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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
What Is the Democrat After2 2
o the Editor of the World.

To the Editor of the World:
When a newspaper displays rank
ignorance and disregard for the rights
of others in discussing important To-
cal issues, it is proper to suspect that
the phase of the question which it
advocates is unworthy of general con-
fidence. The Tulsa Democrat is vast
ing columns of space proclaiming the
belief that the Standard Oil company
owns and operates the Tulsa gas sup
ply and franchises, The statement is
an absolute falsehood in every par
ticular, and anyone who has sufficient
sense 10 think out any proposition
can easily prove that the Democrat
becomes the laughing stock of the
community when it tries to make such
ridiculous charge stick. Standard
Oil never owned a cent 5 worth of
the Tulsa gas supply, or had any in
terest whatever in the plant. Neither
has it any interests in the second
franchise given
Natural gas can never be furnished
for general consumption below the
price universally charged by the vari-
Gus companies operating throughout
the gas belt, and any attempt to do
so has always resulted in failure.
Chanute has been pointed to as a shin
ing example of municipal ownership
of the Gas business, but when the tax
levied to keep up and install the plant
and betterments and to buy and dew
elop leases is taken into account,
Chanute is furnished no cheaper nat
ural case than its neighbors.
Whenever Tulsa as a city, or Tul-
sa's business men os an organization,
attempt to "butt into" the gas bust
ness and accumulate oil wells as a
surplus picked mp while drilling for
gas, they will be a disgusted outfit.
They cannot get out on the prairie
and locate gas wells like lamp posts,
and thousands Of dollars would be ex-
pended to get leases that would never
produce gas enough to light a match.
II is possible that when the matter
is sifted to the bottom it will be found
that several persons have a lot of
leases they are anxious to work off on
the city, or the business men, at ten
times their actual worth. The writer
has personal knowledge that the
scheme is being attempted, and ad-
vises the business men to look into
the proposition close enough to find
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
WOULD TRY OIL.
Citizens Faovr Experiment on a Block
of the Streets.
Special to the World.

Special to the World.
Enid, Okla, July 1S.-There are a
large number of people who favor
trying an experiment with oil before
any more streets have been given over
to paving. In this matter they also
have the support of City Engineer
Sexton, who believes that the charac-
ter of the streets of the city is such
that the matter of the oiling of them
should be at least tested. Various re-
ports have been received from other
cities where this experiment has been
tried. some of which reports are
strongly in favor Of the project, while
others are as much against it. So
much depends upon the nature of the
soil and the lay of the streets that it
would be quite impossible TO tell what
the result would be without actual ex-
epriment.
That oiling the streets would be
the cheapest way out of the paving
is the opinion Of many people.
Such oil as is used for this purpose
is found right here in Oklahoma. It
is claimed that little of this spread
over the surface of the ground after
that surface has been made smooth
hardens the soil and renders the
street rs smooth and compact as as
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19

the exact value of the lands being Of
fered. 1t is not an easy matter to
find and secure leases on land that
possesses any value for either gas or
oil. for anyone who owns such land
holds it at its full value, and that
value, if the land is underlaid with
either gas or oil, is more than the city
or the business men could either at
ford or think Of paying, as neither
one is practical oil or gas producer.
The people who are operating the
gas supply of Tulsa at the present
time have put their money into the
business as legitimate investment
and are operating it honestly, as men
having a direct interest in the growth
of the city and their own business.
This much must be acknowledged.
The writer knows of no general com
plant about either the price Of natur-
al gas or the manner of conducting the
business, for Tulsa is doing as well
with It's gas supply as is any other
town in the gas belt.
An investigation of manufacturing
plantswill disclose the fact that nearly
all of them furnish their own gas and
will continue to do so unless offered
for long term of years an unlimited
supply at price practically free. No
individual or company can afford 80
maintain supply of natural gas and
sell it at even three cents a thousand
simply because there is no profit in
doing so. Any one knows that it is
absurd to expect them to furnish pub
lie utilities free. No business man is
offering his wares free or at cost to
even his friends and associates, and
the people who secure and maintain a
gas franchise are as clearly entitled
to profit as any other industry.
The attempt to mix Standard Oil
prejudice with the local gas situation
is made in order to fool the public.
and the Democrat will have its boost
exploded before it can fool enough
people to accomplish its purpose.
The Democrat has also undertaken.
for pay, to bulldoze business men and
citizens into putting up good money
to boost the Uncle Sam scheme. If it
is such a splendid investment, why wo
the two or three men who are promot-
ing it want to let everyone IN on it!
No business man or citizen of Tulsa
has any interest in such promoted
stock iobbing scheme.
Public spirit and public enterprise
have no connection with schemes for
private and personal gain
The writer has some facts bearing
upon the situation as here outlined
that would soon convince sensible peo-
pie Of the utter futility of believing
the ridiculous statements of the Dem
ocrat. or of falling in with its very
questionable propositions. A little in
vestigation will soon show Tulsa peo-
pie the "bug under the chip"
lSigned) ONE WHO KNOWS.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
Reform in College Athletics.

