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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

Barely ten years have elapsed since
Marconi-than young fellow of 22-
realizing the commercial possibilities
which lay hidden in the discoveries Of
Hertz, went to England to patent his
system of wireless telegraphy and al
ready the transmission Of aerial mes
sages has become part and parcel of
civilized life. A wireless telegraphy
conference, convoked by Germany. has
been sitting in Berlin, the chief point
at issue being the question Of the
monopoly of the Marconi company in
Great Britain. Germany demands an
international convention compelling
ntercommunicati,n between wire
less telegraph stations of all systems,
while Great. Britain, who in the Mar
conf system possesses a great ad-
vantage, naturally does not wish to
forego it merely to oblige rival
power.
The use OF wireless telegraphy in
wartime was recognized long ago, and
as far back as 1893 experiments were
made by the French army in trans
hitting wireless messages by means
OF captive balloons to which were at
tached vertical conductors from 100
to 500 feet in length. These attempts
proved moderately successful, mes
sages being sent about four miles.
About the same time the Austrians
managed to send messages nearly
double the distance, and in the Ger
man army signals were transmitted
more than 25 miles by the same
method. The first occasion when the
wireless system was put to a practi-
cal test in the field, however, was last
year in the Herrero campaign, when
the Germans shipped a number Of ap-
paratus to southwest Africa, and
found them exceedingly useful in their
operations against the natives. In
warships. Of course. wireless tele.
graphy was adopted from the very
start, and as early as 1900 the British
admiralty entered into contract for
the installation Of the Martoni appa-
ratus IN 26 Of his majestys ships, as
we'll as at six coast stations. Within q
few years practically every ma IN
the world was experimenting with the
transmission Of aerial messages.
The wireless telegraphic system EN-.
ployed by the Japanese during the late
war was the invention Of one of their
countrymen, Dr. Kimura, who attend
ed the congress at Berlin. Before war
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

January, 1906. came in with proof
that kentucky deacons are made Of
much the same stun as Kentucky col
onels. Two Of them had an argument
as to John D. Rockefeller's fitness for
heaven, deciding the matter with shot
guns. The churchman who upheld
Mr.. Rockefeller got two charges Of
buckshot in the breast.
June brought news from Des Moines
that some highwaymen had returned
to James Morgan. their victim Of the
night before, three teeth they had
"unintentionally" knocked out. They
thoughtfully suggested plate-setting.
SO the months Of 1906 have run.
In Germany. too, the year opened
oddly. One Schmeid had had carved
upon his deceased wife's tombstone
some frigid words to the effect that
she had died OF INSCRIPTIONS treat
ment. whereupon libel suits followed,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

church fair in Montreal, Canada. II
was the work Of the clergyman's wife
who thus converted into useful cash
the buttons contributed to her hus.
bands offertory baskets.
The Hon. Hoke Smith, speaking al
Atlanta In September, was enthusi,
astlcally hugged by Policeman r. j.
Williams. The latter was then hauled
before his commissioners for taking
an interest in politics"
The Philadelphia Westminster re-
ports that New York hrm offers "a
fit out any church with small mirrors
set in the pewbacks to enable fenai
nine worshippers to sec II their hats
are on straight during prayer time.
The Kansas cotton crop having
shown . surplus. agricultural papers
Of the state urged that shirts be made
an inch longer-hy law. That. they
say, would increase the demand for
cotton just enough 10 make thinu
come out even"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22
NATIONS EAGER FOR POSSES
sloNs IN ARCTIC.
Colonies planted In the Cold Barren
Sections Of the Pathway
Marked by Their
Explorers.

