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WEEK'S SESSION IN EACH TOWN
Geo W Barnet and Mrs Mull of-Col-lege
Extension Division Will Be
Assisted By An Able Corps
of Instructors
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Stillwater— So close was the race
for the 1914 sessions of the A & M
College ' Encampment Schools ' that
final decision on tne locations of
these schools has just been an-
nounced The list is as follows: -Sallisaw
Sequoyah County July 7-
11 " ‘ Ada' Pontotoc County July 14-18
Hollis Hannon County July 21-25
- Cordell Washita County July 28-
August 1 - ' -
' Tonkawa Kay County August 4-8
- The A & M College will send two
big tents one for an auditorium the
other for the College exhibits of live-
stock and complete exhibits repre-
senting the various technical depart-
ments of the College 4 'competent
staff of experts will lecture and give
demonstrations on various oplcs of
agriculture and home making
Prof A P Little Stillwater Eleo-
trlcal Engineering
Prof A F Rolf Stillwater Poultry
Husbandry
Prof J M Cadwallader Stillwater
Dairying
Prof H W Moorhouse Stillwater
Marketing
Prof W P Shuler Stillwater Vet-
erinary Medicine - '
Prof D C Mooring Stillwater Hor-
ticulture and Botany
Prof R D Forrester Stillwater
Livestock
Miss Edith Coffman Stillwater Do-
mestic Science
H R Hedger Stillwater Boys’ and
Girls’ Clubs
Miss Margaret McPheeters Still-
water Domestic Science
- Mrs Ora L Wood Oklahoma City
Dressmaking
Miss Martha McPheeters Still-
water Domestic Science
Clay Woodson Stillwater -Physical
Training
A representative of the State Board
A Agriculture will have a place on
the program
The work for women at these En-
campment Schools will be directly in
charge of Mbs B W Mull of the Col-
lege Extension Division of A & M
College The work for Boys’ and
Girls Clubs will be in charge of H R
Hedger and Miss Margaret McPheet-
ers The work of the Encampment
Schools is organized with a view to
giving every member of the family
en opportunity for self improvement
There are lectures for men for wom-
en for boys and for girls These are
given by experts who have learned
by experience bow to approach the
practical problems of the farm resi-
dents and the people of small towns
without wasting time in imparting
useless information Every member
of the Encampment School staff has
lectured in various line of extension
work in Oklahoma - Every member
understands Oklahoma problems
The A & M College Encampment
Schools have grown more popular each
year Last year total attendance at
all sessions of the schools was in ex-
cess of 60000' Seating capacity t-
der the big tent is sufficient to ac-
commodate a crowd large as the aver-
age Chautauqua attendance and it is
never necessary to turn visitors away
PRESISTEHT LOVER IS MURDERED
8tsp-Father 8hoots Farmer Who
Wooed Little Indian Girl -
Bartlesville — Love for a 12-year-old
Delaware Indian girl caused the death
' of Elmer Lawyer a farmer 28 years
’ old near Dewey " --
Jack Hartshorn step-father of the
girl is in the county jail charged with
murder - Hartshorn admitted to the
' sheriff that he killed Lawyer and said
that he did so to protect his step-
daughter Mary Hartshorn from the
attentions of the man now dead He
aald that he did not think that Law-
yer’s intentions were - honorable
Hartshorn said be had told Lawyer
several times to cease his attentions
tf the girl' as she was too young to
be going with him ’ Hartshorn said
that Sunday that Lawyer called on
the girl and when ordered away re-
fused to do A quarrel started and
- Lawyer was shot through the body
Only one shot was fired and that from
a shotgun
A sister of Lawyer said that he had
intended to marry the glrL
SEVERAL BAIT COWELL’S JOB
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Board of Agriculture Hears Claims ef
Many Applicants f
Oklahoma City — Aspirants for ap-
pointment to the presidency of the
state and M College at Stillwater
to succeed J H Connell who has
been removed appeared "before the
beard of agriculture at its meeting
in Oklahoma City and presented their
claims- and qualifications for the place
