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Oklahoma State Register.
SEVENTEENTH YEAll NO. 1 >
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. MAY I 190*.
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Welcome Veterans Of The Grand Army Of The Republic To The Hearts and Homes Of The Capital City Ol Oklahoma!
Indian Restriction Bill Passes Both
Houses Effecting I Million Acres of Land
Washington, May 13.—The bill re-
moving restrictions from lands of the
five civilized tribes of Oklahoma, as
amended by the senate committee on
Indian affairs and reported by Sena-
tor Owen, was passed by the senate
today, as recommended by the com-
mittee. The measure, having been
amended after it passed the house,
will now go to a conference commit-
tee, and the Oklahoma delegation
will attempt, before that committee,
to have the bill raise the limit so as
to include halfbloods, and will rec-
ommend other minor amendments.
The original bill provided that re-
strictions should be removed from all
lands, including homesteads, of allot-
tees of less than half blood, but the
senate committee amended it so as to
extend to Indians of quarter or less
than quarter blood, and thus reduced
the total from 10,000,000 to 7,000,000
acres. This amendment leaves Con-
gressman Carter a restricted Indian.
All homesteads of mixed blood In
dians having one-quarter of more direction of th<
than one-quarter Indian blood, includ-
ing minors, and all allotted lands of
enrolled living fullbloods shall not
be subject to alienation, contract to
sell, power of attorney, or any other
incumbrancfe prior to April 30, 19.11,
except that the secretary of the in-
terior may remove such restrictions
under such rules and regulations as
he may prescribe.
The right of eminent domain Is not
to be denied and all restrict allotted
land is to be subject to taxation and
may be leased for a period not to ex-
ceed five years. Citizenship rolls
shall be conclusive evidence as to the
degree of blood and age. Oil, gas and
other mineral leases in existence at
this time shall not be interfered with.
The property of minor allottees
shall be subject to the jurisdiction of
the probate courts of the state, but
the secretary of the interior may„ap-
pcint a representative to inquire into
the conduct of guardians or curators.
An appropriation of $30,000 is pro-
vided, to be us^d in the payment of
necessary expenses incident to any
suits brought at the request of the
secretary of the interior. Of this
amount $10,000 is to be used In the
prosecution of cases in the western
judicial district of Oklahoma.
The secretary is authorized to pay
out of any funds in the treasury all
outstanding and general school war-
rants of the Chickasaw nation drawn
on the national treasurer prior to
April 26. 1906. Lands leased for coal
and asphalt purposes may be ex-
changed for other lands under the
retary. All royal-
ties heretofore accrued or hereafter
arising from mineral leases by Semi-
nole allottees shall be paid the Indian
agent for this tribe.
All records pertaining to the allot-
ment of lands shall be deposited in
the office-*if the I'lilted States Indian
agent at Union agency, and an appro-
priation of $15,000 is provided to en-
able the secretary to furnieh the va-
rious counties of Oklahoma certified
copies of such records as affect title
to lands iu the respective counties.
KILLED l\ MIRTH-
WEST OKLAHOMA sTOKM.
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Eight persons are d>rad. three score
are Injured, twelve towns in West-
ern and Northwestern Oklahoma mor-
or less seriously damaged and thou-
sands of dollars worth of property is
destroyed as a result of several small
tornadoes which traversed that sec
tion late Sunday afternoon. The
town of Grand was almost completely
wiped away and little is left of Ar-
nett, Estlee, .Mutual. Vic i and Seiling.
Thrilling Incidents are being re-
lated by ail who have received an:
Information from the storui center.
Dr. Howser, at Vici, was taking ref-
uge in a dugout when he was killed.
A horse was lifted by the wind and
dashed through the top of the dug-
out, burying the victim beneath the
entire earth roof of the dugout anil
the weight of the aniinai s body. A
horse beiinging to Mr. Sibel of Mu-
tual was killed by a piece of two-by-
four lumber being driven through its
body. At Muturfl fifteen young per-
sons were gathered for a Sunday ev-
ening social. The storm lifted the
house completely off the floor on
which they were seated, leaving the
floor and the young people unharmed.
O. E. Neal and daughter, in the vi-
cinity of Arnett, wer overtaken by
the storm while out driving. They
took refuge in a hollow tree, but their .
new oklahoma road
to he constructed.
