The Hugo Husonian (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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r T POLITICIANS: WHICH?
ered long and intensely
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'•It is time to use the vote fn' °f't inexorable tax collector.
TaXES MUST «
applied to the conduct of the sta^ affair™' princiPles be
rightTeT Taxes 'wsVb^ucT'8"' " " NEED-^° n-
poutSn sL°kred bMp",*w clo,h the -H"-
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not,t;t5Sto ofike-Th;y d°
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poht.aan s dehts must be paid. Compensation takes no vacation
'sswassM
Throu«h1heSu pri"c,ipa!s "W"™* the^e^vic^orrSeKmJn0
slogan business principles only can we carry out our
Taxes Must Be Reduced I
slve state convention was based upon
the highest vote polled In each county
In 1912 for progressive electors.
Information which comes to me
from members of the progressive
state organizations .from practically
every county in the state .ndicats
t hat there has been no defection from
the progressive ranks; In other words
u progressive ticket for all state, con-
gressional, county and township ot-
fices will be nominated throughout
. ll"' ont|re state regardless ol what
| the republicans want to do.
I "The mere fact that there hrs boen
no noise made does not Indicate ury
j lack of Interest on the part of r—
j progressives.
I "No attention has been paid to the
j a'tempts of the stand-pat r-pubiicans
to mislead the progressives Into t!.e
idea that any amalgamation is e
teniplated.1'
ONE CAN NEVER TELL
By HAROLD DAY.
E. HERRING, ELK CITY
^ 1 P°inftC> my business record as ample evidence that I can in-
lower" °Ut busmess Principles in making our taxes
ar d-, „
busing aSstS"a°rw^ any'S^fac^Sance^i — «° '«rn wants a
ask the farmer who has been dealing with me for years. HeVnOWS^01^0^-^ bettCr yCt'
the most good. ' 0t 7°UrS a"d fnends of m,ne Suide you, in voting the way it will do YOU
have the s^atc's'^affairs^i^^n^usines^^rincip^s^it^iTl ^hehoC Campaig", If h helPs YOU to
that both may be benefited. p your neighbor. So learn NOW
hethertou aar:imeresTeda?n7oura^bD^rta^iti^USt ,Wrd y°" will teD '
fh
In
ONE QUESTION SETTLED
j government will not appeal
j from decision regarding
. STATE COURT RULE ON DEAD
1 CLAIMS
Full Blocd Heirs of Full Blood In-
d.ans Had Right to Sell Hen.age
a« Per State Ruling
MUSKOGEE, Jan. 17.—Titles to
lauds worth millions are elearec; |jy
the announcement.from the office of
* nited States Attorney I). H. l.ine
baugh that the government will not
appeal the Knlght-Avery case to ti-
supreme court. Word to this effe< t
was received by Unebaugh frc;., ti.
attorney general. The decision aj it i
stands holds in effect that fuli-blooo 1
heirs of a full-blood could sell land !
alter May 27, 1908, without-other ap-
proval than that of the^county judqe I
laving jurisdictcion, even if the allot I
tee died prior to that date. It revised j
the Wickersham opinion of 1909.
Marriage Licenses Issued
The following marriage licences
have been issued: Hardy Maroney,
-•! and Miss Bertie Mooieh«ad, IS,
fort Towson; Homer Smith, is, and
Miss Cora riradburn, 15. both of Fiog
ville; Ira Kissel and Miss Susan
Neoce, he 28, she 1* both of Fort
Towson.
walV/th. Herring aub.C\vek^iiybeCajnfe?e«,d<>r "°m'nation ,or floverncr of Oklahoma. II I, preaented for'
ELK CITY HERKSNG CLUB
President.
A, L. TAYLOR, President.
ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA,
T. R. JOHNSON, Secretary.
H FOOfilH fOTAL
Of UNO TILLED
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE SHOWS ON
4-Y TWENTY-SEVEN PER CENT
TILLABLE SOIL CULTIVAT
iED
InceriVl Yield of Cropa Not Dtpenti-
•enfen Greater Yield Per Acre- But
*t>n Getting Land Under Plow
WASHINGTON, Jan. Hi —Only
27 per (Ml of the tillable land of the
Unitad States is actually under cu,-
tivation, according to estimates of
the department'of agriculture, l a:>td
•upon reports of JG.OOO correspond-
ents. These rc-ports were obtained
in order to gain information as to the
tillable area of tie United Sfites the
Amount of land tlm cannot be o.sed
tor crops that have to be plowed, but
available for pasture of fruits, and
the totaT number of acres that never
can be used for agricultural purposes.
From the returns , which were gene-
rally very consistent .preliminary es-
timates have been made for each
'late and for the United States. Fur-
ther investigation in the far West-
em slates may modify somewhat the
present estimate for those states
The entire United Statss .excluding
foreign possessions, contains about
■1.900,000,0 0 acres. Of this area about
riO per cent or 1,1 ■10.000,0^0 acres is
■estimated to be tillable, that is, capa-
ble of being brought under cultivation
by means of the plow. This includes
land already under cultivation and
^.hat which in the future may be
brought under cultivation by clearing
drinnge irrigation, et>.
361,000,000 acres or IS per cent,
-are estimated to be non-tillable but
pasture or fruit
niclit
f no u
r agri
or futuri
raing to the census o!
COLONELJ. 6. DUDLEY
DIED HI PARIS TEXAS
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Texas, Jan. li.-CoIenH
'• G. Dudley, one of the loading citi-
*•** °f ««h Texas, for yean promt
nent in state democratic ..'fair:, and
member of state democrat!- exeru
tive committee, died at .Ms
here today. Colcoel Dud!. > v.
years of age and his demise :K?en ,
' xpectcd for the past sever,, (ia).
The funeral services w'll i„. |.
Sunday afternoon.
little dickson girl
•"'d area in crops where acrea«
riven, was 3H.OOW.OOO acres. This is
•'hour. i'J per cent of the tota, iand
. raa or about 27 par cent of the est;.
"11" <1 potential tiKable aroa of zhe
States excluding foreign pos-
Kessioua.
In other words, for every 10U acrcs
that are now tilled about 375 acr.s
Alva McDonald of El
rman of the progressive
'• foiniqlttce. The statement, it Is
milted bv Mr. Mc-DonaH ,is given
■ 1-y i,i,„ as the highed official in
tl'.e ranks of the progressives to put
the quietus on tile statements that
nave been given out by stand-pat re-
publkana to the effect politic*] nego-
t.ations were on for a fusion of the
two factions of the republican party.
' I ^ee but one way for the republi-
cans to fuse or utilize the progressive
>arty and that is to tiisDand their or-
tiii ,i ul, , , ""■■■ -">u mat is to Uisftand
j
at their
ing spoils nor official sularies. but,
hi. the contrary, is seeking to ovoi-
tlirow corrupt and unjust urn"'ice in
public- service.
"Tiie calling of a republican coo
venticn at Tulsa for February 12, can
not and will not cause a single pro-
gressive to falter for a moment.
What the people want is a square
<-'eal in the administration of the pub
!ic business, and this tha progress-
ive party pledges to give thein, both
in the enactment of laws and their
: igid enforcement.
When tele progressives meet in
MR. AND MRS. MARION DICKSON
OF MISSOURI VISITING AT
GRANT LOSE THEIR LITTLE
DAUGHTER
Mother W« Dressing Her Child For
Churcl. When Little One Swallow-
ed Some Object and Died Before
Aid Could be Secured
may bi
fully developed. In the development
« f the agriculture of tnj ^eurtry the
'Jand which was most easily brought
"state coarT«|o;'«7, | ^ '"at convention .
to be bought into sueh u-e ^.r Dot su,<lre!,8ed to republicans bot to' T/k asBuran<e "ever before ta
ate convention m Tulsa on Feb u- hpn tttle P
ary 12," says McDonald. stite c'" veution in Oklahoma City
Contrary to precedent the call fot ' , !,ruary tliere will be sent out t
■ j the People from that convention a
' honp nnrl aumim>
■"ion of tilled area win be at greater
expense for clearing: drainage, irri-
gatien, etc. The incrwsed nroJuction
"f the future will be the result of in-
creased yields per acre as ' eli as ex-
tension of area.
