Johnston County Capital-Democrat (Tishomingo, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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T 18 probable that oarer before In the
history of the country haa there been
uch a well-sustained morement ns
there la today to secure proper publlo
memorials of the dead who in life ren-
dered great aerrlce to their fellows
and to commemorate by tablets and
by monuments the scenes of great bat-
tles and of the great events of peace
which had their lasting effect upon the
history of this great republic
For two or three years during the
sessions of congress the senate and house commit-
tees which have memorial matters in charge have
been busy considering memorial plans which prop-
erly might hsve congressional support t the same
time the Daughters of the American Revolution and
kindred patriotic societies have been engaged In the
work of raising funds to make memorials of the past
possible In the city of Washington the residents
have felt a touch of the same spirit and there Is here
today an active 'organization which was formed for
the es press purpose of providing ways and means to
keep In the mind of the present generation the mem-
ories of the past by means of worthy memorial tab-
lets emplaced on buildings of historic Interest or on
land or ground made famous as the witnesses of his-
toric events
For some time there have been before congress
Three plans for a great memorial to Abraham Lin-
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No one plan has been definitely adopted
but the sentiment Is ajl one way and it Is virtu-
ally assured that before another year has passed
there will be under way the work necessary to
commemorate worthily the life and the deeds of
'the “Rail Splitter President"
One of the plans Is for a great highway to be
known as the Lincoln Road or the Lincoln High-
way to connect the capital with the battlefield of
Oettysburg It Is held by many students of Eng-
lish that the short address which Abraham Lin-
coin delivered on the battlefield of Gettysburg Is
one of the finest esamples of expression In the
' mother tongue known to the world of letters
Lincoln Is Inseparably connected with Gettysburg
and the fact Is due almost wholly to the speech
which he delivered on the anniversary of the bat-
tle a speech which It Is said was prepared only
at the last moment before delivery tbe only pre-
paration except that of thought consisting la a
few notes Jotted down upon the back of an old
envelope
- The senate committee on library which has In
charge memorial work reported favorably a bill
authorizing the expenditure of $100000 for the
erection of a memorial arch upon the camping
J ground of the American army at Valley Forge In
the state of Pennsylvania The library committee
eome time ago recommended and secured the
passage of a bill appropriating money for the ereo-
tton In Washington of a statue to John Barry
commodore In the United States navy during the
Revolutionary war A monument also Is to be
erected to Christopher Columbus and a part of the
’ cost will be paid hy tbs people of tbe United
States Statues to Kosciusko and Pulaski have
been erected within tbe year and other statues
and monuments either have been put In plaoe or
are now well on the road to completion It Is
said that the patriotic societies by their excellent
educational work throughout the country have so
V aroused the sentiment of the people that the
pressure which has been brought to bear on con-'
grass properly to recognize tbe services of the
dead and gone has been Irresistible
A good deal of Interest attaches to the pro-
posed memorial arch at Valley Forge It was
there that Gen George Washington and his army
passed the awful winter of 1777-8 a lime of suffer-
ing starvation and danger from the enemy As
has been said a bill authorizing tbe expenditure
of $100000 has been reported favorably from tbe
library committee There seems to be ao opposi-
tion la congress to the appropriation and a bill
aaaetlonlng It probably will be passed at the next
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fhe money for the
arches at Valley Forge
Is to be expended by
the Valley Forge park
commission under the
direction of the secre-
tary of war A consid-
erable part of tbe en-
campment grounds of
General Washington at
Valley Forge in the
winter of 1777-1778 haa
always been a forest and the greater part of the
earthworks consisting of entrenchments the star
redoubts and Forts Washington and Huntington
