The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1901 Page: 4 of 8
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Drawers of Homesteads Cannot
Sell Their Property
NO TITLE FOR FIVE YEARS
Washington Aiijj 3 — Sw ret ary of
the Interior Hitchcock is very indig-
nant over the statement that the per-'
sons who drew the tirst choices in the
El Reno and Lawton districts lands
were preparing- to sell their claims to
the highest bidders ami that the offi-
cers of the general land office would
not be able to enforce the provisions of
the homesteod law against such trans-
fers Secretary Hitchcock said that on pre-
vious occasions when lands were thrown
ojien for settlement it may have been
possible that such transfers were
made but that the introduction of the
liew system of allotment and the care
that has been exercised on this occasion
in keeping the records would effective-
ly prevent any such land juggling by
sMeulators
He pointed out that by the terms of
the homestead law live years must
elapse between the taking out of a title
y a settler and the perfection of the
title and payment of the final fee Dur-
ing the interval the setLler must live’
upon the land and improve his property
and any transfer of his rights before
the expiration of the five year limit
would invalidate the title to his claim
It would be absolutely impossible
Mr Hitchcock says for land speculators
and boomers to evade the law in a
single instance at the present opening
owing to the detailed accuracy of the
methods of registration and allotment
Manila Neva Items
Manila Aug 55 — Lieutenant Croft of
the Nineteenth infantrj- with a mount-
ed detachment of Cebu scouts has hail
an encounter with sixty insurgents
Seven of the rebels were killed and 13
taken prisoners Of Lieutenant
Croft's force two privates were slightly
wounded
The Philippines commission has
passed the Manila civil charter which
will go into effect immediately
The rate of the taxation on real
property has beeu amended it being
fixed at 1 per cent for the present and
£ per cent after 1902
The military cable and telegraph
lines have been opened for commercial
use
Ileavy Halo — 8ome HalL
Lamed Kan July 29 — Pawnee
county has been visited by a heavy
ran accompanied by a high windvmd
severe electrical disturbance leaving
the city in
o’clock p m on Friday it was es-
timated at least an inch of water had
fallen within an hour At Garfield a
station eleven miles west of here two
and a half inches of water fell togeth-
er with a hail storm
total darkness At' 8:35
After Bis Money
El Reno July 30 — Some of the men
familiar with the topography of the
new country expect to make big mon-
ey locating successful homesteaders on
choice lands A 11 Cobb one of the
members of the government surveying
corps that ran the lines in the new
district says he will make at least
$10000 in this way
Lulu Kennedy (Uvea Bond
Kansas City Aug 1 — Lulu Kennedy
under sentence of ten years for killing
her husband Philip II Kennedy on
January 10 last has been released
from jail on bond of $10000 pending
her appeal of her case to the state
supreme court
Kl Reno- Rake Off
El Reno July 30 — A conservative
estimate made by a local hanker puts
the amount of money left by homeseek-
ers in El Reno during the registration
at $1400000 This is $289 per capita
for the population of the town This
hanker figures that there have been
140000 strangers here and that they
have left an average of $10 each stay-
ing two days each and spending $5 a
day
Indians Jump I’rlit Claims
Oklahoma City Ok July 31 — Keo
Tuck a Sac Indian has given notice
through Sub-Agent Bentley of his in-
tention to file upon the quarter section
of land adjoining the townsite of Law-
ton His application will be filed just
as soon as the land office there is open
for business The application is made
under a section of the United States
statutes passed in 1887 which gives to
every homeless Indian the right to go I
to any part of the public domain and
to make entry for any tract of land
that is not in the possession of s homesteader
SJ
That There Will be k Surplu
teed of it Deficiency
Topeka Ks Aug 1 — lolin Francis
times state treasurer and chairman of
the Ways and Means committee in tho
last legislature declares false the pub-
lished statement that the last legisla-
ture appropriated more money than it
provided for in fixing the limit of
taxation
He supports this with statements of
revenues from all sources adding
thereto the surplus in the treasury at
tho end of the last fiscal year
after charging against that item the
appropriations for bringing borne the
Twentieth Kansas $50000 Quantrell
raid claims $30000 Governor's man-
sion $35000 State house heating
$7500 miscellaneous appropriations
and various deficiencies approximate-
ly $100000 Mr Francis predicts a
surplus in the treasury at the end of
the two years of from $400000 to
$050000
Mr Francis closes with “the matter
of ways and means was never more
carefully considered by any legisla-
ture and the charge that it ‘lost its
nerve’ and did no dare to provide
sufficient revenue is absurd in the
face of the facts in the case”
Train Robbery Near ClilcaRO
Chicago Aug 3 — Tho Haiti more and
