Mountain View Times (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MOUNTAIN VIEW TIMES
STEPS TAKEN TO
ASKS GOVERNMENT ENGI-
NEERS AID IN FINDING
BEST METHOD
OLO CANAL PLAN IS REGIVEN
The Increase in Volume and Current
Is Dje to the R ver'i Straight-
ening Itself and the Many
Cut Offs Built.
Oklahoma City. Okla.-First step*
toward eliminating the Canadian riv-
er flood menace were taken hr the
board of directors of the £hamber of
Commerce recently when a commit-
tee of four was authorized to find out
how to pet government engineers as-
signed to study the situation and of-
fer an expert opinion as to the best
means of harnessing the stream alter
hundreds have been driven from their
homes in the lowlands by the tor-
rents of water which have raged In
this small stream three times within
30 days time, flooding million of acres
of both residence and farm lands.
The coccessus of the board was
that expert advice as to the best
method of solving the problem is the
predicate on which unanimous senti-
ment can be developed to accomplish
the project.
R. Q. Blankenev, representing the
farmers of Oklahoma county, related
past efforts to obtain state legislation
and urged Oklahoma City to start and
finish a movement that would put the
j-erennial floods out of current his-
tory.
Blankeney said there was 2,000.000
acres of farm land under water in the
valley of the North Canodian at that
time.
El El Blake outlined the plan for
diverting the flood waters of the
North Canadian which were worked
out by Rock Island engineers years
ago. His idea is to turn the flood
waters into the Cimarron and South
Canadian rivers through two ditches,
which he said could be completed for
less money than the present flood has
cost Oklahoma City.
He estimated the cost of the 1923
flood to Oklahoma City as f’500.000.
According *o Blake, it will requirt a
channel 400 feet wide to carry the
flood water through Oklahoma City If
a straightening project is carried out
from near Packingtown to a point
south of the city.
Cutoffs Are Disastrous.
The North Canadian, in flood, now
carries four times as much water with
three times as fast a current as it did
fifteen years ago, Blake said.
The increase in volume and current
is due to the river's straightening it-
self and by reason of the installation
of many cutoffs by farmers along the
course of the stream, which policy
has been disastrous, according to
Blake.
WILLIAM B. GREELEY
TC-1 DIRIGIBLE
MOVED
LARGEST OF IT'S TYPE IN
AMERICA. BURNED AT
WRIGHT FIELD
William B. Greeley, chief forester of
the United Statee, who hat been doc-
orated with the Distinguished Service
medsl for war work. He had charge
of the forestry forces In Franco dur-
ing the war.
LIGHTNING HITS BOYS STAND
TWO KILED AND THREE IN-
JURED BY THE STROKE
Were Standing In and Around a Pop
Stand at Dallas Preparing for a
Party When Struck.
Dallas, Texas —A bolt of lightning,
flashing through a tree top, snuffed
out the lives of David L. Battison, jr.,
& years old, and Harry Wrather, 9
years old, and cut short preparations
for David’s birthday party recently
and three companions suffered Usur-
ies.
Youthful Screams Heard.
The lightning crackled in front of
the home of Mr. and Mr*. Edward T.
Harrison. Swiss avenue, in fashion-
able Mungre place.
Screams from half dozen boyish
throats and shattering of a tree top,
simultaneously with the lightning
flash and roar of the thunder directed
neighborhood attention to the tragedy.
Harry fell prone on the ground from
his position at an impromptu soda
water stand, erected the day before
by two of the boys. David, the birth-
day boy, crumpled in a heap where he
had stood. Clayton D. Brown and
Mamlet Harrison, two school boys
who owned the stand, were inside it
and escaped death.
Mrs. K. M. Lynch, In the neighbor-
hood, said she was shocked by the
stroke that killed the two boys. She
said she was in her home, using an
electric iron. The iron popped and
she received a distinct shock, she
said.
ON TRIAL TRIP^TWO ARE HURT
The Ship Was An Entire Loss Within
a Few Seconds As there Was
Only One Flash Accompan-
led By a Loud Noise.
REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER
ORDERS A MEDIAL SURVEY
High Tribunal Wants Wells With 300
Feet of Line Shown on Map.
Washington, D. C.—The supreme
court has entered an order in the
Texas-Oklahoma boundary case di-
recting the commissioners appointed
to survey the line between the two
states to mark upon the ground and
upon charts the medial line between
the state boundary and the northerly
bank of the Red river for three miles
in the vicinity of the oil wells in the
river bed.
The commissioners were also di-
rected to show upon the charts the
exact location of all oil wells which
are within 300 feet of the medial line.
A separate report will be made by
the commissioners on this part of
their work and the two states as well
as the United States and all private
interveners will be allowed forty days
from the filing of the report to pre-
sent exeeptions or objections.
2,500 ARE DEAD IN QUAKE
Valley Left Ruined After Earth Tre-
mors In Desert Area.
Dayton, Ohio.—The United States
army service dirigible TC-1, was de-
stroyed by fire shortly after it moor-
ed at Wilbur Wright field recently.
The ship, the largest of its kind
in the country, was destroyed during
a severe electrical storm. It came-to
Dayton from Scott field, Illinois, on a
*st flight.
Sergeant Harry Barnes. Scott field
and A. C. Maranville. Akrcn, Ohio,
representative of the Goodyear Rub-
ber company, which built the ship,
were injured when they jumped forty
feet to the ground when the big bag
caught fire.
Ankle Is Broken.'
Barnes’ ankle was broken and his
knee sprained. Marranville suffered
a crushed ankle and a sprained arm.
Both are in hospitals.
The ship was flown to Dayton by
a crew of ten men, commanded by
Lieut Clyde Knntx.
Lieutenant Kuntz and other mem-
bers of the crew left the ship short-
ly before the accident. The ship had
been moored to one of the steel tow-
ers when It was caught in the wind
and swung around, coming in contact
with another steel post. The bag was
highly charged with electricity, and
the connection with the two steel
towers caused the explosion and fire,
it is believed.
Another Hangar Hit.
Lightning struck another hangar at
Wright fielc but little damage was
caused.
The TC-1 finished its trial test flight
over Scott field on April 7 and was
accepted by the government.
The ship was destroyed within a
few seconds. There was one flash, ac-
companied by a loud noise and the
ship was completely destroyed.
The mooring mast where the TC-1
was burned^ is only a short distance
from the Barling bomber, world’s
largest airplane, recently built here
and which will be given the initial
flight within the next two weeks.
A man named Maranville, civilian
who was injured, was one of the few
men who escaped death when the
Goodyear balloon crashed into the
roof of the Illinois Trust and Savings
company building. Chicago, several
years ago, when several persons were
killed.
MARKETREPORT
London, England.—Twenty-five hun-
dred persons were killed and thirty
villages destroyed by the earth quake
that devastated the region around
Turbati-Haidari in eastern Persia
May 6, according to official reports
received from Teheran.
The earthquake lasted fifteen min-
utes, shaking buildings to the ground
and crashing their occupants. It left
the entire rich valley, surrounded by
mountains near the salt deserts, a
stretch of ruins.
Because of the isolation of the dis-
trict. made more complete by dam-
age to roads and passes, the complete
extent of the damage may not be
known for months.
CRIQUI IS MADE FAMOUS
New Idol to Make Exhibition Tour
of Eastern States.
Six Killed In Berlin Rioting.
London, England. — Six persons
were killed and twenty three wounded
at Leipzig when a crowd of socialists
and trade unionists, holding a demon-
stration against the high cost of liv-
ing clashed with the police. The dem-
onstration fired on the police who re-
plied with a volley. The crowd flee-
ing from the police plundered food
shops.
Bridge At El Reno Opened.
El Reno, Okla.—Work on the ap-
proach to the North Canadian river
bridge, a mile and a half north of El
Reno on the Meridian highway has
been completed and farmers who
have been walking into town across
the railroad bridge since the river
changed its course duriDg the recent
flood, are driving over the new
bridge.
