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THE MAY BUGLE.
Vol. 18.
May, Harper County, Oklahoma, Sept. 7, 1922.
No. 50
GOVERNMENT MAY
TAKE OVER MINES
Situation in Anthracite Region
Discussed in a Conference
at the White House.
FROF. ARTHUR KORN
CUMMINS TO INTRODUCE BILL
The Action Follows Survey of Indus-
trial Conditions at the Regular
Meeting of the Cabinet.
Washington.—Federal operation of
anthracite coal mines and some of the
railroads was considered at a recent
White House conference between
President Harding and Chairman
Cummins of the interstate commerce
committee and Attorney General
Daugherty.
Senator Cummins said after the con-
ference that the anthracite operators
and miners win be given one more oj^
X>ortuuity to settle their differences.
“If there isn’t a settlement in a few
SENATE PLANS FOR
FEDERAL CONTROL
Many Measures Introduced to
Head Off Profiteering in
Coal This Winter,
HOOVER SEES CAR SHORTAGE
GOVERNMENT MARKET REPORT
Quotations of Prices of Farm Product*
From Various Centers Gathered
by the Federal Bureau.
FROM OVER SEME
; Agriculture and la compiled from :
. telegraphic reports from all sections :
The following report Is dlatrlb- s
uted by the Bureau of Markets of :
the United States Department of :
EVENTS OF INTEREST TO
OF THIS STATE
ALL
: of the country:
While Production Will Be Sufficient
for Nation's Needs, Transportation
Will Be Lacking, He Says.
Prof. Arthur Korn, inventor of the
days," ho said, “i will introduce a bill system by which pictures are sent by
authorising lire government to operate wireless- Professor Korn uses three
the mines.
Time for Railroads.
Likewise, he said, the railroads will
Washington.—Government operation
of the coal mines and federal control
of coal distribution in such a manner
j as to prevent profiteering we.e pro-
i posed in measures introduced in the
senato. Other de elopments in the
coal and rail situations included:
Decision by the senate labor com-
mittee to substitute the Derail coal
commission bill passed recently by
the house.
Demands in the senate for prompt
and drastic government action to end
both the coal and rail strikes.
Face Car Shortage.
Announcement by Secretary Hoover
that within a week daily bituminous
coal production would be sufficient
ine' "lutur'0"’- •£>— For the week end-
Graln.
Prices made net gains for tlie week ex-
eept Ht Minneapolis and Winnipeg. Uear-
Influences during the week were:
Weakness in continental exchange and vein-
Liverpool markets and increased estl- ■
mates tor Canadian crop, and permission
Indian Government to export 16,000,-
000 bushels wheat from that country. Ad-
vances caused by good sales to export-
eis, removal of hedges, and oversold con-
dition on 22nd. Closing prices in Chicago
Lfali market: No. 2 red winter wheat,
fl.Ot; No. 2 hard winter wheat $1.05;
HIGHWAYS COSTS MILLIONS
Federal Aid Plays Leading Part in
ard-Surfacing Through Counties
In This State
methods. First is the telautographic,
by which he sends pictures through
telegraphic or telephonic lines, then by
be given a “reasonable” time in which !fnPaeC‘a'^^'crss apPar^,tra4n6,orm- —-........... - -......—
to demonstrate their ability to fur- t 3 \ P e a^_t°mat ca y.to a ,et' for nation’s needs, but the coun-
nish adequate service and that those e*u9jaT!" ,e Eecond is thc j try faced a shortage of freight cars
unable to do so would be taken over. °. y ae f/1 um'. a method which would be acute within a month.
It was indicated th-t consideration ,-/-hie* ,USg ♦ I roua^. lon3 sub" A suggestion by Senator Bbrah,
of these steps will not operate to in- ,,.v .* SR‘ . e e9ra|P 10 Wlres of chairman of the senate labor commit-
a"y length. Both have been patented
in the United States. Third la the
wireless method. Only a special writ-
ing machine is needed.
