Okeene Eagle. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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The Okeene Eagle.
C. C. Outhier, Ed. & "ub.
I
OKEENE.
OKLAHOMA.
Engineer Ooethals trust h* busy
canal digging. In any event be, mn't
doing much talking
Experience in the United States tii*.;-
shewn that it Is a great deal more
dangerous to rob a train :ban it is to
steal a railroad.
The sweet girl graduate is begin-
ning now to think about her valedic-
tory. The graduation costume was
settled long ago.
taxes than ever, and a vaster and J have not yet become intelligent and
more expensive and more luxurious competent enough to be free, then
army of their parasites. add not until then did 1 abandon the
The people had risen for financial ho|ieless struggle,
and Industrial freedom; they had |>ald And 1 did not go over to the ban-
Its fearful price; then, in senseless dlls; I simply resumed my own neg*
panic and terror, limy flung It away.
! 1 hare read that one of the iuscrlp
linns on Apollo's temple at Delphi
was: "Man, the fool of the farce.”
Truly, the gods must have created
lected personal affairs and made Wild
Week at least a personal triumph.
There is nothing of the spectacular
iu my make-up. I have no belief In
the value of martyrs and martyrdom.
SHRINERS IN WRECK
MOST CF MECCA TEMPLE, NEW
YORK. REPORTED KILLED.
us for their amusement; and when Causes are not won—and in my hum-
Olympus palls, they ring up the cur- ' hie opinion never have been won—in
THE DELUGE
tain on some such screaming comedy
as was that, it “makes the fancy
chuckle, whilst the heart doth ache.”
An Kvanstun woman it ► ich a per-
sistent borrower of trouble that she
is unhappy now becam-< tin never
fi 4 Is wi ll in hot weather
machine. I
One reason why earthquakes are
more destructive now than they were
.100 years ago Is that there art more
big cities to shake down
Fort Dodge girls an taking d« s
pirate risks when they beconii the
wives of men who marry merely to
avoid paying that bachelor tax,
The constitution of Oklahoma, il
printed in book form, would be about
the size of the averagi novel, but
most people would rather ad the
novel
Z*y DAVID GRAHAM VtHLUPS, Author of '/M&CQSCMc
jcocnutsvr seas #aaa2-&r&acrx czjrzyt/VKt
CHAPTER XXXIII.—Continued. | out haste, 1 got ftlTifr..
1 issued a clear statement of the
situation; 1 showed in minute detail
how the people standing together un-
der the leadership of the honest men
of property could easily force the big
bandits to consent to an honest. JttBt,
rock founded. Iron-built reconstruc-
tion. My statement appeared in all
the morning papers throughout the
land. Turn back to It, read It. You
will say that I was riRht. Well—
Toward two o'clock Inspector Craw-
■'Does golf destroy friendship?”
asks a correspondent of a London pa-
per. We don’t pretend to speak as an
authority, but bridge does some
times
Since humanitarian feelings forbid
the wearing of dead birds and urtifi
oihl flowers have been discovered 1o he
germ bearers, the fruit garden effects
are about nil that worm n have left
for their hats.*
Emperor Francis Joseph has to
wash the feet of 12 old men once a
year in order to bold his Job it Is
sate to bet, though, that the feet have
been scrubbed and sandpapered before
be gets to them.
The nucleus of a Missouri million
aire's fortune was |M> loaned hitu by
his wife. The trouble with most men
Is that when they borrow from theii
wives they are really getting money
from themselves.
If all the Chinamen in this country
who claim to be native born are truth
fill, every Chinese woman In the
United States must have been the
mother of 38 children. The heathen
Chinee continues to be peculiar.
If Kngland and Spain are becoming
allies Its nothing ne.w. That was
quite the normal state of things in
the time of Napoleon. The two coun
tries have been good friends, at least
outwardly. for a century and more.
