The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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VETERANS TO MEET
(III JpELD
Big Reunion of Survivors of Civil
War at Gettysburg on .
July 1.
40,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Men Who Wore the Blue and Gray
to Again Gather on Ground
Made Memorable by His-
toric Conflict.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
WASHINGTON. — During the
first four days of July the
battlefield of Gettysburg. Pa.,
Will again be the scene of a
meeting of the Blue and the
Gray, but this time they will meet In
amity and affection. A half-century will
have passed since last theBe men of two
great American armies met on this
northern field. Then they were face
to face In deadly conflict, for the issue,
It was well understood to both con-
tending forces, was the success of the
southern cause, or the beginning of its
•defeat, to be followed by the restora-
tion of the Union as it had been before
the first shot was fired at Fort Sum-
ter.
The United States government and
the government of nearly every state
in the Union have combined to make
the Gettysburg reunion of the soldiers
of the north and south one of the great
peace events of the century. The state
of Pennsylvania some time ago ap-
pointed a "Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg commission" to
make preparations for the four days'
reunion, at which Pennsylvania as a
state was to act as host to the vet-
erans of the war between the states
and to the thousands of visitors who
would follow their march to the field
of battle, and appropriated $150,000 for
the purpose of entertaining the vet-
erans.
40.000 Veterans Expected.
It Is expected that 40,000 veterans
of the war, not all of them, however,
survivors of the Gettysburg battle, will
te found encamped upon the field
■when reveille sounds on the morning
of July 1. It will be a different re-
veille than that which the fife and
drum corps of the two great armies
sounded fifty years ago. The call to
awakening will be a call to a peaceful
celebration while the call to the awak-
ening in July, 1863, was a call of
Armies to conflict and, to thousands of
men, a call to death.
For yei^rs the veterans have been
looking forward to this reunion. It is
probable that thero will bo present
many thousands of survivors of the
■battle. The United States government
■under an act of congress has appro-
priated money for the preparation of
the camps and for the messing of the
soldier visitors. The average age of
the men engaged in the Civil war was
only eighteen years, but fifty years
have passed since these soldier boys
fought at Gettysburg, and so if the
computation of age was a true one the
average yaars of the veterans who will
meet in Pennsylvania in July will be
about sixty-eight years. Many of them,
of course, wil! be stiuch older and e
good many of them, men who entered
at ages ranging from fourteen to sev-
enteen years, will be younger, but all
will be old men as the world views
age.
Many of the states of the Union,
north as well as south, have made ap-
propriations to send their veterans to
the Gettysburg reunion and to pay all
other expenses. The battle of Gettys-
burg Is recognized as the turning point
of the war between the states. It has
been called time and again one of the
decisive battles of the world. Gener-
ally it is recognized that Gettysburg
decided the great conflict, helped in
the decision probably by the fall of
Vlcksburg on the Mississippi, which
took place virtually at the moment
that the conflict on the Pennsylvania
field was decided in favor of the north-
ern arms.
The preparations which the govern-
ment is making to care for the veter-
ans at Gettysburg are interesting.
They have been under the charge of
James B. Aleshire, quartermastef gen-
eral of the United States army, and
Henry G. Sharpe, commissary general
of the United States army. Two years
ago last March 14,000 regular troops
were gathered in camp at Texas. The
health of the soldiers throughout the
Texas encampment was almost per-
fect, made so by the plans which had
been carefully laid to see that perfect
sanitation was maintained. The Unit-
ed States army was taught a lesson
by the Spanish war, when lack of
proper sanitary precautions and unpre-
paredness in other ways cost the gov-
ernment the lives of more men than
were sacrificed to the bullets of the
Spaniard.
The estimates of the commissary
and quartermaster authorities are
based upon an attendance of 40,000 vet-
erans. It probably will cost the gov-
ernment about $360,000 to act in part
as host to the survivors of the battle
and other veterans who attend the
Gettysburg reunion.
