The Rogers County News. And Rogers County Leader (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY MAY 30, 1813.
80RE DEUIfS TRIP
10 PLEASE U
Close Tariff Vote Causes
Him to Forsake Journey
To Europe.
Washington, May 98.—Owing to
the belief of President Wilson and
the democrats of the senate that
every vote should be kept in Wash-
ington untU the tariff bill has been
passed, Senator Gore and Senator
Fletcher, members of the farm
credit commission, now in Europe,
will not join that body abroad at
the present time.
On Monday it was thought that
it would be safe for Senator Gore
and Senator Fletcher to leave this
country to remain until the latter
part of August when the tariff
measure in expected to cone up for
a final vote. Although Senator
Gore had made all arrangements to
sail from New York the 20th, he ex-
pressed hi} willingness to the presi-
dent to torsake the trip if it was
thought he would be needed. Not
until today whs it definitely decided
to call off the European investiga-
tions. The matter was laid before
a caucus of senate democrats and
they decided it would be advisable
for senator Gore and senator Fletch-
er to remain as there may be some
very impoatrnt test votes before the
measure comes up for a final pass-
age. Aa the democratic majority
in the senate is small their absence
may mean much.
senator Gore may go abroad later
to make a complete investigation of
the farm credits and agricultural
system* of European which he is
pas ticula fly h .iter . —
*.i>h open..I there Monday. He
Mt on the 4;:h> train Saturday after-
noon.
Catoosa. Timber Ridge.
George Inroan, catcher Cllde Kirby.
J. W. Evans, pitcher Burr Kirby.
Lester nines, 1st busu Hugh Hurst.
B. McDaniel, 2nd base C. McMillion.
Tom itoe, 8rd base Jasper Wilson.
G, Keeter, short stop.
John Harlin, It. field Clide Hurst.
Harvey Layoox, C. field E. Hurst.
R. K. Johuson, L field II. Henry.
Umpire, J. B. McNab.
Score, Catoosa 10; Timber Kldge 8.
A nice crowd was out to see the
game and this is the beginning of
tbe season for Catoosa's ball team.
We are going to wake up and play
ball.
Catoosa Ball Team.
Gus Keeter, Manager.
t U. CaiMEBCULCUSS.
HIS ROUT PICIIC
. Last Thursday evening tbe Com-
mercial class, with Mrs. Ferraras
chaperon, held its second annual
picnic at Joe Hause's tarm, about
five miles northeast of Claremore.
A nicer crowd neyer gathered than
the one which boarded the hayrack
abdut 5:30 o'clock opposite the M. E.
church. The genial Joe Hause bad
driven to town for this special pur-
pose and he led the way out to the
ranch.
On arrival at the farm house the
Commercial Class were cordjally
welcomed by the familiar faces of
Oliver and Ruth Hause. Then off
they wen)> to a fine spring about a
mile away. Here a bonfire wa
built, a long table cloth was spread
on mother earth and an excellent
luncheon was served. Then the
bonfire got bigger, the clear spring
* ter was drunk freely, and the
lonely woods never heard sweeter
songs for over an hour. '
About9p.m. all drove back to
the farm house where innocent
games were played 'till the moon
showed its face, and then the Com-
mercial Oalssjsade good-night to
the Hauses, each member voting
them royal entertainers. On the
way , home the orowd sang more
.sweet songs and all felt happier
than ever, each believing that it
was one of .the moat pleasant out-
ingseyer participated in.
THE EEim REM
Fifty years ago July 1st, „
hundred thousand men undeir Mead
and Reynolds and eighty thousand
men under Lee and Pickett met on
theopqp fields near Getteysburg,
Pa., July 4th, seventy-five thousand
marched away under the Union flag
and sixty thousand under the Con-
federate. The life blood of fifty-five
thousand men stained the field of
tbe bloodiest battle of American
history.
The fifty years that have roiled
around have changed the view
points of the survivors of the men
who marohed away and those who
are left are going back to
BOOK AGENTS ORDERED TO STAY AWAY
State Board of Education Would Not Allow Book Agent.
To Lobby While the rioard Was in Session-rSupt.
Wilson Had Enough of Them.
Representatives or attorneys tar
Vol. 6, No. 13
school book companies, who ap-
proach or attempt to approach any
member of the state board of edu-
cation in the interest of securing a
contract to furnish new books to
supplant the repudiated adoptiohs
of last July, will forfeit ipso facto
all claim to consideration of thfcir
books and contract. Such was the
-decision of the state board of
tion at its meeting Wedm
afternoon.
The utmost consideration, it is
said, will be shown every book con-
cern by the board in its deliberation
on the new adoptions but in no
instance will personal interviews
be granted. The button hole plfcn
of campaigning, the board members
declare wiff not be tolerated.