There are now few unexplored parts
of the earth, and 1t is to the great
lands Of the north, in Alaska and Brit
ish America that the adventurer and
the colonist and the capitalist are DOW
turning their attention and planning
for the future. When, almost 40 years
ago, theUnitedStates purchased Alaska
from Russia for about $15,O0O,OOO, the
secretary who had been active IN
bringing about the purchase had the
pleasure Of hearing his name linked
with 1t as Stewards folly" During
the last 12 months alone this once de-
spised northern possession produced
in gold so considerable a sum as $685.
100000.
But Seward had been vindicated
years age.
The success of Alaska from many
points of view has quickened the ap-
probation Of Canada's northwest; has
directed enterprise to the possibilities
of the Hudson Bay country, and has
caused the dominion government to
formally take possession Of an archi-
pelago in the Arctic ocean. although
most of the group of islands lies above
the seventy-fifth parallel.
Insignificant as this circumstance
appears at first glance, 1t Is highly i'm
portant, indicating that the fisheries
disputes, which by an awkward habit
at intervals lmperil the friendly feel
ing between the United States and its
neighbor, are to be provided against in
the future. The islands which Canada
has formally annexed are Melville,
Prince Patrick, Eglington, Emerald,
Byam Martin, Bathurst, CORVALLIS
Griftiths, Lowther, Young, Garrett
Russell, Davy and Bylott The names
of many of these isles win be unfamll
lar to most readers, for they are un
marked on many good maps, and the
total area of the IA is about that Of
the state of North Dakota.
English Flag Extends to Barren North
All of the islands were discovered
by English expeditions. Consequently
Canada's right under the parliament
airy act Of 1870 to add them to hel
possessions is not to be disputed
Lying far north of the latitude of the
northern coast of Alaska, and to be ap
preached from the coast only through
Lancaster sound or Jones sound, mel
ther of which is navigable during the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

tive and uniuhabitable, are already re-
spending to the awakening touch Of
capital.
More remarkable than the settle
ment of the British possessions is the
marvellous growth Of Alaska, which
lies astrlde the Arctic circle There
the climate is not unlike that Of Nor
way, which for centuries has nour-
ished hardy race Of men, AS Nor
way has the tempering influence Of the
Gulf stream, so the climate Of south
ern Alaska is moderated by the gen.
tie warmth of the Japan current. At
the time Alaska was purchased it was
asserted that Sitka had winters near
ly as mid as those Of Philadelphia, and
that much less snow fell there than
in New York city. The fact remains
however that the settlement Of the
peninsula is being made much farther
north than Sitka; in fact, on the edge
of the Arctic circle There the winters
are severe, and snow covers the
ground from six to eight months Of the
year.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22
''Wneless" in War Time.

broke out with Russia. The Japanese
government had conducted the most
searching Investigations into the diff
ferent systems, and after a. series of
tests carried out with temporary bal
loon stations 100 miles apart, DIR.
Kimura's system was found to be the
most successful, and was accordingly
adopted In the course of his expert.
ments, DR.. Kimura hit upon method
CT soGding wireless telephone mes.
sages, which has also been recently
adopted by the Japanese navy Both
inventions are government secrets.
jealousy guarded hy the Japanese
navy department In the Russo-Jap-
anese war Admiral Togo made good
use Of the invention, both while di-
recting from "a certain place the
blockade of Port Arthur and, later,
when he met and demolished the Rus
sian Armada in the battle Of the sea
Of Japan
The completeness Of the Japanese
victory in the battle Of the sea Of
Japan may certainly be ascribed to
wireless telegraphy. During the foggy
weather japanese cruiser, while
searching for the Russians, suddenly
found herself in the midst Of the
enemy's fleet. A wireless message
giving notice Of the discovery was
simultaneously received BY all the
Japanese warships, though some we're
$50 miles distant. Admiral Togo i'm
mediately dispatched squadron gf
scouts, who kept in touch with the
Russians. and sent him reports Of
their course, speed and position at
frequent intervals, with the result that
! Admiral Togo was able to forecast ah,-
solute precision the movements Of the
enemy and to strike home at the most
favorable moment Strangely enough
though the Russian vessels were
equipped with the latest and most
efficient wireless outfits, they made
no attempt to interfere with the Ian
anese communications
Doubtless in the next war wireless
telegFaphy will play more important
role than ver-at least the Germans
believe so. and they have devised what
may be called mounted field wire
less equipment The whole apparatus
including a signaling mast SIS feet in
length-constructed in sections for
convenience of transport-can be
packed on the back of two horses. a
bicycle being used for driving the
motor which generates the electro
4 magnetic waves.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22
A Game for Two.

