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THE TWO TERRITORIES

Congressional and Local Summary

News In General of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory Pertaining to the Pale Face and the Red Man

June 28, 1894—The Guthrie Representative

Stillwater will have a big country fair in September.

Bill Dalton’s death came just in time to obscure Pond Creek’s railroad war.

Most of the legal prosecutions in the Chickasaw nation are for “Introducing.”

An Oklahoma farmer marketed a wagon of new cabbage in Guthrie last week.

It is denied that Bill Dalton was ever a member of the California legislature.

Four of the Dalton boys are still living. They reside in Oklahoma and are peaceable.

Blackberries are the easiest to raise in Oklahoma and they bring in the most money.

Roy Hoffman has been appointed second assistant United States Attorney for Oklahoma.

Frank Gault, a prominent Oklahoma City man, and Mrs. Ollie Cramer were married last week.

The evidence in the Beall murder trial is all in, and arguments were commenced Tuesday.

A new town named Terrillton has been founded in Payne County. It is named after I. N. Terrill.

Jones, one of the men who escaped from the Pond Creek jail, has been recaptured in Sumner County, Kansas.

It is stated upon good authority that seven percent of the people of Oklahoma are members of churches.

Dick Blue, who was nominated for congressman-at-large in Kansas, practiced law in Oklahoma City for over a year.

The gas well at Oklahoma City will soon be sunk, as the promoters of the enterprise have secured the requisite funds.

The Anti-horse thief association of the Indian Territory will headquarter in

Examinations for territorial certificates will be held t Oklahoma City and Kingfisher, beginning on Monday, June 18h.

Fred Vandervoort is now the Berry Wall of Ponca City. He has drawn three suits of clothes from a raffle in three weeks.

Members of the Dawes commission now say that the surveyors will be at work in the Chickasaw nation inside of three months.

Perry and Pawnee, it is said, have arranged for a joint Fourth of July celebration, to be held half way between the two towns.

If the Rock Island railroad pushes that train wrecking case at Pond Creek it is going to have a fine time getting a jury together.

The Malone indictment at Perry was squashed on the ground that the rand jurors had not been residents of the county six months.

Star Valley, near Stillwater, has another sensation. A traveling professor of mathematics enticed a 14-year old girl away from home.

At Newkirk a citizen planted some sweet potatoes and when the vines came up they had morning glories on them. He had planted the morning glory vines. He is now exercising his feet on the lower regions.

A reporter on the Guthrie Capital gives probably one of the saddest and yet most graphic accounts of a cyclone on record. He says: “The storm raged and roared over the hills and valleys with the noise of a billion cannons. One barn was unroofed.”

The settlers on the Cherokee Strip will be allowed to commute their entries, according to the Indian bill that passed the house Saturday. After repeated efforts and amid an uproar the following amendment was added when not a half dozen members knew what was being done: “That the right of commutation is extended to all bona fide homestead settlers on the lands in Oklahoma Territory opened to settlement under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled ‘An act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 10, 1894, approved March 3, 1893, ad the president’s proclamation I pursuance thereof, after fourteen months from date of settlement, upon the payment for the lands as provided in said act.’”

Charles B. Dalton, brother of the noted outlaw, Bill Dalton, went to Ardmore Sunday and identified the remains of the man killed at Elk by Deputy United States Marshal Loss Hart, as his brother Bill. His identity as one of the Longview robbers has also been confirmed by William Finley, a farmer, who fished with the outlaws when camping near Longview the day preceding the robbery. This insures the $10,000 reward offered for his capture. The rewards offered by four states, two territories and the United States for the capture of Bill Dalton, will amount $35,000. This reward will be divided between the nine officers who effected his capture. His remains will be taken to Guthrie where the laree rewards await the proper identification. He leaves a wife and two children.

Oklahoma has the celebrating craze bad this year. Nearly all the town will jerk the American Eagle baldheaded on the Fourth of July.

The Sac and Fox Indians are preparing to have their annual sun dance on a large scale. Visitors from the other tribes of the territory have been arriving for a week, and by the time the dance starts next week several thousand will be present. They will dance for seven days and nights and make innumerable sacrifices to the Messiah, whose advent they predict for the coming fall, at the close of harvest.

Bill Skaggs has turned up again. It now appears that there was some flaw in the commitment and he has been brought back from the Ohio penitentiary and will be sentenced again.

It is said that when Mrs. Bill Dalton’s father died he left her $15,000 which she was not to get until her husband died. Mr. Blevin did not want his daughter to marry Dalton.

Mrs. Gay of Paul’s Valley was some time ago arrested for the murder of one, Jack Shehan, whose bones were found in a well. Now Jack has turned up and declares that he is still alive.

An Indian judge did not know what a cartoon was. A lawyer sketched the body of a jackass wit his (the judge’s) head and face attached as a specimen, and was promptly fined $25 for contempt of court.

The Rock Island Railroad Company filed in Oklahoma district court suit for $75,000 damages against parties charged with being implicated in the recent destruction of track and wrecking of a train at Pond Creek.

The board of regents of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College has elected to the presidency of that institution Major Alford, of Washington, D. C., formerly president of the Maryland Agricultural College.

A crow of people gathered at the depot at Perry one day last week in hopes of getting a glimpse of the body of Bill Dalton, which was said to be on the north bound train, but it wasn’t on the train, and the passengers jeered the crowd.

During a game of base ball at Jerome Park, near Perry Saturday evening between an Indian nine and the Perry nine, the grandstand gave way under the heavy load and 500 people went down in a heap. Many were injured and on little girl fatally.

The deficiency bill reported shows an item of $800,886 in favor of the old settlers among the western Cherokee Indians. There are about 600 people in the Cherokee nation entitled to this money, and the appropriation is recommended in response to a judgment in the courts of claims.

