Fairview Republican (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1911 Page: 3 of 10
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TO CAMPAIGN
OVER STATE
CFFORT8 T9 BE MADE TO AROUSE
INTEREST IN INSTITUTES
WILL TALK TO FARMERS
-Stats Board of Agrloultura Will Sand
Out Group of Lecturers and Covsr
- Evsry County In Stats
Oklahoma City — A rigorous earn-
Jtaign to create new interest In the
farmers' Institute and to increase the
membership of that organisation will
be begun this month by the state
board of agriculture which will send
groups of lectures into every county
f the state The institute now has
a membership of about sixty-nine
thousand
The work will be in charge of B
3 Ansley superintendent of the instl-
1 tute - The lecturers will be divided
Into four groups each group taking a
-certain number of counties Two days
will be devoted to each county and
three meetings will be held each day
one at 10 o'clock a m one at 2 o'clock
p m and one In the evening The last
meeting in each county will be at
the county seat Kingfisher county will
be visited first
The list of lecturers on agriculture
stock raising and kindred subjects in-
cludes Superintendent AnBley M M
Woodson superintendent of the state
-demonstration farm department Miss
Irma Matthews president of the wom-
an's auxiliary Harry Dial special cot-
ton lecturer A F Howe state dairy
commissioner W F Ikard superin-
tendent of the state livestock depart-
ment Dr J H Connell and Dean B
C Plttock of the A and M college
Stillwater and a number of others
including represtentatives of the dis-
trict agricultural schools
All of the details for the trip have
not been completed as yet but -will
lie arranged within a few days and
the Itinerary of each group of lectur-
ers announced
- The first group will start in King-
fisher county where they will address
the farmers at meetings in different
localities on October 30 and 31 Their
Itinerary Includes Garfield Grant Al-
falfa Woods Woodward Harper Kills
Dewey Custer Majors Blaine and Ca-
nadian counties and they will travel
about one week in advance of the
demonstration stock train sent out by
the department '
r Practically the entire winter will be
devoted to the campaign
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Getting Evidence Ready 1
1 Oklahoma City — Traffic J men from
-Various commercial clubs and jobbing
bouses were in conference with C R
' Bee rate expert for the Oklahoma cor-
poration commission preparing for
submission of the complaints against
the railroads in the Oklahoma-Texas
rate cases which will be heard in this
'city Oct 17 before aircxamlner for the
Interstate commerce commission
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? Ask for a Rehearing rt
Oklahoma City— A petition for a re-
hearing has been filed in the supreme
' court in case of Overholser vs Okla-
boma Interurban Traction company
involving the right of the Patterson
lines to use the streets of Oklahoma
City which was-recently decided by
' the court in favor of the Patterson in-
terests and the mandate of the court
has been stayed pending a disposition
of this petition
For Street Croeeinge
Hugo Okla — The city council has
voted in favor -of an election to vote
cn A -proposed bond issue of $2000 to
put in street crossings Date for the
election has not been set '
Nakdimen 8ells $880000 of Bonds
Oklahoma City — I H Nakdimen
t the Sallisaw banker who purchased
the entire issue ot $1750000 of the
state’s public building bonds has re-
ported at the office of State Treasurer
Dunlop that he has disposed of $680-
OQO of the bonds up to the present
time They have been sold largly to
banks many state bankB investing
their entire capital in the bonds which
bear 6 per cent Interest and are not
taxable - - -
Off to Congress
Oklahoma City — Superintendent E
f Ansley of the Oklahoma Farmers' in-
stitute Marie Woodson superintend-
ent of the state demonstration farm S
W Black of the Western District AgrL
cultural school and Miss Irma Mat-
thews president of the Woman's Auxil-
iary of ths Farmers' institute have
gone to attend the dry farming con-
’ gress which is in session at Colorado
Springs The state board of agriculture
has sent a complete exhibit to the con-
gress ' The exhibit includes produces
ot every kind raised in this state from
farms and truck gardens where dry
farming methods were employed
Data Overlooked Company Shows
Oklahoma City — Evidence was filed
