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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
PROBING COM MISSION.
House Investigating Committee Visits
Corporation Commission.

Chairman ]. H. MaXey of the house
investigating committee notified the
corporation commission that the COM
mittee would start it's investigation Of
that department at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. In order that the commit
tee might know the scope Of the work
done by the corporation commission
and the cost of maintenance and ope-
ration, the commission has prepared
charts and tables giving the kind Of
work, amount done, cost of each
branch, also comparisons with the
work done in other states. In the
comparisons, those states in which
there is a corporation commission
and whose duties are similar to that
of the Oklahoma department, are in
cluded in the comparisons. Accord
ing to the tables prepared, very few
of the commissions of other states
have to do as great amount of work
as the Oklahoma commission and
none of them do the work at less
cost.-Oklahom City Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
GUN CLUB To
ELECT OFFICERS
NEW ORGANIZATION STARTING
OFF WITH AN ENTHUSIASTIC
BUNCH OF SHOOTERS.

A meeting of the lovers of trap and
gun will be held in the directors
room OF the State National bank TO-
night for the purpose of electiny Gf-
ficers of the gun club recently Or
ganized in the city.
Twenty four lovers of shooting
have enrolled and paid the necessary
fee for membership, and officers tcr
the ensuing year will be elected to-
night. Grounds have been secured a.
Lorena park and every Friday after
noon members will congregat, there
and enjoy the sport for a few hours.
Ardmore has some cracl; shots and
it is anticipated that some Of the To-
Gals will be called upon to take part
in state and national tournaments be-
fore another season. The fui,owing
have enrolled as members: G. w.
Ritter Will Gardner, Will DeViuney,
S. Thompson, w. M. Brown, o. Mont
gomery. o. l.. DENIES, Tom Wilkes,
Joe Buchanan, o. DeViruoy, P. Z
Tarver, Ran Webb. Roy West, Fan
Paul Phillips. E. b. Luke,
Lamont Byars, Fred Hynie, Lionel
Max Wilmington, Walter
Thompson, Don Russell, F. X. West,
j. II. Snyder.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05

DISCRIMINATION is CHARGED.
Oklahoma Stock Yards Company En-
ters Complaint Against Railroad.

Oklahoma City, June 4.-Charges
that the Wichita Falls and North
western railroad is discriminating
against the Oklahoma City live stock
market in favor of Fort Worth were
made today to the Oklahoma Corpo-
ration commission by the Oklahoma
National Stock Yards company. The
stock yards company claims that one
of its travelling representatives, J. G.
Otterson, was elected from a Wichita
Falls train which he had boarded at
Woodward, the conductor stating
that he had special orders prohibit
ing Otterson from riding on the train.
= is also claimed that the agent at
Der refused to sell him a ticket and
b. " conductor of freight train
refus 'et him get on the Ca
boose u. D. although there were
others passengers on the same train.
The commission will investigate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
F|END|SH CRIME
CHARGED MAN
HENRY McNEELEY, NOW IN THE
COUNTY JAIL PENDING PRE-.
lIMlNARY HEARING.

