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The Coalgate Courier from Coalgate, Oklahoma • 2

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GOIf CUMMINS CHOSEft OMlfiffl COURIfR KHEKCOCIE GETS OFFICE A HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH AT SEA REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN FUND SELECTED UNITED STATES SENATOR BY IOWA STATE ACCEPTS POSTMASTER GENERAL PORTFOLIO BRITISH STEAMER BURNS TO EDGE IN SIGHT OF PORT "Oixiryj oenna Cleanses the System Ef fect' ually Dispels Colds anduead aches due to Constipation Acts naturally acts Iruli a Laxative Best' EarMenmten and Child -youngand Old rep -y out flwexf RHif has ine Jull i CALIFORNIA Jiciai Ejects Genuine which name oj1 the Com JbSYRUPCo it is manufactured printed on tne front of every package SOLD BT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS om ftize on regular price SO per nettle How Rows Begin "Hubby I dreamed last night that that you love "How foolish you "Foolish am As if I could help what I dream And the fight was on Stats or Onto Cmr or Toledo I LVCAI COONTT FiAifi CBXifir makes oath that be i partner of the firm of Cheney a Co dome business In the Ctty of Toledo County nod State aforesaid and that eald Arm will pay the sum ol ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case ot Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use ot Hall's Catarrh Curb PRANK CHENEY Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence this tth day ot December A 1886 I A GLEASON SBAL Notary pvblio- Hairs Catarrh Cura Is taken Internally and nets directly upon the blood and mucous surlaoes of the system Send for testimonials free CHENEY A CO Toledo Sold by all Druggists 76c Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there Is so much falsehood in the world Dr Johnson Panorama Headaches Caused by constant shifting of the gaze as by moving picture shows traveling in rapidly moving conveyances and the like may be greatly relieved by external application to the eyes of Dr Eye Salve It strengthens the eyes and takes away that burning sensation Automoblllsts use Eye Salve For sale everywhere 25c Even the pessimist has bis use in the world He causes lots of people to be glad they are not in his class GOOD nol'SEKEEPERS Use the best why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue At leading grocers 6 cents True success consists in making the most of good and the best of Us evil Feet Ache Use Allen's Foot-Ease OverKOMIO testimonials Refuse imitations Hendtof free trial package A 8 Olmsted 1m Bor Anacharsis: Laws catch file and let hornets go free Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for children teething softens the guros reances tm Bam melton allays pain cure wlndoollu OSeabottl Time money yet people are always spending it DODD I GSOSRidsy 1 COLDS FROM EXPOSURE to all kinds- of inclement weather are of such common occurrence that they are not generally considered dangerous This is a great mistake Serious illness often follows in the wake of a neglected cold DRDJAYNES Expectorant ha been successful for seventy-eight years in curing Colds Coughs Bronchitis and Pleu- risy It is also a standout remedy for Croup Wbooping-Cough Inflammation of th Lungs or Chest and Asthma Cure your cold go to your and get a bottle of Dr Expectorant Three sixes $100 50c and 25c Dr Tonic Vermlfnrfe will build you up splendidly if "run down' from a severe cold Nearly One Million Seven Hundred Thousand Raised Albany Georgfc Sheldon treasurer of the republican national committee filed a list of contributions for the recent national campaign It shows 123330 contributions many of them covering a number of smaller contributions The total amount con-trlbuted was 3165151827 Part of the list follows: $110000 Taft Cincinnati $37777 United League New York $22500 United League Philadelphia $25000 Larz Anderson Boston $25000 A Garrelson Boston $20000 Andrew Carnegie $20000 Morgan New York Three contributors gave $15000 they were Alex Smith Cochrane Bagley Michigan William Nelson Cromwell New York' Seven who gave $10000 each were Borden New York Whitlaw Reid New York Frank A Munsey New York Jacob Schiff New York Fred Smith Michigan Edith Agnes Corbin Washington Johan Washington Vail and assocl-aVs and Coe each gave $9000 Cox New York gave $7500 Kerens St Louis $7000 and Wiiuam Bourbor Hatch Patterson $6000 Among 26 who gave $5000 each were Simon Guggenheim Denver Abe Busch St Louis Ferdinand Sulzber-er Kansas City Dickey Kansas City Bromley Kansas City Mo Eight contributors gave $4500 each two gave $3500 11 gave $3000 and 13 gave $2500 each Among the latter were Charles Schwab and Ell-hu Root