The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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A N«w Mania* Navy.
Monarch*. like -ither mea. combi*#
Suslaesa with plea lure, and sometimes
atop oa the way to the docior'a to have
something aaot home which haa ap-
pealed to them fro.n the ah op window. J
King Alfoaao of Spain waa auppoaed
to have had ao other object in hia re
cent vialt to England than the wiah
to consult a noted English physlciai
in regard to the condition of his lungs.
It has since developed, however, that
a representative of a Clyde ship-
building company pas with the king
on his shooting axenraions. and bef<*re
ha left bad succeeded in bagging v »ry
considerable game In the shape of a
commission to build a new Spat lab
navy. There has prevailed for >«M
time n feeling that the Spanish navy
was not all that It ought to be, or. In
fact, all that It uaed to be. Even the
Spaniards themselves hava coma to
tee It. and to admit It, and ao they
have authorised a new navy, at a coat
of fM.OOO.OOO. to be completed in 1910.
Since modern battleships cost from
9ft.000.000 to 910.000.000 each the
Spaniards should be able to secure
from eight to a doaea vessels. Tbs
question naturally arlaea: How many
of them will be turned over to the
United States, to replace those which
were captuied by tha American navy,
but which tank, or turned turtle, or
blew up before they could be got to
port, or proved far Inferior to tha ad-
vertisements after getting to port? It
may. of course, he necessary for a
special grievance committee to pre-
sent the matter, says the Youth’s Com
panlon; but the Spanish peopla are ao
courteous aud ao generous that they
will hardly need ao pointed a hint. A
simple description of such of their
former vessels as fall into our hands,
with a brief history of them, quietly
forwarded, should be sufficient to
bring us half (be new Spanish navy
as a present
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Observe* OKLAHOMA
KEEr YOU* EYE ON THE NEW STATE
Vote 11*0000 lands — Bonds for
91S0.000 for municipal waterworka
wars panned la Special election at
Hugo. The vote was almost annul-
33?
Tactic* of
the Little
Pagan God
During the recent flrv la New York
45 lengths of hoao burst and It was
afterward acknowledged by a member
of the firs commission of that city that
the hose bought under-a late contract
had not been put to the usual last be-
cause it was known not to be up to
the standard Such a condition as thla
Is criminal. With faulty hoae even the
best water supply ia worthless, and
consequently not only immense
amount of property but human lives
may be jeopardised by Inefficient
means to fight fire. It la to be hoped
that the men who are guilty of In-
stalling this worthless hoae will be
severely reprimanded and punished
and that there will be no danger of a
recurrence of such conditions, remarks
the Baltimore American.
» Tolstoi's poetic Imagination makes
him an Inspiring prophet even to those
who disagree with hia opinions. In a
recent message to the contentious
world, in whose combat# ha #ees no
light, he compared the struggling par
ties to the panic-stricken prisoners in
a house from which they are trying to
escape. They fight to force the door
open, and only seal It more hopeless-
ly, for It openB Inward, as the doors
of the soul must open to the light.
F’AY
I*
f—fHOUGH the little pagan god
I f|4 I who nearly always ac-
1^1 companies St. Valentine
I 1 on February 14 has the
same purpose wherever
he goes, yet he does not
everywhere employ the
same methods for its ac-
complishment. His tac-
tics differ in different
places. He la as versatile
as he la capricious. In
New York city he still finds a way to
mylady'a heart by going to her in a
dainty bit of pasteboard, tissue paper,
tinsel and paint, all tucked way In a
scented envelope. In Berlin he haa re-
cently found a new means of wound-
ing his victims In the "cooing postals.”
which are so constructed that when
squeezed they will Imitate the plain-
tive note of a dove. In more prosaic
London cupld has abandoned the post-
man for the telephone, and the up-to-
date London lover no longer sends his
sweetheart an ardent message by let-
ter, but recites It over the wire Into
her very ear
Yet the most picturesque St. Valen-
tine day customs are not to be found
In the big cities, but in out-of-the-
way regions, where human nature re-
tains much of its old-time simplicity.
