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The Joke of the Season the Oklahoma State Tax League of Oklahoma City
TH E 0 K L A H 0 MAM IN E R
Vol. I.
KREBS, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1912
Number 8
ARBITRATION CLAUSE TO WAIT.
Oju'rutors and Miners Will Agree on
Other Points Mrst.
COAL MINE GAS EXPLOSION.
Fhe Men Arc Believed (o Be Dead
as Result of Disaster.
Madisonvllle, Ky April 21. Ex
plosion of gns in the Coll Coal corn-
death of five men, Joseph Hollowell,
J a mine fireman and four negroes.
I Flames are shooting up from the
entry, where one of the cages was
Representatives of the local op-
itotrtta ntwl minora rf thn finll t h VOt.
, , ... , pany s mine at the edge of this city
yesterday found themselves unable n ' ,
,, . ,. ,. . at 8:10 o'clock tonight, set the mine
to agree upon the arbitration clause i '
. . ,,,, ... on fire, and probably caused the
of the two-year contract which has '
been unddr consideration at meet
ings in the Keith & Perry building
lor the past two wwks. After sev-
fitnl nnia nf flafintn If trna flnnlfl-
' ... ... ! blown out by the explosion and it
eu to let tins clause go over unui i
me others have been disposed of. A
final agreement upon the clause is
anticipated by both sides.
The arbitration provision is what
Is known as the "Cleveland agree
ment," and provides that -the min
ers neither shall walk out nor be
locked out until differences that
may exist at any time between them
and the operators have been sub
mitted to joint arbitration commit
tees. The m.ners took a referen
dum vote upon the clause last week
and authoiizeu their representatives
to make It a part of the pending
contract.
It is expected that the conferees
will have finished their work with
in a week or ten days. It was said
yesterday that the differences exist
ing upon the question of arbitra
tion do not seem to be irreconcili-able.
is doubtful whether an effort to res
cue the men ca nbe made tonight
The minee Is a newo ne, about
"200 feet below the surface and only
about a half mile long. Only the
five men were in the mine and no
hope is entertained that they are
alive.
HASKELL MAKES TAUT
RESPONSE TO CRITICISM.
A PROMINENT OKLAHOMA JURIST.
Asks Col. Colcoul to Point Out Un
necessary State Offices.
Gas and Cold Weather.
Worms Tkat Eat Iron.
A feasible explanation of the dis
ease wnich attacks old metal coins
sugested by the recent discovery
,2me Italian engineers of a
obe which leeds, on iron The
very was made through the
frequency with which railway acci
dents occurred In one palcular
portion of the railroad in a certain
district.
An examination of the rails was
made and the presence of severe
corrosion was revealed. A rail was
taken up and broken. It was then
found to be hollow, and further ex
amination showed the presence of a
thin, gray, thread-like worm about
a third of an inch in length. A
caieful examination was made of
the habits and appearance of this
worm.
Upon its head it carried two little
glands filed with a corrosive secre
tion, which it ejected every few min
utes on to the iron. The ejection
had the property of rendering the
iron soft and spongy, when the
worm at once proceeded to devour
it.
One of the strange things about
natural' gas as a fuel is that the
colder it gets the less gas there is.
In January of this year, the cold
spell that swept oer t,h,e middle
west covering the state of Ohio,
gave an excellent illustration of how
precarious is the situation of those
who rely for fuel and light upon
the natural gas supply.
On the 8th day of January, gas
began to fail in Cleveland, and the
suffering among both the rich and
poor was extreme. The jail was
filled to overflowing and the Salva
tion Army quarters were packed to
suffocation with refugees from . the
streets. Seven thousand persons
were under the care of the charit
able organizations because of the
,cold. On the 10th a large number
of people "eio frozen. In Akron,
the charitable organizations -were
swamped. In Lima, the churches
were closed because of the cold. In
Newark and Springfield the thermo
meter fell to twenty below and the
gas was short. In Newark the
streets were in darkness.
In Canton the thermometer wai
at zero and the natural gas had prac
tically failed. In Cleveland 35,000
homes were without it. In Toledo,
Fostoria, Mt. Sterling, Ky., Sand
usky, Findley and Dayton, as, fast
as the thermometer fell (he gas
supply fell too. At other points the
natural gas mains contracted by the
excessive cold began to explode and
shut off Portsmouth, Ohio. On the
5th of January, the Newark pipe
blew up. The Cleveland Leader on
January G, said that 1,500 homes
were without gas to heat them. Five
schools were adjourned. One fire
was due to a gas exploslon Fac-
JJorlee were closed. Lakewood, a
suburb, was practically without gas.
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Muskogee, Okla., April 24. C. N.
Haskell, former governor, today
made public a letter which" he had
addressed to Colonel C. F. Colcord
of Oklahoma City in comment upon
a recent newspaper report of the
latter's speech at Perry, in which he
was quoted as having "ficored form
er Governor C. N. Haskell for the
creation of many offices for the pay
ment of political debts." In his
letter Governor Haskell practically
charges that the Tax League move
ment in. the state is an adjunct of
"7"
Senator Owen's campaign.
"I had heard," says Governor
Haskell In his communication, "with
less deflniteness of various speech
es delivered by you along the same
line, and I now want to ask Vou th3
name of a single office created by
cr on the recommendation of C. N.
