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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-10-17

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giye ~ pnpllp n fhe arss, second
a1d third grades of the pabiis
schools. FULL CREAM BAGS
Thee bags viii be given free Of
charge % pnpils who are now en-
rolled 10 fhe hrsf. second and
third grades, providing fhfy call
for the ssme personally 81 the times
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NEW WATER COMPANY.
New Albany Plant and system Passes
Under other Control.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind. March 3l.-The In
diana Water Company. which was granted
a franchise to operate "A water system in
this city several months ago by the City
Council. to-day leased the property OF the
New Albany Water Company for a term of
thirty-fve years at an annual rental of
SI9.2 The latter company has a franchise
which expires in fourteen years. a major
ity OF its stock was purchased by "A syndt-
cate of Chicago capitalists "A few months
ago. The same men have control OF the IN
diana Water Company, whose franchise Is
for thirty-fve years. The 1920 rental VIII
allow for the payment of 3 per cent. inter-
est on the $4,000 OF bonds of the New
Albany Water Company and also for the
payment of ) per cent. annual dividends 10
the stockholders OF the latter company.
The franchise OF the Indiana NZter Com
pany provides that it's water shall be OBJ
tanned from some point above the city. IL
has sunk a number of wells east OF the city,
which will he connected With the present
system of the New Albany Water Com
pany. and the ~latter's pun ping station on
the river below the city VIII be abandoned
next week. The four immense reservoirs on
the knobs back Of the city. which take the
place of a standpipe. will continue TO be
used To obtain pressure. The capitalists
who now control the water situation are the
same who purchased the plant of the Heat.
Light and Power COmpany for $4,000 last
week. A. NJ. Barron, of South Bend, Ind,
will be president Of the new company.
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Indiana Notes.

PORTLAND.-The county ProhIbitionists
are arranging for an all-day convention
and meeting on Tuesday. at which a county
ticket will be nominated and delegates
named to the State convention. In the
evening DR. Boles and the Rev. Aaron
Worth are TO make addresses. The
Portland lodge of Elks will be instituted
on April g. Seventy-two persons have
signed the charter. Fully six hundred Elks
are expected, Fort Wayne having prom
ised to send four hundred.
MARION.-The petition of John III. S.
ShaUmleffel against the Harmony Gas and
Oil Company and the South Marion Co.
operative Gas and Oil Company for a re-
ceiver was granted on Monday by Judge
Brownlee. of the Superior Court. The Pc
toner AYERS that the gas and oil companies
have debts amounting to over 5000, and
that they are unable to pay them. Benja-
min T.. S~tranahan was appointed receiver.
RICHMOND.-The Rev. c. o. Shirer, of
Aurora. Ind. has accepted a call to the
pastOrate of the Second Presbyterian
Church, and will begin his duties April 10.
. = . For the first time i'm it's history
Grace Methodist Church has enough money
i'm the treasury to liQuidate all indebted
ness. At the services on Sunday $1,0T0 was
raised.
BEDFORD.-Rev. Richard Edwards. of
Syracuse, N. Y, has been rendered and has
accepted the pastorate of the First Chris
tan Church in this city. vice the Rev.
James Small, who resigned some weeks ago
to do evangelistic work. The church is one
of the handsOmest in the city and the MEM
bership is very large.
HAGERSTOWN-The sixteenth annual
commencement of the Hagerstown High
School will be held on April %. There are
ten graduates, which is the largest class in
the history of the school, with one excep-
ton. The class last year had eleven.
LAPORTE.-The Rev. w. H. Houston,
formerly of Chicago, but for three years
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Union Mills. LapOrte county, has accepted
q call to Columbus, o..
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Big STRIKE AT MARION
ALL THE UNION CARPENTERS OF
THE CITY ARE IN REVOLT.
Plant Becomes Serious-Terre
Haute Outlook Better.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION. Ind. March 8.-The union car
penters Of Marion quit work tonight and
declare they will not return 10 their en-
ployment until the contractors accede to
the demands made in the scale submitted
by the carpenters about six weeks ago, to
go into effect on April l. The men de-
manded an increase of 5 cents an hour. or
nine hours pay for eight hours work. The
contractors at that time agreed 10 take the
matter under consideration. but they have
notified the men of their refusal and the
strike followed. The men say if their de-
mand is not granted they will form a CO.
operative union and contract for work at
the scale.
More than $50 men put down their tools
tonight, and it is likely that upwards of
500 will be affected Besides these there are
the plumbers and hodcarriers, who are IN
able to work when the carpenters are idle
The indications are, therefore, that Marion
Will see the biggest strike in its history un-
less an adjustment is reached.
Building operations to the amount OF
more than a quarter of a million dollars are
under way or projected, and these will be
delayed until a settlement is made. Among
them are the $4,000 Carnegie library, the
$4,000 Odd Fellows building, the $4,000
Presbyterian Church, the $25, coo Y. Nj. c. n.
building, several business blocks to cost
from $1,000 to $4,000 and more than fifty
dwellings,.
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is SERIOUS.


Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
HAMMOND, Ind, March 1.-The gravity
of the strike situation at the big packing
house of the G.. H. Hammond Company
was heightened at 6 o'clock tonight by the
striking of the employees in the beef Juggling
department. Their demand for an increase
in wages was met by a fat refusal by the
company, which now regards the affair as
serious.
All the officials % the company froln De-
troit, Boston and Chicago were summoned
here to-day. Nj. Donnelly, president of the
Amalgamated Butchers Union OF America,
is here To assist the belligerents, who
threaten TO tie up the plant if their de-
mands for the discharge of Superintendent
Palm and his son are not acceded to. If a
general strike results, as seems probable,
the American Federation of Labor, prob
ably will take a hand and order work
stopped on the company's new buildings in
Chicago.
At a mass meeting of the butchers. held
to-day, there were stormy times, but it was
finally decided to give the company one
more day, and on Wednesday a conference
between the officials and the strikers will
hp held
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Building Permits.

IS; total consideration 49,. SIS. 47s. so
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judge Martins Charge to Monroe
County Grand Jury on This Point
and the Liquor Traffic.
PEACHES SAID TO BE KILLED
n. JOSEPH COUNTY REPORTS FIRST
MORTALITY OF THE SEASON.
joyful Reunion at Laporte-Death of n
Mexican War uIIoch's
kokomo Interurban Line.

Special TO the Indiana2 polls Journal.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, March 5l.-Judge
w. II. Martin. of the Tenth judicial cir
cult. created a sensation I'm charging the
grand jury this afternoon by charging
that an especial investigation be made Of
alleged vote-buying at the recent Repuo-
lean primary election Of the city. He
said that while an Ubiquitous law protected
the buyer OF votes. yet, If the grand jury
would indict such men. he would see that
they faced the community for their crime.
Continuing. Judge Martin requested that
AZ any grand juror would not do his duty
on this point TO stand aside. He asked that
vote-buyers first be indicted. II any are TO
be found. "Indict the buyer and the seller
as well, ne said. Array at the bar those
scoundreIs who have been giving out the
money as well as the poor men that &C
cepted il. IL has been charged in news
papers that at a recent primary election
votes were bought for 70 cents each. Let
the men who published such charge be
brought before you and either establish
such facts or admit that It Is a false
charge, only published as a sensation"
Continuing. Judge Martin said that over
two hundred men. women and boys have
been sent to prison in this circuit within
six years. and most OF this can be charged
To intoxicating liquors. The liquor trafnc
IS wrong. both in the sight OF God and
man.. he declared. but the law has H.
censed men TO sci! II. As such, they have
a legal right. Many others. however. sell
I'm violation OF law and license. and the
grand jury must give this class earnest
attention."
tion to drug stores without license, who
are said TO be selling by the dram.
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OIL IN THE RIVER.
1t Is killing Fish in the Near
LOgansport-A Cure Sought.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 31.-Many
complaints are being made about the oil
which for some time past has been floating
down the Wabash river. and arrangements
are now on foot for an investigation to be
made by the deputy fish commissioner of
this district for the purpose of putting a
stop to the nuisance If possible. The oil
comes from the Grant county oil fields,
where il is allowed TO run into the bitches
and small streams which lead to the Mis-
sissinnewa river and is finally carried into
the Wabash.
Deputy Fish COMMISSIONS Wallace
Smith. of this district. stated to-day that
he had received numerous complaints from
persons living along the Wabash below
Logansport, who declare that the oil is
killing fish in large quantities.. that the
stock refuses to drink the water on &C
count of the nauseating odors coming
from the river, and that the fish caught
from the stream are not fit to eat. Deputy
Smith has notified State Fish Commits
SiOner Sweeney regarding the matter. and
the latter has Informed Deputy Smith that
his chief deputy. T.. e. Earl. of Princeton,
will be here in "A few days to look into the
situation.
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JOHNSON UNDER ARREST.
Alleged Forger Under Guard at His
Hotel Mt Hot Springs.