$1.04; No. 2 hard winter wheat,
No. 2 mixed corn. 64c; No. 2 yellow corn,
6uc; No. 2 white oats, 34c. Average farm
prices: No. 2 mixed corn In central Iowa
about 50T£c; No. 2 hard winter wheat
In central Kansas, 90c; No. 1 dark north-
eni wheat In central North Dakota, 91c.
< losing future prices: Chicago September
wheat, $1.01%; Chicago Sept, corn, «0>^c;
Minneapolis Sept, wheat, $1.03%; Kansas
whe-it^'liu? ^vheat, 95Vfce; Winnipeg Oct.
Hay.
Hay market generally steady. Re-
ceipts not large but equal to the de-
mand. Prices of higher grades steady
hut, lower grades weak because of rela-
tively large amount of receipts, grading
No. 2 and lower. Quoted August 25th;
No. 1 timothy, New York $28, Phila-
terfere with proposed legislation now
pending and designed to curb profit-
eering in coal.
The White House conference fol-
lowed a survey of the whole situation
at the regular cabinet meeting and
the termination without result of the
conference in New York between rail-
road executives and union officials.
Before the conference, the ground-
work had been laid through adminis-
tration overtures for a further meet-
ing between the parties to the .anthra-
cite dispute.
No Program Drawn.
Wliile no detailed explanation was
given as to how the government
would operate anthracite mines in
RAIL EXECUTIVES STAND PAT
Conference at New York Votes 254 to
4 Against Proposal of Big
Four Brotherhoods.
New York.—A majority group of the
Association of Railway Executives re-
jected by a vote of 254 to 4 the pro-
posal of the “big five" train service
brotherhoods, that the carriers and
the nation-wide shopmen's strike by
the event of their seizure, it was in-1 *at‘ng ‘he wiTth seniority un-
1 impaired. Bert M. Jewell, official
dicated that the first step will be
to establish a wage scale and then re-
quest or direct the miners to return
to work.
Coal mined, it was stated, will be
marketed through the regular com-
mercial channels, the government tak-
ing steps to prevent possible profit-
eering.
RAIL PEACE PARLEY FAILS
Executives and Brotherhood Chiefs
Unable to Agree on Terms to
End Shopmen’s Strike.
New York.—Attempts to end the
fail shopmen's strike by separate set-
tlements with individual roads failed
recently and conferences were broken
off.
• Daniel Willard, head of the Balti-
more & Ohio, chairman of the com-
mittee of executives who decided
Wednesday to continue negotiations
spokesman for the strikers, declared
tho association had closed the door
to peace and voted for a lock-out to
smash unionism.
Splitting away from the majority
was a group of twenty-five railroads,
principally Western lines, which de-
bated a new suggestion of the broth-
erhoods that individual settlements
be effected. This minority, while pro-
fessing to stand with the majority on
seniority, indicated that It desired to
hear further regarding the individual
settlement suggestion.
Hale Holden, president of the Chi-
cago, Burlington & Quincy, joined
with members of the majority group
in denying that there was any split.
“There is no question of a split,”
he asserted. "The railroads are all
standing pat on seniority and any in-
dividual settlement, will have to be
made in the light of that understand-
ing.”
The first proposal, it was under-
stood, was that the strikers be rein-
■with the mediating brotherhood chiefs
to see if separate settlements were st;atefl as °f -June 30, when the striko
possible, and other rail heads are pre-
paring to leave town.
Announcing the breaking off of
negotiations, David Williams, head of
the eastern strike committee said:
■"Nothing else could have happened.”
The breakdown came after mediat-
was called, without specific mention
of seniority privileges.
The second was that roads so de-
siring may make separate settlements
with the strikers.
It was the second proposition, it
was reported, that attracted the atten-
tee, that the authorities of other
states follow the lead of Governor Mil-
ler of New York in dealing with their
local coal situations.
A declaration by Senator Cummins,
chairman of the senate interstate
commerce committee, that congress
at its next session would take up in-
dustrial problems with a view to de-
termining “what place unionism
should occupy in the civilization of,
the United States.”
More Power to President.
