The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1912 Page: 2 of 10
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THE OKE'ENE LEADER I
J. H. Ragland, Pub.
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After all, a pennant In only a
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Dlctagrafting la the lateat uddltlon
to the KiikIIhIi vocubulury.
If you are In favor of pajamas, as
against nighties, tell It to the ma-
rines.
Man's bost frleud at present Is the
electric fan. It Is belter even than a
snow-bank.
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If Boston wins the American leaguo
pennant baked beans will become the |
national dish.
A Philadelphia policeman Is going
Into vaudeville. Going to do a sleep-
walking act, probably.
VVhat a happy little world this
would be If we could only shovel snow
lu the hummer time.
Speaking of civilization, Chinese
women once crippled their feet but
never wore tight skirts.
A Missouri woman has written a
book wltn her toes. Probably It was
made up from footnotes.
The letter-carrier will be glad when
the vacation season with Its hood of
foolish post cards Is over.
An aviator fell 200 feet without be-
ing hurt, but this Is no proof that
aviation Is being made safer.
If a lobster is "not an animal." what
Is Iff You can’t classify it either as
a vegetable or us a mineral.
A Ixmg Island woman eloped the
other day with a liveryman. We sup-
posed liverymen had become obso-
lete.
Eat six times a day, if you want
to be healthy, says a New York doc-
tor, but uot If you would be wealthy,
too.
Man In Vienna Bhot himself because
three girls were In love with him.
He was loved not wisely, but too
well.
Farmer In Ohio says he owns a oat
with three heads. Think of listening
In the stilly night to a cat with three
voices.
Woman In New York has left all
her money to her lawyer, probably
on the theory that ho would get it
anyhow.
The recent death of the 185 year old
Mexican must have been a happy
one. Think of living 1S5 years In
Mexico!
Man In Indiana ate a gallon of Ice
cream at a single sitting. All of which
goes to show how easy It Is to break
a record.
TO SELL RICH
LIST SIDE LIND
Agreement Has Been Reached for the
Disposition of 825,000 Acres
of Unallotted Indian Land
Muskogee, Ok la. -The sale of a vaBt
aornunt of unallotted Indian land in
eastern Oklahoma was planned at a
conference, between the secretary of
the Interior and J. George Wight, com-
missioner of the live civilized tribes.
The sale of sixteen sections of limber
land was provided for by a recent act
of congrcHB. There are 10,800 acres
of land in the sixteen sections and It
is considered the most valuable timber
land in Oklahoma. The land will bo
sold at Hugo on November 11, one-
fourth of the purchase price to be paid
In cash and tho balance in two years.
It lias also been decided to sell 815,000
acres of unallotted lands on the Choc-
law and Chickasaw nations. This land
is in twenty-two counties and the sale
of It will start on November 11 and
will continue from day to day, In the
different county seats in\Ul completed.
This will practically close the sale of
unallotted land In Oklahoma. No pro-
vision was made at Washington for
the re-offering of the timber lands
in eastern Oklahoma. .Tlhs land was
offered some time ago nhd bid in by a
few big corporations but the sale was
Bet aside by the interior department.
Horse Gets Vacation
Muskogee. Okie -“George” is a
horse which is the only pensioner of
the fire department at Muskogee. It
was the fastest horse in the service,
but it has become a nervous wreck
from the effect of the hammering of
its hoofs upon the pavement. It has
been sent on a vacation of two months
to a pasture in the country, there to
revel in the fresh grass for the first
time in years.
Many Destitute Families
McAlester, Okla.—Complaints are
made that the demands upon Pitts-
burg county for support made by desti-
tute families exceed a just proportion
among the counties of the state, the
condition being due to the removal
there of women with their children
who come to be near relatives in
durance in the state penitentiary.
Some pitiful cases aro cited and the
McAlester papers suggest the need
of legislative remedy.
Loses Herd of Cattle
Hobart, Okla.—Eating green sugar
cane is believed to have caused the
death of eleven head of fine dairy
cows belonging to W. S. Baker, liv-
ing in the country near here. They
had not been in the cane patch but
a few minutes when they fell over
dead.
The herd was valued at $500. It
was also learned that other stock in
the neighborhood of Mr. Baker had
died suddenly from the same cause.
W. A. Bailey recently lost several
hogs after they had been turned into
the cane Held.
A New York woman says she loves
her horses better than she docs her
husband. Probably she doesn't drive
them as hard.
The fear that the price of shaves
may be fixed under the patent law
need not alarm. There Is no law
against whiskers
However, perhaps we ought to be
glad that the girls are showing a ten-
dency to wear their own hair lsi fas- ,
clnatlng little bunches.
