The Cornish News. (Cornish, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CORNISH NEWS
A MtCROMY r
CORNISH OKLAHOMA
NEW STATE NOTES
TRUST LI IS STUDIED
DIES I HERO IH 01711 HOflEl THE ENID STOCK SIIOWl
The Lawton high acbool won the
Thanksgiving game last week and tba
State blgb acbool chimplonablp by de-
feating viulta high school by a score
of 22 to 0
TAFT MAY SUGGEST NO CHANGES
IN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
lEVOfflCESma EXECUTIVE DEP1BTUE1T
Five thousand delegates are expect-1
ed to be in attendance at tbe State
Teachers' meeting which will convene I
In Oklahoma City Tuesday Dec 28
for a three days' session
The Atoka county commissioners
have let contracts for six more
bridges this making In all twenty-
seven bridges constructed in this
county since statehood
Many Changes May be Made In the
' Department of Justice PostofTice
Treasury and the Interior
Departments
' After bolding the first election of
Its kind In the state the people of
Eldorado have concluded by a de-
cisive vote that they do not want
pool halls In tbe town
Contract for a county road from
the east to the west side of Lincoln
county was last week let to T M
Stelcher for f 135000 The road will
be thirty-one miles long
Frank Moore Thursday defeated H
A Ashby of Tulsa at golf on the
Country club’s course winning the
championship of the Tulsa County
Country club and the f 250 diamond
watch fob
Five warrants have been Issued In
Shawnee against parents who have
not obeyed the school laws in regard
to sending their children to school
the required number of days in the
school term
The seventh incorporation to build
railroads In Oklahoma organized
within tbe last four months filed a
charter with the secretary of s'ate
last week the Muskogee Hartshore
end Southern Railroad company
The records In the state game war-
den’s office at Chlckasha show that
60 far 57025 hunting licenses have
been issued Since the quail season
began applications for licenses have
averaged more than 200 a day
The state board of public affairs
last week awarded a contract to the
Daugherty and Campbell Construc-
tion company of Sulphur for the erec-
tion of the building for -the South-
'eastern Normal school at Durant The
contract price is 294700
Washington— President Taft and
the lawyer members of la cabinet ex-
pect to reach a decision within the
next few days as to whethor tho Pres-
ident shall suggest to congress thnt
Changes In the Sherman anti-trust
law he made
A member of the cabinet is author
Ity for the statement that If the Pres-
ident had to put his message down
on paper at once he would bo elleAt
about any changes On bis western
trip the President announced tat he’
would recommend to congress that
the anti trust law be made more effec-
tlve by narrowing lta scope Ho said
he would not lncludo in it prohibi-
tion and denunciation as a crime any-
thing but a contrary or combina-
tion entered Into with actual intent
to monopolize or suppress competi-
tion In Interstate trade He also an-
nounced that he would oppose the
excepting from the operations of the
law a class of persons like laborers
or working men farmers ministers
me teachers or lawyers
At that time his program also in-
eluded the establishment of an! accus-
atory bureau in the department of
Justice whose functions It would be
to Institute prosecutions for viola-
tions of the Interstate commerce law
and the anti-trust law
The decision In the Standard OH
case has caused the President and
the lawyers In his cabinet to give
serious thought to the question as-to
whether or not the' administration
would make a grave mistake by sug-
gesting tho changes which the Presi-
dent believed two months ago should
be made
There are Indications too that the
leaders In congress may take a stand
TROOPS WILL SAIL SOUTH
CONGRESSMAN DE ARMOND OF
MISSOURI BURNED TO DEATH
Slaying of Two Americans in Nicara-
gua May Cauaa Troubla
Washington— Preparatlona for four
hundred marines to sail from Phila-
delphia either for the canal tone or
Xlcangua Nov 27 are being made
This will constitute the first armed
force to land In Nicaragua if devel
opments In the situation there wlthla
tbe next few days require such
course to be pursued All will depend
upon the action to be taken by the
state department which la marking
time pending the receipt of additional
details of tbe killing of the two Amer-
icans Grace and Cannon
The preparation for the marines'
departure followed rush orders sent
to the League Island navy yard after
the state department received the pre-
liminary report of the slaying at
President Zelaya's orders of the two
men It had ben Intended to send
the marines to Panama to relive mi-
PIESIDEIT TUT SUDS MICE
On December 11-18
the greatest pure bred
stock and poultry showi
ever held lnAmerlca
will take place rain or
DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY
When money talks don't talk back
Yoq can’t say of a rolling stons that
It gathers no remorse
Where there is a fsll opening the
