The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PEOPLES' VOICE
VOLUME 17.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909.
NUMBER 30
W ill Have Charge of All Money Expended
By State for Printing, Public Build-
ings, All Such Business Matters.
ONE YAER'S SAVINGS ENOUGH
TO PAY FOUR YEARS EXPENSES
>lic institutions should, be taken up
suited in a split between the house
members and the senate, members.
Another . meeting will be held soon
to untangle the trouble. It is gener
ally conceded that the following .slate
will go through: Normals at Clare-
more and Ada; penitentiary at Mc
Alerter; insane asylum at Antlers;
deaf and dumb asylum at Durant;
girls industrial school at Chickasha;
and woman's prison at Tahlequah.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS
OancuB To Locate Public Buildings Ended
In a Split Between House and Senate
Members—The Probable Slate.
Guthrie, Okla., Fel>. 3.—The crea-
tion of a special board to be known
as the board of public affairs, is the
object of senate bill No. 223 by Sena-
tors Echols, Meminger and Stafford.
It provides for the selection of three
commissioners at a salary of $3,000
each per annum, whose duty shall be
to handle all business matters where-
in the state expends money, such as
contracting for and building state in-
stitutions, the handling of public
printing, and the dozen of other
highly important duties that are now-
various state officials. The chief ar-
gument in favor of this bill is that
none of the state officers have time
to perfect themselves in the vari-
ous lines of knowledge that the du-
ties of the boards necessitate.
It is figured that the saving of
such a board in one year would de-
fray the entire expense of its opera-
tion for four years. Now that Okla-
homa is about to build several state
institutions and expend large sums
for these already in operation, the
necessity for a thorough knowledge
of the various projects and subjects
is recognized by the state officials
who have but few hours each week
to give the matters thought.
The measure has the approval of
many of the state officers who hold
positions on various boards by vir-
tue of their office.
In this connection it might be men-
tioned that the caucus which met on
Monday night for the purpose of de-
termining the question of whether
the matter of selecting sites for pub-
STUBBS REFUSES TO
CONTINUE COMMITTEE
Oklahoma City, Okla., Fb. 2.—In a
telegram to Governor Haskell Gov-
ernor Stubbs of Kansas refuses to
continue the committee appointed by
Governor lloch to cooperate with
the Oklahoma committee in the in-
vestigation of affairs at the Lansing
prison. The Oklahoma committee
will therefore be compelled to con-
duct its work alone. It is scheduled
to meet tomorrow. The committee
will probably investigate conditions
at the Oklahoma prison at McAles-
ter and this will be the conclusion of
its labors.
C. W. Meek, who acted as a spec-
ial "guard on the prison train which
conveyed the Oklahoma prisoners
from Lansing to McAlester, says the
transfer was made without the loss
of a prisoner by escape.
Kate Barnard, commissioner of
charities and corrections in Oklaho-
ma, who started the movement that
led to an investigation of methods of
punishment in the Kansas peniten-
tiary, was the heroine of the con-
victs who composed a song about
her and sang it all the way front
Lansing to McAlester.
IN CIRCUIT COURT TODAY.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 2.—Suit to an-
nul the charter of the Frisco rail-
road company for violation of the
provision of the Oklahoma consitu-
tion prohibiting a foreign corpora-
tion from atempting to transfer a
state case to the federal court, is
being heard in the United States cir-
cuit court here today.
HALF MILLION FOR BUILDING
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—A caucus
of both hou. es met this morning and
decided to appropriate a half mil
lion dolars for new public buildings
in Oklahoma Bills ordered drawn at
one. Slate the same as agreed upon
Monday night.
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fhotu by Moffett Htudtu, Chicago.
Latest photograph of John G. Oglesby, the new lieutenant-governor of Illi-
nois. Mr. Oglesby is a son of the famous Illinois governor.
II fill I
Oklahoma Sportsmen Draft Game Law and Get The
House Committee's Favorable Report on It—Open
Season Shortened—Bag Limit for Both Day and
and Season—License Required of All Hunters
Will Become a Law Soon.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3—(ioing after killing game between half an hour
the "game hog" by providing a bag aftcr sunsct an<1 half an hour bc(orc
limit for both clay and season, chang-
\.\'j and shortening the "open season"
bill which meets the approval of
sunrise, on destroying the eggs of
game birds, and on trapping by the
Special Sale
Still Continues
MICH A ELS-ST CRN
FINE CLOTH I NG
mocmiitin. a.
