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The Norman Democrat-Topic
VOLUME 23.
Uu,"l'.n Society
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912.
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It is said quail and other game birds
are dying in Custer county because of j
the deep snow.
Krebs people are asking for better
car service on the electric between
that point and McAlester
More prospecting for oil and gas
will be done during 1912 than in any
previous year in Oklahoma.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Luella, the little seven-year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W YV
Bumgarner of East Norman was fa-
tally burned Saturday afternoon,
about 5 o'clock at the home of Mr.
Fred Briggs, one mile east of town.
The little girl had gone to spend
the night with her cousin. Mr Briggs'
little daughter.
A good way to help in Oklahoma's Mrs. Briggs left the children busy
general prosperity the coming year P,ay' K at tea party while she went
will be to patronize home merchants to milk. The little one's clothing
I caught fire from the stove near which
Theodore Stebbins, a farmer living they were playing. It ran to the
near Speermore, lost a hand in a ; porch screaming, but before Mrs
hunting accident Tuesday of this Briggs could reach the house, th<
week. clothing was burned from the body
| The little sufferer lived until 11:30
Over fifty per cent of Oklahoma's i Saturday night
cultivatable land is planted each year | Funeral services were held from the
in corn. That tells the story of why | M E church, south, Monday after-
noon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev.
Ownbey.
• t j■ 4 •, i ... . , The family have our most heartfelt
Arapaho Indian tribe, was killed by .. ,
. . .. sympathy in their bereavement.
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
IT STILL
LOOKS GOOD
Crop Outlook Is Good
For The Season
Of the Year.
FINE AS CAN BE
Reports From Over the
State Are That Indi-
cations Are the Best.
a year of drouth is a state calamity.
Elk Woman, the oldest squaw of the 1
MRS. VAUGHN BURNED TO
DEATH.
Mrs. John Vaughn, aged 25 years,
was so severely burned last Friday
afternoon at her home east of High-
land schoolhouse in Noble township
that she died at one o'clock Sunday
morning. She was standing by the
stove when her dress caught fire
being run over by a Rock Island rail
way train in Blaine county last Satur-
day.
Dawson, a new town in eastern Ok-
lahoma settles the population problem
by the announcement that a pair of
triplets have been born there in the
past week's time.
A truck farmer near Olustee, Okla-
homa, is credited with raising, by the
aid of irrigation last season a total
of 14,000 bushels of sweet potatoes.
And, he is not a one-crop farmer
either.
An attempt to enforce the anti-cig
arette law in Oklahoma is being made
at various points especially in Okla-
homa City. Oklahoma has a good law
but it is seldom enforced anywhere
in the state.
Cattle feeders of this country have
abandoned the idea of making any ! but without the blizzard effect thai
profit in the cattle business at pres- i so often accompanies the storms
ent. The most of them would be onlv j states farther north. Many person
too well pleased to quit the game with I have died from the effects of temper
out heavy losses. atures ranging from 20 to 45 degree
—— in northern states, Iowa, North Da
Marvin and Clyde Sharkey, two fcota and Minnesota being unfortu
young men of Overbrook in C arter J nate in that respect. Railway traffic
county, have been arrested and held has been badly demoralized all ovc;
under $500 bond each as principals (he western states and many lines arc
COLD FATAL IN NORTH.
Last week's extreme cold weather
was felt to the utmost portions of th
United tSates and while it caused
much suffering and discomfort to peo
pie and stock in Oklahoma but fe
fatalities have been reported and bu
little distress is known to exist. Th
weather of the past month's time
Oklahoma has been continuously
cold and even severe for Oklahom
in the Overbrook postoffice robbery
on night of December 20th last.
Fort Supply will soon have a very
badly needed improvement in the
shape of a railway running from
Woodward to that point. It is the
Wichita Falls and Northwestern rail
road and rails have already been laid
to Supply.
still tied up or having much trouble
in keeping traffic on the move. There
has been considerable loss of stock
in the plains countries especially, be
cause so little provision is made gen
erally to protect or care for livestock
when unexpected storms do occur.
Oklahoma people have much cause
to be thankful that weather condition-
so far have been no worse.
An attempt was made to rob th| A. KINGKADE SELLS HOTEL.
