Muskogee Weekly Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1912, Muskogee, Oklahoma It WEEKLY PRESS NOVEMBER 28, 1912 IE CHURCH WILL BUILD COLLEGE E RINGING RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY ANNUAL CONFERENCE RE-ELECTED PRES. REAL FARMERS B. F. and living east of town on the were marketing baled prairie hay at eleven dollars per ton here Three years ago these men made a scant living on a poor Arkansas This year one mile east of Muskogee on 100 rented at they put In- cellar 1057 bushels of sweet sold forty-two tons of had six acres of watermelons that netted and the remaining 74 acres yielded big crops and large * * | + + + I + j + + + I + I + + + i Conference by Rising Vote & w Pledges Support to Great Educational Institution Promoters of Arbuckle and Western Says London Backers Ready to i Close Deal for The Resolutions Nov. 26. to Charles Amps of the Arbuckle and Western Railroad ban been financed in and Inasmuch as at this time it the people are now ready pears to bo expedient and proper to clone the deal for the road's for the East Oklahoma Conference j The Arbuckle and | Western was chartered on March of the Methodist Episcopal wRh to its devotion to and care for the Oklahoma Methodist to be located at build sixty miles northwest from j Ardmore to through thai towns of Woodford and The Incorporators were Oscar A. J. A. R. and R. A. all of That the and Emily 8. Ayers of 7ay delegates composing this con- Provisions were made in the In session at charter for extensions from 20-25, 1912, do hereby asha to and a branch pledge In every proper Marlow was surveyed to advance the cause of said soon afterward and much of the college in public and In wo of way either acquired or will Inform the people of its we will ask them to give it js also that John their loyal and cordial we of circus lias will help the duly constituted 1 given assurances that the road whenever they shall consider ' Ardmore through Duncan to Lawton It to be to secure the i will be it is known as rne amount that shall be asked for the Ardmore and Western and has been maintaining and surveyed to Oil whore are endowment we will pray j numerous oil and gas we i for its prosperity and shall rejoice r is understood that one of the In Its tracts has been let to Jack Winters We congratulate ourselves In of for the the fact that the college Is to be Allied with Mr. in j located in the goodly city of the line is Col. Jake L. Hamon j and we assure the people of j of former chairman of the this city that our full and sincere purpose is to establish in their midst an Institution of learning that shall be an ornament to the municipality and an honor to our great and that shall minister to the glory of our Common That we respectfully advise and request the local management to use the utmost circumspection and judgment In administering the affairs of the college in an economical and exemplary manner consistent with the largeness of the enterprise in That we commend the president and the trustees of the lege for the careful and faithful performance of the duties pertaining to their respective offices and assure them of our cordial support Republican State Work was commenced during the j past week on the construction the Cheyenne Short a seven miles to connect the county seat of Roger Mills J with Strong the ern terminus of the Clinton and lahoma It Is expected to j complete the work in 120 The contracts for - the const ruction i have heen let to R. D. Alexander i of Norman and James Tucker of This will be Cheyenne's first having been without S. McKinney of the Cheyenne Commercial club turned the first on the The early construction of the line from to In every wise and earnest effort i is announced from Den they may make to this j where the arrangements for great institution for work have been planned for The above the story of the - several John Cullinane of manner in which the Annual Con- 1 St. Louis is one of the principal ference of the Eastern District of j backers of the Oklahoma of the M. E. disposed of the important i WORK ON A NEW question of building the great j ROAD BEGINS homa College in | gee and the action taken insures Says Cars Be Operated this great educational institution for The opening of the new Severs September 1st, marked a new era in the comfort of thn traveling man in Eastern and gave to Muskogee the best hotel In the entire A brief description of the hotel There are 21G guest of which 146 have private The furniture in every room is either of Circassian walnut or and all the rooms average in size about twice the dimensions of the ordinary hotel A feature of the house is that one floor is provided with rooma of double furnished with long tables for the private of traveling The lobby ia sixty by seventy and is decorated in Verde antique stained oak and ceiling decorations to To the right of the state street entrance Is the reception furnished white and West of the lobby is the main dining forty by eighty feet in and finished in and with the walls con slating almost entirely of big glass making it as light as The writing room is north of the i and is light aud The senger elevators have their entrance on the north side of the | The second floor is given over to j the magnificent ball a great rotunda and women's reception with six special guest Two private dining rooms occupy tbe north side of tie On every