women always drop In
Some people never crack a Joke
without damaging It
Lota of our good Intentions die
shine at Enid Oklaho-1 rom ack of nourishment
— 1 You can nail a lie but even
Congressman Tries to Save Loved
Grandson from Burning Home
Both Perish— Cause of
Fire la Unnkown
that
wont always keep It down
Many a man's best frlnds are those
who dont know him very well
This is 100 feet long-
er than any building
of this kind in the
world The Champion
Horses Cattle Hogs
and Poultry of America
will be on exhibition
Entries have been re-
ceived from more than
20 states
In order that the
clv year old lad David A DeArmond Jr1 reading public Can COm-
rlnernow" onVutytnerer The'd'ate I ni1 rushl with him through the leap I prehend the magnitude
of departure from Philadelphia was ®aDe that filled his room Her of the Enid Show We
will state that the
records show that there
was 33 Draft horses
on exhibition at the
ret for Dec 3 by which time the
troop ship Prairie undergoing repairs
at the yard would have been ready
to sail Working day and night the
League Island force will be able to
finish the repairs by Nov 27 and that
date has now been set for tbe sail
lng of the marines
Secretary of the Navy Myers will go
to Philadelphia on Monday to review
the men as he Intended before war
clouds appeared in Central Ameri-
ca In event of necessity the 350 ma-
rines now on the canal xone could
be utilized In Nicaragua In addition
to the 400 to be taken south by the
Prairie With the troop ship Buffalo
on the Pacific coast and the Prairie
on the Atlantic the marines could
be transferred from one coast of Nic-
aragua to the other via Panama rail-
road In a comporatlvely short time
Rear admirals galore were at the
navy department Monday but in no
Instance 'was It admitted - that their
presence there had to do with tWe
trouble In Nicaragua Rear Admiral
Schroeder commander of the Atlan-
flames that filled his room
fell with hla unconscious burden and I
both sack through the floor to quick
death
What makes the tragedy unusually
pathetic Is the fact that the grandson
was the grandfather’s Idol The two! Missouri State Fair
were Inseparable and often slept to I 47 head at the Kansas
gether Monday night the boy went Stata Fair and 38 head
to his grandfather’s bouse as usual
and after a happy evening the two re
tired '
The next the family heard of them
ma The citizens of
Enid and breeders of
Oklahoma have con-
structed a Concrete
Stock Pavilion 150 feet No TH
vide and 700 feet long uiSUXSZiT orc "
Human Improvement fa from wlthla
outward— Fronde
He has all wealth that bos a mind
contented— Johnson
Our goodness should have some
odge to It — Landor
Men of character are the conscience
of society — Emerson
Perish discretion whenever It Inter-
feres with duty — More
We should rather be wronged than
to do wrong — Pulseford
It behooves all for their own aake
to do things worthily— Poe
The man without purpose lives on
but enjoys not life— Trollope
Let him who would move the world
first move himself— Socrates
The fairest of all things fair oa
earth Is virtue — Shakespeare
Look not upon pleasures pa they
come but as they go — Cowen
Living well Is the best revenge we
can take on our enemies — Peel
Tbe path of success In business la
usually the path of common sense
—Smiles
tlc battleship fleet had a talk with riences -All with the exception of
at the Oklahoma State
Fair 27 head at Wich-
ita 33 at Topeka and
lauiuj ucaru ui tucui i A - ' - I — -— waw
was when from behind the smoke and t the American Roy- perior to all trees That Is why they
flames that enveloped the house the Stock Show Kansas I Cut them
boy screamed: I Ci "ty making a total
Oh Grandpa get me out of herelof 219 There is 243
quick I’m burning to death” head entered at Enid
‘Yes son don’t be afraid Grandpa being £4 more than the
will tajee you out" was the calm H total number exhibited
Then both went down to their death I Of the largest
The remainder of the family sleep- Fairs held in the great
lng in the house at the time of the fire Southwest ' There will
be a grand total of
more than five thous-
and exhibits at the
— Mrs DeArmond and her daughter
Mrs Clary and Miss Nellie Bates —
were greatly shaken up by their expe-
Assistant Secretary Wlnthrop Monday
afternoon
It was stated that the shallow wat-
ers along Nicaragua on the Atlantic
in opposition to any tampering with cost made the sending of a battle-
The Chickasaw legislature adjourn-
ed last week after a session of more
than ten days The last thing done
was tbe passage of a bill authorizing
the election of two delegates to rep-
resent the tribe In Washington at a
salary of 23000 a year each
Good cheer was scattered about pro-
fusely in Oklahoma City Thursday
when the Eks opened the doors of
the Auditorium and invited the news-
boys and everybody else who felt
hungry to come in and have a real
old-fashioned Turkey day dinner
Notice was received from the aud-
itor of the United States treasury de-
partment last week by Governor Has-
