Prague Patriot (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1907 Page: 3 of 6
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COUNTY SEAT MATTER
BACK TO COMMITTEE
QUESTION OF REMOVAL REQUIREMENTS IS THE MAIN POINT OF
CONTENTION—SOME CHANGES MADE—INITIATIVE AND REFER*
ENDUM UP FOR CONSIDERATION AND COMMITTEE REPORTS
ON SEGREGATED COAL LANDS
GUTHRIE: Alarmed at Inroads made j ty and before the year 19U9, the county
| seat may bo removed In any county by
majority vote. Provided, however,
I that where the county seat Is within
I six miles of the geographical center of
I the county, 60 per cent of the votes shall
•quired to move it to any town
! which is not at least one mile nearer
I the canter of the county.
After January 1, a two-thirds
The committee of the whole had pre- I majority vote shall be required to re-
vlously voted to confirm the locations of , move the county seat of any county and
all county seats as named In the report I
except in Moinan, Harper and Qeckham
by insurgents on the slate report of the I
county boundaries committee locating !
county seats temporarily, the organlza- |
tion forces Thursday afternoon succeed-
ed by a small majority vote in having I
the further consideration of the report
taken out of the hands of the committee !
of the whole, and referred back to the
county boundaries committee.
counties. The locations were passed
over until after other locations had been
made. By this action the locations in
these counties will be sidetracked until
the county boundaries committee sees
fit to submit another report.
The first hole was shot in the com-
mittee report when by a vote of 42 to 41,
Eufaula was given the county seat in Mc-
Intosh county, displacing Checotah, the
committee's choice. The organization
lections shall be held no oftener than
once each ten years.
The committee made no recommenda-
tion on the four counties that had been
referred back to them Thursday.
It developed Friday that Moinan coun-
ty had -not been referred back to the
committee as was generally supposed. F.
W. Hayes, chairman of the committee
of the whole, stated that the convention
had adopted the section of the commit-
tee's report asking that tlie county seat
of Moman county be located by the con-i
vention and that action took it out of
got its second fright when a motion was
Wednesday on the removal o? tlie capital ] the matters referred to the committee,
of Grant county from Pond Creek to Med- j A combination of the conservatives and
ford. The champions of the report got ; prohibitionists in the convention secured
their final scare when the Insurgents got the adoption of an amendment to the
vered that the county | second section of the initiative and ref-
erendum clause raising the per cent ne-
cessary to initiate an amendment to the
together and discov
boundaries committee, a majority of
whom had located county seats in their
own home towns, hnd practlcnlly made
the locations permanent by stipulating
that a rival town against each tempor-
ary location must put up a petition
signed by 25 per cent of the voters to
even get a place on the ballot.
A motion to give towns other than
the temporary locations a chance to get
on the ballot by securing the names of
cent of the voters of the
•onstitution from 8 per cent to 15 per
cent.
Discussion of this section occupied the
entire afternoon, and at the hour of
adjournment the section h?ul been va-
riously amended but not finally adopted.
10 per
county
to the petition had as good chance of
passing when the Murray-Haskell organ-
ization succeeded in getting the
vhole
GUTHRIE: The special committee of
the constitutional convention on segregat-
ed coal and asphalt lands in the Indian
Territory made its final report to the
convention Friday in the form of a con-
gressional memorial notifying congress
matter referred back to the boundaries ;inti the president that the state of Okla-
committee. : iioma desires to open negotiations with
The insurgent forces were recruited by i tho federal government and at an early
the fact that a number of Oklahoma dele- | ,iate purchase the lands.
gates who came from Oklahoma towns The committee is of the opinion that
. *— tv.ir.ia t^G ian(js can be purchased for about
$15,000,000. The lands embrace one of the
most valuable mineral deposits in the
southwest, and the committee proposes
state ownership and state operation.
from Oklahoma towns
not county seats, want the two-thirds
requirement abolished, and want an op-
portunity of removing «*ninty seats on n
majority vote even in old counties, lhey
argue that the county seats in Oklahoma
were not fixed by the people and should
rot be given an advantage. There Is
also a strong demand that county seats
may be removed in Indian Teritory by a
majority vote, regardless of the geo-
graphical center.
The initiative and referendum was
called up and the first section providing ,ions passed up to th
that the people shall reserve the right to ! limitation of suffrag
enact or reject laws or amendments inde-
pendent of the legislature, was passed in
committee of the whole. Kornegay of
Vinita opposed this section, i ec ai nt.
