The Cleo Chieftain. (Cleo, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1916 Page: 2 of 12
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tan mars tax eusert
at'AMUM MlifAit F0 JULY1 1911
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL-
LAR BONUS A8KED FOR
NORTHWEST RAILROAD '
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NEWS OF THE KEW STATE
Little Incidents and Accidents hat Go
Ts Make Up a Week’s History
of a Groat Common-
wealth
Oklahoma City — Henry A Pressey
New York engineer U the man who
has offered to build a railroad Into
northwestern Oklahoma - connecting
Woodward and Oklahoma City Rep-
resenting New York bankers and fi-
nanciers Mr Pressey laid the proposi-
tion before the Chamber of Commerce
and out-of-town business men
Committees -have been working In
Woodward Watonga Mutual Selling
and other places along the route of
the proposed road to raise part of the
bonus These committees will report
in a general meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce Thursday
Calls for $400000 Bonus -Mr
Pressey’s proposition calls for
a bonus of $400000 and right-of-way
rights Of this amount Oklahoma
City is expected to subscribe 10 per
cent the remainder to be prorated
among other towns along the route
Total cost of constructing ' the 140
miles of trackage stations and ter-
minals will be $2000000
The New York bankers have given
the Chamber of Commerce until Sep-
tember 1 to either accept or reject the
proposal Estimates surveys - and
other details were ' completed some
time ago by Mr Pressey wrho has
made four trips over the route
Nine Months To Build - -It
is estimated that it will require
nine months to build the road The
contract of the New Yorkers is posi-
tive and binding and needs only the
acceptance of Oklahoma Cltyans and
others Interested to start the work
Mr Pressey is acting as consulting
engineer for the city in the construc-
tion of the new waterworks system
MELTON NAMES HIS COMMITTEE
-A-
w- "
Judge -Rainey of Atoka Selected To
Lead Campaign In 8tate
Oklahoma City — After an all-day
conference with nominees and party
leaders Alger Melton chairman of the
democratic state central committee
announced the appointment of libe
democratic campaign committee as
follows:
Judge Robert M Rainey of Atoka
chairman W D Anthony chairman
speakers’ bureau Ray O Weems sec-
retary Charles F Barrett director of
the press bureau Tom U Wade na-
tional committeeman treasurer The
members of the committee selected by
Chairman Melton are: C E Burlin-
game Bartlesville C C Moore Tul-
sa T C Hanill Wagoner J H Gor-
don McAlester C H Hyde Alva J
A Boyd Sapulpa W J Benjamin
Coalgate A E Monroney Oklahoma
City Mike Swatek Oklahoma City
George L Bowman Kfngflsher A M
Stewart Hollis ET Mitchell Chey-
enne Sam Myers Enid
High School Principal Dies
Tishomingo — W C Jordon princi-
pal of the local high school died here
after being found In a dying condi-
tion on the banks of Pennington creek
near here Death was caused by re-
peated attacks of touts Indigestion ac-
cording to physjcians
Milton Spears Captured and Implicates
Ex-Convict In Crowder Bank Raid
McAlester — Milton Spears the ne-
gro who helped to ’rob the Bank of
Crowder was run down and captured
hiding In the underbrush along Gaines
creek three miles from the scene of
the robbery
Penitentiary bloodhounds were used
in the chase Spears admits partici-
pation In the robbery and In bis con-
fession 'confirms the suspicions of of-
ficers that an ex-convict white want
ed on several similar Jobe' organised
the raid The white man got all the
loot except $10 Spears declares ’ Tho
negro dropped the $10 when he quit
his horse for the underbrush tho
money a revolver and the horse fall-
ing into the hands of the officers the
sfternou of the robbery Spears had
flSO and an “Owl” revolver and was
dressed as an ordinary cotton picket
when captured While dodging
through the underbrush from one
posse he came face to face with an-
other and surrendered
He has not seen his white companion
since they separated after the robbery
he says The negro is now in th
county Jail'7 in McAlester
Ths average precipitation for July was 74 inch Tho average departure from
the normal was minus I to inchea It waa by far the driest July in the peat it
years the previous lew reoord for the month being 140 inches in 1111 Reference to
the chart wlU show that the rainfall was lightest in the eastern and extreme western
countlea There waS'a marked dedclency over practically the whole state and severe
drougth was general at the close of the month Over considerable areas In all parts
of tba state there was no rain at all during the month
LANDLORD SHOOTS DOWN TENANT
Former Federal ' Court Clerk W' T
Ward 8hoota Seton Hurst '
Tishomingo — W T Ward a prom-
inent citizen of Tishomingo shot and
killed Seton Hurst a tenant on one of
Ward's farms nine miles north of
here
There seems to have been ill feel-
ing between the two' men for several
months which reached its culmination
when they met in the road near the
Ward - home A few words were
spoken and then two shots were fired
one taking effect in Hurst’s face Just
below the eye and the other in the
body Hurst was riding a horse and
the second shot was fired while he
was falling
Physicians say that Hurst’s neck
was broken caused by the fall from
his horse- Ward was arrested and
placed in ' the county jail at Tisho-
mingo to await preliminary examina-
tion the date of which has not yet
been fixed
Ward is an old-time citizen of this
part of the country having been for
a long time clerk of the federal court
during territorial days
