Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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SEVENTEENTH YEAR No. II
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, APRIL {*,190*.
#1.00 PER Yb.AK
The Next War That Will Take Place Will Be the Adjustment of the Petty Governments of South Ai \ a Into Larger Ones
ITS HIS
I CONDITION III
ARE ON CASH BASIS
The city school board met Monday
night and virtually cleaned up the
work of the old board. A complete
enumeration of the school children
was made, and recommendation made
to the county commissioners for ad-
ditional school facilities for the col-
ored schools. J. F. Schultz was dis-
missed as a member on charges of
selling certain second hand furniture
belonging to the schools.
O. C.- Brooks and C. F. Cotteral,
members of the committee on course
of study, made the following report:
Mr. Chairman and members of the
board o! education, and friends:
This being the last meeting of this
board, and as I will not have the
pleasure of making any more reports
to you, I take this opportunity to
thank you and all for the assistance
you have given this committee and
beg leave to submit the following re-
port:
First, We believe that our schools
are in better condition than ever be-
fore, with a stronger corps of teach-
ers, better janitors and a splendid
superintendent, and running with as
little friction and complaint as can
be expected for a city of this size.
We have visited all of the schools
at least once a month and in some
oases once a week for the last five
years, consulting with the teachers,
principals and superintendent, jani-
tors and patrons, and 1 knffw they
will be with us in saying that our
-ehools have improved each year over
the last.
This committee can look back for
a few years and see a poor school
district, thousands of dollars in debt,
teachers and all discounting their
warrants, and the interest on the war-
rant indebtedness running into thou-
sands of dollars and the schools filled
with cheap and half paid teachers,
with scandal and graft the main ambi-
tion of the members of the board of
education.
When you visit our schools now and
iind them well equipped with kinder-
garten, a first class music and draw-
ing supervisor, a manual training
teacher, backed up by a corps of first
• lass teachers and a good, clean
superintendent, then look at the im-
provements that have been made
from time to time, and then investi-
gate the finances of this district and
find that all the outstanding indebt-
edness has been wiped out, and that
the teachers are all drawing a living
-alary and find nearly a whole
SHAWNEE ©LAD HAND HEADY
FOB FIllEXEVS STATE MEET.
A program whose attractiveness
aid beauty of design is seldom sur-
lassed, has just been issued by the
Shawnee fire department for the meet-
ng of the Oklahoma Firemen's As-
-ociation during the first week in
May.
What is believed to be the most ini-
■ortant aud interesting subject pro-
ided for is a discussion of "Proper
Protection by Fire Escapes in Theat-
ers and Public Buildings," by Chief
Buck of the Bartlesville fire depart-
nent. This subject will be discussed
"horoughly and the firemen will make
an effort to arrive at some conclusion
or a proper solution of this vexatious
iroblem.
Other subjects which will be dis-
missed are "Economic Fire Protection
or Towns of Small Population," by
hief Atkinson of Duncan; "The Best
Method of Protecting Towns with No
Water Works System," by Chief Frey
jf .Marietta; "Value of Public Fire
'isterns in the Streets of the Busi-
ness Districts of Small Towns as Aux-
iliary Fire Protectors," by ('hief Kes-
ler of Oklahoma City; "Duties of the
Fire Department in Inspecting Build-
ings and Preventing Fires," by Chief
Stagg of Claremore; "Interchangeable
Hose Connections for Adjacent Towns
is a Means of Aaldlng Each Other in
Large Conflagrations," by Chief Fos-
ter of Chandler.
year's taxes still in the hands of the
county and state treasuries and not
i warrant outstanding against it.
you must easily see that there have
been at leastone or two honest boards
of education in this city for the last
few years.
Our schools were inspected a few
days ago by a committee of ladies
from tlie City Federation of Clubs,
who visited each building and every
room in the city schools, examined
the work of the pupils, noted the
ability of the teachers, and also the
condition of the buildings and grounds
and you have seen their report in the
daily papers, and to say that they
were well pleased is putting it mildly.
The buildings are in good repair, so
that next year the board should spend
some time and money i nfixing up the
grounds so that they will make at
least a respectable appearance. The
grounds at Capital Hill were fixed up
a few years ago at considerable ex-
pense and enhanced the value of all
the adjoining property, some of which
was purchased by (his board shortly
after«'ard, so 1 know thatmy state-
ment is correct.
