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

II. ". Baker and W. ~ Baker arc
fighting in Kay county and Frank
Greer wants to wager bakers dozen
that Baker wins.
Ira Tcrrill has returned 20 Oklaho-
ma after quite protracted vacation.
He Is greatly improved In health and
will stay quite while
The only thing that the Oklahoma
farmers will kick about this year IL
( that they didn't have couple of mil
lions more acres of wheat sown.
The exact status Of Terrill's case is
not known. lie will probably he sem
fenced to the pcnitcntiary for escaping
when under a sentence To be. hanged.
The recent dynamite outrage on
colorcd concert IN school house In
Cass township. Oklahoma county,
came about In this way: The mem
bcrs of the school board wouldn't al
low preaching In the school house.
but they did let the colorcd people
give concert there. Hence the ex-
plosion.
Last Friday !. n Bash bought some
castor beans AZ Coalgatc. and they
4 looked 80 tempting that he ate about
a quar-, (more or lcss) and that night
became violently i'll and said he
thought he would hcavc up Jonah
All day Saturday he felt very bad and
was anxious for sleep Saturday night
lie now advises mothers To ''iill up the
boys" on castor beans.
Messrs fee Woods and Harvey :.
Sparks of Purcell. have formed a CO.
partnership ouder the name of Woods
e SPARKS, for the purpose of dealing
in all kinds OF live stock. Both these
gentlemen know the cattle business
thoroughly, are competent and well
known throughout the entire country.
and there is no doubt but they will
build up good business
A fire in South McAlester Wednesday
night destroyed the general merchan-
disc esta ablishment OF James Dcgan &
Co., at Krcbs, ]. Ty. The loss is $780,,
F., 900: insurance 5000. The furniture
warehouse of j. j. Phillips & Co., and
the dry goods store of J. Jacobs was
also burned. The loss on the former
is $4,000; insurance 5000. The loss
on the latter is S5 ,O0o with no insur.
ancc.
| In the Kickapoo country near Me-
Loud, Tuesday ten months-old pa.
poosc was torn to pieces by hogs. The
mother had laid the child on the ground
while she gathered fuel. She had
! gone some distance away when she
was alarmed by the babys cries and
! turning saw the hogs devouring IL.
Before the mother could reach the
spot the papoosc was dead, discmbow.
eied and horribly mangled.
Mr.. Stockton who lives in Noble
county, was taking load of wood to
/ town few days ago when his team be-
came frightened and ran away, throw
ing him from the wagon in such man
ner as that one of the fore wheels Of
the wagon ran oyer his body, seriously
injuring him in the back and hips.
by the assistance of some gentlemen
who stopped his team he was taken on
/ to town and cared for by Dr. Brcngle,
who says that his injuries may prove
fatal.
! Chas. Graft, who is just in from a
tour of the Sac and Fox country and
exhibits n CHASTITY relic found in a
cave some where in that country. II
is gkull OF full grown mac, said by
those who claim to know, to have been
either a negro or Indian. The cause
Of death is very clearly shown by "A
number of bullet holes through the
skull. As one gazcs at such a thing
as this he can but wonder what tale of
horror would he told, could the dumb
! lips speak. With the skull was found
an old army musket and rusted car
bine.
Another shooting affair took place
Monday in the northern part of Payne
county by which Sam Grissom, col
ored man, was shot in the neck. The
difficulty grew out of a chattlc mort
gage on W. Il. Grissoms stock, the
father Of the young man. a consta bic
named Eldridge, accompanied by a
man named Or, went to Grissom' S
home To serve replevin papers when
Sam Grissom iptcrfered and was shot
by Orr through the back part of the
neck. The colored man claims that
Orr also shot at his mother. Griss ON
is about twenty years old and of good
physique and will soon recover as the
wound Is not of a serious nature.
The man Red Buck who was killed
by Officers Duckworth. Shannon .and
others last week, has been positively
identified as Buck Weightman. lie
has been one of the boldest criminals
that was ever in the territory, having
been n boon companion of the Daltons,
Bill Doolin, Zip Wyatt and Tulsa
Jack, and has been on many raid
! with them. lie was one of the lead
ers in the Dover train robbery last
year. 1t was he and Younger Lewis
I and Joe Bccliham who robbed G. T..
Moves in Arapahoc last October. lie
had Noyes' fine gold watch on when
killed. Geo. Miller, his partner in the
last raid, took the watch of his dead
body and hid it in the dugout when
they were captured. Millers hand be-
ing shot OFF, he says he took the watch
of with his teeth and buried il in the
dugout with his feet Weightman
was the Slan taken for Doolin in the
fight with the Texas rangers when
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