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MARKETS CORRECTED DAILY KM or Hit TERMS. Bisierh Newspaper (Inich Kansas City. NATIVE STEERS HO 43 Choice to WHEAT No. 2 hu-1 CORN No I White OATS No. 2 White HAY Choice Timothy Choice Prairie BUTTER EGGS Chicago.

Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIMS STEERS 1 5 33 5 9) STOCKS is FE 2 25 4 10 TEXAS FED STS SLiS 2 74 3 50 HOGS 5 35 5 60 Chicago Grain. WHEAT No 2 80 CORN No. 2 444 a 44 OATS No. 3 35 i 35 St.

Loots Live Stock. BEEVES 3 4) HEIFERS Corn Fed 2 25 TEXAS STEERS 2 2J 5 40 3 05 9 3 40 Cottou. Mid llinjs LIVERPOOL. 5.74J NEW YORK 10.10 GALVESTON Chicago Futures. 10.35 13-16 Makes Reparation.

Editor Stafford of the Oklahoman went to Guthrie and investigated the truth of the report published in his paper concerning the Guthrie Leader and the Guthrie Capital having been placed under the same management, Stafford returned and published a manly- statement of the case correcting the report, and Editor Niblack was satisfied. Womens Clubs. The annual convention of the Federation of Womens Clubs for' Oklahoma and Indian Territory will convene in I. November 3, continuing for three day-s. Mrs.

J. C. Roberts, of Kingfisher, is president of the association. Hennessey- Deposits. The financial statements of tne three Hennessey banks show deposits to tiie amount of 321.897.17, which, allowing for a population of 2,000 would give every man, woman and child in the city $160.94, if it were equally divided.

Straightening Lines. When the railroads first built into Oklahoma they meandered around the hills to find a grade. Now they are straightening them out and making cuts and fills for grades. Mrs. Dennis Fltnn Improving.

Ex-Delegate Dennis T. Flynn reports Mrs. Flynn greatly improved in health and says that she will be able to make the trip to Oklahoma with her children this week. A Race War. The Rock Island railroad has precipitated a small race war at Chickasha in an effort to get control of land on which to build its new car shops.

Five acres of land was granted the Rock Island by congress, and negro squatters have been occupying it, some of them having been given quitclaim deeds to their lots by persons who had no authority. The railroad had given them notice to vacate and sent tlielr fence gang to enclose the tract, and were met with armed resistance from the negroes who refused to vacate. Prohibition Endorsed. At their recent convention at Eufaula the five tribes passed a resolution as follows: The general council of each nation shall instruct its delegates to incorporate in the constitution a provision pi-ohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the boundaries of the state to be formed out of Indian Territory. Guthrie Healthy.

Physicians of Guthrie state that in the history- of the city- tliero has never been a time when there were fewer cases of typhoid fever than at present. One prominent phv-Bician says he has not had a ty-phoid fever case for six months and states that he knows six other physicians who have not had cases in that time. No Negroes There. No negroes are allowed to live in Beaver county. A family of negroes, traveling overland, excited great curiosity in that country the other day.

They are the only representatives of the colored race in the county, and were quite a sight in the ey-es of the young people, who had never seen a negro. Edgar Brains Death. Edgar Brain, editor of the Grant County News, at Pond Creek, was taken suddenly ill in Wieiiita a few days ago and subsequently removed to his home where he died. He was well known in Oklahoma, where he was credited with being one of tiie brightest newspaper men iu the west. The Pecan Kino.

J. R. Ross holds that title in Payne county-. He has several fig trees growing on the south side of his house, which are full of the delicious fruit, and if the frost holds off Mr. Ross will have from one to two bushels of this fruit.

Ask For Probate Judges. At a meeting of Indian Territory- lawyers resolutions were passed petitioning congress to provide for the establishment of probate courts in the recording districts of Indian Territory. Leave for Manila. Two companies, A and of the Twenty-second infantry, have left Fort Reno for San Francisco where they will take ship for the Philippines on October 31 for two years service there. Santa Fe Freight Depot.

Masons are on the ground at Shawnee to start the work of building a new Santa Fe freight depot. It is hoped that the building will be finished by Dec. 1. Increased Wheat Acreage. From statements made at Guthrie by West Side men, the wheat acreage in western Oklahoma wili be much increased over the acreage of last year.

Charter Unpaid. The incorporation papers of the Pan-American railroad were returned to the stockholders because the incorporation fees remained unpaid. Against Oil Men. Farmers about Apache are determined to keep oil men off their claims and the oil men seem equally determined to go on with their work. For Canning Factory.

A stock company has been organized at Prague for buildiug a canning factory. Raid Gamblers. Sheriff Ozman, of Canadian county, raided the gambling places at Shawnee and arrested 26 persons. Platting Townsitks Closed. The platting of townsites in the Choctaw nation has closed because there is an insufficient amount of funds on hand with which to carry on the work.

