The Orlando Clipper. (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 22, 1909 Page: 2 of 9
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ORLANDO CLIPPER
BY DAVID DAHLCREN.
ORLANDO, OKLAHOMA
News of the World
Briefly Told
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Molt Important £▼»(> of the Pa»t Week
Boiled Down for ikt Bmy Reader
WASHINGTON.
The long-expected meeting between
President Taft and President Diaa
of the republic of Mexico, occurred
in El Paso, Texas, Saturday.
Mineral oil was one of the few pro-
ducts of the United States which
showed an increase In exports during
the year ending June 13, last, accord-
ing to a report Just Issued by the
bureau of statistics.
Charles F. Crane, of Chicago, min-
ister designated to China, was last
week practically deposed by the de-
mand from Secretary Knox for his
resignation.
A picnic lunch at Grand View, a sun-
set trip to Hope Point and a stage
lide of 35 miles, made up President
Taft's stay at the Grand Canon of the
Colorado Thursday.
DOMESTIC.
Judge Marshall overuled the motion
■to quash the indictments against Gov-
ernor Haskell and other defendants,
a' Ardmore, Friday, holding that the
motion did not furnish sufficient
grounds for dismissal.
Shouting, "Where is Taft; I want
to kill him," Thomas Thorp, an aged
prospector approached a policeman
Friday a few minutes after President
Taft and party had reached Albuquer-
que, N. Mex. Thorp was arrested at
on-ce and placed in jail for investi-
gation.
The Kansas state board of rail-
road commissioners sent a written
demand to the legal department of the
Pullman car company that the same
rates be granted in Kansas as have
been granted in Oklahoma.
That the split in the Ohio Federa-
tion of Labor is part of a Socialist
movement to injure the American
Federa'ion of Labor, is the declara-
tion of a resolution adopted by the
bolter faction of the Ohio Federation
of Labor.
Dr. J. Welch of Muskogee wiio was
arrested last summer charged with
unlawfully cutting timber of unallot-
ted Indian lands of the Choctaw na-
tion, has instituted suit at Muskogee
for $20,000 against J. B. Kelse.v, a
Tiiited States revenue collector, who
made the arrest.
A certificate of authority was Is-
sued last week by Commissioner A.
M. Young to the Security Stale bank
of Dewey, with $15,000 capital stock.
The plans and specifications for
the girl's industrial school at Chick-
asha were turned over to the siaie
board of public affairs last week.
All because the Indians along the
Poteau river believed that rain will
follow intense heat , some $30,000
worth of crops and improvements
have been destroyed and also the
long drouth has been broken. The
Indians set fire to the driftwood
along the banks of the river.
The trial of Andy Scribner, charged
w ith the murder of Mrs. Frank Scrib-
ner, his brother's wife, resulted in a
verdict of 09 years. The crime was
committed last March near Stone-
wall.
The prize awarded th;* most beau-
tiful woman by the judges at the A Lis-
ka-Yukon-Paciflc exposition at Scittle
wan not given to a v.h'te women but
to one of tho red race, an Eskimo sill
named Columbia, 'roni tho southern
coast of Labrador
The constitutionality of the Illinois
2-cent rate law is attacked in an ac-
tion brought recently in the federal
circuit court by the Chicago, Peoria
<!C- St. Louis Railroad company.
The Mexican authorities issued ord-
ers closing every saloon in Ciuda.l
luarez, the city opposite El Paso, from
Friday noon, five hours before the
arrival of President Diaz, until Sun-
day morning, ten hours after he leaves
A light storm of rain and sleet vis-
ited Hughes county last week. The
Alf. Hunter killed Sheriff Oeorga
W. Garrison of Oklahoma county near
Hitchcock, June 5, 1908, and must
pay the penalty for the crime with
his life on the gallows is the sub-
stance of the verdict of the jury at
Watonga, Saturday.
President Diaz of Mexico enter
tained the American president at a
state banquet in El Paso, Texas Sat-
urday night, which in all its sur-
roundings of lavish decorations, bril-
liancy in color, of wealth of silver
plate handed down from the time of
the Kmpeiror Maximlllian, iprobably
was the most notable feast ever
served on the American continent.
