The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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TUE OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA. THURNDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 191S
NUMBER 21.
BILL
That Would Eliminate
Politics Introduced
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 31.—
A ten-year term for the postmaster
general, elimination of the entire
jiostoflico ti partment from polities
and the appointment of all postmas-
ters by the head of the department
instead of by the president is pro-
posed in a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Norris of Nebraska. The
measure is a revision of a previous
bill by Mr. Norris.
SENATOR (.ORE LANDS;
LAUDS WOODROW WILSON
MUSKOGEE. 0'<la., Keb. 1.—Sen-
ator Gore of this state, came to this
city yesterday from the national cap-
ital and spent the day meeting old
time friends, and making new ones.
The senator has signified his in-
tention of remaining here for several
days and will be the guest of promi-
nent Democrats while here.
The senator came to this city to
espouse the cause of Woodrow Wil-
son for president, and it is possible
that before he leaves the Woodrow
Wilson club will arrange a mass
meeting at w' Ich the senator will
bo called upon to make the princi-
pal addres.
GORE
Not Driven From Musko
ANOTHER TRUCKPATCH ARGUMENT.
During each year there areshipp-d into Tahlequah 15 cars of eating
potatoes averaging 500 bushels to the car and about 7 cars of seed po-
tatoes, averaging 500 bushels to the car. Quite a lot of potatoes, isn't it?
Fifteen cars of eating potatoes multiplied by 500 bushels to the
car equals 7,500 bushels of potatoes. The average retail price for eating
potatoes is $1.40 per bushel. By multiplying 7,500 bushels of potatoes
by $1.40 per bushel. It will be ObMntd that it amounts to $10,500.00.
Seven cars of seed potatoes multiplied by 500 bushels to the car
equals 3,500 bushels. The average retail price for seed potatoes is $1.60
per bushel. By multiplying 3.500 bushels of potatoes by $1.60 per
bushel we find that $5,600.00 are paid out each year for seed potatoes.
Cherokee County soil, Cherokee County climate and Cherokee Coun-
ty farmers can produce as good potatoes as are raised any place in Okla-
homa If proper thought be given. $16,100.00 is the sum that is sent out
annually for potatoes and this could be kept at home by planting a few
acres of potatoes each year. Diversity of crops means diversity of as-
sets. A savings account will surely result to the farmer who plants a
little of everything.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPITA!, AND SURPLUS $100,000.00
W. HASTINGS. Pres.
O SCOTT. Cashier
D. W. WILSON, Vice-.
ROBT. WYLY, Ass't. Cashier.
TAFT
Tells Progressives a
Few Things
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 1.—Review-
ing the achievements of his admin-
istration beforo the Columbus Glee
Club here last night. President Taft
drew the line sharply between the
old line Republicans and tho progres-
sives of his party and practically de-
clared that the ttne was at hand
when the "denunciation" of the
progressives must cease and when
the nation wilt demand facts. He
had not the slightest doubt, he said,
that the Republican party would win
in the November elections.
Tho president made one of the
most aggressive speeches he has de-
livered in many months. He made
it clear he had grown Impatient
with the attacks that have been
made upon the Republican pi>rty and
upon his administration In the last
few years. He declared the old lino
Republicans were progressive; pro-
gressive enough to adopt all the
legislation that progress demanded,
but said he was not the sort of man
to promise to "make a heaven on
earth" or to reform the world In a
day.
gee as Told by Phoenix Champ Clark and the Tariff Question
Yesterday, Senator Gore was in
Muskogee the guest of Ben Martin,
president of the Wilson Club of that
city. The Phoenix uses considerable
space in a story of Senator Gore be-
ing driven from that city by the
Harmon crowd, assisted by the Clerk
following. The facts as we learn
them indicate that there was no such
NOB
Of 500 Men Lynch
Negro.
demonstration as described by the
Phoenix. While there Senator Gore
was entertained in grand style. Ho
made no speech, from his own choice
and left the city when he got ready.
Bob Williams was out of Muskogee
when all this should have happened.
War Has Cost Italy
Over $100,000,000
ROME, Feb. 5.—The Turco-Italian COLORED PARSONAGE BURNS.
war continues of absorbing interest
to Itlaians and no matter what the
monetary cost—It will soon reach
100,000,000—a popular feeling is
that It connot be too great to pay
for the unification of his majesty's
subjects that has resulted, let alone
all other considerations.
