The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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ORANITB. O K L A. IN
FIVE LIVES, FIFTEEN BHIOGES
IWD HEM CROP DAMAGES
ftOOD TOLL III OKLAHOMA
Three of Six Men Swept Away At
Bridgeport Missing; Two Girls
Drowned in Cimarron
NELSON OIHAUOHNTW
HALF MILLION DOLLARS IS PROPERTY LOSS
Thousands of Acres of Crops in Bottoms
Inundated; Railroad Service All Over
The State in Badly Crippled
Condition Everywhere
KNOWN LIVES LOST.
TWO rurOHTKKS OK I'KRKY BRIGHT, Two Points. Oklahoma Pan-
bandlu Country, la Cimarron flood*.
LIVES BELIEVED LOST.
W. F. WERNER, bridge auperlntendent. Rock Island railroad, bead-
quart era at El Reno, In South Canadian, bridgeport.
W. P. NOLAND, bridge carpenter, Rock laland. Geary, in South Canadian,
•t Bridgeport.
LEO L1NINGER, Geary. In South Canadian, at Bridgeport.
SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER.
Santa Pe railroad bridge, Canadian, Texaa, out.
Wichita Pali* and Northwestern railroad bridgo near Camargo, ouL
Wago% bridge. Taloga, out.
Kanaaa City. Mexico and Orient railroad bridge, near Oakwood, ouL
Frisco railroad bridge, near Fay. out.
Rock laland railroad bridge. Bridgeport, out; three Uvea reported loaL
Wagon bridge. Tedda. Canadian county, out.
Rock laland bridge. Cnlon City, partially ouL
Frisco railroad bridge, near Tuttle, out.
Katy railroad bridge. Tyrola, partially out.
Rock Island railroad bridge. Calvin, standing, traffic suspended, con-
sidered unsafe.
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad bridge, Calvin, standing, unsafe;
traffic suspended.
Katy railroad bridge. Eufaula, partially out.
CIMARRON RIVER.
Orient railroad bridge, near Cleo, out
Rock Island railroad bridge, near Isabella, out.
Frisco railroad bridge, near Ames, out.
Santa Fe railroad bridge. Enid branch, west of Guthrie, partially out.
Old wagon bridge, Guthrie, partially out.
Western Oklahoma bottom land farms Inundated, growing crops dfr
gtroyed.
NORTH CANADIAN RIVER.
Wichita Falls and Northwestern railroad bridge. Laverne, out.
GENERAL DAMAGE.
Thousands of acres of bottom land crops along South Canadian river
destroyed.
Bottom land crops along Cimarron river destroyed in western half of
■tate.
Two lives known lost, three persons missing, and almost certainly
drowned, twelve railroad bridges and three large wagon bridges over the
South Canadian, Cimarron and North Canadian rivers in Oklahoma and
other bridges in the Texas Panhandle country with a railroad property loss
of more than half a million dollars, and damage which cannot be estimated to
crops destroyed in the bottom lands along approximately 400 miles of the
South Canadian and 300 miles of the Cimarron river courses in the state,
was the toll of the floods which swept down Oklahoma's most treacherous
streams Sunday and MoHday.
The loss of lives to date Includes the two daughters of Perry Bright
near Two Points, on the Cimarron river in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and
three men missing following the Rock Island bridge collapse at Bridgeport
Sunday afternoon when six men were precipitated into the floods. They
are W. F. Werner, bridge superintendent of the Rock Island railroad with
headquarters at El Reno; W. F. Noland, Geary, bridge carpenter of the Rock
Island, and Leo Llninger, youth living at Gear/, and bridge worker.
The men were standing on the bridge while a train of boxcars was being
run onto the bridge to weight it down. The race was won by the wall of
water which, striking the bridge, tore loose the supports and swept it away
throwing men and boxcars into the seething flood.
One of the six men, E. F. Fiscus, was rescued, the others. H. J. McCoy,
Rock Island agent at Geary, and James Wyman, after a terrific twelve-hour
struggle, reached the shore far down the river.
CARRANZA BARS AN ARMISTICE
rumii
G/ARK TRAILS HOOSTERS TO MEET
|*f
OMA CITY
—\
A great many cities In Oklahoma ars conducting road working cam-
paign* thla apriug It la the runtum for ths bu*in«aa and profr ai nal turn
«r the towna to joia with the men of the country in a road working day. The
mural event In thla campaign transpired In Oklahoma City where aevrral
thousand were hauled In atttumobllea to the country where three daya' work
wa« don« on what la called the oklahoma. Texaa and Gulf Highway, through
Oklahoma
A large- per con*, of the moat prominent luialneaa man. city and county
ofllclala and a few atate officials Joined the road worker*.