Big Task to Feed Men.
The survivors of the war from the
north and south who will be present,
being old men, must bo cared for in
a way which would not have been nec-
essary fifty years ago. The messing of
the veterans will require 400 army
ranges, 1 great field bakery, 40,000
mess kits, 800 cooks, 800 kitci^n help-
ers and 130 bakers. This helping per-
sonnel will be required to be In camp
tor at least sevmt days. And rnanv of
them for a longer period, for the pur-
pose of Installing the field bakery, the
field ranges and in dismantling, clean-
ing, packing and storing material after
the encampment is over.
The old soldiers are to be supplied
with fresh meat directly from refrig-
erator cars drawn upon the field. They
will be given freBh vegetables and spe-
cial bread with the best coffee and tea
which the market afTords. For them it
will not be a caso of hardtack, bootleg
and poor bacon.
The Battle of Gettysburg commis-
sion of the state of Pennsylvania has
a large sum of money at its disposal
for the entertainment of the visiting J
veterans, and the thousands of persons
who will accompany them. Hospital-
ity is to mark the days. Fifty years
ago Pennsylvania aided in the work o(
repelling the visitors from the south. I
In early July next the same state will
have its arms wide open in welcome
to the men wearing the gray. Enter-
tainments of various kinds will be of- \
fered the visiting veterans, but it Is j
pretty well understood that their deep j
interest in revisiting the scenes where I
they fought, Little Round Top, Oak
Ridge, Cemetery Hill. Gulp's Hill, |
Rock Creek, the Stone Wall and other
places will hold them largely to the
pleasures and to the sadnesses of per-
sonal reminiscences. Arm in arm with
the Union soldiers the Confederate sol
diers will retramp the battleground.
They will look over the field'Of Pick-
ett's desperate charge. They will re-
trace the marching steps of Long
street's corps. They will go to the
place where Meade had his headquar-
ters and to the place from which Lee
directed his southern forces in battle.
Pennsylvania is going to make a
great celebration of peace of this fif-
tieth anniversary of what probably i
was the decisive battle of the war, al-
though it was fought nearly two years
before the war ended. Other states
will help Pennsylvania in its work, and
from every section of the country,
north, east, south and west, the vet-
erans will assemble, most of them
probably to see for the last time in
life the field upon which they were
willing to die for the sake of their re-
spective causes.
The veterans will not be directly en-
camped in the Gettysburg park, which
is dotted with monuments to the vari-
ous commands which took part in the
fight and which is laid out in approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. There will bo
two camps, known as No. 1 and No. 2.
No. 1 will cover 14S acres and No. 2
will cover 44 acres. The layouts of
these camps are based on (he use of !
conical tents, each of which will, with- j
out crowding, accommodate eight per-
sons. Inasmuch as accommodations
are to be furnished for 40.000 visitors
5,000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
Visitors to Be Cared For.
Every possible care is to be taken
of the visitors. The sanitary arrange-
ments which have been made are said
to be the best that are possible and
they are the result of careful study by !
medical officers of the service. All the J
experience of the past has been drawn
upon to make it certain that the, health
of the veterans will bo conserved while
they are in camp.
With so many thousands of old sol
dlers in attendance, and taking Into
consideration the probability that the
weather will be warm, it is expected ;
that there will be sickness, but the
United States government and the
state of Pennsylvania are preparing
for a hospital service which shall be
adequate to any contingency. There j
will be hospital corps detachments
present ready to render first aid to !
the injured, and there will be many j
Held hospitals with surgeons in at- '
tendance, where the sick can receive ]
instant attendance.
