The Terral Tribune. (Terral, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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INTWENTIOir
IS POSSIBLE
The Tcrral Tribune
AUGUSTA MAYOR
ASKS FOR TROOPS
A DAY OF REST
H E MATTHEWS Pub
TERRA L
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NLWS NOILS
SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE HAS
ITS REPORT READY
RIOTING AT MASS MEETING OP
CAR EMPLOYES
Fill the silo
Plant some kafircorn
Grow more acreage of alfalfa
rlse more bogs
Arrange to
cattle
and
Tbe Choctaw county" fair Is in pro
gross this week at Hugo
Enid Is figuring on voting $25000
in bonds to prospect for gas and oil
Pauls Valley claims that there are
deposits of a half million dollars in
its banks
It is expected that the1 Lawton In
terurban line to Ft Sill will be com-
pleted within sixty days
The McClain county fair held at
Purcell was well attended and a suc-
cess in every particular
Dr Hughes and Bob Hyde of Lena-
pah while hunting on the river bank
for squirrels encountered a wildcat in
the timber east of the city
Ouymon wants to issue $8000 In
bonds to refund all outstanding In-
debtedness so as to start out with a
clean state
Two hundred and eighty acres of
land near Wanette was purchased
by John E Jackson of Ada for
$10000
Cherokee will have a three days
carnival and agricultural fair October
10 11 and 12 -with a horse show
poultry exhibit and school exhibition
‘ Just remember that Oklahoma soil
will raise good crops So prepare to
irrigate if rains do not come We
ought to be able to duplicate - this
year’s cropln 1913
James T Hinchee of Ilenryetta has
been appointed United States deputy
marshal at Muskogee Mr Hinchee
formerly held a similar office In the
western district of Arkansas
Enid proposes to extend her parks
and enlarge the -lakes so that the'
city will have the baslB for a splendid j
park system for future developments I
Col try Is agitating a street lighting
system
C J Benson president of the Ben-
son National Bank returning from
a hunt In Idaho brought back for his
friends some presents of bear meat
a trophy of the proficiency of his
party
Wlrelese Forecast
Washington — A wireless wsather
forecast system for ocean going ves-
sels will be provided by the govern-
ment 'weather bureau If congress will
appropriate $150000 included In the
estimates for next year by Chief Wil-
lis L Moore of the bureau The initial
chart of the plan will be sent out from
Mrs J W Wlnstone of Chickasha Washington by the high power wire-
was severely burned while attempt- ®8" ataton at Fort McRae and will
lng to rescue one of her children from contro1 aH 8torm movements In va-
the flames which were mmmminir rloua parts of the Atlantic
The service of the BrlBtow' Tele-
phone company has so nearly reached
Its equipment limit that Manager Det-
teer announces that only a few more
customers can be accommodated be-
fore additional switchboards must be
Installed
consuming
her home She rushed Into the burn-
ing building and her clothing caught
fire She was badly burned about
General Mena Surrenders
Bluefields Nicaragua — Official con-
the neck and arms but the physician flrmatlon was received here of the sur-
reports that nothing serious will re- render of General Mena and the fort-ault-
I ress of San FrYtnclsco In Granada to
the American forces General Mena
re®uIt ®f r®cent raIns- aaTa also delivered to Admiral Southerland
the TYasMngton Sentinel much late ji of the steamers on Lake Nicaragua
garden products Is being planted whlch he captured a few days after
Also the late peas tomatoes cab- he Btarted the revolution This news
bage potatoes and sweet potatoes are 3 generally accepted as the termini
much benefited according to the re- tton ot the revolution
port of truck gardeners In this sec
tion Lettuce mustard radishes tur-
nips and onions that have been
sowed since the first rain a few days
ago are showing above the ground A
month of pleasant weather would In-
sure a very profitable late vegetable
yield
Hunters of Bartlesville are talking
of gunning for a mountain lion report-
ed to have been seen In a sparsely
populated neighborhood In that sec-
tion of the state The family of
Charles Allen one of the farmers of
the locality saw the creature speed-
ing towards their poultry yard and
describe It as seven feet long three
feet bight and of vicious appearance
