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THE VALLEY STAR, GATE, OKLAHOMA
Happenings of
(he Legislature
Closing the consideration of the
contest over the Wagoner county seat
in the house of representataives was
reached Friday with the adoption of a
resolution by W. T. Drake of Wagon
er, republican, to pay the railage and
salary of T. A. Parkinson of Wagoner,
democrat, for the period during which
Parkinson sat as a member of the
house this session. The claim to be
presented on behalf of Parkinson
amounts to $122.
"Through no fault on his part, there
was found to be an illegal count in
the vote in Wagoner county which re-
eulted in his being declared elected,"
said Drake.
Exercises in honor of Abraham Lin-
coln's birthday and the consideration
of a number of house bills consumed
Saturday's session of the senate.
Two house resolutions, one memor
ializing congress to locate a hospital
for disabled and wounded soldiers in
the state of Oklahoma and the other
indorsing the work of the Near East
Relief received the unanimous approv-
al of the upper house.
Probably the most important house
bill advanced by the senate was one
which makes It possible for the state
Jiighway department to build through
(incorporated towns if they are less
than 2,000 in population.
The republican registration bill, No.
170, was considered in committee of
the whole and recommended for pass-
age. The only other bill considered
was No. 72, relating to estrays, which
was recommended for passage. S. D.
Bailey of Snyder presided over the
house in committee of the whole.
Among bills introduced in the sen-
ate Thursday was one by which Harry
O. Glasser of Enid and W. H. Woods
of Purcell hope to aid the common
schools of the state to attain a stand-
ard equal to that of the higher educa-
tional institutions. It proposes to give
the schools $1,000,000. Jed. J. John-
non introduced a measure which is
sponsored by the state department of
health and which would make $20,000
available for the treatment of drug
addicts over the state.
The senate deficiency bill, No. 175,
was advanced Wednesday alter having
consumed the major portion of two
sessions in the upper house. The sen-
ate passed senate joint resolution No.
16 introduced by W. J. Holloway of
Hugo providing for the immediate ap-
propriation of $82,625 for tick eradica-
tion in infested districts of southeast-
ern Oklahoma.
The senate passed a bill at Mon-
day's session which raises the salaries
of superior judges over the state from
$3,000 to $4,000.
Joe Sherman's resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee of
five members to act with a house com-
mittee in the Investigation of causes
for recent reductions in prices of
crude oils, was adopted by the senate.
A resolution by Charles Whitaker
railing upon the University of Okla-
homa for information as to expendi-
tures of appropriations made at the
last legislature was passed.
The house virtually killed bill No.
13, the permanent soldiers' relief
measure, by voting forty to forty-three
to adopt a report of the committee of
the whole recommending that it do
not pass.
Tom Anglin of Holdenville intro-
duced two bills in the senate Friday
aimed at hotels. The first would re-
peal laws by which a hostelry has a
lien on the baggage of a delinquent
Ration and the second would put the
iliotels under the jurisdiction of the
corporation commission. Thirteen
bills were Introduced in the senate
Friday. Eight bills were passed.
Among these was one by R. L. David-
son of Tulsa and Ross N. Dillard of
Oklahoma City, making it mandatory
on gas and water companies to send
agents to the doors of delinquent pa-
trons before closing pipes.
Among important bills introduced in
the upper house of the legislature
Friday afternoon is one by Harry B.
Cordell of Manitou and Harry O.
Glasser of Enid, which w;uld amend
the income tax of Oklahoma so that
it will conform in application to that
of the United States. By this act the
amount of exemption allowed oil com-
panies would not be 5 per cent as the
present law provides, but would be
based on the actual estimate of deter-
ioration. This act, too, would amend
the present law so that a wife makes
her income tax return separately.
The clause making this provisions
finds its cause in the fact that the
combined incomes of many husbands
and wives go over the excess limit
while the incomes set out separately
"would stay inside.
The first soldier relief bill passed
the senate Thursday afternoon by 37
■votes to 4.
