The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1897-02-06

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lots brought an average Of $40 apiece.
When the Wichita mountains are fn.
ally thrown open TO settlement miner
nj will be discovered. There Is no
doubt of this.
An Oklahoma Judge has made rule
that only parties and witnesses con-
cerned may hear the tales Of woe told
In divorce trials.
Whatever became of the trial Of the
men who engaged in the only lynch
ing Oklahoma ever had--;he one at
watonga last September?
The funeral Of General Thomas at
Oklahoma was military. Bishop Brooks
preached the funeral sermon. The re-
mains were sent 10 Maine.
Another hanging will take place in
Oklahoma on February H.. Charles
Johnson will be the one to go aloft
conyicted Of criminal assault
Mulhall has another juicy sensation
NiICiVb' ~ PuHtOt
been preaching temperance some mem
bcrs OF his flock have been led astray
by villains.
The O. X. hotel and a grocery store
were burned at Edmond on the 25th.
Tho barrels OF salt water which were
kept on hand saved the town from be-
ng swept away.
Norman man has given up n good,
steady job as a railroad section fore
man and adopted the uncertain avoca-
tion as nm evangelist. lie says the
Lord called" him.
Tho Oklahoma clerk who has two
girls and wants to go home from
church with both of them res Lies how
member Of the Legislature feels as he
looks Mt his anti-railroad bill and his
annual pass.
There are ten nice girls 70 every
boy in Oklahoma and there are about
n thousand nice girls TO very nice boy.
In fact, we know Of no nice boys. Sure
enough boys are tough and nasty.
Good boys are sissies.
The latest assault on Kansas comes
from Oklahoma. An Oklahoma man
has discovered that Kansas man
without knowing 1t married his own
sister and the two had nine children,
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A Logan county farmer and stock
raiser SAYS he has spent enough money
for cigars TO buy the best farm in the
county. lie farther says he does not
regret II because he had had more
pleasure out of H. than the best farm In
the county was worth.
| II Is we'll known fact that rail.
road man with one or more fingers of
can throw higher dice than any one
else. but his luck does not end here
There Is slot machine in an Oklahoma
billiard hall, and railroad man with
three fingers and thumb of bucked
IL recently and won every cent there
was In II.
A Logan county jay bought som,
candy and some strychnine and pu
them in the same pocket, the candy
loose. The strychnine paper broke
and as he rode home he ate the candy
wondering what made it SO bitter
The strangest part Of the story is tina
the Lord had future use for him an,
permitted him to live.
A Santa Fe clerk who desires to b
unknown, contributes the following I,
u prominent newspaper: "Widows arr
popular because they have none of tn,
kittenish ways common to girls. Th
startled fawn and the kitten busines
is greatly ovcrdonc by girls Widow
have lots OF common sense that mel
admire. II mouse appears in from
of widow she grabs poker an'
smashes it, while girl will scream
and possibly faint, although she is m
more afraid Of mouse than widow.
The national senate investigating
committee recommends the removal O
Colonel Freeman, Usage Agent. an,
severely criticises him Cor the suppres
sion of the wah-Sha-Shc News, whic
was published at the agency. Tn
News criticised Colonel Freeman, wh
got even by suppressing the paper
The editor was not suppressed, how
ever, but went after Freeman's seal
and il is now within his grasp.
newspaper which engages in a jus
cause always wins against insolenc
and tyrannical officials.
Secretary Francis sent to the scnat
, at Washington, Jan, ~, memorand
/, um of agreement between the DAVE
Indian Territory commission and th
, Choctaw tribe Of Indians, IN which th
/. Indians agree to the division of thei
). land in severaltv among themselve'
a The agreement is incomplete, owing I
, the fact that the Chickasaws own join
, ly with the Choctaws, and they hay
I. not agreed to the division. The con
. mission reports, however, that it Ia
/. been in conference with the represe
p tatives of the Chickasaws, and that Il
q latter failed to sign only because a
thority had not gone SO far.
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