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WAPANUCKA JOHNSTON COUNTY OKLA OCTOBER 29 1908
NO 23
YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS ALWAYS PROPERLY FILLED WHEN SENT TO THE CITY DRUG STOR
Maes’ pun
MADS OUT OF EVENT3 THAT
SENT THEM TO PRI80N
Author lo Man Accused of Selling
Liquor Without Federal License
—To Bo Proeented -When
Mon Aro Released
Frankfort Kjr — A Jail for a theater
the cells for dressing rooms and the
corridor for the stage form the equip-
ment that the federal prisoners In the
county jail here practically all of them
moonshiners are using In rehearsing
a play that will be staged when they
are out of confinement again
The play Is called "The Moonshin-
ers’ and was written by Sam Shep-
pard who Is accused of selling liquor
without a license from the federal gov-
ernment Ho conceived the Idea of
srritlng the play and rehearsing it to
occupy the time until the date of his
trial
1 The actors have met with such suc-
cess In their rehearsals that they have
determined to put the play on the
stage as soon as they are released
from Jail They are to meet In Corbin
CD December 1 to have their last re-
hearsal before the opening of the sea-
son In the mountain towns The court
houses will be used as theaters and
the members of the troupe will not be
far from home If they get stranded'
v The plot of the play Is laid among
the hills of Harlan county The first
act opens with a lot of moonshiners
sitting around a still drinking the
white whisky and playing cards Dur-
ing this act every detail In making
moonshine whisky will be exhibited
A spy discloses the still to the rev-
enue men who raid the place and the
curtain falls amid revolver fire
The second act deals with the burial
of mountaineers who were killed in
the moonshine raid While jthe ox-cart
hearse la absent' In the rehearsals
there Is place for It In the play The
mountain preacher who never con-
demns the making of moonshine be-
cause the moonshiners contribute to
his living has hie part in this act and
sings the funeral dirge while the men
dressed as women gather around the
casket to mourn
The third act deals with the chase
of the revenue men after the moon-
shiners Some of the moonshiners are
captured and marched Into a court
house The daughter of the mountain
Judge pleads for their release Her
beauty Impresses the revenue men
especially a young member of the par-
ty and while she engages him In a
conversation three of the shiners make
their escape The session of court
breaks up in disorder and In the last
scene the young woman rifle In hand
leads the moonshiners in a battle with
the revenue agents who are routed
and she gives her band to one of the
bravest of the shiners
In the fourth and concluding act of
the play the spy Is captured and the
moonshiners hold a court and sentence
him to death He is hanged as an ex-
ample of what will happen to moon-
shiners who give Information to rev-
enue men
The actors and their characters are:
Sam Sheppard mountaineer of Whit-
ley county Ol Whittington revenue
man of Whitley county W S James
bootlegger of Rowan county E D
Ritchie ’stiller of Knott oounty who
l Is serving a term In jail for making
A moonshine Sunland Meyers of Row-
Vs county bootlegger Dan Trout
revenue man of Pulaski oounty Henry
Boulden bootlegger of Harlan coun-
ty Ezekiel Anderson whisky peddler
of Leslie county Will Sturgeon spy of
Floyd county Wick Terry mountain
Judge of Rowan county Thomas Ma-
gee mountain preacher of Laurel
oounty
Magee was selected as preacher be-
cause he has been converted since be
came here to Jail and may Join the
Salvation Army after the theatrical
season Is over
WATCHING THE SALTON SEA
Engineers May Learn Fermula for the
Evaporation of Water
Los Angeles Cal — If plans which
scientists in the employ of the govern-
ment ere now Carrying Into effeot are
successful engineers will have within
the next few yean what they have
never hitherto had— a formula of
evaporation of water under given con-
ditions The field of study of the sci-
entists Is the Belton sea the Inland
body of water near the Mexican line
which was in egos past a part of the
Gulf of California
The government proposes to keep
from six to eight men on the wiiM
rr wo jo- Miusse men will study
the supply of water to the sea and
will attempt to determine the reces-
sion of the body of water — how much
Is taken by the atmosphere In a given
period
Pro F H Bigelow of the United
States weather bureau has been as-
signed to take charge of the work and
he will be assisted by the local weath-
er bureau members
Scared to Death by Lightning -New
York— A bolt of lightning
frightened William M 8herwood to
death The victim 71 years old an
old-time section boss on the New York
Central road lived with his daughter
in the Bronx He had been suffering
from heart disease and was lying on a
sofa when a thunder storm broke
Lightning struck a tree in the yard
and a blinding bluish light filled the
whole house "At the crash and the
vivid glare Sherwood sprang from the
sofa and Instantly fell back on it dead
Handing Him the Lemon
"Out tn Arizona” yawned the pretty
girl T saw an artesian well drill that '
bad been digging away for weeks and
weeks It reminded me so much of
you” i
“Weally” lisped the young man who
never glanced at the clock “In what
way?”
