Mountain advocate (Barbourville, Ky. : 1904 : Weekly...
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flE < MOUNTAIN ADVOCATE 1 t Entered ON 60cond Class Matter Frtilnv February 10th loot at the Postnfflco nt Barbourvlllo Knox County Ky under Act of Congress of Mnroh Jrd 1870 bnrrrui UIVB Foil Dim KiENnBDo TilE OIU ATEAT AMOUNT or Oooi WK IAN TO TUP TMKOEHT NUXIIEII or PKOPIE Terms 100 Per Year in Advance BAKBOURVILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY APRIL 29 1910 Seventh Year Vol 7 No I r l I AVICKED AND i MALICIOUS ASSAULEa f tRy the Edwards Faction V on Governor Willson r o leading Edwords Paper Rock Throwingr IfF The Edwards press has let the wildcat out of the sack Ed- wards men have been ever since Mr Powers announced himself K aelcandidate for Congress giver out word that Governor Willson Wits opposed to Powers They have professed remarkable solid tulle for the Executives honor Their fears lest the Governors official integrity and personal rectitude might be tarnished by any association with Mr Powers p bw e r pronounced for Edwards hail conmit1ngto ¬ ted to any such ridiculously false position They t ow virulent ly assail Mr Willson 1he Mont ticello Outlook the mst pro ¬ pounced Edwards paper in the Eleventh District assails Gov Willson as a hypocrite nar rate un grand stand player dishonest a failure f In its issue of week before lust the Outlook writes It must be sail to his credit 9 that he isrn brainyman but a the same time he is full of pre- judice narrow and hypocritical S Ilis grand stand play in the par- don ¬ of Caleb Powers was a piec w of hypocrisy so thinly veiled that it was apparent to even a pretensotrea1infi e Y and abroad his hearing of argu mentand his great effort to mak- Jt the public believe he was try ing to reach a righteous con a elusion were truly laughable E because every one knew that he < know from the beginning th- ai t ho would pardon Caleb Powers f Ho has boon elected for that purpose It was a part of hi unwritten platform 5HIt is also asserted by thos who go before him to seek an up pointmentorask other favor that ho invariably makes every w applicant believe he is the very i one he is going to appoint or that the favor will certainly b granted when he knows at Ute nor chance for appointment or that > ho will not grant the favor This is a bad practice for a Governor or anybody else It would be w much better to be open and frank about such matters It is a matter of sincere re j Bret that a man of Governor Willson education and ex perience should make a just because he is too narrow f < slid because he lets hie prejudice run away with him If a Powers paper had so cx vpressed itself as to Goovernor t Willson wliat songs of woe from the Edwards gang filled the air r t But the friends of Mr Powers have respect too profound both 1 for Mr Willson and his office to say aught but things respectful grateful and laudatory of the r Governor i Z To think of a paper like the Otitlook calling itself Repub licanl Any wonder that such a- Ir model Edwards organ should as vita 1Villsonta Republican of Re publicans honored throughout rtime Nation j George EdX rig Williams of Pine > yjlle come down fo see home talks 7 Saturday k PROP BALDWIN I Writes Interesting Letter Concerning the Campaign Coins Ky April 18 1910 Editor Advocate Allow me a little space in your valuable paper to say a few words onjgr been a constant reader of political organs ol various kinds fro the past fifteen years but never have I seen i anything in print that equals the audacity and total luck of self rcI spect and lack of respect for the truth tad decent warfare as is cxi hibited by a few of the pro Edwards organs in this campaign I stake my reputation for truth earl veracity as well as my reputa tion for being a fair judge of a politi cal situation upon the following as- a sertionsFrom the da that Caleb Powers 81WiI1son State of Kentucky these papers that are now denouncing Caleb Powers for being n weak public official and a poor party leader and sometimes by vile innucndos insinuate that he is to blame for the murder nt Senator William Goebel and the unhappy political upheaval which followed his taking off were then the loudest hist