A company will be incorporated at
once for the ptjrpose of building a
railroad from Chlckash to the North-
west with a terminus at Beaver in
Beaver county. A decision to this ef-
fect was reached at a meeting of rep-
resentatives of towns along the pro-
posed line, which D. D. Sayer, presi-
dent of the Chickasha Commercial
Club, attended at Weatherford Tues-
day. The proposed line is to extend
through the counties of Caddo. Cus-
ter. D?\vey, Woods, Ellis and Beaver,
and is over 200 miles in length. Over
forty men attended the Weatherford
meeting and there was no difference
of opinion among them as to the feas-
ibility of the line and the towns in-
terested determined to carry the en-
terprise to a successful conclusion.
Just as soon as the company is in-
corporated. the survey will be made
and right of way secured. Part of the
survey has been made.
[COMBINING ON TAFT
TO STOP ROOSEVELT
From Sweeping Chicago Convention
With Popularity.
Republican leaders in congress are
now working earnestly on a plan to
prevent any break at the Chicago con-
vention that might disrupt party har-
mony and endanger success at the
polls in November. Conferences have
been held at both ends of the capitol
among such men as Senators Aldrich,
Allison, Hale and Crane, and Repre-
sentatives Payne and Sherman of
New York, Tawney of Minnesota,
Jenkins of Wisconsin, and Smith of
Iowa; in fact, meetings of small
groups, from this list have been of al-
most daily occurrence for more than
a week. They have been directed to
one end—a nomination on the first
The largest ballot, .by which they mean William
towns along the line are Chickasha, j H. Taft. While no definite result has
Weatherford, Taloga, Gage and Bea-jbeen reachcd, they believe their ef-
ver. with numerous smaller towns. | forts will be successful.
Much of the country to be traversed j Most of the men figuring promi-
is now unreached by a railway, but nently in this movement were num-
is fertile and populous and will fur-lbered against Taft early in the cam-
nish plenty of tonnase to make the ! paign. but party policy and necessity
road a paying proposition. For a year ] for harmony, which have been mani-
or more the men who are Interested 'test in the Republican ranks since
in the proposition have been niatur- the disastrous results of the Blaine-
ing plans for a northwest line out of .Conkling feud, has awakened a de-
C'iiickasha. While it is not so stated. |mand that personal desires be subor-
the probability is that it will connect idinated to the will of the majority,
with a line running southeast. .That the efforts of the group of lead-
lers back of the harmony movement
COMMENCEMENT EXEKCISES. i have not been barren of results is
The l.ogan County High School i indieati d bv the fact that to a num-
closed the school year Thursday ev-
ening with the commencement exer- b<?1' ot tlie conferences havt
rises, held at the building. Last Sun- called such men as Senators Hemen-
Penrose, Cullom. Hopkins and
111.' Encampment of Thousand* Only
One Week •Off. and Work of Get-
linir lU-udy lleeomiiig Urgent
—Hotels Make !tutc>
for Visitor*.
preparations for the encamp-
ment o:' the G. A. R., Spanish War
Veterans. Ladies of the G. A. R. and
Women's Relief Corps, to be held in
Guthrie .May 19th to 23d, inclusive,
are aoing on rapidly. That 10,000
outiide visitors will be here to attend
the encampment goes beyond a doubt.
All of the hotels, restaurants and
boarding houses and rooming houses
of the city have combined together to
lower rates about one-third, and spe-
cial committee are locating rooms for
the visitors.
The three days of the encampment
will be one round of live festivities
and celebrations, the like of which
has not been seen in this country.
The line of march for the big pa-
rade Tuesday, May 20th, is as follows:
The various organizations will form
on Oklahoma avenue and Ash street
at 1 o'clock, p. m. The head of the
column will move at 1:30 sharp, and
march west on Oklahoma avenue to
Second street, south to Harrison ave-
ii . , east on Harrison to Ash street,
north on Ash street to Oklahoma ave-
where they will form fronting
outh entrance of the Carnegie
Great Work Expected ofYfigress of
Governors' Coop„\ In Washington
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win
irby tree '
miles
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horse!
fell.
'The dead:
Mrs. J. I.. Hal
nbrth of Grand.
Arthur Siebert
Mrs. Will Hand, Estelle.
Dr. Howser, Vici.
child of Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb.
Mrs. Young. Seiling.
Two unknown persons. Arnett.
The injured:
J. L. Hale, near Grand, lung pene-
trated by splinter.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Downing, near
Grand, injured beneath ruins.
"Child of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Young,
near Higgins, Texas, seriously burn-
ed.
Mrs. Will Stewart, near Arnett,
shoulder broken.
