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OKLAHOMA (MOORE) OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY l>:{. 1912
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Moore News Items
P. R. SIMMS. Local Editor.
Grandma McLennan visited Mrs.
Swartz Sunday.
H. Applegate visited friends in Ed-
mond Monday.
Miss Edna Smith came home from
Norman Friday.
W. C. Wilson mailt* a business trip
to Norman Wednesday.
Amos Dressen transacted business
in Oklahoma City Tuesday.
Mrs Thomas Dunbar, of Capitol Hill,
visited Mrs. Morris Tuesday.
Mrs. H. C. ('ottrell was shopping in
Oklahoma City Saturday.
W. O. Jack and wife transacted busi-
ness in Oklahoma City Monday.
Jno. Button was not so well Tuesday,
but is reported improving slowly.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Lige Lewis,
on Wednesday, a fine nine-pound baby
girl.
Mrs. Whitten arrived here Thursday
from Illinois to visit her son John and
family.
Christian Endeavor at the Christian
Church every Sunday evening, at 7
p. m., prompt.
L. P. Chism and Miss llor Rogers, of
Capitol Mill, visited L <\ Dyer and
family Sunday.
Thomas Owen and wife and Mrs.
Swartz were shopping In Oklahoma
( Itj Saturday.
Ed. Mathison. of Capitol Hill, came
down Wednesday to look after his
farming interests.
Frank Faris and wife and Ben
Leverich and wife transacted business
in Oklahoma City Saturday.
Carl Dressen, Jim White, Amos
Dressen and Russel McLennan were
pleasuring in Seward Saturday.
Quite a bunch of the young folks of
Moore attended an entertainment at
the Clothier school Friday night.
Mrs. Robert White, of Amarillo, Tex.,
was in Moore Thursday visiting old
friends. She formerly lived east of
Moore.
Jim White returned from Pampa,
Tex., Friday, where he has been for
some four months. He reports times
hard there and no work to be had.
Helen Olander came down from Ok-
lahoma City Wednesday, returning
Thursday. Gladys McLennan returned
with her and visited until Friday aft-
ernoon.
A minister from East St. Louis
preached at the Baptist church Sunday
morniuR and G. W. Daville, of St.
Louis, preached Sunday night. Bofh
ministers were attending the conven-
tion in Oklahoma City.
operated on a toll basis and cost ap-l
proximately $65,000. Of the necessary I
amount, $25,000 has already been sub-
scribed by residents in the vicinity
of Newcastle, Blanchard, Tuttle and
adjoining territory. The entire amount
it is believed, witl have been sub-
scribed within a few weeks and a num-
ber of local capitalists, it is thought,
will be among the stockholders.
It is a proposition which early se-
cured the attention ot*1he Chamber of
Commerce, because the bridge will
open parts of four counties to the
south of Oklahoma City as a trade
territory. It will provide the only
feasible route for the people of that
section to enter the metropolis be
tween Purcell on the southeast and
j Bridgeport on the west. Because of
this vital importance to the Oklahoma
I City business men, G. B. Stone, W. E.
Nation. H. B. Houghton. J. M. Phillips
and W. C. Burke wer appointed a com-
mittee to make a thorough investiga-
tion and report The report was en-
thusiastically laudatory to the enter-
prise and has recived every encourage-
ment possible.
LAWN RIDGE ANO ELM CREEK.
j Mr. P. D. Vertrees and family took
dinner Sunday with Mr. W. H. Peachee
land family.
I Mrs. Zina Tilllson and two daugh-
ters, Flossie and Rena, and Mrs Al-
bert Waller and children, took dinner
j Sunday with Mrs. Haybegger and fam-
ily.
Charlie Kitchen took dinner Sunday
with Delia Rhudy.
I W. ('. Allen and Susie Rhudy dined
; with Mrs. p. P. Knowles Sunday.
| Mrs (J. D. Kitchen spent Sunday
with Mrs. W. H. Peachee.
Oren and Clarence Wilson spent
i Sunday with Willie and Leslie Kitchen,
i Theatny Keck spent Sunday with
Gladys arid Edith Rhudy.
j Maudie and Georgie Kitchen took
I dinner Sunday with Blanche and Roy
j Wilson.
: Miss Grace Knowles spent Sunday
at Mr. W. Schwartz.
I Mrs. W. 11. Peachee made a short
call on Mrs. S. L. Rhudy Monday
evening.
