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Helena Free Press
L L Magee Ed & Prop
HELENA OK LA
TERRITORY TOPICS
An Aged Oklahoman — W S Tay-
lor who made rifles for the Confeder-
ate army over forty years ago In Ala-
bama 1b dead at Lexington He leaves
a wife who married him fifty-five
years ago
Anadarko Attorney III — Herbert
Mitchell an attorney of Anadarko Is
very low with nn attack of brain
fever He la considered a very able
lawyer He came from Oklahoma City
and was formerly from Kansas
Parkinson Succeeds Dyche — Frank
A Parkinson of Lawton was ap-
pointed by Governor Ferguson to fill
the vacancy In the board of commis-
sioners of Comanche county caused
by the resignation of J E Dyche
Gov Johnson's Message Read —
Governor Johnson delivered his mes-
sage to the Chlckasha legislature and
made many recommendations for leg-
islature looking to the final winding
up of tribal affairs Among other
things asked for was the removal of
restrictions on the alienated lands of
the nation
Fireman Killed In Wreck— An east-
bound Frisco freight' train was derail-
ed at Plrtle six miles east of Durant
I T Fireman Drewer was caught be-
tween the tender and boiler head and
crushed and scalded to death Engi-
neer Lawless escaped with painful
but not serious Injuries The engine
was thrown on Its side and seven cars
were plied In the ditch
May Be Santa Pe Extension — J F
Sharp of Purcell is promoting a new
railroad backed by Chicago capital-
ists which Is considered a Santa Fe
extension it will run from Lehigh
I ' T to Chlckasha crossing the
Frisco at Ada the Santa Fe at Pur-
cell and connecting with the Rock Is-
land at Chlckasha This proposed line
will open entirely undeveloped ' coal
fields of large proportions
More County Fairs Dated— Several
more county fairs for Oklahoma have
been announced In addition to the list
already published The Eastern Gar-
field county fair is held at Garber
The trl-county fair for Caddo Cana-
dian and Blaine counties 1b tobe held
at Geary September 12 to 15 The
Day county fair at Grand September
29 and 30 The Greer county fair at
Altus October 23 and 24
To Tell About Beef Trust— Frank
Rinehart a prominent cattle grower
of Guthrie and J W Cottlngham as-
sistant general Solicitor for the Santa
Fe railroad In Oklahoma and Indian
Territory have been summoned to ap-
pear before the fedral grand Jury in
Chicago on November 3 In connection
with the investigation of the beef
trust to tell what they know of Its
operations in the territories
Clark Is For Statehood— Congress-
man Frank Clark of Jacksonville
Fla Is In Ardmore on business and
incidentally studying conditions In the
territory with a view of making re-
commendations at the next session of
congress He declares that Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territory were entitled
to statehood and announced his in-
tention of aiding In the matter of leg-
islation Congressman Clark former-
ly lived at Bhawnee O T and moved
to Lake City Fla three years ago
Proving Final Delaware Rolls — The
final approval of the sale of Delaware
Improvements on Delaware surplus
holdings has been completed and al-
lotment matters In the Delaware coun-
try are practically closed All the
land has been allotted and only a few
minor matters remain to be looked
after The Indian agent has a force
of men at Nowata with a business
committee of Delawares and they are
proving the roll of Delawares who
are to participate In the $150000 pay-
ment It will take a month to com-
plete this roll and then it will have
to be approved by the department at
Washington before the payment be-
gins Display Farm Products — A very
unique plan has been arranged by the
business men of Anadarko for a prize
exhibition of farm products of Caddo
county It is the means by which a
fine collection of the best products of
the county Is being obtained and is
also a good advertisement for the
home merchant A hall has been
leased and a man hired to give his
entire attention to the exhibit It is
open every day except Sunday but
prizes are awarded only on Saturday
These prizes consist of merchandise
contributed by the merchants and the
farmer who draws a prize goes to the
man who has offered It on his particu-
lar product and 1b paid in goods In
