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TH6 HEART
NIGHT Wr
A STORY Or THE GREAT NORTH WEST
Ouvingiee.ftoe
ILLUSTRATIONS 6y fx
THE TIMES. TEXHOMA. OKLAHOMA
i><*. «s. a little p«o.e before th.! Then • change came over Lhi •
Ud then b^ent on lure, and Involuntarily be peered
My Hod. tt'i done I*
COPYMCHT OY POOP. HEAP COVPAnr
, work and Bllet* had stopped between
the table. at aupper time.
-Win the Slletz .tar?" ahe had
a.ked almply and It had taken no more
synopsis
•iimi of D.tfr-i '•"""♦V*/
with lh mmp and th« w°rA_J{J *hnBl ha
kcari th# linn of th# Stl®t* trine of
(Man* and wond*r whal
In th flush of ■ tsnlrr moment h* cani
h r "th Night Wind In ih PI"*-
kliw h«r I'oppy to iRllyS
writer from N*w York. eom#«Jo Da r
to *rt matertul tor remof the lum
& sas jws
««rm'tr'apnMers off B.ndry^ mrn pull
down the chDin flandry curoparMi WWa
and Poppy Sandry« «nd Hampden
men fl*ln over the f1l«putenrl tr
Prearher at-.pa th* fl*h nB n£™
that the dr-d to tha. Ea.i B«lt hw. n-ver
been recorded He decldea to IP* out I
con'rait lire- and A.ht for tha
afterward I'oppy ecenta *«
flirt* with Hampden to gain.hi. fQ""
dene She tella Sundry that Hamoden U
<TW.ke.l hnd that ih 'fl set him. P PPV
(oh lo Haiem In aearch of avld -nce
aralnat Hampden Bandry and Bllet* ride
to the aeaahore and Blleti sees the <£*•"
for th . Aral time Bandry a men deMrt
htm for Hampdan. who ha n7*re^. m>™
mon-y Blleti go«a to her frlenda the
Btwaahee and peraoadea them lo work
for Bandry to aa e hla contryrt. Popp"
tella Bandry that aha haa proof of Hamp-
4en'a flllna boaua entrlea In collualon with
cjmmlaalonar. Bhe aeea Blleti and
ndry tnlklna together and beoomea
JeaIona The bl« timber raft la atarted on
ft« way but f blown up and Banflrv ts
danvarously InJurMt Poopy Inal t on
taking rare of Bandry ana eayi ahe la hla
promfael wife. "No." rrlea Blleti. he
klaaed me and I am hla woman.
CHAPTER XVII—Continued.
And again:
"Legitimate:
rfttmately I"
Thla waa aa the aun. a bo ft. golden
benign aun of early spring dropped
o*er the wemern ridge, aendlng long
blue shadows acroea the narrow val
ley. Aa the abadowa darkened Into
twilight Ma Dally, bearing aome
strengthening brew, loomed hugely in
tbe office door
"IH take watcb now." ahe aald.
"you ben on guard a king while Bet-
ter go get aome rest."
But Poppy Ordway. who waa bend-
ing closely over the cot. sprang sud
denly erect. Her cheeks were flushed
and tn her face waa a strange excite-
ment. "No," ahe aald flrmly. "I shall
stay the night out He is delirious
j still and I cannot leave him."
Ma Dally, that shrewd old general
-i w«nt to ahake handa with ua all cloaer. .
wher I'm able. Were a winning Mas keen, old eyes wera upon bit
-'" aWe" face and she saw It .lowly lose wha
A. won aa Dally had gone Poppy little color returning life bad given it
Ordway leaned ao close that the aubtle „aw a look of bewildarmentof ama
perfume of her garment. Intoxicated and something very like few «*ttk
than that The camp went ahead In- | of men and meals, took keen note of
every email thing In the hushed room,
set down [be broth and turned away
down upon It. drawing the feature,
tightening the skin. He .tared hard
at the few want note., then ral.ee
av«« tn her.
be
"The Preacher!" .he gasped aloud,
"oh. father! What have 1 done! I
have .hut my ear. to the wind, of
God!"
