NO. +0.
THE PITTSBURG ENTERPRISE
VOL Mil.
IMTTSBI l!d. OK LA.. Till KS1>A V, OlTOliKK :i. 1JU2.
IMMENSE CROPS
IN ALL NATIONS
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE FIG-
E*
URES SHOW BIG YIELDS
WORLD'S    BIG
Wheat. Rye, Barley, Oat* and Corn
Statistics Show Surprising Yields
In All Nations Which Raise
These Cereals
Washington—Bumper crops gener-
ally throughout the world this year
have been produced. This is shown
by figures in a cablegram received by
the department of agriculture from
the international institute of agri-
culture at Rome, giving the prelim-
inary estimates of the acreage of the
productions of wheat, rye, barley, oats
and corn.
it is estimated the productions will
be as follows:
Wheat: France 335,967,000 bushels;
Roumania 65,417,060; Canada 206,033,-
000. Total productions the following
named countries, 3,200,000,000 bush-
els. or 6.7 percent more than last
year’s production: Prussia, Italy Lux-
emberg, Switzerland, France, Norway,
Netherlands, Russia, Japan, Egypt,
Canada and United States.
Rye:    France, 51,332,00 bushels;
Netherlands, 16,322,000.* Total pro-
duction in following named countries,
1,568,000,000 bushels, or 17.7 percent
more than last, year's production:
Prussia. Belgium, Denmark, Spain,
France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembcrg,
Norway, Netherlands, Roumania,
Switzerland, Canada and United
States.
Barley; Roumania, 22,248,000 bush-
sis: Canada 46,498,000. Total produc-
tion in the following, 17,146,000,000
bushels, or 5.7 percent more than
last year: Prussia, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Denmark, Spain, Great Britain, Hun-
gary, Italy, Luxemberg Switzerland,
Norway, Netherlands, Roumania, Rus-
sia, Japan, Egypt, Tunis Canada and
United States.
Oats: Roumania, 21,515,000 bushels;
Canada, 45,467,000. Total productions
in the following named, 3,465,000,000
bushels, or 16.8 percent more than
last year: Prussia, Belgium. Bulgaria,
Denmark, Spain, Great Britain, Hun-
gary, Luxemberg, Switzerland, Nor-
way, Netherlands, Roumania, Russia,
Japan, Algeria, Tunis, Canada and
United States.
Corn: Roumania. 113,676,000 bush-
els. Total production in the follow-
ing named countries, . 3,616,000,000
bushels or 16.7 percent more than
last year: Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain,
Italy, Roumania, Russia, Switzerland,
United States, Japan and Egypt.
RJee: Italy, 24,495,000 bushels; Jap-
an, 386.027,000.
Flax seed: Canada, 23,144,000 bugh-
els.
Wife Now Head of Family
Los Angeles, Cai.—As punishment
for having beaten his 5-year-old son
with a length of garden hose, Charles.
Hoffman, a sicr. painter, stands by
court order deposed from his position
as head of his household. The order
was entered by Judge Willis of the
Juvenile Court, who constituted Mrs.
Hoffman legally head of the house
The boy was exhibit "A” in the case,
and after examining the welts upon
his body the court told Hoffman he
was not fit to be head of a family.
Chair For Wife-Beater
Boston—Chester S. Jordan, sen-
tenced to death for the murder at
Summerville of his wife, Honorah,
whose body he cut up and packed in
a trunk, was executed in the electric
chair at the Charlestown state prison.
THE OLD, OLD STORY
REPORT MADE ON
THE COTTON CROP
OKLAHOMA CONDITIONS FAVOR-
ABLE FOR BEST IN HISTORY
Memphis, Tenn.—The Commercial-
Appeal in its final weekly summary
of the season of cotton crop condi-
tions, says:
There are two distinct divisions of
the cotton crop this year and condi-
tions are so widely different in each
as to render it necessary to consider
them separately.
West of the Mississippi river the
crop has advanced in good shape for
nearly the entire season. The plant
is well advanced and much picking
already has been done. Taken as. a
while the crop on that side of the
stream is fro .. CO Ic 73 oer rut
opened, although in Oklahoma there
is probably more late cotton than in
any other state. Much of this is in
danger of frost. In the west the
plant is heavily fruited—most corres-
pondents say.
