The Helena Star (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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The Helena Star
0RTIE M’MANIGAL
UME C0R0MILAS
SPIRIT IN TUBERCULOSIS WAR
MAGEE A MEDARI8 Publishers
HELENA 'OKLAHOMA-
Durant Is asking for m union depot
Ada’s poultry show will be held Jan
uary 23-25
Barney’s Cafe at Haskell burned
loss $2000
Muskogee dairymen have orgnized
an association
Simon Jones aged 75 a pioneer resi-
dent at Tulsa is dead
Durant’s municipal lighting system
began operating January 1
Clinton has voted $25000 in bonds
for a municipal hospital
Tulsa's per capita fire Iosb for the
year 191$ was 40 cents
Annual Woods county spelling con-
test will be held at Alva March 29
Oil developments are causing Hen-
ryetta and Weleetka to take on new
life
Woodward breeders captured many
of the prizes at the Shattuck poultry
show
Muskogee claims to' have expended
$3000000 for betterments during the
past year
J W McMurtry has sold the Ham-
mon News and will resume the prac-
tice of law
The new oil town of Tiger sustained
A serious fire several frame buildings
boing destroyed
That department of development es-
tablished by the Frisco line will do
much for Oklahom
The Beckham County Singing con-
vention will be held at Mt Carmel
near Erick March 29-30
Rev 'James T Cook a pioneer resi-
dent of Salt Creek Valley in Blaine
county passed away last week
With the beginning of the new year
the state bank at Techumseh national-
ized It -now is the Teqpmseh Nation-
al bank
The real estate agent being asked
by the prospective purchaser of some
Arkansas river bottom land if the
river didn't sometimes overflow its
banks replied: "Sure the Arkansaw
isn’t one of those sickly Btreams that
are always confined to their beds'-’
Twenty-five negroes of Pawhuska
of the better class have formed an
organization to compel law observ-
ance by the tougher element of their
race In that town They have pub-
lished an unsigned warning in the
Pawhuska Capital
The Tulsa World calls attention to
the fact that the coal output of this
state is valued at $6000000 oil $26-
000000 Oil producers pay taxes on
more than $90000000 of property in
the state The mining Industry has
proper state inspection the oil indus-
try has not The World thinks the
legislature should provide an assist-
ant state inspector who shall be a
competent man engaged in the busi-
ness J
Carl Dougherty a former resident of
Custer county who for two years has
been in Oregon says the coast country
1b no good for a man without a goodly
supply of that the love of which is the
root of all evil The question they ask
out there is “Have you money?” If
not why not? Before you can cut
very large chunks of congealed moist
ure in these parts you must get your
self well heeled with mammon” It
appears that it is a game of graft or
get grafted out there and the fellow
who gets his graft in first is "it” Mr
Dougherty says he can keep his fam-
ily here for half what it cost there
A Garvin county farmer claims to
have gathered 620 pounds of pecans
from one tree The nuts were sold at
10 cents per pound
Bud Easley of Terral was arrest-
ed at Wpurika and placed in Jail to
await examination as to his sanity
because of his announcement that he
was en route to Oklahoma City to set
tie the capital question He was re-
leased from the Texas state asylum
about a year ago He has since beer
principally engaged in exploring tht
banks of Red River and dug many
holes hunting foa buried treasure
When arrested Easley possessed twc
wooden guns styled after a 45-calibre
Colt’s and so perfect was the mech-
anism that they could not be detected
from the real thing at any reason
able distance Lead bullets were sunk
- Into the cartridge chamber and th
handles were painted with aluminum
to imitate nickel Easley performs
many maneuvers At times he will
act as though he was playing a fiddle
at a genuine country hoe-down until
suddenly he will think of something
else and busy himself in performing
another feat
Sherman Justine returning from
Chandler to Davenport after deliver
Ing a ioad of cotton 'discovered that
his lower limbs were badly frozen The
attending physician is of the opinion
that both limbs will have to be ampu-
tated above the knees
Will C Shelton of Stiger county superintendent-elect
of Haskell county
and Miss Julia Begette of Tahlequah
were married at Muskogee on New
area m theh state Coal county has a
school attendance of 5555 while coun-
ties twice as big were 25 per cent
lower
McManlgal according to hie confes-
sions one of the most active men In
the alleged dynamite gang that opsr
ated In many parts of the country has
been testifying for the prosecution In
the trial at Indianapolis
GLASS MAKERS GIVE THEIR SIDE
OPPOSE PROPOSED CHANGES IN
THE TARIFF
Don’t Fix Prices— Will Cut Wages or
8uspend Business Says Their
Representative