With the corporation commission jiy
the Oklahoma Natural Gas company
showing that certain data relating to
cost of construction and other informa-
tion which an order of the commission
provides must be furnUhed had been
submitted some time ago and the fine
of $500 imposed on the company for
violation of the order probably will bs
ordered remitted at once The plats
showing gas lines laid by the oompany
bad been overlooked in the files of
' the commission '
A parole Revoked
r Oklahoma City — The parole granted
November 14 1910 to Nathan Stober
ot Tulsa by Governor Haskell was re-
voked by Governor Lee Grace Stober
having been arrested on numerous
charges of bootlegging during the laBt
few months The man was convicted
at Tulsa November 23 1910 and sen-
tenced to life imprisonment in the pen-
itentiary on a charge of highway rob-
bery The oharges of violating the li-
quor laws were brought In Okmulgee
county il
SWANSON COUNTY KNOCKED
OUT BY JUDGE COTTERAL
Refuses to Take Jurisdiction on the
Ground That There la no Swan
son County
Guthrie Okla — Holding that there
was no longer any Swanson county
Judge John H Cotteral in the United
States circuit court here refused to
take jurisdiction in the case brought
by the Dorsey Printing company to
prevent the dissolution of the county
The company had sold a large amount
of supplies to the officers of the coun-
ty for the payment of which warrants
were outstanding and brought this
suit to prevent the county officials
from turning over their offices to the
officials of Kiowa or Comanche coun-
ties on the ground that such action
would make it impossible to collect
the money due it
The suit was backed by the Swan-
son county supporters and was their
last effort to prevent the dissolution
of the county The district court and
the supreme court of the state had al-
ready ordered its dissolution and the
supreme court of the United States
had refused to entertain jurisdiction
Railroads Valued at $192182914
Oklahoma City — The total valuation
of railroads in Oklahoma is $192162-
914 of electric light heat water pow-
er and gas property is $13907077
pipe lines $32168597 street and in-
terurban railways $3370365 Pullman
cars $715799 of telegraph property
$1680048 and of telephones $4878-
612 according to figures compiled for
the state board of equalization by
Frank Orr public utilities tax clerk
of the state board of equalization
Some Interesting data in relation to
the valuation of public utilities in the
various counties is contained in the
table Oklahoma county leads in the
valuation of railroads electric light
plants street railways telegraph and
telephone property while Washington
county is first in pipe lines and Craig
county in the valuation placed on Pull-
man cars which are assessed on the
basis ot mileage operated in the
county
- Ask an Injunction -
Oklahoma City — The Joplin Mercan
tile company of Joplin Mo filed an
action in the superior court against
that W J Caudill state enforcement
officer Jack Spain sheriff William
Tllghman chief of police and John J
Queenan V G Walsh W J Garrett
J W Pickens John H Reed and Rob-
ert Moore constables be permanently
enjoined from seizing liquor shipped
into Oklahoma City by the company
Quick Cotton Crop' -Alva
Okla — The most quickly
grown cotton ever shown in this sec-
tion has been brought in mature by
Frank Shelper who planted his crop
June 18 On account of a scarcity of
rain the cotton did not come up until
July 10 Mr Shelper says he has
counted sixty bolls on one stalk in the
field ' '
Frisco Shops to Tulsa
Tulsa Okla — The St Louis and San
Francisco railroad division and shops
heretofore located at Sapulpa are to
be removed to Tulsa
To Vote on Franchise
‘ Ponca City Okla— An election has
been called for November 16 at which
a vote will be taken on a proposition
to grant to E W Marland a twenty-one-year
franchise to furnish natural
gas' for the town ’
Rodgers Delayed by Storm
Vinlta Okla — A heavy wind and
rain storm covering the entire west-
ern section of Oklahoma delayed Avi-
ator Rodgers in his coast-to-coast
flight here Sunday and he did not
leave this city -
- Johnson Ships Cattle
Chlckasha Okla — H B Johnson of
Grady county had five carloads of fat
Monday at the opening of the S & S
packing plant Mr Johnston is one of
the largest shippers of this region
Investigate Fire
Oklahoma City — Deputy Fire - Mar
sha J O Crawford has returned from
Tupelo Coal county where he con-
