The Democrat. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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!3is - Dsmocrat. f ^enkkal news.
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Mort L. BlacJor, TCd^r-
NORMAN, • • • OK. Ti
The fraternity existing araonjj
lawyers is sweet to behold- When
one of the craft claims a #2.0.0')) fee,
getting others to swear that it is just
ami r**a-t< aolt i* the least of his
difficulties.
For thrashing a New York police-
man Fred May spent six years in ex-
ile and has just paid %•> >') line, still,
the policeman wa well thrashed end
Mr. May it -aid to have derived
much pleas ti ce from the occasion.
AlkeaDY base ball gossip is be-
ginning to ba numerous. America
is a great country for national
games —marhleo in the spring, base
ball, tennis and cro juet all summer
long, yachting in the early fall, foot-
ball ti:i Thanksgiving time, skating
and ice polo in the winter and poker
ail tho time.
IIakih.v a day pa*-es without tho
report of a train robbery somewhere.
Hut the reports of the capture of the
robbora aro few and far between.
'1 rain robbery is altogether too nafo
a business in this country. Any man
who will devise some means to make
it more dangerous will gain the grat-
itude of the nation.
As iron chimney ninety foot long
and forty-eight inches in diameter,
constructed lor a manufacturing es-
tablishment in Providence, was
raised by riggers1 tackle the other
day und set on end ready for use
Civilization will yet enable us to
take down the chimney and clean it
as well as tho stove.
As Oakland man having bacn
bumped into by an electric car de-
rived much pleasure from thrashing
the conductor and motorman. Then
ho sued for damages, and tho fact of
his prowess knocked out his case,
lie now estimates the cost of this
fleeting pleasure at $1,0 J J, and
wishes he had refrained.
An eminent scientist. Professor
Starr of Chicago, says that tho
"Xhlte raco Is doomed to extinction
and that tho Mongolians will over-
run tho globe. Possibly true. Hut
the Mongolian seems to want to bo-
fin overr nning before tho process
of extinction has reached a stago to
warrant it. ii the earth Is to be his,
can't ho wait a little?
Mil Brown, of Bangor, having
shot Air. Peters, took tho body to its
late homo in a wheelbarrow and
dumped it in tho front yard. If
Brown intended this act of courtesy
to mitigate his offense there is roason
to beliovo that he will discover a
painful lack of appreciation. Tho
world has not yet been educated up
to humor so grim as Brown1!.
Mrs. Mvyeruk. the jAmorican
woman who is serving a life term in
nn English prison for poisoning
her husband, doesn't lack stanch and
steadfast friends, at <tlI events. New
ovidenco of a startling nature has
been discovered, her counsel nay.and
it is hoped that even English con-
servatism will not long resist a mo-
tion for a new trial iii the ease.
A ClltCAOO soup house which had
been feeding 2,00J porsons daily do-
cided to require a few hours' work as
a return fcr its hospitality, and on
tho day following tho announcement
1,500 of the patrons failed to put in
an appearance, which would seem to
indicate that a great many soldiers
in tho army of tho unemployed are
not ready to takeout their discharge
[tapers.
Tiikke is a very small herd of buf-
falo still in oxlstenc j in Colorado,
and now it is reported that another
small one has boon found. This
species of animal is aim >st extinct,
and tho government should tako
somo action to prevent tho fow that
are still left from being d >stroyed.
If some precaution' is not taken the
buffalo will soon bo as extinct as tho
mastodon.
The defensive measures taken by
several senators against u Now
Jersey crank who has sent threaten-
ing letters will only stir up other
(•ranks, and tho probability is that
public men at Washington will be
bombarded with such missives. Tho
prudent course for tho throatoncd
htatcHuon to have pursue:! was to
keep the inAUer a profound secret
afld'prWure the arrest of tho crank
by government detectives.
Once more tho annual complaint
made that there is no gonuino ora-
tory in congress. Tho claboruto ora-
torical splurge, tho rhetorical pyro-
technics of an earlier day, is now
considered ns much out of place as
11 rear Ackers in a workroom. Con-
gress is a business holy, and most of
jts work is done in tho committee
room, where the flamboyant rhct >rl-
ci n is given but little toleration.
llHVotgH^s doos just as much work
us it used to, whou it talked more.
A woman convicted of vitriol-throw-
ing immediately burst into tears, so
the chronicles of a certain county
relate. Tho act was becoming, but
• tardy. Her time to burst effectively
lial passed when she had uncorked
tbo bottle.
Warren Laud of New Bedford,
Mass., father of ox Governor Ladd of
Rhode Island, had the dubious pleas-
ure of reading a column obituary of
himself in a Boston paper. Mistakes
will occur even in tho American cen-
ter of culture.
The Choctaw tribe has developed
a professional hugger, who embraces
«vury woman ho can lay his hands
on, without regard to race, color or
previous condition of servitude. Tho
feasibility oi civilizing tho Indian is
rto longer a mooted problem.
