Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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NEWS NOTES I sr.
Palua of Okim.
WAIHUMTON.
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flw tral Heary C. Worthiagtoa. tor
Mflr Master of tbe Calltoraia k«i
■•tap*, fchpn la caairtu from Nt-
«U, dlpisaaat aad Jartat. died la
WwXmw Thursday. He was Si
tk* ti* na*tT of wnor tsart lav,
has kroacki Mil ia tM «>rrai court
u mt the lav
United SU3M ftiuirt Attaraey
Jobs EaJrj kas fifed *ai: ea behalf j
a? the (ortfiaw la tkt Taitti States
district court te cased the aaxaraZtaa-
Oklahoma Outlines 1 S
A fbmily to mis eity haa jast eele-
bratod tbe twentieth aaalfrnurjr of
maea of tba cook la to their
aervles. Truth is itraag^r than fie-
tloa.—New York Herald.
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WU* Paaple a# Aa fU. Stale ara Dotaf TaU
Bartlesville.—Howard Sharp, a far
mer aew« paper editor aad lately sec-
retary of the BsrtfesvUle commercial
dah, haa heea selected ta sacceed
If. T. Kirk aa assiscaat poet Master.
his dutfes Aa-
Tho secretary of the treasury has
forwarded a check for 9*S.<** to UaSt
ed States District Attorney Gregg of
the Eastern district of OkUboma to !
pay Witch H. Jordan for the sit* of
the pabUe balldiag to be erected at
AKbeogb the Xatioaal
r a a«at s: Chandler
ty-Sve gaarda
compaafes. vbo bad «tul)M at tba
preliminaries dariag the eacasapneat.
are vtilJ shootlag on the rllfe range.
Tweaty-gve Oklahoma City labor
uaioBists sre expected to attend the
State Federation meeting at Tulsa,
August 2.
Ex-President Ckarlea N. Eliot, of
n^e Sharp vlll eater
nags ia Oil Cempaay.
Tba propertiea of tho Creek
ly la the Gleaa pool. coa-
the Grayaoa aad Graves
ragatlag ttt acraa vita MO
*errela daily peodadtoa. bas ban par-
Gas
Standard.
(wj _ ebasad by the Prairie Ott sad
dler Is over. Men- «W*y. sabrtdlary ta tba Sua
from the varioas e®Ml4ermtl0" iXtSjOOO.
Hides vlll be pot oa the free list
if kaots aad shoes sad other mano-
factsras of leather are red seed be-
lov the ratea fixed by tbe koose MIL
DOMESTIC.
W. P. Jemison of Tupelo bas dis-
covered a Tela of coal ti Inches thick
oa- kls fsrm at a depth of 2S faet. in
dlcatloas are good that tbls communi
if May develop Into one of tbe best
coal regions of the state.
"Tbe Kate Bsrnsrd school" la tbe
same of tbe latest addition to Te-
cumseb's educational edifices. Tbe
building |a aov In process of comple-
tion aad vlll bs dedicated by Miss
Barnard, state eommlsaloner of cbarl-
ties and corrections September 8.
Hollis. Hsrmoa county, bss Sled Its
petition with tbe governor to be placed
on tba ticket for the county seat dec
tion In that county. Npir
Colonel A.. P. Watson, oof the state
corporation commission, vas a visitor
In Oklahomn City Friday. He had
bean to Hugo, vbere be located a
railroad depot, aad to Tishomingo,
where tbe commission Investigated tbe
Ice situation.
Tbe Kelly Brotbera' elevator st
Lambert, Okla.. burned recently. Tbe
elevstor contained 4,000 bi^'bets of
vbeat.
Flnnl proof of tba corporstion com-
mlaaion's first msp of Oklahoms,
drawn by tba engineering department
of that body, bas been sp proved and
press copies are expected In a few
days.
Tba ualveralty of Lelpalc, Germany,
has conferred tbe degree of doctor of
lavs on Roosevelt. He is the only
foreigner thua honored.
