Lexington Leader ||\|
FOR FAI FEE
LEXINGTON.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS
Stigler haB voted a higher school lux
Ury.
Caddo has Installed u water works
plant.
Claremore Is to have freo mall de-
llTery.
Fort Gibson Is now ti wired In the
oil field.
Lightning struck a cfcureh steepl 
«t Temple hut did littl* damage.
A Manard colt kict-ed Mrs. L 3.
Uoft, breakf.g the woman's leg.
M'eleetkp tradew inrners are hulWIng
•  bridge or ross the Canadian river.
The Oklahoma farmers havr pro-
duced 6.000,000 worth ot alfalfa this
year.
A lawton lot which was sold for
J200 two years ago sold again recently
for $8/100.
! OKLAHOMA SENATOR HOLDS VAL-
UABLE INDIAN CONTRACTS
ISN'T PUSHING THE CASE]
Agreement Calls for Half ot Property
Valued at Over $12,000,000—
Contracts Made Before he
Was Elected Senator
Sulphur, Okla.—United States Sen
ator Robert L. Owen's name entered
into the Indian land investigation
here Monday. E. P. Hill, an attorney
for the Choctaw nation, testified he-
fore the special congressional commit-
tee that is Investigating the Gore
charges, that Senator Owen Is I he
principal in a suit in which are in
volved contracts with the Indians call-
ing for a GO per cent fee Mr Owen, I
however teslilied Attorney Hill, enter-
ed Into I he contracts with the Indians I
LIKE GREAT WHITE CITY
Water Works and Sewers Latest Addition—Women's and
Children's Building a Model of Comfort and Beauty.
•fc ''V^ ,,} The State Fair la judged as critically i Th<* Women's
« ' lt  conveniences as it is from the be in charge oi
FOREST FIRES SWEEP IDAHO
Burford's lalke, near Hobart, is to
be deepened and used as a municipal
water reservoir.
Ottawa county has twice ns many
 *cfes under cultivation this year than
rtoy other year of her history.
Claremore has 1,350 chfldren of thfl
• school age. Under the federal census
•of 1907 thai city had 2.3S0 inhabitants.
Twenty-one auto loads of Alva school
and trade boosters are tio invade Grant
county 07i a trade-getiiiiK-acQuainted
utrip.
some years before he became sena-
tor and is not. now trying to secure
r>0 per cent, but has left it to the
United States court of claims to de-
termine how much he should be paid.
It was also said since his election as
senator, Mr. Owen had shown no ac-
tivity in the matter except to testify
in behalf of his claim. The value of
the property which, it is asserted, in
PROPERTY LOSS WILL BE SEVER
AL MILLION DOLLARS
Inhabitants of a Dozen Towns Desert
Homes and Flee Into Burning
Forests Only to Meet Deatn
Before Raging Flames
s Rest Department will
of a competent matron
i who win minister to the needs of
quality of its exhibits 1 he coming ^ ^ 8eek rest in its comfortable
Fair held from September -7 to Oc- |
tober 9 at Oklahoma-City will show . yua. .-is ^ Sewer
about as many modern conveniences , .
as a thoroughly modern city. A com-, Visitors at the l a r, who past
plete system of water works and sew- years have put up with the unsani ary
ers added this summer, sanitary elos- conditions incident to the .acK or ci .
ets, electric lights, gas. telephones, tel- water and a sewer system, can certa n-
egraph, express offices, beautiful lawns ly appreciate the conveniences ot a,
set to Bermuda neatly cropped, miles complete new system this fall, ban^
of cement walk connecting fifty exposi- tary toilets have been placed under the
tion buildings and barns immaculate j Grandstand, In the Poultry Huilding,
In white paint—all these things have j new Livestock ravillon and Women 9
contributed to the well deserved title I and Children's Huilding.
of the "Great White City" often ap-i information.
plied to the State Fair Grounds. The j A Bureau of Information will be es-
qpvfral charged with fraud hardy Bermuda grass lawns, inured to lablishe(i by the Chamber of Com-
hardships, seem to invite the footsteps merce at some convenient place in the
of the throng and the customary cjty wf,ere a complete list of all hdtel.
