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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18
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amongst them those that have
not gene up in price in spite
OF the war;
For example. here is a
peculiar situation in regard to
u beverage which Is so mi-
versally liked that II has he
come almost . staple. The
name OF that beverage is
Coca -Cola.N
Now Coca Cola, as you
know, Us really an agricultural
product product OF the
soil. Cane sugar-the very
purest and fnest-constitutes
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

% Killed - Twenty-Five persons
were killed and sixty-three injured in
head-on collision between two troll
ley cars at Johnston, Pa, Saturday.
Fourteen persons were instantly kill
ed and eleven others died after being
removed from the wreckag.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

10000 Guardsmen-Twenty thou
sand more National Guardsmen have
been ordered to the Mexican border.
The action has nothing to do with the
Mexican situation, but is done to
stimulate recruiting. Inactivity in
home camps is said TO have discour-
aged many young men who might
otherwise have enlisted.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Dynamited Vat -- The dipping vat
at Latham school house, In the west
ern part of Pontotoc County, was dy-
namited one day before the date Of
dipping. This makes several dipping
watts that have been dynamited by un-
known parties, and the Governor and
county comissioners have offered a
liberal reward for the capture of the
criminal
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18
LaK-Fos, Amid, Effective Laxativs Liver Tonic
Does Not GTlpo nor Disturb the Stomach.

In addition to other properties, Lax-Fos
contains Cascara in acceptable form, a
stimulating Laxative and Tonic. Lax-Fos
acts effectively and does not gripe nor
disturb stomach. At the same time, it aids
digestion, arouses the liver and secretions
and restores the healthy functions: SOC.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Chick" Hiltibrand. of the Ken
dali Clothing Co., is very chesty this
week over the arrival of fine baby
boy at his home. Mother and child
are doing fine. The baby has been
named r. ". Jr., and if he looks
sufficiently like his father he may
succeed to the paternal nickname.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Kendriel Lamb Yeiser, the I s.
year-old son of DR.. Yeiser of Colbert
was taken to Denison Saturday by
his father, and was operated upon
for appendicitis in the city hospital
of that city Monday afternoon. At
last reports the lad was said to be
getting along nicely.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

a large part OF Coca Cola syrup As you
know sugar has gone way up-so every glass
~ Coca-Cola you drink makes some farmers
heart gladder.
SO Il is with the pure fruit juices that.
combined. produce the inimitable flavor ~
Coca Cola Not 50 much In quantity seemingly
when you consider single glass OF this
delicious beverage, but enormous when the
tire Coca-Cola output Is considered.
Yet this product OF nature--of the farm
increased in cost though Il has been 20 the
makers, has not been raised one penny IN
price to dealer-or to YOU. The price at the
soda fountain aud in the bottle has not risen
one iOta.
Vow inasmuch as the rural population alone
ot America consumes millions OF bottles and
glasses or Coca-C0a every year, you and the
other agriculturists OF this country win not
only be able to continue 10 please your palatcs
and get delicious rcfreshmcnt with this bev-
erage at no increased cost. but you will be
sending back TO the farm bigger profits and
more money at no greater expense 10 yourself
i9F
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18
WANTED

About five hundred head OF hogs,
from rs to 100 pounds. Write or
phone R-15, G. II. Crook, Durant,
Oklahoma. w39 At &adv
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Mr.. and Mrs. John Haden left this
wee kfor the eastern markets to lay
in stock of fall goods for the Haden
with him, was resusitated and then
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

20 Minutes in Water 49, For about
90 minutes John Henderson, age IL
years lay at the bottom of the Ar
kansas River. near Van Buren, ARK,
after which he was brought to the
surface, taken to the shore and, af-
ter several minutes of hard work by
the boys who had been swimming
with him, was resusitated and then
walked to his home, nearly a mile
distant.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Pastor Arrested - Rev. w. NJ.
Jones of Mineral Springs, Ark. was
arrested at Texarkana on a chaage Of
forging the name of Rev. L. C. Beas-
ley, pastor of the Fairview Methodist
church, to a check for $40.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Loan Sharks - Coming to the re-
lief of 200 wage earners of Oklahoma
City, said to be paying usurious in
terest on money borrowed from the
loan sharks, a local firm of lawyers
LAS prposed to employers that no at
tention be paid by them to the So
called legal notices" to withhold
money due employees against whom
money lenders have claims. The idea
sto force the sharks to take their
claims into court, a step which they
do not care to take, as the usurious
interest being charged would inevi-
tably defeat them.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Wholesale Liquor - According TO
the testimony of witness being ex-
amined by q United States Commits
sioner at Tulsa, a wholesale whisky
house has been in operation at Key
stone, in Pawnee County, for several
years.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Must Work
IF They Win