had not been greatly affected by the elements nor
disturbed by man In 1878 an imposing celebra-
tlon of the anniversary of the evacuation waa
held As a result of this celebration the Centen-
nial Memorial association was formed by patri-
otic women who purchased the house which Gen-
eral Washington occupied during the greater part
of the encampment The house has beed restored
to its condition when occupied by Washington
In 1893 the general assembly of Pennsylvania
declared that the title to and ownership in the
ground covering the site Including Forts Wash-
ington and Huntington and the entrenchments
adjacent thereto and the adjoining grounds in all
not exceeding ISO acres but not including there-
In the property known as Washington’s headquar-
ters and now owned by the Centennial and Me-
morial Association of Valley Forge shall'be vest-
ed In the state of Pennsylvania to be laid out pre-
served and maintained forever as a publlo place
or park by the name of Valley Forge so that the
same and their fortifications thereon may be main-
tained as nearly as possible In their original con-
ditions as a military camp
Since the establishment of the park the state
of Pennsylvania haa appropriated $313315 toward
tbe acquisition and Improvement of tbe land and
buildings Including the Washington headquarters
building and ground which were acquired five
years ago by condemnation and made free to all
visitors The park now contains 467 acres
In 1901 the Daughters of tbe Revolution erect-
ed on the reservation an Imposing 'granite abaft
50 feet high called the Waterman monument On
the face of the monument Is the following In-
scription: To tbe 8oldlers of Washington's Army
Who Bleep at Valley Forge 1777-1778
Erected by the
Daughters of the Revolution
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On the south side Is another Inscription as
follows:
Near This Spot Lies Lieutenant John
Waterman
Died April 33 1778 Whose Grave Alone of All
His Comrades Was Marked
Two reasons are back of the success
expected from the First Annual Horse
show held In connection with the State
Fair at Oklahoma City this fall which
will be held from September 37 to Oc-
tober : First the Oklahoma State
Fair has grown with such strides In
the four years of Its life that It has
long since abandoned swaddling
clothes and the live stock department
including horses has eome to be one
of the most important features of the
fair second the addition of the great
live stock pavilion now under con-
struction and to be completed by the
opening of the fair The fine horse
exhibit of past years has taken on
the dignity and Importance of a separ-
ata and well defined feature hereafter
to be known as the Annual Horse
Show
The horse show will be held In the
new pavilion at night and will consist
of about every event which exhibition
horses may enter Interspersed with
band concerts and vaudeville acta
Special classes will be arranged for
Oklahoma horses and open classes for
die Horse Register limited to horse
owned In Oklahoma This premium to
given to encourage breeding In the
state
There win not be an idle moment at
the great hors show When the arena
Is not filled with fancy horse of alt
classes the band will strike up n lively
tune or the vaudeville artists will en-
tertain the crowds
Special Features
C H Clark clebrated breeder and
trainer of Colony Kas will be 'on
hand with twenty-four head of Shet-
land ponies These ponies will appear
under saddle single and pairs in har-
ness four six and ten horse teams
chariot racing and high school acting
This troupe of educated ponies has
been engaged by the American Royal
Live Stock Show of Kansas City and
will go there Immediately after closing
Us engagement with the Oklahoma
8tate Fair
The famous Bedlnl family will pre-
sent a quintuple vaulting equestrian
act Three people in this act mak
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NEW LIVESTOCK AND HORSE 8HO W PAVILION
It Is estimated that there were 3000 deaths !u
General Washington’s army during tbe winter's
stay In this camp Most of the bodies were buried
In the camp grounds Five years ago tbe Daugh-
tori Pt tht Rvoluoa erected tut oL but not t7 tomUful copy Of Roman mpsls
from where Varnum’s brigade is supposed to have
been encamped a log but of the exact dimensions
erected by the soldiers under Washington Above
the door to this but has been placed a tablet bear-
ing tbe following Inscription:
On This Spot Stood One of the Huts
Occupied by tbe Soldiers of
Washington's Camp
During the Winter of 1777-1778
