The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE
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CANADIAN
AL
NEWS.
THE ONLY PAPER IN OKLAHOMA THAT DARES TO PRINT T1IE NEWS.
VOL. XII.
JONES CITY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912.
NO. 11.
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The State Board Raises
Farm Values in This
County 40 Per
Cent.
Land values in Oklahoma county
were given a boost of an even 40 per
cent oyer the figures returned by the
county assessor, when the state
board reached this county W ednes-
day, while personal property was
raised 20 per cent. Town lots have
not been touched by the board, but
will be considered today.
The value of farm land in Okla-
homa couuty as returned by the as
sessor was ♦‘24.50 per acre, on the
average. The 40 per cent raise will
mean that the valuation will be on
an average of $34 43 per acre. This
will be sent back Hi the countv lioard
with instructions to distribute the
raise in an equitable way. One of
principal objections to the raise last
year was that after the increase had
been made by the stale board it was
Dot distributed properly.
The 20 per cent raise in the valua-
tion of personal property means an
increase in the taxable wealth of the
county of approximately $3,000,000,
the figures as rendered by the assess-
or being about $15,000,000.
SPRINGER TOWNSHIP
S. S. CONVENTION
The Sunday school convention of
Springer Township was held at ltun-
ham’s park last Sunday. Sunday
school was held iu the morning, fol-
lowed by a big dinner at noon. In
the afternoon a short program was
rendered, followed by an address by
Mr. S, H. Gilliam of Oklahoma City.
The park proved to be an ideal
place to hold the convention, as it
was very shady, and assisted by a
nice breeze caused all to enjoy the
day very much.
Plans were discussed to make the
next convention larger. The Sun-
day school of Liberty Hill was ad-
mitted to membership, and the next
convention will he held at that place.
TIGHTWAD CANDIDATE
NOT THE RIGHT KIND
County officials who are tryiug to
beguile voters and get back into of-
fice by not coming out iuto the open,
ami advertising their candidacy only
through llieir pet newspapers, after
having been fed at the county pic
counter, are not the class of rneu to
tie to aud should uot be considered
when the voting time comes. Their
liberality is displayed iu the excos-
sivemse of the tax payers' money
only. When it comes to spending
money from their own pocket their
liberality falls below par. We call
attention to our nnnouncc-meut col-
umn. Giye those whose names ap-
pear iu this column your preference.
They are making an open campaign
and are not tightwads.
MRS. W. D. STEPHENS OF CALIFORNIA
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IMPORTANT QUESTION
UNDER DISCUSSION
A discussion arose on the street
Monday morning as to when a mau
was actually drunk. Some said he
was drunk when he had imbibed
enough to make him stagger. Oth-
ers thought not. Hut a man who
said he had imbibed enough so he
thought he was capable of giving ex-
pert testimony on that point declar-
ed that a man was not drunk so long
us he njiuld lie on the ground and
keep from falling off by clinging to
the grass. He said further that he
had no use for a druukard. He said
a .real drunkard was so low down
the scale of humanity that he would
have to reach up to touch the bot-
tom .
FORMER JONES GIRL
MARRIED THURSDAY
Miss Bessie Karus, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, .lames Kurils, former-
ly of Jones, now of Oklahoma City,
and Mr. Charles Walker, of Van-
couver, B. C., were uuited in mar-
riage last Thursday evening. The
ceremony was performed by Judge
George W. Clark of she district
court, in the presence of a number
of the friends of the contracting par
ties.
Mr. aud Mrs. Walker wiil leave iu
a few days for Vancouver, where
they will make their home. The
bride has many friends here who wish
her and her husband a prosperous
and happy life.
Mrs. Wtlttsm I). Stephens, wife ri ihe cmraressman from law. Angeles,
Cal., who Is serving his first term, has entered with zest Info the social Ilfs
of the capital.
INTERESTING NOTES
FROM LIBERTY HILL
Nowadays most everybody is mak
ing hay while the sun shiueB.
J. W. McCoin harvested a partic-
ularly fine crop of millet this week.
Miss Goff of Oklahoma City is
down keeping house for her brothers er- "<'« " right's, Monday, July 8,
during the having season. W!l® 8iven his lil,erl>’ an<l Ule ca8e
.. ,, ,, . , against linn dismissed when the raat-
Mrs. 13. F. Strader, who bus been
SOME LATE DOINGS
From the Harrah News.
Mrs. J. A. Robertson returned
Monday from a several days visit in
tbe City.
M. 8. Lauyon aud wife of LosAn-
geles, California, visited his brother,
R. L. and family, here the last of
the week.
Arthur and Otic Watier were in
Shawnee Sunday, playing ball with
the Elk’s team of that city. They
report defeat by the Tecumseh team,
4 to S.
The school hoard has hired Miss
Myrtle Lovejov of Oklahoma City as
primary teacher. Miss Velda Thorny
son was hired some time ago, lint
failed to make her grades at, the in-
stitute.
Miss Varvel Housh and u number
of friends were dowu from Choctaw
Saturday night attending the ice
cream social.
