The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 17.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FUIDAY, JULY 2, 1909.
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NUMBER 51
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BIDS FOR NEW UNI.
BUILDING ADVERTISED
The long expected, the long hop-
ed-for thing has happened. Bids for
the construction of the new Uni-
versity building have been advertis-
ed for and will be opened July 31st,
at which time the contract will be
let and the construction of the build-
ing be begun as soon afterwards a-,
is possible for the contractors to get
ihe material on tlTt grounds and men
employed.
There never has been a time in
our minds but what we had implicit
confidence in the board of regents of
the University. We have always felt
that the work before them was too
great to be appreciated by the cas
tial observer. The regents have been
planning for years ahead and felt
keenly the responsibility upon them
to build and plan rightly. To ac-
complish great tasks requires more
than a day; the regents now have
things past their hands; a new body
begins the work and the fact that
in so short a time after the plans
were turned over to the state board
of public affairs that body has adver
tised for bids, shows that they will
complete the responsibility placed
in their hands with all the dispatch
possible and consistent with good
business judgment.
Work on the building will begin
perhaps by August 15th; it now re-
mains for Norman people to wake
up and get to work to make Nor-
man a city rather than just a sleep-
ing village. The possibilities before
us are not to be equa'lcd auvwher.-
in the state. The crop prospects for
the farmers were never in the histoiy
of the county so good. A prosperous
yeomanry means a rush of bi! iness
in the city.
NEW APPOINTEES.
Guthrie, Okla., June 26.—-Prof. J.
M. Osborn, for several years super-
intendent of the city schools at the
city of Geary, has accepted the posi
tion of diploma clerk and examiner
in the office of State Superintendent
E. D. Cameron to begin his new du-
ties July 1.
Mr Osborn was formerly for sev-
eral years a student at the State Ur.
versity at Norman and was private
secretary to President D. R. Boyd
for several years.
Leon Wiley, son of Rev. W. S.
Wiley, of Muskogee, has also been
apointcd to a clerkship in the state
superintendent's office.
Ruben D. Hardy, who has been
connected with the state superinten-
dent's office, has resigned to accept
the place of private secretary *o
President M. S. Moore of the Du-
rant normal school.
MAKES A FORTUNE.
PATTEN, THE WHEAT BARON,
CLEANS UP NEAT SUM ON
COTTON.
Chicago, 111., June 26.—Another
large sum of money has been added
to the fortunate speculative accounts
of James A. Patten, who has just
"cleaned up" a big winning in cot-
ton. Close friends of the speculator
;-timate the profits at about $500,000
or an average of about $2.50 a bale
on 200,000 bales.
The main investment was in Oc-
tober delivery, which advanced from
$10.25 to $10.90 before Mr. Patten
began unloading, and went to $1125
before he had finished his "clean up.''
According to friends the average
purchase price was not far from
$10.40. As in the marketing of his
big holding of May wheat, the selling
was not done in a wholesale way in
sufficient volume to break the mar-
ket, but was gradually fed to the
trade as its anxiety to buy increased.
A SOLID LAKE OF OIL.
John Hume of Hydro, arrived in
Norman Friday to visit old friends
here. He reports crops looking fine
in Caddo county.
TWO NORMAN MEN GOING
OVER ARDMORE FIELD
WITH NEW YORK CAPI-
TALIST.
Ardmore, June 25.—Robert Mid-
dlebrook, the young New Yorker
who is here investigatoing this coun-
try thoroughly with reference to oil
interests and who will make his re-
port to one of the largest operating
companies in the United States, left
here today for a visit to the Criner
mountains. He has visited the coun-
try around here in other directions
and the state has become interested
in his visit to that extent that L. L.
Hutchison, assistant director of the
Oklahoma Geological Survey, has
been sent here to go over the field
with Mr. Middlebrook. B. C. Belt
of the same department is also here
and left today for the Criner moun-
tain district. These experts are en-
rhi.-iastiv. . er thv oil in this sec-
tion and they are of the opinion that
Ardmore is located over a lake of
oil.
