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'BUSINESS MEN
ASK RECEIVER
-PETITION ROOSEVELT TO AP-
POINT ONE FOR ROCK I6LAND.
FINANCIAL RUIN FEARED
OKLAHOMA BUSINESS MEN UP
IN ARMS AGAINST ROAD.
Drastic Retaliatory Measures Threat
ened by Railroad—Grain Men
* Must Have Relief or Go Out
of Business — Shippers
Talk Little.
OKLAHOMA CITY: Following the
suggestion made by A C. Geltleman,
a representative of the interstate
-commerce commission, the millers,
grain, lumber and coal dealers of Ok-
lahoma City have petitioned Presi-
-dent Roosevelt to appoint a receiver
for the Rock Island railway, accord-
ing to a rumor circulated Tuesday
night. Mr. Gettleman was in Okla
homa City about a month ago and
heard the complaints of the various
•commercial interests against the rail-
way in which inadequate service and
shortage of cars figured largely. At
that time he suggested that the busi-
ness men ask for the appointment of
a receiver.
According to the leport which was
•current in limited circles every deal-
er in grain, flour, coal, cotton and
lumber had signed th6 petition sent
to the president. A. W. McKeand,
secretary of the Chamber of Com-
merce, said that he Had heard of the
plan having been suggested, but had
not been informed that it had taken
definite Shape. He explained, how
ever, that the movement was one in
dependent of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
The petition sets forth, according
to the report, that eonditions in Ok-
lahoma dependent upon the Rock Is
land have become bo unsatisfactory
as to make their further endurance
Intolerable. The poor service is
charged against both the freight and
passenger departments. It is also
claimed that there has been a steady
Increase in the Inconveniences to
which the patrols of the road have
been subjected.
Fearing that the railroads will adopt,
drastic retaliatory measures after
their appeal to President Roosevelt to
have a receiver appointed for the
Rock Island system, Oklahoma City
shippers are reticent in discussing
their action. Some state that already
their business is practically paralyzed
•and are apprehensive in dread that
the carriers may resort to methods
which will mean total financial ruin
to the shippers. A member of a prom
lnent firm asserts that the grain men
must have relief or go out of busi
ness. He states that dealers in the
small towns are practically out of
business now and that the situation
Is growing more alarming each day.
Coal and lumbermen are helpless, dis-
couraged and only prompt, decisive
action can prevent additional gigantic
financial losses.
MINISTER WANTS $15,000.
Newkirk Minister Alleges Physician
Damaged His Reputation.
TULSA: Dr. R. D. Love of this
city has been sued for $15,000 for
defamation of character by J. M.
Rhoades, pastor of the Christian
church of Newkirk, Okla.
Rhoades states that the physician
damaged his reputation by writing
condemnatory letters to church peo-
ple in Novelty, Mo., while the preach-
er was conducting a revival there last
year.
MILLION DOLLAR DEAL.
Shawnee Lighting Company's System
Absorbed by Another Company.
SHAWNEE: By a deal which has
been consummated the Shawnee Gas
and Electric company, owner of the
gas plant here, becomes owner also
of the Shawnee Lighting company's
electric lighting and power system.
Dennis T. Flynn was president of
the latter company, which is to be
wholly absorbed by the former con-
cern, of which Sinclair Mainland of
Chicago is president.
The recent increase of its capital
to $1,000,000 by the gas company was
made with a view to purchasing the
electric plant. By the purchase the
company acquires the city lighting
contract for furnishing power for the
Interurban and city lines. A line to
Tecumseh also furnishes light to
many consumers there.
Tliis Is the largest deal ever made
In this city, aa it includes more than
$1,000,000 worth of property. The
Mainlands own a number of gas
plants throughout the country and are
now putting in a $3,000,000 plant at
Boise, Idaho.
WOMAN KILLED IN WRECK.
Rock Island Train Ran Into an Open
Switch at Kingfisher.
GUTHRIE: A westbound Rock Is-
land passenger train ran into an open
</*itch near Kingfisher.
One passenger was killed and a
number seriously hurt, among the lat-
ter being the wife *1 Cashier Arnold
of the Oklahoma State bank of this
city.
ENLIGHTENED OKLAHOMA
Kansas City Newspaper EditorUKf
Comments on H«r Citizenship.
KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City
Journal published the following edi-
torial New Year's day:
"The movement to stop the carry-
ing" of concealed weapons in Oklaho
ma, which has been actively taken up
by the leading citizens it the new
state, Is one of the most gratifying
and convincing evidences that could
be afforded of the high standards of
citizenship and the enlightened civi-
lization that prevail among the Okla-
homa people.
"Many persons outside of the state,
especially in the east, are accustomed
to regard Oklahoma as a land of law-
lessness, where fighting is promlscu*
ously indulged in as a favorite sport
and a 'gun' is an essential part of a
citizen's toilet. They do not under-
stand the wide difference that exists
between the conditions in this pro-
gressive state and those that former-
ly prevailed in the west, which es-
tablished its bad eminence as a re-
gion of lawlessness and crime. But
^owever wild and woolly the frontier
settlements were twenty0 or thirty
years ago, Oklahoma and the entire
southwestern country are as orderly
and civilized and the people are as
peaceable and law-abiding, as any
part of the United States outside of
the old, established communities of
New England and the better sections
Bof the middle states. Churches,
schools and theaters abound in the
southwest, the cities and towns are
well policed, and possess all the mod-
ern improvements—telephones, elec-
tric lights, street railways and mod-
ern hotels; and the people generally,
who have poured into this section at
the rate of 40.000 a month, from Illi-
nois, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio^ Missouri
and Kallsas, have brought with them
the habits and customs of their for-
mer homes, constituting a society
which is fully as safe and congenial
as could be desired by anyone seek-
ing a new home or an investment
for capital.
"A man's life is safer in any of tho
cities of Oklahoma today than in the
streets of New York, and with the en
forcement of the proposed law to
abolish the practice of carrying con-
cealed weapons it is likely to be a
good deal safer than in many parts
of the country north or south."
GRAFT IN COUNTY MAP?
Demand That Charges Touching Use
of Money to Influence Action be
Investigated.
GUTHRIE: 8 E. C. Echols, a lead-
ing Greer county democrat and editor
of the Mangum Star, recently address-
ed an open letter to President Murray,
demanding an investigation of charges
that money was used to influence
the formation of counties by the con-
stitutional convention. He asks Mur-
ray to appoint a committee to ascer-
tain the facts and to punish the guilty
parties if boodle was used.
Echols refers to a charge recently-
made by C. B. Douglass of Muskogee,
that $5,000 was demanded and receiv-
ed inthe formation of Muskogee coun-
ty to suit the city of Muskogee, also
to charges that have come to his ears
■that certain men would clear up a
million dollars from the map deal. He
also asks that reports that Altus paid
$5,000 to secure the zig-zag line across
Greer county be investigated.
An attempt was being made
Wednesday night to find a member
of the constitutional convention with
nerve enough to bring before the con-
vention charges of graft and bribery
in connection with the formation and
division of counties in the new state.
Charges will be prepared anyway,
according to a prominent Indian Ter-
ritory politician, who has his pockets
fill of affidavits, involving some or
tho convention leaders, but it is de-
sired. if possible, to get them offi-
cially before the convention.® «
One charge® is that railway com-
panies paid $10,000 to secure the divi-
sion of Woods county and that the"
money was paid in the lobby of the
Royal hotel here.
PAROLED OKLAHOMA CONVICTS.
Governor Rrantz Released Four From
Kansas Penitentiary.
GUTHRIE: Governor Frantz has
granted paroles to rour Oklahoma
convicts serving in the Kansas peni-
tentiary. They are: H. P. Dixon of
Washita county, sentenced in 1902 to
serve seven years for manslaughter;
Ralph' Wells of Washita county, man-
slaughter first degree; F. W. Davis
of Greer county, grand larceny; Wil-
liam Huff of Day county, larceny of
domestic animals.
Citizenship pardons were granted
to Price Dial of Pottawatomie coun-
ty. convicted of manslaughter; also
to William Raeger and Lineas Smith
of Logan county, botn negroes over
80 years old.
HUNDRED LIVES ENDANGERED.
Acting on~ Mohammed's wisdom
where the mountain was concerned,
an Iowa town has moved Itself to a
railway that would not come to the
town.
FORMER MARSHAL KILLED.
Attempted to Stop a Fight in New
Mexico.
SHAWNEE: Word was received
here that John Lawson, former city
marshal of Tecumseh, was killed
Christmas day at Tucumcari. N. M..
by a rowdy who is now under arrest
there. Lawson was ■ Brave man a«wi
he attempted to stop a fight. His
body will probably be brought here
for burial.
