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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
ALL ABOUT BLANCHARD
Purcell, Ind. Ter.
March 20. 1907.

Purcell, Ind. Ter.
March 20, 1907
chiekasha Daily and Weekly Express
Chickasha, Ind. Ter.
Gentlenens
Knowing the push and (get there)
qualities Of the average Chickasha
citizen, | can not help but think that
they are sleeping on their rights in
not investigating our NEW TOWN
BLANCHARD. want to impress
on your citizens the fact that we
think this a GOOD proposition, and
to remind them that the CHOICE
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
Only One More Meeting Of Old cOun-
ell Before the Election

Yesterday was ordinance day in
the council. very little other business
being considered.
The first ordinance taken up was
one relating to the keeping Of hogs
in the city. The ordinance as passed
appears on another page of this is
sue.
The next ordinance passed was one
granting the Rock Island railroad the
right to put spur in the alley be-
tween Choctaw and Pennsylvania
avenues.
An ordinance regulating the sal
aries was read for the third time but
not passed.
An ordinance providing for the
protection Of the asphalt streets in
the city was passed. Under the terms
Of this ordinance horses and teams
will not be allowed to stand on the
pavement for longer than fifteen
minutes at one time. Gasoline or
other oils viii not be permitted to be
dropped or spilled on the streets and
business houses must keep their trash
off it.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
READY FOR
BIG DOIN'S
Ice Plant Expects Heavy Run Pre-
paratiOn for the COnsumnatiOn
Of Things

In anticipation Of the dread cat
astrophe that is to happen when the
big comet switches the earth with it's
tail, when earth and air and water
shall vanish like mists, preparations
OF various sorts are in progress about
town.
Expecting an unprecedented de-
mand for his product, Frank Brown,
manager Of the Crystal Ice Co., has
steamed up all his big boilers and is
running both Of his forty ton ice mach
ines twenty-four hours every day. He
states that Notwithstanding the de-
mand for ice, he will not take adyan-
tage of the opportunity to raise the
price. Mr.. Brown is expecting to
entertain number Of frineds with a
"cold storage party" on the 28th when
the big show begins.
All the hardware stores have or
cred large shipments Of life-size re-
frigerators better 30 early if you
want 70 get one.
Judge Williams is digging his cave
thirty-six feet deeper and has ordered
a barrel Of liquid air to be supplied
If he needs it till another atmosphere
can be manufactured.
An unusual run Of business is ex-
pected at all the churches Sunday
Multitudes of people who have long
been in arrears in their religious ac-
counts are expected to call for settle
ment.
J. William Speake has placed a
rush order for an asbestos suit cut
double breasted, with cap to match,
He says he has not much faith in the
comet business but there is nothing
like being prepared for an emergency
Eugene Hamilton has made appli-
cation BY wireless telegraphy fol
membership with the Peafs aorth pole
expedition and expects II leave NJ
once on receipt Of notice Of his &C.
ceptance. He win take advantage Of
the excursion rates offered by Jim
Pettyiohn who is getting up a big
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
ORDINANCE
DAY IN THE CITY COUNCIL

pies that | believe will make for the
general good and oppose such as l
think bad. My fight shall be against
measures rather than against men. /
shall have charge Of a newspaper un-
less there is a fraud order issued
against it before / can arrange for its
publication. 1t will reflect my ideas. "
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING

"A good crowd Of representative
citizens composed the commercial
club meeting last night. A matter
Of great importance was before the
club but it is not in shape to permit
publication Of the proceedings. A
amount of boosting talk
was indulged in on the side.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETS.

The board Of health composed Of
DR.. R. P. Tye, R. M. Cochran and B.
B. Bridges held a meeting in the
council yesterday afternoon and dis
cussed matters relative to sanitary
and health affairs in the city. This
is the first official meeting the board
has held for some time.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22
STREET GAR COLLIDES
WITH PASSENGER TRAIN
ASSOCIATED Press.)

