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The Durant Weekly News
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Hurt
..1 situation as a result
rfSek -activities in the nation-c-j
.triko of railroad shopmen is
Tile 'rlKl . .'.rtnMnn facilities of
Sloountrv an- crippled business and
SSrv ami the movement of. farm
Sttct" ha 1l'cn inJured a"d the
F no ien "f let un or settlement
"1'rthe signs all point to a
Sd ior." Situation within a few
Jys if something is not done SOmC-
When it Is borne mraum . u.u
. . .nAnfn Vin ii1inT who keen
to rolling tock in running condi-
? nre all ut. that very few places
thP whole country have been
filed that trains can run only a few
krar. without repairing it is seen
that PWinBinB u; "- "'
taf Will ue mub""u" V """
lervice which deals a severe blow to
ie whole country.
Twin the wcck mere nave Deen
.rmorivj train wrtcni. ouu.e ui
them aa attributed to equipment be-
jng in !'nr condition.
T.ro tmvp been nunareas 01 in-
-ci 1 violence aone to siriitu
vVrr liv striking shopmen and
their ymp.i'hizere although the Un
ion read insist mat me unions out-
law M.'e'ire The instances of vio-
w km occurred in all parts of
tie rovn'rv some of them as closj as
Per.nni T :s. Strikers seem to
' 'ho kinkt breakers "goat." as it
were f r 1 intimidation and threats
they arr -"needing in keeping all
MTp a it " number of burley strike-
breaUi fi'm taking work in the
(hop-
D.irint' the week the members of
other r ' -ail unions have become
retk a their jobs and there has
been si" '"' walkouts all unauthor-
feed M I "I"" head- it is said. The
mair'i "Tire of way men it is reported
are -rim ml in the notion of quitting
td tin filling is growing among
other m ' nil unions.
In 'uiDilnil-. of places .soldiers have
betn ilii mul to guaid important rail-
riad linditi- and other property from
threat! mil uolcnce. but no clashes
ha. lini lepoited between soldiers
ard rriKir. The presence of soldier-
h.v served to further intensify
feclir.ir and has not helped the situation.
DURANT OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY JULY 21 1022
NUMBER TWENTY-NINE
PRESIDENT ASKS MINE
OPERATORS TO OPERATE
All Governors Asked To Cooperate.
Miners Laugh Up Their Sleeves
The strike of coal miners has been
prolonged to such an extent and tho
SUrnlllK stock rtf nnn tmtrn hnAAma I
MTHERREN CENTER OF RUCUS OVER
OFFICERS PASSES AT GUARD CAMP
TRAIN SERVICE IS CUT
ON ACCOUNT 01'
STRIKE
so low and the production of more'...'" lnc cs"" ?r arucu? brought
coal so small that the situation be- ?wl bm an Sa.Yirday night
gins to assume the aspects of a na- fe af. .bf-cRAt"0I..Jf le'
tional calamity second
railroad strike and with
ing on it is almost certain that the
country will suffer severely in many
ways snoum me strike not bo ended.
President Harding invited opera-
tors and miners to get together and
try to adjust differences. Both de
onto to the lli.ons nnd spneu orders and a gener-
wintet com-1?1 P0"? martil in which are involved
uiikuuici ucnurtti u. c. mcrnerren.
Adjutant General Barrett and sever-
al lesser officers with the Governor
of the State determined to sift the
thing to the bottom.
Nowspaper accounts are in direct
clincd after consideration. The Pros- iSnfJLct rth letters received here by
ident then invited all operators of
mines in the United States to cet busv
and begin operations. Many of them
promised to do so .while the miners
laugh up their sleeves with the state-
ment that one can't run mines without
miners and then went the strike one
better by threatening to call out all
other unions that work at the mines
besides the miners in event that non-
union miners nre employed. This
would take away all protection from
mine property and would make all
mines liable to flooding and entire
ruin
friends from local boys at Ft. Sill
with the guard companies encamped
It seems from a simmering down
of -all reports that General Barrett
commanding officer had issued some
orders that all officers and men leav
ing camp and returning must have a
pass and tho order which also ap-
pears to have been issued after num-
erous officers and men had already
left camp resulted in several amus
ing embnrrasing situations
ucneral McPherren
rnmmnTntiTic
the 10th Brigade with other officers
rlAff lirtti mt -u- 4l- ...
