The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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County Democrat
TECUMSBH.
By M. M. HENDERSON.
OKLAHOMA
Tulsa claims to be the healthiest city
In the state.
MOTOR RACER
1$ KILLED
DEATH CLAIMS LEWIS STRANG,
FEARLESS AUTO DRIVER
McAlester will hold a county fall
September 14, lb end 16.
Work has been started on the $32,000
addition to the school building a'
Pawnee.
Okmulgee Is meeting with success
In raising a bonus to secure the M., O.
& G. railroad.
Bert Taber was smothered to death
111 a cave-ln at Rock Creek, near Sa-
pulpa, while working on a dam.
Prof. A. B. Imel, of San Diego, Ca„
has been elected principal of the high
school at Ponca City.
Because he talked insultingly to her,
Mrs. Mabel Swenson, Oklahoma City,
horsewhipped D. W. Warner, a neigh-
bor. Neighbors stood by and applauded
the plucky little woman.
The National Farmers’ Union has
accepted Shawnee’s invitation to hold
Its national annual convention there.
Twenty-five states will be represented.
The date Is not set.
SOUGHT TO AVOID FARMER
Man Who Has Many Times Toyed
With Fate in Time-Killing Con-
tests, Killed When Car Was
Going 4 Miles an Hour
Ths little town of Hardy, In Kay
county, in the Raw reservation, cele-
brated the biggest com crop ever rais-
ed on the reservation by voting bonds
to build a new school house.
Milwaukee, Wis.—Lewis Strang was
killed when his motor car went iuto
a ditch near Blue Kiver, Wis.
By a strange hand of fate, Strang,
famous as a daring driver of racing
automobiles, who hundreds of times
has risked his life in mad dashes
around motor courses, lost his life
while driving along a country road at
Bo more than four miles an hour—
puahed over an embankment by fear
of collision with a farmer’s cart.
Strang was piloting the machine of
the technical committee of the Wis-
consin Automobile association on its
nunuual reliability run from La Cross
to Lancaster, a distance of 128 miles.
Strang’s car was traveling only four
miles an hour when a farmer In a
wagon was seen going in the same di-
rection. Strang turned aside, driving
toward a small embankment. The
ground suddenly gave way and his car
slid down the embankment, turning
turtle and Strang, reluctant to Jump,
went under to his death.
The embankment was only five feet
high.
Farmer boys in (he vicinity of Erick
ire forming contest clubs for the pur-
pose of exhibiting at the state fair
samples of corn they have grown. They
expect to get some of the prize money
ottered.
The board of county commissioners
of Oklahoma county have Instructed
the county attorney to take the need-
ed steps to recover the $10,000 found
to be due from W. C. Hughes, former
clerk of the superior court
The Chlcknsha Chamber of Com-
merce purposes to hold a county cotton
exhibit for the benefit of the boys’
end girls’ cotton club contest, and to
encourage the children of the county
to pursue agricultural lines.
ASK THE AID OF DOCTORS
OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
Health Officials Are More Worried
Than Ever Over the Cholera Sit.
uation at, New Yorld
Work on the foundation for the Cleve-
land glass plant was begun last week.
The work la being pushed as much
as possible so the factory may be In
operation by the early fall. An office
Is also being built on the grounds and
will be completed this week.
While hanging up a rifle which he
had Just been using, Earl Meeks, 13
years old of Belvia, was shot In the
stomach by the accidental discharge of
the gun and died an hour afterwards.
The boy had killed a snake in the yard.
New York—'The health officials not
only of New York, but of the whole
country may be asked to help repel
the threatened invasion of Asiatic
cholera. The discovery of five "cholera
carriers” among the six hundred immi-
grants undergoing bacteriological ex-
amination at ciuarnntlne emphasized
the difficulty of confining the disease
to quarantine hospitals. The case of
these cholera carriers presents a puz-
zle. As yet the health authorities have
not decided how soon it will be safe
to permit them at largo. A careful
bacteriological examination detected
the presence of cholera germs In these
apparently healthy persons.
COUNTY COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS -
OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR FEATURE
No Less Than Thirty Counties Expected to Compete foi
$1,235 Cash Premiums and Cup—World
of Amusements at the Big Ex-
position This Fall.
