Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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THE COLONY COURIER
COLLAPSE OF GREAT SPAN OF BRIDGE AT QUEBEC
(HE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
mcirirwf rat mhw. mi
September M, 1S1S.
■ntente illlu began great at-
tack en 300-mile Trent In France
and Belgium.
Brltleh gained near teae and
French In Champagne.
Russian aquadren bombarded
Berman land pealtiena on Oulf
of Riga.
Brltleh aquadren eheiled Zee-
brugge.
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September 2S, 1212.
Qermana euapended attache
en Dvinafc.
Qermana attacked eaat of Lida
and Vllna.
Alllea made great advances en
west front, taking Souches and
Loot.
f~Tjar ms >L»aea. FH* *• 1 *"*• M * uomt
The averaee precipitation for the month of Auauet, computed from the reoord;
of it etetlona, wee 1.1« Inches, en everap departure from normal of mlnua t.te
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tinutHj through AuguHt, and was among the most msustroua 10 torn and cotton thus
far sxperiencsd In the State. 9
h\\ 5
September 27, ISIS.
Russians repulsed Hlnden-
burg's armies.
British pushed offensive east
of Looa.
French reached Berman sec-
ond line In Champagne.
American ship Vincent sunk
by mine In White sea: four loot
Austria recalled Ambaaaader
Dumba.
SESROES HAVE CHURCH COLLEGE I ifAITOR » KILLED AT SHAWHEE
Agricultural Institution at Ctearvlsw Engine Boos Dead At Altitude of 1200
Dedicated. I Feet.
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M. (S. Roberts, associated
Clearvtew.—R. H.. Wilson, superin-
tendent of public Instruction, delivered
the address dedicating to school pur-
poses the butting here composing the
Creek-Semlnole Agricultural College
to negroea, which began Monday Its
ninth scholastic year. The live bulld-
tnga have been completed at a coat
of $26,000. J. C. Leftwlch Is superin-
tendent of the college.
Nine years ago Leftwlch founded-
the school at Boley, Okla. Three
veers ago all of the buildings escept
... buro.d, ... b«.» Md«y-
Itlng donations for new school build- jn| contracts. Their flights at the
Inga. Clearvtew was selected as the I oounty fair here were for the purpose
r bridge across the St. Lawrence nt Quebec showing the M B**n
. scene at the moment of collapse, showing the mass of steel plunging Into the river. A MW
and the financial loss was very large.
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September 28, 1212.
British In Lees reglen reached
Berman third line. /
Turks defeated by Brltleh at
Kut-el-Amara en the Tigris.
Terms of Anglo-Freneh lean
of $500,000,000 In United Btatee
settled.
Llnslngen recaptured Lutek
and reerooeed the Btyr.
Berman drive on Lutek re-
sumed.
Austrians In Qalioia were driv-
en back.
Great Britain warned Bulga-
ria against aggression.
AFTER FATAL RIOTS IN HANKOW, CHINA
September 2$, 1210.
Anglo-French troops landed at
Salonlki, Greece, for service In
Serbia.
Auetro-Qermane advanced en
Serbia in feres.
French fought Berman second
line at Butte de Tahure and Na-
va rln farm.
Austrian attacks In Tdmlne
tone repulsed.
Italian attacks near Doljc
failed.
Turk! on Tigris retreated
toward Bagdad.
the Douglass school In Oklahoma City. Klngling.—A bale of cotton sold here
The enrollment for the fall term will I by H. 8. Price to Q. C. Harris weighed
be about 300 students, and Abner 740 pounds and for It Price received
hopes to increase the enrollment to a check for $'07.20. It was the larg-
400 by the end of the scholastic year, est bale ever brought to the local mar-
Dormitories have been provided for ket—was so large, In fact that the
h.ith boys and girls. Twelve instruc- scales at the cotton yard, which have
tor- will compose the faculty. a capacity of 700 pounds, could not
_______ weigh It. Cotton last week remained
___ ___________I above the 14 cent mark and one day
BOLD NIBHT RIDERS BO TO PRISON L few bales were bought for 15 cents
-'■— a pound. Cotton was brought from
Three From Cherokee County Draw Alma, from Bonita, Texas, and from
Twn v«ar Terms. intermediate points to Jefferson, Car-
1 WO Twr |. ____r Aire n/Minllau
tsfesar saw
September 30, 1212.
Rueelane drove back Germane
in Dvlnek region.
Von Maekeneen maeeed 250,000
men en Serbian frontier.
French pierced German second
line In Champagne.
RALPH ALBERT RLAKIIABK
CAPITAL LANDMARK HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Tahlequah.—Three members of the
'•Working Class Union" here were con-
victed In district court of charges
-whipping a farmer with a wet rope.
The men were sentenced to two yearelonger
In the state penitentiary. The men will co
-whipped the farmer at night because der to
he divulged the secrets of the order, crease
Citizen-) made up a fund for the u®B8 °
prosecution of the masked men, who future,
-were later identliled by Phllpotts as been c
liis assailants. They are Albert Pitts, nclals
Philip Ilulpaln and O. P. Johnston, lng th
Prominent socialists came to the aid ore ex
of the accused and their defense was a* th
conducted by Pat Nagle of Kingfisher, will b
Henry Vance, county attorney, was as- Woi
alsted In the prosecution by J. I. Cour- road I
»u;y. The trials lasted two days and road t
their progress was followed eagerly the o
by citizens throughout the county. been
Frisco to Erect Depot at Tulsa.
Tulsa.—The Frisco Railroad Com-
Octobsr 1, 1215.
Russians ehscksd Qsrman of-
fsnsivs on whole front from Rigs
to Plnsk.
Allies protested Qsrman offl.
ears' presence at Sofia.