Paris, France.—"This is the best
kind of French propaganda,” is the
assertion of many Paris journals, jub-
ilant over the victory in which Eu
gene Criqui, featherweight champion,
knocked out Johnny Kilbane in New
York, recently. Paris still is cele-
brating the victory and the name of
Criqui is cheered in every gay cafe
and on the boulevards.
Criqui has arranged a five weeks’
exhibition tour of New York state and
New England before defending his
newly won title against Johnny Dun-
dee, New York challenger.
14 Rescued After Shipwreck.
Baltimore, Md.—Fourteen men were
rescued after they had been thrown
into the harbor when the Clyde liner,
Norfolk, outward bound, crashed into
a barge used in place of the Broadway
Locust Point Ferry which the tug.
Solicitor, was towing.
This la a new photograph of Rear
Admiral Colby M. Chaatar, U. 8. N.f
retired, who obtained from the Turk-
iah Nationalist government the exten-
sive concession to which the French,
British and Italians objected.
100,000 SHRINERS IN PARADE
SAHARA SAND IS NOT MORE
HOT THAN STREETS
Scores Burdened With Plush Regalia
are Unable to Stay In Ten Mile
Line Of March.
SHIP MONEY IN AIRPLANES
Reduction of Loss by Theft Possible;
Speed Alto Advantage.
St Louis, Mo.—Transportation of
money by airplane to reduce interest
charges and incidentally reduce the
number of robberies, is being consid-
ered by the federal reserve board, it
was announced at a meeting of mem-
bers of the St. Louis federal reserve
bank here, George R. James, a mem-
ber of the board, attended.
It was pointed out that millions of
dollars daily, on which there is con-
siderable in interest charges, is
bandied between banks, and the air-
plane system would effect a saving
by reducing the time of transport.
Washington, D. C.—More than six-
ty persons, among the thousands who
thronged ‘.he street here to witness
the Shriners’ parade and other events
on the Shrine convention program,
were taken to hospitals in the course
of the day suffering from heat pros-
trations. Many others were given
first aid at the special stations estab-
lished along Pennsylvania avenue.
Although the maximum tempera-
ture for the day was ninety degrees,
the humidity was very great, particu-
larly during the four hours when
thousands stood on the sidewalks to
watch the parade. Nearly all of those
admitted to hospitals were residents
of Washington.
The burning desert sands of Arabia
were no hotter than the sizzling as-
phalt of historic Pennsylvania avenue
as upward of 100,000 nobles of the
mystic shrine joined in the greatest
parade ever staged by the order.
Scores of Shriners, burdened with
their heavy, colored plush regalia,
had to retire from the line of march
during the trek down the famous old
avenue from the capitol to the white
house, where President Harding sat
in the reviewing stand, returning the
salutes of the marchers.
100 MILES ON 2 GAL. GAS
Glides In a Flivver Airplane Entire
Distance in 1 Hours Time.
Garden City, N. Y.—Georges Bar
bot, French aviator, successfully
completed a round trip gliding flight
to West Point recently using two of
three gallons of gasoline in his fuel
tank in negotiating the journey of
more than 100 miles.
Piloted by E. L. Pierson, air mail
pilot, who drove a larger plane. Bar-
bot took off from Roosevelt field in
his aerial "flivver” and quickly
reached the altitude of 2,000 feet. Ar
riving at West Point an hour after
his' take-off, he circled above the
United States military academy. He
did not land, however, as the field ap-
peared too small to permit safe land
ing.
P0ST0FFICE SAFE OPENED
Clew Left Near Robbery Worked Upon
- By Texas County Officers
San Antonio, Tex.—Robbers opened
the safe in the Crystol City postoffice
and stole $450 worth of stamps and
money. They also got several blank
money orders. Sevalla county officers
are working on a clew found near the
safe. The combination was worked
giving rises to the belief that the rob-
bery was staged by professionals.
Meat Pricee Stay at Steady Level.
Chicago, 111.—The wholesale prices
of meat, with few exceptions, have
continued at relatively low levels, re-
maining considerably below the gen-
eral average of commodity prices, ac-
cording to a review of the livestock
and meat situation made public by the
Institute of American Meat Packers.
