Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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COLONY CO UN IK*
J. M. SEGEH, trap.
H. H. SEGER. Editor
COLONY - - OKLAHOMA
State News Notes
Hogs are fattening on a fresh crop
of alfalfa In western Oklahoma fol-
lowing the recent rajna.
The Association of the Blue and
• iray will hold their annual reunion
at Bridgeport, August 29 and Septem-
ber 1.
TEDDY OPPOSES
TAFTS POLICY
HAS STRONG ARTICLE ON SUB-
JECT OF CONTROLLER BAY
Tom Corlettl, a Hnilcyvtlle Italian,
recently squared a debt of $200 he
owed a countryman, Vincent Morettl,
by shooting him dead.
The waterworks bond issue for nen-
nington carried by a majority of eight
to one in a heavy vote. Four hundred
thousand feet of concrete sidewalks
will be built. Twenty thousand dol-
lars was voted for waterworks.
Baldy White, alias Wallace Owen,
has appealed from the decision of the
Pontotoc county court that he was a
vagrant, on account of being a ‘ tin
horn gambler.” This is said to be the
llrst appeal on record in a case of this
kind.
The peach crop around Bristow Is
heavy, and the growers are receiving
from $1.50 to $2 per bushel for thorn.
There is considerable local canning
and the demand for Jars and canB has
caused numerous orders for shipment
by express.
- Ed m. Orr. formerly traveling pass-
enger agent for the Hock Island at
Atlanta, has been transferred to Okla-
homa City as soliciting freight agent
Before he entered railroading as a
business Orr was one of the prominent
players of the Southern base ball
league.
The sewers of Chlckasha were flood-
ed with beer when Sheriff Lewis and
his deputies broke 160 barrels of the
liquid. The officers emptied the con-
tents of the barrels in the sewers.
The beer waB confiscated by the
sheriff's force in raids made on Joints
during the last six months.
LORD KITOHEHER ROES TO EGYPT
Will O'Neale of the Smith Premier
Typewriter compuny, Oklahoma City,
was bitten several days ago by a
spider. O'Neale’s leg was badly swol-
len, and excrucltatlng pains develop-
ed all over his body. A doctor said
the bite was from a small black spider.
The personnel of the new Board of
Agriculture Is: First Supreme Court
district: A. C. Cobb and C.eorge R.
Hines. Second district: U. F. Wilson
and J. W. L. Corey. Third district:
H. L. Halmes and Rwors White. Fourth
district: J. C. Elliott and C. A. Ratffin'.
Fifth district: O. A. Brewer and Dan
DlehL
The state university preparatory
school at Tonkawa has secured head-
quarters for an exhibit of class work
at the Oklahoma state fair. The state s
big school lias arranged to give dem-
onstrations of class work of the com
mercial department. A class In touch
typewriting will be at the University
Preparatory School's booth, where the
pupils may see the Inside work of this
free commercial department.
The articles of Incorporation of the
Oklahoma City Terminal Railway com-
pany organised In Oklahoma City by
the subscribers to the Missouri, Okla-
homa and Oulf railroad terminal
bonus, wore hied with the secretary
of state and a charter issued to the
company. The capital stock of the
company is $76,000 «nd the Incorpora-
tors are the members of the board
of directors elected at the organisa-
tion meeting.
! While engaged in a dlifculty with
Earl darner over a horse swap, Robert
Sherlock, n traveling horse trader, was
ahot and killed by O. W. Oarner, father
of Bari, near Sawyer. Sherlock wna
ahot In the thigh with n shotgun, sev-
erlng an artery, and he bled to donth
in a tew mlnutea. Oarner and his sou
were both arrested.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
President’s Alaskan Policy Attacked
by Ex-President in a Vigorous
Article Thereon In the
Outlook
New York —In a lengthy article In
the current number of the Outlook, for-
mer President Theodore Roosevelt
places himself on record as emphatic-
ally criticising President Taft’s policy
with regard to the Controller Bay Alas-
kan affair.
The significance of his utterances is
the more striking because of the pres-
ident’s recent Bpeech in which he per-
sonally assumed full responsibility for
the Aanner in which the land was
opened for entry.
Roosevelt also makes rather remark-
able suggestions for future control of
Alaskan lands, among them that the
federal government should own and
operate public utilities as iB done in
the Panama canal zone.
