The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1915 Page: 2 of 12
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THE CLIPPER. HENNESSEY. OKLAHOMA.
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STATE CAPITAL HAPPENINGS j
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Oklahoma City.— ! Nineteen Cases to Be Heard Nov. 9 10.
Probably the largest sale of allotted; Nineteen oases are set for hearing
Indian lands ever known will be held before the corporation commission at
in 15 different districts in eastern Ok- the term beginning November 9, uc-
lahoma under the supervision of the cording to the docket, as follows:
United States government, beginning s. Orr Neal, Dallas, vs. Rock Lsland.
November 29 and closing December 4. Violation of order No. 904. On rehcar-
Five hundred and thirty-live farms
will be offered for sale, comprising
approximately 50,000 acres of land.
The farms are divided into tracts
ranging from 10 to 640 acres each.
The appraised price per acre ranges
from $1 U> $20 depending on the grade
of the land, the number of acres till-
able and the improvements thereon.
The land is now owned by Indians
whose restrictions have been removed
by the department. In the majority
of canes the Indians own more land
than they can properly care for. The
money derived from the sale will be
expended in improving the home-
steads. The sale should result in
great good to the eastern part of the
state, for each piece of land sold will
bring a new settler or home owner, and
practically all of the money will be
spent in this part of the state in pat-
ting improvements on the Indian lands.
The government will make an effort
lo sell this land to bona tide farmers
lng.
J. L. C. (iuest, Duncan, vs. Rock
Island. Violation of order No. 804. On
rehearing.
J. L. C. Guest, Duncan, vs. Rock
Island. Violation of order No. 4. On
rehearing.
E. L. Parsons, Chlchasha, vs. Rock
Island. Violation of orders Nos. 4 and
804. On rehearing.
J. R. McKnight, OKlahonn City, vs.
Rock Island. Violation of order No.
K04. On rehearing.
K. M. Boring et al., Cl'nton, vs. K. C.,
M. & O. and (J. & O. W. Railway com-
panies. Track connection.
Lapel Bottle Company, Poteau, vs.
C., R. 1. & P. ot ai. Rates on glass
articles.
Russell-Duncan Jobbers mills, Okla-
homa City, vs. Rock Island et al. Rates
on glass articles.
A. L. Beckett et al.. Cartersville, vs.
Midland Valley. Protesting against
and discourage its sale to speculators, closing station.
pay-
American Brick & Tile
The land will be sold on the
ment plan, so as to make it easy for I Oklahoma City, vs. Rock Island
the farmer who wants to establish a ; <,u fire brick.
Company,
Kates
home and build up a farm in Okla-
homa. A payment of 25 per cent is
required when the bid is made, and
terms will be given on the remainder.
Sales will be made in the following
towns on the date designated: Vinita,
December 1; Pryor, December 3; Jay,
December 4; Tahlequah, December 4;
McAlester, December 2; Nowata, De-
cember 4; Bartlesville, December 1;
Claremore, November 20; Tulsa, De-
cember 2; Sapulpa, December 3; Ok-
mulgee, December 3; Okemah, Decem-
ber 1; Stigler, November 30; Poteau,
December 3; Muskogee, December 4;
Eufaula, November 30; Wagoner, No-
vember 29; Holdenville, December 4;
Wewoka, November 30; Stilwell, De-
cember 1; Sallisaw, December 2;
Pauls Valley, December 4; Sulphur,
November 30; Ardmore, December
4; Marietta, December 2; Ada, Decem-
ber 1; Coalgate, November 29; Atoka,
December 3; Waurika, November 30;
Duncan, December 1; Chickasha, De
cember 3; Durant, December 2; Ma-
dill, December 4; Tishomingo, Novem-
ber 29; Hugo, November 30; Antlers,
December 1; Idabel, December 3
Comanche Telephone Con.panv et
al., Comanche, vs. Pioneer T & T.
Company. In re routing Ion.; distance
messages.
Rush Springs Telephone f'ompany,
Rush Springs, vs. Pioneer T. & T. Com-
pany. In re routing long distance mes-
sages.
Hickory Coal & Mining Company,
Tulsa, vs. M., K. & T. For adjustment
of coal rates.
