State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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fwMaSU Etwt lUky By The
tai Sentinel Publishing Co
Bk MILAM tAwr ul Owitf
Daily health hint: Do not attempt to
dispute the right of way with a deter
mined woman armed with a hat pin
? “Alligator- la merely another form
of the Spanish “el lagarto” the lizard
Shakespeare classed the alligator as a
flab
The wireless heroes are having
poetry In bulk written about them Dut
'that Is among the penalties of all
greatness
3 The spelling reformers have put out
another list of mangled words Where
Is the Pociety for the Prevention of
'Cruelty to the English Language?
' The management of the steam roads
entering Paris Is considering a prop-
osltlrn to electrify all lines for some
-considerable distance Into the suburbs
During the year ending last month
there were 485 new electric plants put
Into operatlod In the United States
Crnada and Mexico which makes the
to jtl 6498
Funny thing about our withdrawal
‘from Cuba Is that the new republic ls
now able to have all the cock fights
and bull fights It wants and we don't
dare to say a word
If these men who pretend to deter-
mine the height of mountains keep
varying the figures some of them are
likely to prove scientifically that
Pike's Peak Is a hole In the ground
A Wisconsin woman who broke her
arm set it herself Next thing the pub-
lic hears from a woman of such self
resource as this will be that she
closely examined a cut on the back of
her neck
“Aerogram” la a fairly good word It
signifies wireless message Science
has added many words to the lan-
guage within the last few years A
Rip Van Winkle returning to-day
-after 20 years' sleep would have much
do learn in the way of common speech
A young woman passenger rescued
from the Republic wore a cloak over
her night dress and shoes without
(stockings but clasped tightly In her
hands a bunch of violets that she had
lingered long enough to save Con-
sider the possible romance Involved In
-that Incident!
Boxes for cigar and cigarette ends
have been placed In Berlin cafes and
public buildings by a charity organi-
sation and enough money Is expected
from the sale of this class of refuse
to feed and clothe 1728 children dur-
ing the winter months What becomes
of the stumps Is a secret fortunately
Vept from the smokers
The regents of the University of
Minnesota have ordained that all con-
tracts with members of the faculty
shall expire when teachers reach their
sixty-fifth birthday Next June It is
said half a dozen old gentlemen will
call the class roll for the last time un-
less they have before followed the ex-
ample of their president Dr Northrop
and sent ih their resignations
Lord Nortbcllffe the great English
'newspaper proprietor was so Im-
pressed by the attractiveness of the
gray squirrels In American parks that
he took home a number of pairs to ba
liberated In England If be Is per-
mitted to land them It may still hap-
rpen that In a country where they are
strangers and where therefore their
raalural enemies have not developed
they may become as great a nuisance
as the English sparrow here and the
rabbit in Australia Transplanting
animals Is always somewhat risky
'Government experiments may solve
'the problem of preventing explosions
in coal mines If human care and fore-
thought will only co-operate with sci-
ence In the great art of prevention un-
avoidable accidents will be reduced to
an appreciable minimum But the first
element of the combination Is the one
xn which least reliance can be placed
The tendency of human nature re-
marks the Boston Herald to take
chances rather than to take trouble
la the hardest obstacles which pre-
ventive science will ever have to over-
come Lawyers and physicians In New
"York are trying to bring about legisla-
tion which will do away or at least
(minimize the evils of the so-called “ex-
lert'' testimony at trials Experience
shows that exiert evidence practically
serves no other end at present than
to impede justice and cause delays at
once useless and expensive to the
state as both sides can provide “ex-
perts’ to give diametrically opposite
testimony until the practice has be-
come a legal nuisance if not some-
thing of a scandal in the administra-
tion of justice
“Remember the Maine” has now
ibeen changed to “Remove the Maine”
An artist who left Philadelphia 40
'years ago to make name and fortune
for himself has returned to this coun-
try from Tarls at ihe age of 60 tc
marry the sweetheart of his youth
-she having obligingly waited for him
He told her he would not return until
he had succeeded from which it may
be assumed that be considered it more
-desirable for her to marry the artist
’than the man But oh bow slow
those Philadelphians are!
