The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PRESS DEMOCRA
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O. FISH KII. I'ub.
HKNNRssKY,
OKLA
Springfield's Trad# Extension. —
The Commercial Club of Spring-
field, Mo will vlHlt Muskogee In iho
near fu• urt•. the i-xacl dato noi yet
having hot-u set. The Springfield
club will Irawl on u spieial train and
t _ — visit iiiht r town in th' territory.
Springfield is lOOWtldBI Of a maim
TERRITORY TOPICS tactiiring town and wishes to extend
' h* trade in the territory.
First Bound Volumes. — Secretary
William (Jrimes lias received the lirst
hound volumes of the session laws
passed by the late assembly. It makes
a neat book of 300 pact's, and con-
tains Jl' ; statutes enacted into laws
by the legislature. The first copies
will be sent to Secretary Hitchcock
at \\ ashiugton and be filed there
with tin- other statutes of the terri-
tory.
Again Seeks Release.—Ira X. Tor
rill, the Oklahoma convict who is serv-
ing a twelve-year sentence in the
1 Kansas penitentiary for murder, is
. again se king bis release through tho
| eourts. 1). a. Valentine, clerk of the
J Supreme Court, yesterday received i
i by mail from TerriII a motion to re- j
| open and rehear the case wliicn was )
j decided against Terrill two years I
I ago.
Postmasters to Meet at Sulphur.—
j "• Jeness, secretary of the Indian
I erritory Postmasters' Association,
has sent out a call to all the postmas
ters to attend the annual meeting of |
the association to be held at Sulphur,
May 17 and 18. He lias asked all who
attend to be prepared to offer sugges-
tions on the improvement of the gen-
eral delivery, money order and regist-
er systems.
Buffalo For Ranch.—George Miller
ol the 101 ranch at Miss, Okla., left
for Missoula, Mont., to. buy a part of
a herd ot buffalo to be used on the
ranch in June when the Ponca and
Otoe Indian tribes celebrate the disso-
lution of their tribal relations. This
herd numbers about sixty head and
is Hi. best in the I'nited States. Mil-
ler will buy thirty animals at $r 00
each.
Oklahoma Prairie Fire. — Disas-
trous prairie fires are reported from
Greer county, in the vicinity of Erick
and I exola, where Addison Froat, j
Charles Smith. Thomas Lovely, Eli '
and Harvey Koontz were heavy losers.
I housands of acres of pasture land '
were burned over, and several barns, |
with large quantities of grain, imple- |
ments, cotton and other farm prop- !
erty were destroyed.
Court Now in Session.—With a long
session and much business before it
the district court in and for Garfield
county convened with Judge James
K. Heauchamp presiding. The other
court officials are J. P. Renshaw, dis-
trict clerk; J. M. Flllebrown, deputy;
.1. I\ Havens, journal clerk; T. R.
Clift, stenographer; Samuel Sproat,
crier; Samuel Campbell, sheriff;
Daniel Huett, county attorney.
Must Obey Oklahoma Law. — Go\
ernor Ferguson lias instructed At tor
I ney General Simons to investigate all
j trifkt, surety, guaranty, realty and
j accident insurance companies, to see
i if they had complied with the Thread-
! gill bill, requiring sucli companies to
j put up a bond of $50,000 before trans
acting business in the sate. Hut one
: company has complied with the law.
| The governor's instructions are to
oust from the territory all companies
j which do not comply.
| Sues For Taxes. — The town of
| Bridgeport has brought suit against
the townships of Waconda, Cedar i
Mound and I .one Mound, in Caddo |
of trustees of the Ft. Supply asylum ! county, to recover an amount of j
to Edgar Marchant, of Aline, a repub j $ 1 ,S>oo. principal and interest, alleged
lican, and Otto Shut tee of El Reno, a ■ to have been levied as a special ?ax
democrat. These two gentlemen were ! for public improvements The town
members of the world's fair commis- j ship in which bridgeport is located at
sion and their conduct of that office ! t■ time of the levy comprised m arl'
was of such a character as to give all the territor> now embraced in tin
them a most warm recommendation townships against which th« suit i
brought.