Repreaentallvea « f ths Oxark Trail* Good Roada t'otnmlaalon. which la
to be held at Tulaa. May M-27. *ere present and urged all of those interested
in good roada to attend The Ozark Trail movement Include* four atatea.
Oklahoma. .Mlaaourt. Kanaaa and Arkanaaa. Large delegntiona have been
appointed from each of the atatea by the governora. highway commlaaloner*
and good roada organizatlona. In addition to the governora and many offlclala
of theae atatea. arveral congreaameo and good road worker* of national repu-
tation will be preaent.
TOCJmrm
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WUQ HM
Deep Cuts
REBEL CHIEF CONTINUES HIS
MILITARY OPERATIONS
American To Ba Man Not Connsctad
With Government—Da la Barra
Llksly Huerta'a Cholea
14 rut PMIMMf EMMIMTItl MICIK * It MMIIII METNOI
List of Succaaaful Candidates An-
nounced by Stats Beard.
Damage to Bridges.
The damage to four Rock Island
bridges wholly or partially carried
away will exceed $200,000, according
to unofficial reports and the damage
to the other railroads will exceed
$300,000.
Along the South Canadian river,
nine of eighteen bridges were partially
or totally wrecked and along the Cim-
arron, west of Guthrie, only two of six
remained
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
farm land was Inundated from two to
ten feet for a width of from one to
two miles along the entire course of
the South Canadian river and the Cim-
arron river in western Oklahoma.
The floods came from heavy rains
and snows melting in the mountains
in New Mexico and Colorado. The
South Canadian river has its source in
the Raton range of mountains in
northern New Mexico while the Cim-
arron and North Canadian headwaters
are In southeastern Colorado.
CYCLONE RAZES TEXAS VILLAGE! FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD NAMED
Two Peraons Killed, Many Injured In
Maud and Pittaburg
Mount Pleasant, Texas.—Two per-
sons were killed at Maud, Texas, near
here and half of the houses in the
Bttle town destroyed. The cyclone
also did severe damage at Red Water
and at Pittsburg, Texas, injuring some
fourteen people in the three towns.
Ths number of injured at Maud was
six or eight, at Red Water, eight, and
several were hurt near Pittsburg. It
was stated that the cyclone which flrst
was perceived about one mile south
of Maud swept through the country to
one mile north of Red Water.
The greatest damage apparently was
done at Red Water, which has a popu-
lation of between 400 and 200. Maud
la a town of about the same size, while
Pittsburg numbers some 2,500 aouls.
The Cotton Belt railroad station at
Red Water was completely destroyed.
Olney, Warburg, Wheeler, Harding,
Miller, President's Choices
BM OIL FIRES AM TO TR0IBLE
Thirty Thousand Barrel* Eacape From
Healdton Field and Burna.
Washington.—President Wilson has
selected the five men who together
with the secretary of the treasury,
William G. McAdoo, and the comp-
troller of the currency, John Skelton
Williams, are to compose the federal
reserve board. They are:
Richard Olney, of Boston, Mass.,
former secretary of state under
President Clsveland.
Paul Moritz Warburg, of New York,
member of the banking firm of Kuhn,
Loeb and Co.
Harry A. Wheeler, of Chicago, vice
president of the Union Trust Co. of
Chicago and former president and or-
ganizer of the United States chamber
of commerce.
W. P. G. Harding, of Birmingham.
Ala., president of the First National
bank of Birmingham anti one of the
leading bankers of the south.
Pr. Adoipb Casper Miller, of San
Francisco, assistant to Secretary Lane
of the Interior department.
Washington.—It haa become dell'
nltely establlahed that General Car
ranza will not agree to the requeat of
the mediators that he suspend oper-
ations against Huerta pending ths
mediation proceedings and the envoya
have been advised of this decision.
Close associates of Carransa who havs
arrived here say no mediation be-
tween the rebels and Huerta Is pos-
sible.
Meanwhile the campaign against
Huerta forces in the north is proceed-
ing full force. The march on Mexico
City, according to those near Car-
ranza, is to be undertaken as soon
as military operations in the north
will permit.
Carranza's refusal of an armistice
is the first reply the mediators have
received. On the other 'hand favor-
able comment Is made in circles close
to the envoys on the amicability
Huerta has shown.
