The Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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RIVER COMMENCE REVIVING
WAR DEPARTMENT SAYS MIS-
&OURI IS NAVIGABLE.
THE BLOT ON THE SCUTCHEON
Chief Engineer Discusses Steadily
Increasing Traffic and Gives
Freight Figures.
Washington, DVC.—That improve-
ments in the Missouri have demon-
strated that the river can be
made a navigable water way and
that the former active commerce of
the Missouri valley shows signs of re-
viving are facts emphasized by Brig.
Gen. William H. Bixby, chief of
engineers, in a report on the Mis-
souri to be submitted to congress at j
the opening of the coming session.
Gen. Bixby also brings out the fact
that if congress continues to appro-
priate funds for the six-foot channel
upon the basis of appropriation in the
last river and harbor bill, it will re-
quire 40 years to complete that work.
Gen. Bixby indicates in his report
what the engineer corps of the army
expects from congress in the way of
an appropriatiGn next year. The
river and harbor bill enacted in June, j
1910, appropriated $1,300,000 for Mis- ;
sourl river improvements, $1,000,000
to be expended between Kansas City
and the mouth, and $300,000 from
Kansas City to Fort Benton.
Gen. Bixby discusses the operation
of the boat line between Kansas City
and the mouth and the steadily in-
creasing commerce of both the upper
and lower stretches of the river. The
report says:
"The result of these expenditures
end improvements has been to dem-
onstrate the possibility of regulating
the river in such a manner as to
make it navigable for a channel of
commerce."
The report states that the amount
of freight carried on the Missouri
from the mouth to Sioux City during
the calendar year 1910 was 876,130
short tons from the mouth to Kansas
City, and 113,410 short tons from
Kansas City to Sioux City.
FAKED SUICIDE ON WEDDING EVE
Prospective Groom at lola Disappears
After Phoning Bride's Motner—
Family Jewels Also Missing.
Iola, Kansas,—"This is Art Sherman,
cousin of your daughter's betrothed,
Frank Smith. He has just died from
the effects of carbolic acid takeu with
suicidal intent. You will find the body
at 404 East Jackson Avenue."
That was the Btartling message re-
ceived over the telephone by Mrs.
James Cummings, the mother of
Smith's fiance.
As soon as she received the mes-
sage, the mother notified her daughter
and together they began a search for
the body of Smith. A visit to ..ue office
of physicians and the hospitals showed
Made tf
Handkerchiefs
Dainty Holiday Gifts That Are
Easily Mads apd Inexpensive
By- JULIA BOTTOMLEY
DIED IN THEIR'HOUSE OF SAND
Three Children Killed and Two In-
jured While Playing—Boy's Kick
Causes Avalanch.
Kansas City, Kan.—Eight children
went to play in a bank of sand here
and dug a cave back about 20 feet.
Then as they contemplated their
work from the inside a boy's con-
temptuous kick shook the sand pit.
The 14-foot bank above them fell in,
three of the children were killed and
two were injured severely.
The dead are: Ethel Hutchinson,
11 years old; Flossie Hutchinson, 14
and Roscoe Sparks, 9.
Lydia Hutchinson, 16 years old,
sister of the two girls killed and
Harold Hutchings, 10 years old, were
seriously injured.
By the efforts of Lizzie Sparks, 16
years old, the two injured children
escaped death. She saved their lives
end her own, by digging them out,
not knowing that her brother Roscoe,
t years old, also had been buried.
REATTIE CONFESSED GRIME
STATEMENT GIVEN OUT BY FATH-
ER OF WIFE SLAYER.
Went to Electric Chair and Paid
Penalty of His Crime—Governor
Denies 30-Day Offer.
ROCK ISLAND TROUBLE AVERTED
Settlement Made Avoids Strike Con-
templated Affecting Eight
Thousand Men.
Chicago, Illinois.—The settlement
•greed upon by the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railway and its shop-
men averts a strike which would have
affected 8,000 men. The shopmen,
after five months of negotiations, in
which concessions were made on both
sides, have accepted the company's
wage scale and signed a contract for
another year.
The original 34 demands were re-
duced to six, including «n advance of
two cents an hour in wages and a
change in working conditions. The
railroad officials 'refused these de-
mands, declaring that general busi-
ness conditions did not warrant any
Increase in operating expenses. After
full consideration, the union officials
sent a letter to President Mudge ac-
cepting the terms.
