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The Haileyville Herald.
'The Paper Ttiats Different."
VOL. 1—NO. 10.
HAILEYVILLE. OKLA., THURSDAY, JUNE 12.1919.
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$5 1 19 Ron FOR THF Bormal school, received a
00.1 i ,ouu I-UIH nt ed t0 her lt waH accompan)ed by u
federal revenuo officer. The trunk
welcomed tliefn officially,
Mo -e than 3,000 former Oklahoma
and Texas national guardsnym wera
on the Trey. The principal unit on
board was the 141st infantry. 63 of-
ficer.; and 2,920 men. The men are
under orders for Camp3 Upton, Dix,
Nee, Gordon, Sherman. Taylor, Cus-
ter, Grant, Pike, Shelby, Dodge,
Bowie, Travis, Meads, Devens and
the Presidio.
Whiskey In Trunk; Girl Disowns It.
Edmond.—When Ada Dudley, a stu-
>:it who came here to attend the
summer school of the Central State
'DOTSraJASIiES
WIRE NEWS OF"
THE WEEK
Last Week's
Leasa Sale
Breaker.
A Record
Pawhuska.—The Osage lease salo
held here proved to he a record break-
er and surprised everybody in attend-
ance because nothing like the revenue
obtained was expected by those who
thought they knew anything about it.
The oil leases offered east of Range
seven brought $3,823,000, the stuff
west of range eight brought $123,700,
and the two gas leases brought $1,172,-
The highest price ever paid for an
000, making a grand total of $5,119,500.
undeveloped 160-acrc tract on the
Osage was paid by the Guffey-Gil-
was opened and was found to contain
eighty pints of whiskey. Miss Dudley
denied ownership of the trunk. She
explained that she had left to a negro
porter, in Kansas City, the work of
checking her trunk. She declares the
porter got them ni'xed. She was not
luld
OIL MAN KILLS HIMSELF
T. H.
Sturgeon Commits Suicide
Louisville.
Louisviiie.—T. H. Sturgeon, 40
I years old, secretary and treasurer of
lespie Oil Company for Tract No. !>8, the Thomas Oil and Refining Com-
the southwest quarter of 34-22-10, for pany here, shot himself over the right
wlich $450,000 was paid. The same ear in a •join of his boarding hou.-e
company paid $430,000 for the adjoin-' and died almost instantly. Several
ing tract to No. No. 98, Tract No. 97, | weeks ago his foot became infected
the northwest quarter of the same sec- i after a trip through the oil
somaaui, m IBB saiiw sei-j aucr a trip uirougn the oil regioas ' vv respect to ine league or nn-j Eighty three men died
Hon, and this would ha' broken the [ of Kentucky and he had worried much the British and American views others burned and mai inert m-mv m
previous record of $300,000, establish-. over the fear of having to have it ttt fi,st inclined toward admitting Ger-i whom will die is the toll or , .iioa«
ed by the purchase of J. H Alexander amnntntert i uianv. on the i'lnnn-i thm it 1 ...
PEACE IiQTES.
The members of th.- American peace
delegation, disturbed by the ren at
that copies of the German peace tenna
have teached New York, are under-
taking to check up all the copies issued
in order to ar.certaiii if any are missing.
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Methiis Eiv.berser. . ejd of the Ger-
man army conni.ter. u. according to
the Dcutsches Tagcs Zeitung of Perli i,
is preparing a memorandum which,
alter discuisiiii the peace tonus, ad-
vcca.ej sisning the tieity.
