The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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COUNTY DEMOCRAT
ALEJANDRO HERQUINIGO
By M. M. HENDERSON
BBCOMSEH. OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOILS
Nowata is paving its alleys.
Skiatook’s water system has been
Installed.
Oklahoma oil is selling at 76 cents
per barrel.
Cattle thieves are doing business in
Noble county.
An addition is being built to the
Hunter flour mill.
Ponca City is niakiug improvements
in its lighting system.
Red Oak has voted a gas franchise
to the Latimer County Gas Co.
Chickasha has started a commend-
able movement for municipal parks.
El Reuo Poultry Association will
)old its annual show December 18-23.
Lawton had a big carving affair
Thanksgiving day. Two negroes carved
each other.
Shawnee is putting on a motorcycle
cop and w ill warm things up for tho
auto speeders.
Citizens of Chickasha have presented
a solid gold fire chief’s badge to Firs
Chief George L. Gattis.
PEACE IN EASE
EXPECTED SOON
GENERAL DIMITRIEFF
PROSPECTS BRIGHTER THAN AT
ANY TIME SINCE ALLIES
TOOK FIELD.
AUSTRIA AND SERVIA CLASH
Diplomats and Envoys Will Gather in
London to Discuss Terms. Egyp-
tian Wants to Rule
Albania.
A Chickasha girl says she will hang
up a tube skirt instead of the conven-
tional hosiery Christmas eve.
The schools of Waliita are to have a
big exhibit of the work done by the
children, to be held on December 20.
Sparks from a passing locomotive
burned a carload of cotton on the
sidetrack at Porter, Wagoner county.
The Okmulgee county court gave a
young negro “the limit of the law”
for insulting white woman at Okmul-
gee.
McRrine, vanishing warrant clerk of
the state auditor’s office, findB it a dif-
ficult matter to make bond. Money’s
tight.
Muskogee's fire losses for November
aggregated $28,010. All of the Iobs but
$3,300 occurred outside die city fire
llmttB.
Bennington was visited the other
day by a fire which destroyed several
buildings, the damage amounting to
4.000.
Senor Don Alejandro Herqulnigo,
second secretary of the Chilean lega-
tion In Washington, it is announced,
Is to marry Miss Malvina de Pena,
daughter of the minister from Uru-
guay.
INDIAN RILL HEAVILY CUT
Scott Ferris of Oklahoma Is the Guid-
ing Hand in Slicing Estimates
of Bureau.
In Pontotoc county 50 per oent of
the first half of the taxes has been
paid in to the treasurer, or about
$60,000.
The kafir corn crop In LeFlore coun-
ty proved highly satisfactory, and an
Increased acreage will be planted
next year.
With cotton receipts 1,000 bales
higher than in 1911, and a big pecan
crop being brought in, Prague is en-
joying prosperity.
Lawton’s last bank statement shows
aggregate deposits of nearly $2,000,000,
a gain of 40 per cent over the last
previous statement.
Ground has been broken for the
1,000-barrel refinery of the Cleveland
Petroleum Refining company at Cleve-
land, Pawnee county.
Bartlesville’s police department col-
lected $726.75 in fines during the
month of November. Occupation tax
collections amounted to $2,000.
Despondent because of ill health, W
M. Haynes, a farmer residing about
five mileB from Heavener, blew the
top of his head off with a shot gun.
Dietrich Rinderhagen of El Reno,
Jr.st returned from a vacation trip to
Germany, says the mother country 1b
experiencing a severe winter, and he
is very glad to get back to balmy OSIla^
homa.
Washington, D. C.— Despite the pro-
tests of the bureau of Indian affairs,
the subcommittee of the house com-
mittee on Indian affairs applied the
pruning knife to the right and to the
left on the bureaus’ estimates in fram-
ing the Indian appropriation bill. Rep-
resentative Scott Ferris was the guid-
ing hand.
The bureau officials asked $250,000
or fthe conduct of the affairs of th 1
five tribes in Oklahoma, but the com-
mitteeman cut this down to $150,000.
Not only did they thus show their
determination to push the closing up
of the affairs of the Indians, but they
also struck out that clause which,
would allow the expenditure of nny
amount up to 10 per cent of the total
handled for the collection of rentals,
etc.
Included in the measure is an appro-
priation of $300,000 for the conduct of
schools in Oklahoma where Indian
property is not on the tax roll and in
districts where there are no schools.
