The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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IN ENGLAND
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS F. KONOP
TECUMSEH.
By M. M. HENDERSON.
OKLAHOMA
MEN TIE UP ALL RAILROAD LINES
COMPLETELY
Cotton pickers are busy in Southern
Oklahoma.
ARMY IS ON THE MOVE
Caddo's big corn carnival is dated
for August 23-26.
Oklahoma farmers are gradually
learning the value of silos.
Practically a State of War Prevails,
and Grave Fears Felt That Blood-
shed Will Follow the Going
Out of Railway Employes
The Methodist university at Guth-
rie will open this fall with a full at-
tendance.
The begining of the homeseekers'
season will find Oklahoma happy and
prosperous as usual.
The Woodward branch of the Old
Soldiers’ association will give a picnic
here on September t.
The cotton crop of Kingfisher Coun-
ty is reported to be out of danger.
l.ate rains stopped the drought Just
In time.
Captain Guy Smith, 83 years old
and one of the few survivors of two
•wars, died at the Confederate home in
Ardmore.
Bennington has voted $20,000 for
bonds for waterworks. Here’s hoping
it does not get the class of water
Oklahoma City people are paying for.
Lawton folks are writing the Okla-
homa congressmen to secure the an-
nual maneuvers of the southwestern
division of the United States army
for that city.
The labor unions of Shawnee are
behind a proposition to build an Ice
plant to be controlled by the unions
end to supply citizens with Ice at a
minimum cost.
Advices have been received from
Washington to the effect that Chand-
ler has oeen named for a poBtal sav-
ings bank. The order goes into effect
on September 9.
Practically all of a $15,000 bonus re-
quired to insure the location of a piano
factory In Sklatook has been raised.
Citizens will be required to subscribe
for $15,000 stock.
Henry Plaster, a farmer living near
Purcell, ties a gunny sack saturated
with crude oil to his cultivator as he
goes through hlB cotton field and in-
sect pests disappear.
Number of railway employes, 500,-
000.
Number or union employes expected
to go out at once, 120,000.
Dally losses in wages to employes,
$125,000.
Daily loss in traffic receipts to com-
panies, estimated at $325,000. or 50
per cent of usual receipts.
Total railroad mileage In United
Kingdom, 24,000.
Capital invested in English rail-
roads, $7,575,000,000.
There are fifteen companies in Eng-
land and Wales, five in Scotland and
seven In Ireland.
London—The great railway war Is
on. An order calling out all the union
employes of the railroads of Great
Britain, In numbers between 125,000
and 150,000, but Involving a total of
600,000 men, was Issued Thursday aft-
ernoon, after all attempts to avert it
had failed.
"War has been declared, and war it
will be," was the slogan of the union
leaders.
No sooner had the strike order been
Issued than the war office began or-
dering soldiers under way to protect
property of the railroads and to help
them run their trains. A number of
railroad employes had gone out earlier
In the day without orders from the
general union, and it was estimated
that when the order became effective
fully 100,000 men were out.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
soldiers, practically the entire home
army, were under marching orders
Thursday. Three thousand troops
with 52,000 rounds of ammunition and
twelve powerful machine guns were
brought Into London. All of the mil-
itary preparations for the strike had
been made.
Not only were soldiers moved to
London, but there was activity in all
the military stations and soldiers were
on the move to all centers where a
railroad strike might precipitate vio-
lence or cut off the nation’s food sup-
ply.
TWO ARE DEAD
ONE IS INJURED
Faces Included.
Howell—He has a weather-beaten
^Powell—Well, the weather beat*
everything. ___
SCHOOL DISTRICT FEUD ENDS
IN PITCHED BATTLE
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED
Inefficiency of Ownership Certificate ^
Questioned by One Contestant,
Words Follow, and the Quar-
rel Ends Fatally
Stroud business men nave raised
a hundred dollars to be used for good
roads leading into town. ,To this was
added a hundred dolars by the coun-
ty, which the law allows.
Farmer Baxter at Idabel planted
seven-eighths of an acre to tomatoes
this year. Already his Bales have
reached $250. Just another good argu-
ment in favor of small farms and in-
tensive, intelligent cultivation.
