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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT.
A. C. FlSII KH, Pub.
HENNESSEY, - • OKLA.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TKRUITOICY
One Ponca City cigar factory keeps
six hands at work.
A lot of counterfeit dimes have been
put in circulation at Pond Creek.
Tln spring term of the district court j
of Woods county is to be held at Alva,
The Shawnee registration for the
spring- election numbered 1,18- voters.
Will Perry was arrested at Mulhall
charged with a burglary in Chandler.
The records and books of the Perry
land office have been removed to (Juth-
rie.
In "Woods county the people seem to
In' divided into pro-l'hoctaw and pro-
Orient classes.
K. M. Marquis, of Stillwater, has
started for Australia in the interest of
a Chicago firm.
Investors at Lawton are waiting for
the opening of the Woods claim for
townsite purposes.
The majorities at the city election
in Blackwell ranged from one to four-
teen in a vote of 040.
There is a movement in progress to
organize an Oklahoma society of the
Sons of the Revolution.
Lon Thompson, a negro, was killed ,
in a saloon near Ilridgeport, O. T. 11<'
was an all around tough.
J. W. Foosc, of Medford, the newly
appointed territorial librarian, will
take cligrge of his ofllce on April 15.
The Western Union Telegraph com-
pany lias commenced stringing the sev-
enth wire between Kansas City and i
Oklahoma City.
If faith and good words on the part
of the Oklahoma newspapers can as-
sure a bumper wheat crop then that
result is certain.
(■has. II. Woods, assistant attorney
general, will be retained by J. < . Rob-
berts, the new attorney general, who
assumed the office on April 1.
The vote in Stillwater for water-
works bonds gave a majority in favor
of the issue, but lacked a two-thirds
majority which the law requires.
C. M. Ilarncs, of Springfield, Mo.
says he will locate a wholesale queens-
ware house at Oklahoma City and that
he will put up a 950,000 building.
Secretary Wilson has Issued sa :
permitting the shipment <>f cattle frot-
that part of the Ponca reservati n
south of Salt Fork and east ot the
Santa Fe railroad.
Chas. Ilcemer, formerly a merchant
of Omaha, Neb., tva4 accidentally • I
while returning from a hunt. He re-
sided at Lawton, and died while being
carried to his home.
Canadian county voted for a $">0,000
court house and now the commissioners
propose to build one for §30,000. An
action has been begun to compel the
use of the full amount voted.
The secretary of the interior has re-
versed a decision in a contest case in
the Kingfisher district, which turned <
on the question whether a bachelor
can establish a residence, in the bach-
elor's favor.
N. W. Tubba, superintendent of •
buildings at Langston university, was
found dead in his bed at a Guthrie j
hotel. He ate a hearty supper and
seemed in good health. Mr. Tubbs
lived at Newkirk.
As the passenger train from Lawton
pulled into the depot at Anadarko, 1). I
.1. Myers, a passenger, suddenly ex-
pired while sitting in his seat. lie
had 82,318 on his person and his home
is in Hastings, Neb.
F. T. Hensley, of El Reno, has the
advantage over other candidates, not
being bothered by delayed trains. He
can rack out on his automobile to at-
tend a meeting while his opponent
are waiting at the depot. ,
Governor Ferguson insists that his
administration shall not as such take
active action in political chanircs, nom-
inations or appointments. He recog-
nizes that each man lias hi- personal
choice in these affairs but no one nia\
use the official machinery for political
purposes.
The sanitary commissi oh has placed
the Ponca reservation above the quar-
antine line, to correspond with the fed-
eral line.
The territorial railroad assessors are
expected to rate the Santa Fe at $ oo
a mile, and an average of 82,000 a mile
of sidetrack. The Choctaw was rated
last year at $4,500 but has voluntarily
returned an estimate of 85,000. The
Rock Island will also be placed at
Sr.,ooo a mile for main lines. The as-
sessment of railroads in Oklahoma is
three times as much as in Texas.
The Fraternal order of Farmers, a
secret lodge, is being organised in al-
most every county in Oklahoma. It is
said to be something like the Grange.
