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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
Finds Riches; wife Dies

Denver, Col.--After about twenty.
seven years search for a fortune
which he finally found in an Alaska
gold mine, William w. Toids of Bris-
tol. England arrived in Denver on his
way home. only to receive here tele-
gram stating that his wife was dead
and that the little home in the suburb
Of the English city had been sold for
debts. Broken-hearted, Mr.. Tolds
will return to olholt mining camp In
Alaska, where he gained his fortune.
there to remain, he says. until he
dies.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
Makes a Good Lamb Ration.

A recent feeding test shows that
lambs fed on a mixture of two parts
corn meal and one part cottonseed
meal made weekly gain Of three
pounds per head for ten weeks. The
lambs were fed S1k pounds each of the
mixture per week. This Is a very
profitable gain for the grain fed and
furnishes a hint to sheep feeders this
fall. The lambs were fed on pasture.
which partly accounts for the firs
Fins.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11

Build a platform of the kind indi-
Gated in the drawing and attach a pair
of wheels. Old wagon wheels made
OF boards win suffice. They should be
not less than IL inches in diameter.
The dimension of the other parts
should be: Length of platform, three
to four feet; width of platform, two
and half to three feet; height, thir-
ty to forty inches. A board nailed
across the handles will render it easy
for the worker to ascend and descend.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
None Too Early.

The favorite time for seeding any
crop of tame grass or alfalfa, with the
exception of clover, is everywhere rec.
ognized as the fall, and more especial
ly in the southern half of the corn
belt Where nature attempts to cover
all bare ground with a binding crop of
grass, starting it soon after early
spring, this grass pest becomes an en-
emy of spring seeding This is more
particularly the case with alfalfa. Fall
seeding is the only way Of circum-
venting the grass pest.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
Don't Mix Dairy Herd.

1t is not wise to mix breeds in the
dairy herd. That is, we do not deem
It wisdom to have the herd composed
of Jerseys and Holsteins or OF Jer-
seys and Shorthorns for the reason
that no two breeds require the some
treatment to get the most satisfactory
results at the milk pail Select your
breed and stick to it. You can't make
. mistake in selecting either Hols
stems Jerseys. Guernseys or AYR
shires.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
Russia's New ,NsvaT Hase.

LondonsThe Russian government
has decided to abandon Krondstadt AZ
the headquarters of the Baltic feet. ItI
is considered that Krondstadt, which
is only 20 miles from st. Petersburg.
is much tQollnear the capital X 10 be-.
safe in these days of long range guns.
The new naval base is to Be sveal
burg, the island fortress i've miles
south OF Helsingfors.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
FENCE POST or CONCRETE
Illustration and Directions Showing
How One May Be Made Sub
stantiaiIy and cheapIy.

Every practical farmer knows the
value of good concrete fence post,
says a writer in Rural New Yorker.
AS shown by the accompanying dia-
gram ! would bevel the seats Of the
post so as to take the strain on the
bolt, which is the weak point in the
concrete. then ] would give the post
two seats instead of one, making the
joint somewhat like ship lap or ship
splice in timber. The outer edge
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11

New York--Twenty casks and nine
cases containing trophies of the hunt,
collected by the Roosevelt expedition
in East Africa, arrived the other day
on the steamer Provincial. The speci-
mems. representing 20 kinds OF ami
mails, will be forwarded to the Smith
sonian institution.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
RACE SUICIDE IN FRANCE

dren of the latter. yet, even SO. at the
age Of Fl the hand workers are repre-
sented by more children than are the
brain workers.
NJ Bertillon's report will be present
ed to the parliamentary committee on
the depopulation question at its next
session.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-11
USEFUL FOR DRIVING POSTS
Portable Staging That Is Light
Enough 10 Be Pushed About
the Farm by Hand.

II is not always convenient to use
a wagon drawn by horses as a plat
form for driving posts.
The sun., 1909-06-28
THE SUN. MONDAY. JUNE. %, 1909.

ingly. His good sense, his friendly
keenness in the detection Of shams
his quick sympathy, his philosoph.
ical tolerance, were the fruits Of an
early life spent in the most active Of
pursuits-fire fighting, war and politics
and Of years Of favored observation
Of men and things from the sheltered
security Of his chair in the corridor of
City Hall. Thirty years he saw good,
bad, and mediocre Mayors, Aldermen,
department heads, clerks, cleaners and
hangers on unnumbered pass and repass,
doing well his own work, and when over
come by weariness fleeing for relief and
rest TO his beloved records OF the voiun-
teer fire department in the City Library.
A kindly, wise man; a worthy repre-
sentative Of New York that will never
be again, a man whose dignity came
from within, an institution in New
York MARTY KEEsE has been these
many years. He will be missed by
youngsters and oldsters. We wish we
knew more men like him.
The sun., 1909-06-28
Let the RevOlutionists Beware.