This appropriation is occasioned by
the supreme court decision of last
spring exempting Indian lands from
taxation. ,
There Is alBO a provision appropriat-
ing $250,000 which will be spent in the
further civilization of the Kiowa and
Comanche Indians. This will be spent
for instruction in scientific means of
agriculture and the purchase of proper
tools for the Indians. It is expected
that the Indian appropriation bill will
be acted on before the Christmas holi-
days.
All appropriation bills are being
rushed in the house owing to the
shortness of the time before the pres-
ent session ends, there being little
time for the appropriation measures
outside of those days specifically set
aside for other matters on the house
calendar.
After having served three years in
the Philippines, Earl Coruch, son of
B. R. Crouch of Arapaho, returned
home in time for Thanksgiving din-
ner.
Bonds tor the extension of water
and sewer mains is the next thing to
be voted upon by citizens of Sapulpa.
The election has been set for Decem-
ber 10. The amount of the bonds is
$75,000.
Again, California’s Vote.
Sacramento, Cal.—Roosevelt carried
California by 174 votes, although he
will have but 11 of the states’ 13 elec-
tors. The other two will be cast for
Wilson.
London.—Prospects for a satisfac-
tory and reasonably rapid settlement
of the Balkan war and of the great
European inti rests depending upon it
seem brighter than at any time since
the allied armies took the field against
Turkey.
The envoys from the Balkan king-
doms, Greece—if Greece decides to
participate— arid the Ottoman em-
pire, will hold the llret meeting of
the peace conference Friday. At the
same time ambassadors of the groat
powers at London, charged with the
task of protecting the interests of
their countries, will meet at a sort
of court of appeals to watch, advise |
and admonish the peace delegates.
To reach even this complicated ar-
rangement has strained all the re-
sources of European diplomacy.
There have been times in the iasi
month when even the consent of all
the governments to a friendly gather-
ing appeared beyond the range of pos-
sibility. Austria consented to join
the ambassadorial conference and
Germany, which stood aside awaiting
the decision of its ally, announced its
acquiescense.
One question charged with the pos-
sibilities of disaster is Servia’s un-
quenchable determination for an Ad-
riatic port and Austria’s determina-
tion that she shall not have it. Ser-
vian official newspapers make it plain,
however, that the little kingdom has
made up its mind to take instructions
from the powers so far as public opin-
ion in Servia will let it.
A second interesting struggle will
taka place over Turkey’s, endeavors
to hold as much of the conquered ter-
ritory as oriental diplomacy and the
help of friendly powers can save for
her. The best bargain the Sultan can
make will probably be not more than
six millions nor less than two mil-
lions. and the Turk seemB reconciled
to this.
A third important factor will be the
Greek attempt to gain Saloniki.
Finances Enter Question.
Besides various difficult questions
will arise over the commercial status
of the various Btates, the disposition
of the Turkish debts, attached to the
conquered country and the final status
of Adrianople.
That the peace negotiations proper
will be less complicated that had been
feared is promised by the two facts
that the Turkish empire and Bulgaria
seem to have reached an understand-
ing and that the dissension among
the allies portended by the failure of
Greece to sign the armistice is most-
ly a myth prearranged by the allies
that Greece should stand out so that
the blockade could be continued.
The Greek premier, M. Venlzelos,
who shareB with King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, the honors of cementing the
Balkan league, has started for Lon-
don. The Egyptian prince, Ahmed
Fouad, who Is a candidate for the Al-
banian throne, ts coming to make a
personal campaign in his own behalf.
The premiers of three of the Balkan
kingdoms also are expected.
ENGLAND MAKES
CANAL PROTEST
DOCUMENT PREPARED BY EARL
GREY READ TO SECRETARY
OF STATE.
CLAIMS FREE TOLLS A8E UNFAIR
Says United States Proposed to Vio-
late Hay-Paunceforte
Treaty.—Proposal
for Arbitration.
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When General Savoff ordered his
troops to take the Turkish positions
at Kirk Kllisseh, it was “Napoleon”
Dimitrieff who received the command
and carried it out with a vigor that
wept the enemy completely off their
feet.
I.C. C.VALUATE RAILROADS
House Passes the Adamson Bill,
Aimed to Stop Issue of Watered
Railway Stocks.
The Sayre water works system has
been improved to such an extent that
the operations of the water depart,
ment for the past six months show a
Blight profit, instead of a deficit as
formerly.
The Pioneer Telephone Co. is erect
ing a new building and installing new
apparatus at Checotah. Cliecotah was
the secene of the recent strike of
business men against the company for
poor business.
