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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16

Telegram by United Press,
San Francisco, Jan. l6.-Maj. Frank
Pooley. British army officer, retired,
is the busiest man in San Francisco.
One hundred dusky bellies OF Easter
Island, in the South Sea. want as many
white men for husbands and Mai.
Pooley is here today to get them and
arrange for their transportation.
Men OF the desirable kind said
Maj Pooley IN an advertisement in
serted In a san Francisco newspaper,
"are scarce in Easter Island The wo.
men outnumber the men three to one.
The women want husbands and I am
here TO get them. represent one hun
dred Of the best looking women on the
island. They are wealthy Their hus-
bands will not have to work They
win live in ease and comfort for the
rest of their days
The next day more than 800 men
appeared at Mai Pooley's headquar-
ters in the Alaska-Pacific Steamship
company offices to qualify as South
Sea bridegrooms It was estimated to
day that more than 5000 white men
have volunteered since the advertise
ment was first inserted
Some Of the woud-be husbands are
fat. Others are lean. Dozens are
short and others are tall. A youth OF
10 weighing about 80 pounds was aax
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
Reports to Department Of Agricul-
= ure Less Than Third Of TiIIa-
bic Land is 10 Gull
tivalion
.3ll MILLION ACRES
PLANTED TO CROPS
0nly 2l Percent Of Total Area USE
less for Agriculture rs Per-
cent Of Oklahoma Availa-
bic for Tiled Crops

Washington, Jan 16. Only twenty
seven per cent Of the tillable land Of
the United States is actually under
cultivation, according to estimates of
the department OF agriculture. based
upon reports Of $4,000 correspondents.
These reports were obtained in order
TO gain information as to the tilIable
area of the United States the amount
of land that cannot be used for crops
that have to be plowed. but available
for pasture or fruits, and the total
number OF acres that never can be
used for agricultural purposes. From
the returns, which were generally very
consistent, preliminary estimates have
been made for each state and for the
United States. Further investigation
in the far western states may modify
somewhat the present estimate for
those states.
The entire United States. excluding
foreign possessions, contains about
100000. coo acres. OF this area about
60 per cent or l.140000.00O acres is es-
timated to be tillable. that is, capable
Of being brought under cultivation by
means Of the plow. This includes land
already under such cultivation and
that which in the future may be
brought under cultivation BY clearing
drainage irrigation, etc
II is estimated that 36l 600. 600 acres
or 19 per cent is non-tillable. but val
liable for pasture or fruits Only Fl
per cent. or 399OO0.0o0 acres. was es-
timated to be of no use for agriculture.
present or future.
According to the census of 1909, the
land area in crops where acreage was
given was 81, 100000 acres. This is
about 16 per cent Of the total land
area or about n per cent Of the esti-
mated potential tillable area Of the
United States. excluding foreign pos
sessions.
In other words. for every 100 acres
that are now titled, about 81 5acres
may be titled when the country is fully
developed In the development OF the
agriculture of the country the land
which was most easily brought into
state of cultivation, as the great Mis-
sissippi valley. was the first to be
brought into such use. Extension OF
titled area will be at greater espense
for clearing, drainage, irrigation, etc
The increased production Of the future
will be the result of increased yields
per acre as well as extension Of area.
A table prepared by the department
gives the following figures for Okla
homa:
Total land area in round numbers
a millions; estimated percentage Of
land area potentially available for till
ed crops. a. for non-tilled crops Is.
none-agriculture 10; percentage Of
land area in crops 1909 census 2I;
percentage Of estimated potentially
available area which was in crops in
1909 SO. For 1909 the report shows
that 2.S acres Of tillable land were un-
cultivated to one that was in crops OF
some sort.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16

the First National bank will specialize
ia the making Of farm loans, which
the directors and shareholders feel
viii be Of much benefit % the bank
ard it's patrons said an officer Of the
bank.
The usual semianuual dividend Of
five per cent was paid the sharehold-
ers and the remainder Of the nrofits
placed to the undivided profit account.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
FIRST NATIONAL
APPROVES new
BANKING LAW

