The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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The Okemah Ledger
O C GASTON Pub
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA
STRIKE IS ON
COHBRESSMtH THOMAS F KOflOPj
TWO ARE DEAD
Faces Included
Howell— He has a weather-beaten
face
Powell — Well the weather beat
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State News Notes
Cotton pickers are busy in Southern
Oklahoma
Caddo's big corn carnival is dated
lor August 23-26
Oklahoma farmers are gradually
learning the value of silos
The Methodist university at Guth-
rie will open this fall with a full at-
tendance '
The beglning of the homeseekers'
season will find Oklahoma happy and
prosperous as usual
The Woodward branch of the Old
Soldiers’ association will give a picnic
here on September i ‘
The cotton crop of Kingfisher Coun-
ty is reported to be out of danger
Late rains stopped the drought just
in time
Captain Guy Smith 83 years old
and one of the few survivors of two
wars died at the Confederate home in
Ardmore
Bennington has voted $20000 for
bonds for waterworks Here's hoping
it does not get the class of water
Oklahoma City people are paying for
Lawton folks are writing the Okla-
homa congressmen to secure the an-
nual maneuvers of the southwestern
division of the United States army
for that city
The labor unions of Shawnee are
behind a proposition to build an Ice
plant to be controlled by the unions
and to supply citizens with ice at a
minimum cost
Advices have been received from
Washington to the effect that Chand-
ler has seen named for a postal sav-
ings bank The order goes into effect
on September 9
Practically all of a $16000 bonus re-
quired to Insure the location of a piano
factory in Sklatook has been raised
Citizens will be required to subscribe
for $15000 stock
Henry Plaster a farmer living near
Purcell ties a gunny sack saturated
with crude oil to his cultivator as he
goes through his cotton field and in-
sect pests disappear
Stroud business men nave raised
a hundred dollars to be used for good
roads leading into town To this was
added a hundred dolars by the coun-
ty which the law allows
Farmer Baxter at Idabel planted
seven-eighths of an acre to tomatoes
this year Already his sales have
reached $250 Just another good argu-
ment in favor of small farms and in-
tensive intelligent cultivation
Catching its head between the mat-
tress and rails of the bed on which
it was lying the 6-months-old child
of Mrs Anna Richardson Hollis was
found strangled to death by its
mother when she returned to the
room
The state game warden’s office has
received an application for a hunting
license from Jackson Berger of Nar-
din 85 years old who is believed to
be the oldest hunting enthusiast in
Oklahoma Mr Berger still sees and
shoots well and is described by Kay
oounty neighbors as being a true
sportsman in the best sense of the
word
“I will be first in and first out’’ ex-
claimed Will Hill 25 years old as he
went in swimming with companions
at Shawnee A moment after he had
plunged into the water he got cramps
and drowned The body was re-
covered In connection with the state inves-
tigation of the national guard expen-
ditures it is understood through fed-
eral officials the war department also
will demand an accounting of the
federal fund sent to Oklahoma during
the fast few years for state militia
purposes An investigation of all ex-
penditures from the federal fund Is
imminent
The big Oklahoma State Fair is go-
ing to attract an immense lot of peo-
ple to Oklahoma City this fall Every-
thing is being done by the manage-
ment to make it attractive The fair
will be of Immense benefit as an edu-
cator as well as a vehicle of amuse-
ment The races the horse show the
exhibits of counties all these and
other things will draw a big attend-
ance A great religious revival for the
Comanche and Apache Indians near
Fort Sill is being planned
State Game Warden John B Doolin
has received notice of two prosecu-
tions for violations of the game laws
In Pottawatomie county Daniel Guido
ly was bound over to the grand Jury
under $500 bond on a charge of dyna-
miting after a hearing in Judge Lock-
wood’s court and In Oklahoma county
Grant Bailey was flnd $100 and costs
by Justice of Peace Sumery on a
gbarge of ilegal seining