Speaking of ingratitude, inconsist-
ency, poor diplomacy and the like, that
son-in-law-to-be over in Garfield county
who stole a mule from his prospective
father-in-law takes his place as bell
■wether of the bone-head organization.
Other Clerks Had Access To Cage
Chicago—Testimony that numerous
persons were permitted to enter the
cage of the assorting teller of the
United States sub-treasury where mil-
lions of dollars were kept, prior to the
disappearance of $173,000, was given
in defense of George W. Fitzgerald
on trial for alleged embezzlement of
the funds. Frank J. Walsh, clerk of
the criminal court, formerly employed
as a vault clerk in the sub-treasury,
declared it was a common thing to-
other tellers to go into Fitzgerald's
cage on business.
Washington—Amended to authorize
a complete investigation into the ques-
tion of interstate carrier corporations,
stock and bond issues, the bill by Rep-
resentative Adamson, empowering the
interstate commerce commission to
make a physical valuation of the prop*
erty of railroads and other common
carriers, was unanimously passed by
the house.
The measure would provide for a
far-reaching inquiry with a view to
having railroad rates fixed on a basis
of income on actual investment. It
would authorize employment of en-
gineers and other experts to list the
property of every interstate carrier.
The investigators would be directed
to ascertain the original cost for rail-
way purposes of each piece of prop-
erty, the cost and value to the present
owner and what increase in value is
due to improvements. All questions
relating to existing slock and bond
issues of such carriers also would be
inquired into.
Representative Mann of Illinois, the
republican leader, offered the amend-
ment directing the examination into
the Btock and bond issue question aft-
er a point of order had been sustained
against his amendment authorizing the
commerce commission to regulate and
restrict the issuance of securities by
carriers.
The amendment adopted provictes
that the proposed investigation shall
also "cover, so far as practicable,
questions pertaining to the issuance
of stocks and bonds by common car-
rier corporations, subject to the pro-
visions of this act and the power of
congress to regulate or affect t he
same, and particularly methods to pre-
vent the issuance of stacks and bonds
by such corporations without full value
being received therefor."
Suggesting that “carousing around
Washington" was an almost inevitable
result of members of congress coming
to the capital alone, Representative
Mann of Hindis, defended the prac
tice of paying members 20 cents a mile
for their trips to and from Washing
ton on the ground that the excess al-
lowance was used largely to defray the
traveling expenses of the families of
senators and representatives.
Representative Cox of Indiana
sought to amend the bill so as to pro-
vide for the paymert of actual travel-
ing expenses of members, but
WIRELESS UNDER
FEDERAL CONTROL
Washington.—The first great formal
note of protest of the section of the
Panama acnal treaty which exempts
American coastwise ships from pay-
ment of tolls for passing through the
Panama canal treaty which exempts
Sir Edward Grey, British minister of
foreign affairs, was presented to Sec-
retary of State Knox by the British
ambassador.
James Bryce read the note word for
word to the secretary at the latter’s
home, it is an elaboration of points
of objection in the note to the state de-
partment last July. In brief these ob-
jetions are:
That while it was clearly in viola-
tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
either to admit or refuse tolls on all
American shipping using the canal,
the same objection probably will apply
to the coastwise shipping in view of
the impossibility of framing regula-
tions that would not result in a pref-
erence to American shipping. In
supporting those points by long argu-
ments. Sir. Edward indicated very
| clearly that strong resistance will be
offered to any attempt to exclude from
the canal British ships owned by cer-
tain railroads or whose owners may
be guilty of violating the Sherman
anti trust act. «
He also indicated that in his opin-
ion that underlying the objection to
the exemption from toll of Americas
coastwise ships is an apprehensioz
that in the future the principle might
be extended to cover American ships
in the foreign trade.
Generally the British note might be
summed up as a clear definition of the
differences between the two govern-
ments regarding the legislative sec-
tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
ending up with a proposal that the
issues should be settled by arbitration,
provided that they cannot b° adjusted
by mutual agreement, for which a way
remains open.
President May Force Matter
Seretaity Knox listened to the read-
ing of the note and proposed to take
the matter under careful considera-
tion, which he felt would require some
time. It has been strongly Intimated
in official circles, however, that it was
the president’s intention to settle this
important question before closing his
administration, by having the senate
agree to submit it to arbitration or,
preferably, by the more direct means
of an agreement between the two de-
cisions referred to in the British note.