It is said that this contemplated re-
union has induced more interest j
among the old soldiers of the north
and the south, than any event which
has happened since the day that the |
war closed. There is today at Gettys- ;
burg a great national park, in which j
is included a cemetery where thou-
sands of soldier dead are buried. The
United States government and the leg-
islature of Pennsylvania worked to-
gether to make a park of the battle-
field and to mark accurately every I
point in it which has historic interest. I
When one goes to the field he can tell
just where this brigade or that bri-
gade was engaged, just where this
charge or that charge was made and
just where the desperate defenses of
positions were maintained until' the
tide of battle brought either victory or
defeat to one of the immediate com-
mands engaged.
It was in 1895 that congress estab-
lished a national park at Gettysburg
and gave the secretary of war author-
ity to name a commission "to superin- j
tend the opening of additional roads, i
mark the boundaries, ascertain and
definitely mark the lines of battle of,
troops engaged, to acquire lands which
were occupied by infantry, cavalry and
artillery, and such other adjacent
lands as the secretary of war may
deem necessary to preserve the impor-
tant topographical features of the bat-
tlefield."
When the Union and the Confeder-
ate veterans reach Gettysburg on June
30 next they will find on the scene of
the old conflict between five and six
hundred memorials raised in commem-
oration of the deeds of their com-
mands on the great fields of the Penn-
sylvania battlefield. There are, more-
over, l.iuiO markers placed to desig- ;
nate historic spots. Thero are great
towers built upon the field by the gov-
ernment so that bird's-eye views can
be obtained of the entire scene of the
battle. Fine roads have been con-
structed and everywhere attention has
been paid to every detail of the least
Importance in setting forth the history
of one of the greatest battles evei
known to warfare.
ME EM SHOES
Albanians Perform Remarkable
Feats With Odd Weapons.
NEW LEADERS OF THE PYTHIANS
Hit Target About Size of Dime at
Hundred Yards—Men Who Miss
Are Ridiculed by Crowd
and Punished.
Scutari.—The Albanian riflemen are
said to be among the most skillful in
the world. Indeed, their feats of
marksmanship, even in boyhood, are
so extraordinary as to seem uncanny.
On one occasion a curious exhibi-
tion of their skill was shown when a
target about the size of a dime was
placed on a tree, to be shot at from a
distance of a hundred yards by a body
of men marching in single file. As
each of the ten men passed the target
he fired, so quickly that it seemed ho
scarcely aimed at all. Not one man
missed. The same ten men marched
double-quick, firing without the slight-
est hesitation, and but one marksman
missed the target. The weapons used
were the usual Albanian gun—along,
ornate affair, carrying a ball about the
size of a hazel nut.
One young Albanian stepped for-
ward and threw a bit of stone into
the air with one hand and shot it Into
pieces with the other. This feat was
duplicated by several other marks-
men.
A gold ring was placed upon a tree
and nearly every Albanian put a ball
through it without touching it. Then
eight little boys, from the ages of
eight to ten, put balls through the
same ring.
Such men as missed the mark were,
amid the laughter of the crowd, con-
demned to stand with an earthen
cruse of colored water on their heads
to be shot at by the others. So two
men stepped forward, and little cruses
were carefully set on their heads,
while two other marksmen, each a
brother to the man he aimed at, cam©
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The best state convention ever held by the Pythian bodies was the May
meeting this year in Oklahoma City. Universal Interest was added to the
occasion by the installation of Sir Wah temple, Dramatic Order Knights of
Khorasen, with Dr. J. M. Meeley, of Oklahoma City, as Royal Vizer. The
"Dolties" bear the same relation to the Pythians that the Shrine bears to
Masonry. Mrs. Marie Ryan, of Enid. is the new Grand Chief of the Pythian
Sisters, and Dr. R. S. Stilwell, of Bartlesville, was elected Grand Chancellor
of the Knights.
CHARGES AGAINST
McbRINE.
ORLANDO BOY WINNER
Albanian Soldier.
forward and shot. Immediately the
mi n shot at were covered with the
colored water, which trickled over
their faces and clothing, while frag-
ments of the jugs lay all about them.
