The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
IWIXTYVIFTH YEAR.
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Lose Life When Steam
er Titanic Goes
Down.
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—Lalo«.l reports from the losi icani-
it Titanic i« liSH rescued ami I.:!."(•
souls lost.
NEW YORK. April 1> Mot
1,200 persons, il is feared, kip lo
death early yestoriitn. *v i u ' ithin
lei-s t tin it four hours i ft or .sin* crush-
c I into an icoher. 'ho i" inmnih
i.i'o Slur lint; steamer Titanic,
hound from Liverpool to \■ 1 Yoi!;
on her maiden voyage, went to the
bottom oil the New Foundland n iiiU
Of the approximately 2,2'Mi po sons
on board the bin liner, some of Ctoro
of world wide prominen . only
are said to have been wived. 'I i."
while Star line office- hero, w'.iii,'
keeping up hope to the lust, iwio
I'roo to admit thai there had beer
"a horrible lo>s fit life."
Veceptihg the early estimates ot
the fatality list as accurate, the dis-
aster i- the greatest sti the marine
history ot the world. Nearest ap-
proaching it in magnitude were the
disasters of the steamer Atlantic in
1ST::, when ."'TI lives were lost and
I .a Itourgcoe in 1S :• k w • ii a fatality
list of .">71.
Should it prove thai other liners,
notably the Allan linein Parisian ami I
Virginian, known to have been in tlit
vicinity ol the Titanic early yester-
day, had picked up other passengers, [
the extent of the calamity would he j
greatly reduced This hope still re- !
mains.
Shortly ifter 7 o'clock last night ;
there came flashing over the wires'
from Cape Race, within 400 miles i
of which tlic liner had struck the ice-
berg, word that at J i'O o'clock .Mon-
day morning, three hours and 55
minutes after receiving her death
blow, the Titanic had sunk. The
news came from the steamer Carp-
ntliia, relayed by the White Star lin-
er and revealed that by the time tho
C'arpathia, outward bound from New
Yotlc, and racing for the Titanic on
a wireless call, reached the scene,
the doomed vessel had stink.
TWO OLYMPIC'S MESSAGES.
NEW YORK, April K The Olym-
pic dispatch follows:
"Carpathla reached Titanic posi-
THE WISDOM OF INCREASING
the acreage of feed stuff ill <' 11 TOkee CoillM) was if vol" seen a I is tliN
-
and the consumer can llnd little satisfaction in the market tic - ot the
past week. \ rise of lOe pc"- IiiisIm I in wheat corn oiling ii> Ka:i:.is
City at 8t|c oats at tine, almost double the regular price Choii earth
have reached the price ot * 1c ,jound on the hoof 11 o" nre fl.Su
a hundredweight'higher ' i in i war nuo and cotton up <'. '"J 1
within a week.
While the season gen. r.iivv is from three w^eks to !!o days '.at • in
our section slill there is plenty ot time jet to plant a variety ol ;r.ii'.
and forttge crops ti.a., with prop> .• cultivation, will redeem nil the losses
sustained last year by reu-on ot tip- drouth. Thei"1 will be a la rue acre
ago of Katircorn planted llii year and e\ery farmer should start this
crop oil by planting 10 acres. Il Is absolutely certaii
in abundance ami that is what is needed to meet high
way to meet high priced meat is to raise Katircorn
iccount tit this bank is appreciated and you are con
when in town.
to produce feed
irices. The best
and hogs. Your
invited to call
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL AN# SURPLUS $100,000.00
\\ v. . HASTINGS, Pros
11 o SCOTT, Cashier
D. W. WILSON, Vice-I'res
.1 rout. WYl.Y. \s 'i Cashier.
LAST KILLING IN PORUM FEUD AT MUSKOGEE
lion at daybreak. Found boats and
wreckage only. Titanic sank about
2:2n a. m.. in 41.1G north, SO. 14
west. All her boats accounted for
containing about ti?."i souls saved,
crew and passengers included. Nearly
all saved women and children. Ice-
land liner California remained and
seached exact position of di.-ast- i
I.oss likely total 1,800 souls.''
It is believed hero that there i- a
chance of an error unless the Titanic
had more passengers aboard than
given out. Deducting 675, the known
saved, would indicate a loss ot 1 I 'a
persons.
Jess Maxwell Mortally
Wounded and Leonard
McCullough Seriously
Shot by Jack Davis.
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THREE MORE DIE FROM MEN-
INGITIS NEAR PARK HILL
Special to I he Arrow.
PARK HILL. April I."..—Three
more deaths Iroui nienii>j;i.i>: a re (lie
results from the quarantined district
since Sulurdat night.
Mrs. Hoyer and two children, aged
2 and 12 years, respectively, are the
latest, \lctitns. The youngest of the
children took sick at 1 a o'clock Sat
urdtiy night and died at > o clock yes-
terday morning. The other, a hoy,
was attacked by the contagion at 4
o'clock Sunday morning and died four
hours later.
