The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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COMMISSIONER AND STAFF NOW
BUSY PREPARING FOR HUGE
AUCTION SALE.
Sale In Each County Seat Town—
Prices Fixed by Government at
Double Those When Allot-
ments Were Made Sever-
al Years Ago.
New Orleans.
New Orleans.—Spot cotton firm, un-
changed; sales on spot, 1,050 bales;
to arrive, 1,350. Ix>w ordinary, 10 15*
16c nominal; ordinary, 11 %c nominal;
pood ordinary, 13 3-16c; at|ict i#)od or.
dinary, 13 9-16c; low middling, 137/ c;
strict low .middling, 14%c; middling.
14%c; strict middling, 14^c, good
middling, 14%c; strict good middling,
14 13-16c; middling fair, 15 l-16c; mid-
dling fair to fair, 15 7-16c; fair, 15 it
16c nominal.
New York.
New York.—There were sensational
fluctuations in the cotton market to-
day, an early advance of about $1.50
per bale being followed by a break
yesterday, from which there was %
moderate rally on covering, with the
close very steady at a moderate gain
of 9 to 16 points for the day.
St. Louis.
St. Louis. Mo.—Cotton, unchanged;
middling. 14%c. Sales, none; receipts
2,715; shipments, 2,486 bales; stock,
1,313 bales.
Galveston.
Galveston.—Cotton, lower, 14H*
Cotton Seed OH.
New York.—Cottonseed oil. weak;
prime crude southeast, 6.1 6.27;
prime summer yellow spot, 7.50%
7.87', Oct., 7.51(0)7.54; Nov., 7.28<g>7.33;
Dec., 7.19^7.24; Jan.. 7.2907.35; Feb.,
28(8)7.32.
, New York.—Cotton spots closed
I quet and unchanged; middling up
I lands, 14.15c; middling gulf, 14.70c.
Futures closed very steady. Closl.ig
] hids: October ,14.39c; November,
I 14.22c; December, 14.40c; January?
14.46c; February, 14.50c; March,
14.64c; Apri, 14.60c; May, 14.64c: June,
14.63c; July, 14.63J.
Withheld Ballot Boxes.
Lawton, Okla—Each still refusing
AN ARMY OFFICERS WE
Muskogee, Okla.—Following the visit
of Richard A. Rallinger, secretary of
the interior, and the promulgation of
regulations for the sale of all unal-
lotted lands of the Five Civilized
Tribes, Commissioner J. George Wright
and his staff are busy working out the
details preparatory to placing on the
market two .million acres of Indian
land in eastern Oklahoma. It is the
purpose of the government to throw
these lands on the market as soon as
possible and Commissioner Wright
stated that he would be able to give
out the conditions of sale In full and
the duties of sale soon.
All the unallotted lands except the
timber, coal and asphalt reserves, will
be sold at public auction. Sales will
be held at each county seat town in
eastern Oklahoma. The purchaser mav 7
buy 160 acrea of agricultural land, or
640 acres of land classed as non-agri-
cultural Some of the latter is rough
and some is very fair land. In the
Choctaw and Cherokee nations the
roughest class of lands will be found,
while in the other nations of the five
tribes there is very little mountainous
country.
As a basis to get at the value of the
land, the government has fixed the
price as double the price that the
land was classified at when allotments ^ tuj>n ^ ba„ot boxes OVGr to the
were made several years ago. The p0unty eiection board until the other's
best agricultural land was classed at hoxes are jn an(j unable to agree
$6.50 an acre, and some of the regular nn)onR them;ielve8 so that both can
land sold as low as 50 cents an acre. ^ Jn toRether Temnle and Walter
This will .make the average price (>lectlon oft-iciais are withholding from
about from $6.50 to $13 an acre
These prices will not be standard,
however, and this classification is
made merely to determine the actual
value.
Muskogee will be headquarters of
the government during these sales and
information regarding the land will he
furnished by the commissioner of the
five tribes.
Following is the amount of land to
be sold in each of the five nations:
Creek nation. 63.000 acres; Seminole
nation, 3,448; Choctaw nation, 818,000;
Chickasaw nation, 879,000; Cherokee
nation, 50,000.
the county board five boxes from the
election of last week when the prop-
osition to divide Comanche county
was voted on in the south half of the
old U'ity.
