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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

Orlando has organized lodge Of the
Knights of Pythias.
Four year old Esther Stout of Perry
was kicked TO death by horse one
day last week.
The Oklahoma battalion now sta
toned at Lexington, KY, will prob
ably go 20 Cuba.
NJ. Drury was convicted of murder
in the first degree at Enid last week
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
life.
Lieutenant Sidney johnson, son of
Col. J. w. johnson of Oklahoma City,
has been appointed Second Lieutenant
in the regular army.
DR. J. ]. Knepper sent to the peni-
tentiary from Canadian county charged
with bigamy, will apply for pardon.
Wife No. 2 is helping him.
Old Geron' mo is still hale, hearty and
living in Oklahoma. He is little out
OF practice in scalping but could still
do a good job as member of the
Equalization board.-McMaster's Mag
azine.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
whisk v Peddlers Arrested.

Norman Transcript: Deputy United
States Marshal Smith made rich haul
and good one, on the South Canadian,
about 16 miles down the river from
Lexington, recently. For years a lot
of whisky peddlers and lawbreakers
have been terrorizing the peacevble
settlers of that locality, and have de-
fed the efforts of the officers to break
them up. Deputy Smith, however,
got after them and by long waiting
and watching finally got them dead to
rights and took them in the act. They
had little sx1O building in which
they sold liquor, and off from it u little
ways ran house of prostitution and
gambling hail, where unsophisticated
mortals were ipveigled and robbed.
The men captured were John Reeves
Policy Milsap, Robert Milsap, Jim
McKeand and William Purcell, and the
statutory charge against them is "in
Producing liquor oD an Indian allot
ment." Commissio uer Hennessey held
them in $1,000 bond each, and they
were taken to the U. S. Jail in Guthrie,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
School Land Department.

The school land Office is the largest
department of the territorial govern
ment. There are under control of the
department 10000 quarter sections 'ot
school land, and the cash receipts for
the year were $ls6, 7s4.4 40, a large por.
ton of which was divided per capita
among the school districts of the terri
ritory. Twenty-tbree thousand dol
lars was divided among the territorial
colleges and the same amount put into
the permanent building fund. During
the year the Office collected s33,472 OF
old back due rent, and the work done
included the making of $500 new
leases and leasing 1900 quarter sec
tions never before leased. The Office
now has on hand ll,os6 rent notes ag
gregating in amount $3.50, 1884
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

Oklahoma has public school system
second to no state in the Union. The
entire system is under the supervision
Of a territorial board of education, who
secured the grading of both city and
country schools, system of county
graduations is awakening great inter
est in the district schools. The gen.
eral scheme of education embraces a
continuous course from the district
school to and through the university.
There are in the territory 90,5 school
children. There are 1879 school dis
tricts and the school houses outside OF
the cities are valued at S454,574 Dur
ing the past year s12l ,3s3.9O was dis
tr.buted to the different school dis
tricts, making s1.34 per capita, and
$3.50, 200 in addition was spent by the
different districts in carrying on theil
schools.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
AN AUTUMN IDYL.
In which Il Depicted Somewhat of
the sorrowfulress of the Ex-
pirinR Year.

A great wave OF perspiration had swept
hp from tbs briny depths Of the sea of hu.
mnnity, and on its white.capped top the
month of August had taken passage to the
shoreless realms of eternity.
Tip.tilted on the petals Of the blooming
melancholy days Of poesy and song, Sep
tember in her golden glory stood, and from
her harvest finger ends threw ripening
kisses to the world.
There was no sadness in her eyes, and in
her voice was only the music of rich, ripe
fruit falling to the ground
As she swept along on the crimson tide
Of her leafy glory, a simple Oyster crossed
her path.
In his face was the shadow of Fate.
His requiem was sounding in the key of Z.
September saw him, but she wot not what
be was to her, nor she to him. She nodded
at him smilingly.
Good morrow, Master Lowly," she sang
Look upon me, prithee. Am not indeed
in it?"
The Oyster was amazed
81 beg your pardon" he answered. though
he knew full well what she had said.
"Dearie me, Master Lowly," she chirruped
"do but look at me. Am | not in 2"
'Do you mean the soup?' lugubriously in
luired the Oyster.
"No, indeed. Why should II" laughed
the warm September. 81 mean the Au
tumn, of course, STUPID"
Then the Oyster sighed as il his shel
would break, and he wondered why on,
could be so heartless as to Jest upon suct
serious Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Otoes Oppose Allotment.

