The Exponent. (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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The Ralston Exponent
T, I. BRYANT, Ed. and Pub.
RALSTON
OKLAHOMA
POSTAL SIWS BUNKS
NEW STATE NOTE*
F. B. Applegatu of Muskc«ee, Okla.,
has been appointed to a clerkship at
the Osage Indian agency.
The Crenc-ent hotel at Krick was
completely destroyed by fire last
weok together with all furniture and
wearing apparel.
A movement to establish lu Okla-
homa City a tuberculosis hospital la
petted soon 011 recommendation of
Dr. T. W. Riley, head of the cRy
health department.
MEASURE MAY BE PASSED AT
THIS 8E8SION OF CONORE8S
SPEIIER Ullll Hill 111 MSSI6E
Sheriff Jesse VV. Phillips of Atoka
was seriously wounded in the lower
part of the abdomen last week In an
effort to capture Will Miles, a negro
bootlegger.
Aldrich May not Oppose the Wishes of
President Taft In the Matter—
Majority la in Fav«f •#
Passage of Bill
COOK'S CLAIMS ARE FAL8E
'SMITH'S 1MB IS DUD
SENATOR McLAURIN OF MISSISS-
IPPI DIES OF HEART FAILURE
\. C. HocfTer. leader of the So-
elf)list party, Alfalfa county, announ-
ce® that he will be a candidate for
congrws III the Second district next
year.
Head overseers of Foraker town-
ship, Osage county, have determined
to open Motion line roads all over
the towuship. This action will mean
Washington.—8p«" kcr Cannon, It
has been learned, has agreed to use
his influence to put a postal savings
bank bill through the house. Sena-
tor Aldrich may not strenuously op
pose the passage of euch a bill
through the senate.
President Taft Is exceedingly anx-
ious to obtain postal saving* bank leg-
islation. It was at tola urj?ent re
quest that Speaker Cannon withdrew
bis opposition, and Senator Aldrich
agreed not to stand in the way of a
bill that contained certain provisions
The Rhode Island senator still
,.akes it plain that he doubts the wis-
la Branded an Imposter in the Danish
Metropolis
New York—Dr. F. A. Cook today is
a man without a country. His few
remaining friends feebly explain that
the man must have given way under
tbe rigorous hardships of the arctic,
which bred the hallucination that ha
had really reached the pole. Mis.
Cook and her children have disap-
peared. and are reported to have go.ie
to Europe to }oln her husband, where
they will spend the remainder of
tbelr lives in seclusion. Cook secured
over $100,000 on lectures, writings,
etc.
The report of the special commit-
tee of scientists, which the University
of Co;>enhagen appointed to scrutin-
ize Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claims
♦hat he had discovered the North
Pole, was submitted to the consistory
of the University Tuesday, endorsed
by that body and given to the public.
The report shatters completely, al-
most contemptuously the American
explorer's title to such discovery and
fills the offcials and people of Den
HID IITIIll UIEEBIHII. S. SEMITE
Wat Once Governor of State and Long
in National Limelight—Was
Strong Defender of the
South
mark with chagrin at the figure D?«t
Jackson, .Miss.—United States Sen-
ator McLaurln died suddenly at his
home at Brandon, Miss., Wednesday
night.
Death was due to an attack of heart
failure and came without the slight-
est warning at 6:30 o'clock. Whm
the fatal stroke came upon him, Sen-
ator McLaurin was seated in a rock-
ing chair in front of the fire in his
library. He suddenly fell forwa.d,
without speaking a word, and life was
extinct when members of his family
reached his side.
The swift summons of death follow-
ed within a few moments a remark
~~ ] by Senator McLaurin that he was
lien feeling better than he had felt
For ThU One Day
For this one day-
Grant us sight to see the road
Creep plainly, on our winding wa>
Grant us strength to bear the loau,
For this one day.
For this one day-
Guide our feet the road along.