Washington — Talk of trustB of do-
mestic and foreign varieties of low
wages and women toilers in indus-
tries abroad that enabled strong for-
eign competition with American en-
terprises and of capital’s great stake
in the tariff tinkering enlivened the
hearing on the earthenware and glass-
ware schedule of the Payne-Aldrich
law before the house committee on
ways and means
It was the first of the two days of
arguments on the second schedule of
the existing law A declaration of
Chairman Underwood that he was
satisfied with i the showing made of
the keenly competitive conditions in
the pottery industry was accepted as
an assurance of an undisturbed pot-
tery tariff
All representatives of the different
window glass companies were present
Running through most of the testi-
mony were references to trusts abroad
in various lines of endeavor a con-
stant specter that stalked on the cus
toms border lines threatening to in-
vade this country it the tariff bars
were let down
Former Governor William A Stone
of Pennsylvania insisted that the Na-
tional Window Glass Association de-
pended in its price making solely upon
the law of supply and demand and
that if the tariff on window glass was
reduced the loss to the association
would be met either by reduction of
the workingmen’s wageB or by sus-
pension jf factories
He said there were 92 window glass
factories constituting a distinctive
class that did not have today enough
profit to justify a single sale at less
than the current prices He said there
was an attempt about five years ago
to regulate prices among the window
glass companies when the government
stepped In and successfully prose-
cuted and there bad been no attempt
in that direction since
Joseph Auerbach a life-lodg Demo-
crat speaking for plate glass and
other manufacturers suggested that
“the tariff way should be & toil road
and not a highway where highwaymen
may ply their trade”
Mr Auerbach charged that the
counterpart abroad of more than one
American industry is controlled in
manufacture output management and
distribution by a dictatorial legalized
commission or truBt whose unlawful
existence here would be enjoined and
its promoters indicted and convicted
He urged that the committee consider
what would be the lower and real cost
of the output if the “foreign factories
were permitted to run freely and not
held in the strangle grip of the trust
and as they would be run if you open
the floodgates of a cut-throat ruinous
and unlawful competition upon home
manufacture”
Motor Concern Under Hammer
New York— The properties of the
United States Motors Company and
Its five subsidiaries brought a bid of
$7080000 when placed at auction un-
der a decree of foreclosure issued by
the United States district court The
bid was received from Henry G Holt
and William McAllister Jr who are
understood to represent the company’s
reorganization committee President
Hough reserved decision on accept-
ing the bid
Mrs Cleveland and Fiance Are Dined
Washington — Mrs Grover Cleve-
land accompanied by her fiance Prof
Thomas J Preston of Wells College
were entertained at a dinner in their
honor at the residence of Mr and
Mrs John Hays Hammond at which
the president and Mrs Taft and a
few other guests were invited Mrs
Hammond will give a reception for
Mrs Cleveland who will attend a
luncheon of Mrs Levi Z Leiter The
president and Mrs Taft will entertain
Mrs Cleveland and Prof Preston at a
dinner
THE TURK COMMANDER WILL
CHOOSE STARVATION RATHER
THAN SURRENDER
TURKS WANT TO CONFER AGAIN
But The Balkan Delegatea Will Not
Meet Them Unlese The Sur-
render of Adrianople le
Guaranteed
London — Official news received by
the Bulgarian delegation describes the
situation at Adrianople as desperate
Several soldiers who deserted and suc-
ceeded in reaching the headquarters
of the allies say the town is in its
last gasp Provisions are so scarce
that the military authorities have re-
quisitioned all the food possessed
even by private individuals and are
making only one distribution com-
prising a half ration daily
Conditions have been rendered
more grave by the great number of
sick who crowd the hospitals where
the attention is inadequate Thus the
death rate is very high
The commander of the fortress has
declared he would rather see all die
of starvtion than surrender the town
that is why all who can are endeavor-
ing to escape The Bulgarians believe
even independently of any action the
powers may take the question of Ad-
rianople soon will be solved
Constantinople has accepted the
views of'Reclrad Pasha who recently
asked to be authorized to reconvoke
the conference he being president of
the next sitting The difficulty now
lies in the determination of the al-
lies not to participate unless they are
notified in advance what Turkey in-
tends to propose They do not wish
to revive the discussion of unaccepta-