Every lover Of the orderly admins
tration of public affairs must be scan.
dalized and affrighted by the determined
efforts now being made to undermine
justice and restrict authority. A po-
liceman who merely disobeyed a writ
OF habeas corpus has been put in the
common Jail; that cornerstone OF justice
the third degree" does not provoke
public enthusiasm; and now the Grand
Jury has had the audacity to indict
for assault three policemen who had
only assailed business man in bis shop
while he was engaged in the wicked
and indefensible act of allowing a GUS
toner to pay bill.
There seems, indeed. to be through
ont the community a suddenly awakened
disposition TO rebel against certain of
the most ancient and highly venerated
practices and customs of themembers
of the police force. Men who have
lived oil their lives in wholesome respect
for the patrolman's nightstick are
questioning its supreme wisdom. So
cieties which have long regarded as
saults by policemen us great boons of
life under a constitutional government
are beginning to grope for some less
energetic form of regulation. The
courts show disquieting signs of inter-
fering for the maintenance of their
dignity and the assertion of their power
Is it to be wondered at that the police
are mystified and almost alarmed?
Probably it il only a manifestation
Of the silly season, however. Too long
has New York been conducted by the
police for the police. Revolt now may
show it's horrid head at times, but the
body is weak, the habit of obedience is
deeply ingrained. the sheeplike docility
Of New Workers in the presence OF their
masters is Of so long duration that
effective opposition to it is difficult
to imagine. Nor are the police likely
to give up their supremacy without
struggle. Through their secret socie-
ties, their legitimate and their usurped
authorities, through devices and prac-
tices of which the public knows little
or nothing, they exert tremendous
power. They are peace officers, judges,
jurors and executioners, and they will
not quit the field unlessIhey are driven
OF by public upheaval better muscled
and better managed than any the town
has seen heretofore.
The sun., 1909-06-28

prosecution. The county would moi
or could not provide the expenses
which were heavy, when Mr.. HENEl
was full Of hope and the joy Of battle
VIII 1t be complainant or eager now
that the prosecution has had its day in
court and failed? Furthermore, will Mr..
SPREcKEIs put his hand in his pocket
for another $l50,OOO or so?
There are some loose ends left about
Doubtless there are some thousands
OF San Franciscans who believe that
RUDOLPH SPREcKELs contributed law
ishly from his purse to convict a trac-
ton rival for personal reasons. and
these same soeptics may believe that
FRANCIS j. HENEY has enriched him.
self as the advocate OF RUDOLPH
SpREcKELs. In the July number of
McCiure's Magazine Mrs. FREMONT
OLDER, the wife Of the editor who has
been fighting graft in San Francisco for
ten years to the imminent peril Of his
life, tells the story of the prosecu-
ton. 1t is an Unconditional, matter of
fact story as this devoted woman tells
it, and she states that her husband
went to Washington some time before
the traction controversy between Mr..
SPRECKELs and Mr.. CALHOUN to enlist
FRANCIS j. HENEY in q legal campaign
against SCHMITz and RUEF and she
also AYERS that Mr.. SPRECKELs prom
ised financial aid at or about the same
time. There is corroborative evidence
G! thessc statements. Mrs. OLDER main
tains that the charge against PATRICK
CALHOUN grew out of the charges
against SCHMrTz and RUEF as kind of
sequel after the corrupt supervisors had
been trapped by the cunning of WILLIAM
j. BURNS, the former secret service
detective. In the trial which has just
failed, MIR. HENEY. who denies that he
has himself touched q dollar of Mr..
money, put him on the
stand to be examined exhaustively by
the defence. Mr.. SPRECKEI-s submitted
an itemized account of all expenditures,
and public opinion in San Francisco
seems to regard it az satisfactory and
to acqnit MIR. HENEY of sordid motives
or Of profting pec,lniarily from their
relations. II is highly probable that he
is ambitious for political preferment as
mn incident to his pugnaciolis activities
in the graft prosecution. but it would
be a sore blow to public morals if his
enemies succeeded in proving that he
had an itching palm.
The sun., 1909-06-28
Actors OLD AND NEW.
The 'T.imy Eays" - .he rFSfessivn
Always RecedlnG.

