The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Monday, December 21, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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TMe NEWS 3 MONTHS FOR *1.00.
MONOAY, DECEMBER 21, 1908.
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The Mammoth Clothing Department
The Mammoth Clothing Department is alive with good substantial merchandise for gifts. The way to touch a man, youth or boy's HEART is to give
him something useful to wear for a Christmas present. We have on display the greatest variety of men's, youth's and boys' Top Coats. Overcoats and
Rain Coats, both in longand short, in every shade and color that is new, to fit every customer in size and price. Have new sizes in Hart, Shaffner &
Marx, and P, Adler's clothing Now. in the midst of the'X-mas season. Gome early and get your pick and be fitted before the stock is broken.
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As Christmas Gifts
BATH ROBES-
$8.00.
MUFFLERS—In
50c. to $2.00.
Washable, $3 50 to
Silk and Wool,
KID GLOVES—A Biff Range of Kid
Gloves, $1.00 to $3.00.
Endless Line of Men's and Boys'
Neckwear in all grades and
shades from 25 cents to $1.50.
Suspenders in fancy decorated
boxes from 25 cents to $3.00.
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Copyright 1908 by
SCHL0SS BROS. & CO.
Fine Clothe* Makers
Baltimore and New York
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As Christmas Gifts
SMOKING JACKETS—All wool,
from $5.00 to $15.00.
MEN'S FANCY HOSE—Enor =
moUvS line of Men's Fancy
Hose, in silk lysle and cotton,
25c. to $1.50 pair.
HANDKERCHIEFS —We have
your initial in White Linen
Handkerchiefs from 10c. to 50c.
UMBRELLAS—Men's Umbrellas
and Walking Canes make last-
ing and acceptable gifts.
THE MAMMOTH DEPARTMENT STORE.
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CUT INTO FRAGMENTS.
J. T. Roberts Loses His Life
Walking Along Track.
Qreenvllle. Tex., Dec J. T. Rob-
•rU of ('randall was hit by a Cotton
Belt train at Greenville and cut to
pieces The remains were Blattered
fer a considerable distance.
He w s w ilking on the track, about
seventy-five yards west of the passen-
ger station, and the train was backing
up when It struck Roberta, who was
dragged by ti.-; train about fifty yeards.
Sheriff Hunis"ll Investigated and found
that his pork" t was Intact It con-
tained over $?o. A receipt from the
Craudall Woodmen camp was found
on his penun The deceased was the
head ur a fa.nlly of nine. Including his
wife He v as about forty-five years
of age The remains were taken In
charge by local Woodmen of the
World
RESIDENCE IN ASHES.
Firebugs Believed to Have Caused De-
struction of Hout* Lately Robbed
Sau Antonio, lice. V—The home of
Mra. Delia Srnythe. which was burgla-
rized some day* uno. and in which
the robbor gui jewelry amounting to
$700, was fired Thursday night, evl
den ti y by fhr< e r« roe« The dwelling
nnd all contents were completely de-
stroyed
The inmates . . they saw the no
groes leaving I fir hJ nine shots at
(hem, but th 'y r^sde their escape The
House was fired about o'clock
The inmalts pa.d retired, md whuu
Ihe blaze was cT.scoveied It was too
lite to get It '?ndc~ ccr.trol Poss°
are searching for the negroes
Fireworks Casualty.
Fort Worth, Dec. \—Max Wither-
spoon, ag« d fourteen years, was prob-
ably fatally Injured when a spark from
a Roman candle fell into a pocket, set-
ting off a bunch of firecrackers. The
youth's clothing was soon on fire. He
was badly burned. Passersby hearing
him scream ran to his assistance, pre-
venting Immediate death.
Agree to Obey.
San Antonio, Dec. *1—The saloon
men of San Antonio held a metting to
discuss the question of closing next
Sunday. What agreement they reach-
ed is not given out. but it is stated
on good authority that they have
agreed to obey the Baskln-McGregor
law, and they will close next Sunday.
Blow May Be Fatal.
Carthage. Tex., Dec. . —Will Harl-
ton was hit on the head and perhaps
fatally injured. Henderson Gazine, an-
other negro, was jailed.
Fisherman Thought Drowned
Bay City, Tex., Dec. w .—Will Cun-
ningham, a fisherman, is believed to
have drowned.
Answers Last Rollcall.
Kioto, Japan. Dec. —General
Inouye la dead.
Accidental Killing.
Beeville, Tex., Dec. * \—At Dinero,
eighteen mile.; west of here, the four
year-old daughter of E. 0. Goodwin
was accidentally killed The child was
visiting at the home of D. Johnson, a
ueigbbor. A sou of the latter had re
turned from hunting, leaving his gun
at tho barn, near where the children
were playing. One of them, a little
girl nine years of age, picked up the
gun and attempted to unload it, the
piece being discharged and the full
ioad striking the little Goodwin girl in
the face, killing her instantly.
