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.. .. .. . ... i-ve?; ?*.i'-r.r.-,;?3 JB I -1_-.^-rrtr* i TT "Kid O- T A VT/^i omrvmT 1 V1\-nYlCIAV Cl >T1 TT7TnTkXTT^C<T\ A XT/V?r"K>*r"DTiTD Kl t AA? 17/YT T7TitTi\ "V"V V1TTTT XT/~V Clift A Letter from Oklahoma. dkarclio, Okla., Nov. 8th, 1903. \f. Fditor: Since moving out hero I ? hare received many] letters of inquiry ? norning almost ?very conceivable B A?iHtion from people who seem to be |C,0? Oklahoma. With your 1 ii ri *r 11 vour columns, since most of 'H !h. wnters ?ire readers ot your paper. I nm making a study of the country ? Ll think 1 am learning rapidly, but I I JSmld ol necessity be a Solomon had I H ' ii red in so short a time the wide 8 rince of information supposed by my I Sspondeuts. However, I will write M I onv what I know, or think I know, I ?h?cli amounts to the same thing BO I f"TM I nm concerned. B Most o? ike-writers wish to know I ?bout that w hich first brought every - I iiodv ?'bc here and is the basis of Okla B hnnin's prosperity, viz., land. If you I tnuw ??iivtlnng about northern Texas B uni sontliern Kansas you know what BB Oklahoma is. There are all Jr.inds.of I t?il here, black wax, red, ginger bread fl brown and white sand overgrown with I black jack, and ranges in price from m I 25 eta to *40 per acre. But good wheat WSm ind coin land ranges from $10 to $40, IBB with al! imp?o ements, which usually I consists of a ^ood farm house, barn, B etc., wire fencing and plenty of fruit fl trees. No fertilizer is used. The I farmers prow corn, wheat, oats, broom B corn, ka?lir corn and alfalfa hay. They B also harvest and bale prairie grass. In I the southern counties cotton is largely I grown. I wilB teld that one could not BB h0" vegetables here, but I have never 8?n ?cen liner cabbage, potatoes and all ?? ?thor vegetables grow. While tho I poultrv* on nearly every farm surpasses vHB anything 1 have seen. There aro no Wm common bred fowls here. The dry I weather and southern wind often SSS cause failures in the entire crop, but I there are no. fertilizer bills and farm I labor to pay, anyhow. It costs nothing B but the labor of the farmer himself to I make or lose a crop, and he does his I labor while riding. I've seen these B failures in succession in South Caro I lina because of dry weather, and still I the bills referred to above to pay. To I feed stock here costs only about one I third of what it costs out Plast. Corn I and oats ara 30 eta. per bushel while MB har is UO cts. per bale or $5.00 per ton tWjfi loiise. Provisions are cheap, but coal, I oil and nearly ali manufactured goods I are very high, so riso ia building ma I teri ni H. However, Oklahoma ia devel . oping a style of architecture peculiar j to herself, which gives the greatest amonnt of space with the least amount of material used. We have all the art? parts and points o'.civilization that you have out East- zxcent mortgages, mules and "niggers." The latter art very scarce. There are some larg?; cities where no negroes are allowed t< live. None live in this town. Th' < aro no frontier shanty towns of tn< dime novel style out here. Even towni only one year old down in the. nev country have electric lights, tele phones and streets lined with man] brick and brown stone business blocks better by far than the average town ii South Carolina. I live in a small towt in the middle of the Territory, but vu make nearly everything we eat. Th< cheese I eat is made here aud put u] in boxes made here. The fine loaf lan I use is not put up by the trust, but b; a firm in town. Canned goods aro pu up by the same firm: while the Okla homa Biscuit Co's, soda cracker, nut u] in inner seal package, out-sells tb "Unceda" biscuits. You see civiliza tion didn't take always to get here a it did in old countries, lt was made t order out east and came here with th? "rush." Why, when the "rush" wa made for a new town an entire tele phone exchange with a Bell long dist auce with attached drove into town a the head of the rush, and ev evy newee -fad and invention followed. As a rule the people both