Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 300, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1908 Page: 3 of 4
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Strange Experienc
graph Operate
of Veteran Tele-
r In the South
"J worked for
slap to danger, b'
cial up on all fou;
southern railway
once," said the ol i railroad telegra-
pher who gets ab<
truth each time he
explorers get to
each subsequent
whether it was fro
the banjo always
southern history
southern railway o
ing was completely
Jo signals for the
^'For a spell
ar^nd Linlithgo
whack and seemet
eternal frankfurte s.
fast special woul<i
Linlithgo going 2
ut as close to the
talks as the Arctic
he north pole on
ti ip. "I don't know
n sentiment or not
being linked with
but anyway the
which I am speak-
equipped with ban
jperation of trains,
he banjo signals
station got out oi
to be going to the
Just when some
be dashing through
40 on a plank road
the pesky banjo s ignals would go ker-
inging the fast spe-
s, as it were. Then
hades would be tapped around Linlith
go station with ai i eight-inch posthole
auger while the engineer ventilated
his jy«ews.
,/^ne company sent signal experts
rfnd testers of all tinds to try out the
sulky signals to tD avail. After this
sassiness of the si gnals had been go-
ing oh for a spell the night operator
on duty at Linlithf o got subject to at-
tacks of drowsiness.
"He just couldn t make his eye9
behave. Every nig it about 12 o'clock
he would drop off into the soundest
slumber.
'The company c Duldn't stand for
peculiar and withal true electrical oc-
currence on record
"Say," put in thej tall, cynical con
ductor, "there must be some of them
eels gettin' in their feli work on this
division, for I had t( i stop an' wake up
no less than six operators in a dis-
tance of 40 miles la
baen
Straight Rail •
In spite of the
matical straight lira
the western railroads
on the map, it has
record in this resp 3
by the new nation il
railroad, otherwise
Grand Trunk Pacifi<
will be constructed
Five years ago, Iiot
71 miles of perfectl
track was construe
aion of the Rhodes
Bulawayo in the dir
toria falls. So far,
length of straight
the record is held by
Rhodesia railroads
THE SAVOY R
it night."
oad Track,
ipparently mathe-
is which many of
appear to follow
stated that the
>ct will be beaten
transcontinental
known as the
70 miles of which
without a curve,
ever, a length of
straight railroad
ed on the exten-
a railroads from
sction of the Vie-
therefore, as the
ne is concerned,
the portion of the
a t>ove referred to.
LSTAURANT.
(Lee office buildiig, corner Robin-
son and Main st 'eets), serves a
QUICK MERCHANT'S LUNCH for
30 cents from 11:36 to 2 p. m. 0-3
Start your tared day ads tomor-
row so they will appear in the Sun-
day morning Point
any Little Bo-Peep
boss asked me if I
to Linlithgo to try a id straighten mat-
ters out.
"I never like to
myself, but I will
marks against my
wakefulness was cc ncerned I was lit
tie Lord Fauntleroy
theless, when I
In theirs. So the
wouldn't go down
ihrow bouquets at
iay that I had no
•ecord. As far as
on the job. Never
got to doing the
night work at Linlit igo my reputation
for alertness or d> >ty went by the
board. i
, "Every midnight I would be at-
1 tacked by drowsinesA and before long
I would be making aUioise like Phila-
•ddlfyiiia. Then the flrsi (thing you know
I'd be holding up all the flower of the
time card.
"One thing I did notice. Every
morning we would fii 4 our stock of
copper and zincs, use<i In the gravity
batteries, all nibbled u), as if they had
been attacked by a m 3use with some
sort of smelter att&chi lent inside. The
plot certainly was thhkening.
"I got a good-sized mouse trap and
set it near the storag i-battery closet,
properly baited with cheese. This
' drowsiness still came1 over me every
^midnight, and the dep edations on the
electrical stores contii Lued unabated.
