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KANSAS COMMENT; Annual Meetings. — Secretary Co-
--- J Mirn has issued the program for the
Mother at Sixteen.—Mrs. J. W. Gar ' inuual meeting of the Kansas board
row. of 228 West street. Emporia, is j af agriculture to b<
January 11*13. The meeting will
>pen on the afternoon of January It
Old Resident Dead.—The body of J
[j. McDowell, who died at ElUton.
’ol., Wednesday. December 21
TERRITORY TOPICS
probably the youngest mother in Lyon i
county. Although less than 16 years
old and still in short dresses, she is with a business session. The Kan
the mother of a healthy baby born last Uas Impoved Stock Breeders’ associa
week. She and her husband eloped
when she was 14 years old. Tho>
formerly lived in Arkansas, and hei
husband is in that state now.
Did Not Assault Striker. — .7 M
Horton, landlord of the Grandview
hotel, at Arkansas City, was tried on
the charge of assautiin ; a Santa Ft
striking machinist and found not
guilty. The case is the outcome cl
some troubles between Horton's wife
and a striker who called at the hotel
to talk to some non-union men. The
striker was. ordered to get out and
did not obey. The woman seized a
handful of red pepper and threw it in
his eyes.
Given Until February 1.—The Kan
sas Louisana exposition commission
has not completed its work and Gov
ernor Bailey extended the time in
which its final report may be made
to February 1. 1905. The commission
expected to get through work this
week and mak6 a final report to the
governor, but the exposition manage
ment has not awarded all of the
prizes won In the competitions and
the Kansas commssion will wait for
these awards.
Lost Life in Storm. — Constantine
Miller, an old soldier well known
around Hiawatha as •'Little Miller,”
started to walk from the country
home of J. E. Peuw to the town ol
Fairvlew, one mile distant. He fail
ed to appear by night time and
inquiry showed that he had not reach-
ed Fairvlew. His dead body was dis-
covered in a field half a mile east of
the Peuw home. He had lost his
hearings in the snow storm and was
frozen to death
Wichita Poutry Show. — Secretary
H. W. Schopf. of the Wichita Poultry
and Pet Stock association, assures
you that the big show which will be
held at Wichita January 2 to 7, will
surely eclipse anything before held.
The breeders of Kansas are enthusi-
astic, and from present indications
more breeders will be personally pres-
ent than ever before. This is one of
the big shows of the west. A prize
won here means something. The
secretary will be glad to mail prem-
ium list to all who apply.
Asks For Stricter Rules.—As con-
ditions prior to scheduling football
games with Washburn college and
Haskell institute, the athletic board
of the University of Kansas has ask-
ed the former college to adopt the
Chicago conference rules and Has-
kell to adopt the rule of that confer-
ence that prohibits players from more
ion will hold its regular annual meet
•ng In the Capitol building the sane
week as the state board of agricul-
lure. Monday. Tuesday and Wednes
Jay, January 9. 10 and 11; the Kan
held at Topeka | at Manhattan December 24.
Mr. McDowell was well known by all
ild-time Kansans. He was active In
public affairs in the early days. He
was the first mayor of Leavenworth
and the first United States marshal.
. . . , . , ...... .,i blood. tin* Indian Territory desperado
being appointed in 1861. He was ai-1
ways spoken of as a fearless and |
brave officer, never wavering in any
He was general! «««• and sent to the
Fire at Ardmore, I. T. — Fire tie*
itroved the grocery stop* of R. T.
Dallas. Tile loss is $4,000, Insurance
$1,200. The grocery stock of M. San-
lers was ruined by rire and water. 5
Desperado Insane. — Kate Young*
nf his official duties.
