Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1907 Page: 2 of 12
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CAPITOL HILL NEWS.
sTmTTaCKSON , Editor.PublisherandPro prietor.
MRS. E. E. RUGAN, • Associate Local Editor.
STATE AS LIQUOR SELLER!
An Experiment in Gwalia, West Aus-
tralia, Results Successfully.
New York.—Spring weddings have
this year an element of novelty so far
as the presents are concerned, which
the talent of a French medallist now
in New York has made possible. The
wedding medal has just been put on
the market by a firm of jewelers, and
at many of the spring marriages
there has been seen such a gift on the
table,pf presents. It is usually given
by uie .bridegroom to the bride or by
the bride to her husband, although it
may be presented by any friend or rel-
ative in lieu of an ordinary gift.
These marriage medals are made
of silver and are about two Inches in
diameter. On one side is a pair of
figures draped in classical fashion and
on the other is a wreath of laurel
bearing the words "Souvenir de Mar-
riage,” and after that are the names
of tho contracting parties, with the
date and the words “Prosperite” and
“Bonheur.” The silver is frosted and
the workmanship of the medallions ex-
quisitely fine.
Highly ImDrobable.
Editor—I wish I knew what our
lady readers want.
Assistant—Why don’t you send out
a circular letter and ask them?
Editor—Great heavens, man, do
you suppose they know?”—Puck.
His Reform Measure.
“Money, my son," remarked t£«
good old deacon, “Is the root of all
evil.”
“I believe it, dad,” rejoined the way
ward youth, “and I’m doing my best
to tear up evil by the roots.”—Chicago
| Daily News.
MAINE HERMIT HUNTER
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
Eptarad tia ■oeond-clnaii mattar November 11, 1906,
at the poetofflce, Onpitol Bill, Oklahoma, under act
of oongreeH, March 8, 1879.
NEW STATE NOTES
Tho Creek Indian fullblooda are re-
ported to be against the constitution.
Okmulgee believes in her oil boom
lust as devoutly as Muskogee did
three years ago.
Prohibitionists of Payne county are
arranging to put speakers in the field
for the adoption of the constitution.
Northern dealers are already con-
tracting for Oklahoma’s peach crop
and the growers say will pay $2 a
bushel.
The wives of Territorial Librarian
J. W. Fooso and United States Mar-
shal John Abernathy died last week
at Guthrie.
The town of Ada has organized a
25.000 club and will try to boost the
population of that town from 5,000 to
25.000 in the shortest possible time.
The annual shoot in the Oklahoma
Sportmen’s Association was held at
Tulsa.
The Republican county convention,
which met at Eufaula recently, ad-
apted resolutions placing McIntosh
bounty on record as against the con-
stitution.
Spencer Crew has been appointed
postmaster at Etna, O. T.
James W. Brown, a prominent drug-
gist, the first one to locate in Chick-
asha fifteen years ago, died recently.
Mr. Brown was one of the members
Df the first Kansas state pharmaceuti-
cal board appointed in 1870. He was
in business in Wichita for twenty
years.
Tho first candidate to he nominated
for the senate is Edmund Brazell,
democrat, nominated p.t Blackwell
from the senatorial district composed
of Kay and Grant counties.
Norman recently voted $25,000.00
waterworks bonds and a franchise to
a company to install a complete sys-
tem.
The Logan county high school has
issued a very creditable annual.
Bishop Brooks of Guthrie will de-
liver the baccalureate sermon at the
Tonkawa Preparatory school.
The Fort Smith & Western railroad
is scheduled to extend its line south-
west of El He no in the near future.
Two Rock Island engines had la
head-on collision at Geary, with no
one injured excepting the company.
Kingfls'f?r was enlivened Sunday
by the Greek laborers on the Rock Is-
land1 celebrating the Grecian Easter.
Several kegs of beer and fifes and
drums assisted In the demonstration.
Secretary of War Taft has wired
permission to Alva J. Niles, adjutant
general of tho Oklahoma national
guard to mobilize the Oklahoma mil-
itia in June at Fort Sill for several
days’ rifle practice. At that time the
teams will be chosen to .represent
Oklahoma in tho national shoot to be
hold at Columbus, Ohio, in August.
In Ponca City a Mexico boomer
tells the people about land to be se-
cured for thirty cents, or thereabouts,
an acre, while a coon and a guitar
varies the procedlngs with similar se-
lections.
The West Australian state govern-
ment’s experiment in liquor business
control at the mining center of Gwalia
has managed to live through criticism,
and now appears to be a firmly estab-
lished institution.
Within the last few days the new
chairman of committees of the senate,
Senator Pearce, has come forward
with first hand testimony. He had
stayed a week end at the state hotel
at Gwalia, and has now told a public
meeting in this city how he found pre-
vailing conditions, says a Melbourne
letter to the London Chronicle.
Senator Pearce found that the man-
ager of the hotel was paid a good sal
ary and had no interest in adulterat-
ing drink or trading during prohibited
hours. The hotel was strictly for
,public convenience, and there was no
[more incentive to make men drink
beer than there was for a station mas-
ter at a railway station to sell tickets.
The result was that there was no sign
of drunkenness about the town.
When a man was disposed to drink
more than he could afford or was good
for him there was machinery for exer-
cising control over him. All that had
to be done was for the man’s wife or
relative to speak to the manager of
the hotel, and then the barman re-
ceived instructions that he was to be
served with only two long beers a
day—one when going on to his mining
“shift” and one coming off. Tho min-
ers called this being placed under the
Dog act.” No one, however, outside
the complainant, the maanger, or the
barman need be informed as to who
was on the list—except, said Senator
Pearce with a sly smile, when the pro-
scribed mart himself lectured his fel-
lows on their disgusting intemper-
ance in calling for more than two
drinks a day. On Sunday not a drink
was sold or asked for.
