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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-03
ODD FELLOWS HOLD
ANNUAL ELECTION

ANNUAL ELECTION
The subordinate lodge |. o. o. F.
held a good meeting last night in
spite of the stormy weather. officers
were elected as follows: A. L. Hol-
lingsworth, noble grand and C. F. Day
ton vice grand. The rest Of the Off
GERS will be chosen at the midsummer
election.
Several candidates for initiation
were accepted at last nights meeting
The session was purely a business
one
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-03
BITTEN BY TARANTULA

Alton Duffy, who was bit by taran-
tula on the right hand while sorting
bananas several days ago, is recover.
ing from the effects Of the poison,
which went eighteen incthes up his
arm. It Is now thought that the hand
oAn be saved.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-03
CARD or THANKS

We wish to thank our kind friends
and neighbors for their sympathy and
help during the illness and death Of
our Baby Ruth-Mr and Mrs Jacob
Lineborn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18

prosperity was toasted in the evening
at a sumptuous banquet at Sherry's.
Then it was thrown open finally to
public travel.
Just at midnight two ive-car trains
started simultaneously from the Man.
haitian aud Hoboken terminals. III
mid-river, ten or twelve fathoms I'M
der the broad Hudson's surface, their
motormen pulled cords and sent shrill
blasts of celebration through the long
steel tubes. Their passengers cheered
and shook hands with n another
and boosted Of American genius and
daring.
Though neither the whistles nor
cheers reached from n train to the
other, they were passing, separated
only by a few yards Of earth. The
long-dreamed-of route from State to
State was at last a tangible thing to
the travellers. They had to make the
trip before they could believe it. And
here they were!
Five minutes after they passed the
red, white and blue circle of lights
marking the line between the States
they were alighting in bright, new
stations. The woe of committing
were over. Sleeping time in the
morning was extended, dinner time
at night brought nearer.
BIT before they could stop to think
it all over they had to make way for
others. Trains were running every
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
PARS0N, GAMBLER, breaches ON THE EVIL
Missouri Preacher First Repays to His Flock the Money He Lost al
Poker--O Old Passion Seized Him --He Tells Congregation Gam
ing Fever Consumes Its Victims, Speaking From Experience.

congregation to let him address the
men and women of the church once
again. He said he had something to
sa.. to them which might work meal
culable good.
The elders gave their consent, and
on Sunday night apparently every
member of the congregation was In
the church. Women gazed at their
pastor with shocked looks. Men
watched him with queer expressions.
He seemed affected by the battery OF
chances, but he did not finch from the
ordeal he had set for himself.
Instead, he walked with bowed
head and steady stride to the pulpit
and announced that he would preach
on the evils Of gambling. A ripple
ran through the congregation, for all
knew of his recent experience, but
everybody became serious again at
sight of the mans white face.
There is no other vice that gets
such a hold on a m"n as does gam
bling" said the teacher, looking
straight into the faces Of his flock.
ut onsumes him utterly. Grlpped
In its clutches, he forgets his friends.
his family, his home and his God.
Once he yields to it he cannot tell to
what lengths it may lead him.
"Gambling has been responsible
for lying, theft, suicide : i'd murder.
It's subjects are more .oject slaves
than those of drink. There Is only
one thing to do when the passion for
gaming seizes one, and that IS to fight
it off from the first with all the
strength at a mans command. For
if the victim does not conquer early
in the struggle, he will find it next
to impossible to do so afterward."
Women sobbed loudlyas the clergy
man proceeded with his sermon. Men
who had gazed c%uriously at the par
son on his entrance looked at him
with sympathy. The officers Of the
church appeared to be affected deeply
by the pastors words.
Not a movement was made by the
big crowd, which filled the building
to the doors, while Brown, from the
pulpit, strove to save others from the
vice that had proved too strong for
him.
1t is believed the preacher fears his
weakness too much to follow his
calling further, but it is said the
church officers will urge him to keep
his pulpit, In the hope that one who
has suffered as he undoubtedly has
done will be the stronger for his
open confession and the better able to
restrain any tendency to gambling
that may exist among those in his
charge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
KELSEY UPHELD BY semitic KILLED IN STAGE WRECK
Vehicle Filled With Young People
Hit by Ontario Express.
Caught Squarcly OH Crossing-Four
Killed Outright--Horscs Dragging
Pole, Carry Tidings to Town.