^as Swine Breeders’ Association wUl superintendent Qf first state fair
be in session January 9-11: the State hejd in Leavenworth in 186:’.. and took
Veterinary Medical Association. Janu au active part in the state affairs at
ary 10; the State De-Keepers’ asso-! ToI>eka for many years. In 1866 he
elation. January 10-11 and the state I wa8 nominated for governor on the
poultry association will be holding its National Union ticket at the state con-
annual poultry show during the en vent Ion held at Lawrence. Mr. Me
tire week. Secretary H. A. Heath. Dowell was a civil war veteran. He
Topeka, will furnish program for, and moved from Leavenworth to a farm
information about the stock-breeders near Nortonville, Kan., and in the
meeting; Secretary C. M. Irwin, spring of 1881 came from Nortonville
Wichita, about the swine breeders j to Manhattan, and was in the employ
meeting; Secretary J. H. Maxwell 8a of E. B. Purcell for many years. He
liua, about the veterinarians' met t | moved with his family in 1901 from
ing; Secretary O. A. Keene. Topeka, here to Elkton. Col., which place he
about the bee keepers' meeting and made his home until his death.
Secretary .1. W. F. Hughes about the, Fr„h Voun„ Man_ _ lse he
associations meeting and
Kansas roilroads have
Fresh Young Man. — Because
took advantage of the old Christmas
custom when one of his girl class
these meetings an open | mates passed under the mistletoe at
rate of one fare plus 50 cents to ev- j the hleh 8chool yesterday morning,
Poultry
show. All
granted for
the high school yesterday
erybody for round trip tickets, and no, Clelc Wrlght of Wichita lias been sus
receipts or certificates will be neces pended jugt how long his banish-
sary. Tickets will be on sale Janu m(,nt win ]ast is not known; probably
ary 7 to 14, Inclusive, and be good for untn atlPr thc holidays, when all dan-
return passage until and including j gei. of a repetition of the offense will
Monday, January 1G. be paai. Wright Is a sophomore at
. the high school, and yesterday when
Take Warning. Charles E. Heteh, to one of hi8 0iaSsos. he was
all has brought suit In the district | daring en0ugh and, as the teacher
court against Morrill township. Brown | thought absurd enough to take ad
county, Tor $10,000 damages on ac- vantage of one of the prettiest young
count of the death of his son. Leon- glrls ln the class as she passed
ard^M Fletchall. Tin* poor condition through Ihe class-room door, in which
of the public road was the cause of j was suspended an innocent little sprig
the boy’s death, and Fletchall will try 0j mistletoe.
to hold the trustees of the township j Paying Crop.—The farming Indus
responsible for Ihe accident. The boy try jn Kansas took a notable step for
was driving a horse hitched to ujward when the cultivation of alfalfa
buggy to Morrill, lie came to a bridge became general. It appears now that
on the main road and in attempting : an(,ther great step is to be taken in
to get across an approach, which had lhe establishment of mills for the
been partly washed away, he went too j grinding or ths wonderful product in
far to the other side of the road. | to meai. which operation is said to
where a deep gully had been washed, j double its feeding value. Alfalfa that
The buggy tipped over and catching | sells for $d per ton in the bale is
the boy underneath held him down in worth $u> as meal. The expense id
the mud and water until he was grinding can not be very greal. and il
smothered. The case w ill spur on the tbe statements made concerning the
good roads movement no matter industry prove to be correct, alfalfa
which way it is decided. \ mills will soon he as common as corn
. , „ . _ , .... shelters. Jewell county stands at the
Ask Pardon For Fmsh.—Ex-Repre- ‘ , .. ,, .. ,
... head of the great alfalfa counties ol
sentative E. A. Enright, of Kansas b
City, Kas., has interview ed Governor j Kansas-
Bailey on a pardon for George Finch, For 0M or At il oi
who Is serving a "hang" sentence for citizens definite plans were made and
murder in the first degree. Finch was subscriptions to organize a company
a "butcher" on the Frisco road. He to Put down several oil ami gas wells
was convicted of killing Frank Swof >’crr>’ is 1,1 lh<> southern part of Jet
ford, of Paola, ai Fort Soon. The fprson county and is sixteen miles
damaging evidence was given by j east of Topeka and almost due north
Hurt Dixon, who claimed to be an ac *°*a and Accord ng to c
Haworth theory the oil and gas belt
complice. Dixon was not prosecuted,
than four years’ participation on col-i The relatives of the murdered man
lege football teams. It is said that
games will not be scheduled with
these two Institutions if the condi-
tions required are not granted.
