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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
LAWT0N'S CRUSADE
AGAINST GAMBLING,
Residents of the New COmanche
Country Metropolis Appeal
to the Authorities.
WANT GAMBLING SUPPRESSED.
Under Territorial Law No Relief
Can Be Afforded Prospective
Trouble With Liquor Dealers
Water Famine Feared.

REIJ BI.IC 81 TECTAIA
Lawton, Ok, Aug. 3.-Lawton, two days
old. is In the throes of an anti-gambling
crusade. With the influx Of homeseekers
and SPECTATORS. the gamblers have come
in droves. Every brand of skin game
known to the men who live by their wits
Is fiourishing here. and the innocent are be-
ing robbed right and left by the proprie-
tors Of these 'hold-up' schemes.
The majority Of the residents Of the new
town are here for business and are honest
ly opposed to these gambling outfits. Oppo-
sition to the gamblers assumed tangible
form to-day when a petition. signed by
over 800 residents OF the new town. was
telegraphed to Colonel Rand,ett. Indian
agent at Anadarko. asking him to suppress
gambling here.
Peculiar Territorial Laws.
A peculiar state Of affairs has been re-
vealed by an examination of the Territorial
laws regulating gambling and other offenses
against the law. There is a Territorial law
against the selling of cigarettes or cigarette
paper. but there is no way. SO far as known.
to suppress gambling. Under the law. as It
stands. the officials. when they are chosen
here. can prevent a man from smoking a
cigarette. but they viii have no power to
suppress CT check any of the gambling
games that are being run on every hand.
Prospective Trouble Over saloons.
There is also prospect of a conflict with
the liquor dealers. Under the law a saloon
cannot be opened without a notice having
been published for sixty days Notwith-
standing this provision. whisky men are
fiocking to the towns In the new country
and have announced their intention of open
ing saloons on August 6. when the sale Of
town lots begins.
The Territorial officials are preparing to
make wholesale arrests. in case the saloon
men insist upon their attempt to carry out
their expressed intention Of opening for
business at once. In the meantime whisky
and beer are shipped into the country in
great quantities. every train carrying one
or more carloads.
Water and Ice Scarce.
Lawton is still growing. every hour bring
ing additions to the population. There Is
danger Of a water famine. and much suf-
fering has already resulted from this cause.
Water is scarce. the supply being hauled In
frcm creeks some distance away. and 1t
sells freely at 80 cents a barrel Wells
have been bored without striking water, and
much concern Is felt over the outlook In
this respect.
Ice sells at 81 cents a pound. all Of 1t
being brought by wagon from El Reno,
twenty-five miles away.
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National organizer of the League Of I'm.
provement Association Of America vrho
lectrrod at the Piasa Chautauqua Satur-
day.
round table, on the work of the associa-
ton. This afternoon at O'Clock Professor
w. NJ r. French. the chalk-f -falker of Chi
caso. delivered his closing lecture, on The
Value Of Line" The lecture was films
trated by numerous drawings by Professor
French. Several hundred persons were In
attendance. This evening the day's pro-
gramme was closed by a concert in the
Tabernacle.
Tomorrow an interesting programme Of
a religious nature has been prepared for
the Chautauquans and their visiting friends.
In the morning. following the Sunday school,
Alton. a sermon will be delivered By the
Reverend H. l.. Steves of ST. Louis In the
evening an entertainment viii be given In
the Tabernacle. consisting of sacred read
Lamplighters." will also be presented. Pro-
fessor NJ. Edwin johnson. the musical direc-
tor Of ChautauQua. has drilled q boys
choir OF forty voices. which win take q
On every train to-day visitors arrived to
spend the Sabbath in the Piasa Valley. Most
of the arrivals were from st. Louis East
St. Louis. Alton. Jerseyville and spring
tant.
Among the arrivals at the Piasa Spring
Hotel were Mrs. Frank c. Smith of East
St. Louis, Miss Ruth c. Mills Of Alton. Miss
M.n: r. and M. 4r oPRsf P%,sm. of ri H!1diG
registered: Mrs.. II. A. Randolph, Nrs. Lou
ise Doxier, Miss Leila Martin b. p. Hull,
Mrs. Fisler, Mrs.. n. ". Sanifold % snd Ms nS
DoIs Manifold
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WHAT THE STRIKE HAS DONE AND WHA

