THE KEIL HERALD
H. C. CHAPMAN', Pub.
KKIL
OKLA.
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
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As Told in a
Few Words
WASHINGTON.
By operation of law Rear Admiral
John A Ropers has been placed on
the retired list of the navy on ac-
count of ago.
Sixteen firms manufacturing enam
eled ware, with offices in nine states,
were made defendanls by a bill in
equity filed against them In Baltimore
by the department of justice. The ac-
tion was brought under the Sherman
anti trust law.
To the failure of a safety mechanism
to operate when a sudden and power
ful pull was given by an artilleryman
In attaching the lanyard, Is now laid
the responsibility for the accident
which cost the lives of eleven men at
Fortress Monroe, Va.
For the purpose of determining such
Indians on the Quapaw agency In Okla-
homa, as are capable of assuming the
responsibility of managing their per-
sonal affnirs, the Interior department
has appointed n competency commis-
sion to examine all the tribes on the
reservation with the exception of the
Modocs.
The Kansas railroad commissioners
through Attorney General Jackson
have filed a complain with the Inter
state commission at Washington
against the Pullman company, the
Santa Fe, Rock Island, Frisco, Burling-
ton, Union Pacific and Kansas City-
Southern for unreasonable sleeping
berth charges.
Crossing diplomatic swords with
Norway, the state department at
Washington, D. C., replying to pro-
tests from New Orleans commercial in
tsrests against Norwegian recognition
of Bluefields, Nicaragua, blockade, de-
clares Blueflelds an open port Nor
way. It is said, was misinformed of
conditions there.
DOME8TIC
The Tresurel Maru, plying between
Kobe and Dairen, sunk off Chindo,
Korea. The steamer had 246 passen-
gers aboard, of whom only 40 were
saved.
The first suit for breach of promise
of marriage ever tried in Relton, Tex ,
ended with a verdict for $4,000 and
costs of suit for Miss Mary E. Car-
penter, Syracuse, N. Y.
Grain elevator men of Amarillo,
Tex., calculate that farmers of the
Panhandle will clear this year $5,000,-
000 out of the small grain crop. This
Is by far the best showing ever made
In the Panhandle.
The colored teachers In their na-
tional association meeting at Okla-
homa City, Okla., elected officers for
the ensuing year, and selected St.
Louis as the place for the next con-
vention.
A masked highwayman shot and
killed Morton Craig, near Kittaning,
Pa., after being repulsed In an attempt
to take $2,800 carried by Craig's two
companions.
The strike of 12,000 employes on the
Northeastern railroad in England Is
settled. The men accepted the terms
offered by the company and have re-
turned to work.
Theodore Roosevelt will be In Kan-
sas City, September 1, from noon un
til midnight. Mr. Roosevelt will go
here from Osawatomie, Kans., where
h« is to speak August 29.
B. V. Barger, of Memphis, Tenn., was
shot and fatally injured at Little Rock,
Ark., by C. M. Gaynon, who In turn
killed Barger. Mrs. Gaynon declares
Barger was attempting to crawl
through a window of her home when
her husband fired.
Because they wanted to be "bad
men," John Warner and Roy Metcalf.
each 11 years old, have been arrested
at Canton, Ohio, and confessed that
thsy committed six hundred burglar-
ies.
Twelve were injured, one probably
fatally, when a street car was struck
by a Pennsylvania train at a grade
orossing at Cleveland, Ohio. The ear
was hurled from the tracks and
smashed into splinters.
At Guthrie, Okla., Wednesday, the
supreme court awarded Governor Has-
kell a writ of prohibition against the
Injunction brought by Logan county in
the capital removal case. According
to the ruling of the court the state ex
ecutlve has a right to move his office,
but other state officers have not. The
decision makes no direction as to the
offices who were already located in Ok-
lahoma City,
Two thousand troops of Mis National
Guard, among them the cra^lc troop
A of Cleveland and Battery C of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, have gone to guard prop-
erty in the street car strike at Colum-
bus.