The United States, the Huerta gov-
ernment and General Carranza are
expected to name their delegate as
requested by the mediators within the
next day or two. The American del
egate has not been selected, but it
became known that it would not be
an official closely identified with the
government. As the three South
American envoys are accredited to
the United States, this government
does not wish to name a government
official, but desires an outsider who
would deal with them without refer-
ence to their official relations to the
United States. To the names of John
Bassett Moore, John Lind and Henry
White, already mentioned, now are
added Richard Olney, former secre-
tary of state, and Hannis Taylor,
former minister to Spain.
The Huerta delegate Is expected to
be Francisco De La Barra, Mexican
minister at Paris, but nothing definite
has been heard from Mexico City.
Rafael Zubran, personal representa-
tive of General Carranza, arrived here
and is available as the Carranza del-
egate. although It Is not yet definite
that Carranza will name a delegate.
Stroud.—At the regular meeting of
the Oklahoma atate board of phar-
macy for the examination of candi-
dates for certificates aa registered
pharmaclsta. out of a class of eighty-
five the following named persona made
a grade entitling them to reglatratlon
as pharmacists; W. H. Brewer. Cald-
well. Kan.; F. E. Bradley, Norman.
Okla.; Sale Burna. Canton. Okla.; C.
C. Boles, Monett, Mo.; Edmond W.
Cotton. Muskogee. Okla.; R. E. Davis,
Shattuck. Okla.; H. M. Dreher, Okla-
homa City, Okla.; Jno. M. Elder.
Fargo, Okla.; F. A. Francis, Helena,
Okla.; H. M. Gilmore, Norman, Okla.;
R. M. Hatcher. Hastings, Okla.; L. V.
Hull, Norman, Okla.; B. B. Hewlett,
Elk City, Okla.; W. A. Manning, Ox
ford, Kan.; J. E. Irvin, Panhandle,
Tex.; Victor Keeling, Ravia, Okla.;
R. E. Lauderdale, Duncan, Okla.; I. I
Morrison. Okmulgee, Okla.; B. L. Mc
Millan, Dodge City, Kan.; F. L. Mil-
ler. Norman,' Okla.; E. J. McNally,
Oklahoma City, Okla.; R. M. Myer,
Bristow, Okla.; Wm. E. Montgomery,
Norman, Okla.; N. S. Naylor, Kansas
City, Mo.; Glen Reck, Guymon. Okla.;
S. H. Smith, Jr., Kearney, Mo.; Ed-
ward Sewell, Amarillo, Tex.; A. J.
Starr, Florence, Kan.; Lucien School'
ing, El Reno, Okla.; M. M. Turner,
Wagoner, Okla.; H. R. Turner, Wich-
ita, Kan.; S. B. Trippet, Denton, Tex.;
N R. Williams, San Bols, Okla.; E. C.
Wires, Norton, Kan.
SISTERS AT MOLESTER HOSPITAL
Catholic Order Converta Old Cornish
Home Into St. Mary'a Infirmary.
McAlester.—The Sisters of Charity,
who recently purchased the Melven
Cornish mansion, valued at $25,000,
for hospital purposes, announced that
they would be ready for patients with-
in the next few days. Mother De
Sales, as sister superior, will be in
charge of th institution. It will be
known as St. Mary's Infirmary.
Madill Man Saturates His Clothss
With Oil snd Applies Match
Msdlll.—N. J. Lampion, an old and
highly respected citizen of Madill,
and one of the pioneers of aouthern
Oklahoma, committed suicide In a
most horrible manner. Lampton had
been in ill health for aeveral years,
and it la thought was mentally un-
balanced at the time he took hia life.
Carefully guarding against accident,
he hid several gallons of coal oil on
a vacant lot near his residence. Re-
pairing to the point where the oil
was hidden, he thoroughly saturated
his clothing, head and body with the
inflammable flufd and set fire to him-
self.
Lee Jones, a neighbor, saw the
flames and hearing the shrieks of
agony of the suicide, rushed to his
assistance and extinguished the
flames, but not until the unfortunate
victim had been burned to a crinp
Lampton lived in great agony for
seven hotirs before death relieved
his Bufferings.
A soluble Antiseptic Powder to
be dissolved in water as needed.
As a medicinal antiseptic for douchea
la treating catarrh, inflsmmatlon or
ulceration of noso, throat, and that
caused by femlnlns Ills It haa no squaL
For ten years the Lydla E. Pinkham
Medicine Co.haa recommended Paxtin*
in their private correspondence with
women, which proves Its superiority.
