The Yukon Sun. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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TI I K I' N COVKIIS
I.IKH .V HI.ANKCT
THE YUKON SUN
$ L
VOLUME XIX.
YUKON, CANADIAN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. JUNE 30, 1911.
A l \ I IM'ISIM ; j v
NUMBER 2!).
PICNIC PROGRAM
And the Wind Blew.
The same old blown-m the-
bottle Kansas brand that made
that state famous for the crops
that never grew, parching vege-
i tation and cavorting across a
There will be a big basket: diamond like
picnic on the Fourth of July at helped to add
You'll ho Wanted at Babb's
Grove on the Fourth.
Fun and Famous Folks.
Babb's Grove, on the river, one
and a half miles east and two
miles north of Yukon, given by
the A. H. T. A., the greatest
thief catching organization in the
world. Come, everybody, and
bring well filled baskets.
A big parade, led by the
famous Cutright Drum Corps
| by the arm, and, pulling him
to him. said:
"Sit down, son. You are com-
ing out of the same hole you
vvont a big harvest ready to begin
° work on. found he could not find
ne Nilsson made men to help him. Here is what
our in the United he done:
— —s who j states, in 1884, Signor Brignoli While eatino- in -i rmi™r ni
marched out to Interurban Park j B°°th' " *">• *a„B with her. ,1, .-aased l,,,„„>rs„„ Jd troub^s to
and then marched back again, | * * merriment when he came for- Miss Millie Jamison, a waitress,
for the ball game scheduled be- i 0 ^ Ingersoll was one ward in a Missouri town to apol- who in a joking way remarked'
tween the Pioneer Telephone'( jy callmg "pon Henry U ard ogize for Nilsson's indisposition. "If you will give me $ < 00 a
Co s, ball team and the Yukon lecher in his study when he, "Madame Nilsson eeg
Gold Diggers Sunday.
It's a sickening story to relate.
The elder Booth, the tragedian
had a broken nose. A woman
friend once remarked to liim: j
"I like your acting, Mr. Booth;!
* * v/i ti uv-i woo cx | . - t w
a Syrian simoon, !but to be Perfectly frank I can't j When Chrjstir
discomfort to the jpet "ver >'0l)r n°se! ^ei- concert (o„
1 No wonder, Madam," replied
HOUSES ROBBED
small band of faithful fans who
but far from us to shirk the
band will start from Yukon for j task. Our heart is sad, but duty
the picnic grounds promptly at | impels us to fearlessly meet the
y o'clock. Don't miss the parade, occasion, brief though our re-
On arrival at the grounds the | marks may be. Like a Spartan
band they fought, those nine
crowd will be entertained with
music by the band, a selection by j brave beys who endeavored to
the Yukon Glee Club and a j hold aloft Yukon's tattered ban-
patriotic address by Dr. Carter j ner> bllt amidst the dirt and
♦ ♦ ♦
Robert G- Ingersoll
lay calling upon Henry Ward
in his study when he
was particularly impressed bj a horse> he sai(, N()tjcj &
peculiarly elaborate globe, which ripple of ,aURhter am (,K,
showed on its surface by raised audience he repeate<1 thestate.
figures, the constellations and mei.t that Nilsson "was a leetle
the stars. Ingersoll turned the |lorse i4 leetle
globe around and around, exam-, Whereupon
ining it with the greatest admir-
colt."
facetious
ation.
"That is fine."
pant of the gallery brought down
Women do the Work.
Up in Nebraska the women
are taking the place of men in ||„rse and Other Valuables
harvest lields. A man who had
I a ken Wednesday A. M.
Some time early Wednesday
morning, thought to be about
■ ! o clock, a thief made a raid on
i ukon and picked up a horse,
saddle, watch, some clothes and
$26,00 in money.
The first place visited was the
barn of F. W. Shade, where the
thiet took a horse. The horse
was a sorrel and about 8 or !>
years old. Then L. A. Wrights
place received a call and a sad-
dle was taken. From here the
raider went to Dr. Reid's house.
a leetle day I'll go out with you and do
the work of a man."
"It's a bargain," answered
Henderson, "and I'll take five
more girls along at the same
wages if I can get them."