Controls Territory 'Phones.—A deal
has been consummated by the terms
of which the Pioneer Telephone Com-
pany. of Indian Territory, takes over
all the property of the Chickasaw*-
Choctaw Telephone Company, includ-
ing four local exchanges and 125
miles of toll lines. This gives the
Pioneer Company control of practi-
cally all the telephones in the two
territories, and gives Denison. Tex.,
direct communication with Kansas
City and St. Louis. The company’s
headquarters will be at Muskogee.
Proved His Innocence. — Wise M.
Holloway, who was arrested at Great
Bend and taken to Newton a week
ago, charged with complicity in the
theft of a suit case, containing note's
amounting to sixteen thousand dol-
lars from the Arcade Hotel there,
proved himself entirely innocent of
the affair and was released.
Paola Oil Refinery Chartered. — A
charter was taken out for an inde-
pendent refinery at Poala. It will be
a small affair, its capital being only
$2<LOOO. It. is given all the rights that
an oil refinery needs, including the
right to construct pipe lines. The
concern is named the Paola Refining
Company.
Has a Double.—Representative Vic-
tor Murdock, of Kansas, and Mr. E.
D. Johns, a Western newspaper corre-
spondent, look so much alike that the
former could go into the newspaper
man’s homo office and cover assign-
ments, while the latter could go upon
the floor of the house and cast a vote
for the Kansan. They are being mis-
taken constantly even by their closest
friends.
Eugene Ware’s Son Weds. — Thfl
marriage of Miss Mary Spencer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Spen-
cer. of Lawrence, and Eugene H.
Ware, son of former Pension Examin-
er and Mrs. E. F. Ware, of Topeka,
was celebrated at the Trinity Episco-
pal Church. Rev. I. E. Baxter was the
officiatng clergyman.
Broom Corn.—Frank Byers of Grant
county raised 12 tons of broom corn
and 500 bushels of seed on 55 acres,
and received $135 for letting 2.000
head of cattle on the stalks two
nights.
his pardon. The governor has taken
the case under advisement.
runs north from these fields and
do not believe that Finch did thc kill | takes in this community, although it
leaves Topeka a short distance to the
west. This theory seems to he brought
out by the fact that the Topeka wells
at Shorey have proved a failure
Second Offence.—John Beyers, who while Bonner Springs on the east
owns a grocery store in Emporia, was j has brought in a number of good
fined $200 and given a jail sentence j wells.
for running a joint in connection with Pipe Line Protects Itself. — Thc
the store. Beyers is a retired farm ! Kansas Natural (Jas company has iti*
or and has plenty of money. The no I pipe line repaired and will test thc
lice raided his place a few weeks line to the Labette county borders. A
ago and found considerable bottled 50-pound pressure will be turned on
beer. This is the second time he has the first day and this will be gradu-
been fined in Ihe last two months on ally increased to 450 pounds pressure
Oh, So Funny.
Jenks—‘‘You seem to be in
humor. What’s the joke?"
Markley—‘‘Didn’t you hear
our doctor?”
Jenks—“No; what is it?”
Markley—“He’s sick.”
good
about
the same sort of charge.
Kansas Records Broken. — Orville
Sickle's, of Smith county, has husked
2.700 bushels of corn this fall. His
daily average was eighty-eight bush-
els. This is the record for the state,
so far as heard from. Frank Hauser,
of Smith Center, is the champion tur-
key picker of the state this year. He
pldked eighty-one turkeys in eight
hours one day this week. The aver-
age is forty.
Ice House Burned.—W. C. Fithian
filed suit in the district court against
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
road for $3,900 damages and costs for
the destruction of his ice house in
Emporia, November 23. He alleges
in his petition that the “Katy” sec-
tion boss ordered his men to set fire
to the grass along the track and that
it got away from them and set fire to
the ice house. Fithian has been in
the ice business for thirty years.
To Get Pointers.—A delegation of
Kay county farmers came up to Ar-
kansas City to witness the work on I frozen to death on an outside
the model road now being construct cony at the home opera house,
ed here by the government road ex body was covered with a drift ol
perts. They spent the entire day i snow and was nG{ discovered until
watching the work. They are getting | mornlng Moeller was last seen Mon
day, and it is presumed he came tc
It Is said a shut-off gate will be put
in at the Labette line and the press
ure left on the pipe while the rest ot
the main is being laid. It would be
a dangerous piece of Business to at
tempt to blow up a line containing a
450-pound pressure of gas.
