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The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-25
Must Pay Franchise Tax.

Secretary of State Ludwig has mailed to about six thousand corporations do- ing business in Arkansas a copy of the franchise tax law, calling their attention to the fact that this law must be com piled with by July l or corporation charters will be annulled.
 This is for the annual tax gathering that brings in anywhere from $40,O00 to $60,O00 for the general revenue fund.
 Under the construction of the supreme court the franchise tax is paid on the authorized capital stock The law re- quires tax of $1o for companies capi- taIized at $25,0OO; $50 for companies capitalized at $1oo,O0Q to %5Oo,00O; $10O for companies with capital stock rang ing from $500,0oo to $1,Oo0,00O and $200 tax on all companies with author ized capital stock exceeding $1,0Oo,O0O.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-25
EDUCATIONAL MEETING OUTLOOK
Department Receives Many Letters Fa-
 vorable to Project.

From letters received at the office of Superintendent Cook of the department of education, the conference for educa- tion in the south bids fair to prove one of the best patronized conventions brought to Little Rock in many years. Every mail brings gratifying responses to the letters recently sent out by Stu perintendent Cf X, in which the teach CTS and friends of education were mo- tifed personally of the near approach of the convention and urged to get in line to attend
 The thing that universally appeals is the fact that the conference is as much for the business man as for the teacher, and the committee back of the conference is not composed of teachers alone, but of business men who have hearty interest in educational progress in the south
 The conference dases are April 6, : and s, and from the present outlook the attendance will probably reach 2,000. The sessions will be held at the Capital theater
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
WILLIAMS
VERSION OF
THE STORY

J. d. Williams, held in the county
jail, TO await his trial Saturday upon
the charge Of making improper adj
vances TO Miss Lucy Hubbard. yester-
day told the following story:
Il knew Mrs. Hubbard years ago,
when ] was a young man. She was an
old sweetheart of mine and for more
than a year we were engaged but for
a long time had not known what had
become OF her and had been in Chicka-
sha without knowing of her presence
here. few weeks ago | inquired
for her through letter to her
brother at Rush Springs and in reply
learned who she was. That afternoon
when ! arrived here ! called her over
the phone and told her | should like
to see her and asked If / might call
She told me she would see me at the
train the next morning ! went to
the train and did not see her. and then
decided something had changed her
mind I hired an auto and drove out
to the place where she lived. A girl
came to the door, went in and sat
down. across the room from her She
told me who she was and remarked
If you make as pretty sweetheart
as your mother did you will be a
beauty, at which she rose and started
out of the room thought she looked
scared and having no thought of in
sulting the girl left the room. had
been in the room not longer than five
minutes. After ] came back to town
] larned that Hubbard was aroused
and having no wish to become EN-
tangled in a family quarrel | decided
TO leave the town and that is why
left ] was not drunk. | never get
drunk. i am a moderate drinker and
have been all my life. Ny name Is
J. d. Williams AT one time had
another name, but bear the name Of
J. d. Williams and 1t IS that by legal
action
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

County Attorney Robert Barns Of
Stephens county was in the city today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
TAX SUIT
In COURT.
And Twenty Counties are
Involved Barefoot
Appears for Grady


Guthrie, Okla, June 7-Railroad tax
cases were taken up in the district
court yesterday Twenty counties are
involved in the suits which, for con
yenience. have been combined. The
title OF the action taken before Judge
Huston is the Rock Island company
against the sheriff ard treasurer Of
Logan county and others. The Frisco
started some Of the suits.
The proceedings yesterday We're ar
guments on demurrers Of the STATE
and counties.
The suits are to enioir the coliec-
tion of county and district school and
state school taxes for 19O9-l910. There
is statewide tax Of one third of one
mill for general distribution among
schools. This is attacked on the
ground that it Is not necessary and is
hurdensome The phase Of the case
Is county and school district taxes.
1t is claimed these taxes are irrcgu-
lar: that leyies are higher in some
districts than in others, and in many
cases unjust.
Attorney General West affears for
The state in regard to the me third
mill tax and George Henshaw ami the
county attorneys are appearing for
the counties and school districts.
There are fourteen county atto neys
in town and the following made. argu-
ments: J. A. r. Fain of comancne,
Robert Weinbush OF Pontotoc, B. Bare
foot of Grady, P. F. Hamilton Of Jeffer-
son and H. U. Boardman of Blaine.
G. l. Jackson OF Muskogee Is lead
Ing attorney for the road, and is as
sisted by J. R. Bledsoe and A. H..
Smith.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
DEAL
EXPOSED