1 wish to close this report by say-
ing. without fear of contradiction
from any reliable source, that the
city schools are today in better condi-
tion than ever before, the actual at
tendance is larger than ever, the en
rollment being over 2000. The corps
of teachers is stronger, the discipline
better aud there is less complaint
The interest of the scholars, pat-
rons and visitors fs greater, the in-
debtedness less and the finances in a*
good, if not better, shape than any
school district, not only in Oklahoma,
but most states in th" entire United
States, and I w ish to say that the
credit for all these good conditions
does not belong to the judgment
crowd or the immoral meftibers. but
to the honest members of the past
and present hoards, our honest and
capable clerk, Mr. Warren, our past
and present superintendents, and to
each and every principal and teacher
too much praise cannot be given, and
our janitors deserve mention also,
and as chairman of the teachers'
committee 1 wish to thank them one
ind all for their part in helping to
make our schools what. I think, aud
what everybody says who has ever
visited them, the best schools for the
least money in the state of Ok^ihoma.
O. L,. BROOKS.
C. F. COTTERAL. .
thy Bradnev, a girl of 16, in the pres-
ence of her mother, and running to
his home next door, shot and danger-
ously wounded himself. Gardner has
a wife aud several grown up chil-
dren. He was infatuated with the
girl and became enraged because she
went to church with a young man
companion.
BOY BECFIi ES DEATH PEVILTY
LEA DIM; UUll.TY OF Ml BDEB.
In mps
to Hi* Eeet and Admits
Killed Woman.
I'EHKY SI FFEBS FBOM BIG FIRE
Incendiaries Start Conflagration
Destroys Five Buildings—Los
" Beaches $85,000.
PAYNE <01 MY SHE BIFF HELD.
I barged With Drinking Liquor of Men
He >Vc t to Arrest.
Sheriff W. A Fox has been an -sted
by Special Constable W. E. Cook on
the charge of drunkenness and Con-
stable J. E. Tomlin has been summa-
rily removed by the board of town
trustees for failing to do his duty in
effecting the arrest that Cook made
after the latter had been commis-
sioned by the board.
It is alleged that Sheriff Fox came
over from Stillwater to Ripley for the
purpose of arresting some alleged
bootleggers and was made drunk on
the liquor the bootleggers had in
their possessiou.
\> OLD FOOL SHOOTS
(IIBL OE SIXTEEN.
infatuated With Young (Jirl, A Pitts-
burg Man of Fitfj-iiiuc hills.
Samuel L. Garner, aged 59, a prom-
inent citizen of McKees Rocks, a sub-
urb of Pittsburg, shot and killed Doro-
"POPS" RAN OYEB BB\ W
Watson and Williams of Indiana the
l'arlj's .Nominees.
Tecumseh, Okia., April 7.—After
steadfastly denying that he was guilty
of brutally assaulting Mrs. Mary
Cuppy, in the country near Shawnee,
several weeks ago, from the effects
of which injuries she died a few dais
ago. Will Johnson, the negro boy ac-
cused of the crime, caused a sensa-
tion last evening when, after he ha 1
ieclared he was Innocent, a jury 'ail
been empaneled to try him an i t!*-
court appointed at:, attorney for 1 :a
he suddenly jumped to his f -f ar.d
pleaded guilty.
The lourt. after h-arftie his i a, in-
structed the jur t • retire and return
a verdict of guilty, wi.icli wu imme-
diately done, ti.- jury adding the
deatli penalty.
Judge W. .V ,\.. >-i.. of the court,
has not set the date for the execution,
but will Jo so wlt'.in a few days.
The outcome t tiie case catssej
great excitement.
This is the fir.-; l->sal death petjalty
that has been given in Oklahoma
since statehood.
The crime for which Johnson was
charged was the brutal assault of Mrs.
C'uppj near her home about ;i mile
west of Shawnee. She was hovrtbly
beaten about her body and face, ai'. -r-
wards being thrown under a culvert.
Johnson had been working for an In-
dian near thes cene o£, th^ assault,
and made no attempt to get away.
