The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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The Lamont Record.
O. J. Bradfleld, Pub.
LAMONT. :
OKLA.
Sheep Succeeding Cattle in the West.
The cattle batons c<f the west, wbo
once held undisputed sway over the
(treat public domain, have been dis-
placed, tn the last few years, by new
lords of wealth and power—the sheep
men. Travel over the Pecos country
In New Mexico, where John Chisum
ruled like a lord of old. and where his
baronial retainers fought desperate
battles with the retainers of rival cat-
tle barons, aud what will you find but
sheep, and mure sheep? To bo sure
there ure plenty of cattle left In the
country, but they are split up in tiny
herds among the small ranchers, while
most of the unfenced range Is grazed
over by great flocks of sheep, of all
grades and values. In charge of Mexi-
can herders in all states of somno-
lency. In Montana, Wyoming and Col-
orado. where the dust of the cattle
trails onre clouded the blue skies, the
old highways of the steer are grasa-
covered, and—the mockery of it!—
are fed over by dusty-backed herds
whose eternal "ba-a-a" brings a curl
of contempt to the lips of the cow-
man. Where the cowboys once faced
the storms of the prairie, In their yel-
low slickers, the sheep herder now'
crawls into his canvas-covered sheep
wagon, writes Arthur Chapman in the
American Review of Reviews, where
he lives in comfort through the hard-
est "norther," and In summer, even to
the grassy slopes of the Rocky Moun-
tains, above timber line, one will come
upon sheep camps.
The Automatic Player a Boon.
Until automatic piano-players came
upon the market, the lover of music
could not readily get into tonal form
that which the composer has commit-
ted to paper. Many years of study
w'ere necessary to the acquisition of
technical ability to render a two-hand
or four-hand arrangement of an over-
ture or symphony. Still longer tech-
nical preparation was necessary to the
performance of great compositions for
a solo instrument. Obviously, such
playing ability could be acquired only
by those with rare opportunities and
special gifts. Furthermore, opportuni-
ties to hear performances of great
compositions were very few', writes
Leo R. Lewis In Atlantic. The zealous
concert-goer, living at a metropolitan
center, would hear in a decade per-
haps ten performances of Beethoven’s
Third and Fifth Symphonies, four per-
formances of any one of Mozart’s last
three symphonies, and perhaps Schu-
bert’s Unfinished and Schumann’s
First and Second. The foregoing esti-
mate is too large rather t"han too
small. During that decade ten per-
formances of any single fugue of Bach
would certainly not have been heard
in public. The concert-goer might per-
haps have opportunities to hear these
and other symphonies in four-hand
arrangement; but this could happen
only if accomplished performers were
in the circle of his friends.
Observe- QRLAHOMA
tions in T
. . .. - — — -1 ---- —
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE NEW STATE
OKLAHOMA.
A State in the Liquor Business.
Not long ago a Columbia professor
performed Foucault’s experiment, to
show that the earth does move; and
some malefactors of the press tried to
make it appear that this was the fiist
time the experiment had been per-
formed since old Jean Bernard Leon
Foucault himself first tri6d it in 1851.
Such an assumption was bound to he
challenged, as It has been by the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, where one of
the professors has been performing
the experiment every year for a dec-
Oklnhoma now bns the most unique
and stringent liquor law of any pro-
hibition state. It is ’Incorporated In
senate bill slxt.v-one, by Billups,
wdilch lias passed both branches of
the legislature and becomes effective
Immediately. The first two articles
of the bill put the state Into the li-
quor business for medical, mechani-
cal and scientific purposes only,
while the Jnst article throws the most
rigid restrictions around the sale of
intoxicating liquors.
The dispensary system Is under
control of a state agency superin-
tendent appointed by the governor, to
receive a salary of $2,500 a year and
give bond for $25,000. As soon as ap-
pointed and qualified the agency
superintendent shall procure some
suitable building at the capital, now
at Guthrie, where shall be received,
kept, packed, sealed, labeled, num-
bered and shipped out, all liquors
purchased or acquired for the use of
the state.. The superintendent shall
lay in a three-months’ supply of
liquors, purchasing from the lowest
bidder and shall establish a standard
quality of goods purchased.
The state agent shall put up all li-
quors in suitable packages or ves-
sels of uniform size and full meas-
ure, the maximum size not to exceed
one gallon. Each package shall bear
the official seal of the agency so that
the seal must be destroyed if opened.