This condition exists In spite of the j
fact that the consumption of meat has
been on a very broad scale. The
wholesale prices of smoked meats re-
main about steady as compared with
prices which prevailed a month ago.
TRAIN IS ROCKED BY BLAST
Windows on One Side Are Broken by
Powder Blast.
Youngstown, Ohio. — Pittsburg &
Lake Erie train No. 865, Pittsburg to
Detroit, pulled into Youngstown re-
cently with all the windows on one
side of the train broken, as the re-
sult of an explosion in a Grasselli
powder plant near Lowellsville, Ohio,
as the train was passing. It is said
that lightning struck the plant. No
one was injured on the train.
CAPTIVES' FATE UNKNOWN
American Miniseer Unable To Find
Out When China Bandits Will
Washington, D. C.—The state de-
partment announced it had received
a cablegram from Jacob Gould Schur-
man, American minister at Peking,
which said there was “no definite in-
dication” of how long it would be be-
fore Americans and’others still held
by Chinese bandits are released
Hay market weak. Demand restricted
_/ good pasturage conditions !. .-llts
increasing at several markets including
Cincinnati and St. Louis. Country |hh<j.
ing of fair volume as farmers are elc-ar-
Ing up old stocks before harvest:tig new
hay. Prices range from unchanged to $1
lower. Quoted June 1: Boston $;::. x,.w
York $26, Philadelphia $23, Pittsburg
$21.50, Cincinnati $15. Chicago $23. Min*
neapolls $17 50, St. Louis $23 50.
No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City $19, Minne-
apolis $17, St. Louis $23.
Feed
Mill feed markets heavy. Interior de-
mand very light. More disposition to sell
wheat feeds especially winter wheat
bran. June shipment bran quoted {}
under prompt and transit. Heavier wheat
feeds holding firm ow ing to light receipts,
demand moderate. Linseed oil meal veiy
weak, scarcely anything doing. Cotton-
seed meal easier, transactions small, glu
ten feed unchanged, production and de-
mand fair. Hominy feed quoted about
50c lower, offerings about equal demand.
Alfalfa meal market weak due to in-
creased new crop offerings. Supplies gen-
erally ample. Quoted June 1: bran 124,
middlings $27, flour middlings $30. Minne-
apolis: gluten feed $37.15 Chicago; as
percent cottonseed meal $36.50 Memphis,
$37 Atlanta; 32 percent linseed meal $37
Mineapoiis, $3b.50 Buffalo; white hominy
feed $33.50 Kt. Louis $35.50 Chicago, No.
1 alfalfa meal $27.75 Chicago
Grain.
Wheat prices trended downward during
the week and finished at heavy losses.
Liquidation and local selling influenced
by continued lack of buying support were
main market factors For the week Chi-
cago July wheat down 4%c net; Chicago
July corn up 2\c.
Short covering and new buying on
breaks on the second forced an advance
in wheat and corn prices. Sentiment less
cearish. Fair export business reported.
Market very firm in late trading.
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. 2 red winter wheat $1.23; No. 2 hard
winter wheat $1.12; No. 2 mixed corn 31c;
No. 2 yellow corn 82c; No. 3 white oats
43c. Average farm price No. 2 mixed
corn in Central Iowa 68c.
Closing future prices: Chicago July
wheat $1 10%; Chicago July corn 79%c;
Minneapolis July wheat $1.12**; Kansas
City July wheat $1.0214; Winnipeg Juiy
wheat $1.13.
Fruits and Vegetables.
New potato prices declining. Old stock
steady to firm. Strawberries generally
weaker. Watermelons about steady.
Prices reported June 2. Florida Tom
Watson watermelons 22-30 pound aver-
age weight $500 to $550 bulk per car in
New York City, $400 to $550 in Pittsburg
and Chicago.
