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THE LAKEMP CITIZEN.
P. F. Rayl, Pub.
LA KEMP, : : : : OKLO.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of tho World Condensed
Into Small 8pace for the Ben-
efit of Our Readers.
Domestic items.
The company furnishing gas to Kan*
hub City announces thut thu natural
(jhh In tho Kaunas Hold Is practically
exhausted and that tho Oliliuioaia
Hold Is now being drawn upou.
Thu Union Life Insurance company
of KaiiMau City aft or an exUtftnos of
18 months lias quit business, Its
affairs uro now the aubjoci o( litiga-
tion.
Tho court of appeals of tho District
of Columbia has granted a stay until
November 2'.' of tho issuance of a man-
date sending Samuel Uompors, John
Mitchell and l''ninit Morrison to jail
for contempt of court.
Tho officials of tho Santa Ko rail-
road deny a report that tho road Is to
bo double tracked ail thu way to Los
Angeles.
Two men who had business dillloul-
ties fought a duel at midnight ou the
streets of Hominy, Ok, and one of
til em was killed.
William 11. Theobald a former con*
fldeutlal agent of the treasury depart-
ment states that Information of frauds
against the government In cotiuectlou
with sugar Importations reached tho
treasury department as far buck as
J SI'S.
The National Waterways commis-
sion that has completed an Inspection
of the MlssUslppt river from St. Taul
to New Orleans has started ou an In-
spection of the Missouri liver from
Kansas City to St. Louis.
Cholera has appeared among the
hogs m McPherson county, Kansas
and many are dying each day, accord-
ing to reports coming lu from different
townships where tho disease has ap-
peared.
Within six months a dirigible bal-
loon will attempt to follow Columbus"
route across the Atlantic according to
Clio parties who are planning the trip.
The district commissioners are con-
sidering a means either to preveut
brutality In football or prohibit it in
Washington entirely.
A public subscription has been start-
ed at Cairo, 111., for the erection of a
monument to Anna Pelley who was
murdered and whose slayer was hang-
sd by a mob.
Tho Southeastern Iowa Medical as-
sociation held a one day annual meet-
ing at Mt. Pleasant.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
and Missouri Hotel Men's association
was held at the Hotel Baltimore In
Kansas City. Their chief subject of
discussion was recent legislation af-
fecting their business.
It Is currently reported that the
merger of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company and the Western
Union Telegraph company is also to
include the Postal Telegraph company.
The Tegular quarterly dividend of
$10 per share has been declared by
the Standard Oil company.
The supreme court ass declared the
Employers' Liability law of 1906 con-
stitutional In the territories and Dis-
trict of Columbia despite the fact that
a previous decision had declared it
unconstitutional In the states.
The annual report oi the National
Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at
Denver shows that In the past ten
years the death rate among patients
treated has been reduced more than
one-half.
The Illinois State Bee-Keepers' as-
sociation met in annual convention at
6prlngAeld.
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph company commonly known as
the Pell Telephone company has
secured control of ths Western Union
Telegraph company and the two will
be merged Into a corporation with s
capital of $1,000,000.000.
The Missouri Pacific freight depot
st tola, Kan., has been destroyed by
Are.
Further efforts to snter the burning
coal mine at Cherry, 111., where $00
men are entombed hare been abandon-
ed and the mine will be flooded to put
out the fire.
Howard Bennett of Belolt, Wis., has
discovered a new power not unlike
the wave# of wireless telegraphy and
yet differing essentially from elec-
tricity.
A grand Jury has been called at
Jefferson City, Mo, which is expected
to investigate violation of the anti-
lobby la* at the last session of the
legislature.
wp train service and snow plows were
retired to clear the tracks
A charter has been lss;;ed to i>ui:'. a
The Hocretary of the KnnBas state
board of health asserts that there is
no record of any cases of pellagra In
Kansas. McClure* Magazine stated
that there were ten cases.