State bank of Dale, Oklahoma, Satur-
day by two men who at the point of Andrew Kingkade, builder of th
revolvers, demanded that Dillard Kingkade hotel on Grand Avenue bj-
Saylor, cashier, turn over the banks tween Broadway and Santa Fe stre
funds. While Saylor was reaching in has sold the property to the Hotel
to a drawer for the $17,000 therein Kingkade company The considera
Vice-President Patton, who was in | tion is $1, with the vendee corpora-
the rear of the bank building and tion assuming four mortgages of
who had overheard the demands of total of $195,000. and the others for
the men. began shooting at the rob $60,000, $25,000 and $5,000. The deed
bers, who ran from the building and was filed for record Saturday.—Okla
escaped. Cashier Saylor too, shot at ; homa City Times
the running robbers, and believes he
wounded one of them The funds of Mrs. G. W. Wheeler went to Okla-
the bank were saved. . homa City Monday to visit her
Want to trade a good 7 room house
3 lots, barn and cave. Corner of Craw-
ford and Gray Streets. Will trade for
stock at a bargain.—J. J RILEY. It
daughter, Mrs. Howard
H. W. Stubbeman left Sunday
evening for Kansas City to attend
the Implement Dealers convention
Keep In Mind
The fact that yon may
always receive satisfaction
by trading with us
A Full Stock
Of Drugs, Cigars, Books,
and Stationery
BARBOUR & SON
The Leading Prescription Druggists
The improvement in agricultural
conditions throughout the whole coun.
try is already reflected in the tone of
improvement noticed every where
but in no state more so than in Ok
lahoma. The quick recovery from a
state of hopelessness over the bust
ness situation to a feeling of joyful
ness and faith in the bright prospec's
now prevailing are extended to every
locality and everybody feels justified
in making expenditures that three
months ago would not have been con-
sidered possible. As a result of this
optimism business is about normal.
The merchants are liberal in the ex-
tension of credit and the farmers fee'
fully justified in making expenditures
for their needed implements and seed
necessary to plant crops the coming
season.
One of the greatest hardships that
falls to the farmers' lot this season
is the difficulty of securing feed for
stock to make a crop an dfor the
necessary seed to sow an acreage of
oats and other like crops. But, the Ok
lahoma farmer is resouceful and he
will find a way to surmount these dif
ficulties as he has surmounted many
others here. He is learning every year
the proper crops to plant and the
best kinds of livestock to raise. Ir
many instances his past experience
has been dearly bought but he is
learning not only the varied condi-
tions of soil and climate but the more
important fact that only by crojj di
versification c?n he hope to meet sue
cess in crop production every year
It has been brought home to him as
a valuable lesson that depending up-
on a corn or a cotton crop alone is
a lack of business foresight. The
present low price of cotton plainly
shows that not even in the most fav-
ored locations for successful raising
of the crop, can it be made a financial1
success if overproduction results
And the same is to some extent true
in the raising of corn or small grain
exclusively. The year may not be
seasonable for crops of that class and
low yields preclude the possibility o'
any profit to the producer. Diversify
cation and the scientific production of
crops should be the Oklahoma farm
slogan. It will enable them ic
grasp the situation that now confronts
them, make tjiem independent and a
bigger and a better factor than ever
in this country's prosperity.
THE PEOPLE RULE
Democratic County Committee De-
cides in Favor of Presidential Pref-
erence Primary.—Election Febru
ary 10th.
HEALTH CONDITIONS GOOD.
The people of Norman are to be
congratulated upon the good hea'th
conditions that prevail in this part ol
the country. All Oklahoma is report-
ed to be unusually free from any epi-
demic of disease and in view of the
fact that the people of the state of
Texas are frantic over the epidemic
of spinal meningitis that is raging
in various portions of the state, sure
ly there is great cause for congratu-
lation so long as conditions remain
so good here. In many portions of
Texas, quarantine has been establish-
ed to prevent communication from
outside points, schools and theatre
have been closed and public gather-
ings of all kinds discouraged. Okla-
homa so far has been'extremely for
tunate in many respects not the least
of which is that of having by the
people in general, the enjoyment of
good health.
The Democratic County Central
Committee met in the district court
room last Saturday and was called t<
order by State Committeeman H
Downing who was elected chairmar
of the meeting and J. O. Fox secre-
tary. The principal business of the
meeting was to make arrangements
for the county convention to be held
on February 17 and fixing the basis
of representation from the various
precincts. Upon morion of Mr. M. C.
