Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. 33
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1908.
#1.00 PER YEAR
There is just one consolation at this time—No great thing was ever born into this world without much travail of body and vexation of spirit
t "LAND OF SMILES"
IS SUN Bt EM
EYES
this allotment was called homestead
and the owner was not allowed to
alienate it. The rest was called sur-
plus land. A recent act of congress,
which went into effect July 27th, per-
mitted the sale or alienation o£ some
o£ the homestead land. This threw it
into the market.
The fact that the country was called
Indian Territory, added to the hind-
rance of the restrictions, had been a
check on buyers and sellers, and there
had been no such rush into this sec-
tion of the new state as marked the
past few years in what was called
Oklahoma Territory. Consequently
prices of land did not rise so rapidly
as in the western section of the state.
Thew are two or three times as high
on the western side of the old dividing
line as on the eastern side. Good land
can be bought around Holdenville,
Wetupka, Yager and other towns on
the Rock Island system for from $15
to $25 an acre. Some of the tracts are
fenced and under cultivation. Similar
lands further west as you pass from
Shawnee to Oklahoma City, are selling
at from $50 to $100 au acre. I have no
hesitation in saying that I consider
landscape after we left Sapulpa j these Eastern Oklahoma lands, in see-
never before seen anywhere, j tions which I have mentioned, the
There were miles of them. "Oklahoma cheapest lands for the quality to be
has the greatest oil field in the world, found anywhere in the country. They
with one exception,' said a state offi- will not be so cheap long.
cial a few days later, "and that ex- | I can also say that I have never
Prom the Chicago Advance.
We were in Oklahoma, there was
no doubt about that, and one of the
dreams of my recent years was burst-
ing into reality. I mean that the "El-
dorado," the "Land of the Fair God,"
as the Indians called it, was bursting
into view.
But it was raining. Oklahoma came
into the Union on the water wagon,
and it has been raining nearly ever
since. A few weeks ago the floods
swept away the bridges, overflowed
the fields and had a hilarious, high-
water hurrah over the triumph of cold
water. It was a little overdone, or it
would have been if it had occurred
anywhere else than in Oklahoma.
There everything is more than bank-
full. The banks themselves are over-
flowing with money, as we shall see
further on, and the oil wells are
gushing.
I was just stunned when I saw the
oil region. I had been at Beaumont,
Tex., had seen Spindle Top in al llts
glory. I had also seen the oil field at
Jennings, La., when it was getting in-
to action. But such a forest of der-
ricks as that which stretched across
the
I had
GOYERNOR TOUCHER BY APPEAL
"Pardon My Boy," She Pleads.
GERMAN-AMERICANS CONDEMN
DYSl'EXSARY SYSTEM
ception is Russia."
No doubt his statement was correct,
for they are very truthful in Oklaho-
ma, mostly because it is difficult to
exaggerate. A state which has such
vast wealth in its soil, wfilcn is pas-
turing herds of cattle in grass up to
their knees, which has great com
fields and rich green cotton fields
growing side by side, which has brok-
en the record for alfalfa, claiming to
have actually raised nine crops on
the same field in a single season,
which produces all other crops, except
sugar cane, that grow in the North
or the South, which can point to
young orchards bending with every
variety of fruit, and which has im-
mense deposits of coal and oil and
gas—a state, I say. which has all this,
does not need to lie about itself. It is
rich on top of the ground and under
the ground. It has untold wealth for
the man who works, in the sunlight
and for the man who p:clcs his way
In the darkness below. It taps the
earth and rivers of oil literally and
truly flow from it. Back there in the
geologic ages the forces of nature
must have got together :n council and
set up a scheme to make Oklahoma
the biggest baby wonder ever born
into the Union.
The growth of this baby state has
been so amazing as to seem more like
a fairy tale than the actual truth, even
in this land of marvelous enterprise
and industrial achievement. It was
only nineteen years ago that it was
first thrown open to white settlers,
and already It has ninety-six towns
and cities of more than 1000 inhabi-
tants. It has Oklahoma City with
more than 40,000 people, with fine
business blocks, with palatial homes,
with street car lines, splendid hotels,
large churches and the best of schools.
