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THE CHOCTAW HERALD.
VOLUME 8
HUGO, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY 24,4913.
State Expenses.
Ger.tral Appropriations,
Fouilh Legislature.
* The fourth, or last session, of the
Oklahoma legislature was in session
altogether 143 days, and made the
following appropriations for all pur-
gpt;e|. (
Executive department, $20,100 for
each year.
f ftretary of State, $23,180 for each
NUMBER TWELVE.
Rural Mail Pe!ivery. Killed in I'oker Game, i Peculiar Accident.
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>ta(e Treasurer, including interest
of state bonds, $76,460 for the first
year and $71,255 for the second
ye r.'
Adjutant General, $32,300 for the
first year, and $#3,000 for 'he second
year.
State Examiner and Inspector.
$24,600 for each year.
• State Auditor, $26,300 for each
year.
' Supreme Court Commis>son, $59.-
000 for each year.
Criminal, Court of Appeals, $17,-
200 for each year.
Clerk of the Supreme Court, $6,-
900 for the first year, and $13,800
for the second year.
District Judges, $98,200 for each
year.
Board of Affairs, $23,000 .for each
yaer. ^
Banking department, $49,400 for
each year.
Boafd of Health, $30,200 for each
year? ,
Insurance department, $19,500 foi
each year.
Mine Inspector, $32,705 for each
year.
(>Corporation Commission, $70,620
for each year.
State library, $11,58b for each
year.
-ilk Department of Charities an Cor-
rections, $5,300.
Department of Labor, $19,300.
St^.te Reporter, inclvding printing
of court reports, $23,190 for the first
year, anl $15,900 for the second year.
_ Oeolngical survey, ft
y'aar. ' * .
State School LandJbDepaitment,
including $60,000 for appi aiding .ywt
advertising sehoolTanda for 1914,
$210,000 for the first year and $50,
460 for the second year.
For Board of Agriculture.
State Board of Agriculture, $88,-
500 for each year.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion", $19,00 for each year.
State Historical Society, $3,000
each year.
State Board of Prison Control,
$3,000 each year.
State Board of Education, $7,300
each year.
District Court Stenographers, $37,-
200 each year.
State insurance paid by each de-
partment, $20,000 for the first year
and $16,000 for the second year.
Rent on state di, Irtmcnts, $31,-
916.40. •
General deficiency in state depart-
ments, $283,484.47.
State Election Boarl, including the
"rinting of ballots, $23,600 for the
first* 'year, and $8,600 for the second
year.
Mining Board, $2,400 each year.
The total appropriations made by
the fourth legislature for all state
departments as shown by the fore-
going, is $1,519,894.91 for 1914 and
$983,857.40 for 1915.
The total apif cpriationg for the
support and maintainance of all the
state institutions and schools made
by the the fourth legislature was
$1,982,121.89 for 1914 and $1,801,303.
75 for 1915.
The total miscellaneous appropri-
ations from the general revenue fund
by the fourth legislature were $345,-
2^.2$ for 1914 anl $5,3O0 for 2915.
Total appropriations made from
special funds and not raised by gen-
eral taxation were *801,043.43 foi
1914 and $223,400 for 1915.
Total appropriations made from
the general revenue fund were $3,-
847,296.08 for 1914 and $2,790,461.-
16 for 1015.
Total appropriations made for all
purposes for 1914. $4,708,339.57.
Total appropriations made for all
purposes for 1915, 8,013,861.15.
Total appropriation* made by the
fourth legislature, $7,722,200.72.
This does not inclute apout $750,-
000 appropriated for the building of a
state capitol.
Postmaster John Leracy has made Sim Harrison one of the best I Pr r _i. . „
application for three rural routes; known Choctaw Indians of this sec-• was'in the city Monday and^Skld
M.I iuioiio Ui Linn ocu-
out of the city, and the people along j tion of the state, is in the county
the proposed routes are being asked jail charged with the killing of
to sign petitions to the department Charles Derryberry, a good friend
for them
One of the routes proposed will
lead out of the city toward Grant,
and will leave the main road before
reaching Grant and run east thru
the Horse Prairie country to Shoals
and back into the city by the way of
Ervin.
Another of the routes will go to-
ward Forney and over in the Gay
•ommunity, and back to the city by
way of Old Goodland.
