The Osage Journal. (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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Untered u Second Claw matter Dec. 80.1904, at
Pawhuska. Oklahoma under the act of Congress
Oi March 8.1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
By The Osage Publishing Co.
Official Paper of the City of Pawhuska
SUBSCRIPTION 51.00 PER YEAR.
Another boost in the price of
crude oil in the Mid-Continent
field is expected soon.
Agriculture in Oklahoma is so
closely allied with dairying that
every farmer should keep at
least ten cows.
The abolition of capital punish-
ment is a very live question in a
number of states just at this
time. Oregon is agitated from
center to circumference over it
and will vote upon it at the next
Is your oat ground ready? Get
it in early. You can’t get it in
too early, as soon as open weath-
er sets in in February.
Crop rotation is one thing we
must practice. It is best for the
election. The legislatures of I crops; it is best for the land; it is
Both house and senate are still
busy house cleaning. Well since
the work has been started let it
lie carried on from cellar to gar-
ret.
One thing for which Campbell
Russell should be voted a card of
thanks is the elimination of j
Ewers White from the state
board of agriculture.
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L. A. Weismeyer was over
from Fairfax Tuesday and says
the snow will be worth thousands
of dollars to the next crop in!
that part of the county.
Washington, California, Utah,
and a number of other states
propose submitting the matter to
a vote of the people soon.
Here in Oklahoma we have
had little discussion of the ques-
tion prior to Governor Cruce’s
administration. His commuta-
tion of the life sentences of ten
men condemmed to be hanged
has provoked more or less agita-
tion of the question and it is not
at all improbable that the present
legislature will submit the mat-
ter of its abolition to a vote of
the people at our next general
election.
Capital punishment is retained
as means of punishing men con-
victed of capital offenses for two
reasons. One is that we have a
good many well-meaning but
misguided people who believe
that it can be justified on moral
grounds, and the other is that it
deters crime.
best for your bank account and
it puts the fixings to a great
many insects.
Get your tools ready for busi-
ness. Tighten the bolts, sharpen
There are 323,000 Indians in
the United States by the latest
returns. The great body of In-
dians live between the Mississip-
pi and the Rockies. One third of
the whole number in the United
117.000 are in Oklahoma where
the five Civilized tribes have so
long resided. The next largest
settlement east of the Rockies is
in the Dakotas, where there are
28.000 Sioux. Minnesota has 11,
the shares and be ready when 000 Indians and Montana 10,000,
the bridegroom cometh. You made up of Crows, Blackfeet,
won’t have much time then for
these little things.
Remember your cotton needs a
well settled seed bed. Therefore
get your work in early and pre-
pare your cotton ground now if
not sooner. Double listing is a
favorite method and then work-
ing the ridges down with the
harrow after the last listing and
plant on this low ridge in a shal-
low furrow.
When it comes to preparing
your oat ground now, you can’t
plow deeD enough unless you have
a packer to get your ground set-
tled. Discing will generally
make a good crop. Fall plowing
The latter assumption, how- well settled is best, as oats
No jobbing goes, says Senator
Gore. Applicants for appointive
offices must stand on their own
merits. Not the de-merits of
their opponents. A good rule,
but a new one in Oklahoma.
Fall and winter plowing will
get the benefit of every drop of
moisture in the heavy blanket of
snow which now covers the fields.
This ought to be sufficient argu-
ment in favor of fall plowing.
Oklahoma is proud of its repre-
sentation in the United States
senate.. Eliminating one or two
barnacles of its quota in the
house there is no grounds for
overgrown flies on its house rep-
resentation.
ever is easily exploded by the
facts. The state of California,
which still retains capital punish-
ment has had six times the num-
ber of homicides in recent years
as the state of Wisconsin which
did away with it long ago. Both
states approximately the same
population.
The present legislature ought
to submit the matter to the
people at the next general elec-
tion. If a majority prefer to
retain the old barbaric, inhuman
method of disposing of our mur-
derers, either by choking or
roasting them alive, we ought to
know it, to the end, that the
governor may carry out their
wishes; whereas, if a majority
prefer a more enlightened means
we also ought to know that, so
the next legislature may make
provision accordingly. —Oklaho-
man.