Ohio passenger train from the east was
held ip by live masked men between
Edgemore and Grand Calumet heights
Ind One of the mail cars which con-
tained no mouey was dynamited and
wreeked
The attempt at robbery was made
after the two mail ears had been de-
tached from the train and run a quar-
ter of a mile ahead The failure of the
robbers to make a rich haul was due to
the fact that the express car w hich
contained the train's treasure was in
an unusual place
Townilt Commissioner Appointed
K1 Ileno Aug 2 — Governor Rich-
ards lias announced the names of the
townsite commissioners J II Hamp-
ton who had charge of the registration
at Fort Sill will take charge at Law-
ton E P Holcomb who was in charge
of a booth here during the registration
will be at Hobart C F Nessler In-
dian Inspector will be in charge at
Anadarko The men now in tho gov-
ernment employ will be relieved from
duty here The commissioners are
required to give bond of one hundred
thousand dollars each
Mormon In Frassla
Berlin July 31 — Francis M Lyman
one of the Mormon apostles preached
before the Berlin Mormon congrega-
tion which numbers over 400 members
Kattner a German Mormon mission-
ary reported that the movement was
making progress in Germany and as-
serted tha£ a few days ago a congre-
gation numbering eighty-eight had
been organized in Stettin
Effect Seattle Hutlnekk
Seattle Wash Aug 1 — Asa result
of the longshoremen's strike in San
Francisco the business of the Califor-
nia metropolis has been entirely
stopped The loss to this city and to
numerous stesmsbip companies will
mean thousands of dollars a month
The merchants here are already heavy
losers on account of the teamsters’
strike there and the local strike
A Bootlegger Shot
St Joseph Mo Aug 2 — In a fight
with bootleggers at Wathena Kansas
Constable A M Livermore shot and
instantly killed Lou Henderson one
of the bootleggers who had been ar-
rested and captured John Williams
an accomplice of the dead man The
bootleggers are both colored and have
given the officers much trouble
Largest Stock of Gold
Washington Aug 1 — The stock of
gold in the treasury is the largest in
the history of the government and is
accumulating at the rate of $4500000
to $5000000 a month The figures are
$504354297 of which $248058098 is
free gold but including the $150000-
000 gold reserve
Since July 1 1900 the stock of gold
on hand has increased about $81000
000
Mall Filed up at Lawton
Lawton Ok Aug 2 — The aecumu
lated mail of the new town of Lawton
in the Kiowa and Comanche reserva
tion will be something awful The
office is not yet in existence and will
not be until Aug G but a carlond o
mail addressed there is already held at
Fort Sill and Rush Springs the near-
est offices and more is coming on every
train J I White the new postmas-
ter is preparing to handle the rush
and has been in consultation with
three postoffiees for several days and
they have recommended that he bf
allowed ten clerks from the start
Corn Not Now the all Important
Factor in Railroad Earnings
WILL MAKE REDUCED RATES
Chicago Aug 2 — Paul Morton sec-
ond vice president of the Atchison
Topeka fc Santa I’e railroad speaking
of the prospective corn crop said:
“My estimate of the corn crop for
this year places the yield for the entire
country in the neighborhood of 1500-
000000 bushels Of course this figure
represents nothing more than a rough
guess which I have attempted to make
after hearing the reports of our agents
throughout the corn belt
“The 'general corn crop is by no
means ruined by the drouth although
some districts have suffered severely
The wheat yield is larger than ever
Throughout Kansas and Oklahoma the
crop was except ionalij- large and tho
wheat is of good quality
“The loss of the corn crop in Kansas
and Missouri to the railroads is no
longer the serious matter it used to be
Take for instance the Santa Fe It
has diversified its tonnage to such an
extent that corn is not now the all
important factor in making earnings
“I think that I can assure you that
if there is any corn to be had any-
where in the adjoining states we will
be glad to haul it into Kansas at
reduted rates if Decessary in order to
provide feed for the Kansas live stock
and to prevent their removal from the
state Kansas has been blessed with
five good years and it is not at all
remarkable that there should be a
partial failure of tbe corn crop now
There is every reason to congratulate
ourselves on the most bountiful wheat
crop that Kansas has ever raised"
A Boer Victory
Durban Natal Aug 1 — Details re-
ceived here of what at first seemed an
ordinary skirmish between a Hritish
column and a Doer commando neai
Nqua July 23 shows that a hard all
day fight occurred in which the Hrit-
ish narrowly escaped the loss of a gun
of the sixty-seventh field battery
Four hundred Boers repeatedly rushed
the British position killing Major Ed-
wards and Gunner Carpenter The
gun was limbered up and taken at a
gallop for three miles under a heavy
tire Five British were killed
Hooted to Hlk Death
New York Aug 3 — George McCabe
40 years of age has eommited suicide
Members of the man’s family say that
McCabe was driven to desperation by
the jeers of his fellow workmen at the
