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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Tom Fatheree leaves this evening
for Clinton, Okla. to do some steam
fitting there. He win be gone un-
til the first Of the year.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Miss Mabel Z. Hull Of Kansas City
is expected in Chickasha today to join
her father F. P. Hull and make this
her home.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Myron Humphrey, manager OF the
chickasha Milling CO.. returned home
yesterday from trip north during
which he took in the Kansas-Mis-
souri, football game in st. Joseph,
No.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

DR.. AL NJ. Forester spent yester-
day in Oklahoma City and win re-
main there until tomorrow and "The
ClansmanD tonight.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

J. W. Braley, who was formerly
chief clerk in the master mechanics
office in this city was here from Ft.
Worth yesterday visiting friends.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

County Supt Wilson and Supt.
Stewart returned yesterday from
trip to Guthrie where they spent sew
eral days on important business.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Miss Pearl Hamilton returned to
El Meta Bond college in Minco yes
terday after spending a few days
with home folks in Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

LOST "A white shepherd dog, one
black ear, with collar, engraved "St.
Louis, No. Please leave any in
formation at SOC Iowa. 1879 3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

WANTED To find buyer fol
you have to sell, from q Sc
cend hand cook stove to a family
milk cow. Apply to the Express.
WANTS DIVORCE
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Select fresh oysters in bulk, on
ly the best. See the big electric
sign at Meals Market or phone
l4O. diff
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. E. stecker returned to her
home in Anadarko this morning, af-
ter bringing four Of her children here
to enter st. Joseph's school.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

The quality Of our meats ii be-
yond criticism. Let us serve you.
Meals Meat Market. Phone I40.
dtf.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

A violin solo by Mr.. Artie Golf at
the Christian church last night was
one Of the most enjoyable features Of
The evening.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Judge Frank NJ. Bailey went to An
adarko last night to hold the first
term Of district court ii Caddo coun-
ty.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

II. o. Bird, who travels out Of Ok
lahoma City for the Kingman-Moore
Implement CO., spent Sunday with
his wife in Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. L. R. France has returned to
her home in Chickasha after an ex-
tended visit with relatives in Mis-
souri,.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

w. G. Mosar, a prominent dry
goods merchant Of Cement was in
Chickasha yesterday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Dir. ]. C. Mahr Of Shawnee. the.
newly appointed superintendent Of
the state board Of health was in the
city yesterday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Arthur Hall has returned to Chick
asha after a few days visit with his
parents in Hobart.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. H. B. Wood returned home
yesterday after few days visit with
relatives in Ninnekah.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. w. T. Peery Of Cement is vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs. Arch Brown
Of Chickasha this week.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. Joe Cunningham Of Waurika
is spending a few days with her bro
ther, Ike Means Of this city.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Attorney Will Gilbert Of Duncan
was in The city Saturday on legal
business.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Miss Leta Elliott and brother, 0rla,
were guests at the home Of DR.. W..
S. Corbin yesterday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Miss Sadie Cobb Of Minco spent
Sunday with MISS Lora Dewitt OF
this city.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

i. M. Widener Of Rush Springs
is spending the day in Chickasha on
business.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. "A. Johnson has returned from
very pleasant months visit with
relatives in Kansas City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Bath brushes, shaving brushes, nail
brushes, all kinds Of brushes At the
Model. 10-28h
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

W. D. Black Of Mangum was the
guest Of Chickasha friends over Sun
day.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

our pride. This is the place to
have yours rightly filled. The Model
Drug Store
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. I. J. Hubbard has gone to
Maysville and Ardmore to visit her
friends and relatives.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Walter Carter Of Ryan is the guest
Of Fl. :. Westphal Of Chickasha this
week.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Mrs. d. z. Emerson spent Sunday
with friends in Pauls Valley.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Raymond Story who has been Wis
iting his parents here returned TO his
home in Ninnekah today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

w. w. Hollister Of Wynnewood is
q business visitor in the city today,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Don't forget your sweetheart Get
box Of candy at the Model. 11-14tf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