All classes, from the royal family
down to the poorest people, have
their children in the entrenchments.
Queen Elena said: "I wish my son
Umberto were a dozen years older,
to be able to go to the front." The
Duchess d'Acosta, her children too
young to take part, went herself as
a nurse. The manifestations of af-
fection for the army and navy are
many. A woman sent a rosette
formed of the Italian tricolor to the
colonel of a regiment with an apol- j
ogy because it had faded, and adding
"I made it with the remains of the |
tricolor with which my grandmoth-
er, when I was a child, made ro-
settes for the soldiers of the inde-
pendence, risking her head. May
this same ribbon make you victori-
ous."
The devotion of the peasants is
even more moving. A woman of the
Abruzzl sent to her son who is a
sharpshooter and served bravely un-
der General Fara, two bologna sau-
sages, writing in poor Italian: "One
Is for you, and the other for your
general. He has deserved it also."
Sons of some of the wealthy Arabs
of Tripoli who aro favorable to the
Italian occupation havo come here
to complete their studies, and have
been the objects of friendly demon- j
strationa. Recently they viBited tho
Coliseum and the Roman Forum, St.
Peter's and the catacombs and all
the other wonders of the Eternr.l
city. Asked what had impressed
them most, they answered: "The
zoo; we wrote them tnat U is better
than Noah's ark; NVah had only a
pair of each animal; while here
tjiere are of sv-V"
(From Monday's Daily Arrow)
The Methodiot colored parsonage
was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day morning about 8 o'clock.
The lire is reported as being the
result of starting a fire with coal oil
which was poured on the blaze from
a can which caught fire and explod-
ed. But very little of the contents
were saved.
A Red Letter Day
for Presbyterians
Rev. F. W. Hawley, president of
Henry Kendall college of Tulsa, who
had been widely advertised for the
Sunday meetings was present and
preached both morning and evening.
It is putting it mildly to say that
he more than measured up to expec-
tations. In the morning he present-
ed the cause of Christian education
and the new plans for the Presbyte-
rian college of Oklahoma, Henry
Kendall college at Tulsa. Illinois
and Iowa each have five Presbyterian
colleges, but Oklahoma has only one
with the whole synod back of it. It
Is in the center of 100 miles that
has no college or state institution of
any kind. Tahlequah is the nearest
state institution and the two schools
do radically different work so do
not compete. He left the entire
church anxious to put their shoul-
der to the wheel and begin pushing.
His evening address on "A Working
Creed" was a masterpiece. He laid
the foundations for optimism wide
and deep. He held tho rapt atten-
tion of every person present and
should he evar return wo can prom-
ise him a house crowdcd to tho
doors. The brotherhood chorus was
a great success and the solo by Prof.
Nelson was equally as well received.
The brotherhood has shown that they
con do things they attempt and tho
next meeting is awaited with ex-
pectancy,
COLUMBUS. O.. Feb. t.—The Ohio
Democratic Progressives, with head-
quarters in this city, havo issued a
statement outlining the opposition to
Governor Hirmun, who is classed by
them as a Grovcr Cleveland Demo-
crat and not in sympathy with the
party today. After declaring that
party principles wore above "stats
pride," the statement roads:
"The Progioulve Democratic
League has not declared in favor of
any man for the presidency nor
against any mr.n until Mr. Harmon
placed hiniBolf in the reactionary
class. Its purpose is to do all in its
power to secure progressive Demo-
crats in the state and national con-
ventions and it will safely trust to
the wisdom of such delegates. If the
Harmonites persist in their campaign
of slander and libel against us they
only emphasize tho more their con-
fession of guilt. Up to this time we
have not heard that Bryan, Clark,
Wilson, Hearst, Marshall, Kern,
Shatfoth, Foos or Ollie J.itnes has
registered a protest against \ho ac-
tivities of tho Progressive Democrat-
ic League.
"The governor is making much ado
about the ta.-iff in his roccnt speech-
es," reads the statement, "but we
progressives believe the governor has
missed the train on this subject. We
happen to remember that it was
Champ Clark's leadership which
aroused the whole country against
the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill and car-
ried Ohio and nearly all the Eastern
statej for the Democrats in tho fall
of 1910. If any man is to be nomi-
nated for president on the tariff
question, that man should bo Champ
Clark or some other Democrat who
van In congress at the ti mo of the
fight on the tariff bill."