The state hank of Scottsville, Kan-
sas, was robbed Saturday, presuma-
bly by ametuers, who cracked the
safe with ten charges of nitroglycer-
in. $2,900 wag secured.
Final agreement was reached last
week between the corporation com-
mission and the Pullman Car com-
pany whereby the maximum fare for
a berth In Oklahoma Is fixed at $1.50
and half a cent a mile for seats.
Pittsburg won the world's baseball
championship by defeating Detroit
by the overwhelming score of 8 to 0.
in the seventh decisive game of one
of the greatest battles ever fought
for the title.
The Wilburton public school has
been compelled to suspend tempor-
arily on account of the school build-
ing, which recently was found to he
in an unsafe condition, being con-
demned.
A boom has been launched in Ho-
bart for Noble D. Shanks, a promi-
nent lecturer of that place for lieu-
tenant governor.
The Muskogee Electric Traction
company, of Muskogee, is the first
street railway company to pay its
gross receipts tax. The auditor has
received ihe statement shoring
earnings of $107,089 for the past fis-
cal year, and a check for $535 gross
receipts taxes.
J. B. Ford, county court clerk of
Seminole county, has written the cor-
poration requesting an investigation
into the methods of cotton buyers of
his part of the state whom he ac-
cuses of illegal " docking" of sellers
when a bale is underweight.
Mose OfCitt, given a life sentence
in McAlester for murder, has ap-
pealed to the criminal court of ap-
peals. He was a waiter at the Bus-
by hotel in McAlester and shot to
death another waiter.
B. F. Yoakum, president of the Fris-
co-Rock Island system has purchased
controlling interest in the Missouri,
iansas & Texas railroad. Mr. Yoakum
now owns the three principal lines
entering Oklahoma.
About 175 state schools in the Choc-
taw nation will receive government
aid this year, according to John D.
Benedict, superintendent of schools
for the Five Civilized Tribes. The
state schools are in a better financial
condition than they were last year.
Fourteen business houses and the
opera house In Plainsvllle, Kan., were
destroyed by fire last week. The
loss Is estimated at $60,000.
That the state must give sixty legal
days' notice before it can sell the se-
curities held by the state treasurer for
state money on deposit with the Co-
lumbia Bank and Trust company of
Oklahoma City, is an opinion by the
attorney general.
FOREIGN.
The recent appointment of the
German Crown Princess Cecile
colonel of a regiment of Silesian
dragoons has called universal atten-
tion to the fact that the queens, em-
presses and princesses of Europe are
all excellent horsewomen.
Milions of dollars' worth of pic-
tures will shortly be on view at the
Grafton Galleries in London. The
greatest temporary collection ever
brought together is to be thrown open
to the public for the winter.
~ The prefect of police has forbidden
the playing of grama phones in St.
Petersburg where a mild form of
martial law still prevails—one of the
few rial benefits that martial law
has conferred.
Thrones are tottering in old Europe
and republicanism is rampant. It
would almost seem the time is ap-
proaching when Victor Hugo's dream
of a United States of Europe will bo
realized.
An able writer of Paris has shown
that France is suffering from bureau-
OKLAHOMA NEWS
IXTERKSTIMi ITK.\IS OF T1IK NKW STATU TOM)
IN A. FEW UOUDS FOB OI K BUSY HKAUERS
CONVICTS WILL BE FREED
BOARD SUSPENDS DOCTOR
Board Recommends Paroles to Relieve Claremore Man Charged With Per-
Crowded Condition of Prison
Guthrie, Okla.—Partly to relieve the
crowded condition of the penitentiary
at McAlester, a large number of con-
victs serving time for minor offenses
were recommended for paroles by the
state parole board. Most of them are
young men, many of them under 18
years of age.
Sam Bartell, a well known Oklaho-
ma City detective, sentenced to 80
days and $100 fine for bootlegging,
was recommended for a pardon on
account of the good work he has done
since that time. Bartell claims that
it was all a mistake and that he got
mixed up in the matter by endorsing
a check for a bootlegger.
