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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27
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COLLECTING CATTLE TAX.
Indian Police Drive Several Herds
Across the Line Into
Trxas.

Trouble over the tribal tax OF
25 cents per head on cattle has al.
ready begun. Guy ?. Cobb and
four mem mbers Of the Indian Police
collected the tax there all last
week, but met with determined
resistance upon the part Of several
catllemen. among them R. 7.
Davis, W. II. Thompson and
Marion Allen, who refused 10 pay
Il. n
On Friday the policemen drol e
1872 head of cattle belonging 10
Tom Davis across the Red River
into Texas. The day before they
drove Thompson's cattle out OF his
pasture and attempted to drive
'hem across but the herd was too
large for them and they we're un-
able to get them into the stream.
The officers have not bothered
the cattle of the other stockmen
who have failed to pay the tax, but
they are still at Marietta aud may
do so before they leave. Trouble
is feared.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27
RAIDED TIE HOUSES
Constable Payne Turns over
Eighty mine Dollars In Fines
to the Government

Constable Payne saw good
chance TO turn trick for the gov
eminent Saturday, so he girded up
his loins and went at it. About
week ago complaint was made
that Kittie Hardwick, keeper of a
bagnio on the other side of the
Rock Island track had beaten up
one OF her girls and skipped-tem
poraEily. She went to Fl. Worth
and rested for a week, so when
Constable Payne went TO serve the
warrant she was absent. He got
her Saturday and With her four ol
The Rirlr. who were hauled before
the commissioner and assessed
Kitlic got $40 and the four girl'
$40 and costs IN the charge oil
nuisance, while on the charge o
assault and battery Kittie got at
,ther $40. The fines were palc
and the women released.
The constable thought he nigh
As well make clean sweep oil it, 81
he pulled a house on Third stree
IN the rear OF th- Cnicka=aW rrus
90 Building Here he get three
two men and a woman who PAID
fines aggrega'iug $35. Pretty
good days work for the govern
ment.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27

One Of the latest of the many
cheap sensations sprung by the
Oklahoma Republican gang is one
to the effect that farmers along be
western border Of the Chickasaw
Nation have volunteered tneir ser
wees aud Will 60 over into Okla
homa on election day, with their
teams, and put in the day hauling
single statehood voters 10 the polls.
While the idea was not thought OF
until presented by the Republican
newspapers. it is a good one, and
every farmer along the western
shore who can possibly do 90
should freely and gladly donate his
services in the manner suggested
In no better way can these farm.
ers, or people of any class in the
Indian Territory, serve their own
interests than by doing all they can
To defeat the plau for keeping them
IN political bondage for the nexl
twenty-five years, Let all of our
western friends who can possibly
do 50 accept the suggest ton 81
kindly made by the Okishoma Re
publicans. go over with their teams
and put themselves at the disposal
of the Democratic committe.-Pur
cell Register.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27
A WAY 70 MAKE ROADS
Scientific American Suggests a
Treatment of Gas Tar.
Makes Them Hard and Solid! |!
Chickasha Could Pave Her
Streets This Way at a
Cost of Only 800
Per Mile.

" Nhile roads in the United States
have been treated with crude oil to
lay tue dust and render them com
pact, in Italy the same end has
been attained by using gas tar, and
the experiments which have been
made seem to be quite successful,
says the Scientific American. NJ.
@ Rimini, the district engineer at
LugO, Rovenna, has published an
account of the application of gas
tar to some sections Of the public
road in that locslity. He uses It
in two different places on the pio-
vincial route near Lugo, where the
circulation is very active The
tirst portion treated measures AZ
feet long and 10 feet vide and the
second 70 feet long and ID feet
wide. In spite of the prolonged
dryness, the future friendly rela-
tions between the expectations,
and the surface Of the road has be
come very hard aud compact. so
that II Is difficult TO pierce il.
There is no dust, and the rainwa-
ter flows off without penetrating,
and thus there Is no mud formed.
The color OF the soil becomes that
of very dark sand. Ii is not
necessary to treat the whole sur
face Of the road. but only band
IN tue middle about ~ feet wide.
As to the cost of the treatment il
is estimated ut only S96 per mile.
VI r mini is making observa-
'ious 1f The wo sections hns ITeaI
ed before applying It ~ large'
scales.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27
ATTENrIoN. PYrHIANs!

