The Wellston News. (Wellston, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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WELLSTON NEWS.
O. E. STEWART.
WELLSTON, - - OKLA.
NEW STATE NEWS
A mill and elevator company Is be*
fng organized at Mountain View.
A young man, giving the name ot
John Bull, is being held at Ponca
City upon the charge of forgery. He
was distributing checks, purporting
to having been signed by Joe Miller
of 101 ranch, of which the latter
gentleman knew nothing.
Cotton planters throughout both
territories are already worrying about
securing pickers.
Herman Muhleer of Orlando has ac-
cepted a bookkeeper’s position with
the Panama canal commission. He
will receive $1,500 a year, in addition
to ail his medical expenses.
The school land lessees in Caddo
county, whose crops were destroyed
or badly injured by hall, have appealed
to the school land board to remit a
year’s rent.
The corner stone for the new court
house for Kiowa county was laid last
Friday at Hobart. The ceremonies
were conducted by the territorial Ma-
sons.
A gang of Greeks employed by the
Rock Island Railway company near
El Reno went on a strike last week.
More wages and shorter hours are de-
manded.
Governor Ferguson has been asked
to pardon Winfield McGinnis, who is
serving a sentence of four years for
burglary. He was sent up from
Beaver county in October, 1902. The
application for a pardon states the
petitioners believe the young man
has been punished sufficiently.
Arrangements have been made for
a special train to carry the delegates
of the G. A. R. to the encampment at
Denver in September.
Paul’s Valley has a committee in-
vestigating the paving of other cities,
with a view of doing some of the
same work at home.
The school board of Wapanucka has
awarded the contract for a seven-
room school house. The building is
to be completed by December 1st, and
is to cost not exceeding $10,000.
“Bennie” Owens, the well known
Kansas foot ball player, will coach
the Oklahoma university team this
year. Owens is the best known foot
ball player In the middle west. He
was a famous quarterback on the Kan-
sas team of 1900, made a winning out
of the Washburn team at Topeka in
1901.
Governor Ferguson has named one
hundred delegates from all parts of
Oklahoma to attend the farmers’ na-
tional congress, to be held at Rich-
mond, Va., September 12th to 22d.
Citizens of Wynnewood and the
farmers’ union in tnat vicinity are
planning on a big picnic to be held
August 26. Many well known speak-
ers will be secured, ruci a good time
is anticipated.
The report of Secretary Wenner or
the Oklahoma school land leasing
board for the month of July shows
collections amounting to 1998.02. The
receipts for the month included $180
in transfer fees and $252.50 for timber
waste. The total expenses for tire
department for the month, Including
disbursements for men in the field,
was $1,589.52.
FEAR FOR NIAGARA
IMMENSE VOLUME OF WATER
DIVERTED FROM FALLS.
Commercial Enterprises are Making
Heavy Drains on This Famous Show-
Place—Its Tremendous Electrical
Power the Inducement.
Niagara Falls, August 7:—The
volume of water being diverted
from the historic Niagara Falls is
reaching such proportions that the
people of the State are trying to pass
laws which will prevent the possibil-
ity of a practical wiping out of this
sublime natural spectacle.
Water sufficient to develop nearly
five hundred thousand horse-power
continuously, twenty-four hours per
day, for industrial purposes, is now
being taken from' the river above the
Falls, and further developments re-
quiring more water are contemplated.
Probably the largest user of the
electricity produced by the waters of
the mighty river is the concern which
by the five or six thousand degree
heat of the electric furnace brings
lime and coke into unwilling union,
thereby producing what is known as
Calcium Carbide.
Dry calcium carbide is lifeless as
so much broken rock, but in contact
with water it springs into activity and
begets abundantly the gas Acetylene.
The light resulting from the ignition
of acetylene is the nearest approach
to sunlight known.
