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THE COLLINS VILLENEWS.
The Leading Paper
o f Rogers County
Oklahoma.
*OL. 13
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COLLINSVILLE, OKLAHOMA JANUARY 25, 1912
NO. 35
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Clubbing Rates Made
AFf PROBABLY
Crane, senator from Massachu-
setts. on whose judgment the
WILL GIVE IN president places great reliance
|Crane it was who got the first
Hitchcock report blue-penciled,
Friends Urge That Post-!an<* wh° persuaded the presi
master-General Be
\
Dropped.
Washington, Jan. 21.—Joy
which, according to the scrip-
tures, “cometh in the morning,”
failed to arrive at the White
House after a week spent in try
ingto figure out what to do about
Hitchcock.
The fact that the postmaster
general’s pronouncement in fa-
vor of government ownership of
telegraph lines appealed to the
common sense of the leading law
makers and was declared to be
in line with the policy of all civil-
ised countries on the globe add-
ed to the perplexities which be
set the gentlemen who have in
charge Mr. Taft’s campaign for
renomination.
The state of panic into which
these persons were ' thrown was
evidenced by a statement which
they got about midday which!
dent practically to forbid Hitch
cock to break into print with
public ownership talk without
permission.
Although Mr. Taft’s depart-
ment of justice is investigating
the electrical trust, of which the
now United telegraph and tele
phone lines are a part, Crane
still was powerful enough to head
Hitchcock off when he talked
government ownership.
When Hitchcock's announce
ment of bis convictions about
public ownership became known
at the capitol, Senator Crane told
his brother statesmen that the
postmaster general would be
called on the carpet in the White
House.
SABFTHA, KANSAS,
LAUGHS AT ZERO
City-Built, City-Owned
He^t Plant Keeps
Town Warm.
From The Kansas City Star.
Injunction-proof municipalheat
—that’s what Sabetha folk en
joyed during the recent cold
spell. Steam heat, too, that
came crackling and crinkling un-
der the streets from acity-owned
planti*right up into the stores
and homes and churches and
made the radiators pop and sing
louder than the crack of the
snow under hurrying feet in the
20-below-zero atmosphere out
side. No weak pressure, no me
,    ters, no franchise jokers, no
It is still possible that Mr. | court proceedings—just plain
Taft will be forced by some of j heat, steam beat and plenty of it.
his advisers to get rid of Hitch-
. JBocialism is a word that isn’t
cock. Although numerousmem j heard in Sabetha nor is Jeremy
bers of his cabinet have from I Bentbam, who laid down the prin-
time to time disagreed with him, I cipie> “the greatest good to the
—-j f*"” **“"“» uj.uu.jr wuiuuinever bas there been so flagraut (greatest number,” considered a
swatted all Mr Hitchcock’s po ;a case aa this. Hitchcock, ofi ]ive issue in the town. Yet when
litical friends, including Ormsby j course, is ready to go, and no j Sabetha finds that it is in need
McHarg, who is now engaged in |one doubts that if he does he will of anything Sabetha goes ahead
gathering delegates for Mr. K° t0 Roosevelt. In fact, he is in
Hitchcock in the sunny south. | a position to nominate Roosevelt
if be chooses, and nobody knows
it ajay better than he.
It was learned that fifteen min-
utes between the time Hitchcock
„ _____ ..... ..... jwas summoned to the White
gentlemen who have been haras-1 House and the time he arrived
Mr. McHarg, Mr. Garfield,
Mr Piochot and others were
charged with being miffed be-
cause they had been thrown out
of office by Mr. Taft. Other j
sing the president are charged! waa one the most troubled fif-
, with doing so in the interest of lteeQ minutes the president has
the United 8tate« steel corpora- i^spent since he has been playing
tion. Among these latter were politics.
Theodore Roosevelt, of Oyster
Bay, N. Y.
Nothing was said about Mr.