I Mr. Ithmer Wlnstade made a busi-
Iness trip to Oklahoma City Saturday.
| Miss Nova Winstade came home
I Saturday to spend a few days with
her folks.
! Delia arid Lillie Rhudy spent Satur-
day evening with Mrs. Hill.
Mrs. Hill and son made a short call
on Mrs. S. L. Rhudy Friday evening.
SAILOR IS PURSUED
BY A CHINESE GOD
FARMERS ATTENTION! Insure
your oats against hail in the St. Paul
insurance Company, absolutely reli-
able. Will insure for $10 an acre, pre-
mium $5.00 per hundred cash, $5.50
note. See or write J. U. Hatcher, 409-
12 State National Bank, Oklahoma
City. 6-6.
Sherwood Pension Bill Passes.
Old soldiers who risked life and limb
for the country's cause and who are
now getting near the end of life's bat-
tle, are to be paid enough that the'}
can live comfortably the rest of their
days.
Under the old law a soldier between
the ages of 62 and 70, received a pen-
sion of $12 per month; between the
ages of 70 and 75, $15; and over 75,
$20.
The new law provides as follows:
Age 62, service, 3 months, $13^ 6
months, $13.50; 1 year $14.00; \xk
years, $14.50; 2 years, £15.00; 2%
years. $15.50; 3 years, TTtToo. Age
66 .service 3 months, $15.00; 6
months, $15.50; 1 year, $16.00; 1 Vz
years, $16.50; 2 years $17.00;'2% years
$18.00; 3 years $19.00.
Age 70, service, 3 months, $18.00;
6 months, $19.00; 1 year, 520.00; lVfe
years. $21.50; 2 years, $23.00; 2 Ms
years, $24.00; 3 years, $25.00.
Age 75, service, 3 months. $21.00;
6 months. $22.50; 1 year, $24.50;
years. $27.00; from 2% to 3 years,
$30.00.
May Cause Intervention
Dallas, Tex.—T*hat Mexican federal
troops numbering about 500 are ad-
vancing on Juarez, the borded point,
and that the rebels in Juarez and Chi-
huahua intend to commit acts to pro-
voke American intervention In the
event Orzoco is defeated, in the battle
| now going on below Chihuahua, was
the tenor of a dispatch received here
by Governor O. B. Colquitt, who is in
this city, from Adjutant General
Henry Hutchins. The adjutant gen-
eral got his Information in the shape
of a telegram from Sheriff Pay ton Ed-
wards of El Paso. Governor Colquitt
instructed the adjutant general to pro-
ceed at once to El Paso and declared
that he would notify President Taft
that the people of El Paso must not
be placed in danger by combatants on
the other side of the Rio Grande.
Jones Signs Up
Ithaca, N. Y.—John Paul Jones,
Cornell's star distance runner and
Miller, Telz, Berna and Captain Put-
nam of the Cornell track team have
signed entry blanks for the Olympic
j tryouts. This action, it is claimed,
disposes of the report widely circu-
lated that Jones would not go to
1 Stockholm if chosen.
Lawyer Kills Self
Boston.—Olcott O. Partridge, a well
known lawyer and club man, commit-
ted suicide by shooting himself in his
office here. Mr. Partridge had been
in ill health for a long time.
BRIDGE ASSURED AT NEWCASTLE
From the Daily Oklahoman.
It has been announced by the pro-
moters of the Newcastle Bridge com-
pany that favorable progress is being
made in the sale of the stock neces-
sary for the construction work. The
exact date when actual building will
start is yet problematical, but it is
stated it will be within a short time,
in all probability.
The bridge will span the South Ca-
nadian at Newcastle, eleven miles
south of Oklahoma City. It will be
Damage by Electrolysis
Chicago.—A report of City Electri-
cian Ray Palmer says that electroly-
| sis is eating out thousands of dollars
worth of water pipes under the ground
and impairing many big steel build-
ings.
Seaman Is Threatened With
Death for Preventing a Sac-
rifice in Y2ngtse River.
New York.—Believing that he has
been trailed by members of a Chinese
secret society all the way from the
harbor of Che-Foo, China, to this city,
with ultimate death at their hands us
an inevitable result. Alfred K. Scanze.
a mechanical engineer, applied to
Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner
Dillon for a permit to carry a re
volver. Ills request was granted, aft
er ho had shown Dillon letters of a
threatening character from a Chinese
band.