There arc 350 insane patients of
Oklahoma in the sanitarium. A war-
rant for 814,705.90 has been issued for
the care of the insane for the quarter
ending March 31.
It is decided that all the territorial
offices will be moved into the new
building in Guthrie as soon as the new
rooms are made ready, which will re-
quire but a short time.
The Ozark and Cherokee Central has
opened an office at Muskogee.
Prior Creek, I. T., is boring deep in
search of a better supply of water.
Henry Norman is under bond at
Ardmore on the charge of stealing the
Tishomingo mail hack.
Muskogee is trying to be counted in
on the new Santa Fe line from Owasso
and Ilartlesville and on south.
The Rock Island surveyors are to
survey their line between oldtown and
south town at South McAlester.
Bertha, daughter of Superintendent
Benedict at M nslcogee. has been pain-
fully injured by a kick from a horse.
City Marshal Led better, of Vinita,
while chasing a gang of young men,
fell ami broke his leg.
Steve Russell, a Cherokee Indian who
has been in the Ohio penitentiary for
20 years, has been pardoned by the
president.
It is stated that the Frisco will move
Its large tank from the Canadian river
to Weleetka, and will put several side
tracks there.
Judge E. Tolbert. of Atchison, Kas.,
has been appointed United States <«om-
missioncr of the southern district of
Indian Territory.
There are nine federal prisoners held
in the jail at Ardmore because the fed-
eral prison at Leavenworth is crowded
and cannot receive them.
The erection of a new oil mill has
been commenced at Chickasha by the
American Cotton Oil company. The
company will make Chickasha its dis-
tributing point.
II. S. Commissioner S. R. Rradford,
e\ attorney general of Kansas, died at
Ardmore on the second day after he was
stricken with apoplexy. He never re-
gained full consciousness.
Citizens of Marshall have signed an
agreement wirh the Denver, Enid &
Gulf railroad to build through that
place within four months. There is a
525,000 bonus in the matter.
It is estimated that the crop of po-
tatoes in Pottawatomie county will
reach 5,000 acres this year. A low es-
timate of the yield would be 250,000
bushels, with a total value of §150,000.
A delegation from Alva has visited
Governor Ferguson in the interest of
President Anient of the Normal. The
governor takes the ground that the in-
cident has passed by him and rests
board f education for normal
with
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he proposed
ogee, a dis-
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on bill pro-
strict for In-
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Indian
from Mir
if 46 mil-
line will cross
The Indian
vides for a new juc
dian Territory by dividing the northern
district; the Seminole and Creek na-
tions to be included in one district, to-
gether with that portion of the Chero-
kee nation west of the Arkansas river
and north of the Canadian.
The contract for grading the south-
western extension of the Katy will be
let at St. Louis April 11. The contract
for grading the Wybark dxtension will
also be let on that date. The contract
for grading the Muskogee A. Western
from Fort Gibson, I. T., to Guthrie, O.
T., will be let on the day following.
Roth routes are to be pushed to com-
pletion.
J. S. Martin has collected a judg-
ment of 810,700 against the Kiowa and
Comanche Indians, through the United
States government. When the govern-
ment bought the lands of the. Indians
it was subject to judgments against
them. The claim was for cattle taken
from Martin by the Indians in 18f 6.
He has another judgment for horses
taken by the Indians.
1!. S. Commissioner S R. Rradford,
of Ardmore, has been stricken with
paralysis and left in a critical condi-
Rrndford is an ex-attorney
f Kansas, and has been an ac-
oter of progrj
Mr
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it or \\
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ipbcl
iquo
as going on at ! ali-
Fiuley, crazed with
shot into the crowd several
Mrs. Oliver Bayles received a
•otis wound in the thigh, and
r bullet went through the hand
i of her little boy. Finley escaped.
Nine negroes, men and women, are
: under arrest for the murder of Will
1 llayes near Wagoner.
| At a meeting at South McAlester the
officials of the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
j Gulf railway, turned the operation of
I mine No. 5, at Alderson, over to Wi!
liam Rushy, of Parsons, Kas.. general
sales agent for the road. Mines six
and fifteen at Alderson will continue
to be operated by the McAlester Coal
Co., but sales will be by the consumer!
coal company instead of by Mr. Rusby
as heretofore.