Thc 'P.iny rass" - the FTSfessiSu
Always Receding.
To THE EDITOR oV TIE SuH-Str. Old forie,
OF oil ages tsome are not yet sD make m.
tired. Youll always nnd the old fosy who
longs for the days when actors could really act
and WHOM Shakespeare was adequately repre-.
sented. Old foges Of this year OF grace hark
back 70 the good old days Of the late '7Os bu,
remember that critics who wrote In those dsys
were In the habit Of picking flaws In Edwin Booth
himself and prsting Of the days OF his father and
Macrcady and Forrest.
Now As = matter OF fact II like TO be didactIc
this hot weather. thoso who saw the recent pro-
ductlon Of Twelfth Nigst" a. the Academy OF
husic saw the very best MaIpoiio that has been
seen IN New York In thirty years. I have seen
at least half dozen MaIroitos, Americana Ene
lish and one German In that time and Edward
Sothem more nearly realized the part than any
other.
Thirty yrrrs from now some old fogy Of tha,
time will be mourning for the pslmy "old DAYS of
tho frst decade Of the twentieth century, when
Shakespeare was really played and yet IN
venture to say that each age will raise up It's own
capable acton.
For versatility there was OF course only one
Edwin Booth, but as great as he may now be
doing turns In some cheap Fast Side music hall
Not only do we have the poor always with U.S.
but scAius Is peculiar 70 no generation. Perhaps
the man who will make New York remembered
may to-day be crying for his bottle In New Zes-
land but thosc who did not sec Sothern and Mar
howe missed dramatic treat that In q smaller
theatre would have been almost too good to be
true. CHARLsa BArrxLL LOOMS.
LEoN1A, N. j., June %.
The sun., 1909-06-28
A Direct Tax upou Income.

| To TIE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: MIR.
Root In mighty smart man. To describe
his newfangled tax upon the income OF
corporations he has hit upon an expression
that looks cute: "a special excise tax
But calling this burden an excise tax
does not necessarily make 1t such. It Is
nothing more nor less. I submit. than a
direct tax upon income. 1t Is not an ex-
cise or license tax upon privilege OF
trausacting the business OF q corporation.
| At least it Is not such in respect to the vas,
majority Of corporations. for 1t 10 tho State
and not the United States that has granted
| these charters.
The Language Of this popullstic bill "a
that every corporation shall pay annually
| q special excise tax with respect to the car
rying on or doing business by such corporn.
| ton equivalent to Der cent.
upon the entire net income over and aboy.
IS 900 received by it."&c.
Note that what the corporation pavs for
In really for the risht Of carrvinv IN ar
The sun., 1909-06-28
Reform In San Francisco.

The San Francisco graft prosecution,
nterm comprehending the trial of every
body supposed to be involved in the
bribery Of city officials for any purpose,
a dragnet prosecution as it were did
not necessarily fail when ter jurors
voted to acquit President CALHOUN of
the United Railways and two jurors
stood out for conviction, but no citizen
who has faith in the integrity of that
intrepid prosecutor FRANCIS J. HENEY,
or who lauds the civic spirit and disin-
terestedness of Mr.. RUDoLPH SPRECK-
Ills, the contributor OF most Of the
campaign fund in the war on graft,
could maintain with any confidence that
the prospect Of convicting Mr.. CALHOUN
is not hopeless. The defendant pro-
tAsts his innocence Of the charge that
he was rrivy TO the bribing of super
visor, and the town is divided in opinion
upon that question. IT is a fact that
many Of those who ardently supported
the graft prosecution admit that MIR.
CAIHouNs connection with the act OF
bribery was not satisfactorily proved
by the prosecutor. Among them are
members of the League OF Justice, an
institution with an admirable object,
10 less than the education of the COM
uiunity in respect for the law and in
insistence upon its enforcement without
regard TO persons, high or low, rich or
poor.
The League of Justice considers the
graft prosecution az an incident in a
great cause. The prosecution con-
victed Mayor EUGENE SCHMITz and ABR
RuEF OF extortion in the French res
taurant case, only to have its work un-
done by decision of the court of last
resort that no crime had been committed
under the code. In its trial OF PATRICK
CALHOUN the prosecution convinced
only two Of twelve jurors OF his guilt.
and bravely az Mr. HENEY talks of a
second trial the difficulty of obtain
Ing a jury seems insuperable. More
over MIR. HENEY, seriously wounded
in open court in the last Ruef trial and
ovcrworked and worn to the verge of
nervous prostration, Is believed 70 be
physically unequal TO another pro-
longed struggle. There is also the
question Of providing money for It,
But for the munifoence OF Mr.. sPREcK-
LIS thgo would have bssH 20 Calhoun
The sun., 1909-06-28
Revealing the Liquor Tax Law.

