The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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TALES of * 8»
TWO TERRITORIES.
COMMISSION ENJOINED.
EPWORTH UNIVERSITY.
ri;e M. E. Conference* Accept the Offer
of Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City is to
have the Methodist University, which
will be one of the greatest institutions j after nine hours’ deliberation, charging
CURTIS GUILTY.
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The Jury In the Murder Cane Returned a
Verdict of (iiiilty.
Oklahoma City: The jury in the
Curtis murder ease returned a verdict,
of learning in the country. It will be
known as Epworth University and will
have the united support of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church and the Methodist
Episcopal church (south), and an en-
dowment of $1 ,000,000 is practically
pledged to start the institution upon a
brilliant and useful’career.
f Delegates from this city appeared be-
fore the conferences in session last week
it Chickasha, I. T., and Shawnee, O. T.,
and were authorized to submit a propo-
sition that Oklahoma City would donate
forty acres of land and $100,000 towards
the institution. Both conferences ac-
cepted this proposition unanimously,
and each appointed a committee of ten
to act jointly in the work of consum-
mating all arrangements to carry into
execution the project, and the work will
commence at once.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
Caleb Powers Sent lip for Life ns an Ac-
cesHory in (iottbel’K Murder.
Georgetown, Ky: Ex-Secretary of
State Caleb Powers was again convicted
as an accessory before the fact to the
murder of Governor William E. Goebel,
in January, 1900, and the second time
sentenced Yo imprisonment for life.
The second trial began October 3, and
has continued with three sessions daily.
Powers sat pale and -motionless when
the verdict was announced by Foreman
B. S. Calvert, his old school mate.
j. Opposite Powers, on the outside of
the court room with the attorneys, sat
Arthur Goebel, brother of the late sena-
tor and governor, with his eyes fixed on
the prisoner.
The attorneys for Powers shook his
hand, expressing aloud their belief in
his innocence.
The women crowded around Powers,
embracing and kissing him, and tears
were shed.
A motion for a new trial was over-
ruled and the case will be appealed.
Judgment is suspended pending the de-
cision of the higher tribunal.
Powers was taken to Frankfort on an
evening train and committed to jail
without bail.
POST OFFICE SITE REMOVED.
Citizens of Ilririgeport Ask for the Re-
moval of Post-oftiee Site.
.Washington: An application has
been received at the post office depart-
ment from the citizens of Bridgeport,
Caddo county, O. T., requesting the
removal of the post office from Bridge-
port, Blaine county, a small place just
l across the Canadian river, to the former
place. Bridgeport, Caddo county, was
one of the townsites approved by Secre-
tary Hitchcock in the Indian reserva-
tions. It is a railroad station on the
Rock Island road and has already grown
until it has about eight hundred popu-
lation. The petition has been referred
to a special agent of the department for
investigation and report.
CAT HAD HYDROPHOBIA.
Young Ardmore Lad, While Asleep, Wus
lilt ten by Mad Feline.
Ardmore, I. T: Willie Twillaker,
who lives with his parents near Mars-
den, was bitten twice, once on the fore-
head and once on the arm, by a cat with
rabies, which by some means had gain-
ed entrance to the lad’s sleeping room.
Awakened by his cries, his father, Ken
ry Twillaker, ran to his bedside just in
time to see the little animal escape from
the room, Knowing that the bite of a
hydrophobic cat was certain death in its
most horrible form, unless the poison
was drawn out, lost no time in getting
the boy to town, where L. S. Stagg’s
mad stone was applied as soon as possi-
ble. The nmdstone adlmred at once.
WILL BE NEXT GOVERNOR.
Alex. O. Brodie, u Rough Rider to l»e
Governor of Arizona.
Phoenix, A. T: Alexander O. Brodie,
who is to be governor of Arizona, is
intimately known by President Roose-
velt, whom he succeeded as lieutenant
colonel of the rough riders when the
latter was promoted to ttfe colonelcy of
that regiment. Colonel Brodie went in-
to the Spanish war as senior major of
the regiment, commanding the Arizona
squadron. At Guasimas he was shot in
the arm, but returned to the regiment
in time to take command at Montauk
before the muster out. In 1870 he grad-
uated from West Point and for several
years he served on the frontier in the
First Cavalry. Twice he lias been
named for brevet, once by General
Crook for services against the Apaches
and again for bravery in Cuba.
