Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-04-07
NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST

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4 Deer VisitOr--A story coming
from Seattle, Washington, says that
one day last week grown doe, ap-
parently very hungry, dropped into
a backyard in the suburbs, helped
herself to tub of feed set out for
ihe family COW. and then left on the
run for the woods before anyone
roulc stop her.
Serve Friends Sentence-Arthur
Davenport was sentenced to a term
in tie Kansas penitentiary as re-
suit of State hospital scandals, and
his close friend. c. +. Fields has
been worrying Governor Capper con.
startly for weeks seeking to serve
his friends. time for him. The Gov
ernor denied the request.
.
Aerial Coast PatrOl-Plans for an
aerial patrol of the long and irregu
lar coast lines of the United States
are being worked out as a logical
ueans of national defense. A COM
mission headed by a famous naviga-
iOr is now working on details and
seeking to arrive at the cost, TO pre-
sent to Congress-
.
Can't Quit MeXico-The oponion is
freely voiced by persons with an
intimate knowledge of Mexico, that
the United States troops can never
leave the southern republic until or
der is restored and stable govern
nent organized there. Those who
advance this idea believe that villa
viii never be caught, and that to
withdraw without doing something
would destroy American prestige.
.
Divorce COntagiOus-S. T. Joce-
iyn, noted divorce judge of Sedge-
wick County, Kansas, says that di-
Toree is a contagious disease, and in
support of his theory submits tabu-
lated statistics to show that seven
eighths of the witnesses in cases i'm
which divorces are sought, are them
selves Divorces. He says that one
haH OF the divorce cases that have
come before him as the result of
ssnJasfon. That the plaintiff (most
always the woman) has been direct
ly influenced in her course by other
tiyorcees.
W0ve Nations in War-A writer in
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch styling
himself Neutral Observer" predicts
iaat within a short time Holland and
ROumania will butt into the war on
abe side of the allies, and that Swe-
SEQ and possibly Spain will join the
German allies. He says that the
British government has for some
Rme been anticipating drive into
Holland which would throw that
country into the conflict.
.
} 0H in Post Holes-Post holes dug
reaF richmond. Ky, were found to
" saon filled with a high grade of
srdde oil. other holes dug to a
depth of four feet farther on were
likewise filled with oil. A noted ge-
OIogfst says that he believes the Sec
lion 20 be underlaid with rich oil
pool.
pTfty-Nine Years Service II When
ten-year-old boy, before the civil
var, Taylor Parkman was given a
JOB as cartdriver for the Southern
Hallway construction gang at Bir-
mingham. When emancipation came
he Just stayed on, and was recently
awarded loyalty medal by the head
Hf the company.
Negro Louisiana is consid-
FraEly agitated over the making of
the negro voting question an issue in
that States gubernatorial campaign.
TIE Progressive candidate is an
Avowed advocate of negro votes.
should the Louisiana niger again
be allowed to vote the entire political
Hklect of that State will be changed.
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state Insurance-A campaign for
State Insurance is being waged in
Kansas, and bills are being drawn
far presentation to the next Legisla-
tire Should the matter carry, the
State will offer life, fire, and lorna
10 Insurance to the public on a plan
amiIar to that in vogue in England
10
zeppelin Raid ~ German aircraft
made their twenty-secOnd raid on
ste east English coast last Friday
wight, and by dropping bombs killed
3g and injured A non-combatants.
British gunfire brought one of the
ave EeppeITns into the Thames Riv-
er, where the crew was captured.
The damaged airship broke up and
sank
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crop PrOspects-Rains of last
week and the first part of this week
kage been general over Texas and
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