Canadian Valley Record. (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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The Canadian Valley Record.
C. 8. McDowell, Ed. A Prop.
CANTO
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territory topics
Open New Bank at Guthrie. —
It is reported here that Senator
Felix L. Winkler of El Reno, presi
dent of the council of the last leg sla-
ture, who is now interested In several
Oklahoma banks, will soon establ'sh
n fourth state-bank here.
Hail Storm in Dsaver County. —
A very severe hail storm Is report-
ed f-om Heaver county. John Nich-
ols alone lost 350 acres of wheat, bar-
ley and oat.-i. lie had practically no
Insurance. Within a rad'us of ten
Cash Cade Is To Attend. —
C. M. Cade, of Shawnee, O. T.. na-
tional committeeman, has accepted
'he invitation of the Bartlesville Re-
publican Club to attend the banquet
•he club will give July 31. The Re
publican executive committee for In-
ian Territory will meet here on that
eft to.
Ill Health Causes Suicide. —
Because of continued ill health
Miss era Hooks, aged 22 yer.r.i. a sls-
'< r of W. F. Hooks, a stockman of
■Ardmore, shot herself in the head
with a shotgun, dying In a few mln-
i ?<s. The remains v.ere brought to
Ardmore for Interment. The family
formerly lived In Alabama.
8eccr<d the Remnant Lands. —
J. C. Orner. of the territorial school
land office, has Just finished ftlin" on
ail the vacant land In Woods county
under the provisions of tho statehood
to SOfion . "8,tl7atofd lhat fro,n 20000 ' donating 1.500,000 acre, to Ok-
to 30.000 bunhels of grain was either lahoma territory. The number or
entirely destroyed or very badly dam- acres of land filed on In this county
fnr tiia i_ . i . . „ ,
filed on In thla county
for the territory Is about 40,000 acre3,
Butcher Accepts the Presidency.— 1 ' ^vlng not a foot of vacant land In
Thomas W. Butcher notified I,. W. j tho county.
Baxter, superintendent of the terri- WorLr Wj.
tor al schools, that he will accept the ! Co ' rnin , ,r'SC° u ' ~
place of president of the Central Ok- j Construct'°n work is to be com
laS-.unm Normal school at Edmond, re- ! cTn^the*1 the. ,n^xt,'hlrtv (i3yj
cently vacated by the removal of .. . which the I risco Is
Frederick H. Pmholtz. Mr Butcher .'"-i A°g.B0"th from °Wahoma City to
was principal of the Sumner county
high school ac Wellington. Kan.
To Denver Via. Kansas City. —
Indian Territory mm hers of the B.
P. O. IS. will travel ♦- Denver next
month by special train, going • in a
tody to call attention to the growth
of the order In the new state. Sleep-
ers have been chartered by Muskogee,
Tulsa, Chickasha and Ardmore lodges.
Three hundred members will assem-
ble In Kansas City. and. after spend-
ing the day, will journey to Denver.
Millers Have Adopted Plan. —
"^he millers and grain dialers of
^thern Oklahoma and Southern
as, at a meeting at Arkansas
adopted a plan by which
eccive accurate information con
Hewitt, I. T.. where it will make con-
nections with the new line being; con-
structed west from Ardmore through
Hewitt to Waurika. The contract for
t!:o Oklahoma City-Hewitt line haa
been .let to the Kenefick construction
company of Kansas City.
Good Land .For Pappossss. —
Chief Quanah Parker went to Ana-
darko to transact business with Agent
Blaekman. Parker is extremely busy
of late looking after tribal matters.
The Indians have completed he se-
lectlsh of tho land in lieu of that
chosen before in reserve. Chief Par-
ker stated thut more* than 300 infants
are to receive allotments. By re-
they I flU0St °' ,he war department five
con_ delegates jf the Apache tribe, Includ-
V
Ing the wheat crop. «ach agreed
to make reports to the Blackwell
Milling Company, which will con-
dense them into one general report.
The reports will cover all the points
of Interest to grain men.
More Horses Were Stolen.
