Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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SEVENTEENTH YEAH NO. 28
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. AUGUST ti. 1908.
#1.00 PER YEAR
If Attorney General West would behave himself, he might get a Place in Governor Haskell's Cabinet when he is President
Coal Output One Third Greater
Than Last Year, Valued $7,433,914
Oklahoma's total production of coal
(or 1907, according to the annual re-
port of the United States geological
survey, just receive! here, was 3,642,-
658 short tons, having a spot value of
$7,433,914. The most noteworthy fig-
ture of the report is the great in-
crease in production over 1906, While
the report for 19<iC was for Indian
Territory alone and that for 1907 is
for the state of Oklahoma, the entire
coal producing section of the statg
is contained in what was formerly
Indian Territory, and the comparison
of Oklahoma for 1907 and Indian Ter-
ritory for 1906 is really of the same
territory.
In 1906 the Indian Territory output
amounted to 2,860,200 short tons, val-~
ued at $5,482,366. In comparison with
this, the 1907 output shows an in-
crease of $782,458 tons, or 27.36 per
cent in quantity, and of $1,951,548, or
35.6 per cent in v£.lue. Only three
states come ahead of Oklahoma in
the percentage of increase in 1907
over 1906. They are Michigan, whose
production increased 51 per cent; Ar-
kansas, which had an increase of 43.3
per cent, and New Mexico, with 33.8
per cent increase.
I'se Eight Hour Dajs.
According to the same report, there
were 8398 .men employed in the Okla-
homa coal mines during 1907, who
worked on an average of 219 days
each, compared with 8251 men for an
average of 166 days in 1906. The to-
tal time lost in 1906 was equivalent
to 40 per cent of the total time made;
the total time lost in 1907 was equiva-
lent to a little less than 1 per cent
of the total time made.
The average production per man in
1907 was 434 tons, as against 346.6
tons in 1906 and 3Y9.2 tons in 1905.
The average daily production per
man was 2.01 tons in 1907, as com-,
pared with 2.09 tons in 1906 and 2.02
tons in 1905. Practically all of the
mines of the state are operated on
the basis of the eight hour day.
The decline in the use of mining
machinery in Oklahoma, referred to
in the reports for 1905 and 1906, con-
tinued in 1907, and was probably due
to the prevalent practice of shooting
from the solid. The quality of the
product of the state is, according to
the report, seriously affected by this
practice, which produces an excess of
slack or fine coal, for which there is
no profitable market.
Thirty-three Men Killed.
The fatality record for 1907, as re-
ported by William Cameron, federal
mine inspector for Indian Territory
shows that there were eighty-nine ac
cidents during the year, a decrease of
three from 1906; thirty three men
were killed and fifty-six injured
1907, as against forty-four killed and
forty-eight injured in 1906. Of the
thirty-three fatal accidents in 1907
six were due to gas and dust explo
sions, eleven to powder explosions
and misplaced shots, eleven to falls
of roofs or coal and five to other
causes. The death rate per thousand
employes was 3.9 and 110,383 tons of
coal were mined for each life lost
The coal field of Oklahoma is est!
mated by the report to cover approxi
mately 20,000 square miles, in the
western half of the Cherokee Nation
the whole of the Creek Nation, the
northern third of the Choctaw and
small portion of the Chickasaw n
tion. The t otal area underlaid by
workable coal is estimated to be
about 14,000 square miles. At present
the entire output is derived from the
Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw Na-
tions. the last named contributing by
far the largest portion.
A Most Prosperous Tear,
The coals, of which there are ten
or more beds, range from a medium
low grade on one hand to a high
grade bituminous, approaching semi-
anthracite. on the other. Some of
the high grade bituminous varieties
are coking coals. Several /hundrei
ovens are in operation in the Choc
taw field, and much of the slack that
is produced is washed and turned in-
to coke.
The coal mining industry of Okla-
homa in 1907 is reported as being
one of the most prosperous in the his
tory of the region, for the increased
production was accompanied by an
advance in the average price per ton
from $1.92 in 1906 to $2.04 in 1907.
The falling off of the production of
petroleum in Texas and the constant
increase in the price of fuel oil cre-
ated a better demand for the Oklaho-
ma and Arkansas coal in the adjacent
states. It is predicted that the pro-
duction will continue to increase dur-
ing the present year, provided, of
course, that norma? industrial con-
ditions continue.
