Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 78, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 3, 1909 Page: 1 of 10
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NORMAN DAILY INDEPENDENT
roL. 1.
NCR MAN, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, APRIL 1909.
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THE OLD IDEA THAT A BOY OKLAHOMA CITY MAN SAYS WILL CONVENE MONDAY. THE SCHOOL LAND LESSEES DE-
SHOULD BE KEPT IN A
BARREL AND FED THRU
A BUNG HOLE IS ONE
RAPIDLY PASSING
AWAY.
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The boy bounded up the steps,
burst through the door with a shrill
whistle that set all ears tingling.
Shoes covered with mud, lie tossed
his cap in his sister's hce and threw
himself down on the couch.
Amid such exclamations as these:
i, do be careful, "Stop your
noise," "Your shoes art.- all mud,"
Don't lean against the sofa cush-
ion," the sunny expression soon gave
way to a surly, don't care, almost
savage one.
Snatching his cap and muttering
between his teeth ut it out, h_*
-hufiled from the room, slamming
".he door like a young savage, to give ^
vent to his injured feelings, by throw i
iug snowballs at the passing deliv-
ery boys or worse yet, to pelt the ^
neighbor's cat with stones.
Perhaps Mark Twain was right
when hesaid, "A boy should be kept
u a barrel and fed through the bung
hole until be is twenty-one," but we
jay give the boy a show, at least to
feel that he is worthy of some notice
besides criticism.
Boys are naturally rough and pride
themselves often on the very faults
that we hate.
His own "I" forms his primary j
consideration. Jle thinks it manly to
i,r rough and uncouth. Do wr lu-l,
him by constant nagging? No, in-
deed.
There lies beneath almost every
ough jacket a un it big heart wait-
ing for a call t<> respond to the sym-
pathetic message, not t<> a command
or a threat.
If he is fatherless and must lie
guided wholly by his mother, he will
soon feel some of the responsibility
of the family, if allowed to.
Send hni on errands of trust that
appeal to his manliness, and just the
small matter of letting him serve at
table, as soon as he s old enough, will
give him a certain dignity and bear-
ing.
So much depends upon environ-
ment. Don't make the home too good
for the boy. Let him have a place
to bring his friends, and do as they
like. It will compensate in the en 1
for all the trouble. You will have
your boy at home, his confidence and
companionship, with nothing to fear
for his future.
After all, a boy can not help being
a boy.
VOTERS REGISTERED AS
INDEPENDENT VOTERS
MAY RE-REGISTER IF
THEY CHOOSE AND
VOTE THE COM-
ING PRIMARY.
"No qualified voter is disfranchis-
ed by the new election law so far
as his registration qualifications are
concerned," said Judge J. J. Beall,
I chairman of the county election
^ board, yesterday in stating a posi-
tive denial, so far as hi
' opinion was concerned, of the state
ment published yesterday to the ef
feet that electors who registered last
DOCKET IS UNUSUALLY
HEAVY. THE STEVENSON
MURDER TRIAL TO
COME UP APRIL 12.
FIRST DAY TO
HEAR DEMUR-
RERS.
The Cleveland county district court
will convene Monday morning. The
first day wil lbe taken up in hear-
ings on motions and demurrers. On
Tuesday the petit jury will be eim-
pended, and state ca es against
individual j Oiristwdl, Williams, Wii!!'
Chatman, Green ard Witt ar set.
The murder trial oi James Steven-
son for the killing of A. T. Catliey of
Pauls Valley, has been set for April
August or October as independents ! 12.
will be denied the right to vote in I Over 150 witnesses have been sub-
the primary next Tuesday.
"No elector will be permitted to
CIDE TO ACCEPT BILL BY
RECENT LEGISLATURE
BUT WILL FIGHT FOR
THEIR RIGHTS IN
COURTS.
Enid, Okla., April 3.— 1 ly a vote of
| almost ten to one the school land les-
sees, at their second meeting here
Friday afternoon refused to submit
the school land question to the ref-
erendum vote, and decided, by unani-
mous vote to carry the matter to the
courts to establish their rights.
