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An experiment station for the test-
ing of mine explosives and the study-
ing of appliances and methods where-
by mining can be made safer. Why
not? Surely the memory of the aw-
ful catastrophes which closed the year
emphasize the need of such efforts to
make the work of the those who delve
in the bowels of the earth a less peril-
ous occupation. But these disasters
have only sustained the prophecies
of the experts of the United States
Geological Survey, who. have persist-
ently maintained that conditions
would grow steadily worse until dras
tic measures of supervision were
taken, in the face of these calami
ties the technologic branch of the sur-
vey, under the direction of J. A.
Holmes, is exerting every energy to
bring about the immediate installation
of an experiment station for the test-
ing of all manner of explosives used
in mines, with reference to their safe-
ty in the presence of mine gases, for
the testing of safety lamps in the pres-
ence of gases before allowing them to
go Into the mines, for the testing of
rescue devices, and the training of
rescue crews.
The details for the setting up of
such a station are completed and will
soon be Installed, although the site
has not yet been chosen. It will In
reality be a miniature mine into which
will be artificially introduced all the
horrors that are encountered in the
long underground tunnels. The opera-
tion of these under all conceivable
conditions will be scientifically ob-
served and conclusions drawn as to
where safety lies and where there is
danger. Under the present laws the
survey has but the power to point out
safety and danger, and no means to
. enforce observance of necessary pre
cautions, but, the experts hold, the
lesson that has been learned abroad
may, through the repetition of the hor-
rors, be brought home to America in
such a way that the safeguards of
France or Belgium may be thrown
around the American miner.
Clarence Hall, explosive expert, Is
the head of a oorps of investigators
that have rushed to all the disasters
that have occurred In the past year or
more, with the idea of ascertaining
their cause. He has Just returned
from tho Darr mine on Jacobs creek,
where hundred# of men have died in
the tunnels and their bodies are still
being taken out. He penetrated fur-
ther into that mine than any of the
rescuers dared to go, he being
equipped with an apparatus excluding
the fire damp and at the same time
generating oxygen. He brought out
samples of the gases of the mine for
analysis and much correlative infor-
mation.
It is upon the conclusions these men
have reached and the dangers that
they report that the experiment sta-
tion is to be established. The center
and most important portion of the sta-
tion will be the explosives gallery,
which will be 100 feet long and six
feet in diameter. It will be made of
boiler plate, with a huge cannon in
one end Bet directly Into the gallery
and used to set off the explosives.
There will be portholes to allow the
•escape of too great explosives power,
and there will be thick glass portions
through which the observers may
watch what is going on within.
There will be arranged an observa-
tion house 60 feet away, and from this
tho experimenters will watch the hap-
penings in the huge, tunnel-like cylin-
der. Gases will be injected into the
explosives gallery. The natural gaBos
■of the mines, fire damp, and coal dust
will be mixed with air in varying pro-
portions. Then into this mixture will
be hurled all manner of explosives.
Any explosive that will cause an igni-
tion or explosion of the air and gases
contained in the explosives gallery
would be unsafe to use in the mine.
for it might have a similar effect
there. When the volleying of a given
explosive leaves the gases still undis-
turbed it is safe in the mines. The
size of the charge that may be used in
these coal dusts and Are damps will be
accurately obtained.
While abroad Mr. Hall found that
there was a very careful testing of
Bafety lamps before they were allowed
to go into the mines. In these tests
the various gases were allowed to
pass through the lamps to determine
whether or not they would ignite
them. Of all the lamps he saw tested
the designs used in America showed
the greatest capacity for igniting the
gases and rarely failed to do so. These
lamps were never allowed to go Into
a mine abroad, but are freely used
with no test in America. In connec-
tion with the experiment station a
gallery will be devoted to the testing
of lamps, and fans variously arranged
will draw all manner of gases over the
flames, and where there is danger the
use of the lamp will be protested
against.
The apparatus for sustaining life
which Mr. Hall has recently used will
be freely demonstrated at the experi-
ment station. It is held that when an
explosion occurs in a mine its rending
force usually leads down some main
tunnel. Men in this tunnel are torn
to pieces and immediately killed, but
those found dead in side tunnels have
usually been overcome by the gases
that have followed the explosion. Men
often rush to the main tunnel and are
Immediately overcome. In the side
tunnels they may live an hour or a
day until the deadly gases steal la
upon them.