Some of the mai ksmen were so cer-
tain of aim that the members of their
families stood like stoics and permit-
ted them to shoot at eggs, apples and
so forth placed upon their heads.
SPARTAN TEST FOR BOYS
Asked to Stop Eating Pies, Cheap
Candy and Crullers in New
York City.
New York.—New York schoolboys
have been asked to start, and continue
at least a month, a test in self-denial,
in which they will abstain from using
cheap candies, unwholesome pies, crul-
lers and greasy pastry, and soda water
flavored with highly-colored sirups.
The pubic schools athletic league
makes the request, and promises the
boys who keep their pledge that they
will excel in all athletic contests to be
held in Central Park when 10,000
young athletes will participate in a
festival of sports.
The league also has obtained pledges
from the boys not to use alcoholic bev-
erages or smoke cigarettes.
Run a Poker Game; Expelled.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Cyrus Cummings
Jones of Brooklyn and Jaffry Byron
Davidson of Red Hank, N. J., w ere ex-
pelled as students in the dental school
of the University of Pennsylvania aft-
er it was discovered they had opened
a poker room for students. The
"game" was run in an exclusive apart-
ment house across from the college.
Bones 2,100 Years Old Found.
Geneva, Switzerland.—Prof. Pels-
sard, the government archeologlst, in
excavating at Hlassens, near Fribourg,
has found imbedded in quartz the
bones of a woman, together with some
jewelry of the Gallic-Helvetic period,
B. C. 150 to 200. The ornaments were
a bronze necklace and a bracelet set
with pieces of blue glass.
Pope To Prosecute Confessed Forger;
Is Placed In Jail.
William R. .Mi-Brine, former deputy
state auditor under former State Audi-
tor M. E. Trapp and Leo Meyer, and
a confessed forger, was arrested at
the Lee-Huckins hotel in Oklahoma
City, by Deputy Sheriff Smith, on a j
charge of forgery tiled against him I
by Assistant County Attorney H. Y.
Thompson. Information was filed in 1
Justice Donnell's court against him on
three forgery counts, each charging
him with forging a warrant for Sl.iittO,
He was arraigned before Justice Don- |
nell and his bond fixed at $9,000 for
the throe charges. Upon failure to
make bond he was remanded to the
county jail.
Mclirine is out on $">,000 bond for 1
appearance in Guthrie to answer for-- j
gery charges. Th ■ charges filed
against Mi-Brine by Assistant County
Attorney Thompson are practically
the samo as those on which he is be-
ing tried at Guthrie, but MeBilae
pleads immunity to the charges at
Guthrie on the grounds that Attorney
General West assured him that if ho, |
would come back from Europe and
make a confession, he would be given
immunity.
The county attorney's torce here
contend that West's promises of iin- ]
munity will not affect the local charge.
McBrine was arrested here on the
3trength of five warrants, which it is
alleged, he forged, four of the war-
rants being for $1,000 each and the
fifth for $245. All of the warrants
were made payable to .1 II. Connell
and drawn on the 1910 appropriation
for the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical college.
The argument on his immunity plea
will be heard in the Guthrie courts
this week McBrine contends that
when he took the stand to testify
against Charles It. Renfro, charged
with disposing of some of the bogus
warrants he barred the state from
prosecuting him further.
Federation at Muskogee
Oklahoam City.—-C. ('. Zeigler. pres-
ident ol th>' Oklahoma Stai Fcdera-
tion of Labor, has called a state con- j
vention of that organization to meet j
at Muskogee beginning August 18.
FIRE AT OLUSTEE
Large Part of Town's Business Dis-
trict Wiped Out
Olustee suffered the worst lire in its-
history. The flames were discovered
in the store of the Olustee Drug com-
!|iny and before the lire burned itse'f
out five one-story brick buildings, one j
two-story brick and several frame j
structures together with their stocks '
of merchandise were consumed. The
new waterworks system was out of
commission, owing to trouble w ith the
pumps, and the bucket brigade was
helpless.