An important percentage of Eng
land's great trade in cotton goods
with India is made up of dhooties—
which are ornamented shirtings. Any
paragrapher who wants to make a lit
tie jest shout dhooties and duties is
welcome to the opportunity
The will of an Edinburg man who
has left (25,000 to his servant. Fennel
Munm, "in recognition of her un
wearied attention” to himself and his
family Is evidence that there are ex
i options to what has come tc be re-
garded as a rule.
It has been asserted that there are
40 fortunes of more than $50,000,000
each In the Pittsburg district, based
on coal and Iron development. Wheth-
er this be correct or not, there are cer
tatnly a great many fortunes running
from $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 on up
to $100,000,000 each, and then there
Is Mr. Carnegie's, of $300,000 000 or
1400,000,600.
Talk is not always cheap A man
In New York fined for being found
in an opium don bad to pay ten dol-
lars extra for a single foreign mut-
tered word, which word meant that
be hoped the court would drop dead
Insulting the dignity of the law is
a luxury which those who wish to
Indulge In must pay for, and even
take a risk on the enjoyment
CHAPTER XXXIV.
“BLACK MATT’S” TRIUMPH.
My enemies caused it to bo widely
believed that “Wild Week” was my
deliberate contrivance for the sole
calmly met the gaze of ihose thou -purpose of enriching myself. Thus ; •pinion of
sands, quiet as so many barrels of j they got me a reputation for almost
gunpowder before the explosion. Tim superhuman daring, for satunic astute-
chauffeur turned the machine. I ness at cold-blooded calculation. 1 do
"(Jo slow," I called to him. “You not deserve the admiration #nd respect
might hurt somebody.” i that my success-worshiping fellow
But he had IiIh orders from the In- countrymen lay at my feet. True, I
spector. He suddenly darted ahead
at full speed. The mob scattered In
every direction, and we were in Hroad-
way, bound up town full-tilt, before
I or the mob realized what he was
ford came into my private office, os- about.
The Chinese, who invented almost
everything before anybody else heard
of it, claim to be the original discov-
erers of the process of sugar making,
and It Is said that sugar was used in
China as long ago as 3.000 years. This
Is misty, but the fact Is well estab
llshed that It was manufactured in
China under the Tsln dynasty, 200
years at least before the Christian era
began.
The prince of Wales possesses an
ei|.ert knowledge of the various aero-
planes and their mechanism. His
royal highness was always of a me-
chanical turn of mind, and in another
sphere of life would probably have
made a name as an Inventor He Is
remarkably clever with tools of every
description, and has already Impart
ed a good deal of his knowledge to
his eldest sons.
Dr Edward Everett Hale says he
doesn't believe In long sermons.
Perhaps some clergymen are a little
too conscientious about giving good
measure.
A gift of $300,000 has been offered
to Yale tf the university will raise
$1,100,000 more. Somebody must
think Yale has an almost Insatiable
craving for money
Englishman complains that b«
couldn't get anything to mt In fan
ada, although, of course. <t Levet
struck him to go to Sandwich. Out
cort«d by Joe. I saw iu Joe’s seamed,
green-gray face that some new danger
had arisen. “You’ve got to get out of
this." said he. The mob in front of
our place fills the three streets. It's
made up of crowds turned away from
the suspended banks.”
1 remembered the sullen faces and
the hisses as I entered the office that
morning earlier than usual. My win-
dows were closed to keep out the
street noises; hut now that my mind
was up front the work in which I had
been absorbed, 1 could hear the sounds
of many voices, even through the thick
plate glass.
"We've got. 200 policemen here,”
said the inspector. "Five hundred
more are on the way. But—really,
Mr lilacklock, unless we can get you
away, there'll be serious trouble.
Those damn newspapers! Every one
of them denounced you this morning,
and the people are In a fury against
you.”
I went toward the door.
“Hold on, .Matt” cried Joe, spring-
ing at me and seising me. “Where
are you going?”
“To tell them what 1 think of them.”
replied 1, sweeping him aside. For
my blood was up. and I was enraged
against the tutor cowardly fools.