Mrs. Mellon
FOR EXCEEDIP
AUTOIST PLE
PAID FINE—S
G SPEED LIMIT-
AD GUILTY AND
MALL BOY HURT.
jr., son of J. P.
J. P. Brough,
Brough, sr., of t le wholesale grocery
firm of Carroll, Brough & Robinson,
was fined $50 a id costs in the city-
court this niorni ig charged with ex-
"The company wa
sore at me. I was just about ready to
hing and come
ort of ordinary
Jese to bait the i louse trap one
pass up the whole i
north when I ran si
®Jight and was forced
with a piece of peek-
Swiss cheese.
getting pretty
to bait my trap
boo, open-work
"Along about 12:30 fay usual drowsy
spell came on. I was just reciting
'Curfew Shall Not Ri ig To-Night,' in
my dreams, when I tieard an awful
commotion out near n y mouse trap.
'Struggling hard tb overcome the
feeling, which jgrew more over-
^ng as I drew nearer to the trap,
it, and I can t£ll you I was the
Imost surprised man jyou ever saw to
find an electrical eel all twisted up in
that piece of Swiss/ cheese. You see
the ordinary cheeae never bothered
| him at all, but he attempted to crawl
through the holes j of the golf-course
I cheese in order to get at the electrical
j storeg^Uid got all tangled up.
Jj^vhe mystery o)f Linlithgo station
Nwas solved. You sjee a couple of elec-
'trie eels had wrigiled their way from
the ditch along the railroad into the
electric signal system, and after hav-
.ing once gorged 'themselves on the
[current which is to essential to their
j system they just couldn't leave it
iialone.
* "Then they got wise to the storage
closet up in the itation, and wriggled
jtip there every n ght to replenish the
dying electrical enbers in their bodies
iat the expense o' the company. The
peculiar electrici 1 currents they ex-
iucled from their todies had th© same
effect as that i ew eleotrical anaes-
thetic the scienti its are experimenting
with now. It j ut all the operators
who worked at L nlithgo to sleep.
I' If that eel h idn't got tangled up
In the meshes < f that Swiss cheese
fhe mystery ne- er would have been
^olved. I c*uess ghat's about the most
smm
TO ALLOW WOMtN TO SMOKE
IN PUBLIC PLACES DURING
1908.
/
New York, Jan. 3.—So successful
[was the plan of a'lowing women to
smoke in the din ng rooms, intro-
duced at one of the prominent Broad-
way restaurants forj the first time on
New Years eve, thkt another of the
famous eating plafces has followed
suit. I
ceeding the speet
Young Brough
last night and
in behalf of the
entering a plea o
After court wa
a check to the
$51, covering the
fine. Mr. Broug
was not dissatisfi
limit with his auto,
was arresteft late
lis father appeared
son this morning,
guilty.
over Brough gave
>olice sergeant for
full amount of ths
stated that he
id because of the
actions in running
Bert Richey fi
against young Brc
The violation of
AND DAUGHTER
MERCHANT NA
HEIRS.
OF WEALTHY
/IED AS ONLY
Mrs. Mary E. Mellon, wife of the
late Thomas P. Mellon, was appoint
ed special administrator of the Mel
Ion estate in the cojinty court yester
day. Her bond, wjhich wns signed
by A. H. Classen Jud J. L. Wilkin,
was fixed at $10,800.
The special administrator was
asked for oil account of the delay
necessary in granting letters of ad
ministration, which! would cause cou
siderable delay i: i conducting the
business of- the
petition asking th
granted letters of
filed.
The petition stri
belief of the peti
Ion left no will,
Mrs. Mellon—J. H,
Smith—^submitted
a paper dictated
Mellon store. \
t Mrs. Mellon be
ldministration was
tes that it is the
ionerthat Mrs. Mel-
but attorneys for
Everest and C. P.
is a memorandum
>y Mr. Mellon De
cember 28 on th^ the day of his
death.
