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THE BILLINGS NEWS
A LET A BROWN, Publishers
BILLINGS,
OKI..\
NEW $TATE NEWS
A mill and elevator company Is be-
ing organized at Mountain View.
A young man, giving the name of
John Bull, is being held at Ponca
City upon the charge of forgery. He
was distributing checks, purporting
to having been signed by Joe Miller
of 101 ranch, of which the latter
gentleman knew nothing.
STATEHOOD TRAIN
plan to Send a special train
TO THE EXPOSITION AT
PORTLAND, ORE.
THE KANSAS WAY
Know
Took Official* Two Months to
Funds Were Protected
TOPEKA: The state doesn't stand
to lose a cent of the *547,000 whlrh
it has tied up In the defunct First Na-
tional bank of Top ka. The disco*.-
erv has been made that the Urlted
BOTH TERRITORIES TO HAVE EQUAL SHOW
j States Guaranty and Fldellt/ bor.d of
$?50.00O, g'ven to se ire St”tl
Cotton planters throughout both
territories are already worrying about
securing pickers.
Herman Mnhleer of Orlando has ac
cepted a bookkeeper's position with
the Panama canal commission. He
will receive *1,500 a year, In addition
to all his medical expenses.
The school land lessees In Caddo
county, whose crops were destroyed
or badly Injured by hall, have appealed j
to the school land board to remit a j
year's rent.
The corner stone for the new court
house for Kiowa county was laid lasl
Friday at Hobart. The ceremonies
were conducted by the territorial Ma-
sons.
A grng of Greeks employed by the
Bock Island Hallway company near
K1 Reno went on a strlko last week.
More wages end shorter hours are de-
manded.
Governor Ferguson has been asked
to pardon Winfield McGinnis, who Is
serving a sentence of four years lor
burglary. Ho was sent up from
Beaver county In October, 1902. The
application for a pardon Btatcs the
petitioners believo tho young man
has been punished sufficiently.
Arrangements have been matlo for
a special train to carry the delegates
of the G. A. R. to tho encampment at
Denver In September.
Paul’s Valley has a committee in-
vestigating the paving of other cities,
with a view of doing some of tho
same work at home.
The school board of Wapanucka has
awarded tho contract for n seven-
room school house. The building is
to he completed by December Is!, and
Is to cost not exceeding *10,000.,
"Bennie" Owens, tho well known
Kansas foot ball player, will coach
the Oklahoma university team this
year. Owens is the beHt known foot
ball player in tho middle west. Ho
wns a famous quarterback on tho Kan
sas team of 1900, made a winning out
of the Washburn team at Topeka In
1901.
Governor Ferguson has named one
hundred delegates from nil parts of
Oklahoma to attend the farmers' na-
tional congress, to be held at Rich-
mond, Va.. September 12th to 22d.
Citizenb of Wynnewood nml tho
farmers’ union In tuar vicinity urn
planning on a big picnic to be held
August 20. Many well known speak-
ers will bo secured, nua a good time
Is anticipated.
Unique Plan for Raising Exprnse
Mor\ey—Best Exhibits to be Se-
cured—Exposition Management to
Set Aside a Special Day
OKLAHOMA CITY: A meeting
was held here by promoters of a plan
to run a special train to Portland,
Oregon, to visit the Lewis & Clark
exposition. The train, as projected,
will represent the resources of the
two territories, and will be known as
the "Oklahoma Statehood Special."
While the plan originated in this city,
the citizens having the preparations In j
charge want each city and town In
the two territories to have the same
representation and make the same
showing as Oklahoma City. The
fact that this is a statehood affair
and is not to be confined to one part
is not overlooked by these men.
Tho plan is to represent each re-
cording district in Indian Territory
and county In Oklahoma with an ex-
hibit, the finest to be had, .and the
committee states that quality, rather
than quantity, is desired. In order
to carry out the idea, each town and
city desiring to semi a representative
will be furnished with 1,000 puzzles,
which, when worked out, tell the story
of statehood. rl he puzzles ore to bo
sold to residents of tl^c towns at fif-
teen cents each, making a total of
*150, which will bo used as follows:
Transportation of representative to
and from Portland, *50.05; one adver-
tising page in Iho Journal of Com-
merce, *50; transportation of one
representative to and from Oklahoma
City, 3; Bleeper to and from Portland,
*12; to advertise Oklahoma nnd In-
dian Territory en route, *10; the re-
maining *25 to bo spent in collecting
exhibits.