The measure provides that the tu-
bercular sanatorium at Clinton shall
be taken over for the use of former
who voted against the measuve ex-
pressed themselves as favoring any
legislation for soldier benefit, but gave
various reasons why they believe the
senate should be sure it had hit upon
the best and wisest plan before it
acted.
Friends of the hospital bill are
thanking T. C. Simpson for committee
work of Thursday morning. He went
before committees on hospitals and
soldier relief in both houses. It was
he who offered the amendment which
raises the hospital appropriation from
$50,000 to $200,000.
Supplementary report of investigat-
ing committee of the house of repre-
sentatives Wednesday read, dealing
with charges against Lieutenant Gov-
ernor Trapp, saying Trapp had paid
or was ready to pay to Seminole coun-
ty $11,293.16 In cash and $14,500 in
bonds.
Investigation committee reported in
the matter of Governor Robertson's
statements that failure of the auditor
to furnish information was responsible
for delays in the budget. The report
declared that delays were caused by
lack of co-operation by the budget of-
ficer with the auditor's office.
Senate bill No. 80, by Jed J. John-
son of Walters, providing for compul-
sory physical examination and issu-
ance of health certificates for persons
engaged in the preparation and hand-
ling of food for sale, was approved by
the upper house and will appear for
final passage.
An act which would require all cor-
porations serving the public with wa-
ter or gas, to send an agent to the
door of a patron to collect his bill in
case he has failed to pay before shut-
ting him off from the main, was pro-
posed by R. L. Davidson of Tulsa and
Ross L. Lillard of Oklahoma City of
the Senate Wednesday.
The big deficiency bill of the ses-
sion, No. 175, provides for the payment
of $323,386 in deficiencies. Approx-
imately $104,000 of this amount has
been incurred during the present fis-
cal year. Approximately $199,000 is
outstanding from the last fiscal year.
It is quite apparent that the gov-
ernor has stayed within his legal al-
lowance, and, while Davidson and
Rutherford contended Monday that it
would be possible to bring criminal
action against state officials should
it appear that transactions back of
the deficiency bill are improper, they
believe that the claims should be al-
lowed in full whether the transactions
behind them were proper or improper.
Wallace and Fleming on the other
hand contend that proof concerning
each item in the deflciencsy bill should
be demanded from the different state
departments calling for appropriations
and that the whole matter, including
the propriety of the appropriations,
should be threshed out on the floor of
the senate.
Senator Fleming moved Monday af-
ternoon to defer the bill until receipts
and other matters necessary for a
judgment in the case should be furn
ished the senate. As a substitute,
Charles E. McPherren of Durant
lodged a motion to consider the bill
item by item. His motion carried by
twenty-one aye& against seventeen
noes, the majority of republicans vot-
ing against the consideration of the
bill. Those voting "no" were Senators
Brown, Clark, Cornett, Fleming, Frye,
Glasser, Golobbie, Harvey, Hill, Hor-
ner Ingraham Leedy, Lynch, Sherman,
Wallace, Wells and E. E. Woods.
When the consideration of the first
item of the bill, which provides $1,000
in the department of Confederate pen
sions, was opened, Fleming moved
that the matter be deferred until proof
concerning it was made. Davidson of-
fered to give the evidence, but Flem-
ing pushed his motion and the senate
backed him up while. Davidson smil-
ingly waited to submit data on the
matter.
No evidence of illegal lobbying in-
connection with the vote on the chiro-
practic bill in the house of representa-
tives last week was found by the com-
mittee report presented in the house
late Monday afternoon. The bill hav-
ing been recommended for passage by
the house in committee of the whole,
is on the calendar for third reading
and final passage. House members
said probably it would be voted on
Tuesday and passed. The senate al-
ready has passed the bill
Engrossed house bill No. 129, by W.
Perry Miller of Muskogee, making an
appropriation of $35,000 for the main-
tenance of the Oklahoma School for
the Blind at Muskgee also was passed
by the senate without a single vote
being recorded against it.
