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The Prague Patriot H
B. S. EDWARDS, PUB.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA STATE NOTES
Powers is t lie name of a new town
that ha.-, recently been established be-
tween El It en o and Union City on the
Rock Island. An elevator and two
stores will be built there soon.
Assistant Commlsloner of Insurance
H, O. Shark has completed a prelim-
inary table showing that the amount
of lire insurance in force in the new
ptate of Oklahoma January first of the
present year to be $232,852,860.
These Men Selected by the Demo=
crctic National Convention
to Lead the Ticket
S. S. Starr, cousin of Henry Starr,
the noted Oklahoma bandit, is in jail
fit Muskogee, facing a charge of mur-
der, alleged to havo been committed
near Porum.
The Oklahoma State Fair associa-
tion of Oklahoma City will spend $20,-
000 in Improvements this summer.
There is a proposition before th«
8hawnee city council to prohibit Sun-
day shows.
The flock Island shops at Shawnee,
Chickasha and El Keno aro putting th#
jnen back at work and in a very short
time will have a full force at work
again.
DENVER: William J. Bryan of N'e-1
braska, and John \V. Kern, of Indiana,
arc the men to whom the democracy
of the nation will depend upon leading ]
them to victory in November.
For tin- third time the democratic
party In a national convention nomi-
nated William Jennings liryan, of Ne-
braska for the office of president of I
the United States.
The first and only balot gave Bryan
the commanding and decisive total of
fc'J2 1-2 votes, or 221 more than enough
to nominate, with Gray S9 1-2, John-
son 46.
The decisive ballot was followed, at
the first lull, with motions from Gray
and Johnson leaders to make the nom-
ination unanimous and by acclamation
which were carried with an echoing
chorus of approval In which every
state joined its voice, with but one
dissenting vote from the state of
Georgia.
Prior to the culminating sc ;ie in the
convention hall, when the nomination
of Bryan was made, the assemblage
had listened for hours tu tile oratory
of nominating speakers, who moved
them frequently to outbursts of fever-
ish excitement. It had been expected
that the platform would be ready for
adoption at 7 o'clock in the evening,
when the night session began, but at
that hour the committee on resolu-
tions was still struggling with the
planks relating to the currency, the
tariff, the Mormon question and other
important subjects. A committee ap-
pointed by the convention to learn
how soon the platform would be ready
reported that it would be midnight
before the document was ready for
the consideration of the convention.
Hereupon a motion of Congressman
Ollie James of Kentucky, the regular
order of procedure was suspended and
the convention proceeded to call the
Last week tho state dispensary be-
gan shipping beer to the sevoral local
agencies. This Is the first time the
local dispensaries have been supplied
with the beverage under the new law.
That there are approximately 8,800
teachers In Oklahoma, and that at
least 10,000 In all are needed, is the
conclusion reached by State Superin-
tendent E. I). Cameron. The rural
school teachers, 7,500 strong, make up
the biggest portion of the list. There
are not less than 475,000 children of
school age in the state.
District Judge A. H. Huston, one of
the most prominent republicans in
northern Oklahoma, has proffered hl
resignation as president of the Guth-
rie Savings Bank. The directors have
elected E. A. Heyer to succeed Judge
Huston.
The foundation has been completed
and the work of putting up the build-
ing of the Oklahoma school for the
deaf at Sulphur commenced. It is in-
tended to have the school ready by
September 1st.
The total amount of taxable prop-
erty In Chickasha, outside of any pub-
lic service corporation, as fixed by
the local board of equalization, is $4,-
916,495.
The state mining board held a ses-
sion in McAlester last week to exam-
ine applicants for licenses as hoisting
engineers, pit bosses, fire bosses, su-
perintendents and managers. Ninety-
seven applicants as hoisting engineer!
took the examination.
With tho purpose in view of furnish-
ing teachers, school pupils and citi-
zens generally information about th#
new state of Oklahoma, Prof. Charles
N. Gould, state geologist, is prepar-
ing a geography which he will seek
to have accepted by the state board
of education for use in the public
schools of Oklahoma commencing
next fall.
HON. WILLIAM J. BRYAN
For the Third Time Honored by His P arty With the Nomination for Presi-
dent of the U nited States.
Col. Roy Hoffman, of Chandler, with
thirty-five riflemen from Oklahoma,
are practicing shooting in Kansas ;
City, preparatory to going east for the 1
national tournament of sharp shoot- !
ers. There will be fifteen men from
this team picked to represent the new
state.
The civil eorvlce commission an-
nounces the following fall examine
tlons for departmental service in Ok-
lahoma: Ardmore, September 9, J5,
October 14; Enid, September 9, Oo-
tober 14; Guthrie, September 9, Oc-
tober 14; McAlester, September 9, Oo-
tober 14; Muskogee, September 9, Id,
October 14; Oklahoma City, Septem-
ber 9, 2b, October 14.
From injuries sustatned when felt
horse fell upon him during a ropinl
contest at Pontotoc, Milton Heeler,
champion steer roper of the worltji
died at his home near Pontotoc lae^
w-jek. He was 21 years old and owned
two ranches near Pontotoc.
