The Helena Star (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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The Helena Star
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MAGEE A MEDARI8 Publishers
HELENA OKLAHOMA
OklahomaNewsNotes
Now for garden "Bag"
These be baseball days
Plant more trees this year
Diversify your crops It pays
Enld'Bas a new broom factory
The fruit prospect Is still good
Lenapah Is entirely out of debt
And now Sulphur boasts of a brass
band
The Oklahoma husband Is mighty
thankful that Easter is past
A test well to search for oil or gas
Is being driven near Oktaha
The state convention of Eagles will
convene In Muskogee In May
The Nowata brick factory sold ten
car-loads of brick to a Kansas City
firm
The Klamlchl river has been all
swollen up over Its big volume of
water
If it will stop raining long enough
the Oklahoma farmers will plant their
crops
Oklahoma miners will continue to
work pending a settlement of their
wage schedules
Plant a few acres of kafir com In
the spring and you won’t have to buy
feed in the fall
Officials at El Reno raided a Ger-
man club last week and secured thirty
barrels of “swei”
If April showers bring may flowers
Oklahoma will certainly be perfume-
ladened next month
Ida J Allen has been named as
postmistress at Chilocco succeeding
M B Howardfl resigned
Purcell has voted $100000 bonds to
equip itself with an up-to-date water
Works and electric light system
The 7-year-old daughter of Dr M
Bchlleson of Sclplo who was run ovef
by a wagon died of her injuries in a
McAlester hospital
Utilize every bit of vacant ground
by planting something in it Too
much ground is going to waste Bet-
ter raise garden truck
State Treasurer Dunlop recently
received from Lincoln county the sum
of $1956839 being the county’s sec-
ond quarterly payment of state taxes
Operating under Instructions from
President B D Caldwell of New York
City the Wells Fargo lines are trans-
porting all supply donations free of
tharge to the flood-stricken Missis-
sippi valley
Lawton Is proceeding to pave her
Streets now that the Injunctions
phlch have tied up the contract for
twelve months are all out of the way
Forty-eight blocks will be paved at a
cost of $159000
On account of the disqualification
Sf the regular court to sit on the case
Docketed for Medford Grant county
April 15 District Judge J W Steen
has been assigned by Chief Justice
Turner to sit in Grant county on that
date
Mrs C F Bobo of Norman and
$frs O F Sensebaugh of Oklahoma
City attended the annual meeting of
the Women's Council of the Methodist
Church South 'in Washington D C
They acted as representatives for the
West Oklahoma conference
The state board of agriculture has
Invited the legislators to visit the
demonstration farms In their respec-
tice counties The board has asked
the legislators to write their opinions
Of the farms The object of this Is to
allow the legislators to see the work
being done
Mrs S E Moyer wife of a farmer
residing two and one-half miles west
of Hugo last week gave birth to an
Infant which had twelve toes on each
foot The child had no nose only
part of a mouth located on one side
of its face and had only one eye
Otherwise the babe was normally
formed It lived only a few hours
An extension of parole until October
1 was granted Thursday by Governor
Cruce to Walter Reed of Kiowa county
sentenced to serve ten years in the
state penitentiary for manslaughter
Reed had secured a loan from the state
school land department and the loan
is due The parole was granted to
give him an opportunity to arrange for
payment
Arthur Winslow a workman at thq
Acme cement plaster mill at Rusk
Springs fell and was fatally Injured
dying four hours later Winslow was
finishing a root on the building and
was preparing to climb down to tRb
ground when his foot slipped and he
fell to the ground a distance of forty
feet The body will be sent to his
home at Chenyvale Kansas
A fire-proof ten story building will
be erected In Muskogee upon the alt
of the Flte-Rowsey building which
was destroyed by fire last November
Announcement has been made that a