HOT SPRINGS. Ark. March 31.-Manssn
L. Johnson. of Anderson. Ind. who is ac-
cused of uttering forged paper 10 the
amount. IL is said. of slOO. 600. is sick in his
room at the Great Northern Hotel here,
attended by his wife. and this morning he
was placed under arrest by a sergeant Of
the local police force on the charge al
legged. He is under guard at the hotel un-
I'll such time as he is able to be moved or
until the Indiana authorities are communi-
Gated with and Indicate their desires as to
what shall be done with him. Besides his
wife. who came on Sunday to nurse him.
there is with him ]. j. Netterville. Of An
derson. who is said TO be a heavy indorser
OF Johnson's paper.
Johnson arrived at the Great Northern
Hotel on Sunday. March %, and registered
as w. II. Jackson Under that name he
received all his mail. ON Wednesday he
was taken sick and was obliged TO remain
in his room. Later he sent for his wife.
Mr.. Netterville arrived yesterday after
noon the train following that on which
Mrs. Johnson arrived. Johnson seems to
be much downcast by the turn affairs have
taken. but Mrs Johnson is cheerful and
tries hard TO instill some of her own spirit
into her husband.
II is stated that an attempt will be made
by certain Of the interested Anderson per-
sons to arrange "A settlement out of court.
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Was No. william Birchman.

The young man who jumped from the
Southern Railway bridge at Cincinnati
last Friday and was thought TO be Will
liam Birchman. OF this city. is evidently
some one unknown. Birchman returned
to the home OF his mother. Mrs. A. r. Cole.
ga Massachusetts, venue. Sunday. A
woman giving the name OF Florence
Cooper. with whom 3irchman was though:
10 have left the city. said that IL was
Birchman who jumped into the river. but
afterwards denied IT,. The Cincinnati DO
lice were sure the identification was right.
The body has not yet been recovered.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

State Treasurer Levy yesterday sent
$40. 237.S so to WinslOw, Lanier & Co., of New
York. TO pay the semi-annual interest on
Indiana's temporary %refunding loan of
$685., 900.
The township and county assessors will
start on their annual crusade this morning
to round up all of the assessable property.
Township Assessor Jefferson has prepared
a special table of instructions which is cal
culated to greatly assist the men in their
work.
Thomas Spann. who is part owner of the
When building, yesterday ordered his
agent, F.. S. r.. Seguin, to bring suit for
possession of rooms in the building which
are said TO be used for gambling purposes.
Mr.. Spann said he thought the rooms were
used for a political club. Ii is said they
will be closed at once.
1t is probable the County Commissioner
will advertise for bids for the West Wash
-ington-street bridge tomorrow morning.
Plans for "A Melan arch bridge have been
prepared and are now in the hands of the
County surveyor for consideration. There
are no specifications for iron bridges. but
this makes no particular difference as the
Commissioners only wanted the bids on
iron bridges for comparison.
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BOSTON, March 31.-The posting of no
tees of advances in wages made Easter
Monday a particularly pleasant day TO
tens of thousands OF cotton-mill operatives
in southern New England. Some disagree
ments over the amount of the raise ave
arisen, and the yarn mills operatives, who
have not been included in the increase, are
disposed TO be FESTIVE, but on the whole
the mill situation is much better than a
week ago. The chief incident to-day was
the continuance at work of most of the
1900 operatives in the seven corporations
at Lowell. who on Friday last expected to
be idle through the vote of the organized
crafts to strike. Work was resumed as
usual except in those departments in which
orders had been closed out in anticipation
of a shutdown.
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LATE TO WEDDING, LOSES BRIDE.
Groom, Not to Be Disappointed, Mar
ries the Maid of Honor.