The work, it is thought, could have been completed by June 1, hut the appraisement of town lots was deemed more important and the money will be used for that purpose. Good Roads. The commercial club of Sparks lias paid out 100 for the improvement of roads leading into that town. Cattlemen are Flush. Notwithstanding the lack of banks in lhe Southwestern Kansas counties, the people there have more money per capita than the people in any other section of the state.

They are nearly all cattlemen and count their money by the thousands. A Western Kansas newspaper recently took census of Grant county and found that it had 700 in cash on deposit for every man, woman and child in the county. Money in Wolves. Many Western Kansas men are now makng money killing wolves. Counties are authorized to pay a bounty for wolf scalps and nearly every county in the western third of the state is offering bounties.

The wolf crop is heavy. Wolves are overrunning everything. The scalp of a gray wolf is worth 1. His pelt is worth 2 more. One wolf a day makes good wages far a hunter.

Some are averaging from two te five. Taxes Paid in Cowley. The Cowley county treasurer has just completed his annual tax settlement for 1903 and it shows the best collections in the history of the county. The delinquent list was only pea cent of the total. The United States school census enumerator found that the valuation of school buildings in Cowley exceeds that of any county in the state.

Samples of Jurors. Forty-five men were examined in the federal court at Leavenworth for jurors and each one asked if he had sernples against rendering sentence of conviction where the penalty is death, and every one of the forty-five answered they had not. From this the Times argues that the people of Kansas are not opposed to capital punishment. Kansans Reach Out. Kansas capitalists are becoming heavily interested in banana planting in Central America.

Lawrence men, the Woodwards and Mr. Bloomelseielc, have a plantation in Spanish Ilouduras, Central America. Their Las Palmas plantation has 500 acres ready for harvesting. About 800 acres more will he ready for gathering in the spring. Grain Spoiling.

T. S. Houpt, of Bogue, has notified the state board of railroad commissioners that if he doesnt get some grain cars pretty soon he will be a heavy loser. He has several thousand bushels of wheat piled out along the railroad tracks and the wet weather is damaging it. Herbert in Hospital.

Ewing Herbert, owner of the Brown County World, and postmaster of Hiawatha, is in a hospital at Kansas City, under treatment for nervous ailments. His condition is not serious. Humboldt Advances. That place ha3 attained the dignity of being proclaimed a city of theseeoad class. The development of the oil industry has nadc the town grow to a population of 2,000.

Lost in Oklahoma. Willis Hen-ingh, of Farmington, Atchison covn-ty, left three weeks ago with 1,000, for Perry, 0. to buy a farm. Nothing has been heard from him siuce then. Of Lono-Belu Company.

Samuel H. Wilson, vice president and general manager of the Long-Bell Lumber company, is dead. This company has a number of branch yards in Kansas towns. Cost of Kissing. It costs 32 to kiss a Topeka woman against licr will.

This was the rate fixed by Judge Arthur McCabe, of the city court. For a City Park. At a special election at Wellington a special tax was levied for the purchasing, improving and maintaining a city park. A Bee F. M.

Beagle cut down a tree on his farm, five miles south of Paola, from which he secured 140 pounds of honey. Twenty-seven Blacklisted. Probate Judge Jeffries has requested the druggists of Chanute not to sell 27 citizens, who are listed, any intoxicating liquors for any purpose. The druggists will obey the request as though it were a command, to protect their licenses. The list includes some prominent citizens.

Emporia After Gas. The city of Emporia has let the contract for its first gas well. The well will be drilled in one of the city parks by Follensbee Perkins, of Chanute. Zinc in Coal Mine. While miners were sinking a coal shaft on the Exlcy farm, southwest of Pittsburg, they passed through four feet of an ore at a depth of forty-two feet, which is declared to be a good specimen of zinc ore.

The nearest zinc mines are at Galena, nearly thirty miles from there. A Fine Instrument. Prof. B. W.

Truesdell, of Friends university, has recently added a 60 compound microscope, a fine barometer and some other needed appliances for the use of his classes in and chemistry and biology. Result of tiie Fj.ood. County warrants are now stamped not paid for want of funds in Pottawatomie county. This is a result of the great floods the past spring. It is the first time such a thing ha6 been necessary in many years.

Some of the banks are now paying interest on daily balances to help out the county. Friends Raised Funds. At the yearly meeting of the Kansas Quakers there was raised $21,126.80, of which was the endowment of the Friends university. Sale of an Orchard. Although the apple crop in Doniphan county this year is considered a failure, Joe Euler sold his entire orchard of ten acres to Michael Bauer, of Watlicna, for SSOO cash.