Runyan each precinct will be allowed
one delegate for every twenty votes
or major fraction thereof cast for
Lee Cruce in November. 1910 The
committee alst) decided to hold a pri-
mary in each precinct between the
hours of one o'clock p. m. and three
o'clock to allow the voters to cast
by ballot their preference for the
democratic nominee for president in
1912. At the same time the voters
will write the name! of the persons
they elesire for delegates to the coun-
ty convention. It was also unanim-
ously voted to have the county con-
vention elect a chairman of the coun-
ty central committee.
Upon motion Mr. Downing was au-
thorized to appoint two members on
committee to act with him to for-
mulate the rules and prepare the bal-
lots for the holding of the primary.
Mr. Downing immediately appointed
J. O. Fox and W. J Hess.
As there are no funds available for
the holding of this primary the work
ill have to be done gratis.
We believe there are enough dem-
ocrats in Cleveland county who are
willing to donate their services a few
hours for such an important matter.
The precinct boards can easily get
long with three but it would be bet-
ter to have five. It will be expected
of the precinct committeemen that
they will have charge of the election
and look after the appointing of the
judges and clerks and make out the
credentials of the delegates elected
and certify up the vote for the vari-
ous candidates for president.
It is expected that the seven dele-
gates to the state convention will car
ry out the instructions of the voters
regard to their choice for presi-
dent. If Champ Clark succeeds in
getting the largest number of votes
there should be a Clark delegation.
If Woodrow Wilson gets the largest
number of votes the delegates should
for Wilson. The same would be
true for Folk. Harmon or Under-
wood.
We believe the committees action
in calling in this primary will meet
with the approval of the democratic
voters.
The democratic slogan "Let th
people rule," will be carried out t;
the fullest extent in Cleveland coun
ty. Every democrat in Cleveland
county should decide between now
and February 10th whom he favors
for the national democratic standard
bearer.
THE TREES
TO PLANT
A Variety of Most Ex-
cellent Shade Trees
Grown Here.
MULBERRY BEST.
It Is a Drouth Resister
and a Most Beautiful
Tree.
INTERESTS REAL ESTATE MEN
Among the recent decisions of the
Oklahoma Supreme court was one
made by Chief Justice Turner that
p^ove of interest to reality deal-
ers since it is often a sourfce of con-
tention with them. Justice Turner
holds that a real estate agent, author-
ized to sell land at a certain figure
or furnish a purchaser, can not col-
lect commission unless he produces
purchaser who is financially able
and wiling to buy upon the terms
agreed upon. This was held in re-
versing and remanding to the County
Court of Tulsa county the case in
which G. W. Webster and others
were granted judgment for commis-
sion for alleged sale of property, be-
longing to J. M Crutchfield.
Scott Stansberry departed Monday
afternoon for Los Angeles, California,
where he expects to locate.
Attorney W. L. Eagleton went to
Guthrie Mounday on legal business.
TO PUSH INDIAN LAND BILL.
The Carter Measure to Sell the Seg
regated Lands Favored.
The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs was expected to hold a special
meeting Monday afternoon to take
up the Carter bill providing for the
sale of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indian segregated coal lands. The
measure passed the house last Thurs-
day. Senator Owen is working for the
measure and hopes to get favorable
action by the committee and the bil1
passed by the senate in a week's time
OBJECT TO FURTHER PAY-
MENTS.
The settlers of the lands known a-
the "Timber reserve lands" at one
time a part of the military reserve of
Fort Sill, are protesting against mak-
ing further payments on the tracts < f
land they have settled upon. Repre-
sentative Stephens of Texas, has al
ready introducted a bill in congre?-
allowing the settlers to prove up on
the lands on payment of the first in
stallment of the price and that ha^
already been paid. Every effort will
be made to press the bill during the
present session of congress but mem-
bers of the Indian committee of af-
fairs say the bill can not pass, that
the purchasers of the Wood Reser/e
lands bought at the same time and
under the same conditions as did the
farmers who purchased the 505,000
acres of the Kiowa and Comanche
pasture lands, and that, therefore, if
the Wood Reserve people are reliev-
ed of all deferred payments the oth-
ers should be also. The matter has
not yet been taken up by the Indian
Affairs Committee.
