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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
TEXAS INSURANCE
COMPANY OPENS QUARTERS

District Superintendent + w DIE
ings, of The American National In
surance Co, of Galveston. Is in the
city. This morning he opened an of
flee in the Logan County Bank build e.
ing Assistant Superintendent NJ. A.
Woodall will have charge of the
business in this city This company
will employ five or six men in this
city where heretofore it has employed
but one. II expects to enlarge the
business in this district by giving
policy holders the very best OF
service.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
DISPOSITIONS TAKEN IN
INSURANCE COMPANY CASE
Payment Of $1,000 Policy 10
Mother Of Deceased Is
Contested

"a hereby swear positively that
Frank Mcrrick was murdered on the
night of Sept. IA, 1919. by Lew
Grecn"--Conducto " A. Jones.
"A negro fired the shot that killed
Frank Mcrrick, Mrs Jennie ,tOnes,
wife of Conductor Jones.
Yes, | saw the shooting. A negro
fired the shots that killed Frank
Merrick. | saw Merrick throw up
his hands. Arthur Jones, aged t2,
son OF Conductor Jones'
Such were the sworn statements
made before Judge Sirang In the
county court Thursday evening. when
dcposiions were being taken In the
case Of Mrs. J. ]. Merrlck against the
Illinois Commercial Mems association,
OF Chicago, 10 recover on an accident
insurance policy for $4,000 carried by
frank Merrick, with his mother MS
beneficiary.
Frank Merrick an employe Of The
Daily Leader. was shot aud killed on
Saturday night Sept. IA. 1919. on
Third street, about forty feet from
Harrison Blood hounds we're used
and detectives worked on the case, but
no arrests we're ever made COhnty
Attorney Adams sweated several per-
sons, without results. The insur-
ance company at first refused to pay
the insurance policy on the ground
that several special assessments were
never paid Upon receipts being
presented, this objection was with
drawn, The company rnen contested
he claim on the ground that mur-
der was not an accident, except in
ease of attempt 10 rob In federal
court Mt Enid, Judge Cotteral waived
and Mrs. Merricks at
torncys, Hepburn a Chappell. pro-
cured service in Illinois. The case
will he tried In Chicago. Attorney
Callahan representing the insurance
'ompany came here to take deposit
ions Many Witnesses were called
Witnesses on behalf of the insurance
company tosiIfying Thursday were
Alex Iones wife and son, DR. Cot
eral, Joe Xoll r. G. Burusdale, Ben
Jarrett and ] u. Paymal
Alex Jones is a freight conductor
IN the Santa Fe, running between
Guthrie and Purcell He lives at 40s
West Villas He swore he was an eye
Witness to The murder He testified
hat ne stood on the crossing at the
outh side Of Villas on Third street.
Ie saw four men-one man stood 10
eet beyond the alley, facing him. The
,ther three had their bsclcs TO him.
me was big heavy set white man.
me q tall slender white man. the
'iher black man. whom he pointed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
SOLO 80 ACRES
FOR $4,000

7 II Z Hardenhurg. known by Guth
rians as the man who drilled the "hole
in ground" at Meridian has struck II
rich at last A letter today from
IIardenherg to Guthrie friend says
ne sold an 50 oil lease in the Gushing
NeId for Sl50.000
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
"ELkS' AND SANTA fE'S"
WILL OPEN BALL SEASON

The Elks and Santa Fe bali teams
VIII contest for supremacy Sunday
afternoon at Electric park.
The game will be called promptly
at , O'Clock and Will be the first Of a
series Of games to be played on sun
day afternoon In Guthrie. Both
teams have been practicing faithful
ly and The opening game will be a
good one. A small admission fee Will
be charged. Dan Williams has been
selected as treasurer. gate keeper and
general manager of the grounds and
teams.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
KATY FILES TO DISMISS.

