The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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CORDELL HERALD SENTINEL
CORDELL,
OKLAHOMA
J | State New Notes |
MOTOR RACER
IS KILLED
DEATH GLAiMS LEWIS STRANG,
FEARLESS AUTO DRIVER
OHIEF ti NHU MMESY
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Tulsa claima to be the healthiest city
In the state.
McAlester will hold a county fair
September 14, 15 and 16.
Work has been started on the $32,000
addition to the school building at
Pawnee.
Okmulgee Is meeting with success
In raising a bonuB to secure the M„ O.
A O. railroad.
Bert Taber was smothered to death
In a cave-in at Rock Creek, near Sa-
pulpa, while working on a dam.
Prof. A. B. Imel, of San Diego, Ca.,
has been elected principal of the high
■chool at Ponca City.
SOUGHT TO AVOID FARMER
Man Who Has Many Times Toyed
With Fate in Time-Killing Con-
tests, Killed When Car Wat
Going 4 Miles an Hour
Because he talked insultingly to her,
Mrs. Mabel Swenson, Oklahoma City,
horsewhipped D. W. Warner, a neigh-
bor. Neighbors Btood by and applauded
the plucky little woman.
The National Farmers' Union has
Accepted Shawnee's invitation to hold
Its national annual convention there.
Twenty-five states will be represented
The date is not set.
The little town of Hardy, in Kay
founty, in the Kaw reservation, cele-
brated the biggest corn crop ever rais-
ed on the reservation by voting bonds
to build a new school house.
Milwaukee, Wis.—Lewis Strang was
killed when his motor car went into
a ditch near Blue River, W1b.
By a strange hand of fate, Strang,
famous as a daring driver of racing
automobiles, who hundreds of times
has risked his life in mad dashes
around motor courses, lost his life
while driving along a country road at
no more than four miles an hour—
pushed over an embankment by fear
of collision with a farmer's cart.
Strang was piloting the machine of
the technical committee of the Wis-
consin Automobile association on its
annuual reliability run from La Cross
to Lancaster, a distance of 128 miles.
Strang's car was traveling only four
miles an hour when a farmer in a
wagon was seen going in the same di-
rection. Strang turned aside, driving
toward a small embankment. The
ground suddenly gave way and his car
slid down the embankment, turning
turtle and Strang, reluctant to jump
went under to his death.
The embankment was only five feet
high.
Farmer boys in the vicinity of Erick
are forming contest clubs for the pur-
pose of exhibiting at the state fair
samples of corn they have grown. They
expect to get some of the prize money
offered.
The board of county commissioners
of Oklahoma county have instructed
the county attorney to take the need
ed steps to recover the $10,000 found
to be due from W. C. Hughes, former
clerk of the superior court.
The Chickasha Chamber of Com
merce purposes to hold a county cotton
exhibit for the benefit of the boys'
and girls' cotton club contest, and to
•ncourage the children of the county
to pursue agricultural llnea.
Work on the foundation for the Cleve
land Rlasa plant was begun last week.
The work is being pushed as much
as possible so the factory may be in
operation by the early fall. An office
1b also being built on the grounds and
Will be completed this week.
ASK THE AID OF DOCTORS
OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
Health Officials Are More Worried
Than Ever Over the Cholera Sit-
uation at New York
COTTON FUTURES TAKE
AN EXCITING TUMBLE
* While hanging up a rifle which he
bad just been using, Earl Meeks, 13
years old of Belvla, was shot in the
atomach by the accidental discharge of
the gun and died an hour afterwards.
The boy had killed a snake in the yard.
Walter Johnson and D. C. Morton
(I Beggs have prepared to irrigate a
6-acre tract for summer and fall gar-
den, arranging to pump the water from
Flat Rock creek at the rate of 50,000
gallons per day as long as needed.
4'
'Alfalfa" Jones, who has a big alf-
alfa farm In Kiowa county, has placed
in operation a big irrigation plant. He
Will impound water from Rainy Moun-
tain creek, and will pump water Into
the ditches by a centrifugal pump.
r
4 Judge Frank P. Cease, county Judga
of Swanson county, died last week.
He settled in Guthrie in 1889, since
which time he has had a long legal
career in the state. When Swanson
county was created he was elected
county Judge.