These facts, though of compara-
tively recent discovery, were soon
seized by men with an eye to the com-
mercial possibilities and to-day cal-
cium carbide is being shipped every-
where and used for dispelling dark-
ness in buildings of all descriptions,
from the ordinary barn of the farmer
to the country villa of the wealthy, as
well as for lighting the streets of a
large number of towns. Acetylene
can be easily and cheaply installed,
and the manufacture and sale of
acetylene generators has become a
business of recognized standing, has
assumed large proportions and is
steadily growing.
It is difficult to get access to the
government’s historical documents
and papers in Washington, and they
who do get access to them are always
accompanied, as they make their con-
sultations, by a guide.
H. Clay Evans said recently that a
big percentage of the government’s
documents have been robbed of their
signatures. The signatures, ir of
value, have been cut out by thieves.
Hence the precautions that are taken
today.
Autograph hunting is thought to be
not very common, and yet so many
hundreds of the signatures of Wash-
ington, Hamilton, Burr, Lincoln, Jef-
ferson etc., have been stolen from
governmental documents that it ap-
pears as if every American citizen, on
seeing a good autograph, feels that he
has the moral right to lift it.
For fiv© years, though, thanks to
the vigilance that is now maintained,
no autographs have been lifted from
the government arclrives.
y Here is Relief for Women. —-_
► Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, dis-
covered a pleasant herb remedy for women’s
Ills, called AUSTRALIAN-DEAF. It is the
only certain monthly regulator. Cures
female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney and
Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by
mail50cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address,
The Mother Gray Co., Leltoy. N. Y.
A Father's Duty.
It is beginning to dawn upon the
minds of men that the question of
physical development generally and es-
pecially of infants in their first year
belongs to men and not to women only
—to fathers in fact os well as to moth-
ers.
Try me Just once and I am sure te
roue again. Defiance Starch.
cremation in rrance.
The cost of cremating a body in
France la only three francs.
MILLIONS OF LIFE CLAIMS.
Big Business Done by Insurance Com-
panies in 1904.
According to the special returns
made by life-insurance companies
there was paid in the entire United
States and Canada last year $277,757,-
850 in claims, says the Insurance
Press. The amount paid in various
parts of the union varied from a max-
imum of nearly $59,000,000 in New
York to a minimum of $3,000 in
Alaska. Pennsylvania was the second
state, with something over $18,500,-
000. Other states -where more than
$10,000,000 was paid in life-insurance
claims were, in order of amount, Illi-
nois, Ohio and New Jersey. As New
York and Pennsylvania have the
greatest population it was hut natural
that they should lead in the amount
of 'insurance paid, though Pennsyl-
vania’s lead in insurance claims paid
is not proportionate to her greater
population. Massachusetts, which is
seventh, measured by population,
ranks far ahead of Illinois, Ohio, Mis-
souri and Texas, all of which by the
last census were credited with more
inhabitants. These figures which we
have given were for claim payments
and do not include dividends, cash
surrender values, claims paid in for-
eign countries or annuities, which
combined give estimated figures of
almost $100,000,000. By cities the
amount paid on insurance claims
places New York far in the lead, with
Chicago second, although the margin
of that city over Philadelphia is small.
Boston stands fourth, with a lead of
more than $2,000,000 over the fifth
city, St. Louis, which outranks us iD
population.
Forgot His Title.
Lord Rathmore was formerly plain
David Plunkett. Shortly after he was
raised to the peerage he took a trip
to the Riviera. The French railway
company reserved a carriage for his
private use. At some unknown hour
of the night the door of the carriage
was suddenly opened. A lantern was
flashed upon him and a voice sharply
cried: “Votre nom?” (“Your name?")
Lord Rathmore, wakened out of his
sleep, looking up in a partly dazed
condition, discovered a railway official
on Ills way round for tickets. Lord
Rathmore’s name was on the paper
affixed to the window, marking the
compartment as reserved. The offi-
cial desired to identify the occupant
of the carriage with the person to
whose use it was inscribed. “Votre
nom?” he sternly repeated, seeing the
passenger hesitate. There sprang to
Lord Rathmore’s lips the familiar
“David Plunkett.” Happily he remem-
bered in time he was no longer David
Plunkett, but for the life of him he
could not remember what title in the
peerage he had selected. It seemed
half an hour to him before he could
remember “Rathmore.”