The recent activities of the Police
Department, in conjunction with the
Department Of Excise, which have re-
suited in the revocation OF q number
Of licenses for the sale OF liquor, may
indicate that an intelligent and sincere
effsrt is to be made to enforce here
ahonts the liquor tag law, urGuess-
tionably the most abused and least
understood statute on the law books
OF this State. The success which has
been had in closing Objectionable places
within the last few months is Of pecul-
lar interest to THE Sun for the reason
that we have held for years that en-
forcement. not amendment, was what
this law needed.
Hitherto the police have relied al
most entirely on the criminal prosecu-
ton Of violators of the liquor tax law,
with most discouraging results. Ri
diculous technicalities raised in the
Magistrates courts, political pressure,
crowded calendars, all have combined
to make prosecutions difficult and con-
victions 50 rare as to be without effect.
The civil processes for the forfeiture
Of licenses and bonds have been prac-
tically ignored. although they offered
the surest method of closing saloons in
which the law was violated. The con-
clusion has been unavoidable that there
was no real desire on the part OF the
State or Of the local authorities to en-
force the statute a. long as they chose
the hard path in preferences to the easy.
There s no question that, with all
the authorities willing to aid each
other, every disorderly house having a
liquor license, every dive" and every
licensed place in which the law is VIC
lated can be closed UP permanently.
1t would take a little time to accom-
plish this, but in the end the liquor deais
ers would obey the law automatically
and continue to do 80 "a long as they
had reason to believe that the authori-
ties firmly intended to enforce it.
The sun., 1909-06-28
A Real "Old New Yorker"

IF MARTY KEEsE had lived until
to-day he would have been only 72, 30
he cannot be spoken Of properly as an
"old man. But an old New Yorker ht
was in truth. He came down from
the period when the volunteer firemer
were the masters and the idols OF the
town. and carried with him to the end
Of his journey the ideals and the preju.
dices Of those spirited days. He was
bred in a school that developed con.
stancy to friends, courage and phys.
ical strength; and at the time when he
was foreman of Matthew Brennan Hose
90 he must have been a figure OF q
man worth seeing. Weaklings were not
chosen as foremen OF fire companies
then any more frequently than they
win such jobs to-day-although OF
course we should not think Of suggest
ing that the firemen Of this generation
are" in any way fit to be compared
with those Of half a century ago. The
blue shirts are all right, as nobody was
more ready to admit than MARTY KEEsE,
but
Those red shirts represented a stage
OF municipal and civic evolution which
has passed, never to return. They were
the product Of the days OF hand work,
when every artisan was an artist, before
the factory and the automatic machine
had made individual skill, strength and
initiative matters of comparatively
small moment. To be a shipwright or
carpenter or smith or to have mas
tered any Of dozen trades was to have
done something worth while. The in.
dustrial conditions favored the culti-
vation Of individuality where to-day
they crush it. Perhaps life was not
easier; we have a notion it was not.
Men may not have been better or
stronger or wiser in New York before
the war than they are to-day; but
the passage OF years has softened
the harsh lines, thrown into relief the
delights Of existence in the 400 and the
SOS, and made the commonplaoes OF
those days attractive and interest
ing. Certainly it was unpleasant for
the property owner whose homo was
burning to have the fremen halt
their run half way TO his door for
the purpose OF deciding which COM
pany had the better crew at fisticufrs,
but to hear MARTY KEEsE tell Of such
incidents was worth more than any
sordid tale OF warehouses destroyed
and merchants reduced to want. Not
that the red shirts failed in their duty;
far from II. The tale OF their feats Ia
one in which they take a just pride.
But they had fun too.
Two years ago The sun transcribed
some Of the "reminiscences OF MARTY
KEEsE for the benefit Of itself and It's
readers. In them the sturdy pride, the
native modesty, the active and shrewd
mind Of this interesting man were
revealed as unoonsciously as appeal
The sun., 1909-06-28
A CYNICAL YOUTH.
t'ngallant Observations on tho Younse
Fair Sex.