A case of revolving circumstance
was brought to light yesterday and
the officers have placed the accused
party i'll the county jail to await the
action OF the court at the coming
preliminary.
Henry McNeely, aged %, who lives
four miles south of Provence, is
charged with a statutory offense
against his sister, Maggie McNeely,
aged 10.
For some time the women Of the
neighborhood have been making
complaint about the actions of Nc
Neely, and Sheriff Garrett started an
that resulted in placing
the accused man in Jail.
ThV girl, who is in a very delicate
condition, told straightforward sto
~ of her Illicit relations with her
brother to the sheriff and Assistant
County Attorney hardy. the details
Of which are most revolving.
Acting on the information secured
was placed under arrest and
s now in the county Jail pending his
hearing, the date of which has not
'et been set.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
STATE COURT RECEIVERS IN
KANSAS, FEERAL RECEIVERS
ELSEWHE
TWO SETS RETA|NED
Judge Marshall Says Federal and
State Receivers Must Work in Har-
mony for Good of the Company and
the Consumers.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 5.-The
state court receivers appointed by
Judge Flannelly of independence are
to have charge OF the Kansas Natu-
raj Gas companys properties within
Kansas and the federal receivers ap-
pointed by Judge Pollock will have
Jurisdiction of the outside properties,
according to a decision in the federal
court at Kansas City, Kan, by Judge
Marshall
AS a result of Marshalls decision,
the affairs of the Kansas Natural
Will be under the joint control of
two sets of receivers, four appointed
by Circuit Judge Flannelly on Feb
ruary 10, and three named by Federal
Judge Pollock on October 9, last.
In making the ruling, Judge Mar
shall said: Il regret very much hav-
Ing to make this decision. / appre-
ciate the difficulties attendant to
placing the companys affairs in the
hands OF separate groups of receiy-
ers, yet under the law there is no
other course. The federal and state
receivers must work together for the
good of the company and the consul
mers-that's the only recourse"
The decision allowed the federal
receivers twenty days appeal. The
company's affairs, pending the ap-
peal, are left in the hands of the fed
eral receivers as formerly. The fed
tral receivers are placed under fifty
thousand dollars bonds. They an
nounced that they would appeal to
he federal circuit court Immediately.
The state attorneys request that the
affairs be placed in the
states receivers hands pending the
appeal was denied. The state at
orneys consider the decision as a
'ictory for them in that two thirds
If the company's property lies iu
Kansas, leaving the federal receivers
'nly that in Missouri and Oklahoma.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
BIC CROWD
At OIL CITY
LOADED ACToS GTRRT EARLY
ON THE FIRST TRADE EXTEN-
SION TRIP OF SEASON.

About seventy business men be-
| decked and be-ribboned with buttons
and badges left Ardmore this MORN
ing to spend ne first day of the
trade extension trips at Oil City, ac-
cording to figures gi-en by Secretary
Atwell of the Retailers association
This is the first trip of the kind ever
attempted by the merchants of the
city and it is proposed to attend all
gatherings and picnics of the farmers
institute held In the county this sum-
mer, to promote better trade feelings
between the merchants of the city
and the country people. Prof. C. w.
Richards VIII address the farmers this
afternoon and will launch the move
ment to secure an agricultural school
for Oil City; the scnooi- there has
twenty acres of land that is suitably
adapted for this purpose and such an
institution would be of incalculabe
value to this county.
The date and place for holding the
next meeting of tie farmers insti-
tute will be fixed today and the mer-
chants of the city VIII be invited TO
in the exercises.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
STORY OF THE REUNION.
Confederate Veteran Found Gun on
Battlefield After so Years.

The Muskogee Times Democrat
tells the following:
Mrs. S. M. Rutherford who returned
Sunday from the Confederate reunion
at Chattanooga brought home many
interesting stories of the old veter-
ans at the reunion. One of the mIt
interesting of these is of an ex-Con-
federate soldier, Mr.. Hayes of Fay
etteyille, Ark, who was in an Arkan-
sas regiment during the war and who
took part in the battle of Chicka-
mauga. Mr.. Hays told visitors at the
reunion that he had killed a union
soldier during that battle and had
taken the dead mans gun, throwing
his own old and almost useless weap-
on into the hollow of tree that stood
near the spot where the encounter
occurred. He added that one of his
reasons for coming to the reunion
was that he wanted to find that hol.
ASN biNC tiu ocC IL Hlo Gun was SUI
hidden there.
accompanied by a number of yis
itors and curious persons the old vet
eran retraced his steps, followed the
route his regiment bad taken in that
battle of fifty years ago and com.
ng at last to the spot where he had
shot the union soldier. The tree was
still standing and in the hollow
where he had thrown it was the gun
hat he had left there on the day Of
he battle. The gun barrel was rust
d and the stock had fallen into decay
ut it was the same weapon that had
rought death to one of the enemy.
Persons offered the veteran a fab
Ious sum for the gun as a souv-
mir but he refused to sell It and
'ok 1t home to Fayetteville to hang =,
7side the gun he took from his dead
e on the day of the battle and :
at he carried through the remain. !.
n Of the war.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
PRESIDENTS POSITION SEEMS
STRONGER AS CAUCUS DRAWS
NEAR.
ACID TEST THERE
Party Leaders Believe the PresII ~
Stand viii Receive the Full Suppo.
of the Party in the Senate, With
Two Exceptions.

