Kiowa County Democrat. (Snyder, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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COTTON MARKET.
New Orleans.
New Orleans.—Spot easy, unchang-
ed; take on the spot, 100 bale*; to ar-
rive. none. Low ordinary. U 5.1<o
nominal; ordinary. 1314c nominal;
rood ordinary, 13 9-l«c; atrirt good
ordinary, 13 15-lCc; low middling,
ime; xtrict low middling. 1494c; mid-
dling. litie; strict middling. 15
15-lCc; good middling. 1596c; strict
good middling. 15 5-l*c; middling
fair. 15 7-l«c; middling fair to fa*.
15 13-lCc; fair. 15 3-l«c nominal. Re-
ceipts, 451 bales; stock. 53.001 balsa;
futures dosed steady; July, 14.50c;
August, 14.40c; September, 13.33c; Oc-
tober. 13,37c: December. 13.20c; Jan-
uary, 13.30c; ;51arcb, 13.40s.
Tbo Drink of QnIHy
STATE OFFICIALS MUST MOVE
SACK THEIR OFFICES.
Supreme Court Helds That Seats
Government Will Be Unchanged
Until the Oueetion Is
Threshed Out.
New York.
New York—The cotton market
opened steady at a decline of 3 points
on the old crop, but generally un-
changed to 8 points higher. Bull lead-
er* bid lor large blocks at the open-
ing, and the market was very excit-
ed during the early trading on a rush
ol covering by recent sellers and a re-
capital re-
Outhrle.—Oklahoma's
mains at Guthrie until the question of
the legality of the election recently
held is determined and the courts
have settled the constitutional ques-
tion which is to the effect that Guthrie
shall be the seat of state government
until 1913, after which time a state
election is provided for to determine
newed scare of July shorts. That po-
FT BEN years
bed been allow-
I M I ed, under the
II I P**D c o n t • m -
1^^ I plated, for wtp-
* —I tog out or paci-
fying the sav-
ages of FOrmo
| sa. But now It
is to be accomplished In-
side of s twelvemonth, and
Ike Japanese government
bas made s special appro-
priation of $7,178,000 to
pay the military expenses
This Is on account of
the camphor business. Un-
til recently the entire
world ban practically depended for lt«
supply of camphor upon Japan, which
baa held a monopoly of the produc-
tion of that necessary article But
the Germans have begun to manufac-
ture artificial (synthetic) camphor on
a large scale, and thus are competing
In the market to an alarming extent.
It la very necesaary under the dr-
rurnstances that the supply from aja0 contains much gold. It should be tend to the upbringing of her off-
Japaneae source* ahall be maintained. ad)1ed that the Atayal tattoo their eprlng. Twins are a bad omen, and ___
Mat It be replaced and crowded out by faceg Tery elaborately, and build ele- among some of the trlbea It baa been on the questions mentioned In the fore-
synthetic camphor. The camphor ga„t huts of bamboo, over the door- euatomary to tie them a **
This In brief Is the decision of the
supreme court handed down.
Under the decision all state officials
other than the governor, who have
moved their offices to Oklahoma City,
must return to Guthrie and stay there
until the courts have finally passed
frees which formerly grew plentifully wa)ra of which are hung aa trophies
In Southern Japan have been to a the skulls of, wild bonrs and apes, end
great eitent destroyed, owing to neg- sometime* thobe of Japanese and
lect of a regulation that used to re-, Chinamen—the latter with pigtails
Iqntra the planting of one seedling for gtm picturesquely attached.
(every tree cut, and no the Japanese They make bags of a peculiar neb
to a tree and
permit them to perish.
Sickness Is supposed to be a punish-
ment Inflicted by the spirit* of the
dead. Dreams afford a medium
through which the spirits of the dead
communicate with the living. The
going. Should they refuse to do so
they are In contempt of the district
court.