organized, viz: Youngstown. Girard. Green
Vile. Pomeroy, Warren. Lindsay. McCut-
cheon, Clarke, Bar mill, Monessen. Mingo.
n-inch. 9inch and hoop mills of the Cleve-
land Rolling Mil Company
Tin Mills-An mills except Monessen.
Note-An other matters Of detail to be
len for settlement by conference
We Furthermore wish to state that our
purpose in coming to New York was not
because We doubted our president. T. j.
Snaner, and our secretary, John Williams.
who have our confidence and Endorsement,
put IN the hope Of obtaining a settlement Of
FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Pfttsburg. Pa. Aug. a-"It will be a night
to the finish. No quarter will be given. We
are prepared to spend all the money and
time necessary to wipe out the Amalga-
mated Association In all of our mills"
This was the message that came over the
wires from New YORK to local officials OF
the United States Steel Corporation this
afternoon. Ofhcials were waiting long after
the usual Saturday afternoon closing time
to get word from the conference in New
York between the Executive Board of the
Amalgamated Association and the general
ofncials OF the big trust. Two messages
came. The drst stated that the conference
between the workers and Mr.. Morgan had
adjourned after receiving Mr.. Morgan's ul-
tfmate decision in the matters in dispute.
An hour before this time a second message
came to Pittsburg announcing to the steel
onicials here that the Executive Board had
decided that they would not accept Mr..
Morgan's terms.
The workmen are confident that a gen.
eral strike order viii be issued soon.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
UNREQuITED LOVE THE MOTIVE
LEwrs,s FAREwELL
LETTER TO MOTHER


81. Louis, Mo-, Aug. ., l3oi.-Nfs. Jane
A. Neal. Farmer City. H.: Ny Dear.
Darling Nother-I will write you few
lines In bidding you and all the children
sood-by. as am tired OF living. I am
married, and have been for three months.
and have got the sweetest wife in tho
world. I am sick and my wife Is sick.
too. have got no money to live on.
or to nay room rent. It seems that my
folks DON'T help me or write to mo-
Mother. you know 1 love you with all
my heart Mother. want you TO have
our bodies taken to Farmer City and laid
side By side. Ny dear. darling mother.
you do not know how much I love
nv wife. She Is tho best woman
that ever lived. Mother. have Cncis
Alex come to St. Louis after our things
and get the gun that did the work
want him to keep II to remember your
loving son and his loving wife spent
the last g I had in the world to buy this
gun with. Mother. ! want you TO Be
sure and send after my things Every
thing that Is in the room belongs to US
want YOU to keep my wife's clothes TO
remember her by. I will send you my
p,cture in this letter. Give all my friends
my best wishes. I will close by saying
gocd-by. and may God bless you. as
know he will. and bless my wife.
We room at No. sos North Nineteenth
street, st. Louis. Ny darling Marie Is
the sweetest woman that lives.
From your children. Robert A. and
Marie n. Levin.
Ny wife's brother IL Joseph Ripping.
No. 1901 South Ninth street. who keeps
q saloon.
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HOT WEATHER FOOD.

The selection Of food for hot weather %
m important question We should avoid
an exoess Of fata. cut down the butter ra-
tion and indulge more freely In fruits and
food easy Of digestion. One meat meal per
day ID suncient during hot weather.
An ideal breakfast b Grspe-Nuts. treated
supplies the necessary fat in . very digesti-
BILE foFm,. . cup of Postum Cereal Food Cof-
fee; feb bot . Or. II cold Il should sS have little s
either cooked or raw: also perhaps two
slices OF entire-wheat bread with . very
thin spread Of butter. A breakfa& Of this
the syutem that one goes through the heat
Io3 the day In comfort as compared with the
properly fed Once put in practice. the plan
viii never Be abandoned during the hot
days, Nor the difference In ones personal
comf9'f - too great 70 be easily forgotteu-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
WHITE INDIANS PROTEST.
Members of CaddO Tribe Want
Homes in Comanche Country.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
FL Reno. Aug. IA peculiar complication
has arisen here over the expulsion Of
twenty-five members OF the Caddo tribe Of
Indians from the kiowa-Comanche reserya-
ton. These men are white. and were eject
ed from the reservation by orders OF Colo
mel Randiett. agent at Anadarko. They
were ordered away as white men. Now
they have Med a petition In the United
States District Court here asking ailot-
ments. and have taken possession OF valua-
to leave them. They also ask damage In
the sum of $4,000 for being elected from
the reservation.
Haleo0b Selects His Clal0.
Stephen haicomb. who drew No. IN tine
El Reno district. to-day selected bis claim.
The claim joins the county-seat town OF
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
HIGH PRICE Of CORN
CLOSES DISIILlERIES,
Four Large Plants in Tennessee
and Kentucky Cease to Operate
Under These Conditions.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

