The Sopar Democrat (Choctaw County, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1914 Page: 4 of 10
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THH SOPER DEMOCRAT
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News Notes I
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Epitome of the Most
Important Happenings
at Home and Abroad
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FOREIGN
MU Laura MclkiLnld Stallo of
Cincinnati aol Prime Pranceaco Ros-
pigiiosl were married at I'url
Senator X flmar Theodore the
Hatlen revolutionist leader ha been
killed In battle with fifty of hi fol-
lower near the Ikuninican frontier
The pope received 550 cadet from
Annapolis naval academy twenty-tlve
oflicer and fifty eatnen from the bat-
tlekhlp M Uncurl Idaho and llllnol
recently arrived at Naples and lm
parted to them the apoetolic bene
diction
j rroepert for Iowa’ corn t rop were
I never bettir than this season ear
! according to a bulletin Issued by the
Iowa depmtim nt of agriculture
James Kelly who wa the oldest llv- I
Ing prize fighter died at Matlewan
N Y atted 12 He gained the heavy-
weight belt In Australia In 1S48 One
'of his fight lusted 101 rounds said
to be the record longer-t ring tiattle
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Report from every section of We
Virginia indicate that the saloon keep-
er anticipated the enforcement of
the prohibitory amendment July
They closed their places of business
early some disposing of their stock
MEXICAN WAR
The federal garrison ha evacuated
Cuyuinu according to information re-
ceived by Ygnaclo Itonillws minister
01 communication In the Carranza cab-
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DOMESTIC
Judson Harmon assistant attorney
general for the I’nlted States and
Judge Rufus H Smith of Cincinnati
were appointed receivers for the Cin-
cinnati Hamilton & Dayton railroad
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One fireman was killed Fire Chief
"Wallace was so badly injured that he
died later and three other firemen
were painfully injured by a dynamite
explosion In a small fire at Chailotte
X Carolina
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The Southern Railway Company
which has been controlled by a voting
trust agreement since ISst will be
handed over to the shareholders July
31 next according to a statement Is-
sued by the surviving trustees
it it it
The death list from storms in Kan-
sas reached a total of five when Wal-
ter W Davis Jr and Fred Davis
brothers were feund dead in a field
on their farm near I'eabody They
had been struck bv lightning
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At least 1 00060 bushels of grain
will go down the great lakes In the
next two weeks The movement will
let stocks there down to 30o0000
bushels and elevators will be In good
shape to receive the new crop
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Twenty-round decision boxing bouts
will be legalized In Louisiana under
the terms of the Ganagan bill which
passed the senate with but one dis-
senting vote It had previously
passed the house by a vot e of 70 to
21
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Guy Phillips assistant secretary of
the Missouri Pacific Railway co shot
A delegation of Christian Hrother
told President Wilson that member
of their order had been driven out of
Monterey Mexico and their property
confiscated
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"Befor 1 relgnt half the people
in Mexleo City will die with me" 1
a remark Huerta Is credited with hav-
ing made to his friends In a cafe in
Mexico City
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Several local Mexico City banks
have agreed to take the bulk of an
interior loan which Is to be floated
by the Mexican government within
the next few days
it it it
The conference designed to settle
differences between General Carranza
and General Villa will be composed en-
tirely of military men Representa-
tives of the eastern central and west-
ern military rones will meet soon pro-