VlIEl footpads get ho bold that
they will rob a lady of her sealskin
t%ea it is time for an ucvlve defense,
home husbands would doubtless go
t > tho extreme of advocating a ces
nation of the purchase oi nealskinj
wherewith to lempt the highwayman
A motion his Wen made in the
fhancery court to sell the Memphis- j
A p p*-al-A va lane he by the trustee*.
Vleaars. A. L). Liwynn and IL J. Mor- j
gan.
Mrs. Sarah A. Clevejand was
burned to death in LaUrknge, ( a..
Kriday night. She fell asleep before !
the fl«-u and the flames caught her
Ires*.
Florence Mulahy. aged 2 years, and
Martin Moore, aged GO vcars. were
iiiiTocated by smoke during a fire that
broke out at So. 71 Pearl street, New
York City Thursday night.
Burglars blew open the large safe
in thel-'raoklin <#r.>vo. III, bank Thurs-
day night and made away with every-
thing of value in the vault. The loss
in cash and papers i estimated by the
bank oQiciiis to lie 935,000.
The oflieial inquiry into the canee
of the Louisville A- JeJTersonville
bridge disaster will begin next Mon-
day tnorning.at 10 o'clock. The coro-
ner has impaneled his jury and sum-
moned about forty witnesses.
The resignation of Captain Thrash-
er, who has been for four years Cnit-
ed States revenue agent, lately in
charge t,f Tennessee and Kentucky,
has been accepted to take effect Janu-
ary ft. His successor is Major Clark, a i
St. Louis roan.
The Red Star steamship Bhynlard !
which arrived at New York late' Sat-
urday night after a fourteen days'
voyage from Antwerp brought in ten
of its crew injured froin being thrown
around the decks during the succes-
sion of gales which pouuded the ship
for eleven days.
Tuesday morning at tho Cincinnati
Southern railway shops. Chatanooga,
Charles ISeckcrt, white, and Jessie
Lang, colored, were instantly killed
hy an expos ion of the bailer of an
engine. They were repairiag the en-
gine. when lieckcrt struck a bolt by
mistake, causing the explosion of u
steam flue.
Every man in the employ of the
Chicago City Railway company from j
the president down, :i,000 in all, have
been vaccinated, all in a bench. He- '
cause of the smallpox scare now on. j
orders for general vaccination were is- j
sued, and for five days three doctors
were kept busy.
At White Pine, Tex., J. M. Fain was
shot and instantly killed Tuesday af- J
ternoon by Policeman Smith. Fain j
was married last Tuesday. The day j
following he had a hitter quarrel with
Smith. They met Tuesday in the tie-
pot and Fain drawing a knife started
toward Smith, who drew his revolver
and tired one shot.
At a speeia' meeting of the chamber
of commerce in Portland,Ore., Friday,
resolutions were introduced, contra-
dicting and condemning the state-
ments contained in General Penoyer's
Christmas letter to President Cleve-
land. After a heated debate the res-
olutions were referred to a committee
of seven for amendment.
A London paper publishes an article
in reference to the Columbian exposi-
tion, in which it says that perfect
chaos prevails in the management or
cx-management of the fair, and that
unless some superior authority comes
to the rescue, the prospect-, of any
Oritish exhibitor getting his go >ds
back safely are extremely remote.
The Pacific mail steamships after
February 1, will perform once a week
mail service between New York and
Colon, instead of thirty-six trips a
year. The four years' contract with
the government requires the company
to make thirty-six mail trips a year
during the lirst two year* and fifty-
two a year during the latter half of
the period.
The Hamilton Club, one of the
prominent social and semi-political or-
ganizations of Chicago, has, at the
suggestion of Congressman Thomas
H. Heed, decided to forego its annual
banquet, :n view of the financial
stringency and the suffering among 1
the unemployed poor, and devote to
charity the amount that otherwise
would have been raised for the festive
eve nt.
Jackson park wes thrown open to
the public at Chicago New Year's day,
and, beginning Monday, Colonel Rice
will police only the buildings and ex-
posed property. The tire department i
•ontrolled by the world's fair will dis-
band Monday, and the Columbian
guard, which now numbers but ?00 '
men, will be reduced from day today 1
until the organization is a thing of the
past.
A terrible punishment according to
report, has been inflicted upon a wo-
man in Poudeland, .vho was accused
of causing the death of her child by
witchcraft. The woman was bound
to a stake planted in the middle of an
ant hill and her body'stripped of all j
clothing, was smeared from head to !
foot with grease. The ants attracted I
by the grease swarmed all over the I
unfortunate crcature and eventually j
devoured her
The Pueblo (Col.) Daily Journal j
publishes its first issue tomorrow af- i
ternoon. It will appear as an after-
noon paper until about March 1. and J
issue a Sunday morning edition with n 1
full report. After March 1st it will
come out both morning and evening.
The Journal plant includes a large job
printing department and bindery, in
addition to the only lithographing
plant between Denver and San Fran-
cisco. F. J. Land is the prime mover
iu tho enterprise, its manager and
managing editor.
