The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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MULE WORSTS CAR
IN CHANCE CLASH
GRACE RE8ENT8 BEING ROLLED
IN OU8T BY ELECTRIC JUG-
GERNAUT.
STRUCK IN STEARING GEAR
Animal, to All Appearances, a Lifeless
Mass of Flesh and Bones When
She Suddenly Goes Into
Action.
Cleveland.—If Uncle Sam wants a
first-class battleship destroyer, war-
ranted to withstand dynamiting and
stand without hitching, let him ap-
ply to Quincy Adams Washington.
Quincy Adams has just the right
thing in stock. The destroyer’s name
is Grace. She is a mule and is enti-
tled to take rank with Mrs. O'Leary's
mw that started the Chicago fire,
the Matanzas mule or the cow that
stopped the chamber of commorce
train at Logansport last spring.
Quincy Adams Washington is a ne-
gro, an ash hauler by occupation, a
philosopher by habit, and is not less
than 65 years of age.
The other evening he attempted to
drive in front of an ea3t-bound Payno
avenue car, and the car struck Grace
in the steering gear. The passengers
l’elt the shock, heard the mule shriek,
and rushed panic-stricken to the doors
as the raotorman put on the brakes,
which failed to work at once. To the
horror of spectators on the sidewalk,
the mule was rolled along under the
fender fer half a block before the car
could be stopped. Grace, to all ap-
pearances, was lifeless.'
A crowd of early evening pedes-
trians gathered around, while the mo-
torman, conductor and Quincy Adams
jacked the car up and backed it off
the mule.
“Dead, all right," said the motor-
man, laconically.
"Who-a no^r, sah. Jess—jess wait,"
said Quincy.
"Oh, shut up," said the motorman
turning to Hm nervously. “Go get
n policeman to shoot her. Maybe Bhe
ain't quite dead. She ought'er be,
though. We rolled her about a mile."
Quincy looked closely at the mule,
which lay limp on the tracks, then
whispered to the motorman:
“N-n-a-now, doan be too suah. I
wouldn’t be a-startin’ no funeral ob-
sequies Jess yet, no SAH! Jess wait a
bit, new you take mah word.” A
patrolman bustled up, drew big re-
volver and gave the mule a precau-
tionary kick in the ribs. Quincy
drew back. He knew his own mule,
even if she was dead.
One car wagged aimlessly. Grace's
right eye opened, wandered, and lit
on the offending car, three or four
feet away.
In one instant the poor broken
mass of dead mule flesh unwound
with a snap. Grace clambered uncer-
tainly to her feet. Gathering Impetus
she moved Into action. There was
crash of iron against iron as her
heels struck the vestibule of the car.
To the spectators it souaded as
There Was a Crash of Iron Against
Iron.
though the Garfield building had
fallen into Euclid avenue. With dis-
patch born of loDg experience on
barnyard fences, Grace broke in the
car vestibule, smashed the front glass,
broke the controller box, annihilated
the Iron fender and was preparing to
begin on the front trucks when
Quincy Adams lassoed her with
rein.
“I told you all so, now didn’t IT"
he yelled to the conductor and motor-
man as they turned back, when the
fusillade cei. ;ed. “You all wouldn’t-
believe me. She's a good mule.”
Quincy Adams reckons his damage
at $J25. Tfc • company reckons Its
damage in 1: ;o figures. Neither side
will prosecute.
CHASED THROUGH WOODS
BY PACK OF WOLVES
FARMER AND WIFE HAVE THRILL-
ING EXPERIENCE DURING
THE NIGHT.
Negaunee, Mich.—Pursued for miles
by a pack of wolves, Swan Pilo and
his wife, of Negaunee, had a thrilling
experience during the night while re-
turning from their homestead north
of the Yellow Dog river. Their farm
is in one of the wildest districts in the
Lake Superior region.
The couple noticed that they were
followed by a number of wolves just
after dusk on the first day of their re-
'tirn journey, and as they were miles
from any habitation the prospect ap-
peared a dismal one, particularly as
the homesteader had no gun.
The horse was terror-stricken, and
it was with difficulty that Pilo was
victims to the wolves. Never again,
he says, will he venture Into the wil-
derness without a rifle and plenty of
ammunition.