In the fight at Las Gunrimas, Colonel
Brodie was at the front and in the thick
of the fray, He was one of the first of
the United States officers to be wounded,
n Manser bullet tearing savagely through
his right arm. He was able to walk to
the rear in search of a surgeon, but the
injury proved painful, and be was sent
home lor hospital treatmen t.
Thomas Curtis of being guilty of mur-
der, and fixed his punishment at life
imprisonment at hard work. The ver-
dict is the same as was given in the Yo-
der case last spring for the same mur-
der.
The crime for which Thomas Curtis
now stands convicted was the murder
of A. J. Kick on August 4, 1899. His
dead body was found flouting in the
river one morning by the- Filsou- boys,
who were at the river fishing. The
head was not found at the same tim •
the body was found, it being severed
from the body. It was later found in
a pillow slip at the bottom of the river.
There wus some difficulty in identify-
ing the body, but the discovery of the
place where the clothing of the murder-
ed man was burned led to the discovery
of his picture and of one of his cards
which bore the name that corresponded
with thq initials found on the man’s un-
derwear.
The evidence in the case disclosed the
fact that Curtis and Yoder had been the
last persons seen in the company of Kick
just prior to his death. It showed that
Eick, who was a sort of a wandering
shoemaker, had been camped with Cur-
tis, Yoder and others at the river near
where the murder took place. Curtis
had been seen at an evil resort in com-
pany with Eick, who was intoxicated
and who had a considerable sum of
money. It was for his money that the
murder was committed.
SOME COTTON FIGURES.
The pension commissioner’s report j
shows that then- were 7,867 pensioners I
in Oklahoma last year and the amount
paid to them was $1,027,718.38. Pen- J
si oils in Indian Territory number 2,925, j
with a total gross i amounting to $364,295.58.
On*UK Bureau Give* Out Report Ke*peot-
infj Cotton in the Territories.
Washington: The census bureau has
made public some figures regarding the
production of cotton, which include
some interesting figures regarding Okla-
homa and Indian Territory. The fig-
ures are for the crop of 1900. The total
gross weight in pounds of the Oklahoma
cotton crop for 1900 was 53,353,661 as
against 134,967,426 in the Indian Terri-
tory for tlie same year. The commerc-
ial bales in Oklahoma for 1900 amount-
ed to 116,857 as against 288,114 in Indian
Territory. The equivalent 500 pound
hales in Oklahoma was 106,707 and in
Indian Territory 349,935.
The square bales put up in Oklahoma
were 89,782 with a total gross weight iu
pounds of 46,076,202, the average gross
weight of each bale was 513 pounds.
The round bales put up in Oklahoma iu
1900 were 27,039
weight in pounds of 7,277,459, the av-
erage gross weight of each bale being
269 pounds. The number of square
bales for Indian Territory in 1900 was
197,604 with a total gross weight of 101,-
776,870 pounds, while the average
weight of each hale was 515 pounds.
The number of round bales in Indian
Territory was 90,410 with a total gross
weight in pounds of 23,f90,556, the
average gross weight of each bale being
257 pounds.
The total ginneries in Oklahoma re-
ported for the year 1900 were 149, of
which 137 were active for the crop that
year, seven were idle for the crop of
1900 and five nibre have been out of
business since the crop of 1899. The av-
erage capacity of active establishments
in Oklahoma was 853 bales. The aver-
age bale capacity of the 301 active gin-
neries in the Indian territory for the
crop of 1900 was 957. There were five
ginneries idle for the 1900 crop in the
Indian Territory and t wo that have
been out of business since the 1899 crop.