Kansas has more banks por capita
than any state in the union, except
Iowa. Iowa has one for every 1,380
Inhabitants, Kansas has one for every
i,r>oo inhabitants.
The Colonnade hotel at Soabroozo
nt. Jackson, Fin., was destroyed by Are.
Tho loss In estimated at $100,000.
A $50,000,000 mortgage has been
filed In Wyandotte county, Kansas,
against the Armour Packing company.
The second national npple show hns
been opened at Spokane, Wash, with
exhibits from Wasnlngton, Idaho, Ore-
gon, Montana and other parts of the
United States and Canada. The pre-
miums offered aggregate $25,000.
Beginning December 16 Oklahoma
will offer for sale at auction, at less
than lis appraised value approximately
1,(100,000 acres of laud, enough for
100,000 farms.
Attorney General Major hns pre-
pared an official opinion which holds
that "possums," raccoons, rabbits nnd
wolves may bo hunted In Missouri
without tho formality of taking out a
license provided that the hunting Is
done without a gun.
Foreign Affairs.
The Amsrioan consul at Managua
reports that two American citizens
have been captured with ti.e Nicara-
guan recolutlonlsts and s,.ot by order
of President Zelaya. Thu navy de-
partment has ordered two gun-boats
to Nlcaraguan ports and a reception to
Minister llazera planned by the state
department hns been postponed.
The total precipitation during the
recent otorm in Haiti which lasted
nearly two weeks was 39 Inches.
Madame Stelnhell, who was ac-
cused of the murder of her husband
and stepmother was acquitted In Paris.
Croat crowds thronged tho streets and
boulevards until long past midnight to
loam tho verdict of the jury. Special
editions of the newspapers were Is-
sued at 1 a. m.
A great storm has held Jamaica,
Haytl and other West India islands In
Its grip for a week and cable service
has been cut off. Despatches are be-
ginning to arrive telling of great dam-
age from cyclone and earthquake.
The News of Oklahoma
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE BIG, BUSY NEW STATE
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2.
Death From Fall.
Hennessey,—Wick W. Anderson,
aged 80, fell from a stepladder at his
son's home, five miles uouthwest of
lleuessoy, crushing his skull and caus-
ing almost Instant death. He was re-
pairing the roof of a porch when the
accident occurred.
Young Man Drowns.
Mansford.—While attempting to
cross Salt Creek, which is dangerous-
ly swollen, Sherman Bridges was
:lrowned with hiB team, the bodies of
ihe three being lost In the Btream.
bridges was a young man who leaves
4 widow, a bride of a few weeks,
Disastrous Fire on Farm.
Thomas.—The barn of George Bales
:>u Barnetz creek west of Thomas, was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground. Mr. Bales lost his span of
black mares, valued at $400, 30 tons
>f alfalfa hay, 400 bushels of oats and
<00 bushels of corn. There was no In-
surance.
Paid the Price.
Pawnee.—The Harrison Mercantile
company of this city has received a
letter, unsigned, and enclosed therein
the sum of thirty cents, payment for
six spools of cotton thread which by
mistake were put in the sender's bug I
gy two years ngo, and for which the
writer had never paid.
Murdered la to Hang.
Holdenville.—Pete Thompson, con-
victed of killing City Marshal Charles
Fnrrar at Okemah, July 3, was sen-
tenced to death. Moman Pruiett of
Oklahoma City made the closing
speech for the prosecution, and bit-
terly araigned Thompson. Thomp-
son, It Is said, was a "bootlegger" aud
had a dispute with Farrar.
Personal.
Rev. J. C. Hathaway, rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal church at Maryville,
Mo., hanged himself to a railroad
bridge In the northeast part of the
city. No reason Is knowu for the
suicide.
Judge Byrne of Texarkana, Ark.,
when he found himself threatened with
smallpox established an isolation camp
In the woods whero attended by two
men he is awnitiug recovery. He said
he did not wish to subject his family
to the Inconvenience of having tho
home quarantined.