According to Scanze. in 1908 he was
a midshipman on the gunboat Mln-
dora, lying in the harbor of Che-Foo.
and while on leave of absence took
I:
BY PISTOL SHOTS
Long Beach (Cat.) Man Is Seri-
ously Injured in a Most
Peculiar Accident.
TRAPPED ON BRIDGE
Hung With Stiffening Fingers to a
Slender Iron Rod on End of Big
Bascule—Leg Amputated
to Save Life.
Long Beach. Cal—Edward Markgraff.
aged thirty, an employe of the Edison
power plant on the inner harbor,
passed through a thrilling and terrify-
ing experience the other night, which
he will remember to his dying day.
Clinging with stiffening fingers to
a slender iron rod on the end of the
bascule bridge over the harbor en-
trance as it rose in air following the
passage of a freight train, MarkgrafT
said afterwards that all of his past
life rose before him and the agony
caused by his fall was soothed by
the thankful knowledge that he was
still alive. Only the presence of mind
j leaving Markgrsff swinging over Ji*
I channel and clinging to the slender
I rods of the bridge, with his body
! swinging to and fro in a stiff wind
blowing in from the ocean. HafT gave
a yell, but his voice was blown away
j in the wind Quick as thought he
drew a revolver and as fast aa he
could pull the trigger emptied It.
I Bridge Tender Fulton heard the shoot-
1 Ing and ran to the edge of the chan-
I nel. He saw llafT motioning in the
air and quick to grasp the situation
hastened to the tower house and
I began lowering the bridge aided by
HaiT. When lowered to within fifteen
feet of the ground he paused a sec-
ond. and the slackening shiver was
sufficient to shake Markgraff's feeble
hold and he fell to the ground. He
was unconscious when picked up and
was hurried to a local hospital where
It was found that besides suffering
from shock and concussion his left
leg was so badly crushed that it had
to be amputated.
Saw Her Leap Into River.
a small river steamer up the Yangtse
river. On the way back Scanze saw
a young Chinese woman leap Into the
river. He plunged after her and res-
cued the woman.
When he told the story later on the
Mlndora his shipmates told him he
might get into trouble, as the Chinese
regarded the girl ofTered as a sacrifice
to the river god, who had flooded the
river, and In rescuing the girl he had
deprived the god of his sacrifice.
One of the letters received by
Scanze was delivered to him on Sat-
urday morning while he was at work
on a new building at Broadway and
Thirty-fourth street. The note was
handed to him by one' of the workmen
employed on the building, who said a
Chinaman had asked him to give it to
Scanze. The letter referred to the
rescue of the young Chinese woman
by Scanze, and warned the latter "to
be prepared" for a visit from the "riv-
er god's messenger."
BURIED TW0SC0RE YEARS
Body Interred in 1871 Is Found to Be
Perfectly Preserved When
Dug Up.
Santa Barbara —Buried for forty-
one years, the body of Pedro Mazzlnl
was exposed to the view of relatives
who declared that It had not chnnged
a particle, every feature having re
! mnlned the same as the day the body
I was placed In the casket.
j The grave was disturbed as the re
l suit of a request made by Mrs Mar
garet Mazzlnl. who before her death
! three days ago said she wanted the
remains of her husband placed In a
I small box—supposing they had re
i duced to ashes—and her own body
j laid to rest In his coffin with his ashes
at her side.
When the grave was opened In the
presence of the five surviving chll
| dren, nn unex^ctecj and surprising
condition wris found. The body of
I Mazzlnl, which had been burled In an
| air-tight steel casket, was in a perfect
state of preservation. The children
| saw the features of their father as
j perfect as the day the body was laid
J away In 1871. Even the garments
| showed no wasting.
As a result of the find, the children
! were unable to carry out the ex
pressed wish of their mother and thev
secured a vault In which her casket
was placed. Mr. Mazzlnl died on his
fiftieth birthday following an opera-
| tlon.
Asks Award of $67,000
Guthrie. Okla.—In a suit filed here
the National Surety company of New
York asks $67,000 alleged damages
from the M. P. Olll Construction com-
pany for abandonment of its contract
to build a federal building in Okla-
homa City.
Archbold Probe to Start
Washington. I). C.—Investigation of
charges against Judge Robert W. i
Archbold of the commerce court will
be uudertuken by the house commit-
tee on judiciary. Papers in the case
sent to the committee from the de-
partment of justice by direction of
President Taft will be examined.
MOORE TIME TABLE.
Eastbound.
No. 16 leaves 7:05 a. ill., K. C. ex-
press.