The decision of the supreme court
Is moat sweeping and touched on al-
most every phase of the state capital
question. Among other joints re-
re obliged to look to Formosa, where worg expressly to carry human heads. Atayal and Palwan groups believe the ferred to Is that the matter of determ
she camphor laurel flourishes over a chief, when captured and about virgin forests to be tbe abode of the
territory. In virgin to be executed, aald: “I have no fear aplrtta of their anceatora, and on thin
great extent of
goreats.
Unfortunately, It la In the moun-
talnous Interior of Formosa that the
camphor laurel grows—that la to aay,
)n a region which has been since pre-
historic times, and Is today, undor
Savage dominion. The savages who
loccupy this territory are very fierce,
and earnestly addicted to head hunt-
fng. Hitherto the camphor of their
Iforesta baa been obtained only with
llbelr consent, and It ha* been eusto-
of death, I have taken ninety-four
beadn and wanted only six more to
make the hundred."
History tells ua that the Spaniards
took possession of Formosa In the
year 1620. They were expelled by the
Dutch In 1(42. Nineteen years later a
Chinese pirate chief named Koxlnga
drove out the Dutch and proclaimed
himself king of tbe Island, but In 1692
the Chinese dethroned his successor,
and Formosa remained a province of
account trees within certain desig-
nated areas are never disturbed. Old
men and women have supernatural
powers of the kind usually attributed
to witches, and for this reason they
perform tbe religious rites for tba
tribe.
Spirits of dead persons other than
ancestors are dangerous and possibly
malevolent. The Atayal consider that
the ghosts of their forbears will not
be satisfied unless a human bead la
sltion sold up to 16.10c right after th#
call or 73 points above the closing fig*
ures of last night, and before the ad-
vance was checked tbe later months
showed a net gain of from 25 to 27
points.
Bt. Louis.
St. Louis.—Unchanged. Middling.
15c. 8ales, none. Receipts, 370 bales.
Shipments, 1,195 bales.
Galveston.
Galveston.—Steady, lt%e.
tiling the legal seat of government t»
a Judicial and not an administrative
one, which finding entirely eliminates
the contention of Governor Haskell
that Oklahoma City Is tbe capital of
the state.
Up to this time the only state offi-
cials who had removed to Oklahoma
City are Governor Haskell, Secretary
of State Bill Cross, who, however, nas
maintained an office in this city, Sec-
retary of the State Bank Board, W. 8.
Stone, the state election board, and
ary to pay money to their chiefs as the Mlddlo Kingdom up to the war be- part of the offering made at ceremo- the itate examiner and Inspector.
• T-# . __i s w it i iL. .... .1 — AU. IfnJae tha Ptillnw t tlA mtHT.
to... - -
■n Inducement to refrain from destroy
ling the distilling outfits. Neverthe-
less, trouble has been frequent, and
ithe stills have been constantly de-
stroyed.
An unlimited number of Inborern
can bn hired In Japan for ten cents a
Ray; but not for any such price, nor
Ifor many tlmea that much can men be
lobtatnsd to go Into the forests of
Vtormosa. out down the camphor trees,
land distill the gum. at the serious risk
lot losing .heir heads. It Is well known
Ithat th# Japanese do not lack brav-
wry; but head-hunting to the Formo-
san savage la a religion; nothing
Ifrnm bin point of view Is so Impor-
Itant, and he will tie In wait for many
days at a time near a lonely path In
|the woods for the sake of getting one
Ichop at a passing camphor-seeker.
Formosa la a big Island—na large aa
Bardina and Corsica piit together. It
It* 286 miles long and 76 miles wide.
{More thnn half of Ita entire area la to-
day In the possession of the savages.
|For some years past Japan bai pur-
sued a rather Intereatlng method for
ithi
the purpoae of bringing about their
eventual subjugation. She has estab-
lished n "guard line" all around the
'mountainous Interior, with small mili-
tary outpoatn at Intervals along It, and
ihas pushed this artificial frontier
latendlly forward, no as to restrict the
|wtld people to a slowly but surely di-
minishing domain.