• •
• 1910 COUNTY EXHIBITS •
• - •
• Blaine, Beckham, Cleveland, •
• Dewey, Canadian, Carter, Cus- •
• ter, Comanche, Caddo, Grady, •
• Greer, Jackson, Johnston, •
• HugheB, Kiowa, LeFlore, Lin- •
• coin, Love, Mayes, Major, Me- •
• Intosh, Pottawatomie, Noble, •
• Tillman and Washita. •
• •
Oklahoma City, July—They’re all
coming back! And many more, too!
County collective exhibits will again
feature the 1911 Oklahoma State Fair,
Oklahoma City, September 26 to Oc-
tober 7. Hardly a day passes ‘.bat Sec-
retary I. E. Mahan does not receive
letters from secretaries of Farmers’
Institutes or secretaries of commercial
organizations, asking about reserva-
tions of space. In 1910 there were
twenty-five counties represented by
ed in the mammoth agricultural build-
ing last year have signified their In-
age plants. Fruits may be preserved
In the natural state. Native grasses,
nuts and other useful products ef the
soil may also be included. Each
sample must be plainly and correctly
labeled with the common name. No
exhibit which does not. as a whole,
creditably represent the products of
the soil in the county from which It is
sent, shan be deemed worthy of any
portion of the money offered for the
County Collective Exhibits.
The Official Score
Every exhibit should be caref'ilF
and tastefully arranged and installed
by the exhibitor or an Authorized
agent, as this feature will be taken
Into account by the Judges. The fok
lowing Is the score card which-., ha*
been adopted for the Judging of County
Exhibits: >
Points
Garden products, embracing veget-
ables, melons, etc............... 1®
Field products.................... 68
Orchard products................. 18
Arrangement and decoration....... 28
Total....................... 108
Captain John H. Gibbons, U S. N., until recently a member of tha gen
eral board of the naval department, has been made superintendent of ths
naval academy at Annapolis
COTTON FUTURES TAKE
AN EXCITING TUMBLE
FIGHT AGAINST CHOLERA
ON AT NEW YORK
New Orleans Market Scene of Sensa-
tional Slump in Prices of
Southern Staple
Appearance of Plague There Has
Caused Much Uneasiness Among
Officials—Death List Six
Walter Johnson and D. C. Morton
of Beggs have prepared to Irrigate a
6-acre tract for summer and fall gar
den, arranging to pump the water from
Flat Rock creek at the rate of 60,000
gallons per day as long as needed.
"Alfalfa” Jones, who has a big alf-
alfa farm in Kiowa county, has placed
In operation a big Irrigation plant. He
will Impound water from Rainy Moun-
tain creek, and will pump water into
the ditches by a centrifugal pump.
Railway Case Appealed
Oklahoma City—The Clinton & Okla-
homa Western railroad has appealed
to the supreme court from an order of
the district court of Custer county,
which denied it a right of way along
certain streets in Clinton. The Orient
road was first given a right of way,
and then the Clinton & Oklahoma
Western proceeded to build along oue
of tho same slreetR. The White Lum-
ber & Coal company, whoso property
faces on the street thus completely
occupied by the two railroads, brought
Injunction proceedings and obtained an
Injunction against the occupation of
the street by the railroad company,
from which it now appeals.
New Orleans, La.—The cotton mar-
ket Tuesday was oue of the most ex-
citing in many months, with heavy
sales and sensational declines in all
futures. Private reports from Liver-
pool that the bull leaders were liquid-
ating stirred up selling orders in all
parts of the cotton world and futures
on the New Orleans exchange opened
at a wide decline only to go still lower
as the trading progressed.
When the trading was over it was
the general opinion on the floor that
the bull campaign In the summer
months had been abandoned, but not
until the leaders materially had light-
ened their load. August, the most ac-
tive old crop month, lost 48 points at
its lower, or nearly %c a pound. A
couple of points more and it would
have been $2.50 a bale under the prev-
ious day’s close. This represented nn
enormous loss on the lines of long
August cotton the bulls are supposed
to own.
1 Judge Frank P. Cease, county Judge
of Swanson county, died last week.
He settled in Guthrie in 1889, since
which time he has had a long legal
career in the state. When Swanson
county was created he was elected
county Judge.
