6RM MINE
NCLE SAM la going to stand si>on
sor this autumn for one of the moat
novel and most interesting com
petitive contests ever couducted.
So far as known no other govern-
ment in the world has ever conduct
ed such a tournament and it is
bound to attract attention far and
wide. Moreover this unique event
is all the more interesting and all
the more commendable from the
fact that* its purpose is not merely
the exploiting of athletic prowess
after the fashion of the average "field day." On
the contrary Its aim and object is the saving of
human life and the relief of suffering It is be-
cause of its high purpose, combined with the fact
that it is under government auspices, that Pres-
ident Taft, the secretary of the interior, and other
high officials and prominent men will be present.
This innovation which promises to win a per-
manent place on our calendar of public events has
a rather long name. It is designated officially as
a National First-Aid-to-the-Injured Field Meet, and
It is to concern itself primarily with "first aid"
work and relief work as conducted in coal mines
where, as every reader knows, there is most ur-
gent need for such humanitarian measures owing
to the frightful disasters which occur all too fre-
quently in our coal mines, due to explosions, fires,
and cave-ins of rock and earth. The field meet
will be held at a place known as Arsenal I'ark
near Pittsburg, Pa. ihis site has been chosen
because it will be convenient of access for the
miners and mine rescue workers who wi'.l com-
pete in the contests, and beoause, furthermore,
the United States government has at this place
an experimental station with all the facilities and
equipment at hand for giving exhibitions and con-
ron
WOMN MAYOR BUC'K BRUTE
READY TO Mil IS FOILED
MRS. WILSON WEARY OF WORRY ATTACKS WOMAN ON LONELY
AND WRANGLING ! ROAD NEAR OKTAHA
WILL KEEP UP FIGHT BEATlN OFF WITH WHIP
Says Politics Is Not a Woman's Game, Plucky Little Woman Wields Heavy
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Juctlng contests In mine rescue work
under approximately the same condi-
tions that would prevail after an act-
«al mine disaster.
This inaugural tournament is to be
conducted by the U. S. Bureau of
Mines,—the newest branch of our na-
tional government and an institution
which congress recently established
under the interior department, espe-
cially for the purpose of studying and
finding remedies fur the mine disas-
ters which have been giving the Unit-
ed States a bad name all over the
world lor these many years past. How-
ever, the Bureau of Mines is going
to have influential help in the conduct of its first
national Field Meet. For one thing the American
Red Cross is going to co-operate.
Now the Red Cross has been colled on very
frequently of late years to lend a hand after
some great mine disaster, and it is today Instru-
mental in supporting and educating many chil-
dren whose fathers were killed in the disasters
of the past few years. Thus the Red Cross offi-
cials have had brought home to them the need
of doing everything possible to save lives in
mines and to reduce the number and seriousness
of mine accidents. And anyway the Red Cross
has become deeply interested of late years in
flrst-aid-to-the-injured work of all kinds,—so much
so that It is now distributing "first aid cabinets"
all over the country and has on the road all the
while a special car with instructors who travel
from town to town enrolling workmen as volun-
teer Red Cross workers and instructing them in
"first aid" work. So that, In view of all this, it
1s but natural that the Red Cross should want to
have a hand in the first field meet to stimulate
Interest In the cause. And finally the coal opera-
tors, who have much at stake, hove through their
general organization volunteered to help make
the tournament a success.
It Is expected that from 20,000 to 30,000 miners
will attend the Field Day near Pittsburg on Sep-
tember 16. A number of them will come merely
as spectators or because they have been urged to
come and profit by the "object lessons" that will
be enacted before their eyes, but a very large
proportion will be entered as contestants in the
various events. It would surprise the average
reader, no doubt, to learn how many men are
eligible to entry in such contests, considering that
organized rescue work on its present scale was
taken up in the mines of this country only a few
years ago.