Archaeologists In Asia have run
across remains of a nation that once
worshiped the peacock. But the pea-
cock, In all his glory, was not arrayed
as one of these up-to-date damsels.
I
A scientist says that Cleopatra
would, If now alive, be put in a luna-
tic asylum, but she might put the
alienist there first.
The mayor of Boston says that
women know less about flying than
men They know more, because few-
er of them are doing It.
"If you want to be beautiful, do
your own washing." says one of the
doctors. Most women will prefer the
drug store brand of beauty.
A cow up York state Is said to have |
caught a fish with her tall, but who
wants to fish with a cow? Fawncy
casting a cow In a trout stream.
Woman up state wants a divorce
because her husband insists on talk-
ing politics. This comes under the
head of cruel and Inhuman treatment
Theaters without orchestras? With-
out the shivery music, how are we to
know whether the villain Is hunting
mushrooms or creeping up to the
ileeping hero to stab him through the
heart?
Exhibit to be Sent to Washington
Alva, Okla.—Woods county is as-
sembling at Alva Its exhibits for the
dry farming congress to be held at
Lethbridge, Canada, this fall. The
exhibit will be taken first to Okla- |
homa City to be displayed at the state
fair and after the adjournment of the j
congress at Lethbridge it wil be car-
ried to Washington to be left as a
pormanent exhibit at the agricultural
department.
Arrested On Serious Charge
Sayre, Okla.—Oscar Caudill was ar-
raigned before Judge Andrews on a
charge of assault with intent to kill.
He was placed under a $2,000 bond
for his appearance before Judge Hen-
drix. when he will be given a prelim-
inary hearing.
Trying to Secure Control
Tulsa. Okla.—That the Common-
wealth-Edison corporation is endeavor-
ing to secure control of practically all
the electric and interurban lines In
this section of Oklahoma Is indicated
by negotiations said to be under way.
Following the report of the sale of
the Tulsa corporation lines to the Edi-
son corporation for $1,000,000 which
neither has been affirmed or denied, it
is reported that negotiations are pend-
ing for the purchase of the Oklahoma
Union Traction company with Its
right-of-way to Sapulpa, and the Sa-
pulpa and Interurban company. The
company also is reported to have se-
cured control of the Bartlesville lines
and the Bartlesville-Dewey interurban.
Sale of School Lands Successful
Alva, Okla.—Very successful was
the sale of school land in Woods
county, which has just been closed.
Of the 72,508.59 acres offered for sale
€8,665.91 acres were sold, leaving
3,852 acres yet to be sold. The land
sold was appraised at $841,077 and
■ brought $911,967, or an increase over
I the appraised value of $70,890,
DEVISES UNIQUE METHOD
Durant Man Has New Way of Killing
Army Worm*
Duncan Okla.—Many different de-
vices and Ideas have been exploited
In the protection of cotton from
worms and other plant destroying in-
sects, blit Burl Nash, a fnrmer living
near this city, bus hit on an idea that
he claims to have everything else beat.
Army worms this season destroyed |
much of his millet, and when they got ,
through with that he found they were
going for his cotton, He immediately j
dug a deep ditch between tho millet
and cotton and when the worms would
cruwl to the ditch and fall in ho
would spray them with oil and set
fire to It. None of the bugs got to
the cotton, and as he kept them kill-
ed off as fast as they got to the ditch
his place Is now nearly clean of the
worms.
Parole Is Granted
Oklahoma City—Governor Cruce has
granted a parole to T. A. Casey, con-
victed of forgery in Creek county and
sentenced to three years in the pen-
itentiary. The parole is effective until
February 13, 1913. It was represented
to the governor by Drs. H. B. Justice
and Lufe ltuthorford that Casey’s
health is poor and that confinement in
jail would injure his chances of re-
covery.
Receive Back Pay
Fort Sill, Okla.—Approximately $30,-
00() in back pay to enlisted men at Ft.
Sill lias been distributed by Major
Carnahan, special paymaster from De-
partment of Texas headquarters, Fort
Sam Houston, The soldiers had not
received pay siuce July, owing to the
legislative deadlock at Washington
over the abolishment of the commerce
court, which was appended to the ap-
preciation bill.
Agents to Lose Their Jobs
Muskogee, Okla.—District Indian
agents in eastern Oklahoma are to
lose their jobs as a result of the In-
dian appropriation bill, but most of
them are to be employed as field men,
according to Dana H. Kelsey, Indian
superintendent of the Union agency,
who has returned from Washington,
where he conferred with the secre-
tary of the interior regarding the re-
arrangement of the work for the en-
suing year.
