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Whole Number 537
GUTHRIE, OK LA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908
Terms: 80 Cts. a Year
SILENT BATTLESHIPS
Washington, Aug. 4.—From the
United States geological survey, the
last place at lirst thought .that such
a prediction would emanate from,
comes this propiiecy of Robert Hey-
vvard Fernald, mechanical engineer,
who for several years has been con-
nected with the fuel investigations of
the survey:
"The war vessel of the future will
be. a swift, smokeless, noiseless craft,
lying low in the water, with every vul-
nerable part below the water line, the
entire deck being given over to the
work of the guns. There will be no
smoke, because there will be no
smokestacks. In the night time there
will be nothing to betray !he pres-
ence of this invincible fighting demon
to the enemy."
The developments and results of the
fuel-testing operations at St. Louis
have gone far toward forming Mr.
Fernald's opinion. Mr. Fernald be-
lieves that the gas engine, or internal
combustion motor, as it is called by
engineers, will be installed in naval
vessels of the United, States within
the next few years.
"I expect to see the United States
ahead of every other nation in this
innovation. The Sas engine in my
opinion, is feasible on any vessel be-
cause of its economy over the steam
engine, but it is especially desirable
oh the fighting ships, for the reason
that it makes no smoke. The gas is
generated in a producer, which has
no chimney and needs none. The coal
is turned directly into gas, which goe§
straight to the engine.
"The smoke nuisance has been a se-
rious problem to tlie navies of the
world for a number of years. In the
daytime the presence of an enemy's
ship lias been discovered miles away
by the smoke from its stacks, and in
the night the flames belching from the
top3 of the s:acks have spoiled many
a well-laid plan o'f attack.
"The vessel would have a free deck
for tha play of its big guns. There
would be no towering stacks to punc-
ture or destroy, thus, perhaps, crip-
pling the boat. Then it would be un-
necessary to carry a' much coal for
the same power can be developed with
one-third less than the steam engine
uses. The gas producers and the gas
engine would take, up less room and
weigh less than the same power
Scotch boiler and steam engine. If it
were necessary it would be possible
to carry more coal which would give
the vessel a radius of travel far great-
er than at present.
"Of course, I do not expect to see
the gas engine confined to the use of
the navy. The fact that it shows such
economies will compel its installation
in all sorts of vessels. One of the big
items of expense to a modern ocean
liner is its coal bill. These vessels
will consume 10,000 Ions of high-grade
coal on a round trip. With the gas
engine this could be reduced to 6,000
or 7,000 tons, a saving of several
thousand dollars. One of the big
steamship companies of the great
lakes is about to take the initiative in
this movement. Plans have been i
made for a freighter that will use a
2,000 horse-power gas engine."
Utilizes Lo wGrade Coals.
The government, through the sur-
vey, has been experimenting with the
gas* producer and gas engine for sev-
ral years, and has demonstrated that
this type of engine, in a stationary
plant is capable of generating from
tWice to three times as much power
from a given amount of coal as the
stea mengine. It has also shown that
the gas engine can develop more
power from a low-grade coal, such as
the lignite of North Dakota, than the
st^am engine.- It has also shown that
weight of the best bituminous coal.
This is of importance to the West,
and makes possible a great indus-
trial development where libnite beds
underlay from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000
acres of public ljinds.
AN OLD-TIMER OF NO MAN'S LAND
Lawton, Okla., August 4.—S. O.
Aubry, of Capitol Hill Okla., one of
the pioneers of No Man's Land, orig-
inally known as Beaver county, and
since divided into the counties of
Beaver, Texas and Cimarron, gives
this account of the first white man
and first white woman ever buried
in what is now Texas county, Okla.
Word was received at Fort Dodge,
Kan., in June or July in the early
'60s that the Indians had raided a
wagon train at or near the Wagon-
bed Springs on the Cimarron. Col.
Dodge called for volunteers to go af-
ter them, and about sixty men fell in
line at the bugle call, all mounted
spurred and armed. But to think of
the arms we had in tohse days—two
horse pistols, a paper cartridge car-
bine and a long sword in an iron
scabbard that rattled and jingled as
we went.
We left Fort Dodge after dinner
and went about twelve miles to the
Mulberry, where we went into camp
for the night. We saw just before
signs, as smoke started up in spurts
in different directions, meaning, so
the scouts said, that the Cheyennes or
Arapahoes had discovered that a
scouting party was out Therefore, we
herded the horses until !) or 10 o'clock
and then brought them into the picket
rope corral and turned in with a vi-
dette posted and a horse guard at
camp.
Tried to Stampede Horses.
Just after midnight the horses be-
came restless, and the colonel, too,
and as he was an old Indian fighter,
and understood the signs pretty well,
he slipped around to each one of the
boys and punched them until they
awoke, when he told each man to be
ready to repel a dash, as he believed
the redskins intended to stampede
the horses About 2 o'clock out of the
darkness came a yell. Again another
outburst of war whoops was heard.
They were not after anything but the
horses, but every man had his horse.