“For God's sake don’t show your-
self!" he begged. “If you don't eare
for your own life, think of the rest
of tis. We've fixed a route through
buildings and under streets up to
Broadway. Your electric Is waiting
for you there.”
“It won't do,” I said. “I'll face ’em
—It's the only way.”
1 went to the window, and was about
to throw up one of the sunbllnds
for a look at them: Crawford stopped
me. “They’ll stone the building and
then storm it," said he. “You must
go at once, by the route we've ar-
ranged."
“Even tf you tell them I’m gone,
they won't believe It," applied I.
“We. can look out for that,” said
Joe. eager to save me, and caring
nothing about consequences to him-
self. Hut 1 had unsettled the in-
spector.
“Send for my electric to come down
here," said I. "I'll go out alone and
get In it and drive away.”
“That'll never do!” cried Joe.
But the Inspector said; “You’re
right, Mr. Blacklock. It’s a bare
chance You may take 'em by sur-
prise. Again, some fellow may yell
and throw a stone and—” He did not
need to finish.
Joe looked wildly at me. “You
mustn’t do It, Matt!" he exclaimed
’’You'll precipitate a riot, Crawford,
If you permit this." ,
But the inspector was telephoning
for my electric. Then he went Into
the adjoining room, where he com-
manded a view of the entrance.
Silence between Joe and me until he
returned
“The electric is coming down the
street.” said he.
1 rose. "Good," said I. “I'm ready.”
Walt until the other police get
here,” advised Crawford.
If the mob la In the temper you
describe,” said 1. "the less that's done
to Irritate It Ihe better. I must go out
as if 1 hadn't a suspicion of danger.”
The Inspector eyed me with an
expression that was highly flattering
to my vanity.
'I'll go with you,” said Joe, start-
ing up from his stupor.
"'No,” 1 replied "You and the other
fellows can take the underground
route, If it’s necessary.”
It won t be necessary,” put In the
Inspector. "As soon as I'm rid of you
and have my additional force. I’ll
clear the streets.” He went to the
door. "Walt. Mr. Blacklock, until I've
Lad time to get out to my men.”
Perhaps ten seconds after he disap-
peared I, without further words, put
on my hat, lit a cigar, shook Joe's wet.
trembling hand, left In It my private
keys and the memorandum of the
combination of my private vault.
Then I sallied forth.
I had always had a ravenous appe-
tite for excitement, and I had been
In many a tight place; but for the
first time there seemed to me to be
an equilibrium between my Internal
energy and the outside situation. As
I stopped from my street door and
glanced about me, I had no feeling
of danger. The whole situation
scented so simple. There stood the
electric. Just across the narrow
stretch of sidewalk; there were the
200 police, under Crawford's order*,
scattered etr-ry where through Ae
crowd, and good-naturedly Jostling and
pushing to create distraction. With
I called to him to slow down. He
paid not the slightest attention. I
leaned from the window and looked
up at hint. It was not my chauffeur;
it was a man who had the unmistak-
able but Indescribable marks of the
plain-clothcs policeman.
"Where are you going?" I shouted,
“You'll find out when we arrive,”
he shouted back, grinning.
I settled myself and waited—what
else was there to do? Soon I guessed
we were headed for the pier off which
my yacht was anchored. As we
dashed on to if, 1 saw that it was
did greatly enrich myself; but not
until the Monday after Wild Week.
Not until I had pondered on men
and events with the assistance of the
newspapers my detective protectors
ami jailers permitted to be brought
aboard—not until the last hoi>e of
turning Wild Week to the Immediate
public advantage had sputtered out
like a lost mans last match, did I
think of benefiting myself, of seizing
the opportunity to strengthen myself
for the future. On Monday morning
I said to.Sergt. Mulholland: "I want
- to go ashore at once and send some
| telegrams."