Some sections of Indian Territory
perieneed a heavy fall of hail on
night of March 28, damaging early
vegetables and fruit. At Durant sev-
eral small houses were damaged.
The Cherokee enrolling party is
about through with securing rebuttal
testimony in the 1,275 doubtful cases
and the commissioners are beginning
to see the end.
The election nt Vinita was a land
slide for the good government ticket,
headed by L. F. Parker for mayor and
J. F. Led better for marshal
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,
Another half cent a pound ha-s been
added by Chicago packers to the price
of dressed beef.
II. ti. Squires, secretary of the min-
ister to China, is in line for the place
of minister to Cuba.
Manila celebrated on April 4 the ar-
rival of the first direct American
mail steamer ti* reach there.
There is a scheme to settle with
ICuropcan immigrants vast tiacts in
the state of Chiapas. Mexico.
United States minister to China, Mr.
Conger, has commenced negotiations
fur a new commercial trealty with
China. •
The interior department has issued
instructions for the precaution of
those who fail to remove fences from
government land.
Robert 11. Armstrong, the Chicago
newspaper man who has just been ap-
pointed private secretary to Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw, is a native of
Iowa.
The United Mine Workers of Miclii-
pan were called out on a general strike
beginning on April 1. on account of
the operators and miners disagreeing
on a wage scale.
Kxeavations in the forum at Rome
have brought to light a tomb supposed
to be older than the traditional founda-
tion of the city. It is considered an
important discovery.
An American company has bought
the American rights and patents of the
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy com-
pany. The purchasing campany has a
capital of 50,150,000.
Brigadier General Fred Funston ar-
rived at Oakland, Cal.. and joined his
family, lie is to go to Denver in a few
days to assume command of the de-
partment of Colorado.
Floods did SI00,000 damage in Mor-
gan county, Tennessee, to farms,
fences, bridges and roads. At Oak dale
there are 35 families destitute and 25
other families need aid.
General Funston said in San Fran-
cisco on April 3, "The Filipinos are
absolutely incapable of self-govern-
ment to-day, and I do not think the
next generation of the race will be."
Thousands of postal cards arc re-
ceived by the president, the heaviest
lot of them from Kansas, asking that
he send a message to the senate asking
that a constitutional amendment bo
submitted to the people providing for
the election of senators by the peo-
pie.
A Rhode Island boy wrote to the
president asking him to suggest a
motto for a guide through life. Mr.
Roosevelt sent the lad a steel engro-
vii r <>f himself, with this motto in his
own handwriting on its margin:
"Don't foul; don't flinch, liit the line
hard."
Dr. R. Heber Newton, who has be. n
rector of All Souls Episcopal church in
New York for 33 years, is about to
resign, to go to Lei and Stanford Uni-
versity, at San Francisco as a special
reader.
The New York legislature passed
and Gov. Odell lias signed an act
which imposes a penalty of not more
than ten years imprisonment or more
than 85,000 line or both on persons
who advocate anarchistic doctrines by
speech, writing or otherwise.
President Roosevelt assures the vet-
erans who are employed in the depart-
ments that his order forbidding all ottl-
cers and employes of the United States
to attempt to influence legislation in
their interest was not intended to apply
to them.
An explosion of gas in a coal mine at
Dayton, Tenn., resulted in the death
of l"j men, with another list of in-
jured.
It is reported from Chicago that the
beef p ickers of the country have form-
ed a trust to make a raise in the price
of beef.
James II. Garfield, son of the late
l're- dint Garfield, has accepted the
position of civil service commissioner
tendered him by President Roosevelt;
to the place vacated by Wiu. A. Roden-
berg on April 1.
HE rccent visit of Prince
\Sj* Henry of Prussia, brother of
Enipeior William, makes ap-
propriate this allusion to the
dynasty from which he
springs: He is a scion of the
royal house of Prussia, which
was founded by the elector
of Brandenburg. It was left to the 11th
elector. Frederick William, to enlarge
his dominion anil make Prussia a sov-
ereign duchy. Hid son Frederick wa.5
the first to assume the title of King of
Prussia. This was done with the con-
sent of the German emperor. His son.