Chairman George Henshaw, of the
committee on suffrage, states that the
committee is at present working on the
proposition of woman suffrage and that
they will be ready to report in a very
few days. There have been two proposl-
committee on the
one making an
educational qualification and the other
the poll tax clause. It is very likely
that both of these will be rejected and
that there will be a report favoring un-
clause
the
that The' proposed measure as now drawn I ilm|ted suffrage. Speaking of the mat-
violates the terms of the enabling act. tPr Mr Henshaw said: "1 am In favor
'in at least one dozen places, and that its | nf making suffrage unlimited. I do not
adoption will be the surest way to get the t.eHeve
constitution of Oklahoma turned down at | of any
Washington.
T ate Friday afternoon the committee on lhls matter.
on" counties and county boundaries
brought in a special report recommend-
ing an amendment to a section of their
former report, prescribing the manner
In which county seats may be £move°-
The proposed amendment pro\ < es i
„here a change of county sea Is de-
sired. not less than 25 per cent of the
inhabitants of the county shall sign
petition to the governor within four
months after the ratification of the con-
stitution. When such petition Is filed
It shall be the duty of the governor to
call an election In the county within 70 j thP homestead
* To' P'*™1 on ,he the "amP
of any town must be
in restricting the qualifications
voter. It makes a better political
j and social condition and my opinion is
' that the convention will be very broad
"Delegate Fete Hanraty, chairman of
the committee on Labor and Arbitration,
states that the work of that committee
is well under hand and that In a few
days they will be able to report to the
convention. He says that the eight hour
there will be a proviison making all oper-
there will be a provision making all aper-
four | ators refer their labor troubles to a
' state board of arbitration.
On Monday, Fr
18, forty acres of land,
Martin Lowe, a full
blood Creek Indian, will be sold by secret
bids. The land lies in the heart of We-
petitioned for by j leetka, and is desirable for townsite pur-
♦ inn resident voters of the poses. Three acres <
not less than | ^ ^ condemned for school purp
county. shall have once bids will be op'
Until the county seat snau i v« (
been located by the people In a
it have already
§. The
ed in the office of Tains
Bixh?
burford may land it
Claim Made He Will Be Judge of the
Western Oklahoma District
•WASHINGTON; Judge John 11
ford, chief justice of th-
pri me court, who is her
clalniB for the position
of the Western district <
of Oklahoma, had an h
with Attorney General
later called upon the president
cm leaders who are onto the
claim that Judge Burford will win.
It is practically settled wh
and clerks of t
Bur-
. Oklahoma su-
b pressing his
,f federal judge
f the new state
jur's conference
Bonaparte and
TWO PUT 27 TO FLIGHT
dlstric
nathy, of Oklahom;
ship of the Western
pull through the president dlr
s Marshal
Battle With Winchesters on Territory
Oil Lease—Invaders Hold the Derrick
SAPULPA: Claiming to be employes
of the Texas Oil company. J. M. Sloan
and J. S. Sharp, armed with Winchesters
drove a band of men. twenty-seven em-
ployes of Litchfield & Sawyer, off the
Zeek Morris farm near Sapulpa and took
possession of a derrick" which had just
Cpi- been erected. In the controversy several
situation I "hots were fired. The trouble arises out
of a contest over the lease.
arshal
federal districts j
Marshal
will get the m
Both <
n the land
federal
gets
ct.
rter. of the
his
Bout hern dl'sVrict of the Indian Terrltor,
fs slated for marshal of the East"" dis-
trict of Oklahoma. He is a 1
Mrs Roosevelt and gets the place on ac-
count Of his relation, together with
fact that he has made an cfflclm
0f«'harles Watson, brother of Represen-
tative Watson, of Indiana, is t
ampanles have leaj
edence of which
court for decision. A bi
brought In makes the leas
valuable. 5£eek Morris, owner c
tne land, is serving time in the Kansn
penitentiary for giving fraudulent lease.