Nyack, y. Y.--Flecked with foam
and dragging a splintered wagon pole
between them, a pair Of horses tore
I'D the main street Of Little Valley to
the barn of George Young, the town
liveryman. They brought the first
hint of a tragedy that plunged the
town into grief and mourning.
Of the nine members of a party
returning from Nyack shortly after
midnight six are dead, one is dying
and two are seriously injured. Four
were killed outright in a collision be-
tween the stage in which they rode
and the Ontario and Western mount
ain express at West Nyack.
The dead are: Nelson May, the dri-
yer, nineteen years old; jeanette Pal
mer, twenty-one, daughterof druggist
F. B. Palmer; George Reith, thirty,
manager of the basketball team;
George Shinn. thirty-eight, lived with
widowed mother; Edith Singer, tWen-
ty, daughter of Leonard Singer; Ber-
tina Singer, eighteen, a sister.
The injured are: Edith Bird, eigh-
ten years old, serious internal in
%juries; Henry Dieterlen, twenty
three, legs broken, internal injuries;
Warren Palmer, twenty-five, brother
Of Jeanette, injured internally.
Dieterlen is dying at the North
Hudson Hospital, Union Hill, where
he and the two others injured were
taken. Jeanette Palmer and George
Shinn succumbed to their injuries on
the way to the hospital.
There were two bus loads, sixteen
In all, who came to Nyack to play the
Nyack basketball team and attend a
dance in the opera house in the vii
lage later. Six of them were young
women. They all started for home
at midnight, the first bus reaching
the tracks only a few minutes before
the second.
The responsibility for the accident
has not been determined. The gate
man reported that the stage was
driven through the west gate. Part
of the gate was found beside the
track. The survivors said that the
gateman lowered the bars on the
stage as it passed.
The engine caught the stage
~squarely and with such force as to
hold three of the bodies on the pilot.
There they we're found when the train
was brought to a stop. The body of
May, the driver, was found several
hundred yards down the track. The
dead were crushed.
The passengers of the second stage.
though terror stricken, CROPPED about
in the dark searching for the effects
of the dead and injured. The horses
escaped u%ninjured.
The five injured were placed
aboard the train, which hurried on
to Union Hill. Telephone messages
to the Hudson County Hospital
caused ambulances to be in waiting.
When the surgeons entered the car
they found two of the five already
dead,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
TIGHT MONEY IN JAPAN.
sumors Of Panic Conditions-Efect
on Europe.

Berlin.-The Tightening OF imam
.ial conditions in Japan is regarded
~ banks here as likely to result in
he transfer from London to TOXIC
If a large portion of Japan's balances
md to disturb somewhat European
money markets. Japan's balances IN
london are estimated as between
Sc, GOO and S75,000,000.
At the Japanese Embassy here h
Jews of panicky conditions at Osaka.
Xioto and Kobe is discredited, but
private advices to German firms trad
ng in the Far East confirm the money
scarcity. The recent s~tringency IN
The United States is believed to be
Affecting Japan, especially as Jap
anese exports to the United States
have fallen off to a considerable eX-
:ent. The prolonged doubts concern
ing JaDan's intentions toward the
United States in the emigration dis
oute have tended to make European
bankers with Japanese connections
withdraw their loans and conduct
their business with unusual caution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
SLAIN PRIEST TORTURED SELF.
Father Leo Wore Hooks That Pierced
Flesh rs Mode of Penance.

Denver, Col. - That Father Leo
Heinrichs. who was murdered by Gu
seppe Alto, an Italian Anarchist.
while giving communion in st. Eliza
beth's Church here last Sunday. led a
life Of severe austerity is evidenced
by a discovery made in preparing the
body for burial. Next to the skin
Father Leo had wrapped about his
waist and upper arms heavy bands of
linked steel chains. and to each link
was a hook sharpened to a needles
point, attached in such fashion that
each movement of the priest caused
the hooks to pierce his flesh and to
remind him of the life and death Of
Him in whose steps he struggled to
follow.
Father Leo never spoke to his fell
low clergy Of his mode of p%enance,
and no one in the monastery sur
missed it. His body and upper arms
were %calloused entirely, showing that
when the pain became deadened be-
,ause of the toughened skin he had
aiken the net work of claws and ad-
Iusted them so that the pain might
:,ome again with renewed force.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18