Frederick William I. left to his son.
Frederick the Great (1740-80), $6,000,-
1)00 above his debts and an army of
70,000 men. the best disciplined in Eu-
rope. He lifted Prussia from a com-
paratively unimportant state to be one
of the great powers. He wrested Sile-
sia from Austria and resisted the com-
bined armies of Russia. Austria and
France. Everywhere the crafty Fred-
erick was successful. If his ideas had
been followed Germany instead of
lireat Britain would have been mis-
tress of the high seas for the past 50
years. His successor was his nephew,
Frederick William II., who reigned 11
years. His abilities were of the com-
monplace hut in the third and infa-
mous partition of Poland he shared
and added 40,000 square miles to his
possessions. He was succeeded by his
son, William III (1797-1840), who, by
his vacillating policy isolated Prussia
among the powers and left him alone
in his struggle with Napoleon, who
proceeded to punish him in exasper-
ating style. His consort, the beautiful
Queen Louise, daughter of Duke
Charles of Mecklenburg-Sterlitz, did
much to retrieve the mistakes of her
husband. Her nobility of character no
less than her remarkable beauty made
her the idol of the Prussians.
When the armies of Napoleon had
crushed the allied European powers
and Prussia lay at the mercy of her
Queen Louise*
conqueror, the people urged the Queen
as a last resort to make a personal ap-
peal to the conqueror to save them
from annihilation, trusting to her
striking beauty and lofty character to
move the heart of the invader. The
latter, apprised of her mission, re-
ceived her brusquely and in no wise
was moved to relent toward her sub-
jects. Louise was crushed by the fail-
ure and the cruel treatment of Na-
poleon, who even assailed her good
name. The Prussians took to heart
the insult to conciliate the invaded.
In 1810, while on a visit to the Duke
of Sterlitz, father of Louise, the Queen
passed away at 36. Her ashes repose
alongside those of her husband in one
of the world's handsome mausoleums
on the grounds of the palace of Char-
lottenbufg in Berlin. It is constructed
of white stone with a brown marble
facade. Passing within, a flight of
steps brings one to a heroic figure of
an angel. Overhead is a window of
the most beautiful shade of purple.
This reflects back an exquisite hue
on the faces of the marble figures iu
tho vaulted room. These consist of
Frederick William, of Louise, of Wil-
liam 1. and his consort Augusta. Be-
low the floor the bodies lie, while the
sarcophagi sustain the figures carvel
to represent them. At the back of tho
room is a marble altar, over which
hangs a crucifix and a painting of the
Almighty receiving Frederick and
Louise in heaven. The sarcophagus
of Louise is strikingly beautiful. The
William r. had his revenge in plenty
upon the nephew of his mother's tra-
ducer. Napoleon III., the biggest
humbug of the nineteenth century, in-
gloriously surrendered at Sedan, and
William was crowned Emperor of
Germany in the royal French palace
at Versailles. William's affection for
his mother remained to the last, and
in his apartments at the castle of Da-
belsgurg, in iJotsdam, a marble bust
of Ixiuise is a chief adornment. Fred-
erick, his successor, held sway only a
brief time. His incurable malady,
cancer, carried him off quickly. He
was a model sovereign and a goad hus-
band, a rarety among kings, and his
going was widely lamented. The pres-
ent Emperor, who began his reign as
Emperor William II. Prince Hcnrjr.
an eccentric, has developed into a re-
markable ruler. He speaks seven lan-
guages fluently and writes in eack
with facility. Prince Henry, brother
of the Emperor, married his cousin,
Princess Irene, of Hesse-Darmstadt,
daughter of Princess Alice of England.
Three children are livi'ig.
CLAD IN HIGH HAT AND PAJAMAS.
Queer Combination tho lrond Fathor
Hail to Wear.
