11 aug 1898 Mr Ralph STILL, shoe salesman of St Louis, has accepted a position of shoe salesman at the Patterson Mercantile Co and went to work last Monday. Desperado of Indian Territory, Will NAIL, member of the Mose MILLER gang......shot dead in Braggs area. Body was turned over to friends and relatives in Ft Gibson and bured in the cemetery there. Muskogee building new mill and jail. New city ordinances of collectin stray dogs and penning up hogs go into effect. Sanitary conditions of the town will improve now. Free public schools begin. Miss Emma CARSON, so well & favorably known in the Muskogee as a caterer, will close the Elite on the 15th and return to her home at Sedalia. Rumor says that she will not remain long at her home.