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HE SHAWNEE NEWS-HERALD
VOLUME XVI.
Shawnee Daily Herald, Vol. 16 /Consolidated^
Shawnee Daily News, Vol. 16 \ Dec. i, 1911 )
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1911
NUMBER 130
WILL BE MATCHED
WITH WINNER
CARL MORRIS WILL TAKE ON
EITHER FLYNN OR
KAUFFMAN.
Carl MorrlB will be given a chance
to display his puguiistic taienta In
a match with the winner of the
Flynn-Kauffman fight Carl tackled
Flynn in Madison Square Garden in
New York last fall and the outcome
Is a matter of history. He took a
Seating throughout ten rounds, but
his gameness was cheered by all the
light fans of New York who saw the
match.
Morris Has Improved.
Morris has learned a great deal
about the fight game since then. He
has been coached by Frank Erne,
former lightweight champion, and
has improved 50 per cent, so the
sport writers of the East state. This
was shown in his battle with Jack
Geyer and his late victim, A1 Will-
iams.
Lang-ford Best of Trio.
Should Morris defeat the winner,
whether it be F'ynn or Kauffman,
he will have to defeat only one more
fighter before he will have to tackle
Johnson, and that man is Langford,
another negro. Langford is conceded
to be one of the toughest fighters in
the game today, and if Morris ever
stages a mill with him he will realize
that he has been in a severe en-
gagement.
Champion Has Quit Game.
Johnson, according to dispatches,
has announced his retirement from
the ring. In that event, the title
would have to be settled between
Flynn, Kauffman, Morris and Lang-
ford. The big Oklahoman looks as
good as any one of the quartet and
a year hence may have the title of
heavyweight champion tucked away
in his grip. He is no longer a
stew, but is a large part of the
roast.
AL KAUFFMAN
AND JIM FLYNN
ARE MATCHED
WILL FIGHT TWENTY HOUNDS AT
SAN FRANCISCO ON
JANUARY 26.
Jim Flynn and A1 Kauffman were
matcehd Friday for a second battle
to be held In Frisco on January 26.
The fight Is scheduled for twenty
rounds. Flynn Is now on his way to
the coast, where he will begin active
training at once for the match.
Kauffman has already commenced
training.
This will be the second match be-
tween these men within a year. Ever
since Kauffman was knocked out ijy
Flynn at Kansas City last spring he
has been camping on "Jeems" trail
for a match. He took a beating dur-
ing the fight before he was finally
knocked out when the fight was half
over. He attributes his defeat to
poor condition, claiming that he had
not been properly trained for the
bout. Kauffman weighs about 195
when in condition, while Flynn tips
the beam at 170.
Rev. Nine Entertains.
The Leader Sunday School class of
the First U. B. Church, composed of
fifty members, who highly enter-
tained Friday night at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Guldens, 1206
East Ninth street, by Rev. L. Walter
Nine, teacher of the class. The par-
sonage home was beautifully deco-
rated In the class colors, red and
white, streamers, festoons, Christmas
bells and ferns being used. Miss
Florence Ratcliff and Orville Conley
received the guests. An hour of so-
cial entertainment was greatly en-
joyed by all. Refreshments of ice
cream and cake were served.
Phone your subscription complaints
in to 321 and they will be given
prompt attention. The city had to be
laid out In new routes to take care
of the doubled-up circulation which
the paper now enjoys, and every fail-
ure of the delivery boys will be given
prompt attention
In tearing down an old building a
Nebraska man found $4500 he had
hidden away and forgotten; this !s
an exemplification of the Btory of the
dime found in last winter's vest.
NOVEL RABBIT TRAP
FABMEB IJOYS PLACE BARREL
NEAR HOLE AND RABBIT
FALLS INTO IT.
Farmer boys residing east of the
city have devised a novel plan of
capturing rabbits, and already a
number of "cotton tails" have been
captured. The plan, though some-
what of a clumsy affair, answers the
purpose and whenever the youths in
that section want to have a meal of
rabbit they go hunting.
