The Helena Star. (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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The Helena Star
yPTrvA' OKLAHOMA
WASHINGTON
Robert E Peary arctic explorer
has been promoted to rank-of captain
In the navy v
The old United States $1 note
which disappeared from circulation In
1885 in to be called into service again
A new census will be taken at Ta-
coma Wash as a result of the
charges of fraud in the enumeration
there
The fight for a complete investiga-
tion of the sales and leases of public
lands in the Philippine Islands will
be resumed early in the next session
ef congress
President Taft is back on his Job
after his vacation at Beverly He Is
confronted by an immense mass of
work which will keep him busy for
almost a month
The government Board of Trustees
of the Postal Savings Bank decided
Saturday that the institutions should
be opened on January 1 instead of
December 1
The interstate commission has is-
sued a notice suspending the advances
in rates on general and grain prod-
ucts from producing points in the west
to milling points in Omaha
Sixteen battleships comprising the
Atlantic fleet will assemble in Hamp-
ton Roads about November l'for a Eu-
ropean cruise Two English and two
French ports will be visited
Hearing of oral argument in the two
cases of the Southwestern Shippers'
Traflic association vs the Santa Fe
and other railroads before the Inter-
state commerco commission will be
had in Washington on November 5
An enormous reserve army of from
90000 to 100000 men to supplement
the present fighting force of the reg-
ular and militia Is planned by Major
Leonard Wood chief of staff and oth-
er officers of the war college
DOMESTIC
Many artesian wells have lately
teen discovered near Guymon Okla
Explorer Peary's records are being
examined by Prof Andreas Galle of
a Berlin institute who has declared
them worthless
Census reports stow that the stats
of Connecticut has s population of
1141756 an increase of 908420 or
2207 per cent
Floor plans of different state build-
ings of the Oklahoma State capltol
have been received by the commis-
sioners There was a decrease of sixty-seven
wells dug in the Oklahoma oil field In
the month of September
Members of the Phoenix Investment
company of Oklahoma City have been
arrested for using the United States
snails to defraud They have secured
profits to the amount of $40000
The Chilocco Indian training school
shipped a fine lot of hogs to the Okla-
homa City market Thuraday which
sold above market prices
President Ripley of the Sants Fe
railroad stated at Wichita Kana
Thursday that the road was paying
only three per cent dividends
All available United States soldiers
were Thursday ordered to southwest-
ern Mindanao where two Ltanda of
'Manobos tribesmen are in revolt
The estate of the late "Samuel L
Clemens "Mark Twain" la valued at
1611161
The Bank of Jefferson Okla was
entered by robbers Thursday and
13100 In bills taken
Broom corn is selling at 116 a ton
an Woodward Okla
A storage house containing boutc-
fhold goods burned at Ft Worth Tex
Thursday In which one hundred
pianos were stored $230000 damages
resulted
National banks of Oklhhoma with
combined capital and surplus of more
than $14000000 have resources of ap-
proximately $70000000
The Vitrified Brick and Tile Co of
Enid Okla suffered a 110000 lire
Thursday from the explosion of oil
Eighty decisions are ready to be
handed down by the Oklahoma- su-
preme court Among the moat impor-
tant la the esse ef John Hopkins of
Lawton charged with murdering his
wits
Five laborers were killed and twea-fcy-cse
injured by a runaway ear on
Nha United Railway- company’s line
ear Portland Ore Thursday
Tbs crew of the balloon America
n have returned to civilisation after
a week spent la the unexplored Can-
adian forest The men broke all reo-
ords for long flights and distance cov-
ered Intoxicants are being shipped out
cat of Alabama as a result of a strict
enforcement of prohibition laws
Railroad said express companies of
Oklahoma bare been granted the right
o deliver shipments of liquor In the
state pending tho hearing In the so-
prciie court
Three railroads have been charter-
ed in Oklahoma In the last month
The combined capital stocks amount
to $300000
- Tbe election commissioners of
Tennessee have rofuBed to call a bond
lection to vote bonds to build a ne-
gro normal '
$492934268 worth of bonds have
been issued in Oklahoma since March
24 The bonds were for municipal
improvements
The U S revenue cutter Manning
has captured four Japanese vessels
and their crews for butchering seals
ok the St Paul rookery