kell that 238484 has been placed to
the credit of Oklahoma from 'reven-
ues arising from the Wichita forest
reserve for the year ending June 30
On account of the rate hearing that
was In progress before the corpora-
tion commission many of the high
railroad officials attending the hear-
ing had to spend Thanksgiving In
Gu’hrie and eat turkey in their pri-
vate cars which almost fill a side
track in the local Santa Fe yards
the anti-trust law at this time Many
think that it probably would be wise
to wait until the supreme court has
passed on the Standard Oil case and
a decision in this case by the high-
est court is not exected until the end
of the year 1910
The administration has decided to
make many changes In the personnel
of each of the executive departments i
within the next two months Mr
Taft was so engrossed with the tariff
legislation from the time he entered
the White House ‘ until congress ad-
journed in August that he had but
little time to devote to appointments
Comparatively few changes have
been made in any of the departments
since the Taft administration came
in It never was the Intention to run
through the four years with the old
set of officials in office and the Pres-
ident and members of his cabinet feel
that It Is about time to begin the work
of reorganization
' Senators and representatives who
are aware of the administration plans
are already coming to the front with
numerous recommendations
The department of justice is to be
completely overhauled the postoffice
department is to get a housecleaning
and the treasury and the Interior de-
partments are to undergo numerous
changes
ship there useless and such action
is not contemplated Preparations
are being made by the navy for any
emergency but it was denied that
rush Qrders had been given for the
completion of repairs on such vessels
as the Paducah and the Debuque It
was admitted however that the Al-
bany and the Yorktown would remain
for the present in Magdelona hay It
had been generally understood that
they were about to be ordered south'
Strained now almost to the break-
ing point It remains for the next
few days-perhaps one or two will
suffice to show whether the relations
between the United States and Nica-
ragua are to he snapped off short-
This ’ government has not accepted
as facts beyond all contradiction- the
explanation of Nicaragua on the ex-
cairinn cr Grace and Cannon In that
co -:i:ry
Mr DeArmond and bis grandson es-
caped with but slight Injuries
Tho DeArmond home was a "iarge
tvo-stohy frame structure set well
hack from the street On two sides of
the house on a level with the second
floor four rooms or sleeping apart-
ments had been constructed and at
the time the fire broke out the occu-
pants of the house occupied Ihese
rooms ’ ’ '
Congressman DeArmond and his
top Is a favorite Later on the Christ-
LniO Stock and Poultry I mas tree is In vogue At the club
Show There will also I the only tree used is the hat tree
he a large Fine Stock
Sale about 600 head
of Registered Stock
will he sold at Public
Sale Poland China
Hogs will he sold on
Trees are useful for cutting down
and furnish occupation for the other-
wise unemployed In the form of rail-
road ties they furnish a basis for
bond issues and for stock market
panics
Trees grow on mountain-sides in
remote country districts and in some
residential ' quarters They furnish
shade presidential timber and when
Mine Closes on 150tDead
Cherry 111— The St Paul mine was
sealed Thursday fire gained such head-
way that it wns thought best to cut
off all the air in the shafts The
mine probably will remain sealed for
several weeks After more than 150
Monday December 13
Durocs on Tuesdays —
grandson oocupied one room on the TTprpfnrd fto! 1 nwnv nnrt I ®Hced thin delicious breakfast foods
south side of the building whil6 Mrs "®re0ra ailOWay ana Lipplncotta
DeArmond and Mrs Clark were In I ADSrdSen AngUS Cattle
rooms on the opposite side of the on Wednesday Short-
horn Cattle on Thurs-
day Standard Bred sad-
dle and Coach Houses
and going to the door of her room saw I on Friday and H10re
Dmnlr loanlm f-nm that Itatt a tho I - I
The report of Insurance Commission
er T J McComb just Issued cover-
ing the year 1908 shows that the re-
ceipts of the department totaled 276-
34909 of which 250363 was received
from fire companies
Governor Haskell will commission
152 delegates two from each county
ita the national good roads convention
to be held at Topeka Kansas begin-
ning December 15 Governor Hakell
expects to attend himself
The Cherokee Commercial Club Is
working on a proposition to induce
the Rock Island railroad to enter that
city The Rock Island runs within a
mile of the city and has a passenger
station there - -
There was some class to the crowd
that attended the Oklahoma-Epworth
football game Thanksgiving afternoon
and yelled Itself hoarse over the ex-
citing incidents of the contest which
r suited in a 12 to 11 victory for the
Booners
Ravia Receives Mineral Diploma
