The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1907 Page: 8 of 10
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COUNTY SEATS FINALLY
LOCATED IN NEW STATE
harper county alone unsettled because it has no town
—proposition before convention providing for offi.
cial terms of state offices-other matters consid-
ered
OUTIIIE: In a hard fought hnttlA at-
tended with many sensational features
temporary county seats were finally lo-
cated In seventy-four of the seventy-Jilve
counties of Oklahoma by the constitu-
tional convention and a report was also
adopted that makes It possible In both the
new and old counties In the state to re-
move the temporary location upon a ma-
jority vote In favor of a contesting: town
unless the temporary seat Is within six
inlles of the geographical center of the
county, when It requires a sixty per cent
vote.
The only county seat passed up was
Buffalo, In Harper county, which Is
claimed to be only a prairie and is under
Investigation by a special committee. The
conests were exceedingly warm In Mo-
man, Wagoner and Beckham counties.
Sapulpa, backed by three members of the
county boundaries committee and the la-
bor unions, won over Bristow in Moman
county, although Bristow was first desig-
nated by the committee. The vote was
< to 24, In favor of Sapulpa.
A dramatic Incldant In the proceedings
GUTHRIE: Alarmed at Inroads made
by Insurgents on the slate report of the
county boundaries committee locating
county seats temporarily, the organlza-
occurred when the convention adopted a tlnn forces Thursday afternoon succeed
The governor Is to fill vacancies In
state and county offices and the county
commissioners shall fill vacancies In town
ship offices. It was referred to the com-
mittee on county government.
One by Hopkins of Muskogee provides
that no railroads or common carriers or
any of the officers shall own any In-
terest In any coal, asphalt, oil or timber
lands, and that no person or corporation
shall own. lease or have any Interest In
more than 3,000 acres of such lands.
Hogg of Grand provides that no case
shnll be dismissed by the courts for fail-
ure to comply with any rule of pleading,
procedure or practice, but that cases shall
be heard on their merits, regardless of
such considerations. Others were by
Hogg to define extortion and provide re-
lief, and by Mitch of Oklahoma City for
a provision in the Judicial system to pre-
vent the law's delay.
motion to reconsider the former action In I ei1 by a small majority vote In having
removing the county seat In Grant coun-
ty from Pond Creek to Medford. Alderson
for Pond Creek, fought for his town.
Pelegate Hendricks, the champion of
Medford s claim, arose and declared that
since the convention had fixed It so that
the county seat conuld be removed by a
majority vote of the people, he would re-
quest the temporary location be given
back to Pond Creek, but declared that
Modford will get It In the first election.
Me and Alderson, who hud been oppos-
ing each other, then shook hands and
the delegates applauded loudly.
While the Sapulpa-Bristow fight was
en a lobbyist from Bristow violated the
rules of the convention by going upon
the floor and whispering in the ears of
several delegates. He was discovered
by Chairman Hayes of the committee of
the whole, who had him removed.
Before the county boundaries commit-
tee Moman Prultt charged this lobbyist
with offering him *5,000 for his Influence
In locating the county scat nt Bristow
Herring of Elk City spoke for nearly
on hour on behalf of Elk City on the
grounds that the present location at
Sayre will require a 60 per cent vote to
remove, but Sayre was finally named.
There was also a hot fight In Wagon
er county. Hausam of Coweta declared
that his town Is more centrally located
and Implied that If Coweta was not
chosen It would be bad for the demo
cratlc party In that county. After the
vote on locating county seats President
Murray moved a reconsideration for the
purpose, he said, of settling the matter
forever. Haskell moved to table the
motion, which was carried, placing the
locations beyond recall. The other sec-
tions of the county boundaries amended
Report as suhmltted were adopted.