At this moment something came
hurling from the gallery, and narrow
ly missed the great tragedian.
Instantly he advanced to tile fSot-
lights
THAT Is game. he said. In deep
voice, that Two 0an play at"
And he t5clN IN egg from his pocket
and threw itsylsh All his might. ii
struck one q ths pillars Of the gall
lery and scattered itself impartially
over is or 20 Of the gods
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22
colncldence and Paradox.

Two other all-but-unbelievable trans.
Atlantic tales tell Of a New Zealand
horse race. which was won by a one
eyed mare, ridden by a one-eyed
jockey, the two weighing-room clerks
also having but two eyes between
them; and Of Partisan June wedding
when the twin brothers Charlton mar
ried the twin sisters Volsse, twin
cousins (male and female) acting as
best man and maid of honor.
IN New York, during a February
masked ball. there was panic and
many casualties, all because the cot
ton snow man Of the grand march had
suddenly caught fire.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

and the widower went to jail for IA
days.
In Manila. the meanest man In the
Islands stole his motherin-law's tomb
stone and pawned 1t.
An actual sale OF burial memorials
was held in September, in Breslau. A
ring" Of undertakers had been formed
to bear prices, but a speculative out.
slider insisted on playing bull, and the
local troops had to be called in to
quiet the resultant hard feeling
Just Love.
One lover has cahled his proposal
to New York from Buenos Ayres. and
another. over in London. took ad-
veutage Of his dentists trade to send
in his heartdeep proposition neatly
engraved on the plate Of set Of false
tech. Both won out.
At Lynchburg. Nd. were married a
couple who had found new use for
old love letters. The high contracting
parties knelt upon white satin pillows
stuffed to cracking with their amatory
epistles.
Letters Of another sort have figured
in the news OF the twelvemonth.
Elisha Hawes. Of stoughton. Mass,
has received, ia his ninety.third year,
one written to him during thu civil
war BY his boy. then at the front;
while another missive, mailed In Bos-
ton in 1888, never reached It's object
in Granville. N y. TN last September
Up IN BIddeford, Me-. an honest
farmer had a dream reminding him
that he owed a neighbor a dollar
Both had forgotten H. but. nlvlng fg-
ured that the loan was Of rs years
standing. It was formally closed UP.
Laws Lighter Side.
A London magistrate discharged a
man and bis wife charged with con
splraey, on the ground that they we're
legally one person, and one person
could not consplre.
A Chicago physician was found
guilty Of robbery. inasmuch as he had
diagnosed certain case In way
afterward proved wrong. The jury
regarded his fee as distinctly obtained
under false pretenses. and he had to
give back 800.
Another glimpse Of legal methods
has come across from Germany. where
The mayor Of town was caught pick.
ing the pockets Of a prisoner, aud was
"sent up" for a month
Wilmington produced the champion
13 story Francis E. Davis. with 12
letters in his name, was arrested by
PatroIman Francis G. Green (ditto)
1t 1913 on January 13, the call going
IN from box 1S. At s:1s next day he
was arraIgned before Edwin R. Coch~
ran (13 letters again.; and his fine
and costs totaleG exactly s13.
Miss Margaret Schidu. Of Cleveland.
on August %. sent invitations to 2s
friends to attend her twenty-third
birthday party, September %, at 20
East Twenty-third street. An orehes.
ira of % pieces discoursed exactly %
sweet dances from behind % palms.
The other hoodoo digIts came up
twice IN Agfll. once when a Baltimore
negro was arrested for stealing 1S
chickens; again at st. Louis, where d
baseball fan" fell dead Of heart dis.
ease during the thirteenth inning Of
the st. -Pittsburg game.
The,old Folks.
The annual bridegrooms OF an age
past expecting lust that Of tham we're
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

Reciprocity.
The man stood contemplating the
wreck Of his automobile.
"Oh, well" he said. turn about Is
fair play!r
What do you mean BY that?" quer.
led the passing stranger
1T broke me first explained the
other. Chicago Daily News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

sisted on appearing in the parlor with
neither shoes nor stockings.
Des Moines produced In May, a
baby who changed color three times a
day. When little Eli Rami awakes he
is a proper pink. By noon he Is a
dark ginger IN hue and before bedtime
is startlingly pale. But then, he Is
the son of Hindoo father and an Illi-
nois mother
In August the hello lady" on the
line between Meredith and wolfboro,
N. H.. heard the voice Of a two-hour-
old subscriber The news Of his ar
rival in the world came first, and then
his infantIie Endorsement Travelled
across Lake Winnipiseogee.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

