Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
NOl- MAN
J. 0. FOX, Manager.
OKLAHOMA
Architects are a! present Inclined to
bungalows and skyscrapers
FREDERICK DEAD
KINO OF DENMARK PASSES
AWAY SUDDENLY
ENEMY OF THE NATURE FAKER
A woman who read 6,000 novel® tn
84 years baa died. Can you blame
Iter?
WAS PROCLAIMED IN 1906
fc'AS POPULAR WITH THE PEO-
PLE OF COUNTRY
A pessimist Is one to whom "Swat
the Fly!" sounds louder than "Play
(ball! "*
For amateur wireless operators the
Signal Is "D. B. I.," meaning "Don't
butt In."
An old fashioned summer does
Hot necessarily go with an old fashion-
ed winter.
Had Gone to Hamburg, Germany, and
Died On Night of Arrival—
Other News of General In-
terest to Readers
One fault to be found with the Mis- j
tetiilppl is that It insists In spreading
Itself every spring.
"Mustaches," says a well known bar-
ber, "are coming bark Into style. First
call for soup strainer*.
"Ragtime is dying out," says a mu- i
•leal Journal. If so. It Is dying a hor-
rible and lingering death.
A Boston man stole his wife's
clothes the day their divorce trial n
to come up. She won her sulL
"Ufeboats occupy too much space,"
said a shipbuilder recently. Volumes
may be written on that remark.
"Sating," says a scientist "I* a
flying art," but he probably will change
bis mind when pay day rolls around.
A London woman "wears" a monkey
suspended from her neck, and without
Uoubt the monkey Is proud of his peL
An eminent authority estimates that
Ihe value of a baby Is $2,800. But
khen, of course. It is somebody else's
baby.
London—King Frederick VIII. of
Denmark died suddenly Wednesday
morning at Hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany—King Frederick
Mil. of Denmark, arrived at the Ham-
burger Hof hotel Tuesday and died
during the night.
Christian Frederick was proclaimed
king of Denmark as Frederick VIII.
on January 30, 1906, after the death
of Christian IX., the aged king who
was deau of the crowned heads of
Europe, father of King George of
Greece, of fhe Queen mother Alexan-
dria of Great Britain, the Empress
Dowager of Russia and grandfather of
King Haakon VII. of Norway.
King Frederick VIII. was born at
Copenhagen June 3, 1843. He was as
popular with the people of Denmark
as was his father. By the wish of
his parents he was brought up with
great simplicity. Fredrick saw ills
younger brother and his own son be-
come reigning monarchs of Greece and
Norway, respectively, while he him-
self was still an heir apparent.
King Frederick was noted for his
culture, and possessed many foreign
distinctions. While seldom openly
identifying himself with political ques-
tions he took nn active part in all pub-
lic movements.
A scientist informs us that there
lire 18,983,432 microbes on a dollar bill.
Now we know why they call it filthy
lucre.
1 SOCIALIST LEADERS TAKE
FALL OUT OF DISTURBER8
J Conservative Element Led by Berger
Win First Clash at National
Convention.
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HOLSTON ABLAZE
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE SWEEPS
TEXAS CITY
FLAMES RAGE FOR THREE HOURS
FOUR LARGE BUSINESS BLOCKS j
TOTAL LOSS
Fire Breaks Out Early Sunday Morn- j
ing in Downtown Business Dis-
trict, and Gives Department
a Hard Tussle
Houston, Tex.—Fire broke out in
the upper main street business dis-
trict shortly before 4 o'clock Sunday
morning and by 7 o'clock had caused
a loss approximating $1,000,000. It
originated in the Stower building, a
large six-story building, owned by
H. Masterson, and occupied by the
Stower's Furniture company and the
A. Lipper Millinery company.
Firemen are of the opinion that the
20TH CENTURY
Corset
■ STYLE 870
Made of good quality
•team shrank coutli
that will not stretch.
Automatic Boning,
warranted not to
break for a year.
Bones constructed with
a patented antomatlo
system that gives a
sliding movement In
bending, distributing:
the strain, and
making them im-
possible to break.