The opening of the new year at
Monongahela, sees most™f the mines
in the lower pools pay 2,'j t ents for
digging. In the fourth pool the roe- j
ognised rate in most eases is 2 cents, j
although some of tho mines ure pay-
ing less. In the Elizabeth neighbor- .
hood the Walton company closed i
down pending a settlement of the
ratequestion, but on the whole the j
outlook for the diggers is vastly bet- ]
tcr for the diggers than seemed possi-
ble two months ago. The men are I
showing wonderful unanimity in the j
demand for organization now. while I
a 11 the conditions are favorable and j
the organizers are accomplishing won- ,
dors.
Premier Crispi has announced that j
the report that Italy is negotiating
a new loan is unfounded.
The Bohemian diet opened Friday.
• The chief provincial marshal in his
address pointed out the necessity that
the parliament should 'devote itself i<i
economic affairs and concluded with
calling for three cheets for the cmper- !
•or, which was responded to with j
-great enthusiasm.
Three more Anglican clergymen !
have joined the church of Rome at !
London, making fourteen Anglican
ministers who have become Roman i
Catholics since the fumous Lincoln 1
case.
Newkirk has an election this week.
and the sinners feel safer.
A llooa to rtamanlty*
A number of our great and most in TflE TWO TERRITORIES
veteratt: tobacco miokers and chewers}
have an it the tsc of the tilthy weed.
The taii iii<*nic article that (lues the
work is No-to-bac. The reform was
started by Aaron liorber, who was a
continued slave for many veara to the
use of tobacco He tr.ed the u«-e of
No-to-bac, and to his great surprise
and delight it cured him. Hon. C. W.
Ashcom, who had been smoking for
s xty years, tried No-to-bac. and it
cured him. Col. Samuel st utener.
who would eat up tobacco like a cow
'ata hay. tried this wonderful remedy,
and even Samuel after all his years of
slavery. lost the dea re. .J. C. Cobier,
Lessing Evans Frank Deli, George B.
May. C. O. Skillington, Hansor Robi-
nett, Frank Hersbberger. John Shinn
and others have since tried No to bac
and in every case they report, not only
a cure of the tobacco habit, but a won-
derful improvement in their general
physical and mental condition, all of
which goes to show that the use of to-
bacco had been injurious to them in
more ways than one.
All of the above gentlemen are uo
well pleated with the results that we
do not hesitate to join them in recom
m nding it to suffering humanity, as
we have thoroughly investigated and
are satisfied that No-to-bac doe>the
work well and is a boon to mankind.
The cost is trifling a dollar a box
and the makers, The Sterling Remedy
eompinv, have so much faith in No-to-
bac that they absolutely guarantee
three boxes to cure any case, or refund
money. One box in every instance it
the stove, effected a cure, with one oi
two exceptions. No-to-bac has a won-
derful sale upon its merits alone,
throughout the Cnited States, and car.
be secured at almost any drug store in
this country orCanada. and it is made
by The .sterling Remedy company.
Chicago office 4."> Randolph street;
New York office, 10 Spruce street.
—[From The Press, Everett. I'a., Dec
15, 1493. ]
A claim five miles from Perkins re-
cently sold for SI,'-00.
5 Mrs. Elizabeth Green, one of the
oldest persons in Hiddeford. Me., died
Thursday night, aged 93. She was a
sister of Captain John F. Hartley, ex-
assistant secretary of the Cnited
States treasury.
The American Association of Breed-
ers of Jacks and Jennets in- t Friday
at tiie Maxwell house, Nashville.
President Leonard of Missouri, was re-
elected president, and J. H. Fulton,
secretary.
At Southampton while a cylindei
was being sunk at the wharf to bf
used by the American line of strain-
ships, it exploded and is said to haw
caused the death of several workmen
who arc missing.
Francis Theodore Walton, known a*
' Plunger'' Walton, lessee of the (iranei
hotel, 1231, R oadway. New York, has
made an alignment to Charles L. Wal-
ton, with preferences amounting tr
5200,000. Poor business caused the
failure.
The secretary of state and the Brit
ish embassy are pursuing negotiation?
for an agreement upon regulations te
police Rehring sea. It is important
that these regulations should bf
agreed upon before the opening of the
sealing season.
The manager of MidwayN'laisancf
dancers who are engaged at St. Louis
has skipped out and left them without
funds. Thursday some of the troupe
bec ame engaged in a general fight af
the hotel where they were stopping
and a number of tnem were badly cut
and bruised.
The defendant's attorneys tiled ;i
brief Friday as the preliminary stc{
towards next Fridays hearing, by th(
appellate court, of the appeal froir
Judge Stein's order, imposing fines fot
contempt of ecurt upon the world'*
fair directors and Director tienera
George R. Davis.
In the damage suit of James .1
Rhodes, of the Minnesota coal com
bine against the legislators who forei
bly seized his books the supreme
court as the referee in the case has de
cided that cadi of the seven legists
tors must pay Rhodes 8700. The state
will have to foot the bill.