methods ol political warfare Dud Powers slake mistakes They for gave them Was Powers indiscreet takee the mountain army to Frankfort These rapers have said more than a hundred times each that no of fence ol any kind grew out of that movement Did Powers have anyi ofe Goebel Nooks Culton Anderson and others saidu > cs The Wil ¬ liamsburg Times the Mountain paIpers railroad Caleb Powers into a felons I bys packed jukes and bought and per bye these papers as unAmericau unpat- riotic unjust and worse than murderWhat the people who rend these papers would like to see just now is thee Mountain Echo between February 1st 1900 and November 1st 1903 that contained one word derogatory to the good name of Caleb Powersi No such editorial can be inI any Republican paper that is thet year 1908 when some little talk about Powers being a candidate against our Don put a little vinegar into the editorial ink jugs i mimee der or rather complicity in time mur dcr of Goebel but if he is guilty as described by the fiery del1unciationsI of Tom Campbell 1 fer his lot to that of the Republican press who either ignorantly or will- fully made his cause their cause for eight long years If Powers isgailty then it follows as a natural conse- quence that every Republican paper in the State is pnrciccps criminis or accessories after the fact If they do not deserve the penitentiary or the home for the feebleminded then conlnection Tom Campbell or Robert Franklin In either dilemma they may choose i to take it follows as a natural con- sequence ¬ that the Edwards papers are now totally unworthy of belief as newspapers and wholly incompc tent as leaders of political action If they were right in declaring Pow ¬ ers innocent for eight long years they are now the foulest slanderers i 1oM C- JIl l p 1i p ANTITUBERCULOSIS PROGRAM OUTLINED Directors Meet in Louis ¬ ville and Sec fierner Tells of PLns Will Go Through State With Camera Photographing Conditions A meeting of the Board of Directors of the KiMihicIcy Association lor the Study and Prevention of Tuherculo siwas held in the Leather Room of the Seel inch Hotel in Louisville at which the newly appointed secre tare Mr Dugene iCeiner presented an interesting program lor arousing Kentuckv to an active fight against tnl erenlosis Mr Kerner told of the work being done by some mil the states in the states in tile East and stated that Kentucky is the first in the South that has shown rte active interest in stamping out this White Plague which claims over 0500 lives noun ally in Kentucky Mr Kerner will go though the- state armed with a camera taking pictures and collecting statistics of wilIIgie quaint the people with what he finds urging them to form Anti Tu berculosis Societies and committees Ito take up the tight in their respec tive localities His headquarters will be ai 215 East Walnut Street LouisvilleDr e P Sprague of Lexing ¬ ton said that a special committee on tuberculosis had been appointed by the Kentucky State Medical As sociation which will work in close coopration with the association Dr S IIr Keller of Frankfort said that the State Board of Health associationt every aid possible in stamping out this great White Plague in Ken ¬ tricky Mrs Charles Dnllam of Mender son gave an excellent report of the Henderson AntiTubcrculosis Asso- ciation illustrating what can be done iria locality that has real- ized ¬ its needs- A committee was appointed to enlist all fraternal societies in time stale to help in this great fight Western Town Lots Sold Last Monday Messrs Hon Young Co of Hondale New Mexico were in this city in the interest of their new townsite located in Southern New Mexico They exhibited pInt of the new town of Hondale rind sold about 40 lots at auction receiving about 10 per lot- Some of our citizens purchasedas many as four lots that ever pushed a muckrake pen If they are right now in their insinu ¬ rations of guilt they at once brand the Republican party as an organi- zed ¬ band ofassassins and rollup their own guilty sleeves to show to the world their own individual tattooed guilt and sound their con- fession ¬ as accessories before the fact Which dilemma will the y take In either case the people in over ¬ whelming majority will vote