Ravla Okia — R G Guptlll minerol-
ngist of Ravia Okia has Just receiv-
ed a diploma from the Oklahoma
State Fair association for the finest
display of minerals consisting of lead
zinc asphaltum limestone graphite
shale and fire clay All of the sam-
ples were secured near Ravia There
were five different samples of fire
clay in the exhibit The Rock Creek
Oil and Mineral company have reach-
ed a depth of near 900 feet and are
In a red rock same as covers the oil
In the Wheeler oil field The com-
pany is expecting a gusher at an early
day Two other oil companies have
secured a number of leases near town
and are arranging to commence work
before the first of the year
smoke issuing from that part of the
house where Congressman DeArmond
and “Waddie” slept She then heard
the boy’s appeal for help and his
grandfather’s answer
James DeArmond dashed for the
front door In a frantic effort to save
his father and boy He had already Saturday
been lost in the cloud and smoke sur-
rounding the house before neighobrs
could get to him and prevent his enter-
ing the house For a few minutes
there w'as a struggle and finally James
was literally dragged to the street
No cry came from the burning ruins
of the hdhse now fast crumbling and
than 100 head of Im-
ported and American
Bred Percheron and
Shire Stallions and
Mares will he sold on
bodies had been discovered efforts to A t i vr
carry them to the surface were tern- it was evident that Congressman De- Rational
Without question
this will he the larg-
est event ever held in
Oklahoma It will be
a 'chance for all Okla-
homa citizens to seea
stock and
porarily abandoned while a battle' Armond and “Waddie” had been either I poultry Show right at
was begun to check a Are -which again °come by the smo or home AH should - at-
threatened the main shaft dead 'tend and by their
presence encourage the
manager of this enter-
prise There is noth-
May be Ambassador
- Washington — Ricard C Kerens of
Missouri -according to a report cur-
rent here probably will be appointed
ambassador to Vienna upon the as-
sembling of congress Dec 6 The
state department officials however
are noncommittal on the subject
The city commission of Tulsa called
for what it believed was an emergency
passed an ordinance which prohibits
the sale of opium morphine cocaine
or the sauce of same to anyone except
practicing dentists and physicians
The number of referees in bank-
ruptcy In the eastern district of Ok-
lahoma is to be decreased from six
to three This was announced last
week when Judge Campbell issued an
order re-appointing three of the six
referees now acting
-Thompson to Hang January 7
Holdenville Okia— P T Thompson
who was recently convicted of the
murder of Charles T Farrow city
marshal of Okemah has been sen-
tenced to hang January 7 1910 '
De Armords in Single Grave
Butler Mo — Hundreds of promi-
nent public men of Missouri and
many from outside states joined the
citizens of Butler Friday In paying
respect to the memory of the late Rep-
resentative David A DeArmond who
met & tragic death in a fire here last
Tuesday In a vain effort to save the
life cf his favorite grandson David
A DeArmond third All Butler was
in mourning The bodies of tbe vic-
tims were buried in one casket in the
local cemtery
Denver Mint to Resume
Denver Colo — The Denver mint
which was shut down last July be-
cause of a surplus of all denomina-
tions of gold coins will open Janu-
ary 1 next with between 212000000
and 220000000 in gold bullion on
hand which will be Immediately coin-
ed into money
Sends Report Under Guard
New York — A voluminous report
prepared by Dr - Frederick A Cook
for the University of Copenhagen
which will set forth In detail the ex-
plorer’s claim to having reached the
North Pole will be shipped under
strong guard on the Scandinavian lin-
er from the United States Thanksgiv-
ing day
Bulgin Caught In Court's Trap
Oklahoma City — After thirty days
of immunity from court summons dur-
ing which time he hurled sensational
charges of civil corruption against
Oklahoma City the Rev E J Bulgin
has been Ordered to appear before the
special grand Jury The minister was
given all the rope he desired abso-
lutely uninterrupted during his month
of tirade by the ofllcers Bulgin will
now be called upon to tell Moman
Prulett and the grand jury how well
founded his utterances have been
President Taft’s Message
Washington — President Taft sent
the following message of condolence
to Mrs David A DeArmond whose
husband and grandson were burned I ing of more importance
in the fire which destroyed their UQ the State of Qkla-
home at Butler Mo Tuesday:
“Mrs Taft and I are shocked to-a®®a tlian good Stock
hear the dreadful news We sympa- and Poultry Let ev-
thize most deeply with you in your e ryt 0 dy Boost for the
Enid show
Woman
Woman! thou loveliest gift that here
below
Man can receive or Providence be-
stow! To thee the earliest offerings belong
Of opening eloquence or youthful
song
Lovely partaker of our dearest ojys!
