The Durant Weekly News (Durant, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 50, Ed. 1, Friday, December 15, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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The Durant Weekly News
LEWIS PAULLI
Editor and Proprietor.
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Pffico of Publication North
Avcnuo Durant I. T.
Third
Vorily this is a groat old world
wo live in ; a world whore a man
gots fivo yoars for stealing Bomc-
thing to oat and two years for an
attompt to kill a follow-being;
whoro tho courts hound down tho
potty pilforor or the man who
has stolon S10 giving him tho full
penalty while tho man whoso
farm loans 1 Christmas Is Nearly Here
Kntoredat tho Postoffico at Durant as peculations amount to thousands
Hocond Class Mall Matter. of dollars gets the lightest son-
Terms of Subscription.
WEEKLY.
One Year
Six Months
Three Months..
$1.00
.60
.25
DAILY EDITION.
-by Mall Ono Year.
nniiw-
Dally by Mall Six Months
rioii. hv Mull Throe Months.
Dally Delivered Per Mor.th. 40
$3.50
1.85
1.00
Bubscribore doslrlng the address of
thoir papers changed will please glvo
both the old and now addressos.
Telephone No. 71.
DURANT I. T. DEC. 8 1005
tonoo;v whoro a United StatoB Sen
ator is given six months for
bribery and tho man without a
"pull" is given from two to five
yoars for tho same offense
Lowest Rates Best Terms
' See us before borrowing money
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on your "surplus IaitUs.
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Get a Useful Present
"- for Your Family
PERMITSJO PAIR
List of Those Who Apply to Deputy
Clerk Stone For License.
The Jerintyg Com'y
Office with Farmers National Bank
Durant
Indian Territory
Tho National Ginnerd' Associa-
tion in its report mado publio
from Dallas yesterday in lioates
a total crop of 0023000 bales
-wiHi 8480000 ginned up to Deo-1 Buj
mber 1st. me crop u iui j-
Sinou the Nows' lust report of I
marriage liconse issued Deputy
Clerk Stone hus registered the
following in his big book:
J. M. Carroll of Fleetwood to
MiBs Annie G. Gunkle of Caney.
Robert H. Elrod and Miss Dora
Absher Kemp.
T. A. Ru89ell and Miss Lola
ed is 92.4-10 per cent and
cent has been ginned
88 per 1
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ANOTHER RICH-
MOND IN FIELD
Contest May Develop an Entirely New
Han For Place.
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man ; his reputation as a student
and theological eoholar was
world-wide and tho Baptist do-
nomination all over tho world will
feel and mourn his loss.
His death ooourred Sunday
night of lust week.
My stock efCape and Tobogans is oomple. 9-?kJ55&oi
et those NIoo Ruga. A good pair of Shoes 'jjfS
doubto too nakos a good presont. Don't wrim
wait but como now. Initial Hand-
kerchiefs. Evorythlng at
Lowe 1. Prloos '
SEB OUR CHRISTMAS TREE V '
HAYNE5I
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A HUNTING LODGE
P resident Roosevelt settled tho
long-drawn -nut fight over tho
appointment of the judges of tho
Indian Torritory yesterday by
sending nominations to tho senate
f.r jinh of the four districts.
Judge Charles V. Raymond for
tho Western or Muskogee Dist-
rict is to be Buocoeded by William
R. Lawronoe of Illinois his
friend and neighbor and alBO a
resident of the famous Cannon
district while a switoti is made
and Luman F. Parker is sent to
the Northorn district. Judges N.
H. H. Clayton of tho Cen-
tral and Hosea Towntend
of lho Southorn district were re-
appointed. BEN BUGG PARDONED.
The toariui letter of Ruth Bugg
a 9-year-old gr.1 struok a re-
sponsive chord in the heart of
Governor Hooh of Kansas Sat-
urday and he pardoned Ben
Bugg from the penitentiary over
the proteBtof 200 members of tho
Ami Horse-thief Association.
B..gg was sent to the peniten-
tiary in 1003 from Crawford
AuBtin Clark labor r is lying
very ill at tho Texas house auf-
fering from lagrippe and homor'
rhages. Ho iB being looked af-
ter by tho local lodge Jof Odd
Fellows (if which organization
ho is a member. Clark is also a
member of the sooial
Rebekahs and of tho United
Benevolent Association. Ho hus
no lolativesin Durant but an
unole from Terrell Tex. is ex-
pected to visit him. Heisahard
working man honest and up-
right and is deserving of help.
The contest for the D.dlriot At
torneyship for tho Co .tral District Party of Durant Citizens Propose Its
Ol iiiuiuu iurnturv uu-o uoo
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R. HALLSELL ...
SHOWS BAD SOCIAL CONDITION.
somewhat complicated by the
announcement that a gentleman
named Walker has entered the
lists indorsed by Secretary Taft.
