Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1915 Page: 3 of 6
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CAPITAL NEWS
more land for state schools
IF INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
DECIDES RIGHT.
OKLAHOMA CITY NC.WS EVENTS
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing.—Items of In
terest About the St3te
Governrr.est.
Oklahoma City.—
The schools of Oklahoma may be
♦nrichod lo the extent of ten thousand
acres of land or its equivalent in gov-
ernment scrip within a few months,
upon the decision oi the secretary of
the interior. The supplemental brief
in the action to recover mis land for
the state has been prepared by Judg.‘
E. (1. Spilman and is now in the hand.'
of the printers. Judge Spiltnan will
go to Washington in a .shoVt time to
present and argue the case for a limit
decision. •
The case is consul jre«* ot vast im-
portance. especially to the agricultural
schools of llie state. The action wa-
originally brought for the purpose of
taking advantage on the joart of the
stale of the Morrill act. passed by
Congress in 1862, giving each state
Congress. That act was subsequently
amended in I860 to apply to territories,
sind was later amended in 1882. •
Case Mow Pending.
The slate legislature of 1907-8. as
provided by law, accepted the benefits
of the grant and the attorney general’s |^lurrsv
office endeavored to segregate all the
lands in the state that were liable at
that tune under the terms of the grant.
The land offices in the state re.-i ted
end an appeal was taken to the com-
missioner of the general land office.
terior. The case is now pending be-
fore him.* Under the law as amended
the state would now he entitled to
150,000 acres, as it had five representa-
tives and two sen. ‘ors at the tjme of
admission.
Arguments have b *en made in this
case both by Judge Spilmnn and Sen
ator Owen, but add! ional evidence
was required and will 1>'* furnished as
noon as the brief is p i.ited.
The supplemental»l) i f will contain
a great ileal of informa tion*about the
agricultural schools of the state, pre-
pared recently by the state board of
agriculture. * This part of the brief
State Taxes by Counties.
Oklahoma county will he called on
to contribute $807,830.67 as it* share
of the state taxes, according to figures
compiled in the office of State Auditor
Howard. This, of course, is the largest
of the assessments against the coun-
ties. This is a part of the tqtal of
$4,160,857.30 to be raised over the
state, and includes the one-fourth mill
for the state highways and one-fourth
for common school purposes. Tulsa
county comes next to Oklahoma county
with $166,358.52; Garfield, $120,481.06; i
with $166 358.52; Garfield. $'120,481.06. !
Greek. $100,972.07, and Kay, $100,-
261.61. This includes county valua- |
tions and the valuations of the public j
service corporations in the counties. |
State Tax.
r'ountleo.
A lount
Adair ..............
.........$
1 6,030 66
Alfalfa ...........
81. PM) 0*1
Ttoka ............. .
10.564.. 0
1 leaver .............
•6.522 2 >
Peckham ...........
'- i* '■»
..........
.46,535.05
I'.rvnn .............
1.2s 2. to
t ’atltlo .......... ...
.. .•
72,son in.
< an aliam .........
76,675.64
Carter ..............
10.586.70
Cherokee ...........
2-5.670.3*1
• hoc taw .....;....
33,126.5 •
1 'i matron ..........
........O. .
l 12 2t
i leveland ..........
■ v i
< oal .............
23 .567.00
t'ormmclic ..........
52 98-S 81
Cotton ...........
Craig .......... *
28,7 62.02
57,673.00
Creek ..............
109, n 07
Crater ............
• .
65 5115 55
Delaware ..........
r:,4im.i!»
1 tewey ...........
1"" “i
Kt! 8 .............
40,612 S8
(tartield ............
120 .s 05
Garvin ... .........
13,002 1
Grady ..............
70.560 77
Grant • 0...... - •
ss.2*1 72
Harman ...........
2o. 663.20
■ i.H MCI ...
21.701 v3
Hnskell ...........
,.
21.317.42
Hughes ........
Jackson ......
11,340 0
4 s. 147.67
Jefferson * .
2S.213 56
Johnston ...........
2S.427.27
Ka* ..............
pin.Mil
Kinghsher .......
5S.671 58
Kiowa ..............
50.371.64
Latimer ............
17."05 75
Lo Flore ..........
16,652 51
Lincoln ............
so.740.67
Logan ..............
73.500.54
Love ...............
17.730.07
McClain .........
stu o’
Met in tain ........