Preparations are now being made
throughout Oklahoma to begin the
good work of planting trees and just
as soon as the frost leaves the ground
will be an admirable time to begin and
the tree planting season may be pro
longed until late spring, many good
horticulturists insisting that certaii
varieties of trees are more likely to
live if planted when leaf growth has
begun in the spring. Usually a tree
well taken cart of afterwards will live
and thrive if late planted, but un-
doubtedly, the early planted tree wil'
do better unless conditions are all ex-
tremely favorable for the late plant-
ing. In any event, the proper thing
to do is to plant trees wherever need
ed, if not at just the right time then
any time just so it is done, but, of
course, it should be done right and at
the right time whenever at all possi
ble.
The past two years drouth in Okla
homa has been a season of hardship
on the country's trees Many person®
have lost a good proportion of their
shade and ornamental trees and much
injury has otherwise been done by
insect pests because the trees, on ac
count of restricted growth, were n t
able to resist the attacks of both in-
sects and dry weather. It is noticeable
too that certain varieties have n« t
done well and that some kinds of trees
not heretofore planted extensively
should be given a trial. In this con
nection it may be said:
During the past three yeai > ti.e <U
partment of horticulture and botan\ i
at the Oklahoma A. & M. College ha j
been making extensive tests to fine'
out for the home lovers of Oklahom.
what is the best drouth-resisting trve
The result of the test is somewhat
different from what was ordinarily
conjectured, it having been ascertain-
ed that instead of the soft maple, elm
and black locust, the best elrouth-r;
sisting tree ever grown in Oklahoma
is the green ash. This is said not to
be a fast-growing tree, the soft maple
and many other varieties making a
faster growth, but, on the other hand
it will develop under conditions jf
drouth where other species will de-
cay. Besides the green ash the honey
locust and the Osage orange are said
to have high drouth-resisting quali
ties.
The wood of the green ash is tough
and strong. Among its advantages for
lawn purposes are an upright top, a
bright green tint, not easily affected
by the dust, as its leaves are smooth
and after a rain it has such a fresh,
glossy appearance as to give the im
pression that an entirely new growth
has been developed. The tree is r.*
markably free from insect pests in
general.
Among the other varieties of tree
suitable to Oklahoma soil the paper
mulberry is recommended, both be
because of its beauty and its remark
able freedom from insect pests. It 5
stated that when the trees are younp
the leaves are of beautiful outline, be
ing large velvety and full of different
shapes. Some resemble a mitten, oth
ers are heart-shaped and still others
are three-lobed. The main limbs of
the tree branch out from the trun <
something similar to the branching
of the apple tree, giving a large, broad
shade.
Evergreen trees are native to Ok-
lahoma, says the state entomologist
They are not easily propagated n >i
transplanted, but aftci becoming per [
manently rooted they are hardy and j
resistent to gem ra! conditions
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STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
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NEWS AND HAPPEN1 NGS OF THE VARIOUS
COMMUNITIES OF OKLAHOMA
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FAILED TO REACH HOME.
I lie 1* risen depot at Soper was d
troyed by fire Friday of last week.
engaged
, county.
Mr. H. L. Sanderson, pre>prietc>r
of the Quick Lunch Cafe, spent Sun
day night on the frozen ground about 26th
one half mile south of Main Street
He left his place of business about N ^tau
o'clock for his home to take Mr>
Sanderson s supper. He became eliz-
zy .lost his way and after walking
several ble>cks laid down and failed
to waken until after sunrise Monday
morning.
Mrs. Sanderson gave the alarm and
night policeman Cain and several
others made a search but failed to
find him.
Mr Sanderson had fever Sund
afternoon which evidentl
his mind.
Miss Zink who resides east of
town saw a man lying on the ground
as she was going to the University
She notified the officers and Sherr'f
Sale and night policeman Cain start
ed south and met Mr Sanderson who
had gotten tip ami was on his way
back He says that he heard buggies
pass but was unable to give an
alarm.
Dr. Bobo was called and > ..in
lants administered. Unless pneumonia
sets up Mr. Sanderson wi'l soon be
back to his place of busmen-
He had fever Sunday which evi-
dently effected his mind and caused
him to lose his way.
I he Border Editors' Association will
eet at Helena on elate of January
Xpert accountants are now
upon the books of Carter
The plumbers of Oklahoma are hav-
ing their inning during the present
state of cold weather.
Lack of suitable heating apparatus
has caused many district schools to
be closed during the recent cold
av weather.
ffected •
I he peach crop killers are now busy
pointing out the result of the ten de
gree below zero drop in Oklahoma
temperature
A number of industrial companies
have lately secured charters, which
speaks well for the business outlook
in Oklalmma
In Tulsa county court funds
ecn low and there will have
curtailment of court matters
th« i funds are available.