Worthington hydraulic works in Brook-
lyn where a strike has been in progress
He was reviled by men ami women
and his neighbors would have nothing
to do with him Even the children
hooted him as he passed
For Children In India
Cleveland Ohio Aug 3 — In response
to appeals by Rev Mark Fuller a mis
sionary fifty hoys and girls in India
will Ik cared for until maturity by the
contributions of Clevelanders who are
in attendance at the annual session of
the Buelah park camp meeting near
this city Fifteen dollars will keep a
child in India for a year
Ahum Control of Qoarrlei
Manila Aug 3 — The insular govern
ment lias saved $250000 by the passage
of an act virtually declaring the quar-
ries at Mariveles in the Bataan province
public domain and authorizing tho
utilizing of the stone in the harlsjr iin
provement A Spanish company claims
to have established the title to the
quarries
Pan American Faying
Buffalo N Y July 31 — President
John G Milburn of the Pan-American
exposition issued a statement which
6ays:
“The exposition has been more than
paying its expenses since the beginning
of June and has already accumulated
a considerable surplus An attend-
ance during August September and
October equal to tbe attendance at
Chicago in October alone will pay all
the obligations of the exposition and
will leave a large surplus
School District Directors
Topeka Aug 2 — In Jewell county
the directors of the district schools
hare been paying themselves salaries
and there are complaints R II Mc-
Bride county attorney wrote to Judge
J S West assistant attorney general
to obtain his opinion relative to the
validity of the school directors’ action
and whether they could bo prosecuted
for diverting public funds to their own
use Judge West held the directors
had no right to pay themselves salaries
and that the money could be recovered
Farmers are Busy Flantlng and Re-plant-Ing
Topeka Kan Aug 2 — Hot weather
haa again returned to Kansas but
nothing like that before the breaking
of the drouth The temperature has
reached as high as 100 and some pros-
trations are reported on account of the
humidity In Leavenworth there
was one death from the heat Rains
have fallen in numerous districts and
continue As far as can be ascertained
there is not a county in the western
and central part of the state that has
not been visited by rain during the
past week and as a result things look
much more favorable for tho farmers
and stockmen
Farmers seem to have abundant con-
fidence in the remainder of the season
Estimates of the yield of corn have in-
creased until half a crop is not regard-
ed as too large by many Farmers are
as busy planting and re-planting as if
it were spring time and the seed
houses are working overtime to supply
the demands made upon them Millet
sorghum Kaffir corn and even radishes
aud turnips are being planted for feed
and great things are expected of the
second crop
Fruit is in good condition and a good
yield of apples and peaches is expected
Trad With Germany
Washington July 31 — Ambassador
White has made the subject of United
States trade with Germany the basis
of a special report to the state depart-
ment He shows that in the course of
ten years the United States has ad-
vanced from fourth to first place on
the basis of goods shipped to Germany
the total value of 6uch goods and
natural products in 1900 being 82G6-
50400 On the other hand in tho
matter of goods imported from
Germany the United States has stood
in third place without change for the
ten years the value of the imports in
1900 being $184432000
New Townsite Chosen
Fort Sill Aug 2 — Dr J II Dillard
of Guthrie and others propose to es-
tablish a townsite twenty-five miles
south of Fort Sill S S Heridan comes
next with a plan to build a town
twelve miles north of Fort Sill J F
Springer will establish a town twenty-
four miles southeast of Hobart N M
O'Dell proposes with the assistance of
others to build a town twenty miles
south of Fort Sill J C Settles of
Mangum heads a company and is ask-
ing the privilege to locate a town
forty-four miles south of Hobart
AtchUon Elevator Fire
Atchison Kas Aug 3 — The elevator
of the S R Washer Grain company is
totally destroyed by fire together with
all its contents consisting of about
350000 bushels of grain The loss
which is estimated to be in the neigh-
borhood of $2500 was covered by in-
surance The origin of the fire is un-
known Three Missouri Pacific freight
cars loaded with wheat for the elevator
were also destroyed and the loss of
the railroad is estimated to le in the
neighborhood of SGOoo
Both Rrmdy to Make Concessions
San Francisco Aug 3 — The only new
phase to the local labor trouble is a
strong uudercurrent that is making for
pence The municipal league which
held secret meetings with labor leaders
and employers report that the outlook
for a settlement is encouraging and that
a basis of adjustment may he reached
within twenty-four hours An officer
of the league said
“We find both sides ready to make
concessions on general lines”
The new battleship Maine has been
successfully launched at Philadelphia
Mora Ok In Allen County
Moran Kans July 29 — The Moran
Gas and Oil Company which has been
prospecting for gas at Moran has
