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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-06-20
THE
Farmers and the Public

who have wheat or corn to sell, will find IT
to their advantage to get bids for same from
Hodges, who is always prepared to pay the
highest prices.
He also keeps a large stock OF COAL OF all
kinds In his yards satShepherdstown andKear-
neysville, which will be sold at the lowest
cash price.
Salt and Blasting Material at wholesale and
retail prices. G. t. HODGES.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-06-20

THE Register one year for
dollar: six months for 90
cents: three months for IS
-a,+s. Want to try It?
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19
OF VITAL IMPORT
To The Indian Territory are the
Present Trend of Affairs.

From the trend of affairs In the
territory, and the attitude of con-
gress, and the department. at
Washington. the next few months
will witness a wonderful trans
formation in Indian territory
matters. The long. drawn.out ef-
fort 10 bring order out Of chaos
here is going to eliminate in the
abolition OF all tribal governments
and the transition OF the Indian
territory into a state Of the Union.
The people OF the Cherokee ma
tion, both citizens and non. citi-
zens, are eager TO catch the first
faint glimpse Of the end, and to
see the finish of the most harras-
sing and complicated condition
that could possibly exist. The
work Of the Dawes commission,
the action OF the Cherokee council
when il meets in regular session
in November, and the movement
of congress affecting this country
will be intensely interesting dur
ing the next few months.
The Chieftain has facilities for
handling all this class of news,
and Of reporting their stirring
events, enjoyed by no other news
paper in or out OF the Indian ter
ritory. II your postal facilities
are such as to enable you to receive
the daily within few hours after
publication you ought to have il;
IL you reside IN the country or
towns not quickly reached. then
the weekly Chieftain will hll the
bill. IL goes into the homes Of
more people in the Cherokee ma
lion than any other newspaper.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19
Territory Papers.

The Greek nation, with popu
lation of 40,674, has seventeen
newspapers; the Chickasaw ma.
tion, with a population OF 139. .260,
has thirty papers; the Cherokee
nation, with a population Of 101,.
754, has twenty-six papers; and
the Choctaw nation, with a popu.
lation OF 99.6S1, has twenty-four
papers. These figures are taken
from N. w. Aver & Sons News.
paper Annual for 1901. They
show that the Greek nation leads
all others in number of papers ac-
cording to population. .-Muskogee
Times.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19

SO Fixed with the clerk OF the court;
and thereupon the defendant shall be
required to taccept same in full pay
ment for his improvements or remove
the same from the lot within such
time as may be fixed by the court.
All unimproved town lots will be
sold by auction aud the payments for
the same will be made under the same
provisions.
Under the foregoing provisions,
the purchaser OF lot receives q
titleIess piece of property. He has
simply a doubtful right of occu.
pancy" until such time as the ma
tion may deem Et to grant him a
title.
The depositing OF the purchase
money in the Sub. treasury at ST..
Louis, where it will be held in
trust for the nation until title is
given is supposed to guarantee
the purchaser.
This eupposition, however, is
not title, and its fulfillment is
too far in tine indie finite future TO
satisfy the ordinary investor in
realty. There is a vaguenes s
about the ultimate result Of such
purchase, that makes the entire
scheme impraclicable.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19
TULSA WATER FAMINE.
Oil Districts Water Supply Nearly
Exhausted.

Tulsa, l. T., Aug. 1S.-Wells
are failing here daily and team
sters from the country find II al.
most impossible to get water foi
their stock. Yesterday the ice
plant was compelled to abandon
work half of the time, Some idea
of the extent OF the drought may
be had when il is learned that the
rainfall thus far for the year is
2.S7 inches below the normal
amount for each Of the last twelve
years.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19
TOWNSHIP WORK


Ardmore, /. T., Aug. lS.-Town-
site work here has been suspended
pending a decision of the Interior
department. The department has
removed Wes B. Barner, commits
sioner for the appraisement Of
townsite property, because be re-
fused to appraise it under the ad-
vice OF Governor Johnston Of the
ChickasaW nation.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19

Constipation, impaired digestion.
aud torpid liver, are the most COM
mon ailments that are responsible for
tired, listless. tagged cut feeling that
makes the summer a dreaded period
10 so many people. HerbIne will cure
constipation, IL improves the diges-
tion and arouses the liver To normal
activity. Price, so cents. at Peoples
Drug store. DIV
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19
PROVISIONS OF ACT.
Under which the Work will be
Conducted DO pot Meet With
Popular Approval, and Are
Considered by M.ny TO be
Imprac.icable.