The development of Osage
county’s agricultural interests is
becoming of more importance to
farmers, merchants, bankers and
others every year. If you are
interested get busy and help
make the March meeting a grand
success.
WANTS NEW DEPARTMENT.
Col. Jack Love of the Corpora-
tion Commission, since statehood
has driven several spikes into
the different railways but never
until the present by invitation.
The M. O. & G. has extended
him an invitation to drive the
last spike on the line between
Joplin and McAlester.
A man well up in state and
national politics is ready to
wager that Bill Murray wont be
in congress thirty minutes until
he will be making a speech. Bill
is always loaded with an assort-
ment of speeches. There are
two things he is proud of. His
bull-like voice and his capacity
to bellow.
The personnel of Oklahoma’s
legislature seems to be made up
of the "Penny-Wise and Pound-
Foolish” variety. They want to
chop everything in the interests
of economy. Economy is a
mighty nice article to have
around, but public service of our
state institutions and especially
our schools should not be impair-
ed by a false economy. Be lib-
eral with the appropriations, but
exacting with the disbursement
of the same. Furnish every dol-
lar necessary but let not a dollar
be wasted.
The legislature has been asked
to make sufficient appropriation
to establish a school of journal-
ism in connection with the Uni-
versity. The definite plan to
establish such a school of practi-
cal training comes as a welcome
announcement to newspapermen
over the state and to the "Ben
Franklin club” which has been
making a strenuous efforts to ob-
tain it. The fund asked for this
purpose is included in the gener-
al appropriation for the univer-
sity.
The need of trained men in the
field of Journalism has long been
felt, and thirty colleges in the
United States have established
departments for this purpose.
The University of Missouri has
given the work a thorough test
through five years with flatter-
ing results. Perhaps the most
pretentious efforts being made
along this line are those of Col-
umbia university of New York,
which, under a bequest from Jo-
seph Pulitzer, has founded a four
years course and is attracting
students from all parts of the
world.
The outlay for the local school
will be modest, as only a few
technical courses will be added
to those already given in the uni-
versity. The university and
student publications offer an ex-
cellent field for practical work
which could be taken up without
a hitch.
need a firm seed bed. Use a
press drill, and make the press-
ing department do its duty.
It’s time for the good house-
wife to get her garden seed
ready. It’s lots of fun to look
thru the seed catalogue and pick
out the cabbage heads as big as
a barn, and the tomato vines that
look like cottonwood trees with
the bales of big red cotton hang-
on them. But, darn it we never
could raise that kind. They wont
pan out like the picture.
Whenever possible withoutfgiv-
ing your rows too much slope
and cause washing, it is best to
run your rows east and west, in-
stead of north and south, or run
them from the northwest to the
southeast. Rows run north and
south will blow more in the sandy
land, will dry out quicker be-
cause of the sun and wind, as
the stalks wont shade the ground
so much and the wind will have
a clear sweep.
Keep on fighting the chinch
bug. He is a public nuisance
and the damage done by him
amounts to millions of dollars ev-
ery year. So keep after him by
burning his winter quarters and
getting your neighbors to burn
him out of house and home too.
But don’t forget to protect his
enemies, the quails, medow-larks
thrush, etc. Don’t burn the
roosting places of the quail now,
but wait until spring comes.
Don’t overlook the importance
of getting good seed. We all
know its one of the most import-
ant factors toward a good crop,
but we keep putting it off and
thinking we are going to arrange
for it till it is time to put it into
the ground, and then we either
wont have time to find any, or
else we’ll rush around hunting
for it in vain. Some early bird
got all the good seed there was
and we’ll be planting scrub seed
in the vain hopes of raising a
thorough-bred crop.
MCLAUGHLINS LEASE OZARK LAND.