this way the farmer gets his prize
and the merchant has in many in-
stances made a new acquaintance
Rough Rider to Marry— William H
Mitchell a lieutenant in Roosevelt'B
Rough Riders during the Spanish war
and a prominent young Republican
left Guthrie for Wooster Mas3
where he will be married on Septem-
ber 12 to Miss Alice Cheney of that
city
Boy With Matches — At Shawnee
fire destroyed a big hay barn and all
its contents belonging to Abbot & Co
The blaze was set by a 8-year-old boy
playing with matches The loss is
$1000 uninsured
The Blanket Indian— Indian Terri-
tory Is the home of the Indians and
yet a blanket Indian Is as great a
curiosity here sb In New York city
Twenty blanket Indians passed
through Holdeuville a few days ago
and the people haven’t gotten through
looking yet
Found Dean on Track — John Ma-
tulka of Grand O T was found dead
on the railroad track four miles from
Tangier by a freight engineer One
hundred and forty dollars and a gold
watch were found on his person The
body was taken to Gage O T where
an Inquest will be held Murder is
suspected
Ordered to Register Bonds — The
supreme court by a peremptory writ
of mandamuB has ordered Territorial
Auditor Baxter to register $30000 in
bonds Issued by the board of educa-
tion of Oklahoma City The registra-
tion was held up because It was claim-
ed that there was no authority for the
issuance of bonds tofurnlBh a school
building or buy a alto
Oklahoma's Squad Practicing— The
football squad of Oklahoma univer-
sity haa already commenced light
practice although a large part of the
candidates have not yet arrived as
Bchool does not open until next week
Coach Owen has been on hand since
the first of the week and Is putting
all of the men both old and new to
work as fast as they arrive
To Have Paper — At Norman the
university next year Is to have a
semi-weekly paper which will bd edit-
ed by students This is the first time
that any of the schools have attempt-
ed lo get out a paper oftener' than
once every two weeks but It Is
thought that the university will be
lively enough this year to supply the
stall with news to fill the sheet
New Officials Named— Two general
appointments have been announced by
the officials of the Guthrie Falrview
& Western which Is to be built from
Guthrie to an Orient connection at
Falrview George C Cowles has been
appointed chief engineer and William
McKee of Milan Mo Is named as
superintendent of' bridges and build-
ings Both will have their headquar-
ters at Darrow O T
Robbed Three- Stores — Three
stores at Wellston were broken Into
and robbed supposedly by two ne-
groes who had been loafing around the
stores earlier In the evening Two
suits of clothing and two pairs of
shoes were taken from one store care
having been taken to Insure a fit
Knives and razors were taken from a
hardware store and all of the loose
change obtainable at all three places
Lightning Starts Oil Fire — Light-
ning Rtruck a 1000-barrel oil tank just
Bouth of Cleveland and: heroic work
was required to prevent its being one
of the most disastrous fires In the hlB-
tory of the oil field Two 250-barrel
tanks were only ten feet from the one
which caught fire but wet clothes and
brush were used to keep the flames
from spreading to them and both
were saved A hole was made In the
big tank and the oil let out dykes be-
ing built to prevent its escape
Gobbled by the Frisco - The Fort
Smith & Western has decided to build
Into the town of Wellston in Lincoln
county wlhch is Just missed by its
line as at present located It Is stat-
ed that It will require only half a mile
of additional track to reach the town
but 1000 feet of that will have to be
trestle work In the Bame connection
a report is abroad that the Fort Smith
road has been acquired by the Frisco
and will be operated in harmony with
the FrIsco lines In Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory If not actually put un-
der the same management
Oil Flyer Again for Tulsa— Super-
intendent Barnes of the Santa Fe has
announced that the Oil Flyer now
operating between Chanute Kan and
Collinsville I T would be scheduled
Into Tulsa at an early date probably
next week The general offices at To-
peka are about to promulgate the or-
