We are Closing' out
a bi£ Shipment of Cook Stoves
and Ranges.
T. E. Verner Furniture Company
East and West Side Stores
Oklahoma.
Get a good Cook Stove
or Range at a low price. We
have them
THE
OK^homa sIate BANK.
The Bank of Guaranteed Deposits
Vk E do a general Banking business along
consistent lines. Those wishing new
banking connections, wilt find this bank
amply able to meet their requirements
within the limits of safe banking.
The Oklahoma State Bank.
U. G. Phippen, J. H. Wright, D. J. T. German.
President, V-President, Cashier.
TU ► _.,t* Mi,sin9 Le f. When Big Gun. Crash.
? ordinarv < "re which is Mkea The effects of two ten-iucb turret
jy the Japanese in their very exact flred simultaneously on l oard a
"flower arrangements" is Illustrated
by an incident related by Frederic 8.
Isham, the author. He was present
at a demonstration in Kyoto of the
•art of placing flowers, leaves and
branches together in an artistic man-
ner. At one point a little maid ap-
parently offended the "master" deeply.
He spoke to her and ended bv order-
ing her to retire. She did so, prob-
►Jbly the most broken hearted girl in
war vessel are ratlier astonishing. A
correspondent on board the vessel
says "For several moments 1 woo
dered what bit roe and where I was
hit. The glass that protects the helms-
man from the weather and the win-
dows of the charthouse. the glass of
which is one-third of an Inch thick,
were smashed to atoms An Ink bottle
that stood on the table la the chart-
house Jumped about six inches, and
Renaming Indians.
Some years ago in order to make
their inheritance of land more simple
and secure our government commis-
sioned I >r. Charles a. Eastman, a
Sioux*Indian, to reiuime more than
l/i.OOU Sioux With their family names
i he task vas a tremendous one and
full of difficulties. Where possible Dr
Eastman kept the original Sioux name
of some member of a family, as in be
slowing the name "Mntoska," meaning
\V hite Bear." on Hie family of that
chief. Sometimes the combination of
wife's nauie and husband s name has
produced a musical result, such as
W inonu Otana." The fuvorlte name
for women means "she who has a
beautiful home." which Dr. Eastman
has Anglicized in the patronymic
"Goodhuuse." Hut by for the hardest
task was in finding new names for the
absurdities of Indian nomenclature.
"Bobtailed Coyote" was a young In-
dian who has come to prefer himself
:,s "Robert T. Wolf." After a long
struggle with "Rotten Pumpkin" l>r
Eastman nt last recorded the owner ol
the name on the tribal records under
the noncommittal title of "Robert
Pumpian."
Operation For Mrs. T. E.CIingan
An operation for endometritis was
performed upon Mrs. T. E. Clingan,
of Soper, Thursday afternoon. The
operation was performed by Drs. Har-
ris and John of this city, and Davis of
Soper, and was pronounced success-
ful. Mr. Clingan is in charge of the
Big Springs school, and is one of
the county's best known educators.
The Burrous racket store was
victim of a woman shoplifter during
the holiday rush, but the kleptoma-
niac was caught with the goods and
made to pay for what had been sto-
len.
Wild geese are plentiful along Red
river and Claud Biard, the Grant mer-
caant, is planning a hunting party
which will embrace several Hugo
sportsmen of more than local re*
Down.
KENT Off MURDER
BOND OF BONKS
WEST MAIN STREET NEGRO HIT-
TING TROUBLE-PIKE IN A
REAL HARD STYLE.
Lon Wright Asked To Be Released
From Bond In The Iford Finley
Murder Case.
WCIOY
Sier ber wort th a P h t0 eVerV drop of ink 8Pran* °ut-  ut the
had Mn American, who bottle dropped back to the spot from
ask wTat wn^f ventured t0 ! whi'h it Jumped. Three water bottles
J® " ' , A .ma r' whereu!*>n ! three tumblers were on the table
twelve T T ,he smokin« being fuM of
^n instead of thirt«  t^-°? *" *««■ When the gun, were flred th-
S,'™™ °L,bSn ,T.VnnVh" tow
vears arm hut ihnnrrhf ♦ a j" i Three gentlemen who were
srstfSferTr--
B>ut it suggests Michelangelo's retort! k^k for^T* ",""7 "npleas'Ult out'
i" Which he minted out the relation ,? S t i „uV. T IT"' of a bat"
between trifles and perfection tle'~St- I'°U,S ''^^oc-rat.