Representatives will be sent around
to tho different towns In both terri-
tories to put the matter before the
people. S. C. Heyman, as chairman,
with G. L. Rockwell, secretary, are
at tho head of the movement as it is
started, hut when the organization Is
extended Into the territories the list
of officers or managers may be se-
lected from the different towns rep-
resented.
Mr. Rockwell has received a letter
from Tom lllThardson, tho manager of
the Portland exposition, In which he
says a day will be set aside and a
speeial program will be prt pared for
the “Stateluxid Special." He states
that nothing rail be desired or asked
that will not be given, and adds:
"Knowing your people as I do per-
sonally, and having thousands of ac-
quaintances and personal friends
throughout both territories, it will be
an especial pleasure to serve you."
Tills Is no scheme or graft, but la,
ns its name Indicates—"a statehood
special"—gotten up to advertise the
new state of Oklahoma, and show to
tho world tho resources and capabili-
ties. Citizens and commercial clubs
desiring to take part should wrile
either of tho gentlemen named, nnd
receive from them a more extended
conception of the workings of
committee.
In that bank, had been riuCivei. on
January 20 la“:t, for a year, and covers
the money which had been depos ■15
in the bank. This, wit's the 50 re-
cent dividend which Receiver Bradley
says the bank will pay som, will en-
able the state to get every cent du-
It.
At the time of the failure ct the
hank, the records ut the state l ouse
were searched. No record of the
bank having renewed its old bond of
*250,000 could be found. The old
bond expired on January 20. Had it
been renewed the state would
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS REMAINS CALM
DESPITE RAGING OF YELLOW FEVER
not
i have had no protection now. It was
thought the bond had never been re-
; newed. But the receiver of the hank,
■ In going through the records of the
institution, has found the renewal cer-
tifiicate and the rece pt for $025, paid
by the bank for the bend.
While other Southern cities and
communities go into spasms of fright
when yellow fever breaks out in New
Orleans, the Crescent City itself re-
mains quiet, wri'^s J-mes S. Evans In
the Chicago American. Epidemics
do not frighten her people. Among the
old families of her parishes, the
germs of such scourges as now c:;ist
In that land of sunshine throw Into
panic newcomers and the foolish weak
only. Old-timers do not have flt3.
Fright, as they know, kills more peo-
.ple than the fever docs.
In one of the epidemics there Jus:
after I had become a reporter on the
Picayune, I met daily at Fabacher's
restaurant the late Leslie Bob. a nat-
ive, and Harold Frlsbie, who recently
had come from Boston. When the dis-
ease was at Its height, and the rattle
Jackson Sugars. Scene a* Louisiana Transfer.
BENNINGTON DISASTER REPORT
Blame to be Placed by Higher Author
ity Than the Examining Board
SAN FHANCTSCO: A special dis-
patch from San Diego to the San
Francisco Call says:
From an official source, the rf-iiabll'
By of which cannot bo questioned
because of its connection with the
court itself, it has just become known
what, in substance, will be the report
of the board of Inquiry now Investi-
gating tho Bennington disaster. It
may be authoritatively stated that the
court will find that holler B of the
Bennington exploded not because ot
unusually h'-gh pressure, but b cause
tV m'dal of the crown sheet and the
bolts bolding the sheets had lost all
life and nearly all the tensile
strength by reason of constant use
and the failure to renew the weak-
ened place. The court will not cen-
sure tho officers or the Bennington,
but will pass the matter up to a higher
authority.
hall,'New Orleans.
' French Quartir of Crescent Citv.
Leasing of Pasture Lands.
WASHINGTON: The secretary ot
the Interior has ordered the leasing of
more than 40,000 acreR of Ktowa and
Comancho lands in Oklahoma for agri-
cultural purposes. The leases are
to run for a period of five years from
January 1 next. At the expiration
of that time the lessees will bo given
the preference right to renew at an
appraised value to be placed upon the
lands by the secretary of the interior-
Tho lands will be leased in quarter
section tracts,gand no person or firm
will be permitted to lease more than
two Bed ions. The bids are to he
opened by Colonel James F. Randlctt
at the Kiowa agence on December 4,
next.
Tho report of Secretary Wenner of
tho Oklahoma school land leasing
board for the month of July shows
collections amounting to *998.02. Tho
receipts for the month Included *180
In transfer fees and *252.50 for timber
The total expenses for the
waste.
the
Bonus Voted for a Railroad
l’RYOR CREEK: At a mass meet-
ing of the citizens of Pryor Creek,
held at the court house, a bonus of
*20,000 and tho right of way through
tho town of five mtles north and
southwest was pledged to the M., O.
