The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-02
Alfalfa is eight inches high tn th an,

I Alfalfa is eight inches high IN ca ant
county
Many buildings are being erected nj
the new Rock Island town on Pond
creek.
All the Oklahoma papers are kick.
ing against the Noble county press 70
mancer
The best counties In Oklahoma are
those In which most cotton is raised.
Cotton is sure and is good cash always.
H. Is less than sixty days when the
great oklahoma wheat crop will be
harvested. Three more rains will in
sulc an immense crop
Territorial Treasurer Turner has
called In and cancelled $40. 900 worth
Of Territorial warrants mp TO the 2Otr
of October, 1895.
The Choctaw presbytcry, which has
been In annual session at TaIahina,
!. T., has elected T.. J. IIaymaker and
DIR. Ilnrtshorne delegates to the gen.
eral assembly at Saratoga.
A correspondent TO nm oklahoma
paper from Oakland, where there has
been trouble over johnson grass,
warns the anti-grass people 10 quit
their talking about lynching.
II is reported that Surveyor Gilmore
Of Woods county, who was burned by
the explosion of a bottle of bi-sul ulphide
of Carbon, is dead. That his wife, who
tried to save him. is nearly dead, and
there is little hope for their young
son, who breathcd the poison.
Fire swept down through the valleys
OF Persimmon and blackberry. March
30th, destroying miles of good range
and some private improvements. The
people fought gallantly until twelve
o'clock ut night and succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the north line which made
them safe. Live Stock Inspector.
The House committee on Indian af
fairs, will present to the House thi
week the bill agreed upon and IL is ex-
pected to pass with but few amend
mcnts. The committee has one amend
mcnt 10 oifer-to have the commission
cr of Indian affairs investigate the
farming leases and where abrogation
before the term expires would work n
hardship, to allow them To run.
| The Indian Committee of the Sen
ate has for several days had under
consideration the bill giving free
homes to settlers upon the Oklahoma
lands. The committee finally conclud-
cd Tuesday To amend the bill SO as to
make it general, extending the free
homestead laws to all lands in the
Union which have been addcC to the
public domain by purchase from In
dian tribes,
| In the divorce case OF Ignatz Mayer
Of Springfield, Mo-, formerly of the
st. Louis Medical college faculty,
against his wife, Sarah Mayer, the
referee reported Monday recommends
ing that divorce he granted because
of the wife's extreme and unreasona-
BILE jealosy, but that the wife he al
lowco 20 have the custody Of the chill
drcn, Mayer 10 pay her rea asonable ali
mony and pay for the support of the
children.
Dir. Buxtoi OF Logan county has
returned from Columbia, where he ex
tractcd bullets from the heads of Rosa
Stoldcr, Jessie Steele and Abraham
Shell, the victims Of last Sundays
sh ,p. H,,;, Ea.h hnt tx..i..,
in the forehead and all are still alive.
The skulls of both Miss Stoder and
Steele were badly shattered and both
will surely die, but the bullets CLAN
ced from the skull of Shell, the reject
ed lover, who did the shooting, and he
is likely TO live.
A party of prospectors in the Wich'-
ita mountains unearthed from an In
dian grave, one long steel lance head,
one steel handmade Spanish bride
bit, bored muscle shell and silver pen
dants, one pair bullet moulds, one
brass powder flask, remains of saddle
tree ornamented with brass taclSs, one
wrought iron hoe of Spanish make.
All articles are in fair state OF preser-
walton. In the grave was found sec
tions Of skull, adult male, the su-
lures of which indicated that in life il
adorned the shoulders of u copper col
orcd brave.
Henry Lovctt was shot and killed by
Deputy Marshal Maak Moore near Nc
Dermott, Creck Nation, Saturday
morning while resisting arrest Low