The Gotebo Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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The Gotebo Gazette IMTK1U GUARD
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GOTEBO,
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OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
lastly Stood Strenuous Maneuver* In
Mimic Warfare at Fort
Leavenworth
Sapulpa to arresting the scorcher
MtolsU* Guthrie, OkU.—That the Oklahoma
The Frisco will erect a depot at Wil- KW*rdlmen are among the best In the
lows la Greer county. oountry and are fitted to so through
kind of a campaign la the opln-
Hennessey shipped twenty cars of Ion of the officers who witnessed the
Cbertas this season. " "
Pawnee is arranging for the erection
at seTeral new business buildings.
Drilling for oil has been started on
m school land quarter near Tonkawa.
Katy railroad has jast completed a
work or the Oklahoma delegation In
the recent trying maneuvers at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., where National
Guards from three states took part In
a mimic warfare.
Adjutant General Frank M. Canton
stated that the Oklahoma soldiers
aiade a remarkable record for endur-
Muskogee, Okla.—The amy worm ..
has made Its appearance farms j pronation bill.
new station at Adair in Mayes county. , ance. The maneuvers were held un-
Tbe Fedonla glass works are being the work
loaded on the cars for shipment to i actual war-
Okmulgee. fr* b®: bot de*Plt® thu fact.
. the guards made an excellent showing.
It Is now estimated that 2,000 cars j The Oklahoma regiment did especially
of peaches were shipped out of Okla- , w®11- and was often complimented by
homa this season. I offlc«rs of the regular army who wit-
1 nessed the maneuvers. The stamina
The housekeepers ftt Okemah used of Oklahoma guardsmen was better
three car loads of glass fruit jars on than that of detachments from other
the peach crop so far. states and they were better drilled and
•fleered.
The school land commissioner will ,t . . . ...
have 20 oil wells drilled on state c ™ of general
school land as soon as possible. ! _D . f. . *tbe °kjfhoma brigade
up to the highest perfection attain-
In all the excitement over peaches j abIe appears that he has suc-
«nd politics the good roads movement ! eeeded ln forming a corps that will
giust not be entirely lost sight of. ! mak* an enviable record in case It
m , | •T*r la called into active participation
The Water Works engineers at Hen- In real war.
nessey have recommended a deep well j
In the creek botton near that city. Crops Damaged by Army Worms
It is expected the bumper crops and
new railroad will bring Camargo and
pewey county to the front this year.
A woman at McAlester bought a rail-
road ticket at the station and offered
in payment a half dollar coined in
1795.
The big four story Benbow-Horton
business block at Lawton has just been
sold to Colorado capitalists tor
1125.000.
The government canning experts are
giving practical demonstrations all
over the Btate and great benefit will
result therefrom.
Open air band concerts are the reg:
nlar order al Hennessey this summer)
a new band organization being patri-
otic along this line.
A bonus of $20,000 was paid a few
days ago for an oil lease in the Glenn
Pool near Sapulpa, that being the larg-
est sum ever paid.
Some of the smaller cities of the
state that have rural carriers through
the adjacent country will be served by
those carriers along the streets trav-
eled to and from this postoffice.
DEVISES UNIQUE METHOD
Durant Man Has New Wsy of Killing
Army Worms
Duncan Okla.—Many different de-
rices and ideas have been exploited
In the protection of cotton from
worms and other plant destroying in-
sects, but Burl Nssh, a farmer living
near this city, has hit oa an idea that
he claims to have everything else beat
Army worms this season destroyed
much of his millet, and when they got
through with that he found they were
going for his cotton. He Immediately
dug a deep ditch between the millet
and cotton and when the worms would
crawl to the ditch and fall in h*
would spray them with oil and set
fire to it. None of the bugs got to
the cotton, and as he kept them kill-
ed off as fast as they got to the ditch
his place 1b now nearly clean of ths
worms.
iwnw
Treasury Clerks Are Caged Like Camorrists
THIS! iconony
C*ms MAK5
ME S>CK —
THEY OUCMT
TO HAWC'fM
• I cs—
ASHINGTON—When one looks
on the picture of the Camorrists
in their cage in Vlterbo, where they
were being tried as instigators of
crimes and members of criminal or-
ganizations, it comes right home to
Parole Is Granted
Oklahoma City—Governor Cruce has
granted a parole to T. A. Casey, con
victed of forgery in Creek county and ;
1 p i H r ment "P-ide down. The secretary 1
h « y.4 the treasury has a little walk of his
health is poor and that confinement in OWB> . lltUe elevaU)r Qf h,g 0WQ and
jail would injure his chances of re
covery.