The aim of the reformers in school
and college athletics should be clearly
and directly the betterment OF condi-
tions. not the extirpation Of the love
of combat which Is inherent in the ma
ture Of mankind. The notion that
hard general work, resulting in full
muscular development. saps vitality,
weakens the organs and is wearying
incubus to the individual is so illogi-
cal as hardly to deserve an answer, re-
marks the Boston Post. But some per-
sons believe this. Such should pity
the wild animals that, guided only by
an instructive physiological need, run,
Jump, pursue and wrestle with one an
other. thereby using amt developing
fully theI whole bodies.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
Money LeacheS Work Under
the Innocent Mining Da9o
Special to the World.

Special 10 the W orld.
South McAlester, Okla, July 49,
If reports be true the federal govern
ment may have a new line of activity
added to its numerous functions in
the Indian Territory in the near fu-
ture-namely, suppressing the pad
rome or banking system, among the
Italian miners of the coal belt. The
padrone system has caused no end Of
mischief in the east and it promises
to be lust as vicious in this neigh
borhood. The system is founded on
the extreme ignorance of the one class
of Italians and the shrewdness of the
other. 1t is seldom that an Italian
laborer in the coal belt can be found
who will put his money in bank
Every Saturday he takes his surplus
which is always large, to a padrone
clever Italian, who receives it and
uses it sometimes for years at time,
without giving the least security or
paying any interest.
1t is estimated that in this city and
the surrounding coal towns, a sum in
excess of 100000 of Italian money
is in the hands of padrones ofthe min
ing camps. Part of this large sum
is deposited in the local banks and
part of it, by system not understood
outside of its votaries. goes from one
padrone to another until at last it
reaches the large padrone banks in
New York and New Jersey, which are
local institutions, patronized only by
Italians.
The department of justice has re-
ceived no instructions as yet, but it
they will stay by their padrones and
will be broken up by prosecutions of
the chief Italians for doing a banking
business without any license and by
methods contrary to the laws govern
ing banks in this territory. Notwith-
standing the fact that the Italians
have been warned time and again,
they will stay by teir padrones and
the sum deposited by them each
month with these men would make an
ordinary citizen rich.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
FAMOUS TUSCAN RESORT.
Baths of Lucca Where in Former
Times Tourists Of AL
Lands Rested.

A day OF nearly a thousand years
had this Tuscan watering place, now
In the twilight of its fame-a twilight
pleasanter to the contemplative visitor
than its gambling and scandalous noon
could have been. For Its beauty lies
not in the modern places Of pleasure
in the dusty valley, but in the sor-
rounding hills, with their uncounted
gray little towns and fiowery gorges;
and 1t is this beauty, rather than the
gayety the place once had, or even the
virtue Of its waters, that has been the
attraction, to poets and philosophers,
of the baths OF Lucca, writes Neita
Boyce, In Scribner's.
The three little villages. Ponte Sc
ralio, villa and Bagni Caldi, struggling
up the hillsjdes along the valley Of the
emerald green Lima, their outlying
villas embedded in vines, myrtle
bushes, laurels, oleanders," as Helne
describes them, and sentinelled by the
solemn green expresses" have many
illustrious visitors The charm Of
those chestnut wooded slopes Of the
lower Apennines Is celebrated in some
pages Of Montaigne's journal de voy.
age" in some Of the best letters Of
SHELLEY and Mrs. Browning; and It In.
spires an amorous episode Of Heine's
"Reisebilder" Fewer philosophers and
poets visit the place to-day, few gouty
English, eveu The sunset Of Its pros
perity came when, after the cession Of
the duchy Of Lucca to Tuscany. the
archducal court made a summer resi-
dence at the Baths; built barracks,
villas and roads. and drew crowds
But now the grand dukes villa on the
hillside is hotel with few guests the
barracks round the little piazza whence
q fine long flight Of stone steps leads
up to the terrace, have been turned
into pensioni, filled with frugal Ital.
iaus who come for the baths; the ca
sinos in the valley below, once gay
with gaming and dancing. are desert
ed and the landlords noses grow red
der with despair every year.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19