Without these boxes, however, the
proposition is lost, and Walter people
went to Altus to seek from District
Judge J. T Johnson a mandamus or-
fy Oklahoma Odd Fellows Elect.
Stillwater, Okla.—At the annual
meeting of Oklahoma Odd Fellows
here the following officers were elect-
ed: T. F. Donnell, OKJahoma City,
grand patriarch: J. H. Donart, Still-
water, grand high priest: H. N. Pope,
lawton, grand senior warden; C. F.
Knedler, Raw City, grand junior war-
den. H. A. Herwle, Guthrie, grand
scribe; J. J. Griffith, Cleo, and C. I..
Lyon. Oklahoma City, grand represen-
tatives. The annual report of the
Brand scribe showed the membership
of the jurisdiction to be 2,012, an in-
crease during the year over 1,918.
Ix ffiflMBGKKCS
C3EHHG J
C C A S I O N A LLY
something happens,
and it usually hap-
pens in some for-
saken portion of
our United States
or territories there-
of, where civiliza-
tion is not and
murder and sud-
den death are most
plentiful. Accord-
ingly when that
something happens
somebody in Wash-
ington says things
and somebody else does things—
and behold, there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
soldiery who carry civilization In
their cartridges and progress at the
point of the bayonet. For, lu mo-
, ments of stress, the
' viewpoint of the
| army is charming-
i ly crude. Follows
then a hysterical
splurge. Also,
sometimes, a con-
gressional investi-
gation, or mayhap
garlands and hon-
ors and whatnots.
It depends upon
the circumstances
—that Is, the polit-
ical circumstances
To the men of
the army the gar-
lands and frills
are accepted with
childish delight.
Somewhere in the
bottom of his well-
drilled and cleanly
heart there Is the
coonsciousness of
having done a big
thing well, and be
lng most Intensely
human, he gives
ear to the praise
of his fellow citi-
zen. And then
again, garlands are few, while con-
gressional committees are prolific
The army knows that It is impossible
to explain to the gentleman from
tor husband to Manila.
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma-
nila The natives, you
see, had a habit of throw-
ing the bodies of victims
of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells, thereby
making life moBt un-
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports of
the press.
Of course the wife
could have remained be-
hind, but she did not.
She was possessed with
the archaic belief com-
mon to the army that
THEY TOL///D
i
Her husband came In for dinner and rushed
away again. Whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked
all the finery of the days that had been.
"I found a drees which I had worn at a dance
at the Presidio the last time,'1 she said, 'and
cried and I cried—" . ,
Before leaving, the husband had pushed a chest
against the door, locking her In completely, this
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav-
lng he had to crawl through the window, and a
he hung on the window Bill she bent forward and
kissed him. Then ahe heard him drop' *1"1
snlash into the disease Infested pools below. Alto-
gether It was as nice a spot for the pursuit of hap-
piness as could be found. , k
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
the banana palms against the house, the rsdn
slashed down, she heard the lizards scudding
around and a big one outside In a mango tree,
called "tuck-coo" so that she jumped up la fear
and alarm waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors.
Long Island or Poughkeepsle, N. Y..
Judge J. T Johnson a mandamus or- tha( a utt,e brQWn brother hopplng ,n
der compelling Temple to turn in its and out Qf the brugh fanat|cally desir-
ous of clawing up an American citizen
with a poisoned bolo, has little regard
for the federal statutes at large. And,
of ceurse, neither has Sammy, Jr., the
uncemmerclal gentleman who has en-
listed for reasons best known to him-
self and whose duty it is to catch the
can be reached for
boxes
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WH/TS
WOMAN 1/1
THF ftflce
; Women In Raid With Hatchets.
Sapulpa. Okla.—Fifteen society wo-
men of Bristow, this county, armed
with hatchets and other Implements,
battered In the door and raided the
store of George Canmen, where a
quantity of liquor had been stored,
and destroyed a large quantity of
whisky and beer. The beer was pour
ed from kegs, and bottles of whisky
were broken. Several of the women
were wives of doctors and lawyers.
Will Try Kansas Fair Plan.
Thiid, Okla.—Believing that the state
legislature can be induced to extend
aid in the matter, citizens here at a
meeting started a movement for the
establishment of a third state fair be-
aldes that at Oklahoma City. It is
proposed to locate a fair each at
Cuthrle, Muskogee and Enid. Senator
r J. Goulding of this city, Is one of
tie prime movers In the proposition.
