Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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News Notes
Epitome of the Moat
Important Happenings
at Home and Abroad
WASHINGTON.
Food stuffs coming In frpe of duty
tinder the new tariff bill are swelling
the total imports into the United
States.
Spirited debate In the house marked
the beginning of consideration of the
bill for the government-owned railway
In AlaBka.
The final assault on the detailed
provisions of the administration cur-
rency bill has begun in the senate.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, lead-
ing the attack.
According to the annual report just
issued by Secretary of Commerce
Redfield, the foreign commerce of the
United States during the past year
Increased more than $421,000,000 over
the year of 1912.
Announcement was made by Secre-
tary Garrison that on April 22, next,
Major-General Leonard Wood would
cease to be chief of staff of the Unit-
ed States army. On that date Gen-
eral Wood's four-year detail expires.
The receipts of the postofflce depart-
ment for the year were $266,619,525.65,
an increase of more than 8 per cent
over the preceding year, as compared
with a corresponding Increase of 4
per cent reported a twelve month ago.
' One hundred guests escaped in their
night clothes and more than $125,000
loss was caused by fire that destroyed
the Astoria hotel at Chaffee, Mo.
One thousand federal reinforce-
ments arrived for the garrison at
Nuevo Lnredo, thus preventing a rebel
attack on that city, for the present.
h. Lunchford and Charles Farthing
were killed instantly and W. D. Lunch-
ford and Woodson Edgar were fatally
wounded at a dance at Edgewood,
Tex.
The pecan crop of central Texas,
totaling about 2,250,000 pounds this
year and paying its raisers about
$200,000 made nearly ninety solid car-
loads.
Fire which is declared to have been
of incendiary origin caused several
deaths in the Cincinnati Salvation Ar-
my's home for men. Two bodies were
recovered and many others are re-
ported missing.
Six members of tht 1. W. W. were
arrested in Kansas City for agitat-
ing; five of them drew fines of $100
each and the Bixth who had relieved
himself of "To hell with this court,"
was assessed $500.
"WHY I EMIGRATED"
rHE NOTt 3 OF A PROMINENT
JOURNALIST WHO MADE A
TRIP THROUGH WESTERN
CANADA.
DOMESTIC.
Miss Christian Holmberg was elect-
ed city treasurer of Santa Barbara,
Calif., by a good majority.
Motor car bandits seized a tray of
diamonds worth $2,000 from the store
of a diamond broker in the business
district of Kansas City and escaped.
Seven clergymen were drawn on the
grand jury for the December term at
the opening of the county criminal
court at Camden, N. J.
William Wasmer and Earl Wade
were killed and George Jones was
Injured severely in a rock quarry at
Kansas City by the explosidh of dyna-
mite.
Rosa Alinano, 7, her sister, Filo-
mena, 5, and brother, Frank, 2, are
dead at New York through drinking
liquor they smuggled out during a
family fiesta.
The Mississippi river steamer Shi-
Emmanuel Harner, a railway mail
clerk, who was divorced a year ago,
shot and killed a husband and wife
who had befriended llarner's former
wife, attempted to kill the latter, and
then committed suicido at Chicago.
After hiding from the guards for
sixteen days within the walls of the
Kansas penitentiary, at Lansing, Dan
Carney, whose escape from the prison
was reported on November 20 last,
was dragged from behind a condenser
in the engine room and returned to his
cell.
George A. Davis, an ironworker, ar-
rested in New York a few months ago,
pleaded guilty at Indianapolis to a
charge of having conspired to trans-
port explosives illegally. Harry Jones,
secretary-treasurer of the interna-
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, implicated
by Davis, pleaded not guilty.
FOREIGN.
Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia is
again reported dead.
Cardinal Rampolla, former papal
secretary of state, is dead at Rome.
Miss Zelie Emerson, the American
suffragette, is back in jail in Lon-
don.
Stanley Houghton, one of the prom-
inent young English dramatists, died
in Manchester.
The celebrated 'Mona Lisa," stolen
from the Louvre two years ago, has
been recovered in Florence.
No British enwspapers, morning or
evening, will publish editions on
Christmas, the Times, which held out
loh, operated by the Delta Navigation |agt year making it unanimous this
Co., struck an obstruction while ap- (jme
preaching the Memphis wharf and i
Bank. No lives lost. The strongest earthquake in several
years occurred in Japan and was felt j at longest in 3 years each field had
The bodies of twenty-five of the | over an extensive area. Houses in [brought in its purchase price. If you
a promin nt Journalist from Chl-
^go, some .line ago, made a journey
through Cai ada obtaining a thorough
knowledge ( f rlie land and people and
of the "boundless possibilities'' that
Canada, the virgin land, affords. In
an American Sunday newspaper he
published after his return the interest-
ice account which we print as fol-
lows. He writes:
"Why did you emigrate from the
United States?" I asked a farmer in
Western Canada.