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MEN TIE UP ALL RAILROAD LINES
COMPLETELY '
ARMY IS ON THE MOVE
Practically a State of War Prevails
and Grave Fears Felt That Blood-
shed Will Follow the Going
Out of Railway Employes
Number of railway employes 600-
ooo
Number or union employes expected
to go out at once 125000
Daily losses in wages to employes
$125000
Daily loss in traffic receipts to com-
panies estimated at $325000 or 50
per cent of usual receipts
Total railroad mileage in United
Kingdom 24000
Capital invested in English rail-
roads $7675000000
There are fifteen companies in Eng-
land and Wales five in Scotland and
seven in Ireland
London — The great railway war is
on An order calling out all the union
employes of the railroads of Great
Britain in numbers between 125000
and 150000 but involving a total of
600000 men was issued Thursday aft-
ernoon after all attempts to avert it
had failed
"War has been declared and war it
will be” was the slogan of the union
leaders
No sooner had the strike order been
issued than the war office began or-
dering soldiers under way to protect
property of the railroads and to help
them run their trains A number of
railroad employes had gone out earlier
in the day without orders from the
general union and it was estimated
that when the order became effective
fully 100000 men were out
Two hundred and fifty thousand
soldiers practically the entire home
army were under marching orders
Thursday Three thousand troops
with 62000 rounds of ammunition and
twelve powerful machine guns were
brought into London All of the mil-
itary preparations for the strike had
been made
Not only were soldiers moved to
London but there was activity in all
the military stations and soldiers were
on the move to all centers where a
railroad strike might precipitate vio-
lence or cut off the nation’s food sup-
ply Press Day at State Fair
Oklahoma City — Announcement has
JJust been made that Saturday Sep-
tember 30 will be Press Day at the
Oklahoma State Fair While the latch
string will be out every day of the big
exposition for the publishers Secre-
tary I S Mahan says that he wants
a big reunion of the men who makes
the newspapers of Oklahoma on the
special day set aside for them
In selecting Saturday Mr Mahan
says that he believes that day will
afford the greatest number an appor-
tunity to come to Oklahoma City Most
of the publishers especially the week-
lies get out their papers on Thurs-
day and the Secretary of the fair
wants them to leave at once for Okla-
homa City so that they can reach the
fair grounds early Saturday morning
While a program has not been out-
courtesy will be extended the publish-
ers It is proposed to make them have
the time of their lives
Socialist Secretary Resigns
Milwaukee Wis — J Mahlen Barnes
secretary of the national socialist par-
ty has resigned Mr Barnes’ action
followed an attack on his personal
character by a lawyer and a preacher
in Chicago
Quarantine Line To Be Moved Up
Oklahoma City — That more of Okla-
homa will be placed above the federal
quarantine line this year than in any
previous year since the work of tick
extermination was started is the
opinion of Frank ' Ikard superinten-
dent of live stock inspection for the
state board of agriculture who was
in Shawnee for a conference with
the county inspectors In Pottawat-
omie county in regard to the work
now being done in that county Two
townships have already been placed
above the federal line and the clean-
up work is now going on over about
half of the county' with very satis-
factory results
Rice Crop Ruined
Pekin — Five hundred persons are
homeless and 3000000 more are men-
aced with starvation as a result of
terrific floods that have been raging
for two days in the province of Anhui
Th6 water has washed out 235000
acres of rice and there 1b no hope of
an autumn crop This is the worBt
agricultural disaster that China ever
has suffered
Quake at Manila
Manila — The seismographs here re-
corded a series of strong earthquakes
as occurring at an estimated distance
of 2000 miles from Manila The
tremors continued with evidence of
violence for a period of two hours
Rev Wordsworth Dies
London — The Right Rev John
Wordsworth bishop of Salisbury died
here- He was born September 21
1843 and aside from being an eccles-
iast was an educator and author of a
religious publication