Republicans Plan Strenuous Cam
paign i'm Behalf of County Ticket.
Fusion of Socialists and Republic
cans Talked and Denied.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Captured Still - Federal officers
broke into a bax car at Denison Sat
urday and found a compete new
whisky distilling outfit. 1t was in
chal ge of an aged man from Virginia
who said he was shipping it to Dallas,
10000 barrels Oil - According TO
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

First BALES - A number of Texas
counties have already marketed their
first bales of cotton. Premiums have
ranged from IS to 500.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

the report of the conservation officer
of the Healdton oil field, the average
production is 10000 barrels per day
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18
Would Limit
the Number
of Questions

Governor Believes Too Many Amend
ment Submitted at One Election.
Defends Oklahoma Election and
His Administration.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Flood Losses - --latest reports
from the district around Charleston,
W. Va. flooded last week, say that
the death losses are 150 and 600
are made homeless. The property loss
is estimated at $1,00O,OOO.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

Teach Flying - Several American
universities have military training as
part of the course of instruction,
but the University of Illinois is the
first in the United States TO create
department of aeronautics to teach
students the art of flying. The uni
versity ha sjust established a pro-
fessorship of aeronautics.,
Censorship Lifted - Great Brit
ain has at last lifted its censorship
of news from the army on the con-
tinent and henceforth will permit the
folks at home to learn details of the
campaign.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-18

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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

on the back seat had to do with 1t,
misleading the rival vehicles, disturb
ing his own driver? And If, in spite
of all the critics advice, the chauf-
feur wins to safety, il the car sus-
tains no injury and no passenger is
hurt, what then can the marplot say?
Will the other passengers have a mo-
ment's patience with his claim that
equal safety would have followed the
rejected counsel! Will they not con-
slider it worse than idle speculation?
Will they not rather regard the back
seat critic as one who periled action
with dark counsel and was willing to
risk ruin to all in order to have his
way? Will they not rebuke the fault
finder and lavish gratitude upon the
brave self-reliant, capable and sue
cessful driver!
"Fellow-citizens, the car of Ameri-
ca is beset with innumerable and un-
precedented perils. The highway of
the world is crowded with a mad
rush of vehicles bearing the rival des-
TIMES of nations and driving ruth
lessly over, around or through all in
tervening obstacles. Our chauffeur,
firm of purpose. calm, capable and
courageous, patient and tireless, has
guided us amid the press and turmoil
thus far without either damaging the
car, injuring the passengers or relin-
gushing the right Of way. In the
name of common sense, in the name
of the welfare of our country, in the
name of the hard-won principles Of
international law, what answer shall
prudent, just, patriotic American
citizens make to the cowardly, fool
ish and dangerous proposition that,
in the very middle Of our uncom-
pleted journey, while the difficulties
of our course are at their height, we
shall pull our chauffeur from his
seat, take his foot from the brake
and his hand from the wheel, to turn
over the control of our destiny to the
inexperienced and carping passenger
in the rear!
"I think I know what their an
swer will be. They will say, in a
voice that can be heard by every
other driver on the international
highway and in every governmental
garage throughout the world: Wood
row, hold your place; Charlie, sit
down in the back seat and be quiet!' "
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03
HUGHES FOE 70 FARMERS.

Public records show the kind Of ,
"friend" that Charles e. Hughes, Re
publican candidate for the Presidency
10 to the farmers. While Governor o.
New York. he vetoed the following
measures:
For Farmers Institute work, &c.
600.
For a specialist to fight insect
pests. $500.
For dissemination Of information
concerning cheap farms to be
had In New York State, 5000.
For improving New York State
College Of Agriculture, 5000.
For enlargement Of State Veteri-
nary College, $4,000.
For maintaining department Of
veterinary science In the State
University, $1,000.
For investigation and extermina-
ton Of contagious diseases Of
plants, $11, 900. Nt tt
CONTRAST THIS RECORD WITT
PRESIDENT WILSON'S RURAL
CREDIT ACT, THE GOOD ROAD
BILL AND THE VOCATIONAL
TRAINING MEASURE FOR WOMEl
OF THE FARM.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

Whatever else may said of Sena->
tors Penrose, Gallinger and Smoot,
the triumvirate dominating the Re-
publican party, they are not pussy
footers. They talk boldly out the
faith is in them. They are for pro-
lection which knows no downward
revision. They have no sympathy
with progressiveness and openly
avow it. They are the creatures of
privilege and its devoted servants.
They long for the old times when
Republicanism was incorporating
in its audacity and lorded the coun-.
try with high hand. They are un-.
repenant and never temporize.
Hughes is their candidate and they
are the bone, sinew and financial life.
blood Of his campaign.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03
DON'T CHANGE DRIVERS
~ IN AN HOUR OF PERIL

