Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1922 Page: 4 of 10
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THl'KSPAV. MMU .! i . 1922.
THF. riTTSm RO COl'NT^ f.l ARP1A>
The Pittsburg County Guardian
(ESTABLISHED 1903)
JOKKIST A. GAUKETT - -Wi,or *nd ,,ub
Publifhed E er* Thur da> at
North Main Street. McAlester. Oklahoma. Phone No. 439
ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS—
W HO RAISED THK
t Editor a! >
"l>sl E"?
Contiru* i From First Pagt)
11
One Yi
Entered as second clas
JlcAle-.er, Oklahoma ni-
certa n information. 1 or convinicnc
1 am quoting your question.-, and
In Advance answering each one separately.
Q^r-tion 1. "What amount of the
•i a i matter March 1, lyi~. at the postoffice at original b->nd ..-sue of J 125,000 for ti e
the Act of March i, 1879.
L ree.
Anv erroneous reflect.on upon the character ot -tanu.ng of any per.-on.
firm "or c,.poiation which appear* m this paper w.ll be gladly corrected J.
tro y '; to the attention of the publishers.
constiuction of the H
remains une\p;nded?"
An- The city records show the
x:t , ■ a'ance to ■ o $:>8.666. '
lam
■ he dam * There has been no state- spenaer of what rt coll«ctt. I |V> jg jnK t0 ,upport the demo-
mem made am when- that we have >.* said to be • es. c-.atc ticket in the election n«xt Tues-
wm that it would complete it. On j that makes a vkvkN'L'F"^ had dav without reservation or apology.
Jx OtW hand, there has been :nti-1 ,end.tures «hen X- WSTOOES X' and'because it frankly believes in
: tat: >n of an additional bon l issue of all the advantage. . • ' • I <-pKC|fic RESPONSIBILITY in all
.,t : ast more t > take care of tot «xPla n I .■ ■■ much of the revenue itxir ur • We have
the work and tin--'- the daw. It such | urn,er the new ^ministration i com , matter * subscribed to the
then the dam and basin Ug from j8 S&rf*a"government con-tituted
iiercent inciea-e in the co.-t of sur- as is that of the city toda>, not be-
- wati • to the consume* under the cause we challenge the motive of
IK.,' Kovi-inr nt Rer ,-mlei'. the thoseconnected with
wat' r ie- • nae.- ate a i j item n the the plan is NOT RLPBESENTATIVb.
city, and they aie c.a--ed as othei
than those tevenues rai-ed by taxa-
tion".
Take .-mm more • the "figure-
lt is shown that.
the
'What per
dam
ntage 01
finished, that
the work pre-
If 1
is the case. .
wii! h:i\e cost the city. when fin.shea.| ..at water i
not $125,000. but $275,000.
I- that efficiency?
Still No Water
15-5, considering thai the dam
.lA-uii -mie day be fin -".ed (the
f rids foi its construction nave been
available alread> 25 months) what
onnection will it have with the Mc-
1 Alester t i', water work.- 7 To be
• ffeet ■■ e. the water from the dam
must somehow pet into the city main.-.
Hull Creek i.- 12,(HX>
from tie city water-sh
mi while the form of government is
not an issfle now, it is not out of
place, in this connection, to observe
that, with six wards in the city, ONLY
TWO have anv representation in the
„d.r ,hj *, U .[ p—«
new
Political Announcements
It .-:
furt-r
Thomas Ji
-well lime i<
club—if he v
these iart- a
Rk mats
turn..' ^ |
can repur .c.
throw ng hao
accumulating
a e are a-r..*.onre<i
•■lowing politic
nent.-, ,jl-;ect U
?ratic Primary 1.
iieid .n P.ttsbuig
ust 1, 1!
a make the
announce-
tie I>em.'-
t.on to be
is. The c!es
••■lpleted. a.-
and mo-t ot
both
thro .
rinjr .- approximate
is also the excava-
th-, rock .- quarried
•.,uaitv. The pipes
id intake, thai >-
purchase
)roxima:el>
• masonry ha- !>eei
4.-2 acr. - of lar
. and approximate
most
Hhat ' -
; oipe-lin<
rect roul
ar.ii
(10
nt
and
t call for
feet of ni.
it.- constru
:i'.lll! tO l
no.
