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Farmers' Champion
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ELGIN OKLAHOMA THUHSPAY JULY 31 1913
NO. 42
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Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
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FOREIGN.
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Suffragette "arson souad" vet Are
to a large unoccupied manslpn near
Birmingham England .and burned It
to tho ground.
The Pope has a strike on hta hands
the Swiss guards having walked out
atter making numerous demands
which were refused.
Hslung Hal Ling has been appoint-
ed premier of the Chinese cabinet to
succeed Chao Ping Chun removed by
the constituent assembly.
Fuklon proviance has seceeded from
from the Chinese republic according
to a dispatch to the state department
from Consul Fowler at Foochow.
Sylvia Paukhurst whose license has
expired dramatically defied the police
b7 appearing at the Bromley town hall
and made an inflammatory speech.
Argentina republic's riflemen who
will compete In the International
shooting matches at Camp Perry O.
the last week In August arrived In
New York.
Premier Karl-Staaf of P.weden lib-
eral on opening tho eighth northern
temperance congress made an ad-
dress In which he said ho favored
prohibition for Sweden.
London society Is keenly Interested
In the result of an Interesting event
that Is to take place shortly in the
ducal family of the Roxburghes. The
duchess was Miss May Ooelet of New
York.
Serrla and Greece have agreed that
peace negotiations with Bulgaria
should take place In Bucharest an
armistice is being arranged and will
probably be concluded within a couple
of days.
Southern rebels reported to number
10000 attacked KlansNan arsenal
at Shanghai. The defenders not ex-
ceeding 3000 wero strongly en-
trenched and assisted by the navy
repelled three separate attacks 600
rebels being killed.
The German emlsarles who came Jo
London seeking radium have bought
every available gramme of the Brit-
ish supply which is only an eighth
of the quantity wanted. They paid
cash down. The present price of ra-
dium is equivalent to 12400000 an
ounce.
An organized attempt at bomb
throwing in various parts of Lisbon
was frustrated by tho police who had
been warned. Thoy captured several
automobiles In which they found bas-
kets filled with bombs and arrested
many persons who had gathered in
the streets.
After the observance of the first an-
niversary of the death of Emperor
Mutsuhito at the end of July the
court will begin active preparation
for the coronation of the new emperor
who Is now quite well again after his
recent attack of pneumonia. The cor
onation will take place In the fall of
1014 at Toklo.
DOMESTIC.
Three young pleasure seekers were
drowned at Cincinnati within view
of many persons who were standing
about the wharf the victims being
carried under a coal fleet when the en-
gine of their motor boat failed.
Six policemen with drawn revolvers
were required to protect Mrs. A. Llch-
tensteln assistant superintendent of
the Christian Jewish Mission of SL
Louis from the members ot her owa
race when she tried to convert them
from Judaism to Christianity at a
street meeting la Kansas City.
The estate of Jobs It. Walsh wfeosa
fertune was estimated at $16000OOQ
before the failure of km banks la 1906
has shrunk to $41000. accorelag to the
attorney for the administration wae
appeared before tie board ot review ot
CBJeafo.
Wireless communication has beea
established between Nome Alaska
and Anadyr Siberia.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young 78 superin-
tendent of public schools In Chicago
since 1909 announced her resigna-
tion. Charles Sumner Hamlin of Boston
has been selected as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury In charge of the
customs service.
L. W. Dutro former postmtsare at
Memphis and Mrs. Frankye Bradford
Gwynne were drowned In the Missis-
sippi river nt Memphis.
Sunday School teachers who attend
the Kansas state normal school will
be given advanced standing for their
Sunday school experience.
Tho Women's Homestead associa-
tion of Cambridge Mass. has demand-
ed that Mayor Edward Barry wed It
he wishes to bo re-elected.
Howard Elliott prnaldqnt of the
Northern Pacific railroad was elected
president and director of the New
York Now Haven and Hartford.
Geo. W. Hays democrat wan eloct-
ed governor of Arkansas having
about two votes to one of the Moose
and Republican candidates combined.
Peter England a farmer of Harvey.