both of New York John Jacob Astor of New York and David Hill are among the 20 who each gave $2000 Twenty-four contributed $1500 each Rldgely of Kansas City gave $1250 All of the remainder gave amounts of $1000 or less Theodore Roosevelt Alfred Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt and Nedrlnghaus of St Louis were among the contributors who gave $1000 GOMPERS IS RE-ELECTED American Federation of Labor Retains Him at Its Head Denver Colo Aftter having practically unanimously adopted the report of President Gompers thereny endorsing his course in the presidential election the convention of the American Federation of Labor made its endorsement stronger by again electing him as president for the ensuing The following is the result of the election: President Samuel Gompers of Washington first vice president James Duncan' of Quincy Mass second vice president John Mitchell of Spring Valley 111 third vice president James of Washington fourth vice pres ident Max Morris of Denver Colo fifth vice president A Hayes o' Philadelphia sixth vice president William Huber of Indianapolis seventh vice president John Alpine of Boston Fraternal delegates to the British trades congress John editor of the Journal and A Barger of the United Garment Workers of America to the Canadian trades congress Jerome Jones of the Georgia Federation of labor end editor of the Journal of Labor Convention city for 1909 Canada The executive council which is made up of the officers shows no change with the exception of the substitution of John Alphine for Daniel Keefe WOMEN FIGHT WITH -KNIVES Desperate Battle in Lonely Section of Missouri Ozarks Gainesville Mo A duel to the death -with knives was fought by Mrs Jas Crabtree and Mrs Frank Graham sistefs-in-law in a lonely spot in the Ozark woods about eight miles southwest of here Mrs throat was cut killing her instantly The two women had quarreled over family matters The place and the hour were fixed The sisters-ln-law went alone according tJ agreement to a lonely mountainside where they fought out thd duel CARRIE NATION TO GLASGOW Smasher of Saloon Fixtures Off on a Foreign Tour New York" Mrs Carrie Nation sailed for Europe on the 28th on the steamer Columbia She will speak in Glasgow Aberdeen Uundee Edinburgh London and Belfast Seeks Figures on Dam Damages Washington Secretary Wright has cabled Col George Goethals chairman and chief engineer of the Isth-mlancanal commislon for a statement showing the amount of damage done by the settling of certain portion of the work done at Gatun where a big dam is to be contructed to hold In check the waters of the Chagres river This request was prompted by statements that owing to recent rains a portion of the dam at Gatun had been destroyed' OKLAHOMA NEW STATE NOTES Falrview la to have an electric light plant Cleo Is seeking to become county seat of Major county the Natural gas is within a mile ot Shawnee and already the boom in gas fixtures and gas apparatus has begun The Rock Island has been ordered by a railroad commission to install and maintain an agent at Greenfield the evidence showing that the traffic was sufficient to justify such agent The miners of District No 21 are planning to hold in McAlester at Christmas a great meeting which will include delegates from every miner's union in the district The cotton crop of Pottawatomie couuty will be seventy per cent of a fine crop according to the very latest statistics Cotton is coming in every potsible vehicle Wewoka will hold a corn and cotton carnival in the near future The corn palace will be built within the next month The farmers of Seminole county will take part in the show Tecumseh offers to settle the court house question with Shawnee by putting the court house on the neutral strip between the two towns the site which Shawnee has selected for the capital Aroused from their sleep by an early morning fire Mr and Mrs Clark well known and respected citizens of Clinton were' rescued with great difficulty from the Shultz block The total loss caused by the fire is placed at approximately $11090 Ay million loot gasser That sound bad for This is te capacitj estimated of a new gi well brought in by the Natural Gas company on -the Frank Marple Marple farm four miles east of Law- In by this company The company now supplies Lawton with gas The printers- of Chickasha have affected a permanent organization of the International union Clarke was elected president and John Tewksbury secretary An application for a charter was forwarded to the national secretary of thd organization Nine printers participated in the organization There are twelve la-cal members On complaint ot Caudill and other