The recent decision of Judge Dale in the mandamus case against the county commissioners, says the Stillwater Sentinel, implies that any arrant issued against the county is illegal, and practically puts the county into bankruptcy. County warrants are worth but 50 cents on the dollar.

Green goods men are again flooding Oklahoma with circulars. They had better stick to Indiana and Ohio and other backwoods states.

The oldest paper now running in Oklahoma is the Beaver Advocate, which was established in July 1887, by E. E. Eldridge. Eldridge sold the paper in September of the same year to Brown & Payne, who run it until April 1889. Payne continued publication until the opening of the Cheyenne country, when he sold out to Joe Hodge, then postmaster at Braver, and Graham, a practical newspaper man. A year ago Graham died, and Hodge purchased his interest, and is now sole proprietor.

Jim Cook, another outlaw, has been captured. A dispatch from Muskogee says Cook, his brother, and another person undertook to hold up the Cherokee money on the road between Tahlequah and Fort Gibson Sunday afternoon. The Cherokee guards got onto the plot and went in advance of the money. In the fight that ensued one of the guards was killed and Cook was shot in numerous places. He and his friend crossed the Arkansas near there Monday morning and some marshals went in pursuit. Cook was to badly shot to escape and was left his friend to fall into the hands of the law.

Over 1,400 yards of muslin will protect the spectators from the sun in Perry the Fourth of July

Frank Gammon of Guthrie is now at the Antwerp exposition, where he is United States commissioner.

The Deputy Marshals are doing themselves proud. Bill Dalton and Jim Cook in two weeks is a good record.

Hereafter the Supreme Court sittings in Oklahoma will begin the third Wednesday in June instead of the third Monday.

There has been secured a gatling gun for the Guthrie militia company, and it will be sent on from Washington this week.

L. W. Strahan of Perry was accidentally shot while he was joking with another man who happened to have a revolver. Same old story.

It is estimated that fifty-six men have visited Washington from Oklahoma on account of post office fights some Cleveland was inaugurated the second time.

David Patton of Tecumseh is hunting for Berniette Patton who skipped out with another man last week. There is on $10, however, in it for the man who finds them.

It is said that Treasurer Starr, who is paying money out to the Cherokees in Tahlequah, may resign. He is disgusted with the quarrels between the Indians and their creditors.

The supporters of bills for the advancement of New Mexico and Oklahoma to statehood have for the courage. Bills for the admission of Utah and Arizona were passed by the house early in the session but have since hung up in the senate. An attempt was made at the same time to secure an agreement for the consideration of the New Mexico and Oklahoma bills, but speaker Crisp said that point of order would be in order against such an arrangement, and that being undoubtedly the case the‑ attempt was abandoned. The speaker has assured General Wheeler, chairman of the committee on territories that the bill for New Mexican secures a bearing. After the Indian appropriation bill, which come in last week. The Oklahoma bill will follow that of New Mexico unless unforeseen circumstances delay one or other. Moreover, there has been disagreement over the details of the statehood plan which has been complicated by the opposition of Indian tribes to it. Republicans have feared that if the New Mexico bill passed other legislation would be pressed forward to displace Oklahoma, therefore it would be to their satisfaction to secure of the case of Oklahoma first.

News In General of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory Pertaining to the Pale Face and the Red Man

August Ladue who has charge of the Otoe Indian’s toll bridges weighs 400 pounds.

Ponca City is having a great building boom. Most of the structures are of sone and brick.

A sooner pleaded at Perry the other day that “he went early to avoid the rush.”

One bolt of lightning killed four cows for C. D. Stovall of P County one day last week.

Now it is Stillwater which wants husbands. It has 300 single women ranging from 17 to 43.

The latest attraction in Perry consists in watching the new street sprinkler get up the dust.

It is claimed for the Wichita Indians that they have never taken up the hatchet against the whites.

There is a crescent shape mound near Ponca City. Many people dig around in it and find curious things.

Sixteen binding machines have been sold in Ponca City this spring. That is the tie that binds Oklahoma to prosperity.

I. R. Fuller has been appointed clerk of P County, in place of Joe Blackburn who resigned.

Despite the passionate appeals of the newspapers the “honkatonks” of Oklahoma refuse to go.

Alva is first going to capture water works and electric lights and then it is going in after street cars.

Colonel Houston of Woodward, who is making a fight on Judge McAtee, is a relative of the famous Sam Houston of Texas.

Hanlan, the defaulting chief clerk of the Perry land office has given bond of $1,000. It was cut from $3,000.

Since the Concannon affair it is absolutely impossible to get a woman to attend a spiritualistic séance in Oklahoma City.

In an Oklahoma town a man is not considered to have cast his lot with the town until he has bought one.

Tom Maddox the Newkirk man who killed Carter, has been remanded to jail and will await the hearing of the grand jury.,

Many walnut trees are being planted in Oklahoma. There is great money in them as walnut lumber is becoming scarce.

A Guthrie paper is agitating the question of building a structure large enough to hold the next legislature.

Freeman E. Little has been elected to the chair of English literature in the Agricultural College in Stillwater.

Since the electric lights were turned on in Ponca City the young men take their arms away when they come to a corner just from force of habit.

Judge Guthrie of North Enid has made a proposition to the citizens of South Enid to consolidate the two towns.

It is said that when Bill Dalton reached the other shore he was no doubt received with a great display of fireworks.

So many desperadoes have died with their boots on I Oklahoma recently that the shoe drummers are pouring into the territory in great numbers.

The John Dossett habeas corpus case has been argued before the Supreme Court sitting in Guthrie and been submitted.

It is now charged that the railroad guards blew up the Pond Creek Bridge and then blamed it on the citizens in order to bring discredit on the town.

George Washington, a rich Caddo Indian, died in 1882. A jug of water was buried with him and a fire was lighted on his grave and was kept going thirty days.

In Cross, which has the depot, Ponca City hackmen are arrested and fined $1 for soliciting passengers on the depot platform.

