Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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Queen City Times
AGRA.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma News Notes
Speaking of appropriate nomencla-
ture, an Oklahoma banker is named
Million.
Record of building permits in Mus-
kogee show values amounting to $1,-
<29,000 since June 1, 1911.
A half million loot gas wall was
brought in at Vian, in Sequoyah coun-
ty, recently at a depth of 1,100 feet.
This well opens an entirely new field,
The gas caught lire and is still burn-
ing with a roar thut cun be heard
for miles.
Porter Ouineapig, a widely known
Indian resident of Creek county, was
found dead on tlie porch of his home
three miles north of Sapulpa. The
body was in a sitting posture and a
discharged shotgun lay within a few
feet of it. The family of Guineapig
professed to know nothing of the cir-
cumstances surrounding his death.
I.eone Maris, aged 7, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Marls, died at
Tahlequah as the result of falling into
a tub of scalding water. The child
was ill and her mother had placed
the tub of water by the bedside to
give her a hot bath. While Mrs.
Maris was gone to get some cold
water to temper the water in the tub,
the child fell into it.
E. B. Trowbridge has filed suit in
the district court at McAlester against
the C. R. I. & I*. Railway company
for damages in the sum of $30,000. He
alleges in his petition that on Sep-
tember 22, 1911, while employed by
defendant company at Sayre as switch-
man, he was thrown from a car and
had his foot cut off and his arm and
the side of his head badly injured.
The Imperial Iron & Steel company
of Oklahoma has received an order
for 5,000 cast iron plates that are to
be used in the city's electrolytic plant,
for which the city commissioners re-
cently let the contract to A. J. McMa-
han. The cast iron plates for this
plant will weigh 85,000 pounds and
twenty days’ work is required in turn-
ing out this one order.
A Missouri Teachers’ club was
formed in Oklahoma City by Oklaho-
ma teachers who formerly taught in
Missouri. The club started off with
a membership of 110 and was ad-
dressed by Speaker Champ Clark.
Prof. A. W. Duff of Mangum was
elected president. Prof. E. s. McCabe
of Kingfisher, vice president, and W.
O. Rroaddus of Dale, secretary and
treasurer.
The Guthrie chamber of commerce
has just held its annual directory elec-
tion. selecting a group of the livest
business men in the city. They are:
N Holman, Charles Eisenschmidt, Ed
('. Petersen, W. R. Polsen, W. p. Pow-
er, J. A. Brown, F. W. Lintz, A. E.
Gray, Will Patterson, J. H. Rucks,
Bam Smith, L. I. Beland, J. E. Doug-
las, John Golobie, Fred Green, R. A.
Gaffney.
The socialists of the state will not
adopt their platform until after the
national platform Is adopted by the
national association, it wan stated by
delegates to the stare convention held
recently, it waa explained that fhe
party wished harmony in every
branch and that until it is known
what the national association does In
regard to national ! sue* no a< tlon
will he take*!) bv th<■ state organiza-
tion. The platform will he adopted
or rejected through a referendum vote
aecoiding to the custom of the party,
after It is drawn by the national plat-
form committee.
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News Notes
Epitome of the Most
Important Happenings
at Home and Abroad
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WASHINGTON
President Taft, who makes the
laws for the Panama canal zone,
amended a recent executive order
regarding the practice of medicine in
the zone, so as to explicitly sanction
the use of Christian Science and oth-
er non-medicinal methods.
Major General Charles L. Hodges,
U. S. A., retired, died at his home in
Washington after an illness of sev-
eral months. General Hodges was
born in Rhode Island on March 13,
1847, and entered the volunteer ser-
vice at the outbreak of the civil war
when he was only 14 years of age.
DOMESTIC
Despondent because she was not
able to have the things at Christmas
which she desired, Margaret Adams,
aged 16, committed suicide at her home
at New Concord, O., by shooting her-
self in the right temple.
King Alfonso, of Spain, being de-
sirous further to promote friendly re-
lations between Spain and all the
countries of North and South America,
has created a mission for this pur-
pose.