floor there is a shower bath for the use of every no matter what the price of his All lavatories are finished in while the private bath rooms are modern In every All beds are conveniently placed to afford the maximum of light and while inches cover every floor above the where the floor is of tiling of a color to harmonize with the marble The Severs and to the no doubt Is left as to where so much money would be spent in a The Severs Is named for the Captain B. P. a pioneer of this Is built on the site of his old home and is owned by the Severs Captain Severs died just before the fore the completion of the leaving this splendid structure as a fitting monument to a life spent in making Muskogee and old Indian Territory tho chosen habitation of a home-loving OLE DOC GOOKE this city at an early The conference closed its annual session at Holdenville Monday Bishop W. A. Chandler presided over the sessions aud the following which are of especial were anions those Dr. W. M. Wilson returned to Muskogee as presiding elder of this Rev. and Rev. K. pastors of the First and of St. Paul's M. K. returned to these Rev. C. who has been transferred from the White River conference to the East Oklahoma as Between Ardmore and Lawton by August 1, 1913. BY Nov. 26.-Work on the Duncan and is assured before Dec. is and there will be 1.000 teams working m the line between here and Ardmore and cars will he operating between cities by the 1st day of list said R. L. of the prospective who returned from New York where he had been to complete contracts for the road's Mr. Robertson explained that the The Press Weather Sharp says 1 never mind the weather when i LARGE INCREASE SHOWN IN key Day comes i contracts which he signed in New signed to the August avenue M. E. York provide for a financing fund of church of Rev. T. F. and the company has Brewer returned to the pastorate at | arranged for the issuance of and Rev. M. L. Butler to ferred stock in the amount of pastorate of the Okmulgee Rev. T. O. who re- Surveyors of the campany which is sides in Muskogee and who has to finance the he been pastor at was assigned been in the field for two to Boynton and Dr. S. F. gathering final and last details of the construction contracts are now being worked CHECOTAH BUILDS TELEPHONE SYSTEM force of linemen and laborers commenced work on the new telephone plant to OUTPUT OF MINERAL WEALTH F 0RTY-F1VE Is Oil Production in Coal Mined Worth Interesting Mineral Statistics SCHOOL BOARD TRIES TO FORESTALL i THE SHIPPERS COMPRESS OP | THIS CITY IS A MARVEL OP POWER AND ENERGY Oklahoma Normal and Mining Schools Directed to Submit Data on Cost of Mas re-elected president of the Methodist college at Muskogee and instructed to proceed with the building of the Rev. A. N formerly of bui who Is attending college this assigned to the Ft. Rev. R. T. Blackburn was returned to Rev. E. M. Hweet was returned as presiding m here by the Tele- elder of the district and Rev. The new system W. H. Roper was returned to i bp Qf the most modern and Rev James Parks was returned to construction in the 1 Relative to the woman's college it is to be rebuilt from the which the Methodist church up and will be three or build In Muskogee the conference months in This strong as above new 18 the of the signed by the Dr. C H j controversy between the Pioneer McGhee and S. H. Babcock and Company and the patrons which unanimously adopted by a rising led to the discontinuance of vote of the 167 phones in one resulting in The next annual conference will ' laying out the business of the held at near which tire phone service of the the place at the church known as Ri- I long distance business alone being ley's the conference was continued with any degree of in 1884. During the meeting of ehe conference at Tahlequah the delegates and visitors will make a pilgrimage to the spot where the conference was organized and will | Tne damage suit brought by Miss read there the minutes of the Freeburg against Miss organization which have been re- VERDICT FOR ONE DOLLAR carefully preserved all these * * * MUSKOGEE BANK CLEARINGS * * - * * Week Nov. 20 * * Week Nov. 26 + Muskogee Clearing Association 4* * B. A. * * + + + was police matron for the suited in awarding one dollar dam ages to the The case was tried in the Superior Court a Jury returning such verdict after two The suit was brought for half of this amount alleged as actual and half as punitive and was the outcome of Miss detention at the police station last by Miss who In his annual which will submitted to Governor Chief Mine Inspector Ed 'The coal production for the year closing June 30, was 15,183,4571 an increase of nearly one j lion tonB over the preceeding j Placing this at per ton on board j the would make the total To produce the above named tonnage it. required the services of 5,167 2,395 Inside or day 1.382 outside or top making a total of 8,743 in They worked 13,953 using 149,194 kegs of black 48,795 pounds of 121,005 pounds of pounds of 3,536 cases of Nineteen and one-third tons produced to each keg of. powder There were 103 fatal 72 widows and 169 There were 30,610 tons of coal produced for every fatal or for every man following report shows that the 5,167 miners taken to produce the above named show an average of 616 tons each for the year ending June 30, 1912. Placing this tonnage at the average rate of 90 cents per including