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VOL. 1-1(0.35.
HAILEYVILLE. OKLA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER, i. 1919.
'"VEAK
A Fuel Famine Just in Sight
EVENTS IN
OKLAHOMA
.r.t of $42,000 when the bank «u ex-
amined.
LARGEST LANDOWNER DIES
Wealthy Man Stepo In Front of On-
Coming Train At Catoosa.
Tulsa.—J. S. Bilby, said to be the
largest individual land owner in the
United States, was instantly killed at
Catoosa 35 miles east of here when
he stepped from behind a box car di-
rectly in front of an oncoming Frisco
passenger train.
Bilby, who was 86 years old. was
loading a car with hogs, and witnesses
say he did not hear the approaching
train, and was run down before he
eould step off the tracks.
-lore than 1,000,000 acres of land
vers owned by Bilby, in lifteen differ-
ent states, while'hls holdings in Ok-
lahoma alone amount to 45,000 acres.
30,000 acres of this is located in Tulsa
■nd Wagoner counties, and 15,000
HCres In Texas, much of which is near
the Ranger oil field.
Bilby. despite hla age. was ail act ire
farmer, living on his place on the Ver-
digris river, between Catoosa and
RroUen Arrow. His estate is estimat-
ed at. 16,000,000. He leaves a wife,
three sons and one daughter. One
Nicholson Bilby. liver at Holden-
ville. He was a native of New Jersey.
NEAR LYNCHING AT KUSA
Following a Murder Committed By
Sporting Man.
Okmulgee.—To escape threatened
lynching. John Northcott, white, was
rushed to the rovr.'y jail here frora
Kusa, eighteen miler- kouiIi of here,
where he shot and killed Jaine;? law-
rence, a prominent farmer.
At a preliminary hearing before a
justice of the peace, he was held with-
out brJl for action of the grand jury
en a charge ot first degree murder.
Lawrence, unarmed, went to the
house just across the road from his
home, occupied by N'orthcutt, who is
a bachelor, and a number of women,
to protest against its operation in a
disorderly manner. After a short ar-
gument the fatal shot was flred in his
back as he started to leave. Northcott
waa captured two miles from the
scene of the crime. All hough heavily
armed, Northcott made no resistance
as the posse closed on him.
He was placed in the Kusa lock-up
to await, a hearing, but. the crowds
t>egan to yell to lynch him when of-
ficers placed him in an automobile
sr.d brought him here for safekeeping.
Indian* Will Get Sale Paymerft#.
Washington.—A big per capita pay-
ment will b« made •very shortly to the
Osage Indians out of the bonuses re-
ceived irora the oil lease sales which
have recently been held in the Osage
nation. The leases brought big prices
and this money will soon be in circu-
lation. Thv> estimates for the Indian
appropriation bill for the coming ses-
sion have already been placed in the
hands of Chairman Snyder of the
house Indian affairs committee, by As-
sistant Commissioner Merritt who pre-
pared them.
A QUEER DEAL IN CATTLE
Results In Indictments for Three Man
At Muskogee.
Muskogee.—C. T. Burns, a Mus-
kogee lawyer, C. E. Kdwnnds jr., and
Howard Banks, the latter two negroes
ware indicted by the federal grand
jury on a charge of conspiracy to use
the mails in a furtherance of a scheme
to defraud. It is charged in the in-
dictment that the men induced people
to invest money to buy hogs and cat-
tle which it was represented were be-
ing skipped to market in K«nsa,s City.
A number of negro farmers lost all
they had, the total running to $40,000.
It is alleged that no cattlr or hogs
% ere bought or sold; thai so-called
dividends were pair from time to time
out of the money advanced by the in-
vestors. More than one hundred
thousand dollars were handled over a
term of several years.
Many Gins Closed In Pontotoc County
Ada- Many of the cotton Kins in
Pontoloc county face a fuel famine
and may have to close down for lack
of coal, according to information re-
ceived by cotton men here. Reports
say the gins at Stratford have beci
compelled to close until they can ge
some fuel, and the ones at Sonewal
Roff and other places are facing thi
crisis. The gins in Ada are runnim
full time as the result of the presenc
of gas Cotton Is fhus coming to Ad;,
from parts of the county what in nor
mal rears goes to the other towns.