Let not our weary footsteps stray,
Give us to life a stave of song.
For this one day.
For this one day-
Let us not see the mud beneath.
But know the gold above the gray
And smell "the wind upon tfne heath'
For this one day.
For this one day—
When bowed at eve for benlaon.
Grant that upon the uphill way
Our passing smile has gladd^neni
one,
On this one day.
—Edna 8. Valentine, in Success Mag
ailne.
at any time since his recent severe
mark is made to assume in the eyes!|1]neg# reRultlng from an attack of
ptomaine poisoning.
the cutting up of some largo pastures | ^ of thJg legl8latlon at this session. I waB l"TK"r"u..,u' 0
but ho Is willing to meet the pre ;1-1 her0 tQ b(J b,.ari{je(j ag an imposter.
and the cattlemen probably will make
strong opposition
' Taxes paid prior to Feb. 1 are not
liable to the IK per centum per un-
num penalty," aaya Attorney General
West In a letter to United States In-
dian Agent Dana H. Kelsey of Mus-
kogee
John W. Ashcraft has resigned as
postmaster at Aline, Alfalfa county,
Oklahoma, and Congressman Morgan
has reconimeuded 8. C. Tlinnions. ed-
itor of the Aline Chronoscope to fill
the vacancy.
There la a rumor in Guthrie that
Mrs. Bird McGulro, divorced wife of
the congressman of that r.ame, Is
bidding her friends a long farewell,
and in going to New York city to
make that city her permanent home.
W. A. Sheahan. trainmaster on the
Panhandle division of the Rock 1^
land, with headquarters at El Heno,
has l een transferred to the position
of trainmaster of the Kansas division,
with headquurters at Hirrlngton,
Kansas.
dent half way. He has let it be known
t i• at under no circumstances will lie
give Ills support to a bill which does
rot provide that the money deposited
In postal savings banks shall I>e
be used for the purchase of United
States bonds . The bill, in its pres-
ent form, Is too flexible to suit Mr.
Aldrich.
The Foss bill, which is the official
bill iu the house, does not make It
mandatory to invest the deposits in
rcvernment bonds. It provides that
„ . was prepared for a verdict of "not 1 Ag tQ a 8UCOe8SOr t0 Senator Mc
' j proven." but did not expect its rece-.it 1 Uurin ,t .g polntea out tbat an ap
.. u~ * A-A ~~ polntment migjht be immediately
Many still cling to the belief that
Cook acted in good faith, but harbor-
ed a delunsion.
Explorers and scientists almost
unanimously have lost faith in Cook's
(honesty, 'while one of his warmest
supporters, Knud Rasmussen, helped
to frame the report. The papers at-
tack Cook and severely reproach him
for hiding, which they regard a* a
sign of a guilty conscience.
A Financial Epigram.
"H. H. Rogers," said a New York
broker, "always advised young men to
get hold of capital. He used to point
out to them that without capital a
man could do nothing, nothing. He
>1 sod to pack this truth into a very
neat epigram. "Fortune," he used to
say "can't knock at the door of a
man who has no house.
made by Governor Noel or selected by
the state legislature, which will con-
vene early in January.
Senator McLaurin. who was 61
years of age, began his first term in
the United States senate in 1894, but
was elected governor of Mississippi
in 1895 and served in that office four
years.
He was elected again to the sea-
ale in 1900 and served one term. He
then returned for the term which be
i san on March 4. 1907. His present
Oil Exports Hit by Tariff
Washington—Alarmed by a drop | term of ofTlce would have expired on
funds "may be deposited In any sol 1 from one million dollars to $26,303 in j March 3. 1913.
vent bank or banks in the neighbor-1 mineral oil exports to France hi a Senator McLaurin was a lawyer by
hood In which the funds are receiv- i month, American oil exporters have profession and began the study 0
id' Interest at 2V4 per cent per year begun a movement to Induce congress; law in 1868. after he had served
- - — * — ar as a private .n
He was bo-n
Because the district court held that
the marriage of Cleveland Grayson
to Delia Jones was illegal, N. M.
