The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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OttEENE LEADER.
J. H. Ragland, Pub.
okeene, : : : : okla.
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ANOTHER CHAKE-UP U THE CJ.oT.
Chloroform the lly.
Very few straw tints seen thus far.
The man who rocks the boat Is hero
on schedule time.
f’onservallon of hats Is suggested to
reduce insect pests.
Hid you ever notice how much le-
gal argument Is piffle?
Manchuria Is the Massachusetts of
the Orient. Its bean crop did It.
The Chinese tiro not so slow;
slavery has been abolished In China.
A Philadelphia man stole the roof
from a church, and Pittsburg is jeal-
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Sample of the most patient man—
He who counted the 0,000,000 germs
on one fly.
Those “Kiss not” buttons will not
he worn by such girls as are encour-
aging l lie mashers.
Pittsburg celebrated "bird day” the
oilier day, with the whole Audubon so-
ciety out In chantccler hats.
Restored from the dead after 20
minutes. Is this a new press agent
stunt lor some elixir of life?
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FIND TARIFF NOT GUILTY
A Paris woman Is accused of
fraudulently securing some $800,000
Maybe she wanted u new hat.
Man Is so perverse a person that
the sight of nil anti-kissing button will
drive him to more serious efforts.
A Harvard student lives on a dol-
lar a week, but no doubt he’d gladly
pay more for his living, if he could.
Wlmt a relief it must he to some
opera singers to learn that legally
they do not have to pay their hus-
bands' debts.
Some horrid married men say that
just the dearest kiss llioy ever had
was not the one which led to a breach
of promise suit.
Take revenge on tho fly for what he
1ms done in the past, tho best way Is
to kill him, and lie will have no oppor-
tunity to do It again.
Fashion note: A woman with plenty
of IIh> long green can wear any other
color and still he In style this sum-
mer, or any summer.
TWENTY PA9SENQTRS CARRIED
300 MILES ON DEUTSCHLAND.
The Voyage Was Made in Nine Hours
and on Perfect Schedule
Time.
A whale tlie other day sank a fish-
ing schooner with a blow of its tail.
Strictly speaking, however, you cannot
call this a fish story.
If you have saved any money on
your fuel bill this last winter, pre-
pare now to spend it on a little ice
lor the next few weeks.
The theatrical profession lifts re-
ceived another blow. A New York
man lias a hen that lays eggs im-
pregnated with coal dust.
Vienna Intends to fight tho white
plague by building sanitary homes for
the poor. There is nothing indirect
In that way of going about it.
A prominent Frenchman» proposes
to cure delinquent children by giving
them singing lessons. Itut some sing-
ing in itself is almost criminal.
In (Mo anxiety of preparing her
graduation gown the sweet girl gradu-
ate should not entirely overlook the
finishing touches of her thesis.
A new play entitled "Piseator” Is
sni in to be brought out by a New York
manager, according to a report that
has just been sent from that city. It
sounds fishy.
An Fnglish doctor says that eating
ginger in tho morning will cure bad
temper. If your wife insists on your
eating ginger you know where she got
her information.
When a car laden with ten tons of
dynamite jumped the track 16 miles
from Tacoma, and tho explosive “let
go,” blowing the two I Hi Pont powder
mill brakemen to atoms, something
happened that is within the range of
possibility every time a heavy ship-
ment of dynamite is made by rail. But
dynamite is invaluable in industrial
operations, and it must be shipped.
Desseldorf, Germany.—A newr epoch
in transportation has dawned. The
first passeirger airship ttie world ever
saw made its initial trip on schedule
time.
This was not a trial trip nor an ex-
periment. Regular service on sched-
ule time is to follow.
It. was Count Zeppelin and his giant
craft, the Deutschland, that made the
trip. The vessel, carrying 20 passen-
gers, sailed from Frederichshafen and
landed here nine hours later, having
sailed 300 miles.
Had Perfect Weather.
The weather was perfect and the
motors worked faultlessly. The aver-
age time maintained for the complete
course was approximately 33 miles an
hour, but belween Frederichshafen and
Stuttgart the 124 miles was covered
at an average rate of 41 miles an
hour. The best speed for a single
hour was 44>4 miles.
The hour and minute of the prob-
able passing of various points had
been bulletined ahead so that not only
ihe people of the cities on the line,
who filled the streets, but the inhabit-
ants of all intermediate villages turned
out and cheered enthusiastically as the
immense torpedo-like structure with
its whistling screw drove over their
heads at a height of between 200 ami
300 feet.
Regular trips will be made and many
tickets already have been sold for the
first few days at from $25 to $50 each.
The airship is equipped with a restau-
rant which will supply the passengers
with a buffet service such as is af-
forded on railroad trains.
That Is the Majoritty Finding of the
Senate Committee on High Cost
of Living.