Governor Haakell bad received f*om
Secretary of State P. C. Knox a certi-
fied copy of the joint resolution pawn-
ed by congress proposing sn amend-
ment to tbe constitution legalizing
tbe collection of sn Income tsx.
Tbe MCssourt, Kansas snd Texas
railroad Is preparing to put 4n force
a nev time table during the early
part of September, which will give
tbe road one of tbe flneat Kansas City
Oklahoma City trains opersting be-
tween the two cities.
A report to the vorld's conference
of Young Man's Christian association*
being held In Germany shows thst in
tba United States are 1,939 organisa-
tions, 449,000 members, snd 950,000,-
000 of Y. M. C. A. property.
Tbe building committee of the~PreT
byterlan college for girls, to be built
in Durant, has sdvertlsed for bid* for
the erection of the main building,
which vlll cost about 980,000.
The superlntendency of Chicago's
great school system has fallen into
the hands of a woman for the first
time In Its history. Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young, principal of the Chicago nor-
mal school since 1905 and an educa-
tor of national reputation, was chosen
to head tbe public schools.
The fact thst Attorney General
West has been Investigating the mat-
ter has occasioned much discussion
as to a probable suit to force Lieutenant
Governor G. W. Bellamy to return to
the state the salary which he has
been dravlng from the bank guaranty
fund since the law became effective.
So conjected bas become passenger
traffic on tbe Santa Fe railroad that
two new trains have Just been In-
stalled.
Virgil BJgers, who was recently sus-
pended as 'county attorney of Potta-
wotamie county, denies the report
that he has refused to resign the of-
Lags Off; Flags Train.
Goodwin.—After both bis legs bad
bean severed by a train six miles of
Araett. and after lying belplaas for
four hours thereafter. Thomas Bald-
win retained consciousness aad with
his hat flagged tbe next train that
He was picked up by the
COTTON MARKET.
New Yecfc.
New York. July 20 —Tba cottoa
market opened firm at aa advaaea of
7 ta 11 poiats and sold If to It potato
net klgher during tba early tradlag an
active general baying, promoted by
growing -IsllspMnay of a buRlsh An-
■at coodttioa report. December
atracto sold ap 1219c, or «t points
above the low level of laat weak Un-
favorable crop accouata from tba Oar-
eltaas, Georgia, dlakams sad Mlsals
sfppt. together with reports of a bat-
tar lagairy from aallla vara balllab
factors, vhile tbe advance vas check-
ed by heavy reallxlag
Tis the Meed That Counts.
For the dlsstlsfied man, all life la
unsatisfsetory; aad for the oae that is
ccatented, tke vorld Is full of com-
forts. And, for the cbecrfal man,
even tbe easterly wind Is musical ia
tbe viadov ere vices.—Mount ford
°f ,r*la ***** to Higgins, but
Mssaacboaetts. He is beiag urged fewhoaratater
make tke race, and vlll po-ib^ do^^ i norajater.
Taffs Choice Spot.
Beak Commissioner A. M. Young Lavton -One of the pet schemes of
°.f •'! ^ i Taft is tbe enlargement of
deposits from tbe First National bank ' the mill Ury pot at Fart Sill He
of Ada. alleging that tbe bank we, j I^ s spSJ^slt to\E poM vWto
paying a higher rate of iaterest on de> secretary of war and pronounced con-
posits tbaa la permitted under tbe
Oklakoma banking laws.
Robert Rltcbel of Halleyvllla was
killed by a freight train aear Marlow
Thursday while attempting to board
it on bis return home from Marlow.
Oscsr Ayres. former enndidate for
rsilrosd commissioner in Ksnsss, snd
who Is promoter of tbe interurbss
dltions excellent It Is expected that
his visit to tbe west this fall will
call him to Fort Sill to see the prog-
ress that la being made la
largement of tbe post.
rosd between Ardmorg and Chickasha
announces that Clark ft Co. of Phila-
delphia will take the matter into their
bands and furnish funds to build the
road.