His orchard is six miles north of Troy, in the hills. Succeeds Elllt. Governor Bailey has appointed C. L. King, of Butler county, as a member of the state penitentiary board, to succeed E.

C. Ellct of that same county, who has been appointed as land inspector by the interior department. A Working Church. The Baptist church at Belleville has a membership of only 120, yet during the past year they have raised 3,000 for all purposes which includes the building of a 1,600 parsonage. And yet at Belleville cigarette smoking is common.

Clay County Orchards. It is reported that some of the orchards in Ciay county will turn out well while others have no fruit at all. In some crehards there are the same conditions, some trees bearing well while others have no fruit. Largest Rye Raise it. J.

L. Cook, of Gove county, is the largest rye raiser in the county. His crop this year threshed out 1,300 bushels. He also raised 1,600 bushels of wheat and considerable corn. He is pleasantly situated on his farm adjoining Gove City, where li has at all times the luxuries worth living for, including hogs, cattle, horses, a pond of fish and plenty to eat.

Farmers Too Busy. Judge C. W. Smith has set a new precedent at Stockton, by adjourning court so the farmers might save their crops. He presides over a district in the great corn and wheat belt in Northwest Kansas, and said from the bench that the saving of a j-ears earnings was of greater importance than the adjournment of a few petty suits.

Capture Made. Federal officers raided the Fred Whittlinger place at Gerardy, five miles north of Hanover, capturing Fred Whittlinger and two other persons. The place of Whitt-lingcr is supposed to be the headquarters of a gang of postoffice robbers operating in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The capture is probably an important one. Must Hold Certificates.

The state board of education gives it out flat that certificates will not be issued to persons named by county superin-tendents as normal institute instructors unless such persons hold certificates and meet the requirements laid down by the board. Sac and Fox Indians. That portion of tiie tribes, now all about 60 years old, who refused to sign the treaty made forty years ago, ceding their lands in Franklin county, are again asserting their rights to the land. Goat on Each Stump. Before the recent flood at La Cygne Daniel Stain -brook had a bunch of fifty-three goats and fourteen stumps in his pasture.

When the water went down he had just 14 goats one on each stump. Another Peabody Colt. Peabody was the home of Joe Patchen when a colt. Kirkwood Jr. a horse that was foaled at Peabody, has made a record at Lexington, of nis last years record was 2:25.

His Son Disappeared. T. J. Porter, a leading stockman of Kansas, died very suddenly. His son, Cliarles, attended the Priests of Pallas festivities in Kansas City and has not since been heard from.

Steam Plows at Work. They are being used this fall in McPherson and Russell tounties. A harrow is hitched on behind and after the plow has gone over the ground it is ready for the wheat drilL Pkemitm Stasips Refused. The merchants of Emporia, after a persistent canvass by agents of a premium stamps company, held a meeting and decided not to take up the scheme. Use Printed Stationery.

It is a common thing nowadays for Kansas farmers to order five hundred stamped envelopes with their return card upon them. Gets Big Contracts. J. D. Hanley, of Topeka, has 100,000 worth of work on pavements at Iola.

He albo has a contract to construct a 30,000 sewer in that city. The Katherine Depot. A very nice old lady at Oswego the other day asked the way to the Katherine depot. The Katy was pointed out to her. Depot Twice Robbed.

The Missouri Pacific depot at Red field was broken into and robbed twice in three days. School Library. The Smith Center school library has 200 volumes and has ordered $250 worth more of hooks. Asks 150,000. The Kansas Improved Live Stock Breeders' association asks the Kansas worlds fair commission for an appropriation of to make an exhibit at St.

Louis. They want the Kansas commission to duplicate premiums won at the St. Louis fair. Fair Grounds Fire. Thirty-four box stalls were burned at the fair grounds at Sterling.

The grounds are out of the fire company's limits and the fire was finally put out by the farmers and a bucket brigade. Moving to Junction. The contract has been let tor the moving of the town of Milton, Sumner county, about one mile to the cast, where the Orient and Missouri Pacific railroads cross. A hank has been organized with stock subscribed by farmers of the vicinity who are all wealthy stockmen. Bounty fob Reservoirs.

A. M. Crary, editor of the Ilerington Times has started a movement to give a bounty to every farmer who builds a reservoir to prevent floods. The farmers are discussing favorably the plans. Farmers Want Help.

Kansas farmers still want more farm hands. Free Employment Director T. B. Gerow is in daily receipt of letters from them from different sections of the state asking for help. The greatest demand comes from the corn counties.

Husking has just begun and it will take an army of men lo put the crop in the crib. At Camp Sanger. There was an army of 12,000 men gathered there on Sunday, Oct. 18, aud another thousand expected. Santa Fk Gives $500.

