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The Lexington Leader
1. O. FOX, Proprietor
LEXINGTON,
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma NewsNotea
Fire destroyed the residence of
Mrs. T. S. Warden at Heavener. Loss
{1,000; insurance $600.
What is known as the old Reeder
building, corner of Second and Bos-
ton streets, Tulsa, has been sold by
I)r. C. L. Keeder to J. E. Crosbie and
Harry C. Tyrrell for $j0,000.
Governor Cruce denied Hn applica-
tion for a parole for John Culber of
Muskogee. The application was made
by the department of charities and
corrections, the department asking
that Culber be given his freedom In
order to allow him to testify In a
forgery case. Culber is serving a
term in thu state penitentiary for
forgery.
Eleven rattlesnakes were killed in
live minutes one day recently by W.
L. Hose and his younger brother while
out In the Potato Hill mountains, west
of Talihina. The snakes ranged in
length from five to seven feet. They
were in a cave and, hearing the hunt-
ers approach, they poked out their
heads one by one and were sot.
RENEW
CHINESE IMPERIAL ARMY
FERS SEVERE DEFEAT
SUF
Citation for February 13 was issued
by the corporation commission in the
case of B. F. McKay against the Iron
Mountain road, alleging violation of
the order relative to a report on acci-
dents, nnd a citation was Issued for
the same date In the case of H. .E.
Thompson of Wagoner against the M.
K. & T„ alleging failure to supply cars
for loading hay at Mazie.
Work on Ardmore's new $100,000
high school will be begun just as soon
as the bonds are approved by the
attorney general and delivered, ac-
cording to R. A. Hefner of Ardmore
who was in the capital city last week
for the purpose of getting the bonds
Teady. Mr. Hefner is president of the
board of education of Ardmore and
says that one of his city's fondest
dreams is about to be realized.
Word has been received by Adju-
tant General Frunk M. Canton that
the war department has detailed First
Lieutenant Thuis or the twenty-third
Infantry as successor to the late
Major William Illack as Inspector-
Instructor of the Oklahoma National
Ruard. Lieutenant Thuls now Is sta-
tioned at Fort Miss, El Paso, and
■will report February 1.
At the present term of the district
court at McAlester, three damage
suits for personal Injuries against cor-
poration have been tried. In two of
them, verdicts for the defendants
were returned and Thursday C. V.
Dunham, who sued the Halley-Olo
Coal company for $10,000 for being
burned while walking back on his
own shot, was given a verdict of $1.
Complaint has been filed with the
state corporation commission by the
Travelers Corporation of Oklahoma
against the Rock Island railroad, al-
leging that it Is impossible to get any
Information in relation to trains on
the Geary and Alva branch and at tho
Enid and Waurika stations. Com-
plaints allege that the railroad agenls
furnish no information to the hotel*
for the public.
BATTLE A BLOODY ONE
POUR HUNDRED MANCHUS RE-
PORTED SLAIN IN FIGHT
Chinese Revolutionists Renew War at
Termination of Date Set for Peace
Negotiations to End—
Other News
San Francisco.—An Imperial army
of 10,000, under General Chang Fun,
was decisively defeated by a Canton
Republican army, under General Wong
Ching, near Ku Chan, according to
a cablegram received here January 27
by the Chinese Free Press. Four hun-
dred Manchus are reported to have
been killed.
The imperial army retreated 20,
miles, to Wong San Po, says the dis-
patch. Wong's 'army, which num-
bered 8,000, captured the city of Chi
Mark in San Tung province.
London—Chinese revolutionists
have crushlngiy defeated the Imperial
force commanded by General Chang
Hsun at Ky Cheng, in the province
of Anhwei, according to a dispatch
received here January 27 from Tien
Tsin.
Ku Cheng Is a station on the Tien
Tsin-Pukow railroad, about 125 miles
north of Nanking.
CHAMPION"
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American Hen Defeats All Competitors In Egg Laying Contest.—News Item.
iCopvrlirht. 1912.
INVESTIGATION INTO MONEY
TRUST IS A PROBLEM
SOLUTION A HARD ONE
AID IS SOUGHT
OKLAHOMA DELEGATION BUSY IN
STATE'S BEHALF
WANT A SQUARE DEAL
Gas Explosion Shakes Muskogee
Muskogee, Okla.—Sewer gas ex-
ploded with terrific force at K street
and Dayton streets, shaking houses
and breaking much window glass.
One man who was driving in a buggy
In the vicinity of the explosion was
blown several feet but was not in-
jured. So far as is known there were
no casualties and no one was injured.
