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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
INDIANS TURNED
DOWN Big SUMS
Chief McCurtain offered One.
fourth of ''PrOiits."
HIS SON WAS ALSO APPROACHED
d. c. McCurtain, Son of Chief and a
Delegate to Washington for His
Tribe, Testifes that McMurray Of
fered Him S25,00o in 1906 to With
draw His Opposition to the Old
Tribal Contracts

Muskogee, Okla, August 6.--Not only
Jake L. Hamon, but J. +. McMurray was
named as wouldbe briber in the inves
tigation of the $50 100000 Oklahoma In.
dian land deal, before the special congress
sional committee here. McMurray is the
holder of the contracts with the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians, to promote which
in Congress Senator Thomas p. Gore
charged he was offered bribe.
ID. c. McCurtain. a Choctaw Indian
and delegate to Washington for his
tribe, charged that McMurray. in 1906
offered him bribe of $25,000 to with.
draw opposition to the old tribal Nc.
Murray contracts, which subsequently
were disapproved by President Roosevelt
Green McCurtain, chief of the $4,000
Choctaws and venerable Indian of 62
years with gray hair and brown plump
cheeks, then took the stand and told the
committee that one George w. Scott
whom he believed acted in the interest
of McMurray, had offered him one fourth
of the profits" to be realized from the
land deal, provided he induced the tribe
to withdraw all opposition to the deal.
This offer referred to new contracts held
by McMurray, which are the cause of the
present investigation.
The amount of the bribe mentioned by
ID. c. McCurtain, who is a son of the
chief, is the same as that which Senator
Gore alleges was offered him on May 9
last by Jake Hamon to put through the
pending contracts which, according to
Senator Gore, would result in the selling
of 100000 acres of coal, asphalt and
nHe hxyt hn InI q, =,
New York syndicate on basis that
would give McMurray and his associates
an attorneys fee of 10 per cent. or
S3,000,000.
The presentation of the charges
against McMurray followed another day
of sensational testimony, during which
Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, and
Congressman b. S. Mcclure. of Okla
homa, appeared on the stand to refute
statements they were interested in the
deal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
THE FIRST WOMAN POLICE
Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells Will Patrol
Los Angeles.

Los Angels, Cal. Especially The office
of "policewoman," which was created by
a recent ordinance, will be filled at once
bv the police commission. Mrs. Alice
Stebbins Wells, formerly of Chicago,
whose earnest anad persistent work,
backed by ministers and clubwomen of
Los Angeles, caused the creation of the
office, will receive the appointment. She
will be the first woman to hold a posi-
tion of this kind in Southern California.
Mrs. Wells discussed her plans for fill
ing the position. 'My field of work will
be chiefly wherever young people gather
for entertainment in parks, penny
arcades, moving picture shows and dance
halls" she said. 81 will deal chiefly with
the proprietors OF such places, seeing that
all laws are obeyed and that the places
are kept clean and moral. In the dance
halls ! may find it necessary to talk TO
some Of the young people personally"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Foreign

The cholera epidemic is increasing in
Russia, particularly in st. Petersburg,
where the daily average Of new cases ia
about 30. From July "a TO July 30
there were 1924 cases and G,944 deaths
Of cholera in ST. Petersburg and tho
Southern mining districts
The anti-gOyernment demonstration
which was TO have taken place today at
San Sebastian, Spain, has been called of
by the Catholic committee.
Sir Wilfred Laurier's special train wa
in a collision with freight near Regina
Sask. Sir Wilfred was shaken up, but
not injured.
King Alfonso had a narrow escape when
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock. on
which the King was sailing was dis
masted.
Hubert Latham flew in his monoplane
from Chalon-sur. Marne to Paris, a dis
tance Of 81 miles, making two stops.
The Cunard Line has decided TO revert
10 Queenstown as port of call, while
continuing to call at fishguard.
Portugal has been added TO the list oi
"most favored nations" by tariff agree
ment which has just been concluded.
Crown Prince Frederick William u
Germany will make tour Of the PaI
East, including India, in November.
The international road conference
which has been In session a week in
Brussels, has adjourned.
ID Is reported that great upheaval is
impending In Southwestern China
similar TO the Boxer uprising.
Tho Spanish government Is rushing
troops TO San Sebastian. where the
ekrieals are determined. contrary 10 the
governments orders, 10 have q demon.
stration on Sunday.
Secretary Root continued his argument
before The Hague tribunal la the New
foundland fisheries case.
The japanese government has arranged
20 buy a number Of Wright aeroplanes
for the army.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
FLAMES CUT OFF EXIT
SEVEN PEOPLE ROASTED
SuffOcated By Smoke in Their
Beds.
TWO WERE INJURED IN ESCAPING.
The Owner and His Family, Who Oc-
cupied Rooms on the Ground Floor,
Escaped BY Climbing Through the
Windows to the Street-Two Vic
Tins Women.

