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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

THE genius OF invention has come to
the assistance of the hired man who
takes care of bicycles at places patron
lied by people who ride wheels. A
road-house near Chicago is provided
with mechanical improvement in
locks for wheel racks. To open the
lock one must drop a nickel in slot.
That releases key which the wheel
man takes out and leaves his wheel se-
cure. When the lock is unfastened a
clasp falls over the key, the wheel is
released and the nickel rolls out in the
hands of the wheelman. The hired
man is always standing by and seldom
fails to get the nickel.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

THE British house of commons is
making searching inquiry into the
alleged abuses of the money lending
system. One person who had borrowed
ssoc had repaid $500 and still owed
So AS. clerk with a salary of 81, 600
year was in the hands of "a money
lenders, having had to borrow from
one to pay off the other. The amount
OF salary this man retained was now
Sl75 year, and the time was coming
when he would not be able to pay the
interest on the accumulated debt of
s3,645, and would assuredly be dis
missed from his situation.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Minor Notes.

The ChikaslSia Valley Brick and
Tile works of Blackwell have 10000
brick finished for the new court house
at Newkirk.
Cheyenne Sunbeam, ]. w. Putnam,
wanted here for embezzlement, has
been arrested by United States Deputy
Marshal Banks in the Indian territory
During the month of May the Santa
Fe station at Ponca City did Sc, 3O3. AZ
of cash business. This is an excess of
any other montl. in the history of the
town.
Fhe Freedmen payment is TO be re-
sumed at Fort Gibson with Colonel ID.
NJ. Wisdom as paymaster, but how
soon the payment is TO commence has
not yet been learned.
McLoud Sunbeam: The alloting
agents are again at work in the Wichi-
ta reservation with instructions to
push the work to completion at once,
Notwithstanding the vigorous kicking
of tine Indians.
Ell Reno News: The latest whea I
story comes from Kay county where
the wheat is reported to be nine, feet
high and SO thick that a wash tub
would dance on its crest like cork on
lake of troubled waters.
Pond Creek News: While our friends
are catching so many fish weighing
from sixty pounds en- down, don't for
get IL You are owing us on subscription
that our family is not small and that
we like fish. Same as money to us
and answers for money for you.
C. l. Lookaround, Forest Antelope,
Solomon Bear Louise, Forest Matches,
Leonard Stoneroad, Sam b. Lariet,
Glover White Wolf and Walter Chief
Killer were the names of some of the
pupils from the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe schools who visited Oklaho ma
City recently.
Ponca City Courier: Oklahoma has
two educational institutions of which
she may well feel proud-the univer-
sity at Norman and the normal school
at, Edmond. Both. are remarkably
able schools for SO young territory to
possess and their influence will be a
power In this commonwealth.
The Choctaw Railroad shops at
Shawnee are almost completed. They
viii have a payroll of over s3. 900 per
week when in operation and with such
guaranty Of patronage the success Of
the town is assured.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

THE Women's club Of Des Moines,
Ia, has chartered the street ear system
OF that city and will operate 1t June
"a The club is the largest and most
aristocratic women's organization ir
Des Moines. and the enterprise is un-
dertaken as means TO assist in
raising a fund of $50, 900 to endow the
local home for the aged. The women
will put on the prettiest society girls fox
conductors, but will continue the serv.
ices OF the regular motormen. No trans
fers will be given during the day, and
IT is stated that no girl who cannot
make change correctly will be accepted
for service,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Foley Jury stin Out.

LIBEKTY. NO., June l2.-Tho fate of
William 5. Foley. the young Clay coun-
ty farmer who is charged with the
murder of his mother and sister, is
still undecided. The case went to the
jury at SEQ o'clock yesterday after
noon, but verdict has not yet been
agreed upon. At nine o'clock this
morning the jurymen asked TO be
brought into court, and the judge was
informed that the jury was hopelessly
divided. However, the judge ordered
them to be taken back TO deliberate.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Could Find Nome Better.