,The third route proposed is out
into the Messer neighborhood and
across to Cody, and probably over
to Speer.
Choctaw is one of the few coun-
ies in the state without a single
■ural route. People who have never
had the pleasure of living on a ru-
ral rcute have no idea of the many
conveniences they are mising, and
especially since the postoffiee depart-
ment has inaugurated the parcel
,>ost, by which the people along the
rural routes may send their produce
to market and do their shopping by
mail and from the home merchant,
too.
People along the proposed routes
are urged to sign the petitions as
cast as possible, so that Mr. Lei a
cy may have an inspector to come
here and go over the country while
the roads are in good condition, and
the fall and winter sets in. If this
:an be done there is scarcely a doubt
but that we will get the routes.
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Sometimes we wonder also if there
is an analogy between running a
home and trotting around town. —Ex
Moreover, the kind of girl who
has a pretty face doesn't seem to
expose quite so much of her chest on
the street.—Ex.
Tagging Newspapermen.
Everyone who has much to do
with making a newspaper kr^ w
that a large percentage of the pa-
per^ readers feel th°meelves capa-
ble of conducting its affairs bettei
than those who are in the business,
say* an exchange.
It is a strange commentary on
what is perhaps tl.^ most exacting
ar.j aerve-tastii.g business of the
present day, that so many who know
nothing of newspapers except that
they appear at stated times and can
be had for a stated price, are so
ready with criticism and suggestions
The fact that many of these advis-
ors would have to pa., rent to hold
desk room in a newspaper office doe.-
not deter them from frank express-
ions of opinion.
All that can be said in a newspa-
per without bitter nes3, or, in fact,
without feeling of any sort. Those
who work on the newspapers un fir-
stand this to be the condition and ac-
cept it as part of the game, along
with the long hours and the walk
home in the dark. But now and
then something turns up which
moves a newspaperman to laughtei
or wrath, depending on, whether oi
not he enjoyed his breakfast. One
of the recent cases is the bill intro
duced in the Illinois legislature tc
license all persons employed in the
editorial and news department oi
the paper. A proprietor who em
ployed an unlicensed person woulr
have to pay a fine and the reckless
reporter who scorned a license
would be forced to make good witi
money.
But how in the name of commor
sense, men appointed on such 8
board would be qualified to judge
ability to write editorials or edit copy
rapidly or accurately, to establis:
standards which would determine
which r eporter could write a good
story of a fire and which would b
the proper one to cover a ball game
political convention, demonstration
of fashions, W. C. T. U. meeting oi
banquet of the Hibernians is be
yond the understanding of those
vho are trying to do just that thin-
every 'day of their lives. Yet sucl
a law would blithely authoriz)
these men to perform such work ant
then issue license to those lucky
enough—or perhaps possessed of a
pull—to pass. Why not give them
a brass tag and a number, alwa.v
to be kept in aight? A great man\
newspaper proprietors in this coun
try are looking for managing editors
who can do just what these self-
appointed Illinois experts would at-
tempt. If their scheme of licens-
ing reporters fails, they have no
need to be idle; with their ability
and expert requirements of newspa-
per work, many avenues of employ-
ment should stretch alluring lengths
before them.
of Harrison's, late last Friday after-
noon.
Harrison, Derryberry and others,
it appears from the evidence at the
coroner's inquest, had been in the
woods near Soper all day Friday
drinking whi&key and playing po-
ker, and there had bean considera-
ble whiskey in the game all day.
About 4 o'clock Harrison arose
the game and stated that some cnt
had taken a twenty dollar bill from
him that was not in the pot at the
Jme. He gjew very angry and
left the crowd going home and se-
curing a shot gun. He retui ned
after a while to the game and ac-
cused Derrybery of taking his mon-
ey, he took deliberate aim at Derry-
berry and fired. The load from the
gun tore off a pait of the head ol
the victim.
Harrison made an attempt to get
away by going home and saddling a
and trying to get a-vay bv riding
it, and was arrested by Constable An-
derson of Soper shortly after the
tragedy. '
Harrison is about 65 years old, and
member of one of the oldest anu
most prominent Choctaw families
in the County.
Derrybery was well known in thr
county.
There will probably be an exam-
ining trial this week.
at this oifice.