Detroit, March PA Michigan
Central train here this morning struck
street car filled mostly with work
ing girls and wrecked it. James c.
Smith, engineer on the train and
Miss Charlotte Martin were fatally
hurt; nine others, mostly girls, were
more or less seriously injured. The
car split in two,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

The following from the Rock
County Herald of twenty-five years
ago indicates that we used to have
just this kind of May weather in the
good old days: 1.-The oldest inhabi-
tant is unable to produce satisfactory
record of time in the meteorologl-
cal history of this country when
there has been experienced May
weather that for raw frgidity can
compare with that which has been
inflicted upon the long suffering
people OF Rock County this spring,
and Especially during the early
part of this week. Water froze to a
quarter of an inch thick and garden
''sass' and fruit trees are seriously
injured. The effect upon wheat is
favorable rather than otherwise,
but as there is a decrease in the
acreage Of wheat in Rock county
this year and manifest tendency to
stock raising and mixed farming
the weather is by no means favor
able and unless there is change
soon the outlook will be discour-
aging.'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

According to the opinion Of AS
istant Attorney General Simpson
all the road overseers in the state
have been leglslated out of Office by
the new law, Chapter 458 OF the
general laws of Minnesota Ut 1902,
und it is mandatory that the county
commissioners at once appoint a
superintendent of highways, who
shall have general supervision over
the construction of all roads and
bridges in the county, and that the
supervisors of the various town.
ships at once appoint a road builder
as road inspector, who shall, under
the direction of the county superin-
tendent, have charge of the con-
struction o.. all roads and brigdes in
the town.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
The June McClure's.

McClure's Magazine for June con-
tains more important and enter
tanning reading than one could ex-
pect to find in three numbers of any
magazine. Ellen Terry contributes
her charming and fascinatlng''M Mem
cries Of My Childhood" that give
stories of her wonderful girlhood,
and her debut, and picures of the
actors and the English stage of so
years ago. Samuel Hopkins Adams
presents IN Rochester 8 Pure Milk
System, a graphic account of life
saving by a municipal supply Of
plain pure milk. In his "Remin-
iscences' Carl Schurz bluntly de-
scribes the Defeat OF Chancellors-
Vile and put the blame where it
belongs by Airship to the North
Pole," by the Arctic exlorer, Walter
Wellman tells about his airship and
the dash he will make in 1t to the
Norh Pole this summer. C.P. Con-
molly reaches an astounding climax
in his flight of the Copper Kings'
when he narrates the terrible un'
derground battle of Heinze and Am
algamated miners.
Besides it's five stirring articles,
the June Mcclure has six brilliant
and entertaining stores.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Last week the Adrian Democrat
was unkind enough to take serious
liberties with euphonious cognomen
of Editor Charles Orsamus Sawyer,
of the Lismore Leader, even going
to the extreme of breaking into
rhyme over it. We have heard har-
rowing tales of cruelty to animals
and heartless series of taking candy
from the children, but these pale
into insignifcance beside the heart
lessness of the Democrats treat
ment of it's budding neighbor on
the north. Isn't this weather
enough for verdant buds without
the Democrats frosts
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Any one Of the four things in the
June American Magazine would
have made she number good one
Edwin Lefevre g character sketch OF
Hartman, Ellis Parker Buffers
story of "Wetter New York IN
1913," Ray Stannard Bakers &C
count of 1.-THE Negro in Southern
City Life," or Ida M. Tarbell g
story of Grover Cleveland's great
fight of 1887. In the same number
the author of Emma Lou" tell an
other Letitia story. Elizabeth Irwin
writes of the most famous artists
model in the world. F. Martin
Crawford goes on with his serial,
and David Grayson writes OF the
Tramp" in his "Adventures in
Contentment" series.
Other contributors of stories and
poems are: M. j. Reynolds, Witter
Bynner, Walter A. Frost, France
Bents Dillingham;, Gale Young Rice
and Walter Prichard Eaton.
'The Interpreter takls about So
cialism.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

of the High School were entertain
ed very pleasantly Wednesday ev-
ening by Miss Hazel Brown, daugh-
ter of Judge and..Mrs,. P. E. Brown,
at her home. A luncheon was the
principal feature of the evening, and
when the guests had arrived each
one was given detached strand OF
q cobweb, which when unraveled
and followed to it's source was
found to have attached at the end u
part of the luncheon. This was
taken to the dining room where the
remainer of the luncheon was found
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
Tho Old Redlam.

