The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-01-14
OKLAHOMA NEWS.
from the Wichita Daily Eagle

from the Wichita Daily Eagle.
In its prayer for statehood Oklahoma will
yet up that is has the population OF Rhode
Island.
| The North Enid Telegram speaks Of
poison being the cause 'of a dogs prema-
ture DEATH
A meeting of the lessees OF Oklahoma
school lands will be held in Guthrie a week
from tomorrow.
The legislature, which convenes in Okla
homa city a week from today, is the fourth
In the history OF Oklahoma.
Callahan, II he Is able. will leave for
Washington on Feb. Is. But that interests
no one. Bryan Is not president.
L. II. Stone has long exhaustive and In
teresting letter on cotton in the last edi-
ton of the Pond Creek Vidette.
1t Is now said that Keaton. the judge
whom Cleveland appointed just before the
election. will never be confirmed.
The country school houses and churches
In Oklahoma were nearly all the scenes Of
watch parties New Years eve.
The girls of Oklahoma bid fair to grow
Into a hundred Mrs. Leases. Up to date
all the prizes in otarory have been by girls
over boys.
Jerry johnson has discovered that Free
Homes originated in England when Queen
Anne and King william gave pioneers
land grants.
The present low price OF cotton in Okla
homa Is due to the fact that the last pick
ing. which is dirty and bad and graded low,
Is coming in.
e. w. johnson OF the Norman university,
in his grafton on Education, the Bulwark
of Liberty" got second place in the terri
tor!al contest.
Last week there was an immense amount
by the statesmen using their annual passes
for the last time.
The oklahoman Of Oklahoma City says
firmly that Dennis Flynn's first choice for
governor is Joe McNeal, and his second
choice Governor Seay.
Coal Oil Sammy was Injured in a run
away at Pond Creek recently. Is he the
Eame coal oil man who four;shed in an
sarly day In Guthrie?
The Probate judge at Guthrie does a rush
ng business with men who come in from
the eastern country and meet their betroth-
I'd at the Guthrie depots.
The Shawnee Capital is backed by the
Oklahoma City Oklahoman in the declara-
ton that the clerkship In the legislature
At Tecumseh last week c. A. Dunn was
on trial for pract!c!ng medicine without
license, but the prosecutors couldn't make
he charge stick. Dunn won.
The Guthrie Capital recently published
cotton edition and has received compliments
rom the Hanover National and the Chase
Banks of New York City.
Those who are banking on having lots
N fun nf OF Glat1 N nlria-
.oma are not going to be disappointed. 1t
$ going to be woody from the word go.
Nunc pro tune predominated at the last
erm of court at End according to the
Wave and at the next term Quarantine
ines and contempts are to have a mono
,oly.
Curtis Jones, OF Guthrie, who has been
government scout since 1875 Will leave
or Cuba this week. He Is really going
md therein differs from the other Guthrie
Miss Phronia Eckes OF the Edmond Nor
nal won the territorial oratorical prize Her
ubject was Humanity Against Itself"
t was pess.mistic view of life. Were the !
Judges Populsts?
The FIT. Reno team IS still on deck not |
its recent defeat by the Ar |
iansas City Football club The Fort team |
laims that the referees decision at Ar
'ansas City beat them.
The Norman Transcript editor writes
rom Ohio that his Oklahoma mistletoe was |
.reatly admired along the way and that II |
car load OF m.stletoe could have been had |
t Chicago depot Christmas eve he could /
ave sold It for $500
The Oklahoma City Times journal does |
ot agree with the protest against the PEN |
tiles for non-payment OF taxes in Okla |
oma. This paper says that tax-paying !
an not be made easy and that the penal |
les are necessary and not extraordinarily |
The school board at Saltwater proposes I
o rent the third or attic story OF the new |
chool building TO the Masonic lodge; the |
odge TO fit up the room al an expense of |
500 to apply on rent; the lease to run for
We years. A good many of the tax-pay-
RS are kicking. They believe the district
III need all the room continually before
he expiration OF the five years
The editor of the Enid Wave saws that
'hen woman burns her finger she ties
up neatly TO keep II in good condition to
how TO her husband when he comes home
nd get sympathy. When a man burns
Is finger he cusses, kicks the stove up-
cts the table, cusses some more and for
cts all about 1t, The Wave concludes
hat one is love- the other busIenss.
1t has been decided in Pottawatomie coun
y that nursery must be paid for trees
Idered when they have been shipped. A
ursery company had an order for some
rees fIom a farmer He countermanded
he order but the company sent the trees.
he farmer refused to pay for the trees
to put them out. The court now de-
ides that he must pay for them.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Miss Nc
raw OF Blackwell, the young lady who
poke Lasea IN the elocut.onary contest
'uesdany night, is as brave as she IA bandN
ONE. All last summer she drove the mali
tage between Blackwell and the santa
e railroad, distance of fourteen miles
making the round trip each day. II is ru-
lored that she viii soon be married to a
blackwell pedsgogue