Mountain Lion Causes Alarm
Okesa, Okla.—Citizens of this place
and farmers near here are greatly a-
larmed over the appearance of a huge
mountain lion that has been seen in
several dierent places. Dave Allen,
who lives on lease 195, says the ani-
mal has killed a number of his hogs
and chickens and C. E. Squires says
two of nis cattle have been killed
by the animal.
It is the belief that the animal J
strayed from the Ozark huTs in Mis- j
souri. Posses have been formed and
will hunt the woods for the animal. !
New Gas Well In
Ada, Okla—Gas has been struck in :
good quantities a mile west of Ada by |
the Badger Oil and Gas company of
Wisconsin. The well is only a little
over a thousand feet deep and now
has a capacity of 1,000,000 feet per
day. The company is very optimistic
over the prospects of one of the ^
strongest gushers of the state.
To Institute Pleasure Resort
Bristow, Okla.—Albert Kelly, living
about two and a half miles southwest
of here, has a natural lake of about
three acres on his farm, which he
is stocking this year with bass from
the government hatcheries. Mr. Kel-
ly intends to make hisj.ake a pleasure
resort next summer. It is already
supplied with catfish.
Cut In Two By Train
Tulsa, Okla.—With his body cut
completely In two In the middle, a
man identified as William Corbett,
was found dead on the Frisco tracks.
He had been dead an hour or two be-
fore his body was found.
Injured in Railway Collision
Durant, Okla.—Engineer Mike Mur
phy, of Denison, suered a broken leg
and severe bruises and other train
men were slightly injured in a head-
on collision of two freight engines in
the Katy yards here. One engineer
was switching in the yards and the
brakeman left a switch open which
caused the other, a northbound train
to leave the main tracks and crash
into the switching engine. Traffic was
delayed for several hours on the main
line.
Want New Depot
Perry, Okla.—Citizens of Perry
have made complaint to the corpor-
ation commission about the condition
of the Santa Fe depot there and want
a new one. The old one has been
there since the opening of the Cher-
okee Strip and it is getting in a delap-
id ated condition.
Oklahoman Killed
McAlester, Okla.—A telegram from
Riverside. Calif., states that Hugh Ar-
nold, of McAlester, was killed in a
motorcycle accident. Arnold is the
son of J. E. Arnold, a well known
Oklahoma attorney.
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
I
flatters Especial Moment to
_ the Progressive Agriculturist
Dirty money is only coveted by foul-
minded men.
Jealousy Is as bad as a mortgage as
a robber of sleep.
Never be satisfied till you are out
of the Bcrub-stock class.
Love Is very likely to go blind when
the girl has more dollars than sense.
There Is good luck In a horseshoe
when It is fastened to the horse’s foot.
Faith may move mountains, but the
steam shovel is not to be overlooked.
Some things will not work on tTle
farm; you cannot bluff good crops out
of the soil.
Don’t overload. It Is a wise driver
who knows just how much his team
can pull.
Are your hogs of the one-strip-lean
kind? Add another strip by feeding
more alfalfa.
The man who has not learned to say
no will have a great deal to unlearn
before he succeeds.
Truth does not have very much on
a lie when It comes to rising up again
after being crushed.
To derive the greatst profits from
the dairy, have at least one-half of
the cows freshen In the fall.
The greatst thing that makes for
success In any walk of life Is to be
prepared when opportunity knocks.
Just because a man wears a dirty
shirt and filthy boots and dirty over-
alls in the house is no sign that he Is
a good farmer.
Some men might be better farmers
if they had better farms, and some
have better farms because they are
better farmers.
The farmer who reads his farm pa-
per as it should be read will have
something to think about while he
goes about hla farm.
The politician who looks forward
and not back, and who lends a hand to
the solution of current problems, is no
politician, but a statesman.
CAUSE OF THE HIGH PRICES
Middlemen Produce Nothing, but Wax
Fat on Labor of Producer and
Ultimate Consumer.
It makes us tired to hear some peo-
ple blame the farmer for the high
prices of food products. Such people
do not know anything about the sub-
ject they attempt to discuss. Because
they are obliged to pay 40 cents for
a water melon they are certain that
the farmer gets at least 35 cents for
the melon. Such people have no
reasoning powers at all. They live
In a little world of about ten miles in
diameter and are wholly unacquainted
with the problems of the world at
large. The fact Is that the Indiana
farmer gets about ten cents for the
melon thnt the consumer In Racine
pays 40 cents for. Go into any city
restaurant and ask for a cut of water
melon. You will get a slice which Is
one-sixth or one-seventh of a whole
melon and you will pay ten cents for
it, the price the farmer receives for
the whole melon. Where does the
other 40 or 50 cents go to?