Cushing Acid Works, Cushing, v.^. A.,
T. & S. F. et al. Adjustment of lates
on sulphuric acid.
In le application Union City Tele-
phone Company. For permission to
raise rates.
More Horses for the War.
Twenty-four hundred head of horses
moved out of Oklahoma City last week
on five special trains, and within a few-
weeks will be doing cavalry duty and
artillery duty on the French war l'ront.
The mammoth contract for supply-
ing army horses for the French was
handled by W. T. Hales, horse and mule
dealer, and for several days his buvers
Oil Field Closed by Commissioners,
Hve of the large producing com-1 },a(j been shipping horses into the
panics in the Healdton oil field were i stock yards from all over the South-
shut down by order of (ho corporation wegt, jjr. Hales says flint owing to the
commission and something like 1,000; filct that the war has settled down to
men are out of employment. The com-
mission shut Gown are the McMan. Cor-
sicana, Ardworth, Gates and Gelmer.
The McMan company alone hail 3j0
men at worK.
Robert McFarlin, president of the
McMan company, ordered his wells con-
nected with the Magnolia Hnes and has
ceased all tank building. Ardmore cit-,
izens are anxious 10 get a compromise
arranged so that the Held and town will
not suffer from a shut down of opera-
ttani.
The companies which are ordered not
to produce oil are those which have ,
been placing oil in steel tanks and
have taken out of the sand more than
their pro rata under the orders of the
commission that all oil must be pro-
rated. The Texas Company lias of-
fered 70 cents a barrel for storage oil,
while pipe line runs are selling at 45
cents a barrel, and many produced are
of the opinion that it will be better to
secure a compromise and permit the
building of steel tanks.
Freeling Is a Popular Man.
From the requests coming into the ;
office of Attorney General Freeling, it
would seem that county attorneys over
the state are having their troubles.
Not less than four or five counties now i
desire the assistance of the attorney
general in the investigatiun of condi-
tions of their respective counties by
grand juries. Letters com** to the of-
fice every few days asking if the state's j
legal adviser can furnish an assistant '
from his office to probe the conditions I
of the county.
At this time his services are wanted {
in Tulsa, Sequoyah, Nowata, McClain;
and Osage counties. The attorney gen- j
eral furnished an assistant in Creek
county, where trials of the county
officials have been in progress for the
•past few weeks.
However, in each case the attorney
general cannot go on his own volition.
It requires an assignment by the gov-
ernor. But the requisitions for his
services are becoming general, and it
would seem that conditions in some of
the counties require attention.
Pay For Lost Arm To Buy Education.
Compensation at the rate of $6 a
week for 250 weeka was awarded by ;
the state industrial commission to
Caney C. McNeeley, who lost an arm
while employed in a cotton gin at
Mountain Park. The gin was owned
by William C. Capper. The commis-
sion gave its approval to a request !
from McNeeley for payment of his i
total compenration, amounting to
$1,500 in a lump Fum, provided the in-
mrance company in which he was in-
jured agrees. McNeeley says he
jlvants the money to attend school. ;
BRITISH WOUNDED RETURNING FROM FIRING LINE
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This is believed to be one of the first pictures to reach this country in connection with the desperate British
drive at Loos. The losses were extremely large on both sides and hundreds of wounded Tommies trudged back
to the field hospitals from the firing line after temporary dressing of their wounds. It ia thought that these are
the first pictures to pass the censor showing the British wounded after the battle.
AUSTRIAN MORTAR HAMMERING THE SERBIANS
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OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS-
Nov. 13-17—School land sale. Watonga.
Nov. 16— Cornerstone laying, Oklahoma
Capitol Bulldlny.
Nov. 18-20—School land sale. El Tieno.
Nov. 22-23—School land sale. Chandler.
Nov. 26, Shrintrs tfiaie Ceremonial, Ok«
lahoma City.
Nov. 25-27—State Educational A*socl%<
tlon. Oklahoma Cltv.
Nov. 29-Dec. 3—School land sale, King*
fisher.
Dec. 6-8—School land sale, Guthrie.
Dec. 9-11—School land sale. Norman.
Dec. 27-Jan. l. Eastern Oklahoma Poul-
try Show. Tulsa.
