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THF, CHANDLER TRIBUNE
Vol. XI
Chandler, Oklahoma. Thursday, January 25. IQ12
No. 47
COURTHOUSE
W
News oi the Week Gathered by oar Reporter
Three New Cases Filed in the
District Court
It has been determined by Dis-
trict Judge, C. B. Wilson, Jr., that
there will be but one more petit
jury drawn during the remainder of
the present fiscal year. The jury
will have to be summoned in Febru-
ary to try the Sayers and Sollers
rape cases and it has been decided
to try all other cases on the docket
who elect trials by jury, at that time
and tv> jury will be summoned for
the May term. This decision on the
part of Judge Wilson will meet the
approbation of the tax payers and is
in the interest of economy. Men
would be very loathe to leave their
County Assessor Smith and his
force of deputies are now busily en-
gaged in assessing the property of
the county. They report that the
people, or at least most of them are
perfectly willing that an actual cash
value be placed upon their property
when they find that the same will be
done to the whole county and state.
No man likes to be assessed at the
full value of his property and know
that his neighbor is only assessed at
a half value. County Assessor Smith
asks that some latitude be allowed
by the taxpayers, to the judgment of
the assessors. He points out the
crops during the month of May to | fact that two men who have been
serve on a jury and this is another | practical farmers all their lives may
reason why people will be pleased. | be sent to appraise a piece of land
By the way, have you noticed how ! and that they may conscientiously
little criminal business there is in the | differ as much as a thousand doi-
courts since prohibition went into j lars in the value of the land. If this
effect? j is true is it not reasonable that the
-o——— j assessor should be allowed some
Judge Wilson in chambers last , latitude in fixing the value of the
Saturday in the matter of C. P. Mou- assessments?
lin vs L. E. Moulin, suspended a ------o_
former order he had made in the ] Deep Fork engineer Wilkins said
case. It is a suit for divorce and j Saturday that the Sprankle corn-
custody of children and the tempo- ! Pany would soon unload a ditching
Tary custody had been awarded to J outfit at Wellston which is of suffi-
the father. The matter is now set l’ient size and power to dig the ditch
for a hearing on the 30th day of this j with a >0 foot bottom and will be
month when the former order will used from Wellston to Midlothian,
again be made or another made in ^ larger outfit will be unloaded
its place. ifarther down the ditch with suffi-
_ _ |cient power to dig a ditch 65 feet
Three new cases filed in the dis- across at the bottom. Mr. \\ ilkius
trict court is as follows: J. M. Mur- sa5's tllat the company will probably
ray vs Geo. N. Annin et al, money | have three outfits going at once. The
ace arid
rolo
^rnxfipfiitcomdRi/ev
help me! but her
face and brow
Arc lovelier than
„ . lilies are
m Beneath the light
of moon andstar
That smile as the? are smiling,
nowr—=*
White lilies in a pallid swoon
Of sweetest white beneath the
moon —'
White lilies,in a flood of bright
Pure lucidness ofliquid lighr
Cascading down some plemlune,
When all the azure overhead
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
items of Interest to Oklahomans by our Special
Correspondent at the National
Capitol
o o
Po-
Blooms like a dazzling, dai's^V
bed.—
So luminous her face and brow.
The luster of their gloi^, shed
In memory, even,
judgment. J. W. Cusiis vs Reece
Daniel et al, foreclosure of mortgage.
Dusty Barnard is the name of a dis-
satisfied and forsaken woman who is
suing for a divorce from Dee Barn-
ard. Dusty alleges that they were
married In the state of North Caro-
lina twelve years ago and that after
living together over ten years Mr.
Dee got tired of Dusty and dusted.
The petition does not say it just that
way but that is what it means. Dusty
asks for the custody of their three
children, Mary aged 7, Edna aged 5
and Pearly May aged 3.
Geo. Peevy, a Chandler negro with
a penitentiary record was arrested
last Saturday on the charge of boot-
legging and his place was raided and
a small quantity of liquor captured.
In the county court oa February
the preliminary hearing will be held
in the case of State of Oklahoma vs
John P. Ford.