Death to Two Joy Riders.
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma.—Geo.
Brandon, a druggist, and a young
woman whose identity is unknown,
were killed shortly after midnight in
• motor car accident. Charles D.
Frits, a salesman, and Miss Margaret
Matthews of Terrell, Tex., were with
them in the car and were both badly
injured. Fritz regained conscious-
ness and the young woman from Tex-
as will recover. The four were out
for a midnight ride.
BEATTIE'S CONFESSION,
I .Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous of
standing right before God and man, do
on this, the 23d day of November, 1911,
confess my guilt of the crime charged
against me. Much that was published
concerning the details was not true, but
the awful fact, without the harrowing
circumstances, remains.
For this action I am truly sorry and,
believing that I am at peace with God
and am soon to pass Into His presence,
this statement is mad^
Richmond, Virginia.—Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., went to the electric chair
with his soul cleansed of the burden
of a lie. He left a broken hearted
father deprived of the one prop left
to him in his hour of darkest grief—
an abiding faith in the innocence of
his son.
For Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., con-
fessed, confessed that he took his
young wife, the mother of his five-
weeks-old son, to a dark road in the
woods and there shot her to death
because there was no room in his
heart for her and for Beulah Binford,
the mother of his other child at whose
funeral he was the sole mourner.
The confession was written in the
slayer's own handwriting and was
witnessed by the two ministers who
were with him constantly in his last
hours. Dr. Fix took the statement
to the elder Beattie and left with him
the decision of destroying it or mak-
ing it public. It was a bitter task,
but the father did not hesitate.
The publication of the confession
also disposed of a story that Gov.
Mann of Virginia had offered to give
Beattie a, reprieve of 30 days if he
would confess. Gov. Mann denies
emphatically that such an offer was
made.
LIQUOR MEN START NEWSPAPER
Resubmissionists to Have Organ in
Topeka— New Daily to 6tart
January 1.
Topeka, Kansas.—That a new daily
publication is soon to enter the
Topeka newspaper field was formally
announced at a meeting of the Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers
and Business Men here. The new
paper is to be known as the Topeka
American. It will be a morning paper
and will advocate resubmission and
indorse Billard for governor.
According to an announcement
made before the members by E. M.
Chesney, an employe of the claims
department of the Santa Fe, the new
daily will begin publication January
1. Machinery and equipment for the
new plant have been bought and it
is asserted that the promoters have
secured a lease on the new Gordon
Building at Ninth Street and Kansas
Avenue.
W. C. Dillon of Memphis, Tenn.,
has been placed in charge of the cir-
culation department and has been
here several weeks and has an extra
staff of newspaper writers employed
for the publication of the paper.
(Copyright, Western Newspaper Union)
In casting about for gifts that are
inexpensive but attractive and worth
while, nothing will be found more sat-
isfying than handkerchiefs. They are
made in the greatest variety in size,
decoration, quality and style. Manu-
facturers design them for many uses
and consider the needs of those who
__ ^ _ convert them into accessories of dress
that no patient suffering with poison ' and furnishings. Any number of the
had been treated. No one could be personal belongings of women and
found who knew Art Sherman. I children are easily made from them,
Then the hearibroke n^young woman
was forced to believe that Art Sher- yQ thege llttle glft8 embody the
man was a mythical person, really eBBentlals of ta8teful Christmas gifts;
Smith himself, who had telephoned no matter h0w small the cost.
the news of his own death in order j HandkercWefg for fancy work and
to throw the girl and her parents off ,jreBS accessories may be bought for
his trail until he could get out of lesB money than other equally attrac-
town. | tive articles. They will cost from five
Some of the family jewelry has dis- ; to fifty cents each. The average for
appeared. Investigation by officers pretty, daintily finished linen ones will
led them to believe that Smith has be in the neighborhood of .twenty
served a term in the Hutchinson re- | cents; good designs may be had for
formatory under the name of Charles [ fifteen cents, showing printed borders,
Moore, or Klein. It has been found ( and a quarter will buy a good grade of
that he had several aliases at the local j linen with some embroidery. Narrow
hemstitched edges or small embroi-
edge. Cut the front from a paper pet-
tern, which may be bought at any dry-
goods store. The back is a llttle circle
or a medallion of embroidery. The re-
maining edges of the handkerchief
will furnish a finish for the tie ends.
