The Madill Twice--A--Week News. (Madill, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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the madill twice-a-week news.
vol. xir.
madill, indian terri tory, friday, february 8, 1907.
no. 38.
BAILEY SAYS
MENTZ LIES
Testimony of Latter Regarding Port
Arthur Legislature Puts
Bailey on the Floor.
Austin, Feb. 6.—A dramatic
Bcene was enacted in the Baiiey
investigation when Senator Bai-
ley took the fioor and stamped a
statement made by E- B. Mentz
of Houaton as a lie.
Mr Mentz said: "Doyou mean
to say, Senator Bailey, that I
have lied?' '
Ah quick as a flash went back
the reply :"If you say
tell a lie."
Mr. Mentz had been testifying
concerning the action of Senator
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Lie Out of Whole Cloth. *
Washington, Feb . 6.—Colo- J
nel Robt. E- Co wart who is {
staying in this city at present t
said: 4
"I have no acquaintance with *
Mr. Mentz, having never met J
him and I do not see how they
could make any such statement 3
about me. I never went to New $
York for the purpose of seeing J
Senator Bailey, and I have nev-
er been informed that it has
been said that I did. I cannot
imagine how such an absurd
rumor could have started. So
for as I am concerned, it is noth-
ing more nor less than a lie out of
whole cloth.
ureis who consume at least 71
million dollars' worth of paper.
The Gerera! Paper company,
which controlled the entire mar-
ket of the Middle and Western
states, was dissolved recen'ly
after federal prosecution in Min-
nesota. Prices dropped. Now
they have been advanced again.
The allegation has been made
that the papir trusts now in ex-
istence sell their product at a
lower price abroad than they do
at home.
Representations have been
made to Congress that if the
tariff on wood pulp, which
amou.its to SI 67 a tor., and on
paper for newopapers printing,
that, you which is $6 ton, should be re-
moved there would be no diffi-
culty in bringing about the erec-
tion of mills in six months whioh
would entirely relieve the situa-
tion.
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I THE I MPOSED RURAL POSTAL EXPRESS \
a /flbt BY HENRY A. CASTLE |lgY CV> *
* Former Auditor of 'he United States 9
0 ^ roitofllce Departmeut. T
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Such a service would involve
ANY readjustment of publio
facilities finds opposition,
Bailey in connetion with making
Port Arthur a port of entry in
1902, He tried to leave the im-
pression that Senator Bailey had
Opposed the bill, although the
cross-examination broke him
down and iiiowed that Senator
Bailey had moiely tried to protect
the citizens from the^ big canal
interests.
The witness testified that Col.
Cowart of Dallas went from
Washington to New York to gft
Senator Bailey to return to Wash-
ington to interest himself in the
measure. It was at this point that
the challenge arose and Mr. Bai-
ley said that Mr. Cowart never
came to see him.
As stated the incident was dra-
matic and Mr. Bailey was com
pletely vindicated in the eyes of
the committee.
Mr. Mentz was the only witness
examined this morning. He eaid
that he was peculiar from the
standpoint of politics; that he
rather inclined to the Hearst
platform of voting; that he voted
democratic in state matters and
for a republican president
After Paper Trust Again.
Washington, Feb. 6.—Once
more the paper combinations of
ihe countrv are to be placed up-
on-the grill by the federal gov-
ernment. The judiciary com-
mittee of the House will report
favorable the resolution of Re-
presentative Williams directing
the commissioner of corporations
to make a thorough investigation
of these concerns-
The investigation will not only
affeot newspapers, which pay 26
million dollars annually for the
paper they consume, but book
publishers and boxboard, writ-
ing and other paper manufact-
Bell on the Grill.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 4—George
A. Bell, who wrote the libelous
letter on the legislature to a
Limestone county paper and who
is a member of the house from
that county was before the senate
investigating committee to explain
what he meant when he said
there were seven private cars
here loaded with the heads of
thieving corporations, railroads
and trusts at the time of Bailey's
election. He could not remem-
ber the name of a living man who
had told him; he did not see them,
but upon being questioned finally
said that Senator Sentor had told
him the cars were here and seeing
the strangers in town he formed
Hs own conclusions.
Asked how he knew the heads
of thieving corporations were
here, he said many strangers
were here at that time, and this
satisfied him. When pushed to
name any of the strangers he
could not give a single name ex-
cept that of T. N. Jones of Tyler.