When, an hoar later, .he came up
on th. cook-aback porch and etood i
leaning In the doorway, .pent with
her wild paaalon, Ma Dally grimly fed
the Ore In the range, setting about
the .upper for the men left at camp
"Mother." aald Bllet* dully, "abe
Had."
"Yea—1 know It. But what you goln
to da. child? Vou love him an' you're
right—.o would 1 ef 1 waa thirty year
younger, for he', a man. Eaat or no
Eaat."
The general turned to her work and
a algh heaved her ample breast.
"lt'a all In tha day'. work." she
thought, "an' you had to take your
cbanct. Johnny—but you're strong, inv
son. you're a strong man—like yer
daddy."
Bo began a strange time in camp
Dally came home In throe days, eager
and grlm-llpped, and In the pocket of
hi. flannel .hlrt he carried the big
(beck for which Sandry had worked
and .truggled. He had delivered the
raft In .afety. along with tbe .caler a
report, receiving the payment which
had been ready In the handa ot a
thin gray man who leaned from the
steamer', rail to exchange a few curt
worda.
Ma Dally cornered him In the kltch
en late In the night as ho finished
hla careful round, of the camp
"Son." ahe said gently, "thcy's n
hard knock comln' to you an I want
to give you warnln', though 1 know
you'll take It standln'. Johnny, as yer
daddy took all o' his. un' I've seen
him take aome corkers.
"1 know what you ve always thought
o' S'letx, aon. .ence she waa a leenay
chap—I've watched hor quiet waya
open yer heart an seen her walk In
an' I've hoped myself some day lt d
all work out. fer she's always turned
to you In trouble. It's Instinct, but
.on—aon. haven't you seen nothln
.once Sandry come among us? Hain't
ye read the signs?" The foremau bad
.topped nt tbe sink and lilted a tin
dipper of water for a drink. At the
last words he put tha vessel Blowlv
down untouched and turned an amazec
face toward the old lady. HI. blue
eye. were wide, and the mother glo
rled like a girl In the good man
strength of him—the broad shoulders
the muscled arms, bare to the elbow,
the ahapely back and the straight hips
of the blll-cllmber
"What you talkln' of, ma?" he asked
"Jest thl.. 8'lotz laid out hor hean
fer all to see when they brought Sandry
home an that that Jexebel woman
shamed her before u. all Slie auid
on the heelB o" th child', cry of love
that .he was Sandry a promised wife
1 think .he lied —but S'letx 1. hreakln
hor heart fer the Easterner
Here, without another word. Ma
Dally opened a door behind her and
creaked through closing It softly
Of .ucn Inherent tact was she she
did not wish even his mother to set
big John I tally take his harn knock
even though he "took it standln with
only a tremor of tbe hand that held
the dipper.
When he met Slleta in the morn'n*
he looked at her with eyes a little
more haggard—there was a deeper
line at the corners of his mouth
The girl hore traces of the tirat an
gulsh site had ever known In the pal
lor of her race, the dull look ol aniol
derlng tiunu under the dale ol help
les.ness
Tt re was t « one tn the eat iiik room
besi es themselves Collins *hh out
In the bills with ihe crew for at the
ti rat sight Of it* miry rdll .> "• Mailv
had tftVMt' xr-tera in go w,,>>
definitely.
Now Dally stopped her with a great
hand on her shoulder and looked hun-
grily Into her face.
"S'letx." he uld softly. "I. It truer*
She raised her eye. to hi. and an-
.wered as simply. "Ye."
There wa. no need of many worda
among the.o people of strong Uvea,
of straightforward principles.
