The Mangum Star. (Mangum, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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PRES. IN TEXAS
DALLAS NEWS' SPECIAL CORRES-
PONDENT TELLS OF MINUTE
OF ROOSEVELT'S TRIP.
ESPECIAL CURE WAS TAKEN
In Enemy's Country and
at all the main-line switches, of which
there are hundreds along the whole
route, these switches locked with
lock and key until the trail had
passed. When the trains pulled in-
to a division point and stopped for
vsven two minutes they were covered
in a moment by car inspectors and
car cleaners. In fact, it looked to
me as if there should be somebody
trying to wash off the windows, or
was hammering on the wheels to see
if they were still sound, even when
the train slowed up but did not stop.
Thora was no yelling or loud talk-
ingby the employes while this was
going on. They climbed upon the
cars and crawled swiftly under the
cars like shadows. Only when they
Mishaps! struck the wheels with hammers to
Must Not be Made—Everything
Done to the Minute—Southern
Hospitality Lost Nothing.
All these orders may appear as
"long reading" to a man in a hurry,
but they are worth the perusal for
one reason alone. That reason is
that it brings before the public, so
'absolutely ignorant of what is re-
quired in the management of one
of these great properties, the mass
of detail required, and the necessity
of the men in charge being absolute
masters of such detail. Of course
extraordinary care was exercised
here and everything necessary for
the safety of the train and the com-
forts of those on it had to be pro-
vided for in advance, but the running
of each train every day in the year
with its passengers requires the
same sort of careful consideration
and thought.
To the man on the train there
was something really wonderful in
the mechanical way in which every
employje did h'is part. The agent
at every depot stood on his plat-
form, prominent in his uniform,
standing as stiffly as a guard at the
tent-door of the commander of an
army. The telegraph operators were
near them ready to receive dispatch-
es. Pumpers at the water stations,
not now grimy with coal dust, were
on - duty and every water tank was
full. Flagmen at all crossings and
ascertain if they were sound and
right was any noise made.
The president's train consisted of
a private car for himself and friends
whom he had with him, a baggage
car and a car for the newspaper men,
his stenographers, clerks and secret
service men, who also had a baggage
car. There were also kitchen or
cook apartments to each of the cars.
A. A. Allen, vice-president and gener-
al manager of the Katy, had his pri-
vate car attached to the train and
accompanied it throughout. The spe-
cial cars of the president and his
party were manned with porters,
cooks and conductors at Washington.
These cars were very fine affairs,
beautifully carpeted and constructed
of the best and most beautiful wood,
and made as comfortable as sleeping
cars can be made. The president's
car was fitted with staterooms, in-
stead of berths, as in the ordinary
sleeping cars. Each stateroom con-
tained a large bed, and his party
traveled, so far as sleeping went,
about as comfortable as the could
have been in a hotel.
The president's car was on the
rear end and was partly an observa-
tion car, airy and bright. In the cen-
ter of it was a table at which his par-
ty sat and on which in the meantime
was a basket filled with apples,
oranges, grapes and other kinds of
fruit. The Pullman Company, as has
been said, furnished the cooks, wait-
ers, porters and the like for these
cars.
The cook was the same who cooked
ery minute or two railroad watches
would be pulled and those owning
them would look at them and then
at the Indicators.
The schedule was not made a fast
or extravagant one. It was made to
be filled to the second and In every
case when the President himself was
not at fault it was filled to a second.
Sometimes he burned up a few min-
utes in a talk which the schedule had
not arranged for and then the time
would have to be made up. The rail-
road men, or some of them, said they
had never seen anything as deliber-
ately planned and mapped out as this
Song—"Cherrily Ring"—class , girls.
Recitation—"At the Easter Time"—
Zelma Winburne.
Recitation—Nellie Clay.
Exercises—"Butterfly Bee and Birds"
Three little girls.
Exercise—God's Hand at Eastertime
—Six little girls.
Song—"Smiles and Fears"—school.
Collection.
Benediction. "
Program.
