The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-01-01
Events Of Interest from the
National Capital.

country were III leNerlen eNcltement
over the proposed postal savings banks.
Now that this system is in operation
it is found that it has not been sue
cess and has lost practically ono mil
lion dollars TO the government since
it was installed. The principal reasons
assigned are ascribed to the limit Of
500 which any individual may deposit
The Postofiice Department is getting
all the small change while the larger
accounts still 20 to the private bank.
ing interests
Hog Cholera is creating great havoc
in the country, and it is declared that
there is loss Of two billio pounds Of
meat every gear, the results of the dis
ease. Senator Kenyon of Iowa is back
o. bill to appropriate one million
d liars TO enable the federal govern
mint to cooperate with the states in
strmping out hog cholera. Senators
Reed OF Missouri and Pemerene OF
ohio have called the attention of the
secretary of Agriculture to the import
ince OF vigorous action.
One OF the new inventions that came
along Just ahead Of the automobile and
the moving picture and few other
common necessities OF the time, was
the cigarette. From government
statistics it appears that over fourteen
billion cigarettes were consumed in the
United States during the last fiscal
year. The revenue tax on cigarettes
ia considerably over a million dollars a
year. By the same figures it appears
that the use of whiskey in the United
States has doubled in the last fifteen
years.
Already the railroads are shaking in
their boots, since the attitudes of the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
lead the railroad managers into the
belief that the Commerce Commission
wants practically to run the land trans
portation lines, as evidenced by regu-
lations provided for the parcel post,
and the fixing Of express and railroad
rates, as well as the investigations Of
wrecks. The complaining railroad
companies are telling Washington that
the methods of the Commerce Com
mission point entirely to eventual gov
ernment ownership.
Senator Ashurst OF Arizona in ex-
planning his bill asking an appropria-
tion OF 5000, 900 for barbed wire fence
along the Mexican boundary, has left
the people in doubt as to whether it is
to keep out Mexican rebels or cattle
ticks.
Chautauqua gets" the best of them,
and now Vice President Marshall has
followed the example of the illustrious
William Jennings Bryan, Champ Clark,
CAPTAIN Hobson and others, and has
signed contract to deliver from thir-
ty to forty-fiye lectures in Missouri,
Iowa and Kansas next summer. A
good deal of sympathy has been be-
slowed upon the Vice President be-
cause OF the fact that he ls compelled
to live on his salary, and this restricts
him to palatial suite OF rooms and
board in one OF the most aristocratic
hotels in the United States, where the
charges are so high that he undoubt-
edly has to take up the Chautauqua to
"piece out" expenses.
The contribution OF the State OF Ok
lahoma to the Hall OF Fame In the Ma
tional Capital will be life size statue
of Sequoyah, said to be the son OF a
Hessian soldier and his Cherokee wife,
who served under General Braddock
and rendered distinguished service,
afterward living in what Is now the
state Of Oklahoma. Sequoyah was the
inventor Of the the Indian alphabet
which is used to this day in the west.
His remains rest in cave on the Pa
ciiic Coast. Mrs. Winnie Reaphoxie
has received her commission to per-
form the task. There are great
many unusual statues in Statuary Hall,
among which is that OF Susan B. An
thony, which was placed there by the
State Of New York, Wisconsin contrib
uted the statute of Father Pere Mar
quette who explored the Green Bay
and Lake Superior regions in the six
teenth century. As rule the states
have selected their great statesman for
the two places allotted to each OF the
states in the Hall of Fame.
The American Telephone and Tele.
graph Company has not been slow in
making haste to get under cover. and
shield itself from the prosecution insti-
tuted by the Attorney General OF the
United States. The action OF this tel
ephone monopoly ia viewed in Wash
ington as an attempt to forestall gov