AT DEALERS $| C|)
or sent direct I.UU
BIRDSEY-SOMERS CO.
233 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Man's favorite brand ol love Is usu-
ally the latest.
Garfield Tea helps clear a muddy complex-
ion, dispel foul breath and sweeten the temper.
You may have noticed that about
the time a shoe begins to feel com-
fortable it looks like a candidate for
the refuse wagon.
Some people are congenita not be-
cause they like the same things, but
cause was due to defective wiring, I because they hate the same people,
aided by overheated wires, and that
it started in the tipper floor of the
Lipper establishment.
The alarm was turned in when a j
puff of smoke was seen issuing from
an upper story. It was discovered by |
a linotype operator on the Post as he j
was en route home after finishing his
I night's work.
j The response of the firemen was
quick but when they arrived the build- |
j ing was aflame from top to bottom j
I and tongues of fire were leaping out I
I from every window. The rear wall |
Equivocal.
"What's in that report about private
still In the mountains near your
place?"
"Oh, that's all moonshine."
"War" Bank Notes.
The Swiss National bank, with head-
of the building fell with a resounding 1 quarters at Zurich, has just completed
Every baseball fan is willing to ad-
mit that all men are born free and
•qual—that Is, with the exception of
umpires.
A woman's theater, run by women
for women, Is being promoted in Chi-
cago. But what will It do for a mat-
inee Idol?
It takes a confirmed optimist to
■mile on the sprouting grass and re-
mary that running a lawn mower is
food exercise.
That New York woman accused of
hilling her husband with a pair of
scissors seems suspected of being a
regular cut up.
Some baseball players receive larger
salaries than congressmen. But who
*ver paid good money to see a con-
gressman perform?
"The saddest hour," sings a poet.
"Is Just after sunset " Evidently he
idoesn't hav« to get up at S: 00 a m.
In the winter time.
A Harvard professor has Just discov-
ered thst women talk too much. How-
ever, a lot of old stuff has been worked
ctt as new this year.
A Kansas man fed s mule thre«
tablespoonfuls of tabasco sauce. We
understand his widow Is not blaming
the mule for what happened.
Harvard astronomers have made a
tnap of 1.500.000 stars. Yet the sup-
ply of shortstops and third basemen
eems unequal to the demand.
Indianapolis.—"Progressive opportu-
nists" and "immediate revolutionists"
opposed each "other at the opening ses-
sion of the Socialist national conven-
tion. This was the division of the 290
delegates upon the election of plat-
form and resolutions committees, won
by the "opportunists" or conservatives
led by Congressman Victor Berger of
Wisconsin, and Charles Edward Rus-
sell of New York by large majorities.
Determined not to alienate trades
unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor by adopting a
platform approving the "labor unit"
scheme of the "Industrial Workers of
the World," the platform committee,
the majority leaders said, would sub-
mit a plan of action reiterating the
demand of the revolut' nary wing for
an immediate upset for the capitalistic
system and taking over of the means
of production by the "workers."
A show of hands was expected up-
in the request of Wm. D. Haywood,
a leader of the Industrial Workers
and a member of the executive com-
mittee of the Socialist party, that the
executive committee report at once
to the convention to the telegraphic
plea for an appropriation in support
of the "free speech fight" at San
Diego, Cal. The executive committee
already has authorized an appeal to
the five thousand local Socialists or-
ganizations for financial aid in the
defense of 100 or more men arrested
in San Diego charged with inciting
riots, but Congressman Berger has
announced the "old line" Socialists
will block, if they can. any further
support of "direct action" campaigns
Instigated by the Industrial Workers
at San Diego or elsewhere.
John Burroughs, the famous naturalist and author, and enemy of "nature
fakers," passed his seventy-fifth birthday recently, but is as vigorous as many
a man of fifty.
Senator Gore Gives
Version of Decision
counties assessed. If the result be
serious it may be necessary for the
state to enact legislation for their re-
lief.
