The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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T JI E OKFUSKEE COUNTY NEWS
As Told in a
Few Words
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small Space
’'V FOREIGN
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Official reports to the Washington
'government estimated the number ot
troops In command of General Villa
In northern Mexico at no less that
40000 men Many of these have been
recruited since Huerta’s abdication
I
f General Villa announced that s
peaceful settlement of differences be
'tween himself and General Carranza
soon will be in sight ’ He said the sit
uatlon was much Improved but did
not explain what the differences were
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Imre Oehlecker an American ' of
Hew York has been sentenced by
court-martial at Paris to Imprisonment
for four ‘years for obtaining $80 from
a German woman on false pretenses
’The woman gave Oehlecker notes to
change and he did not return them
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('Marooned in London because of the
war and the consequent interruption
to travel Vlctorlano Huerta former
president of Mexico made a brief
: sightseeing trip about the city with
bis family The party slipped Into
London unannounced add took apart
ments In an obscure hotel where they
rested quietly for several days worn
out by their trip from Jamaica Gen
oral Huerta will remain In England
until August 24 when he went to
Santander Spain
DOMESTIC
Sir Thomas Llpton’s Shamrock IV
challenger for America’s cup ended
her trans-Atlantic Journey reaching
New York harbor safely
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Two guards bearing $15000 to pay
miners at GJenalum W Va were shot
to death and robbed near there by a
band of hlghwaymeu '
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Complete returns In Georgia shew
that United States Senator' Hoke
Smith was renominated in the state-
' wide Democratic primary over Joe
Brown
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Darius Miller 'president of the Chi-
cago Burlington and Quincy railroad
died suddenly at Glacier Park Mont
after undergoing an operation for ap-
pendicitis -dr dr dr
The city and ' county ' boards ' of
health at Macon Ga likely will co-
operate in the building qf a hospital
for the treatment of persons afflicted1
with pellagra
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iTreport is- in circulation at Wash-
ington that John Lind who was Presi-
dent Wilson’s personal representative
In Mexico for a number of months is
about to return
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An Interstate convention of United
Mine Workers of America from Okla
homa Arkansas Missouri and Kan-
sas was called Thursday- to meet in
Kansas City August 31 to ratify the
new biennial working contracts 'v-
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-Residents of ninety Missouri coun-
ties spent last Tuesday Improving the
highways and when they were through
lt was estimated that Missouri roads
had been improved to the extent ot
$1000000 by the 150000 volunteers
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Five persons were killed seven se-
riously Injured and twenty-five others
less painfully hurt in' Wilkesbarro
Pqnn when a severe electrical storm
swept the southern section known as
the Heights and part of Wilkesbarre
township '
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Warrants for the arrest of Mr and
Mrs Victor InneB of Portland Ore
In connection 'with the alleged mur-
ders of Miss Beatrice Nelms and her
sister Mrs Eloise Nelms Dennis both
of Atlanta Ga and missing since
June "were' ssued by District Attor-
ney Linden at San Antonio The ar-
rests were made at once
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Miss' Edith Sanluels aged 17 heir
to'$100000 and Ralph W Bradley "22
a moving picture theater musician
both of Fort Collins Wyoming eloped
to Cheyenne in an auto accompanied
by four friends and were married at
midnight by the Rev J J Shlngler
' at the Congregational church
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The chase after five bandits who
killed Joseph Shaler paymaster of the
Glen Alum Fuel Company at William-
son' W Va and his two companions
and stole the company pay roll of
8000 ended when the cave into which
the desperadoes had retreated was dy-
namited and the men killed The
death of the bandits brought the num-
ber of fatalities to eleven
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Dr James Vail aged 39 a prominent
physican of Little Rock was killed
and his wife and 10-year-old son were
seriously hurt wisn his automqhlle
collided with another automobile
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' Oil prices have decreased again as
follows: Pennsylvania crude $145 a
cut 'of five cents Other grades were