& G. railway. This action by
The management of the Rock Isl-
and railway system has taken a railt-
cal stand against the garnishment and
assignment of wages by employees cf
llie company. Hereafter when the
first assignment Is filed the employee
will be suspended while the suit Is
pending and warned that a second
garnishment may be the cause far
dismissal. When a second suit is
filed the employee wll he discharged
Assignment of wages w 11 not be per-
mitted under any circumstances, and
the first asslgnmtnt filed will be
cause for dismissal.
of hearses over cobblestones some-
times drowned our conversation. Fris-
ble would suddenly burst into tears
at the sight of a coffin.
He could not get away, for all ave-
nues of escape had been closed. All
he could do was to remain and suffer
—spend sleepless nights in anticipa-
tion of an attack. One day Bob was
missing. Inquiry told that he had the
fever. He took care of himself, and
In a fortnight was out on the streets
again.
The three of us were standing in
Bayonne street, near Canal, one after-
noon when of a sudden Frlsbie turned
pale. In a moment more he was shiv-
ering. Bob escorted him to a seat in
a drug store and called a cab. But be-
fore he could reach his rooms his
sightless eyes were far apart and his
lips were pulseless. He had died In i
twenty minutes from sheer fright.
This is just an instance of what ter- j
ror will do. j
New Orleans is quarantined .by all
the Southern States now. One cannot
go in or come out by rail on this side |
of the river without passing through
Mississippi. That state, as is usual
In yellow fever panics, loses its sanity.
People go wild. All traffic is suspend-
ed; railroads cannot haul passengers
for local points out of New Orleans;
dirt roads are guarded by armed con-
of the Mafia region. Vendettas have
gone on for centuries. Voodooism is
as popular as ever it was in the olden
times of Cadiz and Tangiers. Male ne
goes and Italians and French continue --------- --- - h d.
their ears, smoke cl- i light of the sun and in the soft shad
the car doers arc locked and no one
may disembark couth of the Ohio
river. The risk of trying it is too
great. Shot guns, in the hands of
reckless men gleam terribly in
the
to wear rings in
garettes, eat. garlic, drink brandies,
play cards, visit voodoo priests and
read strange books. The old cathed-
ra! is in their midst. Jackson Square
—a bit of green and attractive wood,
the river front and the forests of the |
lagoons behind them, are their places ,
of recreation. On St. Peter s street, I
where there are cases of fever, two j
houses stand that were constructed ,
when Napoleon is at Elba. They
were built that the Emperor might >
come there and live. Loyal French- j
men organized to rescue him, and .
bring him to New Orleans, put the
scheme fell through. The two houses ;
were bought that he might have his
choice. Both still stand. In them are
garlic, spaghetti, peppers, dried fish,
cognac and absinthe glasses. The
buildings are painted yellow, and rats
as big as dogs have nests beneath
their flooring.
In 1888 a sporadic case of fever ap-
peared at Jackson, Miss. In twenty
hours there were five persons only left
at the capital. These were the stew-
ard at the Edwards Hotel, a man
named Julian, manager of the West-
ern Union; the agent of the Illinois
ows of the stars at night.
Meantime New Orleans Is building
sewers, netting cisterns and destroy-
ing, the best way known to science,
the pestilential mosquito. Some day
there will be no further need for
alarm. Really there is little cause for
alarm now.
TWO MEN OF LONG LIFE.
Though
Years Have Been Plenty,
Users of Whisky and Tobacco.
Two men far beyond the scriptural
limit of age contradict in a startling
way the claim of total abstainers as
to habits. Charles Goldsmith, a res-
ident near Baltimore, will be 90 years
old in October, but he often walks five
miles or more without fatigue. He
says that the reason for his unusual
vigor is that since a boy he has been
an Inveterate smoker. He has never
smoked cigars or cigarettes, but cher-
ishes an old corncob pipe, which he
his life preserver. Mr. Gold-
calls
stables- the feeble and sick are left to , _ , , TI
take care of themselves the best they Central railroad, Dr John Hunter and
'-oil. vxx ....(nkmnn ot tho Stnto Tronsnr-
the
department for the month, Including | citizens Insures this road through the
i iL .. 41. .1.1 v .—1- _.111 1 . nf\mmnUOOM Oil
disbursements for men
was *1,589.52.
In tho Hold,
The third anniversary of tho found
Ing of Thomas will bo celebrated
September 7th, 8th and 9th.
The city council of Henryetta hns
granted an exclusive franchise to
John Smith of Independence, Kansas,
for the laying of ma'ns and pipes In
(he streets of the town for the cor.
veyancc of natural gas. Work mus.
bo commenced within thirty days.
town, nnd work will bo commenced on
or before September 1
Free Gas for Sapulpa Churches
SAPULPA: Tho John Smith Gas
company, one of the concerns oper-
ating hero, has offered to the var.ous
churches of the city free gas for light-
ing and heating for.three y.ars. The
churches have accepted the offer and
will install the necessary plumbing at
once.
