The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1922 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
LAND OF AMAZING FERTILITY
American Settler In Western Canada
Telia of Splendid Crops Raised
Year After Year.
Harold J. Gregory, of Lowe Farm.
Wunltulia, write* as follows:
"When 1 came to Canada from Lex-
ington, III.. III the fall of 1013. It was
with the spirit of adventure anil
throne'1 curiosity. I always Imagined
that crossing the boundary line took
me beyond the limits of civilization
Into 'No Mans I.and.' and that this
country abounded with bears, moose,
caribou and other wild game. Imagine
my disappointment when 1 reached
my friend s home Just In time to help
him through a month of harvest
wheat, halley, llnx and oats. I re-
alined then the possibilities flint this
almost untouched territory held open
to the home-seeking settler, with Its
rich, virgin soil, good markets, rail-
road systems, graded roads, etc.
"In the spring of 11)14 I came back
with the Intention of testing out my
Judgment concerning the soli's grain-
growing powers. This I did with com-
plete satisfaction. I am now farming
480 acres of land at Lowe farm, and
have raised crops of equal value to the
purchase price of the land on which
It was raised two or three different
times I have found this land to be
superior In fertility to any land that
I have ever seen, and I have seen land
In Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas,
Oklahoma. Kansas, Wisconsin, and
parts of Minnesota and North Dakota.
"The present low prices of machin-
ery make this year an exceptional one
In Its opportunities to the man who
wants to make a new start under
favorable conditions. Why raise
corn for 50 cents a bushel on $300 per
acre land, when you can get good Im-
proved wheat land for $.">0 per acre,
Hnd wheat selling for $1.15 at your
local elevator? I was enabled to pur-
chase a Cray Dort automobile from
the profit of a hay crop produced In
one year. This district offers good
facilities for stock raising and there
are special opportunities for the bog
raiser."
Information regarding all districts
of Western Canada muy be had frotu
any agent of the Canadian govern-
ment. Advertisement.
Ignorant.
Husband—Did you ever notice, my |
dear, that a loud talker is generally
nil Ignorant person?
Wife—Well, you needn't shout so.
I'm not deaf.
news items gathered from
all parts of oklahoma
OKLAHOMA TO FIGHT DAM
LeFlore County Farmers Claim That
Damming Poteau Stream Will
Wreck Fertile Farm*.
Washington. Members of the Ok-
lahoma delegation In congress are op-
posing vigorously the passage oi ,i
hill recently introduced in the senate
by Senator Caraway of Arkansas lo
authorize ihe city of Fort Smith, Ark .
to dam Poteau river, which flows inln
the Arkansas liver near the stat.1
line.
Fort Smith wants to dam the river,
U is understood, to ptirlly the city
water supply, by shutting off had wa-
ter from I'oteau river and also to
prevent possible damage lo the wa-
ter system by floods from that river.
Citizens of LeFlore county, Oklahoma,
however are flooding Oklahoma mem-
bers In congress with letters claim-
ing that if the river is dammed it
would result in overflowing hundreds
or acres of fertile farm lands in that
county.
Representatives Charles D. ( urtei
also received a letter from a Fort
Smith attorney asserting that l'ort
Smith would not be able to pay dan-
ages resulting from flooding the farm
lands.
'ATKINS CASE WON BY PAGE
Supreme Court Reverses Judgment in
Favor of Tulsa Millionaire.
Oklahoma City. Charles Page. Tul-
sa millionaire, won the famous "Tom-
my Atkins" case in Ihe supreme court
over Sally Atkins, Indian woman,
who had been granted a judgment
for $1,960,001) against Page by Judge
j l.ucien 11. Wright at Sapulpa. The
supreme court reversed the judge-
ment entered by Wright and instruct-
ed that a judgement in favor ol Page :
he recorded.
Scores oi sensations have occurred
since the case was filed by Sally At- j
kins on May 1, 1920* Serious charges
brought, against Judge Wright result-
ed in a referee being appointed by the
supreme court to Investigate his ac (
t|on in connection with Ihe case.
Judge Robert M. Italney. the referee, i
reported to the court that personal
bias in favor of I.. O. Lytle, attorney, I
swayed Judge Wright in his decision!
of Ihe case.
Ctories of
° GREAT
INDIANS
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
For your daughter's sake, use Red
Cross Bull Blue In the laundry. She
will then have tliut dainty, well-groom-
ed appearance tliut girls admire. Ad-
vertlfcemeut.