Independence, Kan. May 2e.-The
Katy railroad attorneys today filed in
district court here stipulaiions dis
missing the Injunction proceedings
filed in federal court at Ft Scott
The case IS now entirely in the hands
Of Judge Flsnnelly's court.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
WILL STREW FLOWERS
UPON THE WATER


Following the usual custom OF
their order, Ilartranft Circle. No, B.,
Ladies' Of the G. A. r.. will pay
tribute to sailors and marines who
lost their lives on the water In de-
Tense of The Stars and Stripes. The
ceremony of strewing flowers upon
the water will take place at the en-
trance of Mineral Wells park i'm
after returning from the.
ceremony. Mrs. Amos Ewing will con
duct this service and all persons in
Iercsied are invited to be present,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
0klAHOMAN KILLED
At DOUGLAS

Douglas. Ariz. May 2a-J. ". Fe-
well was instantly killed in the FL
Paso and Southwestern Railway yards
Sunday morning when he was thrown
under a strin 2 OF moving freight
cars. the trucks OF which passed over
his legs just below the hips Fewell
was riding on the TOP OF a coke car
when 4 string Of ears came rolling
down the track. They struck the car
on which he was standing and the
force Of the impact threw him 10 the
ground and under the moving string
The body was shipped 70 his old
home in Lswton. Okla.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
MAUOE ARBUCKLE SUES FOR
DIVORCE ANO CUSTODY OF CHILD

Charging abandonment and non
support IN her petition Maude Ar
buckle, who was married to James b
Arbuckle at Falls in 1903 and dc
serted in 1870 today brought suit for
absolute divorce and asks the custody
IF their nine year old daughter. Doris.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
IS
CARDED TO
DIE IN JULY
NEW YORK POLICE LIEU
TENANT TO BE EXECUTED
DURING WEEK OF JULY6

New York, May 20 Charcs Beck
er was today sentenced to die in the
electric chair at Sing Sing during the
week of ,Inly 9th for the murder of
Herman Rosentbal. the gambler
Becker while lieutenant of the strong
arm police squad Of New York. EN-
ployed the four gunmen, recently OK
ecuted to kill Rosenthal
Becker is working hard to secure
a third trial.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

Nae treasures nor pleasures
Can make US happy lang;
The heart ayes the part ave
THAT makes rs right or wrang.
Burns.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
INVENTOR OF mAUsER DEAD

Stuttgart. May 29-Peter Won
Mauser. inventor ~ the Narser rifle.
died here today. aged rs years.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

New Orleans. May ee-Partly
cloudy tonigh; and Saturday. preced-
cd nv showers tonight, cooler to-
night
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
BULLETIN

Quebec, May 20 At O'Clock this afternoon it is
estimated that nearly thousand persons are missing
The Empress of Ireland sank entirely in Is minutes The
collier Storstad not badly hurt Sir Henry Irving
company is among the missing
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
CARRIED 1437 PASSENGERS

Quebec, May 29-The Steamer Empress of Ireland
with 1887 persons aboard sank in the Gulf of ST. Law
renee thirty miles off Father Point in collision at 23O
o'clock this morning with the collier Storstad.
Three hundred and fifty survivors were later landed
by rescue steamers Eight hundred persons are missing
and are probably drowned,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
STEAMSHIP COMPANY HOPEFUL

Montreal, May "a message received by the Ca
madam Pacific from Rimousk said: "All passengers
picked up by boats of Lady Evelyn and Eureka A
similar message received by IaPatre, French
newspaper from its Rmousk correspondent,
He said four hundred survivors had been landed and
that the Lady Evelyn and Eureka going back to
pick up the remainder of passengers who were in boats
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

Rimouski Quebec, May 29-I'he great passenger
liner Empress of Ireland carrying fourteen hundred ana
thrtvseven persons passengers and crew. sank before
dawn this morning in the st. Lawrence river with loss
of perhaps one thousand lives.
The estimates of casualties varied from SIX hundred
to more than eleven hundred
The vessel was bound from Quebec for Liverpool.
She was cut wide open by the Collier StolStad and
sank within twenty minutes
The majority of those saved were members OF the
crew.
The estimates indicate that not more than SIXTY
passengers were saved.
The crash occurred about two clock this morning
off Father Point the Quebec village where Dr. Cnppen
the London murderer caught
The Storstad tore her way back almost to the great
liners screws and the ship sank before many passengers
knew what had happened
The pilot boat Eureka and the mail tender Lady
Eovn heard the faint S O. 50 wireless calls and hur4
red to the rescue. ~
The Lady Evelyn picked mp three hundred and tlnr-
+vnine and the Eureka about sixty.
Of one hundred and forty Canadian Salvation Army
nomhers only twenty were saved.
60 ouicklv did the Empress sink that those who
ganed the life boats were garbed only IN their night
o1o+he
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
Another Appalling Sea
Catastrophe In Gulf
OF St. Lawrence
Liner is Rammcd by
Collier Stortstad and Cut in Twain