Late reports from the Oklahoma
corporation commission show that
great activity In railroad building will
be shown this fall
John D Rockefeller’! home in tbe
exclusive neighborhood of Cleveland
has been leased tor an institute for
the cure of alcoholism
Tbe St Paul road's famous Bilk
special was wrecked near Portage
Wis Sunday night There was $500-
000 worth of silk aboard the train
Because of tie shortage of pickers
and the coming on of cold weather
it is feared that the entire cotton crop
of Oklahoma will not be picked this
season
The “bath tub" trust the exposures
of which by the New York American
was followed by a dissolution suit or-
dered by Attorney General Wicker-
sham has defied the United States
government by secretly advancing its
prices throughout the country
Anderson Hamilton of McAlester
has been appointed superintendent of
the mines rescue station located at
McAlester
Tbe First National bank of' Ard-
more! Okla is now quartered in its
new banking room which is one o(
the most handsome in the state
Philadelphia was declared the win-
ner of the world's baseball champion-
ship after defeating Chicago on home
grounds Sunday by a score of 7 to 2
Philadelphia won four out of five
games
Tbe subordinate lodges of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of the
state have declared themselves In
favor of consolidating the grand lodge
of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
Territory
Three men are Injured and three
hundred head of cattle were destroy-
ed by fire following a collision be-
tween a cattle train and a local
freight train on the Chicago Rock Is-
land & Pacific road two miles east
of Calhan Mo
In the Klckapoo landjraud hearing
which reconvened at Guthrie Okla
Monday the prosecution attempted to
show the defendants had bribed Mexl-
j can officials
One of the greatest strikes ever
made In Colorado is reported from
Diamond Park on the Upper Elk river
where a body of ore averaging $150
per ton In gold silver and copper has
been unearthed i
A postal savings bank Is to be es-
tablished lu each state and territory
in tbe union January 1 Guymon will
get the Oklahoma office
Clinton Okla will soon have a un-
ion depot coating $150000
K Rouke former engineer on the
Panama canal aayn that fortification
of the canal la tbe only means of sav-
ing that property to the United States
FOREIGN
A great conflict between organized
capital and organized labor is about
to take place in Germany
Barrister Artheur Newton filed an
appeal Thursday for Dr H H Crip-
pen under death sentence for the mur-
der of hia wife Belle Elmore Crippen
The case will be argued within n fort-
night ' ' -
A most interesting discovery in an-
nounced from Jerusalem where an
entire church baa been unearthed on
the aummlt of Mount Olive The build-
ing dates from about 320 A D
Many American families from Okla-
homa and Kansas who hare located
on small tracts of land near Tampico
Mexico are said to be In destitute
circumstances
Jacob M Dicklnaon American Sec-
retary of War made a abort aero-
plane flight at the Military aerodotne
at Mourmelon France Thuraday On
reaching tbe earth again the secre-
tary expressed himself as delighted
with bis trip
The unsettled conditions existing in
Greece for the past two months broke
into an open revolt Monday A mob
filled tbe streets and threatened dire
punishment on the members of the
national assembly who had refused
to vote to the king’s cabinet their con-
fidence Ethel Leneve alleged accomplice of
Dr Crippen now under death sen-
tence for tbe murder of hla wife was
acquitted Tuesday in a trial lasting
less than a day
Thirty-five eociallste were arrested
by soldiers in Berlin Wednesday aft-
ernoon for hissing and Jeering Em-
peror William and the Empress of
Germany as thay rode through the
treetn In a rarriager- - -
A decree was published at Athens
recce Wednesday dissolving tha na-
tional assembly and fixing November
28 as the date for elections for the
new revisionist chamber
Aviator Blanchard fell 17S feet Wed-
nesday at Isay Francs' sad was in-
stantly killed Lis body being terribly
crushed He was attempting to alight
after a flight from Bourges
Assistant Editor Lockatone of tbe
London Weekly Telegraph was fined
$500 Wednesday tor contempt of court
for publishing a story commenting up-
on y case of Dr Ht 17 Cjippta
1 STATE
LOAN COMPANY DEFRAUDS
Oklahoma City Concern Is Suapi-
cloned With Crooked Dealing
Oklahoma City — With a field cov-
ering the entire southwest and par-
ticularly Oklahoma and with their
alleged criminally-secured profits
amounting to more than $40000 fed-
eral warrants charging the use of the
