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SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. 46
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 28. I!>n9.
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The Hearst-Haskell
Fight Growing Into
National Limelight
Sensational developments are crowd- superintendent of the public schools,
ing each other In the Hearst-Haskell
fight, a remnant of controversy left ov-
er from the last national campaign.
Last week Governor Haskell seized
the papers of Scott McReynolds,
Hearst's agent, through the sheriff of
Logan county, and got a "look-in" to
delivered to me a photograph from the
rogues' gallery of Detroit, Michigan;
endorsed on the back of the photo-
graph is the written Btatement of W.
D. Ashton, of Greenville, Tenn., a
nephew of Governor Bob Taylor.
"The endorsement in Ashton's hand-
the evidence he had gathered in the j writing says:
last six months. Then came the case "You will recognize it as Scott Mc-
before the County Court Judge Strang Reynolds. He served a term In De-
and the judge took charge of the pa-
pers and let Mr. McReynolds out on
his attorneys bond until the case was
tried. Then the sheriff of Pawnee
county came to Guthrie and arrested
McReynolds on a warrant from the
Judge of the Pawnee district court,
charging him with having attempted
to bribe witnesses to testify against
Governor Haskell. Then Monday, this
troit, Michigan, as Mark Van Hough-
ton, copy of 63. from Rogues' Gallery,
Detroit, Mich."
"Ashton, Prof. Briles and MacRey-
nolds attended college In North Carol-
ina about 1895 and the three were
STATE RETAILERS HOLD
TWO DAYS' SESSION.
Pass Resolutions Asking fur I,ans tu
Insure Credits and Equalize Tax-
ation.
1 OKLAHOMA WILL CAKE
FOR ITS PRISONERS.
They Will Br Brought Back From
Lansing.
The State Retailers' Association
held a two days' session in the city ar.'l
did much good work. The association
was called to order Monday at 11 o'-
clock in the city hall by President A.
O. Farquharson. The welcome ad-
dress was made by Mayor Barnes and
responses were given by Jamas Lob-
sitz, of Perry, and F. E. Harrlng. of
Elk City. President Farquharson made
h
No further attempt will be made to
pass the resolution authorizing the
governor to pardon the short-term
convicts at l.ansing. This was deter-
mined by the state prison board. The
board also announced that plans have
been completed to transfer all the
prisoners to Oklahoma within a week
after the date of the expiration of the
contract with the state of Kansas.
The board places no credence In the
an able annual addiess ar.-l then the report that Warden Haskell of the
program was carried out. j Lansing penitentiary will release some
Judge H. Y. Thompson, of Oklahoma of theconvicts.
City, delivered an m-dress on "The With the completion of the tempor-
1'se and Abuse of Exemption 1*wb," arv penitentiary ht McAlester, 536 con-
whlch brought cut a long discussion, j victs can be accommodated there,
it was generally conceded that too gin which, with the 101) who will be taken
eral exemptions lowered the credit of, tomorrow to the federal Jail at Vinita.
The Parcels Post Sy_ em
Will Be a Death Blow
To the & mil Town
The State Retail Merchants' Association this weei 5- ok action against
the parcels post system, proposed by a bill before c•" ress. While the
gravity of the danger was generally understood, the IImil ; the destruction
to small towns can hardly be comprehended by the avers ^ man. Here is
a striking article in Maxwell's Talisman, a paper devoted to country homes:
"We live in an era of progress. We are moving forward so rapidly
that there is danger that some proposed so-called modern improvements
may be accepted as beneficial which in their actual working out, when
practically tried, would prove to be evils in the guise of benefits. An illus-
tration of this is the proposition to turn the Post-Office Department into a
carrier of all kinds of miscellaneous merchandise by the adoption of the
parcels post system. From a national point of view one of the most serious
dangers from this system is the inevitable effect that It would have, to
throw into mail order channels and transfer to the great cities of the country
a vast volume of trade now done in the small cities, country towns and vil-
lages. That this would be an evil no one with a mind capable of thought
can deny. Stupendous changes in the metiiod of transacting the business
well acquainted,
be in Michigan
Ashton happened to
while MacReynolds j
| the purchasers and made accommodn- i Okla., will include all those now at 0f distributing merchandise to the consumers would result, and the result
g | tlons almost impossible.