Miss Jamison immediately
Helm Jones, of Oklahoma City
Then dinner will be served,
after which there will be ad-
dresses by Hon. Ed S. Vaught
and C. S. Ross, of Oklahoma
City% interspersed with plenty
of music and vocal selections by
the Yukon Glee Club, the male
quartette and the ladies' quar-
tette of Yukon.
After the speaking there will
be a free for all mule race, sack
race and potato race. The win-
quit her job in the restaurant, where the screen was cut and
said Ingersoll- ^ie ^ouse remarking: Well, and, going out among her girl "'10 doctor's pantaloons brought
just what I want for my study.' W'ly d°n,t y°" trot her friends, soon found five who forth. The thief extracted #2(5
Who made it Mr. Beecher7" were anxious t(>g<> to the harvest;1,1 money irom the trousers and
fields. left them on the ground close to
"What, the globe?" asked Mr,
Beecher.
"Yes," said Ingersoll.
"Oh, nobody made the globe
j you know, Ingersoll it just hap-
pened. ''
♦ + ♦
When Francis Wilson the actor
was young, he was
♦ «• ♦
Wnen Mark Twain ih his early
days was editor of a Missouri
paper, a superstitious subscriber
wrote to him saying that he had
dust, the wind and war clubs,
the fiendish shouts of glee of
that Pioneer band of slugging
demons, and even the umpire |
conspiring with the elements,
those Gold Diggers fought, but
without avail. No sympathy
was asked and no quarter was \
shown, each onslaught grew uas •voung; n<? was_ giving • an(j printed it
more terrific, notwithstanding |ser,®s of impersonations in a "Old Subscriber. . „IIMirr
that 3 pitchers endeavored to stop jsma" /°wn who8e iol^s ha(J a spider in your paper was neither The
the rampage those Oklahoma | ^.ay ot bfn^unPleasantly tam" good luck
When Henderson reached his i the place where the horse had
farm that evening six young been tied. From here the rob
women, clothed in overalls and! her made his way to Dr. E. E.
hickory shirts, wearing coarse Sanger's home and deprived
found a spider in his paper, and shoes on their feet and broad ,J-A. Bradfield of the major por
City boys were determined to in-1ilial:. with On this
awarded 5 ,.able|fct apo„ the mat Mess d j~ "'hk'h ''«'<>■ "here TZ tag the?
heroes. But I , .. , 1 ... y merchant is not advertising so followed the harvester, shocking
asking him whether that was a j hats on their heads, jumped out1 tion of his wardrobe, a splendid
sign of good luck or bad. The of a spring wagon. They sat i new watch and about $100.00 in
humorist wrote him this answer down to a farm supper and then .checks, which were considered
stowed themselves away for the i compromising and were thrown
Finding a night in the hay loft of the barn, on the ground and were recov-
next morning they were up e,'ed. Phis seemed to satisfy the
robber and he made his get-
away in a southeasterly direc
tion.
ners will be
Pr™CS' , , « , . jof our undaunted heroes. But I "ot. at bls ease' nJ the freely iii^iioiii/ io iiut wvcrtiaillK toliowed the harvester shocking
The last feature of the day on swept the wind, and on sped d«,lvered comments which greet- that he can go to that store, spin , the %vhl as fastS ft ww^eHv
will be the greased pig race. the spherical leather in front of ed( him onh,s appearance was his web acr0ss the door and live ored from heb ndingTtfolm
the aosolate owner of the p,g. Tennyson a Brook may ron °rthe aoleLe however had aftentard' the grain was threshed. When
Tk ( F I ^r. hot the Humane Society | prepared to amuse them-' Tk I n* - * • they quit each got *120 for forty ;SuN has 1,as not learned that
The Story of an Egg. would not have tolerated this; . ", P , to amuse them-1 The Liquor Question Agma. days work. anything is missing.