Women were shot down, men ridden
over and children trampled under foot
In a bloody pitched battle between
the police and the strikers about the
Williamsburg plant of the sugar trust
In New York. One man was killed,
many were fatally stabbed and beaten,
and 35 others, among them a number
of women, so seriously hurt that some
of them may die.
The most widespread epidemic of
ptomaine poisoning in the history of
Joplln, Mo., is attributed by physi-
cians to atmospheric conditions al-
most without precedent in that local-
ity. Seventy-five cases of serious pto-
maine poisoning have been reported.
M. J. Coglilan, superintendent of a
hospital at Woodward, Okla., died at
the home of his father-in law in Canls-
tee, N. Y., as the result of an over-
dose of chloral. Coughlan's wifo died
several weeks ago and since then
Coghlan has been despondent.
Five masked and armed men held
up a passenger train on the New York,
Ontario & Western railroad near
Weehauken, N. Y. Four of the rob-
bers invaded the train and forced a
number of persons to give up their
valuables at the pistol point.
Right hundred miners at the Amer
lean Lead, Zinc & Smelting company's
mines at Webb City, Mo., who went
out on a strike because a reduction
of ten per cent was made in their
wages, acepted the reduction and have
returned to work.
Strikers attempted to derail a Grand
Trunk passenger train near South
Bend, Ind. The engineer of the train
noticed the turned switch signal in
time to stop his irain and therby prob-
ably prevented injury, if not loss of
life to the passengers.
To prevent the foreclosure of a
mortgage on his home, W. 11. Israel,
of Lewis, Kas., shot himself at a room
lng house. Ills son, Edward Israel,
and Thomas Haun, an attorney from
Kinsley arrived at the hospital as li«
was dying. They had been searching
for him for a week and feared that he
Intended to end his life.
In a riot at South Bend, Ind., among
striking trainmen on the Grand Trunk
railroad, I. Freel was shot and seri-
ously wounded by John Peck, of Battle
Creek, Mich., an employe of a private
detective agency assisting the rail-
road.
Verdicts of not guilty ^'ere render
ed Friday in the cases of twelve Cairo,
111., citizens charged Iji indictments
with having been leaders of the mob
which stormed the Alexander county
jail and lynched the negro, John Pratt,
on the night of February 15 last. The
jury was out two hours.
At Guthrie, Okla., Wednesday, the
supreme court awarded Governor Has-
kell a writ of prohibition against the
injunction brought by Logan county
in the capital removal case. Accord-
ing to the ruling of the court the state
executive has a right to move his of-
fice, but other state officers have not.
The decision makes no direction as to
the officers who were already located
In Oklahoma City.
Henry P. Cole, a prosperous farmer,
living near Humboldt, Tenn., promises
to rival the great Burbank in marvel-
ous feats of plant raising. His latest
Innovation is a combination tomato
and pepper plant, which will enable tlio
lover of the delicious fruit to abandon
the antiquated method of using pep
per, It being only necessary to slice
the new product and it is ready for
use.
NEWS OF THE STATE
A Review of the Important Happenings in Oklahoma
Condensed for Busy Readers Throughout the Country
PIPING OIL FROM OKLAHOMA
Standard Holds Cost Cheaper Than
Paying Taxes in This State
Muskogee, 01:1a.—The pipe lines of
the Standard Oil company operating
in Oklahoma under whatever name,
are now hustling for oil. And the wells
are not producing it as fast as the
pipe lines will pump it. Conseqquently
the Standard is drawing on its stored
oil to keep the pipes full and is also
chasing the producer to get his oil as
fast as he can pump it. This is an
unusual condition. For the past three
years the producers begged the Stand
ard to take their oil. They could
not sell it and had to shut down many
wells. Now this is all changed.
In order to increase the production
the Standard is putting out strings
ol' tools to drill more wells on the
leases that they own. Their gaugers
go to the oil men every day to see
if there is not more oil to run. They
are even offering bonuses to the pro-
ducers in the Muskogee district for
their oil. This oil is of slightly better
grade than the other pools of the state,
and bonuses of as high as 7 cents
per barrel have been paid for it. The
standard price is 38 cents per bar-
rel, but many producers are getting
more.