The Otoe Indians insist that Helen
+. Clark, a member of the Blackfeet
tribe of Indians, is visiting their res
ervation for the purpose of wording
up sentiment iE favor of allotment, a
proceeding which the majority of
o.oes are decidedly opposed to. Ac-
cordingly a delegation of the most
distinguished members of the tribe,
consisting of Head Chief Albert Green,
Second Chief William Faw Faw and
James Whitewater, speaker of the
Otoe council, accompanied by William
Burgess, Interpreter, called on Cover
nor Barnes and with Indian eloquence
prayed him 10 write the Great Father
at Washington that they were unalter-
ably opposed to the division OF their
lands, in spite of the representations
of Helen p. Clark, or any other person
to the contrary.
James Whitewater, who was the
principal spokesman Of the delegation,
SPEAKS English fuently, although his
formal address before the governor on
the allotment question was delivered
in the Indian tongue and was after
wards interpreted by the interpreter.
Whitewater is an honorably discharged
soldier of the civil war, is a member OF
the same Grand Army post as Cover.
nor Barnes and draws a pension of s.
a month,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
The Cres merry Ouestson.

There is an apparent increase of in
lerest in the establishment of cream
cries, or butter factories, in Oklahoma.
1t is not probable the territory will
become a great dairy region, but there
is no reason why number of wei
located, economically constructed and
we'll managed creameries should not
give fair profit. Many hundreds ol
creameries are succeeding in other
states; many hundreds have been buil'
and equipped at large cost and the
whole investment proved loss.
An important point is that those
who take stock in the enterprise
should have definite information as to
the method under which it is TO b,
conducted, ana probable resalts.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

n
wrecked and three cars were burned
as u result of n rear-end collision on
the Chicago n Milwaukee railroad, so
miles south of Milwaukee. The engi-
neer of the passenger train failed to
see block danger signal.
N. l.. WEATHERBy, commodore of
the Troy Yacht club, and three com
panions. stephen j. Mallory, Mrs.
William J. Breslin and Miss Elizabeth
Savage, were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of yacht in the Hudson river,
three miles north of Troy, n Y, the
other night. The accident was due to
the swift current in the river.
A FIRE at Hankow, China, destroyed
over square mile of the city. includ-
ing the government buildings and tenn
Pile, and 1t was feared that 1000 lives
were lost
FOREST fires in Wisconsin were
quenched by heavy rains on the 4th.
The annual parade of the Priests of
Pallas took place at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the ath. the subject of the floats be-
ing the tales of Mother Goose, with
the exception of the last, which repre-
sented the battleship Oregon. IAN i'm
mense crowd witnessed the parade.
| On t'e ith Omaha, Neb., had its car
nival pageant, King Ak. Sar-Ben ~.
and his retinue of knights making
their triumphal entry into the city.
There were 20 floats, illustrating
stories of Irving's "Alhambra"
The battleship Illinois was launched
at Newport News, Va, on the ith in
the presence of 10000 people Miss
Mamie Letter broke u bottle of cham
pague and christened the vessel.
YELLOW fever was reported epidemic
in Mississippi.
The fourth annual festival of Noun
tain and Plain opened at Denver, Col,
on the 4th with great parade official
ly designated the Pageant of Amer
lean Progress" In the parade were
26 magnificent floats and many hand
somely decorated carriages, besides
other interesting features, and 30 brass
bands furnished music.
The insane wife of Joseph Clothier,
a farmer of ST. SEVERN, Que, killed
her four children on the Sd by cutting
their throats.
The 1000 miners that struck at Dill
lonyale, O., won their strike.
The farmers national congress will
meet at Fort Worth, Tex, December
ella.
In compliance with instructions frou
the secretary of war the Fifth army
corps at Camp Wikoff, New York, has
been disbanded. This corps was the
one that fought at Santiago
AT the exhibition of the Sparks cir
Gus at Franklin, Va, the lion'tamei
put his head in the lions mouth anC
it was promptly bitten off. The lions
mate then spraug upon the mans body
and tore il TO pieces
ARRANGEMENTS are being made a
the war department to bring TO Amer
lea for interment all the bodies of oul
soldiers who have died in Cuba, Port'
Rico or the Philippines.
TIM Grange tobacco warehouse, thu
Louisville & Nashville depot and sew
eral tenement houses at Clarksvflle
Teun.. were destroyed by fire on tn
5th. Loss. $500, OOO. Ii was believed L
be the work Of incendiarieS
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Late Happenings of More Than
Ordinary Interest
BRIEFLY TOLD FOR HURRIED READER
Facts Concerning the Public Institutions
of Ok Ihoms Gathered From Reli-
able sources-Other News OF
Late Date-notes.
Oklahoma Insane.

