Okeene Eagle. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE OKBENE EAGLE
STATE-WIDE
NEWS EVENTS
GREAT INCREA8E MADE BY STATE
IN MANUFACTURING
RESOURCES.
OTHER NEWS OF THE NEW STATE
Little Incidents and Accidents hat Go
To Maka Up a Week's History
of a Great Common*
wealth.
URGING CUIUS TO VAST ACREAGE
8tate to Fight For 210,000 Acrea as
Grant From U. 8. Government.
Oklahoma City.—Oklahoma^ popu-
lation July 1, 1914, was 2,027,000 as
against 1,657,155 In 1010, according to
an estimate of the census bureau of
the federal department of commerce.
This means that In four years the pop-
ulation of the state Increased 369.846,
and that the number of manufacturing
establishments In the state—eaoh hav-
ing an annual output valued at more
than $500—Increased In the period
from 1909 to 1914 from 2,310 to 2,518,
or 9 per cent.
The estimate dwells chiefly on man-
ufactures and indicates that the per-
centages of increase were as follows:
Materials, 108.8; value of products,
90; capital, 68.4; value added by man-
ufacture, 68.9; salaries, 56.6; wages,
52.1; primary horsepower, 36.8; wage
earners, 32.7; salaried employees, 27.4;
and number of establishments, 9 per
cent.
Capital Invested.
The capital invested in manufactur-
ing as reported in 1914 was $66,478,000,
and $38,873,000 in 1909. The average
to the establishment was $26,000 in
1914 and $17,000 in 1909.
The cost of materials used amounted
to $70,970,000 in 1914 and $36,817,000
in 1909, while the average cost of ma-
terials per establishment in 1914 was
$28,000, and $15,000 in 1909.
The value of products made in the
state in 1914 totaled $102,006,000 in
1914, and five years previous was only
$53,682,000. The average per estab-
lishment $41,000 in 1914 and $23,000
In 1909.
Manufacture* Values.
The value added by manufacture—■
the difference between the value of the
raw material and finished product—
was $31,036,000 in 1914 and $19,529,000
in 1909.
Salaries and wages of people en-
gaged in manufacture in 1914 totaled
114,213,000 and in 1909 was $9,285,000;
the number of salaried employees in
1914 was 2,793 and 1909 was 2,193; the
average number of wage earners was
17,*43 in 1914 and 13,143 in 1909.
Oklahoma City.—Oklahoma’s claim
for approximately 210,000 acres of
land, which it Is asserted should have
been given to the state upon its ad-
mlsion to the union, is to be urged
before the department of the interior
at Washington by Houston B. Teehee,
registrar of the treasury.
A letter was received by E. G. Spil*
man, Htate librarian, from Mr. Teehee
requesting information to be used in
urging the state’s claim. The question
has been before the department of the
interior for some time, but no action
has been taken.
According to an act of congress,
known as the Morrill grant, every
state upon admission to the union is to
receive from the federal government
30,000 acres of land for each senator
and representative in congress. When
Oklahoma was admitted the enabling
act was silent on this feature and the
state did not receive the land.
It is the contention of the state that,
although the enabling act is silent, the
Morrill grant is Belf-operative and the
state is entitled to the land. There
is no public domain in Oklahoma now
from the which the land could be
given. If the state wins it will receive
script entitling it to unalloted land in
other sections of the country.
MAUD WELL IS CAUSE OF SUIT
Minority Stockholders Want Block of
Stock Cancelled.
CAPITAL NEWS
PROP08ED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS DISCUSSED
AFFIRMATIVELY
OKLAHOMA CITY IEWS EVENTS
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Ar# Doing—Items of In-
terest About the State
Government.
Oklahoma City.—Minority stockhold-
ers of the Maud Gas and Oil Company
appeared before Judge Clark in the
district court seeking to have a re-
ceiver named for the oil corporation.
It was also brought out that an effort
will be made to have the court cancel
$24,000 worth of stock issued before
and after the famous Maud gas well
was brought in. Mike Kargusicky is
the chief representative of the com-
plaining stockholders.
