The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1889 Page: 2 of 8
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SECRET SOCIETIES.
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titrli nimilli In their hull tlilnl Hour. Purler .t
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COUTIT DlhECTORy.
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Attoriiev II. 1) .shrop-liire.
Clerk I). .1. Keil.
Sleeti on the tlilnl Monilny In September.!-
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Jililpo II. A. Porter.
Attorney T. A. Henry.
rierk-Onvlil J. Kul.
Mecti on tliu llrit Monilny In Kflirunry. April
J me. AiikiiMi Oetohtr. nml Deeember.
cniiipiosMtH rofivT.
.Imlfe II. A. Porter.
Ooiniul'Kliuierx 1 T. limner .1. T. Tneker
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linnr'ilof eiiinli2iitluii on the llrt Sloniin) In
June.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
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Utornev I Henry.
Clerk-n .1 lieil
Shertlt .1 V. I'liiininKhnm
Treniiirei T. O. Amler.-on.
Awn'or J. It Neil!
Animal Inpeitor .1 I.. stephcti-on.
CITY DIRECTORY.
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ItPKiilnrSluplliiKs V((iiniiiii foiiiiliToeMlny.
Drink Jewel Tea 'tis delicious. i8tf
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All kimls of refreshing summer
.drinks at the Delmonico gartlen. 1 7tf
Gus Ackermans makes a specialty
of California claret "and Rhine wines.
Gold dust washing powders equal to
Pearline and much cheaper. For salt-
by Roberts & Mackechney. 17-tf
N. Porter has just received a large
shipment of Oregon harness leather
something good. 6tf
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Xnis. Ackermans' beer garden is now
open. Gus is known all over the
Abilene country for keeping the cool-
est and freshest beer. Go and see
him. 1 7-tf
Youlshould call at once and see
those beautiful new bed room suits at
W. A Flint's. They are the finest
ever offered in this market. 14-tf
The Walter A. Wood single-apron
binding harvester is famous in all parts
of the world. It excels all previous in-
ventions in any and every condition
of grain. Sold by Fulwiler Bros. 1 2-tf
Farmers would do well to read the
the advertisement of the Buckeye bin-
der and call at Cameron & Phillips'
and examine them. They have many
advantages over any other machine in
this market. 15-tf
$2.10 for $100
That is exactly what we are offering.
The Reporter and Texas Farm and
Ranch to January 1st 1890 for$i.oo
The price of Texas Farm and Ranch
10 months is 85 cents.the regular price
for the Reporter 10 months is $1.25.
We now offer both for $1.00.
R. C. Malone has bought a half in-
terest in G. W. Gilliland's. blacksmith
shop- These gentlemen have also
purchased a steam thresher with an
automatic stacker which enables far-
mers to dispense with the help of sev-
eral hands. Patronage solicited sat-
isfaction guaranteed. i7-tf
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Jewel Tea our own private brand
Roberts & Mackechney. i8tf
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Cameron & Phillips have just re-
ceived the largest and best assorted
stock of fishing tackle breach load
ing shot guns and ammunition ever
displayed in this market. i5-tf
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.What the Press of Texas Ms to say
nbbut Abilono and her Danqiiot.
The good people of Atiilcne gave
the meiiibers of the press association
en route to HI l'.-tso n royal reception.
Willis Index.
Abilene entertained the members
of the state press association right
royally on their passage through that
city. Colorado Citizen.
The editors ol the Texas press as
sociation were royally banqueted at
Abilene on Saturday oil their way out
to El I'aso San Angelo Standard.
The Texas editors arc having. a fine
time this week. They were dined at
Abilene and then El Paso put on her
"Sunday clothes and entertained them
in royal shape. Alvarado lhilletin.
The Mercury acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation from the citizens
of Abilene to be present at the ban-
quet given the Texas press associa
tion last Saturday in that city Wei-
iner Mercury.
The News acknowledges the receipt
of an invitation from the citizens of
Abilene to attend the banquet that
was given to the Texas press at Abi-
lene on the 27th tilt. No doubt "the
boys" had a fine time Rusk County
News.