New York—The health officials not
only of New York, but of the whole
country may be asked to help repel
the threatened invasion of Asiatic
cholera. The discovery of five "cholera
carriers" among the six hundred immi-
grants undergoing bacteriological ex-
amination at quarantine emphasized
the difficulty of confining the disease
to quarantine hospitals. The case of
these cholera carriers presents a puz-
zle. As yet the health authorities have
not decided how soon it will be safe
to permit them at large. A careful
bacteriological examination detected
the presence of oholera germs in these
apparently healthy persons.
Railway Case Appealed
Oklahoma City—The Clinton & Okla-
homa Western railroad has appealed
to the supreme court from an order of
the district court of Custer county,
which denied it a right of way along
certain streets in Clinton. The Orient
road was first given a right of way,
anj then the Clinton & Oklahoma
Western proceeded to build along one
of the same streets. The White Lum-
ber & Coal company, whose property
faces on the street thus completely
occupied by the two* railroads, brought
Injunction proceedings and obtained an
Injunction against the occupation of
the street by the railroad company,
from which it now appeals.
\
NOBODY KNOWS, BUT EACH SIDI
CLAIMS VICTORY
Captain John H. Gibbons. U. S. N.. until recently a member of the gen
era] board of the naval department, has been made superintendent of th«
naval academy at Annapolis
New Orleans Market Scene of Sensa-
tional Slump in Prices cf
Southern Staple
FIGHT AGAINST CHOLERA
ON AT NEW YORK
Appearance of Plague There Has
Caused Much Uneasiness Among
Officials—Death List Six
New Orleans, La.—The cotton mar-
ket Tuesday was one of the most ex-
citing in many months, with heavy
sales and sensational declines in all
futures. Private reports from Liver-
pool that the bull leaders were liquid-
ating stirred up selling orders in all
parts of the cotton world and futures
on the New Orleans exchange opened
at a wide decline only to go still lower
i the trading progressed.
When the trading was over it was
the general opinion on the floor that
the bull campaign in the summer
months had been abandoned, but not
until the leaders materially had light-
ened their load. August, the most ac
tive old crop month, lost 48 points at
its lower, or nearly %c a pound. A
couple of points more and it would
have been $2.50 a bale under the prev-
ious day's close. This represented an
enormous loss on the lines of long
August cotton the bulls are supposed
to own.
The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Allison, six miles south of
Anadarko, was drowned by falling into
a puddle of water in the door-yard.
An Oklahoma state association of
singers will be formed at a conven-
tion of singers from Oklahoma, Texas,
and Arkansas, to be held at Moun-
tain Park on July 28, 29, and 30. E
H. Shelton, of Frederick, is chairman
In charge of arrangements.
Holdup Man Is Killed
Baxter Springs, Kan.—Berne Wilson,
a local merchant, who was shot while
I attempting to hold up John Hickens,
a farmer, and his wife while they
| were driving home from church, died
from the effects of the wound. Wilson,
! who com^s of a highly respected Chero
kee county family and who is married,
| was successful in two holdups prior
to the fatal attempt on Hickens.
American Girl a Climber
Lima, Peru—Miss Annie S. Peck, the
American mountain climber, accompa-
nied by Carl Volkmar and five Peru-
vians, ascended two peaks of the vol-
cano Coropuna on July 16. The Coro-
punua is one of a number of giant vol-
canoes in southern Peru, the elevations
of which are variously given at from
18,000 to 20,000 feeL
Railroads Will Appeal
Oklahoma City—Notice of appeal to
the supreme court was served on the
state corporation commission Tuesday
by all the railroads of the state from
the proposed freight schedule on grain
and grain products and coal. The
grain rate would have gone into effect
on July 24 and the coal rate on July 31.
The appeal will act as a stay to the en-
forcement of the orders until the court
has disposed of the matter.
City officials of Guthrie and of the
Santa Fe railroad are considering the
creation Jointly of a big lake east of
the city in order to make certain a
never-failing water supply. It is pro-
posed to erect a dam at a cost of
$98,000 which would make a reservoir
of a billion gallons capacity.
