Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Oklahoma S t a t e Re'gt«** *
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THURSDAY. MAY 2 1907.
JOHN GOLOBIE. EDITOR.
The Awful Consequences
Should Alfalfa Bill be Kidnapped
We arc not like sohie of the newspaper fratern-
ity—we like Alfalfa Hill Murray. He is a char-
acteristic cuss, and a student of the specie
liomunculuse likes variations from the ordinary.
That he is just Bill Murray and no one else and
don't care a damn tyho: likes it or not, is just as
that a bull pup is jiAt k bull pup and nothing,
else, and there is n& ui'e in trying to make any-
thing else out of it until it has grown. Bill is an
interesting specimen. No one can say that he
is not a "good fellow," or that the honors of
being president of the constitutional convention
has spoiled him. Some say he did not preside
with dignity. But Bill did not nor does not
pretend to have dignitv. . Bijt no one can deny
that he presided with effectiveness, if boisterous-
ness. Maybe he studied his subjects and con.
eluded that it would t?ke ^oisterousness to govern
them. Did he not make them swallow their
tongues singly and i collectively whenever he
wanted to? / .
If there was anything wrong with Bills
method of dominating the situation it was the
fault of the convention. It made him and it
could have unmade him, if he had not suited it.
Never was a body of one hundred and twelve
men so completely buffaloed at all times as Bill
buffaloed the men who prided themselves so
sovereign that they defied even the constitution
of the United States. This is either to the credit
of Bill or to the discredit of the members.
This madness, however, of Bill has reached
such hypnotism that it is endangering the state.
What right had the constitutional convention to
place the future state.in Bill's single hands, alter
knowing all his idiosyncracies ? Suppose he
should be kidnapped ? Suppose he should get up
in his sleep and change some of its provisions :
Wouldn't it be awful i That he is forgetful of
person and place is well known. Sometimes his
mind wanders in classic lands while his feet take
an Indian tow path. Again he lies in the shade
•of his own fig tree, oblivious, while in his imagi-
nation he walks d>)wn the halls of congress. Can
such a man be trusted with parchment document
holding the wisdom of five month's work of the
choicest intellect of 'the two territories and the
future destinies ot a great state r It is stated
by eye witnesses that on his way to Oklahoma
City to have Haskell sign the constitution, he
bad the last page of the parchment, rolled up in
his hand, on the Santa Fe train, and was famil-
iarly hitting his friends over the head with it*
This is Alfalfa Bill. Generous to a fault,
faulty but acute, and mayhaps wiser than his
friends or enemies give credit for. l"or does he
not hold the future state in his hand-to do what
he pleases with, and that as lightly as a child
would blow a gossamer on a summer breeze ?
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There is a story going around that the demo-
crats held a caucus with the saloon men and
proposed that if they, the saloon men, will sup-
port the constitution, the democrats will see
that p-tohibition is defeated. Since the saloon
men elected the democrats to the constitutional
convention and the democrats are responsible for
the prohibitory provision, is it not plain that this
is another case of " you tickle me and III tickle
-you, but you tickle me first.'
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The sturdy element of having a county high
school—having the county boys to the fore—was
again exemplified in winning the athletic trophy
at Norman by Logan county against all comers
in the educational field.
Farm Life and Beautiful Surroundings.
We are a little late (although it is never too
late to do a good deed) in showing our apprecia-
tion of the realy first report (though second of-
ficially) of the Oklahoma Board of Agriculture,
by its secretary C. A. McNabb. However, we
have just received a copy and weie not aware of
its contents until we saw it.
Too much cannot be said for the matter there-
in contained and the manner of its containment.
The pleasure of this commendation is due both
to the art and completeness with which Secre-
tary McNabb has presented Oklahoma's resour-
ces, considering that it was the first made pos.
sible under legislative provision (though not suf-
ficient provision) and the fact that the farm and
farmer, the basic elements of all prosperity and
all civilization, are recei the benefits of intel-
ligent governmental assi ce from the revenues
of which they are the gi st contributors.