26.715 "0
•McIntosh ...........
55 109f5
Maior .........
ii. nix 93
Marshall ...... .
22.410 07
Ma> es ......... .
50.700.60
■Murray ........
20.05* V4
Muskogee
• • - - •
Nghle ............
45.07 t 85
\o*‘:ita
41.«05 S5
*>kfnskee
31.1 62 56
• Tklahomu
507.S30 6,7
« tkmulgee
75.152.3.3
< *snge
S3.746.00
Ottawa ...........
34.303 35
1 ’aw nee ..........
53.7S3.73
I'uvne .........
72.46s.7t
Pittsburg
75 03S 65
Pontotoc .
1 '.18.3 20
1 -ottawp.Tomie .....
70.288.10
Push m>c "ha ....
is 042.00
Roger Mills ........
21.100.50
Rogers
.
Seminole ........
26 162.25
Seuttoyah
30,936.86
Stephens
3 I 362.47
Tnvid
.15 631 50
i iPman ............
51.427.01
"■ u4*u.-l
177,4 65.06
1 1 3SO 52
Washington
93 :• ‘ 10
Washita
56.400 07
71.512 *f.
Woodward .........
49.312 86
Total .............
..........*
.160,957 56
Reduces Warrant
Liability
$200,000.
Warrants against the bank guaranty
fund to the amount of $161,134.32 were
retired during ihe quarter ending Sep-
tember 30, according to a statement
shows that Oklahoma is expending I of the condition of the fund, issued by
large sums for agricultural education. P. C. Dings, treasurer of the fund. On
but that additional funds can he used! June 30 there was cash on hand
to good advantage. ° j $86,504.58. Collections during the
$300,000 to Aggie Schools. j "Uarter from the resources of failed
For tjie biennial period that will end hanks, interest on daily balances and
July 1. 1017. the government has con-: warrants sold for cash, ran the amount
t rihuted $300,058 to the agricultural | of available cash up to $180,883.31.
schools of the state, and the legisla-
ture has appropriated $416,758. This
has been apportioned to the different
schools, the largest part of il going to
the A.*& M. college ai Stillwater.
The Cameronoschool at Lawton was
• pportioned $29,000, the Conners school
at. Warner $28,000. the Connell school
at Helena $29,500. the Haskell school
During the quarter Interest on war-
rants to the amount of $5.121.75""was
paid, leaving $14,627.24 cash on hand
in the fund on September 30.
The warrant indebtedness of the
fund on June 30. was $742,334.23. This
has been reduced lo $675,726.61 on
September 30. Warrants taken up by
at Broken Arrow $28,500. the Murray hanks with cash and held by the board
school at Tishomingo $29,258. the Pan-j in lieu of collateral amount to $483
handle school at Good well $29,760. and I 459.09. and municipal bonds and wa •
the colored agricultural school and rants amount to $192,267.52.
normal at Langston $74,550. In a-Mi According to the statement the
iion *1 here wa appropriated for thi* amount of warrant indebtedness is re-
school from the state $15,650 for sup-
port and maintenance*and $20,000 for
waterworks and a sewer system.
If the secretary of the interior de-
cides adversely to the state.‘an appeal
will be taken to the supreme court of
the United States.
dured about $300,000 from the high
point reached about a year ago.
No Loans for Big Property Owners.
Persons owning considerable prop-
erly and who are planning to secure
loans under the provisions of the home
ow nership law were dealt a severe blow
•when the school land commissioners
voted unanimously to refuse to approve
loans to persons owning more than 160
acres of land. 0
The commission decided to apportion
the home ownership fund among the
several counties of the state the same
as the permanent school fund, the ap-
portionment being based upon the rural
population of the county.
Seererdij - t was authorized by
the board upon his own recommenda-
tion to drop two farm loan and iwo
sales appraisers from the pay roll on
December 1. Py that time. It is the be-
lief of Mr. Smith, the force in both de-
partments can easily ho reduced. He
Requisition for Head Refused.
Governor Wtll’ams refused to honor
♦he requisition from the governor of
T\ nt:u*ky. asking for the return to that.
si;-:e of Ben T. Head, local cotton
broker. Head was indicted by a Ken-
tucky grand jury on a charge of com-
plicity in the failure of a bank. Head
was n resident of Oklahoma for a long
period before the hank in question
failed. In view of this the governor
took the position that as Head was in
Oklahoma at the time ho could not
have been an accomplice to the failure.
