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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
THE OFFICIAL TIME.
1t Was Carried by the General and
Had to he Recognized
as Such.

The necessity that there shall be only one
man who "has the say" in military com.
mand is thoroughly recognizedin the Uaited
States army. A story is told OF Gen Shat
ter, commander of the American expedition
ary force for the invasion of Cuba, which H.
lustrates the punctilio of the regulars in this
regard.
AT certain frontier post at which Shafter,
who then held an inferior rank, was com.
mander many years ago, a discussion arose
among several officers as to the exact time
of day. A captain, with his watch in his
hand, said:
1T is now exactly three o'clock"
"Oh, no, said lieutenant, "by my time
it's eight minutes past three"
A third officer drew his watch out of his
pocket. 81 know my time is exactly right, "
he said, "and my watch says two minutes
past three"
At this juncture Maj Shafter looked at
his silver watch.
Il don't know what your watches say, he
remarked, but | wish you to understand
that in this command it is five minutes past
three"
Then the young officers remembered that
the authority OF the commanding officer ex-
tended even to the time OF day.-Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


FIVE memb bers of the family of Green
Harris at Odin. Ill, were poisoned by
some unknown poison. The deadly
drug was in the food at dinner Mrs
Green Harris and three children and
her mother, Mrs. Hankin, all partook
of the meal and were all taken sick.
At night they were reported out OF
danger.
FOREST fires were burning over Wis
consin on the Goth. At Cumberland
half the city was destroyed, five chill
dren were burned TO death and u large
sawmill WIS burned, throwing many
men out of employment Sixteen farm
houses were destroyed at Rice Lake
and large portion of the town of
Clear Lake was burned. Almena and
PoslSin, two small towns, were report
ed wiped out entirely and much dam
age was done at other places.
JEREMIAH CASEY, u lineman for the
Bell Telephone company at St Louis,
was shocked TO death the other after
noon. While standing at the foot of a
pole reeliug some old wires cut from
the cross arms the one which he was
handling musthave crossed live high
tension circuit, fos suddenly he gave a
shrek and fell. His partner quickly
cut the wire, but could not revive him.
MANY cherry trees at Alhambra, H.,
have recently burst into bloom for the
second time this year.
A FIRR on the farm of John Liebel,
near Fairfax, Mimi, burned his barn,
granary, three horses, large amount
of grain and his two small children,
who, il was thought, had started the
fire.
REV. G. L. MORRISON, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Pan
handle City, Tex, was found guilty of
numbering his wife by giving her
strychnine and his sentence fixed at
death. Morrison became infatuated
with Topeka, Kan, girl and put his
wife out OF the way in order that he
might marry her.
A TORNADO struck Merriton, Ont, on
the Goth, killing Ave persons aod in
juring Others. Many buildings were
unroofed. including the public school.
A DISPATCH from Asbury Park, n. j.,
said that the Corbe Mccoy fight is off.
The big hall at Kansas City, Mo,
win be called Convention hall, s,els
votes being east for that name, 3,Ss2
for Harvest hall, 1,l67 for Agricultural
hall and l64 for Industrial hall. As
there were IL, 93l votes cast and each
vote was accompanied by 10 cents, /,
netted the directors 81, eos 10.
JOHN PERRY, of Kansas City, Mo
has given S25, 900 TO the boy orphans
home in Westport for the purpose OF
erecting a new building ON the tract
now occupied by the home. He ha,
done this in memory OF his wife ant
four children, who were drowned by
the sinking of the French steamer Ii
Bourgogne.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

MICHAEL MULHALI., the noted English
statistician, has taken up the subject
of illiteracy and by a careful re-
search into the matter he has recent
ly compiled data showing the degree
of illiteracy which exists among differ
ent nationalities as follows: Sweden
and Norway, per cent; Germany, A
per cent; Switzerland, 8 per cent
Scotland, per cent; England, per
cent; United States, Is per cent; Hol-
land, IA per cent; France, Is per cent
Belgium, 20 per cent; Ireland, 20 per
cent; Austria, As per cent; Italy, 90
per cent; Spain, 72 per cent, and Rus
sia, IS per cent.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