Washington, 1). C.—That the tariff
is not guilty, that ii has had little
or nothing to do with the increased
cost of living in the last few years, is
the conclusion of the senate commis-
sion that was appointed early in the
session.
The majority has submitted its re-
port. The Democrats will have some-
thing to say about the tariff, but their
report is not ready to file. They had
charged in the first instance that the
principal function of this committee
was to prove that the tariff was in no
wise responsible.
The report, a very extended one, will
be printed as a public document and
will be given a very wide circulation
as a campaign document.
INDEPENDENCE
HKPSHeEK
W1USHICD the people's swelling murmur.
List the boy's strong, Joyous cry!
'Tting!*’ bo shouts, "Ring! Grandpa,
RING! O. RINO FOR LIBliUTYI"
And straightway lit tho signal.
The old bellman lifts bis hand. j
And sends the good news, making t.
Iron inusio through the land. 1
fJOW they shouted! What rejoicing!
J[j| How the old bell shook the air,
TUI the clang of freedom rutiled
The calm, gliding Delaware! j
How the bonfires and tho torches .,j£|
Illumed the night’s repose, JSffJ
And from the flames, like Phoenix, J;£]
Fair Liberty arose!
Changing Ideas About
the Fourth of July
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PASSED THE STATEHOOD BILL
Senate Voted. Unanimously to Admit
New Mexico and Arizona—To
Conference Soon.
OIL FUMES CHASE MOSQUITOES
A Marked Effect Has Been Noted in
New Jersey Where the Roads
Were Treated.
Washington, D. C.—The Bever-
idge bill granting statehood, to New
Mexico and Arizona passed the senate
by unanimous vote of all the senators
present. There were 65 ayes and no
negative votes. The house passed a
safehood bill early in the session and
this bill is a substitute, the chief
difference being a matter relating to
the exercise of the right of franchise
hue bill prohibits the state’s provid-
ing an educational qualification for
voting.
The statehood bills will soon be In
conference and the Republicans as-
sured the Democrats on the lloor of
the senate that they will be given a
fair chance in conference.
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MR. GORE CHARGES BRIBERY
Orange, New Jersey.—The annual
reports of the stale highway commis-
sioners declare that oiling of roads to
lay dust has had a marked effect on
the famous Jersey mosquitoes, at least
in this section of the state, driving
them away from the residential dis-
tricts and confining them to tracts
where the roads are not treated fre-
quently with the oil prepartlons.
The smoke and gases from passing
motor cars also have their effect, it is
said, re-enforcing the fumes of the
road oil in driving back the pests.
The Blind Oklahoma Senator Says He
Was Offered $25,000 to Stop
Objections.
China's abolition of slavery is a di-
rect result of the awakening of the
government of the Flowery kingdom
under the influence of contact with
the Occidental world. China has
Standard Reduces Oil Prices.
New York.—The wholesale prices
for refined oil have been reduced from
one and one-half cents to one cent, a
gallon by the Standard Oil company,
making the prevailing price through-
out the country now seven and one-
half cents a gallon. The standard
controls more than seventy per cent
of the retiined output of the country
and it can readily he seen what such
a reduction in prices mean to the
great corporation.
Washington, D. C.—Senator Thom-
as P. Gore, the blind senator from
Oklahoma, made the sensational
charge in the senate that he had been
approached with a bribe of $25,000
which might be raised to $50,000 if he
would withdraw objection to attorneys
claims for sale of lands belonging to
the five civilized tribes of Oklahoma.
Senator Gore asserted that these
attorneys were playing for a mighty
stake, namely ten per oent of the
revenues of the sale of these wealth-
hearing lands, which would aggregate
at least $3,000,000 and might reach $(’>,-
000,000.
INDIAN ORGANIZATION TO END
An English Aviator Injured.
London, England.—Capt. F. S. Cody,
the aviator, fell from a height of 100
feet and was severely injured. Ilis
aeroplane was caught in a gust of
wind and becoming unmanageable,
plunged to the ground. Cody was
noted Japans advance as a nation, , pjnned beneath the wreckage.
and she is ambitious to make similar I _____________ '
progress. Therefore she may be ex-
pected to do everything that will In-
in Memory of Dr. Harper.
Chicago. Illinois.—In the presence
Senate Passes a Bill to Abolish the
Offices of the Five Tribes
in 1912.
Washington, D. C.—By the terms
of a bill passed by the senate the last
vestige of the tribal organization of
the Indians of the five civilized tribes
will cease in 1912
The bill abolishes all offices now
except the chief executive of each
tribe and they go out in 1912.
Guthrie Lost a»Suit.
