Tyrone Observer. (Tyrone, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1909 Page: 4 of 16
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TYRONE OBSER VER
J. 8. Maynard, Pub.
TYRONE,
OKLA.
After all, the best way to avoid heat
prostrations Is to keep cool.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Eminent actresses still Insist on
losing their diamonds.
Airships and wireless messages are
crowding the atmosphere.
Summer began working at the Job
industriously as soon as it arrived.
Summer-resort mosquitoes have not
heard of the war on them.
Interesting Items Gathered FromaV
Parts of ''-■e World Condensed
Into Smail Space tor the Ben-
efit of Our Readers.
Some of the flies may have romantic
natures, but never mind that.
It appears from official reports that
there is also a made-in-Germany de-
ficit.
Be thankful that radium at present
prices Is not one of the necessities of
life.
Those who cannot swim should avoid
wading In water more than ten feet
deep.
Fish cakes exploded in a New York
store and wrecked the place. They
were probably made from the torpedo
fish.
The best statesmanship these days
Is exerted not toward getting nations
out of debt, but toward getting them
deeper in.
Every man cannot join the uplift by
ridding the world of African lions, but
he can assist at spreading traps for
the feet of the nefarious housefly.
Whatever romance there may be in
international marriages is removed
when the bride's father must settle
the groom's debts.
It is predicted by a Texas man that
the world will come to an end during
the summer. We earnestly advise our
friends who have started gardens to
go on hoeing out the weeds just the
same.
It Is announced that the Greek
drama Is about to become a fad with
American theater-goers. It is Just an
excuse to get women to wear that
style of clothes again.
The yellow peril is a literal and
menacing fact wherever Sunday
schools and well-meaning but worldly-
Ignorant reform movements subject
girls to the sinister association of
Chinamen.
A Russian grand duke has sent an
order for the American invention of
silver forks for corn on the cob and
again does the genius of the western
hemisphere triumph over the nonre-
sourcefulness of effete Europe.
From National Capitol.
The congressional game of base ball
between the Republicans and Demo-
crats of the house of representatives
resulted In a score of 26 to 16 in favor
of the Democrats.
President Taft has set at rest all
speculation as to his position on the
pending tariff bill in a statement is-
sued from the White house in which
he states that the Republican party
Is committed to a downward revision
of the tariff duties and that he person-
ally has promised such revision.
Slight but unmistakable evidence of
friction between the president and
the conferees on the tariff bill have
become apparent.
The house adopted by 317 to 14 the
Joint resolution submitting to the
various legislatures for ratification the
proposed ameudment to the constitu-
tion empowering congress to levy the
income tax.
At a conference at the White house
It was definitely decided that the rate
to be livied under the new corporation
tax shall be reduced from 2 per cent
to 1 per cent.
A man was arrested in New York
for kissing his wife in their own
home while the shades at the window
were up. This is but a step removed
from arresting a man for kissing his
wife on Sunday, which will probably
follow as a blue law not to be over-
looked.
Princeton university rejoices in a
student who has discovered the first
comet seen this year. That young
man probably is destined to promi-
nence in the astronomical world. He
may not have hitched his wagon to a
star, but towed by a comet he may
get there Just the same.
The mosquito is made almost a bird
of prey by the dispatch from Cape
Town which states that an overflow
of the Orange river due to a heavy
rainfall, has bred so many mosquitoes
in the Gordonia northern district that
three-quarters of the population are
affected with malaria, which has been
fatal In many cases. In some parts of
the world the house screen is a sani-
tary necessity, both day and night, but
the housefly is the chief danger in
non-malarious countries.
Domestic Items.
The -National Live Stock exchange
at Denver adopted a resolution pledg-
ing the exchange to work for the re-
peal of the law fixing a tax on oleo-
margarine.
Gov. Stubbs of Kansas has appoint-
ed his private secretary, John S. Daw-
son attorney of the state board of
railroad commissioners to succeed G.
F. Gratten whose term has expired.
The difference between the miners
and mine operators in the Southeast
Kansas district have been settled by
arbitration.
Attorney General Jackson of Kansas
will reopen the ouster suit filed sev-
eral years ago against the Prairie Oil
and Gas company for alleged violation
of the Kansas state laws.
Sixty-two of the 108 persons who
registered as lobbyists at Jefferson
City, Mo., have failed to file statments
of their expenses as required by law
and are subject to a fine of $100 for
ewch day's delay.
The independent oil marketers
have organized for the purpose of
securing more equitable freight rates
than they have been able to secure
personally.
The mayor of Plattonsburg, Mo.,
has made an appeal to the governor
for help for the inhabitants of that
| town who lost all their property in
the flood which invaded every house
| in town.
A majority of the members of the
Kansas legislature have given the
governor assurance that if a special
session is called they will assist in
passing the needed laws to straighten
out the bank guaranty muddle.
The National Council of WTomen at
Seattle elected Mrs. Lillian M. Hollis-
ter of Detroit president and Mrs. Kate
Wallerbarch Barrett of Washington,
D. C., vice-president.
Bishop Bell of Los Angeles in an ad-
dress before the Yosemite Valley
Chautauqua declared that the wealth
of the country was centering in the
hands of a few and the time was com-
ing for a division "even if a revolu-
tion is necessary."