It also has such cities as Shawnee,
only nine or ten years old, and yet
counting a population of 15,000 and
running street cars and interurban
lines, and Tulsa and Muskogee and
Guthrie and Lawton and other places
which have come up with the speed
of mushrooms and the substantial
look of modern masonry. It has been
a good thing for Oklahoma that con-
crete came into use just when It was
seized With such a consuming hurry
to grow.
My run into the new state was o\er
the Frisco line through what was for
merly Indian Territory. At 10 o clock
the whistle sounded for Holdenville^
an important junction of the grea
Rock Island and Frisco system. This
fine little city Is in the heart of the
lands which have been thrown more
widely open to buyers through the
removal of certain restrictions, and I
doubt not that a considerable number
of the readers of the Advance w 111
consider it a favor if I tell them some-
thing about these lands. The tects
may be briefly stated. Former Indian
Territory has about 20.900,00 acres of
land, 9,000,000 acres of which were
more or less tied up with restrictions
regarding sales. The Indians and ne-
groes In this territory were each giv-
en a half section of land. Part of
seen another section where it seemed
to me so easy for a farmer to make
a living in as that part of Oklahoma
over which I have traveled. Lying mid-
way between the north and south it
has the advantages of both, and few
disadvantages. There is no failure of
crops from drouth. It rained every
day while I was there, and the dew in
the morning was the next thing to a
shower.
The weather can get warm, there
is no denying that, but of course it
was usual when I was there—where-
ever you go the weather is "unusual"
it would be unusual if it was not
unusual. And I must say that, while
I am writing this article in a front
window which looks down on Lake
Michigan, yet the weather is a shot
here as it was a week before while I
was interviewing the state officials at
Guthrie. But the weather is unusual
here. I was here one pretty day last
January and it was not half so hot.
But to go back to Oklahoma lands
and the opportunities now open, they
are great for the man who wants a
farm or who wants a real estate in-
vestment. The fear that the eastern
section of the state Js a land of In-
dians is not justified. I am told that
there is not more than one Indian
to ten white people, and the proportion
will rapidly grow less.
he cost of living 4n the towns is
not great. Fat cattle are found in the
fields near by and good steaks, I was
told, could be bought from twelve to
fifteen cents a pound. Fruit trees bear
early and with amazing abundance.
A friend whom I was visiting took me
into the back yard and showed me
fruit and vegetables enough to supply
the family, and when the lady of the
house threw open her pantry doors
the fuit which had "put up" was some-
thing to behold.
I came away from their pretty home
with the feeling that they could sit on
the front porch half of the time and
let Oklahoma soil and climate and lav-
ish production do the work.
The effect of such an environment
upon the people is quite noticable.
There is a smile on their faces. It is
a land of smiles; everything smiles,
the corn fields, the cotton fields, the
leaves of the forests gleaming in the
sunlight, the wide, wide prairies, ra-
diant in wild flowers, the streams
which glide* through great valleys of
green, th< man who struck oil and the
other man who came into the country
without a dollar in his pocket and
now has his future staked to a big
farm, the woman who is sitting on
the veranda and waving a fan, and
the baby which is beginning to under-
stand that it was born in Oklahoma.
I smile myself when I think I have
been in Oklahoma.
IMO LAWHEAl) AND
WEWOKA WON
Don Lawhead. editor of the We-
woka Democrat, was In the city Tues-
day shaking hands with his many
friends. Don made the fight of his
life for Wewoka for county seat and
won His town won over Seminole
and Ktnawa by over 500 votes.
Chickasha—"I have a son in the
penitentiary. I wanted to ask you
personally for a pardon."
Her hair tinged prematurely gray,
lines of care that betokened a broken
heart, but a mother's love still strong,
a frail little woman with tears stream-
ing down her cheeks, attracted the
attention of a large audience here
Labor day during the address of Gov-
ernor Haskell, when she asked to be
allowed to come upon the speakers'
stand long enough to address the
above words to the governor.
