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The ‘Helena Star
HELENA v OKLAHOMA
As Told in a
Few Words
Good and Noway Items
of General Interest Con
densed to Small Space
WASHINGTON
The census bureau has announced
the 1910 population of the state of
Michigan to be 2810173 with an In-
crease of 289191 or 161 per cent
There has arrived In Washington
from Mexico City under heavy guard
a special car containing gold and sil-
ver vullion valued at $1265000
The bullion cornea from the Mexican
government and constitutes Mexico’s
Interest payment on a loan made to
that country by Uncle Sam
That the United 8tates will be
drawn Into war with Japan within the
next five years Is the general belief
in Korea according to Dr S H KImm
formerly of the Korean legation in
Washington
Senator William Warner will sail
from New York for London early in
September He will spend only a day
in England expecting to return to the
United States by the same boat upon
which the voyage across was taken
The war department has been re-
quested by the forest service to send
two companies of troops to the Yak-
ima Indian reservation in Washington
where five separate forest fires are
raging1’ The troops were asked for
by Superintendent Young of Yakima
who reported that the fires are beyond
the control of the forces at his com-
mand DOMESTIC
Mrs Louise Wenster of St Louis Is
short $755 as a result of using her
kitchen range as a bank While she
was in the front of her house a burg-
lar got the money
John H Bartlett farmer is dead at
his home in Dalton Conn as the re-
sult of a hog bite He was attacked
by a hog a Chester boar weighing 400
pounds Blood poison developed kill-
ing him
Coroner Streeper is investigating
a report that the death of Miss Myr-
tle Lewis of Woodriver 111 who ex-
pired at a hospital in Alton was due
to overexertlon from having danced
all night
Five thousand troops of the depart-
ment of the Missouri U S A will
hold an army tournament at Des
Moines Ia from September 26 to Oc-
tober 1 The camp will be named in
honor of Congressman Hull
Declaring that the experiment has
been a failure several railroads
which some months ago agreed to
give the 21-3o rate a trial have an-
nounced that hereafter all passenger
travel in Arkansas will be at the rate
of 3 cents a mile
An explosion In the Peacock Flour
mill in Milton Oregon caused a fire
which totally destroyed the mill and
a number of small buildings For a
time the entire city was threatened
The fire department from Walla Walla
was rushed to the scene and the blase
extinguished The loss is estimated
at between $75000 and $100000
The coronor’s jury investigated the
wreck of two trains on the Missouri
Pacific near Lamine Mo and placed
the responsibility for the wreck on
Edward Kanyon a telegraph operator
who failed to deliver orders to the
trainmen Kanyon disappeared after
the collision and has not been seen
Carter county farmers are much
worried because they can’t find Jars
large enough to hold the fruit that is
raised there and consequently the
finer specimens cannot be preserved
for the county fair Not a bad com-
mentary of Oklahoma fruit however
E H Holbrook an insurance brok-
er of New York City leaped to death
from a twenty-six story building His
body was mangled beyond recognition
With one touch of the finger on an
electric button at Beverly Mass Pres-
ident Taft Monday at noon Btarted
the Ohio valley industrial exposition
at Cincinnati
k Diving head first from an upper story
of the DeBeret bank building at Salt
Lake City Utah David S Murray
former general manager of the Bell
Telephone Co in Utah Montana and
Idaho committed suitclde
As a result of the meeting at St
Louis Mo of 150 representative lum-
ber manufacturers and shippers and
owners of logging railroads in the
southwest a resolution has been
adopted requesting the railroads to
maintain “twelve months of Indus-
trial peace" by refraining during that
time from raising freight rates
'Mob spirit continues at McGregor
Texas following the action of the cit-
irens in hanging in effigy Judge W
L Davidson of the court of criminal
appeals who granted bail to Mrs M
L Straight charged with murdering
her husband a newspaper man