Mr. Walker was formerly a resi-
ordor of aont ol vnio ana w bwu w imvo
lived in the Territory only a lew
weeks. Mr. WilkinB tho incum-
bent is an applioant for reap-
pointment and it is reported ho
will be in Washington this week
to present his claimB to the Do-
partment of Justice. T. B. La
tham of Antlers huB the indorse-
ment of tho Republican Commit
tee of the Territory. Mr. Wil-
kins' term will expire Jan. 10.
Establishment in Jacks Fork.
Denison Paper Deplores the Exodus
of Girls From Domestic Callings.
It is oertainly a sad comment
on the sooial condition of this
country and a matter that the
women's clubs might do well to
look into when girls flock to tho
telephone exohanges and to
clerkships of almost any kind
rather than to domestic work or
similar occupations solely be
cause of the social possibilities.
Girls employed in telephone ex-
ohanges or stores and offices are
From Saturday's Dally.
In Durant there are a number
of sportsmen who annually" fe'-l
the foroe of the oall of the wild
when big game is in season and
a oompany is being oiganized to
purohase a tract of land to be
used as a poi manent game preserve-
; Tbo gentlemen heading the
' movement an- A. C. Risner
Charlie Colbert D. B. Pugh
Lewis Paullin Pat L oney and
iTom W. Hunter of Boawl .
.Others will be enlisted in the
movement.
It is the purpose of th s oorapa
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. WillFbpeu a private Bohool in the Wst half of
the Opera Rousa September 1. This school
will.be operated in connection with the Du-
rant Prnctioal Business College thereby af-
fording an opportunity to complete tho busi-
ness and literary education at the same time.
Of late the Nows has had con-
siderable to sav of the mammoth
turnips on the Durant market (ny to pui chase about 10000 acres
turnips raised in Durant. Bat- ;oi iana in ne-.1 a-mo rum muu.i-
urday evening W. M. Bondies tains west of Kasomo on the
sent to this office four very large main lino of the Frisoo from
ones gathered at random from Paris to Fort Smith. The eoun-
hiafrnrdnn. Tho fnnr wein-h 24A . t y is exceedingly mountainous
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pounds the largest tipping tho
beam at 7i pounds.
Hours of study from 8'to4.
week dbvoted to review and
to nebate. . . .
One night eaoh
Saturday night
R. R. HALLSELL
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tjountyfor stealing a can of lard ao(Jordod 80oial feo0gnition that
farmer'd smoke-house. 1
out of
m.. 1 . U .m anarttnll
more Boome-i w u Dwv"" 'oo-upations
"pull in tavor oi duh uuBB ex-
cept his little eistor's letter. Sho
said that her big brother was
needed at home; that unless he
could come pretty soon their
fathr and mother would not live
to see him. "Both of them have
to have the dootor" says the lit-1
tie girl and the dootor says
"that no medioine that he can
give them will do them as muoh
gojd as to have Ben home again.
They are almost heart-broken.
Please Mr. Hooh lot my brother
c me homeland. G.od will bless
you."
That was wnat the little sis-
those who are engaged in manual
are not. Honest
labor of any kind is not a thing
! to be ashamed of or to be looked
down upon askance by any one
and is far moro honorable than
idleness however well idleness
can be afforded. Denison Gazet
teer.
GREAT MAN
PASSED AWAY
Eminent Baptist Divine Dies at His
Home in Kentucky.
and is an ideal hunting place.
Fish and game are to be found
there in abunda ice and after the
reserve is fenced the yearly in-
crease of game will furnish splon-
1 did sport for the members of the
lodge.
TR01IBLE0N
FREIGHT TRAIN
;
TERRITORY
TEACHERS
ter of Ban Bugg wrote to the
governor 01 Kansas ana it wua
full of tears.
But
The protest from the A. H. T.
A waa entirely different. It was
y .id of feeling for anything ex
oept that thoy wanted Ben Bugg
t- servo a sentence of fivo years
for stealing a can of lard. They
had not a thought of the poor old
father and mother fretting and
grieving their lives away in a
little oottago on the Kansas prai-
rie. What did thoy oaro for the
tearful appeal of the little 0-year-old
girl whon a law and order
league liko tho A. H. T. A. was
likely to be turned down; likely
to see one of thoir viotima of dis-
torted justioo turned loose by the
big-hearted Kansas governor
that he might go home and com
fort hia aged parents and care for
Will Hold Annual Meeting at South
town Dec. 28-30.
Local Baptists are in mourning
over thp .death of on.e of tho lead
ing theologians of the denom
ination Rev. J. N. Hall at Ful-
ton Ky. Dr. Hall was editor of
tije 'Baptist Flag published at
Fulton 'and president of tlm
Baptist Publication Society Lit-
tle Rook. Ho was taken eiok at
Toxurkana and at onoe started
jTrio
of Train Riders Make Rough
House in Box Car.
From Saturday'a Dally.
Yesterday as a through freight
was pulling south on the Katy
between Caney and Caddo throe
train riders had a difficulty in a
To The Farmers
Wo aro after you with a long pole on the end
of which aro bargains and values unmutchablo. "
Wo havo just received our fall line of Dry Gods
Clothing- Boots Shoes Hats Caps Notions
Etc. everything in wearing apparel for roon
women children and babied. This store was
nevor so chock full beforo all new and up-to-date.
