The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
MOTBfl CARS 8F™1""
STEEL SlttS 13
'Liberty Boll' to Proclaim Woman Suffrag? Victory
Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought, nnd which lias hern
til u>c lor over ;J0 years, has boruotho Klgiiutore of
~jt unit lias been matlo muter liIh (icr-
/y, S/?/ ■■ - Hon;.' *u| orvlslon since Its Infancy.
*-+LzryX'-&<cAi/i^ Allow no «>n. to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitatio is an<S ".liisl-u: are but
■Experiments that trifle with and cmtaii'cr (tie health of
In Taut u and CJiBdreu—Eaverlencc uguiiist Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Onstoriii is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Parn-
corie, Urops nnd sioothinx .Syrups. It is pleusunt. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine jior other Narcotic
eubatunc*. Its nge is ltt guar. ntee. It destroys Worms
nnd allays PcverishnesH. fox- more than thirty years it
linn been in constant usa tor tlio relief of ('onstiputiun,
Flatulency^ Wind Coil-, all Xceihlntf Troubles and.
Dlarrlioiv It reifnlateS the, stomach and Bowels,
asslmilati the Food, tflvins healthy and natural Bleep.
The C'UiUuxu's i'uaaccii—Ilie Mother's X'* cud.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
pBeaxs the Signature of
In foe For Over 30 Years
' Kind Ycu h'avr AFways Bcr.f lat
THP. CfNTAUR COMPANY, HtW YOUK CITY.
OL IIICtHSE
DUE LIBCELI
10 OKLMOM
Washington, .Ian I -The increa
in the quantity of oil marketed dur
ins 1915. as shown by a preliniina;
statement issued by the United St:«t«
Geological Survey on petroleum imo
ductlon, is aecounled for in tin* < •
tinned output in lai ■■■ ..n iii
the Cushing: field durin llie i 'i I hal
of the year, and froiu tin- Hum' !e po >
in Texas during the entire year,
well as by the dh-<o\ ; . and r;i; i• I
development of new pools in To a
and 'Louisiana. The department <
timates the 19> 1 r output at 7«"• «
barrels, an Increase of 1,03* 000 n
pared with 19-14. Nearly all oil-pro-
ducing States save Texas. !.o-isiaaa
and Oklahoma show a railing ofi
production. C&llfonfia prodm i
(>00,000 barrels, or lo.ooi.mi i, i
in lftH. Oklahoma's ' < oi 1 is v
000,000 barrels, an in i.a .
than 6,000,000 barrel Th ••.
tion of Texas is place i ;.t
barrels, an increase of nearh •: -> • ■
QOO, while .Louisiana fields brom-ht in
IS 500,000 barrels, 4,200.0c > barrels
increase.
Touching operations in the mid •
tment and other So.iti a ,- •
the department's preliminar;. bullet:
says:
Activity in utner Sections.
"Field activity in other parts of I
mid-continent region wa - < . r i i
to that at Cushing, drii ti
half of the year, but t
rupid decline of th ..1
cited exploration and d> • !o . it
other parts of t i is div'
the last three iuont:is « r i?- t
Healdton pool in Carter (V a •
ceived much attention as a result
which its daily outp t '
f om about 23.000 barr ' to 7
barrels, and it -displayed ..f '
coining an aide sue e - -a* to
The completion as a a id otl \
of a wild-cat test on t A
five miles northeast of I<1 M
Kay County, on July 24, i b< ih v. i
indicate the presence «.f an |-: .
Tool of oil and gas on the P'ackwt
anticline. The d< ith at hitC-
principal sand was reported. ' '-'O 1
?.383 feet, in this well had prevented
the completion of of " t • in ti
locality up to Dec. ! Other locali-
ties in Oklahoi a thai furnii-,,-vl e\:
dence of developing o.l pools of ro
sequence in 1015 were Vera, Wash-
ington County; South Coffeyville, X
wata 'County; Stone Bluff, Watroni r
County; iHoldenville. Hit aes Count
and the Fox lease, four and •
miles south of the Cushing field in
Western Creek County.
Production by States.
'The production in barrels 1)''
States for lJMlfi was as follows; C,.1
iferuia 89,000,000 barrel. Oklahoma
80.000,000, Texas CC,000,(Me\ \\y]U(l
lS^OO.OOO, Ixiuisiana 18,." (-0,000, We t
Virginia 9,000,000, Pennsylvania ' T -
000, Ohio 7.000,0« 0. Ohio 7 -a >
Wyoming 4,200,000, Kau .<
Indiana 1,000,ooo, New York 000,001
Kentucky 1' ),000, Colorado 200,000,
other states ." < ,i>00. Total ."a'.7,400,000."