Bold Horse Thief. — A horse and
buggy belonging to Jack Morris, a
merchant at Guthrie, was stolen from
in front of the Masonic Temple while
the owner was attending the cere-
monies.
Ignore Quarantine Laws.—The ter
ritoriai live stock sanitary commis-
sion met here today to issue the an-
nual quarantine proclamation entirely
ignored the quarantine bill passed by
the last legislature
Shoots Sister's Foot Off. — Chariot-
Sanders, the 7 year-old son of J. S I
Sanders, a farmer north of Ripley,
accidentally shot his 1L' year-old sister I
in the foot with a shotgun today. An I
amputation was necessary.
For Oklahoma Asylum. — Governor
Ferguson issued a call lor the meet-
ing of the board of trustees of the in
sane asylum for April 24. The ap-
pointments of Superintendent Stew-
art and all other help needed will be
met.
Oklahoma Doctor Indicted. — At
Alva Dr. H. E. Duncan has been in-
dicted for securing money under false
pretenses. In one instance, it is al-
leged, Dr. Duncan promised to cure a
boy who was crippled from birth, the
father of the boy giving a note for
$75, to be payable when the boy was
cured. The boy was treated, but was
not cured. The note was sold.
County to Pay the Freight.—Attor-
ney General Simons gave out an
opinion in a case arising in Potta-
watomie county under a bill passed
by the last legislature iu which he
holds that the expenses of transfer-
ring insane persons must be borne by
the respective counties from which
the patients are sent. Heretofore
tho expense has been borne by the
territory.
To Study Irrigation Problems.—\V
W. Sclilecht, a representative of the
United States government survey,
was at Guthrie on his way to Wood
ward county to Investigate the feasi
bility of irrigation in the Canadian
valley in Woodward county in the vi -
cinity of Supply and Woodward. He
expects to append several weeks in
Woodward and Beaver counties. «
School Meetings May 31. — I,. W
Baxter, territorial superintendent of
public instruction, has notified the
superintendent of each of the coun
lies of the change of date of annual
school meetings made by the legisla-
ture this year from the last Tues-
day in June to the last Tuesday in
May. It happens that the last Tuos
lay in May is May ; 0, Decoration day.
The meeting will be held on May
:nst.
No Cattle to Be Evicted.—Captain
.John C. West, chief of the Indian po-
lice, who came to Ardmore to investi-
gate the failure of the stockmen to
pay tribal taxes, reports that there
will be no eviction of cattle. Cattle
men. he says, are settling the tax.
Captain Weat will inveatigate cases
on the Rock Island where complaint
has been made that many persons are
holding land without the consent of
the allottees.
Marchant Is Named. — Governor
Ferguson tendered the appointments .
jit f rniif Ann **4' ft... 1 ^ I .. '
School For Little Ontt.—The terri-
torial normal schools will have kin
dergarten departments this year and
will employ teachers ami special in-
structors for this work.
Woodward Land Office Busy. Dur-
ing 'he month of March, the land office
in Woodward county has taken in
$1 s.ooo. in that time 4:14 homestead
entries, 145 proofs and 13 declaratory
statements have been made.
Killed by Live Wire. — Thomas II
Doyle, a lineman helper, was killed
by coining in contact with a live elect-
ric light wire of the Muskogee Ic
and Power Company. He received a
charge of 2.2SO volts and death was
instantaneous.
Cut Down Expenses. — At Lawton
the county commissioners cut down
the force at the jail and ordered that
hereafter the sheriff will be allowed
but $1 a day for pay for a jailer whil*
prisoners are in the jail. The com
missioners have been cutting down
the expenses in every county office.
Differences Are Settled.—The Ok-
lahoma Rural Telephone Company
operating seven rural lines and tho
Pioneer Telephone Company of Enid,
have at last settled their different
and a contract has been signed where-
by the patrons of the two systems art
to have free exchange over all
lines.
