The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-27

Iowa., succeeds in getting through
bill he has introduced requiring sen
at0fs henceforth to pay for thei
shaves hair cuts shines and baths
which from time memorial hav,
been furnished free By a prodiga gov
ernent.
Senator Kenyon estimates tha
with the abolishment of free bath!
alone, the government will annual!
save $40 900. Senate baths have ac
ceSsOries for free massage, (whatevel
that isl and these too, will disap
pear II the Kenyon bill passes The
Iowa senator does not stop With these
economics, for in another bill he pro
poses to reduce the allowance foI
mileage fro 20 to 10 cents Il mile
Needless to say that most OF the
members OF the "Millionares club
are Kicking like bay steers against
the reform movement proposed by the
daring Iowa statesman
The interior department has agreed
to snppodt the Ferris bill for the es
tablishment OF an Indian hospital in
Oklahoma for the benefit OF the Kiowa
and Comanche Indians
IThe interior department is serious
III considering the question OF estap
fishing large timber reserve IN
Southeastern Oklahoma which Will
soon be advertised for SAFE
NJ Representative Mcclure has intro
(uced bills providing for the appro.
}riation OF $4,000 for an addition 70
the federal building at Enid and $50
600 each for buildings and sites at
Chandler and saltwater
The department OF Justice expects
t0@settle the question as to whether
the federal courts in Oklahoma will
again b. clogged with bootlegger
cases. or whether the enforcement OF
the prohibition law will be left to the
state officials.
General Wood, chief Of staff t.. s.
army, IS supporting Ferris bill proyid-
ing for release OF Apache prisoners
of war at Fort Sill and their allot-
ment in New Mexico. The Indian Of
ifce is insisting that the Apaches be
Allotted on the Fort Sill military re-
serve.
C. c. Brannon, of Braham, Okla.
has been designated as acting chief
ofl#the suppression of liquor traffic
among the Indians, with headqlart-
erg at Denver Brannon succeeds
William Z. "Pussyfoot' Johnson, who
recently resigned from the govern
ment service,
The following appointments in the
rural letter carrier force in Oklahoma
are ammo .lnced.
N6Ralph r. Schmoyer, on route y
ly#out of Geary, to succeed irwin
Schmoyer: James Z. Mahan, on route
No. /, out of Quinlan. vice VIM. i.
Forsythe, Fred C. Mahan, substitute.
The Usage bill providing for wind
v w IN affairs OF Usage Nation, which
has already passed the senate, VIII
soon be reported favorably to the
House, and will probably pass at TINS
Session of congress- The bill will b"
amended in the House SO as the SUI
nlus lands in that nation wifi be made
taxable. This will affect over l0o0,-
900 acres of land
Usage heirship cases, whicn have
been held up by interior department
for nine months, pending decision III
Woods case, to determine law ol des-
cent in Usage nation, whereby It's
declare.l that estates go to the sufVlF-
ing parent. are now being made spe
srial and rushed out. Fully 50 cases,
Evolving $2.500,000 have been hela
an pending the decision
Changes in fourth class postmasters
Id oklahoma are announced as iol-
lows; ,,,
Clarksville, Wagner county, MISS
Mi1lie Ragln, vice j l.. Poole, resign
ed: Cedar, Nowata county, EllJah T.
I.ay vice II r. Hines, removed
Clyde Grant county, Waltei .. Elllolt
vice r. A. Crouch, resigned; Madl-
son. Beaver county. VIM IT. Wells
vice G.. T. Whitaker, resigned
Arguments Fsave been concluded IN
the United States supreme court III
the Moses Whitmire and TOO iate
cherokee baby cases. The Whltmire
ease involves $1,500,00O and the rights
of Cherokee freedmen to enrolment
in that nation, while the 100 iate
baby case involves the enrolment
rights of 5,160 Cherokee babies, born
vetween the time OF the passage OF
ffhe ac. closing the rolls OF the FIVE
Civiiized tribes. and the date e Ia"
Ment into effect.
Il Congressman Carter, OF the Ara
more district is much elated over
|4he prospects for the passage by the
ztibuse at least, of his bill provldlnIS
dor the sale OF the surface OF o0o,ooo
Eacres of segregated lands in the MN
sing belt of the Choctaw and Chlcka-
saw nations. The entire Okiahoma
sdeiegation is now at work upon SEP
&ator owen, hoping to induce him TO
ssnnport the surface bill, instead OF IN
sisting upon a bill providing for the
sale OF betl the surface and the un
sderlying mineral. the passage ol
(which IS considered problematicaL
Owing to the receAt decision OF the
United States circuit court OF dP
fpeals. in which it was held IN the
FRIEDMAN case, that the old 1ederal
4 "a relative TO the Introduction OF
,ianor into Eastern Oklahoma, were
still in force and effect tnileu
States marshal. who is in Washington
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