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Administration Building Central State Normal.
a driveway made through a portion
of the treasury plaza purposely for
Receive Back Pay | hIm' none of these to be used by the
Fort Sill, Okla—Approximately $30, bunion herd at all. All are protected
000 in back pay to enlisted men at Ft ' by gates of wrought-iron from invasion
Sill has been distributed by Major ot the c,erki or any of the assistants
Carnahan. special paymaster from De j about tbe treasury department. Be-
partment of Texas bfa^'Miarters, Fori ' tore the economy commission got In
Sam Houston. The soldiers had no I the,r 1,ckB there was a sort of placita
received pay since July, owing to the 1 'be heart of the treasury, the
legislative deadlock at Washington wh,t® Btone wallB beln8 bullt up
over the abolishment of the comment around it. When so many of the cor-
court, which was appended to the ap ridors and other rooms had to be
taken up by private elevators, drive
and runways for higher officials, this
placita was fixed up as a sort of •
glass bouse, and several hundred
clerks fired out into that. Of course,
the sun beats down on this glass
house from the time that it rises until
it sets, and the result was that about
half the clerks were ill all of the
time from the heat last summer. So
this summer they bave put a great
canvas over this glass house, and
keep water running on it all the time.
The poor clerks that work under
this are turned In in the morning,
and the iron gates are closed like a
stone prison, and to get out to get a
bite to eat in the 30 minutes they
have at noon they have to tell their
name, age, nativity, place of resi-
dence and a lot of other family his-
tory. At least those who have to eat
say that It seems to them It takes up
enough time to glvo their pedigree
from the Revolution to now before
they get out without having to do the
same things to get back In, and that
takes up at least 10 minutes from
their scant half hour from eating. It
is said the iron cages are necessary
for the safety of the money which ths
clerks are counting, but the treasury
department has been running for
about 100 years with no such safe-
guards, and there hasn't been (100
lost in the whole 100 years. So, after
all. the clerks In that section of ths
treasury department haven't any-
thing over the Camorrists who were
shut up in steel cages every day.
Hit IDEA OF HOMB COOKING.
Alexander Bluffs Ajax In a Hymeneal Mix-Up
TonkawaI ^ill now proceed to en- north of town and Is doing consider-
large her water Bystem as the result
of bonds recently voted for that pur-
pose.
Town of Roff, In Pontotoc county.
has sold 110,000 in municipal bonds,
the funds to be used ill drilling a deep
welL
Purcell is baseball "buggy." Ths
fats defeated the leans, and the one-
armed men have challenged the win-
ners. j — -
First State Bank of Hollis has na j New 011 Fie,d
tlonalized and now 1b doing business Cleveland, Okla.—Three oil wells
nnder the name of the National Bank have been brought in in a new lieM
Of Commerce. JU8t east "t Cleveland, two of which
have a capacity of 700 barrels each
The new high school at Sapulpa will and the other 500 barrels.
be completed by October L It will be
one of the finest school buildings in
southern Oklahoma.
able damage. T. L. Jobe who li.es
two miles out has five acres of alfalfa.
a week ago the worms shuwed up and
now there is not a leal on the aifa'fa.
The stems are stripped as cleanly as
if done by hand and in most instances
they are even barked or eaten almost
through. Having cleaned up the al-
falfa, the worm attacked the crab
grass, growing near the field. They
avoid cockleburs.
, ALEX Power and Ajax Tobey, two
A leading members of the colored
back alley 400, who were related by
marriage. Inasmuch as Alex had led
Ajax's sister to ths hymeneal altar
and promised to provide board ar.d
I lodging for the rest of her natural
days, were arraigned before Judge
Douglas of the police court on a
number of charges ranging from
"cussing" to "scrapping.**
The statement made by Alex was,
that the lightning defier invaded his
domicile and In the presence of his
copper colored spouse had used lan-
gauge of a very tabascoltic variety
Alex further testified that he had pick-
ed up a stick of Btove wood with
which he persuaded Ajax to deBist
Unlike bis famous prototype, who de-
fied the unseen, Ajax wilted when he
saw that piece of timber in the mus-
cular hands of the brawny Alexander,
and beat It. He didn't take time to
j leave by the door, but jumped out of
j the back room window, which, in his
| precipitate flight he did not stop to
open The result was disastrous—to
smoky Ajax
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ebber seed.