N. T). reports the presence in the
grain fields of an unknown species of
worm that Is eating the Russian this-
tles. Frederick S. Mordaunti publisher
of several magazines Chicago was
arrested charged with having abduct-
od Miss Josephine Sclwood 17 years
old.
Zlon City III. will hereafter go to
bed motion plctureless. It also will
retire without Its evening game of
Kelly pool. These are Vollva's latest
rulings.
Geo. Washakie son of the late Chief
Washakie of the Shoshones Is dead
at Fort Washakie Wyo. from spotted
fever caused by the bite of a wood
tick.
The Jury In the case of Lee Hoyt
who confessed to murdering his fath-
er a farmer at ChtlUcothe Mo. on'
November 26 1911 failed to agree
and was discharged.
Stephen Keeling 12 years old of
Fort Scott Kan. was killed and his
brother Keith 16 was Injured when
an automobile driven by their father
overturned ten miles east of Maroa
111.
The new two-cent passenger and
maximum freight rates In Minnesota
ordered by the United States supreme
court In Its decision on the rate cases
became effective last week.
Fifteen minutes before the opening
of the Kenwood Trust and Savings
bank at Chicago on which a run
was started an automobile arrived
with 200090 In cash to meet demands
of depositors.
The words Civil war will be voted
out of the South Carolina constitution
it tho people ratify one of the amend-
ments passed by the constitutional
commission. In Its stead "the war
between the states" will be placed In
tho constitution.
Lillian Russell's husband Alexander
P. Moore president and editor of the
Pittsburg Leader which has for Its
political slogan "For President In
1916 Theodore Roosevelt" will for-
sake Journalism to manufacture his
wife's beauty lotions.
WASHINGTON.
George Carroll Todd of Virginia
was nominated by President Wilson
to be asststant to Attorney General
McReynolds and "trust-buster" ot the
administration.
Railway representatives Joined In
the fight to prevent Postmaster Gen-
eral Burleson from Increasing the site
of parcel post packages transmissible
through the malls and reducing rates
to becomo effective August 16.
The president nominated Preston O.
West of Oklahoma as assistant attor-
ney general attached to the Interior
department
The McKlnley postcard Is doomed
to disappear. The features of the
martyred president are to be removed
to give way to those ot Thomas Jef-
ferson. J'"
President Wilson has determined
that no faction la the present Mex
lean revolution shall obtain arms or
ammunition from the United - States
and that neutrality must be observed
la its strictest sease.
New State News Notes
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JOLT FOR MONEY LENDERS.
South Pottawatomie Borrowers
en Usury.
Kick
Tecumseh. The Voters' league of
South Pottawatomie cunty has em-
ployed the firm of BaMwIn & Carloton
of this city to prosecute for Us mem-
bers usury suits against the various
banks of this section for usury. At a
large meeting jjeld at the Ray Sch.iol-
house in the south part of the county
arrangements were made for more
than a hundred suits to be had before
January 1 1914.
A resolution was adopted that In
the case of national banks the actual
money borrowed would be returned
and in the case of state banks twice
the amount of interest paid would be
deducted and the remainder due en
the note would bo paid. In all cases
tho members of the league will pay
back the amount duo the banks tin 'cr
the Oklahoma law but It Is the Intent
to sttnd on their legal rights to re-
fuse to pay Interest when the hank
has been guilty of charging usury.
The Voters league of Pttawatomle
county number-j a thousand members
in the south part of the county. The
meeting was held by call of tho
county president Leander Pounds
a iji. the state organizer W. M.
Shurpe.
ALMOST DECAPITATED
Garfield County Farmer Meets Hor-
rible Death When Wheel Breaks.
Enid. A. L. Roim was instantly
k' ed when the wheel of an ensilage
cutter flew to pieces while revolving
fit a high rate of speed one of the
long knives striking htm la the head.
and another In the abdomen.
The cutter had Just been set la mo
tion and Mr. Relm was riling the
machine and it Is estimated that the
wheel was making 1200 revolutions
per minute when the accident re-
curred. One knife cut the entire top
of his head off and a second knife
cut the body almost In two making
a frightful wound In the abdomen.
Another knife which struck a tree
nearby cut it oft as cleanly as If It
bad been sawed down.
