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BBKPBWW' v$ ft" ki ONLY PAPER, In the CITY, of more than 3.50U. Peoples, anr has the bigest circulation of any and all oth cr papars, in the City, combind. Vol. 10 KREBS. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY 14th. 1921. Number 23 HAPPENINGS FSffl OHM STATE A REVIEW OF EVENTS Or THE WEEK IN OKLAHOMA REVOLUTIONARY LANDMARKS THE OKLAHOMA MINER r n V' PATROL SYSTEM ADOPTED Four Hnrdsurfaced Federal Aid Pro jects Working in Kay County Is the Report Ponca City, Okla. Noithein Ok'a Jiomn is undergoing a levival of load building and toad repairs, perhaps the most active campaign in lecent yeais. New road building machinery is be ing installed heie and elsewhere in this district and government tractuis are being brought in to help in the "work. Representatives ot road building machine houses say the sales never weie better to townships and counties. There are three haid-sui faced, fed eral pioject loads being constructed out or Ponca 'City, at the piesent time, and one south toward Ponca City from Newkirk and the diit ioad3 are being kept in fine shape partic ularly tlio'iO that have been designat ed as state roads. There also is a paved road being built irom Tonkawn south to the Salt Pork river bridge and ono recently was completed souh from Blackwell. In Noble county, just to the south, the patrol system Tor keeping th roads up is being installed by Vei non Curl, county surveyoi. ,Under this plan one man with a team is given jurisdiction over twelve miles of load, on which he devotes all his time, receiving $7.50 a day. The serv ice is continuous throughout the year and It will relievo the f aimers of load work during the busy seasons. Curt expects to get the entire county oi ganized. TRAP TO CATCH WHEAT 'Man,jCts 1,500 Bucnels CSrrtea Sown In Swollen Creek Ponca City, Jack Polk, .a -fanner living in northwestern Kay county, will thresh this summer the biggest amount of wheat in proportion to the acreage planted of any fanner in the United States, if not in the entire world, he claim:. Polk has a ten-acre field of wheat, but will have fully 1,500 bushels when he thieshes. Recent rains, swelled the creeks in that locality until they over-flowed and and put numerous bottom fields of wheat under water The current of the stream caught wheat from vaiIou fields and moved it downwaid wiTh the flood. Polk streched chicken win across the stieam at an angle of about ihlity degrees so that the water would carry all the wheat to a poin between the wire and the bank. Polk stood theie with a pitcbfork and as the wheat, oats and barley came down stream he threw 1c out on the bank until he had enough whe-u to thiesh 1,500 bushels to say nothing of some oats and barley. WINS LOW RATE FOR GAS An Increase to 30 Cents Per 1,000 Feet Is Refused Bartlesvllle The state corporation commission has sent notification to A. O. Ilairison, city attorney that the Quapaw Gas company has been grant oil a permanent rate ol 20 cents a 1,000 cubic leet for industrial use and 25 cent-i for domestic consumption, which Is an average slightly In ex cess of 23 cents a 1,000 feot. The Quapaw company, which sup plies gas to the Bartlesvillo Gas and Electric company, which in tuin sup plies Uartlesvlllo consumers, hud asked a gate rate of 30 cents, their former rate having been 19.7 cents. Mr. Harrison is ot the opinion that the row gate rate will mean u decid ed induction in the rate now being paid by the consumers, OSAGE OFFICERS ON JOB Vacancy Caused by Death of Commls- sioner Elect Nat Filled Piiwhuska, Okla., Five new Osage county ollicinls should have taken oHtliu of office, hut because of th death of one of (he successful oandi UatoK the personnel uiJhe new hoard of commissioner Is a matter of speculation pK$u i Wr-wf :K Rsf J'hM A I TT -yr " nr- - : m TT1 I 1 1 r When h fli 'it m.tn uied in Hie Revolution Wounded in the light on Lexington Common, Jonathan HarritiKton era, 't 1 to tl'f ilocistep ol s liornp and fell de.ul in the entrance just as his wife opened the door. The Harrington house, nhlih has 1 n iMtf kllv j rva p1, 13 at Lexington Mas l.rft-UiFtor c oi.l-f.ikhloupd home of