A voilln owned by Captain W W
Mayme of Claremore whose death oc-
curred recently was sold at a street
auction to John T Ezzard for $14550
It was made In 1640 by Gitvan Paule
Maglnl Brefola and there Is but one
other like it In America and only six
In the world It was secured 0y
Captain Mayme who was formerly an
orchestra conductor In Chicago from
a friend there by the payment of an
Indebtedness of $760 in a mortgage of
$1 760 Captain Mayme had been of-
fered $3000 -for It He left his ef
feet to hfs wife and children If thy
can be found The oldest of hit four
children was 13 years old when he
was separated from his family In
1814
POLICEMEN MANTHECARS
Result of Attack on Non-Union
Men Fire Department Is
Ordered to Disperse the
Crowd With Water
Augusta Ga — As a result of at-
tacks on non-union men employed by
the street car company as strike
breakers Mayor Barrett called upon
Governor Brown for state troops to
Sid in preserving order The request
followed a clash between strike sym-
pathizers and stlrke breakers at the
power plant where several were se-
verely Injured
-The rioting came at the close of a
massmeeting at the courthouse where
resolutions were adopted providing
tor a sympathetic strike
Sixteen organizations affiliated with
the federation of trades voted to go
out in sympathy with the striking car
men immediately upon the call of the
car men’s leader This call has not
been made The action was taken
after the failure of the mayor to with-
draw the police from cars being -operated
by tbe company
While the trouble was at Its height
the mayor ordered the fire depart-
ment to the power house with In-
structions to turn streams on the
orowd to disperse them
Bank Clerk Asks for Sentence
Pensacola — William Bell the 19-year-old
bank clerk who 'Thursday
confessed to stealing the package of
455000 from the First National Bank
here was arraigned before a United
States commissioner and entered a
plea of guilty - Bell declaredvbe had
''no accomplice In taking the money or
In returning It to the bank where It
was found by the negro janitor His
bond was fixed at $5000 In his con-
fession Bell declared he yielded In a
moment of weakness In taking the
money but after he had u he dId not
know what to do with It He said he
desired to take his medicine as quick-
ly as possible Bell was not undsr
suspicion up to tbe time he presented
himself to the bank president and
confessed the crime
Chinese Starving
Pekin — Pathetic conditions prevail
throughout the country Occasionally
detachments of sollders engage In
looting and wanton destruction Trade
Is greatly hampered and thousands of
persons are dying from starvation
Death by Mosquito Bite
Columbus O — Mrs William F
Brown a society woman of this city
died after several months’ Illness
with malarial fever caused by a mos-
quito bite according to physicians
Politician Dies
Lexington Ky — J Walter Rhodes
president of the Phoenix Third Na-
tional bank and one of the best
known democratic politicians of the
state died of paralysis
Tablet to Butts
Nashville Tenn — A — bronze tablet
To commemorate the noble life and
heroic death of Major Archibald Wil-
lingham Butts U S A was unveiled
in All Saints chapel University ot the
pouth at Sewanee Tenn The cere-
monies were under the auspices of the
Sewanee chapter of Delta Tau Delta
of which Major Dutts a Sewanes
alumnus was a member
SPECIAL STAMPS
FOR NEW SYSTEM
POSTMASTER GEN
CELS POST
DESIGNS PAR-
SERIES Washington — Arrangements have
been made by Postmaster General
Hitchcock for engraving and manu-
facturing a series of twelve stamps
unique in 6lzt and novel In design
for exclusive use In forwarding pack-
ages by the new parcels post Under
the law recently enacted by congress
ordinary stamps cannot be used for
this purpose
The special parcels post stamps will
be larger than the ordinary stamps
and will be so distinctive in color and
design as to avert confusion with
Btamps now In use
The new Issue will be In three se-
ries of designs The first will -Illustrate
modern methods of transporting
mall one showing the mall carrier
one of trln a third the mall on
ocean vessel and fourth the dispatch
of mall by aeroplane
The second will show at work In
their several environments the four
great classes of postal employes—
postofflce clerks railway mall clerks
city letter carriers and rural delivery
carriers