Representative Dawson of Iowa took
his family to Washington in a motor
car. The trip of 1,000 mils was made
lu ten days.
Because he wrote & brief permeated
with crisp adjectives I. J. Dunn city
attorney of Omaha, Neb., has been
disbarred from practice In every court
in Nebraska. The order came from
the state supreme court.
Senator Aldrtch upou his return to
New York from his speech making tour i
in the west stated that he never had
a finer time. He found hostility to his
financial and tariff Ideas but was treat-
ed courteously he said.
F. L. Thomas the new United States
senator from North Dakota states that
he expects to take a stand with the
"Insurgents" of the senate.
John Jacob Astor and nis son who
were In West Indian waters in their
private yacht at the time of the recent
hurricane have not been heard from
since and u is thought they may have
perished in the storm.
Tony Matnev, ex-clerk of the district
court at Muskogee, Ok., has been
found guilty of embexxlement and sen-
tenced to one year in jaii and fined
$1,000.
Henry Starr the noted Oklahoma
bandit who was thought to have re
formed has entered a plea of guilty to
the charge of robbing me bank at
Amity, Col., last spring.
Gov. Hadley has announced that he
will revive an old custom and pardon
one or more convicts from the Mis-
souri penitentiary on Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
Insurance of $1.5*00,000 has been ap-
plied for on the life of George E.
Nicholson a cement manufacturer of
Kansas by two of the companies of
which he is the head.
Because of hia youth the 15-year-old
boy. William McKay the partner of
Karl Bullock In the bank robbery at
Kudora, Kan., will save him from a
penitentiary sentence He will be sent
to the reform school until he is 21
years old.
Mary Moody died In Lawrence, coun-
ty Missouri, at the age of 100 years.
She left 114 living desoendents.
Horace Lemon, a negro, who Is said
to have been 10$ years old. died at
I ths Lyon county, KNnsas. fousiv farm
Fred Fanning the Topeka, Kan.. man
All Pulling Together.
Guthrie—The Kansas Southern
filed notice that It will join the Santa
Fe, Katv and Midland Valley railroau*
In fighting the Oklahoma 2-cen< pas-
senger fare and twelve freight rate
orders of the stave corporation com-
mission. Arguments are to be heard
in St. Louis on December 7, before
Judge Hook of Kansas.
COTTON MARKET.
New York.
New York, Nov. 20.—The cotton
market showed continued nervousness
which was attributed to the posibility
of a revision of spot differences after
the close and generally speaking,
there was a steadier tone, owing to
the bullish spot and weather advfees,
prices at one time showing a net ad-
vance of 13 to 19 points, and closed
steady at a net advance of 10 to 15
points.
The market opened steady, 5 to 8
points higher in response to much
higher Liverpool cables on covering.
Renewal of liquidation for over the
"revision" sent prices off to within 3
or 4 points of last night's finals dur-
ing the morning. Cotton spot closed
quiet; middling uplands, 14.95c; mid-
dling gulf, 15.20c. No sales. Futures
closed steady. Closing bids: Novem-
ber, 14.44c; December, 14.56c; Janu-
ary, 14.75c; February, 14.79c; March
and April, 14.99c; August, 15.17c;
June, 15.13c; July, 15.17c; August,
14.45o; September, 13.20c; October,
12.60c.
New Orleans.
New Orleans, Nov. 20.—Cotton
spots were steady, l-16c higher. Low
ordinary, 10 13-16c nominal; ordinary,
115-8c nominal; good ordinary, 13
1-16c; strict good ordinary, 13 l-2c;
low middling, 13 15-16c; strict low
middling, 14 l-2c; middling, 14 l-4c;
strict middling, 14 5-8c; good middling.
14 3-4c; strict good middling, 14
15-16c; middling fair, IB l-16c; mid-
dling fair to fair, 15 7-16c; fair, 15
13-I6c nominal. Receipts, 11,846
bales; stock, 215,822 bales.
