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The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
HIS SHINBoNE NOW HIS SPINE
Remarkable Operation on John AL ness, Made a Humpback by
 Spinal Disease.

Spokane, Wash.-Rather than go through life with a humpback, John Alness, twenty-five years old, who has softening of the spine, submitted to one. of the rarest operations known to surgery, and now lies in his cot with five inches of the shinbone grafted in- to his backbone. The operation is be- ieved to be the third or fourth of it's kind
 Alness began to suffer with spinal trouble a year ago. He had the al- formative of going through life as a humpback or taking the fighting chance offered by science
 An incision was made in the back and the bones were exposed. The surgeon then used a chisel and split four of the vertebrae. He then opened the left leg and split a strip from the patients shin. It was covered with muscular tissue. The piece was five inches long, an inch wide, and half an inch thick It was laid into the cavity and bound over with other muscular tissue.
 The operation was successful, and Alness is recovering
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
The MaaIe Word.

Number please? S7OO whatf s7Oo dear?
 Say, who do you think you are ad- dressing? Any more of that and I'll disconnect you. You may be able to talk like that to the other girls, but strictly business" Is my middle name, and the quicker you realize 1t the bet ter.
 Don't you little girl" me. Get on the wire If you can't act like a gentle man. If you fellows think girl can't be lady because she works a switch board, you're mistaken, that's all. That line of talk don't go with me, for one
 I don't care if you are sorry. Get your number out of your system or hang up. I've had about enough of you. What7 don't care who you are. If you don't know enough to act like gentleman, I don't care fl you're John D. Rockefeller.
 What, you got a machine? Oh, have you? What kind? Well. I'll tell you. I'm busy now, and besides. the chief operator is liable to be listening about this time. Call me up in about fifteen minutes.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
NEGRO IS A MARVEL
PORTER DOES SOME
 MATHEMATICAL WONDERS.
Attended School Only Two Weeks and Can Scarcely Write His Name Does Intricate Sums "In
 His Head"

Tulsa, Okla.-In Frank Humphries, twenty-nine years old, an iIliterate col ored man, at the H., K. & T. railway depot, Tulsa possesses perhaps the most phenomenal mathematician in the country. Although he can barely write his name or read the simplest composition, Humphries solves the most perplexfng problems in arithme- tic with lightning rapidity and accu- racy.
 Humphries went to school but two weeks in his life. q found out that I know'd more about fggers than the teacher" says Frank "so I just quit"
 Humphries was put to a test by several business men at the depot while waiting for their train What is the cube of 357,911?" asked J. M. Hall, county school superintendent. "Seventy-nine," answered Humphries instantly. Multiply 1021k by 67%," was the next problem propounded to him, and after scratching his head for a moment, Humphries smiled and an- swered, "6,944A." It took the ques- tioner five minutes to figure with pen cil and paper that the answer was correct.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
$500 TO FIND RALPH JACKSON
Family of Kansas. Teacher, Who Was Soon to Wed, Offers Reward
 for Information.

Wichita, Kan.AAfter two weeks of most diligent searching by scores of men. who have turned over every brush pile and combed every field in this part of the country, no trace of the missing Ralp Jackson has been found.
 When this young man, alumnus of Chicago university and the Friends university of Wichita and teacher of mathematics in the Sterling (Kan.) high school, stepped of a Santa Fe train in this city he apparently stepped out of the world.
 The only thing that might possibly Indicate that he intended to disappear Is that he drew all his money, about S65, from a Sterling bank before he took the train for Wichita. Two per sons, however, refuse positively to give any significance to this They are Miss Mabel Coppick of Enid, Okla. whom he was to marry this fall, and the girls brother, a schoolmate and chum of Jackson.
 This brother has been most indus trious of all the searchers. He an- nounced he will find Jackson's body, If he is dead, and will find the man himself if he is alive
 The last person who remembers seeing him is Calvin Knight, a student friend. with whom he rode to Wichita that night When the train arrived here Jackson told Knight he was go- Ing to walk to a dormitory on the Friends campus to surprise Professor Truesdall, 8 particular friend when he was in college here. Although the campus is two miles from the depot, Jackson picked up his suit case and trudged away towards 1t
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
OLD PURITAN BIBLE BOXES
Keeping of coPles of the Scriptures.