Sherlock Holmes' Original.
Sir A. Connn Doyle often recounted
Inridsuts regarding I>. Joseph Bell.
the distinguished Scottish surgeon _  
from whom hh  character of Sherlock ' fectiooatetjr as he walks through his
Responsive Flowers.
Karlstrom says flowers have under-
standing and know when |iersons care
for th*em>. He says they respond to a
loving tomb and to a caress. The
Swedish collector touches flowers af-
T—  c. e, .. A Beaver's Day's Work.
A new method of wicTcontrol was Jta/*""? T'"" Kt"Kent's Park
tried by the lifelong stutterer. In pardens- tondoQ- <> ce Placed at
Holmes was drawn. One of the most
remarkable wag this:
IB*!' ""as lecturing to his class in
surgery, of which Doyle was one. wbeu
in regard to the subject he remarked:
"Of course this iuan has been a sol
dicr in a highland regiment and prob-
ably a bandsman."
The man had the soldier's swagger,
but was loo short to- be anything Ijnt a
bauds ma a. the doctor explained. The
man vehemently deuied this and said
he was a shoemaker. Dr. Bell, still
confident that his powers- of reasoning
and deduction had not led him astray,
had the man stripped and on the lef|
side of his cbest found a little blue
°°D" branded on the skin:. The doctor
then declared to bis class:
"This mau was a deserter. This is
the way tiwy were marked in the Crr-
mean day ^ (bough it i  not permitted
now "
itreeniiotise and insists they have e
language far those who understand
He (mints- t<* a flower with drooping
head' and say* ti is calling for water
In different ways, he explains, flowers
ask for light, warmth, sunshine, and
when, satisfled Jbe flowers lift up their
heads buoyantly and express the pure
Joy of heinir Karlstrom advises the
study of flowers through magnify
fng glasses, saying tbeir beauty Is
not IwJf appreciated otherwise. A
flower under the glaa*. lie asserts, re
veals remarkable beauty and if taken
to pieces discloses wonders uever ap-
preciatedi-New Tork Press.
Bridge For Miss Kellar.
One of the most charming social
events of the holiday season took
place Thursday afternoon, when Mrs.
H. J. Kellar entertained with bridge
and "42," in honor of her daughter,
Miss Pauline, who is home from col-
lege for the holiday a. The house dec-
orations were of red and green
holly and mistletoe being the princi-
pal decorations. Tiny X-mas bells
and lights softly shaded in red and
Troubles come in groups for Willis
Burks, negro, now under jail sentence
for jelling whiskey, and who was out
on uond for the murder of Iford Fin-
ley in Burks- West Main street hou.e ZZ uT " ** "
last summer I ' 8Cene At the close of the games
| n,sn score among the bridge play
A tew days ago Burks was convict- ers fell to Mrs. Chester Miller who
ed in Justice McQueen's court for; received a copy of Tennyson's Poems.
a g sold whiskey, and was sen-1 High score for "42" fell to Mrs Char
tenced to thirty days' work on the He Miller, who received a copy of
city streets, and to pay a fine of $50 i Scott's Poems. The favors for the
and costs
Burks was tried at
FTarsh
few lessons the impediment in speech
was overcome.
"That's fine," said a candid friend.
"Now I wish you would take a bit of
advice, lou talk all right today, but
Just keep a watch on yourself and see
how you talk this time next week."
"You're a wet blanket, all right."
growled the ex-stutterer "What's the
matter with next week?"
"We'll be in the full moon, then,"
said his friend.' "It's a fact that
everybody who has ever stuttered
stutters worse when the moon is full
than at any other time. Until you
get so you can talk smoothly then you
can't count yourself really cured."
The man with halting spe<H b took
notice, as advised, sad found that
several full uioous waned l>efore he
could control his speech at lhat time.
—New York Timee.
e placed at
I work upon a tree twelve feet long and
two feet six inches thick Just aa the
town clocks sounded the hour of noon.
The beaver began by barking the tree
a foot above the groand. That done,
he attacked the wood. He worked
hard, alternating his labor with dipa
In his bathing pond He bathed and
labored alternately until 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, when he ate his supper
of bread and carrots and paddled abon'
In his pond until half past 5 o'clock.
Ten minutes later, when only one Inch
of the tree's diameter remained Intact,
he bore upon his work, and the tre< 
fell Itcfore it fell the beaver ran a a
men run when tbey have flred a blast.
