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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20
Appalling List
OF Railroad Casualties Reported
During the Last Year.

Washington, Oct. IS.-A report
issued by the international com
merce commission today shows
that the total number of casualties
to persons on railroads in the
United States during the fiscal
/ year ending June 80, 1904, was SIS,
$50, comprising 5,7s7 killed and
Io5. $40 wounded. This shows a
large increase. The total number
of collisions and derailments was
II,2I9 involving $o,3s5,o77 Of
damage to cars, engines. and road
ways. This is an increase of 684
collisions und derailments.
The casulties were an increase of
233 killed and of $500 injured
over the preceding year. -Four
hundred and twenty Of those kill
ed were passengers and 1907 rail
road employees. Included in these
figures are the statistics for the last
three months of the year, which
show a total of OFT killed and H.
4I8 Injured, a decrease from the
preceding quarter. These figures
do not include casualties at high
way crossings. The report says:
AS the accident bulletins are is
sued to furnish the public with
facts, this exhibit of the dangers of
railroad travel Is an exhibit which
the most conservative must agree
should be termed alarming, and
will not be made the subject of
comment in this place, but it will
be proper to observe that each sue
ceeding bulletin adds materially to
the mass Of evidence going on to
enforce the observations and rec
commendations which we're made
in the last annual report Of the
commission.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20
Bad Gin Accident
AT Lawton-Arm Nearly Torn OFF
-Fea'fully Lacerated.

Lawton, o. r., Oct. Io. Will
liam Stammer, an excellent young
man Of this city, while attempting
to unchoke gin stand this morn
ing about nine O'Clock, suffered a
frightful laceration of his right
arm and would no doubt have been
ground unto death had not other
men working near by pulled him
bodily from the whirling saws,
Finding that the stand was not
working as it should Stammer
ordered the connection of the gin
with the line shaft cut off in order
that he might remedy the defect.
His order was not understood, or
at least not obeyed promptly. and
as he reached the choking cotton
inside the stand, belt caught his
arm and pulled it into the saws.
The power was so great that he
could not extricate the limb and it
was rapidly pulled in until the
shoulder was reached. At this
junction his cries brought other
hands to his rescue and they pulled
him out while the machinery
was yet in operation.
His arm is fearfully lacerated
from the shoulder to the hand. The
flesh is torn into strings, the palm
of the hand is cut to pieces and
his fingers are ripped open. It SO
happens that there is not a single
bone broken, a popularity of the
accident that very seldom happens.
II is therefore probable that the
surgeons may be able to save the
limb and that it will rapidly heal.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

Rev. M. B. Williams of Chicago
will be cannonized as the patron
saint Of young lovers for his de-
fense of flirting at church He is
reported to have said There is
no reason why young persons
should not cultivate each others S
acquaintance from behind hymn
books. We are glad 10 have them
come TO church on any pretext.
Flirting is as good as any. That
IS how / first became interested in
the church The expectation Of
seeing a young woman home has
brought many boy to church for
the first time. Amid the lovemak-
ing there is a chance for the relig-
ion to steal in.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20
Two Churches Unite
Breaking Down the Barriers Be
tween Religious Bodies.

St. Louis, Oct. Io.-A definite
step has been taken toward the
amalgamation IF the Free Baptist
church of america with the Disci-
pies of Christ OF the Christian
church, now holding national
convention here. A committee ap-
pointed at the last convention to
consider the propriety Of unions
has reported favorably, inasmuch
as the doctrinal faith of the two is
practically the same. Another
committee has been appointed by
the Christian convention to com
plete the negotiations with the
Baptists in accord with the report
of the committee on recommenda-
ton. The union will add Ioc, 600
members TO the diciples.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20
RunaWays Caught.

