The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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HENNESSEY,
OKLAHOMA
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Chandler has closed
street lamps.
Filings on CJreer county
averaging six a day.
Guthrie has 33 teachers and tht
roll amounts to SI
Governor Barnes gave the newspaper
men a dinner on November '.'7.
The Guthrie Commercial club has re-
organized on active business lines.
Lee V ance, accused of horse stealing
in Logan county, lias been arrested.
Logan and -Lincoln counties are tied
for second place iji population; each
having :.'(i,r,:!8.
There are many looking' over Okla-
homa for places in which to locate
the banking business.
A Guthrie jeweler has found gold
bearing quartz in the rock ballast of
the Santa B'e tracks. The ballast cam. '
from Kansas.
Stillwater has a new mill with a ca-
pacity of ]50 barrels of Hour and 75
barrels of corn meal. The building
and machinery cost 8-.">,000.
The Territorial Agricultural and
Mechanical college lias four building's,
21 instructors and .'!()() students. Its
scientific equipment is worth $05,000.
General (i. A Gibraith, associate jus-
tice in the supreme court of Hawaii
visited in Oklahoma last week. lie
was in Oklahoma under the Cleveland
administration.
Lamont, with its new railroad, lias
already 400 people and crowds of new
ones reach there on the two trains a
day from Blackwell. About 50 new
buildings are going up.
Mountain View is said to be the only
town in the world built entirely on
school lands. The school land board
appointed appraisers of the lots and
their returns are ready to be sent in.
Mr. Cassingluim who lives just south
of the Kansas line, left a ¥100 bill on a
store counter in Caldwell. The use of
the telephone by the loser came just in
time to stop the merchant from adver-
tising the bill.
Depaitinent President May I. Barton
and Department Secretary Jessie Harts-
horne have inspected the W. 11. C. at
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Guthrie,
and are highly pleased over the condi-
tion of the order.
The Frisco Townsite Company num-
bers the lots in its new towns and sells
tickets for one-half of the whole town-
site, each ticket drawing the lot their
number calls for; then the company
sells the rest of the lots.
The lied Hock Valley Coal companv,
is said to have contracted for the sink-
ing of u shaft, six by eight feet, to tin-
depth of about :.'i;o feet. It is believed
from the result of borings, that there
is a four foot vein of coal there.
W. H. llcrbig, division freight agent
of the llock Island, reports the finding
of coal near Billings, said to promise
an under vein of seven feet. The pres-
ent four-foot vein is down "30 feet.
The mine is two miles only from the
llock Island tracks.
The school population of Oklahoma
is put at 1 '.'0,000 by the territorial su-
perintendent, and the at tend once at
the territorial institutions as follows:
University, 450; Territorial Normal.
250; Northwestern normal, r,00; Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, 450;
Negro Agricultural and Mechanical
University, 175.
In the court at Pawnee three oon.
victed men were sent to the Kansas
penitentiary under these sentences:
Tom Overstrcet, one year for forgery;
Zaek Alfred, ninety-nine years and
SI,000 fine for rape; Arthur Green, tive
years for bootlegging.
As something over 8100,000 is lying
iu the territorial treasury, in the pub-
lic building fund, derived from leasing
section 33, there is a demand that it be
used to build a penitentiary so as to
stop spending large amounts of cash
for the care of convicts in Kansas.
]'-• R. Suppc, of Parsons. Kansas, has
the land near Granite where gas es-
capes from the surface and will get
machinery in place there at once.
The lir*t special sent by a fullblood
Indian to a newspaper was sent to the
Wichita Eagia by Charles Green, chief
of the Otoes, and this is the way it
reads: lied llock, O. T. — Osag Indian
come to Otoe tribe to Pipe dance last
week, the Otoes give 40 head of Horses.
The <Isage are going to there h«me
some this week. Pawnee Indian hav-
ing Gost dance all Last week.
Professional and business men of
the Creek nation are now paying tribal
ttxes.
Samuel Cook, secretary of state elect
of Missouri, spends this week in In]
diaii Territory.
