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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

and wander to any part of the noun
tains, but that he was barred from
even a temporary stop in any settle
ment or town. He was warned that
his actions would be reported and
that if he violated the provisions of
his sentence he would be sent to an
Institution
Man Thought to Have Died in Fire
Identifies Himself.
CINCINNATI, Jan. GA remark
able case of mistaken identity was re-
vealed here last night when a patient
in the City Hospital identified him.
self as John B. Reed, who was sup
posed to have persisted with FIVE
others in a fire in a Salvation Army
lodging house early in December. The
Salvation Army officials identified the
unknown corpse as Reed, chiefly
through the small size of the hands
and feet.
Investigation showed that a mis-
take had been made and that an I'M
known man had been buried under
Reeds name.
Old Deer Hound Has His Day" at
Dog Show.
GREEN BAY, Wis, Jan. 27-"Cap,"
| big deer hound, who has been about
the streets of this town for years and
who, despite his old and bedraggled
appearance, was at one time a prize
winner at kennel shows throughout
the country, came into his own yes
terday. He had that day" which all
dogs are said to be entitled to when,
ownerless and unscrubbed, he EN-
tered" the show of the Northwestern
Wisconsin Poultry and Pet Stock AS
ISOLATION and refused on any account
to get out.
When the champions in the various
classes were being judged, Gap"
passing in the cold outside of Turner
Hall, battered up to the swinging
main door and nudged it with his
nose.
Inside was familiar sight. He
dashed into the building. Anxious
owners tried to shoe him and attend
ants ficked him with whips as he
walked slowly along the benches and
looked over each contestant. He
reached a vacant bench and hoped
onto 1t.
Spectators became interested and
finally entered him formally, and he
sat all day. with a regal air, eating
good food and making the best show
possible for a very tired old hound.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27

Copyright, 1914, by E. ]. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29

who grew to maturity, mated, and raised
large families And so the process of per-
petuating this type of humans has continued
all these years.
T ARGELY through the efforts of Mr.. Mac
Donald, however, these dark spots are
gradually being whitened. Only short time
ago the last trace of humanity and human
habitation was removed from Malaga Island
in the New Meadows River, for years the
most depraved community on the coast. =
Through his arousing the interest of sum-
mer visitors who spent their vacations at
resorts adjacent to Malaga coy school
house was built by popular subscription for
these unfortunate people. 1t looked for
few years as if through education the island
children might grow to useful manhood and
womanhood; but the adult population
proved immune to the administrations of
better influences, and eventually Governor
Plaisted, after personal investigation, de-
cided to break up the colony. Some of the
brighter children were found homes on the
mainland with responsible people. Others
of pronounced low order of intelligence
The adults scattered here and there. Like
the Arabs of old, they simply folded their
tents and faded away.
There is a pretty little story about the
disposition of the Malaga schoolhouse. In
1912 the good people of Muscongus Island
started a movement to raise funds for a
church, and by fairs and in various other
ways accumulated three hundred dollars
But three-thousand-dollar building seemed
a long way off.
Then it was that Macdonald obtained
from those who had built the Malaga school
house permission to take it down and utilize
its comparatively new material in construct
ing the Muscongus church. There was great
rejoicing there when he started in with
dozen of the islands most sinewy young
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but victorious, he half fell, half climbed, to
the ground. The fire chief faced him.
@Who was you trying to rescued the chief
demanded. His eyes grew wide. "You
idiot!' he roared. &There amt anybody in
that dress"
He ran across the lawn and stood, pant
ing, limp, battered, ludicrous figure, before
Cynthia Meyrick.
81 hope it's the right one, he said, and
held out the gown.
She took his offering, and came very close
to him. a hate you!" she said in a low
tone Il hate you'll"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29

