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Every Official, With but One Exception, Overdrew . His Salary. Tn llio renort of John M. llelnecke, special deputy stnto cxnmlnor, on tho various county officials of To.xnB coun ty, who served from statcliood to Jan uary, 1011, only ono was found who had not at least overdrawn his salary limit, ftccoidinir to Mr. IMnccko's llg- uru's. The one exception wob tho coun ty surveyor, W. A. Ingram, ho Is credited with having conducted his litultipis economleally. and of having kept within tho salary limit, l'art of tho apparent discrepancies aro explain l liv tho fnct that nobody was abso lutely sure what salaries to draw, and all such nro carefully noted by tho ex amtiier. According to tho report of John Mi llelnecke, special deputy statu exam iner. V. A. Ingram, county surveyor of Texas county from November 10, 1007, until January 0, 1011, conducted his otllco economically and kept within tho salary limit. Mr. llelnecke also tiled reports on tho other county ofll ner. but none of them woro llko Mr. Ingram's. Somo of thorn had only ovcrurawn a few dollars, according to his figures, some oio claimed to have helped themsolvcs to several thousand ilollnr nf tho county money, and ono is alleged to havo been removed for habitual drunkenness, ami ono is charged with having hidden his books so that they could not bo checked up. An alleged discrepancy of $3122,30 was found In tho accounts of J. J. Flan agan, which ho paid Immediately. On tho other hand, tho oxomlnor says that he had troublo In ilndlDg tho books or tho sherllT, T. M. Latham, and that "they were secreted, but traced to n local bank, and one ot them secured." The roport charges tho sheriff with havlnc overchnrocd and collected Ille gal and excess fees In tho sum of $2515.09, between Juno 18, 1000, and January i, 1011, mid It Is recommended that bo bo ordered to turn over his books to his successor at onco. Ono reason that Mr. Uclnccko gives for tho overdrafts in salary is, that while tho county only contained obout 10.000 Inhabitants, tho county olllcors woro imylnc themselves almost as much as thoso of Tulsa county, with u population of over 35,000, and a total valuation In excess of J30.000.000. In fact, ho finds that tho ofllccrs wero gonorous to themselves, and In his ro port on tho county commissioners, states, "That In allowing O. E. Hun ter, chairman of tho board, $203 50; It. D. Stratton $75, nud Al Lawder $3L0O for overseeing the building of flvo or six small bridges, It wos certainly a generous allowanco on their parts in their own beholf." In addition to that, ho finds that Hunter is $217.80 overdrawn, Stratton $171, nnd Lawder 122.00, most of which, ho states, was Included in milcaco to adjourned nnd special meetings, and for Junketing trips to Guthrie, McAlestorand ooa ward His figures show that W. O. Grow, county Judge, is overdrawn $210.00 on bis salary, duo to his having taken n raise during tho term of ou'eo; that II. II. Denman, county superintendent, from October 15, 1000, to January 1, 1011, was overdrawn $0O.P3, and that Georgo T, Payne, tho Urst county su jierliilendent, was nut only overdrawn $300.37, but that ho had been removed by tho board of county commissioners on a chargu or habitual drunkonness. The report finds that J. F. Nuwsom, olerk of tho district court, drew $1,028.15 moio than was proper, but that It was in nceordanco with tho or der of the court that ho draw his fees undor tho federal feo bill. County Attorney V. G. Hughes Is claimed to havo drawn nioru than was duo him, by erroneously computing his salary, and County Clerk I.. IS. Sliced is charged with having drawn erroneous salary to tho county's loi or $178 70. Hut tho man charged with having drawn tho most from tho county Ille gally Is It. 8. Cox, roglster of deeds, who Is credited with having