And now comes the Katy with pro-
posals to extend its lines out of Indian
Territory to Wichita
The laying of the new heavy rails on
the Katy, between Muskogee anil Dcn-
isou, is nearly completed.
The new railroad from Sapulpa to
Okmulgee has caused a number of
changes iu routing local malls.
11. K. McAdams' hardmare store in
South McAlester was broken into and
cutlery, guns and small articles taken.
Twenty-eight convictions were se-
cured at Antlers out of the criminal
docket during two weeks of session of
court.
A teachers' association of Indian Ter-
ritory has asked the people to petition
congress for the perfection of their
school system.
Jas. (i. Fleming and James Ward,
lawyers of Ardmore who have been
partners, quarrelled at Pauls Valley
and Fleming shot Ward. The wound
is serious.
it is said that parties connected with
the Frisco railroad, together with the
Kansas and Texas Coal Company, will
begin soon to operate the coal mines
at Henryetta, I. T.
The Cherokee legislature has granted
franchises to build telephone lines;one
from Owaso to Caney, Kas., one from
Still well to Tahlequah, and a line from
Vinita to lied Fork.
1\ hen the ollioials of the court
reached Pauls Valley, for the fall term
there was with them in their special
car 2h prisoners. There are to be
murder cases tried.
F. M. Best and Mrs. Ida Langley
were drowned in the Verdigris at San-
der's ford. The river was swollen by
by rains. They lived between Collins-
ville and Claremore.
L. 1'. Kennedy & Sons have made a
proposition to the Cherokee legislature
to collect the Cherokee claim against
United States of 84,300,000 for 10
per cent and such amount of accrued
interest as is collected by them.
The Choctaws levy a tax of 81,000 on
every white man who marries an
dian girl, the tax payable before a
marriage license is issued. If an at-
tempt is made to evade the tax the man
loses his allotment and the Indian girl
is disinherited by her tribe.
Complaint is made that persons who
pilfer wood in the Kiowa and Comanche
Indian reservation and sell it for fuel
in Minco are always arrested, while
the professional thieves who steal large
(uantities of cedar and walnut timber
and haul it into Oklahoma for ship-
ment are not molested.
Colonel T. C. Churchill, of New
Hampshire, is in charge of the Chero-
kee tax department. The propriety of
a-ppointing an ollicer for this duty is
make apparent by one fact. During
t*;e last year in which Indians collected
t-io taxes 810 in cash was turned in as
taxes on hay. while under Colonel
Churchill's administration he turned in
V I,474.88 on that one item alone during
his tirst year.
The Territorial Bankers' Association
meeting was well attended. The rec-
ords of the ofiice of the secretary of
the territory show that since the ofiice
was established 140 charters have been
issued to banks, of which S3 are now
iu operation, It) have nationalized, six
have failed and 32 have gone into li-
quidation or never commenced business.
The banks of Oklahoma now have on
deposit an average of Sis to every man,
woman and child.
A championship foot ball game oc-
curred at Vinita between Tulsa and
Tahlequah and ttie score resulted ",!i to
0 in favor of Tahlequah.
The track for the Blackwell ,v South-
west railway is being laid rapidly, hav-
ing- reached Lamont, and a large force
is grading on towards Enid. From
Enid the road will run through Mar-
shall to Guthrie, the company having
signified its intention of accepting the
proposition made by Guthrie citizens.
The rorid will be operated as a part of
the Frisco system.
Frank O'Neal of the Santa Fe lias
been promoted to the position of dis-
trict freight agent, with territory ex-
tending from Perry to Purcell.
Excitement occurred in Wilburton
when the Choctaw, O. & G. railroad
attempted to eject from their right of
way through the town, a large number
of residents, many of them having good
buildings built before the exact loca-
tion of the right of way was known.
The resistance was MifHcient to stop
the work of ejectment and the railroad
filed suits.
NICARAGUA CANAL TREATY
Will Not Agree to Demands Upon
China That Cannot be Met,
TO PREVENT LAND GRABBING.
Washington, Dec. 4.—Administration
officials continue sanguine that the
ministers of the powers at Pekin will
soon reach a common ground of agree
ment in the demands to be made upon
the Chinese imperial government in
satisfaction for the lioxer outrages.
