Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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SIXTEENTH YEAR NO 23
GUTHRIE, OK LA., THURSDAY, A ULV L 1907.
f 1.00 PER YEAR
Fruit Men Form
A Statue For
Guthrie Pulled Off A Fourth of July 1 hat Had Enough Patriotism to Supply The Whole Cou- try
1 ~ — . . a '
Statehood Political Dope Up to
Date—Democratic, Republican
Statehood prospects have moved up a little —backwards. The
situation is about where it was just before the adjournment of the
constitutional convention. The convention has been called in ses-
s;oh to complete the constitution, file it as an official document for
consideration before the people and then adjourn sine die, to make
the instrument final and irrevocable. So, though much has taken
place since the recess adjournment of the convention, such as a
democratic primary and court injunctions, the status of statehood
is just where it was at the adjournment.
Big State Body.
For the purpose of more closely a-?- i I
similating the fruit growers interests of Brescott there was unveiled July
of the new state and giving the fruit to the memory of Arizona's hero, Cap
men an organization to work for legis- tain William O O'Neil, known to fame
lation favorable to agricultural pur- an J his
suits, a permanent organization of the O'Ne .
Oklahoma State Fruit Growers' asso- eers to
ciation was in the Chamber of Com- an hero
merce. ; captain
C. G Jones, of Oklahoma City, was "Koujd
elected president. E. E. Blake, of El ed by S
Reno, vice president; J. B. Thoburn, ! York s
of Oklahoma City, secretary, and A. L. : Ti,
Luke, of Winnewood, treasurer. Rob- was to I
ert Peebly, of Oklahoma City, E. E. the same date but, owing to the inabi-
Blake, of El Reno, J E. Freeman, of lity of President Roosevelt to attend,
Gcthrie, C. G Jones, of Oklahoma City, ' C' la'/es A. Hunter,
.tt(«:;5Sr^1!!;'School Land Lessees Should I
Prescott there was unveiled July 3 ><
Change Plao of Organiza^n.
friends alike as "Buckey"
ine of the first American offi-
ti' 1 at the battle of San Juan,
: brorze sta'ue of the gallant
of Troop A, Roosevelt's
Riders." designed and execut-Jon an cqua'ity before the law with
n Borglum, the noted New j Bv much education they have
ugh Ridtr" reunion of 1907
e been held at Prescott on
and J. R. Thoburn, of Oklahoma City, RoSfcUtiier association, and command- j
The situation is changed but in one respect. The government comprise tha executive board. er o: the Department of Oklahoma,
taking of a census makes the only effectual move made by the re- The society will hold regular s.-rr.i- Spanish War Veterans, believed it best
publicaas, and makes both parties take a new attitude. No one i annual meetings and other sessions as to p.-stpone the reunion until l'JOS, in
knows the result or effect of it. The census is taken at the in-
stance of republican charges that the apportionment gerrymander:
is unjust to the republicans. Wm. C, Hunt, chief statistician for
population in the United States census bureau, with nine assistants,
arrived Monday to take a census of Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory in compliance with the order of President Roosevelt. Mr.
Hunt will make his headquarters in Guthrie as supervisor in charge
of the work. He was unwilling to predict when the census would
be finished, but said it would^ be pushed as rapidly as possible.
The work will be divided into the five congressional districts,
each of the districts to be under the immediate supervision of a
chief of division of the census office. The enumerators will num-
ber nearly eighteen hundred and will be chosen without regard to
their political opinions.
President Murray has called the constitutional convention to
meet on the tenth. The declared purpose is to amend the elec-
tion ordinance and to file the original constitution; but it is almost
certain that many changes in the constitution will be mae'e to
comply with public demand,
President Murray indicates that because of the census to be
taken and the possible question of the former call, the election
will not take place August 6, but Haskell, the governor nominee,
contends it will take place on that date.
