The Okarche Times. (Okarche, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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OKARCHE TIMES
OKARCHE. OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS
Muskogee Is getting to be real citi-
fied. Work has begun on a ten story
hotel there.
The corporation commission has de-
cided that it has power to order rail-
roads to maintain flagmen at cross-
ings in cities.
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A train of 2S cars loaded with rat-
tle for the St. Louis markets left
Seminole last week. This is the
largest shipment mad* from Semi-
nole tlfts year
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American federation of Labor, Is like-
ly to come to Oklahoma, to take a hand
li^ the coming election in November,
according to statements mado by sev-
eral of the leading labor men of the
•tale.
W. M. Malone of Vinila has been
appointed building and loan inspec'or
to succeed Alex Richmond of Musko-
gee. • The latter will remove to Okla-
homa Cty and engage in business. Mr.
Malone is editor of the ilank Guaranty
Journal.
A charter has been issued by Hill
Cross, secretary of state, to the Far-
mers’ Union Co-operative association
of El Dorado, Jackson county. The
capital stock is $2(1,000, and tlie com-
pany will erect a fino gin there.
By the accidental discharge of a
gun, H. A. Krause, farmer living
northeast of Frederick, was perhaps
fatally wounded. He was mowing oats
and carried a shot gun with which
to shoot rabbits. He rode a mile to
bis home after tho accident.
After July 30 It is illegal for
any railroad in Oklahoma charging
more than 2 cents per mile for Hie
transportation of passengers to col-
lect nny excess charge for cash fares.
An order to that effect has been Issued
by tlje corporation commission.
The Oklahoma delegation to the
48th annual session of the national
educational association, which will
met .in Boston, July 2 to 8, left
'Wednesday for the eastern city. It Is
expected that the uttendume will be
fully 20,000 this year.
K The fact that the house was a resi-
dence of a Judge did not prevent a
Ithief from entering the home of Judge
Sam Hooker of »Oklahoma City and
stealing $10 and a gold watch. The
watch was purchased in 1808 and was
accordingly valued very highly.
W. G. Porter of Waklta was brought
before the insanity commission and
sentenced to the asylum at Norman.
He was tried recently on the charge
of killing a Mexican but he proved
self-defense. Porter brooded over
the trouble until he lost his mind.
Governor Haskell and Secretary of
State Bill Cross have moved their of-
fices from the Lee-Huckins hotel,
which place they have occupied since
June 11, to the old high school build-
ing. They will occupy the first floor,
end the governor and his assistants
will occupy the southeast rooms. The
high school building has been remod-
eled and put in splendid shape for the
etate officials.
A first mortgage deed of trust for
$400,000 from the Ol .v
Suburban railway to the Mississippi
Valley Trust company of St. Louis has
been filed with the secretary of state.
,The mortgage is “for twenty years
end bears 5 per cent interest. The
Oklahoma City & Suburban is capital-
ised at 7400.000. Tho money is bor-
rowed for the purpose of constructing
the line.
Effective July 1 the secretary of
the Interior has ordered the removal
of headquarters of several Indian
agents. Headquarters for district No.
6 will be changed from Checotah lo
Muskogee; No. 7 from Antlers to
Talahlna; No. 14 from Tishomingo
to Madlll. Explanation is made that
the changes are made to more cen-
trally locate the agencies.
Alf Mowyer, a farmer living near
Wade, was instantly killed while out
bunting. He fired at a snake and
•topped on a log to reload his muzzle
loading gun, when the gun slipped
and the hammer struck on the side
of the log. A hole was tom through
his body from the left hip to the right
shoulder.
The original Postal Telegraph A
Cable company, controlled by Clan
ence H. Mackey of Now York, w ill dis-
connect itself from the Texas Postal
Telegraph A- Telephone company,
Western Union Telegraph company
end tho Pioneer Telephone ami Tele-
graph company, and will hereafter do
•n Independent business lu Oklahoma.