Sir Edward Grey begins his note
with the statement that the president
does not fully appreciate the British
point of view and has misunderstood
even the note of July 8. He says the
British government does not seek to
prevent the United States from grant-
ing subsidies to its own shipping pass-
ing through the canal, nor does It seek
to deprive the United States of any
liberty which is open to either them-
selves or to any other nation, to en-
courage Its own shipping or own com-
merce by subsidies. The purpose of
the United States in negotiating the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty was to recover
their freedom of objection and obtain
the right which they had surrendered
In the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to con-
struct the canal themselves.
To let malaria de-
velop unchecked in
your system is not
only to “flirt with
death,” but to place
a burden on the
joy of living.
You can prevent malaria by regu-
larly taking a dose of OXIDINE*
Keep a bottle in the medicine
chest oud keep yourself well.
OXfDINE it told by all druggitit
under the «frict guarantee that if the
first bolile doe* ttol benefit you, re-
turn the empty bottle to the dru*?gi«t
who told it. and receive THE HLL
PURCHASE PRICE.
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A SPLENDID TONIC
TROUBLE IN DINING ROOM
Little Mixup Between Ladies Accept-
ed Philosophically by the Tor-
pidville Landlord.
"At one time yesterday it looked
like we was going to have a little
trouble here in the dining room, but it
didn’t come to nothin’ much, related
the landlord of the Torpidville tavern.
"Maxine and Sylphie, the young lad-
ies that are waitin’ table, got to squab-
blin' abqut a p’int of etiquette, or the
merits of their respective fellers, or
something that-a-way, as ladies i3
everlastin’ly doin’, and Sylphie, 1 reck-
on it was, told Maxine, or mebb’y Max-
ine told Sylphie—anyhow, one told tho
other that she wasn't no better than
she ort to be. And Maxine, or
Sylphie, whichever it was, got sorter
fussy about it and answered that she
was too, and she didn’t care who knew
it! And then they kind o’ tied In on
each other and went 'round and round
as it were, and it took ’em quite a
while after it was over to wash the
ketchup and broken glass out of their
coffers, as they call their hair But
that's all it amounted to, and there’s
no use in firin’ 'em, for ladies will be
ladies and there ain't no help for it.”
—Kansas City Sun.
EGG MARKET IN
PANIC; SLUMP 2c
Prices
The Progressive Star, edited and
published by A. A. Harder at Red
Oak, Latimer county, has made its ap-
pearance upon the Oklahoma journal-
istic field, the first issue being printed
Thanksgiving day.
Auto Turns Turtle; Two Are Killed
Columbus, Ohio—W. S. Stewart,
president of a local hardware com-
pany. and T. Hugh Meigan, cashier of
the Carolina bank, were killed and
three persons injured when an auto-
mobile in which they were riding over-
turned.
Chicago Paper Suspends.
Chicago. — The Chicago Evening
World, formerly the Daily Socialist,
suspended publication because of fl
sandal trouble.
Duck hunters near Supply, Wood-
ward county, disliking to get their
feet wet by wading into the lake after
birds they had killed, drove their
team itno the water. The water waz
deep and both horses were drowned,
the hunters with difficulty saving
themselves.
Son Killed But Father Lives
Seattle, Wash.—C. A. Johnson, an
engineer, after failing to effect a re-
conciliation with his wife, picked up
his 6-yearold son and ran in front of
a passenger train. The boy was killed
but the father was tossed aside with
a broken leg and scalp wounds.
Government Supervision Becomes
Effective Under New
Law.
Washington—An extensive system
of government supervision over wire-
less telegraphy becomes effective Fri-
day, four months from the date of
the enactment of the law. Plans have
been made to carry out the new yss-
tem both as to the shore stations and
steamships operated by commercial
companies and the army and navy sta-
tions.
Government licenses hereafter will
be required for all shore stations and
for steamers leaving American ports.
These licenses are being prepared
based on inspection by government ex-
perts. There are several hundred
shore stations along the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, the Gulf and the lakes
and Porto Rico. The number of steam-
ships required te carry wireless under
the new law is estimated at 1,000.
Gender.
A woman teacher was explaining
genaer to a grade of young children
as visitors entered. They begged her
to continue, as they would be de-
lighted to hear the children’s replies.
“Children," she asked, “what is
'girl,’ ‘woman,’ ‘man’?”
One little hand was so eager, she
appealed to the owner proudly.
"Well. Artie?”