DIR. John Threadgill, superintendent
of the insane asylum at Norman, in his
quarterly settlement for the care of
the territory's insane patients, reports
ala patients in the asylum at the pres
ent time aud the charge TO the terri
tory for the three months just ended,
at the rate OF 500 per annum for each
patient, was $40, 923G5. DIR. Thread
gill reports that during the quarter
there were Is patients discharged as
cured. There were five deaths within
the same period, four from senility, or
old age, and one from consumption.
There were no escapes. Under the
superintendency of DIR. Threadgill the
oklahoma asylum for the insane,
though n private institution, has
achieved a national reputation, as a
model institution of its kind. The fed.
eral government impressed with the
reputation of the Oklahoma institu tion
made a contract with DIR. Threadgill
for the treatment and care of its Indi.
an patients. From a pecuniary stand
point the contract was more profitable
than that with the territory, but II
was subsequently rescinded by DR.,
Threadghl because of the undesira
bility of Indian patients and the extra
trouble Of caring for them. "An Indi
an is bad enough when not insane, and
when crazy he is simply h." he
says, "and takes three men to hold
him."
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
TuRouauour Italy an Italian kills

THROUGHOUT Italy an Italian kills
an Italian every two hours d uring the
year by means of the knife. Such are
the official statistics which were re-
Gently placed before the association
which, under the patronage of King
Humbert has been formed to put
down homicide by depriving it of its
all too convenient and all too uni
versal weapon, the accursed knife.
During the S65 days of the year 1897
there were placed on record 3, $50 homi-
cides by means of the knife. The tri-
bunals have shown themselves utterly
unable to put a stop to crime by means
of the knife.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL.

fhNNoNfts NM VIII A,Ahsf'
THOMAS i. BAYARD, ambassador
10 Great Britain. was buried at Will
mington, Del, on the lst Flags were
at half mast in the town all day and
business houses were closed. Among
the honorary pallbearors were ex-
President Cleveland, Gov. Tunnel of
Delaware, and ex-Secretary of the
Treasury Fairchild.
THE president has appointed DR..
David j. Hill, of Rochester, n. y,
..yst assistant secretary of state to sue
ceed John Bassett Moore, resigned.
DIR. Hill Is president of the Rochester
university, is scholarly gentleman
and is particularly known through his
knowledge of in ternational law. He
accepted the position rendered.
WARRANTS were issued at Philadel-
phia on the Sd for the arrest of Sena-
tor Quay, his son and several other
persons They were accused of con-
spiracy to use public moneys for their
own use, the charge growing out of
the failure of the Peoples bank. 1t
was declared to be n political move.
GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER was before
the war investigating committee on
the 4th. His testimony seemed to
show that although there were fdw
instances of unnecessary suffering and
neglect they were the exception.
ADJr. GEN. CoRBIN has prepared de-
'ense Of the war department for pre-
sentation to the commission investi-
| eating the conduct of the war. His
report will make about 1000 pages, or
| 5000, 900 words. Admiral Sampson is
blamed for whatever suffering was in
volved by the Santiago campaign.
In political and administrative cir
cles in Berlin the probability OF wal
between Germany and the United
States was being talked of. The trou
BILE was in connection with the Philip
pine islands, the German government
being resolved at all costs TO oppos,
the retention of the group by the
| United States.
GEN. BoYNToN was placed on tn,
witness stand on the 5th by the inves
tigating commission on the conduct o
the war. The generals testimon,
was favorable to the war department
and he eulogized the supply depart
meut of the army in the case of Cam
Thomas at Chickamauga park and de
clared he had never seen such efficiency
GEN FITzHUeu LEE was before th
war inquiry commission at Washing
ton on the 9th. He thought the arm
ration abundant, although som
changes for the better might,be made
Some of the regimental surgeons, h
! thought, were not as competent a
they should be, but he had no com
plant to make against the war depart
ment and thought none of his CON
mand had. He dwelt upon the impoi
tance of taking proper care of tn
sinks as preventive of disease.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