Clarence Wilson of Tulsa county,
who has served one year of an IS
months sentence for assault to kill,
was recommended for parole. He
was mixed up in a fight at a dance,
in which all of the participants wore
piled up together in the yard when
someone drew a knife and, one of the
other participants was quite badly cut.
Parole was also recommended for A.
J. Warren, sentenced from Canadian
county to two years for receiving
stolen property. Warren is a railroad
man who formerly had an excellent
reputation, but got to drinking and
got into bad company. He was pr
roled on condition that he remain
sober. The parole was recommended
by District Judge John J. Carney, Rep-
resentative M. B. Cope and the sher-
iff of Canadian county.
Noble Stone is in for one year from
Love county for bigamy. He got a
divorce, with a provision under which
it did not become effective for cix
months. He married again in less
than six months, and claimed that he
Noted anarchist (explaining his be-
lief to fellow-passengers on western
railway train)—"\e vant all laws ban-
ished from the statute books. V«?
vant effry citi»3n to do as blease—"
L/eader of western outlaws (sudden-
ly hoarding the train) "Hold up your
hands!"—New York Weekly.
forming a Criminal Operation
Guthrie Okla.—The Biate board of
medical examiners has revoked the
license of Dr. J. M. Means of Clare-
more on the grounds that he per-
formed a criminal opera'ion at inde-
pendence Kan. on a Tulsa society girl
who afterwards died in the Tulsa hos-
pital.
The charges were filed against Dr.
Means by Dr. Ross Gosshart of Tulsa,
who waited on the girl at the Tulsa
hospital and took her dying statement
concerning the criminal operation.
A young man who appeared at the
Tulsa hospital a few days before the
girl died, claimed to be her fiance.
This young man, a drummer who
passes through Tulsa, remained with
the girl until she died. The matter
has not yet been brought before a
grand jury because of the uncertainty
as to whether Kansas or Oklahoma
was the home of the crime, If there
was such.
Dr. Means filed an answer with the
board several days ago, denying the
charge in every particular, but failed
to appear.
A row between Dr. W. T. Tilly, pres-
ident of the state board of medical
examiners, and Dr. J. Hensley of Ok-
lahoma City, was kicked up last week
at a session of the board when Dr.
Tilly made several caustic remarks
about Dr. Hensley.
The row between Dr. Hensley and
certain members of his board is
thought to date back to the last meet-
ing of the board when an Oklahoma
City medical college was black-listed
because certain of its faculty would
not submit to an examination. Dr.
Hensley defended the school.
The board also revoked the license
Glass Bonnets.
A Venetian glass manufacturer 1*
Bald to b" making and selling bonnets
by the thousand. The glass cloth of
which they are made has the samo
shimmer and brilliancy of color as
•ilk, and is Impervious to water.
Advice.
"I'm sort o' thinking' about eh-heh
—marryln' again," said Uncle Totter-
ly, who was old enough to know bet-
ter. 'A han'some young wife kind o
brightens up a home, and heh!
heh! —
"Well," grimly replipd the Old Cod-
ger, "all the advice I can give you is
to select one that will look well in
black' "—Puck.
prominent local physician, on the
grounds that he was a graduate of
a Chicago "diploma mill."
did not know about the restrictions. [ of Dr. L. M. Overton of Guthrie, a
His parole was recommended by Judge
Stilwell H. Russell.
Jim Taylor, 15 months for stealing
cotton was listed for parole on rec-
ommendation of County Attorney H. D.
Henry of Greer county as was also
Fred Norris sentenced to six months
from Oklahoma county for resisting
an officer. He has already served four
months.
A number of other paroles of per-
sons serving short terms were recom-
mended by the board of pardons chief-
ly to relieve the crowded condition of
the penitentiary.
American Consul In Siberia.
Omsk, Siberia now has an American
consulate with Adolph F. Reinecke, in
charge. Heretofore there has been
no American consular representation
in the extensive Russian region be-
tween Moscow and Vladivostok, over
5,000 miles apart. In this territory
are many large cities, and the coun-
try Is showing rapid agricultural de-
velopment. Last fall 5,000 Russian
immigrants passed through Omsk
cach 24 hcurs.