citizens of Kiowa county the Rock Island railroad has been ordered by the corporation commission to put In a sidetrack at a point about midway between Hobart and Lone Wolf with accommodation sufficient for loading and unloading commodities in carload lots With the completion of the sale of the half section of Indian land adjoining Lawton on the north the government realized for the Comanche Indian school $280986 of this amount $492000 has been paid as an act of good faith the balance $231785 is due February 1 1909 Of this 20 per cent $56197 wil 1 go for a federal building The M-ethodlst ladies of Chickasha have devised one of the most unique mean of raising church funds yet reported by any city society They are gathering up old papers to ship to a firm in Kansas City where they will get $150 for 30000 -pounds The freight on the cars will cost $90 leaving the ladles a profit of $60 Fort Towson will If certain arrang-ments are completed be turned over to the state of Oklahoma as a relic Of her ancient days Fort Towson still has a cemetery which should he cared for a task however which the government will assume District Judge Cole of McAlester has called for a special grand jury to investigate the charge that a member of the Jury which passed upon case last week was given $5 and a drink of liquor for his ballot In the jury room The case was that In which the National Refrigerating and Butcher Supply company obtained a judgment against John Elsing a local butcher Frank Quentin an Osage Indian 20 years old lost his left arm by the accidental discharge of a shot gun which he had been bolding in his lap while driving down the road near Paw-huska A cyclone swept a strip of country in eastern Oklahoma near Westville demolishing everything in Its path Three houses were shattered to pieces large trees were pulled from their roots and torn into splinters and a large number of cattle were killed 'COALGATE HON WARREN GARST FOR 60VERN0 Selection of Cummins Made in Compliance With Result of Recent Primary He is a Revisionist Des Moines la The Iowa legislature on the 25th elected Hon A Cummins to succeed the late Senator Allison in the United States senate and made Warren Garst governor Following the election of Governor Cummins to the senate by a vote of 109 to 35 at 12:20 Lieutenant Governor Gart at 3 was duly inau gurated and assumed the reins ot office immediately A reception at which thousands attended was held in the rotunda of the capltol building at 8 Gov ernor Garst and Senator Cummins stood in line for more than two hours receiving the congratulations of the Iowans It was not a dress suit affair Rich and poor alike gathered at the great capltol building Nearly all of Des Moines it seemed turned out to extend well wishes to the newly elected senator and governor Chief Justic Ladd administered the oath of office to Governor Garst Senator Cummins will go to Washington early next month and be officially sworn ln- 8TRIKERS SHOT DOWN Deputies Use Guns With Deadly Effect to Quell Rioting Perth Amboy Following a pitched battle between 700 strikers and 12 deputies at the factory ot the National Fireproofing company at Keasby near here In which six of the strikers were Bhot down Governor Franklin Fort despatched four companies of the state national guard at Trenton to the scene A feeling of intense excitement prevails as the strikers-declare the deputies -were not justified in firing on them Two of the wounded men are dying In the hospital here and three of the others are painfully hurt For two days there has been rioting at Keasby and a number of manufacturing towns along the Raritan river Two weeks ago the men employed by the Raritan River Clay company went on strike for higher wageij They marched to the plant of the Perth Amboy Firebrick company and induced the men there to go out The next 'day the men marched to other towns to induce employes to leave their work The strikers nearly all of whom are foreigners say that they were given to understand before the election that If Taft was elected their pay would be restored to $150 per day It now is $130 The officials of the factories say that no such a promise was made CANNON FOR A CHANGE Uncle Joe Announces Abandonment of Standpatism Chicago Joseph Cannon speaker of the national house of representatives placed himself on record at the luncheon given here in honor of the six rear admirals of the navy by Alexander Revell at the Union League club in favor of a revision of the tariff in accordance with the promise of the republican platform and declared that so far as his vote was concerned he would see -to it that the announced policy of revision would be written in