The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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TARIEE Bill WAS
COSILV TO li. S.
ROOSEVELT TROPh REPORT OELA-
IES ON WAT HOME
ITS ENACTMENT IS ESTIMATED
COST THE U. S. TREASURER!
$4,000,000
A —:
PANTING BILL ALONE $460,000.0
MY LADY OF
THE ROSES
By Richard King
TO
^Washington, Aug. 9.— The tariff
bill passed by congress last week is
no marked down bargain for Uncle
Sam. At a conservatve estimate its
enactment cost the United States
treasury ?4,OOO,OOO. The printing
bill "alone for the extra session
amounts to $460,000, according to
Public Printer Donnelly. The extra
mileage demanded by the senators
- and congressmen comes to say $190,000
The extra "stationery allowance"
voted by the Republicans for them-
selves at $12g each, sums up $48,750.
Extra clerlk hire, extra months pay
for capitol employees, extra stenc-i
grapheis bills and a hundred other)
. oxtras, foot up $100,000 more. The!
bill is silent as to the exact dispo-
sition of money. The pages of the j
senate will get $4,800 for the extra
session and the pages of the house
$13,500.
CONSISTING MOSTLY OF SKINS OF
ANIMALS SHOT DOWN BV
HIS OWN RIFLE
SENT TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
New York, Aug. 9 - The trophies
of Col. Theodore Roosevelt brought
down by his rifle in various parts of
darkest Afrita, and some of the
lighter parts, are now on their way
to this port. They are to be sent
to the Smithsonian Institute at Wash-
ington. These trophies for the most
part are skins of animals, packed in
nine casks, were shipped on board
the steamer Amour at Mombasa on
June 25 and transferred at Marseilles
to the steamship Provincia, which is
| due here Tuesday. The skins are
those of reed ducks, stein ducks,
duikare gazelles, lions, giraffes
spotted hyena, zebra, warthogs,
leopards, waterducks, rhinoceros,
buffalo and hippopotami.
WILL INCOME" TAX
IE A LAW?
,; Washington, D. C. Aug. 7.— Will
trie income tax ever become a law
through the amendment of the con-
stitution Dy the thirty five states
whose assent is necessary? This is a
justion which has been discussed
gravely here, and the negative an-
swer of moat cf those who have look-
ed into the matter was responsible for
thfl unanimous vote given the resolu
tion in the senate . Even the most
enthusiastic supporters of the income
tax are not intoxicatd by hope that
two thirds of the state legislatures
will take favorable action. Jetting
down to cold figures, no one can see
at this time a safe majority for the
adoption of ths amendment. To
obtain ratification the amendment, I
as already stated, it must carry
thirty five states. Twelve states re-
jecting it will kill it. By not acting
Hither affirmatively or negatively, a I
few states may prevent the necessary
three fourths majority.
KILLED IN FOUR
STORT FALL
Oklahoma City, Ok . Aug. 7. By <
falling four stories, Paul Lennett, j
former policeman and member of the
fire department, was instantly killed
in the new Lee Huskins Hotel build- j
ing today, where he was employed
as a concrete worker. He feil from \
an elevator used in hoisting material, j
DECLARE PRINCE
A BANKRUPT
f! Vienna, Aug. 8.- A petition to
declare Prince Miguld Braganza a
bankrupt, has Deen drawn at the in-
atance of his creditors to the amount
of $10,00y, and submitted to the Vi-
«wra courts. The petition was not
granted, however, owing to the ab-
•en.-e of Prince Migue, who left VI- !
€ntiA some t me ago, ind is believed i
to be in Scotand on a shooting expt-
tfi on at the present time. Princo !
Migue's engagement to wealthy Misa
Anita Stewart of New iork, wan
recently announced.
PERSONAL MENTION
'
| From Monday s Daily.
I Grover Stroher returned last night |
from Columbia Missouri where he has
been attending school this summer. i
Editor Johnson, of the Eldorado j
Courier, is in the city today.
Elizabeth, little daughter *of Mr. '
and Mrs. J. R. Miller living in the
Southeast part of the city, is reported j
j to be very ill of typhoid fever.
I Miss Minnie Colville entertained I
I with an informal card party Satar- '
day evening. Those present report ■
a Jelightful evening.
