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CAPITOL SITUATION EXPLAINED;
GOVERNOR CRUCE GIVES SOME FACTS
OKLAHOMA NEWS
MORE WILL BE REALIZED
SALE OF LAND THAN UNDCR
ORIGINAL CONTRACT.
Building Company Has Made Good by
Turning Over to State Amount of Its
Bond and Capitol Tracts and Actual
Erection of State House Awaits Only
Approval by the Legislature.
HO A R D ACCEPTS CHICAGO OFFER
CAPITOL PETITION FILED.
Secretary of Guthrie Chamber of Com
rr.crce Hopeful for Success.
Mail Order House "Demonstration
Farms" May Be Establr-hed.
pose of carrying on farm rieinonstra- pal^n, says
Oklahoma City, Okla—That the
state of Oklahoma will profit more by
the present arrangeeinnt whereby the
state receives $ 100,000 in cash and 650
acres of land from the State Capitol
Building company, than it would by a
former agreement with the company
whereby the local concern was to pay
the state $25,000 per month until a. , . .. .. „e ,i,
' . , , , , , , ! ler was made tor the purpose of gl\-
total of $1,000,000 had been received, I .
, ing the mail order house the privilege
to be applied to the erection ot a cap
itol building, is shown in a letter from
Guthrie, Okla.—The Guthrie Cham
ber of Commerce filed ith the secre
tary of state a total of 58,000 signa
* lures to petitions asking an election ir
Oklahoma City, Okla.—In spite of November on this city's proposition ti
a protest by the State Retailers' asso- amend the state constitution so as tc
elation and kindred organizations, a locate th • state's capital permanently
special committee of the state board at Guthrie, after January 1, next,
of agriculture has accepted the offer The total number of signatures nec
of a Chicago mail order house to place essary to have an election called it
$1,000 in each of the seventy-six coun- about 37,000. Secretary Fred Wen
ties in the state, provided each coun- ner of the Chamber ot Comemrce. whe
ty raises a like amount for the pur- has been managing the capital cam
OUR STATE CAPITOL LETTER
DOINGS CF THE OKLAHOMA STATE GFFiCEflS
A Brief Resume of What Our "Hired Men" Are Doing, How
Thev Spend Their 1 une. Etc.
STATE REVENUES
WELL COLLECTEn
State Auditor Leo Meyer Submits An-
nual Report to Governor.
MAKES A GREAT DIFFERENCE
Governor Cruce Springs Surprise
Some Owners of Land.
W
That the collections of the state
gross revenue and production tax were
about 75 per cent more lust year than
tion work under the supervision of oni> after Attorney (Jeneral West gav
the state board of agriculture and the
A. and M. college.
The protest of the retailers was bas-
ed upon the assumption that the of-
e started the figh J cor previous years is the statement
Governor Lee Cruce to W. II. Horn
of Bartlesville, who wrote to the gov
ernor recently, asking the status of the
capitol question.
In his reply Governor Cruce corrects
a number of false impressions which
have gone out over the state relative
of sending solicitors into the different
counties under the guise of demon-
stration agents.
Advices received here indicate that
the offer proved acceptable to the
committee and that the demonstration
I work will be done under the direction
of R. O. Pittuck of the extension de-
his official opinion that there is nc
binding contract existing between the
state and Oklahoma City regarding the
capital location. The fact that Okla-
homa City did not have the first shovel
of earth thrown on their capitol site
as scheduled to occur July 4. and the
statement of Governor Cruce that it
is indefinite when any work will be
Leo Meyer, state auditor, ill a lett r
j to Governor Cruce, regarding the cx
! penditnre of the contingent fund ap-
I propriated for his office fl)r the fiscal
i ykar just ended.
I One trip alone was made by an em-
ploye of the auditor's office, accord-
ing to the letter, which resulted in the
collection of over $lMOO in back taxes.
i Hiul more money been available to
done, are taken here to mean that At- [ (j out representatives to investiaa:
torney General West's opinion is ac I (jjj8 (iass of taxes. Mr. Meyer feels
cepted there as in Guthrie as final." sure tjlut much larger collections
i would have resulted and this year he
Wild Ride Ends in Death.