Each package shall also be given a
serial number and a label reading as
follow's: “This package was sealed
and labeled at the state agency and if
sold for any different price than that
printed on this label, or if the seal
on this package be broken when sold,
the buyer or his assigns may, on
proof thereof, recover judgment
against the local agent selling the
same on his official bond, or for the
sum of $100.”
The selling price Is to be marked
upon each package and to be comput-
ed by counting the cost of all liquors
purchased to which shall be added
the salaries, printing, freight, special
taxes and all other necessary ex-
penses lawfully Incurred and to the
cost so computed shall be added not
to exceed 50 per centum.
An agency for the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors for lawful purposes in
each town of 2,000 or more popula-
tion and in each county having no
such tow'n of 2.000 population. After
December 1, 1908, if the dispensary
articles of the law are ratified by
vote of the people at the next general
election there shall also be establish-
ed dispensaries in towns of 1.000
population and at any other places
where the governor and state super-
intendent may deem it necessary.
A local dispensary agent shall be
appointed by the governor at each
agency who shall be not less than 21
years old, who shall not have been
engaged in the liquor business far
five years pHor to his appointment
and who shall not be a practicing
physician. He shall give a bond of
$1,000. Local agents are to receive
10 per cent of the cash receipts of
their agencies as compensation for
their services.
No sale of liquor shall be made by
a local agent except upon a sworn
statement of the applicant in writing
setting forth to whom and for wlmt
purpose the liquor is to bo sold, the
statement to he accompanied by a
bonafide prescription from a licensed
physician, which prescription shall
not be filled more than once. Any
person who opens a paoknge within
the agency is guilty of a mlsdemean-
or.
Each druggist must purchase hlB
liquor from the dispensary and must
give a bond of $1,000, conditioned
that none of the liquor shall be used
for any other purpose than In com-
pounding or preserving medicines,
the sale of which would not subject
him to the payment of the special
tnx required of liquor dealers by the
federal government.
Each druggist Is only allowed to
keep on hand eight gallons of alcohol
and live gallons of other liquors at
any one time. Any violation of this
provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
The superintendent may furnish
alcohol for scientific purposes to
scientific Institutions, universities,
colleges or hospitals authorized to
purchase the same free of tax under
the laws of the United States. Any
agent who sells liquor for any other
than a legal purpose shall be guilty
of a felony and subject to Imprison-
ment for from one to seven years and
In addition liable upon his bond f°r
$1,000.
Section 15 of the bill says: “It
shall be unlawful for any local agent
to sell more than one package of
vinous or spiritous liquors to one
person on the same day, nor more
than three gallons of malt liquor to
one person in one day. The agent
shall indorse in red ink his Initials
and the date of sale on each pack-
age of liquor sold by him under the
provisions of this act."
Cotton Market.
NEW ORLEANS. March 28.—Spot
quiet and steady. Sales C7;> bales.
Low ordinary, 6 3-16e nominal; ordi-
nary, "c nominal; good ordinary.
8 7-lCc; low middling, 9 9-16c; mid-
dling, lO^c; good middling, 11c;
middling fair, ll^c; fair. 12 l-8c
nominal. Receipts 2,775 bales; stock,
180,315 hales. Futures closed as fol-
lows: March, 10.03c; April, 9.S0c;
May. 9.80c; June, 9.77c nominal;
July, 9.7Cc; August, 9.60c; October,
9.46c; December, 9.45c.
GALVESTON. March 28. — Lower,
10%c. J
ST. LOUIS. March 28.—Dull; mid-
dling. 10 7-8c. Sales .none; receipts,
36 bales; shipments, none; stock,
25.706 bales.
NEW YORK. March 28—The mar-
ket opened steady at a decline of
2@7 points in response to lower
cables,, nfavorable weekly trade re-
views and continued good weather in
the South, but rallied during the early
session on covering, bullish week end
figures and firm reports from South-
ern spot markets. Prices during the
middle of the morning were about
3^4 points net higher. Trading was
moderately active at the advance.