The governor stopped in his speech,
applied one or two questions and be-
ing answered, requested the lady to
prepare the proper papers and make
formal application to the pardon
board of the state.
The lady explained that her boy,
only 18 years old, was serving a life
term in the penitentiary.
The incident recalls the finding of
the body of a farmer in his cow lot
near Edmond more than a year ago.
A boy, James Youngblood, who had
been living with the oid man, was
missing from the place. He was
traced as far as Anadarko and cap-
tured just outside of the city. At his
ti l., i lie was convicted and given a
life term in the penitentiary. His
extreme youth probably saved him
from expatiating the crime on the gal-
lows.
The woman who niede the peal
to t; a governor was the boy's mother.
She will begin immediately to act on
♦he governor's suggestion. Papers
wiil be prepared and presented to the
board.
Strong ltesolutions Passed at the An-
nual Meeting of the Stale Assn.
BIGGEST CANDY FACTORY
IN THE SOUTHWEST.
Guthrie is to have the largest candy
factory in the Southwest. Mr. Geo. B.
Jackman is moving his machinery into
the stone building at 115 West Harri-
son avenue, and will be ready for
business by the first of October. The
title of the firm is the Guthrie Candy
Co., in the partnership will be Mr.
Jackman's son and Mr. C. W. Wimber,
who will be manager of the factory.
This will not be the "usual" candy
factory sometimes "promoted" in
Western cities. Mr. Jackman has
asked for no bonus of Guthrie citizens,
but decided that this was the place
for him after inspecting several
places. He had been to Coffeyville,
and had a notion to go to Fort Smith,
Arkansas, when a friend invited him
to come and look at Guthrie.
The factory will occupy both floors
of the building, a hundred and twenty-
five feet deep, and will be no experi-
ment, as Mr. Jackman and Mr. Wim-
ber have traveled many years in this
line for the second largest house in
the United States.
WEST APPEALS OIL
CASE TO HIGH COUKT.
Attorney General West has filed in
the supreme court a petition for re-
hearing in the matter of the peremp-
tory writ of prohibition granted Gov-
ernor Haskell stopping further action
in the Logan county district court in
the oil litigation instituted by Mr.
West to prevent thu Prairie Oil and
Gas Company from laying pipe lines
in Oklahoma.
STATE DISPENSARY
SHOWS PROFIT IN
FOUR MONTHS' BUSINESS
The first official figures showing the
result of the workings of the state
dispensary system during its four
months of existence are given out by
Superitendent Lozier. The report
shows that over and above all expen-
ditures the agency has cleared $23,-
087.48.
Over $3000 has been used in enforc-
ing the new law. The assets include
$20,370.64 due from local agents, $17,-
688.48 stock on hand, and $5117.i0
representing the amount of confiscated
liquor relabeled and kept in stock at
the state dispensary. Out of the ap-
propriation of $50,000, $25,051.95 has
been drawn.
OLD TIMERS BUFFALO
ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA
Those who were In Oklahoma before
theopening—not the sooners, but the
buffalo day pioneers—met in the city
hall Thursday night and organized an
"Old Timers Buffalo Association of
Oklahoma." Many humorous stories
of those times were told by those pres-
ent. The object of the organization is
to create pre-territorial history, and
correct much that is being written as
such, and for pleasant association.
J. W. McNeal was elected president
and E. C. Dodd secietary.
The German-American Associa-
tion of Oklahoma, with a membership
of 28,000, met in semi-annual conven-
tion in this city Monday and instruct-
ed its members, regardles sof party, to
support only those candidates for office
especially legislative candidates,, i<o
pvblicly would pledge themselves to
support measures that would restore
personal liberties withdrawn by s';;te
wide prohibition. Each society ill the
state will appoint a committee to as-
certain the attitude of locai cnndi
dates. The state dispensary system
was condemned.