Hitchcock, but nobody familiar
with facts believes Hitchcock did
not with deliberation, prepense
and aforethought go out to "get”
Had Hitchcock arrived in the
first five minutes it is a good
guess that he would have been
fired outright. Had he arrived
in the next five minutes he would
have got a talking so that he
would have quit. But he arrived
Mr. Taft, and that he is still out    t    .
on that same belligerent mission.|,D the last 11 ve mlnate9’ when the
Since it has been known that Presidential rage had time to
Mr. Hitchcock, after car^ully
studying the matter, was con-
vinced that the govern ment ought
to follow the example of prog-
ressive governments abroad and
operate its own telegraph lines,
every eff >rt has been made to
bottle him up by the friends of
the president
cool and he was merely remon-
4"
strated with mildly.
Posts Wanted
Tne News will take about fifty
fence posts, on subscription. Call    _ .    __________,
at the News office if you have the city engineer, decided last sum
and gets it without bothering
much about what name to call it
by. Amass meeting, a vote, a
committee appointed and the
thing is in the way of being ac-
complished. That is the way
Sabe-hagota municipal.lighting
plant, municipal water, a public
playground, and independent tel
ephone system, sewers and now
municipal beat.'
One improvement begets an-
other. The light plant bad plen
ty of power, so a year and a half
ago the town decided to use some
of it to pump water up out of the
ground. Again bonds were vot-
ed, wells wete sunk, a reservoir
built, and now the town has ten
miles of water mains and a plant
that can pump 1 4 million gallons
a day. The system cost $65,000,
and the town is making money
with it—pumping water at a cost
of three and one half cents a
thousand gallons and selling it
at thirty cents—besides having
fire protection.
But George E. Johnson, the
above to dispose of.
mer that the plant wasn’t doing
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ONE YEAR AGO
We began an*active advertising campaign in the local news-
papers that has attracted widespread attention and has brought us
very beneficial results. During this time we have had opened with us
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Our competitors accuse us of ‘‘knocking the other fellows busi-
ness” but the above result is sufficient evidence that we are adver-
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We invite you to join the large number of satisfied customers
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IS
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all the work that it could be made
do. Making linht and pumping
water exhausted a good deal of
steam that the people of Sabetha
weren't getting any benefitfrom.
This steam was wasted—was
shot off into the air withoutbring-
ing any birds down. So Mr.
Johnson proposed to lay steam
pipes in the street and use this
waste steam for heat.
Of course, some said it couldn’t
be done, and when Mr. Johnson
convinced them that it could they
said it would be too expensive
and that the power required to
force the steam through the
mains would cost more than the
revenue derived.
At first those arguments
seemed good. When bids were
asked for laying the mains the
lowest was $9,500. Sabetha de-
cided that it was too much money
but it didn’t give up the idea.
Instead the town took the job
over, bought some picks and
shovels and asked for volunteers.
And the volunteers who respond-
ed were the boys of the Sabetha
High School. They dug the
mains and laid the pipes and the
job cost the town $4,000 all of
which was kept at home.
Then the city engineer set him-
self to devising a method of put
ting the steam into the houses
without developing more power
and he succeeded. The steam is
sent through the pipes at one
pound measure—the exhaust
pressure at which it formerly
was shot off into the air—and
when it condenses in the radi-
ators the water is pulled back in
to the boilers by means of a vacu-
um pump, and there again made
into steam. Less than 2 per-
cent of steam is wasted in the
process. 1
Having gone in for this kind of
socialism or paternalism or Ben
thamite theroy, or whatever one
likes to call it, Sabetha made a
complete job of it. It went into
the market and bought a stock
of radiators and sold them to res
idents at cost. When the cold
(Cont’d on supplement.)
TAFT ENDORSED
AT CONVENTION
Effort to Stampede Coal-
gate Convention For
Teddy Unavailing.
From Tulsa World.
Coalgate, Okla., Jan. 23—The
reputation of the fourth congres-
sional district of the state of Ok-
lahoma, for spectacular political
demonstrations, was fully sus-
tained today, when the first re-
publican convention in the Unit
ed States to elect delegates to
the 1912 national convention at
Chicago met.
Several demons trationg
thioughout the convention al
most terminated in a riot. The
first o^e was precipitated when
E. A. Perry, chairman of the
congressional committee, under-
took to force the convention to
accept an erroneous count on the
vote to put his faction in charge
of the temporary organization.