The sixty days time allotted by congress
tor making a constitution expired Satur-
day night nt midnight. Up to date little
has been done by the convention except
to scrap over county boundaries and
county seats. The preamble and ordi-
nance Is all that has been passed upon
outside of this matter. Secretary Fllson
announced thnt delegates will he paid
by the government until January 30 as
two weeks vacation Is counted out. It
Is estimated that the convention will
not complete Its labors before March 1.
Five additional constitutional proposi-
tions were Introduced In the convention
Saturday morning. Probably the most
Important was the one by Cobb of Sa-
pulpa fixing the terms of state and coun-
ty officers.
Under this provision all such officers
would serve for four year terms. The
first set of officers elected would hold
over until January 1. 1909. the regular
elections to be held on the first Tuesday
In November. 190R. and every four years
thereafter. Justices of the peace and con-
stables are also to be elected for four
years.
the further consideration of the report
taken out of the hands of the committee
of the whole, and referred back to the
county boundaries committee.
The committee of the whole had pre-
viously voted to confirm the locations of
all county seats as named In the report
exccpt In Moman, Harper and Geckham
counties. The locations were passed
over until after other locations had been
made. By this action the locations in
these counties will be sidetracked until
the county boundaries committee sees
fit to submit another report.
The first hole was shot In the com-
mittee report when by a vote of 42 to ti,
Eufaula was given the county seat In Mc-
Intosh county, displacing Checotah, the
committee's choice. The organization
got Its second fright when a motion waa
Wednesday on the removal of the capital
of Grant county from Pond Creek to Med-
ford. The champions of the report n*t
their final scare when the Insurgents g«t
together and discovered that the county
boundaries committee, a majority of
whom had located county seats In their
own homo towns, had practically made
the locations permanent by stipulating
that a rival town against each tempor-
ary location must put up a petition
signed by 25 per cent of the voters to
even get a place on the ballot.
A motion to give towns other than
the temporary locations a chance to get
on the ballot by securing the names of
10 per cent of the voters of the county
to the petition had as good chance of
passing when the Murray-Haskell organ-
ization succeeded In getting the whole
matter referred back to the boundaries
committee.
The insurgent forces were recruited by
the fact that a number of Oklahoma dele-
gates. who came from Oklahoma towns
not county seats, want the two-thirds
requirement abolished, and want an op-
portunity of removing •Kiunty seats on a
majority vote even In old counties. They
argue that the county seats In Oklahoma
were not fixed by the people and should
not be given an advantage. There Is
also a strong demand that county seats
may be removed In Indian Terltory by a
majority vote, regardless of the geo-
graphical center.
The Initiative and referendum was
called up and the first section providing
that the people shall reserve the right to
enact or reject laws or amendments Inde-
pendent of the legislature, was passed In
committee of the whole. Kornegay, of
Vinita opposed this section, declaring
that the proposed measure as now drawn
violates the terms of the enabling act.
In at least one dozen places, and that Its
adoption will be the surest way to get the
constitution of Oklahoma *urned down at
Washington.
on cour ties and county boundaries
brought in a special report recommend-
ing an amendment to a section of their
former report, prescribing the manner
In which county seats may be removed.
The proposed amendment provides that
where a change of county seat Is de-
sired. not less than 25 per cent of the
inhabitants of the county shall sign a
petition to the governor within four
months after the ratification of the con-
stitution. When such petition is filed
it shall be the duty of the governor to
call an election In the county within 70
days.
To be placed on the ticket, the name
of any town must be petitioned for by
not less than 300 resident voters of the
fcounty.
Until the coumy seat shall have once
been located by the people in a coun-
ty and before the year 1909, the county
seat may be removed in any county by
majority vote. Provided, however,
that where the county seat is within
six miles of the geographical center of
the county, 60 per cent of the votes shall
be required to move It to any town
which is not at least one mile pearer
the canter of the county.
After January 1, 197)9, a two-thirds
majority vote shall be required to re-
move the county seat of any county and
lections shall be held no oftener than
once each ten years.
i he committee made no recommenda-
tion on the four counties that had been
referred back to them Thursday.