He was arrested a few hours after
the assault and taken to t!ie jail at
Tecumseh. During the evening a mob
was organized sad started for the jail
to get Johnson. Sheriff I .Ink Pierce
of Pottawatomie county hear t of the
intended visit of the mob, and rnir-
riedlv got Johnson in a buggy and
drove across the county with him to
Norman, where he intended putt'ng
the negro for safekeeping. Arriving
there about midnight trie sheriff of
Cleveland county reFJseJ to keep the
and She'iff Pierce brought him
to Oklahoma Citv, and kept him in
•ail until the gran<< jury here took up
the case.
t tbe preliminary hearing of John-
sou he waiyed his right for the court
to appoint an attorney for him. He
was indicted for the crime. He liiain-
ia uvl I.is innocence ar.d made pr pa-
ia1 ion to st?ill trial. An attorney was
app uited for him by the court and
<lie 'i y wa si.\cl«d. The count} :it-
li:le y had mi his siettmeiU for the
p ">ttc Oion, v> • 'ti the negro's sudden
action brought the case to a clos-.
Perry. Okla., April S.—Five busi-
ness house, all of frame construc-
tion. and comprising a quarter of a
block lu the center of the business
district, were destroyed by lire at 4: ;>0
o'clock this morning. The total loss
is estimated at more than $:',.">,000.
The tire originated iu a vacant build-
in_- and is believed to have been of
. ■ ndiary origin.
( 11 Y TBEA.M Itl.B AS BANK
EMPLOYE M\Y YIOI.ATE LAW
The case of a city treasurer work-
,:>4 for a bank and depositing the
: nuls of the municipality in the in-
stitution may not be in direct viola-
oil of the law. but it is "bad prac-
■ e." according to Assistant Attorney
-noral Spillman. in an opinion made
•lie recently.
A "thorough investigation of the
; reposition may result in finding that
t'ae course is in direct violation of the
law..", says Judge Spillman.
FROM THE MIBIllS OiVHE SOUTHSEJ
■ ISLAHDS TI THE ESfiWM OF THE
POLE—GIVE IIS
=
For President of the United States
—Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.
For Vice President of the United
States—Samuel W. Williams of Indi-
ana.
This ticket was nominated at St.
Louis by the Populist party conven-
tion, after two stormy sessions,
throughout which the Nebraska and
Minnesota delegations, working in the
interest of William J. Bryan, tried
vainly to bring about an adjournment
of the convention until after nomina-
tions had been made by the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties.
TAFT ON LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Combinations in Both Are Essential.
The Secretary Said.
Secretary Taft left Chicago for
Omaha after ending his visit with a
motor car ride through the park sys-
tem of the city. In addition he made
an address before the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, visited a friend who
is ill. went to church, attended a
luncheon and conferred with a num-
ber of visitors with whom he discuss-
ed the political situation.
"Men who control capital, as well
as men who work for wages, must
combine," said Secretary Taft in his
speech 1/ fore the labor organization.
"Combinations of capital within the
bounds of the law are necessary for
business expediency and for cost re-
duction. And because of these com-
binations among employers the labor-
ing men must combine also in order
to obtain that independence to which
they are entitled.
"Everey man who understands, wel-
comes the lawful combinations of
capital and the combinations of the
laboring men. Yet there is no deny-
ing the fact that we must look for-
ward to a gigantic controversy be-
tween labor and capital, hoping and
trusting that it will be settled peace-
ably. That controversy, when it
conies, will decide once for all how
capital and labor shall share the joint
profits which they create.
"For the last three years' we have
been doing some house cleaning. We
needed it. President Roosevelt was
the chief of those who called a halt
and convinced the people that no one
in this country is above the law. I do
not say that all rich men are wicked.
We take pride in those who, by ener-
gy, Itelligence and honesty, have ac-
cumulated wealth. But there are
men in this country who, by means
devious and contrary to law, have
become multi-millionaires. These must
be madeto know that their lawless
methods cannot be successful in the
future."
WO FED NOT CRITICISE TAFT.
V Besolution on Tariff Troubles De-
feated by Philippines Democrats.
Manila—The Democratic convention
in the Philippines has defeated a
resolution condemning the Taft ad-
ministration of the islands. The con-
vention endorsed Bryan for President
and adopted a resolution demanding
tariff reform. Six delegates were
elected to the national Democratic
convention.