Bethlehem pronounced Bedlam Is
the London lunatic asylum. 1t was
originally founded in 1247 as priory,
but Is spoken Of as hospital for H.
natics in 1472, and when the church
was despoiled it was granted to the
city Of London as such an asylum. At
one time the wretched inmates were
exhibited to the public like so many
wild beasts, as Pepys notes in his dia-
~ and Hogarth shows in one of his
sketches. Patients that were harmless
or half cured were given badges and
released to beg in the streets. Edgar
in king Lear" impersonates one Of
these wandering Tom-o'- Bedlams.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
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Washington Notes

Tariff revision looms up more
and more surely as the issue of the
coming congress. The tariff League,
presumably of the United States
but which has its headquarters in
Chicago, has come out with vic
ious attack on the possible nomina-
ton of Secretary Taft, because he is
cedited with being a free trader.
Free trade republicans are about
as common as Albino Africans, and
Secretary Taft is nothing Of the
sort. But he is tariff revisiOnist
confessedly so, and he stands for
he Philippine Tariff Bill which was
defeated in the last congress-, not
because it could not have passed
the senate, but because there did
not happen to be majority of its
friends on the senate committee
that pigeonholed it. Secretary Taft
will have a good many more SER
ious things to answer for than free
trade proclivities when his political
account is cast up, for in all proba-
bility a majority of the American
people are heartily with him on
the subject of tariff reform. The
recent convention of the manufac
turers association had a show of
hand on this same tariff proposition
and it was foundd that IS per cent
of the manufacturers were heartily
in favor of taft revision and only
20 per cent were fiat against it. The
remainder were wagering and had
qualified answers. Thus it would
appear that in spite of Speaker Can
non g distaste for the subject, the
rank and file of the party will in
slst on it's discussion when the next
congress meets and if the Headers"
insist on delay, the best that they
will be able to do in all probability
will be to secure the appointment
of an ''unprejudiced commission"
that ia to say as badly prejudiced a
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Window Reporter: One day this
week Hon. Henry E. Hanson re-
ceived the appointment as post
master Of Window, and Immediately
executed his bond and returned it
to Washington. His commission
will arrive in a day or two. This
was surprise to many in Window
who believed that because Arch De-
Wolf had been nominated by the
President he would become his sue
cessor, but the fact that the senate
adjourned without confirming the
nomination was notice to those who
keep watch of such things that there
was trouble ahead for the young
man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

as they can secure 70 20
all over thu schedules and spend
several months in accommodating
data for long winded debates on the
floor Of congress. T
1t is said that the great financial
interests in New York are looking
forward with hope not unmingled
with anxiety to the President g next
speech which will be delivered in
Indianapolis on Decoration Day.
1t Is anticipated that he will in this
speech make a clear statement OF
his maturer policy during the re-
naming momentous months of his
administration. It is thought that
he will definitely state his policy
toward the strong anti-corporation
sentiment in the country. It is sur
missed that he will define more
clearly than he has done heretofore
in his messages to congress the diff
erence between himself and other
leading republicans on the question
affecting legislation bearing on pub
lie utilities. He may outline his
position with regard to the valua.
ton of railroad property and this
outline may emphasize difference
in degree though not in kind be-
tween him and Senator LaFollette
on this important question. 1t is
said that Secretary Taft will soon
take swing around the circle with
a portfolio Of speeches and it is pre-
dicted there will not be any lack Of
harmony between his views and
those which the President is expect
ed to express at indianapolis. This
will be equivalent to launching the
candidoy of Secretary Taft with the
formal, I might say official, approx
al of the administration and it will
doubtless add greatly to his popu-
larity with the many who if they
cannot have Roosevelt for q third
term will transfer their faith to
the man he recommends.
The Brownsville investigation is
dragging YEARLY along. There is
no doubt that the senate commit
tee, and especially Senator Forak-
or, is very tired of it. It has failed
entirely to answer his purpose.
Indeed, from the evidence now
being given, it is probable the in
vestigation will result in his COM
plete discomforture.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

