The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA
FARMER AND LABORER
"Organization Is 07>e True Spirit o/ CT/>e Age'
VOL. 2—NO. 3
GUTIIKIE, OKLAHOMA, F KM DAY, JANUARY * . 1911.
SI. 00 I'Eli YEAR
LEGISLATURE.
Governor Haskell's message will be
read Saturday. . He will review his ad-
ministration, and will make no recom-
mendations.
Fred S. Caldwell, council to the gov-
ernor in charge of prohibition enforce-
ment, frankly admits that the office
which he holds is not necessary and
recommends that it be abolished.
The following bills were introduced
in the house: —
House bill No. 13 by McClintic, that
no marriage license shall be issued to
any person without a certificate from
a reliable phycician certifying to the
applicant's good health. The emer-
gency clause is attached.
By DeFord of Oklahoma county, re-
pealing article 35, chapter 25 of the
laws compiled by Snyder, relating to
the gambling act.
By Harris, that all judges in crimi-
nal cases shall assess the punishment
in a conviction.
By DeFord, repealing sections 3 and
9, chapter 69 of Snyder's statutes of
the first legislature, relating to the
liquor laws.
By Harris of Logan, and Fuller, re"
pealing article 1, chapter 26 of Snyder's
session laws.
By Webb and Anthony in the house
and Thompson in the senate, relating
to prohibition.
By Woodson, M'Clintic and Cham-
bers, increasing the salaries of county
superintendents, providing clerk hire
for same and repealing all acts in con-
flict therewith.
By Green, locating the Oklahoma
state normal school for the blind at
Purcell and making an appropriation
therefor.
By Wright, taxing costs for juries in
civil cases to be paid from the petit
jury fund.
By Edwards, locating the state blind
school at Stigler and appropriating for
the same.
By Lennox, amending certain sec-
tions of the law relating to county and
district officers, limiting their practice
and providing for a stenographer.
Tha following house bills were put on
second reading:
By Milburn, amending certain sec-
tions of the fees and salaries law.
By Green, regulating the fees and
salaries of justices of the peace in cities
and toArns of different population.
By Champion, Rexroat, providing for
jury trials in civil cases, referred to
the committee on judiciary No. 2.
By Jackson, Miller and Miller of
Muskogee, for a state agricultural and
stockmen's exposition, referred to the
committee on public buildings.
By Crawford and Coughlin, relating
to certain sections of the law relating
to county and district officers, referred
to the committee on fees and salaries.
By Moore of Ottawa, providing for
toilets in interurban cars.
By Williams, for free text books, re-
ferred to committee on education.
By Harris, for the giving of testi-
mony of witnesses in previous trials,
referred to committee on judiciary
No. 1.
By Aiken, appropriating certain
monies not already expended for state
•university.
Moore of Ottawa, for protection of
fish and game, referred to fish and
game committee.
By Gillespie, locating the state school
for the blind at Tulsa, referred to pub-
lic buildings committee.
A public buildings committee was ap-
pointed, consisting of Tehee, Crawford,
Aiken, Harris, Jackson, Jayne, Logan,
Steen, Aright, Whitman, Smith of
A lair. New, Charles, Kneeland and
Vogle.
to all who need same in furtherance of
scientific or medical purposes. The bill
is being fathered by the Anti-Saloon
league.
An act increasing the pay of the
state commissioner of labor to $3,000
per annum, was introduced by Sorrells.
This is known as Senate Bill No. 6, and
carries an emergency clause.
Senate Bill No. 7 and 8, by Williams,
provides appropriations for the per-
diem of senators and employes and
other officers of the body.
Senate Bill No. 9, by Kendrick, pro-
vides for an appropriation to reimburse
the Oklahoma City board of education
to build the necessary annex to the
present capitol house. A joint resolu-
tinn by Kendrick approves the contract
between Governor Haskell and the Ok-
lahoma City board of education con-
cerning the present quarters of the
state officials and the proposed annex.
Senator P. J. Goulding of Enid, dis-
trict deputy of the Knights of Colum-
bus, introduced Senate Bill No. 10, de-
signating October 12, of each year as a
state holiday. This is the anniversary
of the discovery of America by Colum-
bus and is observed by many states.
