Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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H A R R A H, O K L A., NEWS
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World’s News
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Little Stories of the Week’s
Happenings in All Nations
FOREIGN.
Twenty-two persons are .known to
have been killed and seventeen in-
jured in an explosion of fire damp in
the Achenbach colleriea in Germany.
The wives of military men and all
women who are invited to attend mili-
tary functions at Budapest, will not be
permitted to wear slit skirts, by order
of Field- Marshal Fekete.
An encounter with a lion caused the
death of Fritz Schindler, a member of
an American moving picture expedi-
tion, engaged in taking pictures of
wild animals in their natural surround-
ings in Africa.
The herring fishery on the western
coast of Newfoundland in which a
number of Canadian and American
vessels engaged, closed last week with
a total catch of 65,000 barrels against
71,700 barrels last yea:.
After several weeks of quiet, Yaqui
Indian's again are raiding ranches in
the vicinity of Ures, Sonora. Several
Mexican freighters have been killed
near Ures it is said and the inhabi-
tants of that region are practically
defenseless.
The American baseball players of
the National and American leagues,
who have been on a world tour, are
expected to reach Rome February 10.
They will be received in audience by
the pope and will play an exhibition
game at the stadium, which seats 100,-
000 spectators.
Four hundred federals killed in the
battle of Concepcion Del Oro, Zacate-
cas, or executed after capture was the
official report to the constitutionalist
headquarters at Brownsville of the
engagement south of SaltHlo. The
rebels lost seven killed and had seven-
ty wounded.
A bill prescribing the worship of
heaven and of Confucius by the presi-
dent of the Chinese republic was
passed by the administrative council
which took the place of the Chinese
parliament, recently dissolved by
President Yuan Shi-Kai. The meas-
ure was submitted to the council by
Yuan Shi-Kai himself.
With the presidential proclamation
lifting the embargo on munitions of
war to Mexico a matter of record, Mex-
ican revolutionists came out in the
open at New Orleans, and announced
the appointment of a purchasing agent
with headquarters in New Orleans.
The agent already has opened nego-
tiations with eastern houses for ap-
proximately $100,000 worth of rifles,
cartridges and machine guns, and for
great quantities of munitions.
General Francisco Villa announced
that civilized warfare, partieularly
with reference to the treatment of
prisoners, would be adopted by the
rebels. He procured a book from
United States army officials dealing
with “The ethics of international war-
fare,” which he said he would put in-
to practice in the rebel army and he
added that henceforth no federal of-
ficers would be executed unless they
previously had been captured and on
being released had broken faith not to
fight again.
Gen^-al James Grant Wilson, sol-
dier, editor and author, died at New
York, aged 81 years.
Samuel II. (Buck) Weaver, famous
as a baseball pitcher thirty years ago,
died at Philadelphia, aged 59.
Four men were killed, seven seri-
ously hurt and two are missing as the
result of a fire which destroyed a hotel
at Kelliher, Minn.
Increases in salaries amounting to
about $10,000 a year were voted by
the United Mine Workers of America
in convention at Indianapolis.
Statistics gathered by the employ-
ment bureau of the society for improv-
ing the conditions of the poor, show
that 331,000 in New York City are out
of work.
With the estimates of the interior
department reduced by $2,165,127, the
annual Indian appropriation bill was
reported to the house, carrying $9,-
619,737.
Bottles containing liquor with as
much as 2 per cent alcohol will be la-
beled with a red skull and cross bones
if a law urged by the “dry" forces of
New’ York is passed.
A deficit of slightly more than a
million dollars, after payment of fixed
charges and dividends was disclosed
in the statement of the United States
Steel Corporation for the last quarter
of 1913.
The new system of interstate ex-
press rates on a scale 16 per cent
lower than those formerly prevailing,
became effective Feb. 1, under orders
isued by the interstate commerce com-
mission.
Ten laborers, two white men and
eight negroes, met death by suffoc*
tion when fire broke out in the tunnel
which the Carolina, Clichfleld & Ohio
railroad is constructing on its line
near Elkhorn City, Ky.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany notified the secretary of state
of Pennsylvania that it would re-
fuse to honor railroad passes held
by 137 state officials, employes and
officers of the legislature.
