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The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
ZION CROSSROADS.

Benz. Andrews tied a silk thread around
a wart which he had on his nose for
many years last week. II took of the
wart all right. but Benjs nose is swellsd
up turrible. He says he wishes ne had
me wart back on and less nose
The weather here is cloudy as we write
this and II looks like rain. II it does we
will let you know next week
silas Hemingway killed a bull for
beef last week. The bull hasn't been
feeling very we'll and 81 calkiIatsd IL
woul0 die anyhow. This will be quite a
treat. as Il Is seldom that fresh beef is
killed In our midst
Miss Molly Andrews has announced her
engagement 10 Lyman Cruikshank OF sor-
row Hollow. We didn't learn when the
marriage IS 10 take place.
Jim Reese while plowing turned up a
Injun arrowhead. Jim says that's the
first signs OF Injuns he has ever found
on his farm and that II the Iniuns is
coming back he'll move elsewhere.
VERITAS
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pound horse to-day is needed 70 carry
two-hundred pound man across country
was probably early suggested to man by
finding that the horse eould pull along
nearly 100 times more than he could
pack" It was then bat step to realize
that strength would be conserved dis
tanee stin more annlhilated, and greater
bulk transported by the change.
Loads Carried by Poles.
This change was to two long poles at
first attached to the sides Of the animals
neck, and a triae later 10 the side Of the
shoulders by meansof d body strap, re-en-
forced by section passing around the
breast, almost identical with our modern
trotting road-wagon harness without a
collar. On these trailing poles could be
lashed the packages it was desired 10
transport Crude but effective. Take the
most magnificent invention or discovery
of modern times and it is eclipsed by the
brilliancy and magniiiceEce contained In
the germ of the first wheel Draw "a
mental line through from the trailing
pole 20 the ball-bearlng, pneumatic-tired
modern wheel, and just think it over, not
only as applied to yehicular locOmotion.
but also 20 machinery. the first wheel IN
machinery coming clearly from the
vehicle. Without the wheel in machinery
what becomes OF nine-tenths OF our great
est inventions2 Hence, the greatness of
the wheel. so little grasped. so little un-
derstood. With the trailing poles the
bundles sagged loose. slipped down. The
first wheel raised them TO the horizontal
a greater amount Of freight could be car
ried. Fl did not work loose, or fall OF,
and-the human being could ride What
change in single step. due TO one
phenomenal flash Of prehistoric genius,
lost IN the maze Of the centuries, Tor not
even the century producing the primal
wheel can be even approxmated
Varied Numbers of wheels.
Two thousand years before the Christ
there was a four-whceled wagon the de-
sire to display wealth and consequence,
the apparently natural and inbon vanity
of man, proud man" bringing the team
up TO even fifty horses TO single chariot
Yet there were no public parks in those
days In which 70 parade, neither was
there any circus parade as a humiliating
back 60 the simplicity or first principles
Another problem is. did the maximum Of
four wheels always obtain or did the
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

pocket formation, and the ore is found
at depth of from 50 to 10O feet.
The Mission Mine. which is at present
the most productive, is located in the
same township with Miami. Zine ore has
been found near the city limits, and
lead within the corporate limits of the
town.
This section Of the Indian Territory lies
in range OF the great Kansas oil and gas
fields. and numerous seeps and wells re-
veal the fact that the entire region IS
underlaid with petroleum and gas. Sew
eral companies, among them the Home
Development Company, of Miami, are
now drilling oil has been found at 1900
feet The work OF drilling into the sand
in this hole will be resumed within a
few days. and from the way new rigs
are being ordered and drilling contracts
let the Quapaw Agency will be one OF
the producing fields of the Southwest
within the next few months.
The roads in the Quapaw Agency are all
on section lines. and in good condition.
which accounts for the fact that the
Post-offiee Department has established
four rural routes out OF Miami Tele-
phone lines are being extended to all
parts of the agency. and. in fact, the
farmer IN this country enjoys most OF
the luxuries 20 be had in the rural dis
riots of the old States The man pos
sessing 100 acres of land within a radius
of ten miles around Miami is rich and
independent The country is sufficiently
undulating to drain we'll though not to
wash The soil TO the West is rich,
sandy loan, to the east a black limestone,
and south of the Neosho River is the
red or wheat land, thus giving a diversity
of soils unknown 10 any country within
the same radius. This country is well
adapted TO raising stock. Leases can be
obtained at reasonable prices and for a
term OF years. which enables the farm
er to produce and grow the maturity
stock of all kinds at prices no other
country can compete with. The short,
mild winters make stock raising a pleas
ure, rather than hardship.
The Quapaw Agency is well supplied
with water Elk River. Lost Creek,
Spring. and Neosho Rivers. with nUmer-
Gus clear, cold springs and creeks. make
it an exceptionally we'll watered coun-
try With the advent Of the new State
of Oklahoma and all of the rights and
privileges that il will confer upon a
thrifty and deserving community. there
is no section of Uncle Sans domain that
can rare truly be called the land of the
prosperous and the home Of the content
ed than the QuapaW Agency Indian Ter
TItOTy
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