Our entire revenue system ought to
be revised on scientific principles. I
am trying to work out some way to
secure general relief from the federal
government. I shall ask an appropri-
ation for the benefit of the schools on
the east side in proportion to the In-
dian children of scholastic age and
the ands held to be exempt.
T. P. GORE.
Apprehension Over the Loss of the
State's Revenues Is Very Much
Modified; Appropriation Will be
Asked for the East Side Schools
Where Land is Exempt.
roar within a few minutes after the
firemen arrived on the scene indicat-
ing that the flames spread very rapid- j
]y, due to the character of the con-
struction of the building (mill con-
struction and brick), aided by the in- I
flammable nature of the stock of i
goods.
The Stower's building and the Lat- j
ham building are in total ruins. While j
some of the walls of the ason build- j
ing and the Temple building are in- '
tact, the firemen do not believe any 1
portion of these two can be saved.
Hence their loss is total.
The following in a summary of the
principal losses in the fire:
Stower's building, $100,000; Stowers
Furniture company, stock, estimated, i
j!sO,000; A. Lipper, incorporated, $25,-
000; Latham building, $25,000; Mason j
building, $100,000; Thomas Goggan &
Brothers, $32,000
$85,000.
Eighty-four offices in the Temple
and Mason buildings, estimated total
loss. $40,000.
printing at Geneva "war" banknotes
of twenty francs each for a sum of
$6,000,000, but they will not be put
into circulation unless war breaks out
in Europe. While the notes were be-
ing printed special police guarded the
printing offices and the bank night and
day. The notes are now stocked in
the cellars of the bank of Zurich.
Her Natural Protector.
"O Clara, we had a dreadful scare
this morning, a burglar scare!" said
Mrs. Fink. "There was a frightful
noise about two o'clock, and I got up.
I turned on the light and looked down,
to see a man's legs sticking out from
under the bed."
"Mercy, how dreadful! The burg-
lar's?"
"No, my dear, my husband's. He
had heard the noise, too."—Youth's
Temple building, ■ Companion.
Storied About Age: Arrested
Geneva. Switzerland.—A young
woman applying for a marriage li-
cense substracted three years from
her age and was fined $6 on a charge
of "coquetry."
Sympathetic Strike
New York.—One hundred pretty
girls struck in a white goods factory
to help the homely girls, who, they
said, were slighted by the foreman.
The only baseball trust thst re-
quire* Investigation is the trust of the
young man in the bleachers that his
i>oss won't find out where be is.
JOBBER SAYS WAS COERCED
The swain who it being sued for di-
vorce because he has fifty five afflnl-
ties might as well find s couple more
Sktd make it fifty-seven varieties
Dealer Testifies He Was Forced to
Buy Goods From Steel Trust.
A minister's wife recently testified
*hat she bad thirty homes In eight
jears With her life must have been
Just one moving van after another
It costs one dollar, according to an
•rpert, to raise a hen from infancy to
the laying age. but the cost is greatly
reduced if the neighbor has a garden
A statistician tells ns that this
country Imports 150.000 tons of chalk
annually, but Just how much of It is
•cseci by milkmen we are unable to
leam.
The world's supply of oxygen Is said
to be growing le6s, probably because
candidates are using more than their
•hare of it to keep their presidential
booms alive.
New York —When the hearing in
the government's suit to dissolve the
United States steel corporation was
resumed James C. McFarland. a tin
plate Jobber of North Philadelphia,
was called in support of the govern-
ment contention that the American
Tin Plate company suppressed compe-
tition.
McFarland said he had handled
many private special brands, which
he was forced to assign to the Amer-
ican Tin Plate company in 1899 with
a stipulation that he would not buy
bis tin plate anywhere else.
According to a letter from the Tin
Plate company to his firm, which the
witness testified, it was the "trusts"
purpose "to protect this company in
the exclusive manufacture of plate."
Later, he said, the American Tic Plate
company arranged with Jobbers where-
by the company offered rebates on
condition that Jobbers purchased their
tin plate exclusively from iL
In response to a request for a con-
cise statement of the United States
supreme court decision affecting the
Choctaw and Chickasaw lands subject
to taxation, the following reply has
been received:
Washington, May 16, 1912.