It developed Friday that Moman coun-
ty had not been referred back to the
ommittee as was generally supposed. F.
W. Hayes, chairman of the committee
of the whole, stated that the convention
had adopted the section of the commit-
tee s report asking that the county seat
of Moman county be located by the conn
vention and that action took it out of
the matters referred to the committee.
A combination of the conservatives and
prohibitionists in the convention secured
the adoption of an amendment to the
second section of the initiative and ref-
orendum clause raising the per cent ne-
cessary to initiate an amendment to the
constitution from 8 per cent to 15 pe
cent.
IMscussion of this section occupied the
entire afternoon, and at the hour of
adjournment the section had been va-
riously amended but not finally adopted
NINE PROVISIONS ARE
ADOPTED ON TUESDAY
Convention is Growing Anxious to
End Its Labors—Committee on
School Lands Will Report in
Favor of Selling the Lands.
GI THRIE: Nine Important provisions,
Including the fellow servant law and
three supplemental clauses limiting the
extent to which contributory negligence
may be used in defense, curtailing the
power of the legislature to limit the
amount of damages, and making con-
tributory negligence no bar to the re-
covery of damages where both parties
are guilty of negligence, were adopted
by the constitutional convention in com-
mittee of the whole Tuesday morning
1 lie spirit of obstruction seems to
have disappeared from the convention
since county lines and county seats
have been finally established, and there
is manifest an earnest desire on the
part of the delegates to accomplish the
work they have been sent here to per-
form.
GI rHRIE: The special committee of
the constitutional convention on segregat-
ed coal and asphalt lands in the Indhi
I errltory made Its final report to the
convention Friday in the form of a con-
gressional memorial notifying congress
and the president that the state of Okla-
homa desires to open negotiations with
the federal government and at ar. early
date purchase the lands.
The committee Is of the opinion that
the lands can be purchased for about
$15,000,000. The lands embrace one of the
most valuable mineral deposits In the
southwest, and the committee proposes
state ownership and state operation.
Chairman George Henshaw, of the
committee on suffrage, states that the
committee Is at present working on the
proposition of woman suffrage and that
they will be ready to report In a very
few days. There have been two proposi-
tions passed up to the committee on the
limitation of suffrage, one making an
educational qualification and the other
the poll tax clause. It Is very likely
that both of these will be rejected and
that there will be a report favoring un-
limited suffrage. Speaking of the mat-
ter Mr. Henshaw said: "I am In favor
of making suffrage unlimited. I do not
believe In restricting the .qualifications
of any voter. It makes a better political
and social condition and my opinion is
that the convention will be very broad
on this matter.
Delegate Pete Hanraty, chairman of
the committee on Labor and Arbitration,
states that the work of that committee
Is well under hand and that in a few
days they will be able to report to the
convention. He says that the eight hour
there will be a proviison making all oper-
there will be a provision making all aper-
ators refer their labor troubles to a
state board of arbitration.
Immediately after the convention was
'•ailed to order Tuesday the body went
into committee of the whole for the con-
sideration of the general calendar.
I.edbetter of Ardmore moved that the
report on the two-cent fare proposition
adopted Monday be resubmitted to com-
mittee of the whole. This motion pre-
vailing. Ledbetter asked for unanimous
consent to amend the substitute adopted
In lieu of the committee's report by In-
serting for the clause "reasonable in-
come on the money actually Invested
therein, ' the following: "Just compen-
sation for services rendered by it to the
public."
Asp obected to the acceptance of this
amendment and Ledbetter moved to re-
consider the action of the committee of
the whole In adopting the clause, which
motion prevailed. Ledbetter then moved
the amendment as quoted above and ex-
plained that he did so because he had
become convinced through investigation
made by himself, S. W. Hayes and other
lawyers in the convention, that th«
clause as adopted would be unconstitu-
tional.
