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KLAHOMA
EIGHTEEENTH YEAR, NO.
12 GUTHRIE, O K L A., THURSDAY.
A Kansas City Congrega-
tional Preacher Is Against
Prohibition, but Is Strongly
For Temperance
MRS. HASKELL NEAR DEATH
L. 0 0
YEAR.
1 9 0 9.
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'one himikei) hills to become
LAWS VET LI! .11 NE 10.
(The State Register likes to print all
sides of a question; it stirs the read-
ers to thinking. It is no more sate and
sane for men to be buried in their con-
ceit than the soil to be allowed to bake
and crystalize. Both should be stirred
up and subsoiled occasionally. The
following sermons were preached by a
Kansas City Congregational minister,
the first two Sundays ago and the sec-
ond last Sunday, and are taken from
the Kansas City Journal.)
"I wish to speak against prohibition
and in behalf of temperance. I speak
as one who has always practiced total
abstinence and used his influence in
favor of that practice, and always ex-
pects to do so. I have come, through
more than twenty years close study of
ic wreckage of moral distinctions and
the weakened respect for law and for
the justice and temperance of mapori-
ties.
Must Drop Fanatical Bigotry.
"The indispensable problem to any
permanent advance in the temperance
movement lies in implanting these
necessary distinctions of method and
principle in the minds and hearts of
the American people. We must learn
that the method of education and moral
discipline is the only one that ever can
succeed in upbuilding character and
human society.
"We must learn the distinctions
between the sphere of the police and
the sphere of the moral teacher. If
that difference seems abscure to us
Tulsa, Okla—As the result of the ,
, . , . Over 100 acts passed by the last leg.
continued excitement under which she
| Sslature, some of them of gerferal
character and of great importance, will
the question and of intimate experience | now, this fact is but the evidence of
of license, local option and prohibition J the crying need for som * clear thlnk-
methods, to be convinced that we shall
,riot be prepared to deal successfully
With the temperance question until we
have diverted our attention from pro-
hibition and given it up."
Rev. Wallace M. Short thus began
his evening sermon at the Beacon Hill
Congregational church yesterday.
"The prohibition idea must be aban-
has labored during tiie grand jury in
vestigation into the alleged cases of
conspiracy against Governor Haskell
and six other Muskogee citizens, Mrs.
Governor Haskell was seized with a
sudden attack of heart trouble about
3:30 o'clock this morning in her apart-
ments at the Hotel Brady and for a
time it was feared she was dead.
Prompt medical assistance and con-
stant work for about two hours result-
ed in resuscitating her and today she
was pronounced out of danger and
resting easily.
Adjoining the apartments occupied
by Gov. and Mrs. Uar- ell in the hotel,
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Eaton have apart-
ments. About 3:30 o clock this morn-
ing Mrs. Eaton was awakened by hear-
j ing a noice indicating sudden confus-
ion in the Haskell apartments. She at
ones' rushed to the door ai 1 found
Governor Haskell frantically working
over his wife, who was lying stretched
out on the floor aparently dead.
Goveror Haskell had been aroused hy
his wife's strangling gasps and hur-
riedly turning on the electric light was
horrifi d to see her gasping for breath
and apparently near death. Seizing
her from the bed lie had stretched her
out on the floor and was frenziedly
chafing her body to restore circulation
Mr. Katon was sum-
Deposits in State Banks 4 \
Lead Those In Nation&iS
by Tzvo Million Dollars
A.
become effective June 10. Acts not
bearing the emergency clause do not
go into effect until 90 days after the
adjournment of the legislature, the
constitution makers intending that the
delay should give the people an op-
portunity to invok-j tiie referendum j
on any measures they desired. A large (state, with deposits of J40,991,937.31 jstate banking laws.
number of the acts to go into effect .April 28, 1909, against the nationals'! Further comparison of the April 28
are for appropriations for the next two i its of $38,994,193.36, a lead of ap-] reports of both state and national
flscaf" years, and the appropriations proximately $2,000,000. Since the banks shows that the state as a whole
The faport of Bank Commissioner . 28, 1909, 82 days, of $2,966,967.25, or
Young today shows that (he | more than one-half, was brought to
Ok'ahoinu state guaranty banks have the state banks by twenty-eight na-
f)i;ally won in their contest for de- tional banks which converted in tha
posits 'th the national banks of the . 82-day interval and came under tha
ing. If thepeople are to rule, the peo-
ple must think.
