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Ti!wmJiiuaiijiLi tffjfaU"S5Sj55EiniS5S5!Sy " . a 1 TU-V-uk. .- -X T. . . ' '' J. THE BEAT HERALD. .. a svi VOL. I. BEAVER, OKLAHOMA TERRITORYTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1895. NO. 38. -,' MR ii u I 7 MtB I- VAX4.AAAJH.A.. Jl ,., tlA-UXA J OCTOBER 1895. 5 Mill Mlli !IL M M : fjMli 15 1 171819: $20 21 22 23 24 25 26: J27 28 29 30 31 j CURRENT COMMENT. Ia It Dawkok, of Des Moines, In., claims to have discovered a process for making steal equal to the famed Damascus, the art for "making which lias been lost for centuries. Lord Scully, who owns nearly 100, 000 acres of land in Illinois, as much mora in Kansas and Nebraska, tins taken out naturalization papers In New York city. It is his intention to in nit o that city his future home. Thk District of Columbia prond jury lias recommended the establishment of tho whipping1 post for wife-beaters and other petty criminals, and tho jddfjo thought such a method of punishment would bo productive of pood results. FlNK Havana cigars may become scarce in tho next year or two if tho present rebellion in Cuba continues much longer. The Insurgents have nejrleoted their tobacco crops to a large extent to fight against the Spanish troops. The bones found by l'rof. J. L. Wort man, of Columbia college, N. Y., near tho head of Hitter creek, Wyoming, nnd pronounced by him possibly tho "missing link," hove turned out to be tho skeloton of a pet monkey once owned by cowboys. Ggoiior Couwin, of llelle Vernon, 1'a.f grew nine, pumpkins on one vino this year which oggregated almost 1,000 pounds in weight Tho largest pumpkin weighed 103 pounds and measured 7 feet V inches in cir cumference. One was 0 feet 4 inches in length and weighed 105 pounds. "Ouida," tho distinguished novelist, docs not sco what Italy wants with African possessions, when it has 100, 000 perbons dying of pellagra, 0,000,000 living on malarious land, 1,700 com munes in which grain is rare, 1,400 communes with scanty and foul water supplies, 000 communes without doc tors within reach, and over S00 coin- mur.es which have no burial place. Wiiejj Robert J. closed the racing season of 1804 with a record of 2:01f for pacers, and Alix with a record of 2:03" for trotters, it was generally believed that tho two-minute goal would be reached in 1893; but AUx has been unable to lower her record or even to equal it; and the best Robert ,7, has been able to do is '2:0 1, wliilo Patchen has only equalod Ills own record of 2:04. Accoiwixn to the official Statistical Abstract for 1804 tho people of tho United States practiced a sharp econ omy during tho hard times. Compar ing the year 1894 with 180J, tho con sumption of cotton per capita fell from 24.03 pounds to 15.01; the consumption of wheat from COO bushels in 1890 to 3.41 in 1894. Tho per capita of corn consumption was S3. 09 bushels In 1890 and 22.70 in 1891. The consumption of wool in the samo time fell off moro than one-sixth. At the recent meeting of the Amer ican Humane association at Minnea polis, Minn., Dr. Albert Leffingwell, presented the report of a medical committee vyhlch had been engaged in sounding public sentiment regarding -vivisection. Over '2,000 expressions of opinion were obtained from leading physicians, clergymen and others. Of these only about one-eighth were in favor1 of unrestricted experi mentation upon living animals, a largo majority being either for absolute pro hibition or for such restriction by law as should limit vivisection to painless operations. A yeah ago Commissioner of Pen sions Loch re u said that the limit had probably been reached in tho number of pensions, but that for two or three years tho payments would remain about the same. While the amount of money paid for pensions will not be materially different from that of past years, it appears that there has been ndded to tho pension, rolls during the year about 1,000 names in excess of those that have dropped out. Tho year has not, been very fatal to pensioners, tho death rate being less than anyone would naturally expect. Miss Mii.i.icrxt W. Siiixx has been gathering statistics from all the wom en's colleges of the country on the sub ject of matrimony, and finds that tho ultimate probability of a college wom an's marriage Is below S5 per cent., against 00 per cent, for those of her sex who do not receive a colleglato -education. It is claimed by Miss Shlnn, however, that this is not due to mascu line pn-judico against women thus trained, but to the fact that they find employment as teachers In girls' schools, "a station in Ufa more Inim ical to marriage," she says, "thun any other save that of a nun." Bishop Pottkij, of New York, de clares that the present age is one cf new men and new crises, and that tho church should recognize their exist istenco frankly. One of tho prin cipal necessities, in his opinion. Is tho obliteration or material modification of sectarian lines. lie proposes a, union of faiths in an American churph that shall be "the refuge of all doubting and storm tossed souls, the true mother of the rich and poor, of the seeker after truth and the tinder of it, the saintly soul and the returning prodi gal alike, all walking In its light, and fed with Its jJBUjortal Jjrsad." NEWS OF THE WEEK, Gloanod By Tolorjraph and Mall TERSONAlj AND POLITICAL. Ma J. J. C. C. Black, democrat, ha again defeated Thomas E. Watson, pop ullst,for congress