The damage is estimated at $."0,0001
with partial insurance, anil the follow -I
ing business enterprises were de-
stroyed: Wilkins Cafe, Olustee Drug
company. Independent Harvester com-
pany. Valile Bros, racket and hardware
store. Farmers State bank. Chapman's
barber shop and the postofflce.
Railroad Attorney Dead
Butler. Judge A. J Burnham, gen-
eral attorney for the Clinton. Okla-
homa and Western railway, fell dead
on the streets here.
Myron Randolph Declared Champion
Speller of Oklahoma Schools
Myron Randolph of Logan county
by spelling correctly the 475 words
used In the slate spelling Contest
last week is champion speller of the
Oklahoma schools.
The contest was written, the first of
BIG CHIEF OF THE FIRE LADDIES
Negroes Baptized
McAlester.- A revival has been in
progress at the First I baptist church,
colored, here for the past three weeks,
which resulted in nineteen conver-
sions. The nineteen converts were
baptized in a pond near
No Evidence At Quanah.
Altus. The deep well on the Hoi-
comb section near Quanah, Texas,
has reached a depth of 1.400 feet, but
neither indications of oil, gas or water
have yuj, btien encount^re/V
This is ('. A. Clark of Weatherford
Tall, handsome, with that particulai
sort of curly hair the girls all like, and
an all-around good fellow, (\ A. is tin
boss of the lire laddies of Weather-
ford. He is well known and popular
among the other departments of the
state and at their recent convention
at Oklahoma City he was made theii
president.
this kind ever held in Uie stave, and
was decided through a process of
elimination. First 250 words were
^iven out. Eleven of the contestants
survived this test and then 200 were
given, and the number was cut tc
three Twenty-five were then given
out. Leona Hipp, the last survivor
against young Randolph, went down
on "Santa Claus" which he spelled
"Clause."
SEEK TO ENJOIN WELCH
Subsidiary Insurance Firms Assert
Rights to Operate in State
Oklahoma City. The Western Hail
Indemnity Kxchange and the Farmers
Hail Exchange Insurance companies,
subsidiary insurance companies of the
Inter-Insurance Auxiliary company of
St. Louis, brought suit Jointly in fed
• ml court to restrain State Insurance
Con missioner A. L. Welch from bring
ing criminal prosecution against them
The seven subsidiary companies ot
the Inter Insurance company of St.
Louis will be affected by the outcome
of this suit The petition aserts that
Commissioner Welch has denied
the companies the right to do business
in Oklahoma and some time ago he
threatened them with prosecution un-
der the authority of state insurance
commissioner if they did not cease to
solicit business In Oklahoma.
The petition of the complaining
companies states that they are not
subject to the regulations and investi-
gations of the state insurance com-
missioner and are not subject to the
payment of license.
Oscar L. Wilson, secretary of the
Inter-Insurance company, makes an
affidavit that he believes the compa-
nies of the exchanges would have
made several .hundred contracts for
hail insurance in the state of Okla-
homa had it not been for the attacks
from the state insurance department.
TENDERFEET WIN
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
HILL AND SONS, THE OAT CHAM.
PIONS, ARE COCKNEYS BORN
AND BRED.
City brpd In the world's greatest
metropolis aod nntrained as to things
agricultural, were J C. Hill and his
three boys when they settled ot. home-
steads at I.loydminiter, in the Prov-
ince of Saskatchewan (western Can-
ada), eight years ago. Today they
are the recognized champion oat grow-
ers of the North American continent,
having won twice in succession the
silver challenge cup,, valued at $1,500,
at the Fifth National Corn exposition,
Columbia. S. C. The Plate, officially
known as the Colorado Oat trophy, is
emblematic of the grand champion-
ship prize for the best bushel of pats
exhibited by individual farmers or ex-
periment farms at these expositions.