AT a meeting of the shareholders OF
The First National bank yesterday the
following directors were elected for
The ensuing year C. B. Campbell, Z.
B. johnson, J. ID. sugg. II. B. Johnson.
r. II. Williams. r. Bond. T. T. John
son. Sam Davidson. Ben f. johnson.
Sam Davidson Of Fort Worth. Texas,
director in the Forth Worth Ma
tional sank Of that place. and a large
property owner In Chickasha. was
elected as director Of the First Ma
tional bank in place OF c. II. Bessent.
The same officers of the bank were
elected by the directors for the ensu-
ing year
Leonard r. Hawn was elected as
sistant cashier. Mr. Hawn has been
with the bank six years. having com.
menced in the collection and remit
tance department and working through
all OF the departments Of the bank to
his present position
The shareholders of the bank ap
proved of the new banking and cur
|rency law. and at a meeting Of the
board Of directors a resolution Of &C
ceptance was passed and the reserve
bank organization committee was no
titled that the bank would join tbs
new banking and currency law. kno'sT
as the federal reserve bank act
Owing to the large resources Of the
bank and the farm loan privilege un
der the new banking and currency law
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
100 Lazy Husbands
are Wanted There

ious to know il the Easter Island bellies
are slight and slender creatures. He
nearly wept when told that the aver
age weight was not less than 175
pounds Hundreds OF letters from other
applicants have been received by Maj
Pooley. One signed A. Tenner and A.
Mossum read
I'VE are both young and handsome
but we are too lazy to work, Another
slgned BY John Hunter read: II am
the very finest specimen Of manhood
to be found in the United States. ] am
ss years old feet ] inch tall and
weigh 29O pounds. know | can lie
around all day and be contented. Just
give me the proper instruction and I'll
soon be on my way"
Maj. Pooley is a particular person
and is determined that only the best
types Of men shall go to the South
Seas Out Of the hundreds who have
applied only 40 names were placed
among the possibilities
Il shall take about a week longer for
this registration" said Major Pooley
"By that time expect to have the
names OF 800 physically perfect men
Two thirds OF these will be then elm
mated in the final selection. / have
the money furnished by the women tt
pay all transportations. Then men ac
cepted viii travel first class.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
RESCUEDBY
LUSITANIA
Telegram BY United Press.

Telegram by United Press
New York, Jan 16.--Agents of the
Cunard company today received a
wireless message via Cape Race from
Capt. Dove of the liner Lusitania say
ing that early today he rescued the
captain and crew OF eight OF the
schooner Mayflower. eight hundred
miles off Nova Scotia.
The men were at sea in small boats
having abandoned the Mayflower,
which was afire The Lusitania's first
stop will be at Plymouth. England
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16

bility be placed 10 a greater expense" :"
said Mr. Murray. Il believe the cor
poration commission will raise the rate
to even more than $3.50 if il is left up
to them and | want to ask that the
council rescind their action on the Is
lights. and let the light committee take
the matter up with the light company
and report back at the next meeting as
10 whether or not it is advisable. I'll
make inat in the form OF a motioh -
1t was seconded by P. J. Harbour.
We'll. if they don't want to accept
the $ rate. they don't have to aud We
can get along without the lights. said
Ed Evans.
You can say that We can do with
out lights. but no city can operate
without lights" replied Mr. Murray.
4 think that Mr.. Murray is out Of
order" stated T. j. Driggers. He
voted no on the S. proposition at a
former meeting. and / think that he
is out Of order again opening the mat
ter for discussion"
Mayor Burton held that the motion
might stand lcf the vote OF the coun-
ell.
1t was stated at a previous meet
ing, by Mr.. Johnson and Mr.. Schaffer,
that the water power company had not
made money ! have a report from
the corporation commission, stating
that that company has made $4,000
above all their expenses, including
taxes" said Mr.. Driggers.
Mr.. schaffer placed a document on.
the council table. Here is our sworn
statement. and you will see that il
does not show any $4,000 earnings in
the past three years" he said
My information is from the corpor
alton commission. and | presume it is
correct replied Mr. Driggers.
Whenever | am shown that we are
wrong. / am ready to vote to rescind
the former action Of the council" stat
I'd Mr.. Petty
Il am a member Of the light commit
lee. and ii Il ever met with Mr.. Schaf-
Ter or any other member Of the light
I don't know of it, was
not notified Of any such meeting. They
never said a word to me. They never
speak to me when they pass me on
the street." said ed Evans.
Did | ever pass you on the street
without speaking" asked Mr. schaffer-
and receiving an answer In the affirm
ative, he resumed "Well. II did, it
was simply due to poor eyesight, and
beg your pardon"
The motion OF Mr.. Murray was lost
DR., E. L. Dawson reported case OF
small pox quarantined in a Frisco
work car in the north end OF the Frisco
yards. and stated that he had been
asked to have the car moved 'The
car is now in about the most isolated
place on the Frisco tracks. and Mr.,
Finch. the agent, has stated TO me
that ii the council can suggest a more
suitable place, he will gladly see that
the car Is moved there. Dr. Dawson
stated that the case was very slight
and that in his opinion there was no
danger OF anyone catching the disease
from the patient thus in quarantine
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
CALL FOR BANK REPORTS.