Tonight is the regular meeting
night of Washita Valley Lodge No
43, Knights of Pythias, at the CAS-
tie Hall in the Horne building
Every member of the lodge is
earnestly urged to be present, as
business of Importance is to be
transacted. All visiting brethren
are extended a fraternal invitation
railroad men being especially in.
vited.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27

Birdie sings his little song: he
sings 1t sweet. and sings it long.
He sings about the party vote, but
birdie has to sing by noe. He
sings of statehood, that alone for
Okiahoma-bonnd to come. He
sings it loud and sings it hearty,
and quite IgooTe the other party
The Democrats will have vote
although left ut of BRIDES note
That they will have little say
they'll demonstrate election day
Then watch he a work and ses
tnem do poor Bir lie and his little
crew.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27

Virgil E. Huddleston, who has
bought the Ralston Free Press, IS
one of the swiftest compositors IN
Oklahoma and once worked in tie
government printing office in
Washington.-Kansas City Star
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-27

Horace Shepard is making the
Chiekasha Express sure enough
newspaper Kansas City Star.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
Beneath the Palms.

oh. lonely dead that lie beneath the
palms,
III not disturb your drcamlcss slumber
deep;
Let but my football with the hush of
leaves.
Press to your heart the worlds ca.
ress OF sleep.
Sweet woman were We once, Chiquita,
Rose;
But lying side by side upon the hill.
The rivalry that stirred your Spanish
eyes,
Must now forcvermore be cold and still.
Those soft mantllas that your locks
Ocrhung.
Naqueros who crossed streams your
hands to press.
Where are they now? The songs they
used To sing,
The courts they trod. the stoeds oft
riderless'
Remember you that dead hidalgos eyes.
His shimmerng gay serapo meath tho
palms,
Kisses he gave with vows so lightly
made.
The glowing heart that drew You w
his arms?
oh, VOWS so falsely made, 90 lightly
broken,
Gone are ye now as is the jasmine
breath,
False to both loves, he rode across the
border
And in his stead came emily creeping
death.
Oh deep deep may your long forgetting
be
or heartaches, strife and passions bit.
ter qualms;
The passing years that drift and drift
are kind
And leave you-sleep beneath the drow.
sy palms.
Grace Lvce Ia Muasey's Magazine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
PEACH STONES FOR FUEL.
Have Been Utilized in Baltimore a:
Substitute for Coal

The great strike and the increased
cost OF coal incident thereto has di-
rected much attention to other ma
terials for fuel, and Baltimore man
says good substitute for the black
diamond is dried peach stones. The
only objection to their use is their
scarcity, which depends entirely on
the size of the peach crop. Frank Hall,
the Baltimorean referred to, says his
family had used peach stones as fuel
for years until about three or four
years ago, since which time the supply
has appeared to have decreased.
we used to get the dried peach
stones from Mr. Noel, who got them
from the different packing-nouses and
dried them on his place" said Mr..
Hall yesterday. Il think we paid $3.50
load for them, the load containing
about forty-five bushels. The fuel was
used in the kitchen and gave good
results. The stones will make a quick.
hot fire and one that will last. One
and half or two buckets of the peach
stones will last as long as a bucket of
coal. One has to De careful not TO fill
the stove too full or there will likely
be an explosion similar to a gasoline
explosion. The proper way to keep
the fire going is to put in a shovelful
at a time.
Peach stones thrown into a damn
cellar" said Mr.. Hall, ARE said to
have peculiar effect on a person.
After the stones are in the cellar for
some time gases arise, and the fumes
will go to ones head and give the
same effect as if the distilled product
Of the peach had been imbibed."
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02