During part of the year, as is fre-
quently the case, the industry suffered
from the insufficient car supply. The
influences of the money disturbance
were feltp rincipally in the unwilling-
ness of the miners to accept any-
thing but pitual cash in payment for
wages.
MA( h APPOINTS j Archibald McNeil, Connecticut; Jas,
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES K. McGuire, New York; J. K. O'Don
inell, Illinois; James E. Campbell
Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Ohio.
Democratic national committee, has [ Labor committee, Martin J. Wade,
appointed committees to serve during j chairman, Iowa; Roger C'. Sullivan
the campaign. The members of the ' Illinois; T. E. Ryan, Wisconsin; Rob-
GOVERNOR HASKELL STANDS UP
FOR BANK GUARANTY
In answer to a request from the
New York World for an opinion, Gov-
ernor sent the following telegram:
Answering your telegram. Bona-
part's decision does not interest us.
If it did we would seriously question
its correctness. He refused an opinion
last January, but possibly the cam-
paign Issues make a change of mind
necessary.
Our banking law has many beneficial
features. An active managing officer
cannot borrow from his own bank
The state board passes upon the
ability, honesty and fitness of every
bank officer and removes them if in
competent, reckless or dishonest.
The bank board from time to time
fixes the maximum rate of interest
that may be paid on deposits.
The ratio of capital to deposits Is
subject to regulation.
At least four careful examinations
annually.
Four hundred ninety-seven state
banks, all unde rlaw; forty-four nat-
ional banks also ufider law.
Law went into effect February 14
May 14th statement shows last exami-
nation periods secured banks increase
of deposits about four and a quarter
million dollars. Unsecured national
banks two hundred fifty-five. Loss in'
deposits same period eleven hundred
thousand dollars. State money with
drawn about seven hundred thousand
dollars. Net increase individual de
posits all to credit of secured banks,
three milton eight hundred thousand
dollars. This increase Individual de
posits, some from other states, but
mostly out of stockings.
Effect of Bonapart's decision will
ontinue to increase deposits in secur-
ed banks and decrease in unsecured
banks.
Judging from numerous statements
heretofore made, I believe that many
of our national banks will take out
state charters.
The present antiquated and ineffi-
cient national banking law Irftpires
no confidence in our people, and the
smaller national banks fully realize
that the national banking law operates
to the benefits of the large banks only.
Our depositors remember the story of
the Walsh bank of Chicago and num-
erous similar national bank losses and
consider that banking is a sane public
business where depositors have rights
as well as stockholders.
( . N. HASKELL, Governor.
WHAT IS UNDER OKLAHOMA}
Professor Charles N. Gould Is Going
to Find Out.
In the last few moments of the
legislature a bill was passed in both
houses known as the survey bill, and
with it an appropriation was granted
of $15',000 with which to work. The
governor of the state, th^ superin
tendent of public instruction and the
president of the state university
were appolted the bjard to attend
the election of a head for the state
survey, and last week Charles New
ton Gould was chosen to be director
The last week Prof. Gould has been
very active in choosing his helpers
and now he has twelve men in the
field investigating the mineral
sources of the new state.
The survey will have seven parties
in the field all summer and part of
next winter. Briefly, the work of the
parties in the field will be to invest!
gate the location and accessibility of
the various building stones of the
state, including limestone, marble
sandstone, granite, gabbro, gypsum
dolomite and porphry, with pressur
tests to determine the availability
this stone for the construction
public buildings; investigate the lo
cation and availability of all stone,
clay and other materials of the state
suitable -for the construction of l'oads
with ample tests to determine the
relative value of the different mate
rials, etc.
Prof. Gould has received thausand
of letters from persons asking vari
questions in regard to the natural
resources of the state.
MI DEFEATED Hlt'ER-
LBIG-VUBIS LEW.
IPP01NT DELEGATES TO
TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS
Miss Kate Bernard, state superin-
tendent of charities and corrections
has received authority to appoint
ten delegates to the International
^ongress of Tuberculosis, to meet in
Washington, September 21st to Oc-
tober 12th. Miss Bernard will be
among the very few women who will
deliver addresses at the meeting.