Then as the tree lay on the ground he
portioned It out mentally and strain be-
gan to gnaw He worked at Intervals
all night, cut the log info three parts,
rolled two of the portions into the wa
ter and reserved the other third for
his permanent shelter. The work dot*
Verifying His Statement. , , , . . „.
Old Mr. and Mrs. Hmiley were giving j " t0°k " balh—" >-per s Weekly
tbeir annual party, and Mr. Smiley
was making his usual speech.
"For forty years have my good wifa
and I traveled hand Uijiaud down life's
thorny path," he wild "In all those
years not one single harsh, hasty, un-
kind word has passed our lips. Isn't
that true, mother?"
ed the house as the carriage rolled
away, and one of the carabiuieri, look
ing through the window, waved bis
hand to him
Great heavens! The man was Gio-
vanni Sforra.
There were no more meetings in the
Mother had quietly fallen asleet Piazza Colonna. but I'ark went to the
j headquarters of the carabinieri and
• asked for Giovanni Sforza. There was
no such name on the roster, but Albert
found his man in the full uniform of «
carabineer.
"Yon used me." said Albert, "to gain
information of one you were shadow
ing."
"I did." said the other coolly.
"Well, now that I have found you
out. perhaps you will tell me who Is
Signorina Poll?'
HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY.
Ten Commandmenta.
Hr. William H Evans, who
for more than four years was
health commissioner of Chicago,
gives these ten commandments
for longer and better living:
* irst— !o where you will
breathe no bad air.
Second.-Live simply, whoever
you may be.
Third -Eat little, but eat that
little long.
Fourth.-Disinfect with sun
shine and air.
Fifth.—Avoid flies.
Sixth.—Feed no unclean milk
to your baby.
Seventh.—Buy no food from
unclean dealers.
Eighth Keop out of crowds ln
pneumonia weather.
Ninth - Avoid careless people-
careless consumptives, people
careless of colds, scariet fever,
diphtheria, measles and typhoid
fever.
Tenth. Earn health by right
living. There is no royal road.
When the Duke Scrubbed.
W beu the Ituke of Coburg-Gotha waa
a very young royal highness be was
taken by his mother, th* Duchess of
Albany, to Mr. Wesley's school for
boys. Before taking in the royal
youngster the muster stipulated that
the new popii must conform to a  th«
rules. This was agreed.
One day bis royal highness upset a
bottle of ink ou the floor. "Get a buck-
et of water and w ip* U up," said the
master.
"But." objected his royal highness,
"you doa't mean me- to scrub it up^
do- you r
"Tes. indeed."
But you must t&rget my grandnrxMh.
er is tbe queen ?"
"On the contrary." said the- master.
"1 remember It very well. «et the «t-
ter "
Whereupon his royal highnest tha
Duke of Coburg-Gotha- scrubbed
Chicago Tribune.
Beflgare of Pari*.
Not a few Paris beggara bav  h«.
fonie hlstoriral. Vears ago there was
a female mendicant without legs and
with only one arm who could by a
trick In ber breathing produce ta her
interior a sound like the tick of a pen-
dulum. "I.lsten. ladles and gentle-
men." she used to exclaim. "I have a
dock in tnv stomach!" Her gaping
auditors used thereupon to apply an
•ar to her back It was true. There was
a Clock inside her. They could hear it
tick Formerly at one end of tbe Pont
Nenf there sat an old blind man. a<v
companied by a poodle. Enveloped la
a large overcoat with seven plaits, ha
did nothing ail day but keep a pair of
expressionless eyes directed toward
heaven and shake bis tin money box
from time to time. It was a tradition
In Paris that he had given his daugh-
ter a dowry of 300.000 francs on tha
A Servsttive Horso.
frontal en t. though It *tof>
*h..rt of indicting physical pain, keeps
a nervous horse in a state of misery.