The most destructive cyclone Alfalfa
county has known in six years passed
over Carmen last week doing heavy
damage to the Methodist church there,
tearing down utterly the schoolhouse
annex, and destroying the residence of
L. E. Searles. The total damage to
bouses here will approximate $2,000.
No lives were lost.
Somnambulist Killed
Wilmington, Del.—While walking in
his sleep, William Bolden, aged 50,
stepped from a third story window
and crashed through a skylight to the
ground. He was instantly killed.
Want Hoke In Congress
Atlanta Ga.—In a resolution in the
house of representatives Governor
Hoke Smith will be called upon to re-
sign as governor and proceed to Wash-
ington to assume the duties of United
States senator sind give Georgia her
full representation. The resolution has
been prepared by Representatives
Ragsdale and Scott.
New York—The flght to bar cholera
from the port of New York as the
result of fears of invasion of the epi-
demic through passengers from Euro-
pean countries, continues with a fed-
eral expert helping the local health de-
partment.
Another death from cholera occurred
at Swinburn Island hospital, making
the total six. Two hundred and forty-
eight persons who arrived two weeks
ago on the steamer Moltke are still
under observation and will undergo
bacteriological examinations and a
more rigid quarantine will be enforced
at Swinburn Island, where fifteen cases
of the disease are confined with four
others under suspicion.
These cases with the six deaths
since the Moltke brought the germ
here from Naples show the reality of
the danger the city faces from the
epidemic now raging in Southern Eu
rope.
While nothing evAi approaching a
panic exists here now, the situation is
receiving greater attention and Dr.
Alvah Doty, health officer of the port,
has felt called on to issue a reassur
ing statement. Dr. Doty says that the
cholera germ can be received in one
way one, through the mouth, and that
their is no danger in ordinary con-
tact with persons who have the dis-
ease.
However, Charles Dushkins, counsel
for complainants, at the investigation
of Dr. Doty's official conduct now in
progress, declares his belief that chol-
era patients now in hospitals caught
the disease not on <Sie steamer but
at the immigration station, where all
passengers were detained after land-
ing.
THE YOTEJSYERY CLOSE
Votes Counted up to 11 O'Clock Suiv
day Night Give Anti-Prohibition-
ists Lead of 4,234—Total
Vote Cast Close to 450,000
Dallas, Tex.—With the anti-prohibi-
tionists leading by 4,234 votes in the
returns counted up to 11 o'clock Sun-
day night from the state-wide prohi-
bition election of Saturday; with the
leaders of each side issuing state-
ments claiming victory and with the
additional feature of fraud charges
Sunday made by prohibition leaders
the outlook shortly before midnight is
that full returns will be necessary to
decide the result.
Both sides stand ready to contest
the vote. For 24 hours the returns
have about divided themselves for and
against prohibition. The total vote
cast Saturday possibly will exceed
450,000.
The contest is the closest in the his-
tory of the state. Tens of thousands
of persons collected around bulletin
boards watching the returns, t is
practically impossible to forecast what
the final returns will show. About 85
per cent of the estimated vote cast is
accounted for.
The counties and boxes still miss-
I ing are widely distributed over the
state. Some of them are admittedly
prohibition and others certain anti
prohibition. None of them are very
large. The reports in hand include
practically complete returns from ev-
ery large city and county.
The total vote cast Saturday proba
bly will reach 475,000. Probably 9C
per cent of this is reported. Only a
few small counties which lack wire fa-
cilities have not been heard from and
there are scattered boxes in many
other counties still out. The territory
from which the returns are incomplete
is about evenly divided between the
"wet" and "dry" districts
The totals ot the returns up to 11:
p. m. give 222,474 for the prohibition
amendment, and 226,704 against the
amendment.
WAKE UPl
* ^ Shake off that
tired feeling due to
sluggish liver, kidneys,,
stomach and bowels.
Cleanse and purify
your system with the
greatest of tonics,
OXIDINE
—a bottle proves.
The Specific (or Malaria, Chilli and
Fever, and a reliable remedy lor
all diseases due to disorders of
liver, bowels, stomach
and kidneys.
50c. At Your Drugguta
B1IBIKI DST7Q CO.,
•Waco, Texas.