"I believe that for a poor man West-
ern Canada is the most favorable
land," was the reply, "and I '■ave now
found that it is the Paradise of the
Poor."
The farmer, a pioneer of the west,
had five years earlier left Iowa for
Canada to secure a new home there.
After traversing the country for some
time, he started his home on the open
prairie and with Bteady industry de-
voted himself to the working of the
virgin soil. Now he is the well-to-do
owner of that endless sea of waving
wheat ears that goes on for miles be-
fore my eyes. His Btrong. sunburned
Igure finds the best background in his
farm itself, which is the outcome of
his ceaseless activity—a pretty two-
storied dwelling house, a large clean
stable, In the midst of a hamlet of
Darns, sheds and outbuildings, a use-
,'ul garden overflowing with products;
lorses, cattle, sheep and swine on the
rich pastures, and around to the hori-
!on wheat, golden wheat.
"In Iowa?" the farmer continued, "I
'armed on rented land, for at the price
of $100 per acre I did not possess
money enough to buy. 1 might farm,
( might farm as I could, more than the
living for myself and family, 1 could
aot attain. Sometimes the harvest
turned out good, sometimes bad, but
the grand total was a bitter combat to
keep want from the door. It was im-
possible to lay by for bad times and
in spite of all trouble and work an old
age free of care was not to be
thought of. My death would have
brought bitter poverty to my wife and
children.
"I decided to break-up and go to
Canada, where at least I could fight
out the struggle for existence on my
own land. I started out with a mule
team, all my earthly possessions were
in the prairie-schooner with my wife
and children. Tfc&n I took up a home-
stead of 160 acres to which I added
by purchase gradually; now as a
whole I count about 3,000 acres as my
own. The whole property is free of
debt. I do not owe a cent to anyone.
I bought my land for $2-$10 per acre,
now I would not give it up for $50."
"Do you mean to say that you paid
for the whole land in the five years?"
I interrupted.
"In a much shorter time," replied
the farmer. "The land paid for itself,
some already by the first harvest, and
land offers to the willing worker. How
the poor emigrant on the open prairie,
through energy and activity, within 5
years worked his way up to being
well-to-do farmer and esteemed citi-
zen! More, the farmer did not re-
quire to say. Why did he emigrate?
W H Y ? Why I saw the answer with
my own eyes."—Advertisement.
For Infants and Children.
Tea From Coffee Leaves.
Tea, as everybody knows, is made
from leaves, while coffee is derived
from berries or beans. Just here is
w here something has been overlooked,
in the opinion of a scientific investi-
gator. The leaves of the coffee plant
are not only available for making
beverage, but they possess properties
which make them more valuable than
the coffee beans.
In appearance and fragrance the
dried coffee leaves very much resem-
ble those of the tea plant. An Infu-
sion of them being made, just as In
the case of ordinary tea. an aromatic
beverage is produced that is bitter to
the taste, but not disagreeably so, and
which contains almost as much tlielne
as real tea, while there is a much
smaller proportion of tannin.
It may yet be possible to grow tea
and coffee on the same plant.
His Message.
"That man has a look of profound
wisdom. I'm anxious to hear what he
has to say."
"Well?"
"Good heavens! lie's announcing
that he lias on exhibition the only
three-legged chicken in existence."
Heard on the Train.
"Does your boss ever find fault with
you?"
"Never."
"He must be a fine sort of a man."
"He is; I work for myself."
A teaspoonful of gossip will taint a
kettleful of pure truth
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Thirty Yea.
thirty-seven men who were killed in j all(j Yokohama were violently
the mine explosion at Newcastle. Col., rocked and the people were greatly
have been removed from the workings | aiarmed.
of the Vulcan mine. 1
I Four persons were killed and thirty-
Robert Alphonso Taft, son of for-; four seriously injured by the crush-
mer President Taft, carried off the |llf, 0j- a passenger train in a long tun-
honors of the class that look the state
bar examination at Columbus, Ohio.
He obtained a grade of 90.7.
Union waiters employed in the lead-
nel, which collapsed during a slight
earthquake at Chemnitz, Germany.
Americans, Germans and Spaniards
arriving in El Paso from Chihuahua,
Ins hotels at Cleveland voted to go I Mexico, report that Francisco Villa,
on strike unless the managements the rebel leader, virtually has consti-
agree to their demands. They want | tuted himself dictator there and that
an increase in wages of five dollars
a month.
