Lawton Constitution-Democrat (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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NEGRO CAITI BED.
From Monday's Daily.
A ne gro answering to the description
of Paul Williams tiic negro who *fe.■{
niiU latalli wounded I'rhate Wilcox
Mattery C First Field Artillery, Ft. sill,
on the night of November H last, has
been arrested and is b«*ing li' ld at II ■
burt to await the arrival 01 officers
f.oiu l awton.
Williams, or the iimiu billeted to be
the negro wanted* was arrested |,m
it lit at Hobart by the police force in
that city. Telephone messages to She r.
ill Rufe LeFor* today Indicate that the
DESPONDENT HE ENDS LIFE
. .OLUSTEE, Okla.. Nov 30—George L.
Wright, an aged farmer, living a boat
ten miles southwert of Olustee, killed
himself Sunday afternoon by shooting
himself with a shot gun. Do nth won in-
stantaneous.
The old gentlemtn had been suffer-
ing for some time with a complica-
tion of diseases and it is thought that
the matter so preyed upon him that
he concluded to end It all and seek re-
lief In death. No other cause is as-
signed for thl«j ***«h * / ♦.
He leaves a family consisting of
right man has been cuptimd. In tele, a wife ami several children.
SILL SI'RYE Y COMPLETE.
phouiiiu. Sheriff LeFom gate a close
description of Williams and tli • officers
at Hobart aniiounre that the negro
held answers ?cry closely. Deputy
Sheriff Klley Hedey will lea«e oil tin-
late Frisco this evening to bring the
netrro hack to Lawton.
The murder with which Williams is
charged occurred in the east end of
this city. Several soldiers luid eeUred
a netrro lint there and robbed the ne-
gress inmate, Margarctte Young, so
she alleges that
funeral took place Monday.
FOHT SILL, Okla* Nov. ,10.—(Sped-
al)— Nuncy for the new enlarged mili-1
tary posi has beeti completed and tlie
report of the censtructlon quarter-1
master, ('apt. 1). L. Stone, and the ron- j
structlou engineer, (apt. Jadine, hits
just l een forwarded to the war de-|
partment for approval. What that re*
port contained as to recommendations
for the location of the new post is not
known at this time. Two surveys were
made for complete posts, one Jnst
north of the west gate to the military
resorte and the other northeast of the
The j present site, near Elgin, It Is helloed
the site north of Lawton is the most
favored.
FEDERAL COURT REMOVES
STAY OF DEATH SENTENCE
UPON SHAWNEE CONVICT
FOREIGNERS 4sK
TO HE CITIZENS
.virSKOGEE. Ok.. Nov. 30.—Sincr
! election the t'nited States district at-
j torney's office he. has been beselged
with fercigners wh«. with to make ap-
plication for naturalization papers,
j Strange as it may seem few applied
he, liming pursued prjor flrKl election In Oklahoma
them after tlie> left the house, was
euunged lu sciitlilntr with thcui when
Williams tired Int.* the huueh of sold-
iers and struck Private Wilcox. The
soldiers died following evening from
the wounds reeehed. The l*.unir wo.
man and another negro bj the name of
Assistant United States Attorney
Frank Lee loft todav for Coalgate
where he will pass on r 0 applications.
Some of the applicants have lived in j
Oklahoma for years.
According to data on file in the gov-
rnment offices there are more than
From Monday's Daily.