The big man straightened up a bit
and shut his UpB hard, as If be bit
upon pain, looked after the vanishing
figment, of all his dreams that had
peopled the hills of the future. His
mother had Been that look In the eyes
of John Daily the flrst—who bad
"took his hard knocks standln' "—that
look of patient strength. For it she
bad followed him Into the hard life
of a lumber camp and never regret-
ted It.
Now tt .pent Itself on the rising
hill, visible through the open door
across Slletx' dark head, and John
Dally the Second was ready to face
hi. loss.
"Slletx." he said gently, "always re-
member that I'm the best friend you
got on eartb—I'll be waitln' all ray
life to help you ef you ever need
ma." And he smoothed his hard
hands easily down her arms, lingering
a moment with her hands folded In
his palms Then he turned away to
the day's work There was a small un-
dertone of Boftness In hi. voice at the
last words that wa. never to leave
It again.
CHAPTER XVIII.
"8ay *8andry'l"
Calmly I'oppy Ordway took charge
of tbe stricken man In the pine of-
fice. All of the day and as much of
the night as her strength would per-
mit Bhe was beside him. soothing his
restlessneBB. tending him with a
skill that showed Intelligent training
Outwardly she was as quiet as the
spring daya. Inwardly she pantod and
suffered with the abandon of the pas
slonate nature which sees its desires
in danger Mot'e and'more ahe grew
to fenr and hate the silent, soft-footed
girl whoso face between Its dark
braidfl was a mask of tragedy. With
her woman's Instinct and her aljnost
unnatural cleverness she knew that
way lay danger. Selfishly. In self
centered pasuton. this woman loved
her whole kindly heart filled with sus-
picion.
Outside in the darkness Siletx stood
a little later and looked through the
open window at the figure on tbe
white cot, and the watcher beside it
Her bands were clasped tightly to-
gether and her dark eye8 were heavy
with unshed tears
If he—dlea " she gasped dryly be^
tween her parted lips. "I'll kill her and
go with bim to hell, for he has no
God!"
But Sandry did not die For a week
he traveled on strange paths of mem
ory. calling on Ruth to come out of
the gloaming of a far land, standing
aside to watch Naomi send back tbe
ones she loved, and sometimes crying
out sharply, "Oh. Absalom! My son.
my son!" Again he laugbed bitterly
and spoke of lost faith in men.
Throughout the week Poppy Ordway
stood such a vigil as only a woman
who Iovob, be she good or bad. can
stand. With a clever Jealousy she kept
everything under her own capable
bands, only giving fwdglng place to
Ma Dally when she could no longer
command her overtaxed strength.
One night she refused to leave San-
dry at all. tlrmly dismissing Ma, who
raged Inwardly but was no match for
her In the open ways of bluff. At mid
night the owner of the Dllllngworth
suddenly opened his eyes, weak and
tired, hut sane. He saw. on the dim
background of faint light from a shad
ed candle, the transfigured face of
the watcher, and with a feeble smile
of utter content dropped back to ob-
livion—this time the oblivion of heal-
ing sleep.
With that look, that weak smile, the
woman knew that he had turned hi.
face toward life and would Journey
hack to It. and the surge and sway
of passionate Joy rocked her soul in
a storm of emotion.
She stepped lightly and restlessly
about, straightening a cloth on a table,
tipping tho candle shade at a better
angle, for sho felt Imperatively the
he^d of action. She picked up an
empty pitcher and In the rtarllt dark
ness went up tbe path to the cook-
shack still with that bounding, light
step of victory, and entered the porch
i where the pump stood
perfume
him strangely, and said exultantly
"And now for Hampden. Walter—
I'm ready to go after him right."
Sandry looked up at her from his dilated eye. to her.
pillow and then out along the apring- . "Are you .ure ma B"re .
tinted hill., and drew hi. brow, to- a8ked in a strangely altered toIml
get bar in thought "Sure? Kver know me to speak
Presently he spoke. when I ws'nt sure, son? said the gen
• You've been so good to me—1 can't eral grimly
say bow good, bow much you have Kor. though the notes on the pag
stood for to me here-but—but. If you were so tew and so meaningless to an
please! Miss Ordway-Poppy my ouU,der. it was plain that ttjr tad
friend—I'd rather you'd let Hampden fanen under the one ' ey
alone. whose owner they most vitally con-
"What?" cried Poppy aloud, while cemei.
all her instincts were clamoring for
adjustment ' "What do you mean.
