The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 2 Friday, May 5, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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THE GANADIAN VALLET MEWS FIRE DESTROYS
MAINE CITY
JONES CITY
OKLAHOMA
STATE HAPENINGS
Guthrie lias expended $10,000 lu
Improving the water works system
The Sanitary ice t'ream Factory
Is a new puula Valley enterprise. It
starts under favorable conditions.
Samuel H. McKee, a car repairer
In the Frisco shops at Enid, started
to crawl under a car. The train start-
ed and he was ground to death beneath
the wheels.
The Minnetonka Lumber company's
yard, one of the largest in Muskogee,
was gutted by fire Friday night. It
Is estimated that the Iosb will be $20,-
000. The yard is adjacent to the rail-
road tracks and the Are Is supposed
to have started from a passing locomo-
tive.
Ouster proceedings were begun In
the superior court at Muskogee against
Ernest Cook, a city commissioner. It
is charged that Cook forfeited his of-
fice by voting for his brother-in-law,
John Dill, for the assesaorsliip. For-
mer assessor Joseph McCusker and
Ur. John Reynolds are the plaintiffs.
The state board of agriculture has
accepted the resignation of Charles
E. 8cott, superintendent of the Con-
nell school of agriculture at Helena,
effective June IB, and that of Miss
Mae Caton from the faculty of the
Connors school at Warner. No suc-
cessors have been named as yet ir
either case.
A Greek restaurant proprietor at
Henryetta figures that "there are moro
ways of killing a pig than choking it
to death with soft butter." Refused
permission to tear down his building
and erect an improved one, ho sub-
stituted a new roof, then a new north
side, then a new east side, etc., until
now hiB building Is absolutely new—
and the city council is wondering
what to do about it.
The board of school land commis-
sioners at a meeting Friday decided to
put a force of appraisers In the field
at once to reappraise the land which
hitherto has been offered for sale and
not sold, preparatory to offering it for
sale again. It has been three years
since the land was appraised and the
board believes that the appraisement
gt this time will show an Increase of
probably $100,000 over the old ap-
praisement. There are aout 1,100 tracts
affected, averaging 160 acreB each.
School Superintendent Ben Hester
of Rogers county announced that un-
der the new state law, passed by the
last legislature, two of the Rogers
county school districts, Nos. 2 and 22,
are qualified to receive from the state
the $2,500 each allowed under the pro-
visions of section 5 of house bill 95.
Under this act any consolidated dis-
trict employing three teachers, with
an actual attendance during the term
of not less than 130, and with a term
of not less than six months, which has
already constructed a suitable build-
ing of not fewer than three rooms,
can draw from the state treasury, from
the school building fund not to exceed
$2,500 from the appropriation made
for the purpose.
That there is one district in the
Oklahoma wheat belt, embracing al-
together about the area of one average
county, where the wheal crop this yeai
will be as good as it ever wub, is the
statement made by State Treasure?
Robert Dunlop, who recently returned
from that part of the state. The dis-
trict Includes southwestern Kay coun-
ty, northwestern Noble county, south
eastern Grant county and northeasfc
ern Garfield county. Within that re
stricted area the wheat is reported to
be making a great growth and to bo
as thick on the ground as ever.
The three-story dormitory of the
Riverside government Indian school
across the Washita river to the north
of Anadarko, was destroyed by fire at
about 4 o’clock Friday morning. Only
the walls are left standing. The fire
originated in the attic, and as the
hose of the school fire fighting appa
ratus was in no condition to be used,
the Anadarko fire department was
called in.
BANGOR 18 FLAME-SWEPT
MANY ARE HOMELESS
AND
DAMAGE IS $6,000,000
State Troops On Hand to Guard Suf-
ferers and Property From Hands
of Vandals—Business Sec-
tion Devastated
Bangor, Me.—Property valued at up-
ward of $6,000,000 wue destroyed, hun-
dreds of persons made Homeless and
almost the entire business section of
this city was devastated In the first
five hours of a fire which was still rag-
ing Monday morning. One life is
known to have been lost, an unidenti-
fied man, who wus killed by a falling
wall.
Mayor Mullen called out the com
pany of the local national gudrd and
placed the city under niurtial rule.
Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Old
Town, Brewer and other cities and
towns within reach were asked for
help and sent it.
A score of buildings had been blown
up in an effort to check tlio flames and
dynamite was still being liberally used.
The fire started in the buy shed of J.
Frank Oreen, on Broadway street, and
in a short time was sweeping through
the city In a northwesterly direction.
