Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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I’he Bixby Bulletin
•TTUCKHY A PHILLIPS, Pubs.
OKLAHOMA
BIXBY.
Vacation days are spending days
The style In
dose to nature.
gowns Is certainly
The plug hat Is to be abolished even
In English society.
As Told in a
Few Words
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small S pace
Occasionally the mercury volplanes
In order to get a fresh start.
WASHINGTON.
President Taft returned to Wash-
ington from Cincinnati where he had
been to attend the funeral of John
Herron, Mrs. Taft’s father.
More than $3,000,000 damages was
It Is predicted that the sheath skirt j done to crops in the south last month
One way to keep cool Is to avoid
rending rules about how to do It.
will disappear with the summer girl.
by the army worm, accbrtftng to un
official estimates of the department
of agriculture.
By a rearrangement of assignments
on committees, caused by recent va-
Walt until cool weather comes be- j oancles Senator Robert La Follette
fore you wear tight cellars or discuss ha(J been made a member of an im-
You cannot convince a sunburned
man that there are spots on the sun.
politics.
According to a Boston savant,
Americans will eventually bo a flat-
footed race.
It takes a hero to go about in his
shirt sleeves, and a martyr to keep
his coat on.
Bathing suits bought early In the
season now call for talcum powder
and a shoe horn.
It might help some, these days, to
go down in the basement and fondle
the snow shovel.
Once In a while a baseball writer
speaks of a player's lingers as fingers
and not as "digits.”
portant committee on interstate com-
merce.
An appropriation of $35,000 to for-
mer Senator Lorimer to cover part of
his expenses in the two fights to re-
tain his seat, has been recommended
by the senate committee on privileges
and elections.
The adjournment of congress by
August 17 has been definitely fixed
upon by the leaders of both houses.
This definite decision followed the
approving by the senate of the free
passage of American ships through
the Panama canal.
The engineer, fireman and one pas-
senger was killed and between 20 and
30 passengers were injured near Bos-
ton, when a New York, New Haven
& Hartford passenger train left the
track. The engine, baggage car and
two day coaches went over an em-
“The black death" is leading to a
general crusade throughout the coun- ! bankment
try against the rats._ j p^g^ent Taft has announced that
That New York man who left his ! he would veto the legislative, executive
$250,000 estate to his landlady may and judicial appropriation bill carry-
have been fond of prunes. i *ng $34,000,000 for the expenses of the
_ . | government for the current year be-
The only effect hot weather has on cause it includes the “seven year”
the small boy is to increase the popu- clause and makes no provisions for
larity of the swlmmin’ hole.
the commerce court.
This year’s grain crops in the Unit-
The national fly swatting campaign ed States will be far in excess of last
Is a huge joke on the files and a huge year's yield, is the estimate by the
effort to stay the hand of disease. department of agriculture. It is esti-
-——— , mated it will be better than the aver-
A French surgeon recently per- age crop for the past ten years and
formed a remarkable operation on in the case of a number of products
himself. Maybe he cut his own hair, will make a new record.
The house has passed the general
How Important it must make the '(|eflcjenCy appropriation bill. It car-
small boy in the bathing suit feel to rieg j182.838. The bill contains one
be told that he has a riparian right! jtem of $i50,000 for the fiftieth anni-
~ varsary celebration of the battle of
In this brand of weather the ama- Gettysburg next July, coupled with
teur gardener clings to his hammock |he provision that lh’e state of Penn-
and lets the weeds grow where they sylvania appropriate at least an equal
amount.
Cumulative evidence piling up be-
fore the grand jury investigating po-
lice blackmail in New York City ia
said to involve four or five high po-
lice officials.
A battle between a black snake
about two feet long and a clucking
hen guarding a dozer little chickens,
fought in a dusty road near San-
dusky, Ohio, was won by the hen.
Since his criticism of bachelor
maids nnd bachelors, whom he would
relegate to some solitary island, the
Rev. Elmer Huffner of Colorado, has
received 300 appeals for aid in effect-
ing marriages.