A resolution empowering the Presi-
dent to take over and operate the
mines was introduced by Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, af-
ter a long and heated debate, and was
referred to the interstate commerce
committee. To this same committee
was sent an administration bill of
fered by Senator Cummins offering to
create a federal coal distribution
agency, which, working through the
interstate commerce commission,
would control coal distribution and
curb profiteering. Chairman Cummins
called a meeting of his committee for
Saturday to consider the administra-
tion measure.
SEES NEED OF FUEL CHECK
Editor of Miners’ Journal Believes the
Roads Will Be Unable to Haul
All Coal Required.
lng brotherhood chiefs and railway *lon KrouP executives from
executives faced one another again West, said to constitute the mi-
across the conference table in their norltY- and that caused extended de-
attempt to settle the shopmen’s strike *)ato-
wllh lnd1' IRISH FEEL COLLINS’ DEATH
rr,rA"
I, «... ,v„. Eam™" «• Valera’, republl-
receive back their seniority was the
stumbling block.
MILLIONS IN SAVINGS LOST
New York District Att-rney Says
Wildcat Speculation by General
Public Is Grave Problem.
can regulars has been planned as a
result of the assassination from am-
bush of Michael Collins, commander-
in-chief of the Free State army by
rebels near Bandon, County Cork.
Richard Mulcahy, minister of de-
fense in the Irish provisional govern-
ment and former chief of staff in the
Irish Republican army, will succeed
Washington.—Lightless nights, cur-
tailed street car service, closing down
of non-essential industries and other
restrictions practiced in the war and
post-war coal conservation periods,
probably will have to be duplicated
this winter, Ellis H. Searles, editor of
the United Mine Workers’ Journal,
forecast recently.
Searles, who has made a careful
survey of the fuel situation, believes
the railroads of the country will not
be able to haul all the coal that is
mined and required to meet the busi-
ness needs.
While the federal government Is ra-
tioning fuel now, it will have to go
much farther to save the people from
suffering and business from serious
embarrassment tills winter, Searles
said. If the government does not re-
vive the fuel administration which op-
erated in the war and the winter of
1920, then the states and cities will
have to take the necessary steps, he
held.
®0.“A,tl2'„tIa1febUrgNho. *1 “alhflfa. Jfan!
sas,!LliY„ U6.75, St. Louis $22, Mlnne-
apohs >19. No. 1 prairie, Kansas City
$10.50, St. Louis $15, Minneapolis $14.
Feed.
Mill feed situation unchanged. Trading
in offerings light. Hominy feed demand
slow, offerings good. Gluten feed quiet,
production normal, demand light. Oil
meals In light request and ample supply.
Alfalia meal strong, demand dull but ex-
ceeding mill offerings. Wheat feeds
quiet but steady. Future shipment of-
ferings quoted below prompt shipment
prices Flour middlings difficult to sell
and quoted lower. Receipts and move-
ments fair. Quoted: Bran $13.75, mid-
dlings $16, flour middlings $22, 34 per
cent linseed meal $42 Minneapolis; gluten
feed, Chicago $29.85; white hominy feed,
St. Louis $24.50, Chicago $25.50; 36 per
cent cottonseed meal, Memphis $34, At-
lanta $34; No. 1 alfalfa meal, Kansas
City $19.50.
Live Stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices ranged from 35c
net lower to 25c higher for the week,
heavy hogs showing about all the decline.
Beef steers, 25@60c lower; butcher cows
I and heifers, 15(p50<: lower; veal calves,
50@75c lower while feeder steers ad-
vanced 10@25c. Fat lambs, 25@40c high-
er and feeding lambs, $1.25 higher. Year-
lings weak to 25c higher and fat ewes
unchanged. August 25 Chicago prices:
Hogs, top. $9.70; bulk of sales, $6.60 to
$9.65; medium and good beef steers. $7.85
@10.00; butcher cows and heifers, $3.65@
9.00; feeder steers, $5.$0@8.00; light and
medium weight veal calves, $10.50@12.00;
fat lambs, $12.40@13.25; feeding lambs,
$11.50@12.75; yearlings, $8.75@11.25; fat
ewes, $3.50@7.65. Stocker and feeder
shipments from 11 Important markets
during the week ending August 18 were:
Cattle anil calves, 86,519; hogs, 4,206;
sheep, 56,768. With the exception of
beef eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
firm to a shade higher for the week.
