Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-12-31
Another PHASE Of
NEW COUNTY FIGHT
SAPIIpA GIVES HER SIDE OF
PROPOSED NlW COUNTY
ROW
Says OIL men ARE OPPOSED
Gives Reason Why Move 60 Crcat.
Shaffcr Count, should Bc De
fcatcd at the puils

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election H.l Dee held io drlrsmIn.
whether % new county Co Doc called
. Snatir is o. Dee carved ont of 'rr,N
Lincoln uud baWuoe counties. ON H#'
sunday the World carried a story
written hy "a Gushing man, setting
forth e1mn reasons why th" new
county should Doe created The lu.-
lowing article written hy the s'.fD-
tar of the Sapu.pa Commercial club
gv.s the other side ut the question.
SAHlLPA Dec. 800 January ih"
Ill is the date set for the election
which win determine Whether or uo,
,Eo proposed county scat uf ShaitOr
shall Doc formed from part # tho
/ present counties %. lu.Nm Iutu'
ara Crn,k
The town of Gushing Dltcrs itself
as the county scat of the proposed
county, and to become such, suDr-
ficos uU the Officers to other towns
and other parts Of the proposed
county.
There are sports who are willing o.
WAGER the hole u q doughuut that IT.
/ Oh, proposition carries. Cuslus VIII
|T,yrr alIiu make such sacrifice.
There are many uf the Farmers.
| particularly those who live IN that
IIurt of Greek county which il is rro.
posed 10 cut Off who are ashIna
themselves and their uciphhors hov
they are 10 De benefited lg the for
nation Of another 'ttlc county that
/ has "a lot Of mighty poor land, too
/ poor they saw TO raise am umbrella
/ On. and a whole lot of that land is
+ nun-taNable tin 1891. and the only
/ taxable property they say. that is
worth speaking Of is tn. oil prop
/ erty. and that is fleeing wealth. and
may al be piped TO Jericho or some
/ other seaport long before the contest
/ closes which old Psyue county s,.ears
she is going to institute on account Of
the padded census which is rc-uon-
sible for the coming election. Trc
farmers say they hadn't quite done
'cUssin' about the way the constItu-
/ uonal convention chopped to pieces
the old Oklahoma counties aud the
recording districts in old Indian terri
/ tory, and made the whole state look
| Ike crazy quilt of a crazy woman.
/ Ihc farmers say their taxes are run
ming q neck and neck race with taxes
/ in Oid Mexico at the present time.
/ ana IL they vote to divide mp the pres
cnt counties they would be voting to
create n lot Of offices for bunch
/ that don't care a cuss how high the
/ taxes run. just so their salaries ar
paid
The farmers who have been DOING
some figuring on the proposition and
/ who live in that part Of Creek county
/ which IL IS proposed to slice off. SAY
/ that the Creek county Slice" has
IiCarlv an the wealth # the proposed
county: the "slices' from Payne and
/ Lincoln counties each have only
about one and a half millions Of dol
/ lars Of assessable property while the
slice in Creek county has about
| twelve millions Of dollars Of assess
able property
These farmers on the Creek county
| side argue in the language of fight
1 ing Bob Evans who sat one Sunday
morning In a fashionable pew of q
fashionable church of Brooklyn and
when a fdshionably dressed lady ap-
feared at the end Of the pew and iU-
/ timatcd TO Bob that She would Ike
him to vacate by writing upon her