The Santa Fc road made the Methodist church of Emporia a present of 500 for the new church, with the understanding that tiie church will not bring suit for damages because of the fire which de-stroyed tire old church. Interubban Lines. There are two of them out of Topeka which seem likely to be built; one of them up the Kansas river to Manhattan aud the other across the country from Topeka to Council Grove through Auburn. All in Three Days. A man sitting on the railroad track at Neodesha was struck by a train and killed.

Reason, drunk. A freight train struck a hobo at Thayer and ground him to pieces. Cause, drunk. A Rock Island train ground a man to pieces in Smith county. Cause, drunk.

All in three days. 5,000 Truants. L. T. Gage, truancy officer of Topeka, lias notified the city superintendent that there are 5,000 children of school age who are not attending the city schools.

BRIEF MENTION OF INTERESTING EVENTS OFTHE WEEK. TERRITORY TOPICS Xnw Opera House. The new brick opera house at Waukomis is completed. Co-operative Buy'ing. This plan has raised the price of wheat 5 cents a bushel at Perry.

At Woodward Land Office. During September there were 873 filings, 79 soldiers declarations and 51 final proofs. A Line of Autos. J. B.

Chapman will shortly install a line of automobiles from Lawton to the mountains, via Fort S.ll. Oil at Waukomis. After reaching a depth of 45 feet the well diggers drew out water which is declared to be 35 per cent oil. The Hobart Compress. It has bandied 3,650 bales this season and expects to handle 4,000 more before tiie season closes.

Russian Thistles. They have been found in Woods county and the farmers are excited over it and are on the alert for extermination. Contract Let. The Odd Fellows hall at Carmen is to be built on the corner of Main aud Central streets, the contract having been let. 40,000 Black Locusts.

Farmer Jones, near Enid, has a black locust grove of about that number. The trees are in fine condition. All Send Pelicans They send tbem C. O. D.

to Prof. Dyclie, of Kansas university. He gets 40 or 50 a year which he buries in a ravine. Indiana Association. Its annual meeting was postponed to October 19, oiving to the occupation of Island Park, Oklahoma City, by the national guard.

Want Pine Lands Opened. A commission representing the Choctaws ask the Dawes commission to open for allotment the pine lands of their country. Peace Declared. The several cases in court between the cattlemen and the homesteaders are ended by mutual agreement to be good to each otiier. Second Crop Ready.

Iu the eastern counties of Oklahoma the second crop of potatoes is ready for digging, with tne prospect that it will outyield the fir.it. '1 hey Steal Stock. Bogus deputy marshals are thick in the Creek nation. They bteal stoek and blackmail the settlers. Occasionally one of them is arrested.

A New Editor. Miss Bertlia Eagles, of Tliaver, Kas. lias assumed editorial charge of the Miami, I. Republican. C.

W. Parker resigned to accept a position in St. Louis. Choctaw Road Rumors. It is reported at Fort Supply that the Choctaw railroad has planned an extension from Wa.siiita Junction, running in a northwesterly direction, through Custer, Dewey and Woodward counties to Woodward and Fort Supply.

It issaid this line will strike tiie towns of Ceiu tos, Putnam, Mutual, Persimmon and Lenora. County- Seat Election. Judge Pancoast refused an application for a writ of mandamus compelling the commissioners of Dewey county to act on a two-3-ear-old petition for a county seat election, in the interest of Taloga; on the ground that the statute authorizing the removal of county seats iu the Chej-enne and Arapaho country is in conflict with the act of congress opening that country. Coupling Pin Through Him. John Peterson, an engineer on the Rock Island, while cleaning his engine at Chickasha, was caught by tiie coupling pin in front pinning him against another engine, the pin going through his body.

There being no one near it was some minutes before he was released. He leaves a family at Fort Worth, Texas. Cattle Shipping. In one day the Katy took from Hennessey-, Kay county, 103 cars of cattle to Eastern markets. The Military Institute.

The Oklahoma military institute is now in full operation. Captain James E. Brett, United States army, is in active charge of the military department. The equipment from the Rock Island arsenal has been siiipped and albo the cannon from the Watcrvleit arsenal, New York. Building Si-one.

The body of red sandstone and spotted limestone discovered near Prague some time ago has been opened up. Experts pronounce it fit for snipping. Coal and Mineral. William Busby-, of South McAlester, chosen to prepare a suitable exhibit of the coal and mineral resources of Indian Territory at tiie St. Louis worlds fair, has his nork well under way and the exhibit promises much.

A Lively Race. The Cherokee national council will meet in regular session the first Monday of next month at Taiilequali, the Cherokee capital. A lively- race is now on among the candidates for president of the senate and speaker of the house. Rapid Grand Jury-. The grand jury of the Western judicial district of Indian Territory at Muskogee, in session last week returned more than 400 indictments against alleged violators of the laws.