Dr E T Bynum of Oklahoma City
former professor of German at ' the
Unlvedslty of- Oklahoma President
Grant C Grumbine of the Alva Nor-
mal and M A Carrolton of the for-
estry division of the federal agricul-
tural department at Washington Dr
Charles Evans of the Edmond Nor-
mal are the applicants who appeared
before the board
Teachers in the district agricul-
tural schools elected by the board
are:
Murray 8chooI
R M McCool H D Rinsland Mar-
guerite McPheeters J W Fowler M
H Caywood L D Harrison Julian
Williams Dr W W Britton
Cameron -School
R P Short C W Mock Myrtle
Short Arda Frans Helen V Casey
M C Courtney Mrs Jake Wright E
Smith O C Whipple Blanche Graham-H
Frysinger Mrs L T Wil-
kins Panhandle Institute
SW Black L F Stewart Alfred
Strcki Lyle W Kennedy L E Rath-
bun Mable H Hamil Edward Gieck
Haskell 8ehool
E B Henshaw V A Schiefelbosch
C H Williams D W Schlosser Kate
M Penn Mary E Gragg Fern Sizer
Three teachers to be supplied oee
each for history mathematics and ag-
riculture Connors 8chool
J S Malone Oliver Hendrickson
W H Cullwell? Elmo Hendrickson
Laura M McLain J C ' Morris
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6 0 P SLATEMS COMPLETED
Will Soon Be Filed With 8tate Elec-
tion Board
Oklahoma City — Will M Phares a
printer of Muskogee was selected by
the republican state central commit-
tee at a meeting in' Oklahoma City
as the republican nominee for state
labor commissioner C C Ziegler of
Oklahoma City was nominated for the
office by the republican convention
but declined to allow bis name to go
before the people
Zac T Pryse an insurance man of
Mangum was chosen as the nominee
for clerk of the supreme court to fill
the vacancy on the ballot occasioned
by the withdrawal of Homer C Par-
cells of Guymon who received the
nomination from the convention
This makes the republican ticket
complete and it will be filed with the
secretary of the state election board
within a few days
WHEAT FIRED BY THE LIGHTRIRG
Three Men Injured and Eeighty Acres
of Grain Destroyed Near Alva
Alva — During a light rain storm
that visited this county lightning
struck a header and crew on the John
Johnson farm ten miles south of this
city The bolt injured three men and
knocked the team of horses flat on
the ground The men were taken to
Dacoma a town fifteen miles south-
east of here where they received med-
ical treatment and were reported as
not seriously injured although badly
stunned from the shock The horses
were not seriously injured
Lightning also struck the wheat field
of James Young a prosperous farmer
living near Dacoma setting the field
on fire and destroying eighty acres
of wheat be?bre the flames could be
extinguished
Rosa Association Elects 'Officers
Guthrie — The state convention ef
the Betsy Ross Association of Okla-
homa closed its session wtyh the elec-
tion of officers as follows: Ida M
Ruby Ponca City president Minnie
Keith Bailey Enid first vice presi-
dent Reva Robertson Guthrie third
vice president: Leona- D Derwln
Guthrie secretary Maude Durley’
Guthrie treasurer Anna B Dodson
Guthrie' parliamentarian Eunice M
Munger Oklahoma City historian
Altlssa McDonald Ponca City corres-
ponding secretary
East 8lders Hold Good Roads Meet'
McAlester — Three hundred good
roads enthusiasts representing all
but one of the eight eastern Okla-
homa counties traversed by the M K
& T railroad met' here and formed
a permanent organization of the Katy
Highway Association the purpose of
which is to promote a cross-state road
paralleling the Katy - through Okla-
homa W L Biggs of Muskogee was
elected president W A Durant of
Durant vice president and George M
Porter of McAlester secretary and
treasurer
OKLAHOMA HEVS ROTES
"shadows op coming events
July 1-4— L O O T celebration Gran-
ite July 7-11 Encampment school 8111-
saw July f-Aug 1— Cotton school Still-
water July 9 — Mclntoih-Hughes annexation
election
July 14-18 Encampment school Ada
July 21-25 Encampment school Hollis
Encampment school
July 28-Aug 1
Cordell
Aug 4-8 Encampment
k&wa - -
Aug 8-7— Celebration of opening day
anniversary Frederick
Aug 7 — Summer school closes State
University
Aug 20-Sept 1 — Rran Fair Ryan