New York Especially Seven lives were
lost in fire which destroyed three
story lodging house in the foreign sec
tion of Jamaica, L. |. The blaze started
in hallway, the only exit, and spread
so rapidly that few of the inmates had
any opportunity to escape.
The lodging house was occupied for
the most part by poor workmen employed
in the neighborhood. The owner, George
Dunbek, and his family, who occupied
rooms on the ground floor, escaped by
climbing through the windows to the
street.
The dead-five men and two women
were all foreigners. They were asleep at
the time and were all suffocated by
smoke as they lay in their beds. The
property loss will not exceed 81 800.
Two persons were injured in escaping.
Stephen Marcus, a farmer, 80 years old,
jumped from the window of his room on
the third floor and was taken to hos.
pital suffering from conclusion of the
brain and internal injuries. b. ID.
Tague, laborer, was badly burned and
partially suifocated by smoke.
A passerby who discovered the fire
turned in the alarm ana called a police.
man, who found the hallway closed by a
wall of flame. In the backyard he came
upon Dunbek, dazed and panicky, wiring
ing his hands in the midst of his family
of six or seven. Apparently they had not
yet given a thought to the dodgers who
had been trapped on the upper floors.
SIS everybody out?" asked the police
man.
Dunbek shook his head. He did not
know. He had seen two or three of his
lodgers drop to the street from second
floor windows-whether all were safe or
not he did not know There had been
about Is dodgers in the house that night,
he thought.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
A LASTING PEACE
BETWEEN THE NATIONS
Resolutions Drafted To Be Used
at Brussels.
OPPOSED TOFORTIFYING PANAMA CANAL
They Were Preferred BY Represen-
tative Bartholdt and Have Been
Submitted for Approval to State De-
partment-The Subjects to Be Dis.
cussed

Washington, ID. c. Especially The
American group of delegates to the con
ference of the lnterparliamentary Union
at Brussels, August 30 to September 2
sailed from New York Tuesday. They
will present several resolutions looking
toyard the establishment of permanent
peace between the nations of the world
These were submitted to the State De.
partment by Representative Richard
BarthOldt, ow Missouri chairman of the
American group.
One of the resolutions will ask the
conference TO request governments which
are signstory to The Hague Peace Con.
ference and the London Naval Confer
ence to sapcton the American PROPOSE.
tion that the international prize court
be invested with the jurisdiction of an
international court of arbitral justice.
Another resolution will ask the con-
ference to request each of the govern
ments represented to appoint commits
sion, analogous to that recently appoint.
ed by the United States. These commits.
sions would report to their respective
parliaments, prior TO the third Hague
Peace Conference in 1915, a well.defined
scheme looking to the perfection of a
system of world federation, in addition
to an international judiciary.
The object of submitting the resolu.
tions to the State Department was to pre-.
vent any possible conflict of opinion with
the department on questions of interna-
tional peace.
The American delegation consists of
Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri,
chairman; Senator Burton. of Ohio
Flint, of California, and Smith, of Michi-
gan; Representatives Keifer, of Ohio
Moon, Barchfeld, Burke and Wheeler, of
Pennsylvania; Richardson, of Alabama
Hanna, of North Dakota; Fairchild, Cox
and Goldfogle, of New York; Parker and
kinkaid, of New Jersey, and Delegate
Larrinaga, of Porto Rico.
Chirman Bartholdt will make the prin.
cipal address in support of the Ameri-
can propositions. Representative Keifer
will speak on the subject of fortifca-
tiOn of the Panama Canal, to which work
he is opposed.
All of the American delegates. Chair
man Bartholdt said, were opposed to the
spending of millions of dollars in fortify-
ing the canal.
The canal can be made perfectly safe
for hundreds of years to come" said Mr..
Bartholdt, "by few hours work in the
shape of an agreement between the
United States and other countries"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11