,:nfa
that
insin
.-tori -
re i
FOR
OINTY
L. BOE,
i-thiowicg in
In this coun
occa- onally r
consideral
F< P. STATK Si.NAT
CARL MONK..
. i v. ax drew s
FOB
ount> —
SCPEBINT1 NUENT
of Canadiaa.
It
-and
ake m
is not
puip
,t. Th
tly be
and
the
balan-
ced foi
cement
Xc
on r.a..- uniiu
:h« ■ Wic mind.
No Pumping Station
feet away
i, by the
the present
a pipe-lin«.
or diameter
non into an
t, ana when
i questions,
v any peop.e
:i ce of. There
in some of
f this matte'
. •. is finished
a able. That
nablv I en
of the dam.
Thiee year.-
overnment
to call it sc
JIOM.R
.
of Ha
What t > country new;- wo:-e than
anything el.-e in the re-. -tabli-hment
properly of industry i.- the elimina-
tion of the "walking delegates n
both un.on labor and capital.
0
With evangeli.-ts like iiiliy Sunday,
A1 Jennings, et al, and threatened ad-
ditions to the fraternit> like Jim Jef-
fries, it is no wonder that religion
has to have a revival occasionally.
o
"Enid man may not seek state
office." says a news squib. To «Ute.
this is four Oklahomans who have
announced their intention of not run-
ning for office this year, but this las'
announcement is leally not definite.
The city manager of Mu.-kogee say.-
that city doe- not publi-h a monthlv FOR Ml NIC'.PAL Jl [H.E
statement of receipt.- anii expendi-1 WESLE\ i ARMER
tures, "because ;t would be a nee e
expense.'' -No wonder here is another •
city where the tax-payers are getting Twenty-one new and renewal sab
out from under the gas. I scribers in one day at
NT1 OMMI.v
Th.rd Ltist.l
MiCXlW AN
.!. A. HEATHeOt K
ELETCHER DA\ IS.
. I:AS. H. HESS.
TOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
E A NASH.
PEARCE CARtilLE.
WILLIAM ANSLE'i
A. E. HOLLADAV.
FOR COP RT CLERK
H. 1. ASTON.
EOR COUNTY CLERK
ME IAIN W ILK INS.
MRS. GRACE F. CARTER.
EOR COUNTY TREASURER
J. D. BENNETT.
An- It is
\s at appi0
1 be finished 7'
nateif that it
t or \ months more t
-.e dam, althoug.. wit!
orking days the dam
inpound
lake.
op
ixty
water
of -uch height a.- to
l'. c]v 'e a good -.ze
Question 4. "What was the date of
the sale of the bonds, oi the ap, o\
mate dati when the fund.- became
available 7"
An.-. The records -how that the
fund from the sale of these bono- be-
came available on February 2f>. 1 1
Question 5. "What is the obliga-
tion of the city to the state, approxi-
mately, to the pr< -ent date, grow.ng
out of the use of convicts in the con-
-truction of the dam and clearing the
water-shed 7"
Ans. The terms of the contract
with the State provide that the Peni-
tentiary .-hall Ik- credited for all work
performed on this project, expres.-ed
in terms of money for convenience,
I at that payment will l>e ,r.a<ie in
water furnished to the Penitentiary
in future years. The contract speci-
fies the price at which clearing, ex-
,, cavating, masonry, hauling, and all
Stuart 0thei work, shall be done. A record is
o I twenty in one day at Savanna is cer heinu kept by the city, and propel
Talking about something amu.-inu, tainly a record for satisfactoiy se1 entries will l>e made at the exp iation
what about the county, congressional vice and genuine appreciation that con5rai;t, \ detailed statement
and state "political convention hound" i gives a newspaper the right to feel what finishe<l at the pre-sent time
-ho ha.- never missed a chance to j that it is giving the kind it service would require considerable time in
register as one of the faithful, but that a community of sound-thinking, measuring up woik now under con-
who promptly loses all iwlitica! aroma discriminating people want. And 1 ^truction, and which, when -completed,
the minute he gets inside his town
jurisdiction 7
— Citv of McAlester —
ripinu' station
ago, when the
democratic, if
I submitted a
s tion for a waterworks system,
>ta: bor. 1 issue was only s-1'XVH10
ovided for the purchase of the
Creek watershed; the construc-
f ti e dam, the construction of
2.I.OH feet of water main to the
if the northern am of the pres-
ty lake-, and the installation of
powerful pumping -tation. 1 iie
.-'.a; aieiie wa- to co.-t not less t".an
$60,000. It was recognized that thi.-
mcst a part of any well-ordered
. ateworks improvement. The pres-
eirt .-mail, ineffective station will not
ent
city attorne. Hew JP200 per yeai,
• chile undei the year of the new^gov-
i,nment given he diew but $9i5.S*'7.
