The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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TAKES ADVANTAGE
OF ROAD LAWS
Guthrie Okla. May 13.— The first
county to take advantage of the new
road law was Lincoln county wl ose
county commissioners laid out road
district No.l in the county about a
month ago and called an election in
the district to vote bonds to build a
hard surface road across the district
which reaches across the county from
west to east and averages about six
miles wide. Bonds can be issued
upon a majority of the vote of the
voters living within the district ex-
cept that the voters of the incorpor-
ated towns cannot vote upon the
propostioin. This district includes
the towns of Chandler Wellington
Warwick and Davenport and the rural
vote is estimated at about eight
hudred. After the eleoticn had been
called a campaign of education was
vigorously prosecuted under the lead-
ership of H. M. Johnson, President
of the First National Bank of Chan-
dler, who is one of the most en
thusiastic good roads men of the
state and who was largely instru-
mental in the passage of the law.
It is estimated that the road will
cost nearly $100,000 and the proposi-
tion to the voters was to authorize
the county commissioners to issue
bonds in any amount necessary to
build the road up to that amount.
MORE HANGING IN
CONSTANTINOPLE
Constantinople, May 12.—Constan-
tinople witnessed another batch of
executions this morning when twenty
four mutineers of the army and navy
were hanged within the city limits.
This makes a total of thirty-eight
executions within the capital since
the revolution of April 13th.
NIGHT RIDERS GET
GUILTY, SENTENCE
Waverly.Tenn., May 11.— A ver-
dict of guilty was returned late this
afternoon in the case of the fourteen
men charged with Deing members of
the night rider's organization and
whipping Esq. J. M. Reece on Oct.
15 last. The punishment was fixed
at ten days in jail and a fine of $500
for each. They were remanded to
jail under strong military guard to
reappear in court tomorrow, when
a motion for a new trial will be
made. After the verdict was an-
nounced the defendants shook hands
with each other and tonitght they
secured a banjo and music and danc-
ing were heard in their cells.
AMERICAN KILLED
IN PANAMA RIOT
TEDDY CAPTURES
A JUNGLE fREAK
FAMOUS WHITE HOUSE B0SSIE
Official Cow Appears No': Yet to Have
Been Given a Permanent Name—
Two Suggestions.
No sooner has the handsome and
ladylike creature whose portrait ap-
Lonrinr Mav 19 nnh • xr 1 I,eared fn a recent issue of the Sun as-
i-oncon, May 12.-The Globe s Na- sumed the proud posiUon q{ ^ ^
pies correspondent says Roosevelt Cow in the Land," than envy begins
relatives have received news that the I t0 raise its head. Of course a cow
Colonel, besides shooting lions, ante- 1 'V^ PUb,"
I • Jic e.ve, cannot f&Jl to attract general
Abbot, an elelcrtician in the power I opes, rhinoceros and hippoprtamus, ' notir e, an, 1 cannot hope to avoid criti-
house at Crisobat and,American, and has captured alive a remarkabie an- > c'-sm-
a negro, also American were killed, j imal hitherto unknown. It is de- ' \he Johnstown Demo-
, I crat with the intimation that the lady
The police yesteaday crossed the zone j scrmed as being something like k , cow's name is "Imogene." This slan-
at Cristobal in an effort to arrest! zebra.
an escaped prisoner They were mob- j
Colon, May 11.—In a conflict which
occurred last night between Panama
police and employes of the Canal
zone near the dividing line, C. M.
VOICES IN
THE NIGHT
THREE KILLED IN
A KATY WRECK
Gainesvillle Texas. May 12.- Last
night about 8:30 Katy passenger train
No. 271 while running over a bad
place in the track near St. Jo, where
a freight wreck had occurred last
Monday the engine turned over and
killed Engineer Frashier and two
section men, badlly scading Fireman
Law, injuring Conductor Dolefield
and Mail Clerk Palmer and also
several passengers on the train.
The cause is laid to the death or
paralysis of the engineer, who let
the train dashed upon the temporary
track which had been built around
the freight wreck, while he sat in
his cab either dead or paralyzed.
