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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
Irrigation
National Laws Hold
Good in Oklahoma
spociai to DAILY Leader

Special TO Daily Leader
Woodward, okla, Nov 20-Tho hrs
litigation requiring an Interpretation
Of the national irrigation laws in an
Oklahoma court was prosecuted De
fore Judge j. l.. Pancoast a the term
now holding al this place. The cour3s
decision IS Of interest 20 persons ia
Western Oklahoma who are using oI
contemplaung using the waters oi
flowing STREAMS for irrigation pur.
poses.
In 1887. before Oklahoma was open
ed TO settlement Colonel C. ID Perry
OF Englewooi, Kas built a ditch from
point in Beaver county one mile
south Of tho Kansas state Lne TO a
point nve miles above the Kansas
line. to condrct water from the Cim-
arron river to 1900 acre tract Of
lsnd which Colonel Perry owned and
proposed to irrigate in the cultivation
OF alfalfa. wheat. barley and cane The
ditch had a flow of fourteen cubic feet
Of water a second and provided an
ample supply Later, and at iifferent
times. other persons built bitches
above and below where the Perry
ditch tapped the Cimarron Only a
few Of these bitches were maintained
permanently Al this time there are
about six practical and profitable
ditches
The irrigation Right.
Last spring a syndicate began the
construction Of ditch on the south
side OF the Cimarron in oklahoma to
irrigate 1000 acres OF land. This
syndicate ana others asserted prior
ity Of right each over the other to the
use OF the Clmagron water and also
set up the claim that the water could
nor ha taken from the Cimarron IN
Oklahoma and conducted for irrigation
purposes into Kansas. The case was
argued before Judge Pancoast by a
number Of the leading lawyers IN ok
lahoma Judge Pancoast heli that
the first appropriation OF water actu-
ally used in irrigation for agricultural
purposes gave uhe owner of the ditc-
the priority Of right to the extent OF
the volume Of water carried in the
ditch and that subsequently each per
son who built and maintained a ditch
established his priority over those
who came after him.
Judge Pancoast said that the righ,
to water for irrigation purposes was
set forth in the laws OF congress, be-
ginning with the act Of 1866; that und-
or this eet state or territorial lin 8
were not recognized in The di5tribu-
tion and use Of water for Irrigation
purposes. ami that The western por.
tioqs Of Kapras aud oklahoma were
in the irrigation region ia the mean
Inc OF the irrigation laws. A case was
cited showing that the Kansas su.
preme cour, had HELD the irrigation
3dAh to ut ppNA niAff ~ RiAi II NeNAANy
Kas. where the Perry land Is situated.
Judge Pancoasts position bredght
Western Oklahoma for the first time
iudiciully under the irrigation Jaws of
the United stNtes This irrigation
right was freely recognized ana es'
tablished, however. by he irrigation
statutes enacted by the Oklahoma leg
islaiure in 1897 The decisions seem
ed 10 be satisfactory 20 the Il !sants,
and Il Is bar ~ probable thai the case
will be appealed
The Results OF Irrigation.
In that portion Of Beaver cmn y
tributary to the Clmarron river irri
vatfou Iitrhcs have incrpagad In uum
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

Special to Daily Leader.
Lawton, Okla, Nov 20.-Tho grand
Jury returned twenty-five indictments
against farmers in the vicinity OF Rich
ards for forcibly removing the proper
ty of an oil company that was oper-
ating upon their claims The sheriff
has the warrants for their arrest and
has notified them. About thirteen OF
them gave bonds In the sum OF $500
each A few weeks ago the oil com
pany put up machinery upon their
homesteads and beCan drilling for oil
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

II you have a bad cold you need a
good reliable medicine like Chamber
lains Cough Remedy 20 loosen and
relieve It, ana TO allay the irritation
and Inflammation Of the throat and
lungs The soothing and healing prom
critics Of this remedy and the quick
cures which II effects make il fav
orite every where For sale by the
Eagle drug store.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

W. c. Bniwell is establishing q
ginseng farm near Cleveland Durine
he week he received from Houston
No, 21.o0o ginseng seeds. This is q
new industry entirely IN Oklahoma
adm SO far as known Brldwell is The
arst man to attempt IT'S culture here
He holas that Cleveland is in com
para lively the same latitude ass Hous
ton, Mo- which is the scat of the I'M
dusiry In the west and Believes that
the plant win thrive equally as well
in Oklahoma.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
case lnvelvea u. .ooo.