Found Indians' Trail.
Next morning we took the old Doby
trail down Crooked creek and camped
at the Three Gars, about where Meade
Center now is, and all was quiet. The
next night we camped on Shops creek
where all was quiet.
Next morning still going West, we
struck a wagon trail and plenty of
pony tracks, but they were several
days' old. We camped that night at
the springs on Golf creek. The colo-
nel concluded that as the Indians had
got ahead os us he would have a hunt,
as there was little probability of the
reds being around again soon, but
he ordered two scouts to take the
trail and go as far north as the Beaver
dam oil the Palo Duro, where there
was a detachment camped on their
way to Doby Walls, and see if they
had seen or heard of the raiders.
The scouts struck the trail at the
mouth of Pony creek, folllowed it
down the Beaver to the mouth of the
Coldwater, crossed over to the Hack-
berry, wher they found a wagon part-
ly burned and signs of a fight. There
was blood on the ground. Following
the trail up the Hackberry, at the foot
of the rocky cliff, they found the
bodies of a man and woman badly
mutilated. There was no clew as to
who they were.
Covered Bodies With Stones.
As the scouts had nothing except
their sabers with which to dig, they
carried the bodies to the top of the
rocky cliff, lowered them to a ledge
and covered them with loose stones.
And thus were buried the first white
man and woman in what is now
Texas county, Okla.
Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 4.'—With
si eel handcuffs on his wrists Law-
rence Bobs, a new settler of Okfuskee
county is scouting from the officers
and the people of Welty have broken
up a den of thieves that have oper-
ated in that county for some time.
P. Bebuut was arrested on a minor
charge and taken to Okemah where
lie made bond. While he was undoi
arrest thieves went to his place, stole
his wagon, team, harness and every-
thng else of value they; jcould Hind
about the place.
County officers investigated the
matter and finaly arrested Andrew
Reily and Lawrence Bobbs. Redly
gave information and took the offi-
cers into the dense woods on Law-
rence Bobb's place and showed them
where a lot of the stolen goods were
located. In old hollow trees and logs
were found harness, shot guns, axes
and many other things that had been
stolen from farmers in that section.
Then they went to Bobb's house
where they found a lot more stolen
guns, a bi.shel of cartridges and oth-
er things.
While the officers were digging up
the stolen property Bobbs was hand-
cuffed and placed in charge of a man
named Fletcher. The prisoner suc-
ceeded in getting the attention of his
guard o nsomething else and darted
into a .cornfield 30 feet away before
the guarJi could sieze his gun and
fire.
CONDITION OF ORIENT TRADE.
Chicago, July 31.—The trade of the^
United States with the Orient, Aus- 'J
tralia and New Zealand, amounting
to over $250,000,000 annually, and of ''
Canada with the same countriut*r-kas
been dealt a severe blow bji.. ijjfa
transcontinental railroads, wliicl
have decided to abandon a large poi\
tion of this business.
By the same action the railroads
controlled by the Edward TI. Harrl-
man, James J. Hill, the Berwynd syn-
dicate and the Canadian government,
have made it possible, it is asserted,
for the Japanese government to real-
ize speedily its ambition to become
the master of all the trade on the
Pacific seas.
The Canadian Pacific, Great North-
ern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific, Oregon Short Line
and Santa Fe roads have served no-
tice upon the shipper that they will
go out of the export trade to China,
Japan, Australia and New Zealand
November 1, and practically will
abandon the import trade.
Carry Out Threat.
In so doing the roads are carrying
out a threat which was made to the
interstate connnerce commission at
the time that body issued what is
known as rule 86. it is displeasure
at this rule and the belief upon the
part of the railroad manager'' that
they cannot comply with it except at
the severe peril of their revenues on
domestic business which caused them
to abandon th Oriental trade. The
rule in question requires the railroads
to publish the inland proportions of
their import and export rates, and as
subsequently modified by the commis-
sion not to change these rates unlet
a three days' notice for an increase.
This action is taken by the ship-
pers to lie a severe blow not only to
trade relations between the Oriental
countries and the United States, but
also fo an immediate revival of pros-
perity.
Japs Will Profit.
To the transcontinental railroads
themselves it means the loss of be-
tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 an-
nually, Dut this loss, it is declared, Is
infinitesimal to that which would
threaten them if compelled to comply
with the order of the commission. It
is stated t'nat one effect of the aban-
donment of a number of the largest
Oriental steamship lines.
It is stated that the lines of steam-
ers maintained by the Harriman roads
through the port of San Francisco,
through the Port of Seattle by the
Hill lines and through Vancouver by
the Caiyidian Pacific road will soon
lie for 3ale, and that it is more than
likely that the Japanese will he the
purchsers.
Delaware county calls attention to
progressive movement through the
Grove Sun to two ice cream suppers WOB
and one railroad wreck, all in one it appear the Kansas primary was
Cl• nnt oa nrai>m
A Wichita paper says seventeen
other months of July were hotter than
the one shed a week or so ago, out
perhaps the editor was trying to make
not so warm.
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