Lehigh Leader. (Lehigh, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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REPORT OE SCHOOL BOARD
Financial report of Lehigh Public School for the year ending
June 30 1908 ! -
Cash on hand last report
Tuition collected - -
Received from Insurance Co ’ - -
Received from State fund -
' “ City Treasurer as per vouchers issued
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Total amount received - - -
'Disbursed as follows
Supplies ’- - -
Scavenger work
Expense 7 - - -
Repairs including Insurance Co -Furniture
and Fixtures - -
Sundry items - -' - - -
Coal - '
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Water 1 - -
Teachers and janitors Sal - " - -
3al cash in School treasurer - - -
“ “ City- “ - - -
Bal to credit of School Fund $32792
Itemized statement of above report is on fde with the school
board All indebtedness has been paid
W A HIGDON LOUIS HARTMANN
Sec " ' Pres
WillExpend $82000For!
Purcell’s Municipal I
Betterment
Purcell Okla July 11— By
an average majority of 189 out
of 350 registered voters the pro-
position providing for a bond
issue for the installation of mun-
icipal improvements and build-
ing a school house was carried
When the bonds have been sold
the city’s bonded indebtedness
will reach $82000 but the era of
Purcell’s great advancement was
begun The council has canvas-
sed the vote and an advcrtise-
ment for bids is being prepared
For building repairing and
equipping school houses $32000
is to be used A sanitary sewer
system will be installed ' with
$22000 and a city hall is to be
built with $8000 Prior to this
election $20000 had been voted
for school purposes
The city council of Purcell re-
cently visited Chickaslia- and
other progressive cities and
gathered ideas upon which to
launch Purcell’s -era of public
improvement The bond issue
in part carries into execution the
ideas the father’s gathered
Much street improvement work
U planned and the city expects
to forge ahead With additional
municipal improvements
Will Build A Great Dam Near
New Fort
Lawton Okla July 11— Un-
der instructions received from
the war department by Captain
D L Stone who was detailed
from Washington to superin
tend the enlargement of Fort
Sill engineers of the department
have begun tests for bed rock in
Medicine 'creek at the point
where the city reservoir dam is
'being constructed with a view to
adding to the city dam and mak-
ing a great government reser-
voir which will furnish water
both for Lawton and Sill The
instructions call for a 90-foot
dam which would force the
water back over about 25 acres
of land and impound sufficient
$ 4710
12175
18003
40450
3052 CO
$440058
$
10755
1600
6335
20095
18940
2205
10200
2540
352735
$25105
15193
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ment however is to secure
power from a turbine wheel
placed below the dam to furnish
lights and other equipment for
the military post
HEARS ROUNDUP
CALL Of BEYOND
World’s Champion Rope Dies
Of Injuries Received At
Pontotoc
Ardmore Okla July 10—
From injuries sustained yester-
day when his horse fell upon
him during a roping contest at
Pontotoc-Milton Beeler cham-
pion steer roper of the world
died at his home near Pontotoc
today He was 21 years old and
owned two ranches near Pon-
totoc His father who resides
near Chickasha will come here
to arrange for the funeral
Beeler was well known through-
out the southwest and extensi-
vely in the east He won the
world’s championship in roping
two years ago during ji cattle-
men’s convention at Enid mak-
ing the record of roping and
trying a steer in 2 2 seconds
How Eight-Hour Law Works
Guthrie Ok July 11— The
new eight-hour lawfor trainmen
makes a revolution in railway
business An extra crew is kept
busy out of this city 'since this
new law went into effect as
when the train gets in late anoth-
er crew must take the strain out
Under the new law crews must
have eight hours’ rest before
they are put to work again This
makes it more convenient for the
railroad men as well as insuring
safety to passengers from being
thrown into a diten by a wreck
liabIS to be caused by overwork
ed trainmen or operators Three
train crews are psed on the Den-
ver Enid and Gulf run between
here and Kiowa Kan since the
law went into effect
The Democratic Primary
At the primary held last night
the democrats nominated a full
city ticket for the election to be
held July 30th which is as fol-
Inwc
DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY
For Mayor
THOMAS CARROLL
For Police Judge
C K HARRISON
For City Clerk
JOHN ROGERS
For Chief of Police m
OSCAR DICKENSON- '
For City Treasurer
JOHN HUTCHISON
For Assessor ‘
J D HARDIN
For City Attorney
" C E B CUTLER
For Street Commissioner
MF LANDON
Treasurer of School Board
'S R ADAMS ’
For Scavenger
WILLIAM BROWN
Aldermen
J P POWERS
J H LILLY
C F KALEY
JOI1NW FORD
DR W A LOGAN
DR II G GOBEN
JOHN O’BRIEN
J E COVINGTON
School Board
I BEATON '
ROBT POWERS
J i HADLEY
R B LANCASTER
LOUIS HARTMANN
‘ JOHN SAUTER
J HOPSON
A L RUSSELL
You Never Can Tell
just exactly the cause of your
rheumatism but you know you
have it Do you know that Bal
lard’s Show liniment will cure it?