C. K. Tucker, a deputy marshal, has been arrested in Ponca City on the charge of extortion. He tried to bleed an Indian for selling whiskey.

Larson, the Tecumseh horse thief who was recently sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary will make an appeal. He has been placed under $30,000 bond.

During a hard wind storm the other day a man in Cross lost his hat. The wind was blowing a gale from the south and several hours later the straw hat was picked up in Newkirk.

According to an Oklahoma paper in some parts of the Indian Territory horse thieves are so numerous that the people have to work oxen.

County Surveyor P. a. booker, of Pawnee, has been missing for over a week, and it is feared that he has been murdered and robbed, as the day before his disappearance he received a large sum of money for his interest in a claim. His family lives in Austin, Texas, from whence he came at the opening of the strip.

The government officers are closing in on the grain wreckers who blew up the Rock Island Bridge in Round Pond last Friday night. Several well-known persons have disappeared since the Rock Island issued the notice that it would pay a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of each person engaged in blowing up the bridge.

R. N. Hutchinson, a constable was shot and instantly killed at Enid Wednesday night by Deputy Sheriff Weathers and Night Watchman Billingsley. Hutchinson was resisting arrest for chasing S. J. Smallwood with a revolver and whom he had sworn to kill on sight because of trouble over some accounts. Smallwood is the proprietor of the ice plant there, and Hutchinson was delivering ice for the firm. Six shots were fired, one of them passing through the neck of Hutchinson and another through his heart. The officers are under arrest to await the action of the coroner's inquest. The dead man was formerly deputy sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas and leaves a family.

The governors of four of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory have united in a memorial to the government on the subject of the intruders. They are Harris, of the Cherokee; Wolf of the Chickasaw; Jones of the Choctaw, and Brown of the Creek. In this memorial they insist that the United States is bound by treaty to keep white people out of the Indian Territory. They claim that there are now 20,000 of these intruders in the Territory and they insist that the United States must send in troops and drive them out. It is not likely that the government will do anything of the kind. The tribal system is doomed, and the intruders will probably he allowed to stay where they are until the land is allotted and the Indians become citizens of the United States.

The following changes have been made in the salaries of the following post offices: El Reno, $1,800 to $1,900; Hennessey, $1,100 to $1,400; Norman, $1,400 to $1,500; Ardmore, $1,600 to $1,700; Lehigh, $1,300 to $1,500; Vinita, $1,400 to $1,500.

Wednesday morning a fire alarm was turned in from Patton 7 Stapleton’s mills of Guthrie. The fire was in W. S. Brewer’s residence near the mills. When discovered it was but a small blaze, but the fireman who received the message got excited and could not understand he instructions from the central telephone office. He sent the firemen to the Capital mills, nearly a mile and a half from the scene of the fire. Mr. Brewer’s house and all he had in it excepting a sewing machine and pocketbook containing $60 was burned. The way the pocketbook was save is a little peculiar. It belongs to Charles Brewer who left it in his clothes chest which set in a part of the house that burned last. The box burned away from the clothes and the clothes were burned by the fire stopped just as it reached the pocketbook. Mr. Brewer’s loss is a very heavy one to him; he had not a cent of insurance on either goods or house. Valuation of house and contents $2,500.

Lieutenant Colonel D. Parker, Thirteenth United States infantry, commanding Fort Supply, met with serious accident. He was on the target range, mounted, superintending company volley firing. His horse in trying to brush flies from his body, his head got a part of the bridle fastened in the girth or some part of the saddle and on account of the position in which he found himself became frightened and whirled around in a circle and threw himself on the ground. Col. Parker fell under the horse and sustained a double fracture of his left leg near the ankle.

C. A. Clark, of Perry, committed suicide Saturday. He had trouble with his wife, and when she started to call on the police for protection, Clark shot himself twice through the heart.

The evidence in the Davis vs. Hoskins contest case is all in. There were thirty-eight witnesses examined. The evidence covers four hundred and thirty-three pages of closely written matter and the cost of taking the evidence alone amounts to $178.61. The case lasted ten days. The parties to the action have made a request that the register and receiver of Alva office visit the land and there view for themselves what the various witnesses attempted to describe, which will probably be done. At present time no intelligent opinion can be given as to how the case will go on. Hon. F. P. Alexander and Major Allen are both conservative, intelligent gentlemen and will give the case that consideration that it demands, and that their decision will be one that will be sustained should the case be appealed to the interior department.

J. J. Burke, formerly of the Oklahoma City Times-Journal, has started the “Oriole,” a new paper. Burke is easily among the best newspaper men of Oklahoma. He has a wonderful faculty for knowing a piece of news when he hears it and this with his talent for dressing up an item in an attractive style insures the “Oriole” great success.

News In General of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory Pertaining to the Pale Face and the Red Man

Five hundred unclaimed lots will be sold at public auction in Woodward August 12.

A. L. Tilton will represent the Guthrie Typographical union at Louisville next Month.

Flynn's bill authorizing fourth ‑class postmasters to swear pensioners has passed the house.

The contract for sinking Oklahoma City's oil well has-been let and the location selected.

The "Nixies" can now resume their old work of arresting people for picking up faggots on government land.

The settlers learned one thing by the visit of the regular army to Enid and Pond Creek. They discovered that they were fed better than Uncle Sam's soldiers.

Oklahoma occasionally gets bold of rumors that exist to where on earth. A story got out the other day that Pullman had been assassinated and it traveled clear from Orlando to Purcell.

Fred Beal has returned to Oklahoma City from the Kickapoo allotting camp. He says the $30,000 that has been paid to the Indians has all gone to the Indians who took their allotments voluntarily. The remaining $30.000 belongs to those who refused to take allotments and will be paid about August 1.

