Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1910 Page: 2 of 12
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THE GUSHING INDEPENDENT
CUSHING.
News Notes
Epitome of the Most
Important Happening*
at Home and Abroad
Oklahoma Cltjr was Wednesday so-
lected as the 1911 meeting place of the
rrans-Mlstsiesippi Congress.
j It Is estimated that the farmers of
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma are holding at least thirty-
-■=_•? ! five per cent of this year's wheat crop, j
August Robke, Louisville, Ky., bank j
defaulter of 11.400.000, was Tuseday [
sentenced to eighteen years in the ;
penitentiary.
Dr. Cook has prepared a statemnet
concerning his polar explorations. He
says he is not certain whether he
reached the pole or not.
Three large brick buildings in the
business district of Pawhuska, Ok la.,
were destroyed by lire at an early hour
Wednesday morning, the total loss be-
ing about $35,000.
WASHINGTON I The number of unemployed In the
A limited parcels post for rural free 1 United States is estimated at four and
delivery routes will be recommended °ne'hHalf, by the, investigation
by Postmaster General Hitchcock in board of the Bower mission of New
his forthcoming annual report. I Yor *
The initial step in adding to the | A. B. Spear, former cashier of the
navy the four submarine torpedo ODerlln National banh looted by Cas-
boats authorized at the last session of *ie Chadwick of $300,000 or more. died
congress will be taken February 6, suddenly at Detroit, Mich., Monday
1911. I n Bht*
The population of the state of New ! Claude Grahame-Whlte, the English
York is nine million, a hundred and *vitor. Bailed for Great Britain Wed-
thirteen thousand, two hundred and nesday He carried with him the Gor-
seventy-nine, according to statistics don Bennett international speed
made public Wednesday. I tr°P*y' whl(* h« 'won In recent
™ • _ aviation meet held in New York.
The president and Mrs. Taft for-, ^ ^ Ba]e Qf ^ unalJoted ,n.
The coldblooded are
when you hit their pride.
hotheaded
There are imitation*, don't be fooled.
Ask for Lewis' Sin.le Binder cigar foi 5c.
It's no use praying to be delivered
Irona temptation unless you want to
be divorced from sin.
mally presented their daughter, Miss
Helen Taft, to society Thursday at one
of the most brilliant receptions ever
seen at the White House.
Total estimates for the United
States navy for the fiscal year 1911-
dian land of Oklahoma was held at
Wewoka Monday when fifty-one tracts
were sold. The price paid ranged
from |3 to $47 per acre.
Frank Manning, of Oklahoma City,
who was out on bond awaiting a dec!
12. to be submitted to congress as a B,on from the Bupreme court Qn a mur.
basis for the appropriations for that der commltted by hlm ,n oklahoma
year will be $5,000,000 less than the CUy oyer year ago shQt and kUled &
current fiscal year. traveling salesman at Pawnee, Okla.,
The population of the United States Saturday.
and its possessions, unofficially eBtl- Arlzona.s constitution will be the
mated by the census bureau to be briefe8t wrltten ,n recent year8 by
100,000,000, may fall 5,000,000 short of
these figures, according to careful com-
putations made by Census Director
Durand.
A limited parcels post is to be rec-
ommended by Postmaster General
Hitchcock In his forthcoming annual
any Btate. According to estimates of
statistically-inclined members, it will
contain less than 16,000 words, as
against 25,000 for New Mexico's con-
stitution, and and 104,000 in that of
Oklahoma.
Because the Western Union Tele-
If you wioh beautiful, clear, white clothe*
use' Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 ox.
pack, v, 5 cent*.
It Is no use sighing to be a sun if
you are not burning the little lamp
you have.
Thousanda of country people know that
in time of eudden misinp or accident
Ilamiins Wizard Oil i the best substi-
tute for the family doctor. That is why
it ia so often found upon the shelf.
