The Davis News. (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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OFFICIAL PAPER
Fok
TOWN OF DAVIS
THE DAVIS NEWS.
OFFICIAL PAPER
For
MURRAY COUNTY
VOLUME XIV--NUMBER 38
DAVIS, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY 7,1908
$1.00 A YEAR
The sun never looks so good as when it comes
f cr^king from behind the clouds. Nature's orches-
okia >axing the early buds; the soft zephyrs are
ori"1js°cletVith ^ incense 0f hope. May we not look
to the near future in adding you to our list of cus-
tomers? We are sure if we can get you started we
will never lose you, as we now have men on our
books that were with us fourteen years ago.
.C.Draughon'sSonsCo.
: .v*- YE?! S?*? ::r.1
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YV7E are willing to be judged by the quality
of the goods we sell and the manner in
which wf treat our customers.
Our prices must be right, otherwise we could
not hope to conduct a successful business.
DON'T SEND YOUR MONEY AWAY.
Leave it with us "home folks" tc circulate
in this community.
No far distant concern can give you your
■noney's worth as well as we and you have
us close by to make things right if you
think they arc not so.
GIVES WIFE CARBOLIC
ACID.
DON'T YOU NEED--
$1.75 to $8.50
$5.40 to $7.50
$4.oo to $8.oo
$7.5o to $14.oo
A nice Rocker -
A nice Set Diners -
A nice Kitchen Safe
A nice Kitchen Cabinet
A nice Matting at 15-20-25-30 and 35 cents per yard
A nice Linoleum at - - 55 cents per yard
A nice Floor Oil Cloth at - 35 cents per yard
A nice Set Plates - - 5° to 75c
A nice Set Teas - - * 5° to 7 5c
A nice Set Goblets - - 40c
A nice Set Tumblers - - 25 to 40c
A big lot Enamel ware 50 per cent cheaper than you
can get it elsewhere.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW YOU.
W. M. HILLIS
FURNITURE ANU HOUSEFURNISHINGS.
The Store that Sells it for Less.
Resolution by Sen. Gore.
Whereas it has been alleged
upon more or less respectable
authority that various corpora-
tions ami individuals made large
contributions to the campaign
fund of one or more political
parties in the last Presidential
campaign; and whereas the
truth or falsity of those allega-
tions should be ascertained and
made public, in order to vindi-
cate the iunocent and expose the
guilty : Therefore be it
Resolved, That the Committee
onPrivileges and Elections in the
Senato is directed to investigate
such charges and allegations,
and, if possible, make a partial
or compete report of their find
ings to the present session of
Congress, and if the investiga-
tion can not be concluded prior
to the adjournment of the pres-
ent session, then to make a full
and complete report to the suc-
ceeding session of Congress, and
to that end the committee or any
subcommittee thereof is author-
ized to sit in vacation, to sub-
poena witnesses, compel produc-
tion of records aud paperB, to
administer oaths, and to do all
other actB and things necessary
to elicit the truth; and
Resolved, That such committee
is authorized and directed to re-
port at the present session of
CongresB such legislation as may
be necessary to prevent and to
punish such contributions to the
campaign fund of the political
partief of the Vnited States.
Cravens Sells Out.
J. Ross Cravens has sold out
his interest in the Oity Drug
Store on Commercial street to
one of his partners, Dr. H. I'.
Wilson. Dr. Wilson and Dr. W.
Langford will conduct the store.
Mr. Cravens expects to leave
Wynnewood but has not yet de-
cided where he will locate.
John Seaton, formerly with
the Cresent. Drug Store, has been
engaged as clerk at the City
Drug Store and William Barnett,
who was with the Henry tiushop,
will have charge of the soda
fountain, having leased it from
Drs. Wilson and Langford.—
Wynnewood New Era.