Lees Summit, Mo.-Perhaps the
most astounding revelation ever made
in a house of worship came from the
lips of the Rev. Charles S. S. Brown,
pastor of the Christian Church in this
town, in a sermon On the evil results
of gambling, for the preacher spoke
from recent experience.
Brown told his congregation that
the passion for gaming utterly con-
sumed its victims, making every man
of them forget friends, family, home
and God. He did not refer to himself
by name, but every n in the church
knew what he said was less a sermon
than a confession, for he returned to
town with a draft for $500 and re-
paid to members of his congregation
that amount borrowed from several OF
them. He lost in a poker game in
Kansas City a few days ago the loans
he got from his flock.
1t was when he failed to repay the
lenders promptly that they started an
investigation resulting in the discov-
cry that the parson had frittered
away their money at the gambling
table. Brown did not deny the
charge. He contented himself with
promising to raise the money, asking
for a few days of grace. Then he left
town and was absent until next morn
ing.
The clergyman, when the elders Of
the church taxed him with his sin,
said he had succumbed to a craze for
gambling to which he had been SUBJ
ject years before. He thought he had
conquered the passion forever, he
said, but a few days ago, lnding HIM
self in Kansas City and hearing men
in a hotel remark that there was a
poker game in a certain place, he was
seized with a desire to handle the
cards and chips once more.
Brown dressed himself in clothes
as unlike those of his calling as he
could get and went to the gambling
house. He was admitted readily, and
soon he was playing as if he had
never entered a pulpit. He explained
to the elders that it was the first
time he had touched a card since en-
tering the ministry. 1t was before he
became a clergyman that he Gid his
gambling of former years.
To his a~mazement, the gaming
fever was so strong in him that he
lost all the money he had in his
pocket. 1t amounted to $500, which
he had borrowed in various amounts
from members of his flock for a legit-
innate purpose.
Brown, when he returned with the
money necessary to reimburse his
friends, asked the leading men OF the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18

five minutes. Crowds were pouring
down the stairways and dropping
tickets in the boxes. The Hudson and
Manhattan Railroad was now a lively,
bustling, full-alive line Of travel.
Three hundred passengers en-
barked on the first train to leave the
Nineteenth street station for Hoboken
on the stroke of midnight. They
had waited for hours to take it.
Mrs. Barbara Schlatter, Of Bloom
field street, Hoboken, a woman Of
sixty-ive, bought the first ticket. She
had stood at the head of the line since
8 p. m.
A second train followed the leading
one at 1907.
The first train from Hoboken
reached Nineteenth street at 1915 a.
m. 1t had made two stops and the
running time was thirteen minutes.
Fifteen-year-old Richard Scully, of
No. 1131 Washington street. Hobo
ken, was the first person off the train.
All night the trains continued on
their fve-minute Roadway, with every
thing operating as smoothly as
though the tunnel had been open for
years.
At the banquet in commemoration
of the opening of the tunnel William
G.. McAdoo said:
"These tunnels have bodily moved
New Jersey, in point Of time, three
miles nearer to Manhattan Island.
What this means to the 100,000,000
people who 10 annually cross the
Hudson River by ferry may in a
be comprehended when tell
you that at the very low estimate of
an average of five minutes Of time
saved to each person the annual saw
ing is nine and a half years. In other
words, these 100. 00O,0 900 people now
expend each year nine and a half
years of unnecessary time in crossing
the Hudson on ferries. This is a
great economic waste, If time is really
of value, to say nothing of the dis
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18

Boston, Mass.-An anti-cocaine bill
prepared by Dr.. Charles Harrington,
of the State Board Of Health, has
been brought before the legislative
Committee on Public Health by that
official, who made a strong appeal in
it's advocacy.
He declared that hundreds upon
hundreds Of Boston boys are slaves
to the cocaine habit, that the harmful
drug can be purchased in saloons,
from cheap drug stores and on the
street from Illegal agents as freely as
one can buy fruit from street hawk
ers, and that the Juvenile courts are
filling up with youths who have ad-
mitted that their downfall can be
traced to the vicious drug habit.
Said DR.. Harrington in part: From
judges, from lawyers, from probation
officers and others, | have received
hundreds of pitiful letters giving me
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
TcIcgraphic CONVERSATIONS.

