Marble City News (Marble City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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MARBLE CITY NEWS
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CUIA L HOUSEMAN MELUI L HOUSEMAN
MAUUCnt
OCUHOMA
STATE HAPPENINGS
Cotton gins at Snyder ginned a total
of 6664 bales this season '
The Pennsylvania society ot Okla
boma will build a club bouse for them
selves according to present plans
The Chickasha chamer of commerce
tabooed the dress suit at its annual
booster banquet held the past week
Otto C Waters engineer on a Santa
Fe work train near Ripley was run
over by bis train aud instantly killer
William King one of the oldest
residents of Rogers county died at
bis home near Claremore of kidney
trouble
Cyrus Phillips aged 74 and perhaps
the oldest Mason in Canadian county
died at Darlington Okla The Masonic
home is located In that place and cere-
monies will attend the funeral of the
dead man
John R Williams manager of the
Cruce campaign and recently appoint-
ed secretary of the school land com-
mission is now in charge of affairs
Mr WUltem succeeds S W Stone
retiring secretary
Officials of the federal land office
at McAlester are selling Indian allotted
lands at public auction The property
is all located in Pittsburg county and
consists of about 2000 Jracts of 160
acres each or a total of 320000 acres
The Oklahoma Rubber company
with a capital stock of $400000 lias
been organized in Oklahoma City for
the manufacture of all kinds of rubber
goods including high grade druggists’
eupplies automobile pneumatic and
solid tires and bicycle tires
The national interstate commerce
commission will meet In Oklahoma
City Friday and Saturday February 17
and 18 United States Marshal Madsen
has made arrangements to have the
commission bold Its deliberations in
the assembly room of the chamber of
commerce
Arrangements are being made and
leases taken for developing the oil in-
dustry at Milton a town on the Fort
Smith & Western railway in Le Flore
county Several thousand acres of
land have been leased and as soon as
the various details can be perfected
several wells will be started
G W Poston an old resident of
Blaine county at one time a delegate
to the upper bratieh of the territorial
legislature elected as a populist com-
mitted suicide at Hitchcock by shoot-
ing the top of his head off with a
eingle-bnrrel shotgun In 1S92 he at-
tempted 1 suicide in Kingfisher by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver
Dr J C Mnhr state commissioner
of health has announced the follow-
ing appointments of county superin-
tendents of health: Dr 1 II Bryce
Snyder Swanson county (new office)
Dr F M Adams Big Cabin Craig
cour vice Dr A M Chnksrule de-
cent Al Dr A J Snelbon Cheeotah
McIntosh county vacant y Dr A (!
T- Childers Mulhall Logan county
vacancy
'I Over three years ago T n Horton a
Boy Jumping on and off a Missouri
Cansns & Texas train suite lung in the
yards at McAlester had a leg tut off
His father sued and recoveted judg-
ment for $2000 for loss of the boy’s
cervices The boy sued for $9(100 and
recovered a judgment for $0000 for
personal Injuries Last week the two
Judgments were settled by the com-
pany paying $7750 and costs
Ada’s population is 4:ti9 according
o the 1910 census In I'toT it was
3257 a gain of 1092
Mrs William Higgins aged 77 of
Bhawnee was burned to death when
ter clothing caught flic- from a cook-
Stove Mrs K O Jennings of Kiowa at-
tempted to light a fire witli oli lrom a
bottle It exploded and she died Horn
burns received
Governor Cruce has called an elec-
tion on the proposed new county of
Beger Election March 4
Charles Smith a clerk In an Okla-
homa City hotel was arrested Ilo Is
said to have been implicated in the
plot to destroy the Los Angeles Times
He daimB an alibi
The board of trustees of the Metho-
dist state hospital at Guthrie has elect-
ed Dr Betti as superintendent of the
Institution He was formerly in the St
Louis conference but was transferred
to Guthrie recently
Wallace Hendry a Choctaw Indian
Wat found dead near the Itoff depot
Excessive drink was tho cause of
death
Secretary of State Ben Harrison Is
In receipt of a unique letter from a
farmer giving his name ns William
Bush and who lives on the KunguB-
Oklahoma line Bush states that he
raises bees and that while his hives
are in Oklahoma hla residence Is In
Kansas and bo wants to know if he
will have to take out a charter In ordof
to sell honey in Oklahoma
T THEY ERRED
HAMPTON’S RETRACTS CHARGE
MADE AGAINST 8TANDARO
OIL COMPANY
DIO NOT SELL IMPURE CANO
Magazine Publisher and Writer of Al
