Tyrone Observer. (Tyrone, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1910 Page: 4 of 12
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The Tyrone Observer.
J. 8. Maynard, Pub.
TYRONE, It:: OKVA
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
1
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben-
efit of Our Readers.
From National Capital.
The senate inquiry into the charges
brought by Senator Gore of Oklahoma
must wait until the next congresH pro-
vides funds to pay the expense.
President Taft has under authority
of the law recently passed by con-
gress Issued an order withdrawing
from entry 8,495,731 acres of public
land, including water power sites and
phosphate and petroleum deposits and
nil the land in Alaska known to con-
tain coal. Most of this land was with-
drawn during the administration of
President Roosevelt but the present
administration had refused to respect
the legality of the order made without
specific congressional authority.
The house committee to investigate
the McMurray contracts has requested
Senator Gore to be ready to testify
before the committee at Muskogee
about August 2.
Domestic Items.
The great battle for the fistic
championship of the world which took
place at Reno, Nevada, before the
greatest audience that ever gathered
at a ringside resulted in an easy vic-
tory for Jack Johnson the negro in the
35th round. Jim Jeffries proved no
match for the black man from any
standpoint. The negro was stronger,
quicker, and displayed more science,
and endurance than his white op-
ponent.
Kansas City celebrated Indepen-
dence day with a great parade In
whiioh the regular troops from Fort
Leavenworth and the Third regiment
of Missouri National Guard and Bat-
tery B. participated.
Bud Plant, who ten years ago killed
his brother and has since been con-
fined in an asylum escaped from the
Institution at Parsons, Kan., and going
<o the home of his father a farmer
near Hill City killed him while asleep
in bed.
Thirty injured was the record for
the first "safe and sane Fourth" in St
Louis, Most of the injuries were
trival. The record for the Fourth last
year was three killed, sdx seriously in-
jured and 215 slightly hurt
Three persons lost their lives and
almost GO were injured in the destruc-
tion by lire of the Acme Packet com-
pany's excursion Steamer J. S., be-
tween Victoria and Genoa, 24 miles
south of LaCrosse on the Mississippi
«iver.
The superintendent of police at
Washington and the Mayor of Cincin-
nati have each announced that the
Johnson-Jeffries prize fight pictures
may nnot be shown in their cities.
Attorney General Jackson of ,Kan-
sa has filed in the district court of
Shawnee county an ouster suit against
<tilie Bell telephone company to prevent
It absorbing other telephone lines and
exchanges and thus secure a monopoly
of the business in the state.
Two troops of the Fifteenth cavalry
and the Thirteenth infantry band from
Fort Leavenworth will go to Osawato-
mie, Kan., in August to act as an
escort for Col. Roosevelt when he
comes west to the John Brown me-
morial celebration.
Many members of the Order of Red
Men assembled at Roanoke, Ind.. to
celebrate the one hundredth birthday
of Kil-so-quah a full blood Miami In-
dian.
Although defeated In the battle for
the championship of the world at
Reno Jim Jeffries took away the larger
share of the money. Although he got
but 40 per cent of the purse his earn'
lngs amounted to $192,066 includinng
purse, bonus, pictures and exhibitions.
While Johnson the winner took away
$145,600.
Fire damaged the Bowersock Opera
house at Lawrence, Kan., and also
scorched the plant of the Lawrence
Journal located In a part of the build-
ing.
The officials charged with putting
into effect the new postal savings bank
law expect to get a few of the larger
cities in shape to receive depositts by
January l.
The controversy between the south-
eastern railroads and their 10,000
trainmen which threatened to bring on
a strike has been settled. The train-
men get aD increase in wages of from
10 to 40 per cent.
Senator Bristow and Representa-
tives Murdock and Madison of Kansas
three of the strongest insurgent Re-
publicans in congress were called to
Sagamore Hill for a conference with
Theodore Roosevelt.
Indian chiefs who attended the big
sun or willow dance at Big Jake's
Crossing near Clinton, Ok., have de-
cided to build a number of towns in
which only Indians will be permitted
to live.