GOV. ADVISES BOYCOTT
Guthrie, Okla., June 28.—(Special)
A boycott on the big railroad sys-
tems in Oklahoma who are fighting
the payment of approximately $1,-
000,000 taxes on the ground of un-
fair assessment, was urged by Gov-
ernor Haskell and Attorney General
West at a meeting of the county
commissioners of the state Jiere Sat-
urday morning. Thirty-five commis*
sioners and about twenty county at-
torneys composed the convention.
Governor Haskell declared that
that railroads, with the exception of
two large lines and possibly of two
smaller ones, Were in a conciliation
against the state. He urged the com-
missioners to impress on the farmers
the advisability of patronizing those
systems which are favorable to the
state.
The attorney gentral charged tin
railroads with being in a conspiracy.
He characterized the Santa Fe as
"the largest conspirator." Before tin
commissioners met the attorney gen-
eral stated in an interview that he
favored promoting a boycott but,
inasmuch as he was a member of the
state board of equalization to which
the roads have complained of their
unfair assessments, he did not feel
in a position to head the fight for a
"square deal."
OPINIONS BY
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Guthrie, Okla , June 25.—Attorney
General West in an opinion to A
J. Arnote, county attorney at Antl
ers, holds that a member of the na-
tional guard is not exempt from road
work.
In an opinion to E. J. Dick county
attorney of Harper county, the at
forney general holds that a sheriff
is not entitled to receive forty per
cent of the salary allowed by law
to a jailor if the jailor is appointed
by the county.
HARD ON COCO COLA.
State Chemist DeBarr finds that
there is cocaine in most all of the
samples of Coco Cola submitted to
him by inspectors of the state pure
food and drug commission.—Okla-
hotnan.
Mrs. N. P. Graham and Mrs. Gee.
G. Graham left for Lexington Men-
day afternoon to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Percy Smith who died at the
home of her parents in Lexington
Sunday,
COTTON DISPLACES JUTE.
Guthrie, Okla., June 25.—After a
conference with the state purchas-
ing agent of Texas, the state board
of affairs today practically decided
upon the adoption of a rule which
will require that all products pur-
chased by the state which have to
be sacked or wrapped shall be wrap-
ped in cotton bagging instead of
jute, in order to favor home pro-
ducts inasmuch as jute is a foreign
product, while coton is one of Ok-
lahoma's staples.
The same sort of a rule is under
consideration in Texas, and will
probably be adopted there.
Earnest Balch was married Thurs-
day evening of last week to Mi>s
Annie Myers of Norman, and left
the same night on a honeymoon to
Sulphur Springs, Okla., and will re-
turn to Oklahoma City where lie will
engage in the grocery business.—The
Moore Messenger.
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Will be celebrated by EVERY ONE at Winans Mercantile Company's
where the GREATESF BARGAINS in "Summer Wearables" will be
the "Fire Crackers" used at this Popular Trading Place.
EVERY PAIR of Mens, Womens and Childrens Oxfords are
NOW on special July 4th sale at a discount of 25 per cent.
Every pair inens$ii.50 Oxfords at $2.C>5
Every pair mens 3.00 Oxfords at 2.25
Every pair mens 2.50 Oxfords at 1.88
Every pair ladies 3.50 0xforns at 2.05
Every pair ladies 3.00 Oxfords at 2.25
Every pair ladies 2.50 Oxfords at 1.88
CLOTHING SPECIALS
All Summer Clothing at a discount
of 25 per cent.
$25.00 mens suits at $18.75
20.00 mens suits at 15.00
17.50 mens suits at 13.13
15.00 mens suits at 11.25
12.00 mens suits at 9.00
A Sweeping Reduction in ALL DEPARTMENTS including shirt- g
waists, Hosiery, Underwear and Umbrellas, will be offered for g
CASH to all. DON'T MISS IT,
Winans Mercantile Co.!