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fc.lfar
The Landlady—Now, as to my tablst
you get nothing but real, genuins homa
cooking.
Mr. Newlywed—Won't do. We're
breaking up housekeeping just to avoid
home cooking
Cold Blooded and Oesth Dealing
CHILLS. Cheatham's Chill Tonic Is tha
only medicine which has entirely cored
me of chills. After spending a great
deal of money for several years to gel
oured, I bought and used your Cheat-
ham's Chill Tonic which cured me and
also two of my children. I recommend
It to all as the best Chill Tonic I ever
saw, says Mr. T. J. House of Bulcher,
Texas. Guaranteed to cure malaria or
price promptly refunded. All dealers
sell it in 60c bottles. Mfd. by A R
Richards Medicine Company, Sherman.
Texas.
Keeping Water Cold.
If you are in the habit of taking a
pitcher of iced water to your room
on retiring, try this: Procure a
square pasteboard box (with lid) suffi-
ciently large to hold your pitcher,
and give it two or three coats of
▼arnish on the outside, allowing each
eoat to dry thoroughly. Place your
pitcher of water In this box on re-
tiring, putting the lid on tightly, and
you are sure of having cold drinking
water any hour of the night.
VODBITB
Gambling Resorts Raided
McAlester, Okla.—The sheriffs
force, the police and constables joined the window—and the
hands and raided every gambling re- sought protection of the police.
sort in town. The jail and city hall "What brought about the difficulty"
were crowded with gambling para- qneried the Highland chieftain, who
phernalia awaiting a court decision be- Is presiding over the police court in
fore burning it.
the absence of Judge Hugo (to) I*
"De langwldge dat nigger used wi
de wust ah is ever heead."
"What did he say?"
"He say d—n an' h—11 an' er heap
mo' sich words."
"How about you. Mythology?" asked
Judge Douglas of Ajax.
'Ah ain't never seed him, Jedge; ho
ain't in cote."
"I mean did you use the profanity
as charged by Alexander."
"Ah belongs ter de 'Tobacca class'
of de fust African church, an' ah
don't nevah use no 'fanity whatsum-
ever. Hit are a mjptake, Jedge; dat
nigger Alex he done lied 'erbout hit."
"In the language of a popular song,
'Somebody Lied' in the case," said
the court."
"However, that is neither here nor
there, and much as I regret the ne
cesslty of imposing a penalty on such
distinguished personages, yon will be
required to deposit $5 each in the
hands of Clerk Bill."
i Tha formula la plainly printed on evvtj bottl*
(bowing Itlaalmplr golnineand Iron Id a laateleaa
, form, and the most effectual lurm. fur gruwa
frauplaaud children. Moon i*.
Lucky Woman.
Wife—There are so very few really
good men in ths world.
Hub—Yes; you were mighty lucky
to get one.
A very successful remedy for pelrlo
•atarrh is hot douches of Paxtlne An-
tiseptic, at druggists, 25c a box or sent
postpaid on receipt of price by Tha
Paxton Toilet, Co.. Boston,
The Main Impression.
"What did the minister talk about
in his sermon th^s morning T"
"About an hour"
A man has no use for a woman who
attempts to convince him that hs la
Wrong and succeeds in doing 1L
Some girls are given away In mar-
riage and some throw themselves
away.
Girl Loses Eye
Alva, Okla.—While practicing with
a target rifle a piece of the shell
struck one of Miss Margarette Ful-'
ton's eyes injuring it to the extent
that the ball had to be removed. She
was taken to Wichita where special-1
ists operated on her.
Capital City Post-Office Cats Always on Job
Prisoner Is Bad Man.