Tick Inspectors Threaten Strike.
Sixteen state inspectors in tick orad
ication have notified President Frank
Gault of the hoard of agriculture that
they will quit November 1 because of
dissatisfaction in regard to gelling
their pay, and the basis on which it is
computed following a system inter-
posed by State Auditor Howard, ac-
cording to President Gault. All told,
there are twenty-two of these inspec-
tors doing field duty in tick work. They
said he had not determined upon whom are paid a salary and are allowed horse
the tax will fall.# hire..
Healdton Rejoices.
Healdton crude has been advanced
to 40 cents a barrel, a rise of 5 cents,
accord il: to an announcement re-
ceived here from the* Magnolia Oil Co.
The news of the rise was welcomed
warmly by Healdton producers, and is
the second in the last few weeks. It
is the general belief that the rise came
a* a result of the decision by many of
the larger companies in Hie Healdton
field to store their oil rather than sell
at the low market price. Thin decision
will he adhered to until the price ad
vances.
Welsh Warns Insurance Companies.
Insurance Commissioner Welch in
sending out letters notifying companies
doing business in the state that under
the state laws they cannot write in-
surance other thin that indicated by
the name of the company. It has come
to his attention, he says, that some
companies are attempting to do more
than one kind of insurance, and that
this is prohibited. For Instance, a com-
pany licensed to write fire insurance
cannot write burglary or theft, insur-
ance, although this is attempted, he
says.
planso for bringing school
INTO SMALLEST NEIGH-
BORHOODS.
DR. J.W. SCROGGS IN CHARGE
System of Lantern Slide Lectures on
Variety of Subjects to Be Fur-
nished to County
Districts.
__ .
Norman.—The state university of
Oklahoma has ceased to limit itself
to the teaching of those arts and sci-
ences known only »o the man who
would have a “higher education.” Ik
has ceased even to limit itself to the
man or woman who is able to attend
the school in person, or who is able
to attend any school. It is broaden-
ing its influence to incliftle not only
the high schools of the state but qven
the rural schools, and farther than
that, the people themselves, of the
rural districts.
The Jlatest step in this direction is
the “visual instruction movement,'*
just starting, whiclj will at the very
outset carry stereopticen views and
lectures from the outside world to*
500 communities °in 31 counties in
Oklahoma. This it will do at very lit
tie expense to the communities them-
selves, and on the condition that
everyone, poor and rich alike, in the |
communities shall receive equal op-
portunity to benefit by the piovement.
Since 87 per cent of all we k*now
comes to us through the use of our
eyes, "the University Jjas decided that
through this medium eftn instruction
and entertainment best he carried to
the rural districts. Accordingly, lan*
DR. J. W. SCRpGGS,
Head ofr the Extension Division,
University of Oklahoma.
tern slides are being prepared, hun-
dreds of them, and on a score of sub- 1
jects. They are to be sent out® to mr«.l
school districts where views will be
thrown on the screen while local p<*o- i
pie give lectures specially prepared
by the University explaining the pic-
tures.
From twelve to twenty-four commu-
nities are placed on one “circuit,” for
which *i schedule is * made out . The
lantern sliues are sent to the school
house fi^st on the schedule, where a
local person runs the machine and
another gives the explanation to the
pictures. >**-
Each one of these entertainments is
made up of about 72 slides with the
lecture that accompanies them. The
range is from view* taken in Okla-
homa as well as elsewhere on better
roads, more plehsant home surround-
ings, improvement of rural school
grounds, etc., to views on travel,
“Around the World in .Eighty Min-
utes,” “Japan,” “the Panama Canal,”
“Our Own National Capital City,”
“Scenic Wonders of the West,” etc.
Then an introduction is given to sci-
ence in its simpler forms through a
picture and lecture study of polleniza
tion of flowers, designed to assist the
farmer to hotter fruit glowing and
interest the rural youth in the won-
ders of botany and zoology. Other
subjects are treated that tend to open
up to the people the wonders of their
own surroundings.
Each community will receive a set
of six lectures, one a month.
The cost of the service was first an-
nounced a* $12.00 a community for the
slides and lectures. Later, Dr. J. W.