"Keep off the Grass" signs have no and boarding houses may be had by
place on the grounds. those visiting the Fair. Eight or ten
One of the greatest conveniences I w hotei3 have been built In Okla-
R. W. Lewrtght, a Garfield county
farmer, chased I wo horse thieves from
his barn, but failed to capture the mar-
auders.
Active work on the grading of tho
Wichita Falls & Northwestern rail-
road has begun in the switch yards at
Harmon.
B. N. Hicks, county superintendent
of Hughes county schools, has resigned
and will enter practice of law at llol-
denvllle.
Oklahoma's cotton crop la estimated
at 87 per cent by the federal crop re
porter. This is 3 per cant abovo tho
ten-year average.
From a fourten acre patch of water
melons J. C. llazlett of Carter county
has already cleared $.100. He has
shipped seven cars  uid has two more
carloads in sight.
Northwestern Oklahoma, north of
the Canadian and wes. of the dinar
ron river, has but Ihrej railroads, and
has a greater producth 6 capacity than
all of the six New Kntiand states
Prague, Okla., has a hustling Com
niercial Club and it has announced
that for the present time it will devote
all of its energies toward securing
good pikes entering the town.
Sterling, Okla., boasts of having the
youngest editor in the state. Appar-
ently tliero Is no dispute, as Olto
Shaklett, editor and geueral boss of
the Sterling News Is only H years old.
Byrd brothers, alleged Weatherford
bootleggers, were escorted by indig-
nant fellow citizens to the edge of tho
city and asked to take a permanent va-
cation or trouncing- They vacated.
Okfuskee county, according to the
census, lias a population of 20,001;
allowing a raise of county officers' sal-
aries because of the four more than
10,000. In 1907 Okfuskee county had
15,595 Inhabitants. Of prwtf nt popu-
lation 8,091 are negroes
Mountain l'ark, new rapitai for the
new county of Swanson, is s> king un
east to west railroad.
Muskogee Is considering th' adoi*
<lon of a commission form of govern
tnent and the election probablj will
t>« called for September 1",
Judge Williams of Arnett re. ■ titiy
held the lirst term of court in Shattuck
BtnCf It became a court town. The ■ becomi
docket was f. irly full for a beginning, Uli i
aiany of the cases being liquor war ers.
The failure of the Bank of Siloam,
at Siloam, Ark., Is bringing quite a
flood of money into Oklahoma. The
Arkansas are beginning to believe
they had rather have their money
where a big state is guaranteeing that
<bey will sustain no loss.
Every product of Carter county will
he on exhibition at the state fair in
Oklahoma City this year If the present
plans of the Commercial Club of Ard-
more and oiher active men of the
county are carried out. Many other
counties are doing the same thing and
•11 in the stat* should.
The commission form of government
was adopted a< Dunrfan in a .eccnt
. election In which the Tote stood two
to one lu favor of the commission. The
question of granting a 20-year fran- j
chtse to a natufal gas company was
carried by a big majority
Railroad Claims Former Officials Se-
cured $2,500,000.
Chicago 111.—Three former officials
of the Illinois Central railroad com-
pany have been arrested in connection
with the alleged huge frauds by
means of which the railroad claims to
have been defrauded out uf $2,500,000.
The men at tested were t runk 11.
Harriman. former general manager of
the road, Charles L. Ewing. former
Wallace, Idaho At least two died manager of lines north of the Ohio
in the City lire, Join: .1 Boyd, a plon river; John K. Taylor, formerly gen-
uf the Coeur d'Alone., and form storekeeper of the road.
... , 1 he warrants were bworn to or
erly agem for the Oregon Ramona ; president Harahan. of the railroad
Ar Navigation company, and an un
will be the new Women's and Chil- Jloma c)ty 8ince the last Fair, which
dren's Building nearly completed. This i wm tend to relieve crowded conditions,
building, 54 by 84 feet in dimensions, [ A Bureau nf information and Check
company concerned. They charge the
i three men with conspiracy to cheat
 - and defraud the railroad by false pre-
found in te!ises and with operating a confidence
game. Harrimpn and Ewing were tak-
en to the Harrison street police sta
I non. Their bonds ot $10,000 each were
known man or woman who was ti
< inerated in the Michigan hotel. Onl
tlie skull of tho latter w
the ruins this morning.