Hut con-., t youi quarterly city ie-
■ o:t.- for the pa-'. >ear and -ee if
t'.'.e c.tv attomev l as not drawn the
full $1200. He has.
When the proposition wa- on foi
i the new form of go\ernment, the cry
of "economy" wa.- strong. I here
vt-ie too many people drawing pay
ibout the cit;> hall for the work ac-
on plished. The plan was to elinri-
late at least two c •mmis-ioner.-. a
-iv engineer. a--;-tant city engineer,
and so en. All right. This was done.
W hat have we tot on the cre-iit side •
Cost of mayor, commis-ionei s. city
1 .-leik and city treasurer under the oM
"or s!0,4-' 1 02: u^.'ier the new form
.h all the elimnations) $10,437.41-
Figures llon't Lie
Much has been said about compara-
tive .f government under the
new ami the oid. and the year lt'19
ha- figured considerably in such de-
duct nr.- a.- have been given out. This
i- manifestly unfair to both sides'. It
was the hybrid year, the year when
each government had a hand in the
running of affaii- and when neither
wa.- at ta.-e or unharrassed by the
other. The fair way i- to take the
year before, 191s. when the old gov-
•mmen.t wa- in full cor.tiol. and the
vear 192" or 1921, the latter being
preferable, since prices weie seeking
when the new gor-
do. All the cards were on the table old level.- again
—the entire project was submitted,I ernment was in full control.
If you don't like your job, you have
the American right to quit it. But
that is as far as any American right
goes in indu.-try. An> thing bevond
that is an artificial condition that,
sooner or later, is going to trump up
grief for somebody—and possibly for
innocent sufferers.
Sometimes, when we meditate over
the monkey-mindeu public that will
worship ami maintain a $75,000-a-yeai
baseball player, who doe.- absolutely
nothing constructive and adds not
one farthing to the solution of the
simple problems of life, we wonder
if, after all, the Dowieites are as bad
as they are painted.
Guardian is not backward in -aying c;iri ^ easily determ ned by the plans,
that it values keenly this close work- estimate of the amount due from
ing relation with the folk- of Pitts- portion of the work fin shed would
burg County. have to be checked and approved !>;.
o — the Penitentiary, as it i- practically
We judge that the tord market an jn a partially finished condition,
must be dragging, a- Henry and Question 6. "What amount of the
Ed.-on have each made a bid for front funding bond i- eue of $0'', "0 rema n-
space under their neat little policy ot unexpended, if any 7"
grabbing free advertising. This time —
they come out for a 44-hour week in
their plants. As Henry has long ad-
mitted that he could market his tin
lizzies for a whole lot less if he had
to, it is not surprising that he can
put his plant on a 44-hour basis. One
of the surprising things is how the
public pays "tribute" right along to
this or that scheme and doesn't realize!
it until it finds it out through its
grandchildren fifty years later. It s
a great old world, and we are grad- McAlester. It
Ans. Funding bonds to the amount
of $60,310.00 were issued to covet ex
penditures that had prev ously been
made, consequently there - no bal-
ance in that fund.
Very tmlv vouts,
E." M. FRY,
City Manager.
What Is is Costing
The above is, or ought to l>e. a very
interesting matter to th^ citizens of
entire project was
and the total estimate of cost was
^41)0,000. Compare this with the ad-
mitted co-t ot the Hull Creek darn
project now a- $25i>,t 00, and see if
:he chaige of inefficiency of the old
or efficiency of the new will stand
analysis.