Veal and mutton averaged about steady
with lamb firm to $2 higher and pork
loins ranged from $1.00 lower to $1.00
higher; beef was generally $1.00 to $2.00
lower for the week. August 25 prices
good grade meats; Beef, $15@17; veal,
$15@19; lamb, $24ffi28; mutton, $]3@18;
light porlc loins, $24@26; heavy loins, $11
@19.
DAUGHERTY BLAMES I. W. W.
Federal Attorney General and Other
Officials Aroused by New Dis-
orders in the Southwest.
Tulsa, Okla.—The most remarkable
of highway construction north-
eastern Oklahoma lias ever known.” is
what a review of 1922 will disclose.
Federal aid projects in Oklahoma total
$15,000,000, and twenty three addition-
al projects are under consideration
that will Involve al least $10,000,000
more. Of the $15,000,000 already al-
lotted the government allowed aid of
$6,338,000 and the counties providing
the other $9,000,000, the slate allotting
but $300,000. By the end of 1922 the
following will have bqen done in the
good roads movement of northeast Ok-
lahoma :
Tulsa county will have finished and
opened to traffic 100 miles ot concrete
highway, supplemented by additional
miles of graded dirt roads and several
miles of gravel roads, Muskogee
county will finish her four programs
and offer the public 166 miles of high
class highways. Washington county
will have completed eighteen miles of
concrete roads and be well under way
with her program for $700,000 of ad-
ditional paved roads, backed with fed-
eral aid.
Rogers county has six miles of grav-
el roads under way from Tulsa to
Claremore, and a $500,000 bond Issue
Is under consideration to surface the
entire mileage of federal aid roads
and build quite an extensive milenge
of the state system not Included in the
federal projects. Osage county has
completed seven miles of high class
concrete road and Is now building
quite an additional of water bound
macadam roads. Nowata county Is
hard surfacing north from Nowata to
Lenepah and arranging for a hard sur-
faced southern outlet during 1923.
Ottawa county lias finished sixteen
miles of concrete road from Afton to
Miami, and Is arranging to extend to
the Craig county line near Vinita, and
north out of Miami to the Kansas bor-
der.
STATE LEADS IN HOSPITALS
Record of State in Work For Disabled
Soldiers Shown.
STUDENTS DON UNIFORMS
Drastic Changes Are Made in Rules of
Hastings Public School
Hastings, Okla.—No more will pa-
rents at Hastings, Jefferson county,
have to worry about what their child-
ren shall wear to school. For uni-
forms will be compulsory style for all
students In the hlghschool next term,
according to an order just posted by
E. J. McGlatery, superintendent.
The uniforms will be of brown duck
or khaki, the order specified. They
are to be adopted to save embarrass-
ment for children whose parents are
unable financially to provide clothes
as good as worn by some pupils, Mc-
Glatery pointed out. Patrons are com-
mending him for Ills action. Several
other radical changes are to be made
in the school rules next term, the sup-
erintendent said. All buildings and
grounds are being improved.
Disastrous Blaze Averted
Henryettn, Okla. Timely arrival of
the 1 fenryetta tire department perhaps
saved the $1,000,000 plant of the Unit-
ed States Zinc S g company at
Dewar, Henryetta suburb, from total
loss recently. The fire (department ar-
rived just before the flames, which or-
iginated in the crusher room, became
uncontrollable. Through efforts of the
department and citizens of Dewar the
blaze was confined to the crusher
room, causing a loss of $8,000.
Elk City Ships Nine Cars of Cattle.
Elk Cily, Okla.—Elk City demon
strafed that it Is an Important live-
stock shipping center when the past
week nine cars of livestock wore
shipped to Kansas City and Wichita.