THIS BEATS GOOD OLD PEKUNA
"Stomach Regulator" Sends - Indian
Woman to Happy Hunting Grounds
Tulsa — Six quart bottles of “stom-
ach regulator" caused the death of
Mrs Haxel Blaine wife of James O
Blaine a fullblood chief of the Osage
tribe of Indians Blaine ia one of the
wealthiest of the Osage Indians He
lives at Pawhuaka
Accompanied by ’ their two small
children the chief and his wife ar-
rived in Tulsa on a shopping tour Not
feeling well the woman took four bot-
tles of “medicine"
In the evening two more bottles
were emptied before tba woman col-
lapsed She died In a short time A
suicide theory was advanced at first
None of the Blaines spesk Englisn
and the family is accompanted con-
stantly by an Interpreter
Two Killed At Dewar
Dewar — Mistaking a smelter em-
ploye for a striker Mine Guard Davis
shot and killed H L Rice a strike
breaker when the latter failed to
halt at the guard’s command Charles
Nichols a citizen of Dewar was shot
and killed while trespassing on tha
premises of H B McQuary Nichols
It is said was intoxicated and becama
abuslva when MoQuary ordered him
to leave the premises
Who Killed the' AmendmentsT
The claim of republicans and social-
ists that their vigorous "Vote No"
campaign waa responsible for defeat
of the literacy test and other consti-
tutional amendments in the recent pri-
mary election is vigorously denied by
the democrats
On tbecontrsry it shows conclusive-
ly that democrats who treated the lit
eracy test and other amendments as
non-partisan issues were responsible
for the defeat of all pf the amend-
ments The total democratic vote registered
(or democratic candidates waa 111203
The total republican vote was 65109
The total socialist vote was 34029
The combined socialist and republioan
rote was only 89138 while the vote
on the literacy test was 80184 for and
133014 against thus showing conclu-
sively that it was the democratic rote
that defeated the measure Had the
democrats treated the literacy amend-
ment and other proposed amendments
as party issues they would have been
adopted by overwhelming majorities
Complete official returns from every
county in Oklahoma tabulated by the
state election board ahow that the
literacy test amendment -to the con-
stitution designed to take the place
of the nullified “grandfather clause"
was defeated by a majority of 41830
rotas -
The rote on - tho amendment was
90184 for and 132014 against The
amendment carried in only four or fire
of ‘the serenty-seren counties Ths
rote on the other amendments was as
follows:
Creation of State Tax Commission —
Yes 60349 no 145106 majority no
14758 -
Limiting Right of Municipalities to
(nour Indebtedness— Yes 43451 no
146882 majority no 103431
'To Consolidate Appellate Courts —
Tee 42683 no 148231 majority no
106663 - -
To Abolish 'County Courts — Yes
40628 no 166121 majority no
115698
Extending Compensation Law to In-
clude Death Cases— Tee 60601 no
138582 majority no 88131
Repeal -of Section 12A— Yes 76270
no 186896 majority no 61426
Change 8upreme Court Clerk From
Elective to Appointive - Office — Yes
67672 no 133819 majority no
76266'
' Reduolng Size of Juriss — Yes 49673
no 141839 majority no 81666
Governor To Colorado
Governor Williams has gone to Colo-
rado where he will remain two or
three weeks on his vacation During
his absence Lieutenant Governor
Trapp will ocoupy the executive of-floes
8oms Counties Over-Borrowed
No more loans from the permanent
common sohool fund will he made in
the future in counties which are over-
drawn according to announcement by
Secretary O A Smith of the school
Jand -department This policy has
been adopted so that the money re-
maining on hand may be equitably dis-
tributed Applications foi loans on file with
the department amount to $1478780
while thecash on hand only $708-
07465 The total amount of loans
made up ‘ to ' and ' Including August 1 -waa
$5898251
Caddo county with $195000 has se-
cured more of thle money than any
other county in the state Washita is
second with $176000 and Lincoln
county Is third with $156000 Lincoln
has the largest rural population of any
county of the state Farmers of Ok-
lahoma county which ranks fifth hare
secured $144650 Y
New Regulations On Hunting Season
Federal regulation designating open
hunting seasons on migratory birds
governs the attitude of the Oklahoma
state -fish and game Warden It was
said at his office following receipt of
telegraphic advices from Washington
that Secretary Houston of the depart-
ment of agriculture had promulgated
new regulations -
All insectivorous birds are protected
indefinitely under the seoretary’e or-
der and protection until September 1
1918 is provided for band tailed pig-
eons cranes wood ducks swans cur
lew wlllet upland plover and smaller
shore birds Open seasons for other
water fowl coots' galllnule Jack-
snipes blackbreasted and golden
plover greater and lesser yellow lege
rails and woodoocks are defined state
by state
‘ s
Bank Clearings 83 Millions
Oklahoma City is prosperous That
is proved by the tremendous increase
in the bank clearings during June July
and August of -this year over those of
the same montha of 1916 The Okla-
homa City Clearing House handled 76
per cent more money during tha past
three months than ft received for the
same months last year
The total banks clearings In this olty
for the summer months of 1916 which
was $30543685 was a noticeable In-
crease over those of the same months
In the preceding year while the total
for those months of this year $63293
444 was almost double that of 1915
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