Tunneling through the ceiling of a
basement room, then cutting a hole
through the five-eighths inch steel
floor of a vault of a bank in the lower
part of New York, a band of robbers
secured $72000 in bills in large de-
nominations and missed $3,000,000
more in cash.
Kansas farmers' wives and daugh-
ters who are working to have the full
suffrage amendment carry at the fall
election will contribute to a chicken
fund to help the cause. Each woman
will take a chicnen to the county
seat which she will sell and the mon-
ey thus raised will be devoted to cam-
paign expenses.
Singing “Onward Christian Sol-
diers” and “the battle hymn of the
republic,” the delegates to the first
national convention of the new Pro-
gressive party acclaimed Theodore
Roosevelt of New York as their can-
didate for president and Gov. Hiram
\V. Johnson of California, as their
choice for vice president.
Official returns indicate Governor
Stutfbs not only has won the republi-
can nomination for senator over Sen-
ator Curtis by a plurality of legisla-
tive districts, but that he may have
the popular vote also. George Hodges
is more than 3.000 votes ahead of Bil-
lard in the democratic race for gov-
ernor.
OWEN CHOICE Of THE PEOPLE
LEADS IN EVERY COUNTY IN
STATE EXCEPT FOUR
MAJORITY WILL BE 35,000
HASKELL ATTRIBUTES HIS DE-
FEAT TO REPUBLICANS
Returns Come In Very Slowly After
One of the Moat Hotly Contested
Primaries In the Hletory of
the State of Oklahoma
Two and a half millions of Amer-
icans live by writing. Including, of
course, those who write home for
money.
California woman died as a result
of wearing too small a corset. Some
women would rather die than be out
of form.
The old Field bill framed to revise
the patent laws so they will meet the
recent patent monopoly decision of
the supreme court has been reported
to the house. The measure aims to
set aside the decision which insured
to an inventor the right to stipulate
the kind of materials used or sold
in connection with a patented de-
vice.
Just one little favor! When the
Bun begins to broil again, please say:
“Hot. Isn’t it!” instead of: “Hot,
ain’t'"it!" - - ...... - '
You can’t induce a self-made man to
believe that his son would ever suc-
ceed in getting anywhere without a
lot of help.
There are said to be 10,000 music
DOMESTIC
Making a mile from a flying start in
3l:ll second's l.ouis a. Dish row ia hie-
Jay Eye Zee special 29(>-horscpower
racing car, led the Galveston beach
record by 6:69 seconds.
Chicago street car men favor a
strike by a vote of 8,939 to 171 un-
less their demands for higher wages
Oklaoma City—Incomplete returns
from 55 counties give Senator Robert
L. Owen a vote of 63,661 to 28,752
votes for his opponent, former Gover-
nor Charles N. Haskell, in the race
for nomination for senator. If this
ratio is maintained as expected in the
returns from remaining counties, the
majority of Owen will be between
30.000 and 35,000 votes. Thursday
night the senator stated that a major-
ity of more than 35,000 votes Is indi-
cated.
Official complete returns from Mus-
kogee county show that Owen was
given a vote of 2.244 while Haskell
SENATOR OWENS’ STATE-
MENT.
‘T am profoundly gratified
at the evidence on the part of
the democrats of Oklahoma of
their confidence and I deeply
appreciate the approval of the
citizens of tht state have given
to my candidacy:
“My only purpose is to serve
every man and not to promote
in any way my private inter-
ests or my personal ambitions.
“The action of the state
means the approval of the pol-
icies for which I stand, that is
to say, direct control of the
government by the people,
which means honest, economi-
cal and efficient government.”
Among the republicans, few of the
winners outside of McGuire and Mor-
gan for congress are known. It prac-
tically is assured that R. T. Daniel
of Tulsa has won the nomination in
the third district, defeating J. T. Den-
ton and J. A. Dixon of Muskogee and
Jame3 Dennis Flynn of •apulpa.
FOREIGN.
