Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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OKLAHOMA.
FORTy- SKTH
aANK CHARTERS SURRENDERED
Two Washita Institutions Reorganize
as 8tate Banks
CORDELL: The City National Bank
of this city, the largest banking insti-
tution of Washita county, with depos-
its of over $150,000, has surrendered
its national charter and has taken out
a state charter as the Cordell State
Bank, with a capital stock of $25,-
000. This change is made in order to
take advantage of the Oklahoma guar-
anty law for the protection of deposi-
tors.
This bank had the guaranty fund,
but the opinion of the attorney has
forced the bank out, as a national
bank and to take out a charter under
the state.
The First National Bank of Foss,
Washita county, has also surrendered
its charter, and is now liquidating,
and has taken out a state charter as
the Foss State Bank, with a capital
of $25,000. This bank was also under
the state guaranty system.
OUT THIRTY MINUTES
Jury Finds Negro Guilty of Aiding in
Sheriff's Murder
WATONGA: Within thirty minutes
after the Ed Ellis murder case had
been given to the jury, a verdict of
guilty was brought in and the sen-
tence of life imprisonment was im-
posed.
Great excitement prevailed during
the five days of the trial of Sheriff
George W. Garrison's would-be slayer,
and the verdict and sentence were re-
ceived with a great deal of satisfac-
tion by the citizens of Watonga.
Tobe Smith, one of the negroes to
be tried for harboring Alf Hunter, has
jumped his bond and Dr. Kelley of
Watonga will be asked by County At-
torney Boardman to forfeit the bond
of $1,000.
OBJECTS TO ROAD WORK
Prisoner Don't Like the Idea of Work-
ing in Hot Sun
MCALESTER: "I have seen the in-
aide of seven jails this year," was the
comment Joe Gardiner made to Con-
stable Banks when Justice Tarter had
sentenced him to 30 days on tTie coun-
ty roads for ?' fo,,r "ks of to-
bacQO from a >
"Yes sir, I have done linn, in Po-
teau, Muskogee, Holdenville, Wewoka,
Vinita and Durant. However, I have
heretofore had a more luxurious time
than putting in my vital strength and
manly vigor on a dull prosaic country
road. I am of the same opinion as the
commissioner of charities and correc-
tions; the Pittsburg county jail is far
above the average in point of cleanli-
ness, convenience and comfort. The
coffee is not a bad grade that we get
here, but then I don't like the Idea of
working 30 days in this August-Sep-
tember sun.''
BENEDICT ARRESTED AGAIN
Governor Haskell Will Continue Pros-
ecution for Criminal Libel
OKLAHOMA CITY: Omer K. Bene-
dict, editor of the Oklahoma City
Times, is again made defendant In a
criminal libel suit instituted by Gov-
ernor C. N. Haskell. Sheriff Mahoney
called Mr. Benedict over the 'phone
Tuesday, instead of serving papers in
person. Mr. Benedict went to Guth-
rie, gave bond in the sum of $500,
with Joe Norris, chairman of the re-
publican state committee, and Charles
Filson as sureties, to appear Septem-
ber 1, and returned to Okianoma City.
Governor Haskell Is quoted as say-
ing that he intended to have Benedict
arrested every time an article of the
nature of the two for which he has
been cited Is published.
8uapend an Oklahoma Sheriff
HUGO: Probably the first officer to
be suspended in the new state is Sher-
iff J. M. Meredith, of Choctaw coun-
ty. The county commissioners filed a
petition in the district court alleging
mal-admlnlstratlon of office against
Sheriff Meredith and together with
other citizens chartered a special
train from Hugo to Durant, where
they went before District Judge Rich-
ardson, headed by County Attorney J.
M. Willis, and asked for the suspen-
sion of Sheriff Meredith. After hear-
ing the petition and the testimony,
Judge Richardson granted the suspen-
sion of the sheriff until the October
term of court at this place. The com-
missioners returned home and pro-
ceeded to appoint as special sheriff R.
M. Connell, who has made bond and
was sworn In.
TE8T "BACK TAX" LAW
GUTHRIE: It is stated that the of-
ficial volume of the state session laws
ivill be ready for distribution Septem-
ber 1. A codifying committee ap-
pointed during the legislature session
has been at work preparing the laws
since the adjournment of the assem-
bly.