Before midnight Sunday both sides
of Exchange street from York to
State, both sides of State from Ken-
duskeag stream to Broadway, a consid-
erable part of Central and Franklin
streets, nearly all of Park street and
Marlow street was in ruins and the
flames had made inroadB of nearly a
mile into the best residential section
of the city.
CRISIS IN CANADA
Tariff Measure is Causing Concern In
Official Circlet
Winnipeg, Man.—The critical situa-
tion at Ottawa has resulted in the sud
den recall of Earl Grey to the capital
from Winnipeg. The governor gen-
eral has cancelled all his engagements
for next week and will leave with his
suite for Ottawa. Determination of
the opposition to fight reciprocity with
the United States all summer, if nec-
essary, as outlined by Leader Borden,
thus preventing Sir Wilfred Laurier
from attending the imperial conference
and coronation, has caused a crisis in
political circles.
THAT ANXIOUS MOMENT ON MOVING DAY
(Copyright. 1911.)
CONFERENCE TO ENDWAR RECIPROCITY FORTHWITH
PEACE
MAKERS
MEET IN
SCHEDULED
EL PASO
Member Mexican Supreme Court Ap-
pointed Government Commis-
sioner—Gomez Will Repre-
sent General Madero
El Paso, Tex.—The selection of El
Paso as the p’.&ce for holding the for-
mal peace conference and the naming
of Judge Francisco Carbajal, of the
Mexican supreme court, as the govern-
ment commissioner, are the import-
ant developments in the peace situa-
tion. Judge Carbajal is known to M%
dero by reputation only, but from this
the insurrecto leader views the ap-
plntment is satisfactory.
General Navarro's letter to Madero
notifying him of the appointment of
the commissioner, follows:
•'I have been instructed by my gov-
ernment that the government accedes
to your wishes with regard to the
meeting place of the peace commis-
sioners, to witness: On the Mexican
side of the dam lying between the
city of Juarez and your camp. I am
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES ASSOCIA
TED PRESS AND PUBLISHERS
Nation’s Head Declares the Talk of
Annexation is Dream of Alarm.
, ists, and Urges a Trial of
Reciprocity.
New York.—Reciprocity with Can-
ada must be adopted now or never,
and must stand or fall by its own
terms. Amid tremendous applause
and the waving of handkerchiefs, so
said President Taft in an address at
the Waldorf-Astoria hotel at the
fourth annual Joint banquet of the
Associated Press and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
His address was the first of a series
in which he plans to evoke public sen-
timent in support of his policies, and
he appealed to the newspaper owners
and editors to impress in the public
print that reciprocity should stand
alone and "ought not to be affected
in any regard by other amendments
to the tariff law."
All talk of annexation he character-
ized as “bosh,” and said (hat the Unit-
CONSERVATION
HELD LEGAL
FEDERAL SUPREME COURT DE
CIDES AGAINST STATES
LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Government Given Control Over Landr
Claimed by States—Other News
of Interest to the General
Public
Washington. D. C,—The legal battle
against the forest reserves of the west
in particular and conservation by the
federal government of natural re
sources in general was decided Mon
day in the supreme court of the Unit
od States.
That tribunal not only upheld the
constitutionality of the establishment
of the reserves, but it settled once for
all that the federal government anc
not the states may say how the re
serves shall be used.
The immediate results of the conclu
sion of the court are that Fred Light
a Colorado cattleman, will remain en
joined from allowing his cattle to graze
on the Holy Cross forest reserve in
Colorado, and Pierre Griinaud, K. P
Carajous and Antonio Inda, Califor
nla sheep men, must answer to the in-
dictment, charging them with grazing
sheep upon the Sierra forest reserve
without a permit.
The subject was dealt with in two
opiiyons delivered by Justice Lamar.
Theentire court concurred. The has
ic principle upon which he proceeded
was that “the nation is an owner and
has made congress the principal agent
to dispose of its property.”
“The United States can prohibit ab-
solutely and fix the terms on which its
property may be used,” said the jus-
tice “It is true the United States can
not and does not hold property as a
monarch may for private and personal
purposes, but that does not lead to the
conclusion that it is without the rights
incident to ownership for the constitu-
tion declares that ‘congress shall have
power to dispose of and make all
needed rules and regulations respect-
ing the territory or property belong-
ing to the United States.’ ”
also instructed to "inform you'that the ed s,atea haB u (;al> alten(i >° with
the territory it is now' governing. He
TORNADO TEARS UP SEDALIA
“Twister” Kills One, Leaving Wide
Trail of Destruction
Sedaiia. Mo.—A tornado struck Se-
dalla at 5 o’clock Sunday Morning and
damaged property in a path two blocks
wide and a mile and a half long. Mrs.