United States malls to obtain money
under false pretenses are out for mem
bers of the Phoenix Investment com-
pany One member R O Bounds secre-
tary of the concern was arrested
shortly after noon Monday by United
States Marshal John Abernathy and
Postofflce Inspector R V Leaghay
At 2 o'clock be was arraigned before
Commissioner Oliver C Black and
remanded to the custody of Marshal
j Abernathy pending his ability to ae-
j cure bond In the sum of $2000
j Other members are under survell-
lance whose arrests are momentarily
expected All have offices In the
Campbell building
The Phoenix company was sued by
the state Friday afternoon for $5000
for doing business without a state 11
cense
Millions of Bond Issues
Guthrie Okla — Since March 24
1910 the attorney general’s office has
approved 278 county municipal city
and school district bond issues to the
amount of $492924368 most of which
goes for civic Improvement and has
pending half a million dollars more
which are In process of issuing At
the Bame time the office is in touch
with another half million of bonds
proposed Under an act that went
Into effect March 24 the attorney
general is made state bond commis-
sioner and must pass upon and ap-
prove all state county municipal city
and school district bonds Issued in
Oklahoma before tbey can be sold
Street improvement bonds ond other
special bonds such as drainage dis-
tricts and special road districts do
not come wltnln the Jurisdiction of
tbe office and are not included in
the totals given above As there is
now about three millions of drainage
and road district bondB issuelng and
nobody knows how many millions of
street paving bonds It is very prob-
able that the total bonds issued for
public improvement in Oklahoma
since March would total between
twelve and fifteen million dollars
Mayor and Clerk Not Embezzlers
Durant Okla — R P Bowlea for-
mer mayor of Durant and W S Shan-
non city clerk who were arrested re-
cently on the charge of embezzling
$69000 of city funds have been dis-
charged and the proceedings against
them dismissed by Justice of tbe
Peace Neely
Broom Corn $110 Ton
Woodward Okla — It Is estimated
that not less than 300 car loads of
broom corn will be shipped from this
section during the present season
which is now at Its height The high-
est price so far paid for good brush
Is $110 a ton and ltis believed that
It will go above that before the sea-
son is over Farmers have been im-
portuned to hold their brush for a
higher price
Crop In Lincoln County
Prague Okla — Prague is getting
from 100 to 250 loads of cotton per
day The crop will be much larger
than waa expected The frosts last
week did not hurt the cotton
' Artesian Water at Guymon
Guymon Okla — It la believed the
question of irrigating farm land in the
northwestern part of the etate has
been solved by the discovery of a
number of artesian well in several
planes in Texan and Cimarron coun-
ties Many of these wells have been
brought In lately with an almost inex-
haustible supply of water of the purest
kind
Chorokes County Crops
Tahlequah Okls — Following moat
abundant harvests of wheat oats snd
com Cherokee county farmers are
now marketing a heavy cotton crop
at prices unknown to this section for
many years seed cotton bringing
from $460 to $485 per hundred and
as high as 1415c In the bale with seed
at $24 per ton
Oil Walla Decrease
Tulsa Okla — With 421 new oil and
gaa well! drilled In tbe month of Sep-
tember aa against 488 in August tbe
development of the oil and gaa indus-
try ia the states of Oklahoma and
Kansas known am-tha MId-C6attndnt
field waa slightly reduced
Indian Attorney Meet
McAlester Okla — Attorneys repre-
senting the tribes and many of the
leading Indiana of the Chickasaw and
Choctaw tribes met here Thuraday to
devise some plan for the sale of In-
dian lands and n settlement of tbe
tribal affaire '
Much Cotton At Ardmore
Ardmore Okla — More than 10000
bales of cotton have been marketed
here this year The crop la not half
gathered and It U believed tbe coun-
ty will raise 25CC3 hales
NEWS
RAILROAD8 MU8T GIVE BOND
License Holders to Get 8uppliea Pend-
ing the Investigation
Guthrie Okla — Railroads and ex-
press companies will be allowed to
deliver shipments of whisky within
the state pending an appeal from a
decision of Judge A N Munden of
the superior court that it ia a viola-
tion of the law for common carriers
to transport liquor to holders of fed-
eral liquor licenses from “wet” states
to points in “dry” Oklahoma
Judge Munden Thursday morning
granted the railroads and express
companies permission to make a sup-