nashville. Tenn. Aug. a-Four large
whisky oistilieries in Middle Tennessee and
Southern Kentucky to-day notified ColIec-
tor Num- that they would at once close
down their plants as a result Of the hiGh
price and inadequate supply of corn.
some Of the distilleries have tried to nav
% cents bushel for their corn and operate.
The plants are those of Charles Nelson.
Gree lbrier: Bradley & Scott. Snake Point
rutham county, KY: F. e. Cunningham q
20, Iuiahoma- and F. Eddlemon Of Nash
'iIe. otner plants will close next week
Revenue raiding officers fnd that three
tourtns OF Illicit distilleries have been
.o.Seo 10 suspend by reason Of the high
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
SPONSORS FROM LINMEus, MO-
Additional List Received for Cere-
monies at Springfield.

Justice Leroy B. Valiant, chairman of the
committee m charge OF the cere-nonies in
cident to the dedication Of Trentanoves
Springfield. has received an additionsi iist
OF names or young women who will act a.
sponsors from Linneus, Mo.
They are Misses Mary WILCOX. Julaa Sta
phens. Ellen Combs. Corfnne CoI.sn Brseis
Corrett and Bees Bradley
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
OLD VETS TO RIDE IN AN AUTO.
One of the Novelties Planned for
Atlanta's Labor Day Parade.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Atlanta. Ga, Aug. "A unique feature for
tne approaching Labor Day parade has
oeen arranged. The three Oldest Confeder-
ATE veterans in the Soldiers Home WIN ride
IN the Parade In a handsome locomobfls
decorated In the colors and nag Of the Con-
ieueracy. The machine will be q tWo-eeatsd
anafr, and the three Confederate eoldief3
who have attained the greatest age win s.
wheeled along through the makes OF tho
great pageant.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
INTERESTING DAY At
PIASA CHAUTAUQUA.
Miss Jessie NJ. Good Delivered an
Address on "The School
of Methods"
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
ChautauQua. ILL.,. Aug. 3.-To-day was Ma
tional League Of Improvement Association
Day at the Piasa Chautauqua The prin-
cipal speaker was Miss Jessie II. Good Of
Springfield. o., national organizer Of the as
soc.ation. Miss Good delivered two ad-
dresses. speaking at the Tabernacle this
morning on school of Methods" This aft
ernoon at o'clock Miss Good conducted a
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04

Washington, Aug 2-The following post
ofIlces have been discontinued:
kansas-Blanche Elk County: Conductor.
Texas-Ramirena. Live Oak County.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Jcr0fulu

~ nc enkirely nee nom T.
As may develop % slowly - - eouD
hftae II any disturbance durfne tn 49,
period oe childhood.
n may then produce irresularity q -
-. omacn md bowels, dyspepsia. ea>axYA,
~ msfkeQ tendency 70 cousumpt1u9
oe6ore mani1estine ITSELF In much cufs1coaa
vPsion or eiandular swelling.
~ pest to Be sure that you ~ QuDoo
~ ~ nun t. and for IT. complooo Gen2Bo6
s'on you can rely On
Hoods IdsapasilId
NJ - q IN nsd,eanss ~ q An.ak !.
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kf UbllC SPEC1Al>
Jefferson City, Mo-, Aug. 1.-THE Sterling
statement of Increase Of Its capital stock
from 5000 10 So 90 by Secretary of State
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New York. Aug. 3-Among the arrivals q
the hotels here to-day were the following
Westerners:
st. Louis-D. p. Sweeney. Miss r. Kuntz.
Miss X. Minonghan. Gerard: q. Clark, II.
Z. Lesau. Waldorf: c. L. Babcock, T. II.
nell, Imperial: l.. Goetzman, Broadway Gem
tral; Mrs. NJ. Greenwood Fifth Avenue. =
Kansas Cfty-W. Carter, St. Denis; u. r.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
GRUMLEY-RIsTER WEDDING.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPCBL.IC SPECIAIA
Harrisburg, ILL.,. Aug. 3-Raxander Grum-
ley and Miss Florence Rister. from Ridg-
way. were married at the Hotel Saline in
this city this evening by Justice g. H. Dor
rfs and hastily left the city for Omaha, Ill
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
KANsANs ADVISED TO HOLD CATTLE

Topeka, kas.. Aug. a-Ten leading farm
srs. stock raiser. and bankers. intefyfevcd
mere to-day, advise the people to hold thslr
OF Agriculture Joins in this advice and says
farmers are planting enough forage to feed
the thousands Of head now on the Kansas
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Mrs. Melville e. stone, Jr., Dead.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Chicago. Aug. 2--Mrs. Melville Z, Stone.
Jr.. died this morning at the Virginia Hotel.
ater an Illness Of nearly six months. Hope
month ago. Members Of her own family.
with MI. Stone and Mr.. and Mrs.. Melville
f. stone. ST.. were at the bedside during hsr
Church. where she was christened. con
nrmed and married. the funeral services WIN
be held.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Stock Fed ON Foliage Of Trees.