Mrs. F. R. Taylor of York, Penn.,
mother of Mrs. W. R. Downey, is a
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Downey.
i Miss Cleo Cole of Clay Center,
Kans, niece of Mrs. W. R. Downey
is her guest.
Mr. Roy Jackson visited friends in
Vernon Saturday night and Sunday.
Derwood Grace left yesterday for
Olney Texas to visit his grandparents.
Grant Corbin, wile and d ughter
returned Saturday evening from a
tour in the west. They visited Seattle
and a numbtr of other^ places while
away.
Herbert Bellenger is expected to
arrive tonight to accept a postion in
I City National Bank as assistant book
( keeper.
Mrs. J. Robert Jamison of Mangum
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Sid
Heatley.
Mr. and Mrs. *.V. A. Bailey of
Tuttle Oklahoma are in the city visit-
ing Miss Maud Bailey. Mr. Bailey is
Miss Maud's brother.
Miss Maud Bailey and Miss Kate
Stroud spent a very pleasant Sunday, j
guests of Miss Bailey's brother and
family near Navajo.
C. C.. Baker of Eldorado is in the
city to day on business.
j Guthrie. Ok.. Aug. 7.—The annual
j report of State Labor Commissioner
j Daugherty will show that the surplus
[ products of Oklahoma for 1908, which
exclude all articles that are manufac-
tured, will reach a vaiuaiotn of
$129,730,895.79. The 1907 report was
incomplete, so no accurate comparison
can be made for this year. Grady
County ranks first in surplus produc-
tion, being valued at $6,040,20". 12,
over one thrrd of which is represented
in live stock, farm products, mill
products and cotton. These are val- j
ued at more than $l,000,o00each, cot
ton products alone in this county being
$1,095,675. The group values as
shown by the report were: Farm
yard products $3,622,129.02, products
of the dairy $1,314,991.10. live stock,
ail classes. $37,375,935, mill products
$16,452,287.50. forest $3,860,564.99,
wine Dress $10,422.80, farm crops
$22,427,337.95. cotton and by products
| $30,594,020, packing house products
[$1,122,976.43, vegetables $395,964.97,
fruits $300,315.35, minea and,, quarry j
$4,722,533.50, stone and clay $297,-
317.25, fish and game $10,012.32, wool
and mohair $12,463.05, and unclassi-
fied products $808,715.56.
HIVES OF HUMANITY
SOME DENSELY POPULATED POR.
TION8 OF THE EARTH.
China, England and the United States
Each Have a Strip of Territory
Wherein the People Are
Closely Packed.
INTERESTING SESSION
OF SINGING CONVENTION
That the population of Berlin de-
clined 4,419 in 1908 is not a surpris-
ing result of financial depression.
Although the German empire has
64,000,000 people in an area much
j smaller than Texas, no part of it is
j very densely peopled. The new
| "Greater Berlin," which is planned on
| an area more than twice New York's,
i will not contain so many people. The
; center of densest population in Ger-
. many is not Berlin but Crefeld. but
the industrial region of Rhenish Prus-
sia and Westphalia does not contain
more than 6.000,000 people.
Belgium, with more than 7,000,000
people in an area less than Maryland's,
is considered an example of extreme
density. She feeds 625 people to the
I square mile by the aid of vast manu-
facturing industries. Java, with 29,-
000,000 people in a space less than
Iowa, supports o74 to the square mile
by agriculture alon.v The inhabited
portion of Egypt supports by agricul-
, ture nearly 1.000 to the square mile.
. The Chinese province of Kangsu is
supposed to support 35,000.000 people
in the area of Illinois, but there is no
exact census. Still, the portion of the
province running from Shanghai to
Nanking along the railroad, the Grand
canal and the Yangtsekiang river, an
area like New Jersey's, is one of the
three great hives of humanity known
to the world.
The other two are English and
American. A strip of 220 miles by
40 connecting London and the coast
north of Liverpool contains in less
than New Hampshire's area more than
16.000,000 people, nearly as many as
Brazil or Spain. In tlv> United
States a strip 450 miles by 40 whose
central line connects Boston and
Washington contains nearly 15,000,000
people in a space rather more than a
third that of New York state.