and armed with travelling bag about
to depart.
Good heavens, Laura, where are
you going?" he exclaimed. There has
been terrible mistake. Let me ex-
plain"
II desire to hear no explanations"
she interrupted, coldly. Keep them
for papa. You will need them then.
] am going home to get a divorce. Go
back to the other woman"
AS she swept down the corridor Tom
dashed past her and, as if in mockery
of her words, flung himself into the
room she had seen him enter in the
afternoon with the other woman. AS
she passed the door he reappeared.
dragging with him in great excitement
the dark woman and another man,
whom she did not notice. She cast
her eyes straight before her and fed
from the gratuitous insult. Securing
a carriage she was driven RAPIDLY to
the depot. An instant later two men
clad in evening dress flung themselves
into another carriage and started at
n breakneck gait also for the depot.
But it proved a case of the greater
the haste the less to the speed, for
in the reckless driving the carriage
colided with an omnibus and when
the two passengers recovered con-
seriousness the train had been gone
for many minutes.
That Is why the Maynards in their
Western home received the incoherent
but alarming message from their
daughter that she had been cruelty de-
ceived and was on her way home:
which was followed quickly by an
equally incoherent and mystifying wire
from Tom:
Am on the next train following
Laura with my brother and his wife
All terrible mistake. Case of mis-.
taken identity. Brother is my twin
and looks just like me. Make Laura
wait and listen to reason before tax.
ing any step"
The upshot of it all was that tts
two bridal couples spent their honey.
moons in the West instead of the East
and as an incident thereto Tom was
compelled to shave his entire beard
and to promise never to wear one
again, while Jack was compelled to
enter an equally solemn promise to
his bride never to shave his beard.
"The idea" exclaimed Laura, "of a
woman travelling around without a
certainty that she knows her own hus-
band from some other mani"
Yes, indeed! The ideal" echoed
Jacks bride.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
UNCLE SllAS ON AUTOS.
Old Gentleman Compares Them Un.
faVorably With the Horse.

Nav" observed Uncle Sias as he
hitchcd a nail kog few inches so as
to keep within the rcceding shade of
a tree in front of the country store,
II calkilate | wudnt hev one O them
Soshding'd ottymobecls of sum Teller
wud Civ me one fer nuthin. Haint
skasly day passes tibet one q tn
blame sputterin' things don't break
down out in tn road in front o. my
house. One o. them ottymobeels will
git up an git like all Sam Hill fer a
few miles and then, fust thing yew
know, it will jes stop, clean tuckered
out.
"EZ | wuz drivin' intew town this
mornin' | kim acrost two ottymobeels
tibet he'd baked. TIL Teller tibet owned
one wuz a-layin' on his back in under
stummik. Tother chap wanted tew
know whut wu'd charge tew haul his
ottymobeel ten miles tew tn nearest
railroad station, so he cu'd ship it
hum. | toll him that jimmy, my bay
mare, wuz skeer'd o tn internal things
an tibet eff Ia hitch her tew tn otty-
mobeel | reckon'd she wudn't stay
hitched long.
"Nawsir-ee-I don't keer fer emmy
ottymobeels in mine. thank'e | cal
kilate tibet jimmy will answer my pur-
pus yit fer a spell. jimmy is goin' on
% years old an mcbbe she hain't
quite es tpry es she ulster be, seem
es how she is spavn'd SUN an inter
teres in frunt, but when | start out
behind her hcv tn consolation o.
KNOWN tibet she won't git sick an lay
down in tn road like one O them
gOsh-blame Ottymobcels. jimmy, she
can't go a mile minnit, like an otty-
mObeel kin, but she goes a mile es
quick es she kin, an thet's swift enuf
fer me, b'gosh, | wudn't swap thet
little bay mare fer all tn ottymobeels
that yew cud pile in a ten-acre lot
| wouldn't, l gum!"-Ohio State Jour
nal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
DON'T GIVE lip.

Don't be discouraged by past eT-
forts to find relief and cure from the
myrads of ills that come from sick
kidneys. You may pass nights or
sleeploss tossing, annoyed by frequent
urination. Your back may ache like a
toothaChe or sudden twltches and
twinges of backacho pain make life a
misery. Perhaps you have nervous
spells, are weak, tired-out, depressed.
There is cure for all of this and for
every trouble of the bladder and kid
neys. Read this case and note 1t
tells how well the cure was tested:
Charles Lindgren, sealer of freight
cars on the l.. S. & NJ. S. r. r.. La
Porte, Ind, says: Il have greater
faith in Doan's Kidney Pills to-day
than had in the fall of 1897 when l
began taking them and made pub
lie statement Of the result. At that
time | had suffered with lameness
and soreness Of the back, which was
so excruciating that / could scarcely
turn in bed, and Doan's Kidney Pills
completely cured this trouble. | am
always ready to endorse Doan's Kid
ney Pills personally to anyone requir-
ing kidney remedy. After a lapse OF
three years l make this statement,
which shows my undoubted faith in
the preparation"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine, which cured Mr.. Lind
gren, will be mailed on application
to any part of the United States.
Address Foster. Milburn Co., Buffalo,
n. Y. For sale by all druggists, so
cents ner box
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
FRIGHTENED BY CIRCUS LION.
An Old Railroad Engineer in the West
Tells of a Night Ride.