Secretary McNabb h m<" .n excellent re-
part, not only in the statistics ot crops and re-
tource* of the territory but the intellactnal, one
could almost say the spiritual stimulus he gives
to the industry and beauty and profit and pleas-
ure of farm life. And while he shows the mar-
velous development and still greater future pos-
sibilities of its agricultjre, horticulture, livestock
and other industries, our attention was especial-
ly drawn to the artistic manner with which he
presents the desirability of beauty in rural
schools and their surroundings. The Secretary
is eloquent in commendation of the pioneer set-
tlers in their heroic sacrifices for schools and ac-
knowledges that the rural schools of Oklahoma
now compare favorably with those of other states;
but he is not Satisfied with that. He desires
them superlative in structure, beauty and equip-
ment. The influence for education, for culture,
for morals of attractive surroundings is insisted
upon. Illustrations are given of the barren and
unsightly country school houses by the side of
others, with beautiful lawns, shaded by treesand
flowers and ivy garlands. i
The farmer is at last beginning to come into
his own, and if his share of public revenues is
not diverted for his benefit it will be his fault in
the future as it has been in the past. I1 arm life
for children should be made so attractive that
few born \^®in its environs would desire to
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A Youngstown, Indiana, Methodist preacher
declares th<it the story of Adam is all a mvth.
What would he have as the representative figure
of the race, a molecule or mollycoddle ?
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Roosevelt-Tuft.
James Creel man, in an aptreciative article
in Pearsons, wonders why with his many-sidefi
personality and the tremendous amount of work
he has done in a wide range of judicial and ad-
ministrative official activity—and done it with
remarkable, if not astonishing compreheisior
and completeness, Secretary of War William
Taft is not taken lip with more enthusiasm by
the public.
It is simply because his dutie< and his name
are associated subordinately with the personality
and office of President Roosevelt. Take away
Roosevelt, and Taft might be taken up by the
people in heroic form on his own merits, but not
as long as Roosevelt is before the footlights of
the American people can the President himself
lift Mr. Taft on a pedestal of public acclaim for
his real value or beyond. Roosevelt himself is
cheating Taft of a commanding figure i^ the
public eye.
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Stillwater is still jumping, socially, all over
"pretty Nellie Meyers," a verdant but nympho-
leptic country girl, while upholding the horse
doctor, her paramour, because he is a man They
do say that Judge Burford gave the horse syring
doctor a piece of his mind when the case came
up for trial and was postponed and the girl had
to go to jail for lack of bail, that many a man
would rather have gone to the penitentiary than
taken.
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Announcement of
A, O, Farquharson
Wc have been running our Fire Sale Store for a little
more than four months and it has proved a big success,
while we have been giving you bargains that has asto^
nished the people, and has advertised us through all of
Oklahoma at the saine time we have done a good busr
eessfor ourselves. We owned the stock at such a price
that we could defy competation.
Having made such a succcss in the past we do not
feel like closing out business and have concluded to run
this store as an Anni'x to our Big Store on Oklahoma
Ave- and hereafter this Fire Sale Store will be be known
the Annex and it will at all times cater to the evants of
those people who want to buy a good article at a mod-
ern price* Our expenses are light in this store and we
can and will sell for 25 to 33 per cent less than you can
buy elsewhere. We have quite a showing of the Abell
Stock which is ours without cash and to this we have
added a few staples and some bargains, that can always
be found for cash and we will continue to run at the same,
low price we have heretofore give you. « . '
Among the Bargains we haue added is a lot of 1000
hats for men and boys worth $1-50 to $3-50 we are-sell*
ing at 75c to $1.50. . x
500 Mens shirts good values Madras cloth 35 to 4oc
500 Pants. Boys and Mens Shoes sells for $1-25 to
$2.75 Straw Hats at 33 1-3 Per cent off Linen Collars
3 for 25c. Overalls 40 50-65c, Work Shirts 40c etc.
REMEMBER IT IS THE ANNEX
At the old Welcome Grocery Bid%. Harrison & Division
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Can The South Be Pulled
Out of Its Dead Eddy?
Like all extraordinary movements, the decla-
ration of John Temple Graves to place Theodore
Roosevelt in nomination tor the presdency is of
value as showing the growing tendency of the
South when such a declaration would even sug-
gest itself. Though neither his declaration nor
the counter one, that Roosevelt place Bryan in
nomination ;s likely to be acted upon, coupled
with a third movement going the rounds of the '
press, that the next democratic presidential can-
didate comt from the South, indicates that many
conflicting influences will clamor for control of
the democratic party besides Bryanism and anti-
Bryanism.