"Very young children," said the
proud father of one, "are creatures of
habit. They also associate certain ob-
jects with certain things. On Sunday
afternoons I always take my baby out
walking; that is, I do the walking and
the baby is carried, for he's too little
to walk himself, you know. On Sun-
day afternoons I also v/ear my high
silk hat, and the baby has come to as-
sociate the hat with the walk.
"Last week he had several very se-
vere attacks of colic, and I had to get
up and pace the floor with him. Some-
how or other this didn't seem to have
the desired effect, and all my talk
about going 'day-days' only irritated
him the more. He would scream un-
intelligibly anil point to my bare head
Suddenly it dawned upon me that the
silk hat was needed to complete his
happiness. I put it on and walked
about with him and the effect was
magical. He fell asleep at once and
each succeeding night has brought the
same result.
"I dare say I cut a very ridiculous
figure in high hat and pajamas," con-
cluded the fond father, according to
the Philadelphia Record, "and am
rather troubled by the thought that
I shall have to keep it up."
A Qaottlonuble Favor.
It is hard for those on the shady
side of 50 to have a proper apprecia-
tion of new literary lions or have
much patience with the younger gen-
eration in their wild enthusiasm over
these same lions. A certain old lady
in Philadelphia was no exception.
One afternoon an elderly lady and
her niece were standing on a corner
waiting for a car.
Just as they stepped forward to
board a car a bicyclist dashed by.
The young girl had barely time to
draw her aged companion out Df
harm's way.
"Oh, auntie! ' she exclaimed in an
awestruck whisper, "do you know
who it was who nearly ran over us?
Why, it was Richard Harding Davis."
"Estelle," said the old lady severely,
you talk as if ne had done us a favor.
All I noticed was that he had very big
feet."
Propnrly Placed.
The head of a well-known shipping
firm in this country received a letter
from a millionaire Swiss banker, ask-
ing him to try to help his son got a
job in some mercantile or shipping
house, to learn the business. The
shipping firm head shortly wrote back
to the doting parent:
"Dear Sir: Your son has arrived. I
have given him employment at my of-
fices at |5 a week with others of his
class. One of these young men has
just bought a 500,000 yacht and anoth-
er comes to the office in an $8,000 au-
tomobile. I think your son will find
his surroundings congenial."
THIS BRUIN WENT ON A SPREE.
Invaded a I>alrjr, Drank Ilia FUt and
Uat Happy*
The proverbial buil in a china shop
has found an imitator in a bear
which has been paying an uninvited
visit to an establishment where milk
is dispensed, but Iu order to relievo
immediately any anxiety which might
be felt on the subject, I hasten to say
tnat bruin behaved extremely well,
and that no boues or crockery were
broken. The bear was beiny exhibited
011 one of the outlying boulevards
when its owner, in an absent-minded
fit, relaxed his hold on the chain, says
a Paris letter to the Louden leiegraph^
The animal took advantage of this .
situation to start on a promenade, and
when the people who had gathered
around to witness the show bolted
panic-stricken in every direction, ii
pursued the even tenor of its way until
it had reached the shop, at the door
of which a pail of milk was standing.
It seized the can iu its paws, walked
into the establishment and squatting
comfortably in a corner, drank off the
contents at one gulp.
When tho owner of the bear arrived
on the spot he found the worthy wo- (
man who keeps the milk shop lying (
prone on the lloor behind the counter
in a state of abject terror, but other-
wise not a bit the worso for the ad-
venture. He patted bruin, who wa3 in
an even more amiable mood than
usual after the little feast to which he
had treated himself, duly paid the
bill which he had run up, adding a
trifling sum to compensate the trades-
woman for her fright with his grizzly
companion, who, during the remainder
of the day, went through his evolu-
tions with even more zeal and energy
than he was wont to display, so that
when his owner finally wended his
way homeward he discovered that ho
had far exceeded his usual average of
profits, and had more than recuperate 1
himself for the money spent on the
milk.
AS TO AGE OF EARTH AND MAN.
Complex Social Conditions K.\Utrd Seven f
Thousand Yoara Ayo.