St. Louis.
St. Louis. Nov. 20.—Cotton, dull;
middling, 15c. Sales, none. Receipts,
2,914; shipments, 1,038. Stock, 28,682
baleB.
Galveston.
Galveston, Nov. 20.—Cotton, higher;
middlings, 14 l-2c.
Big Wheat Crops Expected.
Texhoma.—Preparations are in
making for the biggest wheat crop in
the history of the Oklahoma Panhan-
dle this year Timely and abundant
rains of the fall have put ground In
excellent shape for the farmers ana
they believe that a good wheat crop
will put them to the good. Wheat is
one of the best crops in this high al-
titude.
Kansans Get Big Damages.
Bartlesville.—Mr. and Mrs. P. H.
Powell of Nowata are to receive $ 10.-
000 from the Missouri Pacific railroad
for injuiies received in a head-on col-
lision between a passenger and freight
train at Deering, Kan., during Febr-
ary last. About twenty were injured,
but Mr. and Mrs. Powell the more ser-
ious, Suit was brought for damages,
but a compromise has been effected.
School Is Opened at Lawton,
lawton.—The Oklahoma secondary
agricultural college was opened here
with fitting ceremonies. All business
houses in the city closed for two
hours and an immense crowd gathered
at the opera house, where the exer-
cises were held. Prof. B. C. Pittuck.
dean of the college, addressed the as-
semblage, as did also Prof. J. A.
Liner, State Senator J. Elmer Thomas
and Representative L. P. Ross.
To Have New City Hall.
Frederick.—At the last meeting of
the city council the bond of A. H.
Krause, who was awarded the con-
tract to erect the new city hall at a
cost of $14,975, was reduced to $-.500.
The preliminaries are now all arrang-
ed and some of the material is now on
the ground ready for active work on
the building. The new building will
be two stories high, with a basement
2xS0.
Plans Being Prepared.
Cherokee.—Plans and specifications
for the tuberculosis hospital to be
erected on the Salt Plains near Chero-
kee by the Oklahoma Hospital and
Sanitarium company, as well as the
plans for the Enid general hospital,
will soon be completed, according to
information received by Architect
William F. Burford of Chicago, who
has been awarded the contract for
the drawings of the new structures
The consumptive sanitarium to be
erected near the edge of the Salt
Plains is to consist of twenty-two
two-room cottages, a twenty-room gen
eral hospital, a five-room residence for
the superintendent and a recreation
room 40 by 50 feet. The hospital to
be erected in Enid will be a two-storv
building, with a large basement and
comodious room upon the third floor
wfcich will be used as an operating
room by the patronizing surgeons of
the institution. The buildings will all
have been compelted, according to
present plans, by May 1, 1910.
Reclamation Work Begins.
Tulsa —The first work on a series
of drainage ditches to be built in
Tulsa county Is now under way on
Joe creek, six miles souts of here. Un-
1er direction of County Surveyor Col-
lins a ditch two miles long on the
ast side of the Arkansas river is be-
ing built from the foothills diagonally
lo the river. The most of four sec-
tions of land will be reclaimed by tne
project.
Must Not Sell Indian Lands.
Muskogee.—I'nlted States Judge
Campbell granted an injunction to the
department of the interior restraining
the authorities of thirty-seven cour.
ties of eastern Oklahoma from selling
Indian lands for taxes. The question
Involves the right of the state to tax
iands of Indians that were exempted
from taxation by Indian treaties The
Vnited States marshal brought to
court three wagon loads of Dawes
show that the lands of the five civil-
May Become Cathedral City.
More Economical than
the Cheap and Big Can Kind
-and MUCH BETTER
WHY? Because Calumet Baking Powder is more
certain in its results—the baking is always lighter,
more delicious and more evenly raised. You never
have a spoiled batch of baking by its use.
It requires less — hence goes further.