in tho Tenth Georgia district by a majority of 1,641. Tho election was ono of tho quietest ever held in Georgia, a striking contrast to tho ono held eleven months ago, when throe leading men wcro killed in the streots of Augusta. Watson claimed that the election was unfair und Black, in deference to Watson's views, re signed. l'nRMDBXT IlAnrr.n, of tho Chicago university, announced that Mrs. Mary Esther Roynolds, widow of "Diamond Joo" Roynolds, tho well known Missis sippi stcamboatman, had given 8223,000 to tho university, "to bo used for 'cdu cational purposes in such manner as shall commomorato tho name of her husband." The president. It was Said, will soon fill the office of fish commissioner, made vacant by tho death of CoL Marshall MacDohald, tho bureau being of inv portance, especially to inland states. Gnr.AT excitement prevailed at Key West, Fin., on tho 30th over a report that marines had been landed from a Spanish cruiser on tho Florida Keys in search of filibusters. Tho stato de partment at Washington will bo asked to investigate and demand an apology from Spain. Ex-Srxator Mahosk, of Virginia, suffered a stroko of paralysis on the 30th and his physicians thought his chances of recovery wcro very doubt ful. Tun Chicago Times-Herald on tho 30th published personal lottors fromi seventy of tho editors of great news papers in all parts of the country, the majority of whom favored a short presidential campaign. The British government received in formation on tho 30th that tho viceroy of Tzo Chuen" had been degraded. China yielding In full to great Britain's demands. I'ltKsiDBXT Cleveland Issued an order on the 30th announcing officially to the army the retlrcmen't from active serv ico of Lieut-Gen. John M. Schofiold, lato commander-in-chief of tho United States army. MISCELLANEOUS. To add to tho state of terror prevail ing in Constantinople a third slight earthquake shock was experienced on the 3d. This, with the rioting and bloodshed, tho imprisonment of C0C Arrnoniaus, the killing of prisoners in cold blood, and the presence of troop? under arms at all points, was well cal culated to excite oven tho most phleg matic Turk. The latest rumor in railway circles declared that an agreeraeut had boen reached between tho Missouri Pacific, Wabash and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Raul roads by which tho Central branch of the Missouri Pacific would bo extended to Denver from Stockton or Lonora, Kan., next year. The Soutli Carolina constitutional convention by an overwhelming ma jority, has adopted a clause forbidding the intermarriage of a white person with any person who has any negro blood whatever In his or her veins. This, in connection with the suffrage clause, will have the effect of disfran chising tho mulattoes. Secketauv Lamont issued an order on tho 2d detailing Gen. Miles to do duty in Washington as general of the array and Gen. Rugcr, now on special duty in Washington, to tho command of the department of tho cast, with headquarters in Now York. A ma Are occurred in Cambridge, O., on the morning of the 2d, the Lyndon hotel and many stores and their con tents being destroyed. Tho city fire men wero powerloss to control the flames and had to send to ndjointng towns for help. The loss amounted to over 330,000; insurance, less than half. A hlock of two-story frame house? at Fullerton and Clybourne avenues, Chicago, burned about 3 o'clock on the morning xf the 2d. Ten families were rendered homeless, and lost all their property. Several small stores were also destroyed. The loss will aggro gate 830,000, with small insurance. The Chickasaw legislature hai passed a law making it a death penalty for a Chickasaw Indian to dispose of lands to white persons or non-citizens. The monthly statement of tho di rector of the mint showed colwage dur ing the month of September to be as follows: Gold, 87.343.572; silver, 8473, 100; minor coins, 01,414. Total coin age. $3,078,053. TKRitirio gales wero reported on tho 2d as occurring on tho southern coast of England, and several vessels had foundered or had been wrecked. A loss f life was feared. Bishop Mai'I.ka, of Nyassaland, and n companion were recently drowned in Lake Nyassa and a missionary way murdered by natives on tho Zambezi river In Africa, The Texas legislature passed the bill prohibiting pugilistic encounters in tho Lone Star stato in exactly three hours on the 2d. Tho bill passed tho senate by a vote of 27 oyee to 1 nay, and in the house by 110 ayes to S nays. Two women wero killed by a train while crossing the railroad track near Monmouth Junction, N. J. I'nouiN'KNT railroad officials in Mex ico were working to get tho Corbott Fltzslmmons fight in that country should it not come off at Dallas, Tex., bv securing the consent of tho author ities. The acting comptroller of tho cur rency has called for a report of the condition of "national banks at tho close of business on September 28, with the amount of taxes of all kinds paid by them during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S93, for Incorporation in his annual report The steam barge Kershaw went ashore near Marquette, Mich., on the 20th in a storm and broke in two. Tho crew were rescued by the life-saving crew, who had a narrow escape from death, their boat capsizing. Two schooners were alsodriven ashore near jthe same place. One of the largest tires that has over occurred in southeastern Now England