Anyway Eve never had occasion to
marry Adam by askirg two or three
times a day if she was the only wom-
an he ever loved.
report, and he believes it will lead graph company failed to transmit a
to the adoption of a general parcels message from Detroit, Mich., to Kan-
post system throughout the United Eas City, Mo., after accepting it, the
States as well as on the rural free supreme court of the United States
delivery routes. Monday held the telegraph company
Sidney F. Marshall, 68 years of liable for more than $300 damages,
age, who talked with John Wilkes a bill In equity to dissolve the
Booth a few minutes before the actor American Sugar Refining company,
entered Ford's theatre and assassin- known as the sugar trust, because It
ated President Lincoln, died of heart |a a monopoly, conducted In restraint
failure at his home in Washington of trade, was filed Monday in the
Sunday. i United Stat&s circuit court for the
I southern district of New York.
DOMESTIC I Forty of the leading steel producers
One man was scalded to death and and their representatives, who stand
two others seriously burned when the 'or approximately 95 per cent of the
boiler in a factory at Decatur, 111.,
exploded Friday.
Michael Cudahy, founder and pres-
ident of the Cudahy packing com-
pany, died at Chicago Sunday night
of pueumonia.
The population of Oklahoma is 1 r
657.155. according to the statistics of
the thirteenth census made public by
Directc- Durand. This Is an increase
of 17.2 per cent over 1,414,177 in 1907.
The cotton crop of 1910, according
to statistics given out 'n a census bu-
reau report made public at Washing-
ton, Monday, amounts to 8,764,153
ba cs, an Increase of almost 6,000
bales over last year. The state of
Texas lends with 2,636,914 bales, Geor-
gia is second and Oklahoma fourth
with 727,237 bales.
The presentation of evidence In the
Klckapoo extradition case has closed
production of the country, met In New
York Thursday and decided It was
for the good of the Industry to keep
steel quotations where they are.
In a writ of mandamus handed
down by the supreme court of Okla-
homa Tuesday morning the state
banking board was directed to turn
over to State Examiner and Inspector
Tayl r all records in the failure of
the Columbia Bank & Trust Co., of
Oklahoma City, the national banks at
Bartlesville and Tulsa and the state
bank at Kiefer.
The special session of the Oklahoma
legislature called by Governor Has-
kell met in Oklahoma City at noon
Monday, Nov. 28. The purpose of the
extra session is to permanently locate
the state capital. Three bills, all
having a bearing on the question, will
be passed. J. Elmer Thomas, of Law-
Mrs. Farmer—Say, did you say you
wasn't goin' to do no work for dat
dinner?
Boston Billings—Ah! ma'am, I as-
sure you the double negative is a
solecism I've never been guilty of.
To Put It Mildly.
"They say he has a swelled head."
"I must admit that he seems to ap-
preciate himself very much."
16 YEARS OF SKIN DISEASE
"For sixteen long ycarB I have been
suffering with a bad case of skin dis-
ease. While a child thare broke out a
red sore on the legs just In back of
my knees. It waxed from bad to worse,
and at last I saw I had a bad skin
disease. I tried many widely known
doctors In different cities but to no
satisfactory result. The plague both-
ered me more in warm weather than
in.winter and being on my leg joints
It made it impossible for me to walk,
and I was forced to stay indoors in the
warmest weather. My hopes of recov-
ery were by this time spent. Sleepless
nights and restless days made life an
unbearable burden. At last I was
advised to try the Cuticura remedies
[Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills]
and I did not need more than a trial
to convince me that I was on the road
of success this time. I bought two
6ets of the Cuticura Remedies and
after these were gone I* was a differ-
ent man entirely. I am now the hap-
piest man that there is at least one
true care for skin diseases. Leonard
A. Hawtof, 11 Nostrand Ave., Brook-
lyn, N .Y., July 30 and Aug. 8, '09."