MUST HAVE AN OFFICE
Guthrie, Okla., June 28.—The cor-
poration commission Saturday even-
ing issued a proposed order that will
require every foreign public service
corporation doing business in the
state to establish headquarters in the
state and keep here such records
! as will give the commission informa-
j tion about the character and amount
of business being done in the state.
The commission goes for its authori-
ty to section 6, article IX of the
constitution, requiring that every rail
road or other public service corpora-
tion doing business in the state un-
der the laws or authority thereof
shall have and maintain a public of-
fice place in the state, where records
shall be kept. The section also re-
quires meetings of the directors to
be held there.
Refusal of several foreign corpor•
tions to give the commission infor-
mation about their ownership and
business in the state is responsible
for the order, it is said.
OIL TAKES BIG DROP.
A SWEEPING REDUCTION IN
PRICE OF OIL ANNOUNC-
ED TODAY BY ROCKE-
FELLER'S TRUST.
New York, N. Y., June 26.—The
Standard Oil company today an-
nounced a reduction in the price of
oil of ten cents per hundred gallons,
making refined oil in cases $10.80; re
fined in tanks. $4.90; Standard white,
$8.40; refined at Philadelphia, $8.35.
Crude Oil Down, Too.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 26.—The an-
nouncement was made today by the
Standard Oil company of another
cut of five cents in the price of crude
petroleum.
PLUTOCRAT AND POET.
Good old opulent John D.l He
would look with scorn on me; Icon
sider I'm in luck, when I have an
extra buck; buying ice or buying
coal always keeps me in the hole,
and when I have paid the rent I
am left without a cent. Yet I'm al-
ways gay and snuj? happy as a tuni-
blehug, having still the best of time-
grinding out my blame fool rhyrms!
' >hl John D., on t'other hand, frets
away to beat the band; he is burden
cd with his mare—though he isn't
with his hair—and his health is going
back, and his liver's out of whack,
and his conscience has grown numb,
and his wishbone's out of plumb, and
he's thembling all the day lest a
plunk may get away. Better be a
cornfed bard, writing lyrics by the
yard, with an apetite so gay it won't
balk at prairie hay, than to have a
mighty pile, and forget the way to
smile!—Walt Mason.
HAVE BOMBINED
CITY EQUALIZATION BOARD
110LDS MEETING AT EAST
NEGRO LYNCHED.
ANGRY MOB DRAGS PRISON-
ER FROM JAIL AND STRINGS
HIM TO TELEPHONE POST..
Wilburton, Okla., June 26—Mob
violence dealt out justice with a sure
and certain hand, at one o'clock Sat-
urday morning, when seventy five
armed men turned out the lights if
this city, cut the telephone wires t<>
the home of the city marshal and the
sheriff, then stormed the county jail,
capturing Sylvester Stcnnicn, alias
"Alabama Red," a negro and hang-
ed him to a telephone pole.
At 4 o'clock the negro's body was
cut down, the lights were, turned on
again, and Wilburton is as quiet as
though the lynching party had never
been attended.
Stennien murdered Albert Turner,
a one-armed deputy constable last'
Thursday afternon, when the con-
stable arrested him near a coal mine
west of McAlester.
SEVENTEEN OKLAHOMA RAIL
ROADS HAVE JOINED
HANDS TO ATTACK THE
COMMISSIONS UNI-
FORM ACCOUNTING
ORDER.
Gu*h. ie, Okla., June 25—The sev-
enteen Oklahoma railroads have
Ci/in.ined again to attack the uni-
form accounting orde- if the cor-
poration commission, and have ap
;.;..Md to the supreihi 'curt. The
[-'.'it on in appeal all ges that the
order is contrary to the state con
stitution, an iritei n rence with the
interstate comma: laws, am cas un-
able. contrary to law, outside of tin
ju isd.'ction of '.lie commission, and
was not properly published. This i-.
the ninth joint at-.uk through the
supreme court which the railroad*
of Oklahoma hav3 made on corpora
tion commission orders.