broke out in one of tho mills of tho Warren (R. I.) Manufacturing Co., just after midnight on tlie 3d and bo fore it was gotten under control It had swept through threo large cotton mills, two warehouses, small shods, freight cars and other property, caus ing a loss estimated at 31,125,000. The local flro department was totally Inad equate to copo with the ilamcs and had to appeal to adjacont towns. It was said at tho treasury depart ment at Washington that the enso of the Chinaman Geo Hop, who claimed ad mission into this country nt San Fran jlsco on tho ground that ho was-a nat uralized citizen of the- United States, presented no novel features. The law was very plain on that point The net, approved May C, 1832, provided "that hereafter no stato court or court of the United Stutcs shall ncltnlt Chinese to citizenship, and all laws, in conflict with this act arc hereby repealed." IlExnv J. McCov, general secretary of tho Y. M. 0. A., of San Francisco, who was cited for contempt for telling Juror Truman that if ho did not hang Durrant, tho suspected murderer of Blanche Lamont, tho pcoplo would hang him, was fined $250, with the alternative of five days in tho county jail. At Sllstcrvlllo, W. Vo., citizens burned a gambling house kept by Al bert Barton during Barton's absence Tho gambler's wife, attempting to es cape, jumped from tho second story window nnd was fatally injured. Bar ton had been repeatedly warned by citizens. Gov. Cui.riKnsoN signed tho 'anti prize fight bill on tho 3d and prize fighting in Texas hereafter will be punished as a felony. There war much bitter fcollng at .Dallas against Gov. Culberson, Many usually con servative citizens openly declared that he ought to be burned in efflsfy. Tho governor, howover, was kept busy opening telegrams from Maine to Cali fornia congratulating him on the pas sago of ttio law. Aximibw Caix and William Grose, coon hunters of Montpcller, Ind., inad vertently built a fire over some nitro glycerine that had been buried in the ground. An explosion followed blow ing both men to atoms. The 0-year-old son of Andrew Van dyn, of East Liverpool, O., was burnod at tho stako on the 3d by five compan ions and so badly injured that ho can not recover. Some men happened to sco tho performance and ran to the boy's rescue, but his clothes had taken fire and he was bpdly burned, and tho physicians said it was impossible for him to live. A wild west show exhib ited in tho city about a month ago, and since that tima the boys of. tho town have been playing Indian. At Jersey City, N. J., John Czech, othcrwlso known as Fish John, was executed in the county jail on the 3d for the murder of his wife on Juno 3. Jealousy was tho motivo of his crime. PnKRlDENT Cr.KVr.r.ANI) has commut ed to imprisonment for life tho doath sentence imposed upon Clydo Mattox, of Kansas, who was to hang on Octo ber 11 for killing an old negro named John Mullens, in Oklahoma. Tiik prompt action of Acting Indian Agent Morris at Cantonment, Ok., in causing the arrest of all Chcyonno and Arapahoe Indians found outside of the reservation has stopped the threatened trouble between them and cattle men in western Oklahoma. Tho Indians have burned till the grass for miles on the North Canadian river and the cattlemen have been forced to raovc.r Several settlers havo lost their entire crop by tho, fires set by the red skins. The British steamer Wnllnchela, bound from Glasgow to Trinidad, struck the rocks on Beacon perch and sank. Tho'vcsset was a wooden screw of 1,724 tons. All on board were saved. The Farmers' and Citizens' bank at Parnell, Ok., C. L. Berry president and cashier, failed for $50,000, Depositors ran attachments on the bank for $30, 000. There was only $23 in cash in the bank when the safe was opened by officers. Cashier Berry was compelled to learo town, and an angry mob went in pursuit of him to lynch him. The bank was depository for three tribes of Indians, viz., Pawnees, Otoes and Osages. Two trolley cars on the Chpster and Derby lines at Chester, Pa., filled with passengers crushed together while go ing at a high rate pf speed near Moore and five persons were injured. The conductors were responsible. Tuk United States treasury closed the inoath of September with a sur plus of $3,173,010 In receipts over ex penditures. The convention of the Episcopal church was opened at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 2d, sixty bishops, attired in their vestments, occupying tho chancel of St Gethscmane church at tho celebration of holy communion to open the exercises. Tub government finds it difficult to lease the Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands in tho Indian territory on account of the contract clause, which requires that each claim shall have 200 growing trees on it at tho end of five years. But twenty tracts of the 4,000 havo been rented. The heirs of Juan Peralta, of Spain, who live nt New Orleans, have begun suit against the United States for 1-',-000.000 acres of land in Arizona. They claim the grant was made to Peralta before the United States acquired tho territory and hence no title could bo given for tho property except by Peral ta or his heirs. Tiik special examiners under the civil service commission have begun their general tour of the United States to give opportunity for candidates for positions in the departmental, mail and Indian service to undergo the usual examinations. FuiK at Goodhue