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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-08-12

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-09


Harrison Hendricks Hudson Jenkins Kane Mccnco Mcclure
caadn
day to The Agricultural
motion Mr. Leahy
o sickness
Mr. nrewer presented by Petition No 9s being memorial
Congress, follows;
To President and House
REPRESENTATIVES. assembled
Oklahoma Indian
Territory a respectfully
that the restrictions imposed the and Of lands allotted
held citizens OKLA
be
without delay, necessary development
blood
motion o I.edbetter.
Nr Cloud Petition No 30 being petition
The citizens Chandler oklahoma bearing 2lo asking state
vide prohibition which referred the Committee Liquor Traffic
presented by request Petition petition
oklahoma prohibition. which
commttee Traffic.
presented reqses being
omAo IledricR prohibition.
referred Liquor
Pltman Petition petition
citizens prohibition,
Committee 1iqror
presented request petition
citizens Cleveland relating which
sasl l.ferred 10 he Suffrage
andm
aid eoulon follows.
RESOLUTION
by people
lso7 assemble Santa Mexico
Mexico a to submission
immediate admission o a the
Whereas Oklahoma earnestly sympathize with
f the o therefore,
BE Resolved We congratulate the deega,as by people
New their determination to draft Constitution for the
tate Mexico cordial
as Of right
he denial Statehood serious
believe injury.
| rot only o
That the President telegraph
| ew Constitutional Convention
unanimously
Proposition $751;
Proposition
introduced Constitutional Proposition being
Proposition provide individual which
by he
| mbe Bill of Rights
Propo.
ion prohibit school public funds om
a
| erred the Committee
Hanraty introduced Constitutional Proposition No
opoon relating TO Mines and Mining which read second
me by title referred Committee Mines Mining
Mr. Frye introduced Constitutional Proposition
ion relating territory plated cities
ding such territory
ne General Provisions
Mr. Ellis introduced constitutional
on provide the regulating ownership subjects
orclgn by
efelred the Committee
Proposition
ooson relating liquor traffic which read second time
| title referred o Liquor
Mr Hughes introduced Constitutional Proposition No sSs being
oposion provide regulating the employment OF children
labor and for other which time b
tie referred the judicial
h instructions consider and Committee Labor
/ Nbiadon
introduced Constitutions Proposition No $780, being Prop
ton relating protection birds which
MI Mitch introduced Constitutional Proposition No 800 being
ropoton establishment
nd blind which read read time by tile referred h
ommitae Public Institutions Buildings
Mr. Copeland introduced Constitutional Proposition
ropeton
4: iue and referred to the Committee Provisions
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-09

The Leader counting room Is kept
open until iO.sO on Saturday rightA
This is for The convenience OF city sub.
seribers who do not see the collectors
during the week. While up town
kindly drop in and see the eireulator.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-09
Official Journal Of the Proceedings
Of the Constitutional Convention
luary s, 1907. 10 A. NJ.

Tuesday, January 1907, 10 A. NJ.
Convention pursuant o adjournment
members present
Jenkins
Caudn
day Agricultural
motion o Leahy
Mr. Harrison OF excused on account sickness
request Petition being memorial
Congress, follows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

and he gets so interested in the Five Hundred Gems of Prose and Poetry that he forgets to go down and eat If you want twenty copies I'll make a special discount"
 Not today said the landlord
 "Pll take it out in board" suggested Eliph Hewitt, mildly.
 well, l don't know" said the land lord. If that book is as interesting as you say it is you might send me twenty copies and take your pay out in reading the ope I'll put in your room. You'll get so interested you won't want to eat
 would do it if l didn't know the whole book by heart, from cover to cover." said Eiph' Hewitt So 1 don't need to forget my meals. I can repeat parts of it to myself while I'm eating. It gives me an appetite"
 q noticed it," the landlord said. q guess if it works that way with every body I won't take any more copies until the price of eggs goes down
 You don't know any woman in this town that aint moving and aln't troubled with curiosity, do your he asked. "I might go around to her house and give her chance to secure all the knowledge of the world in one volume if you did"
 Why don't you try Mrs. Tucker. If you ain been there yet? l should judge she would be just the one to try today. She has been polsing her nose into other peo-
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E1iph FHeWlitt on Moving Day