in tow; and country, it matters not where the come from, cook and eat nothing th? is home grown, except Irish potatoc and light bread, everything else is prc pared food stuffs. Canned gooui cereal preparations are sold and coe sumed in the greatest quantities. Eve the blanket Indians come to town an buy "Force," "Grane Nuts." "Quak< Oats," etc. 1 said I couldn't do it an kicked at. first, but I have come dow to it. 1 now cat potatoes three ti nu every day, at home and abroad; for tb rest it is a tin can and a paper sad However, moat of these things ai made here. Of course, there ure e> copiions, but 1 havn't found them. Now, if you want to hear the oth? side, or if the women wish informatio and advice, write my wife. She'll hn\ a different tale to tell. 1 W. D. Mooter. i On fier Bad Behavior. Greenville was on her bad behavior Saturday and Sunday as will be shown by thc list of casualties published be low which wore furnished a represent ative of The News by Chief of Police Kennedy. 1. Conductor J. T. Stephens killed by B. P. Rush. 2. Sam Willimon murdered by an unknown negro. ' 3. Negro shot another near Cunning ham's store, on the Cedar Lane road. 4-. Charley Anderson was out by a man named I Iamb y at Mills mill. Both parties white. 5. Elias Cooksey stabbed Dallas La Grand while engaged in a game of cards near Sparks Spring. Parties are white. ti. Jule Green cut a gash of several iuobes in tho side of Lucy White, also cut Welter Garrison in the face. All parties colored. 7. Fred Morrison gave Emma Put nam a severe beating with a bed slat at her home in Buckner street. Both colored. 8. John Hunt severely beat Georgia Berry at her home on John street. Parties colored. 9. Two factory operatives emptied I their pistols at each other in Pine street. Poor marksmanship saved the life of both. Neither were touched. The above record was made Saturday, Sunday and Sunday night, and it is without doubt the largest record in that line that has ever been made io and around Greenville in the same length of^time.-Greenville News. - John Covington, colored, shot his wife in Darlington on Sunday twice in the face, inflicting painful but not fatal wounds. He got on a bioycle and eluded pursuit, which was immediately made. - The mau who saves up something for a rainy day is the one who knows enough to go in when it rains. IIf you're a * sensible Clothes-Money-Spender you're going to get Most-For-Your-Money Clothes ; which is only another way of saying you're coming here to get 'em. Whateve you need to make you as well dressed as you ought to be, and as comfortable in body, min and pocket as you ought to be, you will buy here if you buy right. We m?ks? ? yvi?i of having the best Clothes maf ? ; whatever your Clothes-Approprie tion may be, you'll find the Goods here to fit it. In Salts and Overcoats you'll find nothin to compare with the famous HABT SCHAFFNER & MAEX GOODS. For excellence c styles, for perfection of tailoring, and. fitting quality, they are unequalled. No man is s particular of bis clothes-looks that we cannot satisfy him in these H. 8. & M. Goods. Bette *ee and try es some of these Suits and Overcoats. H. S. & NC Suits from $10.00 to $20.00. H. S. & M. Overcoats $10.00 to $20.00. Other good Suits and Overcoats $5.00 to $8.50. is? 0? ?P^A?IS & GO? ' .. ' * Vt?ikt ?? n '"r '*. ;. .* ' '?il .' i ."'?. ~ '-> . ' ... '.. STATE MEWS. - The jetty work on Winyah Bay at Georgetown has been completed. - Magistrate Larkin Rice, of Sa luda county, had a mule 40 years old to die recently. - Nearly thrco millions of dollars is represented in cotton mills project ed in this State this year. - A cave-in in the sewerage tren ches in Columbia killed two negro workmen and injured several others. - Frank Johnson, whito, killed himself accidentally while hunting about three iniics from Mount Pleas ant. - Heavy dispensary purchases have been made by the State Hoard of Con trol in anticipation of thc Christmas trade. - The supreme court assembles on the 25th inst, and the 3rd circuit will called. A pretty heavy docket is on hand. - The State