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SEIDEL REFUSED
10 MEET TEDDY
Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Says He
it a Socialist, And Supposes Roose
velt is Pleased With Absence.
By Associated Press.
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7. Roose
velt arrived from St. Paul thin mwn
ing and for Hourly twenty four hours
will be the guest of tho Milwaukee
Press elub. He was greeted by three
thousand people.
Following n breakfast ut the Hotel
Pfistor, Roosevelt was taken for an
automobile trip, and during the fore
noon vhdted the boys and girls trade
schools. Later he took luneh with the
newspaper men at the Trews Club In
Bohemian luncheon and following this
will address a big meeting at the
Auditorium.
Kruil Seldol, the (socialist mayor,
did not appear In response to the com
mittee's request. "Inasmuch as I am
a socialist," ho said, "and Roosevelt
has designated socialism ns that
which Is against morals and religion,
I am suie he will be pleased that I
am not personally concerned with his
reception."
Roosevelt was shown Seldcl's state
ment. "I am not discussing socialism
or any thing political on this trip," he
said, "but my views have been clearly
stated In the magazine.
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WHITE OAK SCHOOL ITEMS.
School opened promptly ut 9 a. ni.,
Monday, August 29. Lessons having
been assigned when the spring term
closed, things moved on as If there
had been no break.
Although some of the oldet pupils
have not come In yet and somo others
are expected later, every seat la oc
cupied now.
Prof. Ktauso of Afton, en route for
bis work near Nowata, stopped off
with us two nights on bla way. Prof.
Is a great favorite with the young
folks, Indeed with everybody.
Nettle Goforth. had a chill and was
detained at home io days, but thanks
to quinine and tonics she Is In place
again.
Profs. Bell and Chitwood bagged a
tine lot of prairie thickens on Satur
day. They wont tell us where they
hunted, but claim they got them all.
Mr. Rafferty, school director, favor
ed us with bis presence and gave us
a good send off opening morning.
Miss Harmon, we are proud to com
municate, has received her stato cer
tificate and a very high grade too,
A little social at Mrs. Bell's on
Thursday evening in honor of Prof.
Khutse. The laugh ran through the
town. They were n merry company.
The program Is so crowded that
the bookkeeping class recites after
school.
The school house has been repaired
Rnd altered some, which makes it
very comfortable, and manifests the
interest taken In the course of educa
tion by the pat ron.s.
One of the promising clasps In
school is the 7th year reading by Miss
Harmon. They are taking tip the
work In the form of literature.
Miles brothers have been (bailing
o!T the school ground and we have
promise of a brand new pump.
Kansas City Stock Yards, Sept. 5.
After Monday last week was satislac
tory to the selling side of the cattle
market, quarantine steers gaining 10
to 15 cents, which made them fully
steady for the week, and cows celling
Ilrni all the week, calves a quarter
higher for the week. Cows and cal-
voft are running behind last year in
numbers on the general market here,
and prices are firm accordingly. Su)
ply of quarantines last week was lib'
eral for the season, 400 car loads, an
Increase of 100 cars over si'.nie week
hint year. This does not Indicate that
runs will keep up ,as a good many of
the big shippers sent In their last
shipments of grass cattle las it week.
Favorable weather for gra, stock
water, and corn lately have been the
deciding points with some of the big
operators, inducing them to winter
bigger strings of cattle this winter
than usual. Supply of quarantine cat
tle today Is 75 car loads, market steady
to 10 lower. The best steers uro sell
ing at 15.00 to $5.45, although two
droves of steers touched the top Ja?t
week, at f.'.GO. Medium and light
steers sell nt $4.00 to $4.75, eanner
steers down to f 3.G0, most of the cows
at $3.60 to $3.90, a few up to $4.25,
canners $3.00 to $3.40, best veal cal
ves $8.50, bulls $3.00 to $3.60. In the
native division more than 10 per cent
of the total receipts of cattle went
to the country as stockers and feeders
last week, and that trade will absorb
fully half the arrivals In the native
division for the next six weeks.
The hog market advanced 3.1 tents
last week, which makes a total gain
of $1.25 per cwt., In the last fo'ir
weeks. Heavies have gained more
than that, and lights less. Runs nre
so light that packers have no timo to
fight the market, but have to scramble
to get a decent proportion of their
orders filled. Wild predictions are
being made as to September markets,
the highest flights reaching to the tee-
ord breaking prices paid last spring.
Present prices are as good as paid
last April. Run is 3,500 here today,
market 10 to 15 higher, top $i).7712,
paid for light weights, medium weights
at $9.50 to $9.70. heavies up to $9.55.