station, Minn., on tlie Dulutb, Red Wing & Southern railway, destroyed tho elevator of tho B. Shel don Co., C li Rucker's general store, Anderson's store, n general store, bar ber shop, hotel and several smaller buildings. Tho fire was supposed to have been started by tramps sleeping in the hotel barn. Eight freight cars were also burned. OKLAHOMA NEWS. Judgo MoAtoo Itoidora Doclson of Groat Importance. A FRIEND OF THE WOODCUTTERS. (Juration In mm Unit Has Worried the Set ltrs--eputy Sheriffs Acted with cruelly tiirenin 10 11. irimi Where Committed. The wdbd cutters' ot tho territory have at last found a friend. That friend Is Judge McAtee. Every since Oklahoma was opened there 1ms been r species ot brutal persecution which has been carried on irlnclpally by the deputy marshals wltfi the.help ot Uni ted States commissioners. These dep uty marshal have freen In the habit f swooping down on poor settlers.pulllng them out of bed nd carrying them (Treat distances onthe charge of cut ting timber onfovernment land. Great cruelty to arretted settlers has often resulted, the dtpilty marshals taking them aa far awiy as possible In order to increaso thelf fees. Judge McAtee has called a halt. This was done In at 'opinion rendered by him nt Pnnd Creek Sept 38. in tho case of the United Bates against Joseph Gautler who wai charged with "timber cutting" by Kdvurd Taylor before J. T. Saunderson a commissioner of the district court for :he United States for the First Judicial district of Oklahoma In his opinion, union Is an Important one to Oklahoma Judge McAtee after stating that Edv ird Taylor.had made the complaint by affidavit to the com missioner says: "Thereupon the said commissioner In Logan county of the First Judicial dis trict of the territory, Issued his war rant to the marshal of the United States, and to his deputies or either of them, In which It was recited that the said Taylor had made his 'complaint in writing under oath before him. the said commissioner of tht district of Ok lahoma, charging' that the raid defen dant committed the orrense Above spec ified. Thereupon, and by the said warrant the said commissioner undertook to command the said marshal and his dep uties In tho name of the president of the United States, t apprehend the said Joseph Gautler anl bring him forth with before me or any other commis sioner having Jurisdiction ot said mat ter to answer to the said complaint that he. may then ajid there e dealt with according to law, for said offense. Thereupon, by virtue of the said pa per, purporting to be a lawful warrant on the 13th day of June, the United States marshal arrested the said Jos eph Qautler In Grant county, and brought him before a United States commissioner for the Fifth Judicial dis trict at Pond Creek In Grant county upon said criminal charge, whereupon the defendant was held to appear be fore the district court of the United J States for the Flftb Judicial district to be held In Grant county at the next regular term of said court, but was admitted to ball. Afterward a formal complaint, based upon these proceedings, was filed aginst the defendant In open court Sep- lemDer iucn, is'Jo. The cas,e comes on the motion made by o be heard upon the defendant's attorney, A. M. Mackey, Esq., to quash' tne information: (is .) because the proceeding was void, and (2) because It Is not Instituted acordlng to law. The question la one of the greatest practical Importance n this territory, It has een the commo i practice ot the United States comm sslouers ot the First Judicial districts to, receive affi davits of the charact r mentioned In this case, and to Issue warrants there upon for the arrest of tersons upon slm liar charges to many counties In the western portion of t le territory. If the practice Is Justifies by the law It permits the Institution pf criminal pro ceedings, or proceeding fpr he punish ment of offenses ngnlnst the laws of the United States In counties other than that In which th'.-KofTense was committed. A defendant then may be arrested In Woods countrbpon an ac cusation made before a United States commissioner In Logan county, more than one hundred and fifty miles from the place where the offerise Is charged to have been committed, or In Roger Mills county, more than', two hundred miles from the place where the accu sation Is made, and from where the order of arrest was Issued. It Is provided by section ten of the Organic Act ot this territory, page 44 of the statutes of 1893. that: "All offenses committed In said ter- niory, it commiuea witnin any organ ized county, snan be prosecuted ana tried within safd county." The trial U a part ot the prosecution, and no officer exerolsing Judicial func tions, would undertake to conduct the trial of the accused person outside of the limits of ths county within which the offense Is charged to have been committed. Neither can the affidavit or Information for the purpose of pro curing a warrant to Issue, which Is made by the complaining witness, be made and the warrant Issued thereon by the commissioner directing the ar rest ot the person who Is charged with the offense b Issued outside of the county where the offense is al leged ot have been committed, unless It be held that these measures are them -selves no part of th.e prosecution. This contention cannot be sustained. The prosecution includes every step by which. In pursuance of the method prescribed by law. an IndHlytdual