Given up for lost, the crew of the
dismantled and abandoned steel ship
Dalgonar, owned in London, are on
the way to Dover aboard the French
ship I.oire, which picked them up Oct.
9, 1,000 miles off the coast of Chile.
Captain J. Ibester and three of his
men are dead.
That 165 persons perished, 20,000
persons were driven from home, and
property was damaged $6,000,000, is
the estimate on the Texas floods.
To satisfy his polyglot readers who
demand their "rights," A. B. Sako,
editor of the Slavish daily paper at
Gary, Ind., has started to issue his pa-
per in six languages.
Fines of $4,000 each were imposed
in the federal district court at New
York on Eugene Scales of Texas,
Frank Hayne and William Browne of
New Orleans, Morris Rothschild of
Mississippi and Robert M. Thompson
of New York on a plea of nolo con-
tendere to the charge of cornering the
cotton crop of 1909 in violation of the
Sherman law.
Mrs. Cynthia Buffum and Ernest
Fraham, a young farm hand, were in-
dicted and arraigned at Little Valley,
N. Y., on charges of murder in the
first degree. District Attorney George
Cole said Mrs. Buffum had made a
confession in which she admitted ad-
ministering poison to her husband,
Willis Buffum and her four children,
go that she might be frej to marry
Fraham.
A second demand for a wage in-
crease of twenty-five per cent for the
textile mill employes was forwarded
to the Cotton Manufacturers' Associa-
tion of Fall River by the Industrial
Workers of the World.
John Aikens, president of the Mis-
souri and Kansas Calf & Cattle Com-
pany, charged with obtaining money
by trick in connection with an alleged
corner or the local calf market, was
found guilty at Kansas City and sen-
tenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
he refuses to heed the requests of rep-
resentatives of foreign governments.
One of the biggest private real es-
tate deals on record was completed
in the purchase of the Duke of Bed-
ford's block of freehold property in
the center of London for something
over $50,000,000, by Harry Mallaby-
Deeley, a unionist member of the
house of commons.
The Venezuelan secretary of state
for foreign affairs, Dr. Jose L. Andara,
has resigned.
American ideas of government are
to be followed to a certain extent by
Eduardo Dato, the new Spanish pre-
mier.
All the property of Luis Terrazas,
Sr., Enrique Creel and Juan Creel, in-
cluding banks, mines, vast areas of
land, thousands of head of cattle,
homes and personal effects in the
state of Chihuahua were ordered con-
fiscated to the rebels in official de-
crees issued by General Francisco
Villa.
Dispatches from Noumea, capital of
the French colony of New Caledonia,
report that great destruction has been
wrought by a volcanic eruption on
Abrim island of the New Hebrides
group. Six new craters were formed
on the west coast Dec. 6. The fol-
lowing day Mount Minnie collapsed
and many villages were overwhelmed
by streams of molten lava. The ma-
jority of the inhabitants sought ref-
uge in canoes and boats and a steam-
er rescued 500. No casualties are
reported among the white population.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suf-
fraget leader, while returning from
Paris where she had been visiting her
daughter. Miss Christabel Pankhurst,
was rearrested by Scotland Yard de-
tectives shortly after the train left
Dover.
Rear Admiral Fletcher, commander
of the American naval forces in Mex-
ican waters, ordered the rebels and
federals fighting at Tampico to cease
firing, threatening to open up on them
with the guns of the gunboat Wheel
trig if his order was not obeyed. Both
«ldes complied with the orde
doubt that land in Western Canada
pays for itself within 3 years you can
easily convince yourself of the truth
of my assertion. Let us assume, that
a farmer buys a farm of 100 A. at $15
per A. for $2,400. Farm machines,
seed, ploughs, mowing and threshing
might bring up the outlay to about
$10 per acre, if the farmer sows the
t60 A. for 3 years in succession with
wheat and harvests 20 bus. per acre,
then the product of an A. at the aver-
age price of 75c per bu. is exactly $15
per acre. If you deduct the $10 out-
lay, you will retain a clear return of
$5.00. For 160 A. the annual excess
amounts to $800, consequently the
farm has after the third harvest
brought in the purchase price of
$2,400.
"Sometimes—and not rarely—the
land pays for itself by the first harvest
of 35 bus. of wheat bring in more than
Ihe purchase price of $15 per acre.
As in some years 1 harvested more
than 35 bus., you can reckon for your-
self how quickly I paid for my farm."
"Would you not prefer your own
farm in Iowa?" I asked.
"No," replied the farmer, "never
will I go back, In general very few
Food aw,
anteed under Hi
Exact Cnpy of Wrappe
"That's What I Want!