Big Barn Burns.
Sherman. Dec. i —A large barn on
the Edwin Kidd farm, six miles north
of Sherman, burned. All of the con-
tents were consumed, there being 3500
bales of hay, about 600 bushels of corn,
200 bushels of seed wheat and 500
bushels of oats and 20 bushels of cot-
tonseed.
The entire loss will be In the neigh-
borhood of $6,000. There was $1,500
Insurance on the bam and tha cotton
was covered by insurance.
Buckles Adjudged Guilty.
Oklahoma City, Dec. \% — C. M. Buck-
les, cashier of the First State bank of
Oklahoma City, wa-s found guilty by
aj ury at B1 Paso of embezzling $1,782
while treasurer of Canadian county
three years ago. He was sentenced
to serve a year In the penitentiary and
to pay a fine of $3,485. Buckles, de-
fense was based upon the claim of
faulty work by an adding machine
used in the treasurer's office.
A OIFFERENT 8ALE ON EVERY
NIGHT IN DIFFERENT LINES
8UITABLE FOR CHRISTMA8 GIFTS
AT THE MAMMOTH.
Like One From the Dead.
Princeton. Ind, Dec. . —Not until
Friday morning would Mrs Agar ad-
mit that the man who Is under arrest
In Texas was her husband, Henry
Agar, supposed to have been drown-
ed, but message from a relative of
the family at Brownsville, Tex., con-
firms the Identity of Agar To a news-
paper man Mrs. Agar said-
"Until this morning I placed no faith
in the report of the finding of my
husband. It seems too good to be true,
but 1 know It is he. and to us it is like
coming back from dead."
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
Many cement sidewalks are to be
put down at Brownwood
A number of Swedes and Germans
are to settle in the Concho valley.
Payroll of Dallas public school teach-
ers for December foota up $21,638.65
Texas and Pacific hotel at Big
Springs, a landmark, was destroyed by
fire.
W. G. Conner of Mullin, Bell county,
was run down by a train. Death soon
resulted
At Floresville Refugio Jaureque was
convicted of criminal assault and given
the death penalty.
Bond of Tax Collector Dean of Gray-
son county Is $251,800. This la one of
the largest in the state.
J. A. Pierce, a Mexican war veteran,
who participated in the bombardment
of Vera Cruz, died at Dallas
A bronze gobbler weighing forty-five
pounds was one of a lot of turkeys
sold at Ennis and raised In Ellis coun-
ty
J P. Marsh, sixteen years old. was
found dead In hip room at his resi-
dence, near Argyle. Denton county;
heart failure
A large peanut factory will probably
be established at Abilene It h sai-l
1.500 acres ol Taylor county land will
be plauted with peanuts
Mrs. S L Kenfroe of Denton has
sued the katy railway for $60,000 on
account of her husband's death, killed
by a door falling from a passing train
w h\& h'-nd
A 8ALE EVERY NIGHT FROM
NOW UNTIL CHRI8TMA8 AT THE
MAMMOTH DEPARTMENT 8TORE.
Not In Louisiana.
Washington. Dec. .. —Dr. Melvln.
chief of the bureau of animal Industry,
denies the report that the hoof and
mouth disease has broken out in
Louisiana. The department Is watch
Ing every state In the Mississippi Val-
ley. "The trouble is." said Dr Melvln
to a correspondent, "Is stockmen and
farmers are so alarmed that they call
every little ailment hoof and mouth
disease. The big trouble is practically
Drops Over Thirty Degrees.
Fort Worth. Dec. f.—A norther de-
scended upon Texas early Friday
morning after several days of excess
ive warmth for December The tem-
perature dropped over thirty degrees
In several localities The cold wave
extended as far south as Austin Trees
were beginning to buw in North Texas
Has Narrow Escape.
Lock hart, Tex., Dec. * \—Miss Ovle
Portis narrowly escaped being killed
or burned to death. A lighted lamp
she was carrying exploded: setting the
house on fire The girl was Injured,
but not seriously. The house was
saved from destruction.
Bailey to Oppose Parcels Post.
Fort Worth. Dec. The board of
trade received a letter from Senator
Bailey declaring he will vigorously all
parcels post bills He expects the
tariff on hides to remain unchanged
If the fight Is kept up.
Scullin at Mineral Wells.
Mineral Wells. Dec. —John Scul-
lin, the multimillionaire traction rail-
way magnate of St. Louis. Is here, ac-
companied by other capitalists, to in-
vestigate the interurban proposition.
A DIFFERENT SALE ON EVERY
NIGHT IN DIFFERENT LINES
SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT8
AT THE MAMMOTH.
OLD BONDS FOUND.
Issued by Houston and Have
Never Been Registered.