The question of the antiquity of the
earth and of man has caused no end
of discussion among scientists. The
geologists have figured themselves
into a disreputable state. They have
gone on adding ciphers to their esti-
mates until they have caused all other
scientists to revolt. They are them-
selves abashed when they contem-
plate tho results of their own enthu-
siasm. The anthropologists, who have
made a study of the characteristics ot
the human race on scientific lines,
have been more moderate in their cal-
culations, but they can come to no
agreement. The most modest admit
that man existed and had reached a,
complex social condition at least sev-
enty centuries ago.
There are scientific roarons for as-
suming that it required thousands of
years for tho race to achieve the social
conditions which are revealed by the
lettered tablets of 0000 13. C. The
ruins of an extensive system of water- f
works afford presumptive evidence \
that there was a hustling business
community at Babylon, for people who
do not hustle cannot pay plumbers'
bills. The tablets prove the use of
a printing press and of a revolving
cylinder with raised type.—Baltimore
Sun.
Euiperor William I and Frederick.
figure of the Queen is lying thereupon
as if she had fallen asleep.
Three children were born to this
Queen—Frederick William II., who
succeeded his father on the throne and
who died childless in 1861; William I.,
who followed his brother on the
throne, and Charlotte, who married
Nicholas I. of Russia. William was
the typical Prussian. He was most
devoted to his mother, and before go-
ing to war with France in 1870 visited
her tomb and there promised to
avenge Napoleon's treatment of her.
•lapauettfl Honetty.
A writer who has traveled much in
the orient declares that with all the
good qualities of the Japanese their
commercial morality is not above re-
proach. He says that recently, while
at his home in England, he wished to
obtain a particular strain of chrysan-
themum and. having a friend in the
land of chrysanthemums, asked him to
procure a packet of the seeds. The
seeds were duly delivered wrapped In a
most artistic cover. They were sown
in a box, watched with anxiety and
produced a very astisfaitory crop of
carrots.
8;iil Fate of a Beiuty.
Col. Nicholas Smith, son-in-law of
Horace Greeley and "the handsomest
man in the world." according to en-
thusiasts of a generation ag.\ has been
evicted from a New York flat with
bis daughters for nonpayment of rent.
Stammering Children.
Stammering is so much on the In-
crease in Germany that in the German
schools a special course of Instruction
has been started for children so af-
flicted. in Berlin six specialists, en-
gaged by the Board of Education, de-
vote twelve hours a week to this work.
One and a half per cent of all the
school children in Germany stutter. As
in nearly all cases the difficulty in
speaking arises from a peculiar nerv-
ous condition and is not due to any
physical malformation, the specialists
are confident of being able to cure
nearly all the cases which they. find.
The system of cure consists largely in
making the child speak slowly, la
teaching him liow to properly use his
Hps and tongue in forming words, and
in correcting his nervousness. That
stammering can be cured has been real-
ized since the time that Demosthenes
walked by the seashore declaiming
with a pebble in his mouth. It is a
little singular that the Germans, who
have been supposed to bo a race rather
lacking in nervousness, should sudden-
ly develop into a nation of stutterers.
Perhaps the strenuous life into which
the Emperor has plunged the country
has been a little too much for its nerv-
ous system.—New York Press.
I
Egyptian lVomen.
The Egyptian beasts of burden, the
camel, the ox, the donkey, have tho
same patient look as the people. It
may not be improper to add another
beast of burden, woman. There is the
look of sad patience in every Egyp-
tian woman's eyes as in the melan-
choly river boiling at its great task,
and in the face of the camel, the don-
key and the ox. They all look at you
with the same expression of patience.
They seem content to live, no matter
the conditions of their often wretched
life—and not desirous of making
change or resistance. The long swing
of the camel, the measured stride of
the ox or buffalo, the half-trot of the
donkey are seen everywhere. The
woman's face is covered, at least her
mouth is always, for no Mohammedan
woman may expose her mouth to the-
vulgar gaze of passers-by. Alf have
the same expression in their eyes as
the camel or other animals.
j
Count de Castellane cables to \ -v.,
) York a long plea in fnvor of the sale
' of the Panama canal to the United
States.
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