The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1917 Page: 2 of 14
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the cupper, hennessey, oklahoma
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h* STATEHOUSE BREVITIES ❖ j
1" "7""~*T"nrr Capita! Com'ml.slon Blundered.
Here'* Another Statehou.e q ^ ^ p.lld ^,,.000 for a Utct
, ^"^'""e^Cten ^rlcuKura Of .^proximately one acre near the
school property at Broken Arrow ha. alehouse has come to light with t e
Decn signed by tbrefi members of ihe ,uin(S of the deed lo tho property
state board of africulture, without a ,iecording
reservation being made for oil and ga. Th(( htn(t w,lB bought by .1 M. Ayde-
rlghts of the tract, us provided by the i )((e ( haiMuan o( Uie slate board of
sixth legislature. The deed now Is o members of the Mate
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would not sign the deed under an) , „ie capltol commission was *-■>, u
consideration, and made the chara® according to Mr. Aydelotte.
that the signatures of the other board when the iull(| was bought state-
members were obtained under pressuie Iluule to the effect that it
ernor Williams had named another, lt wall difflmlt to figure t ie' «>
man J. N. Roach. In his place, and ami „f the land.lt was aid and the
m ' ... t.,„ area rrlnulned indefinite In the minds
Of all concerned, different siatehouse
officials varying from live to twenty
acres In their statements or Its area.
The land Is in the shape of two tri-
angles. each of Which has the same
dimensions the base of each b< Ing
;il2.7ri fee in length and perpendi-
cular 140 feet In length. These two
form a rectangle the area of which
can be determined by multiplying H e
two dimensions given This process
Shows i here are 43,785 aquare feet in
the triangles. In an acre there are
4:! 580 square feet, and by thin process
of division it is evident I hut there is
1.005 acres of land for which the state
paid $20,000.
that Koach had signed the deed. Th<
other two member* who have signed
the deed are R. H. McLish and J. .1.
Savage.
The* eighty acres involved aro n
Tulsa county, and a number of com-
panies have tried to obtain oil and
gas leases on It. A joint resolu'lon
adopted by the last legislature pro-
vided that the slate board of agricul-
ture and school district No. 7 of Tulsa
countv thauld by a joint action agree
that the oil and gas rights to the prop
„rty .h.uld be held Jointly by the state
and the school district.
No suck joint agreement has been
Bade, and slice the signatures of till- e
members of the board of agriculture
are tufflcient to transfer the land,
'President Gault asserts that the state
has lost any claim to the oil and gas
rights on the eighty acres, which he
Relieves valuable.
The property is valued at about $30
«00. There is a large brick schoo
"building on it which now is being ased
«.s the Broken Arrow high school.
Poultry Scarcity Threatens State.
A scarcity of chickens in Oklahoma,
brought on by the high price of grain,
threatens the state with prices for
eggs and poultry that may be nearly
prohibitive, according to reports re-
ceived by the state department of
agriculture.
Replies received Trom a circular lei
ter sent out to commission merchants
In all parts of the state indicate lhat
only 50 percent as much live poultry
is being received by dealers now as n
year ago. The high price of grain
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national food administration
the
ine from its value
Nation, "leave all
free to observe the
right according to ti
science.'*
Wine Demanded By Episcopalians.
Severe criticism of the Oklahoma
bone-dry law because It makes no pro-
vision for the importation or manu-
facture of sacramental wine is con
tallied in a resolution adopted by
the Twenty-third annual convocation
of the Kplscopal missionaries of Okla-
homa.
The resolution says:
The law is an Infringement upon re-
ligious liberty guaranteed Ann-r oan
citizens hy Ihe constitution. Those
who would observe the law are con-
strained either lo modify an ancient
practice which they believe lo po sens
divine sanction, or for lis continuance,
acording to centuries or christian us-
age, must report to methods of eva-
| sion and subterfuge incompatible with
a wholesome respect for the law. W e
I protest against this action of the stale
_ j that places its law-abiding citizens In
discouraged the raising of poultry In that equivocal position, in the long
towns, while In the country farmer run such action Is bad for state anil j
are feeding their grain to hogs and j church
killing chickens as the cheapest meat j A committee was appointed to ah:
they have. , in securing such an amendment
A Guthrie commission merchant re-1 present act as may. without di
ports that receipts of poultry lia.e
fallen off 50 percent in the last thirty
days.