The third series will represent four
industrial scenes showing the princi-
pal sources of products that probably
will be transported exfehslvely by
parcels post v -
The stamps will be ready for dis-
tribution December L in order that
the-present 60000 postofllces may 'be
supplied with them before the law be-
comes effective January 1
AUGUSTA STRIKE IS
QUIETING DOWN DAILY
City Officials Mayor Barrett and
Company Officials Hold Con-
ference 8unday
Augusta Ga — The conference be-
tween Mayor Barrett other city offi-
cers and representatives of the
street rallwa company Sunday after-
noon proved availing In an effort to
bring about a settlement of the street
car strike The city again has as-
sumed a peaceful air after the excit-
ing events of tbe past few days In
which three citizens were shot to
death by members of the state militia
Two companies of soldiers on guard
duty here were sent to their home
stations Sunday -It
was stated thatth e Street rail-
way company will submit Its answer
to the proposals of the city officers at
a meeting of the city council Imme-
diately Efforts of the company to operate
cars Sunday were frustrated b ob-
structions which had been -placed on
the tracks at various points One of
the city’s Bteam road rollers had been
hauled across the tracks
Aged Woman Acquitted
La Crosse WJs — Mrs Charles
Weldemnii an aged woman of Inde-
pendence WIs accused of the mur-
der of her 71-year-old husband was
acquitted by a Jury at Whitehall
Weldeman was found dead In the
cellar of his home April 9 and it was
charged his wife struck him down
The defense contended death was due
to a fall
Plans for Frisco Station at Ada
Ada Okla — Plans and speclflca
tlons for the new passenger depot fot
the Frisco railroad to be erected In
this city have been received from
th corporation commission The build-
ing is to cost not less than $25000
will be steam lieuted aud built ot con-
crete reinforced with steel and of a
design entirely new
FAMOUS DIPLOMAT DIE3
Brilliant German Baron Von Bierber-
atein 8uccumbt to Short Illness
Badenweller Baden' Ger — Ger-
many’s most brilliant diplomat -Baron
Adolf Marshal Von Bierberstein
died here after a short Illness
The baron who had occupied the
position of German ambassador In
London only since May this year had
come here to take a course of alka-
line water treatment and was In com-
partively good' health until a week
age Then he suddenly felt 111 and
rapidly became worse until be died
The diplomat had suffered from an
attack of Influenza earlier in the year
and his death Is attributed -to the aft-
er effects of that malady and tohis
strenuous work In London since his
appointment to the embassy there
The baron a native of Baden was
TO years old
SMITH
BEATEN IN
NEW JERSEY PRIMARY
Governor Wilson’s Opposition
talned Two to Ono
Over ‘‘Boss”
8ua-
Newark N J — Returns from forty-
two out of the 1799 election districts
in the state in Tuesday’s primaries
forthe democratic nomination for
United Stated senator give: Hughes
1071: Smith 687 McDermltt 35
Wescott 14
Returns were strikingly slow from
the statewide primary held by demo
orats and republicans owing to the
late closing of the polls and delay
In the count
Nominations mad cover six state
senators and sixty membtrs of the
lower house and some municipal of-
ficers New Record at Lawton
Lawton Okla — September 26 1912
starts a new record for early frost In
Comanche county but farmers and
local cotton dealers agree that but
little damage was done Earliest pre-
vious date was October 3 19M laBt
night's frost seems to have been heav-
ier in town than in farming dis-
tricts "
Powers Unsatisfied
London — The six powers connected
with the recent financial negotiations
with China contemplate informing the
government at Pekin of their inten-
tion to exercise their right under tbe
Boxer Indemnity again They intend
also to prevent the alienation of any
part of the surplus revenues from tho
salt tax which are already hypothe'
cated for the Boxer Indemnity
Price Convicted
Sapulpa Okla— The Jury In the
case of Louis Price tbe second of
two negroes charged with killing
Will Crockett last April' returned a
verdict of guilty and fixed the pen-
alty at ninety-nine years in the state
penitentiary Frank Ilawklns who
Trusty Forges Check
McAlester Okla — Henry Shaw
pleaded guilty to forgery and was
sentenced -to serve two years In the