RECIPROCITY BILL PASSES;
NO AMENDMENTS MADE
Vote on Final Passage 53 to 27— Effec-
tive When Approved by Presi-
dent Taft and Canada
Guthrie had a mad dog scare last
week, and an order was issued that
all dogs be kept confined for a period
of nine days.
The 4-year-old son of O. L. C.oodell
at Miami, was struck on the head by a
12-pound shot, and there are no hopes
for his recovery. The little fellow with
bis father was watching the practice
of members of the A. & M. college
track and field team. The big 12-pound
shot had been thrown and it was be-
ing returned when the boy ran
front of It
Santa Fe Retracked
Oklahoma City—Only about ten or
twelve miles of the main line of the
Santa Fe remain to be re-tracked be-
tween Arkansas City, Kan., and Pur-
cell, Okla., and when that small bit
of work is completed, the Santa Fe
main line through Oklahoma will be
equipped with new 90-pound rails.
Teheran in Danger
Teheran.—News that the former
shah. Mohammed Ali Mirza, is hurryy-
ing to the capital has caused great con-
sternation. The government has de-
clared martial law and the Bakhita
chiefs have offered 5,000 men to de-
fend Teheran but they cannot arrive
in time. *
Four Trainmen Killed
Pittsburg. Pa.—Four trainmen were
killed and two injured when a fast
freight train on the Pittsburg and
Western division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad was derailed at Bryant
station near here.
New Counterfeit Out
Washington.—A new counterfeit $10
bill on the American Exchange Na-
tional bank of New York has been
found circulating in the middle west.
It is a photographic reproduction of a
ffmuine bi'
Direct Election and Publicity Bills
Washington.—That compromises
will be reached by which the house
will be able to agree to both the di-
rect election of senators and the cam-
paign publicity bills, both of which
the senate amended, was the opinion
expressed by Representative Rucker
of Missouri, in charge of the bills in
the house. He said he thought the
house would agree to the senate
amendments to the campaign publicity
bill, with "some minor changes."
Final Movement On
San Antonio. Texas—The final move-
ment of troops under the recent order
maneuvers division is under way.
Murderer Commits Suicide
Beaver, Pa—V. Charles Hickman,
who was to have been hanged for the
brutal murder of his wife, was found
dead in his cell. He had on three oc-
casions attempted to commit suicide.
France Asks Explanation
pariS_The French government has
demanded an explanation from Spain
of the arrest at Alcazar, Morocco, of
the French consular agent at that
place and his imprisonment in the
town Jail.
Rubber Mills Close
Woonsocket, R. I.—The Alice and
Millville mills of the Woonsocket Rub-
ber company closed for a month be-
cause of lack of orders. In the Alice
mills 1,500 hands are affected and in
the Millville plant 800.
Payment Ordered
Santiago, Chili—In accordance with
King George's award, the Chilean gov-
ernment has ordered the payment of
187,000 pounds sterling ($935,000) to
the representative of the Alsop claim-
ants.
American Autoist Killed
Paris—While traveling 70 miles an
hour in his car at the Sarthe automo-
bile course E. N. Nau'd, the only Amer-
ican entrant in the races to begin in
a few days, was killed.
" Bankruptcy Petitions
Guthrie, Okla.—Involuntary petitions
in bankruptcy wer filed in the federal
court here against G. M. Armstrong
of Frederick, and H. W. Kay, doing
business as the Kay Mercantile com-
pany of Clinton.
Changing Seats Fatal
Chicago—Changing* seats in a row-
boat cost the lives of Carl Glade, 20
years old, and Matthew Hillstein, 29
years old, by drowning in the Chicagf
river here.
flint Mywktn.tfc
truta >■<! kilkaH
(lit®. Neat, clew.
I ornamental, conven-
ient.cheap. Latta all
mimi. Can't spill of
tip over, will nat loll
or Injure anything
Guaranteed e fleet,
live. 01 all dealer.
Isent prepaid lor 20c.
HAROLD HOMERS
I HO D* Kalb An,
> Braaklja, ■■ I.