Tragedy Near Dawn off Father Point,
Canada; Rule of ''Womcn First" Ig-
nored as Men Scramble for Boats;
of 1897 Passenger List But 400 Per-
sons Are Rescued.
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lbs and is proceeding slowly toward
li Quebec under her own steam
Her bow is badly bent
tiH II is understood that she has few
survivors from the Empress IF Ire
land
Among the lost we're fiftv-six mem
lSOers Salvation Army on their way -
tend the Worlds convention at
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

The condition of tine sirvivog bS1'
pitiable.
The arms and legs of son IN
broken
All suffered terribly. S
When the rescue ships do I
the docks we're converted
pital and the townspeoplt N61SO
ed food. clothing and aid
sroRsTAD DID NOT 81
The collier, Storstad ST
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02

peeping from a steep roof Of glowing
prismatic color. Autumn Is the time
for picturesque figures. Then Is heard
the clacking of the fail in many an
old barn; primitive bullock wagons
laden with the treasures Of mother
earth slowly come through the forti.
fed barbicans OF the town gates; and
figures bearing scythe or reaping
hook pass on to the fields and woods.
Stay while and peep inside one Of
the great old barns, whose huge beams
and timbers are dimly revealed in the
deep, dark recesses. A cloud of fine
dust fills the air, and flood Of sun
shine pouring in from the open door
turns this into a quivering, golden,
transparent screen, through which the
picturesquely clad figures are seen
fiinging their fails in rhythmic time,
the grain meanwhile dancing merry
measure on the rough oaken floor.
Wisely enough, the inhabitants OF
Rothenberg built their railway sta
ton far enough away, where 1t could
not spoil the beauty of the ancient
town. The visitor may feel little
disappointed at first, as, on leaving
the station, he traverses a common.
place buildings; but once through the
Roder gate and a street is entered
whose houses and towers would sat.
isfy the rampant imagination of the
most extravagant scenic artist. A
great Joy and content fills the travel.
er's heart, for surely now he is back
in the middle ages. On either side OF
the wide, spacious street are great,
gabled houses lavishly painted in vari.
GUS colors, and with many humorous
inscriptions and verses upon them
Listen to this above Rothenburg
Figaro's house:
Many man must lose his hair
Whom't pleaseth not the same to spare;
Yet never a man that I have shorn
But WELT hath pleased him, I'll be sworn
For hair and beard / cut and trim
For each as best 1t suiteth him,
And every man lather down,
Whether he's wise or but clown.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
Turned From Napoleon to Louis.

One hundred years ago Louis XVIII
bis long exile in England at an end
had crossed the channel, landed al
Calais and was now on his way to
Paris to ascend the throne just va
Gated by Napoleon. The people every
where hailed the kings progress with
manifestations of pleasure. Many who
had occupied high positions in the
service of Napoleon and who had
profted much by his patronage now
Joined the populace in loudly acclaim.
ing the new sovereign. The corporate
bodies hastened<to overwhelm Louis
XVIII with their homage, and some OF
the former marshals of Napoleon as
sured the king that their armies would
be happy to ne called upon to prove
their fidelity and devotion to the new
regime. The king reached Compiegne
on April 20, and four days later tool
his place on the throne.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
VALUABLE HINT FOR FARMER
Dropplngs From 1000 Fowls, II Prop
erly Cared For VIII Return
Profit Of $500 Yearly.