Miss Kate Martin Of Cement was
shopping ID the city Saturday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

S. wv Bond and daughter of Dun
can spent yesterday ia Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-02

". II. Edwards is IN Oklahoma
City On business today.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

displaying the greatest gallantry. John
Williams, Captain of the Maintop of
the Pawnee, who was commanding Il
boat, told his men that every
one of them must die upon
his thwart rather than leave any wound
ed men ashore. His flag was shot away
and Williams wounded in the thigh, but
he snatched up the flag from the water
and held it aloft until his boat accom-
plished its work and returned TO the
ship with its load of wounded. Lieut..
Chaplin was left in command of the
men when Commander Ward returned
to the Freeborn, and managed the re-
treat. They had all gotten off but one
enlisted man, who could not swim, when
Chaplin took him and his musl<et on
his back and swan with him to the
boat Commander Ward saw the gum
ner of his bow gun shot down, and he
himself sprang to the piece to aim and
fire it. AS he was sighting il mimic
bullet struck him in the abdomen, in
ilicting a mortal wound. He fell into
the arm of Boatswain's Mate Harry
Churchill, who with his other hand
pulled the lock string and sent a shell
directly into a group of the enemy, kill
ing and wounding several and scatter
ing them. Ward lived only As minutes
The remains were brought to Washing
ton and thence sent to New York. where
they lay in state on the North Carolina,
which Ward had formerly commanded,
after which they were sent to Hartford
for interment.
An Internal Machine.
The Pawnee with her heavy, long
range guns was the principal source of
irritation to the Confederates, and they
devised many schemes to get rid of her.
one of these was the beginning of the
system of floating mines which later
Dlayed Suci. an important part in naval
operations. The first one sent against
the Pawnee was picked up by her on
the evening of July I. The following is
the official description of it:
Il. /. Oil casks, serving for buoys.
2, 2. Iron tubes. four feet six inches
long and IS inches in diameter. charged
with gunpowder. 3. A three-inch rope,
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND TR1B UTARIEs.

Lackawanna, steam frigates which
were longer than the old Constitution,
but not SO wide, and carried only eight
guns, where the Constitution had so.
But the guns on the Lackawanna were
one 150-pound rife. one 50-pound rife,
two 11-inch rifles. and four 9-inch
broadside guns. These gave a concen-
trated fire of enormous weight of metal
and terrible crushing force.
Altogether the Navy Department
built, bought and hired more than 500
vessels during the war, many of them
more powerful than any others in the
world.
There was much undeserved depre-
citation of the merchant vessels bought
for the navy. While these fell short in
some respects of the requirement
of a man-of-war, they were generally
stanch No. l ships. and when COM
manded by the right kind of men. did
splendid service.
Some of them We're capable of safely
carrying eight heavy guns. and a swift
little passenger steamer carrying a 100-
pound rifle was a very diSagreeable OBJ
ject to an English blockade runner
At that time the heaviest gun in the
French navy was 50-pound rifle, and
the English relied on broadsides of 6S-
pound smoothbores.
The foreigners relied on the chance
firing of a great number of heavy guns.
while the American idea was small
number of still heavier guns, fired with
all the skill that incessant practice
could give. Thus an American mer-
chant steamer with a 100-pound or 150-
pound rife, or one or two 1l-inch pivot
guns, had few odds to ask of line-of-
battleship With whole broadside of
lighter. shorter-range guns.
Guarding The Potomac.
The Navy was given active service
from the very first in guarding the Po-
tomac.
AS soon as hostilities began the Vir-
ginia troops advanced to the Potomac
to hold the right bank of the river from
Alexandria TO the Chesapeake.
The point of greatest importance was
held to be the mouth of Aqua Creek
about Az miles below Washington. This
was where the railroad running to
and Richmond connect
ed with the steamers running to Wash
ington.
1t was also a point of great strategic
Importance, since the Potomac makes Il
sweeping loop to the southwest which
brings it to within few niiies of the
Rappahannock, and within less than 20
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