The noise of the explosion was heard
distinctly in all parts of the city.
Another step has been taken by the
attorney general of Oklahoma to en-
force the corporation taax laws of the
state, when suit was filed in the dis-
trict court against Arnold and Wether-
bee, Limited, W. H. Wetherbee, Guy
Wetherbee and Gunnell Moore, trus-
tees of Arnold and Wetherbee. It is
claimed that there is now due the
state from the firm or trustees, the
sum of $25 taxes and $1,800 penalty
for failure to pay on time. It is set
forth in the petition that the firm on
the first day of August, 1910, became
liable to the payment of a corpora-
tion license tax amounting to $25, and
to render an annual report to the cor-
poration commission as reuired by
law. The claim is made that the tax
was not paaid and that the corpora-
tion failed to report. Averment is
made that the company became liable
to the payment of a penalty of $100
a day for every day after' the first
of August, 1910, that the corporation
was in default.
EUGENE WOLTER DIES
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
Leaves Statement In Which He Denies
Having Killed Ruth Wheeler
as Charged
Osslnlng, N. Y.—Albert Wolter was
put to death in the electric chair at
Sing Sing prison at 5:41 o'clock Mon-
day morning for the murder of 15-
year-old Ruth Wheeler nearly two
years ago. The girl came to Wolter's
flat in New York in search of employ-
ment, and he killed her after she had
been mistreated. Wolter left the fol-
lowing statement, with Warden Ken-
nedy:
"Warden J. S. Kennedy:
"To be given to the public. January
29, 2:00 a. m.
"Now that I am departing from this
earth to go into the presence of God,
1 wish to make this last statement.
The world refused me justice, but our
Father in Heaven, who knows our in-
nermost. He will give pure and un-
defiled justice. I wish to state I am
Innocent of the crime 1 was convicted
of. I have been a victim of circum-
stantial evidence. I hope that there
may come a time when the conscience
of the perpetrator will overpower him
and he will come to the front and
acknowledge his guilt. It is my honest
prayer to God that He may bring the
person guilty of the crime to justice,
that my name may be cleared of this
stain and that the people may see
the injustice done me, and that they
killed an innocent boy. To those who
have given me their kind assistance
and have trusted in me, 1 give my
sincere thanks. To those who have
maliciously persecuted and killed me,
for them I pray God's forgiveness.
"Signed—ALBERT W. WOLTER."
DEMOCRATS DIVIDED AS TO QUESTION OF AID FOR IRRIGA-
METHODS TO BE PURSUED TION PURPOSES IS UP
W. A. Brooks of Oklahoma City has
purchased the'funding bonds of Mc-
Intosh county to the amount of
$14,470.
The Tulsa chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution has been
formed at Tulsa with 19 members.
(Mrs. Lee Clinton, former member of
the Army and Navy chapter, is re-
gent; Mrs. S. R. Gordon, secretary.
Lack of water has become a prob-
lem with Ardmore and the city com-
missioners have passed a resolution
to submit a $50,000 bond issue to
augment the supply. Test wells will
be dug and a pipe lines will be laid
to Caddo creek and water jrnmped into
the city reservoir.
Make Attack on Rates
Washington.—In a proceeding in-
stituted before the interstate com-
merce commission, the corporation
commission of Oklahoma attacked the
freight rates on cotton bagging and
cotton ties shipped to Oklahoma from
St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Gal-
veston and Texas City, Tex. It is
urged hat existing rates are discrim-
inatory and unreasonably high. Any
change the commission might make
probably would affect the entire cot-
ton belt.
Representative Henry, of Texas, Delegation Holds Conference and
Traveled Far For Revenge
New Orleans.—Traveling all the
way from Brooklyn to this city to get
a shot at his wife's companion, Charles
Johnson, a structural iron worker,
found where they lived, crawled
through a window and opened fire.
Harold (lunderson, a steward, stopped
a bullet with his left leg, and grappling
with Johnson, wrested the revolver
from him and threw it into an alley.
Johnson was arrested.
Bryan to Texas
Lincoln, Neb.—W. J. Bryan left Lin-
coln Monday for his farm at Mission,
Texas. Mr. Bryan gave out no state-
ment in connection with the failure of
his plan to bring about a compromise
between the adherents of Speaker
Champ Clark and Joseph W. Foik of
Missouri in Missouri.