ducted an investigation of the cause of
a fire at that place Thursday Oct 6
when five buildings' Including three
general merchandise and two drug
stares were destroyed 1
Parole Revoked
Oklahoma City — Governor Cruce re-
voked ths ' parole of W H Palmer
convicted in Muskogee county and
sentenced to three years In the state
prison Palmer waB paroled in 1910
but it is stated that he has since vi-
olated the provisions ot it and upon
recommendation of the county offi-
cials the parole is revoked -
Case Taken Under Advisement
Oklahoma City — After hearing ar-
guments in the Cache county case the
question of forming the new county
from a part of Comanche county was
taken under advisement by Governor
Cruce who will give a decision on ths
proposition of calling a special elec-
tion to vote on the question within a
few days T
Debating Clubs Being Formed
Oklahoma City— In response to a
letter of inquiry sent out by R H Wil-
son state superintendent of public in
structlon reports have been received
from the heads of all normal and pre-
paratory schools in the state relative
to the literary work being done in the
Institutions All have reported that
debating societies and other literary
organizations have been formed sev-
eral organizations haVe been estab-
lished in some of the schools Prior to
this year some of the schools were
doing no work of this kind
Vlan Complaint Oct 28
Oklahoma City — The complaint of
citizens of Vlan who ask the corpora-
tion commission to direct the Iron
Mountain railroad to open up a cross-
ing on Blackstone avenue In Vlan has
been docketed for Oct 28
Returns From Guthre ‘
Oklahoma City — Assistant Attorney
General Charles Moore has returned
from Guthrie where he appeared for
the state In a number ot cases In the
federal court William C Reeves Is at
Muskogee on official business
OKLAHOMA ?
STATE NEWS
LATE HAPPENINGS OF GENERAL
INTERE8T TO READERS
MUSKOGEMVOMEN FLY
Representatives of Two Newspaper
Go Up In Air With Aviator Bon
new— A Resume of the Past i
Weeks News Events
Muskogee Okla — The Eastern Okla-
homa fair at Muskogee closed Oct 14
Financially and otherwise the fair was
a success It is stated by horsemen
that the racing was the best of any
meeting ever held In the state
- The meeting closed with flights in
airships by three women the first In
Oklahoma that ever made aeroplane
flights Miss Katharyn Hull of the
Times-Democrat was the first passen-
ger She was carried in a Wright bi-
plane by Aviator W L Bonney They
circled the fair grounds several times
An altitude og 500 fet was reached Im-
mediately after this flight Bonney
again took the air this time taking
Miss Olive Adair representing the
Muskogee Phoenix A third passenger
was Mrs W L Goodykoontz of Will-
iams Arizona who was visiting
friends in Muskogee
GRADUATED LAND TAX
IS HELD TO BE ILLEGAL
Law Conflicts With State Constitution
According to Judge Cotteral’s
Opinion
Guthrie Okla — Overruling the
state's demurrer in the case of G W
Gale against M E Trapp state audi-
tor Judge Cotteral of the federal
circuit court holds that the graduated
land tax law conflicts with section 20
article 10 of the state constitution
He makes the injunction against the
state permanent
The decision is based on the ground
that the levying ot g specific tax on in
dividual land holdings of - over 640
acres above the regular ad valorem
tax creates a Special fund and that
the legislature failed to speolfy tp
which fund the proceeds should go
that in the absence ot such specific
tlon the money goes in proportion
the state and county that the constl
tutlon expressly forbids the state fro
levying local taxes
The opinion of the court is that this
process amounts to the state levying
taxes in excess of the constitutional 30
mills and is in effect local taxation
Judge Cotteral holds by inference
that the fourteenth amendment to the
federal constitution is not violated in
this law av
In the case Gale of Illinois bought
6541 acres in five bounties after the
passage of the graduated tax law
The decision is believed by attord
eys to affect all specific and graduated
taxes levied under the act in question
The authority of the state to levy
specific taxes for sound reasons is nof
denied
JUSTICE DUNN PRE3ENTS
FIR8T STATUARY TO LIBRARY
Bronze Bust of Washington Donated t
Guthrie Masons on Behalf of
1910 Class
- Guthrie Okla — The first presents
tion for the new 'statuary hall of ths
Masonic temple was made Wednesday