Hobart Has Been Selected.—Hob-
art has been chosen as the place tc
hold the next annual reunion of thr
I hird brigade of tho Oklahoma di-
vision of the United Confederate Vet-
< tans, and tho dates fixed are August
•Itli and nth. This brigade comprises
six counties — Roger Mills, Greer
Kiowa. Washita, Caddo and Coman
clie.
New Oklahoma Banks. — Paul F.
Cooper, territorial bank examiner,
commissioned the following hanks to
begin business; Hank of Cushing,
with $10,000 capital stock: Ponca
State Bank, of Ponca City with
$15,000 capital stock; Butler State
Hank, of Butler, with $10,000 capital
stock; Bank of Stroud, with $10,000
capital stock.
Southwestern Mission Board.—Tht
Presbyterian board of missions of the
Southwest will hold its annual meet-
ing at Muskogee this year, April 25
and 20. The program for the meet-
ing has not been arranged, but sev-
eral prominent speakers will attend.
Dr. Thomas, a returned missionary
from Lao, will lecture on that coun-
try.
Texas Cattle For Philippines.—Five
carloads of cattle from Texas were
shipped through Oklahoma this week
en route to the Philippines. The cat-
tle are owned by J. K. Lansing, a
Texas cattleman, and are for breed-
ing purposes. Mr. Lansing has two
brothers in the Philippines, who will
make the breeding of fine cattle a
specialty.
A. & M. Graduate's Good Job. —«
Harry f Stevens, a Lincoln county
boy, who graduated from the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical colli at
Stillwater last June, has been appoint
ed as an assistant chemist of the Alio
gheny Ore and Iron Company. Clifton
Forge, Ya Clinton Morris, the su-
perintendent of this company gradu-
ated from the same college in 1*98.
Girls' Dormitory For Langston.—
The board of regents of the negrc
agricultural and mechanical college
at Langston met at Guthrie to make
arrangements for the building of the
new dormitory for which an appro-
priation of $20,000 was made during
the last legislature. Part of the ap-
propriation will be used in building a
girls' dormitory and a part to the re-
pairing of the other buildings.
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Arise, my heart, and sing thy Easter song!
To the great anthem of returning bird,
And sweetening bud, and green, ascending blade,
Add thou thy word.
Long was the winter and the waltina leng;
Heart, there were hours, indeed, thou wert afraid,—
So long the Spring delayed.
Shut in the Winter's alabaster tomb,
So white and still and sleeping Summer lay,
That dead she seemed;
And none might know how in her magic side.
Slept the young Spring, and moved, and smifed
And dreamed.
Behold, she wakes again, ana open-eyed,
Gazes in wonder round the leafy room,
At the young flowers. Upon this Easter Day
Awaken, too, my heart, open thine eyes,
And from thy seeming death thou, too, arise.
Arise, my heart; yea, go thou forth ana sing!
Join thou thy voice to all this music sweet,
Of crowding leaf, and busy, building wfhg,
And falling showers;
The murmur soft of little lives new-born,
The armies of the grass, the million feet
Of marching flowers.
How sweetly blows the Resurrection horn
Across the meadows, over the far hills!
In the soul's garden a new sweetness stirs.
And the heart fills,
And in and out the mind flow the soft airs.
Arise, my heart, and sing, this Easter morn;
the year's resurrection do thy part, '
Aria.*, my heart!
Hicnard La Galliene.
ORIGIN OF THE EASTER FESTIVAL
By J. F. CARRERE
for so important a commission as the
one they have just been offered.
Indian Compliments Roosevelt.—An
Indian is direct in his conclusions,
and while his reasoning may be a lit
tie slow it usually gets to the point.
A full-blood Indian, who had not been
to Muskogee for two months, came in
the other day and commenced to talk
about the president's last message.
A friend asked him what ho thought
about it and the Indian replied '' that
il Roosevelt carried out the principles
laid down in that message he would
come near being like Jesus Christ j
than any other man who had ever !
lived.''