The upland cotton grown in (Iklahoma
for 1900 was 51,198,893 pounds of a
value of $4,591,900.72. The quantity of
cotton seed secured was 51,189 tons of a
value of $819,168 making the grand total
of the Oklahoma cotton crop $5,411,-
068.72. The quantity for upland cotton
in Indian Territory for 1900 was 120,-
222,530 pounds, valued at $10,782,458.16
The quantity of cotton seed secured wai
120,222 tons, valued at $1,923,552 mak
iug the grand total value of the Indian
Territory cotton crop $12,706,010.16.
IdiIe. Gill Hand. Down Opinion In tha
United State* Court.
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Yinita, I. T: Judge Gill has handed
lown an opinion iu the United States
jourt ordering a temporary injunction
against the Dawes commission, hearing
applications claiming to be from Chero-
kee freedmon, who have never been rec-
Dgnized as citizens of the Cherokee na-
tion or duly enrolled as such. The ac-
■tion is brought by Cherokee citizens
against the Dawes commission to re-
strain the commission from making rec-
ord of the applications of such freed
men, ascertaining that the Dawes com-
mission is proceeding in violation of law
to receive, consider and make record of
the applications of persons not contem-
plated in decree of court claims of Feb-
ruary 3, 1896, known as the Whitmire
decree.
Woods Is Not I)«*ud.
The report of the death of J. R.
Woods, the gentleman who drew No. 1
in the Lawton district, is a mistake. He
is very poorly with typhoid fever, hut is
on the way to recovery.
The new towns of Lawton, Hobart
and Anadarko went democratic in their
first election. In each place the mayor
and most of "the city officers were of the
democratic persuasion.
The war department has refused the
organizing of military companies in the
Indian Territory upon the grounds that
there is no law permitting the importa-
tion of guns into the territory and under
present condition military law cannot
be sanctioned.
Wade Hampton of Pauls Valley, I. T.,
one of the moBt prominent cattlemen in
the west, has been arrested by a U. S.
marshal for selling mortgaged cattle.
He gave bond in the sum of $1,000 for
his api>earance November 4.
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Tecumseh claims te be the biggest
cotton market in the territories this
year. There has been 4,500 bales re-
ceived there this year at prices ranging
from 7‘s to 8 cents.
Oklahoma City's new brick plant has
ft daily capacity of 80,000 and will em-
ploy seventy men. The plant lias just
been rebuilt and is one of the largest in
the southwest.
A fatal shooting affray occurred at
Leger, Greer county, Saturday evening,
in which M. M. Welch was instantly
killed by a bullet through the heart,
fired by a real estate man named Ennis.
DOUBLE DAILY
UP-TO-DATE
PASSENGER
TRAIN SERVICE
Memphis,^East
and Southeast.
Abnolutely the Quickest and liesl
Routt* • m--
HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers and tree
Reclining Chair Cars.
C. B. IIAKT, Gent West. Aut A. P. KIIIWIIU, T. P Aut,
Oklahoma City. O T.
UKO. H. LKE.UenlP AT Al(t J. K. HOLDEN, Trsfflo Mgr.
Littls Rock. Ahk
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HOMES FOR THE MILLION
SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI,
WESTERN ARKANSAS
EASTERN TEXAS AND
WESTERN LOUISIANA
ON THE LINE OF THE
K. C. S.
KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY
STRAIGHT AS THE CROW FLIES''
FROM--
KANSAS CITY TO THE GULF
Through the cheapest land now open
for settlement in the. United States.
A inognifleient country adapted to tho cultivation of small grain, corn, cotto^ rice,
sugarcane, apples, peaches, berries, commercial truck fanning, auu tlio rais-
ing of horses, mules, cattle, hogs and sheep at prices ranging from
FREE GOVERNMENT HOMESTEADS
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR8 AND MORE PER ACRE
wnkTf ro* a copy of
“CURRENT EVENTS"
, • PUBLISHED BY THE
Kansas City Min Railway
S. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A., Temple Block, KANSAS CITY, MO.
H. D. DUTTON, Trav Pass Agent, Kansas Uity, Mo.
F. E. ROESLER, Trav. Pass, and Immigrant Agent, Kansas City, Mo.
300,000 BRICK.
