The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 249, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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WEATHER
Oklahoma—Unsetleu tonight and
(Friday; temperature unchanged.
Kansas—Generally fair tonight and
Friday; temperature unchanged.
The shawnee news.
] "The Newspaper that is Making Shawnee Famous—Fear God, Tell the Truth, and Shame the Devil
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VOL. 14.—No. 249.
THE SHAWNEE NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910.
THE NEWS. TKHR
THS. II
HOW GREAT A CHANGE IS WROUGHT
O-
A FINE SHAMROCK
WAS PRESENTED WITH FINEST
SPECIMEN EVER SEEN IN
EGYPT
International News Service.
Khartoum, March 17.—Roosevelt to-
day Is wearing the finest shamrock
ever brought here, which was pre-
sented by the American mission.
There is but very little entertain-
ment planned for today. The ex-
president intends starting for Cairo
by train this afternoon.
The natives who came here to
greet the "King of America" are
capitivated by him and are among
his most staunch admirers. Mr.
Roosevelt was formally thanked by
the English officials because he has
always advised peace and co-opera
tion with the government.
DANISH MAIL BOAT IS IN A PERI-
LOUS POSITION ON ICE-
LAND COAST.
International News Service.
London, March 17.—An Iceland dis-
patch received here this morning
says that the Danish mail steamer
Laura has been driven ashore off
Skagesgrand, and that her position
is regarded as dangerous. An effort
is being made to land the passen-
gers and crew, but has so far failed.
taft reached chica-
BEGINS* STRENUOUS DAY EARLY
THIS MORNING IN THE
WINDY CITY.
International News Service.
Chicago, 111., March 17.—A salute
of twenty-one guns announced the
arrival of President Taft here this
morning at 7:50 o'clock. He will
pass a most erenuous day celebrating
with the Irish. He departed from the
usual custom and left the train at
special station, from which he took
an automobile and entered the city.
This is the first time in history where
a president took an active part In
celebrating by riding in the parade
In honor of St. Patrick.
The streets and buildings are all
decorated in honor of the president
He went direct to his hotel, where
he received the Red Cross committee
after which he was the guest of the
newspaper men's club, where he made
an informal talk on the press.
then lunched with the Irish Fellow
ship club and this afternoon will
speak at the Auditorium theater on
"Conservation." after which he will
attend a reception and visit the Ham-
ilton club.
L
FIREMEN'S STRIKE
HANGS ON THREAD
GOVERNMENT MEDIATORS ARE
TAKING HOLD OF MATTERS
IN CHICAGO.
International News Service.
Chicago. 111., March 17.—The much
talked-of firemen's strike hangs on
ihread. The government mediators
have arrived and will exert their In
fluence to the fullest extent in an
effort to harmonize the differences
between the railroads and the fire
men, but It is not believed they will
be successful. They are getting both
sides to the controversy together
and all the points involved wil^ be
gone over between them. It is the
general opinion of both sides that
nothing can be accomplished and that
the strike will take place.
GLASS FACTORY SECURED.
Bartlesville, Okla., March 17.—A
contract has been signed whereby
the Osage Glass company of Inde-
pendence, Kan., will install an $85
000 plant at Bartlesville within the
next few months. The plant is to
he of the "thirty" variety and will
give employment to 175 persons
TEN HOGS DROWN.
Tulsa. Okla.. March 17— Sixteen
hogs were drowned as the Owen
ferry started across the Arkansas
river at Bixby late at night, causing
a nagonload of hogs, driver and team
to be dumped into the river. The
team and driver were rescued. The
hogs were recovered this morning
and dressed.
Three cotton gins.
One large cotton compress.
STREET RIOTING IN
Four Short Months of Activity Hav^
Transformed Shawnee From a Slumb-
erer Into the Livest City in the
Entire State
afl these cities is conclusively shown
by the methods employed. All checks
re made out on printed checl$ of
the "Moody & Moore Construction
Co.," Muskogee, payable at the Mus-
kogee National bank. King's meat
market and the Ilsen Clothing com-
pany are two of the Tulsa firms vie-
in Oklahoma Territory, but McC<|
did not believe they had been
plying with the laws.
The order then fell back on its"^
rights on the Indian Territory side
of the state, but was still unsuccess-
ful in obtaining er license. Finally
the head men of the order filed a
timised. The former cashed a check suit in the district court of l ogan
made out to J. M. Clark and the lat-| county in an attempt to secure the
license by a mandamus against Mc-
How great a change is wrought!
In four months, short in time but
long in progress, Shawnee has been
ransformed as if by magic from a
slumbering municipality to a hustling
metropolis.