Were the rescuing parties bo
equipped that they could immediately
go into the tunnels they might rescue
many men who otherwise die miser-
ably. The apparatus that the experi-
ment station will test consists of a
canvas jacket which is fitted with
cylinders of compressed oxygen to be
used when the need of it comes. These
cylinders are connected with the
mouth of the operator by a tube.
There is a still further arrangement
whereby the exhalations of the opera-
tor are passed through potassium
hydroxide, the Impurities extracted,
and the remainder returned to be
breathed over again. With this ar-
rangement the rescuer can remain for
considerable lengths of time In the
foulest of airs In safety. They are
generally U6ed abroad, but practically
unknown here.
The investigators favor strongly the
maintenance of experiment stations
for the testing of explosives, safety
lamps, rescue appliances, etc., and the
enforcement of advisable regulations
under law. They hold that the cor-
rect methods have been worked out
abroad and that results have shown
them to be effective. They advise
the immediate following of such ex-
amples.
Already several bills have been In-
troduced into congress this session
which look to the supervision of the
government over mines. Men know-
ing most of the existing conditions
look forward to the passage of some
such measure, and hold that it would
be the means of saving thousands of
lives annually.
Names of Dress Materials.
As a general rule it is pretty safe
to guess that the name of a dress
material comes from some place. Be-
sides such obvious cases as "astra-
khan," "cashmere" and "tweed"
there are "fustian" (the humble an-
alogue of velvet) from Fustat (Cairo);
"muslin," from Mosul in Mesopo-
tamia; "damask," from Damascus,
and "cambric," from Cambria, while
"millinery" itself is from Milan.—Lon-
don Chronicle.
Tonnage Passing Through the Suez.
The net tonnage passing through
the Suez canal each year is in the
neighborhood of 18,000,000. The report
for 1907, just completed, shows a net
tonnage of 58,217,214 for the Soo. It
Is to be noted, too, that a year on the
Suez canal means 12 months, while it
is only eight or nine on the Great
Lakes canals.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
FOX IN STREETS OF CITY.
Marketmen Take Up a Chase—Refuge
on House Tops.
During a recent run of the Essex
and Suffolk foxhounds the good people
of Wivenhoe had the novel experience
of seeing their town Invaded by
hounds and huntsmen and of looking
on at the death of reynard In one of
their streets.
It is not long since the New Cut was
•he scene of an even more startling in-
cident. when a full-grown fox suddenly
appeared trotting along the middle of
the street when marketing was at its
busiest. To a man every coster de-
serted his barrow and with cries of
"Tally-ho!" joined in the chase. Dash-
ing toward Blackfrlars road the fox
soon doubled, and darting under a
fruiterer's barrow sought refuge in a
wheelwright's yard, where he was
found firmly wedged in the spokes of
a cartwheel and carried off in tri-
umph by a second-hand furniture
dealer.
A fox was recently chased by the
Belvolr hounds Into Aslackby village
.and went to ground In the churchyard;
another sought refuge on the house-
tops In Hullavlngton village and was
dislodged by means of a ladder, while
still another was killed in tbe dining
room of Gayhurst house, the residence
of W. W. Carllle, formerly M. P, for
North Bucks.—Westminster Gazette.
Dog Gave Warning of Death.
On the morning of October 19, one
of my dogs set up a most mournful
howl, and I got out of bed and wrote
on the wall, "Some one Is dead," and
the following day related my experi-
ence to the salt officer stationed here
and recorded it on his chunam. My
sister died at 4:45 a. m. on the morn-
ing of October 19, at Wimbledon, ex-
actly at the time that the dog gave
the significant warning.—Letter in
Madras Mall.
Defends Electric Light.
Reports to the effect that electric
lights are detrimental to the eyesight
are pronounced unfounded by an elec-
trical expert in the London Times.
He says that the trouble arises from
too direct exposure of the eye to the
light, and that effect would be the
same or worse with any other light.
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS
A Brief Summary of what our Representa-
tives at Guthrie are Doing.