Emmet Wilcoxen, the Wyandotte
county, Kan., farmer who became
crazed in White Church and was club-
bed has died. Wilcoxen did not re-
gain consciousness before death.
From New York comes an uncon-
firmed announcement that Col. Roose-
velt has asked a delegation of insur-
gent Republicans, consisting of West-
ern senators and congressmen to visit
Sagamore Hill for a conference.
Foreign Affairs.
A German is building a modern air-
ship of wood capable of carrying 30
passengers with which he expects to
cross the Atlantic in 48 hours at an
altitude of 3,000 feet.
A special to the Mexican Herald
from Pueblo says tihat one woman and
two men were killed during a bull
fight in the San Antonio Tezoyo
hacienda.
Approximately 300 British fighting
ships gathered off the South coast for
the summer maneuvers. The ships
aggregate a displacement of more than
1,000,000 tons.
Wacheter, an aviator was killed in
an accident at the opening meeting of
the second aviation meet at Rheims.
Lacking the price of railway tickets
three aviators wilio wished to attend
the big meet at Rheims, France, flew
in their aeroplanes from Bouy a dis-
tance of 100 miles.
Under King Edward Great Britain
paid $5,260,800 annually for the per-
sonal benefit of the royal family and it
is expected that under the new king
this will be increased $500,000.
An expedition headed by Prince
Henry of Prussia has sailed for the
Arctic to establish a base for Count
Zeppelin's proposed balloon trip to the
pole in 1912.
The Japenese who have made of
Port Arthur a closed port since the
capture of the place from the Russians
have now announced that it will be
thrown open as a free commercial port
of entries.
Personal.
Emmet Wilcoxen, a Wyandotte
county, Kan., farmer became insane
and attacked two women in a farm
house. Their cries brought two men
who beat Wilcoxen into insensability
before he could be subdued. His in-
juries may be fatal.
Dr. Hyde convicted of poisoning
Col. J. H. Swope has been sentenced
to life imprisonment in conformity
with the jury verdict and has been
refused bail pending his appeal to the
supreme court. He will remain in
jail at Kansas City during that time.
It Is understood that the president
will appoint Freemont Leidy internal
revenue collector for Kansas to suc-
ceed J. M. Simpson whose resignation
has been asked for.
GET $117,748 FOR
NEW ARMY BUILDINGS
CONTRACT EXPENDITURES TO-
TAL $1,025,000.
Include Sewer System, Electric Light
and Water Plant for
Post.
Guthrie.—Captain David L. Stone,
construction quartermaster at Fort
Sill, is in receipt of advices from the
war department at Washington that
the government has just awarded ad-
ditional contracts for the new army
post at Sill in accordance with recom-
mendations of Capt. Stone on biCs
opened earlier in the month involv-
ing an aggregate investment of $117,-
748.
The contracts include the building
of two field officers' quarters and one
four-set officers' quarters at a cost of
$62,000, wiring for the buildings,
$1,550, and plumbing, $5,948; water
reservoir, $26,500; sewerage and puri-
fication plant, $12,600; and a steel
bridge across Cache creek to cost
$8,650.
The original contract for buildings
in the new post was for the aggre-
gate sum of $750,000. To this number
of buildings have been added eight
more including one guard house, two
store houses, one repair shop, and the
four just contracted, at a cost of
$75,000.
This increases the total number of
buildings to sixty-two and the total
expenditure on buildings alone to
$835,000. To these contracts have
been added $10,000 for artesian wells,
$25,000 for water works, $28,000 for
reservoir and sewerage, purification
plant, $3,000 for roads and $6,800 for
electric lighting system. The aggre-
gate expenditure now under contract
is thus placed at $1,025,000.
The contracts thus far let, con-
sumes all of the appropriations made
for the year 1910 and for the proposed
bridge run even into the appropria-
tions for 1911 so that contracts just
awarded will probably be the last un-
til new appropriations for improve-
ments here are available. It is esti-
mated that another year will have
passed, however, before the new post,
which is to provide quarters for a
whole regiment, will be ready for oc-
cupancy.