night Justice Jesse J Dunn of the Ok-
lahoma supreme court making the do-
nation of a bronze bust of Washington
class May 1910 Justice Dunn then
chief jutice is president of the class
The bust was built into the wall and
Was unveiled with Masonic ceremonies
by the consistory William E Wells
class orator made an address
The several hundred men at the re-
union were taken for an auto ride on
Wednesday afternoon The day was
concluded by the conferring of the
twenty-ninth degree the Cross of St
Andrew '
One of the members of the class is
Frand Bovard of Upper Burma India
He 1b superintendent of drilling for an
English oil syndicate and he will Btart
immediately after the ceremony for
his post
Conductor Injured
Alva Okla — Conductor George
Hamlin of the Santa Fe 1b recovering
from injuries he received when he
slipped from the steps of a passenger
coach on an incoming train and barely
escaped death under the wheels
Though three of his ribs were fractur-
ed he succeeded in retaining his hold
on the rail ‘
Boy Dies of Poisoning
Lawton Okla — The second fatality
In the family of 8 W McAlexander
from ptomaine poisoning caused by
sardines came when Yancy an 11-year-old
boy died at a local hospital
His mother died last week at Mod
tague Texas ' ‘
8wansonltes to Surrender
Lawton Okla — With the refusal of
Judge Cotteral ot the federal 'court
at Guthrie to Issue an injunction to
prevent interference with the defunct
county ot Swanson on the application
of a Dallas printing firm the last
chapter in the Swanson controversy
probably has been written Sheriff
Brashears Deputy Sam McNeal and
two others said to be implicated In
the killing of Wyatt Staples at Indla-
homa last February have promised to
come to Lawton and surrender
Alsuma Grocer Dies
Tulsa Okla — Resting on his knees
with his head Luried in his arms
across the rail of the Katy rpilroad
the dead body of S T John 67 a gro-
cer of Alsuma was found between Ak
sums and Broken Arrow
' Ready to Bul'd
Ouymon Okla — Work on ths first
building of the Guymon university will
bs startsd durlsg the month of Octo-
ber aacordlng to an announcement of
the dlreotora of the university assocl-atlon
Summer Resorts
nr ASHINQTON— If Uncle Sam want-
(V ed to go into the summer resort
business now would be his golden op-
portunity He has scores of chances
to acquire for a song hotel and resort
property of great scenlo beauty
though possibly of little commercial
value according to the agents boom-
ing them Whether Uncle Bam will
"bite” will depend upon the national
forestry commission
The efforts to sell are being made
under the Weeks' Forestry law other-
wise known as (he Appalachian Forest
Reserve act Last spring when ad-
vertisements were Issued for land to be
purchased with the $11000000 appro-
priated by that law the rush began
It has continued since then until near-
ly every owner of a ''busted' down-at-the-heel
summer resort in the moun-
tain sections of the southeastern
states and New England has tried to
unload upon the government The of-
fers are still coming in
Already over 2000000 acres have
been offered for sale to the govern-
ment All of this is not summer re-
sort property but a considerable pro-
portion of it is The resort property
is not offered for the buildings on it
but for the beautiful "parks' about
them which are always heavily tlm-
bered and suitable for forestry pur-
poses according to the promoters if
all the land offered were to be bought
To Auction Off
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THE contemplated sale by the United
States government of 43 warships
classed as obsolete in the latest navy
report will open an extensive field to
the battleship broker The lot will In-
clude battleships armored and pro-
tected cruisers monitors and gun-
ata Rapid development in the
sliding of dreadnoughts has caused
battleships and other war craft which
ten years ago were considered formid-
able to fall behind present require-
ments Consequently the government
plans to get rid of them either by
breaking them up and selling them as
junk or disposing of them to South
American republics
Among the battleships classed as ob-
solete are the Kearsarge Kentucky
Alabama Malpe Massachusetts In-
diana Ohio Oregon Missouri Iowa
Illinois and Wisconsin It cost to build
them $64405225 When the Kearsarge
and the Kentucky were put in com-
mission several years ago they were
among the finest battleships afloat
Their batteries of seven-inch guns