phalt. 1t is also stated on good au-
thority where the soil is of such a
character as it is here, the oil nat
urally mixes with the dirt and dis
appears without leaving any greasy
or undesirable matter to cause in
jury. 1t is hard to see where any
great harm can come from an eX-
pertinent of this kind as it would
cost but little. On the other hand,
much good might result. ,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
Sulphur News.

Sulphur, July lS.-'rhe Harper au-
ditorium. with seating capacity Of
two thousand people is open . the
public and a stock company will fur
nish amusement all summer IN same.
As a convention point Sulphur can
not be surpassed with her facilities
for caring for the biggest of them.
Fine rains have fallen in the asst
week, and corn prospects are very
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-19
SCHOOLGIRL $ DRESS
SHOULD NOT THINK TOO MUCH
ABOUT THIS VEXATIoUS
MATTER.

Most Schoolgirls Too Young and Too
Pretty to Require Much Ornament
in Their Drees--Don't Worry About
Your Figure II Your Dress Is Com
fortable-Health Is the Great Beau
tifer.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
Morven Chapel, Roane Co.
SbefiaI 10 TIE Mc7Ds.

SbefidI TO the Nez0S.
Visiting is the order of the day.
Bob Brumley and family visited Mr..
and Mrs. Dock Christian Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lawrence visit
ed home folks Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rich Crouch gave an
Easter supper Saturday night and a
large crowd attended and all report a
nice time.
Dee Winton and Alton Cronch went
home with their best girls Saturday
night.
Ask Miss Mamie Sain If she ever
took that horse back ride and watch
her smile. 4t
Clee Adams and Rufus Wooton were
out buggy riding Sunday. They sure
looked sweet.
A certain girl in this place said that
Huke Grigswold was sure good look
ing.
Ask Rufus Wooton where he is going
to put his sheep TO keep it from going
back to the mountain and watch him
smile.
Dee Winton had smile on his face
like wave on a goose pond Sunday.
He must have seen his best girl.
Miss Ollie Wooton visited her sister,
Mrs. Christian, Sunday.
If You want to see Dee Winton smile
ask him when he has been near the
railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Brumley Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Winton
Sunday.
If you want to see Clee Adams frown
ask him when he is going TO get mar
ried.
Lookout, Uncle Gid, / am struck on
your red-headed boy. Snow Ball.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
OUR ZOE AND FIGHTING NED.