The Standard has forty-five million
barrels of oil stored in the Mid-Conti-
nent field. There is a well defined
rumor that all of this is to be trans-
ferred to Louisiana through the Stan-
dard's pipe lines and retanked in stor-
age at that place, because of the tax-
ation in Oklahoma.
Sulphur Man Des In Fit
Oklahoma City, Okla. — William'
Buchanan, uged 35, of Sulphur, Okla.,
fell dead from his chair in front of the j
Nigely hotel here, as the result of an
epileptic lit. An accident sustained a
year ago at Sulphur injured his brain j
and he has been subject to epileptic
attacks since.
FRUIT CROP FINEST IN YEARS
Total Peach Yield for Oklahoma Es
timated at 90.000 Bushels
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The sum to-
tal of reports received from every seer
tion of the state is that Oklahoma has
the best fruit crop in its history. From
all the fruit growing districts, and
they include nearly all the counties of
the state, comes word that, the or-
chards are in excellent condition and
many of which were too young to bear
last year will return rich harvests
this season.
The first shipments from Oklahoma
have already been made. Ada peaches
were consigned to the north several
days ago and it is said will bring the
top price on the market.
Prices, say the fruit growers, will
be good this season. The yield of
fmiits and berries is far above nor-
mal in this state and the crop has
been reported as a success in many
other states of the union.
It is estimated that Oklahoma coun-
ty will ship in the next few weeks 80
cars of peaches. At $700 each, which
is the average price a carload of fruit
brings, the farmers of the county will
realize $56,000 from their peach or-
chards this season.
The state will put out at least 300
cars, netting the Oklahoma fruit
growers $210,000 on their peaches
alone. The total peach yield of the
state for 1910 is approximated at 90,-
000 bushels, which is a large increase
over the yield of past years.
STATE SHOWS 
BIG INCREASE
OKLAHOMA'S POPULATION NEAR
TWO MILLION MARK
CAIN OF 16.8 PER CENT
Most Remarkable Gain Made By Any
**tate in Union—Three Enumera-
tion Districts Yet to Be
Counted
Feud Claims a Victim
Tahlequah, Okla.—Charged with
killing I'aul Johnson, cousin, at Park
Hill, Okla., Edward Newton was
brought here and placed in jail The
shooting is said to be the result of a
feud growing out of a quarrel between
the Johnson and Newton women, and
which was later taken up by the hus-
La ids.
For Railroad Extension
Okmulgee, Okla.—President Kene-
fick of the Missouri, Oklahoma and
Gulf railway, will sail in a few days
for Paris, France, to confer with a
French syndicate which is negotiating
for a new bond issue for the company.
The money thus secured will be used
in building a northern extension and
securing an entrance into Kansas City.
Sheriff Averts Bloodshed
Muskogee, Okla.—Twenty negroes
boarded an Iron Mountain train at Ft.
Gibson and defied the conductor to
Jim Crow them, drawing their knives
and starting to run white people out
of a coach they desired to occupy.
White men met the attack. The ne-
groes were armed with knives and
guns. The white men had knives and
soda pop bottles. Just as it appeared
a bloody conflict could not be averted
Sheriff J. L. Wisener reached the
coach from the rear of the train,
checked the negroes and drove them
back into their proper quarters on the
train. Several were placed under ar-
rest and are now in jail at Muskogee,
Child Burned to Death
Stillwater, Okla.—A fire that de-
stroyed the farmhouse of Lawrence
Holzer, six miles northeast of Still-
water, caused the death of a child 8
months old, that was burned almost
to a crisp. Holzer left a wickless oil
stove on the floor for the child to
play with when he left the house. It
Is supposed that the stove exploded
and set fire to the house. The build-
ing and contents were a total loss.
Robbers Make Big Haul
Edmond, Okla.—Robbers broke into
the Hiatt Drug Store here and stole
about $300 worth of goods, mostly
watches and other jewelry, but includ-
ing 42 fountain pens, valued at $5 each,
FOREIGN
Edward II. Harriman was worth
$71,000,000 at the time of his death, ac-
cording to reports from New York.