Almost invariably after some grea, wave of religious enthusiasm. we are confronted by strange fragments of salvage relicts of the emotional pas sion and religious ardor of a departed hour, says the Queen. Such were the devotional carvings of the middle ages-the triptyches, the private tab ernacles, the beautiful little ivory madonnas.
 Among such memorials are the vast old Puritan Bible boxes. Cumbrous ancient arks, into which the revised version of James l. was once commit. ted for safe ward and keeping The sound oakboards with which they were made have resisted the tooth of time
 In the long journeys of the men oi the Puritan period, when the scrip lures were part of the daily accom-. paniment of life, the province of these old boxes may readily be seen. With. in the home they were made to con. tain those ponderous family Bibles in which. especially during the common. wealth, the head of the house care fully inscribed the birth, death or mar. riage of his children with other memo rabilia of family life. This circum. stance in the absence of other authen. tic records, and the laxity of parish registers, has sometimes proved an in- valuable aid. How little we could have spared, for instance, that volume in which Milton recorded the very hour and minute of his children's birth.
 Ash wood was sometimes used In the manufacture of Bible boxes. but oak was the most popular from its superior powers of resistance, for we must remember they were at times in the possession of ecclesiastical stal- warts, the vigor of whose preaching was sometimes calculated by the amount of damage done to the pulpit furniture.
 Throughout the commonwealth. and by the general convention of 1856, travelling ministers were gratuitously supplied with Bibles, a very expensive item; and in struggling pastorates the book, with its appropriate cofrer. often formed the sole effects of new con venticle. It is a curious fact that Bibles were sometimes subjected to raf1ing, even in those austere days. In 1875 one Dr. Wilde bequeathed $250 for the purpose of providing Bibles to be rafned among the poorer brethren.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
MURDERER GETS A RETRIEVE
Court Stenegrapher's Wife Burns His Notes of Trial and Delay Is
 the Result.

Denver, Colo.-When a tidy house wife threw into the fire what she thought was bunch of waste paper, she unconsciously prolonged the life a man several weeks if she did not save 1t altogether
 The waste paper" contained the stenographer's record of the testimony in the case of George King, convicted of murder in Ebert county last July. King and John Fields were accused of killing Peter Jackson, ranchman- Both were convicted, Kings sentence being that he die on the gallows while Fields was condemned to prison for life.
 The stenographer had taken his notes home to transcribe them. He had left them on a table when the housewife saw them and burnt them, ignorant of what they were
 Kings attorneys have filed a mo ton for a new trial on the ground that there is no record of testimony sufficient to convict their client, as well as other grounds. The supreme court issued the usual stay of execu- tion until 1t can pass upon the mo- ton.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
APoLoeIzES AFTER 15 YEARS
Wife and Daughter Told HIm to Do Ills Own Mendlng and He
 Quits House.

Kansas City, Mo.-Cornelius Schroe- der tore hole in his trousers fifteen years ago at Inman, Kan. He asked his wife and four daughters to mend them.
 If you want them mended, do 1t yourself" Schroeder says his wife told him.
 q mended them. but I was so mad that left the house and told them that would never return until they apologized"
 Schroeder came to Kansas City and was arrested for fighting. An account of his arrest was read by his daugh- ter, Mrs. Lizzie Austin of Gage, Okla, who wrote, offering to apologize and sending her father a ticket if he would come to her. Schroeder went to police headquarters, read the daughters letter. and decided to gc- back. Schroeder is seventy-three years of age. His wife died several years ago.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
Costly Picture In Lumber Room.