The managers of La Toilette claim
that he will have 222 votes on the
first ballot.
Chairman Charles R. Jones, Of the
Prohibition party, declared they
would poll a; million votes in the
Presidential campaign.
Many persons in London are suffer
ing from influenza, including three
Cabinet ministers and a large number
of residents of the West End.
Emperor William has by express
command introduced the japanese
system of defense, jiu jitsu, into the
imperial army and navy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18

lists of names of Boston boys who
have become slaves to cocaine.
II have heard of saloons where
they keep catarrh powder filled with
cocaine or its by-products in the toilet
rooms for the useof customers. Cheap
west end drug stores sell scores or
boxes of cocaine a day illegally. The
negro ace is especially addicted to
the drug. and it can be purchased by
them in stores and on the streets.
One of the agents of the Health
Board purchased some Of this drug
at a drug store in Boston, then stood
by and saw twenty sales of the same
within a half hour, all the %purchas-
ers being negroes"
DR.. Harrington said that children
were supplied with the drug by
agents who went about the streets
with their pockets stocked with the
powders.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
FACTS ABOUT McADOO TUNNEL.

Present operating points: HoDoken to Sixth avenue
and Nineteenth street, New York City.
Length of north bore: .S5 miles.
Rush hour schedule for trains: Three~minute head
way.
Total cost, when completed, $40, 900, 900.
Number of men employed, $500.
Time from Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street to Ho-
boken, ten minutes.
Time from Herald Square to Newark. when system is
finished, twenty minutes.
Seating capacity of cars an hour each way during rush
hours, 10000.
Distance from surface of river to rails at deepest point
in the tunnel, ninety feet. At shallowest point, Is feet.
Actual time of crossing under river bed, three minutes.
Work begun in 1878 and discontinued; resumed in
1890 and again discontinued; work begun by William G..
McAdoo in 1901.
Entire system will be in full operation before close of
1908.
Stations completed and near completion: Christopher
and Greenwich streets, Sixth avenue and Christopher
street. Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue. Nineteenth
street and Sixth avenue, Twenty-third street and Sixth
avenue, Twenty-eighth street and Sixth avenue. Hobo
ken, at D., L. and w. R. R. station.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
Against Removal Of New Yerk's
Superintendent Of Insurance.
Governor HuShcs Rc6uGcd in Second
Attempt 70 Carry Out Recon-
mcndations-Eotc 80 to 10.

Albany, y. G.-By Il vote of SO to
10 the Senate upheld Otto Kelsey,
Superintendent of Insurance, whose
removal from office was demanded
by Governor Hughes.
superintendent Kelsey retains his
Office by the viii of the majority,
despite the adverse report of Matthew
c. Fleming, appointed by the Gov
ernor to investigate the nineteen spe-
ciic charges of neglect and incompe-
tence made against him. 1t was the
most open and pronounced rebuff the
Governor has ever received from the
leaders of his party at Albany.
Friends of the Governor were ut
terly routed and practically gave up
the light in the preliminary proceed
ings. The vote was taken without de-
bate, the Kelsey forces, under the
leadership of John Raines, feeling SO
sure Of their ground that they scorncd
even the appearance of p struggle.
The Senators who voted to sustain
the recommendation Of the Governor
that the Superintendent be removed
were Agnew. Armstrong, Burr. Car
penter, Cobb, Cordts, Davis. Dunn,
Emerson, Foelker. Gilchrist, Heacock,
Human, Knapp, Page, SAKE and Ira
Wis, Republicans, and Fuller and T9"-
Tor. Democrats-19.
The Senators who voted against re-
moval were Aids, Cassidy, Fancher.
F%ranchot, Gates, .Grattan, Hill, Hook
err, O'Neil. Raines. Smith. Tully,
Wemple, White and Wilcox, Republi-
cans, and Ackroyd. Boyce. Cohalan.
Cullen, Frawley, Grady, Harte, Has
snfug, McCarren. McManus, Mulla-
ney. Owens, Ramsperger. Sohmer and
Sullivan. Democrats-30.
Absent - Mccall and Thompson,
Democrats.
This vote did not reflect the exact
attitude of the Senators. The two
absentees would have cast their votes
against removal, and if it had been
necessary at least five of the seven
teen Republican Senators who voted
to sustain the Governor would have
been lined up with the thirty Senators
who cast their votes against removal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
ROOSEVELT OPENS TUNNEL
THAT YIELDS TWO STATES
First Train Carries Governors
Through Hudson Tube.
SYSTEM COST s70,OoO,OOO
Part of Vast System to Connect Man
haitian by Land With West Given
to Public-President and Two
Governors Help in Celebration.