It's them new folks moving over from Jefferson, she said, and poked her head out. It wasn't nothing but wash tubs full of tin pans and such as that
 Madam I said, the next picture I show you is a view of Wall street, with Thom- as Lawson defying Standard Oil and she hurried over and took a look at 1t, and I was turning over the page to show her the birds view of the fall of Port Arthur when load of furniture backed up to the house to the north of her. and she gave a squeak and made dash for the north window and stuck out her head.
 Law sakesi' she says, If 1t ain't that family that is moving into to town from Richmond And if they ain't got pianol I suppose they are the stuck up kind
 "rhe Fall of Port Arthur" painted by our own artist on the spot where 1t fell, I said. and she jumped over and took look and then jumped for the next window. I turned over the page and caught her as she was sprinting for the north window, and she gave. one glance at the picture of Flags of All Nations, which deserves close study to see all its beauties, and before I could tell her which was the emblem of Patagonia and which the blood baptized flag of Hondu- ras she had her head out of the window and was gasping to see how awful worn the new neighbor's parlor carpet looked
 But she did not get any satisfaction out of it. because she knew every minute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

during d thirty mile horseback ride over the desert from Beni Ounif Tarla is one of many oases which spot here and there the branches of the Wady Saoora. It is found on the Sousfane river, which unites with the Wady Cir near lgel to form the Saoora, the latter flowing from there on southward and finally feeding the oases of Tuat. From here to Igeli. a distance of more than a hundred miles, the river flows so far below the surface that there is no Vegitation whatever.
 Just east of Flguig the Sousfane comes to the surface in a tricklng stream, and the result is scattered oases covering distance of several miles. These oases are so narrow in places that one could throw stone over them. They are often not more than one hundred feet wide, broadened out to three hundred feet or more in some places Even there the river bed is often dry but little pools of water now and then come to the surface, and near them are date trees growing out of the dry sand most of which are loaded with fruit.
 At Tarla such palms run up and down
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she looked out of the north window she was missing something that was being unloaded at the other house, and before she was right sure it was the parlor car pet and not just the old one for the third floor spare bedroom, she had to tear her self away and jump for the west win dow, less she miss something there. She went by like a whirlwind, but 1 mem tioncd that we were now turning to the chromeolith of the wreck of the Slocum. and she gave it one agonized glance, but beIore she got her eyes quite on 1t she had her head out of the west window and I was calling her attention to the next picture, the same time that the man of the house to the north was yelling at the movers to be careful how they handled that china closet. And that just when she was looking at the west folks unload a parlor suit, and hadn't had a good lt ok at 1t yet. She gurgled out word 1 don't like to say, and wrung her hands, and scooted for the other win dow"
 Which one was it she scooted for?" asked the landlord. 'I have lost track"
 "So did l." said Eliph' Hewitt. 'The way she hiked across the room and back made me dizzy. She just took time to giv, squeak at what she saw out of one window and a squeak at the picture had the book open at and then a squeak out of the other window. and by that time she was back at the first one again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

ple's business for twenty years, and if there is stick of furniture in this town that she don't know by heart it must have been smuggled in at night and kept locI.ed up In the bank" The landlord laughed Mrs. Tucker ought to be glad to look at that book. The furniture of she town of Kilo won't satisfy her cu- rosity, because she knows what other people have got in that line better than the do themselves"
 Eliph' Hewitt tucked his oilcloth- covered parcel under his left arm and walked briskly down the street. Mrs. Tucker lived in a corner house and she was at home She was glad to see Eliph' Hewlittt and welcomed him into the par Tor It was after the dinner hour of the kilo Hotel when the little book agent dropped into the chair before the hotel again and nervously wiped his face.
 Sell a book?' asked the landlord.
 don't know, Eliph' Hewitt an- swered weakly, 'l cant tell yet. My thoughts an't collected yet Why din't you say Mrs. Tucker was subject to be took with fits?"
 Because she aint," answered the land To. .. Curiosity is all she is liable to be took with, so far as l know There ain't room in her for anything else, she is so full of that
 ''I've been selling this book" said the little book agent "ever since-since 1t was a pup, as you might say-and l ain't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

