Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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(tUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY
14, 1907.
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Senator
Bailey to
Ex^Senator Burton; Forgive Me,
I Knew
Not What \ I
Did,
Hotel lone The Un!y Complete Caravansary In The Two Territories.
Wednesday morning the concrete foundation ot the Hotel
lone was finished and the laying of the brick commenced. So
many men are employed that in twenty-four hours the basement
arose to the level of the ground.
The building-, as seen by the above picture, will be handsomer
than anticipated. The building is five stories and basement in
height and covers an area of loo x 140 feet. It will be construct-
ed of outside walls of briclc. All interior columns and beams of
steel incased in concrete. Floors will be solid re-inforced con-
crete, making an absolutely lire-proof budding. The exterior is
designed iti Spanish Renaissance style of architecture, and will be
constructed of red and wnite brick, steel cornices and topped off
with red tile roof.
The main entrance is from the center of the building- on Ok-
lahoma Avenue frontage. This enters direct into rotunda, 60 x 60
feet, giving an outside view from rotunda to Oklahoma Avenue
and Vine Street. The ladies reception room is from Vine Street.
The rotur.da will have clerks office in the southeast corner, which
is entirely covered by ornamental skylights, giving direct daylight
for the office. This office has direct view of the elevator, main-
stairway entrance to dining room as well as commanding a view
of both main entrance and ladies entrance. The trimings of the
•rotunda to be brown flemish oak, with mosaic floors, marble base
and ornamental wainscoting. The ceiling and columns to be
highly decorated with ornamental plaster work tinted in soft tints
of orange brown and high lighted white gold leaf.
Back of the rotunda is the dining room which is 34 x 70 feet,
having outside entrance on Vine Street and to the south. The
dining room will have mosaic floors with Verde Flemish, oak fin-
ish. Ceilings and beams will be highly decorated in ornamental
plaster. There will be a large reading room, the entire ceiling
of which is constructed of glass. There is an eight foot cor-
ridor east from the rotunda, which communicates with drug store,
buffet, check room, lavatories and large sample rooms. The buf-
fet and drug store face on Oklahoma Avenue. To the east of
dining room is the ordinary, back of which is the ' itchen which
connects directly with both dining room and ordinary.
In the basement is located the barber shop and Turkish bath
rooms and ample space for the necessary store room, cookery, cold
storage, boiler room, laundry, refrigerating room, engine room and
all departments necessary to making a complete and modern up
to-date working department. On the second floor are the parlors
and guest room,
There is a special feature ot the ball room, 34x70 feet, which
has direct communication with the ordinary and dining room, also
has an outside entrance from the east, and in direct communication
with the kitchen so that banquets can be served in this room.
Above the kitchen are the servant's quarters, which are inde-
pendent of the njain building. The hotel contains one hundred
and thirty guest rooms and has sixty rooms connected with private
bath. '1 he floor plan is "L" shaped giving all the rooms the out-
side light.
The buildsng is being constructed by the lone Hotel Co., of
which Mr. W. H. Coyle is president. The contract has been let to
H. M.Fielding, of Guthrie, Okla., who is under a $50,000 bond to
complete the building by August 1, 1907.
Frank V. Newell, architect, Chicago, 111., and Guthrie, Okla.
J. Campbell Morrison is the supervising architect in charge of the
construction, and the way he is rushing tilings he will have it
ready for occupancy long before the specified time.
I Enid & Qulf k. R.
Shops to Come Here.
It is reported in Enid, says a local
paper, that the D., E. & G. will in al
probability be discontinued as a sepa
rute road after March 1st. Inquiry at
the general offices brought forth a de-
nial of any such intention from officers
of the road, but the fncts have leaked
out in an uncertain manner. Several
oj the employees hrve secured positions
in other places, one of the bookkeepers
in a railroad office in Chicago and a
clerk in a Santa Ee office in Los Ange-
les. The positions were offered and
accepted because the jobs are to termi-
nate with the end of February. Nearly
all of the employes have been offered
positions away from Enid but many of
them have declined bo leave the city.
J. J. Cunningham, general freight
and passenger agent, will likely remain
in Enid as he has a very extensive ac-
quaintance and is very popular, and also
some investments in the city. It is un-
derstood that J. S. Salle, auditor, wil
go to Chicago. Mr. Salle was with the
I Michigan Central in Chicago for a num-
ber of years.