Cod reigns and the spirit of independence still lives in the hearts of the good people of Enid. Acting Governor Lowe enjoined us even from talking. His injunction struck no one dumb. It is hard to prevent an American citizen from talking when he has anything to say. The good people of Enid are American citizens. We are talking through the muzzles Governor Lowe put upon us.

The Guthrie militia must be looking for trouble. It is drilling three times a week.

When Enid gets a depot Hoke Smith will probably sneak out of his hole and swear he did it.

The Edmund bicycle club will probably get into line with the rest of the organizations of Oklahoma.

Le Wisby a young attorney of Perry was bitten by a tarantula last week and lived on a few hours.

Pond Creek now lays claim to the largest, the smallest, and the prettiest woman I the territory.

An Oklahoma City judge has been asked to grant a divorce because the husband smoked cigarettes in bed

The Commercial club of Oklahoma City will distribute 50,000 folders setting forth the advantages of that town.

W. C. Schrekengaust near Perry has a well on his farm which is so full of petroleum that the water is unfit for use.

At Anderson in the Choctaw there has been a gas well for years. Gas is to be found at a uniform depth 11,400 feet.

All that a man has to do now get a year's subscription to the Edmond Republican is to bring in the watermelon.

The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City wants to bet that not one-third of its readers know in what part, of Asia Korea is.

Out at Woodward an old settler has already come to the front with production that next winter will be a mild and open one.

A razor-backed hog is attacking women and children at Pauls Valley. Necessarily several people have had a close shave.

More coal beds have been discovered near Perry. The coal discoverers out to let up and leave a little land for agricultural purposes.

Two noted prisoners escaped from jail at Perry Sunday night. One was Bud Appling, alias “California Cyclone,” who was jailed for numerous crimes and the other was Clay Davis, one of the most notes horse thieves in the Territory. A fired occurred just at the time the prisoners escaped. The guard’s attention was directed to the conflagration, and the outlaws took advantage of it, with the assistance of a hand from the outside.

A special from Guthrie says a dozen men have reached that city from the Kickapoo lands with the intention of filing on claims. These lands have not been thrown open and the men are the victims of a hoax. They expressed the greatest astonishment when notified of this fact and when they reflected on their breakneck race to be the first to file, they became angry and vowed vengeance on the unknown joker. That individual, however, is unknown. The chances are that is was simply a case of spontaneous combustion of thought. Similar occurrences have been noted among land-hungry people.

The report of a queer case reached Perkins, O. t. The scene of occurrence is in a school district about one mile southeast of Perkins. The school is being taught by a Miss Pregmire. Recently Miss Pregmire had occasion to flog a son of L. Hadden. Hadden resented it and appealed to the board for justice in the matter. The result was a trial. To establish undeniable evidence that the (Hadden) was subject to repartition from the board, it is said that he applied iodine in streak on the back of the boy, which showed that the boy had been pretty well chastised. However, things looked a little mysterious, so a physician was called, who pronounced it a petty good dose of iodine. The father fled and the teacher was acquitted.

Private Larry Gaff is a member of the Guthrie militia. That sounds like those which spring from the imagination of Rudyard Kipling.

A colored woman of Oklahoma City wants a divorce. In her plea she actually accuses her husband of “applying his boots to her anatomical construction.

J. H. Cotteral, Guthrie; W. H. Lindsay, Perry; M. L. Turner, Guthrie; L. B. Apperson, Newkirk and A. H. Burtis, Alva, are the appointed delegates to the irrigation congress at Denver.

Mayor Button of Oklahoma City believes that two-thirds of the people in the half block should consent before a saloon can be started in a neighborhood; and has used his veto to that effect.

Deputy Marshall Bartell Of Oklahoma City has been arrested in Tecumseh on the charge of kidnapping an old man known as Daddy Johnson who is charged with selling whiskey to Indians.

A man in Pottawatomie County who was convicted of horse stealing gave a $20,000 appeal bond and the Tecumseh Republican thinks that this is evidence that there a is strongly organized band of thieves in that section of the country.

The Guthrie Building and Loan Association has just declared a semi-annual dividend of 15 per cent on all stock of the association. During the past six months the association has paid off sixty-three shares that have matured to the full amount of $100 per share in three years and ten months, only weekly payments of 25 cents per share the quickest record every made by any building and loan association in the United States.

On delegate Flynn's motion the appropriation for contingent expenses of the territory, to be expended by the Governor has been increased from $500 to $1,500. The provisions for the new legislature are as follows: For pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of room for the legislative committees, furniture, stationery, printing fuel, lights and incidentals, rent of office clerk hire, ice, record casings and messenger and porter for, secretary's office, $24,000. Provided that the governor of the Territory of Oklahoma is hereby authorized to appoint three citizens of said territory, not more than two of them shall be adherents of the same political party, as a commission to, apportion said territory into‑ thirteen council districts and twenty‑six representative districts in proportion to population as nearly as may be, but no voting precinct shall be situated in more than one council or representative district; and all citizens of said territory, who are qualified under the laws, of said territory, shall be allowed to vote for delegate to congress and for representatives and councilors.

The maximum record for potato stealing is held by Manchester. One fellow made away with ten bushels on a single night.

Ritter King, the Mexican, who was shot recently in El Reno, persists in living and feels well although the physicians say he has a bullet in his liver.

The eastern papers have at last got onto the war in the Strip. The Philadelphia Record says that when Oklahoma wants to become a state the present difficulty will militate against her.

Governor Renfrow has returned from his vacation and has gone to the scene of the troubles on the West Side.

A game of ball was played in Oklahoma City Sunday with a new feature. There was a keg of beer as third base and the way the three baggers were knocked out was wonderful to see.

Statehood for Oklahoma this year is an iridescent dream with mice-pie trimmings.

When Sid Clarke feels like it, he can roast a man as neat as any orator in the territory.

Guthrie has a lot of Chinamen who play baseball, and call out “stlike” with a vengeance.