A picture estimated to be worth $35.000. which for so many years was hidden away in a lumber room at St. Mary's hall. Coventry. has just been restored and put in a place of honor In St. Mary's hall
 Owing to damp and an accumulation of dust and dirt, the picture had be- come so defaced that the corporation of Coventry had decided to sell it if they could get $375 for 1t. But Messrs. tzod & Co.. London firm of picture restorers were at work upon the pic lures in St. Mary's hall. and one of their experts recognized it as a mas terpiece.
 It was found to be one of the finest examples extant of the work of Jacob Jordaens. a pupil and fellow-worker of Rubens. Jordaens was born in Ant werp, and the picture was probably painted about 1640 It represents Bac- chus springing from his car upon see- ing Ariadne. The canvas is about thirty feet by ten feet high. Present ed to Coventry by Edward Ellice. M. F., in 1855, little value was attached to it, and it was subsequently con. Signed to the lumber room
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
PARTS WITH s3,5OO
SAME OLD GAME WORKED WITH
 SLIGHT VARIATIONS.
Grocer "seIIs" Ills Place to Stranger, Then Places Ills Money In a Trunk-Presto, Finds Brick
 In It's Stead.

Denver, Colo.-Evidently they're still being born at the rate of one a minute. Working the old bewhiskered game, an Italian sharper swindled Christopher Kayas, owner of a gro cery store here, out of S3,5O0.
 Kayas was visited by the crook early in the morning. He claimed he was a real estate agent and desired to purchase the grocery store. An of fer was made which the owner re- fused. After much talk the price was raised and the alleged agent produced $3.5O0 in bills.
 To show that both the purchaser and the seller were in good faith it vas agreed that Kayas was to put up the same amount. place it in trunk where the money was to remain until the necessary papers were signed and the store turned over to buyer
 Just as the bills were placed within the trunk, customer, thought to have been a confederate, entered the store. Kayas went to the front of the place and sold him cigar, then returned to the "agent" He left shortly after ward, promising to return soon.
 When he failed to put in an appear ance, Kayas became suspicious, opened the trunk, and instead of the neat roll of greenbacks which had been placed there found a large brick. The transfer was probably made when the confederate called Kayas to the front of the store.
 Kayas was ashamed of the fact that he had been duped and refused to re- port the matter to the authorities. A friend. however. notified the police.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
False Teeth ss,ooo.

Seattle, Wash.-Lou Childs of Spo- kane. owner of the fast pacing mare Blanche, says that she is at once to be supplied with set of false and gold-hlled teeth, to cost $3,O0O. The mare, who has won $1O.O0O for her owner this season on western tracks. has been much troubled with tooth ache. The mare ran away on the North Yakima track, pumping into a fence when an attempt was made to stop her. This caused injuries to her teeth which made her suffer for sev. eral months
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
What He Had.

Preparatory to their departure for another city for protracted period Baltimore family had their furniture and effects taken to a storage house. As the workmen were busily engaged in carrying down from the second and third stories of the house various ar ticles the mistress of the house heard from the room wherein she was giving directions sounds of much pulling and blowing, as one of the men was stag gering down the stairs under a weighty piece of furniture.
 What are you taking down?" she called out. "The light oak dresser7-
 No. num-" answered a stalwart Celt, "Oim takin' down the heavy ma hogany one"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
odd Wava of catchInn EIsh.

The Icelanders are said at one time to have taught bears to jump into the sea and catch seals. In China birds do equally well, for at signal they dive into the lakes and bring up large fish grasped in their bills. In Greece the fishermen use branches of pine steeped in pitch and lighted; the in- habitants of Amorgos used cypress Ieaved cedar, which served when lighted as a fambeau, and the Chinese fish in the night with white painted boards placed in a manner to reflect the rays of the moon doubly upon the water. These attract the fish to the boat, when the men cast a large net and seldom fail to draw out consider able quantities. Anchovies are f1shec for in a similar manner.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
eoose HIts RaIIroad sIanaI.

Wellington, Kan.-Harvey Burkel, Rock Island night agent here, took home wild goose to his family this week, which he captured in a novel way. Just as Burket was going out to light the lanterns on his semaphore in the evening as a flock of wild geese, flying low because of the storm, and attracted by the city lights, passed over. As he looked up, one big goose collided with the arm of the semiphore and fell at his feet.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
LOTS OF HUNTING IN SPAIN
Use of Firearms Very Extensive, ow- Ing to the Sporting ProeIlVltIes
 of the People.