der This will give Tulsa an Increas-
ed mail service putting the Kansas
City mall Into the city at'least three
hours earlier than any other railroad
Mail deposited In Kansas City at night
will arrive in Tulsa at 11 a m The
revival of oil business 1b the cause of
the train being put on
Replace Burned Buildings — Indian
Agent Frank Thackeray has received
word from the department that bids
will be opened on September 14 for
the construction of new buildings at
the Indian training school at Shaw-
nee commonly known as the Shaw-
nee Mission to cost approximately
$60000 The new buildings will In-
clude two-dormitories and a recitation
hall and a system of water works
sufficient to provide for the needs of
the school Two of the buildings of
the Bchool were destroyed by fire a
little over a year ago and the ones
which are to replace them will be
much larger and better arranged for
school work ' 1 '
Bank Absorbed — A deal haa been
closed whereby the First National
bank of Kingston haa absorbed the
Helen bank of Kingston The First
National was recently organized and
opened its doors for business for the
first time
Poker Game 8hooting Fatal — At
Lawton Demsy Gilmore the negro
who was shot In the leg by Sam Wll-
kerson another negro died from the
effects Wilkerson 1b In the county
Jail The disagreement wsb over a
poker game' '
r V
University Enrollment— At Norman
the enrollment of the students at the
state university began September 13
About’ 150 were In line when the doors
of the office opened
Paying off at Fort Sill— On Sept
12th $20000 was distributed among
the officers and men of the Thirteenth
cavalry and the Second provisional
artillery at Fort Sill
- Oklahoma Representative Shocked
— The home of J P Gandy repre-
sentative from Woodward county
was struck by lightning and one 'side
of It completely wrecked Mr Gandy
was badly shocked but will recover'
To Give Minstrel 8how — At El
Reno the local lodge of Elks will give
a grand minstrel show In a few weeks
The Elks’ new home Is nearing com-
pletion There will be a bouse warm-
ing given that wll! be remembered
for years to come
Prepare for Cotton Hsul — The
movement of cotton over nearly all
the railroads operating In the two
territories has commenced The crop
is a week or ten days' late this year
but the present prospects for a good
crop are excellent i
Much Unalloted Land — It is esti-
mated that there will be one million
acres of land in the Chickasaw na-
tion unallotted Congress must make
some provision for the sale of this
land Members of the legislature say
that the plan to allot the surplus
would Involve considerable expense ’
Could Bee Heart Beat — Walter
White of Stillwater was seriously
perhaps fatally stabbed In a saloon
fight by another man named Kirby
The wound Is in White’s left Bide and
while physicians were caring for him
his heart could he seen very plainly
Kirby Is In Jail awaiting the result of
the wound
Wanted for Burglary — Governor
Ferguson has Issued- a requisition on
Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas for
the return to Woods county of Sara
Wallace charged with burglary who
Is now held at Fort Smith The crime
was committed on July 4 of this year
Sheriff Hadwlger of Woods county
has gone to Little Rock with the re-
quisition papers
Among Western Tribes— E A Al-
len the inspector of the department
of Justice who has been checking up
the guardians of Indian minors In
various parts of Oklahoma has now
finished his work among the Paw-
nees the-Poncas and affiliated tribes
and will go this week to El Reno to
make similar Investigations among
the Western tribes '
Inspector Allen at Geary— Inspec-
tor E A Allen having completed hla
duties at Pawnee and Ponca City will
be at El Reno soon He will find
work enough relating to the Darling-
ton agency to keep him busy for at
least three weeks Most of his busi-
ness will be done at Geary where
sworn statements and affidavits "are
awaiting him '
Murderer Expected to Hang — Un-
less the president of the United
States interferes with the sentence
Imposed upon Rufus Bunyon colored
the first legal execution In the South-
ern district will take place September
22 It is understood that the district
attorney's office has refused to re-