Nominated for congress by the Democrats tn a district considered safe-
ly Republican, Thomas F. Konop of Kewaunee, Wis., was elected last autumn
by a plurality of five votes. He represents the Ninth district. Mr. Konop
was born In Kewaunee county tn 1879,* and has been a school teacher and a
lawyer He married Madge L. Nolan in 1905, and has one daughter and three
TWO MORE AVIATORS
LOSE LIVES AT CHICAGO
Johnstone Drowned in Lake Michigan
and Badger Killed Beneath Ma-
chine in Fall on the Feld
PRESIDENT TAFT VETOES
ARIZONA-NEW MEXICO BILL
Returns Measure With Message De-
claring He Cannot Approve the
Vicious Recall Provision
Catching Its head between the mat-
tress and rails of the bed on which
It was lying, the 6-months-old child
of Mrs. Anna Richardson, Hollis, was
found strangled to death by its
mother when she returned to the
room.
The state game warden's office has
received an application for a hunting
license from Jackson Berger of Nar-
din, 85 years old, who is believed to
be the oldest hunting enthusiast in
Oklahoma. Mr. Berger still sees and
•hoots well and Is described by Kay
oounty neighbors as being a true
•portsman in the best sense of the
word.
Press Day at State Fair
Oklahoma City.—Announcement has
JJust been made that Saturday, Sep-
tember 30. will be I’ress Day at the
Oklahoma State Fair. While the latch
string will be out every day of the big
exposition for the publishers, Secre-
tary I. S. Mahan says that he wants
• big reunion of the men who makes
the newspapers of Oklahoma, on the
special day set aBide for them.
In selecting Saturday, Mr. Mahan,
says that he believes that day will
afford the greatest number an appor-
tunity to come to Oklahoma City. Most
of the publishers, especially the week-
lies, get out their papers on Thurs-
day, and the Secretary of the fair
wants them to leave at once for Okla-
homa City, so that they can reach the
fair grounds eariy Saturday morning.
While a program has not been out-
courtesy will be extended the publish-
ers. It is proposed to make them have
the time of their lives.
Chicago.—Two aviators, William R.
Badger of Pittsburg and St. Croix
Johnstone, of Chicago, both young
men, lost their lives at the interna-
tional aviation meet here. In dying
both revealed the frailty of the craft
in which two score more aviators were
curving and gliding about in the air,
with scarcely a pause for the deaths
of their contemporaries.
Death in both cases was due to un-
explained accidents, probably the re-
sults hf unsuspected defects in the
mechanism of the machines, and was
In no way caused by carelessness nor
lack of responsibility of the aviators.
Badger, a wealthy youth, came to his
death in a pit in the aviation field.
There had been a flaw in one of the
wings of the propeller of the Baldwin
machine he drove. Centrifugal force
broke the propeller, upset the delicate
equilibrium of the machine and Badger
dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the
pit, his neck being broken.
Johnstone fell 500 feet under his en-
gine and was drowned in Lake Michi-
gan as the result of an equally unsus-
pected defect. Caught under the heavy
engine in the Moisant monoplane, he
was carried deep into the lake
Socialist Secretary Resigns
Milwaukee, Wis.—J. Mahlen Barnes,
secretary of the national socialist par-
ty, has resigned. Mr. Barnes’ action
followed an attack on his personal
character by a lawyer and a preacher
In Chicago.
"I will be first in and first out,” ex-
claimed Will Hill, 25 years old, as he
went in swimming with companions
at Shawnee. A moment after he had
plunged into the water ho got cramps
and drowned. The body was re-
covered.
To Dismiss Indictments
San Franclnco.—The district court
of appeals of the First district Issued
a peremptory writ of mandamus to
compel Superior Judge William P. Law.
ler to dismiss Indictments pending
against Patrick Calhoun, Thornwell
Mullalay, Tirey L. Ford and William
M. Abbott, charged with bribing the
Reuf-Schmitz supervisors in connec-
tion with the United Railroads trolley
franchise.