Thirty-Three Are Killed and 'Burned
In Railway Disaster in Kansas.
TOPEKA: At least thirty-three
persons lost their lives and fifty-five
persons were injured when two pas-
senger trains on tho Rock Island rail-
road collided headon four,miles west
of Volland, Kan., at 5:10 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
Dashing through the darkness of
early morn, the heavily laden trains
prashed together with terrific impact
on a sharp curve. As they became
a huge mass of splintered wood and
Jwisted iron, fire Btarted and many
helpless victims, pinioned beneath the
wreckage, were literally roasted alive.
Their piercing, shrieking cries of
agony added 'to the horror of the
ghastly scene as the flaring red
flames from the wreckage lit up the
heavens and aided the uninjured
quickly to begin the work of rescuing
some of the more unfortunate.
Blame for the wreck is placed
jipon John Lynes, the 19-year-old op-
erator at Volland. Lynes made the
following statement:
"I had been awake all night and
was sober. At about 4 or 5 o'clock
the despatcher gave me four orders
—one for the southbound train to
meet two trains at Volland instead
of at Alta Vista, as previously ar-
ranged. The southbound train head-
ed into a switch and let one train
pass, backed out of the switch and
headed down the main line without
waiting for the other train.
"I thought it was going to stop to
take water, as trains have been do-
ing, bill® Instead it went by at about
ten nBles an hour. The southbound,
board was at 'danger,' according to
the lever in the ofice, but the train
dirt not stop and I ran out with my
lantern, but with two swings across
the track it went out. I then went to
the pump house, grabbed the pumper s
lantern, waved a few tim^s and it
also went out. I called the pumper,
■telling him what had happened. I
went back and told the despatcher
that the southbound train was by and
we waited to see if it was going to
come back or hit' the northbound
train. I told the despatcher that 1
was coming to Topeka and was try-
ing to get there when arrested."
The despatcher says that when
Lynes saw what had happened he
wired in: "No. 29 has gone and I
have gone also."
CHILDREN GET LAND.
Indian Youngsters Born Up to March
4, 1906, Receive Allotments.
MUSKOGEE: The act of congress
which provided that all new born chil-
dren of Indian1 parentage of the Choc-
taw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek
Indian nations, who had been born
since the aduilt rolls closed, up to
March 4, 1906, and were living on
jthat date, should be given allotments,
has given the commission of the fivo
tribes a tremendous amount of work
to do in allotting them. Nearly all
of this enrollment work has been
completed.
On the Cherokee roll there have
been added 2,301 minors, to the Choc-
taw roll 815, Chickasaw 279, Creeks
736, total 4,131. There are yet
pending a number of cases in each of
the nations where the commission has
not finally decided on the applications.
In theseapplications the status of the
parents are the chief guide to enroll-
ment. The next consideration is the
proof of birth of the child. The par-
ents make the application for the
children and file on allotments for
them. But they first have to be ap-
pointed guardian, and have to submit
ample proof of all their claims.
A Bayonne, N. J., man tells of an
animal with the head of a rat. the
body of a cat and the tail of a squir-
rel. His wife Is looking up liquor
cures in the magazines.
Carnegie continues to throw away
his money. He bought a new motor
"ar the other day.
WHY WASHINGTON IS IMMORAL.
Carrie Nation Discovers It Is All Due
to Hugging.
WASHINGTON: Carrie Nation has
discovered the cause of all the im-
morality in Washington. She says it
is due to hugging. Some people call
it waltzing, but she calls it plain every
day promiscuous hugging. She
dropped in on a New Year's ball
given by a temperances ociety and
after watching the dancers awhile she
mounted a chair and made a speech
agaVist what she termed the new tan-
gled ways of hugging.
"You young girls and you old wom-
en." said she, "have no more right to
Lug, squeeze and roll around this
public hall with a man than you have
to go out on the street, grab a man
by nis coat collar, and take him into
your home and hug him in the par-
lor."
'the dancers applauded the speech,
but continued to waltz.
Reformed football has been pro-
nounced O. K. Now reform the pro-
fessional player.
wichita"valley^oad sold.
Rock Island System Buys Important
Southwestern Railway.
LAWTON: It is said that the Rock
Island Railroad company has pur-
chased the Wichita Valley railroad,
that extends from Wichita Falls. Tex-,
Fouthwest to Seymour. Tex., and that
the extension of the LawtonChatta
nooga branch will be made to Wichita
Falls to concert with the Wlchi'-a
Valley line.
