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Okmulgee Well Is Good Prospect.
Okmulgee.—Word from the very Im-
portant Pine-Wigton test on the Fred
S. Trekell farm in 26-11-13, northeast
from town is still more encouraging.
Drilling is stopped at 11 feet in the
sami, and the well was rated then as
I good for GO to 75 barrels. The forma-
DISTRICT CONGRESS- jtion is excellent and the oil of a 37
INCREASED VOTE gravity, which is a very good earmark
I for a solid body of producing area.
I The sand in this well was struck at
I'l.gftr, feet, which is considered the
I right depth for the deep formation
i which occurs in the Bald Hilt pools.
WITHOUT COST.
CARNEY TREE WITH MONEY
ft*
paign Expense Bill of Oklahoma
Candidates Filed With Clerk
House Representa-
tives
Washington.—That it costs money
to run for congress in Oklahoma is
disclosed in the statements liloci by the
various candidates with the clerk ol
the house of representatives. All told
in both the primaries anti general
election campaigns, $25,297.55 was
spelit b> Democrats and Republicans.
Sonic oi the candidates spent much
money while others spent little or
High Price for Oil.
Muskogee.—Oil from thp Muskogee
district, which is classed as very high
grade because of its numerous by-
products, now commands 87 cents the
barrel, the highest price ever paid
here.
Fearing Insanity Hangs Herself.
Enid.—Brooding over a fear that,
she was becoming insane, Mrs. Hiram
Stam. aged 28, hanged herself.
Secured 200 Additions.
Pawnee.—The big revival in charge
nothing, the freest spending being! of Eddie Thomas and wife and his sin-
:L.r.
!TLIKK
done in the Second and Third dis-
tricts. while the candidates for con-
• gressmen-at-large cut their purse
strings.
To Representative Churiey Carter
of the Fourth district goes the chief
^honors of the day. His statement de-
la res that he did not spend a single
(•'cent either in the primary campaign
or that, preceding the election. He,
ger. Miss Blanch Kerr, all of Mtmcie
Indiana, which has been running in
this city for the past four weeks,
closed with 200 additions to the
church.
M’Donald Convalescent
Deputy Sheriff Ben. McDonald of
El Reno, brother of Alva L. McDonald,
progressive party state chairman, is
recovering from a critical attack, of
however, was returned to his seat in : pneumonia and is able to sit up.
congress by an increased majority j A w Maxwe], ?5 #0. M G. Cromwell,
tfveu previous elections. Ilepresenta- *3. william \i Dutton. $69.30. I. l .ait her
five Scott Ferris of the Fifth district | £«W»t°n
... , nothing iii either the primary or election,
spent only $650. and his statement wlllle ,r T, orumbine. the other candi-
,hows that this amount was disposed da.e^recor^s having total
* Senator Owen, who won by sucli *
great margin in the race tor unitea
States senator, according to Ins state-
ment filed with the clerk ni, the senate,
.spent but $2,439.49 in botii the primary
and pre-election campaigns.
CYUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET
of for advertising and other inci-
dentals during his primary fight.
The records show that, the various can-
<tidal.es in the First district .spent a total
if $2,181.23. Tim Democratic candidate.
.John J. Davis, spent $534.75 in his pri-
mary campaign and $646.15 for election,
making a total of stl.isrt.no. Representa-
tive Bird Met Sul re spent $265.05 in the
orimarv. $585 in ttie election tight, making
a total of $860.95. In the primary F,. J.
Waugh. Democrat, spent $10.60; b. 1•
Davis. $238."X: John R. Hickman. $200.4(1.
The Socialist i.itididatc six-nt nothing.
In Die Second district the amounts
ment were sis follows: John J. \riu\\,
primary. $1,437: election, $1,137.43: total,
*‘’'>74 t : Dick T Morgan, primary. $6t-'.
©lection. $‘.'<15.17; total. $1,578.67 Dcorge
W. Cornell, primary. *1.507,75. U. B., bor-
rest. $157.15. I’M C. Ballew nothing.
The Socialist candidate, P. D. McKenzie,
■riant iutthintc. TCVtlftl for all. ?•>,'*
PThird district • James S,. ■ >uv«nport.
primary. .f«<; election. to«al.«1.-
#92.55. M. T. Daniel primary.
lection, #938.06: total. 4x750
V. Sykes. Democrat pnmury. »•
William II. Tbraves, $5 ,3.11 \ i.. " »-
itams. $400. W. A. timer. $5hVSt. J-
Denton. Republican, primarj-. $•*“•■-«■
A Dixon $2'3 10. James Dentils Minn,
284.50. L. n. Irvin, SoclallaK spent <»nlj
More Work And More Pay Also
sired by the Board Mem
bers Who Met at The
Capital.
and election
tL —
$134*60* for both primary
To,a. for Nothing.