The poultryman or farmer can ma.
tcrially add to the profits of his busi-
ness by properly caring for the drop
pings OF his fowls. For example. 1t Is
shown that the droppings from 1000
fowls If preserved without needless
loss are worth at least $500 per an
mum, and this estimate Is based on
the assumption that less than half of
the droppings, or only 80 pounds per
hen per year, can be collected.
According to the Maine station, the
droppings should be collected daily.
and mixed with substances which will
(D prevent loss OF nitrogen, (2) add
sufficient potash and phosphoric acid
to make a better-balanced fertilizer,
and (3) improve the mechanical con-
dition of the manure so that 1t can
be applied to the land with manure
spreader.
This can be done as follows: To
each 80 pounds of the manure add 10
pounds of sawdust, good dried loan.
or peat, 16 pounds Of acid phosphate,
and pounds Of kainit. Such a mix.
ture will contain about LIS per cent
of nitrogen. As per cent Of phosphorio
acid. and per cent OF potash, which,
used at the rate Of tons per acre
would furnish so pound of nitrogen,
1856 pounds of phosphoric acid, and so
pounds of potash, and at the present
price of fertilizing ingredients is worth
about $40 per ton. The mixture would
furnish wellbalanced stable fertil-
izer, which, although not fine enough
to work well in drills, can be success.
fully applied with manure spreader.
The treated manure should be well
sheltered until time to apply to the
land-that is, shortly before blowing.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
ATTENTION TO CHICKS
WARM BRooDER AND PROPER RA.
TON ARE ESSENTIAL
Eggs Should Be From Carefully Sc
lected Stock, Well Fed and
Housed to Produce Sturdy
Stock-What to Feed.

CBy DIR, sANBoRN. Holden, Mass. Copy
right, 19l4)
There is less fuss in rearing Of
chicks than few years ago. A warm
brooder, some fine litter, cracked grain
and grit, with perhaps a mash con-
tanning ground grain and animal food,
and you should raise 80 per cent Of
the chicks.
Every chick deserves to be well
Matched, of sturdy ancestry and prop
erly reared. The eggs should be from
carefully selected stock, we'll housed
and fed, to produce chicks that stand
adverse conditions. The hen or incu-
bator should do its part well, as many
slip is made between the laying Of
the egg and the Matching Of the chick.
prefer the lamp heated brooder to
either the hen or the heatless brooder,
for while some hens do good brooding
and in some seasons you can raise
good chicks with the fireless brooder,
yet for easy, successful brooding of
so chicks my preference Is for the
heated brooder.
The chicks, when dry, are taken
from the hen or machine and trans
ferred to the we'll warmed brooder.
prefer 1t should be fully as warm un-
| der the hover as was the incubator,
then, IL too hot, the chicks can be-
spread out into the less warm part of
the brooder floor, or II at any hour
the temperature drops the chicks can
retire to a warmer place under the
| hover.
What to Feed hem.
At the start the chicks get cool wa
| ter to drink and only the food that Is
| In the barn waste is used to cover the
brooder floor. Really they need no
food, and what they find in the waste
is plenty. When few days old they
need light feeding Of cracked wheat,
good fish or beef scrap personally
have found nothing better than good
grade of fish scrap) added at eight
days of age and finely cracked, dry
corn at ten to twelve days. 1t is i'm.
portant that all chick feed be. sound
sweet and clean. Avoid musty corn,
scrap that is fit only for fertilizer
and stale drinking water. Unless
there is some grit in the barn waste
that is used for brooder floor it should
be supplied. Chicks need warm
place to retire to when cold, an open
room to get out into and exercise, as
well as a grass run to range over
when two weeks old, Close confine
ment to hot breeders tends to give
leg weakness. AS the chicks grow
in age the heat of the brooder can be
reduced to about so degrees. Toe
many chicks are Matched that are
doomed to die because from weak
| stock or incubated wrongly, but the
blame is usually laid on the brooder
Yearling hens make the best of breed
ers.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
R0THENBURG ON THE TAUBER
Every Street In City Offers Unlimited
Possibilities to the Artist and
Camera Man.

Berlin.--Every street in Rothenbers
offers unlimited possibilities to the
artist and the camera man. Noble
churches rich in Gothic work, sternly
simple in character, beautiful in
craftsmanship, richly endowed with
wood carving; massy walls, still bat
tlemented; towers of all shapes and
sizes, some round and tall, others
squat and fat, with evillooking Sits
In their walls from whence many an
arrow has sped on it's deathdealing
mission; others, again, Enthusiastically
peaked, soaring high into the sky and
seeming to touch the rolling masses
Of cloud that go flying by; Renais-
sance buildings of the greatest beauty,
scanned and stained with the mex
orable hand of time, many gabled and
with row upon row of quaint dormers
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
DOES NOT CAUSE SOIL ACID
Doubtful II Small Amount of Lanf
Plaster Generally Applied Has
Any Serious Effect.