Walter Sandry?"
"Can't you see. you clever woman.
that I must get Hampden myself?
*
shadows op coming event*.
March -*—IJveaioe* Snow. Oklahoma
CTty.
Mar. 5-10—Livestock show and aaJe.
Oklahoma City
April 4—Third District republican in-
vention, Durant
Sept. 12-13—Stephens county fair.
Sept. 14-1C—Uraay countv fair.
Sept. l -2u—Comanche county fair.
Sept. 1S-20—Ottawa county fair. Afton.
Sept. 13-30— Stat* fair. UKianoma City.
He Stared at the Few Scant Note..
That this score must be settled first-
hand?"
And Ma Daily, coming softly along
the grass to the door, heard the words.
"Ktiowed It." she said with a sharp
satisfaction, "he's a man an' I knowed
it from th' start."
There, alone In the night, leaning
CHAPTER XIX.
and to gain tho object of that love she | 'a po8t of the porch a s|In)
felt within her heart that she could
wreck tho universe. And its object
wna In twofold danger—from Sandry's
death and from Siletx.
Therefore she began to watch Slletx
with catlike glances from under her
lashes, and to think with all her brll
little figure kept also a midnight vigil
Tho woman looked at hor and all the
danger that lay that way aroso sud
denly before her. rousing her hatred
swiftly, and something ugly and cat-
like prompted her to strike.
She laughed, a little, low, musical
llant brain of some way to eliminate Jaugh an,j flpoke in a caressing tone.
_ «a ! "Congratulate me." she said softly
the fever has left him. I'll have him
up before the first flowers bloom In the
valleys. Dear boy—dear Walt!"
Slletz, a moment before drooping,
whirled upon her like a furv Kven
In tho dusk Miss Ordway saw the hid
A Lie and a Theft.
Sandry recovered rapidly. His youth
and lithe strength were powerful aids
and the broken bones inside the plas
ter casts knitted busily With his re-
turn to consciousness. Miss Ordway
relaxed her vigilance. She gave up I
her place without protest to Ma Dally
and began to spend a part of her days
in the little room. This had been San
dry's urgent request.
"See what you've lost already In
time and strength and energy." he
pleaded, "please go to your own work "
On one of the first days of Ma
Daily's attendance, he asked to see
Siletx
The general was wise and she sent
the girl alone. Sandry closed his eyes
and lay waiting for the light stop thai
always reminded him of wild things in
the forest—so slipping, soft and
hushed was it.
Presently he hoard It coming down
the .....
office and for a long time stopped al
together outside the door. HIb heart
leaped uncontrollably and conflicting [ don Tit-Bits
emotions flushed his face as he called
her softly M
1 "Come here."'letz," he beard him
This was what VS alter Sandry read:
Tuesday n.tfht: Kulned! Ruined! Help-
less, uiiu he uoes nol Know!
v\ edneeday sicuundrela all-James B.
Whilby MuiwelUui . -Copper and
Consolidated. Legitimate! My Uod. lt s
done leg.i.ntatciy: Within the law! Majr
audi liiw Uf damned. JatueB B. WhllOy-
I am ilie law tlita nlglit. • • •
Thursday: Dau. old chap!
When he had finished, bis weak
hands trembled on tbe sheet aud there
was tbe looa of a cornered auimai in
the bright, blue eyes that Bought the
old woman s pleadingly.
"Ma. said bandry hoarsely, "take It
back and put it where Miss Oruway
will casually hnd It. and don't say I
saw it."