It is impossible to learn what the
program is regarding the shops but
indicetions point to their discontinuance
in Enid, and consolidation with the
Santa Fe Fhops in Guthrie. It is the
general belief that this will happen.
The D., E. & G. business out of Enid
has grown rapidly and is still increas-
ing. There is no doubt that the Santa
Fe likes the road and likes Enid and is
well pleased with its business, but it
has long been exident that to continue
general offices in Fnid is an almost use-
less expense to the road. The consoli-
dation would have taken place long ago
had it not been that a large amount of
construction work in Northern Oklaho-
ma and Kansas was under contract.
This is now nearly completed.
Secretary HcNabb
Resorts to Law
Oklahoman: Secretary C. A. McNabb
of the territoral board of agriculture is |
in the city, and it is said that his visit
here now has to do with probable pros-
ecutions of local retail merchants and ]
druggists handling poultry and stock
foods without the labels required to be
placed on the packages.
There is a territorial law requiring
manufacturers of these foods to file
with the secretaryof the board of agri-
culture a cartificate showing the per-
centage of protein and fat containe 1 in
these foods. This the manufacturers
| have complied with.
| The law also requires that duplicates
j of these certificates be placed on every
| package on the retailer's shelves, and
j for failure to do so the latter are sub-
ject to a heavy fine. The munufactur-
j ers of cotton seed meal, of whom there
i are a number in Oklahoma, come under
| the same law, and retailers of this food
i failing to lable the same are liable to
the fine also.
Secretary McNabb will confer with
County Attorney Hays in the matter
and it is likely prosecutions will be
started here within the next few days.
Previous attempts have been made to
enforce this law without working a
hardship on the retailer, for it is not
the intention of the board of agricul-
ture to punish business men for some-
thing that could without cost to them-
selves be remedied.
All tnat is necessary in the matter is
for the retailer to insist that the manu-
facturer from whom he buys his goods
supply him with these certificates. It
is the intention to enforce the law and
•i
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Worthless Dinonced
husband Returns Rich.
Flora Itichard3 of Chickashi,
thought her husband would never
amouut to anything and wnen he left
her several years a?o ani went to the
Klondyke she sued him for a divorce
which was granted. Richards knew
nothing about it untill he returned to
this country. Th? wife was then sorry
that she had dona it for he had pros-
pered, had struck pay dirt in great
quantities and is now supposed to be
worth sereral hundred thousand dol-
lars.
Aged Alan Killed by a Boar
Carmen Headlight: The dead body of
Jas. Brooks was found Friday evening
a short distance from his house. In his
hands was a pitchfork, and about was a
poot of blood from a wound in the
thigh. He was attacked by the boar,
which he was trying to drive into a pen.
A bloody trail shows that he started
for the house and fell where found. An
artery had been severed.
The deceased was 66 years old and
lived about 13 miles northeast of Car-
men, in the Clay creek neighborhood.
riurdock's Victory
is Complete.
The postal commission, which had
advocated radical changes in pay for
second class mail matter, has aban-
doned all its contentions so far as they
agect daily and weekly newspapers.
The commission held a meeting and it
proved that its recommendations weie
so objectionable that there would be no
hope for securing the passage of the
law enacting the provisions suggested.
Chairman Overstreet stated that
there would be no legislation affecting
second class mail pay. The subject, he
said, was too important to be disposed
of at this session. The postoffice com-
mittee incorporated in the postoffice
appropriation bill a recommendation to
the commission providing for the em-
ployment of experts to overhaul al]
postoffice business affairs and secure
the introduction of modern business
methods in all postoffices throughout
the United States.
Victor Murdock's victory in the com-
mittee was made complete by the in-
corporation in the postoffice bill of his
contention as to the manner in which
the weight of mail should be deter-
mined. All increases of pay for em-
plo ees in the service were incorporated
in the bill.
a few prosecutions may expediate mat-
ters somewhat.
Frantz Asks Aid for
the Famine Sufferers
The following proclamation to the
people of Oklahoma was issued by Gov.
Frantz:
The dread famine that now exists in
certain sections of the Chinese empire
calls for sympathy in the form of sub-
stantial aid throughout the prosperous
states and territories. No state or ter-
ritory has enjoyed such unprecedented
prosperity as our own territory.