Special to Daily Leader.
Oklahoma City, okla, Nov 90 u
II. Everest, as referee, is taking eyi
dence in a case. involving $4,000, OF
the First National hank. Of Sulphur
Springs. Tex. against the Kansas City
Live stock company The question in
yolved is priority OF mortgages on
$3.50 worth Of cattle fed IN Oklaho-
ma City last winter The cattle were
sold and the money is now in the
hands OF The receiver awaiting the
decision Of The court in the case
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
KIIIea IN FaIIInn In . IA.

Special 10 Daily Leader.
Oklahoma City Okla, Nov 20
John Fountain, young man, whose
home is at Joplin. Mo, fel in fit
on the sidewalk here yesterday after
noon ana, striking his head on the
pavement caused concussion of the
brain, froa which he died at csc
O'Clock, after being removed to st
Anthonys hospital Fountains par
ents. who are said to be wealthy. live
at Willow Springs Mo.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
onsr % RuIId Inserurban.

op0CIuI 70 HdIIy AVlIIEI'
Teoumseh, Okla, Nov 2o-J. II.
Burbridge and Charles Henry TWO
Denver, (Coij capitalists at a clti-
zcns mass meeting last night sub
mittei q proposition for the construc-
ton aud maintenance Of an inteyur-
ban electric line connecting this city
and Shawnee An answer, probably
favorable, win be given at another
meeting Sa urday night
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
They're After Him.

Special TO Daily Leader.
Lawton, Okla, Nov 20.-F II. Spin
ker, a soldier OF Fort sill. was yester-
day shot through the hand and the
hat by some unknown man. This is
the third time spinker has reported
himself wounded by some man whom
ne could not identify.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
Prisoner to ths Pen.

Special to Daily Leader
Lawton, OKLA, nov 2o-sherlff
Hammond will depart this week for
the penitentiary in Kansas with J. T.
Rollins. T. NJ. Cox and John Nooe, all
sentenced tor one year.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

Eighteen months ago John r. Brown
was one Of the best known farmers OF
Noble county Suddenly he became
critically I'M and dled, and a few days
IA cr his sons death followed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

WI y TITS WI = s-'IIIN'
Special TO Daily Leader.
Lawton, Okla. Nov 20-Tho city
council passed a resolution and for
wardei II 10 Washington today ask
ing congress 20 allow them 100 acres
adjoining This city on the nor be
sold at public egctlon. and that the
proceeds Of The land 80 TO public i'm
provements.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20

The claim owners put the machinery
out in the highway The company
never attempted to operate further.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-11-20
The Results Of irrigation.

In that portion Of Beaver conn y
tributary TO the Clmarron river irli-
cation ditches have increased In num-
ber year after year. Nowhere in OLE
Iahoma can better soil be found than
in Beaver county, it's depth often be.
ing forty ana ffiy feet With plenty
OF water. enormous crops may be
grown. bu the uncertain rainfall
makes dependence upon the seasons
precarlous tor tho farmer When
Colonel Perry began irrigahns his
land across the line in Kansas he
coull not ind water at a depth Of
let's than twenty feet In The same
fields water now IS reached al twelve
feet. showing a rise Of eight feet wita
irrigation. He believes that in time
his land win become subirrigated and
the use of an irrigation ditch be Hn'
necessary. Irrigation has enabled
him TO grow a wheat crop OF from
thirty-iiye to hfty bushels an acre
season after season. He regards a
smaller yield as poor crop, He ir
rlgatos Tor wheat IN September before
the land is plowed, and saturates ne
soil TO depth OF four feet, which ina
sures bountiful crop without droI
Of rain from seeding to harvest, FoI
oats and barley the land ,s irrigated
in winter. preliminary 10 plowing n
the sPriag For winter barley. the
land Is watered as for wheat q
seeiing irrigated land much less see'
IS psed than under ordinary condi
lions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
HINTS TO GOLFERS BY Nibluck. New York:
The Baker & Taylor company, 1887 Seven
|! teenth street. -. ..-as4--
LITERARY NOTES.