leged Llbeioua Article Because of
Which Corporation Brought 8uit
Declare They Were Mistaken
New York— In the matter of the
libel suits brought by the Standard Oil
company for $250000 damages against
Hampton's Magazine and for $100000
damages against Cleveland Moffett
the former the publisher and the lat-
ter the writer of an article in the Feb-
ruary Issue of' the magazine which de-
famed the company in connection
with the sale of glucose and candy in
Philadelphia the following retractions
have been signed in the office of
Shearman & Sterling the Standard
Oil company's lawyers In the case
and have been issued from the com-
pany's offices at No 26 Broad-
way: ‘Hampton’s Magazine CO West
Thirty-fifth St New York
"Jan 31 1911
Standard Oil Company 26 Broadway
New York
"Dear Sirs: In the February issue
of Hampton’s Magazine there was
published an article written by me
entitled ‘Cassidy apd the Food Pois-
oners’ In that article I referred to
the investigation of Mr Cassidy with
respect to the manufacture and sals
of impure candies in Philadelphia and
made the statement that your com-
pany manufactured and sold impure
material which went into these can-
dies and that when the various deal-
ers were arrested and fined at the In-
stance of Mr Cassidy your company
paid the fines
"Upon investigation I have ascer-
tained that your company was in no
way connected with the transactions
referred to and I hasten to retract in
the fullest manner all charges made
against your company and to express
my sincere regret that I should have
fallen into this serious error Yours
truly Cleveland Moffett”
"Jan 31 1911
'Standard Oil Company New York
City
"Dear Sirs: Referring to foregoing
letter of Mr Cleveland Moffett to you
we beg to state that we are convinced
that Mr Moffett was in error in bis
statements with reference to your
company We greatly regret that
these errors should have been made
It is the desire of Hampton’s Maga-
zine to be accurate and fair in all
things In our March number we will
publish this letter and the foregoing
letter of Mr Moffett Yours truly
IlenJ B Hampton President Broad-
way Magazine Inc’’
LORI M ER LASHED BY BROWN
Nebraskan Threatens to Hold Up Ap-
propriation Bills If Vote on Scan-
dal Is Not Ordered
Washington — Senator Norris Drown
of Nebraska In a speech before the sen-
te charged that Senator William Lor-
imer of Illinois must have known that
his election to the senate by the Illi-
nois legislature was accomplished by
corrupt practice He held that Sena-
tors Holstlaw and Broderick and Rep
resentatives Lee O’Neil Browne
White Link Beckemeyer and Wilson
had been bought to elect Loritner sen-
ator that Browne and Speaker Ed-
ward D Shurtleff of the Illinois house
of representatives were the political
agents of Mr Lorlmer in accomplish-
ing ills election and that it was not
possible for the election to have been
brought about under the conditions
then existing except by corrupt prac-
tices Mr Brown devoted most of his
remarks fo an analysis of the testi-
mony which involved directly the rela-
tions of Lorlmer Shurtleff and
Browne and the relations of Browns
with his thirty minority followers Mr
Brown issued a challenge to obstruc-
tionists that he would hold up appro-
priation bills unless the senate votes
at this session on the Lorimer case
the resolution pertaining to the elec-
tion of senators by the people the bill
to create a permanent tariff board and
general service pension bill
WARREN IS SHC’VN LENIENCY
Socialistic Editor Convicted of Mle
using the Mails Has Sentence
Commuted by President
Washington — President Taft Wed-
nesday commuted the sentence of Fred
D Warren the Socialistic editor who
was recently sentenced to ail
months' imprisonment and $1500 fine
by striking out the Imprisonment and
reducing the fine to $100 to be col-
lected by civil process only Warren
was convicted in the federal court ol
s technical misuse of the mails
Increased Tariffs Are Held Up
Washington— Increases In freight
rates on fruits and vegetables from
Chicago and Milwaukee to various des-
tinations In other states filed with tbs
interstate commerce commission and
made effective Wednesday were sus-
pended by the commission until June
1 1911 The tariffs were filed by the
Ck'cago & Northwestern and the Chi-
cago Milwaukee & St Paul railways
The commission Is of the opinion that
the advances ere too radical and evlll
make an Investigation of their re
souableneia
MANY DEFINED PRINCIPLES
IN PRUNING FRUIT TREES
Should be Adapted to Different Varieties— In Forming Top
of Tree Several Distinct Systems Are
Practiced '
(By R W FISHER!