The stock yards at Woodward have been improved and now three cars can be loaded at once.

The Greer family of Oklahoma is very much stuck on Jo Wisby who is running for Congress.

The Oklahoma experimental station has raised some Chufas and pronounces it great food for the hogs.

Tecumseh is a divorce center. The Republican of that place publishes divorce notices every week.

Rev. Gates of the Perkins Congregational church has resigned because of the trouble he had with his flock.

E. Bee Guthrie took part in the El Reno convention. Bee is no heard from much since he left the newspaper business.

The citizens of Enid have written for the pen with which President Cleveland sings that bill making the Rock Island put in depots.

E. E. Blake, of El Reno, is now chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oklahoma.

Enid is going to celebrate the depot victory with a four-ox barbecue, August 25.

It is said that the condition between the white and blacks at Langston is very serious.

At Perry, a minister has given it out flat-footed that the tobacco chewer is damned.

The man who killed Marshal Nix’s brother has been captured and taken to Fort Smith.

Sulphur Springs, the health resort, are largely patronized by lay people of Oklahoma City.

Hennessey has a building boom and people are again getting accustomed to the cry of “mort.”

Three men were overcome with damp at the bottom of a well near Okarche one day last week.

A horse kicked a man near Blackwell the other day. The horse broke his own leg and had to be shot.

In the Chickasaw nation recently a horse thief was cleared in court by proving that it was a mule he took.

From a late ruling a teacher must have a diploma and not a certificate from the normal school in order to teach.

The secretary of the interior Thursday approved a supplemental list of lands near Los Angeles, California, embracing 3,401 acres on the main line and 21,818 acres in a branch line of the Southern Pacific railway, and 4,428 acres embraced in the list of school indemnity sections in the Woodward, O. T. land district made by the Beaver county commissioners.

Rev. J. P. Land and wife Norman were thrown from their buggy last Sunday and it is said that the chances of recovery of either are very few.

The president has approved the bill granting a military reservation for public schools at Oklahoma City. This is a find body of land on the east side of the city and delegate Flynn said that the people would celebrate over the president’s signature when the news was received.

The canning factory at Oklahoma City is in full blast, employing up to date forty two people; and the tomatoes are much superior to last year’s fruit, and as the season advance the force will be increased. Last Friday as a beginning, they put up sixty dozen cans in two hours time for a start that was not bad.

Four more of the gang of counterfeiters that are supposed to have been working the country west of Oklahoma City were arrested Tuesday by United States Deputy Marshals, and are now in jail at that place. They are Mrs. Walker and her tow sons and John Curley. The latter seems to be the leader, the others being simply circulators of the base coin. In Curley’s house was found a box fitted with dies and plates for dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars. United States District Attorney Meecham thinks it is the most important capture made in the territory for some time.

Returns from three counties, with Pontotoc County yet to be heard from, give Palmer S. Mosley, the independent candidate, a majority of votes for governor. Tishomingo County gives Mosley 56 votes, Byrd 54. Mosley’s election is generally conceded. In Tishomingo, as also in Veckend County, the judges of election refused to receive or count the vote of disfranchised citizens. They swear Mosley shall never be elected.

Deputy Marshal Bartel has had most of the officers of Pottawatomie County arrested because they took a prisoner away from him.

The Creek nation is now being terrorized by some outlaws who are in the terrorizing business for cash.

It is reported that the register of the Woodward land office kicked an editor out of the office last week.

Perhaps the Congregational college was located at Kingfisher because Kingfisher is a great place for people to congregate.

The Rock Island railroad has finished repairing all the bridges which were blown up.

Pout at Woodward the yield of wild plums is so great that the fruit is a drug on the market.

H. E. Riley of Guthrie and Campbell of Chickasha had a foot-race at Minco Monday. Riley, who is a professional sprinter, won handily.

Beaver County has never paid a dollar for the care of a pauper and the county physician has only been called upon twice in the history of the county.

The Daily Oklahoman, published at Oklahoma City, has dropped the telegraph service. The paper has been running seven months at an expense it is said of $10,000.

Marshal Cook and posse Friday arrested at the Williams’ ranch west of Purcell, James Casey, wanted for the murder of a deputy sheriff at Yukon a short time ago. Adam Cox, who stole a horse and buggy in Texas, was convicted, escaped and came to Oklahoma, was also arrested.

Frank Maritmas, a Mexican of considerable wealth, has been arrested in the Kiowa Comanche country as an intruder. Martimas has been a resident of that country for twenty years. Judge Buckner, his attorney, will immediately institute habeas corpus proceedings for his release.

Oklahoma City is going to work on the gas idea in earnest. At present two wells are being sunk.

Refreshing showers fell Saturday night, breaking the drouth, which the western part of Payne county had been suffering from for the past six weeks.

Cline, the police reporter for a paper in Kansas City, was arrested Saturday by federal officers on the charge of destroying property of the Rock Island road in Oklahoma.

It hasn’t been settled yet whether the Kickapoo lands will be thrown open and a free-for-all race allowed, or be sold to the highest bidder. It will probably be the former.

Reliable information was received at Muskogee that the remnant of the Dalton outlaws have been located, numbering twelve. Caution is given to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company and all trains are heavily guarded and the bank is now and has been heavily guarded.

Charles W. Beacom, recent cashier of the Watonga bank whose father committed suicide, Saturday returned to Watonga, and gave out that he intended to open the bank. Application was made at El Reno Monday however, for a receiver, with the request that county clerk George Rainey of Blaine County be appointed.

The land office has just made an important decision, and one entirely without precedent. The law requires that a settler taking up government land must make improvement thereon. In the case in question the claim of a Sac and Fox Indian who had become a citizen and settled upon government land was contested on the ground of his not having made proper improvements, but the office holds that as he had erected a wigwam upon the land, that being all the improvement he considered necessary for comfortable living, he is entitled to the land.