WAK
Governors of all states where coal
He also intimated that he will lose
ate in securing production of coal
is rnined nnd invited them to cooper-
patience directly and order all mines
seized nnd operated by the Govern-
ment for the benefit of the country.
approaching midnight. Their car was
slopped by the guard who demand-
ed passes. Being advised of the oc-
cupants of the car the guard requir-
ed them to alight and come forward
where ho asked in a irritated vojee.
what they meant by staying out so
late and demanding their passes.
General McPherrcn is said to have
gotten huffed at being thusly cen-
sured by an officer of lower rank
and snokc his feeling plainly and
the outcome was that the party was
escorted to the headquarters of Gen-
eral Barrett where he proffered
passes which were declined by Gener-
al Mcl'herren. who was then ordered
under arrest and ordered to the guard
hou'-e when he verbally resigned as
brigadier general of the brigade. In
the morning following McPherrcn
found that some other officer had
been elevated to his post and orders
for movement of the men had been
issued. Later on Governor Robert-
son a commander in chief ordered
General McPherrcn back to his bri-
gade and ordered all those mixed up
in the nffairs to report to the capitol
and detailed another officer to inves-
tigate the mess.
Frisco Take i Off One Train A
Each Way Through Here
Day
SQUARES COMING
IN BY MILLIONS
The nation-wide strike of railway
shopmen has hnd Its effect at last on
train service affecting Dtirnnt and
this territory in the taking off Thurs-
day of two of the Frisco trains run-
ning through Durant. Tho trains
taken off nre. No. 775. west bound
due here at R:40 a. m. and No. 770
east bound due here at 7:15 p. in.
each day. This gives the territory
but two Fnsco passenger trains la
day. cast bound at 11:25 in the morn
ing nnd west bou.id at 5:15 in the
evening. As the passenger traffic
is quite heavy on this lino the travel
ling public will be greatly inconvenienced.
In making the announcement the
company says that the taking off of
tnc two trains is due to the fact that
equipment is in need of repair nnd
unfit for service. This seems to spell
that the shopmen's strike is getting
in its work.
It is freely predicted that more
trains through hero will be taken off
within a few days although no an-
nouncement to that effect has been
made by any of the three railrond
companies serving the territory.
Hundreds of Children and GrowirUps
Gather Fnllen forms From Cot-
ton To Gain Rcw ard of 25c
Per 1000
GOV. XEFF VISITS
SCENE OF STRIKE
Declare- Texas Will Handle Dcnlson
Strike Lawle-sness Without
Federal Interference.
THIS IS THE AUTO COUNTRY
Americans own eight times as
many autos as Canada United King-
dom. France. Germany Italy Rus-
sia. Japan. China and Argentina
combined. Yet these countries have
nearly eight times as many people as
America. This shows something
about standards of living here com-
pared with abroad. It is one illus-
tration of why -omo foreign coun-
Uie3 can undersell u-. with cheap la-
boY. Labor's real wage is its stan-
dard of living. Capper's Weekly.
STORE WEDDING
There wai a wedding performed at
the Dixie Store on North Second ave-
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF arc insinuating that I have had some
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA connection with tho issuance and sale
of spurious teacher's certificates.
One of the deplorable developments I They know these insinuations arc
of the primaiy campaign is tho ef-ifnl-c in every particular and I here
fo'fs of Judge Owen's friends to make .and now denounce ns utterly false
political capital out of the fact that every insinuation that I had any
at least two spurious teacher's certi-1 knowledge of tho issuance of spur-
fieates have been issued and sold. jious teacher's certificates before the
It will be lecallcd that on July 4th ' exposure above referred to or that I
under my direction a confession was in any way have participated in the
procured irom ine man wno sold tne sale or disposition of same
icrtificatcb and tho resignation of the I i .nr.v.;ccv. v;nia thmntrVi-
Secretaiy of tho Stnto Board of Edu- out the state in my name to de-
cation who issued the certificates nounce as infamously false nny insin-
was delivered to me. URtjon that j. jn any wny have been
I immediately addressed communl- connected with the issuanco or sale of
cations to the Governor and the At- si urious teacher's certificates.
torney General accompanied by the ' Respectfully
evidence 1 Had procured and request-
ed the fullest investigation and most
vigorous pro'ecution of any and all
pei son guilty of illegal traffic in
MEMBERS OF COTTON GROWERS
ASSOCIATION RECEIVE $8000000
R. II. WILSON.
SENTENCE IS CUT IN HALF
teacher's certificates. In this mat-
ter I did what I pledged in my plat
form I would do in all cases of graft
nue here Monday. B. F. Faubien of ' if I was elected Governor. I exposed
Yamaby and Mrs. Lillie Lotspeach of
Calera were married. Rev. Vinson
performing the cereniony.
the graft nnd demanded prosecution
of the guilty parties.