New York City.-The first Hudson
River tunnel, ending the existence of
Manhattan as an island, was formally
dedicated when President Roosevelt
in Washington tapped a telegraph
key and started on it's journey
through the steel tube an electric
train which a from Nineteenth
street and Sixth avenue to the Laeka-
wanna terminal in a little less than
:welye minutes.
At each end were crowds and flags
and cheers. On the train were Gov
ernors Hughes, of New York, and
Fort, of New Jersey, and a host of
officials and leading citizens of the
connected municipalities-New York,
Hoboken and Jersey City.
After the tunnel and its promoter,
William G.. McAdoo, had been praised
In speeches by the officials and a let
.er from President Roosevelt, its
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
President Presses Button.

Washington. D. c. - The electric
key was pressed in the telegraph
room at the White House to start in
motion the first train to pass through
the tunnel of the Hudson and Man.
haitian Railroad Company. In Secre-
tary Loeb's office a silver electric but
ton was shown, on the silver plate
surrounding which were engraved
these words:
LAT the White House in Washing
ton with this push-button President
Roosevelt gave the signal which
started the first train of the Hudson
and Manhattan Railroad Company
through the tunnels under the Hud-
son River between Sixth avenue and
Nineteenth street, New York, and
Hoboken, N. j., February 25, 1908"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
Suicide by Fire.

Miss Emma Fink, of S%latington,
Pa, standing where she could see the
ruins Of her old home at ~Slatedale,
which was destroyed by fire about a
year ago, poured coal oil over her
clothing and then set fire to her skirt.
Miss Fink called on friend there,
and after visiting the grayc of her
mother in the little cemetery she
went to the house of her friends and
got a can of oil, and then going to
where she could see the site of the
burned house set herself on fire.
Children who saw her notified friends.
but they were too late to save her
life. She had been in ill health.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
Mothers Death May Result in
Release of Her Young Heir.

Los Angeles.-While serving a sem
tence Of $50 days in the city jail for
larceny, William Allen, aged twenty
eight, received word OF his mothers
death in New York City and that he
had been ]beQueathed an estate val
ued at $4,000. After he had failed
to secure money from a broker on the
strength of his inheritance a telegram
was sent to the administrator of the
estate asking him to forward money
so that Allen could obtain his release
from prison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
FARM HORSE GIVING WAY
TO ITS RIVAL, THE AUTO

three years, the farm horses alone in
use on January /, 1908, numbering
no less than 19,992,000 in round
numbers. The department figures
that 10000 horses in stock on farms
could have replaced the same number
that have given way to the automo-
bile, while it is calculated that the
5000 horses which electricity dis
placed in urban street car service,
could have been replaced by $4,000
horses in stock assuming its growth
TO present proportions with horses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
Prominent People.

Pilgrims of the United States gave
a banquet at Delmonico's for Ambas-
sador Whislaw Reid. :
Yale intends to confer the degree
of NJ. A. on Walter Camp, the univer-
sity's athletic adviser.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., de-
nounces the use Of fibs in business.
Tell the truth" he says, even if it's
not eXpedient."
Andre Tardieu delivered his eighth
and last lecture before the Cercle
Francois of Harvard University, at
Cambridge. His subject vas France
and the United States"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-18
The Field of Labor.

Employees of all the railways II
Uruguay went on strike.
; big campaign has been instituted
for the organization Of boilermakers
and iron ship builders at Butalo
n. Y.
San Francisco (Cal.) Laundr!
Workers Union has decided to DeSil
an agitation against Japanese ant
Chinese laundries.
On May ), at Youngstown ONO
the Amalgamated Association OF iron
steel and Tin Workers Will hnln III
annual convention.