Granting the promise that the gov-
ernor has stayed within the $200,000
limit on deficiency certificates placed
on his office by previous sessions of
the legislature, has the senate the au-
thority to say this paper now outstand-
ing in banks over the state shall not
be redeemed?
This was the problem over which
the upper house debated Monday af-
ternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock. Sen-
ators R. L, Davidson of Tulsa and S.
Morton Rutherford of Muskogee say
the deficiency should be allowed in
full.
Happenings
After many years of agitation, King-
fisher is to have paved streets. Work
is expected to begin early this spring.
A building and loan association with
a capital stock of $200,000 has just
been organized at Duncan by W. E.
Reynolds and associates.
Petitions are being circulated among
voters of Fairfax for calling an elec-
tion to build an auditorium and gym-
nasium for the high school.
The open winter of 1920 and 1921
has put the soil throughout north-
eastern Oklahoma in splendid condi-
tion, says John S. Malone, county farm
agent of Tulsa county.
To promote the interest of better
music in Broken Bow, the Delphian
Literary society will present Prof.
Clarence Burg of Fort Smith, Ark., in
a concert recital February 24.
TJie Temple Machine and Foundry
Works of Temple, Okla., has obtained
a site at Duncan and will move its
plant here at once. The foundry will
specialize in oil field repairs.
Nearly a third of the taxes have
been pai^ in Kingfisher county. The
large tax payers of the county, how-
ever, are taking advantage of the ex-
tension of tax paying until April 15.
Student fees totaling $46,205.96 con-
tributed to the maintenance of the
University of Oklahoma last year, ac-
cording to figures compiled recently
by J. L. Lindsey, university treasurer.
J. C. Lee is dead, and his brother
John Lee and son, Clyde Lee, are in
a critical condition as a result of us-
ing poison accidentally in cooking
some flour which had been poisoned
for rats.
D. P. Trent, county farm agent, has
arranged a mass meeting of cotton
growers of that section to be held in
Henryetta Monday, February 21, under
the auspices of the Oklahoma Cotton
Growers' association.
Major Dennis McCunniff of Fort
Sill has been in Henryetta to inspect
the Henryetta company of the Nation-
al Guard and investigate building pros-
pects for artillery equipment recently
allotted Henryetta.
George E. Vincent, district Farm
agent for northeastern Oklahoma,
says that investigations show that the
Oklahoma farmers must make some
different arrangements about leaving
fodder and forage in the open during
the winter. Fodder that is exposed to
the weather, he finds, loses nearly 90
per cent of its nutriment value.
Green bugs are multiplying rapidly
and threatening serious damage to
Oklahoma grain crops, according to
the bulletins on crop conditions issued
by John A. Whitehurst, president of
the state board of agriculture. Be-
cause of the bugs, the bulletin de-
clares, it is seriously questionable if
extensive sowing of oats is advisable.
An invitation will be extended to the
old and new W. M. C A. and Y. W.
C. A. cabinets at the Oklahoma A. &
M. college, Stillwater, to spend a day
in March at the University of Okla-
homa for conducting a joint confer-
ence between the cabinets of the two
schools, by Miss Ruth Holbrook, Y.
W. C. A. secretary' at the state confer-
ence.
The senate passed and sent to the
president for signature two Oklahoma
bills introduced in the house by Rep-
resentative Charles D. Carter, of Ok-
lahoma. The first bill authorizes the
secretary of the interior to draw up
regulations providing for the sale of
the remainder of the coal and asphalt
deposits in the segregated coal and
asphale lands in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations.
Three towns in LeFlore county have
adopted an American orphan each, ac-
cording to reports submitted to Mrs.
H. J. Fowler, county, chtirman of the
Near East Relief campaign. The
towns are Cameron, Howe and Wis-
ter.
