The Woodward News. (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1896 Page: 2 of 4
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THE NEWS.
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km Oklahoma editor fraacrlbea poet-
I spelled
llut Fl.run hasn't.
The Choctaw rsilroail
cluoiffil 11 uac, but it make
; connection tlmn he forr.
.IiinI now Sheriff UeFonl. of otsla-
liotna county, l v order of ihe court, ia
the sheriff of Ureer county.
There ure ■.ItfUf that Woodward
I county intend* to open the «prin* by
In h' MiUMWilUt bel-
again Kaftlr eurn and
iietler | title targe per er
• roll till* veiir.
ti n will conatl-
i if tin* <lkl«hoU'<i
The cattle shipments into uoriliern
jiiht now. for grazing pur-
ls tremendous.
ecu appointed I'nl-
of Oklshoina, vice
Will tlraut
■ | county intends to open the spring "J I te<l commlanii
I* s plaoe to Noble aaaaty | d|„,overlll|r K uarbwlre mine. . Wllkerson resigned
, a v i I*"' Thomas, the depot agent ml |
1 ready troi>- | yonnytown ban skipped out. There . ••little ball ofjirn" becaune she
he nhade In ! J(| to ^ m woman in the caw. wrapped up in heraelf.
Secretary Lowe has granted a char- At Co^te it woman was ourrf et
tcr to the Territorial Agrarian Miner- parslyais by riding a bleyle but
al * Town Co., of Washita county.
to the atlver miner and only 60 cents
; to other people tliey never try to ex-
plain. So we hare a flood of Oliver and
WHY OLD PARTYITE8 SHOULD | .ontractod '""WW •* "}• ■*"*
iniM u Auns ,he Mm® tdenllc 1 dolUr * , „
HANDS. cnntl ,0 t),e silver miner and only W
, enta to iho "poor laborer" nl tho same
r. «« is tbe l:u«i of uoint lata ihe ,|n„, |lftr,| limps caused by crop fall-
fopnlist I'eri j Throash H> Chsare ,,ros anil over-production at the «* >•
niTrrwi si si l^uis—(teidlieo ate I time, and *o Indefinitely.
A. .M Trailer* Truly sound money argument <T) to
______ | a most peculiar thing.
Raymond E. Podge, atatlstlclan for
I thermometer I
„ . ,, . . , wt- tho republican national committer.
Harry Gilatrap calls hi. best girl hi. ^ fonir,1(le(1 , car#fll| analysis % Ool4 1>.
In the
The Indians of Blaine county are
taking advantage of the white public
schools and sending their children
there.
The ltook Island gay
1 al men who saw her were paralysed.
All the Oklahoiuu papers said aft
Although the old gran* was pretty
well burned off in Oklahoma this year,
a few chinch-bogs survWe.
Urist Mill .lones manages to win j
every time. A man w hose town la up-
permost In hia mind alwnya doea win.
Lincoln county is known aa the "or-
iginal Flynn county.'1 When It.was ,h|vu||(larilpld the other day
nounty A. It plneed Flynn in notnli.n ^ f Jf ^ >u ^ ^ e9„)(1 w„
'l®11- _ 1 a yellow streak.
Oklahoma has Joined the movement | •>
for n uniformity of cotton bales. The The fast woman who was supposed
standard si/.e fixed upon is 2SXSS to hare lieen killed by cocaine In Lo-
Inrhes. tfan county the other night will bo
Mrs. A. L. A. lUinsev. who has dug up. Someone bna expressed u
been seeking a divorce in Oklahoma doubt that she was dead.
county, has been given it for willful The J,,, indorsed the bill Immigration so Ion* expected has a
neglect drafted by Judge Scott, reading llrecr ua'.ly set In.
Deducting the population of cities county In a regular Oklahoma county, | j„ northern
FIXITY OP COLD.
Puis lu Meek
of the probabla "liver strength In the ,B (t>. lairlneie v«la. Haiier."
next democratic national convention A London financial circular aaya that
He estimate* that the free coinage win* ,.,KB6 h#g thu, f,r improved greatly on
l will have at leant 100 majority. Thin ))t86i ,H(1 wlll ,ioubtleaa continue to do
would enable Itie silver men to frame g0 jor , monlh to come and rnoro, t
the platform, but they would lack the 1))(, " Kor the varloua atatlntloal
the election- "Sow let us Join togeth- i requlallo atrength to name the candl- (or which the world baa to
er to work for the good of the town. late*. In the democratic convention I Mr Sauerbeck, tho Economlet
I It takea two-thlrda to nominate, and If I ,uu, 0tj,era. abow tliat January and teb-
A man recently died In ttkiahoma ,h(, eB,|mntP11 0( yr. Dodge are corroct, I ruliry isyr,, had, on an averugo of all
hla daughter wrote h half column ,nd |h„ Ro!d Btnm) flrnli they can (,ip Wh0i,.gnlfi prices of the chief articles
local paper telling how bad she .btolntely block a nomination. That of l.ommerco of the world, the lowest
TAYLORS BREAK JA1L.I m kinliv riooma
BILL CAUGHT BUT GEORGE
ESCAPES.
lag Oatlaw-Th* Ksaaps We Nvrprtse.
IIMMnl Umsvenae Clalasa Mais '
i aia
felt.