Is sought' to be separated from the mass ot his fellow citizens, and made theJ subject of a charge, ror a criminal of fense for the purpose of acrtalnlng the truth of the charge, and securing the punishment of the accused. The very Initial step of swearing out the warrant, Including both the affida vit made by the accuser and the Judic ial ntep-of ordering the arrest of Ihe accused by tho united States commis sioner, are a part o.f the prosecution. It Is Impossible "to hold otherwise, The defendant Is held In this court up on an accusation made In the name of the United States of America, upon an Information for cutting government timber In violation ot tho federal stat ute. That Information Is based upon the fact that the defendant was held by the United States commissioner fpr Grant county to personally appear be foro the district court of the United States and then and there to answer the charge of committing the offense of cutting, removing, destroying and disposing of standing and growing timber on government land. That hold Ing of the United States commissioner for Grant county was based upon the affidavit of Edward Taylor inadd be fore the commissioner of the district court foe tho First Judicial district ot Oklahoma, In Logan county. , Without the affidavit of Taylor and the warrant isued by the United States commissioner for the First district of Oklahoma, this arrest would not have been made, and the prosecution would not hay been begun. His affidavit whloh Is the Information laid for the purpose of oMUiing th Issuance ( tht warrant. Is therefore up to tht point now reached In the hearing of this mo tion, the most Important step In the proceeding, nnd Is an Integral part ot the rposecutlon. Prosecution Is defined In Webster's dictionary to be: "The Institution, or commencement and continuance of a criminal suit; tho the process of exhibiting' formal charg es against on offender before n legal tribunal, and pursuing them to dual Judgment on behalf of the state or gov ernment as by indictment or informa tion." It Is the "act ot conducting any Judi cial proceeding and also the proceeding Itself," and It Includes everything done or performed by any court or Judicial officer touching the rights of parties. Anderson's Law Dlctonary; Flounoy vs. Jeffersonvllle, 17 Ind. 173. And It was held by this court In the case of the United States vs. Duncan and others. In which the defendants wore arrested In Grant and Garfield counties and brought beforo the court at Klngflnher In Kingfisher county In Jiily of 1894, that; "It Is therefore clear that if I act as a committing magistrate, I must go In to the county where the alleged offenses were committed, and there sit to have the hearing ot these cases, for the very Institution of the suit the making of the complaint, the Issuance of the war rant ot arrest ot the defendants and their appearance for preliminary ex amination are In fact a part ot the pro secution. "It Is held otherwise In behalf of the plaintiffs here, and It Is contended that 'prosecution' begins only with the ac tual trial. But I do not doubt that the very first step taken to abridge the liberty of any lndlnvldual by legal pro ceedings against him to secure his pun ishment under the law for a crime, Is a part of the 'prosecution.' The authori ties which I huve been able to find upon the subject state that 'prosecution' Is 'the means adopted to bring the sup posed offender to Justice and punish ment by due course ot law.' In this country, the means are by indictment. by presentment, by Information and by complaint. Bouv. Law Diet, vol. 2. p. 389; State VS. Williams; 34 La. An. 1198. "The mode 'of prosecution Is by In-; dlctment, presentment, by grand Jury, by coroner's Inquest and by Informa tion." 1 Chltty's Crlm. Law. pp. 1SM34. "A prosecution Is the Institution or qommencement ot a criminal suit; the process ot exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tri bunal, and pursuing him to final Judg ment on behalf of the state or govern ment, as by Indictment or Information." The weight of a criminal prosecution In which the government charges a citi zen with the commission of a criminal offense should be born not among stran gers, but among those who surround the locality of the crime which Is sought to be punished, and who may know something of the offender whom the government seeks to bring to Justice. The defendant has a right to demand that he should sustain the weight of a criminal accusation only In his own neighborhood or where the offense was committed, and among those who know him. and where all the human motives of pe'rsonal and neighborhood Interests are in run roroe both in order to.protect rnose wnom rn ailegeavioiation or ma law has Injured as well aa for the protec tlon of the supposed offender. There are United States commissioners as well as United States courts within Grant county, and while the trial for the offense committed In Grant county must be held In the district court with in Grant county so also the prosecu tion must begin and be carried on be fore the United States commissioner of Grant county up to the time of the fil ing of the complaint and the trial ot tho case In the district court, and for the same reasons. And doubtless the provision of the Organic Act la founded upon the right of'the defendant, as founded In natural reason andjustlce. There Is no reason why these Informations for arrest