Federal Judge John II. Cotteral today dismissed the. habeas corpus pro-
ceedings delating the death sentence niru'.ist wri Johnson, the Pottawatomie
county negro, twice convicted and tf ric fenced in the Pottawatomie
county courts for the murder of Mrs. Mary f'uppy, an aged white woman, on
the iiltrht of January 'J.'l last, and thus left the fate of the black man again
with the state courts. This act was taken following au agreement between at-
That something definite Is expected *on,0>* 'wr lhe s,a,<> ,,H' defense that the proceedings should be dismiss,
within the next few weeks in regard to ,M' si,,rr <JoTfrn#r Haskell had granted a reprieve until December II in
the post enlargement is evidenced by 1 w 11,0,1 Jo,,ll*ol|,* attorneys eould file application for hearing before the
the furt tlmt the mllltur) authoritii's 1 -'U'rem.- I'lie rraMiu for fht-atii) of H-ntrM-f by the frd-
have begun arrangements with the rrM' Mdrt had been liecavse of the fact that the refusal of the state criminal
Western Union tcleggiph company for ro,,rt 01 H trial three days before the date set for the liaiiginir
the establishment at the post of n'gov- ,I1M' 1,01 11 *i*Mrlent time for appeal and beeanse the associate justice of
ernnient relay telegraph station to he *',a* co,,r* woild not assume the respo iisibility of a stay of sentence In the
ohickid in from flic l.n to« nftioe nn.l of tli. pro-Mlnir Judge. An n|. plication for writ .if error In-fore the
III lie operated by a tin ernnient paid 1 S||I,,'N -niireme cmirt. alletrlnir former Jeopard) av rauve. will Ini.
operator from the lulled State -it mediately be tiled by .lulu attorneys.
corp. of the army. I III* station is ex- County Attorney V ti Pincers of no- While Johnson's aitoi nev
pected *'. he established immediately.
(•lis Jones, who was with Uilliariis t^3000 foriegners who were entitled to
time of the shooting, are still h«*l«l j Vote in November and who failed to
avail themselves of the opportunity.
In the county Jail with being accom-
plice to tile killing. Williams is said
to be a swetheart of Mariraretti
"Young.
I EACH LBS .MEETING.
HIIY V N (TIEERS LITTLE I.I It I
IIEAKTIIROkFN OVER DEFEAT
LANDED IN JAIL
ON 2CTII BIRTHDAY i she
Shawnee, Sheriff E. A. Pierce and
Johnson's attorney C. O. Pittman. both
J of Tecumseh, together with the convict
ed negro, appeared before Judge Cot-
teral at ten o'clock this morning in the
district court room here for hearing
; of the habeas corpus proceedings. Tliev
elated the love and sympathy ex- hkd an|V(,(, ,nte „1kM „„ the de.
pressed In a letter to him from little | |ayf>(, Rofk |glam) paRB..IIRCr
Miss I .eatress Jones lo-ye.r-old g|nce lhe rtlemls.al of ilie proceed-
daughter of J. W. Jones, who ays!|llg, hnd a|reBrtv ,1Pen a|!rc,ed to bv thc
Chickasha, Okla.. Nov. f
Jennings Bryan has felt
0.—William I
and appre-
vked so hard to make hint win
attorney.-, the hearing lasted but a few
and is heartbroken over Ms defeat, j mlnllt„ Hnd the nPRro wns remanded
Deputies Glenn and Hendrieks have and has written a beautiful letter to
just returned from Lansing. Kansas.
where they went last week to place
„ in the penitentiary Jasper Banks. Per-
From Monday s Daily. ,, „ ,,,,,,
ry Moffett and J. J. Bacherly, senten-
I hat tl;o nieftiim of the Southwest .
, , eed at the last term of the district
Oklahoma i eacher s association held „ . . ....
court. Banks for eighteen months for
in this city the last two days of the ,
cattle stealing. Moffett one year for
week was an entire success was the ,, , , .
^( ^ (disposing of mortgaged property, and
Bacherly one year for horsestealing.
The prisioners were landed in jail
general feeling of all visiting teachers
despite the fact that the weather
greatly hindered their work.
The sessions of the association clos-
ed late Saturday evening with the close
ing of the regularly scheduled pro-
gram.
Near the close of the meeting, reso-
lutions were passed thanking the peo-
ple of Lawton, the Chamber of Com-
merce and the Bcptist people for their
hospitality and inviting other south-
western counties to join the associa-
tion. The action of the day before re-
garding the appointment of an execu-
tive board of three members was re-
scinded and aV county superintendents
In the dlJtri. ., .re voted as r perman-
ent execu ve beat 1
FOl'R MORE COLLIERS.