Certain Satellites of Judge Owen
The Criminal Court of Appeals
modified the sentence of Tom Cotton.
Bryan County convicted of assault
with a dangerous weapon and sen-
tenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary. The court made the term two
years and affirmed it.
Checks totalling $135101053 were
mailed July 8. by the Oklahoma Cot-
ton Growers Association In final set-
tlement with its 3G.00O members.
With this final distribution there is
brought to a close the first season of
successful operation of tho first state-
wide cooperative marketing organi-
zation to be formed by cotton grow-
ers. This payment is the last of a
total received by members of approx-
imately $8000000 in proceeds from
the sale of 1)1300 bales of Cotton
handled by the Association during tho
pnst season. The average basis mid-
dling price received for ail cotton sold
by the Association is 18 cents a
pound it is shown by tho books of
Auditor J. I). Douglass. The Asso-
ciation's average price is remarkable
when it is considered that this Is f. o.
b. Oklahoma points and that it was
obtained during a period when the
.price of cotton at ports ranged from
1 12 cents to 20 cents a pound. The
i ales and general operating expense
has been 2 1-2 per cent of tho gross
'proceeds from the snlo of cotton the
statement to members shows apd
covers n fourteen-month period.
The Durant Chamber of Commerea
stnrtcd something big when they an-
nounced the end of Inst week that tho
organization would pay ten cents per
hundred for punctured squares tnat
hnd fnllen from cotton plants for
their office on Third avenue has been
literally swamped with boys and girls
and men nnd women ever since all
of them loaded down with tin cans
btrshel mcaeuros nnd tow sacks full
of the damaged squares and the
"fund" nlmost went broke in three
days redeeming promises so that tha
plnn wns well nigh ended.
However at a special meeting tha
orgnnizntion decided to raise mora
money and continue the plan savo
that the price had to be reduced to
25 cents n thousand squares. Tho
first few days yielded a hnlf million
punctured squares which were dump-
ed into an improved "trap" in the
Chamber of Commerce window.
Since that time numerous weevils
hnve hatched out nnd the trap Is lit-
erally alive with them. Incidentally
of the thousands of the punctured
squares examined each one contnined
n "grub" which means more ma-
tured weevils within n few days.
In times pnst. farmers generally
have not bothered to get rid of tho
squares that were infected nnd fell
to the ground. Hence the grubs
hatched nnd more weevils were releas-
ed which immediately got busy and
time ruined the entire crop as
the case last year. Practically
every fanner wno lias been tnlKcd
to is agreed that the gathering of the
fnllen snnnrer. will do much to reduce
the number of weevils this year and
there in't a cotton patch in the coun-
ty that is not being thoroughly work-
ed over.
Scores of mnll boys from town
have invaded tho neaiby farms and
volunteered their services for tho
sake of selling the squares.
Of course the sellinu of tho sounrcs
provides a small income to the folks
who sell them but this sum is not a
drop in the bucket for if the plnn is
followed out faithfully in addition
to otherwise winking the eni'i. t good
yield of cotton is nsMtrcd for tho
county this year. A half crop of cot-
ton will tee an end of Bryan county's
immediate financial stiniglits. nnd get
us nearer to "normalcv" than we hnvo
been before tho win Id war started.
a;iiM!iiyii'.s3ssyayi
Governor Neff of Texas. Wednes
day cancelled all his speaking dates
and Thnr da afternoon was to arrive
t Deni nn Texas to personally m-
!Pfft the strike situntinn there.
whidi ua- reported to be getting from
bad to wor-i Wednesday.
Initrd States Marshall earlier in
the week issued orders that all traf-
fic across the big viaduct carrying
traffic nr tlin utinn tictript. wnnld
1 cln-cil f i nm eleven o'clock nt night
wtil l"ilijrlit. for the protection of
innocent neilctnnns and tho railroads
prowrH Denisnn nt.v officials nro-
tetl lntteily against the order on
the ernuml that the viaduct is the pro-
pert of the city of Denison and is
Benerallv used and necessary public
thnrnuithfaie. The marshalls were
obdurate nn( sai they would call in
Federal troops to enforce the order
u ncccary.
Mayor Weaver of Denison called
yion Governor Neff for a company of
Texas Rangers for service at Deni-
jon but received no response until
the ndiiro that the Governor would
Personally visit tho scene and make
such recommendations as he found
neccary.