Some of the most skillful first aid workers da-
vote their entire time to this occupation. These
are the employes stationed on one or another of
the U. S. Government's Mine Rescue Cars The
Mine Rescue cars,-it need scarcely be explained,
are Pullman cars which Uncle Sam purchased a
year or two ago, turned over to the newly-created
Bureau of Mines, and had transformed into com-
bination school rooms and hospitals on wheels.
Each car has a crew of several e perts w ho eat
and sleep aboard, like firemen ever ready to re-
spond to an alarm. They and their car have
dual functions. W hen a mine disaster occurs, the
cars in that district are hurried to the scene and
the men oc hoard take the lead in the rescue
work. At other times, when no such emergencies
demand their attention the cars traverse regular
routes, visiticg one mining town after another
just as a traveling circus might do and tarrying
for two or three days at each camp, white the ex-
perts, by means of demonstrations and "night
BL-hool" lectures in the car. give Instructions to
ui« community as to how to prevent accidents and
how to carry on rescue
and relief work if a
disaster does occur.
The result of this
plan of Uncle Sam for
having these "mission-
aries" of the First Aid
crust'de constantly
traveling up and down
the mining regions
showing the once-ignor-
ant miners what to do
in an emergency and
how to do it. has been
that a considerable pro-
portion of the under-
ground workers are
coming to have some
knowledge of what to
do to relieve the suf-
fering of one another
In time of accident
when doctors and nur-
ses are not at hand.
Ilettor still, a feature of
the government plan
and the Red Cross
plan to organize at
each mine a volunteer
corps of "first aid"
workers. These volun-
teers agree to devote enough time to ihe work
to gain more than a superficial knowledge ^ such
as is acquired by the rank and file of the miners.
Uncie Sam's experts devote any necessary amount
of time to instructing these volunteers and the
Red Cross and the mine operators have shown a
disposition to provide them with all the necessary
equipment,—expensive though It be.
The result of this development of a humanitari-
an militia in the coal mines has been that we now
find at many a mine a volunteer corps of "first
aid" workers who are thoroughly qualified for
their work and who can do just as much for their
entombed fellow-workmen or for miners overcome
by poisonous gases as could the experts on any
of the government mine rescue cars and who
are on hand to act immediately without waiting
for the arrival of a government car. It is these
volunteers who are expected to give zest to the
competitions in rescue work at the big gathering
in Western Pennsylvania. "Teams" made up of
volunteer workers at verious mines have been in
training for months for the event, working to be
able to do each stunt In the shortest possible
if 4rzrj
space of time,—for in these contests as in liook
and ladder races and hose laying contests, a sec-
ond or two may mark the difference between vic-
tory and defeat.
The "first aid" tournament is going to have
some very realistic features. For one thing there
will be provided a "make believe" coal mine,
open at one : ide to the view of the spectators,
and in this will occur 011 signal an explosion just
like that which occurs in a real mine except that
there will be no actual loss of life. However,
men will be apparently injured by the shock and
overcome by the fumes and will fall in supposedly
I>erilous positions from which they will be res-
cued by "first aid" men working in double quick
time Just as they would do under the stress of
a genuine disaster. These rescue workers will
be called upon to improvise stretchers from their
jackets and nine drills; to hurriedly bring to the
scene mine hospital cars; and do the other things
they would do in time of serious trouble Of
course, all their operations will have to be carried
on by means of what illumination can be gained
from the new pattern of electric safety lamps for
it is out of the question to carry into a mine
filled with explosive gases any ordinary lantern
or lamp with an exposed flame of any kind.