Ifc some of the rural villages of Eng-
land. for example, the season is ob-
served in much the same way as in
the lime of Queen Elizabeth and many
a quaint supersitlon still survives.
In remote villages of Derbyshire the
custom still prevails of maidens look-
ing out of their windows in the early
morn of St. Valentine’s day to learn
who their lovers may be. Every girl
who wants to get married is supposed
to Jump out of bed just at daybreak
and dressing hastily open a wondow
facing th« street. There ahe muat
wait until some man passes by, who
tips his hat and says to her: “Good
morrow, ’tls St. Valentine’s day.** Ia
reply ahe says: "Good-morrow, air.
I’ll be your valentine.” As a usual
thing, however, the passerby is not a
stranger. A Derbyshire girl usually
keeps the shutters closed until through
some crevice In them she espies tha
man she wants.
Of all observances, however, the
most popular In England Is that best
known as “sweeping the girls.” If a
girl is not kissed by an admirer be-
fore nine o’clock on 8t. Valentine’s
morning she Is said to be “dnsty.” Ac-
cordingly all the young men of the
ne'gbborbood on learning that some
young woman has remained unbiased
past the fatal hour make an attack
oa her house with brooms, and after
sweeping her thoroughly, each of her
callers kisses her.
The French province of Lorraine has
a custom somewhat similar, which Is
called "beating the ladles.” It dates
back to the sixteenth century. On
St. Valentine's morning every mar-
riageable daughter la expected to ariae
at daybreak and bake a heart-shaped
cake for the first young man who may
come for it. If she should oversleep,
however, and her lover should call to
find her all unmindful of him and the
occasion which brought him to her
door then his rivals are privileged to
punish her in the following fashion:
Armed with wisps of hay they may In-
vade her room and, compelling her to
get up. they may administer a not es-
pecially ungentle thrashing.
In the county of Norfolk, England,
there still survives a custom which
recalls the times when St. Valentine's
day was observed throughout Great
Britain and the continent by the pre-
sentation of substantial gifts. In this
way not only lovers remembered their
mistresses, but parents their children,
husbands their wives, and In the mer-
ry days of Charles II. husbands gave
presents to other men’s wives.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says the
command to sell what thou hast and
give to the poor should not be obeyed
literally nowadays, lest it should make
the poor ImprovUleut. Evidently the
‘great benefits which would come to
the rich from acquiring the habit of
giving would not compensate for the
hariu It would do to the poor by mak-
ing them expect gifts, thus ceasing to
rustle for a job cutting ice when they
had no overshoes.
A bill has been Introduced In the
New York legislature to the effect that
if an autoinobilist runs a uian down he
must stop and give his correct name
and address. It is a pity that neither
the etiquette or the road or plain hu
manity has made this little courtesy
customary, and that It has been found
necessary to Invoke the law to con-
sider failure to accord It a misde-
meanor.
Secretary Straus of the department
of commerce and labor has decided
that federal Inspectors have no right
to consider a man’s lame legs as a dla
ability when his efficiency does not
depend upon legs, but upon eyesight
and mental qualifications. Mr. Straui
may get into trouble If ha Insists oa
substituting common sense for gov
•rument red tape In this way.
Oreen Bog is Destroying Crag. —
J. C. Hamilton, living In the souther*
part of Comanche county, states that
th« ravages of tha graaa bugs hava
practically destroyed tha crop of
rye.
JL eng M. Frafsasar Quite. —Prof.
John W. Nicholson of the depart-
_ of botany and entomology at
Stillwater, has resigned. The resig-
nation is to take effect Immediately.