This little strip of American soil
includes Providence and the Rhode
Inland valley towns. Hartford. New
Haven and the Connecticut manufac-
turing centers, New York. Newark.
Jersey City. Trenton. Philadelphia and
Baltimore It has many ports and Is
growing faster than any other impor-
tant. population center of the world
toward undoubted primacy.
"Bewitching." Yes. that was the
word which best expressed her. "Be-
witching. Absolutely betwitching "
Waving masses of nut-brown hair
held together Grecian fashion in bands
of gold and arranged becomingly with
all that apparent carelessness which
bespoke a first-rate coiffeur; pretty,
piquant, somewhat indefinite, features
set in a face whose contour was a per-
fect oval; the dearest little rosebud
mouth, all pouts and infectious laugh-
| ter,
| As it so happened, the table where
she and her companion were seated
stood in close proximity to our own,
I though from where I was sitting I
had an absolutely uninterrupted view
of them both, while Shiela, who was
j with me, was placed with her back
turned towards them—which, after
all, was just as it should be, seeing
women never can understand these
things.
So, you see, I was wise in not tell-
ing Shiela anything about the lovely
creature sitting opposite me. For one
thing, Ijecause she would not have
understood, and for another thing, the
fair stranger and myself bad carried
on our language-of-the-eye love affair
so well that in spite of the distance
between us, and a huge bowl of crim-
son ajid white roses placed upon her
table .nearly hiding her from my sight,
when ahe raised her glass of cham-
pagne to her lips she looked at me
lovingly over the brim and deliberate-
ly smiled.
The note I scribbled to my lovely
vis-a-vis was the absurdest thing in
the world. Yet now, as I look back
upon the incident, it strikes me as
being wonderfully discreet for a man
whose friends imagine his whole life
to be made up of blunders.
I "In the dead of night," I wrote, "the
I world is full of ghosts—restless be-
ings' seeking happiness and repose, j
Should there be hope for one of these
to-night, take from the bowl of roses I
in front of you a crimson rose; if, j
| however, there is no hope, then take I
| a white one."
I saw the waiter slip the note into I
her lap. I saw her unfold it under I
shadow of the table, and I saw her j
read it and double it up, slipping it j
quickly into the jeweled satchel at
her side; and then, all on the tiptoe of I
excitement, 1 waited impatiently for
her* to act as I desired. Yet, for a
long time, she did absolutely nothing
at all but look about her, and I was
I in despair lest some wording of my
letter should have given offense.
Then, suddenly, in a supremely quiet
way, as if the most natural thing in
the world, she stretched out her hand
towards the roses in front of her. She
must have knouu that my eyes were
upon her, devouring her every move-
ment; she must have heard, too, the
beating of my heart, for she tantal-
izingly played, first with a white rose
and then with a red one, until I could
have almost cried out in the agony
of suspense. At last, just as the ten
sion was becoming well-nigh unbear-
able, she suddenly broke off the red
dest among the red roses and fast-
ened it carelessly to the front Of her !
corsage over her heart.
Tht-n. Indeed, I was happy. Then. ,
indeed, I felt at last that life was (
worth living, and that if this world j
was not exactly as happy as heaven, !
it at least had moments that all the j
pleasures of paradise could not sur- j
TWO TRAINMEN OR. RECEIVES A
WERE KILLED THREATENING NOTE
! fR|SC0 ENGINE PLUNGED OVER A FINDS THE NOTE PINNED TO THE
TWENTY FOOT EMBANK DOOR LEADING TO HIS
MENT OFFICE
THREE EMPLOYEES WERE INJURED HAS APPEALED TO POLICE FOR AID
Memphis. Tenn., Aug. 7.— Two
trainmen were killed and three other
railroad employes sustained minor
injuries when a Frisco yard engine
plunged over a twenty font embank-
ment near this city early today. The
dead ; Edward C. Nelson, switching
foreman. William Ackin, fireman.
Injured: R. C. Willliams, telegraph
operator, Bridge Junction; Thomas
Mercer, engineer; David Shelton, |
fireman, colored. The engine was
approaching the local terminal, re-
turning from the Arkansas yards, |
[ across the river from Memphis, when ,
j a tire on one of the wheels became i
j loosfered, causing the accident. The j
; two men killed were pinior ed reneath j
I the wreckage and it was several
| hours before their bodies, badly
mangled and burned, were recovered.