The use of firearms is very exten- sive in Spain. Hunting is so popular that 20,000,000 empty sporting cart. ridges were imported into Spain last year. and of these 2,300,000 entered the port of Valencia alone. More than two-thirds of the total are of ordinary and low grade quality, cost ing about 55 cents a hundred unload ed, but there is also a limited mar ket for very high grade sporting cart ridges with deep metallic lining, adapted for heavy charges of smoke less powders, which are imported from Great Britain and the United States and are retailed at from $1.45 to $1.9S a hundred according to length and finish.
 The natural sporting proclivities of the inhabitants of Valencia are foster ed by the proximity of the Albufera, an extensive marshy lake visited in the fall and winter by myriads of wild duck, coots and other water fowl that migrate from northern Europe, while the forest wastes and arid brushwood hills of the interior are moderately stocked with red part ridge, hares and rabbits. All the moist, cultivated valleys following the course of streams are also visited in the spring and summer by migratory quail that come over from North Af- rica.
 Trade in sporting guns, pistols and revolvers is of considerable impor. tance, but only the very high grades are imported. Nearly all medium Qual- ity, ordinary and low priced products are manufactured in the country. mostly at Eibar, in the Basque prov inces in the north of Spain, where excellent workmen, many of whom study at the leading arms factories of Birmingham and Liege, make al- most every form of gun, rife, pistol and revolver. The barrels are usually imported in the rough from Great Britain or Belgium, and are bored and finished at the Spanish factories.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
skIppInq to the Last chapter.

Have you read the Bible?" asked the serious young man.
 Well" replied the frank young woman, q can't say that I have read all of it''
 q see; you have read Genesis and Revelations"
 How did you know?"
 That's the way a woman always reads any book"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
HopefuI of Results.

"Your wife is taking a tremendous interest in abstruse economic ques- tions.
 ''Yes," replied MT. Meekton; "and Pm glad of it. Maybe it will result in her conversations putting me to sleep instead of keeping me awake"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
Lawsuit Over Bones.

Valparaiso, Ind.-When William Hubbard was digging ditch through the farm of Mrs. Zada Cooper, he found some bones of mastadon. He appropriated them, saying the state ditch laws allowed him to do SO. Mrs. Cooper has brought action against him for s1,5OO, which she says is the value of the bones.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
EuuaI to the occasIon.

You're no judge of literature or rhetoric, Sam. Why, you couldn't do 1t to save your life if I asked you to give me a good illustration of a fat contradiction in terms.
 Couldn't I? All right; the next time you ask me to lend you $5 you will find my decided negative is quite positive"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
Enn-EatInn LaureI cIaimed.

Sioux City, Ia.-This city claims the distinction of having the latest cham pion egg eater.
 Sam Demibovitch drank forty raw eggs in seven minutes, just after a hearty breakfast, several days ago. He won $2 for that achievement, and Is now looking for little stake on a promise to drink 100 eggs in one meal.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
HeredIty.

Judge" said the guilty man. T in- herit this felonious habit. can't re- sist it. My father was a grafter and my mother a photographer. I can't help taking things"
 Then take seven years at hard la bor," said the judge kindly.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
IndIan Attacka Rrother.

Chicago-Joe Mexicana, a Sioux h. hian, got mad because a red brother wouldn't have a drink nor speak a word to him. Police rescued pieces of the wooden Indian.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
Isn't It Dreadful, AnoeIIne7

"Jinkson is simply impossiblei"
 Whats the matter now?"
 When I remarked that Frank Ba- ker of the Athletics was a great man. Jinkson asked me what position he played"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
Had to LIe.

"Jones embarrassed me terribly to- day"
 How so?"
 He asked me how enjoyed his speech at the banouet last night"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-02
A Half Told Tale.