HIS EYES OPEN
Why There Are No Mail
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
FARMER WILLIAMS' LESSON
In Time of Adversity He Got to Un-
derstand Who Were His Real
Friends—Prosperity in Stand-
ing Together.
^'Copyright, 1900, by Alfred C. Clark.)
"What y" got there, Sis?" Inquired
Farmer Williams, as he kicked off his
felt boots and set them carefully be-
hind the stove to dry. "That's what
1 thought it looked like, one of them
there Chicago catylogs, though I hain't
seen one clost fer qulto a few years
back. Me an' your ma ust to buy
mighty nigh everthing we used out
of them catylogs when we first come
to Kansas. Land sakes, I have to
laugh now sometimes when I think of
the way wo would git ketched onct in
awhile. They's some cheap things in
them catylogs, an' then agin they's a
lot 't ain't so cheap. Y' never klD
tell till they come, an' then it's too
late to send 'em back. But as I was
a sayin', we hain't bought nothin' out
of a catylog fer a right smart o' years
now, an' the way it come about I had
as well tell y', cause I don't ®think
y' really remember much about it.
"When we come to Kansas long in
the first of the '80's we got along right
well. We was able to pay cash fer
what we got, and we got the money
cfer everything we sold. We was pay
in' out on the place right along; crops
was piyty good an' we was a feelln'
like the Lord was a smilin' on our
efforts, and the happy home we
dreamed about when we first got mar-
ried w$s in sight.
But they come a change in Kansas
long in the last half of the '80's.
Times got hard and kep a gittin'
tighter. Four straight years it was
so dry y' had to soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill—though I will say
they ^ag some extry reason on ac-
count of the swill bein' so thin—wheat
jest died in the ground fer want of
rain, and the hot winds biled the ever-
lastln' sap out of the corn. They
wasn't no pasture, no nothing. You
can know we was a feelin* purty blue
about that time, but we was young
and strong, and thought with the
chickens an' hogs we could git through
anyway.
"Then one day you got to complain-
in* and lookin' so thin it worried us.
Your ma is a middlin* good doctor,
take it all around, but nothing she
could think of done you any good.
Well, you kep' a gittin' plndller and
pindller, till you got so'st y' wouldn't
do nothin' but set in a chair by the
kitchen stove, wrapped in your ma's
old shawl, an' you looked so pitiful
that we made up our minds to have
the doctor, even if It took th' last
chicken on the place. Well, he come,
and after he'd looked at you awhile
tan^ felt9 your pulse, he shet his watch
up with a snap, an' says, quiet like:
'Better fix up a warm place fer her
in the front room, don't have too much
light nor any drafts to strike her.'
Then we knowed it wan't no small
sickness we had to fight, an' when we
got you fixed up in bed" I follered Doc.
out on the porch an' I says: 'Well,
Doc.,' sez I, 'what's the matter with
our little girl?'
" 'I don't want to skeer ye, Mr. Wil-
liams,' says he, 'but I'm afraid she's
in for a siege of typhoid fever.'
"Well, after he was gone I went out
in the kitchen an' told your ma, but
she says, brave as kin be: 'Well, Ezra,
if the Lord has seen fit to put that
much more on our load we must bear
up an' fight It out doin' our duty the
best we kin, leavin' the rest to him.'
An* I thought so too. So we jest kep'
our hearts brave an' done what
seemed right t' do.
"The hardest thing was to figure out
where t* git sthe medicine, an' fruit,
an' dainty things your sickness called
-M
in the end. I have faith in th' cou
try, an' In the people that live hpre.
an' nobody's sick baby is a goin' to
suffer if I kin help any.'
"Well, It was the same thing at
Harlow's grocery, an' th' coal yard,
everywhere in th' town. 'Cert'nlee,
Mr. Williams, we'll see y' through on
this.' It made me feel mean an' small
some way, though I don't know why.
An' often when they'd put in a few
oranges or somethin" like that, sayin'
in a 'pologlzin' sort of way, 'little
somgthin' fer th' sick baby, Williams,'
why somehow it made a hard lump
come up in my throat, an' I had a
queer feelln' in my eyes, kinder achy
like, y' know.