Alliance Exchange has gone out of business. They have $17, 000 to divide amongst the sub-alli ances that contributed to thc organi zation. - Judge Gage says Charleston is the hardest county in the State to get a jury in. The business men all plead excuses. - James P. Cary, of Piokons, has been appointed to preside as judge at the special term of court in Laurens county. - It is probable that the Columbia and Georgetown Boat Company will have at least two steamers in opera tion by Jan. 1. - Three crazy negroes were burned to death in a fire which partially de stroyed the insano ward at the city hospital in Charleston last week. - The general committee of church extension of tho Methodist Episco pal Church has apportioned $800 for the coming year to work in South Carolina. - Judge Klugh deoided at Ben nettsville on Thursday that county boards of education have no super vision or control over graded school districts. - A rich deposit of tin ore has been discovered on the place of Capt. S. S. Ross of Cherokee county. The mine will bo developed by Pittsburg capitalists. - An attempt at incendiary was made at Edgcfield last Wednesday night. One of the firebugs was severely shot and captured. Two others escaped. - The crops on the penitentiary farms have proved very fine and Super intendent Griffith has an abundant supply of meal, flour and other sup plies laid up for use. - The sooiety for the prevention of cruelty to animals, at Columbia, has appointed a committee to memori alize the legislatue to ohange the law so as to give the committee more pow er and add to the stringency of the law. - C. E. Graham, who has made such a success of the Huguenot mills in Greenville, has bought the prop erty of the old Camperdown mill and will put in new machinery and begin the manufacture of ginghams by the first of January. - The Washington correspondents of both The State and The News and Courier say that President Roose velt, upon Booker Washington's ad vice, has decided to appoint Dr. W. D. Crum, oolored, collector of the port in Charleston. - The Richland Distilling com pany has found that tho plant must be doubled or that they must run night and day to fill its orders, heavy pur chases being made by the State dis pensary. The plant will bc run night and day from now on so long as neces sity requires. - Jim Edwards, near Trough Shoals, Spartanburg County, found an old copper coin recently. On one Bide was a medalion portrait of George II. with the legend "Georgius II, Rex." On the other was a orown over a harp with --Hibernia 1750." The coin is 152 years old. - Of the eleven principal pctato produoing States, six, including Georgia and South Carolina report average yields per acre of sweet pota toes in excess of their ten-year aver ages, and five, inoludidg North Caro lina and Alabama, report yields below such averages. - The general reports through tba State say that tax payers ara' slowly settling up their dues. Thc governor and comptroller general have said that they were dead set and opposed to any extension this year of prosperity. If the precedent is ever to be broken this ib the time. The delinquents may expect no favors. - Index Clerk McCown, of the Secretary of State's office, has been engaged in the past week or two look? ing over the old relic room, to save, if possible, what documents may be valuable as historical papers. Fre quently some interesting finds are made. One was a copy of George Washington's farewell address sent to the governors and legislatures of the original states. The manuscript of the document is well preserved. - A few nights ago at Cameron, on the Coast Line, between Orange burg and Sumter, the store of Bull & Taylor was tatered by safe blow ers and between $800 and $1,000 was secured. The robbers used dynamite and the explosion aroused some people in the vioinity. With guns and pis tols they went to the rear of the store while the robbers escaped from the front, having had ample time t o se cure the contents of the safe. Sev eral shots 'frere fired at them, bu without effect. GENERAL SEWS. - Election bets