The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CiliDiU VALLEY »EWS|(}fBELS ROUTED [
CALLED CONGRESSMEN CROOKS
1NOWUPTOSTATES
JONES CITY.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma News Notes
FEDERAL FORCES DRIVE BACK
MEXICAN INSURGENTS
Elk City Is arranging to hold a big
(air In the fall.
The Tecumseh band Is giving free
Saturday night concerts.
Pawhuska hae an energetic civic
improvement organization.
Six oil wellB are being drilled close
to the town limits of Nowata.
Ada business men have Just organ-
ized a new lodge of B. P. O. E.
Ponca City Is selling all the Im-
provements on Its race track.
An artesian flow of radium water
has ben brought In near Coweta.
Burglars secured 1102 from a raid
on the Bartlesville steam laundry.
Altus has just completed the twentf-
fourth block of paving within the town
limits.
James M. Hill has been appointed
postmaster at Panama, LeFloro j
county.
Mrs. Margaret Blunt has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Geneva, Otta- 1
wa county.
Commission form of government |
has already saved Weatherford 11,000 j
In salaries,
Final survey Is being made of the
Deep Fork drainage project tn Lin-
coln county.
The Kny couity tax league has re-
ceived its charter but reduction of
taxes la yet to come.
Much damage has already been done
to crops at several points by severe
hall storms this spring.
Cordell has 1,000 volumes in Its pub-
lic library and is laboring to Increase
the number of volumes to 3,000.
McAlester ha* closed the contract
(or the erection there of a hydraulic
cottonseed oil mill to cost (100,000.
The drainage work in Pottawato-
mie county is furnishing many farm-
ers with work and money this spring.
Officials otter a reward of $500 for
the arrest of the three men who
robbed the poBtotflce at Hane last
•week.
Bonds amounting to $72,000 have
been issued for building of water-
works and a sewerage for the town
of Hollis.
Coal county's new $60,000 court j
house Is built of re-lnforced concrete j
and Bedford stone and is a handsome >
■tructure.
The high school grounds at Chero-
kee have been improved and beautl-
lled by planting many trees and shrubs
this spring.
Kiowa county haB approximately j
487,869 acres of land within its bor- 1
ders and of this 364,060 acres are in
cultivation.
Love Willis, a young man near King- \
eton was seriously shot a few days
ago while getting out of his buggy to
open a gate.
Alfalfa growers In Southern Okla-
homa claim the crop this spring is
one of the best ever seen. Cutting Is
now Is progress.
Hobart promises to become a broom
corn center. It is estimated that fully
4.000 acres will be put In this spring
In the vicinity of Hobart.
Massena Murray, son of "Alfalfa
Bill" Murray, has been named as one
of the pages in the National Conven-
tion at Baltimore.
The Lawton chamber of commerce
has purchased 1,000 bushels of high
grade cotton seed for distribution to
the farmers of Comanche county.
The late Capt. Frederick B. Severs
who recently died at Musaogee, was
one of the four white men who had
been adopted Into the Creek Nation.
At Stillwater a few days ago all
hands turned out and completed qver
three miles of splendid roads. That's
good road making In a practical way.
McClain county farmers are inters
•esting themselves In preparing to
make a good showing In an agricul-
tural display at the state fair next
tall.
Alfalfa county board of commis-
sioners have pledged themselves not
to expend more than $70,000 on a
icourt house and jail to be erected at
|Cherokee.
A live wire caught Bog Staggs at
(he Durant Ice & Light plant a few
days ago and but for the prompt as-
•istance of fellow workmen who were
hear be would have been electrocuted
In another Instant.
The next meeting of the state board
of pharmacy will be held at Okla-
homa City on dates of July 9tb and
JlOth.
Judge McMillan a few days ago
approved the proposition for the issue
of $60,000 funding bonds, for taking
up all outstanding Indebtedness of
Garvin county.
