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meeting Will De NOV. 81, anu IL - ptOudOie
that the club will then number about 200.
The officers of the club are, president, w.
II. Hillman; vice president, w. Il. Thralis:
secretary, E. E. Wilson; treasurer, X. j.
Newman.
Purcell merchants know how to hang
on to a customer after they have caught
him. The other day a planter named Nc
Clanahan brought two bales OF cotton to
that place from Wild Horse, and after he
got it to town but before 1t was sold 1t
caught fire and was burned up. Inc ousl-
and gave the farmer just the amount the
staple would have Melted had be delivered
1t to the buyers.
The following is novel Oklahoma dis
course: The sermon was begun with the
remark from the pastor that he was Win
out bible, having been unable to find the
book in Guthrie: He said. however, that
he would repeat from memory text for
the day: 'In the name OF our God we Will
set up our banner"
II do not know" the preacher said,
''where those words can be found, but they
are somewhere in the scriptures"
Isaiah the fourth" was the startling
interruption from a rough looking boomer.
The exhorter, who followed in an i'm
promptu meeting on the banks OF the Cot
tonwood, said:
Receiver of the land office of heaven, and
am here to start boom for the New Je-
rusalem, city not Of tents and dust,
but of everlasting mansions ana
golden streets If you will join
this boom we will go to promised
land, where the stakes are all ready
driven, not with human hands, eternal in
the skies. There will be no claim-j jumpers
there The devil is welcome to them. Aye,
there will be no early birds there who
slipped by the Judgment seat before the II
o'clock noon of the Lords salvation. Come
up now and file your declaratory state
ments. You do not need to stand In line
to get to Gods land Office; the way is al
ways open and free. Come up; you do not
need to pay lawyer to make your state
ments; lift of the hand or the parting of
the lips is all that is required by the regis-
ter of this land Office of our fathers En-
ter your claim this morning and get a
homestead where the frost never falls, the
hot winds never blow and the grasshopper
is never seen. If you are hunting for a
town site. every lot is corner lot in the
New Jerusalem. Who Will be u boomer?
Hold up your handsr'
A hundred hands were uplifted, and the
old men exclaimed: Thank God for your
Elk.
Monday afternoon J. B. George, a coun-
Gilman Of Oklahoma City, and John For
den painter, got into an alteration
which resulted in Georges stabbing For
den. An account appears in the Journal:
Weaver and Forden were coming down
Broadway and met George in front Of his
office. There Weaver and George got into
an argument over the merits of
respective candidates for mayor
the former being strong
Overholser man and the latter leader of
the kickapoos. The argument waxed
warm and finally George made some re-
mark about Weaver which the latter met
with the remark, ooh, well. there's no call
for getting hot over it." FOrden made a
somewhat similar remark and had hardly
gotten it out of his mouth when George
struck him in the face and followed up the
attack by drawing his scalping knife and
using it. Forden tried to defend himself,
but when George drew his knife he ran
into the street with George following him
and was there stabbed by the later. The
weapon used was a pocket knife with n
blade some two inches in length, and made
an ugly wound, cutting through thick
coat, vest, shirt and undershirt and deep
cash into the body. 1t was on the left side,
just below the nipple, being over the apex
of the heart, the knife from all appear
ances passing near to if not through
the sac of the heart. Doctors Jordan and
Wynkoop dressed the wound, which bled
prOIuSely, ana ne was renOfeu Oh u
scretcher to the Hotel Compton, where at
late hour last night he was resting easy.
If inflammation does not set in the doctors
are of the opinion that he may recover.
George is not very communicative re-
garding the fracas, but says Forden struck
him twice in the face before he drew the
knife and that as Forden was much
bigger man than him he had to defend
himself. Forden is good sized man. and
if he got lick at George he would proba-
bly, have left his mark, but Georges face
is free from any marks and he either has a
cheek of adamant or is mistaken about
Forden striking him. He was arrested on
the charge of assault with a deadly
wrapon with intent to kill" and bound
over in the sum of 81 900 to appear for trial
on Friday, November 20. Captain Higgie,
W. H Hull and d. G. Pryor went on his
bond.