Holdup Man Is Killed
Baxter Springs, Kan.—Perns Wilson
a local merchant, who was shot while
attempting to hold up John Hickens,
a farmer, and his wife while they
were driving home from church, died
from the effects of the wound. Wilson,
who comes of a highly respected Chero
kee county family and who Is married,
was successful in two holdups prior
to the fatal attempt on Hickens.
The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Allison, six miles south of
Anadarko, was drowned by falling iuto
a puddle of water in the door-yard.
An Oklahoma state association of
fingers will be formed at a conven-
tion of singers from Oklahoma, Texas,
and Arkansas, to be held at Moun
tatn Park on July 28, 29, and 30. E
H. Bhelton, of Frederick. Is chairman
In charge of arrangements.
City officials of Guthrie and of ths
Banta Fe railroad are considering ths
creation Jointly of a big lake east ot
the city in order to make certain a
never-falling water supply. It is pro
posed to erect a dam at a cost ol
$98,000 which would make a reservoil
of a billion gallons capacity.
The most destructive cyclone Alfalfa
county has known in six years passed
over Carmen last week doing heavy
damage to the Methodist church there,
tearing down utterly the schoolhouae
annex, and destroying the residence ol
L. E. Searles. The total damage tc
houses here will approximate $2,000
No lives were lost.
Railroads Will Appeal
Oklahoma City—Notice of appeal to
the supreme court was served on the
state corporation commission Tuesday
by all the railroads of the state from
the proposed freight schedule on grain
and grain products and coal. The
grain rate would have gone into effect
on July 24 and the coal rate on July 31.
The appeal will act as a stay to the en-
forcement of the orders until the court
has disposed of the matter.
American Girl a Climber
Lima, Peru.—Miss Annie S. Peck, the
American mountain climber, accompa-
nied by Carl Volkmar and five Peru-
vians, ascended two peaks of tho vol-
cano Coropuna on July 16. The Coro-
punua is one of a number of giaut vol-
canoes In southern Peru, the elevations
of which are variously given at from
18,600 to 20,000 feet
Somnambulist Killed
Wilmington, Del.—While walking In
his sleep, William Bolden, aged 50,
stepped from a third story window
and crashed through a skylight to the
ground. He was Instantly killed.
New York—The fight to bar cholera
from the port of New York as the
result of fears of invasion of the epi-
demic through passengers from Euro-
pean countries, continues with a fed-
eral expert helping the local health de-
partment.
Another death from cholera occurred
at Swlnbum Island hospital, making
the total six. Two hundred and forty-
eight persons who arrived two weeks
ago on the steamer Moltke are still
under observation and will undergo
bacteriological examinations and a
more rigid quarantine will be enforced
at Swlnbum Island, where fifteen cases
of the disease are confined with four
others under suspicion.
These cases with the six deaths
since the Moltke brought the germ
here from Naples show the reality of
the danger the city faces from the
epidemic now raging in Southern Eu-
rope.
While nothing even approaching a
panic exists here now, the situation is
receiving greater attention and Dr.
Alvah Doty, health officer of the port,
has felt called on to issue a reassur-
ing statement Dr. Doty says that the
cholera germ can be received In one
way one, through the mouth, and that
their is no danger In ordinary con-
tact with persons who have the dis-
ease.
However, Charles Dushkins, counsel
for complainants, at the investigation
of Dr. Doty’s official conduct now in
progress, declares his belief that chol-
era patients now In hospitals caught
the disease not on the steamer but
at the immigration station, where all
passengers were detained after land-
ing.
GROUP OF 1910 COUNTY EXHIBIT WINNERS.
On the left Is the Lincoln county exhibit which won first premium; on
. /> i U on/4 Kof tom n lot 11 m ■keia,s
un tne ien is me i-mcoin coumy caihuu
the right, Grady county, which was second, and the bottom picture shows
Cleveland county’s display, winner of the third premium.
Want Hoke In Congress
Atlanta Ga.—In a resolution In the
house of representatives Governor
Hoke Smith will be called upon to re-
sign as governor and proceed to Wash-
ington to assume the duties of United
States senator and give Georgia her
full representation. The resolution has
been prepared by Representatives
Ragsdale and Scott.