Prat Nicholson goes to the depart-
of agriculture at Washington
to take up work ia the dairy di-
vision. It Is not expteted that the
vacancy will be filled before July 1-
A. O. U. W. Sleet Officer*. At the
annual meeting of the grand lodge
A. O. U. W.. of Oklahoma, which was
la session at Bald, tha following
officers were elected: 1. L John-
son, Tecumseh. O. M.; J. M. Well*.
Kingfisher. O. N.; J. A. Darnell.
Chickasha. G. O.; W. R. Welch.
Guthrie. O- C.; J. E. Slater. Stillwa-
ter, G. R.; E. O. Sharpe. Guthrie. O.
M. B. Muakogee. Okla., get* the
next convention.
Enid Oats n “Cleaning."—After the
most thorough moral cleaning ever
held in Enid. $2,300 worth of gamb-
ling paraphernalia was burned In the
public square before an audience of
more than 1,000 persons. Buahelmof
poker chips, cards and dice were
thrown In the flames by 8her!ff
Campbell, bis deputies and County
Attorney McKeever. A former
gambler broke down and cried when
three poker tables, some crap tables
and a roulette wheel were hurled In-
to the burning mass.
Oil Refinery at Mound*.—It to now
considered quite probable that the
Standard Oil Company will locate
its proposed three million dollar oil
refinery at Mounds, because of the
inducement offered by unlimited wa-
ter and gas. The Frisco railroad ha#
joined In the effort to secure the lo-
cation of the refinery at that place
because of the decided advantage it
will offer the road and tbe matter is
now considered as practically set
tied. The refinery when completed
will employ 400 men. (
Rivals th# Mammoth Cava. — Prof
Gould and hia class in geology have
finished their explorations of Mystic
cave, near Sulphur, and have return
ed to the State University at Nor-
man. They will prepare a report of
their discoveries and will give it out
to the press. A11 the explorers would
give out for publication is that the
great cavern Is much more extensive
and much more a wonder than any
one had ever guessed or dreamed.
On account of their finding tbe cave
to have many large chambers hereto-
fore unknown their investigations
were not completed. They will re-
turn and continue their explora-
tion, _
On* Bank Will Close. —The First
State Bank of Beaver City has sent
out notices to all depositors to with-
draw their money, announcing that
the Institution will go out of busi-
ness. While the bank is in good con-
dition its officers give#as their reason
for retiring the passage by the legis-
lature of the Oklahoma guaranty de-
posit law which assesses state banks
1 per cent of its .average daily de-
posits for the purpose of paying de-
positors in failed banks. The offi-
cers of the bank declare that they do
not care to pay a part of their funds
to assist banks that have conducted
a loose business.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. T. — Spot,
steady; low ordinary, 7%e nomiaal;
ordinary, «»-16e nomiaal; good ordi-
nary. 10c; low middling, ilc; mid-
dling, 113-4c; good middllag.
13 316c: middling fair, 111116c.
fhlr, 13 316c; sales, 2.900 bales; «W\.
eeipts, 11,367 bales; Mock, *66.464
bales; future* dosed: February.
11.40c nomiaal; Marek. 1130c. April.
11.20e nomiaal; May, 11.20e; Juno.
ll.Oic nomiaal: July. llOfie; Octob-
er. lO.lftc; December, lO.Oic.
BT. LOUIS. Feb, 7.—Steady; mid-
dling, 12c; sales, none; receipts, 234
bales; shipments. 14 bales; Mock.
19,460 bales.
GALVESTON, TEX., Feb. 7. —
Steady; 11 3-4c.
Dla In
tion haa been received that Cecil
Whitlock and Robert Ntobttt, former-
ly of Lexington, were arrested for
shooting wolves within the city limlta
of Estanlca, N. M.. and placed la Jell.
About 4 o’clock in the morning the
, all caught fire and both men worn
burned to death before they could bn
rescued.
e Girl Mlosing.—Mystery sur-
rounds the disappearance of Bylvtn
Strickland, daughter of El B. Strick-
land. a farmer living five miles north-
west of Pawnee. She is It years old
and waa last seen December 23. Af-
ter tbe disappearance Mr. Strickland
learned that a letter, addressed to hia
daughter, bad been advertised by tho
Pawnee postofflee. When be called
l or It, however. It bad been delivered
to some one. The farmer fears that
tbe daughter may have been kid-
naped.