Mrs. Hoyer contracted the disease
tit about X o'clock yesterday morning
and died shortly after the noon hour
today.
One other. Miss Med lock. sister
of Man Wedlock, who died hist
Wednesday, is a newly developed case
and serum which arrived in Tahle-
quah this morning, will be adminis-
tered as soon as it can be gotten here.
Drrf. Allison, McCurry and Blake
were at the afflicted district all day
vesterday and while there extracted
a quantity of fluid from the spine of
the dead baby and sent it to the State
Medical Board today for analysis. As
soon as the medical hoard makes a
diagnosis of the fluid the quo. •'■n
which litis been raised, as to whether
or not the disease is actually menin-
gitis. will be settled.
XMEI'ICW EXECUTED
by mkxic.w ki:bi:i.s
Residents of the city should take
every precaution against the spread
of the disease, and it might be well
to secure from your physician a gar-
gle or spray prescription, which if
taken in time may prevent the con-
traction of the disease.
WASHINGTON, April in Indig-
nationof state department officials
over the execution of Thomas Foun-
tain, the American gunner, who was
captured by the rebels at I'arral, is
believed to be certain to prejudice
any attempt on the part of the Mex-
ican rebels to obtain recognition of
! belligerent rights so necessary to si
'successful conduct of their eam-
l paign.
I The state department did every-
thing in its power to prevent the ex-
ecution which, in its opinion, was in
violation of the rules of war of all
civilized countries. \ telegram re-
ceived only this morning from
American Consul Letcher tit Chihua-
hua, dated April and much delay-
ed in transmission, said the consul
had protested to the rebel chiefs
against the execution ol Fountain,
not. only at Chihuahua, but at I'ar-
ral, where the man was arrested.
However, lie had just heard through
the local newspapers, which he be-
lieved to be accurate, that Fountain
had been tried and executed that
morning.
In the opinion of the state depart-
ment, the man's execution was a de-
liberate murder. But it is recalled
that in his proclamation President
Taft expressly warned Americans
against participating in the revolu-
tion on either side, indicating plain-
ly that they would do so at their
own risk. This, however, does not
preclude the. American government
from taking measures to get repara-
tion.
•p< i i:t! lo the Arrow.
MUSKOGEE, Oklu., April 15.—
Xl I o'clock litis ut'tci iiooii llu* Po-
rum feud was re-enacted oil the main
«(reel in the city, whell .lack Davis,
lender of the notorious Davis gang of
I'oruiu. feudists, eultle rustlers, miir-
deres, etc., descended the stairway ,
of the Knglisli block, corner Broad- !
any and Second si reels, armed with
i Winchester rifle, and opened lire
on .less Maxwell and l eonard McCul-
|lough, who were instrumental in
bringing the Ituvis gang lo justice.
Davis .v itist returning tom the
}office of S. M. Rutherford, attorney
•for the Davis', where he wtt ad-
vised by Rutherford to take his Win-
|chester to his home on South See-
land street, and desist from further
trouble making.
Jess Maxwell 1 niortall> wounded,
having received three bullets in the
stomach and abdomen. He was
rushed to the Muskogee hospital,
where he is said to have made a
deathbed statement, the contents of
which is being withheld from publi-
cat ion.
Leonard McCullough received two
shots through the shoulder and back,
but his chance? for recovery are
good. lie. too. was laken lo the
hospital.
Maxwell was wounded at Porum in
the riot of a year ago, when his
brother, C'leni Maxwell was killed.
Davis, who had been warned to keep
away from Porum, unheodful of the
warning, returned there two weeks
ago last Saturday nigh1, and was
shot from ambush, receiving a slight
flesh wound in his shoulder.
Immediately following the shoot-
ing this afternoon, Davis ran Upstairs
to his attorney's office, where he was
later taken into custod> 1>\ officers,
and placed in jail, where he was re-
fused bond.
(From Tuesday's Daily Arrow.)
J. M. Taylor was in from Barber
'.Monday and reported that just before
leaving there the sheriff of Adair
I county had called there in search of
. iClbert (')iristie, who had had an al-
Itercation with a white man while the
two had been employed scoroing ties
just over the Adair county line be-
tween Barber and Hunch, in which
the white man had been killed. The
det lib of the case wo have been un-
able to gather.
75,000
People Made Homeless
by Floods.
N'EW ORLEANS. April 1 ti -Parts
of the thirteen parishes in North-
eastern Louisiana yesterday felt a
deluge unparalleled In the history of
destructive floods of the lower Mis-
sissippi valley. Numerous small
towns in east Carroll and Madison
parishes already are wiped out, vast
stretches of valley lands are cov-
ered by from six to twenty feet of
flood waters and more than a mile in
width is rushing through the great
Dog Trail crevasse near Uastla, La.
