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ORLANDO CLIPPER
By J. R Marker
ORLANDO - - OKLAHOMA
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News Notes
Epitome of the Most
Important Happening
at Home and Abroad
WASHINGTON.
J!
United Stat, -s district attorney 5»ims
is going after the alleged rubber
trust. Following the taking of testi-
mony by the Merriam coin mission re-
lating to the purchase of rubber hose,
Sims has detailed an assistant to
watch development- and report as to
whether prosecution for violation of
the Sherman law will stand.
The senate committee on Indian
affairs have favorably reported the
.Morgan bill providing for the sale of
hixty quarter sections of land near El j
Reno now forming part of the Chey-
enne Arapahoe Indian reservation. |
The land will be subject to settlement
under the United States homestead
laws, probably in tracts.of forty and
eighty acrev The price is $5 per
acre or more. The bill already has
passed the house.
The secretary of the treasury an-
nounced Thursday that there would I '■ horsewhipped
be no further prosecutions aimed at Florence Herald
the "men higher up" in the sugar
or customs fraud cases.
The decision of the supreme court
in the cases of the Standard Oil and | aKe
American Tobaco trust cases ,.as
been postponed because of a desire
of that tribunal for a re-argument ol
the issues involved.
series of earthquakes varying In
intensity has swept over Costs Rica
durint? the past few days, doins dam*
a;e. it is reported, to the extent of '
more thin a million dollars.
It ha been learned by ^iilwaukoa-
ans int r>.-ted in the steel trade, that
Joseph T. Kyerson and the Scully
S' I and Iron Works of Chicago are I
tht leaders of the fights which the
jobbers are making against tin- Unit* I
e ' States Steel corporation for their i
invasion of their fields.
Another of the Maybray gang, Ed- j
v.ard Leach, was bailed out of the fed- }
eral prison pending the hearing of his
appeal from the United States dis- j
trict court at Council Bluffs, Iowa, to
the circuit court of appeals. His bond
is fixed at ; 10,000, .
The street car strike which has
been in progress in Philadelphia
since February 19, has at last been
HIS DESIRE.
i
NATION
GAME
L A W
SEMINOLE
COURTS
PASSING
Sale of Land Marks Last Steps of
Government Progress
Muskogee, Okla.—On May 13 the
government will sell all of the unal-
lotted land of the Seminole nation.
United States Court at St. Louis Af-
firms Famous Rupert Case
Guthrie, Okla. The Oklahoma law
forbidding the shipment of slaughter-
... ed wild ijame out of the state was
j This marks the most advanced step j upheld by the United States circuit
j taken yet in any of the Five Civilized j court of appeals in a recent decision
Tribes, towards settling the affair a
of the Indians. Only one more step '
settled and the company has" agreed j will be necessary. That is paying to
to take back all the strikers and
i guarantee them $2.00 per day until a
1 regular run can be secured. During
i the strike 28 persons were killed by
trollPv cars, which accidents, it is
claimed, were caused by inexperi-
I onced niotormen.
It has been announced that the
| United States Steel corporation will
increase the wages of a large number
of their employes May 1. In figures
the increase will equal about $9,000,-
000 annually.
The opening of the baseball season
in til.- American and National leagues
took place Thursday.
The mayor of Florence, Ala., public-
the editor of the
for editorially at-
tacking his veracity in connection
with the gubernatorial campaign.
the Seminoles the tribal monies that
are due them and then the Seminole
nation, as a political entity, will be
at St. Louis, a copy of which has J
just been received by the United
States attorney here.
The court of appeals affirms the
conviction of Paris Rupert, convict- I
ed on four counts of shipping 12.000 j
wiped out forever, according to the j quail from Blaine county, Oklahoma,
government policy. In none of the j to Chicago, about 1905 and lined $100
other nations has the government ! on each count.
gotten this far, or anywhere near it The case is a celebrated one, and
in the settlement of tribal affairs. had a much larger importance than
The sale of unallotted tribal land J the amount of the fine involved, it
in the Seminole nation is not an im- ^ being generally understood that brok-
portant matter from the amount of Bl"s and commission men handling
land involved. There will be only 2,-
700 acres to sell. This land is to be
sold under regulations similar to the
sale of lands of restricted Indians. It
probably will determine the method
of sale of millions of acres of unal-
lotted lands in other nations. Only
160 acres will be sold to one person.