Be careful toduy—tomorrow may be
too liife.
"Nature Is the nrt of God."—Sir
Thomas Browne.
TRUCK GROWING PLANS
Expert to be Hired by Association to
Grade and Market Crops.
Stigler. — Agricultural development
in Haskell county as fostered by the
chamber of commerce of Stigler, took
on added life when the Haskell Coun-
ty Truck & Fruit Growers association
mot here anil decided to employ a
manager lo supervise the [lacking and
grading of products anil to attend to
their marketing. The association will
use a uniform pack and nothing but
graded products will be shipped.
Although still an infant reports sub
mitted to the meeting showed the as
sociatlon members this year would
market sixty acres of Irish potatoes,
fifty acres of cantaloupes, twenty
acres of tomatoes, sixty acres of cab
bage, 150 acres of sweet potatoes
twenty acres of strawberries anil
would ship from six to eighi cars of
peaches, it was estimated that with
in .the near rulure filly acres of can
taloupes would be added to. the
sociatiou's acreage.
All Played Out at
Quitting Time?
You Need
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The World'# Gneate t Tonic
New Shoes
Old Shoes
Tight Shoes
all feel the same
-j if you shake
into them
some
ALIEN'S FOOT-EftSE
The Antiseptic, Healing Powder
lor the Feet
Takes the friction from the shoe, fresh-
ens the feet and gives new viRor. At
inlsht, when your feet are tired, sore
and swollen from walking; and dancing.
Sprinkle ALLKN'8 FOOT-EASK In the
foot hath and eu|oy the bll ot leet
pounds of Powdfr for the
F«*t were u«ed by our Army and Nary aur-
itur the war.
- ALLEN'S FOOT-
KING PIN
PLUG TOBACCO
Known as
"that good kind"
Qry it-andyou
will know why
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BOY PROBLEM IS STUDIED
Rotarians at Walters Plan 100 Percent
School Attendance
Walters. Walters Rotarians have
completed a survey of the boys be
I ween 6 and 18 years old in the cit y
to determine the number of delin-
ouents, the number not attending
school and other boy facts.
It has been ascertained that, there
are 285 boys between these ages, of
whom seventeen are not attending
school. Nine of the seventeen ar-
rived at the school age during the
year.
It is the purpose of the Rotary club
to see that there is a 100 percent
school attendance of boys between
these ages, and it is their plan to so
organize the boys that the club will
be informed at all times as to their
activities. To aid in this work, a
boys' camp is to be established in
the city park, and the Boy Scout and
l)e Molay movements are to be pro-
moted.
CLU8 WORK ON INCREASE
Creek County Boys and Girls' Club
Now have 200 Membership.
Bristow. Special Boys' and Girls'
club has taken a great forward step
in Creek county the past year. There
now are nearly 200 boys and girls en-
rolled in the clubs working for better
farming conditions in this section.
The corn club with ninety members
is Ihe largest in the county. The pig |
lub has sixty-three members, call ,
lub, live; cotton club, 37; peanut i
club, twenty-seven; kaffir club, thir
teen; sweet potato club, fourteen; ir
ish potato club, live.
ARDMORE PLANS HOSPITAL
Commissioners of Carter County Con-
template $150,000 Building.
Ardmore.—Carter county commis-
sioners have under advisement a pe-
tition presented to them by the t'ait-
jr county Medical association propos-
ing the construction ot a Carter coun-
y hospital.
Present plans call for a $150,000
.itructnre. A one hour free clinic will
he given each day and surgical work
will be performed without charge tor
the poor of the county, according to
lie committee in charge ol plans.
Life Termer Escapes.
McAlester.—Clarence Watson, life
termer, made a successful escape from
the state penitentiary here. Watson
had been "sent up" from Mayes coun-
ty for murder and had served ii\e
years of his term at Ihe time of hi*
escape. He is 28 years old, has
brown hair, dark complexion, is of
medium height and slender build. He
was a trusty and was doing some
wo.k outside th- walls when he made
his break. Officers believe that he
headed south.
Gas Company Wants Increase.
Bristow.—Notice that the Bristow
Gas company will ask the corpora-
tion commission to increase the gas
rate in Bristow from 50 to 60 cents
has been served bv officials ol the
company. The new raie asked is
that charged here before Jau. t, 19«-.
Officials of the company state that
they cannot operate on present rates
without losing money. Gas lutes now
in effect In communities surrounding
Bristow are much luther than those
being charged in Bristow, it Is su'd.