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It is understood thai Gerinauj has
offered attractive proposition-, to Ja'.cn
If she will remain outsidB the Leagua
cf Nations, and that Japan has been
discussing with the Teutons the ah
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so .non of Russia and Siberia if the lana District, succeeding Albert Es-
Allies continue to hold off and refuse topinal, who died recentlv. Mr O'Con-
to recognize the Soviet*. „or had no OI)poaillon *
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flie Council of Four do. Ided to re- Abandonment of efforts of the Na-
fuse Germany's request that a fixed | ti mal Association Opposed to Woman
tun. lor reparations be indicated iu j Suffice to prevent "ado-.tion of the
the tieaty. It v.as considered certain Miff rage amendment is favored by Mrs
hat. comparatively few changes would iaiues \V\ WatlsworCi . ir elected
laa 6 in tl:« text °f • treaty. president or the association in 1917
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With respect to the league of nn-j Eighty-three men died and fifty
many of
DOMESTIC.
One hundred and twentv thousand
members of the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers will be
affected by the strike call, which be
conies effective June 16 ut 8 a. m„ and
unless Postmaster General Burleson
complies with 'lie demands of the or-
ganisation the men will cease work on
that date. |
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Pavorable reports on the bill of Sen
ator Kellogg, Republican, of Minne
sota, for the immediate return of the
telephone and telegraph wires to pri-1
vate ownership, was ordered by the
senate Interstate commerce committee
after the measure had been amended
so ; y to continue existing telephone
rate:; for sixty days after the final ac- j
ticn by congress.
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Auiitar; provost guards in cities are
to bp materially reduced by June 15, ;
the War Department announced, and
■will be discontinued entirely soon,
James O'Connor, Democrat, of New
'ir.eans, hag been elected representa-
tive in Congress from the First Louis.
ed by the purchase of J. 11. Alexander | amputated ■ many, on the ground that U would
lor a tract in the same locality at the ! Mr. Sturgeon's home was in Okla- ^ind her to keep pence, However,
last sale held here. j homa City and he was one of the j Fr*nce would not consider any asso-
The Guffey-Gillespie Oil Company, . best known men in the state. Ha ; ciation with Germany, so it is under-
by the purchase of the two big tracts, j was chief deputy in the state su-
spent more money than any one com- [ preme court clerk's office for six years
pany, but the Marland interests of J under the late Swamp Campbell. He
Ponca City ran a close second to the j was a close friend of Former Gov-
Guffey-Gillespie people and purchased ' ernor Lee Cruce.
the greatest number of tracts, for any j Mr. Sturgeon is survlvod by his wife
one concern. Guffey-Gillespie pur-, and two children.
chases totaled $1,674,000, and Mar-
land spent $1,038,200. I rr ... ..
i Boy Helped Father Kill Man.
Gowen.—A 16-year-old son brought
stood that President Wilson has grad-
ually come to M. Clemenceau's view
of keeping Germany outside the
league.
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President Wilson's view, as stated by
friends, has been, first, to keep the
Allies intact, and, «econd, to make
peace speedily. The president also is
not disposed to laakft modifications
which v onld sofu-,u tin p ■. , e, tmt. is
inclii.ed to make ciunges in the inter-
est. of fr.irnoan umi the better working
The surprise of the sale was the
high prices paid for the gas acreage, i „ ..... . , ,,
Gas lease No. 1, consisting of 166,40,1 „ ' sheI S t0 hls father when
acres, brought. $3.65 per acre being £!, Ctaycomb was pursuing Jesse
purchased by Guffey-Gillespie, and Mtzfraul with the lntellt to kill, ae , of the terms
gas leare No. 2. consisting of 153,640 ^ wBo I . * * *
acres, sold for $4 per acre to the Kay P. Claycomb under arrest | Senator Lodge, chairman of the
County Gas company This is the 86 °f murder" First shots ; senate foreign relations committee,
highest price ever paid for an Osage e, °f the''' mark :,nd' while C,ay- t("d Ule i;enate tlle other (la-v he h:l'>
gas lease | comb pursued F.tzgerald. the boy ; seen in the hands of business interests
| ''an hack to the houce and got more
« i. ..... „ 1 ammunition. Fitzgerald finally fell,
A. IV. WILCOX IS DEAD mortally wounded. Claycomb's wife,
j urged her husband to continue shoot
ing.
Durant Man Was Former Member ol
Board of Affairs.
