The Oklahoma Miner. (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 12, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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The Oklahoma Miner
ED. BOYLE Editor
B. A MARCUM Bus. Mar.
KREBS.
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OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS
Jut 21 -tt octeJist nttuwj at "':-
hosM Oty.
Bet. 1-Oet tOkbftlKMaa State Fair
Oct. PtetMaatial etscUoa. Mi'
Kingston is alanatac a ttOM Meth-
osttst Aaiwav
Weatherfoni to ottering IS emu per
pint tor Atom. J
Xaw potatoes sold lor 3.J pr
bwlMl la Carter last woek.
Dataware eoonty c it lie kornM
UMir eoart noose mad cottpiated the
first alio last week.
Tke Ponca Ooorler says a Kay coun-
ty turner ha wheat star feet algk. and
Um beads are well tiled.
The Rash Springs Landmark sa;.s
boas are getting so "rateable a mr
no longer considers It aneompliru n
ury being called a hog.
A Hastings farmer was ran over by
& Binder; one tang was pierced by a
guard. He will recover.
The Oage Rownblicao-Reconl tells
of neighbors who pat in flftr acres of
crops tor a friend whose horses were
sick.
A Bryan county man on the eve of
his trial for marder dropped a doable
barrels shotgun and blew off one of
his foot
Katietto and his band hare been en-
gaged to furnish the music for the
Bevonth Annual Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition.
Tho bodies of Walter Moore and
wlfo and 14-year-old daughter who
voro drowned while picnicking near
Sapulpa hare been recovered.
Tho Hastings Herald says that a
Jesse James show visited the town
and that after the James boys had for
two hours robbed banks and trains
The Coweta Tlmos tells of a negro
preacher who converted the wife of a
doaoon who had $400 and then In-
duuod her to get tho coin and elope
with him. Ho 1b now in jail.
. Tho Miami Record-Herald tells of a
local citizen who was a rider in tho
ponyy oxproes service of the Wells-
Fargo company between California
nnd Orogon.
The Coalgato Loader tolls of a sher-
iff who for the purpose of collecting
$6000 taxos levied on a freight train
that pulled into the depot. He got
a promise but no money.
Roosevoll says he never drinks ex-
cept on the advise of physicians and
the Guthrie Loader calls attention to
tho fact that ho keeps Ave doctors
around him v. hen away from home.
Tho Tulsa Democrat Is authority for
the statement that over one thousand
oil and gas wells are now being drilled
in the TulHa field and that over twen-
ty thousand have been drilled.
Kansas Is getting ready to send out
Its annual call for harvest hands and
an oxchnnge remarks there is a lot of
good matorial around its town that tho
call bo it ovor so loud will never
reach.
Southwest Oklahoma Is busy swat-
ting tho fly swatting tin mosquito
nnd swatting tho grasshopper with Ita
right hand and trying to sign recall
petitions and petitions for grand Jury
with Its left hand.
Tho Butler Herald is calling the roll
on tho business "men of the fomi try-
ing to separate the sheep from the
goats since the janitor of the com-
mercial club lighted up the room for
a mooting and no one appeared.
Tho Pauls Valley Free Lance ad-
vlsos the legislative committee not to
commence another investigation as no
one oncorod It.
Tho new Instructor in civil engl-
flooring In the University of Okla-
homa named for appointment by
President Brooks Is Frank L. Weaver
of Washington D. C.
Tho Muskogee Phoenix Is pleased
with tho way In which Secretary
Bryan handled the Japanese situation
and 1b strong for peace until the Pan-
ama cunal U finished and In good
working order.
Chlckasha was selected for tho next
annual convention of the Oklahoma
Lottor Carriers' association and J. IB.
Wostfall of that place was elected
president at the annual convention In
session in Oklahoma City.
William Pearson the proprietor cf
a hotel at Salllsaw shot his wife at-
tempted lo shoot his daughter and
thon put a bullet through his own
hond while temporarily insane. Tho
shooting occurred at tho residence of
Pearson nnd next door to the post-otOcc.
LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN
wn.ggiOwaw
Thie photograph was taken In
Washington after the senator from
Illinois had assigned his seat In the
senate.
COTTON BETTER THAU IN 1912
State's Condition Ranks High On the
Ten-Year Average. Ten Per
Cent Better Than Last
Year.
Washington. The newly planted
cotton crop of the United States
showed a condition on May 25 of 79.1
per cent of a normal the United
States department of ' agriculture's
crop reporting board announced in
the first condition report of the sea-
son which always is looked forward
to with great interest by cotton grow-
ers textile manufacturers and cotton
dealers. This condition compiled
from the reports of the correspondents
and agents of the department's bureau
of statistics compares with a condi-
tion of 78.9 per cent on May 25 last
year 87.8 per cent on the correspond-
ing date in 1911 82.0 per cent in 1910
and 79.9 per cent the average condi-
tion for the past ten years on May 25.
