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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Teachers Needed.

Washington, Nov.-The Bureau Of
Insular Affairs has received a cable
gram from the governor general of
the Philippine Islands indicating that
probably 300 teachers will be required
at the beginning of the next school
year, which opens in June. These
teachers will be selected from among
those passing either the teacher" or
assistant" examinations, which are
held semi-annually by the United
States Civil Service Commission. The
Assistant examination is a higher
grade than that for teacher, and ap-
peals more TO those having the benefit
OF college or university training. Spe-
cial examinations will be given during
the Christmas holidays. This exami-
nation will be open to the wives,
frances or other women who are near
relatives of those already in the SER
vice or candidates for positions as
teachers The age limits are 20 and 40
years. The bulk of the appointments
will be made at the entrance salary
of $1,000
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
FAVOR CENTRAL BANK
Financiers Believe That a Strong Cen
trail Institution Would Solve Pres
ent Money Crisis.

Washington, Nov.-Details of many
new projects for improving the cur
rercy arc being submitted to the presi-
deGt and Secretary Cortelyou, and are
receiving such attentions as the other
eXigencies of the financial situation
permit. Measures which are being
discussed among bankers and men,
bers of Congress may be roughly
groupedunder four heads: A central
bank of issue; a central organization
of the existing national banks; the
issue of additional circulation against
various classes of bonds other than
United States bonds; and the issue Of
circulation upon general assets with
the security of a guaranty fund. The
project of central bank based upon
the general outlines Of the Bank Of
France or the Imperial Bank of Ger
many, has apparently been attracting
more attention of late than at any pre-
vious time in recent years.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dako-
ia, who is a member of the Finance
introduce a bill for such an institution.
Mr. Wexler, vice president Of the
Whitney Central National Bank of
New Orleans is openly in favor of a
central Bank and says the New Or
leans press is generally with
him. Those who favor central bank
point to tie recent crisis as the best
evidence of the aid which it could
have afforded had it been in opera
ton.
Their view is that the national banks
would have been able to re-discount
their paper at such an institution and
obtain its notes to any amount neces-
sary to relieve the strain. 1t is con-
sidered somewhat significant in some
quarters that Mr.. Ridgely, the control
Ter of the currency, had just declared
for central bank of issue after having
in previous reports recommended only
a general credit currency for the exist
ing banks. The utterances of Mr..
Ridgely are not, however, considered
to commit the administration.
1t is so long since a central bank
existed or was even seriously discuss
ed in the United States that there
much difference of opinion as to the
details of the organization. Those who
advocate it generally insist, however
that the secretary of the treasury and
the comptroller of the currency should
Js,,.1 ArI
of Directors and that the president
should appoint or approve the selection
of the head of the bank.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Fifteen Billions.

Washington, Nov.-Fifteen billions
of dollars represent the value of the
annual production of manufacturers in
the United States. After careful es-
Inmates made by experts Col. John
McCarson chief of the Bureau of Man
ufacturers, was able to make this
statement in the annual report of the
operations of his bureau, made pub
lie Saturday. The figures do not rep
resent finished products entirely, but
include products in various stages of
progress. The exports of cotton cloths
declined more than $21,000,000, this
loss being entirely in the cotton trade
with China.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
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Essentials

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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Oil Fields Are Rich.

Some of tie richest oil fields in
America are in Oklahoma. The Glenn
Pool oil district, south of Tulsa, be-
tween Red Fork and Mounds, has be-
tween $50 and 500 producing oil wells,
with a total capacity of 100000 bar
rels a day. The first of these wells
was sunk in December, 1905. Pipe
transportation of this oil to the Texas
sedboard and to the refineries at Whit
ing, Ind. More than $10,000,000 has
been invested in tanks, pumping sta
tons, and pipe lines in Tulsa county.
Eastern Oklahoma, which is not so
uniformly even as the western portion
of the state, produces more than
100000 tons of coal year, for
which its mines receive about $6,000,-
900. The coal field extends from the
vicinity of Tulsa on the north to the
Texas line on the south, and is more
than 100 miles broad. The state con-
tains about $50 coal mines, employing
about 10000 operators.
The principal rivers of Oklahoma,
all of which flow toward the south
east, are, naming them from north to
south, Arkansas, Salt Fork, Cimarron,
North Canadian, South Canadian.
Wachita and Red.
The government acquired what is
now Oklahoma more than a century
ago under the terms of the Louisiana
Purchase. Early in the century the
government set this land apart for
the segregation Of the various Indian
tribes, then being driven west by the
advance of white settlers. Hence,
while Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ne
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Governor.