A wire fence, eight and one-halt
miles In length and costing all told,
$2,346 has just been completed to en-
close the big lake at Lawton. The
urea of land enclosed Is 8,300 acres.
FIGHT All DAY SUNDAY
DESERT PLAIN IS STREWN WITH
MANY SLAIN
Five Hundred Killed and Wounded—
Orozco Retreating—Another Fed-
eral Victory Will Annihi-
late Insurrecto Army
At the Federal Front. Conejos,
Mex.—Twelve hours of brisk fighting
on the desert plains 300 miles south
of the American border between a
force of 5,000 rebels under General
Orozco and an equally Btrong body of
federals under General Huerta, re-
sulted Sunday in a decided advantage
to the government.
The fighting began at daybreak and
at nightfall the sandy mesas between
here and Permo, fourteen miles north,
where the insurrectos were gradually
forced back, were covered with dead
and wounded.
Nearly 500 are believed to have
been killed and wounded on both
sideB. A courier reported that Gen-
eral Trucy Aubert, the dashing fed-
eral commander, had been shot in the
leg. The rebels abandoned ten can-
non and much ammunition In their re-
treat 4
Surround Rebels.
General Joaquin Tellez who had
been stationed In the rear of Huerta's
vanguard at noon, was sent around to
the eastward to flank the rebelB and
cut off their retreat. Sunday night
federal headquarters claim the reb-
els are completely surrounded and
that the second day of the fighting
will prove equally decisive.
This town, only Saturday occupied
by the vangaurd of the rebels, was
riddled with bullets when the federals
galloped Into It at sunset. Over the
foot hills to the north the insurrectos
could be seen retreating.
General Huerta has been receiving
telegrams of congratulations on the
outcome of the day’s fighting. Should
the advantage gained Sunday be fol-
lowed by equal successes Monday, the
federal leaders are confident It will
make their last stand at Escalon, their
central base, fourteen miles to the
north where they have built fortifi-
cations and trenches in the last fort-
night.
Cut Off Retreat
Mexico City.—Zapatistas estimated
to number 1,000 to 1,200 who apparent,
ly were bent, on attacking Suernavaca,
capital of Morelos, while a small band
engaged federal detachments a Tres
Mrlas and Huizilac, wre driven back
by the garrison at Cuernavaca with a
loss of nearly fifty killed and wounded,
on May 77, according to a special to
El Imparcial. The belated news was
carried to Cuautla by messenger and
telegraphed from there. The chief of
arms of the southern capital met the
rebels at Buena Vista, five miles out.
Their retreat was cut off by the other
detachments so that from three sides
the federals poured In their fire. The
latter reported six killed.
Advance Wages 10 Cents
New York.—The Interborough Rap-
id Transit company has Increased the
pay of all Its employes. The general
rate of Increase is ten cents a day.
The Increase closely follows the agi-
tation against the formation of un
lone and affiliations with the national
labor organizations. The advance In
pay will cost the company $230,000 a
year In increased operating expenses.
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BILL PASSES HOUSES
SOUTHERN MEMBERS FIGHT BILL
IN LOWER HOUSE
Bill Passes By Vote of 237 to 39—Fed-
eral Control of Elections Is Con.
ceded to Avoid Defeat of
Measure—Other News
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by calling certain members of congress crooks. He was indicted by a grand
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GLOOM VANISHES
DAY OF SUNSHINE ENCOURAGES
FLOOD FIGHTERS
NEW ORLEANSSTILL SAFE
HEAVY RAINFALL FLOODS CITY
BUT LEVEE HOLDS
fall taxed the city drainage system
beyond its capacity and Saturday
night 200 blocks in the upper resi-
dence section are still flooded with the
rain water to a depth of 4 to 20 inches. |
In the territory beyond Peters ave- j
nue, Third street, Franklin street, j
hack to the basin, the streets were
flooded to a depth ranging from six
inches to two and a half feet. Street
car service throughout that section
was annulled Saturday and the only
means of transportation over a wide
area was by boat, rafts and wagons.