Little poultry Is being brought to
market nt Shawnee, a dealer there re
ports He says farmers are turning
their grain Into pork in preference to
poultry.
One of the large Oklahoma Cliv
commission dealer reported that w
it was believed the poultry crop is
fully as large as last year, receipts
had been very light in the last two
weeks. This was attributed to recent
rains, which have improve M -1 cro
so that farmers are not brln Ing th -ir
products to market.
Another Oklahoma City dealer
receipts were off ."ft percent, and ti
It was believed that farmers were rt
keeping their poultry for their own I o
consumption. ti
A Marshall dealer reported the poll' V
trv crop 50 percent short, and an 1- an! !
buyer said offerings were not half a
great as a year ago A great shortagi d
of live poultry was reported from Mus <■
kogee commission men.
Pupils Salute Flag Or Get Out.
"Can a boy who refuses to salute
the United States flag be barred from
a public school?"
Tills Is the question that has been
telegraphed, telephoned and written
to 1!. H Wilson, state superintendent
of schools, from Aline, Okla
Several days ago the school board
at Aline put the question to the state
nuperlntendent Mr Wilson held that
the school board could make a rule
for the children to salute the flag and
could send childran home who did not
obey the rule.
A woman called Mm over the long
distance telephone from Aline and
said her hoy had been sent home from
sol noi because he would not salute
FRENCH ARE GUARDING THE WHEAT FIELDS OF MOROCCO
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vfcW,
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ho is In
and Comuiuiidunt Jeuiigeraut
protect the wheat fields ot Mori
French field gun
tiier suppll
of wheat and
flag of hadjaz in cairo
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FRF.NCt! MITRAILLEUSE CN MARNE FRONT
iri" tian
>f con
in Oklahoma,
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Avdelott
w hich
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it Ol
PMorc
1 in tin
stations
No Primary Mark
The federal wheat
through its secretary
I Moore, told 'he .state
:,p fense that there is no
,ts j Oklahoma City being n
A'° j terminal market for v
'nt | gested that the farme
aw of the situation.
Mr. Moore's message was in re-
I sponse to a telegram from J. M. Ayde
| lotte, chairman of the state council
of defi
lahoma City be made a primary i
inal market and if this had
done the value of Oklahoma's v
crop would have been increased
than a million dollars.
Commission Dictates Ctat'on Mate
The state corporation comm!si
has the power to designate the <
of material that shall be us<
construction of passenger
which it causes to be buili
preme court held. The C£
upon was an appeal from a d
tho corporation com mis for
construction of a depot a1
commission ordered the
use brick as the build
; from which order the He
; pealed. The decision of ti
sion was affirmed by th
French mitral
line In the Maine district.
f the lliiil.laz. otherwise known as the
liertfT of Mecca, floating over the dip-
.omatlc office he has established in
Cairo lie proposes to rule over Mec-
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SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
Oct 15-20, Indian land sale. Hugo-
Oct. 22-24, Indian land sal®. * oteau.
Oct. 24-iGarneid county laij.
Oct. 20, Indian iar.il r-alo, ^ "l1 ,U,.r'
Oct. 2t", Indian land salt-, McAieai1-^-
Oct. 27, lndatn land sale. Coalgate.
Oct. 2'j, Indian land bale, .
Oct. 3u, Indian land sale, Paula Vail y
Oct. 31. Indian land salt. Ar<* n°r«-
L ec. 11-1®, State Poultry
City.
Billy Mayfield, whose prohibitory
violation has extended through a per-
iod of several years, was sliot ti>
death at Tulsa by Deputy Sheriff
Frank Wolfe at an alleged roadhouse,
operated by Mabel Brooks, two miles
east of Tulsa.
After writing the notice of his death
on a postal card and addressing it to
his brother, Louis Goes, a miner,
di ed to his death at the bottom of a,
mine shaft at Alderson 555 feet be-
low the surface. Almost every bone
in ids body was broken.