In one day 212 indictments were returned, or an average of one every two minutes. Enough. The worlds fair commission of Oklahoma has given notice that there is an ample supply of apples on hand for the St. Louis exhibit, and that no more apples need be forwarded for that purpose. Election Will be Held.

The bond election at Lawton will bo held since 710 citizens have registered. By- an extra effort the required number of registrations was obtained. There is much opposition to voting bonds for a paper railroad. Deputy- Sheriffs. All but six of the deputy sheriffs of Kiowa county have been dismissed by the county-commissioners.

Heretofore there iias been pressure from localities upon the sheriff to give their town a deputy, until their number became large. RECORD PAPER. WICHITA, KANSAS KANSAS COMMENT. Wires Grounded. Outlaws grounded tlie telephones in Pratt, rendering them useless for a time.

Eighteen Paroi.ed. The reformatory board has paroled eighteen bo-s from the state reformatory at Hutchinson. A. II. T.

Association. The State Anti-Horsethief association held a meeting at Winfield which was well attended. Iloa Cholera. Farmers in the Wakarnsa valley in Shawnee and Douglas counties lost over 1,000 swine in two weeks by hog cholera. Farm Lancs Advance.

A. D. Scott bought 800 aeres of Butler county land one year ago at 11 an acre. lie is now offered 16 an acre for it and asks 20. Marched Back to Fort.

About 50 national guards with a number of ulars were rounded up in Junction City by regular cavalry for being out of camp without passes and were marched back over the four muddy nnies. Object to the Fee. Fifty non-resident pupils at the Kansas agricultural college have left because of the annual fee of 40 which was fixed by the legislature last winter. The Kansas students all pay the fee of 3 a term. Despite the loss of the 50 non-residents the college has a gain of 200 over last year.

Hotel Fire Escapes. There is only three months left to comply with the law requiring fire escapes in hotels. The law also affects buildings two stories or more high where more than twenty persons are employed; including wholesale houses, mills, factories, school houses, lodge buildings and public halls. G. A.

R. IIei.ief Funds. The committee appointed by the G. A. R.

department to distribute funds to old soldiers who suffered loss in the Kaw valley flood has completed its work. The amount distributed was Of the 203 comrades who gave in their names there were 25 found who did not need aid. Jeweli. County Coal. All the 'mining machinery necessary to mine the twenty-eight inch vein of coal which was reached by a shaft near Jewell City has arrived there and the work of taking out coal will begin in a few weeks.

A stock company is o.iganizeu to operate a second shaft which has been completed. A Record Breaker. In the large family contest inaugurated by the Topeka Mail and Breeze the first prize did not go to Mr. and Mrs. YV.

Q. Elliott, of Rice county, but certainly the pair are deserving of honorable mention. They were married in 1S5S. During the next twenty-four years twelve sons and three daughters were horn to them. Mr.

Elliott claims that the family average of a baby every sixteen and a half months for 258 months is a record breaker. Public Printing. It is announced by the state printing board, vvhieli is composed of Attorney General Coleman, State Treasurer Kelly and Secretary of state Burrow, that the cost of state printing will be cut down to the minimum from now on and that no useless reports will be published. It is the intention of the hoard to keep within the appropriation for the work made by the last legislature. In the past every legislature has had to meet deficiency appropriation feills for.

the state printing ranging from 50,000 to 75,000. Initiated 140. The celebrated far west grand encampment degree staff of Leavenworth, conferrel the degrees upon a class of 140 candidates during the encampment at Wichita, said to be the largest class ever initiated into Odd Fellowship in the West, and believed by many to be the largest ever known in the United States. Cowboys Scarce. Ranchmen in the western part of the state complain of a scarcity of men.

Cowboys are finding more lucrative employment elsewhere and are deserting the range. Inspectors Fees. State Grain inspector Radford turned in 6,439 in fees for the month of September. The expenses of the department were 3,950. The fees were 700 greater than for any other month in the history of the department.

Oil Inspector Kelly turned in as fees collected in his department for September. His expenses were 496. The Truancy Law. The city of Horton has 100 more pupils in its schools this fall than last. The truancy law did it.

More Demand For Men. Labor conditions in Kansas are better than they were even last year at this time, so Mr. Gerow says. There is more demand for men of all classes of work. In some parts of the country the railroads are turning off men by the hundreds.

In Kansas the roads are putting every man they can find to work Wheat is Moving. The banks of Greensburg have paid out 300,000 for wheat and the crop is just beginning to move. An Engineering Building. Kansas University will ask for an appropriation for one. The attendance at the school of engineering increased nearly seventy-five per cent this year and lias an enrollment of nearly three hundred.

The present building and equipment is inadequate. You Know C. A. Fellows. The engagement is announced of Miss Theresa Smith, daughter of Probate Judge C.

