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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-05
MUCH DAMAGE FROM
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL
TRAIN AND WIRE SERVICE
THROUGH THE SOUTH DELAY
ED By THE HEAVY RAINS.

Louisville, KY, April 5.-Record
rainfall and high winds completely
upset train and wire service through
the south yesterday and last night
and left trail of damage to growing
crops.
Mobile is flooded and hundreds are
marooned by high water. Shipping
at Gulfport and Dunbar has suffered
much damage.
Crops are destroyed throughout
central and southern Alabama.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-05

Memphis, Tenn, April 4.-Portions
of Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas
were swept by the wind this after
noon and drenched by the heaviest
rains of the year. Trees were up
roted, roofs lifted from dwellings, rail-
road traffic hindered and in some IN
stances buildings were razed.
In Alabama, Birmingham, Montgom-
cry. Admission and other towns suffer
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
A Great Newspaper And Pedigreed
Seed Corn Proposition.

The Kansas City Weekly Journal is
making a great offer to farmers in the
way of two splendid publications and
a pound of pedigreed white seed corn.
Any farmer sending fifty cents will re-
ceiye The Kansas City Weekly Jour
nal one full year and will also receive
The Missouri and Kansas Farmer a
full year. The Kansas City Weekly
Journal is splendid newspaper that
furnishes full and complete tele-
graphic report in condensed form,
large volumne of miscellaneous news
and a splendid market report. 1t keeps
the farmers thoroughly posted on all
the worlds doings. The Missouri and
Kansas Farmer is an old established
Isemi-monthly farm paper that runs
about 20 to 32 pages each issue. 1t is
filled with first-class matter of inter-
est to the farm. In addition to these
sp endid papers for one year, the sub
scriber will receive one pound of pure
pedigreed white seed corn. This corn
was raised in Clay county, Mo-, and
is known as the Clay County White;
it is 95-day corn and is wonderful
producer, last year having produced
80 bushels per acre. 1t has taken sew
eral years to bring it to its present
high standard. It now stands at the
head of the list for quality and pro-
ductiveness. Pure white ears, large
weighing over one pound each, cob
small and grain very deep and COM
pact, filling cob completely over tip;
many ears contain over 1,400 grains
each. Farmers will find it to their in
terest to secure this seed corn, as it is
furnished to them absolutely free with
these two complete papers one year at
so cents.
All that is necessary is to send so
cents and you will receive The Kansas
City Weekly Journal one full year and
also The Missouri and Kansas Farm
er one full year and a pound of this
splendid pedigreed white seed corn
free. postage prepaid. Address
THE KANSAS CITY WEEKLY JOUR-
NAL, KANSAS CITY, MO.
Seed Corn Dept.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
ooooooooooooooo 900 o
o OKLAHOMA CITY STOCK o
Q MARKET. o
90 ooooooooooooooo 5000
FURNISHED by the Frank Witherspoon
Live Stock Commission Company,
Oklahoma City)

Oklahoma City, Mar 14.-Week
opened in the cattle trade on a dime
lower basis than last weeks average.
Tone is weak, and packers declare
there is little demand for beef, es-
pecially the better kinds. This is the
wake of light receipts apparently is
true. and sellers generally accept the
decline without opposition. Medium
and heavyweight steers are selling
mostly at the decline. Finished kinds
from 900 to / $50 sell from $510G5.45,
and heavier and better finished at
$6i5. It takes rather choice steers,
however, to get over $500, Light
weights are selling rather good Cows
and heifers are scarce, and what has
sold here brought easy prices. Fat
cows of fair quality bring from $4,000
AIS, and heifers from $425@4S5.
Bulls are selling on steady basis.
Calves have been scarce, and bring
better than steady figures, with choice
veals selling up 20 SITS. Roughs go
from $3.50 to $500. Good demand
here for all kinds of butcher and kill
ing supplies.
Closing Quotations.
Prime corn-fed steers. -. .$600Q6.30
Extra good corn-fed steers
weighing 1850 to 1850 lbs. 575@6.1O
Fair to good corn-fed steers
weighing 1850 to 1850 lbs. 565@6.00
Good to choice meal-fed
steers ............. 5.25@5.75
Medium to good cake steers 4.7565.00
Cows
Prime heavy caws. ....... 4.5O@5.OO
Good to choice fat cows. ). 4OO@45O
Fair grass cows. ....... 3.5O@4OO
Gamers and cutters. ...... 2.50@S.50
Heifers-
Good to prime. ......... 4.75@525
Fair to good. ............. 40O@45O
Medium to fair. 3.25@4OO
Stockers and Feeders
Good to choice 800 10 1850
pounds .....~....... 4S5@5.25l
Fair to good, 700 to 500 lbs 4.75@5,OO
Medium to good steer year
lings ............>.. 4OO@450
Light to stock heifers. -, S.5O@4OO
Bulls
Good to choice fed bulls 4.5O@5.OO |
Medium bulls ........ 4OO@45O
Common and feeding bulls 9.500400
Stock bulls ........... S.O0@4.0O /
Fresh Cows and
Springers-
Fresh cows and springers $25OO05O.OO I
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
The Reach 1911 Guide.