Another Project
There has been charges made lately
that the former city government
wanted to put over an $800(000 bond
project, and in some instances people
are ied to believe that they wanted
<NX>,000 to do the work under the
project. Of course, no one
would intentionally mislead to this ex-
tent, but sometime.- a failure to tell
all results in some very erroneous
conclusions.
lhere never was an $S00,t'"0 pro-
ject submitted. There was submitte I
or pioposed in the summer of 1918, a
Yeiy . el' —
In 1918, the total amount allowed
the city government foi geneial pur-
pose.- wa- $102,270. This wa- the
maximum amount that it could draw
warrants against.
In 1921, the total amount asked for
and obtained for the running of the
of centralizing government
the thing to which democrats as
wen h- republicans have never yet
given their as.-ent.
WEKK1A CRIST IN
.11 DOE MELTON'S COl R I
The following proceeding.-, among
other.-, were f.ad the pa-t week in dis-
trict court:
Julia Reck vs. Tandy Beck; defend-
ant cited for -ontemp of court.
Carbon Coal Company v-. the M.
K. & T. Railway Company; dismissed
by plaintiff.
< ieorge Gorseline vs. Dut" ( easar.
order entered confin ;ng -aie.
f Jet tie vs. Gettle: -. t dismissed.
Lillie Brow v.-. Mar. Ward; judg-
ment quieting title to land involved.
Paula Sardo vs. Silver Carano, et
al; order entered quieting title.
J. J. Weatherfoid vs. Mary Brtice
et al; judgment for plaintiff for {.>00
and order of foreclosure entered.
James W. Hardy VS. Joe Me -icK et
al; application for appointment of
receiver denied.
Zenobia Swihart vs. Woodman of
the World; motion to dismiss over-
ruled.
Nan Yleet Drug Co. vs. J. B. Stiles;
judgment for plaintiff ,'or c ._*8..'«9.
Terizija Melved vs. Slovima Nation-
al Benefit Association; judgment for
plaintiff.
In revacating Hillside Addition to
City of McAlester; order entered
vacating plot as townsi.e addition.
CASE AGAINST SCI DDER
DISMISSED in COUNTY
In county court this week the ca.-e
the Town of Alderson against W .
general city government wasi $160,- u. Scuduer, which had been appealed
500, an increase over 1918 of $58,2.i(|. irom the justice of the peace court at
or more than half as much again a- Alderson to the county court, was dis-
was required to run the city just niissed.
three years previous. ihe case grew out of the incident
Is that efficiency? u£ several months ago when a party
Hut what about the tax rate ? 1 of young people from this city, driv-
In 1918 the tax rate was 6 mills. ing jn a trucn through the town of
In 1921 it was 6 1-2 mills. | Alderson, had trouble with the town
Which doesn't tell near ail the ordinance against speeding. It was
story because, in the interval between alleged that they were speeding and
1918 and 1921 there had been an IN- that the driver failed or retused to
CREASE in property valuations of jlow down when the constable, E. M.
Ul ^tl WJW.-CTI ... . 1........ — - , I "- 1
18,928, all paying taxes at the Kounsaville, ordered the trucK to
bond i-.-ue for $630,000 for a complete, rate of 6 1-2 mills. To be exact, the slow aown. The charge resulted a
waterworks' for the city. This includ-1 property variation in 1918 was $6,- conviction in the Alderson junsdic-
ed ai! of what was proposed in thej-i6,072. In 1921 it had advanced anil tion, but the matter was dismssed in
$4X0,000 issue and the following ad- "een boosted to $8,11;\000. the appeal in county court, Those in
ditional features: A modern purifi- ^ And still, the tax rate had grown the truck at the time alleged that the
cation plant, modeled after that at 'arger, instead of smaller. j constable fired into the crowd, re-
st. Louis; the construction of 8 1-2 "We Have With I s", Etc. suiting in the injur} of Miss Teater,
mile- of additional main- in the city Hete are some of the thing that but the officer contended he had onl>
of McAlester; the complete overhaul- have resulted under the new admin- fired at the ground to frighten the
,r.g of the wateimain system and the i-tration that do their own talking: party into obeying his command, and
elimination of 35 "dead ends" in the The water rates have been increas- that, if any injury resulted it was be-
pre-ent system; the installation of a ed, on the average, more tha^i one- cause the bullet ricocheted from the
duplicate main line from Talawanda third in cost to the average consumer, hard surface of the ground.
to the city Stand-pipe; the instalia- and at a time when the water depart- Dismissal of the case in county
tion of 73 new tire hydrant.-, and the nrent was on a self-sustaining basis, court settles the incident all around.