, , , anifni partnient ot the state boa id of agricul- Oklahoma cr\ ()1 li \fter « Vine
to Oklahoma C ity's part in the capitol | 1 . ... . . r„. ukuuioiim t i.>, uiua. ait- i (!idn„
, ,, ,. . , . . . . ni in i ture who will act as general superMsor. in frftni . hmM'v m •• imr«„ i,, ...
building plan. It is shown that Okl?-i f . , . , , ^ 'o a norse in an er
" . . , 1 1 lie arrangements concluded by the tn M , Turner u-i, ,
hftmn nitv ns n rornoraie bodv. made i ... toil to escape ii. is. i urner, wno v\«i.-
committee and Hon.
homa City as a corporate body, made
no promises upon the removal of the1 J
state caiptal, but that the offer was
made by the Stato Capitol Building
company, an enterprise backed by pri-l
vate citizens; that the sale of the ] i
lands and the payment of $25,000 per
month to the state were stopped onj
the drouth, which affected Oklahoma
City just as it did every other city , ..
, i agreed upon, a graduate in agriculture
in the state, but that the company has j * <tnnl ?„
evidenced its good faith by turning j
a demonstration farm. Tils duties will
Ball, secre-
I tary of the Chicago Board of Trade and
| the National Grain Dealers' Associa-
i tion are similar to plans made by the
| Texas board who secured $150,000.
| Kansas also secured $105,000.
The committee feels that this will
* I mean much to the agricultural inter-
jests of Oklahoma. 1'nder the plans
expects to make efforts to collect the
entire amount of gross revenue tax
due the state. A representative from
the auditor's office will be sent
different sections of the state in an
endeavor to get property listed that
has never before paid this tax.
Of the $11,000 appropriated for con-
ape
following him, and seeing that his pur-
suer was about to overtake him, S. A.
McLaughlin, Katy agent at Wright's
station, fifteen miles east of Oklahoma
City, turned in his saddle and fired, tingent expenses for the period under
killing Turner instantly. McLaughlin ! consideration, all was expended and
came in and gave himself up to the ; $1)5.48 additional. Mr. Meyer explains,
sheriff. It is claimed tfcat Turner, who I however, that almost $1,100 was ex
was a farmer. 40 years of age. had been , pended in getting lists of taxable prop
Apparently it all depends on whether
some citizens of western Oklahoma art
obtaining loans from the state or
whether they are paying tax«•*. *is r
the value at which '.hey hold tlieli
land.
The state board of equalization met
here the other day and Governor Crn< «
sprung a surprise upon some of the
laud owners who wore objecting to the
assessed valuation returned on their
property One farmer in Beaver oan
t> objected because bis land was as-
sessed at $11,000 Governor Cruru
reached in his pocket and showed l v
the report of the state school land de-
partment that when the same farmer
applied for a loan from that depart-
ment on the same land he gave its
value at $4,n00. A resident of Dewey
county, who was protesting because
his farm was assessed at $1,400 had
into ■ niyen the value when he applied for
an a lwan from the state school fund, at
$5,000. There were many such, in
stances.
SOLACE IN HIS MISFORTUNE
Entombed Miner Had at Least On*
Pleasant Thought After Two
Days of Suffering.
Miners are among the most heroio
people in the world. Danger is always
beside them, and they are schooled to
believe that any time they will cotne
lace to face w ith death. The result of
ihis is that they are humorous in
their boldness.
In one of the mines of Pennsylvania
there was a cave-in which Imprisoned
a miner named Jack Thornton. The
iccident happened on Friday after-
noon, and the fellow laborers of the
entombed man set to work at once to
dig him out. It was not until Sunday
morning, however, that they reached
his prison chamber, and by this time
they were wondering whether he had
been suffocated or starved to death.
One of them stuck his head through
the aperture made by the picks of
the rescuers and called out:
"Jack, are you all right?"
"All right," came the reply, and
then after a pause: What day la
this?"
"Sunday!" exclaimed the friend
"Gee!" exclaimed Jack. "I'm glad of
that That was one Saturday night
when those saloonkeepers didn't set
my wages."—Popular Magazine
JUST CAUSE FOR PRIDE.
he to put in operation the modern
methods of scientific agriculture as
only the approval of the legislature is j
lacking to allow the work to proceed.
The land, he states. Will crow more
... ... .. ., . .. „ . taught in the A. and M college and the
valuable with the erection of the capi- .. . . . , ,
. , .. ... , , .,, , district agricultural schools.
tol, and from its sale the state will be j b
repaid every penny it spends on the
construction of the statehouse.
drinking, and meeting McLaughlin at
Jones City recently, threatened tc
kill him over some old trouble. Mc- 1
Laughlin leaped in his buggy and
drove to Choctaw, Turner securing a
LTty in the various countif
Board Figured Close.