Springfield, H., June THE testi-
mony of F. j. Traut of Beardstown, to
whom the fishermen's fund 20 defeat
the fishing license bill in the last legis-
lature has been traced, was q witness
before the grand jury investigating
charges of bribery in connection with
the bill, yesterday.
Trauts version Of the fishermen's
fund differed from that he gave sSatur-
day night to States Attorney Burke,
when, according TO Mr. Burke, he said
he kept the money. To the grand
jury Traut said he spent the money
for the hshermen's lobby against the
bill, He was ordered before the
jury tomorrow, and meantime Mr..
Burke has gone to Beardstown to in
Vestigate his story.
E. E. Schweer of Beardstown told.
the jurors of bringing the money col
lected to Springfield and giving If 10
John Dixon, who has already declared
he delivered it to Traut. Schweer de-
clared he knew nothing regarding al
legged payment of money to defeat the
bill Charles Gridley, attorney, Of Vir-
ginia, ILL.,, who represented the fishers
in the Springfield lobby. was given a
clean bill by Mr. Burke, after he had
testified before the grand jury and had
declared that his work kas purely pro-
fessional
Ralp 0. Lord, bookkeeper for Henry
Lemm Of Pekin, one Of the contributors
to the fish fund, was before the grand
jury and identified the check which
Lemm gave as his share Of the fund.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
STATE FtREMEN IN
SESSION IN TULSA

Tulsa, Okla. June This city is
in gala attire today and will also be
Wednesday and Thursday, on the oc-
casion OF the annual convention and
tournament Of the oklahoma State
Firemen's association. CHIEF Alder Of
The Tulsa department, who is presi-
dent Of the association. has received
assurance that eight different compa-
n;es will attend the convention and
win bring with them coraplete appa.
ratus for the purpose Of entering in
the numerous contests. for which the
merchants Of the city have offered
nearly $1,000 in prizes. Oklahoma
City, Muslzogee, claremore, sapulpa,
Saltwater Chandler. Purcell and
Guthrie will bring apparatus with
them, while q number Of other towns
viii send a crew Of men, and at least
one hose wagon and every burg aud
hamlet IN the state, with very few
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
COUNTERFEIT
OUTFIT IN
PRISON

Jefferson City, Mo-, June IA fully
equipped counterfeiting plant in opera
tion al the state penitentiary at JEFF
fersDn City for twenty years was raid
ed BY Government Inspector Edward
J. McHugh.
Molds, Are pots, spurious coins and
other paraphernalia were confscated
and two prisoners arrested Both con
.fessed having made spurious half dol
lars, quarters, and sc pieces.
The plant, Inspector McHugh de-
clares, has been in the penitentiary
for twenty years and has been handed
down from prisoner to prisoner. The
men arrested are fiye-year man from
Kansas City and another long-term
prisoner from there.
A quarrel between four prisoners oc-
cupying the same cell regarding the
division of the spoils was responsible
for the raid
The government has applied for war
rants charging the prisoners with
counterfeiting.
Gov Hadley annolnccd today that
he will pardon both men in October,
when the federal court convenes, that
they may be prosecuted.
Three molds, used by counterfeiters,
were found in the cell occupied by
Jaynes and Vail. Two sets of these
were for SOC pieces, one for 25c and
the other for SC pieces. A small plas-
ter of Paris furnace used for heating
the metal was dug from under the ccll
floor This furnace was constructed
to permit a receptacle four inches
square setting in the center OF L.
Charcoal was used for fuel.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

Your temper controls your life:
therefore you should learn to control
your temper
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
Tie Heike Trial
is Nearing Close

New York, June CHARLES R.
Heike, secretary Of the American su-
gar Refining company on trial for con
spiracy 70 defraud the government
Through short weights Of sugar. yestcr-
day continued his denial OF all the
charges against him and sought -
prove there was no cheating al Il
Williamsburg refinery because profits
OF that institution were generally low
er than at the sugar trusts other re-
flneries.
Arthur Donner president Of tne
American Sugar Refining company OF
New York. testified that one Of the
company's officers had charge OF the
customs duties, but that two clerl-,
now dead. had charge OF this work
lIelke, he said, did not even have au.
thority 10 sign checks.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
EDUCATOR DIES SUDDENLY.

Arapahoe, Okla, June I'll. B. SHy-
der, county superintendent of Custer
county died yesterday afternoon at
his home of heart failure He was
elected county superintendent Of this
county two years ago. He was ma.
tive Of Indiana and was engaged In
educational work there, coming to Ok
lahoma fifteen years ago. Since his
arrival here he has served as city
superintendent at Pawnee, Clinton and
Hennessey. He leaves a wife and sew
eral grown children, He was 45 years
old.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
DISTRICT COURT Dull.