cuj'two cents The new prices are
Pennsylvania $145 Mercer black and
Newcastle $102 Corning and Somer-
set 85 cents Cabell $105 Ragland
65 cents
Three members of an ’ automobile
party from Newcastle Pa were killed
near Vermillion Ohio last week
when their machine was struck by a
Lake Shore traction car
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Frank Borg a wealthy resident of
Mt Oily's 111 shot and killed' Will-
iam Meir seriously wounded his ifife
and - then committed suicide The
crime followed a quarrel at the home
of Mrs Borg who had left her bus-
band ’ t
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The Elgin National Road Race
which was won' by Ralph De Palma
developed Into a tragedy Spencer
Wlshart (he wealthy young Philadel-
phia racer a bridegroom of only two
months met death while driving his
machine at a rate of eighty miles an
hour His mechanician John C Jen
ter a New Jersey boy was fatally
injured t
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The Kansas state school book coni-
mission In session at Topeka is slaugh
terlng the price of books and charts
for the use of the Kansas schools this
fall and winter Under the new plan
for the state' publication of school
text books the commission is ordering
reductions of from one hundred to
eleven hundred per cent in the cost of
texts and supplies for the Kansas
children '
WASHINGTON
After many days’ consideration the
federal rdserve board has decided that
It will open all twelve federal reserve
banks at the same time and launch
the new banking system simultane-
ously all over the country
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The president signed the following
nominations: Attorney General Jas
C McReynolds to be a member ot thfl
United States supreme court Thos
Watts Gregory of Texas to be attor
ney general of the United States
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The senate without roll call passed
the so-called cotton warehouse license
bill proposed by Senator Hoke Smith
originally to add value to cotton ware
house certificates by means of govern-
mental Inspection and certification of
the grades of cotton stored in licensed
warehouses
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1 Representatives of ) the various
branches of the cotton inquiry In con-
ference with the federal reserve board
and other government officials were
assured by Secretary McAdoo that
properly safeguarded warehouse re-
ceipts for cotton will be made the
basis for currency issue by the new
federal reserve banks
A A A
Congress passed the emergency
shipping bill which will authorize the
president to admit foreign built ships
to American registry so that commer-
cial fleets may sail the seas under pro-
tection of the American flag while bel-
ligerents of Europe are at war and
sconring the oceans for prizes Pres-
ident WllBon signed the bill
A A A ! ’
In the house Representative Alex-
ander introduced the administration
bill for the incorporation of a $1
000000 company to own and operate
on ocean under supervision of a ship-
ping board composed of the president
the secretary of the treasury the post-
master general and secretary of com-
merce The government would sub-
scribe for not less than 51 per cent
of the capital stock by an appropria-
tion’ Ships would be bought by the
sale of $30000000 Panatna canal
bonds -
EUROPEAN WAR
' Addressing the American people
President Wilson issued a statement
on the European war warning all
citizens of the United States against
showing partisanship
A ' A A i
A dispatch ' from Copenhagen says
the Politiken publishes a telegram
from Constantinople saying that Rus-
sia has demanded from Turkey per-
mission for- unrestricted - passage
through the Dardanelles Of the Rus-
sian Black Sea fleet
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Government war risk Insurance for
vessels ' Of American registry during
the European war seemed assured
after the senate had passed the bill
to create a bureau of war risk1 insur-
ance in the treasury department and
appropriate $5000000 to cover losses
AAA
Although final ’ decision cannot be
announced until word has been re-
ceived from the German government
the Washington administration pre-
pared to put into effect a lnore liberal
censorship on wireless messages and'
has abandoned the idea of censoring
cables
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Peace plans supported by the guns
of American warships and a regiment
o i marines have been agreed upon by
the warring factions in the Dominict-n
republic News of the success of the
special peace commission sent to the
island by President Wilson came Fri-
day to the state department and to
the Dominican legation though no de-
tails of the agreement were an-
nounced A A A
A dispatch from Brussels to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company of London
says the death of General Von Em-
mlch the German commander at