Chairman of Rules Committee
Says Inquiry Is Imperative—
Littleton Fears a Panic
Washington — Inquiry into the
"money trust" has become one of the
most important problems before the
democrats of the house of representa-
tives and with a difference of .opinion
existing among them as to the wisdom
of such an investigation as is proposed
in the resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Lindbergh of Minnesota,
Representative Henry of Texas, chair-
man of the rules committee, took the
positive Btand that inquiry was imper-
ative.
In a statement urging his colleagues
to vote with Him to "turn on tlie
light," Chairman Henry assumed
leadership of what may develop into
a serious fight before the question is
settled. It is known that Representa-
tive Underwood, the majority leader,
and others are opposed to saddling
any more investigating committees
upon congress at this time, but
whether pressure in this instance wili
be strong enough to convince them
that it is the duty of the party to delve
into the secrets of Wall street finances
remains to be seen.
It is probable that the matter will
not be settled until the house demo-
crats have fought out the issue in
caucus.
Speaker Clark, Representative Un-
derwood and other leaders declined to
discuss the statement issued by Rep-
resentative Henry in which he posi-
tively declared that the party could
not decline to prosecute the proposed
investigation.
Representative Littleton, though not
a member of the rules committee
which is considering the resolution,
expressed opposition to the inquiry
after a conference with some of his
democrat colleagues, claiming that if
such a plan were pursued a panic
might follow.
Frozen Bananas Kill
McPherson, Kans.—F. J. Gateka, 65,
county treasurer of McPherson
county, died from ptomaine poisoning,
caused by eating bananas that had
been frozen.
Seeks Ways and Means to Secure
Funds From Goernment to
Aid Several Projects
Washington—The entire Oklahoma
delegation in congress held a confer-
ence to discuss ways and means
whereby federal aid may be obtained
in developing several irrigation pro-
jects in Oklahoma. It was decided to
call upon Secretary of Interior Fisher
and if uot promise of assistance is
obtained there the matttir will be
taken directly to President Taft, who
it is said, has power to order the irri-
gation projects. If no help is promised
at the White House, efforts of the del-
egation will then be centered upon
congress itself.
Although no stone will be left un-
turned in the matter, there is little
hope of Uncle Sam furnishing the
money, principally because it is de-
clared there is no money. The errone-
ous impression has been that all
moneys derived from the sale of pub-
lic lands within, a given state should
be ^set aside for the development of
reclamation projects in that state.
Oklahoma has furnished about $5,-
500,000 to the general reclamation fund
which has been entirely exhausted on
projects outside of Oklahoma and only
last session congress was forced to
authorize a $20,000,000 issue of bonds
to insure payment for work already
contracted for.
Twenty-Six Slain
Mexico City—Forty-six men, thirty-
seven ZapatiB soldiers, and nine fed-
eral soldiers were killed in a fifteen-
liour battle at Cuernavaca. Neither
side was able to get a victory. The
federals had been sent out to inter-
cept the parties of insurgents who
were looting ranches and small towns.
Will Attack Pekin
San Francisco—According to a
cablegram received here President
Sun Yat Sen, of the Chinese provis-
ional republic, has issued an ultima-
tum declaring if the Manchu throne
is not vacated by Monday, January 29,
when the armistice ends, an immedi-
ate attack will be made upon Pekin.
German Editor Dies
Ne'V York—Alexander Jonas, found-
er of the New York Volks Zeitug and
one of the oldest and most prominent
German socialists in the country died
of heart failure at his home here Mon-
day night.
Johnson Disqualified
London—A sparring contest before
the National Sporting club, between
the negro American pugilists, Jim
Johnson of Galveston and Alf. Lang-
ford, was a scrambling affair. It was
scheduled to go twenty rounds but
Johnson was disqualified in the thir-
teenth.
Killed By Train
McAlester, Okla.- Mr. A. Payne was
run over by a Missouri, Kansas and
Texas passenger train near Canadian
and instantly killed.
Free Seed Wheat May be Furnished
Oklahoma City—A telegram re-
ceived by Frank J. Wikoff, president
of the chamber of commerce, from H.
U. Mudge, an official of the Rock Island
railroad, says the Rock Island offices
are carefully considering the matter
of furnishing free seed wheat to farm-
ers in Oklahoma. Mr. Mudge says
calls for free seed are coming in from
Kansas, Oklahoma, Panhandle of
Texas, New Mexico and Eastern Colo-
rado, where the wheat crops were
short. "The matter is assuming gigan-
tic proportions," said Mr. Mudge in
the telegram, "and is requiring very
careful consideration. You will be
advised soon of what, if any, relief,
the Rock Island can arrange."