Charles Leonard Brown, Geary, sen-
ior University of Oklahoma medical
student, has received appointment as
interne in Peter Brant Brigham hos-
pital, Boston, Mass. Thirty-five stud-
ents from various medical schools
look examination, three being select-
ed. Brown is the second Sooner med-
ico selected by the Boston hospital.
Space has been reserved in the
sixth annual Southwest American
livestock Show for three of the
southwest's greatest herds in the
three dominant breeds of beef cattle.
C. M. Largent & Sons, of Merkel,
Tex., Herefords; H. C. Lookabaugh,
of Watonga. Shorthorns; and J. C.
Simpson, of Muskogee, Abrdeen An-
gus. are coming to the show stronger
than ever. L. R. Kershaw of Mus-
kogee, president of the show, will be
among the regulars from eastern Ok-
lahoma.
MARKET CONDITIONS
Fruits and Vegetable*.
Potatoes recovered about 10c per 100
pounds at Northern fob shipping stations,
closing 85c-W«c. Chicago carlot market up
15c, reachlng$1.15-$1.25 sacked. Kound
whites weakened at western .New York
shipping points, closing around $1. New
York lost an additional 10-25c, reaching
Jl.40-.41.50 bulk.
Cold storage Baldwin apples steady at
Western New York fob stations, closing
JM-^4.15 per bbbi., mostly around $4.00.
Baldwins and Greenings steady In city
wholesale markets at $4.-$5; York Im-
perials $3.50-$4.50. Northwestern extra
fancy W'inesaps steady in New York at
$3.50-$4.50.
Danish type cabbage down $1 per ton
fob at $ -$y bulk. Kastern consuming
markets recovered slightly, closing $12-$l7
per ton. Florida new cabbage up 25c per
lft bu. hamper in New York, $2-$2,!i5;
Baltimore $l.«0-$2.
Florida celery steady in city markets at
$2.50-53.25, except New York *1.25 per
crate higher at $3.75-$4. Shipping points
quote 11.60-11.65 fob cash track. Califor-
nia golden hearts $5-$7 per crate in con-
suming centers; Los Angeles steady fob
30-35c per dozen bunches. New Jersey
sweet potatoes firm in New York and Bos-
ton, closing $1.75-$2 per bu. hamper.
Carlot shipments week ended February
10: Potatoes 27 l> cars; boxed apples 474,
barreled apples lOWj; cabbage 40ti; celery
355; lettuce 342; onions 341); sweet pota-
toes 3S8. Shipments week ended Febru-
ary 3: Potatoes 2865 cars; boxed apples
418, barreled apples 1071; cabbage 380;
celery 402; lettuce 584; onions 300; sweet
potatoes 355.
Livestock and Meats.
Hogs at Chicago broke 25c-60c the past
week. Sheep and fat lambs down 25c-
75c; fat ewes 25c per 100 pounds. Beer
steers generally 50c lower with some of
the better grades as much as $1.15 lower.
Butcher cattle averaged 50c lower. Feb-
ruary 11 Chicago prices; Hogs, bulk of
sales $8.80-$9.40; medium and good beef
steers $7.75-$0.25; butcher cows and heif-
ers $4-$8.50; feeder steers $tt-$ .50; light
and meidium weight veai calves $0.75-
$12.50; fat lambs $tt.50-$0.50: feeding
lambs $6.50-$7.75; yearlings $5.25-$7.25;
fat ewes $3.25-$4.75.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
were generally lower with the exception
of beef, most grades of which held steady.
Veal down $l-$3; pork loins $l-$2; mutton
$1 per 100 pounds. February 11 prices,
good grade meats: Beef $13-$14.50; veal
$17-$20; lamb $16-$21; mutton $ -$ll; light
pork loins $ll>-$21; heavy loins $14-$17.
Hay.
Market situation very dull. Receipts at
most markets light but equal to demand.