"We must get over the fanatical big-
otry which lies in the assumption
that the minority or the people of t'li:
opposite party have no rignts that trie
majority are bound to respect. We
must get over the experience that leads aru* rPV'V(1 '1<r
us to stop our ears to the plea of any nioned and while a messenger was dis-
doned, because it is mistaken in its'man who sees differently from our-j Patched for a physician the three
method, erroneous in Its moral distinc-selves on the assumption that be Is j worked with the unconscious woman,
tlons and unjust in its application," j wholly wicked in his motive and his whose pulse had apparently stopped
continued Mr. Short. | practice. j and who to all appearances was dead.
"In the first place it is mistaken in [ "Temperance can never be built up I But prompt medical attention finally
its method of attempting to build up 1 on intemperance., and loose moral dis- j resuscitated her from the period of
human character and human society., tinctions, and unfair play. When we suspended animation and by dawn she
It is pursuing in its grossest form the. have gotten these implanted, then the j was comfortably restored and resting
mistake of the hermits of the Middle \ way will be clear for the really tem- easily.
ages, who tried to attain righteousness perate and self-controlled society." I This is the first serious attack of
by removing themselves from the sight j Second Sermon. i heart trouble that has occured to Mrs.
and sound and possibility of evil. One „The functlon Qf ^ tQ I Haskell for the past eight year al-
.1 mires t elr earnestness, but weeps eypry man the chance of )ifj Hberty | though she has been troubled with
°r3' | and the pursuit pf happiness. The work • cardiac complaints at various times
A Slim of Decadence. , 0f the gospel is to inspire, guide and o( mc"'e or lf-iS serious nature. About
"Some of these saints of the Middle encourage every man to take and use ! eiSht years ago she was seized with a
ages went so far as to practice self-1 well his change. The boundary line! sudd-n case of heart failure while in
mutilation in the struggle for purity between the spheres of law and gospel the east an,l came near dyirg; but
could ni t become available until July
1, even though the bills carried the
emergent y.
Among the more important laws
that will become effective June 10 mi-
les referendum petitions are filed
against them are: Creating a miner's
lien: prohibiting the scr ening of coal
before weighing; fixing a penalty for
mis-appropfiation of ^public funds or
the interest on them; offering state re-
wards of $H0 for the arrest of horse or
mule theives: the Franklin child labor
law; the bill for the sale of the school
lands; amendments to the tax ferret
law passed by the first legislature, pro-
viding that the ferrets shall not go
back of statehood in digging up prop-
erty that has escaped taxation; Keyes
game law; the uniform negotiable in-
strument law; requiring foreign cor-
porations to maintain resident state
agents at the seat of government;
juvenile court law; general primary
and general election laws; and the
law preventing the issuing of script as
pay for labor by corporations.
I^aws of a miscellaneous character
are: authorizing county commissioners
to appropriate $300 for county insti-
state guaranty law went into effect now has deposits of $79,986,130.67 of
the state banks show an increase In
individual d-posits from $18,032,284.9!
February 29, 1909, to $40,991,937.31 on
April 28, 1909, a total increase of ap-
roximately $23,000,000 in 14 months.
During the same length of time the
national banks show an increase of
$651,339, giving the state banks a gain
over the national banks in a little
more than a year of approximately
$22,350,000.