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Guthrie. Okla., Feb. 1. — Senator
Reuben M. Roddie, Democrat, of Ada,
enlivened the Oklahoma state senate
U,day with a speech charging a state
officer with placing his stenographer,
paid by, the state, in the senate gal-
lery for the purpose of taking the
senators' speeches on the fellow ser-
vant law to use for political and
special purposes.
The officer so charged was Charles
Daugherty, state labor commissioner.
The senate practically rebuilt the
measure providing for grand and
petit juries, before recommending it
for passage. Senator Taylor, Its au-
thor, again in disgust with its treat-
ment, asked to be divorced from any
connectlonwith it.
Senator Franklin's bill was passed
prohibiting any railroad company,
operating more than fifty miles of
track in Oklahoma, from using
engines that have the cabs on the
middle of the boiler. Companies vio-
lating this act may be fined from two
hundred to five hundred dollars for
each trip with such engine and the
state corporation commission Is giv-
en authority over all such matters.
The legal advisory committee of
the senate again asked the house to-
day for more information regarding
the parentage of the prohibition en-
forcement bill. Seemingly no person
desires either to father or adopt the
measure and It remains an orphan.
The Taylor fellow servant bill oc-
cupied the attention of the senate to-
day. Amendments were adopted
which will make it the most string-
ent fellow servant law In existence If
passed. An employer Is held liable
lor personal damages If any employe
Is Injured by reason of a defect In
machinery or equipment, whether the
employer or his employe have knowl-
edge of the defect or not.
The fellow servant law is to apply
to all transportation and transmis-
sion companies, except mutual tele-
phones, and to oil and gas operators,
round house machine shops, foun-
dries, electric light or gas plants,
glass factories, smelters, cotton oil
millB and companies handling or
manufacturing explosive substances
or compounds.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—The recep-
tion accorded the prohibition en-
forq^ment bill when it finally came
before the senate today after being
passed by the house, indicated that
the bill is slated to meet an early
death in the senate and share the
Jate of the original Billups liquor
bill. Senator Billups, the author,
moved that the senate do not concur
in the house amendments. Senator
Roddie stated that the bill, as
amended by the house, had been
passed around among the senators
and that it suits nobody. However,
in order to allow the bill to come
squarely before the senate, a substi-
tute to Billups' motion was adopted
postponing consideration until tomoh,
row.
The senate objects to having the
dispensary sections tacked on by the
house considered with enforcements
sections of the bill, and also objects
to the emergency clause applying to
the dispensary sections. The result
will probably be the Introduction in-
to the senate of a new bill separat-
ing the dispensary and enforcement
features. The bill may have to go
to a conference committee with a
view of trying to reach' an agreement
between the two houses.
A stringent anti-gambling bill by
Roddle-Smith also met strong oppo-
sition In the senate and the commit-
tee of the whole recommends Indefi-
nite postponement. The senate, how-
ever, adopted a motion to send the
bill to the judiciary committee. Tho
fellow servant bill by Taylor also ex-
perienced rough sailing upon the
adoption of a motion to reconsider
and was sent to the Judiciary com-
mittee. Senator Sanford stated that
the bill Is In violation of the consti-
tution of the United States, as is the
constitutional provision upon which
it is based. The bill prohibiting the
use of an engine with the cab located
at the side or on tho top of the boil-
er was reconsidered and readopted,
with the emergency' clause.
The senate committee of the whole
passed a bill by Brownlee requiring
fire escapes to be placed upon all
buildings over three stories high,
used for public purposes or for indus-
trial purposes.
In the bouse the Fort Supply asy-
lum appropriation bill was passed to
third readldfc after the total appro-
priation had been cut from $210,000
to $100,000 and tho emergency fea-
ture killed.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 4.—After sev-
eral hours' discussion, which result-
ed in failure of the senate to agree
upon the prohibition enforcement bill
Indian Interpreter Resigns. — After
twenty years' service George Wrat-
ten, interpreter for the Apache In-
dians at Fort Sill, has tendered
his resignation to take effect Febru-
ary 16th.