bably at Torreon to discuss the sit-
uation that threatens the well being
of the constituionalis revolution
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The schooner Grampus sailed from
Galveston with approximately 1000-
000 rounds of small arms ammunition
for the constitutionalists at Tampico
The vessel cleared for Havana and I
her manifest showed that the ammu- j
nition was for trans-shipment for Tam-
p!co This was the second shipment
last week for the c-onstitutioalits j
ROOM IN WHICH EXPLOSION
OCCURRED WAS INFERNAL
MACHINE FACTORY
OKLAHOMA HEWS NOTES
shadows or coming g v r NTS
July S-Aug 1— Cotton bool Mill
water
July
aw
July — Mclrituah-Iluahfe enn-atlon
lee I ion
July 9-tl Setoiul Annual t'herok Re-
union Salma
July - Kn a runnier t aihnol Ada
j Kui'anipnien Bi hoot ItolHa
July H-Aug J Encampment ai bool
Cornell
Aug
kawa
4-2 Encampment aihool Ton-
Aug $ — klowa-Comanche opening el-
Ura lion lawtun
-7 Celebration of opening day
anniversary Frederick
Aug - Old Kettlera’ Reunion Avery
u J— Rummer a hool cioeea Mato
t- niveraity
Aug M-flepf I— Rvan Fair Han
Aug 2 -! Corn Carnival Caddo
BH 2-1 — Jarkeon County tair Elall
darko' c'udo County fair Ant-
Rept 1-15— Caddo County Fair Itinger
Ington avenue tenement houae wreck-J Okilhumi'cTTy1 h‘'°‘r“'hr cu"vnUo
ed by the premature explosion of a He-pt -l2-Ktngnaner County Fair
that killed Arthur Caron and ( Fj!t"her"
the authorities un-
Kept
hueka
bomb
three other persons
found evidence that Cnron' apart
ment was a center for the distribution
of Inflammatory literature which wa
printed there and that at the time
of the explosion it was apparently a
bomb factory filled with the ingredi
ents of death dealing missiles
A small printing press revolution-
ary pamphlet and circulars an elec-
tric dynamo two electric batteries
cartridges and bits of steel were
among the articles uncovered which
tend in the opinion of the police to
show an anarchistic plot at assassina-1
tlon That a demonstration halted by
the bungling of some one who wa
preparing an Infernal machine for Its
mission was planned against the
Rockefeller family In Tarrytown Is
the theory on which the authorities
are working
Two of those killed in the w-recked
apartment were prominent agitators
who were to be placed on trial at
Tarrytown Monday on charges of dis-
orderly conduct In connection with the
campaign of demonstration against
John D Rockefeller Jr as a protest
against his attitude in the Colorado
coal mine strike
The body of the fourth victim was
that of Charles Derg known In Inter- i
-12 — Career county Ftf Man-14-la—
Wah-knah-Ph Fair Paw-
kept 1S-17— Pottawatomie County Fair
rhawne
RPt 15-1
new
kept
City
kept 15-1 — Kay County Fair Newkirk
kept 15-1 Cimarron Valley fair
Guthrie
kept 1 — Celebration Opening Chero-
kee Strip Ferrv
1 ler'e" 1— Hktll County Fair Stlg-
Pawnea County Fair Paw-15-lt—
tieckham County Fair Elk
Ithe short
CUT
Bto healths
j is by tvay of the Stomach
Liver and Bowels Keep
jj these organs strong and j
active by use of
tIOSTETTER’S J
H Stomach Differs 0
J and you possess the se- J
crets of continued good
II health It is for ‘Poor j
“ Appetite Indigestion
Cramps Constipation
and Biliousness Try it I
pwjii'wiy
SPECIAL TO WOMEN
Tho most economical cleansing and
germicidal oi all antiseptics la
kept 22-Oct 1 114— State Fair Okla-
noma City
7-17— Dry Kfcrmlnf Cimres
v Irhlta
Xov $ — Indian land nal MAItr
Nov 4— Indian land aale Wllburton
Nov ft— Indian lamJ rale Poteau
Nov 9 — Indian land ra! Hupo
October — Hot) t hero Commercial Con
irfesa Muskogee
E A Hill a prominent farmer liv-
ing a few miles north of Grundfield
was killed by a team and wagon run-
ning over him
Despondent because of ill health
George Rutter a coal miner of Krebs
committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor He was 50 years
old and unmarried
A soluble Antiseptic Powder to
be dissolved in water as needed
As a medicinal antiseptic for douches
in treating catarrh Inflammation or
ulceraUon of nose throat and that
caused by feminine Ills it has no equaL