over $3,01)0 that ho oliould return to tho county. Tho charges aro mostly for making Heaver county records, $1,121,05, nnd Indexing them, $1,003.88. Tho exam incr narrates that tho last time tho book b woro seen thoy woro lying on tho lloor in tho Janitor's room, nnd that on tho samo nlgltt, January 0, 1011, tho court houso burned to tho Kround, absolutely dostroylng them. It Is claimed that the work was with out authority of law, and entirely use less. Oklahoma!!. General Contractor and Builder A snccialtv of Interior finish, stair work, store fronts. Highclassof neatly mado, trimmed and upholstered burial caskets, cement side walks, foundations etc. backed by an encyclopedia of high est authority and years of experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference on request. Shop on Main Street. Ilesi denco phono No. D2 3-0 tf 8. 8. BrnoNO, lleavor, Okla. Market Going Up. Ono load of broomcorn Monday sold on tho market hero ror $110 and there is every Indication that it will bo high er by tho last or tho week. Wo aro In rnriiied bv reliable men that buyors aro offering as high asSI23 Tor several piinma nrnns iii the country. Tho man ufacturers nre nultlnit up n good de mand Tor hurl, and to fill thoso orders, buyers Imvo gone out as little brush is yet coming In lii're. There seems to be a tendency to hold tho brush for bailor prices. Tho market here haB not yet received enough or llrstquallty hurl to establish a lirlco. Tho bulk of tho brush sold so far, has brought from fnn m inn. and a fow loads havo sold for less. Sevornl of tho buyers say that the prcont price will hold only long enough for thorn to got tho first ship ments out to tho cast. "Then," tney av. "thev will havo lllled tho Immedi ate demand, nnd brush will go back where It belongs, at not moro thnn $100 per ton. It may even go lower." Areola, Sept 16. Not enough corn yat sold In this district to establish a market price. Two crops sold at Mat toon, III , Saturday nt $120 a ton. Ono crop of eight tons sold Tuesday near Areola for $100 for straight and 100 f.ir prnnkeil. Farmers nro stiff and don't namo any price. Practically no buyors In this district. Don't look for thlncs to oncn un much hore for a wook. If any corn Is bought my it will uo nt fancy prices. Weather Is good nnd corn looks flno. Harvesting now In full blast. Halko, Okla., reports cutting over, acreage about half of last year, finish Is good length, markot at $00 to 180, with upward tendency. Paola, Okln., reports acrcago of 10 per cont, with all tho best corn Bold, tho top bringing $1 IS. Tho first lot of 30 bales sold at Elk Oily, Okla., brought $03 per ton. Kingfisher, Okla., reports practically uo crop, owing to drouth and light ae rt'iu'u. At Lindsay, Okla., tho price for new brush this week ranges from $10 to $80, whloh Is somowhnt of a contrast with tho $140 paid ror tho first load or extra quality marketed thcro twoweoksago. Tho first crop at Sayro, Okla. sold Tor $75 per ton, according to tho Lind say, Okla., News. Lawton. Okla.. reports acreago or 50 percent., nnd it will take 15 acres to mako a ton. Now brush selling from .T5 to 100. Tho entire crop from Law- ton to KIk City is said to bo very poor this year. About 5 per cent ol mo oiu crop is still on hnnd. There is said to bo no hroomcorn at all this year nt Frederick, Okla. Avard, Okla., this year has Just atnrtpd niilline. Tho new brush Is dis colored, and first crops have brought $00 Liberal (Kas.) Democrat. Intcrurban Line. DkAn EniToii! Fearing someone will bo misled I will Btate It was somo time ago that I wrote our Senator In rcforonco to nn appropriation. I was at that tlmo In terested in tho Beaver Valley A North western. It is now for llenvor City to get to work set apart n block for your power house nnd electric plant nnd water works, thon with an extra large cnglno you