The area planted to cotton this year
also has been the suoject of much
speculation in cotton circles but the
department of agriculture's official es-
timates will not be issued until July 3
owing to the passage of the law last
year which deferred this annual re-
port from June to a month later. Un-
officially the area planted this year is
estimatedby the most conservative at
an increase over the 34283000 acres
picked last year. These unofficial es-
timates range from a 3 per cent in-
crease upward. A 3 per cent increase
in the acreage planted would indicate
an area of about 35311000 acres.
Comparisons of condition on May 25
of this year last year and the ten-year
average condition by states with the
revised figures of the department of
agriculture showing the area picked
and the yield per acre in pounds last
year follow:
ilafiiiiiisii isiisfi
10-yr. 1911 1812
Stale 1913 1912 av. acreage yld.
Virginia 88 89 H 47000 250
N Carolina.... 7 87 82 1.(46.000 287
. Carolina 88 83 SO 2.696.000 209
Georgia 69 71 81 6336.000 159
Florida 83 76 U 224.009 113
Alabama 75 71 80 3730000 172
MlmlMlppi .... 81 72 78 2.889.000 173
Louisiana 81 69 78 929.000 193
Texas 8 86 79 11.338000 206
Arkansas 86 73 79 1991.000 1O0
Tennessee .... 87 74 81 783.000 189
Missouri 90 74 83 103000 260
Oklahoma .... 87 78 82 2.665000 183
California 96 96 .. 9000 460
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Carolina.
Carolina..
lorgla . ...
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abams . .
liwlMlppI .
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-kansas . .
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Isaourt ....
Oahotna .
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For the purpose of comparison the
condition of the cotton crop in the
United States monthly for the past
ten years and the average yield per
acre of each year In pounds with the
ten-year averages of each are given
below:
May June July Aug. Sept. A v.
Years. 25 25 25 25 25 yield
1912.... 79 9 80 1 76.5 71.8 69.8 190 9
l.ML... 87 8 88 2 89 1 73.2 71.1 208.2
1910.... 82 0 80.7 76 5 72 1 Oft 9 170 7
1909.... 81.1 74 6 719 63 7 68 6 151.3
1908.... 79 7 81.2 83.0 76.1 69 7 1949
1907.... 70.5 72.0 75.0 72.7 67.7 178.3
1906.... 84 6 883 82.9 77 3 71.6 202.5
1906.. h 77.2 77.0 74.9 72 1 71.2 186 1
1904.... 83.0 SJ.O 91.6 84 1 76.8 204 9
1903.... 74.1 77.1 79.7 S1.2 66.1 171.8
14I -1912 79 9 SO 8 80.0 74 7 68 6 186 5
The tentative dales for the issuance
by the department of agriculture of
reports on the condition acreage and
production of cotton this year are:
July 8 condition as of June 26 and
acreage planted.
August 1 condition as of July 25.
September 2 condition as of Au-
gust 25.
October 2 condition as of Septem-
ber 26.
December 12 estimate of crop yield.
These reports will lie announced at
uoou on the dates mentioned except
that on production which will ho Is-
sued at 2 p. in.
KILLED Af
ATAMDRQS
20
STUBBORN RESISTANCE MADE)
BY FEDERALS WHEN CONST!-
TUTIOMALIST5 ATTACK. j
ONE AMERICAN HIT BY BULLET
Vajor Ramos. Commander of Feder-
als Badly Wounded. Ameri-
can Consul Sticks to His !
Pes During Battle.
Brownsville Texaa. After a battle
.-ing from 10 o'clock In the morn-
s' until late at night with only slight
f mi lesion the federal garrison at
"a'amoroa comprising about 500 men.
..Htood the advance of General
i r co of the constitutionalists forces
h about 1000 men until the firing
j-ed. After the taking of the fed-
ral electric plant which furnished
I ... er used to charge the barbed wire
f. n-es around the city and the wound-
.hi' of Major Ramos In charge of the
Matamoros garrison it was thought
t5ie federals would capitulate but they
continued fighting and twice drove
the rebels from the center of the
town.
Lieutenant Colonel Marclal Garra
Rivas hi now in command of the re-
maining forces in Matamoros succeed-
ing Ramos. Ramos is expected to re-
cover. He was brought to the Amer-
ican side and it is said his wounds
are not serious.