The Secretary of the Interior
has announced that under the pro-
visions OF the Curtis Act, COM
mission will soon be appointed TO
conduct the survey aud appraise.
ment of towhsite property in the
Cherokee nation. The section Of
the act pertaining to the sale OF
town lots reads as follows:
SEC. Is. That there shall be com
mission Ia each town for each one OF
the Ciiickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and
,~Eaerokee tribes, TO consist OF one
member to be appointed by the execu-
tive OF the tribe, who shall not be in
terested Ia town property, other than
his home; one person 10 be appointed
by the Secretary OF the Interior, aud
one member 10 be selected by the
town. And II the executive OF the
tribe or the town fail 10 select mem
bers as aforesaid, they may be selected
and appointed by the Secretary OF the
Interior.
Said commissions shall cause 10 be
4 surveyed and laid out town sites where
towns with a present population OF
two hundred or more are located, con-
forming TO the existing survey 50 far as
may be, with proper aud necessary
streets, alleys, aud public grounds, in
Guiding parks and cemeteries, giving
10 each town such territory as may be
required for its present needs and
reasonable prospective growth aud
shall prepare correct plats thereof,
and nle one with the Secretary OF the
Interior, one with the clerk OF the
United States court, one with the
authorities Of the tribe. and one with
the town authorities. And all tnwn
lots shall be appraised by said CON-
mission at their true value, including
Improvements; and separate appralse-
ments shall be made OF all improve
ments thereon; and no such appraise-
ment shall be effective until approved
BY the Secretary Of the Interior. and
In case OF disagreement by the meLi-
.asers Of such commission a. 10 the
value OF any lot, said Secretary may
hx the value thereof.
The owner OF the improvements up
ID any town lot. other than fencing
Alage, OF temporary buildings, may
ieposit Ia the United States Treasury,
Il. Louis, Missouri. one-half OF snch
appraised value: ten per centum with
two months and fifteen per centum
more within six months after notice
Il appraisement, aud the remainder
three equal annual installments
hereafter, depositing with The Secrc- /
1fy OF the Interior one receipt for
sach payment, and one with the
ulnorities OF the tribe, and such de-
)oslt shall be deemed a legal tender
q the tribe OF the purchase money for
uch lot.
II the owner Of such impro7emen Is
a ary lot fails to make deposit OF the /
,urcl ase money a. aforcsaid, then
uch lot may be sold ia the manner
fein provided for the sale OF unim
tosed lots; and when the purchaser
pereof has complied With the re-
Eirements herein for the purchase Of
approved lots he may. BY petitlon. ap-
b TO the United States court within
hose jurisdiction the town Il located
" condemnation and appraIsemento Of
lch improvements, and petitioner
all after judgment. deposit the value
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19

Prof. Mockle will give lessons at
reasonable rates on piano, organ, vio-
lin, mandolin, or guitar. Leave or
ders at Schleicker's jewelry store.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19

L. H. Finley is now shaving bis
patrons in bis handsome new tonsorial
parlors In the Frazee- Burlington Bldg.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-08-19

Single statehood will make CON-
plsx politics. .
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
HISS CROPSEY'S BODY FOUND.
IN THE RIVER NEAR HER HOME-COR-
ONER'S JURY FINDS DEATH
DUE TO VIOLENCE