The Hill entry won this year in the
face of the keenest competition, hun-
dreds of exhibits being sent by expe-
rienced farmers from ail parts of the
I'nited States and Canada. The oats
were grown on land which was wild
prairie less than four years ago
When Mr. Hill and his three sons,
who probably never saw a wider acre-
age than the hills of Hampstead
Heath, or the parks of London, cams
to Saskatchewan eight years ago, they
had little more capital than was re-
quired for homestead entry fees. They
filed on four homesteads. In the Lloyd-
minster district, which straddles tha
boundary of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan. They went to work with a will,
ripping the rich brown sod with break-
ing plows and put In a crop, which
yielded fair returns.
They labored early and late and dej
nled themselves paltry pleasures, glad
to stand the gaff for a while In rising
to their possibilities. They talked with
successful fanners and studied crops
and conditions and profited by both.
The new life on the farm was strange
but they never lost heart, handicapped
as they were by lack of experience
and capital.
The farm house, modern in every
respect, compares favorably with any
residence in the city. The Hills have
substantial bank accounts and their
credit is gilt-edge from Edmonton to
Winnipeg and beyond.
"There is nothing secret about our
methods nor Is our plan copyrighted.
We first made a thorough study of
climatic conditions, soil and seed,"
said Mr. Hill. "We tended our crops
carefully and gradually added live
stock, realizing from the beginning
that mixed farming would pay larger
and more certain returns than straight
grain growing. We have demonstrated
that fact, to our satisfaction and the
result is that many of the farmers in
the district are following our exam-
ple."
The land that the Hills work Is of
the same class as may be found any-
where In Manitoba, Saskatchewan or
Alberta - Advertisement.
Cheap In Ireland.
An Englishman traveling through
Ireland went Into a restaurant, where
ho ordered soma fish. On finishing
the meal he Inquired Its price, and
on being told, complained of its being
bo dreadfully dear.
"Why, in England," said he, "one
can get fish for little or nothing."
Pat, who had been standing by lis-
tening to the argument between tha
waiter and the Englishman, came up
to him and said:
"Well, it's cheaper in Ireland than
ever it was in England. Sure, the
people here are cleaning their win-
dows with whiting, it's that cheap."
You came into the world to serve
your brethren, not to lord it over
them; you are called to work and to
suffer, not to gossip and take your
ease. This would be a furnace in
which men are tried like gold.—
Thomas a Kempis. (The Imitation of
Christ.)
Or Their Husbands'.
Dick I'll warrant those suffragettes
who are breaking windows are homely
girls.
Tom—Very likely If they were
pretty they'd be satisfied with break-
ing hearts.
Post Meridian.
"You talk about being on the 'sunny
side of fifty!' Why, I happen to know
that you're past fifty-six!"
"Well, isn't that being on the sunny
side of fifty—the afternoou-sunny sid«
of it?"
Ready Diagnosis.
Fortune-Teller (solemnly)—Even as
I speak, there is a wreck In your home
caused by a blonde woman.
Customer (carelessly)—That's noth-
ing Only that Swedish maid of ours
breaking more dishes.
Sure.
"It Is just as easy to make $100,000
as it is to make $1,000," said the
I cheerful Idiot.
"How?" asked the boob.
"Oh, on a typewriter,' replied th«
cheerful idiot.
Little Cheer.
"What's this cabinet for, Jiggers?"
"That's a spirit cabinet.'*
"You are not in the spook business,
are you?"
"No; but I take a highball occasion-
ally."
Killed by Falling Tree
Tahlequah.—A tree which he was
chopping down fell upon J. F. Moss
a farmer living on an island farm in
the Illinois river near here, and he was
almost Instantly killed.
Unjust Crltlcfsm,
"Dinkle is always roasting city
preachers for being sleek and well
fed.".
"He should not do that It Is true
most of them get enough to eat, but
very few own automobiles "
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