On account of the shortage of farm
hands, a great many farmers in north-
west Oklahoma are paying $50 ptr
month wages besides providing board,
lodging and laundry, and a horse and
buggy to drive to town on Saturday
and giving Sundays off.
A jury in the diBlricl court at Enid
acquitted the Rev. Dan C. Dees of the
jharge of attempted assault while Lees
was pastor of the Episcopal church
there. The complaint was made by
Alta Webb, in whose home the min-
ister lived at the time. Lees now lives
in Oklahoma City.
The body ot a man believed to b«
R Kunsell, a German, was found on
the east outskirts of Henryetta in a
badly decomposed condition. He ha
apparently been dead about ten days.
A coroner's jury decided that the man
came to his death through vioienco
at the hands of unknown parties.
After the 2,000 and more telepnones
in Sapulpa had been out of commis-
sion for eight days due to the strike
of the fifty operators and supervisors
for a 75-cent increase, and an 8-hour
day service was resumed when th
strikers agreed to allow the^ corpora-
tion commission to adjust their rou-
bles and returned to work.
Oklahoma is at liberty to market it*
grain at Galvoston, according to a tel-
egram received by Governor Williams
from Julius H. Barnes, president of tho
federal wheat corporation. Ihs wil
mean tlia- farmers of the southern
part of the state can market the.r
grain at Galveston and receive approx-
imately 5 cents a bushel more for it.
The Beaver higft school has bought
a Liberty bond and, claims to be the
lirvt high school in the state to place
a bond on the walls as a permanen
memento of the great war. ...
vcr high school Red Cross auxiliary
has finished more than one hundred
garments for the locfl papier • or
than one hundred boys and girls par-
I icipate in military training daily.
Fees received from work done by
| Ihe Slate reporter in making tran-
scripts of cases must be turned
the state treasurer, according to an
opinion by the attorney general s ot-
1 fire Th^ opinion was asked by in
state industrial commission. The stat"
reporter has been making transcript-
of cases before the commission, and
.there was a question as to whether
the fees should be retained by him
or turned over to the stale.
Roping contests no longer may be
held in Oklahoma, according to an
opinion issued by the alorney gener-
al's department, on strength of which
Governor Williams ordered the coun-
ty attorney of Osage county to stop
a" roping contest which was to have
been staged at. Pawhuska. It Is held
in ihe opinion, written by Robinson
McMillan, assistant attorney general,
that the roping of animals for sport
is a violation of the state law against
The ling of the newly created king | cruelty to animals.
Recruiting officers have the names
of three alleged deserters from the
Oklahoma national guard and one
from the national army. Earl Harris
and Lawrence Legate, members of "
acted
sion of
Waltei
railway
material
orami
sup: emf
POTATO QUEEN HARVESTING HER CROP
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State Must Sue for Sh
A check for $7f ,0(>0
Howard, s'ate auditor, I
luting the flag pecting front C B Shnffe
ace," she said. I ill the payment of I ti coir
ips a flag of w ar. I only will not he forthco i
want him to salutr , state will have to win a
i monev in the courts if il
C-se.
im
i beei
of Ch
pp
ago
e taxes, not
iins. but the
tight for the
Is obtained
rhe fact that we are at war is all
more reason why he should salute
flag." Mr Wilson told her. "and if
docs not show the proper respect
his flap and country, 1 do not
tola me
home
the teacher for sending him
Three Attorneys Disbarred.
Three Adair county attorneys were
disbarred by action of the supremo
court last week Two of them, Linus
A. Williams and W, A. I'orley, were
disbarred as a result of being con
An application for a restra'ntnR ordei
to prevent the levying on oil property
near Drumright to obtain the tax has
been made to Judge Ralph M. Camp-
bell of I nited States district court at
MsAlester. The case has been set for
I October 8.
Lyon's Latest Poar.
I The state game protection fund has
dwindled from $211,1)0.") to $8,294,
i since July 1, 1916, acord ng to a let-
ter received by State Auditor K. B.
I Howard last week from J L. Lyon,
I
Doves Prove to Be Slackers.
