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PRISONER EXPENSE
Li ENOUGH
Senate Committee Brings Out Testi
mony Regarding State Sup
ply Costs.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 21. The state- ration also took the same pocition.
ment that some of the heads of state Tne witness did not recall specific ob
institutions formerly made requisition Action from Weatherford, but said the
upon the state-board of public affairs "card's policy was fixed by the gen
for luxuries, such as canned cherries, er attitude of the institutions and the
queen olives, canned strawberries and statement of the governor that he
raspberries, as a part of the supplies would permit no deficiencies to occur,
inknded for feeding inmates, was Thc committee asked each member
made by E. D. Howard, secretary of of the board to present for the record
the boffd, to the senate investigation an itemized statement of expenses
committee today. Mr. Howard also charged the state for a period cover
said .that requisitions were made by inS six months.
at leaoi one state normal for football '
uniforms. , The Chinct bugs caused serious dam
The board of affairs took a number age in 1912 in several of the most im-
v.cse requisitions to tne governor s
office, according to Mr. Howard, for conditions be favorable for the la
bia inspection, and as a result the crease of these pests next spring and
chief executive wrote a letter to the summer, vthere are a sufficient number
board of affairs, authorizing it to dis- now wintering along the fence rows
approve all such items, and also wrote ad Sn patches of grass to develop into
letters to seme of the institution, heads a hrde that will destroy half the grain
notifying them, that the state would corn, kafir corn and forage crops of
Tint nnv for such thine; Tha commit, the state next season. The Chinch
tee asked the board to prepare a state
ment from its records showing wheth
er or not the former board of affairs al
lowed such items.
It was broriht out that the board
approved a claim for about $400 for They can be almost entirely destroy
rent for temporary quarters for the t-d and practically all losses from them
Durant Normal, although the head of be prevented, provided all bunches of
the institution would not approve it, Rrass and weeds that harbor them
and that the state auditor afterward through the winter in all parts of the
held the claim up after he had issued state b burned at once and these
a warrant becauso of a supposed agree- Pts and their winter quarters be de
ment of citizens to furnish free rsn.t stroyed.
to the state. Secretary Howard testi- The Chinch bugs start feeding and
fied that the claim was approved by breeding early in the spring in the
the former president of the institution V"ng wheat and oats. They multiply
who was in charge who nthe bill was witn ereat rapidity and just before
incurred and sworn to by the presi- harvest time, if conditions are favor
dent of the Durant City school board, able, they are in such numbers as to
and that the board considered this destroy much of the small grain. When
BufticiVnt nntWitv for annrovine it. , -h Rrain fields are" harvested, the
Coffee Price? Higher.
Secretary Howard answered the
question asked yesterday regarding
the purchase of coffee, testifying that
on August 10, 1911, requisition was
made upon the board for 4,500 pounds
of coffee of a certain brand at 19c per
until Dec. 5 of that year. In the mean
time, he said, the price of coffee ad
vanced 7c Tier nound.
Senator Thomas asked regarding the
k bard-s method of handling the state's
printing. Secretary Howard replied
that the board was merely an adjunct
ti, utnto nrintinfr dennrtment. onlv
Aj I, kj.i uvwvv x "----ct 1
being authorized to approve contracts
awarded to the state printer.
In reply to an inquiry from Senator
Thomas as to the letting of the con-
tract for orinting the code, Eugene
Morris, a member of the board, read and not on the neighbors' farms, they
from minutes of the board showing spread to the farm where the trash
that the contract was let to a St. Paul was burned. If all bugs are destroyed
printing company, which ' was the n a. school district and not in adjoin
lowest bidder. He stated that Mr. iE districts, they will spread to cover
Howard voted no on this contract, both.
rviug the opinion that extras, by rea-!
