The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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COUNTY DEMOCRAT
By M. M. HENDERSON.
TECUMSEH OKLAHOMA
A DEATH PLUNGE [
MRS. RUSH SOUTHGATE FAY
i! GUNS GOi TO CUBA
ETHEL’S MARRIED.
Oklahoma NewsNotse
By the way, swat the fly.
Comanche Is to have
tory.
a peanut fac-
Many Kay county farmers are in-
stalling silos.
Buyer at Vici is paying $90 per ton
for broomcorn.
All over the state is being harvest-
ed a splendid alfalfa crop.
The Woodward Baptists are to
build a $15,000 church soon.
Michigan parties are arranging to
install a creamery at Hobart.
Checotah Odd Fellows have let the
contract for a new lodge room.
The Brock Co-operative Oln com-
pany is a new one; capital $7,500.
Julian Trumby, many times a mem-
ber of the Osage council, died recent-
ly at Elgin.
The city high school at Chiekasha j
PHIL PARMALEE FLIES IN FACE
OF GUSTY WIND
WAS WARNED OF DANGER
AEROPLANE
AGEABLE
BECOMES UNMAN-
AND TUMBLES
Lifeless Body of Aviator Picked Up
Three Minutes After He Had
Started at Exhibition In
North Yakima, Wash.
North Yakima, Wash.—With a
smile and a wave of his hand to thou-
sands who watched him in his aero-
plane, Philip O. Parmalee took the
air in the teeth of a gusty wind here.
Three minutes later his broken and
lifeless body was dragged from be-
neath the wreckage of his biplane in
an apple orchard, two miles from his
starting point. The exact cause of
his plunge to death probably never
will be known.
As he rose from before the grand-
stand at the fair grounds Parmalee
swung to the west over the Yakima
river. He rose to a height of about
has been opened to pupils from over <00 fpet and hIg Pppet] lncreased to
the country. j a]omst a mue a minute, although it
King corn will have to hustle If I "I1B that hi8 plane dipped and
he keeps Queen alfalfa from taking
over control of Oklahoma.
It is variously estimated that the
wheat crop will be twice or three
times as much as last year.
The Wichita Falls & Northwestern
has established regular passenger
train service into Woodward.
Government has advertised for bids
for construction of the proposed new
federal building at Kingfisher.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Lloyd of
Alva have just celebrated the fifty-
fifth anniversary of their wedding.
Pottawatomie county farmers, who
have alfalfa acreage to the extent of
5,000 acres, expect to realize $300,000
from the first cutting.
A jury has given John Kittrell a
verdict for $8,000 for injuries received
while at work for the Prairie Creek
Coal Mining company.
The senior class of the McAlester
high school presented Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice” to a large and
appreciative audience.
The five district agricultural
schools of Oklahoma have mapped out
plans to do more demonstration work
this year than ever before.
The Oklahoma branch of the
National Postofflce Clerks’ Associa-
tion held a successful and well-at-
tended meeting in Shawnee last week.
The machine shop being constructed
Iby the Oil Well Supply company In
lOkmulgee will soon be occupied. The
city expects to land the Independence
llron Works, and to boom in conse-
quence.
The city commissioners of Okla-
homa City have taken steps to In-
sure a safe and sane observation of
ithe Fourth by passing an ordinance
prohibiting the sale of and explosion
of high explosives within the city
limits.
There will be plenty of signatures
to Insure the initiation of the bill pro-
viding for the direct election of sen-
ators and it will be voted on in the
August primaries according to Dr. A.
Grant Evans who is in charge of the
work of securing the signatures to the
linitiative petitions. Nearly all the
work is being done by volunteers. Mr.
[Evans is anxious that all petitions
rShall be ready to turn over to the sec-
retary of state by June 6.
The Oklahoma State Press Asso-
ciation will meet next year in Bartles-
ville. Geo. A. Smith of the Chandler
Tribune was unanimously choBen as
president and E. S. Bronson of
Thomas was retained as secretary-
treasurer.
rolled and seemed to be controlled
with difficulty.
When he had gone about two miles
from the fair grounds, he swung in
a wide circle to the eastward for the
return journey.
