The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-08

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Settlement Hundreds of Photograph
of the Dead Outlaws are Sent Over thu
Country With Request That They b.
Sent to the Congressmen-Win Little
Saws That the Gold in Oklahoma ii
Flour Gold and Hard to See.
Guthrie, o. T, March 7.-(SpeciaL)-
A CHASTITY argument is being made fol
| the opening of the Fl. Sill country 10
settlement. Out of Wichita Falls
| Texas, have been sent out hundreds
of revolving photographs, on which ap-
pear an appeal TO congress to open W
/ the Fl. Sill country and break up the
den of outlaws.
The first of these photographs shows
Foster Crawford and Elmer Lewis, the
two men who were hanged at Wichita
Falls, recently. These two men were
taken after they had been killed and
they appear in the photograph on their
backs, their faces raised to the specta
tor Their eyes are half open and the
CLASSY white peeps out from beneath
the lids and their mouths are contor-
ted from the agony through which they
passed. Under this photograph APP
pears the words:
Samples of the many criminals hat
ched and protected by the Federal
government in the Fort Sill country,
Indian Territory, who kill law-abiding
citizens. The Federal government Ot
the people of Texas, are responsible for
the murders committed"
And then under this in smaller type:
Mail this to your congressman with
the request to use his influence and vote
for the settlement of that country by
civilized people
The next photograph is Of Frank
Dorsey the cashier who was killed by
the two men hanged. This also has
an appeal to congress on 1t. The
third photograph is of an outlaw Joe
Beckham who is taken with his gun by
his side, his cartridge belt in full view
full of cartridges and containing one
revolver. 1t is not as CHASTITY as the
picture Of the hanged men,
1t is the intention of the Wichita
Falls people TO send these horrible pic
lures out over the country in order TO
move congress to action.
The idea may not be original with
Texas, but these are the most ghast-
ly campaign documents that has ever
reached Oklahoma.
IT IS FLOUR GOLD.
Perry, o. T., March 7.-WiI Little
says today in the Times:
l spent last evening with very
wealthy gentleman whose fortune came
from the oil regions Of Pennsylvania,
He is accompanied by mining expert,
time prospecting the sub-strata wealth
of southern Oklahoma. They are not
hopeful but sanguine This morning
they Gamble up to look over the files
for Perry mineral reports. 1t some
what surprised me to hear the expert,
upon reading our publication of a re-
cent assay returned from Colorado, re-
mark $50 those Colorado people, like
the Kansas City smelter, could not find
the gold" I saw an opening and, with
a little pushing, soon learned they knew
all about that self same assay, that is
dirt near 1t, before it left Perry on it's
way to Colorado. The Colorado assay
is not a correct one. The dirt had
gold in it, the trouble being that it was
what is known as flour gold and their
method failed to catch it
1t has been difficult to make home
people believe mineral reports from the
fact that an ore which at the Oklahoma
university showed even higher than $65
per ton, only had twenty-six cents per
ton as shown by the Kansas City
smelter. The trouble is that no smell
ter method is capable of testing Okla
homa gold, it bein flour gold so fine
that air current passing over the cru
chile or furnace takes the gold parti-
cles along with it. These minute par
ticles have been saved by Professor
DeBarr, chemist at the Oklahoma uni
and it is this that accounts
for the extreme variance in home and
foreign assay reports.
Shelters report our gold as too fine
for working. 1t is, by the old fogy
method, However, during the last
six months there has been discovered,
and is today, in successful operation,
an electric method by which the finest
flour gold dirt can be worked with
satisfaction.
For testing old dirt there are the
wet and dry systems, the former using
acids and the latter lead as reagents.
There are almost an endless number
Of reagents, but lead is practical in our
dirt. Under an ordinary smelter sys-
ser particles, those particles are taken
up in the air current and fumes. This
is remedied by the method adopted in
the Oklahoma university by Professor
DeBarr. He. uses a closed crucible
and a muffled furnace. Test your dirt
by this process, and should it show pay
qualities, the proper quantity, subject
TO the recent electric process, will give
You a paying mine. The fact that
some smslters or assayers report no
gold found does not prove none to e1-
list. as flour gold is, to many, a new
thing. OF late many smelter Chin
neys have been reconstructed with a
view Of joining pockets in which es-
Gaping gold particles may lodge, these
same smelters once thinking none es-
capped.
To those in whose minds the ex-
IRENE varience between home and for
eign assay has created a doubt OF the
formers accuracy. 1 desire 10 say the
variance is to the same formers credit
# readers will refer TO your files of
weeks before this mineral excitement
came up they will find my article on
Sub-Strata Oklahoma quoted, rofessor
DeBarr then telling what has since pro-
ven true about Noble county and her
mineral resources. SEM your assays
10 DeBarr. WM. T. LITTLE.
MADE HIM DANCE.
Perry. O. T. March The Times has
the following which has created a SEN
SatiOn here:
\ gentleman. a husband and citizen
Of Perry, whose martial relations have
been. up 70 a few days ago. undisturb-
ed by the shadow OF distruSt. OF the
bitterness OF unfaithfulness. returned
home yesterday, after an absence of
some hours up town, and found anoth-
er man in the house in company with
his wife, and in such relations as not
10 increase his love or confidence in her.
They begged and implored; he did
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