Washington— bectarlng it is his duty
to disapprove the judicial recall clause
of the Arizona constitution, and assert-
ing that ‘‘an untrammeled judiciary is
the corner-stone of a good govern-
ment,” President Taft sent to the house
of representatives his expected veto
message on the resolution admitting
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood.
“I return herewith, without my ap-
proval,’ says the president, "house joint
resolution No. 14, ‘to admit the terri-
tories of New Mexico and Arizona as
states into the union on an equal foot-
ing with the original states.’
“If I sign this joint resolution, I do
not see how I can escape responsibility
for the judicial recall of the Arizona
constitution.
“This provision of the Arizona con-
stitution, in its application to county
and state judges, seems to me so per-
nicious in its effects, so restrictive of
independence to the judiciary, so likely
to subject the rights of the individual
to the possible tyranny of a popular
majority, and therefore to be so in-
jurious to the cause of free govern-
ment, that I must disapprove a consti-
tution containing it.”
The president in vigorous language
condemns any legislation that would
place restrictions upon the judiciary,
declaring that the majority cannot al-
ways be trusted to decide questions of
moment for all the people, and asserts
that the recall is “pernicious in its ef-
fects, destructive of Independence in
the judiciary, likely to subject the right
of the individual to the tyranny of a
popular majority, and injurious to the
cause of free government.”
Chlckasha, Okla.—As the result of
a school district feud in McClain coun-
ty in the Washington school district
twenty miles east of Chlckasha, Will
Aury and Tom McClendon, two school j
officers and wealthy Intermarried cit- j
lzens of that section are dead and Dr. !
J. H. Colby of Purcell, Okla., is under
arrest. Colby was wounded in the
shooting scrape which occured there.
The trouble grew out of a school
feud and lawsuit over possession of
an acre of ground upon which the
schoolhouse of that community sits.
F. W. Loder originally owned the
land and gave a certificate before
statehood to the district, relinquish-
ing his claim to the land and donating
it to the school. E. B. Glencoe pur-
chased the land and refused to recog-
nize the certificate as a title or own-
ership. He mortgaged the land for a
considerable amount, the deed show-
ing the entire acreage including the
land where the school house st<M>d. Dr.
J H. Colby of Purcell purchased the
mortgage and recently took possession
of the land. He refused to acknowl-
edge any right of the Washington
school district to the land and at-
tempted to build a house on the acre
of land held by the community as
school property. The judge of the dis-
trict court of McClain county enjoined
Colby from building the house and
again issued an injunction against his
fencing the school land. *"
No deed Is held by the school di-
rectors for the property, but the
court has ruled that the land shall be
held by the district. Several suits are
pending in the case in the district
court of McClain county.
Dr. Colby rebuilt the fence around
the school property Friday night and
Saturday morning the news of this
spread. Members of the school
board, among them Autry and McClen-
don, with many of the patrons of the
district, went to the school property
to demand redress from Colby. Colby
was there with a loaded shotgun,
A fight ensued in which Will Autry
and Tom McClendon received injuries
of such a nature as to result in their
death. Autry died almost instantly
Both were intermarried citiens and
wealthy land owners of that commu-
nity.
THEN
YOU SHOULD
TRY
HOSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
It will restore the
appetite, aid digestion
and assimilation,
and keep the
bowels
open
Take
a Bottle
Home Today
BRITISH UNIT
Irishman Would Not for a Minut*
Allow the Possibility of Such
a Thing.
s
George Mockler has just returned
from an Investigation of what coal
Is costing some of the other cities.
He brought this story from Balti-
more:
An Irishman thero Inherited a coal
mine up In the state. He immedi-
ately entered the lists for one of the
big coal contracts and went around
to say a good word for his coal.
The man who was letting the con-
tract heard him a moment, and then
Interrupted with:
"That’s all right, hut how about
British thermal units?”
The other, being new to the coai
business, did not know that coal is
rated now according to the British
thermal units in tests.
"Phat's that?” he said.
"How many British thermal units
are there in your coal?"
The Irishman blinked his eye and
snorted a bit.
“British thermal units, is it?" h©
he said. "Why there ain't a wan in it."
