The Mooreland Leader. (Mooreland, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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The News of Oklahoma
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TUB BIG, BUSY NEW STATB
Beckham County Election.
Sayre.—An election has been called
In Beckham county to vote bonds for
an $35,000 court house and jail.
Appealed to 8upreme Court.
Guthrie.—The Rock Island Railroad
company has appealed to the supreme
court from Hughes county the case
wherein Bert McCuUy was given
judgment for $700 for personal in-
juries. McCully's leg was crushod by
falling freight.
Oil Conditions.
Okmulgee.—Oil conditions in this
locality are fairly goad. The Box
River Oil and lias company's No. 1
well is holding up remarkably, and Is
doing about f>00 barrels a day. A rig
is now under construction by the same
company on the Baker lease near this
city.
COTTON MARKET.
Purify City Water.
Guthrie.—The city of Ardmore Is en-
deavoring to secure, some method by
which to purify the city water supply.
At a council meeting during the past
week experts from Dallas, Tex., anu
different cities in Oklahoma were
present and made talks on the sub-
ject.
Oil Operations Begin.
Enid.—Frank Shelby, president of
a Pennsylvania oil company that has
large holdings In Oklahoma, Texas
and Louisiana, closed a contract for
the drilling of ten test wells In Gar-
field county. This is the beginning of
an Investigation of oil and gas Indica-
tions throughout the country. Several
thousand acres of land have been
leased
Alleged Bank Robbers.
Lahoma.—A1 Voorhees, Thomas
Mooney, alias Mundy, and R. L. Aus-
tin, alias Detroit Flynn, were arrested
and identified at El Reno by President
John Hughes and Cashier Harrison of
the Bank of Ames, as men they saw
loitering around the bank late in the
evening of the night that the bank
was dynamited, about three weeks
ago. The robbers got away with about
$700.
, Oil Drilling Begins.
Hastings.—The Sunshine Oil com-
pany, of Beaumont, Tex., be an drill-
ing for oil and gas here. The first
hole will be put down on the land
owned by C. G. Petit, four miles south
of here. This companyjias been leas-
ing land in this community for the
past year. It believes this to be a
continuation of the field now being de-
veloped and operated across the river
near Byers.
New York.
New York, Nov. 1.—The cotton mar-
ket opened firm at an advance of 15
to 17 points, making new high rec-
ords, with May contracts selling at
15.01c on the call as the result of con-
tinued bullish excitement, which had
the encouragement of a big advance
in Liverpool, the bullish visible sup-
ply figures, and denials that Canadian
mills were to Immediately adopt a
short time schedule. Business was a
little less a ctlve later, and fluctua-
tions irregular, with slight reactions
due to heavy realizing.
New Orleans.
New Orleans, Nov. 1.—Cotton spots
wore steady. Low ordinary, 10%c
nominal; ordinary, 119-16c nominal;
good ordinary, 13c; strict good ordia-
ary, 117-lGc; low middling, l3 7-8c;
strict low middling, 14 3-16c; middling
14 7-t6c; strict middling, 14 9-16c;
good middling, 14 1MGc; strict good
middling. 14 7-8c; middling fair, 15c;
middling fair to fair, 15 3-8c; fair,
15 vie nominal. Receipts, 17,254
bales; stock, 148,488 bales. Closing
bids: Nov., 14.45c; Dec., 14.70c; Jan.,
14.82c; March, 15.02c; May, 15.11c;
July, 15.15c.
St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1—Cotton
higher; middling, 14%c; sales, 150
bales; receipts, 7,168 bales; ship-
ments, 7,584 bales; stock, 19,381
bales.
Galveston.
Galveston, Tex., Nov. 1.—Cotton
steady; 14%c.
Will Elect Officers Dec. 14.
Enid.—An election has been called
for December 14, when city commis-
sioners and other city officers will
be elected under the provisions of
the new city charter which Governor
Haskell approved.
Busy Getting Subscriptions.
Sulphur.—The Sulphur-Chickasha-
Oklahoma City interurban committee
is busy soliciting the $75,000 in sub-
scriptions to preferred stock required
of sulphur by the promoters, and in-
terest in the interurban has become
acute.
After More Buildings.
Enid.—The board of education de-
cided to call for a bond issue of $250,-
000 with which to erect a new school
building and equip It and to erect and
equip necessary ward buildings. The
election will be held at the time of
election of city officers under the
charter. The high school is to cost
$150,000. For its equipment $56,000 is
to be expended and the remainder Is
to be devoted to ward schools.
Boll Weevil Fight to Open.