Anna Jackson, a girl aged 17 years, was shot and probably fatally wounded by her brother, at her home, three miles east of Carney, Thursday afternoon. The young lady lives with her parents and was in the woods with her brother Jerry, aged 14, shooting at a target with a 38-caliber revolver. After firing a few rounds the revolver failed to work. While the boy was examining the gun it was accidentally discharged, the load striking the girl in the abdomen.

It is about time for the newspapers to have the Red Moon Indians go on the warpath again.

The Ponca City Indian base ball team is taking thought-out the east it is proving a great advertisement.

Rev. O. P. Noble has brought suit for $5,000 damages in the district court against the Santa Fe railroad. Noble purchased a ticket for Lawrie recently and the train on which he rode actually carried him one mile beyond his destination. He thinks he ought to have $5,000 for walking that mile.

The deficiency bill Oklahoma is represented in the following items: “For contingent expenses, territory of Oklahoma, to be expended by the governor, $2, 000,” this is an interesting clause in the bill. The two additional associate justices, Bierer and McAtee, $3,000 each. They were given office without any provision for payment for services, but they were willing to advance services for the hope of cash in the near future.

According to the Leader, there is a woman in Guthrie who has twenty-two children, all twins, and no husband.

After a preliminary examination, lasting four days, Dr. John A. Smith of Guthrie, was at a late hour Saturday night bound over to the Grand Jury to answer to the charge of attempting to assault the 8 year old daughter of John A. Drake. Smith claims to be a spiritualistic medium and ruing a séance held at his house, whole the audience was sitting in the dark waiting for spirits to appear he coaxed the little girl into the next room and is alleged to have attempted the crime.

The too common sequel to Oklahoma tragedies has occurred again. Jim and Victor Casey, the two men who had the desperate battle with the citizens of Yukon some months ago, have broken jail and are at large in the territory. Two other men went with them; Ed Cox under sentence for horse stealing and Charles Larson under the same charge. John Milligan the Negro murderer, who is under sentence of death for killing the Clark family had a chance to escape with the rest of the prisoner but refused. The men cut the steel rivets of the lock on the cell door and removed the brick from the wall of the prison. Tom King once escaped in the same way.

Another noted outlaw has been killed in Oklahoma. Sam Large, a deputy marshal, shot Tim Powell, a noted robber and cattle thief in the “flat iron” country, Thursday. Powell, who has been wanted by the officers for the past four years, was eating in an out of the way house, when officers appeared at the door. Powell drew his gun but Sam Large sent a bullet through his body before Powell could shoot. Powell and his gang have been a terror to the people of eastern Oklahoma for several months.

A comparative statement of appropriations and expenses of the Bureau of Indian affairs has been compiled by Indian Commissioner Browning. It shows that the total amount covered by the appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1894 was $7,884,240, and for 1895 $9,338,880. The difference in amounts for designated objects for the two years is as follows, the first figures being for 1894: Current and contingent expenses, “$183,000 and $189,100; Indian treaty obligations,
$3,170,074 and $2,690,157; miscellaneous supports and gratuities, $690,125 and $669,135; incidental expenses, $121,500 and $114,000; miscellaneous expenses, $945,540 and $3803,777; support of schools, $2,243,482 and $2,0056695; trusts, funds, principal, $30,004, none for 1895; interest, $80,390 and $78,320; payment for lands, $306,336 and $2,467,697. Total for 1894, $6,884,240; for 1895, $9,338,880, an excess over 1894 of $1,454,640.

The entries to the races at the territorial fair are double the number of last year or year before, and include the best horses in the west. Among those who have entered horses for the trotting races are: E. C. Toler, Wichita; W. A. Snook, Topeka; E.W. Hall, Fredonia; A. H. Gee Dallas; Amos & Morrison, Sedalia, Mo.; F. H. Vallrath, San Antonio, Texas.; A. A. ‑Townsend, Topeka;. R. E. Curist Orrick Mo.; J. A. French, Cross 0. T.; T. J. Brown, Anthony, Kansas; besides a number of Oklahoma county horses. The number now entered has reached about fifty for the trotting races alone. The running races are filling fully as well. Times‑Journal.

An old tribal custom of the Cherokees has handed down to the present generation and is practiced to this day. The custom is of nominating their candidates for the chieftaincy one year in advance of the election. The political leaders of both parties have tried time and again to have his practiced changed but the tribe prefers to follow in the footsteps of their forefathers. The two political parties will, make their nominations on the first Monday in August. The conventions will be about ten miles apart. The place chosen for the convention is in the, woods where there is a fine spring and plenty of shade. A large brush shed is erected and under this the delegates deliberate at the two conventions; nearly all the tribes assemble, hundreds of beeves are killed and a picnic of a week always follows. The present chief C. J. Harris is a member of the Downing party and desires a re-nomination. The party, however, is not solid for him, but rather favors the nomination of Sam Mayes, an extensive cattleman, who lives in Cooweescooweee district. R. B. Ross of the Tahlequah district and High Landrum of the Delaware district, are national leaders and are contending for the nomination by that party.

Judge Bellinger, of Portland Oregon, Tuesday in morning signed an important decision in the cases of Thomas Hawkes Edward Kline, charged with selling liquor to Indians He decided that the allotment severalty to Indians had the effect of removing them from under the charge of Indian agents and gave the standing of American citizens. As such the United States laws governing Indian wards of the government do not apply to them, and the selling of liquor to an Indian who is not in charge of a United States Indian agent is not punishable under the United States statutes. The decision has as a precedent the opinion of Judge Handford delivered in an Indian case of another character in 189, but it is the first decision, to this effect in a case directly in point.