•f R N. Wright. Republican. Primarj- noth-
ing election two cents. I red uott.
Socialist, primary nothing, elexition S4.200.
' « H Stanley. Demovrat. primary $465.50.
K. H Stanley. ?24 05. Total for all,
j .1 Parsons,
1632.15.
Fifth district:
Scott Ferris, Democrat,
primary $650.00. election nothing. (7. O.
&urk ReDUbllcan. primary nothing, elec-
SSPnomn. H n n„;i»ni,
”.75
the race ftlr seats as congressmen-a,-large
tneraic hundreds of dol-
The wco?d of the candidates in this
,ar .follows- Claude Weaver. Demo-
"T $310.50; election nothing.
H Murrav. Democrat, primary
trw TeSotlon «*«•«»; total. $980.49 Joe
«' Thomiwon. Democrat, primary $1,620.15.
,J.lT niili total $1,620.15. James L.
Brown, Republican, primary »»GB0_elec-
r
*109 27 total' $205.67. Emory D.
trow nice “Republican, primary $«<>0; eler-
t^nofhing'AlvInD. Allen ' ~*
statement filed: -taction W4C20.
primary Expenses.
SaS,ne re $T.« ®
: W ^arnee. $20.66:
:Vi“^a0n p/tUef Golding.'$1,332.40;' J B A
$267.70. »j. v j Harley.
FmiwFa D lverv. $409.50; Frank P.
$20l.r>n. a. ij- George I. Bowman.
flSKSl D R Oanienter. $444.71; Charles
A<1’t‘r- the various Republican*
Ttir e the Jace for the no.ninatlon for
Spirit
McAlester.—Willis Owens, charged
with the muredr of his wife, Mary
Owens, was found guilty in the first
degree by a jury in the district court
here and sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the penitentiary. The crime
for which Owens was convicted oc-
curred at a picnic at Canadian, last
luly. when the sight of his wife in
a buggy with Marion Kitchen, a neigh-
boring farmer. so enraged Owens that
he shot and killed them both. For
the other murder a case is pending.
Boy Kills Companion.
Quinton—Lon Shropshire was shot
and killed at the Kizer ranch, by Ben
Richardson. Both boys are about 14
years of age. Details of the tragedy
are lacking.
Banker Arretted for Big Shortage.
pryor.—w. L. Jones, tormer presi-
dent of the Pryor State Bank, which
failed November 26. was arrested here
charged with misappropriating the
bank's funds. Jones was placed under
$10,000 boud.
Will Erect New Canning Factory.
Checotah.—R. T. Audd is busying
himself getting out about 20.00fi feet
Numerous vital problems were dis-
cussed at the annual meeting of the
state organization of county commis-
sioners held at the Capital city, among
them the lack of system now said to
be existing in the conduct of affairs
in the offices of Oklahoma county. It
was assertetf by Commissioner G. W.
Carrico that clerks receive pay for
duties which are not performed, and
he recommended the commission form
of government to readjust the situa.
tion
In his address Carrico also roundly
scored the state board of control for
refusing to provide 100 convicls from
the penitentiary to work on Oklahoma
county roads, the excuse offered being
the fact that 1,500 prisoners now are
required to “build the farm” at the
state penitentiary.
Good roads occupied a considerable
portion of the time at the meeting
and an alleged inadequacy of pay re-
ceived by the commissioners was dis-
cussed. The sentiment appeared to
prevail that the commissioners should
receive larger salaries and be com-
pelled to concentrate their energies
upon the dispatch of their duties,
rather than devote only a portion of
their time to the office, as has been
the rule In the past under the low
salary system.
Township organization whereby a
greater unit in management could be
effected was urged for the promotion
of better highways. A motion by the
newly elected secretary, W. E. Brady,
of Blackburn. Pawnee county, carried,
in which it was suggested that the
state should he asked to aid in bridg
ing government streams in the hope
that this materially assist the
project of l^BBting the proposed syt
tern of roa-' *1 wl> T it is desired
to build, linki % the counties of the
state together with high-class dirt
roads.
The meeting w as called to order by
President Robert Scivally, and officers
for the ensuing year were elected as
follows: President, E. ,1. Oberho'zc
of Logan county; vice-president. R. A.