Croup of local capitalists have taken
m ninety-nine year lease upon the
land and announce their Intentions to
build at once Thin Is one of the
most valuable tracts In Muskogee
Tbe floor dimensions will be 80x125
feet A trxst company soon to be
organised will have offices on the
main floor of the building
GEN GRANT DEAD
8TRICKEN 8UDDENLY WITH AT-
TACK OF HEART FAILURE
HAD DISTINGUISHED CAREER
MADE MARK AS 80LDIER AND AS
CIVILIAN
Eldest Son of President Grant — Be
comes Distinguished In War With
8paln and Wn Commander of
Department of East
New Yor — Major General Frederick
Grant son of the famous general of the
civil war and himself commander of
the department of the east died at the
about 12:40 o’clock Friday morning
Hotel Buckingham In this city at
about 12:40 o’clock Friday morning
The news was far more sudden It
came less than an hour after the first
alarm had been sounded that General
MAJ GEN FREDERICK D GRANT
Grant was even seriously 111 The alarm
Itself had come before It had been gen-
erally learned that General Grant was
even in the city as his presence here
had been kept a secret
The following statement was made
at 1 o'clock by General Grant’B attend-
ing physicians Dra Abbey and Bench
‘‘General Frederick D Grant died
suddenly of heart failure without pre-
monition at the Buckingham hotel at
midnight April 11
“General Grant has been suffering
from diabetes and the attendant di-
gestive disturbances which Beemed
however to be perfectly under control
This sudden fatal termination came
as a great surprise His wife and
nurse were with him at the time and
the physicians who were called at
once found the heart had stopped in-
stantly” Sketch of Lift
Major General Frederick Dent
Grant eldest son of Ulysses S Grant
was born at SL Louis Mo May 30
1850 He was with his father in the
civil war witnessed the capture of
Forts Henry and Donelson and went
with his father’s command through the
Virginia campaign He witnessed also
He resigned his commission as col-
onel in the army in 1881 and for a
number of years was engaged In var-
ious enterprises He was appointed
minister to Austria by President Har-
rison in 1888 but resigned on the elec-
tion of Mr Cleveland to the presi-
dency Under the reform administra-
tion of Major Strong he was one of
New York'B police commissioners but
at the outbreak of war with Spain In
1898 be became colonel in the Four-
teenth New York infantry and was ap-
pointed brigadier of volunteers on May
27 1898 On February 18 1901 he was
appointed brigadier general United
States army and reached the grade of
major general five years later He
served In Porto Rico and commanded
the military district of San Juan
He was in command of brigades
in the Philippine islands for several
years returning to the United States
In 1902 He cammanded the depart-
ment of Texas in 1902-04 department
of the lakes 1904 department of the
east 1904-08 and the ‘ department of
the lakes again in 1908 and finally the
department of the east to which he
was last appointed In the summer of
1910 to succeed Major General Wood
In 1874 he married Miss Ida M
Honor daughter of Henry Hamilton
Honor of Chicago
Fire at Butte
Butte Mont — Fire which broke out
In the Alare bouse district here des-
troyed the Olsen business block a
four-story structure and damaged
many warehouses
Rate Suspended
Washington — An Increase of 85
cents a ton on the freight rate on cot-
ton from the Walsenburg district in
Colorado to points of destination In
Kansas Oklahoma and Texas was
suspended by the Interstate com-
merce commission from April 14 to
August 11
Rice Under Bend
Tulsa Okla — Benjamin Rice bank-
rupt Jeweler who was caught in SL
Louis with $3000 worth of diamonds
taken from stock has been charged
with grand larceny and Is under $5-
000 bond
Glenn in Again
Shawnee Okla— The school board
has re-engaged Scott Glenn as super
lntendent of schools for two years
more making tbe fifth two year term
that Ciena has served
FfflgUD OF LAUllEnOE STRIKERS i
Miles Poindexter senator from Washington personally Investigated thi
strike conditions at Lawrence Mass and led the fight for a federal Invest!