He reports a very peculiar acci-
dent to have happened in his com-
munity Sunday, in which
man lo3t a horse.
City Mail Delivery.
Postmaster Leracy was asked the
other day about the free delivery of
mail for Hugo, and he said:
I am waiting on the city council
to make, the necessary and required
young' Improvements in the city before
j asking the department to send an in
Many vcais ago, it seems all the spector here to pass on the question
large timber of that section was cut, J of whether we get the service. I
leaving thousands of old stumps: a..i just like Mr. Needham, whom I
standing. ,The big overflow of 1903 succeeded; there is positively no U3e
ll'Oultr.H rvw. m . t *1 ... *
Be Patient.
Walt Mason: We all have oui
evil days—that is the earthly plan,
and when you're treading rocky ways
be p^jgnt as you can. For if, in
hroedijig o'e;: your ills, you spend
the drugging time, and if you count
The weary hills you know you yet
must climb, you're
overlook the fcoo)
way; the bank jf
ing brook, the mea
hay. You hear the raven's croak
and squawk, as you pursue the trail;
but if you listen as you walk, you'll
hear the nightengale. The bram-
bles have your garments torn, and
multiplied your woes; but if you look
near every thorn you'll doubtless find
a rose. The clouds are banking it,
'he west, you see the lightning's
?leam; but there's an inn where pil
ijrims rest beside the fire and dream
'The night is closing cold and damp,
and I am lost," you rnoan; but ii.
some window there's a lamp thai
auras for you alone. And if we're
."ise we all can sense the joy
beyond the care; there always is a
-ecompense for every grief we bear
oo when a rough and dreary road and
crowning sky we scan, let's stand ui
•traight beneath the load—be pa-
tient as we can!
svashfrd many of the stumps up and
left large holes wr.ere they had been.
Mr. Oakes says that these holes have
grown up with some sort of wild
glass until pcopie cannot tell where
the holes are.
Sunday morning a young man
named Ellis Horn started out on a
horse to hunt some cattle that had
strayed from home. In going
through the woods where these old
tuinps had been the horse stumbled
into one of the holes left by the wasl.
sut; the fore feet of the horse went
into the hole first, but he leaped
_>ut, and his hixd feet went into the
hole, and in scrambling to get out
he hpise .went straight down until
his head was at least a foot below
he surface of the ground. In the
'truggle* of the horse the rider
•.vas thrown and fell away from the
lorse, and escapc>d injury.
Ail effort was made to rescue the
animal-by digging it out of the hole,
but it died before the men could get
it out, and the dirt was thrown hi
on it and it was buried in the . tumj
hole. '♦x
The. people of that section should
be very careful in future about rid-
ing through the woods, as there are-
hundreds of these old stump hole
there and they may fall into one ol
hem any time, as they are almost
all entiivly hidden by the growth of
wild grass.
to ask the department to send
man here to go over the matter, as
y ie department has stated just
?hat the city mu^t do in order to
get free delivery, and the city has
not done it. They have had signs
painted, I understand, for the the
■ntersections of the streets, but they
have not been put up, and no inspec-
or woud recommend the sen-ice for
he city until this has beep done.
"The Hugo office is entitled to the
ree delivery of mail according to
ur gross annual receipts, and the
lepartment will give the city the ser-
•ice just as soon as the city com-
dies with the requirements, and not
i numrto sooner, and just as soon as
he street signs are put up and the
rosjilig? put in shape I am ready
P do my part.
TWs is one great convenience the
~ity is missing by not making the
Necessary improvements; the im-
provements will only cost a very
small amount, and the entire work
an be completed in a few days if
it is ever commenced.
.larmera* Reunion Pier
County New s.
News from Grant.
James Bugg and Jesse Gooding,
two of Grant's young men, were in
the city last Saturday and dropped
into The Herald office to tell us the
news of their town. They report-
ed that a family name Wilkins,
of the town, had seven cases of ty-
phoid fever, and that some of the
cases were sericus.
The boys are baseball fans, as
all young Americans are, and came
to Hugo to see a game of profession-
al ball. They are ball players them-
selves, and said their team would
play two games with Frogville Fri-
day and Saturday. They were very
much elated over the fact that -they
had recently beat Hugo 20 to 0.