Caleb Powers into the office of National Representative and then using the words of the Williamsburg Times in an issue of Nov 1 1907 ° When the platform shall have been broken by the impact of votes great will be the vindication of Caleb Powers when the Hamans shall be hanged upon their platform behind the Georgetown Jail Very truly R N Baldwin r i THE FIGHT Between Powers and Ed ¬ wards is Worming up and Powers Stands More Than an Even Chance Lexington Humid If Caleb Powers of Knox county Kentucky is elected to the next Congress tho national lawmakiig body will have a bran new headliner Rep its that come from the mountains where Mr Powers political activities lire iTow the subject of much comment agree that he stand more than even show to do this thing Caleb Powers was the young Mountain lawyer who was elect Secretary of State on the ticket with W S Taylor GnheJwho was contesting Taylors election was wounded by a shot front Powers office in the old Capitol at Frankfort January 80 10001ivo days later Goebel was declared Gov ¬ error by the General Assembly hut died February 2 without being inaugurated Powers was charged with com plicity in the assassination und has been tried four times in the courts He was convicted three times and the other trial result- ed ¬ in a hung jury He was once sentenced to be hanged and to life imprisonment twice On June 14 1008 ho was pardoned by the present Republican Gov- ernor ¬ A E Willson Powers is now making a con- test ¬ for the seat held by Don C Edwards as Representative of the Eleventh Congressional dis- trict ¬ His platform is elm icily his martyrdom for his party in its efforts to hold Kentucky His opponent Mr Edwards would doubtless tidmit that in the counties composing the district this is a mighty taking platform The normal Republican majority in this district is about twenty thousand The keynote to Powers cant ¬ paign is sounded in a sentiment expressed in a letter addressed in his interest to Republicans of the district by former Governor Taylor who left the State after the assassination of Goebel and has since resided in Indianapolis This reads HAs long as civilization lasts those who make sacrifices for liberty will be gratefully remem ¬ bered The only difficulty Mr Powers is having in his race for Con gross is that not all the Republi ¬ cans of this district or of the State agree that he is entitled to remembrance under the pro ¬ position laid down by his former political association and de ¬ fender The Louisville Evening Post denies vigorously that Mr Pow ¬ ers or Governor Taylor has ever math sacrifices for their party in this State The Post asserts that Gover ¬ nor Taylor surrendered his right to remembrance when ho left the State and his party at a critical time and refused to re ¬ turn and defend himself in tho courts or his party on the plat ¬ form although he was offered a full pardon for any ollensfc against him in connection with the Goebel murder and immuni ¬ ty from arrest and prosecution- It is urged against Powers that ho also fled after the Geobel tragedy and was arrested at Lox ¬ ington with a pardon signed by Governor Taylor in his pocket It is further charged that in prison ant out that lie has con AL Oil In Oklahoma From Tho tinrtloRvillo Examiner All the newspapers in the oil coun ¬ try are elated over the promising conditions evidenced by the in ¬ crease in the price of oil Among time ninny opinions on the subject the following paragraphs from the Muskogee Phoenix appear to tell time story best This announcement means an additonnl revenue rf from 3000 to fl 000 per day to the oil producers of Oklahoma at the present rate of production It also means much betIter ¬ further means that the oil industry of Oklahoma will now settle down to a steady basis and be ranked as one of the solid and permanent in ¬ dustries of the State As further proof of its perma ¬ nency it is to be noted that the Prairie Od and Gas Company is rapidly enlarging its facilities for handling oil throughout the State and that its improvements are ol a permanent character It is laying numerous pipe lines in the Battles vine Glenn Pool and Osage districts and in the Kansas fields The Okla- homa ¬ Pipe Line Company is com- pleting ¬ its great gulf line and to day commenced work on a six inch line from Muskogee to Council Hill to connect the Muskogee field with the main gulf line The Pipe Line Company has been taking oil from the Morris field since March 1st and today it com ¬ mences to take from the Hamilton Switch Pool through the new line Heretofore this oil has been handled inI tion of these companies faith in the future of Oklahoma oil nod the ¬ manency of these fieldsI The result of these movements is a much better feeling among oil pro ducers Conditions the past three years have been rather gloomy for them but a survey of the field must make all admit that the situn ¬ purchnsling deI the bad weather and high jmandand transportation that has obtained in the Okla homa fields have acted as a damper on the business Happily these days are over and prospects in the Okla ¬ homa oil fields were never so good The outlook therefore is that all lines of business will feel the stimu- lus ¬ of the renewed activity and higher prices in oil and there will be an incentive for investment wherever the influences oil industry are apparent which means over all Eastern Oklahoma The situation in fact is one that should stake all Eastern Oklahoma feel very much cheered up- sistentlY turned his talents into commercial channels even going so far as to charge his party 500 for campaign speeches since his pardon and release Republican leaders contend that Representative Edwards whom he seeks to defeat has made a good record andshould be returned Notwithstanding I this Powers is waging a cam ¬ paign that is slaking his oppo ¬ nents exceedingly uncomforta ¬ ble lie is from the mountains and of tho mountains and no ono willlappeal thies or win tho votes of tho mountain people Ho is a man of intellectual ability and nn effective stump speaker Ed- wards has como home from Wash lington to fight for renomination and it is safe to predict that from now Kentucky will witness political ¬ P A i V Aw BASE BALL j t Union College Defeats K S tt D and D College in Games The Deaf and Dumb boys of Djiri ville arrived in our village last Pry daymorning for two games of ball with Union College The U C Boys did not get to ¬ get her in the first few innings and allowed K S Dato score two but that was all allowed them First baseman Golden got his finger broke early in Fridays game and Colcotn who took his place played good iiIclearly awa with both p1Jnsper nil over time field Meniur took his place but he fared little better It Wadkins for U C had them at his l mercy at all stages of the game kJ allowing them 3 hits and strikings out 12 scoreIgettin They were very liberal allowing U C about 15 hits Wndkins again proved stingy allowing only 2 hits Sawyers threw the ball away allow ¬ ing them their two scores The games were very unintersting for U Cwho did not try to play 1 any inside base ball at all This makes U C seventh victory and sofi far undefeated and has not been j scoredon over twice in any game U C would like to measure upwith State Center Georgetown or some J school that could put up at interest ing The second team near classes with the other mountain schools in A this section U C has three goodJ catchers Wadkins McDonald and nndliinfielders side base ball Friday and Saturdays lineup j A 1U fJS 4 Sawyers 2nd b Potter Ragan Brd IJ Napier Faulkner ss Meniur Y L Golden c f Carman Decker I f Hereford W Wadkins r f Elkins 3 Umpires Ports and McCrasson Attendance 250 U Cwill go South about May 11 to cross bats with Carson New- man r Milligun Washington and other Tennessee Colleges- S B M S of London will be here Y Monday May 2 Come and see the game as it will probably be the lust on home grounds SAD ACCIDENT lOne Small Boy Shoots An other While Playing Mayking Ky Apr 22 Special On Kings Creek about 17 miles from this place James Isom age 11 son of exJailer Bona Isom shot 4 Frfday11110rning I the house and was handling w n load- ed A 12gauge shot gun when in some I way it fired the discharge striking the Fields boy in the face Harvey Harris is giving his busi- ness ¬ house on Public Square n fresh cont of paint which adds to the looks of thatsection
Transcript of Mountain advocate (Barbourville, Ky. : 1904 : Weekly...