:o be
until
COTTON PRICES ADVANCE.
Tulsa is to hold an election in Feb-
ruary to vote upon the proposition of
issuing $300,000 in bonds for the erec-
tion of school buildings
The price of cotton in the great
markets i^ slowly but steadily advanc
ing and the outlook for better prices
in the future has improved of late
Just how much of the inflation of
prices is due to the effect bad weath
er has upem the receipts, and, consc
quently the price of the staple, can-
not well be determined at this time
An advance in price nearly always
comes at the tail end of the season u,t ''xpected in
| the Ben Cravens
A Guthrie facteiry recently rcceiv
eel from the Rock Island railway
company, a contract to furnish $150,
()00 worth of iron castings.
Purcell and Lexington are getting
some good advertising by the com-
pletion of the inter-city bridge across
the South Canadian river
More than
i' hundred witnesses
be in attendance at
triil in Federal court
capital or Ihc large present week
The seventh annual convention of
the Oklahoma retailers association
will be held at Anadarko, commenc-
ing Wednesday of this week
Owing to a shortage of gas fuel
during last week's cold spell of weath-
er, many Oklahoma factories were
forced to suspenel operations.
and it sometimes becomes permanent
| but often not, for
| financiers of the great markets, by j
manipulation may control prices and '
reap the benefits of higher prices that
should go to the cotton producer. I:
has been estimated lately that it will
require a cotton crop of 20,000,00f>
bales to meet the requirements of the
world for the coming year's time.
Such a consumption is enormous, but
perhaps none Joo great and it wou'd !
indicate that much higher prices may The rural mail carriers of Oklaho-
reasonably be expected in the neat ma have about come to the conclusion
future. that their job is not one of the soft
* snaps of the country this winter
ADMITS REPUBLICAN DEFEAT.
The Chickasha Morning Journal
There are thousands of progressive has been discontinued as a daily and
republican votes that might be drawn hereafter will appear in weekly form
to Governor Wilson unless the re anel republican in political make-up.
publicans nominate a progressive,
and of that there is very little pros Several court districts in Oklahoma
pect. Perhaps these progressive re are short of funds for court purposes
publicans can be held in the ranks of Seminole county officials are the lar-
the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt and est to make complaint in that respect
it is doubtful if all of them can be
held any other way.—Oklahoma City
Times.
The above editorial from the lead-
ing republican paper of the state is
very significant. There seems little
doubt of Taft's nomination at Chica-
go next June and less doubt of his
defeat next November.
The two special congressional ele<
tions held in Kansas recently demon
i strates very plainly that the country
j i- tireel of republicanism as handed
out by the present day republican
politicians.
Democracy's opportunity is at hand
and by nominating the right man o i
a progressive platform the countrv
will on March, 1913, have a demo
crat occupying the white hous«
W. F Essex lost his fine resident
at Lubbock, Texas, last week
J Y. Callahan, a former populist
congressman of Oklahoma, has enter-
ed the newspaper business at Enid.
He will edit the Garfield County
Press.
Pawhuska in the Osage nation, has
made an agreement to furnish a sash
and door factory there with gas for
fuel purposes at two cents per thous
and feet.
Grady county farmers have been of
fered substantial aid by a Chickasha
banking firm to assist them in secur
ing seed c« rn >r planting a crop the
coming season.
Two men were badly injured and
-rve-ral hundreds of dollars damages
done by an explosion of an oil tank
in the flour mills at Oklahoma City
Wednesday morning of last week.
In several states the peach budf
have already been killed but in Okla-
homa they are all right so far. It
takes a temperature as low as fifteen
degrees below zero to kill the buds of
peach trees unless well developed and
lite in the spring time
GOOD ICE IN OKLAHOMA.
The recent cold snap in Oklahoma
has resulted in many ponds and lake
affording a good quality of ice rf
about ten inches in thickness, a verv
unusual occurrence in Oklahoma. In
many communities the ice harvest is
now under way as the season here is
necessarily short owing to the vari-
able weather. A warm spell of even
a couple of days' time here would
knock out ice gathering on any ex
tensive scale.
Dr. H. G Goodrich and family a.*
rived from Los Angeles, California,
Sunday night after a few months ab-
sence. Dr. Goodrich says that he has
come back to stay. No more Cali
fornia for him.
Wm. Lock returned
from Phoenix, Arizona
last week
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