After taking issue with a newspaper
statement that during the Roosevelt
administration the same course had
been pursued as had been pursued
later in connection tflth Controller
Bay, Mr. Roosevelt discusses some?of
the general phases of the Alaskan de-
velopment and adds:
“The government must itself con-
trol the development of Alaska and
adopt as the guiding principle the idea
of shaping that development in the
interest primarily of the people as a
whole, the syndicate or other develop-
ing agencies thus receiving beneilt
only as an incident to conferring it.
•‘I do not think the task is very
difficult if only we, the people, person-
ally and through our representatives,
approach it with this purpose cleurly
in mind, and If we insist that the
agents of government act with an un-
derstanding of the needs of the people
and a resolute purpose to see those
needs accomplished, even though
be necessary to override the represen-
tatives of the great interests who wish
to prevent Alaskan development un-
less It is shaped primarily to benefit
those interests.”
pT WILL VETO
STATEHOOD DILL
MESSAGE PRACTICALLY PREPAR-
ED FOR SENDING IN
DON’T LIKE RECALL CLAUSE
Said to Have No Objection to Now
Mexico Bill, But the Veto of tho
Arizona Bill Meane tha Veto
of the New Mexico Bill
Many Englishmen bave been hoping that Lx>rd Kitchener of Khartoum
would be given a place where his military genius could aid In tbd reorganisa-
tion of the army. Instead of this be haa been sent to Egypt to succeed Sir
Elden Gorst as British agent or proconsul. Lord Kitchener la well acquaint-
ed with tbe people and government of Egypt, and la a skilled diplomat, so be
will acquit hlmaelf well in the land of the Pharaohs.
Beverly, Mass.—With his veto mes-
sage on the Flood resolution providing
for the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico into the union practically com-
pleted, President Taft brought hit
week-end visit here to a close Sunday
night. The president departed from
Beverly for Boston and took the mes-
sage with him. He took a train at
Boston at 8 p. m. for Washington and
is scheduled to reach the capital Mon-
day morning.
The message may !ve sent to con-
gress during the day. Only a desire
to revise it slightly is likely to post-
pone its presentation to congress un-
til Tuesday.
The president’s veto is understood
to be based largely upon the provision
for the recall of the judicihry in the
Arizona constitution. To the New
Mexico constitution the president is
understood to have no particular ob-
jection, but the Flood resolution so
couples the two territories that a veto
must affect them both.
It Is understood that the message is
long. It is expected the president’s po-
sition in regard to recall of judges will
be presented in plain terms.
EXPERT8 TO LEARN
WHO GETS
MONEY
JOHN W. GATES, FINANCIER
DIES IN PARIS, FRANCE
EDITOR8 AND FARMERS
FAVOR FREE LIST BILL
Blame for the High Cost of Living to
be Definitely Fixed—Farm to
Consumer
Famous American Fails In Fight With
Death and Passes Peacefully
Away; Wife at Side
General Gordon Dlea at Memphis
MemphlB, Tenn.—General George
W. Gordon, commander in chief
the United Confederate Veterans, and
member of congress, died at his
home here. His illness dated from
bis last political campaign when
was reelected to the national hoase
of representatives, tho last general
of tho confederacy to serve in that
body. He was born in Giles county,
Tenn., October 6, 1830. He saw much
service in the Civil war. In 1886 he
was connected with the federal gov-
ernment of the interior, and he was
elected a member of the Sixtieth con-
gress from the Tenth Tennessee dis-
trict and re-elected to the slxty^-first
and sixty-second congresses.
Paris, France.—John W. Gates, the
American financier, died at 6:10 Wed-
nesday morning in the arms of his
wife and his Bon, Charles G. Gates.
The end wnB peaceful and it seemed
as though he was falling asleep. The
usual restoratives failed in the last
crisis.
Others present at the bedside be-
sides the members of the family were
Doctors Gros and Reeves.
Model Dairy st Fair
Oklahoma City—A model dairy, at
Which only the simplest and cheapest
materials will be used, will probably
be Installed at the state fair by the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
under the direction of Prof. H. C. Potts
the milk department. Dr. A. A.
Doughty, acting milk inspector, wrote
President J. H. Connell of the Still-
wutcr college Inst week received u
favorable reply from the college au-
thorities.
Telegrams Pour Into Chicago Tribune
Indicating Desire to Have the
President Sign Measure
Chicago.—Six hundred editors, rep
resenting twenty-one states bave tele-
graphed to the Tribune their opinions
on perplexing tariff problems at pres-
ent confronting the president. These
answers have been tabulated and a
complete table, showing all replies
from the twenty-one north central and
western states has been compiled.