Of the fire-lighting lords an accu-
ral* toll of the dead and wounded is
non. l neu JJ011U& ui *iv,vvv •
quite unavailable, but the known dead I gjgned by a professional bondsman
number twenty-four, the total injured 7he allegations in the so-called
1 weiity-fivc. in addition to ten blinded j raft case are among the most sensa-
by smoke. The steady work of the tj0nal in which high officials of a
city fire department, members of the corporation ever have been
Twenty-llfth infantry, colored vo'un- nameU The investigation be^an over
a year ago. It reached a crisis last
teer«. and the forestry forces alone a year HJr0. it reached a crisis last is complete Room will also be maintained at the
saved Wallacf from total destruction. : SpriUK when President Harahan began thnt will* add to the Fair Grounds In a new special building.
It is estimated that the loss in the .actions to recover sums said to aggre-
city is about $1,1)00,000. gate more than $1,000,000 alleged to
About 150 residences are destroyed have fceeu secured by car repair com
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NEW CHILDREN'S BUILDING AND W0MEN'S ^STCOTT^GE
ROBERT L. OWEN.
United state6 Senator from Oklahoma.
Mr. Owens' suit was restored to the
,\ir. uwens sue. was irs-iuii-. n un rhi forest supervisor reports me en sitions.
Indians, is fixed by the department of !'t(re country between Wallace and the Much
justice at from ^12,000,000 to $14,000. K, John river is swept practically v,PCn n
000. As attorney for the Choetaws, an,i ;iH, |oss 0f timber is stnpen ira q.
Mr. Hill said he was resisting the suit lloils road v
resisting the suit
"In 1896," said Mr. Hill, Mr. Owen j
entered into an agreement with Clias
K. Winton. to attempt to secure for
the Choctaw Indians living east of the
Mississippi river citizenship In what
was then Indian Territory Winton
went to Mississippi and got many in-
dividual contracts, the total number
Ultimately being 1,600. In these con-
tracts the claimants agreed to give
Winton and Owen 60 per cent of all
property which they would become
possessed of if they were . dmitted to
citizenship. Winton. after t.l.taming
many contracts, died and liis rights
reverted to Mr. Owen After the In
dians were admitted to citizenship
congress referred Mr. Owen's claim to
the court of claims, where :t is now
pending. Since lie b< ami ; 'or 1
do not believe Mr. Owen h: s shown
any activity in his ease except to tes-
tify as he was required."
Japs Will Soon Annex Korea
Tokie. Japan- Within the week "the
hermit kingdom" and the • mpire of
K in ;i v I a. i
twelvi millions of peop . will 1- add
ed to tho population of Japan anil ter-
ritory as large as 1-.upland will be
come part of th' ^Tapani m empire
Insurgents in Control
New Orleans, La A ordlng to
cable advices received Irom Managua.
Ic^e Dolores Kstrnda, reported !• have
temporarily received the reins of Hit
do facto government of Nicaragua from
•
over tho government to the Insur
gents. It is believeii that .1 in De
Fstrail.i, lea ler of the instn - ••n's. will
and many busite's^ [daces Provi- panies ii. connivance with high ifhcials
donee has spared the Federal Lead 10( ,he road. Harriman, Ewing and
company's big mills, which are the Taylor and a large number of others ]s fnr ,.hli
only buildings saved In the east end. m lesser magnitude resigned their po d°^ iights, gas heat and plas
'rhe forest supervisor reports the en sitions.