Big Damage by Cyclone
Anniston, Ala.—Three persons are
reported killed, scores Injured and
property damage estimated at $75,000
as the result of a cyclone at Talladega.
I Ala. Telegraph and telephone wires
j were torn down and the entire city is
I In darkness.
tsrnay Arrives In London
Liverpool.—Pale and haggard, J.
| Bruce Ismay, who ordered the con-
| structlon of the steamer Titanic and
escaped when the liner went down.
I arrived Saturday from New York.
; A cordial crowd greeted him. Mr.
i Ismay declined to talk to the news-
| paper men. He said he had given a
I concise statement of the disaster at
j the Washington Investigation and
I that he expected to testify In the
British Inquiry.
Double Guard Posted on Levee at
Baon Rouge—Anxiety Still
Prevails, But Situation It
More Encouraging
New Orleans, La.—A full day of |
sunshine and a cloudless sky Satur-1
day night gave hope to the army of
levee protectors and with the excep-
tion of aBton Rouge, where the flgbt
to hold the embankment along the
river front lg still considered most
critioal, federal and state engineers
expressed confidence in the continued
resisting powers of the artificial bar-
riers which hold the record flood
waters of the Mississippi river In
check.
In contrast to the alarm that pre-
vailed during last Friday night’s se-
vere rain and wind storm, little con-
cern was given to conditions on the
river front by the general public.
Many up-river townB that reported
panicky conditions during the height
of the storm’s fury had their fears re-
lieved by the beautiful day which
came on the heels of the nerve shat-
tering night.
In New Orleans the excessive rain
To Repair Bridges
Guthrie, Okla.—A contract for the
rebuilding and repairing of the $3fl,0C0
damage done to bridges In Logan
county by the recent floods was let
by tha county commissioners. The
big Cimarron river wagon bridge was
damaged to the greatest extent. TMb
one will be rebuilt Immediately. It is
likely that an election will be held
within the next few weeks to vote on
a $50,000 bridge bond issue.
Man Burned to Death
Amarillo, Texas.—Henry Brown, 55
| years old, of Amarillo, was burned to
death In a fire which destroyed the
| Raymond hotel here. Guests fled
t from the building in their night
clothes. The property loss la not
known.
Suit to Recover Coal Lands
Denver, Colo.—Seeking to set aside
patents to five thousand acres of
coal lands, the government began
suit today In the federal court here
against the Colorado Fuel & Iron
I company on the ground of fraud.
Harvard Gets Revenge
I Cambridge, Mass.—Harvard re-
I trleved her defeat of last year at the
hands of Dartmouth by winning their
annual dual track and field meet Sat-
urday by a score of 66Vi points to
$0Yi.
Died In Philippines
Perry, Okla.—Word has been re-
ceived from the war department by j
Mrs. H. J. Dayton, living northwest
of Perry, that her son, Elmer M. !
Gould, aged 28, died on April 23, at
Fort McKinley in the Philippines, j
The young man was a member of
troop B, 7th cavalry, having joined j
the army In 1910, and left for the
Philippines in 1911. The body has
been ordered shipped here for burial
but Is not expected tp arrive for five
or six weeks.
Washington—The house Monday
adopted 237 to 39 a joint resolution
providing for an amendment to the
constitution to permit the elecion of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people. It already had passen
the senate and now goes to the states
for ratification.
All that remains to be done is the
formal signing of the instrument and
the issuance of a proclamation to the
states to signify their wishes on the
proposed change.
The vote was preceded by a bitter
fight in which the southern members
joined in common cause against the
resolution. Led by Representative
Bartlett of Georgia, the Georgia, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana delegations
fought to prevent Its passage because
of the senate amendment, which gave
the federal supervision of the elec-
tions.
They based their opposition almost
entirely on the danger of negro domi-
nation.
The first vote taken was on an
amendment by Representative Bart-
lett, which took from the federal gov-
ernment all supervisory powers. It
was defeated, 189 to 89. On the vote
for the adoption of the resolution,
two-thirds of the house being neces-
sary. fifty democrats deserted.