Choctaw News: Warren Jones who
left this country some time ago to
search for better country has return
ed and says that after travelling
through Mississippi, Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Illinois, Missouri and several
other states that he fonnd no place
that would begin to compare with
Oklahoma, and is now contentcd to
make his home here.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Canadian Record: Il. A. Buchanan,
postmaster and merchant, at Gage,
was killed by falling from stock car
He was standing on top of the car
watching the train men make coup
ling, when he suddenly pitched for
ward and fell head foremost on to the
track, his head striking tie and
breaking his neck. lie was dead when
picked up.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
A FIRE HORROR.
Over Hundred Lives Lost In a Burning
Chinese Theater at Tien Tsin.

Chinese Theater at Tien Tsin.
TACOMA, Wash, June ia terrible
disaster that resembles the Paris fire
in all its details is reported from Tien
Tsin, China, where over 100 people lost
their lives in an attempt to escape
from a burning death trap. A festival
was in progress in temple dedicated
TO the Queen of Heaven. All around
that building hung awnings and in
flammable materials were strung all
about. The place was crowded day
after day, and it was when the festiv-
tiles were at their height, with women
and children crowding the edifice to
the doors, that the fire broke out A
terrible panic ensued. Men and wom-
en- struggled for exits, trampling the
weaker and the children under foot.
The city is plunged into grief. and mu-
nicipal investigation will follow.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
DURRANT REPRIEvEO.
The Hanging Delayed Until July to Settle
Federal Courts Rights.

SAN Francisco, June 1l.-Theodore
Durrant, the murderer of Blanche La
mont was reprieved yesterday. Gov.
Budd decided upon this course in order
to settle the question of the rights of the
federal courts to interfere in the exc
cution of sentence imposed by the
state court He has named July as
the day on which the sentence shall be
carried out The object of the reprieve,
as the Encouragement explained last
night, is to avoid the necessity of re.
sentencing the convicted man.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
COORDINATE WITH JUDICIARY.
Judge Decides the Governor Is Not Amena-
bic to the Courts.

"uHSt DeCfuts tHt UONtrhOr Is NOT Amena-
bic to the Courts.
MINNEAroLIs, Mimi, June 11.-Judge
Simpson, of the district bench, handed
down an opinion that while it was the
duty OF the governor to respond to the
grand jury's subpoena and to produce
such papers as it required, he
could"not be compelled to do so by
the Judiciary branch of the state
government. which is only coordinate
with and not superior to the exec
utive. The governor is exempt from
judicial process while in discharge of
his duties and he alone is judge of
when such process. would interfere
with such duties. He is amenable to
the Legislature alone, which may i'm,
peach him for violation of duty.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
A Cyclone in southern Minnesota.

MASON CITY, Ia, June 1l.-At $50
last night cyclone struck northwest
of Lyle, Mimi, taking southeastern
ly course. The pathway of the storm
was about half mile in width. All
telegraph lines north are knocked
down and box cars on sidings were
smashed into kindling. A railroad
operator at Mason city reported at mid
night that 20 houses were demolished
in Lyle, one man killed outright and
90 others in iured
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Broker Chapman's sentence Expires.

WASHINGTON, June l2.-Broker Sill
verton K. Chapman spent the final
night of his term in the district Jail
last night His sentence expired at
midnight, but according TO custom he
''was allowed to remain" till this
morning. He accepted this final
courtesy at the hands of Warden
Woodward laughingly saying he
should be sorry to requite the hospital
ity he had received by seeming to
hurry off precipitately.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
THE RUIZ CASE.
The United States VIII Claim an Indemnity
of s15O,OOO for His Death.

WASHINGTON, June 11.-Special Com
missioner Calhoun and Assistant Sec
retary of State Day yesterday after
noon devoted some time to the Ruiz
case. The testimony does not show
how the American came to his death
1t does not show whether he was
struck on the head or in his delirium
hit his head against the door. The
wound might have been caused in
either way. The United States will
proceed to claim $3.50, ,oOe indemnity,
on the ground that Spain was respon-
sible for the death, no matter how
the injury received,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Are After TIE Thieves.