It is known that heavy pruning of
(he tops of fruit trees in winter or
during the dormant period has a tend-
ency to produce wood growth or
cause the trees to grow larger This
Is due to the fact that when prunAs
Is done when the tree Is dormant the
plant food which Is taken up by the
roots early In the spring is concen-
trated Into a smaller portion of the
top and results In the very rapid
growth of the parts left Weak trees
are often forced Into vigorous growth
by heavy top pruning which is done
in the winter or early spring
When vigorous plants are given a
heavy winter pruning water sprouts
are often produced because there is
more plant food sont up from the
roots thun the top area can use re-
sulting in the growth of dormant la-
teral buds
Heavy pruning of the top in the
summer or when the tree is In an
active state of growth has a tendency
to check the wood growth causes fruit
buds to form and sometimes results
In the growth of water sprouts The
wood growth is checked because when
pruning is done when the leaves are
performing their function of assimi-
lating plant food a large portion of
the area which is making plant food
is removed and the supply of pre-
pared plant food is chocked thus
causing a decrease of growth over the
whole tree
Heavy root pruning cheeks the
growth of wood by cutting off the
supply of moisturo anif crude plant
food This results In an Increasing
number of fruit buds In sections of
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Pruning First Year at Planting
Second Year Growth
the country where fruit trees have a
tendency to start bearing very young
and to produce large crops of fruit
it is often necessary to do such prun-
ing that will cause wood growth rath-
er than the production of fruit buds
In forming tho top of the tree sev-
eral distinct systems are practiced
WAKES HANDY
FIRE ESCAPE
Stout Knotted Rope Makes Excell-
ent Substitute for Ladder—
Any Cool-Headed Person
Can Use It
It is not feasible to have a ladder at
every window and In case of firo peo-
ple in the’ second story are often in
danger of their lives For sufety tie
large knots in a strong rope coil it
neatly on the floor or some place
where it can be found immediately in
the dark Make a loop at one end so
It may be looped around a bed post
or a Btout hook pincell in tho window
frame in case of fire throw out the
A Handy Firs Escape
loose end of tho rope and scramble
out Any cool-headed person cun
wriggle down a rope of this kind al-
though they may blister their hands
or get a slight full In doing so but
even bo It It Is bstter than being
roasted
i
Tbe shape however should be largely
determined by the natural character-
istics of the tree Low-beaded trees
produce tho best results in many lo-
calities They are able to stand heavy
winds without Injury tbe fruit is near-
er the ground and makes harvesting
a crop and all orchard work much
easier and the trunks are not so like-
ly to be injured by sun-scald
If one-year-old trees are set out the
priming the first year will consist in
cutting the top back to within eight-
een or twenty-four Inches of the
ground Tho cut should be made Just
above a strong bud During the first
season three or four branches should
bo permitted to grow the others
rubbed off soon after the buds ex
pand
In the spring of the second year If
more than three or four branches
grew during the first summer they
Pruning the Third Year
Old Tree Trunk Properly Branched
should be cut out making the cut
near the main stem and parallel to
It The remaining branches should be
cut back to within three or four buds
of the main stem making the cut Just
above a strong bud
In tho spring of the third year all
but three or four branches are cut
out including the terminal branch
and the others are cut back to within
three or four buds o fthe stem from
which they grow the idea being to
produce three or four well developed
and well situated twigs on each
branch each year and having the
branches so placed that the tree will
grow Into a symmetrical form and be
open enough so that the sunlight can
get Into the center of the tree thus
adding much to the color of the fruit
By cutting each season's growth back
to within a few buds of the last sea-
son’s growth the tree is made to grow
much stockier than it otherwise
would
The pruning after the third yeai
is very similar to that given in the
third year Three or four twigs are
selected on each growth tho others
cut out and the remaining twigs cul
back Ail cross limbs or limbs that
are too close together or that rut
together should be cut out '
GROWING HERBS
IS ESSENTIAL
Nothing Can Quito Take Theit
Place in Household-Seeds of
Annual Sort Should be
Sown Early
(By R G WEATHERSTONE)
No garden can be considered com-
plete that does not include a goodly
variety of herbs for nothing can quite
fill their place in the household
The seeds of annual sorts should be
sown early but of tho perennial var-
ieties (and many of tho best are that)
the seeds sown in mid-summer w DC
produce strong plants that may be
fjsly cut from the following year