Asp explained that he had objected to
accepting the amendment because he
feared It was not sufficient to cure the
defects.
Hayes and Ledbetter made short ad-
dresses in support of the amendment,
after which it was adopted.
Committee report No. 10, embodying
the fellow servant law, was then taken
up and adopted as reported by the com-
mittee.
The provision advocates the common
law doctrine of the fellow servant in
so far as the liability of the master for
injuries received by the servant result-
ing from the acts or omissions of fel-
low employes as to every common car-
rier and to all persons, firms or cor-
porations engaged in mining within the
state, and such employes are made liable
for damages sustained by employes
where injuries are the result of a fellow
orkman's neglect. The clause also
gives to the legislature power to extend
the provisions of the clause to the em-
ployes of any person, firm or corpora-
tion.
Committee report No. 12 provides that
the defense of contributory negligence
or of assumption of risk shall in all
cases whatsoever, be a question of fact,
and shall at all times be left to the jury.
The report was adopted without debate.
Committee report No. 13 was next
adopted. It declares that the right of
action to recover damages for injuries
resulting in death shall never be advo-
cated: and the amount recoverable shall
not be subject to any statutory limita-
tions.
the Jury may take into consideration
the negligence of the Injured party.
Committee report No. 17 was next
considered and adopted. It declares that
any provision of any contract or agree-
ment expressed or implied, stipulated for
notice or demand other than such as
may be provided by law, as a condi-
tion precedent to establish any claim,
demand or liability, shall bo absolutely
null and void.
Report No. 18 was adopted as read. It
provides that any person of a contract,
express or implied, made by any person,
by which any of the benefits of the con-
stitution, or of any law made in accord-
ance therewith, is sought to be waived,
shall be null and void.
Committee report No. 19 defining
transportation companies within the
terms of the constitution provides that
any person, firm, corporation, trustee or
receiver, owning, leasing or operating
for hire, a railroad, street railroad, or
traction line, canal, steamboat, pipe line
(other than those piping gas) car lines,
sleeping car lines, car association, ex-
press line, or any other person, corpor-
I atlon, trustee or receiver, in any way
engaged in such business over a route
in whole or In part under the right of
eminent domain shall be Included under
the name of transportation company. It
provides further, that "transportation
company" shall include any person, firm
or corporation, trustee or receiver, own-
ing, leasing or operating any telegraph
or telephone line and the term "common
carrier" shall Include all transportation
and transmission companies.
After the adoption of report No. 19
the committee of the whole arose and
the convention adjourned until 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
The committee on school lands held a
meeting and on a vote stood seven for
the sale of all school lands to six for
the sale of all except sections 16 and 36
in each township. Two members of the
committee were absent, but the belief
Is that the majority will favor the sale
of all the lands. Tn that event a minor-
ity report is certain.
HE INCLUDES CHILOCCO
Commissioner Leupp Wants It and Other
Indian Colleges Abolished
WASHINGTON: Frances E. Leupp
commissioner of Indian affairs, wants
Haskell institute at Lawrence, the Chil-
occo, the school south of Arkansas City,
and all other non-reservation Indian
schools abolished. He made an argument
In favor of such action before the senate
committee on Indian affairs. He sug-
gested that the schools be abolished grad-
ua"y and the buildings and ground?
turned over to the states where they are
located. He said that Carlisle should be
the one lopped off this year. Next yea
he suggested Haskell and Chilocco.
His theory Is that Carlisle is too re-
mote from Indian surroundings. It ii
the largest of all Indian schools main
Viined by the government, having an en-
•ollment this year of 1.025 pupils. Has-
.ce" comes second with 834 and Chilocco
third with 778. By lopping off the three
Ig schools this year and next he says
; will be comparatively easy to abandon,
the other twenty-two schools of that
BAILEY RETURNED TO U. S. SENATE
First Time In State's History That Such
Opposition Is Manifest
ATTSTIX: The legislature of Ti ixas
has re-elected J. W. Bailey United
States senator.