A single blow may be enough to spoil
  racer. Dan-iet Lambert, founder of
the Lambert branch of the Morgan
family, was thought as a three-year-
old to be Hie fa-stest trotting stallion
■if Iris Bay tie w.ts a very handsome,
stylish intelligent home and also ex-
tremely sensitive. His driver. Dan
Mace, though one «>f the best reins-
men in America, once made the mis-
take. rhro gb ill temper or bad judg-
ment. of giving frnnlel lambert a se-
vere cut with the whip, and thnt sin-
gle blow pm an end to his usefulness,
as a trotter. He became wild and tin-
J poveruaWe iu h/troeHg and retnaine<ti
so for tbe rest of His life.
the district fees and a Santa Claus. An elabo-
oourt last November Dor the killing j rate salad and plum pudding course
of Iford Finley and the Jury failed1 *as served. The following guests
to agree on a verdict. He had given ! were present: Mesdatnes C Howe
« bond signed by twelve citizens of Sr., U. G. Phippen. Travis, J P DicW'
In u.y' T am0,1K th* Bamber Witsi WfUI"' Vaughan. Charlie
Lon Wright, one of the best known 1 Miller, Chester Miller, Vaughan Kin*
citizens of this county. Following the' " J T. German. F. Chandler W a
ieceut troubles of Btirks with the a®- Fhandler, E. Shaffer O A Simmnno
thoritles. Wright asked be releaa- \ <*. Shull, I. o. .Nelson. T. Price Dean'
ed from the Burks bond, giving as Major Davis, K. Shull. Wright Quin
his reason therefor that he felt inse- 1 Shelton. A. J. Weir. Macintree of
mad' "nd n"Ce8Sary B",ws "orant; Misses Elizabeth Dean Ben-
made out this morn in*, requiring I nie Works. Mis. Dorothy Carter of
Burks to. go to jail on the murder 1 Durant. " Urt"r of
charge, to await trial' w <?iae- give a  
new bond, which th« big West Side For Muis Edith Kellar:
negro jointist claims be> will be alile t-*8t nfRht Mrs. H. J. Kellar enter-
to give, as he has always been- aiile ,aiBed the younger set for her daugh-
to make his financial word good in M'SS Edith' O,d ft  hioned games
local business oireins. ITnV f °f thP eveB,n* A
b- -. n«.,„kiw«
Bernice Webb.
Darrough, Mary
How Kangaroo! Fight.
Kaiiga.oos are distributed over ab
Parts Queensland. The old mau.
•r fully no*B male. Is mostly found
an downs and m open forest country
oB -none than ordinary intelligence. dl>r. hankie Harris
He Know, every negro in this ,ec- Eleanor Ornie Vera'
tlon of Oklahoma and along the Tex- V| rirrav  i- ' r' ,.
as line up and down Red river He D,>nald of «? Mary M<:'
turn: Ueen frequently charged with, sell- aaii Robert H^f   ^
ing liquors and that seems to have | Fount Bowman v l !f Simmons-
boon- tile primary cause of his. pre, ! t^man-For«t "arrough and
ent predicament.
Retailor* Held Meeting.
Club Entertainment.
  rb* r'"'othac Euchre club was en-
Thursday afternoon was the regu- 1 Re^^n Fas/'I t"*1 ^ Ed L"
lar meeting of ,he Hugo Retailers' as- the following 8lr<Kft• WUh
soeiMlon, the meeting being in the *„'ZZZZ V^
offices of Secretary W. E. Schooler. Barr«t May e
wtogave a; imchooa, to the, nembsn WarT Kethum C.7h HH  llt Munehe'
present after the business session had sie Beasley M-* McDonald, Es
closed Muslness of importance was Will Barren b "k Marx'
  tr"8amd  nd a "oli^ the en- i Harrison. Pa'trick T
An "old man" sometimes grows u, ttie ^ K y*'ar Was Partially mapped out. Kay. Jr Mrs W w R '«
height of six fee, and when hunted I ^    aad Mrs'. E. A Porter ^
Into a rocky gorge or corner will turn Owen Opposes Aikin Bill. Ther^   , , .
   ,n*r' *ere ten games of euchre.
Vda «uia iw ■)« M-u 3"d the tadies' Prize was
*aa, Wkla., I^e. 28.—When asked 1 — - "
what he thought of the Aikin hill.
Senator Robt. L. Owen stated that. In ! Schenck
its present form, he is; much opposed
to it. t don't think." says he. "any man
Just because he is mad about high
and f '-e its pursuer It is a forml
dabl* adversary at close quarters. Its.
mode of lighting is to clasp its enemy
ln its arms, bug him to its l.seast and
then with Its powerful hind flaws r *
him epen.
Turn About.
"Papa says if 1 give up. my sintdng
lessons be will present me with a pair
ot diamond earrings."
"You have never wornearriugs. have
you?"
"No: I should have  o have my e ra
pierced."
"Ah. yes! I see bis idea. Me wanta
to pay you back la your una eola"'
w ,„ H.
hy Frank Marx; consolation, by Mr.
A BIG OIL DEAL AT TULSA, QKLA.
