The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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Tmfi LEADER, QPTITItlE, OKLA., THURSDAY, DETOfBET; 24, 1008.
Established 189.'!. Published every gerpis ho fears to ride in one, murb
Yhursday from 107-107H West Rax less sleep in one of the bunks. Doctor
rtson avenue and entered in the Post Wiley is the same dear, Id, delightful
office at Guthrie, Oklahoma, as second humorist. In private correspondence
class mail matter.
Subscription: |1.00 the year,
variably in advance.
INCREASE IN PRICE
Owing to the rapid advance in the
price of printing material The Leader
in common with many weekly papers
is forced to raise its yearly subscrip-
tion rate.
The price hereafter will bo $1.00
per year.
HEARST A LUXURY.
The 8.1,000 «votes polled for
Hearst ticket cost the taxpayers of the]
United Slates something like $1- per
vote. Is this being fair to all concern
ed, or not somewhat I a luxury, and
by what right do the 83,000 of the in
000,000 American voters ask for th
privilege of having a ticket? If all the
voles were bunched in Nevada it would
carry the state; still thai would noi In
sufficient electoral votes to win either
respect -,r wide attention. It so
to The Leader that Mr. Hearst and his
yellow tactics have cost the average
citizen, both in money and respect
suffieient and the future should be
devoted to preventing like spectacles
bothering those who do not wish to
be bothered with such wild and use
less characters in our national life.
The rights and opinions of Individ
uals are sacred and have the right ot
publicity, but because some suffering
with moral debasement or indigestion
scattered throughout the 1'nion. think
their physical ailments guarantee the
right to run f r president should be no
cause for the general public to total
up a few hundred thousand dollurs ex
penses. If Mr. Hearst and his shoe
polish friend wish to perpetuate their
assininity, they should be required to
give a cost bond, that the taxpaying
public may not bo fleeced, oven th ugh
the sum be trivial.
Great national issues arise and now
parties will follow in their wake.
American citizenship demands those
parties have the same rights as hold
by the old, but the common sense of all
people demand that any ramber of
people of sufficient strength to be
classed as a political division should
have at least enough strength to organ
ize and hold the regular primaries
conventions or delegate meetings lie
fore being placed oil any elective
ballot.
>1 r. Hearst may enjoy traveling
about tl e o untry pretending to mak<
speeches, but ho has no right to force
his fellow-beings to defray expenses
for his teneonter performance.
Wo have become so populous and
have such broad views on the prin
ciple of permitting all men to have a
her.ring thai we pay expenses for
"body of people who take special prld
In disgracing the United States, and
we also, until a president whoso nam<
is revered was slain, permitted th<
priests of anarchy to go with 1 i111«
attempt to oven hoar what they had
to say.
The experience seems more costly
than sh uid bo. and results are against
the law and order element, but each
experience acts as a tonic towards r<
establishing the common sense view
point of affairs, and common sense is
uot a Hearst attribute.
T'fjro 1 L7 JK P"\ L^" I) DOCTOR WILEY. j • j , mathematician to figure
lilE LLrt L/L.IV , (")od 01,1 l)orl 1 Wiley of 1,1,1 Kerm hal be cared f r in the immedi
department of Grandpa Wilson, secre- re future when the millions from t e
BY LESLIE G. NIBLACK ! ,ar>' of agriculture, has declared that overcrowded Central states turn the
Pullman sleeping cars carry so many J once-supposed desert Into an Eden.
Guthrie is the gateway between the
great humid and semi-arid agricultural
domain of the plains; it is so situated
that it could not resist development,
and the backing of ur ]>osltlon witM
the millions of the greatest long dis-
tance railroad system of Hie I nlted
States ig the most splendid Christmas
present received by a city of Oklahoma
In many, many years.
Tills splendid present came as a sur-
prise to the vast majority of the citi-
zens, but it is safe to assert it Is the
most pleasant f surprises, and every
man and woman of Guthrie, of what-
ever means gladly receive the news of
the innovation. It means the building
of great repair shops, roundhouses;
the importation of hundreds f the
highest paid skilled lal>or to man the
shops; train crews to take out t ie
great trains of freight in transit be-
tween the centers of commerce; num-
erous superintendents, dispatchers.,
telegraphers, trackmen, and. In brief
it means a new Guthrie, filled with the
spirit of commerce, and a central re-
gi 11 between the plains and the
Mississippi river, from whence the
consumers come at this time! West
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Ari
be the groat
irrigated states of the Union) will send
eastward their products of t ie surtace
and tlie b wels of the earth—untold
millions, an.| to double and quadruple
from year to year.
Lot public spirit press the advantage,
holding in mind that other great bless-
ings will follow in train if we but do
our part. There are branches to bo
built to th so counties west ot us
without sufficient traffic facilities,
and each time we offer facilities to
reach Guthrie on those sniail lines, 1;
means the great system which has
o|>ened a new era for us can p.ofit
by our endeavor and grant to us the
aid required. Let us be up and doing,
for the hour f our greatest prosperity
Is at hand!
Great Is the Santa Fe, and In Its'
greatness it will bo our greatest aid in
the building of a populous city!
WESTERN ELECTRIC PROUD.
The Western Electric company is
deservedly applauded by all Americans
for its great feat of supplying Paris
France, when that city's telephone sys-
tem was wrecked by a fire that burned
down the building of the Paris com
panv. For one day the managers of
that phone concern pondered. Nov
York is the parent llfice of the West
Vrn Electric company, but at Haw
thorne, a Chicago suburb, is the plant
which does the speed order business
Paris staggered Now York for an or1
dor, five times larger than over befor
given; also wanted quicker than an>
ever delivered. Chicago's spirit an
Chicago brains delivered the order in
Paris Thirty miles I cable was or
dered, and to ship must be unwoun '
and prepared to protect against sa
water, and two days after that rde
was delivered by cable from Paris t
Chicago, it was being loaded at N'ev
York for Paris, the 20-hour tral near
rylng it the 992 miles from Chleag > t<
York for Paris, the 20-hour train fat-
tened across the w.nters.
But the Chicago manager could m
refrain from telling Europe about his
plant and his town. He wanted ti
know if the Paris company could n
take another thirty miles of tllephon
cable, asserting lie would "like to rn
the stock down a trifle before the lat<
December invoice."
That message was truly and simp!
Western American. A house had flli
ed the biggest order every given; fill
ed It with the raw st ck on hand, ai
It is true there were facilities to fil!
another order of some size, but it i •
also per^p'ps true that thirty milc-
more would have staggered even ti
Chicago electrical company.
He that as It may. a manufacture;;
concern that has shipped its stock i
the second city f the world and filh
like lush orders in Japan and at Hi >
.Tanorio, second city of South A merle
is worth Americans giving a free 11
tice.' It Is American enterprise and
ruall that has taken the proud position
of "Commercial Capital" away f;\ m
Liverpool, and made the name of CI'
cago a synonym for grit, courage an
ability to fulfill all requirements.
he let slip tht astounding news that
petrification is well understood, and
when deluged with letters from the
savants of all countries for light on
the topic, responded: "Why 1 ok at It;
it is just turning things into stone."
That graceful answer has put the
d ctor in the treetop of scientific re-
search, and his statement about sleep-
ing cars will cause all poor folk to
thank him, their respectability being
attested by Co Wiley letter warning
lis to stay ut of p.nee of danger. Yes
lnd< oil.
For our offlei: la t.j j '.i the lif t of
their i.r.olllgence il.-ln ! w.. ..1 th so
scientific matters Is highly pleating
Doctor President Roe..-.. \ el., re-
membered, says degs do not either
luugli or smile, and of course there
will be no one gainsay the scientist;
not because dogs do not smile, but be
cause all have a displeasure In being
called a liar and otherwise abused.
WORTH STUDYING.
Sunday's Oklahoman carries an ed
itorial every mossback and. townbulld-
er should read. Much of the state-
ment is true, and all worth time to
read. It filows:
Whether It is the result of united
effort persistently followed among its
citizens, or another manifestation of
pot-luck, Guthrie is soon 10 be made
sand tunnelling and then the wider OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to compel state to sell aie ho! ami fill
and deeper the attempt to make the O O .'scrip:i.wis have been filed in the
channel, the more millions of tons t' O VAGRANT VERSE. O Supremo court on appeal from District
this most despicable of all earthly for O Oje rut. Sunreme court will hear the
mat ions to handle will be removed be OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cases Jan. 21. * |,«
i, oearies struck by train at
THE VINE ON THE SPOUT
fore even the semblance of a perma-1
nent channel can be commenced.
American persistency and ingenuity
have won mlgity triumphs, and pos-
sibly they wl.l triumph in the canal
tlpi Santa Fe pjisstfiiger division p.int project, but certain it is that we have
in Oklahoma, supplementing the^eady spent thrice the sum the first
freight division already held. Th< .jjtlniate of cost amounted to, and the
Arkansas City division point, It is an Mart has been little more than made.
GOOD CITIZENS.
While wo are all agitating the build
ing of cities and rallreuuls perhaps it j zona, (the last two to
1 would be well to remember that a
splendid, progressive farming com-
munity brings all of those other bless-
ings as fast if not more rapl lly than
any other one thing. People the val-
leys and rich uplands of Oklahoma
with progressive farmers who love
their homes and desire to have their
places improved for the comforts of
life, and you will have accomplished
one of the things which will insure
honest government, progress and a
spirit that will iu the end Inure to
the general good.
The new lands of the eastern sec-
tion and the ever-Increasing produc
ilveness of western Oklahoma moan
that we are ready for many fnousand
families of agriculturists, and they
will eventually take a most Import-
ant part In the development of our
state. Moreover, the need of the
farmer will bring transportation faci-
lities, for the moving of the great
crops annually produced Is the groat
est enterprise the corporate institu-
tions have to meet, and they meet it
in spite of agitation or the wild state
ments of wilder people.
The railroads are now conducting
excursions throughout the Southwest
and we aire to receive many thous-
ands of visitors. Let us meet those
sturdy sons of agriculture fairly and
with full intent to olTer to them all
that can be had elsewhere and the
returns will be indeed good for all con
corned.
JOINSTISTS BEWILDERED.
Judge Bert Van Leuven of Nowata
•ounty seems able to enforce prohi
bltlon without the aid or consent of an-
legislative enactment. When the news
of the Blllups bill being battlowhanged
through the medium of the dispensary
was received at Nowata the j.int men
prepared for business and were getting
things moving along the old lerritoria
lines—open sale of liquors alleged to
be liquor, but in truth a slander even
igalnst intoxicants. When Van Leu
von got ready for the c ntest he
promptly padlocked tihe doors and
Mfled owners of the b'llldinirs thei
former tenants were public nuisances;
oat jill leases hail expired by open.
1 ion of the court, and that said wn
•rs must not re-lease to said tenants
The campaign was not long nor were
thousands of troops in the form of
urt bailiffs engaged, but that it was
decisive victory for the jurist Is at-
tested by the' opponents in language
with the phrases punctuated by such
.voids as do not add to the beauty of
speech or equanimity of mind.
The howl in the form of supplicatl r,
md petition to have the Judge rebel 11
rom the position he lias taken was
met with the rather brusque response
that newspaper reporters are the prop
•r persons to relate news to. Intimating;
his was a e urt of action that is not
onducted for tie glorification or
peace of mind of joint keepers. Those
alert and versatile gentlemen' whi oj
mted In the Indian Territory in op
position to Federal laws have found
<n Judge Van Leuven a man who be
lievos people who obey the laws an
mi tit led to first c nsideration. And in
that positi 11 his opinion is backed by
ill who are bending their eiiegrles to
make of Oklahoma a state whore jus
tlce and liberal-nilndodness unite for
the betterment of society. Enforce
ment of laws has been no easy task
BUSINESS.
If the people of the state really wish
to form a business association that
will look after the business interests
of the vari us cities and see thai nil
are dealt with fairly, letting each com-
mercial club of the cities :o.jk after
local Interests and examine Into what
is best adapted to that pe< uliar iocali-
ty. The Leader will weVome and give
open and unbounded >ra so for such an
Institution. It should be fashioned at
tor the Portland or Denver associa-
tion, and be utilized for the further
ance of Oklahoma prosperity. Work-
ing through the central body, tin
manufacturer of material requiring
wo d could be placed in the gicat
southeast, timber belt; the workers in
the clays could bo sent to the wester
districts, whilst those requiring much
fuel would be sent to the oil and gas
belt. Such an association, properly
conducted, w uld be in touch with ev-
ery manufacturer in the United State--
and have all conditions of the state at
hand. In six months it would be the
barometer of business in the entire
state, and fair conduct of its affair *
would win it perpetuity. Its vice p;esi
dents would represent eac'h eomnier
club affiliating, and the secreta
w uld act as one man. The board of
control, of necessity, would be small
that immediate action cou.d be taken
011 all ordinary matters. As to po!lc>
tln board of directors w uld determln-
such, but the secretaries w uld l><
the busy people, each of the vari
ous co-ordinate branches pulling .'it
the same purpose and backed by the
whole p wer of commerce through
out the state. In such manner and
along these lines Denver pulled Colo
rado out of t'he rut in the late Nine
ties, and Portland. Oregon, throuei.
Tom Richardson, has bee me th<
booster center of the United States
the club owning sufficient property t.
make its word good anywhere to an;
responsible pers 11 who desires to ac
copt the statements through this me
Hum of advancing the state's oppor
tunitles to the ouslde world.
An institution of this kind would fine
little opportunity t discuss pas* er
rors or to chide those who made them
It would lie the duty of the associatlor
to remedy the mistakes by avoidane
and t get so busy with the work 0
developing Oklahoma that all possl
blllty of friction between the mem
hers would be eliminated. In a state'
which has sufficient surface possiuili
ties to care for at least 2,500,000 mor<
nounced, is to be transferred.
if the Guthrie newspapers are not
deceiving us in this matter, the acqui-
sition of the- Santa Fe <11vision head-
quarters is the best evidence of gexiel
f rtune which *ias yet befallen their
city. It me>ans more as a force In town-
building—more new residents, more
new homes, more of the elements
which build up a city—than anything
which has fallen Guthrie's way iu re
cent years. The retention of the state
capital can scarcely be compared to
it in value as a population stimulant
and business b omer.
Ten years ago Guthrie ami Okiane>-
111a City wore each cities of approxl
mately 7.000 population. If anything
Guthrie was the better of the two
towns. It possessed a decided ad-
If the cllier work e-osts proportionately
we will have a canal 1 hat will be in-
debted to the first five Hundred geuer-
sti 11s for it* making, and likely to be
useless w hen made.
Anothe r feature must be considered:
Tills is the age of commerce, it Is true,
but also the age of progress. The-.ro
is not the least likelihood die present
method of travel will be in vogue fifty
years from n w. and the sedutiou of
aerial navigation will make it rather
a slow and unprofitable Journey to go
by the sea when the storehouse e>f
nature is being tapped by tihose who
travel by electric and air routes to and
fr. 111 the scenes of their labors.
WOMAN PROTESTS.
As upon the wings of truth, proph-
vantage in future possibilities, having! esy fulfilling, conies the Oklahoma
the seat of territorial government and
vigorous bulsness activity.
About that time- the territory began
moving forward In all lines. Railroads
began numerous extensions, home-seek
ers flockoel in. and business expansion
was apparent, ou every hand.
Oklahoma City realized that the
time* had arrived for a decision upon
her part as to whether she would re
main a sleepy e-emnty seat town or
roach out and become the metropolis
f this extensive region of natural
riches. Which course she chose we*
are not called upon to say. The re
suits speak more eloquently than any
words of ours.
At the same time Guthrie decided to
not only hold haul and fast tj capital
honors, but also stake her all upon
that factor as u town builder. From
that day to this her citizens have
sundered every consideration to this
end and rested up 11 their oars.
In the ten years following Gutnrie
has dm bled in population, which is
not a bad showing, while Ok.ahi/ina
City has developed into a metropolis
of 50,000 people. I11 the llrst instance
the result, is traceable tj the one idea
in town building while in the other
it is the legitimate fruits of going after
every good thing in sight.
If the people of Guthrie ever awaken
to the fact that capital honors alone
never built a city, they may yet become
the second city f the new state.
where the old wlnked-atv iolator-en- inhabitants than it now possesses, an.:
f rcer-farco of departmental govern- thlr<1 ,:1 lhe ln lnilloml ,
ment held «, so long and some first, bmt|e8, „ 8eems lo Th„ Lealer / .
' m " K(', '! '""'"ie wasted by a commercial or
Umven. n Ms Montana style w,II b. gan|zlltion ,n other ,han the portraVil.
'If powerful assistance In ajvancing|0f 0 r development possibilities, listinv
hat branch of educational work.
THE GREAT SANTA FE.
Perhaps this the greatest eomnier
al week in the history f our country
a bad time to ask consideration foi
new ventures, still the opportunity is
it hand to do some wonderful things
or Guthrie and Oklahoma t he coming j preserve1 11
iew m nths. and they are of such mag 1 this cheap
tiitude to challenge the attention of al
citizens. The Santa Fe is already do
■•>g so much we are happy over th«
prospects that are lo make of Guthrie
the gateway of the Santa Fe South
needs and ascertaining the rlgh
parties to aid us in making .f tlies'
natural opportunities what nature m
tended, would be almost criminal.
It is not an exaggeration to say w<
can multiply the crops of the state by
ten; that we can quadruple our out
put of e al; use the gas for fuel and
coal and wood, and with
el, splendid clays and
otheM- natural materials open a 1 1011
sand factories with an average labor
capacity of fifty men each day, thus
providing for at legist 200,000 people
The pr duct of the factories, to
REFUSED BURIAL.
Muskogee furnishes a human inter-
est story worthy of mention If one
can be worth suih. A woman, guilty
of no greater fault than laving mar
lied a man who was improvident and
ill. ami wh i failed, of course, to save
money, sent for a friend and related a
story almost unbelieveable. Recent 1\
a child, but a few years old. died and
at the same time the father and bus
band was a corpse iu Kansas City. The
woman secured an undertaker, whe
prepared the child for burial, but, find
ing the woman was without funds,
took his casket back to the st re. re-
fusing to rllow the use of same. Tv<
mother was ill in bed, and unable ti:
get away from the home. Some Mus
kogee people of means heard the st ry
and secured a coffin for the dead
child and it was given burial.
That undertaker deserves the oppro-
brium of his neighbors. The actual j
cost of a casket of that make is less
than seven elollars. and to take the
b dy of the dead from a coffin wnen
the mother Is sick and unable tc
liiiove hand or foot is a trifle more
than the average person can endure
without protest. While 110 one ex
poets undertakers to furnish burial
caskets free, it is supposed all f them
will be kind and treat those who have
been bereaved by death with some lit
tie courtesy. Especially where a
mothqr whose past life is spotless and
who is afflicted with mental and
bodily pain asks for a little aid sh uld
the milk of human kindness run rich
and clear for whoso can be of aid. The
coffin had no < ost so expensive as the
loss of neighborly respect and then
may s une day come a time a hen ever
the most cruel will pray for ..umaii for-
giveness.
t us pray that theie may be no
repetition of this ease of cruelty in
Oklahoma. There is too much surplus,
too much idle money and to) much
wealth for the bodies of our babies te
rot in the rooms by the side of sick
mothers. Perhaps the undertaker, wh
was fearful of losing the thirteen dol-
lars he asked for the casket may see
error of his case; anyhow let us
trust lie will do so and at the earliest
sslble moment.
Lady, Aidniore. protesting hard
against the handling of murderers in
the courts. The Leader foretold the
voice of womankind would be lifted
•gainst the prevailing custom of hand
ling the people who slay with full
provision for their enjoyment. Head
the protest and ponder over it:
•The individuals at the head of a
newspaper are known to be (and nec-
essarily so) a very inquisitive sort of
people. It Is their business to pub
lisli the news, unearth facts and, with-
out fear, favor or prejudice, to stand
for the right. Therefore, without any
apo!e gy to any one, we have a few
words to say in regard to the Turner
mun ;er case. This is the case whore
the jury was out only an hour and fif-
teen minutes and returned a verdict
of murder I11 the first degree with a
penality of ninety-nine years in the
penitentiary.
"We do not pretend to pose as a
legal light, but if we have be^en cor-
rectly informed, this is the second
murder this man lia.s committed, with
n third man maimed for life, to his
oreuHl or rather utter discredit Then
we say it were better to abid: by the
late decision of the court and save
< arter county the expense of another
trial.
"W by is it considered right and just
for men of the best legal ability to
strain every nerve and take advan-
tage of every jKissible or probable er-
ror, a 11,1 twist the law to make it 1
near the very opposite of what it
intendel to convey, just to save 1
murderer's life or give him his lit>
erty, when all the penvors of right and
the blood of his victim cry aloud for
justice.
(Rill Jones.)
Deep in the heart of the city
She washes and irons all day;
Her tired old hands are shaky and
thin,
And her hair, once yellow, is gray.
She stands near a window to labor,
And every few niemients looks out
And murmurs, "Youre mine" to the
small thickly vine
Tnat's climbing the old water spout.
She waters It well in the twilight,
And tenderly touches the leaves
And they nod In the zephyrs that
sometimes get lost
So far from the grass and the trees.
R'.ie knows every tendril it carries.
Each bud Is a care, without doubt,
For she loves with a Imart that is
sent from above—
That vine 011 the old water spout.
She is wrinkled ami tired.
Her children have left her. I know.
To fight life's battle e nce again;
^ She fought it for them long ago.
Friendless, alone, uncherlshed,
Her mother love will not die out,
So she croons and old tune, all the
long afterneion
Tei the old vine on the old water
8 pout.
Tt may be the world, doesn't need her,
It may be the world eloesn't care
For the* lonely old soul whose eyes are
so dim.
Whose voice is as thin as her hair.
It may be the world has forgotten —
And yet I haven't a doubt
God planted that seed—for He saw
there was need
For the vine on file old water .- pout.
IT'S
A PRETTY GOOD PLAN
FORGET IT.
TO
If you see a tali fell w 'ahead of the
crowd,
A leader of men, marching fearless
and proud.
And you know of a tale whose mere
telling aloud
Would cause his proud head to in an-
guish be bowed.
If s a pretty go d plan to forget it.
If you know of a skeleton hidden
away
In a closet, and guarded and kept from
the day.
In the dark; whose showing, whose
sudden display,
ild cause griel
long dismay,
It's a pretty go el plan to forget It.
If
spot in the life
11 know of
friend.
"There seems to be 110 thought for ' a!l ,iavo sucl1 sP°ts concealed
the innocent ones who must suffer for 1 w°rld without end),
the acts of the human vampires. I ^l03° touching his heartstrings would
"No one is rushing around to sec- ' , Play on and rend,
ure big sums of money to provide j f'10 shame of its showlgn 110 griev-
for tiio murdered man's widow and ins n,end.
orphaned children. They hr.ve done i k s a P,e^.v tfo d plan to forget it,
nothing, it seems, that their lives
shoul | be protected. And, fatherless j If -von know f a ft ing that will darken
and penniless, they are turned out to !
face the world alone. ! Of a 111011 or a woman, a girl or a
"Oil Justice, Justice! how manv ! l>oy.
crime.-, are committt 1 in thy name!" ' That w*'l wipe out a smile or the least
way annoy
men; fatally hurt.
Gov. Haskell will issue twenty-eight
Christmas pardons.
Lawrence Newton fed his hand to
saws In Ada epuon gin. 1
Little Roe-k Oil Co , at Tuliw struck
1,000 barrel oil poof:
State Hoard of Control has taken no
aetion 011 Barnard rep rt
Odd Fellows hall at Guortle being
used for first term of court.
Jury in case of James Leusby, wife
killer, disagreed at El Reno.
\\ ilson Brown shy one arm. Fooled
with inaehinery in Mounds gin.
James Stephenson case cemiinued at
Norman. Toe> much bad feeling.
Tom Owens. Muskogee, fltfye d city
ot'icials for law non-enf rceuient.
Chester, son Cad Allard, Chickasha,
thrown from horse. Seriously hurt.
Dr. Kelso tired of newspaper bus!
ness. alter three weeks; wants to sell.
Oklahoma City boosters sending
bands of men over state sc.ling Capital
addition lots.
One hundred more convicts to be
transferred from Lansing to MeAles
ter. Temporary pen has 100 inmates.
Attorneys for C. II. Watson of IDu
rant, charged with murder, filed appli-
cati 11 of writ of habe-<!r corpus with
Court of Criminal Appeals alleging evi-
dence did not show preponderance of
guilt existed, and that prisotaer Is en-
tiled to bond. Presiding Judge Furinan
issued writ returnable Dec. 1! .
War waging 11 "game-hog."
Chickasha building new city hall.
Knid • to have new J..U7.C00 hotel
Hotel men meet at. Clint n, Jan. 12.
Noble postofflce lifted for $300 by
yegs.
Crusade against bad eggs at Chick-
vote high school
Oklahoma City.
as a
cause any gladness
l fellow, ol-
eic y,
It's a pretty go d plan to forget it.
HUMAN INTEREST INDEED.
Mr. \Y. A. Stone of llniontown. j
Pennsylvania, has 3.s much audacity!
as one rdinary mortal can cope with
and survive tie ta.sk. On the fourth!
"I December the press association car I
nod a notice his wife had left hemie 1 £ ^ ^ _ B
baia,;^!.hii;ir':u,,s:;„^?d1Ir,ir| stah briefs ■
army .,1 ii(vr!'Kmory'Ma,'-nl!' tars,™" !
said ho would forgive the woman be-! ...
cause of the motherless children A i Klowa county has no federal liquor
Utter f circulars and descriptions fol-H®®n8ec-
lowed, and it transpires that Brer Mangum women's club "devouring"
Stone has much wealth. In fact his ! Brow"inS-
wife brought him a fortune and until' "obart merchants resoluted against
he can get her b>ck to Unbntown.; 8traRe,t [akirs-
have her declared Insane and sent to . . '!. U1" I)eniocrat mentions a
an asylum, Stone can do little with the i "q"iet" wedding.
property in the way of disposal. He I 0 new business blocks being
Shawnee is I
bonds.
Sheriffs meet
Jan. 11.
Fish commission stocking Oklahoma
streams.
Geo. Burton, Pot. county, 10 years,
pardoned.
Penalty f r paying cash fares Is a
new ruling.
Tulsa offers big bonus to St. Louis
packing house.
Grady county farmers holding cotton
for higher price.
Rock crushers for McAlester prison
work are ordered.
Will Warren, slayer of K. J. Graves,
at O. <\, exonerated.
Work on new 10-story Lee hotel be-
gun at Oklahoma City.
Go>v. and Mrs. Haskell will spend
Christmas in Shawnee.
Curfew law b< ing enforced at Nor-
man and Oklahoma City.
Spaulding Female college, Musko-
e, suspends. No funds.
Hayes county asks $150,000 bond Is-
sue for roads and bridges.
Willie Warren shot at a rabbit and
killed his sister at Fairview.
Under Sheriff Goodman, Sallsaw. ac-
cidentally shot his little girl.
OOOOOOUOUCOOOQOOO
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PANAMA.
At last the light of reason dawns cn
tho Panama enthusiasts.' It is now a
question of whether or not the cam!
project can ever be iinished. For fifty
years the Panama scheme has been
the dream of those w 10 wanted a
sh rt water route from the Atlantic'
to the Pacific and they would have
been at work long tig 1 had it net beer,
for the intrepid Morgan, of Alabama,
undoubtedly the hardest and most pro-
way of disposal.
pledges $2,100 reward for kn wiedge.
and adds there Is no crime charged
against either her or Martin. Stone
is one of those unfortunates who can
be listed as shrewd but unwise.
Should Mrs. Stone be found, alone or
in c mpany with .Mr. Devil Satan, if
vil! be an act of Christian mercy to
show her the pathway that loads so
Mr from Stone he may never know
whether she be alive or dead. Mr.
Stone1 s ease is too clearly one of hav-
ing a strong and tender passi.n for
his wife's property and In case she Is
sent back to his tender mercies he will
have or confined in a state institution
and live on the
erected at Durant
Greer county scene of eight marri-
ages in three days.
Catoosa let contract for new Metho-
dist church edifice.
Broken Arrow people met In protest
against bootlegging.
Okeene Leader: Dick Molden proud
possessor tw.; baby bears.
Shade Johnson, Snyder negro, com-
mitted burglary; committed to jail.
Ponca City, Dec. 21.: Courier dis
pleased with state administration.
Henry Bryant and Hazel Douglas
visited Stillwater and were married.
Sensational item Okeene Leader:
Acs.. I he road w" ieh eoverel the old j nothing of the clerks, merchants an
Sauta Fe trail and pened the door of | commercial salesmen required to dit
of the output, would be of Incal
hope to the schooner pilgrim of other
Jays, has now arrived at die plan
■vhere one line of travel .s lr.sufflclen
for Its great main line from the Con
ral states to the Coastal regions, am
luthrle is t be the great froigh
route—the commercial capital of the
Santa Fe Southwest! Great as av<
>eeu 1 [it) deeds of the Santa Fe feu
Guthrie, the 'immediate future vil
make them seem small in comparison
found student of the
this country has produced.
Morgan always held the
route was not feasible, and 1
years he was 1 e champion
The ramifications can I Nicarauga canal; distance .vi;
oulable value
not be traced, but the carpenters
lathers, plasterers, and the innumer
able others who will be called here ;
care for all tliese things will make Ok
lahonja second to no state in the Union
in 1 be caring of her resources.
All these matters could be- liar.dlei'
better if in eo-operati n,, an.I
tralized commercial
position
Senator
Pa 11 a ni".
ir many
of
g g!
ie estate brought by mar ! 11 takes m°ney to run a newspaper,
liage with her. ! Kingfisher man and didn't-know-lt
was-Ioaded fool met; man will recover.
C. T. Runyon laboring with wicked
in Hennessey revival, but progress
ixxjr.
Twc-yoar-old child ■ f Mr. and Mrs
Thomas Hoskins, Granite, fell into fire.
Death resulted.
Six Yukon* landlubbers, boating on
Canadian river, went to sleep. All
wore saved before being drowned.
"Bill" Darnell, Foss marshal, order-
lhe pe pie are saying tliev are tired rd keep boys off Rock Island trains;
of the teachers, who hive i..« interest "Bill" is busy; boys still climb trains,
but the money. Charles Horn. Chickasha machinist,
assaulted and skull crushed; Clyde
Mr. J hn F. Anderson is trying to Taylor, helper, arrested 011 charge of
get charge of the U. B. Fs. of Okla assault.
lioma. Guthrie people are attending to their
' 1 1 But John you have run against a rapidly expanding commercial affairs.
•1-1 snag when you ran against Prof. Do- Such places as have no eommerc
ot Lancy and Mr. Johnson. tN>y are all spend their time lying about Guthrie.
AFRICAN LION'S OBSER-
VATIONS TO DATE.
Case of Mr. Anderson, Who Sta-ids cn
His Own Bottom.
The "African Lion" roars one? again
in his might. This week he says iu
the Guide:
be
a tiding
i dowr
dozent
peal for help, sa
dustrial army it
President Taft has been able, so fa
t get his cabinet officers without vi
iting local Republican tents for spec- When we consider that the freight I work along these lln
mens. The rumor that Colonel Doug- from the slope of the F ' '
las. of Muskogee, is to be appointed the rain belt that is but
minister to Bopeep is as yet unconfirm- of miles u«ost of this city, surpasses
ed. Mr. Flynn will be sent to Mad. hundred fold the commerce betw
gascar r Timbuetoo. That Is. If h< j Salt Lake and Fort Leavenwort
bo sent anywhere. thirty years ago, the wonderful changi
~ I is easily underst rod. The value
President-elect Tait has decided t | freight products from the Irrigated re
1 glein of Colorado alone exceeds that of
deal up
Electric lights for Pawnee.
Muskogee saloons closed again.
Natural gas 'lias reached Shawnee.
Dig gusher brought In at Holden
\*11
Big strike of lead on Sixklller farm
near Tulsa.
Shawnee-Tocumsoh county seat
en j
of I
place Kansas Fiv.d Co burn in his <
, man was at fault. New York can fur I
, nish more candidates for the asylum washed thos
net, in order to prevent the man tel.- all the country west of the hundredth than her large population pr portion was created. Mll.Ioas of dollars
meridian thirty seven years ago. it re- ately entitles her to hav
nig bigger whops about Kansas crop.-
er dul more within tne Sou
ri*i\ "• . I l iglit and right will w'n
lhe short cut across the Panama
s'hmns he?, ot course, always appeal- Mr. Anderson seem !
ti to the short sighted pallida who on his own li ttom.
j imagine it is as easy to tunnel through)
IJed quicksand as mountains, because the C311 t tore be anything
cor sand fe easy td push a shovel into. | creek?
dy that w|lljBnt ; ♦ fact's are that tnis Panama) ' ,
will neve.- a,,-j route has been explored thoroughly.! The people of Oklahoma would
Zm ,'llw nil/i"' r - '" L"«'ll,'ei's 13 Hammond and; laiher trust Miss Barnard's judgement fight bitter.
" stalt Oklahoma jCcrvalijo have pronounced it imprac;! on what cruelty Is than any warden of Hoy Jacobs,
r'v; , V° 1 ••""sards >i m:i ot dirt a slate penitentiary who has served horse. Dead.
I Hen hv n'c'ulphrJ ..rMmtTln. "T '' " ' ,on" year The people know they are Mrs. Li la Meadows, slashed by hua
bitten b> a ulebia lii-ninains .«i • a cypher {void f any human kind ii' • - ti,.... i ko«.i .v.
ith the bottom If ' *
V... Y ... „un fl„, I.,,, h, ,, hl"e'!,lme Went s:,l0°" "'1 sot I'll kogee, reunited.
'' ' s ' i,avv to a fight an was knocked down and Pawnee city council
shores since before man left unconsei ns and when he came to proveuient bonds.
imself he said boys didn't we have ai Dispensary eases broug'lit by Alex-
ander Drug company and B. F. Berkley
A New York woman wa
hyena w.iich is confined at the zoo, I com
Lawton, kicked by
aud the animal's keeper says the wo-j sands near the u rthern coast"^'line!'wh-" "b0"t * ^ 8enator ^ Brooke and wife' 5,118
id $50,000 ini-
be spent to even commence this quick . ge od time
I
The Trusting Girl.
The Southwest (Ft. Smith) Ameri-
can, in a iretrospective glance at evils
observed in many localities, preaches
a wholesome sermon worth more than
pages of fulsome flattery of social
customs:
Some women in tile Middle West
are seeking to save from electrocution
a young mother who killed the brute
that betrayed her.
An Indiana widow is suing a 56-year
old millionaire who ruined her 13-year
old daughter.
Eery day, in every state In the
Union, this hideous crime e)f seduc-
tion of young, ignorant and helpless
girls forces itself prominently into
the news.
B is not a pleasant subject to think
about. It Is considered a "delicate one
to discuss above a whisper.
Flourishing In the shadow of false
modesty and protected by Science, it
has become one of the commonest
crimes of the times, and one of the
farthest-reaching in heart-breaking
results.
Murder of the poor victim, 'resorted
to in se> many notorious cases, Is not
the worst outcome.
To many a loving, trusting girl,
awakening to the horror-haunted
realization of her deception, It Is
death that is kind, and life that Is
Intolerably cruel.
More common even than her mur-
der hy her deceiver, to cover up his
more cowardly orime, is her own sul-
ckle, to hide her shame.
.More to be pitied, more deserving
<>t charitable consideration, ami more
in noe l of sympathetic help, than any
other sinner In this world, Is the un-
guide.i, inexperienced, credulous girl
who leairns only through the hardest
of lessons that lust Is not love, and
that the seeming lover with sweet
won is of affection md faithfulness on
his tongue can be a beast at heart.
It is hard for the Ignorant, innocent
girl to beiie've that the1 older man
who fascinates her through bis flat-
tering attentions and seductive words
of love can be a liar and selfish
schemer.
And 'when, through the strange
sweet intoxication of her first love,
she idealizes him into perfection of
truth and loyalty, and feels that any
sacrifice she may make to him is but
poor return for his devotion she Is
as helpless in his hands as a new-
born oabe.
All the more pitiful If the girl be
motherless!
Many a poor girl whose mother
lives Is motherless in this matter, be-
cause tae parent iileems it indelicate
te> talk with a daughter of such tilings
And when the horror of her situa-
Hon breaks upon hec, the unmother-
e*I "as none to turn to but th.)
man who has wronged her; and in
him She can meet only unfortunate
marriage, desertion, death or dis-
grace.
Tne murders from this cause we
may count. The desertions e may
estimate nut the unhappy niarrl-
\ t""1"8 111 'llvorce or continuing
In lifelong misery, no one can knou.
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