A dispatch from Tspeka, Kaf,.,baH game. At the end of the'^,,^1 a" " n° propose t0 Je Shortly after July 1 the re- Local newspapers were filled] The Anti-Horse Thief Associa-
says: pth spasm ft was decided tdletj" organized Local Option I wjth comments on Henderson's' tio have the matter in charge
During the night someone tried
to enter the home of Sam
Graham, who lives four miles
north of town. Mr. Graham
found the screen cut, but the
Was he a good guesser or did the Pioneer boys withdraw their . Af:'ter °"e really commendable an(j High License asoociation will
he have the real thing? Who?126 tallies, stack their bats and j ' be in the circulation of petitions\ This year hundreds
new farm hands.
That Kansas farmer who sent quietly run home. Yukon's six
an an egg to Secretary F. D. | wee scores were placed on ice,
Coburn a year ago
: and have sent phone messages
of girls''" aI1 directions. The Associa-
the same thing
will use
with these i and with muffled drum ard slow
music the players and cortege
marched off the field in broken
order.
Red nre; slow curtain.
No other games are scheduled
at this time. The manager auth-
orizes this announcement as
official.
calabastic words, "Drouth 1911,"
plainly inscribed upon it. The
words were not written with a
pencil, they were not painted on
it, they were not written with
ink or any other writing fluid.
They were simply a part of the
egg.
Secretary Coburn has for-
gotton the man's name, but
thinks he lived somewhere in
Cloud or Republic courties.
The man sent a letter to Secre-
tary Coburn along with the egg,
saying he found it in one of his
hen's nests just as he sent it,
he said, and he was willing to
make affidavits to it.
The man who sent the egg be-
lieved in the prophecy. He be-
lieved some unknown power had j tornado which has
given the people of Kansas!our state within
of applause, but in the midst of , . ... .. , , . . . , ,. . .
it a cabbage head landed on the U"fr tbe "fiat, ve and refer- are doing the same thing and j "°n and authorities
stage at the actors feet. endum law for submission ot: most of the farmers agree that every means to apprehend the
He picked it up and examined l0Cal opt'on and b'gh license i they do as much work, do it as the man or men who are guilty
it, and then gazing out over the. amend"ient the constitution, | well, and in many respects are of t! e ■theft.
audience he said • t0 a people. Accord -; preferable to men. | LATER- Wednesday after-
"Thank you; this is more than T t0 ex"Mayor Yearns of Although Deputy Labor Com | at about 4 p. m., Mr.
I had any reason to expect jt 'Shawnee, who is president of j missioner Guye has been unable! Shade's horse was found near
is the first time any one has ever the '>n- the bill, which j to make a computation, it is es [Moore, Okla., running loose,
lost his head over my acting. 'is n0W dLrawn" wi'! provid^ Itimated that ,his year not less 1 without saddle or bridle, but the
' no procedure, but merely repeal than 1,500 young women of,man has not been captured.
An inexperienced young fellow the state wide prohibition feature j Nebraska will earn from $50 to
| was called upon to make a speech °f the constitution and insert: $lf>0 each in the harvest fields
at a banquet at which Speaker authority for the legislature to i _
An Appeal for Help.
The following appeal for help Cannon was present. In fact enact a local option and high
was sent to the El Reno Cham- j the speaker sat next to the license law. Defeat of the last A news dispatch says: "A
ber of Commerce. The same young man. locaI- °Ption proposition was meeting of the Kansas Grain
I A reward of
! the thief.
$50 is offered for
appeal was sent to other
large towns:
Chattanooga, Okla ,
June 27, I9II.
Chamber of Commerce, E' Reno
Okla.:
The severest hail storm and
occurred in
ten years
local option proposition was
. n ,, .• chiefly due due to the vast
large! lentlemen, began the amount of legislation proposed
| young fellow, "my opinion is and rhe procedure which the
1 that the generality of mankind ! initiated measure carried. Pro-
in general is disposed to take moters of the idea believed un-
advantage of the generality ; ^j^i r'iSibffi,
0 „ will be repealed.—El Reno Dem-
I he Speaker grabbed the boy i ocrat.
Spanish War Veteran*.