The chamber of commerce is mak-
ing efforts to get free wheat seed to
the farmers this year, and co-opera-
tion with the railroads is being sought
in this undertaking.
De La Barra In Rome
Rome.—Francisco De La Barra, the
special ambassador who will present
the thanks of the Mexican government
to King Victor Emmanuel for the par-
ticipation of Italy in the centennial
celebration of Mexican independence |
Resisted Arrest; Is Killed
Mangum, Okla.—Tim Boston, resist-
ing arrest, was shot and instantly
killed by Deputy- Sheriff Hightower.
The negro was intoxicated and played
the "bad man" in the northeast part
of the town, terrorizing the locality
and running women and children out
of their homes. Sheriff Nelson and
Deputy Hightower responded to call.
Boston resisted arrest and attempted
to kill the sheriff. Hightower imme-
diately shot him twice, one ball pene-
trating the heart.
Still Getting Cotton
Marlow, Okla.—Although the year
1911 was a lean one as far as crops
are concerned the farmers of this sec-
tion made more cotton than they could
gather. It is estimated by gin men
that more than two thousand bales of
cotton are yet in the field in this lo-
cality. The last few days of mild
weather has resulted in cotton re-
ceipts by the local gins almost equal
to the daily receipts in November. The
receipts of Marlow this year exceeded
eight thousand bales.
Opium Is Confiscated
San Francisco.—A shipment of for-
ty-six pounds of inferior smoking
opium, valued at $3,000 and believed
to have been smuggled across the
Mexican border, was seized by gov-
ernment agents just prior to the sail-
ing of the liner Mongolia. The opium
was consigned to Honolulu.
Elevator Is Destroyed
Chicago.—Fire which followed a
terrific explosion, destroyed the eleva-
tor of the Acme Malting Cap at
Bioomlngdale Road and North 46th
Child Thief to Jail
Indianapolis, Ind.—Convicted of
child stealing, Salvatore Di Blasi, who
was arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, after
he had eloped with 13-year-old Blossom
Sparks of this city, was fined $1,000
and sentenced to two years' Imprison-
ment. The girl wept as Di Blasi was
ed out of the court.
Shock In Mexico
Mexico City—An earthquake shock
of one minute duration was felt here
January 27. The disturbance occurred
at 5:30 a. m„ but no casualties wer#
reported. The damage was slight.
WILL ABDICATE
CHINESE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD
TO QUIT PEKIN
YUAN IS LESS MILITANT
READY TO ACCEPT ANY PLAN TO
INSURE PEACE
Premier Says He Has No Fear ol
Country's Future, If Settlement
Is Fruit of Reason, Truth
and Justice
Pekin—It Is understood that imme-
diate adbication of the throne has
been decided upon as a result of the
conference Tuesday between the em-
press dowager, Prince Chun, the ex-
regent, and Prince Ching, the ex-pre-
inier, In accord with conditions laid
down by the republicans, namely, that
the imperial family and princes are
to retain their empty titles, reside in
Pekin or elsewhere at their pleasure
and receive annual pension's aggregat-
ing 3,000,000 yen ($2,000,000) and that
the transfer of power will be effected
with as little loss of dignity to the
throne as possible.
The empress dowager has summoned
a cabinet meeting Wednesday to ar-
range details of the abdication. Pre-
mier Yuan Shi Kai, in a statement to
the newspapers, avers his readiness to
accept almost any solution which wili
insure peace.
He has no fear for the country's fu-
ture,' be says, if the settlement is the
fruit of reason, truth and justice.
Yuan further says that he has no
ambition to become president of the
new republic.
Many soldiers were killed by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite mine under an
imperialist troop train which was pro-
ceeding from Siaokan, thirty miles
north of ankow, to Honan. A bomb
was thrown at "the viceroy, who w as
traveling on another train, but it
struck the car adjoining, killing a num-
ber of soldiers, but uot injuring the
viceroy.
General Liang Pi, a former com-
mandant of the imperial guards, who
was injured on January 27 by a bomb
thrown by a Chinese while the gen-
eral was alighting from his carriage
at his home in Pekin has since died.
GREEN HAS HOT ONE FOR
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Does Not Say Directly That She Is
More Deadly Than the Male, Buut
It Sounds Like It
San Francisco, Cal.—Colonel Edward
H. Green of Texas, son of Hetty Green
of New York, arrived here heralded
as "a man who wants to marry a
woman, not a clothes horse."
"Children are the last thing they
want," he said of New York women.
"None of them know how to cook or
sew. And, they would deny that their
good old homely grandmothers knew
how to wash clothes.