the national laws as soon as possible Oklahoman Must Pay St Louis Special dispatches from Jefferson City Mo say that the supreme court of Missouri affirmed a judgment of $5000 against Col Zach Mulhall of St Louis and Oklahoma The sum had been awarded to Ernest Morgan who was wounded by a stray bullet from revolver during a fight on the fair grounds June 18 1904 Saw Bank Robbed Norfolk Neb Six robbers dynamited the State Bank of Page Neb securing all the cash in the bank said to be about $4000 and good their escape While two men did the work the others stood guard Two guests of a hotel near the bank witnessed the whole affair but did not attempt to give an alarm fearing they would be shot r- I Fire Drives Families Intot Street Forty families were driven from their homes Into a chilling rain by a fire which destroyed three four-story buildings in north Winchester avenue and occasioned a loss -of 5(00 I a yf VJ ---'Kansas Bank Robbed' -Wichita The Towanda State Bank vault at Towanda was blown open with nitroglycerine and $3500 secured 'The" cracksmen fled toward Wichita on a railroad tricycle: A posse Is In pursuit- Vote in Utah Salt Lake City Utah The official vote of Utah announced today shows the following results: Taft 69875 Bryan 52631 Debs 005 Hisgen 821 plurality 17244: HE IS WELL VEH5ED IN POSTAL AFFAIHS Best Man for Place Thinks President-Elect Making Good as Assistant Name Not Officially Given Out Hot Springs Va Frank Hitchcock has been offered and has accepted the position of postmaster general In the Taft cabinet that is to be The official announcement doubtless will not be made until Mr Taft has completed his cabinet because of this no expression regarding the selection of Mr Hitchcock was obtainable for publication from either Mr Taft or the republican national chairman There were reasons It was pointed out why It was expedh ent that Mr status should be fixed As chairman of the republican national committee he became more familiar than any other person with the political phase of questions likely to arise at the beginning of the Taft administration and the knowledge he gained regarding the personnel of the party will be of great service to Mr Taft OPINION UPHELD Shawnee Company Will Probably Appeal to Spreme Court Guthrie Okla Sustaining the opinion of Atty Gen West that bills for printing cold not be paid out of the contingent appropriations for the various state offices unless specific provision is made in the act itself for such payment Judge A Huston denied the writ of mandamus asked for by the Shawnee State Publishing company to compel State Auditor Trapp to issue warrants against the contingent fund of the labor office to pay for printing done by the Shawnee Institution The printing company immediately filed notice of appeal and will carry the case to the state supreme court ENGINE BURSTS Engineer and Fireman Killed and the Brakeman Injured Parsons Kan Two men are dead and another is expected to die as tne result of an explosion of a Missouri Kansas Texas freight engine near Idenbro Kan six miles south of here The dead are: Frank Melville engineer Parsons Kan Wulf fireman Dallas Tex Roe bead brakeman of the freight to which the engine was attached is fatally injured The engine had just been turned out of the railroad shops at Parsons after undergoing repairs and being thoroughly overhauled It was supposed to be in first class condition HOCH TO ISSUE PARDONS Said to Have Decided to Pardon Jessie Morrison Topeka Kan Governor Hoch has decided to pardon Jessie Morrison This is the latest pardon rum-or emanating from the executive-office and comes in such a way as to scarcely be doubted Governor Hoch has already shown clemency to Emmett Dalton and Willie Sell two of the four famous in the penitentiary and his intention to pardon John Collins a third before the close of his term of office was announced last week This leaves only Jessie Morrison out of this group and she being a woman the plea is more forceful in her case TULSA BANKER POISONED George McGannon Dies in Six Hours From Ptomaines in Food Tulsa Okla Geo McGannon millionaire president of the Central National Bank here died of ptomaine poisoning contracted while dining at noon in a hotel McGannon came here two years ago from Seneca Mo where he made a fortune early In the seventies trading with the Indians The body will be conveyed to Seneca for Interment New Forest Reserve -President Roosevelt has signed a proclamation creating the Ocala national forest In Marion' county Florida and the Dakota national forest in Billings county North Dakota These two states have thus been added to the nineteen other states and the territory of Alaska