Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1905 Page: 15 of 16
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OKLAHOMA'S LAWS GOVERNING
RAILROADS AND SHIPPERS
GUTHRIE: The Noffslnger demur-
jage bill, which has just been signed
by Governor T. B. Ferguson of Okla-
homa, is said by railroad men to be
the most drastic of any bill on the
statute books of any si ate in the
anion. The governor was beset by
railroad officials from St. Ixiiiis and
Chicago and other central points who
would have had him veto the meas-
ure. The bill regulates demurrage
and storage charges and pre-ents de-
lays in furnishing cars and in trans-
portation and delivery by railroads of
freight other than live stock and per-
ishable goods.
In making it the duty of every rail-
way-company operating a line wholly
or in part within this territory, upon
the verbal or written application of
any shipper, to furnish the desired
cars for the transportation of freight
within four days following the appli-
cation, or to furnish them on a spec!
tied future date if so requested by the
applicant. A violation of this section
makes the railway company forfeit
and pay to the shipper the sum of $1
per day, or fraction thereof, for each
day delayed in furnishing cars, togeth-
er with all actual demages the ship-
par may sustain by reason of the de-
lay.
When freight in carloads or less is
tendered to the station agent and cor-
rect shipping instructions given, the
company must immediately receive
the same for shipment, and it must
be carried forward at the rate of not
less than sixty miles per day of
twenty-four hours, with twenty-four
hours allowance at each point where
transfer from one railroad to another
is involved. Violations of this sec-
tion compel the company to pay the
shipper $1 per day for each day's do-
lay, and 1 per cent per 100 pounds per
day on freight in less than carload
lots, with a minimum charge of 5
cents for any one package, together
with all actual damages sustained by
the shipper..
Within twenty-four hours after the
arrival of freight the company must
given written notice by mail to the
consignee, together with the amount
of charges due. The penalties for
violations are the same as in the pre-
ceding section. The companies are
compelled to deliver freight at. their
depots or warehouses, or in case1 of
shipment for track delivery, shall
place loaded cars at an accessible
place for unloading within twenty-
four hours after arrivals. The deliv-
ery of cars to private tracks shall be
considered to have been made either
when such cars have been placed on
the tracks designated, or if such
tracks shall be full of loaded or un
released cars when the road offering
the cars wouM have made the deliv-
ery had the condition of such tracks
permitted. All cars not unloading
shall be considered placed when they
are held awaiting orders for consign-
ors or consignees.
All package freight unloading by
companies In their depots or ware-
houses and all freight which, in order
to release cars, is unloaded in the yard
space of the railroad company and
not remove by the owner within forty
eight hours, may be subject to the
charge of storage for each day, or
fraction thereof, it may remain in the
custody of the railroad company, as
follows: In less than carload lots, one
per cent per 100 pounds per day. In
car load lots not more than ten cents
per ton per day. Suit may be brought
in any court in the territory for the
collection of any of the damages, for
feitures, demurrages, or storage
charges, and thfc plaintiff, if judgment
is recovered, may recover in addition
a reasonable attorney's fee-
TEXAS WINS SUIT
Greer County Loses Four Leagues of
School Land
WASHINGTON: Associate Jus-
lice Holmes of the United States su-
preme court has handed down an
opinion in the case of Greer county,
Oklahoma, plaintiff in error aganist
he state of Texas on appeal fronr
the Texas circuit court of appeals.
The contentions of the state of
Texas as presented by Attorney Qen-
j.i Bell and Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral lteese are upheld, and the decis-
ion of the lower court is affirmed,
with the costs.
The result of this litigation be-
:wcen Greer county, Oklahoma, and
(he state of Texas is a distinctive vic-
tory for TeJtas, as it restores to that
state her "ownership to four leagues
cf school land patented to Greer
county, Texas, which had not been
disposed of by that county prior to
the establishment of Greer county,
Oklahoma.
The controversy arose out of the
ract that the territory included in
Rreer county formerly was con-
sidered as within the territorial lim
its of Texas, and while the county
was thus considered four leagues of
and lying in Hockley and Cochran
counties, Texas, were patented to the
county under the laws of Texas for
school purposes.
When the supreme court decided in
189G that Greer county was no part
of Texas and the county became a
part of Oklahoma, Texas instituted
proceedings in the courts of that
state to recover that land, and the de
cisions were favorable to the state
MARKET REPORTS
COTTON MARKET.