Mrs. Doolin visited her husband In
the Lngan county jail tho other du.\.
lie looked safe nn.t she went awuy
aatlstled.
uth-going trains Into Oklaho
. , of commci--
Ihey wlll stand llrm Is almost certain. ,,llcei on reCori. Atwl thlo Includea all-
The Influences behind goldlte polltl-
| All i
ma are crowde
r, which me ed, an usual, along with
lans are of nuch a chorncter that they ;1 olt,er com'P.odltles: only the price of
celdom wenken The power which k(j1(j renia|ned unaltered, as It always
make. them, abrolutelv controla their I Joe#_ because It was llxed fifty years
ictlons. The gold power Is one that Is | sjnC0 hy act uf Parliament.—Urad-
Ihor.iughly orgnnlxe.1. It knows no ,
party feallv, and In tho eastern statsn -phe foregoing appears In Uradstroofa
particularly, very few public men care sU0 of t)ie um| |t u reproduced for
to defv It.
ma the only Should the sliver men
nut wo* that dominate the convention there
fall. Most of tcarcel.v a doubt that the gold standard fifty year*
nirdi
Washinoto*. April !1—tJonaral
tlrosvonor. In giving out his customary
announcement of McKlnloy delegates
•looted, saiil last night:
"I state now without quallflantlon
that Mckinley has more dolagatM
elected, more men elected to tho con-
vention who will stay In the convgn-
I lion than I have claimed for him In
Camoi.i.toii, Mo.. April 13.— Oeorgo the flowing table:
Taylor la gone, and tho chances are "Alabama rt. Arkausaa 10, t lorlda 8,
rather slim for his capture. Lost I tleorgla 10, Illinois i, Indiana 50, Kan
night about fifty men spent the night i sas SO, Loolslsns , M|uo^U ltl,
hunting for him, and very little trace Mi lsnlppl IH. Missouri U Ncl.ra.ka
'jould be found of him anywhere. The |'; Vo ?h c£
bloodhounds could only trace him a (.||na 'Soulh fiakoU «, Texas 18.
•luarter of a milo at this place, and It vlr_|n;, s w,,,t Virginia Wiscon-
In thought that lie had a friend ,)n xcw Mexico I,Oklahoma4. Kon-
waltlng with a horse. 1 he uext place t k fl ,,uh , Tenneaoee U.
the doga caught the trail was about TotJ ju
tour miles from town, on the Wabash ••itiirloir the comlnf wnek McKln
railway. Ilero It. was followed to a . 1<)y.|1tr,ll|rth will grow rapldlv by the
largo pond of water and again lost. uoJnTimUonH in Kentucky, Nebraaka
About m '« nd New Jersey, and the election of
caught tho trail, but It went back to I dl||lr|ut jet,.,,,,!,., throughout the en-
the same pond of water. The general tfre terr|tor|ei, | conttdently predict
Impression Is that (•eorgo laylor Is U|>| be,„r>< t,,e HrKt day ol Slay Me-
still in this county. If this be true, ,t|nlj)V wll| Wcured a majority of
tho fifty men w ho arc uow out will | the convention, with the groat
surely catch liliu. | ,tate of Mlchiguu. West Virginia.
The people Of this town are not at ; Mj,M)|lrl rte,Washlngton.North
all surprised at the eMape o^the lay- | | arollna >ni, North ilBUota holding
* HHI " "* their coiiventlons In tbe month of
May. The number of votes necessary
A MA-aore perk system U
i lor Indlanapolla, Ind.
OU Bnehelor—"Now that your ata
tar kai married, it la your turn.
Youf Lady—"la that meant as ai
rase*,
the lawyer*.
cy meabiire.
______ Oklali
snd towns Lincoln county has a larg- ] with Mangum us county seat, and or- j wl|e|lt thnt hlls l,|„wn
er population than any other county gnnizing and equipping it as aU other | Rown vcry luU. j„ ti,,'
in Oklahoma territorial counties, with courts, u.|,eBt la high enough to hide u rablilt. democrat a would refnao to support tin What liave onr goldlle frlondn to
Endless litigation will result scluHilscounty nndtow-nsh.pofflcers. j whUe Mt(Ul Mu Hurl, ol ,!raIJ, | ticket „f that? What become of their
l.^the wttlemeiS of the Greer county * J. hM ... -J- coUDty waa sleeplni ,, maidenly sleep
, but It will be a g-ood thlnj? f°r ; 8*1t | the other night a burfflar cainr
stole the screendoora oif the house and
carted them away.
It U aaid that the receiver of the
HutehiKon Southern now figuring
on building the line ho that it will
touch the Rock Ulaud Hrst at ftome
point in Ciarfield county.
Near Tate, Payne county. < II. Mills
and J. A Matthews were arrested
for stealing lamps from Puchit's
church. Millis confessed am
bonds
lor*, which has been "expected for
some time, as the Jail ut thia time w ^ 4II„
iu such chape that, it would hardly to , 0|,„|ce i„ t|lt. crtllvenllon Is 4Sft.'
hold a dummy t arrollton people , i,„eml«Ironvenor ileularea that by
absolutely I \
— maina unchanged becauae It was fixed oTi^rand'r°atT
fifty yearn ago by act o( Parliament sheriff Shelton says that ho thinks mi!Btlnlr
tieorge wlll be caught in a few days,
but gives no reason for his hope. The
The action of the cuckoo democrats tr!nB|0 value" theory when viewed In I jail Is more strongly Jfuarded^ then
un'l \ In the Kentucky legislature Is conclu- ,lir ]|Kht of that atatement?
slvo evidence t^at when the master Am| it la one monetary truvu iu i I UDleaa he dlea by'anothe
ttcatlon meeting
CRIPPLE CREEK
"Which would you rather do, Jarley
klaa a girl on her llpa or on her eyee?"
"Hag eyee of oourse. You have to do
It twice to cover the ground." Har-
per's Basar.
A woman has Just l>een appointed
easlatant professor of English In the
Unlreralty of Michigan. She la Mlas
Oertrude Iluck, a daughter oi Jndg«
Buck, of Michigan.
There IsgreatactWIty In railroad-ear
building thla year. Bo far 13,care
have been built and moot of the build-
ore have large ordera on haad.
The firat modern bridge In which
history makes mention was tho famous
Mubllclan Bridge at Rome. It was
erected in the seventh century.
The greatest number
row In water from 500 t
ma deep.
of
i 1000 fath-
The latest device of a Paris paper foi
attracting readers is the engagement
of two eminent pliyalciana to attend
gratuitously upon Its yearly aubacri-
BLIZZARD
Judge* do not have to turn over mar- suits have been brought against eight
risg<rfeea to theoounty. .is audi ser- firms of Indian traders, for non-pay-
vices are not strictly of an official I ment of county and terntorWtaxe^
character.
j The amount involved is 800,000.
