The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol 5.
CHOCTAW CITY, OKLAHOMA1 flARCH-12. 1098
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PRINTER* INK.
Tho push of tUo pencil,
Tho uho of printers ink,
Kills your storo with customer;
Ami is sure to briii^ iu tho "chink."
It is said that seventy-eight
cent of the Spanish people are
able to read.
per
un-
Will the war scare increase the
marriage license business? Single
man, you know
vice first.
are drafted into ser-
Passengers arriving from Havana
are convinced that the Main was
destroyed from outside by explosives*
and they report that such is the real
opinion of the people of the city.
Uncle sam should now proceed to
run a •‘corner” on all available fight-
ing vessels that are bought. He will
then be in position to "squeeze**
Spain until there isn’t a whole bone
left in the Spanish anatomy.
Havana, March 5.—Last night
nineteen well known persons in Ha-
vana were arrested here upon the
charge of conspiring against the
Spanish government. They are ac-
cused principally of holding secret
correspondence with the insurgents
in the field.
Havana, Via Key West, Fla.,
March 4.—A high Spanish naval
authority made the statement to-day
that a torpedo, towed by a rope, des
troyed the Maine, assisted by a ton
of saluting powder, in a reserve mag-
azine. This is corroborated by dis-
coveries already cabled. This infor-
mation comes frcm the same souroe
which supplied the Navy Depart
ment of the United States with the
exact data of the Spanish defenses
UNCLE SAM’5 BIOOE5T CJUN.
in the gun factory at Waterliet
Arsenal the tioverment is construct-
ing the most tremendous rifle ever
made It is a 16 inch gun, and when
completed, will have cost $300,000.
It is 4O feet finches long and weighs
126 tons* six tons more than the giant
Krupp exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
The gun will be mounted :>n Ho-
mer Shoals, inclosed and protected
by a turret. From this position it
will have a full sweep of the chanels
entering New York harbor. With u
900-pound charge of powder it will
throw a 1,000-sbell 15 miles.
This shell will move 2,000-feet
a second, with a striking energy equal
to that of a 2,000-ton ship at full
speed.
No known armor or material can
withstand this fearful inpact. The
heaviest protection would be as card-
board, and open in huge, jagged
hole, while the shell would tear and
rend the very bowels on an enemeys
warship.
So delicately is this greatest of the
world’s armamemp built and so per-
fect is the system of sighting and
fireing, that the enormous shell Hies
straight and true to the target, miles
away, as surely as a sharpshooter
plante his bullits in a bull’s-eye
with unvarying accuracy.
History shows that Spain has not
ought any great battle for some two
lundred years. She, however, seems
anxious for one.
Wo Buy, Gin ami Sell Cotton. ^
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ALWAYS’ASK FOR.
"J"he ^aple |ea| Wo|,<
—KATES *1.00 PER DAY.—
First Class (Beds,
First Class Meals.
THIRD DOOR NORTH OK DEPOT.
Livery in Connection.
6*4?“ H. Bollwine, Proprietor.
Senor Dupuy de Lome still seems
to think that literature is his forte,
and proposes to write a book. He
once wrote a book that he was asham-
ed of.
Six widows are claimants for one
[ dead man's estate in New York. Our
I Eastern friends have often boasted
that they did not gram divorces like
now m the American[bureau of naval I they do out West. But they
intelligence. This man’s statements | to have other troubles,
always have proved absolutely cor
seem
CHA8. DOJBEREtfZ
german blacksmith.
Blacksmith and Wagon Shop.
Many years experience in the blacksmith business in eastern and
western States enables me to guarntee strickly first class work in my
Oline, at low prices. Shop opposite depot between Main and the mill.
HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY.
CHOCTAW OKLA.
DAVIDSON A CASES
DEALER IN
rect. He cites the fact that the only
known mine experiment was made
by General Weyler, who put some
mines into Chorrera bay and then
took them out again on account of
the danger to Spanish coasting I good behavior,
vessels. 1
, Awarded
[Highest Honors—World’s Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
on
0m
mm
POWDER
A Par® drape Cream of Tartar Powder.
40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
Mr. Adolph L. Luetgert of Chi-
cago will be placed in charge of the
sausage factory in the Joliet peni-
tentiary. It is understood that the
appointment is for life or during
While the position
is in every sense an acceptable one,
Mr. Luetgert would like to have the
public understand that he did not
seek it. It came to him unsolicited,
and, as a matter of fact, against his
will. This is one of those instances,
all too rare, in which the office seeks
the man.
Norfolk, Va., March 5.-The com-
mandant of the Norfolk navy yard
received telegraphic instructions to-
day from Secretary Long to con-
I centrate all the energirs and facili-
ties of the yard on the cruiser New-
I ark and have her ready for service
in sixty days. The reply was made
[ that this was a physical impossibility,
whereupon the department asked for
(estimates as to what was needed and
the shortest possible time the cruser
could be made ready for sea duty.
Every effort will be made to com-
1 plete the repairs in sixty days.
Doors, jSaslt ooj BJiljIs .
Ill HMDS OF MOWS AND FINISHING
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Beeman, Frank E. The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1898, newspaper, March 12, 1898; Choctaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405455/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.