were impressive but now compared
with ships like the Delaware the
Michigan the Florida they seem in-
significant '
The cruisers doomed to the scrap
heap are the Brooklyn New York St
Louis Charleston and Milwaukee The
Brooklyn was Admiral Schley's flag
This Country Full
SPIES according to reports In Wash-
ington are still at work finding out
for the nations which they represent
the secrets of this country’s defense
Not satisfied wltb tbelr "military at-
taches” — sometimes called the title or
a spy not in disguise — these nations
directly or indirectly have been work-
ing all the time throughout the world
collecting Information This Informa-
tion Is of every sort economic geo-
graphical commercial but especially
military It is the first duty of these
men to report all details they can
gather of the fortifications In the coun-
try to which they are assigned All
this information is eventually tiled in
the vaults of the general staff and on
It to a large degree depends tbs
preparedness of the country for war
In New York itself there are doubt-
less many spies besides the consuls
Some years ago a young lieutenant in
a foreign army spent bis vacation on
this side of the Atlamtc admittedly
reporting to his government the van
ous activities of the United States es
Draughtsmen Separated From Pay-Roll
EIGHTY draughtsmen bhose annual
salaries aggregate a quarter ot a
million dollars were dispensed wltn
at the end ot last mouth This torce
has been busy for yeare making Indi-
vidual plans for the government! pub-
lic buildings throughout the land
The treasury officials in taking
stock of caBh on hand found thnt they
had only money enough to pay these
draughtsmen Thereiore they asked
congress tor $200000 to keep them on
the payroll for the next nine months
completing the tlsoal year
But there was nothing extra coming
from congress to meet euch a eltua
tlon and It wae suggested that as the
government baa over six hundred
drawn plans for all kinds of public
buildings the draughtsmen could be
dispensed with and new buildings au-
thorized built upon plans already made
use of
or course without tbe necessary
money tbe treasury officials bad to let
tbe draughtsmen go Tbe old prac-
tice of carrying clerks when there was
no money to pay them with and hav-
ing congress make up the deficit when
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Offered Uncle Sam
it would probably oost Uncle Sam
$100000000 instead of $11000000
One of the leading summer 'resort
“forest reservations" which the gov-
ernment has been asked to buy is the
Natural Bridge in Virginia for which
something like a quarter of a million
is wanted Accompanying the offer
was a beautiful painting of the bridge
which was great for scenlo beauty
but did not seem to be much for tim-
ber No charge was made for the plo-
ture it was explained The promoter
of this property did not adiplt 1L but
It is well known that the Natural
Bridge died a natural death in recent
years
A large number of other resort and
hotel properties In the White Moun-
tains and the much advertised "Land
of the Sky" or "Sapphire Country"
of Carolina are being offered to the
government at ridiculous prices—
whether ridiculously high or ridicu-
lously low will be for the forestry com-
mission to say Officialii of the forest
service have mapped out certain areas
within which it is thought desirable
to buy land for the protection of for-
ests and the conservation of stream
flow Some of these areas Include
summer resorts but that does not
mean that the forest service wants
those resorts purchased
Certain big White Mountain hotels
want the government to buy whole
mountains so that the trees thereon
will be preserved for the benefit of
their guests Lands are being pressed
upon the government for $50 to $100
an acre but few if any of these will
be bought Most of the purchases
which the forestry commission will
authorize will probably be cut-over
and waste lands which can be ob-
tained for a few dollars an acre
Decrepit Warships
ship at the battle of Santiago The
total cost of these is $20350275 The
unarmored cruisers that were service-
able in the Spanish war but in a mod-
ern sea battle couldn’t approach the
enemy within ten miles or more are
the Olympia Dewey’s flagship at the
battle of Manila bay the Raleigh Bal-
timore Chicago Cincinnati Boston
Marblehead Atlanta Philadelphia San
Francisco Montgomery Minneapolis
and Columbia Total cost $26965782