Blair, Okla., April 12.—The Ama-
teur Lecture Club will begin a se-
ries of lectures at the school house
trip that some accident did not oc- 'n Blair, Oklahoma, on Friday night,
cur; that such a trip or occasibn or'APri' 21st. The lectures will con-
incident generally put such a keen
edge on employes that some of them
would be boupd to stumble. Hence
many of them were uneasy on this
account. But the train went hundreds
of miles through Texas, literally run-
ning through crowds, because they
could scarcely be kept back, and not
a bolt or glass in the train was brok-
en and not a person was Injured by
it. It was a wonderfully managed
thing. W. G. S.
and firemen at their places in the
cabs on sidetracked trains, and every
Station's grounds swept clean, while
the locomotivei with their haul .be-
hind them on the sjdetracks, saw
their prdud friend which carried the
switchmen at all switches, engineers for President McKindley on his trips.
The sleeping car conductor was the
same who had gone the rounds with
McKindley, and it was evidently the
desire of the company to send out
with Mr. Roosevelt on this occasion
only those employes whose expert-
president pass by, without any I ence had made them w holly reliable,
screech, any sizz oi any ringing of Besides these the president had his
bells, habits deeply ingrained In lo- offlcJal Photographer, as also his bar-
comotives and intolerable to man ')er' w'10 brought with him his chair
with nerves. and tonsorial implements.
The track was clear—that wag a Tlle newspaper men occupied their
fact. It was sound and safe as the car and worked when they could on
result showed. The notification here- their typewriters. At stations their
in printed from Mr. Sullivan shows i matter was given to the telegraph
that the president's train was to be operators, they being on hand, ac-
time schedule for it as the other cording to the orders sent out herein
train was marked out and it was to to receive it. The cook, porter, etc.,
run exactly ten minutes ahead of | were supplied by the Pullman Com-
Cut Down Our Acreage.
The lateness of the season and
hindrances capsed by the rains are a
strong factor in favor of planting
more cotton, and unless the farm-
ers of the South stand shoulder to
shoulder In carrying out the resolu-
tion to reduce their cotton acreage
and in pursuading their neighbors to
lo so, a' serious and untimely mis-
take is quite sure to be made.
The mistake of overplanting this
year will utterly destroy the confl-
dence of one planter in the offers and
promises of another, and if any one
of the Southern States violates the
understanding, which has come to be
referred as a "pledge," the day may
never come when the planters of oth-
er States will attempt to carry out
any such plan again.
No farmer with a head on him
should permit the rains to cool his
ardor or change his purpose to re-
duce his cotton acreage. The plan
which has been so vigorously ap-
proved and promoted should be faith-
fully adhered to even as a means of
proving good faith one toward an-
other and of thus rendering closer
understanding and organization of
farmers possible and successful; but
of course there are other reasons why
the "pledge" should be made good.
If this is not done and a large crop
is added to the surplus of last year's
yield it may be set down as practi- j
cally certain that the buyers of cot- i
ton will get it at their own price for hounded only by
v Prairie dogs are
tinue on Friday night of each week
and will be delivered by B. R. Rawl-
ings, J. W. Sanders, H. Hancock, and
Jack Fletcher in the order named
Admission only Ten Cents. Fifty per
cent of receipts go for purchasing
books for the Blair School, said
books to be selected by the Ameteur
Lecture Club.
First Program.
1. Short opening address by Pres-
ident H. Hancock.
2. Lecture by B. R. Rawllngs—Sub-
ject, "The Lesson of Oklahoma His-
tory."
FR.OM
MINISTER IS ARRESTED.
1a Accused of Stabbing Member of
HI* Congregation.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 15.—A spe-
cial to the Star from Lebanon, Ind.,
says:
A sensation was created here to- ...
day when Rev. John Dodge, pastor1 KeeP ,n mln" the, re/ular meet,Dg
of the Holiness Church, was arrested J n'ehtB of the M- A.
charged with having stabbed Oscar J' W" Braswell, llerk of our loral
Johnson, a member of his congrega- ramP 18 ln Hollis-ntanufacturing
tlon, during a quarrel which arose Woodmen.
during a meeting held to consider Mangum Camp has about 16 new
the advisability of allowing a negro \ aPP cat'°ns to act on. Good work,
to preach to the congregation. J Let 11 cont,nde-
During a heated argument between \ Several members went to ?ranlte
Miss Mamie Chambers and the pas-1last week to attenn a ban«ue" S,ven
tor, the former slapped the preacher's
face. The act enraged the pastor's
wife, who engaged Miss Chambers in
a physical encounter. At this junct-
ure, it is alleged, Oscar Johnson took
part in the encounter and almost in-
stantly he was attacked by Rev.