, . .. . . ' J. W. McNeal spoke on "Checking
was serving time, obtained the photo- i ,
, , i, i i. . d . 1 on Insufficient Funds ai l the Reme-
graph and mailed it to Professor Briles i ...
dv," and F. B. Llllle on the "Itinerant
I.ansing.
WE DOVT WANT A PARDON.
week, came up the case of the right to who has had the same in his possession
seize McRevnold's papers. The case ! until he gave it to me this morning.
was concjiuded Tuesday afternoon, and] "MacReynolds has also been force!
Judge Strang announced that he would t to admit that he is a fugitive from
make the decision public February 8. justice from Mexico.
McReynolds was represented by Jhdge | "My attention was catted a day or
John Burford and C. B. Ames, Govern- ' two ag9 to the fact that he had left
or Haskell by Henry E. Asp and Frank the Iowa University at Iowa City, Iowa
McGuire. C. B. Ames, of Oklahoma In disgrace a few years ago. I tele-
City, volunteered his services to Mc- graphed the professor at the Iowa
Reynolds, and the arguments on both . university and received from him the j
sides had more than the usual anima- telegram as follows:
tion. j "Scott MacReynolds was a special
And Wednesday afternoon the studen tin the university in 1897-8. „ ™„,.i i„ttin,im.
crowning sensation was sprung when Not eligible for graduation; left here i es ,e no h _
Governor Haskell made public the fol- suddenly and in vile repute."
lowing statement: i "1 have several other statements to
"Scott McReynolds, the special the serious discredit of MacReynolds
Hearst agent, whom I had arrested and will publish them as soon as they
ten days ago for trying to buy false are verified as the above statements
affidavits is the same Scott McRey- are.
nolds, who as Hearst's representative,! "Let us ask that all honest people
traveled through Ohio and Michigan, decide for themselveu—is it a credit
as I am advised, seeing numerous par- to the Interior department and to the
Peddler." Both were sale addresses.
S. C. Heyman spoke on "Credits, De-
sirable and Undesirable."
Resolutions.
The following resolutions were pre-
sented to the association and were un-
animously adopted, including words of
appreciation from the delegates t< 1he
local retailers and their wives for their
| entertainment while here.
Whereas: The Retailers of Okla-
homa desire only a square deal as be-
tween all citizens of our state, and
Therefore: Be it resolved, First,
that we oppose the passage of house
bill No. 6 and favor a law exempting
fifty per cent of the personal earnings
of all persons and allowing garnish-
ment of the remaining fifty per cent
for the necessities of life only, such
tailers.
Third:
by the townsite commission at Mus
kogee, and attempted to scare these employ this class of men to besmirch
witnesses by telling them that because the character of public officials or any
they had never hfd a residence in In- other citizen?
dian territory, they had violated the "They say Haskell is too much of a
law, and unless they could throw the lighter Let me ask every honest cit- e the ippomtment o{ a ..