Tulsa, Okla—J. E. Riley, the negro j
arrested here on the charge of rifling!
mail boxes in Tulsa and a dozen other
1L FlA
house
Peach Crop Goad
It is reported that through economy Pontotoc county and arjoinir.g coun-! one*of ^^smoothest criminlis^that I
in the conduct of the county offices try has just closed witi gratifying ,e-1 has ever on £ tL ! at ,
and decreased property valuations, suits, considering this is the first sea- { cordine to Pftl,tftl In.n^,^°T ^ : .^^bout the caU,
been atked.
taxes in Bryan county will be 25 per
cent less this year than last
A moving picture film was taken of
the recent National Guard Encamp-
ment at Chandler which will preserve
all the details of camp life.
It often Is true that fate presents
persons with things they need least.
Telephone girl at Lahoma won a talk-
ing machine in the contest Just closed
by the Enid Eagle.
The Plrst National Bank of Kene
fck proposes to give $5 in cash to ths
farmer bringing the best five ears ot
corn grown on bottom land, and a lib
eral premium for the best five ears
l on upland.
trailing Riley
several
RE the post-office employes here
doing their duty?"
smoothest criminals that] "Yes." said Postmaster N A Mer-
he was
months. J
Bank Nationalizes
Duncan, Okla.—For the reason, it Is
understood, that there are too many
Gilbert Culp, of Waurika, was ac-
faltted of a murder charge at Mon-
tagne, Texas, by establishing an alib.
aad the next day he was married at
Waurika to Miss Cleva Dotson, of that
Pastors end deacons of Baptist
•fcnrches of Enid, Kingfisher, Geary,
B Reno, Okeene and Hinton were se-
lected to assist in the ordination of
the Rev. James Wilson Storer of ths
.Watoaga Baptist church.
constructing aa
temple at IdabeL
Flrat Presbyterian church of Fred-
will soon hi
of worship.
Ancient Knife Blade Found
, Konawa, Okla.—An old copper knife
assessments and that it is too expen-1 b'ade which was probably made by
sive to remain as a state bank, the Indians years ago was found by J. A.
First State Bank of this city has Maxwell in the field. Mr. Maxwell
changed from a state bank to a na- noticed something hanging on the
tlonai bank. The bank has been one P°int of bis plow share and found that _ v .,
of the most substantial state banks In j 11 wa" an old corroded knife blade eoncfn^?g Philadelphia
made of copper. It is supposed the " ~
weapon had been used at a time when
the harder metals were not in use.
"They are on the Job. too."
Then Mr. Merritt stopped to con-
sider whether Washington had any
cats on the official pay roll or not. He
wasn't sure, but insisted that they
were working overtime, provided they
were recognized civil service em-
ployes.
Whereupon, a copy of a scanda-
this part of the state.
Annual Corn Dance Held
Chickasha. Okla.—Three hundred
Indians of the Caddo, Delaware and
Wichita tribes held their annual corn
dance in a bend of the Washita river
there they immediately contracted a
bad case of Philadelphia hookworm.
Although on the official pay roll, so
runs the story, they fell Into line,
formed a union, and announced them-
selves old-time Philadelphia conserva-
tives. The mice have recovered from
their scare and the cats are taking
graft.
An Immediate investigation was or- •
dered at which Assistant Postmaster '
Louis Robinson presided. Testimony
was to the credit of the local office,
and developed the following facts:
No highly cultured civil-service cats
were on the register. No cats of any
kind had ever sought official appoint-
ment, though some were on the job.
If any cat cruwider ever finds his
way on duty bent Into the post-office
he moBt likely will be lynched. The
post-office cats have good records, and 1
count their friends by the official reg-
ister.
When summoned before the Inves- !
tlgatlng committee, the cats did not
Killed by Lightning -
Ponca City, Okla.—While driving In
bis wagon along the road with his
twelve miles west of this city. Seven j wife and child, lightning struck Rob-
steers were barbecued and a five acre! ert Lee, killing him instantly. They
cats was shown to him.
Philadelphia has had her post-office ' come.
supplied with a collection of high I "Always hustling In the interest of
class cats. As soon as these cats re- j the service," chuckled ths division
ported for duty at Uncle Sam's office chicf.
To let malaria de-
velop unchecked in
your system is not
only to "flirt with
death," but to place
a burden on the
joy of living.
Yo« MI prr—« —brii by
krtr taking a 4am «t OXIDI.f E.