All book concerns desiring to sub-
mit books for adoption are request-
ed to furnish each member of tfce
board with copies of their books to-
gether with separate briefs setting
fourth the merits of their respective
books. The individual members of
tbe board will consider the books
and facts submitted to them and
when the board meets again on July
15, the new adoption will be made.
Companies submitting maps,
be required to observe the rule pro
v— —- — o"——o -v Gerteys-1 uiupg,
burg to celebrate the semi-ceiiten- j charts and other supplies will be
nial of the conflict. On another j required to leave samples with the
page we are carrying a full account I president of the board and will also
hibiting personal soliciting in the
interest of atsontract.
After the board has decided on
the adoptions representatives of
the different concerns may then
talk with members of the board.
"I have had enough of the book
agents and other members of the
board are afraid of them," said
Superintendent Wilson comment-
ing on the board's action.
The adoptions mnde on July 27 of
last year including the speller,
grade cards and registers were
validated by the board through the
adoption of the resolutions declar-
ing tbe contracts in full force and
effect. The attorney general has
held that these contracts binding
on tbe part of the state but has
held that the other adoptions made
on July 20, two days later, are in-
valid.
Naming the /faculties of the
Northeastern normal ar Tahlequah,
Eastern Central Normal school at
Ada, Eastern Preparatory school at
Claremore and the University Pre-
paratory school at Tonkawa, and
Southeastern Normal at Durant
took up the remainder of the time
of the board. All members' of the
old faculties in these schools were
re-elected.
Bartlesville landed another big
smelter. Collinsville is after auother
smelter and is pulling within her
gates the management of tbe oil and
gas interest of this county. Tulsa
lands something new every week.
Just as soon as the interprising
business men of these cities get one
third started they start another and
as a result they are growing at a
remarkable rate.
Claremore has some advantages
over her neighboring towns, yet we
are not making the growth we
should make. We have a good class
of business men. Most of them are
young and full of life, yet that ac-
tivity that builds cities is lacking
somewhere, and if you will pardon
us, we will tell y
you where we think
the trouble lies.
In the first place we are not
working together. There is a cool,
distant, isolated action, too individ-
ual, among us. This feeling has
existed, so we are told, for a
number of years and it is due1 to
this that Claremore is not a city of
some ten or fifteen thousand popu-
lation. Our Radium water is a
great thing and it will eventually
make Claremore one of the most
famous health resorts in the United
States, and your efforts to advertise
it are commendable, but it takes
time to accomplish results along
this line for people are skeptical,
and will have to see tbe marvelous
cures before they will believe.
Therefore, it behooves us not to
rest on our oars and expect Radium
water to do everything for us, but
we should work for other things
as tho we did not have this wonder,
ful medicinal water. Your efforts
NOT BE SUPPED IH
Supreme Court Declares Out*
of-State Consigners
Must Stop the
Practice.
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CATOOSA PUTS HALL
■ Catoosa, Okla., May 25, 1013
Editor of the News. Please allow
space for the following article.
Catoosa ball .team ijt together
again and played TimW Ridge last
Saturday, one of the best teams in
the county, a team that has hot been
defeated within the pest two yeari
The game started at two o'elbck
and lasted for one hour "and five
minutes. The Catoosa team sent
Timber Ridge back to the bench in
three minutes in the seventh inning.
They went out in one, tw<s three,
order. It took Timber Ridge ten
minutes to retire Catoosa in this
J* W, Evans, our
0 R^by one the counties of this state are* building
court houses. Hashell county will soon vote
bonds for the erection of a court house and jail. A
number 6f other counties have voted bonds and are
now building. Washington and Osage counties on
our west have their buildings in course of construc-
tion. Nowata county erected her building some
time ago; Tulsa and Cherohee counties have nice
court house buildings. These counties realize that
renting is a bad thing for any coummunitv. LooK
at the enormous amount you pay each year, rent
$3,336.96, and several hundred dollars extra for
extra guards at the jail, runnig the amount up to
$4,000.00 or more. It is to every taxpayers inter-
est to build a couat house, and we are glad the mat-
ter will soon be presented to our people.
of the big celebration in July when
the National Govenment will enter-
tain the forty thousand veterans
who will go back. Our article is
written especially for this paper by
Mf. Edward B. Clark and will be
foupd very interesting, Doii't miss
It.
For the past few months our
streets have Been undergoing ex
tensive repairs. East Fifth street
has beta graded and improved
thirty per cent. The street com-
missioner has been busy this week
and last, improving Third Street
just east* of the Iron Mountain
traces. Jn the past there has been
a mud bole jurt east of the tracks,,
but from now on the water will run
off andina short time after each
rain the road will be perMotly dry.
LVHCH IS BIIILDIRO
H. L Lynch is building a nice
five room bungalow on his lot just
east of the Baptist church one and
one half blocks, on Third street.
