The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE
SEARCHUGHT
Vulume
3 CWI^ JAN. 3lV 1912
Number 11
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MENINGITIS IN
MUSKOGEE NOW
Death Reported There Friday
And a Fatality From Har-
mon County.
S. A. Low, about 25 years
old, died Thurrsday afternoon at
St. Anthony's hospital of second-
ary meningittis. The report was
current on the streets of the
city last evening that Low was
afflicted with contagious menin-
gitis., Physicians who attended
the'patient deny this, declaring
that the trouble resulted from a
"running ear" and state positi-
vely that that form of meningitis
is not contagious.
Cerebrospinal meningitis made
its appearance at two new places
in Oklahoma Friday, a case from
which death resulted being re-
ported from Muskogee county,
while there also was a case de-
veloped in Harmon county,death
following the advent of the dis-
ease within a short time.
, While there have been numer-
ous rumors of spinal meningitis
at Hominy, Osage county, the
first authenticated case was re-
ported from that place Fridav
afternoon. There have been a
number of cases near Cleveland
in the same county with four
deaths.
The disease made its appear-
ance in Marshall county also,
Fridav, three new cases develop-
ing during twenty-four hours.
During the past three days but
two cases had been reported and
prior to Fridav the situation has
been better than it has in the
last two weeks. Additional pre-
cautions to prevent the spread
of the disease are being taken
by the state board of health.
The present winter is the first
time in years that ice froze thick
enough in Oklahoma for skat-
ing and the first death from
drowning of a skater occured at
Salisajw. Claud Adams,13 years
old, was skating on the creek
when he got too near a crack
in the ice. It gave way and he
went in and hisi body caught un-
der the heavier ice.
Our town is free from fac-
tions, thank goodness, and that
is one of the reasons why it is
the best town of its size that
can be found anywhere,says the
Choctaw Herald. Our people dif-
fer in opinions just the same
as do the people everywhere else
but they do not fall out about it
and when the question, what
ever it may be. is finally settled,
all get together and pull for
the common.
Virtually all the seed oats that,
will be sown in Oklahoma this
year will have to be imported
from Kansas an&>. Missouri,
cording to Secretary Ben !IIeto-
nessy of the state board of agri-
culture. Some oats were raised
in Oklahoma last year and" some
in Texas, but not yhough for
feed and seed. '
In a raid nvade on Saturday
last by the police of Wichita,
Kansas, 61 bootleggers were tak-
en in. Cash bonds aggregating
$17000.00 / were put up for ap-
pearance, while some stayed in
jail.
A request was received by the
corporation commission Wednes-
day from citizens of Breeken-
ridge and vicinity asking for the
removal of the partition in the
Frisco depot at that place and
the discontinuance of the "Jim
Crow" (waiting room. The peti-
tion states that thwre are no
negroes in that city and its vici-
nity and that there ' as not been
a negro in the depot in three
years.
Believed to have bee© des-
pondent because of financial
matters, U. L. Jackson, a farmer
got. some strychnine
and took it . He died shortely
afterwards . He leaves a widow
and two children. It is under-
stood that his farm is heavily in-
cumbered.
Ten out of twelve messenger
boys employed by the Maskay
Telegraph Company at Oklahoma
City went on strike, which -resul-
ted in Cashier C. P. Whiteman
making a personal attack on
Messenger Owen Messelman.
Both participants were arrested.
JCNOX AND NAGEL
N08ING OUT HOOK
Now Believe Kansan will not
Be Elevated to the Supreme .
Bench.
It was reliably reported at
Washington, Friday that Pres-
ident Taft, before considering
any other candidates had offered
to Secretary of State Knox a<i
appointment to the supreme
bench to succeed the late Justice
Harlan; . k.
Circuit Judge W C. Hook
still is supposed to be the lead-
ing candidate considered by the
president at this time but the
delay in announcing a choice
^nas given rise to new rumors
that Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nasrel may finally be se-
lected.
The Kansas inheritance tax
law has "yieled" $42,590 from
the estate of a Massachusetts
man who died possessed of a
big block of Santa Fe stock. The
Santa Fe is a Kansas corporation.
Fully one hundred citizens of
Hominy held an indignation meet
ing and wrathy resolutions were
adopted condemning the state
authorities for inactivity con-
cerning the meningitis situation.
The year 1912 is going to be
a mighty successful one for the
'wage earner. It has 53 pay days
observes the Drovers' Telegram.
James N. Fike of Cody Kan-
sas, is the largest wheat farm-
err in this country. He has
20000 acres in that cereal.
If one says but little you will
hear a whole neighborhood talk
about what a profound thinker
he is. -Pratt Union.
The home is a human institu-
tion. All human institutions are
open to improvement. The home
is too. important a factor in hu-
man life to be left behind in the
march of events; its influence is
too wide, too deep, too general
for us to ignore.—Ardmoreite.
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Green, E. M. The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1912, newspaper, January 31, 1912; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc285126/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.