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Oklahoma State Register.
FOURTEENTH YEAH NO. 41.
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER, 12, 1905.
*1.00 PER YEAR*
FROM TRINIDAD THROUGH
GUTHRIE TO SHREVEPORT.
The Guthrie, Fairview & West-
ern Railroad Co. was chartered
a little over one year- ago, to
build from the city of Guthrie to
a connection with the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient railway,
near Fairview, O. T., and also a
line from Oklahoma City to a
connection with the Guthrie and
Fairview line at Kingfisher.
Since its organization this rail-
road company has secured valu-
able terminals in Guthrie and Ok-
lahoma City, made permanent
location of its entire line, secured
all right-of-way and has ten miles
between the Orient connection
and Darrow, in Blaine county,
ready tor the rails.
While financing this company,
the promoters became convinced
of the necessity of a Northwest-
Southwest line through Oklahoma
and Indian territories, from Trin-
idad to ShrevepOrt. They accord-
ingly took out the new charter
for the Guthrie, Shawnee &
Shreveport railroad, which will
build from Guthrie in a southeast-
erly dirertion, by way of Shaw-
nee, South McAlester, Paris and
Mount Pleasant, Tex., to Shreve-
port, which point is the head of
navigation, as well as having two
air lines the Texas & Pacific and
the Louisian- Railway and Navi-
gation company, between thai
city and New Orleans. They also
yesterday took out a charter for
the Colorado, Oklahoma Central
and New Orleans railroad, which
will build from the point where
the Guthrie, Fairview and West-
ern conntcts with the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient, near
Fairview, by way of Seiling, Ces-
tos, Mutual, Woodward, Beaver,
Guyamon. to Triniday, Col., thus
supplying the large territory in
Western Oklahoma with coal
from the Trinidad coal mines, as
well as the South McAlester coal
fields. A person looking at the
map will observe that nearly all
the railroads in Oklahoma, out-
side of the Choctaw, Fort Smith
and Western and a Frisco branch,
run north and south, or from
north east to southwest. People
in Woodward and Beaver count-
ies desiring to get to Guthrie by
rail are compelled to make a de-
tour into the state of Kansas and
back in order to accomplish this.
Western Oklahoma, in the matter
the Rock Island-Choctaw system.
With the building of the Kansas
City, Mexico ead Orient in a
northeast-southwest direction
through Western Oklahoma, and
the completion of these three
lines, which will be known here-
after as the West India Short
Line, the people of Western Ok-
lahoma will get their coal from
both east and west, and will be
no longer compelled to pay tri-
bute to one particular railroad.
The promoters of the West
India Short Line have taken time
by the fore'ock, and have arrang-
ed with steamship companies to
run between New Orleans and
Havana and other West India
ports, and if, when their line is
completed between Trinidad and
Shreveport, they cannot make
proper traffic arrangements with
steamship companies between
Shreveport and New Orleans,
they will establish their own
steamship line down Red river
from Shreveport to New Orleans,
This line as compared with
other lines now in existance from
and other common points in Col-
orado, is 104 miles the shortest
route. This line would be a valu-
able proposition for the Gould
interests when completed, as a
glance at the map will show that
from Shreveport to New Orleans
they have an air line, besides hav-
ing the Denver and Rio Grande
covering all points of Colorado
through west to Ogden. This
line from Shreveport to Trinidad
will fill the gap, and would give
them a through line from Ggden
to New Orleans, thus saving 40
miles from the Northwest Pacific
states to New Orleans over the
route now traversed by the
Snuthern Pacific.
The West India Short Line is
being built by the United States
Construction company, which
company is being financed by
Philadelphia capitalists, except a
small portion of the stock, which
is being placed among the citizens
in towns into which this line will
be built. No bonuses of any
kind or nature are asked of the
citizens along the line. All are
given a chance to invest in the
stock of the construction com-
pany, the balance being subscrib-
ed for by eastern capitalists. The
promoters of this line hope to
i have the same completed within
of coal, has been at the mtrcy of j the next two years.
Diploma on Apples.
Mr. William M. Baker, presi-
dent of the Sand Valley Good
Roads association and owner of
the Cimarron Valley Fruit farm,
situated five miles southeast of
Crescent, is the proud possessor
of a diploma granted him by the
"Superior Jury of Awards con-
nected with the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition of 1904," usual-
ly termed the World's Fair, St.
Louis, on his exhibition of ap-
ples. The diploma is a rich en-
graving' done on parchment.
Mr. Baker is informed that a
bronze medal awarded him on
same exhibit of apples will be
forwarded to him as soon as made
at the U. S. mint, Philadelphia.