lands of wonderful capacity oil wells,
asphalt beds of great worth, and all
of these practically undeveloped to
say nothing of the vastness of her op-
portunities to the tiller of the soil.
The story of the rise of two dozen
other Oklahoma cities with popula-
tons exceeding 10000 is almost
synonymous with that of the rise of
the metropolis. Such cities as Guth-
rie (the state capitaD, with $4,000
population; Tulsa lin the center of
the oil fields), with 10000 population;
Muskogee, Ardmore, Lawton, Shaw
nee, Enid, South McAlester, Vinita
and Ell Reno are battling enthusiastic
cally for commercial supremacy, and
present indications are that all these
cities will grow and prosper, each
supported mainly by those farm lands
for which it is the natural 'outlsG to
market. The casual reader may won
der how so many large cities can be
supported by mere farms. The fact
is that Oklahoma has 100000 farms,
most of them worked by their owners,
for hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
cans have invested their small saw
ings in Oklahoma land and are getting
rich with the state by filling the soil.
Six out of every ten farmers in Okla
homa own their own homes. Most of
them live upon the land them home
steaded. Landlords are rare in Okla
homa.
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Ingenious, But UnavajIino.

Wilton, the five-year-old son n,
Lackaye, the actor, has inherited the
brilliant mind for which his father il
distinguished.
Not long ago Mr.. and Mrs Lackaye
who spent the summer at Shelter
Island Heights, were invited to attend
a card party and the young son was
anxious to accompany them.
His mother insisted that he should
remain at home with Mary, his gov.
erness, but Wilton persisted and as a
final argument he said:
Mamma, 1 think Mary is Chris.
tian Scientist, and might be taken
sick in the night"
The argument was not effective.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
New Mexico Favors Canal.

Chicago, Nov.-"With New Mexico
admitted to the Union as a state by
itself, the project of ship canal from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
will be advanced by the votes of it's
United States senators and congress-
men," declared Governor Curry Of
New Mexico. The governor, who is re-
turning from Washington, left for the
Southwest. Statehood for New Mex
leo seems a very near fact" he said
81 am assured that President Roose-
welt favors our coming into the Union.
The chief obstacle is the opposition of
Speaker Cannon, who, l am told,
thwarted our desires last winter"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Shot Two.

Kansas City, Nov.-No charge has
yet been preferred against General R.
G. Horne, the stakeholder and editor
ial writer of the Kansas City Post,
who Saturday shot and wounded o. D.
Woodward, president of the Post Com
pany, and H. ]. Groves, managing edi-
tor of the paper. General Horne is be.
ing held at the police matron's Office
of the city hall. awaiting the outcome
of the injuries suffered by his victims.
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Metropolis of New State.

The largest city on the Oklahoma
side is Oklahoma City, with a popula-
ton of 10000 and 40 miles of asphalt
pavements. Muskogee, in the Indian
Territory has population of $4,000,
which represents a growth from $500
people in 1900. The new state will
have 700 banks, of which 275 are ma
tional, the latter with deposits of $780,
100000; 23 cottonseed oil mills, more
than hundred flour mills, so daily
papers and more than 400 issued
weekly.
Oklahoma alone had in 1906 sc, 1908
families, of which more than $4,000
owned their homes, and of these 50,-
600 were free from mortgages. The
average price for Oklahoma land in
1906 was S1S25 per acre, an increase
of 1925 from the previous year. The
new state has thousands of acres of
unappropriated public domain, coal
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

ulation is concerned any more than 1t
is as far as its agricultural products
are concerned. Northerners, south
erners, fasteners and westerners
mingle tremendously there, all grow
ing prosperous together. Every state
in the union is represented by at least
500 natives.
substantial evidence of the intel
lectual worth Of Oklahomans generally
is the number of modern daily news
papers which they support. Further
more, they have good schools, libra
ries and churches.
Oklahoma has modern public
school system supported by the in
come from a $95,000,000 public school
fund and local taxation The "35, 000,-
600 fund" consists of 3,100,875 acres
of land, valued at $30,000000, the in
come from the rental of which
amounts to about 100000 per year;
and $5,O00,000 paid into the school
fund by Indian Territory in lieu of
land, all of the 3,100,S75 acres being
in the former Oklahoma territory
The original act opening Oklahoma
territory to settlement reserved in
all that section of the territory then
thrown open sections Is and Sc in
every township for the benefit of the
public schools of the future state.
Each successive act provided for SINH
lar reservations and the statehood en-
abling act made additional grants to
the higher educational institutions, re-
sulting in the big total above named.
The state will decide whether the
school lands shall be sold. All pro-
ceeds from sale of the school lands
must be turned into the school fund
and forever remain intact.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
He Was Grateful.

