Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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Queen City Times of ^ WojM
ACTtA.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma News Notes
Briefly Told
A lodge of the Order of Moose has
been organized at Durant. 1 he mem-
bers are among the best of people
In the city.
Mo»t Important Event* of the Pait Week
Boded Down tor the Busy Readers
WASHINGTON
Rev. A. C. Jackman, aged 74, for a
number of years engaged in the mer-
cantile business at Chlckasha, is
dead. The body was taken to But-
ler, Indiana, for burial.
Major G. W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill)
distributed choice bits or buffalo
meat among his friends during the
past week. It is understood he killed
four of his famous herd for the pur-
pose.
President Taft is anxious that the
bodies of a number of dead sailors
found in the wreck of the Maine, which
are soon to be brought north, be trans-
ported with all possible dignity. He
has written to Secretary Meyer, ex-
pressing the wish that the bodies be
brought from Havana on one of the
large vessels of the navy, convoyed by
another vessel.
Well, good bye, old 1911, you've
been a hot, dry old year, but you did
pretty good in your declining days.
The rains ycu have given us will help
1912 to make a reputation.
Figuring by the government’s com-
putation of snow into precipitation of
five Inches to one, approximately fif-
teen Inches of snow fell at Hobart
December 20, which melted measured
2.97 Inches of water. Snow plows were
used to clear the sidewalks.
Twenty members of the Tulsa Coun-
ty Bar association, headed by Dis-
trict Judge L. M. Poe and Superior
Judge M. A. Breckenridge, attended
the State Bar association meeting,
which was held in Oklahoma City
last week.
A protest by Russia Saturday, Oct.
16 agaist the abrogation of the treaty
of 1832 with that country in the form
proposed by the Sulzer resolution,
overwhelmingly adopted in the house,
was followed Saturday night by the
declaration of senate leaders that in
modified terms a resolution declaring
the treaty at an end would be put
through the senate before the adjourn-
ment of that body Monday.
The Englishman who haB been
wearing a top hat and a frock coat
impressed all who saw him with his
distinguished appearance as 8
strolled about with an expansive air
in one of the more expensive hotels.
On Wednesday morning he cunre up
to a clerk.
*‘I would like to have a shirt laun-
dered,” he said. “I must have it back
by five o’clock.”
The clerk told him that the time
was unusually short, but he would do
what he could, and the shirt was de-
livered on time.
He came down Thursday morning
and said he wanted another shirt
laundered, but that this one must be
back by two o’clock in the afternoon.
The clerk said that would be too
short a time. The Briton grew angry
and demanded to see the proprietor.
He got as far as the bell boy captain,
to whom he protested that he would
not stand for such treatment. 7he
bell boy suggested the purchase of a
third shirt—NeV York Sun.
Exactly $80,000,000 is proposed to be
appropriated by congress for roads
during the next five years in a bill in-
troduced by Representative Prouty of
Iowa, who advocates national and state
co-operation in road construction and
maintenance. He proposed that con-
gress appropriate and apportion among
the various states $7,500,000 during
1912 and $10,000,000 in 1913; $15,000,-
000 in 1914; $20,000,000 in 1915; and
$30,000,000 in 1916. The federal ex-
penditure on each road is limited to
one-half the total cost.
pvOCTORS know
that Oxidine is a
most dependable sys-
tem-cleansing tonic.
Most useful in stirring
up lazy livers, sluggish
bowels and kidneys,
weak stomachs. Its ef-
fects are quick, safe,
sure and permanent.
OXIDINE
—a bottle proves.
Another French Revolution.
A number of girls have demanded
admission to the French military
academy.
The time may be coming when the
daughter of the regiment will give
way to the son, and when the roman-
tic canteen bearer will wear whiskers.
Even if anybody accidentally hap-
pened to save a little money Christ-
mas or birthdays or something like
that would come along to burn it up.
The specific for Malaria, Chills
and Fever and all disease*
due to disorders of liver,
stomach, bowels
and kidneys.
BOc. At Your Druggist•
(,| uimi dbvo oo.,
Wsoo, Texas-
An unknown party fired a shot Into
a Fort Smith & Western passenger
train near Massle, Okla. The buriet
struck a window and passed over a
seat that has Just been vacated by
a man a moment before, and lodged
In the opposite side of the car. rI he
officers will make an investigation.
DOMESTIC
Dr Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invigor-
ate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe.