Much of the money Is said to have
repaid privately The name of
.... Rawn. vice-president of the
dons 1 road, who resigned to become presi
Fires between Burke and Mullen dent of the Monon, and who was found
threaten both towns and many women i {\e£L{\ recently at his home with a bul
and children are being sei.* away. wound in his breast, was brought
At Hip Creek, twelve dead were re int0 the scandal Murray Nelson, Jr.,
rove red nv<. injured an«l three unft'i- ' attonie> for the Illinois Centr.il, stated
tunates who were completely blinded, tliut Rawn's death headed off warrants
One fijihier was found d'ead near Mul which would have been issued for him
len and sixteen who were more or less
seriously burned. At Fine Creek three Accept p,ans fcr Deaf School
are dead, five blinded and five other- | Guthrie. Okla.—The board of re
wise I j  red. j-'ej.t* of the deaf school, to bo built at
Two or three hundred people are Sulphur, have adopted plans for the
left homeless in Wallace. buildings. The cottage system is to
Another train with BOO on board. Is be employed and the plans accepted
expected to run over the Milwaukee provide for the construction of four
road, A dense pall of smoke hangs (modern brick jottages to cost $12,000
over Eastern Montana. In Missoula it each, one central school building to
was as dark as midnight at "> o'clock cost $4<J,000 and t power plant cost
Sunday, 'he dense smoke being given ing $12,000. Work will begin as soon
a lurid hue which had all the sem as bids can be advertised for and the
ontracts awarded.
erected at a cost 01 vo.uuu, is iumpire • ....
in every detail that will add to the Fair Grouuds In a new special building
comfort of the little folks, the proud I Hospital.
mothers and grown daughters. It is lo-1 An Emergency Hospital In charge ot
cated in a shady grove just north of reputable physicians and competent
the Kxposltlon Huilding and east of nurses will be maintained on th«
Agricultural Building. Sanitary ground.
 s and wash rooms, beds for chtl- i Conveniences
dren electric lights, gas heat and plas-1 The grounds will be abundantly
tered walls will make the building as' equipped with telephone service, ex-
snug as the home, and decidedly one tending Into several of the principal
of the greatest conveniences on the buildings. '1 he Western I nion 1 ele-
Kround. Special attention has been graph Co. will furnish night and day
given to good ventilation. I service. The loading and unloading
One section will he devoted to a facilities have been greatly improved
model kindergarten and nursery In since lust year, which will prove  
charge of the women of the Federated boon to exhibitors. The railroad corn-
Kindergarten Clubs. These ladies with panies have been liberal with reduced
expert attention and motherly instincts rates on exhibit stuff. I lie express
will provide the best of care for the lit-1 companies will haveoflices ou the
tie ones while the mothers see the Fair grounds.
in peace. The Clubs have gone to con- Premium Uist
siderable expense to tit up the building Premium List for 1910 will he mallei
with beds, c hairs, tables and other upon application to I. S. Mahan, secre-
comfortable furnishings. ""T. Oklahoma ( ity, Onla.
Literary Note.
blance of th
was probablj
The town
line, has be<
Saltez, jut
abandoned b
known to b<
glow of fire, but which
due to the sun.
f Taft, near the Idaho
entirely destroyed.
low Taft, has been
v ■ :i. hi.t i;;.t. • > ind if-
surrounded by flames
t t
1  e Borgia it seriously threate
one man is missing. At St R
lire has crossed the river and threat
« ns outh ing buildings, though m
11'111 s .ire < riior'a i'o"i !« r • *• 'own
| Haugan is reported to be c
tire is dangerousl.s near and
ephone operator was preparin
Camas Prairie, a farming
the Blacktoot (ountrv. •> the
a serious conflagration. A cr
rived her^ with m appeal
Prom Homier fifty men wen
help the farmers and fifty t
going from Missoula. Th«
vctlley a
Six Killed In Train Wreck
N'orthfield. Va - felx men were kill-
ed. one was probably fatally injured
mid seven others were badly hurl as
the result of a head-on collision be-
ll and tween two freight 'tains on the f'tn
is the ira Vermont railroad at N'orthfield
Falls two miles north of here. All
tho dead and Injured belonged to the
train crew.