Fair Sex.
To THE EDITOR OF The sux-,sir: ] noticed
on your editorial page the other day an anus
Ing article from the womaH's Home Companios
evidently contributed by some down and ou, far
dame whose days OF popularity and personal
charm have long since ceased TO be . virtue. |
am at loss 10 account for "thc long. stupid calls
which she describes. However. II I really fen
the need OF some nutritious proyendcr- /
wouldn't 20 froickinE about q channg dish sad
subjecting my digestive apparatus Va the exper
mental work Of some would-be boarding school
graduate.
II seems that all some of the younssr fair SET
think Of In these days Of financial strain on younr
mems assets Is 70 md some easy mark and parade
her opera cloak down the middle aisle and be
some ono else rather than herself. actually hiding
her own personality (f she ever had any and In.
deed making the easy mark believe that he Is
the milk and honey. while In reality he Is only the
curd and the sting. which he will nnd out In many
Instances. do not talk from my own expert.
ence, but after careful observation. and should
rue The Idea Of compiling statistics, as the time Is
TOO precious TO permit
should like to have this fair writer tell wha, She
would think Of her brother az she had broiheh
n she knew that he was being used on every ocr,.
sion possible, and that whenever his "lieht Of Me
started on her summer vacation she prepared I,
nirt copousiy. never considering the many hard
earned dollars the boy at home spen, on her and
his efforts 10 please, not mentioning his sleeplcss
nights thinking Of "the only girl"
I might sugrcst that any girl whdhas had her
run on all the home talent tho community can
furnish might Try run IN" outslde her usual
circuit. Sometimes ignorance ID bliss. and un.
Familiarity scorns 70 breed contempt. and she may
be able TO lead some young man twhom she thinks
she could learn TO love)as lamb 10 the slaughter.
and thereby make the home boys think OF the val
uabie opportunity they had lost.
The world win not hesitate TO 60 on, however,
without this fair danes comment on the concclt
Of man. r. Ep0AR DR WITT.
WILxKsBARRR, Pa. June -.
The sun., 1909-06-28
Futile Talk In the Senate.

A man OF ordinary intellectuals could
understand nothing Of the discussion in
the Senate on the duty on pineapples
except that Mr.. TALIAFERRo OF Florida
desired an increase of 1873 per cent over
the Dingley rates (which he goD, not
to protect the Florida growers 10 much
as to obtain needed revenue to reduce
the Government deficit, and that Mr..
RAYNER of Maryland was enamored
Of the present Dingley) duty in the
interests Of the Baltimore Gamers, who
put up the Cuban pineapple and would
( have to pay more for it If the Taliaferro
duty were to be imposed. So much is
clear, and after that the labyrinth OF
talk, much of it misinformation and
beside the mark, and more Of it mon
strously fiippant and futile. As. for in
Btapce, this from DR.. CHALLENGER Of New
Hampshire. which has no pineapple belt
and is therefore Indifferent to the in
dustry that seemed to be 80 prolific of
revenue to Mr.. TALIAFERRo:
II recall what young lady Is said 10 have
observed In California when asked what they did
with all their fruit. She said. We eat what we
can and can what we cannot"
The offence of DR.. GALIINGER was
rank beyond the power of words to tell
it, and might be palliated only on the
score Of the heat that flares upward
from the Washington asphalt and makes
men delirious who plume themselves
upon their wit; but it is mournful thing
that the Congressional Record is now
leadened and deadened with such abom-
Unable faceti@ until 1t is too heavy for
any man to read or for the postman to
carry. Against such appallingly vener-
able and irrelevant nonsense we put by
way OF contrast the following sober
apology of the Hon. JOHN W. SMITH Of
Maryland for taking up any OF the Sem
ate's time in discussing pineapples:
Il propose, Mr.. President, TO speak for no
special interest. Ipropose to speak for the people
Of the United States generally. am reluctant
to proloug the discussion of the pending tarin
bill, for I realize the impatience Of the country
and the anxiety Of Congress 10 see tho close OF
this debate.
$50 long as the bill is pending business men win
be at loss and a spirit Of Injurious unrest will
exist. Therefore Is Is only sense OF duty which
could drive me 10 retard the progress Of this
don OF Congress By much as the few minutes
rshaii use In addressing the Senate"
IfSenators spoke only from sense of
duty on the tariff BILL and not to tell
trite anecdotes or repeat Joe Mllerisms
If there were more Smiths and fewer
Galhngers engaged in the business Of
revision Congress might have ad-
journed by this time with tolerably
good law on the statute book.