Aprons are. easily made. The simp
plest is shown here, with one corner
cut away for the waist line. This cor-
ner is used to make the pocket. Sew-
ing aprons are made of larger hand-<
kerchiefs gathered to a waist band.
The bottom Is turned up and stitched
Dainty Baby Bonnet.
pawnshops. . _ . .
! fn The designs Tn^eckwea/and^her down to form three P°ckets
TAR JURY SAYS TWO ARE GUILTY accessories made from handkerchiefs, thread, scissors, etc.
j I One large handkerchief will make a
One of Three on Trial for Tarring
Teacher Released—Were Out
Twenty-Nine Hours.
Lincoln Center, Kansas—Two of
the three defendants in the tar party
trial were found guilty. They are
John Schmidt, a wealthy farmer, and
Sherrill Clark, brother of Everett
Clark, president of a Shady Bend mill-
ing company.
A. N. Simms, a former employe of
Everett G. Clark, the miller, was
found not guilty.
The jury returned its verdict at
4:40 after having been out 29 hours,
Everett Clark and Jay Fitzwater, j
who pleaded guilty and were sen-;
tenced to a year in the county jail | Val of Cluny lace and narrow ribbons
Turn-Over Collar and Jabot.
pair of oversleeves for office wear.
Double a man's handkerchief twice
and cut the sleeves by the lower parti
of a coat sleeve pattern. The cor*
ners left are to be cut off and sewed
to the oversleeves to form the cuffs.
One large handkerchief will makej
two hair receivers. Cut the handker-
chief into two equal pieces. Fold
down the hem corner of one of thsj
strips and sew the hemmed and raw)
edges together (turning in the raw;
edge). This forms the front of thai
bag. Fold the remaining portion an
and back—this forms the bag and top*j
Finish with a band of wide beading
across the top of the bag. Run rib-
bon in this and trim with the ribbon
bows.
Dresser scarfs, pillow shams and
have taken an appeal and are out on ! used with them. Lace-edged hand- ^le COvers are made by setting small
MOTOR CAR PLUNGE0 OVER CLIFF
SALOON BUSINESS EXPENSIVE
Missouri Town Has Two Paying
$5,400 Each—May Vote Both
Out of Existence.
Maryville, Missouri.—If a special
local option election in Maryville
carries, the two highest licensed sa-
loons in the United States will be
closed. Petitions asking the city
council to call a special election early
in January have been circulated here.
Four years ago last September
local option elections were held both
for Nodaway county and the city. The
county went dry by a heavy majority.
But the city returned a wet majority
of 195. Maryville has two saloons,
each of which pays $r.,400 a year. The
high license has been in effect about
ten years The city council arranged
that only two saloons should be al-
lowed anil mat the license from the
two should equal what had been paid
by four.
Snow Came With Lightning.
i Atchison. Kansas.—A severe elec-
| trk-al storm preceded by a light
snow, raged for two hours over
I Northeastern Kansas. The lightning
! was intense and was accompanied by
heavy peals of thunder, it is reported
| that two barns north of Atchison were
I struck by' lightning and burned.
All of Party of Five, in Accident Near
Denver, Escaped Injury
Except One.
Denver, Colorado.—A motor car con-
taining two women and three men
plunged from the Colorado Springs
road two miles south of Welhurst
near here, turned over twice and
ended its flight at the foot of a 10-
foot embankment.
The occupants of the car were
hurled some distance, and ail escaped
injury save «V. H. Moore, manager of
the Metropolitan hotel at Fort Worth,
Tex., who was painfully bruised.
The other occupants of the car were
Mrs. W. H. Moore and Mr. and Mrs.
John R. Townsend of Denver, and
the chauffeur.
kerchiefs are inexpensive and are es-
pecially adapted to making the neck-
wear fashionable at present.
A turn-over collar and jabot Is
shown here, made of a sheer lawn
handkerchief edged with a narrow
Cluny Insertion and a Val lace edging.
It is very'simply constructed.
j Cut off from one side of a lace-edged
handkerchief a Btrip three Inches wide
! and divide this strip into two equal
I parts. Make a straight band of mull
NEGRO ATTACKS A WHITE GIRL " ree Inches wide and of the required
length and hem It all round with a
bond. Watson Scranton. the third
defendant, declares he will go to
jail at once and begin his sentence.