That one more ball season is upon
US is conyincingly demonstrated
through the welcome appearance Of
Reachs Official American League
Guide for 1911; being. as usual, first
in the field and this spring earlier than
ever. The 1911 Reach Guide, which
has been edited for many years by
Editor Richter. of Sporting Life" is
always up to the high standard set by
the Reach Guide ever since the incum-
bency of the present editor, but it can
be justly stated that the 1911 Reach
American League Guide is the best of
the long Reach series and superior 20
any similar publication in the world,
alike in the matter OF text, illustra-
tons quality of paper, binding and all
details that go to make up a hand
some as we'll as readable book-in
short the American League Official
Guide for 1911 is in all respects first
class hand book for the National
game and a decided credit to the
American League and to the publish
ers, the Reach company, of Philadel
phia This is the tenth annual hand
book of the American League and the
twenty-ninth consecutive year of its
publication as a book of record and
reference for the entire base ball
world.
The book gives complete review of
the American Leagues tenth eyentfui
as major league; complete
records and averages of the Ameri-
can League 1910 race and players; q
graphic story of the American
Leagues successful and victorious
part in the memorable post-season !
worlds championship series of 1910;
q synopsis of all remarkable Amer |
can League pitching feats and also of
all the noteworthy games of the 1910
season; and a general review OF all |
matters affecting the American League |
during the whole of 1910 and 1911 up
to date of publication. In this section
also is given review of the remark
able happenings during the 1910 sea-
son, including the dedication of the
new White Sox park in Chicago and
he new Cleveland park in Cleveland.
rhe illustrations comprise portraits of
President Johnson, Publisher Reach,
Editor F. c. Richter; group picture
If the American League umpires; pic
.ures of the champion batsman, Tyrus
Cobb; of the leading base-runners, Col
ines and Brush, and of the leading
pitcher Albert Bender; specially de-
signed action pictures of all the Amer
can League teams of 1910 and
sketches with individual portraits of
he Worlds Champion Athletic team.
It may be justly said that these illus
.rations alone are worth more than
he modest price of the volumne.
The 1911 Reach Official American
league Guide also contains that most
requisite to give its official
stamp and public value, namely, the
evised and correct new uniform Play
ng Rules Code for 1911, together with
he 1911 championship schedules IF
he American League, National League
md various important minor leagues, L
The legislation and results of the an
lual meetings of the American League
md National League are also set forth.
n short, everything of interest or /
'alue either for record of reference
will be found within the covers of this Il
great book. The Reach American
league Guide for 1911 is for sale by
Ill newsdealers at 10 cents the copy
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15

Two days trading this week has de-
veloped thirty to thirty-five cent
lower market than the close last week.
Over supplies at all western markets
caused the decided reaction. Prices
are lower than at any time in the past
two years. Today( with 1000 head
here, top price was $500, and bulk &c.
6OQ6,S0. Prices were called five to
ten cents lower.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
Today's Quotations.

Doc Quigley. the famous minstrel
end.man with the Al. g. Field Greater
Minstrels, besides being the acknowl-
edged best buck and wing clog dancer
on the American stage, is one of the
most expert trombone soloists in the
country.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
PLUMBING WORK

All complaints o: delivery should
be reported to the Circulation Depart.
ment. Phone a.,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-15
HOGS.

Fresh cows and springers $25OO@5O.0O
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
SEWER FIGHT NEAR AN END
Bronx Improvement Now Awaits Ap'
proyaI of U. S. Army Officer.