W 4SHIM4TQN. D. ('., Nov. fill.—Rear
\dmiral Cowles. in hi- annual report
tiled today the war department, urges
more colliers for the navy. The pre-
sent colliers, he says, are uttrely in-
sufficient and cites tie remit voyage
of the Atlantic fleet when it was nee-
esary t< employ foreign vessels. If for-
elirii complications had ariseu, declares
Vdmlral Cowles, Cue fleet could not
have made the trip, and this same con-
dition is likely In time of war.
on Thanksgiving day. Ranks, says,
Deputy Glenn, was just twenty-six
years old on that day, the twenty-sixth
day of the month.
NEW TOLL lh
expressing his hearty apprecia-
ble r
tion .
The letter is dated from Lincoln,
Neb.. November 17. and is as follows:
"Dear Little Friend:—Your letter at
hand. 1 appreciate your kind words.
The love and loyalty of people who
have supported me are worth more
than any office and I hope 1 may be
able to act in the future so as not to
forfeit the good will that has been
generously expressed by myself and J
others.
"Very truly yours,
(Signed i 'W.J. BRYAN.
to the Pottawatomie county jail to a-
wait further court proceedings, to
hang December 11 next unless liberat-
ed or granted new trial by the federal
high court.
He will he retained In the Comanche
County jail for several days, however,
since Sheriff Pierce desired to leave
him with Sheriff Rufe LeForfl while
he made a visit to Jackson county. At-
torney Riggers and Pittman returned
J at noon to their liomes.
"We expect to file application im-
mediately for a writ of error from the
t'nited States supreme court," an-
, I44, ... . , , K nounced Attorney Pittman Just before
Little Miss Jones also says in her , , " , , .
. , , , . , i leaving the city."The grounds for the
• letter that she. conducted a vigorous;
, , , i j , , , I application are chiefly that th enegro
The Pioneer telephone companv has campaign and ft he is chosen to lead'
the party next time that she will work
harder than ever. She enxuresses keen
regret that she Is unable to vote.
has suffered former jeopardy for this
offense, having already been tried
twice by the state courts and senten-
ced. with the last fixing of a date for
hanging, four diffe -nt times. The ap-
plication will probably be filed with
the presiding judge of the state crim-
The | inal court of apnea " Judge Henry M.
begin De-1 Furman, and if denied by. him, with
The Indians will diavv $i0li;one of the Jndgea of thc supreme
capita, and the total amount to j court
tem but this defect, announces Man -1 distributed is about
ager Dillon, will rapidly be corrected, j payment will last about t n d
i will be conducted
Oil, till PI T KM'S i Ret Millard. •
off !l million kakrelsl
just installed a new four position toll
board to replace the two-position
board which has been in use. Complete
copper wire circuits have also been in-1
stalled to northern exchanse,. | OSAOES TO ..FT *100 I'KR
With 11,1k n-w improvement, it : on ; < at "kxt ™'*i:vi
pected that the local service will be j
greatly Improved. Considerable com-j Pawhuska. Okta.. Nov
plaint has been made throughout the; Osage Indian payment is
city for the past several weeks because cember
of the poor service of the local ays-!
Indihn
The! Negro Does Not Feyr Death,
s and • "f never did believe they would hang
Agent i me," said Cie negro slayer today when
si i:hlin<> siiootinu.
STERLING, Okla* Rot# (Sped
al.) -Because A. 11. Stewart had pen
I TKAt'HKRS TO HAfF A PAPER
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 30.—The record !
of the oil industry of Oklahoma for The teachers of Comanche C« nity
1908 is not nearly so sensational * 2 j -75 planning to publish a monthly pap-
was the record of 1007 when Oklahoma | er devotnd to the interest of the teach
with a production of 43.000,000 barrels ers of Comanche county. "When the as-
went to the top of the list of oil pro- sociation meets here, the second Saturl plead guilty."
