The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-02
LANosr0N CITY HERALD.
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VILLA UOmA ANU INDIAN TEWHITORt
There IL not now legal free grass
dlstrict In q county.
The supreme court IL 10 pass on the
esised tax case In June.
There Il but little use talking now
about crop failure In Oklahoma.
The deputy marshais are still chas.
Ing the remnant Of the Christian gang.
Over 1900 bushels Of cotton seed
have been planted In Kingfshcr coun-
~ this season.
Bill Raiders motion for new trial
was denied. Bill will have 10 visit In
the east for ten years,
Pat Nagle has inaugcratcd the good
custom Of travelling over the territory
and inspect ng each department
A wo,nan In Logan county wa nts a
divorce from her husband because he
wouldn't clothc her. The brute!
II il said that Oklahoma's foreign di.
vorce business drops Off in the spring.
Married people make mp in the spring.
DIR. 1gnstx Mayer has been granted
. divorce In Logan county, but he
must give his wife s7s per month ALI
mony.
An Oklahoma paper says IL Is glad
the X ray can see down your throat
without gagging You with q spoon
hsudlc
Hereafter all able bodied Chcycnncs
End Arapahocs who do not labor on
their farms will have their rations
withheld.
when walls Of water twenty fcet
high occur In beaver county You can
put 10 down that western Oklahoma
has changed.
A. present II Z man does anything
wrong In Greer county he Ia liable to
be held without = warrant. lie In glad
TOO II he II just held.
John Wand, an Oklahoma man. says
thst high spring winds dispcl malc.ia.
They also dispel almost everything
else Id their pathway
The report Ia current in Oklahoma,
that q preacher has been arrested for
Atealing plows from the Indians. May
be the Indians bribed him To do IL.
Nothing has been done with Ira
Terrill yet And he considers himself
to be In luck by being In the peniten-
tiary. Rather tough luck however.
The cyclone sufferers In the north-
eastern part Of Cleveland county are
praying for aid They have been
struck by four cyclones in as many
years
McAtec and 13ierer stand together
On the tax decikion. Dale stands
alone. Burford and Scott will proba.
blv decide with Dale to prevent q dis
Aster.
An Oklahoma editor says Il was i'm.
possible for the man who invented the
phrase Don't count your chickens be-
fore they are Matched" TO foresee the
xray.
Dan Gibson, recently sentenced for
perjury, confessed that he took wa;y-
On load Of whiskey into the Usage
country and sold scme whiskcy for as
high - S2s per gallon.
A divorce case in Logan county
brings out the fact that Mr.. and Mrs
Todd ran away from Illincls To escape
. statute and were welded in Missouri
They are first cousins.
DR.. Harry Walker Of Oklahoma coun-
" has been written by criminal ex-
pert asking him what he knows about
Holmes. Walker was a student in
Ann Arbor with Holmes.
George Miller has been indicted for
the murder ofGlovcr by the grand jury
~ Arapahoc. lie Is now in Jail in
Canadian county. In the Red Buck
Aght he hsd both hands shot Off
Sarah Sherman, q Canadian. is SUI
ing her husband for divorce in Okla
homs county. She wan married to
him only short time before, and
when the wedding bells were ringing
Ahe did not dream Of . trip to Oklaho-
hs.
Bill Raidler, convicted of attempt.
Ing 20 rob Rock Island mail train ON
April IL, 1895, was sentenced Satur-
day to ten years imprisonment in the
benitentiary at Columbus Ohio. A
stay Of sixty days was granted TO per-
init of an appeal to the supreme
court.
At Augusta, Woods county, IL is Gus.
tomary for the boys aud girls To go to
. dnnce-line up on the benches, boys
on one side and girls ON the other
and nothing is said until numbers are
sold. the only exchange of courtesics
being grins across the room. Silence
il supreme, and during the entertain
ment the conversation Is limited to an
invitation to dance with a 'thank YOU
NJ the end. The other night at
dance the usual amount of silence was
present when big fellow stepped
across the room and broke the ice as
follows: MANDY, how is your moth
or? Not that care q dash. but we
must talk about something"
The wheat crop IN Oklahoma is
about as good as good as made and the
peaches never gave promise of bet
ter crop.
The next legislature will proba bly,
be asked TO pass law against the
planting of prairie grass.