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FARM DEMONSTRATION
DEPARTMENT RESULTS
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Doings of the Lawmakers
By 0 C GASTON
Okemah Oklahoma
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Thursday March 13 1913
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A NEW DEAL
The inauguration of President
Wilson marks the passing of the
old type of politican (whether Dem-
ocratic or Kepublican) from the
Washington stage of political ac-
tivity It’s a new deal all around
(new no less for the Democrats than
the Republicans for the reason that
President Wilson represents the
new character the new idea the
new force which has destroyed
alike the Quay and Platt type of
Republicans and the Sullivan-Ryan
-Belmont class of Democrats It’s
a clean sweep all around and i
indications go for anything it ush-
ers in a better brighter political
eTa for all of the people regardless
of party affiliations — Muskogee
Press
Correct you are Col Douglas
and it is Just the kind of a new
deal that William Jennings Bryan
and his followers have been fight
ing for the last seventeen years
and which the Republican press
politicians and their trust' allies
have fought with so much bitter-
ness Glad to see that at last you
hae come to appreciate the
merits of the Bryan contention
It seems that both factions of
the Republican party are anxious
to come together— and each wishes
to get in the first lick
In referring all applications for
appointments to office to the head
of the department in which the
applicant as desirous of serving
President Wilson has not only le-
lieved himself of a great burden
from persistent office seekers but
has practically closed the door to
office to all but men in sympathy
with the purposes and policies of
the administration The so-called
conservative Democrats understand
where they can head in 1
Governor Lee Cruce has decided
to call a special session of the leg-
islature as soon as the present reg-
ular session adjourns This has
been agreed upon between the
governor and the leaders in the
legislature So much of the time
of the present session has been
taken up in “cleaning house” that
a number of important legislature
questions have not received prop-
er attention And there are some
investigations not yet completed
General Order I No 2 issued by
President Wilson is destined to be
a very popular one and will grow
in popularity as time passes This
order is to the effect that every
evening Private Secretary Tumulty
will give to the press a list of the
day’s callers and in whose interest
they appeared The time when
Standard Oil Steel Trust and oth-
er private interests can send their
agents to the White House to ne-
ftotiate special privileges in secret
las passed As a public servant
President Wilson will let the peo-
ple know What is going on
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
The State Interdenominational
Sunday School Convention at Ok-
lahoma City 'March 18-19-20 prom-
ises the completest program ever
offered to an Oklahoma audience
It has several features never be-
fore introduced- Hardly a phase
of Sunday School work but finds
a place for consideration Among
those taking a prominent part in
the program are: Mr W C Pearce
PniOQITA A oanninia P —
Under the present law the State
Board of Agriculture may contract
with some reliable farmer in each
county to maintain and operate a
demonstration farm of forty acres
The farmer furnishes the land and
labor and the state furnishes the
seed and gives instructions for the
handling of the crop Should the
farmer fail to make sufficient crops
to pay for the rent of the land and
all labor done upon the crops at the
price of thirty cents per hour for
labor of man and team the state
reimburses him for loss sustain
ed However if the crops harvest-
should more than repay the farmer
under the terms of the contract
the surplus does not revert to the
state but to the farmeri under this
law the Demonstration Farm De-
partment has been operating since
1910 It has accomplished the fol-
lowing results:
It has maintained an average of
fifty demonstration farms through
three very bad years and has each
year shown a profit above all costs
These demonstration farms have
in most instances been object les-
sons to the farmers of the com-
munity in proper methods of good
farming They have all been a
source of reliable seed of standard
crops as the seed furnished them
in the first instance was the very
best that could be obtained and
they have been Instructed to keep
same pure They have served as
a soutrce of inspiration to surround-
ing farmers as well as a means of
increased profits to the Demon-
stration farmers themselves They
have shown a production mori than
50 per cent greater per acre than