Just as the train turned over the
fireman made an attempt to reach!
the airbrake.
bed and pelted by West Indians and
finally were arrested by the police
nf the zone for disturbance. Last
nignt a number of Panama police,
armed with rifles, proceeded toward
the zone in an attempt to find those
who had maltreated their comrades
earlier in the day. They came into
collision with the canal workers
and many revolver and rifle shots
were fired. Stones and other mis-
sies were freely used. Elecltrician
Abbot was killed by a biow on the
head. The rioting became so threat-
ening that all places of business were
quickly closed, but eventually the
invader* were driven off. Both
ymerican and Panaman authorities
are holding an investigation to place
fhe responsibility. Precautions to
also have been taken so that there
may be no recurrance of the dison'er.
BANKERS MEET IN
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
SAPULPA SUFFERS
ANOTHER EIRE LOSS
der is indignantly refuted by the Wash-
ington Herald, which is published in
the same pasture and whose editor
doubtless has a personal acquaintance
with the White House cow. Neither
is her name Helen, nor Desdemona,
nor Angeline. The report that her
name is Carrie evidently originated in
Kansas, where the hatchet Carrie has
its habitat. She is a generous cow,
j and her name is not Hetty. Neither is
j it Bridget, though she shows a great
O8nnino rn, , I fondness for the grass when it's wear-
p p Ok. Maya12. Fire here j ing of the green. No glacial Gertrude
early this morning destroyed the two i nor haughty Hildegarde is she. Marie
story building occupied by the Udd i iS t0° frisky for her> and Gretchen too
Whn!00. u r n . ' domestic. For while she is fond of
Wholes-le Grocery Company together home, she also realizes her portion
with the stock of the company and a aQd her duty to the public. A nick-
rooming house above "the grocery ' "ame Uke "Sook>r" or "Brindle" would
— " J- h« imr.Drtir.onf — it seems
The total loss is fixed $31000.
origin of the fire is unknown. It may : her
have been of incendiary origin.
EIRST INDIAN TO
RECEIVE DIVORCE
MANY BACHELORS
LOOK FOR WIVES
Spok«ne, Wash., May 13 — There
are fully 2,000 healthy and well-to-do
young bachelors in the Indian Empire
New Orleans, La., May 12.—The
bankers of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Texas and Alabama met here today
for a joint conference to continuee
for two days. Many matters
importance in banking circles are
expected to come up for consideration.
About seven hundred delegates
in attendance.
be impertinent or vulgar.
The | to us that the only proper name for
would be either "Martha" or
'Hail," depending largely on whether
she adopts as her last name "Washing-
| ton" or "Columbia."
NOTICE OFTIMF FOR hpapivp Whatever her name, she seems to be
1IME FOR^HEA.JNG a creature of usual ability who is do-
PETITION TO SELL PERSONAL | inS her best to serve her country. She
PROPERTY has been patient under criticism, has
. borne photography without a murmur,
Notice is hereby given to all persons | and not a complaint has escaped her
interested in the estate of A. C Fagin |lips She aPPears to be worthy of the
derea^pH ,Lo0nj 1 . ., h°n°r of chief of the Pure Milk Cir-
deceased, that on the 20 day of April cle of Cows> Daughters.-Baltimore
A. D. 1909 Lydia R. Fagin as the | Sun.
administratrix of said 'deceased, filed „ , . .. . ,
, . ' With the Spirit of Chivalry.
her petition in the county Court of the A cavalier strayed out of a colonial
County of Jackson and State of Ok- I novel aDd wandered around Washing
lahoma, praying for an order of sale | IT UntU he gT™ #£d
f oh, so poor, that the only thing he
or a part of the personal property of owned was the non-negotiable asset '
said estate, and that afterwards to ' tbat a gentleman calls his honor.
wit: On the 20 day of April A D L gray balr 81111 relained ,ts ra"
,p I kish wave, and every line of his shab-
1909, said Court entered^an order fix- I by slenderness called for doublet, lute
ing Friday the 7th day of May A D an(1 wb,te palfrey, says a Washington H®
1909. at th. in w " correspondent. Only his eyes belonged *"■
Feminine Voice (in the darkness)—
Are you awake?
M a s c u 1 i n •
Voice—Yes.
She — Did yoa
hear a noise?
He—I thought 1
did.
She—What did
it sound like?
He—It sounded
like the back-door
bell.