“Why It was such a chronic bore
THINKS SECTION BOSS MAGNATE
Countess Weds Railroad Man Then
Father Takes Her Away
Muskogee Okie— Louis Accassano
an Italian count and his eldest daugh-
ter Esther were arrested at Weleet-
ka a few days ago the former being
charged with kidnaping his daughter
who but a few days before had been
married to James S Lalley
The arrest was made by Sheriff
Smith but after Accassano told his
story he and his daughter were re-
leased and are now on their way to
New Yorfcr- —They will Sail 'for Italy
In a few days - - -
The Italian claims his daughter was
deceived Into marrying Lalley whom
she believed to be a millionaire rail-
road magnate but who turned out to
be a section boss
Count Accassano was sent to Mexi-
co in 1904 by his government to In-
spect railways and at Monterey he
and his daughter met Lalley Lalley
wooed and won the girl and when
Accassano returned to Rome a year
later the couple were engaged Lalley
was asked to come to Rome where
the eeremony was to be performed
But he said he could not get away
and he Induced the Italians to re-
turn to America and meet him at
Dustin Okla
They arrived at Dustin in due time
and the count became suspicious but
while-he was Investigating into Lai-
ley’s wealth the latter took the girl to
a Justice of the peace and they were
married 1
When the count discovered that Lal-
ley was a penniless section boss he
became enraged and spirited his
daughter away
The girl claimed she only agreed
to marry Lalley and that the cere-
mony must be performed by a Catho-
lie priest James Is still working as
a section boss and will not spend his
summer in the Eternal city
ENGINEER WANTS TO DIE IN CAB
Jacob La Mott Agod 69 Takoo Great-
est Pleasure In His Locomotive -
Champaign 111 — Because he cannot
find anything in which there la so
much pleasure Jacob La Mott of Car-
mi 69 years old says hs will stay by
his engine cab until he dies
Engineer La Mott has been running
a locomotive for the last 50 years He
was one of the pioneers in the service
of the railroad ho still serves and he
has laid up a fortune by keeping his
hand on the throttle and his eyes on
the two threads of steel ahead of him
He Is the owner of an estate worth
$50000 so hs need have no fear for
his livelihood should he choose to quit
the service of the railway for a life ol
ease While he le old tn years hs Is
young In action and hs is accounted
the best engineer on his division His
band Is always the steadiest and his
engine never fails to come In at the
end of his run on schedule time
“I went to die in my cab when my
times comes” said Mr La Mott "I
am not In any hurry to do It but when
I have reached the end of my long
‘run’ I can’t think of any happier way
to round out my life than in the place
1 find the most pleasure
“I shouldn’t have any hesitancy In
quitting my place on the rond If there
was a single thing in which 1 could
take as much pleasure”
SEA OF OIL ABLAZE
MEXICAN GUSHER HAS BEEN
BURNING MANY DAYS
Estimated Dally Less Is $38000— Only
Hope Is That Fire Will Auto-
matically Smother Itself—
Heat Prevents Approach
Mexico City Mex — At Dos Bocas a
gusher of the Pennsylvania Oil Com-
pany has been burning now for many
days at an estimated dally loss to the
company of $38000
The flames leap hundreds of feet
Into the air Illuminating a large ex-
panse of territory at night and veiling
the landscape with dense volumes of
smoke by day
When a well catches because of an
uncontrolled overflow of oil Into some
fire or flame usually the very furnace
of the boiler which has been used In
boring the well there are but two al-
ternatives left for the owners One is
to smother the fire by means of a
heavily weighted draw which Is pulled
across the mouth of the well shutting
off both the air from the outside and
the flow of oil from within
In this way the fire dies of Its own
accord from lack of fuel and the well
Is then easily controlled
Failing In this expedient the only
hope is to allow the well to burn re-
lying upon it to clog Itself after a
time Usually on low pressure gush- with 1000 in bearing for 1906 100000
ers the accumulation of soot and lamp- acres planted with 2000 in bearing
black from the burning oil will so clog and for 1907 150000 acres with 2500
the aperture of the well in two or inbearing
three weeks that the flow of oil Is cut
off and the fire is automatically smoth-
ered Oil well fires are never of long
duration
The product going to waste is so
valuable that expensive measures are