As he squared away before the
wind, the great plane checked its
course, fluttered a second like a
wounded bird, and plunged below the
line of trees. »
It Is thought by Parmalee's mechan-
icians that a sudden gust from one
of the draws or small canyons that
notch the sides of the valley, stru- k
the machine and rendered the elevat-
ing planeB unmanageable.
The body of the aviator was
dragged from beneath the wreckage
of the machine by farmers who were
working in the orchard.
His skull was fractured and he
must have died instantly.
Philip O. Parmalee was regardod
by experts, "as the safest” of Amer-
ican alators, as well as the most suc-
cessful financially of those employed
by the Wrights. He as said to have
earned $198,000 for the Wright broth-
ers during 1911 and he quit their em-
j8oy only a few weeks ago.
Paralee warns born at St. Jonhs,
Mluh., about twenty-five years ago,
and his first business venture was as
a partner with his father in the manu-
facture of gas engines. Later he be-
cuiiie ttu automobile tester. He drovo
an automobile in the New York-At-
lanta tour, for a large factory at Flint
Mich.
Mrs. Rush Southgate Fay, whose marriage to Ensign Fay TJ. S. N., was one
of the society events of May in the national capital, was Miss Eleanor Ander-
son. whose father is Medical Director Frank Anderson. U. S. N
WRIGHT IS DEAD
INVENTOR OF AEROPLANE
CUMBS TO TYPHOID
sue-
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GREAT POLITICAL BATTLE
TO START WITHIN COMMITTEE
Roosevelt’s Friends Will Attempt To
Seat Successor of Victor
Rosewater of Nebraska
State Senator George A. CofTey, rep-
resenting Kiowa, Washita ar.d Custer
counties, has sent in Ills resignation
to Governor Cruce. Senator Coffey an-
nounced in his letter that he plans to
give all his time to school work. He
Is a hold over senator and his term
would have expired In 1913.
Old Hawthorne, a horse with a his-
tory, is spending a leisurely old age on
the Big V ranch, near Ponca City.
Old Hawtorne wem te American
derby, is the sire of Silver Sue, won
the world’s 3-year-old record and at-
tached a number of other records.
This once famous animal is now 27
years old, is doing noting, and is
treated like a nabob. He Is in good
flesh, his eyes are bright und he
seems to be enjoying life in the
pleasant lines in which his lot is
cast.
Atoka'B commercial club has issued
a call for a monster good roads meet-
ing to be held there June 10, and has
assurances of a large attendance of
people Interested In the movement.
The State highway department will
co-operate with the commercial club.
By building a briqk depot and instal-
ing other improvements at Cleveland
In Pawnee county, four suits which
have been pending in the courts for
nearly three years will be dismissed
and the townspeople of Cleveland will
drop their complaint against the Katy
railroad.
Chicago.—Friends of Col. Roosevelt
announce that the first real test of
strength between their candidate and
President Taft will come next Thurs-
day when R. B. Howell of Omaha, na-
tional republican committeeman-elect
from Nebraska, will demand to be
seated as the successor of Victor
Rosewater, acting chairman of the
national republican committee, prior
to the hearing of contests by that
body.
The Roosevelt managers are pre-
pared to make a determined fight to
have Mr. Howell seated and If they
succeed they will demand that Bor-
den D. Whiting of New Jersey, Thom-
as Niedringhaus of Missouri, and
other national committeemen-elect
chosen either by direct primary or
state convention, be seated.
By this means they may succeed in
controlling the national committee
and deciding whether Senator Elihu
Root of New Y’ork shall be recom-
mended as temporary chairman of the
convention.
TAMED THE WORLD OVER
HIS DEATH KEENLY FELT IN AVI-
ATION CIRCLES
Invention of Aeroplane Was Success-
ful Realization of Dream—First
Flight Made at Kitty Hawk,
N. C„ 1902—Other News
Dayton, Ohio.—Following a slight
rally, during which he took some nou-
rishment, Wilbur Wright, noted avia-
tor and inventor, died Thursday from
typhoid fever.