The toll of death on both sides from
the battle not counting the serious
wounding of Private Davis of the
United States cavalry while on patrol
duty will not be known until the
smoke of the battle has cleared and
the Red Cross workers are able to
work among the fallen. Losses are
heavy on both sides. An authentic es-
timate as to the number killed is
placed as high as 200. Nearly one
hundred federal regulars have sur-
rendered to the United States but
there are scores of the Majamoros de-
fenders who hare fallcr. in the fight-
ing. The United States consulate where
Consul Jessie H. Johnson remained
throughout the fight was at one time
in the middle of the firing but no
harm was reported to members sta-
tioned there. Captain Walker to-
gether with Brigadier General Parker
of San Antonio was in close touch
with the situation during the day from
the International bridge. Troop M of
the Fourteenth Cavalry sixty-five in
number did duty for a distance of six
miles.
TO OUST STANDARD OIL
Such Is Suit That Vill Be Heard In
Corsicana Texas.
Corsicana Tex. Taking of testi-
mony before a special commissioner
In the state of Texas suit for $99275-
000 penalties against Standard Oil in-
terests and alleged subsidiaries
charged with violating Texas anti-
trust laws is on here. The suit also
is for ouster of the Texas branch con-
cerns. This examination is expected
to last for more than a month during
which It will be transferred Huccess-
Ively to Dallas Beaumont Houston
and Galveston.
After th&t it is planned to take tes-
timony In New York and possibly
other eastern cities. The state has
disclosed only part of Its position as
contained In a petition granted In
Greenville Texas March 5 last plac-
ing tlB two Texas Oil companies in-
volved In receiverships. This peti-
tion charged anti-trust law violations
beginning in 1900 and continuing prac-
tically unbroken since.
Tho defendants are the Standard
Oil companies of New York and New
Jersey against which penalties of
$8150000 each are asked the Mag-
nolia Petroleum company of Corsi-
cana Tex. $1000000 penalty and the
Corsicana Petroleum company of Cor-
sicana $8150000. The ouster of those
two Texas companies Is asked.
Penalties of $8150000 each also
are asked against a number of
Individuals among them are: John
D. Rockefeller and John D. Archlhold;
Charles M. Pratt Chas. W. Harkness
and II. C. lrolger Jr. all of New York
and against C. N. Payne of Tltusvllle
Pa. Penalties of $l175G0j) are asked
against S. G. Bayne and Howard
Itayne of New York W. C. Proctor of
Corsicana Tex. R. Wavorly Smith of
Oalveston Tex. George C. Greer and
Courtenay Marshall of Beaumont
Tex. nnd a collootlvo penalty of $800-
000 plus the individual penalty of
$1776000 ouch against O. 0. ICdwnrdB
of Norwulk Conn. IS. It. Brown of
Corsicana Tox and John Soaly of
Gnlveston Tex. Nearly all tho do-
fdndants are millionaires.
MRS. WILLIAM B. WILSON
Mrs. William Bauchop Wilson Is the
vifo of the secretary of labor In Presi-
dent Wilson's cabinet. She Is the
mother of nine children.
ROOSEVELT DAMAGED SIX GENTS
Editor Newett Admits He Could Not
Prove Ex-President Was Drunk
and Claim for Damages is
Promptly Valved.
Marquette Mich. Theodore Roose-
velt won his libel suit against George
A. Newett w:io charged the colonel
with drunkenness and having waived
damages after the defendant had ut-
tered a retraction the jury awarded
nominal damages of six cents. Each
party to the suit will have to pay his
own expenses.
When the defense opened Mr. New-
ett took the stand and read a state-
ment in which he said the stories of
Roosevelt's boozing were in general
circulation but that he could not find
a man who was willing-to swear to
it and enable him to prove his state-
ment. Tho libel was published In good
faith Newett said in the belief that it
was true and proper Information. That
It was true the defendant said he
believed until the trial opened.
Roosevelt arose and waived hiB
claim for damages and the jury rend-
ered a verdict in accordance with
Michigan law which fixes the value
of a man's reputation at six cents
where he does not claim more.
The libel of which Colonel Roose-
velt complained was published Oc-
tober 12 1912 in Mr. Newett's weekly
paper at Ishpemlng the Iron Ore. It
took the colonel to task for "preach-
ing" to others when "he himself gets
drunk and tha.t not Infrequently as
all his intimates know."
The first witness in the case wa3
Roosevelt and the last on for the
plaintiff was Admiral George Dewey
whose testimony was Introduced by
deposition. Between them were James
R. Garfield Robert Bacon former sen-
ator and Ambassador to France; Glf-
ford Plnchot Truman Newberry for
mer secretary of war; Major General
Leonard Wood chief of staff; Dr. Ly-
man Abbott George B. Corteiyou Dr.
Albert Shaw and William Loeb Jr.
Jacob A. Rlis and many newspaper
men all of whom testified orally or by
deposition that Colonel Roosevelt did
not "get drunk" as charged.
FREE LIST IS ENLARGED
President Wilson Insists On Further
Lowering of Duties.