CALUMET
BAKING POWDER
IS the "full value" baking powder—the highest quality
baking powder at a medium price. And we guarantee that
it will give you more real satisfaction than any baking pow-
der you have ever used—ask your grocer.
Free—large handsome recipe book, illustrated in colors.
Send 4c and slip found in pound can.
Calumst Received Highest Award—World's Pare Food Exposition
MADE Bl( THE
fjPMEj
MAID FOUND A FEW THINGS
As a Result, Brooklyn Woman Came
Home to Make a Few Remarks
to Hubby.
Irving Berlin, the author of "My
Wife's Gone to the Country," said at
a recent dinner in New York.
"A true happening was the inspira-
tion of this song.
"In July a Brooklyn woman set out
for Ocean Grove, and on her arrival
discovered that her watch, a small af-
fair, was missing. She thought it
had probably dropped on the thick,
soft dining-room rug, so she wired to
the maid at home:
" 'Let me know if you find anything
on rug in dining-room.'
"A few days later she got from
the maid a letter saying:
"'Dear Madam: I was to let you
know if I found anything on the din
ing-room rug. This is what I found
this morning: Three champagne corks
18 cigar butts, five cigarette ends, four
blue chips, 36 burnt matches and one
pink satin slipper.'"
DIFFERENT.
Mr. Wholesale (indignantly)—
What's that? You say the cash ia
not correct. I always thought that
bookkeeper was a rascal, and was rob-
bing me.
Expert Accountant—The cash is $50
over, sir.
Mr. Wholesale—O, well, just give
me that and say nothing to him about |
it. Perhaps he's forgotten to draw
some of his salary.
The Dollar Sign.
WThen it came time for Mrs. Bluffer
to pack her trunk and depart from the
resort where she had spent many
pleasant days, where she had been
the cynosure of all eyes, where she
had flirted and gossipped (and been
gossiped about), she visited the pro-
prietor.
"I've just received a check for $50
from my husband," she told him. "You
will honor it, won't you?"
The proprietor bowed and rubbed
bis hands.
"My dear Mrs. Bluffer." he ventured.
"I will not only honor it, but will fail
down and worship it."
Mind Over Matter.
"Much may be done," said the Acute
Observer, "by an authoritative voice.
Now, if a man says to a dog: 'Come
here!' with a note of absolute author-
ity in his voice, the dog comes im-
mediately."
"Yes," said the Traveler, "I've no-
ticed it. And it is especially marked
in oriental peoples. Why, when I was
in Khalisandjharo, I heard a man say
with that authoritative note in his
tone: 'Oh, king, live forever,' and im-
mediately the king lived forever."—
Corolyn Wells, in Success Magazine.
Suspicious.
The father of Judge W. H. Wadhams
had a chicken-coop and a dog and a
stable hand. It began to look to Mr.
Wadhams as though some one had dis-
covered the combination. So he kept
the coop and the stable hand, but he
got a new dog. Next day the bent
old negro who groomed the Wad-
hams' horses came to him. "You los'
you affection foh me, boss?" he asked.
"No, Scipio," said Mr. Wadhams. "1
like you as well as ever." "Then,"
said Scipio, peevishly, "w'yn't you
tie Old Rover in de chicken-coop, 'stid
of dat new dorg?"
Father Was an Invalid.
It had been a hard day in the field,
and father and son were very hungry.
The only things eatable on the table
were 12 very large apple dumplings.
The father had consumed ten while
the boy was eating one, and then both
reached for the one remaining.
"Son," pleaded the farmer, "you
wouldn't take the last apple dumpling
Irom your poor sick pa, would you?"—
Success Magazine.
A Monument in the Snows.
The highest placed monument in
the world is situated on La Combra,
the summit of a pass in the Andes,
and marks the frontier of the Chilian
and Argentine republics. It stands at
an altitude of 12,796 feet above the
sea level, and for awe-Inspiring gran-
deur its surroundings would be hard
to match.—Wide World Magazine.