Solan is general manager of the Okie
ho in a Iron Works at Tulsa and Sharp
in the leasing department of the Tex;i
company which is building a pipe lir
from Tulsa to the Gulf.
emplo
lerk
of the Western district unless the pro
gramme is changed and I. 1 . U.irr
of Muskogee, is to
Eastern district. 11
court at Muskogee. His pull cot
through Speaker Cannon. He used
run a newspaper in Cannon's town.
clerk *
is now clerk
>f the
jule Bryant, a young man
at the Yukon Milling company's eleva-
tor at Minco, was so terribly crushed by
being caught in the machinery that ho
ille.l a few hours afterward. He was en-
tirely stripped of clothing and every bone
In his body was broken before the en-
r. attracted by his screams, stopped
ngines.
gine
ASYLUM SITE IS SAFE
$62,000 IN I
LLEOAL WARRANTS
Chickasaw
Indian Officers Have Issued
That Amount
WASHINGTON: Secretary Hitchcock
has submitted to congress a statement
showing the Chickasaw Indian officials
have Issued warrants amounting to tS2,-
000 without approval of the department.
This makes them Illegal. The Items In-
clude 11,876 overdrawn as salary by
Governor Johnston and 18,584 overdrawn
cls salary by members of the council.
Senate Legalizes Act Locating It at Fort
Supply
WASHINGTON: The senate passed a
bill legalizing the act of the Oklahoma
territorial legislature In locating the in-
sane asylum at Kort Supply. The. bill
has already pnssed the house. All that
now remains to make It a law is the
president's signature.
The action means that the asylum will
tie located at Fort Hupply, and with It
end* a feud of long standing in Okla-
homa as to the asylum locatlou.
! CONVENTION ACTS
ON COUNTY SEATS
GUTHRIE: Thirty-nine county seats
in the state of Oklahoma were located
! by the constitutional convention at its
Wednesday's session, and but one change
In the report of the committee on coun-
ties and county boundaries was made.
When the day's session closed Major
county was on the boards with a con-
test between Fairview and Cleo for the
county seat,
A county seat contest which has lasted
thirteen yars, been twice in the terri-
torial legislature, once decided by a pop-
ular vote and then tied up in the courts,
was finally settled when the convention
voted 54 to 29 to make Medford the
county seat of Grant Bounty, in lieu of
Pond Creek. This was the only Instance
in which an amendment prevailed to
the report of the county boundary com-f
mittee, and is a distinct triumph for N.
Hendricks, who championed it on the
floor.
At the opening of the afternoon session
on motion of Hering of Klk City, Beck-
ham county was passed until the other
county seats are decided upon. The
next ten counties in alphabetical ^order
were adopted without contest.
When Lehigh was named as the slilre
town of Coal county, Wood of Scipio
moved to amend by substituting Coalgate
for Lehigh. In the discussion that fol-
lowed Henshaw. a member of the county
boundary committee, stated that the lo-
cation of the county seat of Coal coun-
ty had been left by the committee to
Delegate Willams of that county. Boone
Williams, delegate from 1-ehlgh de-
fended his position in asking that Le-
high be nnmed as the county
seat by displaying affidavits and statis-
tics to show that the center of popula-
tion was about that town. The motion
to amend was tabled and the
naming Lehigh was adopted.
The next contest was in Delaware
county, where Edmonson moved
change the county sent from Grove to
Kansas. The amendment was laid on
the table with slight debate and
committee report was concurred In.
The next objection was raised when
Harper county was reached. Harned of
Ringwood said that he had been
formed that the town of lluffalo, which
was named as the county seat of Harper
county is an imaginary place and that
no such town exists. He sent to the
clerk and had read a statement declar-
ing that the townsite of Buffalo had but
recently been laid out. containing not a
house nor an inhabitant, and that it was
the property of an officer of the conven-
tion, O. Ci. Harper, one of the assistant
clerks. The statement alleged further
that llrules, a town of from 75 to 100
inhabitants, is within a mile of the pro-
posed county seat.
Delegate K:. R. Williams replied Im-
mediately,' declaring that the town of
Brules had only two families, with a to-
tal population of but seven Inhabitants.
He declared that during the holidays he
had called a meeting of the residents
of the county at Brules and that at
tills meeting, attended by more than
300 citizens, it was decided to locate
the county seat in the exact center of
the county and give it this name of
Buffalo. Acting on that consideration
alone, he returned to the convention
a id asked that the county seat be lu-
cated at Buffalo. After further discus-
sion Harper county was passed, to be
disposed of when the other county seats
are located.