RIDE8 HER WHEEL LIKE GODIVA.
Sleeping Girl Clad in Nightgown
Startles Fort Dodge, la.
Fort Dodge, la.—The ghostlike ap-
parition of a girl astride a bicycle flit-
ting about the streets after midnight
will not startle residents in the east
end any longer. For weeks pedestrians
abroad late at night have been scared.
The other night a policeman, at-
tracted by a crash and a scream, ran
around a corner and solved the mys-
tery. He found a young and pretty
girl clad in a thin nightdress which
had suffered severely when the wheel
she was riding struck a brick. The
girl was dazed, but told the policeman
where she lived. He escorted her
home and startled her father, a well-
known merchant, who thought his
daughter was safe iu bed.
The girl said she had no recollection
of her night rides.
STANDARD OIL'S LITERARY NEMESIS
Wolves Circled
Wagon,
About
Saw Heaven in Vision.
Williamsport, Pa.—Miss Ella Court
right, an aged woman of this ctiy,
while suffering from a stroke of
paralysis, says that she made a visit
to heaven. She was In a state of cat-
alepsy, and during the trance, she de-
clares, she enjoyed a visit to the
realm of the unknown.
During her interview with a news-
paper man she gave a graphic de-
scription of her vision. Interspersed
with frequent biblical allusions and
quotations. While within the gates
she says ah" saw the throne of God.
with Jesus sitting at his feet. Stretch-
ing away as far as she could see were
millions of strange faces, and the
supernal beings were all dressed in
robes of white.
oble to keep It in the road, which, for
most of the distance, is little better
than a trail flanked by thick forests.
The wolves circled about the wagon
and as they ran in and out of the un-
derbrush the occupants of the vehicle
*aw that the pack was a good-sized
<>ne. Occasionally one animal bolder
than the rest would dash up behind
i he wagon and try to leap into it. Fall
Jng. owing to the speed of the horse,
the wolf would stop short and howl.
>r -Ise would slink off into the woods.
Tho horse ran madly until an open
ir-tch of country was gained When
a settler’s cnbin was reached at the j ed
pposite side of the plain the wolves
-1. 'appeared. Had the trip been made
■ hiring the winter, when prey is not so
•'entiful. K Is believed by Pilo that
' and his wife would have fallen
Sncres Too Loud in Coffin.
Philadelphia.—For three nights, un-
til a policeman disturbed his slum-
bers. William Ellis has lodged In a
cedar coffin box, which had been
placed near an open grave to receive
a corpse for burial. When he was
brought before Magistrate Ran, who
sent him to the house of correction
for three months, Ellis gave his ad-
dress at Glenwcod cemetery. He said
he had no other place to sleep, and
when he discovered the coffin box it
proved so comfortable and dry dur-
ing a heavy rain the first night that
he did not desire anything better.
Gives Up Lizard and Lives.
Hurley, Wis.—From Wyandotte
comes the report that the town's rec-
ord of freaks has again been broke*.
I.ee Du Mond. ag.Hl three, has part-
company with a Hve lizard two
inches king. Tho child was taken
with a vomiting fit. and when given
medicine the lizard was brought forth.
It died from the heat, and the boy
now eats as he never did before
Miss Ida Minerva Tarbell, the unrelenting foe of trusts and monopolies
and the literary Nemesis of the Standard Oil company, was born in Erie,
county, Penn., in 1857, and was graduated from the Titusville High school and’
Allegheny college. In 1883. when she was 26 yearB old. she became editor of
The Chautauquan and held that position for eight years. Then she became
a student at the Sorbonne, Paris, and later at the College of France. While
in Paris she wrote some articles which attracted the attention of S. S Mc-
Clure, and for several years she was one of the editors of McClure's Maga-
zine. She has written lives of Napoleon, Lincoln and Mme. Roland Her
great literary success was her series on "The History of the Standard Oil
company."
WHY HE WAS TIRED.
Return from the Annual Nonsense
Known as "Vacation.”
A man alighted from a train, and
after walking laboriously up the short
flight of stairs which led to the wait-
ing-room, stopping a few times on the
way to rest, he looked round for a
place to sit down. His wan, thin face,
heavy eyes, and general appearance of
weakness and dejection attracted at-
tention, and a kind old gentleman ac-
costed the stranger and asked if he
could be of any assistance.