Austin. Dec. ' —There was quite a
flurry in the comptroller's department
by the discovery in an old vault, in
that department, which Is being sold
by state, of $1)7,000 5 per cent of city
of Houston compromise bonds issued
July, 1888, and maturing July 1, 1918,
which shows they have never been
registered, and the comptroller does
not know how they came into this
vault. Investigation showed that they
are part of an issue of $600,000 author-
ized to be Issued by an ordinance of
Houston to pay lta indebtedness, on
June 2, 1888. Five hundred and three
thousand dollars of the issue, accord
ing to the report of the city treas-
urer of Houston, show they are an out-
standing debt against the city. Just
what disposition will be made of these
bonds is not known.
Requisition Honored.
Austin, Dec. J\—Governor Campbell
honored a requisition by the governor
of Indiana for the extradition of Henry
E. Agar, former secretary of the
Princeton Milling company of Prince-
ton, tbat state, now under arrest at
Harllnger, Hidalgo county, and wanted
at Princeton to answer charges of for-
gery and embezzlement approximating
$100,000. Marshal Skelton of Prince-
ton was here and obtained the papers
and left for the prisoner.
Refuses to Approve.
Austin. Dec. V—The attorney gen-
eral refused to approve $47,000 of an
Issue of $350,000 Travis county road
and bridge bonds because the tax levy
Is Insufflcent to furnish Interest and
sinking fund for a total of $350,000,
but will only stand for $303,000, which
amount was approved.
Files Amendment.
Austin, Tex., Dec. :•«.—The Case
Packing company of North Fort Worth
filed an amendment to city charter,
increasing its capital 'stock from $20,-
000 to $25,000.
MRS. HARRIS RETURNS.
Kidnapped at Tahlequah, Taken to
Pryor Creek and Leases Property.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. \—To out-
wit the designs of her guardian and
the agents of other oil companies de-
siring a lease upon Susie Turner's val-
uable oil property in the Allue dis-
trict, the second oil company of Hold-
enville, kidnapped the young woman
on the streets of Tahlequah and splret-
ed her away to Pryor Creek, where in
a Pullman stateroom she was married
to Moses Harris her fiancee, given an
extensive wedding tour over half the
continent. Mrs Harris returned yes-
terday after thirty days' absence, dur-
ing which time she had become a legal
age, and signed a lease giving her oil
property to the Holdenville company,
NEWS WANT AD8 PAY WELL.
HARVEY DESTlRED HELL.
"Somebody Ketch Dat Chicken!" He
Exclaims Going to the Gallows.
Charlotte, N. C., Dec. * — Henry
Harvey, a negro, who was hanged
at Rockingham, refused the attention
of ministers, telling them that he desir-
ed to go to hell for a -special purpose.
In the march to the gallows a chicken
flew over the heads of the party and
the condemned man exclaimed laugh-
ingly: 'Somebody ketch dat chick-
en! "
Harvey's crime was the slaying of
Hugh Price, another negro, at Rock-
ing ham last summer.
Dog Shooting Causes Tragedy.
Goldsboro, N. C., Dec. —Ira Hatch,
a prominent resident of Dudley, was
shot and killed by J. Bowden, mayor of
Dudley. Some one passed Hatch's
house and shot his dog. Hatch and his
son took shotguns and went out to
reconnolter. They met Bowden, whom
the elder Hatch accused of shooting
his dog. Hot words ensued, and Bod
den shot Hatch through the head with
a pistol, and thereupon the younger
Hatch shot Bowden, but Inflicted only
flesh wounds.
Negro Grabs Girl.
New York. Dec. *«>.—A scene more
often enacted south of the Mason and
Dixon line occurred in Harlem at One
Hundred and Seventieth street. A
negro seized thirteen-year-old Minnie
Klea and attempted to drag her into a
vacant lot. The girl struggled bravely,
and her screams drew a crowd. The
negro fled, pursued by a mob, but es-
caped. The girl's throat and arms
were lacerated during the struggle.
Breaks From Despotism.
Constantinople. Dec. *.—With the
meeting of First Ottoman parliament
Turkey formally breaks from the des-
potic rule of centuries. Sultan Abdul
Hamid, who granted the constitution
last July providing for this assembly,
paraded through the city Thursday at
the head of an elaborate cortege to
open the first session of the body.
Everywhere he was greeted with loud
cheering and there was no semblance
of disorder.
Thaw's Aunt Dies.
Philadelphia. Dec. *9.—Harriet A.
Thaw, eighty-five years old, aunt of
Harry K Thaw, died at the Friends
Asylum for the Insane in Sanford, a
suburb Tho fact that she was an In
mate of the asylum was used In the
second trial of Harry K. Thaw for tho
murder of Stanford White when a de-
fense of Insanity was advanced.