1 Without a word. Ma Daily picked up
; her bowl, put the little red book in ber
j pocket and took SileU away to the
noon work, leaving the man for the
first time alone. Of a wide and cun
ning knowledge was this old handler
of men She knew that be would
think best in solitude.
"Mother," said Siletx as they passed
up the path, "she never dropped that"
"Course not. I lied an stole both,
but it's worth while. There's som*
thin' tbreatenin' Sandry. an though
he8 pretty weak to be worried, If.
best he should know."
And In the meantime Poppy Ordway
was talking to Hampden on the Slletz
road. The man was passionate, force-
ful a little worried by her long ab-
sence from their rides, and he used
every persuasion at bis command to
win her from the Dally camp
"Whkt for do you want to stay
there?" he begged.
"Don't you know I am writing a lum
ber story?"
"Sure. But why can't you come to
the Yella Pines?"
"And have the country talking?
ride with you too much for that,
have a reputation in tbe great world
that 1 can't afford to lose In the little
one."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
There i. not a vacant house In the
town of Grandfield.
The Fourth di.trict republican con-
vention will be held at Shawnee,
March 20.
The U. S. senate rejected tbe nom-
ination of William M. Huntley to be
postmaster at Hush Springs.
The proposed bond issue of $30,000
to have been issued in constructing a
highschool building at Alva waa de-
feated.
TELL OF STRANGE MEETINGS
Doctor, and Nurses Relate Remark
able Happening. Occurring in the
Military hospital..
The long arm of coincidence was
never more strikingly illustrated than
by the remarkable cases of hospital
reunions related by the commanding
officer of the Welsh General Military
hospital. Recently a nurse entered
one of the wards, calling the name of
a certain soldier who w.^s due to take
| his medicine. In response to the call
j a man sat up In one of the beds, but
Pe" ' . . I tian name was different from that of
the man she was seeking, says Lon-
don fire leap up uncovered in her eyes j 8elf gay)ng, though for his life it was
and hoard primal danger whimper in | n()t>wtiat he wished to say. and she
her voice. came and dropped on her knees beside
' him. clasping her hands on the sheet
at his side. There was nothing of the
"Walt!" she cried, springing toward
her and lifting a hand whose slim lin
gers threatened her throat, "say San-
dry!"
Miss Ordway In ber broadcloth
sprang back agalust the rough planks
of the cook-shack wall, her face gone
white in the shadows and sudden, grip
ping, choking fear in her throat She
put up u useless hand—a trembling
hand, palm outward—and strove to
speak—once, twice.
Then. "Sandry," she faltered like a
craven. She was whipped, scared, her
power gone
Hut the wild thing died In Slletz us
It had lived, on the turn of a moment,
and she let out a great breath and
covered her face with her hands after
a fashion she had.
"No " she whispered in her palms,
"ho kissed me and I am his woman!
Oh. I am unworthy! What would I
have dono?" And she ahuddored, as If
In fear.
So tho camp went forward. John
and his silent crew cut steadily into
the timber at the north and sent the
logs down to the backwater. Here ho
kept a guard for although there was
nothing of lc\portance thpt Hampden
could do since he had played for the
Dllllngworth contract and failed still
he could steal the logs which lay all
too close to the mill at the mouth of
the slongh—and John Dally wns strung
to a higher pitch than be had ever
V
"The Preacher1" She Gaaped Aloud.
her from the question, of some bond
stronger than h <r work with Hamp-
den to bind herself into Sandry". Itfe
should he recover
As for Sandry himself, he was far
on that road which haB no turning.