They indicate that a majority of the
editors want the president to sign
the wool, cotton and farmers’ free list
bills.
That a majority of the republican
editors want him to veto them and
prevent further "tariff tinkering” until
tbe tariff commission reports.
That the majority in favor of the
signature of the bills is made of two-
tifths republicans, two-tifths demo-
crats, and one-llfth independents.
Farmers Favor it
The fact Is also brought out that
the strongest republican demand for
the passuge of the bills comes from
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska,
Kansas, and Wisconsin, the states
most affected by Canadian reciprocity.
rxOCTORS know
U that Oxidine is a.
most dependable sys-
tem-cleansing tonic.
Most usefuHn stirring
up lazy livers, sluggish
bowels and kidneys,
weak stomachs. Its ef-
fects are quick, safe,
sure and permanent.
OXIDINE
—a bottle proves.
The specific (of Malaria. ChiHa
And Fever and all dieeatea
due to disorders of liver,
stomach, howela
and kidneys.
BOe. At Your Druggist*
TBS 1II»» °°-*
Wsco, Teas,.
ALIENS
U LCERINL SALVL
Washington.—A country wide inves-
tlgatlon of the wholesale and retail
prices of all foods, which will require
nine months to complete and which
will represent the most thorough in-
quiry of its kind yet attempted has
been begun by the bureau of commerce
and labor. This investigation will cov-
er the years 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911.
By comparison with records of the de-
partment of agriculture for the same
period it will be possible to know Ju^t
what prices were paid for every com-
modity now used at the time it left
the producer until served at the table
of the consumer.
The present investigation is the third
of its kind attempted by the bureau
of commerce and labor. Four expert*
under the direction of F. V. Croxtou
are now touring the country in search
of data. Over all of the experts is A.
W. W. Hanger, chief statistician, to
whom the records would first be sub-
mitted before they are published.
W. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 33-1911.
HE HAD THEM IN A CORNER
Clergyman’s Rebuke to Thoughtless
Youths at Once Neat and
Disconcerting. t
it
A southbound Missouri, Knneas A
Texas freight train was wrecked near
Tulsa, twelve loaded cars turning over
and two loaded carB derailed. Trafflo
was delayed about seven hours. The
wreck wan reported lo have been caus-
ed by the rails being twisted out of
shape, caused by tho intones host.
Names of members of gun clubs and
bunting organizations In the state are
asked to he supplied the state gtuno
warden's office In a letter sent out by
the warden’s office to county clerks
over tho stale. Pictures or game of any
chnrnctor obtainable and picturesque
places where game Is found, are also
requested by the office. All this data
will bo used In compiling the next
annual report of tho game wardon'a
office
Fsirlnnd News concedes that Oltowa
has tho best crops of uny county In the
state tills year.
Hattie Davis, religious fnnntle, the
divorced wife of George Davis, was
adjudged insane by the county insan-
ity hoard at Tulsa and ordered com-
mitted lo tho Insane asylum at Nor-
man, OUla. Continually she talks of
sacred things and believes that the
power of Hie great Almighty can assist
persona in accomplishing muny fool
tilings
Eloper, Aged 80, is Desd
New Haven, Conn.—Burr 8. Peck,
wealthy retired manufacturer, who
came luto prominence recently by his
elopement with Miss Mue Brine who
was sixty years younger, Ih dead at
his home here after a long illness. He
a 80 years old. Ills entire estate,
valuod at $100,000 wilt go to the young
widow. She was u waitress.
Encampment to Chandler
Oklahoma City—Because of the fact
that the holding of the encampment
here would necessitate the abandon-
ment of rifle practice for this year,
and might interfere with tho obtain-
ing of the allowance from the federal
government for that purpose, the slate
military department lias given tip the
Idea of holding the aiinunl encamp-
ment of tho Oklahoma national guard
In Oklahoma Oily during the state
fulr. A general order whs issued by
Adjutant General Frank M. Canton,
announcing that the encampment will
bo held at tho state camp grounds
st Chandler from September 4 to 12
Inclusive.
Bread and "Water Diet Effective
Arspnho, Okln.—Work was suspend-
ed on (lie new court house at Arapaho
when sixteen bootleggers in the Custer
county lull struck, claiming they were
not fed well enough. The Jailer put
all wlio would not work on bread and
water and Saturday morning llvo of
the sixteen went lo work again. But
tbe leader o. the Insurrection, John
Htendle, who carried the Stars am),
Hi rlpes near Colonel Roosevelt In
Rough Rider dsya. still refusee to
work.