gatlon of the alleged cruelties Inflicted on the gfriv"- h stitbnrIMos
MISS CLARA BARTON DEAD
Founder of American Red Crosa Dies
at Age of Ninety Years
Washington — Miss Clara Barton
founder of the American Red Cross
and probably the most widely known
American woman of her day died at
her home Red Cross in Glenn Echo
Md Friday morning at 9 o’clock She
was 90 years old
MiBS Barton suffered an attack of
pneumonia In February 1911 had &
relapse and the disease became
MISS CLARA BARTON
Founder and First President of the
American National Red Cross
Society
chronic She went last summer as
usual to her old home Oxford Mass
and returned to Glen Echo in feeble
health last autumn Muscular weak-
ness of the heart developed and for
weeks the condition of the venerable
nurse had been such as to cause grave
concern among her friends Her
bright mind was undlmmed almost to
the last and her ready wit and quick
repartee made her sick room a place
of cheer to her attendants With her
when the end came were her nephew
Stephen Barton of Boston and Dr J
B Hubbell
The great regret of Miss Barton's
last months was about her enfeebled
condition making it necessary for ber
to suspend work upon ber autibiog-
raphy She had brought this work
down only to the beginlng of her pub-
lic career as a civil war nurse A
woman whose whole training had
fostered habits of precision she has
left behind practically the entire cor-
respondence of her public career aa
well as other data bearing upon her
international hospital work and the
work which she herself started will
be completed by other bands
Miss Barton will be buried where
she was bron in Oxford Mass
New President
New York — C E Schaff formerly
vice president of the New York Cent-
ral lines west of Buffalo was elected
president of the Missouri Kansas A
Texas railway to succeed A A Allen
Cemetery Bill le Passed
Washington— Senator Owen’s bill
providing that cemeteries may be laid
out In tbe Choctaw and Chickasaw
surface lands has been passed by the
senate Senator Owen has bad passed
a measure which protects the settlers
on the Choctaw and Chickasaw sur-
face lands which will be sold In tbe
course of the next few months The
measure provides that when the lands
are told the settlers shall be paid for
the Improvements they have made
upon them
GREAT DRAINAGE CONGREESS
MEETS IN NEW ORLEANS
Trains Bearing Delegates Delayed
By Big Flood — Francis Says
Neglect la Crime
New Orleans — The reclamation of
70000000 acres of reclmable over-
flow lands in the United States and
an appeal to the government for
assistance was the subject of the sec-
ond annual convention of the national
drainage congress which began a four
days’ session here April 10 TralnB
delayed from ten to fifteen hours by
floods prevented many delegates
being present to hear the opening
address Wednesday'
"It is a crime for the government
to longer neglect the reclamation of
the country's overflowed lands” de-
clared ex-Governor David R Francis
of Missouri in his address before the
national drainage congress Mr
Francis suggested that the vast quan-
tity of machinery employed In the
construction of the Panama canal
should be used in the swamp land rec-
lamation work
“Think of it!” he exclaimed “Seventy-four
million acres of rich alluvial
soil between the Roclciea and the
Atlantic withdrawn from cultivation
and occupancy because of failure to
adopt a systematic drainage scheme
which Bcience and experience have
demonstrated would be feasible and
neither difficult nor costly Empire
about equal in area to that of the sup-
erbly productive states of Ohio Indi-
ana and Illinois capable of furnish-
ing homes of forty acres each to 1-
870000 American families All of if
fertile soil and susceptible of pro-
ducing enough to subsist a population
of tens of millions of human beings
A kingdom over twenty times that of
Alsace-Lorraine"
Ten Miles of Shade Trees
Kenewlck Wash — The people of
Kenewlck planted ten miles of shade
trees along the bank of the Columbia
river as their contribution to the
state-wide observation of Arbor Day
ONE THOUSAND MAROONED
Refugees in Church at Wyanoke Ark
Built Stages With Pews as
Water Rose
Memphis Tenn— One thousand or
more persona are marooned on
mounds housetops and in a church at
Wyanoke Ark according to the
statement of Mayor Crump who re-
turned to Memphis after an inspec-
tion of the flood situation twelve
miles south of Memphis
Boats have been sent to these ref-
ugees this afternoon They are in
sore straits hungry and without
drinking water The refugees in the
church built up stages with pews as
the water rose There will be no loss