Cheyennes and Flatheads. Be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and j
the Sierra Nevada, there are 71,-
000, 57,000 of the^e being in New
Mexico and Arizona, among
whom are 30,000 Navajos, who
have a reservation about the size
of Pennsylvania. The chief res-
ervations east of the Mississippi
river are in Michigan and Wis-
consin where there are 17,000
Indians, mostly Chippewas, and
in New York State, where the
descendents of the Iroquois, in
in number 5,576, live on six res-
ervations under one agent. The
reservations in Maine, North and
South Carolinas and Florida have
only a few hundreds on them.—
American Missionary.
OCTOPUS SUCKS NATION’S LIFE-BLOOD.
Our Friends
We have landed many a good customer through
the good offices of our friends. Once we get a custo-
mer there is no staying away from us. The good
words spoken of us by our patrons are our best adver-
tisements and appreciated more than we can express
in cold type. Much of our increase of business is due
to the kind words of our friends. We are thankful.
CITIZENS’ NATIONAL BANK, PawhusKa, OKla.
RILEY FILES CONTEST.
A new business has been estab-
lished in Springfield through the
leasing by C. L. McLaughlin and
son, Lawrence, who are engaged
in buying walnut timber through-
out the southwest, of lots 6, 7, 8
and 8, block 5, in Ozark Heights
addition to Springfield for a per-
iod of one year, with the privi-
lege of renewing the lease for
a longer time if desired.
They will establish a saw mill
LIQUOR SELLING A FELONY.
The house has passed a bill
making liquor selling a felony.
The bill now goes to the senate
where it is expected to pass and
become a law. Bootlegging will
be leas,attractive if a term in the
•pen stares a man ih the face
‘ “ when found.guilty.
- | on this tract and cut the lumber
Carl Riley ,has filed contest j they buy for market. This will
proceedings in the lower house of represent an investigation of
the legislature against Dr. Pren-! from $5,000 to $6,000. Opera-
tes his republican opponnet. The tions will not begin until May 1.
matter will be heard Saturday j All walnut logs purchased by
morning. this firm will be. shipped to the
cm-. 7 .. J Springfield plant and stdred un-
Editor WhilmK and wife °f:tn.cutul): The lea8e wa8 pre.
the Capital and Jas. York and
wife of the agency were Tulsa
visitors Monday.
pared by J. N. Sperry & Co. of
East Commercial street. —Spring-
field Enterprise, : •
In Thomas W. Lawson’s art-
icle, "The Gamblers and the
Money Trust, ” in the February
Everybody’s Magazine, he says:
“The Pujo committee has helped
lay bare a condition of stacked-
card, loaded-dice, surething gam-
bling that makes the old-time,
fixed faro game seem like a
What - Became - of - Jennie-Brice
contest. Through a glass dark-
ly—we have got a glimpse of a
thousand-tentacled octopus suck-
ing to itself the economic life
blood of a nation. We have
sketched loosely for us the out-
lines of what we know to be an
elaborate and perfectly oiled
mechanism for concentrating the
savings of the people in the
hands of a few unscrupulous
manipulators, that each sitter-in
in the crooked game may pile
them as chips in front of him.
"There has been reared before
our eyes a huge banking struc-
ture containg the billions of a
sovereign people’s savings, and
at its apex a half dozen institu-
tions that are in turn completely
controlled by a few individuals.
This body politic and economic
of ours has been X-rayed on the
screen and its heart located—not
in Washington, but in Wall
street. If you are so naive that
you don’t believe there is any
such thing as a money trust,
glimpse through the facts sub-
stantiated by the sworn evidence
before the Pujo committee. ”
DEMOCRATS LEAD IN NEW SENATORS.
StNATOR OWEN OUTLINES PLAN.
Senator Owen has written a
general letter defining his posi-
tion on endorsment of candidates
for appointive positions. His
letter follows:
"My Dear Sir: In answer to
the suggestion contained in your
letter, I advise you that, being
extremely anxious to promote
the interests of the public at
large, and to deal justly with all
applicants for public place. I
Of the United States senators
recently elected in eight states
of the union, six of the number
are democrats and two republi-
cans. Three already are mem-
bers of the national upper house
and were re-elected.
The five new senators are Wil-
liam Thompson, democrat of
Kansas; William Hughes, demo-
crat of New Jersey: Judge W.