Mother of Grant Giliett Dies.
Mrs. M. J. Giliett, mother of Grant
Giliett, died at. Woodbine. Her bus
band died ten years ago. Grant ha.*-
never been back since his flight tc
Mexico in 1898.
Parker Won’t Move to Topeka. —
The report that the Parker Amuse
ment company shops will be moved
from Abilene to Topeka is denied by
Mr. Parker. His father. E. W. Parker
recently married to a Topeka lady
will reside there, but he has no in
terest in the shops. An increased
force of men will be put on here af
ter the holidays. Four carnival com
panies will be put out next season. E
Died on the Balcony. — Carl Moel
ter, an inmate of the National Mill
tary home at Leavenworth, was found
bal-
The
body
material to be used in the Oklahoma
legislature this winter when an at
tempt will be made to get a bill
through providing for the use of con-
vict labor upon the public roads. This
bill is to be introduced from Kay
county and these citizens have taken
it upon themselves to get all the ma-
terial they can in relation to the
building of good roads.
Burglcr Captured.—Some * days
his death some time during the bliz
zard. lie was a member of Company
C, Forty-ninth Illinois infantry. There
is every indication that, he became
bewildered in the storm and mistook
the opera house for his barracks
Moelter had been drinking. He on
tered the home in 1899. His former
home is not known.
Governor’s Secretary. — Governor
ago the Santa I*e depot at Harper was elect Hoch has appointed Tom A. Mr-
burglarized and four quart bottles ol Neal, of Topeka, editor of the Mail and
whiskkey were stolen. A Santa Fe I Breeze, as his private secretary. The
detective appeared on the scene and aPP<>intme»t of McNeal practically re
moves him as a candidate for state
in a short time discovered the guilty prlnter The on,y otbor candidate for
one. Jesse Gerrard, 15 years old, was printer now in the race is Gomer T.
arrested and plead guilty to the theft, j Davies, of Concordia.
whose raids terroized the whole
Chickasaw nation, was adjudged in-
Oklahoma sani-
tarium. She lived at Davidson.
Did Not Murder Biycey. — Henry
Bunn was acquitted in the district
court at Shawnee of murdering his
nice* s husband. Ernest Bucey. The
killing occurred last summer in a dis-
pute over crops, Bunn shooting Bucey
with a shotgun.
Retired Contractor a Suicide. —
Warren Richard Dent, 61 years of
age, once a wealthy railroad con-
tractor in Kansas, committed suicide
in Enid ami was burled by the county.
He is supposed to have relatives in
St. Louis.
Colony of Beavers.—There is a col-
ony of beavers, according to J. W.
Donaldson, in the banks of Deep Fork
about one mile south of Bob Boat-
wright’s residence. Mr. Donaldson
says ho very recently saw lots of
beavers’ work in that locality to con
vince him that there is a family of
the sagacious animals there.
Narrow Escape. — Last Wednesday
night as Clay Umble, clerk at the
Bank grocery in Guthrie was moving
boxes in the rear of the store, canned
goods cases piled 12 feet, high tipped
over on him, hurrying him under the
debris. The store was crowded and
the victim was dug out still aliv
Doctors cannot say whether ho will
live or die.
Gift From Indians. — Rev. Harper
of Darlington, was very pleasantly
surprised Christmas when a number
of Indians presented him with an
overcoat, cap and shoes and lie was
still more surprised when on putting
the coat on. lu* found four dollars in
money in the pocket. The presents
were all planned by the Indians as no
white person knew anything of it
Big Wolf Drive.—The greatest wolf
hunt In the history of the west ha
been held in the United Slates pas
Mire preserve near Chattanooga, Ok
Nearly fifty wolves were killed ami
countless rabbits and other small
game. Fully 2.000 hunters part lei
paled, with neatly 150 dogs. Th
hunters and the dogs came from the
country and towns in a radius of fifty
miles.