For ten years the Lydia E Plnkhanj
Medicine Co has recommended Paxtlne
In their private correspondence with
women which proves its superiority
Women who have been cured say
It is “worth Us weight in gold At
druggists 50c large box or by malL
The Paxton Toilet Co Poston Mass
and killed himself in the office of th
company on the eighth floor of a New
York office building His physician
eaid he had been a sufferer recently
from despondency
ir it
Carl Hoke was killed his father
Theodore mortally wounded and Sher-
iff Lincoln Cochran and his deputy
George Sparks seriously hurt in a bat
tie which lasted almost all day five
miles from Hart's Run W Va The
Hokes were being taken to the pen
Kansas wheat crop is 154000000
bushels according to a report issued
by F D Coburn This is 60000000
greater than any previous crop The
report is based on a full crop of eigh
teen bushels to the acre The crop
condition is given as 98 The corn
condition is given as 838 and oats as
871
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Notice has been served by the
Standard Oil Company to the big con-
sumers of fuel oil in Kansas City who
use that product in quantities of tank
cars that after about October 1 fuel
oil in large quantities cannot be de-
livered The reason given by the
Standard is that the product now sold
for fuel oil will be further refined for
more profitable products
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The first test case as to whether
Texas newspapers circulating in pro-
hibition territory may publish liquor
advertisements was started at Tex-
arkana when C E Palmer manager
of The Four States Press was ar-
rested on four indictments charging
“soliciting for Intoxicating liquor in
prohibition territory Mr Palmer
was released on bonds of $500 In each
case
it it
A general reduction of seventeen per
cent on all general merchandise ex-
press rates the elimination of two
line rates and abolition of special rates
has been ordered by the Kansas pub-
lic utilities commission The order
followed an investigation of the-express
rates and charges at numerous
public hearings The commission also
says the express companies roust do
away with the two line rate3 and
adopt a general one line rate cover-
ing all express Classifications
national Workers of the World cir- J The (' O & W covers aftproxlmate-
' cles as the “Rig Swede” an associate ly fifty mile- extending from Clinton
a mass meeting of W estinghouse j °f Caron The other victims were in Custer county through Hamilton
s ri ers at Pittsburg the strike com- i Charles Hanson and Mary Claves j Junction and terminating at Strong
J The woman lived in an apartment next City in Roger Mi llscounty
FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS
If few) 'tat of outs' n dow oor U iru’
irrsm from fc t dbby ladd mrtpii due auk
CHMoHIO VIlfNENN ULf BH4 BIB IhCrTIOBI ML
writ for FACE cloth no amhUAL boos oh
tle4 woNDinri i rcuLft fTrcted b
THE NEW FWtWCH REMEDY 01 20
ni for
your-Mif If if )
thrm!j lifTot b owx iln-nt Aboutl7 FREE
No ‘follow op' rirrulBm No in Lt i mo
L H riRftT‘ b Nr him r4D L4(mx
WO ut IO fBoVO tubbapiob will cca too
mittee was instructed to call on Gov-
ernor Tener to withdraw the troops
and a telegram also was sent to Mr
Te nets as president of the National
League that if the troopers were not
withdrawn the strikers would with-
hold their patronage from the- Pitts-
burg club
to the one occupied by Caron and his
associates
WASHINGTON
Nomination of George T Marye Jr
of San Francisco for ambassador to
Russia was sent to the senate by the
president
President Wilson sent a message to
congress recommending that the gov-
ernment appropriate $200000 for the
relief of the Salem fire sufferers
Speaker Clark told a delegation
from the National Woman’s Suffrage
association that "woman's suffrage
was as Inevitable as the rising of to-
morrow’s sun”
The Chamberlain resolution author-
izing the president to recruit the
army to war strength exceeding stat-
utory limits was favorably reported
by the senate military committee j