Telegram by United Press.
Washington. Jan IA call for re-
ports Of the condition Of national
banks at the close Of business Janu-
airy i3 was issued today by the comp
troller OF the currency.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-16
SUBMARINE FAILS
TO RlsE-ALL ALIVE.

Telegram by United Press.
Plymouth, England. Jan. 16.
The British submarine Al
failed to come up this after
noon after it dived during ma
neuvers.
When located by divers it
signalled "All alive" Mishaps
to the mechanism prevented the
vessel from rising. Salvage
tugs will attempt to raise it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
THE PATHOS AND POETRY OF WAR

Associated dispatches
tender expressed
great pahos
o. a terrible and the poetry of family affection.
tells prominent
pathetic poetic that
with the factions Sides
apparently very amongst
any a
you young fellow; your dppoint
calls
which contain
his o called Nothing
really something
neither property
getting
post.
written
family whose position will
making
will give, part is by far the best
good you
you who (Signed
"BRIEUX
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
Petition For Divorce.

Sumter Superior Court: Annie Lou
Brown VS.. G. P. Brown.
Under and by virtue of an order Of
the Honorable 4, A. Littlejohn, judge
Of the Superior Court, Southwestern
Circuit, G. P. Brown, the defendant in
the aforesaid case, is cited to be and
appear at the next term of Sumter
Superior Court, to answer your petit
toner's complaint for divorce. This
is to cite all parties interested to
show cause why said petition should
not proceed.
Witness the Honorable z. A. Little
john, Judge Superior Court South
western Circuit.
Sept. Goth, 1914.
S. R. HEYS,
Deputy Clerk, S. C.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
GET OUT OF DEBT

poured breath and courage into con-
ditions which were lifeless and hope
less.
1t is evident, however, that this
movement now has run it's course. The
strain it was designed to ease has re-
Taxed and the main ground of it's pop
ular appeal has been covered. The
Journal has no apologies for the Buy
a-Bale campaign; it needs none. 1t
saved the south from disaster at time
when no other plan was available The
public did wise and splendid thing to
buy distressed cotton at 10 cents a
pound, and the farmers acted wisely in
holding all the cotton they were not
forced to sell. But changed conditions
call for other methods. Having reach
ed new stage of the situation, we
must adjust our policies accordingly.
What are these changes? For one
thing the current price of cotton is dis
tinctly better than it was two months
ago. 1t is not the price the grower
would like to get nor what he ought to
get, but in the fact of crop exceeding
fifteen million bales and in the face of
worldwide depressions, it is certainly
a reasonable price, so far as the sale
of enough cotton to meet urgent obli-
cations is concerned.
Furthermore, a bottom to the cot
ton market is now assured. Two
months ago when the staple went beg
ging at cents pound and less, there
was no guarantee that it would not go
| lower still. Today, the minimum has
apparently been reached, so that it is
possible to sell cotton without fear of
depressing the market
1t should be noted, moreover, that
the Liverpool cotton exchange has re-
sumed many of it's functions and that
the New York cotton exchange soon
will reopen thus affording a workable
and authoritative cotton market Buyers
and sellers alike will be enabled to
proceed upon a surer basis than at any
time since the war began
In addition to this, the financial fac
ilities that were so previously made
quate two months ago are steadily ex,
panding. National banks and a num-
Der of state banks in Georgia and 9TH
er parts of the south are rendering
substantial aid to their customers. The
so-called st. Louis cotton loan plan
whereby one hundred and thirty-five
million dollars will be made available
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
WINTER GARDENS FOR THE SOUTH