Kor a day Ar two be had lain In tor
por, to rouse at laBt, as a high fever
sot In. to delirium. He began to talk.
lirst in a rambling, reminiscent whis
per of his early life. He was a charm
ing eager, hlgh-souled boy again, and ,
the woman beside him saw clearly Into been In all his lifelong timber war
the clean depths of his life. with tho Yellow Pines
Hut on the second day of his de As soon as Sandry was able to bear
llrlum something seemed to fall upon | It, Dally told him of the safe delivery
him iroui the past that drew a line of! of the raft of hta trip home In
trouble around tils lips aud sot some Indians sling, ol his subsequent do
hard question In the hot. hi tie llrlum and at last showed hint the
Kot long intervals he lay silent, big check At sight of the paper
it the tired mind were turning and sweated and creased from pocket wear
teturnmp ^unc important thing to the sick man's face flushed and hla
break oui suddenly In excited speech eyes sparkled with blue Maine
'No' he cried out suddenly, no "We won. John, he said, we all
Not while I in sll'e to won—you. 1. Miss Ordway nud —
conscious avowal of Poppy's words in
her look and attitude, only the simple
betrayal of a nature as open as the
day The shining light of joy in her
face, the hushed acknowledgment of
God's sparing of bis life, was all-su!!t
cient. in a flash he heard the words
of Kolawmie's half-breed:
••—for S'letz Is your woman."
And he knew they were true By
every sign of her soul and body they
were true, as simply as the flower wor
ships the sun all day And there in
the little south room from whose open
window he could hear tho click of a
typewriter, was the most brilliant
woman of his own world whom he had
ever known a woman soon to be fa-
mous for her great gift and her mar-
velous beauty—and Bhe. too. Ijy her
open word was "his woman!"
"Little S'letz." he said, though he
had meant to use her name aloue,
"Little S'letz—"
But what he would have said was
left unspoken, for Ma Daily creaked
In the doorway with a bowl of broth.
"My goodness, ma." he said whim-
sically. 'if you don't stop filling me
with broth I'll refuse to eat at all. 1
want a slice of ham and some of your
incomparable rice pudding."
"You want what you get. You sip
thla all."
As Sandry obediently finished the
last drop the general reached in the
capacious pocket of her dish apron
"Here, she said, "see what I found."
At that moment tbe right man, who
was well enough to hobble about, ar-
rived upon the scene, and then, to the
amazement of the nurse'and the other
occupants of the ward, the patients
recognized each other as brothers who
had not met for many years. What
is more extraordinary still, the two
brothers had been in the same ward
for several days without either being
aware of the other's presence.
Even more extraordinary Is the case
of two men in another ward, who.
when the roll was called, suddenly
recognized one another as chums who
some years ago joined the colors the
same day. They had been close
chums in the ranks, but subsequently
drifted upart through the drafting of
one of them on foreign service, to find
themselves reunited In adjoining beds
in the Welsh Military hospital.
On comparing notes a further string
of coincidences was discovered The
two men. unaware of each other's
presence at the front, had been wound-
ed the same day, taken to the same
base hospital, brought home in the
same ship, carried to the same train
and finally placed next lo one anothbr
in the same ward of a home hospital.
Another curious case is that of a
man who after being wounded at the
front-was admitted to one of the wards
of the hospital. On his discharge he
went back to France, and. wounded a
second time, found his way back once
more to the same ward.
great
eyes
by heaven'
(•Cht ♦'
k Utif '
His Precarious Condition.
"1 overheard someone saying that
your nephew, Emniett Uckles, is lying
in a critical condition. What is the
nature of his complaint?"
He Isn t making any,' replied
Uncle Fogy "It Is his wife who if
She held squarely before hla eyes a doing the complaining. You see. Em
the ] little red morocco notebook, opened at lnett went to Kansaa City not lonp
a page far to the back ago to buy goodB, and a few days aftei
"Miss Ordway dropped It as she rode |,jB return there came a dainty non-
off on the bay this mornln' an' I i pt^ned Your Little yunshine It fni.
picked It up" into'bis wires bands, and he has beet.
Without volition, Sandry glanced at1 lying ever since. I should call his con
tho white page, which held a few dltlon inlddlln critical, too. for I don
neatly tabulated notos. boo how In tuuket he ib going to
"We ought not to read It. ma," he falsify his way out of it-"—Kan a>
staa saiHnx "U iu«v be Drlvat*—" t^i cttiu-
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and
number of other railroads no longei
carry shipments of money on theii
trains through Oklahoma at night.