Kingfisher County Brings 8uit to Re-
cover $50,000 Back Taxes
KINGFISHER: By authority of a
law enacted by the first state legisla-
ture, providing that property that has
been omitted from assessment
through a series of years shall be list-
ed and assessed for each year that has
been so omitted and charged with the
levy of that year, County Treasurer
Patrick recently announced his inten-
tion of levying upon the property of
David Gamble, deceased, for the pur-
pose of collecting taxes to tne amount
of $50,000 due on chattel mortgages
alleged to have been recorded In the
name of Gamble which were never
taxed. The widow, who is administra-
trix of the estate, has been granted a
restraining order by County Judge
Graham.
Farmers Educational
—AND
Co-Operative Union
Of America
Divided They Vote.
The whistle has blcvn and each man
takes his place
To toll for the world at a death-deal-
ing pace.
Each movement is skillful, each brain
is alert.
While they patiently work in the fac-
tory dirt.
Just look at that picture and then
make a note,
That united they sweat, but divided
they vote.
The machines and the belts and the
shafting are still
And not a wheel turns—there's a
strike at the mill.
A strike! Every workman has sol-
emnly vowed
To stand by his mates till their claims
are allowed.
'Tis a brave thing to do, but don't
fail to note
That united they strike, but divided
they vote.
The sun brightly shines as there
passes along
In holiday raiment the Labor Day
throng
Each man is decked out in his Labor
Day best—
"Labor omnia vlnclt," the banners
attest,
Yes, labor may conquer, but never,
please note,
While united they march, but divided
they vote. —Ellis O. Jones.
Look around you and note how you
and your neighbors divided your votes
recently and then compare this with
the solidity of the votes of the "inter-
ests."
SCHOOLS 8HORT OF FUNDS
Tax Levy In Many Districts Insuffici-
ent for Needs
GUTHRIE: It la beginning to be evi-
dent to school boards over the state
that the task of raising enough funds
to run schools In many districts of
Oklahoma this year te going to be ex-
ceedingly difficult. The constitution
limits the total levy for school pur-
poses to 6 mills, allowing an addition-
al levy of 10 mills upon a majority
vote of the electors of the district.
This places the total that may be lev-
led In a rural district for the support
Df its school at 16 mills and only 6
mills may be levied without a special
election.
The last legislature failed to pass
a lav/ vitalizing the provision of the
constitution allowing the 10 mill ad-
ditional levy. As no machinery was
provided for such an election it is
feared that school districts of the
state will have to run on 6 mills un-
less the courts should hold that the
provision of the constitution was self-
• executing.
University Plans Complete
NORMAN: The building committee
of the university regents have build-
ing plans ready, and as souu n wi -
ernor Haskell, chairman of the com-
mittee, returns from Chicago, he will
request Lee Cruce, president of the
board of regents, to call a meeting of
the whole board In order that final
consideration of the plans may be had.
Upon approval of the plans bids will
be advertised for, and in 30 days the
contract will be let for active construc-
tion to begin at once.
Labor Day is Legal Holiday
GUTHRIE: Governor Haskell has
issued a proclamation declaring labor
day, Monday, Sept. 7, a legal holiday.
In the proclamation he calls attention
to the notice paid by the demooratlc
administration and legislature to the
demands of organized labor and states
that out of the 32 subjects presented
to the constitutional convention by the
joint legislative board of organized la-
bor and farmers' unions oniy eight re-
main for future legislatures to pass
upon. He refers to the different leg-
islation demanded by the laboring in-
terests and invites the attention of
the trade unionists to the work of the
convention and legislature.
Preparing Jail for Convicts
MCALESTER: Work is to be begun
at once on tho old federal jail to put
It in condition for the care of the state
prisoners that are to shortly be trans-
ferred here from Kansas. One cor-
ner of the jail will be torn off and re-
built. The entire building will be
cleaned and renovated and sewer and
light connections will be Installed.
Organize to Determine Action.
Bearish influences In the different
departments of the speculative, buy-
ing and consuming cotton world are,
as usual, getting busy to hammer
down the price of cotton for both near
and fall months' delivery. There are
two arguments now being used to de-
press the price of cotton; the first,
that the consumption of manufactured
goods is not satisfactory, owing to
continued trade depression in this
country; second, that the prospects
for a large yield of cotton this year
is good in practically all sections of
the cotton belt, except Oklahoma. Up-
on these two propositions the fall
months are being hammered, and Oc-
tober deliveries are now around 9.20,
while December futures are quoted at
about 9 cents by the New York Cotton
Exchange. All cotton sold by export-
ers for delivery in these months are
based on New York quotations, plus
whatever premium the contract be-
tween the exporter and the spinner
Is agreed on. If several million bales
are sold on the basis of these figures
every effort will be made to hold down
prices until these contracts are liqui-
dated. If the growers begin to rush
their cotton to market as usual In
September and October it will be im-
possible to stem the disastrous tide
of these depressive Influences. If
the farmers are not well organized
and secure the co-operative strength
of the banking and business interests
of the South they will have a hard
struggle ahead to maintain fair prices.