Mrs. Tom Mitchell, near Arnett,
two ribs broken.
Mrs. Stessey. near Arnett, seriously
bruised.
Mr. and Mrs. John Downing, badly
bruised.
Mrs. Arthur Sieberjt, Mutual.
The tornadoes came from a south-
westerly direction. Some of them
originating in the Panhandle, They
traversed the counties of Woodward,
Ellis, Dewey and Major counties in
Oklahoma and swept the country
practically clean in their paths. The
country is sparsely settled and the
towns are small, and wliile wires are
down throughout practically the en-
tire stricken district the fatalities are
believed to lie no greater than those
reported. /
The afternoon was sultry and the
storms came suddenly. Whole fami-
lies were blown away with their
household goods. Horses and cattle
were killed by the storm and the wind
and rai that followed almost com-
pletely devastated crops iu some sec-
tions. No buildings were left stand-
ing in the storm's path.
The twister that destroyed Grand
and Arnett was half a mile wide and
traveled for about fifteen miles. Near
Arnett Mrs. Bert Downing was found
unconscious beneath a cook stove in
the ruins of her home. Her husband
and daughter were both seriously in-
jured.
day Rev. Cameron, state superintend-
ent. preached the baccalaureate ser-
mon. Tuesday evening was class day.
and with the presentation of diplo-
mas Thursday, the new graduates
have closed one of the most event-
ful weeks of their lives.
The graduating class Is larger than
any two classes before in the history
of the school. Not only in numbers
do they excel, but their record is such
that no other graduating class can
compare. Out of fifty-seven starting
In at the beginning of the year, fifty-
three passed final examinations.
The commencement address was
made by Mr. Burdick of Kansas Uni-
versity. The talk was a very inter-
esting one, eloquent in its smallest
detail. The program follows:
Piano Solo—Miss Brewer.
Invocation—Rev. Scott.
Oration—Eva Uphani.
Vocal Solo—I.elali McPherson.
Oration, "Oklahoma"—-Herbert Can-
field. ,.
Oration, "Out of the Depths —
Hazel Wood.
Vocal Solo—Dr. C. B. Hill.
Commencement Address—Mr. W. H.
Burdick, Kansas University.
Violin Solo—Mrs. Smock.
Presentation of Diplomas—Superin-
tendent Neil Humphrey.
Benediction—Rev. Brill, Mulhall.
brary, and be addres
onal commander of
eneral C. G. Burton.
sed by
the G
Order of formation.
Platoon of police.
Oklahoma State band.
Company B, Oklahoma National
iard.
Enid Drum Corps.
Department of Indian Territory.
Department of Oklahoma.
I.adies of the G. A. It.
Woman's Relief Corps.
Crescent band. #
School children.
White House float. Mrs. Ardery's
college.
Oklahoma drum corps.
Spanish War Veterans and Sons of
Veterans.
Cavalry.
Commissary wagon.
City officials. /
Fire department.
Drum corps.
Citizens in carriages.
Washington. May 13.—Two ideas,
destined to mark material progress
in America's future, resulted from
the first of the three days' conference
the White House today In which
President Roosevelt, the governors of
forty-four states, cabinet officers, su-
preme court jusltces, senators, repre-
sentatives and experts are participat-
ing in efforts to reach conclusions on
the best methods of conserving the
natural resources of the United States
The first is that of a permanent
organization by the states and the
nation is necessary and will likely re-
sult from the present conference, to
accomplish the end sought. The sec-
ond—sugested by Secretary Root—Is
that there is no limitation by the con-
stitution to the agreements which
may be made between the states, sub-
ject to the approval ot congress.
The President's speech ended the
morning session. At the afternoon
session the real work of the confer-
ence began and the session, which
opened at 2:4." and lasted until 5:05
o'clock, proceeded at a rate that broke
all speed regulations. It developed
first that the President finds it im-.
possible to devote his entire time to
the conference meetings. He will, as
he did today, call to order each ses-
sion, and then desigante a governor
to preside. This honor fell today on
Governor Noel of Mississippi, with the
intimation from the President that
tomorrow he should call upon Gover-
nor Johnson of Minnesota. Then, af-
ter this announcement, as if his politi-
I'HOTEST AGAINST OKLAHOMA
IILLEUATION 1> WASHINGTON
The fact that tlier^ is a protest filed
in Washington against the Oklahoma
Republican delegation to Chicago by
negro representatives is made public
for the first time by persons who
went there in the interest of having
a successor appointed to Judge Camp-
bell. One protest is against the dele-
gates at large, the other against those
elected from the third congressional
district. The contest is based on ir-
regularity of selection of delegates.
ing his bauds and then indicating a
desire to speak Friday.
