The Leedy Herald (Leedy, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 8 NO 40
LEEDEY DEWEY COUNTY OKIIOMA TUURSDAY NV 21 1012
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GOVERNOR CRUCE
SENDS MESSAGE
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The Knife Must lx Applied
Somewhere Says
Governor Cruce
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Gov Cruce has caused to be
— — n carrying out
issued inbook form his regular plans the f0iiowin petition is
biennial message to the legisla- being circulated throughout the
1 ture which is to meet m January 'county '
“Hon F B Rose Representa-
tive from Ellis county
Chaney Okla '
“Dear Sir: We the under-
signed citizens and taxpayers of
Ellis county respectfully peti-
tion you to vote and use your
best efforts to secure ’the adop-
tion of the recommendations
proposed by - his excellen
cy Governor Lee Cruce in his
recent message to the legislature
believing that the question of
lower taxes is paramount to
JVtjr”
These books are sent to the 'var-
ious newspapers of the state
Through the newspapers the
governor hopes to find what the
sentiment of the people is in re-
gard to his recommendations
He first discusses “prize fight-
ing” and refers to the Morris-
Flynn bout which was to have
been pulled off at Tulsa but was
prevented by the governor He
asks for a more rigid law The
next is
' "GAMBLING
To make this sort sf crime -a
misdemeanor is' a travesty on
justice xxx the man who con-
ducts a gambling bouse should
’be sent to the penitentiary
says the governor ’ - v -
PROHIBITION
Be discusses this aubjet
the people and not the party
TAX PENALTIES
The Governor says 18 per cent
tax penalties Is a most inexcu
' able outrage How does the
length and recommends ‘tst Pt to enforce usury
that the governor be empowered lws when a burden of 18 per
by law to remove any officer who cent i sdded to the taxes of the
does not enforce the prohibitory delinquent taxpayers Work of
tewto his jurisdiction - j Sheriff ia huid sales should and
the Ttrte hooU-nd utaf -
menJtht3 orthe 6 Normall nnnTrrT
Schools be abandoned and if noA7T rilll l Hi I
other use can be found for the “ IibUIIjUI:
buildings donate them to the
towns where' they are located
for as he says they are about the
only people getting any good
from them
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
He says the old order of "an
eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth” as commonly intepreted
is not in harmony with modem
civilization He prefer no
death penalty
REDUCTION OF OFFICE
He says that million - are be-
ing paid by the taxpayers for
township' government and the
benefits are infinitely small He
favors the consolidation of the
offices of Register of Deeds and
County Clerk The Treasurer
with that of Assessor and that
all deputies be employed ly the
County Commissioners He
u -no yet the welfare of the farmers
would abolish all Superior Courts t u
j j tU of Oklahoma are at stake and m
so protecting the industry our
state would soon have an abund-
ance of cattle for the worlds
markets
Within the past ten years our
population now nearing the
ninety-five million mark has
and w’ould cut the number of
District Judges from 26 to 20 in
the state He would also aljol-
ish the office of State Printer
He recommends a law that all
state officials both elective and f
appointive render an annual
statement to the legislature of
the money expended by their
department He recommends a
legislative bureau composed of
three men to be appointed by
the governor or by the legisla-
ture whose entire time shall be
given to studying thejatvs of the next ten ears and if proper
this and other states and ‘ to 8afe urd a‘T "f thrown a-
'gather such laws as is' needed round the catbe industry it sim-
by future legislatures f "' extermnaton of
beef cattle m this country
state CAPITOL I Statistics show tha the slaugh-
Reccommends the building of er 0f caves has increased more
State Capitol without delay Of- J tjian (x)0 pbr cent in the past 10
fices scattered all over Oklahoma ' jhis tremendous al-
City
REAPPOTIOXMFNT
“The usefulness of any politi-
'cal party or organization reaches
its end when that party ceases
to be fair and juat” he says
He recommends that Congres-
aional Districts be made to eervi
SSSSR
party has great confidence in
and admiration for Governor
feeIj that u hi 8ua
jgestions are followed out taxes
will be greatly reduced without
imparing the standing
of the state In order to
assist him in cVrying out his
f ’E
YOUNG CATTLE
Proposed Law ' to Prohibit
Slaughcr of Heifer Calves
For Three Years
In view of the shortage
livestock in r United States f°r a i-h has been! market as seen as possible while
( especially cattle a law has been established les tl n -’x months j we had a number of buyers for
proposed the practical effect of It speak vcll for our trade the reason that after these buy-
: which would be to increase rap- territory fiv-m which this produce 'eys left town the price would
idly the number of breeding
cattle in Oklahoma
The proposed law would make
ft unlawful for a period of three
years to slaughter or sell for the
