The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 14.
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NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1905
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Real Estate Tranfers.
NUMBER 6
In the year 1886 I insured my life i — —
in the Equitable Life Assurance 'midnight deal, the bonds ot the Uni-
Society of • New York. Judging- byited States at a scandalously low
the evidence which an outsider was i figure on a contract draw by his law
allowed to know, it appeared to be
just as safe and as sound and as
strong as its prospectus and its
agents claimed it to be.
At that time 1 was a young lawyer
without fixed income. I was doing a
good practice, but my revenue de-
pended upon the continuance of my
good health. Had I been stricken
down by sickness my income would
have been at once cut off. Had
death overtaken me my family would
have been left without adequate
means ot support.
Therefore, to safeguard those I
loved best against misfortune, I in-
sured my life for $5,000 in the Equit-
able, paying a premium of 1113.50.
For eighteen years I have annually
paid that sum to keep the policy in
force.
During the entire period I believed
that I had a first-clas9 investment,
and that, to the extent of the policy,
my family was absolutely protected
against any providential mishap
which might befall me.
After I had paid about fourteen
premiums on this policy I tried to
borrow some money on it from the
company. I was unable to do so. I
thought it very strange that the
Equitable would not lend one of its
own policyholders a small amount of
money on its own security and at 8
per cent, interest.
Now, however, I know the reason
why.
The whole world knows that a gang
of speculative thieves and embezzlers
has been in control of the vast re-
sources of that company which I, in
part, helped to enrich.
They have been lending their
money to speculative syndicates and
investing it in doubtful securities,
taking commissions to themselves for
misappropriating the money which
was a sacred trust fund.
Under the terms of my policy,
which matures in October, 1006, I am
entitled to a share of the surplus
which the company has gained dur-
ing all the years in which I have been
paying premiums.
What has become of that surplus?
It has been squandered in the most
shameless a«d criminal extravagance.
It has been lavished on bacchanalian
feats which were charged up to me
and to the other 600,000 policyholders
in the company.
Twenty-thousand-dollar rugs, chairs
that cost two thousand dollars each,
have been put into the offices at our
expensee.
Enormous salaries have teen paid j dividend
to fisrureheads and dummies who did ! capital.
partner, Francis Lynde Stetson?
The same Grover Cleveland who
befouled himself in that midnight
deal by which the people of the
United States were robbed, will not
hestitate to prostitute his opportun-
ity again to give those who control
100 00
800 00
D L Larsh to Sarah L McCoy
lots 21-22 23-24, block 6
Larsh's 1st Add Norman ....
Caswell M Klutts to Corria Z
Abbott lets 24 25-26 27 block
50 Norman
Melvin A Conn to Thomas F
Gordon blocks 66-67 74 75,
lots 1 to 28 3 68 Noble, half
him the same advantages over the interest in part NEi 34-8-2
Equitable treasury which he gave to j west 1750 00
his former pals over the Treasury of CCHazentoJ W Marcum &
Compiled by Oklahoma Farm Mortgage Co..
Successor to The Andrew Kingkade Com-
pany, Norman, Oklahoma.
the United States.
The situation is sickening.
Six hundred thousand policyholders
whose hard-earned money has rolled
in for generations to make up the
huge assets of the Equitable, must sit
and hold thtir hands while these mar-1 Ra]ph ELeavitt to Chickasaw
W R Bandy third interest
lot 3, block 55 Lexington.. 1000 00
Chickasaw Nat. Bank to J A
Northcutt et al lot 16 block
54 Lexington 3400 00
auding scoundrels make successive
inroads upon that surplus which, by
law and by contract, belongs in part
to us all,
Reader, if you have money to in-
vest, throw it into the fire rather
than put it into one of the old line
life insurance companies.
The situation which a falling out
among the thieves exposed in the
Equitable is, in all probability, the
same in the other life insurance
companies.