Guthrie, Oklahoma—Holding that
W. H. Coyle, the complainant, had no
standing it! court. Federal Judge Ralph
Campbell dismissed on jurisdictional
civn-m respect lor her among the 0f many distinguished educators and ; grounds the action brought to enjoin
people of other nations, and at the other citizens, the cornerstone of the Gov. Haskell and Secretary of State
same time push forward Industrial Harper Memorial library at the Uni- : Cross from removing the capital of the
and commercial enterprise. varsity of Chicago was laid. ] state to Oklahoma City.
HE legislatures of seven
states and the city coun-
cils of scores of cities
have passed laws pro-
hibiting the use of fire-
works on the Fourth of
July. This adverse leg-
islation, which began as
early as 1901, has so
swept over the country
that the Fourth of July celebration
thi3 year will be a radical departure
from the old-time methods of honor-
ing this auspicious day. The terrible
loss of life that has accompanied
every Fourth of July celebration in re-
cent years Is the cause of this legis-
lation.
The present generation does not re-
member that during the latter part of
the eighteenth century, and even
during the greater nart of the nine-
teenth, there were no such fireworks
and explosives as are used today In
celebrating the anniversary of inde-
pendence. Our forefathers In knee
breeches and powdered hair celebra-
ted the day chiefly by patriotic
speeches and dinners. Every club,
every society and organization met
around the festive board and honored
the day In song and story.
The nature of the speeches and
dinners varied with the locality, but
in one respect all were the same.
They agreed absolutely in the number
of toasts. It was the custom to have
thirteen toasts—representing, of
course, the thirteen original states.
With the admission of new states this
custom died out, probably because the
banqueters were unable to drink so
much.
Parades In the larger towns were
features of the celebration during the
early years of the republic, but the
principal part of the celebration was
the banquet and Its oratory. In re-
cent years, however, there has been a
great falling off in the exuberant quali-
ties of patriotic oratory and the day
has been celebrated with mere noise.
' The prophecy of John Adams has
come true: “The day is celebrated
with pomp and parade, with shows,
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires
and illuminations from one end of the
country to the other.” Oratory, prayer
and praise are forgotten and the old
time decorous celebration of the day
has seemingly passed away forever.
It should not be taken from this
that there was no noise connected
with the early celebrations. Quite
the contrary. Salutes of guns were
fired, bells were rung, and In the eve-
ning tar barrels were burned, but
there was not the continuous succes-
sion of noises which mark the cele-
bration today. Nor was there any
list of dead and injured on the day
following.
Nearly every resident of a city who
can do so goes out of town to avoid
the noise of the Fourth. Just the re-
verse was true of the early celebra-
tions. The first big celebration waa
held In Boston In 1779. All the ves-
sels In the harbor fired salutes In the
morning, and the day was given up to
oratory, prayer and praise. Societies
and organizations held banquets at
noon and in the evening, and the cele-
bration was concluded with the burn-
ing of tar barrels'and more salutes
from the ships In the harbor.
Early In the nineteenth century fire-
works began to have a place In the
celebration. These were harmless and
simple compared with the nerve-shat-
tering explosives which are put on the
market today. Not only were they
less dangerous and noisy, but their
use was restricted to a comparatively
small number of people. Those who
were unable to get fireworks got out
their muskets and shot, them off.
Others fired improvised cannons.
Even blacksmiths got out their anvils
and by placing powder In little holes
were able to touch it off so that it
made a satisfactory amount of noise.
With the Increase of the noise came
the decrease in the patriotic orations
and prayers. Before the fiftieth cele-
bration of the day had been observed
noise had almost entirely supplanted
oratory.
The question today Is, how should
the Fourth of July be celebrated? The
manner In which it is celebrated,
many declare, is not In entire keeping
with the spirit of the day nor the
comfort and pleasure of the majority
of citizens.
Those who would reform the man-
ner of celebration say the day should
be kept not so much In remembrance
of the feats of American arms as for
the spirit of liberty and progress. It
should be a true festival without for-
getting the claims of the young.
There should be civic banquets, gath-
erings at which the progress made in
all lines during the past year could be
reviewed. There should be oratory
and speeches in every community,
with an effort to make the celebration
more like the early observances.
There should be processions, but
they should be less military In char-
acter than formerly. And, quite as
important, there should be no mon-
ster concerts and entertainments
where nobody has a good time, but
divers assemblages where every one
can enjoy himself. The day should be
ushered lr. with martial music and
sufficient military display to be in
keeping with the spirit of the occar
sion, but orations, feasts and ban-
quets, exercises for children and pub-
lic gatherings should be the real fea-
tures of the celebration. In the eve-
ning there should be fireworks, the
less noisy and the more spectacular
the better.
When the day is celebrated In this
way there will b9 no occasion for peo-
ple of refined taste and sensitive
nerves to leave the city to es^pe the
noise and crowds, say the reformers.
In fact, the celebration just proposed
will attract rather than disperse
them. And if Maxim’s new noiseless
gun is adopted there is no reason
why the problem of a safe and sane
Fourth cannot be solved for all time-
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