responsibility on somebody else they izen-Am I to del ver the |eo^ion- n0IH?arttaan tax comalisK,
would be in very serious trouble. est government .tu.u 11 >. u . fourth' That we favor a measure fers to the "Intemperate and vindictive
"This same Scott McReynolds, to state and myself against vicious as-! j I
whose defense the "special interests" sault? Shall I permit the use of such
attorney flew when I caused his arrest contemptible men and measures with-
j of e' ery change would be to transfer trade and population to the great
| cities. It would practically wipe out the jobbing trade and the country
merchant would inevitably become, as the postmaster general says, in effect,
! he has become in Germany, a sales agent without any stock ill
GompeH, Mitchell mid Morrison Will trade, offering specific goods as they are sold, just as a manufacturer's agent
Not Ask Clemency. 1 does In this country, requiring no more of the machinery of trade than is
j necessary to transmit his orders to the central factory or warehouse. Re-
Washington.—"We have not askti tail merchants now engaged in trade in thousands of the smaller trade cen-
and will not ask for clemency, and we I ters j,, an parts of the country would be forced out of business, their stores
hope our friends will not urge us to wouid be closed and some great mail order concern in a big city would do
pursue such a course. To ask pardon tjle business. The people employed to transact it would necessarily live in
would render useless all the trial and tbe cities where the trade was done. In evry European country where the
sacrifice which our men of labor and t parcels post system exists, it has had this effect. The cities of those coun-
our friends in all walks of life have | jrles in Europe have grown in population and trade with stupendous strides,
endured that the rights and liberties of ! Bt t[je expense of the country, since the parcels post system has been in
our people might be restored. Such a ! vogue. That system has undoubtedly been one of the great promoting influ-
pardon would only leave the whole 1 ences towards this centralization of trade and population in the cities.
case in confusion and It would have j To break the effect of this fundamental objection to the parcels post
to be fought over again from the be- the proponents of that scheme urge that it will stimulate the settlement of
ginning." | the rurai regions, because it will increase the conveniences of rural life.
The foregoing Is some of the lan- ! go lt stimulate rural settlement, if the government would furnish
guage used in a statement signed by everyone who would move Into the country with a donation of money and a
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and 1 free gUppiy 0f garden tools. If the huge treasury deficit which would be
Frank Morrison in the current number ' cause(j bv the parcels post system if inaugurated were applied directly to
of the American Federationist in for-! such donations and gifts from the government, it wou'.d undoubtedly result
as clothing, food, and medicine, phy- ] mal protest against the action of ( in creating many new country homes, but the reaction from such a scheme
sician's services, etc. j Justice Wright In sentencing them to j wouId far overbalance the benefits from it.
Second: That we endorse house imprisonment for contempt of court | The tact js incontrovertible that the goods, wares and merchandise,
tools, dry goods and clothing, groceries and all
products not produced on the farm must be purchased from some
raw," that we consider lt vicious legis-. The Right of Free Speech Denied. . source by the dwellers In the country. Where are these goods to come
lation and double taxation to most re-1 Samuel Gompers heads his statement {rora auj where are the people who conduct the trade of supplying them to
ties to whom lots haa been scheduled W*° g^ernmTnf to bi" by Dunn and senat' biU by Blair j In the Buck Stove ana Range case, De- household g00ds. garden
„h repealing the so-calkd "Tax Ferret cember 23. foo(1 pro(]ucts not produ
'Judge Wright's Denial of Free
That we request the Legls-' Speech and Free Press." and he says,
' "wo will not 'bate' a single word or
a lettci back." Mr. Gom;>ers re-
will these attorneys still defend Mc- out exposing them when the truth is
Reynolds when they Know his history. In my hand?
This morning Prof. C. W. Briles, j C. N. HASKELL.
GUTHRIE NOTE CASE REVERSED.
Fort Smith k Western Loses in State
Supreme Court.
In a most important decision the su-
PLATT KEELS NO REGRET.
It's Back to the Express Office fur the
Senate Veteran.
Washington.—Senator Piatt received
preme court by Justice Turner this the news of his effacement from New
morning remanded and reversed the
case of the Fort Smith & Western
against the "bonus note" givers if
Guthrie. The railroad obtained a ver-
dict in the district court of Logan
county.
The suit is entitled the Fort Smith
& Western vs. O. P. Cooper, for the
note made by Cooper, a part of the
$50,000 subscribed by citizens of Guth-
rie five years ago as a bonus to the Ft.
Smith &Western to enter the city. On
this suit depends the payment of the
$50,000 issue of "bonus notes."