. The editors of the Texas press as-
sociation were feasted at Abilene in
grand style Mr. Judy general super-
intendent of the T. & P. road held
the train there an hour for them.
Wine flowed freely and a number of
toasts were proposed and responded
to in their happiest vein Ulosson
Bee.
Abilene had an eye to business as
well as an appreciation of a high
class of citizens when she banqueted
the editors. Printer's ink is goiug to
neip ner enterprising cinzen uuna a
great city and she wants to acknowl-
edge the cotiitesy. The Eree Press
wishes success to the young metrop-
olis Haskel Eree Press.
The editor accepts with pleasure
the fcllowing invitation: "The citi-
zens of Abilene request the pleasure
of your presence at the banquet given
to the Texas press at the Texas &
Pacific Jiotel Saturday April 27th at
4 o'clock p. m." The Abilene people
are noted for their hospitality as well
as for their enterprise and the mem-
bers of the press association may ex-
pect a royal reception and entertain-
ment on that occasion Waxahachie
Enterprise.
We acknowledge the compliment
from the citizens of Abilene of an in-
vitation to the banquet tendered the
lexas editors on. baturdav 27 instant.
And while we shall not be able to
spare the time necessary to attend the
meeting of the association at El l'aso
we hope to go at least to Abilene.
The invitation is beautifully printetl7n
Speneenan scrip and looks much like
the work of our former fellow towns-
man Jno. Hoeny of the Reporter
Parker County News.
At Abilene a magnificent banquet
was given by the citizens to the news-
paper men. It was four o'clock and
all weie hungry enough to do full
justice to the occasion. One of the
Abilene citizens delivered an address
of welcome which was appropriately
responded to by Secretary R. E. Yan-
tis of the Texas press. At the close of
the feast there were a number of im-
promptu toasts in which the advantages
and resources of the Abilene country
the power and influence of the press
and other subjects were discussed.
The fine fields of wheat oats etc. in
the Abilene country are a splendid
advertisement of its fertility and pro
ductiveness Waxahachie .Enterprise.
When we reached Abilene the peo-
ple were at the depot in masses with
their good clothes on. We were es-
corted into a spacious dining room
and became the recipients of one of
the most magnificent banquets we
ever saw. (It was our first however.)
We were "wined and dined" in royal
style. Champagne bottles popped
like bunches of fire crackers at an
anti-prohibition celebration. We toast-
ed Abilene and the Abilenians toasted
us. Such a time!
The train waited an hour for us. If
the saying be true that there is "more
in the man than there is in the land."
Abilene is destined to become a great
city for the reason that every citizen
male and female is a hero in the strife
for the "upper hand" in the race for
the mastery. We shall always love
Abilene. It is a bustling place now
and we have no doubt svill continue to
move onward and upward Denton
Monitor.
At Haird we were met by a recep-
tion committee .sent out from Abilene
inviting the members of the press to a
banquet prepared by the citizens of
that prosperous city. Mr. Judy gen-
eral superintendent of the T & P.
railroad had the train to stop here for
more than an hour ana when the feast
was over we resumed our seats and
was spead away to the west. The din-
ner consisted of all the delicacies of
the season and it then being four
o'clock p. m. and having had nothing
since morning it is needless to say the
dinner was highly appreciated 'den.
John Sayles on behalf of the city wel-
comed the guests and was responded
to by R. E. Yantis of the Wills Point
Chronicle also secretary of the asso-
ciation Hcv. U. W. Smith pnslorof
the First Uantist church asked the"
blessing and the1 pencil pushers were
ordered to "fall to" and they felt or
at least a large quantity of grub did
large plates of roast chicken and turkey
wilted and disappeared as did many
other of the nice thiilKS from the table.
