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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
FARM VALUES SHOW
A MARKED INCREASE


Special to the Express.
Washington, b, G., Dec. Census
Director Durand issued today the first
official statement from the census bu-
reau relative to the agricultural sta
tistics Of the state Of Indiana collected
at the thirteenth decennial United
States. census, April Is last.
The director calls attention to the
fact that the summary's figures are
subject to revision later owing to the
fact that a number of farms whose re
turns are incomplete will be included
in the final tables. These additions
will not, in all probability, materially
modify any Of the amounts Of rates
contained in the present statement.
Per Cents Of Increase and Decrease.
1t IS pointed out in the statement
today that the principal rates OF in
crease in Indiana in 1910, as against
1900, are. In the average value per
acre OF all farm land alone, "a per
cent; in the total value Of all. farm
land alone, 9S per cent in the average
value per acre Of farm land and build
ings, 92 per cent; in the total value
OF farm land and buildings, SO per
cent; in she total expenditures for la
Dor, S5 per cent, in the total value Of
buildings alone 72 per cent; in the to-
tai value Of all farm implements and
machinery 50 per cent; in expendi-
lures for fertilizers, 40 per cent; in
average acres per farm, ? per cent;
and in the total improved farm acre
age, per cent.
The principal rates Of decrease in
1910 as compared with 1900 are In
the whole number Of farms, 9 per cent;
and in the total farm acreage, n per
cent.
The statement shows, in detail that
che number Of farms reported in 1910
was 2l4,74l as compared with 221 ,S97
in 1900, decrease Of 1856, or 3 per
cent
The total value Of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as 81,
590,225,OO. as against $s41,7S5,oOO in
1900, an increase, of s74s,49o0OO, or IS
per cent.
The total value of the farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as Slips,
475,Oo0, rs compared with $6S7ess Oot
in 1906 a gain Of SCAT s42 900 or 81
lner cent.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

The total value Of the farm build
ings alone was given in 1910 as Sea-
10000, as against $154,1O2,000 in
1900, an increase Of $l1O,64S,OO0, or
~ per cent.
In 1910 the value OF the farm land
alone constituted SO per cent of the
total value Of land and buildings, as
compared with 81 per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was 40,SS0, 900
in 1910, as against $27,S3O,O0 in 19OO
a gain Of $1s, s,55O,OOO, or so per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 2l,264, COO acres, as compared with
21,62O,0Oo in 1900, a decrease of $780,
GOO acres, or , per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to l6,9O3 200
acres, as against 16,6SO,OO0 in 1900, an
Increase Of 22S.OOO acres. or / per
cent. IN 1910 the improved acreage
formed 70 per cent Of the total acre
age, as against n per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 80, as compared with 81 in
1900, gain Of acres, or 2 per cent.
Average Value Fer Acre
The average value per acre OF farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$40, as against ss9 in 1900, rise of
$S6. or 90 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
, land alone in 1910 was reported as
se2, while in 1900 it was $32. the
amount Of gain being $50, or "a per
cent.
OF the whole number. 214,741. OF
farms reported in 1910 there were 21s,-
ss7 operated BY white farmers and SOL
by colored farmers, as compared with
a total Of 22l,S97 in 1900, Of which
220 ,SS5 We're conducted by white farm
ers and ,062 by colored. The decrease
in the number of farnis Of white farm
ers during the decade amounted to G..
sos, or 3 per cent. and in the colored
25S, or "a per cent.
The to:al number Of farms operated
in 1910 " owners, part owners. and
owners and tenants, comprising tbs
all owners class, was 14S,OOl. az
compared with l56,227 in 1900. a de
crease OF S,226. or per cent.
The total number conducted in 1915
by cash tenants, share tenants, ane
leash and share tenants. comprising ths
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
Dramatic Club to
Present a PLAY

The Chickasha Dramatic club Will
give its first play this season Wednes-
day evening, December IA, under the
auspices Of the local lodge Of Re-
bekahs. IA Tramp's Tribuiation" Is
the comedy which the club members
will present and 1t Is as laughable as
its title would lead one to think. This
is the second year of the Dramatic
club and 1t is now in shape to give a
first class performance.
Outside ol actual expenses the tottl
receipts Of the play will go to the l.
o. @. + Orphans home at Checotah,
Okla. where seventy-eight homeless
children are being cared for Among
this number are the three Hyder chill
dren Of this city, in whom many Chick
asha people have taken a personal in
terest.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
SHORT COAL
WEIGHTS
Local Dealers Register
Complaint ntRemedy
is Suggested
To the Daily Express.