lshing success IL. the past-that is, to
give each individual vessel the highest
speed, the handiest action, and heaviest
battery possible. 1t was this policy
which had enabled the old "Constitu-
fion," rated as 44-gun frigate, to
knock out in an astonishingly short
time any British 44-gun frigate that
She encountered. 1t will be remembered
that the "Guerriere" only lasted 15
minutes before the Constitution"
The first order was for 23 small gun
boats of about 500 tons burden, which
were to be as long as the frigates of
1872. but only half as broad. These
were intended to outrun anything tnen
Rfloat, and their armament was one IL
inch pivot gun, two 24-pOund howitzers,
and one 20-pound howitzer. 1t was ex-
pected that their swiftness would en-
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

artillery accomplished. yet the fact re-
mains that every battle is finally decid-
ed by the superiority of the fire of the
infantry.
The United States musket of the pat
tern of 1851 had barrel 40 inches long,
with three rifles running its entire
length and making one complete turn.
The caliber was .55 of an inch. the bull
let weighed 525 grains, and was fired by
charge of so grains of powder. The
bayonet. barrel and springs were made
Of the best steel, and every. care was
taken to secure their perfection. The
only strong rival The United States mus
ket had asnfhat made at Enfield, in
England, by American machinery and
American m9fho1s. The Enfield rife
was slightly SHORTER and larger in cali
ber and with the United States rifle was
the best weapbn the Confcderates had
to oppose our arms.
BIhicuItN in. Getting Arms.
At the begifinihS OF the war substan-
TALLY all of the rifles made on this pat
tern had beeri sent to the South by the
traitorous Scererary of War, John B.
Floyd. There Iwere two great factories
employed in milking these weapons, one
at Springfield, Mass. and the other at
Harper's Ferry The destruction of the
armory at Harper's Ferry with $1,000
i'm proved mugkets was severe blow to
the Government ana greatly embarraSs-
ed arming the 'eaSer volunteers who as
sembled To the Presidents call. At that
time the Springfield armory was only
capable of turning out about $4,000
muskets year, which were amply suf-
Ifcient for the needs of the army and
militia. Immediate steps were taken TO
expand the works at Springfield first
until they would produce 5000 muskets
a month and then 5000 monthly. The
private armOrieS i'm the country wera
encouraged to go into the work, and
were given contracts at $50 apiece for
the complete muskcts, where the Gov
ernment had been producing them at
Springfield at a cost Of S13.5S, exclusive.
of cost of administration. Congress ap-
propriated s10.O00,000 to purchase
arms in Europe. but our agents could
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