Bad For Texas Cattle.—Colonel R.
M. Bressio, president of the Oklahoma ;
Cattlemen's Association, says Texas j
cattlemen are finding it unprofitable !
to bring their cattle to the Oklahoma •
pastures and Indian reservations this j
year. The federal and territorial ,
regulations are more stringent and |
the cattle, which are not so hardy as 1
usual after the severe winter, are tin- !
able to undergo the dipping process j
In one instance, out of :it)u head which
were dipped at Fort Worth. 100 died
before the herd reached Fairfax
Many cattlemen ar< asking to ha\■ '
their leases withdrawn.
Decrease in Foreigners. — Only _ t
of Oklahoma s settlers in 1904 were \
arrivals from foreign countri< and 1
ihis was a decrease of for the year.
Oklahoma's foundation i- I n- laid
with tho best of American cxtrac i
tion.
Greer County Melon Trust. — The
(Jreer county, Okla Melon r,rowers' I
Association at a meeting held recent
ly pledged themselves as to the num-
ber of acres each member would plant
in melons for the coming season
Fourteen members agreed they would
plant an aggregate of seventy acres
For Care of Insane. — Territorial
Auditor Baxter paid to the Oklahoma
Sanitarium Company of Norman
I21.S2G.-M. which represents the «\
pense of the territory of providing
for its insane for the first quarter of
1905. The appropriation for the first
year for the maintenance of the as>
him to be established at Fort Sup-
ply is $S4,000. The next year the ap-
propriation is but $; o.oo0 and it is
expected the institution can be main
tainod on that amount thereafter.
To Breed Buffalo.—The Philippine
cow or water buffalo belonging to
Honheur Bros . of Augusta. Okla . will
be sent to George Miller at Ranch Ml
tor crossing with an American bison
for results in the mixing of the two
species of buffalos. Tliev are widely
different in form and nature. The
Philippine cow. known as the cariboo,
will sink itself in artv pond of water
during th- warm season until it is
completely submerged and remain be-
neath the surface for a full minute
and then come up serene and with
• yes wide open and nt ver blow a pai
tide She is also carnivorous and
will eat raw beef like a lion or a dog
I he bison is strictly omnivorous and
does not take to the water.
Butchered With a Barlow. — In an
altercation concerning a woman-
oliaracli r I). ' w n .In,. |{,an.I Will
Putnam. , farmers, living on .lac!,
ni i'k. four milrs west of Chattanun
Ka. Hoe was literally carved to pieces
with a Harlow pocket knife in tin
hands of Putnam One ear was st v
ered from hi- head, liis face was fear
fuly butchered and several deep stabs
wen indicted in Ins left side and ah
domeii. The wounds will prove fa-
tal. Putnam has thus far eluded cap
ture, but the authorities are on his
track.
Full Force of Graders at Work—It
was learned from an official of the
j tluthrie and Fairview Railroad Con:
I pany, i xtending westward out of Onti>
| lie to a connection with the Orient
• ailroad, that all plans had been per-
fected, thi money secured, and that
full force of graders and bridge met
will be at work all along the line. Th
official said the intention was to pi: I
the line to eai'.v completion.
Oil at Morris.— \ strong flow m' .<
has just been struck at Morris I T
a little town thirty-two miles -<• th
■
road. The oil is of the same quallt;
at a depth of 1.200 feet. The well it
a gusher and is flowing about twenty
live barrels. Morris is a new town
anil the discovery of oil there ha;
caused the price of town lots to tali!
a big jump.
Wenner to Fix Rentals. — !■':'• < I,
Wenner. secretary of the school lam
leasing board, left for Luther. Okla.
for the purpose of fixing
of the townsite at lhat p
are eighty acres of schoi
Luther which was used a-
and thus is leased by the
three years Th
now about out t
meet With the
tin
me ut thi
Mr. Wet,
erm
id de
\t ti)
Seeks Advice.