All in 1,000 Ounces
Mr Stewart Edward White has re-| Harper's Weekly is responsible for
turned from the east to his Southern the statemMlt that in ounces of
California home near Santa Barbara. 1 gold there are U00 ounces of pure gold.
His forthcoming book. "The Kules of i 10 ounces of silver 90 of copper and
the Game," which has been appearing about three tons of joy, a large farm,
serially in the Sunset Magazine, will two automobiles, six fashionable bon-
appear shortly In hook form as one of : nets and plans for a country home,
the Important fall publications of Uou-
bleday. Page & Company. J Chesty
— —  Towne- "What on earth has come-
In Sunday School over Meekly? He was almost lmpu-
Superintendent—"Can any little hoy dent to mt this morning." Browne—
tell me why we have the eagle in "O. I'll tell you. He answered the ad-
churches? See, here Is one on the vertisement or a correspondence school
lectern and one in this stained glass of pugilism last night and arranged to
window." Tommy Howard "1 know take tho course."—The Catholic
rlie eagle Is a hird of prey." Standard and limes.
verted:
tat the'
he tel :
to flee !
llev In
urier ar
for aid
sent
propci i
ready
preli
dent
presidi
said to
tions, tw
been rep
s  from th
ision is f'
nt
have
o d.
it:<
•ached
is havi
Many
ind serl
A merit •
Mana
i re. cl
Oil Well Brought in Near Beggs
Beggs, okla At a depth of 2.240
feet and with the bit only three feet
in the sand, ti"- Quale r Ol <ompany
on the northwest corn' r of the south
west of section 9-14-12. thr< • miles
south of this city, brought in one of
the best producers in thU section
The oil is running h little -stronger
than 90 barrels of oil per hour
sweeping across ti
and hay are being destroyed
T!.° most serious acciden
ported from tho. St. Joe
where W men engage! in the forestry
service are missing, and it is feared
that thev are burned to death.
The latest word from Wallace con-
firms the report that half the city is
safe Fires are yet raging in the
hills, hut the situati >n In the eitv li
belt- \ *il to be more satlsfacto v than
at any time in two days
WiM Market 12.000 Bales
Hobart, Okla. Hobart will market
at least 12,000 bale- of coUon this
season The present IndlcaiTons fa
vor a l'i market. The strongest cot-
ion brokers in this and foreign coun
tries now have their offices estah-
o lished at Hobart Our bank deposits
ore ari ivj|| not ^o high, and the oil mill will
fire is ,vork more men llian heretofore rhe
d grain ,,(,mpress. rebuilding, is almost ready
! for business, and by Sept. lu the
is re-1 \Vhitc. product will be moving
ountry.
Wood Alcohol Caoses Death
Port Smith, Ark. Jim Lewis of
Heavener, Okla.. died here from drink
ing wood ileohol. He was under ar
• • hue tor the murder of
C J While ,u. i la k Hughes at Ileav
• lie- I.ewis gave them whiskey con-
■ail,i j w-o .1 i >1 i i j I tt hlcii he claim
ed he bought from a bootlegger
Tips Them the Wink
Literary Note
The switching off ot the .current at . Recent fiction publications by Don-
the central power station at Cape bleday, Page & Company include "Tho
Town for a moment, causing a wink- Power and the Glory" by CI race Mac-
Ing of the electric lights in every Cowan Cooke,
home, gives the residents the exact
time every night. Popular Mechanics.
Literary Note
Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin has
Just finished and delivered to his pub
"The Motor Maid," by
N. and A. M. Williamson, "Blaze
Derringer" by Hugene P. Lvie, Jr., and
"Water Costs and Other Troubles" by
Ellis Parker Butler. Other books re-
cently published by this house are
just nnisueu uuu ueuvcuru iw "Boy Scouts ot America' by Brnesl
lishers the manuscript of his book Thompson Seton and Sir Robert Baden
"The Reminiscences of My Life. * Mr powe||# "Out. Door Schools" by Leon
Martin's recollections cover a most In
terosting period of American society
The book closas with a deserlption of
the fancy ball given by his brother,  ^ ^
Mr. Bradley Martin, in )S9S. liefore j from |he
it is published in book form, 11 will ap
pear serially.