The sale will be under sealed bids,
and the appraisement of the land will
. . , , ... , , be public. The indications are most
A tornado Thursday did great dam- j of
such commodities joined in the fight
in order to get a settlement of the
question of the right of a state to
interfere with the interstate com-
merce to the extent of refusing to
allow game shipped out, and also of
the Lacey act of the national con-
gress making it a federal offense for
a person to violate a state law pro-
hibiting shipments of game outside
the state.
DOMESTIC.
With the permission of Will Heg-
ler, whom he had stabbed, Joseph
Harkness of Blaine county has been
paroled by Gov. rnor Haskell. Hark-
ness was sentenced to two years for
•the stabbing.
Reservations were made at a Chi-
cago hotel Friday for the Duke or
Conn aught, brother of Kin- Edward
VII, who < xpectB to visit Chicago in
August.
John I). Archbold, head of tho
Standard Oil Co.. accompanied by .1.
A. Moffet and a board of nine direc-
tors. are touring through the oil re-
gions in eastern Oklahoma in a spe-
cial train.
On a charge of opening mail ad-
dressed to a local hotel. Jesse Taber
was arrested by federal officials at
Bartlesville. Taber was cook in the
hotel and has been there a week.
The town of Woodward, Oa., was
almost completely destroyed by ;;
cyclone which
Gundav.
visited that, vicinity
The announcement
ceived from Quebei
tation of wood pulp
\iriee to the United
has been re-
that the expor-
from that pro-
states will al-
most Immediately be prohibited.
The Fairbanks Mount McKlnley ex-,
pedition that reached the summit of
the peak started to follow the al-
leged route taken by Dr. Frederick
A. Cook and has been obliged to
abandon it as impassible. Thomas
Lfoyd, leader of the expedition; says
no traces of Cook's camps were
found, and he declares the doctor's
story of the four-day ascent a pure
myth.
Eleven men. all foreigners, were
crushed to death in a stone quarry
of the Nazareth Portland cement <
company near Nazareth, Pa. The pre- i
mature explosion tore loose five
thousand tons of stone which cover- !
ed the victims.
Ground for the $125,000 county
court house at Ardmore has been
broken by the Gill Construction com-
pany. A large crowd attended, lis
tuning to speeches on the advance-
ment of this county since statehood.
Women of central Kentucky have
united in a protest to Census Direc-
tor Durand at what they term is the
classification Of housewives in the
forthcoming census as "Idlers." Thfs
r>ction v i taken at a meeting oi the
Central K• ntucky Women's clubs.
Two robbers blew the safe in the
hank at Harold. Texas with nitrogly- ,
cerine and escaped with $2,500 In
cash.
Six firemen were burned to death
in a fire at the New Haven, Conn.,
jail, and three others narrowly es- |
caped through the heroic efforts of
their comrades. Many of the other j
firemen were fearful!} burned b(it.
remained at work.
Four Turklsn cruisers and eight
torpedo boats have been : nt to the
Adriatic to assist In suj pressing t'he
rebellion that Is now sweeping prac
tica'Iy all of Albania.
to property in the vicinity of
Parsons, Kansas.
Six tramps were killed in a wreck
j on the Northern Pacific railroad near j
I Spokane, Wash.
Though there is as yet no certain
knowledge abroad as to whether Gov-
j ernor Haskell will accept the re sis-
! nation of Adjutant General Canton, I
friends of General J. ('. Jamison are
' mentioning his name for the place.
For the week ending April 14 Okla-J
j honia City has the largest per cent 1
| increase in the general bank clearing's '
reported in all the cities pf the Unit-
ed States. Oklahoma City's increase
is 63.0 while that of New York City ;
and Chicago is 9.9. The nearest ap- \
proach to Oklahoma City's showing is
St. Joseph, with 32.4 per cent in- ]
cfease. Mrlfnpliis"with IS.8. and Wich- 1
I ita with 18.1.
Joseph Darkness, sentenced from
Blaine county for stabbing Will Heg-
ler, has belli paroled b\ Governor:
Haskell, w'I'i the permission of Heg- |
ler. Harkness was serving a two- '
| year sentence.
The body of a dend man has been
i found in a car of lumber at Clinton.
The man is supposed to be Georga
Hoffmaster, from a notebook found on
his person.