There was not a republican vote
cast against the resolution, which was
adopted to the accompaniment of |
thunderous applause.
Direct election of senators was first
taken up by congress in 1826. From
time to time recurring attempts have
been made to make the senate a pop-
ular body and have its members elect-
ed as are the members of the house.
Numbers of the resolutions have died
In a committee, while others were
passed at the last moments of the con.
gress never to receive the president’s
signature.
Senator Bristow of Kansas intro-
duced In 1911 the ope that passed
Monday. Amended by the house, it
has been in conference since July 5
last year, and if the house had not
receded from Its opposition to grant-
ing federal control of senatorial elec-
tions, it might have met the fate of
the others.
It was this danger that led the
house to agree not to press Its views.
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The man who Bteals our thunder is
naturally under a cloud.
Garfield Tea la unequalled either ax an
occasional or a dally laxative.
Every man has some good In him,
but sometimes it takes a lot of coax-
ing to bring it ouL
Occasionally we meet a man who
would rather work for a living than
get Into politics.
There are times when every one
has to take a certain amount of back
talk from his conscience.
Shawnee, Okla.—Jumping Into the
rear of a wagon drawn by a team of
runaway horses, “Boss” Owens res-
cued 11-year-old Pearl Schnelter, who
was alone in the wagon, landing her
safely on the ground. A moment
later the wagon was smashed to
pieces against a telephone pole.
Cure for Insomnia.
“Dibble says he can’t sleep.”
“He ought to read the war news
from Mexico.”
Waterworks Complete
Soper, Okla.—The N. S. Sherman
Iron company of Oklahoma City has
completed the Installation of the new
$14,000 waterworks system for Soper.
The town now is the smallest in the I
state having a water system owned I
and operated by the municipality. |
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Calculation.
“Going to make garden?”
“I dunno,” replied the man who al-
ways looks discouraged. “I’m busy
now figuring up how many tons of let-
tuce I’ll have to raise to pay for the
spade and the rake and the rest of
the outfit"
Texan to Athletics
Wsco, Texas.—Oscar M. Harrell,
pitcher on the Baylor college team,
has signed with the Philadelphia
American team and will report at St.
Louis July 7. At college Harrell won
his letters in baseball, football anfl
basketball.
Grocers at St.Louis.
St. Louis, Mo.—Three thousand
wholesale grocers and manufacturers
of food products have gathered in this
city for the annual convention to be
held by the National Wholesale Gro-
cer’s association.
Revival Closes
McAlester, Okla.—-The revival be-
ing conducted by Evangelist Dr. Rld-
i ley at the Baptist church since April
28 closed with forty-six additions to
the church membership.
Archbold Probe to Start
Washington. D. C.—Investigation of
charges against Judge Robert W.
Archbold of the commerce court will
be undertaken by the house commit-
tee on Judiciary. Papers In the case
sent to the committee from the de-
partment of Justice by direction of
President Taft will be examined.
Rebel Advance Continues
El Paso, Tex.—The rebel advance
south toward Escalon continued to-
ward Torreon without-event. The fed-
eralists are supposed to be holding
Bermejillo and Mnpimi, just north of
Torreon, wher it Is expected the first
fighting will occur.
The rebls claim to have lost many
of their horses as a result of drinking
water being poisoned by the federals.
Mall advices from Mazatlan say black
smallpox has broken out among ref- j
ygees and federal soldiers there, ih-
creaBtng the terror of American ref- I
ugees who are awaiting the arrival |
ther of the transport Buford.
Prohibitionists Confer.
Atlantic City, N. J.—In response to
a call issuel by Chairman Charles R.
Jones of the Prohibition national com-
mittee a conference of party leaders
from many States assembled in Atlan-
tic City to consider plans for the
national campaign and complete ar-
rangements for the party convention,
which will meet here in July.