addition of a pumping ,-tation etiuipp- as such. This means that the small \
ed with a duplicate 3-million gaiion user has been indirectly given ad-
high efficiency steam pump-, etc. j ditional tax under the new plan, for
Does that sound like spending $8X0,-: you must either pay the water bill or
"(Hi to build a dam at Hull Creek 7 | out comes the meter.
rwo LI'(l OR CASES
ON COlNTV RECORDS
rs one of the things
ig their pocket-books,
of government always
part (goes back to the unit of service as
j compared to the unit of cost. That
, is fundamental.
talk we What is the Bull Creek Dam project
A copy of the Hanna Independent , ually coming to the opinion that may- that - touch
has reached our desk, with the name be Henry has P. T. Ramum skinned 7'lie efficiency
of P. J. Riddle at the masthead. Mr by two continents and a large
Riddle is evidently a quill-driver to of the City of New ^ ork.
the manor boin, judging from the o
■ atty and newsy appearance of The Whenever we hear of strik
Independent. Hanna is a good little , think what might have happened to going to cost the city 01 M Xtester hy
town and here's a prediction that it this old world if the farmers had de- 'he time it js finally finished?
is going to have a good paper. cided to call a strike because cotton In Mr. Fry s own language above
o ! dropped from 35 cents to 13 cents; -here is remaining but $38,666 out of
We are firm believers in the sur- com from $1 to 40 cents; wheat from the original $125,000. There is yet
vival of the fittest. If there is no way $a to 75 cents; hogs from 16 to 7 to be secured 3X0 acres of land. From
out of the coal situation but a strike, cent- a pound; beef from 10 cents to another source, apparently -anctioned
let 'er come. The best solution- of 4 cents and wool from 6X cents to 15 bv the administration, we xrt the
the most tangled problems haw al- cent-. Did they strike? If they had. statement _that the city has already
ways come through real tribulation, there wouldn't have been enough -tent $70,725 in acquiring land for
Let's be fair. A little learning is a
dangerous thing, and some people
have, as Pope said, "just enough of
learning to misquote." Figure.- do not
lie—when you get all of them.
Paid in Water?
But. says a still, small voice, this
debt of the city to the penitentiary
is gu.ng to be paid in water.
Very well. Isn't water the equi-
valent of cash? Look at your quart-
erly water permit leceipt or the stubb
on your check book where you paid
out $3 for the current quarter, flat,
and more if you used over so many
gallon.-. Did you get that receipt on
the complimentary plan?
,, , Informations weie filed in county
The cit> hall has been partially des- j c0urt this week charging Rolen Brown
troyed by fire, the rebulding of which,, l)f Hartshorne, w th conveving illicit
even in spite of the insurance, was a -. am) aUo chai in T" K. Leach,
matter of considerable cost to the ()f near Fnnk SwlU.h wlth havi
nty, aside from the loss of valuable, u jn hj . posse>!iion.
records charts, etc, and the loner The fl informatlon was sworn to
period of hindrance to public business b sheriff Sandc h „ d that
druing its rebuilding.
The city has, a- an unavoidable
obligation now a funding bond issue
of $60,310 placed upon it to cover al-
leged deficits accruing under former
administrations, but concerning at
least a portion of which there is lack
of unanimity as to whether it should
have been classed as a "deficit", To
the liquor, one quart, was conveyed
from a certain place in Hartshorne
not known to the informant to another
place near the postol'fice building.
The alleged crime was set down as of
March 26.
The information was sworn to by
Vndersheriff Nelms. Leach is said
to have a hack and in this hack is said
to have been found four quarts of
Whatever is really right in any situa- energy left in anything
tion will survive and establish itself good date to call
after the test is over. other soit. No, they didn't
a few
down the penal statutes on the economic conditions? Go
gro..nd that all criminal- should i>e mer and iret a lesson that will do you
given medai.- instead of a prison
take care of this, ultimately, interest
Water is one of "the quickest as- and all will require the payment of ro#| CHntrabami ,
- ts of a city situated as is McAles- some $12°,000 Leach was arreted Tuesda
ter. \N ith a modern water system, We have the installation of some
as Pr°P0::ed three years ago, park improvements, such as the "wa- ^
strike of anv acie for over 16(H) acre Granting ndustnal plants would be attracted dery" at Chadick Park, but they are!