ble terms but desire to have it as a
certainty that Turkey is ready to cede
what has been pronounced as the irre-
ducible minimum of the allies— Ad-
rianople — after which it will be possi-
ble to discuss the frontier line which
must leave that town In the hands of
the allies
REBELS SACK A TOWN
ANNIHILATE FEDERALS
I
Fresh Outbreak in Mexican Trouble
in State of San Luie
Potos)
Mexico City — After destroying the
little garrison of federals and raz-
ing the town of Ayoticlngo twenty-
five miles from Mexico City a body
of rebelB withstood the attacks of
two detachments of federal rein-
forcements and practically anni-
hilated the government forces Three
other groups of reinforcements sent
to the scene of the fighting have not
yet reported '
Those who brought the story to the
capital estimate that the rebels num-
bered between 500 and 1000 Not a
house is standing in the town but the
residents were not personally mo-
lested The attack began in the morning
Of the garrison of eighteen only two
escaped one of them wounded A
force of twenty federals dispatched
from Tenango to reinforce the gar-
rison was wiped out after a stiff fight
One hundred federals hurriedly dis-
pached from Xico met the same fate
Fifty federals from Chaleo a small
detachment from Milpaalta In the fed-
eral district and 100 home guards
from Mexico City left for Ayoticin-
go More troops are being sent to
the front but the rebels are expected
to retreat possibly attacking Chaleo
The rebels are believed to be com-
manded by Felipe Nori The hacien-
da Cerro Gordo in the state of San
Luis Potosl has been SBcked by rebels
under Francisco Vesquez a nephew of
Dr Francisco Vasquez Gomez and a
quantity of arms and ammunition cap-
tured Bridges on the Mexican Southern
railway between Puebla and Oaxaca
have again been burned just after
being rebuilt Owing to the presence
of General Hlgino Aguilar between
the Mexico and Interoceanlc railways
near Pasco del Mlrcho the governor
of Vera Crus has ordered military es-
corts for the trains on the Inter-
oceanic traversing that district
Bridges have been burned on the In-
ternational road between Monterey
and Torreon
Democrats Control Nutmeg Stats Now
Hartford Conn — With the Inaugur-
ation of Governor Simeon E Baldwin
for a Becond term the state admin-
istration passed from the Republicans
to the Democrats for the first time in
a long period of years
Failed to Testify Contempt Charged
Fort Smith Ark— Circuit Judge
Hon A T Greenwood issued orders
to the sheriff to produce Jim Brewer
Billy Meyers and "Pink” Creekmore
the latter two deputy constables and
the former an auto dealer all of this
city to show cause why they should
not be tried for contempt of court in
failing to appear to testify against Joe
Tucker of Cameron Okla who was
acquitted at Greenwood on a charge
of being implicated in the lynching of
Sanford Lew!
Mme Anna Ewing Coromllaa
daughter of former 8enator Cockrell
of Missouri and wife of the Greek min-
ister of foreign affairs ha wrlttan to
her friends ‘ In America Interesting
accounts of her experience In Athen
during the war She and other ladles
have been giving up most of their
time to making clothing for the tick
and wounded Greek soldiers and all
social functions have been suspended
GAVE $30000 TO AID INSURRECTION
Senate Probers Hear of the Wealth
Raised for the Mexican
Revolution
New Orleans La — The senate com-
mittee which is investigating Mexi-
can conditions heard testimony con-
cerning contributions which were
made to the Madero revolutionary
fund in 1911 through New Orleans
agents
Fernando Frelja a Spaniard ad-
mitted that he had handled a check
for $30000 In April 1911 which rep-
resented a contribution made by a
mahogany firm of Yucatan The
money was paid to Pino Suarez now
vice president of Mexico by Freija
according to his testimony
Frieja told the committee of jl num-
ber of shipments of arms and ammuni-
tion which he had made within the
past year to the Madero faction in
Mexico and declared that each ship-
ment was made with the knowledge
and consent of the Washington ad-
ministration Frieja stated that he had been offi-
cially informed that he could ship
war supplies without molestation to
the actual government of Mexico and
denied that he had sent any such sup-
lies to revolutionists opposed to Ma-
dero FIREMEN MAY VOTE STRIKE
Unless Demands Are Arbitrated a
Walk-Out Seema Most 1
Likely
New York — To arbitrate or to take
a strike vote is the alternative con-
fronting representatives of 24000 fire-
men on eastern railroads Managers
of the railroads rejected the firemen’s
proposal to arbitrate under the Erd-
man law the demands for Increased
pay and other concessions The rail-
road met the strikers and appointed
an arbitration committee of seven
ARCHBALD SO RANK HE
SMELLS TO HEAVEN
Congressmen Spare No Words In
Impeachment Trial of Federal