Alvin Moore left Tuesday night iu
company with his grand mother, Mrs.
C. A. Woods, for Ft. Smith, Ark.,
where his sister is seriously ill. Bill
Moore, his brother, who is at Ft,
Worth, Texas, was also sent for.
M’LADGHUN'S CASE
HAS BEEN DISMISSED
Under a plea of self-defense, which
was sustained by the evidence in tbe
case, according to the trial judge, 8.
A. McLaughlin, who wns accused of
the murder of H. B. Turner, a farm-
PEACH SHIPMENTS
TO BEGIN AUGUST 5
W. E. Seaman, manager of the
Fruit Growers’ association, slates
that Oklahoma county will this seas-
on ship three hundred car loads of
choice EHierta peaches. The first
shipment will tic made about August
5, and thereafter at stated intervals
until the entire output of 300 ear
loads has been shipped. Railroad
men say Jones City will ship more
peaches than any other point in the
comity,
HARRAH MAN BITTEN
THREE TIMES BY DOG
Henry Calmer, a liveryman of
Hurrah, was bitten three times, once
on the hand and twice oil the leg,
Monday, by a dog which is suppos-
ed to have'been mad. The dog was
immediately killed aud the braiu of
tbe animal sent the the medical col-
lege of the Slate University at Nor-
man, to be tested for rallies.
FOURTH QUARTERLY
M, E. CONFERENCE
The fourth quarterly conference of
the M. E. church will be held at)
Jones, Saturday, July 26. District
Supt. D. G. Murray will preside
All official mi mbers are expected to
attend this, the most important bus-
iness meeting of the church during
the year. All members and friends
are invited to attend. The. meeting
will be held at the M. E church at
3 o'clock p. ui.
Bro. Murray will preach Sunday
night, July 27. A cordial invitation
is extended to nil. ■
L. A. Edmonds, Pastor.
Old Bill Reed Loyd Says:
Tile Colonel Moore peaches are
now ready for delivery ami are finer
than silk. Will deliver iu quantities
of twelve or fifteen bushels at 60c
per bushel.—W. P. Loyd, Kickapoo
Flat.
Mrs. Fred Proctor was badly pois-
oned by poison ivy, while gathering
wild grapes down on the river.
Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Stone of Okla-
homa City and Miss Kile Stone were
guests of Mr. and Mys. I,. C_ Stoue
Sunday. • , ’
A marriage license has been issued
to Mort Beufield of Jopliu, Mo., and
Mary Estes of Harrah.
ou the iuvalid list for a couple of
weeks, was feeling slightly better
Sunday eveuiug.
Mrs. L. C. Stone, who had the
misfortune to badly cut a couple of
fingers in a mowing machine a few
days ago, reports the injured mem
bers as healing nicely.
Miss Mabel Kueeiang, who spent
last week with Mrs. Stone, returned
to her home Saturday, and L. C lias
been promoted to the dignified posi-
tion of chief cook and dighwasher.
We are particularly glad to note
that Mrs. Arthur Spell is once more
able to be up and about after her
long and trying siege of illness.
Miss Zona Ellenwood, who is at
home for a two week's vacation,
spent several days this week visiting
relatives in Oklahoma City. She
will return to her position at Par-
sons, Kansas, next Tuesday.
Miss Ollie Ellenwood and Messrs
Clius. Steele and Malcolm McCoin
were guests of Miss Gladys Gillette
Sunday evening.
THE FISHING CASE
MAY BE DISMISSED
Van and Gariy McGrew, the boys
who were arrested last week by a
game warden on the charge of un-
lawful fishing, appeared Saturday at
llHi'ckick for trial, but ,4h* hearing
of the case was postponed until to-
morrow. We understand the charge
will be dismissed by the obuuty at-
torney, because of lack of evideuce.
ter came up for preliminary hearing
last Thursday before Justice [lawk
ins at Oklahoma City.
McLaughlin gave himself up to
the sheriff the next day after the
shooting and had siuce been in the
county jail awaiting trial. The case
was up on information filed by Coun-
ty Attorney Sam Hooker who, as-
sisted by H. M. Peck, represented
the state at the hearing.
Evidence, was introduced at tbe
trial to show that McLaughlin had
fired the fatal shot in self-defense,
and many witnesses testified to the
good character of the man, the evi-
dence showing that he was always s
law-abiding, peaceful citizen. The
fact that tbe case was dismissed
without being tried in a county court
or an indictment returned by a grand
jury, leaves the case open for retrial
in case a new information is filed
against ths accused.
INTERURBAN LINE
ANNOUNCED AGAIN
It has been announced again by
the promoters of the Oklahoma City-
Shawnee^ interurhan line, tlint the
bonds have been sold in the east and
that work ou the line will be resutn
ed soon. The proposed line runs
through Spencer aDd Choctaw, and
the grading lias been completed a
distance of twelve miles from Okla-
homa' City -to Spencer. Spencer and
Choctaw people arc auxiously await-
iug the building of this line, as they
believe it will bo a great help to
them.