opened up a well with a flow of gas
estimated at 5000000 cubic feet of gas
per day with a rock pressure of 320
pounds Moran is in Allen county
Three years ago two wells were sunk
and some gas found in each of these
but not enough however to pay to
pipe Nothing has been done since
then to develop the field until this
discovery was made
Why so Many Oklahoman
El Reno Aug 2 — From reading the
names of names in the drawing one
might think that Oklahoma and
especially El Reno had a cinch on the
game But as a matter of fact only a
small per cent of those who have
given their addresses to be notified as
El Reno and other parts of the terri-
tory are residents of Oklahoma These
addres-es were given as a matter of
convenience to all ‘those who intend
remaining here or near here until
after the drawing
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In a
Fifty Million Dollar Cotton
Combination
STUDY SUBJECT IN EUROPE
Boston Aug 2 — George F Wash-
burn of this city president of theCoin-
monwcalth Club of Massachusetts sail-
ed for Europe on a mission to inquire
into the co-operative methods of vari-
ous bodies in England Belgium and
Switzerland with the view to the
formation of a $50000000 cotton com-
bination in this country
According to an interview Mr Wash-
burn has worked out a plan to unite
the cotton producers of the South into
one great co-operative trust with
headquarters at St Louis and central
warehouses in Memphis He said he
had been selected for this mission be-
cause of the special study lie has made
of co-operation from a business man's
standpoint and that in his judgment
the only way to meet the capitalistic
cotton and wheat trusts was to organ-
ize better and bigger ones in the inter-
est of the producer Mr Washburn
said that the application of the idea
to the cotton industry was made be-
cause the planters being men of
means can unite in a co-operative
business movement and effect a tre-
mendous saving to themselves
Mr Washburn was asked if his plan
had any political significance and he
said only insofar as it was successful
and that in that ease it would have a
far reaching effec t along political lines
in the West and South
Will Allow no Kvnslon
Washington A tig 3 — It can le
stated with all possible emphasis that
the secretary of the interior is deter-
mined to allow no evasion of the re-
quirements of law regarding home-
stead settlement in the Kiowa and
Wichita reservations no matter under
what faction it may present itself
Wherever persons dodging the legal
requirements ean be ferreted out they
will forfeit all rights This statement
is made on the highest authority Tho
lands are intended for actual settlers
and speculators will not be given a
chance to capture them
On tha Central Division
Topeka Aug 3 — The Santa l-'e rail-
road is preparing to equip its engines
in the Central Division for the use of
Beaumont Oil as fuel They projwse
to spend nearly $100000 this year in
equipping its cugines for oil and pro-
viding receiving and delivery tanks
along the line Coal will eventually he
entirely superseded on the entire sys-
tem as a steam fuel by first using the
Beaumont oil The Santa Fe already
has contracts for four hundred barrels
of tandage
Joplin Geta Carnegie Library
Joplin Mo Aug 3 — A $10000 pul-
lic library is to be built at Joplin by
Andrew Carnegie A letter to that
effect has just been received fry m Mr
Carnegie's private secretary About-
three months ago Professor Elff sujier-
intendent of the public schools here
wrote to Mr Carnegie in behalf of
Joplin's library committee requesting
a donation The letter just received is
an answer to his
Smuggling Glrlk
Rome Ang 2 — The frequent walks
across the Swiss-ltalian frontier of
girls of a seminary near Masliance
aroused the suspicions of tho customs
otticers who finally stopped a pro-
cession of forty walking two by two
and ascertained that each girl was
smuggling cigars or cigarettes of the
aggregate value of $30000
Secretary Ryan Denies
Washington July 31 — Assistant Sec-
retary Ryan of tne interior depart-
ment whose name was mentioned
among the prominent men who made
application for homestead entry in the
two Oklahoma reservations positively
denies the truth of the statement lie
6ays his son who served in the Spanish-
American war filed a soldier's declara-
tory but did so only for himself and
his own name and was not even pres-
ent as erroneously stated
Minnesota Twine I’lant-
Leavenwortli Kans Aug 2 — War-
den E B Jewett of the Kansas peni-
tentiary left for Stillwater Minn to
inspect the methods of operating the
twine plant of the Minnesota peniten-
tiary The twine plant of the Minne-
sota penitentiary is considered the
model institution wherein prisoners
are worked directly for the state man-
ufacturing goods for the market The
twine plant brings a largo amornt of
revenue into the state and at the same
time furnishes twine to the farmers at
a reasonable cost
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Cowgill, Mrs. W. T. The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1901, newspaper, August 9, 1901; Carwile, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1841446/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.