The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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MAW THOUGHT TO TAfT ARRIVED AT
BE BANK ROBBER JACKSON. MISS.
Lawrence!, Kens., No*.I. -A man
lfc~ believed to be Earl Ross Bullock,
the Lawrence boy, who in September
"Hast robbed the state bank at Eudora,
oear here, in broad daylight, after
locking the caahier and another man
in the vault, has been arrested in
Galveston, Tex., according to a tel-
egram received from the chief of
police of that city today.
The local authorities have wired
Galveston to hold the man.
Bullock murdered officer Prirgle
here, when Pringle attempted to
arre3t him for the bank robbery.
STORM SWEEPS
THE PANHANDLE
miles r.er hour. y In* aioru} was at
its height soun after noon. It i
learn* ti that Clovis and other eastern
New Mexico towns were also visited
by the storm. •
A FIST FIGHT
McAlister, Ok la., Nov.l.— Alonzo
H.Moody, a laborer, was almost in-
stantly killed last nigt by a fist bo
delivered by J.B.Pembeton, manager
of the North McAlister cotton gin.
Moody is said to havs followed Pem-
berton about for some time, seeking
a fight Pemberton immediately
surrendered to the officers.
From Tuesda
The dinner
ed yesterday
Presbytci ian
success. Ih
Daily
d ovster ;
th«
i morning
Mr. G. L. Barton le
for Oklahoma City.
Mrs. M. K. Park living on Nortb
Main, received the lloosier Kitchen
Cabinet given away by the Good man-
Floyd furniture company.
Mr. and Mrs. J.O Ely are in it*
Ceipt of an invitation to the wedding
«f Mr Ely* niece. Miss Clara Ely, and
Mr Kldon Scott Lonuiev on Novem-
with her father. Geo. Ely, visited
M> and Mr* . Ely here last summer
and has many acquaintance a in the
city.
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 1.-President
Taft and bit party arrived here at
8:45 his morning. When the train
stopped the reception committee took
the president to tbe Edwards hotel,
where the genera! reception commit-
tee who was awaiting him.
R.H.Henry introduced the resident
with a brief address and at 10 o'clock
the street parade was formed, the
president leading he tprocession in an
automobile with Governor Noel. The
parade proceeded to the agricultural
building at the state fair. At the
ra^e track a large gathering was
persent to greet the chief executive
and he was cheered heartily, flags
waving and bands playing patriotic
airs. The president in his address
paid a tribute to Mississippi and her
people and expressed thanks for the
hearty gieeting accordcd him. He
was introduced by Gov. Noel.
Frederick, Nov. 1, The building at
Reconsidered
By Nellie Cravey GiBmore
of *he city, all factories, gins, mills
and the light plant will be rendered
useless on account of no water being
availeble. An effort will be made to
repair the damage by Tuesday night.
No one was injured on account of
the explosion. The accident comes at
a time when the delay caused is
mor.t felt. Cotton gins are running
at full blast, as are all other estab-
lishments. The loss uccassioned will
be considerable.
W. F. & N. W.
INTO MANGUM
PRESBYTERIAN DINNER
COMPLETE SUCCESSS
took in something ovi i and both
the ladies and the patrors were well
pleased. The ladies e.xtei.d heartiest
thanks to ail who putronised them
and to all those who contributed, and
in any w y assisted them in the
days work.
PERSONAL MENTION
From Tuesday's Daily.
Mrs. A C. Lamherth left Sunday
for Uule Texas where Mr. Lamberth
is buyiug cotton th>s ieason.
Misses Hightower and Ayock and
Messrs Russell and I'atteraon com-
posed • party which enjoyed a very
pleasant horse back ride in the
country last evening.
The Wichita Falls and Northwestern
will be completed into Mangum this
afternoon unless some unforseen delay
occurs. Yesterday the road was with-
in less than two miles of Mangum.
Plans ar.e to run the first train over
the line to that place tomurrow and
is expected rigualr traffic will hawe
been installed by the last of the
week. The completion of the Man-
gum extension gives the Wichita
Falls & Northwestern a total mileage
of about one hundred miles,and gives
the road an additional connetioi; with
the lines of the Frisco and Hock
Island System.
ELECTIONS HELD
OVER THE U. S.
Elections are being'held today in
many t> ates and cities throughout
the countiy. Three Slates will
elect Governors and full State tickets,
name), Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Virginia. New Jersey will elect
both branches of the Legislature.