Women who have been cured say
It Is "worth Its weight la gold.** At
druggists. 60c. large box, or by malL
The Pax ton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass.
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it
Does Not Stick to the Iron
and it will not injure the finest fabric. For
laundry purpose* it hat no equal. 16 OX.
package 10c. 1-3 more March for same money.
DEFIANCE STARCH CO.. Omaha. Nebraska
SOMETHING OF A DIPLOMAT
KIDS TO PLANT FLOWER GARDEN
Woman's Civic League of Altus To
Furniah Government 8eeds.
LI8NTNIM KILLS ARMY MILES
Sevsre Storm Crestes Havoc At Piatt
National Park.
Ringling—Thirty thousand barrels Sulphur — During a severe thunder
ef crude oil lost from the Healdton storm, lightning atrwk the govern-
Held resulting from heavy rains wash- meet barn la Piatt National perk, kill-
la« out earthen tanks wore set on Are inr two mule*, rained at live hundred
ta Bayou creek by unknown parti** dollars
end the creek waa In flames for many The bolt bored a hole straight down
salles along Its route, the smoke ob- through the center of the barn and
•coring the sky Extra forces of men left the building otherwtee uninjured
all flay ta aave the Rlngllag; Torrents of rain accompanied the
GEN. DANIEL SICKLES IS DEAD
Was Last of the Union Commanders
at Battle of Gettysburg.
New York.—General Daniel Sickles
died at his home here Sunday in his
ninetieth year. General Daniel Edgar
Sickles was the last of the great com-
manders who fought at the battle of
Gettysburg.
Before he was 32 years old. Major
Sickles had served as secretary of
legation at London under Minister
James Buchanan; he had won a state
senatorship through a bitter campaign
and he was seated in the thirty-fifth
congress at Washington.
It was at this time that an event
occurred which became the sensation
of the day. Sickles had b^gun his
second term as congressman in 1859.
Then he shot and killed Francis B.
Key, a lawyer, for intimacy with Mrs.
Sickles. After her death of a broken
heart, he became minister to Spain
and married a Spanish woman, from
whom he afterwards separated. His
last years were embittered by bank-
ruptcy and charges of financial irreg-
ularities.
MUSKOGEE ASKS LOWER SCHEDULE
Citizens League Says Rates for Power
and Light Are Too High
Altus.—With the idea of Interest-
ing the school children in civic work,
sanitation and the principles of flori-
culture and agriculture, Mrs. J. H.
Copass, president of the Civic league,
has received from the department of
agriculture at Washington 1,200 pack-
ages of flower and garden seed which
will be distributed among the pupils
of the ward schools and planted un-
der the direction of the Civic league.
It Is the hope of the league to have
ward school garden in each of the
four wards of the city, cultivated by
the pupils under their direction and
with the assistance of league mem-
bers who live in the respective wards.
A committee Is now securing vacant
lots convenient to each school,. and
these will be placed in readiness for
planting. On a day selected the chil-
dren will assemble at their garden
and plant the seeds and monitors will
be chosen to cultivate and keep the
plots In order.
Jlmmle's Bright Idea Worked for m
Time, but Finally Ended in
Dlaaater.
"What do you mane by writing me
that my Jlmmle can't pass Into the
next grade?" stormed an Irate female,
bursting Into the principal's room.
"An' after him doln' such grand work
all the year."
"Why, Mrs. Flaherty," replied the
teacher, "you must know better thaa
that I've sent you his report cards
every month and you know that hia
marks have been nearly all 'Da.'"
"Indade they hov, and ylt you say
he can't pass. I don't understand It.
mum."
"I am afraid you don't understand
our system of marking. D means de-
Sclent, you know."
"Sure I don't knpw phat that may
be, mum, but Jlmmle told me all about
the letters. Sure 'D' Is dandy, 'C' la
corking, 'B' Is bum, an' 'A' Is awful—
an' he's got 'C's' an' 'D's' Ivery month."
—Harper's Magazine.
Muskogee—The Citizens' League of
Muskogee has decided that the rates
charged for light and power by t^e
^ iskogee Gas & Electric Co. are
twice as high as they ought to be
and a petition is being prepared to
present to the state corporation com
mission asking that the rates be cut
in two. The present rate is 14 cents
'Body of Another American Recovered.