—relieves’ the pain— reduces the
swelling and limbers the joints
and muscles so that you will be
as active and well as you ever
were Price 25c 50c and ' $100
Sold by City Drug Store
Declares Separate
School Law is
Useless
Guthrie Okla July 10 —In
the opinion of State School Sup-
erintendent Cameron the law
passed by the first legislature
providing for the establishment
of separate schools is useless
He is supported in his position
by James Hepburn county at
torney of Logan county who to-
day made publc a lengthy opin-
ion explaining his attitude
Mr Cameron and Mr Hepburn
declare the law is inoperative
because it fails to provide for the
maintenance of the separate in
stitutions Mr Hepburn states
that if the law were put into ef-
fect every separate school in this
county could be closed
In only one section is the new
law different from that on the
statute books of the territory
hat section provides for the es-
tablishment of the separate
schools but according to Attor-
ney Hepburn fails to empower
the treasurer of the separate
school board to handle the funds
“or the maintenance No provi-
sion i3 made for the county com-
missioners to issue warrants he
contends
The fate of the separate
schools under the new law is
somewhat vague under this
interpretation The attorney
general’s department has ruled
hat the present boards shall
lave control unitl the election
which is held in cities next April
and in other districts this month?
NDIANS REFUSE
TO STAND FOR
HOMESTEAD TAX
Gov Johnston Will Urge Big
Attendance At Choctaw
Conference
Ardmore Okla July 13— It
is now pretty generally asserted
that Governor D II Johnston
of the former Chickasaw nation
will issue a formal call to his
people urging that they attend
n masse the conference of Choc
taws recently called by Governor
Green McCurtain This meeting
is to be held at Tuskahoma and
is called for the purpose of form-
ing an organized resistance
against the taxation of the home-
steads of the Indians
G VV Young of Berwyn an
intermarried Chickasaw t and a
member of the Chickasaw senate
declares that “all the Indian
wants is a square deal according
to the treaty stipulations and the
constitution of Oklahoma”
“The removal of restrictions
on the sale of lands of the In-
dians was favored by both the
Choctaws and Chickasaws”
said Mr Young “Both legisla-
tures of the nations memorial-
ized congress to pass the bill
but the Indians did not want
their treaty rights concerning
taxation of their lands meddled
with by the state authorities
“When the farmers of the
constitution completed their
work and assured the Indians
that his land would not be bur-
ened with taxation the Indian
supported the constitution but
now it seems as if some of the
county commissioners are de-
sirous of overiding the constitu-
tion The way in which the
commissioners are going about
the matter looks to me like the
state wants to confiscate the
lands of a large number of min-
or children taxing them The
state authorities may look for a
fight and- in the end the Indian
will win”
frhis i3 what Hon Jake Moore
State Warden of Georgia says
of Kodol for dyspepsia: “E C
DeWitt & Co Chicago 111—
Dear Sirs— I have suffered more
than twenty years from indiges-
tion About eighteen months
ago I had grown so much worse
that I could not digest a crust
of corn bread and could not re-
tain anything on my stomach I
lost 25 lbs in fact I made up my
mine that I could not live but a
short time when a friend of
mine recommended Kodol I
consented to try it to please him
and was better in one day I
now weigh more than I ever did'
in my life and am in better
health than for many years Ko
dol did it I keep a bottle con-
stantly and write this hoping
that humanity maybe benefitted
Yours very truly Jake C Moore
Atlanta Aug 10 1904” Sold
by Adams & Adams
Office of the Executive Guthrie
Oklahoma
PROCLAMATION
To Whom it May Concern :
Whereas thiry-five per cent
of the qualified electors residing
within the territorial limits of
the incorporated town of Lehigh
in the County of Coal State of
Oklahoma which has a popula-
tion of more than twenty hund-
red inhabitants' as shovn by
the special federal census taken
as of July 1 1907 and which
was not a city of the first class
on November lGth 1907 have
filed in my office their petition
asking that the Governor of the
State of Oklahoma call a special
election for purpose of submit-
ting to the qualfied electors of
said town of Lehigh the question
of whether or not it shall become
a city of the first class under the
provisions of Senate Bill No
114A entitled “ An Act Amend-
ing Sections 1 5 and 6 of Article
1 of Chapter 14 of an Act Pro-
viding for the Incorporation and
Government of cities of the
First class of the Statutes of
Oklahoma of 1893 Amending
Section 1 of Article 1 of chapter
6 of the Session Laws of Okla-
homa of 1897 entitled An Act
Amending Sections 7 and 8 of
Article 1 chapter 14 of an Act