^tr ^e that the remaining does not cost mote here, and WOl LD I'.W A HIGHER not on a consequential scale.
tr Ke' ! RATE FOR THE
by this the basin, or at an average of $44 per
It is
said also that two vehicles wheels
were found in his possession dentified
i by C. M. Avant, a farmer of that
They went to work like the" dickens than three-fourths a- nui, ' :tATE ^VbtI'lNED "llOM1' THE | t o ^3^1^^°®
Creek County ha- ju.-t ndicated and made a living for them.-elves and - TQ' THE' V VFFR * PENITENTIARY on their account years $235,310, possible as large a I oflarrLv ^ 1 hom',!>on ,,n " fhj"w
the right sort of stripe in her dis- the .^L^tions n the How much of the dam is finished ? ' against us. Well-informed people bonded indebtedness as wa- ever ' •'
tnct court iJ-or by bringing in some of the-e sma.-h.ng reduction, in the about one-fourth M' Fr\ him- know that scouts for big industrial chargeable to the city under any bi-
capita and .11 tern: penalties for pnee of th^ir prcnluct. Talk abou ^ others -av th< r is not enterprises have visited this city, and ennial period. Making due allowance
murderers. The f that sinking because y< cant cot whv this aiiiount of the actual construction have paaatd it up when they found; for the fact that part of this was to <4 .
•*^0 threatened t«> bleak, you want in the tace of readm>t:ne w V drm* h it takintr th citv man- that the water supply was doubtful. t*ke care of a deficit, still the bonding Just why or ' whutfoah they were
to the far- " o ' -tatiment vet 75 They go at out these things quietly, record will compare well in amount over hfre ono 01 those deep
will do you f - ^ masonry work to be and the city ia raral? advised of what. with any previous administration. mystene* that threatens to become as
good and stop nine-tenths of the; ^mT.0J rVma mng . from the'-t has lost in thi< ^pect. It has one Why No Deficit? i sacred as "How^old was Ann ", but
lalhhooing about -tnkes . ere and j..,. ^ y,0nd i--ue he -a . is to be out-stand memory on this line. In conclusion, it is not amiss to')Ujt 'be same there were about 50
t'.ere Its tme to do ome plain nrnruict' -iivn AND however, . en ' ,'olonel of the in- point out that the fact that'the new ii'emtiis ot the Wilburton male con-
I'ACiE SHERLOCK HOI.MES
or the electric
ing ,.i. ipated.
chair is gradual!}
T.e Bristow Record, one of the live
weeklies of its -ection of the state,
is preparing to become a daily and
has already .ecured the Associated
Pre.- s franchise. It ha.- -efficient
mechanical equipment for the ven-
ture. and f it.- -ucce-.- in the weeklv
field may l>e taken a.< a precursor of
its cour.-e a- a dail>. then tht ' .vn
of Bristow * to t>e indeed congiatu-
lated over the type of da ly it ha-
ahead.
•aiking
ing.
well as some plain tbink-
CFMFN'T WITH WH'CH 1*0 MAKE speot.ng (xirty who came here to lo- city administration has created no tiligent in the city last Thursday
MORTOR. Not one cent for con-| cate the army cantonment told the deficit is easily explainable when one'n'Kht, having come over in cars and
^"""""~structon work. ' committee of business men why the
(Pub. March 16, 23 and .SO. 19'J2t In other words, the entire J12.V**) cantonment could not come here. It
NOTICE TO CREDITORS will be absorbed without taking into a- lack of water.
In the Matter of the Estate of John consideration the actual cost of con- No; we will ha\e no trouble in .-ell-
1'i-tocco. deceased, late of the town of -truction—one of the bggest item- ing the surplus water. Merely bar-
savanna. County of Pittsburg, State in any large engineering -cheme. gaining it away as if it were free i
of Oklahoma, deceased. What does the city owe the state* , NUT good business It may stand as
Ml per-on- -av-ng claims against Mr. Frv savs this could not be com- -> hand rap in trie future of the very annually, to even higher. Th--
e.1 John Psusco. decea-ed. are re- puted to'date without long figuring. • th-ngs we wanted to get. ought easily to dissipate any deficit
• red to 1-f nt the ^mP with the Not even the "approximate e-timate" City Government Costx in current expenditures. It means
:eve.—.• vouchers to the undersign- s-ked for could be given - nuch for the waterworks pro- tevenue that the old government .lid
O ( ^ ,iu|y appoints) and qualified ad- Vet. from another source, apparent- e t. How about the co-t of city not have. And this is just one source
One of the finest e i * > se • *r.in -trator of the e.-tate of said de- ly -anctioned by the cit> authorities, government • I.et s see t . ^ures ie revenue.