Kay County Democrat: For several
weeks the Santa Fe Railroad company
have had detectives in this county to
discover parties who have been taking
ties from the right-of-way. We are
informed that they have found them
at the claims of some of our prominent
farmers. whom they will prosecute in
the near future.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

SINCE the Raines law went into oper-
alton in New York there has been a
reduction in the number of saloons in
the state of 7,4S7. When the law went
into effect on April 30, 1895, there were
3S,437 licenses in force in the state, but
on November l, six months later, the
number had been reduced to 90. sos,
and the commissioner believes that
this year the number issued will not
exceed 26,0oO. The receipts for the
first six months under the law were
sii,oSs,3 1922, and, after deducting ex-
penses, the net receipts were SIC,
1872. Under the old law the net reve
nues for IL months were s2,9l9,593
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Guthrie Capital: Several weeks ago
while Guy Williams, of Osborne, was
visiting at Wellington. Kan, his hand
was cut on piece of glass. But little
attention was paid to the wound, but
in a few weeks it suddenly became
very painful and few days later lock-
jaw set in, from the effects of which
he died Mon day, after suffering terri
BILE agony.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
Ardmore Man Killed.

James Williams, editor of the Chron-
icle, vas shot and killed at Ardmore
on last Monday by Clarence b. Doug
las of Ardmore, an attorney and a
prominent republican. Both men were
of high standing and widely known.
The killing is The result of an attack
made on Douglas through the columns
of the Chronicle. Douglas is now in
TAIL.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Rev. DIR HOPKINS, of the First Con-
gregational church of Dubuque. Ia,
former opponen. of the sunday
newspaper. has become an advocate OF
ii. declaring his belief that changed
times have made it necessary. and that
it has become Ii permanent feature Of
the eommunity's life.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Attorney j. j. Houston of Perry who
has ascertained the nationality of the
citizens of Oklahoma, says that com
paratively that territory contains
more American born than any state in
the Union. He believes that the for
eign population of Oklahoma is not
more than 10 per cent. of the total.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
FAIR SERENADER SHOT.
bridegroom Deliberately Fires into a
Friendly Crowd, killing Miss Leona
Goodman.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, June 1l.-Miss
Leona Goodman, one of the most pop
ular society bellies of Dardanelle, was
killed in most shocking manner at
Rover, Ark, Wednesday night. The
county normal is being held at that
place, and large number of teachers
are in attendance. Wednesday night
a party of young men and women were
out serenading and went to a house
where young teacher named Lipp
was stopping. When awakened by the
serenaders Lipp deliberately fred
pistol shot into the serenading party
The bullet struck Miss Goodman in
the neck, causing instant death.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
shot nl. son-lp-Iau.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June l2.-Capt.
George A. Tillet a well-to-do farmer
residing near Riyerdale, Knox county,
shot and fatally wounded his son-in.
law, John Glenn, early this morning.
The trouble arose over Glenn's bad
treatment OF his daughter, girl about
Is wears old.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

ITS surprising how impracticable some
tery learned men are" "Yes: there's Prof.
Lingwist, for example. lie spent over ,alf
his life in acquiring huency in nine OF ten
different languages, and then went and mar
ried woman who never gave him chance
to get word in edgeways. Truth.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
A Mia.onrl GIrI Honored b, Cnrnen

COLUMBUS, Mo-, June l2.-Miss Lalla
Rook Rogers, graduate of the uni
versity of Missouri, has been awarded
scholarship In the school of philoso-
ply at Cornell university. She is the
first graduate Of Missouri university
To receive such honor
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
knights OF Honor onccrs Elec,ed.

ST. Louis, June 1s.-The supreme
lodge OF the knights of Honor elected
the following officers: Supreme die
tator, J. Warner Gobough, Philadel-
phia; reporter, Is. y. Nelson, ST. Louis;
treasurer. Joseph w. Branch. St Louis
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
OKLAHOMA NEWS.
Events of Interest Gathered From
Over the Territory.
Farmer. are Busy.