Supposed Dynamiter Caught.—Five
men heavily armed, suspected of be-
ing implicated in the robbery of the
Soper postoffice on the night of Janu-
ary 28th, were arrested by Sheriff
Meredith and four deputies. They
—ere camping on the Baggy river,
four miles west of Soper. They were
taken to Hugo, the county seat.
Married by Message.
There was an element of romance
in the late Lord Kelvin's second mar-
riage. It was at the Canary islands
that the great scientist met his bride-
to-be, and her apparent Interest In j
scientific pursuits drew them quickly i
together. The scientist went to great'
length to unfold a new system of sig-
naling, and as he said good-by to the
lady on the bridge of his yacht on
leaving, he looked at her and smiling-
ly said: "Do you think you under-
stand the system bow?" "Oh, ye ,"
as amended by the house tho bill was
sent to conference this afternoon,
seven senators — Billups, Thomas,
Sorrells. Graham, H. S. Johnson,
Blair and Agee, comprising the senate
conference committee.
The house was not in session today
but it is understood that it will agree
to a conference. Gov. Haskell is to
bo a party. It la believed that tho
conference will result In the separa-
tion of the dispensary aud enforce-
ment features.
The senate passed a house bill by
Holland authorizing new counties that
are without funds to borrow from the
state school fund upon approved
county bonds bearing 5 per cent in-
terest, to run not exceeding five
years. The loans will be made upon
approval of the governor and shalt
not exceed to any one county an
amount equal to $2 for each inhabit
ant. based upon the last federal cen-
sus.
The Ralnby concurrent resolution,
adopted by the house memorizing
congress to pay the deficit resulting
from the holding of the constitution-
al convention and the subsequent
election was killed in the senate.
Resolutions by Jones have been
adopted by both bouses, thanking
Congressman Hamilton and Senator
Beveridge for their assistance in se-
curing the passage of the statehood
bill.
Guthrie, Oltla., Feb. 5.—A stringent
bill prohibiting bucket shops from do-
ing business in Oklahoma passed the
senate today. The emergency clause,
however, was lost and It will not be-
come effective until three months af-
ter the adjournment of the leglsla
ture, if passed by both houses In this
form. It subjects the man who
gambles In futures in grain to two
years in the penitentiary and makes
the rental of buildings for such pur-
poses a violation of the law. It is
modeled after the Texas law.
Senator Agee opposed the bill, de-
claring that laws should be enacted,
first to strike at the root of the evil,
the boards of trade, which he declar-
ed to be" gambling institutions. Sena-
tor Davis secured an amendment to
the bill which cut out the provision
throwing the burden of proof upon
the defendant.
The house appointed a conference
committee to confer with the senate
conference committee on prohibition
bins composed of Speaker Murray,
Murdock, McCalla, Cope, Tlllotson,
Hudson and Rose.
The house committee favors the
house bill, which makeB it probable
that the agreement reached by the
conference committee may meet op-
position in the senate.
The house bill authorizing the gov-
ernor to use $5,000 of state funds to
audit the accounts of the old terri-
torial administration has passed
both houses. Tho emergency clause
was supported by the Republican
members after they saw that the bill
had parsed.
A bill by Wynne authorizing cities
and towns to levy occupation taxes
met much opposition by members
who declared such a tax to be un-
American and burdensome, and was
recommitted. The senate bill legal-
izing the incorporations of cities and
towns of the east side of the state
wag gent to the governor today.
Representative Bryan of Shawnee,
introduced a resolution in the house
that the temporary capital remain at
Guthrie until changed by a majority
vote of the state. This is taken to
Indicate that Shawnee, which is mak-
ing an active campaign for the capi-
tal, will make no effort to take the
capital away until 1913, the enabling
act limit for such vote.
The Vandeventer bill legalizing the
organization of boards of education In
cities on the Indian Territory side
was passed by tho house and the
Stettmund bill putting into effect the
tax measures, passed just after the
holidays, was passed to third read-
ing.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. C.—Oklahoma
will establish a state refinery and go
into competition with the Standard
Oil Company, If a bill Introduced to-
day by Representative Japp and
backed by the administration be-
comes a law.
The governor, within thirty days
of the passage of the act, Is author-
ized to appoint three freeholders to
select a site for the. refinery, which
in to be under the control of a board
of four directors, of which the gov-
ernment is chairman, to serve four
years and to be appointed by the
governor.
