The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 504, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1907 Page: 8 of 15
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I know not sliere Hit- island* lift
Their flooded |«lms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
lU-yond Hi* 1ot«s aod care. .
- Win t tier.
Mrs. Henry Biddle. of Salem.
111., says she lias eaten Jrt',700 pies.
I2,:>00 cigarets are consumed on .
the battleship Missouri monthly. :
The huge Lusitania, the fastest ;
steamship, consumes 1,000 tons j
tlaily.
A movement is under way to
organize a .State Humane Society.
It is needed.
Weymouth, Mass.. lias an K7- j
year old policeman who has held
hia job 42 years.
The Kiowa couuty Farmers Un-;
ion asks that a practical printer
be selected for state printer.
The Chicago Tribune says the
united brewers' societies have
raised $5,000,000 to fight pro-
hibition.
What has liecouie of the street-j
corner statesman .who used to i
howl for "money that's good in ;
Yewrip"?
The interstate rate of 2c a mile j
l>etwecn points in Oklahoma and I
Kansas went into effect last Sat- j
urdHy, the 14tli.
Carl Hagenlieck lias purchased
for the German government thirty j
Kentucky mules, for which Jhe
paid an even $30,000.
The pettiest federal judge has j
more power in his little finger
than lies in the legislature of the ;
greatest state in the union.
THE SEARCHLIGHT
THE SEARCHLIGHT
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Washington Crossing the Delaware
Christmas Night 1T70
NOTICE TO ALL SHKHIl r
At a called meeting of the six <
iffs of Oklahoma held nt Okh.l
ma City on Saturday, Dor. V,
when a temporary orgaivi/.aii. j
was effected, a call was iiuthori/.i <1
for a meeting of the si
of the State tit Shawnee on Satur-
day, January 1 at 2 p.m . at w!ii«• 11
time a perimufent
will tie perfected am 1 otli
ed. Many important subjects
be brought up for discussion,
every sheriff in the new Stat
urged to make arranga'mont t-
tend the Shawnee meeting, •■■■
every sheriff is vitally intcn
in its results.
John I]. »T11h11h.
Sec'y pro ter
Geo. W. Garrison, Pres. p i
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ground tine, mixed with molasses,
and pressed into cakes.
Five hundred "night-riders'' de-
stroyed three large tobacco ware-
houses near Hopkinsville, Ky.,
last week, with a loss of $200,000.
Where's Gen'l Funston ?
Wife—"My father always used
to say that it was a pity I wasn't
born a boy."
Husband—"I think so, too."
Six hundred farmers iii south-
ern Indiana are building a 75-
mile drainage ditch, to cost $75-
000—$1.73 an acre for the land
affected.
There is a real particular gen-
tleman Down East, with a mili-
tary handle to his name, who
won't touch coins without "In
God WTe Trust"' on them.
The farmers of Deercreek tp.,
Oklahoma co., suggest that that
$5,000,000 school fund from Uncle
Sam be placed in the county
treasuries and loaned on real
estate.
Englishman—"The suu never
sets on England's possessions."
Irish girl—"No, indeed. The
good Lord is afraid to trust her
in the dark."
In France nothing of the pea-
nut is wasted—even the shells be-
ing fed to the cattle, after being
James Cornwall, a Canadian
mail carrier, has a 1950-mile route
extending from Edmonton to Ft.
McPherson, north of the arctic
circle. He makes the trip in fall
and spring.
In l'.KXi the U. S. railroads had
220,000 miles of track; they car-
ried over 815,000,000 passengers
I for $520,000,000. and 1,050,000,000
tons of freight for $1,650,000,000;
net profits, $790,000,000.
Experiment Station Director
English reports that the Hessian
fly has made its appearauce in
the northern part of the state,
and is likely to do considerable
mischief to the wheat next season.
Forty years ago in the Royal
Infirmary at Edinburgh it was
thought necessary to give to each
patient alcoholie liquors averag-
ing $11 a*ear in value. In 1900
the amount had declined to $1
per patient.
Myron H. Stevens, a farmer
near Lawrence, Ind., was in dan-
ger of being gored to death by an
enfuriated cow, when he was res-
cued by his dog. The cow had
already killed three colts, and was
in turn nearly killed by the dog.
In a magazine article we find
the following Civtl War statistics:
Actual war expense
(1861-5) $8,00(1,000,000
Int. paid on debt... 2,500,000,000
Pensions 3,000,000,000
State bounties 800,000,000
Edwin Markham digs up this
gem from a little country paper's
obituary of a farmer: " The race
of life was run at last Like a
tired steed, he crossed the harbor
bar and, casting aside whip and
spur, lay down upon that bourne
from whence no traveler returns."
At the last report there were
38,000 rural routes in operation in
the United States, all the growth
of a few years. No other country
ever developed a new postal feat-
ure tvo the snine extent in so short
t ime. And to Marion Butler, one-
time Populist senator from North
Carolina, we are indebted for it.