The National Livestock exchange at
Denver elected W. A. Moody of St.
loseph. Mo., president and decided to
Sold the next meeting at St. Louis.
Hishop John Shanley of the Roman
Catholic diocese of North Dakota was
found dead in his bed. He died of
apoplexy.
The Elks parade of all nations at
Los Angeles was participated in by
15,000 persons and 300,000 watched
the procession go past.
The Pacific fleet is being fitted out
for a long cruise to the Philippines
and the Orient consuming about six
months.
Gov. Stubbs of Kansas has resigned
as a member of the Topeka club be-
cause they refused to discontinue the
system of keeping intoxicating liquors
and has instructed the attorney gen-
eral to begin proceedings against the
club.
Two mountain peaks hnve disap-
peared a bay has been transformed
into a warm salt lake and two new
islands have made their appearance
in Bering sea since last year accord-
ing to reports filed with the treasury
department.
It has been decided that three alien-
ists shall be selected by counsel to
determine the present mental condi-
tion of Harry K. Thaw who is making
another attempt to be released from
the asylum at Matteawan.
An assistant Business manager of
the carpenter's union has been held
to the grand jury In Chicago on the
charge of throwing "Bomb 31" which
exploded in the down towa section
June 27.
The Kansas Christian Endeavor
union met this year in WTichita.
J. U. Sammis has been elected
grand exalted ruler of the Elks.
William Beatty of Toledo, O., was
elected imperial prince of the dra-
matic order, Knights of Khorassan.
Toledo was chosen as the convention
city for 1911.
At Osage City eight miles below
Jefferson City, Mo., the river was
within five inches of the 1903 record
with every indication that the high
flood mark would be surpassed.
Detroit has been selected as the
place for Holding the Elks reunion in
1910.
The funeral of Congressman Francis
W. Cushman was held at Tacoma,
Wash., where an address wras made by
Rev. Alfred W. Martin.
A freight train crashed head-on into
a passenger train in Washington, Ind.,
injuring a mail clerk and several pas-
sengers.
The supreme court of Nebraska ha.i
handed down a decision, declaring the
Donohoe non-partisan judiciary elec-
tion low invalid.
The eighth international convention
of the Epworth League of the United
States and Canada has adjourned to
meet again in 1913.
Personal.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified in the
trial at which her husband's sanity is
being tested that Harry K. Thaw on
one of her visits to the asylum where
he was held told her that when re-
leased he would be obliged to kill her.
Dr. Joseph M. Emmert of Atlantic,
la., a member of the Iowa board of
pardons died of stomach trouble.
A son w^as born in France to the
Princess de Sagan, who was Miss
Anna Gould of New York.
Orville Wright made another short
successful flight with his aeroplane at
Fort Myer.
Edward Cornwell a telephone line-
man fell from a pole into the Grand
river at Chilicothe, Mo., and was
drowned.
Foreign Affairs.
Dispatches from South Africa give
details of the killing by Theodore
Roosevelt of a hippopotamus that is
estimated to have weighed three tons.
The Shah of Persia has taken
refuge in the Russian legation and the
crown prince has been proclaimed
shah by the Nationalist.
The proposed flight across the Eng-
lish channel by Herbert Latham a
Frenchman has been abandoned.
An earthquake has occurred in the
province of Elis in southern Greece
destroying several villages and killing
a number of peop'o.
It is believed in Tangier that in-
ternational intervention can not long
be delayed in Morocco where com
plete anarchy prevails.
LEWIS' "SINGLE BINDER."
A hand-made cigar fresh from the
table, wrapped in foil, thus keeping
fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar
made of good tobacco ia the ideal
smoke. Tha old, well cured tobaccos
used are so rich in quality that many
who formerly smoked 10c cigars now
smoke Lewis' Single Binder Straight
5c. Lewis' Single Binder costs the
dealer some more than other 5c cigars,
but the higher price enables this fac-
tory to use extra quality tobacco.
There are many imitations; don't be
fooled. There is no substitute! Tell
the dealer you want a Lewis "Single
Binder."
A Case for Sympathy.
Two matrons of a certain western
city, whose respective matrimonial
ventures did not in the first instance
prove altogether satisfactory, met at
a woman's club one day, when the
first matron remarked:
"Hattle, I met your 'ex,' dear old
Tom, the day before yesterday. We
talked much of you."
"Is that so?" asked the other ma-
tron. "Did he seem sorry when you
told him of my second marriage?"
"Indeed, he did; and said so most
frankly!"
"Honest?"
"Honest! He said he was extremely
sorry, though, he added, he didn't
know the man personally."—Lippin-
cott's Magazine.
Laymen Combat White Plague.
According to recent figures pub-
lished by the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis, nearly 50 per cent, of
those enlisted in the active campaign
against consumption are laymen, and
the percentage of laymen has tripled
in the last four years.
Where Trouble Is Found.
Wigwag—I never knew such a fel-
low as Bjones! He is always looking
for trouble."
Henpeckke—Then, why doesn't he
get married?—Philadelphia Record.
Proved.
Mr. Snapp—Life is full of contradic-
tions.
Mrs. Snapp—And I say it isn't.—
Boston Transcript.
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