Schantz of Muskogee, lost a piece of
oil land that he had bought from
Grayson, said to be worth J50.000.
d' Interest at 2V4 per cent per year begun a movement to induce congress law in 1868. afte:
tn'ho naid on «hc deposits 1 to renew with the French govern men' through the civil w
If the deposits are refused by local i the reciprocity treaty which expired 1 the Confederate army. He was DO-n
banks, they may be deposited w/h ! Oct. 31 last. Exporters alsohope for j on March 26,,1848. at■ Brandon,
the treasurer of the United Stat es
and withdrawn or iuvested in United
S rtes bonds or other securities ap*
I roved by the savings bank law« 0?
the state or territory in which the
f:int were received.
In the absence of such laws the
funds may be Invested In securities of
the same character as approved for
Investment by savings by the iaws of
New York or California M nator Al-
drich insists that these provisions ire
Coincidence in Names.
I11 a New York public school one
of the teachers has four pupils whos<
names are the same as her own, and
the principal and the janitor get each
miner's mail for the same reason. An-
other singular thing in this line oc-
curred not long ago on the East side,
where the clergyman and the man and
woman whom he married had the
same name.
the renewal of the treaty with Spain, and was raised on a farm. He cn-
a large importer of American oil, teied the Confederate army when he
which will expire on Aug. 31, 1910. j was 16 years of age. Seven children
Tbe exports to Canada under tl j survive him.
operation of the new tariff law, it is j When the present session of con-
declared will show relatively *s grei: gress opened, because of illness, Seo-
a falling off in oil exports As thos*' -.tor McLaurin did not go to Wash-
to France. ington. In the senate chamber he
—— was known as one of the strongest
Little Neighborliness Thert.
New York is a big city. A lady who
has not lived there long was invited
.to a luncheon given by an old friend
who came from the same town sever-
al years ago. The new guost met un-
expectedly at the luncheon seven of
her sex. all of whom live within a few
blocks of her residence, and all of
whom had lived in the town* from
which she came.
L Hudson, a Jackson county farm-
er, planted four acres of peanuts last
spring and has cleared |50 an acre on
tis crop, besides getting lots of pas-
turage for his pigs.
At a receut meeting the regents
of the state uuiverslty at Norman
two very important steps were taken.
One was provision for the summer
session in 1910 and the other the es-
tablishment of a school of education
tor teachers
By a vote of about two to one the
ele 'tors of El Reno last week ex-
pressed themselves In favor of the
proposed bond issue of $80,000. Of
this amount $50,000 Is to be expend-
ed In the erection of a city hall.
Prof. Gould, of the geological sur-
vey. has discovered indications of oil
«nd gas in the Sugar Loaf mountain
(ountry or Le Mors county. Here may-
be developed a great sweet oil Indus-
<T.
The Mountain, Valley and Plains
railway which will extend from Guth-
rie to Cimarron, New Mexico, Is soon
<0 be a thing of reality. W. H. Har-
rington, vice-president of the com-
pany, with a corpB of surveyors, left
Guthrie last week to locate the
route of the road between that city
i.nd Higgins, Tex.
Aicording to Secretary Ed Cassidy.
ef the school land commission, the
►ales department lias completed the
Presents for Stricken Miners
Chicago. 111.—Twelve Chicago al-
defecders of the south, though not
as radical as some. He believed in
,|A«' went to Cherry. 111. .outh. her resource, and her (u-
too looeely drawn; that they woul.l tl.e jtrtcken <°<>>|w_town^ where^ 100 ^ t " df)(,nj(i whpn ehp was assailed
not aid the national monetary com-
mission in its efforts to release na-
tional bank currency from its govsrn-
raeut bondage.