Nominated for congress by the Democrats In a district considered safe-
ly Republican Thomas F Konop of Kewaunee Wis was elected last autumn
by a plurality of five votes He represents the Ninth district - Mr Konon
was born in Kewaunee count fn 1879 and has been a school teacher and a
lawyer He married Madge L Nolan in 1905 and has one daughter and three
on
TWO MORE AVIATOR8 -
LOSE LIVES AT CHICAGO
Johnstone Drowned In Lake Michigan
and Badger Killed Beneath Ma-
chine in Fall on the Feld
Chicago — Two aviators William R
Badger of Pittsburg and St Crojx
Johnstone of Chicago both ytoung
men lost their lives at the interna-
tional aviation meet here In dying
both revealed the frailty of the craft
in which two score more aviators were
curving and gliding about in the air
with scarcely a pause for the deaths
of their contemporaries
Death in both cases was due to un-
explained accidents probably the re-
sults of unsuspected defects in the
mechanism of the machines and was
in no way caused by carelessness nor
lack of responsibility of the aviators
Badger a wealthy youth came to his
death in a pit in the aviation field
There had been a flaw in one of the
wings of the propeller of the Baldwin
machine he drove Centrifugal force
broke the propeller upset the delicate
equilibrium of the machine and Badger
dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the
pit his neck being broken
Johnstone fell 500 feet under his en-
gine and was drowned in Lake Michi-
gan 'as the result of an equally unsus-
pected defect Caught under the heavy
engine in the Moisant monoplane he
was carried deep into the lake
To Dismiss Indictments -
San Francinco — The district court
of appeals of the First district issued
a peremptory writ of mandamus to
compel Superior Judge William P Law
ler to dismiss Indictments pending
against Patrick Calhoun Thornwell
Mullalay Tirey L Ford and William
M Abbott charged with bribing the
Reuf-Schmitz supervisors in connec-
tion with the United Railroads trolley
franchise
Married a Day Elopes
Hammond Ind — After having been
married but a day to Paul Possln of
Chicago Heights Miss Ruth Gilmore
of Rennsaeler Ind-17 met her girl-
hood sweetheart Gossle Brown of
Renssaeler 18 years old fynd eloped
with him Possin is 48 years old a
widower and has three children He
had only known the girl a week and
says it was a case of love at first sight
Amusement Park Burned
Cincinnati O— Fire which is thought
to have originated from a pan of
grease in the kitchen of the club house
at Chester Park an amusement resort
destroyed many amusement buildings
and spread rapidly to two lumber
yards adjoining Loss $175000
Incendiary Burns Horses
Dodge City Kan — While Jot McCar-
ty a farmer living three miles nortli
of here was in Dodge City to attend a
circus unknown parties drove seven
head of his horses from the pasture
into his barn and set fire to the struc-
ture All the horses were burned to
death while the barn was a total loss
Murderer Reprieved
Nashville Tenn — William Fitzger-
ald who was to have been hanged
at sunrise August 15 for murdering his
wife was reprieved by Governor Hoop-
er of Tennessee
Grasshoppers in Kansas
Independence Kan — Hordes of
grasshoppers visited Independence
Old settlers said there bad not been
such a visitation of the pests since
the early days when they destroyed the
crops and ate everything in the shape
of vegetation
PRESIDENT TAFT VETOES
ARIZONA-NEW MEXICO BILL
Returns Measure With Message De-
- daring He Cannot Approve the
Vicious Recall Provision
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Washington — beciarlng it is his duty
to disapprove the Judicial recall clause
of the Arizona constitution and assert-
ing that "an untrammeled judiciary is
the corner-stone of a good govern-
ment” President Taft sent to the house
of representatives his expected veto
message on the resolution admitting
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood
“I return herewith without my ap-
proval’ says the president “house joint
resolution No 14 ‘to admit the terri-
tories of New Mexico and Arizona as
states into the union on an equal foot-
ing with the original states’
"If I sign this joint resolution I do
not see how I can escape responsibility
for the judicial recall of the Arizona
constitution
"This provision of the Arizona con-
stitution in its application tQ county
