho only
surviving specimen in England) is
shaped liko a squaro target pierced
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-'" i?mo-& va.
England's Last Quintain
with a number of holes into which tho
point of the player's lance would en-
ter. When struck It would swing around
and unless the player wore nlmblo tho
sandbag hung on tho other end of tho
crossbar would swing around aud un
seat him.
Blossoms on Dead Limb.
A rather remarkablo curiosity can
be seen In tho orchard of the" Dresser
Stevens placo at Newmarket N. II.
During ono of tho severo storms of
laat winter a large limb was broken
off of an applo treo and lies upon tho
ground. Tho apparently dead limb
with not a loaf on it Is covered with
blossoms
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