Last week ended tbe nnnual Indian
reunion held nt Wyandotte under tbe
auspices of tbe eight small tribes of
tbe Quapaw agency.
Etate Labor Commissioner Chsrlea
Dougherty was In McAlester last
week looking nfter violations of tk«
eight hour law.
Crops Crriooklng splendid in Cleve-
Isnd county. Recent rains have en-
sured a large corn crop and material-
ly helped cotton.
Reports from Cement nny that tbe
melon crop there Is larger than
year and that there Is no room for
peopls to feel blue over tbe crop sit
ustlon.
Petitions for tbe propoeed constitu-
tions! smeudment advocated by tbe
Bona of Washington providing a high
licenee end local optloo system for the
sale of liquor are being printed
A Washington dispatch snnouncee
announces promotions snd Increases
In sslsry for prsctlcslly nil the force
employed in the Oklahomn City post
office.
Under orders issued Monday, a de-
tachment of four members of tbe na-
tional guard will be sent with two
Colt's automatic machine guns to Mc
Alester, where they will be on duty
a* guards at the state penitentiary.
Fire starting in a compartment
crude and refined oil and gasoline
car, Monday caused the destruction
of six cars of oil In the Rock Island
yards st Sbswnee, Okla
State Bank Commissioner A. M
Young hss announced tbnt be hns be-
gun an examlnntlon of every building
and loan association !n the state, both
foreign and domestie.
Counterfeiters Contoee.
Mill Creek—Link Armstrong snd
Frank Coffey, charged with making
and pnasing counterfeit coins, were
tarreMed Hare aad eack made a con-
fession of bis guilt. When nrrested
tbe men were in Armstrong's ldtcken
melting metal and moulding their
spurious coins. Coffey wns recently
discharged from the federal peniten-
tisry nt Lenvenwortb. Knn.
FOREIGN.
News of the selsure of the Jspanese
sealing cruiser Tokiwa Maru by a
Russian cruiser off Cooper Island,
while engaged in a raid on the Russian
seal rookeries In the North Pacific. >«s
been received.
The itsllsn press has started a oam
palgn against the Germanizatlon of tbe
beautiful Lake of Gerds. the large and
Itlallsn portion of which bas to A1
practical purposes become a German
colony.
The Siamese government will spend
about 91.600,000 for a new waterworks
system for the city of Bangkok.
The ports of Rosarlo, Argentina, haa
a grain elevntor capable of loading one
thounsands tons an hour. Ita cast was
91.000,000.
Water obtained from Russion naptha
wells Is to be exploited for the iodine
bromine and salt which it contains.
Advices from Madrid say that the
demonetrations against the war in Mo-
rocdd'tfofttlnuee to grow more serious.
King Alfonso visited the barracks to
say farewell to the soldiers bound for
Morocco.
Fatal Boundary Quarrel.
Gage.—News reached here of a
shooting scrape In which tvo lives
were lost and another person is near
tbe point of death. Tbos. Morgan, bis
son Henry and E. F. Povers, livng
eight and one-half miles northvest
of here, were lavolvad. There bas
been some dispute over the boundary
line dividing their farms. Mr. Morgan
killed Instantly, having been ahot
tbe lntestiaea by Ppftrers.
sos lltid a few boors, a shot bav
Ing penetrated his back. It Is not
known whether Mr. Povers' vounds
vill p.ove fatal. About tventy shota
vere exchanged.
St. Louis. July M.—Higher; mid-
dling. I2%c; sales. 28 bales; receipts.
20 bales; shipments, 1,178 bales;
stock. 9.230 bales.
Qalvsstan.
Galveston, Tex.. July SO.—Steady,
12c.
New Orleans.