The next division occurred when Jef-
ferson county was reached and a long
debate ensued on a motion by Edley to
change the county seat from Ryan to
Waurika. When the vote was taken
the committee report was sustained by
the usual majority.
The following county seats thus far
have b«n definitely established:
Adair county, Westville: Alfalfa, Cher-
okee: Atoka, Atoka; Beaver, Beaver
City: Blaine, Watonga: Bryan, Durant;
Caddo, Anadarko; Canadian, El Reno;
Carter. Ardmore; Cherokee. Tahlequah;
Choctaw, Hugo; Cimarron. Kenton;
Cleveland. Norman; Coal, Lehigh; Com-
anche, Lawton; Rogers, Claremore;
Craig, Vinita; Custer, Arapaho; Dela-
ware, Grove; Dewey, Taloga; Ellis.
Grand; Garfield. Enid; Garfield. Falls
Valley; Grady. Chickasha; Frant, Med-
ford; Greer, Mangum; Haskell, Stigler;
Hughes, Holdenville; Jackson. Altus;
Jefferson. Ryan; Johnston, Tishomingo;
Kay, Newkirk; Kingfisher, Kingfisher;
Kiowa, Hobart; Latimer. Wilburton; Le
Flore, Poteau; Lincoln, Chandler; l gan,
VACCINATE CHILDREN
Oklahoma Board of Health Taking Steps
to Check Smallpox
GUTHRIE: Strict orders to the coun-
ty health officers for the checking of
the smallpox epidemics In the various
counties in Oklahoma have been issued
bv the Oklahoma board of health after
its meeting here and certain county of-
ficers are to be removed for negligence
in the performance of their duties. Com-
plaints were received from several coun-
ties in Oklahoma of smallpox and failure
on the part of physicians to report their
cases. The worst complaints com** from
Comanche, Kiowa and Lincoln counties.
Orders are to be Issued for the prosecu-
tion of physicians falling to comply with
the law by reporting their cases.
A letter was also sent out Instructing
the county health officers to summon im-
mediately a meeting of the county board
of health for the purpose of requiring
vaccination of all school children in dis-
tricts where smallpox Is known to exist.
The county health officer is instructed to
ask the co-operation of the county super-
intendents of public schools.
Incidentally at the meeting suggestions
to the committee on public health, sani-
tation and practice of medicine anil phar-
macy of the constitutional convention,
embodying the views of the board of
health on certain of the provisions that
should be placed in the constitution were
prepared. It is suggested that a board
of health be provided for with such pow-
ers as shall be given by law ;or the pre-
scribing of the qualifications of practi-
tioners of medicine and surgery and the
revocation of medical licenses. It 1* rec-
(flnmended that the board of health be
given absolute powers In quarantine mat-
ters, the collections of vital statistics
and the supervision of food Inspection.
HE INCLUDES CHILOCCO
Commissioner Leupp Wants It and Other
Indian Colleges Abolished
WASHINGTON: Frances E. Leupp.
commissioner of Indian affairs, wants
Haskell institute at Lawrence, the Chll-
>, the school south of Arkansas City,
and all other non-reservation Indian
schools abolished. He made an argument
In favor of such action before the senate
committee on Indian affairs. He sug-
ted that tlie schools be abolished grad-
ually and the buildings and grounds
turned over to the states where they are
located. He said that Carlisle should be
the one lopped off this year. Next year
he suggested Haskell and Chilocco.
His theory h that Carlisle is too re-
mote from Indian surroundings. It is
the largest of all Indian schools main-
tained by the government, having an en-
rollment this year of l,02f pupils. Has-
kell comes second with 834 and Chilocco
third with 778. By lopping off the three
big schools this year and next he says
it will be comparatively easy to abandon
the other twenty-two schools of that
class.
Mr. Leupp believes the way to civilize
Indians is to make them work an to
force them into schools with white pupils.
He claims that a good per cent of gradu-
ates of the Indian schools drift back to
the old Indian life. If they wero educat-
ed with the white children and forced
to work he says it would be a compara-
tively short time until they cAuld take
care of themselves the same as whites
are now forced to do.
The members of the committee who
have such schools within their states do
not look with favor on the Leupp scheme
and will oppose It at this session. Has-
kell Institute Is almost as big an institu-
tion in Kansas as the army post either
at Riley or Leavenworth and the at-
tempt of the Indian commissioner to ab-
olish It will no doubt raise a storm of
protest In Kansas. Southern Kansas and
Oklahoma people will no doubt protest
against the abandonment of Chilocco.