purpose of slaughter heifer
calves or female cattle under the
age of three years While this
seems like a drastic proposition
years
most criminal waste resulting
from our present system of
meat -getting will sooner or later
force the people of this country
to use goats and mares milk to
supply the milk for the family
table The coming legislature
should pass this law
SID ID A COUTH
FOR POULTRY
Lccdcy Produce Companym
of The Big Institutions
Of Lccdcy
The development of the pro-
duce business in our little city ia
certainly worthy of comment
C F Bufkin the owner and
manager of this concern has
had nearly '30 years experience
in this line of work
For several years and up to
the time of locating in-Leedey he
averaged one trip a month to
New York and other ' eastern
markets with carloads of poultry
for firtns by whom he eras em-
ployed Becoming tired 6f
away from home and practically
living oh the trains be recned
his position arid decided tNP
into business fpp himself tj jl
small way because his ’Cxtal
was very limited He tested
fiere last spring and got in com
munication with his focasr cus-
tomers in the east sad in this
respeetbehads dfeddxi Advan-
tage over buyers in other towns
because of Bs personal acquaint-
ance with the managers of them
large produce' houses
He has recently doabled
floor space and in addition to
this he built a large coherers
basement His business' is-iu
creasing so that further additions
must be made His books
show that he is paying to the
farmers of this section of country
more than $10000 d month for
poultry eggs and hides At the
present time he is making daily
shipments of 1200 pounds of
dressed turkeys to the eastern
markets He would double
this if he could secure feather
pickers He ships out on an
ayerage of 50(0 pounds of
poultry each week
This is ortairlv going some
comes The fanners are begin-
ning to look upon the poultry
industry as one of the essentials
to farm profits
The poultry industry should
double itself in another year
Leedey is destined to become the
largest home grown poultry mar-
ket in this -part of the state
every farmer should get in line
and help boost this very profit-
able farm industry
Commercial
Telegraph Ser-
vice
Leedey and towns along the
A F & N W Ry are circulat-
ing petitions which will be sent
to the Corporation Commission
Western Union ! aH?l‘ he ?aslx’ H’
' register
asking that the v
Telegraph Co he forced to ex-
tend their service north from
Elk City There is a great need
for a commercial wire at this
place and these other towns a-
long the line Telegrams must
now be transmitted to Elk City 1
by phone and the delays caused1
by this system are tiresome and °neo'' ‘c
very unsatisfactory Our hog 8at V th vatJriorks'platu i Dwe' County Highway i of tha town
buyers grain buyers broomcom and were found at the rear d-w was formed with the election of ! ?ne Ltviey Bakery is now
buyers and poultry v buyers are It is probably the work of an!S H Whittenburg as president briad'to WeuJl
very much inconvenienced by ameteur or they would have and F G Delaney secretary and Elk Clitv on the south and
this method of ’transmitting tried something bigger Anum- s R Hawks Jr and W R Trail Camargo ’ Vici and La-
telegrams and there is no doubt ‘r° t‘Le expc Hughes were present at the 'veme to tlie north He also hu
will order a commercial wire' authorities have been notified- and Arapaho respectively -Ok- Uke th- to
placed along thh line of railroad Butler Herald lahotnan -?
FUGITIVE YORKS
AS DETECTIVE
Former Okla Asst Auditor
Employed as Detective ia
f England and N Y
r ‘ :
t
hi Will UcBrine -former assist-
ant state ' auditor who about
nineteen months ago absconded
after raising and forging several
thousand dollars worth of state
warrants has came back to Guth-
rie and given himself up
Since he has been away hehai
been employed by the Pinkerton
Detective Agency and by Scot-
land Yard working in London
and other points in England A
cloeely trimmed van dyke beard
and an acquired English accent
helped Me Brine— who is yet
considerably under 30 years of
ege— to cover up his identity
ta these detective agencies he
srtn his own picture nize
heighth and ££aral description
even tothe kind of lenses ia his
eye-glasses His anxiety to see
his wife and baby caused him
to resign his position and return
to Oklahoma and surrender
Sixty Seven Loads
'-' ' Corn
of Broom
Sixty seven loads ' of broom
com stood on our Streets Tues-
day night which arrived too late
in tiie day tobe soldT- 'About ay
Many 'more were sold during the
day We are sorry to say that
many of our buyers left for their
homes to vote at the election and
probably will not return We
now have only a few buyers and
they are unable to get cars to
ship out the ccrn they are buy-
ing The broom corn yard is
full and the buyers are afraid
bad weather will set in and they
are’ not paying the prices they
live -did three weeks ago During
I the ‘fall the Herald urged the
farmers to get their com on the
not be as high Stiil many of
them held the!- corn and now
compelled to take a lower price
The market this week has
been from S-0 to $7d
We woSld advise our readers to