Sales on unit basis ranged 50c to $1.15
In Middlewestern markets sales bulk per
100 pounds made at $2.50 to $5. In pro-
ducing sections prices ranged $300 to $750
bulk per car. California salmon tint can-
taloupes standards 45’s sold in Chicago
at $7.25 to $7.50 and ruled $6 in Kansas
City, Texas salmon tints in flats $2.50 to
$3 in New- York City. Delaware and
Maryland strawberries $8c to 16c quart
basis in eastern city markets Virginia
fruit 5c to 11c. Kentucky and Missouri
Aromas $3 to $4.50 per 24-quart crate in
city markets. Missouri Aromas $3.25 to
$4.05 f.o.b. cash track. Kentucky Aromas
$3 to $3.75 f.o.b. usual terms. South Caro-
lina Irish cobbler potatoes mostly $5.25
to $6.50 per barrel in consuming centers,
$4.75 f.o.b. shipping, points. Florida
Spaulding Rose potatoes $5 to $5.50 in
Baltimore. Alabama and Louisiana
sacked Bliss Triumphs $3.50 to $4 per
100 pounds in city markets. Northern
sacked round whites $1 to $1.80 per ICO
shipping points. New- York round whites
pounds in loading cities, 70c to 75c at
$1.50 to $ 65 in eastern markets. Maine
Green Mountains $1.75 to $1.90 in Boston.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices declined 80 points
during the week. New York July future
contracts declined 123 points.
Spot cotton closed at 27.04c per pound.
New York futures at 25.90c.
Dairy and Poultry Products.
Butter markets gained some strength
during the week. Previous declines had
reduced prices and this, together with
the fact that quality was more suitable
for storying. added strength to the mar-
kets. Imports are the only weakening
factors. Imports for the week included
1000 boxes of New Zealand butter; 2000
cases of Danish and small shipments
from Ireland and the Baltic states. Esti-
mated that additional 5,000 casks are
afloat from Denmark and about 2,000
boxes from Argentina.
Closing prices 92 score butter: New
York 39%; Chicago 39; Philadelphia 40%;
Boston 40c.
Cheese markets steady to firm, with
unsettled undertone. Prices on Wiscon-
sin cheese boards Monday advanced
slightly This advance was followed by
early sales, but as the week progressed,
it has not been followed closely.
Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese
markets June 1: twins 24c: single dai-
sies 24c; double daisies 23**c; young
Americas 24%; longhorns 24c; square
prints 25c.
Oklahoma Cattle.
Supply of all classes of cattle were
meager this week, due to some extent to
high flood water which curtailed move-
ment of all live stock. The market on
steers and yearlings was steady to
strong. Some southern Oklahoma steers
averaging 1130 pounds sold for $8 50 and
yearlings at IS. 25. Good beef, the fin-
ished kind, were quoted around $9.00.
Good weighty Texas grass and caked
steers sold $7.00 and up to IS.25 for the
latter.
The butcher ttade has been a steady
affair the entire week, possibly a shade
higher on good cattle Some cows sold
from $6.00 to $6.50 while Just good kind
of butcher stuff sold $3.75 to $4.75
The calf market gained a little activity
» th the week 3 close—choice veals sold
for $3.00.
Very little change is in eTeo; in the
Stocker and feeder market, lack rf qual-
ity being the principal drawback. The
market closed 26c to 50c lower for the
week. \\ hitefaee cattle continue to be in
demand and are easily disused of. but
brokers are having difficulty in moving
the plainer sort of which the supplies are
largely composed. Whitefaee steers and
yearlings moved at $5.50 to $6.00. Stock
$3 50 St°PP€d at J3 00 and heifers around
Oklahoma Hogs.
The hog market has been somewhat
erratic this week, top for the week $7 On.
drtvpping to $6.S5 with Tuefd->v’s market
and dosing $6 95. Quality, on an aver-
age, was good. The stocker market
„-some improvement, good kinds
selling „ue to 50c higher.
*15,400.000 Lopped Off U. S. Debt
ashington, D. C.—A reduction
815,400,000 in the country's pub
debt in May was announced by t
treasury department. The gross df
on June 1, was *22.630.229,000. T
reduction was relatively small co
pared to preceding months becau
the general fund of the treasury w
drawn upon more heavily than ust
Jn H4?w government financing.
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