The report shows an increase in in-
dividual deposits of state guaranty
banks from February 5, 1909, to April
which $5,110,250.76 was the gain of tha
82 days preceding the report. This
represents an approximate of $3.10
per capita for the 1,600,000 Oklaho-
mans gained in bank deposits during
the last 82 daysfi or a total per capital
average of $50 plus for every man,
woman and child in the state in the
banks at the present time.
The report shows there now to bo
611 state banks. National banks have
decreased to 242; 14 months ago there
were 309 national banks and only 470
state banks.
itOOSEVELT ('APTURE8
FORBEAR OF MAN!
Mombasa, May 25.—(Very Special.) —
Again has a rumor come breathlessly
from ITairobi with a startling dispatch
announcing that now Col. Roosevelt
has secured what is evidently the only
surviving specimen of the true ancestor
of man, the Pithecanthropis Alalus. It
It was captured by Col. Roosevelt him-
self.
The Pithecanthropis Alalus was
Pushed in the high grass of the Walla-
tute awards; fixing a .penalty for mis- j lall piateau. Just as one of his party
representing fruit trees and shrubs was drawing a bead on it to shoot it
while selling them; repealing law per- I as a species of dwarf antropoid ape, it
mitting county commissioners to em- j gave the high sign to Col. Roosevelt,
ploy expert accountants; authorizing j who quietly dismounted from his pon-
pensions for disabled firemen; creating Lho ail(] snatched it up in time to save
state airy commissi.™ under direction it8 ufe it js still in its infancy, age
of board of agriculture; governing the [ estimated at about 11 years. No trace
practice of pharmacy; making disposi- of jtg parents was discovered, they evi-
tion pf liquor to minor or person of dently having fallen prey to lions, and
unsontd mind a felony; authorizing was living on cocoanut milk and co-
and spiritual power. The whol3 meth- —that is, personal liberty is the best since tllat time has had comparatively land commissioners to sell public lands coanut butter. Col. Roosevelt adopted
«d works upon the line of spiritual defined line in the field oi the philos- trouble.
emasculation rather than upon the ophy of human rights. American in-'
H"!rhl "™U.f 'aTv, 1 , 4 ' ""otions have undertaken before the | stFKRAG18TS OF OKLAHOMA
The average. American being too world to define it in practice. The pro- i
busy in his pursuit of money and pi as- hibition army is the most conspicuous I
ore to take the trouble to discipline attempt of modern times to capture I
himself or train the .rising generation | and hold the field of the gospel with, Petitions are being circulated
ASK ONE MORE CHANCE.
m the true principles of life, has fall- the cohorts of law." I throughout Oklahoma by, woman stiff-
en baek upon the easy looking method | Thig was the opening statement ragists. and also%y Socialists, calling
of enactment of many laws, and the re- made by Rev. Wallace M. Short in his ' upon Governor Haskell to issue a
liance upon multitudes of policemen, sermon at the Beacon Hill .Congrega- proclamation for the people to vote
.The world has never been helped any tional church last evening. I upon an amendment to the stat-> con-
1)y that method. It is the sign of a de- , "The prohibition and anti-saloon stitution which will give women the
oadent, moral and spiritual force. movements have been promulgat-d and right to vote in tills state. As the re-
"We need to spend time and effort manned largely by ministers who have cent legislature voted down an at-
to ma.ie clear to the American peo- wearied of their ministry, as every tempt to install woman suffrage, it is
pie the d.stinctlon between the sphere preacher must when the element cf necessary to initiate such a constitu-
of government, and the sphere of moral the go&pel has grown dim in his think- j tional amendment. The women who
education. The business of govern- jng," continued Mr. Short. "A move-1 are backing the initiative movement
nient is to preserve the person and raent to compel men to adopt the hab- | pexect to secure 40,000 signers, and
property of men inviolate. It should its 'I' think gocd for them is then the to have them filed with the secretary
give every man a chance of life, lib- ligical step. of state by June 12.