Committees were appointed to go
;o Guthrie and to take such further
general action as might be deemed
advisable. Each delegate is to put
in five dollars to defray expenses or
his interests will not be looked after.
j poenaed to testify in the case. Prob-
ably no other murder trial has crent-
j ed so great an interest and excite-
register again, under the new law," j mcnt in this section as the Stevenson
said Judge Beall, "and when he j case.
comes to the polls he must exhibit! Just l>rior to statehood Stevenson
I arid Catheyy who was town marshal
his registration certificate, but there
is no provision that will prevent him
confessing that since he registered
as an independent he has decided to
vote a republican tickct, a denio-
e. ttic tickct or a socialist ticket.
Simply because there is not an in-
dependent ticket in the field does not
argue that a man who was affiliated
with the independent party la.-t year
shall not vote as he pleases this year.
—()klahoman.
! of Pauls Valley, became involved in
I a controversy over gambling. rl he
bad feeling continued to exist until
one day the men met in the street
and Stevenson shot the officer.
District Judge Hosea TownsenJ
! admitted Stevenson to bail in the
sum of $5,000. A change of venue
was then taken to Cleveland county
! and the case brought before Judge
i R. McMillan, who held that Judge
I Townsend had no right to admit
i Stevenson to bail. 1 he case was then
The too frequent tapping of the
heavy mains is injurious to such
mains and the tapping as far as pos-
sible should be confined to the latter-
al mains. We trust that the city coun-
cil will hasten the work of putting
in latteral mains until they exhaust
the funds provided for such purpose
by the vote of the citizens. Such ac-
tion on the part of the council will
hasten the work of the people at-
taching to the sewerage system. As
the case now stands the people not
living along the water mains have
no way of securing water for sewer-
age purposes. With something like
$22,000 still remaining in the water
works fund and not expended we
are at a loss to understand why tin
work on the water system ha.- been
j appealed to the supreme court of Ok- j delayed. I here are many people in
CITIZENS ARE UP IN ARMS. lahoma and Judge Townsend's action i the thickly settled portion of the
Antlers, Okla., April 3.—The citi- sustained. Last December, Judge A. | city who could net attach to the
/en- of Pushmataha county are up H.
in arms against William 1'. Stewart, I to
Huston, of Guthrie was assigned j sewerage s\
hear the case and he granted a j unable to
stem by reason ut beu:j
secure water for flushii.j
democratci senator who represented continuance until the April term of
the twenty-fourth senatorial district
m the Oklahoma legislature and who
was re-elected last fall for a four-
year term. They claim that Antlers
would have captured the insane as\
lum instead of Vinita if Senator
Stewart had not violated his pledge
to the people of his home town of
Antlers. The people are circulating a
petition askng hm to resgn at once.
The petition is headed by Ben I.
Wiliams, Pushmataha county's rep-
resentative in the legislature.
Judge S. H. Harris of Oklahoma
City and J. B. Dudley met the Board
of Regents in regard to the back sal-
ary of some of the University prof-
essors, concerning which there was
some controversy as to whether the
same should be paid from the time
of the close of the school in June and
the opening in September, in the
case of members of the faculty be-
ing let out in June.
court.
A COMMUNICATION TO THE
INDEPENDENT.
In the last statement shown as to
the condition of the waterworks
bond fund, made about the 1st of
February, 1909, there is a balance
shown in that fund of about $22,000.
In other words only about $23,000 ot
the $45,000 lias been expended. A
good system of water mains has been
laid * ver the city end now the bal
aucf* of the money remaining in the
fund .-hould be expended in putting
in latteral mains, in other words,
putting in lattcrals along the streets
purposes. The city council can com
pel parties along the streets where
water mains are laid to attach tlicr.
closets to the sewerage system; bu*
certainly city council does not thin\
that it can force a property owne/
to run an attachment to the city well
or to a water main not adjacent to
his property. If council is laboring
under such an impression, and we
rather judge that they are, from the
character of their sewerage notice,
would suggest to them that they
consult the city attorney.
JNO. S. ALLAN.
J. A. Collins of near Lexington,
left this afternoon for Phoenix, Ari-
between the mains and on either side I zona, intending to remain in that
of the mains, thus bringing the water country for about a year. His fami-
service to where the people not liv-
ing along the mains can attach to it
as well as those living along the
mains, and for the additional reason
of permitting as few taps as possi-
ble being made in the heavy mains.
ly will remain on the farm. Mr. Col
lins spent about ten months in Ari-
zona arriving home about a year
ago. He thought his stay iu Arozona
was beneficial to him. lie is a. suf-
ferer from catarrh.
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 78, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 3, 1909, newspaper, April 3, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106760/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.