The next meeting of the Oklahoma
County Fruit Growers’ sssocitalon has
been set for Saturday. July The
opening of headquarters in Oklahoma
City will he discussed as well as the
erection of a cold storage warehouse.
Attorney General Charles West,
In an opinion lo tlie secretary of state,
refuses to pass upon the question as
to whether a county can invoke tha
referendum upon a law passed by the
legislature which is local
JEFFRIES FAILS
TO “COME BACK"
OLD WAR HORSE EASILY DEFEAT-
• ED BY NEGRO
FIGHT LASTS 15 ROUNDS
Old Power to Take Terrible Beating
and Bore in Until He Landed a
Knockout Blow Were
Gone
Reno, Nev.—John Arthur Johnson, a
Texas negro, the son of an American
slave, is now the undisputed heavy-
weight champion of the world.
Janies J* Jeffries of California, win
ner of 22 championship fights, the man
who never was brought to his knees
before by a blow, has passed into his-
tory as a broken idol. He met ujtcr
defeat at the hands of the black cham-
pion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, he was saved only from
this crowning shame by lus friends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fullen man again, and the U>wel was
brought into the ring from his corner.
At the end of the fifteenth round, Ref-
eree Tex. Rickard raised the black
arm and the great crowd filed out glum
and silent
Jeffries was dragged to his corner
bleeding from nose and mouth, and a
dozen cuts on the face. He had a
black closed eye u^d swollen features
and he held his head in hit** hands
dazed and incoherent.
Johnson walked out of the ring
without a mark on his body except ^
slight cut on his lip which was the
opening of a wound received in train-
■v .
Ring expertB agree thgt il was not
even a championship fight. Jeffries
had a chance in the second round,
► perhaps, but after the sixth it was
plain that he was weakened and out-
classed In every point, and after the
eleventh round It was hopeless.
It was the greatest demonstration
tho ring has ever seen of the failure
of a fighter tc "come back" after years
of retirement. The youth and science
of (he black man made Jeff look like
a green man. The great Jeffries waB
like a log. The reviled Johnson was
like a black panther, beautiful in his
alertness and defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, If seem
ed, showing his gameness and ills
great fighting heart in every round,
but he was only the shell of his old
self. The old power to take a terri-
ble beating and bore in until lie land
ed the knockout blow were gone.
After the third round, Johnson treat
ed his opponent almost as a joke. He
smiled and blocked playfully, warding
off the bear like rushes of Jeffries With
a marvelous science, now tucking a
blow under his arm. again plucking It
out of the air aa a man stops a base-
bail.
Out of the sea of opinions and argu
meats that bolstered up this fight and
made It the talk of the world, these
pinnacles of fact have been cast up
The fight w»s on the square. Of
that there was no doubt after the
flrat roynd.
There was no evidence or hint of
the famous "yellow streak' on the
part of Johnson.
Johnson proved himself so absolute-
ly Jeffries' master that ex|>erts de-
clared that Tommy Burns had put up
a better fight against Johnson and
that the black man was only playing
with the other man.
The end was swift and terrible. It
looked as thougn Johnson hud been
holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time, and now that he had
measured Jeffries in all his weakness,
he bad determined to stop it Instantly.
Jeff had lost the power oi defense A
aeries of right and left uppercuts do
llvered at will sent him staggering to
the ropes. He turuee and fought back
by Instinct, as though he was dying
hard.
With the exception of a few fast
rounds the fight was tame. Jeff did
not have the power lu hlB punch to
hurt Johnson after he had n ■
blow after blow on the jaw and his
vital power was ebbing. Hut e\en be-
fore this stage came, Jeff could not
reach the black. The blows almost
all landed with all the speed taken
out of them It was like hitting a
punching bag.
The Jeffries crouch was in evidence
at times, but during most of the fight
Jeff fought standing straight and
working with some of Ids old aggres
•lveness
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VACATION
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/aNTJCSPAVBOM
iCVipyrlKht. iaio.»