Ed Ricord, the barber decoy in the
case, was sentenced to a year in jail
by Judge Grover. He had already
served two months upon the year's
sentence he had appealed from, but
will now have to begin over again and
serve a full year.
quarter-inch hem. Sew to one edge
of this strip the two short lace-edged
Btrips cut from the handkerchief, turn-
ing the corners to the middle of the
strip. Allow the lace edges to over-
lap at this point Turn In all raw
WOMAN WINS IN P. 0. ELECTION in jail for safe keeping.
Farmers Gather at Spring Hill and
Consider Lynching Brute—Regard
for Law Prevailed.
Spring Hill, Kansas.—While thej
held a young negro under guard in a
pool hall here 200 farmers and citizens . edges and hem down. Lay the re-
of this section discussed for two hours ! malnder of the handkerchief in small
whether they as a mob, should inflict side plaits, forming a jabot, and sew
punishment upon him for an attack [ to the lower edge of the neck band at
on the young daughter of a farmer, i th® center.
or whether the law "should take Its
course." There were times when the j
respect for the law afid the right of
trial were almost swept away—and
then a righteous sense of justice pre-
vailed and the prisoner was led forth
from the pool hall and turned over to
the county officers.
Davis, the negro, was taken to
Olathe by a deputy sheriff and placed \
To make a plain turn-over collar
and cuffs select a sheer, dainty hand-
In a Free-for-AII Miss Abbot Gets 554
Votes to Opponent's 71—
Man Loses.
Le Roy, Kansas.—Miss Ester E.
Abbot was elected postmaster of Le
Roy by an overwhelming majority.
She was given 554 votes to 71 for her
opponent, O. C. Kersey. Men and
women of all-parties, patrons of the j being implicated in the plot are al-
office, were permitted to vote and | ready under arrest in Chicago. New
Were Smuggling Chinese.
Chioago, Illinois—One of the largest
Chinese smuggling plots found by fed-j
oral officers In years was revealed j
here when "Crappy" Nelson was ar- j
raigned before United States Commls-1
sioner Foote charged with bringing |
Chinamen into this country from
Canada. Twenty men charged with ,
Fred. S. Jackson, representative from
the Fourth district, who devised the
plan for allowing the people to name
their own postmaster, supervised the
election. It is said that the election
was the first of its kind ever held,
although postmaster primaries often
have been suggested.
Young Hunter Shot.
Caney, Kansas.—Earl Overfleld, son
of Senator Overfleld of Independence,
was shot in the head accidentally . — — ,
while hunting. sis miles west of Caney. a rich young farmer of Yoder. In this ure on a °*er the st*te. under to give 912,500 for a library and th«
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He was dangerously, but probably not county, died
fatally wounded.
Mystery in Farmers' Death.
Hutchinson. Kansas.—After being
unconscious for- 28 hours, Dan J. F*rp -
Enforcing Fire Laws.
Emporia, Kansas.—Following an
Inspection of the buildings of Emporia
by Owen Doyle, state factory In-
spector, and his deputy. M. L. O'Brien,
prosecutions were begun against H.
C. Whitley, Fred R. Corbett and C. C.
Concannon for non-compliance with
the flre regulation laws. The two
first named neglected to observe cer-
tain fire escape regulations In the
Whitley Opera bouse and the latter
requirements for booths In moving
picture bouses. The state officers
York and Detroit, where the band
made its headquarters.
Combine for Good Roads.
Joplin, Missouri.—For the purpose j A Pretty Bib.
of boosting good roads in general, I
but more especially to work for the | kerchief with narrow hemstitched hem
establishment of a Kansas City to | and a little embroidery. Use a three-
A Simple Apron.
handkerchiefs together with lace In-
sertion. They may be edged with lace.
Handkerchief cases are made by
folding three corners of a fancy hand-
kerchief to the center and tacking
them together. Sew a small pearl but-
ton here. Place a little loop covered
with a bow of baby ribbon on the oth-
er corner.
Laundry bags are pretty made of
two handkerchiefs cat-stltched to-
gether on three sides. A tape casing
is sewed inside the top and baby rib*
bon run In this closes the bag and
serves to hang It also.
Many pretty caps are made from
handkerchiefs. Dusting caps are made
by sewing a tape casing to large
printed cotton handkerchiefs (men's)
and running In an elastic. The cor-
ners are turned up and tacked to
place. Breakfast caps are lace trimmed
and decorated with ribbon bows.