selves. The life of the deep water
sailor in those days was not con-
ducive to high standards of NOR
atty, nor did the pangs of con-.
science generally bother care-free
Jack.
Abandoned soon after they
reached Maine, these dusky bellies
had to shift for themselves. Some
became servants, others continued
to Massachusetts, and beyond,
while many, knowing of nothing
better, became squatters at iso-
lated spots along the coast or on
outlying islands. Low, character
less whites and occasionally ne
groes joined them. Any man who
wished to lose himself and his
identity could do it completely
and for all time in the hiding
places afforded by the rocky cram
MES Of the outside Maine islands.
Intuitively then, undesirable men
and women sought out these
squatters and affiliated with them.
From such blood sprang children,
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"I-I WAS afraid you would. he NUT
tered
A shout from the freinen announced that
the blaze was under control To his dismay,
Minot saw that an admiring crowd was sur
rounding him. He broke away, and hurried
to his room.
Cynthia Meyrick' S final words to him rang
in his ears. Savagely he tore at his ruined
collar.
Was this ridiculous farce never to endo
AS if in answer, distant clock struck
twelve. He shuddered
Tomorrow, at high noon!
To be concluded next Sunday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29

every bare-legged boy as "Son." -
His naive queries, however, are
likely to prove embarrassing at
times. 1t was not surprising then
that Miss Powell changed the sub
ject when Uncle Alec insisted on Azan
knowing how it was @thet you
amt never had no husban',
Deary-'n' a fine lookin' young -
woman like your"
Sometimes Mr.. Macdonald sr g
finds the task he has set himself -
a bit discouraging. 1t is one thing 49,
to help these coast people; but it -
is quite another to make them
help themselves. 1t is almost i'm &kt
possible to get the men to do any $50
thing but fish, and they seldom
do any more of that than is neces-
sary to furnish the bare necessi-
ties of life. Yet it is noticeable
that in the more accessible places,
where the coast mission work has been car
ried on with the fewest Interruptions, am
bition is gradually coming with education.
But the field is so broad, there are so many
hundreds of t-of-the-way islands impos-
sible to reach except at infrequent intervals,
that with but one Macdonald and one Sun
beam the problem seems at times almost i'm
possible of solution. 1t is in the isolated
spots that conditions of almost unbelievable
primitiveness exist. Picture an island of,
say twenty-five inhabitants, men, women,
and children. The young people grow to
maturity. From day to day, from year to
year, they see nobody but one another.
When old enough they marry-too often
common law marriage, too often one of
blood relationship.
Entirely apart from these simple coast
folk are the squatters in the places most re-
mote from the habitats of man. These peo-
pie are beyond the pale. They court solitude
and frown with disfavor upon the stranger
who has the temerity to hunt them out, TN
less much tact is used, and some "wanl-
pun"
They are disgrace to any State; yet it
is no wonder that Maine lets them alone.
To break up these colonies would mean to
scatter them. Bad as they are, it is better
to know where to look for such decayed
spots than it would be to find them crop
ping out here and there, communicating all
that is wholesome.
HOW these communities originated along
II the fair coast of the Pine Tree State does
not appear in official documents; yet it is
not difficult to conjecture. A century ago
an imposing fleet of Maine-built ships sailed
to all parts OF the world. 1t is local history
along New England shores that young col
ored women from Africa, the West Indies,
Portugal, South American countries, Ber-
muda, and elsewhere were brought back by
sailors, mates, even by ship masters them
selves The life of the deep water
sailor in those days was not con-
ducive to high standards of NOR
:: ! !
atty, nor did the pangs of con-
science generally bother care-free
Jack
Abandoned soon after they
reached Maine, these dusky bellies
had to shift for themselves. Some
became servants, others continued
to Massachusetts, and beyond,
rrl,i1a manu- lnnurinu of r1othinu |
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REDEEMING THE MAINE COAST

Continued from page g
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
FOR PROHIBITION.
Convention at Oklahoma City on
Record Aaainst Liquor.

Oklahoma City, Feb. 2G.-The ma
tional prohibition plank in the pro-
gressive state platform adopted by
the state convention yesterday was
as follows.
1--WE stand for national law pro-
hibiting the manufacture transport
tation and sale of all intoxicating
liquor in, or the importation Of, the
same into the United States, or any
part thereof, or into any of its pos
sessions"
The plank was rejected by the
sub committee of the resolutions
but the whole committee
reinstated it. A motion on the con-
ventiOn floor to strike 1t from the
platform failed
John NJ. Hale, the new state chair
man, announced tonight that he
would name the committees secre-
tary in few days, and that state
headquarters would be opened soon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
NAIL GROWS ON NOSE.