Feeling ran at a high pitch, and
not until the opponents of Per-
ry’s program arose in a body
and marched on the stage did he
recede and permit a recanvas of
the vote by which he had de-
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Walker Bound Over
The case of Bill Walker, who
was arranged injustice French’s
court on December 29th for forg-
ing checks, was called up again
Tuesday. Charley Putman, of
Claremore, who was implicated
by Walker, was acquitted, and
Walker was bound over to the
distric court.
The checks which Walker
cashed were one at the New York
Store for $15.00, one at the Fash-
ion for $10.00, one at McCor-
micks Drug Co. for $5.00 and one
at the Economy Store for $2.50.
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Our service to you qensists of
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Homesteaders Supper
The Homesteaders lodge gave
a box supper in the Lee Hall last
Thursday night which was well
attended. In the absence of Pres-
ident Harry Barndollar R. A.
Douglas presided. The ladies
were on hand with about twenty
boxes which Wm. Thomas, the
auctioneer, disposed of for$41.15
some of the boxes bringing as
high as $5.00 per box. Music was
furnished by the City Orchestra
with O. A. Fick in charge. The
evening was very enjoyably spent
and the supper a decided suc-
cess in every way.
Notice
You are hereby notified to not
use the Adkins cemetery for
burying purposes nntil the cem-
etery site is paid for. The un-
dersigned will be perfectly will-
ing to make proper concessions,
and will make arrangements for
the site with the proper commit-
clared his crowd in charge.
At this juncture feeling began
to ascKid and threatening lan-
guage was resorted to. As the
members of the convention op-
posed to Perry started for the
stage, the newspaper reporters
and ladies who were seated there
began to make their escape. A
side entrance to the opera house
was broken open and the excited
and terror stricken men and
women began to jump out.
Finally order was restored
and the anti-Perry delegates won
out by a vote of 71 12 to 63 12.
Again when the minority re
port of the resolution committee
was presented, ahotber demon-
stration, lasting fully ten min-
utes, was made in a final attempt
to stampede the convention, but
the vote being squarely between
T&ft and Roosevelt, resulted one
hundred and eighteen to thirty-
two.
It was one of the most cleverly
planned and neatly executed po
litical dramas ever witnessed in
the state. All the while it was
denied before the convention met
that there would be any attempt
to pull off a coupe, many inci-
dents proved the contrary. Jnst
before the convention, a balloon
bearing a banner for Roosevelt
was sent up, amid patriotic
strains of music by abrass band,
booming of cannon, and hurrahs
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
CASH AND EXCHANGE,
DEPOSITS, • •
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139,180.08
The law compels us to carry cash and ex-
change of 15 per cent but we carry cash
and exchange of over 53 per cent which is
always evidence of a healthy condition. The
growth of this bank reflects the growth of
the community .•
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a complete victory for the Taft
forces, andthe resolution passed
and delegates elected, were in-
structed for his renomination.
The break between Perry and E.
A. Dizney.ex clerk of the circuit
court who absented himself from
the convention at the last mo
ment, is attributed by tbs losers
for the complete defeat of their
program.
Gas at Hominy
A dispatch to the Oklahoman
from Hominy dated January 19,
reads as follows:
The bringing in of a gas well
lere Friday flowing 11,000,000
cubic feet and in the outskirts of
the town, has put Hominy citi-
zens in a high state of excitement.
This is the second big gasser
and a strong flowing oil well to
be brought in here within the
last four days and establishes
the fact that a rich new field is
being developed.
This is known as the McClel-
land field and drilling operations
have been of the wildcat order.
The gasser brought in Friday
is the result of drilling opera*
tions by the Bogg Drilling On.
The new strikes insure the fs
ture of the town as ah oil cent
and the citizenship is consequent*'
ly elated.
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Three Sizes of .Charters
The Homesteaders organisa-
tion has three sizes of charters
and when the list was sent in
from Collinsville it filled to com*
pletion the largest size. This
speaks pretty weli for Stile'
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Organizer Jones and L. 0.
inbarger, the local solicitor,
organizers.
Agent Maschall and bis
at the depot moved into their new
quarters Tuesday morning and
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are now transacting business in
tbeir usual prompt manner.
The addition to the waiting room
is now under way.
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and sell it at 30c, 35c, 40c and 45c a pound.
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