The Story
Ann and
BY HIRAM RICE
(Original)
The scheduled time for the arrivals
of Samantha Ann and Eliza Alice
were so near the same that the stork
took the liberty of running a double
header thus saving himself an extra
trip
Samantha Ann and Eliza Alice cut
their teeth at the same time so their
mothers had little opportunity to hang
over the backyard fence and com-
pare notes but when the mud pie
period arrived they made up for lost
time The first coolness became no-
ticeable during the Sunday school
epoch Each mother endeavored to
dress her offspring better than the
other and It was remarked by the
neighbors that Samantha Ann was
a regular little lady while Eliza Al-
ice would go home with one stocking
down and the other at half mast her
pig tall ribbons streaming and a tear
In the new dimity gown that her
mother had worked on till nearly mid-
night to have ready for Sunday
By the time the school period had
come there was a trail of white frost
along the top of the backyard fence
between the Smith and Jones lots
Samantha Ann was developing Into
a prettv little girl while Eliza Alice
was going the other way as fast as
she could She had enough red hair
to stuff a mattreSs a turned-up nose
and 50 freckles to each square inch
of facial epidermis
A sudden change came over Eliza
Alice when she was about 14 The
clerk in the village store reported
to his wife that she had bought a
pair of corsets and her next new
dress was ankle length She began to
talk to the other girls about her
figure put her hair up and tease her
father for money to buy freckle re-
moving dope
No one could remember when she
had her first beau because she was
Took One Long Look at Her Faded
Face in the Mirror
philandering around so much with the
boys In a way that might or might not
count but everybody recalled that
both girls were 16 when Eliza Alice
engineered Samantha Ann out of the
church choir after bearing someone re-
mark that Samantha Ann was the bet-
ter singer Of course that stirred up
an awful rumpus and the congrega-
tion took aides on the matter wliich
resulted In the preacher handing in
his resignation
The next one they hired was a
young man just out of college He
was unmarried and the church trus-
tees reasoned that if be called on
Eliza Alice oftener than was neces-
sary to make up a schedule of the
music for the next Sunday they could
call In a justice of the peace or some
other bitching artist to make them
one and thus avoid the talk that al-
ways hurts the church In the eyes of
some
The young preacher didn’t cotton
to Eliza Alice— at first Samantha Ann
had just realized that she was a young
lady and when her mother first ar-
rayed br as such she was a dream
of Innocence beauty Dowered organ-
die and a strand of flve-cent glass
beads The young man escorted her
home one evening from prayer meet-
ing and sal out on the front porch
talking to her for over an hour The
next day all the town was talking
about what a fine couple they would
make — all but Eliza Alice she pulled
Pa Jones' leg for the price of a brand
new outfit and for the next few days
the hum of the sewing machine was
heard in the Jones home
The next time the preacher called
at the Jones mansion to leave the slip
containing the numbers of theJiymns
for the following Sunday Eliza Alice
met him at the door took his hat and
hung It up beside dad's In the hull
seated faint In the easiest chair and
played rag time on the piano until he
began to drum with bis fingers on the
arm ol his chair after which she
switched to dreamy love songs In
this manner she got him keyed up Just
right to land on the sofa and then
brought out the family album as an
excuse to get up real close together
and occasionally touch his hand with
hers In about umpsteen minutes she
had him under perfect control and be
began to wonder If two could live on
his salary “
From that time on 'Smanlha Ann
was In the discard she was a sort of
of Samantha
Eliza Alice
sedate sister anyway while Ellzt
Alice was just as previous as she
found necessary If the young man
should happen to look at any other
gum masticator Eliza Alice would
throw him a glance that would bring
him to the low stool beside the throne
Well the people thought It would be
a good thing If she did marry him It
might cause her to take a reef In her
alls— but they didn't know Eliza Al-
ice as well as she knew herself She
was only dallying with the gospel ex-
pounder because she knew Samantha