Lint cotton Is worth more than Its
fair market price today, and it will
be worth much move In October than
the present future quotations for that
month Indicate. There must be some-
thing done aside from the mere work
of organization. That Is, of course,
the first step, provided organization
Is based on sound business princi-
ples. The business end of marketing
cotton is the most vital and impor-
tant part of the cotton industry to
farmers. If the crop is not sold at a
profit there Is but little satisfaction in
the industry—The Cotton Journal.
There was a time when people culti-
vated corn with a garden hoe and
made the work profitable. Today you
couldn't hoe enough corn to pay the
taxes on the land hoed. Then came
the single shovel plow, and after that
the double shovel. As the years went
by the expense of growing corn in-
creased, and the double shovel plow
was too slow, so the walking cultiva-
tor was brought out.—Frank D. Blake.
The men who have achieved suc-
cess are. the men who have worked,
read, thought more than was absolute-
ly necessary, who have not been con-
tent with knowledge sufficient for the
present need, but who have sought ad-
ditional knowledge and stored it away
for the emergency reserve. It Is the
superfluous labor that equips a man
for everything that counts most la life.
^•-Cushman K. Davis.
How I Saved My Days.
Mrs. Ida H. Godsey, in Southern
Ruralist says:
I want to tell you of my home and
why I moved from town to the country
Some years ago my husband, a rail
road man, died in a neighborinj
State. I was left a widow with eight
little ones, six boys and two girls.
Being far from the land of my birth
and what kindred I had, I decided to
return to my old home, a thriving city
of South Carolina. My husband own-
ed some town property at this place,
and fortunately had a house untenant-
ed at the time. So, after settling my
affairs, I moved my family there.
Only those who have experienced it
know what a sad thing It is for the
widowed mother and grieving wife,
who has to gather her little brood
around her and make a new .nest. A
new nest, a new home, alas! whero
there is no father to love, guide aright
and protect from all harm. I resolved
with God's help to raise my little ones
to be a credit to that dear father who
had gone on before.
With a heavy heart I tried to be
cheerful and make home plesant for
my children. My eldest son went, to
work in an office, and the others, with
the exception of my two youngest,
were sent to a good school. A year or
two passed and my second son decid-
ed that he, too, would go to work. Of
all things he wanted to farm. Just
think of It, a seventeen-year-old boy,
reared in town, where we could not
have a garden. "How can you farm,
son," I asked, "with no experience and
no one to teach you? To please him
I rented a few acres near town, which
he planted in corn and peas. Our
home plot he put in cotton, potatoes
and vegetables. I will not go Into de-
tails, but with the aid of a good farm
journal he made his first crop—a fair
crop of corn, fine pea hay, a bale of
cotton, fifty bushels of potatoes and
plenty of vegetables. This success in
a small way fired his ambition, so 1
boguht a small farm seven miles from
town.
That year proved a bad crop year,
still he made expenses and cleared a
little money. In the meantime I found
that my little boys at home were
growing away from me. In spite of
my efforts to prevent, they were get-
ting in bad company and would go on
the streets. When I could induce my
boys to stay home the neighbor boys,
good and bad, dropped In. I soon
realized that unless some decisive
step was taken my boys wore In fair
way to be ruined* But what to do I
could not decide. One day. while at
the farm, I kept thinking, "What can
I do to save my boys?"
As I sat there my idle gaze wander-
ed over the quiet fields and green
woods. All at once It flashed Into my
mind that here was the solution to my
problem. Then and there I decided
to sell my home in town and build
me a nice home on the farm. My
friends protested, "You will be ruin-
ed," "You can't farm," "You won't like
the country." Every one tried to dis-
courage me, but I kept to my deter-
mination.
Today I have a nice home of nine
rooms, ten foot verandas with colonial
columns. It is funished and as com-
fortable as any city home. My child-
ren have a new piano, graphophone etc.
I am not making barrels of money,
but am doing fairly well with the farm.
