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NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF OKLAHOMA
$100000 IN IMPROVEMENTS
Oil Burner May Be Used and Road
May Install Hugo Oil Storage
Tank Instead of Local Chutes
Enid Okla—Extensive improve-
ments are planned by the Rock Island
Railway company in Enid during the
coming year it is announced here by
officials
Instead of erecting new coal chutes
the road is contemplating the con-
struction of a huge storage oil tank
with direct pipe lines from the refin-
tries It is said that oil burners may
be Installed on all locomotives In
addition to this improvements will be
added at the shops Total expendi-
ture held wetay -yetavbgkolletaointao
ture here will be approximately $100-
000 according to J A McDougal su-
perintendent at El Reno
The $100000 budget will not include
a new station it was said The sta-
tion is practically assured for 1924
and will be built closer toAhe busi-
ness section the plans indicate
'A & M STUDENTS CONTEST
Annual Scholastic Event Will Be Held
In April It is Stated
Stillwater Okla—Nineteen new
contests have been added to the
events of the ' state inter-scholastic
meet held annually at Oklahoma Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college ac-
cording to announcement of W P
Powell chairman of the Inter-scholastic
committee The additions bring the
total number of events to forty-two
New contests are open for the first
time this year in history English art
typewriting and gardening Depart-
ments already offering competition
have added events as follows: In mu-
sic girls' quartet and boys' quartet
In speech play production debate and
bumorols reading in education rap-
id writing and spelling and silent
reading In manual training wood
turning
Oa U CADETS PROMOTED
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Carmen Boy Gets Highest Rank When
He Is Re-appointed Cadet Colonel
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14112alti Ott Ai—Goneral ordirs for
promotions and appointment in the
University of Oklahoma unit of the
reserve officers' Training corps just
received effect 30 cadets in the field
artillery branch of the service
To Cecil G Roush Carmen goes
again the highest rank in the unit
when he was reappointed cadet
colonel Major Harold Thorne
Enid was-promoted to the trel!t rank-
ing tiee of lieutenant colonel accord-
ing to the list announced by Major
W R Gruber commandant of the unit
FUND FOR FARMERS RAISED
Competitive Contest in Cotton Grow
Ina Planned by Antlers Merchants
Antlers Okla—At a meeting of the
Antlers chamber of commerce $1200
was raised to be distributed to the
cotton growers of Antlers trade terri-
tory Prizes will be given to the farmer
producing the most seed cotton from
a five-acre plat
The Antlers chamber of commerce
has shipped in two cars of pure seed
to be distributed among the farmers
Bank Association Officers Elected
Bristow Okla—N G Graham of the
Exchange National bank of Tulsa was
elected chairman of group four of the
Oklahoma Bankers association held
ilere Three hundred and fifty per-
sons were present for the meeting G
O Shepard president of the Farmers
State bank of Afton was elected vice
chairman IL E Hu len of the Union
National bank of BartlesviPe secre
tary N C Owenby of the Security
National bank of Muskogee and J A
Reaves president of the State bank
of Collinsville members of the exe-
cutive committee
Plan Large Cattle Shipment
Ardmore Okla—U S Joines owner
of one of the most extensive ranches
In this section of the state is prepar-
ing to ship approximately 2600 head of
finished cattle to the market next sum-
mer Joines owns thirty-six sections
of grass land in Carter and Murray
counties The proposed shipment will
Include cattle weighing betwieen 1100
and 1200 pounds on the hoof when of-
fered on the market
To Discontinue Lawton News
Lawton Okla—Publication of the
Lawton Deity News will be discontinu-
ted with the line of Thursday Febru-
ary 22 acco?ding to knnouncement
representatives of John C Keys now
of Oklahoma City who has been
owner and editor since the paper was
founded in 1901
The newspaper and plant has been
sod to Nfed Shepler and Fred Shepler
editors of the Lawton Daily Constitu-
tion but will be taken over by a new
company now being organized
MIAMI TO RAISE $100000
School Facilities of Town Result In
Many Now Families Moving In
Miami Okla—Bonds to the extent
of 100000 authorized kr the citizens
of Miami will be issuel and sold to
provide funds for a new highschool
building here The school facilities