Preparing to Fund State Debt. —
State Treasurer James Menefee *8
preparing to fund the Oklahoma state
debt, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Bryan funding bill,
which is now a law. He has sent to
Washington for approximately $1,-
400,000 of the state school fund,
which he will use in paying off the
state warrant indebtedness equaling
that amount. When this is done the
state will then issue bonds covering
this amount. These bonds will not
be so’d to private individuals until
the money market is better, but will
he held by the state. The outstand-
ing warrants bear 6 per cent interest
and the bonds will only bear 4 per
cent, saving the state one-third in in-
t/rest, upon the state Indebtedness.
OUTLAW WYCLiFF
Muskogee, Okla., March 30.—Char
let Wickllffe, one of the members of
the notorious gang of Cherokee In-
dian outlaws long sought by the offi-
cers was shot and killed at the Wick-
Ifffe home In th© Spavlnaw Hilis.
Cherokee nation, yesterday by his
brother, Thomas, the result of a
drunken family quarrel.
Th© WlckllfTes were three in num-
ber—Charles, Thomas and John.
They are fullblood Cherokees and
they are considered th© most desper-
ate gang of outlaws that has Infested
the Southwest in years. Many mur-
ders are laid to them, and they were
particularly sought for their attack
near Kaw City, Okla., on Sunday,
March 11, 1905, upon a number of
deputies who were attempting their
arrest for murdering an officer. The
deputies overtook the frlo In the f.ist-
ness of th© Spavlnaw country, a wild,
mountainous district In the heart of
th© Cheroke© nation. A fierce battle
ensued. Deputy Marshal Ike GUstrqp
of Vlnlta, an officer with a noted rec-
ord, was killed nnd the outlaws es-
carped. The whole territory was
aroused and for several weeks armed
posses from all directions sought
them. U. 8. Marshal W. H. Dar-
rough led the man hunt, which was
pushed with the utmos-. vlg>r. It
availed nothing, however, and not
until news of the depth of Charles
Wlckllg© was brought iu today had
any definite information been receiv-
ed In the past three years ©f the
whereabouts of this terror band.
Charles Wickllffe was 35 years old;
Thomas 1 s31 and Johu 22.
TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION.
Corporation Commission Learns
Workings of Companies.
GUTHRIE: The Investigation of
tho telephone and telegraph lines of
Oklahoma by the corporation com-
mission reveals one fact that shows
the telephone companies, at least, are
imbued with the same spirit that has
made Oklahoma remarkable through-
out the entire country — that of ac-
complishing what would seem to ordi-
nary mortals almost impossible. The
Investigation shows that, the new stat^
is not excelled by any of the older
states In equipment and efficiency of
service, and in most respects excels
the older commonwealths.
The Pioneer Telephone and Tele
graph company, which is the largest
in the state, is receiving the greater
share of attention, both by the com-
mission and the press of the state.
In a recent hearing before the cor-
poration commission the company
made a complete showing of their
business. This was largely voluntary
on their part and the frank and open
manner tn which they gave all the
assistance and light they could on
the subject made a favorab’e Impres-
sion on the commission and public
generally.
In the annual report recently made
public, President Nims shows that
at the close of business December
31st, 1907. the aggregate assets were
$4,249,625 57, of which $3,853,625.67
represent the actual value of toll Pnes
and exchanges throughout the state
The gross receipts for the year 1907.
were $1,125,588.30. against which
there was a gross expenditure of
$935,968.37, leaving a revenue balance
of $189,419.93. or a profit of nearly
7 1-2 per c°nt on the Investment. Of
this the stockholders received six per
cent in dividends and the balance was
retained for reserve fund. This show-
ing was a revelation both to the com
miss'on and the peopV, as it was
generally believed that the telephone
companies were making large profits.
From the statement of the Pioneer
company, aside from the fact that the
Investment is considered safe, the
stockholders are only receiving what
tl.ey consider a small return for their
money, and they contend that they
must earn as much as ten per cent in
order to secure the money nec’S~ary
to make the extensions that the de
veiopment of the territory is demand
fag.
The result of the present in vest I ga
tion is anxiously awaited by the com-
pany as man" contemplated improve-
ments and extensions will depend or
tnp fi-ding of the commission. One
of t^e ofneerc Jn a recent interview
sn'd be feared nothing from thp in-
vestigation, and the rules adopted
an interesting
CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT
Any Child Can Do It—The Result la
Almost Like Mafllo—Useful, Too.
