Rogers County Leader. And Rogers County News (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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Washington, Jen. Ifc-Wfeen the
ways and means committee selected
Representative Scott Ferria lor the
- chairmanship of the public lands
committee, it not only conferred an
honor upon the Fifth district states-
man, but the state as well, be being
the first Ok lahoma man ever to be
elevated to an Important chairman-
ship in the house.
Although there have been soate
threats that the nomination will be
fought by tiie conversationists in
the next democratic caucus, it is
practically assured, owing to the
overwhelming vote in the ways
and means committee, thatMr.Fer-
ris will be endorsed by the majority
of the house. Representative Rain-
ey, a colleague of Representative
Graham of Illmois, who was defeat-
ed for the place, declares he will
-fight the nomination of Ferris in
Uifch the United States nnd Alaska,
in national monuments there 1.50H,.
<127 acres.
!<ands withdrawn for classilica
tiqn follow: Coal, «5,000,714 acres;
oil, 4,677,303 acresjphosphate, :i,201,-
6«7 seres; water power sites, 1,843
aqres; for resivoir sites, 101,08 acres;
for public water, 70,132, and for
mineral, 0,787 acres. The lands
mentioned as resivoir sites and
public waters do not embrace the
lands withdrawn under the pro.
visions of the reclamation act.
Prior to December 31, 1912, 17,-
4dl,flW acres had been classified as
coal lands and valued at 1742,«&V
152.
In the state of Oklahoma there
are 30,625 acres of unappropriated
and unreserved land, legislation af-
fecting which will fall under the
scrutiny of the committee.
In Beckham conuty there are
41,008 acres which is rough and de-
clared unfit for cultivation; Blaine,
1,-766 acres of grazing land; Caddo,
#13 acres mountaninous and sandy;
Canadian, 882 acres grazing land;
Cleveland, 528 acres, rough grazing
land; Comanche, 1,098 acres mount-
ainous, Custer, 303 acres broken and
rocky; Dewey, 4,024 acres, grazing
Ellis, 4,f>40 aires grazing lands,
<5rant,30 acres rough grazing lands!
Greer, 4,214 acres rough and unfit
for cultivation; Harmon, 2,306 acres
rough and unfit for cultivation;
Jackson, 2, 962 acres rough and un-
fit for cultivation; Kingfisher, 387
acres grazing lands; Kiowa, 811
Vol. 4, No. 47
CURRENT iHEWS
the caucus, but that he will gain I acres mountainous, Lincoln, 10
nothing is considered a certainty I ^res, sandy grazing lands, Logan
by all, for Majority Leader Under- 0 acres grazing lands, Oklahoma, 8
wood is back of Ferris and will re- acr«* grazing lands; Pottawatomie,
main so to the last. 220 acres rough grazing lands;
Through the elevation of Farris Koger Mills, 5,447 aores ofgraring
another chairmanship may go to lands; Tillman 120 acres gra*ii g
Oklahoma within a short while. '"nds.
Representative Carter ascending to of the biggest problems of
the position of ranking member of toe committee will be to deal with
the ladian affairs committee of the I the legislation affecting the owl
house. Representative Ferris re- lands of Alaska snd the -water
linquishea the ranking position on power sites of western states,
the Indian affairs committee wnen Alaska is demanding some sort
he assumes the chairmanship of the °f legislation which will permit
public land body. the development of the mineral re-
Representative Stephens of Texas, sources and all legislation which
now chairman of the Indian affairs would ten to permit her to do so
committee, if he can obtain one of generally affords an opportunity to
the larger committees, may step insert jokers which night be in the
aside that Carter may be elevated, interest of those persons who have
*s it 18 known that be is a close If**38 seeking to grab controlling
friend of the Oklahoman. Mr. interest in the wealth of the ter-
Btephens, however, would hardly I ritory.
|te likely*to surrender his present! The water power issue in west-
high position unless he could obtain fern states also is equally important
^committee which would be just!for several water power site grabs
Is influential and as suitable to I have been nipped in the budding
him as his present berth. When and the public lands committee of
Ifcie makeup of the committees is the house is by necessity the first
announced in the next congress great bulwark protecting the pub-
there may be a change in the chair- He domain against despoilers.
manship of the Indian committee. I Hence though highly honored by
The public lands committee, the the trust that has been plaoed in
destinies of which will be directed him, Representative Ferris' job is
by Mr. Ferris, is sure to be the for from an easy one.
center of public interest for years to
ME UffiE JUWEIinSERS
Sears, Roebuck A Co., have built
come, because of its importance in
accurately passing upon the great
policies affecting the public domain
in all parts of the United States.