Robbers have made another at- ,
tempt on the Richmond, Virginia j
postofUce, this time securing $ 170.60
in cash and money orders. Two men
are in jail at present waiting trial
it will be sold in tracts of 120 acres
oi less.
The Seminoles were the first of all
the tribes to select their allotments,
and this is one of the reasons they
are farther along towards a final set-
tlement. The Seminole nation is the
smallest of the five.
An Oklahoman Honored
Oklahoma City.—::on. Brant Kirk
of Oklahoma City, former Judge-Ad-
vocate-General of the Sons of the
Confederacy, has been offered a place
on the lecture platform.
Judge Kirk has been of national
prominence in the Association for
twelve years. He has also been on
for robbing the
$80,000 a few
W(
postofllce
eks ago.
there of
FOREIGN.
The postofTice employes in Paris
mean to take an active part in the
coming elections. They will start a
campaign against those politicians
who did not back them up In their
strike, which, as you remember, par-
alyzed the trade of France and seri-
ously affected other countries
When an antiquated locomotive ex-
ploded in the yards of the National
railway of Mexico at Monterey, elev-
en employes of the road were killed.
The screwing down of the safety
valve on the engine, after it had been
run out of the round house, caused
the explosion.
Three are dead and four other per-
sons badly burned as the result of a
coal oil explosion at Snyder, Texas.
Scientists believe the danger from
seismic disturbances in Costa Rica is
passed for the present. Sixty-two
movements of the earth were felt
during three days.
The building trades lock-out, which
already has made a quarter of a mil-
lion workmen idle, appears to be the
beginning of a long struggle affecting
many divisions of the national indus-
try in Berlin. The employers have
locked out tho men In an effort to put
an nd once and for all to what they j
rcgafd as the intolerable demands of
the latter.
The < it j of Dusseldorf will have a
municipal ptlMlftr airship next
Month. The authorities have con- j
tractcd with the Zeppelin company
for the hire of one of their famous :
airships for two years.
Another British gunboat has ur- !
rived in the I'ekin harbor, following j
the increased outbreaks of the rebels
who attacked the mtssioiiai'i's. Three
'oth. r gunboats are expected to arrive
shortly.
m
GEN. BRANT KIRK
1 the stump as a political orator for
the past ten years, and has been
complimented by many papers as one
of America's most powerful campaign
| speakers. He was a prominent can-
! didate for U. S. Senator in 1907, but
j withdrew from the race for lack of
campaign funds.
Chickasha Bank licensed
Guthrie, Okla.—State Bank Com-
j missioner Young Tuesday granted a
j license to the Farmers' State Bank
of Chickasha, with a capital of $50,-
! ooo.
Iron Mountain joins Fight
Guthrie, Okla.,—The St. Louis Iron
Mountain & Southern railway have
joined in the fight being made by the
railroads of the state against the 2-
cent rate. Th s ground on which their
contest, is filed is the same as that of
the other roads, charging chiefly that
the law is confiscatory.
Constructing Pipe Line
Bartlesville. Okla. Application has
been filed with the county commis-
sioners by the Gulf Pipe Line com-
pany, asking for the right to lay a
pipe line across the county. The line
from Tulsa to Bartlesville is under
construction. Several oil men after
a visit to the east are of'the opinion
'that this territory is the best, in the
state and in fact the country, and that
ir will be only a question of a few
years until many of the larger con-
cerns will he looking to the Bartles-
ville field for their supply.
Independents Make Progress
Guthrie. Okla—Reports from Okla-
homa towns that held elections the
| first Tuesday in April show an in-
creasing democratic strength and
show also a strong independent spir-
J it. In several towns politics was not
Ian issue, men being elected solely
because of their qualifications. In
some of the larger towns politics cut
I quite a figure and independent candi-
dates, supported largely by the busi- 1
ness element, made inroads into par-
| ty followings.
Dispensary Operates at Loss
i Guthrie, Okla.—That the state dis-
: pensary, operat d at a net loss of $4,-
737 for the two months of February \
and March, is one of th efeatures of a
report of the finances of the dispen-,
sary. The report was made to check j
out Former Superintendent Sam I
Stone, who resigned to take the sec- '
retaryship of the banking board. The 1
gross earnings during February and !
March were $9,300, and expenses $14. ;
037.
