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THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWSVOLUME 4 i 501 UMBIA A v AIR COUNTY KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY APRIL 24 1901 NUMBER 24
POSTUFFICE DIRECTORY
J M Russell PostmasterOffice hours week days 700 a m to 93i pm
COURT DIRECTORY
Clnausessions a yearThirdIn nay andthirdMonday in January
third Monday In September
SommonwealthsAttornoyNIl W Aaro-nSheriffJ W HurtClerkJno B Coffey j
COUNTY CcuBTFirst Monday In each wont
Judge J W ButlerCounty AttorneyJasG rnett JrClerkT It StultsJailerS H Mitchell 0
Assessora ABradshawSurveyorR T McCaffree
School SuptW DJones-CoronerLeonard Fletchery3KT CoOBTRegularcourt second Monday I
ach monthidgeJ W Atkins-
orneyGordon Montgomery
CHURCH DIRECTORY
PRESBYTERINiBCBHTIUB STUEETROV T F Walton
pastor Services second and fourth Sundaym evelYSnndaysehoolat9each month
bath Prayer meeting every v
Light
METHODIST
BOBKSVLLB S TReTW P Cordon
pastor Services first Sunday in each month
Sundayschool every Sabbath at 9 a m Prayer
meeting ThursdaynightvB PTISTS
GBBKJCSBOBQ STRBETRevastor Services third Sunday In each monthJ
at 9amiandayscholmeeting Tuesday nightJ
OHBISTIN
CAMPBKLL8VILLK P KElder L Williams
First Sunday Iri eachPastor Services
Sabbath at 9 ammonth Sundayschool overtPrayer meeU ng Wednesday nigh-
tDODGES
MASONIC
COMTUBIA LODGE No 98 F and A IReguear meeting In their ball over bank on Frt
lynlghton or before the full moon In each
month 0KB VMT B STULTS Secj
COLUMBIA CHAPTER R A M No 7meetsfirst Monday night In each month
J U MOBEELI H P
W W BBADSHAW Secretary
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FINE STETSON HATS AND ALL
OTHER STYLISH BRANDSCIRemember the place 408 West Market
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flancock HotelBURKSVILLE STREET
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JUNIUS HANCOCK Propt0fSTThe above Hotel hits het n rir
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0Toad above named hotel was recently openedhoe had fine run from the stunt Mrs
Boltlookaanersees that the tablandwith the very best the market affords Theproprietors arts attentive sad very poUt to mydingledata livery attached to the Terms Ver
meteusoni dnyoLebann Steam Laundry ed
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laundry nantVcrinducf iliVexri r1 JT
fenced workmen aDd di inj aslihrgrade work as can be turned out uu > iiilplace io the c entry Painmizti ahome Institution Work or Adair TRussell Tapl r aud Green sullcit d
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KILLING OF WITCHES
Thrilling Account of the Trial of Hotema the Indian Chief A Law-
yer¬
and an Able Minister
AN INTERESTING AND TRUE STORY
JJY J ate SCOTT rAms TEXI
hIkportedtorTbeNereaIn a beautiful valley six miles
North West from Grant I T a snuglittle village situated on the FriscoRailroad thirty miles north of ParisTexas Is the home of a noted Indianjurist and preacher Solomon Hotema-
n the witch killer who was tried duringthe present term of the federal courtin Paris charged with murder
A man of rare abilities and owninhundreds of acres of grazing and farm ¬
ing lands Hotema who is a fullblood choctaw became the leading manin all his country His witch killingfeat wasa great blow to his palefacefriends It is a striking instance ofthe force of heredity and early instilledbelief He is fortyeight years old iswell educated is an entertaining con-
versationalist¬
and a good writer Hefor the ministry in a Presby-
terian College at Roanoke Va threeAfter his return he was elected
and held the office a number ofconsecutive terms He also was dlsdistrict attorney and was a member ofthe national council eight years
At the age of forty Hotema took upthe ministry and became a power inthe church He had just returnedfrom the general assembly of hischurch at New Orleans when be kill
the Witches In Ills early boyhoodhe became imbued with the belief inwitchcraft by hearing his father CaptJohn Hotema speak of it
Ilotema being asked why half breedsand pale faces were not molested bywitches replied that the witches cantshoot balls into them because they eat
much salt the balls wont penetrateHistory shows he says that when theepale face came to America he discovxed witches among the Indians andIthat they bad been among them ever