commend clemency Bunyon killed
his grandchild
Settling Days at Anadarko — The
Indian agency Is making the second
semi-annual payment of $75000 to
Comanche Indians Next will begin
the Apache payment and next the
Kiowa The town and country are
crowded with Indians and their credi-
tors— bankers merchants and pawn-
brokers and licensed traders who
come from all parts of the Indian
country to collect their notes
Ruling Ties up 700 Cases— On ac-
count of the ruling of the federal
court of appeals regarding the illegal-
ity of Oklahoma juries Judge Burwell
notified the attorneys that the grand
jury would only act in cases of pris-
oners now in jail who will plead
guilty and waive exceptions to the
drawing Only Buch cases on - the
civil docket where parties will waive
Jury exceptions will be tried This
ruling ties up 700 cases in this
county - '
Paul’s Valley Road — A territorial
charter was issued to the Paul's Val-
ley Railroad Company with a capital
stock of $5000000 and with head-
quarters at Wanette O T and
Paul’s Valley I T The proposed line
is 180 miles long running from Ada
I T southwest to Wichita Falls
Texas It connects with the Frisco
and Katy at Ada crosses the Santa
Fe at Paul’s Valley and the Rock Is-
land at Wacrika The estimated coat
is $5000000 IncorporatorB are: J
C Amendt of Chicago W M' Free-
man Albert Rennie J B Thompson
S J Garvin J C Hybarger all ol
Paul’s Valley A P Williams John
Upshaw and P J Stovall of War
nette
Statehood Before Holiday — Den-
nis T Flynn former delegate to con-
gress freni Oklahoma who has Just
returned from a European trip stop-
ped off on hlB way home at Dhnville
111 for a short visit with Speaker
Cannon He says that the speaker ex-
pects the ' statehood bill to pass the
lower house of congress before the
‘holidays
Blue Print' 8tage — The Oklahoma
Central railroad has reached the blue
print stage of construction It la to
run Ijetween Lehigh and Purcell '
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF HUMAN LIVES AND
MONEY DURING DISTURBANCES AT BAKU
SCENE IN
The special correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune at Baku Russia
sends the following account of the re-
cent disturbance at that place:
The worst of the storm of massa-
cre pillage end Incendiarism which
has swept over Baku and Its environs
Is over but the picture Is one of deep
est gloom
It is difficult to describe the hor-
rors of the last six days Massacre
has followed massacre A pall of
smoke from burning oil wells tanks
and refineries has hung over the city
day and night
The butchery began with the
slaughter of’ 1500 Armenians while
the police looked on as If It were a
theatrical display Children were
dashed to pieces before their mothers’
eyes Men either were cut to pieces
Instantly or mutilated in an indescrib-
able fashion before they were put to
death
An Armenian vizier who barricad-
ed himself in his house was roasted
to death with his wife and children
The Armenians who took refuge ip
another house were holding out
against the Tartar soldiers when a
magistrate demanded admission The
latter persuaded them to come out As-
suring them of his protection He
then ordered the soldiers to fall on
them and all were barbarously mur-
dered Then the troops took up the task
of suppressing the orgy of bloodshed
and In the six days of fighting more
than a thousand persons have been
killed Several thousands were wound-
ed almost exclusively Tartars Puri-
tans and Armenians
Nearly 100000 fugitives are without
work almost the whole oil Industry
being ruined Involving serious conse-
quences to the trade and commerce
of the whole country The financial
loss cannot be bomputed but there will
be a loss of about $10000000 annually
to state revenue from the excise
Boats running on the Volga will
doubtless have to use naphtha Instead
of oil The quantity of naphtha on
hand will be sufficient for the river
boats for at least five months It
will take nearly a year to repair the
damage here
But for the activity of the soldiers
the bloodshed might have been great-
er As It Is a great many have been
killed
There is little left unburned above
the ground In the outlying oil fields
of Balakan RoumanI Sabunto and
Blblebat from which the crude oil