Easily one of the most interesting phases of the
contests will be the competitions involving the
use of the oxygen helmets so called. A helmet
of this kind, which may cost as much as $200,
may be described as an air-tight, armor-like cov-
ering for the head and shoulders which enables
a rescue worker to penetrate into mines filled
with noxious fumes just as a driver's suit enables
its wearer to live and work under water. The
air-tight helmet not only excludes the deadly gas-
es of the mine but it supplies its wearer with
necessary flow of life-giving oxygen, drawn as
needed from metal cylinders of compressed oxy-
gen worn on the back, like a knapsack. The com-
petitions at Pittsburg will include tests as to how
long a uiaii can work effectually in such a suit
of armor and tests as to the ability of the respec-
tive wearers of the helmets to detach empty oxy-
gen cylinders from their backs and replace them
with fresh cylinders. This i3 highly important
because in mine rescue work it may happen that-
there is no second rescue worker at hand t? as-
sist in changing cylinders and unless a "first aid"
man can do this for himself he must leave his
work and hurry back to the mouth of the mine
for fresh air.
Another form of apparatus, and it is a new one.
which will be demonstrated is the Pulmoter. The
Pulmoter is a German invention, and for all that
it would almost fit into an ordinary suit case,
it is so delicate and remarkable in its mechanism
that it costs $800. The Pulmoter is, in effect, an
automatic breathing machine. It will compel an
unconscious man to breath whether he wants to
or not and it mechanically draws poisonous gases
out of the lungs with one operation and forces in
the life-giving oxygen with the other. That it is
capable of well nigh performing miracles may be
appreciated when it is explained that with this
agent for mechanical resuscitation the experts
of the U. S. Government have brought back to
life, miners who had remained unconscious in
mines for 26 hours and who had been abandoned
as dead.
But Will Stay With It—Ap-
peals to Governor For
Assistance
Hunnewell, Kan.—"Politics is not a
woman's game ' I bis is the decision
of Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor 01 this
town, who since her inauguration has
had a standing fight with the male
city council. They would not confirm
her appointees for city marshal or city
clerk and she would not sign any of
the bills they passed. This has been
the status of matters since her elec-
tion last April.
During the last week Mrs. Wilson
conferred with Governor Stubbs and
he told her, she says, that it Monday
night's meeting of the city council
was not satisfactory he would aid her
in having the members of the council
ousted. On the other hand the ele-
ment which is fighting Mrs. Wilson
is talking of bringing ouster proceed-
ings to force her out of the oittee. At
tiie close of the meeting Mrs. Wilson
telegraphed Governor Stubbs to begin
ouster proceedings against the mem-
bers of the Hunnewell council.
In speaking of her own position and
her willingness to quit the mayoralty
under different conditions Mrs. Wilson
said:
"I'd be satisfied if ousted from of-
fice, but 1 can't quit the battle under
present conditions. 1 am tired of the
fighting. Politics is not a woman's
place but.—" Mrs-. Wilson choked as
she ended "the men will find that a
woman will fight as long as anybody
when she once gets in politics."
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
PLANNING FOR BIG MEET
Thousands of the Veterans of '98 Are
Expected to Attend National
Encampment This Month
Oklahoma City.—The headquarters
of the Spanish War veterans in the
Lee-Huckins hotel building is the
scene of much activity. While the
probable number of veterans who will
attend the annual encampment soon
to be held here is not known, the an-
nouncements from points in the state
I that their camps will attend in a body
and the increased interest being
shown outside the state lead local
workers to believe that the attend-
ance will bo unusually large.
General headquarters for the do'
partment will be at 304 Security build-
ing, with Dr. T. A. Myers, junior vice
i Commander, in charge. Headquarters
lor the ladies' auxiliary will be under
Miss Alice Robertson of Muskogee at
the Lee-Huckins.
A telegram was sent to the meet-
ing of the veterans of the states of
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Alabama at (lulfport, Miss., inviting
them to attend the annual meeting
here.
The Danger of the Inferior
We are otten told that one reason why we
should not go down to the inferior things is that
they can never satisfy us. Hut the danger is that
they may satisfy us A boy at school may come
to like evil talk and unworthy stories. When he
•elt heme e-uch things were unnatural and dis-
tasteful to him, but he let himself down to them
little by little until anything else is uncongenial to
him. The inferior things have tome to satisfy
him. A popular lecturer told recently of having
heard one woman say to another as they came
away from an Ibsen play, "I do not like Ibsen.