You can get blank notes, mort
gages, deeds, etc., the uew Okla
horna .forms, at The News offiee-
Shawnee, Okla., May 4.—
Crazed with insane jealousy
over the attention of another
man to his wife, Joe Forbes
made a desperate effort at
noon today to murder her by
forcing the contents of a carbolic
acid bottle down her throat and
then attempted self destruction
by the same means. Ilis wife
(irace Forbes, is horribly burned
about the face, neck and arms
where the liquid was spilled over
her in the desperate light with
her husband, and her recovery is
uncertain. Forbes succeeded in
drinking a small amount of the
acid before his wife could strike
the bottle from his hand. He
fell to the floor writhing in
agony while bis wife ran to the
kitchen and seized a quantity of
vinegar, which she forced him to
drink.
The woman's llesli shriveled to
a crisp under the acid and her
hands are swelled to twice their
size. The • burns' on her face
have rendered her absolutely un-
recognizable.
Forbes was taken to jail at
Tecumseh.
A prominent citizen and owner
of Main street property, who has
just had a splendid cement walk
built in front of his property
made the remark while working
on his uew walks that he did not
care for the cost of the walk, as
it improved and enhansed the
value of his property, but he did
not believe it right to permit
driving across Main street side
walks, thus compelling pedes-
trians to wade through mud to
get to a good sidewalk. The
News will go further and say it
is uot right to allow driving on
or across ANY sid'walk, either
on or off Main street except at
alley crossings. The streets are
for vehicles and animals—the
walks are for pedestrians and
should be reserved for such
Reward for Grave Robbers
Madill, Okla., May 4.—Sherifl
Webb has offered a reward of
$50 for the arrest of the men who
robbed the grave of Iupphubbie,
the Indian chief, near Isom
Springs, one day last week. The
chief was buried March 11, 1001,
and with him a number of valua-
ble and historic trinkets. The
grave was robbed of all the trin
kets and left open. Search for
the robbers has been in progress
for three days by Sheriff Webb
and his deputies who returned
today unsuccessful.
To Check the Fire Waste.
The people of the United
States pay in fire loBses every
year half as much as they do to
support their Government. No
other nation endures anything
like this enormous tax. No oth-
er could hear it.
The Government has set a good
example to the people in this
matter. It owns over five hun-
dred million dollars' worth of
buildings, none of which are in-
sured. It seldom loses anything
by fire. In the San FYancisco
conflagration the Mint and the
Appraiser's Buildiug stood out
like rocks in a sea of tlame.
Brisk tires occasionally break out
among the papers and furniture
in the Capitol, but they never
spread beyond the room they
start in. The first cost of a Gov-
ernment building is its last; it
does not have to be spent over
;ain when the place burns
down.
The Government is now mak
ing tests to determine the com-
parative lire-resisting qualities
of various materials.
conducted at the Fire Under-j It is not known definitely how
writers'laboratories at Chicago, j the intruders gained entrance,
While addressing a jury in a
case in an Iowa town recently a
lawyer became excited it is said,
and Bhouted : "Gentlemen of the
jury, there were just 3<S hogs
involved. I'lease remember
that fact; just three times as
many as are in the jury box,
gentlemen." He did not win
the ease.
$50 Reward
For the arrest and conviction
of parties who were trying to
catch horBes in my pasture on
night of April 14th. Also $10
will be paid by H. 0. l'rice.
Will Short.
Silver Laced
WYANDOTTES
are, said to be the best
known winter layers and
are second to none as a
table fowl.
Eggs $1.00 per 15.
MRS. J. R. CLEMMONS
Davis, Okla.
Cy. Leeper's Lumber Office
Robbed.
Tuesday's Oklahoman Bays:
Presumably taking advantage
of the severe storms that were
prevailing about 2 o'clock Mon-
day morning, two robbers forci-
bly entered the office of C. S.
Leeper, lumberman, at Capitol
Hill, blew open the safe with
nitroglycerine, and made good
their escape with $25. The ap-
proximated damage is $75, in-
The trials, I eluding cash.
but it is thought that they pried
open a window. Both a window
and a door was open when the
robbery was discovered. Aside
from the almost total wreckage
of the safe, the room was not
otherwise impaired.
