The Hartshorne Sun. (Hartshorne, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1905 Page: 6 of 12
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THE HARTSHORNE SUN
PI B1ISHID EVIHY THURSDAY.
T. W. HUNTER, Iditor and Owner.
NEW STATE NEWS.
The western deanery of the Episco-
pal church was held in Ardmore last
week.
It is reported that gold lias been
found in paying quantities near Put-
nam, iu Dewey county.
Over fifty applictaions for allotment
were received at the auxiliary to the
Cherokee land office at Muskogee on
the first day of its existence.
The Rev. Sweet and t' e Rev. A.
Grant Evans will be sent to Washing-
ton by the prohibitionists of Indian
Territory to labor for the cause of
temperance in the statehood measure
The report of Prof. Imnan E Page
t f the university for negroes at Lang-
ston shows an attendance of nearly
four hundred students—the larg >t
number in the hitsory of the school.
William Dunn, a negro, of Wilbur-
ton, was arretsed and bound over to
appear before the grand jury in South
McAlester He is charged with crim-
inal assault upon a negro woman
J If. Morgan was arrested at Elk
City 011 a charge of having kill '<1
James Nugent in a saloon a short
time ago. The shot which killed
Nugent was tired from the outside
and through a window.
The Kansas City Journal his a spe-
cial car and a staff of representatives
making . tour of the two terrltori*'
preparing a special statehood edition
for that enterprising newspapei
which is to be issued soon
The last of the seventeen persons
arrested at Boynton, charged with
riot, were examined before the I'nite l
States commissioner at Muskogee. All
but six of the prisoners were dis-
charged. They were given jail sen
itences.
Game Warden Phelps of El Reno
feu* commenced prosecution against
the Wells Fargo Express company for
violation of the quail shipping law.
A quantity of these birds was recently
found in transit at El Reno, in po
session of the company, which, in
case of conviction is liable to a fin"1 ot
000.
Through the kindness of Editor Al-
lard, Mrs. Carrie Nation is t i havt
charge of the Shawnee New: for on
issue some day iu the near future.
Mrs. Nation is to control every line
of matter, with Iae exception of such
legal notices as may be running tit
the lime.
J. A. Taylor, ti prominent fruit
grower of Wynnewood, president ol
the Oklahoma horticultural society
has made an offer of a premium ol
$10 in gold for the best five plates ct
apples on display at the meeting ol
the society, which is to be held in
^Shawnee the 1 Stli and l'.Hli if thi;
month, and $•"> for the second best d'. ;
play. It Is likely that other apodal
{premiums will be offered.
The postmaster general has signe!
an order forbidding the Hartford in
durance company of Indian Territory
ifhe use of the mails, because Ik- nl
leges it is a fraud. It is stated that
the Phoenix underwriters' has me!
•the same fate. A number of policy
'holders In th.'se concerns believe!
they were carrying insurance in the
Hartford, Connecticut, com piny, an I
•this Is the principal reason for bar*
4ng them from the mail
OLD CROSS OF LOUISBURG.
interesting Relic Owned by Harvard
University.
In a closet in the library at liar-
card college is stored one of the few
existing relics of the campaign of Sir
William Pepperell and his New Eng-
enders against the French stronghold
of Louisburg, in the year 1745.
This relic is ar. iron cross that is be-
lieved to have adorned a church in
Louisburg. How it came into the pos-
session of Harvard Is not known at
this time, as no antiquarian lias ever
taken the trouble, it appears, to estab-
lish its history since it became a col-
lege possession.
About sixty years ago Mr. John L.
Sibley, then librarian at Harvard,
found the cross in a lot of discarded
articles stored in one of the smaller
buildings on the college grounds. It
was marked with a tag on which was
written the statement that the cross
was brought from Louisburg by one of
Pepperell's soldiers. Mr. Sib v at-
tempted to trace the history of the
relic in order to discover under w at
circumstances, and by whom, it. was
presented to the college, but so far as
his successor knows, he made no
headway in his quest.