In return for the bonus the railroad
■was to enter Guthrie in IS ,months
from February 1, 1902.
The note givers set fhe contention
that the railroad did not comply with
its contract.
An Important point brought out in
Justice Turner's opinion is that for-
eign corporations have a right to sue
in state courts on contracts made in
the state, and that such contracts are
not void because made with foreign
■corporations.
The demurrer ofthe railroad to Coop-
«r'B answer in the lower court alleging
that the notes were fraudulently obtal-
«d was reversed by the ssupreme court
-which held in substance that there
■was enough allegation of fraud, if
proven, to gain Cooper a verdict.
Other points made wis that Cooper,
though not a party to the contract
made by the Guthrie Commercial club,
wes entitled to the time limit provis-
ion of that contract even if such time
limit was not set forth in his note.
Another point in this decision Is that
notes of such character are not void-
abe from public policy.
York politics yesterday without the
bat of an eyelash. The election of El-
ihu Root to succeed him was conveyed
to him in a telegram from Albany,
allowing all incorporated towns and . spirit displayed by the Justice," and to
cities to levy special license on itlncr-1 "this tirade of judicial abuse and mis-
ant merchants, canvassers, peddlers,' reprei">ntatiou" in a separate state-
and also endorse the bill known as an ment
act to regulate vending or peddling.] He 'cins with Mr. Mitchell aid Mr.
live? If the countless millions of dollars expended by the dwellers in the
country for such things in the course of a year are sent to the great cities,
and the goods ordered there from huge mail order concerns, to be delivered
by parcels post, then the fact can not be gainsaid that the people who
transact that immense volume of annual business will lie concentrated In the
cities. The large population now transacting the business In the small
cities, the country towns and the country villages, will he transferred to
the cities. The eventual working out of such a system would result, In the
end, In dividing our population into two classes—those living in the great
-ities and those living on farms, whether they be greater small, in the
etc.. drawn by the druggist association. Morrison in saying they would not country The Intermediate population, which now furnishes the social cen-
Fifth: We request the repeal of "ent=r Into competition with the hon- {er (pr' the farmers' life, in the nearby town or village, or In a small city
chapter No. 75, Article No. 2 known as orable court in the use of invective,! where practically every social advantage can be had that exists in the larger
house bill No. 643 of Session laws of rancor or scathing denunciation," and clt,es wouia struggle for existence against a constantly Increasing indus-
1907-1908.
Sixth: We endorse the action of
the officers of the retailers' association
in establishing an official paper, to be
published and managed by the associ-
ation.
Seventh: We endorse the move-
ment for a central collection agency,
which he received soon after he had tQ be manage,i by the officers of the
entered the Senate chamber. C urious- ajgociation.
ly enough the dispatch was delivered Eighth: That we favor the ap-
to his desk right in the midst of the pointment of a legislative committee
chaplain's invocation. I o{ wbich the president shall be a mem-
Senator Piatt stocd reverently. He ber
always does when the morning prayer j ninth: That we thank the Guthrie
is being delivered. When It was fin- Retaiiers, the wives of the retailers,
Ished he resumed his seat, opened the wholesale houses, mayor and city
envelope telling him of Rooi's election officlaia Qf Guthrie, Guthrie Ladies'
and then listened to what was going on ^borus, Guthrie Men's Chorus, Mrs. B.
in the Senate. Two hours later and F foughlin, Mr. C. C. Robinson, Gov-
long before the session had been fin- ernQr Hagkeu judge H. M. Furman,
ished for the day, he returned to his ani( membera of both houses of the
apartments at the Arlington hotel. legislature and citizens of Guthrie in
general for the many favors and cour-
MARSHALL PREACHER tegies 9hown.
