Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1910 Page: 3 of 10
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LEGISLATURE IN SESSION
IN OKLAHOMA CITY
8PECIAL SESSION MET IN LEVY i B. Simpson, assistant doorkeeper and
BUILDING AT 12 O'CLOCK
MONDAY
McLaughlin, Lincoln c,'jr.assisinnt
sergeant at urms.
A committee on hov.*e employes con-
sisting of A. P. Crawford, J. W.
a u-.ntant' sergeant at arms were Hit
regaining ofticers selected. R. P.
Wjnn, « f Lexington, was secretary
| oC the caucus, and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Charles Bellamy presided.
Oklahoma City The special session: The hoU8e caucug convened at 3
of the Oklahoma legislature which lias o'clock in the democratic state head
convened here to permanently locate quarters. J. Roy Williams presided,
the capital of the state, met at twelve Upon motion it was voted to select
o'clock Monday, in the Levy building, candidates for the special session only.
The top floors or the bulldln? have Th® flowing officers were chosen.
... , , . . a 1 .> W. B. Anthony, Marlow, speaker;
been furnished with chairs an.l both | Dr N j j0hn80n Hughog county
houses of the legislature will haveL.,,eaker pro (em; j Hoy Williams,
separate auditoriums. Provision has j Lawton, chairman of caucus; R. E.
been made lor spectators and the Jayne, Seminole county, secretary; J.
Chamber of Commerce committee de- j S. Bell. Caddo county, sergeant at
clared Saturday night that there would* | arms and doorkeper or caucus; J
be plenty or room.
A committee consisting or Represen-
tatives C. Jones, Dan Peer.'. C. L.
. . ti « vi 1 1 I OIOIIIlll Ul 1\. I . L1U UIU. «J . V.
I!f,r w'M' w-F- ^p'*. c. COX, G. M.
W. McDuffy and ... a. • P , j,-ul|ei. and jj g Woodson was appoint
pointed by the House caucus .Saturday
arternoon to draw the capital bill
which has been prepared and is in
three parts as rollows:
First, providing for the immediate
location of the state capital ir. Oklaho-
ma City with an emergency clause; the
granting of power and authority to a
state capital commission to be appoint-
ed for the erection of building* and se-
lection of a site and lastly, thi granting
of Eupreme authority to th-3 supreme
court or the state to settle all disputes
arising trom the bill.
The caucuses, wliich were held Sat-
urday, were marked by a large attend-
ance and the election or those legisla-
tors who have been open candidates j B. Stuart or McAleste-. were in confer-
for the positions. The Senate caucus ! once during the afeti rc r>n. From opin-
convened at. lo o'clock Saturday morn-1 ions gathered it is the intention to
ing, but a postponement was taken un | introduce three separate bills into both
til 6:30 p. m., and it was 6 o'clock I houses. One fixing the immediate 1c-
when the meeting adjourned. The | cation of the state capital at Oklahoma
Hohse caucus convened at 3:30 and it ! City and ratirying the vote or the peo-
was three hours later when the busi- pie in the election or June 11; one Riv-
ness had been transacted. | ing a commission or three men to be
Although the caucuses were secret, appointed rull power in the building ot
It has developed tr.ut in voting on a the caP,to> buildings and one giving
appoint
ed. A committee on the capital hill
was selected in C. Jones, Dan Peeiv.
C. L. Baird, O. \V. Cornell. J. H. Raid
win, J. W. McDuffy and W. M. Tabor.
D. B. Ray, candidate for chaplain, was
not presented to the caucus and a se-
lection will probably be made at u lat-
er meeting.
The lobbyists Trom every section or
the state thronged the corridors of the
hotel long before the convening of the
caucuses. Muskogee se. t- its delega-
tion in a special train ar.J Guthrie soon
after followed suit. Everywhere the
conversation hummed over the all im-
portant question of the capital.
Attorneys vv\ A. L^dbetter, and J.
resolution confirming the action of
Governor C. N. Haskell in calling the
special session of the legislature the
house caucus excused Perry Miller, of
Muskogee, and J. H. Maxey, of Shaw-
nee, from voting on the resolution.
Lee Cruce and Governor C. N. Has-
kell were before the senate and house
caucus in the afternoon. Both gave
short talks pertaining to the action of
the men in the coming session and
urging for co-operation in settling the
question. The election of Mr. An-
thony as speaker was unanimous. Bill
Durant will in all probability-be chos
the supreme court of the state power
to settle all questions pertaining to
troubles or disputes which may arise.
Prominent among the figures at the
caucuses was J. P* Crawford, of Ada.
"I see by the papers that they had
me elected a republican," said Mr.