Have you ever noticed how easy
1t is for some men to sit on the rear
seat and criticize the chauffeur"
asks Charles A. Towne Of New York,
in a speech which he is delivering in
course OF a transcontinental speaking
tour in behalf of President Wilson.
what a delightful Irresponsible
ty.
1.-THE powerful but delicate mech
anism trembles with impatience.
Slowly 1t creeps, like a nervous thing
Of life, out and in among the count
less perils Of the city streets. Auto
mobiles to the right. Automobiles to
the left. Automobiles in front. Auto
mobiles behind. Horses, trucks,
milk-wagons, moving vans coming
and going, in welter of dangerous
confusion. Horns sounding, buzzers
screeching, sirens splitting the thick
air with blood-curdling shrieks.
Pedestrians fitting here and there
emitting cries of inarticulate fear.
Traffic policemen wigwagging COM
plicated instructions. Elevated trains
roaring overhead. The earthquake
Of the subway underneath.
"In front sits the chauffeur, every
muscle taut, face set in rigid lines,
eyes keen for every detail Of the pan
Drama. His hands are on the steer
ing wheel, one ready to sound the
horn, the other in easy reach of the
emergency brake, one foot is on the
clutch, the other on foot-brake and
prepared to touch the accelerator If
the car should stall. Progress is
fitful, swerving to right, to left,
stopping, starting, slowing, darting
into openings of momentary promise.
A false move, an instant's hesitation,
single act Of precipitation on the
part of the chauffeur, may spell ruin
to the machine and injury or death
to the passengers.
But the smart Alec on the back
seat is an incorrigible meddler. He
knows it all. Nobody can drive to
suit him. Even If success results
from another's course, his self-confi-
dence is not disturbed. Sound yer
horn!' he wells. Throw her into Sec
ond, you fool. Turn to the left.
Stop her. What's yer clutch for?'
Where's yer emergency brake?'
And deal more of unsought advice
that can't possibly affect the car and
may easily distract the chauffeur and
confuse the crowd.
Now, suppose the journey to re-
suit disastrously, the machine to be
wrecked, the passengers MANNED or
killed. Who can say how much the
ill-timed interference of the wise guy
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

the last six years, and here Is the
answer rendered in its issue of Octo-
Der %:
Secretary Lansing in his report,
Affairs in Mexico states that from
1910 to 1915 there were 159 Ameri-
cans killed by Mexicans of which
number thirty-six were killed on
American soil. It is estimated that
eighty-seven Americans have been
killed from January to June %,
1916. (b) American soldiers killed
in action during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, 400; died Of wounds, 202;
died of disease, $500; died from 9TH
er causes, 412; total 6,622."
T. RS main battle cry during this
campaign has been that more Ameri-
cans have been killed in Mexico dur
ing the last six years than were killed
in the entire Spanish-American war,
and the Star has reported each trade
gleefully and in large black type. The
answer given in the information de-
partment was taken from official re-
ports and can be verified by the rec
ords at Washington. Why does the
Star continue to contradict itself
merely to make campaign thunder
for the party to which its founder did
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

In Senate in which were
Borah Of Idaho, Cummins Of Iowa,
Bristow Of Kansas, Clapp Of Min
nesota, La Toilette of Wisconsin
and Norris of Nebraska, all
strongly progressive, but all Re-
publicans, it was the Old Guard,
Aldrich and Penrose, Smoot and
Gallinger, that dictated all the i'm
portant legislation that got
through that body. And just 80
it would be in any other Republic
can Senate. The Old Guard put
through the Aldrich-Payne tariff
and would drive through anothez
of the same character.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

BUG!
The Kansas City Star, which likes
to boast of its own independence and
fairness whenever the same are
called into question, has developed
into the most inconsistent liar of any
during the present campaign. In its
afternoon edition of October 81 1t
published the following account of
Roosevelt's speech at Toledo, Ohio:
1.-THE President of the United States
must not wear a moral pigtail," said
Col. Theodore Roosevelt in rear car
platform speech here this afternoon.
Mexico" he said, "has placed
Americans in the same class with the
Chinese. Mexico has killed one Ger
man, one Englishman, no French
men, no Japanese, FIVE hundred
Americans and three hundred Chin
ese. The attitude of the national ad-
is more apt to produce
war with Mexico than to keep us out
of war"
A subscriber at Breckenridge, Mis-
souri,, wrote to the information de-
partment of its morning edition for
the facts concerning the number of
Americans killed in Mexico during
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

