The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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THE OKEENE LEADER
J. H. Ragland, Pub.
OKfcENE : : : / OKLA.
Go swimming while the swimming
Is good.
Looks as If summer has returned
from Its vacation.
Putting It mildly, summer has been
very lenient with us this year.
Ouce In a while summer remembers
the address as well as the telephone
number.
Hay fever about this time of year
ceases to be a theory and becomes
a condition.
"Listen to your wife," advises a
medical expert. But what If you real-
ly need the sleep?
What will our courts do without
that garrulous ancient mariner, the
hypothetical question?
#----
Some magazlno might make a hit
by putting the picture of a girl In a
bathing suit on Hb cover.
The new mikado lias only one wife.
This may be taken as an Indication
that he does not care for war.
Switzerland has forbidden kissing
In railway stations—so that trains
may depart on time, wo Infer.
It Is said that the new emperor or
Japan does not inherit his father s
tendency to write poetry. Ilanzal!
One source of wonder Is why the
most crowded restaurants usually em-
ploy the fattest waiters or waitresses.
New York man threatens to tour
Europe on a capital bankroll of $75.
We presume that he Is a good swim-
mer.
Now Is the oldest Inhabitant run-
ning around In circles trying to re-
member a summer that beats this for
variety.
The one redeeming feature of Chi-
cago’s new magazine for poets Is that
there Is no law compelling any one
to read It.
An expert sayB that the automobile
Is not displacing the horse. That, In-
deed, would be rank Ingratitude to
man’s best friend.
A New York motorist used maple
■yrup In mistake for lubricating oil
on his machine; and a sweet time he
had of It, too.
Luther Burbank Is one of our best
little benefactors, but the crowning
glory of his career would be an odor-
less motor car.
New York man who is married to
his mother-in-law says he Is perfectly
happy. This Is a severo blow to the
Jokesmlths’ union.
Women In Newport have taken up
the fad of doing their own marketing.
A woman will eveu descend to work
If it Is fashionable.
Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind,
has learned to sing. Thi^e indicates
that there Is hope for some of the 5
cent theater artists.
Pupil In an aviation school In the
past fell 200 feet and escaped unhurt.
Several football coaches aro said to
be looking him over.
Why not ship the boys who are pos-
sessed with a desire to be ’’bad men”
flown to Mexico or Central America
and let them become revolutionists?
It wouldn't hurt us, and It might do
the real revolutionists some good.
There may be some truth In the
Boston doctor’s claim that beans are
more nourishing Mian beefsteak. Look
at the Boston Red Sox.
The double decked street car In
New York carries 88 persons. Any
old car can carry 100, although It will
not seat but 50 of them.
King George has invented a new
fangled kitchen rage, but a glance at
his photograph convinces one that he
never has invented a safety razor.
Druggists are demanding that phy-
sicians’ prescriptions be written leg-
ibly. What! Take the romance and
mystery out of medicine?
The aviators are still trying to make
records. The air has a hypnotism ol
its own that no amount of accident or
fatality seems able to overcome.
A* thief at Atlantic City made of!
■with his booty In a motor boat. Evl
dently be believes in having all th«
latest Improvements In his business.
STEAMSHIP SUNK BY COLLAPSE OF WHARF
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BOYS OF SIX IN REFORM SCHOOL
<$ov. Cruce, of Oklahoma Threaten*
Wholesale Release From State
Institution.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.—Paul
and Amos Christianson, aged 12 and
10, who were paroled by Gov. Cruce
and released from the state training
school at Pauls Valley, told the gov-
ernor that a boy of 15 had been sen-
tenced to serve an indeterminate sen-
tence in the school. There are 114
boyB incarcerated there and the boys
declare that a majority of them are
about their age.
Gov. Cruce dictated a letter to R.
H. Wilson president of the state board
of education, asking for an Investiga-
tion.
"It’s nothing short of criminal for &
boy 6 years old to be made a prisoner
or to be charged with crime," says
Gov. Cruce. ‘‘I have a notion that the
state training school is filled with
boys who were delivered by parents
that they might be rid of them.
"I’m not sure that there won’t be a
wholesale delivery of boys from this
school right away."
MAY POSTPONE COURT SESSION
Ford County, Kansas, Farmers Refuse
to Leave Sick Horses to
Attend.
A SECTION of the wharf at Balboa, Panama, about 185 feet In length, collapsed the other day and the steam-
A ship Newport of the Pacific Mall line, moored alongside, was sunk. No one was killed or Injured. Two
electrically operated cranes fell with the wharf, one of them crashing across the vessel forward of the wheel-
house.
ONLY WOMEN TO BE NOMINATED
DISSATISFIED iDAHO SUFFRA-
GETTES SPLIT PARTY.
Will
Place Entire State Ticket
Field, Without a Man’s
Name on It.
Boise, Idaho.—Tired of the continu-
al wrangling and fighting by the men
of the Republican party In Idaho, the
women members of the party have an-
nounced their complete severance
from the men.
They said they would place a ticket
of their own in the field. Until their
plans are perfected the women who
are leading the organization of the
new women’s party refuse to allow
their names to be used.