Crawford. "I was elected a democ.v.t
over a republican opponent by a ma-
jority or three to one and am certainly
not a republican member or the legisla-
ture."
Representative Bill Durant Intro-
duced a bill inetaoinshrdluetaointao
duced the bill in the lower house and
Senator J. P. Thompson in the senate.
en speaker of the regular session of Q——' Haskell sUted latirday
the third legislature, which convenes , nJght that the fQrm Qf the bm flnd ^
in January. j introduction would be left entirely to
Although a fight was expectec In the senate and house and that he knv •;
the senate caucus over the selection
of a president, the members settled
the matter thoroughly before going in-
to session. J. Elmer Thomas, E. T.
Sorreils, of Milton, member of the
constitutional convention and chair-
man or the committee on mines and
nothing of the plans or these bodies
TAFT WILL PUSH WORK
Three Month Session of Congress
Convenes Next Week
Washington. D. C.—When con-
manufactories ot the last legislature, prejs meets next week it will hav -
and Senator A. J. Williams, newly ihree months in which to perform
elected senator from Weatherford, whatever may be the demands of a
were candidates. | republican administration. After this
All three had a large following but. the fate of the Taft legislative pro-
Senator Thomas was successful. j gram will depend upon the will of a
By a unanimous vote H. A. Tucker, democratic house and a republican
of Talihina, was chosen chaplain. A 8eir1I^te"
committee on committees, consisting' The success or failure of the ap-
of President Thomas, Lieutenant Gov- Poaching short Session of congress
ernor McAlester, A. F. Vandeventer ® believe 1 to reSt with the character
of Bartlesville, R. E. Echols of Elk °f e*aci! .ye message to be sent
City, J. M. Hatch att of Durant, M. F. j bodies.
Eggerman of Pa. 's Valley, was ap- e ^ v'es are President Taft will
pointed. This committee will meet not i"s.ls uP°ri action within the ap-
Monday afternoon and report to the C*88lon' ^,ut uthat he wil1
session of the caucus. " I ™wL„18 dem°crat,c house and the
republican senate, a year hence a
H. Cook, Enid, reading clerk Ralph ; program for tariff revision which will
Ornbeck, assistant reading clerk; C. j be bolstered up with racts and fig-
B. Easterling, calendar clerk, and J. Ures gathered by the tariff board
FIFTEEN REVOLUTIONISTS KILL
Mexican Government Troops Defeat
Rebels After Five Hours Fight
Chihuahua, Mexico.—In an engage-
ment near this city Sunday, which
lasted from 9 o'clock in the morning
until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 600
federal troops routed a force of 400
Maderistas, driving them Repeatedly
from strong positions and compelling
them to take to the mountains. The
revolutionists lost fifteen killed and
many wounded. There were no fatal-
ities on the federal side, but several
including three officers, were wound-
ed.
General Navarro was in command
of ti 1 federal troops. He left Chi-
huahua at 5 o'clock Sunday morning
at the head of four companies of the
Second battalion and two squads of
cavalry from the Thirteenth refiment.
Near Fresno, twelve miles out, one or
the squads, or cavalry fell behind to
guard the road. They were am-
bushed by the rebels, who opened fire
from hills on both sides of the high-
way
Re. ilution in Turkey
Constantinople.—AVhat may prove a
serius r*.vo;ution has broken out in
Yemen, Kusdie Esdriassi, command-
ing five battalions of Turkish troops
has defied the government, and has
announced that he will obey no orders
"rom the Turkish government. The
latter has demanded that ten bat-
talions of troops be hurried to Yemen
Amnesty Granted Rebel Sailors
Rio Jai.eiro.—The chamber of depu-
ties Thursday night by a vote of 114
to 23, passed a resolution granting am-
nesty to the mutinous sailors on board
the battleships Minas Geraes and Sao
Paulo, the coast defense ships Marshal
Floriano and Marshal Deodora and th?
scout ship Bahia. The senate unani-
mously passed the measure Friday.
Warehouse and Cotton Burn.
Troy, Ala.—The Atlantic Compress
company's warehouse and com'press
were destroyed by fire Thursday. Near-
ly 3,000 bales of cotton were burned.
The Atlantic Coast line and the Cen
tral or Georgia railroad lost several
cars loaded witlK cotton.
i Jjame ®
Dmiratlcm^
by JULIA BOTTOMItr
OME people have the knack
or arranging things. They
take hold or a house or a
room, be it ever so com-
monplace, and transform it
with the materials we all
have at band, Into something beau-
tiful. 1 recall a lady who used to buy
an ugly house, move Into it, and be-
gin making changes outside and In.
