The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-04-04

The free homes bill |. wonderful
measure. II means that Oklahoma Of
fercd Uncle Sam fifteen million dol
lars and Uncle Sol said Keep H."
Twenty mining companies are oper-
I hting in Noble county. IL was report
ed that J. King struck silver
lode, which produced stun % per cent
.pnre.
+ Pawhuska, from being the best Gus
toner the Kansas farmer along the
state line has had for his eggs and
prod jucc, has come to be shipper of
eggs, and the price at the capital of
tho Osages has fallen from the old
time pinnacle TO the bottom Of the
dccscst ditcb-only three cents q
dozen.
Raider is heard from again. Will
( his troubles never end. His bond was
raised from -. 500 TO 5000. lie was
( left secure in the kingfishcr county
/ Jail while his friends were trying TO
get bond. but before their return he
was ordered by the Judge TO be taken
back to the Logan county Jail.
lin Noble county the six-ycar.old
boy of John Dawes ON Saturday was
gorcd To death by vicious COW. The
hoy had been missing from the house
for several hours. Upon investigation
he was found in the pasture dead. with
his cntrails torn out. Near bv stood
the COW whose horns were covered
with the boys blood
Mr.. ". f. Thompson, postmaster at
Krcmlin, who was arrested In Fcbru-
, AIRY on account of u shortage in his
postotfice accounts To the tune OF $500,
has been surrendered to the authori-
lies by his bondsmen and Is now un-
, der arrest once more and IL looks very
much now as II he will have to lam
guish in Jail until the date of his trial
A. the last hearing before the In
dian affairs committee. has been given.
u cannot now he great while before
the people OF the Indian Territory will
know what congress is going to do
with that country. All classes are
anxious to know as IL will place cv-
crything and everybody in u more set
tied frame Of mind aud the suspense
will be over.
, G. NJ. Dunbar Of Logan county, has
received word from Washington that
he will receive patent for his ingen-
ious letter opener. The device Is sim
pie. II consists of string pasted in
side letter. with one end hanging
out Pull the string and the letter is
open. Dunbar is in receipt of fiat
tering letter and medal from Wash
ington patent agent.
Recently Robt. Ingersoll and Billy
Bolton were ON board passenger
train and Billy, being on his way home
from Florida and in an unusually hap
py frame of mind and thinking that he
might lead Ingersoll To religious
life, approached the seat wherein he
was seated and placing his hand ON
the great infidcl's shoulder, exclaimed,
'Sir do you know, you are on the
road To HI" Quick as flash In
gersoll asked, "Arc you the conduc-
tori" Billy's feet few up, the car
hpDi ioSS UP w cuttu uuu tbiiN
sat down to mediate.
WIN. Quillen, "a deputy sheriff from
ID county is claiming "a reward Of $3.50,
offered on the head OF Tom Waitman,
alias, Chas. Evans, Red Buck or White
Horse Doolin, who in company Of one
Charlie Smith, murdered Gus Holland
and stole his cattle from the head of
Cheyenne creek on the first of last
September. Waitman was found near
the line of Dand q counties where an
engagement was had in which Wait
man was killed and Miller, another
desporado,. had three fingers shot off
and was shot through the arm. The
reward will probably be paid when
the commissioners meet In April.
The divorce case of Scharle Fen
mel Ii VS. Francisco l.. Fenneili came up
in the Oklahama county district court
Friday. A decree was granted and
the plaintiff walked away happy.
Mrs. Finnelli her two sons and her
mother came To this county in Octo-
Der last. She charged cruelty and
l hohNuppot', anu
also violent temper against her hus-
band. lie is an Italian of high con
nection. She claims that she gave
him all the money he has III pre-, at,
giving him sl60,0O0 with which he
bought winter home in Italy and
lives In style after driving her away
from home. She further says she was
/ Is years old when married aud her
! husband AZ. y
Judge Scott made an interesting and
| important ruling Thursday in the case
of the Territory VS. Page, on trial for
cattle stealing. Page was tried last
/ fall in Cleveland county on the same
charge, but the jury disagreed. At
/ the time Of the trial two of Pages
pals were in Jail, and being placed on
the witness stand gave testimony
against Page. which was taken down
In short hand by the court stcnogra-
pher. In the meantime these two
pals have skipped the country and can
not be found. One of them broke
Jail and got away, the other got out
on bond which proved To be straw.
As they conld not he produced To tes-
tify in person, the judge followed the
ruling in the Clyde Mattox case in the
United States supreme court and al
lowed their evidence as taken down by
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