Russia is putting forth strenuous ef-
forts to get abreast of Franco and
Germany in the field of aeronautics.
Funds are being collected, air pilots
trained, and aeroplanes constructed.
Port Barrios Guatemala.—On ac-
count of the revolution which has
broken out at Ceiba, Honduras, every-
thing is chaos in the republic and pan-
ic prevails. The country is now un-
der martial law. The strongth of the
revolutionists, adherents of Manuel
Bonllla, former president of Hondu-
ras, deposed a few years ago, is not
known.
It was reported at Hamburg that
thieves on board a Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner, the Amerika, robbed Eva
Stradford of New Jersey of jewelry
valued at $40,000.
That the population of France is
decreasing is not the only worry of
French statesmen. They also deplore
the physical deterioration of th«
young men of France of today, and
there is a general cry just now for a
compulsory course of physcal training
for all French children.
In honor of his early heroic effort#
ill opening Oklahoma Territory for
settlement, plans are being made to
i remove the body of David L. Payne,
the Daniel Boone of Oklahoma, from
Wellington, Kan., and place it in a
| magnificent monument in Oklahoma
I City.
Requests Injunction Dissolved
Bartlesville, Okla.—The injunction
that restrained the Bartlesville Inter-
urban company from furnishing light
and power to the people of the city
has been dissolved at the request of
the light and water company.
Guthrie Faces Water Famine
Guthrie, Okla.—The protracted
drouth here has brought about a wa
ter famine. The municipal water
plant has notified all customers that
no water can be used for sprinkling
gardens and lawns until further no-
tice. The Cottonwod river, which fur-
nishes the water supply for Guthrie, is
rapidly going dry and unless rains fall
here soon Guthrie may be left with-
out tire protection.
Mad Dog Bites Two
Cushing, Okla.—Miss Jennie Camp-
bell and Jake-Levitt were bitten by a
dog thought to have been mad and
since that time twenty dogs in the vi-
cinity have been killed. The heads of
the dogs were sent to an institute in
St. Louis for examination
Will Irrigate 100,000 Acres
Guthrie. Okla.—Secretary Frank
Field of the state board of agriculture,
who is e\ officio state engineer, re-
ceived an application from the Bell &
White Land Engineering and Develop
meat Co., for permission to take water
from the Cimarron river in Cimarron
county to irrigate 100,000 acres of
land.
Doctor Shot; Barber Arrested
Seminole, Okla.—During a picnic
here, at which Dr. Hall, a veterinary
surgeon, acted as a special officer,
Hall was shot from a window by some
person unknown. The bullet entered
his right side, but did not inflict a
dangerous wound. L. K. Holden, a
barber, has been arrested charged
with the shooting.
To Establish Colony in Oklahoma
Muskogee, Okla.—The representative
of a German philanthropist of the old
country, a man of great wealth, is in
Muskogee for the purpose of purchas-
ing land and establishing a German
colony here. He wants 4,000 acres of
land located on an interurban line.
This he proposes to cut up into ten-
acre tracts and place a family on each
tract.
Washington, D. C.—The total popu-
lation of the state of Oklahoma, lack-
ing three enumeration districts yet to
be counted, has been announced by
the census bureau and is shown to be
1,651,951. This is the most remark-
able gain made by any state in the
Union. Oklahoma City's gain has
been greater than that of any other
city in the United States. The three
enumeration districts yet to be count-
ed may give the state a population
of approximately two millions, it is
thought. Oklahoma is the second
state to be completed by the census
department. The totals will be given
out in a few days.
The population of Oklahoma is 1,-
651,951, as compared with 1,414,177,
according to the special census of
1907, showing an increase since 1907
of 16.8 per cent.
The figures show the total negro
population of the state to be 138,456,
as compared with 112,160 in 1907. In
1907 the negro population constituted
7.9 per cent of the total, and per-
centage for 1910 is 8.4 per cent. The
three distircts lacking in the figures,
the census director announced, would
affect the total population by less
than 5,000.