Ell Reno Globe: The big cotton com
press fred up Tuesday morning and
the familiar roar of the exhaust steam
from the big cylinder as each bale of
cotton is compressed, could be heard
all over the city. A train load of cot
ton arrived from north Texas and the
seasons work has begun in earnest.
Last year Ell Reno's cotton compress
handled over 80, 900 bales and started
month later than it has this year.
1t is a big institution and makes Ell
Reno headquarters for cotton buyers
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

The fall term of the district court at
Enid opened Monday. The case of the
Territory VS.. Crandavv and Drury for
the murder of John w. Mccoy near
Shaner, last February, will probably
consume the greater portion of the
term. The defendants demanded sepa-
rate trials and Drury is now on trial
The Territory is introducing testimony
which tends to show that Drury plan
ned and assisted in killing Mccoy.
Something over 200 witnesses have
been sub p1nad in this trial.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

SURGEON GENERAL STERNBERG re-
Gently appointed a commission of army
surgeons to investigate the cause of
typhoid fever in the camps. In its re-
port it laid the blame for the preva-
lence of the fever in the camps on the
common house fly. The surgeons de-
clarca that the flies fed off the fecal
matter from the hospitals, picked up
on their six hairy little feet infinitesi-
NAL particles containing the germs of
typhoid fever, and then promenaded
over the hard tack and bacon and be-
longings of the soldiers, depositing
these germs, which innoculated large
numbers of the soldiers.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13


with DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie. He coaxed his granddaughter to get
him a box of the pills, After that box had
been used he secured another. In three
weeks he began to feel little life in his arm;
at the end OF four he could move his fingers;
at the end of two months he could walk, and
in three months he could shave himself with
the injured hand.
As he told his story in the Herald office,
he looked the perfect picture of health. He
carries a box Of the pills in his pocket and
whenever he does not feel just right he
takes them. They cured hip after doctors
had given him up, and his death was daily
expected.
All the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves are contained, in a condensed
form, in DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. They are an unfaiing specific for
such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatca, neural,
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after
effects of la grippe, palpitation Of the heart,
pale and sallow compilations, all forms OF
weakness either in male or female.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

THE expectation that congress will
increase the regular army to 100, 900
men is one reason why the war depart
ment authorities are not very strongly
antagonizing the movement all over
the country for the release of the vol
unteers II 40, 900 OF the volunteers are
allowed to go within the next six
weeks or so, u large number of the
general officers will also have to be
discharged, for the reason that they
will be without commands, but an in
crease in the regular army TO 100, 900
would make room for those volun-
teer officers who have made the best
records during the war.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Indian Woman Lawyer.

Duncan Eagle; There is only one
Indian woman who is practicing law
in the United States. Sac is Miss
Laura Lykins, pretty half-blood
Shawnee woman. She graduated
from the law department OF the Car
Isle, Pa, Indian school in June last
and then went to Oklahoma City, where
she has beer admitted to the bar aud
is very popular. She is % years old.
She was born on the Shawnee reserva-
ton in Kansas. Her father was a
brother of Bluejacket, the famous old
Indian chief, who 6ied last winter.
Her mo lher was a white woman and
her maiden name was Lykins.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

A CREAMERY company at Chicago has
obtained patents for a substitute egg,
or egg powder. For some time the Of
ficials of the company have been MAX
ing experiments with one of the by
products of milk. They feel confident
they have obtained a natural food
product which has practically all the
qualities that have hitherto made
fresh eggs indispensable in the hands
of the housewife. More than that, it
is claimed the new.product has all the
nutritive qualities of eggs and these
in double the ratio they are found in
the yolk of the egg itself.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

TO the governors of all the states in
the union by Ferdinand w. Peck, the
United States commissioner to the
Paris exposition, asking them to des-
ignate, by official proclamation, octo-
ber 10 as Lafayette day" in the pub
lie schools, for the purpose of holding
exercises appropriate to the occasion
and telling the rising generation of
the debt of gratitude we owe to the
French general for his assistance in
our struggle for liberty and collecting
funds for raising and dedicating n
monument over his grave in the GENE.
terry at Paris on July 4, 1900.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Port CIbson 10 be Rs.oeeupied.