.Quite a large number of the ladies of
Abilene' sat at the table with us anil
with beaming smiles and pleasant con-
versation made the task of clearing
the table or its load easier. 1 he
desert of ice cream and champagne
wine was ordered and the oft filled
glasses brought forth a (low of elo-
quence; Secretary Yantis in behalf of
the association proposed a toast which
was responded to by Mitchell of the
oreenviiie iJanner Dr. Cranfill was
called up and in his usual style spoke
of the glorious future for Abijeilc say-
ing he expected to live to see the day
when Abilene would be blessed with
large flouring mills to consume the
large wheat crops cotton factories to
make seamless sacks endless panta-
loons and wonderful over-alls. He
said he was of Texas birth and was
proud of it but lamented the fact he
had not been born in the Abilene
country. Abilene is the county seat
of Taylor county situated on a large
prairie with an elevation of eighteen
hundred feet above the sea level the
atmosphere is pure light and dry
sickness is rare and death almost a
stranger. To the south about twenty
miles is a lofty range of mountains.
A greater part of this country is in
cultivation and the man with the hoe
is making this desert blossom as the
rose for we saw as fine crops here as
any where in Hell county altogether
this country is now or in the near fu-
ture will be the new Eldorado of Texas.
After about thirty miles run from here
the land became poorer mountains
more numerous and vegetation
scarcer until we were in the midst of
lofty peaks and sand hills Holland
Guard.
Cleveland's Stable Sold.
Washington I). C May 5 The
seal-brown horses which generally
pulled ex-President Cleveland when he
went out riding and the ex-President's
carriages and stable outfit were sold
at auction to-day. Secretary Blaine
drove up just before the sale and
after examining the carriages spoke to
ex-Representative Swett in regard to
the victoria and then drove off. He
did not however secure the victoria
as Mr. Swett's bid was not high
enough. The seal-browns were first
put up for sale and the bidding was
started at $100 for each horse. After
the usual amount of persuasive talk
Kind numerous exhibitions of the iltiints
Jfhthe animals as they were driven
around harnessed to a brougham they
were ijaUypid lor $ 1 4 1 apiece. I he
horses w$ffiptT"itchased for Mr Cleve-
land in I'otighkee'psie and it is said
that he paid between $600 and $700
for them. The landau said to have
cost $1400 was sold for $650 ; the
victoria which cost Mr. Cleveland
$1000 went for $485 and the
brougham for $450. The silver
mounted harness with the monogram
"G. C." on it went for $62.50. A
miscellaneous lot of stable parapher
nalia was knocked down to various
persons for an aggregate of $11435.
Altogether $204385 was realized
from the sale. A number of purchases
were made by livery stable men and
they said the things sold generally
went cheap. The only part of Mr.
Cleveland's stable while President
which were not sold were the horses
and carriage used by Mrs. Cleveland
which she took with her to New York.
Boost Yourself.
A small boy was .endeavoring to
climb a tree and svas standing with
arms and legs embracing it when he
Saw another boy passing on the. other
side of the tree and called out to him;
'I say Bill come over and give
me a boost!" Bill's answer was not
polite nor hopeful but it contained a
full bushel of common sense. "Boost
yourself!" he said sententiously and
walked on about his business. Per-
haps it would have been better for
him to go across and help a fellow
but he spoke a sentence of sound
philosophy in those two words.
There are many people in this
world waiting for somebody to give
them a boost when what they need is
to bopst themselves.' It will often do
a boy more good to make his own
start in life than to have some other
person start him. Find your own
place and then you svill have shown
your own power and not some other
man's influence. There are plenty of
Micawbers waiting for some-
thing to turn up whey ought to go out
and turn up something. Find a tree
which bears fruit worth climbing after
take a firm hold and then boost your-
self. Our Youth.
The Walter A. Wood single-apron
binding harvester the most attractive
machine made is sold by Fulwiler
Uroq. The single-apron was intro-
duced in 1887 and sold rapidly to the
farmers At the fall fairs who were not
disposed to take chances on getting
them in the spring something before
unknown in the binder market. la-tf
MISCELLANEOUS I'.OO LORE.
The yolk of egc alone is the bette
for invalids arid will be frequently re-
lished when the white would be reject-
ed. When cream cannot be procured for
coffee the yolk of a soft-boiled egg
is a Very good substitute.
To prevent the juice of fruit pics
from soaking into the bottom crust
wash the crust over with a beaten egg
before putting in the fruit.