A>SOtTNCES ENGAGEMENT.^ xenth: Resolved that we favor a
that they should protest "against the tr)al fQrce that wouId ten(1 nke a mighty maelstrom, to sweep into the large
court's unprecedented flagellation of ; cltleg year by year a greater and greater proportion of the population and
the cause and of the people we have ' trade Qf {he entlre country.
the honor to represent." u is thls e(fect on the population engaged in commercial pursuits and in
Welcome Additional Contempt. {he trade of attributing to the consumer countless millions of dollars
That the three labor leaders fully worth ot merehandise every year that Is entirely overlooked by the propo-
understand the responsibility they as- nents Qf the parcels post scheme when they contend that the effect of that
system would be to move population from the cities to the country.
LEGISLATIVE GIST.
| good roads law that will encourage
Marshall Tribune. I tbe establishment and building of per-
Elder Shane announced his engage- manent highways in our state.
ment to Miss Bessie Beard from the Eleventh: That copies of these re -
pulplt of the ChrlBtiian church at the olutlons be mailed to the press of the
close of his sermon, Sunday morning. I state. Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
i.i i „ i Speaker of the House of Representa-
He also took occasion to criticise those I J
who had been "talking," saying he had
done everything In his power to please
sume Is shown by their assertion that
even though they may be held in addi-
tional contempt, "we are willing to ac-
cept the consequences. It may be ne-
cessary to the preservation of the lib-
erties of the people that a judge School Land Bill Discussed—Report oil
should be disobeyed. | Valuation of Lands—Other Matters
"Judges sometimes usurp power and
become tyrants. Disobedience to a The governor having made a report
tyrant is obedience to law. When a to the legislature on tne appraisement
judge Issues an injunction like that In of school lands recently made, the
the Buck Stove and Range Company sub-cor. mlttee school rand bill has
it is the judge who defies the law and been brought out and Is being dis-
not the citizens who refuse obedience cussed in the committee of the whole
to his injunction mandates, which 'n the senate. Tbe discussion began
would deprive men or their constitu- Thursday at one o'clock and lasted
tional rights." | until flve without disposing of the first
Defense for Mitchell and Gompers. section. This provides for the sale of
The statement enters Into a close an- all the lands but 16 and 36. Sen.tor
Stafford has a bill waiting to sub-
stitute for lt. which prortdes for giving
them but In the selection of a wife he
would please himself.
He tendered his resignation to take
effect In thirty days, but lt is thought
the disappointed ones will forgive him
before that time anil that he will re-
main- At least this termination Is sin-
cerely hoped for.
PETE JELSMA BOUGHT
THE GUTHRIE HOTEL.
Pete Jelsiua has bought the Guthrie
hotel, on north Second street, and has
fixed it all over again. Mr. Jelsnia
Is one of our most popular aLd reliable
citizens, who has for many years been
In the real estate business. He has a
host of friends In Lugan county and
«11 over the state who will come and
«top with him.
DIDN'T KNOW 'TWAS LOADED.
Marshall Tribune.
The 13-year old son of Wm. Bailey,
living eight miles southwest of Cres-
cent, was shot and instantly killed
last Thursday evening by his ten year
old brother. The father had left a
loaded gun in the kitchen and the
fiovs were playing with it, not knowing
lt was loaded, and the younger boy
pointed lt at hlB brother and the results
were as above noted.
I tives, and membera of both houses of
the legislature and all members of the
Oklahoma Retailers Association.
JOHN GOLOBIE.
S. C. HETMATf.
JAS. LOBSITZ.
R. C. BERRY.
W. F HAMMOND.
Committee on Resolutions
Tuesday evening a social program
was given for the visiting members
and legislators at which Judge Fur-
man made an address, followed by
several members of the legislature.
The Guthrie Ladies' Chorus and Men's
Chorus sang and Mrs. B- F. Coughlin
Mr. C. C. Robinson, gave several de-
lightful solos. A superb buffet lunch-
eon was served by Wm. Rltzhaupt and
Burnett, after which those who de
sired enjoyed an Informal hop to the
music of Prof. Nitschke's orchestra.