justifiable to stop the flame — and mon-
ey can accomplish most things
Preparations are now on foot to
smother the fire-of the Pennsylvania-
oil well at Dos Bocas Heavy drags
are being constructed which will be '
drawn across the mouth of the well by
special machinery and the well will
again become the servant of man At
present it runs riot and acknowledges
as master no one
So Intense is the heat generated by
the thousands of barrels of oil that go
up in smoke every hour that no one
can approach within less than 200
meters of the fire and remain for more
than a few minutes at a time- Added
to this are the fearful fumes and gases
generated by the burning oil -
The new oil well caught fire July
4 from the furnace of the boiler used
in boring the well The oil In the well
had been struck some time before
and while preparations were being
made to break the cap rock and cap
the well the pressure of oil and gas
from below blew out its capping and
became unmanageable
The oil was shot to a distance ef
800 feet into the air carrying the der-
rick and other machinery with It
The primary loss of the company
boring the well is estimated at $200-
000 The oil has overflowed the entire
urroundlng plain and Is now ' prac-
tically a burning lake of oil flooding
the country with flame
The shaft of oil which shoots np
from the Interior of the well only to
become Immediately ignited trans-
forming Itself into a fountain of fire
acts as a huge torch for the entire
surrounding country The flame is
plainly visible for 50 mllee and one
steamer captain has reported having
seen the fire at sea a distance of 80
miles from the well
So brilliant la the light that at a
distance of ten mllee It furnishes light
sufficient to admit of reading
The well has been burning 80 days
making the loss more than $1000000
Lost Ball Took Baby
Freeland Pa — Annoyed by having
a baseball driven against tbs side of
her - home Mrs Andrew Solenskl
picked up the sphere and hid It In
her home The ball had come from a
near-by field where two local teams
ware playing a match gams When the
fielder arrived looking for the ball hs
was ordered off ths premises All ef-
forts to conciliate proved futile when
one of the boys conceived the idea of
kidnaping the 8olensk! baby
The scheme was approved and
quickly executed When Mrs Solen-
skl discovered her child was gons she
became frantlo and hastened to the of-
fice of Justice Buckley and Burgess
Hartman Patrolman Walsh who was
sent to the place soon solved ths
trouble and by diplomatic means n-
cured ths return of the child In ex-
change for the ball
RUBBER OUSTS TEA
i
ACREAGE OF FORMER INCREAS-
ING RAPIDLY IN -CEYLON
The figures named are approxi-
mate only because on many estates
tea and rubber are Interplan ted
Cacao also is lnterplanted with rub-
ber The prospect is that if present
prices of rubber are maintained in
many instances tea and cacao will be
remoVed from the lnterplanted areas
The Interplanting of rubber with
othMplanta has the effect of involving
1
tbe same capital In more than one
enterprise and for that reason the
amount of capital Invested In rubber
cultivation in Ceylon cannot be stated
accurately A competent agricultural
authority taking Into account the
varying ages of tbe different plant-
ings estimates that the total of the
amonnts expended to date on rubber
growing In Ceylon is close to $9000-
000 Likewise It Is bard to estimate
tbe working force engaged In tbe pro-
duction of rubber as many of the su-
perintendents make tea the principal
crop but it la probable that rubber
requires tbe attention and labor of
250 Europeans and between 75000 and
100000 Tamil coolies
Recorded exports of Ceylon-grown
rubber are: 1904 25 tons 1905 75
tons 1906 150 tons 1907 3972 tons
January 1 to May 11 1908 11316 tons
London Is the chief market for Cey-
lon rubber but exports to Antwerp
and New York are growing
With rubber selling at 84 to 96
cents per pound the price most re-
cently quoted the planter finds a
handsome profit In its production Tbe
estimated cost of growing and mar-
keting a pound of Ceylon plantation
rubber is between 25 and 30 cents
Labor' tbe principal factor in de-
termining the cost is very cheap tbe
day's wages of the Tamil coolie rang-
ing between 25 snd 35 rupee cents
($0083 and $01166)
Ceylon planters view with equa-
nimity the great Increase In acreage
as they expect that the Increased out-
put will be provided for by the new
uses to which rubber Is constantly
being put Comparing the cost of