Four months ago business was only
moderate—it was at the stage com-
monely seen in an old established,
conservative town. * Real estate was
hanging hands to some extent, to
be sure, and new people were coming
in, but things were not advancing as
they should, and everybody knew it.
What is the matter with Shaw-
nee?" visitors would ask. "She has
the makings of a metropolis and her
people have spent hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars in permanent public
improvements, and yet property val-
ues are away down. Why don't you
do something?"
But Shawnee got tired of listening
to that kind of talk and proceeded
to "do something," and she has been
doing things since.
Four months ago tonight a commit-
tee of the Shawnee Chamber of Com-
merce was in Sapulpa in conference
with M. B. Wells. The conference
lasted eighteen hours. The result
was the inauguration of Shawnee's
great era of expansion. For this con-
ference produced a packing house—
the greatest in the Southwest and the
greatest ever built at one time in the
ntire country, with the exception of
one.
As a direct result of this confer-
ence of four months ago, the Baptist
State university was located here and
a half million dollar cotton mill was
located here, for nothing succeeds
like success.
During the past four month* things
have been happening in a kaleidos-
copic fashion. Achievement has fol-
lowed achievement and success has
begotten success until it makes one
dizzy to try to keep up. The chrono-
logy of the past four months will be
preserved by Shawnee as a lesson to
future generations. For the happen-
ings of these four months have pro-
duced a new commercial giant
"You're all right. Just keep go-
ing," is the good word that Musko-
gee gave Shawnee upon the visit to-
day. The visit was so short that the
Muskogee boosters could not be
shown all of the good things, but
they soon got the idea. They real-
ized as soon as they hit town that
there was something doing.
Will Remain Here
W. S. Matthews of the Big Four
Packing company will make his head
quarters in the city as -uperintem
dent of the packing plant until it is
completed. William Wham, secre-
tary of the company, will shortly
open offices here. Chief Engineer
Maus is removing his laraily to this
city, where he expects to buy prop
Iter accommodated "L. A. Thomas" by
accepting the check in trade and giv-
ing him change in real money. Both
I checks were for $18 and were "sal-
construction of the great plant j ary" checks.
Trainloads of material are being pre- The checks went through the regu-
pared at St. Louis for immediate >ar channels of the banking trade
, . , .. . - land were received by the Muskogee
shipment and before the end of the. . , . , .
I National bank last week. Here they
week mountains of material will be i
on the ground. The packing house parties cashing them with the follow-
people are in a hurry, Shawnee is 1" 1 |ng note attached: "There is no such
a hurry and the contractors are in a ^ firm ag ,jje Moody & Moore Construe*
hurry, so there is no reason why con- Hon company in Muskogee, and never
struction work should not be rapidly j,M been. They are flooding the
pushed. 'country with their bad checks."
were protested and returned to *the
Comb. This was was until Wednes-
lay pending upon appeal.
Upon the advice of Attorney Gen-
eral West. Milas Lassater, state com-
missioner of insurance, has announced
that he will issue a license to the
M. B. A. Several other insurance or-
ders in the state are similarly sit-
uated, but Lassater declares that he
will not make a precedent of the
M. B. A. ease.
Northeast Road.
It is a matter of only a few days
before more definite announcement
as- to the construction of a railroad
to the northeast will be made. Things
along this line are rapidly taking
shape and dirt will fly in the early
summer. In the rush of other mat-
FURNACE INVENTION
NCINtRATE GARBAGE
ters closer at hand, the railroad j Hearst International Press,
proposition, as well as the stock yards | Hobart 0kla., March 17.—W. H.
proposition, have been lost sight of.1 McGuire of this city, after a light
The railroads are coming because
the stock yards are here. It Is be-
cause Shawnee will be the great live
stock market of the state that the
railroads are looking this way.
Armourdale Lots.
And still the sale if Armourdale
lots continues, with increasing activ-
ity The average of 50 to 100 a day
of more than a year, has finally se-
cured a patent on his invention of
a furnace for the incineration of city
garbage.
More than a year ago McGuire
worked out his ideas along this line,
the result being a practical furnace
tinlike anything else in the market
for similar purposes. When he ap-
plied for a patent other concerns who
no longer holds, as the lots are be- manufactured similar furnaces put
ing sold now at the rate of 150 to
200 per day. Secretary Cook of the
development company is hardly able
up a fight and the issuance of the
patent to McGuire was thus delayed,
Arrangements will be made at once
fo keep up with the contracts that for t|,e manufacture of the McGuire
erty.
Everything is now set for the (are turned in by (he real estate men.
THE NEWS, 3 MONTHS FOR *1.00
TROOPS ARE GUARDING THE
AMERICAN LEGATION
AGAINST ATTACK.
International News Service.