erty and the pursuit of happiness. j "As soon as a parent has lost the
"But in the matter of personal habits patience and faith that enable him to
the educational influences are supreme, shine upon his child with the compel-
The home, the school, the church and ]ing grace of reason, fellowship and
public sentiment are the forces that love, he adopts the compulsion that
make character. Just in proportion ends in wrangling, reaction and r-bel-
aa we place, reliance upon law and the Hon. This is where the church stands
police we shall fail in the sphere of today, just so far as it has allowed it- ! Rarrett secretary of the state board of
education and moral influence and that self to be led into the adnntlnn „r HdrrPtt 8ecrPta>y the state hoard ot
failnro i,,, 1, f , , . e a<Joption of the jagricuiture, the board will urge that
failure has always been fatal and prohibition movement as itn hittip it .
. . • onioiiion movement as its battle. It tjie niatter of protecting th? birds of
. ; ia to ke ^earcil Just where state be discussed at each of the
I mast and Mo.aiiy Wrong. th- thurch actually does stand today nunfv ,nsUtute meetings. Mr. Jamls-
"Prohibition is unjust and moralty with reference to gr.,.-.- masses of ourjon.s letter to the board says in part:
wrong in its application. For the bare People.
majority of men to vote a thing crim-1 Where St. Paul Stood.
inal that is not criminal, and then treat " 'The battle is on between the
the other half of society as criminal church and thejiquor traffic,' says an
can only b^get contempt for laws thus ex-minister superintendent of the Anti-
enacted. It is a tyranny worse than Saloon league. Which is only another
the tyranny qf ancient kings. It lriv.-s waV of saying that the church has fall-
many men under the sting of injus- len to wrangling with the people who
tice and wrong to become lawbreakers resist the invasion of the sphere of
from principle. ' gospel with armed forces. Paul took
"Society has no right to take {he his r.tapd Prmly at the point, and s iid
tiln« men who drink their beer as tem- t no man therefore judge yoi in
perat-ly as their neighbors dring their mi'-', or .n i'nnk. o- in' r «tpec; of ,i
■coffee and brand them as criminals fast lay. * * * I.et nc> mvi rob you
because tha tenth man Is intemperate of your prize—of Christian liberty.'
in iiis drinking. And there Is just as 'r° quote further from my prohlbi-
much Justice' in branding every man tion friend, 'The welfare of all the peo-
who eats because on -half of mankind l>'e is the end of government. * * * The
are intenvperate in their eating. | highest well being of all the people
"Society has no right to treat the niust be maintained at all hazards, if
occupations and property of a consid- government is to perform its functions.'
erable class of men as a football to be This is only another way of saying
kicked here and there hy the whims of that if 'I' think a habit is good for all
public opinion. In many a city Where] the people, then instead of believing
the license and no license forces are ' in it and living it and letting my light
closel y matched, a man pursues one j shine, 1 must abandon the torch of the
year hti peace the occupation and us 'gospel and take up the cudgel of the
of his property and his trade, and the' law.
next year must lose both or pursue! "The Almighty gavo me a reason and
them as an outlaw. Any man who be- a conslcence. Human liberty has so
lieves that principle in the end must far rdvnnced that every man ought
pr vail cannot but /(now that every ( uow in America to have his right to (fe
prohibition wave will have its receed- and liberty just so far as he does not
ing tide and will leave behind a chaot-' (Continued on Page 4.)
PROTECTION KOK It ll< I IS
In response to a request of J. C.
Jamison, president of the Oklahoma
Audubon society, addressed to ('has.
"It has been asserted and not contro-
verted by the government's chief ento-
mologists, that the yearly loss to the
crops in the United States from the
ravages of insects exceed $800,000,000
and were it not for the birds that hold
these pests in check the loss annually
would be more than double that esti-
mate. What I would like to see the
department do in the Interest of protec-
tion Is to have It officially urged upon
the institutes to make bird protection
a topic of discussion at their meetings
In order that the people generally may
be educated as to the economic value
of our wild birds in their delation to
the family Interests."