Santa Fe Retracked
Oklahoma City—Only about ten or
twelve miles of the main line of the
Santa Fe remain to be re-tracked be-
tween Arkansas City, Kan., and Pur-
eell, Okla., and when that small bit
of work Is completed, the Santa Fe
main line through Oklahoma w'll be
-tqulpped with new »0-pound ra$ls.
Guthrie had a mad dog scare last
week, and an order was issued that
all dogs be kept confined for a period
of nine days.
Teheran in Danger
Teheran.—News that the former
shah, Mohammed Alt Mirza, Is hurryy-
lng to the capital has caused great con-
sternation. The government has de-
clared martial law and the Bakbita
chiefs have offered 5,000 men to de-
fend Teheran but they caunot arrive
In time.
The 4-year-old son of O. L. Goodell
*t Miami, was struck on the head by a
12-pound shot, and there are no hopes
for his recovery. The little fellow with
bis father was watching the practic*
of members of the A. & M. college
track and field team. The big 12-pound
shot had been thrown and It was be
ing returned when ths boy rsn In
(rout ot It
Four Trainmen Killed
Pittsburg, Pa.—Four trainmen were
killed and two injured when a fast
freight train on the Pittsburg and
Western division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad was derailed at Bryant
station near here.
Rubber Mills Close
Woonsocket, R. I.-—The Alice and
Millville mills of the Woonsocket Rub
her company closed for a month be-
cause of lack of orders. In the Alice
mills 1,500 hands are affected and In
the Millville plant 800.
Direct Election and Publicity Bills
Washington.—That compromises
will be reached by which the house
will be able to agree to both the di-
rect election of senators and the cam-
paign publicity bills, both of which
tho senate amended, was the opinion
expressed by Representative Rucker
of Missouri, In charge of the bills In
the house. He said he thought the
house would agree to the senate
amendments to the campaign publicity
bill, with “some minor changes.”
Payment Ordered
Santiago, Chill—In accordance with
King George’s award, the Chilean gov-
ernment has ordered the payment of
187,000 pounds sterling ($935,000) to
the representative of the Alsop claim-
ants.
American Autoist Killed
Parts—While traveling 70 miles an
hour in his car at the Sartlie automo-
bile course E. N. Nau'd, the only Amer-
ican entrant In the races to begin in
a feW days, was killed
Final Movement On
San Antonio, Texas—The final move-
ment of troops under the recent order
maneuvers division is under way.
Bankruptcy Petitions
Guthrie, Okla.—Involuntary petitions
in bankruptcy wer filed in the federal
court here against G. M. Armstrong
of Frederick, and H. W. Kay, doing
business as the Kay Mercantile com-
pany of Clinton.
tention of having a show at the big
fair this fall. New counties are asking
about space and it is reasonably cer-
tain that the splendid aggregate will
make memorable the county exhibit
department of the 1911 Oklahoma State
Fair.
Increased Interest in the county ex-
hibits is said to be due to the fact that
there is a strong rivalry to see which
section can make the best showing
under adverse circumstances. It is
pointed out that most any county can
send a magnificent display in a bum-
per year, but there is some question
as to which county can make the most
creditable exhibit when the cup of
plenty is not well filled. Every one
knows that the drought left its mark
despite the fact that copious rains
have saved the situation. For this rea-
son, first, second and third premiums,
as well as all the rest of the prizes,
may go to what might be termed un-
expected counties this year.
Other exhibitors in the agricul-
tural department are unusually nu-
merous and this part of the big exposi-
tion will set forth better than ever
before a fairly complete idea of the
soil and crop possibilities of the great
New State. In discussing the outlook
Superintendent William Alson Bald
that It was gratifying to him and those
working with him in the management
of one of the biggest departments of
the State Fair to note the greatly
Increased Interest.
County Exhibit Premiums
With a view of having the greatest
number of county collective exhibits
possible this year, the Oklahoma State
Fair association has offered $1,235.00
In cash premiums. Exhibits are limit-
ed to one from each county in Okla-
homa and there will be no charge for
space. The conditions provide that the
display and decorations from each
county shall be confined to products
actually grown therein, but the per-
son representing the county Is not re-
quired to be the producer. Awards
and prizes shall be based on the qual-
ity and variety of products in the sev-
eral exhibitc, and shall be made on
fifteen of the best and largest displays
form the counties competing. Some-
thing like thirty exhibits are expected
this year and all persons contemplat-
ing making such shows are urged to
write to Secretary Mahan at once,
making application for space before it
Is too late.