Not enough Of good things until yet |
has been said,
For the gallant spear pitcher that is
dubbed Fighting Ned"
He 8 looked to the Messiah to redeem
all the losses
That's been snatched from the liberty
goddess By bosses.
He's the wing of the eagle and the hug
of the bear,
And the strength of the lion that lies
at the lair:
Little budgets of fine running chan
nels of mirth,
l. the heritage, poor, of the wages of
the earth.
His life is most charmed in the middle
of strife.
Where the sage pulls the oar 'gainst
folly that's rife;
From the bow of his nerve flies thought
like dart,
And lodges good cheer in the national
heart.
Oh that bright never-setting, fixed
star of the west,
That hangs on the horn and the
strength of the crest;
I1o 3 Iuc pluoW Va CiOuu SdlolJ lcdulAB
by day,
And the nights fiery column to light
up the way.
Our spur whetted Ned shrilly crows
for the fray,
In the senate to rout the approaching
array,
Unchain the bull-terrier, spirit and
hiss
On the paradise fools that shout in
their bliss.
When alls going well in political lull,
The arena may furnish for sport the
mad bull,
But the issues not ready for circus
of sport,
But beckons to bring the best gun in
the port
The fools paradise is now reproduced,
And the reptile and beast from menag-
erie Is loosed;
The roar on the hustings unravels the
riddle,
While their king, like Nero, plays
the left-handed fiddle.
Choosing lies at the door of the prim-
airy voters,
To return Fighting Ned or hump
as wage toters.
Let's send in a search light instead of
fox fire,
AS the prestsge of state now require.
All boiler for Ned! Whoop it high on
the pollsl
A hero of merit blazing high on the
| rolls
Let the humorous spurts in their fash
es of wit,
Lower the sails for the circus for
which it is fit.
Stay, stay with us, Robin, for we
need you right here
To rig jolly Joe in fun-itching ear
Yes, don striped harness for the side
splitting fun,
And hike out to heaven when your race
is well run.
No, the harness of state has never fit
you;
Your calling bursts out from the fun
loving crew:
Too serious for you is the senator
task,
This we see when we peep in youl
well-buttoned mask.
A collar-cuffed toad or green croco
die,
That maps on the banks of the Gange'
or Nile,
Would look like your Robin cued III
in the senate
To curdle discussion like milk by th'
rennet.
ARMOR BEARER.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
A. G. GLEASON,
Caroline Chapel.
Special 10 ne N<zyS.

opeCt0J 90 tbE NelOJ.
Singing is the order of the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Jordan gave the
young folks party Saturday night.
Those present We're Misses Pearl Lew
is, and Bertha Ross and Messrs Albert
Lasater, Wilt and Hugh Alder, Jim
Miller, George and Jim Richardson,
Clint Kilgore, Jess and Arthur Webb,
Galloway Lewis, Dee Ross, John Car
son, Melvin Moore, Billie and Jessie
McCurry. All report grand time.
Melvin Moore escorted Miss Bertha
Ross home Saturday night.
Misses Della and Dora Jordan looked
very lonesome Sunday.
Miss Dora Jordan said Win Alder
looked very sweet Saturday night.
Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely as Mr.. Tom Billingsley is our
superintendent. / hope we shall have
a glorious Sunday school.
Miss Dora Jordan visited Miss Carrie
Dickson, of Whitwell last week.
Melvin Moore sings "Tn be there
bye and bye. Alvin Billingsley says
Just over at Victoria. Miss Cora Jor-
dan says she wishes it was Sunday ev-
cry day.
Remember there is Sunday school
every Sunday evening at Caroline
Chapel
Albert Lasater was escorting Miss
Cora Jordan around Sunday evening
and she said she certainly did enjoy
herself.
John Miller looks very sad.
The Only Pebble.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
wHITwELL.
Special TO tie Ne7Us.

Special to tie Ne7Os.
Miss Lula league of Looney' Creek,
was in town Tuesday.
Miss Vera Shirley spent one day
last week in Jasper, the guest Of Miss
Ilene Pope.
Miss Grace Sith and Alton Bryson,
who are in school here, are visiting
home folks at Sulphur Spring over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. L. Pryor left for
their home at Crossville, Tenn, Sat-
urday.
Miss Nina Daniel visited home folks
from Friday until Sunday afternoon
at Cedar Springs.
DIR. and Mrs. Hugh McRee and little
sons, Milton and Pryor, left for their
future home in the west after spend
ing some time with Mrs McRee's pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Pryor.
Rev. M. A. Hunt and W. B. Ketner
attended the presbytery of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church at Cohutta,
Ga, last week.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
poFETcHIT's NONSENSE
Don't Believe Everything.