We all need things we can plug along
without.
If you are right, don't let a clever
man persuade you out Of it.
The thoughts you can't express with
out profanity are not very important.
Apologies are like family skeletons.
They should not be taken out before
company.
Half our bad temper comes through
our inability to see the justice of the
other side.
When you think you have done your
best the chances are that you have on
~ started.
This would be a more comfortable
world If people would listen to reason
as readily as to gossip.
Some people have an absurd notion
that unless they are always Cabling
they will be considered dull.-Atchison
Globe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
ABUSE OF THE DEAD.
Queer Custom Of tho Basas Forehs Of
French Guinea.

Queer Custom Of tho Bagas Forehs Of
French Guinea.
The Bagas Forehs, who live in French
Guinea, quit life in manner anything
but commonplace. When a man dies
his wife and children do not lament
him. Instead they are angry at having
been abandoned. They prop the body
up against the house with the forked
branch Of a tree and invite their
whom are furious that one Of their
own has left them. When all the guests
have arrived the wife of the deceased
advances and addresses what was
once her husband in a way we'll calcu-
lated to scare his ghost away from the
neighborhood. >'~' -
"There now, listen! You'd leave me,
would you? So you don't want to live
with me? Why do you do this way?
Haven't I always been good wife to
you? Haven't been good mother to
your children? Haven't your rice and
fish always been we'll cooked? Have
you anything to reproach me with?
ard! Traitor! You shall not leave
without receiving the correction that
such conduct deserves
Then the blows begin to rain down
upon the poor defenseless figure. Pres
emily the tired wife gives place to the
children, and they in turn to the rela-
lives and friends, all Of whom similar
~ abuse It, At length. with natural
human impulse, their fury spent, they
try to make amends to the hapless
corpse. They battle it and bury it a
meter deep inside the house, and each
day at the dinner hour the family
places on the tomb some grains Of rice
and little palm wine for refreshment
Of the soul should it return.-Washing
ton Post
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
The GILA MONSTER.
Strange Ways Of This Dreaded and
Hard Bitino Reptile.

OF some Of the strange ways Of the
gila monster, that little known crea-
ture Of the southwestern deserts, cor.
respondent writes: II have had some
experiences with ella monsters and
can state that, no matter what scien-
lists may claim, the ella monster Is a
good thing to shun. Indians and Mexi-
cans have a horror Of it and fear
it more than rattlesnake. l be-
lieve that the bite of the Gila monster
IS dangerous because of the creatures
habit Of eating lizards, bugs and TO-
dents and then lying on sand so hot
that it blisters the hands and feet OF
men. The heat causes the food to pu-
trefy in the stomach, evidenced by the
fact that the teeth are often covered
with fermented, putrefied froth from
the food. A bite has the same effect as
the cut Of a dissecting knife used on a
cadaver-in other words, the inOcula~
ton Of deadly poison.
when frightened or angry he can
move quite rapidly. That short, thick,
stubby tail is used in Jumping, just as
q kangaroo uses his tail. The ella mon
ster bites like bulldog and has the
tenacity Of swapping turtle. once
saw some men teasing ella monster
brought to Tucson. A string was tied
around his neck. The Gila monster was
crawling around on the ground, trying
to get away, but was pulled back by
the string. This was carried on till the
creature became furious. The crowd
around the ella monster knew nothing
Of his power to spring. Suddenly he
sprung up and bit a man among the
crowd on the hand, leaping fully two
feet from the ground.
another instance, this Of man
whose chief object seems to have been
a foolhardy display of fearlessness. He
was holding one of the monsters In his
hand by the back of its neck, so it
could not bite him. He dropped his
hand to the side of his leg. The ella
monster shut his teeth down on his
heavy duck overalls, taking double
piece out where the cloth folded as
quickly as pair of scissors could have
cut the fabric and as cleanly."-Chi-
cago News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
Orioin Of Cork leos.