Km* e bottis la (be nadlciaa
*■* Md be jrowi* wea
OXfDI VH b «oM N eli irmfthH
mxdtr the Uriel gmmrmmtm A«< i/lha
firilbofiUdon not ktiwfityoa, re-
lam lb* tmptr fertile fo rfraMial
1
Uncle Sam's Official Fish Guesser Is Let Out
field of corn eaten by ths Indians.
had Just passed under a telephone
line when the bolt came down. Mrs.
Lee and her child were not injured
Body of Ross Recovered
Will Show Some Thoroughbreds
Hobart, Okla—Hobart poultry beyond a severe shock,
breeders will be rejsesented at the
state fair at Oklahoma City this fall.
They are said to have acme of the
finest birds in the state. Among those
who will probably show their poul-
try at Oklahoma City are M. V. Deck-
er, John Miller, H. B. Hamilton, W.
C. Bolton and Harry Bretch.
THE official guesser for the United
States government has lost his
Job. For years the government has
bought live salmon upon the good eye
of a veteran fisherman, who took a
squint at each fish and then put down
In his book what he guessed to be the
Shawne# rtkt. tv- . .. 1D n, °°ok wnat ne guessed to be the
',«6,
Canadian riven Sunday night, was re-
covered this evening after a 24 hours'
Auctioneers Association Organized
Leedy, Okla.—Western Oklahoma
auctioneers organized an association
at a meeting hers with the follow-
ing officers: I. A. Maud, Harmon,
president; Ote Hiram, Butler, vice
president; George Lay Wolt Butler,
2Z will soon build a aew 118.000
Watt Fielder, of Canton. Is referred
to aa the potato king of Blaine coun-
ty. He is said to have made all kinds
«( mjmer raising "spuds" this year. .
_ | the organization is for the protection
Northern Oklahoma Jersey Dairy as> of the members, and at a meeting to
•atfatlaa has beea organized at Med- be held at Elk City on October 11.
y promote tha dairy business It Is the Intention to decide on amead-
dwseglijhe^eee^ef Jersey cattle It ments to existing Isws which will he
search. The body rose ten yards
above where It sank.
cordingly—thousands of dollars.
Every year the government buys
from 600 to 1.000 live salmon for
breeding from the weir owners on
hclchs
just -ah
A SPLENDID IONIC
■V an sswn
tha pan c*ntarr. and aaun« Uo-bT M m
S!>E4g?'-,.*lc.bhMW— wlilifraataaeaiiala •
nebiJoaptult and (hat It U vunti? tha allantloa
tbmia who aoffar truia ki«n*r. bladder. — na—
it^ttvjssartfSKSsssa
bS5S£5
Bucksport. Verona. Orland and Pen<rt>-
Injured In Railway Collision
I scot shores
the
salmon tf strangely delicate. 8o It Is
that weighing them Is entirely out of
the question
The government has tor years hired
a veteran fisherman to make the
rounds of the weirs on the little power
boat and keep account of ths fish. All
The price paid la
_ market rate, from 20 to 35 cents a
Phy. of Denison, suered a broken^ Jrtto/th!! tVou^of^ping thVi ! 2^^? wuld°ten bTI gu'nS'S
Ml" tr*ln | , „.h. "X
n.--rM-d <•. . Ila
h" h:;^t 'VmsS**!
FOR OLD AND YOUNG
arastiw cMi
«Ms|s.eseasa
, «*• K*ty yards here. One engineer
* ;-Lrrs ,a th«
brakeman left a switch open which
caused the other, a northbound trait
to leave the main tracks and crast
into the switching engine Traffic was
delayed far several hours on the malt
men were slightly injured In a bead- To got at the exact weight of a live ear. about what It would weight—ten
on collision of two freight engines in ^.BaoB 11 Impoesible, for j twelre, fourteen or perhsps sixteen
! It delicate work at best In j eighteen pounds. It waa guessing
dipping them from the "pourd" In Perhsps the government officials in
the weirs to the "car." which Is an I Washington didn't approve of navina
old dory filled with water, carefully j out money by guess Whatever may
Used with cotton flannel and covered have been the conclusion, ths gov-
with a netting, which Is covered out- ernment guesser hss lost his Job
tfis with canvas Ths utmost cas- j Hereafter twelve pounds will be ths
daa la asasaaary, lor to tha spriag thai * «ht of evsry salmon paid tor
tfsPjlJs
THE BEST STOCK
SADDLES T™
L abta pvteaa. write tar IMS
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