Dodge. Johnson received a serious
knife-wound in the back. Rev.
Dodge was released under bond.
Johnson will recover.
STOLE A HAT.
Fined Ten Dollar And Given Fifteen
Day* In Jail.
A young man giving his name as
Don't forget the date—Friday night. J. W. Hale, and claimed to have work-
April 21st.
by the lodge at that place.
For real estate loans see DeArman
& Crow. 34-tf
thing with us is pleasing the cus-
tomer.
MANGUM STEAM LAUNDRY. 87
Send your work in early to the
Mangum Steam Laundry. 37-tf.
Peden Bros, make galvanized iron
cisterns and line bachelor drums.
Second Program.
1. Lecture by J. W. Sanders—Sub
ject, "The Young People of Today
need More Aim."
Don't forget the date—Friday night
April 28th.
Third Program.
1. Lecture by H. Hancock—Sub-
Jec, "The Turning Point and What
Did the Turning."
Don't forget the date,—Friday night
May 5th.
Fourth Program.
1. Lecture by Jack Fletcher—Sub-
ject, "Value of Reading."
Don't forget the date,—Friday night
May 12th.
. Seed Sweet Potatoes at Snow Groc-
ed on a farm south of Headrick, was ery Company's.
arrested Saturday, charged with the
theft of a hat from Miller Bros. & Co.
store. He was tried before Esq. J.
A. Williams and was fined ten dollars
and given fifteen days in jail.
Deputy Sheriff Jim Turney took
him to Mangum Saturday evening
and placed him in jail.
Young Hale probably thought he
could take the hat in the big crowd
attending the opening sale day at
Miller Bros. & Co's. without being
seen, but ho was detected and now
pays the penalty.—Altus News. •
Dry wood at Noll & George Lumber
Co. 40-4t
See Peden Bros, for roofing, gut-
tering, stove pipe and flues.
Wood, Wood Wood,
George Lumber Co.
Noll
40-4t
Country Clubs can get all Base Ball
supplies at the P. O. Book Store. 37tf
Black Hawk Stock Food, manufac-
tured and guaranteed by R. C. Han-
nah, druggist. 40-tf
LONELINESS OF THE PRAIRIES.
the next year or two in spite of all
the farmers can possibly do.
There is one way, only one, ln
which the efforts of the cotton plant-
ers of the South to keep prices fair
and the demand regular can be made
effective. That one method is to re-
duce the supply. It can not be done
in any other way. In doing this all
farmers must unite and each must
be willing to sacrifice some of his
that train which it may be said n I pany and the correspondents ate their I cotton acreage, if it can be called a
have been conveying. If any mlscre meals in their own car. It was only ' sacrifice to plant it in something else,
ant should Interfere with the track where the car stopped for the presi- °ne can not believe all the rumors
ahead of the trains the convoy would j (Ient to make a speech did they go |:ind reports regarding the failure of
run into the danger first. If the hack to his car. Here they heard °ther farmers of other states to
criminal should attempt it after the ' what he said and sometimes remalne 1 come up to the requirements in re-
pilot engine passed he would have I to talk briefly with Mr. Roosevelt,
to do the work ln a few minutes' Mr. Loeb or other members of the
or the president's train would be on Party, but as a rule the> withdrew
him. If a switchman desired to wreck j to their own car after the train
the train at a switch he could not started on its way. The cars were
do It. For he, by the orders, had! well provisioned, as natural, out no
ducing the size of their fields. Such
reports may be put forth by the*
"bears" as a means of bringing down
the price of cotton. By securing the
publication of such stories the gamb-
lers set in more than a month ago.
to stand by his switch till the presi-1 liquors or cigars were supplied. At b®*ore cotton land had been touched,
Tratniess, Treelesa Waste Without
Water or Human Habitation.
"I had almost as soon be set adrift
It. a small boat ln mid-ocean as to be
dropped down on the vast prs'rle near
the Kansas-Colorado State line," said
a man who is familiar with the West.