‘ This Reproduction Was Erected by
Colonial Chapter of Philadelphia
' Daughters of the Revolution
May J905
Members of the senate committee on library ex-
presa the hope that eventually all the great battle
fields of the Revolutionary and Civil wars In the
states of Pennsylvania Virginia and Maryland will
be connected by boulevards
The great memorial arch at Valley Forge vU
be one of the few great arches of history which
will represent something more than mere victory
in the battle of men It was a moral and physical
victory in one that Washington and his men
achieved at Valley Forge They conquered priva-
tion and they conquered rebellion against the hard-
ships of fate
The Romans were prsctlcally the origlnatora of
the memorial and triumphal arch In fact they used
the ordinary building and bridge arch Itaelf te a
much greater extent than had ever been known be-
fore Three of the great Roman triumphal arches
ar still standing They are those of Titus Septi-
mlus Severus and Constantine That of the first
Christian emperor is by far the most beautiful It
marks the triumphal return from Gaul and Brit-
ain led as tradition haa it by the blazing cross of
stars with the luminous sign which bade him “con-
quer by this "
In the Arch of Septiinlus there could be traced
for years after its erection the Information that
the emperor had gained great victories over the
Parthlans As one looks at thla monument today
It Is Interesting to recall that the man and em-
peror who passed in triumph under It after Its com-
pletion waa tbe one who built the wall In Britain
to check the Inroads of the fierce 8cotch High-
landers The Arch of Titus has but one arcade or
entrance and upon this there rested at one time
with other spoils of war the golden candlesticks of
tbe Temple of Jerusalem of which Tltua in very
truth had not left “one stone upon another"
Of the other famous Roman arches the founda-
tions of one erected in the days of the republic may
still be traced though of the structure which roes
above them little or nothing Is known It was un-
der this arch that Fabius Maximus walked In tri-
umph after he had thoroughly thrashed the Gaula
Another arch but of which no trace exists was
one that waa erected In Syracuse In honor of Ver-
res the legate of Rome In Syracuse for whom
Cicero as every schoolboy knows made U so un-
comfortable In one of his orations
There ar still foundations left of the Arch of
Drusua “erected to commemorate the success won
la Germany by the son of Augustus’ wife"
Napoleon commemorated his passage of ths Alps
by the Simplon road by erecting at the road's ter
minus at Milan an arch which is a magnificently
outside entries A feature of tbe horse
show of special Interest and education-
al value will be furnished by the par
ades of the various breeds In the pavil-
ion at the evening shows and in front
of the grand atand one day during the
fair Tbe horse department will be su-
perintended by W L English of Okla-
homa City who enters upon his second
year's work In this capacity The prise
list and rules of the horse show will
be mailed upon application to the sec-
retary The State Fair Premium List
can be bad for the asking
Premiums
Aside from the regular premiums of-
fered on the different breeds by the
Fair association number of special
prises will be offered Tbe Percheron
Society of America offers sseven special
prizes for winners among Percherons
Tbe Percheron Registry company will
give away seventeen gold and seven-
teen silver medals to winner of this
breed The American Hackney Horse
society gives a sliver medal for the
best Hackney stallion or mar Tbe
Amerienn Saddle Horse Breeders as-
sociation gives a $100 trophy to the
best stallion or mare 3 years old or
under registered In the American Sad
8aye Mors is Dying in Prison
Atlanta Ga — Mrs C W Morse
fears for the life of her husband the
New York banker who la serving a
term in the United Statea prison here
Mrs Morse who has arrived here to
visit her husband found him In such
a condition that she Is greatly wor-
ried 8he does not believe her hus-
band will live a year In his present
situation
simultaneous leaps from the ground to
the slender backs of thoroughbred
running horses utilising five horse
and one pony and Introduce the cham-
pion riding collie dog “Ulo" The ex-
ploits of the artists accompanied la
every movement by a marvelously in-
telligent and acrobatic dog created a
furor In Paris and Berlin and ar ex-
citing tbe same admiring attention in
America’ The family la making it
first American tour has never been