The suit is based on a claim of mis-
management and the fraudulent sale
of leases. One of the principal allega-
tions is that only eighty acres of leases
remain unsold in the section contain-
ing the Maud well.
Officers of the Maud Oil and Gas
Company involved are: Charles Soch-
or, R. A. Jones, J. F. Straka and Frank
Miskousky. The stockholders who
represent the minority are: Karbus-
icky, Vaclav Vrba and Jennie Vrba.
Affirmative arguments on all consti-
tutional amendments referred by the
regular and extraordinary sessions of
the Fifth legislature and which will be
voted upon Dy the people in the com-
ing August primary, were filed with
the secretary of state by the commit-
tees appointed by the legislature to
prepare the arguments.
The argument in favor of the adop-
tion of the socialist "fair election law"
ia not among those recorded by the
secretary of state. It waB presented
but was rejected by Secretary of State
Lyon, on the ground that the gover-
nor has not yet issued the proclama-
tion, celling an election on the social-
ist measure.
Senator C. F. Barrett, director of the
democratic press bureau, filed the ar-
gument in favor of the amendment es-
tablishing a literacy test for voting.
At the same time he notified the secre-
tary of state that he would protest
against the socialists being permit-
ted to file a negative argument on the
ground that no member of that party
has been designated to represent mem-
bers of the legislature who opposed
the submission of the literacy test
amendment.
OKLAHOMA BANDITS CAPTURED
Smith Brothers Are Both Killed Be-
fore They Give Up.
TULSA PREPARING ENCAMPMENT
Veterans of Two Wars Will Gather
May 16-18; Military Display.
Muskogee.—After trailing Joe and
JDave Smith, fugitives from justice,
for slightly more than one year of-
ficers shot and killed the two lawless
brothers in the rocky hills eight miles
northwest of Gore. When they dis-
covered that they were trapped, the
two men opened fire on the county
officers with rifles stolen from the
county jail in Muskogee when Dave
Smith and two other criminals broke
jail April 12, 1915.
Dave and Joe Smith, sons of Fa-
mous Smith, noted bandit of territor-
ial days, were game to the last and
when the officers reached the bodies
lying in the road life was extinct.
Famous Smith is said to have killed
more men than many of the more
widely known outlaws of the old days.
Dave Smith and his brother have
been mentioned in connection with
train robberies and hold-ups. On
their dead bodies was found para-
phernalia used by bank blowers.
Dave Smith and Cole Shoemake,
both under eight-year sentences, and
H. C. Burnett, under sentence of two
years, broke out of the county jail
here slightly over a year ago.
Tulsa.—The sixth annual allied en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic and United Spanish War Vet-
erans to be held in Tulsa May 16-18,;
will be converted into a "national pre-
paredness rally" on a large scale. The
idea of preparedness will be featured
in every detail of the encampment and
the spirit of ’76, ’61 and ’98 will be
rekindled in the breasts of thousands
who will be in Tulsa on this occasion.
The federal government has entered
with enthusiasm into the movement1
and has tendered the loan of the Fifth1
Field Artillery band and one or two
batteries if wantdd. The offer by the
government will be accepted in part
at least. Martial spirit will run ram-
pant in Tulsa, as there will be military
maneuvers that will recall the days
when Uncle Sam was in war and pat-
riotism was the watchword of the re-
public.
SCOTTISH RITE AT M’ALESTER
One of the Largest Classes In the In-
dian Consistory.
Largest Single Oil Sale.
Tulsa.—The greatest single sale of
nil property ever made in Oklahoma
was closed when the Sinclair Oil and
Refining Company placed $9,500,000 in
n New York bank'to the credit of John
T. Millikin and associates.
Libel Suit Dismissed.
Sapulpa.—The libel suit instituted
against O. S. Todd, editor of the Sa-
pulpa Herald, by Nat Ligon, of Tulsa,
was dismissed In the county court
here.
Ottawa County Buys Bridge.