The Gwalia State hotel, after pay-
ing all expenses and supplying a
splendid table and excellent bedroom
accommodation, now cleared a profit
of $15,000 per annum out of pure
liquors. The manager regarded him-
self as a guardian of the people, who
would not give them poison to drink
nor allow them to abuse the privilege
of obtaining pure liquor.
Fashions in Japan.
Fashions change in Japan most rap-
idly when they are the changing
badge of wealth, and when social sta-
tus ebbs and flows mid people are
known by what they wear. Among
men the fashion of tho hair, which
had to do with the warrior’s head-
gear, has gone wholly out of style.
The man of official rank wears his
clothes in foreign style as becoming
modern tasks, though he returns to
his native costume for his hours of
ease. In the matter of hairdressing it
is not only that certain styles belong
to certain periods or ages, but may
not be affected after some fixed data,
but within the limits set by age there
are variations according to fashion’s
whim.
Famous Corps Disbanded.
The Bank of England Rifle Volun-
teer Corps, which was established in
1875, primarily for the defense of the
bank premises, was by an order of
the British war ofHce recently dis-
banded, as the corps, which was main-
tained at the expense of the bank
authorities, was not considered nec-
essary- At night the bank premises
are protected by a military guard. The
corps has been under the command of
Capt. H. S. Inman for nearly six years
and out of the total strength of 95
officers and men 92 made themselves
efficient. This was the only single
company corps in Great Britain.
Furniture Mover’s Advice.
A lady, who is a furniture remover,
carrying on business at Manwell, has
on her vans the following appeal to
the public: “Don’t worry—get mar-
ried—and keep on moving.”—London
Evening Standard.
GREENLEAF DAVIS IS CHAMPION
BEAR KILLER OF STATE.
Although Four Score Years of Age He
Still Enjoys Roaming the Forest
—Has Over Two Hundred
Hides to His Credit.
Patten, Me.—Greenleaf Davis, "the
hermit of Shin pond,” has killed more
than 200 bears. Davis has held the
record for having killed the most
bears of any man in Maine for more
than 20 years, and though he is now
past 80 and lame and bent from
rheumatism, no season passes with-
out adding from one to five bears to
his tally.
“When I was young,” says he, “fat
bears were almost as thick along the
old growth beeches on the slopes of
Mount Katahdin as red squirrels are
to-day. In the fall, after the early
frosts loosened the beechnuts, I could
go out with an aged smooth-bore gun
and shoot two or three most any day.
“Every fall father used to call us
boys and make up a bear hunt to se-
cure fresh bear’s meat for roasting
pieces all winter. Sometimes the
hunt lasted a week, and sometimes
longer, but we never quit until we
had put by the carcasses of from six
to ten fat bears.
“In the days when Tippecanoe ran
for president there was no railroad
track v/ithin 100 miles of where we
resided, and if anyone had told us
about Chicago dressed beef coming
through to Maine in refrigerator cars
we should have locked him up as in-
sane.
“The hindquarter of a fat bear
which had fed on beechnuts, when
hung on a spit, roasted before a hard-
wood fire and basted in its own fat
until it was all shiny brown, made eat-
ing that was good enough for the min-
ister or the first selectman.
“The kidney fat of the bears, which
was soft and oily like lard, was used
for frying doughnuts and for bread
shortening, while thhe harder belly
fat was run up into candles for fur-
nishing light for the house.
“I have eaten hundreds of brown
doughnuts that were fried in bears’
grease. That grease to-day l coald
sell to the druggists for five dollars a
quart.
“As for the bearskins which we took
off, they were rubbed on the fleshy
side with powdered alum and salt J
an ’ used for rugs and coverings for
beds and robes to be used when tak-
ing long rides in cold weather. No-
body placed any value on the pelt of
a bear then, foi it was the meat we
were after, and as the skin had to
come off before we could get at the
flesh and fat, ve considered the hairy
covering as a sort of by-product.
“One could buy all the bear pelts
he wanted 60 or 70 years ago for $1
to $1.25 each, and now those same |
pelts would bring $20 apiece."
On the death of his father, 50 years
ago, Mr. Davis Inherited a log house
and log sawmill, driven by water
power, and a township containing
more than 23,000 acres of thrifty tim-
ber land. Now he has but a few acres
surrounding his aged home on the
shores of Shin pond.
Henry D. Thoreau, the philosopher
of Concord, Mass., visited Mount
Katahdin in 1843 to secure material
for his book, “Maine Woods,” and
Mr. Davis spent weeks in roaming
the forests with him.
In addition to being a hunter and
fisherman, Mr. Davis is something of
an original .Investigator into natural
history, and he takes considerable
pride in his prior announcement that
the beautiful markings on rock maple.
GREENLEAF DAVIS.
(Champion Bear Killer of Maine Is an
Octogenarian.)
called “blrdseye,” arb caused by wood-
peckers seeking for the sweet sap, the
dents of the sharp bills leaving scars,
which turn to a reddish hue.
From May until November, yearly,
the veteran nimrod lives in his bach-
elor’s hall at Shin pond, but for the
last few years, as he is older and
feebler than before, he goes to Patten
village to avoid the rigors of a winter
in the woods.
Not only is Mr. Davis an optimist,
a naturalist, a hunter and philosopher,
he is a poet, too, of some ability, and
many of his metrical sketches have
been printed in local Maine papers
and in the New York sporting and
outing journals.
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Jackson, S. M. Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1907, newspaper, May 16, 1907; Capitol Hill, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936451/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.