Debate on Tobacco and Insects Go.
fatchit. my opponent, said that tobacco
10 more injurious than insects viii
admit that tobacco is injurious to some
extent and 80 is bread. There are in.
sects in the bed and in the walls. How
many times Gofetchit, have Won and
yonr family had to rise in the night
furn the mattress back, and here 9oes
oneI There is another There are two
or three Look at them | never saw
as many in my life How many times
have YOU said, II wish had them ALI
in n tow sack | would fix them. " AZ
ter being up two or three hours, using
coal oil, Bed Bug Extractor and yari,
ous other things, you will lie down
roll, twist, tumble, groan and grunt
the remainder of the night and get mn
the next morning feeling like you had
lived too many years and your
ewes look like two burnt holes in a
blanket and that bitter perfume on
vour hands where you had mashed
them on your neck during the sleepless
hours You think you can taste them
in everything you eat.
Insects cause you to lose sleep and tc
lose sleep causes you to have bad
health. | am on one side with Scotch
snuff, Weyman Smoking and Schnapp'
chewing and no insects. You are or
the other side with all kinds of bug,
and no good tobacco. Now, while W,
are smoking our long stem pipes, you
are scratching your head. You viii
bring your finger and thumb together
make pull ard if You had success il
making catch we can tell it. Yo,
will mash it ON your thumb nails.
Now, give me chew off Schnapp
and watch me squirt the juice ava,
over yonder, while you are grabbin:
up a big handful of your coat sleeve
pinch and rub like you were trying I,
mash the life out of some little fellow
Give us the snuff and watch u
smile, while you are doggoning tn
mosquitoes and gnats. Give me tobac
co. I will say no more this time as
want to hear little from him and hi
pets. The cow and calf are no insect
but they have them ON their bodie
sometimes that keeps them down.
Old fish, will make it hot for yo
when you come. DOfetchit.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19
WHITwELL.
Special 10 the N<7os,

oPeetnS ~ INC NetoS, ..-t..
Easter is over. The little folks had
a good time coloring eggs. This Is the
first Easter in my memory that has
passed without an Easter service at
some of the churches. There was no
service at all.
Visiting is the order of the day. 4
Miss Julia Richie called on Miss
May Hudson Sunday. ID
Miss Molie Bells called on Miss Ju-
liza Richie Friday.
Miss Maggie Henson was all smiles
Sunday.
Pat Cary was all smiles Sunday as
he was with his best girl. Step up,
Pat, you are hustler.
Mrs. Lily Jordan is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Cannon are on
the sick list. r
A certain young man says he is a
good gardener and wants wife. Look
out, girls.
Mrs John King called on Miss Julia
Richie Wednesday.
There were many glad hearts Satur-
day evening as q number of Altoona
boys arrived. Also Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Hooper.
The condition of the town at this
time is prosperous but better times are
at hand. I well know the non-union
men are doing no good. Anyone can
tell from the few number of cars of
coal shipped from here now. There is
record kept. The non-union men
need not boast and brag about how
they are getting out coal for few Of
them know much about getting it out.
If we could see about go trips let down
the incline day they could brag about
it. ,l.t
Mr.. Jones arrived Saturday morning
and made an interesting speech for the
boys at the Hall. Boys, stand firm and
the victory is yours You know in
the Bible the greatest promises are tc
those who are faithful, and so it i.
with you. We meet people every day,
as it has been said, who come to us In
sleeps clothing but inwardly are raw
ening wolves. Cricket.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-04-19

Isaac Hicks, of Jasper, was in the
city Tuesday of last week.
Prof. A. F. Moore, of Jasper, was IN
the city Saturday in the interests OF
the Fire Insurance Co. that he repre-
sents.
DR.. o. F. McNabb was called last
Friday to see one of his sick brothers
in Rhea county.
Rev. Joe Vasey, of Knoxville, was
in the city last Saturday.
J. s. McCracken, of Knoxville, Sec
rotary and Treasurer of District IL,
United Mine Workers of America,
was in the city Saturday.
Mr.. Jones, of Montana, was in the
city Saturday in the interests OF the
union miners.
DR.. N. B. Moore went to Jasper Sat
urday to attend the Democratic rally,
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Hooper, j. }
Hooper and Yves Mosier returned from
Altoona, Ala, last Saturday.
We now have three, if not four, can
didates for sheriff in Whitwell
We will have primary election the
18th of May to select county candi-
dates.
Mrs. James Shirley is sick and moi
expected to recover.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Ketner, of Victor
ia, were in the city last Sunday.
Rev. Sanders preached last Sunday
at the old Masonic Hall at II a. m.