In this editorial which We now take
our pen in hand TO write we desire TO
make a plea Tor new subscribers. No
newspaper can thrive and continue 10 do
business at the same old stand unless
the number of its new subscribers is in
excess OF the number of its old sub
scribers who become extinct, as YOU
might say. The loss OF old and faith
tul subscribers by means Of the Grim
Reaper must be made up by new am
fresh subscribers coming into the fold
60 take their places. Otherwise a news
gaper would drift into obnoxious desue-
.ude and become no more This last
winter has been a hard one on US and as
Il result our subscripshion list has dwin-
died down 10 point below the general
average, and unless we can raise some
money soon from new subscripshions
We shall expect to be called on politely
by the sheriff, and you know what that
means. We have been threatened by
call from the sheriff on several occa-
shions IN the past, but by diut OF a hard
struggle have always managed to keep
him at bay. Now, however, our hran-
cIal condishion has become so stringent
that we make this publick appeal for
rev subscribers.
On several occashions in the past we
kave resorted TO various honorable
means TO acquire new subscribers. but
these methods have never been what
you would cali a very awful success
On one occashion several years ago we
offered a cash prize for every new sub
scriber which anybody would secure for
us We offered a bonus Of IS cts. Tor
every new subscriber In other words
We, at that time, said to the pubick-.
You get Us 8 from some person who
mas never took the Bugle before and
hand US over S185 Of this amt, and YOU
can keep the rest"
This looked to us like a beautiful
theory, but you ought Of saw how it
worked out in pracktisel In some cases
VIC got the SIS cents while the canvasser
got the Sl85 and in some. cases we didn't
get anything.
So we are not a-going to offer anv
prizes this time for new subscribers. but
are a-going 10 put you all on your honor
TO get US new subscribers. as il were II
YOU desire the Bugle TO continue to give
the news as soon after It happens as pos
sible-if you desire TO have us mould
your publick opinion for you, then the
moro subscribers you get Us the better.
We have now been editor, proO. &
pabisher of the Bugle for y wears and
during that period we have saw MANY vi
cissitudes and hard winters, but we have
stuck bravely TO the helm of our Wash
ington hand-press and steered this news
paper safely over the shoals of adversitv
We have always stood TIP for the town
aud have never lost opportunity to say
a good word for our municipality
although we had to lie sometimes to do
it. We have faithfully chronicled every
birth or marriage which has took place
in our midst We have wrote some
beautiful obituaries of people when il
actually hurt our conseiences to do il.
being as some OF them owed as much
back subscripshion as SIS.
Loyalty to BingyiIle has been our
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

number OF wheels ever increase in CORE
spending ratio 10 the individuals Of the
team? On this point history seems silent.
On the monuments and in the records
are chariots and wagons OF two. three,
and four wheels, but none with a greater
number The modern road and park
coach. with its four horses. has five
wheels, four 10 run on, one 10 turn on:
hence the futility Of the ume-honored
saw; Useless as fifth wheel to a
wagon"
At this stage vehieular development be-
came dependent on the condition Of the
roads. This accounts for the fact that up
TO the thirteenth century the bulk OF
travel was still on horseback or foot. the
carriage being considered effeminste, more
or less uncomfortable, and certainly i'm
practical. many vehicles being called
a "chare. the closed carriage apparently
not coming into vogue until well into 14eo
A. d. Roads began TO improve. even
though strenuously opposed in London
(and numerous other wateT-bound cities
in the interests Of the ''watermen.' who
felt they would be forced out Of busi-
ness, even as later the locomotive. and
later still the auto. was to put the last
horse under the sod The Watermen pass
ed. the horse remained. and It is a great
comfort to know that never was he 50
valuable, 50 high-priced. or so numer-
ically great as in 1901.
First Coach Line.
The first real step toward carriage im-
provement was taken in London by u
resident Pomeranian. That is all history
carries down Of him-name and all else
are forgotten. lie obtained a royal pat
ent permitting him 10 run line of pub
lie vehicles from Edinburgh to Leith, in
Scotland. the patent protecting him for
fifteen years This was a startling de-
parture. and the engraving by Yisscher,
dated 1916, shows that these vehicles had
no springs. were simply boxes 10 be
dragged along over a certain section OF
territory, travelling at about four miles an
hour It is amusing 10 note the list Of
dangers coilated by the opposition 70
warn intending passengers not TO risk life
or limb in such iniquitious conveyances,
and the list to-day is about applicable to
the meditated air ship travel. The pub
lie were enjoincd to avoid the coaches
as "a tiger. a wolfe. or a leuiathan." II
is a long long cry from the Pomeran-
ian's coach u the Santos Dumont air
ship.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