That the state department of edftica
tion figured closely in submitting tc
the legislature its estimate of eontin
gent expenses is borne out in a state
Ij ()f ment from State Superintendent Wil
which has been charged up with its
share of the
bills have be
commissioners, in order that the statu
That the money actually has been
paid to the governor as trustee is evi-
denced by the check which the gover-
nor now holds. That the State Capi-
tol Building company acted in good
faith, and has redeemed its promise—
and indirectly the assurance given that
Oklahoma City will see the capitol
built—is shown by the*transfer of the
valuable land to the state. This land,
instead of being worth the $1,000,000
The committee from the state board
of agriculture is composed of J. H. Con-
nell, president of the A. and M. college,
Benj. Hennessey, secretary of the
state board of agriculture, and O. A.
Brewer and J. C* Elliott of the board.
Grand Jury Makes Wholesale Charges.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—While but
few indictments were returned by the
revolver and a large knife and follow- ' money may he reimbursed.
ing him in another buggy. At Choctaw Kxpenses have been somewhat in-
McLaughlin changed his buggy for a creased for help, owing to the installa-
horse, Turner doing likewise, and they tion of a new accounting system in an
went racin toward Wright's station, effort to establish a complete checking
Within a short distance of his home,! of books between the offices of state
McLaughlin saw that he was being auditor and state treasurer,
overtaken, and fired. Both men have Summarized, the statement of the
families. McLaughlin is 43 years old. auditor's disbursement of his contln-
. ' gent fund for the year just ended is
Ready to Begin on New Highway. a.* follows:
Sapulpa, Okla.—The Mid-Continent Suplies $ (J- 8.1.
Highway Association meeting here was 1 I'-^tra help . . .
j son to Governor Cruce. The statement
•xpense In each county' with the continent expenses ot
.n filled with the county!'he department for the year ending
June 30, and shows that oi the
appropriated there yet remains on
hand a balance of $113,16. The item-
ized statement comprises the usual
enumerations of various sums for post-
age, office supplies and similar ex-
penses. Superintendent Wilsons let
ter to the governor also contained a
statement of the expenses of the state
board of education
"Wot's he so tickled about?"
"lie's jest discovered his birtbday'a
on do same day as Ad Wolgast'al"
Her Ruling Passion.
The woman who had chased dust
.Members of this j and dirt all her life finally reached
iJH ..-.v, attended by 150 delegates from every j Traveling expenses
Oklahoma county grand jury, which town along the proposed highway from Express, drayage and height
made its report and adjourned, the Caney, Kan., to Denison, Tex. Anoth- Telephone and telegraph ....
which the company was to pay to the I jury recommended that the state offi- er meeting w ill be called by President For lists of taxable land
state as lots were sold, really is worth cers conduct affairs with one mil- W. E. Brown of Sapulpa early in Sep Premium on bonds
twice that amount, increasing in value j ij0n dollars less than they are using tember. State engineers will immedi Expenses
with the building of the statehouse. j at the present time. By letting tin- atoly begin locating the road through Postage
The $2,000,000 which the land event | neecssary empolyes go, the jury be- Oklahoma to Denison. Prominent In- Adding machine
ually will build, it is certain, a capi-«iieVes this can be accomplished. The dians and oil operators have pledged Court costs
tol adequate for all needs of Oklahoma grand jury recommended that the at- a large sum to begin active work on Expense delegate to Interna-
torney general handle all the state's the first line at Sapulpa. Society wo-
legal business and criticized severely men of Sapulpa treated the delegates
the banking hoard for employing out- to a basket picnic a( the new city res-
side attorneys at state expense. It ervoir. Five hundred visitors attend-
also finds that the $13,000 paid attor- ed. Two hundred women offer to
neys in the "grandfather clause" cases plant pecan and walnut trees along the
was entirely too much for the services j great highway. The Auxiliary club,
performed: also calling attention to the
271.5";
517.80
40.59 !
for generations to come. And inci-
dentally, it is the first case on record
where a capitol has been erected in
this manner, by the gifts of private
citizens of the capital city and handed
over to the people of the state.
Quarrel Over Estate Fatal,
tional Tax conference
Total
board have served without compensa-
tion since November i) of last year and
the postage and office supplies have
been furnished from the state super-
intendent's office. For this board $10,
0(H) was appropriated, but there is a
472.61 deficit of $016 owing to the fact that
1 008.10 1 $2,823.62 of this fund was used by oth
ici 7- ] er departments and commissions.