Marshall Mo-, Aug. 3.-On account Of
scarcity OF feed, some farmers In this (Sa-
line) county cut down green trees and let
their stock feed on the leaves and twigs
which the animals seem to relish greatly.
Unless more rain comes soon. the drought
will assume its former terrors.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Sad Plight OF the UnIucky.

OF 10
draw a claim in the new Kiowa- -Comanche
country are selling their tents. horses and
wagons at sacrifice In order to reach
their homes.
Many others have camped on the borders
OF the land for months. expecting that 1t
and already suffering is apparent. Hun
dreds are drifting south. toward the project
ed towns of Anadarko. Hobart and Law
ton. hoping that something may turn up.
Many merchants and professional men
drew claims while hundreds OF needy have
found themselves without either the hoped
FOR land or money sufficient to purchase
necessities.
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on IL.
The Commissioners will complete their
work of counting in three days next week.
Commissioner Richards this afternoon
appointed auctioneers for townsite lots as
follows: For Anadarko. n. ]. OBrten of
Colorado; for Hobart. A. J. James of Kan
Ol
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Capital stock Increasea.

EFFCBLIC SPECIAL
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
SHE WAS TOO KIND-HEARTED.
Michigan Girl Thought to Perform .
kindneas to a GentlenaA
IN Church,

There is one young woman living at
L'Anse, Mich, whose benevolent dis
position received severe shock on a
recent Sunday evening, says the Chi
cago Chronicle. She was at church
and sat directly behind a tall, we'll
dressed stranger, with raveling
hanging to his collar. Being one of
those generous-hearted whole-souled
girls who grow up to be motherly old
ladies, friend to everybody in town,
she thought how glad she would be il
some kind-hearted girl would do as
much for her father were he to 90 to
church with raveling hanging down
his back. so when the audience rose for
the first hymn she concluded to pick
il off. Carefully raising her hand, She
gave little twitch, but il was longer
than she supposed, and foot or more
appeared. Setting her teeth, she gave
a pull and about yard of that horri-
bic thread hung down his back. This
was getting embarrassing, but. deter
mined, she gave it another yank and
discovered that ,he was unraveling his
undershirt. Her discontinue was so
painful that chiorotorm would not
have alleviated her sufferiugs nor
pint OF powder hidden her bushes
when the gentleman turned with an in
quiring look TO see what was tickling
his neck,
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
ONE OF woMAN's FA1L1NGs.
Her Reckless Disposal of Pins . MAT
ter Of Great COncern~to .
gteanship Line.

Woman's proneness to stick pin
wherever convenient has proved a
serious matter to one steamship COM
pany, says the New York Sun. The
line decided some time ago to place the
most modern air-filled mattresses in
the births of the best rooms on two of
its biggest ships. Recently the stew
ards were kept busy at the completion
Of each trip with blowing up with air
dozens Of mattresses that had col
lapsed from some unknown cause. 1t
took the officials of the lines some
ure of the mattresses to maintain their
proper condition. Hat pins, breast
pins, safety pins. stick pins, every
known kind of pin had done the mis-
chief.
"One advantage Of these mat
tresses,' said the manufacturer, "was
that they were intended as life pre-
servers or small RATS should the
emergency arise. Give me decent
sized hat pin il you want to see one
knock the ambition out of the average
life-preserver that depends upon air.
The women tourists simply stabbed
those mattresses to death"
The steamship company now has
this notice attached to the door of
every stateroom: please do not
stick pins in the berthscushions and
mattresses. Pins are injurious to
them"
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
VALUABLE GROSBEAK EGGS.
FAur Dollars Each Received By .
Maine Lad who Caught Some
of the Birds,