“Girls is females, woman is a male
and man's a human bean. Judge.
Prediction Made That The
Will Reach New Low
Level.,
Chicago.—Forty-eight thousand doz-
en eggs, a total of 536,000, were
thrown overboard by local specula-
tors at a loss of 2 cents a dozen.
They tried to get rid of several thous-
and more, but could find no takers.
The panic is due to the collapse of
the inflated boom resulting from the
abolition of the price committee of
the Chicago butter and egg board.
Commission men say the price of
eggs is due to drop to the bottom
mi ft tney predict that with over 1,560.-
000 cases in cold storage, eggs will
drop to 10 cents a dozen before Jan-
uary 1, unless severe weather Inter-
venes.
According to the association <herb
are 1,637,355 cases of eggs now in
storage, 341,374 more than last year.
Most of these are held by small spec-
ulators who borrowed to purchase last
spring or got loans on receipts after
the eggs had bden stored.
Robbing the Red Men.
Washington.—Rapacious land sharks
mostly of a low and undesirable class,
are swarming like buzzards around
the 30,000 restricted ndlans of the
Five Civilized tribes, waiting to and
actually carrying on swiijdles and
fraud against the red men, aeordlng to
the statement of George Vaux, Jr., a
member of the board of Indian com-
missioners, who conducted an investi-
gation in Oklahoma last May and
whose report in incorporated in the
annual report of the board.
Oil Ijp Again
PlttSDurgh—The principal grades ot
crude oil were advanced 5 cents a bar-
rel, the price neing based on $1.90 for
Pennsylvania crude
Aviator Killed by Turk Sharpshooters.
Vienna.—The fate of Dr. Jules Con-
stantine, a French aviator in the Bul-
garian service, who was decorated by
King Ferdinand for bravery is de-
scribed in a dispatch Just received
here. Dr. Constantine started for
Surma village on his last flight over
the Tchatalja lines, with the object of
dropping bombs on the Turkish troops.
His biplane disappeared rapidly and
some hours later was seen to descend
near the Bulgarian camp. The avia-
tor was found lying on the ground
dead with a wound In his chest.
Swine Breeders to Meet.
Amarillo, Tex.—The Northwestern
Texas Swine Breeders’ Association will
hold its annual convention here Jan-
uary 17. ,
FootbaP Receipts Heavy.
Philadelphia—The University of
Pennsylvania’s football team receipts
this year were $59,177 and expenses
$25,776.
Successor to Dr. Wiley ts Named.
Washington. — President Taft and
Secretary of Agriculture James Wil-
son, after months of consideration
Saturday decided upon the appoint-
ment of Dr. Carl Alsberg. a chemist
in the bureau of drugs and plants, a3
chief of the bureau of chemistry of
the department of agriculture, a posi-
tion that has been vacant since the
resignation last spring of Dr. Harvey
W. Wiley, the famous defender of the
pure food law.
Tariff Revision at Next Session
Washington—Thorough revision of
the present tariff law by the next
congress was indicated by the deci-
sion of the democratic majority of
the house ways and means committee
to have committee meetings every
day beginning January 6. It Is ex-
pected to devote 1 day to each sched-
ule, though, if necessary, two day*
will be allowed. By merging two or
three of the minor scehdules with the
adjoining important ones, the com
mittee expects (o get through!, with
tho hearings by the end or January.
Model
Breakfast
—has charming flavour and
wholesome nourishmenl—
Post
Toasties
and Cream.
This delightful food, made
of Indian Corn, is really fas-
cinating.
Corn, says Dr. Hutchison,
a noted English authority, is
one of the ideal foods.
As made into Post Toast-
ies, it is most attractive to the
palate.
‘The Memory Lingers”
Sold by grocers—
Packages 10 and 15 cts.
Pootum Cereal Co., Ltd.
Battle Geek, Mich.
Good Job.
“Now, Johnny," said the teacher af-
ter she had explained the meaning of
the word. “I wish you would write a
sentence containing defeat.”
After a struggle which lasted for
about twenty minutes Johnny an-
nounced that he was ready to bo
heard
"Please read your composition," tho
teacher directed.
“When you git shoes dat’s too ttte,“
Johnny read, "it's hard on de feet.”
Hard to Go.
“This case has some ugly features
about it.”
"Then put a good face on it."
To man the most fascinating wom-
an in the world Is the one he almost,
but not quite, won.
Hope is a pneumatic tire that is fre-
quently punctured. _
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