New Orleans Spots
Ordinary, .5 8-10; good ordinary,;
S 7-16; low middling, 7 3-16; niid-
1ling, 7 11-1C; good middling, 8 1-16;'
middling fair, 8 8 16.
Galveston Spots
Low ordinary, 5 4-16; good mid-
dling, 8-16; good ordinary, 6 7-16; low
middling, 7 «-16; middling, 7 11-16;
middling fair, 8 8-16.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS
Kansas City
CATTLE — Choice export and
dressed beef steers, $5.25@5.75; fair
to good, $4.25@5.25; western fed
steers, $4.25@5.25; stockers and feed-
ers, $3.00@4.65; southern steers,
$3.50@4.90; southern cows, $2.25®
4.00; native cows, $2.00@4.40; native
heifers, $2.75@4.75; bulls $2.5U@
4.40; calves, $3.00@6.00., Receipts
for the week, 29,000.
HOGS—Bulk of sales, 15.00®5.20;
heavy, $5.15@5.25; packers. $5.15®
55.20. Receipts of the week, 39,500.
SHEEP—Native lambs, $G.50@7.35;
native wethers, $5.25@5.85; native
fed ewes, $4.85@5.60; western fel
lambs, $6.50 @7.35; western fel
sheep, $4.85@5.85; western fed year-
lings, $5.75@G.50; stockers and feed-
ers, $3.50@!5.50.
FLOODS IN PITTSBURG
COLORADO'S FIGHT
INDIAN TERRITORY SAFE
Democrats Will Protest the Seatinf
of Governor Peabody
DENVER: The democratic mem-
bers of the Colorado general assembly
are preparing a protest against the
action of the majority of that, body in
deciding the gubernatorial contest
In favor of Jamc3 H. Peabody, the
contestor, after he had agreed to re-
sign and permit Lieutenant Governor
Jesse F. McDonald to become gover-
nor. The protest will allege that
the seating of Peabody, when it- was
known his resignation had been sent
to W. S. Boynton, to be filed within
twenty-four hours atter his inaugur-
ation, was illegal, and that, therefore,
Governor McDonald is not entitled to
his seat. The protest will be tiled
with the joint convention, which
meets next Tuesday to receive the re-
port of the committee appointed to
investigate Senator Morgan's bribery
charges. ~ .
STORM IN ALABAMA
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Several Persons Killed in a Tornado
in Randolph County
ROANOKE, ALA.: One of the
most distastrous storms that ever
visited this section swept across the
southern part of Randolph county
Tuesday night. Eight to nine lives
are known to have been lost, and
damage ainouting to thousands of
dollars was done to property. The
tornado started at a point near
Double Heads and proceeded in a
northwesterly course. Six miles
east of here several houses were de
moltshed. Three negroes were killed
and several were injured. At Lime
postotlice a store was demolished
and a little white glllrl, the daughter
of a Mr. Lucas, was killed, and her
mother was seriously injured.
Careful Examinations for Boll Weevil
Reveals no Trace of the Pest
WASHINGTON: The department
of agriculture has issued a bulletin,
in which it states that during the sea
son of 1904 the increase in infested
territory was but normal. About 15,-
000 square miles, representing ap-
proximately an area devoted to the
cultivation of cotton of 900,000 acres,
the normal production for which
would be in the neighborhood of 350,-
000 bales, became invaded for the
first time. This increases the infest-
ed area in the United States at pres-
ent to about 32 per cent of the total
cotton acreage.
An interesting feature of the boH
weevil situation during the past
season, the bulletin says, has been
the fact that the infested territory
has been extending eastward much
more rapidly than northward. This
has led to some speculation as to
whether the pest has not reached a
northern limit beyond which its
spread will be prevented or at least
hecked by climatic conditions. Care-
ful examinations of the portions of
Indian Territory which the boll
weevil is likely to reach have failed
to reveal any infection. To the east
there has been a general extension
of the infested territory of about fifty
miles.