Aug 26-29 Corn Carnival Caddo
Sept 2-15— Jackson County Fair -Blau
Sept 7-12 — Caddo County Fair Ana-
darko Sept 8-10 — Caddo County Fair Blnger
Sept 8-10 — Photographers convention
Oklahoma City-
Sept 8-12— Ringnsher county Fair
Kingfisher
Sept -12-‘-Oreer county Fair- Man-
gum t Sept 14-19-Wah-Shab'She Fair Paw-
huska Sept 15-17— Pottawatomie County Fair
Shawnee -
Sept J5-18 — Pawnee County Fair Paw-
nee Sept 15-18— Beckham County Fair Elk
City
Sept 15-18 — Kay County Fair Newkirk
Sept - 15-18 Cimarron VaUey Fair
Guthrie
Sept 16 — Celebration Opening Chero-
kee Strip Perry
Sept 16-18— Haskell County Fair Stlg-
ler Sept 16-18— McIntosh County
Eufaula
Sept 16-18— The Sterling Fair
tag
Sept - 16-18— Pittsburg County
McAlester
Sept 16-18 — Lincoln - County
Prague
Sept 22-24 — Delaware County
Grove
Sept 22-Oct 1914— State Fair Okla-
homa City
Oct 7-17— Dry Farming Congress
Wichita
October — Southern Commercial Con-
gress Muskogee
Fair
Sterl-
Falr
Fair
Fair
Train service has been established
into Ringllng over the Ringling road-
Washita county claims the largest
wheat yield per acre of any county in
the state
Duston claims a local pnp eix
months old treed seventeen opossums
in one log
The Frisco railway on its Red river
division has adopted the telephone
method of train dispatching -
Frank Spence a farmer living
southeast of Blackwell' was dragged
to death by a fear crazed mule
A Butler merchant sold 3000 pounds
of binder twine in one afternoon to
farmers getting ready for the wheat
harvest -
A locomotive spark set fire to a
Grant county wheat fieldand before
the flames died out 285 acres of wheat
had been destroyed
A farmer named Dornler recently
died near Jet and left a fine farm and 1
money in bank but no known rela
tives to mourn his death
A series of religious meetings are
in progress at Drumright in a big tent
Rex M M Alden pastor of the M E
church recently of Guthrie is in
charge
The ladies auxiliary to the Logan
county farmerg institute have opened
m
a free rest room in the city for the
special use of the wives and families
of farmers who visit Guthrie
A woman was killed and six per-
sons were injured two of them per-
haps fatally when a wagon loaded
with picnicers was struck by a switch
engine in the Muskogee railroad yards
Trustees of the First Presbyterian
church of Ardmore are offering their
old building for sale This is the first
step toward the construction of a new
$35000 church edifice by that denom-
ination because he says he could not work
in harmony with the people of the
town Dr E D Murdaugh tendered his
resignation to the state board of edu-
ration as president of the Durant Nor-
mal School -
The Frederick Business Men’s As-
sociation is collecting $1000 to be
used for the purpose of having a big
two days celebration there August 6
and 7 the anniversary of the open-
ing of this part of Oklahoma
The president sent to the senate
the following nominations to be post-
masters in Oklahoma: Thomas Stone
Custer Monroe Moore Lamont Omer
Scbnoebelen Moorehead Engenia F
Turner Krebs D R Wright Taloga
H S Blair Drumright
Word has Just been received from
Dean Julian C Monnett at Leland
Stanford university California where
he went to investigate a call to s
chair of law at a salary considerably
higher than he receives as dean of
the university law school here that
he has finally declined the offer He
said he considered there is s greater
field for usefulness in Oklahoma
Judge' J W Harreld who has been
referee in bankruptcy in Oklahoma
for the past eight years has tendered
his resignation to Judge Campbell at
Muskogee apd W T Ward bis law
partner and who has been clerk of
the bankruptcy court for the past five
years has been appointed to succeed
him
Want Lower Assessments
Representatives of the H M Bylles-
by Co of Chicago owners of the Okla-
homa City Gas and Electric Co the
Muskogee and Enid Gaa and Electric
Companies served notice on the state
board of equalization that unless the
board fixed the assessment of their
properties in Oklahoma this year the
same as last year they would carry
the matter to the supreme court