Once more Cocos, a tiny island
in the Pacific ocean, is to be visited
by an expedition in search of the
fabulous treasures reported to have
been buried there by pirates.
The upsetting of a lamp by the
earthquake in Constantinople, started
a conflagration at Chorlu on the Ad-
rianople line. Three hundred houses
already have been destroyed and the
fire is still raging.
An aeroplane with a pilot and two
passengers crossed the English chan-
nel from Dover early Sunday morn-
ing. The aeroifTane landed at Shaf-
ford, Kent, but owing to the heavy
wind collided with a tree. The wings
were smashed but the occupants were
not hurt
The Bulgarian press is clamoring
for war against Turkey. The inhab-
itants are extremely bellicose. They
are holding meetings of protest
against the massacre in which 140
Bulgarians were killed and demon-
strations against Turkey are being
organized in all parts of the country.
Border fighting between the Turks
and guerrila bands of Albanian tribes-
men continues along the Montenegro
frontier. The Turkish frontier troops
who have been strongly reinforced,
again crossed the Montenegrin bord-
er and were again repulsed by the
Montenegrin levies.
Mexican rebels, moving south from
Juarez.. have been fighting with the - „ _ .. .
advance guard of the Tcdera'i army, ^57 aT'a ou
ty by 1,562 votes.
Reports to Owen headquarters in
Oklahoma City show that the senator
SENATOR ROBT. L. OWEN
Who Defeated Former Gcv. C. N. Haskell for the Democratic Nomina-
tion for United States Senator
polled 2,048, giving the senator a ma-
jority of 196 votes in his home county.
Pittsburg county went for the senator
teachers in New York. We presume and improved working conditions are
that this is in addition to those who granted.
teach ragtime.
Statistics show that every New
Yorker takes some sort of car ride
every day. New Yorkers certainly
crave excitement.
They are fighting the grasshopper
pest in California with vacuum clean-
ers. And, strange to say, there seems
to be money in it.
The man who tries to cross the At-
lantic in a dirigible balloon or an
aeroplane is pretty sure to succeed in
crossing the Styx.
A scientist warns us that if women
do not behave the race is in danger
of decay. Just like a mere man to lay
the blame on the women.
Somebody asks a western editor
how to stop shoes from squeaking. It’s
none of our business, of course, but
one way is to take them off.
Grand Circuit trotting races are be-
ing held this year as usual, notwith-
standing the fact that trotting races
are hardly ever accompanied by fatal-
♦tics
Business men from throughout the
south, comprising the Southern
Merchants’ association, assembled at
Atlanta for the second annual con-
ference of the session. More than
3,000 members are in attendance at
the meeting.
The trial of “Kid” McCoy, under ar-
rest in London on the charge of lar-
ceny alleged to have been committed
at Ostend, was brought up again and
remanded for a week, his bail being
renew'ed.
«
Although he will be 77 years old
in October, Adlai Stevenson, who
was vice president in the second
term of Grover Cleveland, will take
the stump this fall for Wilson and
Marshall.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Musko-
gee, who has been renominated for
senator by an overwhelming major
ity, has been secured by the Okla-
homa City Trades and Labor Council
as the principal speaker at the state-
wide labor celebration which will be
held at Fair Park ou Labor Day, Mon-
day, September !>.
approaching Juarez. It is reported
that the rebel advance on Chihuahua
has been checked. It is also reported
that General Orozco has submitted a carried Adair county by a big vote,
peace proposal to the Madero gov- Beaver county by a vote of nearly
ernment. j three to one, Canadian county by
The government introduced in the majority, Cherokee county b> ^a
chamber of deputies at Constanti-
tlnople an amendment to the consti-
tution whereby the sultan is empow-
ered to dissolve the chamber under
except irmal circumstances without
consent of the senate, provided he
summons a new chamber within six
months.
General Cincinnatus Leconte, pres
ident of the republic of Haiti, per
ished in a fire which destroyed tht
national palace. It was caused bj
an explosion of a powder magazine
attached to the pa'aee.