sinceThe
Hotema case is one of the mostcelebrated cases ever tried in the Uni ¬
ted States being the first of the kindsince the trial of witch killers in Newc
He was the pastor of achurch near his home and was verycpopular with the Hock whom he guarde
as carefully and tenderly as a fatherwould care fur his family Two years
then were several deaths fromMeningitis swung his flock and he believtd that two women and two menhad placed an evil charm on the strick-en
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persons He accordingly called in awitch doctor and Sam Frye and began
investigation The doctor after Inmany burning lots of roots
herbs told Ilotema that five per¬
sons were implicated In bewitchlnghisflicU and that tht >y should be gotten
f hi way or other deaths wouldw It iii retired tsihisfttudy
arm p adillag and earnestly that hisduiWight be revealed W him by theGreat Spirit He spent the night inreading the Bible and religious works
henext morning he announced thatduty had been made clear and that awould rid his country of witchescalled Frye to accompany him and
taking his breach loading shotgun be-
atarrrdut oh a murderous mission
lit first slopped at the home of theGreenwoods and finding Mrs Greenwoodat home said Sister Greenwood
folks all die soon have no church ig nng ro kill watches Doctor say
u witch anal me kill you The wo-
man begged for her life but the redSkinned Gospel wjout deliberately rais
his gun and blew her brains outHe then proceeded torthe home of is
GSrmans Mrs Coleman was sit¬ I
ting lu brr room with thn baby in her fi
arms when lie entered the room andcalled henijrtitdi She sprang up andtufted to runhUk hrfdrr she could aach rbe4lo r hrshot hi r twice kin
hr ifirittfhily IUd WunrtliiL thNbab> an111tHirdrwturcdttlt + brnty
tnrrlNui ijig here hrmrtGrruo u fie1lUVt and of hits first victim
intl idtlsatfim Near his home hq foo-ttarusherman whom the witch doctorhallmarked upd would have killed himthen and there but the man plead soearnestly tnathe told him togu home
would not kill hint Ml nHXtdav
Lle i 1 i tllh Or-
wafilCh 11 4 j te tItCUSo
dy and brought to Paris and placed injail where he has been ever since
On Sunday before the tragedy Hotema preached to his congregation aboutwitchcraft and declared in a deploringmanner that his people were goingback fo the sorceries and practices ofold instead of conforming to the waysof Enlightened people He told themthat while he was praying be had seenwitches coming through the alriin theshape of balls of fire
Mrs Hotema testified during the trlal that their only child died a shorttime before the killing and for twoweeks after her husband spent mosof his time in prayer reading the Band interesting passages about witch ¬
craft He would cry quite often andprayed that the witches might bebvercome He interpreted the turning of
Aarons rod into a serpent and otherwitchgcraftThekilling of the supposed witches
by Hotema is but one of many suchkillings which have occurred amongthe Choctaws in years past One of themost striking of these witch executions took place in Blue county on Boggy several years ago Stephen Belvina member of the national council hadpneumonia and was being treated by awhite physician Being a full bloodand unable to speak English Mary
Folsom a beautiful half breed girl was
sent for to nurse and act as interpreter and see that the medicine was ad¬
ministered properly Belvin did notIiImprove and dismissed the white doctor and called in a Choctaw doctorknown as Blind Isom who was fatmous as a witch doctor He examinedthe patient and said he had been shotby a witch ball and that the girl whowas nursing him was the witch Hedeclared that Belvin could not recoverunless he killed the witch with his ownhands and hacked her to pieces Belsvin consented to carry out the sugges ¬
tion and was provided with a long blad-
ed knife which he concealed under hisbed cover While the girl was bending over the bed administering medi¬
cine Blind Isom siezed and pressed herdown until Belvin could stab herShe was literally cut to pieces No ie ¬
punishment was ever inflicted tortthis horrible crime
There is now a law on the Choctawstatue books which makes it an offensepunishable with fifty lashes on thetbare back to say that any one lsa witch