Field agents department agriculture
the need of winter gardens supply
through the fall winter and spring.
Farm during
crops easily will only
but said will do much to the de-
ma spring other medicines
To of girls canning
vegetables tenthofanacre gardens the agents recommending
plot weprepared long feet wide be set
the garden be planted with wneover
crop
lettuce
desirable all the lower sections the South lettuce radishes and
spinach entire fall spring
high hohouses cold
be used during the coolest months.
garden of already
produce should be
planted spinach fairly rich well
available high fertilizer should applied
pounds tenth Five will
paintings plants
should tinned they inches
shallow
when this
South spinach can be grown throughout the win
without protection
little Where
cold-frames will almost always be found
Half much as is devoted
the cultivation
weprepared
then ansplanng the plants The should hy
apart depth inch As soon
the plants form the first leaves ranspnted
codframe inches they attain
they up with trowe or
spade and set bed where they should
thoroughly prepared beforehand as
possible the plants are
small should be cultivated keep and to
a
Radsh 10 inches apart and covered
When radshes in hotbed need not
soil should be fer
manure is not avail
commercial fertilizer applied rounds per
tenth Fresh stable produces
o be
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
THE WOMEN OF AMERICUS

that natural buy it for
there be humorous
that deoe the nonsi>
bly spending laboers
men working on salaries
Americas make this appeal Buy everything
The that needlessy oughess
Georgia.
getting back into home circulation indeed
all.
built paonng the home market good
clothing
clothing
looks the help
give.
OF sending thousand miles
$OO home Seldom, how
difference furthermore the patronage
they
the prices afford to offer.
We glad already consid
erng it, Without being selfish let Give
at homean board a place" if possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11
Guardian Sale.
GEORGIA, Webster County:
Deputy Clerk, S. c.

GEORGIA, Webster County:
By virtue of an order granted to A
p. Passmore, guardian of Oslo Gean
Smith, by the Court of Ordinary OF
said county on November 2, 1914, will
be sold at public outcry for cash in
the town of Preston, Webster county,
Georgia, on the first Tuesday in De-
cember next the following described
property, to-wit: One-eighth undivid-
ed interest in and to the north half OF
lot of land No. 80 in the 18th district
of Webster county, Georgia, belonging
to said minor, Oslo Gean Smith.
This, Nov. 4, 1914.
A. P. PAsSMORE, Guardian.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11

the winter
depending preference
the o the
Caulifower well sections good
marketing will grow
planning garden
with
With radishes
difficulty. where
watering
rather than the plants themselves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11

The cotton situation has undergone
certain changes which make it now
advisable for cotton growers to sell
enough of their crop to pay pressing
debts and to set the south's business
machinery in motion. The bewilder-
ing and well-nigh hopeless conditions
of so or 80 days ago no longer prevail
There was then no definite price and
buyers at any figure were pitably few
there was no foreign demand, nc
means of oversee transportation, no
credit facilities sufficient to the needs
of the hour Cotton sank to cents a
pound or lower, and even on that dis
tressing level found few purchasers
The times were out of joint with no
visible way to set them right.
In these circumstances brought
about by the disastrous war in Europe
the Journal inauguerated the Buy-a-
Bale campaign, which was designed to
care for distressed cotton at 10 cents
pound and to avert impending bank
ruptcy. The story of that movement
the generous enthusiasm with which
the south and also distant regions re-
sponded, the good it accomplished and
the ills it prevented are to we'll known
to need recounting. Suffice it to say
that hundreds of thousands of bales of
cotton, which otherwise would have
been sacrificed to the extent of their
owners ruin, were taken from the
market at a living price; and at the
same time farmers were enabled to
hold hundreds of thousands, perhaps
millions of bales, which otherwise
would have poured into the market
with runious results.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
the Buy-a-Bale movement served a
timely and valuable purpose. Before
its inception, such cotton as could be
sold at all brought only cents a
pound, but within a few days after this
plan was in operation, cotton prices
advanced appreciably at spot markets
throughout the south, and within three
weeks they had moved forward as
much as two and two-and- a-half cents
a pound, This enterprise was not pre-
scented as a final remedy, but as a
means of prompt and sorely needed re-
lief. 1t was intended to rescue cotton
interests on the brink of fatal crisis
and to sustain them until permanent
help arrived. This it did. 1t put
backbone into a spineless market. 1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-11