ersedeas bond to Indemnify tbe state
and the people against any loss or
damage which might result from the
delivery of whisky within Oklahoma
while the case is being appealed to
the" supreme court Each railroad
and express company will be required
to furnish a separate bond ranging
from $10000 to $25000 Ten railroads
and three express companies will have
to glvd bond
Two weeks ago Judge Munden
granted an injunction against the
transportation companies restraining
them from accepting shipments cf
whisky In other states for delivery in
Oklahoma An appeal was then taken
to the supreme court In the mean-
time they filed through their attorneys
a petition praying the judge of the
superior court to not execute the In-
junction until the matter has been fin-
ally passed upon by the high court
State Acquires Valuable Land
Guthrie Okla — Assistant Attorney
General Spillman Thursday filed on a
piece of government land for the state
which is valued at $500000 The land
borders on the Arkansas river at the
corner of Osage Pawnee and Tulsa
counties It has never been surveyed
It la in the heart of tbe oil district
and is said to cover a fortune In oil
Several In the state have previously
attempted to file on the land but since
it has never been surveyed they bad
no legal rights
Insurance Company to Pay All Debts
Guthrie Okla — At the final hearing
on the receivership proceedings
against tbe Western National Fire In-
surance Company of Oklahoma City
representations were made to the
court by officers of the company that
they now had enough cash on band to
pay the adjusted and unadjusted valid
claims against the company ampunt-
Ing to about $20000
Land 8ales Dates Announced
Muekogee Okla— The government
has made public Its regulations under
which the 2000000 acres of unallotted
lands In the Five Civilized Trldes will
be sold aa well as fixed tbe dates
and places when the sales will be
conducted Tbe first sale will be In
the 8eminole nation at Wewoka
Nor 21 Following that date sales
will be made in every county in east-
ern Oklahoma where there la land
that haa not been allotted
Cotton Report 8howa Shrinkage
Washington — The census bureau
Tuesday morning issued a cotton re-
port showing that In Oklahoma 419984
bales have been ginned from the crop
of 1910 to October 18 against 479428
for the year 1909 It shows 5490456
bales counting round as half bales
ginned in all from the growth of 1910
to October 18 compared with 5530967
for 1909 6296166 for 1908 and 4-
420258 for 1907 Round bales includ-
ed this year are 65105 compared with
888716 for 1909
ONE DEED WAS FORGED
Guthrie Okla — A full-blood Indian
Wah-Pah-Sose- whose land fell into
the hands of W L Chapman now
sought for trial by the Mexican auth-
orities in connection with that and
other similar transactions waa thn
feature witness of Tuesday's session of
the extradition hearing before United
States Commlaaioner D M Tibbetts
Wah-Pah-Sose led by questions of
the government lawyers told of
events occurring before the deeds to
the Klckapoo’a lands in Oklahoma ap-
peared He testified that three of tho
defendants Grimes Chapman and Dr
Conine came With hacks to tha Klck-
apoo camp near Mosqulz Mexico
Tbey took a number of the Indians
to the house of Genaro Guajardo
Mexican Guajardo told the Indians
to sell their land if they wanted to
sell It and if they didn’t want to tell
H not to sell It Wah-Pah-Sose waa
anre none of the Indiana -toeehed n
to make their mnrkn on checks
or deeds
Warrant Call Issued
Guthrie Okla— State Treasurer
Menefee Monday issued a call for
state warrants In amounts aggregat-
ing $240000 that are to be redeemed
The last of the series to be taken np
in numbered 12207
Ta Build University
Guymon Okla — Tbe eale of Iota to
raise funds for the establishment of a
university in this city will soon begin
All arrangements for the tale are completed
ii For all kinds of Building:
lj ' Material see
j C T SALE LUMBER CO jj
C LGltEK Mgr Jj
i
ON MS
ITUBBS 8AY8 HE CAN BUILD
LINES FOR 825000 PER MILE
HE WOULD MAKE BOND
Sovernor Says Ten Per Cent Profit
Would Be Made on Contracts
at That Price
Chicago— Presentation of evidence
ty the shippers who are opposing the
proposed advance in freight rates was
concluded Friday before the inter-
itate commerce commission with tbe
testimony of Gov W R Stubbs of
Kansas who in characteristic man-
ner declared his opposition to an
advance In rates and his belief as a
practical builder of railroads that val-
uations have been placed at too high
a point
“I’ll put up a mlllion-dollar bond"
laid the governor “that I can con-
itruct a main line railroad In Kansas