Turned Down. — An important de-
rision which affects a large numbe r of
towns In tin- Indian Territory that are
aspiring to become cities of the first
class was handed down by Judge C
\V. Raymond, in ihe United Stale
court of the Western district. He de
tiled the petition of Muskogee to be
raised from a city of the second class
to one of the first class on the grounds
that there is no law authorizing thc
court to take such action.
Penitentiary for Territory.—A
vention of delegates front the thr
new Oklahoma counties — Kiowa,
Comanche and Caddo, is to bo held
to petition the legislature to estab-
lish a territorial penitentiary in the
Wichita mountains. It will be called
about tin* first of the year, either at
Anadarko or Lawton. Governor I* er-
guson has expressed himself as fa-
voring the proposition and will doubt
less make recommendations accord-
ingly in his message to the legisla-
ture.
Territory Socialists Active. —- So-
cialist delegates representing both
Oklahoma and Indian Territories, met
at Guthrie in a galled convention, and
outlined plans for the work of that
party in the preparations for a new
state. Resolutions were adopted, the
purpose of which is to unite the So-
cialists of the two territories.
Fixed the Date. — At a meeting of
ihe territorial board of education thc
time fixed for examinations for terri-
torial certificates was July 12, 13 and
II. Two periods were set for normal
institutes, the first closing June 29-
30 and the second on August 10-11.
Comanche Chief Preaching. — The
first Comanche Indian to preach thc
gospel directly to his own people ami
in his own language is Chief Quanah
Parker. The citizens of Cache, a
small town near the chief’s home, ar
ranged for Parker’s sermon at that
place. The chief appeared at the ap-
pointed time and preached for half an
hour to 100 assembled Indians and a
number of white people. He says he
hopes to lead all his people to the
“Jesus Man.”
Judge Was Killed.—Lee Ginn, jus-
tice of the peace at Macomb, south of
here, was killed by Constable John
Mitchell. Ginn was flourishing a gun
r< cklossly and when Mitchell, with
whom he was angry, ordered him to
desist, he fired at the man and was
instantly killed.
Body Brought Home.—The body of
Mrs. E. E. Christensen, formerly of
Wellington, has reached there from
Manila. P I . after a seven weeks’
voyage and overland trip. It will be
;.000.000 Acres Involved. — Chief
Groin McCurtain. of the Choctaw na-
tion. and Chief J. H. Johnson, of the
Chickasaw nation, have announced
that they will commence at once to
deliver deeds to Indians for the lands
allotted to them. There are 6,000
such deeds The chiefs have for a
year refused to deliver the deeds, in
;in effort to prevent their people from
lisposlug of their land. The chiefs
have not wholly surrendered to the
government, for they declare they
will deliver the deeds without send-
ing them to Washington for the sig-
nature of the secretary of the in-
terior. The controversy involves
some t .000,000 acres of land in all. 5
Statehood Lobby Selected.—A mass
convention in South McAlester el act-
ed four delegates to Washington to
labor for the passage of the statehood
bill, with an amendment providing
for three sittings of the federal court
of the Eastern district at Muskogee,
South McAlester and Ardmore. Wil-
liam Busby. H. H. Kirkpatrick, C. B.
Stuart and Henry P. Robbins compose
the delegation.
Good Fire Protection. — Lawton’s
water system is in working order.
The pumps anti wells have been test*
d. Water was drawn continuously
from the wells for twenty-four hours,
over 1.600.000 gallons being removed
with no apparent diminution of the
supply. The reservoirs are now both
full, and tio material leaks have been
found in the mains. This system of
water works has been pul in by the
national government from funds de-
rived from the Lawton lot sale. The
system cost about $100,000. From the
time of the sale it took Uncle Sam
three and one-hall’ years to put in the
system. Today is the first time the
city has ever had any fire protec-
tion.
Cotton Picking Machine.—C. B. Cole
and R. S. Morrison or Lone Wolf have
perfectc'd a cotton picking machine
which may revolutionize the work of
caring for thc cotton crop and solve
the question of labor which confronts
the cotton grower, a matter the cause
of much annoyance and in some in-
stances disaster during the past seas-
on. The machine is drawn by two
horses and picks a row of cotton as
fast as the horses walk. While the
machine worked perfectly at the first
test, which was made this week, a
few minor improvements will be
made, when in every particular it will
Ik* the thing desired.