UIKD- I CORDELLE, Ga., Jan. '41.—A
(From Monday's Dally Arrow.) mob of 500 men Tuesday stormed tho
John Tehee, aged 74 years, diod Jail where Albert Hamilton, the ne-
In the city last evening. Funeral gro assailant of a white girl, waa
services will bo held from the Bap- confined, took the negro forth and
tist church tomorrow morning at 10 hanged him to a tree. Tho body
o'clock.
was then riddled with bullets.
HASKELL
Opens His Campaign in
Stigler.
STIGLER, Okla., Feb. 5.—Here
in the county seat of a county named
in his honor, where nearly five years
ago he made the first speech in his
campaign for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor of Oklahoma,
former Governor Haskell, in ac-
cordance with the wishes of his
friends in this county, made his first
speech in his campaign for the Unit-
ed States senatorship.
Haskell county had been prepar-
ing for the event for four days. Even
a greater reception than that tended
the gubernatorial candidate five
Presbyterian Brother-
hood Highly Entertained
years ago was planned for Saturday.
Not only did Stigler shut np shot to
celebrate the day, but every precinct
In the county was represented. The
opera house, the largest convention
hall In town, was entirely inade-
quate to meet the demands of those
who sought to crowd into it, and the
county Democracy was well repre-
sented. Prominent Democrats and
many of the former governor's warm
Republican friends came to hear his
speech.
Chicago Republicans
Turn Teddy Down
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—An effort to
indorse Theodore Roosevelt for the
Republican presidential nomination
-vas defeated, while a resolution
commending President Taft and his
administration was adopted at the
Cook county, Chicago, Republleau
convention Saturday.
A complete county ticket beaded
by former County Judge Lewis Rln-
aker for state's attorney was in-
lorsed as the organized Republican
■selection for nomination at the April
primaries.
Governor Charles S. Dencen was
indorsed for another nomination and
has administration was commended
to the voters of tho state.
The session was marked by loud
cheering when the indorsement of
Col. Roosevelt was proposed, but on
the roll call the proposition was de-
feated by a vote of 864 to
OPERA HOUSE FIRE.
(From Monday's Dally Arrow)
A small blaze at the Masonic
Opera Houso called out the fire de-
partment late Saturday afternoon.
Tho fire was extinguished by occu-
pants of the building beforo the de-
partment arrived. The damago was
slight-
The Presbbyterian Brotherhood
entertained more than forty men of
the church Saturday evening at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Peterson.
A more enjoyable affair could not be
imagined. Richard's orchestra ren-
dered a musical program while the
men were gathering and getting ac-
quainted. The big double parlors
were filled with a real brotherhood
crowd, dominated by the brother-
hood spirit.
Short addreses were made by
Prof. R. V. Temming on "The Broth-
erhood and the Church."
Prof. J. N. Clark, "Why Enlist
Men in Bible Study."
G. S. Sutton of the church, "The
Men and Religion Movement."
Rev. S. R. Keam introduced the
guest of the evening, Dr. F. W.
Hawley, with a rehearsal of three
mutual experiences in former days
In Oklahoma. Dr. Hawley then gave
the address of the evening ol. "The
Brotherhood Movement." He told
of his great brotherhood In the Sec-
ond Church of Bloomington, 111.,
and the effect of their work on the
church and community. Every speak-
er brought Important information
for the consideration of the brother-
hood, and everybody wts fired with
enthusiasm for the work of the
brotherhood
Refreshments were served later In
the evening that were as satisfying
as dainty. The men ask for other
like occasions and the officers of
the brotherhood are already plan-
ning for the same. The brotherhood
extends a cordial invitation to men
to meet with them Sunday morn-
ings at 9:45.
EARLY MORNING FIRE.
(From Saturday'* Dally Arrow.)
A burning flue caused an alarm
of fire to be turned in this morning
about 7 o'clock from the Roddie
Richards residence on West Shawnee
street. The fire department made
a quick run, but before Its ar-ival
the flr« had been extinguished. So
damag? w e ion?.
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