Ann would like to have him and also
because he was the only thing la
sight
Just when the trustees began tc
wonder If they would live with pa anf
ma or If Eliza Alice would Insist oi
a parsonage an Uncle Tom's Cabli
troupe bit the town Eliza Alice b&ard
some one say that the girl who played
Topsy In the show had got mad and
quit and that tpe manager was In
qulrlng if there was anyone In the
town who could take the part until he
could get another girl from the city
It was a case of see no farther
right then and there Eliza Alice
struck for the job and got It
When the show wagons left that
night Eliza Alice's trunk was In one
of them and she was on the payroll
at $3 per week The people did not
get through talking about her sensa-
tional departure for at least a month
and then from time to time her moth-
er would drop an occasional hint of
her great success on the stage
- Nearly two years had passed when
Sim Hippie returned from a trip to
Chicago and brought a paper with a
glowing account of the great success
of a new comic opera An entire
page was given to describing the tal-
ent and beauty of the star of the
opera Miss Elza Alys and la the
many photographs old friends (and
enemies) had no trouble In distinguish-
ing the features of Eliza Alice though
she was evidently a graduate of some
beauty parlor and had gained by the
course of sprouts she had uudergone
Samantha Ann was the bright par
ticular star at a church festival that
was pulled off Just after Eliza Alice
shook the dust of her native town
from the ruffles of her skirt She not
only played the organ sang a solo and
helped wait on the tables but she did
most of the elbow work in scrubbing
out the church after the big event
The young preacher was completely
captivated with this display of her all
around ability and fearing something
might occur to switch blm off again
he Immediately began negotiations
and before Samantha Ann could rea-
lize It she found herself duly author
lzed by law to half-sole the seat of the
minister's trousers It was all done
so quickly that the church trustees
suggested they live with Pa and Ma
Smith awhile and having thus aide-
tracked the parsonage talk promptly
forgot It
In the course of a year Pa Smith
was a grandpa and the next year he
was another The minister made a
dignified bowl for an Increase In sal-
ary but the church people could not
see why they should be taxed any
more for salvation because his family
kept growing
Samantha Ann might have been in
her early twenties but the bloom was
gone from her cheeks there was a
stoop to her shoulders and she looked
more like a woman In her late for-
ties Still with all her drudgery and toll
she often thanked heaven that no one
had ever talked about her as they
had about Eliza Alice and she was
glad she could walk along the street
with head high In the air knowing
that no one was going to say some-
thing mean after her back was turned
Samantha Ann was thuB well satisfied
with her condition In life until the
town decided to hold a chatauqua one
year and a deputation of leading citi-
zens was sent to Chicago to get Eliza
Alice to sing at the doings In the park
She agreed to come but she stung
them for 250 for three stingy songs
While she was In town she was en-
tertained by the local magnate's wife
and the people who used to play foot-
ball with her reputation every time
there was the slightest opportunity
quarreled with each other in the effort
to heap her with attentions even the
preacher giving evidence by bis ac-
tions that he had forgotten that she
had thrown him to play Topsy
Samantha Ann had never been
known to make n display of temper
but when she saw Eliza Alice so high-
ly honored by the Hammer club she
went home with a well-defined upward
tilt to her nose When she got there
She took one long look at her faded
face in the mirror and then smashed
the reflector with the roiling pin
When the rest of the folks came home
they found her rubbing some color
Into her checks with a piece of charn-
els paying no heed to the baby which
was lying on the floor and yelling like
a small boy with too many green ap-
ples In his midst
Having fixed her face to suit rear-
ranged her hair In the latest style
added a bow of rlbboh at her neck
and otherwise rejuvenated her appear-
ance she went out on the front porch
There they found her half an hour aft
erward talking to a good-looking trav-
eling man Her father asked her how
she got acquainted with him and she