an un-to-date line too for $25000 a
mile and make 10 per cent profit on
Uie Job"
The lowest estimate of railroad
building offered by tbe railways more
than doubled the governor's estimate
- Governor Stubbs was the principal
witness for the shippers - who occu-
pied only three days with their wit
nesses while the railroads In pre-
vious hearings presented many wit-
nesses and consumed more weeks
than the shippers have days
Townslte Tracts Sale in December
Guthrie Okla — Tbe school land
commission announces that tbe sale
of townslte tracts of school land ad-
joining tbe towns of Woodward and
Hobart will take place early in De-
cember Adjoining Woodward a
tract of 1(0 acres Is to be sold in
blocks Tbe tract 1 la appraised at
$37700 and the Improvements at $10-
77$ The Hobart tract is appraised
at $37060 and the Improvements sf
$138283
Big Flood in China
Victoria B C — One thousand per
cons were drowned at Chen Klang
China early this month following a
rise of the Han river Large areat
in the Chen Kiang and Men Yung
districts were submerged Yokohoma
waa inundated when the Kamakura
Mura - left that city two weeka ago
Rain baa fallen continuously for sev-
enteen days and 3000 houaea were
uninhabitable
Georgia Prison Burns
Savannah Gn — A dispatch from
Mllledgeville says the main building
of tho state priaon farm quarter! at
that place waa destroyed by fire
Thuraday night Seven of the 206
prisoners confined there eicaped
The fire was caused by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp Tbe lose Is $18
000
Insanity In Buchanan's Plea
Pawnee Okla — Roy Buchanan who
killed J N Robertson near the En-
terprise school houaa south of Mam-
mae by shooting him three times In
j the back on the morning of Feb 10
is now on trial in this dty
Two Killed by Engine
Medford Okla — John Leyerii and
wife of Caldwell Kanaaa were killed
and Qtto 8k!dmore wife and two chlf-
dren of the same-place were serious-
ly injured when a light engine on
the Santa Fe struck their carriage
three miles northwest of here early
Friday morning A small baby who
was also in the carriage escaped with-
out a scratch
Counterfeiters at Muskogee
Muskogee Okla— While searching
for bootlegging whisky in an old bkm
here Friday deputy sheriffs unearthed
the plant of n gang of counterfeiters
i Four complete sets of dies and
moulds for making dollarn and half
J dollarn a furnace for heating - metal
and other paraphernalia wan found
New Air Record
Esampee France— Maurice Tabu-
lean broke the world's aviation reo-
ord for time and distance Friday by
flying 289 mllee In nix bourn in n con-
tinuous trip
Phoenix Receiver Appointed
Oklahoma City — Paul If Pope an
attorney was appointed receiver of
the Phoenix Investment eomrtny by
Judge A N Munden of the supreme
court Friday afternoon following e
petition of R O Bounds tbe aecro-
tary and Miss Lucy E Boyce the
vice president who claim that by
reason of civil and criminal prosecu-
tions pending against tbe company
and its officers tbe public haa doubt-
less lost confidence ia the business
n
THE METROPOLITAN
Ob business man! Oh student too
In our ahop we've room for you
And if you come and try our style
We’re sure to keep your name on file
And in our shop where all ie clean
With towels white and razors keen
Juki as we do from morn till nigbt
We'll put your whiskers out of night
Without a pain or smarting scratch
Out by tbe roots stubs we'll snatch
And when we're thro without a gash
All we ask of you ie ready caah
Arnold Padldiko
door south Meat Market
JLH IgJLgJAmjULajt UL&JLZISULSLSU
When you have
Hogs or Cattle
to sell See
C M Holton
Dealer in Live Stock
Highest Market
Prices Paid
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Bill’s
Dray Line
Consisting of
"Dinky” horses and
poor wagons but he
hauls everything part
of the time anything
all the time
Meets all the trains some
of the time some of tha
trains all the time
j '! irl
If you have anything
in the dray line her
will try to do it
Phone 97
D3 SM JENKINS
SPECIALIST
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Glasses
flitted correstly
Hockaday Bldg Enid Oklahoma
G R CURTIS
Graduate -Veterinarian
Office atWeetside Liver Phone 51
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AUCTIONEER
Cries ealea large oi
mall at reaeoaabl
terms and guarantee
satisfaction
Leave orders m the
STAR office
M M YARD
Contractor and Builde
Plan tnd Sjecifications
Furnished on request '
Helena Oklahoir
Phone 98
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CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
Helena - - Oklahoma
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