Those injured were thrown from their
positions on the engine and while
painfully cut and bruised are not ser
iously hurt. Williams was returning
from his station to his home in this
citv.
Oklahoma City, Aug.8.—Following
the receipt of a threatening letter,
j Dr. Chares Zieraan, 606 North Broad*
1 way, yesterday expressed his deter-
! mination of appealing to the police
j for assistance in an effort to deter-
i mine the author of the annoymous
! note, which read as follows;
"Doctor; You had better leave
j the country for your health ; if not
j we will fix your clock, you stink-
i berger. Committee."
The not which was found pinned
to the door leading to the office of the
physician, was surrounded by several
horse shoe nails forming the shape of
a dagger, according to the statement
of Dr. Ziemann.
MEXICAN BOYS
INTOXICATED
PETITION TO BUILD '
A COURT HOUSE
j A letter to W. R. Spears from
jJohn W. GufTin who is presenting the
! petition for the erection of a court
house, in the Duke locality, states I
that he believes he has procured the I
signature of three fourths of those j
to whom he has presented the peti- j
tion. Mr. Spears who is working
north of the Frisco line claims he is i
receiving the signatures of 75 per
cent.
j Brownsville, Texas., Aug. y.— W.
| Idelfonso Gomez was given a prelim-
I inary hearing Saturday on a charge
i of murdering Elliseo Cantu, his 10
I year old comrade. Gomez is 14 years
| old and both are Mexicans. It is
learned that several boys obtained
a bottle of mescal and went to the
woods to drink it. Cantu and Gomez
became intoxicated and when the
younger called Gomez a name he
struck Cantu with a club breaking
his neck.
TURKS ""
CATEWIEHGREECE
"I h
HON WITH TEETH
The Jackaon County Singing Con-
vention was in session here Saturday
night and Sunday at the Baptist
Church. Although the represetnation
was not very large, the session was a
very interesting one. The next con-
vention will be held at Plues Valley
November the 13th and 14th.
STATE CHARTERS IS-
SUED AT GUTHRIE
KILLS TO STOP THE FIEND
The worst foe for 12 years of John.
Deye. of Gladwin. Mich., was a rur.n-
*g ulcer. He paid doctors over $410 o
with-out berefit. Then Burden's Am-!
iea salvo kii:«J the ulcer and cored him .
Cures Fever Sores. Boils. Felons. E<*ze- j
ma. Salt Rh. urn. Infallible for Piiea. (
Burns, Scalds. Cuta Corns. 25c at Geo. !
I>. Pendkt< - «
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 7.- State
charters were iasued today as follows:
Oklahoma Chiropractic Co. of Okla*
homa City, capital stock $5,000.
The Baptist Church of Orney, capital
stock 12, COO. Soot hern Automobile
Company of Muskogee, capital stock
$4,000.
Desiccated Water.
Some years the water in Philadel-
phia used to become unfit to bathe in.
let alone to drink, after ev n the
mildest kind of ^storm Everybody
complained, says a writer in the
Washington Star. One Rentleman
complained to Peter Burness. an In-
corrigible optimist. But he received
little encouragement.
! Actually,' I said to Peter one morn-
ing after a storm, "I couldn't take a
bath to-day on account of rhe muddy
water. It was like brown paste.''
"Oh, I took a good long bath." said
Peter "When the Schuylkill water is
like that it is Uie best thing in the
world to batbe In. So medicinal yon
know. Better than Horn burg or Mar-
ienbad or any of those places."
"B«t it's ao muddy.'' said I.
"That s lost the point." said Peter.
"It's medicinal mud. full of all aorta
of phosphates and things To-night
when you get home All your bath,
lump in and splash about: but after-
ward don't u*e any tow*l *
"No towelar* I objected
"There's a much botter way than
towels," said Peter "8tand before the
radiator and ! t the water dry on your
body. Then brush it off with a whisk-
broom "—Youth s Companion.
In the middle of my perplexity I
saw my lady of the roses and her
companion rise from their seats. I
observed, too. the covert looks of
I admiration thai she excltet. among
the onlookers by all the graceful sup-
pleness of her superb figure.