•Ian. 3-18—Sale cf Indian lands ol
Choctaws and Chickasaws.
March 3-8— LAvesiock Show, Oklahoma
City.
Football Game*
Nov. 13—State U. at Arkansas U.
Nov. 13—Pittsburg Normal at KendalL
Nov. 19—State U. at Kansas Agricul-
tural.
Nov. 19—Edmond at Phillips U.
Nov. 25—Arkansas LJ. at KendalL
Nov. 25— State U. vs. Agglta. Oklahoma
City.
One of the huge Austrian 30.5 mortars engaged in making untenable a position of the Serbians not far from the
Montenegrin frontier. The clothing of the gun crew allows the weather in that mountainous region already was
wintry.
WAR SPARES NEITHER AGE NOR YOUTH scene in alpine warfare
a business basis, he was forced 10 buy
the animals at $35 per head less than
any previous contract he has filled. He
says the horses obtained were Ju.*t as
good as those that went at tirst, and
the fact that they can he bought
cheaper is an indication that there are
plenty of horses in the country.
Rummons Named On Ccmmission.
Nestor Runinions. democrat, a law-
yer of Hobart, has been appointed by
(Jov. R. L. Williams as a member of
division No. 1 of the supreme court
commission, succeeding Judge C. M
^'hacker, who was elevated to the su-
preme court bench to (Ml the vacancy
caused by the death of Justice G. A
Brown. The appointment of Rum-
mons was made by the governor aijd
confirmed and announced by the su-
preme court. The governor appoints
members of the commission subject to
• onfirmation by the supreme court.
Production Taxes Deiuge Treasurer.,
A total of $r 8,000 in gross produc- |
tion taxes on oil and gas alwie was col-
lected Oct. 30 by Slate Auditor B. j
Howard and deposited with the state
treasurer. This is the largest collec- j
tion of taxes in a single day since the i
beginning ot the present state admin-
istration. Oct. 30 was the last day for
the payment of the gross production .
tax for the quarter ending Septeinhp-
1, and that accounts for the size of j
the receipts of the day. according to |
Mr. Howard.
Too Many Ticks.
There are more cattle ticks in the
eastern section of Oklahoma t'vn in
years, according to a statement i y Dr.
W. L. Hyde, of the bureau of animal |
industry, who ha.; just returned from
a tour of investigation etxending from j
the Kansas to the Texas borders. On
the other hand. Dr. Hyde declares, cat-
tlemen are building more private dip-
ping vats than in years and are gr.'d-1
ually lessening the alarming death rate j
iMiiong cattle infected with Texas fever
by the ticks.
Condemned Negro Loses Last Appeal
Henry Bookman, negro, held in the
penitentiary at McAlester under sen-
tence of electrocution for murder on
December 3 0, lost his last fight in
court for his life vhen tl.e criminal
court of appeals denied rehearing of
the case recently decided therein the
negro's conviction and death sentence
were affirmed The denial by the court
of the application for rehearing was
announced from the bench by Presid
ing Judge Thomas H. Doyle, who w rote
the opinion of the court affirming the
sentence.
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This photograph, taken recently near the battle line in France, shows
an eighty-year old matron and her two grandchildren, all that remain of a
once happy and prosperous family whose home was destroyed by German
shells.
DISINFECTING SERBIAN SOLDIERS
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Members ot the American Red Cross til Serbia spraying troops with tils-
iDteclaul alter their return from a long stay In the trenches.
A dangerous climb made by an Aus-
trian troop closo to the frontier In an
engagement with the Italians. The
photograph shows the hazardous posi-
tion of one of the wounded Austrians,
who is being aided up the mountain-
side by his comrades above him,
while two other members of his troop
are below ready to save him should
the rope break. Such sights as this
are almost a daily occurrence in the
Alpine fighting.
Activities of Women.
Women are helping to build trenches
in Turkey.
Mrs. Frederick Gardner, prominent
in St. Louis society, is now touring
the California mountains hu. ing for
bear and deer.
Female students at the Harvard
summer school have organized a club
in which each member pledges her-
self not to marry before she is twen-
ty-five and then only to a man who
is earning at least $2,000 a year. j
Princess White Deer, a Mohawk In
dian maiden from the St. Regis res
ervation, is now in England, where
she will marry a Russian officer to
whom she has been engaged for morn
than a year.