Boer War Cost Many Horses.
Tremendous was the drain on tha
horseflesh of the world caused by tha
Boer war. In that war England sent
339,329 horses and 103,000 mules to
South Africa, four times as many ani-
mals as the Germans took to Franco
in August, 1870. Tamerlane led 93.000
horses over the Hindo Koosh in the
conquest of Delhi.
Tull Sues the Owls
Muskogee, Okla.—W. L. Tull, a
prominent Muskogee real estate man,
who was two months ago injured by
being shot in the thig.h by a blank
cartridge while being initiated into
the order of Owls, has brought suit
in the superior court for $16,250 dam-
ages. Tull was in the hospital here
for six weeks and recently suffered a
relapse.
Labor Laws Must be Observed
Oklahoma City.—"Violators of the
child labor laws will be prosecuted if
they do not cease employing children
under the age prescribed by law,"
said G. E. Warren, slate factory in-
spector.
Mr. Warren has been here several
days investigating, conditions and has
inspected about fifty factories. Sev-
eral children under the age of four-
teen have been ordered removed.
The factory inspector will spend
several days here investigating and
will warn all employers that there
must be no violations of the laws. Mr.
Warren will visit ail the big down |
town stores where women are em- \
ployed and ascertain if the laws in !
1 ' , , „ , ! The cars overaged 40,000 pounds
regard to women employes are being I
observed.
Under the law, all stores must, pro- ]
vide comfortable seats for the use of j Boiler Explosion Kills Fireman
women employes when not engaged j Ardmore, Okla.—In an explosion ol'
in waiting on customers. In stores j the boiler of the cotton gin of Zack
and factories there must be suitable Harmon at Graham Friday, Will Ross,
lighting and ventilation, and the ele- the fireman, was instantly killed and
vators and sanitation must be prop- the gin was entirely destroyed by the
erly conducted. i fire that followed the explosion.
McGuire Buys Osage Land
Guthrie, Okla.—Bird S. McGuire
has purchased one-fourth interest In
the Haynle tract of land In the east-
ern part of Osage county, the consid-
eration being $11,000. The other men
interested In this tract are all wealthy
and the most substantial business
men in the country.
Madill Grain Business
Madill, Okla.—The two grain eleva-
tors here have done a record break-
ing business this fall. The Marsh
Milling and Grain company shipped
out one day recently a solid train con-
sisting of fifteen cars of corn pro-
ducts, shelled corn, meal and chops.
to
the car.
Depew in Form.
Senator Depew, at a tariff dinner in
Washington, was in superb form
His definition of memory set the table
in a road.
"Memory." said Senator Depew, "is
the feeling that steals over us when
we listen to our frier.d3' original sto-
ries."
Mere Details.
Life Insurance Agent—I'd like to
write you up a policy if you haven't
all the life insurance you think you
need
Cholly Kinckerbocker—You'll have
to see my valet, old chap; he attends
to all such matters, don'tcherknow.
Didn't Forget Himself.
A three-year-old waif in a decon-
nesses' home offered up this prayer
says the I>?lineator: "Oh, God bless
all In this home( mentioning each by
name.) "and all the sailors in the
sea, that the ships won't run over
them, and all the poor boys and girls
that they may get bread and candy,
and bless Alfred Warren Randall"—
(himself)—a hesitation, then added,
"the one what's got the nightgown
on."
Bank of England Salaries.
The director of the Bank of England
has a salary of only $10,000 a year
Of the 1,300 employes, about 100 are
women. The first cashier gets nearly
twice as much as the director and the
the total pay roll amounts to over
$1,000,000.
precipitation was not heavy enough to I c handed down from a monar-
damage crop?.
A northbound Missouri Pacific local j
freight tralii crashed Into a south-
bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas
passenger train near Leroy, Kan., last
week killing one and injuring thirty
two.
Earl Bullock, the boy bank robber,
who robbed a Kansas bank last weety
and locked two intn in a vauut, has
not yet been captured.