Lieutenant James D. Culllson, Jr,|
has been selected by Governor Has.
kell as an applicant for a position a*
second lieutenant In the regular armj<
He is a member of the national Ruaft
and the selection is made under a re«
cently issued order from the war de-
partment that each state select an ap-
plicant. Lieutenant Culllsou has gond
to Fort Leavenworth to take the a*
imitation.
With all the preliminaries disposed
of, the democratic national convention
at the Thursday night session, sched-
uled to begin at 7 o'clock, had before
It the adoption of the platform and
the nomination of u candidate for
president.
The adoption of the report of the
resolutions committee was followed
by the nominating speeches by Igna-
tius Dunn, of Omaha, for W. J. Bry-
an, congressman VV. S. Hammond of
Minneapolis for Governor Johnson,
and D. I. Handy for Judge Gray of
Delaware.
With the seconding speeches these
consumed a greater part of the night,
and it was 3:40 Friday morning be-
fore the result of the ballot was de-
clared.
The announcement of the vote was
the signal for a wild demonstration
equaling in turbulence if not dura-
tion tho record breaking display
which on Wednesday afternoon greet-
ed the first mention of Bryan's name
in the convention.
The scene within the amphitheater
at the moment the nomination was
made was one of stirring animation.
From pit to dome the vast building
was packed with ten thousand people
thinned out in the remoter galleries
by hours of waiting, and the intense
discomforts of the hot night. It was
a spectacle of grandiose proportions—
tier on tier and gallery on gallery of
agitated forms, the women In white,
delegates, massed below many of them
coatless, a myriad of fans fluttering
to combat the stifling heat and close
atmosphere of this long pent-up exu-
berant multitude, ever ready to spring
into fe\erish outbreaks of enthusiasm
and everywhere the blaze of flags,
bunting and patriotic devices and the
envel«plng folds of old glory.
roll of states for nominations for the
! presidency, with the understanding
that the nominating and seconding
[ speeches would be made without a
tinal vote until the platform had been
adopted.
At 9 o'clock the nominating
speeches began and delegates and
spectators were stirred with eager ex
Dectancy as the supreme and long de-
| ferred work of nominating the presi-
dential candidate was begun.
Alabama, the first state on the roll
call, yleldod to Nebraska, the home
state of Bryan, whose spokesman, the
youthful orator, Ignatius J. Dunn, of
Omaha, advanced to the platform. He
spoke In good voice, with great earn-
estness and to a sympathetic audi-
ence which greeted each utterance or
tribute to the Nebraska leador with
demonstrative evidence of approval.
His concluding passage was a fervid
tribute to the commoner as the intre-
pid leader who had borne aloft the
battle-scarred Hag of democracy
through the campaigns of 1896 and
1900, with the devotion and faith of
the crusaders of old—"American's
great commoner, Nebraska's gifted
son, William Jennings Bryan."
I This was the signal for a long con-
tinued uproar rivaling in intensity and j
duration the demonstration of Wed-
nesday, which lasted one hour and
| twenty-six minutes. Again, the whole
assemblage was lashed into a fury of
exoitemcnt. The delegates seized the
state's standards and gathered them
on the presiding officer's platform,
i while the galleries broke into tumultu-
j ous clamor. The demonstration lasted
i upwards of forty-Uve minutes.
The Gray nomination also received
its full share of enthi?rtasm and ap-
proval, although the nominating
speech of Irving L. Handy of Dela-
ware was frequently interrupted by
the frantic crowd, and finally by the
arrival of the completed platform. It
was after midnight when tho nominat-
ing speeches were temporarily sus-
pended to receive the report of the
committee. Governor Haskell of Ok-
lahoma, chairman of the committee,
made the report, announcing at tho
outset that it was presented as the
unanimous view of the committee, the
entire membership of which ranged
themselves on the platform flanking
Governor Haskell, as an evidence of
their united attitude. The enuncia-
tion of party principles was received
with close attention and with fre-
quent demonstrations of assent. The
provision concerning injunctions was
punctuated by applause, and at its
conclusion a ringing cheer went up
from delegates and spectators. The
provisions concerning trusts, railway
regulation, income tax and various
other provisions awakened lively ap-
probation. The platform was adopt-
ed by a rousing unanimous vote.
No injunction shall issue in a labor
dispute in eases where the writ could
not be employed in the absence of
the existence of such dispute. This
is the essence of the injunction provi-
sion. It is declared to be entirely sat-
isfactory, except to the raiway train-
men's organizations. The plank fur-
ther provides for jury trials as to the
facts in al cases of injunction. This
plank is exactly what was asked for
by President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, and is
understood to have been approved by
him as drawn. It is Incorporated In
the general labor plank.
The subcommittee adopted the trust
plank, which would give the interstate
commerce commission supervision
over all corporations doing an inter-
state business of more than Jl,000,000
a year.
The last plank to be acted upon by
the subcommittee was one demand-
ing the establishment of a system for
the guarantee of deposits in the na-
tional banks; an alternative provision
was inserted recommending the es-
tablishment of postal savings banks,
in the event that the bank guarantee
provision is not carried Into effect.