Bills and resolutions, however, I " . . * *
large or small,which affect.the pres- P ge trade 8ole,y throuKh
sent control of the public'domain e*tensive advertising. Ifthecoun-
are referred to this committee for try merchant would follow the
action. Therefore, the great duty same tactics, in proportion to his
• r-rtime bewrtuM
mittee. It has the the task of J 8imply nch P'^rata as Sears,
recommending which bills are I ^"®^uck A Co.
worthy and which should be re- This newspaper is interested in
jeoted by the house as a whole. It the welfare of the local merchants,
~rl th« "|M" • hi* bod, of citizens, snd in
im n constantly U, „eI6lnJ cf the country editors,
SSwhJhf h no mesjnres slip upon whose energy, intellijence,
I trioti.ra snd end freedom from
.' P °r*tions harmful influences this country de-
of oitizens. And upon th6 chair* I peads for its growth and fnv fh«
^tlrln^ r^ ftZd ^m^rnTuc^^fuI^e^od^"
and the Indian offlcesjt is found when the steam engine came
EL" threatened to wipe out
served public lands belonging to the stage coaches, and the little
the government 314,074,119 acres inns along the stage coach routes,
are in the United States and 398,- many p^g were formed in ^
f'W^Jn Alaska, i^ing
total of 692,984,702 acres. All leg-1 coach owners to onnose the Wil
islation affecting this 'V**t domain roads and overcome them.
must go through the hands of Mr. They were foolish plans. You
^^.d^t^J Ptt322SSS2?5S
national forests 187,406,736 acres, in | work it-New Tork Journal.
Ail of the bond proiNtsitions pre-
sented to the people of Tulsa Tues-
day were carried hy large maj<rri.
ties despite the fact that a Jew
knockers had their hammers* at
work. Tulsa is one of the bist
towns in the state and she will
now erect a convention hall tfcd
beautify her parks. Tulsa will en-
tertain more than 100,000 |>eo|>|e
during the year 1913. A high po««r
craft is in course of construction at
Tulsa and about Mareh 1, will at
sail for New Orleans, loaded with
Oklahoma crude oil and cotton.
J. J. Harman of Muskogee is back
of the undertaking. Mr. Harmon
is an old band at the business and
no doubt the project will )>e a sue-
cess.
The school land lessees arc up in
arms over the Blanket Oil letlae
and have petitioned the legislature
to pass a law prohibiting such a
lease by the school land depart-
ment. The school land department
of Oklahoma should be abolished
and the school lands handled by
the county commissioners of the
counties where the land is located
and all rentals turned into the state
treasury. We will have an article
on this subject next week.
The concentration into the hands
of a few powerful interest* an
enormous percentage of the timljer
lands of the United States has cre-
ated a problem so grave for the
nation in the judgment of Luther
Conant, Jr., commissioner of cor-
porations, that today be recommend^
ed to President Taft that the exist-
ing national forests not only be re-
tained by the federal government
but increased as far as practicable.
Every indication noticable now
points to a peaceful, harmonious
administration for ll-esident-elect
Wilson. He has wisely handled
the politicians of the nation and
when he takes the oath of office
March 4, he will not be under obli-
gations to anyone. He has kept
all of his plans secret and this pre-
vented the formation of political
factions for the coming session of
congress.
scientific methods.
The experimental farms will lie
strictly modern in all resoects, and
will be supplied witn modern im-
plements, be well stocked and liber-
ally furnished with the )>est seed
procurable. All staple crops, to-
gether with forage grasses and,
where practicable fruits and voge-
tables will be grown. Accurate
crop records and statistics will be
kept showing the cost to produce a
bushel of corn or oats, or a pound
of cotton, hay or other products.
Seed will be sold at reasonable
prices to farmers in the surround-
ing country, and lessons in actual
field selection of seed will lie given
on the ground by expert agrinul-
tulralists.
Rogers county should have one of
these farms and it would not be a
bad thing for the citizens of Clare-
more to go after.
The hog and poultrytrain touring
the western part of the state thia
week under the management of the
Stillwater Agricultural and Me-
chanical stateschool, is being greet-
ed by record breaking crowds.
More than three thousand people
greeted the train on its arrival at
Cherokee.
Senator R. L, Owen was re-elect-
ed United States senator from Ok-
lahoma Tuesday. The vote in the
legislature wis unanimous. More
than likely this will be Owen's last
term, for he is getting too much
like Joe Baily. However, he might
be able to get a year lease on
his seat.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature will soon go on record
for or against the electric chair for
those who are sentenced to death in
this state. The committee that has
the matter in charge has recom-
mended that a bill providing for
the electric chair do pass.