If Colonel w. NJ. Black. chief engineer
officer OF the Division of the East, United
States Army, approves the plans for .
disposal plant in the Bronx Valley sewer
age system, which will be submitted TO him
within the next few days, the long fight
waged by the Merchants Association, the
Chamber of Commerce and other civic bod
les in this city against the building of the
sewer. will come to an END. The plans,
drawn up 10y A p. Hartman. the sewage
commissions engineer, are now in the
hands Of ]. c. McReynolds. Assistant At
torney General Of the United States, who
represents the government In it's suit
brought 10 prevent the Sewer commission
from establishing danger to navigation.
The fight against the original sewer plan,
providing for the discharge of raw sewage
into the Hudson River, has been waged for
six years In the Legislature. the local
courts, the War Department and finally the
United States Supreme Court.
H. c. Merritt. Of Tuckahoe, one of the
commissioners, said the publication plant
would be built in Tibbetts Brook Valley.
II will consist of four screening tanks.
The first two will remove the solids. and
the others will screen he remaining iauihs.
II will cost $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
SOON TIRED OF HOSPITAL
Crippled Man Jumps Through
Window and Disappears.

William Boweski. a retired farmer OF
New Hyde Park, was kicked by one of his
horses ten days ago. One of his legs was
so badly injured that he was taken to the
Nassau Hospital. where his leg was put
in a plaster cast
Boweski is a home loving man, and he
began to pine, for his wife after he had
been a patient at the hospital for only
two days Every morning he would ask
the attending surgeon how soon ii would
be before he could return to his home. He
was told that if he kept still for four or
five days and gave his knee a chance to
mend he might TO able to leave the insti-
tuition. But Boweski continued to fret
and fume, and last night he saw his OPP
portunity for escape.
The nurse Of the ward where the farmer
was confined left the room for a few
minutes shortly before midnight, and while
she was absent Boweski got out of bed.
wrapped blanket about himself and
leaped through a window, taking sash and
slass with him. He landed on his good
leg and then made tracks for somewhere.
The alarm was soon given and hunt
for Boweski began. The Sheriff of Nassau
County and his men were asked to assist
In the search. but at an early hour this
morning no trace Of the crippled farmer
could be found It is six miles from
Boweskfs home, and It Is not believed
possible that he could have made his way
there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
CAR HITS AUTO; TWO HURT
Fifth Avenue Tailor and Son Victims of
Crash on Monorail Track in Fog.

Andrew J. Connick, Fifth avenue tailor.
was painfully injured yesterday, and his
son. Andrew J. Connick, jr., was severely
bruised, when a monorail car OF the City
Island Line, near the Shore Road. crashed
into his automobile. The dense fog was re-
sponsible for the accident. Mr.. Connick
was taken TO Fordham Hospital, where his
wounds were treated. and he was after
ward removed 10 his home.
Mr.. Connick and his son were on their way
10 this city from their home, In Mamaro-
neck, at the time of the accident. Fred
erick Brooks. the chauffeur. was at the
wheel and the Connicks sat on the rear
seat.
AS the automobile approached the mono
rail track the chauffeur slowed down BIT.
When the machine was within fifteen feet
Of the track the chauffeur saw the mono
rail car coming dashing around a curve.
He tried 10 swerve his machine sidewise
along the track, but II was struck by the
car and the elder Connick and his son were
thrown from their seats. Mr.. Connick was
unconscious when picked up by Brooks
and young Connick. Passengers IN the
monorail car were not injured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
AUTO HITS POLE: ONE KILLED
Two Young Women in Car Flee
After Accident.

Rudolph Effert was killed and Edwin
Jones had both legs broken when an auto
mobile in which they were riding struck a
telegraph pole in tho New York Post Road,
White Plains, last night Effert was rid
ing on the engine hood when the car
struck. He was shot across the top OF a
fence twenty feet from the road. while the
car turned completely around.
The chauffeur. John Stills, and three
others In the car, James Blair and two
young women. were unhurt. Blair and the
two girls disappeared. The names OF the
latter could not be learned.
Stills is employed by Robert rockingham
a New York magazine publisher He passed
a group of young people on the street, and
they asked him to take them to the home
of Edwin 6. Bethlehem. in Scarsdale, where
a birthday party for Miss Gladys BEETLE
helm mad been planned. Stills says he does
not know how the accident happened. The
crash drew many people from the nearby
houses. DR.. Ralph F. Ryan, DR.. Jason s.
Parker and DR.. A. ". Page were among
these.
Effert was twenty-one years old and lived
with his mother in East View avenue
White Plains Jones was about the same
age and lives at No. East View avenue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
ST0TESBURY RAPS AT EARLE
Morgan's Partner Pleased by
Philadelphia Election.
BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune


Philadelphia, Nov lie. T. Stotesbury,
multi millionaire AMI financial representa-
tive of J. p. Morgan & Co. in Philadelphia,
al the Five O'Clock Club tonight expressed
qualification at the result Of the city cleo
ton and criticised the defeated candidate,
George II. Earle, jr. He said:
II said at the time that Mr.. Earle was
nominated that 1 would not vote for the
nominee of the Republican party I said
that didn't propose to sit with him on any
board of directors Of which he might be-
come member. and by reason of his cleo
ton to the mayoralty. If that had taken
place. he would have become member Of
the Rapid Transit Board.
1T was great pleasure to see Mr..
Blankenburg elected Mayor Of this city.
We nave chance now. we have an OPP
portunity. TO make this a successful adj
ministration if we go about 1t in the right
way.
Il predicted his election, and il ] have
had any share in it I am glad to receive
the little credit that is due me. My re-
marks before the election were personal
but If any one chose to follow the ex-
ample that set am glad he did So
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
TO ENLARGE TWIN BUILDINGS
Renort That Hudson Tunnel Structures
Are to Occupy Two Blocks

II was reported In real estate ci'''es YES
terday that the twin twenty story ouiid-
,ngs OF the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
company. occupying the entire TWO block
fronts in Church street. between Fulton
.nd cor,,andt streets ard extending half
: h,ocL 70 the west. are TO be made twice
as large II is said that the Hudson Com
many. owner Of the property, Is to buy
pronsrtv i'm the rear Of the buildings not
already owned by the company. ana eN-
tend the buildings to Greenwich street thus
occupying two entire blocks; 49,, ,a.
These buildings are 10 oe tue ia' ses'
tnin structures In the worid
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
THE REV. DIR. PENTEoosT SUED
Wife and Daughter Also Defendants
Mechanics Liens Aggregating $4,000.

Darien. Conn. Nov. 11.-Town Constable
Bates placed on file to-day papers signi-
flying that foreclosure proceedings had
been started on the house OF the Rev. DR..
George f. Pentecost. In the literary colony
of Tokeneke Park.
DR.. Pentecost left the ministry some
years ago TO take up evangelistic work and
is now abroad. it is understood. Dr. PEN
tecost completed this costly place in 1909.
and several ub-contractors filed me-
chanics' liens.
The liens were filed before the deed to
the property was recorded. in the belief
that he was the owner. He has conveyed
the property TO his wife and daughter, so
they were named as defendants In the
suits 10 enforce claims amounting TO about
$4,000 The Pentecost house is within a
stones throw OF the magnificent estate Of
John D. Crimmins, Of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
MRS. PLATT NOT MARRIED
SENATOR Widow Denies Reported Ali
ance with Student of Aviation.
fBv Telegraph to The Tribune.


Newburg. n. Y, Nov. n.-Mrs. Thomas
e Platt widow Of the late Senator from
New York, al her home In Highland Mills
this evening denied that she had been mar
,ied recently to any person, or that she
had ,n contemplation a matrimonial ALI
spce A report had gained circulation that
Mrs Plat had secretly married w. s. At
water and was planning Southern we'd
ding trip. This was given color. doubtless.
from the fact that Atwater, who has a
livery stable in Central Valley has fire.
,,,.n,lv driven Mrs Plat to and from
,rains and on trips about the country.
,,vater. who Is about twenty-nine years
IA uent 10 Ohio some time ago TO study
zion nj the Wright school Since his
-, he has been AT Mineola several
times with the aviators' and Mrs. Plat
a'so has taken deep interest in tho sport
,,u.a,er has had his livery stable for sale
o., come time. a circumstance which prob
ah,y lent credence to the reported marriage
with Mrs. Pla''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

The officers In command said another
trial In the near future would not be a
waste OF time. Several points were openly
criticised by officers and II is believed that
the conduct OF the marksmen and their COM
manding officers, from the experts stand
point, was by no means perfect
Two engagements instead Of one was the
programme yesterday The New York Cen
trail. however. committed the serious mill
tary blunder of landing the forces at
Peekskill an hour and twenty minutes late
and the plan had u be abandoned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
TYPHOID FEVER DECREASES
The Bronx Alone Shows an Increase
Over Last Year.