She—T hat'i
what I thought.
He—I dreamed
that I heard It,
and was going to
answer it, and
then I woke up.
She—What do
you suppose it
was?
He — I don't
know. We don't
have to bother
about it. The
dining-room door
is locked, and they
couldn't get la
here. (Silence.)
Radiator—Zing!
She—Oh:
He — That waa
only the radiator.
She—I know it.
He—Then what
made you Jump?
She—Well, I—
I didn't know it
was going to be
the radiator. (Si-
lence.)
Window Shade
—S-c-r-a-a-w scut-
ter!
She—Oh!
He—That waa
the window shade.
She—I know—but I wasn't expect-
ing it. (Silence.)
Veneer on the Dresser—Snickkl
She—Oh!
He—That was nothing but that eter-
nal veneering.
She—I know. But it was none of
those things that woke us up.
He—Well, what do you think it
"Did You Hear
Noise 7"
~ i ioo9 at th« kniir ia • "l t " r. i correspondent. Only his eyes belonged i
of 1. 9, at the hour of 10 o clock A. M., t0 the worId he wa!ked ln xhey were She-It sounded like the door bell.
of said aay, that being a day of the ! just ordinary, pleasant eyes that ac- i . Burglars aren't going around
regular Aprifterm of Court as the ' cepted philosophically the fact that j!ngln:' door bells at four o'clock in
tirnp fnr honrin™ r ■ he was old and perhaps friendless and « ^ <rnlng.
flre time 3i hearing said application, at j certainly poor. And they looked down- _ ahl" ~U mlSht not have been the
I the County Court troom Jn Altus in ward as he walked along the quiet op
I said Coujty, when and ".where ail oer- street- lips moving with his
Lawton, Ok.,May 12. —To-Oah-Ni
-Pah, a comanche Indian, today in
the District Court secured the first
divorce ever granted among the
Comanches from his squaw, Tosie,
who offered no opposition. Quanah
Parker,Chief of the tribe,diaspproves
of such actions.
FOUR STATE BANKS
RECEIVE CHARTERS
Guthrie, May 12 . — Four State
banks were chartered today by the
Secretary of State. The First State
bank of Pocasett, capital $10000, as
an amended state bank charter.
Farmers State bank of Sallisaw, cap-
ital $20,000, was a conversion from
a National bank. The Guarantee
State bank of Kingfisher, capital
$25,000, New bank. The Delaware
State bank of Delaware, capital'
$10,000, also a new bank.
WAN! REWARDS
FOR MOB VMS
taking in parts of eastern Washing-
I ton and Oregon, northern Idaho,
western Montana and southern
British Columbia. They want wives.
That is, if they -an find the right
j ones. All of them are good-hearted,
kind, aifectionate and capable of
real love. They say so in letters
to Levi Grant Monroe, secretary of
I the Spokane Chamber of Commerce,
who becams interested in the move*
ment when Rev. D. D. Vaughn,
pastor of the Hallsted Street Insti-
tutional Church, Chicago, announced
that more than 200 girls belonging to
his congregation would marry "hon-
est men who can make clean money"
SURVIVORS IELL
THRILLING STORY
Pittoburg Pa. May 12. — Survivors
of the launch acc'dent in the Ohio
river Tuesday night,near Schoenville,
in which twenty persons lost their
lives, tell a thrilling story of the
disaster Wednesday. The launch was
overcrowded, and suddenly began
sons interested in said estate will be i
required {to appea^ and^show cause
why an order of sale ^should 'not be j
made as prayed for it said .^applica-
tion.
Witness rry hand and the seal of
said [_Court affixed t.1; is 20 day of
April A. D. 1909
W. T. McConnei, County Judge.
Petry and Hoag, Attorneys for
administratiix.
thoughts, as is the way with people
who live alone.
As he reached a crossing a tiny
thing on the bricks caught his inter-
est and he stooped and picked it up.
The cavalier spirit that was not quite
lost forever made him place the tiny
thing against his Hps before he put
it in his pocket, but while he did it
the eyes smiled whimsically, as if
they were making fun.
And the thing he picked up wws a
hairpin.
A common, wire, wide-sprawling
hairpin, that no nice woman would
wear.