Already thousands are homeless
and destitute. What will bo the toll
when the waters from the Panther
Forest and Red Fork crevasses in
\rkansas join their destructive
forces with the sea of water pouring
through the Dog Tail breach no one
can say. Parts of thirteen Louisiana
parishes and two Arkansas counties
will be under water and a conserva-
tive estimate is that the homeless in
that territory will total at least g0,-
000, maybe 75,000.
No human agency can check the
rushing waters before they have
reached the Red river, which means
that a district several miles in length
will be inundated. No further breaks
occurred in the levees of the Missis-
sippi yesterday but at many points
the flood waters already have ex-
ceeded the previous record stage and
the United States engineers and state
levee boards from Vicksburg south
are working desperately against the
great odds.
To add to the alarming situation
a veritable cloudburst in the Tensas
basin of north Louisiana yesterday
gave forth from four to six inches of
rainfall in the brief space of ten
hours. Winds accompanied the rain
1 and made more difficult the work of
I rescuing in the district and almost,
| hopeless efforts of some to save their
few remaining chattels.
Relief work is centered at Vicks-
burg, Miss., where already hundreds
of homeless and destitute people
from the flooded districts are quar-
tered. Governor Brewer of Missis-
sippi lias sent tents and supplies
there for the unfortunates and yes-
terday Governor Sanders of Louisi-
ana ordered tents and bedding sent
to the Mississippi city. The relief
supplies of tents also are enroute
to Vicksburg from the federal au-
thorities at St. Louis.
SHOOTS WOMAN WHO RE-
FUSES TO LIVE WITH HIM
faction of Porum feudists, died in the
Baptist hospital early this morning.
Leonard McCullough, who was the
other victim of the shooting, is suf-
fering with a bullet hole through his
body, but bis condition as present is
not considered alarming and unless
complications of a serious nature
arise his chances for'recovery are
good.
i:i:i,ATIONS STRAINER.
WASHINGTON, April Di.—Rela-
tions between Mexico and the United
States, it is believed here, have boon
brought to ti critical point by the
state department's forceful note to
the contending factions in the south-
ern republic, warning them against,
any mistreatment of Americans. Just
such a warning as this one to Mexico
preceded the Spanish-American war
culminating in President MeKinley's
famous message referring to "intol-
erable 'conditions existing tit our.
doorway." Conditions in Mexico
seem to be growing worse hourly
It is still hoped by administration
officials, however, that SaMirday's
The Davis feud extends back intolnotes will have a sobering efleet tip-
territorial <l;i\s, unci during tlie* past !on tho passions ot the straggling no
\ear main death haw been attrib- Hons. This nope ted to reassurances
'tiled to their alleged outlawry. For I from official quarters yesterday that
the past vear the Davis families, con- 'here will be no intervention.
sisting of father and two brothers,! The next step must be tanon by
have been residents of Muskogee. Mexicans either through "he rebel
It is alleged that cattle stealing is'leader, Orozco, or by President Ma-
the cause of the feuds which hareldero, front whom some kind ol an
arisen at Porum. I answer to the state department * rep-
, resentations surely will h< forthcom-
Special to the Arrow.
MUSKOGEE. Okla., April 10.—
Jesse Maxwell, who was shot in the
(From Tuesday's Daily Arrow.)
Rert Mize, who resides near Ga-
briel, was arrested yesterday and
placed in jail charged with shooting
his wife with intent to kill.
About two weeks ago he and his
wife, who lived in the vicinity of
Gabriel, separated, the wife going to
the home of her brother to sta).
Sunday Mize went to see his w ife
in an attempt to persuade her to re-
turn and live with him. Failing in
his effort, it is alleged, he pulled a
revolver and shot the woman, mak-
ing an ugly flesh wound across the
abdomen and in the thigh. The
word soon spread and Mize was ar-
rested and brought to Tahlequah and
given a hearing 1n Judge Ghormley's
court. Judge Ghorniley held bini to
the grand jury in the sum of $2,500,
w hich he, failing to give, was placed
in jail on a charge of shooting with
intent to kill. The shooting occurred
at about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Mize, we understand, claims that the
shooting was accidental.
Dr. C. A. Peterson was called on
the case yesterday and went, to the
Mize home, where he attended the in-
juries. lie reports the wound none
other than a flesh wound, and says
barring the possibility of blood poi-
son the injury is not dangerous.
MRS. .IOII\ JACOB VSTOR SACK.
ing.
"Actions speak louder than
words," was a state department corn-
back yesterday afternoon by Jackjmept yesterday in reference to Oroz-
Davis, wealthy leader of the Davis I co.
CAPE RICE, N. F., April 17.—In
the list of survivors as received here
at an early hour today is the
name o£ Mrs. John Jacob Astor and
maid.
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