The sergeant Is one of the detective
, bureau's "dress-suit men.” He is by
, nature phlegmatic and cynical. His
ex|ierience has put over that a veneer
of weary jioliteness. We had become
tilled with police, both In uniform and j great friends during our enforced in-
In plain clothes. I descended. A de- separable companionship. For Joe,
tectlve sergeant stepped up to me. who looked on me somewhat as a
We are here to help you to your
yacht,” he explained. "You wouldn’t
be safe anywhere In New York.—no
mother looks on a brilliant but erratic
son. had. as 1 soon discovered, elab-
orated a wonderful programme for
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" 'GO SLOW.' 1 CALLED TO HIM. 'YOU MIGHT HURT SOMEBODY.'
more would the place that harbored
you.” •
lie had both common aenae and
force on hla aide. I got Into the
launch. Four detective sergeants ac-
companied me and went aboard with
me. "Ge ahead,” said one of them to
my captain. He looked at me for or-
ders.
“We are In the hands of our guests,”
said I. “I-et them have their way.”
We steamed down the bay and out
to sea.
From Maine to Texas tfee cry rose
and swelled;
"'Blacklock la responsible! What
doea It matter whether he lied or told
the truth? See the results of his
crusade! lie ought to be pilloried!
lie ought to be killed! He la the
enemy of the human race. He has
almost plunged the whole Civilised
world Into bankruptcy and civil war.”
And they turned eagerly to the very
autocrata who had been oppressing
them. "You have the genius (or
finance and Industry. Save us!”
If you did not know, you could
guess how those patriots with the
"genius for finance and Industry” re-
sponded. When they had done, when
their programme was In effect. Lang
don, Melville and Vpdegraff were the
three richest men In the country, and
na powerful as Octavius* Antony and
liepldus after Philippi. They had
saddled upon the reorganised finance
and Industry of the nstton heavier
• * ' -
me. It included a watch on me day
and night, lest, through rage or de-
spondency, I should try to do vio-
lence to myself. A tine character,
that Joe! Hut, to return, Mulholland
answered my request for shore-leave
with a soothing smile. “Can't do It,
Mr. Blacklock.” he said. "Our orders
are jiosltlve. But when we put In at
New I<ondon and send ashore for fur-
ther Instructions, and for the papers,
you can send In your messages."
“As you please," said I. And 1 gave
him a cipher telegram to Joe—an or-
der to lnveat my store of cash, which
meant practically my whole fortune.
In the gilt-edged securities that were
to be had for cash at a email fraction
of their value.
This on the Monday after Wild
Week, pleaae note. I would have
helped the people to deliver them-
selves from the bondage of the ban-
dits. They would not have IL I
would even have sacrificed my all In
trying to save them in spite of them-
selves. But what la one sane man
against a stampeded multitude of mani-
acs? For confirmation of my disin-
terested ness. I point to all those weeks
and months during which I waged
costly warfare on "The Seven," who
would gladly have given me more
than 1 now have, could I have been
bribed to dealat. But. when I was
compelled to admit that I had over-
estimated my fellow men, that thn
people wear the yoke because they
the graveyards. Alive and afoot and
armed, and true to my cause, I am
the dreaded menace to systematic and
respectable robbery. What possible
good could have come of mobs killing
me and the bandits dividing my
estate?
But why should I seek to Justify
myself? I care not a rap for the
my fellow men. They
sought my life when they should have
been hailing me as a deliverer; now,
they look up to me because they false-
ly believe me guilty of an infamy.
My guards expected to he recalled
on Tuesday. lint Melville heard
what Crawford had done about me.
and straightway used his influence to
have me detained until the new grip
of the old gang was secure. Saturday
afternoon we put In at Newport for
the daily comunication with the shore.
When the launch returned, Mulholland
brought the papers to me, lounging
aft In a mass of cushions under the
awning. “We are going ashore,” said
he. "The order has come.”
1 had a sudden sense of loneliness.
"T'll take you down lo New York."
said I. "I prefer to laud my guests
where 1 shipped them.”