Isaac Reed and George Alspaugh were
cut by flying glass. In both instances
timbers being blown through their
windows. A number of houses were
tom from their foundations and
large trees were torn up or snapped in
twain. The roofs of at least two build-
ings were blown a block away. One
person, a child, was killed.
OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES SOLD
Well Known Lincoln, Neb., Publisher
Takes Controlling Interest
Oklahoma City.—A deal for the sale
of the Oklahoma City Times to C. B.
Edgar, of Lincoln. Neb., has been
closed and Mr. Edgar has assumed
control of the paper The entire in-
terest of Dennis Flynn, who has owned
the paper for some time, was purchas-
ed by Mr. Edgar The paper will re-
main in the afternoon held ami will
continue its present policy. The con-
sideration for the purchase was not
given out.
commissioner who represents the gov
ernment left Mexico City last night.’’
General Madero, it is reported, may
appoint more than one commissioner
to represent him. It is regarded as
certain that Dr. Vasques Goez, if not
the only one, will be at least a mem-
ber of the commission. Madero trusts
him fully.
DYNAMITING PLOT GROWS
praised the house of representatives
for its passage of the agreement; de
dared that it would not injure the
farmer nor any special class; an-
swered in detail the objections that
have been raised to reciprocity, and
begged for at least a ‘kind of test”
to dispel the ghosts, “exhibited to
frighten the agricultural classes ”
Union Farmers Split
Gravette, Ark—Gravette fruit grow
ers. or at least a number of them, have
split from the farmers’ union and have
formed an independent organization to
handle fruit.. Dissatisfaction in hav-
ing their products marketed through
the Oznrg F. G. A. is said td have been
the cause of the split. The new asso-
ciation controls 90 acres of the 200
acres in bearing here.
According to Confession of Artie Me-
Manigal, Other Men Involved
Los Angeles. Cal.,— peamstent re
ports were circulated around the office
of District Attorney Fredericks that
warrants have been secretly Issued
for one of the best known labor leaders
In California, and two other men in
connection with the Times dynamiting
case. The labor lender is said to be
a San Francisco man.
Artie McManigal made complete con-
fession to the district attorney, sheriff
and four detectives. He repeated all
the sensational admissions and told of
dynamiting plots extending over a
period of three years and the destruc
tion of foui million dollars worth of
property. He accused Secretary Mc-
Namara as being the originator, con-
trolling genius and paymaster of the
conspiracy. McNamara was indiffer-1
ent to McManigal's confession He
issued a statement protesting his in-
nocence and asking the public not to
form an opinion until his defense is
presented.
Book Brings $21,000.
New York City.—The second highest
price for a book in the Hoe library
sale was reached when a book sold for
$21,000. This was “Heylas. Knight of
the Swanne," first printed English ver.
sion of the legend of “Lohengrin.” It
was printed in London in 1512 by Wyn
kyn and DoWorde. Walter M. Hill of
Chicago was the purchaser of the book
In May Beware
of Dyspepsia.
DIDN’T CARE TO BE DONE.
THOUSANDS DROP TOOLS
The contract for the digging of nine
artesian wells in Cimarron, Beaver
and Texas counties was awarded Fri
day by the board of agriculture to
Hamill and Chaffee of Tulsa. Their
bid was $5.25 a foot, and was the low-
est of about thirty bids received by
the board. Nine wells will bo dug
in the three counties. During the last
session of the legislature, $45,000 was
appropriated for the digging of the
wells, which allows $5,000 for each.
The company securing the contract
is to furnish everything for the wells.
Two machines to do the work will be
shipped to the Panhandle country and
the boring started at once.
BROOM CORN INDUSTRY BIG
Census Report Shows It Is Growing
In Oklahoma
Washington, D. C„—That the broom
corn industry of Oklahoma is grow-
ing and now represents an annual
output to the value of $2,560,496 is
disclosed by a preliminary report Just
made public by the census officials.
These figures according to officials
at the census office are subject to
change but it is believed they are sub
stantial correct although it is not im-
probable that a good many farmers
in Oklahoma engaged in the broom
corn business more or less failed to
report their crop to the census takers.
About 10,162 farms reported a yield
of 42,900,623 pounds of broom corn.
The total number of acres devoted to
this product in the state is placed at
215,5*' "
Beaver county is reported as the
banner county in the state with a
yield of $317,680. Major is next with
a crop worth $285,396 and Roger
Mills third with $254,551. Of the 76
counties reporting all but 18 seem to
be more or less engaged in raising
broom corn. Oklahoma county raised
$7,558 worth, Comanche, $51,856,
Blain, $14,384, and Muskogee, $337.