I By thla means It was expected that
Iwlthln fifteen years of tha preaent
itltna the entire Island would be
Ibrougbt under civilised control. But
commercial necessity baa made neces-
sary a change of plan. Camphor must
'be had, and It has been decided to
Iwtpe out or pacify aft the savages
within tha coming year. They can
taka their choice which It shall be.
Their numbers are not accurately
tween Chinn and Japan, as a result
of which It passed Into the possession
of the Mikado’s empire.
A glance at the map will show that
Formosa Is really the northermost Isl-
and of the group which we call the
Philippines, being situated only a
short distance to the north of Luzon.
Its wild people are undoubtedly of
Malay origin. But Ita earliest Inhabi-
tants were black dwarfs, belonging to
the same race as the pigmy negrltoa
who still survive In small numbers In
Luzon. Many of their skeletons have
been found In the mountainous Inte-
rior, and It la reasonable to suppose
that they were exterminated by the
savages who now occupy their terri-
tory.
Aa already stated, these savages
have never been subdued. From an
ethnological point of view, they are
more than ordinarily Interesting.
Their garb ranges from nudity to gay-
colored garment* of their own weav-
ing, made from the fibers of banana
and ramie The women are kindly
treated and have equal rights with the
men. But If a wife loses her huahand
after tho birth of a child shp la not al-
lowed to marry again, the Idea being
that her business thereafter la to at-
nlala. Likewise In the case of a dis-
pute between two person* the spirits
of his ancestors will guide and pro-
tect the one whose cause la Just, ao
(hat he may obtain the first head and
thereby win.
The soil of Formosa la exceedingly
rich, and nowhere la a finer quality of
tea produced. The eastern half of tbe
Island la covered with Jungle, In
which grows the valuable creeper
known as rattan. But the moat prec-
ious vegetable product la camphor,
which la the resin of a tree that grow*
to huge size, sometime, attaining, a U does not touch'on the
diameter of twelve feet. * .....
Under the ruling of the court, all
these officials must remove all state
property from Oklahoma City at once.
The governor may go where he pleases
hut legally his official acts must ap:
pear as having been performed in
Guthrie. It is thought that Governor
Haskell will not return to this city.
It la etated that all state official*
who have gone to Oklahoma City un-
der orders from the governor will re-
turn to this city at once.
If is the opinion of attorneys on
both sides of this case that the decls-
Indiana Net Dying Out
Colony.—The government report for
the fiscal year ending July 30, 1909,
among tbe Cheyenne and Arapahoe In-
dians In the Seger agency, which in-
cludes Custer and Washita counties,
shows 17 deaths and 18 births. For
tbe year ending June 30, 1910, IS
deaths and 19 births are reported.
It is commonly supposed that the In-
dian race Is rapidly dying out. but for
the last two years report# in Custer
and Washita counties It la found that
there la a alight increase In popula-
tion.
Tuffs Pills
ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE.
eeaw eaeteO. ImMI daoe. Mee, 8lm
ANNUAL LOSS IS ENORMOUS
Two Hundred Million Dollars a Year
Might Be Added to Wealth
of Country.
Computing that there are ta tho
United States at least 800,000 lnJlgM*
consumptive* who should bo eared for
la charitable or aeml-c hart table sana-
toria and hospitals, tho National Aa-
aoctatlon for tho Study sad Preven-
tion of Tuberculoala estimates that
tho *—sai cost to tho country for tho
treatment of these persona would bo
150,000,000 at tbe rate of fl.M9 par
day per patlenL At th# lowest pom
•tble estimate the country loses $200,-
000,000 a year from the Incapacity of
these Indigent victims of tuberculo-
sis. This would moan a net saving of
$160,000,000 n year to tho United
States If nil victims of consumption
who are too poor to afford proper
treatment In expensive sanatoria were
cared for at the expense of the munici-
pality, county or state. And this aa-
Meeting of Latter Day Saints.
Clinton.—Rev. R. W. Smith of Mis- j
sourl has arrived to make prepare- j _____ _________
tiona for a big meeting to be held in gQa]''gam ,joea not include tho enor-
The only way to get the camphor is
to chop the tree Into chip*, which are
subjected to a crude process of dis-
tillation, the vapor, when condensed,
being deposited In crystal* on bamboo
screen*. Thl* I* crude camphor,
which comes to market In wooden
tub*. It la refined by redlstlllation.
