The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE
SEARCHUGHT
Vulume 3
JUNE 5, 19U
Number 29
WHEAT AT 84.7 PER CENT.
THRE#SHOT WHEN
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Oklahoma Crop Report For May j
Shows Alfalfa 92.7 and Oklahoman Meets Sheriff
MAN RESISTS ARREST.
With
Corn 74.1.
Oklahoma City, May 31.—The
growing condition of Oklahoma
wheat is placed at 84.7 by the
state board of agriculture, which
made public its May report to-
day.
This is a slight improvement
over the condition last month,
when it was 84.6 per cent. A
year ago it was only 65 per cent.
The oats crop has shown a fall-
ing off, being only 83.8, as com-
pared with 88.2 last month. The
growing condition of alfalfa is
92.7 over 85 per cent last year.
The acreage increase this year is
about 25,000 acres. Condition of
corn is placed at 74.1, a trifle
low for this period, due to the
fact that 24.4 of the crop had to
be replanted.
Fruit prospects are good. The
report shows apples 74.8, pears
75.1, plums 75.8 cherries 71.1 and
peaches 88.6. High wind of the
past week have done but little
damage to fruit or growing crops.
Cotton has suffered worst, the
blowing sand having damaged
the tender plants. Pastures are
in excellent condition.
The dairy production will be
in excess of any previous year.
Secretary Ben Hennessey pre-
dicts the poultry products this
year will total over $5,000,000,as
compared with $2,000,000' last
year. Condition of cotton is 68.8
acreage compared with 1911, 76.1^
percentage replanted, 36.1.
Ten of the principal buildings
in the business section of Guy-
mon, Okla., were destroyed by
fire and contents, consumed or
badly damaged, the loss amount-
ing to about $25,000, with only
little insurance. The fire st .rt-
ed about midnight and had almos
destroyed one of the buildings
before discovered. The oriein
of the fire is unknown. By hard
work the fire fighters prevented
the flames from jumping across
the street.
Winchester—Officer, Man
and Wife May Die.
In a shooting affray near Ash-
land, Okla., just over the line in
Coal county, on Friday, three per-
sons were probably fatally injur-
ed. Constable H. L. Reel of Ash-
land, wks shot through the breast
with a Winchester bullet. A1
Cunningham, at whose hon^e tile
shooting occurred, and for whom
the offficer had a warrant, was
shot three times, one of the bul-
lets passing through his body and
entering the side of his wife.
Word from there is that all three
probably will die.
Reel had a warrant for the
arrest of Cunningham for « min-
or offense and went to his house
to apprehend him. He met the
officer with a Winchester and
opened fire, the first bullet go-
ing through the officer's breast,
lie fell to the ground and began
shooting with his revolver. He
fired three shots, all taking ef-
fect in Cunningham's body, one
passing entirely through and in-
to the body of Mrs. Cunningham,
who had followed her husband
from the house.
INSURGENTS" WIN.
KANSAS CITY HAS REDUCED
FLIES ONE-HALF.
Extermination Only a Matter of
Time Ii Optimistic Belief of
Member Health Board.
A ten day ''swat the fly"
champaign by the citizens of Kan
sa8 City and a persistent war-
fare against the pest by the board
of health, has reduced the local
fly population one-half. Dr. II.
de Lainater of the health board
said;
"At the present rate the exter-
mination of the housefly, the
most dangerous carrier of disease
germs, is only a question of time
ho said, "but primarily the scarc-
ity of flies is due to the fact that
they have been robed of their
breeding places.
Osage Nation Defeats Conserva-
tive Ticket In Election
at Pafwhusksa. s
The insurgent ticket is declar-
ed to have won in the Osage
Indian election. The count has
not been completed but the con-
sservative element admit that
they have b$en defeated over-
whelmingly and that Bacon DM
has been elected principal chief •
of the Ossage Nation. This is a
blow at the government Indian
agency and the federal depart-
ment of the interior.
The election of the progressive
ticket came as a climax of a
ter fight that hass been waged
to bring the Osages to a greater
independency of the government
agency in the administration of
their affairs. The Indians de-
clare that their interests are not
being well guarded, particularly
their interests in 680,000 acres of
mineral land covered by what is
known as the Foster blanket
lease. They claim that the in-
terior department is lax in en-
forcing the terms of the lease and
their properties are not being
developed, and that their gas is
being wasted, timber destroyed
and streams polluted, and the
ing trampled upon.
rights of individual Indians be-
The progressive party is head-
ed by Bacon Rind, who probably
has been elected principal chief,
and Henry Red Eagle, assistant
chief. The following candidates
for tlie council are conceded to
hav«» been elected: Peh-Tsa-
Moie, Thomas West, O-Ke-Hah,
E-Stah-O-Gre-She, Me-KeWah-Ti-
An-kah, Oscar A. Ririe, Harry
Kopay, A. H. Brown and W. S.
Mattheys.
o
Say. boys, the best asset you
possets, better than money, is
#ood manners. Be decent and
<r»ourtvo is jind jou will have more
than half cucceeded before you
start. Manhattan Mercury.
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Green, E. M. The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1912, newspaper, June 5, 1912; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc285173/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.