It will be remembered In this con
nection that efforts ure being made
in congress to place a prohibitive tar-
iff on broom corn in order to give
the American grower a monopoly.
At present over a million dollars
worth of broom corn is imported into
this country annually.
Pennsylvania Railroad Shoprtien Quit
Work May Day
Pittsburg.—Without further warning
lhan might be gathered from confer-
ences of a committee with railroad of-
ficials last week, the shop men of the
Pennsylvania railroad, on the Pitts-
burg division, extending to Altoona,
Pa., went out on strike and union of-
ficers say 10,000 men are out.
The unions affected are the Brother-
hood of Carmen, Boilermakers and
helpers, Sheet Metal Workers, the In-
ternational Association of Machinists
and Laborers, and the Federal Labor
Union, an organization of foreign la-
borers about railroads, all of which are
affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor.
The cause is the allegation by the
men that in its retrenchment policy,
ihe railroad dismissed ineu who were
active in organizing and carrying on
their unions. No semblance of disor
der characterized Ihe inauguration ot
‘he strike.
Howell—He does everything in his
power—
Powell—Then I’m glad that I’m no£
in his power.
Robbers made an unsuccessful at-
tempt to rob the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank at Centralla. The safe
and building was wrecked by an expio
sion for which the robbers were re
sponBible, but the citizens of the town
were aroused and the bandits were
forced to flee without securing any
ooty.
Lewis M. Seaver, one of the trustees
of the Ensign fund for the protection
of dumb animals, has closed arrange
inents for the installation of an En-
sign fountain in Chlck&shu
$18,000 Fire at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.—Fire partially destroy-
ed the dry goods stock of Maurer
Bros, and Smith. The loss from fire
and water is estimated at $18,000, in-
surance $12,000. The building was
only slightly damaged, covered by in-
surance.
Woman Killed
Kansas City.—After walking with
Lillian Hammon, of Kansas City, Kan.,
to a wooded gully near there. Nell
Callahan, an employe of a furniture
store, shot the woman three times,
killing her. He surrendered later,
but refused to tell why he had killed
the woman.
Postal Banks O. K.
Washington.—The forty-eight exper-
imental offices of the postal bank sys-
tem have "made good,” it was an-
nounced at the post office department.
The result, it was staled, would be the
speedy extensioD of the system to the
large cities.
Missouri Pacific Wreck
Nevada, Mo.—Missouri Pacific pas-
senger train No. 209, southbound, from
Kansas City, was wrecked at Boston,
Barton county. No one was seriausly
Injured.
Railroad is Fined
Fort Smith, Ark.—The Fort Smith
Sr Western Railway company Friday
was fined $18,250 in the circuit court
by Judges Fisher and Flshback on a
charge of violating a state law requir-
ing railroads to provide buildings fof
their car repairers. The state sought
to have a fine cf $36,500 imposed.
Girl “Shiners” Barred
Kansas City.—City officials have re-
fused to grant a license to a shoe
shining parlor which advertised “pretty
girls will shine your shoes," contend-
ing that this workq is morally unfit
for woman. An ordinance prohibit-
ing women shining shoes will be pre-
pared.
Net Income Reduced
New York City.—The recent quar-
terly report of the United States Steel
corporation showB earnings of $23,-
519,203 and net earnings of $20,001,-
817. The surplus net income was re-
duced to $31,115
Roads to Merge
Fort Smith, Ark.—ueorge D. Locke,
president ot the Kansas City and
Memphis railroad, announced here I Sugar Refining company's plant in
th-* the line would take control of the Brooklyn Friday spread rapidly throug
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Western rail the upper halt of the main ten story
way [building and caused a loss of $250,009.
Cleveland Rebate Case
Washington -- Preliminary figures
have been compiled by the interstate
commerce commission’s investigators
showing the amounts which the gov
ernment alleges have been illegally
rebated in the recent cases at Cleve
land. Between April 1, 1908, and July
31. 1909. it is allged, more than $798,-
000 was rebated to the Carnegie Steel
company by the Bessemer and Laks
Erie railroad
PEACE RESOLUTION RATIFIEO
Premier Asquith and Ex-Premier
Balfour Chief Speakers
London.—The greatest appeal ever
made for wrold peace wub sounded
in the great Guild hall mass meeting
called to indorse President Taft's pro-
posal for an arbitration treaty between
the United States and Great Britain.
Premier Asquith and ex-Premier A.