Warship brokers in this country nat-
urally will loclk to South America as
the most likely field for business Ar-
gentina and Brazil are setting the pace
for dreadnoughts and the smaller re-
publics which might wish to follow
their example may find it cheaper
and more economical to buy battle-
ships of the type ot the Kentucky and
the Kearsarge Such of the smaller
republics as wish to increase the
strength of tbelr navies being unable
to order dreadnoughts probably will
try to make a bargain with Uncle Sam
or else employ the battleship broker
of Foreign Spies
pecially In some of their Island pro-
tectorates He returned to his borne
country and nothing more was heard
of him for several years
One day toward the end of 1910 a
man who bad met this officer on bis
first visit was much surprised to meet
him again on a ferryboat at New York
city The officer was dressed In civ-
ilian clothes and either did not recog-
nize his former acquaintance or pre-
tended not to recognize him When
addressed however he readily ac-
knowledged bis identity He said be
was In this country permanently and
was working in a factory on Staten
Island This factory was within hair
an hour’s walk of some of the most
Important fortifications on the Atlantic
seaboard
The fact was enough to make the
acquaintance suspiclouB Here was a
man who had been an officer in a for-
eign array who had at one time ad-
mittedly represented his country on
an inspection tour and who suddenly
turned up six years after In civilian
clothes and said that be was working
regularly in a factory close to a great
fortress
Some time later the acquaintance
called up the factory to see If the man
was still there He was not but had
lert shortly after the interview on the
ferryboat
convenient does not appeal to the of-
ficials in tbe departments any longer
Several years ago a law was passed
making It an offense for an official to
create a deficit or to use money ap-
propriated for one speclflo purpose tor
another purpose for which the regular
appropriation bad become exhausted
Not only will there be a saving of
$250000 for the present fiscal year
but there will also go on Indefinitely
a saving ot a quarter ot a million dol-
lars each year for the treasury offi-
cials have let the draughtsmen go ror
good
There are now th the United States
erected and In use 662 public build-
ings costing rrora $26000 to $8000000
each fbe Inst named figure being the
cost of the New York custom house
Second Temple’s
Foundation Laid
Snday Sdwol Lesson for Oct 22 1911
Specially Arranged for This Paper
LESSON TEXT— Ezra 4-1-4 6
MEMORY VERSES— S1L
QOLDEN TEXT — "Enter Into his gates
with thanksgiving and Into his courts
with praise "—Pea 100 4
TIME— The arrival at Jeruaalem B C
5X7 Foundation of the Temple B C 630
Delays B C 635-620 Building of Templo
begun B G 610 Temple completed B C
610 Period of tho lesson 20 yean
PLACE— Jerusalem and vicinity
PROPHETS — Haggal B C 620 Zechar-
lah B C 620-618 Daniel the aged (Dan
10 1)
RULERR— Cyrus king till B C 629
Cambyeee king B C 620-622 Darius king
B C 621-480 Zerubbebel governor of
Judea
Ths exiles found Jerusalem in ruins
together with the surrounding cities
of residence and their orchard! and
farms tfluch as they had been left by
Nebuchadnezzar’s armies fifty years
before Trees were growing wild on
the Mountain of the House and the
jackals prowled among heaps ot shat-
tered masonry Crumbling stone-work
and charred timbers marked the site
of palaces and towers and choked the
streets The city walls and gates
were leveled with tbe ground The
first business of the returned exiles
was of course to provide some kind
of dwellings for themselves and tbelr
tamllies They accordingly settled In
tbe small qitles surrounding Jerusa-
lem perhaps repairing the houses and
walls that had been ruined by tbe be-
sieging armies years before or con-
tenting themselves with buts or tents
The territory they controlled wae of
course email and hemmed In on all
sides "including only Bethlehem on
the south while on the north their ter-
ritory moaeured no more than twenty-
five miles in length by twenty in
breadth” and even upon this en-
croached the heathen or mongrel pop-
ulation As soon as the returned exiles had
become settled in their homes and
hdd planned for the necessities of
life within three or four months of
their arrival they wisely arranged
for the religious life which was the
fvery heart of the nation's existence