AtOgdcn, I'tah, the Jarvls-C'onklir
Mortgage company has tiled suit fo
foreclosure of a mortgage amount
ing to over 82.070,000. involving tie
great irrigation canal system, cover
ing a vast, tract lying between the
northern shore of the Great Salt Lake
and the southern boundary of Idaho
The Rlaekstone Ruilding and Loai
association of St. Louis has assigned
to Henry Seigmunt. Inability t
find the books or Secretary Lindb >rn
puts a sensational plias ■ * upon tin
affair. It is impossible to leurn tin
assets and liabilities, though esti
mates place each at about 5\'5,0(J0
Lindborn was bonded for $20,000.
The Chicago, Minneapolis A: Omaha
vestibule limited dashed through the
small town of Fairchild, Wis., a in
struck a broken rail on acurve at thai
place. The engine and two couch e?
left the track and smashed into •
lii.ie house and broke off two tele
graph poles, but no person was seri
ously injured. Traflic was c'elayee
ten hours.
Mr. Wilson, one of the best knowr
authorities ou finance, and editoro
the Investor's Review published it
London, says, in an article pubiishee
in his paper, that if the vfTairs of tin
Hank of England are allowed to drift
as heretofore since the act of 1 .*46. ii
will end with a crisis, compared will:
which the Baring collapse will dwin-
dle Into insignificance. Little h
known, he says, of ti.e bank's trui
condition, and the directors are re
sponsible * for the mishandling o
the State Provident fund,
David Louden, a jurtice of the peace
aged 'i7, cut his throat at Shelbvvillc
Ind., Thursday night. Failure to se
cure a political appointment is said tc
have driven Louden to take his life.
It is said that Emperor William i
trying to purchase the new Cape dia
mond, said to be the largest in tin
world and more valuable than the
Kohiuooi, weighing071 karats.
Four miners named Faulkner Lois
Savage and Tuttle were drowned Sat
urday in Svinonds-Kaye gold mine
ten miles from Halifax. Nova Scotia
A blast broke down the wall and le*
in the water.
Governor Altgeld Thursday grantee
a hearing for next Saturday to the at
torneys of George Painter, the eon
dtinneel murderer, who claims to have
a 1'exa.n double iu a convict naiuee
Dick Edwards,
Professor Marshall of Owens e-ol
lege, Manchester, fell from n preei
plcvs at Scaarfell mountain, in Cumber
land, an was killuei.
Rumors are again in circulation re
garding the strained relations saiet t<
c.\ist between Emperor N ill iu in aue
Chancellor Vou Caprlvi A ruiuorii
utloat that the chancellor intends W
tender his resignation.
i
T.e fioss
■nested 3geed.
The bank of Perry has moveel into
its nevr quarters.
There is talk of a territorial nra-
men's association.
Fifty attorneys were admitted to
Mrs. Dennis Flynn is still very sick
in Washington. . . . -
. . . . „ 4 the bar at Perry Monday.
1 A girl named Annie Rooney teaches
school near Edmond. A taxidermist has moved from one
4 Enid to the other Enid. •
Judge Dale adjourned court at Perry
for the term Saturday. The Pond Creek Republican has
. been indefinitely pewtponed.
The Enid postofflce is a money order , .....
office, commencing Monday. ' Governor Renfrow is said to have an
<1 i °ye on United States senate
Kingfisher has an institution called
ti.e Southern Fur compsny. | , , .
Tlietwonewjndges.it is said, will
As far north as Eni I tho children V)e appointed the first thing in Jan-
are still runniug barefo<A. , aarv.
Sam Small has left Oklahoma City The cherry trees tfcat are beginning
. * I 4 I. A . !«.< /w.l ■ . ..It. 1
to bud in Oklahoma will live to know
The society ladies of Oklahoma City | better.
received New Year's day. j The talk of secession in Heaver
Woodward wants to be connected , county has died out. That is what
with Enid by a mail route. ! should do.
The elemand for residences is con-. The doors on the Itock Island trains
stantly increasing in El Reno. , ?re JocKed when the engine is snort-
ing through South Enid.
The merchants of Perry de a large, L ,
business with the Otoe Inelian*. A Choctaw Indian has l ecn arrest-
for hug<r':ng women, red. white, anel
Sid Clarke may lie able to pot a big black, oi. the streets of Caddo.
bug in Chairman Wheeler's ear. i , . .,
There are ^nie daring spellers in
The Perry Enid A I'acittc has not oklahoma The editor of tho Enid
gone into the hands of a receiver. Wave spells it "grass widdow."
!■ ire Chief Doweil of El Reno has Almost every man in Beaver county
been presented with a souvenir akdge. has an ••xtra load in his gun for Orins-
The Caoital National bank of iuth- *>« who got up the secession
rie has €122,849.80 in individual de- articles.
pe>sits. ]f the Iudians are all corraled into
The First National Bank of Oklaho-1 separate state we may yet see the
ma City has 8119,588.50 individual de- vice president recognize -Senator
poalta. W arts-on-the- Tongue.