He-I dreamt that I proposed to a pretty girl last night.
 She-Well, go onI What did sayI Sydney Bulletin
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-04
Pryor CREEK BANK
CLOSED BY BOARD

The first state bank Of PRYOR Greek
has been closed ty the state banking
board The assets will more than re
imaurse the depositors and the suar
antY fund The banl, may be reorgan
lied, and liquidation avoided.
Bad loans which impaired the cap
tal causes the failure. Bank Exam
iner W. X. samuels is in charge.
w. L. Jones OF Pryor was president
Of the bank, John c. Martin, cashier
The capital was $4,000; surplus So
000.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-04

Special to the Daily Leader
Washington, Dec. lit viii cost
sS254l545514 to conduct the affairs
of the government for the fiscal year
endjng June 30, 1911, according to the
estimate of the various department
heads submitted today to the speaker
of the house by the secretary OF the
Treasury
This amount, whicn does not i'm
clude any provision for the postal
service. which is expected to be sell
snpporting, is an increase of $72,O7j'-
24S over the appropriations made for
the present year by the last session
Of congress.
Tor this increase, $2S,3l2,22o ap-
pears in the estimates OF the secre-
tary OF the navy and $2O,59I29I rep
resents the increase asked by the
navy department in the appropria-
Hons for building and equipping ne"
vessels. The estimates would provide
for three new battle ships to be laid
down in the year This would make
up for the lapse Of one ship from the
two-battle-ships-a year program IN the
Recruitment caused by the action OF
HE Democratic house in providing for
onlv one battle shin at the last ses-
Sion of congress.
Another 20 million dollars or more
81 the total increase is shown in the
Estimates for the payment of pen
sions. The amount asked for is SlS''-
10000 Last year but 65,,ll6'4'0
Mas expended for pensions. An in-
crease of about the same amount ap-
bears in the estimates for public
Works for the year.
The construction Of public Dullo-
ings planned for the year shows an
Increase of sl.O12,5SO over the ap-
propriations for the present year, So
( 7e2 200 being asked for that purpose.
nc work to be done during the year
on the Panama Canal viii cost $So'-
174.4s2. which is s11SO,567 less than
the appropriation for the current
year. OF this sum, $6,769.522 is asE-
ed for the purpose OF building ior''-
fieations and military barracks IN tne
canal zone. This year only $3.50.
obo was appropriated for fortiilea
Hons at Panama.
Just how these estimates VIII lars
"a the hands of the Democratic ma
s ieritv IN the house is the subject oi
! considerable conjecture. Some dllli
4 cnlty in passing appropriation bili'
NAV follow disagreementS betweeI
# dc house and senate as ib the las
session But the supply MEASURES L
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-04
MIsTooK ACID FOR SYRUP.
Oversight of an Oklahoma Druggist
Was EataI to ]. S. GarIiek.

Chickasha, Okla, Dee. 4.-Because
a druggist mistook carbolic acid for
a sweet syrup J. S. Garlck. travel
ing insurance solicitor, is dead in
Rush Spring, a small town south Of
here GarIck went to a drug store
and asked for something to relieve an
acute attack OF Indigestion. The
druggist fixed him a preparation but
by mistake put carbolic acid instead
OF sweetening syrup in the mixture.
Within six minutes the man was dead
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-04
Budget of a Billion

be passed on the basis of the esti-
mates submitted today win 80 into
effect after the Democrats have taken
due control Of the government, and It
is expected that the attitude Of the
house majority on the questions in
yolyed in the estimates win forecast
the attitude of the coming administra-
ton
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-21
FLAMES DESTROY
WHARF HOUSE AND
THREATEN YACHT

Fire broke out in the wharf boat
house of J.. Abrams, secretary of the
Hawaiian Trust Company, at Pearl
Harbor early Wednesday morning, ard
not only destroyed the house aud
charred some of the wharf but burned
up lot of sails for the yacht La Pa
Iona, owned by Commodore Clarence
Macfarlane.
A row boat also owned by Mr..
Abrams went the route of the sails, but
the yacht was unframed. being mooTed
at the end of the wharf which is sore
distance from the location of the wharf
house.
Neighbors on seeing the flames, telc'
phoned to Mr.. Abrams, who was at his
town house, and his first request was
to loosen the moorings of La Paloma
and let the yacht drift where it might
rather than leave it to be burned. Tho
yacht was in no real danger at any
time.
Mr.. Abrams has no direct information
as to how the FIRE may have started
although the house was visited seyera
times during the previous day, the sailt
overhauled and possibly some ,ne left
cigarette to shoulder in the elotn
There was no insurance on the prop
erty