LOUISVILLE, March 31.-Henry Hill,
coming late to his own wedding. found his
bride-to-be the wife of another man. Hill.
not to be outdone, married the maid of
honor. Friends who crowded to the Hill
cottage. expecting to offer best wishes 10
Miss Alice English. who was to have been
the bride. were astonished to find them
selves instead shaking hands with the for
mer Miss Effie Johnson. The girls were
bosom friends. living at English. Ind
1T was just this way" said Hill. II was
going TO English to be married. l didn't
catch the noon train. and il was about s
o'clock when | got there. The wedding
was 10 be in the afternoon, and. of course,
l was late. But that didn't cut much ice
with the girl. She just married another
man. and they were having a high old
time when I got there. Well. it was pretty
tough on me to walk in there and find an
other man married TO my girl.
'There were a few guests there, and
among them was Ef1e Johnson. whom I
used TO know pretty well. | told her how
it was. and she saw il the same way. And
il was not much trouble to get a license
and less 10 get a preacher, and the whole
thing was over I'm a little while. and I'm
happy. That's all there is to it,"
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BIG FOUR ROUTE.
City Ticket ONCE, No. 4 East Washington ~.

CLEVELAND LINE.
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TERRE HAUTE. Ind. March S1.-Ever-
EFT G. Baker, who attempted to commit
suicide al St. Louis Sunday morning. came
TO Terre Haute last November from Har-
risburg. H.. with his brother-in-law,
Charles Jones. 10 engage in the restaurant
business. They purchased a restaurant In
the Albert Hotel building on Ninth street,
near Chestnut. from Peter Harvey. The
men remained in partnership until Janu-
airy, when Bake disappeared. His wife
left him shortly before that time. She is
now living with her sister at No. 925 North
Sixth street. Before removing 10 Terre
Haute Baker was an assistant cashier in
the Harrisburg Bank and Jones was in
the grocery business there.
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CINCINNATI. March 3l-Following the
investigation and decision of President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, last week. IL was thought
the lockout of the brewery wOrkmen in
Cincinnati. CovingtOn and Newport was
ended. but the United Brewery workmen
yesterday rejected all propositions and re-
newed the boycott and the fight on the en-
gineers. To-day the brewers Teinstated
many men who returned Individually. OF
the fifteen hundred originally out. the
brewers report that all have resumed eX-
cept two or three hundred, and that all the
breweries are to-day operating with their
usual capaCitV.
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LAPORTE. Ind. March S1.-Miss Laura
Lorig. aged twenty-one. a talented young
woman. prominent in society and literary
circles of this city. died Unexpectedly yes
terday of heart trouble at the home of her
sister in FL PasO. Tex. where she was Wis
iting. Deceased was the daughter of Theo-
dore Lorig. a wealthy miller. and was a
graduate of the Laporte High School and
ST. Roses Academy.
KOKOMO. Ind. March 3.-Dr. Robert
q. Wilson. a pioneer retired physician Of
this city. died last night. aged eighty. He
was born in Franklin county. Pennsylva-
mia. OF ScOtch-lrish parentage. He came
to Fayette county. Indiana. In 1S43. and 10
Kokomo in 1866. He was a gradual of
Rush Medical College. He left an estate
of 500. 600 to a widowed daughter-in-law
and grandchildren. He was a member Of
the State Medical Society.
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STRIKERS ARE WEAKENING.
End of Terre Haute Traction Strike at
Hand-A Case Of Violence.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, March 3I-The
street-railway management reports that
within the past few days twelve striking
motormen and conductors have applied for
work and that many more are to apply.
The Central Labor Union officials expected
this to be so, but say that the boycott will
be continued, because the company is
making a fight on organized labor and
seeks to gain its point by making terms
with the men as individuals when re-em-
ploying them. Manager Clark, of the COM
pany, has said that he will give employ
ment to all but four or five of the strikers,
and it is hoped by so doing TO weaken the
boycott sentiment.
William Schultz. who was fined $40 and
sentenced TO serve thirty days in Jail to-