In 1841. shortly after its discovery
bv Mr. Sibley, the cross was stored
a small building that stood back ol
Draft Long Mislaid
For fifteen years and more a draft
< for $50 has rested in seclusion among
' the papers of the late Jacob Kreiss,
i in Cardirgton, Ohio. Meanwhile a
; Kansas larmer watched and waited
! and could not understand why the
money he had sent for did not come.
! The draft was delivered Thursday in
Goshen to Attorney J. G. Gattschall, a
| brother of the man for whose benefit
I it was originally issued.
Wayne Gattschall in 1884 went from
I Ohio to Kansas to farm. The drought
j cleaned him up. Want stared him in
j the face. He wrote to Warsaw to J.
! H. Gattschall, his borther, for $50.
| The compliance was immediate. He
wrote to Ohio to his aged mother and
asked her also to send him $50. The
mother gave J. Kreiss the amount. He
went to the First National bank in
Cardington, Ohio, and bought a draft
of F. 13. Hills, the cashier. Rut the
j man in Kansas received not the
' money. The assistance sent from
j Warsaw never reached him and he
i has never seen the draft issued in
Cardington.
In 1897 the aged Mrs. Gattschall
died, and the children came from
their homes in other states to attend
her funeral. Wayne Gattschall among
them. J. 15. Gattschall reached the
bedside before the mother died, and
she wanted Wayne charged in settling
up her estate with $50 tlmt she had
advanced. J. B. Gattschall was ap-
pointed administrator.
He spoke to Wayne about the $50.
The Kansas man insisted that he had
never received it. J. B. Gattschall
paid the amount out of his own pocket.
But the Kansas man wanted the mat-
ter settled in the courts.
Two weeks ago J. Kreiss, the neigh-
bor who bought the draft, died.
Among his papers was found a draft.
J. Kreiss had forgotten to send it.
The $50 sent from Warsaw by J.
Gattschall was stolen by a postoffice
clerk who was sent to the penitentiary
for other thefts. Wayne Gattschall
was notified of the discovery of the
draft and his happiness at the clear-
ing up of the matter is complete. And
after years of coldness the family is
reconciled.—Columbus Evening Di*
patch.
Tobacco a Good Poultice
the Charles river national bank, near
the college. The building was burned
in 1845, and the cross was found in
its ashes, undamaged except for slight
pitting caused by the heat.
Taken in hand by Mr. Justin Winsor,
then librarian, the cross was glvan
a heavy coat of gilding, such as it. had
borne originally, and was fixed to tlie
east wall of Gore hall, in the library
building. Here it remained for many
years, until alterations made its re-
moval from the wall necessary.
It, was next stored in the cellar of
the library, remaining there until the
early 80s, when it. was firmly fixed in
the stone peak of the gable over the
entrance to the library.
The cross is made of soft iron and
appears to have been the work of a
Louisburg blacksmith, the workman-
ship being rougher than would have
been produced by the skilled iron-
mongers of France.
The cross to-day weighs about ten
pounds. Its cross-piece is 21% inches
long, terminating in fleur-de-lis,
which are 4% inches wide by 0 inches
long. An ornament of similar propor-
tions caps the upright, or standard,
the total length of which at present is
2!l inches. Before broken off the cross
was about 40 Inches long. Both cross-
piece and standard are 1 inch wide
and '/j inch thick.
Has Sword of David Garrick.
White Whittlesey of Banbury, Conn.,
/ius been presented a sword, worn up-
on the stage by David Garrick. The
handle is ornamented with jewels and
the blade bears evidence of many spir-
ited fencing encounters.
Nature's Wise Provision.
The bones of living birds are hoi-
low and filled with air, tints combin-
ing the greatest strength with th#
least wciu'it
"Last summer I was taking a spin
ono day in a light trap out in the
country, and in attempting to pass a
farmer's wagon on a narrow road my
trap was overturned and I was thrown
heavily to the ground, sustaining a
badly sprained ankle," George Max-
well says.