M. Kavanaugh, democrat of Ar-
kansas; Representative Morris have adopted the policy of mak-
FARMERS PAX DAY.
Weekly checks to the amount
of $1,541.08 were distributed at
the Muskogee Dairy and Cream-
ery one day last week in pay-
ment to the farmers who bring
their cream to the plant. A like
amount could be distributed here
every week if the farmers would
get together and guarantee to
furnish the product from a suffi-
cient number of cows. There
isn’t a farmer within ten miles
of Pawhuska who couldn’t milk
and furnish the cream from ten
or twelve cows every week in
the year. The checks from this
source would more than keep the
family grocery bill paid leaving
other resources on the farm
clear. A co-operative creamery
should be started by the farmers
themselves.
Sheppard, democrat of Texas,
and Key Pittman, democrat of
Nevada.
Representative Sheppard of
Texas was elected both to fill out
the unexpired term of Joseph W.
Bailey, ending March 4, and for
the full six year term commenc-
ing at that time. He will suc-
ceed Colonel R. M. Johnston,
who was appointed by Governor
O. B. Colquitt at the time Sena-
tor Bailey resigned, pending ac-
tion by the Texas legislature.
Judge Kavanaugh of Arkansas
will serve only until March 4, the
unexpired term of the late Jeff.
Davis. J. N. Heiskel was ap-
pointed to the place by Governor
Donaghey, pending the legisla-
ture’s meeting. All of the other
senators were elected for full
terms. Senators who were re
elected for full terms were A. B.
Fall of New Mexico; Francis E.
Warren of Wyoming, and Benja-
min R. Tillman of South Caro-
lina. Senators Fall and Warren
are republicans, while Senator
Tillman is a democrat.
RETURNS AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
For fifty years Mrs. Alice Ed-
dy believed her husband, New-
ton S. Clothier, dead. Recently
she received a letter from Staf-
ford, Kans., saying Clothier was
there and would soon visit her.
Mrs. Eddy married Clothier in
North English, Iowa, in 1956.
Eight years after Clothier disap-
peared she married Geo. P. Ed-
dy, who died at Hutchinson,
Kans. Mrs. Eddy moved to
Wichita, Kans. two years ago.
Good well drill for sale or
trade. Inquire Tallie Sears,
Pawhuska, Okla.
Attorney D. B. Horsley is laid
up at home this week with a case
of la grippe.
ing no recommendation with re-
gard to public offices until every
citizen has had his application
and the whole record is made up
on the part of the applicants for
the several offices.
"The great consideration in
making recommendations must
be the welfare of the general
public. To ascertain this reliance
must be placed upon the indorse-
ments showing personal and po-
litical qualifications. The wishes
of the people in regard to local
officers will have great weight.
Under this policy I shall act in
making any recommendations to
the appointing power. The sen-
atorship is a position of public
trust and not a power that be-
longs personally to me.
“I shall find it extremely em-
barrassing to determine between
good friends of mine, many of
whom are certain to be appli-
cants for the same public place.
This painful responsibility, I
suppose, I cannot avoid, and the
best I can do is to discharge it in
good faith.
"I have written this general
letter because I find a very large
number of applicants in my daily
mail.
"The first thing that a candi-
date should do in applying for
office is to gather together the
evidence of his personal fitness,
including the evidence of his
active attachment to the prin-
ciples of good government. These
applications, of course, can not
be considered until next spring,
after the new administration
comes in.
"I will endeavor, as far as I
am concerned, to advise the ap-
pointing power along the lines
indicated in this letter.
"I hope that the Okhoma dele-
gation may arrange some system
of recommendations that will be
agreeable and best serve the in-
terest of the public service.”
J. L. Dyer of Minot, N. D., is
visiting his mother and brother
who live out on Sand creek. Mr.
Dyer has been in the far north-
west a number of years and likes
the country. He has been a
reader of The Journal the past
two or three years.:
Albert York, of the Racket
Store, left Tuesday for Kansas
City and other , markets to lay
in * new supply of goods.
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