Hundley No* Confirmed.
"Washington, Dec M.—The report of
the confirmation by the senate of the
nomination of O. R. Hundley to be
United States district judge for the
Northern district of Alabama was a
mistake due to an erroneous official
statement of the executive session.
THE NEWS 8 MONTHS FOR $1.00.
This Contention of Prosecution
In Thornton Hains Case.
REAL ESTATE DEAL BLIND
While Upon the Witness Stand Charles
Birchfield Declared That Man On
Trial Kept Him Back With a Revol-
ver and Drove Victim's Wife Away.
Flushing, N. Y., Dec. . \—Frederick
A. Storm, a real estate dealer, testi-
fied Ih the trial of Thornton J. Hains
that the defendant and his brother had
inquired as to the whereabouts of An-
nls shortly before the latter sailed
up to the lock where he was shot.
"Thornton Hains stopped talking
about real estate and asked me where
Annls was," said the witness. "I point-
ed out Annls' boat, then sailing to-
ward the float." The shooting of An-
nls followed.
It Is upon this statement of Storm
that the prosecution hinges its con-
tention that the Hains brothers hun •
ed up Annls for the purpose of killing
him, and that the real estate inquiry
at the yacht club was a blind.
Other imnortant testimony was giv-
en by Charles Birchfield, a friend of
Annls, who declared that Thornton
Hains drove him back from the dock
with a drawn revolver when he sought
to stop the shooting. Thornton Hains
also drove Mrs. Annls from the float
with his revolver, according to Birch-
field.
Mrs. William E. Annls gave brief tes-
timony to establish the death of her
husband. She will take the witness
stand again.
CLINT BROWN SLAIN
BY MUSKOGEE BARBER.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 21.—Because
Clinton Brown, a negro 19 years of
age, resented the insinuations that
he was drunk, he lies dead, a bullet
through his heart, and John Paxton,
a negro barber, is In jail charged
with his murder.
Paxton is employed at the Banks
barber shop, at 205 South Second
street. Brown, who is a porter at
the Walhalla, came reeling through
the door and Paxton remarked to a
man he was shaving: "Don't mind
that man, he's drunk."
'Who's drunk?" Brown shouted,
his hand flashing to his hip as he
advanced towards Paxton. Paxton
rushed to his shelf and, pulling a
revolver from the drawer, fired twice
at Brown, both shots taking effect.
The wounded man reeled to the door
and fell face downward upon the
sidewalk.
Paxton surrendered to the other
barbers and called the police,
is married and is 29 years of age.
Her Second Surprise Wedding.
Chicago, Dec. . *—For the second
time in her life Mrs. Catherine Young-
Hobart, one of the four daughters of
the late Otto Young, Is the heroine in
a surprise wedding
In March. 1902, while in California
with tbfv.e members of her family, she
went for a drive with Byron Hobart,
member of a prominent St. Louis fam-
ily. and returned a bride. She has
now become the bride of Dr. Walter
Forman. Wickes, formerly of Balti-
more. Mra. Wickes was divorced from
her first husband.
Mr Hobart remarried one month
ago. His bride was Miss Elsie Gun-
ther. daughter of M. H. Gunther, a
wealthy cotton merchant of Memphis.
After a receptiou at tho home of the
bride's parents the couple spent their
honeymoon In California and returned
to Memphis
Mrs. Wickes, by the terms of her
father's will, has an income of $36,000
during the lifetime of her mother.
He
Preventlcs, the new Candy Cold
Cure Tablets, are said by druggists
to have four special specific advan-
tages over all other remedies for a
cold. First—They contain no Qui-
nine, nothing harsh or sickening.
Second—They give almost Instant
relief. Third—Pleasant to the taste,
like candy. Fourth—A large box, 48
Preventlcs, at 25 cents. Also fine for
feverish children. Sold by Wallace
Mann. •
Visit Bleuers Jewelry auction,
North Broadway. Desirable Jewelry
at the lowest prices. 17-tf
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CONVICTS ASK HABEAS CORPUS.
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 21.—Assistant
Attorney General Reeves returned
from Leavenworth, where he ap-
peared in behalf of the state la the
applications of J. M. Franklin and
L. L. Ellis, state convicts for a writ
of habeas corpus. Franklin, sen-
tenced from Grant county, alleged
that the court in doing so failed to
designate a place where he should
be confined. Ellis, sentenced from
Sequoyah county, alleged that as his
case was on the federal court docket
at the time of statehood, the state
had no Jurisdiction. The federal
court, before which the hearings
were held, rendered no decision.
Kodol for Dyspepsia, indigestion,
weak stomach, sour stomach, gas on
the stomach, etc., is guaranteed to
give prompt relief from any form
of stomach trouble. It will cure your
dyBpopsia. Sold by C. R. Harrlman.
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