Horse stealing Is again getting too
frequent In the vicinltv to please
horse owners. This week a team of
ponies was stolen from the barn of
L. W. Harness of Ponca City, and
only a few weeks ago a valuable team
of work horses and harness were stol-
en from another resident of the city,
in earlier days in the west vigilance
committees were necessary to stop
the thieves and it seems there is talk
now of again resorting to the same
remedy.
Test Case in Pawnee County. —
The county commissioners of Paw-
nee county have brought suit in the
d'strict court against W. H. and P.
P. Mllllkan to determine whether or
not taxes can be collected on the oil
production of that county. Oil pro-
duction has always been assessed on
the tax rolls of the county, but the
Mllllkans, who are millionaire Penn-
sylvania operators, have refused to
pay on the ground that such a tax is
illegal, and the suit just Instituted is
to be made a test caE?.
To Beat the Oil Trust.
A scheme by which the exactions
of the oil combine, represented in~Ok-
lahoma by the Waters-Pierce Oil com-
pany. can be evaded ha's been evolv-
ed by citizens of C.r^nt county and
of various towns in other counties
along the Kansas border. An agent
of one of the independent companies
operating In Kansas brings a big tank
of oil to an agreed point on the state
line and sells it there to farmers and
other oil consumers at a pr'ce consid-
erably below what Is asked in Okla-
homa. If each of the buyers brings
In the oil merely for hio own use and
not for sale it is not liable to the oil
inspection laws of Oklahoma.
Sscretary Filson Has Returned.
Secretary Charles H. Filson re-
turned from Washington, where he
went about ten days ago to consult
with officials of tho treasury depart-
ment regarding the handling of the
funds for the constitutional conven-
tion. for which he is made disburs-
ing agent. He reports that the only
Ihing which any of those officials can
talk .-bout at the present time is the
riv:j appropriation bill or the defi-
ciency appropriation. The comptrol-
er of the currency had not yet passed
upon the financial features of the
statehood bill and was unable to give
any opinion in regard to them.
Stock In tho Bg Pasture. —
In violat on of the law, some cat-
tlemen are holding their stock in the
big pasture, though their leases on
the land expired some time ago. Com-
plaints have leen made by the agri-
cultural lessees to Ag-r.t J. P. Black-
man at Anadarko that nearly 3 000
cattle are trespassing upon the leas-
ed land. Agent Blaekman ordered
his sub-agents to round t:p tho cattle
end ascertain who they belong to and
Just h. v. long they hr.ve beta there
contrary to law
ing Chief Oeronlfno, will go to Wash-
ington in their interest. They arc
ready to go and awaiting further no-
tice from the department as to the
time they are wanted. Chief Parker
of the Comanche, will accompany the
Apaches and it is thought will be able
to assist them greatly. Chief Parker
has declined several lnvitat'ons to
participate In Independence day cele-
brations. He says: "1 will not go
on exhibition like cattle at a ccunty
fair. They will point at me a:id sav
"There Is Quanah Parker.'"
Wenner Beat Them at It. —
By prompt action on the part of
the school land board of Oklahoma
Territory the greater portion of a mil-
lion acres of vacant land ibeen
saved to the new state. Secretary
Fred L. Wenner, of the territorial
school land board, returned from
Woodward last week, and Assist-
ant Secretary Cunningham came in
from Lawton at the same time. Beth
have been making the rounds of the
var ous land offices of Oklahoma dur-
ing the past week, and have filed up-
on about 1.000,000 acres of public
lands, which, according to the provis-
ions of the Ftatehc ad bill, will be s:t
aside fur the use cf the colleges and
universities of the new state. If the
board had delayed action until a la-
ter date, most of thin land would have
been taken up by immigrants from
other states who have already begun
to flock Into Ollahcma with a view
of taking up all the public land that
had net been previously filed won.
The school land deportment thus has
the distinction of having carried o t
tl.e firs' official business of the new
state. "I cm inclined to think at this
time that the schocl' la.nd board v.il
not lea*-e any of Hi bnd unt!l the
state haB been fu.! organized " said
Secretary Wenner. "so that the ques-
tion of its Ieisng or disposition can
b? taken up at once b" the first leg-
islature and disposed of separate!-
from the other school lands of :h>-
territory."
Killed by Concentrated Lye. —
Mrs. Lula Whltworth. the younf
wife of Thomas W. Whltworth. drank
concentrated lyn at Quinlan and died
at her home In greet agony.