I am running a three-horse farm this
year and am independent of labor as
I have four boys large enough to work.
I have a fine vegetable garden and
an acre In sweet potatoes. I have
seven fine hogs and a pair of register-
ed Berkshires to raise from, and as
fine a mule colt as there is In the
country. I make plenty of milk and
butter and have an occasional beef to
sell. Have lots of nice chickens, flocks
of geese and ducks, turkeys, etc. I
like the country. Country life I think
the finest in the world. But better
than all, I find that my little boys
are mine again. There is no mischief
for them to get Into. When there is no
farm work to do, they go fishing or to
that haven of delight for small boys,
the "wash hole." Some days they hunt
berries and plums. I am never wor-
ried about them, nor wonder what they
are doing. When night comes every
little sleepy head is ready for bed.
It is such a comfort to have them all
to myself, as It were. We have a fine
school near us and this fall I want to
send my eldest daughter to college.
The little boys have their friends from
town occasionally. They enjoy this.
.They work cheerfully and seem to
take as much interest in every thing
as I do myself.
So I may say that home in the coun-
try has proved a success in every sense
of the word. I am thankful for the
sweet privilege of making a country
home.
ANNUAL 8ALE8 OVER NINE
MILLION.
Good, reliable quality is appreciate^
by the smoker. Over Nine Million ( ,•
000,000) Lewis' Single Binder cigara
sold annually. The kind of cigar smok-
I ers have been looking for, made of
' very rich, mellow tasting tobacco. It's
the judgment of many smokers that
Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar
equals in quality the best 10c cigar.
There are many imitators of this cele-
brated brand. Don't let them fool you.
There is no substitute.
Tell the dealer you wish to try a
Lewis' Single Binder.
Lewis Factory, Peoria. 111., Originat-
ors Tin Foil Smoker Package.
Hia Faulty Memory.
"Have you got any—any typewriter
exterminators?" asked the small boy.
"What!" exclaimed the salesgirl,
aghast.
"Typewriter exterminators. I think
that's what they told me to get. Any-
how, it was something that—"
"Do you mean typewriter eraaera?"
"Well, maybe that was it, but what's
the difference? Ain't they the aame?
I want a dime's worth of 'em."
"It Finds the 8pot."
The Oil we struck is the Oil that
has stuck while others have passed
away, simply because it cures your
Pains, Aches, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts
and Burns quicker than any other
known remedy. Hunt's Lightning Oil.
It's fine for Chlgger bites also.
Only when a girl tias a man where
he must face the parson with her or
pose as the defendant in a breach-of
promise suit will she admit that she
has corns.
Clear white clothes are a sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
Large 2 oc. package, 5 cents.
The more cause one has for loss ot
patience the more reason there is for
holding it.—Sinclair.
Mrs. Wlnalow'a Hoothln* Njroo.
For children teetbln*. «ofwo« the «um , redooN b
flammatlon,allayapain,cure*windoollo. Keabout*
A wise man Is apt to know when b«
has enough before he gets It.
ITao Alton's Foot>Kaae
On res tired, aching, nwratlngfoot. i&c. Trial package
free. A. 8. Olmsted, LoKojr, N. Y.
It doesn't pay to borrow trouble even
on a friend's account.
Syruptffigs
^OixirrfSeraia
Cleanses the
uttUv; Dispels
1J lr i
aches due to Constipation;
Acts naturally, acts Truly as
a Laxative.
Best J&rMen\^men and Child
L-ybun^and Old-
et its^JeneJicial Effects
iwavs huvthe Genuine which
is ihe Jull name of the C
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by whom it is manufactured,printea o
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rout of every pad
SOLD STALL LEADING DRUGGISTS,
on* size only, regular pries 50* far battle.
siAasjs^'Bisr.h^.K..™
other manufacturer In the world, be-
nun they hold tholr ahape, lit better,
ud wear longer than *ajr other
jv.sn.iciGi.ss:. JsrreaB
nam* and price it stomped on bottom. Soldi
The United States has 15,000 "new
farmers," who have graduated from
agricultural colleges. The first Amer-
ican experiment station was opened
in 1875 by Prof. W. O. Atwater. Since
then fifty other stations have been
established and the United States gov-
ernment spends $11,000,000 annually
on its agricultural department.
THE DUTCH
POY PAINTER
STANDS FOR
PAINT QUALITY
IT IS FOUND ONLY ON
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MADE BY
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Holland, Al. H. Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1908, newspaper, August 27, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274039/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.