Ford is the preacher that is
charged with having two wives, one
of whom resides at Davenport in this
county. We understand that if he
is bound over to the district court
that au agreement lias been affected
whereby lie will be tried in the dis-
trict court on February 14th-
Dee Anderson and John linker are
two negroes that were put into Hie
county jail last week on the charge
of stealing from the smoke house ol
B. B. Clark, two hundred pounds of
meat. They were picking cotton for
another negro by the name of Mack
Watson. The value of the meal al-
leged to have been stolen was s.iffi-
cient to constitute the crime of
grand larceny. Baker is a married
man and Anderson is single. Both
are transient negroes
Oklahoma county ditch is now com-
pleted as far as Cuther and it is ex-[get busy, they may expect
pected that it will take till June to
finish tlie ditch to the Dincoln co-
unty line.
Washington. It. C., Jan.
liticaliy, business has been
up the past week at the national
capital and the question as to what
the Oklahoma democrats will do
when they meet in state convemion
on February 22, to select delegates
to the Baltimore convention in the
way of making presidential endorse-
ments, is one of consuming interest.
From present indications Speaker
Champ Clark will have the support
of the Oklahoma democracy, al-
tbought Senator Gore is leaving no
stone unturned in his advocacy of a
Wilson delegation. The Clark pre-
sidential book took on renewed life
last ween when in a page deitorial
in the New York American, William
Randolph Hearst, who is again back
in the democratic fold, came out un-
quivocably for Clark, in the opin-
ion of members of congress and poli-
ticians who inhabit Washington, the
Hearst editorial was the most signi-
ficant thing that has occurred tints
far, is having a bearing upon the
presidential nomination. The Clark
followers are apparently in the sad-
dle in Missouri, and the Missouri
state convention which meets two
days before the Oklahoma conven-
tion. will undoubtedly instruct for
Clark. Kansas is expected to fol-
low suit; and those in a position to
know say that Iowa will also line
up in the Clark column.
The senate has confirmed the
ap-
picking I pointment of H. G. Eastmas as post-
master at Oklahoma City.
A postofflee lias been established
at Milfuy, Creek county, Okla., five
miles east of Stroud. Jacob S. Den-
ny of Milfay has been commissioned
as postmaster.
Arguments in Oklahoma's gross
revene tax law eases were argued
before the IJ. S. supreme court last
week by Attorney General West, in
favor of the law and S. T. Bledsoe,
of Oklahoma City in opposition.
There is blood on tlie republican
moon and an open break between
President Taft and Postmaster Gen-
County Superintendent P. G. Raw-
don was in the country between
Stroud and Prague visiting schools
last week and reports that the
schools in that part of the county
are all in fine shape. He announces
that a teachers’ examination will be
held in Chandler on Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday of this week. On
Saturday an examination will
| and can unite the party as few men
I can. i turned over to him when 1
I'nless the farmers of Oklahoma | resigned my minority leadership in
‘ , , „ „ . to house my support without my po-|era7 HRchco"ck is threatened, a ru-
themselves in the condition of the [ litical animosities. My friends sup-
foolish virgins, so far as good seed | ported him, and those who had,
through political turmoil, become
estranged from me were ready to be
friends of the new leader.”
T. R. True of Ryan, Okla., is in
Washington asking that congress ap-
propriate money for tlie relief of the
sufferers from drought in Jefferson
county. The matter has been taken
up with the entire Oklahoma dele-
gation.
-—- - O •
Allen Wright ot McAlester Is here
lobbying for the enactment of a law
to permit the extension of leases on
segregated coal lands where the op-
erators have developed up to the
line of their leases. He is repre-
senting the Union Coal company
and others.
--o--
Attorney General West of Oklaho-
ma, has submitted a motion in the
U. S. supreme court to advance the
hearing on the case of Gov. Haskell
against the Kansas Natural Gas Co.,
which involves the right of keeping
Oklahoma gas at home.
oats are concerned. In years gone
by, all that the farmer had to do was
to prepare his ground, hitch up his
team, drive leisurely into town, buy
his oats and go back and plant them.
This year the situation is different.