To the Daily Express.
Guthrie. Okla, Dec. Numerous
complaints nave come to the commits
sion informally. relative to short
weights Of coal received at Chlckasha
over the various lines Of railroads
lending into the town, ana ugon freigh.
charges being exac.e6 on mine
weights. which in the majority Of in
stances amount 70 much more ihan 4
the charges were assessed on destlna-
lion weights.
Rule ! Of corporation commissions
order No. 2 as amended b. order No.
IS provides as follows;
The marked capacity OF any car
shall be the minimum weight. except
when cars are loaded TO full visible
capsciy. in which event actual weight.
but not less than 10000 pounds shall
govern. when low capacity ear had
been applied for or ordered, and the
initial carrier for any reason has been
unable to furnish same, a notation to
that effect shall be made on the way
bill and on the bill of lading BY the
forwarding agent The capacity Of car
applied for shall be the minimum, un.
less actual weight is greater. in which
event, actual weight shall govern.
Destination weights must be accepted
and the charges must be assessed By
the carrier or carriers on basis Of
weights ascenained at destination"
The rates as prescribed by commits
sion's order No have been enioined
in the federal courts, but the rules af
fecting the handling OF coal are unim-
paired by federal Injunction
The commission Is insisting upon
all railroads to carry out the require
ments Of this rule in the matter Of as
sessing freight on destination weights
OF coal instead OF upon mine weights
and is citing the railroad companies
Cor contempt for violation OF this or
der IN every instance where 9; Is
shown that the railroad companies are
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

s'all tenants" class, was 64,451, as
against 6S,44S in 1900, a gain Of 1908,
or per cent.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 2,2S9, as
compared with 2,222 in 1900, a gain
of 81, or per cent.
The total number of farms operated
by the @all owners" class in 1910
formed SO per cent of the whole num-
Der Of farms, as against 70 per cent
in 1900; those conducted by the .all
tenants class in 1910 constituted 80
per cent, as against 20 per cent in
1900; and the number operated by
managers made but per cent in both
1910 and 1900,
OF the total number, 14S,001, Of
farms operated in 1910 by the "all
owners" class, there were 91,213, or e2
per cent, owned, free Of incumbrance,
and 56,7Ss, or SS per cent, mortgaged.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

violating this order and computing
freight en- mine weights instead OF
destination weights, fines will be as
sessed against them IN each instance
OF from 500 to $500.
II the railroad companies leading in.
to the city Of Chickasha persist in dis.
obeying this order. complaint blanks
viii be furnished any citizen OF the
city on application, and whenever a
complaint Is filed the railroad company
affected win be cited for contemps, and
after a fun hearing Of evidence, PEN
alties win be assessed against them.
such as the evidence may warrant
Section Asa ot snyder's Compiled
Laws, 1903, provides that the railroad
company shall be liable 10 the con
signee for all deficiencies in weight o.
coal less han natural shrinkage, which
shall not exceed one per cent fox
$50 mile haul or less than one and one
half per cent on more than $50 mile
haul, and that the measure Of damage
Of consignee for such deficiency or
shortage, shall be the value OF the
deficiency If the freight has no. been
paid
The value Of this shortage is a mat
ter over which the commission would
have no control except in the matter
Of computation OF freight charges.
The paragraph from commissions
order No. ., above cited. requires that
freight charges be assessed upon desi-
nation instead OF gane weights, and
the section Of the statute just referred
to requires the railroad company to
make good the difference between the
mine and destination weights in the
matter of the value Of the coal The
consignee should, therefore, demand to
be allowed to pay freight charges on
destination weight and should also
bring suit in the local state courts Of
Grady county for the value Of any
deficiency between the mine and desti,
nation weights. less the natural shrink.
age as SET forth in section 4S4 of the
statue
Yours very truly,
JE. LOVE,
Chairman Corporation Commission
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