flE < MOUNTAIN ADVOCATE1
t Entered ON 60cond Class Matter Frtilnv February 10th loot at the Postnfflco nt Barbourvlllo Knox County Ky under Act of Congress of Mnroh Jrd 1870
bnrrruiUIVB Foil Dim KiENnBDo TilE OIU ATEAT AMOUNT or Oooi WK IAN TO TUP TMKOEHT NUXIIEII or PKOPIE
Terms 100 Per Year in Advance BAKBOURVILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY APRIL 29 1910 Seventh Year Vol 7 No I rl
IAVICKED AND
i MALICIOUS
ASSAULEaf tRy the Edwards Faction
V on Governor Willsonr
o leading Edwords Paper Rock
ThrowingrIfF
The Edwards press has let thewildcat out of the sack Ed-
wards men have been ever sinceMr Powers announced himself
K aelcandidate for Congress giverout word that Governor WillsonWits opposed to Powers Theyhave professed remarkable solidtulle for the Executives honorTheir fears lest the Governorsofficial integrity and personalrectitude might be tarnished by
any association with Mr Powers pbw e
rpronounced for Edwards hailconmit1ngto ¬
ted to any such ridiculouslyfalse position They t ow virulently assail Mr Willson 1he Montticello Outlook the mst pro ¬
pounced Edwards paper in theEleventh District assails GovWillson as a hypocrite narrate un grand stand playerdishonest a failure
f In its issue of week before lustthe Outlook writes
It must be sail to his credit9
that he isrn brainyman but athe same time he is full of pre-
judice narrow and hypocriticalS Ilis grand stand play in the par-
don¬
of Caleb Powers was a piecw of hypocrisy so thinly veiled
that it was apparent to even a
pretensotrea1infi e
Y and abroad his hearing of argumentand his great effort to mak-
Jt the public believe he was trying to reach a righteous con
a elusion were truly laughableE because every one knew that he
< know from the beginning th-ai
tho would pardon Caleb Powers
f Ho has boon elected for thatpurpose It was a part of hiunwritten platform
5HIt is also asserted by thoswho go before him to seek an uppointmentorask other favorthat ho invariably makes every
w
applicant believe he is the very
i one he is going to appoint orthat the favor will certainly b
granted when he knows at Utenorchance for appointment or that> ho will not grant the favor This
is a bad practice for a Governoror anybody else It would be
w much better to be openand frank about such matters
It is a matter of sincere rej Bret that a man of Governor
Willson education and experience should make ajust because he is too narrow
f < slid because he lets hie prejudicerun away with him
If a Powers paper had so cxvpressed itself as to Goovernor
t Willson wliat songs of woe fromthe Edwards gang filled the airr
t But the friends of Mr Powershave respect too profound both
1 for Mr Willson and his office tosay aught but things respectfulgrateful and laudatory of the
r Governori Z To think of a paper like the
Otitlook calling itself Republicanl Any wonder that such a-
Ir model Edwards organ should asvita1Villsonta Republican of Republicans honored throughout
rtime Nation
j George EdX rig Williams of Pine> yjlle come down fo see home talks
7 Saturdayk
PROP BALDWINI
Writes Interesting LetterConcerning the
Campaign
Coins Ky April 18 1910Editor Advocate
Allow me a little space in yourvaluable paper to say a few wordsonjgrbeen a constant reader of politicalorgans ol various kinds fro the pastfifteen years but never have I seen
i
anything in print that equals the
audacity and total luck of self rcIspect and lack of respect for the
truth tad decent warfare as is cxihibited by a few of the pro Edwardsorgans in this campaign
I stake my reputation for truthearl veracity as well as my reputation for being a fair judge of a political situation upon the following as-
a
sertionsFromthe da that Caleb Powers
81WiI1sonState of Kentucky these papers thatare now denouncing Caleb Powersfor being n weak public official anda poor party leader and sometimesby vile innucndos insinuate that he
is to blame for the murder nt SenatorWilliam Goebel and the unhappypolitical upheaval which followed
his taking off were then the loudesthistmethods ol political warfare Dud