Henry A. Braun of Guthrie was re-
elected president of the state 'duly
for the fifth time. William Burmeiei
of El Reno was chosen vice president,
Henry Schultz of El Reno, secretary,
and R. Pappe of Kingfisher, treasurer.
The next convention will be held
Oklahoma City the second Monday iti
AVril, 1909.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, the German-American as-
sociation of Oklahoma, comprising a
membership of over 28,000 American
citizens of German descent, and tax
payers of the state of Oklahoma, is
now assembled in the semi-annual con-
vention at Guthrie, and
Whereas, the citizens of German de-
scent have contributed their full share
towards the development of this great
commonwealth and are entitled to
recognition to their personal rights
and religious principles, as set forth in
the constitution of the greatest of all
countries, and
Whereas, the general election will
take place in our state on November
3d, at which time the representatives
for the second legislature of Oklahoma
will be chosen and at which some
state officers ail a senator to congress
will be elected, and
Whereas, our state is suffering un-
der the ban of prohibition, obnoxious
and resentful to a large portion of our
people, and
Whereas, prohibition is an aggres-
sion upon the individual rights and
personal liberties of citizens, unworthy
of a free eop'e, tending to restore tile
tyrannical way of fanatical bigots, en-
joyed by them in Puritan days, and
Whereas, neither of the political par-
ties have shown any consideration for
the principle of personal freedom by
adopting resolutions, promising res-
toration and preservation of the in-
dividual rights of our citizens, be it
resolved;
1. We recommend to our members
and all liberty loving citizens to give
their hearty support for the election of
such candidates—regardless of party
aftilation—who are known to be op-
posed to sumptuary laws and who
promise publicly to stand for individu-
al rights and personal liberty.
2. We pledge ourselves to continue
in our opposition to despotic legisla-
tion, and to use all honorable means
to restore to the citizens of this great
state, freedom of conscience and the
right of individual determination.
3. Each local society is hereby di-
rected to appoint a committee of three
whose duty it is to call upon all candi-
dates for election in their respective
districts for the purpose of ascertain-
ing their position in regard to personal
freedom and to obtain their promise
to support measures in favor of it.
Said committees to report to their re-
spective societies at an early date for
the consideration of such measures as
may be deemed necessary.
4. Each local society is directed
to organize the liberal element in its
district, and if like organizations are
already in existence, to co-operate
with them for the common cause.
Whereas, a conflict has arisen be-
tween the governor of our state and
the attorney general in regard to the'.:-
authority to proceed against violators
of the laws, be it resolved;
That we believe the attorney general
being directly elected by all the peo-
ple and responsible to them for his
acts and fulfillment of his duties
should have power to act on his own
initiative and responsibility, and we
demand of the next legislature the en
actment of laws defining the authority
of each of these officials.
Whereas, the enactment of the dls
pensary law, adopted with an emer-
gency clause, requires for the sale of
alcholic liquors a prescription from a
regularly practicing physician, and
Whereas, a majority of the physi-
cians refuse to write prescriptions for
obtaining liquors at the dispensaries,
and
Whereas, the dispensary system has
not checked the illegal sale of liquor
be It resolved;
That we consider the dispensary
system as absolutely Inadequate for
the requirements of the people and we
recommend a repeal of the same.
The \ meeting convened at Island
Park and was welcomed by O. A. Far-
quharson, president of the Retal Mer-
chants Association. President Braun
In opening the convention made a
strong address condemning the spirit
of intolerance, curtailment of personal
liberty and distraction of property that
prevailed under prohibition, and ex
told the rational virtues of the Ger
Continued «n Page 8
WIRE LAUNCHED HIS
FOiirtiH TERM IN CONGRESS
The convention of the first con-
gressional district met in the Supreme
Court room, lone Hotel, Thursday and
ratified the nomination of Bird S. Mc-
Guire for his fourth term in Congress.
The convention was a large and enthu-
siastic one and prophesized success.