Last February, when the tempera-
ture held at zero for week at a
time and the snow was falling every
other day, Hector Sanborn, aged Is,
set horsehair snares about his home
and caught more than two dozen pine
grosbeaks. Most of them were fe-
traks, says a report from Dexter, Me-
He kept the birds in 4 large, open
and well-lightet room at the rear OF
the barn and fed them on seeds and
refuse fruit. While the weather con-
tinued Geld the birds were most
healthy and took kindly to the new
way Of life, becoming fat and frisky,
with nothing to do but eat and sleep.
In March several pairs mated, built
nests and began to lay eggs, and by
April the boy had secured "a fine
specimens.
Then the spring weather came and
caused the birds to have convulsions,
from which nearly one-half died.
Finding that he would be unable to
keep his pets through the summer
young Sanborn liberated the sur
vivors, allowing them to go north and
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
SEES DANGER AHEAD.
Bishop Lawrence Raises a Warning
Voice Against Gambling Craze
Declares That Instead of Dwelling on
Excesses Of Stock Market We
Should Examine Ourselves to
Discover Same Vice in Cs.

"Qne has only to listen to the shouts
in the stock market during the past
few weeks" said Bishop Lawrence, in
his annual address to the Massachu-
setts diocesan convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church at Bos-
ton the other day, "to be impressed
with the danger in which our young
men and women, our boys and girls
stand from the temptation to gamble,
to get something for nothing, to try
to make money fast, to hazard what
is of value simply for the pleasure of
the hazard
Il am not drawing fine distinctions,
much less am l making the stock
market the scapegoat for an increas-
ing popular danger and vice.
Vicious gambling, which catches
the popular eye, is but the symptom OF
spirit pcrvading the community, thHt
OF an unreadiness to work steadily for
the legitimate reward OF labor, an un-
rest at the moderate and fair returns
OF capital, making haste to get rich,
keen love of the sport Of over
reaching another, a fascination in liv-
ing by ones wits instead of by ones
sober thoughts and careful work.
Two generations ago playing cards
was forbidden, because it was asso-
ciated with gambling. Then the cards
were brought forth from their hid
ing places and given place in the in.
nocent amusements OF the home. To-
day they are returning to their old
calling as the instrument of gambling
There are men and women, worshipers
in our churches, some even communi-
cants, who waste the daylight and con
cen'rate all their thought and nerve
upon the game-and the game is not
complete without some stake, small
or large.
What will you give for the future
OF the boy whose pin money is the gain
OF his fathers game al the club?
The point / want to make is that
instead of dwelling on the excesscs OF
the stock market or criticising the po-
lice for not suppressing the worst
forms of gambling. we should look
10 ourselves and discover the symp-
toms Of the same vice in u.s."
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
WOMAN HEIR TO MILLIONS,
street Car CosA~asNrN Wife Expects
" luhests = Great For
tune.

Mrs. Tookham Basinajian, of West
Hoboken, y. j., wife Of II conductor
on the North Hudson Street railway,
is said by a asia OF lawyers TO be
heiress 10 g, ioa, ,oco iett by Manarage
Oghley Manoiiel, an uncle of her fa-
ther, who died In Calcutta so years
ago. Manollels wife, according to
the lawyers, stipulated that his es-
tate should not be distributed until
50 years after his death. The time
was up two months ago. The will
said the fortune should so 10 the
next of kin, Ais, Basrnajian rs said
TO ha tGe nearest blood relation.
Ia support af her claim letters
from relatives who lived IN Philip
polls, bulgaria, and from the United
States consul at Calcutta, so the law
yers say. declare she is all she as
serts. The lawyers refuse tc tell her
address, on the ground that she
would be besieged with requests for
money. She has no shihren. Her
husband Still continues at his work.
us and his vito came from Calcutta
more than 20 years ago,
Daily camera., 1901-07-24
STAYS IN JAIL FOR SPITE.
Penasylvaaia Court IL Asked - px.
pei . stubborn Ola AAn fron
Prta~A,

James Cannon, Gs years old, infrm
and gray-headed, declares that you
can't make man leave a jail if he
doesn't want to. He has been in the
county Jail at Scranton, Pa, since
1894, and now says he won't leave.
The question that Is concerning the
authorities is. Can a free man be
forced to leave q jailr reports q local
exchange.
The old man was sent there seven
years ago for refusing to sign q deed
disposing of his own property. He
was accused of contempt. He de-
clared he would never sign. A bill
was passed giving coaaty officers the
right to sign deeds ef transfer, and
Scranton breathed free again. But
Cannon won't badge out of Jail.
'1've got used to jail life, and l like
it said he. II guess l won't leave.
I'll spite them all"
Then habeas corpus proceedings
were started, Cannon refused to
sign ting petition. Now Scranton
wants somebody to come forward
with scheme to get a man out of
iail against his wishes. -