The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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General News Notes.
Watbiuguiu The peace treaty en-
grossed bl Tokiu, which U tu *o
furnuraily exchanged lor the elaboru •-
if kas.cnb«d vellum copy of iue I'une
mouth couwntiou 'has ts-en re.end
M the Japanese legation here. It l«
toterdod that the state depart men;
will be the krone of the final ex< ua iz*
•f the ratifications which prohui.l/
will occur wlaiilu a few day*.
Philadelphia - With the death of
8. dine llaudforth. .’s years old. at t
MethoUi-t hospital Thursday I'tid-i
what is raid to be the most letnaix-
able case ol a survive, ot a broken
■rck kiiow I. For fifteen mouths the
kijured um i lay ou air and water
Mattresses. MilteniiK no pain, uiialdo
to move ativ muscle exception those
In bis forearms, always conscious uui
gradually wasting away. From a
Strong stalwart man, welshing D.u
pounds. Il.msforth weighed ai the
time of ill is death only Unity tojr
founds
Lincoln. Neb. Mrs. Henrietta Scbon.
lehle. a widow living In Scribner. >us
made couipiaiut against Lynch, a
trcinuii ol (be Kansas City North-
Western railway, charging him wilb
obtaining JtuO under false pretenses
The woman's daughler, Miss Anna, k'O
years old. and Lynch were to 'have
been murried ycsierday In Fremont.
Lynch, according to Mra. Sclioufeld-?,
borrowed It DU Irom her with which
to buy a restaurant business in
Scribner. The uight before the date
ael for the wedding l.yuuh disappearel.
Orange City, la.—The celebrated
Base of the Kev. 8. Koser ot Hull.
Iowa, has been decided by Judge Ken-
nedy adversely to the minister, who
Will accordingly be evicted trom the
parsonage of the First Reformed
afcurch at Hull. The paBtoral relations
af the minister and his congregation
were dissolved upon the Instigation of
the congregation, but the pastor con-
UnmT? to occupy the parsonage, and
likewise demanded the pastor's salary.
To this the church excepted and asked
bis eviction tit l»he court. A horse
trade made by the minister was the
aause of the trouble.
Washington. I’a.—The will of the
late John F McClelland, of North
Fra" kits township, probated Tuesday,
(outaitis the following directions: "I
direct that my body be Interred In
the hill orchard on the farm 1 owa, In
a rough, unplaned box that will cost
about a dollar, and use the clothing
a have in the house, and have uo
funeral or preaching In the bouse.
Employ two men to haul my body up
lo I'he orchard and Inter it at me ccr-
aer tree of the Lewis Snyder farm
ami mine, and place no mark ou the
grave.” McClelland was a wealthy
*rn,er- tiw.ir'Tc r
* Canton. 0— In Ihe presence of Mis.
McKinley, the trustees of the McKlu
ley National association, other noted
guests, citbens and school children,
ahe corner sione of the McKinley
monument. the gift of the American
people, was lormally laid 'I hursday
Justice William Day presided. Mrs
McKinley sat on the plattorm at the
monument garbed in deep black and
heavily veiled. Among ihe iruateoc5
present were ihe Vice President,
Charles \V. Fairbanks, the Postmastur
General. Mr. Cortelyou, Judge TT3ra«e
H l.urton of Memphis, and D. K.
Francis of St. Louis.
St Paul. Minn — Juag*- Sanborn. In
the United States circuit cour. of up-
peals Thursday, filed three declalous.
si which he holds that telegraph eora-
panles ate oi.ly abltged to uaa ordinary
lire In determining the Identity ot
.tenders of messages, and that losses
wsiained by parties whose names are
improperly used are not held against
telegraph companies. The first case
to that of C. E. Schriver et al. va. ‘.he
Western Union Telegraph company,
h originated in the circuit court of
Iowa, ana was a suit to recover
iamages caused by the receipt Ui1
delivery *>( an unauthorized message
alleged to have been signed "Bank rf
Dennison." guaranteeing t#w payment
»• a draft for fS,97.’. The other two
tsse- were almost Identical, and orlg;o*
aied in the towns of Gilbert, la., and
Havelock, la
THlRTY-NINt O € N A HUE.
A Lodging House Partly Destroyed II
Glasgow, Scotian 1.