Turned Down.
There is a certain Washington
maid, who is rich in her own right,
and whose natural generosity has on
more than one occasion been imposed
upon by impecunious friends of both
sexes in the set whereof she is a mem-
ber.
At a dance not long ago an ac-
WOMAN FRANTIC
OVER SON S DEATH
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Matter of -the Estate of Asa |
C Fagin of Altus, County of Jack-
sinking. Immediately there was a j son, State of Oklahoma, deceased.
wild scramble. Many were pulled j All persons having claims ^against
down with the boat by the suction | said Asa C. Fagin deceased, are
caused as it sank. j required to exhibit the same, with
One man swam over a mile to the ; the necessary vouchers to the under- j qualntance of hers was. quite by
shore, with heavy work clothing and • signed,"duly appointed and qualified chance. 'n a position to overhear a
heavy shoes on. Several others while ! administratrix of said Tdeceased at' !Trti0u ,°f * rat^er delicate conversa-
......... j , _ - ' al i tion between the aforesaid young
siwimming in the river declared that the office of Petry and ;.Hoag, 'Altus j woman and her cousin Jack '
they hailed passing boats for assist- in the County of Jackson, and State " "
ance and were refused. A ferryman I of Oklahoma, and that £six months
who rowed to the sinking boat from , after the first publication of this
the shore rescued eight of the victims. | notice has been limited by order of
Theri were thirty persons on the boat' the County Court of said Jackson
at the time it sank.
Guthrie, May 13. — Application is
made to the governor'! office for
the reward offered bv the governor
for the arreat of the murderers of
A. A. Bobbit who waa murdert-d near
Ada. The application is nmie by
Geo W. Culver, chief of pol.ee of
Ada, and W. J. Reed, who claimed
that they captured J. D. Miller,
near Ft. Worth, and turned him
over to the officers of Pontotoc county.
£ ivate Secretary, Anthony, ia writ-
ing for more information concerning
the arrest of Miller.
New York, May 12.— In response
I to a message that her 11—year—old
; son ha l been ran over and killed by
a Second avenue trolley car at One
i Hundredth Street, Mrs. Mary Allman
ran to the scene and attacked the
motcrmurt and street car company
: insp.'Mor, tearing part of their
; clot: s fom them. Two policemen
' took the frantic mother to her home,
and there ahe tried to commit suicide
by f- • abbingg herself in the breast
j wit! a bread knife. Her husband
I diss, med her before she could accom-
pli* her purpose In the meantime
the notorman hid locked himself in-
side the car as a precaution against a
cro*J of more than 500 wldly excited
persons who were trying to attack
him. To rescue him the police re-
serves commanded a grocery wagon,
backed it up to the car , hustled the
motorman into it and drove rapidly
to the police station .
HE POT UP MONEY
BUT DIDN'T LOSE
McAlister.Ok. May 11.—Yesterday
afternoon N. E. Tuell of Hartshorne
received a letter telling him to pla;e
ounty, as the time for creditors of
| said deceased to exhibit and present
j their claims against said estate.
I Dated the 17th day of April A. D.
i 1909.
Lydia K. Fagin,
Administratrix of said estate.
Petry and Hoag,
Atorneys for Administratrix.
.Caroline," the young fel-
low was heard to say, "you know that
I have long been fond of you. Now.
I'm going to ask you for the . . ."
"Really. Jack. I can't do It." inter-
rupted the young woman, hastily.
"I've been so unlucky that way!"
"What are you driving at?" came
from Jack. "I'm about to ask you to
marry me."
Caroline heaved a sigh of relief.
"Mercy. Jack!" she exclaimed. "I
thought you were going to ask a
loan!"—Harper's Weekly.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION.