Chief David Spoppenagon, the last
titular chief of the Chippewa tribe in
Michigan, is dead at Bay City at the
age of 103 years. Chief David was
said to be the oldeift Indian in the
United States. He had never touched
a drop of intoxicating liquor. His wife
died a year ago, aged 94.
Jack Johnson, champion, and Sam
McVey will fight for the heavyweight
championship of the world at Sidney,
Australia, Easter Monday, if Hugh Mc-
Intosh, the Sidney promoter, approves
the agreement made in Chicago by his
representative and Johnson.
A steady increase in Chicago’s fresh
meat industry is shown in thfe annual
report of the Union Stockyards and
Transit company, issued by the offi-
cial statistician. It shows that 20,000
carloads more of livestock were re-
ceived last year than the year before
The total receipts were 271,000 cars.
That 100,000 Jew's stand ready to
enlist and fight against Russia should
insistence upon the rights of Ameri-
can citizens bring about a war, was
the declaration of the Rabbi Eichles
at a mass meeting at Fanuell hall, in
Boston.
The state of New York failed in its
effort to fix the blame of the fire hor-
ror of March 25, 1911, In which 147
employes or the Triangle Waist com-
pany lost their lives. A verdict of
"not guilty” w’as returned in the case
of Isaac Harris and Max Blanc, pro-
prietors of the company, who were
indicted in connected with the holo-
caust.
The eighteen cotton mills of the B.
B. & R. Knight company In Rhode
Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts
will go on a full time schedule begin-
ning Jan. 2. The mills have been
running forty-eight hours a week for
iveekfl. The company de-
clared that the change was not due
t< any increase in business hut was
made for "the benefit of the help.”
The condition of Charles W. Morse,
Uu former New York banker,
Is such that fears of his life are en-
tertained by his friends unless he
should he paroled or pardoned soon.
Death Is not expected momentarily
by physicians who have been attend-
ing him, but ultimate recovry is
doubifui.
Senora Aurelia Reyes, wife of Gen-
eral Bernardo Reyes, arrived in La-
redo, Texas, and will proceed to Mex-
ico City to be with her husband dur-
ing his trial. Senora Rayes is not in
the best of health.
Lizzie, Mamie and Roxie Kelioe,
farmer girls near Lanesboro, Minn.,
in a recent contest husked in five and
one-half days 1,790 bushels, hauling
each load of corn one-half mile. The |
average for each day for each girl
was a little more than 108 bushels.
Four children of August Mazzio ,
W'ere burned to death in a fire which
destroyed Mazzio’s home in Cleveland, j
Ohio. The mother and one son were '
so seriously burned that it is feared
they will die. The fire started In
Mazzio’s bakery in the rear of his
home. Mazzio escaped.
Clifford W. Hartridge, the attorney
for Harry K. Thaw, was cleared by
the appellate division of the supreme
court of the charge brought by the
Bar Association of New York that he
tried to suppress testimony and ob-
struct the course of justice in prepar-
ing Thaw’s defense.
The second of a chain of cotton
mills near Greensboro, N. C., of which
the American Warehouse company
now in bankruptcy, was the holding
company, and in which the Marshall
Field company of Chicago owned con-
trolling stock, was placed in bank-
ruptcy by Judge Boyd upon petition of
unsecured creditors of the Lilly Mills.
Chairman W. C. Adamson and the
members of the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce dis-
embarked at Charleston, S. C., from
the steamship Cristobal, en route to
Washington from the canal zone. In
speaking of the trip Representative
Adamson said the committee is satis-
fied both with the progress of the
work and its quality.
Zadock Martin, aged 91 years, pio-
neer oil man, who sank the second oil
well drilled in the United States and
later dug holes in Pennsylvania and
New York, died at Pittsburg, Pa. it
was thought Mr. Martin, who secured
the aid of the late H. H. Rogers, that
an annuity was obtained for Colonel
Drake, who drilled the country's first
oil well.
While the total population of the !
United States increased about 11 per
cent in the last six years, the number
of insane people was augmented dur-
ing the same period by 25 per cent. In j
372 institutions canvassed by the cen-
sus bureau up to January 1, 1910, were
187,454 insane patients or an increase
of 37,303 since 1904.