District court continued in session
today. Few matters Of general interest
came up, the courts attention being
occupied with hearing motions in vari-
Gus cases The divorce case OF Matt
Jones VS.. Bertha Jones was heard but
no decision was rendered. the court
taking 1t under advisement.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

exceptions, as we'll as the largest
towns and cities, win send from
three to ten delegates each to the con
vention, and II is expected that more
than 1000 firemen, their wives and
sweethearts, will be in the city during
tn convention. A special feature will
be an elaborate fireworks spectacle,
entitled, THE Eruption Of Mount Pc
lee" at the ball park ON Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, and on Friday
night the Fighting the Flames" spec.
tacle will be presented on a downtown
street, with five departments partici-
pating.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
Job.

Job never had telephone hung up
on one side OF his tent.-Atchison
(Kan) Globe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
CAPITAL QUESTION DE-
BATED
CONTINUED from Page ID

citizens had been called into confer
ence in drafting the pending bill and
they had accepted its provisions
agreeing that their city should be a
candidate under it.
The speaker discussed the general
features OF the bin and defended the
attitude taken by Gov Haskell. =
am a republican but agree With the
governor that me people have a right
to settle this question and It should
be settled now said he. III this is
a real estate graft the state viii get
the benefit Of it,"
Mr.. Smith IS a pleasing speaker and
his opening remarks won the attention
OF the crowd. He directed BIS atten-
tion first to GOV Haskell. saying that
he was a friend Of the governor but
would criticize him when he was
wrong. He intimated that the pend
ing bin was a "frame-up" on the part
Of the governor and a few Oklahoma
City people. It opened the way to un-
limited graft and he did not think the
governor and legislature should be
subjected to such temptation. The
entire capital scheme was placed in
the hands Of a commission Of three
men and the governor was back Of
them. There was no mutations as to
the lot sale and the cost OF the capi
tol, except the approval Of the leglsla-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

ture.
Both Shawnee and Oklahoma City
offered land TO the state free but Mr..
Smith said the options were not bind
ing He thought, however, that they
would be made good
Mr.. Smith declared the pending bill
was wholly Illegal and II adopted
would entail litigation on the state.
He agreed that congress had no right
TO put the 1913 capital limitation in
the enabling act but said Oklahoma
was under a moral obligation to OBJ
serve Il.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
rgN Pea cgMr.

We can place your money at 10 per
cent first class personal security
chattel mortgages or mortgages on
either city and farm property. Crop
prospects were never better, let your
money go to work and business viii
move
STAI.EY q DOUCAN.
Office phone 296; residence. Dougan,
277 staley. 5s4.
5-27-tf.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

who IS the party who gets so
angry when you tell her the lines
busy" said one operator Il think It's
the same one who never talks for less
than an nour and half when she gets
on the wire"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
Could Not Foreses Anesthe,Io,.

In 1899 velpeau. one OF the greatest
surgeons Of his time. wrote IS fol
lows The escape from pain in sur.
gical operations is chimera which Il
is idle to follow up today
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
Real Estate for Exchange

Au Okla, trade for resi-
chckasha have something worth $4,000
$4,000
aou lOO feet corner barn
House line To trade for good
$4,000.
ndiahoma trade residence in
o details
pavement good farm
location will be considered.
residence business lots and business
buildings property We write
Fire Tornado Office and
buildings o. a kinds, al eolee rents
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20
BALLOON ARTILLERY PROBLEM
While One Inventor Constructs Air Craft, Another 6uIId
Guns to Destroy Them.

A writer in the Star has the following to on the
subject of aerial craft
Germany's government has been induced by the
derfu flights accomplished by the Zeppelin Parseval and
Gross arshps form air fleet which already numbers
six cruisers but this very has also awakened the
German military authorities the necessity of improv
ing Germans artillery with view to combating hostile
air fleets and therefore, just Germany first in the
field with aerial navy she leads the way with bal
loon artillery This year both the Krupp and Ehrhardt
works have placed balloon guns the market.
The inventors of balloon artillery had several things
to bear in mind The objective is very mobile, de-
velop great speed change its direction, down
all points Of the compass rapidly and with
comparative Therefore the had to be capable
the most rapid laying while their projectles had to be
made travel at very high velocity. Again, since
scouting airship when nearing the hostile will
the greatest height attainabe the guns had to
be to fire practically perpendcuarly to an i'm
height.
is obvious the field artillery method of training
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

dying facing the fever and death itself without
hinchng. He mentioned in the official communication
each doctor and man by name, recommending them for
recognition at the hands of the department OF himself
he said nothing his whole thought that recognition
should be given others
Lieut. James f. Bell put down his pen went to the
hospital and in three days dead
The closing paragraphs of one of the general orders
touching this and his love of duty these:
1.-THE only officer in isolated post when it was Wis
tied by dangerous epidemic, he seemed to multiply
himself in his everpresen and wachfuness for the
of his command and it is doubtless due to the
haustion and fatigue resulting from his anxious dis
charge of duty that he finally fell victim to the
disease.
in the faithful discharge of soldiers duty"
Way up north wife and child. The little one
crep up blackrobed mother and said rs dar-
lin foddy tummin home today"
mot to-day, dear Perhaps tomorrow"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20
SOLVES MYSTERY OF HAUNTED CHAMBER.