Powers slake mistakes They for
gave them Was Powers indiscreettakeethe mountain army to FrankfortThese rapers have said more thana hundred times each that no offence ol any kind grew out of thatmovement Did Powers have anyiofeGoebel Nooks Culton Anderson
and others saidu> cs The Wil ¬
liamsburg Times the Mountain
paIpersrailroad Caleb Powers into a felons Ibyspacked jukes and bought and perbyethese papers as unAmericau unpat-riotic unjust and worse than
murderWhatthe people who rend these
papers would like to see just now istheeMountain Echo between February1st 1900 and November 1st 1903
that contained one word derogatoryto the good name of Caleb PowersiNo such editorial can be
inIany Republican paper that isthetyear 1908 when some little talkabout Powers being a candidateagainst our Don put a little vinegarinto the editorial ink jugs i
mimeeder or rather complicity in time murdcr of Goebel but if he is guilty asdescribed by the fiery
del1unciationsIof Tom Campbell 1
fer his lot to that of the Republicanpress who either ignorantly or will-
fully made his cause their cause for
eight long years If Powers isgailtythen it follows as a natural conse-quence that every Republican paperin the State is pnrciccps criminisor accessories after the fact If theydo not deserve the penitentiary orthe home for the feebleminded then
conlnectionTom Campbell or Robert FranklinIn either dilemma they may choose i
to take it follows as a natural con-
sequence
¬
that the Edwards papersare now totally unworthy of belief
as newspapers and wholly incompctent as leaders of political actionIf they were right in declaring Pow ¬
ers innocent for eight long yearsthey are now the foulest slanderers
i1oM C- JIll
p 1i
p
ANTITUBERCULOSIS
PROGRAM OUTLINED
Directors Meet in Louis ¬
ville and Sec fiernerTells of PLns
Will Go Through State With
Camera PhotographingConditions
A meeting of the Board of Directorsof the KiMihicIcy Association lor theStudy and Prevention of Tuherculo
siwas held in the Leather Room ofthe Seel inch Hotel in Louisville atwhich the newly appointed secretare Mr Dugene iCeiner presentedan interesting program lor arousingKentuckv to an active fight againsttnl erenlosis
Mr Kerner told of the work beingdone by some mil the states in thestates in tile East and stated thatKentucky is the first in the Souththat has shown rte active interest in
stamping out this White Plaguewhich claims over 0500 lives nounally in Kentucky
Mr Kerner will go though the-
state armed with a camera takingpictures and collecting statistics of
wilIIgiequaint the people with what he
finds urging them to form Anti Tuberculosis Societies and committees
Ito take up the tight in their respective localities His headquarterswill be ai 215 East Walnut Street
LouisvilleDre P Sprague of Lexing ¬
ton said that a special committeeon tuberculosis had been appointedby the Kentucky State Medical As
sociation which will work in close
coopration with the associationDr S IIr Keller of Frankfort
said that the State Board of Health
associationtevery aid possible in stamping outthis great White Plague in Ken ¬
trickyMrs Charles Dnllam of Mender
son gave an excellent report of theHenderson AntiTubcrculosis Asso-ciation illustrating what can bedone iria locality that has real-
ized
¬
its needs-
A committee was appointed toenlist all fraternal societies in time
stale to help in this great fight
Western Town Lots Sold
Last Monday Messrs Hon YoungCo of Hondale New Mexico
were in this city in the interest oftheir new townsite located inSouthern New Mexico
They exhibited pInt of the newtown of Hondale rind sold about 40lots at auction receiving about 10per lot-
Some of our citizens purchasedasmany as four lots
that ever pushed a muckrake penIf they are right now in their insinu ¬
rations of guilt they at once brandthe Republican party as an organi-
zed¬
band ofassassins and rolluptheir own guilty sleeves to show tothe world their own individualtattooed guilt and sound their con-
fession
¬
as accessories before the factWhich dilemma will the y take
In either case the people in over¬