He tikkes the hope out of life." If she spoke sin-
cerely. it was only because she had brought her-
self to such an unnatural philosophy. She did
not begin life with so unwholesome and untrue a
view. In the days that were real and worthy it
was hope which made life beautiful. If now she
preferred hopelessness it was because her pref-
erences had degenerated, and that had begun to
satisfy her which formerly would have been the
very depth of darkness to her
This is the peril of the soul's freedom. The
very capacity to rise involves the capacity to de-
scend. Just as we can go forward from any at-
tainment, discontented with it, to higher things
which alone can satisfy us, so we can go back-
ward and downward into tastes, experiences, and
character which would once have been utterly re-
pugnant to us, but which have the dreadful power
of becoming the soul's desired aim, so that we are
satisfied. The soul can shrivel as well as ex-
pand. And we must beware of those who tell us
that we can go down to anything we wish with
out fear, that we can throw off the inferior
things whenever we wish and return to our na-
tive place. We capnot. The soul adapts itself
to its environment, and we may become so satis-
fied on the low planes that we shall never wake
to discontent. Then our birthright will be gone,
and we shall not care to have it back again. The
danger of all sin and surrender is that they may
stupefy the taste and satisfy it.
HUMAN HANDICAPS.
We do not require the same attainments froif
all. Some are well taught, some are ill taught
some are not taught at all Some have naturally
good dispositions. Not one has had power to ful
fill the law completely. Therefore it is no crime
in him if he fails. We reckon as faults those only
which arise from idleness, wilfulness, selfishness
and deliberate preference of evil to good. Eacfc
is judged according to what he has received.—
James Anthony Froude.
Rate6 Are Suspended
Washington.—Proposed advances in
(he class of freight by railways oper-
ating between the Mississfppi and Mis-
souri rivers to have become effective
Oct. 28, have been suspended by the
Interstate commerce commission until
December 30. The suspension affects
all classes of rates from Atlantic sea-
board points to Kansas City and other
Missouri river transfers. The in-
creases proposed average about nine
cents a hundred 011 tirst class freight.
Drinking Cups All Sterilized
Oklahoma City.—E. E. Kersey of
Kansas City, and I)r. W. D. Bolton of
Clinton, Okla., are in Oklahoma City
in the interest of the Thornton San-
itory Drinking Device company which
last year patented and placed on the
market a machine which automatically
sterilizes drinking glasses after they
have been used. The device has been
installed in many public buildings and
office buildings in Missouri and Colo-
rado, and the company's representa-
tives are preparing to try to introduce
it into Oklahoma. The device, with
a sample of the sterilizing solution
already has been submitted to State
Chemist Edwin DeBarr, who has ex-
pressed his satisfaction with an en-
dorsement of the scheme.
Meyer to California
Oklahoma City.—State Auditor Leo
Meyer left here Sunday for California,
to be gone for a month or six weeks.
During his absence he will attend the
meeting of the grand lodge of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which
he is one of the grand trustees.
Quirt Successfully and Negro
Abandons Attempt—Arrested
Later and Jailed
Muskogee, Okla.—Mrs. Selma Cu-
sak, a white woman, pluckily beat otl
a negro who tried to drag her from
her horse and assault her, while she
was riding along a lonely road near
Oktaha, fifteen miles south of this
city.
The negro, Jim Lovely, is in jail
here. Mrs. Cusak was riding alone
when the negro stepped out from the
roadside and grabbed the bridle with
one hand and the woman with the
other, and attempted to drag her from
the saddle.
She carried a heavy quirt and with
this beat the negro over the head so
furiously that he let go and slunk
away into the timber. He was ar-
rested later and brought to Muskogee.
LANDLORD AND TENANT
ENGAGE IN A QUARREL
Tenant Is Wounded Seriously and
Landloard's Whereabounts Now
An Unknown Quantity
Lookeba, Okla.—J. E. Mars ton in au
altercation with his tenant. Jesse
Sapp, shot and seriously wounded
Sapp, who is now at the home of Mr.