Glasgow Fire in a ch> <p Judging
hoiis.- for men in \( itaon street Sun-
day result's.! In the t.ma of thirty-nine
lives and the severe Injury of many
others.
The Hanes were first noticed at 6
o'clock Hun.lay in.lining on the fourth
Hour of the building which was occu-
pied by 330 men An alarm was raised
and the fireim n responded quickly, but
the tlam.'s ami smoke were then issu-
ing ft. m most of the windows on the
fourth ll.toi An extraordinary scene
was created bv a procession of scant-
ily al tired men rushing out of the en-
trance to the building and against
their frantic efforts to eacape the fire-
men had actually U> fight for admis-
sion
{{caching the upper Boors the flre-
uteu found <uai the narrow passages
were becoming congcstfifi with meu
who had dropped lo tha flora over-
come hv smoktx The Ire, however,
was coullue.l to the fourth flour, and us
soon ns the IIiomen were able to get
to work It was speed illy extinguished.
The flames had been fed by tbe wooden
liartithus which threw off volumes of
smoke, resulting In the suffocattlon of
the lumates. Many on being brought
to the alre-t rallied in a few minutes,
hut others hud lo be tak. u tothe hos-
tile prime of life. They presented a
pit a Is
The dead were m< tdly workmen in
pitiful sight, their blackened faces
hearing evidence ot terrible struggles
to escape.
Many men were sleeping on the floor
of the attic above the burning fourth
floor and these had narrow escapes.
The flames burst through the floor and
It was Impossible for the men to de-
scend. The windows were securely
fastened and the men had lo break
them so that they omild climb through
to neighboring roofs.
By 10 oVIoek a search of Ihe building
was made and a complete list of the
victims obtained which showed that
thirty-nine wete dead and at least
Ihlrty-two inJuted.
It appears to he the custom of these
lodgers to sleep In a nude condition
aud the march of the survivors to the
police h tat ion was a fantastic one.
Some hud snatched the covers off the
beds and others their trousers, while
many wore nothing. The local authori-
ties had to ,»e called upon to supply the
meu with clothes and warm meals.
Owing to their migratory habits and
the absence of permanent homes many
of the dead w'll not be Identified. The
identification of others is rendered dll
ficult by the absence of clothing.
BIG STEAMER
SHOCK A BEET
THE HILDA WRECK NEAR THE
COAST OF FRANCE.
Why don't you uml your next doof
neighbor quit 'jOjirreling? asked Mr,
Dolan. * Couldn't I make peace be-
chune yez?”
•'What's the good'?" rejoined Mr
Rafferty. "It "Jd be Hire the K.issUua
an ilie Japs. We’d quit quarre' tt’
across the tence an‘ g<> to ttghtin
among ourselves —Washington Stir.
• "* Two Trainmen Killed.
Warren. O.—Two heavy freight
(rains ou the Baltimore A Ohio rail-
road collided near here at an early
hour Sunday morning. Firemen Her
bert Cook and Headbrakeman Edward
Harrison were killed, and Engineer
Edward Murphy was badly Injured.
All three men live at Paynesville*
The train dispatcher, realizing that
n wreck was imlnent, tried to arouse
farmers by telephone ulong the road
•o have them flag either train, but was
unsuccessful in doing so. The west'
hound train saw the eastbound train
approachim;. stepped and tried to back
up. but did not have time, and the col
Baton follow* d. The engines and cars
were badly damaged and the track for
a considerible distance was torn up.
Japans »e Guarding Korea.
London,—The Tekio correspondent
of the Lor.dor Standard says that tin
der the anv \ient bv which Japan ts
to exercise srreralnty over Korea Itwll^
take «hut go of oil the foreign remtions
of the heroot k.r.gdom until Hr* latter
is strong cu.iigh to maintain its in
dependen -** '• re internal adniitiistra*
tion of Uriel, he says, lias been confid-
ed to a ,!rpa «~e governor general who
will act and* r he orders of the draper
or of Kto.i.
The T.iUio correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, in glvnr situ
liar inform •ion adds that Marq-iis Ito
assured .lu Km tan emperor that the
convention if- rnly a measure depend-
ent on I he* piogress of Korea and that
it rested with that country itself to ad-
vance to such cn extent as U insure
It against tin/ attack which woulu men-
ace the saf* 'y ol Japan.