whelming majority will vote CalebPowers into the office of NationalRepresentative and then using thewords of the Williamsburg Times in
an issue of Nov 1 1907 ° When theplatform shall have been broken bythe impact of votes great will bethe vindication of Caleb Powerswhen the Hamans shall be hangedupon their platform behind theGeorgetown Jail
Very trulyR N Baldwin
r i
THE FIGHTBetween Powers and Ed ¬
wards is Worming upand Powers StandsMore Than an EvenChance
Lexington Humid
If Caleb Powers of Knoxcounty Kentucky is elected tothe next Congress tho nationallawmakiig body will have abran new headliner
Rep its that come from themountains where Mr Powerspolitical activities lire iTow thesubject of much comment agreethat he stand more than evenshow to do this thing
Caleb Powers was the youngMountain lawyer who was electSecretary of State on the ticketwith W S Taylor
GnheJwho was contestingTaylors election was woundedby a shot front Powers office inthe old Capitol at FrankfortJanuary 80 10001ivo dayslater Goebel was declared Gov ¬
error by the General Assemblyhut died February 2 withoutbeing inaugurated
Powers was charged with complicity in the assassination undhas been tried four times in thecourts He was convicted threetimes and the other trial result-ed
¬
in a hung jury He was oncesentenced to be hanged and tolife imprisonment twice On
June 14 1008 ho was pardonedby the present Republican Gov-
ernor¬
A E WillsonPowers is now making a con-
test¬
for the seat held by Don CEdwards as Representative ofthe Eleventh Congressional dis-
trict¬
His platform is elm icilyhis martyrdom for his party in
its efforts to hold Kentucky Hisopponent Mr Edwards woulddoubtless tidmit that in thecounties composing the districtthis is a mighty taking platformThe normal Republican majorityin this district is about twentythousand
The keynote to Powers cant ¬
paign is sounded in a sentimentexpressed in a letter addressedin his interest to Republicans ofthe district by former GovernorTaylor who left the State afterthe assassination of Goebel andhas since resided in IndianapolisThis reads
HAs long as civilization laststhose who make sacrifices forliberty will be gratefully remem ¬
beredThe only difficulty Mr Powers
is having in his race for Congross is that not all the Republi ¬
cans of this district or of theState agree that he is entitled to
remembrance under the pro ¬
position laid down by his formerpolitical association and de ¬
fenderThe Louisville Evening Post
denies vigorously that Mr Pow ¬
ers or Governor Taylor has evermath sacrifices for their partyin this State
The Post asserts that Gover ¬
nor Taylor surrendered his rightto remembrance when ho leftthe State and his party at a
critical time and refused to re ¬
turn and defend himself in thocourts or his party on the plat ¬
form although he was offered afull pardon for any ollensfc
against him in connection withthe Goebel murder and immuni ¬
ty from arrest and prosecution-It is urged against Powers that
ho also fled after the Geobeltragedy and was arrested at Lox ¬
ington with a pardon signed byGovernor Taylor in his pocketIt is further charged that inprison ant out that lie has con
AL
Oil In OklahomaFrom Tho tinrtloRvillo ExaminerAll the newspapers in the oil coun ¬
try are elated over the promisingconditions evidenced by the in ¬
crease in the price of oil Amongtime ninny opinions on the subjectthe following paragraphs from theMuskogee Phoenix appear to tell time
story bestThis announcement means an
additonnl revenue rf from 3000 tofl 000 per day to the oil producersof Oklahoma at the present rate ofproduction It also means much
betIter ¬
further means that the oil industryof Oklahoma will now settle downto a steady basis and be ranked asone of the solid and permanent in ¬
dustries of the StateAs further proof of its perma ¬
nency it is to be noted that thePrairie Od and Gas Company is
rapidly enlarging its facilities forhandling oil throughout the Stateand that its improvements are ol apermanent character It is layingnumerous pipe lines in the Battlesvine Glenn Pool and Osage districtsand in the Kansas fields The Okla-