Prices have declined sharply in New-
York. Heavy receipts congesting market
at Cincinnati. Reduced freight rates in
effect from Montana points to Minneap-
olis, St. Paul, Omaha, Council Bluffs,
Kansas City and lower Missouri Rivet-
points. Quote: No. 1 Timothy Mew York
nominal at 28.50, Chicago $24.50, Cin-
cinnati $24.50, Memphis $20, Atlanta $32,
No. 1 alfalfa Cincinnati, $22, Memphis $30.
Feed.
Markets steady; bran ana middlings in
in several markets higher due to reduced
offerings. Improved export demand for lin-
seed meal was felt In northwestern mark-
ets. Cottonseed meal draggy; price weak
though not quotably lower. Hominy feed
firmer in western markets; unchanged in
east. Alfalfa meal demand indifferent.
Southeastern markets unchanged and
dull. Stocks in general reported ample.
Quoted: Bran $20 middlings $21, Hour
middlings $22.50 Minneapolis. Linseed
meal $27 Memphis, $36 Northeastern
markets. White hominy feed $22 St.
Louis, $20.50 delivered New York. No.
1 alfalfa meal $21 Kansas City, $21 St.
Louis, $24 Chicago. Gluten feed $35 Shi-
oago. Beet pulp $36 New York and Bal-
timore.
Grain.
The week's grain trading started with
a sharp advance in prices. There was a
slight recession on the 7th, but upon dis-
closure of an oversold condition a gain of
714c took place on the Bth. On the lOtn
a further gain of about 5c was recorded,
but on the 11th there was a drop of 2c
caused largely by evening up for the dou-
ble holiday. Germany reported to have
offered to cancel 800,000 bushels wheat,
and Holland to have resold some rye and
offered more. With exception of order for
60,000 barrels flour for Greece, export de-
mand slow with Australia and India un-
der-offering the United States in Europe.
Larger country offerings in part of Kan-
sas, Indiana and Ohio as result of price
advance on the 10th.
Minneapolis reports tlour trade moder-
ate. Kansas City reports very dull ex-
port and mill demand. Receipts larger.
Cash No. 2 dark hard 7c over Kansas City
March. For the week Chicago March
wheat gained 12%c( at $1.65%; May corn
2%s at 67%c. Minneapolis March wheat
up llftc at $1.58%. Kansas City March
10%c at $1.56^4 ; Winnipeg May 13%c at
$1.80%. Chicago May wheat $1.54 ft.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets weak during greater
part of week but now showing signs of
improvement. February 10 prices 2
score: New York, Chicago and Boston
44c; Philadelphia 45c. Imported butter
meeting very light demand at present.
Cheese markets for most part dull and
inactive during week, but trading has im-
proved somewhat the past few days and
prices at country points are slightly hlghet
than a week ago. At Wisconsin primary
markets sales average: Twins 24%c;
daisies 2514c; double daisies 24%c; long-
horns 26c.
Cotton.
The average of middling spot cotton in
the ten designated markets advanced
three points during the week, closing at
13.18c per pound. March future contracts
up 16 points at 13.56c.
Dunant Is Swiss Delegate.
Berne, Switzerland—Dr.. Alphonse
Dunant, Swiss minister to France, ajjd
Max Huber, legal adviser of the po
litical department of the Swiss gov-
ernment, have been named as dele-
gates to the forthcoming session of
the league of nations to be held in
Paris. Switzerland's recent refusal to
permit the league's international
force which will supervise the plebis
cite in the Bilna area to cross the
country will be discussed at the Paris
conference.
PRAGUE CITY OF PALACES
United States Minister Crane Lives
in One of Them, Which He,
Himself, Purchased.
Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia,
is pre-eminently a city of palaces. As
soon as one has crossed the Moldava
by the old Charles bridge—the quaint-
est, most picturesque bridge in the
world, with its gates flanked with
towers and its group of beautiful stat-
ues adorning the parapet—one finds
one's self in a quarter of the city en-
tirely given to palaces, where in nar-
row old streets, crooked and grass
grown, and about tranquil, silent
squares rise the splendid facades of
seigneurial dwellings.