Laredo. Texaa.—The body of Porflro
Laurel, an American ranchman, who
disappeared last November, was re-
covered from a grave near Nuevo La-
redo. Mex. Laurel had been arrested
by Mexican federals, who preslstently
denied reporta of his execution and
until the body was exhnmed the mya-
tery of the Texan's absence waa un-
explained.
Recovery of the ranchman's body
was made possible by the evacuation
of Naeva I.arafla by the f<
Lecture On Horae Diseasea.
Alva.—A lecture on the diseases of
stock and scientific breeding was
given last week at Freedom, a town
twenty-eight miles west of this cltv,
by Professor Cudd. traveling repre-
sentative of a scientific breeding
school of Kansas City, and a mare
was killed and dissected in order to
belter illustrate and show the dif-
ferent diseases of animals. The mare
was furnished by Marion Clothier, a
prominent farmer and stock raiser of
that neighborhood and was donated
by him for the good of the cause. The
lecture and demonstration was wit-
nessed by over 200 farmers and stock
raisers of that community.
NEW MOTOR SERVICE STARTED
M., O. A G. To Run Cars Between
Allen and Muskogee..
Calvin.—It is announced by the
Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway
Co. that a daily motor car service
will be established between Allen and
Muskogee. This will give a double
daily passenger service each way on
the M., O. & G., through Calvin. The
road already maintains a motor cat
service on the south end from Wap-
anucka to Denison.
Inmatea of State Prlaon Disappear
McAleater —Jim Johnson and Mose
Miller, two prisoners at the state
penitentiary, escaped and have not
been captured. Johneon Is a white
man and Miller la an Indian They
were trestles and were working on
the state farm Just before quitting
time tbey wandered aimlessly away
Official a of the prieon do not know
tn which direction to look for the
■tea. hut have seat out warnings 'n
all dlrecUoaa Both maa were sen
from Tahlequah. Okla.
Hookworm Among Indian Studenta
Durant.—Twenty-eight cases of
hookworm were found among fifty
students of the Armstrong Male In
dian academy, examined by Dr. W. P.
Jacocks, an investigator for the
Rockefeller commission of Wash'ng
ton, D. C. He states that he also
found traces of three other worms
among the students. He says the
hookworms as yet have not affected
the students seriously but will ge!
worse If not checked. The academy
Is located at Armstrong, fifteen miles
east of Durant and is for Choctaw
Indian orphans.
A Good One.
"What test would you apply to men
aeeklng positions aa waiters?"
I would select those of fetching
ways."
But Never to Our Shekels.
"What is your definition of 'fllth>
lucre? That's a derogatory term an
plied to other people's money."—B&V
timore Sun.
Enid Librarian Heada Association.
El Reno.—New officers of the State
librarian Aaaoclatlon, elected at the
convention here are Mrs. Cora Caae
Porter. Enid, president: Miss Lillle
Lacrone. EI Reno, vice president;
Jesse Rader. Norman, second >lc*>
president: Mrs. J A. Thompson,
rhickaaha. secretary: Mlas K'izabeth
Sinclair. El Reno, treasurer: delegate
to American Library Association it.
Washington. D. C„ May 2&. Mrs J A
Thompson. The next convention wll'
be held In Oklahoma City la May
1 1S.
HAPPY NOW
Family of Twelve Drink Poatum.
"It certainly has been a blessing la
our home" writes a young lady In re-
gard to Postum.
"I am one of a family of twelve,
who, before using Poatum, would make
a healthy person uncomfortable by
their complaining of headache, dizzi-
ness, sour stomach, etc.. from drinking
coffee.
"For years mother sufTered from
palpitation of the heart, sick head-
ache and bad stomach and at tlmea
would be taken violently 111. About a
year ago she quit coffee and began
Postum.
"My brother was troubled with
headache and dizziness all the time
he drank cofTee. All those troubles of
my mother and brother have disap-
peared since Postum haa taken the
place of coffee.
"A sister waa 111 nearly all her life
with headache and he^rt trouble, and
about all she cared for waa coffee and
tea. The doctors told her she must
leave them alone, aa medicine did her
no permanent good.
"She thought nothing would take
the place of coffee until we induced
bar to try Postum. -Now her troublea
are all gone and she Is a happy little
woman enjoying life aa people
should."
Name given by the Postum Co, Bat-
tle Creek. Mich.
Poatum now comes tn two forms;
Regular Postum — must be wall
boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Poatum— Is a aoluble pow-
der. A teaspooaful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and. with creaaa
aad sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly 30c aad 60c tins
The coat per cup of both kinds ta
about the same
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