Two hundred and ten thousand
dollars Is to be appropriated for the
establishment of the piant. The
money Is to be raised by issuing
bonds in denominations of $1,000 to
Oklahoma Financier a Suicide.
G. W. Baumbach, prominent in finan-
cial circles at Oklahoma City and
Ardmore, committed suicldo in the
former city by taking chlofal. Matri-
monial troubles is supposed to have
been the cause.
Cordon Gets an Appointment. —
Seth Corrfon of RedlandB has been ap-
pointed supervisor of the land loans
department of the state board of land
commissioners. Cordon is a potato
g-ower, ex-newspaper man an'J was
one of Gov. Haskell's campaign man-
agers.
In These Reckless Days.
"It costs so much more to educate
a boy now than If did when I was a
kid," sighed Mr. Phroogle, reluctant-
ly buying another pair of shoes for
Tommy. "That's the Becond pair he's
had since school opened."
The Eternal Tip.
It Is a8 foolish to attempt to stop
tipping as to oppose tbe ocean tide.
Tips will never be suppressed The
word may be changed, but the thing
will not disappear It Is so human
to b« generous,—Paris Journal.
run ten years at 4 per cent Interest
No provision Is made for the dlsposl-
tlon of the revenues from' the refin-
ery.
A bill by Vandeventer to make No-
vember 10 a legal holiday to cele-
brate the admission of the state <nto
the union involved the house in a de-
bate for several hours this after-
noon. Speaker Murray started the
(llsensslon by moving to recommit
the bill with instructions that Sep-
tember 17, the day the constitution
was adopted, be a legal holiday, in-
stead of November lGth.
"The people of Oklahoma want to
celebrate the date of their own
achievement, and not the act of a
hostile power 1,500 mlleB away,"
Murray declared.
The fight was compromised by
maklug September 17th "Constitu-
tional Liberty" day and November
lGth "Statehood Day," and the bill
was recommitted.
A house bill by Durham to pre-
vent fraud in sales of personal prop-
erty was killed on the third reading,
GO to 22.
The Murdock bill appropriating
$151,000 for the maintenance of an
Insane asylum at Fort Supply passed
the house, SI to 1.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 7.—Gov. Has-
kell's plan for allowing national
banks to take advantage of the Ok-
lahoma depositor's guaranty law, as
Incorporated In the Williams bill,
amending the law passed before
Christmas, was passed by the house
today and placed on first reading in
the senate. It will be pushed in tho
senate as rapidly as possible.
This bill amends the law so as to
eliminate the necessity of national
banks securing the consent of tho
comptroller of the currency, and al-
lows national banks to eome under
the law after the stockholders have
consented and application Is made to
the state banking board.
Senator Redwine secured the ad-
vancement of his bill regulating min-
ing to special orders for Monday. The
senator stated that he had received
letters recently telling of several ser-
ious accidents which were the re-
sult of Inadequate inspection of the
coal mines.
The senate in committee of the
whole passed a bill regulating the
practice of optometry, creating a
board of three examiners of optomet-
ry to be appointed by the governor.
Five bills were passed by the
house in addition to the bunking bill;
by Ellis, Invalidating contracts In
notes providing for attornoys' fees;
by Bryan, for funding the state debt;
by Stettmund, making effective tax
measures heretofore passed; by Van-
deventer, making three new holi-
days; Labor day, September 17, to
be known as Constitutional Liberty
day and November 1C, Statehood
day; by RatlifT, for the transfer of
misdemeanor cases to the proper
courts.
The house took a dislike to three
senate bills and recommitted them.
They were the Brook bill for the or-
ganization of cities of the first class;
the Cunningham bill authorizing
county commissioners to lease county
buildings to the Btate or United
States, and the Blair bill for the or-
ganization of the board of agricul-
ture. The house refused to concur to
the senate amendments to the bill,
making the last federal census the le-
gal basis for salaries, based upon
population, and the senate refused to
recede and appointed a conferei.ce
committee. The house amendment
made the assessors' census of faBt
spring the basis where such a census
had been taken.
The senate today presented Sena-
tor Brook of Muskogee and his bride
with a complete silver set and the
employes presented a cut glass water
set.