The adoption of the insular plat-
form almost caused a split in the par-
ty. One factiou presented a series of
radical resolutions condemning spe-
cific acts of the government and con-
demning the failure of Secretary Taft
to secure a tariff reform, as well as
acts of the administration while he
as governor.
The other faction declined to dis-
cuss local political conditions except
as to the tariff and the need of con-
gressional action to secure the intro-
duction of capital into the islands.
After an exciting session of five
hours' duration the conservatives'
measures were adopted by a large
majority.
Chicago—Te Manila dispatch was
shown to Secretary Taft, who laughed
heartily when he had read, it and
sa' 1:
"Isn't that' funny? It is very sat-
isfactory that they did not find it
necessary to condemn me."
HI BEE ARE TWO
TOO MANY
SPOUSES.
John Carr Convicted of Polygamy in
Tulsa District Court.
John Carr has been convicted of po-
lygamy in the district court of Tulsa.
Carr's career as a much married
man was extremely novel and inter-
esting. But a boy, he had taken unto
himself three wives and, strangest of
all, was living with the three in the
same house,- the group apparently
dwelling together iu utmost harmony.
The charge of bigamy under which
Carr was tried and convicted was pre-
ferred by the father of one of his
wives. The young man takes his con-
viction indifferently.
SUES LUCILLE MULHALL
FOB $400 DIAMOND BIMJ
St. Louis, April 8.—A writ of re-
plevin for a $400 solitaire diamond
ring, now in the possession of Miss
Lucille Mulhall, the famous young
Oklahoma horsewoman, was issued
today at the request of Price M. Tay-
lor, formerly passenger agent for the
Southern Railway.
Taylor says in his petition that he
fears he will lose the ring unless he
recovers it now.
He told Justice Spaulding who Is-
sued the writ that he had heard Miss
Mulhall was engaged to be married,
but he did not say to whom.
Deputy Constable Ketcher served
the papers on Miss Mulhall on the
street. Taylor had told the deputy
she would likely visit a dental office
in the Columbia building during the
afternoon. Taylor waited in a res-
taurant half a block away while
Kercher pursued the Oklahoma girl.
"I have never been engaged to Mr.
Taylor, or anyone else," Miss Mulhall
said. "I have his ring, but 1 am not
going to return it to him until I see
him. I cameto St. Louis principally
to see Mr. Taylor. I cannot under-
stand what he means by bringing
suit against me to recover the ring."
The biggest burlesque e\er perpetrated is that suggested by F. s. Burd<\
correspondent for the Kansas City Star, in an article in Sturm's Oklahoma
Magazine, and Senator Killups iu a hill before the legislature, in their pla
of solving the school land problem of Oklahoma. II is a wonder they d .
nut themselves see (lie gigantic humor of their proposition.
Barde, in his article, proposes an appropriation of #!!f>.OOii lij the legis-
lature, to tie spent in submitting the question to the world of liow to dispose
of the school lands of this slate, Billups asks for an appropriation of $15,000
for the same purpose.
Think of it! Jefferson bouuht the western half of the American conti •
nent—the Louisiana Purchase- for $3,000,000 without offering a prize to t2> ^
world, whether it was wise for the United States to invest the money; Lin •
coin purchased Alaska for $".000,000 without a premium for the best guess;
Mckinley paid $20,000,000 to Spain for the Philippines, and Taft paid $7,000,.
(MM) for the Friar lands without sending a circular letter from the South Sea
slands to the Jiortli Pole, asking all kinds and conditions of men to loan
their brains and tell a helpless people, aud more helpless statesmen, of the
United States, whether it was tinancial or political wisdom ti> do so, but Ok-
lahoma is asked to pay $-2.">,000 to advertise its ignorance and be the laugh-
ing stock of the world.
Do these gentlemen know what they are asking!
This $25,000 prize money would not be the only expense. Think of thes
clerical force it would take to take care of the correspondence, and the mil-
lions of circulars, letterheads, envelopes and postage stamps to send into
every corner of the earth. And the scholarly linguists it would take to Tn-
terpret the letters.
And what do the foreign nations and the older races know about tbe
rights of property in relation to human liberty and the pursuit of happiness
that the people of these United States do not know .'