The twenty-five non-reservation schools
for Indians maintained by the govern-
ment had an enrollment bust year of
9,279 pupils.
Senator Long of Kansas, member of
the senate Indian committee will oppose
the abandonment of the schools.
"Kansas is well equipped with state
Institutions now," said he, "I don't know
of any use the state could make of the
Haskell property. If the state did take
It over it will have to spend much money
to maintain It. The government now
spends the money and the state Is bene-
fited. I am in favor of a continuation of
the present plan."
Farmers' Co-Operative Union
Of America =====
How about your split log drag? They TYPES OF SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
are surely doing the work up iu Gray-
son County.
If there are not enough farmers in
the Unions to control and keep down
those elements that some say are at
all times threatening to "work" the Un-
ion. it is a real good time to get out
and hustle In a tew more farmers.
Don't you think so?
Don't let the children miss school a
single day. It is often now or never in
getting a schooling, and you cannot af-
ford to have the lack of an education
for your child charged up to your care
lessness. You are already too deeply
in debt to opportunity to take any
more risks.
There Isn't much danger of the Un-
ions going to the demnKlon how wows
as some of the alarmists seem to think.
It is a shame that one finds douhht of
the ability of the horny-handed, hard-
headed, big-hatted yoemanry of this
country to manage an organization
that they compose almost absolutely.
Since the size of the crop doesn't
depend so much upon the amount of
land cultivated as it does upon how the
cultivation is done, it seems that ev-
ery one interested in the real weal of
the country would Immediately get
busy in the scattered movement now
on foot to "make two blades of grass
to glow where only one grew before."
If you are not prepared to fight the
nortgage and Its concomitant devasta-
ting interest, get ready now. The ac-
tual farmers have paid enough to mort-
gagees in Texas to have bought half
of the State within the past dozen
years. The sack of flour bought under
a crop mortgage will generally cost
)ust one and a half times as much us
one benight with the almighty green
stuff, and this rule will hold good
through all the thinge you buy that
way.
WANT ALFALFA NAMED
Oklahoma Agricultural Board Desires It
for State Emblem
GUTHRIE: The Oklahoma board of
agriculture, in session nere, adopted reso-
lutions asking the constitutional convert
tlon to name as the tloral emblem of tho
new state, also to provide for a non-
partisan board of agriculture. Secretary
McNabb was re-elected for another term
and A. J. Woodwnrth was re-elcicted
statistician secretary.
New officers named are: D. IAikens,
president; W. I.. Fullerton. of Olustee,
vice-president; George I,. Wshop, of Cor-
dell, treasurer; U. I*. Bishop and Wil-
liam Garrison, of Pond Creek, were elect-
ed members of the board to fill vacan-
cies.
PAID BUT STILL CIRCULATING
Chickasaw Warrants May Again Be Pre-
sented for Redemption
MUSKOGEE: A general order has been
Issued by the Indian agent that all out-
standing warrants on the general fund of
the Chickasaw nation would be paid by
the government at *once.
Two years ago inspector Jenkins made
an investigation of the school fund war-
rants of the Chickasaw nation. He found
that there were 112,000 worth of school
warrants that had been pahl once and
not canceled. These were still In circu-
lation. Ho Incidentally found $(10,000
worth of warants in the general fund
that had apparently been paid once and
not canceled, but on these he had no
authority to act. Following his report
there was a big sensation In the Chick-
asaw nation, some of the most prominent
officials of the naOon being charged with
j Kraft. It Is believed that an Investigation
of Choctaw national accounts will follow.
j CONVENTION ENDORSES HITCHCOCK
Body of Democrats Break the Record In
Supporting the Secretary
GUTHRIE: For the first time 111 the
hlsetory of the two territories a body
I composed of a majority of democrats
I has endorsed an official action of Secre-
j tary of the Interior Hitchcock.
The constitutional convention Friday
morning adopted a report from the com-
mittee on segreRated coal and asphalt
landu which recommends the adoption
of a memorial to comgress and the presl-
J dent -endorsing document 402, house of
I representatives, "the same being a let-
j ter from the secretary of the Interior
submitting a draft of proposed legislation
to enable his department to plat, sur-
vey and appraise certain townsltes In
the Indian Territory."