Dan Bechtel of Brookfield, tells
story about a might ride he once took
with a loose lion. which. as he says,
tends to make the goosehesh creep
a little" BeChtel for fourteen years
was an engineer on the Hannibal &
st. Joseph railroad. One night in 1883
he left Macon for Shclbina, his engine
pulling the Wallace shows. 1t was
very dark, and he had orders not to
run faster than fifteen miles an hour.
Bechtel says he was Kidding" the fire
man and head brakeman about what
would happen if some of the wild ami
mails should get loose. when he looked
up and saw an old lion on top of the
cars, moving slowly and gingarly to-
ward the engine.
when the brakeman and fireman
realized what was coming" says Bech-
tel, they made a dive for the cab
door, and were soon riding on the
front of the engine The fireboX was
open and that kept him back, as he
did not seem to know what to make
of the bright dazzling light. | had a
whistle that would scare ghosts, but it
did not phase the lion. We soon be-
gan to lose steam and the train had
to slow down. When we reached Shell.
bina Conductor Pratt came up. making
big kick because we had been going
slow. | pointed to the first car, and
Pratt quickly retreated.
The trainer soon came and took
the big fellow to his cage. He had
found loose bar, which he worked
out. With the fireman and brakeman
on the front end and the show people
and Conductor Pratt on the rear end,
it seemed as if the lion was getting
too close. | thought of all the mean
things | ever did, and held to the
throttle and let the engine go as fast
as she would with what steam | still
had on."-Kansas City Journal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
NURSES LIVES UNRoMANTIc.
Seldom Marry Physicians or Patients
They Have Attended.

1t is generally supposed that there
is a good deal of romance about the
life of professional nurse and that
large hospitals are matrimonial
bureaus where men and women fall in
love with incessant regularity. EX-
actly the opposite is true. Nurses, as
rule, do not marry men whom they
have nursed as patients, nor do they
select for husbands the physicians
with whom they come in contact in a
professional way.
In the last year and a half but one
engagement among the nurses at the
Chicago hospital has been announced
and the incident was so unusual that
IL created no end of comment. The
affair was, in fact, an extreme novelty.
although the female attaches of the
institution are unusually good looking.
This proves that nurses do not
lead the romantic lives that they are
credited with by the outside world"
said a physician. Il have frequently
heard it said that men who had been
seriously i'll often married the trained
nurses who had taken care of them.
This is nonsense. l have employed
hundreds of these women nurses in
the course of my practice, and have
yet to hear of match resulting from
one of them. AS a general thing the
patient takes an aversion to the nurse
who has cared for him, and the better
she has looked after him and the more
strictly she has enforced the doctors
instructions the less he has cared for
her.
physicians sometimes fall in love
with the nurses they meet in their
practice, but such affairs, instead of
being common, are rare. If any girl
enters the profession with the idea of
capturing husband she is apt to find
herself sadly sold"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
Jennings Bride.
BY WILLIAM WENDHAM.