Bloody Hunting Mason. — Twenty-
six dead and fifty Injured to the
bloody record of the Oklahoma hunt-
ing season extending from October
lftth to February 1st. These casual-
ties were All due to careless handling
of firearms. If this record to equaled
In the other states a brief period of
two and one-half months bias cost tho
United Btatea 1,116 dead and 2,300
wounded, n casualty list almost equal
to the loss In battle of the entire
Spanlsb-Americnn war.
days $12,000 le Gone.—State Bank
Commissioner Smock, who made an
examination into the affairs of the
Bank of Commerce at Alva, following
the disappearance of Cashier L. A.
Westfall baa stated that It will re-
quire about thirty day* to determine
the exact loss, but he believed th*
bank has been looted to the extent of
912,000 The books were made to bal-
ance every day and the state bank-
ing department discovered nothing
wrong when the bank wag examined
two weeks ago. Westfall waa seen
at Newton recently and It is believed
that he went from there to Kansan
City and north to Canada.
Firs Visit* ghattuok. — Fire broke
out in Murray’s restaurant at Shat-
tuck. on the west side of Main street,
destroying the restaurant, loss 91.500,
nc insurance; Bigelow’s pool hall.
112.000. total loss; Wicher's variety
store, loss $2,300. no insurance; J. A.
Guipel’s store, furniture and under-
taking, loss 98,000. partially insured;.
Jacob Weber, loss 920.000, no- insur-
ance; W. W. Farmer Mercantile
Company, loss 930.000, covered partly
by insurance; Davis Drug Company.
1:5.000. no insurance; K. A. Peter*,
general merchandise, $5,000, no in-
surance; First National Bank, total
loss of building; Wm. McCrate,
building. $2,000.
Citizen* Demand a Grand Jury. —
Indignation over the hold-up of 60
Bulgarians near 8troud on January
20th has reached a fever heat. A
delegation of 100 Stroud citizens ap-
peared before the district court in
Chandler and demanded .that the rob-
bery be investigated by a grand Jury
and that Cyrus Rapsberry, Joseph
Lillie and G. N. Askln be held pend-
ing this investigation.
To Loan School Monty.—Assistant
Attorney General Spillman has ad-
vised the school land commissioners
to loan school money to homestead-
ers to be used In making final proof.
The board has refused such loans be-
cause the applicants have no ab-
stracts showing title. The bbard la
advised to havo the money held by
tho officers of the land offices to be
turned over to the applicant through
a state depository after he has made
final proof and haa executed a mort-
gage upon the land. This would al
low thousands of homesteaders to
make final proof who have not the
money to secure title from the gov-
IL
Threatens Wife and Child.—Charg-
ed with threatening the life of his
wife and child, G. J. Throckmorton to
in Jail at Glencoe awaiting the action
of the district court. He was given
a preliminary hearing and his bond1
fixed at $400, but the prisoner could
not give It-
Make Clean-up in Lawton.—County
Attorney J. A. Fain and the sheriff’*
force sprung a sudden surprise on
the violators of the prohibition law
in Lawton * when warrant* werw
served and twenty-one arrests were
made. Some of the most prominent
business men of the city were amonR
the number.
Fir* Destroys Record*. — The W-
Aral court house at Atoka was <*•*
strayed and nil the records of the-
past fifteen years were consumed.
A11 the evidence against criminals 1*
three counties la Oklahoma, which
was included in the Twenty-third
recording district, were lost. It in-
supposed that th* court house waa
fired by people Interested In the crim-
inal docket
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Ragland, J. H. The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908, newspaper, February 14, 1908; Okeene, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173752/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.