The Bookman recalls the fact that En-
serson was once a candidate for the lord
jrectorship Of Glasgow university in OPP
sposition to Lord Beaconsfield. The I'M
Sdergraduates who invited the Sage Of
Concord made big and noisy campaign
for him, but as they had, no votes in the
election their campaign served to show
their detestation of Beaconsfield. Emer-
son, however, got a few legitimate votes.
Madame Waddington who wrote LET
tiers of a Diplomats Wife, which has
been very successful, was Miss Mary
King, daughter of President Charles King
of Columbia college. She married Wad-
dington after her fathers death. Wad-
dington's father was an Englishman re-
siding in France, and was brought up
and educated in France, and for years
was in public life, in the cabinet, in par
lament and ambassador for France at
various courts, his wife accompanying
him.
I In Mr. Kitchens novel, Felix he in
PRODUCES us to school: J Of journalism
which Felix attended to learn journalism
from the ground floor up. Felix profted
so little by the lecture that he made a
heroine of female morphine fiend, think
ling she was inspired. The master Of the
school seems to have been an amateur.
w. H. Thorne in his appreciation of
Emerson, in his "G1obe" says: Emerson
was a wild and trackless comet, meant
only to indicate the infinite spaces Of the
horizon, but without any well-defined
orbit, without profound or religious
thought; modest, quiet gentleman, going
among other less modest ladies and gen
| tlemen, all Of them without q religion
but trying to find a new one; excellent
| and many Of them charming people, pro-
vided you yourself are not too exacting. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
Books and Authors
PEPYs

The recent two hundredth anniversary
of the death Of Samuel Pepys MAY 26)
was marked in London by the establish
ment Of a Pepys club. Pepys' literary
tendency having been chiefly directed TO
astronomical feats recorded in his ex.
tensive diary, this club will no doubt be
Of a convivial character chiefly. The
world generally did not show much inter-
est In the Pepys hicsntenary, but it is
very certain that Pepys' literary work Is
likely to receive attention thru another
hundred year, at least. It would seem
somewhat extraordinary that the diary
of a subordinate officer Of the British
government and not very brainy one
either, kept during a period of nine years
in London, should have survived and be
reprinted from time to time in response
to demand for it, even in the twentieth
century. The mystery is solved when
one reads the diary, which is most can
didly written. Pepys was natural-born
small talker and he picked up more tea
table gossip Of the period (1632-17O3)
than a veteran woman gossip might. 1t
Is possible that his wife, of whom he was
very fond, aided him in this part Of the
diary. A prominent feature Of the diary
is the frequency with which Pepys' glut-
tony makes him sick. According to his
own statement he had goat-like digest
ing power, but the absurd mixtures OF
food which he essayed would have sick
ened a goat also.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
A Shorter Course.

One of the topics at the meeting of the
National Educational association in Bos-
ton last week was "The Length Of the
Baccalaureate Course and the Prepare
ton for the Professional Schools" Pres
ident Charles w. Eliot of Harvard and
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Col
umbia presented papers, in which their
well known Views were interestingly pre-
sented President Eliot, after assuming
that young man ought to have completed
his four years Of professional training by
the time he is 25, said that the college
course should come to an end at 81. Stat
ing next that the best age for young
man to enter college is 10, he finds that
there remain only three years for the
baccalaureate work. In Harvard the old
four-year course is now accomplished in
three years, and that, too, without re-
ducing the amount Of work required This
only means that the successful student
will have to work harder than formerly.
Most college men will concede that there
Is a vast amount Of leisure for bright
and energetic student in four-year
course, and that it can be compressed into
three years without endangering health
thru overwork.
President Butler thinks that primary
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14