Quapaw Agency ranks ahead of all the
States in quality of grain produced. With
a virgin soil as that in the great grain
producing counties Of the older States,
this land when in the hands Of the prac-
teal farmer viii show yields never be-
fore heard Of
How Land Is Held.
By virtue of treaty, dated 1925. there
was granted to the Shawnee Indians a
tract Of land. beginning at the intersec-
ton OF the south line Of Kansas and the
west line Of Missouri, running thence
south % miles along the west line of the
State of Missouri, thence west 100 miles.
thence north . miles, thence east 100
miles to place of beginning.
By agreement with the United States
in 1922. the Shawnee and Seneca Indians
ceded to the United States al that part
of their lands lying west of the Neosho
or Grand River and south of the Cow
skin River,
The United States eeded to the Cher0-
kee Indians. together with other lands,
the ceded lands of the Shawnees and
Senecas lying west of the Neosho or
Grand River and south of the C0Wskin
River a patent for same was issued to
the Cherokee Indians in 1896. Years af-
terward. By virtue of the treaties and
agreements the Quapaws. Peorias. Mi
amis. Wyandottes, Ottawas. and Mo
does obtained their various reservations
IN what is called the Quapaw Agency.
These lands have all been allotted the
Quapaws, PeOrias, and Miamis by "a
special act and the Wyandottes. Otta-
was. Shawnees. Senecas. and AIodocs un-
der the general allotment act of February.
1857.
The Peorias, Miamis, Wyandottes,
Shawnees, Quapaws. Ottawas, and SEN
ecas have been in immediate contact and
association with the whites for more
than 100 years. They are educated and
civilized, ana are far more competent 10
make hard bargains and to care for them
selves than the ordinary uneducated white
man.
Minerals, OIL, and Gas.
1t has been demonstrated beyond a
doubt that vast deposits OF zinc and lead
underlie a great portion Of the Quapaw
Agency While the development is only
in its infancy, the few mines that are
in operation produced $1,000 worth OF
ore last week The mineral is in what
is called a blanket or sheet formation.
thus 1nsuring peTmanenCy not found IN
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
Hen Got 'em Mkt
Knowing there Is a INST Class opening n
BinRville for a Livery Stable