Sheep and lambs are coming very
freely, and the feeder buyer Is having
a big feast. The market held steady
on aged sheep last week, but lambs
sold a quarter lower. Run Is 12,000
sheep here today, market 10 to 15
higher, top lambs $(5.!0, feeding lambs
mostly at $6.35 to $G.G0, yearlings
$5.00 to $5.60, wethers $1.60, ewes
$5.25. Supplies will likely run extra
heavy all this month, and feeder buy
ers will have a chance to secure a lib
eral proportion of the receipts.
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Heads of Departments Must See That Depart
ments Pay or They Will Have to go Without
Salary WarrantsNo Levy is Made for
Water DepartmentThe City Marshal,
Police Judge and City Attorney are
Derived of Fees from Police Court
CasesAll Employee on Salary
and City Will Pay Cash
Thought Neck Was Broken.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Rogers was Injured this morn
ing by falling fro ma bed at the Rog
ers home. Insome way the little girl's
head became caught In the frame of
the bed and for a time It was thought
the neck was broken. However she
regained consciousness after about
twenty minutes and it Is not believed
the injury will be serious.
State Abounds in Luxuries
Says State Auditor's Report
Guthie, Okla.. Sept. 7. Figures Jut
compiled by Auditor M. K. Trapp's
otllee from the most conservative of
sources, the state tax rolls deals a
death blow to any remnants of the idea
that the west Is wild and woolly.
The records of other states are jut
available, but surely Oklahoma Is w-ll
t the front In her acquirement of
some of the luxuries of life and pleas
ure according to Auditor Trapp's compilations.
Should the "effete easterner," who
visits the frontier state long for the
strains or "Forty-five Miles From
Broadway," or "Ixmly Mlstah John
fing, He Didn't Come Back," there are
22.G7S pianos from which he can evoke
these familiar eastern strains. Kven
far-off Harper county which according
to the cowboy, "Jities the Rockies
on the north Death Valley on the west,
and the greasers on the south" can
supply 17 of these Instruments from
which "Pftdderwhlskf y" drew his
fame; and Oklahoma county could
show him 2,631 of the same. Musko
gee county has 1,006 pianos; Kay 957,
and all othere of the 77 counties aver
age 'about ."50. Furthermore, it Is evi
dent by a comparison of the 1910 fig
ures with the statistics of 1909, that
during the last year the state Increas
ed the number of pianos within her
boundaries by 4.400 Instruments and
that the total value this year of all
pianos within the state on the tax
rolls is $2.3Q7,4S;0. Since the actual
cost of these Instruments was doubt
less from two to four times greater
than the value at which they were
assessed for taxes, it may easily be
seen that the state has invested pro-tally
six million dollars in planus
alone.
Hiding also is, an compared with
walking nt least a luxury, and the au
ditor's sumptuary statistics show the
state now has l!70 automobiles, valu
ed lit $S95,717 dollars, which assess
ment Is about one-third of what the
machines could be bought for; and
94.6S5 carriages and other pleasure
vehicles valued nt approximately $2,
177,75. , The humble wagon of the
farmer, milk wagons, drays, automo
bile trucks, and other vehicles of labor
or necessity are not Included In these
statistics. This approximate total of
100.000 pleasure vehicles of labor or
necessity are not included in these
statistics. This approximate total of
100.000 pleasure vehicles Includes only
carriages, buggies phaetons, dog carts
etc. The statistics for 19i0 in this
division eliow a great increase over
1909. The number of automobiles
claimed from 63 to 1970 and the
pleasure vehicles otherwise increased
about 20,000 in number.
Oklahoma county leads in diamonds
and Jewelry with an assessed value of
$100,343. gold and silver plate, $-1,219,
and $4,0r.9 pleasure- carriages; 432 ui
tojuobiles. Muskogee county con.es
next with Jewelry and diamonds valu
ed at J27.3SC; gold and silver plate.
$6,064; Pittsburg county has $15. Ill
of diamonds and Jewelry; Tulsn has
$13,912. Pittsburg county which
contains the city of McAlester alo
has $1)00 of gold and silver plate.
Sweeping reforms In the manage
ment of the business of the city of
Vinita were inaugurated at the regu
lar meeting of the city council last
night and if the plan evolved proves
a success the city will be on a cash
basis and no longer will the city war
rants have to be discounted. The coun
cil's plan is to make every department
of the city government pay It's own
way and according to the resolutions
passed last night unless the beads of
the various departments are able to
make their departments pay the sal
aries will be cut in order to keep
within the levy for that particular department.