SMALL THING HE FORGOT.
May Have Accounted for His Proposal
Being Turned Dov/n.
Senator Beveridge described, at a
dinner, an absent-minded farmer.
"The man was so absent-minded,"
he said, "that he couldn't open his
mouth without making an arrant ass
of himself.
"Once he courted a young woman.
His suit looked promising for a time.
Then, with a sorrowful visage, he
ceased his courtship.
" 'Yet she seemed infatuated with
you, Jabez,' said I, one day when lie
came to me for sympathy.
" 'She were, too,' Jabez agreed.
" 'Well, what could have been the
trouble?'
" 'Dunno,' said he. He filled his
pipe. 'Dunno; but when I perposed,
she turned me down cold.'
" 'Perhaps your proposal wasn't ard-
ent enough?' I suggested.
" 'Oh, It was fiery,' said Jabez. 'Hot
as pepper. I told her she was the
only woman I'd ever loved, ever
looked at, ever thought of, or—'
" 'But, said I, 'you forgot, then, you
were a widower.'
" 'Jingo,' said Jabez, 'so I did.'"
"Nails."
"Nails are a mighty good thing—
particularly finger nails—but I don't
believe they were intended solely for
6cratching—though I used mine large-
ly for that purpose for several years.
I was sorely afflicted and had it to do.
One application of Hunt's Cure, how-
ever, relieved my itch and less than a
box cured me entirely."
J. M. WARD, Index, Texas.
ASKING FOR ONE.
He—If we were not In a canoe I
would kiss you.
She—Take me ashore Instantly, air!
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS.
Use the best. That's why they buy Fed
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers 5 cents.
The democratic national convention
concluded its labors late Friday after-
noon by the nomination of John Worth
Kern, of Indiana, for vice president,
completing the ticket on which Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan was made the
nominee for president during the early
hours of the morning.
The nomination of Kern was made
by acclamation amid the resounding
cheers of delegates and spectators. No
ballot was necessary, as the tide ol
sentiment had set irresistibly toward
the Indiana candidate, state after
state registering their delegations in
his favor, and all the candidates with-
drawing before the universal demand
for his nomination.
On the call of states, Indiana pre-
sented the name of Kern; Colorado,
through ex-Governor Thomas, placed
in nomination Charles A. Towne, of
New York; Connecticut presented'Ar-
chibald McNeill, and Georgia, Clark
Howell. The names of Judge George
Gray of Delaware, and John Mitchell
of Illinois, were not presented, owing
to the positive requests of these gentle-
men not to have their names go be-
fore the convention.
The nomination was made at 4:23
o'clock, and the convention thereupon
adjourned without date.
The Oklahoma delegation reached
the highest seat of glory ever attained
by a new state in a national conven-
tion when Governor C. N. Haskel was
unanimously chosen as the chairman
of the committee on platform and res-
olutions, the chief post of honor in the
democratic national convention. This
selection was the personal request ot
Mr. Bryan.
It's surprising how brave the av-
erage man is when there isn't any
real danger In sight.
Smokers appreciate the quality value ol
Lewis' Single Binder cigar. Your dealer
or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
Being bitten by a toothless dog
muBt be a soft snap.
Oklahoma was accorded an honor
that was never before granted any
state in a national convention. It was
given four more delegates than It was
entitled to under the call. The rule has
always been to give each state two
delegates for every representative and
senator In congress. Oklahoma has
five congressmen and two senators.
This entitled her to fourteen dele-
gates. At the democratic state con-
vention eight delegates at large were
chosen instead of four and they were
given a half vote each. When the
delegation reached Denver It found a
chance to get all eight delegates seat-
ed with a full \ote each, and they
went to work. Their argument was
that the federal census just taken
showed that Oklahoma was entitled
to seven congressmen instead of live
««d therefore the representation
should be based on that census. The
committee on credentials took the
same view of It and admitted Oklaho-
ma s eighteen delegates. No other
state has exceeded two for each of Its
members In cougress.
Proof is inexhaustible that
Lydia E. Pinkhara's Vegetable
Compound carries women safely
through the Change of Life.
Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson,
304 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio,
writes to Mrs. l'inkham:
" I was passing1 through the Chance
of Life, and suffered from nervous-
ness, headaches, and other annoying
symptoms. My doctor told me thai
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
fiound was good for me, and since tak-
ng it I feel so much better, anu I can
again do my own work. I never forget
to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound did for me
during this trying period."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
i For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
I ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, lias been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
! women who have been troubled with
1 displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
J periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice,
Hlie has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
PARKtR'S
HAIR BALSAM
01ten«e« and beautlflM the ha!r.
Promotes a lniumnt growth.
Falls to Restore Gray
If air to Its Youthful Color.
Cure* icalp diacaiea ti hair falling.
and ll.nu at Drugglats
DR. A. D. YOUNG
NKRVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES.
OKLAHOMA CITY. i i OKLAHOMA.
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