ever seen a sadder thing than what saw up at her house. l told you I was fool ish to try to do business today. I never saw woman take on as that Mrs. Tuck CT aid over the things her new neighbors was moving in.
 Was their things better than hern?' asked the landlord.
 NO, 1t wasn't that" said Eliph' Hew- lit. You know what kind of a house she lives in. It is a corner house, and she welcomed me in and took delight in hearing what I had to say. She was right pleased at the looks of the illuml- mated frontispiece, and thought the steel engraved portrait of Roosevelt looked as if he was a good fighter, because he had face like her Uncle Wisdom Tucker had before he lost his teeth and when he used to wrestle with grizzly bear every morning before breakfast to get up an appetite. and she was going on to tell how her Uncle Wisdom's first wife was just the woman that would have liked to buy a copy of this book, her being intellectual and noted for the beau tiful wax flowers she made, when all at once a wagon backed up to the house to the north of her house and the driver shouted 'Whoal She gave one look at the colored picture from life of the San Francisco earthquake, taken on the spot while 1t was still quaking, and then she gave little cry and jumped to the win dow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

here in Morocco. They are very large and sweet and they are shipped in great quantities to Europe as td bits for the holiday season Tahlet like Tuat, com prises a number of separate oases, hay ing altogether three hundred fortified villages. Its chief town is Abuam, which has the largest market of the western Sahara. It is a great caravan center and 1t sends two immense caravans every year to Timbuktu, which lies almost a thousand miles directly south of It. In the past there was considerable trade between Tafilet and Figuig, the dates coming there and then going on to the north; but this has now been diverted to Beni Ounlf and Colomb Bechar to take advantage of the cheaper railroad rates.
 The people of Taflet are independent and warlil5e; they are fanatical Moham- medans and they are now causing no end of trouble to the Sultan of Morocco The governor of the oasis is said to be preach ing holy war and to be organizing raids to cross over into Algeria and assault the French. The Algerian papers are full of the schemes of these war preparations and the troops here are preparing to give them a hot reception. A caravan was attacked by Tafilet brgands a few days ago and an invasion seems immi- nent. Sooner or later the French will have to take possession of Tafilet or the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

ago a plan was proposed to push the line on to Timbuktu, a distance of eleven or twelve hundred miles further. If this is done, the French will have a railroad clear across the Sahara, and much of the trade which now goes on camels to Trip oi and to the Atlantic will be carried over this road. The road Is a narrow gauge, but 1t Is well built and 1t car ries considerable freight. The trains are slow, but they are infinitely superior - camels, which make only two or three miles an hour and with which eighteen or twenty miles Is a days journey. As it Is now a great deal of the caravan trade of the Sahara has been diverted to the Atlantic. The products of the west ern Soudan are carried up the Niger to Timbuktu and Jenne, and thence sent overland to the railroad which the French have built from the port of St. Louis on the Atlantic to Raves on the Senegal river. That whole region Is now controlled by the French and there are French soldiers stationed in Timbuktu. The southern port of the Sahara Is po- Heed from that region and the chief inn ports come from Europe via the Atlantic ocean instead of across country on cam els.
 There is another scheme to extend the BisSra road which runs down into the Algerian Sahara from Constantine not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

the river bed for eight or ten miles. I rode at least six miles through them and that under punches of ripe dates all the way. I stopped near a mud village, which wRs inhabited not long ago. but which is now deserted except at times of har- vest. It's people have moved across the desert to Figuig in order that they may be better protected from the brigands of the desert, although they still own and cultivate their little date farms and when the crop is ripe come back to their mud huts and mud towers to watch them.
 Vegetation of the Sahara.
 he Arabs say that if you will thrust a sick into the desert and water you will soon have a tree. l can easily be- lieve this to be so The sands of the Sahara are wonderfully fertile, and if they could all be watered this would be the garden spot of the globe. As if is, the rainfall the whole region over does not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

average more than five inches per year. There are certain places on the highlands, however, which have occasional rains, and at certain seasons the water falls there for seve al days off and on. When this occurs egetation springs up as though by magic The ground is car peted with grass and there are wild flowers of many kinds. The Arabs know of these regions and they go there with their flocks of sheep and goats to pas ture, coming away when the grass dis appears.
 On my way to Tarla l rode through patches of thorn bushes scattered at wide distances apart Such vegetation isfound all along this part of the Sous fane the moisture not being sufficient for anything else. There was a drove of camels feeding on the thorn bushes as I rode by and l stopped and made photo graphs of them. Nearer the dry river bed where the moisture was greater were thick punches of alfa grass and other desert plants and flowers, and then came the region of date trees. The palms were of all sizes. Some were just sprout-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