David, a boy of four, was being
taught to express thanks when the
occasion demanded. When he neg.
lected to do so the other members Of
the family would ask: What do you
say, David?" which would always
bring forth the desired results. One
evening recently David and the young
man who is to marry his sister were
sitting on the front porch.
well, David" said the young man,
II guess I'll marry Sue and take her
away. What do you say?"
Thank you," returned the boy pe
litelY.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

Lieutenant governor, George Bellamy.
of Ell Reno; secretary of state, "Bilr'
Cross, of Oklahoma CitF, whose
friends say he would not be recog-
nized if referred to as William
Cross" treasurer, J. B. Menefee, of
Anadarka; attorney general, Charles
West, of Enid, and chairman of the
commissioners of corporations, J. ].
McAister.
The state in primaries has selected
to represent her in the senate the first
blind man who has ever sat in that
body. He is T. p Gore, who lost his
sight when a boy in Mississippi,
where he was born. He has served in
the territorial legislature. Robert
Lee Owen, who will be elected as the
other senator, is totally different
type. Born in Virginia, he is one
eighth Cherokee Indian, and is locked
upon as an extreme conservative. He
distinguished himself as a lawyer by
earning a fee of $4,000 in a single
case. Both these men have been
chosen by the Democratic primaries,
nAISu 10 ClulN dlCuL W SlGSlIOA
by the legislature. OF the representa-
tives Bird S. Mcclure, fur some years
territorial delegate from Oklahoma in
congress, is the only Republican of
the five elected. Others are E. l.. Full
ton, brother of Senator Fulton, of
Oregon, Second district; James s.
Davenport, Third district. Charles D.
Carter, Fourth district, s:and Scott
Farms, Fifth district.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA.

n al and hio combine
Oklahoma will be twentythird
population.
$500 miles daily news
okahoma's Oklahoma City, forty asphalt
okhomas constitution is biggest
thousand
wide prohibition is provided In
constitution and
municipalities
$3.50 part Indians
them highly civilized
Oklahoma year.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Passing of the Indian.

wild Indian camping ground.
Passing of the Indian.
AS recently as 35 years ago the
American people generally knew of
Oklahoma only as a haunt of Indians
and hunting ground for big game.
Early in the eighties white settlers,
who had overrun Kansas and the new
middle west states, began to investi-
gate Oklahoma. They found the new
territory rich and appealed to the
government for the opening of it to
settlement. The government did not
readily act upon the request, and
many of these whites, becoming impa-
tient, entered the reservation forcibly
and set up their homes They were
driven out, but repeatedly renewed
their efforts, and many clashes with
soldiers occurred.
But these pioneers, then looked
upon by the government as outlaws,
finally persuaded congress to open
Oklahoma to settlement. Hence, the
names Of these same outlaws" have
been immortalized in Oklahoma his
tory.
At the time of the opening all of
Oklahoma, except that portion taken
from Texas in the Greer county bound
airy dispute and the narrow strip be-
tween Kansas and Texas, extending
to the Colorado and New Mexico lines,
was included in the Indian Territory.
Oklahoma territory, which was held
by the government for the use of the
Indians, but had never been assigned
to any tribe, consequently consisted
in those days of only about 100000
acres. There occurred the first great
rush for homes, which brought into
existence Oklahoma City. From time
to time the government transferred
other portions of land from the Indian
Territory to Oklahoma territory for
settlement by whites, until, when the
OklahomaIndian Territory statehood
bill passed, all that remained of In
dian Territory were the reservations
of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Chero-
kee, Creek, Seminole and Quapaw
tribes.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Where Others Failed.

each spring for five or six years
broke out with kind of Eczema
which nothing seemed to relieve Der.
manently. Finally l tried a box Of
Hunts Cure, which promptly cured
me. Two years have passed by, but
the trouble has not returned"
Mrs. Kate Howard,
Little Rock, Ark.
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President Of Constitutional
Convention.

house, United States quartermaster's
house, stage Office, and a small build
ing used as hotel Between noon
and sunset of that day Oklahoma Sta
ton became a town of 5000 people.
Within month 1,169 buildings, many
of them ugly, temporary affairs, were
erected
And so Oklahoma City has contin-
ued to grow until it now claims pop
ulation of $4,000, modern schools edu-
eating 9,484 children this year, as
against 1875 last year; buildings Tin
Guiding ten-story skyscrapers) aggre-
eating in value $4,000, 900; banks
having an aggregate capital and sur
plus of $1,060,834 and deposits aggre-
eating $6,549, 600; post office receipts
in 1906 aggregating Sal 500, and
freight tonnage into and out of Okla
bona City in 1906, 1928, 246,902 tons.
Factories are springing up. Oklahoma
City this year has 2,347 factory en-
ployes, a gain of 531 over last year;
and 1,176 jobbing house employees, a
gain of 230 for the year.
State Is Democratic.
Oklahoma will probably be Demo
cratic in politics for some time to
come. The governor-elect, C. M. Has
kell, of Muskogee, received majority
of 81 900 votes. The state will cast
approximately 100000 votes, of which
number from 10000 to $4,000 are by
negro voters. The majority for pro-
hibition was about 10000. OF the IL
Republicans in the constitutional con-
vention six came from each side of the
new state.
Gov. Haskell is one of the newer
residents of the state, having gone
there, from Ohio. Other officers are;
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Don't DO Il.