"One cannot realize the loneliness
of the Western plains until be has
crossed them. There are very fow
human nabitations, comparatively
little of the land is under cultivation
and water is a scarce and prcciou
commodity. In every direction noth-
ing meets the gaze of the eye except
a trackless, treeless waste which Is
a lowering sky.
the chief denizens
of this region, and as the train whirls
past they perch themselves on their
hind legs and sit bolt ur-lght as mo-
tionless as a statue. There are a few
houses, but they are at wide intervals.
The one single advantage that a lone-
ly pedestrian has ln that region is
that by following the railroad track
Eufticiently far he will reach a town
some day; but walking at this season
under the burning prairie sun and in
a waterless country is by no means
pleasant.
"It is positively tiresome to the eye
to ride acrofs the prairies In a com-
lartable Pullman car surrounded by
all the luxuries of life. This being
true. It must bo next to appalling to
hove to tramp over this region with-
out food or water, except what one
begs at the way stations along the
route. I have never been able to s« 6
anything plcturcsque or Inviting about
the wide stretching plains."—Birm-
ingham News.
You Have S«en
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin ad-! _ .
vertised for months, but have you ev-! 8eo the John Deere Tw0 H°W °°
er tried It? If not, you do not know 1 ton and Corn Planters- A<Jjnsts to
what an Ideal stomach remedy it Is Iany wldth row and a perfect dWP~
A 50c bottle will show you its great. at C' P" 7Iamllton's-
merits as a cure for constipation, in-1 Try Dod8on's livery barn If you
digestion and sick headache. At ; want quick service. Omnibus and cab
Mangum Drug Co. meet all trains. Phone 59. 16
Harris Grocery
Company
NEW STORE,
NEW GOODS,
LOW PRICES.
dential train approached, and
stand there till it passed. If
the switch had been improperly
thrown the engineer could see it as
he approached. It could not be im-
properly thrown after the engine
passed' because the train would be
between the switchman and hiB j was
switch. This is mentioned as an il-
lustration of the precaution taken.
The pilot train consisted of an en-
gine, a baggage car and the private
car of General Superintendent Mc-
Dowell. As has been said, It pre-
ceded the president's car by just ten
minutes. If anything happened to
the latter the former would reach it
ln a very few minutes. On the bag-
gage car of the pilot train was the
master mechanics the mastercarbuild-
then I St. Louis, Dallas
beer was sent to the trail but It
was gingerly touched.
The secret service men, of whom
there were only two, rode with the
newspaper men and ate ai l slept
In their car. The strain on *hem
very severe. They, like the
railroad men, understood their le-
sponsiblllty and w«.ro continually un-
easy through the fear that something
would happen.
On the president's tra' i was an
electrician also. For the train was
supplied with lights from batteries
Installed on the cars. These batteries
were so constructed that the move-
ment of the train at twenty-five miles
an hour, a speed If kept at all times,
would charge them. During the
The Song of the Plaln«.
and San Antonio ° sPre®(l the report that the farmers j n0 harp have I for the sinking, nor nr..
gens fashioned for skill,
Nor ever .shall word* express it, tho
song that Is In my heart,
A Bapa. swept from the distant horlson
beyond the hill.
S'nKiiig of life and endurance, and bid-
ding mo bear my part.
er ,each with half a dozen assist- whole trip one man watched these
ants; electricians, and an Inspector batteries and when the twenty-flve
of the Westlnghouse Air Brake com- miles an hour speed was attained he
pany was also on hand. All tho
tools and equipments which could be
possibly needed In case of an acci-
dent were carried along. There were
torpedoes, flags, lanterns, hammers,
axes, hatchets, spikes, nails and lacks-
There were picks, shovels, nuts, fish-
plates, frogs, chains, ropes, blocks
and tackle, and, all In all, the bag-
gage car was a railroad construction
■upply house.
I verily believe that If this trav-
eling workshop had been cut off from
the entire world there was on that
train material and men who could
have connected themselves with the
world again by new-made locomotives
and a new-laid track.
Hours before the passage of either
(rain section foremen were stationed
supplied the crank that furnished the
electricity and when It fell off In
speed he reversed the crank In order
that the already charged batteries
should not lose what electricity they
carried.