Stacy, who lives near Sides, Okla
The shooting occurred on Harston a
place and shortly after Harston, who
hail his team already hitched, drove
to Lookeba, where lie boarded a train
for Anadarko, the county seat.
The conductor refused to allow
him to board the train wtih his guif
but upon his surrendering the gun to
the conductor and explaining that he
was on his way to Anadarko to give
himself up, the conductor took charge
of the gun and delivered Harston at
the depot at Anadarko. Mr. Harston
did not give himself up but on the
contrary neither he nor his gun have
been delivered to the sheriff.
Chandler Man To Wed
Tulsa, Okla.—Henry Caldwell, 56, *
prominent citizen of Chandler, Okla.,
secured a marriage license to marry
Mrs. Altheraldine Alvaroz, 37, of Kan-
sas City, Mo. Mrs. Alvarez formerly
was married to the man who made
Morris and Company, the packers,
famous for their "Chilli Concarne."
He died a tew years ago, leaving her
a large estate..
Woman Officer Leads Raid
Shawnee, Okla.—Mrs. Anna Cald-
weH, recently commissioned special
deputy enforcement oilicer, made her
first raid here. Assisted by Sheriff
Pierce, Deputy Sheriff Tilghman and
Deputy County Attorney Hunter John-
son, Mrs. Caldwell led a raid on a
rooming house and arrested five wom-
en and several men and lauded them
in jail at Tecumseh.
Mysterious Death
Perry, Okla.—The body of a man,
partially naked with shoes and stock-
ings off, was found on the farm of
J. P. Tyer, one mile northeast of Mor-
rison, laying on the bank of a branch
of Black Bear. At the coroner's in-
quest it was decided that the man
had been dead about thirty-six hours
and met death by drowning. Nothing
was found to identify the body.
Famous Murder Recalled
Oklahoma City.—The sensational
killing of Dr. C. W. Harrod at Mays-
ville 011 August 11, 1906, by his for-
mer partner, Dr. Price Patterson, is
recalled by the appeal to the supreme
court of the case of the supreme
lodge of Heralds of Liberty, of Hunts-
ville, Ala., vs. Lizzie T. Harrod. Mrs.
Harrod brought suit against the lodge
to recover on insurance policies ar-
ried by her husband, and got Ig-
inent for $2,445. The grand lodt in
its defense claimed tlrat Dr. Ha. rod
had threatened to kill Dr. Patterson
and was armed at the time of the
killing, and that his actions iu that
respect were in violation of the terms
and conditions of the policies. Dr.
Patterson's case also is still pending
in the courts.
Rebel Generals Jailed
Mexico City.—Generals Navarro,
Minda and Villaneuva and several oth-
er former revolutionary chiefs were
arrested and jailed here on orders
from the president. They are charged
with inciting rebellion. They signed
a protest against the dismissal of Smi*
lio Gomez as minister of the interior.
Cornerstone Laid
Perry, Okla.—The cornerstone of
the new $30,000 high school building
was laid Monday afternoon by the
grand lodge of the state A. F. & A. M.
Judge Henry M. Furman of the crim-
inal court of appeals was master of
ceremonies. The building will be
ready for occupancy by Christmas.
Holden Named Receiver
McAlester, Okla.—District Judge
Preslie B. Cloe appointed W. R. Hol-
den receiver of the Pittsburg Plan-
! ing Mill and Lumber company, locat-
! ed at Pittsburg, Okla. The assets of
i the company are about $0,000, with
$l,t>00 indebtedness.
Boy Killed By Train
Elgin, Texas.—Felix Gonzales, a 13-
year-old Mexican committed suicide by
throwing himself before a Houstou &
Texas Central freight train.
1 Find Dynamite
I Oklahoma City—Five sticks of dyna-
! r.ute with cap*  and fuse were found
jy a boy beneath the Wyle Manufact-
uring company's platform on East
Ci-tid avenue, near the Santa F#