Ardmore.—Demonstration and ex
perimental farms will be established
at several points In Carter, Love and
Marshall counties during the next
few months with the object primarily
of stamping out the boll weevil in this
part of the state. J. G. Graham, rep-
resenting the I'nited States depart-
ment of asriculture, arrived here to
superintend the selection of these
farms and the work that is to be done.
Will Open Bids Nov. 22.
25 Year Sentence.
Hobart.—.T. M. Stewart, charged
with killing Gus Horstman ifear Sny-
der on the night of January 5 last,
was convicted of first degree man-
slaughter by a jury In the district
court here and sentenced to twenty-
five years imprisonment.
Accidentally Shoots Brother.
Tulsa.—While out hunting on the
farm of their uncle, Frank Alsbaugh,
seven miles north of Tulsa, Alva Bos-
well, the fourteen-year-old son of A.
Y. Boswell, a Tulsa jeweler, shot and
almost instantly killed bife brother
Hoyt, aged 11, with a 22 repeating
rifle.
Not One Tries for Oxford.
Guthrie.—Oklahoma seems likely to
be short a Rhodes scholar at Oxford
the next two years. The regular ex-
amination of candidates was to have
been held at Norman last week, but
no applicants appeared. The lack of
Interest taken In the matter In .Ok-
lahoma is attributed to the fact that
so little emphasis is laid in the Eng-
lish educational system on the prac-
tical side and that the Rhodes exam-
inations require a large amount of
Latin and Greek in which American
college students seem to be taking
less interest all the time. In spite of
the lack of candidates, however, it Is
not believed that the scholarship will
go begging.
A $6,000 Patrol.
Guthrie.—The state board of af-
fairs has set November 22 as the date
for opening bids for construction of
the Durant normal, as per the amend-
ed and revised plans, also for opening
bids for the heating and ice plants
of the Fort Supply Insane Asylum.
Deny Indians Are Starving.
Muskogee.—District agents and
field men of the government who |
have been spending the past three j
weeks gathering facts relative to the!
report that Indians In the fullbloodi
districts were starving, have made a
long report to Commissioner Wright, j
Supervisor Cook who Investigated in j
the Cherokee country says In part: |
•'I find that conditions are no worse ;
than any former year at this time, j
The only ones pessimistic are those
who desire to force the department to i
hurry as much as possible the pay-1
ment of the emigrant Cherokee fund, t
in order that they may collect certain
claims held by thj?m against the full-,
bloods." |
Tulsa.—A thoroughly modem pa-
trol wagon was added to the equip-
ment of the police department. The
new wagon cost $600 and will be pull
ed by a team of fast horses recent^
purchased.
Telephone Hearing in January.
Guthrie.—Tn order to obtain more
complete data in regard to the physi-
cal valuations of the various lines the
corporation commission has contin-
ued until January 5 the hearing on
the proposed general order making a
sweeping reduction In long-distance
toll rates. The commission's action
was based on the recent decision of
the supreme court in the railroad
freight rate cases which were remand-
ed because of the commission's fail-
ure to make a complete finding of the
facts on which the orders were based.
All such companies will have their in-
ventories completed by the date set
for hearing.
STATE
CAPITAL
ITEMS
Guthrie, Okla.
Site for the Reformatory.
The prlBon board of control selected
a site for the reformatory at Granite
naif a mile southeast of the town and
including 120 acres of tillable land
and forty acres of Wildcat mountain,
which is a solid mountain of granite
300 feet high. The granite will be
mined for convicts for use In building
for the state. Several proposed sites
were submitted and State Geologist
Gould, who examined them, reported
that the deposits of granite were
equally as good on all of them.
Cannot Waive a Point.
In an opinon to the Insurance com-
missioner In regard to the articles of
Incorporation of the Mutual Relief As-
sociation of Oklahoma, which were
not satisfactory to the commissioner
and concerning which he had aBked
advice, Acting Attorney General
Charles L. Moore holds that the com-
missioner has not the power to waive
any of the state's requirements and
that the provisions of the law must
be fully complied with.
Has Not the Authority.
That the state examiner and inspec-
tor has no authority to compel city of-
ficers to permit him to examine their
books and that should be be per-
mitted to examine the records his re-
port would have no more standing
than that of any other accountant,
was the opinion of Attorney General
West given in answer to a letter from
Governor Haskell requesting that
State Examiner and Accountant Tay-
lor make an examination of the rec-
ords of the city of Watonga.
Judges May Practice Law.
That a county judge .may practice
law except in his own court and In
certain cases specified by acts of the
legislature, is the formal opinion of
Assistant Attorney General Spillman
to County Attorney H. N. Boardmau
of Watonga.