the average farms of the Btate
The Demonstration Farm Depart-
ment has during its existence writ-
ten more thqn 25000 letters More
than 10000 of these are the pro-
duct of this one year’s work and
more than 50 ppr cent of these have
been an answer to inquiries The
Depertment has mailed out thou-
sands of bulletins giving very best
methods of handling kriown crops
or givihg information regarding
new crops that should be grown
in the state It has been the di-
rect means of introducing at least
two new crops which are certainly
making good and which will in
time add to the prosperity of the
state It has furnished information
both by letter and bulletins on the
following subjects: Dairying- feed-
ing of cattle and hogs: methods of
eradicating many forms of injuri-
ous insects guch as Chinch bug
green bug boll worm web-worm
grasshoppers etc proper ihethods
of growing and handling all sorts of
small grains to ghums maize crops
clovers alfalfa and other legumes
vegetables and fruits It has also
furnished information on market
gardening: diseases of live stock
poultry raising and bee keeping It
las distributed thousands of circu-
lars giving information as to relia-
ble sources of good seed: was in
charge of the distribution of seed
which was furnished freight free
to indigent farmers during the past
year It has shipped into the state
carloads of Karkoff wheat and Me-
bane Triumph cotton seed for dis-
tribution to farmers who desired
higher producing strains of these
crops It has assisted in carrying
agricultural trains: it has intro-
duced kafir and other sorghums
into portions of the state where
they were not before grown and
assisted in carrying out ex-increasing
Activities of the Week Among the Members
of the Oklahoma Legislature
Decision Against Dick '
“We are of the opinion the useful-
Chicago Associate General Secre-
tary and Adult Bible Class Division
Superintendent International Sun-
day School Association : Rev V
J Williamson President Baptist
Young People's Union hi America
and jiastor Third Baptist church
St Louis: Dr P H Welshimer
pastor First Christian church Can-
ton Ohio and Mrs Mary Foster
Bryner Chicago Superintendent
Elementary Ditision International
‘ Sunday School Association Prof
E O Excell Chicago the world’s
greatest leader of song will have
charge of the music Hon Lee
Cruce Governor of Oklahoma will
deliver the address of welcome A
large number of workers from our
own state will attend and assist
in important conferences The veij
low rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip from all points
in Oklahoma has been authorized
by all interested railroads Tickets
on sale March 17 to 19 inclusive
return limit midnight March 22
Every Sunday school should be
represented by at least one dele-
gate more if possible Pastors
superintendents teachers and Sun-
day school officers should embrace
this opportunity to hear the great-
est leaders in Sunday school work
in the world Eveiy delegate you
send means a live worker for
your school You need to know
more about the best methods of
work and the State Convention is
the place to get help
Everyone interested in better
Sunday schools and in bringing
more people under the influence
of the teaching and training ser-
vice of the church is cordially in-
vited to attend and the various
churches of Oklahoma City have
agreed to furnish lodging for the
three nights of the convention
free to all enrolled delegates For
information regarding enrollment
and entertainment write to C II
Nichols 1229 East Ninth Street
Oklahoma City Oklahoma not lat-
er than March 15 1913
has
tensive campaigns for
the acreage of peanuts sugar beets
and other drough-resistant crops
This summary is not a boost it is
a plain statement of facts We in-
vite you to make a personal trip
of inspection to the office and ex-
amine for yourself We are cer-
tain that the facts will bear out
our assertions
Cordially yours
Oklahoma State Board of Agricul
ture Demonstration Farm De-
partment By D S
Superintendent
NOTICE TO THOSE WHO HAVE
NOT PAID PERSONAL TAXES
The County Treasurer has issued
to me tax warrants against those
who have not paid their personal
taxes and if you will report to
me immediately at the Sheriff’s of-
fice and pay then you will save
the extra cost of sheriff’s service
or if’ you will send P O order or
draft as per amount of card sent
you it will save you trip and ex-
pense SAM M WILSON
Sheriff
First published Feb 20 3t
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A daily newspaper resulting from
the oil boom in Okfuskee county
is announced by the Okemah Led-
ger It is known as the Okemah
1 Vu'7 Ledger and will be distrib-
uted free over the city-Bristow
dess of R W Dick as warden of
the state penitentiary of McAlester