No. 412 leaves 6:45 p. m., Chicago ex-
press.
No. 420, 'rniaht. 3:41 p. m., ex-
cept Sunday.
Westbound.
No. 411 leaves 9:35 a. m., Cleybum
express.
No 15 leaves 10:05 p. m., local to
Purcell.
No. 423, local freight, leaves 10:15
a. m to •Purcell.
M. L. DOWD. Agent.
J. W. PAYNE
Implements, Wagons,
Buggies,
DRY CELL BATTERIES,
UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES
MOORE
H+H4+++t+++t+t+++++mtt
A. C. Janacek
Blacksmith and
Wheelwright
WACON WORK A SPECIALTY
Also Complete Line of
Whips
ABOUT YOUR EYES
—GO TO—
MCVEYS
THE RELIABLE
OPTICIANS
139 West Main St.
Oklahoma City.
A. J. Smith
Groceries,
Dry Goods
Shoes
Scholarship
For Sale
We have single or com-
bined scholarships in both of
the leading business colleges
in Oklahoma City that we
will sell at a liberal discount
for cash.
If interested, address D. J.
I.., Box 246, Oklahoma City.
Cuts Elephant's Corns.
New York.—Elephants' corns, which
Head Keeper Billy Snyder says are
larger than policemen's or ordinary
people's, were cut the other day at the
Central Park zoo.
Billy cuts elephants' corns about
the first of May every year, and It is
quite a feat of chiropody. For Jewel
and Hatty, the two lady elephants,
acquire corns Just standing around In
their houses all winter, and corns
make both of them grumpy.
Hatty petted Billy with her trunk
all the time that he was working on
her feet, but when he came to Jewel
she was peevish. The big elephant
dropped her trunk, circled Billy's
waist and lifted him up where she
could get a good look at him. When
she saw that it was just Billy Snyder,
Jewel set him down.
To Repair Bridges
Guthrie, Okla.—A contract for the
by the county commissioners. The
big Cimarron river wagon bridge was
damaged to the greatest extent. This
one will be rebuilt immediately. It is
likely that an election will be held
within the next few weeks to vote on
a $50,000 bridge bond issue.
Pressmen of the Los Angeles Exam-
iner will ignore the call of President
Berry of the International Web Press-
men's union and remain at work, it is
understood. Their contract, which
was signed about a week ago, carried
a raise in wages.
Beauty Now and Hereafter
Beauty in God's handwriting, a way-
side sacrament; welcome it, then, in
every fair face, every fair sky, every
fair flower; and be sure that yet gay-
er meadows and yet bluer skies await
thee in the world to come.—Charles
Kingsley.
The next meeting of the state board
of pharmacy will be held at Okla-
homa City on dates of July 9th and
10th.
Rejects Increase of Salary.
Plttsfleld, Mass.—For the first time
In the history of the New England
Baptist churches a preacher has de-
clined an increase In salary. Rev.
Harry C. I^each, jxastor of the Morn-
Ingslde church here, In a statement
declining to accept the money says
the church needs the money more than
he does.
Power of Fear.
Albany, N. Y.—Fear of death saved
Michael Cosmo, condemned murderer,
from the electric chair. He was de-
clared insane, driven mad, the alien
ists, say, by overpowering fear.
City Hall Attached.
Portsmouth, N. H.—The city govern-
ment is practicaly at a standstill.
Mrs. Ellen Qulnn trying to collect a
$100 claim attached the city hall and
all the city's movable property.
Eased His Conscience.
New York.—By what he believed a
death-bed confession, Jerry McCarthy
e&aed his conscience of the murder of
a tabby cat, twenty years ago. He
lmmadiately recovered.
Emptied His Revolver.
of his companion Harry Haff, and the
; quick wit of the bridge tender 6aved
Markgraff from a frightful fall and
I probable death by drowning.
Markgraff and Haff are employed
on the night shift at the Edison com-
pany and were on their way to work
shortly after midnight and as is their
custom walked across the bascule
bridge. They had nearly reached the
j end, feeling their way along In the
1 darkness, when the bridge tender, be-
1 f<*e starting on a patrol of the Jetties
I thought to raise the draw In case
a boat should seek passage in
the channel, It being required to keep
the channel open when trains are
not using the bridge. Haff felt the
premonitory shiver of the structure
as it responded to the levers and gave
a long Jump to safety on the abut-
ments. Markgraff was a few feet be-
hind him, too far to Jump, but as the
! draw started up he dropped to the
ground and began to crawl down the
I other way. The time required for
this was fatal and the big draw rose
rapidly to its height of 85 feet in air.