Pitt-
man and Baldwin, admit that he did
the killing, no cause has ever been
discovered for the deed. She was beat-
en to death. No attempt at rape was
made, it is said, and in her purse,
found beside her. were $15, the purse
undisturbed. It is believed, however,
that he had intended to rob her but
was frightened awa- by approaching
people.
The crime raised widespread excite-
ment at the time and mob violence
v averted only, by the fact that
Sheriff Pierce spirited his prisoner
away and. going by way of Norman,
deposited him In the Oklahoma county
jail. Even at the time of the last date
of hanging, when Judge Cotteral grant
ed stay of sentence, the mob spirit
was high and any final attempt to re-
lease him Is expected to meet with a
hanging by the people If they can
reach thc victim.
Having pleaded guilty at his first I
trial. Johnson was sentenced to hang
May 18 last but. through irregularity
in the reception of the plea of guilty 1
and sentence, a new trial was granted, j
Again convicted, he was sentenced to 1
ha.ng July IT. This time, the sentence,
wa * . ' by appeal to the state su- ;
preniu .da, but new' trial was denied I
and sentence was fixed for Friday, Nov
ember 13. last. In some way. however,
the case was brought before the newly
created criminal court of appeals.
Three days before the date of the last
sentence, this court also refused ne'v
trial and the negro seemingly would
be forced to' hang. At th? last moment,
"however, alleging that the criminal j
court had not given sufficient time for,
appeal to the United States supreme
court on a writ of error for former
jeopardy, attorneys secured from Fed- j
eral Judge John H. Cotteral a tem-
porary w rit of habeas corpus granting I
time for appeal. This action was wired I
. .. .t ii..,. :.: TV..... .. H..1T '
Indlscrlmtnant firlng.igiiorancc cf the
presence of anyone else, showed the ln-
experienee of the hunter.
So far there is no mention of an? of
the accidents occuring on account of
automatic or pump guns. Previously
many of the worst accidents were at-1
trlb'ited to the automatic guns. Shells
would become lodged and explode, team-
ing the gun to pieces and invariably |
pntting out au eye or disfiguring the
face.
In the present quail se&son condl-!
tlons are a lf le unlike those of rtnr!
past. The high water of last spring
ruined lots of eggs that had been laid
for the first hatching, consequently
there were a few full-grown birds at
the beginning of the season. The sec-
ond hatching was small and the young
birds were unaccustomed tc the habits
of the older generation when left to do
for themselves They were wild and
the hunter. In order to get a shot had
to take the first chance he could get
If somebody happened to be in the way
he was liable to get hurt—purely acci-
dental .however.
It Is possible that a new game law
cuttiug down the length of the open
season, will be introduced in the legis-
lature this winter. If the season Is
shortened it might serve one purpose if
nothing else—limit the possibility of
STRAWBERRY
PL A NTS
FALL AMI WINTER HA Ml NO.
5oc per 100
$4. per 1000
I have such leading varieties as
Senator Dunlap , Lady Thompson,
Texas. Klondykt, and Aroma
Plants will he freshly dug aud
nicely packed.
Also a full ilne of fruit trees, shade
trees, shrubs, roaes, eic.
I pleas others, I can pleas you.
Patronize your home nursery and
secure better treatment and better sat-
isfaction than you can from agaota of
nurserys.
LAWTON NURSERIES
LEWIS OLSON. Prop. LAWTON. Okla.
RE( 0>nilM s \RJJLLERY.
FT. SILL., Nov. 25.—(Special.)—
(ieneral Murray, chief o ftlie artillery
staff of the United States army, has
ju t renewed his recommendation of
1906 for the establishment at Sill of a
regiment of field artillery, according to
private dispatches received here today.
There is now but half regiment of
artillery, the First, stationed at the
post but If the recommendations of
(Ieneral Murray are accepted, the pres
ent number of me 11 will be doubled
shortly.
In his report just filed with the war
department, the chief at' artillery prals
es Sill very highly as an artillery post
declaring that It is the best in the
United States for artillery work.
Found atLast
A Remedy That Cures
BLOOD POISON
Required or harsdttary. ptrlMtlv, pnrt*
tlvol> mid permanently,no matter what
your condition may be,even If the tionus
be rotten.