The state board Of pardons has been
asked to release Norm w. King, the
former Minneapolis police detective who
is serving a well nerited term in states
prison. According to the reports the
board of pardons has been swept off its
feet by the first rush. If King were a
poor wretch who had stolen few suits
Of clothes and had repented there would
be no one to say a word for him, but
because he is a politician, good fellow,
ETC., prominent citizens write and speak
in his behalf. It might be thought from
what was said Of him yesterday that he
was an angel in disguise. From the way
in which the case has been presented to
the board, it looks as If that body were
to be asked to revise the findings of the
supreme court. II the board sees fit to
pardon King it ought to find some other
ground than that which the courts have
refused to countenance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14

for moment to hop from perch to perch
and peep vigorously. / reasoned with this
small fowl for long time on the folly
Of holding fear in the mind, explaining to
him that, as there was no longer any
jungle and nobody was seeking his life.
the fear was out of date and was doing
him injury instead of service. But he
thought he knew better and kept a care
full watch to see that I didn't spring on
him with the club the way the boa con-
strictors and other great snakes used to
do in the tropical forests and jungles of
the Canary islands. In fact his doubt was.
SO great that. his health suffered and he
neglected his bird seed .z,.~
But one day I noticed a change in his
demeanor. He showed much less fear and
in fact some friendlness for me, even to
the extent of picking at a nasturtium
blossom while I was pushing it thru the
wires of his cage. 1 said:
why hello, Brownie, aren't you afraid
I'm going to hit you with club?''
"WeI. I'm getting over it, he said
rather shamefacedly, you see I've been
practicing this canary bird science. -
us that SOP? I asked in a sympathetic
way. what are the principles of bird
science.
why said Brownie, sit is founded on
ascertaining the truth of bird being and
then holding the principles in the mind
until they become realities, instead of the
fear being the reality, you see."
/ made a little movement and Brownie
jumped to the other perch and looked at
me suspiciousy.
81 haven't made a complete demonstra-
ton YETI he said, 'but I'm getting there.
Now when you looked as if you were going
to club me then and the thought Of snakes
and jungles came into my mind (hered-
ity you see) I began to hold the truth
like this: There are no jungles and
snakes; All is secure cage and plenty Of
bird seed See? AS soon as I begin to
believe that I loose fear and then we
get on all right. O., this bird science Is
great stuff
And Brownie uncorked about two quarts
Of very jubilant canary song and emptied
it out on the startled air.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
Now Get to Work.

The city council last night voted to ad-
vertise for bids for 100000 of per cent
bonds and 100000 Of 3h per cent bonds,
the latter being the waterworks bonds,
which must be sold at 31a, If at all. Of
the $3oo,OOO, $4,000 are bridge bonds, for
which there is now no demand whatever,
except a political one. Nevertheless the
council did well, under the circumstances,
to arrange a compromise. It was highly
important that some improvement bonds
be sold and some work done this year.
No citizen who does not get out Of the
beaten path Of his daily trip from office
to residence has any idea of the abomina-
BILE conditions of some of our important
streets, unless he happens to live on or
near them. One look at such streets is
enough to make stranger decide to look
no farther. The worst Of it is that such
streets are so numerous that the man who
would judge the whole city by one OF
them would not be far wrong Mime
apolis street improvements are about ten
years ,belated. Every citizen hopes that
every cent Of the money to be realized
from the bonds will be made to count and
that, too, as soon as possible.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
AN Interesting Piece of Railroading.

AL 1uCCICSGluS 1VSS VI AssSAAA Sss~>~~~9'
The most interesting railway news on
the continent to-day is In regard to the
Grand Trunk Pacific, the proposed new
Canadian transcontinental. A, Canadian
paper describes 1t as conglomerate OF
every idea of railway management From
Moncton to the sea the road will be doml-
mated by the government ownership idea.
since 1T will use the tracks OF the Inter
colonial. From Moncton to Winnipeg.
g. 900 miles, 1t Is to be a government-oWneo
but privately operated road; and from
Winnipeg to the Pacific 1t is to be gov
ernrnentally backed but privately owned
and operated.
Ore of the strongest criticisms made
on tho road Is that the government should
undertake to build with public money the
very section of the road Of which there
is the least need. What western Canada
needs Is a better system Of railways IN IT'S
own territory. It has no need of a 1000
mile line that will run thru unproduct1ve
territory for large part OF the distance.
OF course, it pleases Canadian pride TO
have another transcontinental, every foot
of it on Canadian territory, but 1t Will
not be OF much practical benefit Unless
1t can haul freight as cheap as other out
let's, and that it IS not likely to do II 1t
runs for hundreds Of miles thru unproduc-
tive territory. Another puzzling feature
is that the government, with the Inter-
colonial In existence from Montreal TO
Moncton and Halifax, should build an
other road to parallel it thru a rather
poor country especially as the 1nterco-
lonial is loser by about 100000 a year.
Probably, tho, some sop had to be thrown
to the maritime provinces.
It is estimated that it will cost about
s45 O0O, 900 to build the line from Moncton
to Winnipeg. The government can hor-
row this money at per cent. That means
an interest charge of S1,350,00O year. The
hackers of the plan prefer to look at 1t
as a proposition to add S1,350,Oo0 a year
to national expenditures instead Of an
outright payment Of s45,0Oo,ooo. In view
of the fact that Canada has this year a
surplus Of $13, 100000, they say that the
added expense will never be noticed by
the taxpayers. But this Is not the whole
of the annual charge, for there Is no doubt
that for some years the government Will
have to make good the interest on bonds
for that portion Of the line to be con-
structed by the company with the bonds
partly guaranteed by the government.
This will amount to s450,0O0 a year.
A scheme which would have done west
;ern Canada much more good would have
been the building Of tapping railway lines
in the prairie country, with trunk line
connection to Lake Superior and fleet
of government boats on the lakes to In
sure the prompt handling of the wheat
crop and keep down rates. But provin-
cial politics doubtless had much to dc
with the decision to spend s45,00o,00o on
an unneeded line. Most Of 1t will be In
Quebec and Ontario. No national rail-
way scheme could succeed that did moi
enlist the support of those provinces,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14