The city will be placed on a-cash
basis by a resolution adopted direct
ing the city treasurer of Vinita, Okla
homa, to Invest the money In the
sinking fund in the purchase ot side
walk warrants, sewer bonds, paving
bonds and city warrants for cuirent
expenses, when such warrants bear
the statement on the face that they
have been Issued within sixty per
cont of the debt limit of that fund.
This resolution was adopted with the
emergency clause.
The most sweeping of all of the
reforms Instituted last night was the
resolution requiring the police Judge
to turn over to the city treasurer all
motiey taken by him out of fines col
lected to pay himself for fees charg
ed in cases where the defendant, In
default' of the payment of fine is com
mitted to Jail.
Under the terms of an ordinance
passed, the police Judge win be paid
a salary of $50 a month until his of
fice turns into the city treasurer $300
per month. For each $30 over the
$300 the police Judge will receive an
additional $5 per month. The city
marshal's salary is fixed at $75 and
that of the assistant at sixty dollar-"
without any fees for arrests made.
The fees that ctherwlse would have
gone to the various officers vill now
go to the police fund for paying the
expense of keeping the city prisoners
in the county Jail. The salary of the
city attorney Is fixed at $50 per
CITIZENS OF SNYDER ROB
MOUNTAIN PARK OF RECORDS
month. It has been $10 and u, fee
from each city police case.
The city f'ater department is plac
ed on it's own responsibility and must
pay It's own way. No levy was made
for the water department. The man
agement of this department is now In
the hands of J. P. Gooch, wh., must
collect enough from the patrons of
the water system or his salary war
rant will not be issued.
An ordinance waa pngsed granting
the owners of Electric Park the priv
ilege of operating the skating rink In
the park on Sundays.
Sewers were ordered constructed In
block 20 of the original townslte,
blocks 4, 5 and 6 of the College addi
tion and in blocks 91 and 3 of the Ex
celsior addition.
The council also by ordinance grant
ed the mail carriers of the city the
right to ride bicycles on the side
walks, while In the discharge of their
official duties.
A resolution was adopted providing
for the cutting of the street lights bo
that the expense of the lights will
come within the levy.
The council Is determined to elimin
ate as much of the expense of the
city to the taxpayers In general as
possible and to make the citizens who
derive the benefits pay the bills.
Emit Friend Held as Suspect.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 7. Emll
Friend, of Chicago, Is being held as
suspected of being the lone robber,
who held up the Burlington train here
last night, killed a flagman and robbed
several passengers.
UHOllIt HEP0BT WILL .
UPHOLD SffllD FI9GH0T
TRUE LEADERS
iSUIIKTOI
Declares Best Known Teachers - cf
Conservation Urge the Develop
ment of Resources
11 Oil FIRST
SECT! IS HE
First Ten Miles of Grade is Completed
And Camp is Moved From
Wann to Delaware.
Snyder, Okla., Sept. 7. Snyder Is
the new county seat of the new county
of S'.va'tison, nt least temporarily. The
citiens of Snyder decided It them
selves, and Monday night quietly slip
ped up to Mountain Park and removed
the f cords of a number of the new'y ,
appointed county officers.
When Swan son county was organiz
ed Mountain Park won the temporary
county .scat, lots being cast for that
honor by that town and Snyder In the
presence of Governor Haskell.
Put the citizens of Snyder wanted
the county seat, and they got it. The
Snyder people also feel that under
the law and the proclamation Issued !
by the governor, which provided that J
suitable quarters should be furnished
the otrUials, they had a "perfect right" J
to remove the county seat to Snyder, j
Under the constitution the legisla
ture was to provide suitable laws for
the location of the temporary county
seat, but It is said the legislature has
not donj so.
Monday night a number of the Sny
der people went to Mountain Park,
loaded the records Into a wagon and
before the Guthrie injunction plan
could be put into operation had the
records in Snyder, four miles away.
The night watchman was busy in an
other part of town, and neither he tor
the sleeping citizens knew that their
county seat was rolling away from
them. Few citizens of Snyder knew
of the change. The following 'offices
wre moved: County clerk, Judge of
the county court, treasurer and clerk
of the district court. The sheriff will
be Invited to move his office at once.
A county sent election la soon to be
held, Mountain Park and Snyder be
ing the candidates.