The state undertook to tax unre-
stricted allotments in the hands of the
original allottees. The Indians dis-
puted the state's authority to do so.
The U. S. supreme court held for the
Indians against the state and the ef-
fect of the decision is that in the
Chickasaw and. Choctaw nations all
allotments, both homestead and sur-
plus, whether restricted or unrestrict-
ed, are exempt from taxation for 21
years from the date of patent so long
as in the hands of the original allot-
tee.
In the Cherokee and Seminole na-
tions only the homesteads are exempt,
unrestricted surplus allotments are
not exempt, likewise unrestricted sur-
plus allotments in the Creek country
are not exempt. I do not know how
much land either in arrears or as-
sessed value this withdraws from tax-
ation, nor how muc*> it will impair the
revenue of the state and the several
Prohibitionists Confer.
Atlantic City. N. J —In response to
a call issuel by Chairman Charles R.
Jones of the Prohibition national com- damage done to bridges in Logan
mittee a conference of party leaders county by the recent floods was let
from many States assembled in Atlan- by the county commissioners. The
tic City to consider plans for the big Cimarron river wagon bridge
The Position for Her,
After speaking at great length on
the emancipation of women, a young
woman asked a statesman:
"Supposing women were admitted to
govern the affairs of the common-
wealth, what post would you assign tc
me?"
"The management of an institution
for the deaf and dumb,"
"Why that?"
"Because either these unfortunates
May Cause Intervention
Dallas, Tex.—That 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 I would learn to talk or you would learn
the tenor of a dispatch received here j to keep quiet."
by Governor O. B. Colquitt, who is in
this city, from Adjutant General , Looking to the Inevitable.
Henry Hutchins. The adjutant gen- Seventy-nine years old, but with no
eral got his information in the shape thought of dying for years, a South
of a telegram from Sheriff Pavton Ed- i Brooklyn retired windmill dealer spent
wards of El Paso. Governor Colquitt his reecnt birthday in Cleveland, O,
Instructed the adjutant general to pro- i looking for a bargain in coffins. He
ceed at once to El Paso and declared j said he never had cared much for
that he would notify President Taft show and thought he would care less
that the people of El Paso must not
be placed in danger by combatants on
the other side of the Rio Grande.
"Seventeen O'clock Tea."
Paris —Anticipating the 24-hour
system of counting time, some hos-
teses already are having tea at "seven-
teen o'clock" instead of five o'clock.
Old Lady a Pedestrian
Newton. N. J—Mrs Marv George.
78. walked 17 miles in a day to visit
her niece.
To Repair Bridges
Guthrie. Okla.—A contract for the
rebuilding and repairing of the $30,000
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
tryouts. This action, it is claimed,
disposes of the report widely circu-
lated that Jones would not go to
Stockholm if chosen.
when dead, so he wanted something
that would be durable, not fancy. "The
undertakers wanted more than $100
for good coffins," he told a friend,
"none of which looked to be worth
more than $50. For $25 1 found I
could get one that looked as if it
might have cost $2.50 to make. You
don't suppose I could get a good sec-
ond hand one anywhere, do you?" The
man did not invest, but decided he
would wait awhile and see if the high
cost of dying might not be reduced.
national campaign and complete ar-
rangements for the party convention,
which will meet here in July.
Bucket Shop Case Opens.
Chicago. Ill —Sidmon McHle and his
five colleagues who did a thriving bus-
iness under the name of the Capital
Investment company until the govern-
ment officials closed down on them
were placed on trial in the United
States court on charges of having con-
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 $60,000 bridge bond issue
BODIES IN LIFE BOAT
Three Corpses Found By White Star
Line Steamer Oceanic.
New York —A message received by
the White Star line by the Steamer
Oceanic enroute to New York reported
the picking up by the liner of a col-
lapsible boat fro mthe sunken steamer
Titanic containing three bodies. The
boat was found according to the mes-
sage May 13, in latitude 3£>.56 north,
longitude 47.01 west.