The five English yachtsmen whe
were arrested on August 4, at Eckern
foerde, near Kiel, Germany, ir
Schleswig-Holstein on the charge ol
espionage have been released.' Thej
were accused of taking photograph?
of important points along the Schles
wig-Holstein coast including the har
bors and bays, but the police admh
now that the suspected men seen
only to have been guilty of foolhardj
photography, of which they now know
the risk.
Details of the earthquake that
wrecked several cities on the coast ol
Concerning universal criticism of
rats who desert a sinking ship, St
seems that ordinary justice to the
rats will give them credit for knowing
when the ship is sinking.
Senator Dixon of Montana, was the sea of Marmia, and caused up
elected chairman of the national com- heavals in the sea. indicate that tht
mittee of the progressive party at a disturbance was widespread. Severa
meeting of the committee at Chicago, hundred persons have been killed:
A number of persons were injured i thousands are homeless and out break*
slightly and over 40 arrested at Fitts- I of fire have occurred In many town*
burg. Fa., in a clash between social- and villages, according to reports re
big majority, Dewey county by 30
votes. Harper county by 100 votes,
Noble county by approximately 150,
Okmulgee county by neajrl five to
one, Osage count by 300, Ottawa by
12B, Woods by 350 and Atoka and
Harmon by good majorities.
Late returns from the eastern por-
tion of the state assure that Judge
joha B. Turner of Vinita is renomi-
nated in the race against N. B.
Maxey of Muskogee. Muskogve coun-
ty gave Maxey a good majority, but
Pittsburg, Sequoyah, Craig and oth-
ers overcame this and gave the jus-
tice a majority which now cannot be
overcome.
The race for the nomination for
congressman on the democratic ticket
in. the second district appears to have
-narrowed to James S. Ross of Okla-
homa City and Judge J. J. Carney of
El Reno. Incomplete returns from
Blaine. Woodward, Caddo, Alfalfa,
Canadian and Ellis counties show the
following vote: Carney 1,757, Ross
1,560. Tom Ballew 1,527, Cornell 729,
Peery 621, Forrest 636 and Ed Rallew
323. Tom BaJlew received a vote
J. T. Dickerson of Edmond appears
to have poled a heavy vote from the
scattered returns available and the
race between him and B. M. Par-
menter of Law'toii ’is getting close for'
the republican nomination for. sen-
ator. Ed Perry ran well in certain
sections, but he did not lead in any
counties yet heard from.
Complete returns lacking one pre-
cinct from Ellis county show' that
Haskell carried the county by 29
votes, and he also still is ahead in
Sequoyah and Love counties. Wood-
ward county, with a precinct out,
went for Ow'en by 3 votes and Jeffer-
son swung over Thursday giving
Owen a majority of 361.
FATAL FIGHT OVER ELECTION
Assertion That Candladte Would Not
Win Leads to Duel
Bartlesvile, Okla.—As the result of
a street duel that ocurred over a po-
litical dispute at Ochelata, Okla., five
miles south of here, D. L. Alexander,
aged 60, a wealthy cattleman, is in a
dying condition, and John Duncan, a
real estate dealer, Is suffering from
three pistol wounds.
The trouble started late Tuesday
evening when Alexander made, the
statement that Duncan's wife, a can-
didate for the position of county su-
perintendent of public instruction,
could not win in the primary elec-
tion Tuesday. The men were walk-
lsts and policemen.
ceived at Constantinople.
ing along the street together when
of 1,209 in Caddo county, hut ran dispute started nnd both men drew
weak in every other portion. The i gUnB anj bogan shooting.
Alexander was wounded twice in the
stomach. Duncan was shot twice in
if Ross leads his opponents by a the right shoulder nnd once in the
heavy vote in Oklahoma county, ho chest. Duncan, who is a man 45
practically is assured of the nomina- years of age, was placed under ar-
tlOH. , rest. Alexander will die.
Canadian county returns, where Car
ney secured 880, are included, so that
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Stuckey, W. W. & Phillips, R. M. Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912, newspaper, August 23, 1912; Bixby, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405465/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.