Bonds Defeated at Edmond.
Edmond. — Hacking the required
two-thirds majority, the $70,000 school
bond issue was defeated, at an elec
tlon here. The vote was 520 for ami
49fi against issuing the bonds. 'Ihe
proposition for increasing the school
levy 10 mills was carried by a vote
of 540 to 351. Ballot Ing was the
heaviest in the history of the city.
Marietta School Destroyed by Fire.
Ardmore - The Love Valley Bchoc,
near Marietta his been destroyed b;.
are following an explosion.
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Governor Signs Deficiency Order..
To provide funds for the immediate
•eiief of destitute sick and disabled
elerans, Governor Robertson has
signed a deficiency order for $25,000 j
o he expended in small amounts tor j
.lie sustenance of needy former serv-
ice men oh the recommendation oi
he ISeil Cross or the American l^e- !
glon. An appropriation of $50,000
made at the last session of the legis 1
lature for veterans' relief purposes |
has been exhausted, the entire amount I
going out in payments of from $50 tc j
$100, after each case had been re-
viewed by the Red Cross and Ameri-
n Legion committee.
Necessity Shown By Survey
In signing the deficiency order Gov- j
ernor Robertson declared that a sur-
vey of soldiers' relief agencies had
revealed the necessity of tunds for im- I
mediate expenditure in caring for Ok
lahoma's needy former service men.
Urgent recommendations by bolii the
Red Cross and the state department
of the American Legion in favor of
such action had been filed.
In the communication from the
American Leg'ou Hughes B. Davis,
commander of the department of Ok-
lahoma, state*: "It Is my under-
standing the apvopriation for soldiers'
relief work in Oklahoma -is exhausted.
I also understand that there are be-
tween {10.000 and $15,000 in claims
already approved by the committee
of the Red Cro^s and the American
I enion. I have communicated with
t!.« executive committee in ths eight
congressional districts and they are
unanimous in the belief that thare is
great need of more money in their
districts at this tiive and are of the
opinion that ir the ouolic was inform-
ed on the subject it would whole-
heartedly approve 'he issue of defi- j
clency warrants to meet this need. |
It is my opinion thai the sum ot $25,-
000 is badly needed for this work. The
American Legion would not ask the
stale for assistance except that our |
unfortunate buddies are in dire need.
The $25,000 made available through
the governor's order will be expended
under direction of the governor on
the recommendation of the i nited
States Public Health service, depart-
ment of Oklahoma, th* secretary of
any county Red Cross association,
and of any post commander or ofTi- i
cer of the statae department of the
American Legion.
Officers Deny Klan Affiliation.
Emphatic denials have been made
by leading national guard officers as
having affiliations with the Ku Klux 1
Klan . |
WTille a numfcer of names of offi-
cers high in the Oklahoma guant have
been linked with the Ulan, following J
the order issued by Governor Rebert- j
ron that all nn mbers of the national
guard organizations having member-
' ship In the klan should sever at once
all conections with one organization
or the other, no positive proof of such
affiliation has been advanced.
• opyrlgm. Wenteru
SHABBONA, A POTTAWATOMIE;
"WHITE MAN'S FRIEND"
MANY Indians have shunned the
name of "white man's friend"
but to one II was a proud title. Sliali-
bona, chief of the Pottawatomie!!, curi-
ously enough, was neither a chief nor
a member of that tribe by birth. He
wus an Ottawa, nephew of tlie great
Pontine. Having married a Pottawa-
tomie woman, he was adopted Into the
tribe, given the name of Shnbbonii,
"Built Like a Bear," and eventually
was made peace chief.
Shaliboua's llrst service lo the whiles
occurred oil the day of the Fort Dear-
born massacre when he and t lilef
Sauganash saved John Kinzle, the
trader, and Ms family from the blood
mad Pottawatomie warriors. During
the Winnebago war of 18-7 he won
tirst the title of "the white man's
friend" by persuading tils people not
to Join tiie Wlnnebagos on the war-
path.
But it was during the Black Hawk
war that the Pottawatomie chieftain
proved himself the white man's friend
indeed. In February, 1832, Black
Hawk attempted to form a confedera-
tion of the Sacs and Foxes, l'ottawa-
toniies and Wlnnehagoes to tight the
whites. White Cloud, the Winnebago
chief, favored the union and declared
that 'Mf all the tribes will Join us our
warriors will he like the trees of the
forest." "Yes." replied Shabbona, "But
the soldiers of Ihe whites will outnum-
ber the leaves on the trees." ihe
Pottawatomies did not Join.