Field of ,60 Acrea~Bought By Gypsy
Company.
A Dubioua Compliment.
Dobby was shewing off his baby.
"Think he looks like u e. Slithers?"
lie asked.
"Well-no." said SUthers. looking at
the youngster critically. "He's a
queer looking little cuss all right, but
. ! - . . - — ' shouldn't go as far as to say that
I do not know except that she U i OCCMlon of her marriage to a notary he looks like you."-Judge
wanted by the Russian government " 1 that ,D the evening after rattling
"Can I see her before she leaves?" | hls money box all day tbe old man
"She has already gone " j conld often be seen in a box at the
"Where?" ; opera, to which be had driven -in his
"To St. Petersburg, but I fancy she I ««TlagB—London Globe.
will go from there to Siberia." Contr,ry MiafoP,un(|.
Park turned on his bee) and walked "Jaggsby certainly does have
kinds of trouble."
"What Is the matter with him?"
"He got himself an automobile, and
It blew up. Then be got. an aero-
plane."
"What happened to that?"
"It blew down."-Baltimore Amert-
awav without a word of adieu to his
former friend He, the American, bar
never iten the same man line#.
The Bluff Physician.
The Doctor-You would have an at-
tack of brain fever but for one thing.
Impatient Patient-And what's that?
Tbe Doctor—The fact that nature made
you an Immune from that particular
variety of fever —Baltimore American.
all
Woman's Woes.
As soon as a married woman gets
f'X> saved up she becomes oppressed
by the thought that she Is merely ac
rumulatiug a fortune for the s.vond
wife ta spend—.'
Wealth Is social In its origin and
i should be uued for social pu/posea.—
Comte.
Sarcastic.
"John." said a father to his son one
iay when he caught him shaving the
town off bis upper lip. "don't throw
your shaving water out where there
■ re any barefooted boys about or they
might get their feet pricked "
Wild Parrots Are Fighters. I
Tarrots when |n their native wilds
live in flocks and guard themselves by Oklahoma City, Dec. 28.—State In-
a complete police system which en- 8,""ance Commissioner P. A. Ballard is
ables them to marshal their collective sending out annual statement blanks
force quickly when nny animal or bird j to 208 insurance companies which
attacks one of their number They have been transacting business in Ok
seem to be disciplined and trained la |ahoma dllHn" * """nesH Ok-
lighting together, and all other bird, i . K * ,ho "a8t year and a"
and animals are afraid to attack a " uPP'y for licenses for
parrot unless the bird can be caught
alone. Even then a shrill call sum
mons tbe parrot army to the rescue.
It Is said that ln the forests all par-
rots die of old age and that none is
ever killed by birds of prey or other
wild animals.
taxes, should without any discrimina-
tion. try to wipe out fourteen state
schools with one blow, ir there are
too many schools, certainly some in-1 Tu1h„ n. , ^
**stigatio* should be made to see tec 28-~'°B* °f 'he*'*
which should be eliminated and which ,arKeHt deal  in oil properties d m jh
retUned. Besides," said the sena in* the Preeent year was the sale
tor. "it is seldom that a state pays) Just closed or 160 acres of rlchlv
too much for education " ' _ ricniy pro-
| ducln* <n the new I'errymau
Guthrie Gets Convention: ' °" "e'd the <omp«ny
   to the Gypey oil company, the pro-
Guthrie .Okla., Dec. 28.—The Guth- ducln8: *nd of the Gulf Pipe line,
rle chamber of commerce has secur- The consideration paid was $350 000
ed the State Sunday school conven- —  
r..,oLr „„„
and I.M0 X c
other towns of the state. The con- onn<>''. mother of nine children,
ventlon will again be entertained in | ba" brouKht an action against the
the First Methodist Episcopal church, j M,dlan«i Valley Railroad company
aaklng $10,000 for the death of her
husband at Nelagony, on June 26th.
last The case has been transferred
y the railroad company to the fed
eral court here from tbe district
court at Pawhuska. Mrs. Conner now
h^V u6rU' KunB'18 She
^ a her husband bought a ticket at
Nelogany for Pawhuska, and he was
old to go Into the yards to board a
local for Pawhuska She alleges tha.
he was knocked down by a sudden
Jerk of the train, his head being
Sending Out Insurance Blanks.
the year 1912.
Attorney B. J. Jordan has returned
from a visit with his folks at Bearden,
 - -
leKes, was making $2,000 per annum