Shank Peters went into Hen Westhers-
by's store TO get a ct. OF turpentins
tother day TO mix with some buggy paint
20 as 10 make Il 20 farther and Her
nIed the hottie and Ghank went home
end thinnad the paint and begin 10 paint
his buggy. but the paint run all over
creashion and Shank he went back to
the store madeira q wet hen and de-
sired to know of Her what In the tar
nashion kind OF turpeutine that was
ANYHOW ard Hen he draWed d little
more OF the tu-pentins outen the bari
10 examine 1t and then begin TO laugh
and what he was laughing az was thet
a few days before he wanted to use his
kerosene barl for something else which
only had about Eve gals. Of kerosene
left into II and so he transferred the
kerosene from the kerosene bari into the
tvrpentine bari which was empty and
then forgot all about II until shank
come back complaining about hts tur5en-
tine and then Hen realized that what he
had went and sold TO Shank for tuFpen-
tine was nothing but kerosene which
was why II made the paint run so, so
being as shank had paid Hen IS cts, fer
the OF. OF kerosene Hen he give him back
50 cts. being as kerosene Is only % cts.
per gal. but Shank says even that didn't
represent the annoyance he was subject
TO
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the Town Han an back and you're well
come 20 him" Then Hank clueked TO
Ginjer and dug his heels into him.
The scene that foiiered almost beggars
descripshion and viii never be forgot by
them as witnessed H. Ginjer seemed 70
sort Of come outen his trance all OF a
sudden. He covered about Is feet at the
first jump and lks 10 OF slid clean cut
from under Hank. who was away back
on his rump. But Hank managed 10
crawl forward into the saddle again, by
which time the pony was goin' at least
q mile a mint Hanks hat had few
OF and his hair was hyin IN the breeze.
Then all 10 once Ginjer Jumped about
nine feet sideways and n Hank hadn't
Of had his legs clinched tight around
him he would OF went OF on his head.
Then suddenly without any warning.
Ginjer stopped stHl and Hank went up
on his neck most 20 his ears. but Ginjer
kindly throwed Up hts head and iolted
Hank back into the saddle. Soon as
Hank got seated again Ginisr jumped
straight into the afr about four feet and
come down stlH-Iegged with such a
Jolt that Hank was most split clean up
to his aeCk-band. Before Hank recov-
cred from this Ginjer's heels went into
the air and alas, poor Hank was
shook loose from the saddlt TO which he
had clung with such desperashion and
throwed clean over the pony's head, also
over Widow Skinner's front fence and
head first into a pansy bed IN the front
yard, where he laid as II he wanted to
be left alone As for Ginjer. he trotted
back TO Hoke who got on him with a
smile and Ginjer walked of down the
street as quiet as a lamb
Hank is better at this writing. but yet
he can't set down In a chair even with
two cushions IN Il and be what YOU
would call comfortable, He also Iimps
when he walks Hank says that he
wouldn't mind gettin' a boss for nothing
II the opportunity come hts way. but
rather than ever try 10 ride that Intun
pony again he would straddle q bolt Of
creased lightnin' much sooner.
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CountryCOrrespOndenCe
sNAKE REND.

BIZ Hlnckley has pet blacksnake
which he caught recently while plowing.
This amt the FIRST snake Bill has ever
had-he had so many snakes two years
ago that he had 10 60 to the county in
firmary and take something for them
Sam Henderson took on his wool socks
and put on cotton ones last week. and
now he has a awful cold IN his head.
Sam says Il disgusts him turrible to ex-
cape colds all winter and then get one
when summer is coming on.
Hiram ButterWorth OF Bingville was n
these parts recently with a horse he de-
sired to swop, but everybody knows
Hiram so well hereahouts that no swop
was made.
Mrs. Gideon Small while making SOAP
last week burnt her hand with concen-
t-ated lye which she IS now wearing in a
fiaxseed poultice
Alb Wood has purchased q new suit
Some say Alb purchased f: to get married
In. How about this. Ab7
SCRIBBLER.
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No Locals This Week

We regret that we have no locals -
print IN the Bugle this week. ou,og
largely to the scarcity OF same Som
weeks you will notice that we have o,,I.e
a assortment OF locals and other ,yeails
there amt half so many. and this uysat
there Is none at all, The reason for me
Is that we have been go drove IN win
our editorial duties that we have bsd
no opportunity to collect our usual ouoto
Of locals for this issue and being as none
was brought TO the Office by o,,ts56o-s
there amt none We trust our suhso-,s,
ers viii kindly overlook this onission
ana by next week we hope TO be sbts
to print a whole mess OF local items
p SIN another column will ha fo,,.. :
several Pertinent Personals" which v.iIi
probably help 70 take the place of the
missing locals. We trust they will
EDITOR BINGYILLE BUGLE.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
Sam Has Returned

Sam Cushman and his most estirnable
wife has returned TO Bingviils after q
absents OF several years during whicb
time he Nveu at the Co. seat. sam has
bought Asbury Simpsons farm a mile
West OF Bingvilis and intends TO engage
IN raising chickens. pigs, ct cetera and
also farming II Will please the folks
in the neighborhood to learn that Sam
has brought with him fonagraft which
plays tunes and says that IN the near
future he will give a free entertainment
in the Bingviile school house sam Is
a very publick spirited citizen and we
are glad 10 welcome him back to our
midst.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

motto and If you, as a old time friend
OF the Bugle can't get out and hustle
around and get us a few new subscrib-
ers you have not got our welfare as
much at heart as we have oursell,
that's all
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
QUAPAW TERRITORY
Tempting Indian Lands in
oklahoma.
DESCRIBED BY PEORIA INDIAN

The Town of Miami Designed for
COunfyseaf - Advantages of the
WeII-watered Farming LaRds-An
Ideal Country for Raising stock of
All Kinds-Bfvers and Minerals.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
The Convention .