Hill CMES
FUSION IMPOSSIBLE
CHAIRMAN OF PROGRESSIVE
COMMITTEE ISSUES LETTER
DENOUNCING FORMER REPUE-
LICAN LEADERS
Bombastically Declares Only Hope
For All of The People is Through
Progressive Party Route
departure fro mti-e usual style of to-
dressing conventions calls, it =s said,
j SO as to include progressives.
"Kmpty promises and pretty para-
phrasing by the little remnants of re-
pulicans generals, captains snd lien
tenants .have long since ceased
pledged to fulfill every promise marh
No Fusion for Progressives
Despite all the talk, I /-an see but
one way for the republicans to fuse
* ith or utilize the progressive party
; nd that is for them, when they meet
at Tulsa ,to disband their or-;aniz.i-
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. j.;.
solution of the republican partj
it* affiliation with the bull moose Is
tli" only v,aj a fusion of.progre sives
and republicans can be .v ,, npiished
in Oklahoma according to a signed
statement given to the pre > Thjr<-
■■ ppeal to the honest rank and file A "" u""uuu lne|r or.r;aniz.a
the. citizenship of Oklahoma,- sa-s tlon and join our 'larty- They certain-
Mr'. McDonald in his stsaoment. Iy cannot expect to coax back Into
A complete ticket of progressives ^'l1' °rganizatlon ll e 90 percent of
for every state and county office <o -hTl 'nBUeS in this sLa-c'
he voted on in the comin e;e<Hon party after the outrage
will be placed iu the field and an ag- ,"'[petrate'1. "tChkago, declared their
-iv M,. n,.j. a, ^•"e p°.ny,nd "* 1"°
campaign according to the progreee- .
ive leader*. "The Hly talk by a few stand-pat
republican postmaster-editors .Insiru
Situation Not Complex
"There is absolutely nothing c'vr,.-
I'lex In the political situation in Ok-
lahoma," say3 McDonald's statement.
J The progretBi ves are the only party
and in tiie state in which there are no
dissolutions or personal conflieii, and
fiey are determined to stand by their
platform and principles, no matter
v ho may be elected officerr.
'The progressive party is not se°K
Helen, the three year old daughter
of .Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dickson cf
' «fc«°uri. swallowed something
Sunday morning and choked todeadi
before medical aid could be obtained.
Mr. ami Mrs. Dickson wore visiting
the laUer's mother, sirs. J <V. Col-
lins. at Grant, and the mother was
diessing the little girl for the Sunday
morning church service. What the
child swallowed was not known, but
when she commence'! to choke a hur-
ried messagrs was sent to Dr. Allen,
but v.hen the physician reached the
Collins home the girl was dead.
The visiting parents ire well
known in Choctaw county. The moth-
er was a Collins before her marriage.
Marvin Dickson iy a brother of Judge
J- h. Dickson of the law firm of Dick
Hon and Jones, this city. Ills other
brother, T. L. Dickson, died .someth-
ing over a year ago at Grant, having
been one among the best known men
In Choctaw county.
ating that the progressive's cimpalgn
is to be financed by the democrats, Is
unworthy of notice.
"The state committee, vlshing to
«et away from the old stand-Vat
tactics, declined to arbitrarily «t
dates for county conventions, prefer-
ring to leave such details entirely to
• ounty committees.
"The apportionment of r prr-senta-
t.on shown in the call for 'lie progrec.
CHICHESTER tf^LS
Hi
DIAMOND
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tADirr ,
fc:*'ioN ' '|'7
Oolo tn-f-ii
Ut'.xjn. Ti..
Iirir-l-t tin,: .
ni \ mo v i> ri •
SOLD f.
TiMT! r, y-
■ -
Be ye agoin' to swear away the
life of your own son—our son, Mary?"
The old man's voice quavered and
sunk Into a whine.
"Im goin' to fcell the truth," re-
plied the old woman with a weary
smile. "He threw It away himself
and killed his brother—my baby. I
saw him do it, and I'm goln" to tell
the truth and let him be punished."