State chairman Joe H. Norris called
the convention to order and Robert
A. Lowery, of Stillwater, was chosen
chairman and A. C. Glenn, of Medford,
secretary. The committees on cre-
dentials and organization were dispen-
sed with and the temporary organiza-
tion was made permanent. The fol-
lowing committee on resolutions was
selected:
Lincoln County, James Lockwood;
Logan County, Frank Greer; Kingfish-
er County, F. L. Boynton; Garfield
County, M. C. Garber; Grant County,
J. C. McKelvy; Kay County, W. A.
Phillips; Noble County, L. L. Cow-
ley; Pawnee County, E. B. Ham.
While the committee on resolutions
was out Congressman McGuire was
called for and made a rousing speech.
He said this was a year for another
national victory and the beginning for
vice, provisions should be made for
liberal compensation to the employees
who operate the properties, ample
funds should be set aside for maintain-
ing the roads in the highest state of ef-
ficiency and a reasonable enumera-
tion as a fair profit for their use. The
lieople should not be compelled to pay
exhorbitant rates to earn interest on
excessive bond issues or dividends on
ficticious capital stock. ,
8. We demand the enactment of a
law providing for a sitting of the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, by
one or more of its members, and that
the United States District Attorneys
be required to prepare and prosecute
all complaints before said commission
in the name of the United States, with-
out charge to the citizen.
9. We favor the enactment of such
legislation as will remove error of
technality of procedure from causes of
reversal in appellate courts and limit
such causes to the question of whether
or not there has been a fair and im-
partial trial upon the merits of the
case.
10. in addition to the free rural
delivery of mall provided by the Re-
publican Party, we favor a uniform
system of National, State, and County
roads; and such legislation as will in-
sure the immediate construction and
maintainence of a good macadiniized
the redemption of the state, which I public road, running north and couth
would place it in the republican col- j and east and west across the country.
umn at the next state election.
Senator Elmer Brownlee was called
for and said he bellev.ed the Republi-
cans should elect a majority of the
legislature.
Chairman Lowery promised the
election of McGuire by an overwhelm-
ing majority over Henry Johnson, who.
he claimed sold out Oklahoma to the
Indian Territory in the constitutional
convention.
Col. T. H. Soward made an eloquent
welcome address in the absence of
Mayor Barnes.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
1. As representatives of the Repub-
lican party of the First Congressional
District of Oklahoma, we weafirm our
alligence to the progressive American
Policies of the Republican Party, un-
der the leadership of the Iron Chancel-
lor of American Politics—Theodore
Roosevelt, and pledge our continued
pport thereof under the leadership
of the world's greatest statesman—
William H. Taft.
2. We congratulate the people on
the nomination of Taft and Sherman
national standard bearers and on
their certain election to rule the des-
tiny of the nation for the next four
years.
We endorse the national Repub-
lican platform of the state of Oklaho-
ma.
4. We endorse the action of the peo-
ple at the late primary in the nomina-
tion o fHon. Bird S. McGuire for con-
gress in the First District. The large
vote for him was an enthusiastic ap-
proval of his splendid work in Con-
gres and an evidence of the certainity
of his election by a large majority in
November.
We approve and commend the
work of Hon. Bird S. McGuire in Con-
gress. The Republican Party sent
him to Washington to get statehood.
He produced it. It brought a mag-
nificent additional endowment of one
million and fifty thousand acres of
land to our educational fund. It
brought five million dollars of a direct
appropriation from the national treas-
ury for the benefit of our public
schools. Through his bill the restric-
tions on 11,000,000 acres of land was
removed thereby equalizing the bur-
dens of taxation and encouraging rap-
id development of the state's unlimited
resources. Through his personal ef-
forts the free delivery rural systems
in Oklahoma affords greater conven-
ience to a larger number of citizens
than that of any other state in the
Union. His prompt and successful pre-
sentation of pension claims and the
passage of bills affording relief in
special cases is a fitting expression of
the deep debt of gratitude which this
and succeeding generations will ever
owe the honored veterans of the Civil
War. , ..