MANNEH OF LOCATING AGKK'l'L-
TUBAL SCHOOLS.
quainted. Nearly two years ago while
she was working in the wrapping de-
partment of a Chicago soap manufac-
turing plant. Miss Henderson and two
other girls on a dare wrote their names
on slips of paper and wrapped them
in with cakes of soap.
Two months later Florence received
her first letter from McCauley. When
she went to Oklahoma she continuod
the correspondence. Photographs
were exchanged and the final wind-up
of the affair was planned two weeks
ago. They were to meet in Kansas
City in the regulation "matrimonial
bureau" manner.
The girl had but $5 In her purse
when she arrived, having spent the
lest of her savings for her wedding
dresses. Mrs. Everingham made up
the balance from her "emergency
fund" and bought her a ticket back to
Enid. Miss Henderson left last night
over the Rock Island at 8:20 o'clock,
resolved never again to place confi-
dence with a man until she can meet
f-T tjwasites; requiring option gin- it atl.j jH rearing It with giraffe's milk j to face and talk It over first,
ners to maki? semiannual reports from a bottle, witli the intention of tak- McCauley describes himself in a let-
under oath; for state board to examine jng it home alive to the Smithsonian ' ter to the girl as being five feet 11
and register nurses; providing rail- institution. The creature is very intel-J inches in height, w .g:it 170 pounds,
roads chartered before statehood shall jjgent, and has a simplified language j dark hair and completion, smooth
be required to pay incorporation fees 0f its own which its captor is rapidly shaven. Miss Henderson said the
only on part of line in Oklahoma. i learning, and very likely he will soon man she believed to be her fiance
be able to elicit from it something of wore a suit of light yiy clothes and
PRISONERS IN STATE 1VSTITU- |ts history. The natives have affection-
TIONS WELL CARED KOK ately name it Bwanna Gink or "l.ittle
McAlester, Okla.—The prisoners of Master."
the state of Oklahoma are without a Bwanna Gink, needless to state, has
doubt the most contented s~t of men become a general favorite in camp,
under confinement to be found any Col. Roosevelt promises to writ1 $760,-
place within the bounds of the United *** wortfi of books about it, and feels
States, and are being treated as un- fv at this find alone amply relays him
fortunates rather than convicts. tor bravihg the dangers of interior
All told, ther "are'907 convicts in AMca.
the state. 135 of w,hom are at Vinita 2'
and the remainder at McAlester.'"iiose vntlMi GIKI/S M VIL
at McAlester are confined at the form- OKDEK ROMANCE FLED.
er federal prison in the city and at
the stockade where the work of build- j (Kansas City Journal.)
ing the state penitentiary Is under- Florence Henderson came to
way. At the federal jail the men are Kansas city from Enid, Okla., yester-
aiiowed more liberty than is ever (jay morntng sile Was a firm believer in
seen in a prison and are permitted to fidelity anil constancy of mankind,
converse with visitors and with one an- but h r i1Pijef received a severe shock
other. Only the fnsubordlnates wear ,iater In the day, when, she believes, the
the stripes, the others being dressed man she mas to meet ,il(1 marry turned
in gray suits. The clothing is clean on heei an(j the moment he
and w^U made. Every department of taifl yes on her.
the buildings are kept clean and in aj Harr(s McCauley of Omaha was to
sanitary condition and give ev dence , mHPt M:ss Henderson at the Union de-
a black derby hat.
Miss Henderson is blonde and good
looking. She was dressed in white,
ready for the ceremony,
1'HE ST.
LOUIS BOOSTERS
STRUCK CAPITAL C1TV.
In order to expedite the matter the
commission named by law to locate the
various district agricultural schools,
has divided up the work. President
Conneil of the A. & M. Coll-ge at Still-
water, will pass on the claims of Shaw-
nee-Tec umseh.
President Connors of the board of
agriculture takes the third district:
Superintendent Cameron of the fourth
district; President Conneil the fifth
district.
of careful attention on the part of the
warden, R. W. Dick, and his excellent
staff of assistants. There are v ry
few cases of sickness among the prls-
on«rs. They are well fed and well
ar d for in every respect.
pot yesterday, she said, armed with all
the credentials attendant upon the per-
formance of a marriage ceremony.