"No-o, thanks," the young man
drawled out; “I’ll get along if I take
my time about it."
"Are you ill?”
“No-o, I’m not iU. But I feel as If
I were completely done up."
“Been in an accident?”
“No-o. I’m Just tired; that’s all.
Thanks; you may call a hansom for
me, if you will. Don’t believe I could
ever walk out to the tramway. I
don’t mind if you carry my bag. I’m
so tired.”
“What's the matter with you?”
“Oh, nothing much; I'm Just re-
turning from my holidays. I’ll be all
right in a week or two.”—Tit-Bits.
A Famous Saying.
You have probably heard or read the
famous saying: “I had rather be the
first man In a village than the second
man in Rome,” and have wondered,
STRANGE ANTIQUITY OF EGYPT.
Country Has Remained Unchanged
Through Centuriee.
Many tourists who have crossed
the Mediterranean to Alexandria and
have made the three hour journey
thence by express to Cairo, establish
themselves in one of the fashionable
hotels, do a little shopping in the na-
tive quarter, see a mosque or two, a
native wedding, ride a camel the quar-
ter mile distance from the Mena house
to the sphinx, and perhaps go as far
as to visit Saqqara—a day’B excursion
from Cairo—then return homeward
fancying and also declaring that they
have seen Egypt.
So they have, in a sense; but Cairo
is no mere representative of Egypt as
a country than New York is of the en-
tire United States.
To see upper Egypt, with its fel-
laheen life, its mud cities, and its
quaint scenery, is like turning the
leaves of an old history and studying
the engravings, for neither the coun-
try nor the people has changed to any
appreciable degree since the days of
Mohammed, unless it be in the ac
complishment In which all seem to be
equally well trained—that of begging
backsheesh. Egypt is spoken of as
becoming modernized, but there is no
indication of anything more modern
than 2,000 years ago between Cairo
and Luxor—or, more properly, the lit-
tle English city of Kom Ombo. beyond
Luxor, where an English company has
PRINCE YI-OUI-TJYONG
WORK OF VANDALS
Plant of Joplin, Mo., News-Herald
Wrecked by an Bzploaion
of Dynamite.
OUTFIT WAS NEARLY NEW
The Plant Had 6nly Been Installed
About a Month—Prompt Action
By 8tockholdera to Repair
The Damage.
lL
This Korean prince has been sentenced to death for trying to take part
in the Hague peace conference. He is now in the United States The inflic-
tion of the penalty naturally^ppends on his willingness to return home He
has decided to go to Europe for the present.
Joplin, Mo., Bept. 15.—Five sticks
of dynamite placed under the lino-
type machines and the perfecting
press of the Joplin Ncws-Hearald,
the afternoon paper here, were ex-
ploded simultaneously at 11:15 o’clock
Friday night and the entire printing
plant was reduced to junk and Bcrap
iron with a detonation which aroused
residents of all parts of the city. The
shock was like that of an earthquake.
There Is ifo one In the News-Herald
office at night and the vandals evi-
dently took thejr time in arranging
for its destruction. From the effects
it is certain that two sticks of the
explosive were placed beneath the
linotypes, and three under the sixteen-
page Goss perfecting press. The fuses
ware laid to one central point, being
evidently of the same length, and so
arranged that the explosions should
occur at the same time. The destruc-
tion was complete.
Two more sticks of dynamite placed
near the press, and two near the lino-
types, did not explode.
The News-Herald's plant was a new
one, having been installed but a little
over a month ago, and the loss, which
Is total. Is estimated at approximately
$40,000. The newspaper office is in
the Club theater building, a handsome
structure in the heart of the city.
The building escaped serious damage,
except that every window in it was
broken.
There is no clue to the perpetrators
of the outrage. The News-Herald,
which is the Republican organ here,
has been conducted by P. E. Burton
formerly a well known St. Lou:\c
newspaper man, for about two yea/3.
It has been making an aggressive and
measurably successful fight for law
and order, and against gambling and
all other forms of vice. It is beliived
that this crusade, threatening a3 It
did to drive the undesirable element
from the city, resulted in the gam
biers, thugs and other disorderly char-
acters, with those who profit by their
lawlessness, resorting to this drastic
method of silencing the paper which
was arousing public sentiment against
them.