THE French transatlantic line is
about to be deluged with damage suits
for the loss of life through the sink
ing of the steamship La Bourgogne.
One New York law firm alone has l5
actions under way and one already in
the courts The initial suit, for $780,
900, is brought by relatives of Emil IL.
Wuertz, of New York, whose life was
lost The most interesting points Of
fered by the plaintiffs is that Capt.
Deloncle, of La Bourgogne, was prac-
tically insane at the time he sailed his
ship from New York and was suffering
from melancholia and subject to de
lusions.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Trampled TO Death.

John Kretzer, a farmer living nine
miles northeast of Guthrie, was in
town Saturday, accompanied by his
wife. In the evening they drove home
and Mrs. Kretzer prepared supper
while Mr.. Kretzer was feeding the
horses aud attending TO the chores.
After she had waited long time for
him went in search, fearing something
had happened to him. She found him
dead under the horses in the stable
and badly mangled. indicating that he
had been kicked aud trampled TO death
by the horses. He was "A years old.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

THE possibility of the existence of a
suicide club among the students of the
Wisconsin university at Madison is
causing much apprehension. Rumors
of the existence of such club sprang
up Immediately after the suicide of
William T.. Allen, son of Prof. William
i. Allen, OF the university, who
drowned himself a few weeks ago
These rumors were revived when Henry
B. Freeman, son of Prof. John C, Free
man, of the university, was discovered
dead by his own act The belief is
widespread that morbid young men of
Madison have made a compact to de-
stroy themselves.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Tweptv Tbous.od yyISows.

FL Reno Star: There will soon be
10000 widows in the Indian Territory.
Twenty thousand white men, who
have married into the Five Civilized
Tribes of Indians, have been ordered
to leave the Indian Territory. The
Dawes commission now in session in
Ardmore, created u sensation through
out the territory by issuing orders
that all intcrmarried white men were
intruders, and would have to leave the
Indian Territory. Indian Agent Wis
dom will comply with the orders of
the commission. His mounted police
are under orders 20 eject the intruders
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Dragged by a Picket Eope

L. E, Gibbens, clerk of the city OF
Perry, met with serious accident on
The 6th, and but for timely assistance
no doubt would have been killed.
Mr.. Gibbens had gone TO his pasture
some two miles from town after one
of his cows, and while putting rope
around the cows horns she ran and in
some way the rope became entangled
around Mr.. Gibben's legs and he was
dragged a considerable distance before
he was liberated. HIS leg was broke n
above the knee
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
HOOd,c DiIIS are the only pills to take
hIoou . III with Hoods Sarsaparilla-
Two Different Views.

She was a charming young lady and nat
urslly had many admirers of the so-called
stronger sex. One evening one of them
called and the conversation CHANGED to drift
toward another.
81 think Mr. Davis is quite an intellectual
young man." she observed.
ooh, you DO" sneered the other.
"Why, yes, she replied. at seems to me
that he is a very hard thinker on many i'm
portant subjects"
"Well, now that come to consider it, )" re.
torted the undsunted rival of Mr.. Davis, 81
believe you are right. never knew man
who thought with so much difficulty Chi
cago Evening News.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Murder in the Chlckasaw Country.