Contract for Brick 1»> Overliolser A \ve>
For Four-Story Building,
Oklahoma City: Overholser & Avey
have closed a contract, for 300,000 brick
with the Oklahoma Brick Company that
will be used in the construction of thou
four story building on Main street. •
The excavation will be commenced
and the plans for the building are being
drawn and the work will be commenced,
in a few days on the walls. It is the in
tention of the firm to have tho building
ready for occupancy by the first of Feb-
ruary if possible.
The other buildings in this row will
be commenced in *a few days and they
will be completed, at about tho same
time. The estimates that have been
made on tho amount of building that
will be in progress on Main street with-
in tin? next thirty days amount to over
$200,000, and all of it will be of three
ami four story buildings.
Frank Lookabaugh, a prominent farm-
er of Blaine county, twelve miles south-
east Of Watonga, was murdered by a
hired man with whom he had some mis-
understanding over the matter of wages.
When President Roosevelt visited
New Haven, Conn., last week in attend
ance at the bi-centennial celebration of
Yale, the citizens’ reception committee
did away with the public handshaking
with the president.
Orders have been issued requiring all
Indians iu the territories to be vaccinated |
and the Indian agents will refuse to is j
sue rations or make payments to any
Indians not holding vaccination certfti-1
cates. In the Osage reservation the
order also includes whites, who will be
ejected from the reservation if not vac
vinatod within ten days.
Tiie comptroller of the currency has I
announced the election of Congressman
Flynn us vice-president of the First
National Bank of Pawkuska.
Special mail service from Rockfort to
Ferguson, Blaine county, lias been dis-
continued and service ordered over the
Choctaw Northern road from Alva to
Geary, a distance of 104.13 miles, which
includes Ferguson.
CALIFORNIA
TOURISTS
’an roach their destination with groat comfort
and at'tho least expense via the
the Scenic Route
A territorial charter has been issued
to the El Reno Opera House Co., of El
Reno for a period of twenty years. The
capital stock is $40,000.
TOURISTS EXCURSIONS
LEAVE KANSAS Cli;Y
Every Tuesday and Friday via Colorado I
Spriiiirs and Scenic Route to San
Francisco and I."- Aiu-.-l.-s
Every Wednesday via Ft. Worth and Southern
Route to Loh Auffeles and San Francisco.
Wednesday and Friday Excursions are
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED.
Latest IM PROVED Tourist cars
ON FAST TRAINS.
LOWEST RATE TICKETS AVAILABLE.
Write for information and itinerary tv,
J. A. Stkwabt, G. 8 W. E. A . Kans. City, Mo
E. W* Thompson , A. G. P. A. Topeka, Kans
John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago-
Tht, First M. E. church of Apache has
been chartered by Secretary Grimes for
a perpetual term of years.
Gas has been struck at Blackwell,
Oklahoma, at a distance of 740 feet. It
was ignited and blazed forty feet in the
air.
On November 13 the autumnal session
of the Oklahoma Territorial Medical as
sociation will lie held in Oklahoma City
: beginning at 10 o’clqck a. m.
Benj. McClellan, of Harrah, has com-
menced suit against the Choctaw rail
j road to recover damages sustained from
I one of the company’s engines while he
attempted to Cross its track. lie asks
$9,582.
->----
The citizens of Red Fork will apply
; at the term of the United States oourt,
, to lie held at Muskogee next month, for
incorporation rights Oil tolerations
have increased tho population to a re
I apectable size.
Mrs. Bert Maxwell,
TEACHER OF
PIANO, HARMONY,
TIUSICAL HISTORY
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' OKLAHOMA CITY
Okla. Limited leaves Ok. City 0:10 p m
Arrives Kansas City.... 7 :40 a m
“ St. Louis.......5 :35 p m
“ Memphis.......5:00 pm
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Arrives St. Louis 7 :25 a ip
Ok. Limited leaves Kan. City 9:20 p rn
Arrives Ok City ..... 10:55 a ni
St. Louis Exp. leaves St. L. 10:00 pm
Arrives Ok. City...... 6:25pm
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Maxwell, William Albert. The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1901, newspaper, November 1, 1901; Yukon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911419/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.