The board already has fixed the as-
sessments and at figures higher than
last year The board will not recon-
sider its action it was stated but will
leave the assessments as fixed
That no action is likely to be taken
by the board for some time in the
matter of fixing the valuations of the
four big pipe line companies operat-
ing in the state was indicated when
Governor Cruce announced to the
board that Attorney General West had
informed him that he could not at-
tend any of the board meetings until
after the August primary in which
he is a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor -
Attorney General West is demand-
ing an increase of 30 per cent in the
valuation of pipe line companies and
the board it is said does not care to
take action until the attorney general
can be heard
Jake Hamon promoter of the Ok-
lahoma New Mexico and Pacific rail-
road known as the “Ringling road”
appeared before the board and pro-
tested against the proposed assess-
ment on a valuation of $10000 per
mile for main line and $5000 per mile
for side tracks According to Hard-
on the road’s construction has aver-
aged $15000 per mile but the promo-
ter Insists that its valuation for tax-
ation purposes should be compara-
tively the same as that of other short
roads and he mentioned the Oklaho-
ma Clinton and Western road in par-
ticular as being valued for taxation
purposes at $5000 per mile for' main
line and $3000 per mile for side
track lines Hamon told the board
that the Ringllng broth'Ws' were pour-
ing a large portion of their circus re-
ceipts into the building of the road
and that if the assessment' was not
lowered he would have a hard time
explaining to the circus men why the
"elephant money road" was valued
higher for taxation purposes than
other roads with a similar mileage -A
compromise was finally effected
pnd the road’s valuation for taxation
na ine r°aa?
Purposea fixed at 7-B0° Per mfle for
the main lines
Property owned by the Pioneer
Telephone Co was valued at $6405000
for taxation purposes an increase of
$1000000 over that of last year
Western Union Telegraph Co prop-
erty was valued at $2206000 a cut
from $2254000 of last year The
Mackay Telegraph - and Cable Co
i property was valued at $198000 and
11 T7I4J Prt RVAR
the United States Express Co prop-
erty in Oklahoma valued at $95 a
mile
Connell’s Place Still Empty
Without selecting a president
the A and M college at Stillwater
The state board of agriculture ad-
journed subject to the call of the
president Another meeting will be
called some time after the first of the
month
Until Connell’s -successor is chosen
the school will be under the direc-
tion of J F Darby of Muskogee who
was appointed by the board some
time ago to assume control of the in-
stitution and perfect a temporary or-
ganization - pending 'the selection of
a permanent successor to Connell
Another employe of the A and M
college Joe McKeown financial sec-
retary was removed by the board at
its meeting General heglect of duty
was the reason of his removal His
successor has not been selected His
removal is effective immediately the
work of the office being turned over
to hlB assistant
8ite For Governor’s Mansion
Th site for the location of the ex
ecutive mansion of Oklahoma was se-
lected last week by Governor Cruce
and members of the state capltol com
mission W B Anthony P J Gould-
ing and S A Douglas after they had
made a personal inspection of the Cap-
itol grounds about two miles northeast
of the business center of the city
The governor’s mansion will he lo-
cated on the highest point of ground
Bank Loses Usury Case
What is usurious interest for a state
in the capltol site on what would be bank is usury for a national bank at
an extension of Twenty-third street ell Supreme Court Commissionei
east of the Santa Fe railroad The Harrison held inthe case of the Farm
building will be erected about two'ert National bank of Wewoka vs T
blocks east of the capltol building ig McCoy a Seminole county case
proper Judge Harrison helf that suit on an
The capltol commissioners and gov-'usurious note could not be brought
ernor are charged by the law with the against a national bank in the sam