In a letter to George Kapp, Dr. Wil
liams states that on account of an
election to be held at Danville. 111.,
he and the eastern capitalists wi'.l not
arrive la Vinita until September 20,
Work on tne eeconG section of
road grading on the Cherryvale, Okla
homa & Texas railroad began this
week. The working camps were mov
ed to near Delaware, Okla., fifteen
miles southeast of Wann, Okla., to
which point the first ten miles of
grading Is completed. This will make
twenty-five miles of grade when the
work Is completed. The third leg
will be to Nowata and the fourth leg
to Vinita. Work is being pushed alt
along the line and it Is expected the
laying of ties and steel will begin In
October. Senator Porter will sail next
month in all probability for Paris to
confer with tho Paris stockholders of
the road. It is probable that he will
bring two or three of the financiers
of the road with him on his return
that they may see the -work actually
under way and be prepared to give
their countrymen on idea of the great
possibilities of the road. A consult
ing engineer has been appointed In
Paris by the French capitalists and he
is now at work with plans for the
road and working in conjunction with
the American engineers. Plans for the
big bridge near Nowata, Okla., have
been forwarded to him and are ex
pected this week.
The grade to Delaware is an easy
one Hnd rapid progress Is expected.
Great development Is being made now
In the Delaware field and promises
an excellent territory to the Porter
road.
The first town on the Porter road
was laid out and named this week.
It la Forest City and Is seven miles
from Caney. Another town will be
named between Wann and Delaware
In a short time.
The new offices of the company In
the Porter building In Caney, nearly
a dozen In number, have a complete
and finished appearance as the head
offices of some trunk line. The Por
ter road is rapidly getting under way
and assuming a definite, shape.
Were Secretly Married.
Evading the vigance of their
friends, George McNurney and Miss
Bess McCarl, of Muskogee, came to
this city Saturday afternoon and were
married. They returned to Muskogee
Saturday night. By rest of 'the
groom the issuance of the license was
kept a secret until today when the
news of the marriage leaked out from
another source.
Minneapolis, Minn.. Sept. 7. The
democratic members of the Ballinger
Pinchot investigating committee,
which met today, have practicnlly
agreed on a report on the notable con
troversy. While the exact nature of
the majority report Is not known, It
is reported that fi decision has been
reported to vindicate Secretary Bal
linger. Contrary to reports also In
circulation, it is said without appar
ent authority that the republican mem
bers who formerly had been reported
strongly in favor of vindicating the
secretary, are inclined to modify Uieir
views previously held In this respect
but to what extent ls'not determined.
The minority report will approve, of
course, Gifford Pinchot, former chief
forester; James R. Garfield, former
secretary of the Interior, and Louis
R. Glavis, discharged chief of the field
division of the general land office.
Details of the minority findings are
not disclosed, but there Is no doubt
that the report will condemn the ac
tions of the secretary of the Interior
and bis part. In the dispute.
Representative Edward H. Madison,
of Kansas, a republican Insurgent,
will support the democratic members
In the fight to be made at the session
tomorrow in favor cf the decision to
make public at once the findings of
th9 committee. Madison has prepar
ed a separate minority report, the na
ture of which could not be learned,
but It can authoritatively be stated
that It will uphold Pinchot.
HUNGER SAVEO SY
CHAIRMAN NELSON
By Associated Press.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 7. Sena
tor Fletcher, of Florida, offered a reso
lution at the meeting of the Balllnger
Pinchot investigation committee to
day, holding that Ballinger was an
unfaithful officer and should be re
moved. When it came to a vote Sena
tor Nelson, chairman, that held no
quorum was present and the commit
tee took a recess until Friday.
Townsend Wins By 25,000.
By Associated Press.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 7. The indica
tions are that Charles F. Townsend's
majority over Senator Burrows at
Tuesday's primary will exceed 25,000.
PINCHOT GIVEN HEARTY
OVATION AT ST. PAUL
By Associated Press,
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 7. Two op
posing ideas of conservation were
brought out today when Senator Al
bert J. Beverldge, of Indiana, in an
eloquent address declared for national
control and J. J. Hill nrgued to the
contrary. Pinchot received a dramatic
ovation when he arose In answer to
the roar of cheers, which burst out
when Beverldge mentioned bis name.
Tears streamed down his face until
the outburst subsided. Yells of Pin
chot reverberated through the house.
2.000 MEALS A DAY.
Enormous Task to Feed People With
Yankee Robinson Shows.
One of the interesting sights of cit
ens day will be to observe the work
ing of the commissary department of
the Yankee Robinson Shows. This
department is under the supervision
of Mr. II. L. Kelley, who has the enor
mous task of getting ready over 2,000
meals a day for the employees of the
show. At breakfast, dinner and sup
per he .tseds 650 people. Seven cooks
prepare each meal and twenty live
fiunkles, or waiters, serve the meals
to the circus employees. Over 1,400
pounds of meat are shipped from the
packers daily and 700 loaves of bread
are consumed daily with the sho-v.