told blm It was none of his bustress
WALL STREET GENIUS
REMARKABLE RISE OF MAN IN
RAILROAD WORLD
Edwin Hawley an Unknown Clerk Only
Few Years Ago— To-day Ha Ranks
Noxt to Harrlman and Hill
aa Financier
Now York— Within the last few
years while Edward H Harrlman has
been occupying the center of the stage
In Wall atreet a little man who has
an office In one of the great skyscrap-
era of Broad street baa been doing
some remarkable things In the rail-
road world quietly and unostentlously
Years ago he was a clerk In the Erie
railway general office Once he was
assistant traffic manager of the South-
ern Pacific He has been in Wall
atreet ten years or more but Wall
street never appreciated his power or
Importance until lately Now be Is
ranked next to Harrlman and Hill lie
controls more miles of railroad than
the Vanderbilts ever owned He could
come pretty close to having his own
transcontinental line If he coupled up
the various systems of which he is the
dominant figure And he la only be-
ginning to find himself
The little man Is ‘ Edwin Hawley
Wall street admires blm It always ad-
mires the successful man Tbe greater
a man'a success tbe more Intense tbe
admiration But Wall street has an
additional reason for admiring Haw-
ley He Is a fighter of rare skill and
magnificent courage He has had
some lively encounters with the
bruUers of the financial world and he
never has lost a battle Wall atreet
says nobody ever came out of a fight
with Hawley without bearing plenty
af evidence of rough treatment No
ane ever wanted another bout Harrl-
man took him on once That was
enough Harrlman Is very respectful
when Hawley’s name Is mentioned
now Any gentleman who exchanges
tvallops with E H Harrlman and
Joes not need patching Is worthy of
financial attention Y( Wall street
gave only perfuntory notice to Hawley
until the last few weeks Then he set
tbe financial world to talking by sell-
ing the Colorado & Southern to the
Burlington or rather to James J
Hill
The Colorado ft Southern Is some-
thing of a railroad having about 2000
miles of track enough almost to make
a railroad from here to Colorado He
tot a whopping big price for the prop-
srty too Then be turned right
(round and bought control of the
Chesapeake ft Ohio The Chesapeake
6 Ohio represents something like
H7S000000
In addition he controls tbe Minne-
apolis ft St Louis the Iowa Central
the Toledo St Louis ft Western (bet-
ter known as the Clover Leaf) and he
Is as Important a figure In the West-
ern Pacific as Oould and in the Rock
Island as Harrlman 'Probably If be
talked a lot and tooted hia born regu-
larly Wall street would have noticed
blm earlier but be la reticent to a
pronounced degree so retired in fact
that he has been called tbe Sphinx of
the Street He is one of the moat un-
satisfactory of men to interview He
does not like It It Is said that In the
last ten years he has not been Inter-
viewed three times and these inter-
views were of the shortest
Edwin Hawley la nearly 69 years old
now but his smooth Impassive face
makes him look younger He says he
can throw off hia troubles at will and
sleep soundly
He was born In Chatham Columbia
county New York and begau work for
the Erie railroad when be was 17 A
year or so later be went with the Ohio
ft Mississippi railroad as clerk and
ticket agent From 1870 to 1874 be
was clerk and later contracting agent
for the Rock Island route As con-
tracting agent he also served a num-
ber of railroads
In 1890 he became the assistant gen-
eral traffic manager of that line with
offices in New York which position be
held for 12 years He has been presi-
dent of tbe Minneapolis A St Louis
railroad since 1896 and since 1900 of
the Iowa Central Besides these rail-
roads and the others which he controls
be is interested In a number of other
enterprises as an officer or director
The gamut of his activities runs
through banks brokerage bouses
copper mines coal mines distributing
time tables bridge building car coup-
lers lightning and beating and real
estate
News From All
At Portsr Loss 610000
Tbe home of James Fisherman and
four other residences burned at Por-
ter Okla Sunday The loss is pos-
sibly flOOOO
To Hold State Meeting
Members of the executive board of
the Oklahoma Funeral Directors’ As-
sociation met at Oklahoma City and
decided to hold a State meeting here
the first week In May
Identifies a Dead Man
The body of the man found dead
at Flat Rock creek Friday was iden-
tified as Andrew Crosslin of Tulsa