The News-Herald was published
Saturday afternoon from the plant
that it was sought to wreck. The
stockholders of the newspaper, at a
meeting Saturday morning, voted a
$20,000 increase in the capital stock
of the paper to cover damages to the
plant.
DYNAMITED EMPTY SAFE
Mcy Call Nebraska Legislature.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 12.—The state
railway commission Wednesday
agreed to postpone indefinitely the
further hearings on grain rate reduc-
tions until the federal court acts on
the request of the railroads for a
temporary injunction. The restrain-
ing order Tuesday prevented the
commission from promulgating the
new grain schedule. Senator Aldrich,
attorney for the commission, Wednes-
day asked the governor to call a spe-
cial session of the legislature pro-
viding the new grain rates arc tied up
indefinitely in the courts.
Local Option in Missouri.
Jefferson City. Sept. 16.—Fifty-five
of the 114 counties in Missouri have
either voted the saloon out or have
begun proceedings looking to that
end. There were 41 counties “dry”
before the elections of Saturday* and
14 counties had the question pending.
Counties that have voted against the
saloon within the last few weeks are
Callaway county, including Pulton,
its chief city; EX Kalb county, Sulli-
van county. Morgan county and
Nodaway county, the principal town
in which, Maryville, voted “wet."
Twt Robber* Held up ■ Great North-
ern Train In Montana.
They Fallen to Find Anything of Valu*
Except Registered Mall—Re-
ward! of 85,800.
St. Paul, Sept. 13.—General Mana-
ger Elliott of tho Great Northern Ex-
press company announced to the As-
sociated Press Thursday (hat the
Great Northern Oriental Limited train
No. 1, which left St. Paul Tuesday
morning, was held up by two masked
men seven miles west of Rexford,
Mont., early Thursday morning. Tho
roblers crawled over the tender and at
the point of their guns eommanded the
ongineer to Btop the trail*. They then
ordered him to go back with them to
the express car and instructed him to
tell the express messenger, mail cleric
aud baggage man to go bock into tM
coaches. While this was being done
the robbers kept up a continual fusl-
lade with their guns to terrify tho
passengers and keep then within the
coaches. After the messenger and
mall clerk had left their cars the rob-
bers went through the mail cars and
robbed the sacks of a large quantity of
registered mail. Then they went into
an express car, which carried an over-
flow of mail, baggage and express, and
which contained a regular through
safe. This they attempted to blow
open. After exploding three charge*
the safe was opened and found empty.
The robbers did not enter the regular
express car in which the messenger
had been riding.
On finding the safe empty the high-
waymen helped themselves to the reg-
istered mail and after firing a parting
volley, disappeared.
The robbers are described as being
about 30 years of age, one about 5
feet 11 inches tall and the other con-
siderably shorter. They wore black
clothes and black soft hats. The rail-
road offers $5,000 for arrest and con-
viction of each of them.
Neidringhaus Has Resigned.
St. Louis. Sept. 13.—Chairman
Thomas K. Neidringhaus of the repub-
lican state committee, resigned Thurs-
day at a meeting of the committee
and Walter S. Dickey, of Kansas City,
was selected as his successor. Mr.
Neidringhaus gave pressure of busi-
ness as his reason for resigning. Sec-
retary McCoy also resigned.
Veterans March Again.
Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 12.—The
Grand Army of the Republic held its
parade Wednesday; U‘e forty-first, in
memory of the days of war. Ten
thousand veterans, the remnant of the
once victorious army whose scores of
thousands passed in review at the
national capital when the war was
over, braved a driving atom to mardJT*
again beneath their battle flags. Un-
mindful of the stress of storm, as in
the days of “sixty-one," those that
were left passed in review, over a
measured mile through village streets,
a distance suited to their gathering
years. For an hour and more the
veterans walked between lines of
cheering people, keeping step to the
music, which again and again right
cheerily played "How Dry I am” and
“Wait dll the Sun Shines. Nellie.”
Problem for Gov. Hoch.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 14.—Pressure is
being brought to bear on Gov. Hoch
to prevent him from calling a special
session of the legislature to act on the
two-cent fare question. Attorney Gen-
eral F. S. Jackson thinks he can se-
cure the two-cent fare without a spe-
cial session. He suggests that a case
before the railroad commissioners be
brought on the plea of the "reason-
ableness" of the rate. If the railroads
refuse, the case would be carried to
the supreme couHf This course
would necessitate another hearing be-
fore the railroad commissioners. Gov.
