The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 426, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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GUTHRIE, OKLA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1906
Terms: 80 Cts. a Year
AFTER SENATOR BAILEY-
Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 24—Prom
inent Texas Democrats, once the most
loyal' supporters of Senator Joseph
We'don Bailey,-today dealt him the
h.::dest blow he has received since
the publication of the disclosures' of
his activity as adviter to Standard Oil,
1 rought out in the Missouri ouster
proceedings against the Wators-
Plerie Oil company, They as Presi
('.flit Roosevelt to investigate Bailey'?
career ai d to use li!s influence, if the
charges of Bailey's connection with
hie cil trust are sustained, to drive
(he T"xan from the Senate.
The appeal to tie President is put
lished far and wide in tho newspapers
which forirlerly were Bailey's strong
est. champions. They demand either
complete conviction or complete vin-
dication of the senator, whether he
desires it or not. If lie is guilty, they
assert, he should meet the fate of
Mitchell, of Oreg n, and Burton, of
Kansas, and his seat in the Senate
should be declared vacant.
Spread of Campaign Fast.
Since the testimony of Henry Clay
Pierce in the Missouri proceedings
that Bailey was retained by him in
1900 to aid the Waters-Pi: rre com
pany, the southwestern branch of the
Standard, in the fight to continue
business in Texas, when the state was
trying to oust it, the wave of popular
indignation hai- spread like wildfire.
Newspapers which had supported
Bailey against "scandal mongers" and
"muck rakers" changed front sudden
ly, and leading editorials condemn tho
senator as a traitor to his trust and a
tool ol the Standard.
From twelve counties r ports come
of Democrat- circulating petitions
calling for c unty conventions for the
purpose ol' instructing stale repre-
sentatives an dsenators to repudiate
Bailey at the next election.
Wood county took the lead, and the
Democrats'of that county will meet to
' denounce the senator and ask him
either to resign cr to prepare to meet
a determined campaign to put him on
tho shell.
Oil Secrets Leak Out.
It is rumored that the Water
Pierce company intends to withdraw
from Texas to avoid the cost of tjie
ouster suit now pending against it
and the payment of $5,288,40*0 i*end,l
ties claimed by the state. Also it
leaked out that Cruet, .nrmerly one
:f Pierce's right-hand men, put the
attorney general's department in ros-
ses-ion of inside facts concerning
transactions of the Standard Oil with
the Waters-Pierce company, and
armed with thi3 evidence the state
brought suit.
Gruet also testified that Bailey aid-
ed the company in 1900 in various
ways during the fight with the state,
that he received fat fees, and that he
also worked for the company'.- inter-
ests in Tennessee.
REWARD FOR MURDERIRS.
Muskogee, I. T„ .Sept. 2G. -The
Chickasaw legislature, that has !>een
in session some time, naff official./ of-
fered a reward of $1,000 to be paid by
the nation f >r the" ai re t and c > *ac
tion of the assassins of Ben Collins
an Indian policeman, who was shot
from ambush while ridjng along a
lonely road some time ago. ,
The council will also send a mem-
orial to congress asking that the law
lie modified which make:1 it obligatoiy
to open n.p all section lines for public
roads. It is claimed that in many
parts df the Choctaw nation, as well
as the Chickasaw, there is mountain-
ous country and that It Is impossible
to make passable r ail . In other
places the section line roads could not
be mado with reasonable cost to the
nation. The memorial will ask that
the law be changed so that roads
must be opened up only where they
are necessary and practical.
A memorial has been prepared ask-
ing congress to again make effective
the old tribal sch ol law whifh per-
mitted an Indian family $12 per month
board for their children where the
children lived at home and attended
tho national schools. The council
asksOhat there be day schools estab
lished and that, where tho children
remain with their parents the money
be raid tit the parents. This law was
abolished when the federal govern
ment took the contr 1 o.r the school-
out of the hands of the tribal author!
ties.
A measure of importance that is
being fought out in th" council is a
memorial asking oonjrress to remove
the restrictions on the sale cl lands
from all adult full bloods. This ha-
already passed the lower house and
is 'a the senate.
OKLAHOMA'S BIG WHEAT CROP.
Enid, Okla., Sept. 26.—With an esti-
mated crop of wheat In tho United
States, for 190G, of 725,000,000 bushels,
Oklahoma, with her crop of 32,000,000
bushels, has produced four per cent of
the total wheat grown in the country.