Thyself a gift whose pleasure never
cloys — ’
Whose wlshed-for presence gently can
appease
The wounds of penury or slow disease
Whose loss is such as thorugh life’s
tedious way
No rank cau compensate no wealth
repay
Thy figure beams a ray of heavenly
light ‘
To cheer the darkness of our earthly
night
Hail fair Enslaver! at they changing
’ glance -
Boldness’ recedes and timid hearts ad-
vance Monarchs forget their scepter and
- their sway'1
And sages melt In tenderness away
— Wlnthrop Macworth Praed
sorrow Your husband and I were
very intimate I valued his friend-
ship most highly He was an honest
able servant of the public and a pa-
troit ' My heart goes out to you In
your loss
“WILLIAM H TAFT”
A Treat for Stock Lovers '
Enid Okia — The stock show at
Enid December 11 to 18 1909 bids
fair to be the greatest of its kind
evei held in Oklahoma The entries
are coming In rapidly and the date
for the different sales of registered
hogs cattle and horses are already
fixed Thoroughbred stock from all
over the United States and some of
the foreign countries will be on ex-
hibition 1
' Premium List and Sale
Catalog -mailed free
Address
F S -KIRK
Enid Okia
Tests of Success
Sometimes it seems easier to num-
ber your successes by counting the
chances you didn’t take — Puck
Wisdom
Wodsworth: He Is often the wisest
man who is not wise at all
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
Nice light bread and flaky biscuits
can be made from
CIIQCTA17 FLOUR
Insist on this brand and you
are sure to have the best i
VOT'H GROCER SEIIS IT
WHITE TO THE
National Builders’ Supply Co
FOR PRICES ON AU KINDS OP
High Grade Building Material
Wholesale Diitribnton I0LA PORTLAND CEMENT 1
WHOLESALE LUMBER
0-01 CAMPKLL ILDS OKLAHOMA CITY
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SPECIlt IXniCFMFXTS ' '
Editors Prepare for Meeting
Enid Okia — Already preparation Is
being made for the meeting of the
Oklahoma Press association to be
held in this city next spring There
will probably be three or four hun-
dred editors attend the meeting At
least two members of the profession
who have risen to high places will
address the association They are
William Allen White of the Emporia
Kan Gazette-Walter Williams dean
of the 'school of journalism of the
Missouri University
Makes Lumbering Unprofitable
While there is an abundance of suit
I able - timber in ’ Brazil it la difficult
ro find many districts where the ttees
suitable for lumber are close enough
together for profitable work
Truth Tersely Told
- “Chance shapes our destinies” quot-
ed the Wise Guy “Well all I have to
say is that some of us have mighty
poor shapes” added the Simple Mug
—Philadelphia Record
With regard to ternu daring tha holiday feaion Lorrnt
I th D“lud st" o Voo Slriawy Wcbgr Karts
Baa tihara and other Writ at once
JENKINS MUSIC CO
Oklahoma City Okia
Kill:" DEERE IMPLEMENTS
and VELIE VEHICLES uiw dealer
CR JOHK DEERE PLOW CO OKLAHOMA CITY
CHAMBERLIN
METAL WEATHER STRIP
Kpa out aU daaL rain and eold draughti preT-nta rattling of
!"b !?T“ K ' aaat lit fuel bill H S PEBBLES Mgr
Pfcoeg 3552
SIS Haiailk Bids OklaBaae City
DOCTORS ATTENTION! °7P77: K
o break typhoid fever in days hpe diphtheria and scar-
‘w in I to A treatments How to care chronic or acute
Iil help possible l r the phuuaa
lebUe prepaid cna h with order
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