Work is to begin immediately on
construction of the extension or the
Norman-Edmond interurban line from
Edmond to Guthrie
The Norman board of education, Bet-
ng forth insufficient school facilities
for a rapidly increasing enrollment,
has made an appeal for a bond issue
for $55,000.
D. J. W. Phillips o! Hugo, has re-
ceived from Gov. Williams a state
warrant for $400 as his reward for
the apprehension of Madding and Wal-
lis, who robbed the bank of Grant the
first time.
The republican congressional com-
mittee for the third Oklahoma district
met and selected Durant as the place
for the meeting of the congressional
convention and selected April 4 as the
date for the meeting.
Twenty-five head of cattle out of a
herd of 10J) belonging to William Bol-
ton and A. Burden of Avery, were
killed a3 the result of the 55.000 barrel
tank of crude oil-bursting south of
Cushing. They drank the oil.
James Johnson, a farmer living thTee
and a half miles west of Temple, ended
his life by taking carbolic acid. John-
son was 38 years old and is survived
by the widow and five children. He
came to Oklahoma from Texas ten
years ago.
Out of 1,302 tracts of Indian land*
offered in Pittsburg county during the
four days of government sale, 1,025
were sold. The sales constitute a new
high percentage for the sale of Indian
land in eastern Oklahoma The total
sales price was $335,000.
Governor Williams has offered a re-
ward of $200 for the capture dead or
alive of the bandit, who with two
companions, held up and robbed the
First National bank at Heavener, of
$7,500 on December 27. Two of the
robbers have been caught.
Tony Antonias, 12-year-old son of an
Italian miner at Hartshorne, was killed
at McAlester during the storm last
week when the wind blew the Baptist
church off its foundation. He and two
others had crawled under the church
to escape the heavy rain.
One hundred families were rendered
homeless, scores of business houses
flooded, three people were drowned,
and the entire city of McAlester left
in darkness and-without electric power
as a result of a terrific rain which fell
in five hours last Wednesday after-
noon.
The St. Louis and San Francisco rail-
road has paid into the treasury of Okla-
homa the tidy sum of $78,824, thus
liquidating an account held against it
by the state which claimed the carrier
had made overcharges totaling that
amount between July 21, 1911, and De-
cember 31, 1912.
The mystery of the death o" J. M.
Blankenship, prominent Courtney Flat
(Jefferson county) farmer, remains un-
solved. The Green brothers, one of
whom is only 15 years old, are sus-
pected of having killed Blankenship
and are being held in the county jail,
but a motive has not been established.
George Carey, son of Alderman Fred
Carey, and Miss Edith Gray, daughler
of Mrs. Jennie Gray, have just closed
a record of attendance at 260 sessions
of the First Presbyterian Sunday
school at Shawnee in five years, not
having missed a single session in that
time. There were special exercises in
the St (lay school in their honor.
Ther, have been :i,999 accidents re
ported o the state industrial sommls-
sion sinci. September 2, 1915, the date
the new workmen's compensation law
became effective .and 610 claims have
been filed, of which 557 have been set-
tled. The largest amount allowed by
the commissi, "i for injuries was $2,250,
or $10 a week for 250 weeks, and that
was for the loss of an arm.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road wli spend Ihe sum of $6,(100,000
during the year of 1916 in the better-
ment of Its roadbed. The various
kinds of ballast now being used along
the line v ill be replaced with rock,
many wooden bridges will be replaced
with steel ones. The 85-pound steel
rails will be replaced with 90-pound
rails. On the Oklahoma division Ihe
56-pound rails will he replaced by
gVpound steel rails. It is estimated
that out ot' the $6,000,000 at least
$4,000,000 will be used in the work on
I the Oklahoma division.
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