In the east only a small portion of
the crop is opened althpugh it is
estimated that a very small portion is
in danger of frost of average date,
except in Tenhessee, where the plant
is still vigorous. The plant over the
entire section is late but has not
fruited heavily—estimates place it
from 50 to 75 per cent of last year,
and as there is little promise of top
crop, itisbelieved that picking, when
once well started, will be over in a
short time.
The insect damage to crop has been
small. Considerable boll weevil have
appeared in Mississippi and Louisiana
but a fairly good crop was made be-
fore their appearance.
Reports of correspondents say:
Carolinas—Crop much below last
year, little damage from frost.
Georgia—Crop very short, from 50
to) 65 per cent of last year. Almost
no danger of frost.
Alabama—Estimates average fruit-
age at about two-thirds that of last
year.
Mississippi—Crop very spotted.
Some sections expect good crop, oth-
ers poor, but nearly all below last
year.
Tennessee and Missouri—Good crop
promised, but it is late and in danger
from frost.
Arkansas—Much diversity of opin-
ion but generally below last year.
Oklahoma—Most estimates for best
yield in history of state, with late
frost.
Texas—Average about the same as
last year.
A FAMOUS DIPLOMAT DIES
Brilliant German, Baron Von Bierber-
stein Succumbs to Short Illness
Badenweller, Baden, Ger.—Ger-
many’s most brilliant diplomat, Bar-
on Adolf Marshal Von Bierberstein,
died here after a short Illness.
The baron, who had occupied the
position of German ambassador In
London only since, May this year, had
come here to take a course of alka-
line water treatment and was in com-
parttvely good health until a week
age. Then he suddenly felt ill and
rapidly became worse until he died
. The diplomat had suffered from an
attack of influenza earlier in the year
and his death is attributed to the aft-
er. effects of that malady and to Jiis
strenuous work in London since his
appointment to the embassy there.
The baron, a native of Baden, was
70 years old.
SMITH BEATEN In
NEW JERSEY PRIMARY
Governor Wilson's Opposition Sus-
tained Two to One
Over “Boss”
Newark, N. J.—Returns from forty-
two out of the 1,799 election districts
in the state in Tuesday’s primaries
fortha democratic nomination for
United States senator give:    Hughes,
1,071; Smith, 587; McDermitt, 35;
Wescott 14.
Returns were strikingly slow from
the statewide primary held by demo_
crats and republicans, owing to the
late closing of the polls and delay
in the count.
Nominations made cover six state
senators and sixty members of the
lower house and some municipal of-
ficers.
New Record at Lawton
Lawton, Okla.—September 26, 1912.
starts a new record for early frost in
Comanche county, but farmers -and
local cotton dealers agree that but
little damage was done. Earliest pre-
vious date was October 3, 1900. Last
night’s frost seems to have been heav-
ier iti town than in farming dis-
tricts.
Powers Unsatisfied
London.—The six powers connected
with the recent financial negotiations
with China contemplate informing the
government at Pekin of their inten-
tion to exercise their right under the
Boxer indemnity again. They intend
also to prevent the alienation of any
part of the surplus revenues from the
salt tax, which are already hypothe-
cated for the Boxer indemnity.
Weds His Father’s Fiancee
Sterling. Iii.—Richard Lewis, 18
years oid, son of a farmer living south
of here, eloped with Mrs. Hazel Cham-
plin, 45 years old. Mrs. Champlin,
who has been housekeeper at the
Lewis home since Mrs. Lewis died,
five years ago, was to have married
Lewis senior and all arrangements
had been made for the wedding. She
is an attractive blonde, and the elder
wis says that he will welcome her
home as his daughter-in-law, although"
ho had hoped to make her his wife.
The couple purchased tickets for Des
Moines, Iowa, where Mrs. Champlin
formerly lived, and where they are
supposed to have been married. Mrs.
Champlin has two sons, aged 16 and
10.
Truckee, Cal.—Miss Ximena Mc-
Glashan, daughter of C. F. McGIashan,
historian of the fated Donner party,
is a grower of butterflies which she
sells to collectors. In six weeks she
has propagated and sold 6,200 mount-
ed butterflies, for which she received
five cents each, or $310, thus averag-
ing $50 a week.
Bourne of Oregon Loses
Salem, Ore.—A. E. Clark, an attorn-
ey of Portland, was nominated for
United States ‘senator over Jonathan
Bourne, incumbent, by the progressive^
state convention here. The conven-
tion then named a state ticket.