to the amount of ' $400,000 were paid iu Wall street, ! New York. - Iron ore mines, estimated to be worth $100,000,000, have been dis covered in Indiana. - Cleburne, a towu in Texas, pos sesses a gray-brindle tom cat that is 30 years old. The animal has no teeth and is unable to mew. - The rural mail delivery will cost $24,000,000 for the coming year-at w?ant t? . pcatoffice department will ask congress for that amount. - A Maryland man came into pos session of $100,000 and the excitement killed him. Lots of fellows would risk being excited in that way. - The total number of casos of cholera reported in thc Philippine Is lands since the inception of the dis ease is 105,000 and of deaths 07,000 - Owing to the bad shape thc mines got into during the strike it has been impossible to get more thau half the regular daily output from them. - Thc U?publican majority in the Senate after March 4 will bc 16 to 20. At present they have 04 to 34 Demo crats, thero being two vacancies from Delaware. - Thore were five deaths' from smallpox in Charlotte, N. C., last week, one being the son of Alexander Springs, proprietor of the Arlington hotel, the others being negroes. - Eight thousand dollars worth of jewelry aud a lot of clotbiug were stolen from the resideuce of Emanuel Jacobs, a Now York lawyer, on Friday while the family were at dinner. - A woman in Louisville, Ky., draws four pensions from the federal government as the widow of four Union soldiers. The other soldiers of the regiment aro not accounted for. - Colonel Ed. Buller, millionaire politician of bc. Louis, has been found guilty of an attempt to bribe the St. Louis municipal officers. Ile was sen tenced to three years in the peniten tiary. - Mrs. Dick, of Indiana, having been cashier of a National bank foi twenty years, was offered a bank presi dency in New York, at a big salary but had to decline on acoouot of il! health. - Dunbar P. Magruder, cashier ol the Merchants and Farmers bank oi Biohmond, Ya., has been missing since Friday, 7th inst., aud his ac counts are short several thousand dollars. - A man in Williamsport, Pa., had a falling out with his girl and brought suit to recover the presents ho had given to her. She thereupon entered suit for tho value of the meals he had eaten at her home. - The new governor of Kansas got his nomination on a promise to marry a Kansas girl. Now he is trying to baok out. He says he has diligently searched the Stato and can find no wo man in it for him to wed. - Deputy sheriff Howell, of John son county, Tenn., was shoe in the breast and mortally wounded in at tempting to oapture Boone Pottter, who recently killed his father. Pot ter was also fatally wounded. - Four men attempted to hold up a train in Indiana. Tho engineer paid no heed to shots from four pistols but threw open tho throttle and left the would be rubbers standing alongside the traok. They were later arrested and lodged in jail. - Tho Southern Railway will short ly put on 20 new freight engines. The engines were ordered some time ago and aro now ready for service. The engines will probably be put into use the latter part of the present week and will be distributed over tho lines of the Southern. - John MoCormiok Gibson, ol Cincinnati, who was married to Mis Henriette Wolf at Asheville on Sat urday, the 1st instant, died on Satur day, the 8th, leaving a will in which he bequeathed his bride his entire estate, valued at a million. - Mandarin, the largest elephant in oaptivity, which had belonged to the the Barnum-Bailey oirous for 24 years, was strangled to death in New York. He had become unmanageable and had to be killed. Tho body was oar ried out tc sea and sunk, weighted with 5,000 pounds of railroad iron. - Roland B. Molineux, whe hat been on trial >a New York for murder, was acquitted last week, tho jury being out n,ily thirteen minutes. Thc verdict of the jury was received with applause. Molineux had previously been convicted of murder and senten ced to death, but he secured a new trial. The court room was packed, including many ladies. - Tho total value of tho