! STATEHriV BREVITIES j
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Stata Enriched By C244.000
Alter nearly ten years of litigation
and almost endless detail work, the
oklahoma express rate refunds were
ended last week when the corporation
commission turned over three checks
to i he commissioners of the land otll-
ce, aggregating $244,333.84. represent-
ing the unclaimed amount of the total
refund of $425,000, which escheated to
the state.
At the same timo $-(2,500 was turned
over b> the corporation commission
to tlie slate treasurer for the general
revenue fund, this representing the 10
per cent commission collected by the
commission for its work in making
the refund.
An act or the last legislature pro-
vides that the amount turned over to
the commissioners of the land oflifte
shall form (he nucleus of the new-
home loan bill. The home loan bill
will not become effective until the
first of next Jujy and it is the plan of
the school land commissioners to in-
vest the money from the rate refunds
in bonds in the meantime.
Thn refund was made to the com-
| mission about five years ago by the
' Adams, United States, American and
Wells Fargo express companies, and
I since then the money has been paid
j out to numerous claimants. The nn-
1 claimed portion winch figured in the
final transaction was made up of all
1 small .amounts due to thousands of in-
dividuals who never made claims.
Total capitalization of all corpora-
tions chartered in Oklahoma since
statehood, twelve years ago, $2,093,-
103,400, according lo figures compiled
i by Joe S. Morris, secretary of state,
j Fees paid to the secretary of state for
j the recording of the papers showing
this capitalization amounts to a little
| more than $2,000,000.
Members of the unio. .zed Tulsa po-
lice force may be compelled to sur-
render their union cards or give up
their jobs, according to a letter by At-
torney General Frecling from Mayor
C. II. Hubbard of Tulsa. Hubbard
says the police force of Tulsa is un-
ionized and affiliated tith the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and declares
the oth of members of the labor fed-
9
oration is "at right angles with the
eiith of these men." Hubbard says
loyalty cannot ne obtained while they
are members of the union.
| Pussyfoot Johnson's E/e Removed.
| Ixmdon.—The right eye nf William
K. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, the American
prohibition worker and organized cf
illie Anti-Saloon league, whs success-
fully removed. Physicians explained
in a bulletin issued after the operation
that removal of the eye was neces-
sity to save his left eye, and also
that the pain could not have been
relieved otherwise. Mr. Johnson's
pyo was injured on November 13 when
lie was dragged from a platform by'
tudents while he was making a pc+-
bibition speech. ,
U. S. Decides To Deport Berknian.
Washington.-—The immigration bu-
reau's recommendation tnat Alexand-
er Berknian, by his own admission an
anarchist, be deported, was approved
by the department of labor. The rec-
ord in the case of Emma Goldman
has reached the bureau and is pro-
ceeding rapidly to a decision.
Pershing Liming To Ft. Sill.
Washington. — /jntatlve plans pro-
vide for the inspection of Fort Sill by
General Pershing February 2. while
be is on a tour of southern camps.
Rights of Others.
Zeal Is very blind, or badly regulated,
when It encroneho* upon the rlghta ol
others.—Qtiesnal.
A WEEK OF WORLD S NEWS BOILED DOWN FOR HERALD READERS
Ranker Again Indicted.
Arapaho.—Two additional indict-
ments against J. H. Anderson, charged
with making false reports to the state
banking department while cashier of
tbe Farmers' State bank at Weather-
ford a few months ago, were returned
here by the grand Jury. Anderson v *a
tried about two weeks ago on an-i
other charge growing out of the same
alleged irregularities, and was eeot
-enced to serve two yeare Anderson'* ;
rc~ u?'f Si
PEACE NOTES.
A rap or*, received in Geneva from
Lugano is to 'he effect that King
Alexander of Greece has been exiled
as a result of the reccnt plot against
Premier Venizelos. The report adds
that Alexander Is expected in Lugano,
coming from Italy, to join his father,
who is at Zurich.
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The Italian government is now con-
cerned over the possibility of Gabrielc
d'Annunzio landing on the Italian
( vast in an attempt to carry out a fan-
tastic design of "saving Italy from
Bolshevism."
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The Italian government has in-
formed the government of Jugo-Slavia
ilia? Italy would observe the decision
toadied by the Paris Peace Confer-
ence with regard to the Dalmatian
question and would itself prevent any
attempt, in the direction of Spalato by
General cTAtinunzio.