A wind and hailstorm of cyclonic
proportions struck Atlanta, Ga., last
week and left a trail of wreck and
ruin behind it. The property loss Is
at least $100,000.
chlal organization, and the only
safety from this growing evil is com-
plete reorganisation of government.
That alcohol in any form is but
seldom of distinct value In the treat-
ment of disease, appeared to be the
consensus of opinion of the twelfth
international congress on alcohol,
In Id in Londou In July last.
Mr. and Mrs. Szathmari of the lit-
tle Village of Isonbalgi, Hundary,
have celebra'ed the one hundredth
anniversary of their marriage. The
husband Is 120 years old aud the
wife 116.
Indians Destroy Much Property Municipal Light Systems Don't Pay
Muskogee, Okla.—One day last week j Duncan, Okla.—That municipal
the Night Hawks of the Cherokee na- j lighting, plants in towns the size ol
tion down on the Poteau river decided Marlow and I)llnf>an 'lo not W ^
to try the old Indian method of rain ! been demonstrated at Mariow_ by the
making, being driven to near desper-
a'ion by the drouth. Up and down
the river they went setting on fire the
drifts that haa accumulated during the
past two years. Great fires roamed
up from the near-dry river bed and
columns of smoke, black and dense,
rose to the heavens. The Indian smoke
talk was pleading with the Great'
Spirit for rain. Incidentally these
fires spread from the drifts to the
city's having offered its plant for sale
The question is to be put to a vote
of the people following the recom
mendation of the council. Duncan
probably will take similar action.
New Y. M. C. A. Building
Sapulpa, Okla—A $30,000 building
for the Young Men's Christian associa-
tion In Sapulpa has been planned by
the board of directors. The member-
ship in the organization has grown so
I ters are necessary.
woods and then to the farms. Fences 1 ™P»«"y during the past few months
and fields, dry as tinder, were burned | that new and more commodious quar-
over. It is estimated that at least
$25,000 worth of proper-!' was de-
stroyed by the flames which got be-
yond control.
Oil Holdings Sold
Okmulgee, Okla.—The T. H. Brass
oil holdings in the Morris field have
Bartlesville Votes Bonds
Bartlesville, Okla., Less than fifty
votes were cast against the proposi-
tion to vote a $60,000 bond issue with
which to build a city hall and equip
the fire station. Of this amount $40,-
been sold to the National Supply Co., : 000 will be expended In building the
of Toledo. O.. for $11,000. | city ba.'l.
Why She Went Sour.
"I felt kind of miffed," said the ge-
nial man who liked to occupy a lofty
niche in everybody's affections, "wh"?n
the religious lady at the foot of the
table suddenly soured on me; but
when I found that she had under-
stood me to boast that m'y father-
dear old Methodist preacher that hn
is—was a circus rider instead of a-
'circuit rider.' I didn't known that I
could blame her."
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
Notary or Corporation Saala, - - $2.00
Notary Public Record Bonk. - - - $1 00
Mere hunts Quick I'rics Marker, |1 '>0
Uar. Silver Hat or Coat Ba.lfs, - ti 00
Rubber Stamps. Pads. Stencils. Oaten and
all stamp supplias Writ* for prir,»<l rata-
l"fua, (V K Rubber Stamp (i Seal Co ,
IIS W. Grand Aye , Oklahoma City
MACHINERY S-S
Write, call or phona *
Southwestern Mfg. Co., Oklahoma City
SHERMAN MACHINE & IRON
WORKS Refers Cotton He.
Eufines and lioilera, Repair
Supplias. ate.
ers and dinning Machinery
Work a Specialty. Machinery
OKLAHOMA CUT
ELECTRIC SIGNS
,uVm ELECTRIC SUPPLIES
S. W. ELECTRIC CO.,
KW DEERE IMPLEMENTS
and VELIE VEHICLES•*>»ur d.tl.i
ORJOHN DEERE PLOW CO., OKLAHOMA CITY
Tha low cost of
operating will
rita of
Call
IIS North Harvey Street
Oklahoma City
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