I legislature of Oklahoma passed
Last year it cost Kay connty 91.100 i tax,n(f the merchandise, accounts and
J aasess the Kaw and Osage reserro^ r eRtate o( Jndian traders on In-
speaka th<?y obey. appeared In a gold paper. The ralue
Kentucky diaiocracy han always been of g0|j, that la. Its value per ounce, ex-
true to the gllvcr cause. Until within pressed In pounds, shillings and pence,
the last year there has never been a wa8 flXe | by the English Parliament In
nhndon- of a doubt that Kentucky was lsti i„ money" It Is worth Junt what
n free silver itnte. Put tho inallgn In- (hf, siivs It shall be worth.
fluenco of Cleveland and C.i lisle. j<OW- if law fixed the value of gold,
backed by the money power of Wall whlch the eoldlte assumes to be of a
street, hns done its work. We now sup< rinr nature and above all law, why
find n small contingent of that par' -In rall u not lix tho money value of
10th the legislature, masquerading . * "so'tnil B|iver'.'
money" men, and stubbornly refusing 'fho reader will understand that wo
II u. .r Ihst st'itemeni ' *?ver aml Pro,1Pect ,or 1,111 taylor
e light of that atatemenir lier(l „0 April o ia extra good
And It l one monetury truth that haa ||D)r^ Ue („eH by aIlulbl.r route.
hi! attorney general telegraphed
here for an aflidavit from Sheriff Stan
Immense Unm>|> Wro« hl w
1.4mm at 1.1 r* Is l> r .l
i Ktrn-K Chkkk, Col., April
The contemplated new Union Station
in Summer street, Boeton, will ooet
14,000,000 and have thirty-three tracka.
It will Include the preaent New Eng-
land station.
■The
This year the job was given to ; rfM>rTlltioI11, att ched to Oklaho-
I'at Nnnlty, who has agre«l to do it , ^ jQf Judicial pllrp(,ses. if the case
for WO. ; jioesagalnat tho Indian tradera they
From a careful study of our strip wm have to pay territorial and county were put under .
exchanges, we glean the startling I taxes. ' ltecentlv a woman
gratifying ahowing.
An expert on curioua calculatlona haa
ley about the escape Tl^o" Taylor! | ^rlPpla ( reek dUtrlet wa. y«^ y ] ft^nred that If a man could jump aa far
j This was duly forwarded. The mo- visited by the severest an. uiost de , rtion to his slze as a flea can,
lion for It rehearing will come up ntructlvc blizzard in its history. An P the E|lde Bridge,
Tuesday lieforc the Supreme court, immense amount of damage has been I lie could sta . ,.
and this escape wlll prevent it being ,|0„e snd in all probability some lives | by a single bound, spring Into the
heard and makes sure the execution j ,1BV0 been lost In the bills. The j middle of Lake Michigan.
' of Hill Taylor April 30. velocity of the wind, which was from
It is now conceded on a!I hands that (l(o Northeast, increased, and con-
I "nn*. _«• -
Stm Marshal, the Gartleld county
man who waa recently shot full of
holes, is going to pull through. He
wlll move to Colorsdo. Oklahoma is
too tough for him.
Ben Crsvens, a notorious outlaw of
the old school, who has been operating
in the Osage country for years, and
who broke jail in Noble county six
months sgo, started in to rob the town
of Elgin, a small place on the state
line early Monday morning, but was
frustrated by a woman. He has not
been seen since.
Jndge Dale reversed the supreme
court In the Fitter caae. Ho found
the law on which the eupreme court
based Its deciaion had been repealed
Pitzer went into office,
J .Several heavily constructed flat box- |
! e , less than three inches thick, each ^ ^ tQ Mber himoff
\ of which was fastened with huge 1
hinges and clasp and heavy padlock-
left the office of the commissioner of
Indian affairs Tuesday, addressed to
Dan M. Wisdom, Union Agency, Mus-
kogee, I, T. They contained pay
rolls, which when properly signed by
the many interested, will represent
the disbursement of nearly half a mil-
lion dollars, being 05 per cent of the
government for the lienefit of the old
settlers or Western Cherokee Indians.
Mr. Bigger who furnished the farm-
ers along tho Santa Fe seed wheat, is
making n tour of inspection of Okla-
homa wheat fields. He is accompan-
ied by Mr. Frost of the Santa Fe.
County Commissioner Stapleton haul-
ed the two gentlemen all over Logan i married
who was sning to suport the regular nominee. Senator „lf. referring to the constantly rslter-
lioma town told Blackburn. That gentleman's demor- ,itod parrot-llke cry that n gold dollar
racy has never been questioned, nnd always worth a dollar, and tho gold
he has guarded the Interests of his con- irl I* just as good aa the dollar Itself.
There are 13 locomotive building
of sixty ' companies in the United States. They
J u . HI" ■■■■ r",: IIljlc. hollr all dav. turned out last year, 1,100 locomotives,
"soaped ou the east side of the jail by A score or more of buildings in this i 8 against 605 in 1W4. The freight
climbing down the smokestack of the city were blown down, and tents, ] built in 180'' were 31,803, as corn-
furnace. signs and loose lumber were scattered j mJ with 17,0:0 iu
The Taylor brothers, under sentence : over town. All the telephone wires
lo be hanged here April .10 for tbe out 0f the camp are down, and no
murder of the Meeks family, escaped trains arrived or departed yesterday
from tho jail here about 8:!M) o'clock afteruoon.
