The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1904 Page: 1 of 14
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Chandler Newt
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN i.OUNIY. H. B. GII.SlkAP, H>iU;R AND PUBLlS'TFp.
VOL. 13—No. 17.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, JANUARY 14, 1904.
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$1.00 A YEAR.
DIVERSIFY CROPS.
I ""HE shortage in the cotton crop
this year ought to prove a
special incentive to the farmers of
this county to plant this year some
of those crops which can be put on
the market early and which will
bring them a good return early in
the season, before corn and cotton
can be sold. Potatoes, melons, and
many kinds of vegetables can be
raised with profit. Cantaloupes,
which have been tried before with
success in this vicinity, are especially
adapted to this purpose. Last year
the extremely late frost damaged
the crop here, as everywhere else,
but the late frost of last May was
unprecedented and may not occur
again in a dozen years. Canta-
loupes are good shippers, and there
is practically an unlimited market
for them at a good price, though, as
with other commodities, they bring
a much higher price when first put
on the market. The chief difficulty
that has been encountered here is
that it has been necessary in the
past to ship them mainly by express,
and the express rates have taken up
most of the profit. Even under
these adverse circumstances, how-
ever, the crop has compared well
with others as to profit. It seems very clear
that if the melons could be shipped in car lots by
freight that the cost of transportation would be
cut down one-half, and that the benefits of this
saving would go mainly to the producers. This
is the statement of F. S. White, one of the indus-
trial agents of the Frisco railroad. Mr. White
was here last Saturday looking up the cantaloupe
business, and Jie presents a plan of handling the
business which ought to nearly double the profit
in raising cantaloupes here and which should lead
to the planting of hundreds of acres to this crop
during the coming season. He proposes to bring
about the oranization of farmers into associations
along the line of the Frisco so that they can act
together in the marketing of their melons. Such
organizations will be formed at several points
near here, as, say, Spencer, Jones, Luther,
Wellston, Chandler, and Stroud. By federat-
ing these associations a car can be made up
nearly any day during the shipping season. The
two largest distributors of melons in the United
States have agreed with the Frisco, Mr. White
says, to take the entire crop, handlings them on
commission. They will pay an advace of about
fifty cents on the crate when the melons are de-
livered and will pay the balance to the producers
when the melons are sold.
THE DELINQUENT TAX LIST.
JOHN RUSKIN:
It may be proved, with much certainty,
that God intends no man to live in this
world without working; but it seems no
less evident that He intends every man
to be happy in his worV It was written:
"In the sweat of thy brow," but it was
never written: "In the breaking of thy
heart."
MAETERLINCK:
It may happen that I shall find solace in
that which brings sorrow to you; and that
which to you speaks of gladness may be
fraught with affliction for me. But no
matter—into your grief will enter all that
1 saw of beauty and comfort, and into my
joy there will pass all that was great in
your sadness.
| A LETTER from Hon. B. S. McGuire to the
I postmaster at Chandler dated last Saturday
in reference to the three petitiiftis for rural free
delivery service from Chandler which were re-'
cently investigated by an inspector, contains the
information that the report upon the routes was
favorable and that the routes will be ordered
established, the service to begin about March 1st,
; 1904. This will be good news to the three or
i four hundred| families living along these routes,
j and they certainly appreciate the active interest
that Mr. McGuire has taken in securing the bene-
fits of free delivery for them. A gentleman liv-
ing in the northern part of'this county on one of
the routes running out from Perkins stated to The
I News last week that he would not now be without
the service for fifty dollars a year. It is the policy
of the government to eventually extend this ser-
vice over the whole country where the population
is as heavy as in this county. It takes some time
to get a route established, and so those who are
interested in securing additional routes should
lose no time in getting up and filing their petitions.
I hree or four additional routes are being planned
to run out from the Chandler office, and some are
being considered from Stroud, Wellston, Meeker,
and Carney. We would like to see Lincoln county
completely covered by rural free delivery service.
I HK AC riON of the county
*■ treasurer and the county com-
missioners in causing the list of de-
linquent personal tax$s to be pub-
lished has been quite generally ap-
proved. In a few cases, perhaps,
there have been criticisms, but these
have related, not to the wisdom of
publishing the list, but to its accu-
racy, the persons who had paid all
their taxes and who held receipts for
same and yet who found their names
in the list thinking that the present
treasurer had made a mistake or
been guilty of carelessness in making
up the list because the taxes which
they were sure had been paid were
included as delinquent. Such an un-
derstanding would not have occurred,
however, had the statement of the
treasurer at the beginning of the list
been carefully read, for Mr. Mc-
Laughlin plainly states that the list
show those taxes which are shown to
be delinquent by the records of his
office; that in mihy instances the
taxes have undoubtedly been paid,
and through a clerical error or an
oversight, the proper credit has not
not been given ; and that in all such
cases the persons holding receipts for
their taxes or other evidence of hav-
ing paid them should present such evidences to
the treasurer in order that the records may be so
corrected as to protect them from having such
taxes collected or charged against their real
estate in the future. Mr. McLaughlin, of course,
would have no right to correct an error of that
kind without some authority, any more than he
could grant a quietus against a tax which was not
delinquent. The editor of this paper is charged
with taxes for the year 1895, which taxes he is
certain that he paid, but unless he can find his
receipts or otherwise prove that he has paid such
tax, the treasurer would have no right to change
the record. 1 his is true in hundreds of other
cases perhaps. Who is to blame is hard to de-
termine, but considering the rush of work in the
offices of the treasurer and sheriff at tax-collect-
ing time, it is not strange that in ten years a good
many errors should creep into the records. One
of the main reasons for publishing the list was to
correct those errors, and it will be far better to
correct them now than to let them run till receipts
have been lost or other means of proving pay-
ment have disappeared and until the costs have
greatly increased. Already, since the publica-
tion of the list, hundreds of dollars have been
collected, and those who have been paid have been
saved costs attendant on service of tax warrants.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1904, newspaper, January 14, 1904; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117744/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.