Mu of the distance of the printing es-
hftshment from Oklahoma, would
g the cost up to that of Oklahoma
i, corns, anu aiso lor me reason mat
job should not be let to nonunion
tters.
it, W. Dick, warden of the state peni
tdiiary, was examined relative to the
reniisitions made by him for khaki
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clrth a't 4"c per yard. Dick corrobor-
ated the testimony of members of the the state except the grass that must
boird'of affairs relative to securing be used for winter feed in large pas
tor the state two rebates, amounting tures.
to a total of 9 Vc per yard, on the cloth j All places of business and schools
as a result of an investigation by him- should bo closed on some day during
self and the board before paying for the week beginning December 30, 1912.
SS5itods. He admitted that he might The people in town should burn all
nave made a mistake in this purchase, trash and grass that may shelter
r said he knew practically nothing Chinch bugs and then should go out
about this class of goods, relying on
the statements of the storekeeper at
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the prison and merely uiscn me
price in the requisition as "a sugges-
Ition to the board of aflairs.
Cost of Maintenance.
Warden Dick stated that the best
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evidence that tne penitemwiy uuys
goods cheap is a comparative state-
nt ftom reports of wardens of other
lindanes which shows that the
Jnma prison has the lowest main-
v.r cost per capita of any.
Oklahoma cost is 40c, he said
"i other states run from 4P,c to 72c.
irden Dick was asked ve ative to
ranee of the penitentiaiy build-
nig., replying that policies' wr re writ
ten up by several companies md Jtub-
milled to himself and the loard of
fift';iirs for approval, but that the rate
'fy'te so high they decided, it would be
aheajier for the state to carry its own
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isk and insurance
was nat t;Ken.
i
i V. II. L. Campbell, clerk of the su-1
oTiio miirt v:is nnpstintiffl relative
his selection of filing cases for his
; ranmhoii ttifu,,! that tin
would
ods of but two companies
..i rVfi the nurnose and that he so told
fixe board. He said he did not try to
lfluence the board in its purchase as'
en the goods of the two com-
but exnressed a nreferif-e for
'nallv purchased. !?'
I Chairman Frame of the board was
questioned relative to insurance at
Weatherford Normal, which was writ
tea for three years, and was asked by
Senator Mcintosh why it was not tak
en for five years, thus saving money
for the state on premium. Mr. Frame
said that insurance must be paid for J
out of the maintenance fund of each
institution and that th- heads ob
jected to making such a great outlay
from these funds, fearing a deficiency,
and, he said, the state board of edu-
h m-oi Junius ocuiun uuvuiu
bugs left unmolested this winter form
the most serious menace to all the
grain and feed crops of the state and
through these to every business inter-
est in the state.
I Chinch bugs leave them an dattack
the corn, kafir corn and forage crops
and injure them, as much or worse
than the wheat.
At the beginning of cold weather, the
Chinch bugs leave the corn fields and
make winter homes in grass and Wvds
along fence rows and in meadows,
pastures and protected spots in yards,
gardens and orchards. They live
through the winter close to the ground
these places and repeated experi-
meats made in Kansas show that if
their shelter places are burned to the
ground at a time when the grass and
trash is dry and at least 983 out of
every 1,000 bugs are killed and the
remainder left unprotected.
All hiding places throughout the af
fected territory must be burned. If
the bugs are destroyed on one farm
" bus are destroyed on the farms
and left unmolested in trash in the
city gardens and yards they will spread
to the farms.
Insect pests that injure cotton and
other crops live through the winter in
grass and trash the same as the Chinch
bugs, and can be destroyed by burning
in the same way as the Chinch bugs.
It is therefore advisable that all trash
and grass be burned in all parts of
and help the farmers to burn all hid-
ing places for Chinch bugs on the
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minis. i uiului;u' uiiamuiuii. buuuiu ub
given to vacant lota and to non-resi-
dent lands and to all fence rows anu
roadsides.
( Road masters should have burned
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aa niumg piaces ior imucn uugs uions
every road and railroads should take
(special pains to burn all hiding places
along their rights of way, particularly
along fences and beside culverts,
The burning should be done on a
day when there is little wind and the
'grass is dry, and particular attention
' should be given to having the burning
extend close to the ground
Xawspapers of the state are request-
t d to urge the.' necessity, of this burn'
( ing. Farmers are urged to co-operate
wttn eacii other ana witn Dusraesf
men to see that the burning df-al'
trash that will protect insects througl
i t i ; v . e 'ii.
tne winter is uone in eveiy pui oi iu
state. Banks, millers, grain dealers.
buyers Of COttOn
merchants and ahnight.