The population of the territory now
recognized as the state of Oklahoma,
was according to the census of 1900,
790,391, the population of 1910, repre-
senting an increase of 109 per cent.
Every county in the state with seven
exceptions, increased in population
between 1907 and 1910, many of them
showing an increase of more than 10
per cent in that time.
In 32 of the counties in the state,
the negro population is more than 1,-
000. The heaviest negro population
is in Muskogee county, the enumera-
tion showing 16,534. Oklahoma coun-
ty has 9,370 negroes, Wagoner county
8,745; Logan county 8,259 and Ok-
fuskee county 8,091.
Under this computation, Oklahoma
will be entitled certainly to one more
congressman and probably two more
representatives in congress, the exact
number depending entirely upon the
basis of apportionment. At present
there are five members of the house
from Oklahoma, but this number was
arbitrarily fixed when Oklahoma en-
tered the Union, and if the basis of
the apportionment for the country at
large under the census of 1910 had
been observed, the new state would
have been entitled to seven members
to the lower branch of congress when
it entered the Union.
With an increase of about one-sixth
in population, it is scarcely to be sup-
posed there will be any reduction by
congress of the number of congress-
men to which the slate was right-
fully entitled under the special census
of Oklahoma in 1907. The districts
now are unusually large, varying in
population from 225,000 in the first, to
315,000 in the second. It is not to be
expected that the basis of representa-
tion will be increased to more than
220,000, and in that event the state
would be given seven members and
still have a fraction of population left.
Attends Funeral; Dies of Sunstroke
Holden, Mo.—Charles Bluliem, while
attending the funeral of his old friend,
M. Brown, received a sunstroke at
the grave and died an hour later.
Held on Murder Charge
Wynnewood. Okla.—Charles Litch-
field, former chief of police who shot
and killed W. L. Collins, ex-city mar-
shal, has been arrested on a charge
of murder and lodged in the county
jail. After the shooting and up to
the time Collins died Litchfield was
out on $4,000 bond, charged with in-
tent to kill.
Man Killed by Falling Telephone Pole
Frederick, Okla.—During a wind
Btorm here T. O. Clay, an employe of
the cotton oil and manufacturing mill,
was struck and instantly killed by a
falling telephone pole.
Newspaper Plant Damaged by Fire
Lawton, Okla.—Fire came near de-
stroying the Daily Constitution-Demo-
crat newspaper plant Wednesday even-
ing, when the entire second story cf
the wooden building in which it is lo-
] cated was burned.
$25,000 Hotel Fire at Enid, Okla
Enid, Okla.—One person Is believ-
ed to have lost his life and Dr. Lam-
erton of Wichita was seriously burned
| in a fire which destroyed the City ho-
tel Friday morning, and for a time
(threatened to wipe out the business
,3ection of Enid. Roger Rhodes of Kan-
sas City is missing. A wliolesale~house,
!the Johnson Flour & Feed company,
was also burned. The entire loss will
,be iu the neighborhood of $25,000.
Mine Agreement Impossible
Kansas City, Mo.—Unable to come to
terms with the southwestern coal op-
erators with whom he had been con-
ferring, in the hope of ending the four-
month strike of 30,000 coal miners of
the southwest for increased wages,
Preisident T. L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers of America lias left, for
Indianapolis. Mr. Lewis' departure
temporarily brings to an end negotia-
tions between miners and operators.
The miners will draw up a form of
contract, outline terms they will ac-
cept for private settlements with in-
dividual operators. These private set-
tlements will be made with the indi-
vidual miners at once, and work will
be resumed independently in a num-
ber of mines.
Jury Says Rawn Killed Self
Chicago, 111. The coroners jury
empanelled to inquire into the death
of Ira G. Rawn, late president of the
Motion railroad, returned an open
\ t ■ I diet to 'lie effect iliat lie had died
from a si-ot lmm ..is o.vn we:.pen by
Uio own >i..iiu.
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