As a result of the assurances
ture, and he never failed to rise '.o
r defense when she was assailed.
He did some active work on the
miners were entombed last month, to j
„:,y Santa Claw to one ttwMrf WW- commlttee „„ tbc M1,gls>iwi
o.s and orphans bereft by the St., M(r ^ tri|>utarleB and a mem-
Paul mine disaster. j bpr Qf 0{her lmportant senate cora-
A full car load of toys, candies and' mlttees
fruits for the children and many more | ' -
committee on portollcoa and po t I mo'-bora were taken.
roads, which has the Foss bill in Its p|umber, Cates Continued
keeping, will be asiied to report It OJt >
sc.m af'er congress reconvenes on the j Guthrie, Okla—The cases against
4th of January. Whether the bill can several master plumbers of this city.
1 i i til. ..i ,i .>ti•. t I Un r "Avlalnna
Congress Quits for Holidays
Washington.— Both the senate and
| the house concluded their arduous
l ibors by 2 o'clock Monday.
Aside from the confirmation of
Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee, to
h* nagged is still a onestion. charged with violating the rrovisions be an associate justice of the supreme
Do'btletl a maoJHty o^ toe senator tbe labor law. were contmued «n J court, tbe eenate'. principal team.
orB and representatives are in favor
of some sort of postal savings bank
bill, but It Is not at all eVrtain that
a bill so drawn as to satisfy amajority
In either branch can be submitted.
Mrs. Ferguson for Postmaster
Washington.—Mrs. Thomas B. Fer-
guson was recommended Thursday
for appointment ns postmaster at Wa-
tonga. Okla. Mrs. Ferguson is the
wife of ex-Governor Ferguson of Ok
lahoma, and her name has been men-
tioned In connection with the post-
office
Tulsa Fire Bug Caught
Tulsa, Okla. Uobert Klter, a white
man, last week was taken before th^
special grand Jury at Tulsa, charged
with arson. He was found In tho
stable of Park Commissioner J. U.
Plersol, by members of the flre d ?-
partment who answered a call to ex-
tinguish a blaze in the building an 1
Immediately was taken charge of an.l
turned over to the county officials.
Fire Chief Alder and others are of ^e
opinion that he is the man who has
mysteriously fired the First Natlonil
the superior court here until Jar-; was a speech laden with optimism
uary 3 The provision which they ' and good cheer for the Christmas sea-
were charged with violating is the J son by Senator Depew.
one forbidding the insertion of adver
tisements for laborers or mechanics j De Armond's Successor Named
who are expected to take the places j butler. Mo.—C. C. Dickinson, a for-
of others on strike, unless it is stated ,ner 6tate senator, of Clinton, Henry
that there is a strike on. 'county, was nominated by the demo-
■ cratic convention of the sixth dls-
Friaco Freight Wrecked jtrlct as a candidate to succeed tbe
Arnett, Okla.—A Frisco freight ,iale Congressman De Armond, Thurs
train was wrecked Jr.st east of this j day morning.
city on Thursday morning, several I fhe nomination was mad" on the
cars going into the ditch. No one v?a* !675th ballot. The convention had
Injured. 'been in session since Tuest.uy.
Alumnae Associations
The Wesleyan alumnae is the oldest
organization of the kind in the world,
and recently Mrs. Emma Kunz was
made the president of It. The alum-
nae organizatons take most active In-
terest In the colleges and schools
from which they have been gradu-
ated. At the Smith commencement
the alumnae march almost outranked
the ivy procession In importance.
preliminary arrangements for the sale I bank building and other structures tn
of the third division of the state this city recently.
The commission will
school lands.
probably set March 14 ns Cie day to
begin
A rigid investigation of nil public
huildin«« now being erected under
contract for the Btate and the com-
pliance or noncompliance of the con-
tractors with the prescribed plans
and specifications Is promised by a
well founded rumor that Stuto Audi
tor M. K. Trapp !s negotiating with
a well known architect of the atate
to make stish investigation.