I he state department is in communi-
cation with the ministers and ambas-
sadors of the United States to the Eu-
ropean courts, and advices which have
come from them from time to time lead
the officials here to hope that the pow-
ers will be brought to the position
maintained by the 1 uited States in
dealing with the Chinese, viz: That
there should not be demands made
upon the imperial government which
it is not able to fulfill. Our govern-
ment has persistently held to this view
Alto
With I'onta Itlea And Columbia Are
Concluded*
Washington, Dec. 4.—Secretary Itay
and Senor Correa, the Nicaraguan
Minister, have signed a treaty whereby
the latter government concedes to the
government of the I'nited States the
necessary rights and privileges within
her bestowal for the construction of
the Nicaraguan canal. The state de-
partment has already entered into
arrangement on similar line - with the
Uepublic of Costa Rica. This was be-
cause Co -ta Rica has established a
claim to the right bank of San Juan
river, which must of necessity form
about a third of the length of the
canal, should the Nicaragua route be
selected and be constructed on the
lines which will be suggested by the
Walker commission. An understand-
ing has been arrived at with the United
States of Columbia covering the same
rights and privileges for the Panama
route as are conveyed by Nicaragua
ami Costa Itica in the case of the
Nicaragua route. So the state depart-
ment has cleared the way for such
in the progress of the negotiations be- action as congress may care to take in
tween the ministers at Pekin, and if the case of either of the canal route*
the principle of this contention can be
maintained in the combined note to
be handed to the Chinese plenipoten-
tiaries a decided advantage will be had
at the start.
The attitude of our government on
this subject has been made clear to
Mr. Conger.
The position of the United States
government is, and has been from the
first, that the demands made upon
China shall not be so great as to leave
an excuse for any one of the allies to
demand or accept slices of Chinese ter-
ritory, by reason of China not being
able to meet the demands.
Recess Appointments.
Washington, Dec. 3.—The president
in the first week of the session of con-
gress. will submit to the senate for
confirmation sixty nominations for
presidential postottices. This includes
those appointed during the session and
postmasters whose terms of otlice ex-
pire previous to January 1, next. It is
the smallest list of recess nominees
sent in for some years.
Germans Seize liritish Treasure.
New \ ork, Dec. 1.—It is reported
here from Pekin that the Germans
have boarded a Chinese vessel and de-
manded treasure, consigned to an
English company at Tien Tsin. As the
boxes of treasure had been landed the
Germans could not get them. They
hoisted the Herman llag on the vessel
and confiscated her cargo.
which have been found feasible.
November Treasury Figures.
Washington, Dec. 4.—The total re-
ceipts of the treasury during Novem-
ber have been 848,344,514, and the ex-
penditures 341,278,CO'o, leaving a sur-
plus for the month of 87,0(35,s." 4. The
receipts are itemized, as follows: Cus-
toms. $18,550,200; decrease over No-
vember last year, 8C.>^,121. Internal
revenue £27,559,159; increase, §3,8(55,-
905. Miscellaneous, 32,238,058; de-
crease, $1,812,842. Among the expendi-
tures are the following: Paid war
department, 89,572,739; decrease,
81,882,303.
To Test Sort horn Suffrage Restriction.
Washington, Dec. 4.—The National
Afro-American council has appointed
a committee to see that the validity of
the Louisiana constitution of 1898 is
tested b fore the federal supreme
court. The opinion of a number of
leading lawyers north and south has
been obtained respecting the Louisiana
and North Carolina laws restricting
suffrage and the supreme court will
have before it shortly ca>es that it is
believed will secure an expression of
its opinion respecting these suffrage
laws.
Union And Non-Union Fight.
Hnn Antonio. Texas. Dee. 1.—In a
melee here between union and non-
union employes of the Southwestern
Telegraph and Telephone company,
one man was killed and four others
wounded. It was the first bloodshed ! ed
Custle on the Stand.