Elizabeth City. y. c., Dec. 27.-Five weeks of
| mystery and speculation to the fate of Miss
Nellie Cropsey terminated at 10 o'clock to-day
when the body of the missing girl was found
floating in the river opposite her fathers home
The body was discovered by J. d. Stillman, a
fisherman. Upon discovering that the floating
object was the body of a young girl. he i'm
medately informed the committee. When found
the body floating face downward. All the
wearing apparel intact with the exception
OF the rubbers which Miss CrOpsey wore on the
night of her disappearance and they were miss
ing. With the exception of some slight discol-
oration of the face the body was in state of
good preservation and little decomposed. The
body easily identified that of Nell Crop
sey. The spot where the body was found had
been dragged several times since her disappear
ance, but with result.
Coroner Fearing summoned jury Of promi-
nent men, and called in three of the best ply
sicians of the city to make thorough and ex-
haustive autopsy to learn if there were any
signs of violence on the body.
The jury has been in almost continuous secret
session since the finding of the body and hold
ing the autopsy. Much depends the con-
struction of their verdict to what will be the
fate of young Wilcox.
Great crowds are assembled in front Of the
Academy of Music Building, where the jury is
in session. waiting for the verdict of the jury
as to whether the girl met with foul play or
committed suicide
Anticipating that trouble may be brewing for
young Wilcox the Naval Reserves have been
ordered out to maintain order and peace and to
see that no violence is offered Wilcox. BY order
of the Mayor all the barrooms in the city have
been closed. Wilcox has been removed from
the Mayors office where he had been since his
arrest this afternoon, TO the county Jail for his
own protection, and strong guard has been
placed around the jail TO see that no violence Is
offered him.
Wilcox apparently maintains the same indif-
ferent air that has characterized his actions an
the way through this
The verdict of the coroner's jury fol-
lows:
We, the coroner's jury. having been duly sum-
moned and sworn by DR.. 1. Fearing to inquire
what caused the death of Ella VI. Cropsey, do
hereby report that, from the investigation made
their opinion and also from our personal Obser
walton, Ella NJ. Cropsey came TO her death
by being stricken a blow on the left temple and
by being drowned in the Pasquotank River. we
have not yet investigated nor heard any testi-
mony touching to who inflicted the blow ana
did the drowning. We informed that one
James Wilcox Is charged with same and is now
in custody. We recommend that investigation
rs to his or any else's proba BILE guilt be had
by one or more magistrates in Elizabeth city
township and that said Wilcox he held TO await
said investigation. L. FEARlNI, Corohel'
P. s. SHIPP,
B. F. SPENCE
MAURICE WESCOTT
ROBERT j. MITCHELL,
j. B. FEREBEE,
J. H. LEROY.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28

FIVE POLICE OFFICERS TAKE PART IN
CHASE IN THE SHOPPING DISTRICT.

TWO Central Office detectives and three police
men captured Henry Stokes. colored. twenty
three years old, in the shopping district yester-
day evening after a chase. in which four shots
fired and night stick thrown. and which
ended I'm fierce struggle. The detectives did
feel safe until pairs of handouts had
been placed on the prisoner.
Detectives Rein and Day, who are assigned
10 the shopping district, saw Stokes acting so
suspiciously i'm a store at Eighteenth-st and
Sixth-ave.. that they followed him, after he had
bought a neCktie. With the detectives at his
heels he went to another store at Twenty-first-
ST. and SiXth-ave. There he went to the jewelry
counter. The detectives say that Stokes was
shown some diamond jewelry by saleswoman
and that they him take diamond locket.
Intending to avoid disturbance in the crowd
of shoppers. the detectives allowed Stokes TO
leave the store, still having they say, the locket
in his possession At Twenty -second-st. they
told him he was under arrest and Rein de-
manded the locket.
"An right" Stokes said, and made a move as
If TO put his hand in his pocket. The next in
stant he lying down Twenty -seCOnd-st to-
ward Seveuth-ave Four times as they were
running Rein fired his revolver at Stokes.
At Seventh-ave. a policeman of the West Thir-
tieth-st station who had heard the shots and
the general scurrying @. people in the street for
safety tried 10 stop the fugitive. Stokes eluded
the policeman, who then threw his night stick
The weapon struck the negro on the head and
brought him to his knees. but only for a mo-
ment. and then he was up and off again.
When Stokes turned into Seventh-av he was
met by two other policemen. who had also been
attracted oy the shooting. Stokes
rounded. but fought viciously before he sub
dued The detectives put two pairs of handouts
on his wrists and then the negro taken to
Police Headquarters. In his pockets were found
eleven pawn tickets, all calling for jewelry They
We're issued by paWnbrokers in Norfolk Va;
Philadelphia. and Newark. He was locked up
charged with grand larceny
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE.
HEAVY EXPRESS MACHINE RUNS AWAY
AND KNOCKS DOWN TWO MEN.

