The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-27

Swung Down Upon Him, He was In
Pickle. Out of Which the Chief of Police
and Lawyer Help Him with the Result
that They are Now in Troubles Them
se,yes-General News Of Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory.
Guthrie o. T., Aug. 2e.-(SpeciaD-
| A sensation has developed at Norman
which places Lawyer Fisher and City
| Marshal Smith in a bad light-the light
of having accepted bride, and cover
| ing I'D a crime by the use of money.
One WeitZel and a Mrs. Miller arriv-
ed in that city a few weeks ago and
passed themselves off as husband and
wife couple of weeks ago a young
| man from Streator, ILL.,, saw Weitzel in
| Norman and identified him as man
| who had ran off from Streator with
| grass widow. leaving wife and several
| children. When he got back to Streat-
or the young man told the wife, and
she at once came to Oklahoma to pun
ish the culprits.
When she reached Norman she had
! the parties arrested for adultery. Their
| trial was put off a few days and in the
, meantime Lawyer Fisher. who had been
| retained to defend them, and City Mar
| shall Smith, approached the wife with
| a proposition that WeitZel would give
| her $500 to leave Oklahoma and not APP
pear against him and his paramour.
| She at first refused but finally agreed
and receiving tn emoney took the train
| for the north early Mondy morning.
| But the sheriff had got onto the little
game and nipped it. He was on the
same train, and when it reached Okla
| homa City took the wife off and return
| ed on the next train to Norman, and
| she will appear as witness against
| her adulterous husband and his grass
! widow.
| 1t looks as if Fisher and Smith have
gotten themselves into bad box, and
one from which it will take considerable
explaining to eXtricate them.
FREEMAN IN CONGRESS.
| A dispatch from Washington says:
| Captain Freeman, Usage agent, is try
ing te get United States Commissioner
John Lehey removed from his office as
| United States commissioner in the
. Usage country. Some time ago Free
| man communicated with the depart
ment of justice and demanded change
! in the Office of commissioner. The at
| torney general referred the matter to
Justice Bierer, who appointed Lehey,
| but Bierer informed him that Lehey
| was good man for the place. But
| Freeman is determined. He claims that
Lehey is not the man he can get along
| with and he has communicated his
| troubles to the interior and asks that
| something be done with the attorney
! general. His request has not been act
/ ed upon and how it will turn out re-
mains to be discovered. In the mean
| time Lehey is not idle. A communica-
! ton has been received stating that
I
| financial enterprises in the Usage cOun-
try: that he has limited the agency
traders to four men and that the Osages
receive from the government 100000
per and about all of it finds its way to
the traders 1t is also claimed that
others would like to trade in that coun-
try but the agent will not allow it. In
the meantime the Indians get the worst
of it very largely. There arealso state
| ments to the effect that Freeman is
| looking after his own interests and the
| trouble has reached the point that it is
| likely the house. early in the next ses-
sion, will provide for an investigation
of Freeman and matters in general at
| the Usage agency. Plans to this end
! have already been made and the new
Indian committee Of the house, of which
| Representative Curtis, of Kansas, is
likely to be chairman, will have refer
, red to it a resolution providing for its
investigation. Delegate Flynn of Okla
! homa, will ask the committee to report
1 favorably on the resolution and there is
littel doubt but the investigation will
be ordered without delay
DEP WATER DELEGATES.
Governor Renfrow of Oklahoma, has
notified Governor Morrill, of the ap-
pointment of twenty-nine delegates to
represent the ter ritory in the western
states conference upon the question of
a deep water harbor in TXas, to b
| held in Topeka October l. The dele
gates named are as follows: w. H.
Snow, Norman: T. NJ. Richardson, Le-
dru Guthrie and r. Q. Blakely, Okla
| homa City; John Pfaff, Edmond: w. H.
| Coyle, w. A. Frazer and A TarltOn,
Guthrie; D. c. Dwinnell, H. Mulhall,
S. H. Harris, Perry: J. r. Hudson,
| Ponca City; Robert Sutherland, New
kirk; Harry Thompson, and G. S. Stein,
| North Enid; George d. Omer and Johu
L. Virgins, Enid: w. p Campbell,
Hennessey: c. j. West. Pat S. Maggie,
and A. J. Seay, Kingfisher; E. F.
Mitchell. and Thomas R Reed, FL Reno
S. l.. Johnson, Alva: T. L. OBrien.
Woodward; A. n. Spencer, Yukon; J.
w. Bergman, Round Pond; John De-
laney, Perry: Charles Roberts, Gross;
Ross Gould Downs.
QUICK WHISKEY DEATH
At Watonga, Oklahoma. on last Mon
day afternoon in Houcks saloon, Allen
! Wilson. a colored man, drank himself
to death in a period of thirty minutes.
| Houck filled large glass not less than
fifteen times. and some persons who
We're present say as many as twent ~
times, and had the man drink il. 1t is
said that each glass contained from
two to four ounces of a liquor HOuck
called gin. Ali of the fifteen or twenty
drinks were given him within thirty
minutes. The drinking ceased when
he could drink no more. Wilson lived
! in Watonga and some one took him to
his home where he died Tuesday night
at II o'clock
TRIED TO BREAK JAIL.
At Ardmore the prisoners confined IN
the United States jail made determ-
/ 1ned effort last night to burn the Struc-
ture, which is temporary wooden af-
fair. They pulled cotton from their
bedding and stuck it around the walls,
| setting fire TO il in three different plac-
es. The guards, however. had a pien-
| tiful of supply of water and extinguish-
ed the flames before they got much
Roadway The prisoners had learned
that ndmbe- of the deputies We're
gone after the Christian boys, and were
! plotting to make an escape.
ARRESTS AT PERRY
AT Perry DR.. Jamison Vanwater.
president and Cashier Blanchard. of
the defunct bank of Commerce of New
/ kirk, Were arrested last night At a
late session Of the grand jury OF Kay
! county these men We're indicted for
cheating and swindling Four months
ago the Bank OF Commerce broke,
leaving many depositors in the Iurch
| for several thousand dollars. Several
men in this city were caught in the
| break