Over fifty votes were cast against him
and the prediction Is freely made that
the legislative action has split the demo-
cratic party wide open in Texas.
Bailey received 89 votes in the house.
86 being cast for other candidates, while
7 were present but not voting.
In the senate he received 19 votes,
3 scattering and 7 present but not vot-
ing.
While charges are pending against
Bailey of a serious nature and a com-
mittee has been appointed to investigate
them, it is believed that the committee
appointment will be revoked.
This Is the first time In the history of
the state that a candidate for senator
of the major party has had such mani-
fest opposition.
Senator Bailey himself says that he
wants to be Investigated by the com-
mittee and if they find anything against
him he will resign.
The insurrections of the state senate
were led by Senator Harvey of Dallas
and those of the house by Duncan of
Smith county. Both were voted down
as they were also In efforts to pass reso-
lutions requiring Bailey to promise to
resign In the event of his election and
re-submit his candidacy to a new gen-
eral state primary.
Many of the legislators who voted
against Bailey explained their act by
the general declaration that they could
not feel bound to vote for him until the
pending Investigation shall I'ave ended
Mr. Leupp believes the way to civilize
fndlans Ik to make them work an to
force them into schools with white pupils
He claims that a good per cent of gradu.
ates of the Indian schools drift back to.
the old Indian life. If they were educat-
ed with the white children and forced
to work he says it would be a compara-
tively Short time until they could take^
care of themselves the same as whites'
are now forced to do.
The members of the committee who
have such schools within their states do-
not look with favor on the Leupp scheme
and will oppose It at this session. Has-
kell institute is almost as big an instltu-
tlon In Kansas as the army post either
at Riley or Leavenworth and the at-
tempt of the Indian commissioner to ab-
olish It will no doubt raise a storm of
protest In Kansas. Southern Kansas and!
Oklahoma people will no doubt protest
against the abandonment of Chilocco.
The twenty-five non-reservation schools
for Indians maintained by the govern-
ment had an enrollment last year of
9,279 pupils.
Senator Long of Kansas, member of
the senate Indian committee will oppose
the abandonment of the schools.
"Kansas Is well equipped with state
Institutions now," said he. "I don't know
of any use the state could make of the
Haskell property. If the state did take
It over It will have to spend much money
to maintain It. The government now
spends the money and the state is bene-
fited. I am in favor of a continuation of
the present plan."
WANT ALFALFA NAMED
Oklahoma Agricultural Board Desires It
for State Emblem
GUTHRIE: The Oklahoma board of
agriculture, In session «iere, adopted reso-
lutions asking the constitutional conven
tlon to name as the floral emblem of tho
new state, also to provide for a non-
partisan board of agriculture. Secretarjr
McNabb was re-elected for another term
and A. J. Woodworth was re-elected*
statistician secretary.
New officers named are: D. L. Alkens
president: W. L. Fullerton, of Olustee,
vice-president; George L. Bishop, of Cor-
dell, treasurer; G. L. Bishop and Wil-
liam Garrison, of Pond Creek, were elect-
ed members of the board to fill vacan-
cies.
PAID BUT STILL CIRCULATING
his vindication from the charges
Contributory negligence Is made no [ brought aglanst him. But the fact Is
Late Friday afternoon the committee
On Monday, Feb. 18, forty acres of land,
the homestead of Martin Lowe, a full
blood Creek Indian, will be sold by secret
bids. The land lies In the heart of We-
leetka, and Is desirable for townsite pur-
poses. Three acres of it have already
been condemned for school purposes. The
bids will be opened In the office of Tarns
Bixby.