Requires Credit Instead of Money
Chicago.—Credit and not money, is
the life of modern business, according
to David R. Forgan, president of the
National City bank of Chicago, who
spo#e on “telations between bankers
and accountants," at the convention
of the American Association of Pub-
lic Accountants here.
Telephone Girl Saves Town
Coshocton, Ohio.—The pluck of Mrs.
Dillon, the telephone operator at New
Castle, near here, in remaining at her
switch board and summoning help
from neighboring towns, prbbably
saved that village from destruction by
fire. The flames started in a store
and spread to eight other buildings,
causing a loss of $25,009.
Price Convicted
Sapulpa, Okla.—The jury in the
case of Louis Price, the second of
two negroes charged with killing
Will Crockett last April, returned a
verdict of guilty and fixed the pen-
alty at ninety-nine years in the state
penitentiary. Frank Hawkins, who
Trusty Forges Check
McAlester, Okla.—Henry Shaw
pleaded guilty to forgery and was
sentenced to serve two years in the
penitentiary. He is just concluding
a three year term for a like offense
and while a trusty last week he
forged the name of Col. J. J. McAles-
ter to a check and sold it to a truck
peddler.
Domingo Almost Broke.
New York.—The resources of the
Dominican government are so drained
by the cost of fighting the revolution-
ists that it is unable to pay the All
aries of officials or curren expenses,
and the public debt is increasing, ac-
cording to mail advices received here.
Intervention from the outside is look-
ed for in many quarters.
OKLAHOMA STATE
CAPITAL LETTER
IRRIGATION CONGRESS ACTS ON
IMPORTANT QUESTION
WILL ASK FOR S8.000.000
Congress Adopts Resolutions Demand
ing State's Share of Irrigation
Fund—Want Demonstration
Farms Established
Oklahoma City, Okla.
A real plan of actiop to introduce
irrigation fanning Into Oklahoma
was instituted, and real war of per-
suasion against the United States
government declared in t’ i matter of
the $8,900,000 congre.' mil appro-
priations due the Btate lor waterway
and other irrigation projects and
withheld mainly because of luck of
sufficient interest in procuring them,
by the Oklahoma state irrigation con-
gress which Wedfieaday afternoon
held its annual meeting at the state
fair grounds.
Resolutions were adopted asking
that both the Btate board of agricul-
ture and the Stillwater agricultural
station be memorialized and request-
ed to establish one or more irrigation
farms suited to demonstrate the irri-
gation farming process to farmers
| everywhere in the state. It was also
I resolved that the farms be so situ-
ated and of such number that every
j farmer in the state might he given
| the opportuunity to witness the ad-
j vantages of irrigation farming on a
| scale suitable to convince the farmers
that in irrigation lies their greatest
hope for successful crops continu-
ously.
A session of the congress was an-
nounced for Tuesday, January, 14th,
next year, when the state legislature
convenes. At this session the slate
authorities will be asked to co-oper-
ate witli the irrigation congress in
• Beci.g uuu Oklahoma, gets 1L. rlght-
! ful share of the money appropriated
i by the United States government for
irrigation purposes. Oklahoma's
share is said to have accumulated
until $8,000,000 is due. Congress will
be memorialized to the end that the
money will be immediately forthcom-
ing, or investigation of the failure to
produce it will be made.
Practically every important agri-
cultural county in Hhe state was rep-
| resented at Wednesday's session. A
program of speeches, illustrated lec-
tures and exhibit lectures was offered
that, converted every spectator—to
the cause of irrigation.
The voted opinion of the congress
that every farmer in the state should
next year farm at least ten out of
every 160 acres of land by irrigation
methods, went down as a part of
j the records.
Dr. R. L. Foster has received no-
tice of his appointment as professor
i of physiology at the state university
at Norman, and has entered upon his
i new duties. He is from Louisville,
[ Ky., where he attended the university
| of Louisville for a number of years.
He finished his literary education at
j Vanderbilt university and look post-
} graduate work in the Polyclinic hos-
pital of New York.
“The red wagon and the spotted
horse,” alleged to have been used
daily for delivery of intoxicating
liquors, was captured by State Tn-
forcement Officer Caudill, and with it
a quantity of whiskey and the driver.
The latter gave bond for his appear-
j ance in court, and the wagon and
horse are being held as accessories,
the same as though they were bar
fixtures.