Quebec Especially DR.. Hawley II.
Crippen cabled to Arthur Newton, of
London, accepting the solicitors offer to
defend him on the charge of murder.
The message ran:
Accept your offer. Secrecy will be
observed"
second Quebec attorney sent word
to the prisoner that he was ready to
help him resist extradition. To the
iailer who bore the communication Grip.
pen said: MY fight will not be made
here. 1t will be made on the other side" !"
Crippen made it clear that he would not
accept legal assistance from anyone here.
Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, said
that the prisoner had not confessed to
the murder of Belle Elmore, his wife.
Joseph MORN, Crippen's jaier, was
equally positive that no word of con-
fession had come from the dentists lips.
Crippen's acceptance of the offer of
counsel would seem further to indicate
that he intends to maintain his attitude
OF silence. And the few words that came
directly from the prisoner himself indi
Gated anything but the mood of a self
confessed murderer. He told one of his
keepers that he would make no fight
here, but was prepared to fight when he
came to trial in London. An effort to
learn anything about the friends that the
London solicitor says are willing to pay
the expenses of his defense was as fruit.
less here as it is said to have been in
London.
The big gray stone Jail on the Heights
OF Abraham, where Crippen is confined
has become the foremost of Quebec's
many points of interest. The Seeing
Quebec" trolley cars stop nearby so that
the tourists who throng the city in sum.
mer may have chance to gaze into the,
window of the corridor where the alleged
wfe-slayer takes his exercise.
Miss Lcneve did not figure in the days
crop of rumors. She continues to spend
her time quietly in the prison infirmary
and is said to be improving in health.
She is being kept there not because
her condition any longer demands it, but
that she may not come in contact with
other women prisoners who might, the
police fear, annoy her and so aggrevate
her extreme nervousness.
The pretty typist is better supplied
with funds than is her male companion.
While but SIS was found on Crippen, the
girl carried $50 in currency. A large
art of this sum was used by the prison
matron to purchase clothing suitable for
her charge. The authorities continue
their extremely considerate treatment of
the girl, but continued reports that she
has made admissions damaging to Grip,
pen or in the way of establishing her own
innocence are denied
Crippen's comparative calm gives. ac-
cording to his keepers, a positive refuta.
tion of the allegation made in London
that he had been addicted to the use oil
drugs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Clerk of Church Killed.

Lexington, Ky. (SpeciaD. - Henry
Martin, clerk of the Rock Creek Baptist
Church, in Whitley county, was killed
in the structure, according to dispatches
received here. Martin was shot in the
back as the result Of business dispute,
it is said The church is one in which
Rev. Isaac Vanover and Rev. Isaac
Perry recently fought during an ecclesi.
astical trial, Vanover being killed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Admiral schofeld Dead.

Stamford, Conn, Especially Rear Ad-
miral Walter Keeler Scofeld, United
States Navy, retired, died at his home in
this city of infirmities due TO old age.
He was born in Stamford, April es, 1889,
and was educated at Columbia. He EN-.
tered the naval service in July, 1861, as
u surgeon and was advanced through the
various grades up 10 that Of director in
1890 He was retired in 1901 with the
rank of rear admiral He saw serv.
ice with Farragut's fleet of Charleston
and off the coast Of Florida.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
SHAFT TO PILGRIMS.
Thousands Throng the Old Bay State
Town to Attend the Ceremonies.

Provincetown, Mass. Especially The
granite shaft on Town Hill, erected to
memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, was dedi.
Gated at noon by President Taft. The cor.
nerstone of the monument was laid Aug.
ust 7, 1907, by President Roosevelt, its
dedication attracting crowd that taxed
to their limits the narrow streets of this
old fishing own.
The principal act of the dedication of
the monument was the unveiling of a
bronze tablet over the door facing the
harbor, which was given by President
Emeritus Charles w. Eliot, of Harvard.
The town clock was striking nine when
the Mayhower, bearing President Taft,
came around the little white beacon at
the end of Long Point and passed in be.
tween the lines of battleships. As the
Mayfower headed in the first gun boom.
ed from the flagship Connecticut, fol-
lowed by 81 guns from all the ships.
President Taft's dedication address
was descriptive of the landing of the
pilgrims at Provincetown and the causes
which drove them from England.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Oil Well in City.

