Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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OKLAHOMA NEWS
CRIEK INDIANS SUES FOR
$300,000 OIL LEASE TRACT
SURFACE LAND SALE BILL
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
IS
Makes Serious Charges Against Man
Who £cted aa Hia Counsel and
Upon Whom He Relied
DISPOSITION STARTS AT ONCE
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
GET TO WORK AT ONCE
Sale of Indian Lands Will Mean Much
*o East Side—Others News of
the State of General Interest
to the Readers
Tulsa, Okla.—Grant R. McCullough
and A. E. Hradshaw, bankers; H. C
Martin, lawyer, and A1 Brown, connec-
tion undefined, are charged by Thomas
Gilcrease, a Creek Indian minor, with
WILL securing through conspiracy leases on
the Gilcrease allotment in the heart of
Glennpool. The tract has forty-twp
oil wells which In lft09 produced $25
000 worth of oil a month. The prop-
erty 1b said to be worth $300,000.
Particularly serious charges are
made against Martin, who was in 1908,
1909 and 1910 a partner of B. T.
! Hainer. He gays Martin was his at-
Washington.—President Taft Mon- 'orney, on whom he relied Implicitly
day attached his signature to the bill an<l that Martin was all that time in
providing for the sale of the surface collusion with the others, advising
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw coal hlra to take $17,000 for the lease. He
and asphalt lands and the measure18a>'3 a void lease was obtained from
flow Is a law. jhim; that his lease was secured from
The department of interior officials hls mother, who was guardian; that a
have assured members of the Okla- ;,ater agreement was made whereby he
homa delegation i$ congress they im- I-a'd $15,000 to get back one-fourth of
mediately will set about to carry out
Its provisions.
The board of appraisers which will
first begin its activities will be ap-
pointed by Secretary Fisher, It is
probable, within a short time and
they will immediately begin work on
Oklahoma. It is estimated that it will
take fully two years to effect a com-
plete settlement of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw land and complete the per
capita payments from the revenues
derived from the sale.
Guthrie Bones Approved
Guthrie , Okla.—Information has
been received from the McMahon
Bond company of Oklahoma City to
the efTect that the $100,000 issue of
park bonds isued by the city of
Guthrie had been approved by their
Chicago attorneys. The bonds are be-
ing lithographed and will be delivered
within ten days. The $97,000 to be"
derived from the bonds will be turned
over to the park board recently ap-
pointed by the council. It is likely
that the major portion of the money
will be spent for a public bath house.
his own lease, all on the advice of
Martin.
Receivership Is applied for, together
with an accounting for $30,000 profits
from oil and $12,000 cash and much
Tulsa property handled by Martin In
a fiduciary capacity
The defendents are among the most
prominent and respected citizens of
Tulsa. They say that Gilcrease is Ir-
responsible, that the suit Is based
upon prejudice and that there is ab-
solutely no merit to it.
SIDNEY SUGGS SEEKING
LIGHT ON HIS DUTIES
Want* a Rehearing On a Previous
Supreme Court Order—Finances
Bone of Contention
Oklahoma City.—Asking that the
rights and duties of the state high-
way commissioner in regard to the
handling of the special automobile
tax be more carefully defined, Sid-
ney Suggs, state highway commission-
er, filed motion for rehearing on a
previous order of the court made Feb-
ruary 5, 1912, denying a writ of mand-
amus, with the clerk of the supreme
court. Robert Dunlop, state treasur-
er, and Leo Meyer, state auditor were
made defendants.
. A state law provides for a tax of $1
per year on all automobiles owned in
Oklahoma, the money to be paid the
state commissioner to be used to pay
salaries and for maintaining that de-
partment, any surplus to be turned
over to the state treasury.
It was the holding of the attorney
general in the former hearing, that it
is the duty of the highway commis-
sioner to pay the entire fund into the
his wife awoke to find the house ' treasury of the state and that it is
burning. Their eldest daughter awoke the duty of the auditor then to issue
fund for the pur-
TWO DEAD; OTHERS MAY DIE
Fred Clark and Wife Burned In Effort
to Rescue Children
Sapulpa, Okla.—Two children were
burned to death and their elder sis-
ter and their father and mother were
taken to a hospital probably fatally
burned when fire destroyed a farm
house near here. The family of Fred
Clark, a prosperous farmer, was
asleep when the flames broke out.
Almost overcome by smoke Clark and
FLAX GROWING
1 Irascibility Explained.
| "Isn't your huBband getting a fear-
IS PROFITABLE shonsoot dlBt,°8'tl0Dr aBked M™
* * J "No." replied Mrs. Leedout "He
"ASTERN CANADA FARMERS BE- has read somewhere that braifly men
COMING RICH IN
PRODUCTION.