Washington. Reversing its former
action in voting to place vtheat. flour
oatmeal and fresh meats on the dutl
able list tho senate finance sub-corn-mlttoe
In charge of the agricultural
schedule voted to place live stock
wheat and oats on the free list.
This action was taken to meot the
views of President Wilson Senator
Simmons chairman of the finance
committee and other administration
loaders who disapproved tho decision
announced recently to tax meats 1C
per cent compensatory to a duty on
cattle Into tho Underwood bill and
to assess a compensatory duty on
both flour and oatmeal. Tho voto tc
roconslder was taken in tho sub-corn
mittoo on a motion mado by Senatoi
Simmons ox-ofllcio mombor of nil the
subcommittees handling the various
tariff schedules when ho returned tc
tho capltol from a conference . villi
tho presldont.
SEN. HITCHCOCK
SIT! jTDBACGO "
INTRODUCES MOST DRA8TIC
ANTI-TRUST CLAUSE IN
TARIFF MEA3URE.
CAN TAX COMPANIES TO DEATH
Small Concerns Unaffected; Aimed
At American Tobacco Company
Which Failed to Dlo- l
solve Itself.
Washington. In ncrord with sug-
gestions of Attorney General McRey-
holds Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska
Introduced an aiitl-lrust amendment to
the. I'ndcrwood tariff bill which would
levy a iipeciitl addition: 1 excise tax
on a grndiinlud Hcalo upon manufac-
turers of tobacco cigars cigarettes
and snuff. Tho amendment coming
from a democratic member will re-
ceive thorough consideration from tho
finance committee. The proposed tax
would not roach a manufacturer until
ho controlled about 25 per cent of tho
total production of articles In his line.
Over that amount ho would be taxed
In a rising scale on tobacco one per
cent a pound for the first million
pounds 2 cents a pound for the second
million pounds and so on up to 6
cents a pound. These graduated taxes
would be In addition to the regular 8
cents a pound tax that all manufac-
turers pay on tobacco.
Companies of ordinary size would
not be subject to this tax because It
does not apply to a production before
80000000 pounds of tobacco or 4000-
000 pounds of snuff a year so that of
the 2700 tobacco companies in the
country probably only three would bo
affected and of the seventy-three snuff
companies alBO only three would be
affected. In factories of the moderate
size the tax would only fall on four
or five of the cigar companies only
two of them having a product largo'
enough to be taxed.
Seventy million dollars was the
amount of the total excise last year
on tobacco products and Senator
Hitchcock has estimated that if tho
tax had been levied on last year's
business "the foreign trust concerns."
would have paid the additional tax as
follows:
American Tobacco company $7500-
000; Liggett & Meyers $3100000;
Lorlllard company $144000; American
SnUff company $77000; George W.
Helme company $69000; Weyman &
Burton company $51000.
"Thero would also have been com-
panies subject to this tax if it could
be shown that they were under tho
lame ownership of control as any of
tho big companies" said Senator
Hitchcock "and in tho case of tho Lor-
lllard company It would bo subject
lo a much higher rate of taxation if
It could be shown that it is owned or
:ontrolled by tho same Interests that
ire back of any other company. It la
probnblo therefore that this tax in the
iggregato would reach $15000000 a
year which is so largo that It would
loon force a real dissolution of tho
tobacco tni3t. If it didn't it would
I'lold handsome revenues to the treas-
ury and so handicap the trust that
It could not carry out Its program of
crushing Independent companies.
Can Tax to Destruction.
"Tho government already ias tho
machinery to enforce this tax. To-
bacco and snuff manufacture In all
forms Is under complete government
control. The power to tax to the point
of destruction is unquestioned. It Is
Bummary simple and irresistible. If
it succeeds in this lino of manufac-
ture It may succeed in others."
FRENCH JINGOS SCARED.
Still Seeing Visions of a Repetition of
Sedan Affair.
Paris. Some startling figures were
given out by Deputy Andre Lefovro as
to tho financial condition of tho triple
alliance Germany Austria-Hungary
and Italy and of tho triple entente-
Great Britain Franco nnd Russia
They camo out In the course of a
spoech delivered by M. Lefevre In the
chamber of deputies In favor of three
years' service In tho active army for
Frenchmen.
"Germany is unnblo to nfford a long
wnr" snid M. Lofovro. "Banks of
tho countries forming a triple nlllnnce
possoss only $741600000 lit gohl with
$1G000000C0 in circulating while
thoso of tho triplo ontonto posboss
$1587200000 in their vaults and
$?300000000 In circulation.
"Everything poIntB to Germany re-
lying on a suddon overwhelming at-
tack should war bo declared. Thoro-
foro Franco must alwnys have a largo
army op tho frontier."
Tho dobato on tho bill wob aa
Journed
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