It's a bandwagon-get aboard
Panic in Republican headquar-
ters." say the headlines. Well, it's
been nothing but bone-head quart
ers anyway.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03
WILSON WON ROOTS PRAISE

"ihehk heaven we nave Z
President In whose lofty char.
acter In whose sincerity Of
purpose, In whose genuine de-
sire to do what 10 right wise,
patriotic, and what 10 best for
the country and humanity, we
can all trust absolutely.
trust him. He 10 my President
and would stand behind him
In hIs leadership" - From a
speech by Elihu Root delivered
before the American Society Of
International Law, Washington,
April 20. 1914.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03

Last years exports (from Fools
Paradise") amounted to $150,000,-
600 in automobiles alone.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-03
Kate Wright

not belong? Were Col. Nelson still
alive 1t is very certain that the Star,
IL 1t had to lie, would at least be
consistent about 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
He Struck Her Down With clubbed Gun.

their house was found a quantity oi
gold coin to which their title was moi
clear. They both protested their limo
cence when arrested, but the old man
practically confessed by committing
suicide in his cell. His dead body was
found swinging behind the door when
the jailer entered his cell, the morning
after his arrest.
For a time the younger Langoltz
stuck to his story, to the effect that he
knew nothing of the murders. And
still the fate of Reinhardt and Ludwig
remained mystery. But the solution
came in October, two months after the
crime. A farmer, plowing one Of his
fields, turned up a human hand. Then
he got spade and dug and turned up
the bodies of the two missing men.
They had both been shot, and the ma
chinist's head had been beaten in.
When Langoltz learned Of this dis
covery, and was accused Of the mur-
der, he broke down and confessed the
whole story, only trying to throw the
responsibility on his father. The two
Of them had. learned of the money
Yunger had drawn from the bank, and
determined to have 1t. But they were
afraid to try robbery at the house
while all the members Of the family
were at home; so they went to Yunger
and Reinhardt and told them Of q deer
they had seen, and invited them to go
along and try to get it. Always eager
for that variety of sport, Yunger glad
ly agreed. and induced Reinhardt to go
along. When they reached a secluded
place, the two poachers Jagged behind
and shot their victims from the rear.
Ludwig dropped dead. but Reinhardt
was only wounded, whereupon the
elder Langoltz clubbed him to death.
Then they buried the bodies, and went
back and robbed the house, after slay-
ing the mother and son.
This crime shocked the country a.
1t had not been shocked in . hundred
years; and in order to efface. rs far a.
possible. all traces of it. the commune
Of Vogelsberg bought the Yunger
property from the heirs, razed all the
ruined buildings to the ground, filed
up the mill dam, and planted the place
to treeS.
The Younger Langoltz was tried.
convicted and beheaded.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

a short distance from Weimar. His
family consisted of his wife, four sons
and the daughter Bertha. Two of the
sons attended school at Weimar; the
eldest, Herman, assisted in the mill,
and the fourth was the baby. All the
Yungers were Industrious and econom-
ical, and highly respected throughout
the countryside. Ludwig had but one
weakness, and that was hunting.
Whenever possible he took his gun
and went to the woods, and his COM
panion on such expeditions was an
elderly man named Langoltz, who was
q notorious poacher.
In the summer of 1877 the water be-
hind the dam was low, and there was
not enough power to run the mill
steadily, so Ludwig decided to have
the machinery thoroughly overhauled.
So he engaged an expert machinist
named Reinhardt, who was stranger
in tha neighborhood Reiphardt board
ed with the Yungers, and soon became
fAvorite of the family, He had
fought in the recent war, and had
many good stories to tell. He was
good to the children, and excellent
company for them all. But he was ex-
tremely reserved about his own his
tory, and little was known about him,
even when he had been in the neigh
borhood for weeks.
This was the condition of affairs at
the Oil mill before the fire. That fire
destroyed the house and barn, and part
Of the mill itself; and when the star
tied neighbors and the authorities had
investigated everything. they con-
fronted a battling mystery. There
were the bodies of Frau Yunger and
Herman. They had been murdered.
The son had been shot, and the moth
er's skull had been crushed. But
where were Ludwig and Reinhardt?
There was no sign of them anywhere.
Little Bertha, after giving the alarm,
had sunk into a condition approaching
imbscility, and the doctors refused to
have her questioned. saying that her
reason would be permanently impaired
II she were molested at that time.
The days went by, and still there
was no clue to the whereabouts of
Ludwig Yunger and the machinist. All
surts Of theories were framed up. It