HILD KILLED BY SHOT
THAT SLEW PARENT
SINKING LAND SCARES PEOPLE
the national committee. He will an-
nounce next week the committee on
finance, press and speakers. The ap-
pointment of a sub-committee for the
Eastern and New York headquarters
will be taken up upon the return of
Chairman Mack to Chicago in about
a week.
The committees named are:
Executive committee, Norman E.
Mack, chairman, New York; P. L.
Hill, vice chairman. Nebraska; Urey "William Bamberg, special agent
Woodson, Kentucky; Martin J. Wade, from the United States department of
Iowa; Josephus Daniels, North Caro- ! agriculture, located in Oklahoma to
Rothwell, Missouri; E. S. Johnson,
South Dakota; Edwin A. Newman,
District of Columbia.
Campaign text book committee—
John E. Lamb, chairman, Indiana;
Josephus Daniels, North Carolina;
Richard E. Metcalfe, Nebraska.
OKLAHOMA TOBACCO.
Una; Thomas Taggart. Indiana; John j
T. McGraw, West Virginia: George
W. Greene, Rhode Island; R. M. John-
son. Texas; Clark Howell, Georgia;
T. E. Ryan, Wisconsin; J. F. C. Tal-
bot, Maryland; John W. Tomilson,
Alabama; John E. Osborne, Wyom-
ing; James S. Kerr, Pennsylvania; F.
B. Lynch, Minnesota; Edwin O.
Wood. Michigan; Nathan Cole, Jr.,
California; Robert Ewlng, Louisiana;
J. Harvey Garber, OhlG.
Advisory committee, David • R.
Francis, chairman, Missouri; J. G.
Johnson, secretary, Kansas; Alton B. '
Parker. New York; John Sharp Wtl-;COH\ AND WHEAT PRICES SOAR
liams, Mississippi; Governor John A. j SKYWARD.
Johnson, .Minnesota; Senator ('. A. ! Chicago.—Scorching hot weather
throughout the corn belt and the Da-
kotas and Minnesota threw the Board
of Trade Into wild excitement and sent
the price of wheat and corn soaring.
Wheat advanced nearly three cents,
May to $1.01 3-8. Corn showed almost
an equally sharp bulge, May touching
65 1-8; December 65 3-8.
About twenty-five acres of prairie
land lying between Keystone and Ol-
in the Creek Nation, has sunk
nearly thirty feet in the last two years
and is now covered with water. Many
the farmers are moving their houses
and herds and a general state of alarm
exists. The whole country around this
land seems to be sinking gradually
and the people of that section are
daily expecting something to happen.
It is the supposition of surveyors and
oil and gas men and other familiar
with such conditions that the sinking
is caused by the great gas pressure
taken from beneath the land.
Because his wife lad failed to meet
him in Claremore and give him $150,
the balance of the sale of 40 acres of
land, Clay Harris, member of
prominent Tulsa family, shot and
killed his wife and child, and critic
ally wounded Wralter Vann, driver of
an American Express wagon, who
had been an eye witness to the trage-
dy.
He attempted the lives of two other
persons, then held up a man driving
by in a buggy and, making him get
out, entered the rig and fled for the
Osage Nation.
When Mrs. Harris was picked up
the money her husband had de-
manded from her was held in one
hand in a death clutch. The shot
which felled her had killed the child
also, the ball passing through the
bodies of both.
GEORGE PETTIBONE IS DEAD.
Ill Since His Trial for the Murder of
ExGorernor Stenuenberg.
George A. Pettibone, for years
prominent in the councils of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
was tried with Moyer and Haywood,
officers of the federation, on a charge
of complicity in the murder of ex-
Governor Stenuenberg of Idaho, is
dead at St. Joseph's Hospital, Denver,
from the effects of an operation. Mr.
Pettibone had been ill ever since his
imprisonment in the Idaho peniten-
tiary, which began more than a year
TELEPHONE COMPANY
HEARING IS SET.
study conditions, hax secured a num-
ber of specimens of tobacco grown
in Johnson county," says the Purcell
Register. "The best tobacco was
raised on the farm of William Grear^'0UB"to"the"famouaTrlaUat BoiTe'
and is a Kentucky variety. Mr. Grear
has raised tobacco in other states
and says it is a big success in Okla-
homa. He also makes the statement
that there is a great deal more money
in tobacco in Oklahoma than there is
tn cotton at fifteen cents a pound,
which Is, of course, an almost un-
heard of price."