'■El Dorado, Dec. 4.—Castle is a slen-
• der young man. 24 yeart of age. lie is
not a fellow that any woman would be
expected to rave over, and it is almost
j inconceivable that Jessie Morrison
should commit murder on his account,
the fact that his wife had been slain
j by his old sweetheart does not appar-
i cntly hang heavily upon him. As he
I began his testimony his relatives and
the father and brother of the murder-
woman all broke down and wept,
of the telephone strike, which was j but the witness did not shed a tear,
begun November 3.
l'ncliic Coast I.incuicn Strike.
San Francisco, Dec. 4.—The linemen
employed by the various telephone and
telegraph companies on this coast have
struck for increased wages and shorter
hours and for the recognition of the
union. Several hundred men are out.
A number of concerns have agreed to
the demands of the strikers.
Hutler County Pays It.
El Dorado, Dec. 4.—The trial of the
Morrison ease will cost Butler county
at least 810,000 and perhaps more. The
authorities say it will cost about
Sl.flOO to get the jury. Witnesses will
draw about 81,(^00. Then there will be
Stole Three <Mrs of Wheat.
Mound City, Kans., Dec. 1.—F. I.,
\\ esser was arrested here by a detect-
ive of the Chicago and Milwaukee
road on the charge of stealing three
I carloads of wheat from the yards of
the company in Des Moines, Iowa.
\\ esser in some manner secured the
bills of lading for the cars and g-ot
them to market, realizing #1,(500.
She Threw Vitriol.
Van Wert, O., Dec. 3.—Mrs. Emma
\ an Liew, who was under indictment,
for murdering Alice Ilummell by
throwing vitriol in her face, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and was sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for ten
costs of the court officers and special i years. She was taken to the peniten-
counsel. tiary at Columbus.
William Totea a Pulpit Around. The Kxtonslon From"l.lberal.
Berlin, Nov. 20.— The Emperor, while Topeka, Dec. 4.—It. W. Day, engineer
at Kiel approved plans for the expendi- of the llock Island, has been in cou-
ture of 30,000,000 marks on naval im- ference with Chief Engineer Dauchy of
provements. While at Kiel a score of [ the Reek Island
newspaper men were in evidence, but
all the information as to his speeches
and doings there is doled out accord-
on matters pertaining
to the extension from Liberal, Kan., to
the Pecos river. The engineers were
| engaged preparing the plans and esti-
ing to the pleasure of a certain court mates for the new extension to be
official entrusted with this duty. | placed before the boardo.' directors for
When traveling nowadays the emperor | approval at their annual meeting two
usually takes with him a specially ' weeks hence. Surveyors are still at
carved pulpit from which he delivers
liis speeches and sermons.
Hear Admiral McXnir Demi.
Washington, Nov. 30.—Rear Admiral
Frederick <;. McNair died at his resi
denee in this city, from a stroke of
apoplexy. He had been in poor health
for many months. lie was taken
violently ill. and his condition became
so critical that his attending physi-
cians called into consultation Dr.
Stone, one of the naval surgeons but
the admiral slowly sank away. He
was the ranking rear admiral of the
navy and the otlicer next in rank to
Admiral Dewey.
work in the southwest and the esti-
mates are not all in as yet.
Coal Screening Law Set Aside.
Columbus, ()., Nov. 30.—By a decision
of the supreme court the law requiring
eoal to be weighed before it is screened
at the mines is declared unconstitu-
tional. A Hocking county operator
was arrested for violation of the law
and at once applied for a writ of
habeas corpus, attacking the law on
the ground that it took property with-
out process of law and infringed upon
I freedom of contract. The application
' for the writ was sustained by the
| supreme court.
Paradoxical Preaching.
An American minister who recently
visited Ireland says he heard a preach-
er conclude hh> sermon with these
words: "My brethren, let not this
world rob you of a peace which It can
neither give nor take away."
Snail. Sold in Paris.
Nearly 100,000 pounds of snails are
sold daily in the Paris markets, to he
eaten by dwellers in that city. They
are carefully reared for the purpose
in extensive snail gardens in the
provinces, and fed on aromatic herbs
to make their flavor finer.
