The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1897-02-06
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OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
Oklahoma City 10 the victim Of band
Of thieves who enter rooms In the day
time.
There Is a petroleum war on In Med
ford The price Is now down to ten
cents.
A Ponca City spiritunlist has recciy-
d . long communication from Antonio
Macco.
The most interesting men in the Ok
lahoma legislature appear to be the
chaplains
The Chickasaws who go to Washing
ton to fight the Choctaw treaty get
$500 each.
All nor. .citisen doctors of the Chick
ssaw nation must pay Is for permit
topractice.
II Ia generally printed In Oklahoma
that the soft fall of wet snow saved
the wheat crop.
Sid Clarke 10 now in Washington. lie
will remain there during the inaugara-
tion ceremonies
Rose, the chairman Of the judiciary
COMMITTEES OF the house used to prac-
tice law In Wellington.
A petition 10 being circulated in Day
county asking the legislature to add
half Of that county TO Woodward coun-
" and half 10 Roger Mills
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal
thinks that the Legislature Of Oklaho-
ma, Kansas and Texas should act to-
Cethcr for freight rates to the Gulf.
That IL fne !dsa and should be push
ed.
Platt in his speech against the free
homes bill IN congress said 1t had been
passed solely because Of the persistency
Of the Oklahoma delegate; not because
the people Of Oklahoma wanted II par
ticularly.
There 10 some doubt In the territory
as TO just what has become Of the free
homes bill. II is now on the house
calendar. II calls for an extra appro.
priation over that originally passed by
the house. Accordingly IL will have to
pass the house again. The trouble will
be to get II of the calendar.
Lee Killisn, alias Elisha Barnes, was
arrested on the cath at Joplin, Mo-
He IL the last member OF the Dalton
gang, and is wanted at Cofeyville and
Guthrie, for Jail breaking and robbery
Killian was ono Of the seventeen pris-
oners who escaped from the federal
Jail with Bill Doolin last July.
George T. Nicholson Of tho Santa Fe
IL young man. Recently conduc-
tor after looking him and his pass over
telegrsphed TO headquarters: "Young
Nicholson is abroad using his fathers
pass Shall take II up?" The answer
came: There Is only one Nicholson.
You have him. Leave him and his pass
alone"
Hundreds OF Eastern people who Sc
cured Oklahoma divorces slipped out
of the territory without paying the
costs. A section Of Oklahoma law,
little known, provides that no divorce
granted In the territory shall be valid
unless the costs are paid. Hundreds
Of such decrees on the court records
will soon be cancelled. A majority OF
the parties have since been married
and = cancellation will leave then
guilty Of bigsmy and liable to crimina
prosecution.
The Guthrie Daily Leader says: 1.-THE
amount Of thieving in Guthrie is simply
appsliug. To all appearances there Il
IN organized gang Of young thieves In
the city, who make practice of steal
ing household and Office fittings ant
ornaments and putting them In pawn
The city council should pass m ordi
nance requiring pawnbrokers TO turr
In to the police list daily, showing
the goods purchased by them and b,
whom sold. Thus check could b'
put on the thieves and the nefariou
practice eventually broken up
II Job had known the followin,
says an exchange, perhaps the recor,
of his patience would have been los
70 postcrity: The yolk of an egl
made into plaster Of honey and Hou
of about the consistency of mustar,
paste, gives speedy relief to on
afiicted with boils. The white. use,
as coating for scalds and burns ex
cludes the air which SO aggravstes tn
sufferings of burned person. II
softer than collodion, therefore better
and IL always at hand. II is NOR
soothing than the once popular swee
oil and cotton. The white beaten wit
sugar, 10 invaluable in bronchial nj
fections, especially in hoarsenes'
when = little lemon juice may be ad
ded with good results Cidar vinega
may be substituted for the lemon juic
when the latter Is not available.
The Norman Oil Mill Co. says that
will be able to declare q dividend {
from 80 to 10 per cent on their stoc
this season. II has had . six month
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