100 DIE IN FOREST FIRES;
6000 ARE NOW HOMELESS.
f
Eernie, B. C., Destroyed, and Other
Towns Threutened.
Daniel, Virginia; Senator Isador Ray-
ner, Maryland; Governor George
Chamtierlaln, Oregon; Hoke Smith,
Georgia; John T. Lamb, Indiana; M.
E. Ingalls, Ohio; Josiah Quincy, Mas-
sachusetts: George Erhart, New
York; Irving L. Handy, Delaware;
Winnipeg, Man.—More than 100
persons have been burned to death in
forest fires which are devastating the
Crow's Nest Pass country along the
line of the Canadian Pacific railroad
in British Columbia. The town of
Fernle has been destroyed, and at
least seventy persons are reported
dead there. Only seventeen houses
remain standing, and 3000 of the
town's inhabitants are homeless. Hos-
mer, Olsen and Sparwocd are threat-
ened, and communication with those
places has been entirely cut off.
The _ corporation commission has
set Thursday, August 20th. as the
date for a hearing ou the complaint
filed by County Attorney James Hep
burne and City Attorney Fred Green
of Guthrie, against tile Pioneer Tele-
phone Company, asking that the pres-
ent rates be not raised. The com-
plainants allege that the telephone
company's franohise «foes not permit
even the rates now being charged,
The proposed rate goes into effect
October 1st, and in case the company-
appeals from the decision of the cor
poration commission it must put up
a $10,000 bond before they can col-
lect the new rate from the customers
and should the supreme court hold
that the rate can not be legally raised
the company will have to refund the
extra amount collected from custo-
mers under the raise.
Up to Wednesday night the returns
in the first congressional district are
not oomplete to give a detailed vote,
but Bird S. McGuire was nominated
for congress over B. T. Halner by a
vote of possibly five to one.
Harper S. Cunningham defeated L.
O. Lytle for state senator from this
district by about the same vote.
Either B. F. Garrett or A. C. Ham-
lin defeated W. T. Walker for the
lower house in the third district, while
J. S. Shearer was nominated in the
second without opposition, and O. 1;.
Acton in the first.
The Democratic nominees in this
county are James Kirkwood for the
senate, and Walter Mathews, H. E.
Derwin and Teague Ray for the low-
er house.
In the third congressional distrct
it looks as though C. E. C'reagcr ed-
'RETTV MODEL A< < CSKS~Tin isI7
OF ASSAULT.
Bertha Dodge Claims Painter Attack-
ed Her Willie Posing for Picture
In Ills Studio.
feated H. 1. P. Standford.
In the second district Dick Morgan
is reported as defeating W. P. Lin-
coln/for copgress.
Corporation Commissioner Watson
defeated Tom Smith.
Dennis Flynn had no Republican
opposition for nomination for United
States Senator.
In Kansas Joseph L. BriiStow, for-
mer fourth assistant postmaster gen-
eral, has defeated Senator Long for
the United States Senate, and W. R.
Stubbs defeated Cy Leland for gov-
ernor.
In Missouri, Cowherd is the Demo-
cratic nominee for govermr; Hadley,
Republican. Governor Folk, it is be-
lieved, lias defeated Stoni for the sen-
ate.
FIRST CHURCH OF GUTHRIE.
SENATOR ALLISON DEAD.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 4.—United
States Senator Allison died at his
home in this city at 1:33 o'clock this
afternoon. The immediate cause of
his death was heart failure. Ta end
came as the result of a serious sink-
ing spell due to a prostatic enlarge-
ment, complicated with kldne.- dis-
eases and during a period of uncon-
sclousness which has lasted slncc
Saturday afternoon.
Chicago.—Henry M. Bayer, an artist
with a studio in the Studio building,
North State and Ohio streets, was ar-
ested yesterday on serious charges
made by Mrs. Bertha Dodge, a mcdel
living in the Palace Hotel.
Mrs. Dodge who is 22 years old and
pretty, alleges that Bayer attacked her
while she was posing for him In his
studio Thursday afternoon. She said
she escaped from the studio with he
lothlng In her hands anil attired her
self in the corridor.
Bayer, she said, followed her and
sought to shake her hand and implored
her not to say anything about the mat-
ter, but Mrs. Dodge spurned his en-
treaties.