IIH RtJM ATI8M In any form nnd from
any en use, no matter how loot; ntnnauiK
or how badly you lire affected.
CATAKHU. MALARIA. JAUNDICE
and alt other dUenses of the blood. SO
page book PURE. Write for further
Information; this coats you nothing.
Addict's,
THF SAi VAR CO.
hi. LOU , i s. A.
Miss Floy Houston, teacher in the
schools at Temple, who has been visit-
ing during the Thanksgiving holidays
with her brother, Ross Houston, and
w ife, returned to her home last night.
Real Estate & Insurance
Remember I insure your live stock
against death from any cause.
J.E.SIDERS
LAWTON OKLA.
I'liom- 1)0. 4<£ Fifth Street.
questioned In the county jail by a rep-
resentative of the Constitution-Demo-
crat."! don't know what they are going
to do with me but I hope to get free 1 to the authorities at Tecumseh, a half!
yet if Mr. Pittman can get my case to hour before the time fixed for the
t]ie supreme court because they have hanging, after all preparations had
already sentenced me three or four been made and time only was awaited
times to be hung. No. I never did for the trap. This was for twenty days.
I Immediately after its granting, Gover-:
I)RS. TURNER & DUNLAP
Physicians and Surgeons
Ollici! Lawton National Bank Building
j| Office Iiiontt No. 15 . Lawton, Oklahoma
nyy|' W. If. TURNER, M. D. II P. G. DUNLAP, M. D.
Residence 1'hone No. 41 ; Residence Phone No. 671
Country can lie left at either residence, office, or at
the Turner & Lewis Hospital
Hospital Phone 351
dticlnp; states. The year 1907 marked J day in December, thin question will be! Johnson refused to disciips the case nor Haskell granted a reprieve until
(he toj of production in the great I definitely decided. This is a progress-j further and would neither admit the December 11 in which to permit the
Glenn Pool. IK miles south and west' iv.. u,p u successfully launched killing of Mrs. Cuppy nor assign any preparation of papers for application
of Tulsa. This Is the greatest oil pool I will keep all of our teachers in close 1 reason for her death. nn a writ of error before the federal
ver discovered
the United States i touch with each other and better
j and production has been larger than | schools will be a result.
ned up n number of lioirs belonirimr t^, froni anv other pool. The average pro-
Rev. B. Allison. ;i preaclicr-farmrr j ducflon of tho Glenn Pool during lfMT ' STATK BA> K FR*
idinff near Sterling, the in in 1st ■ r. I ^()ge tQ 1l00u0 barrolr, a day.
when notified by Stewart this moruinr. Ka,.ly jn (his year thp production'be-
Tlie killing of Mrs. Mary Cuppy. a high court. Since the state authorities
white woman, fully seventy - hreo years had granted the time sufficient, attorn-
of age, occurred on the night of Janu- eys agreed to a dismissal of the federal
arv 23 last, within two miles of Shaw- court proceeding*.
AMU, OKt; \M/.i:
gan to fall off until at the close of 100S j MUSKOGEE. Nov. no.— (Special.)—
the average was less than 50.000 bar- j Muskogee bankers have called a
rels dally. meeting of the Oklahoma State bank-
The total oil production of Okla- j ers, to be held here Dec. 7, for the
ho ma for the year 1908 will run close j purpose of organising a State Bank-
started far the Stewart place, armed
and angry, and meeting his neighbor
lu the road, fired at him with a revolv-
er inflicting a mere wound in ti.*
right shoulder.