wherein land Is under a scientific forest administration the Florida forest being the first to be set aside by the government east of Mississippi has an area of 201480 acres Wagner Wins Auto Race Savannah Ga A Fiat car sent plunging through changing fog and sunshine over 402 miles of roadways by the experienced hands of Louis Wagner won the most spectacular the longest and the fastest International automobile race ever held in this country Publisher Found Dead Chicago Charles Jenkins a pub lisher of Philadelphia was found dead of heart disease in his room at the Kalserhof hotel BOATS 60 TO THE RESCUE ROT ARE SUNK Falling Masts and Debris Carry Down Craft Loaded With Refugees Fire Spreads Rapidly Cutting Off Escape Valetta Island of Malta A terrible disaster in which more than a hundred persons lost their lives occurred at the entrance to this port and within sight of the whole population of the city who were powerless to give aid i The British steamer Sardinia ot the Ellerman (Line hailing from Liverpool and bound for Alexandria with a crew of 44 Englishmen and six second -class cabin English passengers and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims aboard caught fire and within a few minutes was a roaring furnace surrounded by clouds of smoke through which the flames burst upward to a height of 200 feet from explosions in the hold So rapidly did the fire spread that the frantic efforts of the crew to operate the fire apparatus proved useless and it seemed but a moment before the upper works and masts crashed down upon the deck while the boats were crushed by the falling debris or quickly burned Safety only lay In jumping overboard and taking chances of being picked up Assistance was hurried to the burning vessel from all the warships in the harbor and from the shore but the work of rescue was greatly impeded by the strong tide that was running Even the naval launches which came as fast as they could be driven were unable to go alongside ANXIETY FELT FOR AERONAUT Counter Wind Currents May Have Carried Craft Over Pacific Los Angele Cal Some snxlety is felt here for ihe safety of Captain August Mueller and Hutchinson who ascended In the big balloon States" Intending to reach a a altitude of 000-feet if posible The ascent was intended merely ns an experimental one the bag being filled with Illuminating gas which it was estimated would hold the basket up for 12 hours TQM JOHNSON PENNILESS Traction Deals Depleted Fortune and Force Hini to Simple Life Cleveland Mayor Tom Johnson who for years has been credited with possessing a very large fortune has announced that he had lost everything and would be compelled to give up his beautiful home in Euclid avenue and move into smaller and less expensive quarters The mayor also stated that he would give up his automobile and other luxuries because he could no longer afford to keep them His fortune was- wrecked the mayor declares by his devotion to the affairs of the estate of his dead brother Albert who was heavily Interested in traction properties in the east Troop to Leave Cuba Washington Governor Magoon cabled that he would be able to be in Washington early in December This visit is to allow a conference between Secretary of War Wright and Governor Magoon concerning plans for the withdrawal of American troop from Cuba during the month of February ARKANSAS HAS TORNADO Number Reported Killed and Many Said to be Hurt Fort Smith Ark From meager reports received here from a score ot towns in Northeast Arkansas twenty-five people were killed fifty Injured and a number missmg In a tornado which swept through a section of the country two miles wide and seventy miles long The force of the storm waB felt greatest in the vicinity of Ozark' Ark the small town of Cravens four miles west being completely wiped out Four people were killed and three fatally Injured Name Watts Receiver National Bank Fort Scott Kan Joohn Watts of Newton Kan has been appointed re ceiver of the First National Bank which' closed Its doors yesterday Bradley who was announced as the recclverfol lowlngt he closing of the bank ta unable to accept the temporary receivership Mr Watts has been instructed to take charge of the bank at once First Canal Execution Panama Hubert Stout a native of Barbadoes hanged at Culebra for the murder of a Panama woman This was the first execution In the canal zone since the American government has had-charge- Burned to Death in Wreck Brinkley One man was killed and four Injured when a Rock Island freight train crashed Into an extra freight about a mile from this city I 'I i-'i 1 jui-'winw iV.

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1899-1944