No Yellow Fever in Mexico Now
The Cl tv of Mexico.—The J'lxrtor
board of health announced Saturday
that not a sitig'c case of yellow fever
exists in that ct entry This is duo to
the persut v,t ’tppllcatuu of improv-
ed sanita • m Msufea.
Brake in Two and Sank Bafora Boat*
Could be Launched—Nintty-Nina
Ltv -a Lost—Only Big
Saved.
lam don. The Hilda the Southwest-
ern Railway s cross cbsuuel steamer,
was wrecked Sunday uioruiug off 8t.
Malo on the north coast of Frau.-e.
Them were 105 persons, lu. ludiug lh<*
crew, cn board. So tar as known ouly
six were saved.
The Hilua left Soul ham pi on Friday
uight for S> Malu lu passage was
greatly delayed by a fog Li the cuannol
aud wli' n i.earing St. Malo it ran into
a sev. re si.*., storm, appare itly miss-
ed its coui>e aud loumdeied on tha
rocki- on aurdJti lighthouse three miies
Hum ht. Maiu.
The eotupany's steamer Ada, out-
ward from nt. Malo, rescued five of
the passengers aud one of the crew.
These are now on the way to South-
ampton. There is wu unconfirmed re-
pot t that sev* uty had been saved, late
adviees indicate that ibis report ta
untrue.
The crew numbered twenty-six Bind
there were seventy-uine or eighty
1 assetigers. all Frenchmen, the major-
ity being union dealers trom St.
briae and neighborhood.
A telegram from St. Servan, adjoin-
ing the town of St. Malo. gives the
lew particulars yet available. The
Hilda was near 81. Malo Saturday
morning. It struck the rocks at 4
o'clock this (Sunday) morning In the
roadstead off the island of Cezembe,
having missed tlie tide owing U) had
weather and fog.
The majority of the crew and passen-
gers were asleep at the time. Two
boats were lowered, one of which con-
taining five men arrived at St. Servau.
The second bogt was picked up
empty at St. Cast, where thirteen
bodies were washed ashore. The top
of the Hildas funnel and the mast
are visible' at low tide, according lo
the telegram from St. Servaa.
The Southwfr^rn Railway company
is as yet uuable to give a list of the
Hilda's passengers, but they say tliat
a score booked passage at stations be-
tween London and Southampton and
that the best of their knowledge
ninety-nine were drowned and ouly
six saved.
The company is still without reliable
details as to how the disaster happen-
ed. Its agent at St. Malo only briefly
reported. “The Ada has put back and
reports the Hilda is a total wreck
at Les Portee reef, outside Jardm
lighthouse. The Ada's boat saved five
onion men and a' seaman named
Grinter out of the rlngging. They ap-
pear to be the only survivors."
St. Malo, France. Nov !».—The ex.
act number of lives lost ou the Hilda
is unknown here. It is underst.H>l
that there were about eighty first
class passengers, including several
bnglish people. Among the latter
were Mrs. Butler, sister-in-law of Lord
lanesborough and Colonel Hll-H,
Thougn it is not certain that there
were actually on board, they were exr
peeled to travel by the Hilda and it
.s kno* m tl at all the first class pas-
sengers were Irowned. These passen-
gers were English officers and others
who were coming to rejoin their
families or to spend the season at
Malo and Dinard. opposite St.
Malo.
It appears to be certain that only six
were saved, these being five onion
sellers and an English seaman named
wrier. belonging to Guernsey, and
that the total or board, including the
crew, numbered 105.
The delay In the arrival of the
Hilda at first inspired little anxiety,
as there was dreadful weatuer in the
channel and as every one had full con-
fidence in its captain, uregory, an
experienced man who was likely to
exercise cautiou in approaching the
dangerous r ast of Brittany, which he
had known for thirty years.
The disaster was first suspected
tnrough the washing ashore of a body
and the port authorities immediately
sent out a tug. It was then learned
that the Hilda was wrecked on a
treacherous reef close to the islaud of
Cezemhre, called “Les Portes." It had
apparently tytruck, broken its ha.
md immediately sunk, leaving no
Lino to launch the boats. Ihe Jardln
l ght !s quite close lo the spot. It can
not yet be explained at what lime or
bow the di osier occurred.
