The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-06-30
Minor Territorial News.

Minor Territorial News.
BlacSwell's population is increasing
at the rate of ten per day.
Tue southern part of Garfield county
was visited by hailstorm last week.
number of county institutes begin
next week. The attendance in every
one will be large.
The Catholic church at Pond Creek
was recently broken into and robbed
of much gold and silver ware.
Last week at Ch:ckasha two men
Tough duel. One had revolver, the
other Winchester, and both missed.
The Christian denomination of Cloud
Chief are building church. This is
the first church erected in Cloud Chief.
A number of gamblers at Blackwell
were hauled over the Goals by the
sheriff of Kay county last week and
were tined $50 each.
Saisaw claims to be the great berry
shipping point in the Indian territory.
One firm shipped II carloads to north
ern markets this season.
c. G. Calxins who received honorable
mention in Admiral Dewey's report of
the battle of Manila is a cousin of G.
f. Calkins OF Ponca City.
Train robbers attacked a Santa Fe
train near Coleman, Texas, recently,
but were driven off by the trsiunen
before securing any booty.
AT Cleo, one day recently, woman
found two coyotes in her hen house.
She closed the door, and with long
pole punched the brutes to death.
Day county, which is now in the
Kingfisher land district, is making an
effort to be detached from that and
attached to the Woodward district.
TIE body of Ben Williams of Wood
ward who was drowned in Wolf creek
was rec overed Friday afternoon by
party Of searchers from Fort Supply.
Richmond p. Hobson who recently
gained Immortality at Santiago has a
school mate friend in South McAlester
in the person of DR.. C. w. Patterson.
Governor Barnes has been assured
that Oklahoma will be called upon to
raise battalion of troops on the sec
ond call for volunteers by President
Mckinney.
Two woul6-be preachers in the east
ern part of the territory haye been de.
batting on the question, Resolved That
the use of Instrumental music in the
church of Christ is sinful"
More than 81, 20 head of Mexican
cattle We're purcha ed by Americans
during May, nearly two-thirds OF
which were calves for Oklahoma and
southwestern stock ranches.
Two cattlemen were arrested at
Waukomis last week, charged with
violating the quarantine law. They
were fined 500 each which they re-
fused 10 pay and are now in Jail
Joe Horton of Holly, Colo, has just
purchased 1000 head of cattle in Ar.
kansas and Mississippi, which he will
pasture near the line between Kansas
and Oklahoma. Woodward News.
There are in the Indian Territory
more than 90 Masonic lodges with
total embership of more than 3,lO0,
and from these lodges it is expected
that enough will be raised to build a
Masonic orphans home.
Last Sunday Editor F. Il. Cook OF
Cloud Chief and Sheriff Morrison, his
friend, were sitting on a bench talking
politics. Suddenly and without provo
cation Morrison threw Cook down and
beat him numerically. Cook is in
bed and his friends are trying TO gel
Morrison to explain.
John Maine and Emerson Bear, two
Payne county farmers stole barrel OF
Oklahoma wine and buried it in a corn
field. The wine was confiscated by
the sheriff and the tipplers placed in
Jail.
Lee Hall a wealthy resident OF
Springfield, Illinois, left that city on
the 10th for MaEgum, Oklahoma. He
was accompanied by his cousin, Mrs.
MagInnis, Of Ell Reno. She took
sleeper at Kansas City and when she
got up at Wichita Hall was missing.
He carried large sum of money and
il is thought that he was robbed and
thrown from the train.
Governor Harris and others OF the
Chickasaw Nation are arranging for
the building of dam across Penning-
ton creek at Tishomingo for the pur-
pose OF making a big lake and furnish
ing water power to put in gin and
milling machinery.
Bertha Stutzman, the woman whose
testimony convicted her husband, Doc
stutzman, at Oklahoma City, of muir
der, died this week at Shawnee.
Perhaps the man who was captured
last ~eex in Blaine county wearing a
mother hubbard was only trying to
keep cool.