At the present time Japan exports
about 5,000,000 pound* of camphor
annually, one-fourth of It being ship-
ped to the United State*. It used to
be refined In Europe and America, but
now the Japanese refine their own
romphor and ship tbe finished pro
duct.
point, mean* that the capital will re-
main In Guthrie until 1913, no matter
what the finding of the lower court,
a* it will take practically three year*
before all legal questions at Issue are
passed on.
the city park In a tent Tbe revival
wilt begin on the second day of Sep-
tember and will last ten day*. Visit-
ing Later Day Saints will be here from
all ov?r the state. Including 15 or 20
elders of that faith. AU will camp
on the grounds.
mous saving that would accrue from
the lessened Infection due to the s#g-
legation of the dangerous consump-
tives In Institutions.
Muskegs* Has 29,27$.
Washington.—According to the cen-
sus returns, Muskogee has 25,278 in-
habitants, as compared with 7,298 in
1907; Tulsa. 18,182, as compared with
7,298 In 1907, end Muskogee county
52,743, aa compared with 37,467 In
1907.
DAISY CAME FROM ENGLAND
Like
the Pestiferous Bparrow,
Import Also Has Besoms
a Feet
Thla
(long preserved In memory of Sir
William Keith and the gay life hero
of the dashing, pleasure loving lieu-
tenant governor) haa of late become
known aa “the home of the deity.”
From Memorial day to the Fourth
of July the large white daisies In noma HIGH MORALS IN AMERICA
form, dwarf or tall-growing varieties. _
are found In abundance, decorating
... ... _________ the unimproved grounds of suburban
mown, of rourse, but It Is understood country seats, and yet proving a dally
Into no fewer annoyance to farmers throughout the
Standard Higher Than In England^
Amsrlcsn Tails British 'Royal
Commission.
School for Farm Boys During Fair,
Guthrie.-State fair school for 152
boys, to be held at the state tair at
Oklahoma City, September 29 to Oc-
tober 9. has been decided upon by the
board of agriculture. The school will
be held each morning In the fair
grounds. The boys will be furnished
cots for sleeping In the geological
building, and will take their meals at
the domestic science exhibition quar-
ters of the Stillwater A. and M. col-
lege. The board will allow two boya
from each county, one to be selected
by tho farmers' Institute and the other
by the county superintendent.
President J. P. Connell of the Still-
water A. end M. college will preside.
Tha school will be for the double pur-
pose of advertising the A. and M. col-
lege at tbe fair end of showing the
method* of that institution.
that they are split up Into no
■thnn 783 tribes, whose villages com-
prise from three to upward of three
'hundred houaee.
’ The trlbea are divided Into nine
.groups, which are mutually hostile,
■ and which dlffor one another In rus-
(SlliUI and language*. Some of them,
.partlculaFI? at tne south end of the
Island, have already been partly clvl
Used, end there la even established
•among them a sort of rural free deliv-
ery mall service, by native letter car-
rier*. In the central range nf moun-
tain* dwell th* trlbea of the Vnnmim
group, which are very fierce and en-
terprising heed hunter*. In 1906 they
hills and valleys of eastern Pennsyl-
vania, according to a correspondent
of tho Philadelphia Record. No soon-
er arc the large daisies gone for the
neaaon than the little ox eyp* and the
other white and yellow bloom* with
dark eentera, known aa July and Au-
gust daisies, and only exclamation!
of delight and rapture are heard from
the appreciative youngster* who are
"out a dalaylng."
While the dallies have been well
known both In censure and pralae for
many, many summer*, It la only very
recently thet the responsibility of
their Introduction Into thl* country
has been credibly fixed. Horsham
bacame an troublesome that a military townil|,ip |, declared to be the offend
attack was msda upon them, result-
ing In their partial pacification.
