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Coal contracts tor the year were let
by the state board of affairs & a fol-
' lows:
State university at Norman 600
tons mine run at 6314 per ton M
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School for the Deaf at Sulphur 250
tons mine run at 6225 McAlester
Fuel Co
Hospital tor the Insane at Norman
650 tons mine run at 6310 to Na-
tional Fuel Co of Oklahoma City
960 tons commercial lump at 6390
to McAlester Fuel Co
School of Mines at wllburton 800
tons mine run at 6225 8 i Katl-
gan Wllburton
Colored Agricultural and Normal
university at Langston delivery to be
made at Coyle 800 tons mine run at
6310 McAlester Fuel Co
Institute for the Feeble Minded at
Enid 500 tons mine run at 6289
M B Schofield
Deaf Blind and Orpnan asylum at
Taft 250 tons mine run at 6240
M B Schofield
Olrls’ College at Chlckasha 120
tons mine run and 80 tons nut at
6340 per ton McAlester Fuel Co
East Central State Normal School
at Ada 160 tons mine run at 6867
Fidelity Fuel Co
Northwestern State Normal School
at Tahlequah 250 tons mine run at
6330 per ton McAlester Fuel Co
Southwestern State Normal School
at Weatherford 600 tons mine run
at 6340 Fidelity Fuel Co
Northwestern State Normal School
at Alva 260 tons mine run at 6334
M B Schofield
Southeastern State Normal School
at Durant 260 tons mine run at
$283 McAlester -Fuel Co
University Preparatory School at
Tonkawa 250 tons mine run at 6809
M B Schofield
Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the
’ Insane 1600 tons mine run at 6276
t Catale Coal Co
Oklahoma State Home at Pryor 120
tons mine run at 6248 M B Scho-
field Confederate Veterans' Home at Ard-
more 250 tons mine run at 6330
yr E Beatty
State Training Schol at Pauls Val-
ley 260 tons mine run at 6305 J
W Hinton of Dewar
State Hospital for the Insane at
Fort Supply 2600 tuns mine run a
trial order of one carload each to the
following: McAlester Fuel Co at
6436 M a Schofield at 6359 J
W Hinton at 6395 Fidelity Fuel
Co at 6385 Folsom-Morrls Coal Co
at 6138
8tate Wins Hospital Case
In sustaining the demurrer of the
defendant District Judge Hayson dis-
posed of the suit of Joseph Collins
against the Oklahoma State Hospital
(now property of the state) and there-
by brought to a close one of the mjst
peculiar cases filed in the annals of
the Oklahoma county district court
Early last winter Collins filed suit
In district court sgainst the hospital
company for 626000 damages alleg-
ing that the asylum authorities had
recorded his daughter as a negress
and were ho'dlng her as a colored
person on their books and In the col-
ored wards of the hospital and that
they had published the fact that they
were so doing Collins In his peti-
tion declared that the insane daugh-
’ ter Lee was a person of pure Cau-
caelon blood and that the hospital’s
action In branding her as a negress
Injured him 626000 worth In the com-
munity In which he lived
Later when the transfer of the hos-
pital property to the sate was being
contemplated Collins asked for an In-
junction to prevent a transfer until
his case should be heard The court's
action In sustaining the domurrer of
the hospital company clears the way
for the complete transfer to be made
of the property by the state
Requisitions Honored
Governor R L Williams honored
a requisition from the governor of
Kansas for the extradition of Eugene
Fetter who will be taken to Washing-
ton county Kansas to answer to the
charge of burglary and larceny Fet-
ter was held at Woodward
The governor of Kansas has hon-
ored a requisition for Earl L Wright
charged with grand larceny in Kay
county and now held at Wichita Kan
Prairie Company Assessed
After a sharp contest the state
board of equalisation fixed the tax-
able valuation of the Prairie Pipe Line
Company In Oklahoma at 66000000 A
few minutes later overcoming the vig-
orous opposition of Governor R L
- Williams who held firmly for a higher
figure members of ths body who had
fought the 66000000 valuation suc-
ceeded In putting through a vote of
reconsideration and having the val-
' nation fixed at 5 609 009
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Fair Grounds To Be Sold By 8tate
Reports of appraisers who have just
completed the work of appraising
school lands In Oklahoma county
8jow that the state places a value -of
648000 on the quarter section where
the State Fair has been established
Buildings and improvements on the
fair grounds are appraised at 6226636
Secretary George Smith of - the
school land commission announced
that the quarter section on which the
fair grounds are located is the only
school land In Oklahoma county that
will be sold this year If Indeed any
is disposed of The land in the north-
ern part of the city where the Okla-
homa City Golf and County club Is sit-
uated will be rented again and was
appraised only lor rental purposes
Valuable property bordering on the
western side of the city was appraised
for agricultural purposes low enough
that a tenant may afford to lease It
That there Is strong probability that
the fair grounds property may not be
sold is Indicated by the protest regis-
tered with Secretary George Smith by
ofllcials of the State Fair Association
which claim that the sum demanded by
the state Is too high
It the state and the fair officials are
unable to agree on a sale price the land
will be appraised at a lower figure In
order to enable the association to lease
It again If left at 648000 the rent
would amount to 61920 a year or more
than could be paid For the last sev-
eral years the state has received 6500
annually for tbe use of the fair
grounds Regardless of whether the
land is sold Mr Smith said be thought
the rent will be raised He said the
state couldn’t afford to let the prop-
erty out any more for such a small
sum -
The highest appraised value given
any of the farming property west of
the city was placed in the southwest
quarter of the section just six miles
west of the fair grounds which was
612000 This was because the entire
160-acre tract Is a great alfalfa field
This Is one of the most valuable farms
In this section of the state a
While only a small amount of land
will be sold In Oklahoma county the