Powell, "Out-Door Schools'' by Leon-
ard I'. Ayres, and "Highways of Pr<
gress" by James J. Hill.
Triple Tragedy in Ohio
Toledo. Obi , tii irt:e coyle uf this
city, shot ind killed Mrs. Ed llefinger
I wounded Mrs Dora Stro.vl Wilson anil
: then (hot himself He may die, Jeal-
ousy is alleged to le the ause of the
| shooting
Drink, Acid ■ and Oies Drive Negroes Out of Town
Hartshorn. Okla.—Beuste Nash, a Davis, Okla.- Mil raged over the as-
well known school girl committed sui ; sault on It Y. Steadman, one of the
clde here Saturday, because of de- | leading business men of the town, b*
ipondency over a love utfitlr. Ml,, H pegroj the whites last wee* drove
Nasi. 'Is a gradu.re of the Cnlversitv ,.v,.,y ni^:, from Davis. Those
A farmer residing near Granite
rrared a stalk of broom corn with n
brush twenty.saven Inches long The
crop In that section excels anything
ever before known for burl brush Id
pklahoma
of Kansas She drank acid.
Court Date Set for September
Guthrie. Okla Opening of the fall
Knld has
Who were unable to obtain convey
, on' es or who possessed no money to
; pay train fare, were given tickets and
i told 1 never darken the s'reetB of
terms of the tederal court at Knld has | uavis again Steadman was assaulted
been set for Sept. 5. The case of C. : |,T Melton Asberry when he ordered
L. .Isekson. Indicted In connection ! him from his place of business As
with the alleged crude oil burner t,erry picked up a brl< k and hurled
fraud will como up at 'lifi term. . j u *< the proprietor.
City Palls Into Estrada's Hand,
Rluefields. The insurgent army un-
der General Motieai:,) has captured the
it v ; i a! .: !.. lVieitl i on.«t,
according to -ifllcta! reports received
here
Pitchforked Man for 10 Cents
Fremont. Neb. Max Wagner, s
farm band employed by Tleniy Shorn-
ser, is In jail here because he prodded
Shomier with a pitchfork Wagner be-
came angry because his employer dis-
puted his wage account by ten cents
Railway Manager is Dead
Carlsbad, Germany —James E. Hur-
ley. general manager of tho Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Ke Kalhvav company
died here ludderl; fr'iup ■ art trouble
Tuesday
■i
uuua iiurw ..... - | On September 8, now books by two
fancy ball given by his brcithei. other prominent writers will be Issued
r!pfore | from the presses of this company;
namely. "The Oshorues" b> II. F. Ben-
j, son aud "Queen Sheba's Itiug," by H.
 —  : Ittder Haggard.
Hot Water for Tears
Nothing will better draw out In-I A True American
flammation caused by tears than to | .
"oak the eyes In hot water. To do this . [ lov« rose, the v oiet," said he,
the cloth Should be wet and laid over w'lh twinkling eye. "I love the blush
t£e lids renewing as soon as Iho heat 0' e'"' >' tinted twilight
subsides. Ten minutes of this makes ^y. I love the poetry of life -its
the Whole face red. and as -!,« blood 1 won ' ^ hat there, noth-
recedes the lids bleach with the rest so much as " "I? bunk
of the skin. j 
I. £!"•!!"« < T;";   
"• f' •rar .rrrsjss,r,:
. b".  Km™ "•> "<  r" T , " „ i"""'-"-
c airneu uj houses for families to live in or for
tlon'to'ltsTeight as a male beetle „ dancing platforms. Indianapolis New.,
would easily be able to overturn the j To Remove M
biggest skyscraper in the world. The ^ #oft aoap w)(h ^ 9tarrh>
beetle is o owe - half as much salt and the juice of a
ant. and the mole Is not far behind.- m Uy ^ on t(>#
part with a
Digestion Most Important brusb «nd the" article on the
A good digestion is of even more 1m ernss daJ arul n'Bht unt" the <latD«
entirely disappear.
portivnee than a aooa cook. i