Their accumulated surplus and cash
assets are the spoil for which greedy
gangs of speculators contend, and it
is simply a question of who gets con-
trol. In the one case it is Morgan,
Nat. Bank, lot 16, block 54
Lexington 4000 00
Frank Lewis to Frank Beier-
schmidtlots 1-2 and Ni of
SW} 26-10 4 west 2300 00
Lycargus to A J Jennings swi
of nei 20 10 4 west
George W Miller to David R
Boyd lots 1 to 5 18-19 block
14 Classen-Miller Add. to
Norman
Eva G Herrick et al to John J
Burke lots 8 and 9, block 84
Norman 1
Albert Stickel to Harry G
Lindsay lots 24 and 25 block
200 00
600 00
475 00
Additional Local,
16 Norman
in another it is Gauld, in another it j O H Edwards to Mrs. Dale
isHarriman, in another it is Ryan.
It is merely a question of which of
the competitors outstrips the others
in getting his clutches upon the in-
surance money—using it for his own
private purposes.
The time has been when money
paid on a life insurance policy was an
investment. It is no longer so.
Life insurance now is little better
than a game of chance, and you
would be almost safe in putting your !
earnings in cotton futures as to put j Electric Inter-urban Railroad,
them in a life insurance policy in one I Last Thursday night a special
of the old line companies.—Tom Wat- j meeting of citizens was held in the
son's Magazine. Norman Commercial Club rooms to
~ " discuss the Inter-urban Electric lliil-
Government Ownership r0ad proposition. Work on this pro-
Government ownership would ac- 1 posed line from Oklahoma City to Sul
190 00
Bonde north 50 feet of lot
20 and 20i Elmwood 800 00
J W Linton to Jennie Fisher
lot 3 block 1 Colley's 2nd add \
to Norman. 50*00
M Turner to C A Bra4jebill
nisei 22-9-2 west...., 1500 00
John J William to Mrs Alice
Richardson lots 23 and 24
block 14 Moore 250 00
bieve many public blessings:
phur has seemingly taken 011 new
nothing to earn our money. A soci-
ety dude, James Hazen Hyde, has
plundered us of $100,00 per year.
A sleek old Oily Gammon, named
Chauncey Depew, has been paid
$25,000 per year, and hasn't turned a
hand to honestly earn it.
Right and left, front and rear, the
policyholders have been robbed until
the surplus, once a king's ransom, has
dwindled to the vanishing point.
And now, at the last moment, what
is the situation?
A stronger wrestler than all the
other wrestlers has dashed into the
It woula eliminate rebates and un- | life and company now say thatactua.
fair discriminations. I work on construction on line will be
It would thus remove the foutida started by Septemb-r 1st. 'i he line
tions from many of the trusts. is now proposed to be run out of Okla-
It would eliminate the waste of so- | homa City south down through the
liciting business. ten mile Hat 10 a point due west of
It would eliminate further waste j Norman about four mi'es From this
by consolidation. • | point line wiil be run into Norman
It would eliminate still further : from west or pass Norman a short
waste by eliminating private profits, ' distance southwest of University.
and interest on watered j The promoters of road met with the
| citizens of Norman and submitted
It would eliminate still further i proposition to strike Norman on west
waste by cutting off lobbyists, polit- and come through city to best ad-
ical heelers, corruption funds, free j vantage to city provided city would
transportation and h thousand and ■ give them franchise through city,
one kindred items. 1 depot and termeua's and secure five
It would, therefore, reduce freight miles of right of way south of city
and passenger rates. 1 and take $25,000 worth of stock in
It would take the railroads out of ] road same to be paid when cars were
running into Norman from Oklahoma
politics.
It would remove a prolific source of
j corruption from our public life.
, It would do away with railroad
| strikes.
1 It would save the lives of passeng-
ers and employees by diminishing the
City. This proposition of company
was not acted upon favorably by
citizens of Norman but they appoint-
ed a committee to confer with mem-
bers of company and company later
That Circular.
"Evil loves darkness and shuns the
I'fht and fleeth when 110 man pur-
sueth." Sometime between sundown
and dawn last Thursday a circular
was scattered through the streets of
Norman headed "Some Questions We
Would Like the City Council to
Answer and signed by the phrase
"The People of Norman". There
were sixteen questions asked in cir-
cular fifteen of which to say the,
least, were foolish and malicious and j Oklahoma *, ity Thursday
intended for the purpose of impuning Abe Foster was a bu-inc
the honesty of the members of the to Oklahoma City Thursd ,
city council in relation to the dis-
charge of their duties as city offi-
cials.