“The governor spends twenty-four
hundred dollars for postage, tele-
phone, and telegraph. This should
Practically all the seed oats that
will be planted in Oklahoma this |cover a11 the expenses of postage
year will have to be imported from |anc* stationery, when he has the use
Kansas and Missouri. There werej°t the state printer.” Angels of
some oats raised in Oklahoma and j defend us! Is it possible that
be | some in Texas, but not enough. Many i Citizen believes that the state print-
held for teachers who desire to in- of the grain dealers over the state'er does printing and furnishes sta-
struct in the county normal insti- I have only a small quantity of good I t*oneI*y ? Is he the one Oklahoman
tutes in the state. oats and the farmer who “does his I wb° does not know that the state
shopping early” is the one who will Iprinter simply estimates the cost of
wjn state printing. Citizen also fixes
. , *110. , „ the governor's salary at $ 1,000, de-
lt has been suggested by Secretary I . ,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses
were issued out of the county court
since our last report:
Josie Todd and Goldie Brooks, col-
ored, both of Stroud.
Jessie E. McFarland and Cora
Clinglnpeel, both of Stroud.
j spite the fact that
I fixed it at $4,500.
the constitution
Citizen is evi-
State Board of Agriculture that the . . , _
I uently not a school boy for every
school boy in Oklahoma knows what
the salary of the governor is. He
manages to squeeze out a few fire-
farmers of each township get togeth
er, decide just how much oats they
will need and then get in their or-
ders to their local dealers at once.
The Demonstration Farm department
Harry H. Humphries, Sparks and;0f the State Board of agriculture can
Nattie Alex, Sparks, both colored. j get some information as to where
Harriet oats can he purchased, but the true
and ;
Robert R. Lokey and
Reece, both of Sparks.
Herman Pickett and
Thompson, both of Avery.
John H. Anderson, Payson
Oda G. Haunm, Meeker.
Sylvester M. Jones and Daisy
Dunsmore, both of Chandler.
<>IHKNT R. It. IN |*E('OS COUNTY
Fort Stockton, Texas. Jan. 18.—
The Orient, ran its first regular
train Into Pecos county today. Com-
| fact is that there is an actual short-
Lettie age and the time for planting is rap-
idly drawing near.
’RAISE FOR SPEAKER Clark
(Washington, D. C. Post.)
Senator John Sharp Williams in
j an interview of which Speaker
(Champ Clark was the subject, said,
at the Willard:
“I regard Champ Clark as a very
pletion of this road into the Lower able man, a man of clear vision, of
Pecos valley means quick develop- broad view, a man who avoids quib-
ment of 25,000 acres of land under |bUng over the amenities, the nicer
the famous Imperial Irrigation pro- little distinctions, but gets down to
ject, just south of the Pecos river; it *be real fundamental facts of a pro-
also means that hundreds of settlers position, and when he finds
eyed spasms because the governor
spends $15,000 for legal services.
The governor does not spend one
penny of this $15,000 for legal ser-
vices. The amount, was appropriat-
ed to defend election officials who
had been indicted by a republican
judicial asset for enforcing the law
of the state. The governor simply
issues the warrants. This is a mat-
ter that is understood by every
citizen of Oklahoma except one
mor being in circulation that Hitch-
cock will soon leave the cabinet. It
is a well known fact that President
Taft has recently been going over
the head of Mr. Hitchcock in the
matter of appointments, and two
cases at point are the*appointments
this week of John F. Appleby and
S. E. Wallen as postmasters at Ho-
bart and Vinlta, Oklahoma. Hitch-
cock has been holding In Charles
Gillette as postmaster at Hobart for
over a year in the face of adverse
reports from postoffice inspectors
and last summer recommended the
reappointment of Joseph Butler as
postmaster at Vinlta. Gilette and
Butler both had the endorsement of
Republican National Committeeman
Cash Cade, while State Chairman
Harris favored the two men that
have just been appointed. Harris
is now dispensing the federal patron-
age in Oklahoma in cooperation with
President Taft while Hitchcock and
Cade are left out in the cold. Simi-
lar conditions exist in Alabama and
other southern states where federal
Owing t.o the fact that the agri-
cultural and interior departments are
at loggerheads over the establish-
ment of an immense forest reserve
in southeastern Oklahoma, the regu-
lations for the sale of 1,500,000
acres of timber lands in the Choctaw
nation have been temporarily held
up. The agricultural department
wants to create a forest reserve large
enough to protect the Red river
drainage. •
The Carter bill, for the sale of the
surface of the segregated coal and
asphalt lands of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations will be freely