Miami.—The board of county com-
missioners has closed the deal where-
by the county will purchase the Spring
river bridge from the Ottawa County
Bridge company, a private corpora-
tion, for $10,000.
McAlester.—With the conferring of
the thirty-first and thirty-second de-
grees upon a class of 122, one of the
largest classes in the history of the
McAlester valley, and closing festivi-
ties of a banquet and ball, the eleventh!
annual spring reunion of Scottish Rite
Masons of the Indian Consistory came
to an end, proclaimed by all Masonic
leaders as one of the most successful
and enjoyable convocations ever held
in McAlester.
The “Henry Marshall Fur-nan Me-
morial" was the name selected for the
Consistory class, and the officers are
as follows: President, T. H. Dunn of
Ardmore; vice president, J. L. Over-
lees. Bartlesville; secretary, H. E.
Shipley. Haskell; orator, C. V. N.
Yates, Tulsa; treasurer, W. S. McKin-
ney, Fort Towson; historian, A. H,
Jones, Kingston.
Compensation Awards.
The following compensation awards
have been allowed:
Glen Baxter vs. Interstate Compress
company; award $14 full settlement.
HolliB Bishop vs. Hailey Ola Coal
company; award $21.10 in full set-
tlement.
W. E. Jury vs. Elk City Cotton Oil
company; award $6 per week from
April 3 during term of disability.
J. A. Mecom vs. Kusa Smelter com-
pany; award $23.33.
D. E. Clark vs. Hale Halsell Gro-
cery company; award $2 in full set-
tlement.
Harry York vs. Carpenter & Frong;
award of $7.21 a week from April 11
during term of disability.
H. Paul vs. Blue Ridge Coal com-
pany; award $8.13 per week from April
11 during term of disability.
W. E. Young vs. Robinson Drilling
company; award $13.33 in full settle-
ment.
Frank Splaln vs. Kimball & King;
award $10 per week from March 18
during term of disability.
Hugh Johnson vs. R. D. Donnelly;
award $3.61 in full settlement.
James Jenkins vs. Oklahoma State
Oil company; award $960 for loss of
fingers and $10 per week during term
of disability caused from injury to
eye and arm. *
John Keef vs. Carbon Coal com
pany; award $10 per week from March
85 during term of disability.
J. Ross Owens vs. Interstate Com
press company; award $9 in full.
Kirksey Grace vs. Oliver Coal com-
pany; award $14 in full settlement.
E. R. Boatright vs. Midas Lead and
Zinc company; award $10 in full set-
tlement.
Henry Choate vs. Central Coal and
Lumber company; award $7.21 per
week from March 9 during term of
disability.
J. W. Burton vs. Enid Electric and
Gas company; award $3, in full set-
tlement.
Robert Kraft vs. Kali Inla Coal com-
pany; award $8.19 per week from Feb-
ruary 22 during term of disability.
John T. Cook vs. A. C. Carr; dis-
missed for want of jurisdiction.
Joseph Matson vs. Riter Connelly
Manufacturing company; award $60.46
in full settlement.
Joseph Flannigan vs Constentaln Re-
fining company; award $7.21 per week
from April 16 during term of disabil-
ity.
W. J. Williams vs. J. C. Ferguson;
award $2.40 in full settlement.
Cost of Maintaining State Government
It cost 91.209,084.82 to maintain the
state government and the various state
institutions during the third quarter of
the fiscal year ending March 31, ac-
cording to the quarterly statement of
receipts and expenditures by the stato
by State Auditor E. B. Howard. Re-
ceipts during the same period reached
$2,175,624.14. Included in the expenses
is the cost of the recent extra session
of the legislature, which reached a lit-
tle more than $48,000.
The expenditures of the different de-
partments as reported by Mr. Howard
are as follows:
Governor, $9,950.61.
Home for wayward girls, $3,260.02.
Lieutenant governor, $416.67.
Secretary of state, $4,692.98.
Auditor, $8,196.22.
Attorney general. $9,513.01.
Treasurer, $99,802.43.
Superintendent public Instruction,
$4,260.67.