Howey Gets Life Sentence.
Chickasha, Okla.—Carl Howey of
Anadarko, was convicted of the mur
der of Edward Marrls He was sen
t«nced to imprisonment for life. How-
ey and Morris were farmer boys who
boxes.
After camping all day under the
trees In the court yard, sitting on the
three ballot boxes which they have in
their control, the Walter delegation
went home carrying their own and
two other boxes. The election board .. ... w
is without power to act in the matter ; af0resald Moro, and generally clear
and has adjourned until agreement j tbe patb jQr |hose that follow after.
bringing in the j>rlvat£ Sammy does his work and he
does it according to circumstances.
— — i which are essentially nonpolitlcal.
Fall Reunion of Masons Is Closed Therefore It happens on occaslonoa
McAlester Okla—The fall reunion that the aforesaid Moro Is sent yelp-
of the Scottish Rite Masons closed lng Into eternity and Sammy Jr. re-
with a banquet. Among the after din- gards himself with a pleased grin.
ner speakers were Bishop William A. Also, circumstances force him to
Quayle and Dr. George H. Bradford, other untoward s epa. Once there
chancellor of Bpworth university. The was a famous so dler Mulvaney by
feature of the work was a lecture by name, who took the town of I.ungtungpen "na-
IT U j. j v, nin„ n# kid as Vanus," and who, prior thereto, helped
Dr. Frad or , w o s m the the department of information of the British em-
Judge C B Stewart Some of he P the JudlclouB adrnln,stratlon of hi.
leading men of the state were in the ^caD,nf rod whlch
goes to show that between
class taking the degrees. ie c a prjVate Sammy and Private Tommy there is a
organized and elected the o ow1 g o - Wealthy Anglo-Saxon understanding—particularly
fleers: Robert N. Bennett, Oklahoma ^ regar<i, the treatment of black and brown
City, president; Tom Hale. McAlester. . brothor9
vice president , R. W Chee- An thl' '■ merely preamble, but when the
Alester. secretary, .. . . j Moro has been carted away and the congressional
cotah. treasurer, Harold A. Molea, . comm|ttee hM committed Itself and the garlands
Clarksburg, Mo., orator. Brfl jorg0tten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life, which to him Is a highly Important af-
School Bonds Sold. ^alr somewhere, somehow, there remains In his
El Reno, Okla.—The school boara brain an impression that he is allowed the pur-
has sold the $75,000 high school bonds .„« hannlness—and he Dursues it. He does
to a Chcago broker at par.
Three Residences at Altus Burned.
Altus, Okla—Fire destroyed thre«
frame residences on North Main street,
two of them belonging to R. A. Chand-
ler. and were occupied by F. C. Rus-
sell and Mr. Pierson. The other be-
longed to Robert Klsvalr, who occu-
pied It. The houses were valued at
$1,200 each .with a total of $2,400 In-
surance on the three. Practically all
household effects were saved.
par-
for
the place of the wife 1. by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp. She
was the first white woman In the
place and the only other one of her
ltlnd waa 20 mlleB away. The situa-
tion was decidedly pleasant. The
house was like an Inverted waste-
paper basket, a three-roomed bam-
boo shack set up on bamboo pole..
One room was dubbed the centlpe-
dorlum because—well, because ev-
ery time the bride went In It she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot coals. Also the
water had to be boiled and
boiled; not alone the water
drinking .purposes, but
also for washing.
"There waa so much
cholera." she explained.
The meals were served
with wire nettlnga over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
—cholera. There were
other delights. The Moro.
were out. A sentry had
been boloed. The road.
were knee deep In mud
and the rain poured down
In torrente.
There came a nlgni
when the very soul of her
tried to Its uttermost
"/ fOWY# A H/WCV/
WOW AT A £>AflCT_AT
TM TW&SJyO"
Takes Wrong Drug; Dead.
Idabel, Okla —J. L. Roach, an em-
ploye of the Idabel Hardware com
pany, is dead here a. the result of tak-
ing a large quantity of atropine nuv
v . phate. self-administered. Roach was
.y and Morris were farmer boys who 1 by trade and went l0 lh.
jtarted for the wheat fields of Kansas , ^ ^ & ^ q( anoth9r
in a covered wagon The hmly o Mor- « ^ g mlstake
ris was found In the weeds In this oity *
three week, later. 8h<r|ff Accepted Blrbs.