We are making some im-
provements in the arrangement
of our Store Furnishings; get-
ting ready to receive our new
Spring Stock of goods. We
don't want to carry over or
keep in our store longer some
of the goods we now have on
hand.
To cletir o'lt these goods we
have them on sale at less than the
price of the cloth in the suits.
Never before has the opportunity
to purchase men's suits, quality
of goods considered, at the prices
we are offering now, been seeu in
Norman. If you are a "Missour-
ian" come in and let us show you.
You will get a bargain in a
suit of clothes that will cause
you afterwards to remember
the men's outfitter
NORMAN
or the use of any poison', narcotic
xplo«ive to kill or capture game,
itelope may be killed in Ok-
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the organized sportsmen of.thest^te °f Bets, pitfalls or other devices,
has been reported out for passage by
the fish and game committee of the
lower house of the Oklahoma legis-
lature, as a substitute for all game
bills which have been introduced.
All wild animals and birds, wheth-
er resident or migratory, are declar-
ed by this bill to be the property of
the shrte. It provide-, for the a,
pointment by the governoj of a
s*. tc fish and game warden, who
shall serve four years, subject t >
removal by the governor at any time,
who shall receive a salary of $2,000,
with $ 1,000 additional for ixjieiiM-
All peace officers are made deputy
wardens and as many others may be
named as the state warden sees lit.
Half of the fines collected goes to
the deputy making the arrest and the
other half to the stat'e game protec
tion fund.
All hunters must take out a li
cense, a< a cost of $1 fur residents
of the state and $15 for non-residents
A license to hunt deer or turkey
would cost $40. I.vcn with a licctis,
no one can hunt on land without the
consent of the owner, except in the
case of unoccupied land not posted.
Railroads may be fined $100 and
sts for accepting illegal shipments
game. The costs include a fee of
$5.0 for the county attorney who
prosecuted the case. The only ship
ments allowed ten days alter the
close of the open season are lor
propagation or exchange purposes
Possession of game birds during the
closed season is made proof of vio
lation of law. The ban is placed on
BECOMES A BENEDICT.
POPULAR BUSINESS MAN OF
NORMAN SUCCUMBS TO
FAIR SEX.
For a number of years Mr. Ed M.
Yates of Norman has served as the
president of Norman's bachelors'
club and was thought to be immune
from the blandishments of the fair
sex; but alas, poor Ed met a coun-
try lass at the Ferry he end. avored
to establish across the South Cana-
dian river and from that ton Ed has
been wandering around with a dart
fin his heart that he could not ex-
tract and last Saturday surrendered
and had his friend F. O. Miller pro-
cure for him a marriage license. (>ti
Sunday evening, at the home of the
bride's parents on the ten mile flat,
with Mrs. J. L. Harrington playing
the wedding march,, Ed M. Yates
with fair Miss Euna R llaswell on
lahoma for five years, while the limit
for deer is one buck with horns each
year. (Juail may be shot from No-
vember 15 to January 15, six weeks
less than the present seasoti; wild
turkey from November 15 to April I;
prairie chicken from September 1 to
October 1; dove froin September 1
to October 1 :snip , plover, curlew,
s tore b'"ds, ducks, geese, brants,
1 ie i . \ugust 15 to May 1;
M ongob an, I h ne c, English ring
neck and other pheasants may not be
killed before November 1, 1914, and
then only front November 1 to De-
cember 1 of each year. Passenger
pigeons may not be killed at any
time.
The bag limits are: Turkey, one a
day and three a season; swan, one a
sea ■on; prairie chicken, ten a day
and 35 a season; geese or brant, 20
a day; quail, plover, curlew, ducks,
snipe, or shore birds, 10 a day or 100
a si a son; dove, 15 a day. The kill-
ing a non-game birds is also prohib-
ited, excepting English sparrows,
house sparrows, buzzards, crows,
cooper hawks, g0s hawks, shark
kinned hawks and great horned
• wis.
I he use of seines, trap , dynamite
or poisons in fishing is prohibited.