;>] Since November 1 the salaries of the
1 sit secretary and stenographer have been
g54 82 'pro-rated among the eighteen instltu-
14.15 tions under control of the board, thus
| effecting a considerable saving.
125.00
St. Peter.
"Come in. you poor, tired woman,"
he said, and held the gate ajar.
But the woman hesitated.
"Tell me lirst." she said, "how often
you clean house?"
The saint smiled.
"You can't shake off the ruling pas-
sion. can you?" he said. "Oh, well, step
Inside and they'll give you a broom
and dustpan Instead of a harp."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Geary, Okla.—Quarreling over a di- Iact that a member of the firm was a
vision of his mother's estate, Leonard
Evans shot and killed his sister and
I hen committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart. Their
mother died recently, leaving an es-
tate, and the killing occurred on their
farm, while the sister was picking
peaches.
brother of Governor Cruce.
Beer Higher in Oklahoma.
Bartlesville, Okla. — Following the
many raids of local liquor selling es
tablishments and confiscation of beer
being hauled overland, the price of a
pint bottle of beer has been raised by
local jointists 25 cents to 35 cents and
unless the local enforcement officers
and the federal marshals ease up in
their efforts to enforce the law it is
feared that another raise will be ma/Ie.
75-Year Sentence.
McAlester, Okla.—Among seventeen
prisoners received at the state peni-
tentiary the other day, was Mary Ford,
22, who was sentenced to serve 75
years for manslaughter. She was con-
victed in Garfield county where sTie 11 's understood that the boost in prices
was charged with killing her husband, j's general in all Eastern Oklahoma.
Pay Fine on Installment Plan. |
Oklahoma City, Okla.—It will take1
Wesly Nelson of Ottawa, just four
composed entirely of Sapulpa women,
believes the sale of pecans and wal-
nuts will create a large fund to care
for the maintenance of the road. Defi-
nite arrangements were made to or-
ganize good roads clubs in every town
along the proposed highway.
$20,000X00 Well at Tulsa.
Tulsa, Okla.—Robert Jordan and as-
sociates drilled in what is said to be
a 20,000,000 gas well, six miles south-
'Twas a Pretty Thing.
The young man produced a small,
Disease is Decreasing. square box from his pocket.
,77 n„- A derided decrease in the number ol "1 have a present for you," he began.
' esses of contagious and Infectious di* | "I don't know whether it will lit your
i eases as compared with last year and Unger or not., but
Incerase Shown by Game Warden. jn the number of death." resulting from I "<)h' George'' she broke in, this 1,
The re of the state game and su.-l. diseases, is shown by a report sosudden! Why I never dreamed-
fish warden, just filed with Governs of ihe state health department on the , 1,11 ttimblT'andV^'got aud-
Z2SX&Z1XZS2 ST*! —
partnient in the game, protection fund 2,155 cases and -Hi deaths and in May _
and that of this amount $<>7,700 basil,47G cases and 231 deaths. In April view.
beben earned and turned into the fund 1 y 1 -. there were SD0 cases and Hewitt—This place is 1,000 feet
since March IS. 1911. The report deaths, and in May 500 cases and 1^ above the sea level.
shows that crop conditions hurt tin deaths. This does not Include the spl-1 Jewatt—But tin- sea isn't on th«
business of the department, although i nal meningitis cases reported dining jeVel; it always makes me sick.
there has been an increase in the game! the epidemic last spring. There are |
protection fund. The office Is one i more cases of pneumonia reported and
which costs the taxpayers nothing more deaths from that cause than
since its income is derived from tne from any other disease. In April,
The value of forethought is often
demonstrated by the after effects.
east of Tulsa. It is believed to be In j hunters who procure hunting licenses, j there were 249 cases and 106 deaths
the gas field recently opened up by! in the game propagation account, it is1 from that cause; in .May, 1911, 99
Robert Galbreath, democratic national shown that $5,171,50 was expended by eases and 55 deaths; in April, 1912, j
committeeman, and that Tulsa is tribu I state Game Warden Frame for pheas-
tary to probably the largest gas sup- 1 ants and eggs and that Came Warden
ply In Oklahoma.
Oppose One-Sixth Royalty.
Tulsa, Okla.—Oklahoma oil produc-
Midget Horse Named Speermore.