Sir William Henry Perkins, the inventor of many coal
tar dyes talking In New York before he sailed for
England about the Psychical Research society.
"Crookes and other scientists In for psychical
research. said though confess that to me the sub
ject makes great appeal.
Personally in contact, during fairly long
career, with but ghost story It's hero was man
whom I'll call Shocks.
"Snooks visiting at a country house. put in the
haunted chamber for the night He said he felt no I'M
easness nevertheless he took to bed with him revo
of the latest American pattern.
"He fell asleep without difficulty but the clock
striking he awoke with strange feeling Of oppres
sion
Lifting his head, he peered about him. The
wanly illuminated by the full and in that weird
blush light he small hand claspng the rail at the
foot of the bed
"'Who's theref he demanded. TREMENDOUSLY.
There reply The hand did not move.
who's there? said Shocks again Answer rn8
shoot
Again there reply and Shocks sat cautious
y, took careful aim and fired
He lmped from that night on for he shot of two of
his toes"-New York World.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

submarine.
Krupps constructed hitherto three makes oil BAL
loon gunsa 65 centimeter field which fires 4-kil-
ogram projecte with initial velocity OF $40 METERS
or about 100 feet second attaining at maximum an
gle of discharge degrees and height OF 170O0 fee
fortress III gun firing 61a kilogram shell and heavy
gun of 1915 calber primarily intended for board
Warships.
The fortress gun hit and destroy airship at
height 900 from discharging angle of rs de-
grees that as the evidence of Count Zeppelin him
self arshp only in case of emergency rises to IA
height 5000 feet range the balloon artillery
covers all cases The naval gun reach height OF
35 900 feet.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

Occasionally the United States military academy,
In seeking teach the lesson of the beauty OF self
sacrifice the chaplain will tell the cadets that all he
roes who give up their lives for principle do not die
by rife shot saber stroke The martial spirit that Is
engendered by military instruction and by the glorious
heritage of the memory of the sons of the academy
who gave UP their lives for the flag often leads the
cadet minds into train of thought which holds that
the death which fitting the soldier than
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

ONE DAY 1t may be Com
mander Robert e. Peary will
tell in his own words the
story OF the self-sacrifice of
DR.. Edward E. Vincent, the
youthful surgeon who accom-
panied the Peary arctic expe-
dition of 1898. All the stories
of heroism in the arctic re-
gions have not yet been told.
The leaders of the polar ex-
petitions have not been the
only men to show high cour-
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

guns, either by moving the gun round.
on a fixed pivot on the gun carriage
or by altering the direction OF th@
carriages, would be out of place here
as being too slow So Krupps, in the
case of balloon artillery mou9ted on
wheels, have designed the wheels SO
as to be pushed forward out of thsn.
way. with handles attached to either
axle, which In couple of simple rev
olutions can alter the entire direction
of the gun For fortresses the bal
loon guns can be mounted with other
ordnance on pivot, and the same
mounting is used for balloon-artillery
fixed on the platform of armored mo-
tor cars, which would pursue the air
cruiser until suitable range was OBJ
tanned.
Opinions are still divided as to the
nature of projectile to be discharged
For spherical balloons shrapnel Is un-
doubtedly the best, but as cruiser
OF the Zeppelin type might sustain
but little damage from a few shrap-
mel pellets Krupp, in contrast to Ehr-
hardts, who pin their faith on sbrap-
mel for all types OF balloon artillery,
have invented special shell fitted with
a slow match which ignites gas with
the object of causing an explosion In
the hostile airship
The shell on striking the airship's
envelope Immediately sets fire to the
filling gas and the resultant explosion
would totally annihilate the aerial yes
sci. These deadly shells are moreover
designed to give off a very dense
smoke so as to leave wake which.
with the aid of glass, is distinctly
visible and of Unreasonable impor-
lance In sighting for second shot,
supposing the first to have missed
The distance is taken by special APP
paratus set up by the side of the bal
loon gun, while the actual sighting is
done by means of an apparatus some
thing similar to the periscope OF the
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-01-20

hopes and fear of the moment
They had reached the rock Vincent looked to the
right and beyond. Doctor is 1t death?" came voice
from behind. mo- life"