Washington, d. c., June 5.-The
presidents position in support of free
wool and sugar seems stronger rs
the day for the senate caucus draws
nearer.
The tariff bill will be put to the
acid test there and the party leaders
now feel that the presidents stand
will be supported unanimously by the
party with the exception of two or
three senators. Not more than two
democratic senators will oppose the
bill to the end.
Free shoes, free lumber, free as-
ricultural products, free wool and free
sugar are to stand, the administra-
tion leaders declare.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
PUT CHURCH ON
BUSINESS BASIS
WAS FEATURE OF STATE CON.
VENTloN, CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
AT GUTHRIE.

Guthrie, Okla, June 4.-The feature
OF the state convention of Christian
chuHhes here today was the address
of Rev. J. Mark Sexson, secretarytof
the Scottish Rite consistory at Nc
Alester, advocating putting the min
istry on a business basis along with
all other big movements. His theme
was business and Christianity" He
hopes the time will come when
preachers may stop at the best hotel.
ride in Pullmans, have well eouipped
offices with stenographers and sec.
retaries and all other necessary halps.
The Christian Womens Board OF
provided the program in the
afternoon, the principal speaker be-
ing Miss Annette Newcomb of Des
Moines, Ia, who has Just returned
rom a trip around the world, visiting
al the foreign missions.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
SECRETARY LANE
LISTENS TO OSACES
HEARING ON OIL LEASE MATTER
INDIANS CONTEND FOR ONE.
SIXTH ROYALTY.

Washington, June 4.-Secretary
Lane of the interior department Wed
nesday gave a hearing OF several
hours to all parties interested in oil
leases on the Usage Indian reserva-
ton in Oklahoma. Two questions.
involving many millions of dollars
are TO be determined by the secre-
tary. First, whether the leases shall
be extended, on what terms. The law
provides that the leases shall not
cover more than 6SO,OOO acres, and
that oil, gas, coal and other minerals
in the land shall be reserved to the
Usage tribe for a period Of twenty
i've years from April s, 1906; and that
the leases shall be made through the
Usage tribal council, with the appro- !
ial Of the secretary of the interior.
The Indians now receive a royalty
rom the operators Of one eighth. The
ribal council, all members of which
we're present at the hearing in full
egalia, contended the royalty ought
o be one-sixth, particularly if the
ease were to be extended. The op-
rators assert that it would be i'm
ossible for them to properly develop
he field because they could not OBJ
ain returns on the money invested in
he time remaining for the lease to
IN.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
Death of Irish Patriot.

San Antonio, Tex, June 4.-Patricb
Cody, an Irish patriot and a former
comrade of Michael Larken, Michael
O'Brien and William Phillips Allen,
the Manchester martyrs" died here
late last night at the age of II years.
Following the stirring days or '67,
when the plans for the liberation of
"Old Erin" from British overlordship
met failure, Mr.. Cody came to this
country.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
Safe Blown at Chickasha.

Chickasha, Okla, June 4-The safe
of the Pearl steam laundry here was
blown last night by yeggmen and a
small amount Of money stolen. The
men who did the job were evidently
experts for the large safe was wreck
ed and yet no one in the vicinity
heard the noise.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
INJURED WOMAN
CONSCIOUS AGAIN
EMILY WllDING DAVIDSON IN
JURED ON RACE COURSE, I'M
PROVED TOAY.

EPSON, England, June 5.-Emily
Wilding Davidson, suffragette, who
yesterday caused a sensation by leap
ing at the kings horse and who suf-
fered terrible injuries, regained con-
sciousness this afternoon.
The doctors consider that there is
hope for her recovery. Miss David
son is a graduate of London univer-
sity and of the final honor school of
Oxford.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
over Heated Sunday

w. Fl. Rogers suffered from over
heat last Sunday and for thirty-six
hours he suffered intensely. A slight
stroke of paralysis followed the over
heat. He is resting much better to-
day and his physician says he will
make a quick recovery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
LIGHTNING KILLS TWO BOYS.
Animal on which They Were Ridinq
Also Killed.

