The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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THE News 40s PER MONTH.
TUE8DAY, DECEMBER 1. 1908.
PANIC PREVAILS.
Haytien Cabinet Wants Pr«si-
dent to Resign.
Paris, Dec. 1.—Dispatches received
her* from Port au Prince say a panic
reigns in that city because of the ap
proach of insurgents, who are hardly
more than a day's march distant.
The Haitien cabinet, dispatches say,
is urging that the American minister
demand the resignation of President
Nord Alexis, and is seeking the forma-
tion of a provisional government on
the part of the United States.
The finance minister has requested
refuge at the German legation, and
one dispatch states the American min-
ister has sent an urgent appeal for
warships.
The fear of rebels entering Port au
Prince and looting the city has re-
sulted in all business houses being
closed and shutters put up. Terrible
fear has seized the inhabitants.
GREATLY IMPROVED.
Damage May Foot Up One-Quarter of
a Million Dollars.
Guthrie, Dec. 1.—The flood situa-
tion greatly improved here Monday
morning, and at daylight, with the re-
ceding at the rate of one foot per hour,
only a few blocks in the lowlands of
the city were still inundated.
The Santa Fe railroad has resumed
regular service, and most factories
which sustained serious loss, wil' re-
sume operations at once, although a
few in the district under water may
be closed down for some days.
There was no loss of life in the
flood so far as reported up to noon,
but many families were forced to
abandon their homes in distress.
No accurate estimate of the dam*
age has yet been secured, but it is
believed it will amount to $250,000. Be-
sides loss on buildings and machinery
much livestock was drowned and many
bales of cotton washed down the Cot-
tonwood river.
A freight wreck on the Denver-Enid
and Gulf railway at Crescent, this
county, was caused by a washout. The
fireman was fatally injured.
Rose Seventeen Feet.
Tulsa, Okla, Dec. 1.—The Arkan-
sas river is stationary after rising sev*
enteen feet, the highest mark ever
reached here. The stream is full of
debris of many bridges In this section.
Farmers report much livestock drown-
ed. Oil field operations are suspend-
ed on account of floods. The Santa
Fe railway has suspended service
south of Bartlesville.
Again Overflows.
Bartlesville. Okla., Dec. 1—For the
second time this fall the Caney river
has overflowed its banks here and in-
undated a number of farms. The wa-
ter was within a few inches of the
mark reached last October and still
rtsing. Monday afternoon all railroad
communication with Bartlesville was
■aspended.
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Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 1.—The best
estimate obtainable at the present
time Is that Oklahoma state will
have a yield of 700,000 bales of cot-
ton this year, as against 950,000 in
19Q7. This is the estimate made by
Charles F. Barrett, secretary of the
state board of agriculture. He learns
that the ginning figures, tlhus far ob-
tainable, show 150,000 bales thus far
less than last season's figures at
this time. The estimate of three of
the biggest cotton firms of Oklahoma
City is 675,000 bales for Oklahoma
this year. The decrease in yield runs
about the same over the entire state,
and in this particular section the
falling off is in proportion to that
over the entire state.
Local cotton men who own lines of
gins throughout central Oklahoma
say it takes an average of 1,650
pounds seed cotton this year to make
a bale of lint, as against an average
of 1,500 pounds of seed In 1907. In
some instances cotton is running as
well as last years but in others it is
taking from 1,700 to 1,800 pounds to
mad© a bale of lint.
Reports being received at the of-
fice of the secretary of the board of
agriculture sihow an average of 70
per cent of the crop picked in the
state; locally the per cent picked is
about two-thirds of the crop. As a
rule, labor has been sufficient, al-
though the state labor bureau has
been frequently called upon for men
during the season. Some Mexicans
and Bulgarians have been used in
the picking, and In western Oklaho-
ma, some Indians.
Throughout northern and Central
Oklahoma 4he farmer is selling his
cotton as fast as it is picked. There
Ib a disposition in the southern coun-
ties to hold the crop for a better
price, but the majority of the crop
is being marketed.
Coughs that are tight, or distress-
ing tickling coughs, get quick and
certain help from Dr. Shoop's Cough
Remedy. On this account druggists
everywhere are favoring Dr. Shoop's
Cough Remedy. And it is entirely
free from Opium, Chloroform, or any
other stupefying drug. The tender
leaves of a harmless lung-healing
mountainous shrub give to Dr.
Shoop's Cough Remedy its curative
properties. Those leaves have the
power to calm the mist distressing
Cough, and to soothe and heal the
most sensitive bronchial membrane.
Mothers should, for safety's safe
alone, always demand Dr. Shoop's.
It can with perfect freedom be giv-
en to even the youngest babes. Test
it once yourself, and see! Sold by
Wallace Mann. *
This is Worth Reading.
Leo F. Zellnski, of 68 Gibson St,
Buffalo, N. Y., says: "I cured the
most annoying cold sore I ever had,
with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A ap-
plied this salve once a day for two
days, when every trace of the sore
was gone." Heals all sores. Sold
under guarantee at All Druggists.
25c.
New and Second nand Household
goods bought and sold by A. F.
Streight ft Co., 306 East Main;
phone 940. Aug. 31-3mo.
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 1.—An unex-
pected aud sudden rise in the Cot-
tonwood river south of here flooded
all of West Guthrio between Tenth
street and the river, driving hun-
dreds of families from their homes
and causing loss of property. The
flood is the third to inundate the
lower portion of West Guthrie with-
in nine months.