of life
Opposition Crumbling
Washington— It Is confidently ex-
pected that there will be little delay In
the senate In passing the Osage bill
designed to settle up the affairs of this
tribe of Indians Since the measure
passed the house what little opposi-
tion there is In the senate la fast
crumbling
Owen on Good Roads
Washington — Senator Robert L
Owen of Oklahoma addressed tbe sen-
ate advocating Senator Swanson's
bill to appropriate $20000000 annually
for five years to aid tbe states and
local committees in tbe Improvement
of public roads Tbe bill provides for
tbe construction maintenance and im-
provement o poet roads and rural de-
livery routes through the cooperation
and joint action of the national gov-
ernment and the several states la
w bleb such roads may be established
WARNS MEXICO
"
PROTECTION FOR AMERICANS IS
DEMANDED
GOVERNMENT TALKS STRAIGHT
EXECTION OF GUNNER TERME9
"PRACTICAL MURDER"
Both Mexican Government and It
surrectoe Given to Understand
That Tey Must Be Careful-
Other News of Interest
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Washington — Warning was issued
Sunday by the United States to the
Mexican government as well as to
General Pascual Orozco chief of the
revolutionary forces that “it expedts
and must demand that American life
and property within the republic of
Mexico be justly and adequately pro-
tected and that this government must
hold Mexico and the Mexican people
responsible for all wanton or illegal
acts sacrificing or endangering Amer-
ican life or damaging American prop-
erty or interests”
The attitude of the United States
as expressed to both the federal and
rebel authorities is that any mal-
treatment of American citizens “will
be deeply resented by the American
government and people and must be
fully answered for by the Mexican
people" '
Acting Secretary Huntington Wil-
son of the state department who
Sunday issued special instructions to
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson at
Mexico City and Marion Letcher
American consul at Chihuahua au-
thorized the statement that interven-
tion was not contemplated by the
United States
Ambassador Wilson was ordered to
communicate at once tbe views of tbe
United States to the Mexican minister
for foreign affairs and a copy of his
instructions was likewise sent to
Marlon Letcher American consul at
Chihuahua with special representa-
tions addressed to General Orozco
Charge of Practical Murder
Orozco recently refused to recog-
nize Mr Letcher as the American
consular representative because the
United States withheld recognition of
the rebel cause The representations
to Orozco accuse him of the “practi-
cal murder" of Thomas Fountain an
American gunner enlisted with the
federals but summarily executed last
week when taken prisoner by the in-
surrectos ROOSEVELT AND WILSON
CARRY PENNSYLVANIA
Surprise to Regular Machrne In Key-
etone State Primary
Philadelphia — Colonel Roosevelt’s
weeping majority in Pennsylvania at
Saturday's primary election kept
growing Sunday as the returns con-
tinued to come in
Incomplete returns from every dis-
trict give the former president 65 of
the state's 76 delegates In the repub-
lican national convention The Roose-
velt forces are claiming 67 and later
returns may carry the figures to that
totaL Colnoel Roosevelt won 6S of
the 64 district national delegates and
his followers elected enough delegates
to the state convention to give them
control of that body The state con-
vention will name 12 delegates at
large
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey will have 74 of 76 delegates
from Pennsylvania In the democratic
national convention In the eleventh
congressional district the two demo-
cratic national delegates elected are
favorable to Champ Clark but they
are not pledged
Washington Not Appraised
Washington — While press dis-
patches from China have announced
that Wu Ting Fang former Chinese
minister to the United States has
been named as the first diplomatic
representative of the new Chinese re-
public no official confirmation of the
report baa reached here
Appropriates $25000
Washington — The house appropri-
ated $25000 for the use of the public
banking and currency committee in
Its forthcoming Investigation of the
so-called "money tnisL” Representa-
tive Hill of Connecticut republican
declared 'he would oppose continuing
the appropriation
Jenkins to Utah
Guthrie Okla — Former Territorial
Governor Wm Jenkins will leave for
Delta Utah where he will engage In
the real estate business It Is unde
stood that he will remove his fqsnlly
to that place within the next few
weeks