JOHN W. GATES.
Wealthy Stock Market Speculator.
His Iron constitution and coura-
geous resistance, backed by every re-
source of medical science, failed to
save Mr. Gates.
He had battled for weeks heroically
with a disease of the kidneys and
when it wna believed that he was al-
most sure to recover, contracted pneu-
monia.
The death of John W. Gates in' Paris
Tuesday removes In Mh prime one of
the boldest nnd most successful Amer-
ican financiers, and a picturesque tlg-
ure In the field of sports.
Mr. Gates began nls business career
na proprietor of a hardware store at
Turner Junction, 111., near the farm
where ho wrh bom In 1865.
Senator Frys Dead
Lewiston, Me.—The state of Maine
lost Us senior United States senator
nnd an almost lifelong faithful ser-
vant. when William Pierce Frye died
Tuesday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Helen White, here. At his bed-
side were Mrs. White and his other
daughter, Mrs. Alice Itrlggs, who also
resides In Lewiston. Although ho had
been ill for a long tlmo, death came
suddenly.
Admiral Schroeder Retires
Washington.—An order was issued
by the navy department placing Rear
Admiral Seaton Schroeder on the re-
tired list August 17. Admiral Schroe-
der was recently In command of the
Atlantic fleet.
Rates Are Suspended
Washington.—Proposed advances in
the class of freight by railways oper-
ating between the Mississippi and Mis-
souri rivers to have become effective
Oct. 28, have been suspended by the
Interstate commerce commission uutll
December 30. ”■
FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
IN FIERCE STORM IN JAPAN
A well-known clergyman was one
day In a barber’s shop, when four or
five young men walked in whom he
knew by their voices, but who did not
recognize the man In the chair, with
lather all over his face. They pro-
ceeded to spend the time by telling
stories and using expressions which,
to say the least, were rather strong.
When the barber pulled away the
towel the clergyman, cleanly shaved,
stood before them. Bo nonplussed
were they that no one tried to take
the vacant chnir, and the barber
called several times—“Next gentle-
man! Next gentleman!”
The clergyman smiled somewhat
grimly as he said: ,
"It Isn’t a bit of use, John. There's
not a man here who has the effront- ^
ery to answer to that name.” 1
Typhoon and Tidal Wave Sweep Cities
and Wreck Boats—Life Toll
Very High Heavy
Sexton Suicides
Logan, Utah.—The body of Andres
Anderson, aged 63, was found hang-
ing in the mormon church Where he
had been sexton for twenty years.
Before going to the church Anderson
read hiB favorite hymn, a renuncia-
tion of earthly glory and wealth.
Victoria, B. C.—More than five hun-
dred lives were lost and great devas-
tation ashore and afloat resulted from
a typhoon and tidal wave which swept
over Japan, according to advices
brought by the Empress of Japan. The
fishing fleet from Shidzouka suffered
severely. More than 200 fishermen
were drowned.
At Tokjo a tidal wave swept away
many houses, including a large tea
house with thirty-three people. The
Buzuki lcensed quarters on Bhima-
gawa bay were demolished, Bcores of
persons being drowned, crushed to
death or mortally Injured. The noted
Bherigawa Inlaid work factory col
lapsed and fifteen employes were killed
those who escaped swimming to roofs
of neighboring houses after crawling
from the debris. A torpedo boat was
■wept inshore at Toklo and several
steamers foundered, while big liners
dragged anchors.
River at Flood Stage
Ft. Smith, Ark.—For tho llrst tlmo
In nearly two years tho Arkansas
rlvor Is at flood stage. Already the
water Is above twenty-two feet and
Die government officials predict that
it will go a foot hlghei.
Spanish War Vatarana To Moot
Oklahoma City.—The headquarters
of the Spanish War veterans In the
Lee-Hucklns hotel building Is the
scene of much activity. While the
probable number of veterans who will
attend the annual encampment soon
to be held here Is not known, the an-
nouncements from points lu the state
Hint their camps will attend In a body
and the Increased Interest being
shown outside the state lead locul
workers to believe that the attend
ance will be unusually large.
General headquarters for the do1
partment will be at 804 Security build
tug, with Dr. T. A. Myers, Junior vice
commander, In charge. Headquarters
for the Indies' auxiliary will be under
Miss Alice Robertson of Muskogee at
the Leo-Muck Ins.