should be taken out ot the. Fifth Judi cial district where the Informalton for the offense exists. It It In fact exists at all. and into the Flmt Judlclad'dlitrlct, and from Grant county Into Logan coun ty, and away from the Judicial district of the United States commissioner of Grant county who has the lawful Juris diction, to the United tSates commis sioner of Logan county who has no Jur isdiction In the matter, except with the object of procuring warrants to be Is sued with a readier facility by causing affidavits to be made before a United States commissioner who has neither residence, knowledg. personal Inter est or Jurisdiction In the county to take any step In tht prosecution outside of tne county where ins onenie is cnarg ed to have been committed. The case now before the court Is but one of a very large number ot similar cases In which the United States com missioners ot Logan county In the First Judicial district have for a long tlms persistently grasped Jurisdiction which does not exist In them, to hear affida vits and Informations for arrest; and In which tht-y have Issued warrants for the arrest of persons, to maiy of the counties of this territory among whom oeoDle they do not reside, for th vre- servatlon of whose Interests and for th control of whose actions they have not been appolnttd.iln whom they can have but little Interest, with whom they have no sympathy, to whom they are In no sense answerable, for whose welfare they manifest no concern, and over who the law gives to them, no lawful au thority. The motion to quash the information Is sustained for the jeason that It Is based upon an affidavit and Informa tion for the Issuance of a warrant which Is void, and without authority, and not capable of sustaining the sub sequent steps in this prosecution. Oklahoma llrxtltlrt. It ! said that Manchetter Is the largest town on earth without a practicing phys ician.' , Fifty-two editors have already signed up to it? on that editorial excursion Into Texas. 'The pipers at Pawnee are on track of the town gossip who Is described a a "Christian Lady." Tuesday, Mrs. Hatch expects to hear definitely from President Cleveland on the fate of Clyde Mattox. The delinquent subscribers throughout Oklahoma should tahq notice that editors cannot hibernate through the winter like bear. An Oklahoma paper charges for obit uary notices when the man who Is dead was a merchant who -did not advertise. The grand Jur) of Grant county brought In a report that Judge McAtee ought to be president ot tho United State and Alaska. Throughout Oklahoma the farmers do not care whether they have a frost or not, The frost would malte the grass hoppers keel over. A branch of a persimmon tree from tha K '.oka poo country Is on exhibition In Ok lahoma City, The branch has several hundred persimmons on It. The territorial league of American Whstlmea will rae.it in Guthrie a week from Tutidar. Several prises bav bta orfertd tor tht various rscss. Kxri:cTKi complkte rAnnoir. Sir. Hatch WooM lutlier Follow Iter Son to tlin Hrsve. Leavenworth, Oct. 3, The remarks ot President Cleveland with reference to ' the commutation of the nentence of Clydo Mattox are considered very harsh and brutal by many people, and espec ially by the hundreds here who signed the petitions asking for Mattox'a per don. It will be remembered that long telegrams were sent from Oray Gables telling how President Cleveland treated Mrs. Hatch "with great kindness, how deeply he was moved with her sorrow and how his big heart was touched." Only a few days ago he sent out a com munication about the case to "comfort a loving mother." The true Cleveland "sreat hearted hess and mother's comfort" cropped out In the endorsement on the commu tation sent out yesterday. Mrs. Sarah E. Hatch, mother of Clyde Mattox, did not receive a word from the preMddnt and all sheknovrs about the commutation of her son's Bcntence Is what she read In the evening papers. She was greatly disappointed with the news and Is nearly heartbroken. She was called on at the National hotel last evening and was found to be In bitter tears. She said when asked If she expected anything different. "I expected my son to get a reprieve to five years in prison., I had hundreds ot letters from prominent people of the west and the longest and finest peti tions ever presented to d president ask ing for n pardon. I was treated with kindness and consideration by Presi dent Cleveland when I vlBlted 'him at Gray Gables. I do rtot believe he wrote the Indorsement on the commutation pepers sent out today. It he did, he Is a devil in humen form. What Is said Is unjust nnd unfair, and more bitter than ever a prosecuting attorney used against my son In his trials. "I would rather have followed him to the grave than had such strictures put on him by a president. Two pre tended friends proved false and I know that a prominent official who smiled to my face, betrayed what was told him and recently -wrote a letter against Clyde. "Five Republican senatgrs have promised to get him a pardon when a now president comes In, but It will be of no use, as ho Is nearly dead with consumption and won't live six months One of his lungs Is now gone. "I have worked day and night for six years and spent my entlro fortune anil can't do any more. "Clydo Is my only living child and his father, Dr. Mattox, died when he was three years old. He was a good boy and never had any trouble until