New College in Operation.
Goodwell.—The district A. & M. col-
lege st Goodwell started off the first
of the week and in the absence of a
college building school is being held
in the First State bank building.
About thirty pupils have so far en
rolled and more are coming.
Philosophy.
Billy—Ma, does it do you any good
to spank me?
Mother—No, my son; It hurts me to
do it
Billy—Then don't you think It's
rather foolish to be hurting the two
of us and not benefiting any one?
Undoubtedly Not.
Capt. Jerome, while visiting Col.
Higginson, took a derringer from the
table, and asked: "This thing load-
ed?" But before the colonel could
reply the weapon was discharged, the
bullet tearing away one of the fingers
of the visitor. The colonel, who is
widely known on account of his ex-
treme politeness, bowed gracefully,
and rejoined: "Not now, my dear
captain."
Chloroform Zoo Animals.
The practice of cutting the claws of
the more ferocious animals of the
London zoological garden has recently
befen greatly facilitated by chloroform-
ing the animals. Heretofore it was
done by sheer force by a squad of
men. the animal being first secured
by ropes.
Decides Again the Fight.
Guthrie.—Governor Haskell definite
ly declined to permit the Jeffries
Johnson fight to be pulled off in Okla-
homa, making public a letter to the
Miller Brothers of the "101" ranch, in
which he s&ys:
"It would be my desire to prohibit
priie-flght* or anything of that char
acter under any other name, which I
should certainly do. advising you that
any such exhibition would be in viola-
tion of the laws of the state and re-
membering from my acquaintance with
you during the last two years that
you have at all times shown every in-
clination to obey the laws of the state
1 therefore shall consider this a closed
incident and that you will obev the
CAREFUL DOCTOR
Prescribed Change of Food Instead of
Drugs.
It takes considerable courage for a
doctor to deliberately prescribe only
food for a despairing patient, instead
of resorting to the usual list of med-
icines.
There are some truly scientific phy-
sicians among the present generation
who recognize and treat conditions as
they are and should be treated regard-
less of the value to their pockets.
Here's an instance:
"Ftour years ago I was taken with
severe gastritis and nothing would
stay on my stomach, so that 1 was on
the verge of starvation.
"I heard of a doctor who has a sum-
mer cottage near me—a specialist from
N. Y . and as a last hope, sent for him.
"After he examined me carefully he
advised me to try a small quantity of
Grape-Nuts st first, then as my stom-
ach became si rouged to eat more
"I kept at it, and gradually got so I
,>oald eat and digest three Tt-aspoon-
fu'.s. Then I began to have color in my
-&C6. Etxort WAD16 cl^&r. b6-
fore everything seemed a blank. Mv
Umbs go: stronger and I could walk-
So I steadily recovered.
Now. s::er a y-ar on Grape-Nuts I
::!e book. 'The Road tc
■UIU' JJiT
tram time to Hat*. Thc-r
tr**, sad f u hamaa
Social Progress.
"The Pilters are getting on rapidly,
a rent they?"
"Indeed, yes. They used to employ
a washerwoman, but now they have
a laundress."—Rehoboth Sunday Her-
ald.
Bridge.
Miss Cheatham—I believe I shall
have to give up bridge.
Miss Frank—Really? Wasn't the
game worth the scandal?
To Enjoy
the full confidence of the Well-Informed
of the W orld and the Commendation of
the most eminent physicians it was essen-
tial that the component parts of Sjrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna should be
known to and approved by them; there-
fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub-
lishes a full statement with every package.
The perfect purity and uniformity of pro-
duct. which they demand in a laxative
remedy of an ethical character, are assured
by the Company's original method of man-
ufacture known to the Company only.
The figs of California are used in the
production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
>enria t.i promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles are obtained from
plan;> known to act most beneficially.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the crn-.nnt—manufactured by the Cali-
fornia He Syrup Co. only, and for sais
by ail ieauirj; druggists
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