.other business and professional nun
are asked to co-operate to the fulle.t
extent in this movement. Every tea!-
..r in -the state s remiested to secure
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l" lu-ui,l,,l,,u" v" - "'
If all the people of the state nil
join during the week designated ; to
make this burning thorough, their ef-
forts will add many million dollars to
CHOREES SHARE
WITH FREEOMEH
Case Brought by Ketswah Society is
Dismissed by Supreme Court
Judge.
Waslungton, D. C, Dec. 20. The
right of 7,000 Cherokee freedmen to
participate in the distribution of the
lands and funds belonging to the
Cherokee Indian nation was sustained
today by Judge Anderson of the Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court. The j
eourt sustained the government de-!
murrer to a suit of Ketowah society to j
restrain the secretary of the interior
from permitting freednien participat
ing in the property. The case was dis
missed. The, freedmen clai mthat their shares
in the property run anywhere from
$5,000,000 to $60,000,000. The Ketowah
society is composed of full blood Cher
okee Indians in Oklahoma.
The freedmen are the descendants
of slaves of the Cherokees and are of
mixed Indian and negro blood.
The court in dismissing the suit
said the freedmen were clearly en
titled to equal rights with the native
Cherokees. The freedmen have the
right of appeal.
"Madame Sherry."
George V. Iederer, who added the
word vaudeville to the lexicon of the
native theatre when he and Alexander
Herrmann brought to America about
a score of years ago the first all-European
company of variety artists, which
he labelled the "Trans-Atlantic Vaude
villes," a classification he chose with
a view to distinguishing the foreign
specialty artists from the rank -and
file of native speciality turns then
somewhat in dispute under the term
"varieties," has successfuly used the
term "vaudeville" again in this coun
try. The programme of "Madame
Sherry," the newest Lederer musical
attraction, produced by Lederer in
partnership with A. II. Woods and H.
II. Frazee, describes the piece as a
"French Vaudeville," which means, as
Lederer explains, a form of musical
play whers all songs and all the comic
business are direct issues from the
si cry and not, ,vs in the common or
garSon variety of native musical com
edy, mostly introduced matter, regard
less of any assimilative qualities the
introduction may possess. .
'Madame Sherry" will be played
here by the New York New Amster
dam Theatre Company on Friday, De
cember 27th, at the Grand Theatre.
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THE DERBY HAT.
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O great by right of noble birth; O
O and some, by subjugating fate, O
win greatness on this earth ; and O
O some there be who can't O
O achieve, who were not great O
O whm brats, yet mighty names O
O bclind them leave, by wearing O
O derby hats, so haughty and se- O
O reie; it lays all styles upon O
O the mat, it fits the produdest O
O bean; no rube can wear a derby C
O til: and feel less than a king, it O
O beats the coronet a mile, it's O
O god for fall and spring. Oh, O
O orn-fed monarch on your O
O tirone, go toss away your O
O crown; for you can buy for just O
O ne bone the smartest lid in O
O own; go get a derby with your O
O ilunk and let your circlet slide; O
O iarth's diadems will all look O
O ?unk when down the walk you O
O stride. The derby cage, the O
O derby cage, it is a lordly thing; O
O but I'll not may old harp en- O
O gage its royal praise to sing; O
O ior though it makes the hum- O
O blest man look like a ducal O
O sport, here's one old gay and O
C festive fan who wears the O
O wooly sort. O
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There were three more marriage li
enses issued today to: A. Ileal Lan
lier, age 27, of Valley Vien, Texas, and
Miss Nellie Maloney, age 19, of Blue-
Backet. This marriage will occur in
Bluejacket tonight. Mr. Eddie Moore,
age 22, of Nevada, Mo.,
and Miss
of Vinita,
Myrtle Williams, age 17,
were married this afternoon by County
Judge S. F. Parks. A license was
granted to Lucian B. Butler and Miss
Ruth Lillian Day, ages 24 and 19 re
spectively, both residing in Big Cabin.