4 Judge U 8 Commerce Court
1 Washington — Judge Robert W
Arcbbald of the United States com-
merce court sitting with his attorneys
before the bar of the senate heard
jils conduct and integrity as a judge
arraigned In bitter terms In the open-
ing of the arguments that will term-
inate the impeachment case brought
against him for alleged misconduct in
office
4 Representative John A Sterling of
Illinois his interrogator in the cross-
examination before the senate sum-
ming up declared it showed him un-
him of a "system of conduct which
he has carried on with the railroads
so rank that it smells to heaven”
Representatives Webb of North
Carolina Howland of Ohio and Floyd
of Arkansas following Mr Sterling
took up individual counts against
Judge Archbald
Death Toll Four in River Disaster
Mobile Ala-r-Captaln Thomas Bar-
bee of Mobile was killed four persons
are missing and eight others were
more or less seriously Injured as the
result of an explosion in the boiler
room of the Tombighee river steamer
James T Staples near Power’s Land-
ing The hulk caught fire and driven
from the refuge passengers and crew
leaped into the prater All but the
captain and four persona reached the
shore The boat was a total loss
ALLIES ACCUSE EUROPE OF BE
ING IMPOTENT TO DEAL
WITif TURKS
ALLIES BECOMING RESTLESS
Believe Adrianople Can be Taken by
Sacrifice of 5000 Men—
Ready to Renew
' Fighting
London — The British secretary oi
state for foreign affairs Sir Edward
Grey and the ambassadors of the
powers have made representations t
Rechad Pasha regarding the projected
departure of Turkish delegates which
is equivalent to a definite rupture ol
the peace negotiations for which Tui
key is considered responsible
In reply Recbad Pasha said that h
was not responsible for the suspen-
sion of the work of the conference
which was decreed by the allies not
only without asking his opinion but
without even allowing him to express
It when he begged to do so He had
waited a whole week hoping that r
flection would bring the allies to more
reasonable and moderated views but
as no move had been made on theli
part in this direction and no desire
had been manifested to bear what
further rectification of the frontlet
Turkey was prepared to Indicate—
naturally without ceding Adrianople—
the Turkish plenipotentiaries could
not remain in London indefinitely
In deference to England which had
treated them so hospitably and out ol
regard for the other powers whos
ambassadors regreted the rupture ol
the negotiations Rechad Pasha con-
sented to telegraph to Constantinople
asking definite instructions
Allies Restless
The allies are also tired of waiting
They do not believe the note which
the powers will present at Constan-
tinople will have the desired effect
but not wishing to take a decisive
step without due notice to Europe
they have notified Sir Edward Grey
and the ambassadors of their inten-
tion to renounce the armistice con-
temporaneously with or shortly after
the presentation of the note to the
Porte
The allies will be ready td resume
the war four days later In fact it
is remarked that Greece has never
ceased hostilities that Servla has
nothing more to conquer while with
respect to Montenegro the armistice
has never been observed by Turkey
whose soldiers have made frequent
sorties from Scutari Therefore the
resumption of hostilities really con-
cerns only the field of operations
where the activity of the allies seems
to be limited to the conquest of Ad-
rianople The Balkan military ex-
perts here think that under present
conditions Adrianople can be taken
In a few days by the sacrifice of 6(000
men '
Greeks Holds Island
The Greeks are more determined
than ever to hold tbe Aegean Islands
as well as Salonlki Regarding Salo-
nika they say: “War gave It to ns
and only war can take it away”
All the responsibility for the gravi-
ty of tbe situation is placed by the
allies on Europe which they say after
having encouraged them to conclude
an armistice and come to Londtfn
even holding contemporaneously a
conference of the ambassadors to fa-
cilitate matters finds Itself impotent
because of the lack of accord to adopt
measures compelling Turkey to obey
its will
This failure of agreement even It
manifested in a passive manner the
allies point out gives encouragement
to the Turks whose hope is that they
will succeed finally as they have in
the past in playing oft the powers
one against the other The attitude
of the powers it is said also encour-
ages Roumania to take an unfair
advantage of the aitnation forgetting
that only a short time ago the Rou-
manians and Bulgarians were nnder
the same yoke and fought shoulder
to shoulder the same battles for inde-
pendence URANIUM STRIKES
CHEBUCTO LEDGB
Halifax — The steamer Uranium
bound for Halifax and New York
stranded on a reef during thick weath-