State examiner and inspector, $6,-
382.45.
Chief mine inspector, $7,253.02.
Commissioner of labor, $5,180.01.
Commissioner charities and correo>
tlons, $1,831.24.
Insurance commissioner, $3,761.71.
Insurance board, $1,699.74.
Adjutant general, $7,536.03.
Bank commissioner, $10,222.31.
Corporation commission, $25,652.61,
including $6,056.24 spent In connection
with pending rate litigation.
Commissioners’ land office, $34,-
632.18, including $11,263.25 spent in
connection with the sale of school
land.
Geological survey, $4,232.87.
Oklahoma Historical society, $694.32,
State election board, $1,577.17,
State board of health, $7,637.96.
State library, $1,237.97.
State mining board, $855.20.
Supreme court, $7,269.94.
Cost of Courts.
Supreme court clerk, $3,120.56.
Supreme court commission, $9,-
601.10.
Criminal court of appeals, $3,709.65.
State reporter, $2,778.75.
District court, $32,189.07.
Board of education, $1,396.45.
State university, $88,039.82.
University Preparatory school, $17,-
191.20.
Eastern University Preparatory
school, $6,987.76.
Central State Normal school, $31,-
007.43.
Northeast Normal school, $9,068.26.
Northwest normal, $12,902.61.
Southwest normal, $11,460.69.
East Central normal, $9,852.13.
Southeast normal, $8,390.16.
School of Mines, $6,425.61.
Girls’ Industrial school, $10,382.35.
State Training school, $10,367.18.
School for the deaf, $18,833.97.
School for the blind, $16,176.78.
Oklahoma state home, $22,682.93.
Institute for feeble-minded, $17,-
741.08.
Colored A. and M. university, $8,-
217.25.
Institute for deaf and blind orphans,
$6,305.21.
Board of agriculture, $20,186.66.
A. and M. college, $71,298.96.
Connors
119.52.
Agricultural
school,
$4,-
Murray
093.49.
Agricultural
school,
$4,-
Haskell
057.95.
Agricultural
t
school,
$4,-
Cameron
871.46.
Agricultural
school,
$3,-
Connell
785.36.
Agricultural
school,
$3,-
Panhandle Agricultural school,
469.44.
$5,-
Brick Plant To Be Enlarged.
Ada.—An addition is planned to the
Ada brick plant which will treble its
capacity. South of .asa there is an
immense tract underlaid with brick
shale, which is pronounced by experts
as being as good as any in the south-
west.
Award Leases On Oil and Gas Land-
W. R. Jarrett, secretary of the state
pharmacy board, was awarded the oil
and gas leases on t>wo tracts of state
school land in the Arkansas river bed
in Wagoner county by the commission-
ers of the land office. On one lease
Mr. Jarrett agreed to give the state a
bonus of $2,700 in oil and $300 cash,
and on the other lease he agreed to
give $675 in oil and $375 in cash.
Other successful bidders on a num-
ber of leases offered by the commis-
sioners included Frank McGuire of
Guthrie, William Longmire of Okla-
homa City, James Whitesides of Mus-
kogee, and Amos Ewing of Guthrie.
State prison, $103,803.38.
State reformatory, $40,391.30.
Oklahoma hospital for the Insane,
$22,126.16.
East Oklahoma Hospital for Insane,
$47,133.16.
Oklahoma state hospital, $41,414,02.
Briies Removed B/ State Board.
Charles W. Briies, president of the
East Central State Normal school at
Ada since its organization seven years
ago, was removed by the state board of
education.
J. M. Gordon, dean of the Presby-
terian college at Waxahachie, Texas,
who was an applicant some time ago
for the presidency of the Southeastern
normal at Durant, was elected to suc-
ceed Briies.
The resignation of Briies was re-
quested by the board some time ago,
but he refused to resign, asserting that
the board at that time was without
authority to request his resignation,
and that there was no reason for re-
signing. The vote on his removal,
which becomes effective f»n May 20,
was 6 to 1, State Superintendent R. H.
