Farmers' Champion, 1912-11-14

Thiu survey has established thg fact that there is enough aalb water gohig to waste bn the plains of Oklahoma to make sufficient salt to load 100 .railway carBjev ery day in the year. And, yet the bulk of 'Oklahoma's salt is derived from other states, awl ia sold to our merchants at $1.79 per barrel. But two counties in the state now produce salt for commercial purposes Harmon and Blaine. In 1010 these coun ties produced 2564 barrels of salt The largest salt plain in the state is located in Alfalfa county. It covers an area about four-by-four miles square and the surface is encrusted with glistening white salt crystals. The plain is level and white, absolutely barren of vegetation, and is fed by salt springs. In the valley of the Cimarroni Woodward county, are twoothtr" very promising salt plains, which are also fed by salt sprihrsWIt is estimated that in this one coun ty alone there are over 1,000, of these salt springs. r-O ' O -J Champiento Elgin o i - ' I The Champion, owned alra.ee ited by J; s.,5ouie, js new aya$j .h.!1:...'-''-!; itfeat;tmn.-. VA pUblisbwirair Lack of 8UBrtonttw'irt!er the businessmen oflnsMloiaW' is given as a reason zor'fpt pifc, ," Eer's removal. Indiahoma it , ,t e condoled; in he lose of ile'e-., terprismg weekly Mr. Bottle 'm an able writer and a splendid cit citizen, - izen, citizen, and Elgin is to be cbngratf ulated upon being selected as the f utare home of the paper and its editor. News and Star, o What Our Victory Meant Senator Owen says "The over whelming Democratic victory fn the United States means the over' throw of corrupt businesa in al alliance - liance alliance with corrupt politicians ! it means the overthrow of control by Republican leaders, for selfish interests; it means' taking the governing power out of the haade of the special interests and put putting - ting putting it where it belongs; it means the mandatory direct primary, by the preferential primary for president; the direct election of United States Senators, the short ballot, and the initiative, rofer endum and recall." o ' Indiahoma Lost Champied Announcing lack of; support front the business men of India' homa as the reason for hia action J. 3t, Soule, editor and proprietor of the Indiahoma Champion, ii moving his newspaper plant from that place to Elgin, in the north' eastern part of Comanche county, .Mr." Soule was a candidate in thejDemocratic primary for aom nation for, the S&ate Legislature. He has been editing one one of the livest weeklynewspapers iri the county, but- says he he net been able to make a living in In; diahoma. Tho ' business men of Elgin, however, have! pledged a support whieh will guaraatee he he-Champion - Champion he-Champion a good business at that place. The first edition of the Farmers Champion it is under stood. will appear thj weeki Constitution,

Magazine has the following to beloved blind Senator, Thomas P( of Woodrow Wilson as President: m ouc The Old Man Wisdom, and it Was his filled with needle work and art exhibits from the different Indian schools, and in another tent, was Indian bead-work and buckskin garments valued as high as $3000. One dress alone was on exhibi exhibition - tion exhibition for which $250 had been re refused. - fused. refused. There were five genuine eagle-feather war-bonnets, any one of which could be sold for $150, and there were four headed spears which could not be pur purchased - chased purchased for $200 apiece. The Comanche Indian school took the sweepstakes prize for the best general exhibit. On de department - partment department exhibits, first, seconds and ,thirds were pretty equally divided between the six 'schools entered the Comanche school at Lawton, the Riverside school at Ariadarko, the Anadarko board boarding - ing boarding school, the Rainy Mountain school ntGotebo, the Cache Creek Mission at Apache'ahd Apache Mission on theTort Sill Reserva Reservation, - tion, Reservation, Prizes for crop exhibits in the competition by older Indians were won by members of all the affili affiliated - ated affiliated tribes. These consisted of useful urtlcles for the heme or farm, furnished by merchants of J Lawton.

Indian Fair Echoes In the educational training of the southwest tribes of Oklaho Oklahoma, - ma, Oklahoma, the newest departure was the recent establishment of an Indian fair at Lawton, at which agricultural products, live stock and industrial products of the Indians, old and young, could be exhibited in competition for va rious prizes, and in which; with practical examples before them,, writes a correspondent to the Ok Ok-lahoman, - lahoman, Ok-lahoman, the Indians dan be in induced - duced induced to discuss the best methods in production. The idea was conceived only a few weeks .ago suggested by the unusual interest manifested in 'theComariche Indian school exhibit at the state fair-but When the date arrived it had al already - ready already aroused such interest that the fair attendance for the two days registered fully 8,000. Al Almost - most Almost 1500 of these were Indians, Comaaehes, rApaches, Kiowas, Gaddep and ' Wichita, and the school 'campus was a city of near nearly - ly nearly 00 tehts,n,3 " , 1 Between three and four hun hun-dfefl - dfefl hun-dfefl crop exhibits were entered by the older members of the Va rious tribes, One wholw tent was

ly blind since' he was cleyen years old, he accomplished the won wonderful - derful wonderful feat of fighting his way into the United States Senate before he was thirty-seven. He became a Wilson supporter early, staked all his political capital on his. judgment, never hesitated or waver wavered, - ed, wavered, never doubted that success would come and contribed more to winning' the fight, I suppose, than any other one man. save Wilson himself or W. J. Bryan. It was Gore, more than anybody else, who convinced Bryan that he ought to take up the Wilson cause and make those wonderful assaults which at regular intervals stood

tions, decide all policies and dictate moves when nobody else, had the wisdonvqr the nerve to do it. The truth is that this man Gore is just about the biggest political personality the current campaign has developed. He is only forty-two years old. and although total