Wright, with his brother Orville,
was one of the pioneers in the inven-
tion and handling of aeroplanes. He
has been seen in aeroplane exhibits
and cross-country flights over the U. S.
and his inventions have assisted
materially in perfecting alr-shlpB.
Wright was bom near Milville,
Indiana, April 16, 1867. His education
ended after four years spent in Rich-
mond, Indiana and Dayton, Ohio high
schools. Wrright was unmnried. He
v/orked for five years at Dayton on
Hying machines, with his brother Or-
ville, in a bicycle shop, before the
world knew of his experiments.
Wright’s first flight in a gliding ma-
chine was at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in
r^‘902. In 1904 he made his first flight
i a motor propelled machine.
Washington, May 30.—In govern-
ment circles, especially in the signal
corps of the army, profound sorrow
was expressed at the news of the
death of Wilbur Wright. His con-
nection with the government In the
early days of aeroplane development
was particularly close. It was Wilbur
Wright who negotiated the first con-
tract with the war department for
an aeroplane. That was in February,
1908.
Prior to the issuance of specifica-
tions for the first heavier-than-air fly-
ing machine, Wilbur Wright was a
frequent visitor to the army signal
corps headquarters. During those
CAPT. ROSTRON HONORED.
Madlll First Class
Oklahoma City.—Madlll, Marshall
county, Oklahoma, is a city of the
first class. Governor Cruce signed a
proclamation declaring it that since
the census shows that there are more
than 2,000 people In Madlll and that a
majority of the citizens have declared
themselves in favor of living in a first
class city, there Is no reason why it
shouldn’t be a city of the first class
and he so ordered.
Charged With Blgmay
Chicago.—Jamea J. Ward, an
aviator was arrested on a charge of
Dlgahy. His wife, Mrs. Maude Mae
Ward, who Friday sued for an an-
nulment of her marriage, caused h*3
arrest. Mrs. Ward charged in a war-
rant that her husband had a wife llv-
lng when he murried her. Ward was
released on bond.
Act of Rescuing Titanic Passengers
Brings Its Reward
New York—Captain Arthur H. Ros-
tron, commander of the Cunard liner
Carpathia, the ship that sped to the
rescue of the passengers of the sink-
ing Titanic, was presented wifc a
handsome silver loving cup by a com-
mittee of Titanic survivors, who board-
ed the liner on her arrival in New
York. Gold, silver and bronze medals,
together witfi a framed set of en-
grossed resolutions, were presented to
the officers and entire crew.
Assembly Dissolved
Washington—The fifty-fourth gen-
j eral assembly of the United Prccby-
terlan church has been dissolved. The
next general assembly will meet at
Atlanta at the same time as the gen-
' eral assembly of the southern Prssby-
terian church and the general assem-
bly of the Presbyterian churrti of
North America and It is believed prob-
able that a union of the three denom-
inations will be effected at that time.
Crops Benefited
Girl Agriculturalist
Chiekasha, Okla.—Miss Joy Belle
Hancock, will have charge of the
Grady county demonstration work
in the girls’ agricultural clubs. W. D.
Ilently, United States demonstrator,
| was here and made arrangements.
The demonstration will be held dur-
ing July and August.
UNCLE SAM SENDS WEAPONS TO
SUPPRESS REBELLION
HONORS GOMEZ'S REQUISITION
6000 RIFLES AND MILLION POUNDS
OF AMMUNITION
Gunboat Paducah Lying Off El Playa,
But All Is Quiet—Reported That
Much Unrest Exists Around
City of Santiago
Washington—The state department
authorized the war department to
honor the application of the Cuban
government for 5,000 rifles and 1,000,-
000 rounds of ammunition, which are
to be used to arm the volunteers and
the guards organized by plantation
owners to protect their property
against the insurrectos.
Presient Gomez wanted the latest
type of Springfield rifles, similar to
the 10,000 already supplied to the
Cuban army. When It was found that
such arms could not be sold without
express authority from congress, and
as that would take some time, the Cu-
ban government decided to accept
Krag-Jorgensen rifles instead. These
are practically new weapons, having
been supplied with new barrels and
put in thorough order when they were
withdrawn from the regular army and
set apart to form a reserve Bupply of
about 200,000, sufficient to equip a
) volunteer army in case of need. The
weapons will be sold to the Cuban
government at about $5 apiece, plus
shipping charges.