J. Balfour both spoke warmly In favor
of Ihe proposed treaty, Mr. Asquith
concluding with a resolution express-
ing the cordial welcome of the Brit*
Ish people to President Taft’s proposal
and indorsing it heartily.
Dynamite In Waiting Room
St. Louis, Mo.,—A valise contain-
ing 56 pounds of dynamite was found
under a settee in the second-class
waiting-room of the union depot It
is not known who left the valise. The
explosive was thrown into the Miss-
issippi river.
Boiling Sugar Explodes
New Yor.—Fire in the big Arbuckle
Memory of Bank Failure
Memories ot the failure of the First
National bank at Lexington, Okla., in
May, 1905, were revived in the federal
court when trial was begun in whtch
John Watts, receiver of the defunct
institution, is attempting to recover
about $1,000 from J. S. Little, who was
the president. Little was the heav
iest stockholder, and the controller ol
currency assessed his stock $1,000 to
help liquidate the bank's liabilities.
Little's defense is that he had disposed
of his stock prior to the date when
the bank suspended business.
SCRATCHED TILL BLOOD RAN
“When my boy was about three
months old his head broke out with a
rash which was very itchy and ran a
watery fluid. We tried everything we
could but he got worse all the time,
till it spread to his arms, legs and
then to his entire body. He got so
bad that he came near dying. The
rash would itch so that he would
scratch till the blood ran, and a thin
yellowish stuff would be all over his
pillow in the morning. I had to put
mittens on his hands to prevent him
tearing his -t skin. He was so weak
and run down that he took fainting
spells as if he were dying. He was
almost a skeleton and his little hands
were thin like claws.
“He was bad about eight months
when we tried Cuticura Remedies. I
had not laid him down in his cradle
In the daytime for a long while. I
washed him with Cuticura Soap and
put on one application of Cuticura
Ointment and he was so soothed that
he could sleep. You don't know how
glad I was he felt better. It took one
box of Cuticura Ointment and pretty
near one cake of Cuticura Soap to
cure him. I think our boy would have
died but for the Cuticura Remedies
and I shall always remain a firm
friend of them. There has been no
return of the trouble. X shall be glad
to have you publish this true state-
ment of his cure.” (Signed) Mr3. M.
C. Maitland. Jasper, Ontario, May 27,
1910.
No Girls.
“You didn't stay long at Wombat’s
country place.”
“No, he promised to show me the
beauties of his neighborhood and then
tried to point out a lot of scenery.”
CHILL TONIC. Yon know what you nre tukln#
The formula 1h plainly printed on evory bottla
showing It, is simply Quinine and Iron In a taste*
less form. The Quinine drives out the mnlaril
and the Iron builds up the system, bold by al]
dealers for 80 years. Price 60 cents.
Self-possession implies the capacity
for self-restraint, self-compulsion, anC
self-direction.—W. H. Thomson.
Asked To Big Reunion
Oklahoma City—Brant Kirk, assist
ant adjutant general of the Sons o$
Confederate Veterans of America, has
been authorized to extend to the peo
pie of Oklahoma an invitation to at
tend the annual reunion of Confeder-
ate veterans at Little Rock, Ark , Maj
15 to 18, inclusive. There will be
seven special trains leaving Okla
boma. and all of the railroads entering
the state have granted a round trif
rate of one cont a mile.
Heney’s Partner Appointed
Washington—Secretary of the In-
terior Fisher has announced that W.
H. Cobb of San Francisco, law partnei
of Francis J. Henev, had been chosen
to succeed Oscar Lawler, who resigned
as assistant attorney general for the
department.
Haytian Warship Wrecked
Cape Haytian, Haytl—The Haytian
warship. Nod Alexis, with a number
of political prisoners on board, is re-
ported to be in* distress off Port de
Calx, and assistance hao been sent.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothlnjj Syrup for Children
teethinpr. softens the gums, reduces inllnmni.'v
tion, allayii pain, cures wind colic. 26c a bottle
Men have more temptations than
women because they know where tc
look for them.
l>0 YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW)
If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make
them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents.
A man is seldom arrested for strik-
ing an attitude.
ARE YOU FREE
-FROM—
Headaches, Colds, Indigestion,
Pains. Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizziness? If you are not, the mosl
effective, prompt and pleasant
method of getting rid of them is to
take, now and then, a desertspoon-
ful of the ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy—Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It is
well Known throughout the world
as the best of family laxative reme-
dies, because it acts so gently and
strengthens naturally without irri-
tating the system in any way.
To get its beneficial effects it is
always necessary to buy the genu-
ine, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co., bearing the name
of the Company, plainly printed on
the front of every package
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