OOMESTIC.
Assets of the Onent railroad will be
sold within sixty days for not less
than $6,000,000 under the term3 of an
order signed in the federal court at
City by Judsr* Poll^-V.
WASHINGTON.
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NG POWDER
The cook is happy, the
other members of the family
are happy——appetites sharpen, things
brighten up generally. *And Calumet
Baking Powder is responsible for it alL
For Calumet never fails. Its
wonderful leavening qualities insure
perfectly shortened, faultlessly raised
bakings.
Cannot be compared with
other baking powders, which promise
without performing.
Even a beginner in cooking
gets delightful results with this never-
failing Calumet Baking Powder. Your
grocer knows. Ask him.
received highest awards
World's Pur* Food Exposition. Chicago, IIL
P*ri* Franco, March, 1912.
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Postal money orders will be payable
at any posfofflce instead of only at
the office on which they are drawn,
under a law passed by the senate. It
already had passed the house.
The senate foreign relation commit-
tee voted to recommend the immediate
ratification of the general arbitration
treaties with Great Britain, Japan and
other nations, twenty-five treaties In
all.
In the future all parcel post and col-
lection and delivery wagons in use in
the postal service throughout the coun-
try will be standardized in accordance
with new specifications by the post-
office department.
Secretary Daniels told the house
naval committee that the government
should develop its own oil supplies
for battleships. He favored a $500,-
000 appropriation for locating and de-
veloping an oil plant.
The body of Shelby Cullom, former
United States senator, was lowered
into its grave in the family lot at
Springfield, 111. It rests between the
grass of his two wives, Hannah and
Julia Fisher, who were sisters.
Only two national banks out of the
7500 in the United States so far have
notified the treasury department that
they do not expect to enter the new j
federal reserve system. They win
forfeit their charters. Nearly 6000 ;
banks have signified their intention to
enter the system.
Winthrop Moore Daniels of Prince- j
ton, N. J., chairman of the New Jersey
Public Utilities Commission, and j
£ienry Clay Hall. of Colorado Springs,
president of the Colorado Bar Asso- !
ciat’on, have been named as members j
of the interstate commerce cemm»
*ien by President WU***.
Improved Typewriter Keys.
Safety speed keys eouipped with
springs and cushions for typewriters
have been devised, which are said to
increase the key area, thus lessening
the chances for striking wrong keys,
and reducing the jar and wear on both
machines and operators.
Nightly coughing and torturing throat-
tickle quickly relieved by Dean’s Mentho-
lated Cough Drops—5c at all Druggists.
Pride goeth before a fall, and it
doesn’t soften the bumps any at that.
Scant.
“There’s one thing about these new
styles."
“Shoot."
“The women have stopped com-
plaining that they haven’t much to
wear.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowelti.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to talce
as candy. Adv.
There is always a sure cure for the
ills—of other people. ____________
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable
-—act surely and
gently on th
liver. Cure
Biliousness,
Head-
ache
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|35 BUSHELS PER ACRt
was th« yield of WHEAT
on many farms in
Western Canada in
yields
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ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
Boa/forc of pzpftT desiring to buy
■VwatlCl 3 anything advertised in its col-
umns should insist upon having what they
csk for.refusing all substitutes or imitations
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Pettits Eve Salve
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per acr*. As high
as 100 bushels were
recorded in some
districts for oats,
SO bushels for barley and
from 10 to 20 bus. for flax.
J. Keys arrived In the
country 5 yea-* ago from
Denmark with very little
means. He homesteaded,
worked hard, is now the
owner of 320 acres of land,
in 1913 had a crop of 200
acres, which will realizehirn
I about 94.000. His wheat
washed 681b*. to the buahel
and averaged over *5 bushels
to tha acr*.
I Thousand* of similar m-
r stances might be related of the ,
J homesteaders in Manitoba*
katebewan and Alberta.
The crop of 1913 was an abtui-
dant one everywhere in Western j
I Canada.
Ask for descriptive literature end
reduced railway rates. Apply to
Superintendent of Immigration,
Ottawa. Canada, or
G. A. COOK,
ns W m STSEET, MUSIS «TV. *0-
Canadian Government Agent
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