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

Oklahoma again.
Mrs. s. A. Craig is going to start a
paper at Calvin /. 4.
Oklahoma Is to have another eclipse
Of the noon October IL.
A man at Day offers ten dollars for
h return of n yellow dog.
A man near Grandc is working OF
the invention Of n portable well.
The late watermelons grown in ok
lahoma are usually sold In Texas.
Judge Springer has decided to make
his legal and judicial home in the In
dian Merritory.
Near Curtis there is farther who Is
so well fixed that he boasts he has
spent less than n dollar for groceries
In the last two months.
Owing TO the culpablc negligence of
some one in Oklahoma II has now
been three weeks since the Hutchin-
son Southern concluded to start build
ing next week.
Notwithstanding Mrs. IIatch's ex-
pressed dissatisfaction. the opinion
over the territory is that Clyde Mattox
got all he deserved from the hands Of
the President.
Tuesday In Payne county II young
man named j. u. Forlincs. =. years
old, killed an old man, VI. w. Dixon,
for dcbauching his wife. The ahoot-
ing was done on sight.
DIR. Griffith Gum went to shawnee
Tuesday with the plans and specifica-
tions of the new Episcopal church II is
intended !" erect in hat town. The
outline draft shows u very neat struct-
urc.
The NJ. T.. Conference of oklahoma
and Indian Territories couvencs next
Wednesday. IL promises to be the
largest and most important meeting
Y held by that denomination in the
territories.
The ~Chicknsaw legislature voted 20
appoint "A committee to meet the
Dawes commission. The preamble to
the resolution rccited the fact that
courtesy was due from one nation to
another.
Frank Greer says the counties of Ok
yNhoma started out on n practically
sash basis October first. Every war
rant issued now will he paid in Janu-
airy from the %scmi-annual payment of
taxes which now comes due December
first.
II. c. Ellis has gone TO the pcniten-
tiary from Potawatomic county for
life. Ellis and a man named Kelly
had n row. Ellis shot ut Kelley and
missed. Kelly threw open his vest
and yelled: ''Shoot away, you couldn't
hit the side OF a barn" Ellis fired and
killed Kelly.
J. II. Forcline, 20 years Of age, bored
two holes through the head of prof"
Dixon with pistol bullets near Day,
Thursday night. Dixon was n hyp-
notist, and while boarding with For
cline, practiccd his art on Mrs. For
cline and led her astray and broke up
the family. Dixon died almost in.
stantly.
In different places near the Oklaho-
ma experiment station. the cotton
wood and Lombardy poplar trees are
nearly defoliated by u yellowish, long
haired worm, the larva of n small
night-Aying moth. DR.. Neal reports
that spraying with weak arsenical
mixtures is apparently the only avail
able method of preventing the avagc
Of this insect.
Mr.. Lawrence dropped into a Denton
printing Office the other day and ex-
hibited soine very fine specimens Of
silver and lead ore. which were taken
from the shaft his company arc sink
ing on the farm OF Mr.. Kelly. on Still.
water creek, Payne county. The shaft
IL seven feet square, and is showing
good signs Of coal and evidences of
silver and lead. IL Is believed in paying
quantities.
A continuous stream of grasshop-
peers has been passing high overhead
southwark every day this week and Il
good many drop. so that they are UNI
comfortably numerous ON the ground,
They are to all appearance, the small
red-legged variety, similar to those
that devastate ted Kansas eighteen years
ago. The kingiisher county farmers
report their fields of young wheat GOV
cred with them and are alarmed.
In charging the jury nj Chickasha
while opening court this week. Judge
Kilgorc held that the intermarried
citizens are not eligible "a Jury duty
in the federal courts. And now the
intermarried citizens are moro than
ever puzzled over their status. They
are not Indians a. they have no voice
or vote in the Indian affairs and we
believe they are not allowed to sit up.
on Indian court iuries. They are the
hest living illustration Of Hugo's
MAN without a Country"
The first freight train over the Choc-
taw into Oklahoma City was loaded
with coal.
The Daily Jeffersonian, "A little pa
per far a cent, published by Dan
Swearingen at Burlington, is all right.
], fits the town and gives all the news.
A kickapoo man wrote n postal to
his wife up in the state the other day
as follows: Dear wife, come down