The Vernon Globe says that down in
Wilbarger county when a farmer
comes to town now he comes in u hur-
ry, gets what he wants, gets on his
horse and rushes out again. Every
thing is on the rush. They are har-
vesting big wheat crop down there.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

ENGLAND is giving far more atten-
tion than the United States TO horse
less carriages, the investment of capi-
tai in them in that country last year
amounting to s26. OOO. COO
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

ALEXANDRIA, Va, has raised the ban
which from the early days of the set
tlement made it unlawful to bring In
oysters between April and September.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

THE mineral and metal production
of the United States in 1895 was $751;
ss2, 7s2, an increase of SIS, 79l, ,2G4 over
the preceding year.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

FORTY experiment stations in Wis
consin are cultivating the sugar beet
this season and will compare results in
the fall
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

In Chicago during May there were
81 suicides, 100 deaths from violence
and total of 1,7o9 deaths from all
causes.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

A TORONTO company is building an
ocean liner which is expected to make
the trip between New York and Liver
pool in As hours.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

FORTY wheelmen stood up in row
in the Detroit, Mich. police court re-
Gently and paid fine of IS each for
scorchinp
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Taking Time by the Forelock .-'T have
just been at my husband to induce him to
buy me a sealskin jacket" What! in the,
spring. "Oh, it will be winter before I
worry him into doing it."--,Judy.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
A Gentle Hint.

Elderly Maiden-May ask you what your
name iss
Huber"
"A beautiful name! wish mine was like
it. t."-Flegende Blaetter.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
A Fierce Fight with Tramps.

WHITING, Ind, June 1L-A desper-
ate battle took place early yesterday
between eight tramps, who had taken
possession of Michigan Southern
freight house, and two police officers,
during which two of the tramps were
wounded. The tramps had refused to
vacate the building when requested to
do SO by the yard watchman, and when
the town officers arrived a fight en-
sued. The officers were finally forced
TO use their revolvers and succeeded in
capturing all of the tramps. The pres
ence of Lake Shore train gave rise to
rumors that hold-up had been at
tempted
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

The battlefield of Antietam, where
the bloodiest single days battle of the
war was fought, has j;lst been marked
by memorial monument dedicated by
the Hawkins Zouave association, com.
posed of the survivors of the Ninth
New York volunteers, to the 24O men
OF their regiment who fell In this
action. The monument is appropriate
ly placed where the regiment made its
last stand near the village of Sharps-
burg. II consists of a monolith 40 feet
long, said TO be the largest piece OF
granite ever quarried at Barre, VT,
which rests on foundation that
brings the total height up to 81 feet
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June li.-Yester-
day the steamer Lancasterian steamed
out of Boston harbor ON rs way to
Liverpool with load of cattle belong
ing ID +. c. Swift & Co. The unusual
thing about the sailing was the crowd
of ''cow-punchers" that went along.
1t was an extra large force and strange
ly mixed. Half Of them were the regu-
lar, ordinary, everyday -cow-punch-
ers." The other half was made up of
students, who are anxious TO go across
10 attend the queens jubilee. The
party Is made up of ~ Harvard men,
two Tech fellows, one Princeton man
and one Boston Latin school man.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

THE colonists that left San Francisco
about three months ago are not hav-
ing very smooth time. In a let
ter mailed by one Of the members of
the expedition ii was stated that the
colonists had been refused landing
on the Fiji islands by the governor and
were preparing TO sail for the samoan
group and the Solomons. Should they
be ordered away from there the vessel
was going TO be headed for home.
These colonists had been told of a
South sea island inhabited by husband
less women who wanted men sent to
the island and they bought a vessel
and set forth for the Adamless Eden.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17

Hoods pills are tasteless. mild, efiec-
IlOOA shso tive. All druggists. 25c.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17