In the army, appropriation recently considered in Washington the first amendment of the senate appropriation committee provided that Geronimo and his war like tribe should be taken to Fort Sill, I. T., and in addition to paying all their expenses, $15,000 was appropriated for providing them with agricultural implements. The committee provision was subsequently amended, on motion of Senator Dubois, so as to leave the place of their removal to the discretion of the secretary of war. In this shape the mater went to conference, and when the report was submitted to the conferees a bitter fight was made in both houses by friends of the territory against adopting the report unless it stated in express terms that the Indians should not be taken to the Indian Territory. The report however was adopted in both houses, and if the secretary of war sees fit to do so, the Fort Sill military reservation will be burdened with Geronimo and his savages.

The often promised and as often, postponed opening to settlement of the Kickapoo lands is blocked again. These lands, which border on Oklahoma and will form a part of it, have been ready for settlement for several, months. The interior department has offered one excuse and then another for non‑action. For a long time the pretext was that it would be better to wait and open the Kickapoo reservation with those of the Wichita and Comanche. After a good deal of suspicious business with cattle syndicates, it has, been given out that the other reservations will be withheld from settlers until some question of title is passed upon. The Kickapoo lands, however, stand just as they have done for the beat part of a. year, ready to be 'thrown open. The true explanation is that Secretary Hoke Smith does not want to open any more reservations until lie can get authority to sell the lands to the highest bidder, instead of giving poor people a chance to get homesteads.

El Reno is the highest point in old Oklahoma. It is 1,361 feet above mean time water.

If the Comanche Indians goes on the war path he will probably reproduce his just famous yell.

El Reno sports a female physician and ‘tis said sickness among the male gender is on the increase

The editor of the Pawnee News admires the American Indian for one thing. He isn’t meeting all the time, and resolving.

Ardmore, O. T. is to have $20,000 I. O. O. F. hall with theatrical accommodations.

The University of Norman is having $500 worth of new books placed in the library.

The motive power used in the Oklahoma City Times-Journal office is a gasoline engine.

The new gin mill at Ardmore is ready to spit cotton at the rate of ten bales every ten hours.

The diggers in the Oklahoma City oil well struck forty two feet of quick sand after passing the first lead off rock.

Large, who killed outlaw Powell while trying to arrest him was himself arrested and has given a $3,000 bond.

It is a funny thing, but when the drouth was on the hardest in Oklahoma the rainbow socials were the thickest.

The town of Ryan, O. T., is spider-like, drawing the inhabitants of Terrill to its substantial and growing web.

A farmer brought twelve wagon loads of oats into Wynnewood last week for which he sold at twenty-five cents a bushel.

Oklahoma watermelons are eaten by the thousands in Colorado. Think of it, Colorado has been a state or eighteen years.

The little town of Davis, O. T., is active with new improvements--at least twenty new structures—business and residence are going up.

On September 1^st the new gin at Chandler will be ready to operate, and by the 10^th the new flour mill will be completed.

Rev. Ball, of Oklahoma, came near death’s door last week from the effects of cocaine being applied to the gums to relieve pain in pulling teeth.

One of the finest grape vineyards in the territory is owned by Mr. E. B. Fairchild, near Oklahoma City. He will have fifteen ton.

A proposition is on foot to run a telegraph line from Guthrie to Chandler and transmit messages at the rate of ten words for five cents.

The president has approved the following act; Amending the right of way of the Hutchinson and Southern Railway through the Indian Territory.

The Democrats and Populists of P County will fuse or rather it will be left to the discretion of the committeemen for both parties.

The recent resignation of Regent J. C. Caldwell of the Agricultural College causes the appointment of John Du Bois, of Guthrie, to fill the vacancy.

The approaching K. of P. conclave to be held in Washington, D. C., will be ably represented by Sir Knight John I. Dille, of Oklahoma.

People in the state imagine that but little business is done in the Territory, but nevertheless one firm in Ardmore done over $200,000 worth last year.

Missouri has never yet meddled with Oklahoma without causing trouble. The bill in favor of sooners is doing the business now.

There is a disposition all over the Territory to cut down the salaries of all the officials, particularly in the Strip towns. The day of the high salary is about over.

It was not Tom King who was captured after all, but another woman. The deputy marshals say they can catch Tom King if they want to, but the reward for her arrest is not sufficient, being only $50.

Deputy Marshal Ben Goode attempted Monday night to arrest a Negro, Ed Green. On demanding Green’s surrender the Negro drew a pistol and pulled down on Goode, exclaiming: “We got you now,----you.” Goode was too quick for him and fired his revolver, the bullet striking the Negro in the left breast, passing entirely through the body. The Negro ran about 30 yards and fell dead, Goode firing a shot in the air as he ran to make him stop, not knowing he had hit him. The bullet that killed Green struck a by standing Negro known as “Snowball,” after passing through Green’s body, imbedded itself deeply in the bone of the left leg, inflicting a serious wound.

The contest between the Interior Department and the railroads operating in Oklahoma, which has been a stubborn one, has finally been settled by the enactment of a law compelling the roads to maintain depots and stations at all townsites in the lines established by the department. An act was passed extending from four to five years the limit of time within which final proof may be made by settler who have declared their intentions of taking up desert lands. Another law in the interest of Western settlers was one enabling those who desire to locate on northern mineral lands to secure a survey by depositing with the government a sum sufficient to cover the costs of the survey. Affidavits in land entry cases mace before United States Commissioners instead of a United States Circuit court Commissioner, as provided by law, were made valid by a special enactment.