Single statehood lost a warm friend Nroraan s new schejol building cost
in the death of Judgo Monroe of 513.900. Norman is the kind of a town
Duncan. l',at d°es something and then calls at-
| tention to it afterward.
Arkansas tobacco is advertised as a _ .
great luxury over in the vicinltv of Tom ls *tl11 at ,
Clayton. * proves that the average deputy mar-
| shal couldn't catch the small pox if ho
The dark cell in the Cnited States j U as chained down in a pest house.
jail at (tuthric has not been used for a
long time.
The Kceley institute at Oklahoma
City celebrated its second anniversary
e>n Sunday.
A elivorce suit is now pending in M
county. Alice E. Phillips is plaintiff
and Nicholas Phillips defendant. It
is the first elivorce suit in M county.
mi . , , . T> .# T-- ■ Spring in Oklahoma in the year
The Knights of Pythias of King- ls9:! opc\ed in March and continued
fisher gave their fourth annual ball onbrofcn nntii the following January.
.January 1. j |[,e way it will read in history,
Enid has begun to believe that life ' Thompson o( the News remarks
is not worth living without a tele- tjiat (;uthrie's fire department is a
phone system. j oue.^ree concern, and then adds that
II is denied that the members of the the city expects to buy the otliOT
El Reno tire department hung up their horse next week.
hose Christmas eve. | Tjic^ Mitchell, a lawyer, was ad-
There is a kick because a Guthrie judged insane at Perry the other day.
man allowed an "African dance" to He escaped from prison and after two
t ike place in his building. 9 elays was captureel near Orlando and
r 1 t *1.1 w j . taken to Illinois,
Johnny-Little-Man-U ai path is at
the head of the Second Reader class in i Of course if the Indian territory is
the public school at Watonga. admitted with Oklahoma, the^ fugi-
. I tives from justice in Texas, Kansas,
The Santa lc tram that wen Arkansas and \<=>v Mexico, will lose a
through Oklahoma l riday mgat had , ti ptaoo i(ut this country is
twenty-seven guards on board. i oot bt,inj; run for t|lc criminals.
According to the Enid Wave \N i'.liam
Henry Harrison Jasper Jones made ap-
plication tho other elay to file on a
claim but was refused for the reason
that his name lapped over on an ad-
joining quarter that had already been
tiled em.
nty-seven guards
A meeting of bachelors and widow-
ers is announced at Rattle Snake
Roost, in Arapahoe, this week.
Adams, who shot Couch, is still in
the Kansas penitentiary. He reads
the Oklahoma lity papers clejsely.
The city school bonds of Hennessey
have been sole! for 3^.000. The money
will be used to builel a school builel-
ing.
Pond Creek claims lo have a hack
driver who can swear in more brilliant
colors than any other tnan in the ter
ritory.
Senator John M. Palmer i: one of
the bondsmen of Charles Whitetale,
who is charged with killing an Inelian
over in the Osage country.
War department statistics show that
the Indihn does not use the sights on
a rifle anel can not shoot iu the same
class with the white man. This, in a
measure explains the magnificent in-
difference to Indian warpath scares
an the part of the people of Western
Oklahoma.
White-Eyed Autelope, a Cheyenne,
takes his daughter, Winona, daily,
from his teepee, three miles distant,
to the Watonga school. In broken
Deer must be getting scarce or the English, aided by signs, he tells that
Oklahoma hunters uncommonly poor wants some white man to farm bis
shots. W. II. Hi icy of El Reno spent allotment and plant for bun trees an
ten elays hunting in the Wichita : show him how to raise fruit of e\ery
country recently and brought down 1 description. .
only on* deer. j t There is a righteous protest against
The north-bound mail pouch was the fee-grabbing deputy marshals who
robbed at South McAlester. I. T. The arrest people on the charge of cutting
pouch was found upon the platform government timber without cause,
cut open, and letters are supposed to That thing has been done so much
have been taken. No clue has been that several lawyers in Arapahoe nave
obtained of the robbers. j banded together and will defend the
! victims of such arrests free of charge.
Several children in Oklahoma were . . ..
pained during the Christinas festivi ' A few days ago a young lady of 1 er-
ties to hear the white-bearded Santa ; kins stepped into a gro.-ery store car-
Claus speak when a spat of hot wax rying a half dozen spring c.nckc is In
fell on his head, in a tone that re-j her embarrassment she p.aced them
minded them of their own dear papa. on the counter, and the young clerk
remarked to her. "Will they lay
According to Attorney Ilarrold Xa- ; there'.'" To which she stammered
than the depe sitors of the Madison ! - S o sir, they are roosters." The
Square bank are going to bring civil ! 4oCtors 'say that the clerk may re-
suits against the directors of the bank
to recover from them individuallv the
cover.