INNOCENT ON ONE COUNT.
ton, was elected president pro tem of
at Uuilirie. Okla. Attorneys for the the seaate, and W. B. Anthony, of
defendants and government will not Marlow, was named speaker of the
make argument until the evidence has house for the short session.
ail been transcribed. >
Between fifteen and sixteen thous- FOREIGN
and do.lars contained in a messenger what may prove a serious revolu-
box belonging to the \\ elis-F argo ex- tjon jjas ouj jn Yemen, Turkey,
press company, was stolen from the Xasdie Esdriassi, commanding five
Midland Valley station platform at battalions of Turkish troops, has de-
Muskt gee, Okla., early Saturday morn- fled tbe government and has an-
nounced that he will obey no orders
Twenty-fcur are dead, most of from th« Turkish government.
them girls, thirty seriously injured by
jvmping from third and fourth story
M. Cochery, minister of finance of
windows as a result of a box factory *T&nce' a r'an fo,r match
fire at Newark, N. J„ Saturday. The
fire started from a cigarette thrown in
waste paper.
Almost one year since the day of the
crime, Joseph Wending, charged with
the murder of Alma Kellner, who was
boxes artistic souvenirs. His Idea Is
to have on each box a miniature re-
production of some of the famous art
treasures in the Louvre an din the
National Gallery, London.
Detachments of United States
murdered in St. John's Catholic troops and constabulary are opwatlng
church at Louisville, Ky. Dec. 18, 1909, against the hostile Manobps in Davao,
was placed on trial Monday. Mindanao island. One column has
killed seveaal of the tribesmen, in-
Memphis, Tenn., has a population of eluding two who were implicated in
131,105, according to the statistics of the murder of Earl Gerr, a planter
the thirteenth census ma^e public
Thursday night. This is an increase
of 28,785, or 28.1 per cent over 102.320
in 1900.
A stock train was wrecked at Crow-
from Seattle, Wash.
John A. Cook, the American railroad
conductor, whose case attracted so
much attention a year ago, has been
acquitted by Judge Ramirez at Guad-
der. Okla., Thursday and 150 cattle * ™bb.,D*
jvere killed. The entire train was
ditched.
Oklahoma's total taxable wealth for
1910 is $916,343,830, an increase of
$48,343,830 over the year of 1909.
San Franchico has raised $17,500,000
for the Panama-Pacific exposition ii
1915. It will ask no appropriation
irom the national government
freight cars on the Mexican Central
railway.
Chief Inspector Dew, of Scotland
Yard, whose name has been before the
public so prominently in connection
with the Crippen trial and many other
Important cases, has tendered his res
tgnation, and will retire in about u
month's time, after over twenty-eight
venrs sorvice In the force.
Easily Prepared and Inexpensive and
Really Does the Work, Says
Noted Authority.
Thousands of men and women who
have felt the sting and torture of that
dread disease, Rheumatism, which is
no respecter of age, persons, sex,
color or rank, will be interested to
know that it is one of the easiest af-
flictions of the human body to con-
quer. Medical science has proven it
not a distinct disease in itself, but a
symptom caused by inactive kidneys.
Rheumatism is uric acid in the b'.ood
and other waste products of the sys-
tem which should be filtered and
strained out In the form of urine. Tho
function of the kidneys is to sift these
poisons and acids out and keep the
blood clean and pure. The kidneys
however, are of sponge-like substance,
the holes or pores of which will some-
times, either from overwork, cold or
exposure become clogged, and failing
In their function of eliminating these
poisons from the blood, they remain
In the veins, decompose and settlirg
about the JointB and muscles, cause
the untold suffering and pain of rheu-
matism and backache, often producing
complications of b'ndder end urinary
disease, and general weakness.
The following simple prescription is
said to relieve the worst cases of
rheumatism because of Its direct ac-
tion upon the blood and kidneys, re-
lieving, too, the most severe forms of
bladder and urinary troub'es: Fluid
Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce;
Compound Kargon, one ouncc; Ccra-
pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Mix by shaking well In a bot-
tle and take In teaspoonful dosos after
each meal and At'bedtime. The In-
gredients can be had from any pre-
scription pharmacy, and are absolutely
harmless and safe to use at any time.