Should you have a cough, cold or
sore chest, do not rely on time and ma
ture to cure. They may do so-they
may not. Use Simmons Cough Syrup
1t is a balm for sore lungs and will
cure you at once.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Drawn from All States.

Probably not more than 100000 of
Oklahoma's 100000 residents are ma
tive Oklahomans. This new state is
not typical of any particular section
of the United States so far as its pop
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

v vlso and Cheerful,
when the kidneyysp sst
eased. U.s.
ba Kidney trouble ha,
s .I1a It IT'S is not uncOn IN.
mon mon for a child to oi b.
born afflicted wiz "
veal bid. "ilu
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

earners. These plants include -four
mills, oil mills, cotton gins, broom
factories, brick and tile works, salt
works, cement factories, woodenware
and carriage works.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Slow Growth of Oyster.

When an oyster is a fortnight Ola
1t is not much larger than the heaa
of pin. At the end of four years
growth it is fit for the table.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Above Sea Level.

The mean height of land above sea
level, according to the most scientific
geographers, is $500 feet. The mean
depth of the ocean is 12,4SO feet.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

male as we'll as male students, and
comprising a college of arts and sci
ences, school of medicine, a school
OF applied science, school Of pharm-
acy, a school of mines, a school of fine
arts, and preparatory school. The
campus, consisting of so acres, lies at
slight elevation, overlooking the
South Canadian river. University
hall was built five years ago at cost
of $4,000. Science hall is new
building, So by 1875 feet, of gray
pressed brick. The university is also
provided with library building given
by Andrew Carnegie, and a gymnasi-
UNI, So by 100 feet. There are four
other buildings, two of wood, devoted
to engineering work, and two devoted
to the anatomical laboratory
The other advanced public educa-
tional institutions of Oklahoma are an
agricultural and mechanical college,
three state normal schools, univer-
sity preparatory school, a colored
agricultural and normal university,
and a school at Chilocco, on a reser-
walton containing $500 acres of agri-
cultural land, for the education of In
dian boys and girls in the higher
branches of learning.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Amazing Natural Resources.

Within its borders Oklahoma is
known to have vast stretches of coal
lands; natural gas, also, is abundant,
while the states resources in salt, as
phalt, oil, granite and marble, building
stone, zinc, lead, copper, gold and tim
Der, place it among the most desirable
sections of the country for investors
Eighteen years ago this great new
state was a cattle range and Indian
hunting ground
The first rush into Oklahoma was
on Monday, April %, 1889. On the
morning of that day Oklahoma City,
the present metropolis of the state,
then known as Oklahoma Station,
consisted of half dozen small build
ings, the Santa Fe station, section
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28

Fine State University.
The head of the public school sys-
tenn of Oklahoma is the state univer-
sity, located at Norman, open to fe-
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Women as Well as Men Are MAJ
Miserable by Kidney and j''''
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the ,..,
discourages and lessons ambitio,s ne mind,
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-11-28
Color Line Drawn.

Color Line Drawn.
The supervision of instruction is
vested in a board of education, of
which the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction is president and the
governor, secretary of state and at
torney general are members ex-officio.
A color line is drawn on negroes in
Oklahoma, separate schools being pro-
vided for negro children, but with the
same accommodations as the schools
for white children. Education is COM
pulsory
The Chilocco Indian school is one
of the most interesting educational in
situations in Oklahoma. About 5000
of its $500 acres are in cultivation,
the rest being in meadow or pasture
land. This school has 700 to 500 stu
dents. 70 instructors, more than 40
buildings, and is known as the best
institution in the Indian service for
imparting practical agricultural
knowledge to Indians. In addition to
agriculture, stock raising, dairying,
ETC., all other lines of industry are
taught at Chilocco.
Oklahoma has more than 1900
manufacturing plants, representing in
vestments aggregating $25,000,000,
and giving employment to 10000 wage
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braska, Colorado and other Louisians
Purchase states were being populated
Oklahoma remained for 80 years a
wild Indian camping ground.