Philadelphia, Feb 26.-Edward II.
Gonzales, a rich ranch owner of ANA
rillo, Texas, was hurried from the
Pennsylvania terminal to the Cooper
Hospital at Camden yesterday suffer
ing from a severe hemorrhage of the
nose. 1t was found that Mr.. Coma
lez's nose had been rebuilt in a San
Francisco hospital two yeas ago by
grating on it the first joint of his
right little finger. The doctors fear
that the roots of the nail were not
properly removed and have started
to grow again. A blood vessel on
the end of the nose has been cut
through.
Just. outside of Camden Mr.. Con
zalez's nose started bleeding, as he
says it had done periodically for sew
eral weeks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
ARCHITECT DIES
Of HEART FAILURE
H. N. BRlCkLEY OF DURANT DIS
COVERED IN HIS ROOM DEAD.
WAS NOTED GRADUATE.

Durant, Okla, Feb. 26.-H. y. Brick
ley was found dead in a room of the
Rushing SoweIf building at o'clock
on Thursday morning. The discovery
of the body was made by FRANK Per
kins, who notified a physician. The
physician stated that he had been
dead for hours and had died of heart
failure Mr. Brickley was a noted ar
chitect, a graduate of the greatest ar
chitectural school in the east. he had
been in failing health for some time
and was informed by a physician that
heart failure might cause his death at
any time.
The dead man was seen last about
II o'clock Wednesday night by friends
who visited him in his rooms in the
building where his body was found
this morning. The county officers
were notified and Judge Woodward
held an inquest the verdict being thai
he came to his death through sudden
heart failure.
T. A. Brickley of Elgin, Texas, and
two nieces in Kansas City, were noti-
fed of his death but have sent no
word as yet Brickley had been in the
city for several months, coming here
from Texas. He was said to have
been the finest draughtsman who ever
been in this city. He was graduated
at the same time and on the same
platform with Stanford White in the
New York architectural school and
left school at the same time. White
was the architect that Harry X. Thaw
killed
Brickley was about 60 years of age
and unmarried. He had a host of
friends in Durant. The body is being
held waiting word from relatives.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27

Some Tulsa parties have obtained a
long lease on the building formerly oc-
cupied by L. ID. Mason as a feed store,
two doors west Of the Guaranty State
bank, and will open 4 first class cloth.
ing store and gents furnishing store
as soon as the necessary repairs can
be made and the stock arrives. The
building has been occupied for the
past six months as feed store and
Mr.. Mason who will vacate the build
ing, stated this morning that in all
probability he would open up sec
ond-hand business such as he once
conducted in this city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
FINAL REPORT Of
THE GRAND Jury
FINISH LABoRS AFTER TEN DAYS
EXAMINING WITNESSES - 1903
TRUE BILLS.

The grand jury that has been in ses,
sion for the past ten days, finished
their labors yeterday afternoon and
submitted their final report to Still.
well II. Russell, district judge.
Of the 1O3 true bills returned, most
of them were for gaming and whiskey
selling, very few other cases being
found.
Following is the report submitted by
the jury:
"To the Honorable Stillwell II. Rus
sell, Judge of the District Court.
Sir:
We, the grand jury of Carter Coun-
ty impaneled, sworn and charged to
inquire into and true presentment
make of all offenses against the state
of Oklahoma committed or triable in
Carter county, further report that we
have concluded our investigation, and
herewith submit this as a final re-
port of our labors:
eve have examined more than two
hundred witnesses, and have returned
one hundred and three true bills.
1--WE have examined the county jail,
and found the same in good condition,
and the prisoners well cared for.
"The sheriff and his deputies have
rendered US efficient service in pro
curing witnesses promptly.
"We herewith return into open
court thirty-onc true bills in addition
to those heretofore returned, making
the total of 1903.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
BIC GASSER
BROUGHT IN
WILL CONNECT WITH THE MAINS
OF THE CITY GAS COMPANY
NEXT WEEK.

Another big gasser was brought in
today at noon in section %, 9s, 2w,
by the City Gas company aud will
be known as well No. 10. The well
has not been tested, but it is stated
that it will be good for several mil
lion feet per day and will be immedi-
ately Connected with the company's
pipe line to supply the city. This well
the company states, will relieve the
situation until the main can be extend
ed to the big gasser recently acquir-
ed from the Crystal company. The
contract for the material and laying
Of the same has been let to the Hope
and suppy company of
Pittsburg and the work will be done
as soon as the material arrives. Tbs
latest gasser will be Immediately avail
able and without serious mishap will
be connected up by the hrst of toe
week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
STATE CHARTER
FOR RAILROAD
MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY TO
REORGANlZE AN OLD LINE
THROUGH STATE.