American lemon growers won a
signal victory over foreign compet- I
itors and the trans-continental rail-
roads, when the interstate commerce
commission re-affirmed its previous
order, reducing freight rates on lem-
ons from California to all other points
in the United States from $1.15 per !
one hundred pounds to $1. The de-
cision holds the rate of $1.15 unreason-
able and unjust irrespective of the )
question of competition and orders
the carriers to make effective the low-
er rate on February 15.
A new movement to aid in the up-
lift of the masses and to correct the
abuses from which they are supposed
to be suffering was formally launched
at Indianapolis, Ind., at the initial
convention of the Indiana State Civic
union. The purpose of the new or-
ganization, as set forth by its pro-
moters, is to obtain social, civic and
moral reform by means of education,
legislation and law enforcement.
Some of the issues which it purposes
to take up will be Sabbath observ-
ance, social purity, temperance, san-
itation, industrial equity and interna-
tional peace.
RANGE CATTLE
ARE SUFFERERS
COLD SNAP OVER SOUTHWEST
' CAUSES STARVATION
RUSHING FOOD SUPPLIES
Blizzard Covers Whole Southwestern
Section and Puts Railroad
Traffic and Telegraph
Lines Out of Order
FOREIGN
The German emporer has conferred
upon Herr Von Kiderlin-Waechter,
secretary of foreign affairs, the bril-
liants and oak leaves of the Order of
the Red Eagle of the First Class. The
secretary already possesses the or-
der.
Oklahoma City—"Going down" was
! the substance of reports from the local
weather bureau all day long Saturday,
and while there were slight attempts
a: snow, now and then, while at other
times only the bleak, chill wind was
| in the air, the mercury kept dropping,
dropping, dropping. At 7 o’clock Sat-
urday morning, the thermometer was
"clear up’’ to 19 above, tho "hottest”
of the day, while at 7 in the evening
it had been forced gradually down
ward until it hovered at 11 above.
The storm is general over the so ith-
vrest and as the ground is covered
with a solid sheet of frozen snow and
sleet, the situation is bad all over
this portion of the country. Trains
are late; telephone and telegraph
wires are being gradually put out of
commission, and the big ranchers of
the Panhandle country aro in des-
perate straits.
Traffic officials report that the Okla-
homa cotton seed men received scores
of rush orders Saturday fo? cotton
meal cakes from the big ranchers of
the Panhandle. That big cattle dis-
trict is frozen as solid as an icecake.
There is, temporarily* no such thing
as grazing and ranches that ordinarily
carry through the winter thousands
of head of beef cattle are facing the
stern issue of a complete food deple-
tion. The railroads are accumulating
cotton seed meal as rapidly as pos-
sible and teams are worked day and
night transporting food supplies over
the slippery roads from the stations
to the ranches. On account of the
suddenness of the freeze, the bad con-
dition of the roads, the short available
supply and the necessity of it having
to be transported from the Oklahoma
mills, it is feared that the cattle death
list will be heavy.
Not Bad in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma the cattle ranges are
small and for some time have been on
a winter feeding basis. The home
situation, therefore, is regarded as pos-
sessing no panicky elements and very
little loss is expected.
Saturday night was one of the cold-
est in southwestern Oklahoma during
the last seven years. The snow and
sleet of Friday night has covered the
ground with a sheet of ice, making it
almost impossible for pedeslrians to
wralk the streets. Old-timers say that
it is just what is necessary for the
wheat and that it will kill out the in-
sects that have ravaged the fields for
the past two growing seasons. Scat-
tered reports from other sections of
the state and the adjacent states show
that the cold wave is general, and that
people are suffering in many commu-
nities.
Fowler At New Orleans
New Orleans—Robert G. Fowler, the
aviator, after numerous delays on ac-
count of engine trouble reached New
Orleans Sunday afternoon. He flew
from Ama, about eighteen miles above
New' Orleans, and landed in the city
park race course. Ho will give exhi-
bition flights here Monday and early
this week expects to leave for Gulf
Port and Mobile.
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