If sand and gravel dealers doing
business along the Arkansas and
Grand rivers will recognize the Btate
claim to title of the river beds they
may make individual contracts with
the board of land commissioners for
taking materials out of the streams.
At a recent meeting of the commis-
sioners John R. Williams, secretary
of the department, and James H.
Chambers, attorney for the commis-
sioners, were instructed to go to
| Tulsa and confer with the sand men
on that basis and to fix the royalties.
The disposition of the sand men is
understood to be that they will make
| contracts with the state under which
| they might take sand and gravel
i from the rivers, and in the event the
state title is established in court the
contractors agree to pay royalties for
what they have taken, otherwise they
would owe the state nothing. It is
also understood they will resist the
state's effort to collect back royal-
ties.
This question has been quite a
bothersome one, and state officials
express themselves as feeling sure
it will be settled satisfactorily.
(REPORT OF OKLAHOMA
SCHOOL LAND OFFIC.J
I On a Business Aggregating Nearly \
18,000.000, Expenses Less Than ,
3 Per Cent of Income
From statehood to September t of
Hi is year, the state school laud de- ’
partment transacted business to the
valu** of 117,902,520.44. The total ex- j
pense of tin* department haa been
$501.001.7, or but 2.1 per cent of the
income. A atatement IhhikmI by the
eonimiHHionera hIiowh that the United
Stall k reserved lands for the state
•iggregating 3,128,1162 acres, all situ-
ated iti former Oklahoma territory.
In addition to thia $5,000,000 was do* 1
nated by the government in lieu of
public lands In Indian territory. The
! department sold up to September 1st
! 027,229 acres for a total of $7,851,- |
964.82. All state lands are subject to
sale except those segregated for town
sites and oil and gus purposes. The j
$5,900,000 and other permanent school j
funds liuve been loaned to farmers |
with first real estate mortgage lien j
securities, five yeur period, with in- I
terest ut five per cent, and invested I
in county bonds and public building
warrants. A financial statement of
tin* department for the period covered
is as follows:
Receipts- All sources, rent, Inter-
est, permanent fund and proceeds of
sale of land, $17,902,520.44.
Disbursements To state and coun-
ty treasurers. $4,415,044.09; returned
on account of excess payments, $11,-
602.35; farm loans, $3,670,177.56;
loaned on county bonds, $1,094,500;
invested in public building warrants,
$299,000; notes on hand from sale of
lands, $7,208,427.13; expenses, $271,-
349.56; balance cash on hand depos-
ited in Oklahoma bunks now drawing
Interest at three per cent. $834,665.80;
to permanent fund from proceeds of
sale of land, $106,753.95; total, $17,-
902,520.44.
Expenses — Leasing department
paid from receipts of office, $271,-
349.56; farm loan department, appro-
priation, $159,6678.50; sales depart-
ment, appropriation, $72,973.81; total,
$504,001.87.
The statement concludes:
"The commissioners of the land'
office from statehood to September 1,
1912, apportioned and paid to the
common school of this state for the
support of the free schools the total
sum of $3,346,6644.42.
“The total expenses of the land of-
fice for the same period was $504,-
001.87. This amount not only includes
the expenses of the entire land office
proper, but the appraisement of the
3,128,362 acres of state and school
lands and the improvements located
thereon by three disinterested ap-
praisers, and the reappraisement of
certain lands and improvements for
sale purposes as provided by law, and
the preparing and advertising for sule
of 853,734.95 acres of land and the
improvements situated thereon. It
will be understood that all lands pre-
pared, appraised and advertised for
sale have not been sold. The ex-
penses given also cover the entire
cost of the leasing, farm loans and
sales divisions and the contest and
protest and oil and gas departments.
‘‘In other words, to summarize tl:»
importance of the state land office,
having to do as It does with the state
and school lands and funds belonging
to the state for the support of com-
mon schools and the higher educa-
tional institutions and the public
building fund, it is estimated that
these lands and funds under the con-
trol and custody of the Commission-
ers of the Land Office are reasonably
worth $50,000,000; that the income
from the interest and rentals re-
ceived each year is approximately $1,-
277,500, or a present income of
$3,500 for each day of the year, which
will increase each year as the land is
sold and the money invested in farm
loans and state and county bonds.”