The marriage will take place there to-
Jack, the small soon of C. H. Good-
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paster, is .senousiy in. i ik ru is out
sngnt nope ior nis recovery.
the income of the farms i:i 1913 and
will atlect favorably the prosperity of
every man, woman and child in the
state.
GUT BID
Oil CODE JOB
Witness Asserts State is to Pay $2,500
More Than is Necessary Bunn
Gets Contract.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 20. Charges
that tho specifications for annotating
an dindexing the Oklahoma code were
so drawn as to shut him out from bid
ding, and that the state has agreed to
pay $2,500 more than necessary to se
curt better work were made by Judge
Sam R. Harris of St. Louis, compiler
of the code, in testimony before the
senate investigating committee today.
The specifications referred to were
drawn, according to the testimony, by
Clinton O. Bunn, compiler of Bunn's
constitution, and Eugene Morris of the
board of affairs and approved by the
board after it had made some modifi
cations. Mr. Harris at'Stilied that he had pre
viously submitted a bid to do the work
for $5,000, but refused finally to bid on
the work when he looked at the speci
fications adopted by the board, on the
ground that he could not have done
the work for less than from $8,000 to
$10,000. Mr. Harris stated he-had a
conversation with Mr. Bunn before
the latter's bid was put in stating that
he could not bid successfully because ,
of requirement of the specifications
that a transcript of ths complete code
with annotations must be furnished
the board, as he considered this pro
vision unnecessary and very expensive.
Bunn later placed on the stand tes
tified that he considered the insection
of the provision in tho specifications
necessary, and that he had filed such
a transcript with the board.
Judge Harris testified that Bunn has
so annotated the code as to make of It
an. advertisement for tho L. It. A. re
ports, in consideration for receiving
books, and expressed the opinion that
layers would have to furnich them
selves with these reports in order to
look up the citations. He also charged
that Bunn referred to his annotation
to Bunn's constitution instead of the
sections of the constitution as printed
in the code, thus requiring lawyers to
use Bunn's constitution. He also ex
pressed the view that the indexing sys
tem is cumbersome and inferior to the
one that would have been used had he
(Harris) secured the contract.
Sooners Choose Football Captain.
Thursday afternoon, December 19,
the Oklahoma Sooners met and chose
Hubert Ambrister of Norman, quar
terback on the team for the past two
seasons, captain for next year. Am
brister is a graduate from the School
of Fine Arts and a second year law
student. Like Clark, Capshaw and
Thmpson who have preceded him, Am
brister is an "A" student and exceed
ingly popular in the activities of the
university and his team-mates.
The Sooners' choice was a wise one
for the great victories which they
have won the past two years were in
some degree the result of Ambrister's
generalship. Regardless of whether
his team was in the lead or losing the
game, Ambrister's smile and cheering
words have at all times kept the Soon
ers in the lighting spirit. He has a
wonderful ability in detecting the weak
nesses of his enemy, and a ready
power in marshalling his men against
that weakness. With most of the vet
erans back in their places, and many
who were ineligible this year who will
next year answer the Sooner call to
gridiron service, the 191 3 team from
the University of Oklahoma should
gain a wonderful record under the
leadership of Captain Ambrister.
DESTROY CHINCH BUGS AND SAVE
THE CROPS.
A Proclamation.