Rabbits are numerous in that lo-
cality, so much so that farmers state
they are becoming a pest. The young
agriculturists will "start" a rabbit
and invariably it will make straight-
away in the direction of an aban-
doned house. There is only one
avenue of escape for the rabbit, and
that is by entering a hole that leads
under the house. The rabbit makes
straight for this place, believing it
will be safe upon reaching there.
No so, because it no sooner enters
the hole than it drops into a barrel
that is half filled with water. The
rabbit is held captive until the ar-
rival of its pursuers. The barrel
was placed there in such a way that
"bunnie" falls into it upon entering
the hole.
There are many people who could
reduce their grocery bills and doctor
bill by the same method.
A. Splendid:
Christmas Present
Any boy or girl would appre-
ciate a bank account. We fur-
nish beautifully engraved Xmas
cards to put In the stocking.
Also bank book, showing the
deposit you made for them.
From $1.00 up. It may start
your boy or girl on the right
road to success. Years after
it will remind them of you.
They will thank you and ap-
preciate it more in years to
come.
Fonr Per Cent, Compounded
Seml-Annnnlly.
SecurityStateBank
Your Idle Money Will
Earn 4 per cent Inter-
est if deposited in this bank
If you would be the most successful, you should make
your money work too. It is a common saying that "money
not earning interest is losing money."
Set aside what money you will not need in your business
at this time and deposit it with this bank. It will be here
when you do need it and working for you meantime.
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
ITNDEH UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION.
BASKET BALL
TEAM WILL PLAY
TUESDAY NIGBT
S. II. S. AND O. B. U. TEAMS WILL
PLAY GAME TUES-
DAY NIGHT.
Tuesday evening in the high school
gmynasium, the Oklahoma Baptist
University basketball tossers will lock
horns with the fast blgh school team.
Captain Keith, the veteran guard of
the Blackwell state championship
team, is going to do hi6 best to cap-
ture the victory for his team.
The high school sprung quite a
surprise on the spectators that wit-
nessed the practice Thursday after-
noon. Team work was exceptionally
good, and when It came to dribbling,
some of the boys proved to be fiends
in this department of the game.
Considerable enthusiasm has al-
ready been aroused over the game.
The Baptist students are expected to
appear in a body. The high school
pupils will be there to do their share
of the rooting. Show the Baptist and
high school teams tkat y#u have an
interest in them by being present
Tuesday evening. Wear the green
and gold, and the purple and white.
Let's go.
Will Hold Reunion.
Shawnee Chapter No. 32, of Royal
Arch Masons, will, on Thursday
evening, December 21, hold a re-
union in Masonic Hall, Whittaker
Building. Officers for 1912 will be
installed (short form) after which
adjournment will be made to the din-
ing room, where supper will bo
served, to be followed by speech-
making and story-telling. Every
Royal Arch Mason is invited to be
present and participate.
VAN DOGART MUST SETTLE
CITY COFNCIL WILL NOT GRANT
IMMUNITY IN PAYMENT
OF LICENSE.
Unless J. P. Van Bogart pays a
street license of $3 a warrant will
be issued for his arrest, according
to the statement of an employe of
the street commissioner's office. The
last notice was sent to Van Bogart
this week.
Ever since Van Bogart asked the
members of the City Council to grant
him immunity in the payment of the
tax, which was taken under advise-
ment by members of the council, nu-
merous protests have been made by
other citizens who contended that
they were being discriminated
against. Finally the request of Van
Bogart was turned down. The City
Council took the matter under ad-
visement because of the affidavit
made by the petitioner to the effect
that he was not physically able to
pay the amount and also took a
pauper's oath.
The status of the matter was ques-
tioned after an investigation was
made, so a member of the council
state. Van Bogart will have to settle
or else be cited to appear in court.