Th* Atayal. or nothern savages, are
the largest and moat powerful group.
Thsy look upon head hunting aa the
chief end and aim of existence. A hu-
man head la necessary as an offering
Ing community, and
Keith, flrat lieutenant
Sir William
governor of
R. Newton Crane, senior eounsel to
the American embassy In London,
told the royal commission on divorce
In England recently that there la a
higher standard of morality In
lea than In England.
He admitted that divorce ta tnor*
prevalent In thla country than In any
other country In the world except
Japan, but contended thla was due
to the fact that persons of respecta-
bility had come to regard divorce aa
a firmly established Institution, dm
signed to cure unhapplneas.
J. A. Berratt, of counsel to the
American embassy, pointed out that
there ere more varied causes for di-
vorce In European countries thea la
the United States. In Austria "In-
vincible aversion," In Hungary "vets-
Coalgats Hotel and Jail Burned.
Coalgate.—The Southern hotel and
the county Jell were destroyed by fir*
that originated In th# hotel. The loss
1* about 815,000. All prisoner* in the
Jail were rescued. Some otner buita-
lngs were damaged to the extent of
about $5,000
He Knew th* Kind,
Little Edward, aged four, was aa
only child. He was anxious for •
baby slater, and was talking of It obo
day with a friend of tho family, la
the friend’s family was a baby girl of
one year. The lady said: Edward,
you may have my baby; etae ta pretty
and sweet"
“Oh,” aald Edward, "I don't want aa
Old baby. I want a bran new one wlf
coffin on but tacum powder/’—Rod
Hen.
Wakita Selected for Big Reunion.
Wakita.—The fourteenth annual re-
union of the Northwest Veteran* asso-
ciation will be held at Jefferson park
In Orant county, August Id, 11, 13 and
13.
The Ready Theorist
"You see,” explained the scientist,
"house files are dangerous because
they carry germs on their feet.”
Ah!” exclaimed the ready theorist|
"then th* remedy Is simple. All you
need to do Is to make them wear over-
shoes and leava them on tha porch
when they com* In.”
New Katy Depot to Coot MOBSOO.
Muskogee.—The Missouri, Kansas
end Texan railroad has lat a contract
for a new freight depot at Muakos**,
costing $200,000.
Tha Real Thing.
"Ton say your huoband was cut by
hla neighbors at th* party T"
"Yasaah, dat’s so, sab.”
"Did they cut him with malice pro-
tenset”
"No, sah; wtv a rush, salt."
Chlekasha May Got Big Hotel.
Chlckasba.—To erect a six-story ho-
tel In Chlekasha, costing about $100.
000 to $150,000, Is the proposition
ms'do by a representative of a large
trust company to the local chamber of
commerce. The only condition Is that
the citizens of Chlekasha subscribe
Amer- j ^a]f Bf the stock and furnish the alte
for the hotel. No bonus Is asked, all
the money advanced being In the form
of a stock investment. The proposi-
tion has been referred to a special
committee of the chamber of com-
merce.
Pennsylvania, th* Individual who t|oug mortification,” la France "prod!-
brought "the flower weed" over from gg||ty and violent disposition,” In Bwo-
England. dea “opposite of feeling end thought
It hni been a mystery to many amounting to hate” and In Formosa
Pennsylvanian*, where the daisies “loquacity” are considered sufltotoat
In all their religious ceremonial*. *re th* thickset and their history svl- grounds for divorce.
When e dispute arise* between tndl- gently th* most familiar, aa to why
vlduala, decision la awarded to tho (hey have become known In th* past
nas who flrat secures • heed. A lad ag “park weeds.” Th* reason to el-
ls not recognized as adult until he ha* plained when their source of Intro-
taken n head. Hut It must be th* duetton Is taken Into consideration,
bead of e Japanese nr Chinaman. They received th* name from Oraem*
Their customary method Is to He In park, the Montgomery county home
wait In th* Jungle, nuar e frequented of Governor Keith,
path, several nf than* together, In the Bluer tha historic Kstth mansion
hopu of obtaining ths much coveted has been In ruin end even the ancient
trophy. tree* and shrubbery In Its fnmous
Thus civilised existence anywhere dooryerd hnv# largely died out, the
nMr to th* eevsg# bordor Is beset with profusion of daisies surrounding th#
In Algeria, where there nr* thirteen
cauaee, “previous wooing In which no
final acceptance or refusal baa bees
made" was a cause of divorce. Bar-
ratt argued there to not n single saute
of divorce In any state la this coun-
try that eannet be duplicated la
Europe.
