The Collinsville News. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1911 Page: 1 of 10
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NEWS.
COLLINSVILLE, OKLA., JAN. 26 1911.
PROTECT THE TOILER and PRODUCER.
NO. 37
Clubbing Rates Made
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“Today is short—Yesterday is gone,
Tomorrow may never come--’’
IF YOU ARE GOING TO OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT
DO IT NOW
Many wealthy men began by saving their “Chicken Feed”
& 1-25
Will start an account and we will loan you FREE a fine savings
bank to assist you in your saving,
4 per cent Interest on Savings Deposits.
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One Dollar to Five, Accor-
ding to Hour, Says
City Attorney
Danville, 111., Jan
Louis Platt, whose election is un
al circles here,” he continued,
“that the price of votes early on
election day was from $1 to $2.
At noon the price gradually
jumped to $3, and late in the
afternoon, if the result seemed
V-’ l)e c*ose* price jumped to
or more. Ward captains sell
at $50. The system used at the
21 — Mavor e,ection> I understand, is such
that the man who handles the
der investigation by the grand ra!>ney ,,ievei' sees the man to
jury that is trying to break up ,uT' 'he m°.ney is paid) 80 that
vote buying and selling here in thebuyerand seller could not
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ITS RESOURCES.
From County Clerk W. J.
Eldridge.
Prepared especially for the
Rogers eounty Messenger by
County Clerk W. J. Eldridge.
Rogers county is 24 miles wide
east and west and 36 miles long
north and south, has 732£ sec-
tions of land or 468,800 acres, 8-1
of which are taxable. There are
425,000 acres of tillable land of
which 190,000 acres are now in
cultivation.
The government census of
1910 gives Rogers county a pop
ulation of 17,736. Of this nutn-
bei9,968 aie males and 7,768 are
females. Estimated births since,
435. deaths,130. There are
9,207 persons over the age of 21
years and 8,529 under that age
There are 13,219 whites, 3,685
Indians and 832 negroes. Catoo-
sa is the only town in the county
which has more females than
males, the population being 173
females and 160 males.
Rogers county has 42 miles
main line and 8 mile of sidings,
of the Frisco railroad valued at
$1,856,301; Iron Mountain rail
road, 42 miles main line and 6
mi'es of sidings, valued at
$1,396,603, and Atchison Topeka
& Santa Fe, 6 miles main line
and 2 miles of sidings, valued at
$215,666. The valuation of the
Pullman Car Co. in this county is
$31, 737. The valua ion of the
Gas Companies for Rogers coun-
ty for 1910 is $40,197, and in ad
dition to this the county has
approximately 25 miles of the
Caoe.v River Gas Co. valued at
$146,776; and 77 miies of pipe
line of the Prairie Od & Gas Co ,
valued at $84,105. In addition
to the above the county has the
Chelsea Oil Refinery, valued at
$40,000, which refines oil in
R gers county and sells it every
where. The total valuation of
the public servic corporations in
the county is $3,839,776; personal
property, $2,342,332, and real
estate, $5,507,690. making a total
va'uati m in the eounty $11,690,-
068. The public servic corpora
lions pay approximately one Sunday coal mines
taxes of the
third of the entire
O «uuty.
The average rate of taxation in
Rogers county is 14 mills, or
$1.40 per $100 of valuation. The
county tax rate is 5 mil's and the
levy will net. a total of $58,451.30.
Claremore City pays $7,964 54,
or approximately i of all taxes
for county use; Coelsea pays
$2,861 66 and Colliusvi le City
pays $2,131.13
covers an axtp.n-iiyp
vein oeing 28 inches
Uncle Joe’ Cannon’s baliwick,
tonight came out heartily in fa-
vor of an ‘exp rience meeting’
at which vote buyers and vote
sellers, worked up to a fervor by
reform speeches, might get up
and make a clean breast of the
maunner in which the trade votes
has been can ied on
Platt suggested buyers,sellers
of votes go before the grand jury
and make a ciean breast, accep;
disfranchisment for a time and
become better citizens in future
I believe the grand jury is on
the right track” he said, “and a
thorough cleaning up anaiis
purer politics’. Also he added
significantly, “it means less ex
pense to the candidates. There
is no one who lik s to spend a lot
of money when it is not necessa-
ry, and especially when he knows
he is violating the law. Of cou rse
1 do not know where all the
money I contributed went, but
I have my own ideas. Personally
I could not say th it a single vo'e
has been bought with it It was
— - given to men to assist in my
Oolagoh campaign, and by them, it was
*u" £y§fwliere1t did the most good
The day’s developments in the
QI'PO ----
thick, un-
der 12 feet of dirt, and is famous
the country over for the semi- election frauds scandal were of
anthracite coal, known by the ^le hil'r raising, sensational or-
name of “Peacock” der. Early in the day there was
Claremore is the county seat, consternation over the report,
and including the 18 additions ^lty Jones
has a population of app roximate- , d confessed that lie had
ly 7,000 , bought votes at the last election.
tV , . I The city attorney entered an em*
** I “R-idfum in**8 pvil ^ ! Phatic denial to the confession jurisuicuon tne lamous ivj usarai
School district No. 14, embrac , u“ ™whinh’ sa'lnR ,hat he had nofc confessed lease brought to test the power of
vv^aUlTiest’d’istrVc^w^^a valua- radium,& nf nn’m-.p »•«•">« .♦»*• the Curtis act of April 26, 1906,
swear that money was passed be
tween them.”
The grand jury took the initial
steps in (lie vote scandal while
investigating the defalcations of
Ex County Tresurer Whitinck
who is said to have spent im-
mense sums of the county’s
money in vote buying. The wit-
nesses called in the Whitlock
case were questioned as to their
knowledge of where this money
went, but the real work of inves-
tigating the bribery scandals
will not begin until Moi'day,
when the inquisitorial body re-
convenes.