P. Smith, of Concordia, and Charles A Fellows, of Topeka. The wedding will occur October 2S. Rock Island Behind It. It is the general impression at Topeka that the Rock Island is behind ti proposed Wichita, Arkansas Valley and Denver railroad, just chartered; as the Rock Rock Island wants to get into Deliver from the South.

Brledins Waeat. The experiment station, at Hays, of the Kansas Agricultural college is experimenting in breeding a kind of wheat which will Dot shell in harvesting. President Nichols believes that the will be a good thing for wheat growers. Simple Simon Sim mono. Simple Simon Simmons Was a orful dunce! Couldnt read nor Agger Not five times by once! Long an lank an humley, Simple Simon wuz; YYheels inside his top-knot Always on th buzz! Walked around queer like, Studyin of th stars; Had a gait pecooliar.

Like a pair a bars! YVhen ye ast him Howdye? Laughed an said He he! Fooiisher an nothin Wust I ever see! Simple Simon Simmons Stopped th train that night; Loaded down with people On th homeard flight! Down th grade cum Sixty, Forty minutes late Last day of September, Kighteen-ninety-eight! Washout in th' gulch thaf, Side Simmons line! Night was dark an drizzly, Time, nine-forty-nine! Simple Simon Simmons Hearn th enjine toot! Knowd th rails was spreadin, Pilin gone boot! Jes run out an flagged er, Simple Simon did! Stopped th whole keboodle, Jist afore they slid Inter deep damnation But alas! fer Si! Pilot struck him slaunchwise Simple had die! Folks took on like mothers Cryin by th track. But th sobs and whimperin' Couldnt bring him back! See that shaft out yonder Where the shadders lie Thats show th vistors How we honor Si! 5 5 5 On State Street. After considerable dodging In the crowd, she caught up with him again, and grasping his arm from behind cried out: You dont love me any more, 01 you would wait for me in this mob YOU DONT LOVE ME ANY MORE! and and besides you didn kiss me this morning when you I am sorry, madam, interrupted a strange voice, but Ill do it now if you say so! Heavens! She had hold of the wrong man! 5 5 5 Transplanted Jim. Jim Burns is back frm Ne York, Bill Cum yistaday at noon; Jim Tows as how hed ruther be Th smallest cuss ye ever see Right here in Bloom, Than be a king in that air place Where every one is in th race To make things boom! Jim says as how hes glad he went A week ago to-night. He saw a heap things tteach Him how to stretch and reach With all his might; But, Bill, he says that Blooms the town Hes goin to live in, settle down And hang on tight! You know Jim loved th woods like sin; Jest lived among th trees, A listnin to th birds and things.

An every voice that Natur sings. Like hummin bees! An Jim he writ them natural-wise. An put in sun an rain an sighs. Jest as he please! Some feller frm Ne York he read Most everthing Jim writ. An sent fer Jim to come down thar An spiel his nateral things fer fair; Folks have a fit About them leaves and bees an sich An Jim git so big an rich Hed make a hit! So Jim he sighed an said goodby To these here hills; Went out an listened to th breeze A singin music to th trees.

An heard the rills A murmurin to th mossy banks All Naturs creeturs at their pranks An other thrills! Then Jim he got aboard th train A week ago to-night, An went away to Ne York state But, Bill, I reckon it was Fate That showed Jim light! An made him humsick fer th town In spite any laurel crown Of praise an might! Leastwise, most evry one Is glad That Jims come hum to see his dad! 5 5 5 Leap Year. Bachelors should be awakened to the truth: Next year is leap year. Forewarned is forearmed. The question is: Will you pop now and get your ultimatum from the one of your choice, or wait until after January 1 and be popped to and take your chances? Two of the maiden ladies that vow to get a man each this leap year or burst a toga band, are the old girl who always lets down her folding bed to look under it in the hope of finding a man, and the antiquated Nancy who is accredited with saying, Oh, Lord, anything. If you hesitate and allow yourself to become common prey, one of these archaic specimens may insist on warming her feet against your Yertabrae for the rest of your natural nights.

Thus, is repeated the admonition, be warned in time. In New York cigars are made from paper steeped in tobacco juice. We suspect a friend of ours has been next to this for a considerable period. When the frost is on the pumpkin And the fodders in the shock, Reminds me I must sell my watch To get my coat from bock. Samuel Johnson had little faith in men and women being made for eac.i other and each other alone.

His opinion was that marriages in general would be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. Strickland W. Giililan, the newspaper humorist and poet, says in Leslie's Weekly, Ive found love, wealth and conquest. So have we, Gil, but our pipe always goes out before we can call a dray. A writer in the daily press tells us how to catch ring-tailed monkeys.