yardage and other dead would earning capacity of each miner The total cost of explosives to produce the above named Black calculating all other explosives above mentioned at the rate of 17 cents per pound would make the sum of Grand total of ail explosives making it cost each miner the sum of By deducting the for would leave a net Oklahoma under a resolution adopted by the old board of State Superintendent Wilson sent letters to the presidents of Normal schools requesting that data be gathered to demonstrate whether the Normal school course quired in Oklahoma is equal to that of other and the cost per pupil compared with the coat in other j Since the recent agitation in which charges that an inferior course is triven in the board wants the facts for the public A. meeting of school presidents will be held in Oklahoma City as soon as the information is Dr. George president of the state school of mines at was directed by the board to gather similar information concerning that and to allow the possibilities and benefits which Oklahoma may expect to receive in development of its mineral The action has direct bearing upon the situation since Governor Cruce has recommended that the legislature reduce the number of state educational institutions and abolish the school of mines by combining the courses there with the state university Those attending the board meeting were Superintendents Scott O. F. Robert Warren and Cain were W. E. according to the old members Is a member of neither The members were appointed to visit the state institutions for the purpose of making recommendations to the 75.000 BALES ANNUALLY Shipped From This City to the of the Much Muskogee Cotton to Europe on page 8) Stephen a young farmer living near sold a of thirty-two fine turkeys on the streets here Tuesday fifteen cents per turkeys had been fattened on peanuts and Balanced neatly on the forward end of a truck with a singing negro in close one of the seventy thousand bales of cotton which will pass through the press of the Company this season rumbled on the way to the machine in which it was to be changed from a huge bale of loosely packed lint to a hard bundle of fiber under thousands of pounds One has but to watch the huge negroes in their work about the trucks and at the press to see that they merely the bale laden trucks for so expert have these men become that they sometimes ride half the distance of the compress platform with a bale on the forward end of the while they sit balanced on the handles of the back end of the Last year the Compress of this city received and compressed more than 74,000 bales of This year that number will ndt be exceeded and perhaps not reached to the fact that two compresses have been erected in territory which in former seasons sent their product to Muskogee for The for the season to date exceed those of last year by more than 7,000 bales and as more than 7B per cent of the crop is the mark of 74,000 will be pushed by the record of 1912. To one who has never seen the workings of a large compress the sight at the Compress Is a new experience and to those who even though they have lived in the land of cotton all their but have never been through a plant such as the Company has erected there is much to be seen and learned about the White Crop of the The cotton after being In the fields Is hauled to the gins nearby and the seed and dirt removed such as is done by the Patterson Gin in this In the gin where all foreign matter Is removed the cotton is pressed Into bales weighing from 450 to 525 pounds and In different sizes generally about six feet three feet thick and five feet Now the Bales Are Ready for the Compress And it is in tills work that the Compress Company has L established a reputation which Is second to none in the and which has built up a business under management of Mr. which has been able to place the cotton pressed in the local establishment before the world through such ports as Kail Ponton and of this country and When not brought to the ' by the grower himself direct from I he gin the cotton Shipped to the local plant over one i of the score of switches which are j run to the platform for the handling | of the ginned cotton in the quickest manner It is here the negro sung about in on the begins his work and one has but to stand against one of the many rows of bales on tho platform aud see these men as they rush back and forth with their laden or empty singing the songs heard no place save in the cotton patch or on the to recall Mark Twain's stories of his life on cotton boats in the There are ninety of these negroes employed during the season and they rush the cotton from the unloading platform to the press In record Just before reaching the press the bands which were placed around the bales tho gin are removed and new bands are slipped in the press on which the bale Is There Is a noise as thoughts steam boat was pulling away from the docks with both screws churning the water and the bale is seen to grow smaller and The covering which at first only protected the ends from the truck wheels and dirt of the platform is now made to lap around the sides and still the bale grows In the Compress In this city each bale of that passes and It has a capacity 135 bales per Is to a pressure of five million pounds is 1b In fe While under this enormous ' pressure the steel ties are buckled in place and a