According to the boys, there will
be a big picnic on Roebuck Lake,
near Grant, July 24, and they are
anticipating a good time.
FRANKLIN K. LANE.
I ranklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior department in the cabinet of
President Wilson, confesses that he
once planned to hold up a Califor-
nia stage and then vanish out of
sight in a cloud of dust. •'
But he changed his mind at aort-
alV breakfast j t the side
Indian Has Good Crops.
Billy Jackson, a full blood Mis-
sissippi Choctaw, who lives near
Forney, was in the city Monday and
called at this office.
"Got it good crop this time," said
Billy , "1 come to see Anslcy about
15 cents for cotton a pound.
Remember one time sold it cotton
for 3 cents pound when had demo-
crat president and am going to sign
it contract for 15 cents this time,
mavbeso."
Billy has about thirty acres in
cotton out in the Boggy bottom,
and says he will make a big crop.
His corn is also fine, he says, and
he will make plenty of corn to run
him the next year and have some to
himself, renting very little. He
and his boys have about 65 acres
:ultivation themselves this year,
has rented about sixty acres
farm and his rents wilt add
ible to his year's earnings.
in eulti
f hi.-
Left for the East.
Jim Hammond and George Fulle
oft last Saturday for Junction City
fenn., and Big Stone Gap, Va., to bt
rone about three Wiieks, on a visn
o their old hemes. They are tw.
>f Chocaw county's best booster.
ind before they return many peupl
.rill hear the praises of Hugo an
Choctaw county sung who never be
fore heard that there was such >
place on the globe. Before leav
and together with what little talk
ing they can do will advertise East
ern Oklahoma as it was never ad
vertised before.
J. E. McWaters died at his home
near the city last Saturday morning
f Bright's disease. He was 6.
years old and one of the best knowr
men of the county. He leaves
wife and several children. The re
mains were buried at the Messe
cemetery Sunday.
Ellinghausen Secretary of
County Election Hot re
L. Strange last week resigne
as secretary of the county election
board and Edwin A. Ellinghauset
of Hugo, was appointed to fill the
place.
Mr. Strange has been secretary of
the boa I'd for the past two years and
gave perfect satisfaction to all po-
litical parties, and has many friends
over the county who will regret to
know that he has given up the place
he has filled so well.
Mr. Ellinghausen is a young attor-
vhite and colored farmers, r>e<-aus<
.hay were all interested in g io.
arming and had been promised a lec
'ire on practical farming. R. I,
3cott, the federal agricultural de
artmeiit's agent for this county, w a:
jresent and made a good talk oi:
>ractieal and scientific farming,
t v.-a3 the largest attended picnic o'
Jie season and Mr. Scott took advan
cage of the opportunity and mad;
them a gocd speech.
"I was invited here," said Mr
jcott, "to address you on the sub-
■ect of practical farming. I air.
zlad indeed to see so many white
ocople here on the ground, as ii
nakes me feel welcome in your com
nunity. I ?hall first say that thif
ounty is producing far less pro
hice than it should, from the verj
'act we do not give the proper at
'ention to the selection of seed anc
he preparation of the soil. Youi
•eed corn should be selected from
he field while the stalks are green
\fter the corn has matured, pull th*
ars from the stalks thus selected an**
■hoose your seed from these ears
The land should be broken deep ic
he fall fcr several important rea-
on3, hut for the most particular
lecause it is then in the proper coil
lition to retain the rainfall during
He winter season, and will furnish
soisture for the plants during th<
mmmer season." The speaker saic
nanv good things in regard to farm
ng. but he was especially applauded
'hen he said that the negroes of
his state are deeply interested ir
'he subject of agriculture.
On being asked, Mr. Scott ampl>
inswered to the query as to distance
cotton should be left in the drill
He said: "The distance cottor
should be left depends entirely or
the soil. In bottom or fertile lan.
the rows should be left from fou
to six feet apart and the cottor
should be from two to three fee
apart in the drill."
The lecturer put special stresr
on shallow and constant cultivation
He also gave out valuable literature
that should be read by every farmer
in the county.
After many hand shakes and con-
gratulations by the farmers, Mr.
Scott said, "This is the best picnic
that I have ever witnessed in this
part of the country."