Sam and Nellie Wilson, half
brother and sister are lying in jail
at Plainview, Texas, TO await a
trial for theft and burglary. Will
son is thirty and Nellie sixteen
years old. They came to Chicka-
sha from Shawnee where they reg
istered at hotel as Mr.. and Mrs.
McCenter.
They came to Lawton and en-
gagged horse and buggy Septem-
Der Il. Nothing more was heard of
them until the horse and buggy
was captured in New Mexico last
week.
In New Mexico they registered
as John Fancher and wife. From
there they went TO Canon City,
Texas, where they secured a hack
and team. Officers followed them
and made the arrest near Plain
view, Texas. Because the Texas
authorities have charges against
them, they may not be returned to
Oklahoma until after trial there. -
Lawton Democrat.
Readers of the EXPRESS will re-
call the story of the above parties
published shortly after they were
here.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20
Agents Investigating
Leases amcng the Choctaws-Start-
ling Developments Expected.

Au6 R~f~Ac p.HNt-eo Nf@ kf~~e~@s \
Haileyville, /. T., Oct. Io.-It
has just developed here that the in
terror department has had an agent
busy working very quietly for the
past two weeks among the full
bloods in this part of the country
! securing facts about leases made
with the so-called grafters. Some
startling facts will soon be made
public which will show how these
Indians have been induced to sign
away their valuable lands for FIVE
years.
1t appears that in many cases the
Indians havo been promised S25
per year as rental for full allot-
iuents in a high state of cultivation
The allotment of each Indian will
average gao acres and the rental
value is safely S25 year, but in
many cases less than these figures.
In one case an Indian who can
neither read or write leased his en-
tire allotment at $40 per year and
he has had difficulty in getting his
rental for the present year. The
CRATER sublets this same tract for
$500 year. This will give some
idea Of what grating means in the
Choctaw nation. This case is said
to be pitiable one. The Indian
and his old wife have both leased
their entire allotments and are now
living in abjsct poverty They
have FIVE small children whoselands
have not been filed on. 1t seems
that the grafters don't want lands
of minors and will not defray the
expenses Of filing on such lands.
The interior department IS said
to be in earnest about placing each
allottee in possession Of tneir lands;
even though the CRATER has lease
on record for term FIVE years.
The federal courts will soon be ask
ed TO set aside all leases where the
consideration is inadequate.
In conversation today with a
large leasor he said that the gov
eminent could do nothing, and
that he proposed to hol1 all of his
land for the full term of FIVE years.
He farther stated that he held re-
ceipts for rent in full, which wonld
debar the courts from any inter
ference i'll the case. Further
more" he said, these Indians
have no money with which TO hire
lawyers, and if they did have it, it
would do them no good" His
contention is that congress made
these people citizens Of the United
States, and their contracts were
binding and the courts will be call
ed upon to decide the question.
There are hundreds Of Indians who
have leased their lands for less
than 10 cents per acre, and white
men are subletting these lands at
from S.. 90 to $4. 90 per acre. The
matter of leasing is growing very
| important and it is high time the
government took hand.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

Now, why shouldn't one of I'm
Gle Sans soldiers marry the lady
Of his choice, be she plain or coll
ored? John Smith argued that if
it was right for the Commander
in chief Of the army 10 dine with
Booker T., it was proper for a
private to take dusky mate if he
choose. Sounds like very good
logic.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

The only suggestion which the
EXPRESS has to add TO the plan of
operating the waterworks proposed
Sv the water committee, is that the
scope of duties of the superiDten~
dent be somewhat enlarged.
Require Of him the specific
duties suggested by the com
mittee but give him general
supervision over the entire
system. Let the duties of the
other employees be prescribed and
let them be responsible to the
council for the work required of
them. It is suggested also that
instead of employing clerical Of
fScer at $50 month, this work
be turned oqer to the city clerk,
zhe latter being given suitable ad-
ditionaI compensation.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

A Kansas City couple married
sn S8 a week. Domestic trouble
came and they sought a separation.
The judge held the husband respon-
sible for his wife's unfaithfulness.
Some of the Ladies Home Journal
writers who tell how to live on
rs cents week ought to send a
little advice TO the couple.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