powers of Europe will have to control it's people. It mas with it's surroundings a population of more than a million and it's people are about the worst in Morocco. The family of the Sultan comes from that region and the Tailetites have a great influence over all parts of Mo- rocco.
 The oases there are due to several causes. I understand they have both springs and wells, and that the southern portions of the country are watered by underground rivers, fed by the inner slopes of the Atlas.
 Railroads Versus Caravans.
 This town of Colomb- Bechar is at the end of the railroad, and caravans from all this part of the Sahara bring their goods here to be shipped north. I under stand that the railroad Is paying and that notwithstanding it was built as a military necessity. About three years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

miles and then rises and supplies the oases of Tuat, which are among the Iarg- est of the western Sahara.
 River Oasis of Tarla.
 have already described the extensive date plantations of Figug. lying north east of here near Beni Ounif in Morocco, on the other side of the mountains. They are watered by hot springs, some of whi h have a temperature above loo de- grees Fahrenheit. Those springs come out of plateau in the middle of the oase5 and their waters are conducted by underground drains over a solid date for est, covering an area greater than that of eighty 160-acre farms I rode miles with my soldiers in going in and out among the plantations and I am told that their number is close to a million.
 The oasis of Figuig is not at all like tn oasis of Tarla, which l also visited
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council over the whole, and all subject to the control of the French.
 Iuat produces opium, tobacco and cot ton and some wheat and barley. large part of it's date crop Is brought by cara vans up the valley of the Saoora by way of Igeli to the railroad at this point and shipped from here northward to Gran and thence to Europe.
 These oases are a great center of the caravan trade. They lie about eight hum dred miles from Timbuktu in the Soudan and a like distance from Mogador on the Atlantic, from Tangier opposite the Strait of Gibraltar, and from Tripoli on the Mediterranean. The French are trying to divert the Tripoli caravan trade to their Tunisian port of Gabes, the route to which Is much shorter.
 Great Morocco Oasis.
 About the best dates known to the world come from Tailet, situated west of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
The Good Ash Man.
n the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Little Jamie, 8 years old. coming in from his play one morning, said to his mother: Mother. our ash mans an awful good man. Why. this morning when he set the can of ashes on the wagon the horse stared up and the can fell right on his toes and he just sat right down and took his foot upon his lap and talked to God about the horse
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-09-12
u y ia TAX IS
= 3. HURS =
STOLE CHICKENS
says che Jury Of Lewis Jones In His
Case In Circuit
Court.

Late TUESDAY evening the jury Ia
circuit court found Lewis Jones,
colored guilty Of entering Aaron !.
sheetss chicken house on pavisson's
run the night Of April IL last and
stealing nine chickens therefrom.
Jones has been n jail iive months
and 50 Judge Lynch gave him but
thirty more days 10 make 1t an even
six months Jones was tracked
from the chicken house % his home
four miles distant. according to the
evidence 81 the State, and next day
he sold a lot Of dressed chickens At
a meat market The Tracking was
done BY means ~ 4 light snow.
Jones claimed he was Sick IN bed all
that night with jawache and was
supported BY his wife IN the claim.
The county physician who treated
him in jail said his mouth was mere,
" sore and that even that did not
Interfere with his eating
Jones was Indicted for burglary
but escaped with a verdict for petit
larceny,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-09-12
SHERWOOD HOTEL
HAS A RECEIVER
Proprietor Has Lert Grafton and RE.
cciyer WIN Try TO Make
Creditors Whole.

GRAFTON, Sept. IL Upon the
application of H. p. Gilmore. of
Fairmont, and T. A, Deyeny, Of this
city. large creditors Of Alpheus
Beall, proprietor Of the Sherwood
hotel and bar Of Grafton, the cir
cult court of this county yesterday
appointed Frederick II. Martin. n
local attorney, special receiver for
the hotel and saloon properties. Mr..
Beali left the city a few days ago
for parts unknown. leaving NUM-
her Of creditors behind, and as he
has not returned the above action
has been instituted. It is UNDER
stood the special receiver will run
the hotel and bar long enough TO
make the creditors of Beall safe.
then the properties may be sold
should Beall not come back.