Anything in the nature of a chem-
ical experiment is always InteresRng
and usually educative. Here Is a sim-
ple experiment which any child can
perform and which Is instructive In a
very practical way: Get a bit of White
Lead about the size of a pea, a piece
of charcoal, a common candle In a
candlestick, and a blowpipe. Scoop
out a little hollow In the charcoal to
hold the White Lead, then light the
candle, take tho churcoal and lead In
one band and the blow-pipe In the
other, with the large end of the blow-
pipe between the lips; blow the flame
of the candle steadily against the bit
of White Lead on the charcoal and If
the White Lead Is pure it will pres-
ently resolve Itself Into little shining
globules of metallic lead, under the
Intense heat of the blow pipe, leaving
no residue.
If, however, the White Lead Is adul-
terated In the slightest degree, It will
not wholly change into lead. So, It
will be seen, that this experiment is
not only an entertaining chemical
demonstration, but also of practical
use In the home. White Lead Is th©
most Important Ingredient of paint.
It should be bought pure and unadul-
terated and mixed with pure linseed
oil. That Is the best paint. The
above easy experiment enables any-
one to know whether the paint Is th©
kind which will wear or not.
The National Lead Company guar-
antee that white lead taken from a
package bearing their “Dutch Boy
Painter” trade-mark will prove abso-
lutely pure under the blow-pipe test;
and to encourage people to make th©
test and prove the purity of paint be-
fore using It, they will send free a
blow pipe and a valuable booklet on
paint to anyone writing them asking
for Test Equipment. Address Na-
tional Lead Company, Woodbridge
Building, New York City.
BUT WAS IT THE SAME MELON*
Paper Carried by Darky Amounted
Almost to Perpetual Permit.
“A negro just loves a watermelon,’*
said Representative Johnson of South
Carolina. “Strange, too, that when a
policeman sees a negro with a melon
at an unreasonable hour he has it
right down that the darky has stolen
that watermelon. I heard a story about
a policeman who met a negro in th©
early hours of the morning, and h©
had a big melon on his shoulder.
" T see you have a melon there?'
‘“Yes, sah,’ answered the darky.
Tse got er melon; but I’se fixed fer
you, sah,’ and pulling out a paper h©
handed it to the officer, who read:
‘This bearer of this Is O. K. He paid
me ten cents for the melon, and h©
is a pillar in the church. Jamea
Elder.’
“ ‘You are fixed,’ said the officer.
“ ‘Dat’s what I ’lowed,’ answered th©
negro, and he moved on.”—Washing-
ton Herald.
How Her Life Was Saved When Bit-
ten By a Large Snake.
How few people there are who ar©
not afraid of snakes. Not long ago a
harmless little garter snake fell on
the wheel of an automobile which wa3
being driven by a woman. The womjin
promptly fainted and tho car, left to
Its own resources, ran into a ston©
wall and caused a serious accident.
The bite of a poisonous snake needs
prompt attention. Mrs. K. M. Fishel,
Route No. 1, Box 40, Dlllsburg, Pa.,
tells how she saved her life when bit-
ten by a large snake.
“On August 29, 1906, I was bitten
on the hand twice bv a large copper-
head snake. Being a distance from
any medical aid, as a last resort I
used Sloan's Liniment, and to my as-
tonishment found it killed all pain and
was the means of saving my life. 1
am the mother of four children and
am never without your Liniment ”
ade. As a matter of fact, dozens of
other teachers have led their physics
classes up to it annually. One swung
a clock-weight at the end of a string
in the 19-story “well” of the Masonic
i
Temple in Chicago some ten years
ago and, on drawing up the weight
afterward, accidentally dropped it, and
nearly collapsed as he watched it tra-
verse those 19 stories and splinter a
floor-stone amidst a throng of passers-
by. The happiness to be derived from
science, when untrammeled by sclen-
tia, is like the pride of the city which
had had its new water supply (its H2
O) analyzed. “The water is very
’fine,” the citizens said. “It's been
analyzed and it's half hydrogen!”
And now there is the report that an-
other American heiress is going to try
matrimony with the earl of Yar-
mouth. The optimism of the age is
against placing any person of condi-
tion in the hopeless class, but if tnrs
is true we will have to believe that It
is Impossible for some American heir-
esses to learn even the most evident
{lessons.