"A cork leg?' said the dealer. "Why,
man, a cork leg would crumble under
you like a leg of bread. You don't
want cork leg, but an elm or willow
one. A leg was never made Of cork
since the worlds beginning. But many
people think as you do, and I'll tell
you how the fallacy originated. The
inventor of the modern artificial leg
the leg instead Of the stick-was John
Cork. Cork's legs, or cork legs, were
famous around 1910. And whenever a
man makes your mistake he pays an
unconscious tribute to Cork's Skill"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Luverne Herald: The county
Sunday School institute held in this
city Tuesday and Wednesday was
attended by a large number of Sun
day School workers and was very
pleasant and successful meeting.
The meetings were held in the
Methodist Church and we're con-
Quoted by A. M. Locker and Miss
Grace Longfellow, of Minneapolis.
The members of the senior class
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

The Mankato Commercial Cluo
has met with splendid success IN It's
efforts to secure road Improvements
in the territory directly tributary to
Mankato. 1t began it's work last
year and to the present time it has
donated to pathmasters SO so-called
split log drags, and in addition the
Mankato Automobile Club has CIV
en- six.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
What Chance Had He2

A physician tells Of two young
friends in his city who entered simul-
taneously upon their respective careers
of physician and lawyer. Late one
afternoon the newly made medico
dashed into the room Of his legal
friend, excfaiming:
"Great luck, old man! Congratulate
me! Got a patient at last! On my
way to see him now!'
Whereupon the legal light to be clap
ped his friend on the back saying, de-
lighted, old chap" Then, after slight
puase, he added, with sly grin:
''Say, let me go with you. Perhaps
he hasn't made his will.''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
Very Much Settled.

An elderly woman, on being exam
med before the magistrate Of Bungay
as to her place Of legal settlement. was
asked what reasons she had for sup
posing that her deceased husbands
settlement was at st. Andrews.
The old lady looked earnestly at the
bench and said:
"He was born there, he was married
there. and they buried him there; and
If that isn't settling him there, I'd like
to know what is!"-London Telegraph.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

One OF the most freakish crimes
committed in many a day was the
kidnapping of the four day ola
Giauque baby at Minneapolis by
her demented nurse. The whole
Northwest was aroused in the
search and she was family located
in an orphan asylum in Superior
and returned to her frantic parents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Liemore Leader: The building
and purchasing committee Of the
Farmers Telephone Company, re-
Gently organized, met in Lismore
Thursday to purchase material for
the construction Of many miles Of
lines, and to take over some lines
already in operation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
A Scientist.

"Father,' said the small boy, what
is SCIENTIST"
"A scientist, my son, Is a man who
calls ordinary things by such long
names that you can't recognize them"
Washington Star.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on DR.. Thomas Elec-
trio Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts,
burns or bruises at once. Pain can
not stay where it is used.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
WORTHIN6TON ADVANCE.
PupLlsHRD EvERY FRIDAY.
rHOS. DOvERY, PUBLISHER.

The summer school for Jackson
and Cottonwood counties will be
held at Window this year as Jack
son county was unable to secure a
summer school alone for 1907
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
Thorns and Roses.

How true it is that there is no rose
without thorn. Even the rocking
chair is not an uninixed blessing, AZ
anybody who has run lis ankle against
one of its rockers is amply able to tes-
dfy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31

''Generally debilitated for years.
Had sick headaches, lacked ambi-
ton, was worn out and all run
down. Burdock Blood Bltrers made
me we'll woman. Mrs. Charles
Freitoy, Moosup, Conn.
FOR RENT-Four large Ii wing
rooms. Enquire at this Office.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-05-31
A Correction.

BERTHE Father, what is an egotist?
Father-He is man who thinks he is
My dear, you are scarcely right. The
egotist Is the man who says that he is
smarter than any one else. All men
think they are.