In connection with this, of Interest
to courts, is the opinion of Attorney
General* West to Court Reporter W.
R. Le'Compte of Mangum, that district
Judges have a discretionary power in
allowing juries, court officers and
stenographers additional pay for ex-
tra time above the legal length day.
LeCompte wanted to know if he could
draw his statutory per diem for each
eight hours' work.
A Gross Tax Protest.
A direct protest against the gross
receipts tax applying to interstate
business beginning or ending in or
traversing Oklahoma, has been made
to State Auditor M. E. Trapp by the
American Refrigerator Transit com-
pany of St. Louis, who give their
business in the state last year as
$2,540. The company says, however,
that all of the business was Interstate,
and solemnly protests against being
required to make a report of the
same, protests to any state tax being
levied against it or against payment
o fsuch taxes.
Whether the gross receipts tax
should apply to Interstate business
has for some time been a question
with the auditor's office. There are
decisions of the United States su-
preme court that make It doubtful.
The matter will probably be tested by
a new suit, or else an attempt will be
made to collect same.
B. J. Waugh Resigns.
Saying that under the present
methods it is impossible to enforce
the prohibition law in Oklahoma, B. J.
Waugh tendered his resignation to
Governor Haskell as special enforce-
ment officer. Waugh claims to have
seized $30,000 worth of Intoxicants,
or more liquor while working for the
state than any four other officers
The resignation was accepted.
Census to Be Taken.
After an extended hearing In the
matter of the proposed county of
Cook, to be carved out of the north-
ern part of Caddo county and a few
townships of Canadian county south
of the Canadain river, Governor Has
kell has allowed a thirty day rest, dur-
ing which the census of the proposed
county is to be taken.
The governor's office has received
a petition from two and one-half town-
ships along the eastern edge of Caddo
county, asking an election to vote to
secede to Grady county. Two of these
townships are within the limits of
the proposed count/ of Cook.
HALF MILLION DOL-
LARS HAS BEEN PAID
MONEY CONTRIBUTED BY 8TATB
BANKS GOES TO DEPOSITORS
MORE THAN $400,000 STILL DUE
The Columbia Bank and Trust Com-
pany Have Only 91,123 in Cash
on Hand With Which to
Pay Depositors.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—More than a
half million dbllars contributed by
the state banks under the deposit
guaranty law has bcon used In paying
depositors of the insolvent Columbia
Bank and Trust company, which fail-
ed more than a month ago, and thore
remains more than $400,000 In de-
posits to be paid with only $1,123 In
caBh on hand to pay them, though
sufficient assets, apparently, are
available to provide for the remaining
deposits, according to a preliminary
statemenflssued by A. M. Youn?,
atate bank commissioner. The state-
ment also declares that James Hene-
fee, treasurer of Oklahoma, owned
$25,000 In the stock of the bank; that
he owed the bank $20,000, half of
which ha3 been paid and the other
half has been secured by additional
collateral; and that a total of $450,000
of public funds were in the bank
when it failed, all of which was se-
cured by specific collateral and part
of which has been- paid. These pub-
lic funds Included $189,000 of state
treasury money, $190,000 of school
funds and $75,000 of the guaranty de-
posit funds.
When the bank failed it had $1,165,-
747 of individual deposits and $1,293,-
385 of deposits of other banks.
Liabilities remaining to be liqui-
dated amount to $1,125,000 and for
this purpose the bank commissioner
has total arsets of $1,763,000, includ-
ing $563,000 assigned after the fail-
ure by W. L. Norton, the bank's pres-
ident, and others.
Asks a Receiver.
Guthrie, Okla.—Charging that Bank
Commissioner Young is dissipating,
misusing and squandering the assets
of the defunct Columbia Bank and
Trust company and is violating his
own sworn duty by paying certain
claims against the bank in full while
refusing to pay other creditors,
George A. Anderson of Roseville, 111.,
brought suit in the federal court for
the appointment of a receiver and
asking that all officials and employes
of the defunct bank be enjoined from
paying out any of the institution's
funds pending final hearing of this pe-
tition. Anderson has a claim against
the bank of $8,727, having taken ovei
the claim of Joseph O. Moore, a citi-
zen of Missouri, wJio was adepositor
The petition sets up that this claim
has been twice refused by Commis
sioner Young.
TOWN MARSHALL SHOT.
Kansas City, Kan.—Four robbers
surprised at work in the general mer
chandlse store of Bradshaw brothers
at Lenexa, Kan., 12 miles west ol
Kansas City, shot and mortall)
wounded W. D. Haskins, the towD
marshal, after an exchange of shots
One of the robbers was also shot, how
badly Is not known, as all four es
caped.