George Nantell forty years Old a painter of
No. $40 West One-hundred- and -twenty-fif
St, was run down and almost instantly killed
yesterday evening at Third-aye and Thirty
ninth-st. by automobile belonging to the Met
ropolitan Express Company. John McCluskey,
twenty-seven years old. also painter of No.
115 East One-hundred- and -nineteenth-st. who
was with Nantell. was knocked down and re-
ceived contusions He taken to Bellevue
Hospital woman was snatched from in front
of the vehicle by Joseph Turdy. fireman, OF
Engine Company No u. The automobile could
not be stopped until IT reached Second-ave.
Nantell and McCluskey had stopped work at
O'Clock, and walking north the east
side of Third-ave.. going TO the elevated railroad
station at Forty-second st They were crossing
Thirty-ninth-st when without warming the
tomoble. a machine Weighing several tons bore
down upon them great speed. Both men
were knocked to the ground. Nanten did not
stir after falling. Several men carried him to
the sidewalk and there he died without regain
ing consciousness.
There is a steep grade in Thirty -ninth-st. be
tween Lexngton-ave and Third-ave., and it
down this hill that the automobile came
The operator. John E. Simmons, Of No. 1,60S
Third-ave.. applied the brakes of the machine
but they seemed to have power in checking
It's course. 1t did not come to standstill until
Second-ave. reached and block of level
street had been traversed. Then Simmons slowly
ran the machine back to the scene of the ac-
cident
Among those who were going up the avenue
at the time Turdy and a woman The
woman was directly in the path of the auto
mobile only little further away than Nantell
and McCluskey Turdy heard the machine COM
Ing, and, grabbing the woman. threw her to the
sidewalk. The fireman himself fell in the gutter
and injured his left hand
Policeman Mott. of the East Thirty-1fth-st.
station. called ambulance from Bellevue Hos
pital and arrested Simmons. The ambulance
surgeon said NantellS death probably due
TO fractured skull
After Simmons and the body of Nantell had
been taken TO the East Thirty-ffth-st. station
word of the accident sent to the Office of
the Metropolitan Express Company. at Forty
ninth-st. and Eighth-aVe. y representative of
the company soon reached the station He said
the accident caused by the failure of the
brakes of the automobile to work He said that
Simmons was a careful man. and that he could
ascribe the trouble to nothing else than faulty
brakes.
Simmons was locked up. charged with homi-
cide.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
ONE WAR CLOUD BLOWS AWAY.
PEACEFUL ENDING OF THE cHILI-ARGEN
TINA CRISIS

Buenos Ayres Dec, 27.-The "Nacion" says
the Argentine-Chi!ian protocol has been def
ntey approved by DIR. Alcorta, the Argentine
Minister OF Foreign Affairs
1t is further asserted that the incident arising
from the changing of a phrase in the protocol
by the Chan Minister of Foreign Affairs
Senor Yanez. has not the Importance attached
10 it by some of the newspapers here
1t is generally admitted this evening that the
difficulties between Argentina and Chill have
been ended. 1t is true that word in the proto
col was changed before the text of the docu-
ment was made public at Santiago but Sehor
Portela, the Argentine Minister. protested
against the alteration. and the Chan Foreign
Minister promptly ordered a rectifcation to be
made
DR.. Alcorta, when asked this evening by the
correspondent Of The Associated Press about the
incident arising from the alleged changing of
word in the protocol by the Chilian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Sehor YaneZ, replied that he
attached no Importance 10 this matter, and that
he believed everything between the two coun-
tries would be satisfactorily arranged to-mor
row.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
ILLNESS DELAYS APPOINTMENT
1T is SAID THAT DEAN HAsKINS. OF NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY COMMERCE SCHOOL,
IS TO BE COMMISSIONER OF
ACCOUNTS

