Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
News From OK. a d !. rs.

| hOcK 1SlanO engines.
The convention of the Territorial
Teachers association at Oklahoma City,
had large attendance and all seemed
much interested.
The democratic territorial COMMITTEES
meets at Oklahoma City January 10, to
further the plans of democratic state
hood convention.
As a way of settling an old quarrel
James Phillips shot and instantly killed
Charles Frazer, of Krebs, l. Z. Phillips
has been arrested.
The voluntary fremen of several Okla
homa cities are talking of forming ter
ritorial organization, by means of del
egate convention sometime in January.
The north bound mail pouch was rob-
bed at McAlester, /. T. The pouch was
found on the platform cut open and
letters supposed to have been taken.
No clue to the robbers.
While Tennel and Charles Minis,
brothers, from Kansas, were encamped
near Perry, Charles knocked a revolver
off a box in the night and it was dis
charged. The bullet entered Tenners
head, producing fatal wound.
Burglars entered the wholesale gro
Gerry house of Coyle & Smith in Guth-
RE and blew the safe open with dyna-
mite. They failed to secure any money,
however, though several thousand dol
lars are usually kept in the safe.
J. A. Lewelling, a citizen of Perry,
attempted to jump from moving pas
senger train and was thrown to the
ground and had one leg broken and
shattered, besides suffering severe in
ternal injuries which may result fatally.
A special agent of tie interior depart
ment visited Guthrie to examine into
the affairs of the old townsite board,
who have never made satisfactory re-
port of the money received and dis
bursed by them, and some sensational
developments are looked for.
One day the Cherokee bonds are sold;
everything lovely, according to the
wires; the next day three is hitch. So
the thing continues its diurnal wobble
and the world is kept ignorant of the
true status. All the troubles arise,
however, in jealousies in the tribe.
A charter has been taken by the
Western Union Telephone company, of
Perry, [. T., capital stock $4,000; in
corporators, c. P. Walker, John M. Bro
gan, M. Hertz, r. S. Brook and l.. d.
Michaelson. The company proposes to
put in telephone lines between Perry,
Saltwater, Pawnee and Enid.
George w. Mckinney, of Miami, I.
T., has brought suit against ex-United
States Marshal Needles and his bonds
men for $2O,942, alleged damages sus-
tanned by the marshal closing up sa-
loon that Mckinney was running in
Miami. Mckinney alleges that Marshal
Needles did not have Jurisdiction or any
authority for closing up his business.
John Moss has brought suit in the
United States court at South McAlester,
L T., for $4,000 damages against the
Usage Coal and Mining company, for
the killing of his son. The plaintiff
alleges that defendant carelessly and
negligently permitted large quantity
of coal dust to accumulate in the mine,
which exploded with terrific force, kill
ing plaintiffs son instantly.
John Mitchell, an old soldier who
made the run into the Cherokee strip and
failed to get anything, has been made
insane by his disappointment. For sew
eral weeks be has been wandering about
at Perry, claiming to be mayor of the
city and offering everybody he meets
appointments on the police force. the
freedom of the city, ETC., until it be-
come necessary to send him to the in
sane asylum.
At Caddo, I. T., while Buster Bying-
ton, full-blood Choctaw, was under the
influence of whisky he grabbed colored
woman and Rugged her, He went on
down the street and Rugged white
woman, and she screamed out and
Deputy United States Marshal Ed. Adj
ans pulled him loose. Byington made
a fight, but Adams threw him down and
put handouts on him and locked him
up.
The governor of the Chickasaws called
a cabinet meeting at Tishomingo to
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of converting the
legislature on the question of submitting
a proposition to the commission on state
hood. It is thought that the legisla-
t11re will ask the removal of the negroes
from the nation and all lawyers and 9TH
ers who refuse to pay the per capita tax
and that they will oppose anything
tending toward any allotment of the
lands or statehood.
Governor Renfrow announces, for the
benefit of the hundreds who are daily
writing him in regard to the leasing of
of school lands, that for the present all
leasing Of school lands has been suspend
de. At date to be announced as soon
as possible all school land in the entire
territory including the Cherokee stripwill
be leased to the highest bidder for three
years, and the announcement will be
made in ample time to give everybody
an opportunity to bid.
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