\.t: ni we havi noted in eti po ceaaed, at idence in the Town; we get the following Idea of what the or if hut ptriafc the thought. There had not been a funding bond
tan newspape n many a day wa- the f Savanna, County of Pittsburg, and city will owe the >tate when the pro- We are told that under the .a t issue by the o.u go\eminent sine
reply of The Oklahuman last Sunday'state of Oklahoma, within fourj ject i.« completed: "The -tate, when
the
considers the increased revenues| npparentl.v without an\ big hurry to
available that the old city govern- leave (and noboby wanted them tot.
ment did not have. The increase but when asked what it wa.- all about
from the water department, in the they said in an off-hand way, "Road
additional charge for service alone meet in When pressed for details
should figure probably $10,000 per such as the newspaper man loves to
vear. The old revenues ran around regale the public with, they said.
he old
• ar of the old democratic form of i about 1912. In other words,grunting
Oklahoman .a.«t J>un.iay' State of Oklahoma, within four iect s completed• Jne -late, wnen -a: • • i e ' T .e V"n
?r lollypop who wanted months of the date heieof, or the, construction is complete, wdl have to government the total cost- of cit> I that the full $61 ,ol0 was a valid do
is>- all the squalid details s;.m, will be forever barred. j its credit an amount greater than the government were 1111.41..27. while ( ficit, some of Which, as abfivc tnte.l,
to the gutter
them to publish all the squalid
of the Tex Rickard trial in New York
City. But why, oh why, did they take
all the merit out of their editorial
utterance by following up on Monday
with an undre- - female lay-out that
Dated the 15th dav of March. 1922
J. A. SPINES,
Administrator of the Es-
tate of John Pistccco, de-
ceased.
would really be pretty strong for the E. 0. Mariar.elli,
police r,aiette" and that ought to be Att'y for Administrator.
prohibited by law? The less danger-
ous of the two and the less morally Aimer Hefley, who teaches at the
total original bond issue
How much is that? J12i\000.
the new government for the is not universally admitted, thin
firs: ear of its reg me the co-t- were would give an annual accruing de-
"Nothin" new; everything stands just
like it did." After getting a few-
jolts like this from Ira Haywood and
similar body-blows from Carlton Wea-
ver (who ought to have been more
considerate) the cautious scribe of
this sheet went out and looked the
land .ape over for something that
might throw more light on the visit.
It wasn't in sight, butjoh, well, there
might htive been a road "conference"
but we don't believe it.
In other words, by what is appar- onlv $117,591; that the old regime ficit over the i>eriod from 1SU2 to
■rntlv official admission from the city, collected only $76,175 in revenues. 1920 of $7,500 per year. Would mi
.h.. state will have a bill of AT out de >f trenera! taxes, and that th. increase of one-third in the wat.t-r
LEAST $125,000 against McAlester new had collected $*8,281, leaving the rates not have kept down ti little
fo' convict labor performed in build- net co-t of government for that year thing like that?
mg the dam. only $29,269, as against $35,241 under The Guardian has no axe to grind,
What does this make the total cost? the former year. i no interest in this matter exegpt what
damaging would have been the pub- Nail School, near Crowder, was down $250,000. What does this signify ? Merely it considers simple fairness to all, to reserve it apparition for the eyes
licmtion of the trial details. Monday. Will the present bond ls.-ue complete that the new government is a better; with a desire to advocate what It, of the elect only.
( butleu M. Schwab is reported on
March 2ml as "seeing the early re-
turn lo normalcy" Harding saw it as
far back as November, 1920. and Her-
bert Hoover has lieen seeing it ever
since be got into the cabinet. But,
like tile ghost of Antigonish, it seems
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Garrett, Forrest A. Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1922, newspaper, March 30, 1922; McAlester, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc161747/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.