It Is believed that Crosslin who was
afflicted with epilepsy fell into the
water while ill and drowned
DespondenL
Believed to be despondent over fi-
nancial affairs and suffering from an
Injury received recently In a runaway
Henry Myers employed at a Bank at
Gage killed himself with a revolver
He also bandied real estate
Prisoners Are Released
Seven prisoners five whites and
two negroes were released from tbe
State prison at McAlester Monday
their terms having expired Four
were from Comanche county two
from Tulsa and one from Pushmata-
ha El Reno Population 10000
The new city directors of El Reno
has just been completed shows a
population of nearly 10000 An ex-
tensive area settled up within the
past few years extends far beyond
the city limits which added to the
rlty which It will be shortly would
show at least 12000 people
Suicide at Potter’s Field
Ira I- Price alias George II Roy-
an alias William Hargrave the In-
surance man suspected of being a
notorious embexzler who committed
suicide at Tulha two weeks ago was
burled in the potter's field - Monday
afternoon His parents live In Mis-
sissippi Frisco Elevator Burned
Fir® destroyed the Frisco elevator
at Hobart at midnight Saturday
night The building was entirely
wrapped In flames before discovery
The loss la 5000 covered by In-
surance The Frisco tracks surrund-
Ing the elevator were damaged about
1250
Katy's Oklahoma Improvements
C Hailie traffic manager of the
Katy waa in Oklahoma City on a
tour of inspection and stated that
$500000 will be spent In and near
Oklahoma City this year on the Im-
provement of the roadbed The track
between here and Fallls will be re-
built and ballasted
Enld-Davldson Trains
The Corporation Commission has Is-
sued an order to the Frisco Railroad
lines to readjust their passenger train
schedules out of Enid and Davidson
so aa to maintain a day train be-
tween the two points This will be
In effect to extend the service to
Vernon Tex
Twins Die Simultaneously
Two very peculiar Incidents have
happened at Cbicka3ba The twin
babied of Mr and Mrs Joseph Ar-
thur living at Nlnnekah near here
died Saturday at the same hour They
were one month old The latter part
of February the twin of Mr and
Mrs T I Pear also of this coun-
ty died at the same hour and al-
most at the same moment These
children were 3 months old 4
W 8 Ban Elected
The state board of normal regents
on Monday elected W S Bryan In
charge of the chair of pedagogy at
the Southwestern Normal at Weather-
ford to the vice-presidency of the
Central State Normal 8chool at Ed-
mond to succeed 8 M Barrett who
was removed from the faculty of the
latter institution Saturday Linn
Glover superintendent of the city
schools at Tulaa has been chosen to
take Bryan's place at Weatherford
Pawhuska Will Fight
Legislation by congress permitting
the Osage Indians to sell part of their
land will result in the establishment
of several new towns and the enlarge-
ment of the limits of others hereto-
fore forced to confine themselves
within certain prescribed limits Ne-
logny a town of 1000 population
built entirely along the right of way
or the Midland Valley and Katy
which cross there will now be per-
mitted to become a townslte It Is
said that Pawhuska being but sev-
en miles distant from Nelogny and
the largest town in Osage county will
fight every effort Nelogny will make
for an ample townslte fearful lest
being located so far as railroads are
concerned it will soon outstrip Paw-
huska in growth
Hatkell Gets Mors Time
Governor Charles N Haskell and
others Indicted for Muskogee town
lot frauds by the fedral grand Jury
In February were Monday granted
an extension of time to plead until
March 15 by agreement of counsel
Tbelr plea will be 'entered ?t Vinlta
during the term cf the federal court
there
Dedicate a New Bridge
Citizens of Rlplev and Psvne coun-
ty joined In s meeting to dedicate the
new bridge across the Cimarron river
that baa Just been completed It la
one of the finest structures In the
state being 552 feet long and cost
$17000 Song and recitatlous were
given by the school children and the
dedicatory speech was delivered by
Mayor Medley of this city The cen-
ter of the bridge Is twenty-five Teet
above low water mark which will in-
sure no danger In floor time
Over The State
Cutting Cedar
Contractors are cutting most of
the cedar along the Cimarron river
near Cushing to make telephone
poles to supply contracts
Two Instructors Resign