and secondary education should be limited
to ten years. This would bring boys to
college at 16 or II. For those who intend
to enter professions the college course
that is a course in liberal education with
out regard to special qualification for life
work-should last two years: the four-year
course being reserved for those who In
tend to be scholars, teachers or men Of
affairs BY this scheme young men would
be thru the professional schools at % or.
% years Of age.
There is no doubt that we must come
to something like the Eliot or Butler
plans. In such working world as Amer
leans are born into the earlier each Of
them can come we'll trained to his work
the better. Ten years ought to be enough
to fit a bright boy for college, and two
or three years in college course is
enough for the man who has to add four
or more years Of professional education
to 1t.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
AT THE THEATERs

. ~ q ~ ID
Lyceun -" Turned Up" and **##*# ** **~
There's not onlya double-bill this week
at the tiennepin avenue playhouse, a dra-
matte prize pa ckage, SO to speak, but
there's farcfal comedy more extravagant-
~ droll tnan anything the town has laughed
at Tor year. Turned Up," we used to
think, set all our rbssa shake because Nat
GOODWIN was so funny. But the Ferris
Stock company proves that fun was in the
farce no less than in the actor. It's a
play OF old expedients, no doubt, like most
good plays. But the mistaken Identities.
the cross purposes, the characters hidden
Dehlnd substitutes for screens, are moved
about so dexterously that one never sees
the strings And furiously absurd as the
tangle gets to be, one realizes all the time
that. It's not impossible for respectable
brother and sister to acquire suddenly an
extra pair Of parents-ore freak and the
other white mans burden. Propriety
ana common sense are deity maintained
as backbone for the story by keeping sew
eral or the most attractive characters con-
vent1onal to the end.
AS Carraway Bones, an eccentric figure
wholly English, Ben. Johnson realized,
with bold discretion, the possible quaint
ness OF the undertaken who married the
widow of living husband. ), A. Byron
Beasley preserved admirably the illuminate
Feasibility of old General. Baltic. Miss
Grace Hayward Grapes her charms be-
meath burnt cork, but Miss Maude Gilbert
has eldom used to better advantage her
uncommon allurementS Of well-bred girl
ishness.
The curtain raiser Of concealed name,
was written by a. local newspaper man
and Is chiefly exploited by a local news
paper girl-a playette with an actorette.
Mr.. Lawrence has piquantly centered the
interest around that baby girl who S
lovable at any age, If only she be natural.
But the piece was designed for vaudeville
purposes. It was presumed. to contain
four specialties instead Of one. Three
holes are therefore patched with make
shift dialogue that. does not match. Need
less obstruction is thus placed in the way
of securing the. sympathy Of the audience
"a problem as difficult in short plays as
In short stories.
Miss Janet Priest is delightfully."- ingeni-
Gus in her baby act" kicking ''kiddish-
ly,' and revealing foundations for a his
trionic future that surpass the, expecta-
tons Of her friends. #,, *
HI. B. Curry.