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
GATHERING AT CAPITAL
WAS IT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS 7
Delegations From s\it Parts of the
Country Arrive in Oklahoma City
For National Encampment
In connection with the state inves-
tigation of the national guard expen-
ditures, It Is understood through fed-
eral officials, the war department also
will demand an accounting of the
federal fund sent to Oklahoma during
the fast few years for state militia
purposes. An investigation of all ex-
penditures from the federal fund Is
•Imminent.
Quarantine Line To Be Moved Up
Oklahoma City—That more of Okla-
homa will be placed above the federal
quarantine line this year than in any
previous year since the work of tick
extermination was started, is the
opinion of Frank Ikard, superinten-
dent of live stock inspection for the
state board of agriculture, who was
in Shawnee for a conference with
the county inspectors 4n Pottawat-
omie county in regard to the work
now being done in that county. Two
townships have already been placed
above the federal line and the clean-
up work is now going on over about
half of the county, with very satis-
factory results.
Married a Day; Elopes
Hammond, Ind.—After having been
married but a day to Paul Possin of
Chicago Heights, Miss Ruth Gilmore
of Rennsaeler, Ind., 17, met her girl-
hood sweetheart, Gossle Brown of
Itenssaeler, 18 years old, and eloped
with him. Possin is 48 years old. a
widower and has three children. He
had only known the girl a week and
says it was a case of love at first sight.
Oklahoma City.—Delegates to the
eighth annual encampment of the
United Spanish war veterans to the
number of 1,000 strong entered Okla
homa City on a peaceful invasion Sat-
urday night and Sunday, and at thg
rate at which the “vets” are still ar
riving it is Indicated that double that
number will have registered by Mon- j
day night. As Is ever the case, the
gates of the metropolis of the state
have been swung wide in welcome to
j the guests—all of whom are pleased
I over their selection of Oklahoma City
as the 1911 convention city.
Sunday night hundreds of the visi-
tors attended the reception at the
Lee-Huckins, tendered by Mrs Ida
M. Galloway, president of the gener-
»1 auxiliary, and members of he'
staff.
Mrs. Nelson—My husband Is awfully*
absent-minded.
Mrs. Bilson—In what way?
Mrs. Nelson—He went flsning yes-
terday. When he had finished ha
threw away the fish and brought horn©
the bait.
Publicity Agreed Upon
The big Oklahoma State Fair Is go-
ing to attract an Immense lot of peo-
ple to Oklahoma City this fall. Every-
thing is being done by the manage-
ment to make it attractive. The fair
will be of immense benefit as an edu-
cator as well as a vehicle of amuse-
ment. The races, the horse show, the
exhibits of counties, all these and
other things will draw a big attend-
ance.
Rice Crop Ruined
Pekin—Five hundred persons are
homeless and 3,000,000 more are men-
aced with starvation as a result of
terrific floods that have been raging
for two days in the province of Anhui.
The water has washed out 235,000
acres of rice and there is no hope of
an autumn crop. This is the worst
agricultural disaster that China ever
has suffered.
A great religious revival for the
Comanche and Apache Indians near
Fort Sill is being planned.
State Game Warden John B. Doolln
has received notice of two prosecu-
tions for violations of the game laws.
In Pottawatomie county Daniel Guide
ly was bound over to the grand Jury
under $500 bond on a charge of dyna-
miting, after a hearing in Judge Lock-
wood's court, and in Oklahoma county
Grant Bailey was 8n“d $100 and costs
by Justice of Peace Sumery on a
•barge of llegal seining.
Quake at Manila
Manila—The seismographs here re-
corded a series of strong earthquakes
as occurring at an estimated distance
of 2,000 miles from Manila. The
tremors continued with evidence of
violence for a period of two hours.
Amusement Park Burned
Cincinnati, O.—Fire which is thought
to have originated from a pan of
grease in the kitchen of the club house
at Chester Park, an amusement resort,
destroyed many amusement buildings
and spread rapidly to two lumber
yards adjoining. Loss $175,000.