State advices from the American
consul at Santiago, say the situation
at El Cobre is quiet, and it is under-
stood the Cuban military authorities
at Santiago have stated that forces
will be se. t to El Cobre, if the situa-
tion demands.
American Minister Beaupre at Ha-
vana reports he has received a mes-
sage from the manager of the Spanish-
American Iron company at Daiquiri
saying that the Cuban government has
assigned 100 soldiers to guard the
company’s property and had given
assurances that this assignment would
be permanent.
The gunboat Paducah is still lying
off El Playa. •
It is roported that a good deal of
unrest prevails around Santiago,
Gb>kiie /3a/csa_.
Virginia—I’m glad Ethel’s married.
Philomena—Yet you refrained from
congratulation, she tells me.
Virginia—Yes; I pitied the bride-
groom.
Tariff Board Robbed
Washington.—Provision for Presi-
dents Taft’s tariff board was elimi-
nated in the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill as reported to the house
Monady. The annual appropriation of
$25,000 for the presidents traveling
expenses wis allowed, but to total
appropriation was cut -a- -Tittle shore
than $109,000,000 making heavy reduc-
tions in provisions for the Panama
canal, public buildings and other pro-
jects.
CUTICURA OINTMENT HEALED
BAD SORE ON LIMB
"Some time ago I was coming up
some steps when the board crushed
under me like an egg shell, and my
right limb went through to the knee,
and scraped he flesh off the bone
Just Inside and below the knee. I
neglected It for a day or two, then It
began to hurt me pretty badly, I put
balsam fir on to draw out the poison,
but when I had used It a week, It hurt
so badly that I changed to-oint-
ment. That made it smart and burn
so badly that I couldn’t use It any
more, and that was the fourth week
after I was hurt.
"Then I began to use Cutlcura Oint-
ment for the sore. It stopped hurting
Immediately and began healing right
away. It was a bad-looking sore be-
fore Cutlcura Ointment healed it, and
1 suffered so I couldn’t sleep from two
days after I fell until I began using
Cutlcura Ointment.
“Cutlcura Soap Is the best soap-I
ever saw. I haVe used all kinds of
soap for washing my face, and always
It would leave my face smarting. I
had to keep a lotion to stop the smart,
no matter how expensive a soap I
used. I find at last in Cutlcura Soap
a soap that will clean my face and
leave no smarting, and I do not have
to use any lotion or anything else to
ease It. I believe Cutlcura Soap is the
best soap made.” (Signed) Mrs. M.
E. Fairchild, 805 Lafayette St., Wich-
ita, Kan., May 8,- 1911. Although
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere,
a sample of each, with 32-page book,
will be mailed free on application to
“Cutlcura,” Dept. L, Boston.
Another Unloaded Gun
Fort Smith, Ark.—As a result of an
accidental discharge of a pistol, Mil-
dred Chastain, daughter of a farmer
at Red Oak, Okla., probably will die,
and Fred Newcomb, aged seven, son
of J. H. Newcomb of Red Oak, will
be crippled for life. The boy was play-
ing with a .38 caliber revolver when
the weapon was discharged. The bul-
let tore through his hand permanently
crippling that member and lodged in
the abdomen of the little girl.
Wife Found Guilty
Chicago.—The jury returned a ver-
dict finding Mrs. Jane Taylor Quin-
not guilty on the charge of murdering
her husband.
Olymplo Staidum Opened
Stockholm. The Olympic games
stadium was opened Saturday by the
king in the presence of many diplo-
matic representatives, other officials
and a great crowd of spectators, A
choir of 500 sang patriotic songs and
several athletio •xhtbttlona wera aiv
•n.
CLARENCE 8. DARROW,,
The prominent Chicago attorney
who is on trial in Los Angeles, Cal.,
charged with bribery in connection
with the trial of the McNamaras.