She returned to her apartments in
the hotel and told her husband, who
is an actor of her experiences. The
latter became angered and threatened
to do bodily harm to the artist, but his
ife persuaded him to leave the mat-
ter to the courts.
Bayer appeared surprised when told
the nature of the warrant and vehem
ently denied the charge.
"The woman came to me in search
of work," he said. "I did not need a
model, and besides I did not like her
form for the picture I intended to
paint. She told me she was weak and
hungry and pleaded with me to give
her some money. I gave her a $1 and
she left. She returned yesterday morn-
ing in search of work, but I told her
I had nothing for her to do. She then
left the place."
Mrs. Dodge tells a different story.
"I was sent to Mr. Bayer, by Edgar
Cameron, to "whom I applied for
ork on Thursday," said Mrs. Dodge.
"I had done some work for several
artists in the Studio building. Mr.
Bayer employed me and paid me a $1
in advance. He posed me gazing at
an apple, which I had dropped to the
floor. It was tedious work. All during
the work he kept complimenting me
on my beauty, calling me 'sweetheart'
and the like, and saying he could learn
to love me. I did not remonstrate
with him at the time.
"He approached me, for the purpose
i believed, of changing my posi-
tion. Instead, however, he seized
me roughly about the waist and
necl^ and before I realized what he
was doing he had thrown me on a
couch. It was only by superhuman
strength I managed to escape from
him. As soon as I could get my voice
I shrieked at him and told him he
would pay the penalty for this outrage.
I then gathered up my clothing and
ran from the room Into the hallway,
where I dressed myself."
Tuesday the Methodist Church,
North, finished raising $20,000, half
the amount of the cost, and will im-
mediately begin the erection of the
magnificent structure on the corrifer
of Broad and Noble. The Methodist
church was the first to build a struc-
ture in Guthrie, and it is most fitting
that it should now have the "First"
church of Guthrie, it will be the
great cathedral for "citizens to point
to with pride.
SENSATIONAL DEMONSTRATION'.
W on Id Have M lie Adjudged Insane to
Please Mother—Judge Strung
Says "No," and Hands
Out Hot Package.
Quite a sensation was caused in
the county court room when Jacob
Wagoner filed a complaint against
his brother's wife, Mtb. Mary Wago-
ner. charging her with being insane
and attempted to have her sent to
the asylum.
Will Wagoner married her six
years ago when she was but a girl
of 16, and since that time they have
been living on a farm about five
miles southwest of Here. She Is the
mother of three small children, and
with his own lips Wagoner stated
that about a year ago she raised and
tended a crop of cotton and kept the
family going while he was down from
typhoid fever. Wagoner's family is
Dutch and Mrs. Wagoner comes of
Irish descent. According to her state-
ment she has been greatly abused by
his family for years. *nd when asked
if she considered herself insane, she
replied that while she was not, that
she had suffered enough to drive any
one out of their mind.
On the other hand, the Wagoners
asserted that she had threatened to
kill her mother-in-law and even her
own children. When put on the stand
her husDand made such a contradic-
tory statement that tne judge inform-
ed him that he would not believe a
word he said. After making a thor-
ough examination of the case, Judge
Strang dismissed the case, advising
each to attend to their own affairs,
and advised Mrs. Wagoner to cease
making threats against any one.
st. joseph's
academy's
fim:
ART.
St. Joseph's Academy has samples
of needle work in the show window
of Ramsay's dry goods house, done
by the pupils. This is one of the
most useful departments of industrial
art at the institution.
OLD JAKE CARTER LEET ALONE.
Jake Carter, of Sprlngvale town-
ship, whom everybody knows, has lost
his partner, Martha Carter, who died
last week Friday.
There's a good romance In their
lives. They were botn slaves. Jaka
was born in Mississippi and Martha
in Alabama. Jake's master married
Martha's mistress, who brought her
with her from Alabama. Jake thinks
be was about nine years old at the
time and Martha seven, and they be-
came sweethearts from the day they
met. Jake says he was always a
wild "cuss," but his wife always stood
up for him, before and after they
were married, thinking him right,
even v.hen he was wrong. Now she
Is gone, this slave sweetheart of his,
and Jake feels lonely, thinking of
the many years and conditions they
had gone through together, good and
bad.
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