hissing noise the great pressure Is released and the bale is rolled from the The bale is then little more than a third of Its original size and the lint instead of being is hard to the touch and little resembles the bale which but a moment before came through from the other side of the The bale is not allowed to roll from the press to the floor for before the pressure Is removed there Is a negro with a truck waiting for it and as it drops Into place on the forward end he whirls the truck around and with two or three bounds starts it down the platform as fast as a man can run and as he turns the corner of a row of bales he will climb to the handles and ride for the length of the row or to the car On the tracks stand waiting some marked New some Texas or perhaps it is or These are the cities in United States to which the local compress sends most of the cotton while Kobe and and are the foreign ports Into which the greater part of the cotton finds The Compress Company employs almost a hundred negroes and there are a score of white men at the engines and on the platform as spotters and Mr. the has been In the business for the past twenty years and it is to his management lh a large way that the Compress of Muskogee owes Its rapid The weekly payroll of the Compress Company is between a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars and as all employes are Muskogee this money Is spent in Muskogee with Muskogee The Shippers Company is but another establishment like that ol the Muskogee Refining Company The Muskogee Iron Works and the Armour which not only has placed the name of Muskogee on the ledgers of the largest manufacturing establishments of this country but have reached Into foreign The largest buyers for whom - the Compress handles cotton are 9. p. Lock & B. P. Harris and T. A. Robbins of P. Bath of Fort Jones of Anderson Clayton & Co. of Oklahoma Nell P. Fort A. L. Wolf & and H. of ' More than one thousand cars of Muskogee pressed cotton will be shipped from the platform of the Compress Company during the season of 1912. NEWS FROM OIL AND GAS FIELDS OF PRODUCTION INCREASES IN GREAT MID-CONTINENT REGION NEW TERRITORY DRILLED IN Bald Glenn Morris and Okmulgee Districts Active All Along the Line it Oil Pennsylvania 1.40 North Lima 1.11 Smith 1,1 ma 1.06 Indiana 1.01 Ragland 1.04, Illinois heavy Caddo Canada 1.49 Kansas and Oklahoma Nov. 23. given by the interior department today that President Taft announces that he absolutely refuses to Interfere In any way with the ruling of the department in regard to the Uncle Sam leases and is a closed It therefore up to the producers as to who will lease the Schulter Brink Oil Co. haB completed Nos. 8 and T on Wesley No. 6 being good for 700 barrels after a shot of 200 anl No. 7 barrels the first 24 hours after Smith and Swan No. 6 Wesley all in section 35-12-1S is drilling at 1,160 The No. 9 on the same farm is drilling at 1,100 feet The Oil Co. deep test on In 2*- i The lower i at the - - 3 3, Which at 2% feet in. the * up 500 at 1.791 feet and is of a tight The Brink Oil Co. No. 1 on tbe Lewis farm in the southeast of section 2-11-13 is drilling at 9,210 feet with nothing showing so Tho Smith and Swan test in section 18-11* 14 is drilling at 1,000 continues good in Pawnee although the wells brought in are not up to the size The Selby Oil and Oas Co. No. 1 in the northeast corner of section 1-20-7 has proved quite a It made 100 barrels before the shot and is good for 25 or 30 barrels The Prairie Is starting a test on the Hull farm ia section 14-21-7. The same company is casing at 2,170 feet the No. 1 Cotton form in section 6-20-8. It Is also drilling at 2,300 feet the No. 5 on the Harmon farm in section 20-21-8, and is fishing in the No. 3. The same company is drilling at 200 feet In its test on the Dudgeon farm In section 14-20-8. The Minnetonka has a 200-barrel well in tbe Skinner 26 on the Jones farm in section 20-21-8. The Geraldine Oil has a dry the No. 3 on the Lucas farm dn section 6-20-8. with the poor showing made by the Selby No. 1 well on the Little makes the trend appear to take a sudden turn toward the Several tests are due and It is likely will be reported today or Tiger Gypsy their No. 4 on the Grayson farm as making 12% barrels an not quite up to the earlier The Oil is drilling at 200 feet the No. 3, E. farm In section 31-13-12. The Henry Oil and Oas Co. has a rig up for No. 5, BH Casey farm in section 31-13-12, and the same people have a rig up for No. 4 on the Morton farm in the same Hamilton Prairie Oil and Gas Co. No. 1 on the Kinnard farm in section 25-14-12, is completed and dry at a total depth of 2,100 The Meyers Oil & Gas has a dry hole In tbe feet piece In section 26-15-14 at Bald Bast of Advance Oil & Gas Co. No. 4 on the Nathaniel Smith farm In section 15-13-13, is due any time or as soon as a bit which is in the can tbe fished The Devonian Oil Co. is spudding in the southeast corner of the Sallie Gray farm in section 12-13-13. The Advance Oil Co. has made a location In the center of the east line of the Celia Alexander farm In the southwest of the same and also a location in the southwest corner of section 7-13-14, James Scott West of Bremen Oil Co. has completed a ' the No. 2 on the farm in section 7-17-11. The Bird Creek District by Oil and Gas Co. has con 2 on the Jones farm In 13. good for thirty three million of 8029