amended In the senate. Provision
will be made for a continuation of
tribal Indian schools and another
amendment will provide for convey-
ing a fee simple title to that portion
of the land which it has been de-
monstrated to be without workable
mineral, which is estimated at from
68,000 to 140,000 acres. In his ar-
guments before the senate Indian
committee, Choctaw National Attor-
ney Hurley declared that under the
supplemental agreement of 1902,
does not fail with blunt directness ' ,iastelling the Millineum. Reihl,
think him a very I tbe wr*ter °f the socialist pamphle
The county treasurer is now pay-
ing 25 per cent of all outstan I'j who are now living in tents at Fort
judgments against tlie county a: 1 i' |stoci£ton will build houses, and that io fight for facts. I t> i
is expected that as soon as the m‘xI j..•«>;i valley, adjoining Fort B’kie man rhat is the reason I put
apportionment is .made that one- | gtockton> wjh be quickly developed him on the ways and means commit
third more of the judgments w
paid. If this is accomplishe
"There would be educational tes s
before parents would be permitted to
rear their children. The failure of
parents *to pass such tests would re-
sult in the rearing of their children
in institutions.” (From “Our Eco-
nomical and Social Relations,” by
John F. Reihl.)
The above Is one of the Insane
them, [schemes proposed by socialists for
looks like the balance of them i.
■ del -iurin- the
he
it
into an artesian well and pumping *ee- Pno,l thing about (lark is
plant proposition. Nearly two mil- thoroughly reliable. He
lion dollars worth of irrigable land nia>' be cam!oUR abo,,t entering Into
dlt
istitutlfl
>1 lowed
Th.
monthly fumigation to he m
all the school buildings, U
stroving any and all disease
and preventing or at least r<
the likelinood of an epidemic
into the school. They are e\
believers in the old adage t
?tting
‘ently
orthern and eastei
i’lgton that Senator R rt L. Owen,
on account of ill health, may not
again announce his candidacy for re-
any proposition, but his word once
lions, a determined man, and y* '
withal possessing enough of
hard common sense to restra
which this excerpt is taken,
proposes for the government to step
between parents and children. If
'he parents cannot pass an education-
al examination, their children will be
torn from their arms, taken from
reared by salarie '
patronage is th<» one thing the re- i the U. S. government sold town lots
publicans have had to fight over. jin the townsltes on the segregated
If Mr. Hitchcock resigns as a mem- coal lands to white citizens of the
her of the Taft cabinet, it is said he United States and that these men
will line up with the insurgent forces I purchased the lots; built homes and
in opposition to the renomination of established industries, relying upon
Taft. j the obligations that the United States
I had entered into with the Indians,
whereby the government promised
Congressman Morgan of Wood-
ward has introduced a resolution
which has been referred to the house
within three years to sell both the
surface and mineral f the segregat-
judiciary ronimitiee. providing that ed ,oa, lal|d(i Mr Hurlov po|nted
the clerk of the C. S. district court I tha( ,.Illte„ state8 had falled
for the western district of Oklaho- L perfornl what „ had agreed to
nta; the I'. S. marshal and the ' • | perform and that the white citizens
S. attorney, shall keep their offices the|r in(|llgtries throUled and
at Oklahoma City and maintain no L , _ . , ..
_ i that there is no opportunity for ag-
offiees elsewhere. „ , ,, , , ,
gricultural development, although
The Indian appropriation bill this!,he white citizens are as much en-
year, which is being gone over by j
a sub committee of the house com-
Stephens, Ferris and Burke, carries
an appropriation for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 19 13, of $8,4 8 7,440,
compared with $8,882,126 for
titled to a specific performance by
the United States of the supplement-
al agreement as have the Choctaw
and Chickasaw nations. The Carter
bill, which provides for the sale of
the segregated surface of the Choc-
the prei
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officia
election to the United States senate, j from being ultraradical.
an (The rumor is common gossip among j “I like Champ Clark, and I
ounce of prevention is better ban a.prominent Oklahoma politicians now lieve that he is a strong man.
pound of cure. ot *be national capital. has made very few political enemies
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Smith, G. A. The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1912, newspaper, January 25, 1912; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc915103/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.