Succeeds Himself as Postmaster
News reached Guthrie that Wil-
l>urn M. McCoy, the present incum-
bent, has been appointed to succeed
himself as postmaster at Guthrie'.
S«:hool Bonds Wers Approved. —
Indian Inspector J. George Wright
has been notified of the approval of
school bonds in the sum of $€.500 for
Bokchito, I. T., by the secretary of
'he interior.
Whistle C."u:?s Fatal Gpasm
The whistle cf a train at Ciiandi r
awakened tho l'ttle daughter of
Deputy County Treasurer McGovern,
throwing her into sp-.isnvi from which
«ho died a few minutes later.
Oklahoma's G. A. R. Officers. —
Pet- r A. Bcc!;er, cf Jefferson, O.
T.. commander of the G. A. R. fcr the
department or Oklahoma, haa an-
nounced that the tenth annual re-
union of the Northeastern Oklahoma
Veterans Association will be held at
Jeffernon, O. T., In Reek island park.
August 1, 2, 3 and 4 190G. National
and other speakers will le promt
Land Opsning In S?pt-m!3;r. —
H. D. McKnight of the Lav-ton
land oflics, has received word from
J. T. Massy, chief clerk of the fun-
eral land office at Washington, siat-
hig that in all probability the land
opening here would not take place
until September, as Secretary Rich-
ards is no\v in Wyoming and would
not be back to look after it until that
time.
Refuse to Dig Potato Crop. —'
T he bottom has dropped out of tho
local wholesale potato market, the
price having pone so low potato grow-
ers refuse to dig the tubers. The
quotations range Trom 30 to 35 cents
Per bushel with few deliveries. An
overabundance at Tulsa. I. T., and at
other points is responsible for the
dropping of the market. The farm-
ers say they cannot afford to dig
them, buy sacks and haul them to
the cars at the present price.
THE DOCTORS AGREE—SO DOES THE PATIENT:
Minntapoli* JiuYnat. ,
Beef Trust Boy—Why, Kaally, I Believe I Do Need to Take Something
A TERRITORY LYNCHING, harvard wins BOAT RACE.
Quick Work Was Made withaBruts
Near Womack.
Crtmaon (rrn Defeated ••Mil Kir
Men by Tno I.enirtka
and n Half.
New London, Conn. — Han
ward's 'varsity triumphed ove^ Yale
Judge Diekeraon win Make n Ked- Thursday before the greatest cro^d
erul luveatlKntloii—Humora of An-
tlelpnted Trouble with
No Action Against Thompson. —
It is thought that there will be no
action taken regarding the charges
sa d to have been filed by United
States ManVial W. s. Darrough
against Jim Thompson, of Tahlequah,
because of a visit Thompson paid the
Wycliffes in the Spavinaw hills re-
cently, accompanied by a newspaper
man. Thompson appeared before In-
dian Agent KeJsey but the Indian
agent would not discuss the matter,
and it is thought that no definite ac-
tion was taken. Darrough did not
come to Muskogee.
Are Adverse to the Trust. —
It is probable there will be a hard
fight to have strong anti-trust laws
Inserted In the constitution for Okla-
homa when the convention meets.
A movement has been started.hen- to
have men of national reputat!on come
to Oklaiie>ma and stump the state in
an effort to secure men for the con-
stitutional convention pleelgc3 to put
laws in the constitution absolutely
prohibiting the formation of a trust of
any character. The hcrdest fight
ever known will be made to make
the constitution of Oklahoma a
model In regard to anti trust laws.
Copies of the Statehood Bill. —
A resolution was offered by Dele-
gate Andrews, of New Mexico for the
printing of 25.000 cople of that por-
tion of the statehood bill relating to
Oklahoma, and 50,000 copies of the
portion relating to New Mexico and
Arizona. The governors of the terr-
tories desire copies of the bill for dis-
tn'iutlon in order that the people may
become well informed on the provis-
ions e>f the statehood act. and the re-
sr^utlon provides that they shall l;e
placed at the disposal of the three
territorial governors.