Logan county is proud of the
success of Mr. Baker, who is only
one of a hundred orchardists in
Logan county, who grow as fine
fruit as is grown in any section
of the United States, but he de-
serves special credit for prepar-
ing an exhibit that was placed in
direct competion with the
world's best products, and won.
Charges against
Judge Beauchamp
fee records are alleged to show
that he failed to account for
$164.74 in fees_turned over by his
predecessor, W. M. Anderson. It
charged that by fraud B?au-
cbamp obtained a settlement in
August, I902, with H. C. Jayne
and Oscar E. Ford, county com-
missioners, which purported to be
an accounting for all monies re-
ceived by Beauchamp during his
incumbency as probate judge,
the commissioners being induced
to approve the report without ex-
amination, relying upon Beau-
ehamp's appointment to be asso-
ciate justice as evidence of his
integrity and the accuracy of the
report, which, however, was not
sworn to by Beauchamp. These
discrepancies, among others, are
alleged to appear in his report;
The sum of $50 in fines paid to
the courty treasurer for which
the probate judge was not entitled
to credit and which were not
charged in the record of fees col-
lected by him; costs amounting
to $31.40 collected bv Prebate
Judge Anderson and paid to the
county by Anderson, but claimed
bv Beauchamp; a balance of
$385.29 due the county and paid
by Anderson and not by Beau-
champ; expenses amounting to
$386.55 for weich there was no
legal authority; the sum of $99.70
for services as a member of the
board of insanity, upon which he
was required to serve without ex-
tra pay; the sum of $82.50 paid to
John Young and falsely alleged
to have been ordered by the
board of commissioners; a salary
of $1,600 for 1900, when only
$1,500 could be lawfully charged
The petition says that these ir-
regularties were not discovered
until July of this year. In ether
causes for action it is alleged that
in his first quarter as probate
judge Beaucamp collected$i7i.34
inifees earned by his predecessor,
and for which he has made no ac-
counting; that he withheld $56.44
collected in his second quarter,
$32.55 in the third, $10360 in
the fourth, $187.83 in the tenth,
$72.20 in the eleventh, and in
other quarters the sums of $202.27
$40, $67.30 and $31,40. The six-
teenth cause of action charges
Beauchamp with having misap-
propriated $264.50 in marriage
license fees turned over to him by
W M. Anderson, his predecessor.
Mrs. Tirzah F. Beauchamp,
wife of the defendant, is involved
in the last cause. She was em-
ployed in her husband's office as
clerk, and in i9oo and 1901 is
said to have collected $363.50 in
back fees. No accounting was
made, according to the petition,
until May, 1905, long after Beau-
champ had become associate
justice, when half the amount,
Judge Burford's
Record Clear.
As everybody knew he would
be, Chief Justice John H. Burford
has been entirely exonerated of
any charges in relation to the
shortages in connection with the
district clerks office. The follow-
ing letter from the attorney gen-
eral of the United States is self-
explanatory:
Department of Justice,
Washington. Uct. 4, 1905-
Hon. John H. Burford, Chief Jus-
tice Supreme court of Oklaho-
ma, Guthrie ,Okla.
Sir:—I am in receipt of the re.
port of Mr. William R. Hart, an
assistant attorney of this depart-
ment, who recently investigated
certain matters, supposedly affect-
ing your honesty and integrity,
which arose out of the embezzel
ments of T. A. Neal, former clerk
f the district court at Guthrie,
over which you preside. Mr.
Hart's report exonerates you from
all suspicion of wrong doing and
improper conduct 111 connection
with the matter referred to and
very highly commends your char-
acter and reputation as a man and
a judge. I beg to advise you that
his report is approved and that
the result of his investigation
gives the department great satis-
faction. Respectfully,
W illiam H. Moody,
Attorney General.
Secretary William Grimes to
the Rescue of Corporations
Irrigation Experts.
Southwestern Oklahoma Is being vis-
ited this week by A. F. Davis, assist-
ant chief engineer; U. S. Saunders,
consulting engineer; B. W. Hall, super-
vising engineer, and J. G. Camp, chief
engineer, al 1 of th 2 United States geo-
logical survey, who are making the
preliminary arrangements for the con-
struction of the $1,100,000 irrigation
reservoir at Navajo mountain.
Col.
Randlett
Has Resigned
Lawton News Republican: The in-
formation has reached here that Col.
James F. Randlett, agent of the Kiowa
and Comanche Indians at the Anadarko
agency, has tendered his resignation
to the interior department. The same
has been accepted and J. H. Hickam
of El Reno has been appointed by Sec-
retary Hitchcock to fill the vacancy.
There is no cause given for Rand-
lett's resignation, but it is probable
that his duties have become too oner-
ous for a man of his age.