['mains
I. \V Ba\i
lurience of Oklahoma in tin
of such matter
Opened District Court.—.In
ford and other i uirt offii tab
at Stillwater from Guthrie .1
i'il the district court The t.
be in session abnr.t . v. i
1 he name Easter is of Saxon orig-
in. being derived from that, of the
Goddess Estera, in whose honor sac-
rifices and celebrations took place at
the opening of spring. With the a.'
vent of Christianity these heathen
ceremonii ■ were discontinued, but as
thc\ had occurred at the time of the
year when the resurrection of Chris
was celebrated by the church the old
name .s applied to the new festival.
A\ ith the I .at in rae< . however, ti.i -
crucifixion and n snrrt etion of Chris;
having occurred at the time of the
Jewish passover, they have called ti,"
festival by a name suggesting that
fact, thus the French name for Ha-
ter it I'aques and the Spanish Pas
cua.
As with all the other great festivals
of the church, the date when Eastfi
should be celebrated has been the
cause of bitter controversy. The
Eastern church in i-ted that it should
be celebrated on the day of the mont i
on which tho evt nt commemorated
occurred, and as the crucifixion is
supposi d to have taken place on tho
fourteenth of Nlson, the first Jewish
month or Passover, on that date it
was commemorated, and the resurrt c
tion two days later, on the sixteenth
regardless of whether those datrs
came on Friday and Sunday or not.
The Western church entirely dis
carded tlie day of the month in ar
ranging for the celebration and in i
sisted thai the crucifixion should al-
ways be commemorated o.i a Friday <
and the resurrection on a Sunday.
The matter finally came tip for nil
lustment before the Council of x;.
caea. in 325. which decided in favor
of the Western contention, but thi
East*™ church refused to change its
custom and thus gave rise to what is
known as the "quartodeciman here
sy.
At the time of the adoption of the
Gregorian calendar it was debated
whether th< feast of Easter should bo
given a lived da ti or left movable -v-
before, and the decision was final'v
reachi il in favor of the latter plan,
as conforming to the ancient custom
of the church. Easter therefore is al-
ways the first Stindaj after the full
moon which happens upon or neyt
afti t th. J1 st ol March tthe equinox),
unh ss th' full mot n oci nt- on Sun-
day. when Faster i- the following
Sunday. It must be remembered!
how. via that it i- not the actual
s till heavens nor even the
mean moon of the astronomers that
regulate.- th .in, of Easier, but an
altogether imaginary moon, whose
Period ar ... . litrived that the n. •
(calendar) moon a'wav- fol'ows the
real new moon i.mctimes by two er
even Ma- - .la: s. The eff- . ; of this
is that the 11th of the calendar moon,
which It.i i from the times of Mose,'
bet n t :i a I , full in .,n for ecclesi-
astical per pi . - ■ • n.rnll fell on the
15th er It
of the
moon and
thus after the real full moon, which
Is generally on the 14th or 15th of
the month. With this explanation
then of what Is meant by the full
moon, namely, that it is the 14th of
the calendar moon, the rule is thai
I Easier day is always the first Sunday
j after the Pascal full moon, w'jicli hap-
I pens upon or next afier the 21st of
March, and if tho full moon happens
on a Sunday, then Easter is the Sun-
day following. One object of this ar-
rangement w as thatv Easter and the
..'ewish Passover should not coincide.
Easter is always between March 22
and April 25. The last time Easter
came on March 22 was in 1818 and it
will not occur that early again in this
century.
It may prove interesting to those
who are mathematically inclined tc
figure out when Easter will occur in
any given year in this century. If s >,
here Is a rule they can follow: First,
aivide the date of the year by 1!) and
call the remainder a. divide the date
of the year by 4 and call the remain-
der b, then divide the date of the year
by ( and call the remainder c. Sec-
ond. divide 10a plus 24 by 30 and cal'.
i the remainder d. Third, divide 2b
Plus 4c plus Cd plus 5 by 7 ar.d call
| the remainder e; then Easter will be
; the 22d plus d plus e of March: or
i the d plus e minus 0 of April. There
j are two exceptions to that rule: If
I Easter falls under the calculation on
j April 2G, put It back to the 19th of
lhat month, and when it falls on
April 25. put it back to the 18th un-
less d equal 2!) and e equal 5.