Ground has been broken at Oklaho-
ma City for the erection of an ob-
servatory for the weather bureau ser-
vice. The building is to bo com-
pleted within ninety days, and will
;ost *15,000.
Sounding a Whirlpool
LAWTON: Professor Greenwood,
superintendent of the Kansas (Ity
schools, headed a party of professors
for Hyer's Hole, a noted whirlpool on
the Fort Sill military reservation, th •
bottom of which has never been dis-
covered Sounding apparatus and
other Instruments were taken along,
and the party Is confident of reaching
bottom. With Professor Greenwood
are Professor O. W. Bohannon, teach-
er of Rcieneo In the Southwestern
Normal at Weatherford; Professor C
S. Powell, a New Jersey university
graduate; S. M. Barrett, superinten-
dent of the Lawton schools, and K. B.
Nelson, county snpi rlntendent of tb s
county.
South McAlcster voted the bonds
for five now school houses. I he
amount of the bonds is *125,000, and
but thirty two votes wire registered
against their Issuance,
The local branches of the Anti-
Horscthlef association of Muskogee,
Fort Gibson, Brushy Mountain ami
(loose Neck will hold a picnic and
barbecue at Hyde Park, near Mus-
kogee August 20.
Four Comanche Indians were cen
verted at a cimpmeetlng on West
Cache eroek last week, and were Im-
mersed and Joined the church. Camp-
ineetlngH for the benefit of tho Co-
manches are being held hi different
places In the county. Sinkadotle,
the Kiowa preacher, is doing most of
the speaking-
The school teachers of Custer
county will hereafter sign contracts
to abstain totally from th • use of to-
bacco and Intoxicating drinks.
Aeronaut Missed the Tank
ARDMORE: Professor Haze, nn
aeronaut, was probably mortally
burned at Mudlll while attempting to
Jump from a trapeze into a tank of
water, lie had saturated his suit ot
clothing with gasoline and set It afire.
In his leap ho misfed the tank or
water. Great difficulty was experi-
enced In extinguishing the b’azc. Ilazo
Is In a critical condition. Ills home
Is at St. Paul, Minn.
To Supply Cotton Pickers
LAWTON: The Southwestern Em-
ployment agency expects to make
specialty during tho remainder of the
year supplying farmers of southwest-
ern Oklahoma with cotton pickers.
The manager of tho agency announces
that if cotton prospects contlue ns
favorable during the r. matnder of the
Benson as they now ure ftf.een hun-
dred pickers can find employment in
Comanche, Caddo, K own and Greer
counties. The agency expects to
bring men from the east and south-
east Texas and Louisiana, nnd has
made application to tho railroads for
transportation rates.
In such epidemics the percentage of
deaths due ot other causes than yel-
low fever is infinitely greater than if
every door in New Orleans were
thrown open and every yellow fever
suspect invited to walk inside and sit
awhile.
The fever itself, to be sure, is not
harmless. But it may be repdered
nearly so by clean surroundings. In
Sagua la Grande, Cuba, a superintend-
ent of a sugar plantation by the name
of Hugentabler told me that in six-
teen years he had never lost a case of
yellow fever. The remedy was a half
tumbler of castor oil and the juice of
two lemons drunk down the instant
one felt the ehtll coming. Then the
patient was kept in dean beds and fed
on drinks containing no astringents.
In forty-eight hours the danger was
the watchman at the State Treasur- j
er's office. Policemen and sheriffs ran !
like the balance.
When I got off a train on the day
following at a water tank'tivo miles
south and walked back I could not see
a living soul as I looked up broad
Capital street. Houses, with doors
wide open, were empty. The people
left in box cars, on foot, in ox wagons,
in drays—every means of transporta-
tion were employed.
They could not travel east. Towns
in that direction had guards at the in-
tersection of every road. They were
armed and would shoot at the least
provocation. Vicksburg to the west
was quarantined; New Orleans to the
south; Memphis to the north. Chi-
cago, Cincinnati and New York caught
the half-crazed refugees and took care
of them.
Trains had not stopped going Into
WASHINGTON President Roose-
velt tins forwarded to Burgeon Gen-
eral Wyman, of the public health and
marine hospital service, a telegram
from Governor Blanchard of Lou si-
ana requesting that tho United States
government take control of the yellow
lever In New Orb tins. The president
directed the surgeon general to (alto
every step In his power to meet the
situation in Niw Orleans and to noli
fy him what further action Is avail-
able anil possible for the federal au-
thorities to take.