production In Ceylon with the cost of
Brazil and the Congo they maintain
that the risks are greater of Brasilian
and Congo rubber falling below the
profitable margin and so leading a de-
crease In rubber shipments than of
Ceylon’s plantations going out of cultl-1
ration through a fall in the price
SHRUB SAVES WOMAN’S LIFE
Bush on Edgs of Gorge Prevents Fatal
' Auto AceldenL
San Francisco— Ths frail branches
of a shrub that grew on tbs edge of
a deep gorge saved Mrs L Freeman
from death
Mrs Freeman with her husband
was coming down White’s hill near
San Acselmo In their automobile
when half-way down the bill the ma-
chine got beyond Freeman’s control
Ahead of them was another auto tn
which ware three men
The Freeman car dashed down ths
hill and Into ths other machine the
occupants of which were all uncon-
scions of their danger until the crash
came After striking the car ahead
the Freeman car carromed off and ran
into a teiegrapn puie ana was smaanea
Into small bits
As the car struck Mrs Freeman was
thrown with terrific force straight to-
ward the gorge but was saved by the
shrub Unconscious and seemingly
gradually slipping to the sharp jagged
rocks In the deep gorge below she lay
slightly held by the brush when her
husband bruised and Injured- made
his way to her and Just In time lifted
her up and carried her to the side of
the road
Life-Savers Find Big Whale !
Atlantic City N J — Government life-
savers from Tatbam station near Sea
late who were called to go after what
they believed to be a capsized launch
found a dead whale 60 feet long
floating toward shore The big mam-
mal had evidently been struck by
some sea craft Fishermen are trying
to tow the big fish ashore and expect
to make several hundred dollars from
their find
WOMAN BECOMES A PILOT
Takes
Out License to Help Color-
Blind Husband
SL Louis — Working up from the
bottom to steamboat pilot is ths story
of Mi4 Wyllia Hulett member of tbe
steamboat family of Beardstown 111
who was given s pilot's license CapL
Archie Gordon United States Inspector
of steamboats who examined Mrs Hu-
lett said that she made an exceptional
showing In navigation
Mrs Hulett’s husband George Hu-
lett a steamboat engineer failed to
pass the examination when he applied
for a pilot's license recently on account
of color blindness
CapL Gordon who examined Mrs
Hulett said that she was among the
very few who gave with unerring ac-
curacy the entire list of beacon lights
snd day marks along the Illinois river
for 150 miles telling the color of each
and of the day mark signs
Mrs Hulett who has spsnt much
time on steamboats since her marriage
four yeareago -fcas-serA clerk
stewardess steersman and assistant
engineer She applied for the license
In an effort to help her husband
Noble Houses of Old World Dying OuL
Munich — Prof von Grnber of the
University of Munich has collected
some telltale statistics of the decline
of noble and patrician families which
he secured by investigating the his-
tory of no less than 20000 German
and Austrian noble houses He has
found that only 68 of ths 20000 fam-
ilies existed longer than 600' years
“In England" hs says “but three
of the ancient ducal houses survive
and only 11 of the old-time families
of earls
“In Sweden 76 per cent of ths noble
houses havs vanished from the face
of the earth”
Tattoo Wives End Divorces
Warsaw Ind — “There would be
fewer affinities snd divorces If all mar-
ried women In the United States were
tattooed on the ch'ln” said Rev Ar-
thur Rawel native of Maorlland New
Zealand In addressing an audience of
3000 at Winona Lake assembly He
added: “Now that I am headed for
Washington I think that I shall ask
President Roosevelt to use his Influ-
ence to have such a bill pat through
congress”
Rats Turn Whits and Die
Greensburg Pa — Rata In Cook town-
ship Westmoreland county are being
killed off by n strange disease com-
monly termed the white plague -A
few days ago Joseph Harvln a
farmer of near Weavers Mills found
several rodents dead in his barn
Their hair had turned white and had
fallen off -C
K Corta another farmer of the
same vicinity said that rats on his
farm had been killed probably by the
same disease
Happy Jim Buried In Oats
Montclair N J — Jim a wise old
gray horse owned by the Montclair
Water Company pulled the slide out
of a grain chut and was buried in an
avalanche of oats When discovered
he was cheerily eating hi way out
happy and unhurt A
House Built In Silence
Bloomeburg Ps — Like Solomon's