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While the whole country is demanding investigation and restritution of
corporate wrongs, the friends of Secretary William Grimes were surprised to
see him hasten to declare himself in public on their side and against
the people. "My opinion is," says Mr. Grimes, "there should be no hurry or
drastic action of the 'grand stand' character taken by the insurance commis-
sioners of this or any other state or territory because of the developments
made thus far, by the New York legislative committee which is now investi-
gating some of the largest life insurance companies in America.
"There has not, to my notion, been revealed any evidence of any character
showing the companies now being examined to be in any manner insolvent or
that they are not fully prepared and able to carry out their contracts with
their policy holders. The success of any insurance company, and that which
is of material interest to every policy holder, is new business; to withhold this
against a solvent institution would, in my opinion, be usurping a power
against the interests of policy holders not intended by the statutes of Oklaho-.
ma, at least."
Unfortunately for Mr, Grimes, if the commissioners of almost every
state in the Union are playing grand stand to the people, he has rushed in
haste to play grand stand for the corporations.
It is not that the people desire him to shut the Equetable, New York
Life, Mutual Life or any other insurance company out of Oklahoma but that
he should hurry to align himself on the side of the corporations, that is aston-
ishing. Mr. Grimes claims that he is taking a stand in the interest of the
policy holders, as their safty and profit depends upon new busintts, but Pres-
ident McCurdy himself destroyes this claim when he said on the witness stand:
There has been mistakes made about the real province of life insurance com-
panies in these latter years. People have been lead to believe that the main
purpose was to make money for its policy holders. In my view that is not
the duty of such companies. They are eleemosynary. When a man insures
in a company he should take into consideration the fact that he has entered a
great philanthropic concern that is in duty bouud to spread itself, even
though this growth prevents him from realizing as much as he expected."
According to Mr. Grimes, insurance is an endless chain concern, the safety
of the policy not depending upon the per cent rate of insurance and the death
rate but of cheating the new Peter to pay the old Paul.
In denominating as "grandstanders" all who demand the restitution of
millions of dollars wrongfully used by the officers of the life insurance com-
panies now being investigated by the legislature of New York, he accuses
President Roosevelt and the leading men of the republican and democratic
parties in every state in the Union of playing "grandstand" before the peo--
ple. It is the opinion of all on the side of the people in this great movement
of the purification of corporate wealth that a thorough investigation of the
Equetable, New York Life and Mutual instead of injuring will benefit the
companies, and the only difference of opinion is whether state or federal sup-
ervision is necessary to stop their abuse, it being almost certain that one or
the other will be advocated in the President's message to congress.
Secretary Grimes' vision is blurred in this matter by the fact that he has
always stood for corporate interests in Oklahoma against the people until it
has become second habit with him. Mr. Grimes says nothing has been shown
that the immense misappropriations of the moneys has made the insurance
companies insolvent, therefore nothing should be done. T'le organization of
the asylum, many banks, several elevators along the Rock Island, out of the.
territorial funds in the defunct Capital National bank and the $200,000 of the
territorial money now tied up, has not made Oklahoma insolvent, but it shows
the improper use of public moneys and a loss to the people for the good of a
select few.
The revelation of the confessed misuse of the policy-holders money by the
officials of the insurance companies is so outrageously startling, not a New
York paper dare stand for them; the sentiment of the whole country is for
any remedy that will put back for the policy-holders these immense stolen
millions; Secretary Grimes has placed Oklahoma alone among all the states on
the side of the condemned officials—and this in view of asking the sovereignty
of statehood. Mr. Grimes will find his statesmanship will be repudiated by
the people.
$181.76, was paid into the county
Associate Justice James K. treasury. The balance remains
Beauchamp of Enid, presiding
judge in the Fifth judicial dis-
trict of Oklahoma, was made de-
fendant in one of the most sensa-
tional civil suits ever filed against
a member of the bench in Okla-
homa. The petition charges
Beauchamp with defalcation to
the amount $1,621.41 when pro-
bate judge of Garfield county,
from which position he was dp-
pointed to that of associate jus-
tice. The suit was filed by Chas.
J. West, assistant county attorney
by order of the board of county
commissioners made Sept. 6, '05.
The petition contains seventeen
causes of action and alleges gen-
ally the official funds with-
held by Beauchamp were taken
fraudulently and retained by him
under the claim of holding them
to offset or pay claims held
against him by the county.
Beauchamp became probate
judge January i, 1890, and the
unpaid. The county askes judg-
ment for the alleged shortages,
with interest at the rate of 7 per
cent until paid.