SUMMARr Of CONGRESS’ACIS
VALUABLE LEGISLATION TO THIS
DISTRICT IS PASSED
New Lands ot Be Opened to Set-
tlement Under Homestead Laws
— Practically Everything of
Local Interest Through
BIG CROP FOR OKLAHOMA
Encouraging Report Submitted by
Beard of Agriculture
Guthrie, Okla.-r-The Oklahoma state
board of agriculture finds from the
reports of 306 correspondents, covet-
ing all of the 76 counties in the slate,
that -;u June 23, 1910, the growing con-
dition of corn waB 91.6 per eeut, as
compared with 93.3 per cent last
month, and with 90 iter cent on June
25, 1909. The past month has been
1 Washington, it Following is a
summary of the Important legislation a favorable one in the main • on all
secured for the Second district during growing crops, although insufficient
the session of congress just ad- I rains are reported in some section",
journed: I The month was ideal for cotton and
An act enabling the Grand Lodge of corn growing and IV the harvesting
Masons of the slate to secure the of Oklahoma’s biggest wheat ami oat
buildings a yd section of .land near HI crops Although the month, general
Reno, formerly used for the Cheyenne ly speaking was a dry one, there be-
am! Arapaho Indian schools for an ; ing two weeks of hot weather, the
industrial school and orphan's home, average rainfall for the state, for the
The property is estimated to be worth month ending June 25, was 1.45
$250,000, and was secured by the Ma- 1 inches and local showers have been
j sons under, me terms of tne act for general throughout the state during
less than one-third of this amount. the past few days, except iu the soutli-
A valuable -tract of land was do- w-est portion where the early corn
nated to the city »f Anadarko and bas been damaged to the extent of 25
the secretary of .ue interior was au-1 Reports from the w heat producing
thorlzed to sell to the city, or the ,h°W ,he *powln* condltlon
Commercial club, at ... appraised J “ at “”e of harf
, j , , test to be 91.6 per cent, an increase of
value 46J acres of land adjoining 3.3 ppr ,en, over the growlng ,.OIJj.
the city on the north. The growth of tion on May 25. The percentage of
this city heretofore has been ham-.the acreage harvested on June 25 is
pered by reason of the fact that it was 85.6 per cent. The growing condition
surrounded with Indian allotments j of winter wheat at the time of har
and the agency reservation on the vest on June 25, 1909, was 72.7 per
north. The 463 acres of land will be cent.
platted for townsite purposes as an Keports from 61 of the 76 counties
industrial addition, it is estimated reporting show the average yield per
that there will be >200,000 net profit acre of winter wheat to be 16.7 bush-
lo b(‘ u“*‘il in Hie promotion of the els. making a total estimated yield
^23 acres, of 21 228,744
Another act provides for the open- bushels, showing the remarkable in
lng to settlement until ead crease in produ tion of 82,133,826
law s Of 65 quarter sections valuable bushels over the 19»9 crop, which is
land near Li .xeno. The maximum due to the increase of 536,388 acres
number of acres allowed in one entry harvested, as well as tile average
will be SO, thus providing homes for yield per acre being 4.5 bushels great-
130 families and adding probably 5oo er than last year. The average yield
additional jiopulatlon to Canadian for the state last year was 12.2 bush-
eounty. The right to enter these lands els V
will be secured by bids at public sue-1 The growing condition’ of cotton
IT.' M v KP^rtmenL e8tlmateB'^s been materially Improved during
that they will bring *30 per acre. ,, . .•, * , *
bringing in me aggregate above $300,- ,,ie pa8t mon,h of ldeal srowdng
000. These lands are public lands, as wea,her ancl ,be crop, although a lie
the Indians under their treaty relit. tll‘ 1;‘te, will be the largest In years'
quished ail title thereto, but under the 1 be counties reporting show the
provisions of the bill the proceeds of crowing condition oq June 25, 1910,
the sale of me lanes are to be placed'to be 86.4 per cent, as compared with
In tlie United States treasury to tli. S5..2 per cent last month, an increase
c redit of the Indians and draw 4 per 0f 1.2 per cent. The reports indicate
ZVofte$rT2 00o‘e,dir8 Bn a"nUal :,"a' ,h(!<-ro*’ basb-'> "*■» -"'vated
. .... ’ , and is unusually clean and that tho
In addition to these general acts. , ,
18 bills were passed for the relief of (iry weather ha8 haU bllt Mile effect
and for the increase . pensions of ,,n (>roI)-
ex-union soldiers who reside in the
Second congressional district. As a Hitchcock gotes Bonds
rule tlie pensions of these old sol Hitchcock, Okla.—A bond issue of
dlers are increased from $12 to $30 $12,000 has been voted here for mu
per month. nicipal improvements.