get their corn in as quickly as
possible for the buyers may get
and all they want and quit buying
entirely It never pays to hold
broom corn over until next yeir
Some of them triti it last year
and when they bnught it on the
niarket this fall they were only-
offered about one third the price
of new corn
Robbers Blow Safe at Butler
This morning about 4 o’clock
the sate at the Mayhew Mervar-
- --
tile Company’s store was blown
'as
but only con-
‘e Ht
ro en m o
a
few jiennies The sate
is a ctmplete wreck and evident-
ly was blown
open
soap
' glycerine as
about the t afeThe"
Circumstantial Evidence
Governor Cruce says circum-
stantial evidence should be used
against tho bootlegger We
quote in pert from his message
on the subject as follows:
“Circumstantial evidence is
sufficient in cases of mnrder to
justify the infliction of the
death penalty xx By a chain
of circumstances that point to
his guilt you may establish his
crime in the courts of the Stats
Not -so with -thsr bootlegger
You may raid his place and 'find
there whiskey beer and every
other variety of intoxicant - x x
You may see everything that is
necessary to prove that tiye law
is violated but unless you can
procure some man who will
swear that he actually bought
the whiskey or beer from him
or saw the purchase made you
cannot convict a bootlegger of
selling intoxcants and have- that
conviction stand in the courts of
Oklahoma I believe the legis-
lature should pass a law that
would leave it to a jury when
all circumstances are properly
brought” before it to decide
whether or not the defendant is
guilty And not sleae it to the
courts through mere techni-
calities to overthrow the ver-
dict of twelve honest men who
hare heard the testimony' and
wfcwhave'jeome 'to an - hooast
conclusion 'and osoaUy a right-
eous one
GOOD ROADS IIECT
HELD AT TALOGA
Organization Formed to Eoost
Proposed State
Highway
Taloga Okla Nov 17— A
large crowd met here Saturday
in the court house and held
a
roa-ls
f the
a
very enthusiastic “good
meeting” The purpose
meeting was especially with
view of beginning at -an early
date the construction of a roa-J
from Clinton via Arapaho anc
Putnam intoTaloga which shoulc
becoirie a section of the great
proposed public highway from
Wichita Falls Texas -across
western Oklahoma to Dodge
City Kansas This section of
Oklahoma has long been in neec
of railroad or other transporta-
tion facilities and it is believed
that this proposed highway wil
in many respects be more bene-
ficial than a steam railroad At
Cunton the road would intersect
-
i four mam lines of railroad mak-
convenient connections with all
parts of the country ' "
Colonel Sidney Suggs head of
j ’
t’igl road movement m Ok-
lahcira was present- and
nif ! made a rousing' sjieech He ex-
founf ‘n the needs ari
f r"?
LEEDEY LEADS
Till AIL
Comparison of Markrtsst Dil
ferent Points in Kansas
And Oklahoma
- The broomcom market her
holds steady at $30 to $100
Below we give the market of
other points in Kansas and Ok-
lahoma as published in the Broom
and Broomcom News ‘ Areola
III: v
CANADIAN TEXAS
Canadian Texas Nov 8 —
(Special) —A small amount of
corn is selling here at? $40 to $33
for fair to good ‘with inferior
grades selUng as low a $30
The receipts have run only about
a car a day during the past week
LIBERAL KANSAS '
Liberal Kas Nov 19 — Caotzsc
corn dealer are experiencing
considerable difficulty hrsgettiax i
can for shipment of com sold to
manufacturers Corn ha
'sold at $30 to $90 daring the
past week the bulk of it bring-
ing $40 to $60
‘ DELIVERIES LIGHT
Deliveries are reported light
the pest week at Higgins Tex
Shattuck' Woodward Vici Law- -too
Lindsay AJva and Gage
Oklahoma’:’- -
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AT GAGE OKLAHOMA '
lArJfSpeeL)
The market here is quiet and
not much coA coming in Some
tittle com is selling at $30 to $70
but many of the growers who
are financially able to do so are
holding
WICHITA REPORT
Wichita Kas Nov 11 (SpecL)
— Election evidently took most
of the manufacturers home ten
days ago and but few were in
the market last week resulting
in a rather quiet week for the
Wichita dealers The rains at '
many poirts hindered deliveries
and most of the shipping points
report little d ing
Prices range all the way from
$40 to $100 on the Wichita mar-
ket In Sterh’ng districts
small amount of com sold at
$10o ami a limited amount of
whisk stock was purchased in
the Cooly district of Oklahoma
by an eastern manufacturer
during the past week as high as
$125 beirg paid
Band Concert and Eqtcrtaiiv
ment
An' entertainment will - be
given at the Methodist church
Wednesday night November 27
for the benefit of the Leedey
Band
Recitations weal and instru-
mental music with an occasional
outburst from the trumpets of
the Leedey hand will constitute
the program The feature of
the evening will ! a duet by
Road Overseer Wilson and Print-
er Snvtli A small Emission
fee will be charged at the door
One price for the whole enter-
tainment including the ‘feature
A Growing Industry
“'In a sh-rt talk with’Robt
Buerger owner and manager of
the Ledev Bakery we find that
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