Stevenson of Atoka county; secretary,
W. E. Brady of Pawnee county.
Monday. January 13, 1913. was se-
lected as the date of the next meet-
ing.
State Highway Commissioner Sid-
ney Suggs was present and talked
! about good roads. He submitted a
map of the proposed highway system,
which will be presented to the legisla-
ture with the request that a law be
enacted providing 500 prisoners to
work on the 2,400 mile road system
which will link together the principal
counties of the State. The ofTer is
that the counties will build culverts
and bridges, the state being required
to complete the job, supplying all ma
chinery, convict labor, guards and
equipment necessary, and by this pro
cess it was estimated that *it would
require two and one-half years to com
plete the system Suggs was assured
of the county com-
KAFIR SPECIAL
FINISHES TRIP
NEARLY THIRTY THOUSAND PEO-
PLE HEAR THE DEMANSTRA-
TION TALKS
ENDS AT OKLAHOMA CITY
Great Benefits Are Believed Likely to
Result From the Work of the
Experts In Charge of
the Tram
C’hicliasha. Okla. The goi-ic-l' of
safer farming and the giving of in-
telligent attention to kafir corn far i-
ing and lilt raising of crops adapted
to the soil with a view to greater pros-
perity for Oklahoma had been heard
by 23,000 persons at eighty-six places
in the state when the Rock Island’s
Special Kafir Corn train drew into
Chickasha in charge of Agricultural
Commissioner Cottrell and its corps of
speakers.
A full concert band met tin- train
here. Bankers of the city had adver-
tised the meeting, hiring a band to
parade the streets.
But two more days remained on the
schedule of the special. Sixteen places j
were visited Monday, the last of
which was Oklahoma City.
At every stop made the special was
greeted by large and enthusiastic,
crowds, at several places too large to
be accommodated by the cars, and the
spcukeis Mere compelled to talk from
the siaiion platforms.
Tin day was made a holiday in
every tovvn by the farmers, who asked
many quetsious. The bright sunshine,
with warm bzreezes, brought out many
women wheeling baby carriages.
Rush Springs came to'the front with
a concert bpnd and a most enthusi-
astic audience Hundreds of people
here met the train and heard the
speakers with interest.
At every stop the large felt hats,
typical of the south, indicated the
presence of farmers. Good wagons
and sleek-looking horses were to be
seen hitched along Hie business
streets of the towns.
At Sugdon .John Fields learned of a
man who planted 200 acres of land to
corn and raised only six bushels to
the acre. Kafir corn will be, planted
in this locality next year.
The land of peanuts was encount-
ered at Duncan and Comanche, in
Stephens county. The Comanche Mill
& Elevator company is encouraging
the raising of kafir corn and peanuts
in this locality. Here samples of sil-
age from twelve different silos were
given to Commissioner IT. M. Cot-
trell. Steers fed by Cecil Smith, of
this town, thrice topped the market
in Oklahoma City recently. Forty-two
steers, fed 50 pounds of kafir silage
each gained three and one-half pounds
daily for forty days.
At Marlow, Ills former home, the
farmers were addressed by T. P. Mar-
tin Jr., president of the Oklahoma
and three pounds of cottonseed meal
City Stockyards National bank.
A fair sized csowd met the train at
Ryan and listened: attentively for half
an hour to the speaker.
The train reached Addington at the
noon hour, but many men were pres-
ent to hear the talks and asked many
question in their anxiety to acquire
information pertinent to good farm
ing. .
HARDWARE MEN
AT OKLAHOMA CITY.
Tenth Annual Convention Ended
With Visit to Packing
Houses at Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City.- -The tenth annual
convention of the Oklahoma Hard-
ware and Implement association "as
hold hero last week.
After .. brief business session at
which the now board of directors and
he executive and legislative commit-
tees were present, a large number ot
i the members repaired to Packingtown
N. A. STONE.
for the purpose of going through the
packing plants of the Morris company
and Sulzberger & Sons.
N. A. Stone of Shawnee was elect-
ed president for the coming year.
The three days’ meeting this year
was largely attended by members and
jobbers and wholesalers outside the
state, and is regarded by Secretary
Porch as one of the most profitable
conventions in the history ot the oi-
ganization.
In the ten years' existence of the
association all conventions save one
have been held in Oklahoma City,
Muskogee getting the convention two
years ago. At the meeting last year
a resolution was passed making Ok-
lahoma City the place at which to
hold all subsequent annual conven-
tions, and the eleventh annual con-
vention will meet here at the Skirvin
hotel the first week in December,
1913.
