Coweta Times. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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Maine Election Explained '
Oklahoma Okla Sept 19 —
The other day the state of
Maine elected a full democratic
ticket for the first time since the
civil war The whole world has
wondered why The reason is
very simple The following
night wire to W D Cardwell jf
tniscity will give the explana-
tion New Yotk Sept 14— The
New York Tribune in explain-
ing -the' 'Maine election says
- that tne republican - party in
Maine preferred to “stand pat”
on prohibition d -nying the vot
ers a chance to pass again on
the ques ion directly The vot-
ers have now parsed on it indi-
rectly not only electing an anti-
prohibition governor but giving
him a legislature anti prohibit
ion in both branches The ex
tent of the reaction is shown in
the capture of the legislature
which has not I een democratic
since before the war but a re-
volution in the legislative branch
necessary to carry ut the
public will and the voters ac
complldbefl that revolution
The Sun's comment is: “The
people were tired of the prohib-1
ition law when it was not en
forced and they were more
tired still of the law when it
was ’partially enforced They
evidently voted for the repeal of
the Sturgis act ard they want to
reconsidei prohibition”
When Sickness Qomes
or you are out of a
job and broke— Then What?
Got any rich relatives that will hold you up until
you can get on y°ur eet a8a‘D
You’re !n Luck if You Have
0
Don’t depend upon anybody Start a bank ac-
count and when it comes to a show down be in a
position to ssk odds of no one
What Think You ?
FARMERS C& MERCHANTS BANK
COWETA OKLAHOMA
Engine Blows Uq
Coffeyville Sept 15 —Bun
riing at the rate of 35 miles an
hour the engine of the Miss uri
Kansas & Texas passenger ti ain
bound for Parsons Kan from
Oklahoma City which passed
here at 1:45 o’clock Thursday
morning exploded a few miles
north of this city instantly kill-
ing Engineer Horace Holloway
$nd fatally injuring Fireman L
’B£ Goodrich both of Parsons
Kan
The body of Engineer Hollo-
way was recovered in a pasture
200 yards distant while Fire
man Goodrich was found iu an
uuconscious condition near the
w ecked engine
No other passengers or mem
hers of the train were injured
Both the mail and baggage cars
were derailed but were not
damaged Some of the passen
gers asleep in their berths were
not awakened by the accident
Railroad officials who reached
the scene of the accident a short
lime after it happened are un
able to accountfor the explosion
Engineer Holloway was
known as one of the most care
full engine drivers in the ser-
vice of the road
Maj Vandiver found a sprirg
of watr on Cedar Creek last
Sunday which he says never
goes dry and furnishes enough
water to supply a town the size
of Coweta
The Wages of Sin
That the “wages of sin is
death” has been most drama-
tically shown in the case of
Young Bickel the youug Kan
sas divinity student charged
with the murder of Francis Pet-
ers When the girl died the boy
Bed the country and was appre
hended at Omaha Asked why
he ran away he said “I felt as
if I had no one to whom I
could go 1 could not tell my
fatber and I could not bear to
think my mother would ever
hear of it I telt as if the world
had dropped from under me
Think of the anguish of this
boy who a month before was as
care fiee and innocent as your
own boy
But be could not withstand
temptation being a "sport” ap-
pealed to him and when it was
too late he awakened to find his
hands stained with tne blood of
this girl friend who had trusted
him And of the girl lie said:
"Much asl feel rnyown disgrace
I feel vastly more sorrow for
Miss Peters’ mother I would
ike her to know that her giil
was a good daughter worthy of
any mother”
But the girl is dead and the
boy stands in the shadow of the
gallows
Being sorr now is of no avail
thinking of the suffering caused
by his crime to his own and the
girl’s paren's will never bring
back the happy days before the
boy forsook the straight and hon-
oi able path Verily “the wages
of sin is death”— Phoeniz
County Judge Shoots
Muskogee Sept 19— Judge
A C Brewster county judge
of Mayes county shot twice at
JM Bartley oil a street at Pryor
today missing him both times
Bartley then knocked Judge
Brester down with a heavy
club before they could be separ
ated Neither of the shots struck
Bartley and the wounds inflicted
on Brewster by Bartley are not
believed to be dangerous
Shortly after the ahooting Joe
Foreman a deputy sheriff be-
came excited over the affair and
flourished a Winchester about
in such a reckless manner Sher-
iff Dallas placed his own deputy
under arrest
It it is not known just what
led to the altei cation between
Biewster and Bartley but it is
believed that it was a matter
that had been up before the
court a short time ago relative
to the estate of a minor Indian
Bartley was formeily a drug-
gist but more recently has been
a carpenter and contractor
Revised
A Bostonian sotpe time ago
revised the old nursery rhyme
“twinkle twinkle little star”
as follows which is better adapt
ed to the dialect of that learned
community:
"Scintillate scintillate globule
vivific wonderingly contem-
plated by men scientific elevat
ed and poised in the ether ca
pacious resembling a corus
cant gem carbonacious
"Dad” Weikel W J Smith
and W A Guinn accompanied
Sheriff Opry from this place to
Porter Sunday morning in the
latter’s automobile
The display of farm products at
tbe Bank of Commerce has been
augmented Bines our last notice
with more fine corn and a
squash measuring over two feet
long
Bill Bryan Bolts
Lincoln Neb Sept' 9— In a
statement in which he declares
that the crusade which he feels
impelled to wage against
$he liquor interests of the
state and nation over-shadows a
personal and political friendship
of twenty years William J Bry-
an this evening announced he
bad bolted the bead of the dem-
ocratic sate ticket in Nebraska
and would not support James C
Dahlman for governor
Mr Bryan says he regrets he
is compelled to take the stand he
does— his first departure from
political regularity— but says he
feels it his duty to do so because