and the two officials were seriously in
jured by clubs and stones.
BECAUSE his sweetheart, Mrs. Willie
Smith, would not marry him, Thomas
Hays shot and instantly killed her and
then blew out his own brains at Kan
sas City, Mo. Both were colored.
IN family quarrel at Shelby, Miss,
the other afternoon, Martin Pascoe. a
negro. killed Sandy and Fannie Donald
and then attempted suicide, but will
recover.
FIVE men were killed and four badly
injured by a collision on the Omaha
railroad near Hudson junction, Wis,
on the 9TH. The accident was caused
by the engineer and conductor of one
train disobeying orders.
Mrs. HoLcoNB, living on farm near
West Franklin, Ind, beheaded her
four-year-old daughter while laboring
under the delusion that God required
il of her. The woman was suffering
from cancer of the brain.
Wilhelmine, the young queen of Hol-
land, who has just got out of short
dresses, has become so willful and DISC
bedient that her mother, the queen re-
gent, finds IL less difficult 20 rule over
Holland than to govern her daughter
A ST. Louis man who died recently,
left a will in which there was a be-
quest of u, 900 To a young woman on
the score Of gratitude the document
read, because she declined TO marry
me and therefore enabled me TO spend
my last years happier"
Thirteen letters written by George
Washington over 100 years ago were
sold In London recently for e47o. This
Is an average Of about sl00 apiece.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS REOPEN.
Tuesday Marks the Resumption of
Their Work.

Examinations Of new pupils for ad-
mission to the Cretin high school were
held yesterday, and will be continued
tomorrow, the school opening Tuesday
morning. There are twenty new stu
dents at these examinations, most of
them coming from a distance, the rest
of the first year class being made up
of pupils from the different Catholic
parochial schools in the city.
The Cretin high school is under the
direction of the Christian Brothers,
and the course is the same as in the
public high schools with the omission
of the classics; instead a course of
bookkeeping, commercial law and bust
ness correspondence is taught. 1t will
open with an attendance of about 800,
the enrolment last year being $50. The
faculty consists of nine teachers, and
the personnel is practically the same
ar last year.
There are eleven Catholic parochial
schools in st. Paul. most of them be-
ing under the direction of the Sisters of
st. Joseph. The indications are that
the attendance will be much larger
this year than last, and the school
room capacity will be greatly taxed.
These schools will also open Tuesday
morning.
The annual retreat of the Catholic
clergy, which was in session this week
at ST. Thomas seminary, closed yes
terday The retreat was devoted en-
tirely to devotional services and about
$50 priests, from all over the diocese,
were present.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
DRIFTED TO WEALTH
F. w. COBB, FORMER HARVARD
STUDENT RETURNS FROM ALAS
KA WITH A FORTUNE.
HE HAD STRAGGLED THITHER.
WAS AT FORTY MILE WHEN
GEORGE CARMACK STRUCK 1T
ON BONANZA CREEK.
NO EXCITEMENT OF DISCOVERY.
Something About Dawson City and
the Mining Country by One
Who Has Been There.

"F. w. Cobb, Dawson City, N. w.
T." appears on the register of the
Merchants hotel, and it is becoming
evident that st. Paul is becoming the
stopping-off place for miners returning
from the Klondike to their homes in
the East. Mr.. Cobb is young man,
a native of Boston, and incidentally a
former student OF Harvard with the
proud distinction Of having played on
the Harvard foot ball team for several
seasons. His was a rowing DISPOSE
ton, however, wholly unsuited for the
law, for which profession he was
studying, and three years ago he drift
ed to the West. After working in San
Francisco for several months, he
struggled up to Alaska, along with
hundreds of others. Here he did a
little placer mining at various places,
and as he says, he also lowered
around the green cloth to a consid-
cradle extent. at which industry he
met with Indifferent success.
He was at Forty Mile when the news
came Of the discovery of the rich gold
fields on the Klondike. This was in
Carmack was looking around for a To-
cation for a saw mill, and in throwing
up shovel of gravel, saw the glitter
Of innumerable specks of. gold. Hard
ly daring to believe the evidences of
his own eyes, he called to two men
working with him, close by, and they
were equally amazed at the wonderful
sight. In eight days they washed out
$1,000 worth of dust and then went to
Forty Mile and reported their rich
find, but the people there would not be-
lieve them until they showed the dust.
Even then they were very liesurely
about making any haste to the new
discovery; so many Eel Dorados" had
been reported in years past that they
did not want to be fooled again. AS
Mr.. Cobb says:
What is now known as the great
Alondike rush began as gently as the
= first snow storm of fall. First there