duty of reserving this site although court as if it had been a state bank
no appropriation was made for the McCoy recovered $169 usurious inter-
ccnstructlon of any building save tbe est with a $50 attorney fee included
state house proper ' and 'the bank appealed'
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Tick Eradication Work Is Planned
Tick eradication work will begin in
earnest in the eastern side of the
state July 1 according to announce-
ment by the field division of the
United States hureau of 'animal in-
dustry The work will be carried on
aggressively in Delaware Adair Cher-
okee Sequoyah Mayes Wagoner
Muskogee McIntosh Tulsa Okmulgee
McClain and - Jefferson counties be- -sides
in unfinished 'portions of Creek
and Osage counties - -Okfuskee
and Pittsburg - counties
will make appropriations - and begin
building vats about September 1
Probably twenty-five dipping vatB will
be erected in each of these counties
Th eradication program to be taken
up this year is considerably more ex- -tensive
than ever before in Oklahoma
during a single year Twenty-two men
in behalf of the state and thirty fed-
eral men will be employed in addition
to four to six county inspectors in
each of the counties
Co-operative vat building is proving
a success this year in Delaware and
Cherokee counties Farmers are sup-
plying the labor and the cattlemen -and
county commissioners the lumber
and cement
Muskogee county has been endeav--oring
to obtain government aid in its
campaign against bog cholera but no
definite promise has yet been made
that county from the federal agents
it was stated recently
' Ordered to Grant a Dental License '
District Judge J J Carney issued
a writ of mandamus against the state
dental board directing that body to
issue to S W Bancroft of Ardmore
a license to practice dentistry in this
state or to appear in court at once
and show cause why the license had
not been issued Bancroft in his ap-
plication for a writ alleged that for
several years be was a practicing den-
tist at Perkins and moved from there
to Kansas where he remained until
he returned to Oklahoma last falL
According to the application petition-
er lost his license to practice In Okla-
homa and the state dental hoard has
refused to issue a duplicate because
the record of the former license is
now lost Bancroft presented to the
court the affidavit of Dr W L Mau-
pln who was secretary of the - state
dental board in 1898 who asserts that
a license was Issued to Bancroft in
that year
Cannot Refund Tax Paid In
Taxes paid on Indian'ands exempt
from taxation are not subject to be-
ing refunded and legal claim can not
be either made for their refund nor
has anyone the right to refund them
according to an opinion rendered by
the attorneye general’s office to the
state treasurer which also holds that
section 14 chapter 152 session laws
cf 1910-11 which authorizes boards of
county commissioners to adjust erron-
eous tax assessments and to withhold
the state’s portion from the next set-
tlement with the state treasurer is
cot retroactive
Appeal Is Filed By Lee-Hucklns
Alleging that the 1913 assessment
on the Lee-Hucklns hotel and furnish-
ings was too high In the sum of
$128249 an appeal was filed in dis-
trict court by the Huckins Hotel Co
asking that the assessment of last
year be corrected to overcome this
alleged error
The petition alleges that the prop-
erty including undivided profl’s is
worth $547000 and that the company
so reported it to" the assessor but
that these figures were altered and
a false and fictitious value substi-
tuted Glover Files Damage Suit
Damages in the sum of $50000 is
asked by Lynn Glover president of
the Oklahoma Institute of Technol-
ogy at Tonkawa in a suit filed in the
district court against William R Nel-
son owner and publisher of the Kan-
sas City Times - The suit is based oa
the publication in the Times on June
12 of an article telling of his having
been arrested and fined $1 in police
court for using porfane language and
disturbing the J peace The article'
states that he was arrested pleaded
guilty and paid the fine