Ladles' Reception.
One of the delightful features of the
(Continued on Page Eight.)
alysls of the famous injunction case,
and it is asserted that Mr. Mitchell
was not present at the labor meetings
which directed the circular letters at-
tavklng the Buck Stove and Range
company, and that he did not sign or
have knowledge of Its circulation. It
la asserted that Mr. Gompers removed
thename of the firm from the "we
don't patronize" list as soon as the In-
junction became operative, and had no
intent to defy the order of the court by
its discussion.
the purchaser the right of transfer
and pay taxes and interest, but never
get rid of the mortgage of the state.
Minority leader Clark of the House,
has a comprehensive bill wnlch be will
Introduce in a few days. •
Senate bill No. 182 by Thomas has
been plactd upon its first reading. It
is an act to authorize and empower cit-
ies of the first class, cities, towns or
villages by ordinance to levy and col-
Finally, In conclusion, lt Is said "we lect license tax. In addition to all oth-
are not disrespectful to the courts er taxes, where no provision is con-
when we protest against a wrong de- tatned in the charter of ordinance
clBion, rather are we helping the granting the right to operate tele-
courts to maintain their proper dig- phone, telegraph, gas electric, street
nlty by pointing out when a judge steps
from the path of dignity and right and
Justice."
AN OKLAHOMA SOCIAL LEADER.
Mrs. Bird Mciiulre Widely Known in
the Capital City.
Washington.—Mrs. Bird McGuire,
the wife of Representative McGuire of
Oklahoma, is widely known in social
circles in Washington, "he enter-
tains every week in the New Willard.
Her gowns attract much attention be-
I cause of tuelr taste and elegance.
wars, without regard to which side of
the Civil contest they might have bat-
tled for."
Cunningham had protests of Grand
Army Posts from Okmulgee, Guthrie,
Blackburn, Mulhall, Enid, El Reno, La-
mont. Bartlesville, Hooker, Fairchlld,
Alva, Nashville, Kingfisher, Perkins,
Hobart, Homestead, Lawton, Newkirk,
Tecumseh, Pawnee, Ralston, Muskogee,
Navina, Cherokee, Chickasha, Colvert,
Perry, Tonkawa, Cordell, Merrick, Med-
ford. and Carney.
The present county boundaries ot
the state will practically be made per-
manent If the senate concurs In the
action of Its committee of the whole,
recommended by a vote of 19 to 14
the passage of the Thomas bill repeal-
ing the law passed last year in regard
to procedure for county division and
the creatlonof new counties.
The senate passed the Bryan res-
olution from the house, memorializ-
ing congress to allow the use of the
reclamation fund for drainage as well
as Irrigation, and calling attention to
the fact that Oklahoma had contrib-
uted $4,000,000 from the sale of public
lands to the reclamation fund.
Five bills were finally passed In the
House. They are Wortman's—making
the penalty in convictions for bur-
glary where explosives or flrearma
are used, life imprisonment; White's—
giving attorneys a lien on the cause
of action and prohibiting fraud be-
railway or railway companies or other
public utility by corporations not
owned by the city, expressly waiving __
such tax for -valuable consideration tween attorney and client; Copres
and for other purposes. I repealing the old territorial law al-
Thus again did the valiant soMlers lowing counties to hire auditors o
rend the air with volley after volley, | check up their accounts which may
and from Sumpter to Mobile, and from . be done by the state accountant; Du-
Fort Donaldson to Appomattox the war I rant's—creating a board of veer
of '61-5 was fought to a glorious con- ury examiners and requiring ve er-
cluslon In the senate. The piece de inarlans to be licensed and Wallaces
resistance was a harmless looking —reimbursing State Treasurer . arne
prairie schooner labeled a "BUI to A Menefee for $2,000 which he paid
Provide a Soldiers Home for all Sol- out of his own pocket for pr n
dlers of the Mexican, Civil and later state bonds.
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