of Miami has resulted in a large num-
ber of new residents here during the
past year Services offered by the
Northern Oklahoma railroad in carry-
Ing workmen to and from the mining
district and the other public improve-
ments has resulted in the 'population
and the school facilities getting out of
proportion )
For several months the rooms of the
schools have been overcrowded The
gymnasium and auditorium of the
highschool have been used for class
rooms as well as the basements of the
ward schools and the auditorium of
tire Christian church has been used
as an assembly room for the high-school
ELECTRIC PLANT ENLARGED
Pawnee Will Get Power From New
Drumright Line
Drumright Okla—With the comple-
tion of a 22000 volt transmission line
between Drumright and the Shaffer
Oil and Refining company's refinery at
Cushing the Drumright power plant
of the Oklahoma Gas and Electric
company has taken on a new load of
1200 horsepower necessary to run
this large refinery plant With the
completion of another line from Drum-
right as far as Pawnee the Drumz:ight
plant has commenced to furnish Paw-
nee with electrical power
These two big additions to the work
of the plant here coming only a few
great veries of improvements and ex-
tensions being made from the Drum-
right plant since August of last year
when this work of development was
commenced
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CAFE SUPPLY FIRM GROWS
Tusa Concern Grows from one Room
to $150000 Home In Three Years
Tulsa Okla--From a one-room
shop and an almost microscopic capi-
tal to a business home costing $150-
000 and a capital of $5CO3000 all in
about three years' time is the record
which the Jansen-Upp-Myers Manufac-
turing company manufacturers of res-
taurant supplies has made
Announcement of increase of the
company's capital to $500000 and of
plans to commence erection of a $150-
000 factory building this spring was
made 12y officials of the firm A deal
for a got expected to cost about $50-
000 will be closed this week The
building to house the show rooms
and manufacturing plant will be prob-
ably 100 by 140 in size four stories in
height and of reinforced concrete
$27000 FOR ROAD WORK
Hard Surfacing of Highway From
Miami to Afton Is Planned
Miami Okla---The Ottawa county
board of commissioners adopted a re-
solution to appropriate $27500 toward
building an extension to the hard sur-
faced highway from Miami to Afton
The proposed new road will run from
Miami north toward the Kansas line
ten miles north of the city When
the appropriation is matched by as
much federal aid money it Is thought
that the extension will reach to Com-
merce four miles north
A road bed which has been in use
for years will make the work much
less expensive than if the bed had to
be built also Clyde llocker commis-
sioner will take the resolution to the
state capital to ask for the federal aid
which has practically been promised
New Railway Ready By March 1st
Waurika Okla—It is expected that
the first passenger train over the new
road between Byers Texas and Wau-
rika will be operated March 1st The
bridge over Red river has been com-
pleted and track laying is under way
between the river and 'Waurika The
road is being built for the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Railway com-
pany by Frank Kell well-known
Wichita Falls railroad operator and
flour mill owner The chamber of
commerce at Waarika is arranging-for
appropriate exercises in celebration of
the coming of the first train
Firemen Get Reward
Miami Okla—Members of the Pich-
er fire department were rewarded for
efficient service when Harry Larsh
manager of the Aztec mine a mile
east of richer handed them a check
for $250 for saving his mill and other
buildings
The blaze was discovered in the
hoisting room of the Aztec derrick
Before the fire department could
reach the fire two derricks had beet
consumed
College Work is Offered
Frederick Okla — Announcenrent
has been made by A J Mathis that
the Frederick high school next year
will inaugurate two years of college
work if present plans are carried
through:- This year thn college de-
partment is giving freshman work that
Is accepted by the leading colleges of
the state Including the University of
Oklahoma The freshman college
class has an enrollment of thirty-three
THE LEXINGTON LEADER
WITH THE STATE LAY! MAKERS
Faced by the hard cold facts that I A resolution naming a committee to
there will be only some $25500000 to
take care of appropriations it would
appear that a lot of pet measures will