Pennsylvania will elect a Treaurer,
Auditor General ana Judge of the Su-
preme Court. Nebraska will ^lect two
Justices of the Supreme Court and
three university legtnts
In point of interest, the municipsl
campaigns of New York, Philadelphia
and San Francisco exceed tbe State
Con tee .a. Id each of these munici-
pal contests the reform question is
a dominant issue. Practically all of
the contests. State and municipal,
are on local issues, with no National
questions involved.
RACES AT
FREDERICK. OK.
Out in the Gild
Winkle Decided to T«U
the Fresh-Air Cura
Adventure of a
Sunfish
Jouah'i Experience
with die Whale
Duplicated
15 CENT COTTON
BECAME REALITY
HALLOWEEN CAUSE
Of BAD ACCIDENT
y, No
Rs
______ will b gin promptly at 2:30 P. M.
Adixi-'.'Mi to grounds, ado its 25
Kansas City, Mo., Nov, ]. Maiy cants. t hi Id ron ! Scents. Admission
Haley died today from burns received to Grs'i Stand 15 cents. For further
when a Jsek-o-lantern overturned at information eall or write.
• Halloween entertainment at Lorett* ** E.Greer., secretary.
Academy Friday. 2t
The girl hurried swiftly along the
pavement. Her full red llpa were
crimped Into a Jacqueminot rosebud,
while a tiny frown drew har black
brows together In a way that boded
no leniency toward the offender.
At the end of the square she paused
and glanced anxiously up and down
the Intersecting avenue. Vlth some
impatience she drew forth her watch;
but before she had had time to re-
store the Jeweled timepiece to her
belt, a man rounded the next corner,
and came directly toward her. He, too,
was walking swiftly, and with head
bent. Within a few feet of the girl,
he glanced up Intuitively, a look of
surprise chasing the latent gloom
from his face.
"Zarelda!"
"1 was obliged to see you," she re-
marked, icily, "to—to return—this. I
wanted to be certain it was delivered
safely." She drew from her hag a
small square package and held It out
to him.
Hayburn whitened. The ring! Not
the one he bad hoped to give her be-
fore long, but the little turquoise
thing he had slipped upon her finger
in the dear old boy-and-girl days, and
which had been waiting there ever
since to be replaced by another.
"I—I'm afraid I don't quite under-
stand, Zarelda," he said, hoarsely*.
I have accepted Ilarry Borden,"
was all she said.
"At least I should think—don't you
think—that you owe me some sort of
explanation?" His eyes deepened.
The girl cplored with her ready
flush. "I have written," she faltered,
"you will find the letter awaiting you
at home. I omitted to—to Inclose the
ring, and that Is w 2iy—why I came
here."
The girl hesitated for an indeter-
minate second; the blood rose darkly
to her temples. Then, with a little in-
catch of her breath, she demanded:
"Why did you take LUy Lester to the
Carson's cotillon when we—"
"Why did you go there with H*ry
Borden?"
"I understood—from him—that you
had asked her—"
"I asked her only when I learned
that you and he were going together."
For an instant they stood there with
locked eyes.
"It was aU a horrible mistake, Za-
die," Hayburn said at lsst, "for which
our life's happiness will have to pay
the penalty."
To his astonishment the girl turned
from him abruptly. "You were ridicu-
lously attentive to her, anyway," she
hurled at him angrily over her shoul-
der. "Good-by." She walked rapidly
down the avenue and left him stand-
ing there. He waited a moment, and
then crossed the street mechanically
and caught a car for home.
Sure enough, the girl's letter was
waiting for him there. He tore it
open avidly and read:
"Teddy: under separate cover I am
returning to you your ring. As I am
soon to become Harry Borden's wife
I do not feel cs though I ought to keep
it, even if it was but a simple token of
friendship between us. . . ."
Hayburn flung down the letter
sharply. Token of friendship! It cut
like a knife. And what was worse,
she had loved him, and in a fit of
pique had gone deliberately to work
and betrothed herself to that cad! He
had seven-eighths of a mind to run
that individual down and tell him the
truth—and If he still refused to give
up the girl, to choke him to death on
the spot. But the rational eighth prob-
ably saved bis life, for he proceeded
to calm himself immediately, and read
the remainder of the letter: . .
You must not attempt to see me, for
we shall In all likelihood be married
to-morrow and sail at once for Nor-
way. . . ."
Again ho threw down the crumpled
sheet, and straightway called a cab
and drove to her home.
She did not keep him waiting.