Miss Constance Warren of Newport
R I bas succeeded in swimming from
Bailey’s beach to Easton’s beach a
distance of six miles She is the sec-
ond woman to accomplish the feat
Robbers blew-the safe in the post-
office at Albion I1L and escaped with
money and stamps amounting to near-
ly 310000
Three street cars were dynamited
at Columbus Ohio one night last
week They were partly wrecked and
four persons were injured i
The sting of a yellow wasp has
caused the death at Natural Bridge
N Y of Mrs - Frank Dimmock 66
years old
The Illinois railroad warehouse com-
mission will order a 10 per cent re-
duction in all express ratea in the
state beginning October 1
Ex-Congressman Joseph C Sibley’
who retired recently from the fight for
re-election to congress has been ar-
rested at Franklin Pa on a charge of
conspiracy to debauch voters
A mysterious aeroplane visited Mad-
ison Square New York one night last
week It came from somewhere in th
east and disappeared in the same di-
rection No one knows who was in
the machine
Despondent because he had lost all
of jiis own money and $20 which he
is said to have borrowed from his
wife gambling Jack Grammar of
Muskogee Okla drank carbolic acid
and died
Workmen doing street work on Lake
street in the very center of Reno
Nev uncovered a ten-foot ledge of
copper Several hundred pounds of
the metal was extracted It is nearly
Bolld metal
Aaron L Shoop the 5-year-old son
of H J Shoop of Progress Pa died
of fockjaw resulting from a wasp
sting While playing in the yard at
his home he was stung on the leg by
the insect
One hundred men women and chil-
dren were Injured three seriously and
one perhaps fatally as the result of
the collapsing of a grandstand at
North Bergen N J where an athletic
exhibition was in progress
The Oregon Short Line is having
soundings made in Salt Lake as far
as Antelope island preliminary to
building the Raft river cutoff which
will reduce the distance from Salt
Lake city to Portland Ore 75 miles
The comptroller's office at Austin
Texas estimates a $100000 slump in
the occupation tax total this year be-
cause the smaller liquor ' stores have
been forced out of business by the
spread of local option
vThe steamer Kirby Bank bas Just
Bailed from the Texas company wharf
at' Port Arthur Texas with the first
full cargo of kerosene ever shipped to
South America from any American
port suoth of Baltimore
After having been held in jail at
New York City for three days on a
charge of homicide Edward T Rosen-
helmer a young millionaire has been
released on $25000 bonds He is ac-
cused of having run down a woman
in his automobile and of having left
her in the road to die
Search has begun at Pueblo Colo
by the sheriff of Pueblo county and
of Jefferson county Kans for F M
Haines a wealthy resident of Wag-
oner Okla who disappeared aboi£
two months ago and whose relatives
now fear has been murdered in this
vicinity
The residence of James E Plum-
mer Carlisle Ky was dynamited j-
cently Plummer was hurled from his
bed His injuries are not serious
Plummer had been active in the pros-
ecution of alleged violators of the lo-
cal option law
After rescuing her 10-year-old sis-
ter and another child from a whirlpool
Into which they had been drawn while
awimmlng Miss Cleora Dion sixteen
years old was drowned in Spring
river near Joplin Mo
Statistics compiled by the state
board of agriculture show that the
revenue or interest return from land
In Oklahoma is higher than in any
other state The average per cent
of return from farm lands in the
United States is 84 while in Oklaho-
ma it is 104
Two soldiers were seriously injur-
ed in the first contest between the
blues and the reds at the army ma-
neuvers at Fort Riley Kansas
FOREIGN
An amusement park similar to Luna
park at Coney Island is to be built
In Rome by Americans
Dr Hans Volbrecht chief surgeon
of the Thirty-seventh division has
been appointed head of the medical
service in the Turkish Army which
he will reorganize on German models
Japan has thrown off her mask and
has formally announced the annexa-
tion of Korea accomplished In viola-
tion of Japan's specific pledge The
“Hermit Kingdom” is no more
Herman De la Cerarantz the repre-
sentative of Sweden at Washington