New Orleans, La., March . 17.—It
has been reported here that street
rioting is general in Bogota, Colom-
bia, the result of an attempt tp re-
new the street railway service con-
trolled by the Americans.
Troops have been called and are
guarding the American legation
against the mob. Many of the em-
ployes of the trolley company have
been beaten and several killed by
the strikers.
furnaces, which, when tested, did all
that was intended.
Mayor Henry M. Scales of Okla-
homa City, a close personal friend of
McGuire's, contemplates testing one
of the furnaces with a view to using
them for the incineration of Okla-
homa City garbage.
republican statt
leaders trying to
settle strike
CONFERENCE LOOKING TO AD-
JUSTMENT OF DIFFERENCES
BEING HELD.
International News Service.
Philadelphia, IJa., March 17.—It is
reported that the republican state
leaders are making a valiant effort
to settle the strike immediately.
Their policy heretofore of standing
indifferent had caused a great ma-
jority of the citizens to become an-
tagonistic and the threat to form a
new party and wipe out the republi-
cans- induced them to come to the
rescue and make some endeavor to
bring the war to an end.
Senator Penrose arrived this morn-
ing from Washington and soon after
a move was started looking to a
conference of the belligerent parties.
heavy fog and
snow in n, i
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May be paralyzed for the want of the proper banking con-
nection. Nothing will help the business man, the farmer or
anyone, for that matter, like good bank credit and influence.
Customers of THE BANK OF COMMERCE IN SHAWNEE
enjoy privileges unknown to the man without a bank account.
The best way to carry on your financial affairs is to deposit
your money and use on© of our nice little check books.
Right now, while you are looking at our sign, is the time
to call in and let Mr. A. J. Fluke, Cashier, tell you how much
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The Bank of Commerce in Shawnee
Every Depositor
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Wallace Estill. J
Vice-President
400,000 GOAL
MINERS TO STRIKE
ON APRIL 1ST?
APPEARS TO BE LITTLE PROB-
ABILITY OF PREVENTING
MEN QUITTING WORK.
International News Service.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 17.—A
strike of 400.000 coal miners id Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana asd Illinois is
now believed to be a certainty by
the operators. A special session of
the miners, which lasted for three
days, failed to reach an agreement
011 wages with the operators, and the
sentiment of the union is for a strike
on April 1.
The operators have formed a de-
fensive alliance and have enough poal
stored to meet the demands for sev- (welcomed by the Americans at Ama-
pala. The native commandant re-
fused to receive the minister and
called him an American dog.
eral months.
anieri-
FRATERNAL INSURANCE ORDER
TO RECEIVE CHARTER
AT LAST.
Guthrie, Okla, March 17.—The Mod-
ern Brotherhood of America, a wide-
ly known Insurance order, is at last
to receive an Oklahoma license.
This soceity has been trying to get
a license ever since statehood, even
carrying the matter into the courts.
Shortly after the state was ad-
mitted, T. J. McComb, then state in-
surance commissioner, refused the or-
der a license on the groun# that its
rates were based on the fraternal
congress tables. The order declared
that it had a right to a license un-
der the constitutional provision at-
fecting the vested rights of corpora
Hons that had been doing business
BUT ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
IS FORMED WITH 50,000
IN LINE.
International News Service.
New York, March 17.—A heavy
fog and a driving snowBtorm are
doing their best to Bpoll the biggest
St. Patrick's celebration in the his-
tory of the city, which Includes a
parade of 60,000 people. In spite
of the unfavorable weather a parade
was formed and every organization
in the city was full represented.
International News Service.
Daytona, Fla March 17.—All hopes
for the recovery of Senator Daniels
were abandoned today at noon. The
coma into which he collapsed dur-
ing the night has deepened and his
death is expected momentarily.
NATIVE COMMANDANT REFUSED
TO RECEIVE AMERICAN
MINISTER.
International News Service.
New Orleans, La.. March l'J.—Ad-
vices received here state that Ameri-
cans are being insulted in Honduras
and that It Is likely that a revolu-
tion will result because President
I)avila is trying to protect the Ameri-
cans. The president and congress
are at a deadlock and congress re-
fuses to adjourn.
PASSING FORGED CHECKS
OKLAHOMA TOWNS SUFFER
MANY MERCHANTS ARE MADE
VICTIM* OF WORTHLESS
PAPER.
Hearst International Press. .
Tulsa, Okla,. March 17.—Tulsa,
Muskogee and other Oklanoma towns
are being victimized by a gang of
bad check workers. Several Tulsa
merchants have been "worked" and
the Tulsa Retailers' association is in
receipt of bulletins from other town^
and protest notices on checks cashed
The new American minister ar-.by the merchants,
rived this morning and was joyfully! That the same gang is operating in
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