The memorandu 11 consists, for the
most part, of sh irthand notes and
heavy fine, and fiDm his actions he
did not seem to a iprove of his son's
too fast.
led the complaint
ugh last night,
the ordinance was
New Years afternoon in the 600
block on West G
tlemen and ladie;
town from the foo
•and avenue, when
Brough and a pai ty of several gen-
were coming to
ball game.
Willie Daniels, i 14-year old boy
who resides with life mother, a widow
lady, at 522 West ijleno, was riding a
bicycle about tweljve feet out from
the curb line, according to Richey,
when the auto iia/rty came up from
the rear at a sptjed of about thirty
miles an hour.
The auto hit ti e boy and wheel,
knocking both to
pavement. There
rig and they never
to see whether or
he curb upon the
were five in the
even looked back
not the boy was
leaves all of the
Ion and her child
the event that
in future years, r 3
to receive the er
The estate is
sstate to Mrs. Mel
stipulating that in
Irs. Mellon should,
marry, the child i£>
tire estate
valued at about
$100,000. The p "operty consists of
the Mellon dry
building, located
the fine resident
goods store and
<Jn Main street; also
corner of Tenth
and Robinson st reets.
The Mellon stc
be operated in t
past.
re will continue to
le future as in the
It is expected th
them will fall int<
but the big hotel 3 and restaurants
on Fifth avenue
agers say, follow
ent at least.
Heretofore no
ants in New York
men to smoke in
it several more of
line immediately,
vill not, the man-
suit, for the pres-
irst class restaur-
had permitted wo
he public rooms.
Indian
Gets
Appointment
Ardmore, Okla.J Jan. 3.—Congress-
man Charles D. Tarter has appoint-
ed Lamar Jackson, a full blood Choc-
taw Indian, to a cadetship at West
Point.
This is the first instance of a full
killed, but went oil at a fast rate,
said Richey this mohiing when asked
about the accident. \
The boy was badly bruised uf
about his body, but i was able to re
turn to school yesterday, according
to Richey's statement.
While it was a njirrow escape fron
death for the lad, /nothing serious is
expected to result/from his injuries
According to th(j statement of Se
geant Hunsinger, hirough is the first
auto speed violatdr that has paid his
fine, where the fines have ever been
more than $10. / Several chauffeurs
have been recently fined $50 and $100
but each appealed his case.
TWO PRESENTS—$25 AND $10
will be given awal at the BIG BOOK
SALE Saturday niiht. Positively the
last night of the slle. 01
blood Indian In
appointment.
Jackson lives
ving been given an
at Atoka.
FIRE LO
Muskogee, Okla.,
stroyed frame build
Okla., a small villas
part of Muskogee co
The loss is estima
fire started shortly
The biggest slaug
ever seen in the
at 107 Main stree
to avoid packing
Don't miss this
las t
HEAVY.
Jan. 3.—Fire do-
ings in Boynton,
e In the western
riity, yesterday,
ed at $5,000. The
after midnight.
iter sale of books
:ity will be held
Saturday night
ip and shipping,
sale. * 0-1
Tomorrow
1 AA Pair $4.00 and $5.00
values. All leathers
Extra
for
Specials
Men
=1.98
$2.48
" — |
Cranfl Avenue Bargain Shoe House
113 Grand Avenue
kitchen
waste
Removed
on
Contract
for
50 Cents a
Month
PHONE US
THEY ARE /SKATING
,,nMUw(L,<'Ve7 aft/rn°on and evening
?nr njy.ro,ne8<1a?. nA>'hts bo rented
day night" P Lndlen free Thurs-
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AUDITORIUM
Mile Race
TO-fllGHT
4nd
Tomorrow Night
at 9 6'clock
Hammond list and Coch-
ran 2nd list night.
Entries: Waller, Cham-
pion of Shawnee; Ham-
mond, Jurgin:: and Coch-
ran, of Oklahoma City.
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natural!
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Tucker, Dudley R.; Tucker, Howard A. & Tucker, William L. Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 300, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1908, newspaper, January 3, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152932/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.