NEW ERA III RH
ACCURACY AND PUBLICITY
PROVES TO BE A POPULAR
MOTTO.
Prompt Response to Bold Move ot
President Vail—"Accuracy" Reduc
ed Western Union's 8urplus $13,
CCO.CCO.—"Publicity" Restored Con
fidence and Its Stock Went Up.
Are the great financiers of the
country beginning to see a new light":
Time was, until recently in fact, When
the men at the head of the big cor
porations "kept their business to
themselves," as far as the law would
allow. Capable men at the head of the
big concerns, long realized the weak-
ness of their position, but what was
needed obviously, as in all great re-
forms, was an unmistakable occasion
and a courageous man. The occasion
arose in the purchase of the Western
Union Telegraph company by . the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, and the man appeared in
Theodore N. Vail, President of the
purchasing corporation.
It was last December when pub'ic
announcement was made that the
Gould holdings of Western Union had
been taken over by the Telephone
company.
On account of the high esteem in
which the management of the tele-
phone company is so generally held,
great things were predicted as a re-
sult of the absorption of Western
Union. By the press of the country
the "deal" was most favorably com-
mented on. It being widely pointed
out that under the direction of such
men as Theodore N. Vail and his as-
sociates, the telegraph company was
bound soon to work Itself into a po-
sition where It could offer the public
far more efficient service than it had
ever before been able to offer.
But a very few months had elapsed
when It became asparent to the new
management that a modern and up-
to-date appraisal of the company's
assets would make possible a far
greater degree of efficiency of oper-
ation. "Here," they said to them-
selves, "we've bought control of this
property and we know it's immensely
valuable, but we don't know just
how valuable. These appraisals of
real estate and securities owned were
made a long time ago. If we have
a complete inventory made of every
thing we've got we can announce tho
facts to the public, start a new set of
books, and begin our responsibility
to stockholders right there."
How Inventory Was Taken.
The most expert accountants and
appraisers to be had were put at the
task. Their labors lasted over eight
months. Their report and its publi-
cation by the company marks an ep-
och in finance.
It began by recommending an ad-
justment of the difference between
the appraised and book values by a
charge of $5,595,089 against
LETTER FROM
JARS. COOK
Entirely Recovered From Illneu,
And Now Growing Stronger
Each Day.
Care Springs, Ga.—"I sleep better
than ever," writes Mrs. Kate Cook
from this place, "and get stronger
every day. Before I tried Cardui, the
woman's tonic, I was very sick, and
the doctor's medicine did me no good.
I can never speak too highly of your
medicine."
Sleeplessness and nervousness,
from which many women suffer, often
make living unendurable.
If jou are ailing, no need to stay
so. Most of the ailments peculiar to
women are preventable, curable.
Others have obtained relief by tak-
ing Cardui. Why not you?
Cardui is a popular medicine with
women. It is popular because It has
been found to banish nervousness, re-
lieve pain, bring roses back to pale
cheeks, and strength to weak bodies.
Cardui acts specifically on the cause
of most female ills, and thus it is a
medicine especially useful in women's
ailments, in the treatment of which it
has a record of over 60 years of suc-
cess.
At least it can do you no harm, to
give Cardui a fair trial.
It may be the very medicine you
need.
Get a bottle today.
N. B.— Writt f: Ladles' Advisory Dept.,
Chattanooga Medicine' Co.. Chattanooga.
Tenn., for Special Instruction!, and 64-
page book, "Home Treatment for Wom-
en," sent in plain wrapper on request.
NOT PAGE FROM A ROMANCE
Conversation, However, Reads a
Whole Lot More Like a Scene
In Real Life.
"And so your father refuses to con-
sent to our union?"
"He does, Rodulphus."
The sad youth swallowed a sob.
"Is there nothing left for us, then,
but an elopement?" said he.
i "Nothing."