Mr. Relm Is one of five brothers
all of whom are prosperous farmers
ol the community. He leaves a wife
and eight children.
WILSON WATCHING MEXICO
President In Doubt and Awaits Report
of Ambassador.
Washington. Developments in the
Mexican situation last week wero con-
fined to informal discussion of sug-
gested plans for a deflnito policy on
the part of tho American administra-
tion toward Its neighbor republic.
Every kind of plan has been sug
gested to administration officials from
a mediation board of Americans to
adjust the dispute and supervise tho
holding of an election to a tripartita
commission composed of representa-
tives from the United States and two
South American republics yrho would
attempt to bring about peace between
the warring Moxlcan factions.
There will be no expression of pol-
icy however until after the confer-
ence between the president and Am-
bassador Wilson who was called homo
from Mexico City.
A Negro Lands Good Job
Washington. Adam E. Patterson ot
Muskogee Okta. was nominated to
be registrar of the treasury by Presi-
dent Wilson. The position which
pays $6000 a year has been held by
colored men under both republican
and democratic administrations for
many years.
Horton For Congress.
Altus. State Senator Guy P. Hor-
ton. ot Altus has announced that he
will enter tho race for congress In
the new district of which Jackson
county Is a part. Horton has a large
following In this part or the state and
Is the author of several Important
measures passed by the last legis-
lature. Methodists Mset At Ramsey Lake.
Sulphur. The eighth annual meet
lag of the Oklahoma Methodist As
sembly Is In progress at Uielr owa
luuuu umi iwuasvy lase.
MURDER ENDS FAMILY ROW
Sen
Kills Father After a
Fight at Chlckasha.
General
Chlckasha. J. A. Thomas Is dead
and his son Billy Thomas aged 24 Is
In the Grady county Jail charged with
the murder as a result of a family
quarrel that culminated In a shooting
affair at the Thomas home six miles
southwest of Alex. In addition Clar
ence McLemore and W. L. Walker
hired hands on the Thomas farm were
arrested.
That he fired the fatal shots young
Thomas does not deny and though
as yet details are meager It Is believed
by the authorities that ho will plead
self-defense as a reason for the mur-
der. It is stated that J. A. Thomas
the father threatened several days
ago to kill his daughter the rest of
the 'family and then 1(111 himself.
Members of the family stated to Sher-
I ft Lewis they took a revolver away
from the deceased but that when the
shooting occurred ho was unarmed.
Tho young man refuses to make a
detailed statement of the case.
FaVher and son had VeU The supper
table and were on the front porch
alone. Suddenly the other members
of the family heard a series of shots
In rapid succession. When they
rushed to the scene they found the
father's body on the edge of the porch.
He died almost Instantly. Six ots
were fired from a .32 caliber auto-
matic revolver taking effect and from
their positions It Is believed any ol
them would have produced death.
KILLS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Wesley
Graham Exonerated For
Sheeting Sol Kelley.
Ada. Wesley Graham shot and In-
stantly killed his brother-in-law Sol
Kelley at the former's home near
here. Kelley and his wife had sep
arated more than a year ago and It Is
said Kelley has tried unsuccessfully
to induce her to come back to him.
Kelley went to the Graham home and
demanded that his wife come back
with htm declaring If she did not h
would kill the whole family. He ap-
proached the door of tho house with
his gun and Wesley Graham grabbed
his automatic shotgun and fired three
loads into Kelley. Graham was after
wards exonerated.
Indian Kilted In Stomp Dance Row.
Tulsa. Rufus Severin a wealthy
Indian was shot and killed at the
annual stomp dance of the Cherokee
Shawnee and Chickasaw Indians ner
8perry. Webb Chlsm said to have
done the shooting came to Tulsa and
gave himself up to Sheriff McCol-
lough. Chlsm is also wealthy. At the
same stomp dance last year Dave Ty-
ner a rich young Cherokee killed
Tom Jones his brother-in-law in a
quarrel over a Delaware Indian girl
and got and eight-year sentence.
Missionary Work In Mining Camps.
McAlester. A committee composed
of J. O. Kuykendall of Atoka and W.