According to information a call will
be issued immediately for a state
convention, to be held in Boise the
latter part of the week. The women
said their action in putting a ticket
of their own in the field was the
only way out of the disagreeable fight
now being waged by the men within
the party. A complete state ticket will
be named from governor down and on-
ly women will be nominated.
It is understood that the women al-
ready have held several meetings at
which candidates for the various of-
fices have been discussed. The
women, however, are keeping their
plans under cover and say they will
not announce what action they have
taken until their organization iB com
plete.
NO GAS SHORTAGE IN OKLAHOMA
Deal Just Closed Calling for 18 Mil-
lion Feet a Day—Plenty More
Available.
ALASKA COAL CLAIMS SETTLED
Thirty-Three Cunningham Entries De-
clared Fraudulent and Ordered
Canceled.
Washington, D. C.—All 33 so-called
Cunningham Alaska coal land claims
involving alleged fraudulent blanket
patents, which contributed tothe Bal-
linger-Pinchot controversy, have been
adversely decided and Secretary
Fisher has directed the immediate exe-
cution of the decision of Commissioner
Dennett of the general land office, who
held the claims were fraudulent and
that the entries should be canceled.
Secretary Fisher took this final action
on his second review of the cases.
No more of the real Cunningham
claims are pending, though the in-
terior department is regularly passing
upon other Alaskan claims somewhat
similar to those of the Cunningham
group. Of a thousand or more such,
300 already have been disallowed.
PREACHER STONED TO DEATH
WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS
RESENTED SERMONS.
Series of Talks on Dishonesty Results
in Attack From Ambush ®With
Fatal Result.
DETROIT ALDERMEN MAY ESCAPE
Prosecutor Drops Graft Charges
Against Two—Fifteen to Answer
for Conspiracy.
Detroit, Michigan.—That none of
the aldermen accused of grafting will
be prosecuted was indicated by the
action of Prosecutor Shepherd, when
he recommended that the charges of
having promised to accept a bribe
against Aldermen Patrick O’Brien and
William Koenig be dismissed. The two
oouncilmen, however, still have a con-
spiracy charge pending against them.
Dodge City, Kansas.—It is probable
the next term of the Ford county dis-
trict court will be postponed on ac-
count of the horse plague. Every
case involves one or more farmers,
either as principals or jurors and they
intimate an absolute refusal to leave
their sick hearses and neglect their
farm work, which is already sadly be-
hind because of the plague. It is
practically certain none of the 34 civil
suits will be tried, but two criminal
cases may be prosecuted if a town
jury can be obtained.
Because of the ravages of the horse
plague at his farm, W. H. Pottorff is
hauling wheat to market here with a
threshing engine. He hauls 600 bush-
els a trip.
They, with 15 other aldermen and ____________ __________
Schreiter, clerk, will appear before I mountain roads shielding the assail-
Charleston, W. Va.—Stoned as were
Stephen and Paul because of their
efforts to carry the gospel to those
who would not receive it, the Rev. S.
H. Green, pastor of the Blue Sulphur
Springs Circuit Methodist Episcopal'-
church South, died a martyr to his
calling.
A series of sermons on “Dishon-
esty,” in. which he prayed for the evil-
doers, were not well received by the
uncouth mountain folk. The truth hurt.
At first there were angry protests
against the text. Then there were
threats. The minister held to his duty^-
He held a circuit meeting at Fry’s
schoolhouse in the mountains. He laid
especial stress upon his subject. There
were mutterings at the meeting and
faithful parishioners sought to warn,
the pastor. He struck out for home
alone in the dusk.
When he( reached a lonely pass near
Muddy creek mountain the shower of
stones began. There was no shelter,
so the pastor took his persecution
calmly. After he had been felled the
mountainers used clubs and left him
for dead.
The attack was not the first. Dur-
ing the campaign against dishonesty
he had been struck by missiles fre-
quently, but without severe, conse-
quences. Each attack was from am-
bush, the heavy shrubbery along the
RED FLAG IS PROTECTED BY LAW
Jersey Court Decides Socialist Em-
blem May be Legally Flown
Anywhere in State.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.—The big-
gest sale ever consummated in the
Oklahoma field has just been closed
between the Indian Territory Illumi-
nating Oil company and the three
smelter plants of this city. The com-
pany not only agrees to furnish 18,-
000,000 feet of gas a day to the smel-
ters, but also agrees to furnish this
city with factory gas.
The company has thousands of
acres of the most productive gas ter-
ritory already defined in the Osage
country and has 30,000,000 feet of gas
a day available at present. Work is
to be started at once in the construc-
tion of a 12-inch line to the gas terri-
tory at an estimated cost of $100,000.
Has Big Fire.
Belleville, Kansas.—Fire destroyed
a large part of the town of Cuba. It
started in the rear of Preble's imple-
ment store, destroying that building,
together with the postofllee and a
milinery store. The origin is un-
known. The loss is from $10,000 to
$12,000, partly insured.
Justice Jeffries to answer to the con-
spiracy charge. Shepherd admitted
that the evidence against Aldermen
O’Brien and Koenig was very flimsy.