While chairman Hamon has not yet given official announce-
ment, republicans have agreed to postpone indefinitely the conven-
tion called to meet at Tulsa July i2. In the meantime, however,
the election of delegates has taken place just the same. This
change on the part of the republicans is due to the census taking.
The fight in the republican party is between those who desire
to put out a ticket and those who do not. Both agree to fight the
constitution. Governor Frantz is the leader of those desiring a
ticket, Henry Asp is at the head of the anti-ticket cohorts. Those
wanting a ticket cannot see how the respect of the party integrity
can be kept if there is not an honest organization in the field repre-
senting the rank and file of the party. It is conceded by the ma-
jority of the republicans and many democrats that Governor Frantz
j often aj the executive board deems ! which' year the reunion will be held in
profitable. The gatherings of the exe- that city with the President in atten-
cutive board will be in Oklahoma City. ] dance, if possible.
As auxiliary associations to the state
society, an endeavor will be made to' Rocked the Boat
! organize the fruit men i:i each county !
I of the new state. Several of such or- j
gamzations are now in'existence.
Mrs
Palmers Chance
To Be a Queen.
The offer of marriage by King Peter
of Servia to Mrs. Potter Palmer, re-
ported by cable from Paris, which has
been given more or less credence thro-
And Drowned.
Marshall Tribune: With witnesses
i standing on the shore powerless to
save, after battling with the waves
for several minutes in a futile effort
to save himself, John Zeilar gave up
the unequal struggle and slowly sank
to a watery grave.
The scene of this sad accident was
t the lake on Simeon Horsley's farm
ughout two continents, is not so sur- two miles east of Marshall, Saturday
afternoon. John wa3 emploped by Mr.
Horsley and as it was too wet to work
in the field he intended to spend the
afternoon at the pond.
His death wa3 the result of foolish-
ness—nothing more or les3. Boys are
thoughtless and are apt to do things
that men of more mature years Would
be afraid to do. And so it was in this
case. In company with Tom Wolf,
I John went out on the pond in a boat.
told—they rocked
prising as it first appears to those fam-
iliar with the past history of Servia's
impecunious monarch.
King Peter, who is much more at
home on the boulevards of Paris than
in the restricted though royal circle at
Belgrade, has always had an admiration
for American women—and American
dollars. Long before the bloody tragedy
of 1903, which placed him oti his totter-
ing throne, when ha wa3 merely Peter
Karageorgevitch, he laid violent siege j The rest u quickly
to the heart and liar.d of Miss Mabelle | the boat
Swift, only daughter of Edward C. j
Swift of Chicago Miss Swift was at Closing Week at
that time one of the most conspicuous
young Americans receiving her final
educational polish in Paris.
Mbs SvTjft. like Mrs. Pa'mer, declin-
ed 'ie alliance :;v' later was married
to Clar« ,v^-i>. '•e of Washington, a
young and handsome widower without
fortune and with two small children by
a former marriage, which ought to con-
vince the skeptical that the age of
romance is not past.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, as every one
knows, is the social leader par excel-
lence of the West, and not unknown to
Bought Lincoln
can defeat Haskell, in either case, if the constitution is adopted or 'T'ty l" Washington, New York and
, , , , c, , , , , , Newport. She is just now in London,
defeated. Should the constitution be adopted, the party would where she has taken a house for the
be left in a shameful condition, and would lose county offices, mem* season and is planning to entertain
bers of the legislature and district judges it could have elected. j very extensively in the next six weeks.
It is the theory of Henry Asp and others to place no ticket in
the field and fight the constitution straight out. and if it is adopted . ~
pass the matter up to President Roosevelt. County Pea^lltS.