MAY REMOVE TO SHAWNEE
SOCIALISTS VOTED UPON PLAN
OF REMOVING STATE
HEADQUABTEB&
Whether or not Shawnee will be
made the headquarters of the So-
cialist party of the state will be de-
termined Monday when the referen-
dum vote recently taken is an-
nounced. The vote is being counted
at Oklahoma City, the present head-
quarters of the party.
The movement to make Shawnee
the headquarters of the party was
initiated at McAlester several weeks
ago, and a vote to change headquar-
ters was recently taken by all of tho
locals In the state.
J. W. Houchin of Shawnee is in
Oklahoma City, where he is assisting
in the work of canvassing the vote.
Should the headquarters of the party
be removed to Shawnee, the offices
of the organization as well as the
official organ of the party will be
brought here.
One of the stillest revolutionary
movements accomplished In this
country is that the railroads do not
advance rates without asking if they
may.
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•J- Postponement of University •!*
•J- Minstrel Show. *J*
•J* As practically all the stores 4*
will be open on the nights of
December 21-22, and people
•J* will be busy buying their 4*
•J* Christmas goods, the min- ^
4* strel show has been post-
•J* poned until some time in
•J* January. The date will be
•f* announced alter. This will
•J* allow more time for rehear-
•J* sals, thereby insuring a bet-
•J* ter show. Tickets already
•J* sold will be good when the 4*
•J* show is given.
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SHAWNEE YOUNG
MAN HELD UP BY
USING OIL AS FUEL.
Many Railroads Equipping Engines
With Oil Burners—Cheaper
Than Coal.
Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 16.—The exten-
sive and increasing use of fuel oil
as a substitute for coal by the rail-
roads in the United States is indi-
cated by the following partial list of
those railroad lines now using the
new fuel which is large an Okla-
homa product.
All the lines embraced in the
Southern Pacific System, except the
Sonora Railway in Mexico, the Ore-
gon Railroad and Navigation Co., the
Oregon Short Line, the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio, the
Texas and New Orleans, the Houston
and Texas Central, the Houston and
West Texas, the Houston and Shreves-
port, the Louisiana Western, all the
Frisco Lines in Missouri, Oklahoma
and Texas, including the Brownsville
and Mexico; the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific in Kansas and Oklahoma,
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,
the Kansas City Southern, the Inter-
national and Great Northern in Tex-
as, the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake, the Trinity and Brazos
Valley, the Galveston, Houston and
Henderson, the San Antonio and Ar-
sas Pas6, the Texas and Pacific, the
Chicago and Northwestern, the Wyo-
ming and Northwestern, the Northern
Pacific between Seattle and Tacoma,
the Great Northern, the Chicago, Mil-
waukee and Puget Sound, the Ton-
apah and Goldfleld, and the New
York Central and Hudson River in
the Adirondacks.
EDUCATIONAL BOARD
TO TAKE NO ACTION
MEMBERS HAVE LITTLE INTER
EST IN NORMALS—FAVORS
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 16—
The state boards of agriculture and
education as such, will take no ac-
tive part in the campaign on the
Akin initiated bill designed to elim-
inate fourteen institutions from the
state's educational system. The mem-
bers of both boards, however, as in-
dividuals, will oppose the bill, there
being possibly one or two exceptions
to this.
It was denied at the board of agri-
culture Friday that any campaign for
education would be attempted there
in behalf of the district agricultural
schools whose abolition is sought by
the bill. Secretary Hennessey said
that the individual board members
would take positions on the bill and
that he would be glad to go anywhere
at any time to speak and work
against the measure as he believed
it wrong.
The board of agriculture has no
particular ltnerest in the normal
schools which it is proposed to dis-
continue, but certainly is not going
to lend any assistance ti any measure
that would injure the six secondary
agricultural schools. On the other
hand, the board of education Is very
much interested in the normals and
cares not a whit for the secondary
agricultural schools which are entire-
ly within the jurisdiction of the
board of agriculture.