Saturday uight. William was recap- Humors of loss of life in the out-
tured as lie rouched the ground from J lying districts are in general circnla-
ihe roof of the building, from which tlon. In the hills hundreds of pros-
Bank
kc nlace ctltuenta with rare fidelity. Up to the So u lrt nnd simply because tho law
the ceremony could take place. ^ moment o( Mr. Cleveland's dec- I„,kea that piece of gold a dollar, and
In one vicinity 111 Oklahoma count\ ,lon Biacuburn and Carlisle were up- ,,uu t,e worth 1.0 less.
there la great excitement over Johnson I pBretitIy perfectly agreed on the silver But It Is the "money' value of gold „ _ _
grass. Fellows who P'aut it urc | quMtlon. nnd their votes were cuat on nl0tl0 that Is unchanged. Gold Is al- | i,V~d'eseended by means of the hose j pe'cTors live 111 tents, a majority of evident Inasc Lew-is of Babina, Ohio,
snubbed, and a., the seed at tlie loea the sn.tne side. Now we And a few dem- WUy8 equal to gold, but how is it when llHed in washing the jail. Lee Cun- j which were blown away. The dam- • ......
stores has been purchased and l urued. ucratg ^ jn legislature opofting hU compared with anything else? Upon | Qingham, who was also confined in ^ to property throughout the camp
It is thought the 300feet spau bridge re-election, because, forsooth, he stands all average it will exchange for t*lce jail for murder, was recaptured at the win not fall short of $100,000.
across the Canadian at Purcell will W 0n the money question precisely wli^re fla niuch of other things as It would same time.
county nnd on their return declared . Hb_ Hansing, of Noble county,
is Oklahoma's supn me court It puts i they neTel. glich promising wheat ; ] n old attacked Mrs. Crandon
in half its time making decisions and | fiel(is The o,ts, too, many fields of SB'urda eTenln(r with a t.]ub, beating
which were up, were very fine. The ^ fatally. The boy is under arrest,
prospect, they thought, was far the | Th(> fell „ut about a cow. Man
finest crops of all kinds Oklahoma
ever had. They were perfectly satis-
fied with their seed deal with the farm-
finished by the Santa Fe this week, he has always stood, and where Mr. twenty-two years ago. and if that doea
When completed, it will cost alwnt | Carlisle seemed to stand, until certain] not niaue It "worth twice as much."
$30,000 and will be a magnificent ' occult Influences caused him to change. | t|JPIl there Is no meaning In worda.
structure. If goldlte democrats in Kentucky will , Tho simple little tntement thua
The record of the divorce courts In thus stultify themselves, it is safe to ( clipped from Bradstre-t's (a strong
hows conclude that the same class of men In p0ld organ) absolutely destroya eyery
po„. the national convention of that pnrty aigumenl that has heai made in favor
wlll do likewise, and refuse to support ' * 1
a sliver candidate on a silver platform.
But Mr. Dodge suggests a compro-
mise. the silver men taking tlie plat-
form. and the gold men the candidate.
Oklahoma the past few months
one thing, and that is that many peo-
ple ought to be tied hands nnd feet
when they show symptoms of gel ting
Deputy Sheriff Lon Shelton, who
was on night duty, had not been out j
of the jail ten minutes when he heard ,
11 noise in the rear and, going to in- I
vestigate, found Bill Taylor and Cun-
ningham descending the hose.
A Murder That Dirt ot Oeear.
Wichita, Kan., April 11.—The story
sent out from Wellington concerning
the alleged killing of bditor Brans-
corn of the South Haven New Era
' other half reversing itself.
C B. Hunt, who is charged with prospect, they thought,
shooting!. A. Garland, with intent to
kill and also killing two of Garland's
horses, has been taken to Logan coun-
ty and placed under a $1,000 bond by
Justice Jackson on the charge of
shooting tlarland and under S500 bond
by Judge Lawrence on the charge of
killing two of Garland's horses Both
bonda arc good, having reliable citi-
zens on them. The preliminary ex-
amination is set for the 18th. Gar-
land ia aaid to be in a dangerous con-
dition, and may not recover. He was
shot tbrongh the front part of the ab-
domen. the ball passing through and
coming out, broke the left arm off be-
low the elbow. It ia aald that Oar-
land was shot from ambush, while in
the field. The shot came from Hunt's
imrn. Hunt states that ho knows
The two fell out about a cow,
sing'a father is under a charge of raur-
der in Logan county.
A Woodward county girl tells her
I N \LTERED. AS IT ALWAYS DOES,
BECAUSE IT WAS FIXED FIFTY
This would substantially be the caae YEARS AGO BY ACT OF PARL1A-
of 1892 right over. More aptly, the j MENT.
situation would be expressed by the old
gag, "the law to the north and tho nig-
ger to tho Bouth."
A silver platform with a gold candl
drew his revolver and forced the two during an alleged duel between Editor
n to surrender and then marched Richards of the Wellington Mail, and
Editor Simons, of the Caldwell News,
wan an absolute fake, without a single
Neither
one of the parties mentioned waa In
South Haven, some of them were not
in the same county. There was no
trouble of any kind, and all the par-
ties are on the moat friendly terms
The crop prospect for 1896 is one of
the main topics of conversation. In
fact it is the main topic from March
till September every year.
fearful of what is to come, but as a | abo"ut tj,e things they should have rt
rule the people are very hopeful of a ;
crop. Wheat is certainly looking fine ( p ' ^ Payne count
and the oldest armers say they have ^ ^ R ^
never yet failed of a fafr "op j hen f ht in th#t colintv? It ,M,
there was as much falling weather in
March as we have had this year. Mr.
Willets who moved from Bice county
Kansas, to Grant county Oklahoma,
says the only thing necessary to make
friends so many things that they are , COuld happen.
kept dizzy trying to label those which Hundreds of thousands of silver dem.
may be repeated and those that must j ocrats would be deluded Into support-
Th« Hii«y lllm t*liutn.
Tho Hon. T. H. Davidson, of Ban-
gor. Ala., sends us a song that haa the
da?e"would^'be"the wo"rsI thfngThat | right jingle, entitled "The Old Silver
Dollar."
M. K. Frantz, of Majerstown, Pa..
gold standard during the last them baek tat. the jall# _ ^ tQ ^ ^ ^
come down and Bill Taylor said that luggestion of foundation.
ileorge was still on the roof. This
threw the officer off the trail for some
time, but a search of the jail showed
that George was gone.
The escape was effected by cutting
the head off a bolt, thus letting one
end of a bar drop, so that the prison-
ers could get into the outside corridor. j Ad E<mor Badly
From there they went to tlie top of! un Anrll 11 Thin
the cells, through the attic to the Cabtuaok Mo., April 3. Th
roof and then to the ground by the . morning ex-Sheriff_James I. Purcell
jail host-.
No cause can be given for the story.
la highly respected all through thai
section, llo lias lived in Clinton Co.
writes that bimetallism Is growl!
dead secret, and aa a rule |ng the ticket, and even If successful, rapidly in Pennsylvania.
um | no legislation In the Interest of silver
could possibly be had.