Kan., markets One carload of hogs
was shipped In from Fort Worth.
Texas.
First Caddo County Cotton Sold.
Anadarko. Okla.—Caddo county’s
first bale of cotton this year wan
brought to Anadarko by Joe Gordon,
who lives a mile east of Anadarko.
The cotton weighed 1,400 and was sold
In the seed for 6L4 cents. Merchants
are raising a premium.
IlttM
OB 0 0 DO B I 0
Sulphur, Okla.—Oklahoma has out-
Sliding Rate for Ginners.
A nation-wide precedent in the fix-
ing of rates lor ginning cotton was
established by the corporation com-
mission of Oklahoma In an order pro-
mulgated by which the ginner is to
take "pot-luck” with the farmer, ac-
cording to the opinion accompanying
the order, in tho rise and fall of the
RAIL AGENTS SLAY A THIEF
Missouri Pacific Detectives Watch
Boxcar Loot All Day for Appear-
ance of the Robbers.
New York.—-People of the United Collins U8 commander-in-chief,
tStates have lost more than 750 mil- _
jlion dollars In stock swindles since
the war, District Attorney Joab H.
iBanlon, bucket shop nemesis, de-
Iclared recently.
3 11E F S FROM THE WIRE
—Further reduction of the price of
Persons with meager savings but no f.a80*lne bas been forecast in a pre-
s knowledge of investment have been Inllnal Y report by the special Benate
, 5 hardest hit, and most of the swind- committee which is investigating the
• ling has been conducted from New n< us.lry' ^he committee s prediction
ft$York, lie said. waB based on the recent cut in the
; Lack of legislation to cope with 111-100 °* cru,le oil.
;|fake security sellers and bucketers —a dispatch to the London Times
blamed by IJanton. Wall street, from Hamburg says that owing to the
be said, had succeeded so far in pre- collapse in the mark, the raw cotton
Venting any effective blue sky laws, market in Hamburg and Bremen has
*nd the New \ ork stock exchange, completely broken down. The cuota-
particularly, has opposed all attempts tion of 1,000 marks per kilogram for
P* control brokers like bankers. I cotton Is purely nominal.
Washington.—New rail strike disor-
ders, particularly in the West, In
which mail trains have been delayed,
were declared by Attorney General
Daugherty to be due partly to re-
newed activity by I. W. W. and their
sympathizers.
Holding up mail trains in Oklahoma
gave concern to both Postmaster Gen-
eral Work and the attorney general.
In this situation they agreed the I. W.
W. were to be blamed chiefly. The
department of justice will have abofit
one hundred deputy marshals at
Shawnee, investigating conditions.
Sixty deputies already are on duty
there.
The attorney general ventured no
prediction as to what disposition
would be made of the evidence gath-
ered against the I. W. W. He blamed
state administrations for not forestall-
ing attempts to stop mail trains. He
was particularly critical of Illinois au-
thorities. He charged them with fol-
lowing a course that "actually invites
lawlessness.”
stripped the federal government In cotton market.
providing beds for the disabled veter- j The order, which has been signed
ans of the World War. The Langly by Campbell Russell, chairman of tho
bill, which passed congress in March i commission, and which, It Is stated at
of 1921, provided for a 9,000-bed pro- I the commission offices Commissioner
COAL PEACE IN SOUTHWEST
Miners and Operators in Session at
Kansas City Sign Agreement
Which Ends Strike.
Olathe, Kas.—One man Is dead and
another in jail following a fight near
Stilwell, Kas., 9 miles southeast of
here, between three special agents of
the Missouri Pacific and a band of Kansas City.—Operators and miners
four alleged box car thieves. reached an agreement which ended,
The dead man has been identified undramatically, the 5-months strike in
by tattoo marks as. George Barnes, j the three Southwest coal mining dis-
No papers were found in his clothing 1 tricts, a tie-up of industry that has
to indicate his residence. He was Involved the idleness of twenty-five
shot by a special ag-mt when in the j thousand men since April 1; a strike
act of loading stolen freight into a J that has cost in deterioration of mine
motor car, | property, loss of wages and business,
The fight between the band and the | approximately 100 million dollars;
gram, appropriating $18,600,000 lor
that purpose. To date 850 beds have
been made available for use.