I "Do you think, Clementine, that you
could abandon this luxurious home,
forget all the enjoyments of great
wealth, banish yourself forever from
your devoted parents' hearts, and go
_west with a poor young man to enter
la home of lifeless poverty and self-
denial?"
"1 could, Rodolphus."
The sad youth rose wearily and
reach for his hat.
"Then," said he, "you are far from
being the practical girl I have all
along taken you to be."
And with one last look around on
_ the sumptuousness that some day he
sur-*had hoped to share, he sobbed and
MIX THIS FOR RHEUMATISM
plus. Book values of securities held
were reduced to market values, bad
and doubtful accounts were "charg-
ed off," an allowance of $2,000,000
was made for "depreciation," another
of $500,000 for "reserve," and so on,
until the old surplus of $18,867,000
came down to $5,136,000.
It required courage, the publication
of this statement to stockho'ders, say-
ing in effect: "The property of
your company has been reval-
ued: the surplus Isn't nineteen mill-
ions, as you have been led to be-
lieve, but five millions," but it was
the truth, and President Vail did not
flinch. "Accuracy and publicity," he
declared, was essential. "The stock-
holder has a right to know. The
shares of this company are scatter-
ed from one end of the Union to the
other. This Is more than a private
corporation. It is a great national
enterprise. The public Is entitled to
the facts."
The report was ordered published
forthwith. Financiers of the old
school and speculators generally were
aghast. What would happen? Would
the bottom drop out of Western
Union when the shareholders realiz-
ed that their propetry was worth
$13,000,000 less than they had sup-
posed? But the amazing thing
happened. The stock went up and
stayed up. The public had respond-
ed to this remarkable display of
frankness and confidence; to the new
motto, "Accuracy and Publicity."
The full significance of the action
said farewell.—Browning's Magazine.
Wanted a Change.
Milkman—I see by the papers that
a Frenchman has invented a new way
of transforming water into milk.
Customer—Well, I hope you'll adopt
it. I'm getting awfully tired of the
old way.
THEY GROW
Good Humor and Cheerfulness From
Right Food and Drink.
Anything that interferes with good
health is apt to keep cheerfulness and
good humor in the background. A
Washington lady found that letting
coffee alone made things bright for
her. She writes:
"Four years ago I was practically
given up by my doctor and was not ex-
pected to live long. My nervous sys-
tem was in a bad condition.
"But I was young and did not want
to die so I began to look about for the
cause of my chronic trouble. I used to
have nervous spells which would ex-
haust me and after each spell it would
take me days before I could sit up in a
chair.
"I became convinced my trouble was
caused by coffee. I decided to stop it
and bought some Postum.
"The first cup, which I made accord-
ing to directions, had a soothing ef-
fect on my nerves and I liked the taste.
For a time I nearly lived on Postum
and ate little food besides. I am today
of the new board Is stated concisely a Wealthy woman.
by Harper's Weekly In these words: "**" *—"**
Is this policy of publicity and of
open handed dealing with sharehold-
ers and public the forerunner of a
similar movement on the part of oth-
er big corporations? Certainly it is
to be hoped that it is. In the case
of these big companies, dependent
upon public patronage and doing busi-
ness under public franchise, can
there be any question of the right of
the people to know?
"That right is being recognized.
It Is recognized now In this epochal
act on the part of the telephone and
telegraph Interests. It is the dawn
of a new era In corporation finance.'
My family and relatives wonder if
I am the same person I was four years
ago, when I could do no work on ac-
count of nervousness. Now I am do-
ing my own housework, take care of
two babies—one twenty the other two
months old. I am so busy that I hard-
ly get time to write a letter, yet I do
it all with the cheerfulness and good
humor that comes from enjoying good
health.
"I tell my friends it is to Postum I
owe my life today."
Read "The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter t A aew
one appear* from time to tine. They
are arnulae, true, aad fall of taau
tatereat.
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