New Shot Gun.—Bertha Rou ton,
the 13-yeni old daughter of William
Roulon. a farmer living four miles
west of Shawnee, was accidentally
shot and now lies in a very dangerous
condition at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. A. Robertson, says the Herald.
The circumstances are that one of the
neighbor boys of the Routon family
had been to the city that day and
purchased a new shot gun, which he
was manipulating in the yard at the
Routon home, when it was accident-
ally discharged, the contents, a load
of No. 12 shot, passing through the
unfortunate girl’s thigh.
Good Work. — During the coming
year Oklahoma will expend $2,5000.000
on her public school system, colleges
and common schools. This does not in-
clude the amount that will be expend-
ed by denominational and private col-
leges and schools. The schoq) c *i-
sus shows that tho territory has a
scholaristie population of 204.716,
and judging from tho enrollment prim
to the holidays, tho seven territorial
institutions will have an attendance
j of over 4,000 students. The college
courses, both classical and profession
| al. equals those of many of the east
• ern states and Is far ahead of the mn
jority of the western states. The col
j lege faculties came from among
I known educators, and. all in all. the
advancement made by Oklahoma
along educational lines, In the short
period of her existence, 1:; the marvel
of the century.
He was put through the process ne-
cessary in such cases and will be sent
to the reform school to remain until
he Is 21 years of age. This same boy
was sentenced to the reform school
about one year ago but by some
means he never w ut.
Gives Topeka 43,998.—According to
Ihe new city directory, just issued,
Topeka has a population of 43,998.
The government census of 1900 gave
the town 33,608. It was charged at
the time that the enumerators over-
looked several thousand people.
taken
burial.
Highlanu Oklahoma
Long Service in Ir
A British regiment rece
in Southampton after tw
service in India. Only six
regiment that sailed ft* ;r.
•*nnod with ;t.
Surrendered to Officers. — Georg *
Beckwith, an aged man living two
miles north of Wcwoka. surrendered
to the officers at that place, stating
that he had killed Sim Lamb with a
shotgun. According to Beckwith’s
story Lamb, who worked on tho f. rm
of a Mrs. Shelton, a widow, loaded up
with Christmas booze and began to
abuse tin* woman in Beckwith’s pres-
ence. Lamb slashed the woman with
a knife and upon Beckwith’s Interfer-
ence cut him up badly also. Lamb
left the house and subsequently re-
turned to renew tho attack. In the
meantime Beckwith secured a shot
gun and fired both barrels at the man.
killing him Instantly. Lamb was re-
garded as a quiet citizen, except when
under the influence of llcuor.
Member Resigns.—At a meeting of
the territorial board of agriculture
held at Oklahoma City, Senator-elect
E. J. Murphy of Blaine county, tender-
ed his resignation as member of the
board. It was accepted, but no suc-
cessor will be named until the annual
meeting of the board at Guthrie, Janu
ary It. 15 and 16, when one will bo
elected. The board today planned
matters of legislation to be asked for
from tho territorial legislature for the
Inspection of nursery stock and for
more clerks.
Ponca Indians.—The allotting of the
Ponca Indian lands will probably bo
begun immediately after the holidays.
George A. Keeper, of Ohio, one of the
government’s allotting agents, has
been assigned to the duty, and is now
at the Ponca agency. There are 156
children, who, by reason of the fact
that they were born since the general
allotment of the Ponca lands, are en-
titled to complete allotments, and 412
citizens entitled to additional allot-
ments from the surplus lands.
Another Oklahoma Corporation.—A
charter has been granted to the
Northwestern Railroad Company of
Elk City, O. T. Tho company incor-
porated for $1,875.000. They will
build from Elk City, Roger Mills
j county, through Day, Woodward and
Beaver counties in Oklahoma. From
' Beaver they will build a branch south
! to tin* north bank of the South Fork
! of the Red river. The incorporators
are E. (’. f.'oiss, L. N. Neiss. F. F
! Krause, A. F. C >1 ren. of Chicago.