' Chandler Publicist:
Frank Stearns' announcement for g«<. crnor further forces the W' H- Merten. °e Guthrie, met with
issue of a ticket. It is considered by many that should the republican I ^Line^ Counljr Frail growers' as-
, , . . . , , , , , t sociation at the district court room
convention decide not to put out a ticket, a ticket would be put in j last Satuniay afternoon and contracted
the field iti defiance ot the organization, with Stearns
St. Joseph's Academy
On Monday June twenty-fourth this
Academy held its annual Music Contest
wh;„,. was highly enjoyed by all and
resulted as follows:
Contest on "The Eagle''
MacDowell won by Miss Deveryl Turk
Contest on irregular Arpeggios H. T.
M. M. 160, won by Miss Deveryl Turk
Contest on "Moonligt Sail"..
Bendel, won by Miss Ruth Walton
Contest on "Singing Birds Mazurka"
Watson,. . won by Miss Alice Finley.
Premium for Improvement ;n Harp
The school land lessees have arrived at another epoch in their
yearning struggle and deterred hope to own their homes and be
other citizens.
By much education they have won public sentiment that the
sale of these lands as homes to the men who have cultivated and
improved them is the best for the state, and necessarily best for
all the people composing the state including the lessees them-
selves. Then they won the enabling act provision that the land
president of the | shall be sold. Then the constitutional convention ratified the
provision of the enabling act and extended the provision.
Now comes the struggle of details of law and for how much
lands shall be sold. This is a matter the legislature will have to
handle, and it is before the candidates running for the legislature
that the lessees want to appear and lay their rights and claims be-
fore them,
Have the lessees given thought to the wide range of possi-
bilities in the time and manner of the sale of these lands. How
many'details there are to the plan and how many different persons
will have different plans?
This is probably the most serious period for the lessees in the
steps taken towards owning their homes. Upon the manner, con-
ditions and time of the sale will depend entirely to the fact
whether the lessees will really be benefitted—be done justice to—
in buying these lands, and whether they had better purchase them
or let them go.
Now that the time is approaching when the final solution is to
be made, many conflicting interests among the lessees themselves
begin to appear. The lessees who could not or do not desire to
purchase these lands, have never taken active part in the organiza-
tion tnat brought to bear the pressure for the sale of the lands.
Some of these are those who own neighboring homesteads and are
simply farming the school quarter for the benefit of that home-
stead. Some are grazing lessees who lease several sections and will
be reduced to the purchase of 160 acres.
VVhat the lessees should do is to reorganize on an entirely new
plan—to organize a "Home Owners," or "Home Seekers" associa-
tion and have as membeis none but such as are eligible to pur-
chase these lands when sold and are either now living on them
as homes, or owning them as such. Such an organization would
make every member an active one, and when there was anything
to be done it would do it.
The Home Owners should get together and agree on some
plan^of detail that they wilt be wisdom to submit to the public for
its education and to givfe to those seeking office try advocate its
provisions. If the lessees have no plan they will have to trust to
blind chance, and the matter is liable to drag from one legislature
to another for the next twenty-five years or more.
The lessees should get action on themselves for the first and
decisive struggle that will determine whether they are to remain
permanent, home-owning citizens of Oklahoma, or be compelled
to seek such elsewhSre.
other candidate to lead it.
It is rumored around that because of the many
or some for all the peaches controlled by the j
! association, which means practically
1 the whole output of the qounty. It is !
, sufts filed j estimated that at least 3000 bushels of '
against the Santa Fe road before the interstate commerce com-! peaches will be marketed from Chand-
mission by the attorney general, Henry Asp, the Santa Fe attorney, i Per this season which, at the contrac
is not on very good terms with Governor Frantz. j Pr'ce of #1-40 Per bushel, will bring to
| the growers the neat sum qf $4,200 for
On the other hand the democrats consider Governor Frantz's ' Peaches alone. As the crop over the
Roosevelt policies as his greatest strength I entire county promises a b g harvest it
j will readily be seen that, as a side
I issue, there is considerable to the fruit
J, Harvey Lynch raising proposition in Oklahoma. 7000
Will Do Haskell erates have been ot"dered for the crop
Music wa3 awarded to Mis3 Jeanette ... , , ... .. _ .. ,
K di Weekly Weather Bulletin. ; markable and his memory wonderful."