Frlinitl.e Indiana County Invaded.
Until a few days ago Brown county,
Indiana, had neither railway, tele-
graph nor telephone facilities any-
where within its borders. It is still
minus the two first mentioned necessi-
ties of modern life, but a telephone
line has invaded Nashville, coming
from Columbus, in an adjoining
county.
Drlejfate from I'orto Rico.
Frederico Dcgetau of San Jtiaa,
chosen as the first delegate from Porto
Rico to the United States, is a lawyer,
having studied in the University of
Madrid, lie is a member of several
scientific and philanthropic societies
and was one of the founders of the So-
ciete Francaise pour L/Arbitrage entre
Nations. Mr. Degetau has written
several books. He was one of the four
commissioners sent to Spain in 1S96 to
ask for autonomy.
AN ENEMY TO DRINK.
One Woman Who Ilus Done a* Great
Ural to 1*111 Down This Evil.
Minneapolis, Minn.. Dec. 3.—(Spe-
cial)—When the Independent Order of
Good Templars of Minnesota wanted
a State Organizer they chose Mrs.
Laura J. Smith, of 1217 West 33d
Street, this city. The American Anti-
Treat League also selected Mrs. Smith
as National Organizer. The reason ie
not far to seek. This gifted woman
has devoted her life to a battle against
Drink and Drinking Habits. Her in-
iiuence for good in Minnesota is and
has been very far reaching.
About two years ago however, it
seemed as if tills noble woman would
have to give up her philanthropic
work. Severe pains in her back and
under her shoulder blades, made life
a burden and work impossible. Physi-
cians were consulted, and they pre-
scribed for Kidney Disease. Three
month's treatment however, failed to
give Mrs. Smith any relief. Her hus-
band was much exercised, and cast
about him for something that would
restore his good wife to health and
strength. He heard of the cures ef-
fected by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and ad-
vised her to try them, which she did.
She is now a well woman and says:
"Two weeks after I commenced tak-
ing Dodd's Kidney Pills. I felt much
better, and at the end of seven weeks
was completely cured. I have had no
recurrence of the trouble, but I take
a pill off and on, and find that it keeps
me in good health."
Dodd's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers at 50 cents a box.
They are easily within the reach of
all, and no woman can afford to suf-
fer, when such a simple, and sure
Remedy is at hand.
Fchools for Learned Professions.
There are 141 theological schools in
the United States, fifty-two law
schools, ninety-two regular medical
schools, nine eclectic medical schools
and fourteen homeopathic.
To ask a man to pay a bill is as easily
said as done.
Mrs. Wiuslow's Soothing Syrap.
For children let-thing, softens the reduces in-
flammation, allaytpaiu. cures «-|n<l colic.. Mcubottle.
The wisdom of one man may bo the
folly of another.
It requires no experience to dye with
PI i NAM I1 ADLLESS DYES. Simply
boiling your goods in the dye is aJl
that's necessary.
I o be trusted is often a greater com
pliment than to be love I.
It is easy to recognize those who use
Garfield Tea; their complexions are good
I'M tlu-ir blood is pure and they are not
troubled with conatipatlon—-tha Klow of
superb health shines in their faces.
Some folks are so refined that they
object to common sense.
When you buy bluing, ask for Red
Cross Ball Blue, l.ai -c package 5c.
The manager of a theatre can't com-
plain that he never gets a show.
The ISest Prescription for Chills
and Fever Is a bottle or Gnovu's Tasteless
'•''.'-J''' U I? s1rnPlv it on and quinine in
ft tusttlcbs form. No cure—no pay. 1'rice, 50c.
^ ou can t keep your house warm
without a coaled cellar.
In Winter Usn Allen's Foot-Fuse.
A powder. Your feet feel uncom-
fortable, nervous, and often cold and
damp. If you have sweating, sore feet
or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease.
Sold oy all druggists and shoe stores
25 cents. Sample sent FREE. Address
Allen S. Olmsted, Le Uoy, N. Y.
The man who bets at least gets the
returns for his money.
WiRtS WHtrtt ALL USE
Best i\
in time. Sold by drti
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