Oklahoma City.—A. N. Wilcox, re-
publican member of the state borad
of public affairs during the adminis-
tration of Governor "Williams, dropped
deaed in his garden at his home in
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in New York a copy of the treaty with
Germany, given out by an American
representative at Paris, but withheld
by the state department from the
senate.
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The German armistice commission
has handed Marshal Focb a note for
the Allied powers protesting against
French support of the proclamation
i « . ci.lh eutiiii-ri ui mo proclamation
w It: !2"ah. John I 0* '••public as high treason
A, Whitehurst, president of the state
board of agriculture, were appointed
against the empire and complaining of
Colonel l'inot's threats and actions
at Wiesbaden.
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WASHINGTOH.
The word is beinj pasaed through
"Red" circle-ti for a demonstration July
4, government officials in Washington
have been informed. According to
these reports the May Pay outbreaks,
the June 2 bomb outrages and the
July 4 plot constitute a progressive
series of demonstrations against the
government.
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| For .continuing the deepening cf tbo
! Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers,
I Representative Kev fn ci Missouri,
j has introduced a bill appropriating 15
| million dollars for immediate use and
law imposes a penalty of $1 a day for : tie tetil expenditure of
! each employee for whom the insur- *.''2 m'"'on dollars for completion of
; ance is not carried. In case of cca- t''8 ^o:,v three >ears.
! viction, the company will be liable to
fine of approximately $39,000.
"VWI U wi ^VUitUi V) \l ci V uUHUlulGu
Durant last week from a stroke oi by Governor Robertson to be mem-
| hers of the board of managers of the
S Muskogee Free Fair.
Eleven Oklahoma high schools have
been added to the list of those fully
accredited by the University of Okla-
homa by A. C. Parsons, state high
school inspector. They are Locust
Grove, Quapaw, Buffalo, Dewar, Mul-
hall, Nash, Stonewall. Texola, West-
ville, Wetumka and Willow,
Charging that the Blue Ridge Coal
Company has failed to carry work-
men's compensat or Insurance for its
415 employes in the state sirce Feb
ruary 1, the state industrial commis-
sion directed Robert Burns Oklahoma
county attorney, to prosecute. Th
apoplexy. Mr. Wilcox retired as re
publican member of the board of af
fairs on January 13, being succeeded
by J. W. Kayser, republican, of Chick-
asha. He was a former U. S. Marshal
of the Indian territory. He is surviv-
ed by his wife and daughter. Many
state officials attended the funeral
which was held at Durant.
GOVERNOR GIVES WELCOME
Thirty-8:xth Division Lands At New
York City.
i. New York.—Governor Robertson
and his party and the Oklahoma con-
gressional delegation met the trans-
port Troy at the dock, greeting Okla-
homa soldiers of the Thirty-sixth di-
vision on board her, and left for Camp
' Merritt, N. J., where the boys of the
division are being assembled, and
the eovqrqor mid congressmen
It requires only 0,722 signatures to
validate the petition asking for a ref-
erendum on the act of the last legis-
lature, increasing the automobile li-
cense tax, it was said by Campbell
Russoll, corporation commissioner.
Statements from those who are In
charge of the plan to refer the bill
have been to the effect that 15,000 sig-
natures are required. According to
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Suffrage, after the more than half-
century fight of wemen to get the bal-
lot., won its greatest victory when the |
Senate by a vote 56 to 2.i adopted the !
resolution submitting the suffrage
amendment to the various states for
ratification.
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Many of the aliens now being caught
in the dragnet thrown out by federal,
and municipal police as the result of
the recent bomb outrages may be de-
Russell all that Is necessary is five 1 ported. Records in the case of all of
percent of the vote cast for the can- j these arrested who cannot bs can-
didate receiving the highest vote in . nected directly with the bomb plot
tar in the Baltimore tunnel of the Del-
aware and Hudson Coal Company of
I Wilkes Barre, Pa. Seven kegs of
| black powder, 3t)0 pounds in all, were
letonated.