Stewart was imiuedlatel} taken to Hjt0 40.000,000 barrels. Of this at least! ers' association, membership in which
physician in Sterling und it lielli'i-* I ] barrels has gon<* into stor-lit is said, will be conflr, I to repre-
th.it the wound will nut be serious. Al-j^ ,j)0 c]ogr cf j;«07 the total j > •mtatves of thou banks operating
lison fled southward ami has ii'd .. ._to..a„,, j,, (i,c field .unountcd to 37.- under the st;'.?« deposit' ; i«' .'.!ity
been arrested. Sherin Uufe l.e^ors w.-* oijo.tifio barrels and this has been] lav.-. Gov. ('. N. Haskell and mem-
uotified and Deputy Ike SiimineiN w.i* M,v jIu.; This condition i I-.ms of the State Banking Hoard will
sent in pursuit of the fnglthe. clue to inadequate pipe line facilities, j attend. Addresses are to be made by
Trouble of rather long standing Iwm the year the Prairie Oil K- Ga the governor and A. M Young, recent-
existed It!ween the two men and t,.e| COmpany has laid two branch lines, j ly named as State Bank Commission-
recent hog trouble only put the j one from Carney. Kan., to Nowata,
touches to the flames. Okla.. and the other from the Hog-
j shooter district, below Bartlesville, to
>IcKMfillT ISSC'ES i Ramofta, Okla , The? lines, however
DEBATE ( ii\Ll'E>til. j afforded relief to but a very mall
j portion of the field. The pipe line
Editor Constitution-Democrat. jfaciHti'-s to Glenn Pool have r.ot been
It Is now a settled fact thr.t the tar- increased.
iff is the vital question between the Generally speaking the oil Industry
democratic and republican parties, and of the state may be described as rest-
er, to succeed II. H. Smock on Jan. I,
Senators Owen and Gore have also
ben invited.
The call for the meeting shows that
for several months it has been sug-
gested that the state bankers become
closer identified in a business way
TE UiHEKS* \SSO<'l ATION.
The Comanche County Teacjher's as
sociatior. will meet in this city on fh<
second Saturday in December. Prof
Stone, president of the association
Supt. Rybolt and Miss Ruby Oliver of I head.
the Walter schools win prepare an in-1 Injured.
teresting j rogiain. At this meeting the) W. L. Alexander, Oklahoma City
by a charge of shot.
Will Lindsay, Chickasha, shot In the
neck by a full charge of shot.
Mrs. Wilson Logan, shot In the back.
Fred Yoder. Garber, head blown off.
Newton Sizemorc. Tul::a, shot In
teachers will make preparations for at
tending the state teacher's association
which meets in Shawnee during the
holidays. Comanche county will send a
large delegation to thc state associa-
tion and no doubt many of the county
teachers will be here when the county
association meets in December.
FLOODS OVER STATE.
shot in face, hands and legs.
Kmmet Fitzmaurice. Perry, shot in
the shoulder.
Stanley Faulkner. Binger, shot in the
foot.
Hazel Sample, Alva, shot in should
shot in j
Gt'THRIE, Okla., Nov. 30 —One of
and put into operation various means fhG most disastrous hoods of the year
for helping all state banks. j2as swept the central portion of the
The effort to organize a separate as- state during the last forty-eight hours
that there Is a crisis at hand such as , jng on its oars till there is gome leg- j soclation, it is said, grows largely out j and has caused widespread damage t
never before confronted the country. islation w hich will define the position of the general opposition to the Okla-1 crops and property.
People are studying this question as 0f the pipe line companies and per I Konia law on the part of national j Especially is this true near Guthrie
never before. Heretofore it has been as mlt them to go ahead with construe-; bankers; however, it is not believed j whcr*< the Cottonwood river overflowed
a rule, left the the pollticans and!tion work. Investment has been small i that all the state bankers will with its banks, sweping small buildings,
legislators to settle the matter. There j compared with previous years. It all j draw their membership in the Okla-1 cotton stacked In the yards here, and
is no better way to interest the rank (hangs on the pipe line which is prac- homa arid Indian Territory Bankers'j other property wit! its floood. All
tically the sole means of transporta- Association which is made up of both I train service out of the city was block-
tion and wthout which an oil pool Is. classes. There arc in Oklahoma 54G; ed until this mroning when the Santa
useless as a source of profit. state banks, nineteen of them being , Fe resumed its schedule.