The whole fact developed in his
testimony that he knows r othing
on which to base the letter he
wrote. He admitted that he is
against Bailey and wanted to de-
feat him. His letter contained
charges which were recklessly
made. The letter was a serious
reflection on members of the leg-
islature and there may be more
to it In fact, some of the legis-
lators are not willing to allow
some of the statements which
have been made to go unchalleng-
ed, and when the Bailey investi-
gation is over there may be other
matters up.
It's a pleasure to tell our readers a-
bout a Cough Cure like Dr. Shoop's.
For years Dr. Shoop has fought against
the use of Opium,Chloroform, or other
unsafe ingredients commonly found in
Cough remedies. Dr. Shoop, it seems,
has welcomed the Pure Food and Drug
Law recently enacted, for he has work-
ed along similar lines many years. Eor
nearly '20 years Dr. Shoop's Cough
Cure containers have had a warning
printed on them against Opium and
other narcotic poisons- He has thus
made it possible for mothers to pro
tect their children by simply insisting
on having Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure.
Sold by all dealers.
'Jo to Hrsting's Lumber Yard
that is the place you get the moat
pine, lime, shingl >8 or anything
in the building line tor the least
money. 36-it
W. J. KEID'S STORE;
Is the place to buy your Groceries and Feed.
Brim.
because certain private in-
terests are disturbed. Sor^e
objections of this kind are heard
to rural free delivery. But the
new movement will go foward as
fast as appropriations open the
way. As a general principle it
can bo said that whatever adds to
the advantages of the great body
of citizens engaged in agriculture
is of benefit to the whole country
There is in the British islea a
house to house delivery and col-
lection of mail matter including
packages carried at a low rate.
The system has been of great
benefit to all the people. While
the immense area of the United
States restricts rural delivery,
in the end it wiil be found that
all sorts of business have been
helped by bringing the farms in-1
to closer communication with the
world and each other. The re-
commendation of the Post-mas-
ter-General that rural carriers
be authorized to deliver rLerchan-
dise packages, up to five pounds
weight, tor a postal charge of 3
cents a pound opens a new and
interesting field for discussion by
those who are watching the de-
velopment of the farm-mail sys-
tem, as well as by those who are
seeking some means of making
that system less flagrantly un-
profitable, from a financial stand-
point. The rate suggos ed, how-
ever, is too high to become pop-
ular.
This proposition must not be
confounded with that for a nati-
onal parcels post scheme, to
which much violent hostility has
been manifested.
What is now suggested is mere-
ly a local package express deliv-
ery scheme to be handled by the
rural carriers, the proceeds to go
into the postal revenues. No
reduction is made on the rates of
postage on mail matter trans-
ported by railway or otherwise
to the point of distribution.
Only those packages which
"originate'' so to speak, in the
town where the carrier's route
begins, or elsewhere on his line
of travel, would get the benefit
of this arrangement.
This would involve no additi-
onal expense to the department,
but, it is believed would greatly
increase the revenues of the rural
service. It would mean that any
farmer enjoying the servioe
could by postal card or telephone,
send an order to hia local mer-
chant for drugs, food supplies,
dry goods, etc., and, at a very
slight additional expense, have
them delivered at his door. As
postal rates now atand a oharge
of 1 cent an ounce ia exacted
which, on packages of email
value, is ao high as to be well
nigh prohibitive.
The Postmaster-General'8 plan
is not sufficiently comprehensive
to satisfy some progressive stud
enta of the question. These
claim that the need of the hour
is legislation that shall at once
secure to the postoffiee the full
use of the rural post wagon and
relieve the rural public from the
waste of employing special mes-
sengers or special teams on in-
dividual errands.
They suggest the following
rates for a rural house to house
service, limited to the respective
rural routes:
tho Government in comparatively
little additional expense. The
resulting inoome would, it is as-
serted more than pay the cost of
the service rendered. The pres-
ent twentv pound load of the
rural post wagon, would, they
say, quickly increase to 500, 1,
000, possibly 2,000 pounds a day;
with'the use of automobile post
wagons on good roads, the ser-
vioe would be rendored even more
quickly than the present servioe.
"The present 41 cents per day
income of the post wagon would
quickly grow to $5 per day, pos-
sibly to even larger figures. The
$2,600,000 yearly postal income
from the rural service would in-
crease to $26,000,000," confident-
ly predicts an enthusiastic advo-
cate of the plan.