Hobart Want3 tii- Land Rush —
The citizens of Hobart, through
the!.- commercial club and news-
papers, are demanding that they be
given a share of the rush bus ness
which will result when the "big pas-
ture' on Red river is epened to set-
tlement thi•; summer. The pasture is
located seven miles south of Hobart
and the citizen" claim it would I e'
more convenient to reach the pastor,-
from Hobart than from any other
point. The matter has be.n tak*n up
with Secretary Hitchcock. Five
thousand acres of the pasture" a-
very close to Hobart.
Ripubl'shed Statehood Editorial.—
Iillly Walker, editor of the Pulcell
Repliter, and one of the many fath-
ers of joint statehood, has r?publlsh-
ed his first statehood editorial, writ-
ten sixteen years age>. The' first
paragraph reads: ' Let the last, tho
brightest, the most resplendent s ar
in the galaxy of states be the Toma-
hawk state, fn other words, let the
five tribes and Greer county bo em-
bodied within the limits of Oklahe)-
nia territory cnel there will be with
in these boundaries a sufficient num-
ber of United States citizens to wi._
rant the admission of the territory at
occe."
Incre:s3 cf Half a Million. —
The territorial board of railway as-
sessir.: completed its work and re-
ports t at the total taxable valuation
f railroad property In Oklahoma, ex-
clusive of Pullmans, la 812.CS0.518.
The Pullman valuat'on Is $42,858.
The te.-t^.l valuation for last year was
$11.920.:i 15. showing a total increase
in taxable: valuation for 1!M)G of $544,-
203. The assessment for this year
was made only upon property con-
s'ructcd or in course of construction
.March 1. lJKiO, and does not include
railroad improvements since that
date. The report shows that the San-
ta Fe and rtoc\ Island railroad com-
panies have tae larg'st amount of
taxabl' property In Oklahoma. Tho
taxable valuation of the Santa Fe Is
t3.1C7.53S and Rock Island J4.4C2-
52S.
Dfclincd tho Rs'se In Salary. —
Dr. Bradford, ctanKetlof of Ep-
worth university at Oklahoma City,
has refused an lncre se of *500 a
year In hi * salary, because tho in-
stitution cannot nffo-d an increase.
I r. Bradford should be pent to the
constitutional convention, where such
Ken will be baelly needed.
Chickasha, I. T.t — Saturday
noon a report reached this city of the
assault upon Mary Rednnson, the 15-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Robinson, living about 18 miles ea^l
of here, near the little village of Wo-
mack. The little girl was in the rewd
on the way to one of the neighbors
living a short distance away when she
was nccosteel by a negro, seemingly
about 30 years of age. The girl was
able to reach the house and give the
alarm and tell what had happened. \
posse was formed In the immediate
neighborhood and at once started .n
search of the fiend. A good descriu-
lhat ever gathered here on a.race day-
Coming after years of defeat the vic-
tory \\as particularly sweot to the
crimson. It was a great \alicrew that
Harvard defeated, a crew that had
broken all records iu practician* went
to the stake boat a favorite. Thurs-
day night Harvard's joy was uncon-
fiued.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed a race
that will live long In the anuals of col
lege sports. Not only from the start
until the last sixteenth of a -mile did
the shells cease to lap each qther. Thu
men in the rival boats could se«- each
other for more than three mile* and
a half, as first one coxswain au<> rhea
the other called upon his crew. Har-
vard really got the lead whek/ the
lion was furnished by the victim. She killing pace proved too much for two
«l-~' • ■ - - or the Yale men. in the final spurt
Roulton and Noyes were done, their
ears literally slipping away from them
Here Harvard' began to open up clear
water end in the last 10 or 15 stroke?
she pulled away.
Harvard won the race by lesj tnar.
two lengths and a half. Her time
v.as 23:02; Yale's 23:11.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS BILLJT
described him as wearing a checked
suit and carrying a grip; he was of
rather light complexion end medium
build. As eoon as word reached this
city two other posses were formed who
immediately started in pursuit.