The per cent of grafters in The
Indian Territory is not SO large as
the per cent in Congress. Blue
Co. Democrat. After all that has
been said about grafters and graft
ing there seems to be a demand for
a comprehensive definition of graf
ter" 1t seems that there are graf
tiers in Congress as well as in the
territory. The animal ought to
be classified,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

The Episcopal brethren in Bos-
are still wrestling with the divorce
question. Looks like it's mighty
hard the discover the plain teach
ing" of the scriptures on the
subject.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

The cold wave that swept over
the country a few days ago seems
to have been generated by the
Fairbank's 5 visit to Wisconsin. So
much frigidity has not been known
in that section since the glacial
epoch retired from business.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

Rings 5 Dyspepsia Tablets cure in
digestion, dyspepsia and strength
ems the stomach. Sold by H. J.
Brownson.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

Both of the candidates for vice
president have been working like
Turks, and yet there's nothing in
the Office worth striving for, but
then politics is a funny thing
anyway.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

EVERGREEN REBEKAHLoDGENo n
Meets lst and 3rd Thursday
nights Of each month. Jennie Rose,
A. G.; A. Haight, Secretary.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-10-20

AIexieff hit the road for Harbin
as soon as he learned that the bat
tie was on. It's kind Of habit
that Alex has.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23

would contest the province of Quebec in
favor of the independence of Canada, as
prelude to the continental union. He
replied in the affirmative. ~
Carnegie asked Tarte how much it
would require to secure the Continental
union. Tarte replied "$l,O00,000." Car
negie said that if he was sure that
amount would do it, he would give it
himself
On the following day ! was instructed
by Carnegie to draft "a letter to Honore
MERCER, informing him that he could
have any amount necessary to carry the
province of Quebec. I drafted as strong
a letter as the English language would
permit, addressed to Honore MERCER,
and Carnegie. signedit without the slight
est hesitation, and then told me to have
Dana sign it, and then signsit myself.
Before Dana signed IL, hegsaid:
"Glen, this is a blank check, perhaps
for millions, but if Carnegie can afford
to sign it'll can, land he did SO. Then I
signed it and mailed it to MERCER.
All of the PARTIES except Dana and
MERCER are still alive.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
FOR CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE.

That Andrew Carnegie and Others
stood ready to supply the millions neces-
sary to bring about Canadian independ-
ence, as step toward continental
union, is the statement made by F. w.
Glen of New York, organizer of the
Continental Reciprocity league. The
statement is contained in the following
letter, written by Glen and giving the
history of the Continental Union league
project:
In 1898, with the support of Charles
A.. Dana, Andrew Carnegie, John Jacob
Astor, Ethan Allen, Warner Miller, Ed
ward Lattterbach, William &C. Whitney
Orlando B.. Potter, Horace Porter, John
Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root,
Oswald Ottenderfer, Cornelius N. Bliss,
John d. Long, John B. Foraker, Knute
Nelson, Jacob Gallinger, Roswell p Flow
er, Joseph John O'Donohue, Chauncey M.
Depew, John p. Jones, William Walter
Phelps, General Butterfeld, General
Henry w. Slocum, General Ames II. Will
son, General Granville NJ. Dodge, Charles
Francis Adams, Oliver Ames, Seth Low,
Bourke Cochran, John G.. Mcclure, Den
mis- O'Brien, Charles L. Tiffany, John
Clafin, Nathan Strauss and Samuel
Spencer, / organized the National Con-
tinental Union League for the purpose
of promoting the union by peaceful, law
full, honorable and generous means.
Upon the fourth day of November,
1898, Wilfrid Laurier held a meeting of
his friends in Montreal, and that meet
ing sent delegation to New York to
ask the friends of the National Contin-
entail Union League for aid for elections,
which it was supposed would take place
in the spring of 1894. Israel j. Tarte,
Monore MERCER, j. Z. Robidoux, Louis
Joeseph Papineau and Mr.. Langeller were
on the delegation, and Sir Oliver Mowat
was represented by John Morrison of
Toronto.
These gentlemen met Dana, Carnegie
and myself in the office of the Sun on
Not. 6. Tarte asked, as beginning, for
$4,000 with which to purchase La
Monde "a newspaper, and Morrison desir-
ed $4,000 to purchase a labor paper in
Toronto.
Carnegie asked Tarte if he was pre-
pared to pledge the liberal party to advo-
cate the independence of Canada as
prelude to the continental union.
He replied that if I'VE furnished them
with the money for the elections they
would do SO, if they were successful in
the elections. Morrison agreed with
Tarte
Carnegie then asked MERCER if he
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23