since 1907 has resigned according
to an announcement made at Stock-
holm to look after bis own personal
business in Sweden where be has
large Interests
America and England are joining in
a scheme for a great Dickens celebra-
tion in 1912 the centenary of the nov-
elists’ birth Representative men of
both countries wih form a committee
to settle the details of the nature of
the scheme
Owing to the fact that out of the
total population in Hawaii of 175
090 but 34000 are voting natives of
America the rest being orientals or
Europeans some dissatisfaction has
arisen The few control the many
There is no immediate danger of rev-
olution however
Jose Dolores Estrada to whom
President Madris turned over the ad-
ministration of the Nicaraguan gov-
ernment before fleeing the country
has retired from the presidency in
favor of General Lula Mena who was
designated by him as acting president
of the republic
NEWS OF THE STATE
A Review of the Important Happenings in Oklahoma
Condensed for Busy Readers Throughout the Country
MILLION8 FROM SCHOOL LANDS
State Will Probably Realise $2000000
From October Sale
Guthrie Okla— R E Wood head of
the aales department of the achool
land commission office has completed
a list of the public buildings and in-
demnity school land which are to be
sold by bis department in October
which shows that there are a total
of 24487644 acres of these lands in
the third sales district
The department has not yet fixed
a date for the beginning of the sale
but it will probably be October 3
The average appraised value of the
land to be sold has not yet been esti-
mated but it is probable that the state
will realize something over $2000000
from the sale of these lands
The school lands to be sold which
lie within the third sales district are
Osage City’s New 12-Room
found in twenty-five counties The
following 1b a list of the counties with
the number of acres to be sold in
each:
Alfalfa 7520 Beckham 1310006
Caddo 981950 Canadian 250740
Custer 496098 Dewey 265372
Ellis 850488 Grant 1867681
Greer 1402555 Harmon 378418
Harper 2422967 Jefferson 659170
Kay 1177055 Kiowa 470515$ Lin-
coin 1580478 Major 1320296 No-
ble 799298 Oklahoma 1431080
Pawnee 409469 Payne 167839
Tillman 619948 Woods 11840
Woodward 1462577
Much of the land in the extreme
western and northwestern counties is
grazing land while most of it In the
more centrally located counties Is ag-
ricultural land and Is leased In small-
er tracts than the grazing lands
Doctor Facing Criminal Charge
Muskogee Okla— Dr W T Tilley
has been arrested here on a charge of
criminal libel preferred by Dr J
Hensley of Oklahoma City He was
taken before County Judge Jackson
and made bond for $1000 and instruct-
ed to appear at the county court in
Oklahoma City on October 1
Indiana Hold Green Corn Dance
Tulsa Okla — Thousands of Tulsans
Journeyed to Orcutt Park east of
town last week to witness the histor-
ical annual green corn dance of the
fast diminishing tribe of Osage In-
dians The braves ranging In age
from 7 to 70 years followed the cir-
cle to the tune of monotonous chants
and the beating of tom-toms The
women also participate in the dances
Williams Appointed on Commiszlon
Oklahoma City Okla— Governor
Haskell has accepted the resignation
of Judge J B A Robertson from the
State capltol commission and has ap-
pointed Boone Williams of Lehigh to
fill the vacancy Williams is in the
city and will enter immediately upon
the discharge of the duties of the com-
mission He was very seriously con
sidered for appointment when tho
commission was first organized and
hla appointment is no surprise No
reason Is given out from the gover-
nor’s office for the resignation of Rob-
ertson Oklahomans Ride in Autos
Guthrie Okla — During the past year
the people of Oklahoma have bought
1287 automobiles making tbe total
number of machines in the state 1970
as returned on tbe tax rolls at the
state auditor's office The total as-
sessed valuation la $895717 as against
$282034 last year Valuations of ma-
chines run from $150 up Oklahoma
county leads with 432 machines valued
at $207315— according to reports given
the tax assessor
To Hold Waterways Convention
Tulsa Okla — A deep waterways