Nev Orleans. Jnly 90.—Spot steady;
%c higher. Middling. 12 l-l«c. Sales
on the spot. 400 bales; to arrive. 400
bales. July, 12.27c; August 12.16c;
September. 12.29c; October, 12.25c;
November, 12.25c; December, 12.20c;
January, 12.20c; March. 12.42c.
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Wheat Yield Good.
Erick—In spite of tbe continued
drouth In this part of tbe atate. the
yield of wheat continues to hold oat
good, althogb the corn crop vUl be
materially shortened. Cotton promises
a good yield.
One a# the Few.
There is a man la oar tovn, and
be Is woodrous vise; vhen he vriteth
to the edNor be dotidth all his i s.
And when tbe i's are dotted, so prove
that he's tbe cheese, bo punctuates
each paragraph aad croasath sH Ma
t'a. Upon one aide alone ha vrites.
and never rolls the leaves; so from
tho stern blue pencil man n sadie ha
oft receives. And vhen a qassf Inn
ha doth ask (he's truly a vise gay),
a two-cent stamp be never fsls to in-
close for a reply.
Besrd Elsction.
Guthrie.—Tbe atate board of agri-
culture and 70 delegfttoe fiom tbe 7%
counties vlll meet at Stillvater Ao-
gust 10 to elect tvo nev members of
tbe state board of agriculture, and
fill the vacansy left vhen Tbad Rice
of tbe Fifth district moved to Colo-
rsdo. aad to take ap other vork of
tbe annual farmers state institute.
Recellec«ens of Tour.
In a London dravlng room recently
tbe hostess said to a comfortable look,
ing isdy .the widow of a wealthy Mid-
land manufacturer, who had been tour-
ing during tbe winter In the sunny
south: "Of course, you vent to Rome,
desr Mrs. Dssh?" "Rome!rspUed the
widow vaguely and meditatively, "did
ve go to Rome, BtbdT"—to her
daughter this. "Yes, ma, yau kaov
va did, that big place vhere I bought
those lovely silk stockings."
BONOg ARE BEING SIGNED.
Shattuck Will Havs Waterworks and
Electric Lights Sean.
Shattuck—The bonds voted for
vatervorks and electric lights for
Shattuck are being signed tbls week.
Aa soon as they are propsrtly record-
ed the money for the work will be
available.
BURGLAR WORTH IBOJOO.
Arapaho.—At laat tbe law has had
Ita day in court here and Benjamin
Hughes, reputed to be worth 950.000,
was convicted of burglary and given
a penitentiary sentence of four years
Hughes, It Is claimed, belonged to a
band that terrorised Western Okla-
homa for many years. The bsnd was
broken up, however, and Hughes was
tbe only one who escaped immediate
conviction for the crimes of the gsng.
Tom Hsrgrsves, a member, was con
victed of receiving stolen property of
the gsng. snd got two yearn. Charley
White, another, waa found guiUy- of "
Acson*-aad will spend twenty years
behind prison walls. The gang was
Identified in Its early operatlona with
the notorious Bert Casey gang, which
for ysars made Western Oklahoma
dangerous to live in.
Melon Fsy for Wedding.
Wynnewood.—Street Commlsslonei
C. W. Cook, a retired Methodist min-
ister. claims to have received the
most novel fee in the atate this year.
It waa a big watermelon and vas pre-
sented by Thomas Dubue, a French-
man vbo married Mra. Mary Watts
and who claimed tfiift money waa very
scarce owing to his crop fsilure last
year.
First Train to Allan.
Holdenville.—The first train
the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf ran
aa far as Allen In the east of Pontotoc
county. The officials expected to In-
augurate a through passenger service
from Muskogee yesterday. With this
part of the road completed it is ex-
pected that the United States mall
will be carried to the terminus of the
road, instead of to Lamar, as it ha3
been for many months. This will
give conecting mail service at Calvin,
In this county, with the main line of
the Rock Uland east and *'est.