can run cars part of tho wnv to whatever point you want to connect with tho outside world. Tho town you connect with will meet you half wav on a power proposition. As to dividend, tho printer or I ono mado n mistake, .08 nor cent per annum tno remainder to extend nnd improve- mm anothor suggestion Is each employe of tho road bo a stockholder. I have ocnln written Hon. T. P. Gore nnd as soon as I receive his reply I will let the public know ir it is in tho least encouraging. Hut it is for us all to get busy and put In our own improve ments and nsk no odds of any one. Ouo bnlky man can thwart our best layed plans, but n united effort can do won ders. In tho fublo of the lark "as long ns tho farmer depends on his neighbors to cut his wheat sho did not movo her young. But when ho made up his mind to do tho work him self, etc., tho birds moved," "Homo Creek" nskB tho question, wlipn will wo cet a rnllroad, does any- ono know? Yes, when we go to work and build It and not much before. T. L. How. LAWSON & WRIGHT Beaver, Okla. Home Crcclc. Another nice rln Friday and Friday night. Miss Okla Wright, who is teaching school nt Homo Creek, was compelled to miss (caching a fow days on account of her brother's sickness and denth. Hurrls Price and wife Intend to start back to their homo In Colorado Tues day. Mrs. Lydla Vcnable's sister Is visit ing her at presont. Rnvmnnd Twentler started to the road Mondoy morning with broomcorn. Mis. Hatcher Is on tho sick list this week. Aunt Suo Brazil visited Mrs. J. E. Wilson Monday evening. W. H. Barker has sixty acres or wheat up nice. Mrs. W. B. Barker Is still visiting in Missouri and Arkansas. Bi.ce Eyes. FOH. Abstracts of Title Fire and Hail Insurance Real Estate Exchange k. i BARGAINS! Fon Salk on Tiudk Ono 3-room and one 5 -room residence property in Owaiso, Oklahoma, in oil nnd gas re gion. Will trade for Beaver county land. To Loan $200.00 for ono or two years on farm. J-irst mortgage. Fon Sali: 10 acres In Shannon coun ty, Missouri, 'li miles south of Mon- tecr. Prico, 2UU.uo. xo. m. Fon TiiADE 100 acres 7 miles north of Erick, Oklnhomn. 100 ncrcs good bottom land, nil tillable; running wa t..r. itnml u'nll soft wnter: 60 ncres In cultivation; 10 ncres fenced for pas ture; 2-rooin nouse. ill vniuu lur 'good half section in Heaver county. Fon TiiAnK 35-room Hotel In Foss, Okla , to trade for half-section Beaver county land. No. 20 Fon TnAnK $0,500 Grocery stock ; residence property nnd vacant corner ln .... lint, etrnnt. tn pttv nf Wichita Fnlls. Texas. "Will trade for Beaver County land. lo. 21 Fou TiiAtiK 10 nero Truck nnd Poul try Farm, near Hominy, 0la.; 100 ncres near Fornker, Okla. ; 100 aores In Lincoln County, near Kenilrlck,0kln ; Tnr. llnllBIt mill wnL'Ollg 111 llOlllltlV. Ok- Iniinom Tina luminous lias cleared over $2,000sinco February 1, Hill. Will fndo tlio auovo lor land near ueavor City. . No. 22 MILLINERY OPENING ! Seaurda.y. Sept, 30th. New Shapes ! New Shades 1 LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS. Silverware, China, Fancy Water Sets, Cut Glass, School BooKs, School Supplies. Mrs. W. H. Robertson. Save Your Eyes! v "" Have Your Glasses Filled by one who knows how. I can give you a PERFECT FIT. L.S.MUNSELL,M.D. Elmwood Jottings. Still very warm for this tlmo of year. Broomcorn buyors are plenty. Thoy pay nil tho woy rrom 75 to $125 n ton. Miss Ncttlo Barnhlll went to Beaver City tho first or last week to attend school nt that place until her school commences. Porly Johnson was on tho sick list tho Urst of last week but Is bettor at present. Asa Kilo and Less Lookhart went to Liboral last week with broomcorn for Lockhnrt. Sirs. Groves wns quite sick part of last week but Is nblo to 1m up around tho houso again. Mrs. Howard Steele returned from tho Enid hospital last week. Her many friends aro glad to sco her como homo