and state judges seems to me so pep
nicious in its effects so restrictive of
Independence to the judiciary so likely
to subject the rights of the individual
to the possible tyranny of a popular
majority and therefore to be so in-
jurious to the cause of free govern-
ment that I must disapprove a consti-
tution containing it”
The president in vigorous language
condemns any legislation that would
place restrictions upon the judiciary
declaring that the majority cannot al-
ways be trusted to decide questions of
moment for all the people and asserts
that the recall is “pernicious in its ef-
fects destructive of independence in
the judiciary likely to subject the right
of the individual to the tyranny of a
popular majority and injurious to the
cause of free government"
Publicity Agreed Upon
Washington — The senate without
division or discussion agreed to the
conference report on the campaign
publicity bill and the report was pre-
sented to the house action being de-
ferred until sometime later The
measure then will be ready for the
president’s signature The bill as
agreed to by the conferees includes
the senate amendment extending the
requirement for publicity of campaign
expenses to primary and special flec-
tions and nominating conventions as
well as to general elections The
amendment limits candidates for sen-
ator to a campaign expenditure of
$10000 and candidates for represen-
tatives to $5000
Blacksmith Arrested
Columbia Mo — Ed Brooks a black-'
smith and suspect was arrested and is
in the Boone county jail to await trial
on a charge of sending threatening
letters to J W Brockman wealthy
farmer in an endeavor to extort
$10000
G A R Man Found Dead '
Grand Junction Colo — John N
Gelgir 67 former commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic of Chicago
was found dead in his state room
on a westbound train Death is be-
lieved to have been due to heart
disease
Cruce Will Attend Reunion
Oklahoma City — Governor Cruce has
accepted an invitation to attend the
state reunion of the United Confed-
erate Veterans to be held at Ard-
more September 6 7 and 8
SCHOOL- DISTRICT FEUD ENDS
IN PITCHED BATTLE
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED
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Inefficiency of Ownership Certificate
Questioned by One Contestant
Words Follow and the Quar-
rel Ends Fatally
Chlckasha Okla — As the result of
a school district feud in McClain coun-
ty in the Washington school district
twenty miles east of Chlckasha Will
Aury and Tom McClendon two school
officers and wealthy intermarried cit-
izens of that section are dead and Dr
J H Colby of Purcell Okla is under
arrest Colby was wounded in the
shooting scrape which occured there
The trouble grew out of a school
feud and lawsuit over possession of
an acre of ground upon which the
schoolhouse of that community sits
F W Loder originally owned the
land and gave a certificate before
statehood to the district relinquish-
ing his claim to the land and donating
it to the school E B Glencoe pur-
chased the land and refused to recog-
nize the certificate as a title or own-
ership He mortgaged the land for a
considerable amount the deed show-
ing the entire acreage including the
land where the school house stood Dr
J H Colby of Purcell purchased the
mortgage and recently took possession
of the land He refused to acknowl-
edge any right of the Washington
school district to the land and at-
tempted to build a house on the acre
of Iqnd held by the community as
school property The judge of the dis-
trict court of McClain county enjoined
Colby from building the house and
again issued an injunction against hia
fencing the school land ”
No deed is held by the school di-
rectors for the property but the
court has ruled that the land shall be
held by the district Several suits are
pending in the case in the district
court of McClain county
Dr Colby rebuilt the fence arc-und
the school property Friday night and
Saturday morning the news of this
spread Members of the school
boaFd araeng them Autry and McClen-
don with many of the patrons of the
district went to the school property
to demand redress from Colby Colby
was there with a loaded shotgun
A fight ensued In which Will Autry
and Tom McClendon received injuries
of such a nature as to result in (heir
death Autry died almost Instantly