and the central motive and Inspiration
of tbe return It would require years
to build the temple It was not wise
to wait for that It was essential that
all needful helps to devotion and re-
ligion and righteousness should be pro-
vided immediately to sustain them in
the work to be done amid opposition
and temptations which were to try
their souls as gold is tried in tbe fire
When the builders laid the founda-
tion of the temple there was a great
celebration The chant of praise was
responded to with a great burst of
chorus vocal and instrumental the
substance of which was some well-
known sacred refrain There 1b a
wonderful power in muBic and every
atom of it should be used in God's
service The church has scarcely be-
gun to use this power in its fulness
Some object to responsive singing
some have opposed putting an orches-
tra in the Sunday Bchool as if these
were modern novelties Instead of 3-
000 years old These old saints used
every kind of instrument every meth-
od of singing — solos responses chor-
uses marching songs refrains every-
thing that would give wings and in-
spiration to the service of song
Tboee who had known only the exile
conditions sang Hallelujahs because
it was an unspeakable joy to bave
a temple at all It meant the saving
of tbe nation it meant tbe returning
favor ot God It was no limit to the
religious life and the blessings which
could grow out of it It made possi-
ble tbo greater glory which fifteen
years later the prophet Haggal fore-
told wben it should be fulfilled In tbe
MeBsiab
We learn from Haggal that tbe peo-
ple weie busy with building beautiful
houses and cultivating their farms
They planted vineyards and orchards
figs pomegranates and olives But all
their efforts were failures They
"looked for much and lo It came to
little” For they cared more for their
own houses and farms than for the
uouse of God
Then arose the wise aged prophet-
preacher Haggal who had been watch-
lng the course of affairs and In the
name of God urged tbe people to
arise and build the temple for the
time had come He made four ad-
dresses In the autumn of 620 the sum-
maries of which are recorded In bis
book He began at the religious fes-
tival of the new moon when crowds
of people were assembled probably
In the temple area Itself where tbe
altar was smoking with sacrifices and
the unfinished foundations and the
desolation of the city wero in full
view while In tbe distance were tbe
homes and fields of tbe leaders
While aged Haggal was urging the
people to rise up and build a younger
prophet-preacher was Inspired to en-
courage tbe people and to remove
their difficulties and doubts by a se-
ries of emblematical visions or ob-
ject lessons
He uiged all high motives for re-
newing tbe work and enforced them
by their own experiences They had
tried to gain prosperity while reltg
Ion was neglected Tbcy had sought
the fruits of obedience to God while
they neglected the tree that alone
could bear the fruit They wanted
rlcb crops tn tbelr fields while they
stopped up tbe springs that alone
could mako them fertile Haggal said
tc them look at the results of your
bad policy Consider your ways
Change your plan Put God and re-
ligion first Seek first the kingdom
of God and Its righteousness Then
you will succeed in giving the nation
true prosperity and its place of use-
fulness In the world
Christ
One reason why you should put
your belief In Jesus Christ Is that all
through the Bible axioms are scat-
tered which reflect on the wonderful-
ness of this man — Rev E H Jenks
Presbyterian Omaha Neb -
War and Christ
Ths heart of Christianity and the
noble side of war are Identical — Rev
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By Next Year All the Concrete Work
Will Have Been Completed Unless
8lldea Are In Excesa of Estimates
Made by tho Canal Commiaslon in
Ita Reporta
Washington Oct 17 — Foreshadow-
ing the early cofinpietion and opening
ot tbe Panama canal the Isthmus Ca-
nal Commission in its annual report
made public today recommended con-
gressional legtsaltion governing canal
tolls organization for the operation of
the canal and for tbe government ot
tbe canal zone utillaztlon of caanl
revenue to pay operating expenses and
to repay the capital invested and eth-
er action Expedition was urgently de-
manded in order to advise the com-
mercial world for the use it may make
of the great waterway of the cost ot
sending ships through it and just wben