Archbcld Probe to Start
Washington D. C.—Investigation of
charges against Judge Robert W.
Archbold of the commerce court will
be undertaken by the house commit-
tee ol Judiciary. Papers in the case
ducted a business to defraud in opera- t8 ^he committee from the de-
ting a bucket shop.
Their First Opportunity.
Ciovis. N. M—Delegates are arriv-
ing here for the Democratic state con-
vention. which will meet to select the
New Mexico delegates to the Balti-
more convention. Indicatioms point t#
a lively contest for control betwsen
the f# l owers of Wilson and Clara.
partinent of justice by direction of
President Taft will bs examined.
Conductor Whited Killed
Amariilo, Texas.—Fred Whited, of
Amarillo, conductor in the froight ser-
vice of the Rock Island, was almost in-
stantly killed at Sayre, Okla., when
he was crushed between two cars.
The dead man was 27 years of age
and had lived in Amarillo a number
of years.
An American woman has won th^
distinction of being the first of her
Bex to pilot an aeroplane across the
English channel. This leadership is
1c keeping with the record of her
countrywomen.
Editor Thrown From Ho--st. Injured
New York—Carlton Garret son. edi
ltor of Judge and Leslie's Weekly, was
severely injured here when a horse
which he was riding reared anJ threw
him violently to the pavement.
Blind Student to Practice Surgery
Chicago.—Jacob W. Boioiin, a blind
medical student who has been sight-
less since birth, will receive a license
to practice surgery. He will special-
ize cn lung acd throat diseases.
A Harrard lecturer announces that
•somen talk too much It needs no leo
Kurer come from philosophic depths
•profound, to tell us that What i|
more, women will kt-ep on talking tc
the end of the chapter, long after leo
tarers have ceased from troubling an 1
lis critics are no mora.
Red Cross in Session
Washington—Delegates from the
Red Cross societies of the world and
representatives of practically every
civilized nation are gathered here for
the opening session of the ninth In-
To Invest gate Hill Cha-ges
Emporia, Kas—Tfcs board of re-
gents of the Kansas State Normal will
meet to investigate the charges recent-
ly made against President Joseph H
Kill in a circular signed by a tun>
ber of students.
Orczco's Aid Stabted
Chihuahua, Mexico—Gonsalo C. E>
rile, rtght hand man of Genera'. Oroz-
oo ane a .citted'.y tha financial agent
of the Mexi.an politicians behind ti
present revolution, was stabbed twi<
l Monday Hespr.ai physicians said he ternattonal Red Cress conference.
would recover. The assassiss fled, be-; .
lieving Entile dead. Enrlle was walk- Lawyer Kills Self
ing in the plan when attacked by Boston.—Olcott O. Partridge, a well
two unidentified men. bt.leitd to be known lawyer and club man, comtnit-
polltlcal er.ers:es. He was wounded in t6(j gu by shooting himself In his
the shouider and cbeit aboie the office here Mr. Partridge had beeu
i heart. j in m fcjuith for a long time
Newspaper Man Dead.
Boston— James Henry Haynie, nn
author and for many years prominent
as foreign correspondent for Ameri-
can newspapers died at his home in
Newton Center
American Consul Dies
Lisbon. The body of l.ouis 11 Aim.
the American consul general at Lis-
bon. who died, will be taken to the
United States for interment. Consul
Aim's death was due to locomotor
ataxia.
Homer Stuntz iBshop
Minneapolis, Minn, llotner Sitmlz.
of New York, assistant secretary of
the mission board of the Methodist
Kpiseopal church, was elected bis hup
on the first ballot.
When the
Appetite Lags
A bowl of
Post
Toasties
with cream
hits the right spot.
"Toasties" are thin bits
of corn; fully cooked, then
toasted to a crisp, golden-
brown.
This food makes a fine
change for spring appe-
tites.
Sold
ready to
age instantly with a earn and
sugar
by Grocers, and
serve from pack-
" The Memory Lingers'
Made by
urn Cerral Companr.
lute Food Factor let
little Creek. Mich.
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