Speermore, Okla.—At the evry mo-
emnt the feature pony act with four
vAAm and five month, to nav out his I at " H1®0""8 1,1 lraill<><1 Ponle" t0 "e put on in the
jears and ti\e months to pay out nis took a decided stand again a* the one-
fine of $500 for a violation of the pro-j slxth mvalty plan, under which the
hibitory law. according to the parole j department of the interior proposes
Doolin has expended $1,2.13.38 for
pheasants and eggs. There is a bal-
ance in the fund of $12,552.10. The
amount earned by the department in
excess of the cost of conducting it for
the year is $37,350.
granted him by Governor Cruce. Nel-i
son was given a jail sentence of six .
to lease several hundred thousand
Bonheur Bros. Circus ring here the
night of July 4th to a packed audience,
Tiny, one of the ponies taking part
. I in the play, was giving birth to a mid-
' S acres of new land In the Osage na- i . „ ,h
months and a tine of $500 by the ., f _ ,, „nii „„ Thp l)roducers . which is the most diminu-
ennntv court in Ottawa countv He ? piomicers Uve atom of horBe.flegh evpr p n
county court in ottawa county. He aiBO object to that feature of the lease ^n„prn,,irp .,,,a ti,
served six months and applied for a reenlatlona maklnir it imperative lo . caused the di t to le
naroie making the novel sueeestion 7, it im,. lame to ]eft out of the program. The audience
parole, maKing uie no\ei suggestion start a well on every snbdivir ■ n with-
that be would pay his fine on the in- L n)nety dayg and eompiete ,t withill
Rtallment plan. Consequently he was a year or pay a penaItv of $2 000
released, but lie is to pay $5 per month i Thpgo resuiations are much mora
for six months and then $10 per month
until the entire $500 is paid.
stringent than stipulated in the blan.
| ket lease long held by the Indian Ter-
_ ! ~ ~ _ , I ritory Illuminating Oil and Gas Corn-
Bank Asks to Foreclose. I , , ,,
pany, over 680,000 acres of rich oil
Tulsa, Okla. A suit to foreclose a ;in(j gas ]an(is jn the Osage .Nation. A
mortgage of $200,000 has been filed | conmlittee of oil men was named to go
against the Tulsa Building Company, I Washington and endeavor to have
owners of the new ten-story T ol<?l j these objectionable lease features mo 1-
Tulsa, by J. E. Crosbie, president of | lefl
the First National bank. Crosbie al j
leges the principal is overdue, al-
though the interest on the mortgage
has been paid. It is said the hotel di-
erctors will avert foreclosure proceed-
ings.
School Bonds Carry.
Tulsa. Okla.—The voters of Tulsa
by a ratio of more than three to one
signified their approval of a proposed
Baby Drowned in Milk Jar.
Carmen, Okla.—The 7-months-old
baby of Frank Devereaux fell Into a jar
of milk and was drowned.
was not informed that the birth of tills
Harrison Files Report.
10(i cases and 75 deaths, and In May,
1912, 85 cases and 9 deaths.
In the Suburbs.
"Is Mrs. Glllet a well-informed worn-
"Well, she's on a party wire."—Life.
Often
SALLOW FACES
and
Caused by Tea
Drinking.
Coffe«
How many persons realize that tea
and coffee so disturb digestion that
they produce a muddy, yellow com-
plexion?
A ten days' trial of Postum has
speck on the horizan of horseland had "iadp Publlc l he to al ^' suspension of the rates complained of.
deprived them of the best pony act of of dmlnlsterinK ,be offl< e for „th® The resolutions were passed at the an.
the show. The mother of the baby I fast year was $28,320. For the first | nual meeting of the association re-
colt is jet black, not over twenty-three
inches high, but the baby is white,
with yellow and black markings. It
will be named "Speermore" after the
place of its birth, and next Fourth, if
it lives, we may see it performing with
its parents in the ring.
Bond Issue Protested.
Muskogee, Okla.—Petitions signed
by 171 voters have been filed with the
city commissioners protesting against
Mowing Machine Caused Death,
Weatherford, Okla.—After suffering I
for two weeks from cuts received when
he fell from a horse into a mawing ma-1
chine, the small son of J. H. Riley j
died here.
bond issue of $150,000 to be expended I the calling of an election to vote on
in the improvement of the city school the issuance of $150,000 worth of bonds
system. New ward school buildings j for improvements of city parks. The
will be erected with the money from petitions assert that the city now is
the bonds. Last year according to
school authorities the schools were
overcrowded to the extent of 500 pu-
pils and an additional enrollment of
500 new pupils is expected Septem-
ber 1.
groaning under the burdens of taxation
that it owes $2,000 fur holding two
former elections and that judgments
aggregating $47,048 are outstanding
against the city. The present bonded
indebtedness is $1,759,000.