Surplus of Men in Comanche
LAWTON: Comanche county w»i
four years old August Clh. According
to statistics now in the office o( tho
county clerk, furnished by th" vari-
ous township ass ssors, the total
population of the county is 34.327. Of
this number 200 are negroes. There
are entirely too many men nnd net a
sufficient number of women. The
census shows that of tho total popu-
lation 26,602 are males and 14,408 arc
females.
leans, around the French market, the
sun's rays go straight Into the filth
piles. The Italian quarters are prov-
erbially unclean. Arabians, Turks,
the poor French, negroes and Arcad-
ians live together in rags and seem
to grow fat. The streets are narrow,
tho houses old, vegetation rank, water
Is stagnant everywhere, the sewers
are above ground, cisterns are open,
fruits are permitted to rot In the sun,
mosquitoes swarm in all directions.
And yet that part of New Orleans is
the most historic and heroic of tho
many quaint nnd interesting corners
of that remarkable city. The archi-
tecture, the thoroughfares, the gar-
dens, the language, the food, all Is
French. The people live among them-
selves. They are as foreign to the
American part of New Orleans as
Brockton, Mass., Is. None of them
gets beyond the Canal street lino In
the English-speaking sections. They
live in Creole fashions, die In the uni-
versal way. They do not know, never
will know, It seems, that cleanliness
Is next to godliness.
The stricken district Is In the heart
Indian Territory Historic Society
MUSKOGEE: A historic society
for Indian Territory Is to bo formed
In conjunction with a pioneer society,
and as soon thereafter as arrange-
miaiits can bo made a historic building
is to be erected on Garrison Hill, Fort
Obion, by the Muskogee Town nn I
Country club, which already has ih‘
nucleus of n historic collection In tho
form of a large number of Indian
Territory phoogrcplis, which w r-
displayed at the St. lamia Wor d's
fair, and nr* va.ued at *3,000.
City Hall Square and Statua of Franklin.
smith has been accustomed to drink-
in" alcoholic drinks, but always with
moderation, and he thinks they are
beneficial if used moderately. Brook-
lyn is the home of Josiah Zeitlin, who
lately celebrated his 100th birthday.
To those desirous to reach his age his
answer is: "Drink a lot, and drink reg-
ularly. 1 would have beendcad twenty
years ago had 1 followed the doctor's
advice and stopped drinking whisky
and beer. Don't give doctors a chance
to work on you and you will live all the
longer." With all his senses in re-
markably fine order, the old man steps
as briskly as one little more than half
his age. In the course of a day he
takes perhaps a dozen drinks of whis-
ky and beer, meanwhile smoking many
cigarettes— Exchange.
Lowell's Generous Benefactor,
The l.owell, Mass., general hospitai
has received from Frederick Fanning
Ayer of New York a gift of *50,000.
This make *200,C00 which Mr. Ayei
has given to the hospital. He ha3
Dasgcd | irams nau mn. ............ given to Institutions In Lowell more
in the Infected district of New Or- . New Orleans. But coming this way than *500,CC0.
Ancient Friendly Society.
In old Montfiieller there still flour-
ishes a mutual benefit friendly so-
ciety. under the title of St. Faith
which has nn unbroken history dat-
ing back to about 1220. Statute books
dating to 1602 are still preserved,
and they arc believed to be but re-
productions of statutes Ir[force a
century or two earlier which were
burned during the civil war of the
sixteenth century. During all these
centuries the eociety has never failed
Its members In case ot slcknoas, In-
jury, or Infirmity.
Largest White Sapphire.
What Is believed to be tho largest
white sapphire ever discovered has
Just been brought to Berlin by M.
Hcppmcr, a German engineer, who
has resided for many years In Brazil,
where ho possesses several mines. Be-
fore cutting the stone weighed 1,250
karats, but a flaw caused the cleavage
of a piece weighing 400 karats. This
piece will produce a cut stone of 100
karats. That cut from tho larger
piece weighs 418 karats, Is two Inches
long and one Inch and a half wide and
thick.
Touts Are Disappearing.
"The racetrack tout has Been hi*
best day," said a man who goes to
the races occasionally. "A few years
ago, every time I went to tho track
I'd surely meet five or six touts who
would size me up for an easy mark,
knowing full well that I was not a
regular. I have been to the races sev-
eral times this season and not onco
have I been approached. I rather
miss those good-thlng finders, for
they certainly added to my enjoyment
—they wera aueh eager and obnwful
| llara.”
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