ITS
are always cranks and he's trying to
g«t a reputation."
YOUR SUCCESS AS A FARMER.
You" success as a farmer depends
upon yo'ar selection of a farm. We
are offering substantial farming
homes, so reliable In their nature and
on such asy terms, that any thrifty j
farmer can make the land pay itself
out In a short time. We aro selling a So much has been written regarding Styles In Ailments
wonderfully fine body of land as own- the great amount of money mado out •'Well, here 1 am," announced the
•rs, guaranteeing perfect title, to the of growing wheat In the prairie prov- fashionable physician In his breezy
homeseeker—consequently no selling '°ces °f Manitoba, Saskatchewan and way. "And now what do you think
commission Increases the price to the berta^Western Canada, that many |s the matter with youT"
purchaser, who gets the last dollar of ®thor P^ucts of the farms are over- "Doctor, I hardly know." replied the
yalue In the land looked These provinces will always fashionable patron. "What Is new?"
grow large areas of wheat—both
Good crops were raised In this sec- enrlne nnri winter—and th« vlelds will
... . , „ anu winter ana tne jieius will \ mnn seidom worries about his
tlon last season when so many locall- continue to be large, and the general character If his reputation Is good
tiea made ahort crops. Send to ua average greater than in any other
FREE
In
for free Illustrated booklets, giving portion of the continent. Twenty, thlr-
I want erer7 pfmo
who is bilious, coiiHti*
pated or ha., any stom-
ach or liver nili ent t«
Mend for a fr* e pack
of my Paw-Paw Pill®,
I want to prove thai
they positively cure lo-
dijrestlon, Hour Stoa>
ach, Belchlug, Wind,
Headache, Kerrou*
ness, Bletplpnsneui an4
are an Infallible curt
.. . for Constipation. Tods
this I am willing to rfre'toillllonH of free pack-
ttge*.. I take all the rl k. Sold by druggists
for 26 centH a vial. For free package address
Prof. Munyon. 53rd A Jsfferaon St«., Philadelphia. P*
BOTS, will* Write qnlck fop big tllnntratcd cat**
logue. Watehc*. iA.lls, Tricks. Firing Much ins*
•vwry thing b Kh.lt. Atloberrjr a Co., Muskogee, 'iy
complete Information. The farmer
who Is now working land that he can
■ell for high prices can re-Invest in
lands Just as productive, Just as cer-
tain, getting a big Increase in acreage
this wonderful new country. The
rei'ter can here become owner of a
home of his own. It is a solid op-
portunity for the rich farmer to be-
cowe richer and for the farmer with
ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels
per acre of wheat to the acre—yields
unusual In other parts of the wheat
growing portions of the continent—
have attracted world-wide attention,
but what of oats, which yield forty,
fifty and as high as one hundred and
ten bushels per acre and carry off the
world's prize, which, by the way, was
also done by wheat raised In Sas-
katchewan during last November at
„ the New York I.and Show. And then, !
small resources to become Indepen- there ,s the bar]ey> w)th ,tg blg yleldB j
dent. Terms, one-llfth down, balance and its excellent samples. Another
In 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 6 years—Prices $12
per acre and upward—Notes payable
on or before maturity.
Address:
CHAS. A. JONES,
Manager S. M. Swenson & Sons,
Spur, Dickens County, Texas.
SATISFIED HIM.
at about the same time. The three
made desperate efforts to save the
two younger children, asleep in an-
other room, but failed. The cause
of the Are is as yet, undetermined.
Two Bankruptcy Cases
Guthrie, Okla,—A voluntary petition
in bankruptcy -was filed In the federal
court Monday by John Morris, a hard-
ware and furniture dealer of Osage
City, Okla. He places his debts at
$2,216.67 and his assets at $3,600.22.
An involuntary petition was filed
•gainst W. A. Redden of Carpenter,
Roger Mills county.
Dissolution Case Continued
Guthrie, Okla.—Death of General
Solicitor Pierce of the Rock Island
road In the recent wreck at Kin-
warrants o nth is
poses specified by law, but in no year
shall the warrants exceed the sum
paid into the treasury by this special
tax, and also not to exceed the ap-
propriation. Any surplus goes into
the general treasury, he claims.
Bankruptcy Petition
Guthrie, Okla.—Ella M. Parker, an
Oklahoma City milliner, recently
filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy
In the federal court, placing her debts
at $5,613.61 and her assets at $9,000,
$5,000 of which is real estate in Okla-
homa City.
*
Mr. Nervee—I come, sir, to ask you
for the hand of your daughter.