But such a combination could not
SedAUA, Mo., April 13 —Acting un-
der orders from tho general manage-
curred In the eastern part of Pawnee
township, not far from the twin
mounds. It was between aliout 3.000
renegades and a regiment of Texas
---- - . .. ... i ranirers who were attempting to cap-
farming a success in this country is to | ^^ tfce ^daddies to Tex
says: Although a very busy man. I the Mia80ur,, Kansas ^ Texaa railway
win. Not a sliver man outside the must put in a few months organizing , llBve jnstituted a radical degarture in
democratic party would suport It, large Ohio for bimetallism." office work.. The nldest clerks in
numbers of silver democra'ts would re- p e. Davidson, Appleton, Minn., 1 years, regardless of length of time In
fuse to be duped, and tbe party would writea for necessary papers to organize the service of tho company, will be
be burled out of sight. a un|on. and adds: "Financial Ig- let out of service on May J. and
what keep " U Tmu C°ml rr I as The troops overtook the fleeing
good citizens, but their troubles an^ the man who owns a farm in Ok- ' -
Nothing would please republican norimce wlll nurse financial slavery;
leaders better than for the democrats fiaancial Intelligence Is the safeguard
to name a gold candidate on a sliver of our financial rights." This Is con-
centrated Intelligence.
younger men will be appointed in |
their places. In obedience to the j
went to the Labor Tribune office and
demanded that Editor Wilbur Haug-
hawout, a leading Populist, retract
charges made in liis paper against
Purcell'* financial integrity during his
term as sheriff. Haughawout refused
aud Purcell struck the editor. A
fierce encounter ensued, in which the
editor got much the worst of It. Pur-
cell's wife sat in the buggy in front of
the office and witnessed the affair.
"Champ" Clark for Coagreu.
Mkxico, Mo., April 13. — "Champ"
rlark wns renominated for Congress
nothing of the shooting except
theard
have driven them to | will"beta good shape to | fl^^^wlTand repulsed the pa
the clai
desperation. j one Qf these days.
Lou Clogston of Grant county, hns The Kansas City Times suggests to
probably the most spacious trousers t),e Oklahoma man who is going
in all Oklahoma. There are six yards j to South Africa as a missionary that
of cloth in them. The tailor who , he try to show the English settlers
made them evidently had bloomers on t)ie injustice of killing natives to get
the brain when he cut them. their land.
J. Anderson. L. I<uzzell, D. Harden j Rev. C. L. Berry, a leading Presby-
a business committee of l'ottawato- terian minister of Oklahoma, was in-
mie Indians. Attorney Jones and a j dieted by the grand jury on three
Pottawatomie Indian named Wash counts in Pawnee county last week
t'asao have been arrested on complaint for receiving money when the bank
here they fort
•pulsed the |
For a number
platform.
Such a combination, though. Is hard-
ly probable.
The Incongruity Is ton great. No got 1
ntandardlst with any self respi ■:
could accept a nomination on a straight
f out silver phitform. Some qualifying
Dr. J. H. Giles, West Nashville. Tenn.,
writes: "It Is my pleasure to report a
growing Interest In favor of our causs
in thlo section as well as the entlrs
state. Every county that lias taken ac-
tv a little later on. ror u nuiuun ... - -
years after the tight. Indians picked up Phrase would have to go In. and that
of John Neddean and Lee Patrick of
Kansas. Wash Casso, it is alleged,
drew money from the government that
belonged to another Indian, now dead.
He was imprisoned nnd the others
were allowed to give 750 bonds.
Andrew Williams, a negro charged
with stealing hogs In the Osage nation
and |ra« taken to Noble connty for
trial h iouple of weeks ago, died at
the fadferal jail Sunday night and was
burled Monday. When arrested he
was recovering from typhoid fever,
and exposure from being hauled
around caused the disease to settle in
his spine, from the effects of which he
died. A penitentiary sentence is bad
enough for hog stealing, but capital
punishment is worse.
Over 110,000 bonds were forfeited at
the last term of the Pawnee county
court- They were given mostly by
whiakey seHers.
Judge Bierer has just sentenced two
man to the penitentiary for four years
ache for stealing a $4 calf.
Marlon Blair, one of the former cat-
tle ■karoos of the Cherokee Strip, is
clerking in a bote; In Kingfisher coun-
ty-
Austin, the colored man who recent-
ly roasted McCabe, ia a teaeher in the
colored schools of Logan connty, "
is a very bright felloiv.
We knew it would come Noble
countv has a new reataurant called
"line Mineral."
The bUl for the organization
Greer county will pi
defiency bill.
A piece of stale bread In a muslin
cloth dropped in the kettle, according
to an Oklahoma paper, will keep boll
ed cabbage from smelling.
Prank Worcester, sheriff of Grant
county, Is one of tbe most striking
specimens of finely developed manhood
In the territory. He ia all right oth-
was in a falling condition. Mr. Berry-
is well known throughout Kansas.
Missouri and Oklahoma. He owned
the Pawnee county Bank of Commerce
and In the early opening of the Cher-
okee Strip the Dalton gang robbed his
place one evening. After securing
the booty the robbers compelled Ber-
ry to mount a horse behind one of
them and they took him five miles out
of town. Later it turned out that
Berry was riding behind a woman,
who was dressed in men's clothing,
and who was the wife of Bill Doolin.
Eev. Mr. Berry's bank failed four
months ago for nearly $20,000, and
when the vault was opened oul.v 85
was found. He has been arrested and
put under 85,000 bond.
There are those among the cattle-
men of western Oklahoma who believe
that the quarantine line would have
been restored without effort of the
Oklahoma Live stock Association. It
might, certainly; but not until every
hoof of grade and native cattle had
been exposed to infection.
Henry Schaffer of Canadian county,
married recently, and his wedding
feast cost him between 81,000 and 81,-
200. He commenced six years ago as
a poor boy and is now one of the
wealthies citizens. Everybody likes
Henry.
The Oklahoma free home blU,
Tides in brief that all actual settlers
on the public lands in Oklahoma
should acquire a patent after five
years residence, upon payment of the
customary fees, without the price of
payment of the price per acre required
by the existing law.
