The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-08-19

neighbors Of 'he Morleys. with whom
they have had trouble over their ranch
boundaries
THE report having been published
that the general land Office would soon
issue maps Of Alaska. showing the lat
est surveys and explorations Of the
gold regions, that Office has been
flooded with letters requesting copies
Of the maps As IL will be impossible
TO prepare the maps for several
months. the requests cannot be
granted.
A SWEEPING and far reaching injunc.
tion was issued on the 18th in the coal
miners strike In the Pittsburgh. Pa,
district which tended TO make the sit
uation strained one. Judge Collier
granted a preliminary Injunction re-
straining the defendants from encamp-
ing in proximity TO the mines and
houses of the miners for the purpose. by
intimation and opprobrions words. of
preventing the miners of the plaintiff
from working. IL further restrained
the defendants from inducing or cogn-
pelling any miner TO quit work
FIRE in ST. Louis wrecked the two
top floors Of the seven-story building
occupied by the Enterprise Brass Co,
causing SO. 900 loss.
INFLUENCED by strong protest from
both the politicians and business men
Of the northwest portion of the Do
minion. the Canadian government has
decided to abandon its scheme TO force
miners of the placer regions of the
II 20. ..f =.
per cent on all gold taken out there.
BURGLARS entered the post Office at
Republic, o., blew the safe open and
secured nearly sl00. Postmaster Mel
ber was securely bound in his room be-
fore an entrance was effected to the
office.
AT Forest Home, Tex. a difficulty
occurred between Jo Hicks, on the one
side, and j. II. Meadows and Mai. Wat
son. on the other, in which Meadows
was shot and instantly killed and Wat
son mortally wounded.
THk elevator at Maquon. ILL.,, CON
tanning large amount of grain, was
totally destroyed by fire attributed
10 tramps.
MANY eastern "tenderfeetr who
reported as being stranded at Tacoma,
Wash, and elsewhere on the coast.
CAPT. MoBTESsES, of the bark
Ansgar, on his arrival at Omega, Rus
sia, stated that he passed, about two
days journey east of North Cape, a
balloon which had collapsed from loss
Of gas II was feared the balloon
belonged TO Andree, the arctic ex-
plorer.
The post Office department is watch
ing the effect of letter boxes on street
ears in Des Moines, la. and il the ex-
pertinent is successful il will be tried
in other cities where the same condi-
tions prevail.
NOTICES were posted about Clayton,
\. NJ, warning all negroes to leave
The town before August Is and nearly
all of them made preparations to get
away by the time.
Two more cases of men afflicted with
anthrax have come TO the attention of
Sioux City, Ia, physicians. The men,
a butcher and dairyman, were infect
I'd through skinning diseased cattle.
A GRADING company at work near
Valley, Neb., exhumed 10 skeletons re-
emily, five being women. Residents
1f the locality could not account for
them being there nor recall any bury
ing ground as having been located at
the place. The bodies were not buried
In any coffins.
WHILE on his way to serve warrants
On charges of "wildcatting," Dink
Wharton, deputy sheriff, in Cleburne
county, Ala, was assassinated from
the bushes. His body was literally
filed with lead.
j. NJ. TRAUT was murdered at his
home in Ryan, |. T., by some unknown
one who stole upon him while he lay
upon the floor asleep and fired two
shots into his brain. Traut was des-
perate character and had many enc
mies.
WHILE Clifford Chissum was being
lowered into a well at Altus, Ok, the
rope broke and he fell 70 the bottom
and was fatally injured.
AT Houston, Tex, Esseck White was
taken from Jail by a mob and hanged
and his companion, Armas Phillips,
narrowly escaped the fury of the
lynchers. The two had attempted a
criminal assault upon two young
women.
LEADERS in Chinese mission work at
San Francisco We're recently circulat-
ing a petition TO be sent TO President
Mckinley asking him TO get congress
10 appoint a commission to investigate
the horrors of human slavery IN that
city. 1t was said that over 1000 Chi.
nese women were bought and sold as
chattels and kept in involuntary servi-
tude.
A NEGRO attempted TO assault a IL
year-old girl near Edwardsville, Ala,
but she screamed and got away. A
short time after armed men with dogs
were after the fiend. When they re-
turned they said they had lost the
negro, intimating that he never would
be found alive.
RoBBERs entered the house of Philip
and John Devo, aged brothers, in Cam
bria county, Pa, bound and gagged
them and a SO-year-old nephew and
ransacked the house. Failing to find
any money they burned the feet of the
three with lighted sticks and knocked
out most of the young mans teeth
with a revolver.
WORK is being pushed in a vigorous
manner AT the Brooklyn navy yard on
all the government vessels which are
undergoing repairs, but the officials
deny that there is any special signif-
canoe in the fact.
ACCORDING TO the National Apple