Foyil City Leader. (Foyil City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910 Page: 2 of 4
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OKLAHOMA
Tb« fish la the real fitter of Be*.
There tip continue to be more
weather than aeropUnci in the high*
- er altltudee.^'
For tome time to come, however,
p : . the popular way of crossing the Alpe
"win.he by means of the tunnel under
: then.
News Notes
Epitome of the Mae*
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Good old authority aye that it'e
'}■, ■ Impossible to tell all the atari, but
/ir Uncle Bam's experts hate oatalofued
^ them.
v It t> reported from New Jersey that
a cow wrecked an aeroplane. It must
have been the same cow that Jumped
over the moon.
Sometimes it doea seem that every*
body in the world is calling •very-
body else a liar, and nobody knows
', whom to believe.
The average driver of a sprinkling
cart, as perhaps you have observed,
always becomes fiendishly active just
before a heavy rainstorm.
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And if you do find baseball in heav-
■ en, and If the umpires manage to
git there, too, how do you expect to
express your opinion of them?
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' "American women make poor
wives," says an English writer. Yes,
a foreign husband can make an Amer-
ican wife poor, in abort order.
It may be old fashioned, but never-
+heless~we cling to the notion that a
' revolver le- something that no man
carrlee for aay good purpose.
/ ■ Occasionally, * when the weather
man predicts "pgrtly cloudy," ho Is
oreakl dg It to yoifcTOtly that a rata-
> fall of an Inch orCore impends.
' A Wyoming girl recently killed a
coyote by beating it with a riding
whip. If you meet a Wyoming girl
« with a riding whip be polite to her.
New York chew! more gum then
nny other city, we are told. If It's
really true. New York must know how
to chew and talk at the same time.
WASHINGTON
Attorney General Wickersham and
Secretary Nagel have informed Presi-
dent Taft they believe the people of
Alaska should have a greater voloe In
territorial affairs.
Comptroller of the Currency Murrray
will establish a central credit bureau
at Washington to govern the borrow-
ing operations of corporations.
.The Isthmian canal commission re-
ports that August 31 there were 36,867
employees actually at work on the
canal and the Panama railroad, and,
of this number, 36,950 were canal em-
ployees. No labor recruiting was neces-
sary.
Secretary Ballinger estimates of ex-
penditures for the Interior department
including pensions, cut the appropria-
tion during the next fiscal year about
$4,000,000 below the appropriation this
year of $176,000,000 for the present
year.
It is reported that President Taft has
practically decided to appoint Senator
Root of New York, chief Justice of the
supreme court of the United States
should the republican party carry the
state of New York in November.
President Taft Thursday finally ap-
proved plans for raising the wreck of
the battleship Maine, which call for
the completion of the work on or be-
fore the thirteenth anniversary of the
day of the destruction of the war ves-
sel, February 15, next.
According to the talk around repub-
lican congressional headQuartera Pres-
ident Taft'a bill to license corporations
doing an interstate commerce busi-
ness, will be reported to the house
from the Judiciary committee, and an
effort made to pass it before adjourn-
ment for the Christmas holidays.
The corn crop was 80.3 per cent of
normal on October 1, or at the time
of harvest, compared with 73.8 a year
ago, and 78.444, the ten year average,
according to the crop reporting board
of the department of agriculture,
whose October crop report was issued
Monday afternoon.
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Somebody suggests that the United
States should go into the busineaa of
coining half pennies. They might come
la handy to put into children's banks.
We have read the new football
rules and have arrived Joyfully at the
conclusion that the grand old game
win stUl be the antithesis of a pink
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A New Jersey rag picker in One
week found $1,800 worth of Jewelry
In old clothes. Moral—eift your old
clothing before sending it to the rag
picker.
A Pennsylvania woman found a $300
poait la an oyster she waa, eating In a
hotel dinner. From which it is to be
Inferred that the pearl-fishery season
la fairly opened.
Htftag discovered and excoriated
tfce meanest man. what a hall be said
el the woman who is charged with
appropriating and pawning her neigh-
bor's false teeth?
A New York lunacy commission Is
etumped by the question: Is a man
Inaane because be reads his paper up-
■Me dowa. Well—er—was it a New
York paporT
A'woman In New York cut oC her
fcuebend'e ear because he aanoyed her
by too mnch. That shows the
and tnoeaeequeat nature of
If a man bad beea In her
ho would have cut off the at
tongue.
DOMESTIC
The Tegeler murder trial hi Oklaho-
ma City resulted in a hung jury.
Ben F. Harrison is ill in a Wood-
ward hospital from an attack of ma
laria fever.
The state board of agriculture re-
ports 117,358 balee of cotton ginned up
to October 1..
Searching parties have recovered
fodr more bodies from the Minnesota
forest fire district.
Warren G. Purdy, former president
of the Rock Island railroad, died at hie
Chicago residence Friday.
Porter Charlton will be returned to
Italy to stand trial for murdering his
wife at Lake lomo.
The right of a railroad to refuse to
switch shipments from another line to
an Industry on its own switches when
the industry Is not listed in the tariffs
was tried before the corporation com
mission Thursday <ln the case of Brick
ner 4 Co. of Guthrie, vs. the Santa Fe.
Requisition papers signed by Gov-
ernor Tom Campbell, of Texas, and di-
rected to Governor Charles N. Haskell,
calling for the return of J. C. Adams
and J. S. Morgan to Texas, were re-
ceived Thursday. They are charged
with robbing a bank at Frankaton
Two former Oklabomaas, E. F. For
oey and Harper 8. Cunningham, who
are now residents of New Mexico, are
candidates for the United Statee sen
ate from, that territory when It be-
comes a state.