temple the residence of Samuel An-
drews of this place was built la si-
lence - Andrews Is a deaf mute and
every stroke of work on the house
from laying the foundation to Install
lag the plumbing has been done by
mutes friends of Andrews who live
elsewhere In the elate
EAT MOW:
FA8SENGERS CROS8ING ATLAN-
TIC CONSUME BIG STORE' i
On One Lins the Cost Was $4O00JCJ
In a Year— Beer by Half MIL -i
lion Gallons and (AXL
000 of Eggs
New York— It must be the gyro-'
scope attachment on the modem trans-
atlantic liner or else tbe ball bearing'
on which they run which has reduced -the
proverbial amount of seasickness
among the passengers
Seasick passengers no matter how
many of them are carried could not
comfortably consume food of which
the wholesale cost for one line alone
In 1907 was more than $4000000 This'
Is seen at once when It Is noted that
the total expense for coal on tbe same' -line
was but $7000000 and of course
none of the boilers was seasick and
their consuming capacity is notorious-
ly greater than any passenger no mat- -ter
how good an appetite he has
Before noting some of the figure 1
of food it Is pleasing to observe some
of those relating to beverages Now
as to champagne which Is said to
be an excellent cure and for that mak
ter a preventive of seasickness paw
aengera last year pulled the plugs
out of only a few more than 51008
bottles of champagne
When it comes to claret the figure
jump so respectably that it Is Seen
that a man may raise a thirst some-
where west of Suez as well as east
Of that cheerful and ruddy beverage
the first-class passengers consumed
129209 bottles
That sounds pretty good but the
consumption by tbe third-class passen-
gers makes it appear a mere tipple by
comparison for those in tbe steerage
joyfully drank not less than T2129T
gallons of claret presumably of the
variety known- as petit bleu about
which there Is a song which the Paris
students sing when inspired by 1L
There Is something (observing this'
just as the Prohibitionists have nom-
inated Their ticket) rather appalling
to read that of the various grades of
brandy the passengers consumed 20-
641 bottles and 73384 gallons
But these are after all trifling nips
when we come to look at the figures
relating to beer for of that beverage
more than half a million gallons were
drunk and it is not reported that the
quartermasters had any unusual police
duty to perform at that
The recent Installation of the a la
carte system In the restaurants of
the modern liners accounts for an
amazing growth in the consumption
of delicacies such as were seldom
found on even the best shlpa when
the business of feeding passengers
was exclusively table d’hote
Restaurant diners on the liners
whose figures are being considered
consumed many many thousand part-
ridges snipe quails pheasants grouse
canvaaback ducks They demanded
literally many hundreds of thousands
of live lobster and crawfish of fresh
littlenecks blue points and softsbeQ
crabs
They consumed such a quantity of
green turtle soup that the chefs had
to use up 13407 pounds of fresh tur-
tle In Ita making v
Coming around to the more sub-
stantial articles of diet It Is four
that of fresh beef there was used 8-
211927 pounds and of pork and veel
and mutton about 750000 pound
t
Potatoes to go with these weighed bs
excess of 10000 tons n very fair cargo
In itself - f
The passengers seem to begin the
day with hearty appetites ea well as
going to lunch and dinner tn the same -blessed
condition They consumed cf
eggs 8500000 and of calves’ fiver and
bacon an appropriate quantity to sr
plement the eggs and with thar'
morning toast 216603 tins of marma-
lade and other auch sweets - r
As If these figures were sot proof
enough that Lloyd’s should mak ' -very
low rate of insurance against sso-
slckness these days It Is noted that
besides what smoking material pas-
sengers took on board with them
2327225 cigars and packages of eirxr-
ettee were had from the mon-j
room steward
It Is Interesting to noto in compa-
nion that while the oonaumptloa ef
hear urine and spirituous liquor Ind-
ented pretty generous living fTrtj k
on the heals of all the pMeengap ser-
ried for the year each passes tit ocx-
sumed after all only five-alxtha of a
allon of such cheering bevtre-
while the average eonsumptiew f
mineral water waa a full gal'-U TP
figures do not Include 76J ( —
oi sterilized milk which w'j -
We are in the Drujy Businc
for Your Health The Loomis Drur
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