It was from the utterances of Mr.
Carnegie and those who followed him
that the gravity of the problems to
be considered were given weight. Two
hundred years of coal supply and half
that of iron was the prediction ot
the famous ironmaster.
Dr. I. C. White of West Virginia
added expert knowledge and predic-
tion on the subject of coal and iron,
In wlUch he predicted the exhaustion
of the Pittsburg coal supply In ninety-
three years and the West Virginia
fields In practically the same time.
John Mitchell, former head ot the
United Mine Workers of America, es-
timated that fully 25 per cent'of the
coal in the mines already developed
had been wasted in mining and a
much greater percentage in use. With-
out such waste, which he believed
might be overcome, the supply ot coal
would last 2000 Instead of 200 years,
as predicted.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota
made a lively talk in which he took is-
sue with Mr. Carnegie's statement that
wasteful methods prevailed Iti tho
mining in the I.ake Superior region.
John Hays Hammond, who has tho
reputation of being the richest paid
mining engineer in the country, read
a paper on engineering methods in
which lie drew the conclusion that
while there was no way to revolu-
tionize mining methods, .they might
be improved gradually.
The climax of the afternoon ses-
sion was the speech of Secretary of
cal instinct had received a shock, the .
President suddenly called upon Mr. State Root,
Bryan to interrupt the program and I The connection with the treasury
incidentally the prepared speech of department might bear to the quea-
Andrew Carnegie, and address Cist- iil'V UJiaei uiscusaton was dwelt up-
meeting. Mr. Bryan acknowledged the on by Secretary Cortelyou, who fol-
enthusiasm his name aroused by lift- lowed Mr. Root.
NEIJRO In YE A Its OLD
LYNCHED FOR ASSAULT.
Elmo Harvard, IS years old, a ne-
gro. arrested Wednesday at Pulaski.
Tenn., for attempted assault, was
lynched at Nashville by a mob of 300
unknown masked men. The men
broke open the jail and. over the pro-
test of the sheriff, carried the negro
to a bridge and hanged him.
MclHIKE WETS THE
INTEREST ON #."i.0(K);MM>.
STATE WILL DEI
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til l l.IH MIS.
way
Depew, and Represetnatives Parson
and Vreeland of New York. Mann and
Boutell of Illinois. Burke and Dalzell
of Pennsylvania. Watson and Landis
of Indiana, and others who are back-
ing the candidacies of Vice President
Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon, Senator
Knox or Governor Hughes.
An attempt is made to disguise the
fact that the real impetus to such a
concerted movement in the interest of
Secretary Taft is the refusal of Roose-
velt sentiment to be snuffed out and
the danger of such sentiment spread-
ing to an extent that might be diffi-
cult to control at Chicago. At the
same time It is said the movement Is
not hostile to President Roosevelt,
who admittedly occupies the position
of command iu the Taft forces. He
has made it perfectly plain that noth-
ing can come of the renewed calls for
his renoriiination which have been
made In Texas, Utah and California,
as) he is prepared to reject any prof-
fer of support, no matter how ex-
tended.
SUPREME COURT IN
MEMOItlAL sE It VICE.
Honor Memory of Captain Hegler,
Former Territorial Court Clerk.
The feature of the May term of the
supreme court, which was begun here
Monday morning, was the memorial
service for the late Capt. B. F. Hegler,
who, for ten years, was the clerk of
the territorial supreme court. • Reso-
lutions adopted by the Logan County
Bar Association were presented by
Judge W. B. Herod. J. H. Burford,
who was chief justice of the terri-
torial supreme court, made a short
speech In behalf of the family of the
deceased.
Others who spoke were Chief Jus-
tice Williams, Judge Keaton and C.
B. Ames of Oklahoma City, George
Uhl of Stillwater, R. J. Ray of Law-
ton, Col. Roy Hoffman ot Chandler,
Associate Justice Kane, Ernest Blake
of El Reno, George Lookebaugh, rcp-
resting the Blain county bar, and
Joseph Kearn ot Enid.
I.oiernor's Ideas are Adhered to by
the Democrats.
