The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-05
THE HETERRITORIES.

Bishop Ninde presided at the Okla
homa conference of Methodists in
Guthrie last week.
Dynamite Dick is supposed to be at
the head of the outlaws who held up
the town of Carney.
Al Marietta, l. T., Wednesday, a
shoot ting occurred between win Sea-
ton and Horace Lansford, in which The
latter met his death
There is n big immigration on from
Texas To Custer and Washita counties.
Both OF these counties have steadily
grown in population in the last two
years,
VIM. X. Vanderbilt has been visiting
in the Wichita reservation but the av-
erage Indian treated him with as much
rontemp. as he would man worth
dfty cents.
Somebody tried TO assassinate
Lord" Brooks near Tonawa. Brooks
ge,s an annuity of $4,000 u year from
England. Brooks and his wife both
fired into the gnng and brought one
man named Graham" down.
The sportsmen of OlSlahama City
have organized to protect the game.
People are getting so they forget that
there is "a game law and let the wheels
of their wagons run over the qrails
and prairie chicken while out gather
ing straw berries. Wichita Eagle.
Advces received at Oklahoma City
from nearly every section OF the
territory represents the acreage of
wheat planted this fall as nearly one
third greater than last year, while the
acreage that is being prepared for
next seasons cotton is fully fifty per
cent larger than it was this year.
II. z. Sample, making his first run
on that division, was run over and
killed by The Santa Fe freight train at
Oklahoma City. Three cars ran over
him cutting off both legs and arms
! and smashing his head in fearful
manner. He was a single man, 25
years of age and son of DIR. Sample
of Topeka, Kansas
Officers of Noble, Pawnee and Payne
counties report that over ifty horses
have been stolen the past week. Buck
Stapleton, one OF the supposed horse
thieves WIS arrested near Ralston,
Friday. There was much talk of
lynching. Parties arriving from Paw
nee report that there are from 60 to
so horses tied out in the Arkansas
swamps.
Two drummers representing Louis
vile and Cincinnati houses report that
they were held up by five masked men
between Gray Horse, Usage Nation,
aud SkyatoolS, last week, and relieved
of nearly 81 ZOO, their watches and
other valuabIes. The robbers were
hiding in swamp. The drummers
were Johu p. Bagwell and L. NJ. Dem
man.
Jasper Wilson of Shawnee, n promi-
nent citizen, was in IA barber shop get
ling shaved, when DR.. Mahren stepped
in. A political discussion arose during
which Wilson spoke lightly of McKin-
ley. Mahren flew into "a rage and
approaching the chair in which
Wilson was seated dashed a bottle of
vitriol into his face. Wilson was COM
pletely blinded. The skin dropped
from his face in patches, and little
Mahren left town while a mob was
forming to lynch him.
The Pottawatom e Indians Mt tribal
meeting held last week employed at
torneys to go to Washington AS soon
as congress meets and secure the pas
sage of an act giving them titles to the
allotted lands upon which they are
now residing. At present the lands
are held in trust by the government
and the Indians cannot sell nor even
rent without the approval OF the In
terror department. They declare that
they are as able to transac. business
for themselves as their white neigh
bors and do not want guardians. The
passage of his act would be of great
benefit to the territory, as at present
the IDdian lands cannot be taxed and
the en- tire burden falls on the white
settlers.