Young Foster Acquitted. Anadarko. Okla.—Sheriff Tyre Ba-
Alva Okla—Harry Foster, 21 years ker of Caddo county, was Indicted by
old, was acquitted of the killing of his i the irand jury here charged with hav-
father near here about six weeks ago. j lng accepted a bribe from Ixvtan BU-
The jury was out 14 minutes. Fo.ter | Hngsley. who It is alleged conducted a
suit of happlneBB—and he pursues It. He doe.
it In his own way and In divers places. The tur-
bulent tides of Juan de Fuca, which race by the
gun crested heights of Fort Worden, have heard
his raucous chorua; the watermelon patches dot-
ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot-
print. On a Florida sandsplt, In the snows of
Alaska. In the beat of the Islands, he pursues It—
and catches what little there Is of It.
The world which praises and abuaes him
knows him not. nor hla life. The point of view
Is entirely different. A ponderous civilian at
tbe window of the paying teller of a local bank
observed an officer In uniform standing behind
him.
"Well, I guess the country Is safe," observed
the rotund one, gailng superciliously at the unl-
form.
"Thank you, sir," said the officer, saluting.
This officer waa a boy lieutenant, and his sar-
casm was natural. For within his short space
of years he had played with the fangs of death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness. A
short time previously, at Luzon, he was ordered
to find the bodies of two eoldiers that had been
murdered The orders were to find the bodies,
so of course they went and did. With seven
troopers and a surgeon he pursued his way
through jungle scrub and cholera Infested lands,
without food, drenched with rain, sleeping in
swamps They found them. One was tied alive
over a red-ant hill, after being slashed with a
bolo, and the other had been knifed and gagged
with a portion of hla own flesh. Presumably the
I supercilious circumferential gentleman did not
know of such things and—this la what stings
Farmer Shot by HI. Neighbor. tbere >(|ein to t,e 8o many citizens of the coun-
Marlow, Okla.-Henry Blumhoff. 20 I ,ry whoae Ideas of the work of the army la equal y
vears old, son of F A Blumhoff, who limited Unfortunately, the men who ao big
lives seven mile* west of Marlow, wa. [ things cannot talk about them.
shot and probably fatally wounded by j u fo„OWI1 mat what the man of the army ha
was — —
The rain had fallen cease-
lefisly. Pools were under ^use^and^cholera
was unusually on the rampag . sten down
down In such guBts that Bhe had l!irk
the windows, thereby making the house toe^ dark
for reading purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about. ^"through
rain with chlorodyne In hand she peeredI throMh
the slats, gazing at the bamboo
ping to and fro before the fury of the storm. JK
the appointed time she prepared dlnner She p
duced her row of can.. In her girlhood days
there was a household joke. "What we
we can." Now aa she gazed at the canned milk
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered If ehe could eat all they ^ Some-
how or other the fleeting thought of the S'rlhood
days made her choke. You see It was the rain
and the storm and the centipede, and things
which got on her nerves.
The storm passed and there followed the Bllences,
weird, uncanny, of dripping water, of mov ng
things underfoot. Ultimately she heard the splash-
ing of kindly American boots, and looking outside
lav a wet specimen of Private Sammy, marching
philosophically up and down on sentry go. s •
called to him, half hysterical, and he answered
her with cheering words. Reassured, she waited
for her husband's appearance, wrapped In an
army blanket, chilled to the heart. Later when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that Bhe had been sitting opposite a window with
a lighted candle by her, offering a splendid mark
for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters.
This was an experience and one which the tat
gentleman in the bank had never Imagined. To-
the armv this ignorance and narrowness Is incom-
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat of
hiding death had gripped him so often that Pri-
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class of work do not
realize that there are particular horrors connected
with it. Being of the army, he does not speak or
them, but his gorge rises within him when fat
gentlemen Bneer at the uniform which he ha
made respected.
But he remembers the pursuit of happiness
and the day comes when he la ordered home.
Then It Is that the army and Its women, gathered
aft, watch the walls of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thought* chaae each other
across their brains, forming themselves Into mem-
ories, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo, of the perfume of the lhlang-lhlang and the
love nourishing while the constabulary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta.—
San Fl-anclsco Call.