RANDALL CLARK VICTIM—ROR.
BER DREW GUN-GOT SMALL
SUM OF MONEY.
The drawing of a revolver, accom-
panied by a command to hrow up his
hands without making an outcry, re-
lieved of all his money, and the dis-
appearance of a masked man, were
features of one of the boldest hold-
ups ever perpetrated iu this city.
Randall Clark, a young man, was the
victim, and while his losses were not
large, had it not been for the fact
that he left his watch and a large
sum of money at home he would
have sustained a much greater loss.
Are Searching for Robber.
Officers are searching for the
holdup and from the excellent de-
scription furnished by Mr. Clark It
is quite likely an arrest will follow.
The holdup occurred at Market and
Louisa streets shortly after 7 o'clock
Thursday night. The facts concern-
ing the affair were withheld by of-
ficers in the hope of capturing th^
robber. Mr. Clark was on his way
down town at the time.
Robber Emerged from Alley.
When he neared the corner of
these streets a man emerged sud-
denly from a nearby alleyway. Tho
first intimation Clark had that he
was going to be held up and robbed
was when a revolver was thrown in
his face and he was told to throw
up his hands. He did so and was
ordered to proceed on down the
street, which he did, the robber fol-
lowing a few feet behind, all the
while carrying the^ revolver in his
hand. Clark was told to stop and,
while his hands were elevated, the
robber searched his pockets. He was
relieved of $1.35 in change, which
was all the money he had at the
time.
Gives Description of Holdup.
The robber then disappeared in
the darkness. Clark 6tated that the
robber was a white man of medium
height, wearing a black soft hat
and dark suit, and appeared to be a
man about 30 years old. His face
was masked with a handkerchief.
$.">.00 Reward!
Five dollars reward for padded
saddle with polished steel horn, lost
between Ball's dairy and Shawnee,
December 14, if returned to How-
ard's Livery Barn, South Bell street,
or notify P. 0. box 186, or phone 38.
91-15-tf
The United States comptroller of
currency by his report shows that
business has made a steady gain dur-
ing the past year. Tho prosperity of
our country is indeed great. It goes
on despite trust busting, high tariff
and incessant politics.
A cook isn't apt to care much for
eggs during cold weather.
Jeanne Towler in "The White Sister.'*
All women enjoy a good love story
in which the fate of the lovers hang
in the balance and is spiced with a
little danger—that is one of the
greatest reasons for the remarkable
success of "The White Sister" which
la billed for Monday, December 18,
at the Beeker Theater, with the mag-
netic Am^HCflrt beauty, Jeanne Tow
ler, in the stellar fdle and a superior
cast of supporting players. "The
White Sister" was dramatized from
Marion Crawford's latest novel of the
same name and tho action of the
play occurs in sunny Italy, the home
of romance, love, poetry and music.
It is an intensely human story in a
religious setting, and that is why it
is so strongly endorsed by the
church, although in its development
it is amusement and entertainment
of the purest quality. It is handled
in an uplifting manner and carries
a convincing lesson. The role of the
nun (The White Sister) makes exact-
ing demands upon the emotional pow-
ers of the actress, and it is her
powerful interpretation of the role
and her striking appearance in the
character that has earned for Jeanne
Towler the reputation of being
America's most beautiful emotional
actress. Nearly every character in
the play is a star part and requires
a company of unusual quality to do
it Justice. The stage pictures are
realistic and handsome, while the In-
terpolated music which permeates the
play is sweet and soothing. "The
White Sister" will probably crowd
the theater and undoubtedly be one
of the most genuine treats of the
season.
IWILL ORGANIZE
COUNTY LEAGUE
NEXT MONTH
REPRESENTATIVES FROM SET-
ERAL TOWNS WILL ATTEND
MEETING! IN SHAWNEE.