Mr. T. E. Flora killed an eagle near
Waukomis on Friday last. It wts one
Alva Pioneer; A few weeks ago of the largest birds ever killed in this
nearly eve:y business firm around the country, measuring 0 feet and « ln-
square agreed to place a barrel of salt ches from tip to tip of the wings. It
water in handy proximity to their is said that at least twelve feathers in
places of business. I'.nt verv few have its tail pre worth S- each, and eight of
-l ne so. A scarcity of barrels is the his wing feathers aro worth . 0 cents
excuse . * each, making the American cagl
quite a valuuble bird. Messrs. lire wit
Three tourists have lost. tl.<-!r lives t swage bought the bird and will
in attempting to ascend the higher of moUnt him. He will be exhibited in
the two peaks of the Gross (ilookner. their shop at an early day where all
Dr. Kohn's boely has been recovered, can see him free of charge.
The officials in charge of the various
8110,000 alleged to have been deposit
eel Aug 1st 7 and 3.
but those e>f his e
to have been
ompanions, believed
d Pick and 1). Pas-
>au have not yet been found.
land offices in the territory are called
letters
... , , «i4.i upon to answer many queei letters
A charter has lvcn granted to the questiml,, but tho oflicc at l .ild
Western Voiori TolopYme Company, received a letter the other .lay which
of Perry, Oklahoma." The object of contained a poser. The inquiry was
the organization is to construct and ; as follows: "What must n fellow do
a telephone exchange und lines, j to hold his elaim when his wife refuses
in and between Enid. Perry, Still- to go with him to liveon it?" As the
water ana Pawnee, and such other jaw compels a married man to have
citiea and tow ns as tho company may his family w ith him. the officials did
deem advisable. The company has a not feel equal to the task e>f telling
capital of 000 and its charter is ),i,u },mv to procjcd to bring the
good for twenty-one years. bl.tte to time.
Down in Oklahoma 1
The operators of the Kidd mines
west of Deliair, O., have posted no-' another anything 0:1 th
tices of 10 per cent reductions to go
into effect January 1. The men will
resist the reduction and a strike may
ensue. The Troll mines posted a sim-
ilar nqticc, but later withdrew it.
hen a man tells
quiet, in-
teael of saying sub rosa or 011 the "O
T.," he says simply, "Mum this letter."
The governor of the Chickasaw na-
tion has called a cabinet meeting for
A strong newspaper organization is Frday at Tishomingo to consider
soon to be elTectcd at Kingfisher by the ael visability of convening the leg-
i-x-liovernor Seay and ex-Marshal 1 islature on the question of submitting
(irimes buying an interest in the Free a proposition to the commission for
Press. The same rumor that tells this statehood, It is thought that the leg-
says that as soon as the trade is con- islature will ask the removal of the
stimulated, the plant will be mov.vl negroes from the nation and all law-
into one of the (Jrimes-Seay new build- ycrs ami others who refuse to pao the
ugs and several new features added, per capita tax and that they will op-
1 he Admires, it is said, will retain pose anything tending toward any
editorial tin I business control. allotment of lands e>r statenood.
Dr. Elisuri announces himself as a John Mitchell, an olel solelier who
sandidate for the presidency of Uru- made the run into the Cherokee strip
jfuay. There la a pood deal of oppo-; and failed to get anything haa V
him. however, and the fact
hat he is backed by the prosent ad-
ministration will not help his chances
with a large number of citir.ens who
re dissatisfied with the way things
mvobeen going on in Uruguay.
About the only thing nil the papers
f Oklahoma seem to be agreed upon
Ivi: t at present is single statehood.
Dr J. W. K« < I committed suicide ; t
\tl:;rUa. (in . Friday, by shoo ti* g him-
self through the head with a sheHguu-
U'.'atb was iuttuutuueous.
made insane by his disappointment.
For several days he lias been wander-
iug about Perry, claiming to be may-
or of the city, and offering everybody
lie* meets 'appointments on the police
force, the freedom of the city, e tc.,
until it bo amc necessary to send him
to the insane asylum.
i F.uid had a lawsuit the day nfter
Christmas where the plaintiff charged
that he "war ca'vin'a possum when
some low down uiggah rubbei a brick
off on his head."
ELEPHANTS OF BRAINS.
handle lumber as well
^ as HUMAN BE IN 03.
n BrltUb Bar malt Thej Use the Intel-
ligent F chjrdermi la the Lumber
Haslne**— A Couple of Aulmili Hose
Tbelr Brethren la the Work.
'm
The display of trained animals,
broken for show purposes, cannot
offer tho slightest comparison in
interest to tho trained elephants
exhibition one sees in tho city of
Moulmein, I'ritish Burmah. Tho
most absorbingly entertaining feature
of the novel eight is the paradoxical-
ly industrial character which the
work of these hugo Indian pachy-
derms assumes. It hardly seems
possible that the work of a sawmill,
usually done by human hands, could
be accomplished through the medium
ol tho elephant's trunk and tho
elephant's sagacity; nevertheless it
is a fact that tho Irawadi steamship
company uses some forty or fifty
elephants in tho operation of its
sawmills at Moulmein. and the teak
wood so largely entering into the
construction of ships is here made
ready for the hands of the artisan.