I i^ru~u~u~i~i~i~~i~i~i—i"""* * m m m m m
Romance of the Sweet Pea
joint In this city Daker gave a boud
In the sum of $1,600
(hot his father while the latter was in-
toxicated and sought to harm his wife.
Identifies Headie.s Body.
Coalgate, Okla—Robert Dunlap of
Coalgate has Informed the authorities
that he Is convinced that the headless
bodv of a girt recently found floating
111 a stream near here, was that of hi* snoi ..." i it followa tnai . Th
daughter, who disappeared from he, James Stark., a neighbor and L, undergo, ao must the woman of the army _Th.
homo on September 27. in company of Blumhofrs land The men putside world knows the army f BOctet.
wKh a man who nam, I. no, given, quarreled over farm matter.. When ! ^ u leei ln her "'8 .V'^rVlble otLr sldi!
A search Is being made for the man. Blumhoff went to Starks house, Stark, i BTenta realises not
Sbe was 27 vears old and went away who was standing in the door with H#re Jf ^ illustration: „
under peculiar circumstance. TbelHarrl.on lenkln., emptied one barrel ! in "the day. of ths' «>mpl£.
«Htullv never baa had any word of her, of a shot gun at him. Both Starke and wuman went a. a bride with he
whereabout.. J Jenkins were arreite*. • Uttle ar
The most highly regarded and widely gro
annual ln Canadian gardens of today, no matter
where ln this flower-lovtng country the garden b ,
or whether It belong to cottager or man of means^
tolling clerk or park-owning municipality,
sweet pea first came to us from the Sicilian nuns.
Franclscua CupanI, a monk, who was also a
botanist, sent the first seeds to England In the
year 1G99, consigned to an Knfleld schoolmaster
named Dr. Uvedale. The old Middlesex dominie
waa both a botanist and horticulturist, and be
grew the first sweet peas ever seen ln England.
CupanI called the plant Lathyrua dlstoplaty-
phyllus hlrsutls, mollis et odorus—an unwieldy
name, out of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to Its present form of Lathy-
rus odoratus.
Dr. Uvedale found the seeds produced a piani
with purple flowers, and so here we have the
color of the original sweet pea.
The stock was gradually multiplied, and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber, a Kensing-
ton gardener, was the first to offer seeds for
Progress in the production of new varieties
was slow in those remote days, and it was not
until the year 1793 (nearly a century later than
Cupanl's consignment of seeds) that any new col-
ors became known. In the year mentioned, how-
ever, a catalogue was issued, which described
black, scarlet snd white varieties.
What became of the black and scarlet sorts, If
they ever eilsted in those true colors, is not
known. The black must have been a deep purple.
The blackest bloom is still the dark purple Tom
Bolton. In this connection, seeing that for years
past hybridists have been trying to produce a
pure yellow sweet pea. It may be salt that the
v
yellowest bloom at present known Is the creamy
Clara Curtis.
A novelty ln the form of a striped flower was
offered ln the year 1837 by Mr. Jamea Carter, and
ln the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
of the choice plcotee-edged varieties which are
so popular today. The latter was raised by Major
Trevor Clarke. It was a fine white flower with
an edging of blue, and Major Clarke scored a-
double triumph, for his new flower was also the
first sweet pea with blue coloring.
The greatest revolution in the history of the
sweet pea, however, was inaugurated on July 2B,
1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society'*
first exhibition, held in the old Royal Aquarium,
London, Mr. Silas Cole. Earl Spencer's gardener
at Althorp park, displayed the famous Countess
Spencer, a beautiful pink variety with a wavy
instead of the conventional smooth standard. The
loveliness of the new form won the hearts of all
growers at once and during tjie last ten years so
great has been the increase of wavy or frilled va-
rieties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world.
Some hybridists are engaged particularly at
present ln adding to the list of marbled varieties,
of which the blue-veined Helen Pierce Is so choice
an example, and It is possible that much more
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
to produce flowers with a striking and delicate
venation.
Just a few figures ln conclusion, showing not
the least striking phase of the romance of the
sweet pea. The Sicilian monk's ponderously
named plant has become about 600 different vari-
eties grouped Into 21 classes, according to color.
Over the culture of these flowers a national soci-
ety numbering 938 members and mebraclng 101
affiliated societies watches.
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