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Tiie employees in most of the fifty
furniture factories of Jamestown, N.
Y., went on strike recently, demand-
ing an 8-hour day with nine hours' pay
ind an additional increase of 10 per
:ent for all employees. The strike
will affect three thousand workmen.
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Initial steps In the direction of co-
irdinatmg the financial and industrial
esources of the United State.s for ex-
•ending credit to European countries
were taken at an informal meeting of
.wenty executives from the largest
ranking houses In New York recently.
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A decade of the greatest prosperity
n the history with a shortage of jobs
atlier than of men, was predicted at
hicago by William B. Wilson, Seere-
ary of Labor, before the National Gas
Engine Association.
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SOUTHWEST.
Growing crops, including wheat
•eady for the harvest, were danvi jed
io the extent of 2 million dollars, it is
estimated, in a storm that swept the
listrict between Tulsa and Muskogee,
I 3kla., recently, in addition, nearly
| :wo score persons were injured when
louses were blown down or unroofed,
lait there were no deaths, as far as
juuld be ascertained.
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Trajlcd by forwarding addresses
j eft for a letter writing sweetheart in
; San Antonio, Tex., Capt. John J. Daw-
1 ion faces court-martial trial for deser-
-ion from camp at Leon Springs, Tex.,
i r.'ith mess and camp funds said 11 hav e
totaled $50,000. lie will be taken to
1 fort San Houst' n.
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j There's no "welccme" sign for I. VV.
W'.b cn Kansas City's doormat. Fear-
ing that Kansas City is to lie made
the mobilization center for the I. W. \V.
organization prior to its schedule!
I reign of terror in the Kansas wheat
; fields, federal and municipal officials
have itaited to tomb the city for mem-
bers of the "wobbly" cult.
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Robbers recently tunneled into the
lault of the Anna State Dank, Anna,
Kiis., and stole Liberty bonds valued
ued at about $40,000. The robbery
was not discovered until the bank
was opened the next day. The offi-
cials say they have no clews, as no
one in the town was awakened while
the robbery was taking plate.
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ernments concerning tne conalfons ci
his recognition as head of the ull-Itu <-
<ian government. The admiral f;i *
hi* reply, which the French re •,
sentative transmitted bv telegraph to
Paris.
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The Portuguese government
issued a decree establishing a pri-a
nf thirty contos (at normal exchan
ipproximately $32,100) for the For! v.
gtiese or Brazilian aviator who flijn
from Portugal to Brazil.
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Mexican federal intelligence official*
have arrested Cesar F. Moya, formerly
general under Gen. Francisco Villa,
ut Juarez and arc holding him Incom-
municado on a charge of being a spy.
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The small powers have wone a vic-
tory in the opposition to the limitation
of armaments of the new* states cre-
ited from the former Austro-Hungarian
empire, as incorporated in the Austrian
peace treaty. The Council of Four has
decided to eliminate the provisions for
such limitations.
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Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head
of the German peace delegation, ha
sent a formal letter of protest to the
Pcace Conference complaining thai the
armies of occupation in Germany are
irbitra.rily protecting and favoring the
individuals who are attempting to es-
tablish a Rhenish republic.
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The hand of the Bolsheviki is ap-
pearing in tho strike agitation ir. the
region of Paris, according to authorita-
tive information received recentlv. A
strike in one factory was declared to
have been traced to the'influence of
Bolshevist agents.
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A contingent of American infantry
which has been serving in Northern
Russia, boarded a transport recently
for the journey to the United States.
These arc the first American troop.* de-
tailed to sail for home. Tiie men aie
from the 339th infantry.
SHADOWS OK COMING t" N V E l\ TS
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Oct.
Sulit.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Kept.
Sept.
Kept.
•Sept.
Kept.
Kept.
Sept.
Kept.
Sept.
Kept.
Sept.
Kept.
Kept.
Sept.
Kept.
Oct.