Make the soil rich mellow and fine
betore sowing the seed When the
seedling plants are large enough they
may be transplanted to the border-
beds or the fence-row where they can
grow undisturbed year after year
When the roots become large they
mny bo divided and new plants start-
ed if more are wanted though two or
three plants of one variety will fur-
nish all a good-sized family will need
as the leaves should be cut several
times during tho season
The leaves should be cut when ful-
ly grown and before the plant blooinR
choosing a clear dry day for the work
Spread in a cool shady room to dry
ns drying In the sun or by tho fire
b polls both color and flavor
When thoroughly dry powder tha
leaves by rubbing between tho hands
and store away in tight cans or boxes
Corn Producsr Wins $500
Perley G Davis of Granby Mass
acta a new world's record for corn tbla
year’s production and was given a
$500 award by the New England
Corn exposition Judges The record
was made on one acra of land from
which Mr Davis harvested 103 4
bushels of crib dry yollow flint corn
His yield at harvest time was 127
bushels of shelled corn
Australian Wool Industry
It has boon calculated that the In-
dustry of wool production brings Aus-
tralia an annunl return of from $150-
300000 to $175000000 But this docs
not include the returns from the sales
of sheep stud and flock and tbe large
quantity disposed of at the yards fot
local consumption PoBsihly all those
bring tha total up to $250000000 a
pear
EXCELLENT GRAIN
HELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH At
64 BU8HEL8 PER ACRE
Now that we have entered upon the
making of a new year It ia natural
to look back over the pait one for
the purpose of ascertaining what has
been done The business man and
tbe farmer have taken stock and
both if they are keen in business de-v
tall and interest know exactly their
financial position The farmer of
Western Canada is generally a busi-
ness man and in his stock-taking be
will have found that he has bad a
successful year On looking over a
number of reports sent from various
quarters the writer finds that in spite
of the visitation of drouth In a small
portion of Alberta Saskatchewan and
Manitoba many farmers are able to
report splendid crops And these re-
ports come from different sections
covering an area' of about 25000
square miles As for instance at
Laird Saskatchewan the crop returns
showed that J D Peters had 12800
buBhels from 820 acres or nearly 40
bushels to the acre In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
15 to 50 bushels per acre Ben Crews
having 1150 bushels from 24 acres
Edmond Trotter 1200 bushels off 30
acres while fields ot 30 bushels were
common On poorly cultivated fields
but 13 bushels were reported
In Foam Lake (Sask) district 100
bushels of oats to the acre were se-
cured by Angus Robertson D McRae
and C II Hart while the average
was 85 In wheat 30 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land but off 15 acres of land culti-
vated for the past three years George
E Wood secured 493 bushels Mr
James Traynor near Regina (Sask)
is still ou the shady side of thirty
He had 50000 bushels of grain last
year half of which was wheat Its
market value was $23000 He says
he is well satisfied
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres averaging 23 bush-
els to the acre Thomas Foreman of
Milestone threshed 11000 bushels of
wheat and 3000 bushels of flax off
600 acres of land W Weatherstone
of Strathclair threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from 96 acres John Gon-
tilla of Gillies about twenty-five miles
west of Ilosthern Sask had 180 bush-
els from 3 acres of wheat Mr Gon-
zilja’s general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre Ben
Cruise a neighbor averaged 45 bush-
els to the acre from 23 acres W A
Rose of the Walderbeim district
threshed 6000 bushels of wheat from
240 acres an average of 25 bushels
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels He had also an
average of 69 bushels of outs to the
acre on a 50-acre field Wm Lehman
who has a farm close to Rosthern
had an average of 27 bushels to the
acre on 60 acres of summer fallow
Mr Midsky of Rapid City (Man)
threshed 1000 -bushels of oats from
7 acres
The yield of the different varieties
of wheat per acre at the Experimental
Farm Brandon was: Red Fife 28
bushels White Fife 34 bushels Pres-
ton 32 bushels early Red Fife 27
bushels
The crops at the C P R demonstra-
tion farms at Strathmore (Alberta)
proved up to expectations the Swedish
variety oats yielding 110 bushels to
the acre At the farm two rowed bar-
ley went 481& bushels to the acre
Yields of from 50 bushels to 100 bush-
els of oats to the acre were quite
common In the Sturgeon River Settle-
ment near Edmonton (Alberta) But
last year was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed Wm
Craig had a yield of oats from a meas-
ured plot which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs per acre
Albert Teskey of Olds (Alberta)
threshed a 100-acre field which yielded
101 bushels of oats per acre and Jo-