Where the Katy's track were aban-
doned and the tracks of other roads
utilized, as stated, the conductor and
force of the now road took charge.
And they, too, were moved by the
same solicitude for safety, comfort
and schedule as thoBe from whom
they had just lifted the burden. The
schedule of time set wbs religiously
kept up with. Other trains, In fact
all the truffle of tho roads, depeitded
on the adherence of the presidential
train to Its schedule. There were
speed Indicators In the train and ev-
of this or that state had gons back on
the agreement. Do not permit such
reports to lead you to disregard the
"pledge". Stick to It; and see that
you make a cut of at least the stipu-
lated area of 25 per cent. You will
not lose nnythlng by It, and will help
yourself and others besides.—Daily
Leader.
EASTER PROGRAM.
At the Methodist Church 3undiy
Morning at 11 O'clock.
Organ Voluntary.
Song—With Praise and Song—School
Recitation—"East/br"—Vonnle John-
son.
Responsive Scripture Reading.
Prayer.
Song—"All Hall The Power of Jesus
Name"—Congregation.
Song—"The Happy Wake-Up Time"
—class of girls.
Exercise—"A Better Country"—class
of boys.
Song—"Rise up, Oh! Hearts—School.
Recitation—"He Called Them Up"—
Jlmmle Tackltt.
Recitation—"Grandpa's Easter Flow-
er"—Lottie Newton.
Recitation—"My Easter Violets"—
Sue Ann Mursh.
Puet—"Blossoms In The Meadow-
Gussle Kelly and Willie McKlthen.
Recitation—"Springtime Is Coming"
—Oscar McNeill.
Recitation und Drill—"From Darkncs
Light"—class of girls.
Recitation—"Tho Stone Rolled Away"
—Norma Clay.
For this Is song, as I slug it. the song
that I love tho heat,
The steady tramp In the furrow, the
grind of tho gleaming steel.
An asi'ni m sung ti. the noonduy. a chant
of the open West.
Echonlng deep ln nsy spirit to gladden
and help and heal.
And this Is Life, as t read It, and life
ln Its fairest form.
To breathe the wind on the ranges, the
scent of the upturned sod.
To stride, and strive, and be thnnkful, to
weather the shine and storm.
Penciling, over the prairies, the destiny
planned by Ood.
And no reward do I nsk for. save only to
_ work and wait.
To in ;tlm* the (lod of my fathers, to
labor beneath his sky.
To dwell alone In his greatness, to strike
limitless plains and 1.
—H. H. liashtord In the Spontator.
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"A Gentleman/' H
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Sold Brother Dilf,
"Is one who keeps ;;{
promises that can
not be enforced."
We will be ready for business Satutday,
April ist with a complete and up-to-date line of
STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES, fresh Veg-
atables and Fruits. We ask our old customers
and friends to give us a share of tlieir patronage
Next Door to Jackson & WllsonV
Phone io. South Side Sqr,
nangum, Oklahoma.
"Do Your Best and Leave the Rekt.
Do your best and leave the rest!
Never mind to-morrow;
He who works with happy xest
Has no neod to borrow
Trouble from om« future dav,
True success ll come his way.
Do your best and leave the reetl
Itn who strives fo* duty
Oft"n (Inds that he In bleeeed
With life's .crown of heaut";
Unseen forces lift the load,
Roses bloom beside the road.
Do your beet and leave the rest I
What's the use of worry"
ITtrm endeavor stands the tent
More than r->*te and hurry
Hloh rewards III cove to him
Who works on wltli mulling vtai
l-ew Manitou WarA
Mules for B«ls.
t have two spans of good mulaa,
o«e aura and mule no It and one wa*-
m Out I wlU sail cheap and on osay
J. I. WAKMni«.|i 2MT
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Wrlto R. r. Prrlbrr*k Co., lorehintT.ilhr«/M(lifO,
for t'ldr hookM, "Brother iilli, Moda—oaoptu i,
or call oa un.
TRI. PETS
CasH Store
We emphatically ask you not to pay for
a suit of our clothes unless you are perfectly
satisfied.
Ask to see PERLBKRG'S $18.00 made-
to-measure suits.
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