Haskell for any purpose other than
the absolute public welfare and a
very small number at that.
"If you were fair, you would call
the attention of your audiences to
the fact that, beginning with the
constitutional convention, I was the
author of the provision in the con
stitution to fix minimum tax rate
limits, and that the republican par
tisan press at the time roasted mu
vigorously for fixing the .tax rate so
low (as they said) that Oklahoma
would go back Into ignoiance and
a non-progressive condition, 'be
cause of low tax rates made by Has
kell.' "
Mr. Haskell says-' the records of
Oklahoma will show that at no time
during his administration as gover
nor was the cost of state govern
ment in excess of 52 per cent of the
cost of the state government of re
publican Kansas. Disavowing any
intention of criticising the present
administration by comparison, and
showing why the expenses of the
btate are higher at this time, he
continues:
"I fear that the trouble with you,
Mr. Colcord, Is that until a demo
cratic administration took charge of
the state of Oklahoma, the large tax
payers had Invariably avoided their
proportionate share of taxes, and I
do not believe that today any of
your large properties are paying
taxes on a valuation that you would
sell the same for today. I am satis
fied that as democracy In Oklaho
ma has at all times meant equal
treatment among men, both the veiy
rich and the poorer classes, thai
your real grievance is this doctrine
of equality."
Former Governor Haskell then
discusses the attack made by "The
Oklahoma Economist," which he
designates as a tax league publica
tion, upon Governor Cruce because
of monies paid lawyers to defend
the precinct election offlcerj againet
"unwarranted assaults of subordi
nate federal officials operating at
tho dictation of the republican tate
machine." In this connection he
say.;: "In justice to Governor Cruce
your paper should have told the
truth, which It certainly did not."
Governor Haskeil assorts hat
n'gh taxes, wherever they prevail.
HON. P. B. COLE, OF McALESTER, OKLAHOMA
"are now and at all times sinco the
beginning of state governmentj the
result of the local spirit of too rapid
progress and expenditure or public
money for local purposes, and that
the state authorities have practical
ly no control over these local taxes,
which in most localities are more
than nine-tenths of the entire tax
burden."
"In this campaign the people are
entitled," continues Governor Has
kell, "to all candor and frankness,
and when you desire to organize a
movement and make speeches to
boost Hon. Robert L. Owen for sena
tor you should be candid enough to
call It an Owen speech. I will as
sure you of one thing, that nobody
has ever been able to conduct a
gum-shoe campaign against me, and
jou might as well abandon the idea
and do your campaigning in the
open, for the people shall know the
truth."
Initiative Bill Dies.
FOSTOFFICE AT LANE
ROBBED BY THREE MEN.
Oklahoma City, Ok., April 24.
Failure to file petition within the
ninety-day period caused the auto
matic death today of the local op
tion and high license initiative pe
tition filed last Jnuary by Mayor
Frank P. Stearns of Shawnee and
associates in the movement.
This ends the third attempt bIxhm
statehood to repeal state-wide pro
hibition, adopted at the flr3t state
election in 1907. The first petition
initiated to a vote Nov. 8, 1910, and
was beaten by 21,0 77 majority. Tho
socond bill, containing much more
favorable terms, was filed with the
secretary of state, but In view of op
position arising In former Ind'an
Terltory, occasioned by the Filed
man case decided by the United
Slates Court of Appeals, was aban
doned before the filing time arriv
ed. Indian Territory people served no
tice that if that side had to remain
"dry" they would lend assistance to
no movement which would make it
"wet" on the Oklahoma s'.de. Fol
lowing this Mayor Stearns and sib
soclateB filed the bill which died to
day for want of signers.
Atoka, Ok., April 24. The post
office at Lane, a town about ten
miles east of this place, was held
up and robbed by three men yeh
terday at 6 p. m.
Ten or twelve men who happened
to be present were lined up and re
lieved of their cash, about $50 being
taken from them. ""
After leaving the scene of tho
first holdup the robber met Ben
Maxey, a deputy sheriff, and held
him up, taking his horse, saddle and
gun.
A short distance farther down
the road they met John Wrigh't,
candidate for sheriff, and held him
up. They took his horse, saddle and
$40.
The robbers then made good their
escape. When last seen they were"
making for the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway.
One was a tall, slim man about
25 yeas old, weight about 140, light
complexion and wearing a white hat.
The other two were about 20 and 17
years of age, both dark comploxion
ed and mediumly heavy. AH three
were shabbily dressed and dlrtj, evi
dently new men in the business.
A reward will be paid for the ar
rest of these parties.
Record March Tonnage.
The anthracite tonnage for March
was 6,509,687 tons, a record-breaker,
exceeding the previous monthly
record production, which was in
March, 1900, by 237,212 tons. Tho
tonnage for March exceeded that of
the coerespondlng month of 1911
by 527,793 tons. The tonnag of the
different companies' was as follows:
Reading 1,472,696
Lehigh Valley . . ., 1,225,019
Jersey Valley . . .'. 848,110
D., L, & W 916,824
Delaware & Hudson .... 578.983
Pennsylvania 537,490
Erie 766,792
Ontario & Western 228,843
Totald 6,569,687
