The Cleo Chieftain (Cleo, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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CLEO CIIIEFTfllfl
BY JOHN W BISHOP
CLEO 7 OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS
Bert Gray Sulphur pioneer is dead
Ada boosters claim that city will be
above 8000 In the new census
C L Jones Frisco ticket agent is
still missing from Sapulpa Accounts
are straight
Cherokee Alfalfa county boasts of
the biggest county fair racing purses
offered in the state
Ada’s big mid-summer revival has
closed with the largest number of con-
verts ever known there
Sixty-three incorporated Oklahoma
towns were not commenced when the
census of 1907 was taken
Lawton's postal receipts were Just
twice as much for July this year as for
the corresponding month of 1909
The cantaloupe crop of the state
will be damaged 40 per cent because
of no water at the needful period
El Reno and Mangum are said to
have more automobiles in proportion
to population than any other city in
the state
W M Davis a section hand was
found dead in the railroad yards at
Mangum The manner in which be
died is a mystery
Tulsa claims to have an exception-
ally fine water supply and announces
there is no danger of its street sprink-
ling being discontinued
Colorado irrigation experts are go-
ing over the field in Cimarron Texas
Beaver and Harper counties Oklaho-
ma preparatory to making an experi-
ment canal
Lee Powell has been arrested at
Tuttle charged with stealing two
mules from the farm of Robert Babbs
three and one-half miles from Tuttle
recently
A forest fire 12 miles east of Ana-
darko broke out and burned over an
area of nearly 500 acres The blaze
was caused by sparks from a locomotive
Otto W Paul of Orlando Okla has
been transferred to the flagship Con-
necticut in the navy yard at New York
for duty in the pay department under
D W Nesbitt paymaster
Deep Fork river aid from Uncle
Bam has again failed but property
owners in the fiist and second bot-
toms will reorganize and try and har-
ness the stream to prevent disastrous
overflows
Figures from the board or agricul-
ture show that the proportion of Okla-
homa farmers who owned their own
farms was smaller in 1909 than in
1908
The corporation commission has
been Investigating the charge of the
citizens of Duncan that the Chlckasha
Telephone company has been giving
exceedingly poor service to its subscribers
Postal receipts in Oklahoma City
for the month of July amounted to
$30528 according to the information
given out by the local postofflce This
is a gain of 43 per cent over the re-
ceipts for July 1909
The state capital case has been re-
opend by the filing of a motion in
the criminal court of appeals asking
by what right that court is sitting in
Guthrie and a petition for rehearing in
the state supreme court
As Told in a
Few Words
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small Space
WASHINGTON
It has been finally decided at Wash-
ington that there will be no land op-
ened to homestead this year
By October 15 at the earliest or by
November 1 at the latest the postal
savings bank system will be put in op-
eration throughout the country
Owing the prevalence of infantile
paralysis throughout the country a
government Investigation is to be
made into the cause of the disease
By order of Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger nine mine rescue stations
are to be established at Birmingham
Ala Huntington W Vs' and Wilkes-
barre Pa
Within a few days Robert S Oliver
acting secretary of war is expected to
announce the appointment of a board
of engineers which will be charged
with the duty of drafting plans for
raising the wreck of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor
The total population of the state of
Oklahoma Just announced by the cen-
sus bureau is 1651951 The imputa-
tion of the territory now recognized as
the state of Oklahoma was according
to the census of 1900 790391 the pop-
ulation of 1910 representing an in-
crease of 109 per cent
Reports from the canal zone to the
war department at Washington show
that the Panama canal excavations in
June this year were 200000 cubuc
yards in excess of the best previous
June record This progress was
made in spite of the fact that the rain-
fall was unusually heavy