"As you are leaving so soon," Hay-
burn began when she came into the
room, "I shall try not to detain you
longer than Is necessary. But there
was something I was obliged to return
to you, and that is why I am here,"
be hurried on, mockingly, but courte-
ous to a degree. "This little photo-
graph you gave me several years ago."
A little involuntary exclamation es-
caped the girl's white lips. She half
swayed as she put out one slender
hand to the bsck of a chair for sup-
port But In a moment she had col-
lected herself and held out her hand
matter-of-factly for the picture.
"Good-by. Zadle," he said, and held
out his hand.
She raised her eyea with a look that
was la every way cool and undis-
turbed "Good by." she answered
steadily
He crushed her Angers and turned
toward the door. Half way there the
sound of his name, called In a sweet,
quavering treble, caused Hayburn to
turn with a swift heart-best
"Oh, Zadie'" he cried: "why did
you?" He looked at her with h- art-
broken eyes.
"I—I didn't," she whispered with
her face in her hands.
"But Borden—you told him—"
"1—wroto him," she Interposed,
tremulous iy
"Worse! Now fee s got It la b aek
sad white "
-Not—not yet!"
"What do you meaar he deaasded
larcety: his uaeoaeelous haata
gripped her delicate wrtsta till she
wtaced.
"1—1 might tear M ■ ," si
"Health at last!"
Winkle, struggling with a large
bundle, entered his wife's apartment,
oa his face a smile of supreme satis-
faction.
As for Mrs. Winkle, she regarded
the bundle with the suspicion born of
long experience.
"What have you been doing now?"
she asked.
"Nothing much—only preparing my-
self against all forms of insidious dis-
ease, fortifying myself against every
known germ, building myself up, mak-
ing a new man out of myself."
"Tell me the worst, at once, and
please don't keep me in suspense."
Winkle stopped unfastening the
bundle, and came over to where his
wife sat
"You have probably heard," he said,
"of the fresh air cure. You know that
now it is advocated—I mean insisted
upon—by practically every health
board in the country. Indeed, no in-
tcllip^nt person can' afford to neglect
it. 'Jfere—"
Winkle spread out about 25 feet of
canvas—'"ts one of the latest aad
most approved appliances.
"You see," he went on with the air
of -tin accomplished demonstrator,
"tbls goes on the back piazza. You at-
. tach these ends to the 61de of the
hdi!3e. . Then, by* means of these pul-
leys, you lower the shades to suit
"Where do you sleep?"
"In my little bed, of course. I
came home early in order to move It
out."
Mrs. Winkle was rapidly getting
angry.
"Are you going to move your bed
out on the piazza?" she demanded.
"I most certainly am."
Mrs. Winkle shivered slightly.
"I guess," she said, "that you will
find It pretty cold out there on that
piazza. My dear, you will catch your
death."
Winkle had his coat off, and was al-
ready working at taking down his bed.
In the course of an hour he had the
whole apparatus rigged up on the rear
porch. It certainly did look inviting.
He dragged his wife out to view it.
"There!" he exclaimed. "Isn't that
perfect? Just think, my dear girl,
what this means to me."
"Umph! I'm thinking of what It
will mean to me If you get cold, and I
have to take care of you. My dear,
don't be foolhardy. Take my advice,
just this once, and don't make a fool
of yourself. Remember, you are not
used to it."
"Oh, I'll remember!"
Toward evening the thermometer
began to drop. Outside the wind
blew clear and sharp. Winkle and his
wife sat down after dinner by the
cozy fire, but It was evident that
Winkle, even before their regular bed-
time, was beginning to get uneasy,
and as the hour approached his joy-
ousness increased.
A f<>
patent
chased
—and
It h
!i ter, arrayed in a
that he had pur-
lsion, ho solemnly
;h dignity as hts
-kissed her good-
:losed behind him.
The door of Mrs.
nigh*. The door
All was silence.
It was midnight.
Winkle's room softly opened. A dark
form stole silently In.
"Wake up!"
Mrs. Winkle, still drowsy, muttered:
"Well, what is It?"
"I don't think,"
his teeth playing II
I got that flap fixed
fix it up to-morrow
hi.
Win!
shattered Winkle.
<e castanets, "that
just right. But I'll
Brr. Guess I'll
?an to awake to her
peril.
"So, you won't!" she cried. "I'm
nice and warm and cozy, and I'm oh
so sleepy, too. You go aw ay and don't
bother me."
"Brr."
"Let me In. I say. I want to get
warm."
Mrs Winkle rose up In bed.
"Never! You go away. You'vs
made your bed—you go and lie In It.
Do you suppose I'm going to have you
warm yourself at my expense?