When .completed it will be one of
tbe nicest residences in that part of
the city. Mr. Lynch is a young at-
torney and has great faith in the fu-
ture growth of Claremore. lie has
a fine residence at the end of east
Second street where he now lives.
He is a good man to have in the
town, for he believes in its future
to such an extent that he is not a-
fraid to invest bis money in prop-
erty here.
THE STOCK IS GOIHB FAST
E. L. Steed, of Ada, Okla., who
has bought the Parsley stock of
dry goods is selling it at a remark-'
able rate. The store is crowded
most all the time and the clerks say
they never worked so hard before.
Mr. Steed is an advertiser, a good
business man and it would be u
good thing for Claremore should he
decide to locate with us.
WHAT SHALL WE DO?
L. S. Robaon, city attorney, left
Saturday night for Nashville, Tenn.,
where he will visit his mother and
•lao attend the graduation of his sis
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in making beautiful parks over
Vity will add a great deal to
growth of Claremore, but why can't
we get better acquainted and work
tor something that will give us a
large dinner pail brigade and bring
wealth to our town that we have
not at this time? A large percent
of our business men do not attend
the meetings of our commercial
club. They are not members. Prob-
ably they have excuses, but have
they been invited to join? I am the
editor of a paper here. It goes out
of Claremore and reaches the table
of about 150 newspapers in and out
of the state and about 1000 homes.
The News is for the building of a
greater and better Claremore, and
yet not ope business man has ever
invited us to join the commercial
club, advised us of a meeting of
By an examination of the ex-
changes that come to our table we
see that most every town in the
state is working on some big propo-
sition that will make the town
larger and better: A number have Mw,wlvlsea us oi a meetin- of
secured manufacturing plants, smel- that body, we have not up to "this
cl"l™ct<5r to publish for the
mefMtiUral|«undten w with fcnra, ,„a wide (ron one little clr-
IFM* ««« days ago1 {Continued on page 4)
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Washington, May 2fl.—Federa
laws against "the introduction of
liquor into the Indian country were
held by the supreme court Monday
to prohibit the introduction of liquor
from neighboring states into Okla-
homa counties occupied by Indians.
The decision was in the case of
Bob Wright, indicted in the fed-
eral court for introducing liquor in-
to Muskogee county, Oklahoma.
The indictment was upheld Mon-
day. the lower court being reversed.
At Fort Smith, Ark., the news
of the United States supreme
court's adverse ruling on liquor
shipments into Oklahoma came as
a bomb-shell to local dealers, who
for years have been supplying the
border counties of the state with
practically their entire liquor sup
ply.
Fort Smith liquor interests aver
they raised «3,000 to prosecute the
case, according to the information
they received from their attorneys,
the case decided Monday would be
decided in favor of the dealers.
That the decision will cause a
number of saloons to withdraw
from business here is admitted.
Since the federal court of appeals
in a decision restrained local mar-
shals from seizing liquor destined
for points in the Indian country
where the Indian title had van-
ished, unless the officer was armed
with a seizure writ, .the marshal's
ufficehere has been idle, but with
Monday's decision, an early re-
sumption of liquor seizures is anti-
cipated.
IMPORTANT RULING.
This ruling is regarded by Judge
W. B. Herod, assistant United
States attornev for the western dis-
trict'of Oklahoma, and the man
who handles the major portion of
the liquor cases in this district, as
one of vast importance in the en-
forcement of prohibitory laws in
Indian territory. The ruling, the
judge asserted, is exactly contrary
to former decisions in such matters
and will seta precedent that will be
used as a guide in subsequent cases.
Osage county is the only county
in this district that will be affected
by this ruling.
Heretofore bootleggers have
evaded the federal laws in the mat-
ter of taking whisky into Indian
territory by first shipping the whis-
ky to some point within Oklahoma
and outside of the Indian territory.
Inasmuch as the transaction was
not interstate the bootleggers as-
serted that federal officers had no
jurisdiction over them.
The general policy of the govern-
ment to interfere in any matter
which affects the Indian was reas-
serted in the decision handed down
Monday. This right is given the
government by reason of the fact
that the Indian is a government
ward.
Junge Herod expects to receive
copies of the ruling within a few
days.
MRS. T.L.LWH HERE
Mrs. T. L. Lyncb, and two child-
ren, sister-in-law of our fellow
townsman, Attornev Ii. L. Lynch,
arrived here last week from Win-
chester, Tenn., and will visit with
her brother-in-law and his wife for
two or three weeks. Mrs. Lynch is
taking the Radium baths and they
are doing her a great deal of good.
She likes Claremore and no doubt
wouldn't care much if this was her
home.
LECTURE OH "LABOR AHO CAPITAL"
William H. Talmage, Lecturer
and Organizer, will speak , c
above subject in the District
room Tuesday eve., June 3.
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Ross, Ayres K. The Rogers County News. And Rogers County Leader (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1913, newspaper, May 30, 1913; Claremore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175929/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.