Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS FARM AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Millionaire Indian Gets Auto; Will
Not Spend His Riches for Carpets
Nauru is only 12 mil.;* in virr.imf.-i
...... acres in extent. It is 33 ******** ■" ■ . • 4
miles to the south of the equator,
C'ato Sells, .oiinnissioner of Indian
affairs, and l>.v virtue of his Otti.e
•'great white father” to the nation's
red wards, has discovered a strange
viewpoint on the part ot his wealthiest
“child.” The Fort Worth Star Tele
gram tells the story:
-.hadamn Harnett, riehest Indian in
the world, may have an income ot *-’0,
.*00 a month from oil royalties and la-
in a position to jndke $200,000 . ash I.
nations to church campaigns. but ear
pets for his modest cottage are too lux-
urious.
That ’s what he told Cato Sells, coin-
missioner of Indian afairs, when Sells
suggested such an improvement would
net be at all out of the way for a man
in l.is position. Hut Jackson Harnett
is satisfied with the plain bare floor—
in fact carpets strike him as being a
liftte' too effete even for a man who
could afpfrii the best in the market.
Hells was in l-’ort Worth Saturday
after a wait with Barnett at his home
iu Henryettu, Okla., to investigate his
financial affairs and the matter of his
recent large contributions to various
church denominations.
For while he hasn t accumulated any
habits of personal extravagance with
his riches, the aged Indian Croesus has
crease it every day. lie owns $875,000
worth of Liberty Uouds alone and other
good investments bringing his total of
actual wealth much higher. And all of
it is the accumulation of about two and
one half years.
Without Relatives.
And to add to Harnett's unusual
story, hr hasn't a relative in the world
to whom he <au leave his money when
lie passes on. He is a bachelor and so
far as the department can discover lias day
lin kin who can lay claim to a share of
the fortune.. nn<‘ o1
He was born on the old Fort Hill res progressive
miles from Aiwtralia, J,000 trom Japan, V
and 4.7Q0 miles from America. It is %♦
the Treasure Island Australia claims, «£♦
New Zealand wants, and Japan de ^
manded as part of the Marshalls, but to
which Great Hritaiu has established' J
the most right. *f
“Before the war Nauru was Ger-
man territory and attached to the 0• r ♦%
man group of islands, the Marshalls.
Fader the Gefman administration the-
natives were cruelly neglected and their J
number dwindled to a mere 2,000. To j
under the energetic and humane
British administration the natives
healthiest and most | A
the whole South J^
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the
races on
ervation in what has been Indian Ter- Facitic. 1 he.v have been weaned from
ritorv. Ilis earlv bovhood was typical their i.Hc wavs and_ei!csjuiag;e4 to im-
of Indian lit'e'of that'.late and »lt'iut«*U ' viliagvs, make and miend
the government provided eduFStioual
facilities the "young Indian preferred
the life of the prairies and the streams
to the tame--curriculum of the white
man’s school r,oom.
Vt’lioii he reached man's estate he re
ceive.l an allotment of 160 acres in Ok
mulgee County about seven miles from
Henryotta where he has lived since. Ho
vva.su't much of a success as a farmer.
Then came the oil men and overnight
Harnett became rich, and the begging
letters began to pour in on him.
Biit his wealth hasn't made much
j change in his life. He still lives on a
;
up the insanitary prac-
their dead in their ♦%
roads, and give
tico of burying
houses or at the front or back doors.
“Hundreds of natives now work in
the phosphate fields, are paid very
high wages, and have the most com-
fortable living conditions.
“The native eocoanut plantations,
neglected in the German time, are now
cleared, improved and profitable,
natives are rPfioNviie.l for their
The
pleas- ^
ant manners—one reason why the origi- J
ual name of the island was ‘ Pleas-
developed a strong liking for heaping
wealth on the churches of his less „.r-;*"™ "“ar H-nryetta iu a little cottage
•lunate white biothers. t,lat miSht bcIon« t0 :u,v farmor ot’
ln moderate circumstances.
His one love is horses and according
to Sells he has a number of fine speci-
mens of horseflesh on his farm. Lately
Some time ago he gave $25,000
cash to the Henrietta Baptist church
as a donation toward a new structure.
He followed this with an announce-
ment that he would give a like amount
to four churches of other denomina-
tions in his home town. The feeling of
philanthropy by this time, appealed to
him so much that when the Baptists
started their $75,000,006 campaign he
asked his “Uncle Ham” to allow him
to contribute $200,000.
Uncle Sam's Ward.
His “uncle's’’ consent was necessary
to validate the gift, for Barnett is a
restricted Indian and under guardian-
ship. fn order to keep his wealth out
of the bunds of unscrupulous whites all
of his trnr -uettions are through the In
dian Affairs Department and with fuVl-
tions to his credit he can't dispose of a
dollar on his own account.------------
The $25,000 gift to his own church
has b>en validated by Sells. The others
•are now being considered by the In
dian commissioner who stated Satur-
day that he had as yet reached no con
elusion in the matter.
It isn’t a question of Barnett’s finan-
cial ability to make the contributions.
He could make ten more like them and
still have plenty to keep him in af-
fluence. Sells merely wants to assure
himself that the donations are w ar- ‘
ranted and that they will not result in
a mad scramble by other organizations
means nothing ta the owner except a
means nothing to the owner except a
.-childish pleasure in disbursing it.