Washington.—The reciprocal trade
agreement between the United St-itcs
and Canada, embodied in the recipro-
city bill that proved a storm center in
two sessions of congress, passed the
senate without amendment Saturday
by a vote of 53 to 27. A majority ot
republicans voted against it. Of fifty
three votes for it, thirty-two were ('.em
ocratic and twenty-one republicans;
of the twenty-seven against it, twenty
four were republicans and threo dem
ocrats.
This action settled the whole Cana
dian reciprocity question so far as
congress is concerned, and save for
executive approval and the Canadian
parliament's ratification, virtuallyy
made the pact the law of the land.
Congressional practice will delay
the affixing of the president's signa-
ture until July 26, when the house is
again in session. The reciprocity bill,
having originated in the house, must
be returned there for engrossment and
for the signature of Speaker Clark
while the house is sitting.
Following is a list of commodities in-
eluded in the reciprocity agreement:
Present Rate New Rate
Butter, 6c pound tree
Eggs, 5c dozen free
Potatoes, 25c barrel free
Fresh halibut, lc pound free
Apples, 2oc bushel tree
Tomatoes, 26 per cent free
Onions, 40c bushel tree
Cabbage, 2c each free
Peaches, 5c bushel tree
Poultry, dressed, 5c pound free
Poultry, live, 3c pound free
Mackerel, lc pound free
Bacon and ham, 4c pound..l%c-lb.
Beef and pork, 25 per cent free
The worst thing about the silver-
lining theory is that you have to turn
the cloud inside out to find 1L
Red Cross Ball Blue makes the laundress
happy, makes clothes whiter than snow.
All good grocers.
A girl gets so good-looking every
time she peeps in a mirror it's queer
It doesn't last long enough afterward
for otner people to see.
Thinnest Man Weds.
The thinnest man In the world was
married recently by Municipal Judge
John R. Newcomer at the city hall.
"I had to look three times to see
him." said the judge. *
The man is Arthur Atherton, twenty-
four years old. Though five feet high,
he weighs only 38 pounds. He mar-
ried Blanche Buckley, nineteen years
old, who weighs 136 pounds.—Chicago f
Dally News.
The Quaker Scored.
An old Quaker went into a book-
seller's shop, and an impertinent shop-
, wishing to have some sport at
his expense, said to him:
You are from the country, are you
not?"
"Yes," replied the Quaker.
"Then ht re is just the thing for
you," responded the man, holding out
the book.
"It is an 'Essay on Rearing
Donkeys.'"
"Friend," said the Quaker, "thee had
better present that to thy mother."
DECIDED NOT TO OPEN IT.
Caller—I was thinking about open-
ing a drug store in this neighborhood.
Do you think one Is needed around
here?
Resident—Great idea. There's no
place within ten blocks where a man
can buy stamps or see the city direc-
tory.
Increases in Pay
Washington.—Postmaster General
Hitchcock has ordered promotions for
postoffice clerks and city letter car-
riers which carry salary increases of
about $2,000,000 a year. Orders also
were issued for promotions in the rail-
way mail service which will total $175,-
000 a year. These increasse are in
addition to the increases for rural
mail carriers, totaling $4,000,000 a year,
which became effective July 1.
Troops On Guard
Washington—As the result of an un-
favorable report to the state depart-
ment on conditions in Mexico close
to the Arizona border, the war depart-
ment ordered the four troops of cavalry
at Nogales to remain there until th#
situation clears.
J. T. Dunn Takes His Life
Atlantic City. N. J.—James T. Dunn,
head of a novelty concern in Philadel-
phia, and formerly proprietor of ho
tels in San Francisco and New Haven,
Conn., was found dead in a hotel room
here, having committed suicide by
•hooting himself in the heart.
Cadets Missing
Bergen, Norway.—Two of the cadet*
of the American practice squadron
here, have been missing since Thurs-
day when they set out with an exccr-
siou party
A Triumph
Of Cookery—
Post
Toasties
Many delicious dishes
have been made from
Indian Corn by the skill
and ingenuity of the ex-
pert cook.
But none of these crea-
tions excels PoStT OaSt-
ies in tempting the palate.
"Toasties" are a
luxury that make a delight-
ful hot-weather economy.
The first package tells
its own story.
"The Memory Lingers*
Sold by Grocers
POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd.,
Battle Creek. Mich.. U.S. A.
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