Wonder if the prescription would work on suburban trains. We fail to catch ours regularly. The biggest summer catch is not always made in the lake theres the heiress, for instance. Open WHEAT Dec 79 May 78 CORN Dec 43 May 43 OATS 85 May 36 Wichita Live Stock. 5 05 1 1 75 HOGS CATTLE STOCKERS COWS HEIFERS STEERS 5 lo 3 00 2 35 9 (9 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A number of Kansas City priests attended the funeral of Bishop Kain at St. Louis. Tiie American investment in religious and educational institutions in Turkey is 6,500,000. The colce trade at Connellsville, continues to slump until now there are 9,000 idle men. Wm.

Elkins, the wealthy capitalist, is sicR at Philadelphia with little hope of his recovery. Tiie great fire at Aberdeen has been estimated, showing losses of 382,000, with 183,000 insurance. A fire at Aberdeen, caused four deaths and destroyed property worth a million dollars. The Bank of Joplin, with a capital stock of 5,000, holds a surplus forty times greater than its capital. The Ohio state board of health is to prevent the sale of toy pistols and other explosive appurtenances.

Alvin Richards, of Dcs Moines, Iowa, is on his way to South America with his family, traveling in a wagon. Cases of death are again being reported which are caused by tiie poison in the dyes with which stockings are colored. The American Royal Live Stoek show at Kansas City had perfect weather, a fine exhibit and large attendance. Ir is generally believed in Pekin that Russia will hold all she has gained in Manchuria and let Corea alono for the present Jacob Baer, employed by a Denver packing company, dressed a 1,200 steer in 3 minutes aud 48 seconds; reducing by 20 seconds the worlds record. C.

P. Dewey and his son Chauncey, have been placed under arrest, charged with fencing government land in northwestern Kausas and intimidating the settlers. Minneapolis, mills are now grinding Kansas wheat and find it profitable to openly sell the flour as as tiie product of Kansas wheat. Heretofore they called it Minnesota wheat flour. Tiie business portion of Deadwood Falls, Minnesota, has had a 130,000 fire, which started in the Hotel Francis.

The guests of the hotel lost everything and saved their lives by a close shave. Deputy Tax Cnminissioner Michael OSullivan, of New York city, has been arrested. He is accused of having taken a bribe on pretext of getting a man appointed to the police force. There is race trouble at Fort Riley between a Texas regiment and a. colored U.

S. cavalry regiment, one of tiie best cavalry regiments in tiie regular army. Andrew Carnegie, before leaving Queenstown, contributed 5,000 to help purchase an organ for the Catholic Cathedral there. The cleric of tiie federal court is reported as saying that Judge Hoolc had issued an order to conceal the names of voluntary- bankrupts. Tiie Rev.

Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York, sent a letter to Prophet Dowie giving the latter a roast which would have squelched any one else than Dowie. Tiie Illinois Steel company issued orders to resume operations at their plant at Joliet, which gives employment to 2,000 men, commencing October 25. The National Retail Liquor Dealers association has adopted a revised constitution with provisions for raising a fund every year for defense of their interests in the state legislatures and in congress. Oag-anized labor, especially- in Chi cago, is facing a ivuge crisis, resulting in retrenchment by- railroads and other large employers.

The Maryland Trust Company of Baltimore, followed by the suspension of the Union Trust company caused much excitement in Baltimore. Tiie Dowieites have closed a deal for 32.000 acres of land in south west North Dakota. They- propose to colonize the land and establisii a Zion there. The Farmers Co-operative Association, commonly called the farmers trust, which started in Kansas has entered Nebraska and is incorporated tli ere. During tiie strike of the employes of tiie Pacific Express company all jewels and other valuables, live stock and perishable property was refused for shipment.

Raymond Prefoutaine, minister of public works in Sir Wilfrid LaurierB' cabinet, says that, the Alaska award will cause the question of secession to bo raised in Parliament. He says many Canadians have long dreamed of Independence. Tiie directors of the Independent Packing company held a meeting at Denver to elect officers and formulate plans. Tiie Trust Company of Denver was made tiie depository of the corn-puny, to hold the 51 per cent of its of capital stock iu escrow. Instructor Appreciation.

The Oklahoma national guard lias been under the instruction of Major II. L. Ripley, of the Eighth cavalry- and he has received presents from the line officers. After Euchre Players. A euchre club at Atoka, composed of society women, which plays each week for prizes, is frightened by a grand jury investigation, fearing an indictment.

Train Held for Taxes. County Attorney Henry- S. Johnston and Undersheriff Arthur Luttens held up an extra Santa Fe train at Perry for unpaid taxes of 1900 due Noble county. A Fair Start. Fifteen towns in Oklahoma are represen tad in the Oklahoma Military institute, two in Indian Territory, one in Texas, and one student comes from Havana, Bank at Quinlan.