On April . assembled at Shanghai
most notable gathering. More than FIVE
hundred missionaries, delegated by their
respective missions, together with many
distinguished guests and visitors from the
West. have convened TO celebrate the
completion of one hundred years since
the arrival of Morrison al Canton. The
conference is 10 remain in session until
tomorrow. Its meetings have been held ia
a hall Of the recently completed Chinese
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing, this hail having been paid for by pop
ular subscription and dedicated TO the
memory of the Christian martyrs of the
Boxer uprising in 1900.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
CENTURY OF MISSIONS
Protestant Bodies Celebrate
1t at Shanghai.
MORRISON AND THE CHINESE

sketch of the Rise and Progress Of
Christian Work ia the Celestial
KfnRdOm-Ameriea's Large share
of the Good work Done-Noted
Americans In Attendance.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05
8RIeHr. BREEZY, BELLIcosE, BUsrIIHG

ne cheapest advertising medium IN the
country. II you believe in advertising come
End see Us. For further information call on
" address She editor.
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Notable Missionaries.


Among many distinguished mission
aries may be mentioned " A. P. Martin,
an American Presbyterian, who arrived
as early as 1850, and is noted as scholar
and statesman, for many years an edu-
Gator in the service of the Chinese gov
ernment; J. Hudson Taylor the prophet
OF the China Inland Mission. arriving
1854, but recently passed to his reward;
Grifnth John, Of the London Missionary
Society. the apostle Of Central China, de-
tanned by health In the home land. Tim
othy Richards. Arthur II. Smith. Arch
deacon Thomson. Drs. Ashmore, Par
fridge. Mater. Corbett Goodrich. Shelf
field, John Ross. Moule. Pearce, Graves.
and many others. some OF whom have
nearly, Il not quite seen q half-century
OF Christian work IN China.
Many noted leaders of Christian work
IN the United States expect 10 be present
Mention may be made Of Secretary A. b.
Leonard. Of the Methodist Mission Board;
President John T. Goucher, of the Wom-
ans College Of Baltimore: Rev. J. ".
Bashford. D. D. Methodist Bishop of
China: Bishops Foss and Fitzgerald, Of
the Methodist Church: Secretary James
l. Barton. Of Boston. and Prof. =. c.
Moore, D. D.. Of the Harvard Divinity
School. representing the American board;
Congregational district secretaries Cree
gan and Hitchcock, Of the same board;
SECRETARY II. c. Mabie and District Secre-
taTy Dobbins. OF the Baptist Missionary
Union. and party OF fifteen or twenty
Baptist ministers and laymen. among
whom are Col. Z. H. Haskell. repre-
sentinE tho Boston Baptist Social Union
Or. Hensiou. OF Providence; DR.. Hasiam.
of Philadelphia. &C; Secretary A. s.
Lloyd. OF the American Protestant Epis-
copal Missionary Society, and Rev. r.
+. Alsop. p. D.. Of the same church
Rev. John Fox. d. D., secretary OF the
American Bible Society; 5 v. Woodward.
vice president of the American Baptist
Missionary Unlon and j. B. Sleman. jr..
OF Washington, both being on the eKeeu-
tive board of the recently organized
Laymans Missionary Movement; r. c.
Morse. general secretary Of the inter
national committee OF the Y NJ c. a.
s. Earl Taylor and c. V. Vickery. repre-
senting the Young Peoples Mission Study
movement; Henry Grant. OF New YORK:
Rev. Harlan p, Beach. professor Of mis-
sions at Yale Prof. E. T. Bosworth. OF
oberlin College, and L H Severance, Of
Cleveland
The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

The new State of Oklahoma is destined
TO become the garden spot of the United
States, and one Of the richest in the
Union and that part now known as tht
QuGpaw Agency is already abounding IL
possibilities for energy. capital, and labor
Take one look into the conditions al
they exist to-day. This fertile country
is far enough south 10 have mild eli
mate, and far enough north 10 have dis
tinct seasons; there being no sudder
changes. or extremes. we. therefore. have
q condition conducive to good health. with
q variety and abundance Of crops. Good
seasons insure the wealthiest farmers OF
the globe.
A glance at the statistics viii show thai