convention in which cities along the
Arkansas river will participate is in-
cluded in the government’s scheme for
the improvements of streams and will
be held in this city some time in No-
vember Boy is Bitten by Msd Dog
Anadarko Okla— Allen Wass aged
10 bas been taken to St Louis to be
operated on Some days ago he waa
bitten by a mad dog The boy’s home
U In Apache Oxla
FINANCIER DROPS FROM SIGHT
Ray Host Gone From Fairfax and May
bs Behind Financially
Fairfax Okla— Ray Hoss president
of the Osage and Western railway a
cattle buyer financier and investor of
Osage county has disappears! from
hla home here and all efforts to lo-
cate him have proved futile Bank-
ruptcy proceedings have been filed
against him at Pawbuska
How much Hosa la supposed to be
behind financially probably will not
be known for some days Wild esti-
mates afloat now are to the effect that
he' is anywhere from $65000 to $101-
000 short
It is known that Hoss had been
somewhat of a plunger With some
others he has been buying up the
Osage ' lands and also has been a
School House to Cost $17000
close student of the cattle market let-
ting his money back his judgment
Formerly he was cashier of the
First National bank of this place but
resigned from that position about IS
months ago According to a state-
ment of L A Wltmeyer president of
that institution Hoss has absolutely
no Interest In the bank now Mr Wit-
meyer is one of the creditors accord-
ing to the bankruptcy procedings
Drinks Poison After Notifying Wife
Hominy Okla-A W Nash one of
the most prominent citizens of this
city committed suicide here by drink-
ing carbolic acid after he had Bhown
the bottle to hiB wife and told her he
waa going to drink 1L While ibe was
going for a doctor having left him In
care of Alexander Young Nash seized
a rifle ran Young from the room and
drank the poison No reason for the
suicide can be assigned Nash waa a
married man without children and
apparently had no domestic troubles
He had no financial troubles ao far as
can be ascertained being one of the
largest property owners in this sec-
tion of Osage county He had lived
here 15 years and was a Mason a
Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow
Airahip Flight a Surprise
Tulsa Okla — Captain Frank Good-
ale in a small airship of the Zeppelin
type Btartled the throngs on the down
town streets here flying over the tops
of the tallest buildings in bis curious
airship Once he came near hitting a
string of telephone wires but skillfully
guided his craft out of the way The
flight was unannounced as Goodale
was not scheduled to make fllghtB un-
til a later date
Boy Jailed for Twenty Years
McAlester Okla — Lewis Nave 13
years old has been brought to the
state penitentiary here to serve twen-
ty years for conviction in Murray
county of murder His father tied
him to a tree and gave him a severe
whipping When released he procured
a shotgun and killed his father neap
ly cutting' his body in two with a big
load of buckshot Tbe sheriff who
brought the boy here sayB he Is an
incorrigible and said on the way here
if It was to do over again he would
“sure shoot the old man”
8uicides by Taking Chloroform
Tulsa Okla — Goldie Dever a girl
of 21 committed suicide by taking
chloroform at her apartments here
She was of a romantic disposition
and unrequited affection was assigned
as the cause of her action
Youth is Fatally Injured '
Tulsa Okla — William Chadwell 14
was fatally hurt here in a peculiar ac-
cident The barrier which released
the horses in a running T&ce at the
county fair struck the youth on tbe
head cutting through the skull
Epidemie at End In Chickasha
Chickasha Okla— Dr Paul D Vann
reports that the smallpox epidemic is
at au end The quarantine was re-
moved from the last house recently
and the last patients in the deten-
tion camp were released The epi-
demic has been prevalent here fot
some time
Oklahoman Dies in Texas
Guthrie Okla— John A Craig for
mer director of the experiment sta-
tion at the A ft M college at Still-
water Is dead at San Antonio Tex
SUPREME COURT
TO DEW CM
BRIEF IS FILED IN CAPITAL RE-
MOVAL CONTROVERSY
CONTRACT IS ATTACKED
Enabling Act’s Provision la Beyond
Federal ‘ Government’s Power-
Congress Acted Without Any
