The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-03-24

who we're before fast friends. Boti
were found dead and the six-shooter
Of each man lay near his body. with
one chamber empty.
NEws has been received that the Secrc.
\ ;ary Of the interior has decided the con.
test case of Henry Linn in favor Of the
townsite settlers Of Perry. Linn had
filed on the land, which was adjacent tc
Perry. Ok. as homestead property Set
tiers overfiowed on to the 100 acres and
built what is now the most substan tial
part Of the town. Linn sought to en-.
force his homestead rights.
THK 2o-round go between Kid La.
vigne and Jack Daily for the ligh,-
weight championship of the world at
/ Cleveland, o., on the 18th resulted in a
draw. The fighting was fast and furi-
Gus from the start, but the contest
ants We're 50 evenly matched that
neither gained an advantage over the
/ other.
4 RECENT Claremore. !. T.. dispatch
stated that the full-bloo6s OF the Cher.
okee nation were making preparations
To send a number of their most promi.
nent leaders TO Mexico to see the lands
offered them in the states of chihuahua
and sonora. These men will visit the
governors of both states to see IL they
can arrange for tribal form of gov
ernment which will be recognized by
the Mexican states.
The Debs colony of the cooperative
commonwealth brotherhood near Bel.
fast, Skagit county. Wash. is being
rapidly pushed. Eighty members
were reported on the grounds. tow n
was being laid out and preparations
made to carry on farming on a large
scale.
ONE of the biggest pools the country
has ever known was formed in Cleve-
land, O., on the 18th, all bessemer pig
iron producers in the Cleveland, Ma
honing valley and Sheuango iron dis
tricts being in the combine. Prices
will be raised at once.
THE Victor mills, of Cohoes, " V. q
ten-story structure. burned on the
18th. They are said to have been the
largest woolen mills in the United
States, employing over / 900 operatives.
The loss was between s4O0. 900 and
$500. 900, fully covered by insurance.
THE agricultural department at
Washington has just issued bulletin
on the San Jose scale in 1s96-7, pre-
pared by Entomologist l.. o. Howard
The conditions in over 80 states and
territories are given.
JEFFERSON TAYLOR. well-to-do
farmer at Alton. Ark, who has for
some time been mentally unbalanced,
found an old pistol, and shot his grown
laughter, killing her instantly. Then
he killed himself
PROPOSITION 10 establish buffets
for the sale of Intoxicating liquors in
the principal police stations in Chicago
was submitted to the mayor by three
well-known men. They were willing
to pay the city $50, 600 for the privilege
of running saloons in the police sta
tions-
IL the United States supreme court
on the l4th an opinion was handed
down by Justice Harlan In .he case of
the Missouri, Kansas Il Texas Railway
company VS. Charles Haber. affirming
the constitutionality and validity of
the state laws of Kansas prohibiting
the transportation into the state of
cattle affected with Texas fever and
providing for civil action for dam
ages in case of the infraction of the
| law.
A CHICAGO dispatch of the 18th
stated that the first l3 Methodist con-
ferences voting on the question of lay
/ representation indicated that the prop
osition would be adopted. The vote
in these Is conferences last year was:
For, 200: against, T69 This year the
vote is: For, 600; against, $40
SHOULD clerical celibacy prevail In
/ the Episcopal church? This question
has started "A violent agitation among
| Anglican priests in New York.
A BAD fire occurred on Wabash
avenue, Chicago, on the 10Th, in which
it WAS thought 10 persons had lost
their lives and about so others had
been injured. There was wild panic
in the building at the explosions of
| Photographic chemicals in the supply
house of Sweet & Co. and many per-
sous threw themselves out of the
windows and were dashed on the pave.
ment The Elevated railway tracks
were also badly damaged. The loss
was between 500. 900 and $500, ,0e0
WHAT is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary resulted in the
destruction of the Hay exchange
big warehouse at Main and North
Market streets, ST. Louis. the other
afternoon. The loss on the building
was SIS, 900, and on stock. $40, 900.
GRAND RIVER. at Grand Rapids, Mich
was higher on the 18th than at any
time for FIVE years and factories along
the river bank were forced To shut
| down.
JUDGE SANBoRN, sitting as circuit
| Judge at ST. Paul, Mimi, confirmed
the sale of the Kansas division of the
Union Pacific road which extends from
Kansas City to Denver, Col.
DAN STUART, the prize fight promot-
er, has chartered steam yacht at
New York and will start at once for
Key West, Fla. Ills object is to take
| kinetoscope views OF naval battles
should any be forthcoming. A syndi-
cate is back of Stuart.
To the heroism of Chicago police.
men l2 persons owe the fact that they
are alive to-day. Seven of them were
rescued from burning building at
the rear of POS West Twelfth street
and five were carried from q burning
cottage at the rear of IS Liberty street
In the latter case mother and her
four small children were unconscious
| from smoke.
FoR ten hours Jailcr Wells, of the
county Jail at Perry, Oh. lay in pris.
oner's cell, tied and gagged, while the