The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 60, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 14, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA. SUNDAY APRIL 14. 1901.
PLAGUE IS SPREADING.
Alarming Statistic* In Posession
of Government.
Thousands of oini of bubonic plague
in ill parts of the world since Novem-
ber 1 lest have been reported to the
marina bo |>itml service. At Rio Jan-
eiro from February 1 to 30, there oc-
curred fi*e noweaiei ajkI threedeaths.
At Hong Kong three caaei all fatal, oc-
curred during t1te week coded Febru-
ary 18. The plague ia steadily increas-
ing in Cape Colon;, according to re-
porta receive*! in both London and
Paria. The official report from Cape
Colony, for the week ended March 2
•hows 24 new eeses, two deaths and
four suspects; for the following week
SO caaei, 18 deaths, and II mspects.
Peveral Europeans have been attacked
and a number of natiroe haw been
found dead from thediwase. The rati
are reported to be "trekking" from
Cape Town in great numbers and at
Pimnnstown they are reported to be
dying from plague. At Mauritius
during the two weeks ended March 8,
there were in the island eighteen fresh
cases of plague and 23 deaths. On
March 14 two fresh casea are reported
to have occurred in J'erth, West Aus-
tralia. The marine hospital surgeon in
charge at Washington has reported the
rumor of suspected plague at South-
ampton, published in the I'iri* papers,
probably is unfounded, but extra pre-
cautions are being exercised at that
point in view of the large number of
troopa returning from South Africa
The plague at Karakagua. Kuiaia, is
•tated in the official report from I'arit
to be on the decrease, the fame report
saying that thirteen deaths from chol-
era occurred at Singapore, straits set-
tlement daring the last week of Jan-
uary. A report published in a Berlin
paper March 11 and forwarded hare
•ays the plague at Cape Town is now
attacking the well to do people.
In the presidency of Bombay. British
Kast Indies, during the week ended
February, there occurred 1,770 plague
cases and l,23n deaths, an increase of
61Bcaaea and SI4 deaths over the prev-
ious week. In Bombay City that week
there ware 1,059 cases of plague. Up
to March 2 fifty plague casea had oc-
curred iit Cape Town, of which twelve
terminated fatally. In Argentina five
plague patients were in the isolation
hospital at Han Nicolas on Februasy 7,
and plague was suspected in the cities
of Belleville and Marios Juarez of Cor-
doba prorince.
I«It True?
In th* columns of the Advance of
Tbureday is noticed a personal letter
from a kicker who is accusing others of
doing the kicking.
The writer of the article in speaking
of new firms and prospective locaters
aa having a difficult time to do busi-
umi witb such firms as he claimscould
help by their financial standing and
their help by furnishing locations ssys :
"We have several men in town who
are amply able to furnish these loca-
tions, they are not public spirited
enough, have not enough interest in
the welfare and prosperity of our town
to invest a small part of their wealth
in the erection of business rooms for
the accomodation of these parties.
Nor will they sell a location to those
who would build, if they can possibly
get out of it. We would ask wterein
thalr merit lies, of what benefit are
they to a town? These same men
would be tha hardest "knoclfers" if out
of town people with money would try
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to help us out. they can do the dog in
the manger act, and that is all. While
these people s-hi,. k, pr^f r Ihe toWB
the town would be better off if they
would seek the out-and-out country,
"hero their interest* are centered.
Loyalty to tha town's interest is frequ-
ently defective. There is always a
Urge number of citizen* who in talking
of any public movement, «*y "iliey are
doing s-> and so." not we. Other towns
appear aoperior to them, to their own,
anu when such is the cai-e they arc ao
thick headed thatthey wont see that
they are the ones to blame for the in-
feriority of their own. hut to show their
contempt for their home t'.wn. If the
citizens of a town have not aufficient
loyalty to appreciate its attractiveness,
to develop its possibilities, and thus
strengthen its wea ness. it ia hardly to
be expected that outsiders will come
in to do its work but how much worse
it is to not encourage them wnen they
want to come in and help us. Another
unheeded drawback to our city aa well
as other towns, is the lack of reason.
It is intolerable to some people to have
everybody anxious to know the par-
ticulars of their business, and the dj-
tails (,f their life,
To stranger who desires to keep his
business schemes within the limit of
business circles, this is annoying and
yet a man ooniing here to locate mu«t
tell his business to all who ask it, or he
is "turned down" and eyed with suspic-
ion. the snjpieious ones will not even
credit those to whcin he has confided
hie bu*ineis, when they assure the
doubter that the bosiness is a legiti
mute one. These people are alio a de-
merit to a town. Anybody that wants
tn render his own town a service if he
has no money to invest, cannot do any-
thing more substantial than to mind
his own business, and throw his inllu-
ence constantly against curiosity, and
for reserve in all personal matters.
That writer is probably censuring
people who have personally hurt his
feelings by not giving him the aid he
needed to locate prospective creamery
canning factory and public ball com-
panies of which he spoke in his article.
It ii believed that aa a town there is
not a single firm of any description
but what is interested to such an ex-
tent that he wishes to see every possi-
ble thing done that will be a benefit to
■tillwater and to Htillwater's progress.