fullest growth. 1t believes in the future
and in providing for realization of the
benefits of the future. 1t has neither
lot nor part in the belief that the limits
of the continent bound the aspirations
of human liberty, nor that they mark
the line beyond which American genius
and progress may not pass.
It's intellingent policy does not allow
halting simply because one progressive
step has been taken, but impels it to
proceed increasingly with the common
good of the whole people in view, bring
ing about results which, as Senator For
aker says, are of greater value to the
American people than many times the
most extravagant estimate of cost any
one has yet mentioned. And the Ameri-
can people appreciate the fact.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
AN INTELLIGENT POLICY.

After showing the wildness of the
statement of Judge Parker that the
Philippines had cost the United States
$650,O00,OOO, in addition to the $4,000
600 paid to Spain, and after illustrating
the absolute necessity for the Panama
Canal, Senator Foraker said in his Chi
cago speech:
''There has been an intelligent policy
running through all these transactions
that binds them together into one har-
monius whole far greater than many
times the most extravagant estimate of
cost any one has yet mentioned"
This is a true presentation of the sit
uation, says The Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune. The policy of the republi-
can party is not confined to any one
idea, nor is it bounded by any one inter
est in making for the greatest good to
the greatest number. The policy of the
republican party is broad gauge. 1t
looks not only to the present, but to
the future. 1t repudiates the democrat
ic belief that America has reached its
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
WHY VOTE FOR CHAOS?

On what ground does the democratic
party ask the people to trust it again?
asks The New York Mail. On its re-
cord, in or out of power? Can it point
to anything achieved during Cleveland's
two terms of which it is proud, or to
anything it attempted which it is not
it did not achieve?
And if we ignore the democratic past,
and consider only democratic promises,
are the leaders of the party agreed as to
what their promise means? Will any
two of them interpret the platform or
the. candidates. utterances the same
waSt war they declare definitely and
finally that, II siven' power, theys would
reverse any policy inaugurated by Re-
publicans and now prevailing?
! The demoaatie platform is silent as
to democratic intention toward the gold
standard. 5The candidate says it is es7
tablished; but Mr. Cleveland knows
from bitter experience the difference in
purpose that can exist between DEM
tocratic president and a democratic con-
gress.
How about the tariff? How many
democrats still insist that the custom
houses should be thrown into the sea?
That was the advice of famous dem
ocrat in congress a few years ago. Is
the party "sane" on that question now?
The democratic platform insists on cut
ting the tariff down to revenue basis;
the democratic candidate insists on re-
vision acceptable to the republican SEN
ate; other democrats want another per-
iod of tariff smashing: agitation! 80 -
o1iSo lit goes. Regarding trusts the plat
form clamors for more stringent 'laws;
the candidate says there iselaw enough; j
on the Philippines both platform and
candidate try to gather in all the anti
imperialist sentiment they ocan,'9 but
neither one says anything that indicates
a definite purpose"9 a1eir % b5i.si ~
a. On aeveryi other important question the
democratic party is equally divided and
uncertain. Its supremacy at Washing
ton would, mean a, reign of chaos and
confusion, compared with which, the
Cleveland nightmare from 1898 to 1896
would be regarded as, peaceful and pros
porous times. ia p a.frq.o II 6qa =,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
ffE-E "a
DEMOCRATIC aRUTTY5vBAELS,
The Washington correspondent of The,
ST Paul III ),iissoafc wrifes Al fol,o,wss al.