BIG STOCKING FOR OKLAHOMA
Million and a Half Appropriation*
Asked of Congress at the
C Short Session
Nowata In Cleanup.
Nowata.—As a result of a procla-
mation recently issued by Mayor G11-
lespe.v everyone in Nowata neglected
business one day last week to help in
giving the city a thorough cleaning.
Alleys and back yards came in for
their share of attention and negroes
with carls were busy all day hauling
away, the,rubbish.
Muskogee to Draft State Fair Bill.
Muskogee.—The legislative commit-
tee of the Muskogee Commercial club
has appointed a subcommittee, com-
posed of Judge Thomas II. Owen. N.
A. Gibson and Tams Bixby, to draft a
bill designating this city as the site
for the state fair, and this bill will be
presented when the state legislature
meets in regular session.
Washington, D. C.—Governmental
expenditures in the state of Oklahoma
will reach $1,500,000 during the fiscal
year of 1914, beginning June 30, if the
estimates of Secretary MacVeagh seut
to congress are all adopted.
Provision is made for the care of all
the Indian tribes within the confines
of the state, several public buildings,
Platt National park and Fort Sill.
Last year $200,000 was asked for
the administration of the Five tribes,
but this year $250,000 outright is
asked.
The completion of six federal build-
ings in the state is provided for.
Chickasha will get $70,000, according
to the estimates; Guthrie will get
$55,000 for extension and remodeling
of the federal postoffice and court-
house; Kingfisher will get $10,00') for
the completion of her building; Mc-
Alester will get $65,000 for the com
pletiou of the building there; Musko-
gee will get $105,000 for a postoffice
and courthouse, and Tulsa will get
$40,000 for completion of postoffice
and courthouse.
Representative Dick Morgan will
ask for $40,0Q0 more for the Oklahoma
City postoffice.
KATY MAY CHANGE
ITS DIVISION POINT.
serial story
we are about
to run is a bit of
Down-East fiction
with the chief
character one of the
brightest and best
of women-—one
who had survived
the wreck of her
own happiness to
be strengthened for
helping others to
hold theirs. She
is housekeeper for
the town minister,
and is a shrewd,
nimble witted and
generous member
of society. She
has much to do
in directing the trying
love affair between the
pastor and a member
of another “fold,” and
the development of
story is pfiF"
wmM
A Story of
Yankee
Humor, Pathos
and Love
Delightful and
Filled with
Many Laugh-
able Situations
Be Sure to get the Open-
ing Installment
HE RUINS A LARGE FISH FARM
Eugene Uatte of Langdon Township,
Kansas, Has a Thriving Business
New Oklahoma Postmasters.
Washington. D. C.—PreBfdent Taft
has forwarded the following nomina-
tions for postmasters in Oklahoma to
the senate for approval: A. J. Thomp-
son, Okarche; Wm. J. Hadlock. Foss;
Jerman U. Morris, Hastings; Wm. I.
Fisher. Cordell: Earl V. Croxton, Med-
ford; Charles Tuner Hector. Purcell.
Reported That McAlester and Wago-
ner Headquarters May Go
to Muskogee.
Killed Neighbor With His Hands
McAlester.—In the district court the
Jury in the case of Tom Milligan,
tried for murder,' brouglrt in a verdict
of guilty of manslaughter, and fixed
his punishment at two years in the
penitentiao’- It was shown that Milli-
gan killed Henry Payton, a neighbor,
with his hands and fists.
McAlester.—It is unofficially re-
ported that the M.. K. & T. railway
division points now located at McAl-
ester and Wagoner are to be removed
to Muskogee in the near future, and
that Muskogee will again be made
the division point between Denison,
Texas, and Parsons., Kansas.
ixx-al officials in McAlester claim
that the report is not true, for the rea-
son that the removal of the division
points from McAlester and Wagoner
to Muskogee would cause the train-
men to violate the sixteen-hour law. a
federal law which provides a heavy
penalty against railroads that compel
trainmen to work for more than six
teen consecutive hours.
The local trainmen as well as the
Katy officials are satisfied with the di-
vision points as now established, and
it is not believed that the reported
change will "be made.
of lumber for the new canning factory j project, and at the
he will erect near the city. It will be Janu&ry the topic will be re
a modern plant, up-t<Miate in all its , ^ explanations in detail’will
Of 30.000 cans per day-just thr«*e A^drp,ses were delivered by ' ri-
times the capacity of the one he ope- ^ comnitS(,5oT,ers an dthe t..Jk
rated this year_ I of one elated to the expediency of
Court House Brings $106. abolishing the excise and election
Arapaho —The old Custer county boards and consolidating minor clerx-
court house here was sold to Charles ( ships snd official positions,
Hebard for $106. • • ^
Sapulpa •Gasser'’ Has Strong Flow.