Scroggs, In charge of the movement
in Oklahoma, found that he could he
of service to state advertisers to the
extent that they would pay half the
cost. In return, three minutes of each
entertainment is given over to ihe
showing of advertisement slides. The
local community may take an equal
time for the showing of local adver-
tisers’ slides to further reduce this
cost of $6.00.
Then this is only a beginning of the
movement Dr. Scroggs of the state
university, for a score of years an ed-
ucator in Oklahoma, is carrying on
for the betterment of the people of
the rural communities. The univer-
sity is now insisting, later it will re-
quire. that each community receiving
the service organize a “community
club” that will maintain at least three
activities, a debating club, the mater-
ial for which the university will fur-
nish free; an agricultural club satis-
factory to the stale Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Oct. 18, 1914. *
Severe fighting near Nieuport
and in Alsace.
Germans repulsed by Belgians
at River Yser and by French at
St. Die.
Germans evacuated Courtrai.
Austrians repulsed at River
San.
Serbians routed Austrians on the
Save and the Drina.
Anti-German riots in London.
President Poincare’s country
house destroyed by Germans.
• • Oct. 19, 1914.
A11 i e3. aided by British war
ships, repelled German advance
between Nieuport and Dixmude.
Germans attacked allied line
from Ostend to Lille.
Fierce fighting near Warsaw and
Przemysl.
Serbians captured Sarajevo
forts.
British battleship Triumph dam
aged at Tsingtau.
Japanese cruiser Takachiho
sunk by German submarine in
Kiaochow bay
0 Austrian submarine sunk by
French cruiser in Adriatic.
Fifty thousand .Belgian refugees
returned from Holland.
Irish nationalists in London took
pledge to avenge Beigium.
Italian fleet mobilized.
Oct. 20, 1914.
Germans gained near Lille.
Battles along banks of the Yser.
on the Arras-Roye line and on the
Meuse.
Allies reported recapture »of
Bruges.
Przemysl forts badly damaged.
Austrians advanced in Stryj and
Stica valleys.
Serbians won at Prekiet.
British submarine E-3 sunk.
Japanese fleet took islands of
Marianne group.
Two German ships sunk at Ja-
luit.
Oct. 21, 1914.
British monitors bombarded Ger-
man right wing on Belgian coast.
Allies repulsed German attacks
at Nieuport, Dixmude and La Bas-
see.
Heavy fighting on the Yser.
Russians defeated German Aus-
trians in northern Poland and
halted Austrians at the San.
Serbians repelled Austrian at-
tacks in Bosnia.
Cattaro again bombarded.
German cruiser Emden sank
five British steamships in Indian
Ocean.
All unnaturalized German and
Austrian residents in England of
military age ordered put in deten
tion camps.
Oct. 22, 1914.
French retook Altkirch.
General Helmuth von Moltke,
chief of German general staff, re-
tired on account of health.
Russians defeated Germans near
Warsaw.
Russians captured many Austri-
ans a.nd some guns in Galicia.
French and British warships
bombarded German positions on
Belgian coast.
British cruiser Carmama dam-
aged.
American relief committee
cabled $50,00 to Belgians.
Oct. 23, 1914.
German .right wing, re-enforced,
gained ground at La Bassee.
Heavy fighting between the
Ghent-Bruges line and Roulers.
Russians won battle along the
Vistula and pursued the Austrians
in Poland. .
Germans moved fortified posi-
tions to River Warthe
Austrians reoccupied *Czerno-
witz and announced capturo of
forts near Sambor.
German aviators dropped bombs
cn Warsaw.
Woman spies executed in Ger-
many.
(Jr-or- OdMT'v
1 ♦ People im
MEDICINAL PLANT SPECIALIST
□
Interest in tlie sources of our
drug supply, stimulated by the Eu-
ropean war, has brought, into some
prominence one of Uncle Sam's most
useful woman employees. Miss Alice
Henkel, a botanist pf (he bureau of
plant industry, who has made a spe-
cialty of investigations of medicinal
plants. Miss' Henkel's work has had
a widespread influence through the
bulletins she has written. These, nine
in number, have been among the most
popular bulletins issued by the de-
parUnent of agriculture*. In fart, they
are in such demand that many re-
prints have been made of each, ‘and
they are classed among the 'best sell-
ers" of the oflice ..of the superintend-
ent of documents.#
One of the most popular bulletins
deals with weeds that are used in
medicine. Miss Henkel’s pamphlets,
have been used as reference books
by many of the leading pharma-
0, ceutical colleges and dealers in«crude
drugs, and have been widely quoted not only in the pharmaceutical press of
this country, but also abroad. •
One example of the far-reaching influence of her work, which holds spe-
cial gratification for Miss Henkel, came to her recently in a letter from a
small mining town of Pennsylvania. She was told by the writer, a young
man who had become a cripple in a mine explosion, that after reading her
bulletins in* decided to0 follow tjie business of collecting medicinal plants to
sell to drug firms, and find out if he could become self-supporting. He said
that he had been successful and was able to make iv small amount of money
—enough, at least, to keep his mind off of his condition and lift him out of
the helpless class.