Live Wire Kills Lineman
Oklahoma Ci'y.—Mark J. Silver, a
lineman employed b- the Oklahoma
Gas and Electric company, was in-
stantly killed when his body came
in contact with a high voltage wire
at Tenth street and Robinson avenue
Monday afternoon.
Sewer Contract Let
Tulsa, Okla.—The city commission-
ers of Tulsa have let contracts cov-
ering approximately $20,000 worth of
sewer extensions. There are still
several contracts to be. let.
Boost ng New Railroad
Ardmore, Okla.—F L. Mercer of j
Frederick met with the commercial
club here to induce co-operation on
the buildng of the Red river valley [
and Texas road from Chilicothe, Tex-
as, to Ardmore.
Head of Trust (paying exorbitant
fare to cab-driver)—Here is your fare,
and may I ask if you think you could
get me a similar job?
The Response Mechanical.
It is the custom in convents for the
nuns to respond to a knock at the door
with the words: "In the name of God,"
the phrase being equivalent In con-
ventional parlance to our worldly
"enter" or "come in."
In a convent in one of the western
cities not long since the mother supe-
rior had a never-to-be-forgotteu expe-
rience as a result of this custom. Some
one in the outer world called the con-
vent telephone number by mistake.
The mother superior, roused from her
meditations, picked up the receiver
and responded, mechanically: "In the
name of God."
"Madam!" called an irate masculine
voice at the other end of the wire,
"there is no occasion for you to swear
at me, even if I have made a mistake
in the number. Profane language is
prohibited over the telephone!"
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to Irartj
the.t thertf Ls at leaat one dreaded disease that seieneo
hA.s been able to cure tn all Its stages, and that id
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure 1h the only positive
cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu-
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Ls taken in-
ternally acting directly upon the blood and mueoua
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying fho
foundation of the disease, and giving tho pit lent
strength by building up the constitution ami assist-
ing nature In doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith In its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any r.ise that it falls LC
cure. Send for list of testimonials
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. O.
Fold by ail Druggists 7re.
Take Hall's Family Pill* for constipation.
O, Those Tears!
"So you are going to marry Mr.
Glimson?" smiles the first fair young
thing. "1 was engaged to him last
year. He positively wept when I
broke the engagement."
"I know lie did," answers the other
beauteous creature. "He told me
that he wept—for joy."
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The Spartan Son.
The Spartan mother sent her son
into battle.
"Come home with the moving pic-
ture or in it," she commanded him.
Herewith he rushed to the fray.
Remember nothing depreciates a
man more than to show him he's like
other men.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate nnd Invig-
orate stomach, liver and bowels. -coatod,
tiny granules, easy to taku as candy.
The proper place for low-cut gowns
is on the bargain counter.
'^egro Murderer Is Hanged
Holdenville, Okla.—John Illack, the
negro murderer of J. P. Stevens paid
this city last October paid tho pen-
alty for his crime at the ropes end
Friday morning. Sheriff James King
of Hughes county officiating.
Sanitarium To Cost $20,000.
Oklahoma City.—Oklahoma City is
to have a new sanitarium erected at
a cost of $20,000 by Dr. J. J. McKen-
na, at Ninth street and Western ave-
nue, covering an entire block. It is
expected the new structure will be
tho finest in the southwest. With ev-
ery suite of rooms will be a bath and
several new innovations in the medi-
cal world are to be added. It will be
completed about September 1.
State Fair Superintendents for 1910
Oklahoma City. The Board of Di-
rectors of the State Fair of Okla-
homa announce the following su-
perintendents for 1910:
Cattle, S. L. Urock, Oklahoma City;
horses, w. L. English, Oklahoma
City; sheep and swine, l(. Kleiner,
Wheatland; poultry, Dr. M S. Fite,
Pawnee; farm products, horticulture,
floriculture, apiary and dairy, Win.
Alson, Kdtnond: geological, Prof. C.
N. Gould, Norman; line arts, Miss
Helen \datns, Oklahoma City; educa-
tional, Mrs. Belle Hedlund. Oklahoma
City; agricultural implements, Orln
Ashton, Oklahoma City; culinary,
Miss Lena Oshom, Oklahoma City;
textile, Mrs. H. Klopp, Oklahoma
City; superintendent of gates. Wei-
ton Atwood, Oklahoma City; super-
intendent of tickets, J. F. Warren,
Oklahoma City
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