Oklahoma City, Feb. pa state
charter was issued for the sansas
and Oklahoma Southern Railway
company .$1,OOO,OOO company
which is q reorganization of the
Cherryyale, Oklahoma and Texas
Railway company, chartered under
the laws of Oklahoma Territory July
%, 1902. The new company aban-
dons some of its former rou.e ter
ritory and proposes to build a total
Of 2.75O miles Of main line and
branch lines.
S. VI. Porte Of Cancy, Kan. for
mer state senator Of Kansas is the
chief promoter, the other incorpora.
tors being r. e. Wade and George
A. Masters, Perry okla; o. ]. II.
Brewster and f. d, Brewster, Inde-
pendence, Kan, and II. V. Bolinger,
Caney, Kan.
The new companys main line is
projected from Kansas City to El
Paso through western Oklahoma, a
total distance for the line being 900
miles. A 4OO-mile branch will eX-
tend from Wichita to Little Rock,
Ark, through Washington, Nowata,
Craig, Mayes, and Delaware counties.
Line No. is from Pawhuska
through the center Of Oklahoma to
McAlester, thence to TeXarkana and
Shreveport a distance of 800 miles,
Another branch is to extend from
Pawhuska to FL Reno and branch
there off to Oklahoma City dis
tance of $50 miles. A fourth line
is from FL Reno to Childress, Tex,
a distance Of 200 miles. an a fifth
is from st. Louis to Houston and
via Little Rock and
a distance of 500 miles.
The principal offices of the cOrpora-
ton are to be in Perry, Oklahoma.
with branch offices at Oklahoma
City, Caney, Kan, aal Kansas City.
The incorporators paid the state
A fee of $1,000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
Villa is Dictator.

Chihuahua, Feb. 27.-It is assert
ed here that Villas failure to marcn
upon Torreon is because of his sat
isfaction at being in supreme author
ity here. Surrounded by ducal pomp
of soldiers and civilians and waited
on by representatives of foreign
powers, no effort has been made to
conceal his dictatorship. He has
surrounded himself with men who
accept his word as law. 1t is openly
stated that for Mexicans to express
opinions adverse to villa, warrants
execution and disobedience to orders,
Imprisonment. A Mexican conductor
was imprisoned because he was late
with a train which Villa had order
ed. 1t is not believed that Carranza
will come here until Villa leaves.
Troops have been ready fer weeks
to attack Torreon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
INCOME AND
CORPORATION TAX
RETURNS ARE DUE MARCH l.
HEAVY PENALTY PRESCRIBED
FOR COMPLIANCE.

w. II. Osborn, commissioner OF
internal revenue, has forwarded the
following telegram to -Bolen,
collector at oklahoma City for this
state:
GIVE the wides, publicity posi-
BILE through the public press as news
item that income and corporation
tax returns due March first must be
filed with collectors Of internal rev
enue not later than Monday, March
second, in order to avoid the pre-
scribed penalties unless an extern
sion has been granted on account
of absence or sickness.
w. II. OSBORN.
commissioner Internal Revenue"
Washington, d. c.
The penalty for failure to file the
personal return within the required
time is from 500 to $1,000 and the
penalty for failure to file the corpo-
ration return is not TO exceed S1o,-
600.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
Bringing Big Trees to San Francisco


Old trees from India, Africa and
the Philippine Islands have been
uprooted, transported by elephants,
OK teams, horse and mule power,
electricity. steam and sail to the
grounds of the Panama Pacific eX-
position in San Francisco The meth
cd employed is interesting as it was
at first thought impossible to ac-
complish this without a very large
percentage of these centuries-old
trees dying.
A rectangular cut is made around
the base of the tree at some little
distance from the edge of the trunk,
severing the side roots, leaving the
bottom roots only to nourish the
tree. Boards are forced down into
these cuts to prevent the side roots
from growing together again, and
the tree is then left undisturbed
for six months. BY that time the
tree has become accustomed to liy-
ing through its bottom roots, and
these are now severed, and boards
forced beneath the tree which IS
then pulled over on its side. The
boards are then secured into a rough
box wrapped heavily with wire rope
and the tree lifted by derrick or
car or wagon, or is hauled to the
shipping point by such power as is
available.
Hoisted on shipboard, the tree IS
kept from the light. and wnen,
weeks or months later, it arrives at
the exposition grounds it IS living
but in a sorry condition. A place
having been prepared for 1t on the
Sacramento river it is reDlanted
under conditions most favorable for
it's continued growth. The box is
removed and the tree carefully
nursed for 80 days, by which time
it has again fastened its roots into
the earth and VIII, in all probabil-
ity, live.-From the March Number
of Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
INTEREST
At WILSON
COMMISSIONER TALlAFERRO AND
F. X. WEST WILL RALLY ClTl-
ZENS FOR GOOD ROADS.