*rid«r,
TbePrairieOU and Gas Company, of
Bartlesville^ purchased oil holdings
w#rtk 1*006,000 friday.
'Twenty national guardsmen have
been detailed to search for bodies in
the Minnesota forest Are district.
^Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger,
was one of the eleven passengers in-
jured In a wreck at Cicinnatl, Ohio,
Thursday.
The annual businssa session of the
National Convention of Christian
churohee was held In Topeka, Kan.,
Friday afternoon.
Preeldent Taft wil sail for the Isth-
mus of Panama on November 10 from
Charleston, 8. C., on the armored crui-
ser North Carolina for a twelve days'
trip.
Chief of Police Milllken, of Cincin-
nati, was peremptorily removed from
office by Mayor 8chwab Friday as a
result of the gambling graft Inquiry.
While speeding 70 miles an hour
the engine drawing Roosevelt's special
train broke down but waa stopped
without accident^ear Homesvllle, 0„
Friday.
The United States, the greatest cot-
ton producing country In the world, im-
ported In the fiscal year of 1910, 86,-
037,691 pounds of raw cotton valued at
$16,816,138.
Thirty thousand dollars has been
raised by the Chicago Credit Mena'
Association to be used in the investi-
gation and prosecution of fraudulent
failures in Chicago.
The first football accident of the
season occurred at Enid Wednesday,
when Robert Campbell, a high school
student, sustained a broken coUar bone
in a practice game.
Race feeling ran high in Dawson,
a coal mining town five mllee east of
Tulsa, Sunday, as a result of the shoot-
ing of Deputy 8heriff Charles Stamp-
er, a while man, by an aged negro.
The coyotea of Southwestern Okla-
homa are wondering where the Aber-
natbys, the Sheperds, the cow punch-
ers and the other sports are going to
hold their annual Thanksgiving festiv-
ities.
Another Indian congress may be
held In the near future as a result of
the refusal of some "blanket" In-
dians to Join with members of the
five civilised tribes. In asking the In-
terior department to remove certain
restrictions from their lands.
The population of the state of Ver
mont, as enumerated for the thirteenth
census and made public by the ceneus
bureau Tuesday, showed an increase
of 13,315, or 3.6 per cent; the total
number of Inhabitants being 855,956,
as compared with 343,641 in 1900.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Win-
throp has commended several of the
crew of the battleship North Dakota
for heroic action In the explosion
aboard the warahlp, September 8, when
three stokers lost their lives. Each
were given medals of honor and 1160
each
dela
ay-cool
vial.
If it fails
to cure
I will
refund - -
your
money. '
Munyoa.
■QHTOM'S
The University of Santo Tomaa. Mar
alia, Is the oldest educational InaUtir
tion under the American flag.
Important to mother#
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA. a safe and aura remedy for
Infanta and children,, and see that It
Bears the
Signature of i
In Use For 0^r80 "Yee^s.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
More to Be Pltlsd.
Tramp (to lonely" spinster)—Come
Mlaaus, arst yer 'usband if 'e ain't got
a pair o' trousers to give away.
Spinster (anxloue not to expose her
solitude)—Sorry, my good man.he—
eh—never wears such things.—Punch.
Poor Prospects.
Yes," said Miss Passay, "I found
a very nice boarding bouse today, but
the only room they had to offer me^
had a folding bed In It, and I detest
thoae things."
"Of course," remarked Miss Pert,
"one can never hope to find a man
under a folding bed."—Catholic Stand-
ard and Times.
May Sell 100^XXM>00 Red Croee Scale!
Twenty-five million Red Croee
Christmas Seals have been printed
and are being distributed by the Amer-
ican Red Cross, and arrangements
have been made to print 100,000,000
|f necessary. It la expected that this
number will be needed. While the
sticker Is perforated like thoae used
last ysar. It Is Intended for use only
as a aeal on the back of letters. The
seal la one Inch square with the con-
ventional Red Croee In the center
and the words. "Merry Christmas.
Happy New Yea?: American Red
Cross" In a circle about It The col-
ors are red and green. The deelga ie
by Mrs. Guion Thompson of Water-
bury, Conn., who reoelved $100 aa a
prise for her sketch.
Wilson B. Evans, receiving teller of
the Fanners and Merchanta National
bank of Los Angeles, haa failed to
report for duty at the end of a two
weeke' vacation, starting September 17,
and a preliminary Investigation of the
hooka reveala Irregularities which, ac-
cording to Cashier Charlee Seyler,
amount to $60,000.
Hairs of Rebecca Young, deceased, a
Caddo Indian, filed suit in the United
States circuit court at Guthrie Friday,
to compel the interior department to
Issue patents to 18 quarter sections of
land, to each of the heirs. Some time
ago these heirs were stricken from the
Caddo rolls, and now seek reinstate
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FOREIGN
Crown Prince Alexander of Servla Ie
critically ill of typhoid fever.
China haa crushed the last veetlge
of the government of the once power
ful Dalai Llama in Thibet
Toothsome
Tid-Bits
Gaa be made el assay
"home" dfch« by adding
Post
Toasties
The Hub besjdst "GOOD
THINGS 1IADE WITH TOAfT-
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Harper, William R. Foyil City Leader. (Foyil City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910, newspaper, October 21, 1910; Foyil City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc180288/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.