"in gratitude for having been 80 often
entertained by their writings"
Alphonse Strauss, one Of London's
millionaire merchants. dying last May.
disposed Of an estate of 81 ,4S1, los in
just 4S words. nearly $4,000 a word;
while January brought sudden wealth
to a poor French girl who attended
the sale Of great-aunt's effects to buy
in some trifling memento Of her. The
only bidder for shabby old book OF
devotions, she found between its
leaves will bestowing upon her the
entire property, valued at $4,000.
Lies Little Ircnles.
In Milwaukee February one Harry
Martens. playing ghost to frighten
some negroes, fell down stairs In the
dariK--and became a ghostl A fellow
named Durenne, living near Quebec,
in the belief that the rope by which a
suicide has hung himself will bring a
later owner luck, stole such a rope,
only to fall to his death the next min
ute through the rotten flooring Of the
belfry.
Was It not ironical, too, that mere
fragment Of the handwriting Of the
English poet Chatterton should have
sold lOctober) for $155. and that In
the unfortunate versifyer's native
town Of Bristol. where he had died of
starvation in his seventeenth yearl
In Foreign Parts.
Europe has had many an odd tale to
tell during the year. Antrim has pro-
duced man beside whom Pooh-Bah
was a laborer Of very single aim. For
this busy Irishman is land steward,
pier overseer, port pay clerk, game.
keeper, mining superintendent bog.
baliff, auctioneer, real estate agent,
supervisor of shipping, and the man
ager Of private business besides.
Colored rain, In the shape OF mill
lions Of tiny red, green and yellow in
sects, fell at Anglers, France, in
March; while in Nantes young fell
low, Gautier by name, has murdered
his step-father that his military serv,
ice might be a year shorter through
his being the only son Of widow"
AT one Of London's West End clubs
match game Of billiards was played
by two men, one clad In full armor,
save for his hands, which were en-
cased in the heaviest woolen gaunt
let's, and the other dressed as usual
but wearing boxing gloxves. Woo
mittens won after a hard fight.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

He took out another egg. but he
did not have to throw it; the first one
was sufficient. Royal Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

The Marvellous The Laughable, the Weird, and the
Pathetic Tales Extraordinary Cullsd from Press
Reports from All OUer the CiOilized WOrLd--
Some Almost Unbelievable Tales Among the
Mass Of Material Gathered.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22
Pulpit and Platform.

Buttons sewn on silk ground
formed a scrollwork sold az a recent
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

Chicago and Kansas City give two
Of the best Of the years hard-liquor
yarns. In one case three saloon keep
ers were fined $500, to be paid the
orphans OF a man who had died OF
drink; and in the other certain Sci
by Jones was sentenced to get drunk
and stay SO. Poor Jones was later ar
rested in Chicago for stealing In order
to raise the wherewith to carry out
the Kansas City sentence.
London is responsible for this The
armchair Of confirmed tippler, used
at a "psychometric lecture" made
tipsy every one who sat in it. The
signs OF drinking continued upon four
subjects TIL tue chair was burned.
when they at once sobered up.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

Isaac Lloyd, Of Liverpool. who, at 90,
was wed to q widow OF go In March;
while, month earlier. Deacon French.
Of Nashua, N. H, at 8S married a
spinster Of 76.
The "7os" have even more to tell.
In January, Andrew Lansair, Of To.
ledo, began cutting another set of
teeth; In February a lie Seur (Mlnn.)
matron painted her entire house; in
October. Frank Bookwalter, returning
to his boyhood home in Attica, Ind,
after So years absence, had the door
step lifted that he might find a dime
he had lost down the crack as a boy
Of i've. He found it, And each of
these was just three score years and
ten.
The note Of pathos, which so often
sounds with age, came from Middle
town, N. Y. in April. Matthew
smedes, aged 10, could no longer re-
sist the call Of the fields. He took to
the plow again-and was found dead
in the first furrow he had cut-died
in harness, as he had wished to diel
Australia may claim something near
the recordl At some amateur the
atricals near Victoria, in January, two
people in the stalls. whenever the he
roine was kissed, kissed each other
loudly. The man Of this couple was
husband to the stage heroine, and this
was his way of reproung behavior
across the footlights to which he was
distinctly opposed.
Babes and Divorces.
The divorce mill seems to have re-
corded a new "Farthest North" A
Seattle Judge separated an even dozen
couples in rs minutes in February,
one formerly fond husband receiving
the boon for which he prayed because
his wife has become a Shakeress, and
another because his better half had
circulated a report that he was an
anarchist.
Mrs. Lorenz. on the other hand. re-
celved { divorce in Cincinnati on the
plaueible ground that it was difficult
to live peacefully with a man who in.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22