Barnett is one of the most unique
figures in the United States. Seventy-
two years old and a full-blooded Creek
who can neither read nor write, lie owns
100 acres of some of the riches oil land
•in the Mid-Continent fields.
lie lias been looking with longing eyes
at-the automobiles that speed along thi'
Oklahoma hgiliways, somewhat as a
child might sigh for the toys displayed
in a show window. Sells has author-
ized the purchase of one for him. And
according to the commissioner it‘s going
to be one commensurate with Barnett \s
position as a real plutocrat. It’s going
to have all the latest wrinkles in the
automobile world and. a trusty chauf-
feur to drive it.
So Jackson Barnett, erstwhile buffalo
hunter and later downtrodden farmer
of a few unproductive acres, can now
1 speed in comfort over the territory
where once lie roamed in search of the
buffalo and antelope.---—--f
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AN ISLAND OF PHOSPHATE
In an article contributed to the Lon
don Daily Mail, Thomas I. McMahon,
F. If. G, S., gives what may be assumed
to be an authentic account of what lie
calls “the little spot of earth that
nearly upset the peace conference,” a
tiny island in the lonliest part of the
Central Pacific.
I This island-is called Nauru, the writ
er adds, worth many millions of mou-
, ey on account of its millions of tons
of phosphate rock.
“A mere pinch of this magic tropi-
cal product put into tin: most impover-
ished soil has an amazing effect upon j
plant life. In Australia, where some
,200,000 tons is used annually, it clou-!
I bled the wheat crop.
I “In Japan farming can not now do.
without the aid of this fertilizer; Jap-!
successful experiment made by J. C.
Camp in the attic of his barn, where
i he manufactured ntore than 1,000
brooms bv crude machinery.
COMPANY BEING ORGANIZED f
TO MAKE BROOMS IN ORANGE V
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A large company is being organized
in Orange for the establishment of a
modern-broom factory as a result of a
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INCREASE IN OIL PRODUCTION «,♦*
OF 20,000,000 BARRELS SHOWN JL
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Production of petroleum in the J
I'nited States in 1010 was approximate V
lv 376,000,000 barrels over the produc-
tion in 1918, the United States geologi- M
! cal survey lias announced." Stocks of
domestic petroleum held by producers
and marketing companies at the end of
, 1919 are estimated at 132,000,060 bail!. J
rels, an increase of 10,o00,000 barrels V
over the stocks so held a year ago. Ex- *£
fcess -ot imports over exports in 1919
amounted to approximately 47,000,000. A
barrels. A
While They Last
PLUMOSUS ..........$2.00 Per 100
ASP. EDULIS, for Greens. .50 Per 100
CUT TUBEROSES . . $3.00 Per 100
Bulbs Now Ready
IMPERIAL GARDENS
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
Mrs. Mvrtie Hardin left Sugar Laud
last week for Richmond, where she will
make her future home. A
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! anese farmers are keen buyers of the
Commissioner Sells says that his product. - "Indeed, every nation that'
present wealth amounts to $3,000,000, farms extensively is placing orders for .
with a number of wells helping to in-^ phosphate-rock. '
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MANUFACTURING COMPANY
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Ml-G’RS ACID and CHEMICALS
PURE BRIMSTONE ACID
ELECTROLYTE OR BATTERY ACID
SULPHURIC ACID
NITRIC ACID
MURIATIC ACID
CREAMERY ACID
CAUSTIC SODA NITRE CAKE
SODA ASH SAL SODA
EPSOM SALT FLOUR SULPHUR
FULLERS EARTH
CAR*LOTS OR LESS
Life
Was a
Misery
Mrs. F. M. Jon«, •*
Palmer, OW»., writes:
" From the time I en-
tered into womanhood
... 1 looked with dread
from one month to the
next. 1 suffered with my
back and bearing-down
pain, until life to me was
a misery. I would think
1 could not endure the
pain any longer, and I
gradually got worse. . .
Nothing seemed to help
me until, one day, . . .
1 decided to
TAKE
The New Year Finds
US WITH
Complete Lines
OF
Shoes, Clothing
For Men, Women, Children
VINEGAR DEPARTMENT
Distilled Grain of All Strength
Inquiries Solicited From the Trade
Sugar Land Manufacturing Co.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
The Woman’s Tonic
"I took four bottles,”
Mrs. Jones goes on to
say, "and was not only
greatly relieved, but can
truthfully say that I have
not a pain. . .
" It has now been two
years since I tookCardui,
and I am stiU In good
health. . . I would ad-
vise any woman or girl
to use Cardui who is a
•sufferer from any tsmals
trouble.”
If you suffer pain caused
from womanly trouble, or
if you feel the need of a
good strengthening tonic
to build up your run-down
system, take the advice
of Mrs. Jones. Try Car-
dui. It helped her. We
believe it wUI help yeu.
All Druggists
For your convenience we keep a general as-
sortment of Dry Goods and you will be sur-
prised to find how few things you will have
to send away to get and how much you can
really save by patronizing us.
You can rest assured that you will
always receive courteous treatment
and the best service possible.
Imperial Mercantile Co.
Dry Goods Department
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