Officials of the department of agri-
culture at Washington have Issued an
announcement of their intention to
confiscate all bleached flour which
they find on the market while the Kan-
sas City case Is pending in the federal
circuit court of appeals and to prose-
cute the manufacturers thereof
DOME8TIC
Two highwaymen held up an auto-
mobile near Chicago III and com-
pelled W H Wilkerson of Winnetka
to hand over bis valuables
Cigarettes are blamed for the sud-
den death here of John Martin 38 years
old They are said to have Induced
heart disease and general nervous de-
bility A statewide movement to prevent
the exhibition of moving pictures of
"Improper tone" has been started by
the Christian Endeavor Union of Mis-
souri In a race riot between whites and
Mexicans near San Benito Texas two
whites and one Mexican were killed
and two whites were seriously wound-
ed The Mexicans fired from ambush
Frank L Arthaud owner of several
thousand acres of land in the Grand
river bottoms near Chillicothe Mo is
marketing 12000 bushels of wheat at
from 90 cents to $1 a bushel It Is es-
timated that be will realize $11000
from his crop
J O V Wise s fanner living near
Longmont Colo claims to have
broken ail records for a grasshopper
harvest when after three days' work
be had garnered 125 bushels of "hop-
pers” He used oil to kill them
The annual convention of the su-
preme lodge the biennial encampment
of the uniform rank of the Knights of
Pythias with the annual convention
of the Pythian Sisters were formally
opened in Milwaukee Wls with an at-
tendance of thousands of delegates
and visitors from every part of the
country
President Taft will go to Panama In
November for three weeks to see hew
work Is progressing on the canal
William B Walker in his 60 horse-
power car ran down a baby cab In
New York containing Elizabeth Gulda
17 months and killed the child
Strike sympathizers at Hamilton
Ohio threw iron bolts at the militia
while the soldiers wre waiting on
their way to Columbus to quell the
street car riots
Commercial orchardlsts In the state
of Washington estimate the apple crop
in that state this season will be be-
tween 3400000 and 3500000 boxes or
about 6500 cars
Eight people committed suicide at
Portland Ore in five consecutive
days or one every fifteen hours which
Is the longest record ever chronicled
in the Portland morgue
Mrs Celia Goldberg of New York a
bride is suffering from a dislocated
Jaw as a result of laughing at Jokes
which were told by friends whom she
was entertaining at a birthday party
Three workmen were killed and sev-
eral others injured - when spreading
rails caused the wreck of a work train
on the Missouri Pacific railroad be-
tween LindBborg and Marquette Kas
' The Kansas charter board hat incor-
porated a new Kansas railroad It is
the Winnipeg Salina & Gulf and is to
be 600 miles long The capital stock
is $100000
Wholesale criminal prosecutions
will shortly be forced in the gigantic
car repair frauds perpetrated so braz-
enly on the Illinois Central railroad
company during the years 1906 1907
1908
The home for drunkards ’ wives
founded at Kansas City by Carrie Na-
tion is to be returned to the giver be-
cause there are not enough drunk-
ards’ wives in the city to keep the
home going
The Rev Wallace M Stuckey con-
victed of abducting Lorena Suther-
land 16 years old in Williamsburg
Kas January 8 has disappeared and
his bondsmen have offered a reward
for his arest
Five shipwrecked men taken from
a sinking sloop were brought Into port
at New York by the British steamer
Ikalis after they had been lost thirteen
days in the fog and had subsisted on
vinegar and sugar
Joseph A Wendllng accused of the
murder of little Alma Kellner in
Louisville Ky the man whose twist-
ings and turnings have baffled the po-
lice for four months has finally been
arrested at San Francisco
The coroner's jury empanelled to in-
quire into the death of Ira G Rawn
late president of the Monon railroad
returned an open verdict to the effect
that he had died from a shot from his
own weapon by his own hand
The gasoline trading schooner
Helen Johnson owned and navigated
by Louis Lane son of Charles D Lane
the California millionaire encoun-
tered a herd of 20000 walrus swim-
ming in the sea near Diomede Islands
in Bering Straits