Cramps Get Contract
Washington.—The Crump Shipbuild-
ing company of Philadelphia was the
lowest bidder for four 29-knot torpedo
boat destroyers of 1,000 tons each at
$700,000 each, Fight boats In all are
to bo built.
Serenity.
"The true religious man, amid alt
the Ills of time, keeps a serene fore-
head and entertains a peaceful heart.
This, going out and coming lu amid
all. the trials of tho city, the agony
of the plague, the horrors of the
thirsty tyrants, the fierce democracy
abroad, the fiercer 111 at home—the
saint, the Buge of Athena, was still
the same. Such a one can endure
hardness; can stand alone and be
content; a rock amid the waves—
lonely, but not moved. Around him
the few or many may scream, calum-
niate, blaspheme. What Is all to him
but the cawing of the seabird aboul
that solitary, deep-rooted stone?"—
Theodore Parker.
J
Taft Signs Bill
Washington -President Taft signed
the re-apportionment bill under which
the house of representatives Increased
from 391 to 438 members with two
more if Arltons aud Nsw Mexico arc
adBflttsd.
Rebel General* Jailed
Mexico City.—Generals Navarro,
Mlndu and VOlsnouva snd several oth-
er former revolutionary chiefs were
arrested and Jailed here on orders
from Die president. They sru charged
with Inelllng rebellion, They signed
a protest against the dismissal of Hint-
tto Gomes as minister of Ilia Interior,
Boy Killed By Train
Elgin, Texas.—-Felix Gonzales, a 13-
year-old Mexican commuted suicide by
throwing himself before a Houston *
Texas Central freight train.
Negro Burned at Stake
Durant, Okla—After putting up a
running tight for alinpst an hour tho
unidentified negro who assaulted and
shot Mrs. Reddem Campbell at her
home five, miles from here Saturday af-
ternoon, whs killed by a posse of dep-
uty sheriffs at 1 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing, his body taken to the home of his
victim by a mob of more than 1,000 en-
rngod citizens for IdenDllcatlon and
then burned in sight of the house
where his fiendish crime was commit-
ted. Mrs. Campbell, victim of the out-
rage, wus taken to a hospital at Sher-
man, Tex.. Sunday morning at 10
o’clock and1 Is in a serious condition.
Hho wus shot through the body Just
above the right hip and the wound, to-
gether with tiie shock Incident lo Die
terrible ordeal through which she
passed, probably will prove fatal.
Forest Fire Raging
Hun Diego, Cal.—A forest lire which
gullied rapid headway broke out In
Lost Valley In the Han Jacinto moun-
tains shout 30 miles northeast of this
city, Men have gone from Warners,
in this county, to light tho (lames.
Wloksrsham to Quit
Washington.—According to n report
coming from reliable sources Attorney
Goners I Wlokersliam will retire soou
from the cabinet nnd resume Die prac-
tise of law.
A Hopeful Fellow.
"WhAt is an optimist?” ,
"A man whose bump of hope Is big-
ger than the rest of his head.”
AT THE PARSONAGE.
Coffee Runs Riot No Longer.
“Wife and 1 had a serious time of it
While we were coffee drinkers. y
"She had gastritis, headaches, belch-
ing and would have periods of sick- «
ness, while I secured a dally headache T
that became chronic.
"We naturally sought relief by drug1*
without avail, for It Is now plntn
enough that no drug will cure the din
eases another drug (coffee) sets up.
particularly, so long as the drug
which cauaes the trouble Is continued
"Filially we thought we would tr>'
leaving off coffee and using Postum. •
noticed that my headaches disappeared
like magic, nnd my old ‘trombly’ nerv-
ousness left. One day wife said, ‘Do
you know niy gastritis has gone?’
"One can hardly realize what Post*
uni has done for us.
'.'Then we begun to talk to others,
wife's father and mother were both
coffee drinkers nnd sufferers. Thelrt
headaches left entirely a short lime
after they chnnged from coffeo to
Postum.
"I began to enquire among my par
tshlouers and found to my astonlHh-
ment that numbers of them uso Post*
uiu In plane of coffee. Many of the
ministers who have visited our par-
sonage have become enthusiastic cham-
pions of Postutd." Name given bps
Postum Go., IlntOn Greek, Mich.
Rend tho lllile hook, “Tho llood to
Wellvllln," In pkgs. "Thsrh's a reason'
Mvrr reiiil (he shove lellerf A »<■"
ene it|i|t<-nr« from lime In lime. ■
ore itenultir, Irne, end fell «f
nlerssl.
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