By a vote of 36 to 23_ 111 a house
caucus the position of the governor
relative to the attitude of this legis-
lature toward the location of perma-
nent state institutions was upheld,
the vote being taken after the presen-
tation of the governor's ideas by
Governor Haskell himself and several
iother speeches by several of the lead-
ing Democrats of tlie lower body. No
recession from this is anticipated and
hence public building legislation dur-
ing this session has been permanently
forstailed.
The proposed location of three
tate normal schools lu the eastern
part of the state, to correspond with
the three already established on the
western side were the most important
and most discussed matters relating
to state institutions, and the discus-
sion and contention already evoked
over theBe Institutions warranted the
governor and the Democratic caucus
In tho belief that the actual consid-
eration of the matter would be of
long duration and would hinder the
enactment of laws more necessary at
this time.
This decision ot the Democrats al-
so forestalls the possibility of the
state capital matter being decided
luring this session, unless this should
be exempted in order that a bill mere-
ly providing for an election for that
purpose Bhould be passed.
Congressman McGuire, who has
been working on the matter for some
time, has been notified by the comp-
troller of the currency that he has
endorsed the decision giving Oklaho-
ma the Interest on the $5,000,000
school fund gift from the approval
of theenabling act, June 16, 1906, In-
stead of from the date of the admis-
sion of the state, as the auditor pre-
viously held. The opinion means over
$240,000 to Oklahoma.
1'OSI PONEI) ANNUAL
S( HOOL
MEETINGS
STATE KEGISTEK GETS
SOME PUBLIC i'hin
1!NG.
School Districts are so Directed by
Superintendent Cameron—Fourth
Tuesday in July.
State Superintendent Cameron is
sending out circulars to all of the
county superitendents over the state,
notifying them of the postponement
of the annual school meetings under
the provisions of the Williams bill,
until the fourth Tuesday in July. New
trustees throughout are to be elected
this year, a director for three years,
a clerk for two years and a treasurer
for one year.
The present boards have no power
to employ teachers for next yaer or
to amke any contracts beyond their
term of office.
Attention i£ also called to the fact
that counties on the Indian Territory
side will have county examining
boards consisting of two members,
selected by the county superitendent
and one selected by the county su-
perintendent and one selected by the
federal supervisor, or Superintend-
ent Benedict, and the certificates Is-
sued by this board and the county su-
perintendent will be valid in both
federal and state schools. Under the
Evans Institute bill persons already
holding valid teachers' certificates
may attend the Institute and have
their certificates renewed or extended
an additional year without examina-
tion on recommendation of the coun-
ty superintendent.
At a meeting of the state printing
board the State Register was award-
ed a portion of the state printing.
The bulk of the printing for the
various departments of the state
conies under schedules one and two.
It is this classification that the State
Register was successful in its bidding
Eight bidders were found to be the
lowest of over twenty, and the board
decided to prepare a new schedule on
each class of work as the maximum
and distribute it among the following:
Guthrie State Register, Shawnee Her-
ald, McAlester Capital. Muskogee
Times-Democrat, Ada News, Ardmore
Ardmorite and Lawton Constitution.
On Schedule 3 the Guthrie Capital,
Guthrie Leader and Warden-Ebright
Co., of Oklahoma City, will share.
J. A. Armstrong of Ardmore was
awarded schedule 4.
The Oklahoma Engraving Company
of Oklahoma City, gets the lithograph-
ing and engraving.
(HI, COMPANY MAKES REPORT.
Prairie Oil Company Places a Valiia-
llcin of £ I 4,606,04 XJi.l on Its
Oklahoma Holdings.
In the most complete, best itemized,
and most satisfactory report in every
respect. Insofar as the technicalities
concerned and as to the apparent
correctness ot the various values, that
has been filed in the state auditor's
office to date is that of the Prairie
Oil and Gas Company, the subsidiary
Standard Oil concern that operates
in Oklahoma and Kansas. The Prai-
rie Oil Company places a valuation
on Its property in Oklahoma of $14.-
666,048.53, divided up among nine
counties. The company itemized all
the crude oil It now has on hand, list-
ing same on its valuation sheets at
38 and 41 cents per barrel, or the ac-
tual price which it paid for the sanje.
The property of the company is di-
vided up among the nine counties of
the east side as follows:
Creek $ 1,518,033.87
Muskogee 109,037.20
Nowata 226,307.34
Okmulgee 162,404.40
Osage 725,815.91
Pawnee <•'• 646,229.95
Rogers 96,481.74
Tulsa 3,488,188.47
Washington ,J • 7,693,549.65
Total $14,666,048.53
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