Her Father (feelingly)—Young man,
her mother is dead; she is all I have
left.
Mr. Nervee—You've given her a fine
recommendation, sir, a fine recom-
mendation.
money-maker, and a big one Is llax.
The growing of flax Is extensively car-
ried on in Western Canada. Tbo
writer has before him a circular Is-
sued by a prominent farmer at Saska-
toon. The circular deals with the
treatment of seed flax, "the seeding
and harvesting, and attributes yields
of less than 20 bushels per acre, to
later seeding, imperfect and Illy-pre-
pared seed. He sowed twenty-five
pounds of seed per acre and had a
yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre.
This will probably dispose of at $2.00
per acre. Speaking of proper prepa-
ration of seed and cultivation of soil
and opportune sowlpg, In the circular
spoken of there is cited the case of a
Mr. White, living fourteen miles
south of Rosetown, "who had fifteen
acres of summer fallow a year ago
last summer, upon which he produced
thirty-three bushels to the acre, when
many In the district harvested for
want of crop. Now, there can be no
proper rea?on advanced why such a
crop should not have been produced
on all the lands of the same quality
in the adjacent district, provided they
had been worked and cared for in the
same manner. Tills year (1911) the
same man had one hundred acre3 of
summer fallow, had something over
3.S00 bushels of wheat. He also had
1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels
of flax."
There are the cattle, the horses, the
roots and the vegetable products of
Western Canada farms, all of which
individually and collectively deserve
special mention, and they are treated
of in the literature sent out on appli-
LAWYER CURED OF Ff!7FM/\ catlon by the government agents.
Strike Ax in Trouble
Guthrie, Okla —The bond of Foster
Strike Ax, an Osage Indian was for-
feited in the federal court here and
"While attending school at Lebanon,
Ohio, In 1882, I became afflicted with
boils, which lasted for about two
years, when the affliction assumed the
form of an eczema on my face, the
lower part of my face being inflamed
most of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch It
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open,
the place would scab over, and would
burn and itch so as to be almost un-
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
wholo of my upper lip and chin, and
{ at times the whole lower part of my
j face would be a solid sore. This con
Plan for Tuberculosis Day.
Sermons on the prevention of con-
sumption will be preached in thou-
sands of churches on April 28, which
j the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis has
set aside as Tuberculosis day.
Last year out of 200,000 churches
in the United States, over 50,000
observed Tuberculosis day, and mil-
lions of churchgoers were told
about this disease from the pul-
pit. This year will be the third
observation of Tuberculosis day. Plans
are being made to have the gospel of
health preached more widely than
ever before. The movement will be
pushed through the GOO anti-tubercu-
losis associations allied with the na-
tional association and through the
mundy, 111., caused the continuance 1 another warrant issued for theArrest
in the district court here of the suit of the Indian, who is charged with sell-
dition continued for four or five years, boards of health, women's clubs and
brought by Attorney-General West to
dissolve the Rock Island railroad and
the Rock Island Coal company in the
McAlester coal district. The attorney
ing whiskey to Indians.
Workman Drops Dead
Pauls Valley, Okla.—Walter J. Kin-
general in this suit contends that a I ney' emP'°>'od in the construction of
railroad company cannot legally en-
gage in any other business.
Pawnee County To Build Road
Stillwater," Okla.—Nothing is being
left undone by the good roads boosters
committee to make Washington's
birthday anniversary a day of history
for Payne county. J ect ^at the Rock Island and Frisco
Stillwater will be closed to business ! wl" a "ne west out of Ardomre
to Waurika this summer, both com-
panies to operate over the same line.
an Ice plant here, suddenly dropped
dead while at work Wednesday, His
death is attributed to heart failure.
Railroad to be Extended
Ardmore, Okla.—Definite informa-
tion, coming direct from President
Mudge of the Rock Island, is to the ef-
on that day and the men will go out
and put in one day of actual service
et road work on the road running
•outh to Perkins. Men along the line
have agreed to turn out with teams
and tools and assist in doing the big-
gest day's work at road building ever
pulled off In Payne county.
Nearly three hundred men have
pledged themselves to work on this
day. The committee in charge of the
work are busy day and night planning
to have everything ready that not a
lick will be lost.
Wife Desertion Charge.
Muskogee.—David Carr, president of
the Muskogee real estate board and
a prominent real estate dealer, was
arrested by Detective Grant Hamlin on
a charge of deserting his wife and rive
ehildren in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Carr has lived In Muskogee about a
year. 4
A $25,000 depot is now building at
Waurika. The connection will be
made with Lawton via. Waurika, and
the line will pass through Lone Grove,
Hewitt, Joiner City and Cornish Ac-
tive work will begin within 90 days.