seen in any of the American circuses
and is not a circus act
Morris A Company packers will ex-
hibit their famous slx-hors team again
this year Probably no six heavy draft
horses In thy on stable in the world
have won as many blue ribbons as the
six champion Clydesdales which make
up Morris A Company’s six-horse team
Individually and collectively the horse
have 131 ribbons to their credit In-
cluding the championship of England
the championship of Scotland the
championship of - Canada and the
championship of the United States
Scbwarzschlld A Sulzberger pack-
ers will exhibit a pure bred double
team of draft horses to heavy truck
wagon
Couple te Be Married In Clouds
Tulsa Okla — Alf Red wine of Okfus-
kee and Miss Marie Lefner of the same
place have accepted the Invitation od
Captain Frank Goodale to be married
in his airship on one of his flights to
be made here the latter part of thla
month A $500 purse will go to the
young couple for their daring deed It
they fulfill their contract
John Vanasch who klled John
Room a farmer by giving him a drink
of whiskey containing strychnine
i hanged himself in his cell at MUbank
I S D Ho used strips from a blanket
on hla bed
Woman Nominated for Register
Guthrie Okla — Mrs Temple Hous-
ton widow of the famous Woodward
lawyer who waa a son of the Texas
liberator 8am Houston haa been
named as the democratic candidate for
register of deeds of Woodward coun-
ty defeating Mias Ruby Turner who
made a fight In the courts to secure a
Judicial determination of the queetion
as to whether a woman waa eligible
for a county office other than county
superintendent
Clay Center Kas — It Is reported a
cyclone struck Belleville Monday In-
flicting heavy damage with probable
loss of life Telegraph wires ar down
and only the most meager report
have been received A number of
building ar reported demolished
and the occupant seriously Injured
Sapulpa Okla — A1 Slmpaon S3 years
old a waiter committed suicide here
by swallowing n quantity of carbolic
add An hour after k had responded
on being called bis deed body was
found In bis room Slmpaon had been
morose and malancholy for several
days due to over Indulgence in drink
W D Gulou snot an4 dangerously
wounded bia alxteen-year-old wife at
Kansas City making tbe fourth of a
train of shooting tragedies in which
he has played a part In the last five
months
Stag Driver Killed by Bandits
Silver City N M — Two masked
bandits held np the Mogollen mountain
stag a mile from Camp Mogollon shot
and killed the Mexican driver Jose
Dominiques and fled with gold and sil-
ver bullion veined St $28000 Later
the robber threw a number of the sil-
ver bars into a nearby houa and es-
caped Into the mountains with the
cold
Honduran Force Routed
Laceiba — The attempt of the Hon-
duras government to atop the revolu-
tionary army which la marching on
the capital met with distinct failure
here when a sanguinary battle was
fought and n hundred and fifty sol-
dier were slain The government
army was routed and fled from the
field
Peltier Given Life Sentence
Norman Okie — One of the hardest
fought criminal cases In the state had
Its climax her when District Judge
Clark pronounced the life sentence
upon Joseph E Peltier Indian for mur-
dering John Cully 80 on April 9
Another Opium Den Raided
Kansas City — Another opium still
In Kansas City's Chinatown ws''rald-
ed by the police Lou Tong the
Chinese proprietor of tbe piece waa
arrested Opium valued at $L200
waa seised
Railways Kill 1100 Persona
'Washington D C — During the
months of January February and
March of this year 1100 persona were
killed and 31333 Injured on steam rail-
roads In tbe United States an increase
of 466 killed and 8110 Injured ovej
last year
William J Gaynor mayor of Now
York City waa shot la tbe bead and
seriously wounded as be stood on the
promenade deck of tbe steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross by James
J Gallagher a discharged and dis-
gruntled city employ Gallagher wa
overpowered and arrested
Two charges of dynamite were ex-
ploded under a corner of a nfne-story
building the Montgomery Ward Com-
pany haa under construction at Kaa-
aaa City Mo Little damage was don
to the structure
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Lucas, Edwin L. Johnston County Capital-Democrat (Tishomingo, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1910, newspaper, August 18, 1910; Tishomingo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1850105/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.