OKLAHOMA FAT CATTLE-
Fed on Corn Meal and on Alfalfa
Hay.
Kansas City, April 12.—Prof. F. C.
Hurt ii of the Oklshoma Agricultural
college was at the stock ysrds yester-
day with twenty head of Short Horn
steers that had been fsd on different
kinds of fond ss an experiment. They
were fed in four lots of five eseh, and
the test indicates that alfalfa hay,
when nsed with cornmeal, is not only
the cheapest food, but is the best for
putting on flesh. The cattle were sold
to Swifts through the firm of McKee,
Zook A Whiteford. One lot fed on
kafTIr cornmesi and alfalfa hay gained
410 pounds to each steer ia 151 days
and sold at IMO per hundred. An-
other lot fed on Indian cornmesi and
alfalfa, gained au average of 113 pounds
and sold at 15.40. The third lot fed on
kaftlr cornmeal and kaffir stover gained
362 pounds in the same length of time
and sold for $5.10. The other five fed
on Indian cornmeal and kaffir stover,
gained 357 pounds snd sold at $5.J0.
The first lot required 7.63 pounds of
grsin to add a pound of Hesh; the sec-
ond fl.«3 pounds, the third 0.05 pounds
and the fourth 0 5 pounds.
Trof. Burtis is well pleased with the
results.
Meeting of The Preibytory,
The semi-annuel meeting of the
INDIANS REPLACE STRIKERS.
Several Hundred Yaquis Pot
Work on a Railroad.
Phomix, O. T.. April 12.—Serious
trouble continued along the line of the
Naeocari railway, wher* the graders
have straek On the Arizona end of
the line tevoral hundred Yaqui Indians
have been put to work in place of the
strikers, and, besides being heavily
armed, are guarded by a strong force
of deputies. At Fnmteras, on Mon-
day, an American gambler was killed
in a fight with strikers, two Mexicans
were mortally wounded and several
others seriously burt in tha melee.
Kour troops of Mexican soldiers bave
been aent to Fronteras, and the con-
tractors have a-ked for further pro-
tection. It is stated that an attempt
by the Americans to organize the
grsdera was the cause of the strike and
subsequent rioting.
1 tj t au* u * wwr discing, or iibi
Presbytery will bo held in this city at two fePt apart with one seed each
the Presbyterian church next Tuesday two to four inches. They arc
night and Wednesday. This will be a chiefly for pasture and hay
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The Grain Plant-Louse.
Keports from various parts of central
Oklahuma show that a grain plant-
louse is doing much damage to wheat.
The insect is green in color, with a
large blsck spot on each side of the
thorax and a row of similar spots on
esch side of the abdomen. The anten-
nae are fully as long as the body. The
leg* are pale gn-enish in color but with
black tipped shanks. Males of this
species have never been found and the
young are produeed alive by the fe-
males without fertilization. Moat of
these viviparous individuals are wing-
less but from lime to time wingtd fe-
males sre produced yid by means of
theae the iuseet is able to migrate in
search of food supplies from one lield
to another.
Winter wbest seems to be favorable
to the development of the specie aa it
provides a means for them to winter
over. The complete life-history of the
species like that of many other plant-
lies is not well knows but it is well
known that it does winter over and
that it appears early in tha spring and
during the summer is often found on
volunte'r wheat and oats and other
grasses. Like all other plant-lice this
insect belongs lo the great clas«, Hem-
iptera, which includes all the true
bugs. These all seeure their food
not by sating but by sucking the juices
of the plant through a long slender
tube which they thrust into the plant.
In this way the tender wheat plants
are much iujured and their growth is
stunted.
No prsctical remedies can be applied
agsinsMhis pest of wheat cultivation
and the only hope is that one or more
of the psrasitic insects that are found
with this louse may greatly reduce its
numbers before it has dona much
damage. One of these parasitic In-
sects is now under observation by the
Entomologist of the Experiment Sta-
tion and is hoped that it may prove a
"friend."
WBoat growers in all parts of the
territory will greatly assist in the
study of this insect if they will at once
convey to the Kiperiment Station at
Stillwater, full notes regarding the
date of first appearance of the insect
this spring; its occurrence upon oats
or other grasses including Indian corn,
and othsr facts regarding its life his-
tory that may come to their attention.
At the ssme time specimens should be
sent to the (station in tin or wooden
boxes for eiamination.
Where fields of wheat have been de-
stroyed by this insect, thay may be
planted with reasonable safety to cow-
peas, soy beaai, or castor beans.
Castor beans should be planted dur-
ing tha latter half of April, the soil
having been prepared as for eorn.
Plant In rows from 3 to feet apart
with one seed each 12 to 18 inches.
Cowpeas may be either broadcasted
after discing, or listed in rows about
one seed eaol
They are val
— - pasture and hay.
Soy beans should be planted In drills
They are grown ehielly for the seed
irom fss..- inrjarr grown ior lilt N«d
be present also a nnmber of ministers whieh hat a high feeding value. Yield*
of that denomination. '"J from 10 to 80 bushels per mm.
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Griffin, Lester I. The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 60, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 14, 1901, newspaper, April 14, 1901; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117302/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.