The stocks of crude petroleum held
by pipe line companies at the end of
!!0"> amounted to approximately 1
0 0,000 barrels, including the oil re-
tained in storage by certain oil com-
panies that conducted a .pipe line
business at tho beginning of the year,
but which business was taken over
nnd later conducted by separate pipo
line companies. Thi reserve is ap-
proximately "0,000.00 barrels greater
than at the end of !: 14, the depart-
im nt reports.
A s K * :r. y. ?:v, a: k ai t
:: SOUTH OTTER NOTES.
8 a « ■#: x >" .t % z ■*. a ui ^
K
.Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan are visiting
near here.
('barb s Waggn.r is grilling.
Frank Albrm
itoi at I.ill Ka!
Owen's
h writing.
called at Mr (
Mr. and Mrs
Texas nnd will
to visit t oir r
Owen.
and family
( ristmas.
Will
rida.v.
< M: a Cit . Jatl. ! -BecAnse <>r
t e j aunt: or of 1 .ink robberies
a. d i-ostoffico robberies In Kastern
.ilia i aia iii re cut months, armored
e.ia 1 : l;e:a i>lu< • I mi two motor
i be re lor use of county officers
i -.'par- i ' - audits. This informa-
t wi o t 'imd today from a local
; riia-o builder, v. )>o assorted he is
• tnu ti v t o feodle'. flo defined
• tjver. t make public thi name of
;. e < :'oi. w!io place i the order.
In n ini « i m' iccept bank robberies
in t !•: -ti i a counties mot r « ars
.' 1 a u ;ed. The robbers have
• ■ • down from their hiding places
: Ki iniehi Mourtains and the
' age Hill* and 'because of their
i' r • rapid method of transportation,
- fib ers have found pursuit on horse
i.-ck useless.
The motor car bodies, under eon-i
1 .miction here, are of li lit steel. They
. re being painted black and have a
foinewhat box-like appearance. He
him! the windshield is a plate of steel
vhich can be raised or lowered l>j
■ • driver b touching a pedal. It
as asserted the cost of the construe
t on is $>100 for each.
< . « a, Okla. Jan. b.— For tne
third timo wahia the pant eighteen
months, itetta l'et> .man of Ok la oaia
> throu-h lur attorney C. b.
Hoc' .Mw. fraiffU
egainst John A.'H
of otat r Hoimrt
Wedne
for $7
Hc'ay.
a slander suit
s an t a number
b . nio latest
! was filed ioct
1014, ii
asked.
17, ll'J
Irst null;, u
d a Jndgui! i
'I'i.in suit w
. (for wan
I aU r on tlie 30th
1 ' . ; ! i a rain a
ants for $7.~ ,i'Oo \va
' inurrer to t">u petition i
was sustained September
com h the third.
The .plaintiff in lu r
i;. similar to those in
es, alleges ;« at t. e d
I'l'taiu falsi* and d
ments of and corn
tho .'ears 1!*!;;, r
even up to t'ae tim
est petition ,aud ti
has been held up
and humlliaLed for
lam a ■ i s in the sin
allegations are simi
aetltlon in t':e fo
ile«l June - •
A-'X
m
>
y-
•: x ss iimxiiiSiiii b,
CLARKSON CHIMES.
x y. x ax «m a xix a Bfuerai.
dlFtuissed May
I J^Tyse. il'liOii.
July followia^
e same dofeu '■
ommenced. -v
th'.s cas •
r I. Now
titiou whi'
a the fvM'tner cas-
de'eidlants made
I amatory state-
rning her during
I and ,1015 and
of filing the lat-
t as a rciult : '
o public ridicule
which t-t'ie claims
of $75,000. The
lr to those in the
ner suits.
The defendants in this suit are
among the est and most prominent
a-opie of Hobart, some of them ar *
ministers of tlhe os xd, leaders n,
church work, high la Hi e ranks o.
(Masonry, and are good citizens in
>t - vaTJBbL
IB
v F" m
r-TSflT
i m-''w- ;Oi
* : ' 1 st'
imm&m
*sz*
Top Itow, left to right
North Carolina.
Gertrude Hunter Minn.; lira. Helena H. We d. Conn.; and Miso Elsie Lancaster,
Washington, D. C.