This suit against Judge Beau-
champ grows from alleged illegal
fee grabbing with which probate
judges throughout Oklahoma
have been charged for years, and
for which guilty officials may be
prosecuted criminally. The at-
tempt to recover public moneys
from him serves the double pur-
pose of turning into the county
treasury funds illegally held by
Beauchamp, should he be guilty,
and of securing additional mater-
ial for use in removing him from
office. Charges have been filed
against him in Washington re-
peatedly, but he has been able to
weather the storm and avoid re-
moval, though it is declared that
he cannot hope to be reappoint-
ed.
Kansas City Live Stock
Market Review.
Oct. 11,1905.—Cattle receipts,
.20,000, calues, 2,500. The mar-
ket opened strong and active for
choice to prime grades and fin-
ished light and handy weight
beef steers. Prices ruled steady to
10c higher with $6.10 top. Plain
half fat natives were slow and
barely steady. Western beef
grades ruled strong to 15c higher
than last week. The trade in cows
was active and steady, the bulk
selling from $2.35 to $2.50. The
stocker and feeder trade continue
strong and active with some sales
a shade higher. The yards are
full of country buyers. Calves
were in good demand at steady to
strong prices.
Hog receipts 10,000. Market
5 to 10c higher. Top, $5.22^,
bulk of sales $5.10 to $5.20 against
$5.25 for top and $5.10, to $5.20
for bulk of sales last Wednesday.
Sheep receipts, 12,500. Market
strong and active.
Cattle receipts in the quaranr
tine division 700, calves 50. The
market was fairly active at'Steady
prices for the commoner kinds
and strong to IOC higher for the
best. One string of ioiolb steers
sold at $3.45, about 10c higher.
Some plain rough offerings sold
under $3.00. The trade in cows
was active and steady. The offer-
ings wese mostly plain and sold
mostly from $2.20 to $2.35. The
supply of calves was limited and
prices ruled fully steady.
Big Foundry
Organized Here.
At a meeting Tuesday evening the
organization of the foundry company,
in process for a long time, was com-
pleted. The company will incorporate
for $25,000, with the following stock
holders: Frank Dale, U. C. Guss,
Robert Sohlberg, L. H. Lohr, Ben
Hegler, C. H. Martindale, Lou Bead-
les, A. H. Huston, J. J. Huston, D. ).
Cramer, A. A. Beyer, Louie Herzel,
W. H. Coyle, F. O. Lutz, G. Crowe, C.
Metzger, Ellis Cahill, J. H. Milan, and
Dr. G. A. Hughes. The officers of the
company elected yesterday are C. H.
Martindale, president and general man-
ager; Robert Sohlberg, treasurer, and
J. H. Milan, secretary. The board of
directors is J udge Dale, Robert Sohl-
berg, L. H.Lohr, Ben Hegler, C. H.
Martindale, Lou Beadles and J. A. Mil-
an.
A foundry that would do casting has
been needed here for many years.
Everything has had to be sent east,
and for repair alone it was a big loss
to the city. The foundry to be built
will cast everything up to iron store
fronts. The Oklahoma Iron Works, on
the West Side have been absorbed in
the company. The location will be
either on the Hagan farm or on the old
brick yard site in the southwest.
Men and Women
of Hob Arrested.
An echo of the recent killing of
Alpha Mann by Dr. J. D. Irwin at
Kaw City is found in the arrest
of five members of the mob
whose action in floggmg Joe Bus-
sert led to the quarrel between
Irwin and Man, and finally to the
killing. G. N. Monosmith and
wife, S. A. Chambers and wife
and Carrie E. Stout, all of Kaw
City were brought before Judge
Mussleman and held to the.
grand jury under $500 bond
each, all waiving examination.
A warrant was also issued for
William Brick, but the officers
have so far been unable to locate
him.
Bussert, a Kaw City merchant,,,
was charged with criminally as-
saulting a young girl there, and
was publicly flogged by a mob
composed of many prominent
cilizens of the town.
Missouri Road Gets It.
A Shawnee dispatch to the
Kansas City Journal says: In-
vestigations by the Denver, Enid
& Gulf officials, made recently,
have practically assured the
building of that road from Guth-
rie to this city, where a connec-
tion with the new Missouri, Ok-
lahoma & Gulf, which will build
from here to Henryetta, I.T. By
this connection, the Harriman
lines will obtain a north and
south line, connecting the Pacific
systems in the middle southwest,
a thing they have been long work-
ing to accomplish. The M. O. &
G. will connect with the Pacific
at Denison, and by the Shawnee
line, make connection with the
D. E. &. G., which is to be ex-
tended to a connection with the
Pacific lines at some point in
Kansas. These facts have been
made apparant here by letters
and interviews from D., E. G.
officials.
After a battle of less than 15 minutes
Ft. Sill capitulated Sunday morning and
Gen. Baldwin marched in at the head of
his victorious army.
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