The answer to twelfth question is,
yes, and the present city council is
no more responsible for doing so than
the man in the moon. Tbey are
simply complying with the terms of a
contract entered into by a previous
city coucil, and which they have not
the power to advocate or set aside
and to which contract this paper
called the people of Norman's atten-
tion, at time it was entered into and
which to our surprise they did not
rise up and stamp the life out of at
time of its birth. That was the op-
portune time to kick city council. It
Is now the opportune time for the
People of Norman to kick themselves
in the quietude of their own wood-
sheds on this proposition of paying
for water pumped out of well belong-
ing to city. In fact the answer to
everyone of the sixteen questions can
be had by any one wishing to know by
a personal investigation of the affairs ^'rsliy t'hTcomin
of the city and without asking a
single question of city council. If we
desired to attack the city council we
would make the iuves igation and if
jve found that council was acting cor-
ruptly we would say so and cite in-
stances of corruptness, and put the
council on the defensive. If there is
any member of the city council h iv-
ing his weeds cut at city's expense we
would point him and amount it cost
to cut weeds. If we wanted members
of city council to take a walk through
park \y:th us in order to call atten-
tion to needs of pnrk we would invite
them to accompany us in order that
we might impart to them sugges-
tions..
Street Commissioner Shelton is paid
by city for his work and property
owners pay for weeds lie cuts on their
property and if property owners don't
like way Billy tops weeds on their
premises they can have them cut by
some one else and city would much
prefer that they should and the fact
that property owners may think it | ^ partial eclipse of the mmn,
costs too much to have street com-1 P'ainly visible to the naked eye and
missioner cut the weeds 011 their
premises is just the imp ession city
council would like to have made on
property owners and probably ex-
plains why Billy uses a scythe instead
of a Mattock in clearing weels off of
lots where owners have failed to do
so. We have not much doubt but if
city would cut weeds cheaper than
property owners could have them cut
by anyone else, the city would have
all the weeds to cut.
We have no doubt but George
Giles' old white mule would feel in
strange company seated as a member
of the present city council: but feel
perfectly at home and at ease in com-
pany with writer circular. Don't
know that we should have noticed
circular had <ame been printed in
Norman; but tb • fact that job would
I'm Smith was in Oklahoma City
Thursday.
J. M. Fox of Sapulpa visited home
folks last week.
Dr. Kate Harris was visitor to Ok-
lahoma ( ity Thursday.
D. R, Boyd made a business trip to
visitor
ihoina City Thursd iy.
Mrs Mizabeth Hess returned last
week from her visit in Colorado.
Misses Dora and Bessie Kelley, of
Moore visited in Norman last week.
John Bowen, of Ardmore spent
Sunday with his relatives in this city.
E. Duffy of Lexington was transact-
ing business in Norman Wedneday.
J. M. Klinglesmith left Thursday
morning for Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Chas. Long has been employed to
teach in the Lexington schools the
coming year.
Frank Essex went to Denver, Co o.,
Thursday. He expects to he gone a
week or ten days.
Mrs. D. Kennedy a sister of J. t'.
Dowd was in the city this week visit-
ing her brother.
Miss Mollie Pyles left Thursday
for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. G VV.
Cotney at Lawton.
Miss Ida Grant of Canadian county
arrived last week to attend the Uni-
year.
Mrs. M. F D. Cain returned last
week from Pauls Valley to her prop-
erty near the University.
Mrs. Dora Frye and children came
home last week after an extended
visit with relatives in Missouri.
Master Georgie Bowen returned
last week from Guthrie after a
months visit with his brother Gar-
rison.
Mrs H P. Alden and son Vern left
Th ursday morni ng for Si loam Springs
Arkansas, for a two weeks visit with
friends.
While the millionaire is making
money in wheat his son is often blow-
ing it in on wild oats.—Tom Watson's
Magazine.
Mr. and Mrs. M M West of Bris-
tow, I. T., returned to their home
Thursday morning after a short visit
in this city with Mrs. West's brother,
J. C. D.iwd.
of the
lasting from 8:30 to 10 o'clock, was
witnessed by many peop'e in Nor-
man Monday evening.