wo went to the Territory. I have only one favor to ask and that Is that he be put In the Fort Leavenworth prison." A TALK WITH MATTOX. The news that his death sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, was first told Clyde Mfttox by a re porter. He showed no excitement but seemed relieved. Tho time for his exe cution was set for October 11, and was only ten days off. During the last few days he has been quite uneasy. He said that he thought his friends asked too much when they requested an absolute pardon for him, He ex- peoted to get about five years and waB diapPolnted. -He ald thatti disappointed.' -He (aid that he did not kill John Mulllns, colored, , the crime he was convloted of, but that Mulllns was a bad man and was a fu gitive from Justice. He said that he bore a good reputation and had sent In affidavits from persons ho worked for In Texas stating that he had a good character. On account of this, he was greatly surprised at what tho president said about him. He oald thut on !'of his lungs was entirely gone, the doctors told hlrn, and that he was In the last stages of consumption. Mattox Is about five feet, eight Inches tall and does not weigh much over a hundred pounde. Ho looks very bad. lUSAl'IMl WHAT THEY'VE SOWN. Iklnhoma Farmers aro Favored with Fine Wo atlirr for the Heaping. Oklahoma City, O. T., Oct, 3. Tho United States department ot agricul ture, weather bureau, has Just Issued weather crop bulletin No. 27, of the Oklahoma weather crop service, for the week ending Monday, Sept. 3, 1893, as follows: The weather this week" has 'been cold as compared with the, preceding week, and all of September up to the 22nd, averaged 9 degrees dally above normal, this week it has been 3.6 below normal, the average temperature being 61.4 degrees; maximum, 98 at Healdton, on the 2Cth; minimum 38 on the 30th. The light frost on the morning of the 23d did practically no damage. There were light frosts on the lowlands on the morning of the 30th, but (here wers no III results therefrom. Heavy rains fell In some counties of th- western. and northern sections and the southern portion of the Chickasaw 'Nation on the Mth. The rains were lo cal In character. The following are the amounts: Arapahoe, G county, l.M; Henrtessey. Kingfisher county. .54: Wa-. noka, Woods county, .60; Guthrie, Lo-. gan county, .48; Otego, Payne county. .60; Briton, Oklahoma county, .03; Hi aldton, Chickasaw Nation, .10; Kemp, Chickasaw Nation, 2.84. In localities where rains were the heaviest, ground was put In fair condi tion for sowing wheat and some fields were planted, but generally the ground Is yet too dry and farmers are watting for rain to put the soil In proper con dition. Conditions have been most fa vorable for wheat sowing In portions of a. Kingfisher, Woods and Payne counties. Harvesting Alfalfa and late broom corn and husking corn Is the order pf the day In northern counties and cotton picking throughout central and south ern sections. Cotton has Improved some what during the week and the top crop Is more promising, the cold weather during the 'week having stopped pre mature opnlng ot bolls. From Ard more and Healdton north, throughout the Chickasaw Nation and the central portion of Oklahoma territory, rain Is needed for this crop. Only In the extreme southern portion of the Chickasaw Nation and the sou thern portion of the Choctaw Nation have sufficient rains fallen In the cot ton belt to break the drouth. ' Note Next week's Issue ot the week ly weather crop bulletin, will be the last for the season ot 1893. All observ ers are requested to make their report as comprehensive as possible relative to cotton and the condition of the ground for wheat. JAS. I. WIDMRYEB. Director Oklahoma Weather Service. NOTII1NC1 A II OUT ' ATKUOOl). (ionrnnr Itenfrnnr JIaU Ills Annual Itvixirl. Washington. Oct. '.'.The governor of Oklahoma has made his unuual report to me secretary of the Interior. It con tains nothing new and has no 'recom mendations or references to-.the admis sion of the territory to statehood. Appointed Asslituut Attorney, Washington, Oct. 3. Charles li. Ken drlck of Ardmore, I, T.. has been ap pointed a special assistant IJnJt&d States attorney for the soutnsnj trie: ot Indian Territory. DOES OORBETTWANX OUT.f Goti of I'rople Think that's What th Champion Mean by It New Orleans, Oct. ft The opinion was expressed tonight by certain sporting: men that Corbett Is building up a foun dation to get out of his fight It pos sible. It was noticed that to every newspaperman who Interviewed him. Corbett talked only on one subject and that was on the many strings that were attached to the Fltzslmmons stake. In any conversation Indulged in today this subject would be prominently brought forward by him. When It Is taken In to consideration that the attachments against Fltzslmmons' money In Dwyers hands were Issued more than a rrlonth ago, and Corbett refrnlned from say ing anything about It at that time, the fact gives rise to the suspicion that the conqueror of John Lv Sullivan has kept this as, his last card. Corbett very bluntly, said today thatt Fltzslmmons would have to have S10.0QO up In the stakeholder's hands without an attachment tied to it, or he would not flght He claims that Fltuslm mons haa only $5,000 of the side bet, the other 15.000 being attached by the Met-; ropolltan Printing company ond Attor-t ncy Friend, formerly the Australian' lawyer. Corbett