..Assessed at $39,542,286.—With one
railway not reported, and excluding
the interurban lines of the stat?, the
total valuation of the tangible prop-
erty of fourteen railroads in Oklaho-
ma reporting to State Auditor Trapp
is $39,542,286.76. These returns have
been made by experts of the various
roads intended to represent the
actual valuation for purposes of taxa-
tion _at last full value. The total
main track miieage on these roads is
5,527.75, and side tracks, 1.120.04, a
grand total of 6.647.79 miles. The
Frisco has the most miles of track,
aggregating 1,728.80; the Rock Island
comes next with 1.G53.6 miles; Santa
Fe, 930, and M. K. & T„ 891. The
Katy makes the biggest showing of
total valuation of property within the
•• tate, aggregating $11,SC5,726. The
taxable valuation per mile of these
roads is placed at from $2,500 to
$12,000 per mile.
Will Probably Decline Position. —
It is reported that Dr. J. A. Mc-
Laughlin, superintendent of the city
schools at Mangum, who was elected
president cf the Central State Nor-
mal at Edmond by the state board of
: location to assume charge Septem-
ber 1st, w'U probably decline tho
place. The Mangum hoard of educa-
tion wi’l re-elect him and he has ex-
pressed his prefere ce to stay here.
Governor Pardors Tom Jo’mscn. —
Gov. Haskell has pardoned Tom John-
son, convicted March 26, 1908, in Car-
ter county, of violating the prohibi-
tory law. He was fined $30 and sen-
tenced to 30 days in jail. The fine
has been paid and the pardon will re-
lleve him of the jail sentence. The
pardon was recommended by the trial
judge, county attorney and others.
Askins Gc‘s a New Trial. — Judge
Gavlen, at Alva, has granted a new
trial to George Askins, who was sen-
tenced for life for complicity in the
robbery of sixty Bulgarians near
Stroud last December. The court de-
nied a new triai to Rasberry, also sen.
fenced for life on the same charge.
Rasberry is preparing to take an ap-
peal to the Oklahoma supreme
court.
Old Man Takes Fatal Smoke.
Pond Creek, Okla., March 30. —
Grandpa Iceman, seventy years of
and his son. Will, a lad about
eirlit years old, were burned to death
about midnight last night in a fire
that consumed their home. The old
man was very a^ed and feeble and
practically a county charge, and he
ami tho hov l’ved Hone in a small
house in the southwest part of the
city. As the old man was in the hab-
it of getting up during the night and
lighting his nipn and smoking awhile,
It Is surmised that ho attempted to
do that last night, hut in his feeble
condition he dropped the lamp, thus
starting the fire that resulted so dis-
astrously. Th© fire was not discover-
ed until well under wav am’ not nnt*l
the victims were past help. Both
were lying on the floor and from ap-
pearances the old man had made <3
feeble effort to reach the door.
Senator Penrose I sBetter.
Philadelphia, Mrach 30, — There
was no material change tod«y Jn tlie
condition of United States Senator
Penrose. Tonight's bulletins an-
nounced that the senator had not lost
' any ground during the day.
Mother's Modest Dfcmands.
Lawyers will lake almost any case,
and Chicago lawyers, it seems, will
take anything. A Chicago woman put
her son in a children's home there,
and is now bringing suit because they
cut off the boy’s curls. “Every curl
was worth $1,000 to me," she says,
“and they gave him a bath, too,
against my wishes. He is a delicate
child and bathing makes him sick. 1
haven’t given him a bath since a year
ago Christmas.” She will ask $15,00®
because of the curls and bath.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by loo*) application*, a* they cannot reach the die
•asod portion of the ear. There 1* only one way
cure deafness, and that Is by consUtatioaal remedies.
Deafness U caused by an inflamed condition or tn*
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When tbl*
tube is Inflamed y^a have a rumbling *oun(l or lnj*
parfeet hearing, and when It !§ entirely closed. Deaf-
oe«* la the result,and unless the Inflammation can he
taken out and thla tube reatored u> Its normal condi*
tion, bearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases
cut of ten are caused by Catarrh, which la nothing
but an Inflamed condition of the mucoua surfaces.
We will rive One Hundred Dollar* for any case or
Deafness (caused by catnrrh) that cannot be cure©
by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circular*, free.
K. ,T. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O*
floid by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
There may be some kind of future
punishment for bachelors, but most
married men believe they get theirs
right here on ea"th.
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