BURFORD MAY LAND IT
Claim Made He Will Be Judge of the
Western Oklahoma District
WASHINGTON: Judge John H. Bur-
ford, chief Justice of the Oklahoma su-
preme court, who Is here pressing his
claims for the position of federal Judge
•f the Western district of the new state
of Oklahoma, had an hour's conference
With Attorney General Bonaparte ami
later called upon the president West-
ern leaders who are onto the situation
claim that Judge Burford will win.
It is practically settled who the marshal
and clerks of the two federal districts
will be. United States Marshal Aber-
nathy, of Oklahoma, will get the marshal-
ship of the Western district, lie gets
his pull through the president direct.
United States Marshal Porter, of the
Southern district of the Indian Territory,
Is slated for marshal of the Eastern dis-
trict of Oklahoma. He is a cousin of
Mrs. Roosevelt and gets the place on ac-
count of his relation, together with the
fact that he has made an efficient
official.
Charles Watson, brother of Represen-
tative Watson, of Indiana. Is to be clerk
of the Western district unless tho pro-
gramme Is changed and I. P, Harrison,
of Muskogee, Is to be the clerk of the
Eastern district. He Is now clerk of the
court at Muskogee. Ills pull conies
through Speaker Cannon, lie used
run a newspaper In Cannon's town.
TWO PUT 27 TO FLIGHT
VACCINATE CHILDREN
Battle With Winchesters on Territory
Oil Lease—Invaders Hold the Derrick
SAPULPA: Claiming to be employes
of the Texas Oil company, J. M. Sloan
and J, S. Sharp, armed with Winchesters
drove a band of men, twenty-seven em-
ployes of Litchfield & Sawyer, off the
Zeck Morris farm near Sapulpa and took
possession of a derrick which had Just
been erected. In the controversy several
shots were fired. The trouble arises Out
of a contest over the lease.
Both companies have leases on the land
the precedence of which Is now before I
the federal court for decision. A big Orders
well recently brought In makes the lease
very valuable. Zeek Morris, owner of
tne laid, is serving time In the Kansas
penitentiary for giving fraudulent leases.
Solan Is general manager of the Okla-
homa Iron Works at Tulsa and Sharp is
In the leasing department of the Texas
compuny which Is building a pipe line
from 'j ulsa to the Gulf.
Oklahoma Board of Health Taking Steps
to Check Smallpox
GUTHRIE: Strict orders to the coun-
ty health officers for tho checking of
the smallpox epidemics in the various
bar to recovery of damages where both
the injured person and his follow work-
man are guilty of negligence, by com-
mittee report No. 14, which provides
thnt: In nil actions to recover damages
from personal inujrics. or where such
injuries have resulted In death, the fact
thnt the Injured person may have been
guilty of contributory negligence shail
not bar a recovery of damages, but pro-
vides that in determining such damages
worthy of noting here that nearly every
member who refused to vote for Bailey
has always opposed him in Texas poli-
tics.
Farmers Will Organize Bank
LAWTON: Tom Green has called a
meeting of his farmer associates for the
purpose of organizing a farmers' bank
with a capital stock of $15,000, of which
he is to be president.
PRESIDENT OUT OF DEAL
CONVICT CONTRACT RENEWED
Adraln Melton Is Elected City Attorney
TUTTLE: Adrain Melton of the firm
of attorneys of Rond and Melton of Chick-
asha was elected city attorney for the
present year, vice Attorney Burns, re-
signed.
Compromise Resolution on Brownsville , Frantz and Hoch Perpetuate Agreement-
Affair Passes | May End Upon Four Months' Notice
™ el The0™"'' ,Th<V Tat<! T At a <™'erence between Governor
•ounties In Oklahoma have been Issued j tlon authoring TlT comm" 1^00°mil" • and Warden Ha,kel1 °' Kansas and
> tie Oklahoma board of health after tary affairs to Investigate the facts of
ts meeting here and certain county of- j the affray nt Brownsville on the nights
leers arc tn be removed for negllgenco | of August 13 and 14 last, without ques-
ln he performance of their duties. Com- tlonlnt "the legality or Justice or any
paints were received from several coun- 'act of the president In relation to or
ties In Oklahoma of smallpox and failure connected with that affray."
on the part of physicians to report their
'■ases. The worst complaints come from
'•omancho, Kiowa and Lincoln counties, j since the first day of the present session
aie to he Issued for the prosecu- | of congress and every phase of the ques
. on.o p ijsli lans failing to comply wfth | tlon had been discussed on all sides.