"There is no watchman nor
any residence houses close to the
office," sai€ Norman Bennet,
manager of the company, last
night,"and the fact that the rain
and thunder smothered all possi-
ble likelihood of hearing reports
from the exploding dynamite,
made the way an easy one for
the robbers."
Hair in His Eyes.
A few nights ago, members of
the Press Club of Chicago gave
an entertainment at Glen Ellyn,
a Chicago suburb. The toast-
master, iu introducing one of the
best known of the Chicago liter
ary colony, begged the indul-
gence of the audience for the
reason that the gentleman who
was about to address them had a
nervous habit, while reciting, of
shaking his hair into his eyes
and fumbling around until he
could remove it. He earnestly
requested the ladies and gentle-
men present not to be facetious
if this unpleasartness should oc-
cur.
When the speaker came onto
the platform, there was a burst
of laughter. He was as bald on
top as a door-knob I
have been more severe than any
ordinary fire would he, and quite
as much so as a conflagration.
Thirty kinds of materials, in-
cluding practically everything
except the wood so popular
among private builders, were
subjected to heat from a blast
furnace for two hours and then
drenched with water from a hose
under a pressure of fifty pounds
to the square inch. That ordeal
seemed to leave brick in the best
condition aud stone in the worst.
The bricks were entirely un-
affected by the fire, but from a
third to a half of them were
racked by the water. Old
brick passed the test better than
new. The natural building
stones were almost completely
destroyed.
Next to brick the most durable
material seemed to be concrete.
It suffered a little surface dam-
age, but none that went to any
depth. Linen tags imbedded in
the concrete blocks at the time
of moulding came through the
fire without injury. There were
so me cracks in the concre e
caused by its slow conduction of
heat, but it was thought that
this could be-prevented by metal
re-enforcements, distributing the
expansion.
Both brick and concrete are
reasonably cheap, while wood,
fortunately, is growing constant-
ly dearer. The use of fire-resist-
iiig materials would add very
ittle to the cost of building, .
while it would serve the double Township Trustees complain
purpose of checking the drain oti that it is a hard matter to get
11 _ . 4.1. „ ^ fUai* .liotrmt to
liable to a penalty. Of course it
will take some time for people
who have been for so long unac-
customed to dealing with these
matters in a legal way .to fully
realize the changes that have
been made, but all residents of
the country should he willing to
aid in a matter of so great im-
portance as that of road build-
ing, without it being necessary
to enforce the legal power en-
trusted to the various township
officers. If. however, ti ey wili
not work without such legal ac-
tion, we hope to see the laws
strictly enforced, so that no man
subject to a road tax may in any
way evade or avoid his duty to
the community.—Purcell Regis-
ter.
Damage at Chickasha.
Chickasha, Okla., May 4.—
Thirty houses ill the southern
part of the city were blown from
their foundations and several
persons were slightly injured
during during a small twister at
1 this morning. An electrical
display accompanied the storm
and several houses were damaged
by lightning, among them the
residence of Sheriff Louthen.
Satterfield
series.
& Ferguson, gro-
the forests and stopping our
ghastly waste of life and proper-
ty from lire.—Collier's.
Make your Btomach well and
strong by using Mi-o-na. Gives
real cure, not the temporary re-
lief of pepsin, which in the end
ruins the stomach. City Drug
Store sells Mi-o-na under guaran-
tee.
Get a quantity of old papers
while they are cheap. 10c per
hundred at The News.
the people of their district to
realize that it is necessary to
work the roads, and that notices
served for work on roads are le-
gal warnings with the full power
of the state and county back of
them. It is not a matter of
choice whether they shall re-
spond to the summons to work
the roads at the time they are
called upon to do so, as the no-
tice served is a legal form and
the man who doeB not properly
answer the same lays himself
JUST RECEIVED
Full line of plain and fancy
SCREEN DOORS
A car of famous Kokomo
HOG FENCE
We have a big stock of
CORRUGATED
IRON ROOFING
BARBED WIRE
CEMENT
LIME
BRICK
LUMBER
WAPLES-
PAINTER CO.
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