school land department Is making
ready to sell great tracts In other dis-
tricts Selling of the land will be
started late this month v
Expiration Pardons
Governor Williams has granted ex-
piration pardons by which citizenship
la restored to convicts as follows:
Jason Banker Kay county assault
Intent to kill 1 year 4 days effective
August 27
Fred Patterson Caddo county bur-
glary 2 years effective August 31
Ola Lamme Musxogee county false
pretense 6 months effective August
26
R H Cantrell Rogers county dis-
posing of mortgaged property 2 years
effective August 26
J M " Griffith McIntosh county
grand larceny 1 year effective Au-
gust 28
Charles Carter Pawnee county
burglary 1 year and 1 day August 29
Jose ArrlbusT Jackson county crime
against nature 3 months effective
June 3
W S Browning Pontotoc county
false Pretense 1 year 1 day effective
July 17
J T Todd Tillman grand larceny
1 year effective July 12
Edward Mason Oklahoma county
burglary 2 years effective July 80
Thomas Blair Tulsa county embez-
zlement 2 years effective August 10
Carl Hargrove Kingfisher county
robbery 1 year effective August 18
OH Tax Law Brings 618398117 In July
The neat sum of 618398117 was
poured Into the state treasury in the
month of July under tbe terms of the
gross production tax law according
to a report compiled by the state audi-
tor Of this total more than- 6140000
was paid by oil companies operating
in Creek county where the Cushing
field Is located it is shown by the
statement This brings the total thal
has beeu derived from the gross pro-
duction tax law since March II when
It became operative to 628779022
The following prepared by the audi-
tor shows the gross production tax
yield for July by counties:
Washington 6559942 Tulsa 69
93762 Creek 614190478 Nowata
6481629 Muskogee 6168813 Okmul
gee 6403887 Okfuskee 619 42
Payne 67218 Rogers 681186 Wag-
oner 66226 Carter 61-80437 Lin-
coln 6131 Kay 6892 28 Kiowa
64 66: McIntosh 66847 Marshall
618 06 Osage 69470 84 Pawnee
6294597 Stephens 6486 Jefferson
6726 Ottawa 631778 Le Flora
6659
DOTSJLDASHES
WIRE NEWS OF
THE WEEK'
War News '
The Turkish battle ship Kheyreddln
Barbarossa of 9900 tons displacement
formerly a Oerman warshlp has been
sunk by a submarine of the entente
powers according to an official an-
nouncement Issued by the Turkish
government
During the lull In activity on the
front in France and Belgium the
British are looking to the Dardanelles
to bring the relief Russia needs
though the task of opening the straits
remains a difficult problem which
some think may only be Bolved by a
change in the Balkan situation which
will bring Bulgaria Into the war
The Baltic flank of the German
armies under Field Marshal Von Hln-
denburg -has virtually attained the
banks of the River Dvina between
Klga and Dvinsk with Petrogral less
than three hundred miles away in a
direct line
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The city of Warsaw the center of
the recent colossal campaign for the
Vistula line suffered comparatively
little from the battles which raged
around it and from Its evacuation by
the Russians
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Recognition of Imperatfve import-
ance to the Allies of forcing the Dar-
danelles as the shortest road to re-
trieving Russian reverses and regain-
ing the Initiative now In the hands of
Germany Is demonstrated amply by
the sudden landing of British forces
in the vicinity of Karachall on the
north of the Gulf of Saros
Prince Leopold of Bavaria com-
mander of the army that captured
Warsaw has issued a proclamation
promising ample protection for all the
residents of Warsaw and their prop-
erty The prince announces that the
Germans will do everything In theii
power to maintain ordor and that
their purpose Is to make war only on
hostile armies
The Balkan situation is still chaotic
Dispatches from Saloniki say that the
Austro-German plan to strike again at
Servia already has found expression
In a Concentration of Teutonio forces
along the Servian frontier It is said
one hundred thousand men have been
massed near Orsova Hungary
The allied forces have resumed
their attacks upon tbe Turkish posi-
tions at the Dardanelles with great
vigor in the last few days and have
made sensible progress on the Galli-
poli peninsula according to a dispatch
received from Athens The Turkish
losses have been heavy
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The British east coast was raided
again recently by a German air squad-
ron It was officially announced that
thirteen persons were killed and
twelve wounded A Zeppelin partici-
pating In the air raid was brought
down and destroyed
4 4 4
- Washington
General Carranza through his Wash-
ington agents has notified Secretary
LanBlng that “the Mexican people
view with displeasure" any attempt
tending to frustrate the success of
Carranza's armed forces
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The American Society of Aeronautic
Engineers has announced the appoint-
ment pf Henry A Wise Wood and
Elmer A Sperry as president and vice-
president They will act as members
of the navy advisory board
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The last veteran of the Civil War
has been retired from tho army Col
John L Clem quartermaster corps
having reached the age of G4 was re-
tired for age recently Under the
retirement law his service In the Civil
War advanced him to the rank and
pay of a brigadier general
4 4 4
An appeal Tor help for Americans
In Mexico and tor the relief of the peo-
ple of the country Itself has been sent
by the American Society of Mexico to
the State Department in Washington
through the Brazilian minister
4 4 4
- Congress' will be asked to pass
measures looking to the abolition of
the divorce question on United States
Indian reservations as a result of a
decision reached by a congress of
Catholic Sioux Indians of America at
the Fort Totten Mission
Rear Admiral Caperton command-
ing the American naval forcea In
Haiti has reported that he had taken
over the administration of the customs
office at Cape Hatlen and had placed
Charles Morris paymaster of ths
cruiser Washington in charge
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