Oh, Learned Judge
A California judge decided that
there Is no Judicial authority to keep
a man from making love to hla wife,
although it could stop his beating her.
The remarkable cause of this remark-
able decision was that a woman In
Los Angeles had applied for an Injunc-
tion to restrain her husband from In-
sisting on being attentive to her. This
judge was not a Solomon, but he real-
ized that only a Solomon could be
trusted to rule upon the whims and
Inconsistencies of womankind
Blind Student to Practice Surgery
Chicago.—Jacob W. Bolotin, a blind
medical etudent who has been sight-
less since birth, will receive a license
to practice surgery. He will special-
ise on lung and throat diseases.
Red Cross In Session
Washington—Delegates from the
Red Croes societies of the world and
representatives of practically every
civilised nation are gathered here for
the opening session of the ninth In-
ternational Red Cross conference.
Lawyer Kills Sslf
Boston.—Olcott O. Partridge, a well
known lawyer and club man, commit-
ted suicide by shootlug himself In his
office here. Mr. Partridge had been
la 111 health for a long time.
G. A. R. Boys Gathsr
Anaconda, Mont.—Anaconda Is gayly
decorated In the national colors in
honor of the annual encampment of
the G. A. R., department of Montana,
which assembled here for a three days’
session. In connection with the en-
campment of the veterans will be held
the annual meetings of the state or-
ganizations of Spanish War veterans,
the Woman’s Relief Corps, Ladies of
the G. A. R., and other affiliated bod-
ies.
Titanic Waifs Claimed
New York—Two little boy waifs
from the Titanic after having been
In the care of kindly strangers here
since they arrived on the rescue Bhip
Carpathla arc at last under the root
of a relative who will keep them until
the arrival of their mother, Mme. Nav-
ratil from France. She is due here on
the steamer Oceanic about May 15.
The name of the relutive who took
charge of the two boys, Michael and
Edmond, aged 4 and 2 years respeo
tlvely, wag withheld by the Children s
society.
Bucket Shop Case Opens.
Chicago, 111.—Sidmon McHie and his
five colleagues who did a thriving bus-
iness under thq name of the Capital
Investment company until the govern-
ment officials closed down on them
were placed on trial in the United
States court on charges of having con-
ducted a business to defraud iu opera-
ting a bucket shop.
Their First Opportunity.
Clovis, N. M.—Delegates are arriv-
ing here for the Democratic state con-
vention, which will meet to select the
New Mexico delegates to the Balti-
more convention. Indications point to
a lively contest for control between
the followers of Wilson and Clark,
Orozco's Aid Stabbed
Chihuahua, Mexico—Gonzalo C. En-
rile, right hand man of General Oroz-
co and admittedly the financial agent
of the Mexican politicians behind the
present revolution, was stabbed twice
Monday. Hospital physicians said he
would recover. The assassins fled, be-
lieving Enrile dead. Enrile was walk-
ing in the plaza when attacked by
two unidentified men, believed to be
political enemies. He was wounded in
the shoulder and chest above the
heart.
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the facts.
A physician speaks of his own expe-
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“I had used coffee for years and really
did not exactly believe It was injuring
me although I had palpitation of the
heart every day. (Tea contains caf-
feine—the same drug found in coffee—
and Is Just as harmful as coffee.)
“Finally one day a severe and al-
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and I gave up both tea
and coffee, using Postum Instead, and
$lnce that time I have had absolutely
ho heart palpitation except on one or
two occasions when I tried a small
quantity of coffee,which caused severe
Irritation and proved to me I must let
It alone.
“When we began using Postum It
seemed weak—that was because we
did not make it according to directions
—but now we put a little bit of but-
ter in the pot when boiling and allow
the Postum to boil full 15 minutes
which gives it the proper rich flavor
and the deep brown color.
“I have advised a great many of
my friends and patients to leave off
coffeo and drink Postum, In fact I dally
give this advice.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum In place of tea and coffee in
their own homes and prescribe It to
patients.
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