But the war department does not
propose to stop here. Immediate plans
include the enlargements of the post
to brigade rank, extending buildings
directly west from the new site se-
lected, something more than a dupli-
cate of present contracts and blue
prints in the office of the quartermas-
ter general which have been approved
by the department look ultimately to
the establishment at Sill of a division
post and the expenditure in its con-
struction of at least $20,000,000.
The old post now occupied by three
batteries of the First field artillery,
will probably be retained as a school
of musketry which, under orders is-
sued last year, is to be transferred
from Presidio to Fort Sill.
COTTON MARKET.
New Orleans.
New Orleans.—Spot cotton quiet
and unchanged. Sales on the spot 85
bales, to arrive 18. Low ordinary,
ll^c nominal, ordinary 12 5-16c, good
ordinary 13%c, strict good ordinary
14V8c, low middling 14 7-16c, strict
low middling 14 1l-l6c6, middling
14 15-16c, strict middling 15%e, good
middling 15 5-16c, strict good middling
15t&c, middling fair 15%c, middling
fair to fair 16c, fair 16%c nominal,
Receipts 789 bales, stock 57,749.
New York.
New York.—Cotton opened quiet
and from 1 to 5 points higher on
weaker cables, showers in the East-
ern belt, the absence of any general
precipitation in Texas, and covering.
Realizing quickly checked the ad-
vance, however, and during the early
trading prices worked off to a net loss
of about 5 to 8 points under profit tak-
ing and selling for a turn by local pro-
fessionals.
3t. Louis.
St. Louis.—Dull, middling 14%c,
sales none, receipts 254 bales, ship-
ments 254, stocks 16,895.
Galveston.-
Galveston.
-Higher at 14%c.
Bullets Kill Gun Fighter.
Muskogee.—Dick Terry, an old-time
deputy marshal of the former Indian
territory, who was wounded in the
pitched battle with the Wyc-liffe gang
in the spring of 1906, when Deputy
Ike Gilstrap was killed, was shot and
killed in the rear of the old Cherokee
capitol building at Tahlequah Ok.,
where the big Cherokee payment is
being held.
C. L. Pratt, cashier of the Bank of
Kansas, of Kansas, Ok., fired five
shots at Terry, three of which took ef-
fect. Before dying Terry made a
statement that he was unarmed and
had no words with the banker. The
latter told some friends that he be-
lieved Terry was armed and was go-
ing to kill him. The men had quar--
reled in Kansas when Pratt, some
time ago, foreclosed a mortgage on
some of Terry's property and they
brought the quarrel to Tahlequah
with them. Pratt surrendered to the
sheriff.
Indian Congress Date October 10.
Muskogee—The date for the inter-
national congress of Indians, which
was to have been held in Muskogee in
June, but was postponed, has been
definitely set for the week beginning
October 19. It is proposed to make
this the most notable gathering of In-
dians that ever assembled in North
America.
Land Sale Date November 15.
El Reno.—A message received by
the United States land office from
Representative Dick T. Morgan an-
nounces that the department of the
interior has fixed November 15 as the
date for opening the sale of twenty-
four sections of Cheyenne and Arapa-
ho Indian lands, near El R«no. The
lands will be sold in tracts of 40 to
80 acres and at public auction to the
highest bidders. The terms of the
sale are not stated in the message.
1 he lands comprise the Darlington
Indian reservation and surround the
Darlington government school which
was recently abandoned, the buildings
for which were sold to the grand lodge
of Masons of Oklahoma for use as an
oi phans home. The lands are situ-
ated in the Canadian river valley for
the most part and are fertile.
Muskogee Couple Die in Stream.
Muskogee.—Fred A. Knowlton, as-
sistant cashier of the -Muskogee Na-
tional bank, and Miss Josephine Jar-
rett, well known young society wo-
man, were drowned recently in Grand
rier, near here. Miss Jarrett, who was
in bathing, supposing the water was
shallow, stepped into the stream and
Plunged in over her head. She was
caught by an undercurrent and drag-
ged to the bottom. Knowlton tried
to iescue her by jumping in the stream
but the woman clutched him and held
him under. A picnic party saw them
both go under.
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