The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-01
HORRORS OF war Pale
INTO lESlGEIFIGAAGE
Based dR Past Records 5000
People VIII Be KllI8d
This Week


More people are killed. in The United
states cteSy year through Fourth Gf
Iriy celebrations ihaB we've E.Hcd in
tny batlie oi tho Revolutionary war
and the l0ial nGmlcr of casualties Oi
7oHrih OF July cslelrQiions during tha
agt four wears Is more lhan double h
total losses ol the Americans during
lhe eifh, years OF Tie Revolutionary
wcr The cmroni Issue OF be Nation
i Food Magazine. published iu Chs
eaeo, eives table Of comparison.
shUNijis ,te l9asos in ihe b9ules b
ne Revolutionary war compared with
The total casaaliios cf an The Fourth
81 july telenriliCns since 1903. and
lyss
Give thoneard people In III Umi Il
5teics. mostly children. ana naW Wci
ad happy. viii he either dead U
NotrGcd rithn ihc ren lew dass. 0
cfofe le celebration 0f ghs snUrlh.
n .mly + ended Il FHginnt has
reseaaoi slrl she apsi laugh Ia
belliah glee ID sac as turn 0rr weapona
30 death On ourselves ard carry on
forever and wi,n faur-lold energy the
work OF slaughter she Hegau during
the Revolutionary war In celebrating
p
killed and injured during the past
four years more than double as many
3oonle as were lost on he American
side, inciHdng killed, wounded ami
captured during the entire eight years
~ iAe waF Of The Revolution. In time
81 peace VIC are killing four OF ouf-
selves TO where 1he British killed one
of us ~ time OF war
fnN IN ~ Fnftf "a
IN the United states are killed in ceie-
bratng our Independence than were
killed m the bioodiest battle OF the
Revolutionary war The killed ana
injured during tae last Fourth of July
was nearly ten times as great as Were
me American losses at Bunker Hill, it
was llliy umes as great as at the COM
plhed battles of Lexington and Con
cord more lhan siNly times that of
our losses al bennington, over seven
times me American losses az German
town; more than four times the mum
per oil our soldiers Killed wounded
ana imprisoned at the battle 81
hrandyHine, end mere than twice as
great as an me losses the American
arms sustained al Camden
The hst is nearly seven times as
ereat as ile number OF BRUSH KILLED
tNd wounded al Kings pountain' ~
@as eight uRlea as many as the Amer
lean losses AT hutaW Springs; moro
than Ten times our losses "a Guilfosd
cEfi house, and more tnan siNty-two .
lmes as great as our losses az Cow
3eha.
ihe table shows That IN me lnde-
pendence day celebrations OF The past
sc Years, ii7a persons we're hlled
l.r ght
4 Us seen lhef lle deaihs from te-
anus, commonly called lQcklaw, alone
amount 70 ~. hnoNiedse oi how ic
treat this disease Us d.n.nisans ,he
huhlpef OF deaths irom ilpa ca3se ana
undoubtedly Us responsible l1r the les
ser number Of fatalities during i4e
past iouf wears lasl year 4le dfa' hs
ifoom ietanus We're only s'NiyaWp,
while those from other causes amount
ed TO lo2. in 1908 che ietauls deaths
numbered lo0' wlllle those from otis
ef causes amounted 10 Dur sixty.
me afticie men eNpia-ns me nature
.ol ielahNs of lochlaW ana sifc3 d.ree-
mons ior me proper treatment. lt
aalai
Ielallus is caused hy hac'li1f
W.acp noNsh hainiess wlen eAioaed
fo the als instantly besias rs deadly
"oik Naen hurried n tne body lat
sle MOST cases oi blank cawrldge
lAe wound loe explosion lnthcis ia W.
ieeifd Win tiis OF powder paper wedt
dn8 and diri, which prove an excel
leni fertilizer Tor the rapid pppa8a-
tiQh of the deadly earm
tne directions Tor lhe treatment OF
9eiahus is as follows.
" q N1und Is powder burned, and