Considering the fact that the country
has only been settled for sixteen
years, and that tho greater part c-f
the wheat, belt has only been cropped
for eight to"ten years, tlii :i result is
something to be proud of. These fig-
ures only pertain to Oklahoma proper,
no reliable figures for Indian Terri-
tory having been obtainable.
The Wheat Belt.
Tho wheat belt of Oklahoma lies
west uf tho Santa Fe main line, the
eastern counties being better adapted
to coin and cotton. The production
of wheat in the eastern counties, al-
though it has been profitable to the
farmers, lias fallen off during the last
two or three years until at this time
Garfield county is considered the cen-
ter of the wheat producing section,
whereas but a few years ago, Kay
count'y, in the northeastern part of
the territory, enjoyed such distinction.
The city of Enid is the headquarters
of the largest grain firms in the terri-
tory, and mlore grain is handled from
this city than from any other point In
Oklahoma.
C. F. Prouty, secretary cf the Grain
Dealer ■ association of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, resides in this city,
and maintains his headquarters here.
He is at all times in close touch with
the grain interests of tho two terri-
tories, and is constantly gathering
stati ties for the guidance of the mem-
bers e (lie association. From the
latest inf irmation in the hands of
Secretary Prouty, the average yield of
wh at, in the various counties of the
territory is placed at 13.3 bushels per
acre, with a total estimated a.reage
of 2,500,000 acres. The yield per cuon
ly, according to Mr. Prouty's informa-
tion, compiled from a hundred and
fifty answer to inquiries, is as fol-
lows:
Blaine county, 14 bushels per acre;
Comanche, 11; Caddo, 15; Custer, 15;
Canadian, 14; Cleveland, 9; Garfield,
17; Grant, 17; Greer, 18; Kingfisher,
14; K y, Jti; Kiowa, 15; Logan, 12;
Noble, 1:1; Oklahoma, 12; Pawnee, 8;
Payii2, 10; Pottawatomie, 9; Washita,
13; W'oodfl, 13.
No reports were received from Day,
Dewey, Lincoln or Woodward cuun-
ties, but the acreage in these counties
was light, estimated at about 50,000
acres. According to report?, the
largest increase was in Kiowa county,
which was 75 per cent over the 1905
crop.
The Present Conditions.
The heavy rains which set in shortly
after harvest played havoc with a
considerable pca'tion of the wheat crop,
and some of it will never be threshed,
owing to its c-iprouting so badly. The
farmers of tills part of the country
have been in the habit of threshing
their wheat directly from tho shockj^
'few of them going to the trouble of
stacking it. This lias in the past, and
especially this year, pi wed to bo a
ruinous proceeding, and Is the cause
of the heavy los.-es sustained.
The last of August Secretary Prouty
gathered a lot of data in reference to
the condition of tho crop, for the
benefit of the Grain Dealers' associa-
tion, and his report just issued, is as
fallows:
"On August 22nd a circular letter
was i. sued from this office asking for
information regarding our present
wheat crop; the yield per aero, as well
as the general conditions of the same,
and from over one hundred and forty
replies representing the following
counties: Blaine, Comanche, Caddo,
Custer, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield,
Grant, Greer Kingfisher Kay, Kiowa,
Logan, 'oklahoma Woods. I am able
to "furnish you with the following in-
formation:
Average yield per acre 13 bushel -;
per cent threshed, 00; per cent in
stack, i;6; per ccnt in shock, 14; per
cent damaged In stack, .2; per ccnt
damaged In shock, 32.
What Becomes of the Wheat.
Besides being a great wheat grow-
ing country, Oklahoma is also a great
flour producing section. She has
sixty flour rtfills In active operation,
with million ' of dollars capital. These
mills have a total capacity according
to the report of Secretary Topping of
the Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Miller's association, of 13,695 barrels
of flour a day. Taking the crop of
1906 at thirty-two million bushels, it
would last, the millers of tho two ter-
ritories 561 days, providing they run
their mills at their full capacity. But
n It all of Oklahoma's wheat is ground
•into flour by her mills; in fact, but a
small per cent of it is made into flour
at home, the capacity of her mills
being only about ten per cent of the
present crop. Oklahoma's wheat goes
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