If it is universally conceded
that something ought to be done
to reduce the heavy losses now
incurred by the rural delivery
service, It ia not expected to pay
expenses, but it ought to yield
tribution and collection of the
prinoipal means of communica-
tion among the people.
Conaequently all tho people are
interested in the efficiency of
rural delivery not alone from the
general interest in the develop-
ment of the nation, but also from
their special interest in the prompt
collection of the mail originating
on the farm routes, and in the
pro apt delivery of the mail de-
etined thereto. In order to be
efficient, it must be logical and
coherent.
The assumption of the support
of the rural machinery by the
postoffice implies a full use of
the machinery and full enjoy-
ment of its profits.
In 1904 manv of the rjral car-
riers were largely engaged in a
general transportation business,
outside of the regular mail ser-
vice, but on the regular mail
wagon.
By a proviso attached to the
appropriation bill passed in 1904,
Congress derived the putjio of
this convenience, furnished at
the risk of the carriers, raised
the carriers' salary to partially
compensate them for the loss of
their general transportation buai"
ness, and assumed for the post-
PRISONERS TO
BE PARDONED
Recent Court Decision on Introfiw-
mg Will Cause Much Re-
joicing: in Territorv.
more returns than it does. There j office the entire support of the
are considerable earnings, the j rural machinery.
It seems to follow that in tak-
result of the added stimulus it has
given to correspondence and
other forms of postal business in
the country districts. What these
earnings may be it would be dif-
ficult to determine; first, because
part of them are inextricably
mixed up with the postal receipts
of the larger cities; and next, be-
cause it is impossible to judge
what the earnings from rural bus-
iness would by this time have
been under the old local postoffice
system.
The appropriation for the last
fiscal year was $28,000,000 as
against $450,000 in 1900, and
$8,154,000 in 1903—such are its
rapid strides to the front as a
money spender.
On the basis of the experience
for the preceding year, the ag-
gregate loss in the rural free de-
livery service may be prefigured
thus:
Cost of average rural route
per month $49.54
Income 10.64
inig this course congress assum-
ed for the postoffice the duty of
carrying 011 this general trans-
port business, and the enjoy-
ment of its profits.
(To be continued.)
Ileal Estate Transters.
100 lb. Sack Mill Run
100 lb.Sack Chops
19 lb. Sack Meal
50 lb. Sack High Pateut Flour..
50 lb. Sack Highest Patent Flour
SI.10
1.10
. .30
. .90
.1.00
1 W. J. REID, ""*n j
8 ounce parcels 1 cent
1 pound parcels 2 cents
11 pound parcels 5 cents
30 pound parcels (half
bushel) 10 cents
60 pound parcels (bush-
el).... 15 cents
100 pound parcels (half
barrel)! 20 cents
200 pound parcels (bbl.) 25 cents
Loss $39.90
Thus if the revenue for all the
business done on the rural routes,
were a legitimate credit, the loss
would be 78 per cent of the cost.
But much of the business done
existed before the delivery was
established, and the ''earnings"
must help pay for oarrying the
letters oollected to their distant
destinations. It is therefore safe
to estimate that, thus far, rural
delivery pays less than 10 per
cent of its cost.
The policy that is to govern
this great enterprise is stilt some
what chaotic. It has been built
up so rapidly that the advance
theories have not as yet had time
to adjust themselves to unexpect-
ed conditions, and unforseen ob-
stacles. The posial scandal of
1903 which involved the principal
organizer and prouaotef of rural
free delivery inside the depart
ment, and led to his separation
from the service, necessarily
complicated an already difficult
situation. The administrative
problems had to be tiken up and
solved by new men, and the ser
vice suffered a serious set* back
from this cause.
The postal servioe of the coun
try is the one department which
touches every individual and
stops at every man's door. The
humblest citizen who receives a
postal card or a circular is on a
plane with the most exalted, be-
cause each partakes of the bene-
fits which the Gevernment has
Bought to administir in the dis-
(Reported by Tishomingo Abstract Co.)
William R. Crow and wife to
Lee R. and E. Hiram Jones, lots
1, 2, 3 end 4 in block 10, Kings-
ton; $100.00.
George F. Van Pelt and wife
to Lee R. and E. Hiram Jones,
lot 4 in block 29, Kingston; $25,
Mary Jane Lanham to Jamri
E. Webb and C. H. Ennis, 40 acres
in section 15, township 6 south,
range 5 east; $600.00.)