go by the wayside The high points
in the administration measures placed
in jeopardy are Market conhoistilon
bill for $110000 carrying fifteen high
salaried offices home ownership bill
for $1000000 carrying a position of
secretary at $2100 senate bill 37
warehouses 4250000 cement plant
bill No 146 for $1000000 carrying
fifteen good jobs with additional min-
or positions
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eharges that certain cattle owners
In Oklahoma had made the state pay
for cattle infected with tuberecular
disease which were not killed but
kept In quarantine and used to pro-
duce calves from which a small profit
was made were made by Senator An-
glin of Iloldenville in attack on sen-
ate joint resolution No 8 which pro-
vides a $31000 reimbursement to cat-
tle owners for cattle slaughtered on
order of the state board of agricul-
ture Further consideration of the
bill was postponed
On order of the speaker two mem-
bers of the press were ejected from
the house by the sergeant of arms
It was held that lobbying of the press
representatives hampered the opera-
tion of the house Marshall Smith of
Osage County took the floor and de-
clared tliat newspapermen visit mem-
bers to clarify points not brought out
In deliberation and that they are not
lobbyists Veterans at the press table
say the ruling is the first of its kind
In the history of the state
Two farm bills passed in the sen-
ate are bill 38 by Harry Cordell which
would appropriate 41225 for the pres-
ent market commission the cattle and
sheep scab hog cholera and statisti-
cal departments of the board of agri-
culture and the board would have an
additional $35000 for the eradication
of the fever tick in Choctaw Ilryan
Puslmmtaha and McCurtain counties
under senate joint resolution 6 by
Holloway and others
A bill introduced by Lang lei would
amend existing laws so that 75 per-
cent of the penalty made by tax pay-
er8 for failure to list their 'property
will pi to the schools ionf the state At
present the entire penalty goes to the
tax assessors A senate resolution
was also introduced and adopted in
memorial of William B Whitaker for
his' philanthropic efforts in the inter-
ests of state orphans
Bills passed in the house include the
following: No 19 making approptIa-
tion for additional staff quarters at
the Oklahoma Soldiers' memorial hos-
pital at Muskogee of $25000 No 38
making a supplemental appropriation
for the highway department of $40-
000 senate joint resolution No 6 ap-
propriating $35000 for the eradication
of ticks
Commissions for nine additional of-
ficers on the governor's staff have
been issued
Byron Hawkins Strong City Joe
P King Okmulgee Paxton H How-
ard Tulsa Alva J Nines Tulsa Ed
Stinnett Perry G S Long Tulsa
and Warren W Ferrell Tulsa were
commissioned colonels
Carrying an amendment to prohibit
the purchase of any book or copyright
teaching "the materialistic concep-
tion of history or the Darwinian theo-
ry as opposed to the teachings of
the holy Bible" the house passed the
free textbook bill known as house bill
No 197 carrying an appropriation of
$2250000 on final roll can 87 to 2
The senate has passed senate bill
No 203 making a supplemental appro-
priation for the geological survey sen-
ate bill No 209 providing for appoint-
ments at Claremore and senate bill
No 5 making a $125000 appropriation
for the aid of union graded schools
With a hundred and sixty-six bills
onthe calendar the lower house took
a holiday for Washington's birthday
many attending the League of Young
Democrats at Pawhuska The senate
has only half as many bills to consider
as the house
Charles E Wells of Shawnee and
twenty-two other senators have intro-
duced a resolution which sets March
8 as the date on which the ninth legis-
lature shall adjourn
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The Street-Van Dail paving and im-
provement bill listed as house bill 189
and the conference report on house
bill 136 by Harper were both passed
upon final roll call
An item of $62500 to provide addi-
tional personnel quarters at Musko-
gee Memorial hospital was authorized
In senate bill 19 by Langley has been
approved
House bill 139 by Tom Johnson of
Pushmataha seeking to vitalize sec-
tion 12-A of the state constitution
providing for the equal distribution of
taxes collected from public service cor-
porations among the counties of
the state was stricken from the cal
endr when the house adopted the
minority report 59 to 33
Investigate the expenditure of money
appro priated by the last legislature