"The farmer came running up to
assist me and when he found what
was the matter returned to his wagon
and came back with a few tobacco
leaves under his arm. 'If you'll let
me make a poultice out of these and
place it on your ankle it will be all
right in the morning,' he said, and as
I was about five miles from a doctor's
office, with the pain in my ankle some-
thing fierce, I told him to go ahead. It
couldn't do me any harm, I thought,
and it might have a slightly cooling
effect while I was driving back to
town.
"He dipped the leaves in the water
of a creek near by, then bound them
tightly around my ankle, with the aid
of a handkerchief, and assisted me
Into my vehicle. When I reached my
rooms I was surprised to find that the
pain in my ankle was much lessened
and decided to give the poultice a fair
trial. In the morning when I awoke
there was absolutely no pain in my
ankle whatever and only the slightest
suggestion of a swelling. I was able
to don my shoes without trouble and
that day attended to business as if
nothing had befallen me.
"Since then one of my friends suf-
fered a sprain and consented to have
a leaf tobacco poultice applied which
resulted in his case just as it did in
mine. I have also tried it in other
instances of slight injury, where there
was pain and danger of swelling, and
have found that invariably it relieves
the pain within a remarkably short
space of time and generally prevented
any swelling. A friend of mine claims
to have tried it with good results for
a slight attack of rheumatism, and I
have no doubt that it actually did what
he claims for it, but, at any rate, for
sprains or similar injuries I am now a
firm advocate of the simple, homely
remedy to which I was introduced by
my accident in the country a few
months ago."—St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Insurance on Big Scale
Thirty-three years ago a New York
insurance man's attention was attract-
ed one day by a rather derogatory ref-
erence in the Massachusetts insurance
report to the work of an English com-
pany, which was insuring the lives of
v/orkingmen and children on a large
scale. To-day that man is president of
ono of three similar companies which
stand pledged to pay in the future
more than $2,000,000,000 to more than
10,000,000 of people; which are dis-
bursing $50,000 a week to the policy
holders in sums averaging perhaps
$100; which have assets stored up of
nearly $150,000,000, and, most notable
of all, which collect by hand $250,000
in 10-cent pieces. Such a growth with-
in the working life of one man is amaz-
ing even in this age of industrial mira-
cles, and an examination of its de-
tails heightens the wonder.
Strangely enough, though one fam-
ily out of every five In the United
States lias one or more industrial pol-
icies on some member, the average
Change of Scene.
The clock had just finished striking
(he midnight hour, when one of the
banqueters, a married man, stood up.
"Gentlemen," he said, "my evening
of pleasure Is at an end. I now go
home to a morning of displeasure."
well-informed man knows nothing
whatever about the system or its work-
ings. But ask your household serv-
ants, and the chances are you will
find that at least one of them is paying
10 cents a week to a company which
guarantees her $100 or so in case of
death—enough to pay for the funeral
expenses. This was the foundation
principle of industrial insurance anil
is still the dominant reason for its
existence—the avoidance of a burial
at public expense or of leaving a bur-
den of debt upon one's family. The
average cost of burial for a child un-
der 2 years is from $12 to $25; the
average insurance on children between
1 and 2 years old is $19.48. At the
age of iu the average funeral expenses
is $50, the average industrial policy,
$59.94.
From this initial idea, however, the
business has developed "cash divi-
dends" and "paid-up policies," until
now its payments of claims alone
amount to $25,000,000 a year In suni
ranging from $15 to $1,000.
Good for a Press Notice
The Soubrette—"The leading lady
claims to have been married to one
man for seven consecutive years."
Low Comedian—"Huh! Some wom-
en will do almost anything to gain a
little notoriety!"
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Hunter, T. W. The Hartshorne Sun. (Hartshorne, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1905, newspaper, January 12, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc151025/m1/6/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.