well again. Miss Elsie Mecso spent part ol last week with Mrs. Asa Kile. Tho charivari crowd mado qulto a racket to greet Mr. ane Mrs. Ed Has kell on Thursday night. Will Bennington loft for homo the lirst or this week after spondlng llvo or six weeks In tho broomcorn harvest hero. Business has been rushing in this neck or the woods ns tho broomcorn seeder pulled to on,e place just as tho threshing machine, pulled away. Miss Jewel Hlrtling spent tho latter part ol Inst week with Mrs. Groves. A good nino-year-old Horso forsalo Broke single or double. Will soil on time, See 0-22 tf A. G. THOMAS. Prize for Big Watermelon. Tim llrnni.n ncaln offers Its nnnual premium of a jeer's subscription to tho imnor for the biggest watermelon brought to this olllco during this sea son Six months subscription for sec ond largest melon. If you want tho IIhiui.i FREE a year, bring in your big melon. 0-7 tr Tho five-year-old son of A. B. Tros ter of Gray, Okla., was seriously Injur ed as n result of on automobile scaring his father's team yesterday morning. The father and son were on tho way homo from town with a 4-horso load of coal and proylslons. When about two miles south of Liberal the it. A. v am or automobile approached from tho rear nnd passed close to tno team, which whirled suddenly and tnrcw fnilipr nnd son from their seat 'I he child wos run over by tho wagon and his leg wns broken near the tiiigu. Tho Injuries nro serious but tho child will recover. Liberal (Ks.) Moralist. Not a Word of Scandal mnrred tho call of a neighbor on Mrs. V. P. Spnugh, or Manvlllo, Wyo., who snld: "sho told mo Dr. King's New Life Pills had cured her or obstinate kidnoy troublo. and mado her reel like n now woman." Easy, but suro remedy ror stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Only 25o nt Fred O. Tracy's. Diarrhoea is nlways more or less pre. vnliint duriiiL' Seiitcmber. Ho prennr ed for It. Chomberlnln's Colic, Cholera ond Diarrhoea Remedy Is prompt nnd effectual. It can always bo depended upon and is pleasant to take. For sale by nil dealers. Water Found in "No-Man's-Lantl." That tho problem of irrigation for tho Oklahoma panhandle has been solved bv tho deen wells drilled by tho state. board of ngriculturo In tho Okla homa panhandle, even though no ar tesian water has been obtained ns ypt, is the opinion expressed by J. h, Cor loy, a member ol tho board, who is in chargo or the deep well work. In tho well at Hooker, which was sunk about 030 loot without obtaining artes'au water, there is now about eight hundred feet of. wnter, which could easily bo pumped up Tor irriga tion iiiiruoscs by tho uso of either windmills or gasollno engines. In sink ing thnt well the drillers went through ncarlv ilvo hundred feet of wnter alto gether, Including several underground stream! or consldoraulo mngnuuue. All of I ho water was found, however, in eraV'il or sand rormatlons, whore there was no pressure to bring It to the surface, and its tho board Is look ing only for artesian water, tho well will bo nbandoned so far as it is con' cerned. According to all indications equal amounts of water may bo ob tained almost anywhero in that vicinity. Efforts woro mado to got the people of Hooker to buy tho casing in tho well sunk by tho board and keep it as it is, but so far they havo refused and the casinu will bo nulled nnd used in an other well. Some delay hns been ex perienced by reason of tho Tact that it will bo nccossary to Bhoot thnt well in order to get the casing out. A thick stratum of quicksand was encountered at ono placo, nud- its pressure on the casing is so heavy that it is impossible to get it out by ordinary methods. As soon as that casing is removed tho drilling rig will bo moved to Carthago where tho fourth of the deop wells will bo started. Tho rig from Floris, where the first well was drilled, has already