"It always makes Mother happy when I take home this
big family package. We all like them so much that she doesn't
have to worry about baking when she doesn't feel like it."
CRACKERS
L.-W.Soda Crackers are lighter than oven well-made bread,
and their flaky crispness makes them most digestible.
Ask for the Big Package
L.-W. Soda Crackers are very economical in the extra-
large family package—triple-sealed to keep them fresh, crisp
and fiavory—25c.
jooSE Wiles Biscuit (ompany
linkers of Sunshine biscuits
25c
Mean Swindle. All Is Fish to the Net.
Hishop Blougram, at a tea in Don- j "Catch anything while you were
ver, said of the exploitation of "white away on your vacation?'
slavery" by novelists and playwrights: ! "Sure, I did. It weighed 28 pounds.
"These weak writers can't even shock Von catch anything?
us. They have neither the pluck nor 'Th huh. 1 told you 1 would. Sh<
the power to shock us. And thus those j weighs 130 and her dad's worth halt
who read their vapid stories or see j of a street railway company, an elec
American settlers return to the old I their vapid plays are fooled as badly trie lighting plant and two brewer
home. In Iowa a 160 A. farm costs
$100 per A., $16,000; in Western Can
ada $15, only $2,400. For the same
money that you require to buy a 160
A. farm in Iowa, you can buy here in
Western Canada a farm of 1.000 acres.
I have money enough to buy a farm in
Iowa, if, I wished. Hut there my year-
ly income would be a small one,
whereas here I work for a great gain.
There I would only be a small farmer,
here I am a large landed proprietor."
In a corner of the farmyard I had
during our conversation noticed a j
mound of earth overgrown with
grasses and wild flowers. To my in
quiry as to what it was, I received the
reply: "That is the ruin of the wooden
shack covered with sods, which I call-
ed my home when I settled here five
years ago."
I gathered a wild aster from the
ruin and flung it into the air. In a pur-
plish-glittering line the wind drove the
(lower towards the fine, modern-equip-
ped farmhouse. What a contrast be-
tween the lowly earthy hut of yester-
day and ch'.-ming palace of today!
This contrast says enough to the un-
bounded possibilities, which this new
as the 75,000 German schoolgirls.
"In Germany, the other day, a scoun-
drel inserted an advertisement in all
the newspapers of the land an adver-
tisement of a book entitled 'What
Every Young Girl Should Know I before
Marriage.' This book would be sent
securely sealed in a plain wrapper, on
receipt of $1.50. And so forth and so
on.
"Wei, 75,000 German girls each sent
$1.50 to the advertiser, and guess what
they got for their money! They got a
cook book "
It isn't a good plan to allow your
regrets for yesterday to overshadow
your hopes for tomorrow.
A simple remedy agnin.st roughs and nil
throat irritations are Dean's Mentholated
Cough Drops 5c at all good Druggista.
ies."
Found a Flaw.
Little Pierre had been taken to the
seaside and expressed himself on his
return as disappointed with the ocean.
"What's the matter with the sea?"
asked his surprisel father. "Isn't it
big enough, my boy?"
"Yes but it has only one shore."
Heading Him Off.
"'Heaven lies about us in our in-
fancy.' Now-—"
"So does our father. Were you go-
ing to tell me something smart that
your little boy had said?"
"All I have to say to you, sir,
good-day!"
It
It's when we turn over a new leaf
that we realize one good turn de-
serves another.
Some men are almost as much
afraid of microbes as some women are
of mice.
Don't worry about what the world
thinks of you. The world has several
billions of other people to think about.
Suits Him, All Right.
Mrs. En right—She says small
checks will be in fashion for new fall
suits.
Mr. Enright—Thank heaven!—Puck.
Not the Kind.
"Mr. Jones put down his foot on his
daughter Mabel's engagement to Billy."
"Hut not with the stamp of ap-
proval."
Don't buy water for bluing-. Liquid blue lr
almost all water. Buy lied Cross bull liiuo,
ihe blue that's all bluo. Adv.
Many a fellow who goes hunting
for a wife bags nothing but his trou-
sers at the knees.
The best, safest and most gentle
i remedy for constipation and sluggish,
liver is the celebrated HOT SPRINGS
LIVER BUTTONS.
You'll be pleased and satisfied with
the result of the first one you take.
They drive the poisonous waste and gat
from the bowels, and purify the blood.
Thcv are simply the best ever for head-
ache,dizziness, biliousness, nervousness,
lack of appetite and that no ambition
feeling.
Women ! take little chocolate coated
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back, if not satisfied. Sample free from
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