In about two years the whole place
was simply transformed and she did
spend the time happily and busily.
But her occupation was gone, so she
would look up another place that
needed regenerating and put that
which she had completed on the mar-
ket. She cashed In her Ideas and
went happily to work again. The lit-
tle city in which she lives Is beautiful
and she is one of he chief educators
of public tastes. She shows others
how to Improve their surroundings.
1 know another woman gifted In
managing interiors. She had little
mone\—less time, *or she was a wage
earner; but she had the faculty of
making things, sweet around her. I
want to tell you of the Christmas dec-
orations which transformed her small
home into a sort of bewitching Christ-
mas bower, not to be forgotten and
yet fashioned from Just the same
things we have at hand. This is her
recipe:
Sometime before Christmas, say six
weeks, buy a roll of dark red crape pa-
per and one of olive green crape pa-
per, also a sheet of yellow tis-
sue paper. Buy Fome cheap bonnet
wire from the mi!liner. Use a real
poinsettla blossom for the pattern or
buy one already made of paper, and
proceed to make up two dozen poinset-
tla blossoms. First cut patterns,
from a piece of wrapping paper, of the
petals of the poinsettla.. Open the
rolls of crape paper and stretch them.
A roll of ten feet will stretch to fitteen
and be improved thereby, for some
purposes. To stretch the paper let.
some one hold one end for you while
you pull the other gradually, or tack
pea. are each covered with 1 little
piece of the same paper, aa tneb
square. This is brought over the
wad and twisted Into a little stem.
Then little wads are fastened to the
end of the pieces of wire by winding
with a coarse thread or a fine spool
wire. The latter Is best. Place two
or three small petals or the red pa-
per around the end or the wire to
which you have Just fastened the lit-
tle yellow wads and fasten them with
thread or wire. Next place larger pet-
als and finally the largest size, fol-
lowing the natural blossom, or the pa
per one bought for a guide, as near-
ly as possible. Wind the wire stem
with green tissue jpaper. Pull the
edges of the petals slightly to give
them a natural look. As the paper
poinsettla blossoms are finished put
ihem in a bat box. In two or three
Bonbon Basket of Paper, Tinsel Star.
Poinsettla Flowers, Paper Bells.
one end to the floor, stretch the pa-
per, and tack the other end, allowing
it to remain for a few hours.
Cut from • the red paper, according
to your wrapping paper patterns, the
petals, which will be in three sizes.
Cut a yard of the green paper into
lengthwise strips, half Inch wide, with
which to wind the wire for stems. A
piece of wire, six or eight inches long,
la cut off. Four little wads of the yel-
low tissue paper the size of a large
The Little Yule Log.
A Festoon of Red Tinsel Beads Strung
on Baby Ribbon.
evenings as many as may be needed,
are easily made.
After the poinsettla is finished make
little baskets of the red paper. For
foundations use little card-board dish-
es such as confectioners use for Char-
lotte Russe, or those which may be
bought for the purpose. Make han-
dles or wire. Cover the basket Inside
and out with the red paper, pasting It
10 place and pulling the edges Into
ruffles. Make as many little baskets
as there are guests-to-be. Cover the
handles by wrapping the wire with
narrow strips ot the red paper. Fin-
ish with little bows made or baby rib-
bon or narrow strips or the paper
either in red or green. Put the little
baskets away with the poinsettla.
Next a fow candle or electric light
shades are to be made. Aa the crape
paper costs no more when fire-proofed,
one should speciry the flreproofed va-
riety when buying it. Gather your
candle sticks together and place a red
candle in each ir red shades are to be
used. Shades may easily be made or
paper dollies In white or paper nap-
kins, with red figures stamped on
them, and white candles are better
with these.
Cut out card-board disks Ave and
one-fourth inches In diameter with
circles cut from the center, two
Inches In diameter. These rest on the
metal shade supports. From the pa-
per napkin or dolly, cut a circle at the
center three and one-half inches In
diameter. With a needle and thread
gather this up to fit the metal support.
Place the doily over the card-board
disk and tie the ends of the thread
firmly about the metal.
The card-board dish may. be coh-
ered with red paper pasted on.
The green crape paper remaining la
used to cover a tew or the cheap
print baskets, such as grapes and oth-
er fruits come in. These are to be
filled with Christmas greens.
As soon as the stores begin showing
them, buy a few strands of red tinsel
balls and two packages (about six
yards) of silver tinsel. Two dozen
or the small paper Christmas bells in
red and two bolts or red baby ribbon.