Helree* Still Bsllt Cigars.
Muskogee—A $75,000 plantation
willed to Miss Cordelia Wallace, n
pretty clerk In a Muskogee cigar
stand, by her great aunt. Ilea unclalm
ed at Munroe, 1st., while she shakes
tha boa and hands out smoke* as she
did whan eh* had to earn her living.
And she beams even more brightly on
her customers. “I think I will Just
keep on selling clgera until I get used
to botng rich, and then I'll go look over
the estate,” ah* said.
Educated Cherokee Aeeueod.
Muskogee—John A. Tlmberlake, na
educated Cherokee, Is charged In three
warrants sworn out by County Attor-
ney Thomas H. Owen with embexzUng
$400 from two of his wards, making a
false report to Probate Judge Jack-
son relative to the affairs of the
wards, and collecting royalties and
Eastern Cheroks* payment money at
Tahlequah for two wards that are
deed. It Is alleged that Tlmberlake
represented th# minor children to be
living. The action followed the charge
ptade recently by Kate Barnard, com-
missioner of charities end corrections,
that minor children were not being
treated fairly by their guardians.
Th* Deft Mend.
Th* Widow—Oh, Mr, Smith, you'll
never make me believe thatf
The Candidate—I aald I had never
tint ping by raiion of lu rlchntM In •rnmiRt In provincial PonnaylynnU. wouldn*! nny itnpli M
forest products, especially camphor. It Th# old ruin of n mansion
house that—Arana and Country.
Arrested for Belling Llquer.
Tecumseh.—Jim Bloat and Shawnee
little Bear, arrested on a charge of
Introducing whisky on the Shawns*
Indian reservation at Big Jim’s cross-
ing. and Matt Perkins, charged with
sailing liquor without a government
lleenso, were arraigned before United
States Commleeloner Asher and wars
placed nndor bonds for 3500 each (or
their appearane* for trial at th* next
tarm of court. Tho aroets wore made
by Deputy Marshal John Paul Janos
Of Qatari*.
Oklahoman a Suleldo.
Hastings—Harry flmolea, 37 yoara
old. committed suicide by ehootlng
himself. He was employad aa a farm
hand by J. P. Wllaon. Smolea toft a
not* stating that disappointment In
lova waa tha caneo ol hla net. Ha
leave* a married slater who Uvea near
Wichita and dothor relative* In Colo-
rado.
Oklahoma City Show* Big Oalno.
Oklahoma city —Oklahoma City haa
had th* romarkabto growth of almost
540 par cent In ton years, according to
flgruee enumerated In th* thirteenth
census, which were mad* public' by
Director Durant of th* census bureau.
Th* present population It 85,305, M In-
create of 64,181 alnc* 1900, and aa In-
crease of 31,75$, or 97.1 per cent, elnoa
1907, when n special census stowed
83,461. Oklahoma county gained to*
117.
By a patient loving eadurane* of
annoyance are w* preparing our-
selves gradually for tha discipline of
trials.—B. M. Goulburn.
Th* only way to learn to do grant
things la to do small things well, P»-
ttontly, loyally.—David Blair Jordan.
Hungry
Little
Folks
Dad delightful aatWCactioa la
B bowl ol loothflotoB
Post
Toasties
man ths children want
htpeh, thla wholesome nour-
ishing food Is always raady to
tom right from tha packags
without cookiag, sad aavas
many slaps for mother.
Lit ths yousftar* hava
Ftot Tost Hot—superb gum-
BMV f$$f»
ito
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