When making frosting in wann
Weather set the whites of the eggs on
ice for a short time before using.
If the eggs you have to use for frost-
ing are not quite as fresh as you could
desire a pinch or salt will make them
beat stiffer.
The white of an egg an equal quan-
tity of cold water and confectioner's
sugar triple X stiflicient to make it
the required consistency makes a
frosting which is very nice and as ij re-
quires no beating is very easily made.
When beaten eggs are to be mixed
with hot milk as in making gravies Or
custards dip the hot milk into the
beaten eggs a spoonful at a time stir-
ring well each time until the eggs are
well thinned then add both together;
this will prevent the eggs from curd-
ling. It is often a question what to do
with either the whites or yolks of eggs
svhich are sometimes left after making
cake frosting etc. Either will keep
well for a day or two if set in a cool
place the yolks well beaten and the
whites unbeaten.
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v lines or yoiKS 01 eggs may ne useu
with whole eggs in any cake or other
receipt calling for eggs counting two
yolks or two whites as one egg.
Sort out the little eggs and keep
them for settling coffee using the lar-
ger ones for cake.
When eggs are cheap and plentiful
in summer wash all those used in
cooking before- breaking. Save the
shells and when a quantity are dry
crush them fine beat half a dozen eggs
well and stir them into the shells.
Spread them where they will dry quick-
ly and when thoroughly dry put in a
thin cotton bag and hang in a very dry
place. In the winter when eggs are
scarce and dear a tablespoonfulof this
mixture put in a cup a little cold wa-
ter poured over it and left to stand
over night or for a half an hour or so
in the morning before breakfast will
answer every purpose of a whole egg
in settling coffee.
Egg stains can be easily removed
from silver by rubbing with a wet rag
dipped in table Salt.
Destruction of Timber and Game.
The frequent Occu'rfencies of forest
fires the constant exportation of lum-
ber and the heavy home c onsumption
are using up .the lumber resources of
the country with a rapidity that is
alarming. Already the price of lum-
uer ruies so mgn as to exercise a de-
pressing effect on building and other
operations and every year the lumber
producing regions recede further from
the centres of consumption. The tim-
ber culture act has produced so far
no important results while the protec-
tive measures adopted to guard against'
forest fires and the illegal cutting of
timber in Wisconsin and other states
have proved of little avail to stop
either. The subject is one often ad-
verted to but the recent unusual ex-
tensive forest fires so early in the
summer give it an immediate interest
and suggests the importance of some
further action by congress in the prem-
ises. A genuine scarcity of timber in this
country has not yet been felt in any
pressing manner but if matters go on
as they have for the last ten or fifteen
years it will not be long before the
people at large will realize what the
consumption and wastage of this staple
article means. No nation in the world
ever had a more magnificent timber
supply; and should it be so impaired
as to create a disastrous shortage it
will be simply the result of a reckless
prodigality that deserve a national
punishment. It is a common belief
in the north svhere most of our lum
ber comes from that in many instan-
ces section's have been cleared of trees
without any proper right or title on
the part of those who did the work
and owing to the lack of all govern-
ment supervision Whether this be
true or not there ought to be some
limitation on the operations of firms
and corporations in the timber selling
and timber exportation business They
acquire control one way or another of
the vast tracts of timber lands and
then proceed to demolish the trees svith
an encrg.fhat is marvellous nnd leave
a desert where they found a noble
forest. All this is highly injurious to
national prosperity. It is not a pre-
face to bona fide settlement but means
a waste 01 national weaitn and the
commencement of a change of climate
that is menacing to agriculture.
What is wanted is not only wise laws
but means of enforcing them in regions
where the lumber camj) represents the
only centre of population. As it is
the laws sve have .are practically inop.
erative owing to the svant of an official
system of supervision.
This is true hot only df timber but
of game which every year diminishes I
in quantity and accessibility ine
buffalo has already disappeared even
from the Kansas plains before a mur-
derous warfare and the deer will be-
fore many years be but a hunting
tradition in the north and south.