Norman Transcript: News OF bru-
tai murder that occurred in the Chick
asaw country, fourteen miles west of
Norman, was received here on Tues
day. John Moran killed his father-in-
law, John Wright, by shooting him
and then beating him over the head
until he was dead. He theu dragged
the body to "a dry ditcn and covered it
with branches and weeds. When
Wright's absence was noticed Moran
became frightened and fed. Both
parties are colored, and the killing was
caused by dispute about an old pic
ture.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

A POLITICAL economist has promul-
gated n, scheme that he believes will
place in the hands of the farmers of
the country the controlling power now
held by grain operators and others
located in the cities. He proposes to
organize all the farmers of the United
States into one mammoth organization
for the purpose of controlling the
shipment of their crops to market,
thereby hoping to maintain a certain
scale of prices and supply the demand
at the will of the producers. A CEN
tral bureau is to keep the farmers
posted on all facts that should bo
known
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27
Tried to Murder His wife.

Last week George Soeken, near Man
chester, shot his wife. She with her
little girl rushed out of the house.
She soou became weak from loss of
blood and the little girl went ahead
aud raised the alarm. When people
came to the house they found Soeken's
dead BODY. His wife may die. They
had agreed to get a divorce. They
were simply living in the same house
pending "a uivision of the property.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

City, under indictment for receiving
deposits in an insolvent bank at Perry
was on Tuesday discharged by the dis
triet court Both L. NJ. Richardson
and T. NJ. Richardson, Jr., who are
prominent in financial and political
circles, we're indicted in 1895. After
one mistrial the younger Richardson
was again indicted at Perry in 1897.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

he came back ghost of the self that an
swered to President Lincoln's cali for "3OO,'
900 more"
To-day he is an alert, active man and tells
the story of his recovery as follows:
81 was great sufferer from sciatica rheu-
matsm almost from the time of my dis.
charge from the army. Most OF the time
was untitled for manual labor of any kind,
and my spfferings were at all times intense.
At times | was bent almost double, and got
around only with the greatest difficulty.
Nothing seemed to give me permanent re-
lief until three years ago, when my atten.
ton was called to some of the wonderful
cures effected by Dr. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. ! had not taken more than
half a box when / noticed an improvement
in my condition, and kept ON improving
steadily. / took three boxes of the pills
and at the end of that time was in better con
dtion than at any time since the close of my
army service. Since then | have never beer
bothered with rheumatism. DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People is the only rem
edy that ever did me any good, and to then
| owe my restoration to comparative health
They are a grand remedy"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

A FRENCH scientist has been investi-
eating the interesting question of
which kind of employment most quick
ly wears out the brain. He has found
that tho military and naval profess
sions are the worst man can enter II
he wants to go sane to the grave. Out
of the 100000 naval and military men
100 are confirmed lunatics. Next come
professional men, then domestic serv-
ants and day laborers. These are
followed at long distance by me-
chanics, only 60 of whom go mad in
each 100000 Commercial men only
send AZ out Of 100000 to lunatic asy.
lums.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

AN inventor proposes to furnish the
British war office an electric gun
which, he claims, is the most destruc-
tive agency in battle yet devised. He
believes that by means of 1t he can
blow up fort, a man -of-war or even
whole navy II it comes within range
of IS to 20 miles. The use he makes of
the electric gun is to discharge stimuli
taneously all the ammunition, powder
and shells contained in the ship or
fort attacked. Thus being set off by
the electrical contact the ammunition
forces of the ship prove her own de-
structiop.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

AFTER months of experimenting and
investigation, entailing the expendi
ture of many thousands of dollars, A
G. Winter, superintendent and chem
list of the Marsden Development com
pany, whose main plant is in Rockford,
ILL.,, says he has solved the problem of
the cornstalk as commercial and
manufacturing commodity. AS re-
suit of his researches and experiments
paper and cardboard of the finest
quality are now being manufactured
from corn shives, and the discovery is
expected to revolutionize the paper
manufacturing business of the country.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27

RELIGIOUS enthusiasts in Indianapo.
lis, Ind, have conceived a plan for 1T,
ting up a vessel spacious and strong,
which will be floating church. 1t will
be equipped with an experienced crew
and have on board full complement
of eloquent preachers, singers, Bibles,
hymn books, tracts and all the neces-
sary furnishings for successful cru
sade. In the interior of this ecclesias-
tical cruiser an auditorium will be
constructed capable of seating SOC
people. Its destination is to be Porto
Rico and Cuba, although it will dc
missionary work along the Mississippi
on its outbound voyage.