THE CONSUMER.
They will tinker with the tariff till
the rivers are gone dry, they will
wrestle with the subject night and
day; they'll be piling up the language
when the snow begins to fly. they'll
be fiddling in the same old weary
way. O, the grand old weary won-
ders who adorn the senate floor, till
the windup of the world will be on
the deck; and there's just one thing
that's certain, that is sure for ever-
more; the consumer always gets it
in the neck. There is talk of hides
and leather, and there's talk of nails
and glue, there are weary mads of
twaddle on cement; and the man
from Buncombe Corners stands and
toots his loud bazoo, till his lang-
uage in the ceiling makes a dent; no
one in this martyred country knows
how long this will endure, and there's
isn't any way the flood to check; and
there's just one thing about it that
is reasonably sure; the consumer al-
ways gets it in the neck.
—Walt Mason.
Isaac Graham of Noble came up to
Norman Friday atternoon to visit
his father and other relatives.
The ci' •'•ion board met
this tnor ->se of go-
ing over i. ■isors
books and to c.
ties in the assessmei. ilu
have been made by the cit>
or to hear complaints of any ti
payer who may feel that he has not
been assessed fairly. The imparl-
ance of the work of this board we
fear has never been fully appreciat-
ed by the tax payers of the city as
they should appreciate. It will prob-
ably take the board some days to do
the work properly. The entire ass-
essment of the property of the city
should be carefully gone over by the
board. Enough was shown to the
board this morning to warrant the
board in making a close and very
thorough examination of all the ass-
essments made in the city. There was
enough of incqualitites in assess-
ments shown to the board this morn-
ing to impress upon the board the
need and the magnitude of the job.
In the past equalization boards in
Norman have been exceedingly lax
in discharging their duty, merely ac-
cepting the assessment as made by
the' assessor, but we expect present
board to establish a new precednt,
for future board to follow, to-wit:
accept no assessor's assessments
without examination.
WIFE NOT GUILTY.
Oklahoma City, June 26.—Mrs.Em-
ma Prickett is not guilty of being an
accomplice to the crime of assault
with intent to murder her husband,
L. E. Prickett, according to the ver-
dict of the jury before which her
trial was held.
James Wilson, alleged co-conspir-
ator in the crime, was found guilty
by the same jury which set the wo-
man free and his punishment was
fixed at one year and one day in the
penitentiary.
The jury returned a verdict in the
district court Saturday morning at
10 o'clock.
("has. Latter left. Saturday after-
non for Iowa to join his wife who
was in Iowa on account of the sick-
nes of her aged father.
M. J. Stow was in Norman Satin-
day. He reports that the rain had
not been so heavy in his part of the
county but that they had an abund-
ance. He also reported that his son
Fred who is a mail carrier at Ho-
bart, had notified him that he had
taken unto himself a wife and that
he and his wife would pay him a
visit in August.
The condition of Tom Poland is
reported to be much improved this
morning.
Why
Hon. A. D. Hickok was in Nor-
man Saturday looking for Postmas
ter Burke in order to find out from
him what he would think of "tariff
' revision," provided he was not a
candidate for appointment as po-t
master. Mr. Hickok said that he real-
ized that being a candidate might
I influence his views.
j MUs Thclma Bitiford now seems
i to be safely on the road to recovery.
The wound has healed and she is
able to walk around and is regaining
j strength rapidly.
Be Without a High Grade
Sewing Machine
?
When
$1.00
Down
and
50c a
week
buys
one.
Have The best
Line of MACHINES
Made.
Such as the Wheeler & Wilson, White,
"The Free", Standard, Paragan, New
New Royal and many others. Let us
show you these and you will be convinced
Remember $1.00 Down and
50c a Week Buys One.
And Your Credit is Good.
MEYER, MEYER & MORRIS,
"The House Furnishers."
D y Phone 67; Night Phone 242. Norman, Oklahoma
W hen
50c a
one.
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