Seattle's War on Rats.
"We have begun arresting people In
Seattle who fail to comply with a re-
cently passed ordinance relating to
rats," sold Dr. S. J. Fowler of the state
of Washington. "Just before I left
home two butchers wore haled Into
court for violating the law, In that
they had failed to make their premises
ratproof.
"After the law was passed the police
went about Informing all market men,
grocers and dealers In food products
that they must fortify their houses
against the rodents or else be liable
to arrest. The purpose fas to cut off
tho rats from their sources of sus-
tenance, and thereby make easier their
extermination. The butchers arrested
did not try to make their places of
business secure against the entrance
of the pests, and they will no doubt
have to suffer.
"We have slain tenB of thousands
of the rats Blnce the campaign of de-
struction began and are beginning to
breathe more freely, for at one time It
was the fear of our medical men that
they might spread the bubonic plague
that had appeared In San Francisco
and cause a frightful sacrifice of hu-
man lives.
Capture Whisky at Chickasha. —
Mart Lou than, county sheriff, and his
deputy, Joe Earl, captured three bar-
rels of whisky at the Rock Island de-
pot at Chickasha. The whisky was
consigned to Will Hicks, probably a
fictitious person. The liquor was
taken to the court house where it will
bo disposed of under order of the
county court.
M. K. & T. Station Burns. — The
Missouri, Kansas & Texas freight
and passenger station at Tulsa, to-
gether with four freight cart, and
their content8, were destroyed by
Smoking In Clubs.
The question of smoking was a
burning one In the mid-nineteenth cen-
tury, and It was not until 1845 that
White s gave up a room to the users of
tobacco, says the London Chronicle.
And in all clubs the smokers were
relegated to the most dismal apart-
ments. It was KlngEdward, when prince
of Wales, who broke through the tra-
dition, and when White's refused to
extendi the accommodation for smok-
ers, started the Marlborough, wherein
smoking was permitted in every part
< f th# house but the diningroom.
Observa-
tions in
oklahoma
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE NEW STATE
Vote $150,000 Bortds. — Bonds for
$150,000 for municipal waterworks
were passed in special election at
Hugo. The vote was almost unani-
mous.
Green Bug Is Destroying Crop. —
J. C. Hamilton, ilvlng in the southern
part of Comanche county, states that
the ravages of the green bugs have
practically destroyed the crop of
rye.
A. and M. Professor Quits. — Prof.
John W. Nicholson of the depart-
ment of botany and entomology at
Stillwater, has resigned. The resig-
nation Is to take effect Immediately.
Prof. Nicholson goes to the depart-
ment of agriculture at Washington
to take up work in the dairy di-
vision. It is not exptctod that the
vacancy will be filled before July 1
A. O. U. W. Elect Officers.—At the
annual meeting of the grand lodge
A. O. U. W., of Oklahoma, which was
In session at Enid, the following
officers were elected: S. L. John-
son, Tecumseh, ti. M.; J. M. Wells,
Kingfisher, G. N.; J. A. Darnell,
Chickasha. G. O.; W. It. Welch,
Guthrie, G. C.; J. E. Slater, Stillwa-
ter, G. R.; E. G. Sharpe, Guthrie, G.
M. E. Muskogee, Okla., gets the
next convention.
Enid Gets a "Cleaning."—After the
most thorough moral cleaning ever
held In Enid, $2,300 worth of gamb-
ling paraphernalia was burned In the
public square before an audience of
more than 1,000 persons. Bushels of
poker chipB, cards and dice were
thrown in the flames by Sheriff
Campbell, IiIb deputies and County
Attorney McKeever. A former
gambler broke down and cried when
three poker tables, some crap tables
and a roulette wheel were hurled in-
to the burning mass.
Oil Refinery at Mounds.—It Is now
considered quite probable that the
Standard Oil Company will locate
Its proposed three million dollar eli
refinery at Mounds, because of the
inducement offered by unlimited wa-
ter and gas. The Frisco railroad has
joined In the effort to Becure the lo-
cation of tho refinery at that place
because of the decided advantage It
will offer the road and the matter Is
now considered as practically set-
tled. The refinery when completed
will employ 400 men.