Hoch, it is understood from his closw
friends, wants to call a special session
and thinks it the best way to settle
♦he question. •»
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Church Would Collect Judgment.
Topel-a, Kan., Sept. 12—The case
against Peter Anderson, the young
Swedish missionary who went to
Alaska and came back a millionaire,
has been taken to the federal circuit
court in rn effort to force him to pay
a judgment of $231,000. The judgment
was secured by the mission society
of the Swedish church. The church
claimed it furnished the means to
send fcirn to Alaska and won its suit.
As yet it has been unable to collect.
perhaps, who first used it Plutarch at-
tributes It to Julius Caesar. The story
is, as he tells it, that when Caesar
came to a little town in passing the
Alps, one of his friends said, In a
jocular way: ’’Can there be here any
disputes for offices, and contentions
for precedence, or such envy and am-
bition as we see among the great?"
To which Caesar answered, very se-
riously: "I assure you that I had rath-
er be the first man here than the sec-
ond man in Rome.”
been formed and agricultural experi-
ments are being carried forward.—
Harriet Quimby in Leslie's Weekly.
True Philosophy.
Let us see that whenever we have
failed te be loving, we have also fail-
ed to be wise; that whenever we bare
been blind to our neighbors’ interests,
we have also been blind to our own;
whenever we have hurt others, we
have hurt ourselves much more. —
Raskin.
His Sacrifice.
”1 fear that you must have sacri-
ficed your conscience occasionally*
said the sincere friend.
"Well," answered Mr. Dustin Stax,
"a man ought not to expect to be aa
successful as I am without some sacri-
fice.”
Fatigue and Character.
Just as fatigue lessens our ability to
withstand diseases—which attack the
physical man—so it lessens our ability
to withstand temptations, which at-
tack the moral man. This is not be-
cause the temptations are more
numerous, but because there is less
•»ergy of resistance.—World's Work.
Gov. Johnson Not a Candidate.
St. Paul, Sept. 13.—“I am not a
presidential candidate and I do not in-
tend to.become one." This was the
emphatic declaration made by Gov.
Johnson Thursday to a party of promi-
nent Nebraskans who came to present
three invitations to Gov. Johnson to
speak in Nebraska. The governor de-
clined all three.
Se- :n Years for Stealing 8100,000.
•sew York. Sept. 12.—Chester B.
Runyan, paying teller of the Wind-
sor Trust company, who confessed to
stealing $10< ,000 of the company's
funds, was sentenced Wednesday by-
Judge Whitman in the court of Gen-
pra5 Sessions to serve seven years in
Sing Sing prison.
Big Blaze at Hays City. Kan.
Hays City. Kan.. Sept. 15—Fire,
which threatened the business section
of Hays City, warn brought under con-
trol early Saturday. Loss fl 15,000.
Seek to Enjoin Holding Election.
Washington. Sept. 12.—The papers
in the case of Autry Versus Frantz,
in which Autry seeks to enjoin the
holding of an election in Oklahoma
on the acceptance of the constitution
prepared by the recent constitutional
convention were filed in the supreme
court of the United States Wednes-
day.
Kansas Leads in Alfalfa.
Topeka. Kan.. Sept. 1,3 — Kansas has
a greater area and production of al-
falfa than any other state in the
union. F. D. Coburn, secretary of ag-
riculture. has just issued a bulletin
stating this. His report shows the
Kansas acreage in alfalfa now is 742,-
140. en increase of 20i per cent over
last year
Creamery Rate Hearing Continued.
Topeka. Sept. 12.—The board of
railroad commissioners Tuesday after-
noon postponed the creamery rate
hearing from September 24 to some
time next month. The continuation
was made at the request of tho rail-
roads. who wished to await the
diet of the courts.
ver-
Foot Ball Accident First Day.
Sallna. Kau.. Sept. 13.—The second
football accident of the season was re-
corded here Thursday. Ray Kcer. a
senior in the Sallna high school, suf-
fered a broken collar bone at this th*
first day of practice.
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