I. N.
sweeping the fl-V.r and -ash-
ng the rollers in a prnting estab-
ishment
Telia of his first days at the bar.
vhen he occupied an office eight feet
ong and four feet wide."
Might have been a clergyman, but
le feared there was no pulpit in the
tiuntry big enough in which to
■reach the sermons he had in mind.
Entered politics by helping to
vrite a new charter for San Fran
:isco.
Made his campaign for governo;
n $1500.
Says that most reformers are pre-
ise, unsympathetic and technical
ind that is why the people soon vote
hem ont of office.
He thinks President Wilson will
icceed because he can understand
he viewpoint of the other man.
h avors the freedom of the Indianf-
>t the country.
Father Precariously I1L
Attorney W. E Schooler and hi
rother, B. F. Schooler, local mana-'
er of the Pioneer Telephone com pa-
y, left Sunday for Shrevesport, La.
o be present at the hedside of theii
aged father, they having received the
sad intelligence that if they "ex^cte'
o ever see him rational again U
■ome at once.
We set a high value on sincerity
ut we doubt if there ever was a mar
vhose political convictions could no
e changed by one meal a day, more
or less.—Ex.
How would it do to legalize pisto-
Noting by requiring every toter tr
ear skulls and cross bones tattooed
on his clothes.—Ex,
What has become of the old-fash
loned hot headed person who called
everybody a paltroon who didn't a
gree with him?—Ex.
One of the good things about be
ing tall is that one can have wate
feet.—Ex.
As a general thing when there art
three or four daughters in a famil;
and one of them mar-ries a rich mai
the others quit quarreling with her
Mrs. Jesse G. Curd left Tuesday
for Paducah, Ky., to spend the sum-
mer with her mother and other rel-
atives.
Another good thing about the in-
come tax is that it will almost cer
If profanity would repair a busted
„ ... - WiSi. IfJSrST
Hon. Charles Welch, the big law- pa gome time ag0, and is one uf thJ \ " ° so™ more of the
yer of Antler*, was in the city Sat- brightest of the younger set of at-1 Sure cure for bald heads: Growl ^ tight-wads who tell it that
urday. torncyg practicing at the Hugo bar T"°" onJour baik and P"1' the cov- Am"lc* ls unflt country for a
i, up.—Ex. gentleman to live in.—Ex.
days' picnic at the county bridge on
Kiamichi river and- Katy Prairie
on the last iay of July and the first
day of August—next Thursday and
Friday. * . -•
Sara Fennel was in the city Mon-
day arranging a program of speak-
ers for the occasion, and succeeded
in securing Cel. T. S. Hardison and
Hon. R. L. Evans, Who will be the
orators on the first day of the fes-
tivities.
This is the regular annual outing
of the people of this section of the
county, coming every year just be-
tween the laying by cf their crops
ind harvest time, and there is al-
ways large crowds in attendance, and
this year, when the people learn that
the above named speakers will be
there, the attendance will be larger
than ever.
Crept and Health Good.
F. L. Anderson, who lives a few
milts southeast of Soper, was in the
city this week and report that there
has- never been as fine crop pros-
pects in that section as there is this
year. Almost all of the farmers
jf that section are through with the
iummer work and are now waiting
to harvest the buin|t£r cropa beiug
laised out there. Both com and
cotton are in the prime of growing
condition, according to Mr. Ander-
son's statement.
He also reports that the health of
his community has been excellent
this summer, there having been but
very little sickness during the hot
weather of the past few weeks.
News Around Speer.
H. C. Bashaw of near Speer was in
the city a day or two ago and paid
this office a pleasant call, and made
a report on the conditions in his
community.
All crops are very fine, he said,
and the farmers are nearly through
with the summer work, being well
advanced in their crops. No weevils
have been reported in that section,
although in some communities they
are said to be very plentiful and
doing some damage to the big cot-
ton-crop.
New Bank at Broken Bow.
A charter was last week issued to
the First National Bank of Broken
Bow, the new town in McCurtain
county, with capital stock of $25,-
000: The officers are, J. H. Cos-
tillow, president, and P. L. Mallory,
cashier. The new bank succeeds
the First State Bank, which liqui-
dated as a state institution and took-
out a national bank charter.
Ellinghausen Secretary of
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