The Cherokee National bank of Enid is to assist in establishing a bank at Quinlan. It is to be capitalized at 10,000, 6,000 being subscribed by Quiulau people. May- Repeal Cattle Tax. The Chickasaw Indian legislature, at an adjourned session to meet on November 2, will take action on the proposed repeal of the cattle tax law. Five Years Ago and Now.

There are farms in Kay county which five years ago changed hands at about 1,500 which are being now at from 10,000 to 15,000. Coal Dealers Complain. Tiie ICoal Dealers association met at El Reno, the object of which is to stop the great amount of shortage that the retailers suffer from. Allotments at Atoka. The land office there has made a little more than allotments, and an average had been attained of between fifty and sixty a day-.

Elk Lodge Rooyjs. The furniture and carpets of tiie Elk lodge rooms at Enid will cost upwards of 3,500. Nineteen Finished. That number of brick buildings at Hobart have the brickwork finished. The Banks of Walter.

They hold deposits equal to $77 per capita of the towns population. A Heavy Cut. The Santa Fe is cutting forty-seven feet through a hill near Shawnee. Five Alfalfa Crors. They are harvesting tiie fifth crop in Custer county-.

Texas Fever The secretary of the livestock sanitary- commission prepared a list of herds in Woods county alleged to be infected with Texas fever for the sheriff of that county to lie used in attempts to stamp out the disease. It is said that most of the cases are about Cleo. To Hold Wheat. Circulars are received by Oklahoma wheat growers from the Natioual Farmers Co-operative union, requesting them to hold tliis years crop of wheat until the market goes up to 1. Postal Receipts.

The annual report of tiie auditor of tiie postoffiee department gives the postoffiee receipts of the larger offices in the two territories as follows: Lawton, Ardmore, Cliiekablia, El Reno, Enid, South McAlester, Muskogee, Shawnee Oklahoma City, African M. E. Church. Their Oklahoma and Indian Territory conference met in its eighth session at South McAlester on October 9. A Stillwater Graduate.

Arthur C. Lewis, a graduate of tiie territorial A. M. college and now employ ed as assistant iu botany and entomology, has passed tiie civil service examination for the position of scientific aid in tiie United States department of agriculture. A Three-Acre Orcherd.

E. V. Johnston, of Cleveland, is raising tins year about GOO bushels of apples from three acres of orchard. Johnston has a great number of apple varieties aud lias apples eacii year. Grasshoppers Destroy- Grain.

Some farmers in tiie vicinity of Garber have had rye and wheat destroy-ed by an army of grasshoppers. They- appear to be about tiie same kind of posts that came down upon Kansas, Missouri and other states a quarter of a century ago. Piling Up Indictments. The grand jury at Muskogee continues to pile up indictments against liquor sellers, hut one of the most difficult things in Indian Territory is to secure a conviction before a jury. Pleased to Break E-en.

Cattlemen who have been pa-turing their cattle in the Osage and Kaw Indian reservations will be more than pleased if they "break even on the seasons business. This has been a bad year for the cattle business. The stock was bought high anil the fall market has been low. Wants Cooperage. With a local demand for from 50.000 to 75,000 packages, Mustang would consider favorably a propositiou for tiie establishment of a cooperage factory.

Waterworks and Sewers. Papers in the waterworks and sewerage bond issue of 93,000 recently voted by the citizens of Chickasha were sent to Muskogee where they received tiie indorsement of United States Indian Inspector J. George Wright and were forwarded to Washington for tiie final action and approval of Secretary Hitchcock, department of tiie interior. They are expected back approved by November 1, when active work will begin. Paid for Quarter.

Near Ingersoll a quarter section was sold for Sheriff The Payne comity grand grand jury has returned an indictment against Sheriff John P. Hesser charging him with tailing bribes from persons residing in or near Cushing, for the purpose of protecting them in the running of gambling houses. Postoffice Remittances. During tiie first half of October S00 fourth class postofiices remitted 10,000 to tiie Guthrie office, which is a depository for such offices for Oklahoma and tiie Chickasaw nation. Accounts Balance.

Agents of the treasury- department, after a ten days examination of tiie accounts of tiie disbursing agent of tiie Dawes commission, found the accounts to balance to a cent- More than 1,500,000 had been handled since the last examination was made. Cattlemems Convention. Secretary Bolton announces that the Oklahoma Livestock association will hold its next convention at Oklahoma City-beginning on tiie third Tuesday of February next Jail is Overflowing. The old federal jail at Muskogee is overflowing, and Marshal Bennett is holding up warrants because of having no place to hold prisoners after arrests are made. There are now 240 prisoners in the jail, or, rather, confined within the stockade.

IIas Cocoa. nut Trees. Lem Dor-ranee visited liis homo in Lexington, coming from South America. He lias a large plantation iD the Southland, upon which 2,000 cocoa trees will begin bearing fruit next year..