The Oklahoma City camp of
the Spanish War Veterans will
hold a camp-fire at the armory
on Friday night, June 30, to
boy
warning that there would be a j mowed a path seven miles wide
drouth in 1911. This is the year; and about thirty miles long
1911 and the man is probably | through Tillman and Comanche
sure by now that what he found [ counties late Saturday afternoon,
was the real thing,; that it was a1 The hail literally destroyed all
warning written by an unknown vegetation and the wind laid l +
hand. But in spite of the dry waste to about one hundred ^
weather this year Secretary houses and more barns, and the +
Coburn does not take any more great majority of the people in +
stock in the marked egg than he the stricken district are abso- +
did a year ago. He still thinks lutely destitute, a few only hav- t
some neighbor played a good ing tornado insurance. The farm- t
joke on the farmer. ers have no feed for their stock, +
After the egg was received in j but are, going to try cotton +
Topeka and the newspapers com-1 again, but they must have +
mented upon it a number of peo money to pay for food for their t
pie gave receipts for duplicating families and feed for their stock, J
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..FIRE WORKS..
l.et the boys, and girls, too, for that matter, be patriotic.
The drought may suppress the scream of the eagle for
the older ones, but the children will look forward to Inde-
pendence Day with the same delight as when corn grew
on every hill and the potatoes came bursting from the
ground.
Just About all the Novelties
From the Pin Wheel to the Giant Cracker
WE
the grass having been burned
up already by hot winds. The
it. Some even sent in eggs upon
which had been wriiten words
and figures- But all of them merchants of this place are al-
showed the artificiality. The or- ready overloaded by carrying ac-
iginal egg does not. It looks counts for tne farmers and are
ike the words and figures had not able to bear any further bur-
formed with the shell. The den. You are requested in the
shell is still on exhibition in the name of humanity to ask your
rooms of the board. After Sun- good citizens to aid us imme-
day's hot winds there will be diately, sending remittances to
some who agree with the for- either of the two banks here
gotton sender that the inscrip- a. j. Laurie, Mayor,
tion was bona fide. 1 Walter Davis, Clerk.
CARRY THE GUARANTEED LINE
Fountain Syringes Combination Syringes
Ice Bags, Etc.
Chad's Lice Killer, Used with a
Spray Pump, will rid your Poultry of Lice,
Mites, Sand and Stick Tight Fleas.
STAFFORD DRUG CO.
Phone 24. Yukon, OkU
OF
Dealers' association was held
here last night at which crop
conditions the increase in in 1 which all ex-soldiers of the Span-
spection and weighing fees un-1 'sh war are cordially invited,
der the provisions of the new' A banquet will be served and
law and other matters were dis- twenty-five candidates will be
cussed. E. J. Smiley of Topeka. mustered in.
secretary of the association pre-' account of the national re-
sided and said, regarding the union of the Spanish War Vet-
t wheat crop condition in the erans being held in Oklahoma
J state, that of the six and a half t'ity on August 21, 22, and 23
+ million acres planted that two thi? year, great interest is being
J million acres had been aban- taken in Oklahoma for this
Jidoned. Also some wheat sown event.
J!in the extreme western counties! local camp at Oklahoma
was a failure. He placed the ' 'ty expects large delegations
yield for the state at i>r million from nearby towns to be on
bushels, with the quality excep hand at the campfire Friday
tion good. . night and assures them a big
. time.
Fish Stories. The Dallas News published
This week has made history crop reports this week from 720
l for the fishermen of Yukon. In correspondents, in Texas and
fact, fish has been about as plen- Oklahoma, and nearly all had
tiful as beef. Roy Johnston and i the same story to tell. From
five others went out and brought, Brownsville to Canadian, and
in a total of 111 pounds in one froti.jEI Paso to Muskogee, Okla.,
day. Roy caught the largest the same hot, crop burning
ones. He landed two big ones, weather has prevailed. All re-
one weighing 46 pound and the port that cotton looks fine and is
other 25, both catfish. Kin Dunn standing the hot dry weather re-
has a record of catching a 30 lb markably well. Corn is good in
i cat, and grover Turner and Jno. some places yet, while at some
Pribyl brought in one weighing points in Texas, faimers have
i 29* pounds and some smaller cut their corn for fodder, it be-
jones. Several boys are also ing so dry that no amount of
|credited with good catches. The rain could revive it- Many will
hnrnble occupation of fisherman replant to early corn if rains
has how received an impetus. come djring July.
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