Frank Greer says the bleycle hnmp
for ' « wlll be worn several inches
higher.
Jim Admire of Kingfisher county,
owns nearly 700 acres of the finest
land in the territory. It is no wonder
he qnit
articles cast away by the refugees,
and since the opening of Oklahoma,
wagon tires anil fragments of wagon.-,
have been found on the site of the
battle.
There are dozens of men located on
the rivers and creeks of Beaver coun-
ty, who own from 100 to 300 head of
cattle and from 10 to 50 head of horses
rule each of these men raises n
quantity of feed, cuts what liay there
in his immediate vicinity, and. if lir
is fixed to irrigate, always raises a
good garden. Each year they have i.
bunch of steers to sell, and tlicir in-
come far exceeds their expenditures.
Thev have fewer troubles than any
other class of people living, and. no
having to plow or hoe from daylight
till dark all through the summer, .r
shuck corn or maul rails all winter
long, they have time to have some
amusement, to read, to travel around
tlon thur far has spoken for silver lo citv gj,ot and killed Mike llartz and
no uncertain sound. It Is tho deter- fatally wounded the latter's son and
would mean gold. ruination of tho people to be beard, young daughter. Ilonk is a son-in-lnw
Sliver Democrats will do well to view and obe}.e(l hereafter." of Bartz, who lives three miles from
E M Martiudale, Lawrence, Has., the city. Bonk .> wife recently se-
, . i i t . i ir cured a divorce from him. He laid in
«:>s: "It looks bright in Kansas for wait in thc brnsh for them while they
liberty's cause. The state la strongly were on their way home from church.
..rdcr the bald heads and gray haired j without opposition In a general pri- !
clerks in the general offices, located in m to-day. It Is thought a light I
Missouri and Texas, have handed In ! vot(j WBS .,ed in some of tho coun. !
their resignations, by request, to take tie(( on aet.ount Qf Democratic dlssen- ,
effect the first of next mnntli. sion and |)Coause there was no opposl- |
Trini. Munirr in i.m tlon. Clark's Republican opponent is
„ ' . . ,. |, the present member of Congress from
New nami-ton, Iowa, April l.t.— th)8,digtrlct, William Treloar, who de- j
Herman lloak. a stonemason of this feBled rlark in .894.
the situation with the closest care.
Is as pain an light ltrelf that they run-
nut carry the country for free trade
or tariff reform In 1S36, but they can
make combinations by which they c. n
Waller Arrive* lo New VorU.
Sew York, April 13.—John L
Waller, late United States consul at
Tauiatlve. Madagascar, arrived to-day
from Southampton, lie stated to a
reporter at quarantine that he was
released from prison in France Febru-
for free silver, although flvo out of and discharged l«jth barrels of a shot- I ary exactly eleven months from
-- —,J - hi— —iri i .. . " -- • J -• " J
the gr^t question ed monetary eight congressmen are gold bugs.
Ul " * - ... rrnl 11 lillfr flflmOfPflt It
FHve Oklahoma connty pigs born
laat July now weigh l.MS pounds.
It Is generally believed ta Oklaho-
ma that the three months divorce is
Bob Head, a hop tea fiend, has been
t-hagged into the Cleveland county in-
sane csylaas-
i county is
sr ic Oklaho-
Krene all to
Jvlius Caesar,
tectaion on the extra
s when everybody had
Ty. a Pawnee county
hanker has been indicted.
Ex-Governor Seay'n sister makes
finest buttermilk in the territory.
Attorney Biddison of Pawnee coun-
ty, who was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for assanlting another attorney
during a trial, has made a motioa for
a new trial.
Shoestring Smith of Grant county,
carried a cornstalk cane to both con-
ventions. He carried it for the slime
reasons that some persons carry a rab-
bit's foot.
Will they bo wise?
INCONSISTENCIES.
Kverf Claim or the CSold SrAndartlUt*
■laird on Nonien*f.
Discussing tbe fall of ti e prict* of
agricultural products In the last two or
three years the New York Herald a'-
trlbutes it to two Influences, (1) the long
three years' drouth which has pre-
vailed so acutely over almoBt all se: -
tlons of the country; (2) tho fact that Louis, July 22.
Tho
strongest gold bug democrat In thli
vicinity, who is a wholesale grocer, cap-
itcllnt and a mortgage broker, has re-
i.tly come out for free silver in th«
strongest possible manner." God blesi
him.
E. B. SMITH,
Secretary American Bimetallic Union,
Chlcsgo.
vent Ion Hales.
Populist National Convention.
St
the world's markets were glutted with
cereals, cotton, and other agrlcullmal
The fact that drouth iro-
and toknow what theworldia doing. I ntb0r ,han guperahun
Most of those men settled In that coun
ty without a cent. They have stuck
to the country through thick and thin,
hot and cold, wet and dry, and .ire
now in a position to enjoy life.
Tbe Indian territory bill agreed up-
dance, does not fit In very well with
the allegation that the world's markets
have been glutted. That allegation,
however, Is of Itself without founda-
tion. The world's supply of useful pro-
duct* Is now. and it has always
Republican National Convention, SL
Louis, June 16.
Democratic National Convention,
Chicago. July
n at them at short range,
will die, and it li
will.
The gi
thought the be
the time he was sentenced at Mada-
gascar. lie declined to discuss his
ease at length, but satd that he felt
confident of the ultimate justification
76 years, and lias been president ol
the Sabina Bank 20 yean. He gladly
testifies to the merit of Hood's Sarsa.
parills, and what he says is worthy
attention. All bruin workers find
Hood's Sarsaparilla peculiarly adapted
to their needs. It makes pure, rich,
red blood, and from thin comes nerve,
mental, bodily aud digestive strength.
| "I sm glad to say that Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla Is a very good medicine, especially
aa s blood purlflsr. It bss dons me good
many tlmw. For severs! yesrs I suffered
grsatly with pains of
Neuralgia
la ons eye and about my temples, es-
peclslly at night when I bnd been having
a hard dsy of physics 1 snd mentsl labor.