Party Is Drowned
Wharton Texas— A H Willy Miss
Fanny Wensley and Miss Morris were
drowned In the Colorado river late
Sunday evening opposite this town
the small skiff In which they were
riding capsizing
Rebels Kill Engineer
Moberly Mo — Zacb Farmer form-
erly a resident of Moberly waa shot
and killed by rebels near Irapusalo
Mexico according to a message re-
ceived -by hu sister Mr W J Slu
tng here Friday
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book tells sbout the FREE Color Plans our
expert designers will send you for any rooms
you wish to decorate You will be glad to
know more about
The Beautiful Wall Tint
j cxtjoltite 0 noiof and quality It U wed la the mo
expenure modern homes though it cotta fir lest this
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and put on Does not chip
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With our Color Plant
tou can easily have the
most artistic home in your
neighborhood
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Fall 5 lb pkf White 50c
Regular Tints 55c
Alabastine Company
M Graodvine lui Grind InMslIdb
few brk Qtr Ouk S 105 Situ SL
Many a married man has a chaperon
In his wife
"Pink Eye” Is Epidemic In tbe Spring
Try Marine Eye Remedy for Reliable Relief
Women lean toward mystery but
men lean toward mastery
Since it is worth while to be well take
Garllelil Tea Nature’s Medicine
After sympathizing with people who
are In trouble many a man begins to
feel like a hypocrite
OJTLV ONE “BROMO QTI VINE"
That Is LAXATIVH HHOMO QUiNINH Look for
the dgnatura of K W UKOVo Used Un Wor4
over u Cure b Cold la One Da SGo
His Work
“An electrician ought to be a Boclal
success”
“Why an electrician especially T”
“Because he Is so well posted on
Current topics"
Faint Heart and Fair Ladles
Frost— And the beautiful blond
married that rich old duffer simply
because he had valvular trouble
Snow — Yet Btlll Some people say
faint heart never won fair lady
Marls Tempest’s Nose
At the Lenten musicale at the Waldorf-Astoria
a young matron related
a bon-mot of Marie Temrest’s
“Miss Tempest's nose Is frightfully
pug Isn’t It?” Bhe began "Well I met ’
her at a tea once and she joked about
her nose as If It belonged to some-
one else
“ When the Creator she said was
looking for a nose for me he took yon
see the first one that turned up "
Flattery'
Edward D Easton one of th big-
gest manufacturers of talking ma-
chines In the world has sn ideahat
everybody Is ss much Interested In
grand epers ss he la He gives week-
ly concerts at his home and makes
all his servants who represent vari-
ous nationalities listen to them Once
a Swedish housemaid gave signs of
Intense satisfaction at the hearing a
particularly loud and shrill record by
the great soprano Lina Cavalleri
“So you like that?" asked Mr Eas-
ton all puffed up because ‘his grand
opera bad made such a hit
“Ay t’lnk It bane grand” replied
Alma “It sound to me just lak de
way de Ireesh cook she cry las when
hossban die” — Popular Magazine
COFFEE HURTS
One In Three
It la difficult to make people believe
that coffee is a poison to at least one
person out of every three hut people
are slowly finding It out although
thousands of them suffer terribly be-
fore they discover the fact
A New York hotel man says: “Each
time after drinking coffee I became
restless nenrous and excited eo that I
Was unable to Bit five minutes In one
place waa also Inclined to vomit and
suffer from lose of Bleeps which got
worse and worse
"A lady said that perhaps coffee waa
the cause of my trouble and suggested
that I try Postum I laughed at the
thought that coffee hurt me but she
lnBieted so hard that I finally had
some Postum made I have been us-
tag It In place of coffee ever since for
I noticed that all my former nervous-
ness and Irritation disappeared I be-
gan to sleep perfectly and the Postum
tasted as good cr better than the old
coffee o what waa the use of stick-
ing to a beverage that was injuring
me?
“One day on an excursion up the
country I remarked to a young lady
friend on her greatly Improved appear-
ance She explained that some time
before ebe had quit using coffee and
taken to Postum She had gained a
number of pounds and her former pal-
pitation of the heart humming In the
can trembling of the hands and legs
and other disagreeable feelings had
disappeared She recommended me to
quit coffee and take Postum and was
very much surprised to find that I had
already made tbe change
"She said her brother had also re-
ceived great benefit from leaving off
coffee and taking on Postum" "There's
a reason"
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