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King Victor Emmanuel will go to
the United States next, summer and
jilso will visit South America, espe-
cially the republics of Brazil. Cruyj*;
Argentina'. Chile and Peru, untosss the
political situation prevents.
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Interest payments on American
loans to the Allies may be deferred
"until the war reaction passes," it
was said at Washington. Negotiations
to this" end aro now being conducted
at the request of the Allies, but of-
ficials explained that the latest advicea
fr&m the treasury's representatives at
Paris did not indicate an early conclu-
sion.
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Twelve prominent Jugo-Slavs have
been arrested and held as hostages by
the Italian forces of occupation :n
Dalmatia, according to advices re-
ceived from Sebenico, thirty miles
southeast of Zara. These advices add
that Sebenico is taking measures to
guard again3t a descent by Gabrielc
d'Annunzio's army.
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The British government expects the
trial of ex-Emperor William of Ger-
many to begin in London early in the
new year and is completing necessary
arrangements, says the Mail, which
adds that as soon as the Allies have
ratified the treaty a united request for
the surrender of the erstwhile em-
peror will be presented to Holland.
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The sixty-five thousand American
dead in prance must be left in the
graves they now occupy until the
French are ready to exhume their own
dead, which it is hoped will bo before
January 1, 1922.
<$••§• 4*
WASHINGTON.
The government will attempt to
break the coal strike and to stand on
its announced position of a 14 per-
cent Increase a-s absolutely final. No
i}c<i hue been ffrvej! cj: soft oaj
miners and operators that interfer-
ence with coal production would not
be tolerated.
* *
M intra and operator* spent a. bleak
Thanksgiving afternoon in embittered
debate over the government proposal
'or a 14 per cent wage increase, made
by Fuel Administrator Garfield, re-
jected it and every other proposal
that was forthcoming, and then ad-
journed sine die.
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Mexico has replied with an argu-
mentative diplomatic refusal lo the
American government's demand for
the immediate release of William O.
Jenkins, the consular agent impris-
oned at Puebla. War with Mexico has
thus suddenly become a possibility
that can no longer be ignored,
v v
Two more outrages against Amer-
ican citizens in Mexico have come to
the attention of the State Department,
.-aiding to the complexities which
seemed to force the already tense
Mexican situation .toward the long ex-
j petted breaking point.
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The government has taken steps to
frustrate suspected "Red Christmas"
I plots of Bolsheviki in America. Public
j officials in many parts of the country
have been warned to scrutinize all
Christmas packages carefully,
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The War Department has approved
a plan to "cultivate in every possible
way a healthy esprit de corps in every
organisation." An official memoran-
dum from General March calls atten-
tion of commanding officers to the im-
portance of this element and suggests
ways in which it can be strengthened.
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DOMESTIC.
Federal agent3 at Minneapolis,
Minn., raided an alleged counterfeit-
ing plant, arrested one man and
seized five hundred spurious half dol-
lars, several mold3 and dies and a
quantity of metal.
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A new wage and working agree-
' ment has been signed between the
railroad administration and officials
of the Brotherhood of Maintenance
of.Way Employees and Railway Shop
Laborers. While demands of the union
were not fully met. the 8-hour basic
day was established for track laborers
and others of that classification,
i + f
The conference of 500 general chaii-
I men of the four great railroad broth-
• eihoods at Cleveland, O., has adjourn-
al without calling for a strike vols
by the various organisations.
Humane Protest.
1 "1 wont these airships to quit flyiu'
around my place!" exclaimed Farmer
Corntossel.
"Do they frighten the cattle?"
"Not so much. But nn nvlntor Just
lit In my pasture and the cattle gave
,hlm such a run ^liat bp won't get oter
' t?li)' sVarsfl X-.r * _ __
Establishment of a large camp or
!antoument for dete- tion of undesir-
ible aliens, pending investigation and
lisposul of their cases, is the lutest
>ian of the house immigration oom-
nittee, now conducting an inquiry at
Sllis Island.
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National leaders cf the four great
•allway brotherhoods held a secret
session recently at which the insist-
j >nce of many local unions that a gen-
iral strike of all railway workers in
.he United States be called to enforca
lemands for a general increase in pay,
yas given serious consideration.