Whereas, Chinch bugs caused serious
damage in 1912 in several of the most
important wheat growing counties of
Oklahoma, and, whereas, hosts of these
and other destructive bugs and insects
are safely passing the winter under
the dead grass and trash of the fields,
and unless we have unusual condi
tions a horde of these pests will de
velop which will destroy half of the
wheat, oats, corn, kafir corn, d for
age crops of the state next season, and
the corn worm and cotton boll worm
will, if left unmolested, multiply great
ly and damage these crops also, upan
all of which the state's prosperity
rests:
Now, therefore, realizing the import
ance of immediate action to insure the
crops against destruction next season,
I hereby designate and appoint the
week, beginning Monday, December 30,
1912, as bug-killing week and call upon
all farmers and those living in the
towns and cities to co-operate in the
burning of all grass and weeds along
fence rows and in fields, meadows,
pastures, and protected spots in yards,
gardens and orchards, and upon all
road supervisors throughout the state
to have burned all hiding places for
Chinch bugs and other harmful in
sects along every road, and particularly
along fences and beside culverts.
In tostimouy whereof ( have here
unto set my hand and caused the Great
Seal of the state to be hereto ftixed at
the capitol, in the city of Oklahoma
City, this thirteenth day of December,
A. D., 1912.
LEE CItUCE, Governor.
BENJAMIN F. HARRISON,
Secretary of State.
F
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LEAPS HID VERSE
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 23. With
poetry and prose the Germans are
rallying in a battlo of wit and humor
in answer to a satire on the German
trained Turkish troops, written by
Captain Ceorgo Steunenberg of the
United States army, who is stationed
at Fort George Wright, in Spokane.
Captain Steunenberg, hailed ns the
poet laureate of the army, recently had
the Kiplingesquo verses published in
the Army & Navy Journal, calling
forth a note, with the Steunenberg
name, on the envelope, from General
Leonard Wood.
The first to enter the lists in op
position to the captain is Arthur von
Pulaski of Spokane, formerly a German
officer and at one time colonel in the
service of the sultan. After declaring
that the Turkish army is no longer
disciplined by German methods, von
Pulaski designates the Steunenberg
verses as the "penny-ante sort." He
suggests that the captain's literary
talents might profitably be directed to
ward composing a good marching song
for the army.
Meanwhile, Steunenberg, being an
army officer, has said nothing, but the
world Is having a good laugh ov his
swinging verses.
And now Stanley Mayall, a promi
nent Spokane manufacturer, leaps
lightly into the saddle of Pegasus with
the following:
"Oh, hark you Onkel Samuel; Von fur
across der see.
Ilier kommt ein voice in answer. J nut
hear einmal to me.
Vielleicht we jetst can fight' no more:
und zu ftt are to run.
But we can do some odder dings be
sides use sword or gun.
"Und der is more als Frenchmen, wot's
got a lot of Gaul,
In fact when first such stuff kamaus.
der Yankee got most all;
Und Strassburg pies und Munich bier
und candied fruit from Metz,
They ain't no fitting fighting food
which Kaiser Will forgets,
"We got a scent called eau de Koln,
and auch de Limburg cheese,
Und from our Holstein cattle, we cut
Hamburg steaks mit ease;
We have some 'Maus Towers auf der
Rhine, und rats-kellers to show
Und sauer kraut und lieb fraumilch,
und udder dings also,
"Und vonce if I get real matt, I'll take
me in Dachshund dog,
Und drop him in der wurst machine
und grind him cop in-cog;
Und feed him to the Yankee bard wot
says we can not light,
Und give him such a nightmare his
life's cur-tailed mit fright."
Hat She Laid Down is Sold for Quarter
Steubenville, ()., Dec. 19. If Miss
Nannie Green ever attends another
rummage sale she will go bareheaded.
Miss Green, active in charitable and
social work, was one of the promoters
of a rummage sale to give poor folks
a chance to buy cast-off articles cheap
ly. She served as a clerk and laid
her $50 hat near a counter where sec
ond hand millinery was being sold at
25 cents.
An Italian woman picked up the
hnt with the query:
"How much?"
"Twenty ?five cents," said the hur
ried clerk.
The triumphaut daughter of Italy
walked out with her bargain. When
Miss Green looked for her hat on
leaving the blunder was discovered.
Judge Connors to Be Delegate.
McAlester, Okla., Dec. 18. The
Pittsburg county farmers institute in
session here today elected Judge J. P.