1t is now confidently asserted that
the old military post at Fort Gibson
viii be re-oecupied, and by more troops
than ever before. Since il has been
decided to increase the United States
army to 100, 600 all good points in the
country for military barracks will be
utilized. That troops will be stationed
in this territory there Is no doubt, and
hat Fort Gibson is the best point is
shown from the fact that it was
selected for fort when the govern
ment had the whole unobsructed ter
ritory 10 select from.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

ACCORDING to the report for the
year ended June 80, 1898, of John Il.
Wilkie, 2hief of the secret service
division of the United States treasury
department, out of the 705 arrests
made during that time by the division,
chiefly for counterfeiting, GO were
made In Missouri, numbering more
than those made in any other state or
territory of the union. Two arrests
were made in Kansas aud only one in
Ol<lahomn
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Internal Revenue District Changed.

Information has been received by
United States Deputy Collector How
ard Of FL Reno that the department
had made changes in hls Territory.
That part of southern Kansas. which
was a part of his district, has been
added TO the Kansas district, and all
of Indian Territory has been added to
that which he now has in Oklahoma
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Farmers are Busy Putting In whea,

Many Oklahoma farmers have their
wheat in the ground, while others are
busy finishing up their drilling. The
acreage this son will be large
much larger than that of last year.
The ground is said to be in first class
condition.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

Ira Hamilton, residing in Logan
county, has lost five horses by dea tn
aud it is estimated that nearly 100
horses have died in this particular To-
caliry in the past month. 1t has been
suggested that il may have resulted
from poison of some kind in the grass
pom which they feed The veterinary
surgeon at Stilwstcr has the brains Of
two horses now uuder examination.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD.
From the Herald, watertown. N. Y.

John Young, of lie Roy, n. Y, is 70 years
old, and is well known in that and neghbor-
ing towns. While putting some weather
boards on a barn, standing on a scaffold
twenty-five feet from the ground, he felt
dizzy, lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The side of his face, arm and one entire side
of his body, on which he struck, were badly
bruised Picked up and carried to the
house, he was under doctors care for sew.
eral weeks. The doctor finally came to the
conclusion that his patient had received a
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
What Woodward Can Grow.

Woodward News: Martin Thompson
brought to this Office this week, two
onions raised from seed on his place
about three miles down the river from
Woodward. The largest measured IA
inches in circumference and weighed
an even pound, the other was not quite
so large and weighed IA ounces.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY recently wrote
n letter indorsing the plan to set apart
October 10 in the public schools of
America as Lafayette day." when
pupils viii be asked TO contribute
funds to help build the monument to
LAFAYETTE.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Preparing the Case.

First Lawyer-Each witness gives differ
snt account of the accident.
Second Lawyer-les if we put them all
On the stand, the jury may think our client
net with three or four accidents.-Puck.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

AccoRDrNe TO the latest available
statistics, the United States this year
canned 4,5OO, 900 cases of tomatoes. OF
this Missouri contributed 100, 900 cases.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
No Cause for Jealousy.

