Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — From Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

From Oklahoma.

Under date of April 17, James W. Douthit writes us a personal letter from Weatherford, Okla., from which wo publish the following extracts: I will tell you something in regard to Weatherford. There have been two men killed here since |we came. One was shot by a girl and it was claimed to be acciden- | tal. I guess they were both so | bad a character that no one cared. | The other was a man named Pemberton from Kentucky. He was knocked down with a piece of pine board on his way from the drug store where he had been to procure some medicine for his daugh-ter-in-law who was critically ill. It occurred about twelve o’clock at night. They arrested four fellows but there was nothing against them. They caught a negro at El Reno yesterday and brought him here and they say pnt a rope around his neck and lie confessed, implicating another negro. It would not surprise me if there would be a lynching. Pemberton was a Mason and the native Masons are after his murderer. The object was robbery and they got a little money. There was quite a snow last night. How is that for the “Sunny South?” It only lasted a few hours but it cooled the air and the wind shook our puny mansion. There are two democratic newspapers here and one republican, but they are all friendly. In fact they do not have the news in them that you have in your papers. They are principally fillod with advertisements. The editor of the Democrat is an Ohioan by birth and was once a pupil of Garfield at Hiram College. He was in the Union Army and voted the Republican ticket until 1868, when he voted for Seymour. He was once n member of the Territorial legislature, uml Speaker of the house. He is a Democrat but lias Populistic tendencies. The Indians are common here. The mother always carries the papoose while her ford and master walks proudly along. The Indian never speaks but makes signs nud grunts, if he can make that do to convey his ideas. Enclosed you will find a picture of a dam that was built across deer creek by the railroad company to secure water for the company. Last Sunday Mrs. D. and I wont down to see it and I told her to hold Baby Nora while I walked across but when I was about half way across she broke nwny frem her mother and started after me, all unconscious of danger. I walked back and caught her. Had she fallen on one Bide sho would hove been killed and had she fallen on the other she would have been drowned, if the parties there could not have swam. I cannot. It was done so quick that no one noticed it although there were

several there. She kept to the center and held her footing. 1 left the dam and swore I would not take her there any more. This couutry would be a paradise if it were not for the infernal winds, and they blow a great deal of the time and shake everything that is loose.