A BIR HENRY IRVING MEMORIAL
Actor*, Clergymen and Other* in the
Service in New York.
New York—Two hundred actors,
clergvuieu ;.ii* society persons attend-
ed metnornl services for Sir Henry
Irving in me Manhattan theater Sun-
day afteroo i. the affair being under
tin* auspices > f tlie Actors' Church Al-
liance. dinvic-1 by the Rev. Dr. T. H.
Sill. The H v N 8 S Gray ot Min
nesota op'it-I the meeting and Canon
Knowles of Sa Chrysostom church,
read the les ion. F. F. Mackay made the
memorial addiess. in psrt as follows:
“Among Die gieat of tha dramatic
pro*.csiou comes Henry Irving ’ HU
character *f Shy lock places him high
in the rank of anors. but he was pre-
eminently g'fat as a director and pro-
due. I of plays His great life has gone
out. but .tls spirit Is about ua even
now a ml his gieat art has been project-
ed to three (ci tin.nts.
A BIG DISTILLERY BURNS.
Tha Overholt Plant in Bradford Pa*
in Ruins.
Counellsville, Pa.—At the A. Over-
holdt distillery at Uroadford Sunday
8lo,mm gallons of whisky furnished a
specular tire entailing a loss of 4 mil-
lion dollars. The mala bouded ware-
house was burned to the ground. A
steady northeast wind which blew the
flames toward the Youhiogbeny river
saved tlie towu of Broadford, the build-
ings of the H C. Frick Coke company
and the Baltimore A Ohio railroad
station from destruction.
Smoke was first seen Issuing from
the third story which was alongside
tlie Baltimore A Ohio tracks. Joseph
McDouall! and George Patckin, em-
ployees of the company, climbed up
the tire escape and opened one of the
small iron doors. They were caught,
iu a cloud of smoke which suffocated
them and they dropped unconscious on
the fire escape. They were rescued
by other workmen and a general alarm
was sounded. *
The blue tinged flames from the
burning alehol were seen shooting
more than one hundred feet Into the
air. As barrels of old rye wrhiaky on
each of the four floors buret, the blaz-
ing liquid was splashed ho all direct-
ions. Tbe main track ot the railroad
was kept clear of derbis and passenger
trains shot past at such speed as U»
avoid damage from the Intense heat
Calls ffr help were sent to Oounells.
vllle, Union town and McKeesport.
Broadford is but two miles from here
and the Connellsville fire department
on a special train reached the scene
quickly. The men by hard work
managed to save the buildings nearby
and the calls to the two other towns
were withdrawn.
The A. Overholt company la one of
tbe largest manufacturers of whisky
in the world. The plant is practically
owned by H. C. Frick and the Melloua
of Pittsburg. The plant was estab-
lished by A. Overholt jn 1810. It was
burned In 1884 and was rebuilt on a
much larger stale. The burned build-
ing was one of four warehouses con-
taining 18,000 barrels of whisky eight
| years old. Each barrel contained
forty-gallons. Much of the whisky
had already been sold and was being
kept in stoiage tor the owners. The
distillery has an output of 1,600 to
2.000 gallons a day and about 3 mil
lion gallons vs regularly kept tu
storage. The fire made a brilliant
picture, the flashes of flame lighting
the country tor miies around. The losa
is covered by insurance.
NEARLY TWO BILLIONS.
These Are Trtal Earning* of Relit
in Thie Country.
Yearly -wining* have already reach-]
ed two billi u dollars on the railways
of the United States says the Railway!
Age in its current lsue. The aggro
gate receipt* of all the companic* for
'their last reported fiscal year were
f 1,977,638.<03. This Is scarcely 22 l »
miliona short of $2,000,000,000: and. at
the Increase 'iFt year waa 68 3-4 mil-
lion*. compared with the preceding
year, and has averaged over 90 mil-
lions a yeer for the peat ten year*, it
is safe to uay that before 1905 is ended
the gross '.come of onr railways will
be far above the vast sum of twe
thousand minion dollars. If the rail-
ways kept 'Ida money or spent It la
riotous ID m.j and tyrannous oppression
of the people the two billion Income
business would be dangerous. But they
don't. Last year they Immediately pall
out In operating expenses and taxes
over $1,338. ioO 090 That also la a
vast sum and It went right back to the
people. Tho public paid, nay. two bil-
lions for 'ransportation and got their
money's worth, and then the generous
roads gave them back a million and a
third in payment for their labor and
material required to make and keep
the railways. Besides that, the road*
divided among the people 628 mlllloa
as Interest »nd dividends, a small re-
turn for the use of the 14 billions of
dollars which built the railways. That
left the poor roads, out of their two bil
lions, only $92,600,000, as money, la
hand ,t© fall back upon In ease of cal-
amity and to help in extensions and Im-
provements. If a man whone Income
waa $2,000 had only $92 left after pay-
ing his current bills, to start the year
on, people would ntot soy he was a mis
er or a highwayman. That In the way
the railway business went Inst year
The people did better. They spent the
two billions and kept It, too.