1 took many remedies, but found help onlj
In Hood's Sarssperilla which cured meol
rhsumstism, neuralgia snd headache.
Hood's Sarsaparilla has proved Itself s trui
friend. I slno tske Hood's Pills to k«^
my bowels rsgular. snd like tho plllf
very much.". Isaac Liwm, Babina, Ohio
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
lithe Ons Trim Blood Purlflrr. All drugglnts. It
frnparedonlybyC. I. Hood * Co, Lowell, Mass
Z~. 7. mil are prompt efflclent an<
HOOd S PlIlS cany In cflect. cents.
Webster's
International
Dictionary
< One Great Standard Authority,
l'. g""yrrm* emit.
or Specimen Pages, ate
SvcceMor of the
•laahrldged."
of his actions.
Dynamite t'nder a lied Rooi
Gi.enwood Spkixus. Cat, April 18,— \
At I o'clock this morning giant pow- K|j MonunB Mln„, „lnwn l>
der was exploded under the bedroom | Ul,TTK Mont, Anrll 11.—An ex-
of the house of .lames W. Koss. The . ,os,on of l0o poHndB of giant powder
bouse was completely wrecked. Mr. wh|eh #)x men were kilIed, oc.
"Nothing Is"known as ™1 at tho 10-. foot level of St.
Lawrence mine nbout 4 o clock this
morning. The names of the killed
are: ton G. I.owney, John Quinlan,
K<1 Shields, .lame* Dwyer, John Mc-
Veigh and Patrick O'Rourke. The
cause of the nxploslon is unknown.
_ aped dentil. Nothing
to who perpetrated the deed, although
Agris Anderson was placed under ar-
rest It is said that he was kecpiug
company with u youug woman in thc
house, anil threatened to take her
life. .
Wife and Hon Stubbed Iu IMatli.
Dkkveii, Colo,, April 13.—When
j. J. II. frink* Acquitted
Sai.ihbi rv, Mo.. April 13. —In the
on bv the House committee has been Insufficient for the needs of inan. Dut
• _ - , ^ i< ft■i kavn rlnoirod thn t nines li.M
Silver National Convention, St. Louis, I Manager Alexander r. Miller of the j circuit court of Chariton county the
July 22. | Warner ranch, twelve miles east of I cttSe of Major J. II. Finks, who was
Headquarters have been opened by here, arrived home from the city this j canhir of the Hank at Salisbury, and
the Provisional National committee, morning, he found his stepson, aged ; *"w ' f a i I in.T^ond t ti on"
selected at the. Silver Conference a. IS, dead, and his wlto | —°-
Tbe case of
assistant cashier,
men who have desired tho things p;o
duced have been
selected nI ue oiitw v>uiiicieuwj ui « uc u, 2l, r ~ . wnK bv it iurv and
Washington. D. 0., January 22 and 23, feeding todeath. The boy had been , rendered
All correspondence relative to th. ^d nffmeJoSs wounds tHo I Mi. I'. HHrenham. assl
Send a Potta!
t'T mien 1 -
etita or School*, and
other Educator* almost
TH* BEST FO* EVERYBODY
aicAunc
la IM the werd wealed
Is eaejr to traca the irowth ol a
to eaey ta learn whet a werd m<
%£SVS&&
men-Herald nay a
Sstlonnty htltapr* wot
ibipcan inakait.—t>cr. 14.1
it there l*no
.•it'll-, hul n-
C. MERRIAM CO., Publisher*
Springfield, Mmaa., U.S.A.
ired tho things p;o- wtrk of organization preparatory for n(Jt been robt)ed „nd ti,e ; charged with the same
forbidden to oblun ,he N„(ional Convention to be held al motWe o( the cri,ne is a mystery. ] pros'd.
favorably reported to the House by Ml
Curtis in a communication of great duced have been roroiuucn -o ou-.tm lht. Nat|onai Convention to ue neia ai motiTe of the erime is a mystery,
length The committee will unani- them, because thlB government has ob- Bl i^u|8 .July 22. 1896, should be ad- Mrs. Miller was Millet's second wife,
mouslv sunport thc measure anil, of ] structed the movement from produ - i dressed to J. J. Mott. Chairman. Room
. the House sob- ! to consumer. There are multitudes of — n..iui__ m..i,i..i .
C.
Corcoran Building. Washington,! K"n"' s.,
Topbjca, Kan., April The Su-
_________ j nreme court thia forenoon decided in
ite.niteii in a iiuet. I favor of thc cattlemcn in tbe Missouri.
Lieutenant Lustlg of the Austrian re- 1 Kansas and Texas ™ttleK ®***'
serves was playing billiards Inl cafa ^tlo"^ «?U.
Is nothing else than partial paralysis of at Brunn recently with some students, * ,Dst contagious diseases. The case
the business of making exchanges. If v..hBn uaron Soini, a dragoon lleuten- beeu stubbornly fought from its
the theory of over-production wen ant with other officers, began to sing inception by railroads and cattlemen.
sound we should be obliged, also, to ant|.Semltic Bongs. Lustlg asked them | —
accept the theory that the worl.1 be- t0 Btop and told them he was an officer I John.ton neu the victory.
persona in this country who cannot lln.I
employment, and so cannot buy the
food of the farmer or tho goods of 'l.t
manufacturer. Thus there Beems to be
a surplus production, but In truth tnei
its passage througl
stautially as reported, there does not
appear to be thc least doubt. It N
believed that it will also pass the sen-
ate.
By m strange coincidence, the man
who drafted Oklahoma's capital pun
ishment law has been the first man to
receive a death sentence under it.