that any one has been oewitcbedDespite the law however the beliefexists among the full bloods and witchececutlocs arc frequent in some beau-
ties Let the report once get circulated that sonic old woman is a witchand in a short time she turns up dead
The full bloods believe that thewitches shoot their balls in an invisable manner The victim does not feelany pain until the spell begins to workThe witch balls are made difIerentlyIsome are made from a grain of andanother a blade of grass or it may besomething else but the bullet or ballh> always very minute Wneu in tbeIdiaguois of a case the doctor discoversthat the patient has been bewItchedhe bleb to work to locate the witchHe makes a fire with red oak barksucks blood from the patient and d
spurts it into the lire This will theyclaim cause the witch to become violently ill with colic Of course when
person is bewitched suspicion restsupon some particular individual as theIwitch After having gone throughthe incantation with the red oak barknthe party suspected hi watched and ifhe fails to become sick thou the doctorand his assistants mount their horsesand scour the country until some one-
s found sick with the colic or someotner ailment When lound the doctor puts a spell on him in order to relieve the person bewitched or killshim Beside this there is anotherway to dispel the evil charm A pit
dug in the ground a little fire waden it and a kettle of water set over the-re Into the kettle different roots
are thrown Sticks are then placedacross toe pit a blanket stretched
cross and the patient placed uu thebiauKet In this souse lie io thurfiou hly steamed white theu witch due P
fur suck one uioutuiui or oKod afterauOiher uutu thewiuh uali to extract-ed While this ptoce sis guiuguu the tofttiuiiyuf the patient furor a circlearound the pit and chadt It the lllMen t survives lJe must pay tots doctor S
WLiHt 110 is able to pity or be will relapse and have to Suffer many lioMbtorhinos
iGVt H tuaYbn NSn tPitAad U tilt ui at att8 Ii
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says that he had a right to kill as God
directed him to destroy those whom
he believed to be witches In killingthe witches he claims that be was do-
Ing the work Godcommissioned him todo and that he is not criminally re-
sponsible for the killing During hisconfinement Hotema has written a bi
ography and sketches in which hemakes copious citations from the Bibleto prove the existence of witches
The trial continued several days andwas given to the jury on the 10th instIt is believed that the jnry will acquitor disagree
tSay Do you Know
That the averge man counts timeby pay days
That no woman is as pretty as shesometimes looks
That it you want to be successful
dont squeal but root
That the road to success is pavewith good advertisements
That whether life is worth livingdepends greatly upon the liver
That a bright smile is a womansmolasses that catches the flies
That when a man marries he halveshis rights and doubles his duties
That a loaded pistol is a bad thingto fool with or to have a fool with
That it never occurs to a boy thathe will some day know as little as hisfatherC1That the sweetest girls are seldomest
because they are at home busy atwork
That the best thing that can happena man is to nave a wife who is also
his chum
That those who make hay while thesun shines are the most liable to getsunstruck
That to go through life with no
of humor is like riding a buggywithout springs
That good advice is good for thewayward boy but it is nothing like a isgood whipping very often
That you cant always judge by apapearances The girl with a sailor hatprobably never saw a rowboat
That a mans friends often know of
engagement before he and the girlmost interested are aware of it
That a palmist may tell all aboutthe human hand but when it comes
a poker band they have to pass
That when a woman is in great t
trouble she cries but when a man isdeeply distressed he gets bn a drunk
That much of the trouble in thiscountry happens because men take toobmuch time to make money and too
little to enjoy itThat the reason why BO many people
live beyond their means is because of
the credit system They buy morethan they are able to pay for
Best Remedy For Rheuma-
tismQUICK RELIEF FilOJt rAIN