SJSKifgESiS
loweTt p^ces easy payments
You cannot afford to experiment v.ith
untried goods sold by commission agents.
Catalogues free. --
Grace Husted, aged 20, whose home
is at Adams, Okla., but who has been
serving as maid in a rooming house
In Guthrie at $5 per week, is heir to
an eBtate in Arkansas worth $16,000.
The estate is that of John Kelly, who
recently died at Hot Springs, Ark.
Miss Husted says she expects to ex-
pend part of the money in seeing
more of the world.
That 100,000 Jews 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 Fanueil hall, in
Boston.
Irrigation projects are receiving the
serious attention of the government
of Brazil.
THP BRUNSWICK - BALKE - COLLENDER COMPANY
14 West Main Street. Dept. B, Oklahoma Cits. OkU.
W. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 52-1911.
Secretary W. F. Hardle of the Okla-
homa Traffic association has received
a letter from A. E. Helm, attorney fox
the Southwestern Shippers' associa-
tion in its freight rate hearings be-
fore the interstate commerce cornmis-
aion, announcing the receipt of a no-
tice from Commissioner Prouty to
the effect that further hearings will
be held the latter part of January at
either Kansas City or Denver.
Prices of fresn meat are expected
to begin falling within two weeks and
quickly go to the lowest level known in
years, as the result of Great Britain s
refusal to permit the millionaire Chi-
cago packers to bid for contracts for
supplying the British army and navy
with $25,000,000 worth of fresh meats
during the next year.
Houses were shaken and the popula-
tion, black and white, particularly the
former, were thrown into a state of
fear when, with a loud report, a me-
teor fell near Lucedale, Miss. A hole
The building of wide, concreto
bridges along the thirty miles of the
• Chisolm Trail highway in Garfield
county is a matter under the consid-
eration of the county commissioners.
The plan is to build about a dozen
bridges at an average cost of $1,200
each. As a result of the construction
of the Chisholm Trail roadway
through the county last month, a
number of lateral roadways leading
to the city are now being constructed.
in the ground was found about thre3
feet wide, and scorched trunks of trees
nearby told further of the celestial vis-
itor’s contact ith the earth.
Charles N. Farrell, a veteran of
the Mexican war and a newspaper re-
porter whose stories included the bat-
tle between the Monitor and the Mer-
rimac, the battle of Vicksburg and
Lee's surrender, died at his home in
Brooklyn Tuesday, aged 82 years.
Snow plows were ordered out in
Texas on December 19 with two feet
of snow on the level along the Pan-
handle route of tlie Fort \\ orth and
Denver railroad. Preceded by heavy
rains, the blizzard appeared to be
travelling due southeast about twenty
miles an hour.
ALCOHOL-3 per cent
AVegetable Preparation for As-
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For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
similating the Food andRegula-
ting (he Stomachs anti Bowels of
Infants /Children'
Promotes Digestion,Cheerful-
ness and Rest Contains neither
Opiuni.Morphine nor Mineral
Not Narcotic
Peapr cLOU Dr SAMUEL PfECEER
Putnplitn -
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JfahfU* Sails •
dnise Setd *
Peppermint -
ffiCirionaUSctUx
Worm Seed
Bears the
Signature
of
Clarified Sugar
Wintergreen Flavor
The first state convention of the
Y. M. C. A. in the history of Okla-
homa is to be held in Oklahoma City
February 4, 5 and 6, with perhaps
five hundred delegates in attendance
and there is a possibility of William
J. Bryan and Governor W. R. Stubbs
of Kansas being present. Judge Sel-
den P. Spencer of St. Louis, Bishop
Thurston of Muskogee and Dean Ju-
lian C. Monnet of the state univer-
sity also have been Invited to ad-
dress the delegates.
A lockout affecting 100,000 cotton
operatives at Liverpool, Eng., is
threatened. The * rouble between
the employers and the workers has
arisen over the question of the em-
ployment of non-unionists.
Tuan Fang, one of China’s fore-
most men, has been killed by his own
soliders at Tse-Chow, in Shan Si pro-
vince, according to missionary repre-
sentatives. Fang visited the United
States in 1906 at the head of a Chin-
ese educational society.
Apcrfecl Remedy forConstipa-
tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea,
Worms .Convulsions ,Fe ver i sh-
ncss and LOSS OF SLEEP
fac Simile Signalure of
The Centaur Company.
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Thirty Years
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