The Old Fort Homing club of Fort
Wayne sent a number of carrier pi-
geons to Los Angeles, says the I.os
Angeles Times, in order to get them 111 | hav«
training for military service. A fi
days ago Chief of l'olice Butler i
Tulsa ambulance company and John
R. Green, member of an Oklahoma
City engineer company are missing
from I'anip Ilowie, and Crover Dillard
of New Wilson, mtmber of the na
tional army, from Camp Travis. A'l
failed to report lo their com
mander's and the ten day leave of ab
sence has expired.
'lease,iThc birds, intrusting each with 11 To cover a distance of 10.000 miles
tiny roll of tissue paper, bearing mes- j to Hawaii and hack in time
s-iges from the mayor to oiliclals of
tlie Indiana city. Six of the birds have
,„,t heard from, and it Is probable
that they are. happy on their way back
home. Two of them, however, refused
i„. drafted and returned to the ecu
| tral police station, where they were
i caught and placed In a crate. Los
Angeles Is pigeons' paradise, but tills
is no time fur doves of peace, it seems,
i The birds lost more than they gained
j by their desertion. Such is the fate of
slackers.
Mrs .1 B. Williams ot Fort Fnrtleld, Uiionwi as Ihe 'Total..
. * , ,l. \ie harvesting her first war crop of potatoes. Mrs. William,
handles' •_!(>,i*tn"l.i"Tc1s of spuds a year, personally supervising the planting,
harvesting anil selling of her crop.
aiBUftrrvu n" ° 1 n"" "■ . . .
victed and fined $30 each for criminal secretary of stat ' In a letter hp
conspiracy, the charge being thai ,
they attempted to defraud Incompe- j
lnfUmia nf their riehls Earl li-
the appropriation bill on which
Mr. Howard has didder', to approve
tent Indian, of their rights Earl R I warrant, of "g'«nie ranger." ha. < '
llarlne was disbarred following Ills misconstrued Mr. Ly< n charged 1.1
conviction In the Adair county dls- hi. letter that money was being used |
trict court on a charge of embezzle- from tb gum protection fund for po-
ment He was senttneed to five years lihnal purpose* rather than for the
jn prison. 1 nrolectlon of game.
much in little
i Four differently colored sectors on
Its face make a new automobile speed-
, . .. ometer easily read.
The library of' Artificial silk, which has been on
C°In i"ormal times .he Transvaal the market for about five years, Is he-
mines re he largest consumer, of ex- > Inn used extensively not only In cloth
lives b. ihe world ' "*■ lu ho"?rZ U""lU"lCtUr'>
December sesaion. Congressman Mi
Clintic has been selected by President
Wilson one of a special lnveatigat
ing committee to inspect government
property in the Pacific islands Before
Riling he tills the following speaking
I itinerary: Lone Wolf and Sentinel,
i Oct. 11; Thomas and Clinton. Oct. 12;
I Cordell and Hobart, Oct. Lt: Frederi k
' and C.randtield, Oct. 15; i'.lk City and
I Sayre, Oct. 16; Cheyenne and Ham
I mon, Oct. 17; Altus. Oct. IS; Hollis
I anil Eldorado Oci 19; Mangum and
j Snyder. Oct. 20; Gage and Shattuck.
His Trouble. j 0ct'
I lieu I'd that you are n woman j The state last week won a suit to
1 recover $50,000 on the bond of the
1 merely can- | nj(p,| states Fidelity and Guaranty
I Company which protected state school
land money In the Columbia Hank a id
Trust Company; the supreme court
affirming a dec'ilon of the district
court of Oklahoma county. Former
Governor Lee Crure and members of
the school land commission during
his administration brought the suit
against the bonding company. The
school land commission had state
money In the Columbia Bank & Trust
Company whea the companv
She
] hater.
He—That's not true.
not afford to marry.
I Slu1—Can't you support a wife?
11,,— i could support a wife easy
' enough, hut 1 haven't enough Income tc
I support the two or three other women
! she would need to wait on her.
Naturally So.
"There Is a man In tills company 1
know Is light-fingered."
"Then why do you keep hlml"
"licciiuse he lius to be; he s our
electrician.
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