I -Wathena Assembly.
Medal for complete Course in Music For the Week Ending July 1. I
awarded to Miss Martha Smith. The weather conditions were favor-
Medal for Excellence in music (piano) abl; over the major portion of the Sec- j
awarded to Miss Bird O'Neill. tion- The mean temperature and per- !
Premiums for marked improvement in centage of sunshine were very close j
piano music awarded to the following: to normal. Light to excessive rain oc-
Misses Mollie Weinberger, Nelle Ha-' curred almost daily in the north-central |
ley, Sftllie Fentress, Mary Cronkhite, and north eastern counties. In the I
Bertht. Strubel, Mary Gray, Pearl southern and western counties, light to j
Linn, Eunice Leach, Edna Cooper, copious shower occurred from the 25th j
Eliza Allen, Nina Taylor. to 27th, inclusive. The precipitation j
Premium for improvement in vocal, was unevenly distributed but was I
awarded to Misses Hester Bennott, above normal, except over portions of i
Mary Cronkhite, Alice Wilson, Cly- ihe southern counties. There was con-!
dena Thurston. siderable loss of property by lightning
Premium for Violin awarded to Misses in the northern counties; some fatali- j
ties were also reported. Destructive [
wind and hail storms occurred over j
scattered areas in the western counties, I
Coyle Builds In Enid.
Enid Eagle:
William Coyle authorized the state-
ment this morning that he will begin
the erection of a three story building
on his property, corner Monroe and
Adams avenue, oppjsite the Presbyter
ian church east, as soon as he can ar-
range to do so. He expects to bagin
work on the new structure some time
next week. Mr. Coyle owns fifty feet
fronting south and west. The new
buildiiT will be three full stories above
ground, 50x150 feet. Three or four
months will be required to complete it.
Mr. Coyle has made no advance ar-
rangements as to leasing the property,
though he has in the past been urged
ito build by several persons who have
been anxious to secure a location. This
is the first building of three
stories to be erected on that street and
illustrates the remarkable advance
property in that section has taken with-
in the past year. Only a few months
ago there was scarcely a building on
the north side of Monroe west of the
square which was more than a shack.
Now almost the entire block between
the square and Adams avenue has been
filled with substantial brick structures.
In one year lots in that block have in-
creased fifty per cent in value.
in this vicinity which will begin to be
moved about the first of July. It will
take 7 cars to carry the 3)00 bushels.
Oklahoma City Post:
J. Harvey Lynch, of Shawnee, the
labor leader who was accusad by C. N.
Haskell, Democratic candidate for gov- Oklahoma Bov is
ernor, of being an ex-convict from the Oxford (trnriitato
Colorado pententiary during the recent i „ , , UXIOrU UraUUate.
primary campaign, is said to be prepar-1 °ne . "'8hest honors to come to
ing to make trouble for the Muskogee ! City in the educational line,
man through the institution of a crimi-1 W'" Sra^uat'on of Will Kendall,
nal libel suit. He stoutly insists he I a We'' ^nown Oklahoma City boy, from
was not the man Haskell claimed he i ®x^ord university, England. Kendall
was, and in proof of the statement received a scholarship from the ^.insas
says Haskell failed to publish the entire I un'vers'ty ^ve years ago to the Oxford,
descriftion accompanying the photo- j t0°k a ^our years course in the arts
graph alleged to have been Lynch's. ' department of that school and willgrad-
He claims the full description would
have shown that the eu-convict referr-
ed to had a deep, indentation or scar
over his left temple, with a heavy scar
across the back of his right hand, which
was rendered useless. He says he has
neither of these afflictions.
He further claims he has obtained
information that the man alleged by
Haskell to have been him is now in the
newspaper business in an Alabama town
under an assumed name.