The provisions of the fish sections of
the bill do not apply to the Arkan-
Cimarron, Grand, South Cana-
dian and Salt I-ork rivers or private
ponds.
his arm, marched down stairs into
the parlor, beautifully decorated for
the happy occasion and marched up
boldly to where Rev. O. J. McLaugh-
lin had arranged to meet them. Ed
blushing some, answered the ques-
tioiis propounded, firmly anil in the
affirmative, (and they do report that
one of them was "love and obey")
and the bride gave an affirmative
answer to the questions, whereupon
Rev. McLaughlin pronounced them
man and wife and closed the cere-
mony with hi- benediction. The par-
ents of tlu bride then invited the
happy couple and friends present in-
to the dining room where a wed-
ding feast was spread and at the
sight of which Ed soon recovered
his composure and fell on the viands
as a hungry Japan a Russian.
Mr Yates has long been one of
the live, progressive business men
in Norman and the bride is the
daughter of one of the pioneer and
well to do farmers, Wm. Haswell,
of the ten mile flat. The many friends
of both parties join in wishing them
a long, prosperous and happy wed-
ded life.
FARMERS WILL NAME THEM.
County Demonstrators Will Farm
Under State Board Direction.
Guthrie, Okla., Jan 30.--(Special.)
The senate concurring in the minor
amendments made by the house the
C ampbell-Russcll bill providing for
the establishment of forty-acre de-
monstration farms in each of the
seventy-five counties of the state,
Except where a state agricultural
school is located, the bill will go to
Governor Haskell for his approval.
county demonstrators are to be
natucd y the farmers' institute of
county and are to farm under the
direction of the state board of agri
culture. The} may be reimbursed to
the extent of $250 for any loss occa-
sioned by the experimental work.
The state board furnishes the seed
as well as the directions. The bill
carries an appropriation of $20,00(1.
BOOTLEGGERS GET THEIR
SENTENCES.
The parties found guilty by the
jury at the last term of the county
court faced Judge Sharp and r<
ceivcd their sentences before court
adjourned. J. L. Strickle was given
30 days in jail and a fine of $60 and
costs. R. 1.. Gilmore was given 40
days in jail and lined $75 and costs.
S. H. Hayes in one case was sen-
tenced to 40 days in jail and a line
of $00 and costs. In the second case
against him the sentence was 40
days in jail and a fine of $100 and
costs. An appeal to the supreme
court has been taken in all of the
cases. If judgment of the court is
sustained by the supreme court the
skies will look somewhat murky for
whiskey pocket flasks in this county.
Two Important Bills Introduced Iu House
and Senate Today—Relate To Print-
ing, Advertising and Supplies.
INITATIVE AND REFERENDUM
PAMPHLETS TO BE ABOLISHED
Instead, the Arguments Must Be Printed
In the County Papers-Cost Less and
Circulation Much Better-
CHECKING UP TAX LEVIES.
G. A. Smith of Chandler, who is
acting as deputy inspector and ex-
aminer of the state, is in Norman
this week checking up the tax lev-
ies iu this county to see if same
conforms to the constitution and
the needs o' the municipalities and
school districts.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—Two bills
drawn by the Oklahoma Press Asso-
ciation were introduced in the house
and senate today. They are of spec-
ial interest to the newspaper men of
the state.
The first requires all county com-
missioners and purchasing boards of
cities and towns, to buy printed mat-
ter and supplies within the state. All
printing is to be let after sealed bids
have been filed. The contracts shall
he awarded to 'lie lowest and best
bidder.
This bill is to prevent county com-
missioners and others from refusing
to receive bids for printing and pub-
lishing and from buying supplies
from without the state.
Another bill requires the publica-
tion of measures and questions sub-
mitted to a vote of the people. This
will cure the defect in the law of
last winter which provided for the
printing and circulation of pamph-
lets containing the questions to be
submitted to a vote and the argu-
ments therefor. It has been proven
conclusivaly that the limited circula-
tion of these pamphlets curtailed the
general knowledge of the public on
matters to be voted upon. Had the
arguments been published in two
new >ai>ers of each county, one of
each pontic,>1 faith, as provided for
in the new bill, tin, defect ,:ld
tfii cc tlTrt twifeec' ' r >
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