The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-04
OKLAHOMA NEWS.
From the wichita Daily Eagle.

Is beng finished m gloss white and gold.
On May Temple Houston delivers the
opening address OF the Tennessee centennial
Judge Cunningham OF Woodward Is q
pole horse in the race for secretary Of the
territory.
Dennis Flynn just now Is firing 'man
packages Of sarden seeds out to his con-
stituents.
The Oklahoma City council is just a little
worse for quarre,ing than the oklahoma
legislature.
An attempt to'1sil stormy Jim" for
stealing a bottle Of mustard at Oklahoma
City failed.
Miss Minnie wrigh, OF Oklahoma county
has been adjudged insane and has been
gent to Norman.
Both Enid and Perry are after the peni-
tentiary. but Perry IS making a great deal
the more noise.
Cund.ff of Enid, who was confined in the
Norman sanitarium. has been let out. He
removed TO Illinois
Judge Hammock. who spent some time in
Oklahoma at woodward. died at Lebanon,
Tenn, the other day.
Harry St. John requested that he be
buried in olney, Ills. because his little girl
vas buried there.
An effort will be made to completely flll
the federal offices of Oklahoma with carpet
baggers. This is certain.
The chapla.ns of the Oklahoma legisls-
ture are attracting a good deal more at
tention than the members.
1t is claimed that c. N. Points Of Shaw
nee has a promise from Mark Hanna OF the
goyernorsh.p of Oklahoma.
The Enid Wave insists that all the roads
in Garfield county be burned OF. The roads
are the winter home OF the ch,nch-bugs.
The Ponca City Courier wants the present
legislature as soon as Il adjourns arrested
for securing money under false pretences.
A dispatch from Washington says that
Grover Cleveland will surely veto the fres
homes bill no matter how 1t comes to him.
AS John p st. John has offered $1,000 to
any one who will produce Harry alive,
Judge Pltzer has chance to make his for
tune.
1t has not been exI Ilalned yet why the
Garfield county people are SO anxious to
have another county named Bryan west
of them.
A section gang or the Choctaw Is made
up OF five brothers. The mother OF the
boys keeps a boarding house and boards
them all.
The cohctaw read gives mileage books to
patrons. After purchasing them. the pat
rons must 60 to the depot and exchange
mileage for trip ticket
Charlie Johnson was to be hanged at Ard
more today. but Judge Kilgore has sus-
pended his sentence waiting a decision from
the supreme court.
W. W. BIZ OF Pawnee claims that every
midnight a ghost appears at MS wood-p.le
and proceeds to cut enough to last him
through the following day.
Some OF the shacks on strip claims ars so
small that as soon as a mans back yard
gets dirty he picks up the shack and moves
Il 10 clean part OF the clam.
The Shawnee Capital calls on the legisla,
ture to sock It to the insurance companies
who are sucking the l.fe blood out OF the
business men of the territory"
Elmer Whitley of Red Moon was cutting
logs the other day. He got his hand in
the slit of log and the log held him pr.s,
oner for an hour. He suffered terribly.
Major Wh;tt.ngill of Enid dropped over
TO Guthrie the other day, and having moth
ing else to do, drafted bill naming Enid
as the location for the next penitsntiary.
The postoffice at Martha, Greer county,
was broken into the other night and every
thing, including the goods m the general
merchandise store of the postmaster, taken.
An Indian territory paper referred to a
man as 'Fweddy Smith" The wv was
the typesetter's fault, but Smith thought
he had been called a dude and clicked the
editor.
The Oklahoma City TimesJournal charges
that a son OF Regent Boles OF the Normal
school Is paid $50 a month for janitor work
and that he hires a colored man 20 do the
work for him for $50.
Oklahoma City TSmes-Journal: Some peo-
pie doubted ]. Ewing Prices statement
that he had been IN the Cuban army, but
stan correspondent Of the Scripps-McRea
league writing from the Cuban mountains
says that he visited the little printing Of
hce established by Maceo and there found
on the wall OF the cave in which the paper
is printed. the name Of J. Ewing Price.
Perry Enterprise: Eugene Ballard COM
pleted his filing upon sc q I-22-2w Saturday.
This Is the land over which ne and Jerry
Ogle have contested for the last three years
The local Office decided IN favor OF Ballard,
the commissioners recommended a division
OF the land. but Ogle took the case to the
secretary OF the interior who decided in IA
vor Of Ballard. Ogle got a rc-hear.ng, but
has finally lost and the filng OF Ballard or
dered allowed. This has been one OF the
most hotly contested lights in this district
Arkansas City Traveller: Yesterday after
noon the city marshal OF Ponca City tele-
graphed our officers to arrest William Bar
nett on his arrival in this city last night
The arrest was not made. as Barnett d,d
not come. He and his family passed
through the night before on the northbound
train. Barnett is the old one-legged soldier
who lived here prior TO the strip opening
and was quite well-known. The officers
did not know what he was wanted for.
Jerry Johnson. of the Kildare Journal,
gives I out cold that Corbett will lick Fitz.
therefore the fight might as well be stop
ped. He says: "Fitz has a small head.
Any time he is hit on the nose, the chin,
over the eye or on the ear he gets ratified.
Corbett Is so fast he cannot miss Fstz and
after two or three leads. the New Zealand
er will be fighting up in the air. As to
cEnching, II 4 comes TO that Fitzsmmons
will not be in II. Corbett will throw him
aside with greater ease than he did the
great Peter Jackson