When Ollie James, the giant sena-
tor. had finished the high school at
Marion at the age of sixteen, he
sought a position as page in the Ken-°
lucky senate chamber. His imme-
diate state senator promised him a
place through the good offices of the
lieutenant governor.
When the legislature assembled
young James presented himself. The
lieutenant governor declared he had
forgotten the matter entirely and had
appointed all the pages.
“But,” said he, "I find, in looking
them over,0that they are®a lot of spin-
dle-legged weaklings, scarcely able to
carry themselves. There ought to bo
one page strong enough to lift heavy
records and newspaper files.”
“Como and look my candidate
over,” said James' representative. •
When the lieutenant governor had
a loqk at the giant youngster outside
he gasped.
“Show the governor how strong
you are, Ollie," said his senator Whereupon Ollie James picked up the lieu-
tenant governor in one arm and his senator in another and trotted upstairs
with them. # „
“Heavens!” said the presiding officer, ’’make a place for the boy? Make
two places for him!"
As soon as Ollie James was installed he organized the pages of the senate
nnd house and established them at once as a power in the legislature. This
was the beginning of a career which has already progressed to a leading
place in the United States senate.
ADMIRAL OF THE AIR
~]
Mm
I oughness, but despite his elaborate
, fession, he has always kept himself
The rapid expansion of the Brit-
ish naval air service in the war has
made necessary its reorganization
and it now is under the direction of a
flag officer. For the important post
of “director of air service” Rear Ad-
miral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee
was selected, and the British public
has had to learn about another nota-
•bility of whom it knew little or noth-
ing before the great conflict began.
In navy circles, however, Rear
Admiral Vaughan-Lee has been well
known as an officer of scientific at-
tainments. Born in 1867, he-served
as a middy in the Egyptian war of
1882. Like Carden and many other
sailors of his generation, he first
learned the necessity of putting cot-
ton wool into his ears at the bom-
bardment of Alexandria. After be-
coming a lieutenant he devoted him-
self to torpedoes, and went to work
with his head as soon as lie got the
chance. He has great ability and thor-
learning in the strict science .of his pro-
pliant and tolerant towards the new idea.
L
EMDEN RAIDER’S ROMANCE
They Always Do.
"Does anyone think your son has
a future?'' "Yes; the life insurance
compa tiles.”—l.lfe.
The Desired Consummation.
"I'm troubled with a sense of full-
ness after eating," said the dyspep-
tic.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the
healthy gourmand. "Isn't that what
you eat for?"
The Main Thing.
"SeemR strange to me how many
various sorts of Inquiries the news-
papers have about coins."
"Why so?"
"In m.v circle all a man wants to
know about a coin Is If It's good."
Captain-Lieutenant von Muecke,
one of the heroes of the Emden, has
written a pretty love story into the
concluding chapter of his adventurous
experiences, having finally returned
to Germany and at Hreinon led to the
altar his old sweetheart, Fraeulein
Carla Einke.
It was tho end of the journey
which began on November 10, 1914,
when Captain von Muecke reluctant-
ly s'arted homeward, escaping with
other members of the crew of the
Emden when their boat was sunk in
tho Indian ocean bv an Australian
battleship after the Emden had de-
stroyed more than 70,000 tons of Brit-
ish shipping.
Muecke and his men, who had
been sent ashore at Cocos island to
destroy the wireless station there,
were marooned when the Emden
fought her last tight. Seizing a
schooner, they sailed via Java for
2,000 miles before they reached Ara-
bia. Thence they made their way overland to Constantinople. At the Turk-
ish capital Certain von Muecke s services were needed at once by the com-
mander of tne German squadron. Admiral voa Usodota, aud tho wedding at
dremen had to be postponed until recently.
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