!( '' light-- Ma- ". : t I'. Whittemore, Mich.; Miss D ais Stevens, Ohio.; Miss Lucy Burrs,
s ; '■ vl.iK e, Washing tun, 1>. c Mrs. Kdna S. Latimer. Md.. and Miss Virginia Arnol'l,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shoemaker
spent Sunday with her folks, Mr. an I
Mrs. John Dyer. I —
| Mahanoy 0!lty
Mr. and Mrs E. A. Henderson an t dog's appearance
family of western CTulalloina are in teller's window,
this vicinltv visiting relatives. j his
TERRIER CASHES HIS OWN
CHECK AT SAVINGS BANK.
w ■Ll L
The picture shows nine suffrage
leaders with the replica of the Liber-
ty liell that was used in the Pennsyl-
vania suffrage campaign. The bell
was taken to Washington for use in
the demonstration of the Congression-
al Union for Woman Suffrage. The
j I union plans to place the bell in the
headquarters of the organization,
where it will remain unrnng until
woman is victorious in her fight for
the vote. Then it will be rung, as
was its famous original.
Ugs
Pa., Dec. 30.—A
t a bank paying
■king payment oi
fund check, is :t
Esther West fall was
list Sunday.
the
Mrs. l.on Mt Aupally left Monda;
for Muskogee to visit a cousin.
new wrinkle. Kiddo, the prize win
sick ning fox terrier of Or. J H. Hagcn
j buch, with check in mouth and in-
dorsed by himseli was the lucky
canine.
A year ago Cashier W. 11. Kohler of
'the Union National bank jokingly
Harve Carrier spent from Friday,asked the doc'.or why he didn't take
until -Sunday evening witfh friends (out a savings account for his dt g.
near Cushing. | will," the doctor replied.
it became due and amounted to
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Xlninecr and,$- ' 50, and the i a bier sent out tne
ind
In this vicln-1',ww
children of Knid wor
i > visiting relatives from Saturday
morning until Wednesday.
IMrv Krasier and family of near
Cushing have trad-.-d for the formerly
known John Gripe property and have
started moving into same.
Clifford Brewer and Mis® Amey
He g t were married at Guthrie on
Thursday of last week.
: in are it
this wee I
and Mrs
im
-. sxHtssastsasjs**'
at Mckinley school. x
g J: T, R SK9R RJESiSIRRiJa fl
to Kiddo Ha . abuch ia
pa.
Irs. Ned Holinan, wife of the pres-
ident of the First National Bank, died
suddenly at 3: .'.r o'clock Friday morn-
ing at her home, .No. t>12 East Cleve-
land Avenue.
News of Mrs. Holmau s death cans-
i .1 a distinct shock to the communi
t . She had been ill but two days
ith pneumonia and at no time was
her condition considered grave. The
cause of her death was hemorrhage
of the brain, she passed away in the
arms of her husband. Last nrght
Mrs. Holman was feeling much bet-
ter ami urged her daughter, Miss
Dorothy, to attend a party. She was
resting apparently easy when she
awakened and called Mr. Holman. A
.< w moments later she hac? r&ssed
The fox terr-e" was soon at tin win-
dow The he . had been indorst >!
"Kiddo Hagonbiieh in care of his 'pa.' "
Opposite the signature appeared a
marl of the dag's paw, the cashier
having push" 1 an ink pad against it.
The money was promptly paid, and
ilic log pranced away with his en-
velope 'arryiag il c amount in bills.
id mm
The j ki pil of McKlnley School en-
tt rtuini d their parents and friends on
r'.ristmas Eve. There was a Chris'
was tree and old Santa Claus bail a
P'eaent for everyone there. The pro-
gram was;
( j i ning Address Gladys Crews
Christmas Nine Girls
Santa Claus4 Cake..James Sutherland
Audie \stockings. Audrey Rickstrew
Seng. 'Tis Christmas School
Little Hoys Speech.Carroll Humphrey
i : vtmas Arithmetic Four Hoys
A Wi
Santa
.... Dorothy Humphrey
laus 11 is Tome to Town
Humphrey. Lillian and
ns, and Pearl and Amy
th and aligned him
from St. Nicholas
... Marguerite Humphrey
pon The House Top. .School
i lit is Across The Snow..
Raymond Riley
nas Wish Otto Newland
wa In The Manager
guerite and Merle Humphrey
Fran I
Maids .
S of fed
.Merle
etest Mus
Crews
... School
1 lumphrev
Imv Crews
Pearl and
'hristmas .Dorothy Humph rev
as . . . . Va<sa Xew!anA
C'aime On Sweet Xmas Pells
Prews Family
• as Play in Two A< ts
.• icrite Humphrey, Amy Crews
Tallian Collins.