supply for the Baku oil industry is
drawn All the extracting plants In-
cluding derricks pumping establish-
ments and the oil reservoirs in which
the crude oil Is stored have been de
stroyed The breaking of the reser-
voirs unloosed a flood of burning oil
which it was Impossible to extinguish
A large portion of the "black town’’
quarter In which most of the refin-
eries were located was also burned
The financial loss has not yet been
established but It will run Into the
millions It is Btated that the lose
In crude oil which will run waBte nn-
t!l the reservoirs can be rebuilt and
the refineries again Btarted will
amount to $200000 dally
Costly Dreams of Empire
The dream of empire is doubtless a
pleasant diversion from the stern real-
ities of the ordinary ruler’s life but
when It becomes something more than
a dream It is usually a costly experi-
ment The czar haa found It so In the
far east and Germany la beginning to
realize that the kaiser’s vision is al-
most as much as It can bear Millions
bf Russian rubles have been spent in
a vain attempt to make Siberia and
the Pacific coast a productive part of
the Russian empire while the kaiser
has spent 50000000 on his African
wars with no prospect of return from
those colonies for half a century The
public debt of Germany haa increased
$300000000 in ten years and there is
no prospect that It will be decreased
In the Immediate future— Pittsburg
Dispatch
Arguments of Lawyers
Ellhu Root contends that It la folly
to urge a lawyer to be brief in hlB
argument “Ab a matter of fact” he
says “the argument’s length general-
ly la Its sole reason for existing By
the time It Is concluded the Jury' Is
likely to have forgotten the evidence"
Mr Root tells of a lawyer whom a
Judge advised to be brief Counsel
replied: “How would It be If I con-
fined my argument to these words:
“Your honor my opponent Is wrong
I am right You are an excellent
Judge’ ”
BAKU THE CENTER OF THE REBELLION
ifa? ot t jus
BENEFIT OF ELECTRIC TRAVEL
Quick Transit Relieves Congestion of
Large Cities
A rather striking phrase was used
by Prof E A Ross a visiting lecturer
at the University of Chicago In the
course of a recent address "Steam
massed people” he said "bnt elec-
tricity is dispersing them” And not
quite so happily continuing “When
the mechanic comes to think nothing
of living ten miles from his work the
slum will vanish and the city will dif-
fuse Itself into the country" The ob-
jection to this Is that in American
cities the slums are not made up of
mechanics Nevertheless the tenden-
cy of the electric railway to extend the
distance between the shop and ' the
home is undoubtedly of the greatest
benefit to American workingmen As
a simple problem In arithmetic a
twelve-mile ride for 5 cents Is’ cheaper
than a mlle-and-a-half ride for 2 cents
But the difference in standard of liv-
ing made possible by the longer hauls
and uniform fares of the American
street railways as compared with the
shorter distances and graded fares In
Great Britain Is even greater than the
proportionately cheaper transporta-
tion — Chicago Western Electrician
AMERICAN VOTER8 IN CANADA
Possible Annexation of Western Part
to the United State
Now the American immigration
question in Canada has reached a cli-
max It takes only three years for
an Immigrant to earn a vote In Canada
and 75000 former American voters
will soon come Into their Canadian suf-
frage There are In round numbers
190000 males more than 18 years of
age in western Canada who formerly
lived in the United States 150000 of
whom are old enough to vote There
are now between 750000 and 800000
settlers with a possible voting popula-
tion of 240000 a high percentage be-
cause many cattlemen without families
are emigrating from Montana and Wy-
oming By the end of 1905 the Amer-
ican vote In the Canadian west will be
overwhelming In eastern Canada
thousands of people believe that this
Invasion means the ultimate annexa-
tion of western Canada by the United
States it is called “the coming na-
tion” — World’s Work
Senator Platt's Responsibility
Before Senator Platt of New York had
been shelved practically a great many
persons appealed to him for help of
one kind or another On one occasion
a young army officer had been denied