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially .--oil has been
struck in the midst of the busy hum of
the city. Within a few feet Of street
where the trolley clangs by every few
minutes well was brought in on the
north side, and during the day flowed 90
barrels. Nineteen years ago this loca-
tion was known as Jacks Run, and at
that time oil was struck, but so many
wells were driven that the development
was soon exhausted. The strike has
caused furry among the neiRhbors. The
oil is of high grade, and is found in the
hundred.foot sand.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Tied Hubby to Rednnst

Tacoma Especially .-"My wife wouldn't
let me see my own children, she was so
jealous. When my brother came 10 visit
me, she tied me 10 the bedpost so | could
not 20 TO him. To prevent me from
going TO Tacoma, she would hide my ha,
or coat" So declared John w. Glover
Of Fern Hill, on the witness stand In 4
plea for divorce from Frances Il. Glover
"Once got as far as the station TO take
the car for Tacoma, but just before the
ear came she came out and snatched my
hat so ! couldn't CO." He got the di
vorce. Recently the Glovers separated
rnd divided their property.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Nine Burned BY Acid.

Philadelphia (Special) Seven girls,
a boy and man were terribly burned
by the bursting of several carboys con
tanning vitrol for use in chemical fire
engines The accident occurred on Ridge
avenue, when a supply wagon belonging
TO the fire department broke down. The
children were being given a ride by the
driver, Richard Grear, who was serving
the vitrol TO the various frehouses when
the axle OF the wagon broke. The glass
carboys containing the acid were hurled
upon the bodies OF the riders.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Bees Go Through Hat.

Waterbury, N. j. Especially The
vaunted reputation of the rat" as a pro-
lection against injury was destroyed in
the swoop of a band of rampant bees,
when Mrs. Carlton Hendrickson was
frightfully stung. Mrs. Hendrickson had
gone into her lima bean patch, when
John Pinska's bees attacked her, stinging
through her hair, and even through n
large rat" she wore. A daughter has
been busy since then picking "stingers"
from her face and head. Last year about
this time Hendrickson was similarly at.
tackled, as he was about to pick beans,
and this year he decided to turn the
picking over to his wife.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Cotton Cron Rennrt.

Washington, d. C. Especial. THE
Cropreporting Board Of the Bureau of
Statistics Of the Department of Agri.
culture estimates from the reports of its
correspondents and agents that the aver.
age condition of the cotton crop on July
25, 1910, was 75.5 per cent. of the nor.
NAL, as compared with sO.7 on june 25,
l9l0i 7l.9 on July 25, 1909; $40 on
July 25, 1908; 75.0 on July 25, 1907, and
79.4, the average of the last 10 years on
July 25
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Plague in Canton,

Victoria, B. C. Especially THAT the
city of Canton is badly infected with
plague is the news brought by the steamer
Ningchow from the Orient. People are
dying by the hundreds and it has been
difficult to get men to bury the dead.
Efforts were made to burn some of the
affected quarters, but with little effect.
The houses were so crowded and so dry
that it was found difficult TO burn them
without starting serious conhagration.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
500 See Man Kill Himself

st. Louis Especially A man identified
from papers in his pockets as Henry E.
Wasson, formerly travelling auditor of the
Missouri Pacific, who has been missing
from his home in Leavenworth, Kan,
shot and killed himself on the baseball
grounds Of Carondolet Park. Wasson's
brother.in-law had asked the police to
assist him iif searching for Wasson. Five
hundred picknickers saw the man kill
himself
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Killed His Benefactor.

Oakland, Cal. Especially = Despond-
ent because he believed he was about to
be turned out of the house OF friends
with whom he had lived for some time,
William Cooper, formerly OF New York,
shot and killed Mrs. Hurley Buss, dan.
gerously wounded her husband and
fatally wounded himself Cooper slept
on mattress in the kitchen. When Mrs.
Buss came into the room TO prepare
breakfast, Cooper fired two shots into
her head. She fell dead. Buss received
bullet in his neck, and the murderer
fred the last shot in his weapon into his
own head.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Poisoned BY Pencil.