Roosevelt Puts Stop to "Boom" j Young Woman Burns to Death
1'tlia. N Y The boom designed Leavenworth, Kan. With liet
to make ex President Roosevelt the clothes afire. Pearl Meredith rail from
candidate for governor of New York tier home, six miles west of here, to
state in the fall election launched by her nearest neighbor, one-half mile
the republican club of Ftica two weeks away, Thursday morning. There .she
ago, came to an abrupt* ending, when fell and died three hours later Miss
it was learned that Fred D. Adams Meredith was at home alone, Ironing,
had received a personal letter fronreMi She wee using a gasoline etove
Roosevelt asking the club to cease an> i In some way. probably from uu explo
agitation to have him nominated for ; Mon, her dress caught fire,
governor.
Kentucky Daperado la Killed
Lexington, Ky.- Roscoe Caskey, a
zuouutatn desperado, was killed by
Deputy Sheriff Brown, who went to
capture him Caskey barHeaded him
self and notified the officer he would
not surrender. After the battle Cas
key bad six sbota in bis body.
Race War in Miaaiatippi
Mendenhall, Miss Race riots in
Hlmpaou county which started Sunday
with the slaying of a negro mimed
Sklffor. have been resumed. Six ne
grot s have been killed and the mob
ia hunting for more. The trouble
leading to the riot started Inst week
over a debt of $2.50 which a negro
owed a white man. Several wbitea
went to the negro’s cabin fiundav to
collect the money and in a fight that
followed Luther Buckley, white, was
killed.
Government Not to Interfere
Washington There Is lit t le fear
that Tlie government will interfere in
the capital squabble now in progress
In Oklahoma. Attorney General
Child Drinks Oil; Dies
Cordell. Okla. The Infant child of
Mr and Mrs. Seph Yhuui-i ili^ink
part of a cup of coni oil and died
within two hours. While the child's .... , ...
n er wai . elephom th< child " lekereham had 1...... ask d
picked up Mi, cup of oil that hat 1 ,0 ' the
been set hv the stove tor starting a al of ,a,,llal ,roln (,utnri‘> wbil*’
qro he has not made any formal announce-
ment, it is known he does not con-
Citizens Want Shipping station j template interfering with the eontro-
tiUthrle, tlkla.- A complaint was re ' vers;'. The attorney general holds to
reived Thursday by the corporation the opinion that the whole matter ts
commission front citizens of Comanche a political one to Ite dealt w ith by
county residing between Lawton and congress. The department of justice.
Apache, asking that the Rock Island lie believes, lias tut duty in the prem
Ite required to establish a shipping sta- I isos to perforip in the absence of any
tion between those two points in the | specific direction by the legislative
vicinity of tulle post No. 486. , body.
Henryett* to Get Salt Works
Henryetta, Okla -"Oklahoma salt"
will he tile slogan of this oily In the
near future, and to J. It Swan and,
associates will be due the credit for
Hie building of the Immense salt
works which are to be built during the,
summer months.