With the substitution of Easter for
, the old festival of the Goddess Estera
: all the old customs of the Saxons
t were not abandoned, but, on the con-
trary. were preserved and Christian-
j ized. Thus tho custom of giving
eggs, many of them beautifully col-
ored, to friends at. Easter was kent
, up and the eggs were blessed by the
! church. From the earliest ages the
j egg has been considered as a symbol
j of the beginning of life and therefor"
was considered a very appropriate
j present at the beginning of spring,
; when all life is budding out and be-
1 ginning anew. The custom of "plcli-
i ing eggs." that Is to say. of striking
tln-ir points together, which is a ''a-
vored amusement with boys in i.i-,,
Eastern Slates. Is also probably of
! very- ancient origin, and was prob-
I ably practiced by the ancestors of
our juvenile Americans of to-day cen-
! turles ago. In Washington Easter
' Monday is the great children's day of
the year. On that day thousands of I
children congregate on the rollltr, !
lawn behind the White House and j
while the Marine Band discourses
lively music they amuse themselves!
rolling eggs down the lawn.
All the week previous to Easter has j
been a series of commemoration in j
the church, Thursday, Friday and j
Saturday being especially solemn fes- '
*"**J Lr ■ nViMi it - v
thals; Thursday in commemomri
( of the Lord's supper, Friday of 1 :
crucifixion and Saturday the East,
celebration really begins. In man
parts of Europe, especially in Russia
| and during the middle ages, sir. in
; were held all night before Elisor in
I til cockcrow, which is tho hour
| which the resurrection i- supposed t
; have taken place. The devi it r
i mained for hours in prayei uir
I morning, when they at once salm.
i each other with the snlntati n
j "Christ is ri-' n," to which tin answa
| wits, "Yes, he is truly risen. '
| form of salutation is still tin
Russia Easii r morn. In conl
| Europe, how. v r, and in Groat
| the church began the celebrati
I Easter at the mass of tho pr
day, or Saturday, and the bells
TI
Hrlta
churches, which had been silent si
Thursday, were again rung dui
t he service.
At tho Saturday service, too, In
Catholic churches a large camiic
blessed, and also the
call the resurrection
candle forming a com
in the sanctuaries of ti
til Ascension day, foi
The season is of coin,
rejoicing after the fas
formerly was celebrati
th
• w fin to i
of Christ, ti
picuous obje
e churches u
ly days lat
• one of gri
s of Lent at
d with a Jiin
I her of festivities which, according
j our modern ideas, are hardly <. nm ,
! ed with an ecclesiastical event
I in France it was customary to j
game, of ball, in whii li the |>
pants were Iiishops, Canons nm
er church dignitaries. There
dances in France as late as thi
enteenth century and other wig
joy and happiness. The law •
were all closed and bu Inesa . . .
have been generally m poni!' ii
litt-
le! . it.
a hoi Im|
k ami
!>.• . I..
Of if H s
England Ka.stcr lias I,
as a Christian festival
although* tho Puritans
as they did Christina
church celebrations, it
vived and given much
splendor. In this country all
churches observe it with j>« < |;i|
sic. and the fair sex make it tin
cial occasion for appearing with I
latest novelties in bonnets
Lily, Emblem of Spring.
Legends in plenty cluster about
lily; one legend of v -r\ ane'ent
gives the supposed
of all children of t
est; fairest, too. v.h
Long centuries ac >
celestial visitant^ to * anb
bare and g'oomv in < ■ i, i.,
the eternal blooms fit :ici;
Paradise, Th< y < nt< red roi
and took the shining man'!
blessed dead and changed
flowers. From thi
tul and poetic sup
Kaster morning in
hidden an angel.
f "tin
fair e
s the I «>
Ion that
> lily bu
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