Man Found Dead on Highway.
Bartlesville, Okla.—W. M . "Shorty"
Ashbaugh, an oil worker, was found
lying dead in the road three miles
south of Ogelsby. Ashbaugh had been
shot through the head with a 38-cali
ber revolver. A handkerchief had been
tied around his feet. There were no
evidences of a struggle and the author-
ities have not decided whether the
death was the result of murder or sui-
cide. Ashbaugh was a single man and
is said to have a home in Cberryvale,
Kansas
Thanks Corporation Commission.
Just to show the corporation com-
mission that its labors are not forgot-1
ten or unappreciated, the Oklahoma
Cotton Seed Crushers' Association :iaj ;
sent in a resolution thanking the com-
mission and Bate Expert C. B. Bee j
for their work in obtaining a suspen-
That the office of secretary of state ; s|on of certain excessive and unfair proven a meanB, In thousands of case«,
for the year ending June 30 has been rates. These rates vitally affected the clearing up a bad complexion,
conducted more cheaply than for an> business In which the members of tho ^ WasUn. young lady tells ber el-
other year since the beginning of association are engaged and they be- pgrience:
statehood is borne out by figures su!i- iieve that the suspension until Decern. G{ us—father, mother, sister and
mitted in Secretary Harrison's report | her 31 will ultimately mean cempleta brother—had used tea and coffee tor
many years until finally we all had
stomach troubles, more or less.
"We all were sallow and troubled
with pimples, bad breath, disagreeable
taste in the mouth, and all of us simply
bo many bundles of nerves.
"We didn't realize that tea and cof-
fee caused the trouble until one day
we ran out of coffee and went to bor-
row some from a neighbor. She gave
Instead, Governor Cruce granted Hen U8 some Postum and told us to tr#
ry a reprieve in order that the court that.
of criminal appeals may review the | "Although we started to make It,
evidence in Henry's case. The appeal ' we all felt sure that we would be sick
was filed about two weeks ago. Tile if we missed our strong coffee, but we
reprieve expires October U. tried Postum and were surprised to
_ | And it delicious.
| "Wo read the statements on the pkg ,
Bank Deposits Decrease. more and in a month and a half
Individual deposits in Oklahoma I you wouldn't have known us. We all
state banks on June 14 totaled $34,- were able to digest our food without
413,504.06 as compared with $37,121,- any trouble, each one's skiu became
207.97 at the time of the April state- clear, tongues cleared off, and nerves
ment, according to a consolidated In fine condition. We never use any-
statenient Issued by Bank Commission- thing now but Postum. There is Luth-
er J. D. Langford. There were 623 ! Ing like it." Name given by Postum
banks reporting which is four lea* Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
"There's a reason," and It Is ex-
plained In the little book, "The Road
to Wellville." In pkgs.
Ever rrod the above Iftterf A new
on« appears from time to time. Tb«*f
are gcnulue, true, aud full ot humaa
Intcreat.
19 months of statehood the cost of, cently held here
maintaining the office was $39,298.80 ,
and for the year ending June 30, 1910, Negro's Sentence Commuted.
$31,958.94. For the year ending Junei N'etwon Henry, the negro who was
30. 1911, the cost was $36,446.95, of J convicted of killing Charlie Lucas ill
which $19,953.68 had been expended by June, 1911, was not hanged July S,
the former and $16,502.27 by the pres-! according to the terms of his senten
ent administration. The report also
shows that since Secretary Harrison
went into office a large amount of re-
cording has been done for which fees
had already been collected by the pre-
vious administration.
Charges Against Ballard Dismissed.
The case against Perry A. Ballard,
state insurance commissioner ou a
charge of having falsified to the stale
election board his '-eturn of expenses
during the campaign In which he was
sleeted to the office he now holds, was
dismissed when it como up for hear-
■ng. The complaining wllness was C.
C. Jones, but when the casi was call-
ed in Justice Gourley'3 court i?o one
was present to press the charge and
it was accordingly dismissed for wani
of prosecution.
than at the time of the previous report.
The commissioner accounts for th« de-
crease in deposits as being due to
loans made to fanners with which to
handle their crops.
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