II was learned last night that the office OF
Second Commissioner of Accounts whose duties
those of an expert accountant. may be Of
fered TO Charles Waldo Haskns. Dean OF the
School of Commerce. Finance and Accounts OF
New-York University The first Commissioners
Of Accounts. William Hepburn Russell. has al
ready been named. and the delay which has at
tended the appointment OF his associate has
caused considerable discussion in political
circles.
Investigation brought out that Mr. Haskins
had been considered with such favor by the
Mayor-elect that he about TO tender the
appointment. when he learned that Mr.. Has
kins was critically i'll with pneumonia
Mr. Haskins declined TO see any one last night.
but il was learned that he is slowly improving.
although still confined to his bed. His physi-
clans say that with proper care he may be able
to go out not long after New Years.
Mr. Haskins is president Of the New-York
Society of Certified Expert Accountants. Pre-
paratory to the consolidation OF the present city
Mr. Haskins headed the commission which was
appointed TO examine the accounts OF the city OF
Brooklyn. He has also been employed in inves-
tigating the accounts OF other cities. On the
passage of the New-York State law establishing
a board of examiners for the examination OF
candidates for the degree OF certified public ac-
countant Mr.. Haskns appointed 10 the
board and was made It's first president.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
INTEREST IN HILLS VISIT
ADVISING THOSE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
CROKER.

Ex-senator David B. Hill was in the city at the
Hoffman House yesterday. Mr.. Hill said that
law business brought him here. and he would
not talk politics. 1t is understood however
that while in the city Mr.. Hill will consult with
the leaders of the Greater New-York Democracy
the anti-Tammany Democratic organization
and will also consult with Perry Belmont re-
garding his campaign for Congress in the With
District Mr.. Hill Is advising those who are de-
termined upon driving Croker from the Demo-
cratic leadership in this county. and his fire.
quent visits to the city regarded by the
politicians significant. The politicians say
that the independent Democrats are making
great inroads upon Tammany. and that Hill and
other anti-Tammany Democrats rapidly
bringing about a condition whereby Tammany
will be dsintegrated and discredited. and will
have to be reorgarized along new lines with new
leaders.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28

CORONER HEARS TESTIMONY FOR AND
AGAINST ACCUSED MEN.

Hudson n. Y. Dec. 27.-The Coroner's inquest in
the case of Peter A. Hallenbeck of Greenport. who
was murdered his home last Tuesday. was con-
cumstantal evidence to be Tightening
piclon of being implicated in the murder-Wirs
Bruce. Hallenbeck was shot down in the doorway
of his house. about eighteen miles from Kinder
hook where the prisoners reside.
At the inquest this afternoon Mrs. Van Wormer.
stepmother of the Van Wormers: Pearl Louise Van
II. Brown, a liveryman; Mrs. Maria Connor and
two daughters. testified In behalf of the prisoners
swearing their being in Kinderhook between one
and two hours after the crime committed.
They were positive in their statements. which
not shaken under examination.
Demond Vener a notion dealer at Kinderhook
swore than Monday two of the prisoners pur-
chased two masks in his store. The masks repre-
sented devils faces On Tuesday evening he testi-
fed the other prisoners bought two more. The
The murderers wore masks when Peter A. Hallen-
beck killed.
The wheels of a wagon which the prisoners hired
the day of the murder are said to correspond
exactly with the tracks of those leading from the
scene of the crime. The horse driven to the wagon
had peculiar shoe, and impression identical
the soft earth in the vicinity OF the Hallenbeck
home The shoes worn by thep risoners on the day
of their capture said to mt the shoe prints left
I'm the snow exactly.
Interest in the case is intense. The prosecuting
officers declare they confident the right men
have been arrested. So far. however, the evidence
Coroner's hearing declare they establish
satisfactory aibi.