The pretty little gifts will cost, all
told, from fifteen to fifty cents each—
some less and others a llttle mora
Arkansas rock road through Jasper
county, enthusiasts at Joplin havo
formed the Western Missouri Good
Roads association. A committee of
20 is working in Jasper count}* and
neighboring counties for memberships
in the association.
Will Accept Carnegie Library.
Olathe. Kansas.—At a book showei
held here under (he auspices of th«
Women's Civic league 500 books wer«
given.to the city library. The showei
has caused a revival of interest con-
cerning the offer of Andrew Carnegie
Fry was discovered by I specific orders from Gov. Stubbs to
his wife unconscious in the barn.
I enforce the fire laws.
council has now agreed to meet hit
requirements.
French Train Into River.
Samaur. France—Sixty passenger*
lost their lives through the plunging
of a train Into the River Tbouet,
owing to the breakdown of a bridge
on the state railway at Montreull-
Bellay
Conductor's Conscience Hurl.
Newark. New Jersey.—The officers I
of the public service corporation of (
New Jersey have received a draft for j
|1O0 from a conscience-striken college
man In Portland. Ore., who stole j
fares while a conductor here.
"Tommy" Johnson Dead.
Kan*a« City. Missouri.—Death came
to "Tommy" Johnson, the University
of Kansas athlete, at the University
of Kansas hospital la Rosedale. Kan.
The body was taken to the home in
Lawrence. Kan.
Steamsr to Have Golf Links.
Queen* town — The proposed new
1 .OOO-foot steamship to be built for (he
White Star line will be provided,
among other thinks, with golf links
and a cricket patch. It will be
the Gigantic.
Suffragette Leader Jailed.
London. England. — Mrs. Petbick I
Lawrence, the bead and front of the
rage:te riots, was the central
figure of the trial of those arrested
when the magistrate sentenced ber
to a month's imprisonment.
Fifteenth Infantry to China.
Manila.—The American army of-
ficers stationed in the vicinity of .Ma-
nila have begun '.he physical test or-
dered by the military authorities to
Idaho Countiea Turn Wet.
Boise, Idaho.—Belated returns from
the local option election in Kootenai
and Idaho counties show that prohibi-
tion was defeated by a small margin.
Both counties voted "dry" two years
*«o.
Farmers to Organize.
Guthrie. Ok—A state convention
has been called for Shawnee Novem-
ber 21. for the purpose of organizing
a slate union of the Farmers' Society
prepare them for a possible call for of Equity, an association of farmers
service In China. principally la the North.
Inch strip from one side, sewed to
straight band of mull, for the collar.
Two remaining edges will make the
cuffs. They should be cut a half-Inch
wider than the collar to allow for
turning over the sleeve. Finish the
raw end of each cuff with a narrow
hand-sewed hem.
For a jabot, select a lace-edged or
embroidered bandkershlef In sheer
lawn of linen or cotton. Cut the hand-
kerchief in two pieces on a diagonal
line extending from a point three
Inches in from one corner, to a point
three Inches in from the opposite cor-
ner. 8ew one or both of these pieces
In a scant ruffle to a straight band of
insertion or fine embroidery, with
their widest portions at the top of
this strip. Hem the ends of the strip.
Beading may be nsed Instead of Inser-
tion. or ribbon 1*4 Inches wide laid I
in fine plaits as shown In the net and |
lace jabot pictured here.
A dainty bib Is shown mads of the <
corners of a child's sheer linen hand- I
kerchief. A nsrrow hemstitched bor-
der Is edged with fine Val lace. The
little spray of fine embroidery In the '
corner sets It off.
Pretty bsby bonnets are made of |
hemstitched sheer lawn handkerchiefs
Choose a moderately large site and |
uto
Oversleeve® for Office Wear.
Those on which lace and ribbon are
uaed in quantities are still inexpensive
aa compared with equally good gifts
of other kinds.
Home-Made Gift Suggestions.
White felt padding for tea-table
cloths, cat In the required size and
neatly bordered with white tape.
Bureau and pincushion covers of
bright cretoene. edged with s coarse
white curtain lace.
Kitchen bags of brown crash, with
bright tapes, for the old bits of damask
us«rd tor polishing glass.
Fancy baaketa o! sweet grass, with
along one ' cretonne linings, for holding keys
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