It is believed that the coming year j national banks, which surrendered | This morning, the flood situation Is
will witness a revival of interest and their federal charters and became state somewhat relieved but the damage to
and file on a.iy public question than
discussion, and as the tariff question is
now upertnost throughout the country,
I again challenge any democrat in Co-
manche county, or the State of Okla-
homa to debate with me the attitude,
past and present, of the democratic
party and republican pat ty toward the
tariff, and the result of legislation
thereon by the party in power The
question is to be based on results and
not on theory and promises. The re-
"surroT the deOiTWl"o be^lecrdci' 5;;. t>. "
audience (if we have one), or by im-
oa'tial judge? on points ma 1 • lu the
discussion.
Very respectfully,
h. d. Mcknight
Atotrney H. F. Tripp is up from Wal
tt;* today.
Two plain drunks are the only ef-
fenders of thc police court today re-
sulting from Saturday and Sunday
, raids.
Earl Ft-nselmaker, Anadarko, shot in
face and one eye put out.
Clarence Burditt, Chickash
foot.
Blinc Shickley, Wagoner, shot in the
side.
Art Shirley, Watonga, to- shot off.
Silvester Kirk, shot in the arm.
Dinah Dickinson, shot in face and [
breast.
George Cline, Indianola, shot in the
neck.
Eight killed and f let n injured put
the fatalities on a larger per cent than
ever known before In the state. Last
year there were something like fifteen
killed and nearly throe times that
many tujared during the whole three
and one-half months. if the present
ratio is continued the number of deaths
the present season will greatly out-
a renewal of investment In the Indus- banks to obtain the guaranty. As a
try. There Is already an investment ! business proposition the law has
of $100,000,000 In the oil business In
Oklahoma. $80,000,000 of which was
placed here by the individual producer
and if the pipe line question can be
settled early during the coming ' ear
If "if the belief of all the operators
engaged in the business that another
$100,000,000 will be invested within the
next two years. The pipe line ques-
tion probably will be submitted to the
legislature by the producers early in
the session so that the status of the
pipe lines canb e definitely determined
an^ work begun.
S. B. Furr, who recently purchased
the Hanks farm west of town, one of
thc best n the county, is in the city to-
worked largely to the advantage of the
state banks as the last general state
ment will show, some of the uanks
having increased their deposits more
than 300 per cent while nationals, in
thts aggregate, show a decrease.
property and crops is estimated at a | number any other season.
quarter million dollars.
HI NTING SI \SO\
CLAIMS VICTIMS
One accident for every two days of
hunting season in Oklahoma is the rec-
ord so far. Thirty-ciglu days have
passed of three and one-half months
I open season. Following is the casualty
ENGLAND PU NC.ES,
LONDON. Eng., Nov. HO.—Chancellor
of the Excheuqner George today issued nst:
statement showing that England's ex-j Dead.
penscM for the next fiscal year will ex- j rov. Byrnes, Ardmore, struck in the
ceed her income #100,000,000. caused face by a full charge of shot.
ehlefty payment of $tt.* ,00©,000
in strengthening the army, and WO,.
(MMI.000 for the relief of (lie unemploy.
t. A. La-mbden, Randlett, struck over
left eye by a full charge of shot
Fritz Grabowsky. Nardin, right arm
ed. The government will meet deficit torn 0fj by a charge of shot that en-
bj increasing taxes on incomes, lands, j tere(j breast.
and llqaor certificates. | Harry Swiget. Enid, head torn away'were two or more hunters together
Of the eight kiled three wre boys
and the accidents oecured through the
earless handling of guns. One hoy
dragged his gun behind him while
in the act of passing through a fence
Another jerked his loaded gun out of
a buggy in a hurry to get a chot at
some quail. Another jumped out of
his buggy and struck the butt of the
gun on a store.
Of the eleven injured five were boys
and the accidents occurred much the
same as those In the fatalities. In a
number of cases hammer guns figured
in accidents, the i^'nemr .Uelng. cauthL
on some obstruction and the gun dis-
charged. In a majority of the acci-
dents utter carlessness seemed to have
been responsible,especially where there
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