This line will greatly promote Ard-
more's growth.
May Buy Electric Line
j Lawton, Okla.—Illinois capitalists
j are here negotiating a deal whereby if
| successful they will come into pos-
session of the Lawton and Fort Sill
Electric line and also the plant of
the Comanche Light and Power com-
pany. Some of the men connected
with the McKinley interests, headed
by Congressman McKinley of Illinois,
now chairman of the Taft campaign
committee, Cogressman Price of Illi-
nois, and "Uncle Joe" Cannon
Carver Caught
McAlester, Okla.—D. Carver, In Jail
here on a charge of larceny, is being
held to await the sheriff of Logan
county, who is coming to take Carver
back on a charge of removing mort-
gaged property.
without getting any better, and In fact
got worse all the time, so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
"During all this time of boils and
eczema, I doctored with the best phy-
sicians of this part of the country, but
to no avail. Finally I decided to Try
Cuticura Remedies, which I did, tak-
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash-
ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until I was
well again, and have not had a re-
currence of the trouble since, which 13
over twenty years. I have recom-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have^ great faith In
them as remedies for .skin diseases."
(Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, O., Jan. 17, 1911
other organizations in hundreds of
cllles and towns throughout the coun-
try. Through these various bodies
the churches will be reached and in-
terested In the tuberculosis campaign.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING.
Talk No. 11.
The well often runs dry where they
make bottle blue. It's easy to see.
Only a little quantity, say half a cent
or a trifle more, in the double
strength kind and a large bottle of
water and the delusion is completed.
Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE. Get
a pure blue. Makes clothes snowy
white ASK YOUR GROCER.
For Instance.
"Pa, what does abnormal mean?"
"Something that is out of the or-
iinary—something that Is different
Although Cuticura Soap and Olnt- fr°m what It might be expected to be
ment are sold everywhere, a 6amplo
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
Too Far for Business.
"I see King George's uncle is In
New York."
11 m! That's bad for George."
"Why so?"
\Vha' will he do If he haa occasion
to go and see his uncle?"
-an
actress who has never applied
divorce, for instance."
A QUARTER CENTURY
Beforctho Public. Over Five Million Free Snraploa
given away ouch year. The constant and Incrctui-
mg null s from samples proves tlic genuine merit of
AL.,KN'H hOUT-KAKK, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken Into the shoes forTir.-.i, Aching. Swollen,
Tender feet. Relieves corns and bunlonsof all pain,
bumple FittE. Address, Alien b.Ulmsted,L«IU>y.N. Y.
Oil At Rock Creek
Chickasha, Okla.—Oil was struck at
a depth of 850 feet In the Rock Creek
oil fields ten miles south of Chick-
asha Monday. Farmers in that sec-
tion are highly excited. Th« well is io
,th« vicinity of Ninnekah.
Vaughn Pleads Guilty.
Guthrie, Okla.,—Charles Vaughn of
Hobart pleaded guilty to the charge
of stealing some revolvers from the
armory at Hobart two years ago, in
the federal court. He will be sen-
tenced Tuesday morning. The mini-
mum which he will probably receive is
one year in the federal penitentiary.
Thorp Discharged
Guthrie, Okla.—The United States
attorney's office dismissed the charge
of perjury which had been filed
asainit Tom Tborp of Pawhuska.
At the Bank.
"Your husband has stopped payment
on your alimony check."
"1 know It; he no longer loves me."
On the Trail.
"Does your flauce know your age,
Lotta ?"
"Well, partly."—Fllegende Blaetter.
PIT.ES rri£EI> IN « TO 14 HAYS
TVitir druinrlHt will rt-lunil njoney If PAZO OINT-
UKNT fails to euro iinj cube of IloliInK, Blind,
fcl«odinf or Protruding Piles la 6 u> 14 da/a. Guo.
The up-to-date
fetching costume.
waitress wears a
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invig-
orate stomach, liver and Dowels and cure
constipation.
Some women are peculiar, and some |
others are more so.
A milkman may be as rich as his
cream and still not be wealthy.
Read About These Three Girls. How Sick
They Were and How Their Health
Was Restored by
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pimples came on my face. But I have taken your
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Miss Cecilia M. Hai ku, 11(51 Lawrence St., Appleton, Wis.
A SCHOOL TEACHER'S GRATITUDE:
Geneva, Iowa.—"I have been teaching school for some years and I
have neglected my health because I was too busy with my work to
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on the vergo of a nervous breakdown.
" I wrote to you about my condition and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
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These remedies have done wonders for me and I can highly and
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A COLORADO GIRL'S CASE:
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Sometimes two months would elapse. I suffered severe headache,
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