Official reports that more than
50 Berman submarines had been
sunk by new British device.
CONDENSATIONS
munlcntion with the outer world, a
radio station having been opened by
the French government on the Island
of Tahiti last winter. Communication
with the United States will be via
Samoa and New Zealand and thence
by cuble to Sun Francisco. It is ex-
pected that the cost Of messages to
the United States will exceed ono dol-
Proposed Trail Worked.
•Twenty local merchants
Carnegie.—Twenty local merchants
tlosed their places of business and
worked the proposed Ozark Trail la
the vicinity of Carnegie. Several local
citizens have offered to give $500 each
to be spent on road improvements If
the Ozark Trail Is routed through Car-
negie. Representatives from Gotebo,
Mountain View, Carnegie, Fort Cobb
and Washita met here and agreed on
a concerted plan to secure the trail
through this section of the country.
Washington's historic spots was cmlangiTeil a few days ugo when
a building inspector discovered that Kleth Sutherland, an old p
was conducting n restaurant with only a push-cart license,
reported to headquarters und a health department Inspector be
The lutter reported to headquurters thut the restaurant was
trouble begun. Sutherland hud built the shuck piecemeal over i
than ten yenrs, und his stund hud become popular with rail
many other laborers who enjoyed not only the food, but the q
the wall und slgnhourds as well. Sutherland Interested n gi
enttul friends In the effort to suve his shuck, the fighting hai
the district commissioner^
of business and professional men went The tnutnra. or tuutern, Is an almost
u» m.d .»d d...«d . d„-. .or. | Tt;
i tain rocky Islets In the bay of Plenty,
Qua Jones Breaks Jail. northern New Zeuland. It Is of great
Wewoka.—Oun Jones, charged with scientific Interest for the reason thut
the murder of Sadie Jones, hie niece, it Is the only surviving representative
escaped from the county Jail here 0f the order of prosnnrla, or primitive
where he was held awaiting trial reptiles, und Is therefore it sort of “llv-
i;i the district court September 25. tng fossil.”. It wus formerly hunted
The body of Sadie Jones was found for food, but Is now protected by law
several months ago In a creek near in New Zealand.
Maud, Okla ., and an examination Governor do Grueff of the colony of
showed that a bullet had been fired the old Dutch republic at St. Kustu-
Into her head. At the coroner’s in- tlus, W. I., was the first official of a
quest It developed that Gus Jones foreign nation to snlute the American
had endeavored to Induce a physician ffng. This event occurred on Novem-
to perform a criminal operation on • ber 10. 1T70, when a Yankee ship en-
young woman whose name he did not tered the hnrbor of^St. Kustutlus.
disclose. In the British army u buttullon of
__-■ 1,016 men requires for Its dully ra-
AktaiuMi Militiaman Drewnad tlons 085 two-pound loaves. 127 pounds
Oklahoma Militiaman Drewnsd. of hj|eon more thnn 81 guilds 0f salt
Bgn Benito, Texas.—Allen D. Cole, nt)(( npnr|y m pounds of pepper, to
the Indian whose body was found In mont,on oniy „ few of the Items.
the Resaca river, was drowned accl- mH |eMen the humming of telepbone
dentally. There had been no robbery w|rcB fastened to buildings a new
An autopsy disclosed no wounds of fjppmnn system Incloses them In ce-
Ralph' Albert Blakelock, the Ha
landscape artist, who for IT yeafi
been confined In an insane aspl
Many prominent people believe I
Blakelock la now entirely. ■
Through the persistent efforts of 1
Oil Strike Causee Suicide.
Knowledge of the fact that
Gabber.
oil had been struck within three miles
of hts farm caused Bryant Beard to
become mentally unbalanced and ho
Committed suicide by shooting himself
Beard
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS OF MEMPHIS WRECK
■-*« - h •>
Van Rensselaer Adams and othan
has been granted a at* months* !
low of freedom In which to pMVS.
sanity. Blakelock says that ha 1
paint his way back to fNlO
despite his seventy years.
In the head with a shot gun.
Is 45 years old and Is survived by tlie
widow and saven children. Beard’s
farm had been declared by geologists
to be on the structure In which oil tn
the Hoy test was found and Beard
had executed a lease on his farm to be
drilled for oil. Belter that he was
about to become suddenly wealthly
unbalanced hts mind.
Phew I A Class Shave.
The brother of a former proocauti
attorney of Marlon county reaan
visited the state prison at Mlchlfl
City. After arriving at the penlMM
ury, he asked tho wardsn where
should go to get shaved, and ha *•B
vited Into the prison barber ahafe,
Ha stepped ifito one af tha ehi
and white tho barber Inmate w«B dM
lng a keen-edged reset MMM/1
throat the barber whispered 2» MB$
"Don't you know may TsBt htsl
sent me up hers."
After he had stepped #Bt af I
chair, nicely shaved, tha vial tat i
much more comfortaMik~lndtUMQ$
News.
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Tulsa Morality.
Tulsa.—Operators of soft drink
places and the Tulsa police have en-
tered Into a war over recent selsures
by the police of beverages referred to
as "2 per cent." The proprietors of
the stands obtained a writ of replevin
to recover Home of the beverage that
had been seized, but the police have
refused to return the beverage until
It lias been analyzed. Open threats
have been made by the proprietors
thnt they will protect their Interests
with physlca1 means In case the tew
not give them recourse.
(his on deposit. He had touched lit-
tle, If any, of this. On the night of
his disappearance he hed about $20,
and $4.50 was left when he was found.
Ha was returning from Mexlqults
whan ha dlsappearad.
British Columbia leads all other
provinces In the Dominion of Canada
In tha value of Its fisheries produets,
tha aggregate for 1215 being approxi-
mately $18,000,000.
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