The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1895-10-26
The latest editorial cuss word: "WelI
I'll DO bloomercd."

A tremendous acreag Of wheat IL
being put in oil ovcr Oklahoma.
In SOM places In Oklahoma Jeru.
salem corn ran 100 bushels 10 the acre.
Corn is selling on the streets of many
Oklahoma towns for 1G cents a bushel.
The latest society function" at
Curtis Is IN ''impromptu oyster sup
per-"
Several Oklahoma attorneys have di.
vorcc agencies in New York and Chi.
cago.
IL is said that typhoid fever is par
ticularly bad al this time in Shawnee
town.
The State National bank Of Oklaho.
ma City has sli3,7Gi.4l in individual
deposits.
II. G. Wallerstcdt and Il. u. Pool
nave been appointed commissioners OF
Noble county.
To ada TO the torture of litigants
the Bea yer cornct band will play there
during the week.
Amelia Rivers. Mrs. Langtry ana
Mrs. Francis HIodgson Burnett all
snubbed Oklahoma in getting their
divorces.
Rev. Whitaker of Kay county Il
mad because a saloon-keeper met him
on the street the other day and called
him brother"
Last sunday morning u minister in
Kay county had this for the text OF
his sermon: character revealed at
the Wash-bowl."
Ida Burkhead Is fighting the di.
vorce asked by her husband at okla.
homa City. lie is worth $1,000. and
Ida says she wants part of it.
~ was kind Tor that man to declare
that Oklahoma dust is full of gold but
81 fine it cannot be secured. II l.
nice to know that if the wind must fill
your eyes with dust that il Is at least
gold dust.
Fred W. Farrar, the defaulting cash.
Ter of the Logan county state bank
which recently went under, has been
arrested at Colorado Springs. Farrai
is charged with receiving deposits af.
ter the bank became insolvent.
Fifty new chief have been selected
by the Chcyenncs. Educated Indians
were avoided by the Indians i'm making
the selection for fear the smarter In
dams would take advantage Of the
tribe in favor of the white men.
Charles Kenilworth. a negro. was az.
rested at Waltham, sunday, charged
with arson and burglary committed Mt
Rutherford, Ala. three years ago.
He has held IA claim near Waltham in
the Cherokee strip since its opening.
There is m epidemic of newspaper
dunning over the territory. Get ON a
cash system boys and you will save
time, labor and Lamentations. Advcr
Users would rather reach fifty paid in
advance readers than five hundred
deadbcats carried on your subscription
books.
II has boon decrced that Colonel
William Bolton jump into the deep
water harbor at Galveston and test its
depth beyond doubt. There is always
so much wind in Billy, making IL
doubtful whether he will sink, but he
will make as large a hole in the water
as n whale.
Old Oklahoma had the advantage OF
free homes. The strip and C and A
country are entitled to the same.
Such things only como through per.
sistent work. There should be a
strong organization in every county.
ASK and We shall receive" is good,
but the people of the c and A country
have a right to demand.
On last Sunday morning about three
o'clock u very severe thunder storm
passed over Payne county. During
the storm a bolt of lightning struck
the residence of DR.. $. NJ. Barnes. in
the north part of the county. The
lightning ran down the chimney and
severely stunned the sleeping occu-
pants of the house and killed u large
dog which lay under the house,
\ great round up of wolves is expect
ed To take place on the END of this
month on Jasper Sipe's place near the
mouth of Cruteho river. Capt. Trosper
j. To have general command of the line
with sam Murphy H. aid-de-camp.
j. T.. Carson will have charge of the
left wing, whose business il win be to
beat the brush along the Canadian,
while Capt. DeFord will command the
right wing and close all means OF cS-
cape tn the east by n left half wheel.
United States Marshal Nix has word
from Lawson that o. l.. Miller and his
wife were murdered in cold blood by
unknown parties on Wednesday last
and viii Miller. their son, badly
wounded 80 that he cannot recover.
q. l.. Miller was a brother Of Bruce
Miller who was killed in the same man
ncr last fall by the McElroy gang, II
is supposed. Several ~ this band of
outlaws are under sentence NJ Fort
Smith for the murder Of Dutch John
aud Bruce Nillcr's wife and child a
wear ago. The McElroy's. it is charged
committed murders under the pre-.
tense of being a vigilance committee,
The neighborhood has ALWAYS been in
bad blood.
Judge Burford by a recent decision