As Haskln approached the store a
bullet whizzed past his face. He im
mediately returned the fire and a
lively exchange of shots followed. All
four of the robbers look part in the
fusillade.
TWO ARE DEAD.
Belllngham, Wash.—Two lives were
lost, one woman was fatally injured
and a dozen were seriously Injured in
a fire which destroyed three thiee
story lodging houses on Elk street
The dead:
William Gorman.
William Dawson.
Fatally Injured:
Mrs. Emma Buffin, spine broken.
Within a few minutes after the fire
was discovered the interior of th«
Denver house, the Seattle house and
the two stories over the B. B. grocery
were a mass of flames. Inmates dash
ed through the flames in night attire
to the stairways and leaped from the
windows. Many were taken down
ladders by firemen. Mrs. Buffin low
ered her two children from the third
story to the street with clothes lines
and then leaped. Her back was
broken.
One frantic girl hung by her fingers
to a window sill on the third floor for
eight minutes before a ladder arrived
and she was rescued by firemen. Her
clothing was burning when she was
rescued-
All Who
Would Eiyoy
good health, with its blessings, must un-
derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the
question of right living with all the -term
implies. With proper knowledge of what
is best, each hour of recreation, of enjoy-
ment, of contemplation and of effort may
be made to contribute to living aright.
Then the use of medicines may be dis-
pensed with to advantage, but under or-
dinary conditions in many instances a
simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu-
able if taken at the proper time and tbe
California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is
alike important to present the subject
truthfully and to supply the one perfect
laxative to those desiring it.
Consequently, the Company's Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna gives general
satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects
buy the genuine, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale
by all leading druggists.
DOUBLE SARCASM.
Old Crab—What bo ye doin' araound
this place, eh? Wanter buy it?
Nervy Nicholas—Why, I'se de spe-
cial agent of Andrew Morganfeller
and I'se lookin' fer a Bite ter lay out
his enormous estate on. I'll offer yer
t'ree plunks fer dls place if ye'll trow
off 90 per cent, fer cash.
He Forgot Something.
"Is that all you have to say to me?"
ehe queried, looking off into space.
"Great heavens, girl" said he,
abashed, "what more can I say?
Haven't I told you that I worship the
very ground you walk on? Haven't
I offered you every iota of my worldly
possessions? Haven't I said that you
would never want for anything, that
your relatives could come and stay as
long as they wished, that I would
work my fingers bare for you, and
that I would devote my entire exist-
ence to you?"
"Oh, yes, you said all that," she re-
I lied, wearily, "but—"
"But what?" he asked, tremulously.
"You—you didn't say right out and
out 'I love you,* and that's what I
wanted to hear most of all."
The Rare Gift of Courtesy.
Courtesy Includes not merely social
kindness, graces of speech, absence of
iudeness, but honorable treatment of
business associates and of all the fel-
low citizens with whom a man of af-
fairs may have business to transact.
It 1. not American to keep one citi-
zen waiting all day at the door be-
cause he Is poor, and to grant an-
other citizen an Interview because It
is believed he is rich. Wisdom is not
confined in a purse, and frequently
much wisdom may be learned from a
poor man.
Mistaken Identity.
"I always did enjoy that scene In
which Hamlet comes out and solilo
quizes," said Mr. Cumrox.
"My dear," replied his wife, "you
are confused again. You have gotten
Hamlet mixed up with that vaudeville
person who comes out and throwB hie
voice."
THE DIFFERENCE
Coffee Usually Means 8ickness, But
Poatum Always Means Health.
Those who have never tried the ex-
periment of leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum in its place and in
this way regaining health and happi-
ness can learn much from the experi-
ence of others who have made the
trial.
One who knows says: "J. drank cof-
fee for breakfast every morning until
I had terrible attacks of Indigestion
producing days of discomfort and
nights of sleeplessness. I tried to give
up the use of coffee entirely, but found
it hard to go from hot coffee to a
glass of water. Then I tried Postum.
"It was good and the effect was so
pleasant that I soon learned to love
it and have used it for several years.
I improved immediately after I left
ofT coffee and took on Postum and
am now entirely cured of my indiges-
tion and other troubles all of which
were due to coffee. I am now well
and contented and all because I
changed from coffee to Postum.
"Postum Is much easier to make
right every time than coffee, for it la
so even and always reliable. We
never use coffee now In our family.
We use Postum, and are always well."
"There's a reason" and it is proved
by trial.
Look in pkgs for a copy of the famous
little book, "The Road to Wellville."
rend the above letterT A new
one appears trom time to time. They
are Kenulac, true, and full ml humaa
tattfHl.
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