W. Chancellor of McAlester appointed
by the executive committee of the
Baptist general convention ot the
state of Oklahoma met in McAlester
last week for the purpose of Investl
gating conditions In the mining dis-
tricts of the state and to form a defi-
nite plan for missionary work among
the miners in the different mining
camps In this section of the State.
Carnival At Fergan
Forgan. -The Forgan Commercial
club is making elaborate preparations
for a six days' carnival and street fair
to be held here the week ending Aug-
use 16. Special trains will be run
from Woodward.
Clay Natien Is Acquitted.
Mangum Holding the dofense had
proved Clay Nation shot 'a self de-
fense when he killed his brother-in-law
Jake Dulworth a Jury In the dis-
trict court here returned a verdict of
not guilt)
Jury Decides te Break Ballsy Will.
Bhawnee. Contestants of the will
of the late Samuel Bailey succeeded la
getting a verdict from a superior court
lurv. which will bresk the will undet
I which he len about itg.uuu to a-nepn
I eW Shbrraan Spencer and the estste
) w) go 10 BIB tHSierB.
ULTIMATUM
TO MEXICO
ADMINISTRATION FINALLY SAYf
A FEW THINGS IN STRONG
LANGUAGE AND IS OSEYED.
AMERICANOFFICIALSURRENDEREI
After ting Shot" by Mexican Sol-
diers and Held In Jail 24 Hours
Release of Two Others
Is Demsndtd.
Washington Strong representa-
tions the most drastic In phraseology
that have been made since the pres-
ent American administration came
into power were made to tho Hucrta
government In Mexico.
The United States g" jrnment de-
manded not only the prompt arrest
courtmartlal and punishment of the
Mexican federal soldiers nho shot
Charles B. Dixon an American Imral
nation ofnc.al at Juares Mexico but
the Immediate release ot Charles Bis-
sell and Bernard McDonald mining
managers imprisoned by federal soV
dlers at Chihuahua City and said
to be threatened with execution.
Dixon was promptly released at
Juarez and taken to a hospital at El
Paso.
Dixon was In Juarez on official busi-
ness Investigating a wnite slave case
when he was arrested by a band ot
federals who started marching him
away from the city In the direction
ot the foothills where many execu-
tions have occurred. Dixon started
to niB and after getting a block away
was fired on and hit In the back.
Dixon made a statement la tMe
hospital In Juares to American offl'
clals that he believed the Mexicans
were marching him out to shoot hlai
when he ran. He shys the Mexican
soldiers were drunk.
Dixon was sent by a superior te
Juares to see a negro in connection
with a whtto slave case that was be-
ing probed here. The negro bought
drinks for the soldiers and lnluced
them to arrest him after telling them
Dixon planned to kidnap him.
On the demand of the American eon
sul the soldiers Involved and tne
negro have been arrested.
NICARAGUAN PROTECTORATE
Brysn Alters Treaty te Permit Central
American Union.
Washington. Important modifica-
tions are to be made In the proposed
treaty with Nicaragua by which tho
United States would establish a pro-
tectorate over the southern republic.
It has been discovered that by the
terms of the agreement originally out-
lined by Secretary Bryan Nicaragua
would have been prevented from ever
Joining with other republics to form
a single Central American union.
This was not contemplated by the
administration when the treaty was
proposed and the suggestion has cre-
ated suspicion among other Central
American countries. At a conference
between Secretary Bryan and mem
bers of the senate foreign relatione
committee It was agreed that the or.
Iglnal draft of the treaty rhould be
changed and definite statements be
Included In the compact providing
thst It should not sUnd In the way ot
any action Nicaragua might decide te
take toward Joining B Central Amer
lean commission.
THE TROUBLE IN CHINA
U. 8. Bluejackets Ltnderf te Protect
Ferelgn Interests.
Shanghai. The United States auxlt
lary cruiser Rainbow's bluejackets
who were landed for a demonstration
aro now guarding the foreign settle-
ment. The Rainbow was struck three
times during tho fighting. Detach
meats of Americas British Japan
French and Italian bluejacket are
patrolling the settlemcut aad tee
Chapel' boundary. '
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