Thackery in Washington
Washington—Frank Thukery and
wife of Shawnee are in VVaahlngton.
Thackery la an Indian agent in charge
of the Shawnee agency.
John W. ftern 60 Yearn Old
Indianapolis, Ind.—John W. Kern,
late democratic nominee for vice pres-
ident of the United States, receiver
the congratulations of numerous
friends Monday on the occasion of bu
60'h birthday anniversary,
Killed by Saw Mill
HI more, Okla—Will Wheeler of El-
more, while standing near the machin-
ery of the Johnson & Brown saw mill,
fell Into the saw and wis ground to
pieces. He was a young man and hid
worked at the saw mill. He leaves
a widow and two small children.
Conductor Is Arrested
Ardmore, Okla.-E. F ftelger, Wio
says he is a railroad conductor, was
arrested Thursday by Chief of police
Ruck Garrett, charger! with attempt-
ing fraud through the solicitation of
funds for a penniless widow at Dough-
erty. His petition was generously
signed in Ardmore.
Big Strike Threatens Railroads
Pittsburg, Pa—Trainmen to the
number of 75,000, employed on about
grventy-flve rallrotds east of the Mis-
sl>sippl river, Monday through the*/
officials of tlie Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen, with headquarters at
Cleveland, Ohio, formally notified the
j various divisions and railroads af-
I fi cted that a demand for increase in
wages amounting to from 5 to 40 per
ctnt will be made on January 1 An
agreement between the railroads and
trainmen necessitates due notice be-
fore any demand *uch as will be made
can be presented. The trainmen will
\ ait until January 20 for an answer
from the railroads, It is said.
Work
Like coral insects, multitudinous,
The minutes are whereof our life is
made;
They build it up, as ill the deep blue
shade
It grows, It comes to light; and then,
and thus,
For botfa there is an end. The popu-
lous
Sea blossoms close, our minutes
that have paid
Life's debt of work are spent, the
work Is laid
Before our feet that shall come after
us.
We may not stay to watch if It will
speed;
The bard, If still in some lute's string
his song
Live sweetly yet the hero, if his
star
Doth shine. Work is its own best
earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the
sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvelous isles
that bloom afar.
—Jean Ingelcwr.
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
Nice light bread and flaky biscuits
can be made from
CHOCTAW FLOUR
Insist on this brand and you
are sure to have the best
VOI R GROCER SK.I.I.H IT
WPttTt TO THC
Must Attend Institutes Kiefer Bank Liquidateo
Guthrie, Okla.—No school teacher. Guthrie, Okla.—In a telephone
can get a now certificate in tills state j communication received here Bank
unless he has .ittonded at least >^> Commissioner Young announced that
per cent of the entire term e' a nor-
mal teachers' Institute, held In com-
pliance with law, accord I nR to an
opinion from Attorney General West
to the assistant tate superintendent
of public Inst ruction
he had completed the payment of de-
positors of the failed First State Bank
of Kiefer. The bank had deposits
amounting to $87,000 nnd the liqui-
dation has been completed within
>«ght days after the /allure.
National Builders' Supply Co.
POO PftiCBt ON ALL KINDS OP
High Grade Building Material
Wholeule Distributors 10LA PORTLAND CEMENT
WHOLESALE LUMBER
•M M* CAMMSlL M.D4 OKLAHOMA CITY
DOCTORS, ATTENTION! rVSffi K
l<> I ink U|'li< I'l few in 3 >l j« iliplilhnn md «.• !
lot liver in 1 hi a trnlmtnl* How hi curt ihronlo « *ml
Till' b« t hulp pntnllil* for lb* phyticinu hlci
I' prepaid, rasll with o(4«r
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RSBF DEERE IMPLEMENTS
andVELIEVEHICLES "<J «'"l«
CR JOKK DEERE PLOW CO., OKLAHOMA CITY
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