All who use Chamberlains Painalm for rheumatism are delighted
with the quick relief from pain It hit b-
it affords When speakingof this MrD N Sink of Troy Ohio stsSonic tmn ago I hid a M verc attii k
of rheumatism in my arm and shout-er
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I tried numerous remedies butgot no relief until I was recommended-by Messrs Geo F Parsons Codruggists of this place to try Chambe-rlains
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Pain Balm They commended it so highly that I bought a botte
was soon relieved of all pain I havesince recommended this liniment tonany of my friends who agree withII
that it is the best remedy foe mus-cular rheumatism In the market Forsale by M Cravens
tel
The Plague-
Notwithstanding numerous denialsthe plague exists In San Franciscoand ten cases have been officially re¬
ported tiloce the beginning of theYear al of which were fatal Thedisease liar been confined almost ex¬
elusively to the Chinese quarter Theprevailing type is of the bubonic formmildly contagious hut may at anvtime assume a virulent natureViintunios measures wp at nc etaken t eradicate It Th itt hasexisted t4rrrGvtrtrtng t offlii It
rlri olnce listen 6 h lOiX Tortwo case hoer g rwn pat o u dpuiIU > IItJJ hi Ui bftiiMi ri njN Pf1 rf
January 1st 1900 all flf VCjl l wtre tcfatal The dlsdase may 00utymlldly contagious but as much cannot ho
aid of Its fatality F rtyl wo rawftduring the last f arteen m0uthsaudall fatal Btatop it out Oriental da
horror s stir a w ctfe r guest
This JM r JiI l It j trqiFiUOVr > ruN
t or
He Kept Ills LegTwelve years ago J W Sullivan of
Hartford Conn scratched his led
with a rusty wire Infiamation andblood poising set in For two years hesuffered intensely Then the best doc-
tors urged amputation but hewrite I used one bottle of EclectricBitters and 112 of Bucklens ArnicaSalve and my leg was sound ono wenas ever For Eerptions Exzema
Tetter Salt Rheum Sores ahd allblood disorders Electric Bitters has no
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The Farmers Home Fire insurancCompany Junction City Ky 200000strong Insures all kinds of property I
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Rates reasonable Insures againstFire Lightning and Wind
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A N WELLS for many years withContinental General Manager
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The News now nas the most completeassortment of Stationary job materialand equipments it has ever had Wecan please you 11 you need any thing in
line
A Testimonial From Old EnglandI consider Glumbjrbi a s Cough Rem
cdy the best in the world for bronchitis says Mr William Savory of Warrington England It has saved my
wifes life she having been a martyr-
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She is now quite Well It is a greatpleasure to the manufacturers of
Chamberlains Cough Remedy to beRole to publish testimonials of thischaracter They show that great good
being done pain and suffering reliev-ed
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Uo to Gradyville and breed to the best stallionKentucky at 1000
moneydueneighborhood ¬
himself to be one of the best breedersin Kentucky His colts have been
thelStateI will stand my two fine jacks at 7
to insure a mare with foal duewhen fact is or mare re-
moved¬
from The jacks
I also sell the Chicago at125 to 150 pr hundred When in
and want the atthe lowest prices call on inc I
COUNTY
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Peacock I
inItwentyone blues several of them being in model riogs If ou want something that will bring fancy pricesbreed to Jordan Mr
of near owns threeof Jordans colts that cannot be purchased less each Hiscolts have been sold to my certainknowledge from to OTTAU
ANTEE colts to be sound or no pay
1GOV ST JOHN AND JOE
moneyascertained
neighborhood
alwaysbringFertilizer
Gradyville Lestgcodshandle
1dentseverything in the way of Dry Goods
HardwareOsborne Corn Drills etcGive me a call
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Dry Goods Notions BootsfShoes1 aso keep a large stock of
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1891 was 7956311892 8616251893CI r 835604
7768191895 846996
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