Even the great woods themselves must
melt away before the unrestrained
rapacity of American enterprise. We
flatter ourselves on being a shrewd and
far-seeing people and yet we suffer
yearly a wastage of wealth that is with-
out a parallel. '
In reference to timber the subject
is too important to be allowed to pass
with a mere criticism now and then.
The representatives from the north
west and south should act with deter-
mination in the matter and secure
some practical lemslation and at the
same time devise means of thoroughly
enforcing it. The influence of the lum-
ber companies is said to be always ac-
tive in preventing the passage of res-
trictive measures but this will be of
little avail if the subject is taken up
with courage and determination. As
to the alleged illegal destruction of tim-
ber the matter should be inquired into
with the utmost strictness and the
responsibility fixed where it belongs
Republic.
A. Pretty Girl Loved a Joke Better
Than Flirtation.
There were three or four unoccupied
seats in the car but he stood for a mo-
ment grip in hand near the door and
then walked to a seat in which a young
iauy sat alone ana sat down beside ner
with an impudence that astonished all
other passengers. The girl looked up
at him and around the car and evi-
dently realized the situation for she
took pencil and tablet from her reti-
cule and made ready for him. After
about five minutes the man turned to
her and observed:
"Beg pardon if I am mistaken but
don't you live at Utica?"
She looked at him in a furtive way
and then wrote on the tablet and hand-
ed him:
"I am deaf and dumb."
"Ah! By George!" he sighed as he
read it; "that's too too bad! Deuced
pretty girl to have such a misfortune.
Well I'm left after all my smartness.
Saw her at the window before I got on
and carried out the plan to a dot.
Deaf and dumb eh? First one I ever
struck!"
I le nodded his head to her to signi-
fy that he understood and he would
have been glad to change seats if he
could have done so without loss of
dignity. As the train thundred on he
perused the contents of a couple of
newspapers yawned awhile and then
bought and finished a novel; and final-
ly after a ride of four mortal hours
the whistle blew and he reached for
his grip with the remark:
"I'll be hanged if I ain't glad this
stupid ride has come to an end at last."
"Ditto!" quietly replied the girl as
she turned on him.
"You you !" he gasped as he
stood there looking down upon her
with twelve kinds of emotion gallop-
ing over his countenance.
"Good-bye" she said and he back-
ed out and dropped to the platform
like a man retreating from a mule's
hind legs New York Sun.
Information Wanted About
the
State of Texas.
A Philadelhpia paper says: "Al-
most daily some one asks for informa-
tion in reference to Texas. There is a
great desire among the people in all
parts of the north to learn all they
can in regard to the Lone Star state.
But for the fact that Texas has been
greatly misrepresented thousands of
people and millions- of capital that
now go into the svest and northwest
would go to the great empire state
stretching from Louisana to Mexico
and from the Red river to the Gulf.
Texas is a most wonderful cbuntry
insurpassably rich in agricultural and
mineral resources and with almost un-
limited possibilities."
This desire in the north to obtain
information about the south is more
universal than most people think and
now is the time for Texas to make
known the advantages she possesses
for' the capitalist the mechanic the
farmer or the intending immigrant of
svhatever-trade or profession Persis-
tent and judicious advertising to show
the resources to the world will accom-
plish grand results. Newspapers are
doing a great deal o'f work but for
them to do it properly they must have
the assistance as well as the sympathy
of the people All should work for
the common interest and all should
bear nn equal part of the burden the
people of every town and every coun-
ty should unite. It will be to the in-
terest of all. Texas has a great future
before her and it is with her own
people what that future shall be. If'
her resources are properly shown to
the world it will indncojiuch a tide of
immigration and ' millions of money
within her borders that will soon place
her among the richest and most popu-
lous state of the Union. Texas! Ad-
vertiser. Brown Prince is about the best two
year-old filly in the svest She is by
Prinqe Charlie dam Nannie Black.
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Olcu'rilirioss.
Under the heading of "dairy possi-
bilities in Kansas" published in the
Kansas Farmer Secretary I. D. Gra-
ham makes use of some "awfully" clean
facts. He says:
The successful private butter-maker
must be very cleanly. Not ordinarily
cleanly as other men are but awfully
so. He must abhor dirt as he does
the unpardonable sin and must have
himself and his surroundings so unut-
terably clean that this cleanliness makes
itself felt when you go oil his premises.