seph McCartney had a large field
equally good At Cupar (Sask) oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre On
the Traqualrs farm at Cupar a five-
acre plot ot Marquis wheat yielded 54
bushels to the acre while Laurence
Barknel had 37 bushels of Red Fife to
the acre At Wordsworth Reeder
Bros' wheat averaged 33 bushels to
the acre and W McMillan's 32 Wil-
liam Krafft of Allx (Alberta) threshed
1042 bushels of winter wheat off 19
acres or about 53 bushels to the acre
John Laycroft of Dlntou near High
River Alberta bad over 1100 bush-
els offspring wheat from 50 acres
E F Knlpe near Lloydmlnster
Saskatchewan had 800 bushels of
wheat from 20 acres W Metcalf had
over 31 bushels to the acre while S
Henderson who was balled badly
had an average return of 32 buBhels of
wheat to the acre
McWhirter Bros and John McBaln
of Redvers Saskatchewan had 25
bushels of wheat to the acre John
Kennedy eaBt of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton from 40
acres of spring wheat got 1767 bush-
els or 44 bushels to the acre
J E Vanderburgh near Dayalow
Alberta threshed four thousand bush-
els of wheat from 120 acres Mr
D'Arcy near there threshed ten thou-
sand and fifty-eight bushel (machine
measure) of wheat from five hundred
acres and out of this only sixty acres
was new land
At Fleming Bask Winter’s
wheat averaged 39 bushels to tbe acre
ind several others report heavy
yields Mr Winter’s crop was not on
lummer fallow but on a piece of land
broken in 1883 and said to be the first
broken In the Fleming district
The agent of the Canadian govefa-
meet will be pleased to give Inform
tlon regarding tbe various districts l
Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta
where free homestead! ot ICO acre
are available
SAGACIOUS FELINE
The Lady — Surely that Is a rabolL
The Cat — If she can make mistake
like that she ought to keep a restaur-
ant FRENCH BEAN COFFEE
A HEALTHFUL DRINK
The healthiest ever you can grow
it In your own garden on a small
patch 10 by 10 producing 50 pounds or
more Ripens in Wisconsin 90 days
Used In great quantities in France
Germany and all over Europe Send
15 cents in stamps and we will mail
you a package giving full culture di-
catalog free or send 31 cents and get
in addition to above 10000 kernels
unsupassablo vegetable and flower
seeds — enough for bushels of vege-
tables and flowers John A Salzer
Seed Co 182 S 8th St La Crosse Wia
The Scorcher's Fate
The Cannibal King — See here what
was that dish you served up at luncht
The Cook— Stewed cyclist your ma-
jesty Tho Cannibal King — It tasted very
burnt
The Cook — Well he was scorching
when wo caught him your majesty—
Sketch
Illness at the Zoo
An unexpected result of the Portu-
guese revolution was the indisposition
of the animals at the Lisbon zoologi-
cal gardens They all became ill hav-
ing been so alarmed by the bombard-
ment that they refused to eat and
drink
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle ot
CASTOR1A a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children and see that it
Bears the
Signature of(
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always BoughL
Afraid of Disfigurement
She — Aren’t you going to ask papa
tonight George?
He — No dear I think I’d better
not I want to have my picture taken
tomorrow — Yonkers Statesman
BEAUTIFUL POST CARDS FREE
Send 2u stamp for five samples of our
very best Gold Embossed Good Luck
Flower and Motto l’ost Cards beautiful
colors and loveliest designs Art Post Card
Club 731 Jackson St Topeka Kan
Careful Man
"Pretty careful is he?"
"Pretty careful He left a partly
smoked cigar In my office the other
day and a little later sent his clerk
around after It"
The greatest cause of worry on
ironing day can be removed by using
Defiance Starch which will not stick
to the Iron Sold everywhere 16 ox
for 10c
And people w'ho do as they please
Beeni to get along Just about as well
as those who are always trying to
plcuse others
Br Tierce’s Pleasant Pelleti cure consti-
pation Constipation is the cause of many
diseases Cure the cause and you cure
tbe disease Easy to take
Progress in the human race de-
pends less on getting ahead than on
helping along
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS
Use the best That’s why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue At leading grocers 5 cents
A woman’s idea of a great financier
Is a man who can straighten out her
expense account
Inloodls
Sarsaparilla
Cures all humors catarrh and
rheumatism relieves that tired
feeling restores the appetite
cures paleness nervousness
builds up the whole system
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sareatabe
A Country 8chool for
Girls In New York City
Bast Failure! el Country end City Ills
Out-of-door Sports on School Park
Of S3 acres near the Hudson River
Full Academic Course from Primary
Class to Gradual Ion Uppor Class
for Advanced Bpealal Students Mu-
sic and Art Bummer Session Cer-
tificate admits to College So hoot
Coach Meets Day Pupils
llu In Ml Mu White Stverdele Im mm UN St a
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