Mrs. Benham-Don't you really care any.
thing about mother?
Benbam-Well, not enough to make you
jealous.-N. Y. Journal
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
Not Wanted,

Captsin-I can get great attraction for
our ball nine. A pitcher with a wooden leg.
Manager-Nope. 1t won't do. We don't
Date.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

CHAIRMAN HULL, of the house mill
tary committee, will introduce a bill
Mt the next session of congress TO in
crease the regular army to 100, 600 men.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

THE French wheat crop is estimated
to be the largest since 1874 and will
render that country independent of
importations from the United States.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

john HAMMcK, a farmer of Barbour
county. w. Va, is said to have discov-
cred the lost art of Egyptian embalm'
inp
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

SECRETARY WILSON, of the depart
ment of agriculture, recently gave his
views concerning the statement of
Prof. CroolIe, the English scientist
that the world is entering upon a
wheat famine that will amount TO a
panic in 1891 and that there were no
more wheatla lands in the United States.
The secretary said let wheat sell ct so
cents a bushel and the world would
soon see how quickly land now used in
growing corn and other grains would
be converted into wheat land; make it
worth the while for farmers to grow
wheat and there was practically no
limit to the amount we could grow.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

2 I roke of
analysis
and was be-
yond medi-
cal aid. He
could not
ussone arm,
or turn over
in bed.
One day,
while lying
on the bed,
he read of a
case some
thing like
his having
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

AFTER $4,000 tests by the best educa-
tors in America, IL has been absolutely
demonstrated that the length of time
that child six years OF age can con-
centrato its mind does not exceed
seven minutes; and that all efforts to
confine its attention upor one subject
beyond this limit are worse than use
less This power of concentration in
creases slowly; at the age of eight a
child's attention may be easily held
ten minutes At the age of l2 his
mind should not be riyeted upon one
subject longer than II minutes The
brain of child is always most active
between $50 and 1850 in the morning.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-13

A BIe canal project, which has been
talked about in Texas for some years,
has again been revived. The idea was
to dig a ship canal from some point on
the Mississippi river across the inter
vening country, connecting river with
river and using the rivers as far as
practicable, terminating the canal in
eastern Texas, and thereby obtaining
an inland waterway from the Gulf of
Mexico to Lake Michigan, j. Jansen,
formerly of the army of Norway, who
first suggested a canal ON the'west
side of the Mississippi river, connect
ing Galveston with Chicago. said that
the canal could be built for $3.50, 600, 600
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30
PERsONALLY-CoNDUCTED
TOURS VIA PEUNSYL-
vANlA RAILROAD.
SEASON OF 1883.

The Peis ,nally Conducted Tourist
System of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is the final evolution Of
absolute perfection in railway travel,
the summit of the excellence Of mod
ern luxurious railway facilities.
For the season Of '9S and '99 it has
arranged for the following tours =
CALIFORNIA.-Tour will leave
New York, Philadelphia, Harrisburg,
and Pittsburg. February 9. Nine
teen days will be spent in California;.
The party will travel over the entire
route by the "Golden Gate Special" I"
the finest train that crosses the con
tinent.
FLORIDA.-Four tours 10 Jack.
sonville will leave New York and
Philadelphia Jsnusry "a, February
Z and 81, and March Z. The first
three of these admit Of a sojourn of
two weeks in the "FIowe,y State.
Tickets for the fourth tour will be
good to return by regular trains un-
til May 81, 1899.
Tickets for the above tours will he
sold frorn all principal points on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. For detail.
ed itineraries, giving rates and full
information, address Tnos. E Watt,
Passenger Agent Western District,
Pittsburg; B. Courla nder, Jr., Pas.
sengcr Agent Baltimore District
Baltimore 9. Studds, Passenger
Agent Southeastern District, Wash
ington; or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant
G neral Passenger Agent, Philadel
phia.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30
NOTICE.