In May of 1921 the Oklahoma lt-gis-
lature appropriated $1,250,000 for hos-
pitalization purposes and by Septem-
ber 15 exactly 675 beds will be avail-
able. One hundred of these beds at
University hospital at Oklahoma City
and seventy-five In the hospital here
are ready for use. Muskogee hospital
will have 500 additional beds in read!
Dess by the middle of September.
That in substance, was the report
of H. B. Fell, of Ardmore, chairman
of the soldiers’ relief commission, in
the principal address at the dedica-
tion services of the soldiers' tubercu-
lar sanitarium here recently.
Fell added that 138 tubercular par
tients are now being treated in gov-
ernment hospitals in other states, In
addition to thirty-eight neuro-psychi-
atric and forty-six general patients
who are under treatment In hospitals
elsewhere.
agents took placd a mile and n half
from Stilwell late In the evening. Tho
special agents were In hiding near a
place on the right of way where a
quantity of freight had been thrown
from a box car Tuesday night.
that has cost merchants and other
business men with Interests In the
mining regions incalculable sums, and
that has cost, and will cost, the pub-
lic equally incalculable amounts in
the price of fuel.
MANGUM HAS A BIG FIRE
8park From Passing Engine Believed
To Be Origin Of Blaze
Mangum, Okla.—In the most spec-
tacular fire ever seen at Mangum, tho
passenger station, freight depot and
warehouse and a string of box cars of
the Wichita Falls and Northwestern
railroad, and two houses near the
right-of-way were destroyed recently.
Loss Is estimated at $100,000.
Because of a delay In turning in the
alarm the fire was beyond Control be-
fore the fire department arrived so
the firemen turned their efforts to aav
lng nearby buildings. The flames"for
a time threatened to spread to the
business district.
The fire Is believed to have been
Caused hv a spark from a locomotive
as It originated on the freight ware-
hous « soon after the southbound pas-
senger train had passed. Railroad
employes succeeded In saving com-
PH115 records and valuable papers hut
goods In the wi.rohouse wore a total
lost)
Art L. Walker, concurs In and will
sign on his return to the city, and
from which Commissioner Hughes dis-
sents, provides that the ginner shall
receive for his service “five cents per
100 pounds of lint for each full one
cent reported ns the market price of
middling cotton on the New Orleans
spot market at the opening of business
on the day of ginning.”
Valuations Slump In Counties
Mayes county’s taxable valuation is
less this year thun last year, by ap-
proximately $757,096, according to the
latest figures obtained from the coun-
ty assessor. Total valuation this year
Is $12,913,815, as compared with $13,-
670.911 In 1921. Total valuation In
1920. the peak year, was $13,962,285.
Mayes county suffered a valuation
slump In the last two years of more
Assessed valuation of Kay county is
$38,696,800 a ccording to the county as-
sessor. This Includes everything ex-
cepting the valuation of Frisco rail-
road property In the county, the es-
timate for which has not been re-
ceived.
The greatest decline In county val-
uations. wus In Pvestock. which fell
off both in actual value and in num-
bers, the total decline being 40 per-
cent. There was also a slump In grain
values during the year. Hogs held
up well and advanced In numbers.
Much Unemployment in State
Strikes and the end of seasonal
farm work have created considerable
unemployment In this state, Claud E.
Connally, commissioner of labor, de
Clares In a telegram sent to the direct-
or general of the United States em-
ployment service at Washington. At
present there Is n suiplus of all kinds
of unskilled labor, estimated at ap-
proximately 45 percent, with 40 per*
cent of the building trades and other
skilled workers now unemployed.
From 25 to 30 percent more are un-
employed at present than thirty davs
ngo This condition was brought on
because of the cessation ol harvest
activities and transportation and other
problems resulting from rail and coal
■trikes,” says Couuully.
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