News
INTERESTING FACTS
IN ASSESSORS BOOKS
The books of County Assessor J
C. Frazier bring to light some inter-
esting facts. There are 18(1,363
town lots in Oklahoma City, and
enough more in the rest of the conn
t,y to make the total considerably
more than 200,000. These lots were
returned by the assessor at an avoi
age value of $418.31. Farm lauds
in tbe county were returned at *n
average value of $28.04 per acre.
Mules were listed at an average val-
ue of $62.40, horses at $48.47, aud
cattle at $20. There is $2,186,478
worth of merchandise in the county.
The total valuation of the county as
fixed by the county assessor was
$104,199,279, but this total, how-
ever, was lowered some by the coun-
ty board of equalization.
COUNTY JAIL KEPT
IN BEST OF SHAPE
Following is the report of the re-
cent grand jury on the condition of
the county jail:
“We visited the jail without
giying anyone notice of our in
tentions of doing so to the offic-
ers' in charge, and found the
building in good shape, and all
prisoners within the walls of the
jail that are supposed to be
serying jail sentence so far as
we were able to learn.”
This report speaks well for the ex-
cellent management Sheriff Spain is
giving tbe Sheriff s office.
HARRAH NEWS KICKS
ON PARDONING YOUST
Harrah News: “It has been sug-
gested that a petition l)e circulated
and petition Governor Gruce to par-
don John Youst, who is now serving
a six month term iu the county jail
for bootlegging. It is claimed try
his sympathizers that he is suffering
with a sore leg, aDd that the confine-
ment is injurous to his health.
“We protest against sdv such pe-
tition, and in doing so we believe we
voice the sentiment of a majority of
the people of the town. ”
Willis Stone, a machinist on the
battleship Georgia, is spending a
furlough with his pareuts near Spen-
cer.
Henry Dahl, an old and respected
citizen of Edmond, died last week.
He was a German by birth, and was
a soldier in the war between France
and Germany,
Mr. and Mrs. O. E McMinimy
haye returned to their home at Ar-
cadia after a visit with relatives in
Kansas.
A daughter has been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Oouch of the Kickapoo
fiat.
Albert Noel has traded hie livery
barn at Arcadia to Tom Kcnnard.
R. R. Housh, the well known
fanner near Choctaw, has been on
the sick list.
Oklahoma City's soap factory has
just just turned out its first car of
soap. The operations of tbe factory
will be confined to making high grade
family soap.
Arcadia Gazette: “Mrs. Frauk A.
Beebe of Oklahoma City, and Mrs.
J. C. Lindsay of Jones, were in Ar-
cadia la»t Tuesday. Mrs. Beebe is
county organizer of the Rebekuh
lodge and that was her mission in
Arcadia. There will be a Rebekab
lodge organized in Arcadia about the
first of October.”
J. W. Johnston, a grocer of Okla-
homa City, was fined $200 the other
day for selling a short-weight bushel
of potatoes.
Mrs. Mary J. Haldwiu, one of the
oldest and best loved citizens of Ed-
mond, died last Wednesday. She
was tbe mother of John Schumau,
one of Edmond's substantial busi-
ness men.
W. J. Arthur, the well known gin
and mill mau of Luther, is spending
a month at Hot Springs, Ark.
The case of the board of couuty
commissioners against R. A. Rat-
ledge, former clerk of the district
court, and his bondsmen, was up be-
fore Judge Taylor in the district
court Friday on a motion to quash •
the service summons in the case.
The motion was sustained and an or-
der entered by the court providing
for the issuance of an alias sum-
mons.
Ralph Allen aud Hattie McClure,
both of Luther, have been united in
marriage.
Joe Kinch of Depew, a 14-year-
old boy who had been visiting at
Luther, had several of his fingers
and some of his toes cut off by a
Katy train at Luther last Saturday
night. He attempted to get off the
train while it was moving, and was
thrown under the wheels. A large
gash was also cut in his head. Tbe
lad was shipped to his home Sunday
morning on a stretcher.
George Craun of the Niue Mile
flat, is exhibiting au old musket
which was found on his farm a few
days ago. it is like the ones that
were used during the Revolutionary
war.
FURNITURE!
1 have a car load of Furniture,
consisting of Bed Springs, Mattress-
es, Dressers, Commodes, Tallies and
Chairs, Rugs aud Carpets, Dishes,
Etc., which will lie sold cheap for
cash.—W. J. HARBOUR, in the
White Building.
For Sale or Trade
50 acres of land, 1 mile south and
3i miles west of Jones. No im-
provements except fence. Also 4
good lots in tbe heart of Arcadia.
Will give time on part of purchase
price.—D. 8. Stall, 2 miles east and
l .J mile north of Jones. 11-3
REPUBLICAN SPEAKING OATES
Arcadia 1
Wheatland ‘
Putnam City
Friday 26th.
Saturday 27 th,
Monday 28th.
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Keyes, Chester A. The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1912, newspaper, July 26, 1912; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc860260/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.