There were 459 cases OF typhoid fever in
this city in October. as compared with Sl5
I'm 1910. according to statistics Of the Health
Department, Issued yesterday From jan
usry to October 81 there were 2.725 cases,
as against 9e3i for the same period year
ago All parts OF the city except The Bronx
showed decrease for that period of time.
There have been 335 cases there since
January /, as compared with 2S6 in 1910.
The Bronx likewise has been the only dis
trict IN many weeks past to still show a
larger number Of typhoid cases than last
year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
CHURCH ORGANISE AT TEN.

New Haven. Nov. 11.-With the formal
appointment of ten-yesr-old Angelina Spi-
nelIo as organist of st. Michaers Roman
Catholic Church in this city to-day that
church has now the youngest organist In
the state. IL not in the country. The ap-
nointment is effective tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
The Men Ere
of Musical
Enjoyment

Favored indeed was the 18th Century
home, that possessed Clavchord Of the
period - absurdly limited as these instru-
ments seem to our modern view.
Utterly inadequate likewise was the prim-
tive piano upon which Beethoven composed
his early masterworks.
Notwithstanding their imperfections, how
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
following TUNES and Rob,
lie Following TUNES and Rob-

Beaded TUNES with handsome
beaded fringe. ........
A new French idea in Chiffon
: Robes, with Grecian border,
outlined in chiffon of con
trasting shade, covered with
bugle beads ..............
Robes of double warp silk net,
in black and colors, embroid-
cred with lustrous silk and
ribbonzene and studded with
beads Observation-Disclosures.
French Spangled Robes, with
cut jet beads. .............
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-14
Wonders Of the Sulphur Springs
Valley, Noted For Its Fertility
Produces Wonderful Crops Merel.
Without northumberland Fig
tiers Who Have Made Good On
ment Homesteads Offered

cattle ranges that have given Arizona
the romance Of the cowpuncher and
cattle rustIer has steadily and rapidly
advanced to values as high as $s75 an
acre The secret Of this unprecedented
rise in the value Of desert land IS
water. the reclamation Of a land as
fertile as the valley Of the Nile by the
construction Of government dams. the
sinking Of wells and the use Of the
windmill. the gasoline engine and the
centrifugal pump.
Good Harvest; Little Rain.
But nature herself has given birth
TO seeds that make their best har-
vests in a land Of little rain. Science
has supplemented this gift with the
discovery Of farming methods. which,
with a limited rainfall. give results in
crops that put to shame the yield Of
many areas blessed with abundant
downpour from the clouds, What the
grassy and mesQuite-carpeted val
Ieys Of the socaIIed semi arid" belt
will produce with irrigation and what
man can coax It to produce by i'm
proved methods Of farming, and even
without the one or the other OF these,
has been demonstrated in the sulphur
Springs valley as 1t has In no other
section OF the Southwest.
Douglas Is METROPOLIS
The Sulphur Springs valley is a
great valley gateway leading from
Arizona into Mexico. 1t is located in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-14

~ OUGLAs. Arizona, October A.
The sulphur Springs valley trib-
utary TO Douglas and Bisbee,
Arizona. particularly to Douglas. Of
fers homes for thousands Of families
and many are settling every day up
on this arizona garden spot
For a quarter Of a century the eyes
OF the world have been so drawn to
the mineral wealth Of Arizona, which
leads all the states Of the union. that
the fertility Of the soil and the Oppor-
tunities fof farming, poultry raising
and horticulture have been to sur
prising extent overlooked
But the markets afforded by the
growth Of cities. towns and camps
which sprang up in Arizona at the
mouths Of world famous tunnels and
shafts were bound to appeal to the
man who looks to the seeding Of the
soil as the surest means Of playing
safe the game OF life; this movement
has already resulted IN an agricultural
population in the state which today
is breaking all records for price and
merit in the growing Of oranges, dates.
olives cantaIoupes. alfalfa and early
shipments Of berries and vegetables.
As if by magic land In some sections
Of the state which few years ago
was only considered a part OF the