Never!"
"You're a heartless woman. I
wouldn't turn away a dog on a night
like this. Hear the wind howl! Brr!"
"You go away!"
"But, dearest! Sweetheart! I never
was so cold In my life I ran fool
pneumonia coming on."
"I don't care." she muttered, "yon
Just go away and don't bother me. (
wouldn't let you get In here for a
million dollars."
And, shaking and shivering, the
flannel-robed specter silently stole
away. \
'i he next morning early Mrs.
Winkle awoke with a start, a vagus
something on her mind and con-
science. As she regained her senses
repentance filled her soul. She sprang
out of bed and-ran through the house
searching for her husband
?he found him at last, stretched be-
fore the grate fire, upon which he had
evidently passed most of the r.lght
heading wood—Judging by the pile of
ash**.
"Please forgive me." she cried, "bat
reaily I couldn't, I couldn't' It took
toe much moral courage last night"
Winkle threw off a bear-skin rug, a
steamer blanket as afghaa aad a
knitted shswl and emerged
"My dear." he said. "I wi.h i oould
forgive you But when I think of thst
nice, warm bod. and mo sta&dlng out
aids r osea to death, it's tee muah to
Hkdssu -Ufa.
'The aggravating Independence of
the black bass in Sand pond up oar
way," ssld Hon. Thomas James Ham,
editor of the Citizen at H , "is ex-
ceeded only by the cool impudence of
the pickerel in those waters, unless It
may be .y the tenacity of life of thin
sunfish. Judging from a little Jonah
and the whale sort of play by one
of those pickerel and a Sand pond
sunfish that 1 witnessed, 1 don't know
but what the sunfish is entitled to
ranking plade.
"In company with a friend, I had
gone to Sand pond with the intention
of coming home with a lew of those
aggravatingly independent black bass.
We depended on catching our live
bait from the schools of minnows In
the outlet of the pond.
"Fishing with tiny minnow hooks
tied to black linen thread for lines,
we had nearly filled our pail with
bait when my companion hooked a
sunfish. As he was drawing it slowly
in a large pickerel darted out from
somewhere among the thick weeds
at the margin of the outlet and made
a vicious strike at the sunfish just as
it was pulled out.
"The splash of the big fish's tall as
it turned atier its unsuccessful strike
threw the water almost into the boat.
The sunfish wiys quickly dropped back
tq see if the pickerel would have
the audacity to -make another rush
tor it.
"The little fish, had gone scarcely
two feet from the boat, with the hook
in its upper jaw, when the pickerel
promptly showed that it had all its
impudence with it. It shot from its
. lair among the tiny pads, where it
had disappeared, and seized the sun-
fish.
"The momentum of this second dash
carried the pickerel ahead with the
sunfish in itB jaw three or four feet
There it stopped in plain sight of
us and deliberately made its prepara-
tions for gorging its prey, giving us
purposely, 1 verily believe, an exhibi-
tion of its processes ^s well as of its
utter disregard for our presence.
"The pickerel had seized the sun-
fish tail first, but by a series of quick,
jerky movements of its big jaws it
turned the sunfish until its head was
where its (ail had been. Then the
pickerel gav * s gulp or two, and the
sunfish disappeared somewhere in the
depths of thr big and impudent fish.
"The sunfish seemed to be about
three inches long. After swallowing
its prey the pickerel remained motion-
less a few seconds, as if gloating over
its captive and illustrating its con-
tempt lor our presence. Then It
turned and started lor deep water.
"The hook was fast in the sunfish,
and the sunfish was a foot or so down
in the pickerel's interior, and we could
see no v. ay In which the iuckerel
!could reach the point it had started
j for unless it gave back the hook and
j the fish, took them and the boat along
with it, or gave itself up to the fish-
erman. The first we believed quit#
impossible. The second we had our
doubts about. The third we hoped
"When the line drew taut the pick-
, erel seeinc d to be tor the first time
aware that it had got itself into a
situation that might make trouble
I for it, and iqr a time it seemed that
the big and now disturbed fish had
some intention of taking tbe boat and
us along with it after all. The linen
line was small, but very stout, but ss
wire snells are not regarded as any
too formidable tackle to have next to
a .pickerel when he takes the hook,
the prospects for the line holding out
against that big fellow until he was
captured were by no means assur-
"My friend and I understood pretty
well the handling of light tackle, and
If the pickerel had persisted in retain-
ing the sunfish and in his efforts to kid-
nap the boat and us he certainly would
have been our meat. For two or
three minutes the big, strong fish was
so handled that the slight minnow lins
defied his attempts to snap it in two,
and he was hauled from the water and
almost landed.