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially A. G.
Young, traffic manager of the American
Tinplate Company, is in serious con.
dition from blood poisoning and ampu.
tation of his right arm may be neces.
sary. While in camp in Canada week
ago, Mr.. Young pierced finger with an
indelible pencil. He treated the wound
with "first aid" remedies, but it did not
heal, and he was forced to return to hi.
home here, where he went to a hospital.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Germ of Leprosy.

Honolulu (Special) - Drs. Brincker'
hoH and Curry and NJ. I. Hallman, OF
Honolulu, have succeeded in isolatine
germs Of leprosy, it was announced here
This means, it is said, the ultimate dis.
covery of a cure for the disease. The doc
tors are attempting to make an anti
toxin from the bacilli. Experiments at
the leper settlement soon will be made.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Pennsylvania

ville--That Charles Morton =,
roller in the l40-inch mill of the Lukor,
Iron and Steel Company, still lives !,
considered a miracle by the physicians AZ
the Coatesville Hospital, and his escaps
from instant death after piece of ,taeI
about an inch square had passed entirely
through his body is one of the mo,t
peculiar ever recorded from the mill
here He was pushing plate thronoh
the rolls, when piece of steel cracked
and Morton was struck. He was taken
to the hospital whore it was found that
the missile had passed through his body
and lodged in the skin in the back. An
operation was performed in which a rb
and the steel were removed. Physician,
say that If blood poison does not dcvelop
he will recover.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11

Neutrality-suspicious. reports from all
over the State show that there will ho
only about half crop of apples in Penn.
sylvania this year, said State Economic
Zoologist Surface. "Frosts last sprins
injured the trees in the western ana
northwestern counties, but the yield will
be larger in the eastern counties. Drv
weather has done some harm. but wbiia
the quantity is lowered, the quality il
better, and the growers will get higher
prices than last year. Pennsylvania in
fact. is becoming one of the best appe
States in the country, and dealers are
coming here for purchases who never
,ame before"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
A Soft-Hearted Man.

Lebanon, Pa. tSpecial) Rather than
press his fellow-ctizens by process of
law to pay delinquent taxes. Dallas f..
Shrof, of this city, sent load OF rabbits
shot into his body and died instantly I'M
the chicken house in the rear of his
home. The tragedy was planned with
such cool deliberation that the case is
unique in the history OF suicides of
Lebanon county
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Uncle Sam Well Of.

Washington, d. c, Especially "A grand
total of cash in the treasury of 81 1888.
O57 sos. total balance in the general
fund of 92,358,224, a working balance
in the treasury offices of $30,502, ,S24 and
a decrease Of $503,l36 in the public debt
during July is the way the monthly
treasury statements show the situation
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Lightning Kills Three.

Schenectady, N. Y. Especially Spencer
Lockrow, of Grooms, Saratoga county,
farmer, and his two harvest helpers,
Andrew Ecker and Simon Watson, were
killed by lightning The team they we're
driving also were shocked to DEATH
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Challenges Caleb Powers.

Louisville, Ky. Especial Congress.
man Edwards has challenged Caleb Pow
ers to a joint debate throughout the
Eleventh district. The campaign is the
most vituperatiye in the history of the
district.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Madrix MAY Flee.

Bluefelds, Nicaragua Especial "A
dispatch received here says that Es.
ltrada's army Is at the gates Of Managua
and that President Madriz has shin
standing of the coast ready to fee "a
Mexico.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Kills White 0roundhoe.

Brsnchyille. N. J. Especial Howard
Cole killed q white grounding with a
club on John McDonald's farm, near here.
1t IL TIE frst white grounding ever seen
in Sussex county and is TO be mounted
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
Ice Cream From Hailstones.

Derby, Conn. (special) Twelve hours
after one Of the severest hailstorms ever
seen in this section, Representative Hart
S. Culver, Of Seymour, picked up two
large pailsful Of hailstones. Mrs. Culver
used them 10 freeze ice cream for dinner.