! Copyright. 1902. by Daily story Pub Coz
1t all happened because Jennings
concealed it from Laura that Jack, his
brother, was his twin. and further
that they rcsemblcd each other so
closely that their nearest friends could
not tell one from the other unless they
were seen together, and then 1t was
very doubtful. So near alike had these
two young men been all their lives
that in infancy their own mother had
been compelled to mark them SO she
could tell them apart-which was Tom
and which was John. 1t was re-
semblance which went far beyond the
physical They acted alike, they ges'
tured alike, their mannerisms OF
movement and speech were alike, they
thought alike. They had always read
the same books and deduced thcrefrom
the same thoughts. All their theories
of life and philosophy were alike
save only one. Tom was fond of fair
haired, blue.eyed girls. while Jack
raved after bruncttes of the most
vivid type.
So 1t had come to pass that Tom,
sent to the West on long business
mission, had wooed and won dainty
Laura Maynard and they were on
their honeymoon when the catastrophe
happened. Jack had found it impos-
sible to be present at the wedding,
two thousand miles distant for one
reason among others. that he was to
be married himself within a week of
the day set for the Jennings Maynard
nuptals. Then it was that the broth.
ers had resolved, with one accord.
after an elaborate exchange of telc-
grams, that it would be good thing
to give both brides a surprise and
meet at the same watering place for
the respective honeymoons. This re-
CURED considerable fincsse for two
men without the aid of n feminine
head, especially when the matter in
volved SO important a part of two
weddings. But they succeeded by
hook or crook, and Tom triumphantly
carried off his golden-haired beauty
far across the continent to a seaside
hotel of great fame and there installed
her in palatial bridal suite, while he
appearance of Jack and his bride.
With all this detailed explanation
sou can easily guess how it turned
out and you really cannot blame Laura
for her hasty and somewhat radical
action.
Everything had been going so lovely
that Laura seemed to be in veritable
fairyland and feared each moment
that she would awaken and find it all
a dream. In this frame of mind she
did awaken very suddenly. Tom had
slipped out for an afternoon cigar, he
said. and presently, hungry for the
loving gaze of his frank, sparkling
eyes. she started down the spacious
corridor, bent on going to he broad
piazza and find him. She had little !
more than left her apartment than
she came face to face with him. |
And could she believe her eyesO on |
his arm was radiant beauty with |
saucy black eyes and a wealth of coal |
black hair. and he was bending to- !
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02

When a weapon of any kind is pur-
chased in Russia, permit must be Sc
cured from the local authorities. The
name OF the man who makes the pur-
chase, with the number Of the weapon,
is recorded. II the purchaser ever
wants to dispose Of the weapon he
must notify the authorities and cause
the transfer to be recorded on the
books OF the firm which sold it. If that
weapon is ever used in an attempted
assassination, or In any demonstration
against the law, the man recorded as
last having it in his possession is held
esponsible.-New York Tribune.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
Had Crazy SPELLS.

West Pembroke, Me, Sept. 22.-
The thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs.
A. l.. Smith suffered with a peculiar
affection which her mother describes
as follows:
1T is two years now since she was
first taken with crazy. spells.
They kept on coming at intervals
and could get nothing to do her any
good.
THE doctors gave me no encourage
ment. They all said they could not
help her.
THE crazy spell would last about
nine days, then she would be well
about nine days, but would eat very
little and was very yellow Even the
whites Of her eyes were yellow.
II heard that Dodds Kidney Pills
were a great remedy for young girls
and decided to try them.
After taking one box she was COM
pletely restored and she has not had
one bad spell since. OF course we con-
tinued to use the pills and she used
altogether five boxes last fall.
In March I thought I saw symp-
toms of the spells again and l got
six boxes Of which she has taken
four, and is in splendid health.
Her case was certainly a remark
able one and we are very thankful
to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the great
good they have done my daughter"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02

lounge. 1t all came to her presently,
after her mind recovered somewhat
from the SPECIFICATION that had come
at the glance her husband had given
her. She had been betrayed, fooled.
She was married to n man who did
not love her, who was a mere triher
if indeed he were not bigamist.
Was she in fact married at all? Who
was this other woman? Why not an
other wife came to claim him? Then
what was to become Of her? She pom.
dcrcd on these things for many mo.
mcnts. Then she made up her mind.
She would 90 home.
Deliberately she took account of the
well-fillcd purse her father had pressed
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02
Danube River Water Never Blue.

The beautiful blue Danube" is
myth. Herr Johann Strauss to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. That fact has
been established beyond a doubt by
the municipal authorities of Mautern,
who for the space of one year have
been conducting experiments with the
river water. AS result of their in
vestigations they report that the color
Of the Danube was brown on IL days,
light green on As. yellow on 46, emsr-
aid green on 146, dull green on SO and
dark green on IS. Not once was the
water blue.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-10-02

ward her in an a;tituGe Enthusiastically
lover.liko, and was whispering ardent.
ly into her very dainty and very will.
ing ear. AS Laura was about 20
scream out to him he turned and his
eyes met hers, VITA an unrccogniz-
ing stare he turned back with radi.
ant glance Of devotion to the dark
woman on his arm and followed n
bell boy into an apartment
As the door closed she tried to
scream, but her voice failed her. Me.
chamvslly she staggered back to her
bridal chamber ana sank upon q