Special by United Press.
Washington, Dec. with plans
matured to extend in every possible
way the scope Of its work, the Ameri-
can Civic association will hold its
sixth annual convention in this city,
December IA. Is and Is and it is ex-
pected that great number Of dele
gates appointed by the governors Of
the different states and delegations
from affiliated societies will be in
attendance.
Addresses at the session Of the con-
vention will be made BY experts in
various lines Of civic work A defi-
nite policy for the advancement Of ma
1ional parks and the creation Of state
parks win be advocated by J. Horace
Mcfarland. president of the associa-
tion. Among the speakers who will
discuss the planning of cities will be
Frederick Law Olmsted Of Brookline,
Mass; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, sec
retary Of the National Municipal
League Of Philadelphia; John NolensSf
Cambridge. Mass. George B. Dealey
OF Dallas, Tex, Arnold w. Brunner Of
New York and Harold J. Howland Of
New York
The propaganda of the Civic asso-
citation includes campaigns against the
disease-bearing common house iy and
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
For More Beautiful
And Sanitary Cities


the mosquito, and the sessions OF the
convention Friday afternoon will be
devoted TO the subject of the typhoid
fly, with Edward Hatch, Jr.. of New
York, chairman Of the fiy.fgRting
committee, presiding. DR.. Woods
Hutchinson of New York will have a
paper on ''Why Is the Fiy?" Another
speaker will be Dr. L. o. Howard, CHIEF
Of the bureau Of entomology Of the
department of agriculture.
The smoke nuisance and the bill
board problem will be made subjects
of special sessions and win be con-
sidered from the standpoint Of their
legal control. Several Of the most
striking phases OF the work Of civic
societies viii be discussed by some Az
the best known women OF the coun-
try, including Mrs. Caroline Bartlett
Crane Of Kalamazoo, Mich, who is an
authority on the care OF streets; Mrs.
Edward w Biddle, president OF the
Federation of Pennsylvania, and Miss
Louise Kline Miller. curator OF the
School Gardens OF Cleveland
Tie american Civic association waa
organized in St. Louis durSrs The
Louisiana Purchase Exposition and
was formed by a merger ct the Ameri-
can Park and Outdoor association and
the American League for city lmprove
ment
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
Annual Election
Of |. 0. 0. r. Officers

The annual election Of officers in
the l. 0. O. F. at the regular meeting
last night resulted in the following Sc
lections W. A. Langston, noble
grand; NJ. H. stoddard. vice grand; A.
Haight, secretary; }. G. Neal treas
urer, and }, A. Rose, trustee of the
lodge.
There We're over hundred men
present at last nights meeting, in
cluding an Oklahoma City visitor, and
the session was very interesting
enc
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

Harold Macklin, the architect, has
returned from Ada where he has been
supervising the construction Of the
new Oklahoma Central station which,
he says, will be completed next week.
Mr. Macklin contradicted the report
appearing ma local paper that he had
the contract for the o. @. station in
Chickasha. He had not been informed
that the contract for the station here
had been let.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
EUTERPEAN FRATERNITY
MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT,

The Euterpean Fraternity will meet
on Friday night Of this week AZ the
home Of Mrs. b, p smith. The les
son will be on Corot. Keats and schu-
bert. and the three great men viii be
discussed by Miss Mary Wilson. Rev.
a. p. Johnson and Miss Elizabeth But.
Ter, respectively.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
POLICE COURT TODAY.

Judge Grigsby disposed Of cases as
follows this morning. Julia Norris,
Joe Purson,. John Thomas, Robert
Clarris, drunk, each SIS; Maud Wilson,
Louisa Dillard, immoral conduct, in
Iail
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

Miss Ethel Dunn entertained few
friends most charmingly at any oyster
supper last evening at the oRse board
ing house.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07
4 + + + = = = y = = y = =
WEATHER FORECAST.

= For Chickasha and vicinity: To 1
, night and Thursday generally 4
+ fair; warmer tonight.
= + I. ! : = ! = = = + = = = -
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

Mr., and Mrs. E. D. O'Nein Of Pc
toskey Mich. who has been visiting
for the past. two weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Higgins. left last night
for Douglas. Arlz. to spend the win
TER
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. King have moved
into the Grand Lienard cottage. cor
ner Fourteenth street and Iowa avenue
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-07

M McCfaclSen Of Lawton was an
out Of town Woodman al the M w. A.
last night
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
SURPLUS WILL
Be 100000
Treasury Department Has COL
IeCted Half a Million This Year
More Than in 1909.