Prof S M Barrett vice president
of the Central Normal School at
Edmond and J E Condon profes-
sor In the same school have t?-
dered their resignations
Katy Depot Robbed
The Katy depot was broken Into
and robbed at Jennings The rob-
bers secured two esses of whiskey
and a small amount of change No
clew to the guilty parties has been
found
Okmulgee Street Car Lina
Mrs Daniel Collins who Is going
to ask the City council of Ckmui-
gee for a franchise to build a street
car line is also agitating tbe build-
ing of an opera house
Bank Is Chartered
Afton Exchange Bank of Afton
capital stock $15000 incorporators:
J M Young C C Roberts C E
Lehman J V Orr of Vlnita J II
Melton of Afton M O Garrett of
Pawhuska and T G Davis of Mu
kogee
Meeting to be at Enid
Last year the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists held their state meeting
In Enid and have decided to return
again this year arrangements being
made by the officers for the meeting
to commence Aug 25 The exer-
cises last year were held at Lake-
wood Park
Big Land Deal
Bud Rainey has sold his big alfalfa
ranch southwest of Weatherford to
Iowa men wha paid $28600 for 543
acres About 150 acres are In alfal-
fa These men contemplate the
erection of an alfalfa mill and per-
haps a cotton seed mtlL
Rural Carriers Meet
The rural letter carriers met in
convention at Watonga The clectlcn
of officers for the ensuing year was
as follows: Ira B Coon of Watongi
was chosen president A F Muuday
of Geary vice president Irvin
Schmoyer of Geory secretary an I
treasurer
New Bridge at Eufauta
A substantial steel bridge ordere)
some time ago by the county com-
missioners of McIntosh county Is to
be built across Mill Creek about
two miles west of Eufaula The
material arrived several days ugo
and is being hauled out from ther-j
A Big Land Deal
One of the ‘biggest land dea'a
In this section of the cojntry was
consummated when Christ Bros dis-
posed of their fine second bottom
farm of 240 acres one mile north
of McLoud consideration $21000 Tbs
purchasers are parties from Illinois
Firs at McComb
The city of McComb had s bad
fire Six buildings on the main
street were destroyed but fortunate-
ly only two of them were occupied
The losses aside trrS buildings were
Tlnk Boyd's greery stock valued
st $1000 and the Leader Printing
office Other nearby buildings were
only saved by hard work and a
change of tbe wind
Man Hurt at Henryetta
J T Irvin proprietor of one of
tbe livery barns st Henryetta while
transferring merchandise from the
depot to town was run down by
a switch engine and a train of
freight cars and had both feet
crashed one leg broken above the
the ankle and was otherwise bruised
The wagon was torn to places and
the team dragged along tbe track
for some distance Mr Irvin was
sent to the Frisco hospital for treat-
ment It being on the Frisco that be
was hurt
Officers Elected
At a meeting of Company G held
at the armory at Ardmore C K
Langhara was elected First Lieuten-
ant and Prof Idly of Tishomingo
second lieutenant to succeed Lleuta
Cook and Walker who resigned
Lieut Langham was a soldier In
the Spanlsb-Amerlcan war and later
captain of company B First Regi-
ment of the Texas National Guard
Sunday School State Convention
Secretary J J Cunningham of th
chamber of commerce at Enid aid
the local committee consisting of
E M Byerley and others wer
In conference with C H Nichols
general secretary of the Oklahoma
Sunday School Association relative
to tbe state convention that Is to-
be held here on May 24 25 and It!
The convention will consist of del-
egates of every organization In the
state the Association being Interde-
nominational There will be not less
than 1500 delegates to attend the
convent 'on entitled to seats tbeie
while net less thsn the ssmo num-
ber of lay members Interested in
advanced Sunday School work will
attend to enjoy tbe work and speeco
es
Buck Deer Captured
Redmond- Davis a colored farmer
living near Newby In Creek county
captured a big buck deer in hls cow
lot Seeing tbe deer among the cat-
tle he got a rope and went up Into
the hay mow which bad a window
at one end from here be bad no
trouble throwing the rope over the
deer's horns but the animal jerked
suddenly and pulled Davis out of
the window Tbe cries of Davis
brought hls wife who found blm
banging on to the rope The deer
Is now within a strong stockade and
Davis is nursing s broken leg
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