Buglars Make Haul
Hobart, Okla.—Burglars entered
the mercantile store of Gerhart, Vo-
gel & Co., Snyder, and took therefrom
Oklahoman Located
Omaha, Neb.—Jacob Schloss, a
prominent merchant of Shawnee, Ok-
la., who has been mysteriously miss-
ing from his home for some time has
been located in an Omaha hotel. 1!»
is thought to be insane.
Major Pitzer Has Retired
Pawhuska, Okla.—After many years
in the Indian service for the federal
government, Major Hugh Pitzer,
superintendent and special disbursing
agent for the Osages here has ten-
dered his resigantion which will be-
come effective as soon as his suc-
cessor has been appointed. He has
been offered a better place in a pri-
vate business line.
Poor Girls.
Mrs. Willis—What do you think of
that Hlghupp girl marrying Mr. Bul-
lion?
Mrs. Glllls—Isn’t It awful the way
some girls sell themselves for money?
Mrs. Willis—And did you hear
about Miss Munney marrying that
chauffeur?
Mrs. Glllls—Yes. Isn’t that about
the worst case of Infatuation you ever
heard of?
The Difference.
"There Is such a vast difference be-
tween the Ideal and the practical in
stage art,” sighed the intellectual
young actor.
"The difference,” replied the stolid
stage manager, "as lies between the
artistic role which leads to Arcady
and the fat part which leads to the
pork barrel."
Child Perplexes Doctors
Memphis, Tenn.—Surgeons at the
city hospital here are nonplussed at
the case of Katherine Gilmore, two,
who fell from a second story window,
alighting on her head on the pave-
ment and was rushed to the hospital
in the belief that her skull was frac-
tured| The child suffered only unim-
portant scalp wounds and frets at the
restraint imposed by nurses.
Shot a Hunter
Nashville, Tenn.—John Courser was
accidentally shot Sunday near Win-
chester by Will Roray. Both men
were members of a party which was
hunting fox. Courser wore a pair of
overalls which W’ere the color of a
fox. Roray saw these through the
underbrush and shot at Courser, kill-
ing him Instantly.
Locked up And Forgotten
Newark, O.—Locked up and forgot-
ten for eight days in the Johnstown
village calaboose, Wm. Brennan, 59,
a wayfarer from Wisconsin, was dis-
covered almost starved to death when
the place w-as opened for ventilation.
Miners Sign Two-Year Contract
Kansas City, Mo.—Coal operators
and miners of the Southwestern dis-
a half hundred razors, as many knives trict, who have been holding confer-
two rifles, several pistols and other
merchandise. The burglars left no
clue.
Enlarging Compress
Durant, Okla.—The inland Cotton
company of this city has arranged to
expend $3,000 this summer in enlarg-
ing its cotton compress and doubling
Its capacity.
ences in Kansas City for the last sixty
days, have reached an agreement and
a contract covering a period of two
years was signed. While many of the
changes agreed to are of a technical
nature, the new contract carries with
it a slight increase in wages. Miner*
and oprators throughout Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas are
affected.
Father’s Death Restores Speech
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Overcome
by emotion as his father was dying,
Thomas Austin, dumb for 13 years,
regained his voice and spoke to his
parent. “If this will make you talk,
son, I'm glad to die,”
Preferred The Bridewell
Chicago—When Judge Himes told
him to go ba~k home with his wife
and not fight any more, Fred Master
said: “Send me to the Bridewell,
Judge, your honor, rd rather go there."
Mrs. Whisiow-s Soothing Svrup for ChUdren
teething, softens the guuia, reduces Inflamma-
tion, aUays pain, cures wind colic, 26c a bottle.
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The meanest trick a bachelor can
play on a leap year girl is to promise
to be a brother to her.
Discriminating persons should know
that Garfield Tea is a uniquely efficient
remedy for liver troubles and costiveness.
A woman is proud of the virtues
that she practices because she has to.
An Easy Way
to get rid of a spell
of Indigestion, Sick
Headache, Consti-
pation, Biliousness,
Heartburn,Cramps
or Malarial Disor-
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