Treasurer Conkling will have eight
hundred thousand dollars in the terri.
torial treasury on December 81, after
all the bills for the year have been
paid, and this amount will be carried
over to 1911 as a surplus. The amount
of legislative mountaineering at the
very idea of this mach money lying
around should be also a record.breaker.
In spite of the fact that the matter
of license moneys and such is now a
question for the counties, the treasury
department has collected during the
year just ending over half million dol.
lars more than it did in 1909, the exact
figures to date being 1858, Ol3 10.
This in spite of the fact that last
year the license money amounted to
100000 and this year it amounted ia
only $1,000, and in spite Of the fact that
the amount received in penalties, costs
and interest on unpaid taxes was much
less than in 1909, showing that the de-
partment owes its increase and its Ger
tain surplus to the fact that its EN-
ployes rustled in the taxes and made
the people dig up.
The greatest increase for the year
came in inheritance taxes, which beat
the year before by $4,000. The sale
of revenue stamps Jumped from $4,000
to $4,000; fees from corporations and
copartnerships went from six to ten
thousand; insurance licenses and fees
increased and the amount received from
banks as interest on funds deposited
doubled.
On June 80 last the announced sur.
plus was $69S,O0O. There is now current
cash on hand. $l,O9O,O 900, and, after the
counties get their cleanups ana all the
bills are paid, there will be $4,000
left as a net cash balance to begin the
New Year on.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
DIAMOND HEAD
SITE LIGHT
Taft Sets Aside Part Of Military
Reservation for Commerce
Bureau.

The Diamond Head lighthouse and
site have been transferred to the De.
partment of Commerce and Labor Of
the United States by executive order
of President Taft dated at the White
House, October 13, 1910. Governor
Frear yesterday received a copy of the
order which is countersigncd by Maj
Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff.
All of Diamond Head. and much of
the surrounding public land, formerly
owned by the Territory, was taken over
by the war department Fort Kruger
was established on the mauka slope
where Notifications were established
the crater has been cleaned out, the
upper lip of the crater back of the
lighthouse has been galleried and the
signal ana fire control station installed
there and by military order no one is
permitted to go upon any part of Dia-
mond Head without pass from the
military authorities. Now comes the
executive order setting aside u part of
this domain to the Department of Com
merce and Labor The President IS
order follows:
1t is hereby ordered that the follow
ing.described portion of the military
reservation of Fort Ruger, situate at
Diamond Head Island of Oahu, Terri
tory of Hawali--all public lands com
prised in which reservation were tenn
porarily withdrawn from sale, entry, or
other disposition for military purposes
by Executive Order of January Is,
1906, as modified by Executive Order
of July l, 1909, c. o. l4S, w. D., July
10, l9O9)-be and the same is hereby
transferred to the Department of Com.
mcrce and Labor, and set aside for II
lighthouse reservation, viz:
Beginning at point which is 1857
feet distant and bears N 72o 32' "a"
w (true), from the Territorial Trlg.
Station Kaauau (said Trig. Station be
ing marked by concrete monumenO
the boundary line runs by true bearings
and distances as follows:
|. S 7So 05' r, 1870 feet, along the
Diamond Head Road;
9. S So O6' L, 1875 feet, along the
Diamond Head Road;
3. Due South, 300 feet, more or less,
to the seashore;
4. Westerly, along the seashore, to q
point ON said seashore which is distant
200 feet, more or less, and bears s So
02' w, from the point of beginning;
5. N So OF f. 200 feet, more OF
less, to the point of beginnin. Area;
. acres, more or less.
WIN. II. TAFT.
The White House, October 81, 1910
By order Of the Secretary of War:
LEONARD WOOD,
MajorGeneral, Chief of Staff.
Official:
HENRY P. MCCAIN,
Adjutant-General.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
SCHUYLER MAY
Be PROMOTED
To GENERAL