homa¬
Pipe Line Company is com-
pleting¬
its great gulf line and to daycommenced work on a six inch linefrom Muskogee to Council Hill toconnect the Muskogee field with themain gulf line
The Pipe Line Company hasbeen taking oil from the Morris field
since March 1st and today it com ¬
mences to take from the HamiltonSwitch Pool through the new lineHeretofore this oil has been handledinItion of these companies faith in thefuture of Oklahoma oil nod the ¬
manency of these fieldsIThe result of these movements is
a much better feeling among oil producers Conditions the past threeyears have been rather gloomy forthem but a survey of the field
must make all admit that the situn ¬
purchnslingdeIthe bad weather and highjmandandtransportation that has
obtained in the Oklahoma fields have acted as a damperon the business Happily these daysare over and prospects in the Okla ¬
homa oil fields were never so goodThe outlook therefore is that all
lines of business will feel the stimu-
lus¬
of the renewed activity andhigher prices in oil and there willbe an incentive for investmentwherever the influences oil industryare apparent which means over allEastern Oklahoma The situationin fact is one that should stake allEastern Oklahoma feel very muchcheered up-
sistentlY turned his talents intocommercial channels even goingso far as to charge his party 500for campaign speeches since hispardon and release
Republican leaders contendthat Representative Edwardswhom he seeks to defeat hasmade a good record andshouldbe returned Notwithstanding
I this Powers is waging a cam ¬
paign that is slaking his oppo ¬
nents exceedingly uncomforta ¬
ble lie is from the mountainsand of tho mountains and no ono
willlappealthies or win tho votes of thomountain people Ho is a manof intellectual ability and nneffective stump speaker Ed-wards has como home from Wash
lington to fight for renominationand it is safe to predict thatfrom now Kentucky will witnesspolitical ¬
P
A iV Aw
BASE BALL j
tUnion College Defeats K SttD and D College in
Games
The Deaf and Dumb boys of Djiri
ville arrived in our village last Prydaymorning for two games of ball
with Union CollegeThe U C Boys did not get to ¬
get her in the first few innings andallowed K S Dato score two butthat was all allowed them Firstbaseman Golden got his finger brokeearly in Fridays game and Colcotnwho took his place played goodiiIclearly
awa with bothp1Jnspernil over time field Meniur took hisplace but he fared little better ItWadkins for U C had them at his lmercy at all stages of the game kJallowing them 3 hits and strikingsout 12
scoreIgettinThey were very liberal allowing U
C about 15 hits Wndkins againproved stingy allowing only 2 hitsSawyers threw the ball away allow ¬
ing them their two scoresThe games were very unintersting
for U Cwho did not try to play 1any inside base ball at all Thismakes U C seventh victory and sofifar undefeated and has not been jscoredon over twice in any gameU C would like to measure upwithState Center Georgetown or some Jschool that could put up at interesting The second team near classeswith the other mountain schools in A
this section U C has three goodJcatchers Wadkins McDonald and
nndliinfieldersside base ball
Friday and Saturdays lineup j
A1UfJS4Sawyers 2nd b PotterRagan Brd IJ NapierFaulkner s s Meniur Y
L Golden c f CarmanDecker I f HerefordW Wadkins r f Elkins
3
Umpires Ports and McCrassonAttendance 250
U Cwill go South about May11 to cross bats with Carson New-
manr
Milligun Washington andother Tennessee Colleges-
S B M S of London will be here Y
Monday May 2 Come and see thegame as it will probably be the luston home grounds
SAD ACCIDENT
lOne Small Boy Shoots An
other While Playing
Mayking Ky Apr 22 SpecialOn Kings Creek about 17 milesfrom this place James Isom age 11son of exJailer Bona Isom shot 4
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Harvey Harris is giving his busi-ness
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house on Public Square n freshcont of paint which adds to thelooks of thatsection