Indian Rfpsrs to .Csnteet.
Bartleaville.—Tba Ossge aad Chero-
kee aatlona are aoon to contest for
steer roping koaors. One of tho im-
portaat features of the celebration to
be held here Augoat 2 and 4 Is a rop-
ing contest. Six men bitve been
chosen to represent the Cherokee na-
tion, and the contest will establish
the supremscy of tho tribe whoss
representatives win highest scores.
Snske War Expenss Bsgging.
Muskogee.—The county officials of
McIntosh county have refused to psy
the expenses incurred by other offi-
cials In the last 8nske Indisn trouble.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Depew of Muskogee
county, upon the urgent request of
the county officials of McIntosh coun-
ty, purchaaed 1,000 rounds of rifle
esrtridges snd took them into the
field to supply men on the trail. In
sddition he chartered a special traia
to take eighteen deputies to the
scene the night Deputy Sheriff Odom
wsa killed. Tbe county commission-
ers have refused to pay the MIL
Rsnk Counterfeit.
A show wsa advertised In Topeka
recently with a girl to give tbe Salome
dance. Everyone went expectiag to
aee something wicked, and the girl
did the dance In a bath robe! Tbe
real Salome wears only seven veils,
dances seven times, and takes oE a
veil every time. Real proper people
eave at the third veil.—Atcbtoon
Globe.
Meet Men Can be Tracked.
Most men can be tracked as easily
as you track a fox. Original men.
even If they go to the universities,
have a trick of leaving tkem without
taking a degree. Who taught .Robert
Browning his marvelous lore? You
oonnot say. No great poet perhapa
ever expressed orthodox opinions.—
Augustine Blrrell.
First Use af Wsr Ballaan.
At the battle of Flearis June 20,
1794. in tbe French revolutionary
period, i he balloon was for the first
time used in the service of the army.
The Austrians, stupefied, saw tho cap-
tive airship JBatoapenant above their
heads at a height of 400 meters. ~ This
apparition greatly angered ~ the Aus-
trian, Gin. Cobourg, vbo cried oat:
Is there anything these scoundrels
sril! not invent?"
WOULD GUARD THE PEN
WALL WITH OATLING GUN
Guthrie.—A Gatliag gun for the
state psnitentlary was the request of
Wsrden Dick over the long distance
phone. He said that on sccount of
the hot weather aad the fact that the
penitentiary wall would soon close
around the temporary . peniteat£ry<
he feared k possible ,stftbreak of She.
convicts vhlcfa might be or serious
proportions. Tbe request vas com-
municated to Col. Roy Hoffman, vho
Is at Chandler attending the stats
militia encampment, and he probably
vill assign one man and a machine
gun to tbe penitentiary for an In-
definite period.
A dosen automatic Remington
rifles and a quantity of soft-nosed
bullets were ordered a few days ago
for penitentiary guards.
Camera Points Out Faults.
Before the Royal Photographic So.
ciety of England a lecturer said re-
cently: "One of tbe treasons why
Americans excel in certain branches
of athletics is that athletic clubs in
the. United States use the focalplane
photograph and the cinematograph to
record every Incident of their prac-
tices. Afterward faults are corrected
by careful study of what the camera
shovs."
Ssfety for Submsrins Crew.
Cioms of British submarines are
taught how to use a safety helmet
and waterproof jacket designed to
save them in case the submarine on
which they are engaged Is sunk. The
man are taught ta a special tank and
pre lowered into the water In a kind
of diving hell. They learn to pat on
tlw helmet and jacket—which carry
a store of air capable of being used
over snd ever again and which can bo
put on in 20 seconds—and also how to
leave- the sunken vessel.
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Crude Oil Burns.
Shawnee.—Fire, starting in a com
partment crude and refined oil and
gasoline car. caused the destruction
of six cars of oil in the ltock Island
yarda here, the loss amounting ta
{about 915,000.
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