County Commissioner James R.
Taliaferro and F. X. West, secretary
of the Commercial club, will hold a
mass meeting at Wilson next Wed
nesday night for the purpose OF
arousing enthusiasm in the good
roads movement and ask the citizens
of that hustling little city to aid the
citizens of Ardmore in this work, as
they will reap an equal benefit with
this city.
The work on the road between
here and the fields is progressing
nicely and Monday morning many
more men and teams will be added
to the force already at work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
CABINET MEETING TODAY SHOW
ED MEMBERS INcENSED OVER
VERGARA HANGING.
ASK BENTON'S BODY
Washington Government viii Make
Vigorous Effort TO obtain Benton's
Body and Will impress Upon Huer-
IA Necessary Punishment Of Killing.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 21.-The
American government regards the
hanging of Clemente Vergara as a sub
ject for reparation by the Huerta gov
ernment. This became known today
after a cabinet meeting. The cabinet
members are particularly. concerned
over Nergara's hanging believing it
has shocked the American people.
Steps will be taken to impress the
lIuerta government of the necessary
particularly after the fed
erals had repeated assurances that
Vergara would be unharmed.
The cabinet agreed to try vigorously
to secure Benton's body.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
HAD TO REMOVE HER CAP.
Woman Admitted to Practice Before
U. S. Supreme Court.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Miss Maud
Mcclure Kelly of Birmingham, Ala,
was admitted to practice today before
the supreme court on motion of Secre-
tary Bryan, but to do so she had to
take off her headdress.
Miss Kelly, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Alabama was anxious to
wear her academic cap and gown up
on being admitted The court mar
shall gently reminded her, however
that members of the bar must remove
their hats in addressing the court and
that the rule applied alike to men and
women.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS
AGENT BELIEVED AWAITING
BRITISH COUSUL.
VILLA GIVES CONSENT
Rebel General To Allow Two Amerl-
cans, Two British Representatives
and Two Members of Benton's
Family to Examine Body.

El Paso, Tex, Feb. 27.-George
C. Carothers, American government
agent, said today that he has post
poned his trip to Chihuahua City
where Villa has announced that Ben
tons body is awaiting examination.
CarOthers gave no reason, but 1t
is believed that British Consul Per-
ceval's arrival here IS the cause of
postponement and that when the
investigators go to chihuahua, Per
,ceval will accompany them.
General Villa offers to let two
Americans, two British representa-
tives and two members of Benton's
family examine the body there.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
CHILD FATALLY BURNED.
Boys Clothing Isnited While Playing
With Firecrackers.

Durant, Okla, Feb. 26.-The 10
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Caldwell was fatally burned yester-
day afternoon and died last night
from the injuries. The boy was at
his grandmothers's and was in the
street playing Indian" He had
on an Indian suit and was shooting
frecrackers. In some manner the
himsy material from which it was
made, burned rapidly. The fire was
extlnguished by man who was
nearby, but it was too late to save
the boys life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-27
ANOTHER AMERICAN MISSING.
Texas CattIeman Believed Forced In
to Mexican Airy

Mexico City, Feb. 26.-The Ameri-
can charge daffairs, Nelson O'Sh2ugh-
messy, is making efforts to obtain the
releq of Innocencio Benayides, an
AmLM. oitizen, who, 1t is believed
has beto''cs, med to service in the
Mexican arl.. Hoo,
Benavides, wnsSf> FaYas cattle
man, was in Sabina. Monterey
buying cattle, according |, " .riends,
when he was arrested charged with
conspiracy. He was sent sourh from
Monterey, but his exact whereabouts
are not known.