A gentleman lately returned from
a tour of the East gives an interest-
ing account of tho manner in which
the mills are operated. Tho logs aro
chopped in the interior and floated
several hundred miies down the Sal-
win river to the mill, which is situ-
ated on the banks of the stream at
Moulmeih. Here the logs are formed
into a boom, and henceforth the
work of transporting is done by the
elephants.
The most wonderful, interesting,
novel, and almost incredible feature
of tho entire combination is tho
sight of two monstrcisly largo male
elephants, spurring them on. push-
ing, driving and frequently chastis-
ing a lazy or recalcitrant member of
the force.
Very few men aro needed to di-
rect the elephants in their work
From six to eight of the animals
usually work in the water. These
wane or swiin, according to tho depth
of the water, to the long boom, and
lessening several logs at a time tow
them to the shore at a certain point.
Each of the company of elephants
that convey the logs from this point
to the drying place has a chain at-
tached to his neck and reaching to
the ground. At tho bottom of this
chain is a loop, through which the
log is run. A man directs the move-
ments of the elephants in placing
tho log within the coil of the chain.
The elephant picks up another log
by his trunk, und in this manner
drags two at a time to the seasoning
stacks. About eight elephants aro
employed in this capacity. The
work of piling the logs to dry is
done by two female elephants. Eaeh
winds her trunk about the log near
the end, and together they raise it
in a horizontal position and place it
on the stack.
After tho leigs have dried suffi-
ciently they arc ready for the mill
Two femalo elephants take the dry
logs from the piles and deliver them
to a herd similar in training to those
that work between the water and th*
seasoning stacks. These convey the
logs to a track over which a small
car runs to the mill. Only one log
at a timo is pla eel upon this car.
As soon as a log is in posit'on on the
car an elephant, trained for this par-
ticular part of tho work, pushes the
car to the mill. Arrived at the mill
the log is pushed from the car lo a
carrier that passes beneath tJie buzz
saw. As soon as tho log is thus
transferred to the carrier tho ele-
phant operating the car returns for
another log. while another hugo
beast trained to do the sawing oper-
ates the carrier and pushes the log
against the saw. But tho interest
ing part of tho work does not end
here, for, as the log is being sawed
into tho desired boards and timbers
another elephant receives the com-
pleted material, piling the slabs on
one side and the more valuable
product on the other. Hut two men
aro required to oversee and direct
the elephants used in sawing the legs.
Another detachment of the herd is
used in carrying the lumber from tho
mill to tho yards and sheds. For
this purpose very lon_r trucks with
tho low front and back wheels close
to each other are used Thero are
elephants trained for loading tho
sawed material upon those trucks
while others push tho loaded trucks
to the sheds. In t'10 lumber yard
aro the ••pliers," or elephants that
tako the lumber from tho trucks and
place it in piles for further seasoning.
As stated before, there is one de-
tachment of this strange army of
laborer i which does tho "kitchen
work1' for tho hotel do elephant, or
whatever the feeding place of theso
big fellows may be called, says tho
Chicago Times. Somo may bo seen
carrying hay for tho stablc3, but by
far tho most interesting sight is the
preparation of the food. This is
composod of grass, bran and molasses,
and is mixed in a largo vat While
somo aro carrying theso different
components of tho highly delectable
elephantino boarding • house hash
others are engaged in mixing it with
pestles, which they dexterously
manipulate with their trunks. Tho
narrator observed one of tho ele-
phants suddenly stop work with the
pestle anel refuse to wield his mixing
stick any further. Ono of tho two
big boss elephants was called to
the sceno and picking up tho re-
calcitrant's pestle, beat him with it
over the back and hips until I10 whin-
ingly returned to his work.
Only about ten men aro employed
in direc ing tho work e f tho entire
herd of elephants. Those who have
seen this novel mill at- Moulmein in
operation nil agreo in giving it tho
credit of being tho groatest^xhibl-
tion of trained animals in tho world
and say that Hagenbeck's and, in fact
all othor trained animal shows are
simply nowhere near "in lino" with
it The mill hands, or more properly
speaking, the mill trunks of this in-
stitution, have never yet gono out on
u strike.
They 11 live the I{:gtit or It.
In Catalonia idleness is considered
by everyone, high and low, u dis-
grace, and 110 mercantile undortaking
or industrial pursuit socially dis-
qualifies any individual. This in-
born mercantile propensity is ap-
parently an inheritance from their
Phenician ancestors, who in ages
past established themseives in tho
Mediterranean border of opain and
whose characteristic trading Inclinar
tions have prevailed to this day, and
neither Celts nor Komans nor Goths
nor Moors have ever annulled or
even weakened them. Tho Semitic
origin of the Catalan makes him a
born merchant, anel for this reason
neithor English, French, Germans
nor oven Jews <<f any nationality
compote successfully in trado with
this energetic, shrewd and enterpris-
ing raco.
bio mail3 from THE west.