1- -S- *
Two events of national importance
lot on the arranged program—the ar-
; lval of the Prince of Wales as the
i jnest of the nation and President Wil-
' ion's leaving his bed for the first time
since illness forced him to abandon
li; speaking tour last month—marked
:I;o celebration of Armistice Day iu
Washington.
.|. .j,
A final study cf I he selective draft
| •ocoi'ds, just made public, fixes the
nllitary strength of the United State3
it 19 million in potential military man
>ower. Registrations for the draft, be-
:wcen the ag03 of 18 and 45, totaled
JO,908,570, almost 80 per cent of whom
i vere listed as "physically fit for mili-
ary service."
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SOUTHWEST.
Maj. Oen. Leonard Wood, eomman-
ler ot' the Central Department, United
states Army, will take part in relirv-
ng the Kansas cial situation. It. was
uinounced at Kansas City that Gen-
j n-al Wood will send all the supplies
| lecessary for the operation of the
nines by volunteer workers and for
equipping and housing the volunteer
aiiners.
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A conference of all governors pf
I :oal producing states probably will be
| .ailed immediately by Governor Gard-
I :ier to decide upon somo action that
ivill relieve the coal shortage. The
;overnor made that announcement
ivlien he arrived in Kansas City after
attending the Missouri-Kansas foot-
sal! ganio at Lawrence.
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Missouri defeated Kansas in twenty-
igL'"i annual football game between
he rival universities at McCook field
Lawrence, ICas., by a score of 13 to C,
n one of the hardest fought games of
ho entire series.
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Tho Communist Labor party nns
102 members in Crawford County,
Ivas., according to a report of an or-
ganizer printed in tho oi'ficial organ
if the Communist Labor party in that
,oction. Gross, a mining camp north
if Mulberry, has the largest "red" lo-
al, having forty-six members, the re-
port says.
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1 ti - Cikrer j v v
;>hy, Tex., was entered recently and
*2:",ijOO wortii of Liberty bonds and
S 1,00(1 in cash stolen. The robbers
ut their way into tho bank through
the side ot a brick vault,
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i Police Judge James T. Allee anl
lis son. Curtis Allec, St. Joseph, Mfc.,
c. ore asphyxiated in their apartment
recently. Tho young man was dead
Alien found, and the judge died late
ihe same afternoon. A leaking g*s
pipe caused tho tragedy.
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FOREIGN.
There is no foundation for the ru-
mor in circulation in the United
states lhat there has been fighting In
the City of Mexico between the tec-
lions of President Carranza and Gen-
Obregon, an Associated Press dia-
„ [mtch from Mexico City says.
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Efforts to return the bodies of
American soldiers soon are being con-
linued in Paris, regardless of the offi-
cially expressed attitude of the French
government against permitting Amer-
| lean exhumations before same privi-
lege is accorded the French families.
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| Lady Ar.tor, American born wife cf
Viscount Ast-jr, was clcctcd lo parllt-
mcnt from the Sutton division of Ply-
mouth in the balloting or November
15, by a plurality of 5,203 \otes.
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Plans for uprisings in various parts
| af Italy especially in some of the lajgo
j northern manufacturing towns nnd
:>long the Adriatic i-oast of Italy, hsv«
been found cn men arrested recently.
Premier Nitti, watching carefully all
(he movements of ('apt. Gabrfele
D'Atinunzio and his followers, has suc-
ceeded in checkmating their l:it:;igues.
•ji .j. .j.
The first monument of the war, ihe
j bronze tablet marking tho spot where
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand was
3sassinated at Sarajevo, has been re-
, moved by order of the new Ju^j-Slav
1 government.
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1 The new Belgian cabinet' under the
'premiership of M. Delacroix comprises
ali the former ministers with tho ex-
ception of Barcn de Broquevilte, ach*
is succeeded as minister of tho i|ter-
ior by M. Poulet. IW". Hestrec, Social-
ist, becomcs mirister or aris.
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! More than 800 cases of s;nullpo|! ia
mild forms in Ontario have been re-
ported lo the ministry cf health. About
one-half of these aro in Toronto.
About 35,000 of the 40,000 school chil-
dren of that city have been va-ccin-
i-tcd.
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The withdrawal of the Atnerhnu
troops from Coblonz, in occupied Ger-
many, is not considered in Americau
peaco conference circles ns nocess;..-y
in consequence of the failure of tb'i
Lulled otates senate to i*Ui> \it
Guituii i.sacO treaty,
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