day for throwing a stone at a street car,
is president of the lodge of United Mine
Workers at S~eeleyville and has just been
elected a member OF the State executive
committee of that order. He insists that
he did not throw the stone and SAYS 1t is a
case of mistaken identity. Two employees
OF a saloon were the witnesses against
him. He has appealed to the Circuit Court.
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INDIANA
Joseph Belt. an Indiana Veteran of
the Mexican War.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON. Ind, March 31.-Joseph
Belt. a veteran of the Mexican war. is
dead at his home in Perry township at the
age of seventy-nine. He was a native Of
Kentucky.
lie was reared chiefly in Marion county.
and i'm 1886. while at Chicago. heard of the
breaking out of the Mexican war and
walked from forty to forty-fve miles a
day TO Indianapolis. where. with two COM
panions. he enlisted in Company r. Fifth
Indiana Regiment. and served one year
and two months. going with his regiment
TO Vera Cruz. 10 the City of Mexico, to
Molina Del Rey and to San Luis de POtosi.
and was finally discharged at Madison,
Ind. After the war ne worked in Hamil-
ton, Marion and Hendricks counties. finally
purchasing a farm I'm this county. TO which
he moved He was twice married and left
several children, all by the first wife.
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FIRST TINE THIS SEASON.
Peach Crop of Northern Indiana and
Southern Michigan Is killed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 31.-Accord-
ing to various reports made by fruit grow
ers OF St. Joseph county. the peach crop
for this county and the surrounding terri
tory il killed. After carefully Investigating
the conditions of fruit shrubs and trees
and berry plants il was ascertained that
the outlook for apples and cherries is good.
Plum trees have been slightly damaged
and the crop is uncertain. Strawberry
plants were found TO be in poor shape. The
are fair.
Until the recent storms there was a good
outlook for a splendid peach crop. but now
it is reported that the fruit is injured not
only i'm this county but also i'm all parts
of northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 31.-Begin-
ming next Monday the journeymen carpen-
tiers of the city will receive an increase in
wages OF % cents per diem. The wage
scale at present ranges from $1.75 to $50
a day. The carpenters made a demand for
the increase about ten days ago, the raise
TO go into effect April s.. The master build
ers and contractors of the city have held
several meetings with a committee from
the Carpenters Union, and have agreed to
accede to the request of the union.
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Doctor Accused of Bigamy.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE. Ind. March 31.-Dr. ]. C..
Modrack, formerly Of indianapolis. who
practiced successfully in Laporte. South
Bend, Elkhart and Goshen. is wanted at
Marion. o.. on the alleged charge OF big
amy. Wife No. l lives in South Bend AND
the second wife, a former resident Of Go
shen, is now in Marion. Modrack is re-
ported to have started for Germany TO
avoid arrest and prosecution on another
charge. The first wife alleges that she
married DIR. Modrack in 1874 in Buffalo,
n. Y, and wife No. 2 has papers TO show
that her marriage was contracted at An
derSon, Ind, in 1900.
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organized here to-day TO develop 1000
acres OF oil and gas land in Liberty town
ship. Wabash county. the gas 10 be piped
10 Wabash manufacturing concerns. The
company has begun drilling an oil well on
the extreme southeast corner OF the lease,
and will make several other test wells be-
fore laying mains. All the Wabash fac
tories. which hold good blocks OF the stock,
will be connected with the lines, and do
nestle consumers along the lines also will
be supplied. The officers are John a.
Bruner president: Thomas McNamee, vice
president. L. A. Bond. secretary, n. BAN
L. l.. Daugherty, constitute the directory.
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CHICAGO, March 31.-HOdcarriers and
building laborers employed by plaster con-
tractors voted at a special meeting to-
night 10 strike Wednesday morning unless
the employers shall sign working agree
ments tomorrow granting an advance OF
3 cents an hOur in pay. Should the tie-up
occur 1000 workmen will be involved.