"At that critical moment in tbe pick-
erel's fight he must have concluded
that it was better for him to give up
his breakfast rather than lose for-
ever the opportunity for getting an
other, for he set his internal arrange-
ments to work disgorging the sua-
fish, dropped back into the water, and
went his way.
"The sunflsh, still fast to tbe book,
had run the gauntlet of the pickerel's
spiked jaws and had been a g^od
while in its stomach. Such au expe-
rience, it would seem, thould ! ave
been enough to satisfy the irnl >n
of any ordinary fish. So we thoi.i r.t
at any rate alien we released It from
the hook and tossed into the water,
as we supposed, dead.
"Well, this fish wasn't sn ordinary
flsh. It was a Sand pond fish, and
wasn't so easily satisfied as all that
It lay on the water stiff and motoa-
less and badly scared for a few sec-
onds. and then began to shiver and
wrlgge about. Presently it dived oe-
nea'a the surface, s . ti.ing s' {,
bat like a cripple. It was quickly i >
toucdt-d by scores of full grown tut-
fish, which escorted tbe bounded Ut-
ile fellow tenderly sway until :liey
wtr- hidden among the rushes.
"We got Quite a few of those ag-
gravatingly independent black bata,
before we left the pond''
New York, Oct. 30.- Fifteen- cent,
cotton, desired by the South,, became
a reality on the New York Cotton Ex-
change today, when the May option
sold at 15 02 and July at 15 cents.
May closed at 14.02 cents and July at
14.99 cents. As on previousjday- of
the week, there were tremendous
activity in the pit. Middling cotton
in Liverpool was carried up to the
equivalent of 15 3-4cents, comparing
with 15 cents here and with 14 } to
14 3-4 in the Southern spot markets.
Some of the bull traders figured
today *as~sellers, letting May go at
15 cent and March for 14.9(> c< nts
to appease shorts and traders who
have recently liquidated. All the
offerings of the bull element were
absorbaed and the market closed with
net advances fjr the day of 9 to 25
points, making an advance for tbe
week of more than 1 cent a pound.v
nVFDf'HUDPF TACT
Il f LnvlIAllliL vlllj f
m
Nashville, Ark., Nov. 1. — An-
, overcharge of 2 cents on a ticket
iCost the Iron Mountain railroad $50.
Mrs. Freeman of Hope purchased &
I ticket to Mandeville and was charged
2 cents more than the rat#. She
hrought suit and was awarded $50.
damages.
D. Of C. GATHER
. TEX..
Houston, Texas., Oc'. .'JO. The-
women of the Southland assembled ire-
Houston to review the work of the-
United Daughters of the Confederacy..
A heavy rain washed down much of
the mass of flags and bunting dis-
played over the city, but it could
tut dampen tie spirits of the more
than two hundred delegates.
YOUNG MAN FOUND
BEAD AT YUKON
Yukon, Okla. Oct. 28. The badly
decomposed body of William J.
Knaele, 23 years old, a young farmer
living three miles south and three-
miles east of Yukon, was found lying
on his bed at home today by his sis-
ter, Mrs Edward Hubatka. Evidences
of pois <n administered accidentally
o with suicidal intent were found
and the body appeared to have been
dead since Monday night. An inquest
was held today by Justice of'the
Peace Lew W. Dongres and the jury-
returned a verdiict declaring thst
the mao had come to his death from
unknown cause.
THREATENED REVOLT
IN CREEK NAVY
Athens, Greece, Oct.29. — A actus
revolt in the Greek navy hs* occui
red and the situation is acute. A
band of navsl officers, numbering
3'HJ, led by Lieutenant Tibades, today
seixed the arsenal on the island of
Saiamis and are now entrenched
there. Lieutenant Tibaldes is com-
mander of the dotiiia of torpedo
boats snd submarines. He demands
the apointment of minister of ma-
rine and threatens to ovtrthrow the
gov rnment if this is not conceded.
The island of Saiamis is fifty miles
South of the capital.
Mr
II.
World's Steam Power.
The steaua power !n vse la '.he
worM today is estimated at 1*6 M*
•M beree power.
uariic iclt
Saturday on the evening train for
Tulsa, Okie., whore tbey intend to
make their future borne. Mr. Garlic
ha* been in tbe employ of the Altus
Bottling works here for almost two
years. Mr. ant Mrs. Ualire have
many frioads in th« citv who regret
their departure vary muck.
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