The fear that the application OF
land plaster makes soils acid, Ia un.
founded. At least 1t is doubtful II
the small amount generally applied
has any serious and immediate In
tiuence upon the acidity of the soil.
This is the belief OF e. B. Hart OF
the College of Agriculture Of the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin, who from time
to time has carried ON numerous ex.
periments to determine the influence
of applying land plaster, rock phos'
phate and other fertilizers to fields
upon which various crop rotations
were followed.
The theory that land plaster ap
piled to soil would make it acid, is
based on the assumption that the
plants remove from the soil more
calcium than sulphur, thereby leaving
behind a greater proportion of the
acid part of the land plaster. On the
contrary, it has been shown that the
common cereals, wheat, oats. corn
barley and such other plants as the
turnip. rutabaga, cabbage and onion
make positively greater demands for
sulphur than for calcium and appli
cations Of land plaster for such crops
will tend to make the soils alkaline
rather than acid. Such plants as
the meadow grasses. clover. alfalfa
sugar beets and tobacco. use more
calcium than sulphur and in their
case the application OF land plaster
would have tendency toward devel
oping acid soil. Potatoes use about
equal amounts of calcium and sui
phur, and land plaster could not pos
sibly influence soil reaction In THU
case.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
copyright. 1914. by A. S. Gray)
LIFE CONSERVATION - lNDIVID-
uAL OBLIGATION TO
THE RACE.

United States senate document No.
4l9, Sixty-first congress, entitled ma
tional Vitality. Its Wastes and Con-
Beryation," being an extract from the
report of the national conservation
commission, states: From these data
1t is found that Is years at least could
be at once added to the average hui
man lifetime by applying the science
of preventing disease" And again:
'The estimate of Is years as the pos
sible prolongation of life is merely
minimum estimate"
This report, ordered printed and is
sued by the government printing office,
Washington, d. c., for some reason
has received but limited attention.
In view of the fact that the pressing
need of humanity is better health,
greater efficiency and longer life and
that the most insistent demand of this
age is for means of attaining these
three things, it would appear that
there must have been insufficient pub
bicity given the report. Further, the
fact that only recently Rittenhouse
clearly showed that in this country the
chances of untimely death after one
has passed the ago of forty are in
creasing, In contrast with stationary
or even slightly decreasing death
rate for the same ages in some Euro
pean countries, makes an emphatic
knd q nofriofic damond for nopres siyo
publicity of causes, to the end that a
grave economic loss to our nation
through such unnecessary sacrifice
may be checked.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
Detachable Overflow.

,hown, writes James M. Kane OF
Doylestown, Pa, in Popular Mechanics.
Holes were drilled in the pipe at in
tervals and plugged with corks. The
water can be made to overflow at any
height by removing cork in the pipe
at that level. The rubber tubing can
be discarded and the pipe threaded
to fit into the waste nut at the bottom.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
USEFUL TOOL FOR PLANTING
Utah Man lnvents inexpensive lmple
ment Which Can Be Easily and
Quickly Manipulated.

The Scientific American in describ
ing planting implement, invented by
N. P. Jensen of Ephraim Utah, says:
The invention has reference more
particularly to implements which COM
prise means for receiving the plant
and then setting 1t into the desired
place In the ground. The object is to
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
Red Raspberries,

Red raspberries should not be
nipped, but should be pruned back
from two and one-half to three and
one-half feet before growth starts in
the spring. OF course, the old, dead
canes must be removed and all the
young ones that are weak. With
Schaffer and Columbia. the new
growth should be nipped when It at
tains a growth of Is inches, in order
that bushy growth may develop.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
Planting Implement.

provide an inexpensive planting imple-
ment which can be easily and quickly
manipulated, which will set the plant
in any desired position in the ground
without injury to the plant. This i'm
plement is also intended for pressing
the soil uniformly about the plant set
in the ground.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
OVERFLOW FOR BARREL-TANK
Pipe Can Be Removed II Desired and
Water Level Changed by Taking
Out One of Corks.

Deeming it unnecessary to add an
overflow to a barrel section which !
had fitted up for tank and not car
ing to remove any Of the attached
pipes, / slipped piece Of rubber
tubing over the end Of piece Of pipe
so as to make water-tight fit, and in
serted it in the outlet in the manner
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-02
Feed for GROWING PIos.

Growing pigs may be fed mixture
Of corn or cornmeal seven or eight
parts, and tankage two or three parts.
AS the pigs mature the tankage may
be diminished until 1t occupies about
one-tenth of the ration.