Authority Whatever
Guthrie Okla — The vital question
in the long standing capital struggle
which has been the Issue of the day
in Oklahoma for months has been
submitted to the Btate supreme court
in the form of briefs filed by attor-
neys representing the governor and
tbe state
The possibility of a decision allow-
ing Guthrie to keep the capital until
1913 and then turning it over to Ok-
lahoma City Is shown to exist in
briefs but Buch ruling the
governor’s attorneys attack strong-
ly contending in brief that
tbe instant that the capital re-
moval bill carried June 11 Oklaho-
ma City became the capital of Okla-
homa temporary permanent and oth-
erwise and that Guthrie was left noth-
ing The Oklahoma City briefa which
cover all the questions raised in the
fight between the two cities concern
themselves chiefly with attacking the
binding force of the enabling act and
the right of congress to impose such
a condition as that the capital shall
be kept at Guthrie until 1913
It also ia contended that the capi-
tal litigation is carried on solely for
the benefit of the property owners
of Guthrie which is alleged to be
wrong and it Is further contended
that a third party cannot interfere to
object to the severance of the terms
of a contract between Oklahoma and
the United States if there is such if
the United States herself does' not ob-
ject “The state cannot contract away
her rights to keep her state capital
where Bhe wills” says the brief “The
federal government had no right to
demand such a compact and the state
of Oklahoma had no right to make it
But it is said that the people of Okla-
homa accepted this condition of the
enabling act by solemn proceedings
and that good faith required that the
compact be left undisturbed and in full
operation We deny this There can
be no question of good faith when the
congress of the United States acting
outside its sphere and without author-
ity demands of a people that they
surrender their rights of aovereignty
before they shall be admitted aa a
state Congress by imposing this
condition upon its people acted with-
out any constitutional warrant or au-
thority It coerced the people Into
the granting away of one of the most
valuable of their reserved rights No
more flagrant exercise of arbitrary
and unconstitutional power has teen
exercised by the federal government
Good faith therefore cannot and does
not enter into this compact
“We hold therefore that there la
neither legal nor moral obligations
reflecting upon the people of the state
of Oklahoma to continue In force a
compact which is unjust unlawful
and which was exacted by force”’
Cotton Frospects Bright
Sapulpa Okla — Cotton In this coun-
ty is looking well and if there is no
Injury from insects or the elements
it is estimated that it will bring the
farmers of Creek county $1350000
The flrst bale of this year's crop was
ginner last week at Bristow
Broom Corn Is Great Crop
Oklahoma City Okla — Broom com
In Oklahoma is a crop that Is not to be
sneezed at according to a bulletin is-
sued from the experiment station of
the Stillwell agricultural and mechani-
cal college Figures for the last two
years are not given but In 1907 the
value of the crop in eleven counties
of the state from which reports were
received amounted to $1350146 Beav-
er county led all others in the value
of the crop by producing $364269
worth of broom com The acreage in
the year given was 155608 In 1909
the acreage waa 208352 Broom com
sells for prices ranging from $50 a
ton to $200 a ton for the beet TRie
1910 quotations range from $140 to
$190 a ton
Date Set for Frisco Hearing
Enid Okla— The corporation com-
mission has set September 7 as the
date for hearing of the Frisco rail-
road’s plea to be allowed to change
its schedule between Enid Clinton
and Okeene Considerable opposition
has developed south of here
Drowned in lea Cream Freezer
St Louis Mo— Drowned in an ice
cream freezer while neighbors were
searching for him the body of 2-year-old
Harry Krumrie was found in the
rear of a drug store here The freez-
er was of ten gallons capacity and
contained but five inches of water
Girl Marries at Eleven Years
Pine La — Ruth Harding of Bogaluslla
La is one of the youngest brides on