Springfield. Mo, June 4.-During
an electrical storm in Howell county
last evening Louis and Porter Taylor,
aged 16 and u, were killed by light
ming. The boys were fastening home
from a field where they had been
plowing. Two Of the boys We're on
one horse. The animal was killed
instantly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
Charged with counterfeitino.

Clarksville, Tex, June -four
white men were lodged in the Red
River county Jail on a charge of coun-
terfeitipg. The men were arrested
in Red river bottom, several miles
north of Avery, in this county, by
Sheriff Brackeen, accompanied by
District Attorney Lipscomb.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05
NOMINATION is WITHDRAWN.
Without Explanation Wilson With.
draws Nomination of JACQUES.

Washington, d. c., June 5.-The
presidents nomination of A. f..
Jacques as postmaster at Wichita.
kansas,'was withdrawn from the sem
ate today without explanation. The
president has sent to the senate the
nomination of D, Virgil Bourland as
United States attorney for the west
ern district of Arkansas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-05

Election of officers tonight Also
work in rank of knight. Would ap-
preciate a good attendance. Visiting
Knights invited.
WM. F. BOURLAND, C. C.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10

my farm.) There was one sheep which
delighted in butting the side boards
Of this shanty. some of these boards
were much longer than others. He
would start some three rods away. get
about eight feet from the building
and boom! boom!-then land squarely
in the school room. Such a scattering
OF the children. The teacher, who SO m
prepared to meet these emergencies,
would drive out the scholarly sheep.
nall on the boards and cali in the chill
dren, TO resume work.
Tnree months school in this shantv
enabled the district to organize, and
vote school building, which they
authorized Orange Newell, my father,
to build The building completed, the
district held another meeting, voted
not to accept The schoolhouse, and not
to pay the modest bill of 5000 90
hich father presented for ell work
and lumber. But they did vote
to open up school, and to secure a
teacher. Father waited several months
after the school had commenced then
represented his bill, which was paid,
after he had assured the district that
there was no better way to accept
building than to use it.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10

the BAKERS wagons had come from
Baraboo, every morning we gave five
dollars to the agent for each picker be
engaged for me in the southern part of
the state, paid So cents box for the
picking, with board and expenses.
Also $4,000 day TO the man who
dried the hops. We boarded over 100
men and women dunug the month of
the harvesting. The cost OF the pick
ing alone, not considering the Guilt
walton, was l6c per pound, and the
hops sold for 81 and &c per pound
instead of the 55 or soc we had ex-
pected to receive. This Oh seventy or
seventy-fve tons was some loss.
Many of FairfieId's farmers lost their
homes because of this slump in prices.
These were some of the lessons
which taught US to diversity our
crops so that Fairfield is now found
to produce something of everything
growable in this climate.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
i QUESTIONS DISCUSSED

The Inter Sc cub met with Mrs.
Nj. l.. McHugh Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Astie, in we'll written paper,
told of Woman Suffrage throughout
the United states and foreign cour :
tries. Mrs. Nc Hugh, in her remarks
on Woman's Sphere, spoke of woman's
power TO influence for good in the
world, as mistress of a well ordered
home, as a conscientious, devoted
wife, as mother, as true friend and
neighbor and as q charitable Christian
among the destitute and distressed.
Mrs. Henke's carefully prepared paper
on the White Slave question, gave
statistics on the rapidly increasing
gain of that terrible traffic. After s
lively discussion on the different sub
jects presented, the club adjourned to
meet with Mrs. Henke, April 18th.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
Coughs and Consum pti0n.

Coughs and colds, when neglected,
always lead to serious trouble of the
lungs. The wisest thing TO do when
you have a cold that troubles you is to
get bottle of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. You will get relief from the
first dose and finally the cough will
disappear. 0. FL. Brown, Muscadine,
Ala, writes: my wife was down in
bed with an obstinate cough and |
honestly believe had it not been for
DR.. Kings New Discovery, she would
not be living today" known for
forty-three years as the best remedy
for coughs and colds. Price SOC and
$I.OO. Recommended by Fisher Bros.
Advertisement.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
School Died a Natural Death.