MOTOR WRECK INJURES PRIESTS
Car Crashed Into Iron Post at Gary,
Ind.—Three Clergymen Seri-
ously Hurt.
Gary, Ind.—Three Catholic priests
and a layman were injured severely
when a motor car in which they were
riding crashed into an iron post. Two
of the priests, the Rev. Edward Kow-
leski and the Rev. P. A. Kahelleck,
were cut and bruised to such an extent
that their removal to a hospital was
necessary. The Rev. Father Czajgow-
skl and John A. Fabish were less se-
verely injured. All of the four were
thrown violently from the machine to
the pavement.
Dakota City a Money Maker.
Fargo, North Dakota.—Mayor W.
I). Sweet has submitted to the city
council a resolution, the effect of
which will be to distribute $10,000 to
the tax payers of Fargo to be applied
as a rebate on taxes.
Kansas City Man a Knight.
Copenhagen, Denmark—The king
of Denmark has conferred the honor
of knighthood on Carl Busch of Kan-
308 City. The musician received the
title of Knight of Dauneborg.
Zinc in Oklahoma.
Bartlesville, Ok.—There is consider-
able excitement at Ochelata, several
miles south of Bartlesville, over the
discovery of a 4-foot vein of zinc, and
prospectors are endeavoring to secure
leases on lands near it. Samples or
the mineral were sent to the state
geologist, who found that it assayed
per cent zinc and 23 per cent lead.
Shrlners at Phillipsburg.
Salina, Kan.—Thirty-five members
of Isis Temple, Order of Shriners
went to Phillipsburg in a special train.
Others from Oklahoma City, Wichita,
Abilene, Kansas City ana Courtland
were picked up at Herington. A spe-
cial meeting of Shriners was held and
a number of candidates initiated.
ants.
The last assault was the direct cause
of his death at his home at Ausbury,
Greenbrier county. A heavy stone
crushed his skull and since the attack
his death has been only a matter of
hours.
The identity of the assailants is in
doubt. A parishioner overheard the
threats of a rough crowd in front of
the schoolhouse and may be able to
identify its members if apprehended.
Bank Robbers Cut Wires.
Muskogee, Ok.—The Choteau Bank
and Trust company at Choteau, a
small town 50 miles north of Mus-
kogee, was robbed early in the morn-
ing. There were three robbers and
after blowing open the safe and se-
curing $900 drove out of town, going
south. Before they entered the bank
they cut the telephone wires leading
out of town.
Gift From Mikado to Knox.
Tokio, Japan.—Philander C. Knox,
the American secretary of state, who
is here to attend the funeral of the
late Emperor Mutsuhito as the special
ambassador of President Taft, was
given a handsomely embroidered
screen by Emperor Yosliihito. The
presentation was made through BaroD
Kurino.
Lynching in Georgia.
Cummings, Georgia.—Mob spirit,
which has been high since threatened
race rioting Saturday, reached a cli-
max when several hundred men
stormed the local jail and shot to
death Edward Collins, a negro, and
carried his body to the public square
and strung it up to a telephone pole.
Jersey City, N. J.—Socialists may
fly the red flag without police inter-
ference in New Jersey, according to
a decision by Francis J. Swayze, su-
preme court justice, in the case of two
men of North Bergen, N. J.
“This is a free country,” said Judge
Swayze. “The Socialist party is a
legally authorized party in the state
of New Jersey. The red flag is the
emplem of that party. Any man of
that political faith has a perfect right
to display the flag if he so desires.
ALFALFA SEED UNPROFITABLE
Product Reaches Lowest Price in
Many Years at Cottonwood
Falls, Kan.
Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.—Alfalfa
seed has reached the lowest price
here this season at which it has sold
in many years, according to local deal-
ers who are now able to buy seed at
$6.50 a bushel. The price probably
will go still lower.
The declifie in the market does not
seem to be due to a big crop, at least
not locally, as the yield in this part
of Kansas is hardly half of that pro-
duced last fall, but rather to a falling
off in the demand for seed.
WHY SECRET SHOE TRUST TRIAL?
Attorney General Disgusted With Ao-
tion of Judge Putnam—
To Go Deeper.
Boston, Mass.—“Nothing short of
star chamber proceedings” and an “un-
heard of action” was the way Attorney
General Wickersham expressed him-
self to District Attorney French re-
garding Judge Putnam’s agreement to
the United Shoe Machinery company’s
request that the government suit
against the trust be held in secret.
He said before he left Beverly for
home that he intended to go deeply In-
to the shoe case when he returns.
From the Ring to the Stump.
North Abington, Massachusetts.—If
his wife will let him, John L. Sullivan
will deliver a few speeches for Col.
Roosevelt. “I can see only the Bull
Moose party,” Sullivan said. “My wife
has made me keep out of politics so
far, but in view of the colonel’s stand
on woman suffrage I believe she will
back away and let me do a little In*
formal stumping this fall.”
Try to Discredit Valentine?
Washington, D. C.—Charges that
Robert G. Valentine, who resigned as
commissioner of Indian affairs, took
liquor with him on an official visit to
an Indian reservation in Oklahoma
will he Investigated.
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