In the successful discharge of the
manifold duties and responsibilities of
the only Republican member In Con-
gress from this state he has demon-
strated a fitness and capacity for el-
fective work in behalf of the people
not surpassed by the oldest and abl-
est member of that body. He passed
more bills during each session of Con-
gress, of which he has been a member,
than any other member. This splen-
did record should insure the support
of all citizens, regardless of politics.
6. We favor for the election of U.
S. Senators by a direct vote of the peo-
' railboad bate legislation
7. Believing that the question,
"What is a reasonable rate. has
within its proper solution a settlement
of the transportation problem, we fa-
vor the immediate enactment of sucn
legislation as may be found necessary
to compel the ascertainment of the
physical valuation of all Ra'lroads do-
ing an inter-state business. We be-
lieve that a reasonable rate shou d be
based upon the cost of service, plus a
fair profit. In fixing the cost of ser-
thereby insuring rapid and convenient
transportation to the farmers, and the
promotion of travel between the people
throughout the several states.
CHANGEABLE DEMOCRATIC ISSI ES
11. Free Silver, Imperilism, Milita-
rism and Government ownership,
which were so recently the democratic
battle cries are no longer in the demo-
cratic platform. While the incapa-
city of the democratic party to dis-
charge the responsibilities of legisla-
tive and executive control of this
government is amply evidenced by its
willingness to espouse any new and
untried theory for temporary support,
it is charged that which is now con-
ceded by the civilized world, as the
greatest and most lasting peace pol-
icy ever carried into execution, as im-
perilism and militarism. It continues
to advocate free trade under the guise
of a tariff for revenue. Aj in 183J, It
has made free trade the paramount is-
sue In this campaign, is a return to
the conditions as they existed be-
tween 1893 and 1897, under democratic
rule, preferable to subsequent condi-
tions under Republican rule? This Is
the paramount question in this cam-
paign, and the Republican party with
the confidence borne of past vicories
and the resulting prosperous condi-
tions, points the citizen to the greatest
markets and highest wages in the
world, which have been created under
the administration of the Republican
Party, as a sufficient answer to the
proposed Free Trade Policy of the
Democratic Party.
The Republican Party guaran-
tees to labor continuous employment
at a remunerative wage and favors the
enactment of such legislation as may
be found necessary to safeguard and
protect the interests of organized la-
bor in all its Just demands.
REPUBLICAN PROMISES
13. We favor the immediate revis-
ion of the tariff to conrorm to existing
changed conditions; so revised, how-
ever, as to protect the American mar-
kets and wages against those of for-
eign countries.
14. We favor free lumber, free wood
pulp, and the adoption of a maximum
and minimum tariff with which to
create still larger markets for our
products. We endorse the appoint-
ment of the joint commission now en-
gaged in securing the necessary data
for revision as a necessary preliminary
stept to that end, thereby insuring
economic and intelligent action by
Congress at its special session to be
called for that purpose.
15. We heartily commend the Con-
gress for legislation, providing im-
prisonment for offenders against the
anti-trust, anti-rebate, and anti-dis-
crimination laws, and we favor the en-
actment of such legislation as may be
necessary to provide for punishment
for all offenders against such laws, and
so far as possible we favor the enact-
ment of such legislation as will hold
responsible the officials of corpora-
tions for the corporate acts that are
in violation of such law.
SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS
16. The Republican Party has stood
consistently for the sale of the school
lands. The Democratic Party pledged
the people in its state platform that
it would enact legislation for the sale
of these lands. It had the governor
and the legislature. This, the most im-
portant legislation to come before the
legislature was neglected until the
night before final adjournment, when
a bill, miserably framed and unjust to
both people and lessees, was passed
by the house—and on the night of
adjournment killed by the senate.
Thus democracy proved its usual
cowardice and untrustworthlness. Mr.
McGuire and a Republican Congress,
provided in the enabling act that these
lands may be sold and we stand for
Immediate sale of them, under the pro-
visions of the enabling act and by
legislation which will give the lessee
the preference right, properly safe-
guard the school funds and be Just to
all Interests.
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