This building was afterward moved
onto the corner of the John Luce farm,
into the middle of section, with no
road to it from any side. Here The
school died q natural death and the
district lost its right to have a school.
In the summer of 1865, the neighbor-
hood, by subscription, raised enough
money for summer term of school,
which enabled them to secure an
another charter and to reorganiZe the
district. At the first meeting the dis
trict decided to move the school build
ing onto the Wilcox corner, onehalf
mile north of the original building site.
The last move of this restless school
house brought it back to Fathers
farm, and deposited it In front of our
house almost in the center of the dis
trict. This building is like the boys
jack knife. The same old knife his
grandfather had only it had had seven
new blades and ten new handles.
West fairfield once attempted to
start a cemetery, and D. K. Noyes'
father and his brother, Bruce, were
buried there. There may have been
other graves also, but of this I am not
sure. This cemetery was located
across the road, east, from Grant
Powell's farm, on farm now owned
by Orrin Getchell. The East Fairfield
cemetery was begun before our advent.
In Fairfield.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
Early Religious Effort.

Our first church was built on ''the
river bottoms, Il think on the Wells
place, by a man named Hick0k. 1t
was an Episcopal church. The next
public building was the good Tenn
plar's Hall at Russell Corners, built
and furnished by my father.in-law,
l.. s. Palmer. It,was later bought by
the Methodist Episcopal society and
used as a church. 1t eventually
passed into the hands of James Hal
sted and now serves as a dwelling
house on East street, between 18th
and 18th streets.
The Oldest church building now
standing in Fairfield is she A. e.
church at Leech Creek, the,Wesleyan,
Methodist, Baptist and the Methodist
Episcopal church followed in order.
Small boys were supposed to work
in my day When our farms were
"broken up"-that is plowed for Gull
tivation, I, child of seven years,
was supposed to drive the oxen.
Otis Watkins, with six yoke OF oxen,
did the breaking for us, and had to
trot by the side of the twelve oxen
and by means of an OK CAD keep all of
them moving along evenly. Mr..
Watkins sometimes took pity on
me and set me on the great beam of
the pillow. The wonder was that L
did not break my neck falling from
that perilous position.
1t was in the early SOS that
Fairfield entered iuto the ''get rich
quick" scheme, that 20 years later
proved so disastrous to most of the
farmers of the township. A railroad
was surveyed through Fairfield from
Portage north. Most Fairfield farms
were mortgaged to the r. Il. Com
pany. When the railway was finally
built, 1t went up the east side of the
river, instead of the west, and killed
Newport while it caused bankruptcy
and loss of home to many. Fairfield
men.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
Came by Ok Team.

1t was to this land in West Fairfield
that we removed from GAINESVILLE. [
remember that father exchanged his
am of big blacks for three yoke of
oxen and several cows, besides some
hogs. With these we proceeded to
move from Jefferson Prairie to the
town of Flora, Sank county. Father
had commenced house, placing it on
the east side of the road about twenty
rods south of Newell's pond. He had
the foundation laid before he left to
bring his family and also had drawn
tamsrack poles from the big swamp
and hewed them into rafters. He then
had delegated Peter Lacey to secure
siding and roofing from Adams mill
in Lyons to finish the house. 1t was
to have been finished before we ar
rived, but nothing was done until Mr..
Lacey was told that Orange Newell
and his family were crossing the Wis
consin river and would probably ex-
pect to pass the night in their new
home. Then Mr.. Lacey hurried off to
Lyons to bring the lumber, but he did
not reach the house until after we had
arrived. So we were compelled to
make up our beds on the ground in
side the basement with no roof over
our heads. This was on the third day
of April, yet when we awoke on the
morning of the fourth we found our
selves buried beneath a foot of snow.
Taught for $I.25 Per Week.
| think that there was no school
whatever in Flora when we first came.
Later building-a little log shanty
with half roof-was put in east of the
Fairfield cemetery, between the ceme-
terry and the road. My brothers and L
attended school there, walking the
s miles to and fro without considering
it any hardship. One winter a term of
school was held at the home of Jesse
Bushnell (now known as the Francisco
FARM taught by Miss Crawford who
received 81. rs per week for her work
and "boarded around"
West Fairfield, deciding to or
ganize school district, built a
shanty in a sheep pasture on D. K.
Noyes' farm (now the north part of