The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1895-10-26


Can ANYONE tell whether United
States Senator Haven and his New
York bride cverappcarcd in Oklahoma7
A. V. Collins If Scgar. who is seven
ty vearc of age, rode $50 miles on horse
back to attend the free homes con.
vention.
"Pawncc Bill" whose Sunday name
Is Lee Franklin. has been chucked into
Jail for making a gun play at a dance
at Cleo Springs.
An Oklahoma man paid less than n
dollar for an unclaimed" express
rec,rge that contained q pair of dia-
mond earrings.
The second growth of sorghum, green
Is dangerous to cattle. Keep your
cow away from IL or she may keel over
and kick of her coils.
The Oklahoma editors are now ON
their way to Texas sitting around In
groups Dragging about how much
they have travelled before.
Oklahoma Is u great deal more civil.
lied than IL has cvcr been, but IL H.
still more dangerous Ia make u gun
play than tn actually shoot the gun.
Nearly all the papers in the terrific
ry note the fact that bushes is revi-
wing. And the Oklahoma papers are
not given to saying SO unless IL Is so.
II Is said that Judge Scott recently
sentenced two men named Welsh TO
the penitcntiary for stealing scven
dollars. II was highway robbery aud
the way to stop highway robbery is to
stop it.
A copy Of the Oklahoma Outlook Is
being scattered v e the Territory. II
Is a neat little paper, published by
the Congregational College Of King
fisher county, in the interest Of that
denomination and college.
The Cheyenne Iudiaus have worked
faithfully on their farms this year aud
have pretty good crops, In return
they have asked the agent for the favor
of allowing them to have a ghost
dance. They have worked hard aud
he ought To let them do IL. The first
newspaper man who sends out "A dis
patch about it should be shot down.
The bill providing for the removal
of the intruders from the Cherokee
Nation has just passed both houses
and signed by the chief. BY the pro-
visions Of the bill 3l5 heads Of fam
lilies will be paid Cor improvements
made in the nation. The amount of
land held Is estimated 10 be 100, 900
acres and worth Sos, 900 The bill
just passed by the counc,i ends the
struggle that has been waged for the
past twenty years between the Cher
oKcc people ON one side and the social
ed intruders on the other.
Captain Joe Everingc, IA prominent
Choctaw of Tuscahoma, says there Is
no objection on the part of Governor
Gardner of the Council to the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight coming Off in the
Choctaw Nation. Captain Everinge
does not think the United States Gov
crnment has any right to eject people
from the Territory that are not oh
jectionable to the Indians. and is of
the opinion hat Commissioner Brown
ing has exceeded the authority given
him by the law and the treaties in is
suing his order to the Indian Agent
Wisdom not to permit the fight TO take
place ia the Territory.
Over on the Rock Island, in the Chick
asaw nation, preachers stand prerared
Ia shoot something besides salvation
bullets into the ungod v, as witness
the following droll humor seriously
expressed by an exchange: Even the
followers Of the Lord and the uphold
ers of the church will break the laws
and carry deadly weapons. Sometime
when they lay them down on the
ground and then get up right quick,
these deadly weapons fan out of their
pockets, and what II scramb,ing and
scratching until they secure the weap-
ON and get it nee more safely hidden
In their pocket. and what II guilty
look they have on their face when they
turn around To see IL anyone has seen
what was going on.
Ed d.. Phillips camc ia from the
kickapoo country and brought word
of "A small war oyer there over the
right of his fathcr-in-law to hold his
leased land-thc land IL will he re-
~membered, from which Miss Clara
Jackins held or the Indian police a
few days ago at the point Of u gun.
The mex few days after Clara's episode
with the police Mr.. Jaekins went to
Oklahoma City and secured temporary
injunction from Judge Scott prohib-
iting the police from further efforts
at eviction until the case could be
heard. ON Wednesday a company of
the police headed 10y Pete Washington
and Little AK, %swooping upon the
farm and proceeded TO fire of the oc-
cupants, In n short time thirty set
tiers gathered, armed with Winches-
ters and gave Washington and his
gang 10 understand they would not
allow the eviction. The indians final
" withdrew, but trouble is feared. for
the settlers are up in arms and will
stand no foolishness.
Chas. Key a murderer and robber
who has been n murderer and outlaw
in Texas, Mexico and the Indian Ter
ritory, was executed by the federal
authorities at Paris, Texas Friday.
That was a great blum the govern