Pair
1-WtKS
. 3-6, Altiin tVlr.
- ti-tl, I air.
S-M, Ad.! Fair
ll-KJ, Pauls V'hIYJ
10-12, Lawton Fair.
10-12, Thomas Fair'
10-13, Duncan Fair.
10-13. Hallett Fair.
10-13, Apache Fair.
10-20, Flk City Fair.
10-13, Kl Iteno Fair.
11-3. Watonga Fair.
11-13, Ktlgler Fair.
11-13, Madill Fair.
12-14, Tishomingo Fair.
13-1S, Shawnee Fair.
18-1!). (luthrie Fair.
16-1N, I'awnt-e Fair.
1H-20, Dewey Fair.
17-21. Vinita Fair
20-27, < ikialioina State Fair.
21-27, Wagoner Fair.
29-Oct. 9, Muskogee Free Fair.
1-4, Nowata Fair.
LEGISLATORS LOOSE JOBS
Freeling's Opinion Blocks Piano of
Governor.
are being turned over to the depart-
The report of the killing recently
of Miguel Otto, nn A merle-n, by Va-
quIs near La Colorado, Sonora, was
ni«nt cf labor. * , confirmed when Otto's body was
' . . found stripped of clothing, mutilated
T , ' and with a bullet hole through the
l acing the imminent danger of a i.„„,i , . .
bS^telephmre ^ "T* ^i"'' hP,"e with <a M^ican'"famnv'at La
bly telephone operators unless he Colorado
merely referred to you as nn example ! f„Ted concessions to th« ^.nands of, ' * * *
I their unions and aifiliatod labor, Post- 1
1 master General Burleson has hastily FOREIGN.
A representative ot' the French gov
the last election at which candidates
for state offices were voted upon.
Advantage ef Large Words.
"Did you call me a boiieheud?" a-;U-
ed the big man.
'No," answered the little fellow. "I I
Oklahoma City.—The plan of Gover-
nor Robertson to reward his frknt'.3
in the legislature with appointments
** oil and gas inspectors under tin
new inspection law was blocked v hen
Attorney-General Freeling, in an cpi i-
ion to the commission, held that leg-
islators are disqualified from appoint-
ment to the inspectorships.
Approximately thirty member.; of
Ihe legislature, most of them leln^
members of the house of represent i-
tives, were slated for appointment.',
according to Campbell Russell, c r-
ooration commissioner.
Simultaneously with this ruling bv
lie attorney general, the e:;.tiint • ibn
innounced the appointment of :vei-
| y-three inspectors, including twenty
.who have been holding oil insp;cttr-
i ships under the old law for moil' than
i year. W. K. Robertson, broth r of
the governor, was named inspector I t
Oklahoma county.
j The impression that the positions
: pay $200 a month in every county is
wrong, members of the commission
■iald. The maxim;'>n which any in-
spector may receive is *200, and ih^ie
ire only two counties, Tulsa and Ok-
l lahoma, where the compensation will
reach that figure, it was saitl. In
most counties, the commisslone-:; a >•
"ert, the compensation will be $10 i<r
$50 a month. Inspectors receivs iv>
salary, the'r compensation being on a
fee basis.
of cerebral ossification."
"II'm. Would you mind waiting here ' iur^MdeJed^'oUmton"1"of^the''"?''/*
a minute till I go and look In the die- gl.aph anU telephoue systems to their A rcpl'esc!4tathe of the French gov-
tionary?" I ow ners lel6pil0Ue s-vfiUms to lheii , ?mment at Omsk presented Admiral
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Viiion J'. nuuillcil
Kolchak. a note from the AJljyl. ^ov-
Getting in Practice.
Joseph Rilus Eastman, Jr., wn
fing in his sandpile the other <
"Vou will vpt the dirt mixed
the sand digging so deep," cnut
his governess.
'•But I want to dig deep," exp'
young Eastman.. "I'm not yc*
be a doctor, I'm going to be o r s
41a<r, got to leoxa
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