Address . .. Claude Crews
< " listmas Goodnight.. .School
lniiant. Jan. I. Several important
dlianges will • made in the ban .in -
business of Bryan county -.he firsv
day of I'e run;; . The First National
Bank of Pennington will take over
Che busin ss ef the Ib nningi n Na
tional Bank. The Bennington Nation-
al w ill surrender its barter and the
consolidated institution will operate
under the name of the First National
Bank.
Th□ First Natioual Banl. of Bok-
chL^o, the .First National Bank of
Kenefick and the First National Ban]
of Aylesworth, the last named bein
in Mars-hall < >anty, will consolidate
their business wiflh the Durant Na
tional Pa of this city.
The reasons assigned for tho ehnng-
Mr . Holman was a most estimable
onian, and during h^r seven year*'
residenco in Guthrie had "STiueared
herself to the community 'by he"
manifold graces, goodness of sotu
aid noble traits of heart and mind.
She was identified with the aetiv,
club and social life of the city, an
< teemed guest at all functions, an
admirabio hostess, and withal a lov
iug and helpful wife and kind, de
vcted and indulgent mother. Her
home was one of the most hospitabl'
in the city and her gracious mannei
won for h r legions of warm friends The
The Ilolmana moved to Guth
about seven years ago from Com* nonths period in
anche. Texas, and at once became 10, 1916.
identified with th< business and so- Mr. Bolen, who
cial life o e city. Willie Paine tight. sa.:d that
Holman was born on a plantation in emergency
Mississippi and .- ent her girlhood it
Comanche, Texas, where she was
married to Mr. Holman sevente i
war: ago She leav' a husband
and four children, Dorothy, aged six- who must p
teen, Fred, thirteen; Victor, five and which ipelud
Ned, Jr., fourteen months' old; one products, all
The exact amount of refunds that
ill be <i"e to shippers of Oklahomaj
from be express companies Qf this
• under the deellpdn 6f t)ie su-
rctae court of many months ago on
- order o! the corporation com-
nesslou has been figurod in the of-
mm m w
All individuals, firms and corpora
tions who are fortunate or unfortunate
enough to be required to pay income
tax must do so between January 1 and
March 1, according to an announce-
ment from Hubert L. Bolen, United
States collector of internal revenue for
this district. Mr. Bolen is now attend-
ing to the painful duty of mailing
notices warning all parties to pay
close attention to this tax and also to
the payment of the emergency or war
tax. The law r< quiring the payment
of the emergency tax was continued
in force by the congress just before it
too' rei v for the holidays.
• a. tax blan! should be prop
iiy filled out and returned to Hubert
L Ivdeu, Oklahoma City, riot later
htan March 10. The petiab'.. i: • - ! !
upon corporations, for failure to file
eturns on or before Man h 19 J G, is,
lot to exceed *10."' ) and . 0 per c .•
>f the tax. For tin nine iaila-. ea 1
he part of individuals the maximum !
penalty is $1,000 and 50 per cent i,!'I
he tax.
mergcncy or war ta:;
ill the l ily la: t
)se liable to the
jffice during
>thenvise a
ittach. The
es arc the lr.h tax rates pr-
in several of
creaesd overht
the line. It is
al other impel
teniidated, but
not gone far
thing pulblic.
ihose towns '
ad expenses
understood th
tant change
the negotiate
-uough to m
ailing t£
id in-j
along!
ona, Texas, a step-sister and three
stepsister •.
The funeral will take i lace from
the late home of the deceased, 012
East Cleveland Avenue,
o'clock, Saturday afternoon.
nt will be at Summit "V
x must have their . \ orn
)i- returns filed in his
the month of January.
0 p-T cent penalty will
collector warns those
v the cnii rgency ia .
s all dealers i-.i toba< >
heatc rs, p.>ol i .iis. bowi i
okers, commission mer-1
chants, commercial brokers, bankers
and others enumerated in the law,
that their failure to receive a blank
ed. hi2 does not excuse them from pM':ig the
Rt. 3:30 tax. In case liiey are slight-.a they
The in- must procure a blank form and fill it
?w. The out, returning the blank and the
period of fifty-five months I'rcrs \ug-
turt i: 0. to February Ifd4. Ai>-
•or.: -lied he w-'cn tlie com nida it is
as follows: American > 1 ">.Uh-.IS,
P $6,275.75, United States $:'Su«
455.42, Wells-Fargo Co., $164,0^1^,
Col. Jack Love, haifniaa of U.e
c-ommission, who is here today,
<. ing of tho refund said:
Ten per cent of this sum or $5G,-
II. under t)ho law, go direct
0 Hi ■■-ti treasury. The remainder
i e a -iriba ed to the shtppers as
their inter st may appear. As thcro
re more than :: 00«>,0(M) distinct slhiip-
ments involved in the transaction, t&o
re' ate on each being from 2-c to 50c
estlm ted b) Comnilsaipner Hen-
w t i.i, one half or more of the
t il il nevt r be claimed and that
It will revert to the state under the
th: refund that Dhc conimis-
in has rub i must be paid to the
• ->i inr iou before any action will be
: a the proposed
ilutt tin- express companies
. re ;iug to establish in ibis statf.
a line v. th the interstate commerce
are: rates which have been adopt-
i r by forty states.