Tho Governor made a statement in
hlch he said thnt Toirns will nre-
sene hr sovereignity maintain her
P'i protect tne life or ner people
Keep opin commerce and enforce the
"ws without Federal interfefence.
THOUSAND CARS
LACK 1922 TAGS
8prl.il Officer Fcrettlng Out Offen
ders m uryan County. Some
May Be Brought Into
Court
. Aorning to Dave Tomlln who is
" thartre of collectintr the 1022 auto
icenw tax for the State Highway
department in Bryan county there
re about one-thousand cars in daily
operation in the countv on which 1922
iiwnsp ax hns not bfien padi Many
-.;" c miii carry 1021 tags and
P1" a few are still carrvinir 1920
tar
h
lo'l
rav t
t'p
of
ttii
lit
ere t . .
ci t n
ptran i
he v
Ar -
lsMgntlon reveals
fficer named is spending
0 time ferreting out thee
have cither neglected to
' 'orotigh oversight or are
' " get out of tho payment
nnd is giving notice to
nip cases cars are being
" bflalf of tho State by de-
'(r-. m many cases fines
n s(jsCd nnd the fine and
r'l to the tax makes an cv
hp car owner can probably
"img himself delinquent.
iy his tax at once.
....- .. -i
te ' summon inuure wnicn is
tht. . r"non is for persons to pay
'C't to affix the tnes tn thn pnrs.
to tbnC?t unnecessary annoyance
officers and car owners as well.
ILSON
ILL
IN
Uhe Democrats of Oklahoma Will Nominate
R. H. "Wilson.
"-for
in
wns
LABOR ASKS AW
OF ALL RAIL MEN
A. F. of L. Asks Union Men All To
Refrain From Doimr Wn-k of
The Men On Strike
An appeal was issuril Wednesday
bv the executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to "all work-
ers everywhere to support the rail-
road winkers in their efforts to se-
cure a iust settlement of the railroad
shops trade dismito."
The appeal which ttus issued by
unanimous vote of the executive
council nnd over the signatures of
nil members of the council. Includ-
ing Samuel Gompers federation
president hii" been forv nrded to
every labor nigiiniziition in tho
ITiiHf.il States to every labor publi
cation nnd In nil organizers of the
federation it was announced nt fed
eration headquarters.
Orpanin'd labor is asked specific-
ally in the appeal to ivfiain from
doing nny work formerly done by
men now on strike while the work-
ers on strike nre urged to conduct
themselves in n law-abiding mnnner.
Governor
August First
All over Oklahoma Democrats appreciating the
dignified and gentlemanly campaign made by Mr.
Wilson are rallying to him as the only candidate who
can win over the Republicans in the general election.
Wilson for Governor Club
rwwiiuiiJi.;w .gfwrww
LOTS OF OATS COMING IN
PRICK THIRTY-EIGHT CENTS
Scores of wagon binds of oats have
been brought to miuket this week nnd
more ecoies of loads nre on the street
today and the price is gradually
climbing the price being tmirl iburs-
.1.... nLonlm. l.i.l.m t ll I ...all f.ll I nYtu
IlilV 11.11 lllll; Ill-Ill. klllllj i l.th VV...V..
n bushel. Yields over the county are
! . .I .1... XT. ...... Is
surpassing expei-muuiis ine .-fi-wi-.
informed the crop is tiding over the
difficult situntinn nmong the people
oi wir umiiiy.
NO TAX LEVY FOR
COMING YEAR
State's Hoonues Make Possible En-
tire Elimination Of T.ix For-
merly Assessed Each
Year.
General revenue on hand in tho
Stnte Treasury nt the end of tho 1922
fiscnl yenr amounted to ?0..)fi081fi. A.
N. I.eecrnft. Stnte Treasurer said
this week. Funds from all sources
amounted to $13210795. While nil
figures relative to expenditures have
not been compiled it is the belief of
Mr. Leecrnft that it will not be
neies-my for the State Board of
I?qunli7.it inn to muko a levy for
State purposes this year. The State
levy for last year was only half a
mill which produced only $7U0.000.
On account of the increnje each year"
in tnx on gross production of oil the
Stnte levies have been growing less
each year.
HUGO'S NEW CHURCH
The Methodists of Hugo have mov-
ed into their beautiful new church
homo which has been recently con-
pletqd nt a cost of $100000. It Is
one of the finest church buildings in
tho state.
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