, The Washington correspondent. Of The
ST lDispafch writes as follows. al,
though judge Pa Parker ! e deplores persQnalii-
ties in the campaign, and has given in
structions to the democratic committee
not to indulge in that style of political
warfare, his advice and warnings 90 un.
needed by the democratic bureau.
''The managers of the Parker cam
paign began a personal warfare on Presi,
dent Roosevelt and they are keeping it
up. Here is the latest attempt to mix
up social function, semi official in ma
ture, with politics. Archbishop of Cante-
bury will be in Washington the latter
partapf this. month and President and
Mrs Roosevelt will hasten to the White
House in order to give the distinguished
prelate a welcome on the part of. the
chief executive of the nation. ~ I
Invitations have been issued for the
event, and the White House is being pre-
pared for it. The democratic campaign
through its press bureau and through
other sources, is commenting critically
OH this, and undertakes to make some
capital out of it by the possible creation
of religious prejudice. ~ q,
''But the president and Mrs. Roosevelt
will pay no more attention to these
criticisms than they did to the carp
ings of several democratic papers which
professed to see American free institu-
tions menaced, because Miss Alice Roose-
welt has for one of her close friends
and companions the Countess Casini,
niece of the Russian ambassador to
Washington. Politics is one thing with
this administration and social matters,
religious or otherwise, is another"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
ROOSEVELT A SURE WINNER

Lee Spangler, the New York prophet
and evangelist, whose many predictions
pertaining to world events have been
fulfilled, and who prophesied the break
ing out of the war in the East a year
before its occurrence, the death of Queen
Victoria, the assassination of William
Mckinley and the death of Mark Hanna,
is out with fresh forecast.
''In my last forecast several months
ago." said Spangler, 81 predicted great
drought in Europe, which has visited
Germany. People wonder why so many
of my predictions are fulfilled. There is
nothing marvellous about it. They are
simply revelations from power higher
than that of man. l have been chosen
as the medium through which they are
to be made known to the people. 7 ~ ,
81 still reaffirm my prediction of the
election of Theodore Roosevelt as presi-
dent of the United States.
"The war in the East is turning out
as l said it would before it's outbreak.
Russia is being defeated. It's power is
broken and it will never be worlds
power again. God has avenged the
wholesale butchery of his people, the
Jews, in Russia. r~
"He has vengeance to visit upon other
for Eastern nations. Turkey will be-
come involved in war with other nations
and will be dismembered, the murder of
thousands of Armenians and other in
nocent Christians will be avenged by
God.
"All the nations of Europe will decline
in power, with the exception of England
England and the United States will be
ruling the Western world and Japan the
Eastern world when the destruction
oo,os IN foosE al "if9h',r'4 81 5.7
The greatness Of President Roosevelt
is not realized by the people of the
United States. He has been chosen by
GoftoFa 40 Ggreftfet work than any other
American has performed. 1t would not
be wise fefs Hfa ! to ltelf what thRA work
is. 1iA T3aIIh3gh b..
"a great dirtbaug$ht Isl Shortly to visit
pafts ii til. e6haffy esl,Ss' 1@4eo uldE make
other startling prophecies, but God has
forbidden me to give them to the people
until later" 'Ssax AarS&o'A-g y sl
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-23
Farmers Well Fixed.
From Tuesdays Daily.

A service has been rendered by the
st. Paul Globe which is the first news
paper to call attention to the fact, and
prove it by the figures, that the scare
over crop failure in the northwest this
year is baseless. The notion that our
wheat crop is a failure and that hard
times are staring us in the fact has done
a great deal of harm already. Merchants
who believed that the purchasing power
of the public would be greatly decreased
have shortened their orders, buying and
selling has lessened, and the elements of
a sensible business depression began to
be in evidence. 1t is worth while to dis
sipate the erroneous impressions out of
which a situation so unfortunate had be-
gun to evolve.-Rcdwing Republican.