Is claiming today that Phil Dwycr told him Just before he left Now York that If he won he would get 8,000 ot the side bet. Corbett also saya that he will fight Fltzslmmons for the side bet alone but puis In the old provisions that $10,000 unattached must be put up. Local sporting men aro of the opinion that this provision of Corbett's will oc casion considerable trouble before Oc tober 31. Just why the champion is anxious to have the referee selected at this time cannot be learned. Buth Cor bett and his manager, Billy Brady, ar clamorlng for the referee to be chosen immediately. When asked the differ ence it would make, In selecting the re feree tho day bofore.the fight, they said that In such an Important case as this the referee should be known several weeks ahead In order to give confidence, to the p ubllc. ' The general feeling In New Orleans Is that the fight will never take place. CIIASKU I1IH Till KTKEN YEAR". Kansas Sheriff t Last Kt.ni Down His Man In Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Oct 6 Today tho sheriff ot Oskaloosa, Kan., Is In the city to obtain a requisition for the re turn to Kansas of Jim Daugherty, a highwayman and bank rober of much notoriety. The sheriff has beeri on" Dougherty's trail Tor thirteen years. He had been arrested at Fall City, this state. Dougherty's crime was burglary committed in 1882 at Nortonville. Kan. With a partner he was detected rob bing the State Bank at Nortonville. and the watchman shot the second burglar dead on the epot Daugherty was Jailed but subsequently escaped. Previous to this attempt the men had robbed a store of $1,400 In cash. Daugh erty had this money secreted at the time of his escape. He walked down, tho streets of Oskaloosa and defied arrest. There was a reward of $2,009 for his capture. . ' j WBOriNG BOWK UK HKAUU -. ti r"-' i- --p t --- England, Franco nnd Italy Haka a Masai-' tanaoat and Concerted Orab,b Buenos Ayres, Oct. A. A dispatch to El Dlarlo, says that England. France-. nd Itally have decided upon collective action with a view to securing satisfac tion ot this respective claims upon Bim- zll. The claims of France grew out of the disputed Jurisdiction ot the ter ritory of Amapa, lying between Brasil and French Guiana. Its alms arc for reparation on account of damages suf-,, fered by Italian ships during the revolu tion. The British minister wlthderw from Rio last summer, leaving (he le gation there In charge ot an attache to mark the strained relations between the countries. England's claims probably relate to the island of Trinidad, which. Bhe seeks to obtain as a cablo.statlon. MANY Hll IP IN IHBTKESaV One Breaking Up Ashora and Others In Danger Off tha. English Coast. London, Oct. t, A,dlsrlatch to Lloyd's from the Lizard says that a large Aus tralian steamer, aa well as a British ship, the Mount Carmel, from Sydney for London, ytere west of that polnti this evening .showing signals ot dis tress. Tugs were sent to thlr assist ance. , The Norwegian bark Haabet, In ad dition, was reported ashore on the Croy de sands, and breaking- up. Her crew were rescued by the use ot Ihe rocket apparatus. c A telegram to Lloydasjrom the Bcllly" Islands announced that a Wilson liner passed there towing the British ship Architect to Liverpool. The Architect had lost her propeller. Finally the Harrison was sighted west and north west of the Bcllly Isles with rudder lost. A Wilson steamer was standlng by her. SILVER MEN WOT 1'LKASEP. Kansas Democrats will Mot Mold a 8tat Convention Ihla Tear. Topeka, Oct B. The Democratic statt central committee met here to day and decided not to call a state con vention to nominate a candidate for ohlef Justice of the state supreme courr. the only office to be filled at the com ing election. Charles K. Holllday. who Is already In the field as an Indepen dent candidate, would probably have received the nomination had a conven tion been called. While there was bur. one dissenting vote In the committee on the resolution declaring it inexpedient to call a convention, the action ot the committee Is being vigorously criticis ed by the free silver Democrats, who claim that the administration wing at the party avoided a state convention to prevent a declaration for free sliver. HIS MIKD IS ALL ItlOHT. Johu K. Talt, tha Defrauding Hank Teller, Nut eland Trial, New York. Oct., 6. John It. Talt. who defrauded the Chemical National bank, ot which he was laying teller, out of $17,000, was today arraigned be fore United ' States Commissioner Shields and released on $3,000 ball. Talt has spent seven months in the govern ment asylum at Washington on the certificate ot several specialists that he was of unsound mind. But a few days ago the asylum authorities de clared that his reason was unimpaired so h) was brougnt back to stand trial. JUMPED INTO A IIAIN-BAKItKL. Colored Cook III fcuiporla Thus l'uls Out a Itensliie Ion tin isratlon. Kmporla, Kan., Oct. Alice Hoi- klns, a colored cook of a. boarding-house was in the act of lighting a. tire with benzine this morning when the match accldently dropped Into the fluid. Her clothes caught fire and her lite was only saved by Jumping Into a rain mr- Jrel. She was seriously and perhaps fa. tally burned. Great Bend, Kan.. Oct. F, The stfady -soaking rain of last night, and today" will be of immense eneMt to wheat sbJ put the ground In excellent skap &k late sowlnr. M GP O sa M v .-,- a OJ i ..A-L H BTiiaVH i