Conjarde, a Seminole Indian, who was tried in the courts of the Nation for murdering one of his relation, convicted and sentenced to death, was shot at Wewaka (Wewoka) on August 23. He was brought from Fort Smith to Wewaka (Wewoka) and lodged in jail, guarded by light horsemen. The condemned man was dressed only in pants and shirt and wore a cowboy hat. The place of execution is on the outskirts of town, and consists of a large stone set up against a tree. The condemned man takes his seat on the stone with his back to the tree and the executioners take their positions in from of him twelve or fifteen feet. Conjarde is the thirteenth man shot to death on that stone. He took his seat unconcernedly, pushed back his hat from his brow, and allowed his eyes to be bandaged. This done the physician of the tribe, Dr. Holloman, pinned a piece of red paper in the shape of a heart to the condemned man’s shirt directly over the heart, and stepping back declared him all ready. Two light horsemen aimed with Winchesters were the executioners, and at the word they fired, putting two bullets directly in the center of the paper heart and through the heart of the murderer. During all the preliminaries there was not a tremor noticeable in the man; but as soon as shot his contortions were terrible. He was held up in the seat by two of his guards until pronounced dead by the physician. His corpse was then put in a coffin and delivered to his friends for burial.

The girl arrested in the Osage country, charged with horse stealing, comes of good family, and her parents are well-to-do Kansas farmers. Her name is Mary Hopkins and he was at one time a belle in Leavenworth society. She chose this mode of life because her parents would not let her wed the man of her choice.

The Secretary of War has started an officer for Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, where he will take charge of the Geronimo band of Indians and escort them to Fort Sill, O. T. This is in accordance with the scheme worked through congress by some of the southern members. The band is about 250 strong and was taken off the warpath in Arizona and New Mexico in 1884 and placed in prison in Alabama, where they have since remained.

It was stated by an official at the Land Office last Wednesday that while the question had not been fully decided, yet the opinion prevailed in the office that the policy would be adopted to defer all action on land cases in which “spoonerism” is claimed until after Congress is given a chance to act on bills now pending. There are several thousand cases affected by proposed legislation on this question, and many of the members and Senators have asked that the office adopt this plan, giving Congress a chance to consider certain legislation affecting these claims.

A remarkable find from a geological point of view is reported from twenty-five miles northeast of Guthrie. While workmen were digging a well on the farm of Rinaldo Brown, at the depth of thirteen feet in the solid rock and sixteen feet from the surface of the ground, a blast uncovered a human skeleton embedded in the rock. The skeleton appears of the average and portions of are well preserved. The skull and one arm were taken out whole, and with pieces of rock showing the imprint o a hand, will be sent to the Smithsonian institution.

September 13, 1894—The Guthrie Representative--The capture of the desperadoes responsible for the depredations in the territory cannot much longer be delayed. Marshals are on the trail of the men who committed the Monday night’s robberies and are pressing them closely. Chief Harris of the Cherokee Nation has offered a reward of $500 for the capture of Bill Cook, the gang’s leader, dead or alive. All of the light horse guards and all Indian police have been summoned for duty, and all United States Marshals of the territory have been put on the trail. In addition there are the special officers of the railway and express companies, making a total of between five hundred and six hundred men ready to commence concerted actions immediately.

September 13, 1894—The Guthrie Representative--Both houses of the Choctaw council adjourned at noon Friday. The house passed the bill giving the Governor power to pardon Silon Lewis, who is sentenced to be shot November and it was vetoed.

September 13, 1894-The Guthrie Representative--The capture of the desperadoes responsible for the depredations in the territory cannot much longer be delayed. Marshals are on the trail of the men who committed the Monday night’s robberies and are pressing them closely. Chief Harris of the Cherokee Nation has offered a reward of $500 for the capture of Bill Cook, the gang’s leader, dead or alive. All of the light horse guards and all Indian police have been summoned for duty, and all United States Marshals of the territory have been put on the trail. In addition there are the special officers of the railway and express companies, making a total of between five hundred and six hundred men ready to commence concerted actions immediately.

September 13, 1894-The Guthrie Representative A runner just in from west of Grand River, reported to the Cherokee militia stationed at Fort Gibson that the Cook gang is in hiding in a cave three miles northwest of this place. Cherokee Bill, a half-breed Negro, and one of the most desperate men in the gang, was seen in that vicinity about 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The runner states that there are sixteen horses staked in a pasture near this cave and this fact leads to the belief that the entire gang is fortified in this cave.

September 13, 1894—The Guthrie Representative--Eighteen hundred dollars is the price now on the heads of the leaders of the Cook gang. Chief Harris of the Cherokee Nation offers a reward for each of the Cooks. The Pacific Express company and the Missouri Pacific railroad have offered $500 each for the Cooks, and the United States has issued a reward of $300 for each of the leaders, dead or alive. Tuesday began an active campaign to run down the bandits. A special train at noon took a force of officers up the road to their whereabouts, but is understood that they could not get horses and could not get out until supplied. Attorney General Onley wired United States attorney Jackson at Muskogee Tuesday to see that a competent force of officers was put in the field and the outlaws arrested. Besides murder and robbery the band is interfering with mail service and interstate commerce.

November 1, 1894—Guthrie Representative--Last week at Claremore the city marshal succeeded in capturing Melvin Galloway. He is one of the parties who so cleverly robbed the Missouri Pacific depot in this city on the night of October 9 and relieved he city marshal of his watch and pistol. He was taken to Fort Smith.

A shooting took place in Kingfisher Wednesday night in which two young men were sorely done up. It was over a young lady.

One would suppose, owing to the newness of the country, Oklahoma’s recent election would be the field of many fatal brawls. Such was not the case. For quietness and freeness of fights, it put to shame many of the older sates where crime was rampant.

November 1, 1894—Guthrie Representative--Statehood for Oklahoma is the one thing. Uncle Sam will see it before very long.

John Schmook, law partner of Hon. John I. Dille, accidentally shot himself while hunting Monday, which will result in disabling one hand for life. Mr. Schmook is one of El Reno’s brightest young lawyers and the sad accident is regretted by all.

A desperate fight occurred at Tahlequah in the jail between Elix Levy, Chule Starr and Bob Dalton, all of whom are under sentence of death. Levy got possession of a razor and made an assault on the other two prisoners, butting Starr fatally, when he was knocked senseless by Dalton, who used a chair, fracturing Levy’s skull and otherwise injuring him so he cannot recover.