When the late Michael Davitt be-
queathed to all his friends kind
thoughts, to my enemies the fullest
possible forgiveness. and to Ireland
ny undying prayer for her absolute
freedom" he did not leave the
strangest win of the twelvemonths
probate.
Mrs. Christina Hoch, Of Brooklyn,
willed the ashes Of her body, when
cremated. az fertilizer for rose bush
on her sons grave; Mrs. Isabel Kream-
er, at Westminster. Eng. left her cork
leg to .he parish poor warden; and a
lady u Florence, Italy, bequeathed
$500 to the stan Of q local newspaper
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-22

+ The annual bridegrooms Of an age
past expecting Just that Of them were
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-23
MIR. Tawuey's Warming.

Mr.. Tawney sounds anew the familiar
warning that appropriations are outrun-
ming the estimated revenues of the gov
eminent, and that if the supply bills are
not cut down there will be a heavy deficit
at the end of the fiscal year. The hap
hazard way in which Congress makes APP
preparations. without regard to the rev.
enues, and the lack Of responsibility and
centralized control over the money bills,
is one Of the commonplace Of Congress
sional government Our Astounding ma
usually made mOckery of such predictions
as that of Mr. Tawney. and deficit after
deficit has been wiped out by some I'M
expected increase in the revenues 1t
may happen that this time the Increase
viii not materialize and that the predic-
ton viii come true. If so, we shall be
face to face with the necessity of impos-
ing new taxes in order to meet the cen
tinually growing national expenditure.
We should not be al all surprised if
such a contingency would be quite well
come in certain quarters. One of the
stock charges against the advocates of a
high protective tariff is that they prefer
an empty treasury In order that there
may be no available fiscal reason for "a
reduction of tariff taxation or for the re-
moval of duties on imports How can
We revise the tariff" We shall presently
hear the standpatters exclaiming, when
we need all the revenue We can get TO pay
government expenses There t. an OBJ
vious reply to this question, which might
be made by President Roosevelt himself,
should he decide TO break silence on the
tariff, by recommending, as he did in his
December message that when next our
system OF taxation is revised. the national
government should impose a graduated
inheritance tax. and If possible a gradu-
ated income tax"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-23
CLASHING TARIFF INTERESTS.
Why the Revision Issue Is a Danger
ous One for Republicans.

FROM tle - Louis Republic.
Massachusetts manufacturers do not
want the same kind Of tariff revision that
is desired by the wool growers of Ohio
and wyoming. or by the farmers and
live stock men Of Minnesota. Iowa. and
Illinois. But the changes which Massa-
chusetts wants she wants badly.
The growth of manufactures in the
West and South revealed by the recent
census is taken by Massachusetts as plain
warning that she must cheaper the cost
ef production If she is 70 hold her own
against tHe growing competition Can
ada is her nearest source OF supply for
coal and lumber. and she wants the pro-
tective tariff taken from both
Tho tariff on hides and leather is "a
Notwithstanding tax on the great shoe
industry which is irksome to the BAY
state manufacturers in their competi-
zion with the manufacturers OF St Louis.
Who lave cheaper coal and food Massa-
chusetts also wants the protective re-
moved from wool and other raw ma
;eriais.
Tn the East. as Ia the West, the Re
publican party IS pulling two ways on
Dingleyism. and those who are tuggfug
on the revision ropes are becoming more
impatient an the time. il is ii dangerous
division for any party % carry into a
Presidential election.