For nearly an hour President Wilson
discussed business conditions with J
P Morgan as the first of a series of
conferences which will bring to the
White House men foremost In Amer-
ican industry and finance
With several appropriation bills
still unpassed congress gave up the
effort to put them through before the
expiration of the present fiscal year
In order to provide funds to carry on
the affairs of government during the
interim both bouse and senate passed
a resolution extending the provisions
of the present appropriation acts un-
til July 15
A physical valuation order Issued
by the interstate commerce commis-
sion requires railroads to take Inven-
tories of all materials and supplies
some time during April May or June
of each year and adjust the inventory
to June 30 For the year 1914 the
inventory may be taken any time prior
to September 1 but should adjusted
as of June 30
Democratic Leader Cnderwood told
the bouse the new tariff law would
produce $29200(1000 for the year
$22000000 more than the estimates
The Income tax would preauce
000000 which Is $1000000 !-? j a n
the estimates bee-map ft jnr F
are not taxed for the full year
urged the treasury's mill on dell-r
fund for collecting taxer be Increased
to a million and a half
The Woman’s Civic League of AI-
tus which has accomplished much
toward cleaning up the town and es-
BLACK
LEG
LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED
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pricY'l frwh reiUUe: pnfemd by
Vtin) iiKkmsn twnuM ttiey
Brotact whr Jhpr yim rb faH
Writ fur buokl'l t’AtimonJi)
10-rfoM pkf B'aefelvf Pills $103
BlMklvtf P1HS 400
I'm Buy !njcur but C'utur'i boat
T? torwHorlty ef 'uttr bixOiK-t u du to ever 11
m A lnv iHATiiaii a iaiivuisia ' "T — ( of in vaMliiM br4 saruais stly
TWO ARE VICTIMS OF LIGHTNING tablishing other reforms is arranging c ir unntuinti orar dir
to hold a better babies contest
Terrific Storm Follows Gore’s Speech t While riding a horse G A RIanton
at Sallisaw of Stigler was stricken by heat and
was found still sitting In his saddle
but in an unconscious condition He
died while being removed to his home
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato
Sells has wired National Attorney W
W Hastings accepting the resignation
of tribal officers and granting the re-
quest of the tribal authorities for fi-
nal dissolution of the Cherokee trite
of Indians
j Tk Cut Ur Lalkoratwy Bertie or Cel- m CklMaw in-
Some men attract no more attention
than a thermometer on a pleasant day
Sallisaw Okla — A terrific rain and
electrical storm broke over the picnic
grounds at Sallisaw Just as Senator
Thomas P Gore finished his speech
A bolt of lightning which demolished
a refreshment stand In which a hun-
dred persons had taken refuge killed
two persons outright three others
i are expected to die and fifteen are In
j a serious condition while at least 200
‘ persons were knocked to the gTound
I The dead:
HOOPER McKEEL young son of i
Professor Alonzo McKeel who teaches
school near Sallisaw
JOHN STEWART farmer Atkins
There were about 2000 persons on
the grounds when the storm broke and
great confusion followed the striking
of the lightning
Senator Gore had Just left the
grounds when the catastrophe oc-
curred and was not Injured State
Highway Commissioner Sidney Suggs
of Ardmore who was scheduled for
an address also escaped without in-
jury as did Robert L Williams can-
didate for the democratic nomination
for governor and District Judge John
Pitchford of Tahlequah
For poisoned w ounds use Hanford a
Dalsam of Myrrh Adv
We feel sorry for the fussy old bach-
elor who la compelled to live in the
same house with a clever child
SAYS SHE SHOT TO SAVE HONOR
But Man Tells Another Story of Bryan
County Mjirder Attempt
Durant — Mrs Ronnie Chappel age
17 shot and mortally wounded Albert
Norris age 25 eighteen miles south
of Durant near Colbert Mrs Chap-
pel fired three shots from a single
action 28 caliber revolver into Norris’
body penetrating each lung and shat-
tering his right arm Norris is still