Liege is confirmed He is to be suc-
ceeded by General Von Der Marqitz
A A A
A dispatch to London from Rome
says - Austrian topedo boat number
nineteen struck a mine at the en-
trance to the harbor at Poia an Aus-
trian naval base In the Adriatic and
went down Only one member of the
crew was saved
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Panoramic view of Spa (the famous watering place of Belgium which was abandoned hurriedly by thousands
of health seekers when the war broke out Spa being twenty miles southeast of Liege la In the field of operations
TnojoTTwilLIjiRoiFYlMEGERMANAiMiY
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MAJOR GENERAL MACKENZIE
Maj Gen Colin John MacKenzie
former chief of the general staff and
first military member of the militia
council ot Canada has taken the field
with the British forced ’
General Zhankovlch commands the
third corps of the Servian army
WATERING PLACE IN WAR ZONE
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WOMEN OF SERVIAN
Women members of the League
defiance of Austria Between them is
of the league
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The battleship Justice In the foreground with the Verite following
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LEAGUE OF DEATH
of Death holding the flag unfurled in
shown the skull and cross-bones badge
OOTIIEI) OF '
SCHOOL BIOL
Tells How Lydia ERnkham’s
Vegetable Compound Re
stored Her Daugh
ters Health
Plover Iowa— “From a small riilhf
my 18 year old daughter had female
weakness I spoke
to threo doctor
about it and they did
not help her any
Lydia E Pinkham’s
Vegetable Com
pound had been of
greet benefit to me
so I decided to have
her give it a trial
She has taken five -bottles
of the Vege-
table Compound ac-
cording to directions on the bottle and
she is cured of this trouble She was
all run down when she started taking
the Compound and her periods (fid not
come right She was so poorly and -weak
that I often had to help her dreae
herself but now she is regular and Is
growing strong and healthy”— Mrs
Mamin Helviq Plover Iowa
Hundreds of such letters expressing
gratltede for the good Lydia E Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound has accom-
plished are constantly being received
proving the reliability of this grand old
remedy
If you are HI do not drag along and
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woman’s ills
Jt yon want special advloe writs to
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be opened read and answered by a
woman and held In strict confidence
Life is a grindstone that sharpens
either our wits or our noses
' The people who are satisfied to put
It off till tomorrow generally put lb
off Indefinitely
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Ten smiiee for a nickel Always buy Rsd
Cross Ball Blue have beautiful clear white
elothea Adv
In With the Trusted
"Did I understand you to say that
Senator Flubb came up from the
people ?” '
- “Yes and hen going back on them
now"
A Loyal Friend
A section foreman on a southern
railway heard the following conver-
sation between two of his dusky la-
borers: ’’Jim you bettah come here an’ he’p
he I’s talkin’ up fer you”
"How’s datT”
“W’y dls here man say you ain’t fit
for de dawgs an’ Ah tole him yea you
UP — Everybody’s Magazine
Fly Screens
' ' A teacher in the third grade recently
Introduced the word ‘‘veil’’ to the at-
tention of her pupils
"What does veil mean?" she asked
There was no response "Ladies wear
them” she explained Then a small
boy spoke up
"Please teacher" he said "It Is ' a
black cloth which dose ladles wear ov- :
er der faces when de flies U biting"
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All Right With Him
An applicant tor appointment to
the position of deputy marshal for ono
of the counties of southwest Virginia
asked a citizen of that county to In-
dorse his recommendation The man
took the paper glanced over it then
wrote something and handed It back '
The applicant read: -
‘Waiving the language of the In-
dorsement above I will say that if
the appointive board sees fit to ap-
point Mr Blank as deputy marshal tor
this county It will be perfectly agree-
able with' me — I’m going to locate In
Kentucky” — National Food Magazine
Sommer Days
Call for a dainty
wholesome food — such
as
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Toasties
with cream
ThereslittIeworkand
much satisfaction in every
package of these crisp
bits of perfectly cooked
and toasted Indian Com
Appetizing flavour
substantial nourishment
and convenience of serv-
ing are all found in Post
Toasties
Sold by Grocers
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James, E. W. The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1914, newspaper, August 27, 1914; Okemah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1712171/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.