As we steamed slowly westward I
read the papers. The country was
rapidly readjusting itself, was return-
ing to the conditions before the up-
heaval. The "financiers”—the same
old gang, except for a few of the
weaker brethren ruined and a few
strong outsiders, who had slipped in
during the confusion—were employing
all the old, familiar devices for deceiv-
ing and robbing the people. The up-
set milking-stool was righted, ami the
milker was seated again nd busy, the
good old cow standing without so
much as shake of born or switch of
tail. “Mulholland.” said I, "what do
you think of this business of living?”
“I’ll tell you, Mr. Blacklock,” said
he. "I used to fuss and fret a good
deal about It. But I don’t any more.
I’ve got a house up in the Bronx, and
a bit of land round It. And there's
Mrs. Mulholland and four little Mulhol-
lands and me—that’s my country and
my party and my religion. The rest
is off my beat, and I don't give a
.damn for It. I don't care which fakir
gets to be president, or which swin-
dler gets to lie rich. Everything
works out somehow, and the best1
any man cn do Is to mind his own
business.”
"Mulholland—Mrs. Mulholland—fettr
little Mulhollands,” said I, reflectively.
"That's about as much as one man
could attend to properly. And—you
are ‘on the level,’ aren't you?"
"Some say honesty's the best pol-
icy,” replied he. "Some say it Isn't.
1 don’t know, and I don't care, wheth-
er it is or It isn't. It's my policy.
And we six seem to have got along
on It so far.”
I sent my "guests" ashore the next
morning.
“No, I'll stay aboard,” said I to
Mulholland, as lie stood aside for me
to precede him down the gangway
from the launch. I went into the
watch-pocket of my trousers and drew
out the folded two $1,000 bills I always
carried—It was a habit formed in my
youthful, gambling days. I handed
him one of the hills. He hesitated.
"For the four little Mulhollands,” I
urged.
He put It in his pocket. J watched
him and his men depart with a heavy
heart. I felt alone, horribly alone,
without a tie or au interect. Some
of the morning papers spoke respect-
fully of me as one of the strong men
who had ridden the flood and had
been landed by It on the heights of
wealth and power. Admiration and
envy lurked even in sneers at my
‘ unscrupulous plotting.” Since I had
wealth, plenty of wealth, I did not
need character. Of what use was
character in auch a world except as
a commodity to exchange for wealth?
"Any orders, sir?” Interrupted my
captain.
I looked round that vast and vivid
scene of serf' and land activities. I
looked along the city's titanic sky-line
—the mighty fortresses of trade aud
commerce piercing the heavens and
flinging to the wind their black ban-
ners of defiance. I felt that I was
under the walls of hell Itself.
"To get away from this” replied 1
to the watting captain. "Go back
down the Sound—to Dawn Hill."
Yes. I would go to the peaceful,
soothing country, to my dogs and
horses and those faithful servants
hound to me by our common love for
the same animals “Men to cross
swords with, to amuse oneself with”
1 mused; “but dogs and horses to
live with.” I pictured myself at the
kennels—the Joyful uproar the Instant
instinct warned the dogs of my com-
ing; how they would leap and bark
and tremble In a very ecstasy of de-
light as I stood among them; how'
jealous all the others would Its. as I
selected one to caress.
‘ Beml her ahead as fast as she'll
go.” I culled to the captain
(To be Continued )
TWENTY-ONE REPORTED OEftB
Southern Pacific* “Coaster," Cany
Ing Many Mystic Shriners. If
Wrecked Near Honda, Cal—Deie
gates Were Touring the State.
I»s Angeles. Cal.. May 15 A pas-
senger wreck occurred this tilt-:
noon on the coast line of the South-
ern Pacific at Honda, a .station
few miles south of Surf, ami twenty
people have been killed.
The train wrecked is said to be
No. 21, the north bound “t'uastei
which left this city at 8:30 this morn-
ing.
Many Shriners are reported among
the dead. They are members of
Mecca temple, of New York; Ismalin
temple, of Buffalo, and Kismet ten
Iile, of Pittsburg.
Advices from Santa Barbara, up to
this time unconfirmed, slate that
most of Mecca temple, New York
are among the dead.