has ceased and we believe the best
interests of the public service would
be subserved by" relieving him from
further duty In that responsible posi-
tion” is the recommendation to the
senate of the penitentiary probe com-
mittee of which Senator W N Red-
wine of McAlester is chairman The
report was filed and read at length to
the senate following which a motion
that the committee's report be re-
ceived was made and carried
The committee to investigate War-
den Dick's management of the state
penitentiary was appointed by the
senate January 7 1913 and has con-
ducted Its hearings both in McAles-
ter and Oklahoma City
The committee's report- of its find-
ings in part is as follows:
On December 29 1909 and on
March 15 1910 two tracts of land
consisting of 39 and 201 acres were
deeded to E C Million trustee who
held the land for the benefit of R W
Dick 'warden of the state peniten-
tiary A U Thomas cashier of Amer-
ican National bank McAlester John
Labosquet a coal operator of Mc-
Alester and the trustee himself The
The purchaser contributed $1000 and
Dick’s amount was loaned to him by
his associates Messrs Million and
Thomas
Selling to Guards
According to the report tile com-
pany after purchasing the land en-
tered into a contract with Dick as
warden of the penitentiary whereby
state convicts and state machinery
was to be used in leveling 'down the
property on which houses taken from
the penitentiary grounds were moved
and Dick then informed the peniten-
tiary guards they would have to live
close to the penitentiary The re-
port alleges that guards who did not
either buy or rent houses from Dick's
company were soon discharged and
tliat the property sold to the guards
brought $28520 The company's total
outlay for the entire property was
$10100 and after selling off $28520
worth of the grounds the company
still had the most valuable portion of
the property left 4
That Warden Dick told the com-
mittee two different stories concern-
ing a $2000 check from John M
Wheeler agent for th Pauly Jail
Building company of St 'Louis which
sold to the penitentiary 300 cells for
which shle Wheeler received com-
missions totaling $11476 is alleged
According to the report- Dick first
told the committee the check was
from his' wife’s estate and subse-
quently testified it was a contribu-
tion to the campaign fund of Lee
Cruce when the latter was running
for governor
The report further charges that
Dick allows 400 of the 1350 convicts
to go about the city without guard
and in citizen’s clothes and that lit
haye escaped of which only fifty-
eeven have been recaptured The re-
captures cost the Btate an average of
$80 each
Overpayments Alleged
That the Texas Building company
was overpaid various large sums of
money for work done in connection
with the construction of the peniten-
tiary under the management of Dick
is another charge in the report
The report also charges that a eon-
as "expenses” $620 within a peifod
of ten days and has not cancelled
checks or receipts to shw for what
purpose the money was expended
Teh report also charges that a con-
tract was let for the erection of a
light and power plant at the peniten-
tiary to S E Dunbar of Muskogee
and the testimony showed that John
M Wheeler agent for the Pauly Jial
Building company was very active In
Dunbar’s behalf When the contract
was liA Wheeler told Dunbar $25000
had been appropriated for building
the plant according to the report
Dunbar drew his own pl-ns for the
plant and when completed it con-
tained some second-hand machinery
and was not worth over $16000 ac-
cording to testimony E B Howard
objected to the contract Dunbar had
obtained and finally secured its can-
cellation and a new contract entered
into with Dunbar under which the
latter was to receive ten per cent
Edmister Wins In His Contest
The last election contest pending
in the house against a Republican
member of that body was disposed of
when by a vote of 68 to 9 the report
made by six members of the commit-
tee on privileges and elections recom-
mending the dismissal of the contest
against Representative S C Edmister
Pawnee county was sustained
Too Much Power Granted
The Ballard Impeachment
The house adopted the articles of
Impeachment against Insurance Com-
missioner Perry A Ballard by a vote
of 86 to 2 Representatives Morris
and Welty passed and under the rules
were counted as voting "no”
The articlea as adopted by the
houAe differ little from the report of
the committee on impeachment and
removal from office a few days ago
except they are more specific naming
Nannie Gwlnn as the woman In the
case
Article one recites the charges tlyat
Ballard received a bribe of $200 from
T J Wood of the Home Life Insur-
ance Company of Oklahoma City for
approving a license for that company