This action came after the subject had
j been under consideration almost dally
ernor Frantz of Oklahoma, In Topeka,
recently the contract for care and main-
tenance of Oklahoma convicts In the
Kansas penitentiary, which expires Jan-
uary .11, was renewed for two years un-
der the same terms. Provision was made
that the contract could be terminated
upon four months' notice.
Even if statehood becomes effective
i before the close of the present year, the
new state will have no place for its con
Chickasaw Warrants May Again Be Pre-
sented for Redemption
MUSKOGEE: A general order has been
Issued by the Indian agent that all out-
standing warrants on the general fund of
the Chickasaw nation would bo paid by
the government at once.
Two years ago Inspector Jenkins made
an investigation of the school fund war-
rants of the Chickasaw nation. Ho founds
that there were $12,000 worth of school
warrants that had been paid once and
not canceled. These were still In circu-
lation. Ho Incidentally found |60,000>
worth of warants in the general fund
that had apparently been paid once and"
not canceled, but on these he had no-
authority to act. Following his report
there was a big sensation In the Chick-
asaw nation, some of the most prominent
officials of the nation being charged with;
graft. It is believed that an Investigation
of Choctaw national accounts will follow.
CONVENTION ENDORSES HITCHCOCK
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the law by reporting their cases. Before the adoption of the resolution ! until the Penitentiary Can be built
A letter was also sent out instructing reveral substitute measures were voted | a"d Provldpd f r by the first legislature.
|<\vn One by Senator Mallory, declar
With statehood, therefore, it will be at
least two
Ihe county health officers to summon Im- !
mediately a meeting of the county board I )ng that the president had authority for I J?"4 two yeara before the convicts of
Of health for the purpose of requiring his course and acted justlv was tabled Okl"lloma can be <ared for within tho
vaccination of all school children In dls- j by „ vote of V to 22. Another, by Sen statP'
ti ' * ^ rP| 's known to exist, ator McCumber. simply providing for an i The territory pays to tlie state of Kan
te <ounM H.dth of.icer Is instructed to j investigation without reference to man- I 9as ^5 cents a day for the care and main
ask the co-operation of the county super- . nPr, waB tabled by a viva voce vote. A ,p 'ince of each convict. The territor;
intendents of public schools.
third
territory
by Senator Culberson, simply in- a'so Pays for the clothes given the con
Body of Democrats Break the Record In-
Supporting the Secretary
GUTHRIE: For the first time in the
hlsetory of the two territories a body
composed of a majority of democrats-
has endorsed an official action of Secre-
tary of the Interior Hitchcock.
The constitutional convention Friday
morning adopted a report from the com-
mittee on segregated coal and asphalt
lands which recommends the adoption
of a memorial to congress and the presi-
dent endorsing document 402, house of
representatives, "the same being a let-
ter from the secretary of the interior
submitting a draft of proposed legislation
to enable his department to plat, sur-
vey and appraise certain townsltes In*
the Indian Territory."
$02,COO IN ILLEGAL WARRANTS
Chickasaw Indian Officers Have Issued
That Amount
WASHINGTON: Secretary Hitchcock
has submitted to congress a statement
showing the Chickasaw Indian officials
have issued warrants amounting to $62,-
000 without approval of the department.
This makes them Illegal. The Items In-
clude .876 overdrawn as salary by
Governor Johnston und $<J.&84 overdrawn
as salary by members of tho council.