Bight or ten Western governors are
touring the East boosting their sec-
tion of the country. A booster gov-
ernor is a blessing to any state and
section.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
is wished by us to all. Your
Christmas will not be a merry
one if your mind is full of cares
and worries. Let us relieve you
of one worry. Here is the place
that you will be glad you have
found. You will be happy to
know that for a very reasonable
figure you can
HAVE YOUR SHOES
RENOVATED
and made almost as good as
new. The latest improved ma-
chinery, expert workmanship and
extreme care combined make the
most satisfactory Job of old
shoes. In fact, they make them
almost new.
J. M. VAN TRESS, Prop.
Phone 184. 19 W. Main St
A meeting of the baseball mana-
gers of the various towns of the
county is to be called some time in
January for the purpose of organiz-
ing a county league. The meeting
will probably be held in the Elks*
lodge rooms in Shawnee. Manager
Barnett of the "Champs" will send
out notices in a few days to the
managers of the various teams, ask-
ing them to send a representative to
the proposed meeting. Tecumseh,
Wanette, Maud, Harrah, Prague, Mc-
Loud and Romulus will be repre-
sented at the meeting.
Will lie Important Meeting.
The purpose of the meeting will be
to organize a county league, draft
rules, arrange a playing schedule and
take up such other business that
will properly come before the meet-
ing. It is likely that a playing
schedule will be so arranged that the
teams, in addition to playing the
regular number of games, will be
allowed to play exhibition games
with other amateur teams.
Season Will Start Early.
The season will probably open
early in May and games will be
played each Sunday thereafter until
the close of the season. With the
possible exception of one or two
towns, all drew large attendances at
the games played the past season.
In arranging the schedule, it is likely
that all of the holiday games will be
played in Shawnee.
Will Select Park Site.
Manager Barnett states that a deal
will bo closed In the near future for
a site for a new baseball park in the
north part of the ctiy. Upon the se-
lection of a site work will be started
as soon as the weather permits on
the laying out of a baseball park,
building of a grandstand and bleach-
ers and the inclosing of the grounds.
Mrs. Levins wishes to announce to
her friends and patrons that she
again has opened her dressmaking
parlor—the place for fancy dress-
making, all kinds of accodeon pleat-
ing and braiding. 325 North Cleve-
land. Phone 904. 99-15-2w
Who has the hardihood to predict
a white Christmas? December enjoys
the distinction of being our only
autumn month.
Warrant Call.
All warrants on the general fund
drawn against the Board of Educa-
tion of Shawnee, Okla., up to and in-
cluding serial No 2915, are hereby
called. Interest to cease Jp*iuary 11,
1912. Payable at the State National
Bank.
W. G. DICKSON, Treasurer.
December 11, 1911. 11-61
To set forth to walk across the
country for a wager—or without—Is
an effective way of bidding good-by
to a set of troubles.
While a soft answer turneth away
wrath, It won't have a similar effect
on an enterprising agent.
It seems that a good many authors
get their ideas of Greek gods from
the clothing advertisements.
Some people's hearts are so far
from the skin.
Statement of Condition of
The Shawnee National Bank
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA,
As made to the Comptroller of the.Currency at the close of business
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1911.
Resource,.
Time Loans and Discounts $458,973.92
U. S. Bonds, at par 50,000.00
Banking House Furniture and Fixtures 22,000.00
Stocks and Securities, etc., (County Warrants 22,136.77
Demand Loans and Cotton Bills of Ecxhange $167,054.06
Cash in our Vault 60,673.95
Cash In Other Banks 263,501.26 491,229.27
Total 11,044,338.98
Liabilities.
Capital and Surplus (100,000.00
Undivided Profits 9,092.10
Circulating Notes 50,000.00
Deposits 885,246.80
Total 11,044,338.96
The above statement is correct. JNO. W. JONES, Cashier,
Attest: J. M. AYDELOTTE
S. C. VINSON,
H. T. DOUGLAS, Directors.
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