Rlvala the Mammoth Cave. — Prof.
Gould und his class In geology have
finished their explorations of MyBtlc
cave, near Sulphur, and have return-
ed to the State University at Nor-
man. They will prepare a report of
their discoveries and will give it out
to the presB. All the explorers would
give out for publication is that tho
great cavern is much more extensive
and much more a wonder than any
one had ever guessed or dreamed.
On account of their finding the cave
to have many large chambers hereto-
fore unknown their investigations
were not completed. They will re-
turn and continue their explora-
tion.
One Bank Will Close. —The First
State Bank of Beaver City has sent
out notices to all depositors to with-
draw their money, announcing that
the institution will go out of busi-
ness. While the bank is In good con-
dition its officers give as their reason
for retiring the passage by the legis-
lature of the Oklahoma guaranty de-
posit law which assesses state banks
1 per cent of its average daily de-
posits for the purpose of paying de-
positors in fulled banks. The offi-
cers of the bank declare that they do
not care to pay a part of their funds
to assist banks that have conducted
a loose business.
Citizens Demand a Grand Jury. —
Indignation over the hold-up of CO
Bulgarians near Stroud on January
20th has reached a fever heat. A
delegation of 100 Stroud citizens ap-
peared before the district court In
Chandler and demanded that the rob-
bery be Investigated by a grand Jury
and that Cyrus Rapsberry, Joseph
Llllle and G. N. Askln be held pend-
ing this investigation.
To Loan School Money.—Assistant
Attorney General Splllman has ud-
vised the school land commissioners
to loan school money to homestead-
ers to be used In making final proof.
The board has refused such loanB be-
cause the applicants have no ab-
stracts showing title. Tho board Is
advised to have the money held by
the officers of the land offices to be
turned over to the applicant through
a state depository after he has made
final proof and has executed a mort-
gage upon the land. This would al-
low thousands of homesteaders to
make final proof who have not the
money to Becure title from the gov-
ernment.
Hooker Geta Railroad Division. —
Arrangements have been made be
tween the officials of the Ensign road
from Raton, N. M., and citizens of
Hooker for tbe location of a division
point of that road at Hooker. Worl.
on a road bed will begin soon.
Judge Refuses Ball to Slayer. —
Habeas corpus proceedings of James
Stevenson were heard by Judge Mc-
Millan at Norman and ball was re-
fused. Considerable interest at-
taches to this case, StevenBon be-
ing the slayer of Marshal Cathey of
Pauls Valley last November.
Sheriff Gets Bloodhounds. — Eight
blood-hounds have arrived In Sul-
phur from the penitentiary at Ruck,
Texas. They are now the property
of Sheriff Maxwell, who will use
them in running down safe-fciowors
and other evil-doers.
Jury Faila to Agree. — After con-
sidering the evldenct in the case of
S. A. Hambleton, charged with as-
sault on Edith Hunt, a 10-year-old
girl, an entire day, a jury at Lawton
returned and announced a failure to
reach a decision. The case will be
retried.
Cotton Market.
NEW ORLEANS, Fob. 7. — Spot,
steady; low ordinary, 7%c nominal;
ordinary, 8 9-lGc nominal; good ordi-
nary, 10c; low middling, 11c; mid-
dling, 113-4c; good middling,
12 3-lGc; middling fair, 12 11-16':,
fair, 13 3-lGc: salefa, 2,900 bales; re-
ceipts, 11.307 bnleis; stock, 250,406
bales; futures closed: February,
11.40c nominal; March, 1130c; April,
11.20c nominal; Maty, 11.20c; June,
11.08c nominal; July, 11.09c; Octob-
er, 10.15c; December, I0.05j.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.—Steady; mid-
dling, 12c; sales, none; receipts, 204
bales; shipments, 14 bales; stock,
10.400 bales.
GALVESTON, TEX., Feb. 7. —
Steady; 11 3-4c.
Prisoners Die in Flames.—Informa-
tion has been received that Cecil
Whltlock and Robert Nlsbitt, former-
ly of Lexington, were arretted for
shooting wolves within the city limits
of Estanlca, N. M., and placed In Jail.