ASYLUM SITE IS SAFE
Senate Legalizes Act Locating It st Fort
Supply
WASHINGTON: The senate passed a
bill legalizing the act of the Oklahoma
territorial legislature In locating the in-
sane asylum at Fort Supply. The bill
hits already passed the house. All that
nov? remains to make it a law is the
president's signature.
The action menu* that the asylum will
be located at Fort Supply, and with It
feud of long standing In Okla-
tn the asylum location.
llinlrlnnfulltf i ♦!« .t * •'" i s« -11. biiiii'I.v 11- v..- ' '"""n S'vcil me run
10 suggestions dorsing the president's action and pro- victs when they are released from tin
TrlO Pflimill t ton i\r\ *\ii1.1Ia k a.. Ii i. ! "■ . .
nds
hoi
to tho committee on public health, sanl
tatlon and practice of medicine and phar-
macy of the constitutions. 1 convention,
embodying the views of the board of
health 011 certain of the provisions that
should he placed In the constitution were
prepared. It is suggested that a hoard
of health be provided for with such pow-
ers as shall be given by law for the pre-
• rlblng of the qualifications of practi-
tioners of medicine and surgery and the
revocation of medical licenses. It Is roo.
• mmended that the board of health Ik
:-lven absolute powers In quarantine mat-
ters. the collections of vital atatlstici
and the supervision of food Inspection
Work on the oil well beinL- i"„lt down by
the Rock Island system south of Shawnee
Is progressing fast and a depth of 90c
feet has been reached. Tho Pennsylva-
nla well north of the city Is now do,n
i.000 feat. 1
vldlng for no investigation, was tableu penitentiary. The contract with Kan-
by a roll call vote of 46 to 19. j 8as was made In 1895 by Governor Ren-
There was no record vote on the res- frow and has been In existence ever since
olutlon adopted. ! being renewed from time to time.
Senator Sutherland occupied the first —
I three hours of the day's session dellv Oklahoma Woman In Patent Office
frit r: his f'rvt speech In the senate. It 1 OUTHRJIS: Miss Mario Saunders of
was In behalf of the right of Reed Smoot [ Guthrie has bean appointed an asslst-
r.mMren°rthWe8ttrn 8tatC a 8eat ,he|a,,t ' tho patent office at
"vv Brownsville delate then followed, , Wa,hln*ton nl 11 "alary of 11.200 per an-
Fenntors taking the opportunity to ex- ' num- ' '''■ the first time In the hls-
j.lain the vote they should enst on the 'ory of the putent office that a woman
resolution. has been appointed to a position of this
nature.
Miss Saunders is .a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Saunders, pioneer citi-
zens of Guthrie. She attended the city
schools here and later became a clerk
and stenographer in the United States
land office. She has been prominent in
Guthrie social circlos.
Macklln Assault Case
FORT SIM,: February 15 has been
fixed by the mllltnry board as the date
for court martial of Corporal Knowles,
charged with assaulting Captain Mack-
lln at Fort Reno
VICTORIA, B. C.: Advices from cen-
tral China tell of the Increasing horrors,
of the great famine there. The people
of two districts, Slnchow and Pachow,
are eating the children.
Plants nnd grass which furnished'
food for a time are gone, not even a root
being left.
A Shanghai correspondent says that
there are many cases of canl'bjillsm and.'
that he personally saw instances of It
He also saw human flesh being sold in
the public markets.
Oklahoma Will Contest Kansas
NORMAN: Word was received by the
University of Oklahoma from the debat-
ing council of the Kansas university fix-
ing the date of the debate with that
school March 15, 1907,
The debate is to be held at Lawrence^
two men representing each university.
The only men who have announced their
Intention of entering In this debate for
Oklahoma are W. C. French and S. Mc-
Kltrick. If any others enter, the local
contest for the debate will be held about
the middle of February. If there are no
other entries there will probably be no
*cal contesL
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