10 make any evasion hazardous. The
blockade proclaimed by the President
of more than 1000 miles of coast line
on the Atlantic and the Gulf, unusually
we'll supplied with entrances, was a
task of greater magnitude than had
ever been before attempted by any
navy, no matter how great. The at
tempt of Great Britain to blockade
the Continent against Napoleon was a
task of far less magnitude.
Upon his entrance into Office Sec
retary Wells of the Navy had found
only A war vessels at his disposal, and
many of these not of efficient class.
The Department itself had suffered, tho
hardly to the same extent as the War
Department, from the detection OF its
Southern members. Isaac Toucey. of
Connecticut, the Secretary of the Navy
under Buchanan, was that worst type
of a pro-slavery man-the New Eng
lander.
There is no Turk like a renegade" :"
and no pro-slaveryite like Yankee.
Toucey co-operated with Secretary
Floyd of the War Department in do
ing all he possibly could to help the
South prepare for secession, and altho
the shameful abandonment and de-
struction of the Norfolk Navy Yard did
not occur during his term, yet it un-
doubtedly was due to preparatory con-
ditions under him.
Within a few days after the firing
On Fort Sumter, IL out of the 78 Cap
tains on the active list resigned or were
dismissed; SO of the ia Commanders,
and 73 of the 321 Lieutenants. Between
March 4 and July / 259 officers Of the
Navy had resigned or been dismissed.
besides those who had resigned when
their States went out.
March 4 there We're only IL vessels
In the Home Squadron, of which but
four We're in Northern ports. Two of
these were small steamers, and one a
Sailing storeship. The squadron on the
coast of Africa was so far away that the
first of the vessels did not reach home
until September IS. Immediately upon
Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration orders were
sent TO all parts of the world for the
ships to hurry home, and during the
Summer they were coming in from the
remote seas.
= Building New Vessels.
Secretary Gideon Wells set the navy
yards of the country at work to build
additional vessels with all possible
haste. In the design of these the line
was followed which had given the
American navy SO much of its aston
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miles, i'm an air line. from Richmond.
Tho Mcclellan never showed any recOg-
milton of the great strategic importance
of Aqua Creek as the door to Rich
mond, Lee saw it at once, garrisoned it,
and began batteries there in his first
preparations for defending the State.
From Alexandria to Aqua Creek the
Potomac generally skirts along close to
the Virginia bluffs. and the river is
much narrower than further down, so
that batteries planted along the bluffs
could close the navigation of the river
to any but armed vessels. The capture
of the Norfolk Navy Yard had given
the Confederates a full supply of the
best high-power guns of that day, and
they made their first effective use of
these in batteries along the bluffs of the
Potomac.
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command o the Germans. Born in Ba-
yaria. il was said that he had served
in Greece as non-commissioI.d Off
Ger, and subsequently as a Colonel or
general officer in the revolutionary
army at Baden in 1S4S. He was in
many respects an excellent soldier; had
his command in excellent drill was
very fond of display, but did not. or
could not, always restrain his men from
plundering. Had he remained with me
| think that he and his division would
have done good service, and that they
would have been kept under good dis
cipline. 1t would be difficult 10 find
more soldierly-looking set of men than
he had under his command, OF his
subordinate officers the best was Gen.
Stahl, Hungarian, who had served
with distinction under Georgei, His
real name. 1 believe. was Count Ser
biani.
Richardson was in command of a
regiment of Michigan volunteers when
went to Washington: l at snce gave
him brigade He was an officer of the
Old Army. 'bull-headed." brave. good
disciplinarian. He received his mortal
wound at Antietam.
ITO Stone l gave a detached brigade
on the upper Potomac-gronnd with
which he was familiar He WAS most
and amiable gentleman; hon.
est. DfdNt, d SOOu SoluleF, tnO ptCdSlOil-
ally carried away by his cilivalrous
ideas. He was very unfortunate, and
was as far as possible from meriting
the sad fate and cruel treatment he met
with.
Il found Couch in command of a reg
iment and soon gave him brigade
He was an honest, faithful and labori-
Gus man; a brave, modest and valuable
officer.
F'itz-JOhn Porter.
"F'itZ-John Porter was on duty with
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CONTINUED on page three.)
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
By JOHN McELR0Y.

able them to choose their own posi-
ton with regard to their adversary,
while their smashing 11-inch guns
would give them speedy victory.
Next, a class of steamers of the
Kearsarge type, of about 1000 tons
burden. with a length of 200 feet and
a breadth of only 33. We're constructed
as pirate catchers. They were expected
to run down and destroy the privateers
which jeff Davis would send out. They
also carried an exceedingly heavy arm
ament for their size, having two 11-inch
guns. one S0-pound rifle, and four 81
Founders
Next were ordered II side-wheel
steamers for use in the narrow rivers
of the coast. These in turn We're fol-
lowed by 81 side-wheel steamers called
'double-enders," since they We're built
to run either backward or forward at
a speed of about IA knots an hour.
Still another class was that of the
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
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