Washington—The senate without
division or discussion agreed to the
conference report on the campaign
publicity bill and the report was pre-
sented to the house, action being de-
ferred until sometime later. The
measure then will be ready for the
president’s signature. The hill as
agreed to by the conferees Includes
the senate amendment extending the
requirement for publicity of campaign
expenses to primary and special elec-
tions and nominating conventions as
well as to general elections. The
amendment limits candidates for sen-
ator to a campaign expenditure of
$10,000 and candidates for represen-
tatives to $5,000.
For Public Ownership
Washington.—Senator LaFollette
introduced a resolution for the owner
ship of railways, docks and terminals
in Alaska by the government of the
territory, these utilities to be in
charge of a board of public works ap-
pointed by the president. He an-
nounced he would speak on the reso-
lution Monday Senator LaFollette’s
measure bears on the Controller Bay
and Alaska railroad Incident that has
figured in various ways before con-
gress, In connection with the alleged
attempt of Guggenheim interests to
acquire a monopoly In that section
The Real Thing.
"Say, mister, If you throw three
cents up in the air I kin ketch ’em
all before they come down every
time."
"Humph! That is nothing but a
catch-penDy scheme."
Surely.
’Is that bargain really cut glass?”
"Sure; It was marked down."
/
Incendiary Burns Horses
Dodge City, Kan.—While Jo< McCar-
ty, tt farmer living three miles nortk
of here, was in Dodge City to attend a
circus unknown parties drove seven
head of his horses from the pasture
into his barn and set fire to the struc-
ture. All the horses were burned to
death, while the barn was a total loss.
Blacksmith Arrested
Columbia, Mo.—Ed Brooks, a black
smith and suspect was arrested and is
in the Boone county jail to await trial
on a charge of sending threatening
letters to J. W. Brockman, wealthy
i farmer, in an endeavor to extort
! $10,000.
Rev. Wordsworth Dies
London—The Right Rev. John
Wordsworth, bishop of Salisbury, died
here He was born September 21,
1843, and aside from being an eccles-
iast was an educator and author of a
religious publication.
Murderer Reprieved
Nashville, Tenn—William Fitzger
aid, who was to have been hanged
at sunrise August 15 for murdering his
wife, was reprieved by Governor Hoop-
er of Tennessee.
G. A. R. Man Found Dead
Grasshoppers in Kansas
Independence, Kan.—Hordes of
grasshoppers visited Independence.
Old settlers said there had not been
such a visitation of the pests since
the early days when they destroyed the
crops and ata everything in the shape
of vegetation.
Grand Junction, Colo.—John N.
j Geigir, 67, former commander of the
| Grand Army of the Republic of Chicago
i was found dead in his state room
on a westbound train. Death is be-
lieved to have been due to heart
disease.
Cruce Will Attend Reunion
Oklahoma City—Governor Cruce has
; accepted an invitation to attend the
state reunion of the United Confed-
i erate Veterans, to be held at Ard-
. more September 6, 7 and 8.
Five Perish; Loss $1,000,000
Frankfort, Germany.—The Ope)
Sewing machine and bicycle factory
at Russelheim was destroyed by fire
early Sunday morning Five persons
perished In the flumes and many were
injured Loss more than $1,000,000
President Signs Publicity Bill
Washington.—The campaign pub
licity bill was signed by President
TafL
Snow in New England
Lenox, Mass.—There was a brisk
snowfall on October and Greyloc*
mountains Saturday night and Sun-
day fireplaces are ablaze in all hotels
and homes in this neighborhood.
Gonzales Ticket Elected
Juarez, Mex—An election was held
throughout the state of Chihuahua
Sunday, and while but little informa-
tion is available it ts evident that Ab-
raham Ganzales, the present provision-
al governor, is elected with all of his
Hckof.
A Large
Package
Of Enjoyment—
Post
Toasties
Served with cream, milk
or fruit — fresh or cooked.
Crisp, golden-brown bits
of white corn—delicious
and wholesome—
A flavour that appeals to
young and old.
“The Memory Lingers”
Sold by Grocers
Postum Cereal Company, Lid.
Battle Creek, Mich.
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