About 5 o'clock In the morning the
Jail caught fire and both men were
burned to death before they could be
rescued^
Pawnee Girl Missing.—Mystery sur-
rounds the disappearance of Sylvia
Strickland, daughter of E. B. Strick-
land, a farmer living five miles north-
west of Pawnee. She is 15 yearn old
and was last seen December 2!). Af-
ter tho disappearance Mr. Strickland
learned that a letter, addressed to his
daughter, had been advertised by the
Pawnee postoffice. When he called
for it, however, it had been delivered
to some one. The farmer fears that
the daughter may have been kid-
naped.
Bloody Hunting Season. — Twenty-
six dead and fifty Injured Is the
bloody record of the Oklahoma hunt-
ing season extending from October
15th to February 1st. These casual-
ties were all duo to careless handling
of firearms. If this record is equaled
in the other etateB <" brief period of
two and one-half months has cost the
United States 1,11G dead and 2,300
wounded, a casualty list almoBt equal
to the loss In battle of the entire
Spanish-American war.
Says $12,000 Is Gone.—State Bank
Commissioner Smock, who made an
examination Into the affairs of the
Bank of Commerce at Alva, following
the disappearance of Cashier L. A.
Westfali has stated that It win re-
quire about thirty days to determine
the exact loss, but he believed the
bank has been looted to the extent of
$13,000 The books were made to bal-
ance every day and the state bank-
ing department discovered nothing
wrong when the bank wag examined
two weeks ago. <Westfall was seen
at Newton recently and It is believed
that he went from there to Kansas
City and north to Canada.
Fire Visit* Shattuck. — Flje broke
out In Murray's restaurant at Shat-
tuck, on the west side of Main street,
destroying the restaurant, loss $1,500,
no Insurance; Bigelow's pool hall.
$2,000, total loss; Wlcher's variety
store, loss $2,36o, no insurance; J. A.
Gulpel's store, furniture and under-
taking, loss $8,000, partially Insured;
Jacob Weber, loss $20,000, no Insur-
ance; W. W. Farmer Mercantile
Company, loss $30,000, covered partly
by insurance; Davis Drug Company,
$5,000, no insurance; K. A. Peters,
general merchandise, $5,000, no in-
surance; First National Bank, total
loftg of building; Wm. McCrate.
building, $2,000.
Threatens Wife and Child.—Charg-
ed with threatening the life of his
wife and child, G. J. Throckmorton Is
In jail at Glencoe a-.valting tho action
of the district court. He was given
a preliminary hearing and his bond
fixed ut $100, but the prisoner could
not give it.
Make Clean-up in Lawton.—County
Attorney J. A. Fain and the sheriff's
force sprung a sudden surprise on
the violators of the prohibition law
in Lawton when warrants were
served and twenty-cne arrests were
made. Some of the most prominent
business men of the city were among
the number.
Fire Destroys Records. — The fed-
eral court bouse at Atoka was de-
stroyed and all the records of the
past fifteen years were consumed.
All tbe ^evidence against criminals In
three counties In Oklahoma, which
was included in the Twenty-third
recording district, were los:. It is
supposed that the court house was
fired by people Interested In the crim-
inal docket.
Thomas' New Electric Lights. —
Electric lights have been turned on
In Thomas. Waterworka will be In
operation next week. Thomas haa
spent $35,000 for light and water.
Convict's Mother Dying. — Gov.
Haskell paroled for thirty days
Frank A. Perkins, serving two years
In the Kansas penitentiary for bur-
glary, so that be may go to the bed-
side of his dying mother at Varnon.
Tex. Perkins is 22 yearB old and
pleaded guilty In Green county, May
23, 1907, to stealing revolvers from a
hardware stoic at Altus.
Postmaster Is $1,600 Embezzler. —
Thomas W. Mathis, postmaster at
Blue. Okla., a small town In Bryan
county, has been placed In the Fed-
eral Jail at Ardmore c>n charges of
embezzling money order finds
amounting to $1.C00.
Supreme Court Refuses Bond. —
The supreme court haB denied the
writ of habeus corpus asked by John
and William Thomas, who killed Dr.
Beauchamp at Lawton recently. They
applied for the writ In order to force
the lower court to release them 09
bond.
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