As she moved forward, gathering
her beautiful wraps around her, our
eyes for one brief delirious moment
inot in perfect understanding. I saw-
the beautifully-molded arm and the
pearl tipped fingers that I so longed to
grasp, and I saw. to my utter aston-
ishment and dismay, that, as she
passed my table, she unpinned the
rose fastened to her corsage and
crumpled it up, disdainfully, scatter-
ing its crimson petals at my feet.
I had hardly recovered from my
mortification when, on looking up with
the greatest effort at complete indif-
ference Ltyave ever striven after In my
life, I found to my dismay, that the
lovely lady of the roses and her com-
panion had suddenly disappeared.
The only thing that anyone was able
| to tell me was that they had both
casually entered the hotel, taken din-
ner in the restaurant, and disappeared
directly afterward. Beyond that, all
was enveloped in inpenetrable mya-
tery. In fact. I never saw either of
them again, though It is true that a
few days afterward, I learned she had
returned the neat day. asked some i
leading questions Concerning myself
from the manager of the hotel, and I
had gone away again, immediately.
The only definite information they j
could give me waa that ahe had driv- i
en up In a magnificent motor car up-
on which a coronet was emblazoned;
that she had every appearance of be-
ing a lady of the greatest fashion, and
that her evident embarrassment had
caused a certain amount of curiosity
a* to the object of her vialt aoiong
the personnel of the hotel. And this
e4rcumstance explains somewhat the
odd telegram that i received •one
weeks later It was dispatched from
a fashionable Kuropean watering
place, and ran as foiiowa: If yoo
were here with me to alfffct—you aad
I alone—I should not scatter crimson
roses at your feet, but wo would catb-
m aad cherish them together "
Terre H <ute, Ind., Aug.9.—Joseph
Pickerel, without arms, signed with
pen in teeth, an application to marry
Nora Hare. After the elopement
the couple returned to Paris, 111., to
ask his rich grandmother to help him.
HAS ORDERED
AN AEROPLANE
j New York, Aug 9 -Howard Coby,
' brother or ex Senator Evertt Colby of
■ New Jersey, has ordered from the
Wright brothers an aeroplane. It
is to cost $5,000 and will be delivered
(in about two months. Mr. Colby, who
lives at Plainfield.N. J., knows little
about aviation, but is determined to
learn. Edward F. Randolph, another
Plalinfielder, who has recently re-
moved to Westfield, has ordered an
aeroplane also. Mr. Colby said he
will carry parachutea with him in
his first trial to be prepared for an
emergency.
| Atehns, Aug. 8. — The Turkish
Government has communicated to
Greece an urgent note asking that
she express her disapproval of the
annexation against Crete and formaly
i declare Greece has no ambitions re-
j garding the island. Otherwise, the
! note adds, diplomatic relations will
be severed.
CONTRACTLET EOR
IDE NEW BUILDING
At a meeting of the board of re-
gents, in cconnection with the session
of the board of public affairs, at
Guthrie Saturday, the contract for
the erection of the administration
building at Norman was awarded to
the firm of Hombo end Co., of Lous-
ville Ky. The building will cost
•5200,000 and construction is expected
to begin within thirty days. The
awarding of the contract carri«« with
it a provisional agreement for modi-
ficationa on the part of the architects
in the event the changes are dfesired-
At the session of the board. Satarday
the following members were in at-
tendance: Lee Cruce, Ardmore;
Flowers Nelson, Tjilga, C. C. Hat-
chett, Durant: and J. W. Parry,
Ardmore.
«™ff1NFCASE AGAINST
SENTED WIH CANE 0R|ENI ^ ^
Ottawa. Kans. ,Aug.9. E. Lomas-
ter preaented Senator Gore of Okla-
homa with a cane made of postage
stamps. The cane has horn head
and is silver mounted. The blind'sen-
ator shipped hia old cane to Oklahoma
and proudly carried the new one.
Homer Wren, manager of the atore
J of W. R. Downey and comany at
Elmer was an Altus visitor Sunday.
Guthrie, Okla,, Aug. Contempt
proceedings were begun by the cor-
poration commission here yesterday
againat the Orient railroad for refus-
ing to provide negro waiting rooma
and to rovide drinking water in the
station at Lone Wolf. The ease will
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