for building and improvement at var-
ious state institutions was unanimous-
ly adopted by the senate
The resolution provides for the tak-
ing of testimony and the inspection
of various projects The committee
named to dt-i- the work comprises Sen-
ators Horner Johns Darnell Kline
and Looney
The resolution reads in part: "It
has been reported to the senatei ap-
propriations committee that a part of
the money appropriated by the legis-
lature for the purpose of erecting new
buildings and repairing old ones has
been diverted from the purpose for
which it was appropriated and used
for other purposes Much of it has
been misused according to report in
construction of detective buildings
The introduction of the resolution
is the result of an investigation of the
Clinton tubercular hospital made by
Ed P Johns and Glenn R Horner de-
claring structures there could have
been built at half the price paid
A 2-cent tax on oil and gasoline and
the building and operation of a state
owned cenment plant were recom-
mended in a set of resolutions by the
state association of county commis-
sioners presented to Governor Wal-
ton The resolutions were drawn at the
annual meeting of the asssociation at
Oklahoma City They were signed by
Joseph Liggett cchairman of the reso-
lutions committee and A L Dunkin
secretary pro tem
The oil and gasoline tax would be
collected as a 1-cent levy on retail
prices with the same levy on whole-
salers The proceeds would be ap-
portioned three-fourths to the coun-
ties in which collected and one-fourth
to the state highway department for
construction of roads and bridges it
was recommended
The new market commission bill an
administration measure has been
passed by the house by a vote of 61
to 38 The commission created by it
would control the home ownership
fund enforce the anti-discrimination
law and have control over the state
warehouse system should the latter
be adopted in original form It is
pointed out that the enactment of this
program would remove the depart-
ments from the state board of agricul-
ture and put them under the new com-
mission controlled by the governor
with the president of the state board
of agriculture a minority member
Each state senator is authorized to
appoint two cadets and two alternates
frGm his respective district and each
representative is authorized to appoint
one cadet and one alternate to th'e
right to attend the Ok lanuma military
academy according to senate bill No
209 by Calvert which was passed by
the senate
The cadets will be appointed under
the regulations of the board of regents
and the United States war department
Cadets now enrolled in the academy
will be permitted to complete their
course without appointment
Reappointment of Lola Mae Champ
In who has served for two years as
secretary of the state board for voca-
tional education is announced Miss
Champlin has been in educational
work in Oklahoma for several years
At one time she was clerk of the
board of education at Muskogee For
several years she filled the post of
secretary at East Central State Nor-
mal at Ada and at Northeastern State
Normal Tahlequah
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There are five methods fixed by law
which the governor can release pri
oners The are:
Expiration of term of sentence an
executive pardon a parole a leave of
absence for a specified time absence
under guard for a specified purpose
This last is the kind of "leave"
granted Xenophon Jones and recently
brought under investigation by the
house of representatives
House bill 312 by John Miller of
Tulsa designed to prevent picketing
rioting and organized agitation during
labor disputes was reported from
judiciary committee 'No 1 with a un-
nanimous recommendation that It do
pass
Among the bills which have become
law is one which provides $150000 to
pay the expenses of the session a
$27000 appropriation for the Peuls
Valley training school and a $4493346
supplemental appropriation for state
officers
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Senate concurrent resolution No
11 by Brice and Taylor authorizing
the construction of a bridge between
Pittsburg and McIntosh counties pass-
ed without an opposing vote
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lahoma City making wife abandon
ment a felony was passed by the Ben
ate The bill provides for parole Ir
the governor on recpmmendation
the district judge assessing sentencl
when certain conditions are COMpliet
with by the refractory spouse
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