New Counterfeit Out
Washington—A new counterfeit $10
bill on the American Exchange Na-
tional bank of New York has been
found circulating In the middle west.
It la a photographic reproduction of a
genuine MIL
Murderer Commits Suicide
Beaver, Pa.—V. Charles Hickman,
who was to have been hanged for the
brutal murder of his wife, was found
dead in bis cell. He had on three oc
caslons attempted to commit suicide.
Changing Seats Fatal
Chicago—Changing seats In a row-
boat cost the lives of Carl Glade, 20
years old, and Matthew Hlllsteln, 29
years old, by drowning m the Chlcagc
river here.
Each exhibit must Include a repre-
sentative collection of the cultivated
products of the farm, orchard and gar-
den, cereals, grasses, textile and lor-
Announcement Is made that no
premiums will be awarded to any
county exhibit scoring less than 66
points.
Here are the premiums offered tor
the best and largest display of farm
and garden products from any county
in the Stute of Oklahoma, with the ex-
ception of Oklahoma county which is
not allowed to compete: First pre-
mium $200 and State Fair cup; second,
$150; third, $125; lourth, $100; fifth,
$90; sixth, $80; seventh, $76; eighth,
$70; ninth, $65; tenth, $60; eleventh,
$55; twelfth, $50; thirteenth, $45;
fourteenth, $40; fifteenth, $30.
The State Fair cup is something new
and will be introduced this year for the
first time. It will be awarded each
year to the county securing the first
premium on county collective ex-
hibits. The name of the winning
county will be properly engraved there-
on and the cup must be returned each
year to be competed for at the annual
Oklahoma State Fair at Oklahoma
City.
In all departments ot the big exposi-
tion preparations are being made fo»
the great event of 1911. In the matte*
of getting ready systematically to en-
tertain and instruct half a million peo-
ple this fall, the present management
has made better progress than eve*
before at this time of the year.
Thespremlum book, which has been
out for some time, Is complete In every
respect and gives full particulars con-
cerning the agricultural department as
well as the many other departments.
A copy of the book will be furnished
on application to I. S. Mahan, secre-
tary, Oklahoma City. It not only tells
everything about each of the various
branches of the biggest show ever bo
fore attempted but contains other in-
formation that is valuable to every
person residing In Oklahoma, the
southwest or the United States.
Punished for Yawning
When Henry Brown of Brockton,
Mass., awoke the other day he yawned,
tried to close his mouth and could not
He had fractured his Jaw. With his
mouth wide open he walked more than
a mile to a physcian’s office and had
the fracture reduced. As he was
leaving the office his Jaws unlocked
again. Finally he was placed unde*
ether and the jaw permanently fixed.
They Both Need Them
New York has shipped 25,000 Bibles
to SanFrancisco. Nobody in New York
has any use for Bibles.—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
France Asks Explanation
Paris—Tho French government has
demanded an explanation from Spain
of the arrest at Alcazar, Morocco, of
the French consular agent at that
place and bis Imprisonment la the
town Jail
Troops On Guard
Washington—As the result of an un-
favorable report to the state depart-
ment on conditions In Mexico close
to the Arizona border, the war depart
ment ordered the four troops of cavalry
at Nogales to remain there until th*
situation clears.
Bottles Left by Hessians
Two large bottles of Hessian rum
150 years old are among the latest
finds of historical experts who are ex-
cavaMnc *i the ruins of old Fori
Washington on tho Hudson river just
above Riverside drive. New York. The
excavations, are on the site of the
Hessian barracks, in what was for a
long time known as "Death gulch” from
the large number of Hessians who fell
in the rout of Washington’s army from
the heights. The rum bottles were
fould 12 feet under ground.
Pleasure of the Children
There should be some time during
the day, even in the busiest household,
an hour at leaBt, set apart In wnlch
the older members of the family bsould
devote themselves wholly to the chil-
dren. Litle object lessons or Btories
containing practical knowledge told in
an interesting way will be sure to hold
their attention. The story of the grad-
ual formation of the fruits, flowers and
vegetables will delight them and will
be eagerly looked forward to and al-
ways remembered.
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