Is not this the cradle of human liberty}
Did not our forefathers dee from the old world because of servitude to
monarchial governments, where the titled and the rich few owned all thft
lands, and by owning the lands, owned them, body and soul'
Does not the whole world still come to America because, under our free
institutions, next to life and liberty, stand the sacred rights of property?
The basis of independence is equality under the law. and equality under
the law is equal opportunity of individual endeavor in the acquisition of
property.
The home is the unit of family, and the family is the unit of the state.
And that nation is most powerful whose citizens are most prosperous, and
that nation is most prosperous the greatest number of whose citizens own
their own homes.
A man right here in Guthrie may know wnat every nation and every
race in the world thinks of the ownership of land. He not only knows the
conditions that now exist, but the history of evolution of human life from
the twilight of civilization to the present day—from embryology to social
organization.
Ask the races of the South and North Poles, and they will tell you they
don't know what you mean by owning the soil! They are nomads, along
with the polar bear, the reindeer, walrus and the Siberian wolf. Ask the
Hottentot of South Africa and the Cannibal of the South Sea Islands, and
they are the partly naked tropical animals that nature provides most of their
food without cultivation, and they are ruled by some chieftain in their lim-
ited social and commercial life.
Take the governments of Europe, and that nation is the freest and most
prosperous whose lands are divided among the greatest number of its citi-
zens. The drawback to all of them are the vested rights In lands, acquired
under Feudal times, and the struggle of all of them is how to adjust these
acquired rights to the modern recognition of justice and the divine right of
life, liberty and equality.
If you were to ask Russia, whom would you ask. the Czar and the nobil-
ity, who own all the lands, or the people, who are attempting to get them by
fire and sword? Y'ou know the answer each would give. It is already
written in blood.
Yet even Russia Is selling lands in Siberia, without cash payment, and
loaning money to farmers, without interest, to buy farming implements with.
Ask France. It will tell you it broke the hackles in the Napoleonic
revolution, in which the lands were taken from tie crowp and church and
distributed back among the people. France is 'he mo-si prosperous and
patriotic country in Europe, because the greatest number of those who till
the soil own the soil.
So is the history of every nation in Europe—their struggle is tliff de-
struction of landed estates and the parceling out of the lue.d among the in-
dividual citizens. They are all iu a semi-feudal condition
What about Ireland? Ask the latest Immigrant why he le,t hi me There,
for 800 years, the people have been trying to get from und r tin- yoke of
English landlords.
Do not send the $2j,000 as prizes for the best schoolboy, kingfcoy or
Czarljoy essay on how to dispose of the school lands of Oklahoma to foreign
countries. The editor of the State Register will solve the problem for you
for half the money. He lived over there,and came over here because they
didn't know, or were not willing to solve the laud problem In accordance
with the rights of the greatest number.
This is what you do: Sell the school lands of Oklahoma, sell them
with a proper appreciation of the rights of the present lessee, who went* on
the lands at the same time you fellows did who got your homesteads for
nothing, and have worked just as hard Improving them and adding to the
wealth of the state as you have—sell them to them if you want to do jus-
tice to them, but if not, sell them anyhow, as the self-respecting present
tenants will not remain lessees long anyway, but will go where they can
buy their homes and become equal citizens with their neighbors Sell these
lands, and if someone steals the money and does not take it out of the state
you have lost nothing, for the lands and money will pay their just propor-
tion of the burden of government by taxation. If he takes it outside th
>tate, the taxation on the lands and the taxation on the greater improve-
ment of the lands, and the greater value of crops grown under ownership
will wipe out the loss of $20,000,000 value of lands iu oue year.
It is the yearly increased wealth of the products of labor that makes the
difference between the wealth of a country In which the farmers own their
own homes and those in which they are serfs of the state and the landlords.
Do you know that $20,000,000 isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the
varying value of crops between a good and bad season, or under stimulat-
ing or oppressive systems of government?
If this land Is such a great thing in the hands of a state, what made
the congress give it to Oklahon*? And why, with the same carelessness, did
it give free homes in the Cherokee strip, and $5,000,000 In lieu of school
lands In the Indian Territory?
It was in line of the general policy of the federal government to foster
quick development and the prosperity of all the citizens In new and unde-
veloped states, which accrues to the benefit of a'l the citizens of the United
States.
If you do not follow the theory of this government—of this greatest and
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