entitled “An Act providing for
the Incorporation and Govern-
ment of cities of the First class
Statutes of Oklahoma 1893”’
Providing for the Incorporation
and Government of cities of the
First class ’and Declaring an
Emergency” and
Whereas it is provided by
said act that at such election the
qualified electors residing within
said town nfay vote for a mayor
city clerk police judge city
treasurer city attorney a mar-
shal who shall be chief of po-
lice city assessor street com-
missioner treasurer of the
school board two members of
the school board and two concil-
men from each ward one mem-
ber of the school board and one
member of the council from each
ward who shall hold office until
the first Tuesday in April 1909
and one member of the school
board and one member of the
council from each ward who
shall hold office until the first
Tuesday in April 1910 and un-
til their successors are elected
and qualified and
Whereas the corporate author-
ities of the town of Lehigh have
filed in my office information up-
on which to divide said town in-
to four wards and have furnish-
ed names of judges and clerks
for each ward who are repre-
sented to be qualified electors of
said town and not more than a
majority of whom are of one
political party
Now Therefore I c N Has-
kell Governor of the State of
Oklahoma bo virtue of the au-
thority vested in me by the laws
of the State of Oklahoma do
hereby call a special election of
the town of Lehigh to be held on
the 30th day of July AD 1908
for the purpose of submitting to
the qualified electors of the town
of Lehigh the question of wheth-
er or not said town of Lehigh
shall become a city of the first
class and for tho purpose of
electing the following city of-
ficers: Mayor police judge city
treasurer city clerk city attor-
ney city assessor marshal
street commissioner treasurer
of the school board two mem-
bers of the school board and two
councilmen from each ward one
member of the school board and
one member of the council from
each ward who shall hold effies
until the first Tuesday in April
1909 and one member of ths
school board and one member of
the council who shall hold office
until the first Tuesday in April
1910 and until their successors
are elected and qualified For
the purpose of said election the
poli3 shall be opened at eight
o’clock am on the day of elec-
tion and shall be closed at six
o’clockfpm on said day
The following polling places
are hereby designated for said
election and the town is divided
into four wards and judges and
clerks are appointed as follows:
First Ward All that por-
tion of the town Jof Lehigh as
shown on the official map of the
Department of the Interior
which lies north of Division St
of said towns to the north boun-
dary line of the same and east
of Sycamore St to the east lim-
its of the same The polling
place is fixed at John Peters
store
Judges: Lewis -Hartman
Henry Pax W P K Cameron
Clerks: Chas Lovingood Jno
Peters
Second Ward: All that por-
tion of the town of Lehigh as
shown on the official map of the
Department of the Interior
which lies north of Main St and
its extension in said town to
the north boundary of the same
and which lies west of Sycamore
St to the west boundary of the
same The polling place is fixsd
at the mayor’s office in Menton
Block Judges: H LW War
rick B F Williams R H Rice
Clerks M E Lefever W A
Jones
Third Ward: All that por-
tion of tbe town of Lehigh aa
shown on the official map of the
Department of the Interior
which lies south of Division St
to the south limits of the bound-
aries of the town and east of Sy-
camore St to the east boundary
of the same Polling is fiixed at
Strangs’ store Judges: Ben
Brown Robert Powers Joseph
Rouch Clerks: Claude Con-
lelly Ed Mason
Fourth Ward: All that por-
tion of the town of Lehigh as
shown on the official map of the
Department of the Interior
which lies south of Main St and
its ex tension in said town to ths
south limits of the boundaries
of the town and west of Syca-
more St to the west limits of
the boundaries of said town
The polling place is fixed at Gob- -en
Building Williams’ office
Judges: S R Adams Georgs
Bradfield Charles Barritt
Clerks: C E Johnston Frank
Bloomerv The qualified electors
at such election shall be as pro-
vided by the Constitution of ths
State of Oklahoma and shall bs
male citizens of the State malt
persons of Indian decent natives
of the United States over’ the
age of twenty-one yoars resid-
ing in the State one year in the
county six months and in the
election precinct thirty days
next preceding the date of this
election
In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand as Gov-
ernor of the State of Oklahoma
and caused the Great Seal of
the State to be hereunto affixed
this 1st day of July 1908
Seal
C N Haskell Goy
Attest:
Bill Cross
Sec of State
Hon Geo A Fooshee of
Coalgate was a visitor last Tuesday
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