Juniata County Pa, Aug. 10, 1895.
Notice is hereby given that an appli-
cation will be made to the General As
sembly at the Session of 1899, to pass a
Bill giving authority to the Pennsyl-
vania Canal Company to abandon the
public use of that portion of its canal
situate on the Juniata Division, from
the first lock east of Newton Hamilton,
including the river dam adjacent there
to, in Aiiffiin County, to the Juniata
Junction at Duncan's Island in Dauph-
i'm County, to be entitled "An Act to
authorize the Pennsylvania Canal Com
pany to abandon the public use of that
portion of its canal situate on the Juni-
alta Division, from the first lock east of
Newton Hamilton, including the river
dam adjacent thereto, in Mifilin County,
to the Juniata Junction, at Duncan s
Island in Dauphin County" Signed:
j. NJ Nelson, Frederick Espenschade,
J. p. Wickersham, w. II. Manbeck,
J. G. ellison, II. S. Scholl, H. c. Nc
Clellan. Oden &. Gortner, Geo. w.
Heck, w. S. Arbogast, Daniel Panne-
baker, Kurtz kaufman, Penna. Canal
Company, J. p. Calhoun, Adalene n.
Lukens, Luke Davis, II. III. kloss,
John l.. North, G. Mcclellan, VIM.
Bell, NJ. p. Crawford, Harry +. Bon
sail, Ferd. Meyers, Jas. II. SimOns, w.
III. Zeiders, William Varnes, Wilber-
force Schweyer.
ATKINSON & PENNELL,
Solicitors.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
November %. 1898.


Wheat 72c.; Oats 34c; corn 3sc;
Pennsylvania woel 27 10 30cts a
pound. Lard to cts. a pound !;
Cured ham to s cts. pound ;
Breakfa bacon s to 10 cts. a pound !;
hay 500 to 5000 a ton; tangled
wheat and oats straw at $3.50 a
ton; butter % to 2Sc eggs 22c :;
beef cattle 81 to SIC !; potatoes 30 to
60 bushel veal calves 5 to Sc;
sheep 2! to 4 cts lambs S4.65 to
S5.S5 thin cows IS to $22 milch
COWS SIS to $50 hogs 5 cts. to
6 cts; live chickens s to Sc; Su-
gars 81 cts, spring chickens 2 and
pound Z to Sc pound. Tai
low 4c a pound in cakes sweet po-
tatOes 10 t, zoe a basket: onions 45
to 4Sc basket coal Oil 99c a
barrel; peaches 80 to $3.50 a
bushel, for bushel bast ct 6Oc to
81 %, for 20 pound basket 80 to
S5c.; Bartlett pears 81 to $500
a barrel coffee, Rio 6! % 1Olc,
Santos to lie, Java 30 to soc,
Mocha IL to 21c, Costa Rica 10 to
10, Nicaragua 10 to lie; candles Z
to Sc a pound Feathers 81 to 35c
for duci and 20 to 32c for geese :;
white fish half barrel $500 to So
so; hops 3 to 19c a pound To
bacco, Pennsylvania filler s to 12c,
and II to lie fine wrappers 40 to
6Oc; wool, Pennsylvania % to soc
a pound.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30

downs they have been able to OBJ
tain lambs that as yearlings are
nearly as large as the class of sheep
they formerly used were at two
and three years of age in addition
to producing very superior quail
ity of mutton. To fill the shortage
they still depend upon the Buffalo
market.
The demand for both prime
feeding lambs and breeding ewes
is far in excess of the supply, and
prices in the past two years have
more than doubled, in many cases
trebled. AS other farm products
are also bringing higher prices
once more, the farms of the Gene
see Valley are fast regaining their
former values, and the farmers feel
confident that a new era of pros
perity and happiness is before
them. They sincerely trust that
the present Tariff law, or one
equally just to them, may be al
lowed to continue for years to
cOme.''
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30
REUNION OF EX-COU NTY
OFFICIALS.

Notice is hereby given that a
meeting of eX-oflicials, of Juniata
county, will assemble in the Or
phans' Court Room of said county,
at MifflintOwn, on the 9th day OF
December, 1898, at 2 O'Clock p. IN ,
for the purpose of arranging for a
general re- union of all county
officials to be held at such time as
may be fixed at such meeting, and
tor the purpose of making prelim-
mary arrangements, as may 3e
deemed advisable.
EX-COUNTY OFFICIALS.