for loans on cotton is expected soon to
be in operation. The regional reserve
banks will open for service in the i'm
mediate future, and they will release
for credit needs more than four hun
dred millions of money.
All these circumstances make it pos
sible and advisable for cotton growers
to dispose of at least enough cotton to
settle their overdue accounts. We wish,
of course, that cotton might go to IL or
Is cents, but there can be no such
prospect while the world war contin-
ues and the enormous surplus of the
present crop remains. We are no long
er warranted in shifting immediate OBJ
! legations to remote contingencies. We
should look present duties and present
necessities squarely in the face. We
should remember that every interest of
te south, commercial and industrial
as well as agricultural, has felt the
stress of the cotton emergency, and
that they are all entitled to fair consid-
Grafton. We should remember that
millions of dollars of accounts are
overdue and that not until they are adj
justed can southern business regain it's
normal vigor or any province of south
ern affairs, merchandise, manufactur-
ing, banking or farming, recover it's
wonted strength.
The time to get out of debt has ar
rived. The best thing the rank and file
of cotton growers now can do, both for
themselves and for the country, is to
sell enough of their cotton to pay their
creditors and thus set the wheels OF
business going. We do not advise the
sale of more cotton than is necessary
to serve this one important purpose,
justice to everyone concerned, that
every farmer utilize a sufficient portion
of his crop to free him from pressing
debts and to relieve the strain of those
whose interests are dependent upon
him. He should hold all the cotton he
can without injustice or injury to his
creditors, but he should not hold cot
ton merely as a matter of speculation
while his creditors are suffering and
the business life of the south cries for
relief.
That policy would be short-sighted
as we'll as ungenerous. 1t would re-
dound to the serious disadvantage of
the farmer as we'll as work immeasur-
able hardships upon southern people
as a whole. We of the south face a
problem that concerns us all alike. We
must solve it together, Or not at all.
We must stand together for our COM
mon fortune or go down together in
common disaster. The merchant must
do his part, the banker his part, and
the farmer his part.
Let the farmers now dispose of such
an amount of cotton as will get them
out of debt, at the same time holding
as much of the remainder as they can,
and they will face the coming year
with new strength and courage. By so
, doing, they will also put fresh conf
dence and vitality into every sphere of
, the cotton enterprise. We shall stand
upon frmer ground, and the improved
conditions already manifest, will grow
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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-07-18
BUTTE RACE ENTRIES

FIRST RACE -Four and one half furlougs
purse. Classy curl %, Maznik lO4, Mas
ter Franklin lo4 Jasper NJ. 81, j. 49, nar-
sell lol, Peut Bleu o.
SECOND RACE Five frrlonFs. selling.
AsPcra, lOt Vivian H., 1O3i Mobile Belle,
l03 Frances c. 90 Iron queen, lo7. y.
3. MaJlow, lO4 Gordon Russell l15, jim
Thorpe lO7, Maxine Wheeler 1o4
THIRD RACE Five furlongs selling.
Dusky Dave, lO7 Ormouie Cunningham,
ll2i Wild Bear 1917 Roscas, 90 Ida La.
yinie, lo2; Wiltruds g. 10, Dominica,
lO5; The fellcr ll2; Senator james he.
FOURTH RACE-Ono mile selling: Oulo
lOa; The Cudcr, lO2; Cool, lO9 Anon.
lOgi Bogart, ll3 Mamac, 100 Miami. lO4.
FIFTH RACE-SN nnlongs, selling: John
4. CleY ll3; Denm, stafford lOs; Medic.
ll3 Orba Smile l0Si HELENE Hawkins, no;
Gomul, ll2i Order of Dance, 10s, John
SIXTH RACE 81, furlongs selling:
Sir Barr, los; WilHe, los. Notes Pride
lOli bcauman III McAlan, ll2i Mimic
r. lo4 Emily Lee, lO6; I'd Luce, 1O6
DsrkrN l06; Mamie Mckinney 9s, Violet
May -; Clint Tucker. l0S.
SEVENTH RACE One mile selling.
Calcium, 10, Reene ", lO7; Susan +
lO7 Dad Stesrns lO2 Lew Hill 100 Mon
tagnic, ll2i Golf Bali ll6. Patriotic. 1O7.