Resolutions asking that the labor
lobyists be admitted were referred un-
til next legislative day.
Following the motion of Senator Ven-
denventer that smoking be abolished, a
short debate waa held and the vote
showed that 17 favored the abolition
and 14 did not. The sergeant at arms
was told to enforce the rule.
146,000 MEN MAY STRIKE,
Italian Railroad Employes Will Apply the
"Subotago."
Rome, Dec. 28.—The leaders of the
railway employes declare their unions
include 146,000 members and that they
are now ready to inaugurate a strike
for an increase of wages. They add
that "sabotago" will be applied in such
a manner as to insure the complete
success of the movement.
The government officials declare
that they are ready to adopt extreme
measures, including the militarization
of the railway men.
U, S. SUPREME COURT HOLDS BACKING
LAW GOOD.
Depostors Guarantee Ena tment Coas Not
Conflict witli Constitution,
Washington, Jan. 3. —The bank guar-
anty lawd of Oklahoma, Nebraska and
Kansas were declared constitutional to-
day by the supreme court of the Uni-
ted States, and thus the fight over the
policy of guaranteeing, through the
state of deposits in banks, was won by
the advocates of such a policy.
Predictions of one of the most bitter
fights in the present legislature are
m ide by those who have heard of the
bill Kate Barnard, commissioner of
charities and corrections, proposes for
the pro.ecti n of Indian orphans and
minors. The bill which is being drawn
geeks the creation of a state guardian
who^e duty it shill bi tj minage the
affairs of such Indian children.
Senator J. B. Thompson of Pauls
Valley, will cham.iion a bill providing
for two additional judges on the state
supreme court and also the establish-
ment of an intermediate court of limi-
ted jurisdiction to which certain cases
shall be appealed instead of to the su-
preme court.
The most important bill introduced
Wednesday was in Senate Bill No. 5,
by Thompson, which abolishes the state
dispensary and virtually, if strictly en-
forced, will mean the abolition of the
liquor traffic. The bill provides
that the state dispensary be
abolished and that an agency be opened
for the distribution of alcoholic liquids
SENATOR ELKIrJS OF W. VA„ DEAD,
Washington, Jan. 4. —United States
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West
Virginia, died at 12 o'cl ick tonight af-
ter a lingering illness. Members of his
family were present when the end came.
CITY IN BRIEF.
Keep your name and business before
the public.
The Elks Barber shop has moved to
its new quarters in the new Branthouse
building on South Second street.
Guthrie is getting ready to bore for
oil and gas. Mose Weinberger is su-
perintending the financial end. Sev-
eral thousand dollars has already been
subscribed by citizens, and it is con-
templated to sink a well deep enough so
that there will be no doubts whatever
in the matter.
Sheriff John Mahoney went down to
Granite with Gerald Jolly, who will be-
gin his two year sentence for burglary,
after having just finished fifty days in
jail from another conviction in the su-
perior court for bootlegging.
Explosion Kills Six Miners.
Sydney, C. B., Jan. 3.—An explosion
of gas caused the death of six miners
in the south section of No. 4 colliery of
the Novia Scotia Steel company's
mines at Sydney today. Eight miners
were entombed by the fall of coal and
stone, and only two were rescued.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE - STILLWATER.
Those housewives who trfed to coax
212 degrees of heat from their gas
stoves in order to bring coffee to the
boiling point should find solace in the
troubles of the newspaper workers.
Linotype machines cast at 550; stereo-
type metal at about 650 degrees and
chalk platan, such as the weather map,
at 900 degrees. Baking biscuits and
making coffee is at the bottom of the
ladder of difficulties encountered in the
gas country in zero weather.
You can keep your sails trimmed for
another cold snap.
Dec. 20, 1910.
Dear Sir: —We ask your co-operation
in securing the attendance at our spec-
ial Week's Short Course of a goodly
number of farmers, farmers' wives,
and boys and girls from your locality as
a matter of improving the system of
farming in our state.| Last year we
had an attendance of over seven hund-
red, and we expect this year's Short
Course to be larger, better and more
productive of good than before.
H. W. Campbell, the most noted spe-
cialist in the United States on the con-
servation of soil moisture, will be with
us. