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If you love good music, heat- the
great chorus of El Reno people sing
the Cantata Qneen Esther at the < on-
{{relational church next Thursday and
Friday night*. Admission cents.
The boy scout idea ma> be a
popular one no . but wait for the
harvi st A bOJ's plscc is at home
with his parents Time will prove
that it :s only a step from the boy
scout to the man tramp.
Five boy scouts with all the in-
stincts and ;tvt rage aspirations of the
boy scout, were arrested yesterda\
for putting obstructions on the rail-
road track calculated to ditch a train.
The court seriously considered knock-
A NEW STI NT.
Our city "government infact,"
pulled off a stunt this morning on the
public streets of the city that has
not been witnessed before since the
halcyon days of John Hudspeth. A
city prisoner was chained up by the
leg to the rear of a street cleaning
wagon, so that when the wagon goes, | looking for an automobile
the prisoner walks and when the
wagon stops the prisoner flops and
down comes city dignity, prisoner and
all. Verily the world do move. Here
is terrorism and monarchy for you,
ing the boy scout idea out of them
by sending them to the state reforma- that w0„id bring the blush of shame
tory. It was very apparent that they t0 j^ero or old Tiberius
are headed in the right direction for warned the people that
habits, and gradually motorists will!
learn that others have rights the> |
are bound to respect.
Also, it would bf most unfair to
' intimate this motor madness and
i cruelty are common to all automo-
{bile drivers. The reverse is true;
| it is uncommon, and most dfivers are
' careful, and deplore the recklessness
of the few as much as those who go
I afoot. Indeed, some are more than
careful; they are heroic. Right here
in Atchison the other day, a driver
jammed his car into the curbing,
damaging it and risking injur> to
himself, to avoid running over a tiny
tot who ran into the street without
or seeing
it. Such examples of courage and
self-sacrifice occur often enough. 110
doubt. It is another phase of the old
rule that bad news travels farther
and faster than good.
CLUBS
the penitentiary or the gallows.
The public no doubt will want to
know what heinous crime the young
fellow who was chained up behind a
wagon and team this morning, had
committed. Was it for accepting a
rake off from bootleggers? No. Was
it for running a house of prostitu-
tion? No. Was it for running a gam-
bling hell? No. Was it for highway
robbery? No, worse than that. Was
it for shooting up the town and en-
dangering the lives of people? Worse
than that. Well, what has he done.
He had committed the nameless
crime of peddling without a license.
We have j
our new |
fangled government was monarchical
and despotic in its tendencies and we
again ask what better proof of the
assertion than the public spectacle of
a human being chained to a moving
dung wagon.
SC1SSORETTED I'ARAGRAl'HS.
ATHENAEUM CLUB MEETS.
•Mrs. H. K. Ricker was hostess yes-
terday afternoon to a very interest-
ing meeting of the Athenaeum club.
The afternoon was given over to
Mother's day, and on this occasion
many mothers and grandmothers
were additional guests.
Roll call was responded by "Moth-
ers in History."
Song—Mrs. H. L. Fogg.
"Advice of Aztec Mother to Her
Child"—Mrs. Matthews.
Piano Solo—Mrs. L. 15. Myers.
Paper—Mrs. J. H. Naill.
gong—Mrs. A. O. Cromer.
.Reminiscences -Club guests and
club.
After the program light refresh-
ments were served.
A few
tion."
able
Vitellius, the glutton emperor of
Rome, who publicly proclaimed on his
ascension to the throne, that vice
and not. virtue should be the only
passport to royal favor, use to drag
people through the streets chained
to his royal chariot. That was in the
dark ages of the world. It may be
refreshing to people of El Reno to
know, that in less than ten months
from the day that he was proclaimed
mayor of Rome, by the bootleggers
and ballot box stuffers, that he was
chained to his own vehicle and drag-
ged to his own death by his own
subjects. The whirligig of time
brings its own revenges.
WORSE THAN BLOOD MONEY.
Dr. Scott P. Childs, chairman of
the board of censors of the Medical
Society of Kansas City, made the i fuel here, a
startling charge of a ghoulish prac-1 to buy coal,
tice of certain physicians and sur-
geons of that city which ought to
make telegraph pole ornaments of
them without the benefit of the
clergy. In a paper read before the
society. Dr. Childs made the charge
publicly that local physicians in and
around Kansas City were in the habit
of urging upon their patients the
necessity for surgical operations,
when it was unnecessary in order to
share in the fee which the surgeon
charged for the operation. He
fee splitting is a common
with some surgeons in order to get
business and that as a result of the
infamous practice, exorbitant fees are
charged, unnecessary operations per-
formed and human life often sacri-
ficed.
It certainly bespeaks a sad condi-
tion of public morals when commer-
cialism and graft will lay its foul
hands on the medical profession and
cause a certain class of its members
to speculate in human life and human
misery. It is no wonder we have our
Dr. Hydes in the medical profession
and oiir Reverend Richesons in the
pulpit on trial for murder
"These tight skirts the women
wear," remarked Ike Pulver, "Heat
Duncan Clark all-holler, if a woman
tries to tie her legs in a knot when
she sits."—Bristow Record.
If we were in a timbered coun-
try we would be saying. "Wanted
loads of wood, 011 subscrip-
But as there is 110 wood for j
few dollars with which j
will be quite as accept-1
Headrick Leader.
The author of "Sweet Marie" is re-
ported to be penniless and a physical
wreck. Now if we can hear how the
author of "Casey .Tones" is getting
along there might be cause for re-
joicing among a lot of downtrodden
American citizens.—-let Visitor.
The editor of the Cherokee Re-
publican says he is "like unto a
says j bibical character" in that he has a
practice j Democratic contemporary located on
each side of him in Cherokee. What
else do you want, Walt; a "crown of
thorns and a cross of gold.' and a
Brvan book?- Jet Visitor
We believe we have the best na-
tured postmaster in the country, and
the most accommodating, but it
seems as though some one had been
working on his generosity, as he has
the following sign posted up in the
I postoffice. "We are three weeks in
i arrears 011 our job of licking stamps,
CHRESTOMATHEAN CLUB.
The Chrestomathean club met at
the home of Mrs. L. O. Higgins of
South Barker avenue yesterday after-
noon. with a good attendance. The
I following program was carried out
Roll Call—"Interesting Facts in
t.he Tjives of Famous Rulers of
I China."
Regular history lesson.
Magazine study, "Hong Kong, the
I Southern Gateway of China."
Mrs. W. H. Martin and Mrs. H. A.
Dever ha\-e been selected club dele-
gates to the meeting of the Oklahoma
Federation of Woman's clubs which
begins this afternoon in Chickasha
and continues until Saturday of this
week.
The C. P. club was entertained at
the home of Miss Eva Dowell, 806
South Rock Island avenue, yesterday
evening. About sixteen members
were present, and the hours were
pleasantly spent in dainty needle-
work, and social chat. Dainty
freshments were enjoyed.
re-
The Sterling Thimble club will hold
a regular meeting at the home of
Mrs. G. C. Hippie of West Wade
street.
so please do your own
rah News.
licking.—Har-
Vl T< >M<)BI LE REGULATION
A speed maniac is not a thing of
Presi-
in the
El Reno is slow, very slow, to
obey the ordinary impulses that
move the mob to action. If it were
not so many outrages against the
taxpayers would long since have
born fruit. But the spectacle this
morning, of a human being chained
up by the leg to the rear of a moving
wagon was more than human nature
could stand. The impulses that move
the heart of the mob to action, were j beauty. Neither is he a joy forever,
fanned to a blaze in a very short even to himself, for he isn't likely the executive chair 111
time, and unless the victim of this to last that long. The reckless motor t :h^not it th.? . :secutive chair. n
that blaze would have bum into a £ exl.tenceno louger, but On. ha.u jl-,' u'ei"'1 fc.-"wUdcIh of seven,men,
recklessness. Police either ignore
the speed limits as much as the
drivers do, or else the scorchers are
let out with a warning or a nominal
fine. In New York, a few severe
It appears very much as if
dent Taft is to have a seat
extreme rear in the approaching cam-
paign. Taft is, we believe, thorough-
ly honest, but he belongs
on the
The \ . G. I. G. club will give a
line party Friday to witness Queen
Esther at the Congregational church
conflagration of rage, that might not
have stopped this side of violence.
It is well the police took the hint
and sent the victim back to the city
jail when they did.
I grinding.
like smil
from Tribum
A fat man with an
-oh. take it awav!
infant
Ren-
\l.
i sentences have been imposed, where
fatalities result from trying to burn
a streak of atmosphere by rapid
up
WARNING AGAINST MUNICH
OWNERSHIP.
The Lincoln, 111., News-Herald - But even in that commun-
says: "This newspaper has consist- rUUon; ™ ,.(,H are murh rarfir
ently and at all times opposed the l>; Rl n st"1 ' ,
municipality owning its lighting I than they should
plant, basing that opposition on the
fact that a city does not get as good
service from a municipal plant as
when operated under private eontro
No better illustration could be given
right here in this city than Chicago
street, which is a street lighted by
the municipality, and half of the
lights have been out half of the time.
' * ' t 1*0 I Ol" t J VUVJl'  /,■ • - ^ O -"O - O -  
a light burning on that j a sentence of fourteen years in the
penitentiary. That, he says, might
be, says the Atchi-
son Globe.
MeCutcheoii, the peerless cartoon-
; 1st of the Chicago Tribune, in a re-
cent effort illustrates an automobile
tragedy; the pedestrian stricken
j down by the dashing devil car, and
the motorists fleeting on. confident
! that no one had seen their number,
j They were mistaken, and the picture-
Last Friday and Saturday night there; story ends by the judge giving them
was hardly
street.
"Suppose the entire city had been
under the charge of the city; we
would have been in the same condi-
tion all over the city. Make good
contracts with private concerns;
hold them strictly responsible for
every light they get pay for and com-
pel them to render good service—
but never invest the taxpayer's
mone'ys in a municipal plant.
, of Oklahoma, while
other day. "took on
recently
in Canada
to pay a duty on it when
home. The senator hadn't
a kick though. That's the
Senator (lor
in Kansas the
dreadfully" because h
bought a suit of clothes
and had
he came
much of
tend to check automobile cruelty. It
might, too, but it probably won't;
not for some time to come, for the
laws don't give the judge all the
power he sometimes wants, and
again, there are judges who don't
want all they have. But the motor
car will be found on the job for some-
time at least until the flying ma-
chine becomes more certain in
its
way the government has of collecting
money to pay his salary. A senator
should have unough patriotism about
him to wear American made clothes.
Waukomis Hornet.
An advance agent of a toddling
young corporation was here the other
day looking at the prospective wheat
crop, preparatory to sending in a
bunch of agents next summer to meet
the harvest with flattering proposi-
tions. The wheat will be here next
summer and so will the money, but
the safest wager that can be made
is that the numerous stock companies
will not find any welcome here. Blue
Sky finance has made its last stand
in this section. —Cherokee Repub-
lican.
COI NTY COURT NOTES.
The cases on trial in county court
today have been disposed of as fol-
lows:
2274 State vs. George Balenti.
charged with boe>tlegging, case con-
tinued for lack of witnesses.
227r> State vs. George Balenti.
same charge, case continued for same
reason as above.
2273 State vs. James Herbert,
charged with bootlegging, case con-
tinued on account of lack of wit-
nesses.
State vs. G. C. Brown, charg-
bootlegging. case continued
of witnesses.
State vs. George Balenti.
with bootlegging, case cou-
on account of lack of wit-
2281
ed with
for lack
2284
charged
tinued
nesses.
2288 State vs. Emil Le Grand and
Martin Swindell, charged with boot-
legging, case continued pending de-
cision of the criminal court of ap-
peals in a similar case.
The editor of the Kendrick Review
lays claim to being the "youngest
editor," stating that he is but 17
years of age. Gee kid, unless you
change your occupation, you have a
long period of misery ahead.—Chan-
dler News-Publicist.
This is the
when want ads
good.
season
will do
of the
you the
year
most
Read the want column tomorrow.
No doubt that lovers of good music
in great numbers will attend the
Cantata Queen Esther at, the Congre-
gational church Thursday and Friday
nights. Admission cents.