It is positively known in this citv
that only five members of the ten
pie could ha\e been on the train
and it is probably that some of
these will be elsewhere accounted
for.
Train No. 21 left Los Angeles this
morning in one section, but advices
from Sam a Barbara and San Lui-
Obispo refer to the wrecked train i *■'
the first section of No. 21. It wa-
made tip in this city to contain
twelve cars, one parlor car and the
others being baggage cars and da>
coaches. '
Railroad officials here believe that
at Santa Barbara, whore many Myr-
tle Shriners had spent the earlier
hours of the day viewing the city
the train was made tip in two sec-
tions to travel north. The train left
Sauta Barbara about noon and the
wreck mttHt have occurred between
2 and 3 o’clock.
Relief Train Bringing in the Dead
end Wounded.
Santa Barbara. Cal., May 13 TK.«
first authentic news of the wreck .♦
Honda was received here at 7 ::..(•
this evening. A message to the rail-
road officials stated that the dead
numbered twenty-one. Upon the
same authority most of the killed
were riding in the buffet cat aud the
diner. It is now known that the
train wrecked was the second set-
tion of train No. 21, which left Santa
Barbara at 12.10 p. in. today and w as
scheduled to arrive at Surf, three or
four miles from the wreck, at 12 :J()
The train was composed of seven
passenger cars. It Is practically or
tain that the train carried members
of the Order of the Mystic Shrine
from New York. Brooklyn and Buffs
lo.
Railroad advices are that a special
train hearing twenty-one dead and
twenty injured will arrive here at
9:25 tonight from the scene of the
wreck at Honda. No details will be
available until that hour. Many of
the seriously Injured have been to-
ken to San Luis Obispo
Shoot Intimate Friend.
Hennesey, Okla.. May 13. About
one o'clock this morning at the Yai*-
Jo hotel. H. R. Morris, who clerks in
the Dinkier drug store, shot Milt
Trono through the right lung. The
ball passed clear through bis laxly
They were warm friends and room-
ed together at the hotel. Roth lad
been drinking It is thought hv
many that the shooting was an act;
dent. The recovery of Trone is
doubtful. Morris waR arretted ai.il
taken to Kingfisher today and lodgul
in jail. ■
TO OUST BURIAL SOCIETY.
Not Eaay to Do.
“Pop,” began little Patsy, at the
table. "Mn I have some—"
"Here, now!" Interrupted hla fa
ther, "ye’ve a plate lull o' food before
ye."
“Yes. but—”
"Well, thin, knpe yor motif shut
in' Mte IL”—Philadelphia Proas.
Attorney General Declares Assoc »•
tion Breaks Contract.
Topeka. Kan.. May 13.—The aMo
ney general has filed In the supreme
court a quo warranto proceeding
agiilnst the Co-operative Burial Asm
elation of Catena to oust It from con-
tinuing in business in Kattwas The
company sdvertiee* that It will pav
a benefit of one hundred dollar, or
will pay the funeral ox peases of any
member. The attorney general tm
evidence that the cotnpunv bus u
fused to pay this benefli several
times and Insisted that the be •
ficlary should accept the tender »f
the expenses of $h,» funeral The ut
torney general and superintend* ut
of Insurance ha»e ruled that burial
associations must pav a (ash here-
fit and not require the members *o
patronize a certain undertaker fc >1
let the company pay the t-vpene-s.
This Is the first suit which has he* n
brought since the ruling was n s to.
“UNCLE 8AM" RECEIVER 8TAV8
Judge Pollock Censure* Those W*o
Mad* Charge of “Conspiracy."
Topeka. May 13 Judge Polba k,
In the United State* district court,
tonight overruled the motion to d -
charge the receiver he appointed re-
cently to conserve the property f
the Uncle Sam Oil Company
The court censured those who bad
charged conspiracy, and declnrrd
hlniseif n* entirely satisfied with tie
manner In which lh»- case had b«#u
handled.
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