State^ofj 'Oklahoma. "County
a Oa-a t a, . ,, , vvuiraitru, uir
received a letter telling him to pla;e ' ' *of« .Oklahoma. County Jof i ciai. educatic
$1000 in the park under a bridge last InTthe District Court of Said bringing this
night or "his light would be put out.^ounty* Bourgeois, PiaintitT is '° l e,a K
... „ ... art. It wl
ight
This was the second letter he had
received the first one April 22. He
paid no attention to the first but this
letter alarmed him. It demanded the 8U"!! 'n the "^°ve "«med*court^by
money at once. |t has been only a Bourgeois for divorce' and must
few weeks since Joe Nellie' store ,n8Wt'r the petition filed ^therein by
in Krebs a few miles from Hartshorn P'«intiff on or Jbefor^^the 4th
was dynamited following Black Hand ^une- or said petition will
letters. Mr. Tuell was badly fright- taken as true * 1 • ■;., !—_
ened and placed the money in the
Magg^ Bourgoeia, defendant
Said Defendant Maggie, Bourgeois
will take notice that ahe lias' been
place designated but it was not dis-
turbed. Tonight the town of Harts-
hornia being patrolled by a h*avy
armed gnard.
Reports from Dr. Sanderson state
that he ia getting along nicely, and
ia able to be up and walking about.
Stewart Miller came over
Lawton Sunday on a business
returning Monday morning.
from
trip.
be taken as true/Vand^ a judgment
for said plaintiff in said^actionVfor
divorce and the'divorce therein asked
will be grantad accordingly.
Atteat: Ned McDaniel,
Clerk of Said Court.
By Miss Kincaid, Deputy.
Everett Petry, .V.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
A More Joyous Capital.
Washington. In the course of time,
is to be not only a more beautiful
city, but also a much more joyous
and gay capital than the nation has
known hitherto. Forces, open and
concealed, direct and indirect, finan-
cial. educational and personal, are
pass. Washington
great center for treasures
ill come to have higher
musical standards and better perma-
nent orchestras and choral societies.
President Roosevelt did much to
hasten the city's aesthetic develop
ment by his co-operation with archi-
tects and artists, and now President
Taft takes up the work with a plan
for creating a great outdoor social
center in Potomac park, where con-
certs of high grade will be given
during seasonable weather
Buckfen's Arnica Salve
H* Best Mv« la I1m W*rM.
Superintends Her Dairy.
Mrs Philander Knox, wife of the
secretary of state, is very fond of her
country home near Valley Forge Pa.,
and when there takes charge of the su-
pervision of the dairy In Washington
*he is a member of the celebrated
Cosmos cl'ib and take* part la its dis-
cussions She Is not fond ef the new
a. it is said and Invites to her house
i who are fitted by mental m-
. .nentd. rather thaa wealtfc.
part in the affairs of society.
He—What then?
She—It sounded sort of metallic. It
might have been a jimmy, or some-
thing. (Silence.)
She—There'g a creaky board ln the
hall, and we'll hear It if any one
steps on that. That's what I thought
it was going to be when the radiator
sanpped.
He—Nonsense. (Silence.)
She—I'll bet you're afraid to get up
and investigate.
He—What's the use? (Silence.)
She—I know I'm afraid to get up
and investigate. (Silence.)
Window Shade—Scutter-utter-utter!
She—Oh!
He—Why don't you go to sleep?
She—I simply can't. I'm waiting for
that miserable board to creak.
He—Oh, well, I'll get up and look
around if you say so.
She—Maybe I could go to sleep If
I knew that the dining-room door was
■till locked, and the front foor.
He—All right, all right! Where are
the matches?
She—In the study.
He—None in here?
She No, I noticed that the box was
empty today.
He—Humph! (Silence.)
Match — "S-c-r-
a-a-tch!
She—Oh!
He—What's the
matter?
She — Nothing.
That was such a
loud match.
Dining -Room
Door Handle—
—Rat-t-tle!
Front Door
Chain — Clankety-
claak!
He—Now, are
you satisfied?
She—Are both
doors all right?
He—Yes
She—Thank yon
so much.
He—Can I turn
out the gas now?
She—Y e s I
shan't worry any
more.
He—I don't see
the use or making
such a fuss over
nothing.
She — Weren't
you frightened?
He—Of course I
wasn't
She—Not a bit?
He — Certainly
not. What was
there to be afraid
of?
She—H'm.
He—What?
She—Oh. not*-
tag I was Just
woaderlng why
yeur arm was all
eovered with
Jaat before you (M w*
(•ileace.;—CtUcago Dally New*.
Pat* ei ef Trwafcle.
'■agination le the tocher ef mm.
mt ear troubles.
s.
"Where Are
Matchee?"
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