Shabbona was not content with bidd-
ing his own warriors quiet. After
Stillman's defeat had left Ihe whole
northern frontier of Illinois unpro-
tected, he set out to warn the whites
that the hostiles were coining. A few-
fanners persisted in staying and a
second time Ihe chief, facing death at
the hands of Black Hawk's warriors,
carried the alarm. The settlers who
refused to heed this warning died in
the dreadful massacre on Indian creek.
Shabbona served General Atkinson
faithfully and well as a scout during
the remainder of the campaign and
j for once in.history a friendly Indian
■ was rewarded by the whites. Ihe
j government excepted Shabbona and his
| family from the order removing all
I Ihe Pottawatomies to a reservation
In Kansas and gave him a pension.
But land speculators took possession
nf his tract while he was visiting his
tribe. However, citizens who appreci-
ated the value of his services raised
money to buy land on the Illinois river
and gave Ihe old chief a home for the j
rest of his days.
lie died there July 17, 1859, and is j
burled in Morris, HI.
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Why take a risk when it is so easy to have
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* \
Instead of Kalsomine or Wall Paper
Alabastine. either in simple single colors or the many
hued onyx effect so rich and so easily produced by the
new Alabastine Opaline process, will give you wall
which are germ proof-wall! in harmony with your
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taste or fancy.
To obtain Alabastine effect* you must use genuine Alabastine
Be sure to look for the cross and circle pnnted m red on every
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Faint Praise.
"What do you think of it?" asked
the bard of the editor who sat rend-
ing his manuscript with a dubious
air.
"You write well."
"Thank you. My friends tell me I
have some literary talent."
"Yes," continued the editor,t Ignor-
ing the last remark, "you make a
pretty capital T),' and your 'y's,' which
so many people stumble over, are as
perfect specimens of penmanship as
I ever saw."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
However things may seem, no evil
thing is success, and no good thing is
failure.
The best way to get ahead Is to use
the one you have.
OSCEOLA, THE SEMINOLE, THE
INDIAN HAMLET
AMONG all great Indians Osceola
(Asi-yaholo—"Black Drink Hal-
liier") is the most romantic. A pic-
turesquely dressed figure, his dark
gloomy eyes gleaming bt*ieath a turban
decorated with three drooping ostrich
plumes, he moves across the stage of
Indian history—a red Hamlet.
Osceola was the principal leader in
the Seminole war of 1835, which origi-
nated in a treaty made in 1821. It
provided for the immediate cession of
the Seminoles' best lauds in Florida
and their removal west of the Missis-
sippi at the end of twenty years. When
trouble over its execution developed
In 1832 the Seminoles were offered an-
other treaty requiring their removal
within three years.
Although seven chiefs accepted Ihe
treaty Osceola and the younger lead
ers, declaring that they had been de-
ceived, refused to sign. They carried
their protest to Washington. Hdt
President Jackson was determined
that they must go west. In a council
with General Thompson, the Indian
agent, Osceola proved that he was
equally determined. Bushing up to the
table on which the treaty lay, he
plunged his knife clear through the
paper and deep into the wood and ex-
claimed passionately, "The only treaty
I will execute is with THIS!"
After a second unsuccessful confer-
ence General Thompson ordered Osce-
ola thrown Into prison in irons. Then
he agreed to sign. But he. was only
temporizing, for the humiliation had
aroused the tiger In the Seminole's
heart and he resolved on war. In the
summer of 18315 he surrounded 100
soldiers under Major Dade sent against
the Indians and killed every man ex-
cept three. On the same day he shot
down General Thompson.
Then he loosed a storm of destruc-
tion upon the settlers of Florida.
"When Asl-yaholo's name is whispered
the white man shakes with the swamp
ague and his gun drops to the ground"
was the boast of one of his chiefs.
Four generals were sent successively to
conquer the Seminoles and all of them
i failed.
Then General Jesup took command.
1 Maddened by the popular outcry for
; decisive action, Jesup summoned Osce-
ola to a conference under a tlag of
j truce and In violation of the most sa-
cred etvblem in war lie detained the
chief and put him In prison. Osceola
was sent to Fort Moultrie, S. C. Here,
his proud spirit broken by the manner
of his capture and his Imprisonment,
he died in January, 1838.
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