Explanation Enough.
A woman who owns and drives a
neat little gasoline runabout ran into
a buggy. As she was moving along
very slowly and the buggy was stand-
ing still very little damage resulted.
The buggy was not harmed, but the
auto’s steering apparatus was slightly
broken. The woman that evening
was telling her husband of the acci-
dent.
“How did it occur?” he asked.
“Why,” replied his wife, “I was just
creeping along near the curb when a
woman wearing the loveliest new polo
turban I ever saw passed on the side-
walk and—”
“That’s enough; I understand,” said
the man as he turned to his newspa-
per.—Kansas City Times.
Russell Sage Back at Work.
Russell Sage has emerged from his
retirement of months and once more
is appearing in the busy haunts of
men. The other day he attended a
meeting of the Western Union direc-
tors, and many of his associates con-
gratulated him on his hearty appear-
ance. Mr. Sage is 89 years old, but
would pass for a man of 60. He ap-
peared to be oblivious of the iuteuse
heat.
TWENTY YEARS OF IT.
Emaciated by Diabetes; Tortured
with Gravel and Kidney Pains.
Henry Soule, cobbler, of Ham-
mondsport, N. Y., says: “Since Doan’s
Kidney Pills cured me eight years
ago, I’ve reached 70 and hope to live
many years long-
er. But twenty
years ago I had
kidney trouble so
bad I could not
work. Backache
was persistent
and it was agony
to lift anything.
Gravel, whirling
headaches, dizzi-
ness and terrible
urinary disorders ran me down from
168 to 100 pounds. Doctors told me I
had diabetes and could not live. I
was wretched and hopeless when I
began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, but
they cured me eight years ago and
I’ve been well ever since.”
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all dealers. Price, 50
cents per box.
Agitation is the marshalling of the
conscience of a nation to mold its
laws.—Sir R. Peel.
A Dental Treasurer Trove
“I know where I could go, right
here in this country, and dig up mil-
lions of dollars’ worth of treasure,”
said a dentist.
“Where would 1 go? To our ceme-
teries. To the mouths of our dead.
In the teeth of our dead enough gold
is going to waste to enrich a small
town.
“You have in your teeth $10 in gold.
Your sister has $5. Your father and
mother each have $7. And there are
ninety million people in America.
“Allow to each person's teeth a
half dollar’s worth of gold. You have
then forty-five million dollars hidden
in our mouths. When we die this
gold won’t be extracted. It will be
buried with us.
“To take the gold from the teeth of
the dead before burial would be
neither difficult nor gruesome. It
would be a good idea to pass a law
requiring that all this gold, which
does no good in the grave, to be re-
moved after death and distributed in
charity.”
Beautiful Savages?
Women more nearly attain the stat-
ure of men among savages than among
civilized races. Our athletic young
ladles, with free-swinging limbs and
be'autiful, clear, penetrating voices, as
Mr. H. G. Wells describes them, may,
after all, be a reversion.—Mind.
BABY’S INSTINCT
8hows He Knew What Food to Stick
To.
Forwarding a photo of a splendidly
handsome and healthy young boy, a
happy mother writes from an Ohio
town:
"The enclosed picture shows my 4-
year-old Grape-Nuts boy.
“Since he was 2 years old he has
eaten nothing but Grape-Nuts. He
demands and gets this food three
times a day. This may seem rather
unusual, but he does not care for any-
thing else after he has eaten his
Grape-Nuts, which he uses with milk
or cream, and then he is through with
his meal. Even on Thanksgiving day
he refused turkey and all the good
things that make up that great din-
ner, and ate his dish of Grape-Nuts
and cream with the best results and
none of the evils that the other fool-
ish members of the family experi-
enced.
“Fie is never sick, has a beautiful
complexion, and is considered a very
handsome boy. May the Postum Com-
pany prosper and long continue to fur-
nish their wholesome food!” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
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Stewart, O. E. The Wellston News. (Wellston, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1905, newspaper, August 11, 1905; Wellston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc407705/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.