SAN FRANCISCO, December lin.
ierest in army circles is eentoring upon
the appointments to be made within the
next few months to the grades of major
general and brigadier.general, vacancies
for which were created by the retire.
ment OF MajorGeneral Dlvall and
Brigadier Generals Walter Howe, Il. ID.
Thomas, @, l., Hodges and +. X. Bard.
The general consensus Of opinion is that
Brig Genl Arthur Murray will be made
major general some time in January,
upon the retirement Of General Duyall,
IN which event Lieut. Col. o. j. Bailey
will probably be- appointed chief of tho
coast artillery corps with tho rank OF
brigadier general. One 0f the nppoInteea
10 a bHgadlef generalship will probably
he Col r. NJ Weaver Other possible
nppoinlees are COL } w. Duncan, SiEth
lnfautry, apd col Walter 81 schuyler
rim layalry hfh appointment
viii be made should Brig lenl Fred
enek fuaslou be made major gensrsi.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
REVISE SCHOOL
PAY UPWARDS

revision of the public schools sal
airy list for teachers, upward, is being
made by Superintendent Willis Y
Pope and other members of the depart
ment of public instruction, Mr.. Pope
returning from Hilo yesterday from a
meeting held there with school officers.
There is a general plan to increase
the pay of school teachers and revision
of the entire schedule is under way for
presentation to the Legislature. I he sal
AIRY will be graded, as usual, by certifi.
Gates of which there are three grades
but in the case of the third class certifi
Gates there will be higher minimum
than heretofore, an average of about
5000 per annum beng struck.
While in Hilo Mr.. Pope investigated
certain rather intangible charges which
have been preferred against School In
spector King, one being that at one time
recently he spent nine whole days in
Hilo. Mr.. Pope interviewed the news.
paper editors who had written editorials
about Mr.. Kings long stay in Hilo, but
got little satisfaction, as the editorials
were based on the general talk about
town.
1t seems that Mr.. King did stay in
Hilo nine days His explanation is that
he had lost his baggage in which were
all his school papers, and this caused
the major part of his delay in delight
full HilO.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
NJ CANDLESS IS
ALSO IN DARK
No Knowledge of Water Grab
Impression Growing That an
Error Has Been Made.

The impression is gradually getting
around that there must have been some
misunderstanding in regard to the bill,
said to have been introduced in the
Delegates name in the house and by
Senator Carter in the senate, whereby
the rights Of the Wahiawa Water Com
pany are invaded by the company
; formed to carry through an irrigation
project for the Oahu plantation, spon-
sored at Washington by John I. Nc.
Crosson.
Il. H. McCandless, who is vitally in
terested in the Oahu irrigation scheme,
states that he has absolutely no idea
of what Is meant by the Washington
cable received on Friday by Castle A.
Cooke. He discussed the matter YES.
terday and is as much puzzled over the
report of bill TO head off the Wahi.
ava Water Company as are the others
of that company themselves. 81 don't
know what it is about" he said. az
wish l did. -
The ones behind the proposed Koolau
tunnel scheme may find it necessary
war department and may have asked
for them, while the bill for the Kan
ditch, which carries a fifty.year fran
chinse and right-of-way may have been
confused In some manner with the res
ervarlon bill
On the eve of his departure for Wash.
ington, Mr.. McCrosson stated that his
big idea was to secure the passage of
the Kau ditch bill, not necessarily in
the form it was drafted here. but in
such form as to permit the construc.
tion of the ditch. Among the several
with whom he discussed the Kau ditch
bill and his trip to the National Capt..
tai, he gave no intlmation of any other
big scheme on hand
Frank T.. Thompson announced spe.
officially that he and his associates in.
tended to center their efforts on the
Kau bill. In discussing the opposition
developing to the bill in its present
broad scope, he announced that the dis
cussion pleased HIM immensely, as
through it all there was only a general
endorsement of the Kau plan, all the
opposition being to the general features
of the measure.
THAT opposition to the bill may or
may not be justified" he said. eff
congress thinks it is, then let them
amend the bill to make it a specific
one, dealing with our proposed ditch
alone. l am free to confess that We
are selfish enough to be thinking of our
own ditch plan and not bothering our
selves particularly about the general
features of the measure. If congress
doesn't like the bill as it stands, by
all means let them FIX it. We intend
to do nothing to create any block to
the Kau ditch plan. We will devote
our work to that feature of the bill
and let congress do what it pleases for
the people of Hawaii regarding tho
rest of 1t. We are satisfied with the
bill as 1T stands, but if the people here
want to have it deal with the Kau
plan alone, so be it,
From the manner and words of both
promoters, it is difficult to conceive
of them having in the background a
bill that was certain to create opposi.
ton, not only to it but to the other
project.