"If a fashionable New York woman
went up Fifth avenue with a ring in
her nose, the jewelers could not sup-
ply nose rings fast enough to supply
the demand. They want to peacock
around the theaters and restaurants
so as to be seen by men not their hus-
bands."
Bishop Expelled
St. Petersburg—By order of the em-
peror and the holy synod, the recal-
citrant bishop, Hermogenes, has been
dismissed from the Saratov diocese
and exiled to the Zhirovitsky monas-
tery, near Slonim, for open and per-
sistent insubordination in refusing to
leave Saratov in spite of reiterated
imperial and synodical orders.
Katy Shops Reopen
Sedalia, Mo.—The Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas railroad shops here have
resumed work, with about 300 men,
half the normal force, after a few
days' suspension.
Held On Girl's Evidence
Chicago—Charles McClain, named
by Violet Buehler in her story of de-
linquency, as told to Juvenile Judge
Pinckney, has been held to the grand
Jury under bonds of $2,000. She told
a story of relations with him before
she ran away from her mother's hotel,
and was found in New York where
she had joined a waiter.
THC TRUST
You'll be de
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no flat, heavy, soggy biscuits,
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Jnst the lightest, daintiest, most
uniformly raised and most deli-
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Purm Pood Exposition,
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WORSE.
Cholly—They're saying that th«
Talit -"horn you discharged yesterday
usea some plain language to you.
Reggy—Plain? Baw Jove, it was post
tively ugly!
Sues For Big Damages
Lincoln, Neb.—A damage suit for
$100,190 has been filed against the na-
tional board of arbitration, the na-
tional association of professional base-
ball clubs and the individual members
of the arbitration board, including Sec-
retary J. P. Farrell, by Guy W. Green,
former owner of the Lincoln baseball
club.
Conners Denies Plot
New York—James Davern, who was
for an alleged attempt to dynamite the
hall* of records here, took the stand
In his own behalf, his testimony being
denials of the damaging evidence gath-
ered by J. M. Parks and Joseph H.
Bishop, hired by the district attorney
to obtain evidence of an alleged dyna-
miting conspiracy.
Who the Heathen Be.
Father Bernard Vaughan was con-
demning a somewhat acrimonious re-
ligious argument.
"Disputes of this kind,' he said, "re-
mind me forcibly of a little girl.
"'What are the heathen, Jenny?'
her Sunday school teacher asked thii
little girl.
" 'The heaten," the child replied,
'are people who don't quarrel over re-
ligion.' "
GRAND TO LIVE
And the Last Laugh la Always the Best
"Six months ago I would have laugh-
ed at the Idea that there could be any-
thing better for a table beverage than
coffee," writes an Ohio woman, "now I
laugh to know there is.
"Since childhood I drank coffee fre«-
ly as did the other members of the fam-
ily. The result was a puny, sickly
girl; and as I grew Into womanhood I
did not gain in health, but was af-
flicted with heart trouble, a weak and
disordered stomach, wrecked nerves
and a general breaking down till last
winter, at the ago of 38, I seemed to
be on the verge of consumption.
"My friends greeted me with 'How
bad you look! What a terrible color!'
and this was not very comforting.
"The doctors and patent medicines
did me absolutely no good. I was thor-
oughly discouraged.
"Then I gave up coffee and com-
menced Postum. At first I didn't like
It, but after a few trials and following
the directions exactly, It was grand.
It was refreshing and satisfying. In
great
Train Kills Two
Del Rio, Texas—While returning
from a fishing trip, Dr. J. A. Cooper
nnd his Son, Jack, aged 14, of this
city, were run down and killed by a
Southern Pacific train. They were
crossing a bridge over San Felip«
creek when hit by the locomotive.
Mis Barton Better
Washington—Clara Barton, who hag
been ill of nervous exhaustion since
November, is much improved and
physicians declared she would soon be
out.
a couple of weeks I noticed
change.
"I became stronger, my brain grew
clearer, I was not troubled with for-
getfulness as in coffee times, my
power of endurance was more than
doubled.
"The heart trouble and Indigestion
disappeared and my nerves becami
steady and strong.
"I began to take an interest In thlnge
about me. Housework and home-
making became a pleasure. My friends
have marveled at the change and when
they enquire what brought it about
I answer 'Postum, and nothing else in
the world.'" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little Book, "The Road to
W/ ellvllie," In pkgs. "There's a reason."
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«ne npitrnra from tlmr fo <lme. Thry
■re Krn ii I nr. Irne, and foil of hiaii
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