We bought early and bought cheap and
wo are-selling them tho samo way. We want
your trade. Wo will not be undersold. Come
and teb us- show you and price you.
Townsend & Company
Durant Ind. Ter.
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INDIGESTION'S RECOBJ)
The annual mei-ting of the In-
dian Territory Teaohois' Asso-
ciation at South MoAlestor Deo.
28-30 promises to be largest
meeting of sohool men ever
held in the Indian Territory. The
boat men of the territory havo
already accepted places on the
program and others havo prom-
ised to attend.
Two evening lectures will be
espeoial features of the program.
President A. C Scott of Still-
water Oklahoma is one of tho
ablest school men of the South-
west. Dr. Win. L Burdiok of
the Law Sohool of KansaB will
deliver his lecture: "The Ele
ments of True Greatness" on
Friday evening.
Rates will be given on all rail-
roada on thte certificate plan. The
tha UttU aiefeS whose plea. was. program' will be rendored in a
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box car. in which one man was
homo arriving there only fourBhot in tho leg the bone be.
hours bofore death beckoned him in .av nwtornfl hv thnhn.ll.
aoross the dark Btream. I As soon as the train came to a
Dr. Hull was a groat and gopd stop tho party who did the 8noot.
it""' "" ing wont back to the caboose and
'surrendered to the train orew.
When the train readied Cadd)
the men wore turned over to the
officers who took them bauk to
Atoka.
It appears that the man who
did the shooting had money and
the other two were trying to hold
him' up for it. He wouldn't
stand for the game and put a pe-
riod to the transaotion as above
stated.
Give us
Your Money
w
HEN we deliver the
goods and we'll givo
you more groceries than any
store in town can givo you.
Buying for cash and selling
for oash makes us able to do
this. What other mvrohanta
lose in bad debts we givo to
our oustomers in in goods. A
great many people l"ok to this
store for thoir supplies they
have solved tho problom of
good grooerios and economy.
It is now up to you Good'
groceries and more for your
money than any store in town.
E. Q. Howard
-Durante 1 Busy Grooer-rl
Tha Lauderdale (nejrro) school at
Blrmlntham Ala. burned. It wob val-
ued at $45000. Hy hundred boarding
pupil escaped..
Near Shawn. OkU.. a team of mules
ran away. Their owner P. M. Renau ;
was thrown against a tree ana haa ills
head mashed to a pulp.
Ii. D. Berry charged 'with blowing
open the safe in bank at Owl I. T
which was robbed of $3000 was arrest-
ed at South MjcAlester.
Four men have been jailed at Many
La. They art charged with the mur-
der of a man named McGregor and
wife In November 1901.
Willie Tarver a little boy at At-
lanta Tex. was accidentally but se-
riously shot by a revolver In tho hands
of his brother A. D. Tarver
In response to a command to throv
up his hands Railroad Agent It. L.
Klrkwood at Hernando Miss. killed
the wouldbe highwayman with a shotgun.
Lemuel Lynch was shot and killed
at Bedford Ind. by Benjamin Rhoadeo
The latter alleges Lynch was intoxi
cated and was trying to visit his niece
at Rhoades' residence.
slliit
No Opium in Chamberlain's 5 i
Remedy.
There is not the least danger in
giving Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy o small children - as it
contains no opium or other harm-
ful drug. It has an established
reputation of more then thirty
years as the most successful med-
icine in use for colds croup and
weooping.coulh. It always curae
and4s rfaMatotKei.-ChndrWSi..W "SPS?
like it. Sold by aU-'druggtets;. .gyF.:i";1 ;
Still After Motqultoei.
Havana Dec. 11. Although yellow
fever is apparently on the decrease the
disinfection and mosquito eradicating
brigades am being largely Increased
With a view t entirely stamping out
the dlieaae.
Sent a f htgr.wur.
New Terlc Dec. 11 Mrs. The4ore
RacvlV seat a- hetafvure ' W 'tbt
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"Tbelwrt remedy 1 cau preterit for your In-
digestion madam U Green's AUKUtt Flower.
I knot ut neveral otlici pbyiclau who pre-
ecribe it regularly."
Indigestion Is making an awful record
as a cause of sudden deaths. It is beat-
lug heart-failure In its ghastly harvest. .
JJYou read in the papers daily of uppor
ently healthy and even robust men being
suddenly attacked with acute Indigestion
after enjoying a hearty meat and of their
dying in many cases before a physician
could be called in.
tJThis should be a warning to you who
suffer with regular or periodical attacks
ofludtgestion If these unfortunate vic-
tims of acute indigestion had taken a
small dbse of Green's August Flower be-
fore or after their meals they would not
have fallen a prey to such sudden seizures.
August PJower prevent Indigestion by
creaUnggood digestion. ' It also regulates
the liver purifies the Wood and tones up
the entire syntem lit a natural way. t
(Twu Utu. 43c and 75c All druggitu.
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