So clean that you can smell it. Nothing
can take the place of a reputation
for cleanliness with the general public.
If your reputation is made in this res-
pect and your customers do find a bit
ol hair or some unknown quantity in
the butter they will console themselves
with the thought that it is clean
dirt anyway but don't let it occur
again.
A man may be as dirty as a hog
himself and be a horse thief and a poli-
tician besides ; he may be slow in the
moral scale that he will go out of his
way to break the less common of the
ten commandments ; he may be con-
tent to live upon bologna sausage
with no idea of what he is eating but
when it comes to butter he wants that
good and clean. This liking for good
butter or rather dislike for bad butter
I believe to be well nigh universal
among civilized people and also that
the grade of civilization attained by
any people max he shown by the butter
it makes.
The grade Jersey cow has an impor-
tant mission to perform in the crusade
for regenerating the American butter
world. She gives to thousands their
first object lesson in gilt-edge butter ;
teaches them the value of the blood ;
prepares them to appreciate the pure
article and finally induces them to in-
vest in a heifer calf or two. It is
therefore a matter of grave importance
to Jersey breeders to look after the
breeding and distribution of high grade
Jerseys; this of course only where
pure blood can not be introduced. If
men who make butter for sale once try
a good grade along side of their scrub
cows it will not be long before they
will want a pure blood bull. Then will
come the desire for a registered cow
or two". There is need to grade up
the knowledge ot men as well as
the blood of their cows Jersey Bul-
letin. It is quite "true that there are not
enough Jersey cows in the United
States to-day to furnish all the families
who want them to say nothing of the
dairymen but the good work of spread-
ing them goes on very briskly. Breed-
ers everywhere seem to be in excellent
spirits. It is no time now therefore to
be talking about lowering the standard
of Jersey butter. Not a bit of it. On
the contrary now is the time to hold it
aloft. Set the standard high ; let no
premium or prize be awarded to Jersey
butter that has a particle -of foreign
coloring matter in it whether wet or
dry alkali or acid put it through re-
novated butter oil cotton oil or hog
grease. Do this and the demand for
Jeisey butter will keep the market for
Jersey cows active for generations yet
to come. Jersey Bulletin.
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The opening of Oklahoma was as
severe a test of character and patience
as could well be imagined but on the
whole America came off with flying
colors. Nothing more trying could be
devised than the waiting on the very
borders of the "promised land" and
the uncertainty and suspicion the
hopes so near fruition and the fears.
In the wild rush which followed the
removal of the barriers there was cer-
tainly a remarkable self restraint.
Thosuands of land seekers have been
disappointed but the law abiding in
stincts ot tlie American people con-
trolled the situation and even the des-
)
perate.characters who were drawn to
the. scene appear to have been kept in
.subjection. Some bloodshed and dis
order was inevitable but considering
the comparative lack of restraint the
excitement and the intense desire and
determination to obtain land the only
wonder of the future historian svill he
that the opening of Oklahoma svas not
a "carnival of crime." Most of those
who were impelled by the land-hunger
showed themselves desirous of observ-
ing the laws and securing their home
steads by fair means. I he one con-
spicuous exception seems to have been
thejand-grabbing scheme at Guthrie
svhere many of the best lots and con-
siderable land was staked off and set-
tled before noon of Monday April 22c!.
For this crime since it is certainly a
crime to steal land the railroad com-
pany and some of the government offi-
cials seem to be more or less respon-
sible. Several persons secured ap-
pointments as deputy marshals for the
express purpose of gaining this advan-
tage taking up claims. This is the most
disgraceful feature of the openingjbut it
can and must be set right by the gov-
ernment. The American people be-
lieve in fair play? and they will not
tolerate the palliation of this offense
because the Guthrie land grabbers
have money and influence Another
and. brighter feature of this strange
romantic invasion has been he admir-
able conduct of the officers and soldiers
who have- guarded the border.
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