Therefore, I call upon the people
throughout the territory of Oklahoma
to contribute as much as they may de-
sire to aid these suffering people. I
designate the Logan County bank of
Guthrie, Okla., as the depository to
which funds may be sent, and contribu-
tions received will be promptly for-
warded to the authorities who have
this matter in charge.
in join Division of
Greer County.
Injuncion proceedings to prevent the
submission of the division of Greer
county as has been arranged by the
constitutional convention were brought
in the supreme court. The petition
was filed by Attorney Charles M.
Thacker and Charles H. Eagin, both of
Mangum.
Their brief is a scathing arraignment
of the constitutional convention in
which its power to make the proposed
divisions of the county is denied. The
brief declares that there is no law
on which the convention has the right
to submit the proposition to the people
of the state for ratification.
Laws Beyond Moral
Sentiment to Enforce.
District Attorney Garome on legis-
lation :
"The saloon problem in New York?
There'3no such problem," he said.
"The question is when are the people
going to make laws that are just as
good and not better than they are
themselves.
"The people that put the pressure
on legislatures and obtain the enact-
ment of impracticable laws are good
people and people of fine character.
But they do not understand that there
are lots of moral evils that must be
dealt with by moral force and not by
statute laws. Anyway we have too
much law making. It is Jnot law we
need in this country now -it is men.
Look at Kansas. If Kansas cannot
successfully enforce its laws against
the Oil trust how can it fight that
trust with oil turned out by convict
labor?
Pioneer Telephone
Increases Stock.
A new board of directors of the Pio-
neer Telephone company was elected
Wednesday ot the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the company in
Guthrie. The new directorate is: E.
D Nims, J. M. Noble, E. E. Wester-
velt, Oklahoma City; David McKin-
stry, Perry; Walter S. Allen, New Bed-
ford, Mass; A J. Seay, Kingfisher, and
H. E. Asp, Guthrie.
No changes were made in the officers
of the company. It was arranged by
the directors that each stockholder sub-
scribe for three shares of stock at par
for each share of stock he now holds.
A large portion of the proceeds from
this new issue will be used in paying
off the floating debt of the company.
A Case Where Patience and
Charity Become Christian Virtues.
The State Register is in receipt of the following from an ad-
miring and himself an admirable democratic editor:
'1 have read and admired your editorials for years. Have al-
ways said that you was the peer of them all in Oklahoma. But
why this tattle about the people rejecting the constitution? I am
surprised at you. Why don't you write what you think in regard
to this, the same as you do about other matters? You know that
the constitution will be accepted by the people. Now why damage
your reputation as an qditor, — a real editor,—by intimating that it
will be turnd down?"
The State Register has never said, directly, that the constitution
will not be ratified by the people, but warned the convention at dif-
ferent times in its progress that if it pursued certain tartics such a
calamity would happen. Such a contingency cannot be posi-
tively declared in the midst of uncompleted work of a legislative
body, but its temper and the temper of the constituents can be ta-
ken and a fairly resonable judgement hazzarded.
The State Register has not commented on the constitutional
couvention as to its final results, but only in regard to such meas-
ures as have been considered, but being asked for its estimate it is
willing to give it. It is this;
There is no final possibility of judging the merits of the work
of the constitutional convention in making a constitution, as not
much final work has been done. It should be understood by the
outside reader that with the exception of suffrage no question has
positively been settled, unless it should happen that the pre-
amble and the bill of rights will stand, and it is hinted that even
the form of inhibiting the deity will be changed. The matters
that haye been discussed are either still in the committer of the
whole or third reading. None are beyond being amended be-
fore the instrument as a whole is adopted. It is possible to change
even the prohibition provision.
The fact that the convention has been seriously criticised, not
only by the republicans, press and people, but by considerable
number of democrats, is quite as much the fault of the members
of the convention as the people. At the beginning the leaders
of the convention saw fit to attack quite as much the press and
people as they were attacked, when a conservative wisdom should
have dictated a dignified silence, accepting such criticism and de-
pending upon the results of their work to vindicate them. That
they had no experience in constitution making they are probably
not to blame, but the leaders are to blame for not admitting the
seriousness of the work before them and setting themselves to the
task, for that very reason, with the greatest dispatch. Instead,
they took upon themselves the burden of shaping out a crazy
quilt county line and county seat map of Oklahoma.