"Well, to be short about it, fer eight
weeks you kep' a gittin' weaker an'
weaker, an' we kep' a feelln' more 'n'
more hopeless. It was a sad Christ-
mas In our home that year. Your ma
was jest wore out with watchin' an'
tryin' to do her work between times,
an' I was so nigh sick with trouble an'
discouragement 't I ust to go around
by the barn an' jest cry like a baby.
But I never It* on to your ma though,
ner she t' me. We tried t' encourage
each other though we knowed in our
hearts 't all our cheerful words was
lies, an' each one knowed tho other
knowed it too.
"Well, Jest th' night before New
Years Doc. called us outside your
KILL 20 000 0 YEAH
FATALITIES AMONG AMERICA'S IN.
DUSTRIAL ARMY IS APPALLING.
I Sez: Les Burn It.
room. Oh, how my heart sunk then!
'I don't want to hold out any false
hopes to you people,' be «ays, 'but I
think with proper care from now on,
your little girl is goin't' git well.'
Elsie, it seemed jest like a ton of
hay had been lifted oft my chest right
there. As fer your ma, why she jest
busted down an' cried as hard as she
could. After Doc. was gone we went
out to the kitchen an' kneeled down
right there an' thanked God fer the
most glorious New Year's gift he ever
give t' anybody In th' world—the
health of our baby girl. You know
your pa ain't no ranter er shouter;
yer ma bein' a Baptist has furnished
most of th' r'ligion fer our house, but
jest then I seen how it was that they
comes times in people's lives when
they've jest got to have somethin'
bigger an' greater than anything hu-
man t' turn to with a great joy er a
great sorrer.
"Well, it was a long time yet before
you was strong enough t' play out
doors, an' it was a hard winter. I
burned every post of the fence around
the south eighty fer firewood afore
it was over. But it seemed like we
had so much t' be thankful fer that
we was strong t' care fer any any of
th' smaller troubles that we come
acrost.
"It really hain't so bad to look back
at It now after th' trouble is over, but
them hard years in Kansas drove
nearly all our neighbors t' give up
their land an' move away, broke in
hopes ah' pocketbook. Them of us as
stayed Is turty well fixed now, but
we fit fer everything we got, an* fit
hard, too. An', O, yes, About th' caty-
logs. Well after you was well an'
things begun t' take a turn fer th'
better, one night ma brought out that
Chicago book an' laid it on the kitch-
en table an' says: 'Ezry, what do you
want t' do with this?' An' I sez: 'Les
burn it.' An' your ma sez: 'Jest what
I was thlnkln', too.' An' so we did
burn It, an' what's "more, we ain't
never had one in th' house since, an'
we never send away fer anything we
can git at any of the stores in Huston,
'cause we want to deal with them a3
has an int'rest in the country we live
in, an' in us people that live clost by.
"Why, you needn't of put yours In
th' stove, too, Elsie, I didn't mean—
yes, I don't know but what it's Jest as
well y' done it after all."
"Why Cert'nlee, Mr. Williams, Jest
Let Us Know What You Want."
for. We hadn't been tradin' much
with the stores in Huston, buyin'
mostly from the catylog folks y' know,
an' so we didn't have any credit there
to speak of. But I went t' Foster, th' |
druggist, an' I told him how things
was. I didn't have no money t' pay
fer th' medicine an' things, an' the
prospects fer the next year was • as
poor er poorer than th* last.
" 'Why cert'nlee, Mr. Williams,' he
says, 'Jest let us know what you want
an" we'll carry you along till times
coma better fer you. We're all in a
tight pinch now. but if we hang t'geth-
er things la all goin' to come out right'
Folk Denoynces Mail-Order Idea.
Addressing a meeting of retail mer-
chants in Jefferson city recently. Gov-
ernor Folk, of Missouri, said:
"We are proud of our splendid
cities, and we want to increase wealth
and population, and we also want our
country towns to grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we
also desire the country merchants to
prosper. I do not believe in the mail-
order citizen. If a place is good
enough or a man to live in and to
make iiia money in, its good enough
for him to spend his money in.
"No merchant can succeed without
advertising in one way or another.
Patronize your town papers, build
them up. and they will build the town
up in increased trade and greater op-
portunities. Do not be afraid that
business is geing to be hurt by the re-
cent exposures of wrong-doing in the
commercial world."
Compulsory Data la Wanted—Dr. Jo-
alah Strong Says 575,000 Are Now
Under Sentence of Death Dur-
ing Next Ten Years.