Secretary Fisher of the interior
department was upheld in his dis-
missal of the Osage councilmen by
tbe supreme court of the United
States.
A convention of Hebrews, dele-
gates representing 200 Jewish con-
gregations, assembled at Cincinnati,
Ohio, the first of this week.
The vote of the electoral college
was so slow in reaching Washing,
ton that the president of the senate
issued a call urging the tardy states
to rush their reports as all votes
must be m the hands of the presi-
dent of the senate by .Monday,
January 27.
Dr. W. H. Williams, the negro
physician arrested and held for the
murder of a planter in Louisiana,
was identified as the man wanted
the first of this week by photo-
graphs sent to New Orleans.
Mrs. Helen Robinson of Colorado
is a member of the senate of that
state. She has the distinction of
being the first and only woman to
hold such a position in the United
'States.
It is reported by the Daily Okla-
homan that the Cushing oil field is
without dry holes with the excep-
tion of two. There are eigtby-one
oil wells and eight gas wells in that
field.
Preparations have been started at
the University of Oklahoma for the
ninth annual inter-scholastic track
and field meet which will be held
on Boyd field, Norman, April 25 and
20.
The war cloud is lowering in the
east. The Turks stubbornly re-
fuse to surrender Adrainople and
more than likely the war will be re-
resumed by the first of February.
Washington weather bureau has
issued a warning to the effect that
we will have a severe winter and
that people should be on the look-
out for it.
the iinm Non
mmm firm
Tne Missouri Pacific-Iron Mount-
ain system under the direction of
its agricultural department is is es-
tablishing the most extensive sys-
tem of demonstratioion farms to co-
operate with the formers along its
lines yet undertaken by an Ameri-
can railroad. The company has al-
ready eitabttabed five large dem-
atration farms and expects to soon
have a sixth in operation. These
farms range in size from twenty-
five to forty acres which makes the
undertaking the most pretentious
yet inaugurated. Work will be
conducted along the same lines as
the government demonstartion farm
work, but will be on a much larger
scale which will make it relatively
more valuable.
At present tbe farms will be con-
fined to the tracks of the Iron
Mountain railroad, three being in
Arkansas and two in Louisiana. The
sixth is to be somewhere on the
company's tracks in southern Mis-
souri, the exact location not having
been decided.
All the farms will be under the
general supervision of Mr. L. A.
Markham, commissioner of agri-
culture of the Missouri Pacific-Iron
Mountain, with headquarters at
Little Rock. Mr. Markam was
formerly in the service of the U. S.
agricultural department. The U.
S. department of agriculture will
co-operate directly in conducting
these farms and have field agents
representing them, and the state
agricultural colleges of Arkansas
and Louisiana, C. W. Watson and
Mason Snowden, state agents for
Arkansas and Ix>uisiana respect-
ively, are giving unreserved co-op-
eration in directing the experiments.
Each farm is to have resident
manager and each is to be located
along the tracks of the company's
lines in close proximity to town.
The managers and towns near
which the farm so far established
are located are as follows: O. M.
Monroe, Glenmore, La.; Tom An-
drews, Mer Rouge, La.; J. J. Lowe,
Dermott, Ark.; J. W. Turner, Con-
way, Ark, and W. P. O'Neal, Hope,
Ark.
The railroad will continue to ex.
periment for three years regard-
less of results, and if at the expira-
tion of that time the work has
proved as successful as anticipated,
it will be continued indefinitely
and both the size and the number
of the demonstration farms will be
increased. Eventually it is con-
templated to extend the work into
the Missouri Pacific territory go as
to cover the entire Missouri Pacific
Iron mountain tracks with a chain
of farms conducted on modern
NEWS FROM 10UMH
W.J. Kldridge and family spent
Saturday and Sunday with Oola-
gah friends. He reports Oolagah
about like most other towns of the
county, very quiet at present. There
is quite a good deal of farm work in
progress and every indication is
that large crops will l>e planted in
the spring. Some are nowarrang-
ing to plant oats; a moderate crop
wheat will be planted but the pros-
pects are brighter for a little more
kaffir corn than usual. The vicinity
around Oalagah is among the best
farming lands of the county, and
although, last year was not as good
a crop year as in the past, Mr. White
informed tbe writer that he had
stored in the elevator something
like 910,000 worth of last years'
products. The coal banks are be-
ing operated upon an extensive
ecale and some of the finest coal in
the country is being loaded for
shipment. There is quite a stir in
the little city over the prospect of
building an interurban line from
Tulsa to some point on the Iron
Mountain near Talala, and rumor
has it the line will miss Oolagah and
run by the Sunday coal field, thence
through the Talala fields and tap
the Iron Mountain somewhere near
Nowata. Of course this is only
rumor. This line would be of vast
benefit to Rogers county coal fields,
but it should be built to a connec-
tion at Oolagah with the Iron
Mountain as that would require a
much shorter line and would virtu-
ally serve the same purposes. A
large protracted meeting was in
progress and not a few of the citi-
zenship found time to attend and
it was stated upon the streets that
some few had got as far as appear-
ing before the mourner's bench
Our old friend, Jno. F. Smith, re-
ported the said town "distressingly
dry" nevertheless he was making
hay while the sun shone and was
enriching his plantation with a mod-
ern manure spreader. Mrs. J. C.