it will be opened-
The commission wished to give at
least eighteen months notice of the
rates to permit the world’s maritime
interests to re-adjust their routes and
to build new ships and organize new
transportation companies It also was
deemed desirable to put the canal to
use as early as possible not only to
obtain financial returns on the enor-
mous capital Invested but to make
possible the passage of tbe world's
fleets without confusion or delay
The report showed that the engi-
neers board has already found tbat all
the concrete In tbe great Gatun locks
will be laid by June 1 1912 and five
months later the locks on the Paclflo
side will be ready June 1 1913 Mean-
time by April 1 next the giant spill-
way at Gatum would be at the fifty-
foot elevation and the entire dam
there would be completed by the fol-
lowing winter The excavation through
the Culebra Cut will be completed
July 1 1913 if tbe slides are hot In
excess of tbe estimates In that case
the exterior channel will be suffi-
ciently advanced to pass the shipping
that would use the canal “ l
Though these estimates were made
a year ago the commission states tbat
there is no occasion to make any con-
siderable changes Though the con-
crete laying in the Gatun locks will
be moved back a few months to Jan-
uary 1 1913 this will not delay the
erection of tbe gates or the comple-
tion of tbe work as a whole
1 8laln at They 8lepL
Ellsworth Kan Oct 17 — Slain as
they slept Sunday night the bodies of
Will Showman a chauffeur his wife
and three small -children were discov-
ered tonight In the Showman home by
a neighbor - who chanced to call and
who entered the house wben no one
responded to hts knock The features
of all the victims were battered past
recognition by tho blows ot an axe
which the slayer had used The young-
est member of tbe family a baby had
been beaten until its head was sever-
ed from the body - All three of the
children were less than 5 years old
The authorities so far have failed to
find anything pointing to a cause for
the crime or any clew as to tbe guilty
person Showman was employed here
as a chauffeur
Back to the Soil for John
Boston Oct 17— John L' -Sullivan
former heavyweight champion who
still has tbe same bold ou the sport-
ing public as wben he was Winning
battles was 63 years old Sunday This
birthday finds him "back to tbe soil”
Ten 8mallpox Cases in Winfield
Winfield Kan Oct 17— After dis-
covering ten cases of n smallpox In
three of Winfield’s public schools the
school board Issued orders that the
fifteen hundred publla school pupils
either would have to be vaccinated or
stay away from school All day long
the doctors’ offices have been crowd-
ed with school children and physicians
say the work has not been half com-
pleted Tbe attendance tomorrow will
be light because of the stringent or-
ders of tbe school board tbat no one
should be allowed to enter the Bchoola
unless vaccinated
Athletics Capture Second “ Game
Philadelphia Oct 17— When John
Franklin Baker third baseman poled
a home run over the right field wall
ot Shlbe park scoring “Eddie" Collins
ahead of him today be but the Phila-
delphia Athletics on an even footing
with the New York Giants and the two
teams will now go to New York for
the third game tomori-ow In the series i
for the world's baseball honors Tbe
score was Philadelphia 3 New York
1 The paid attendance was 26286
German Talks Politics With 'Italians
Berlin OcL 17— Tbe emperor who
Is at Ills bunting lodge near Ebers-
wnldo Prussia has Invited Signor Al-
berto Pansa the Italian ambassador
to a conference on the political situa-
tion The Italian ambassador had ar-
ranged to meet tbe German toielgn
minister Herr von Klderlen-Waech-ter
at tbe foreign office to discuss
matters connected with the Turco-
Italian war but hastily cancelled this
engagement upon 'receiving tbq em-
peror's message 1 ’
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Wreck on Taft Train Foiled
San Francisco Oct 17 — A'report re- '
celved here today by i the Southern
Railway company from C B Brown
section foreman gave details of the
discovery ot 36 Btlcks of dynamite un-
der the Calrtan viaduct 20 miles north
ot Santa Bnrbara several houis be-
fore President Taft' special train
passed over the bridge en route to
Los Angeles early today The dyna-
mite was found after the watchman
engaged In a revolver battle with two
men who escaped 9
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