The Norman baseball team is in
Wynnewood this week playing a
series of three games of ball. Tues-
day the scoi -2 stood 9 to 4 in favor of
Wynnewood and Wednesday's sc >re
was 4 to 1 in favor of Norman.
Gave Bad Advice
Oklahoma City, Okla., August 16 -
Some attorney, although his name is
not intimated by the c urt or otlie. -,
is liable to get into serious trouble
should the confession of William
Jones, who was sent ti tin- insa.e
asylum at Norman, avail, June-- had
been in jail awaiting trial on the
charge of incest. Suddenly he-bow-
ed svmptoms of dementia, and was
ring, and Thomas F. Ryan, the very ' numberof wrecks.
embodiment of commercial greed and j These and m other advant
heartlessness, has gobbled up the : would come just a„ th h
whole thing, and the assets, which in other lands that have adopted the
w -—t—j .«vw juu "uum uu iii[uuiuij 01 uciiicniia, ana was
agreed to cut down amount of stock j seem to have been printed elsewhere j taken before the insanity board of
to be subscribed to $12,500. On Fri- suggests the idea that Author of the countv and immediately adiudired
idea that Author of
patro lizar of D;part-
spending his money
belong to us policy-holders, are to be
used in furthering the private
schemes and ventures of the corpora-
tion boss of New York City.
What matters it to me that a ras-
cally pirate like Ryan should cloak
designs behind the swollen propor-
tions of Grover Cleveland?
What does it matter except more
salaries to dummies who do not earn
them?
What confidence can be put in a
man like Grover Cleveland when we _
know that he prostituted his oppor- ' by Rev, Maxwell Phillips at hi
tunitiesas President of the United j sidence in Denver. There
to be subscribed to $12,500. On Fri- j suggests the
day night citizens again turned down Ulircular is a
this proposition believing company \ ment stores
was asking too much. juutsideof city and doing what he
The committee on behalf of the ' can to discourage home enterprise of
citizens of Norman was continued and j all kinds
we hope to see matters arranged so !
as to secure road to enter Norman in j Three insane men were taken to
a manner to liking of company and .he Norman sanitarium from this city ; advised to do .-0 by
citizens of Norman. We can't help Monday. G. A. Melton, aged 57, who order to escape going to the peniten-
but think road would be a good thing has been residing on California ; tiary. The olllcials there of course
for Norman and Norman one of the j Avenue for three years past and who [ refused to accept the prisoner and
I best cities on line for company. To has a wife and sou here, is a HI ic ted notified the ollicials here what Jones
wee J* -ate Judge Sliarpe to j get road into city from west however I with senile dementia. Albert Pierce, , had done He will be brought back
,.a ' „ Ja'" ^' 0 *''u.1 r anC* f w'" be a much harder proposition to aged 36, who came to this city six tomorrow and will have to stand trial
Kitty M. Rowland of Norman. The Norman citizens than had road come'—-'"* ' - I'--" ■- ->
marriage ceremony was performed j along line of former survey, entering
system
Under continued private ownership,
what? Well, we know what we have,
and there is 110 immediate prospect
of improvement.—J. A. Edgerton, in
August Tom Watson's.
Marriage License Issued,
A marriage license was issued this
■ county and immediately adjudged
insane. He was taken to the asylum.
But when it come to the final test
before a board o£ experts who had
bad experience in 111 .:rIy all kinds of
insanity, he could not stand the tes',
and confessed, it is alleged that he
was shamming, md that he had been
his attorney in
States to enrich his law clients, J. P. much doing in
Morgan & Co , by giving them, - '
re-
not
Norman from north.
marriage
a these days—too hot.
licenses .Miss Eva King, of Cement, Okla ,
j is visiting friends here this week.
weeks ago from Nebraska, is a par-j for the crime of which he is charged,
aneaie. C. G. Jones, who was a pris- : It is not known whether anything
oner in the county jail, charged with ] will be done with the man's attorney,
incest, was declared insane by the I In some places such
county sanitary board. No details.
(Tuesday) Okiahoman.
, ____ proceeding
j would mean his disbarment from
practice in any court.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1905, newspaper, August 18, 1905; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117905/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.