A melon grown by the Indiana
farmer passes through the hands of
two or three commission men before
it reaches the Wisconsin consumer,
says the Wisconsin Agriculturist.
Two different railroad companies get
a whack at It and finally the grocery-
man gets his profit out of it. So that
from the time the Indiana farmer
unloads the melon at his railway sta-
tion, and it is placed on the table in
Wisconsin, five different kinds of busi-
»ess get a commission out of it. Five
Killing Cockerels.
Ab soon as the cockerels weigh
three-quarters of a pound they should
be penned for ten or twelve days and
fed all they will eat of corn chop or
wet mash composed of two parts corn-
meal, one part bran and one part low-
grade flour If this mixture can be
dampened with skim milk, It will add
much to its fattening and bleaching
qualities. Birds that are being fat-
tened should be fed in troughs rather
than In litter, as exercise at this time
Is not conducive to rapid gains in
weight. The birds should be kept as
quiet as possible.
Shoeing Horses.
It pays to go to the man who
knows how to shoe a horse even if
he lives ten miles away.
Determines Chick's Growth.
It Is the care the chicks receive at
the time they leave the brooder that
determines their growth.
middlemen get a profit out of that
melon and each one gets about as
much as the farmer got for the whole
melon.
These middlemen are parasites.
They produce nothing, but wax fat off
the labor of the producer and consum-
er. They are the cause of high prices,
they pay the farmer as little as pos-
sible and charge the consumer as
much as he will stand.
This story of the melon Is true of
all food products. The farmer does
not get enough lor his products and
the consumer pays too much for them.
The difference goes Into the pockets
of commission men, railroads, express
companies, grocers, butchers, packing
houses, etc.
If some one can find a way in which
the farmer and tho consumer can be
brought closer together, thus eliminat-
ing the great body of parasites, the
cost of living will be greatly reduced
and the farmer will get fair compen-
sation for his labors.
SHORTHORN IS GOOD MILKER
Cow That Will Give Profitable Amount
of Milk and Make Good Beef Is
Always Profitable.
When a farmer has decided to make
cow s his moneymaking stock, the
question arises what breed shall be
keep, says a writer In the Agricultur-
ist. In the first place, no farmer need
have two or more breeds of cattle on
the same farm. Let him select the
breed that suits him best and start In
with a pedigreed herd, small or large
as circumstances may dictate, or If he
cannot afford the pedigreed females
use a pedigreed bull on a good cross
of the breed desired; then, having
made his start, stay with the breed as
long as he farms. There Is no great
difference among the breeds. Each one
fills Its own place and locality to a
large degree will determine the breed
to be selected. There can be no doubt
of the value of the general purpose
cow, and as long as farmers make
money breeding them the type will
not be abandoned.
A cow that will give a profitable
amount of milk and make good beef in
time, except when she Is In flush of
milk, Is a paying investment for the
general farmer; also, a farmer wanis
a regular breeder. It Is for these rea-
sons I chose dairy Shorthorns, and I
have paid off the mortgage as the re-
sult of my choice. All of my cows give
upward of 8,000 pounds of milk a year
and breed large, healthy calves. In
my herd is a two-year-old with a rec-
ord of 10,495 pounds of milk. This
same heifer was second in a butter fat
contest at Syracuse in T910, all breeds
competing.
The minute a cow Is not wanted in
the herd she will bring from $50 to $80
as beef, which makes a considerable
item so long as the cow has been up
to that time a profitable milker. The
Shorthorn is hardy and does not re-
quire a large amount of grain, being
a great forager and consumer of silage
and straw.
Raising Sheep.
Why not buy a couple of high-claBS
ewes? A few years hence you will
be able to give ycur boy a nice little
flock of ewes, In the meantime rais-
ing your own rams, selling the surplus
to your neighbors, doing a little mis-
sionary work and they cost no more to
raise than the kind that are Just
sheep.
Secret of Success.
A laudable pride to maintain the
fertility of the land, to keep the
fences and buildings in good repair
and to improve the home surroundings
should lead to contentment.
Hunting Lice.
No license Is needed by the poultry
louse hunter. All that Is needed is
ammunition and an embraced oppor-
tunity. There’s no penalty, except to
the lice.
Beware of Cholera.
If by any chance you have a hog
die of cholera, don’t drag It over the
ground where other hogs are. Put it
on a stoneboat and keep the grass and
even the earth from Infection.
Cheap Pork.
Grass and green feed are what en-
able the farmer to produce cheap
pork.
The Scrub Bull.
Turn the scrub bull Into bologna
and fill his place with a sire that will
add dollars to the value of the herd
through his progeny.
Breed the Best.
The price of dairy animals is stead-
ily rising, and the demand for good,
young dairy cows is greater than th<
supply.
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