When, following the signing of the
peace, England, America, France and
Italy were looking for quarters for
their diplomatic representatives, these
palaces were just what was needed
for housing the legations, Raymond
Recouly writes in Scribner's. France
took over the palace belonging to the
Buquoys, a Flemish family which
came to Bohemia after the battle of
La Montague Blanche and cast In
their fortunes with those of the Haps-
burgs.
The United States minister, Mr.
Crane, has bought with his own money
the magnificent palace of the Schon-
born. The chateau Is less beautiful,
less elegant, perhaps, than the Buquoy
palace, but the gardens are marvelous*
They rise In terrace after terrace to
a hill which overlooks the entire city.
At the top are the tennis courts, where
the diplomatic circle meets dally for
afternoon tea.
The most strikingly original feature
of Prague Is the "Hradchany," an
acropolis of towers, churches and pal-
aces dominating the capital. From
the time that Prague was reduced to
a city of secondary importance the
palaces of the "Hradchany" were prac-
tically abandoned. Now and then
some archduke In disgrace, some
prince in exile, would establish him-
self In one or another of them for a
time. The ex-Emperor Charles, while
a student at the University of Prague,
an archduke with apparently no
chance of ever coming to the throne,
lived there.
All these palaces, once abandoned,
deserted, are today occupied by the
president of the republic and the dif-
ferent ministers. President Masaryk
received me in that same sumptuous
drawing room which had once been
the salon of the Emperor Charles.
Cloud Shadows on the Moor.
Cloud shadows sweep over the moor
with wings that are gray or nearly
black, blue or violet-purple, according
to the seasons and quality of air and
sunshine. On stormy days the case Is
altered and out of the gloom there
break beams to fly over the darkness
of earth, like golden birds. The
shadow and shaft of light both serve
to bring out detail In the wilderness;
ffnd while today passages of shade re-
veal the integument of heath and
stone, or fling up the outline of a hill
among others lost In light, tomorrow
a sun-flash Is apter to do these things
and paint pictures set In cloudy
frames.—From "A Shadow Passes,"
by Eden Phlllpotts.
Give Gray Shaft to England.
Two residents of Stoke Poges have
purchased the monument erected by
one of the Penns to the Poet Gray,
whose "Elegy" is better known than
many a poem of greater worth. The
donors are making the memorial a free
gift to the public, with some land,
which will prevent any building
around It, and It Is believed that the
national trust fund Is willing to hold
the property. Such gifts are of inter*
national importance, and are heirlooms
for those who, though they have never
seen Stoke Poges, have watched In
imagination "the lowing herd wind
slowly o'er the lea."—Christian Sci.
ence Monitor.
White House Pet to Be Alligator.
Washington—A Florida alligator
with a six-foot smile, more or less, is
to succeed as white house pet Presi-
dent Taft's famous cow, Pauline, the
pony that rode in an elevator in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration and
more recently. President Wilson's
flock of lawn-mowing sheep. Senator
Trammell carried word to white house
officers that President-elect Hardin*
had already accepted a "fair-sized"
'gator from Henry M. Bennett of Jack-
sonville.
Not the Insect.
"I have many times heard people re-
fer to a whale as a fish," remarks a
librarian In a western town, "but It
remained for a certain youngster, a
patron of our institution, to introduce
a totally new classification of the
creature.
" 'Please,' said the lad, 'let me have
a book on whales.'
"Very shortly the youthful student
was provided with a book on natural
history and his attention Invited to a
chapter on whales:
"The boy gave one look at the vol-
ume and then said:
" 'Oh, I don't mean a book on the in-
sect ! I mean the country 1'"
Selling Human Bones.
The keeper of a public cemetery of
a small Bohemian town near Prague
excavated the older parts of the grave-
yard, and sold all the old bones he
could find for Industrial purposes, a9
he found that certain manufacturers
paid more for human bones than for
those of animals. He had been earn-
ing money In this way for several
years before he was detected and sus>
oended from the post
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