New York.—Important steps are
soon to be taken in this city and else-
where to establish a system of com-
pulsory and accurate records of the
enormous number of persons who are
annually killed and injured Vn Amer-
ica's vast army of Industrial workers.
In New York city alone the meager
records obtainable are startling. In
1904 there were 4,162 persons killed
in New York city through accident and
negligence as shown by the reports oi
the department of health, and these
reports are said to be incomplete.
Dr. Josiah Strong, president of the
Institute of Social Service, in speaking
of the number of persons killed each
year in our Industrial occupations,
made some astonishing comparisons.
He said:
"We In the United States kill In
four years some 80,000 persons—mora
than fell In battle and died of wounds
during tho four years of the civil
war. JVe are killing more than twice „
as many every year as perished by
violence in both the French and Eng-
lish armies during the three years of
the Crimean war.
"There are more killed and wound-
ed on our railroads every year than
the entire losses of the Boer war on
both sides in three years. We have
Industrial casualties enough every
year to keep one conflict like our war
with Spain going for 1,200 years or
12 such wars going for 100 years. Our
peaceful vocations cost more lives
every two days than wero lost in bat-
tle during the entire Spanish war.
"From the best statistics obtain*
able, I may say there are to-day 575,-
000 persons in the United States un-
der sentence of death to be executed
at an unknown moment during the
next ten years—1,100 next week and
the same number every week until
the ghastly work is complete. An in-
telligent and earnest effort would pro-
cure the reprieve of a multitude of
those Innocent victims."
For two weeks beginning January
,28 an exposition will be held In the
American Museum of Natural History,
in this city under the auspices of thq
'American Institute of Social Servicq
for the purpose of studying and ex-
hibiting safety devices for dangerous
machinery, methods of industrial
hygiene and to set in motion the
movement to establish a more accur-
ate record of industrial fatalities and
accident in all partg of the country.
At present Wisconsin is said to be the
only state in the union where any ef-
fort is made of official compilation of
these statistics.
In Europe there are several perma-
nent museums of this character where
experts are constantly studying how
to safeguard Industrial employes and
as a result the percentage of death
and injury from accidents has been
greatly reduced. Ex-President Cleve-
land and many other prominent and
influential citizens are Interested lo
this movement.
GOT RID OF THE DEVIL9.
Chinese Sailors Used Fireworks to
Evict Unwelcome Visitors.
New York.—A story of a fight with
devils and their conquest by its crew
of 47 Chinamen was brought to this
port by the steamship Erroll from
Hong-Kong.
"Debbils alle gone down side one
time, chop, chop," said Wan Goon,
bos'n, in telling of the conflict.
The Erroll shipped her crew of Mon-
golians in Hong-Kong and set out for
Yokohama. On the night of August 4
there suddenly came a dazzling rain
of meteors, lasting 16 seconds. In the
meteoric display the moon entered up-
on a total eclipses Wan Goon and his
men were stricken motionless with
fear. But when tbey round their
moon had been devoured by a big
devil fear was galvanized into frenzy.
Finally, in answer to their petitions,
the devil disgorged the moon. After
that the men were quiet, but mistrust-
ful. There was not the slightest doubt
that a great many minor devils re-
mained on board even after two nights
spent in chasing them with hand-
spikes, capstan bars and chunks of
coal.
When the Erroll made Yokohama
every man went to the captain and
demanded all the pay due. At night-
fall a delegation of sailors returned
with several great bundles of fire-
works.
Wan Goon told the captain there
was going to be such a pyrotechnlcal
eviction of devils as the ports of all
the seven seas had seldom witnessed.
It was even so, and at the conclusion
of the display the bos'n announced
that not a devil was left
Mixture of Many Nations.
Louis N. Parker, the dramatist, was
born in France; his father was an
American, his mother an English
woman; his first language was Italian
and he was educated in Germany.
Asked to Decide Complexion.
Washington. — The school authori-
ties of Washington have been called
upon to decide whether a Filipino is
white or colored. The problem was
brought before them by Major M. F.
Waltz. U. S. A., who sent a communi-
cation asking that his Filipino serv-
ant 22 years old. be admitted to tha
white schools of Washington. Major
Waltz said that his servant had bees
denied admission to the public schools
of Atlanta. Ga.. on account of the pro-
railing race feeling. After much di
cussion the question was referred to a
committee, which has not yet reported.
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