The criminal libel suit brought by W.
D. Cardwell against Mr. Haskell will
probably be called for hearing in the
clloa court the first part of next keew.
uate with high honors the 29th of this
month.
Kev. W. W. Kendall, father of the
young man, left for Oxford, where he
will attend the graduating exercises.
Rev.JKendall is one of the oldest set
tiers of Oklahoma City. He went there
at the opening and secured some lots
between Harvey and Robinson streets.
He later sold his city property and pur-
chased a farm six miles south of the
city. He sold the property and expects
to retire. In company with his son he
will make a tour of Europe this sum
mer, returning to Oklahoma City the
first of November.
Luella Myltr and Pearl Linn.
Second Premium for Harp music
awarded to Miss Hope Mason.
After the Contest the visitors were
shown the needlework and Art exhibits
which were splendid indeed. There
were over one hundred and eighty pie-
ces of needle work from plain sewing
to the finest embroidery. Among these
were several articles of clothirg made
by the pupils. The exhibit in China
Painting, Pastel, Water Color, Crayon
etc. was admired by all; every branch
of art had its exhibit and every eye
found something pleasing. On Tues-
day the exhibit was continued and many
visitors called at the Instiute.
The exhibit of school work arranged
in the Intermediates study-hall was
enjoyed much by every one as it gave
a fair idea of the work of the pupils
during the past ten months.
Wednesday evening the Entertain-
ment (the program of which appeared
two weeks ago) took place at the
Opera House in the city. A large au
SENATOR J P. DOLLIVER.
Aug. 14 and 15.
Dr. M. m. Parkhurst
Dr. M. M. Parkhurst, Bible exposi
~v- ~ j tor and popular lecturer, will spend
dience was in attendance and all agree . , . t, ' , , ,.
that it was undoubtedly faultlessly
rendered and the best Home talent
play ever given in the city.
Diplomas in the Palmer Method of
Business Writing, were conferred on
Misses Mary Greving. Antoinette
Schoenhoven, Mollie Weinberger,
Maggie West, Deveril Turk, Luella
Myler, Ina Brady, Eunice Leach, Stella
White, Anna Spresser, Annie Laverty,
(Continted on page )
bpworth Assembly
Noted Platform Orators The Krilllant Orator of the United
States Senate.
i Nothing more can be said of this
: trreat statesman to add to his fame,
i He will lecture Wednesday and
Thursday evenings at 8:30 p. m. The
subjects from which he will choose are,
"The Working Man of Nazareth," "A
Poor Man's Government and a Poor
Boy's country," ( "Public Virtue as a
Question of Politics," and "The Nation
of America."
Sunday School Girls
Swim on Sunday.
i Thirt) members of Hennessey's Har-
mony choir stared to a Sunday schoo
convention in Kiel. The water at the
i Cimarron river crossing looked deep.
Miss Effie Drake and Miss Gracc War-
ner climbed up on the seat of their bug-
gy and sat on the baek of the seat. In
making the last long, strong pull the
team gave a lunge foreward, the back
of the seat gave way. An eyewitness
says: "Miss Drake, after a complete
sumersault in midair, lit on her feet in
the water to her chin. Miss Warner's
plunge took her completely out of
sight."
Merriam Rinehart 16 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rinehart sustain-
ed a serious accident today while horse-
back riding, the horse slipping and
throwing him on the pavement sending
him unconscious. He was taken to the
M. E. Hospital. The Doctors have
hope of his recovery.
two days at the Assembly and deliver
four addresses. One of thebe will be
that great lecture, "Why an Irishman
is not a Scotchman."
"We doubt if there is another man
on the lecture platform that can equal
Dr. Parkhurst in the presentation of
the ' Great World Powers of the
Twentieth Century.' Having traveled
most extensively among the peoples of
whom he speaks, he gives information
first hand, and prophesies with confi-
dence. His grasp of thought is re-
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