White had just returned from a vis-
it with her daughter, Miss Bcuna
at Collinsville, where the latter has
a nice position in the city schools
of which Collinsville boasts. Mrs.
White stated that the officers of
the school were hiirhly pleased
with her daughter's work. Oola-
gah, while not large a town, enjoys
the distinction of having as good a
class of citizens as can be found in
the county.
I Cntest tbe Seat of Canty
Pammleelanea Band 1IU
VwHiIhWJWwI IRnjll lllv
I-ate W eduesday afternoon, John
Dirickson filed suit in the District
court to oust W. O. Boyd, repub-
lican member of the board of county
commissioners. It will be remem-
bered that t here were claims of
fraud in the recent election in Ver-
degris township, precinct No. 3.
After thorough investigation Mr
Dirickson decided to file suit to re-
gain the position he recently vacat-
ed.
In his petition he alleges that the
place for holding the election in
Verdegris township was not prop-
erly provided for as required by
lfcw; that duriug the hours of vot-
ing electors and persons generally
were allowed within the voting
place; that booths were not proper-
ly curtained off; that peasons dur-
ing the time the election was ia
progress were allowed to come and
go as they pleased, that there was
no secret about the casting of the
ballot, that various and sundry per-
sons were allowed to congregate
about the booths for rhe purpose of
electioneering and that no effort
was made to restrain theni; that
the election officers either kept or
allowed others to keep intoxicating
liquors where the election was be-
ing held, and that inspeetor J. W.
Bickle, and clerk Curtis Flippin,
became partially or wholly intoxi-
cated during the progress of said
election, and that liquor was used
to inficence voters for W. O. Boyd
with the knowledge and consent of
the election officers; that fraudu-
lent votes were cast; that the re-
turns were not properly certified to;
that the day of election, during the
progress of the election the ballots
were not deposited in the official
ballot box as provided therefor, but
were scattered over the said voting
place and were not preserved as re-
quired by law; that mutilated bal-
lots were counted for W. O. Boyd
that should have been thrown out,
the voter not designating the per-
son he voted for. In his petition
Mr. Dirickson ask the court to de-
clare the electin in Verdegns town-
ship nulljand void.
This case will be watched with
much interest by people in all
parts of the county.
Ill StiMtyp it Srtalit Ininiss Colltfi
The stenotype is a writing ma-
chine consisting of 22 keys, similiar
to the Keys on a typewriter, and on
which every word in the English
language and many foreign langu-
ages can be written in plain English
letters. President Bobbins stated
to your correspondent that one
of his pupils, who had never seen a
stenotype, nor had he ever studied
shorthand before he entered sohool,
came into his office at the end of
the first six weeks and took his of-
fice mail from dictation as satisfact-
orily as any pupil in stenography
could have taken it after five
months practice. At the end of
two months this pupil was writing
100 words per minute, and now at
the end of three months, or twelve
weeks, he can write at the rate of
400 words per minute from familiar
matter that he has practiced on.
The possibilities of this machine
are wonderful; in fact, one cannot
help being impressed with the idea
that all verbatim reporters will
eventually be stenotype operators.
President Robbins demonstrated
before the Boosters' club or Board
of Trade, in Sedalia,the possibilities
of tbe machine; and as the pupil
had taken lessons only three months
he astonished the business men
with his wonderful speed, and the
wonderful possibilites of the ma-
chine, writing before them on fa-
maliar matter at the rate of 400
words per minute. J. A. Harris,
the young man who operates tbe
stenotype, went to the Boosters'
club dinner and took the speeches
down and turned them over to the
secretory, a thing which but fo#
students in stenography of two
years' practice could havedone,
President Robbins informs your
correspondent that the stenotype
class is growing very rapidly. Ifair
any information regarding any de-
partment of this marvelous inst$>
tution, address C. W. Robbins, So-
dalia, Mo.
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