About noon Sunday the water be-
gan to surround the oil mill In South
Guthrie and a herd of 1,000 cattle
which was being fed at tho mill, was
surrounded. Before the cattle could
be removed to the stock yards nearly
a score of them were drowned. A
stampede resulted, the cattle fran-
tic with fear, trying to get to dry
ground. The cow men finally land-
ed them in the stock yards, driving
them in small squads in water near-
ly up to their backs.
The water broke Into Northwest
Guthrie at 4 o'clock In the afternoon.
The section of the city under water
is about fifty blocks. In it are fac-
tories, cotton bins and oil mills, all
under water, and the machinery dam-
aged. The independent gin lost sev-
eral hundred bales of cotton, which
floated from the platform.
NEW3 WANT AD8 PAY WELL.
A recent article in the Manufac-
turers' Record, published at Balti-
more, has the following to say about
Oklahoma asphalt:
"Oklahoma is especially rich in
minerals and possibly the most valu-
able among them may prove to be
crude asphalt, of which seemingly
inexhaustible deposits are known to
exist in the Chickasaw Nation and
other portions of the state.
Dr. Chas. W. Gould, geologist of
the State University of Oklahoma, at
Norman, informs the writer that
there have already been developed
flve distinct varieties of this ma-
terial, tho first two being known as
grahamite and gilsonite, the other
three as wurtzallte, wintite and oker,
each variety differing materially from
the other as to composition. In this
connection it must be understood
that all asphalt impounds is simply
nothing more than the residue left
after tjie distillation of petroleum.
In every Instance these deposits
have materialized only along fault
lines these lines being great fissures
or crevices* where tho rocks have
slipped up on one side and down on
the other. In the words of Profes-
sor Gould: "At some unknown
depth this fault or fissure has pene-
trated an oil deposit and this oil has
ascended along the fissure and peno-
trated or Impregnated the rocks on
either side. If the rock 1b sand-
stone, the deposit is known as sand
asphalt; if limestone, as lime as-
phalt, and if clay, as clay asphalt.
Some of this material in diversified
rock is known as graihmite, gilsonite,
etc."
There are no means of even ap-
proximately estimating tho quantity
of asphalt material in the state, for
the depths of tho fissures are wholly
unknown, but to judge from the aver-
age width of the fissures and the
average depths to the oil pools or
lakes, it may well bo surmised that
the supply is absolutely Inexhausti-
ble. Hundreds of those fissures or
so-called veins have been discovered
and more are being rapidly uncov-
ered. It is no uncommon thing for
a farmer in breaking up new ground
to turn up black rock and discover
that an asphalt vein crosses his field,
whilo ranchmen in digging postholes
frequently strike asphalt rock of
good quality within a foot or two of
the surface. These fissures are, many
of them, miles in length, while the
rocks for fifty feet or more on either
side are impregnated with asphalt.
Up to within a very few months
ago no means had been discovered
through which the material of these
asphalt deposits could be utilized,
and therefore they were beginning
to bo looked upon as were the gyp
deposits of Oklahoma for years—an
so much waste. Yankee ingenuity,
however, discovered a means of util-
izing the gyp, and now it is one of
the profitable products of that state
and Is destined at no distant day to
become a great source of wealth to
the people of the state.
In December last the writer vis-
ited Ardmore and at that timo he ex-
pressed a doubt as to whether crude
asphalt could ever be utilized for any
valuable purpose. He had hope that
science would sooner or later evolve
some means by which it could be
brought into use. His hope was
realized in a much shorter time than
he expected, for in May last he agafo.
visited Ardmore and there witnessed
the laying of as fine streets of native
asphalt as exist in any of the cities
of the world; in fact, it appeared to
him to be of more splendid texture
aud eminently more durabk- than any
other asphalt pavements be had ever
inspected. Success was achieved sim-
ply through experiment—grinding,
mixing and heating of the several
varieties until the desired consistency
was reached.
In this connection the city of St
Louis has been engaged during the
past Beveral years in replacing some
of her heavy granite paving with
a patent asphalt composition which
has so far given p *-fect satisfac-
tion. It has endured the heavy traf-
fic Incident to suoh streets as those
in the vicinity of the custom house,
and when the writer left St. Louis
last February was still standing the
wear and tear without a sign of giv-
ing away. The asphalt upon the
streets of Ardmore manifests the
same qualities as that upon the
streets of St. Louis and the predic-
tion is ventured it will not be many
years until the asphalt of Oklahoma
will be a standard article In the mat-
ter of paving throutr iut the cities of
the world.
Professor Gould who is now state
geologist, lias had a party in the fl''ld
the past summer investigating the
occurrence of the asphalt. A report
on the subject is being prepared.
The old fashioned way of dosing
a weak stomach, or stimulating the
Heart or Kidneys is all wrong. Dr.
Shoop first pointed out this error.
This is why his pescription—Dr.
Sroop's Restorative—Is directed en-
tirely to tre cause of these ollments
—the weak inside or controlling
nerves. It isn't so difficult, says Dr.
Shoop, to strengtren a weak Stom-
ach* Heart or Kidneys, if one goes
at it correctly. Each inside organ
has its controlling or inside nerve.
When these nerves fall, then those
organs must surely falter. These vi-
tal truths are leading druggists ev-
erfwhere to dispense and recommend
Dr. Shoop's Restorative. Test it a
few days, and see! Improvement
will promptly and surely follow. Sold
by Wallace Mann. *
THE NEWS 40c PER MONTH.
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