"Aunt Uetsy" Clark is the oldest
person in West Virginia, having passed
her one hundrsd and twelfth mile j
stone. Even at her advanced age she |
does most of her houseworM and does !
not wear glasses nor have any use for ■
a cane.
The twelve banks in Dewey county
have approximately $560,000 on depos<
it.
The enrollment at East Central Nor-
mal school for the fait term has reached
301.
Shawnee National Bank, capitalized
at $100,000, has deposits or $1,059,-
577.01.
First National BanK of Checotah,
capitalized at $50,000, has deposits ot
$375,031.71.
The Pank of Renfrow in Grant coun-
ty capitalized at $10,000 lias deposits
of $88,651.61.
Reckless driving caused the name ot
Dorset Carter to appear on the police
blotter at Oklahoma City.
Pete Golindes, a Mexican, was shot
and killed on the streets of Anadarko
by Ignasses Gonzales, another Mexican,
who fired five shots, four of which took
effect.
John Anthony, a negro, must go to
the electric chair for the murder ot
his wife throe years ago, according to
the verdict of a jury in the district
court of Muskogee county.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harris ot
Oklahoma City took charge of the
state Confederate home last week as
superintendent and matron. They suc-
ceed J. C. Ijams and his daughter ot
Marietta,
A four-days campaign brought the
membership of the Tulsa chamber of
commerce to 1,075 and it is now be-
lieved this city has the largest com-
mercial organization in the state of
Oklahoma.
J. Milton Turner, a negro, former
United States minister to Liberia,
died at Ardmore last week. Turner
lived in St. Louis. He was injured in
the explosion of a tank car at Ardmore
a month ago.
The cotton movement is slow in Ada
this fall. Only 1,271 bales have been
received at the county scales. Round
bales counted as half bales bring the
total receipts up to 1,535. A year ago
3,501 bales had been received at this-
date.
A substantial increase in postal re-
ceipts for the month of October over
the corresponding period in 1914 is
shown in a report compiled by Assist-
ant Postmaster John Graham of Ok-
lahoma City. The total receipts were*
$45,185.33, as compared with $40,530.14
in October of 1914. The increase was
11.5 per cent.
G. T. Crawford was shot and killed!
at his home, ten miles southw?-;t of
Stonewall, shortly after dark. His as-
sassin has not been located. Crawford,
who has lived in the community sev-
eral years, went from the house into
the yard just before his usual time to
retire. As he stepped from the door
some one on the outside emptied ,t load
of shot into his breast afld side.
The Oklahoma National Gas Com-
pany,, which supplies Guthrie ani Ok-
lahoma City with natural gas, will, it
is said, shortly submit a proposal for
supplying natural gas to Enid, El Reno,
Waukomis and Hennessey.
It is believed the highest price ever
paid for broom corn at any market in
Oklahoma was paid at Sayre when
Wm. Irving received a price of $150 a
ton for a load of broom corn weighing
1,500 pounds. More than 100 tons of
broom corn have been shipped from
there this season and there are forty
tons In storage.
W. B. Harrison, secretary of the Ok-
lahoma Bankers' Association, forward-
ed his resignation to T. H. Dwyer,
president of the organization, and
about the first of the year will be-
come vice president of the St. Louis
Cattle Loan Company.
Lee Pollock, for seven years a dep-
uty sheriff In Pittsburg county, is in
the county jail at McAlester facing
murder charges ns n result of a shoot-
ing which occurred two miles south ot
Kiowa. William Douthitt, victim of
Pollock's gun is dead.
Arrangements have been completed
for equipping a gymnasium in the base-
ment of the Methodist church, recently
completed at Elk City.
Bernard McMahon, 25 years of age,
an employe of ihe Phoenix refinery at
Siiiid Springs, who over a year ago was
,i warded a Carnegie hero medal for
l ining the llf* of a fellow workman
ft'm <i burning tank ear at Lawrence-
vl'le. Ill has been advised by a rep-
re entative of Andrew Carnegie that
his case was awarded as so meritorious
that a deposit of $1,000 has been placed
to his credit in a bank at Pitt shut g.
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