living but the doctors think there Is
no chance for his recovery
Both are married and live on farms
near each other Mrs Chappel’s state-
ment was that Norris came to" her
house and insulted her while her hus-
band was in Denison Texas Norris’
statement is that she shot him be-
cause she loved him and was going
to move away and didn’t want to leave
him The sho's were evidently fired
at close range as Norris was burned
with powder
Norris has a wife and two children
Mrs Chappel was arrested and
brought to Durant and locked up in
Bryant county Jail
Within the next f- weeks all the
Oklahoma national guardsmen will be
Immunized from hypnoid For several
years anti-typhoid vaccination has
been compulsory In the regular army
but until this year the serum has not
been given to the national guard
Three thousand dollars has been
raised by a committee of the Lawton
chamber of commerce for the purpose
of giving a big anniversary celebra-
tion on August 5 6 and 7 The pro- j
gram will include aeroplane races and
a mammoth street parade In which sion’’
the Fifth field artillery from Fort
Sill will be Invited to participate
Led by curiosity to see what was
Inside of a dynamite cap the 9 year
old son of Mr and Mrs M W Meek
living near Guthrie picked It with a
pin The cap exploded tearing away
the child’s thumb and two fingers on
the right band and bady lascerating
his breast and face destroying the
sight in his right eye The boy found
the explosive near where some work-
men had been making excavations
Unofficially TZ was learned that an
extesion to Cblckasha Is contemplated
In the near future by the new pur-
chasers This would greatly Increase
the value of the road as an extension
to the Grady county capital would af-
ford connections with the Frisco
Rock Island and the Oklahoma Cen
tral It is pointed out that this it
the only logical extension of the road
at this time
No man ever lived long enough to
understand why his neighbors dislike
him
Smile on wash day That’ when yon use
Red Croat Ball Blue Clothes whiter than
now All grocer Adv
How She Wronged Him
“Your husband madam is suffering
from voluntary inertia" "Poor fellow I
And here I’ve been telling him he’s
Just lazy"
The Retort Courteous
“When you look at me my dear
your eyes always have a stupid expres-
“Tbat Is without doubt my dear be-
cause they always reflect your ador-
able Image” — Pages Follies (Paris)
For Galled Horses
When your horse Is galled apply
Hanford s Balsam of Myrrh and yol
can keep on working Try It and If
your horse Is not cured quicker than
by any other remedy the dealer will
refund your money Adv
Not So Feeble
"I told Uncle Simon that he was get
ting too old and feeble to attend to
business"
"Did he take It kindly?”
"He threw me out of the office"
Oklahoma cities last week showed
a big increase in business while
neighboring cities showed a decrease
Dun reports that the bank clearing
in Muskogee Increased 42 per cent
over the same week last year Tulsa
49 per cent and Oklahoma City 21
per cent North of us St Louts de-
creased 74 per cent Kansas Cily 5
per cent V icLita 77 per cent Topeka
I 3 per cent St Joseph 16 per cent On
t the south Fort Worth fell off 4 ptj
cent
Cures Old Sores Other Remedies Won’t Curs
Th worrt ( no fnttr of how lon landing
ra curd br th wonderful old rellbl Dr!
Porter a AntiMptlo Hra!lng OIL It rllp
Pin and Hrl at th am time 25c 50c SliXL
' Alarming
“lour son’s case my dear Mrs
Comeup Is one of eclectic occultism”
"Law me professor Is It catching?"
How To Give Quinine To Children-
FEBRILINE It th trad -mark naro ffivtn fo
Smup pit “
nt to taka and dor not diiurb the aomach
Children taka it and nave know I I cTr!
'iopied to dul who Cannot
ak ordinary Ouinina Doe
eau oarouni nor limit the bud Tr
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Crossett, R. E. The Sopar Democrat (Choctaw County, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1914, newspaper, July 9, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1715850/m1/4/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.