Members of < ongr«M I ro n Beyond lit*
Mlisleelppl (iot tho Mo t Letters.
It is interesting to note the itrlk*
ing differences in amount and degroo
that characterize tho correspondence
of representatives from different sec-
tions of tho country. &ays tho Wash-
ington Mar The mail of represen-
tatives from the New England and
South Atlantic states is comparatively
light, that of representatives of tho
middle states is moderate, or "from
fair to middling." and that from the
Western, Northwestern and South-
western states is exceedingly heavy.
In other words, it seems that the
people of the older states: particular-
ly of the thirteen original states,
which had their existence before the
union was estaolished, lean but light-
ly upon the federal governmont and
have but few wants to express in
correspondence to iheir representa-
tives at Washington, while residents
of the ne er states, whose stato
governments were erected simultane-
ously with their admission into the
union, are apt to look to Washington
for nearly everything they want. In
the old states along tho Atlantic
seaboard the people by instinct and
tradition rely upon themselves and
upon their stato governments, white
in the later admitted states, especial-
ly those beyond Illinois to the north,
south and west, as for example Kan-
sas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri,
the peoplo appear by custom to bo
more dependent upon tho general
government. Particularly is this tho
case iu states whero conditions of
acute unrest and dissatisfaction pre-
vail from industrial or financial
causes. Thero tho people have be-
come habitually clamorous in their
demands upon congressmen to pro-
cure them pensions, sustenance and
situations, to remedy and redress
their wrongs, real or imagined, to
lighten their burdens, to mitigate
their woos and to do other thing? by
legislation and influense at Washing-
1 ton. Again, on tho other hand, tho
Southern people in the main bother
i their congressmen very little by writ-
| ing letters.
LORDS OF CREATION.
Almost every man iu the world says
i he can't help his peculiarities, but he
will not admit that his neighbor can't
help his.
Maud—D) you believe that mar-
riages are made in heaven? Marie—
1 don't know. Hut I don't intend to
wait and see.
After the piano solo. Mrs. Budd,
proudly- My daughter is self-taught
Distinguished Musician—-So I divined
1 at once, my dear madam.
Jacob II. Simms, who was born in
slaver}* and came North at the end of
the war, is foremost among the colored
lawyers of New York city.
Diogenes saiei to one who said to
him, "They deridt you," "But I am
rot deride 1." He accounted those
only to be ridiculed who feel the rieli-
culc.
It is estimated by a statistician
with a penchant for the oeld that all
the people that have died since Adam's
day could be buried iu a cemetery
1 100,000 miles square.
A light supper, a good night's sleep
and a tine morning have often made a
hero of the same man who, by indiges-
I tion. a restless night and a rainy
morning,would have proved a coward.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee,
although 70 j*cars olel, keeps a pack
foxhounds, and devotes all his
spare time to fox hunting. He is a
line horseman, despite his advanced
I ape.
Mr Alfred ele Rothschild possesses
a lion cub which he has trained to fol-
low him about his house and grounds.
Its food consists of rice and boileel
mutton, of which latter urticlc it
readily consuoiei upward of five
pounds a day.
RARE AND READABLE.
A sun fish weighing 1,803 pounds
was recently caught by Los Angoles
fishermen.
Willard A. Lucas of Poquetannuek,
Conn., wears an artificial hand mado
• of aluminum.
On Long Island duck farms nre
found to be more profitable than sum-
mer boarders.
The proposed Iloboken bridge will
have a single span of 2,850 feet—the
longest in the world.
The capital letter ' Q" will be found
1 but twice in the Oi l Testament and
three times in the New.
From January 1, 189 1, to January 1.
1891, there were 1,018.5'Jl gallons vf
ruin shipped from Boston to Africa.
In 1801 the trade was almost doubled.
New York and Massachusetts have
each been represented in the cabinet
twenty-eight times. Pennsylvania
follows, with twenty-five representa-
! tions.
Executions ceased to bo public in
England in 1865. Before that time
they were in tho squares in front e>f
pails and attracted thousands of
the
4-
,L
* i
peoplo from the country round.
This country has become within
three decades one of the most import-
ant olive consuming countries of the
world. When olives werr first im-
ported into tho l'nitcl States they
were a luxury of the rich.
ISo worn ill is permitted to land on
the : dai.d of Fernando ele Noronha,
one of a group iu tho South Atlantic
ocean. ■ belonging to Brazil. Tt is a
•tat i n for men convicts fr.nn Brazil,
:d all women a e strenuously pro-
hibiic I from disembarking there.
f. Marey has found, froin his eon-
t" ued ntuiioa of animal locomotion
by mean", of Instantaneous photogra-
phy, that the mode* of progression of
" • viper ;-:ul tin o ?1 are mujh alike;
v.: the p.istiiroi of lutraohians In
w,v. . (after tijay have acquired their
limbs) aro much like tho*e ef men
swimming, r.nd that lisa^U trot like
horses.
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