penitentiary He la Just concluding
a three year term for a like offense
and while a trusty last week he
forged the name of Col J J McAles-
ter to a check and sold It to a truck
peddler
Domingo Almost Broke
New York — The resources of the
Dominican government are so drained
by the cost of fighting the revolution-
ists that it Ik unable to pay the sal
arleB of officials or curren expenses
and the public debt Is increasing ac-
cording to mail advices received here
Intervention from the outside Is look-
ed for in many quarters
ACTION BY UNITED STATES
Roport Indicates That Testimony
Taken and Evidence Found
Points to Necessity of
Interventlpn
Los Angeles Cal— The United
States senate subcommittee appoint-
ed to Investigate relations with Mex-
ico has completed Its work here and
while Its members are noncommittal
as to the subject matter of the report
which they will submit to the senate
oommlttee on Foreign Relations Sen-
ator William Alden Smith chairman
of the subcommittee says that It will
embody evidence showing that since
the beginning of the Madero revolu-
tion large quantities of amunitlons of
war have been shipped Into Mexico
aoross the American border
The report It Is said will hold that
the evidence adduced points to the
necessity for the United States to
Intervene In Mexico In order that
Americana and American Interests
may rtcelve proper protection
The oommlttee has been In con-
tinuous session since Sept 1- The
Investigators spent ten days In El
Paso and ten days In Los Angeles
Tho remainder of the time has been
taken up In traveling
UPROAR AT PEACE CONGRESS
Concluding Session In Geneva Marked
by Another Stormy- 8ceno
Genova Switzerland — Another
stormy scene marked the concluding
session of the International Peace
Congress The uproar was caused by
a speech of Dr Gobat In which the
president of the International Bureau
of Peace characterized the Italian air-
men who have been operating in Trip-
oli during the war as ’brigands of
the air” The congress decided to
meet next year at The Hague and In
1914 at Marienbad
AVIATION ACCIDENTS END
FOUR MORE LIVES
Army Lieutenant and Passenger Are
Killed at College Park Md
Washington — Two more lives were
sacrificed to aviation at the United
States Army aviation field College
Park Md when an army aeroplane
fell thirty-five feet to the ground In-
stantly killing Corporal Frank S
Scott and so seriously Injuring Sec-
ond Lieutenant Lewis C Rockwell
that he died a few hours later Hun-
dreds of people Including fellow-
army officers breathlessly witnessed
the aocldenL
French Dreadnaught Launched
Toulon ' France — The launching of
the new French dreadnought Paris
was made the occasion for a popular
demonstration of approval of the pol-
icy of relnvlgoratlon of the French
navy The Paris most formidable of
French fighting ships has an arma-
ment of twelve twelve-inch guns and
twenty-six smaller pieces
Watching Money Matters
Washington Sept 26— Treasury of-
Rcals are closely watching the money
situation In New York where call
money Thursday rose to 7 per cent
While they have figured on a plan for
disbursing treasury funds with nation-
al banks to move the crops and meet
the emergency no action will be taken
until nett week at leasL
McGrath Breaks Record
New York— Matt McGrath the
world's champion hammer thrower
added a new world’s record to his
string Sunday at Celtic park He
therw the sixteen pound hammer with
unlimited run and follow 191 feet B
Inches the former record being 186
feet 1 Inch made by J J Flanagan
on the same grounds three years ago
Aeroplane Kills Woman
Ausslg Austria— An aviator while
making an exhibition flight near
here was compelled to make a sud-
den landing In a field The owner of
the field and his wife were watching
the aviator When the aeroplane
swooped over the propellor struck the
woman and killed her instantly Her
husband was seriously hurt
Practice for Races
Milwaukee Wis — Official practice
for the Vanderbilt and Grand Prlx
automobile races have started at the
Wauwatosa course Among the
drivers are: David Bruce-Brown Boh
Burman and Joseph Horan
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The Terral Tribune. (Terral, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1912, newspaper, October 4, 1912; Terral, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1917817/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.