While Robert Ford an aged crippled
negro was sitting on the porch of his
home at Fort Smith Ark he was
struck by a bullet which a woman
half a mile away fired fro ma revol-
ver The bullet penetrated the skin of
the negro’s forehead causing a flesh
wound
North of St Louis steamboat traf-
fic is almost at a standstill on ac-
count of the low water in the Upper
Mississippi caused by the long con-
tinued drouth
Any New York grocer or wholesaler
or commission merchant who sells
eggs by the dozen is subject to pros-
ecution and on conviction to a fine of
$100 for each offense Hereafter eggs
must be sold by the pound in that city
Twenty-two new cases of ptomalhe
poisoning several of which may result
fatally have been reported to the
health department at Joplin Mo
bringing the total number reported in
the last week to 101 Several have al-
riy died
SCORES ATTEND
CROSSJNERAL
PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
STATE WERE PRESENT
S i 'll - ' '
MASONS IN ATTENDANCE
1 f a
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Last Rites Over Oklahoma’s Pop-
ular Citizen Attended by Many
—Glowing Tributea Paid the
Former State Secretary
Oklahoma City : Okla — Scores of
Oklahoma’s prominent citizens gath-
ered at the White Temple Friday
morning to attend the funeral of the
late Bill Cross secretary of state From
all parts of the state they came eager
to pay a last tribute of respect to Ok-
lahoma's most popular citizen
Oklahoma City Masons were pres-
ent in a large body and performed
their traditional ritualistic ceremonies
over the body both at the Temple
and at the grave
The Rev H J Brown read a short
passage of scripture followed by
words of spiritual consolation
Governor C N Haskell followed
with a tribute to Bill Cross as a man
and faithful and honest official of the
state With broken voice the gover-
nor told of the long friendship that
had existed between them and of Bill
Cross’ many acts of charity
E J Glddlngs delivered a tribute to
the memory of his old friend that was
a gem of oratory and that in fitting
phrases told of the dead man’s great
heart and kindly character
Dr J M D Davidson rector of the
St Paul’s cathedral followed with
brief remarks along similar lines af-
ter which the' Masonic fraternity
closed the services with its ancient
ceremony
The active pall bearers were Dr
John Threadgill C G Jones Col D
D Leach Judge George H Clark Gov-
ernor S F Price and Mr Hanford of
Guthrie Eight Knights Templar act-
ed as an escort of honor
Leo Meyer assistant secretary of
state and the employees of Mr Cross’
office attended in a body Governor
HaskeH and other state officers were
also present while hundreds of Mr
Cross’ old friends filled the building
At midnight Thursday the Scottish
Rite Masons held the funeral services
of the Consistory over the body a
Numerous and beautiful were the
floral tributes that covered the cas-
ket while at the head was draped a
silk Confederate flag
Hominy Man Badly Injured
Hominy Okla — O R Dildlne who
lives northwest of town Buffered what
may develop into fatal injuries He
bad gone into the field for a mower
and while driving his wagon home the
wheels struck a snag throwing him
out and catching his leg in one of he
wheels The team kept up a brisk
valk and before be could stop them
be bad suffered a broken leg and seri-
ous Internal Injuries Mr Dildlne is
60 years old
Kansas Will Combat Disease
Lawrence KanThe University of
Kansas has entered the crusade
against Infantile paralysis in that
state Arrangements have been made
so that all acute cases of the disease
will be sent to the university hospital
at Rosedale Kan to receive treat-
ment at the expense of the state
Engineers Demand More Pay
Chicago 111 — Representatives of en-
gineers employed on sixty-two rail-
roads west of Chicago at a special
conference of he Brotherhood of Loco-
motive Engineers here decided to de-
mand a flat wage increase of 15 to 18
per cent The demand for higher pay
will affect about 30000 men
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Bishop, John W. The Cleo Chieftain (Cleo, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1910, newspaper, August 12, 1910; Cleo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1860255/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.