I'll Hearing ou the fe**is set
la: iary 17 be-fore the commission.
The e\pre companies have Hied
:r answers and it is cMpoctcd that.
1 . a named the settlement will
her e ; reed to or it will 'become
d I :ait"ly known ti at the exG'Jrees.
ana allies will rely upon their rom-
- i: in the federal court, where a
( iding a ) a companion suti
to fae passenger fare cases.
WORK OF SUBMARIES.
ing
e entire community |
Holman in h: so e
iun t
at the same lime.
Steamer.
Lusitania
I-alalia ..
Arabic ...
Hesperian
Ancona ..
Iberian ...
Total .
Lives Lost. Americans.
.. 1.250
.. 111
. .1,640
111'3
1
:.unu
button for
Swear of fi gating.
PAYING TAXES.
"I will not add the tax penalty un-
il the end of the present week," said
: D. Stewart, County Treasurer to-
"Folks are paying their taxes
: ore promptly this time than ever
«lore," he added.
When Mrs. s
Vest Noble
light the gas
mortiing at 5:
ed- The flaun
ci Mrs. Holt a
given the un
It is thought. 1
hurried to th.
Ill
G. Holt, living at 10n_
Vvenue attempted to
in her bedroom this
an explosion foliow-
ignited the clothing
id before aid could be
ortunate woman was
tally burned She was
Methodist
mm in mil
IAD DUE"
ool
Hospital
en. This
e cannot
Atmospheric. Uy
starting out well.
speaking, 301t6 is
where medical aid was
afternoon it is thought
recover.
Mrs. Holt has been living with her
daughter, Mrs. Phillips on West Noble
for several months. II. G. Phillips,
husband of her daughter is a travel-
ir.g man and could not lie located
, , . , i today. Mrs. Holt is C 0 years of age
And the governor is to welrome the.
and a widow.
new year with aa extra call'.
the last six months of It!
to a little more than S3
cording to figures eompi
by Ser retary Georpa A. Si
by far the large-1 a mot
lectcd by the department
length of time since its cr
Smith, who Is in Gulitri
st hoi I land buslne s said
"The collections came f
gas leases and bonuses, rc
under agricultural lease,
farm loans, interst on sale not
payne tits on uchaf< <1 land .
Transfers of land during the
six months show an increase of :
600 per cent. By this is mean
selling and leasing of lands "
You have noticed that the da>"
getting longer now.
The sheriff's force think they have
made an important catch in the per-
'•'r' iM '' on of Ralph Christy. Christy has
; ! n ;.ng been sought by the county authorities
'1 since last September, following lite
"• burglarizing of the Lord Redman
onday home.
1'' ' Conclusive evidence was found al
' ' th' tv-e that Christy did the "job."
same Yesterday Sheriff s lire wood grabbed
' him just as he landed in town. He
, charged with burglary in the iirst
degree. He was remanded to jail by
; 5 Justi e Hornaday in di fault of a $1,-
: v 000 bond. "1 am confident Christy
rt on knows a whole lot about a series of
house robberies that took place in
the eastern part of the city several
''' 1 years ago," said the sheriff today.
!; ton, Mass.. Dec. 31.—Notices of
wag in rcases affecting probably
75.000 « aployes were posted today in
cotton mills of various cities in New
Lngiai.d. i e action followed a con-
!'Tenet' of mill treasurers held in this
city at which it was agreed that im-
prov a.ent in business conditions war-
ranted an advance to operatives. It is
od lu re that the advance will
average " per cent for all employes re*
ecdving $10 a week or under. ,
,f
mtf
WU,
iould
Co
tin
He- :o.—Competit-
•' rought offers of
Poniard, Ore., Jan. 4.—For the first $<® and $49 per unit tor GO per cent
imo in it a nistory this city has been ta,.g.-ten re. a compared with $3.'5W
itaout u "drink." Prohibition is A; il. new record value is
,-orking. a'liin t $".ooo a ttva.
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