Sapulpa.—A new “gasser” brought
in by Supees and Mulchell. within one
Topeka. Has.. Dec. 21— Twelve
thousand black bass were shipped
Irom Reno county, Kansas, yeBterday
to Pennsylvania, to be used in stock-
ing streams and fish ponds in that
Btate. The fish were sold from the
private hatchery of Eugene Latte, in
l^angdon township, to the government,
and were shipped in a government
fish car, “Car No. 4.” in charge of
Captain Kerns, going east on Rock
Island train No. 34 yesterday. Dur-
ing the past two weeks the govern-
ment had shipped from the Catte fish
ponds many thousand of fish, croppie
and bass mainly, to people throughout
Kansas and Oklahoma. Mr. Catte has
sold all of his fish, excepting his stock
fish, this season to the government,
probably 100,000 fish in all.
The Catte fish hatchery, in Langdon
towiiBhip, two miles northeast of
langdon station, is claimed to be the
largest privately owned and main-
tained fish hatchery In the world. That
it is recognized as an important in-
stitution is proved by the government
depending upon it for a supply of
fish, even to ship back to the eastern
states. The government owns a big
fish hatchery at Neosho, Mo., and else-
where in the west, but these are not
enough to supply the demand. Mr.
Catte is a Reno county farmer who
has taken an interest in fish culture,
and out here on the plains he has con-
structed a private hatchery that is
attracting much attention. He has
eighty acres of land and fully twenty
tal fish.” While his neighbors are rais-
ing hogs and feeding steers for meat.
Mr. Catte raises fish, and ships tRsm
to market.
At present he haB all he can do to
fill the demand for young fish lor
stocking streams and pends, but his
idea eventually is to ship fresh fish
to the market. This season Mr. Catte
sold his entire "crop” of young fish
to the United States government. Unltr ;
ed States fish car No. 4. Captain Kerne
in charge, arrived at Langdon, Wed-
nesday morning November 27, and |
they have been distributing croppie
from the Catte ponds to applicants in
Kansas and Oklahoma, having^Jtgjt
four messengers on the road since ar-
rival. The government fish cars are
larger and better equipped than most
state fish cars and will carry 12,000
four inch black bass fingerlings to the ;
load, where the Kansas Btate fish car j
would only carry about 7,000 of this j
size fish. The government fish car is j
fitted with an air pump and has a |
New -Gasser” to Give Okemah Fuel.
Okemah.—J. C. Shock was called
mile of the northern limit* of Sapul I home from llenryetta by news to the
pa, last week is now flowing effect iha’ ;iie t -st well himseli and | acreB of it is under water.
4,000.000 to 6,OOO.noo feet of aae per ct-uert: were boring on the Phipps 1 There are ten big fish ponds at the
day. The new well is located on the I farJn ;,ad brought in a strong flowing 1 ratte hatchery. These ponds are so
Engles farm, and is the second pro- ga3 shock has a gas franchise ‘ arranged that the water can be regu-
dueer brought in, on that tract, the city and the well will enable lated automatically, so there is per-
flrst well befhg an oiler running 100 ^ aecure the flnid prmctically “on | fect c^roi of the depth of water In
barrels per day. The roar of the I n*w leases have Dd. Mr. Catte makes a bus-
latest ‘ gasser can be heard m the ^ * |e>er> —
?ity. The owners are as yet unde-
cided whether they will case off tl
tow of gas and go alter oiL
hose attachment to every car with
air passing through the water at all
times, thus saving the hard labor of
aerating the water by hand.
“It would be better for the Bporta-
men of the state if these game tl*b
were kept in the state and the German
carp shipped out,’* remarked Mr.
Catte. “However, there were quite a
number of game fish sold from this
hatchery this season to parties living
in Reno, Stafford. Kingman and Pratt
counties, who have had applications
for game fish from the state flab
hatchery at Pratt but could not get
them. The government also distrib-
uted from the langdon fish hatchery
to applicants in Kingman a fish call-
ed the yellow perch (ringed perch'.
They are game, a good pan fish and
are doing well in this locality.”
Maud Wneeter has returned from
St. I-ouls. Mo., where she had
for the past six months employed
in this field and the new ineg8 of hatching fish. He styles him- casfc«*r in one
of the large
U00 feet deep-
aelf as “Breeder of food and ornamen- | lhere
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