KILLED AND EATEN BY INDIAN8T
Los Angeles, Cal.—In a letter »e-
ieived by George W. Knox, of this
city, the fate of( Henry Miller and
Gua Olluder. who left here on an ex-
pedition lo Tiburon Islaud In the Gulf
„f California nearly a year ago and
who have never been heard from, is
probably disclosed. On the disolave
shores of the Gulf of California, near
a deserted village, a wandering herder
has just found the trappings of Miller
and Olinder, a book of nautical science
which belonged to Captain Olinder, and
a pair of dried human hands which
may have been of one of the unfortun-
ate men. A few feet away was found
the charred remains of a huge fen-
fire and circles of an Indian war danc
It Is believed the men were slain i
hostile Indians who Inhabit this p<>
tion of Lower California. The dls< o
ery of the relics of the Miller.Ollnde;
party wns made in connection with the
search now being conducted by Pro-
fessor E. P. Orlndell, of Arizona, for
his brother. Lieutenant Orlndell, wh.,
as also lost on the peninsula.
How to Pronounce “Arkansas."
In the very Interesting article In tho
June Harper's Magazine, “The Pleas-
ant Life of Pere Marquette.” by Henry
Loomis Nelson, L. H. D.. tho ststemenC
Is found “They were among tbe Akam-
aea This Is the way in which Mar-
quette spells the name of tho Arkansas
Indiana, writing the work, of course,
as It atruck his ear; and *» wo may
sympathize with tjia people of the mod-
ern State, >vho are eo determined that
the name shall not be pronounced as If
It wore a lengthened Kansas that they
have enacted a statute condemning all,
by inference at leant, who do not any
“Arkanaaw." The eoirect pronundn*
tion of Arkansas la not Arknnaaw, but
Arkansa. This terminal la not infre
quent in Indian words received through
the French, and the final la n silent and
the n la long. For instance. Tensas
river (and parish) In Louisiana Is pro-
nounced Tensa. as Arkansas Is correot-
ly pronounced' Arkansa. The statute re-
ferred to In no statute at all J>ut mere-
ly concurrent resolution of the general
assembly of 1881 expressing its opinio®
of the corrrit pronunciation of the
name in order to secure correctness
and uniformity in orsl official proceed-
ings. The body of the resolution Is as
follows:
Be it therefore resolved by both
houses of the general assembly, That
th only true pronunciation of the name
of tha State, in the opinion of this
body, Is he received by the French,
from native irdians, and committed to
writing in the French word represent-
ing the sound; and that it should be
pronounced In three sylables with the
final V silent, and the ‘a’ to each sylto-
hie with the Italian sound, and the ac-
cent on the last syllable hearing the
pronunciation formerly universally
and now still most commonly used.”
It Is conceded to men to pronounce
their names as they see fit, and their
pronunctatlcni Is hinting. The same
privilege might be accorded a state
tad yet the “lengthened Kansas” and
the overdone Arkansaw are atm fre-
quently heard without the state, but
farely, and then only from newcomers,
within the state.—Jaaeph H. Hill, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ar-
kansas, to Harper'* Weekly.
Mies Anthony Wor Beoolmer*
Once upon a time as far back as the
60s, Suaan B. Anthony wore bloomors.
| aut ahe declared It a "mental crucifix-
on” and gav<? It up. She is very fond
>f pretty clothes, but only buyi one
tew dress atiuutlly and never wears
lannels or furs. Her silk petticoats
ire marvels of pretlness, and she Is
nost dainty in all her dress accessor-
eo.
Fortunate are they who can fall In
ve without hurting themselves-
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