Cordell Academy Elects President
Cordell. Okla I'rof. I. C McLaugl
Iln, of Los Angeles. Cal . bus been
chosen to succeed Dr. J. H. Poppet j
as president of the Cordell Academy. I
Forest Fire Destroys Villages
Lu Valle, New Ontario. As a re-
sult of forest fires which have been
raging for (he past several days, ,h«
village of Devlin Is In ruins and this
town is surrounded by flames and the
citizens fighting for their lives Wo-
men and children are being hurried
away, and frantic appeals sent to the
surrounding towns for help. Thous-
ands of acres of timber have been d >
atroyed and outlying homes burned
It seems Impossible to check the fl -
because ol the long drouth.
3REATEST STATE REUNION OPEN-
ED BY OLD SOLDIERS
GREETED BY GOVERNOR
Hundreds of Confederate Veterans,
Sons and Daughters, Arrive on
Special Trains From All
Corners of the State
Oklahoma City.—Overflowing with
southern patriotism and expecting to
have one of the grandest jollification
meetings which they have ever attend-
ed, old Confederate soldiers, sons and
daughters are in Oklahoma City from
all corners of the state.
Wednesday was the beginning of
the annual reunion. .A special train
bearing 400 veterans, sons and daugh-
ters, from the eastern part of the state
arrived in Oklahoma City Wednesday
morning. The special tram started
from Tulsa and was in.charge of Tate
Hrady, a leader in* the reunion.
All day Tuesday there were groups
of Confederate soldiers standing In the
lobby of the Lee-Huckins hotel relating
over olden times, of how the war start-
ed, under whose com man d they were
and the hard experiences during the
heated battles, and some of the thril-
ling instances during their early man-
hood as soldiers. They alsp talked
over the day's political situa ion.
During the afternoon the daughters
of the confederacy met in *the recep-
tion hall of the Lee-Huckins hotel. The
opening song was “Dixie,” sung hi the
(laughters of the south. The song,
With the occasion and the singers, in-
spired tHe old soldiers and others as-
sembled in the, lobby 01 the hotel, who
applauded with vim.
Late iu the evening a delegation of
about fifty of the old timers called at
the state house upon Governor Has-
kell. The chief executive * greeted
them cordially and the hotel parlor
was a scene or gaiety and good feeling.
Adjutant General Robinson, of the
local chapter, is in chatge of the reg-
istration booth at the Lee-Huckins ho-
tel. All old soldiers, and others who
come to attend the reunion, will go di-
rect to the headquarters at the hotel,
and will there be assigned to their
places at the fair grounds.
On the last day of the reunion an
automobile parade will be given. Here-
tofore the old confederates have pre-
ferred to walk, but now they are too
old and the weather is too hot for them
to attempt a long march through the
principal streets of Oklahoma City.
The parade will be headed by General
Van Zant of Port Worth, and General
William Taylor of Alt us, commander
of the Oklahoma division, followed by
minor officers of the organization.
All old veterans will be lodged and
fed free by the hostess chapter.
Curtiss Makes Daring Flinht
Atlantic City, N. J.—Glenn H
tiss made an'eight-minute flight direct-
ly over the ocean Tuesday night. The
trip included a flight along the entire
front of the city, about a mile off
shore and 1,500 feet above the»oeean.
Fireworks Injure Six
Kmporia, Kans. Six persons were
injured, one probably fatally, by the
premature explosion of fireworks at a
Fourth of July celebration at Amori-
ms, 14 miles north* of here. Attorney
General Jackson had just concluded an
address in the city park and prepara-
tions were being made to set off the
fireworks, when some one carelessly
dropped a lighted match into the pile
of fireworks. A.crowd was gathered
about watching preparations for the
display when the explosion occurred.