About 9 o'cle>ck trace of him was
found near the little town of Bradley
15 miles east of here. He was seen
to enter a big cornfield and one of the
posses immediately surrounded it and •
be./an to work their way to the cen- 1 Tbe om.ib.. Men
ter. The negro was found and as sewn
as he saw he was cornered he threw
up his hauds and begged them for
mercy and not to kill him. | Washington, D. C. — The omnlbuE
Deputies from ChieV.usha and Purcell 1 public building bill, as agreed upon
were there and made formal demand I by the house committee on public
for the prisoner but were unable to get j buildings and grounds, was presented
possession of him as the mob had de- to the house Monday by Chairman
cided that he should be put to death. [ Bartholdt. Some of the approprla-
He was then taken to a spot on Wnl- | tions are for additions and repair*
nut creek, less than a quarter ml!e ""
from the place of the crime and
>are Reported to
the House—Many Mlanourl and
Kantaa Tonna Included.
The buildings authorized, togethei
with the amounts to be expended, u
elude:
Kansas—Iola, JCO.OOO; Manhattan
$:;0,000; Newton, $60,000; Pittsburg
$755,000.
Missouri—Columbia, $10,000; Net%-
rope was thrown over a tree on tho
bank of the creek about eighteen feet
from the ground and the negro was
pulled up until he was strangled. Be-
fore life was extinct, he was lowered
on to a pile of brush and Iocs that I d®- $10,000; St. Joseph, $50,000; fit
had been saturated with oil, and it L«ul«, limit Increased to $l.loo,000;
was then set on fire. j Jefferson Barracks $15,000; Carthage
J. T. Dlekerson, I'nlted States fed- j 175,000; Cape Girardeau, $100,000; St
eral Judge of this district has alreadv . Charles, $60,000; Carrollton, $7,500:
served notice that a special grand Clinton, $7,500; Independents. $1< .000;
Jury will be empanelled Monday to in- Lexington, $7,500; Macon, $10,000;
vestlgate the case and subpoenas will ! Warrensburg, $7,500.
be issued for every man thought to
have had a hand in the lynching.
ATTORNEYS GET BIG FEES.
['onacre«a Appropriated to
I'ny Old Indian < Inlm mid Law-
yer* Get fT."M .«K>0 of it.
Wu.t Pay or l.enve Knnana.
Los Angeles, Calif. — The Thnes
'ays, quoting C. H. Lullng, superin-
tendent of Insurance for Kansas, who
; is visiting In Less Angeles: "The re-
l>ort which Insurance Commissioner K.
j Myron Wolf e>f California nnk'H upon.
| the actions of these companies In re-
gard to promptness of payment of
!
Washington, D. C. — Congress ap-
propriated Thursday the funds to pay risks In the big Are will be sufficient
the $5,000,000 award to the eastern or for every other tire insurance eommis-
immlgrant Cherokee Indians against sloner In the United States, at least It
government. ThiB claim grows , will be accepted by injeelf a.-; rtmU
the
out of their removal from Oeor?la nnd
other southern states to the Indian
territory inl838. The suit was filed
in 1903 in tho court of claims. It re-
sulted In a decree In fnvor eif the In-
dians for $1,111,284. with interest at G
per cent from June 12, 1S38. to date
of payment. Authority to pay them
the award Is contained In the general
deficiency bill passed by tho house
Thursday morning. The attorneys
who represented the Indians will re-
Judgment ns to whether any rertalr.
company can continue to transact bus--
Iness in the state of Kansas If the
report is unfavorable te> any company,
that company must clt>se Its offices in
the state of Kansas once and fo- all,"-
Uirta for Cooper College Library.
Sterling. Kan. — Cejoper rol-
lege library Friday received a gift of
S12.0C0 from Mr. William Hamilton of
„... Hane>ver, Ind. At the tame time came
eelve In fees 15 per e?nt cf the entire 1 ar,OJl'Pr donntlem of $1,000 from John
award or about $750,000. Hamilton, a brothe: Within the past
j week the college library received ti
further gift of half o set Ion of lane'
In the h<nise Saturday Mr. Tawney
(Minn.) presented an approprl 'tion
bill to carry Into oTcn the provisions
ot the omnibus public building bill.
It carried n appropriation of $7,00V
C00 and was j-at without debate.
valued at $10,000 and a note fur $50
'■"0. Friends of the institution arc
assisting to ral e a $C0,000 fund to se.i
cure a $20,000 fund from Andrew Car^
negle.
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