! and W. F. Perce, of Elk City.
For Masonic Home.—When tin* Ma-
sonic grand lodge of Indian Territory
meets next August $50,000 in cash will
*" ,h(' l'»".ls of a eonimlltoo select To Locate 0nms. _ u is ........ on
od in act as trustees for (he proposed | good authority that three locating en
Masonic Orphans' Home. For tho j gine,.rs are now on their v ay to lo-
Pasi Six years voluntary contributions cat0 tw„ rioorvolrs ml dams on the
from lodges and individuals have been otter Creek, near Mountain Park
accepted, with lhe view of founding "One will be located on Ihe North
a home for Ihe widows and orphans |.'„rk of the Red Hirer near LeutgcrL
of deceased Masons. ' J The reservoir sites will contain about
fifteen thousand acres and furnish wa-
ter to about 2C5 thousand acres of
... i • , .. . i land in Greer and Kiowa count R-s
ural lakes, but this defect is rapidly .. ,
I Very tew now appreciate the tar that
this is one of the grandest things for
....... . r . , i Oklahoma that ever happened.”
slocked with fish, make a first-class
imitation. Hundreds of the artificial Poured Liquor in the Streets. —
lakes have already been constructed I<Vder8l officials seized a quantity ot
in various parts of the territory, and Mqquor at Ardmore and spilled it in
the work is still going on. the streets. No arrests were made. 5
Missing Man in the River. —
body of a man later identified as-
of W. R. Dunn, of Arkansas City
Some Artificial Ponds.—Oklahoma
was not provided by nature with nat- j
being overcome by tin* construction
of artificial ponds, which, when
The
that
was
found in the South Canadian river.
From appearances it is a case of
murder. A wound which is supposed
to have caused his death was found
over the eye. The body had probably
lain in the water some days. Dunn
disappeared from his home in this
city about seven weeks ago.
Osage Nation.—Owners of leases on
land in the Osage nation have com
menced a campaign for a more liber-
al set of rules governing the remov-
al of t imber from Me land. The i ule
are now thai a man clearing a piece
of timber land must cither burn the
timber or allow it to remain on the
land, for it cannot be removed or sold, j ^
Captain Frank Frantz, Osage agent, Is
co-operating with the lessees in get
ting the orders modified. The land
leased for agricultural purposes is of
no value unless cleared of timber,
and the expense of clearing is so
great that it cannot be prepared for
tilling with profit to the lessee, unless
the timber remov* d can be sold
Sleeping Child Burned to Death.—
While Mrs. Jark Rogers had gone
from her home in Alton for a pail of
water, her bed caught fire and burn-
ed her -1 year-old child fatally The
fire was extinguh hed with difficulty,
but not in time to save the child. The
child was in bed asleep when the fire
Second Degree. — Frank Ellis has
manslaughter in the second degree for
the killing of Ferris Clayton in Guth- j
rie in 1901 and was sentenced to a
term of four years in the penitentiary ,
at Lansing. Kansas.
Elected Secretary. — AI Territorial
Socialist headquarters J. E. Snyder of
Pawnee county, was elected secretary-
treasurer and will make his headquar-
ters at Oklahoma City. It. Mpschko
of Kingfisher was re-clrcted national
committeeman.
Proposed Hospital. — The Shawnee
Eagles have a committee looking af
ter the location of the proposed char-
ty hospital
which the organization
Oil templates
erecting In that city.
•’our Hites
hi. * been proposed
iroad way H
ion, Oak i';e
rk addition and a point
south of the
river on the T cumseh
To Practice
rsatile edit
per to
Law. — Bob Neff
itor of the Bl-ickv
old bis interest in
former partner. J.
• ars Mr. Neff has ranked w
lost able of Oklahoma editoi
lo ir number His ret ir men
: tlnct loss to the ne wgpap' i
Stabbed His Brother.—•, >:
he farmer Ijo\ who was ibbt
he heart by a brother named
ear Choc .■ fit.. S wr la\
and
•<! near
■ ter stabbed his brother in the re-
v of the heart. Lest* r is about l:i
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