The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1895-08-24

opeHh ing c1 tDe ScnOOl, y
p~ostofice has been established in Bea-
yer county and named Coin.
II Is said that Mays election in the
Cherokee nation was due to a liberal
and free-handcd use Of frewater.
Judge Ingalsbe and family have
started overland in n wagon for a visit
TO Pottawatomic county, Kansas.
Mr.. Worshum, ON skeleton valley,
near Waukomus, has several acres of
fine wild blackberris on his farm.
Al Glazier, the Santa Fe conductor
in Oklahoma, Is now In Boston trying
to ind himself in its crooked streets.
Rev. j. +. Palmer succeeds Rev. Joel
Smith as presiding elder of the Meth
odist church for the central district OF
Oklahoma.
For some reason the baseball fever
In Oklahoma did not catch until late.
and it bids fair To continue with fer
ocity until frost.
II is likely that Tom Irwin is so Of
Tended at the rude things the news
papers said of him that he will never
return to the. territory.
Efie Gilstrap. one of the brightest
OF Oklahoma lady editors, banks on
the poor roads keeping out the bloom
er fad in Lincoln county.
Pearls have been found during the
last week in shells in the Cottonwood
river. They are of the same lustrous
beauty as the gold of Doggy creek.
A minister preached last Sunday in
the territory on ''Cheap Religion. He
was painfully surprised TO find an un-
usual number of coppers in the basket
after the services.
BY looking at the bottom of a long
article i'm an Oklahoma paper and
hunting for the words Come again"
the reader will save himself reading all
about a farmer who brought the editor
"a watermelon.
Deputy marshals arrested the noto-
rious Jennie Metcalf Tuesday but she
stole an officers horse and fled. She
was formerly Jennie Stephens and is
an own cousin to Bill Dalton, and not
an officer in the territory is a better
shot than she. She was arrested two
months ago for selling whisky TO Usage
Indians and gave bond. Although
only is years old she is said to have
sold more whiskey to Indians than
the oldest offender.
Here is = queer advertisement found
in an Oklahoma paper: Found-A di-
vorce, which the owner can have by
calling at this Office aud paying for
this advertisement. If owner does not
call within reasonable time, we will
offer the sail divorce for sale to the
highest bidde, to pay expense of adj
vertising. Said divorce was granted
to Anna simmons, in Jackson county
Missouri, in 1883, and is therefore good
as it is n little late for the defendant
to appeal. 1t being valid. we shall
give the probate court subjects first
chance. in ease we are forced To sell
the same.
NJ onday afternoon near Okmulgce
|. r. -four India ms and a negro, all un'
known, ravished a white girl in the
presence of ner father who was Gov
cred with "a Winchester. A short time
afterward the same fiends met Benton
Callahan, n prominent Creek citizen
and cattleman who was accompanied
by Sam Houston, a negro employee
whom they held up and robbed oi
money. saddles and boots. after which
they shot Houston through the shout
der, killed his horse and beat Mr.. Cal
lahan numerically with their guns,
Indian citizens and white men are af
ter these outlaws and IL caught the
result can be guessed.
A boiler of n portable engine on 4
thresher blew up LEI Oakland, TWEEN
ty-six miles east of Ardmore Wednes
day, instantly killing VIII Craft, Lee
Norwood and Pink Norwood and seri
ously wounding several others, a mum
Der of whom cannot recover Th'
Norwoods are father and son. Graf
was the band cutter. The following
is the list of the most seriously in
jured: Will Tippett, badly scalded
cannot recover; G. II. Hamm, bruised
and scalded: James Wilken, bruised
and scoldcd; J. =. Walker and CLAUDE
Howell, scaldcd and bruised; I. =
Carter, severely cut ON head and ankle
Short, the engineer, badly scalded an'
will die.
For several days reports have beef
coming In of horrible outrages perpe
trated in the thinly settled countr.
south of Sapulpa, !. 7. Three womer
have been taken from their homes ant
outraged, one of whom has sine
died. Stores and houses hav
been robbed and numerous horse
stolen. Deputy United States Maj
shals and citizens have been securing
the country and were rewarded lat
Friday night by the capture of tn
whole gang. Great excitement pre-
: walls among the citizens, and it is re
ported that a large body Of men ar
attempting to intercept the Marshal
who are on their way to Fort Smit
with their prisoners. The m G
the negroes are now unknown, bu
they are supposed to be citizens of tn
Creek Nation.
{ Rev. Kuydendall staggered into a
| Oklahoma printing office the othe
day and laid q watermelon on the ed
tors desk. The desk went down wit
"A crash.