If a bale of cotton won't buy as much
meat now as a bale of cotton would
ten years ago, better raise feed crops,
fatten meat and let the old bale of
cotton go to thunder. It breaks backs,
anyhow; and it breaks pockets, and It
keeps the children out of school and
cheats them out of their education.
There's a whole lot to be said against
a bale of cotton before much can be
said for It.
PRESIDENT BARRETT IN TEXAS.
President 0 S. Barrett, of the Na-
tional Farmers' Educational and Co-
operative Union, whose home Is in
Atwater, f>a., is on a visit to different
Unions of the Texas organization. Mr.
Barrett brings the news that his State
Is going to fall several thousand b;U|'S
short of its usual cotton crop this year.
Excessive rains, followed by drouths
The following examples of success-
ful farming in some of the Southern
States is taken fro man official docu-
ment issued by the National Agricul-
tural Department: '1 - i'
"While stock raising is not at the
present time carried on to a large ex-
tent in the cotton-growing portions of
Louisiana Arkansas and Northeastern
Texas, there are widely scattered pha-
ses of it.
"Dairying hns made gratifying prog-
ress in a good many places; for ita.
stance, Hammond, La., once a cottar-
growing center, Is now shipping 700;'
gallons of milk daily to New Orelans.
At Marshall, Tex., one man has run. a-
successful dairy for three years,
that time he has built up his herd to
about 75 cows, pure-bred and high-
grade Jerseys, tho returns from which
are over $500 a month. The gross re-
ceipts from each cow In a herd of 40
high-grade Jerseys at Lafayette, La.,
for the past year ranged from $1S0
to $222. The milk In this case is bot-
tled and sold to local customers at 25>
to 30 cents per gallon.
"In the matter of beef production,
the Louisiana Experiment Station has
demonstrated that 'market tappers' can
be produced for the Chicago market.
The Mississippi Experiment Station
has produced high-grade two-year-old
ieeders at a cost not exceeding $12,
These facts indicate that there aro
large possibilities in beef production
In tihe South.
"In scattered Instances horses and
mule colts sell readily at I year old
for $40 to $60, at 2 <—\rs old for $75
to $100, and at 3 years old for ""i to
$200. There has never bee'ti a I line in
recent years when good mules did not
bring good prices. Horses are not
usually sold until broken, when they
sell for $100 to $;I00.
"Angora goats have been found prof-
itable neur the northern limit of the
ootton area, and In rare cases are to
be found furthe South. These should
"Many Instances could be given of
success with hogs, especially where al-
falfa hns become established and Is
used for pastufe. In those sections
where alfalfa has not passed tho
experimental stage other crops are?
used for hog pasture, and the Industry
is bound to be highly profitable. I
fact, there is no portion of the coun-
try where jiorlt can be raised mora
cheaply.
find a place In the timbered sections,
especially in the hill lands, where they
would be valuable In clearing the land
of brush and where the character of
the soil Ib conducive to good health
among them.
"An example of successful general
fanning is found In the hills of Lin-
coln Parish,La., where a man on 125
acres of his 1900-acre plantation has
of several weeks' duration, rust and 1 ^or ,l>n years raised all the hay and
the boll weevil have ail combined to | P'"1" not only for Ills awn stock, but
make the result disastrous to the I 'or "Ult °f ll" *1'8 tenants. For lha
farmer. Mr. Barrett says, however, markets he produces horses and mules.
Chat he believes the loss from last ' milch PI,W8 ttml stwkers, pure-bred
year's yield will not be as much as a ! l,0'and China pigs, and Plymouth
million bales, the estimate made at
the Texarknna convention last foil.
Mr Barrett says that the growth of
the CJeorgia Sta>te Union is exceeded
only by that of the TVxas organisa-
tion. About four big State rallies or
conventions, he says, are hold each
year by the State organizations in the
endeavor to increase the growth, influ-
ence and general usefulness of the
Union to its members. The next one,
he says, will be held at Atlanta, Ga.,
on Jan. 22. Among the list of speak-
ers to address this convention appears
the najm-s of Hon. Thomas E. Watson,
late presidential nominee on the Popu-
list ticket, and Hon. John Temple
Graves. Mr. Harrett extendB the in-
vitation to each and every member of
the Texas Union to attend this meet-
ing.