been removed to Guymon nnd drilling work started there. Oklahoman. The Ideal Steam Cooker! . . .. c..,. . Iinlf the IA1POS5IBLE for anything to Durn. a " - fuel and labor. Cooks thoroughly and deliciously. Cooks everything. Bakes hrcad and cake, and cooks mea. and vegetables absolutely right, retaining all the nutn monr if mn'thesurnassed. Orders taken by ...N...V. .. . C. C. GROVES, g3j waoisoni . "DadlVNPlace. cipqt n ass. UP-TO-DATE Confectionery vid Bakery. Frozen Dainties of All Kinds, Candies, Fruits, Cigars, Tobaccos and Soft Drinks. Wo especially Invito you to try our BltEAD, CAKES, PIES, DOUGHNUTS, COOKIES, MEATS, ETC. everything; to eat. E. H. MANSFIELD. THE SUIT ATORIUM ! For CLEANING and PRESSING, MENDING and ALTERING. .. t t t Tiinr TUmlo Clothinc in Oklahoma, Fit Guaranteed. Orders called for and delivered at tho Harbor Shop. i?! C GRANT lv. Wiuuni. Two good lied Milk Cows, 7 years old, forsalo. Will sell on lime. Sco 6-22 tf A. G. THOMAS. South Sldo Items. x Another lino shower foil lioro last Friday evening. It nlso hailed some. I.lttlo Delia Orlsmnn, who hod her toos chopped olT, Is getting along as well as could bo oxpected. Aura Foster Is building him n now sod houso. Mr. Grecory returned homo from Arknnsas whore lu had been on busi ness, A. M. Rurnam. L. I). Goodwin nnd Doha Carter started this week for Lib eral with broomcorn. I.lttlo Paulino Foster Is reported as being on the sick list. There wns a watermelon pnrty nt Lester Gilbert's last week. There was nbout llfty neonlo thoro. Everybody i seemed to have nil tho melons they . could eat and all report a Jolly good time. Tho other day, The News was Invited to rend n lottor written to n business man of tho city for tho reason that it contained a paragraph that may prove or Interest to tho farmers ol tno coun try, nnd tho paragraph is as follows: "By the way we havo Just received a letter from O. T. Marshall, or Charles ton. 111., a blc broomcorn dealer and n personal friend of ours, who, by the way owns somo western Knnins lanu nt our solicitation, nnd he says that broomcorn now Is 100 per ton nnd that ovorybody thinks it will go to $200 or i-AVi In a fow davs. Tliis may Do of in- tnrest to vour broomcorn people. Thoy nro entitled to nil tho monoy they got nnd It might be well to put this infor mation to them through tho papers; this Information coming from n rolla blo broomcorn man Is worth consider ing. Wo want all tho boys out thcro to got nil tho money they can." Lib eral (Kas.) News. WANTED Goon Uoubrkeei'IKo Mia- msis reoulrcs tho services of a repre sentative in Heaver to look otter sub scription lonownls and to extend cir culation by special methods which have proved unusually succcsslul. Salary nnd commission. Previous experience desirable, but not essential. Wholo tlmo or sparo tlmo. Address? with roferences, J, F. Fairbanks, Good HousoVeopIng Magazino, 381 Fourth Ave., Now York City. 8-31 tf Ads. as Reputation 1 Props a y 1 Let U3 build you an inch nd. in this paper; a col umn ad., a page ad., or any old size ad. Let It tell in forceful terms: VIiat you've got to sell What it's worth Why it's best at that price A) PALACE OF SWUia Kinder l Gosney, Prop's. Candies, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream, Sundaes, Ice Cream Sodas, Fresh Fruit. Everything in the Confectionery Line MMIHM MfrMfrUiifAiUAaiUu u. Such an advertisement in this paper will bring buyers who hardly knew you existe'd before you advertised. iCcpjrtaM, luw, tr w s. u.) Blanks Chattel Mortgage Real Estate Mortgage Warranty Deed Quit Claim Deed Township Plats Release of Real Estate Mortgage , Release of Chattel Mortgage Bill of Sale Blank Books Notes, Books of 25 and 50 Order on Township Treasurer Road Tax Receipt Books Order to Pay Poll Tax Books For Sale by THE HERALD Beaver, Oklahoma rifmi'WlW'siHWlH'MW' 'i . t A iA'