The point of emphasis in John Temple Graves'
extraordinary Southern declaration is: Can the
South act other than the "Solid South" on any
one question of national policy? If, as it is de-
clared, there is no longer sufficient prejudice in
the North to make it impolitic to select a presi-
dential candidate in the South, it argues that the
South has no longer special sectional prejudices
to keep it a solid body no matter what the na-
tional issues. For John Temple Graves to sug-
gest that the Solid South so far leave its moor-
ings as to leave its party and ratify a republican
president, though it does not express the major-
ity sentiment of the South, indicates a hope for
a less rash breaking' away of former ideals that
continue to make the country divided in political
if not patriotic sentiment. One thing is ceitain
that men like John Temple Graves would not be
dangerous for the presidency, and the spirit in
which he suggested that Bryan place Roosevelt in
nomination suggests the idea that democracy
could do worse than to place John Temple
Graves in nomination, and especially if he is to
be selected from the "Solid South."
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So many political hopes will " turn to ashes
on the lips'' in Oklahoma, this summer, that
should anyone desire to app'y the rect nt dis-
covery of burning ashes they would find an inex-
haustable supply.
House Cleaning Time is Here
YOU WILL NEED
Paints, Varnishes,
Furniture Polish,
Floor Stain and
Enamel, Alabas-
ti ne and Brushes
To apply them with. We have them and
they are the best that can be had- Our
prices are right and quality guaranteed-
Our Motto —"A Square Deal to All"
Gf ay's Drug Store
DR. MENDENHALL'S
ICHILLandFEVER
CURE
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(This Picture on Every Bottle)
OuresChills, levers, Malaria, Biliousness
Take it as a General Tonic and at all tiimw
in place of Quinine. Breaks up Cough**.
Colds and LaGrippe. NO CURE, NO PAY
J. C. MENDENHALL.
Sole Owner Evansvill#*. Indiana
SantaFe
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A. E. GK
Phone 317, Guthrie
120 E. Okla. Ave.
Excursions
Miss Vingle Roe
Author Married
Miss Vingie Roe of Fallis and Mr.
Raymond Lawton, of the U. Navy,
were married in Guthrie April 12 and
kept fieir wedding a secret until a few
days aso when they made it public.
She '3 reported to have met Mr. Law-
\ ton in New Orleans on a trip there at-
! tending the Mardigras a year ago.
j Miss Roe is a brilliant writer of short
I stories for which she has become very
' popular among the magazines, the
Munsey alone purchasing thirteen at
one time, paying a good price for them.
She is only twenty-one and has lived in
this country since she was four. Con-
sidering the poverty of her circum-
stances and limited experience of life,
she is justly considered possessing a
talent fcr writing amounting to gen-
ius, and Eastern critics prophesy a bril-
liant literary future for her if her mar-
riage does not reduce her to the com-
monplace. Talk ng sometime ago to
the writer she acknowleged that
her publishers deplored her inten-
tion to marry and feared it would prove
the end for her as a writer; but she de-
clared it would be an assistance as she
would have an opportunity of living a
wider life, which t ha had been hereto
fore denied.
She was the only daughter, and the
death of her father only a few weeks
ago. just as she had made her literary
triumph and fulfilled his doting faith
in her, is very sad Everybody in Guth-
rie knew the genial L)oc Roe, but few
j knew that he had such a brilliant daugh-
ter, of whom he was very proud and
hugged very cloaelv to his heart.
SIGNIFICANT PRAYER.
"May the Lord help you make Buck-
len's Arnica Salve known to all." writes
J. G. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N. C. It
quickly took the pain out of a felon for
me and cured it in a wonderfully short
time." Best on earth f°r sores,
burns and wounds. '25c at. all drug
stores.
Winter Tourist Tickets on
sale daily to Beaumont, Galves-
ton, Huston, etc. Very low rates.
Limit, June I st.
Beginning March 1st, last
ing until April 30th, the Santa
Fe will offer Colonist tickets to
I.os Angeles, San Francisco, etc.,
for $25. Portland, Oregon, $29.
Special liates to the City ol
Mexico, April 25th to May 18th;
June 8th to 15th, and June 20th
to July 12th. Good liberal limit-
M. N, Cockrell, Santa Fe.
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Refrigerators
Are as necessary now as heating stoves
were in winter. A Gasoline Stove and
an Alaska Refrigerator go together in
Summer. They Feed you Without
Heating you.
Gasoline Stoves $2.50 to $32.00.
Alaska Refrigerators $6.00 to $50.00
DAY BROS.
117 WEST HARRISON
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