productf of the slaughtering and meat-paokinr industries of tho United States for the last census year was$785,500,000. Ol this sum nearly one-third must bc credited to Chicago. Tho slaughter ing and packing business of that city gives work to nearly 30,000 people, The wages and salaries ptid in thc last census year aggregated $17,000, ooo. - Col. H. C. Cowies, olerk of thc oourt at Statesville, N. C., says he does not know how he is to distribute that $10,000 among those women whe were victims of the Cherry Tree ewin die. On the second of Decomber the last payment of $5,000 is duo anc when that is paid in he will wait foi instructions from Judge Boyd as te the distribution of the money. Ii the meantime he is receiving ahou ten letters a day from women whi i risked their money on this wild ca ' soheme. OFFICE OF JOS. J. FRETW?LL, Successor to Bleckley & Frctwcll, - I ?KA LEU IS - HORSES AND MULES, BUGGIES. WAGONS, HARNESS, ETC, ANDERSON, S. C., October 21, 11)02. DEAR SIR: Our recent advertisement, in which we offered FREE TICKETS to tho CIRCUS, was highly appreciated, a.s has been fully demonstrated by tho payments that we have received tinco October 1st. NOW we propose to go further, and GIVE AWAY more than 8200.00 worth of VALUABLE PRESENTS, to those of our Customers who have paid their indebtedness in fall since September 1st, last, or tho3o who make payments on their indebtedness to thc amount of 820.00, or who purchase from us from October 15th, up to ami including thc 22ud of Dscernlnr next, and make Cash payments on fame, in like amounts. Read carefully our proposition printed below thia letter, aud do uot neglect to avail yourself i f this LIBERAL OFFER. These Handsome Prescuts will bi on exhibition at our Stables after November 1st. Yours very truly, JOS. J. F RET WE LL. LIBERAL OFFER. ALL parties who have paid their indebtedness in full, since September 1st, or who pay us 825.00 on their indebtedness from October 15th, to and including December 22nd, next, will be entitled to a chauce to obtain oue o? the following VALUABLE PRESENTS. The same applies to all of our Customers who purchase Goods from us within dates named, aud who pay us 820.00 in Cash thereon. This applies ouly to indebtedness and purchases for STOCK and VEHICLES. Following is a list of cur Valuable Presents : One Nico Driving Horse, worth . . - . - $100.00 I One Nice Buggy, woith. 65.00 One Set Double Harness, worth. 25.00 One Set Single Buggy Harness, worth - - - 20.00 One Riding Saddle, worth. 10.00 One Riding Bridle, worth - - 5.00 One Saddle Blanket, worth. 2.50 Numbered Tickets will ba given you at time of payment or purchase, and a Committee of disintcreitad parsons will 1)9 appointed to conduct the distribution of Presents. JOS. J. FRETWELL. ^^^X-A- li-jL -L. S f FREE BOOKS. ? 4 The holder oE this Ticket is entitled to any one of a Large ^ A - Selection of Books from- - ?> }a MOODY'S COLPORTAGE LIBRARY, Jt J S After having purchaaedlgpoda to the_amonntof $2.00.-"2 o? j WILH?TFTFW?LH iTttT~~ .DRUGGISTS, k. A - ANDERSON, - - - BOOTH CAROLINA. ( Y CS ? Wo take no risks and handle no poisons, OT *4,H Every Coupon brought to the Store is worth 5c._ p A 5 i 5 1 25 I 25 i 25 I 25 ? POSSIBLY YOU have delayed,making your purchases of HEAVY WINTER GOODS until the cold weather begius. November weather usually rsminds U3 of these necessities, eo we would advise you not to put faff buyiug long er, as it is cheaper ti) buy from us than to pay doctor bills. YouJ'will find our Stock of CAPES, JACKETS. COATS, FURS, BLANKETS* UNDERWEAR* HOSIERY, FLANNELS, ETC., ETC., Complete in every detail, and" never Cher. )cr thau now. We promise you this: That if you come to our place and want any of the above mentioned Goods we will sell you. No where in the city will be found a better select ted Stock of DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS or MILLINERY Than we are showing. So we ask again that you visit our Store when you are io tbe city. You will always find something NEW. Agents McCall Bazar Patterns and Royal Worcester Corsets. Moore. Acker&Co