The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-07-04
OKLAHOMA NEWS.


The Cheyennes and Arapahoes will
he paid $50, 900 on August Is.
The supreme court of the territory
will convene tie eth OF July.
Representative Walling of Grant
county has taken to the lecture plat
form.
The Denver papers have published
retracticn of the call for aid from
Grant county oklahoma.
! A bridge west of Waukomis which
cost the county $4,000 is reported to
have been washed away.
With rain Olslahoma's cotton crop
will be as big as her corn crop, but 1t
will not be worth as much.
There is suspicion that newspaper
men who started the gold excitement
are the loudest now in denying 1T.
! The Indians should come down from
the hills. Maybe that will coax the
rain, and the corn needs it badly.
A. NJ. Dixon, a negro, has been
ordered to leave Oklahoma City Tor
writing love letters to n white girl.
The Cleveland Bee says the rain
comes downright the corn grows up
right and the farmer laughs outright.
A Miss McCarty was the first person
committed to the territory insane
asylum. She is crazy over religion.
The Pond Creek aid seekers are quar-
reling among themselves. They have
revoked one woman's right to ask for
aid.
Many lawyers claim that the Kick
apoos are now citizens of the United
States and have right to lease their
lands.
Three thousand people attended the
silver meeting at Oklahoma City and
listened to ex-Congressman Bryan OF
Nebraska.
1t is said the widow of Sam Houston
is living, at the age of 100. in a rush
teepee, on the banks of the Washita,
near Anadarko.
Custodian Campbell of the Histori-
cal society, has retired. He gets S45C
for his rights and title in the collec'
tions made by him.
Weber Isaacs, who were to have been
hanged at Fort Smith, on the 25th
were granted respites.
Treasurer Turner gives notice tha'
there are funds on hand to redeem al
general fund warrants registered oil
or before April 10, 1892.
The Ponca City people, according t'
the Guthrie Leader, put wholesale
beer agent on the water committee o
the Fourth OF July celebration.
The Oklahoma people will always b.
grateful for that gold discovery. /
travelled along much faster than di'
the appeal for aid for the destitute
There is very romantic story abou
, General Sam Houston and his lndial
, wife going the rounds of the Oklahom
newspapers A sou of the old Texa
! president lives in oklahoma.
Ponca City council passed an ord
nance commanding all saloons 10 clos
on Sunday. The next Sunday the 81
,, looms all had signs on, reading as foI
lows; Front door closed; come to tn
= back door"
\ Hornbecl of the Minco Minstrel say
1 there is little fear expressed over tn
prospect Of the recovery of Red Lodg
. the Indian rapist, who was shot abou
4 thirty times with n six-shooter, in tn
hands of the sheriff.
!, 1t is claimed that IL the Indian
|, attempt to avenge the shooting G
= Red Lodge they will find the whit
settlers ready for them. The whit
= settlers have little use for the Indian
q and they would rather welcome IA wa
with the red skins for they believ
a that they could wipe them off the fac
n of the earth. There is no sympath
: for the wounded Red Lodge.
! How the Kansas mans eyes'do site
e out when he comes to Oklahoma an
d looks upon her cotton fields. III
S Kansas man is apt to confuse Olsl;
i homa with Kansas. The Kansas 'ma
l. has relatives here. lie knows thi
most of the people in Oklahoma al
y from the north, and he cannot assoc
$ ate cotton fields with his norther
e friends. But the cotton fields are hel
|, and they are now blooming. They al
c very beautiful