of the position taken by the
democratic nominee on the'
liquor question
The statement which in a
way is apologetic in tone does
not indicate that Mr Bryan will
support the candidate of any
other party but announces he
is a pronounced advocate of
county option and the early sa
loon closing law both of which
he insists are meuaced by Mr
Dahlman’s candidacy
Firs Destrojs 25 Cotton Balot
A fire the origin of which is
unknown started in a pile of
cotton bales at the Farmers Un
ion gin here this morning and
alter gaining some headway
was discovered ut about 430
o’clock John Ben bow a negro
is said to have turned in tbe
alarm and night watchman C
J” Young aud others tried to
subdue the flame with the gin’t
tire extinguisher but to no
avail
At 5:30 o’clock the town peo
pie weie thoroughly aroused aud
the fire laddies arriving on the
scene soon got in their good
work with the chemical appara-
tus just in tune to save the
main bunding and seed house
winch was aheady slightly
scoicned Luther Upry’s auto-
mobile assisted tbe buys in sep-
arating the bales which weie
said to have beeu worth about
$60 each but the total loss re-
mains unestimated
Elmore-Pickard
C T Elmore and Miss Ger-
trude Pickard were married here
this morning at 9 o’cloik by
Rev J P Peden
After a short bridal tour they
will make their home in Cowe-
ta where both have many
friends and relatives who ex-
tend to them their hearty con-
gratulations From the Wagoner Record
J E Weer one of Coweta’s
big mer hants was in Wagoner
Monday
Banker Vernon of the First
National Bank of Coweta was
in Wagoner Monday
Conny Murphy one of Cowe
ta’s foremost citizen s was a
Wagoner visitor Monday
Attourney J J Hughes of
Coweta looked after business in
the pistrict Court at Wagoner
last Saturday
Mr and Mrs Ed Dunlap have
moved to Catoosa where Mr
Dunlap will take charge as man-
ager of a new branch store of the
well known Dunlap Bros
Trade wi th those who adver-
tise and you will learn where to
spend your money to tbs beat
advantage
The price of cotton is fluctuat-
ing again it being sold here
Tuesday at 14 75 and yeste day
at $460 and today at $440
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Caleb Powers Wins Out
London Ky Sept 15—
By a decisive majority of
moi e than seven thousand Caleb
Powers defeated Congressman
Don C Edwards for the Repub
lican nomination for represent
ative from the Eleventh bon
gressional district of Kentucky
in the primary election today
Congressman Edwards was uerv
ing his third term
Powers who defeated him for
the re nomination made the
race upon an appeal to the voters
of the district to give him the
nomination as a "vindication”
of the alleged complicity in the
assassination of the Democratic
goveinor William Goebel in
1900 Powers was secretary of
state at the time of the assassin
ation and was confined in jail
during eight years the first
three trials resulting in his con-
viction and the fourth in a dis-
agreement Last year Governor Wilson
swept the court records clear of
tne cases remaining untried in
connection with the Goebel mur-
der bv granting pardons to Pow-
ers and several otners
Say She Killed Two Man
Newkirk Sept 19— After be
ing sweated by County Attorney
Burns and Sheriff Bader of Kay
County Ebby Shepard the 16
year-old daughterof J W Shep
ard who with his brother Tay-
lor Shepard was murdered at
the home near here Friday morn-
tag confessed the officers say
that she herself beat her father
and uncle with an ax so that
both died of the injuries She
also went to the woodshed of the
home aud produced the bloody
ax
She gave as her reason that her
father and uncle bad whipped
her It now is the general sup-
position that both men probably
misused her Tne double funer
al of the Shepards was held in
Newkirk today '
The girl has always been fee-
ble minded and now is said to be
insane TbeCassidy boy will be
held until after tbe inquest
which will be resumed Monday
Henry Lytal made a business
trip to Muskogee Friday
11 i c: Q
n
Hobbit Skirt Advantixa
Tulsa i not a bit behind in
the matter of fashions
Yesterday on Main Street in
front of the Robinson hotel two
girls passed with hobble skills
on No one would have noticed
them much if a horse attached
to a pola bad not taken fright
When the horse took fright'
the girls also -took fright and
in their anxiety got so mixed
up in their skirts that they did
not know how to unlimber their
limbs
Two traveling men rushed to
their assistance and disentan-
gled their legs from tbe dress
It was quits a job but traveling
men are used to such thiogs’
and in a few seconds bad the
young women so they oould
breathe
They were very thankfu’ and
promised never to do it again
and the horse remained hitched
—Tulsa Post
Getting Spotted
The "best constitution ever'
written” will have been amend-
ed in six places as the result of
the forthcoming election if ev-
ery one of the six propositions
then to be submitted to tbe peo-
ple is adopted The propositions
are as follows: the local option
and high license woman suf-
frage the "New Jerusalem”
idea repeal of articles 9 section
9 which allows of one railroad
being bought of another a pro-
vision apportioning all school
taxes paid by public service cor
porations through the county in
which paid instead of being ns
ed exclusively by school die'
tricts in which said corporations
are located and the approval or
rejection of bouse bill No 190
approving the general and prim
ary election law— Ardmore v
Statesman
In order to keep up our rep as
a stylish biped we took on a
couple of chills last week and
as usual we came out victor
Tbe first one threw us and made
us shake like a bent reed in
hurricane the ne' t was dumb—
a sort of dog-fall but at last
was vanquished withoat an sf '
fort at resistance At the present
we enjoy three square meals a
day— when we can' get ’em-
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Leftwich, Mark A. Coweta Times. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1910, newspaper, September 22, 1910; Coweta, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1743734/m1/1/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.