A number of negro farmers liv-
" / Xoued T/fy SSaiy, but the World had 7}o Place for lis. "
Mrs. Cooper was arrested in her bed at the home of a friend at midnight. She sat up as
two policemen entered. „ ,, ., uTq ;t Ri,P
"They have found your baby, Mrs. Cooper.one of the policemen said. 1,
asked. "Don't you know?" the policeman rejoined. Yes, I suppose s
woman muttered through her sobs. "Now tell us all about it, the P0*10®"?1^ , ' exDianation
"I could not stand the trials my child and I had been put to, !j*h ^ tJ liy0
given more brokenly than here repeated. "My brother would i livine for my
him, nor would the relatives of my husband. HowV^rd I have tried to &n ^ ^ -t
child only God knows, but the trial was more than I could bear, and I t]ie
I loved my baby, but the world appeared to have no placetor us. . w kitchen of
trials that I had borno in the last year, and last Saturday at noon w 1011 c , jja^v
the farmhouse, I thought I would end all my troubles by drowning my • ■
a creek back of the farm and placed it on the baa*. I jumped into
Bhallow to cover me. I arose trembling with the cold, and walking n[> |£.
little half-starved child, crying. I knew it was gymg tor food but tiw» was rnnew^ „f
With a mud impulse 1 picked up the baby and after kissing it ' attention to its little
water. I did not look back, but walked to the hou^and gave no furthei attention
starved frame,"—Indianapolis news item, De?. H.
ing 13 miles northeast o£ Norman
have received this cheerful warn-
ing: "Henry Sutton and all oth-
ers of yu colard men: will say to
gether yu crops by the 28 of de-
cember and move out of this neck
of woods and also tell yur colard
frends they cant move iu hear and
stay tli is "is strictly business, tak
warning.—Komity."
Charles Cannou, of Bristol, Pa.,
claims to be the champion corn
shocker of America. "I can cut
more corn in a given time," he
says, "than any other man who
ever lived. I broke all my former
records this year, cutting 5,450
shocks, making an average of 235
shocks (for which I was paid $10
to $12) per day. I challenge any
man in the world."
Oklahoman, Deo. 15: "I was
just glancing over my books,'
mused Police Judge Highley last
evening. "Things are not what
they used to be. Look here—90
drunks in the last sixteen days of
October. Now, glance at this:
Eight drunks in the first fourteen
days of this month. We have had
95 cases in police court this month
against 192 cases in the latter six-
teen days of October."
An Iowa grain buyer says the
farmers in that state "will not be-
come scared and stampeded into
selling corn and hogs to any great
extent because of financial condi-
tions. The farmer will hold his
corn; he would rather have it in
his crib than to sell and take
some one else's check that lie can
not get the money on. Of course
there are some that will have to
sell, but they are few in number."
The Topeka Mail and Breeze
last winter offered prizes, from
$100 in cash, down, for the best
ear of corn grown in 1907 by boys
and girls under 18 years of age.
More than 3,000 young people en-
tered the contest. The corn was
exhibited on Nov. 30th, and the
tirst prize went to Archie Riebel,
a boy living near Arbola, Mo.
Prof. TenEyck, the corn expert of
the Kansas Agricultural college,
says that young Riebel's speci-
mens were the finest corn exhibits
ever made in any state.
Chicken Thieves Confessed.
Sheriff John Mahoney left this
morning for Mulhall with A. Thomas
and J- Sliiffey, whom he arrested horn
last night on the charge of stealing
chickens fro mMulhall residents.
They confessed their crime and sur-
rendered the chickens and outfit to
the sheriff last night. They state
that several more gangs of chicken
thieves are in the same neighborhood.
The corijoratiou commission I
morning issnetl an order icjiiiiin;;
lailroad and street railway corpora-
tions, telephone, telegraph, oil pipo
lines and express companies, and ai
public service corporations under the
supervision of the commission to lile
sworn copies of all contracts, agree-
ments or arrangements to which
hey may be a part, relating in
wiiy to the carriage or transportalii
f freight, oil in pipe lines, expre;
matter and passengers, or either, oi
.he transmission el" message-: of c
munications between citizens of the
jtate, or to the handling, use or tr.m
portation of cars or locomotives
other means of transportation, m
later than February 1st, 190S.
The commission i.v busy today pr,
iaring the official order lor lowering
freight rates on lumber, which will
be officially published tomorrow.
The order makes a sweeping re-
duction of from '11 to 12 cents per
thousand in many localities and ir
nearlv locality cuts th epresent ra
in hair. The order is identical, with
the one now in effect in the state o!
Arkansas.
.FOR SALE.
Blacksmith shop and tools: h
woodworker's tool*. Also wauls
rent or sell good location. /
dress The Searchlight, (luthrio
7EBRA'S CHILL BUSTO?
THE ZEBRA REMEDY CO-GumsiE.OKLAK3M
I can Cure it. j
Treatment j
harmless.
No cutting, i
I agree to cure, or no i>; >
Can give you line refeivn
ces frcm our own lir»i
people, whose lives 1 lia
saved. Call on or write t
G. L. Pearsall, 20* :
street, Guthrie, Okla.
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