It is understood that every
election commissioner has been
summoned to appear next week.
Fireman Woodpard, the leader
of the grand jury,and David Har
um, with a deep insight into hu-
man nature and unimpeachable
personal integrity, says little,
but intimates thatthegrand jury
intends to investigate the vote
buying to the very bottom, and
that nothing will prevent the re-
turning of hundreds of indict-
ments if the evidence warrants
Too Late Babies Get In
Vinita, Ok , Jan. 23.- The de-
cision today of the Uni led States
supreme court granting the so-
called “too late” babies the right
to participate in allotment of the
andsofthe Cherokees, was re-
ceived with rejoicing here. The
decision dismissed for want of
jurisdiction the famous Muskrat
of course, but known
tion of $1,965,128. District"!^ ^usiy for the miraculous cures
comes next with a valua ion of 01 eaded disease and preven*
$1,037,901.
tion of lepidemic pestilence.
Rogers county has 8 incorpo- i®very state in the union has its
rated towns and cities and 9
municipal townships.
Rogers county has 38 school
districts, 15 of which have com-
modius brick buildings. There
are 12 districts which have more
than one school house. The
school buildings 37 of these dis-
tricts ai e valued at $113,200. In
adeti ion to the above district No.
14 has buildings as follows;
Claremont, $20,000; Hiawatha,
$10,000; Acadtmy, $6,000, all
brick, and colored school (frame)
$1500. There is also located in
this distiict the State Universi
ty Preparitory School, costing
$50,000, which runs the sctiool
properties of the county up to
$199,200
Rogers county has the Wells-
Fargo, United States and Pactic
Express Companies, the Pioneer
Telephone and Telegraph and
Western Union Tel graph Com-
panies. In addition to this there
are 13 banks in the county, 3
national and 10 state.
A branch yard of the Coffey-
ville Vitrified Brick Co. has re-
cently been located at Collinsville
in this county, which produces
the world famous Vitrified brick
under a special formula of their
own. Another is the Howard
Brick Co. of Claremore, which
makes an excellent brick and Is
making good sales in all the
the neighboring stales.
Rogers county has 36 square
miles of oil and gas wells and
ther e are five of *the eight incor-
porated towns heated and light-
ed by natural gas, which costs
25 cen's per 1000 feet.
'1 here are a p p r o x i m at e lly
10,000 acres of coal land in Rog-
ers county. The chief produc-
tion comes from Collinsville. The
quotoof representatives at these
wells for treatment every day in
the year, and much of this waujr
is now being transported abroad
Rogers county is one of the
best agricultural counties of the
state. Wheat, oats, corn, cotton,
potatoes, beans, cane, broom
corn, kaffir corn, tame hay and
alfalfa being ihe various crops,
chief of which is the first three
named. Horticulture is acorn-
ple'e success and stock raising
and dairying are becoming very
profitable.
The temperature rarely ex-
ceeds zero in winter and 60 de-
grr es F in summer
Rogers county has*the longest
small river iu the United States,
the Verdigis.
Rogers county has within the
past three years built 20 steel
bifidges at a cost of $43,866,
which is made up of 19 creek
bridges costing $27,366 and a
bridge over the Verdigris river
just nearing completion at a cost
of $16,500. This has all been
paid by direct taxation.
With the above facts and many
more which might be mentioned
before you, one can judge that
Rogers county is one among the
best of the great state of Oklaho-
ma.
with vote buying. Jones adrnit-
ed ho h id been summoned be
fore the grand jury and declared
permitting Cherokee babies born
between September 1, 1902, and
lore the grand jury and declared j March 1, 1906, to share in the
lie expects to tell all, adding that I allotmen t of the lands of the
he thought he knew enough tolQherokees. The decision today
Wanted
A man who would rather live
in his own home than a rented
R H. Moore
one
Dentistry
Dr. J. A. Turner will be per-
manently located in Collinsville
after February 1st, 1911, pre-
pared to do all kinds of modern
dental work. Office over Okla-
homa State Bank building.
make things mighty unpleasan
for some vote buyers and sellei.
in Vermillion county.
Joues said he did not said hi
did not believe it was po^sibli
for any candidafe for any office
h gh or low, in Danvitie or h
Vermillion county, to be elected
without the use of large sums ol
money. Pie thought the averag'
cost of an election to office rang-
ed( from $5,000 to $7,000
“I have no personal knowledge
of vote buying and selling that
would be admissable as evidence
said Jones tonight, ‘but I chink I
can give the grand jurors suffi-
cient leads to bring fourth some
interesting developments.
“It is common rumor in politic
ipholds the Curtis act, aud
ants tit'e to thousands of acres
if valuable land in the oil belt
md agricultural fields of the old
Cherokee nation. The ‘too late’
>abies had been allowed to hold
these lands pending the decision
Reuben Dye the Auctioneer,
came over from Skiatook Tues-
day, to ci$- a sale for Mr. Trout
Reuben has a imii'das an auc
tioneer that be duplicat-
ed by any ol^Hfuctioneer in
the state, havin^^ried 92 sales
in the year 1910- He has a sale
Coi*Ed Halsell at Ramona soon,
and onelasJohn Henson Febru-
ary firsj
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ATTENTION!
HOUSE WIVES.
Commencing: 2^v^OZLTXD-ZS-“3T",
2 we will give a 6 ounce can
of Calumet Baking Powder with the first
hundred sacks of flour.
McCartney & Rogers
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Wright, W. L. The Collinsville News. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1911, newspaper, January 26, 1911; Collinsville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173750/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.