One small well-shaped Christmas
tree will be needed and then a lot ot
greenery-boughs that have been cut
away In trimming trees, or trees that
do not sell readily because not well
shaped may be bought for a trifle ot
these may be procured In thla coun-
try The sweet amelling kind add •
distinct pleasure to Christmas. Bring
your boughs and tree- home two or
three days before Christmaa. Cut the
branches from the trunks. With small
branches wound to wire with dark
cord or heavy thread, make wreaths
for pinning to the window curtains.
The door frames leading to the liv-
ing room and dining room and ths
window casings are to be covered with
greens.
Saw from the end or one of the tree
trunks—(which will be from 4 to 4
Inches In diameter) a piece 18 inchea
long for a miniature yule log. The red
baby ribbon around each end and su*
pend from the chandelier or in a door-
way. Hang a tiny bowl to represent
an old-time kettle over It. using the
baby ribbon. The short branches to
the chandeliers but do not cover them
too thickly with greens. Take the
remaining greens and place theai In
the fruit baskets which you previously
covered with green paper. Use holly
with them. Set these wherever thay
look prettiest; n the windows, If the
sills are deep enough. Pin a wreath
to the curtains at each window. Now
all your greens are placed and the red
Is to be added. The secret of using
It effectively is to be sparing with 1L
Bring out your poinsettla and place
two or three blossoms in a group
somewhere in the green about each
door and window. Fasten one flower
at the top of each wreath. Festoon
your little red tinsel balls among tha
greens at the top of the door by which
your guests enter the living room. Uaa
the remaining onea In groups of two
on the Christmas tree.
Decorate the Christmaa tree with
tho silver tinsel and in the manner
The Fool's Search
amily shopping.
HEY are all mad;
men, women, chil-
dren. spinsters
and bachelors,
floorwalkers and
clerks, drivers
and delivery boys.
It would seem
there could be no
madder, merrier
time.
The funniest
things happen, if
one only had time
to dwell on them
and laugh over
them, but such
enjoyment is de-
nied In these
days of strain
and struggle.
In a moment of
thoughtless good-
nature we prom-
ised to do the
Among the ttiou
sand and one commissions handed
over In immediate response to the
thoughtless good-nature was the or-
der for purchase of "The Fool's
Calendar." We set forth, a list
three-times-forty long fn our groan-
ing, much-abused hand-bag. and
entered the first shop come upon.
In our sub-consciousness feeling that
we, like the . rest of the jostlers,
fitted In pretty well with the title or
that calendar. Down the aisle came
a rattled-looking, hair-disturbed, gen
erally disturbed gentleman whose
province seemed the directing of fren-
zied fanciers to the respective de-
partments of their fancy, but the
Christmas spirit so possessed him he
was not quite himself, not able to
place hlB "Madames" and "Sirs." As
short-skirted, rose-wreathed hatted, we
steered his way, he glanced with
wrinkled brow and questioning worrv
to what might be our demand. "Do
you sell calendars here?" We asked
In heat of hurry, to which he replied
glibly, "Yes. Sir," and never knew
ha was not using tha usual form of
The- Paper Candla Shada.
to which you have been accustomed,
for the sake of old times.
Place the remaining candles on the
mantels, piano or on the dressing
cases to be used by the guestB.
Your -decorating is done, and when
the lights are lit and begin to glow
through the red shades, you will re-
gard the little scene with a heart
throb of satisfaction. When the guests
arrive all will be put 4n a lively good
humor by the charm of their surround-
ings. Turn the living room and din-
ing room over to them and proceed
to enjoy anything and everything
wjiich you have planned or they sug-
gest.
address to a woman. He led us then
with rapid step to the calendar
square, where spread out and uprose
floor, roof and pillars of calendars,
it would seem every time—chronicler
for every taste. And then feeling very
like a fool ourselves, we asked In a
low voice, "Have you 'The Fool's Cal-
endar?" " "No," says he, "But," and
a gleam of keen Intellect lights his
eye. "We have 'Saints and Sinners."*
Funny enough was the woman en-
countered in mid-afternoon entering
the much-advertised, much-crowded
book-room of a department store in
haste to get at the forty-eight centers
and thlrty-nlners; she was high and
broad and muscular, an Amazon that
need not have put on extra effort to
make her way—but the spirit of
Christmas—the modern—was strong
upon her,—and as we passed her on
the way out Into blessed out-of-doors,
even In our hurry we could not but
notice her wild look, her panting
'>reath, her elbows out on defensive
•ind offensive the way In which she
marched on, unswervingly, unrelent-
ingly, like nn toward tha
bargain books. KATHER1NE POPE.
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Holland, Al. H. Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1910, newspaper, December 1, 1910; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274014/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.