"But Tom'B your boy too, Mary—
your oldest," persisted the old man.
"What's he ever done to show It?"
cried the woman fiercely. "He struck
me—yes, struck me with his own
hand; not once, but twenty times.
Aye, and he struck you too, Nat. I
seen him do it more'n once. What
comfort has he ever been to us?
What pride ha^re we In him, what
hope for bis future? No, no, Nat, ws
might as well give up and call our
lives a failure. He's been a bad boy.
and he's a bad man, and he's killed
his own brother, and I won't do any-
thin' to save him."
But he was in llcker when he did
it." pleaded the old man. "You know
T-jm was not very lad except when
he was In llcker. And he wasn't him-
self when he did it. And he feels as
sorry as anybody for It now. Not
the gallows! Ah! Mary, not the gal-
lows!" and he slipped from his chair
onto his knees and sobbed before her.
"Where's Peter?" demanded the
woman, drawing back her skirts,
which the man attempted to cling
pathetically to "Where's my Pete,
who never did a wrong to anybody,
and who always was bullied and
licked by Ton ? I won't save him, 1
j tell you I won't."
! The day of the trial came, and the
prosecuting attorney arose, calm and
j confident, as he addressed the Jury.
I Here was an easy ca««, and It prom-
ised to be brief. He would get a
quick conviction and the accompany-
j Ing glory and would hurry along other
I cases and show a dispatch of business
which would reflect great credit upon
hl6 office. The conviction was sure,
because the boy's mother was to go
on the Btand to testify against him.
It had been a brutal murder, too—
the killing of Peter Harter by his
brother Tom. As nearly as could be
found out ho had been stabbed with-
out warning simply because be expos-
tulated with his brother for brutal
language used to the old mother.
It wotfld be a good thing /or tha
community, moreover, fo got rld of
Tom Harter. He always had been a
K-S; and a me"«ce to peaceable.
au-abiding citizens.
"This case, gentlemen, is fortunate-
y bo plain that it wfii be necessary
to detain you but a few moments. In
fact, I think one witness will deter
mine the entire matter. Let Mari
Harter be sworn."
w.l8 thVoman ber seat In the
b. T8 Un a"nost ""Perceptible
but heart-breaking moan came from
•he whit., lips of the old man, whose
Mde she left. It caught her ear. and
, she turned her eyes upon him. A*
. she looked, his drawn face and terror
j stricken eyes faded from her sight in
j ?. 8or,t of n,l8t "nough which she saw
. the face of her young lover of forty
years ago. She saw him beside hef
: =11 °!tar 0n that day of when
all the future was bright aud all tho
j sky rose-colored.
j And out of the mist came the out
lines of the cradle in which she ha
hnH •' „ r flrEt born-the cradle Nat
had built with his own hanos
Then she heard as i a dream the'
,niug voice of the prwecutlng attor
toZT M" Harter' teI1 l >e jury
your name and relationship to th«
murder1" ^ ^ V'CUni 0f lhls br«'al
murder, and in your own words tell
Sat how T I dCed comnii"ed anC
just now it happened."
ver U hiDS be*lldered "^8 on the law.
yer, the court and the Jury, the
ThenngaV? h6r 'lame and «ddre
Then gazing straight at her husband
through tear filled eyes, she said, with
Perfect deliberation nd emphasis
aboIt°l™Dd PetB had Bom« *ordl
, "r f'Jro" w imo He cor
" "'I.' to Jareod Wo,.
yjStriTS.rS.--!
table and Btruck at Pete Ann o
killed him. And thit wt" a„ "here
was to if "" lDera
During this testimony th. prlsone-
and his father had .e'.pfd to th^
Picted on WUh amazewent de.
.. J " faC6' the latter with
tears starting to his eyea. while th-
niony, arose and stunned rfwtn #
the witness chair. P tTom
She never looked at the
iHpsas
S.:v=i'£ .
<• tow IS 5
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Hinds, C. W. B. The Hugo Husonian (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1914, newspaper, January 22, 1914; Hugo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc141279/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.