HYDE GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Appeal Is Immediately Filed by Physi-
cians' Attorneys
Kansas City—Surrounded • by the
corps of brilliant attorneys who have
fought his case for six months, with
the wife who has been his comforter
throughout his trying ordeal sobbing
as if her heart would break,Dr. B. C.
Hyde, convicted poisoner of Col. Thos.
Swope, millionaire philanthropist, was
sentenced to spend the rest of his days
in the state penitentiary at Jefferson
t 'ity shortlj after 10 o'dloi k
morning.
An appeal was tiled Ml once. The
prisoner will remain in the county jail
here until the state supreme court acts
on his case.
Mrs. Hyde broke down She became
almost hysterical and hail to be led
from the court room. She recovered
after a short while and spent some
time in the ante room conferring with
her husband
It. It Brewster, of counsel for Dr.
Hyde, denied Tuesday morning tHe re-
port which had gained wide circula-
tion that Dr. Hyde had fallen out with
his attorneys. * I sti 4|
—
Injured by Falling Grand Stand
Kdmond, Okla. The collapse of a
section of seats seating "c people
viewing an open air vaudeville per-
formance iu Mitch Park, at Kdmond,
resulted in the serious injury of two
people and a narrow escape from '
death of a score. Mrs Frank Dawson,
the wife of a prominent liveryman, i
suffered a broken ankle, and John Al-
bright. a farmer, residing northeast of
the city, ineured a broken and smash- i
ed foot. There was a panic following j
Uie collapse.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief-Permanent Coro
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but gently oo
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dinner
distress—
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GENUINE must bear signature :
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If j> m want a soap that
cuces pimples, chaps
chilblains, sunburn, ec-
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affections, use
Freck el eater
Soap
It ts the SPECIAL soap
for the PARTICULAR
person. Price 25 cents.
All Dealers
Baker-Wheeler Mfg. Co., Dallas, Tex.
Try Gillette Shaving
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“iSSSKiSi Thompson's Eye Waftr
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
Johnny Probably Told the Truth, but
at a Dreadfully Inopportune
Time.
A teacher In one of the lower grade
schools was entertaining two visitors
to the classroom. Several days pre-
viously the teacher had furnished
amusement and at the same time In-
creased the children’s store of knowl-
edge by a series of questions of the
following nature:
“What do we sit on that rhymes
with hair?”
Some child would answer “Chair.’
Today the visitors would be pleased
to observe how readily the pupils
could answer.
“What dp I wear on my head that
rhymes with cat?" asked the instruct-
ress.
1'p went the hand of a boy with red
hair.
"Well, Johnny,” said she, “you may
tell us.”
Johnny arose and appeared fright-
ened.
“It's a rat," he blurted.
And i hen the tableau.
Faster.
Teacher—Children, nature is supe-
rior to man in everything. For in
stance, there is nothing that travels
so fast as the unseen wind.
Willie—Huh! You ought to hear
what my pa says about a sight draft!
A Serious Blunder.
T'Yeg,” said the drug < lei k, “I an
called up occasionally to compound
prescriptions at night."
“Isn't a man apt to make mistakes
working in semi-darkness?"
“You bet he is. I took a plugged
quarter once.”
There’s a Reason.
“Paul, if I were to die, should you
marry Widow Muller?"
“Good heavens, no!''
“Why not .’ Ever* one says how
like me she is."
"Yes. that’s just the reason."
A “Corner”
In Comfort
For those xvho know the
pleasure ami satisfaction
tliere is in a glass of
ICED
P0STUM
Make it as usual, dark
and rich—boil it thoroughly
to bring out the distinctive
(favour and food value.
Cool with cracked ice, and
add sugar and lemon; also a
little cream if desired.
Postum is really a food-drink
with the nutritive elements
of the field grains. Ice it, and
you have a pleasant, sate,
cooling drink for summer
days—-an agreeable surprise
for those who have never
tried it.
"There’s a Reason" for
POSTUM
Postum Cereal Co., Limited,
Rattle Cieek, Mich.
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