One of the largest, if not the larg-
est, crowds ever keen on the streets
of the city, attended the formal open-
ing of Oklahoma City's first general
Fashion show Thursday night. The
size of the crowd and the enthusiasm
and interest displayed in the event
by the public generally was far in ex-
cess of the moBt sanguine expecta-
tions of its promoters, and the suc-
cess of the venture is already more
than assured.
From the time the veiling, that had
hidden from public view the exten-
sive preparations that had been made
for the event by seventy-eight of the
city's leading business houses, was
removed at 7 o’clock until late in
the evening, either side of Main
street and Grand avenue west from
Broadway as far as Hudson avenue
was one solid mass of people, all
eager to get a glimpse of the mag-
nificent display of the decrees of
Dame Fashion and their expectation
and curiosity was more than ful-
filled.
Every line of merchandise and bus-
iness was represented by various dis-
plays.
AUGUSTA MAYOR
ASKS TOR TROOPS
RIOTING AT MASS MEETING OF
Car employes
POLICEMEN MANTHECARS
As Result of Attack on Non-Urion
Men Fire Department Is
Ordered to Disperse the
Crowd With Water
Augusta, Ga.—As u result of at-
tacks on non-union men employed by
the street car company as strike
breakers, Mayor ilurrett culled upon
Governor Brown for state troops to
aid in preserving order. The request
followed a clash between Htrlke sym-
pathizers and Btirke breakers at the
power plant where several were se-
verely injured.
The rioting came at the close of a
massineeting at the courthouse, where
resolutions were adopted providing,
for a sympathetic strike.
Sixteen organizations affiliated with,
the federation of trades voted to go
out in sympathy with the striking car
men Immediately upon the cull of the
car men's leader. This call has not
been made. The action was taken
after the failure of the mayor to with-
draw the police fr^m cars being oper-
ated by the company.
While the trouble was at its height
the mayor ordered the fire depart-
ment to the' power house, with in-
structions -4io “dxiiifi «<»c4ms on the
crowd to11 d4«jH>Wie Miem-.i
BatiRf 'Clerk Avks for Sentence.
$55,000 (rpm the First National Bank
here, W{iS atyaigri'^d before a United
States    ' &nd entered a
plea of 'ftiuVjr- jhejl1 declared he had
no accomplice fri taking the money or
ia returning it to the bank, where it
wns found bv tLie negro janitor His
bond was 'fixed af $5,000. In his con-
fession, Bell declared he yielded in a
moment of weakness in taking the
money, but after he had it he did not
know what to do with It, He said he
desired to take his medicine as quick-
ly as possible. Bell was not under
suspicion up to the time he presented
himself to the hank president and
confessed the crime.
Wireless Forecast
Washington.—A wireless weather
forecast system for ocean going ves-
sels will be provided by the govern-
ment weather bureau if congress will
appropriate $150,000 included in the
estimates for next year by Chief Wil-
lis h. Moore of the bureau. The initial
chart of the plan will be sent out from
Washington by the high power wire-
less station at Fort McRae and will
control all storm movements in va-
rious parts of the Atlantic.
General Mena Surrenders
Tlluefields, Nicaragua.—Official con-
firmation was received here of the sur-
render of General Mena and the fort-
ress of San Francisco in Granada to
the American forces. General Mena
also delivered to Admiral Southerland
all of the steamers on Lake Nicaragua
which he captured a few days after
he started the revolution. This news
is generally accepted as the termina-
tion of the revolution.
Chinese Starving
Pekin.—Pathetic conditions prevail
throughout the country. Occasionally
detachments of soliders engage in
looting and wanton destruction. Trade
Is greatly hampered and thousands of
persons are dying from starvation.
Death by Mosquito Bite
Columbus, O.—Mrs. William F.
Brown, a society woman of this city,
died after several months’ illness
with malarial fever caused by a mos-
quito bite, according to physicians.
Politician Dies
Lexington, Ky.—J. Walter Rhodes,
president of the Phoenix Third Na-
tional bank, and one of the best
known democratic politicians of the
state, died of paralysis.
Tablet to Butts
Nashville, Term.—A bronze tablet
"to commemorate the noble life and
heroic death of Major Archibald Wil-
lingham Butts, U. S. A.,” was unveiled
In All Saints chapel, University of the
South at Sewanee, Tenu. The cere-
monies were under the auspices of the
Sewanee chapter of Delta Tau Delta,
of which Major Butts, a Sewauee
alumnus, was a member.