Breakfast Is ready for the canvas
men, hostlers and working people P,r-ty-flve
minutes after the cook bouse
wagons are placed on the lot Ureik
fast Is over at nine o'clock in the
mornirjg, dinner is served at eleven
thirty and supper at five p. m. After
supper the wagons are loaded and
taken to the ears where they leave
on the first train at eleven p, ru.
To feed properly the employees of
a large show is considered one of tho
wonders of the age and It U well
worth the time of the visitor of the
show to go to the dining tent and ob
serve how it is accomplished.
By Associated Press.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 7. John U. j
White, of Kansas City, said in a speech
before the National Conservation con-
gress here today, that the true leadeis I
of conservation have been mlsundtr-1
stood by press and people.
"Kven in Alaska," he said, "the best
known teachers of conservation urga
the development of all the resources
for the benefit of the people. They
wish to encourage pioneering both on
a small and on a large scale. It is
not the purpose of conservation to
preserve from exploration and disec'J
everyu nknownr esources, if there can f
be found for new fields men brave and j
fearless enough to take the risks of f
life and of capital. For Instance, J
when In the prospecting of a country's f
possibilities, and in the risks of life j
and capital Incident thereto, there is f
called into aulon every bit of physl-
cal or mental energy to meet condl- f
lions that seem Insurmountable, It is f
not our purpose to hamper or retard '
and eay that this risk and cost shall 1
be left entirely to future generations. 1
We are willing to encourage the cut- f
ting out of the way, and doing all we
can In this generation, believing that f
the next generation will find new du
ties suited to their advanced condi
tion, and change of needful require
ments. "Wise conservation with use means
the maximum of efficiency and profit,
with the minimum of waste and cost
We do not wish the few to have un
fair advantage. We desire each and
all to have opportunity according to
his talents and bis physical or finan
cial ability, that the known and un
known resources of a country Bhall
not be gobbled up by a few without
an equal opportunity to others who
can furnish the same needed measure
of requirements to Insure success. We f
realize that corporations , are neces- i
sary to develop a country; that aggre-J
gations of capital made up from large f
and small stockholders of the peop'&i
can accomplish more with less waste
than can Individuals. They can put f
In expensive and saving devices, and '.
can operate at a far smaller pereen
tage of profit. f
"Just so wit; Alaska's coal. Alask3 I
needs coal, and all we afik Is that some
fair method shall be adopted, which
will best subserve the requirements I
and will encourage development.
"Conservation and economy must f
enter Into our very life; and every ef-
fort stiould be made to get the most f
ou of little; to find a use for what f
we are now In various ways wasting. '
In European countries, the hard strug- 1
gles of the masses have produced the
savinghabit, a virtue we have got to
learn and practice Individually and as '
a people, before conservation will by
come a national success. Unless we ,
halt in our mad extravagances, per- J
haps there will come to us in soijip I
degree these sad experiences of suf- I
feting, which lias put the saving prin- J
ciple into the very fibre of the old
world peoples; and we will learn our
lesson, as they Jong ago learned
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uieirH. ve muse eacn spare the uui
dens of conservation, and we will
likewise all share in its blessings.'
"The science of conservation h's b
philosophy is wholly independent" of
who owns the property, but Its suc
cessful practical application often d t
pends very much as to ownership I
Combinations of capital have the ml
vantage, and this needed capital gije
greater possibilities for conservation
Compare the country butcher and his j
fifty per cent waste with the million
dollar packing house, which has not
waste. I s it not the fault of conser-
vatlon that there aro extremes in com- i
blnations, resulting in trusts or moii- 1
opolies. They are practicing conser-;
vatlon in the extreme, In saving of
raw material by greater utilization,
and by the discovery of new uses for f
by-products. The Standard-Oil com
pany is another example of the very
fineness of division and subdivision
of by-products, which flnd a place la
theapeutlcs, in the aAs, and In vas-1
eline, paints, dyes and a hundred other .
valuable chemical products. This is
conservation. I
C0I1ITTEES EXPECT
TO AGREE GY MIGHT'
By Associated Press. I
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 7. Th-"
"ilners and operators l the south
west are still hung up on the settl" j
ment of the penalization and arbltr '
tlon clauses of the contracts. l ,
committees were in pension all d;i? t
At noon they announced that they hop
cd to reach an agreement on the nrbi f
tratlon clause by night. I