Both' were intermarried dtlens and
wealthy land owners of that commu-
nity 8PANISH WAR VETERANS
GATHERING AT CAPITAL
Delegations From rut Parts of the
Country Arrive In Oklahoma City
For National Encampment
Oklahoma City — Delegates to the
eighth annual encampment of the
United Spanish war veterans to the
number of 1000 strong entered Okla-
homa City on a peaceful invasion Sat-
urday night and Sunday and at the
rate at which the “vets” are still ar-
riving it is Indicated that double that
number will have registered by Mon-
day night Ab is ever the case the
gates of the metropolis of the state
have been swung wide In welcome to
the guests — all of whom are pleased
over their selection' of Oklahoma CJty
as the 1911 convention city
Sunday night hundreds of the visi-
tors attended the reception at the
Lee-Hucklns tendered by Mrs Ida
M Galloway president of the gener-
al auxiliary and members of her
staff
For Public Ownership
Washington — Senator LaFollette
Introduced a resolution for the owner-
ship of railways docks and terminals
In Alaska by the government of the
territory these utilities to be In
charge of a board of public works ap-
pointed by the president He an-
nounced he would speak on the reso-
lution Monday Senator LaFollette’s
measure bears on the Controller Bay
and Alaska railroad Incident that has
figured in various ways before con-
gress In connection with the alleged
attempt of Guggenheim interests to
acquire a monopoly In that section
Five Perish Lose $1000000
Frankfort Germany— The Opel
Sewing machine and bicycle factory
at ftusselhelm was destroyed by fire
early Sunday morning Five persons
perished in the flames and many were
injured ' Loss more than $1000000
President Signs Publicity Bill n
Washington — The campaign pub
Hetty bill was signed by President
Taft
Snow In New England
Lenox Mass— There was a brisk
snowfall on October and Greylock
mountains Saturday night and Sun-
day fireplaces are ablaze in all hotels
and homes in this neighborhood
Gonzales Ticket Elected '
Juarez Mex— An election was held
throughout the state of Chihuahua
Bunday and while but little informa-
tion' is available it Is evident that Ab-
raham Ganzales the present provision-
al governor is elected with all of his
THEN -YOU
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IIOSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
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It will restore the
appetite aid digestion
and assimilation
and keep the
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a Bottle
Home Today
NOT A BRITISH UNIT IN IT
Irishman Would Not for a Minute
Allow the Possibility of Such
a Thing
George Mockler has just returned
from an investigation of what coal
is costing sojne of the other cities
He brought this story from Balti-
more: ’ An Irishman there inherited a coal
mine up In the state! He Immedi-
ately entered the lists for one of the
big coal contracts and went around
to say a good word for bis coal
The man who was letting the con-
tract heard him a moment and then
Interrupted with:
"That’s all right but bow- about'
British thermal units?”
The other being new to the coal
business did not know that coal 1 '
rated now according to the British
thermal units in tests
”Phat’s that?” he said
"How many British thermal units
are there in your coal 7”
The Irishman blinked bis eye and
snorted a bit ' -
“British thermal units is It?” h
he said "Why there ain’t a wan In it”
—St Louis Post-Dispatch
WAS IT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS?
Mrs Nelson — My husband is awfully
absent-minded
Mrs Bllson — In what' way?
- Mrs Nelson-— He went fishing yes-
terday When he had finished h
threw away the fish and brought bom -the
bait
The Real Thing
"Say mister if you throw three
cents up In the air I kin ketch ’em
all before they come down every
time”
“Humph! That is nothing but a
catch-penny scheme”
Surely
Is that bargain really cut glass?”
"Sure it was marked down”
f A Large
v Package
Of Enjoyment—
Post
Toasties
Served with cream milk
or fruit — fresh or cooked
Crisp golden-brown bits
of white corn — delicious
and wholesome —
A flavour that appeals to
young and old
“The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocer
Poifcun Cereal Company Ltd
Battle Creek Mien
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