Rock, Rhode Island Red, and Wyan-
dotte chickens, besides cotton, corn,
oats, peas, peanuts, sweet potatoes,
hay, ribbon cane syrup and lard.
"There is a strong, growing demand
in the North for Southern-grown
vegetables and fruits. Many of Ihese
can be put on the markets at seasons
when there is little or no competition;
and can be disposed of at paying
prices. Successful fruit-growing and
trurk-growing associations exist in
some portions of this territory, and
the number is increasing each year."
Do you want to change this terri-
ble, awful system, under which we are
forced to market our crops? If so, get
| busy and go to building a new system..
Huild warehouses, and deal in spotg
i and not in futures.
CO-OPERATOR CLIPPINGS.
Work on tho oil well beinj? put Jown by
the Rock Inland system south of Shawnee
Is proKrennlnK fust and a depth of 900
feet has b**en rearhod. The Pennsylva-
nia well north of the city is now down
8,000 feet.
Ad vie
• incre
from con-
and
furnished
VICTORIA. B. C :
tral China tell of th
of tho great famine
of two districts. Sil
are eating the children,
plants and grass which
food for n time are gone, not even a root
being l^ft.
A Shanghai correspondent savs that
th«*re are many cas«*H of ranlballsm and
that he personally saw Inntanres of it
He al o saw human flesh being sold In
the public markets.
Oklahoma Will Contest Kansas
NORMAN: Word was received by the
University of Oklahoma from the debat-
ing council of the Kansas university fl*~
ing the date of the debate with that
school Mari h 15, 1907.
The debate Is to be held at lawrence,
two men representing each university.
The only men who have announced their
Intention of entering In this debute for
Oklahoma are W. C
Kitrlck. If any
contest for the d
the middle of Fc
other entries th'
local contest.
French and S. Mc-
others enter, the local
ebate will be held about
bruary. If there are no
ru will probably bo no
Let's be builders of warehouses.
Now is the time to begin to take ;
care of the next crop.
What a mighty force the producers ;
will be when they understand them-
selves!
Good morning. Have you a ware !
house in your commuuity? If not, go
to work to get one.
An industrial orgnnizarion must be
clear of politics. All sidings are u i \
unsafe. Let us stay on the main tnu-k
As long as we depend upon the other ;
fellow to help us, we will never build
a proper system. We must depend (
upon ourselves.
Why is it some merchants play into •
the hands of the bear speculators, thus ;
injuring their own customers and i
thereby injuring themse lves. It does !
Oin mou>i Pino,* supiaq ju unj
seem that a merchant with a thimble
more a farmer gets for his cotton, or
grain, or whatever crop he has for i
sale, the more money he would have
to spend for dry goods and other such I
things.
Senator Hansborough has offered an
amendment in the United States Sen- j
ate to tho existing law for the denatur !
ing of alcohol, that authorizes farm- |
ers to distill denatured alcohol on
their premises under certain restric- j
lions. This denatured alcohol Is in ,
tende d as a fuel for running farm ma-
chinery and every character of light
engines, as well as for ccxjking and
lighting purposes. It is claimed it can
be manufactured and sold for less than j
kerosene and gasoline, and that it is j Mlglitj
actually safe, while tho others are : plantln;
dangerous j uert,
Let us not blame the other fellow-
Let's go in and take control ourselves'-.
There is no other way to have stabil-
ity of prices. The producer has al-
ways been his own worst enemy. Ho
breaks the market by feeding it tor
fust. We must make the demand and
supply equal market demands if ne-
Never get discouraged. The world
was not made in a day. By orgarjizaft^
tion and agitation we have accom-
plished wonders. We must now get
down to business and make permanent
the success we have achieved. This
can not be done without work. This
c.an not be done without money. Sen-
timent is not going to build perma-
nently.
President J. A. West of the India-
homa State Union has a very able
proclamation in this issue. Be sura
ft) read it. every Hue <>f it. Brother
West is a progressive, capable official,
who believes in going forward. He
stands for a solid line-up of the Co-
operators of the entire country. Read
the proclamation.
According to the census report, each
member of the farmer's family gets
only 17 cents a day, while the family
on an average produces over $2000 a
year, and they are the most unorgan-
ized and defenseless body of .It
slaves in the United SUlfaMMPVIv
est paid working nij^^bV r M]af
They get it In J' ifct Kalls, (J*La
Hre not crgarii-
Union and
-stall.
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