WILL ERECT 10,000 PUMPS
Kansas Taps Vast Underground Lake
and Uses Abundant Water for
Irrigation.
Garden City, Kan—In a territory
200 miles long by 90 miles in width,
stretching across the western end of
Kansas, thousands of derricks are be-
ing erected. Every one represents an
individual pumping plant that will
draw from the great underground
lake which lies in the sands beneath
this area water sufficient to irrigate
a farm of from 40 to 160 acres.
The present year will witness the
building of 10,000 of these derricks,
which will hold and guide the ma-
chinery that bores wells down into the
great underflow that is believed to be
Inexhaustible. All over this western
end of Kansas, once the heart of the
great American desert as shown in
old geographies, are groves of der-
ricks much resembling the oi .ing or
a great oil field.
When the great augers which bore
into the earth reach the underground
SAY SHE IS "BLACK WITCH"
Young Indian Girl Accused of Caus
Ing Sickness and Death on
the Reservation.
Malone, N. Y.—Down on the St.
! Regis Indian reservation, which lies
i partly In the state of New York and
I partly In the province of Quebec, a
, young Indian girl, aged sixteen years,
, has been raising a furore, and the In-
dians assert she Is a witch.
! Her name Is Iola Razon. When she
was finally declared to be a "black
witch" she was transformed Into an
object of dread The Indians say
that when she appears among them
either some of their live stock die,
children get sick or dogs run mad and
make nights hideous with their bowls.
The medicine men have been con-
sulted and with their spells tried to
depose the evil spirit, but In vain. The
squaws Instructed their children to
shun the "witch girl," and warnings
against her were given.
At a council the chiefs decided that j
the "witch girl" must leavti the tribe j
at once, and she went to Luzerne
mountain.
The little Indian is bright for her
years and is ambitious to become a
teacher among her people and put an j
end to their superstitions. She has
been to school and by a few simple
tricks which she performed by way of j
entertainment started the hue and ,
cry of her having the "devil spirit."
sea of water which has existed be-
neath the surface for ages the der-
ricks will be removed.
SIZE DOESN'T COUNT
Size does not always count. The stinger is the small part "of
the bee but you Boon learn which end it's on.
It isn't always the size of a bank account that we consider, its
the man behind it. We feel that the humble depositor is entitled to
the same consideration as the man who owns a mint. Our banking
facilities are at the disposal of all alike. We are here to help you if
we can. The farmer, the merchant, the mechanic and laborer are
all invited to become patrons of our bank. The size of the account
is not of the first importance. COme in and let's talk it over.
THE BANK OF MOORE
S. G. DYER
LESTER C. DYER, Ph. C.
Era Drug Store
Dealer in Drugs, Toilet Articles, Stationery, Cigars
Candies, Paints, Oils and Window Glass
Moore, Oklahoma
See P. R. SIMMS for Watch, Clock
and Jewelry Repairing—Lowest
Prices, Honest Work
I Je
Particular Attention paid to all details of the work.
Remember: All work acsolutely guaranteed.
Jewelry=
Watches=
=Clocks
Work Doesn't Hurt Brain.
Kansas City.—"Brain fag" irom ov-
erwork is not making nervous wrecks
of Americans, as some "alarmists"
Insist, and the stress and strain of
the new century Is not driving Amer-
icans insane, according to Dr. Charles
K. Mills, professor of neurology in
the University of Pennsylvania.
"Mere braia work does not burt,"
Dr. Mills said. "Where the mind is
equipped and capable, men may be at
work all day and half the night. Em-
barrassment, worry and dissipation
cause nervous breakdowns. No task
ever harmed a man who was worthy
of it."
The season is here for LAWN MOW-
ERS, SCREEN WIRE and COTTON
HOES. We have a complete line always
on hand.
H. P. DREESSEN
Keeps the Ring.
Chicago.—When a young woman
Jilts her financee, she does not have
to return the engagement ring or
presents, holds a Chicago Jury. John
La Row sued Fannie Kaplan for the
pricv of the ring and lost.
DRUGS : SODA : CIGARS
I PURE : FRUIT : FLAVORS )
I CHOICE CRUSHED FRUITS OfllV !
| pURE . SUGAR : SYRUP I
Our Cold Drinks Are Sanitary and Satisfying!
_ Era Drug Store
Moore, Okia.
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