Wilson, who is ex-officio president of
the board, casting the lone dissenting
vote.
No action was taken by the board
on the request for the resignation of
President Grant C. Grumbine of the
Northwest normal at Alva. His resig-
nation has been requested, but it has
not been presented.
Mr. Briies is one of the most widely
known school men in the state. For
four years he was superintendent of
the city schools of Muskogee, and last
November he was elected president oi
the State Teachers’ Association.
TO KEEP HER
FROM FAILING
Would Hire to fetch Hold oi
Things* Lott Strength and Flesh*
Doctor Recommonded ferdui.
Results Gratifying*
Brookhaven, Mlss.-4,I In flna
health now,” writes Mra. H. M. Rus-
sell, of R. F. D. 6, of this place, ' and
have been for some time. I owe this
good health to Cardui, I am certain.
I think I would have been dead before
this if I had not taken that medicine.
I was down in bed five months last
summdr. I had chronic Inflammation
..., ao the doctor said... I suffered
untold misery, mostly in my right side,
hut both sides hurt me—aching con-
stantly. I got to the place where 1
couldn't even eat without severe pain.
I had much headache and would often
be quite blind from dizziness. I would
have to catch hold of things to keep
from falling. I lost all my strength
and flesh. I became so poor that I waa
just bones covered with skin.
“The doctor,-, on his visit told
me to get Cardui and go to taking
It... I took eight bottles in 3 months.
In Just a few days after starting with
It, I began to improve and kept on
until I got completely well. Today I
am in really good health. I can do
anything in the world In the shape of
work. I am sure that I owe this all to
Cardui. I would like to tell ail women
so."
Try Cardui for your troubles. For
sale by all druggists.
Wedded to the Game.
Preston was the scene, and the
event in progress was a wedding. The
"speaking parts" in the ceremony had
all been played, and now bride and
bridegroom and their friends were in
the vestry putting the matter into
writing. But the clergyman was not
youthful, nor was he swift. Time
passed, and the bridegroom became
more and more fidgety.
“You seem in a great hurry,” re-
maked the officiating cleric, at last
“Have you a train t*> catch?"
The happy man stood stock still,
and scratched his head in perplexity.
"Well, sir," he replied, good-natured-
ly, "it ain’t a train, sir, but I don’t
want to1 be late for t' football match.”
Called Quits.
Little Maudie would tell "whoppers."
One day her aunt thought she ought •
to be cured of this habit, so she spoke
seriously to the little maid, who prom-
ised to mend her ways.
To point the moral, auntie told the
tale of the shepherd boy who was al-
ways calling “Wolf!” until no one
could believe him. Then one day the
wolf really came and ate up the sheep.
“All the sheep?” interrupted Maudie.
“Yes, every one of them,” replied
auntie decidedly.
“Every single one?”
Auntie nodded.
“Well,” said Maudie slowly, “I don’t
believe you, and you don’t believe me.
So there!”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
An Extremist.
"Mrs. X. is a great stickler for form
and ceremony, I understand.”
“Mercy, yes! Why, that woman
would Insist on dressing up to enter-
tain an idea.”—Boston Evening Tran-
script.
Whenever Ton Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen-
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. It acts cn the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
*
Honest.
"Simpkins is always borrowing
trouble.”
“That’s true, hut I'll say this much
for him: He always pays it back with
interest.”
Adruco Fly-Bane for Flies,
Warbles, Mosquitoes, Gnats, Lice,
Ticks and Vermin on Stock of *11
kinds. Increase the Milk—try It.—Adv.
Defined.
"Aren’t the fashions this season less
extreme?”
“Oh, extremely less."—Judge.
NO MALARIA—NO CHILLS.
“Plantation” Chill Tonic is guaranteed
to drive away Chilla and Fever or y°ur
money refunded. Price 50c,—Adv.
Don’t count your poultry before they
get big enough to get away from the
cat.
Most particular women use
Ball Blue. American made. Sure to P*
At all good grocers. Adv.
AH of a Christian’s power is ini-
ported. ‘ _
Wise infants look before they creep.
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