promotion because of some defect in
his eyesight His mother wrote to
Senator Platt asking him for his as-
sistance closing her letter with the
words: “I leave it all to you and the
Lord” The senator forwarded this
appeal to the secretary of war saying
in hlB own note: “I have noticed that
when a matter Is left to me and the
Lord I am Held responsible in case of
failure therefore I beg that you will
assist me’
Indiana's Veteran Physician
Dr W ILWlshard of Indianapolis
Is probably the oldest practicing physi-
cian In Indiana He was bom Jan 17
1816 and la therefore nearly 90 years
old Although he Is not exerting him-
Delf to build up a practice he still an-
swers calls and puts in his spare time
going over his old accounts and mak-
ing out unpaid bills He is one of two
surviving’ charter members of the In-
diana State Medical society the ether
one being Dr P H Jameson of In-
dianapolis who in about eight years
younger than Dr: Wlshard
cucaruJ
ENORMOUS COST OF WARFARE
Fighting Hat Saddled the Nations of
the World With Debt
Two or three centuries ago It was
discovered that money for warfare-
could be secured more easily and in
larger quantities by bonding the na-
tlon for it and taxing the people to pay
the interest Wars began to cost
more In less than 300 years Great
Britain has spent on warfare $6795-
000000 The revolution of 1688 cost
$155000000 the war of the Spanish
succession $220000000 the Spanish
war $325000000 the seven years
war $535000000 the American war
of revolution $725000000 the war of
the French revolution $2360000000:
the war against Napoleon $2930000-
000 The Boer war coat Great Britain
In cash more than $800000000
It Is estimated that the wars of the
nineteenth century cost the world $17-
922000000 A statistician has figured
that there are 3155673600 secondB In
a century According to these figures
the world paid out nearly $6 a second
In the last century for war Adopting
Archbishop Usher’s chronology which
made the world 5904 years old at the
end of 1899 the nation spent In the
nineteenth century for war an amount
equal to nearly $6 a minute since the
creation This statistician has esti-
mated that the world's population la
1500000000 If this Is correct the
amount spent In war between 1801 and
1900 would furnish each man woman
and child with nearly $12 pocket
money
The debts of the chief nations of the
earth aggregate more than $34000000-
000 It Is believed that three-fourths
of this sum wag swallowed up in war-
fare and preparations for It Nearly
all the sum represented by the debts
of Great Britain France and Germany
was spent for warfare These coun-
tries are spending annually In interest
on their debts nearly $390000000
This sum Is In addition to the amounts
being expended for the support of mil-
itary armaments The amount appro-
priated this year for this purpose by
Great Britain In round figures Is $360-
000000 1 by Germany $217500000 by
France $200200000 by the United
States $195000000— New York Trib-
une Some Unblazoned Heroes
Among the heroes of the day must
be counted the Louisiana physicians
who are fighting the battle of the peo-
ple against the dreaded scourge and
who will not give up the fight even
when stricken themselves It often
takes more courage to face plague and
pestilence In the sickroom than dan-
ger on the field for In the former case
there is none of the excitement ot the
fray nor the prospect of glory to win
In the end U Is Blmply the sacrifice
of life and all that makeB life worth
living at the call of duty and many a
hero of the battlefield would shrink In
fear and loathing from the danger
fearlessly faced by these nameless he-
roes in humanity’s cause— Baltimore
American
In the Matter ef Buying
Congressman Joy strolled Into &
Washington billiard room one evening
and found Comptroller Tracewell play-
ing a game with a mutual acquain-
tance Tracewell was just putting
some fine-cut tobacco In bis cheek and
Joy asked for a chew “I don’t chew
enough to warrant me fn buying any”
he said as he stowed away a full- 1
grown helping Said Tracewell dry-
ly: “You’Ve got that the wrong way
Joy The trouble with you is y0r
don’t buy enough to warrant yam i '
chewing any”
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