er near the Chebucto headlight nine
miles below Halifax and is still held
fast In the grip of the rocky shore
Her 880 passenger 100 In the cabin
and the rest in the steerage were
taken off the steamer in the after
noon by the government steamer
Lady Laurier and a small fleet of
harbor craft and were safety landed
in Halifax
Ohio River on a Rampage
Cincinnati— The Ohio river passed
the sixty-four foot stage here and
continued to rise steadily at the rate
of two inches an hour In the lower
parts of the city and in Dayton New-
port and Covington suburbs across
the river in Kentucky 2500 persons
have been made temporarily homeless
by the Invading waters In the Ken-
tucky towns schoolhouseB and
churches have been thrown open and
are filled with refugees The prop-
erty loss will reach into the millions
Nineteen Million Dollars Expended
Last Year In Fight Against the
Dread White Plague
Nearly $19000000 was spent In the
anti-tuberculosis campaign la the
United States during the year 1912
according to the fourth annual statis-
tical statement of expenditures in this
movement issued by the National As-
sociation for the Study and Preven-
tion of Tuberculosis The expenditures
during the year for sanatorium and
hospital construction and treatment
make the' largest single item in the
total amounting to nearly $16800000
This is an increase of nearly $5000-
000 over the same group of expendi-
tures for the year 1911 The anti-
tuberculosis associations and commit-
tees spent over $765000 while dis-
pensaries and tuberculosis clinics
spent over $500000 Over $415000
was spent for the maintenance and
establishment of open-air school and
fresh air classes which la more tban
double the amount spent for this pur-
pose in 1911 Official state and mu-
nicipal expenditures outside of tbe
maintenance of Institutions which
are included in the other totals
amounted to $280000 In addition to
these figures about $500000 was
spent by hospitals for Insane and
penal institutions in caring for their
tuberculosis Inmates
FROM EXPERIENCE
heaven We get the sunlight and the-
gentle rain from heaven
Mr Old Wed— And also tbe thunder
storms
Collecting Antiquities
Slopay received a card ea which
was engraved: "Professor Brace
Antiquarian"
He knew no such person so his curi-
osity led him to receive him
"What is your business professor?”-
he asked politely
"I am a collector of antiquities'' an-
swered the old man
"So I imagined And how can I
serve you?”
"By paying a deposit on this little-
bill you have owed for more than
three years”
Public Would Gain
"In looking over this ‘paper I find
that Mr Proscklyeswlcz Iguailnczin-
skl and Miss Maloonloozek Wlnskad-
diakowskl are engaged to be married”-
"I am very glad to hear it”
“Why? What Interest have yon in
it? Do you know them?"
"No hut I consider it a matter for
public rejoicing that these two names-
are to be made one’’— Stray Stories
DREADED TO EAT
A Quaker Couple’s Experience
How many persons dread to eat
their meals although actually hungry
nearly all the time!
Nature never Intended this should
be so for we are given a thing called
appetite that should guide us as to
what the system needs at any time
and can digest
But we get in a hurry swallow par
food very much as we shovel coal into
the furnace and our sense of appetite
becomes unnatural and perverted
Then we eat the wrong kind of food
or eat too much and there you are—
indigestion and its accompanying a
eriea
A Phila lady said:
"My husband and I have been side
and nervous for 15 or 20 years from
drinking coffee— feverish indigestion
totally unfit a good part of the time
for work or pleasure We actually
dreaded to eat our meals (Tea Is
just as Injurious because it contains
caffeine the same drug found in cof-
fee) “We tried doctors and patent medi-
cines that counted up into hundreds
of dollars with little if any beneflL
"Accidentally a small package of
Postum came into my hands ' 1 made
some according to directions with
surprising results We both liked it
and have not used any coffee since
“The dull feeling after meals has
left us and we feel better every way
We are bo well satisfied with Postum
that we recommend it to our friends
who have been made sick and nervous
and miserable by coffee” Name giv-
en npon request Read the little book
“The Road to Wellville” in pkgs '
Postum now comes in concentrated
powder form called Instant Postnm
It is prepared by stirring a level tea-
spoonful In a cup of hot water adding
sugar to taste and enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown
Instant Postum is convenient
there’s mo waste and the flavor Is
always uniform Sold by grocers—
60-cup tin 30 cts 100-cup tin 60 eta
A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer’s
name and 2-cent stamp for postage
Postnm Cereal Co LtiL Eattle Creek
Mich Adv
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