Sheriff Painter of Logan county has .wo,.. ...« , — tu BLUv .i,u ----- — . m .^
„>en called to Seward by a telegram. , comes poorer the more wealth It pro- of rt,wrVes. Solnl called him a Jewish j Moktgomkbt, Ala., . p '
saying "arrest Hunt at once for shoot- ; duces. If this were true we should t-c swlndler. Lustlg then took out hla ^marie^c^nflnnhe notTta^tta^ of
tag H. Garland." Hunt and (iarland ; able to reach a condition of outright card when go,,,! 8]ttpped his face. Lus- J'1™ h F >lohll.ton of .tefferson coon-
were contestants for a claim and it is | pauperism by stimulating wealth-pro- Il(^ who lg gymnast, thereupon took t gliveritc, over t'tarke, sound
supposed they got into difficulty, dur- ductlon Just a trifle farther. No sane | )he baron |jy the collar and the seat of miand advocate, for governor. It
ln— which Hunt used a gun. No par- man doubts that If half the world s ^jg trol,Bers and threw him out of the now appears that Johnston will have
tlmilars could be learned, other tliau I stock of gold should bo suddenly >x- w(n(low HiB friends drew their swords, 3"i delegates in the state convention
John I Martin Sar«ee«tt-at-Arms.
I Chicago, April 13.—John 1. Martin
of St. Louis will be sergeant-at-arms
at the Democratic National conven-
tion. His selection was made this
morning by Chairmun Herrity and his
committee of the Democratic Na-
tional committee, lie isa well known
politician and very popular in St.
Louis Democratic circles.
Mewle Must Serve Hie Term.
Topf.ka. Kan., April 13.—Tho Su-
preme court rendered a decision to-
day In the esse of the State against
Richard C. Meade, affirming the Judg-
ment of the District court of Atchison
county, which had sentenced him to a
term of Ave years at hard labor ta the
penitentiary for embezzlement
; Garland's wounds are not serious. ! terminated prices of all commodities; .ju^ the H(„dents prevented them from out of WM.
Two men have been fined in Logan j would fall at least 50 per cent. Why. ,
then, should any one question tho
connty for throwing dead dogs io the
river.
Kickapoo Charley has appeared in (
Logan county long enough to steal a
watch.
Mrs. Doolin, the wife of Hill
Doolin and Mrs. Buck, wife of Bed
Buck, recently killed near Segar, in
the Cheyenne-Arapahfte country, are
visiting Bill Doolin in the Logan coun-
ty federal jail.
interfe ng. The result was a duel, ta
which Uaron Solnl was wounded In j
both arms and hands, and the arrest j
of both duelists.
i equally Indisputable fact that prices
have fallen because half the metallic
] money of the civilized world has been
demonetized—The Manufacturer. sunlinht for siefc Koike.
Such little Inconsistencies as the one ! gunllght Is a capital sanitary agent
mentioned above should not surprise j ^ promotes health snd comfort,
the Manufacturer. Almost every ar- ; Tt,erefore. light should bo admitted In
gnment on tbe gold side Is pervaded ; ]a quantities Into flick rooma, ex
13.—A. A B.
Mis Sweetheart.
| St. Louis, Mo . April 11.—As the re-
I suit of the dissolution of their engage-
1 M«e.t ke* Rlannho Mlmnsnn A pretty I
DO NT tOWEftS
GET
WET. ^HBRJ^
FISH BRAND
SLICKERS
WILL KEEP YOU DUE
WALL PAPER FREE
eatheVdeaie'ri have assigned to Vice I mcnt by Blanche Simpson
President Steurns ot tlie Shaw N'a- I 19-year-old girl, <jforge Proutman,
tlonal bank and C. .1 Cobb, the liabil-
ities beiug estimated at 11,000,000.
Port Arthur Not Cadart.
eaew, does net harbor lerrni, but deetroye
hem, and aay one can briiih It on.
■ UL Mini*" P'lmt WrM*
ALABASTINE CO- Grind Rapids, Mich.
Dniwtatt
MTlHTS,TRADEMARKS
Nhortac* l.ara.ty loeraaeetl.
Lrscoi.x. April It —Another mys- I
tery han developed in tlie case of | eial denial has been issued hera of the ' r~m'ao'r7iutfLC"wMfcinnio^Vd
St. pKTERSBfno. April 13.—An ofH-
. . , lars." In the next It la going to "drive
Reverend George Johnson * colored i ^ ^ ^ ^ n||t o{ lhe c0„ntry and it
rent in extraordinary cases. The ll«ht, Maxey Cobb, late treasurer of Lancas- . Klaiement published ail over tlie worid nfunn. r nnrrl/ w.r. i«r .
° < however, should be softened and aub. , ter county. At the llmc_of^hl jdeBth I tll,t |.ort Arthur has been ceded to |l||ini)| L l|||f fK |Vt«st
with contradict Iona even worce ^ ^
In un" brenth free coinage is golDK to ' ^wever ahould be softened and sub* ( ter county. At the time of bis death | tjiat pori Arthur haa been ceded to
"flood tho country with 50 cent doi- fluedi nol B,ar|Ug. -Exchange. "i^^'u^'aToou'hl. I a -cre'
Moneter I'late of
inister, 1s serving a term in the fed- ^n| ta)<t # very [ong t|me ,0 Ret 9„v„r j A shcBt of plat0 glass 142 by 103 to *40,000.
eral jail of Logan county for seiling ^ flU itR plai.„ Af a reBult irev 00in- lnches haa been turned out of the *U i
liquor to Indians. M ** '
A man in Kingfisher county claims
to have a horsj that can pace tlio milo
'a 8:10. Unfortunately he is a "light-
ning calculator" and the boys insist
en aeeing the horse do It.
at 83d,000. An additional •lO.OW has 0ffens|Te and defensive alliance be-
been discovered, running the total up twten tj,e two powers.
'^'SSt.'.'STIwMpwB't Eyt Watar.
age will contract the currency. Again I {actory at Elwood. lud.
uudei free coinage the Bilver dollar Is i hlemish of any ort.
going tight down to SO ccnts, but the j
dishonest ellver miner Is to get 100 1
cents for each 371% grains. Just how , batter than !bo pres.n
•hi* same dolUr can be worth 100 eenta I take.
For MeKlnley anil Warner.
Keytebville, Mo., April 13.—The
Republican county convention select-
Say not "that tho former tlmea weM ed national and state convention del-
. "... fnr it ta a mla. Mshn lnstmctc.l for McKtalay for
President snd Warner for Governor.
Murdered In San Salvador.
WAaHWOTOs, April 13.—Robert Bon-
ney, no Amcriean citizen, was mur- i
dered In San Salvador March 88, and
as a result the State department has ■
demanded the fullest taveatlfatloa. 1
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