The most serious criticism of the convention is, that realizing
that at best sixty days would be a short time for even abler men
to make a constitution, it saw fit to waste the full time allotted
to it by congress to dealing in real estate and town booming. The
excuse is now given that it is more difficult to form a constitution
foriwo territories so different in their condition and needs than
some others. But this should have been known by any one who
offered himself as a candidate before. And this is another reason
why no other work save the making of a constitution should have
been undertake.
The people ot Oklahoma are not primarily interested in the
politics ot the future state of Oklahoma. No one can tell what will be
the permanent complexion now. Many contingent circumstances
made the election go violently democratic—too democratic for the
good work of the convention—and contingent circumstances of dis-
appointment in'the work of this convention may make it go just as
violently republican. Drunk with its numerical victory the majority
the first few weeks talked all kinds of extrvagances. The convention
being organized with the Indian Teriitory in power, the Oklahoma
democratic leaders, from chairman down, were entirely ignored.
Not only that but the democratic newspapers and the city of
Muskogee were at war.with the democratic newspapers and city
of Oklahoma City. How much better would it have been, if the
leaders desired to make • political reputation for themselves, to
have devoted themselves to the single work of making the constit-
ution and let their work make their fame above those of their
rivals for public favor. ?Asit is, time, tbeir choleric temper
and a disappointed and chagrined public is in clined not to give
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^^Abral^cin) Lir)eolr>£^
(This tribute appeared in the London Punch, which, up to the time of the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln, had ridiculed and maligned him with all its well known power and pencil.)
YOU lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier.
You, who with mocking pencil wont totrace,
Broad for the self-complacent British sneer.
His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face.
His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling
hair.
His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease,
His lack of all we prize as debonair,
Of pow^r or will to shine, of art to please;
You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's
laugh.
Judging each step as though the way were
plain.
Reckless, s it could point its paragraphs
Of chief's perplexity, or people's pain:
His warfare with rude Nature's thvcartinif
nights;
The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil.
The iron bark, that turns the lumberer's ax.
The rapid, that o'erbears the boatman's toil,
The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderer's
tracks.
The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear-
Such were the deeds that helped his youth t®
train;
! Hough culture, but such trees large fruit may
bear,
i If b it their stocks be of right girth and grain.
Beside this corpse, that bears the
The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew.
Between the mourners at his head and feet.
Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you?
Yes: he had lived to shame ma front m y sneer.
To lame my pencil, and confute mj pen;
To make me own this hind of princes peer,
This rail splitter a true born king of men-
My shallow judgement I had learned to rue.
Noting how to occasion's height he rose;
How his quaint wit made home truth seem more
true;
How, ironlike, h!s tamper grew by blows.
How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be;
How, in good fortune and In ill, the same;
Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he.
Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
He went about his work-such work as few
Ever had laid on head and heart and hand —
As one wbo known, where there's a ta*k to do.
Man's honest will must heaven's good grace
command;
Who trusts the strength will with the burden
If bnt that will we can arrive to know.
Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill.
So he went forth to battle, on the side
That he felt clear was Liberty'a and Night's.
A s in his peasant boyhood he had fried
So he grew up. a destined work to do.
And lived todoit;four long suffering years*
ndingsheet I 1,1 ,ate- feeling, ill report, lived through.
And then he heard the hisses change to cheers.
The taunts t<> tribute, the abuse to praise.
And took both with the same unwavering mood;
Till, as he came on light, from darkling days,
And seemed to touch the goal from where he
stood,
A felon hand, between the goal and him,
Reached from behind his back, a trigger presfc.
And those perplexed and patient eyes were dim,
Thosegaunt, long laboring limbg'were laid to
rest!
The words of mercy were upon bis Hps,
Forgiveness in his heart and on his pen.
When this vile murderer brought swift eclipse
To thoughts Of peace on earth, good will to
men.
The Old World and the New. from sea to sea.
Utter one voice of sympathy and shame;
Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high;
Sad life, cut short jnst as its triumph came!
A deed accust! Strokes have been struck be-
fore
By the assassin's hand, whereof men doubt
If more of horror or disgrace they bore;
But thy foul crime, like Cain's, s'ands darkly
out.
Vile hand, thot brandest murder on a strife,
Whate'er its grounds, stoutly and nobly striven
And with the martyr's crown crowm>st a life
With much to praise, little to be forgiven.
—Tom Taylor.
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1907, newspaper, February 14, 1907; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112535/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.