record She is aged eleven and was
married here to Wm Breland aged
nineteen
TOTH
MOUNTAINS
OF COLD
During Change jof Life
says Mrs Chas Barclay
r‘ Granite ville Vt---‘'I was passinr
through theChangeof Life and suffered
from nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms and I
can truly say that
LydiaEPlnkbam’a
Vegetable Com-
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me as it
restored my health
and -strength I
never forget to tell
my friends what
LvdlaEPinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women I am willing to make mv
trouble publio so you may publish
this letter”— Mbs Chas Babclat
RFDGraniteville Vt
No other medicine for woman’s ills
bas received such widespread and un-
qualified endorsement No other med-
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia E
pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
inflammation ulceration local weak-
nesses fibroid tumors irregularities
periodic pains backache indigestion
and nervous prostration and it Is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life
It costs but little to try Lydia E
Pinkham’B Vegetable Compound and
asMrsBarclaysaysit is “worth moun-
tains of gold ” to suffering women
GOOD WORK IS PROGRESSING
Women In Every State Join Earnestly
In Campaign Against Tu-
berculosis Four years ago the only active wom-
en workers In the anti tuberculosis
movement were a little group of about
80 women’s clubs Today 800000
women under tbe United States are
banded together against this disease
and more than 2000 clubs are taking
a special interest in the crusade Not
less than $500000 is raised annually
by them for tuberculosis work be-
sides millions that are secured through
their efforts In state and municipal
appropriations Mrs- Rufus P Wil-
liams la the chairman of the depart-
ment that directs this work In ad-
dition to the work of the General Fed-
eration of Women’s Clubs the Public
Health Education committee of the
American Medical association com-
posed largely of women physicians
has carried on an educational cam-
paign of lectures during the past year
In which thousands have been reached
The Mothers’ congress the Young
Women’s Christian association and
many unattached clubs bring the num-
ber of women united In the tuberculo-
sis war to well over a million There
is not a state In the union where some
work has not been done
English as She Is Spoke
Chinatown Visitor — John sabee see
screen— how much sabee want for
himT
The Chinaman— What’s the matter
with you? Can't you speak English?—
Judge
The Witching Hour
Claire — Jack told me he wanted to
see you the worst possible way
Ethyl — And what did you say?
Claire — I told him to come to break-
fast some morning
LACK OF MONEY
Waa a Godsend In This Case
It la not always that a lack of
money Is a benefit
A lady of Green Forest Ark owes
her health to the fact that she could
sot pay in advance the fee demand-
ed by a specialist to treat her for
stomach trouble In telling of her
case she says:
“I had been treated by four differ-
ent physicians during 10 years of
stomach trouble Lately I called on
another who told me be could not cure
me that I had neuralgia of the stom-
ach Then I went to a specialist who
told me I had catarrh of the stomach
and said he could cure me in four
months but would have to have his
money down I could not raise the
necessary sum and In my extremity I
was led to quit coffee and try Postum
“So I stopped coffee and gave Post-
um a thorough trial and the results
have been magical I now sleep well
at night something I had not done
for a long time the pain In my stom-
ach Is gone and I am a different
woman
“I dreaded to quit coffee because
every time I had tried to stop it I suf-
fered from severe headaches so I con-
tinued to drink It although had rea-
son to believe It waa injurious to me
and was the cause of my stomach
trouble and extreme nervousness But
when I had Postum to shift to it was
different
“To my surprise I did not miss cof-
fee when I began to drink Postum
"Coffee had been steadily and sure-
ly killing me and I didn’t fully realize
what was doing it until I quit and
changed to Postum”
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