Connors of Canadian, former president
of the state board of agriculture, as a
delegate to the state institute at Still
water, which will elect a new state
board of agriculture under the pro
visions of tho Russell amendment
adopted in November. The institute
memorialized congress to encourage a
rural credit system.
Win. McCain, aged 97, died in Cali
fornia on the 16th of the present
'month. Mr. McCain lived near Vinita
for many years and will be remem
bered by all the old settlers here. It
was the earnest desire of Uncle Bill
McCain to live a century and he came
near doing it.
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FULLBLQOO LEASES
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Judge Ralph E. Campbell Rules on
Indian Case Against the
Government.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 21. Judge
Ralph E. Campbell in the United States
district court yesterday decided that
a deed which had been given before
May 27, 1908, by one who inherited
from a deceased full blood Indian does
not need to have the approval of the
secretary of the interior to make it
valid, but is valid if approved by the
judge of the. county court, who has
charge of probate matters. The de
cision involves the titles to a large
number of allotments. If it had not
been decided contrarily, in favor of
the United States upon whose patt
the suit was brought by John B, Mc
serve, assistant district attorney, the
titles to all those lands would have
been invalidated.
The ruling of Judge Campbell also
is contrary to a decision given by the
attorney-general lu 1909, when he held
that tho deeds must be approved by
the secretary of the interior before
they could be valid. He held that the'
act of congress of 1908 did not apply
to these Indians.
Judge Campbell's decision was giv
en in tho case of the United States
against Knight and Ashley. He sus
tained a demurrer to tho government's
petition. An appeal will be taken to
the circuit court of appeals.
Tho case is one of tho many that
tho government is filing in an attempt
to settle tho land titles of the eastern
part of tho state.
OKLAHOMA NEWS IN BRIEF.
The state tournament for checker
players wilt be held in Oklahoma City,
December 26-28. The checker cham-.
pionship of Oklahoma is claimed by
A. S. Morley of Vlan.
The attorney general's department
has given an opinion to the state su
perintendent of public instruction that
both majority and minority schools
participate in tho state school fund, in
proportion to per capita.
An original case was filed in the su
preme court by the town of Bristow
against Sapulpa involving validity of
tho county seat election recently held
in Creek county. Fraud is alleged In
every voting precinct in Sapulpa.
The Pioneer Telephone and Tele
graph company has appealed from an
order of tho corporation commission
requiring it to pay to the Twin Val
ley and the Glenco Telephone com
panies 25 per cent of the charges made
on in and out business the Pioneer
company puts through the two ex
changes named. .
The State Federation of Labor and
the four railway brotherhoods will
have a joint board meeting at Okla
homa City during the fourth legisla
tive session, urging the passage of fohr
bills. Brotherhood committees have
been in session several days trans
acting general business and elected
members of the joint board. Tho board
will ask an eight-hour law for womcu
and children, for a semi-monthly pay
day, for a full crew bill law, to require
railroad companies collecting hospital
fees from men employed In Oklahoma
to maintain a hospital within the state,
and for a workingmen's compensation
act.
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HOW FAR IS IT
CHRISTMAS?
TO
By Wilbur D. Nesbit.
How far is it to Christmas?
It's across the Land of Dreams,
where are the laughing valleys
and the ever-singing streams,
and up the hill of doubting and
along the road of smiles until
you reach the border of the land
of otherwhiles.
It's far away, and near us; it
is there I make you understand?
You lio awake and whisper, you
count and count the days, and
try to bring it nearer in a hun
dred varied ways!
Already you have seen it in
a gleam of Joy afar, have seen
its joy approaching in the
twinkle of a star; you hear the
beils that jingle and the clat
ter of tho hoofs that time a song
of gladness as they gallop on the
roof's.
How far is it to Christmas?
It's not so far away for all I
know, already you have and hold
the day; it has no season; it is
not set apart, but sends its
blessed sunshine to every little
heart.
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FOR SALE Lot 13 in block 30,
size SO by 1S5 feet, west front. One
block west of North park. This is a
bargain. Apply at Chieftain office, tf
APPROVED
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