Article two renews the charge that
the insurance commissioner entered
into an agreement by which he
profited through printing let foF his
department but gives additional de-
tails by naming Nannie Gwinn as the
woman with whom he is alleged to
have had the tyslness agreement -'
Article three of the impeachment
charges reads “That the said Perry
A Ballard while insurance commis-
sioner of the state of Oklahoma was
guilty of an offense involving moral
turpitude to the extent of debauching
public morals and in violation of pub-
lic decency lb that during the year
19i2 he employed and placed in his
office one Nannie Gwinn with whom
he had been and vas maintaining im-
proper relations and with whom he
continued to maintain such relations
during the time of her employment in
his office? -
Speaker Maxey appointed Ropre-
sentatived Wyand of Muskogee Mc-
Guire of Guthrie and Pinkham of Kay
county as a board of managers to
prosecute the case before the senate
Jind also appoint them a committee
to'notlfy the senate of adoption of the
articles
'Special Session Decided Upon
A special session of the legislature
v11 be called by Governor Cruce be-
ginning immediately upon adjournr
ment of the regular session This was
agreed upon between a large delega-
tion of members ofboth bouses and
the chief executive Governor Cruce
stated that he would call the special
session but that he had not yet de-
cided upon- the date '
All local bills that are of an urgent
nature thb capital proposition and
final agreement on the l-edlstricting
bill will be pushed to a rapid con-
cluslop (by the house and an effort
will also be made to get rid of 'as
much other Important legislation
possible before next week for the rea-
son that all bills die on the calendar
when the regular session ends and
must bs re-introduced
Some members of the house are
known to be opposed to a special ses-
sion and they will try to retard ad-
journment until the legislature can
complete all important matters under
the $2 per day extension of the sea-
sion It is not likely that members
will work more than four or five days
on the $2 basis and they will then ad-
journ to begin in special session when
members will again draw full 1 pay
Members who favored the special ses-
sion figured that It would be Impos-
sible to keep a quorum present
By a vote of 32 to 8 the senate ac-
cepted the house amendment to the
bill which locates at Muekogee the
school for the blind The bill as it
will be sent to the governor provides
that the schobl shall be located on
twenty-five acres of land east of Has-
kell boulevard in section 19 in the
City of Muskogee The land is to be
donated to the state and the city
agrees to furnish free light and water
to the school
Attention !
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Banking Bill Is Up To Governor
The banking bill has now passed
both houses and is ready for tile go-
ernor The house of representatives
took final action on Senator Garrett’s
bill and except for adding the names
of Representatives Wyand and Glasco
as authors made no amendments
Three house members voted against
the bill on final passage Messrs H H
Smith Morris of Stephens and Dlzney
The aye vote numbered eightyJflve
The bill puts a limit of one-fifth of
one per cent per annum upon assess-
ments on deposits for the guaranty
fund with special provision under
which for the next three years the
banking board could levy an emer-
gency assessment of tone-fifth of one
per cent additional if such' should
Taking the ground that too much
power had been placed In the hands
of the attorney general by senate
amendments the bill defining the du-
ties of that officer and barring depart-
ments of state fyoin the employment
of private counsel was turned down
by the house as agreed to by a con-
ference committee report of both
houses The conference report failed
of adoption 44 to 39 and a new com-
mittee was appointed composed of
Wright of Oklahoma Williams of
Tulsa and Edmister of Pawnee
prove necessary
In addition to these large changes
tiers are several others of import-
ance especially those providing strin-
gent regulations and enforcement pro-
visions and adding drastic penalties
for the delinquent bank official
Two Appropriations -
senate also finally passed
The senate nlso finally passed a
bill appropriating $54000 from the
fund of ’section 13 for the support
of the Southeastern State normal and
a' hill appropriating $43800 for the
support of the Wilburton School ol
Mines Debate on this appropriation
brought out the fact that last year
only thiity-eight students attended the
school and its highest enrollment
during any one year of its existence
was 65 and that only one person had
ever graduated from the Institution
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