Rise in Rivers Causes a Number of
Mills to be Shut Down
PITTSBURG: Pittsburg is threat-
ened with one of the worst floods in
years. Forecaster Frank Rtdgeway
predicts over thirty feet. He does
not expect over thirty-five feet if
that much. For a while the water
began to recede from the rise in the
Alleghaney, but a fresh impetus was
-given to the rushing torrents by a
rainfall of nearly two inches over the
entire water shed of the Monongahela
river. About fifty miles above Pitts-
burg the Monongahela is rising eight
inches an hour-
Already a number of mills have
been shut down a3 a result of the
water putting out the fires. From
three to live feet more of water is
expected up the valley and a total of
20,000 men are likely to be idle
Hundreds of houses in Alleghany
southern side and in McKeesport
and other suburbs are surrounded by
from two to eight feet of water, the
occupants living in the second stories.
The water has entered the upper
rooms and homes are being aban
doned for the time being.
Department Will Protect Lessees
LAWTON: Colonel J. F. Rand-
lette, Indian agent, whose office Is at
Anadarko, is in receipt of a telegram
from Washington, which reads as
follows: "The opening of the roads
through the pasture lies altogether
with the secretary of the interior. The
United States officials will protect the
present lessees."
Chicago «
CATTLE—Good to prime steers,
$5.10@6.25; poor to medium, $3.75(3)
4.85; atocljers and feecfers, $2.50(0)
6.40; cows, $2.85@4.50; heifers, $30)
_ 5.00; canners, pl.50@2.30; bulls,
$2.25@4.00; calves, $3.00(0.6.50.
HOGS—Mixed and butchers, $5.0*>
@5.27^; good to^cholce hravy, $5.15
@5.35; rough heavy, $.r>.00@5.10;
light, $4.S5@5.J0; bulk of sales, $5.15
@5.25.
SHEEP—Good to choica wether?,
$4.60@6.50; good to choice mixe I,
$4.75@5.40; western s^eep, $5.00((S
6.00; native lambs, $5.50@7.C0; west-
ern lambs, $6.00@7.60.
CASH GRAIN
Kanras City
WHEAT—No. 2 hard, $1.!0@1.04;
No. 2 red, $1.02@1.05.
CORN—No. 2" mixed, 46c; No. 2
white, 46c.
OATS—No. 2 mixed, 33c; No. 2
white, 34c.
QUILT IN MANCHURIA
No Information as to Present Move
ments of Armies
TOKIO: No reports of the Rus-
sian retreat or Japanese pursuit have
been received, which is strengthening
the belief that the Russian plan is to
hold the line from Changehung to
Klrlri. The Japanese continue to very
closely follow General Llnevitcli's
rear guard, but the damaged bridges
impede their progress, and possibly
will cause sufficient delay to permit
the Russians to reconcentrate, rein-
force, partially reorganize and con-
struct works at Changehung and
Kirin. It is reported that a portion
of the Vladivostok garrison had been
withdrawn and hurried to Harbin,
but no confirmation of the rumor 14
obtainable. The discrepancy between
the Japanese and Russian reports of
the number of guns captured at Muk"
den remains uncleared.
Chicago
WHEAT—No. 2 red, $1.15@1.17;
No. 3 red, $1.07@1.14; No. 2 hard,
$1.13@1.15; No. 3 hard, $1.05@1.13;
No. 1 soft (new), $1.15@ 1.17; No. 2
soft (new), $1.10@1.15; No. 3 soit,
$1.05@1.13.
CORN—No. 2 mixed, 48c; No. 2
white, 48c; No. 2 yellow, 48©49';
No. 3 mixed, 47@48c; No. 3•white, 47
@48c; No. 3 yellow, 48c; No. 4 mixed,
46@47c.
OATS—No. 2, 32c; No. 2 white, 33
@33"t4c; No. 3, 31c; No. 2 white, 32c.
DEED FORGERY CHARGED
Oil has been discovered at Oklaho
ma City.
Three Men Under Bond in Case Con-
nected With Indian Claim
PARIS. TEX.: Complaints have
been sworn out before United Stater,
Commissioner T. B. Latham at Ant-
lers against four men, charging the.r.
with forging a de-ed_ to a dead In-
dian's claim. Under the net of con-
gress and the ruling of the Dawes
commission, where an Indian died be-
fore allotment his heirs were entitled
to his claim.
Abis Cobb, a Choctaw, living neir
Talihina, held a dead Indian claim
through his son, who died before al-
lotment. He had never taken out let-
ters of administration or llled bl'i
claim at the Tishomingo land office,
before locating, as was required.
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