I.ate in the afternoon MiS3 Hender-
son sought Mrs. Ollie Everingham. ma-
tron at the depot, and unfolded her
At the stockad . two miles west of Htory of the unfaithfulness of man.
►he city, the work of grading the site
for the penitentiary building Is prog-
ressing rapidly. The building will
■itar 1 on an elevation overlooking the
city and will cfiver nine acres of
ground. It will be built of native sand
ston and concrete and will be one of
the most modern equipped prisons in
the United States.
The state has twelve hundred acres
of land for prison purposes, which
will be devottd to tile prison farm and
to the mill s. A shaft has already
been started on the land and coal is
being mined for use at the prison.
The farm is being worked and every-
thing is in fine condition. There Is no
water cure In the Oklahoma prison and
with few exceutlons the prisoners are
orderly and well behavfd.
Oklahoma Is trying an experiment In
irison management which will be an
>bject 1 sson to all other states.
Whether or not It will prove successful
time alone will prove, but no one can
make a visit to McAlester and not
come away a strong advocate of the
principles in effect.
"He was to weat- a ping carnation in
his buttonhole, and I had a white on?
"n my coat," she said tearfully. "There
were so many with flowers in their
buttonholes that I ha. lly knew which
one was Harris. Of course 1 had his
photograph, but then one one uev< r can
go eiurli bv them.
"When I did see a man that resem-
I'e'.i and seemed to fill his description,
I started to go for him, and when I was
almost within ten feet, he looked
directly at me for a moment, then turn-
ed and hurried up the stairs. I was
so taken back that I could have cried
out and I did not dare to follow him. I
am sure that it was Harris."
The matron tried to comfort ^he dis-
traught young woman, and' succeeded
in convincing her thai her liest plan
vould lie to go back home anil forget
,e young man.
"After all ibis time, and all the
things he told me In his letters, ti
' linn he would tr;at me like this."
walled Florence.
Then she told of tue circumstance
under which they had become ac-
With Seymour's military band to lead
them, badges, buttons and souvenirs
to distribute along their line of march,
end a glad hand for every one, the St.
l.ouis boosters, one hundred strong, ar-
rived in the city Mouday morning and
were the guests of the city of Guthrie
for two hours.
The party arrived at 11 a. m. from
Oklahoma City, where they spent Sun-
day. and were in t by the Guthrie
Chamber of Commerce at the Santa Fe
station and the visitors, escorted by
the Guthrie Chamb.r of Commerce,
headed by F. B. Lillle arid the band,
marched up Oklahoma avenue to Uroad
street, south on Broud street to Harri-
son avenue and west on Harrison t
Second street, north on Second street
ti the city lilal where they were given
an informal reception.
J W. McNeal was chairman of the
reception committee and in a short
spe ch iuti oduied Mayor l"ar jubarson
who delivered the address of welcome.
The response was made by Henry T.
Xenti former pres lent of the St. Ixiuis
Civic League, and W. H. O'Brien of the
American Life Insurance company.
Following Mr. O'Brien. Galen Crow
and Jno. Goloble made addresses which
were well received, after which the
boosters adjourned to take a trolly ride
over the city, the rain having spoiled
the auto r.ie which was planned for
them.
John Furrow'shower-'d the St. Ixiuis-
ana with flowers, sending to their traii^
almost 200 carnations. The train waa
just leaving and the men did not get a
chance to thank the donor, but he warn
not forgotten as the following telegram
will show:
"Shawnee. Okla.. May 24.Furrow A
"o„ Guthri-: Accept sincerest thanks
from luterstate Merchants' Association
of St 1 vouIs for the beautiful carna-
tions. They are appropriate tribute oT
the great state of Oklahoma and its
capital, Guthrie.
"JAS. F. COYLE, Ch'm."
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