Edward W. Jones and L. L.
Wells and wives to R. B. Willis,
lota 3, 4 and 5 in block 22, Kings-
ton; $25.00.
D. Davies to Mrs. L. Lloyd,
lots 1 and 2 in block 105, Madill;
$%0.
W. N Taliaferro to D. Davies,
lot 1 in block 12, Madill; $215.
J. R. Elliott to D. Davies and
L. Lloyd, lot 4 in block 12, Ma-
dill, $490.00.
Tom Love and wife to Jesse
Hall, lot 5 in bloc* 35, Ravia; $250.
W. M. Ligon and wife to D. B.
Taliaferro, 40 acres in saction 15,
township 6 south, range 5 east;
$775.00.
'•The Banker's Child"
which will be the attraction at the
Madill opera house on February
15, is a beautiful play founded on
the elemental truth "For a little
child shall lead them." The sim-
ple pathos of the story clutohes
the throat and keeps the eves
moist, while its humor shakes
one's sides with laughter. Spec-
ial scenery is carried for each act.
The costumes worn by the ladies
of the company will.be the envy
of the ladies. Many clever sing-
ing and dancing specialties will
be introduced.
South McAlester, I. T. Fob. &.
—A recent decision of the Ur;it«4-
Statee court of appeals sitting at
South McAlester, has given new
hope to those who love theit
liquor. The decision in que. i.ioc
is that to be oonvicted of intro-
ducing liquor tho defendant mutt
be caught introducing.
The decision is based upon the
doctrine that the mere po-messioe
of the liquor cennot be taken at
prima facie evidence that itf
owner is guilty of the offense Of
* No Kqmil Suffrage.
J Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 6. The J
j women suffragists received 'heir J
J final blow today when the con-
£ stitutioi al convention refused bv
f a vote of 50 to 37 to order tfoe
f question of equal suffrage snh.
{ mitted to the electors of the
state. The committee of the
whole took up the suffrage com-
mittee report early this morning.
The entire day was spent in ar-
gument upon a multitude of
amendments, a few of which
were adopted.
As the provision stands a lopt. }
ed, mule citizens over 21 years *
of age are allowed to vote.
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introducing. The cas-: ..liich tec
to the decision is an appeal froa
a deci ion of Judge Raym md off
Muskogee in the matter of the
conviction of L. L. Ellis of Vet1-
dark. A lot of liquor had beet
found in the possession of ?\I!;sa*
Verdark and in his instru 'iiorif
to the jury, Judge Raymond in-
formed them that the pot ?ssion
of the liquor in itself wa=< miffV-
cient to raise a presumption <&
the defendant's guilt
The gist of tho court of ppealt
decision is that it is not a crime in
the territory for a man to buy
whiskey. In the past many mee
have gone to the witness boxet
and given away the men who so!4
them liquor for the solo purpose
of escaping the jail santenoe
Fort Smith. In the future thif
fear will not be operative.
There are hundreds of priso-
ners in the federal jails who are
imprisoned upon the same sort of
a proposition which the attorneys
for Ellis have just succeeded iu
overthrowing. Their attorneyt
and friends will submit a brief in
the matter to the attorney general
of the United States, who mh
recommend to the president thai
they be pardoned. Especially if
this the caae with over fifty pris-
oners now serving time in tht
various penitentiaries of the coun-
try.
The Democrats in the conven-
tion are positive now that Henry
Asp is a Republican, since he in-
troduced a resolution that no
delegate should be eligible to hold
a state office until two years after
the adjournment of the conven-
tion. The resolution, like the
son-in-law's recommendation to
his mother-in-law's undertaker,
has been embalmed, cremated
and buried, to make sure of its
-ot oomingtolif1 again.
Teach your chil-
dren to save and how to
be economical. Tell them
how to sive and how tr> be erso-
nomical. Tn order to succeed
at saving money, there must bf
saving.
•: Little things that attract eliil-
dren and which prove to be ot
no worth, should lie
aside. Most of the re;i
ure of this life conn
things that cost little.
^The child will soon learn to
take pleasure in savintr money
Saving money is a habit—*
good habit; and one that should
be formed in early life.
'Successful men succeeded by
persisting in saving something
out of their income.
turm*>
pleas-
3 from
IW&dill National Bank
Madill, I. T.
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