Paul Recre, from which the patriot started on his midnight tide to warn the peo ple of Boston of the arrlvnl of the British soldiers The old house, situated In the North End, Boston, Is visited frequently b tourists H'uht Wast.lnptonN headquarters In Georgetown This qunlnt two-story structure was the headquarters of George "Washington during 17C0, when he was a jureyor. The structure was at that time a wstynlde inn of the main stagu coHcli ro.ul II 1b lotiatnctid of uat!e bouldeis, and Is said to be as solid today ns when built. The new incumbents were MHs Ella Malone, county school superin tendent, Edward Phelps, county treas uier, S. E. Tates and Henry R.Adams, county commissioneis. E. II. Simpkins was elected as com missioner but died before qualifying, ieaving no succeo&or to W..T. Leanv who lefuses to continue in office. Mr. ! Simpkins' succeessor has not been named. Muskogee Has Jelly Factory Muskogee, Muskogee now has the only jelly factoiy in Oklahoma. Tt was started last month by J. W. Hale, John Poitor and V. Trueman and now is mo ing to larger quarters to accom odate the increased business. dozen workers are putting up 1,5 quaits of jelly every day, and capac ity will he increased, owner believe. Gun Falls; Man Is Shot Sapulpa, Okla, Tom An arte, Filsco railroad conductor was shot acciden tally through the hip, Walters Has Big Dean Crop Walters, Okla.. If. Druiy, a farmer residin, northeast of hero, has the laigest ciop of beans in Oklahoma, it is repoited. Last Apiil ho planted fifty acies of Mexican beans, and ac cording to bis estimate, he will pro duce ?3,750 worth. lie will thresh nis crop with a regular threshing ma chine, running at half speed. Prdicting Decline In Oil Tax Gross pioduction taxes in Oklahoma will come to $100,00 this year a com pared with $1,300,00 a year ago, Frank Carter, state auditor, declrpd The drop is due to the fall of o 1 pricees, according to Carter. The state in now getlTng 3 cents a barrel tax on oil instead of the 7 cents of a year ago. The lowest prices of oil and oil pro ducts quoted ho far in the state were given by Bill Williams of Grandfiold, who during a visit to tho state audi tor recently remarked Unit gasoline is selling for 13 cents a gallon there whllo coal oil is retailing for 3 cents a gallon. Gioss pioduction taxes paid so far tills yoar come to ?D 1.000. Rally to Help of Auditor Frank Carter is receiving holp from two or his hrothor state officials In the maintainanco of his office, OKLA HAS 191,987 FARMS 173,250 Farmers are White Men snd 10,737 are Negroes. Oklahoma has 191, 937 farms, which is one-thirtieth of all farms m tnu United States, and ranks this start seventeoth among the states accord ing to a report of the bureau of ten sus of the department of comnieice. for the year 1920 There are 173,250 white farmers in Oklahoma and 1S.737 negro fanner?, assuming the numbers of larmeis to bo the same as the number of taims. The increase of farmers in Oklahoma since 1910 was 1,735, while tlu in ciease in the entile United States was 8G.861, which is 1.4 percent. "Oklahoma lanus flist In number ot Indian larmeis with a total of 5,301, which is three times as many as New Mexico, which is 1,832. The number of foriegn-born while farmers in the United States in 1920 was less than 88,502 than the number in 1910. The deciease in the number of German-bom farmers alone was 81,118. The total number ol foreign boin white farmeis in 1920 was 581. 051, as computed with GC9.55G in 1910 The number of foiiogn born white larmcrs in Oklahoma diopped liom 7,7-18 m 1910 to 5.790 in 1920. Accoiding to the census lopo-t, the cause for the decrease in foriegn-born while farmers was duo to the world war during half tho ton years census period. NEW PAWHUSKA MAIL HEAD Dsparture to De Made From Old Rule Of Sdcot.r.j Applcank Pawhuska, In the apointment of a postmaster for Pawhuska a depaituro will bo made fiom the old ruling of selecting the applicant making the highest grade In a civil service ex amination. Under tho foimer rullnrc the postmastership was lillotl by pres idential appointment ot such appli- cant. Under the new administration I the president may appoint any one of three applicants lor a postmastership , making the hlghost grade. - The civil service commission has been asked to hold an oxamlnation o fill the vacancy caused by tho resig nation of Charles M. Hirt, which post now is being filled by Jtoiyor Vernon : Whiting. Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents ssssrvi By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright lftO. by James Morgan.) A GREAT FRIEND 1861 March 4, Abranam Lincoln inaugurated sixteenth pres ident, age fifty-two. April 14, Fort Sumter cur rendered. April 15, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers. 1862 Sept 22, emancipation proclamation. 1863 Nov. 19, Lincoln's Gettys burg address. 1864 Nov. 8, Re-elected precl dent 1865 April 14, shot by John Wilkes Booth. April 15, dittfJ, aged fifty- five. O- o rpilE stone walls of the White JL House no more shut Lincoln In ' from his fellows, from their hopes and sorrows and pride, than did the urliewn logs behind which he shivered in tho cabin home of his youth. Ono night he dreamed that he was In a crowd, when some one recognized him as the president and exclaimed In surprise: "He is a very common look-1 Ing man." Whereupon he answered: "Friend, the Lord prefers common ' looking people. That Is the reason he makes so many of them." i Lincoln liked people, nnd ho nlways kept In touch with the mass. He did not have to take tho word of pollti- f clans or newspapers about what the country was thinking. Ho went to the source. I As he finished his dally wrestle with j senators and the'blg-wlgs, ho plunged with zost Into what he called his "pub-1 He opinion hath." Seated In his chair, with ono leg thrown over its nrm, ho I received tho motley crowd that poured ( In through the wldo open door of his ollice. Those who approached him In awe found themsolvos at onso In Ao presence of a friend, whose manner said to every one what he said In a speech to a regiment: "I happen tem porarily to occupy this big' Whltej House. I am a living witness that i W& &$ Abraham Lincoln. any ono of your children may look to come here as my father's child has." Tho mnn fairly exhaled democracy, fraternity, equality. Frederick Doug las said that Lincoln was the only white man lie ever met who did not show consciously or unconsciously that he recognized his color. Sympathy flowed In n constant stream from its fountain In this great heart. A mother's tears, a baby's cry, a father's plea, a crutch or an empty sleeve never failed to move Lincoln. "If he hns no friend, I'll be his friend," ho said as he stopped the shooting of a soldier, under sentence of a court- martial. "My poor girl," he said to a woman who pleaded for the life of her soldier brother, "you have come hero with no governor or senator or member of congress to speak In your cause; you seem honest nnd truthful and you don't wenr hoops, and I'll be whipped If I don't pardon him." Lincoln's ofllce was. nlmost bis prison cell through four ti'rrl&ie, years. The shouts of his two little lioys at play always were welcome notes of joy to their care-weighted father. lie never objected to their noisily bursting in upon him, and often he joined the children in their boisterous games in the White nouse grounds. In the dnrk days when the nation Itself was at death's door, one of tho boys died. For weeks the grieving father strove In vain to win a spirit of resignation, dropping his work for u day at a time and surrendering to his sorrow. Doubtless the fortitude ho gained at last In that wrestle with hlnifolf became part of the heroic faith which lifted him above the general despnlr whon tho fortunes of tho Union sank lowest. After Willie's death, the other boy received a double share of paternal af fection. Tad was In the habit of going to his father In the evening and mak ing a report of all that had happened blnce morning, usually falling asleep In the midst of his prattle. Laying tho little fellow on the floor by tho side of his desk, Lincoln returned to his heavy tasks until his own long day was done, when he took his sleeping boy on his shoulder and carried him off to bod. I WIMMWF'" " rwwiiTrwtt.,miniiiili O Q. s W I R o 2 Ltd 0 z Sow 1 O 2 " a.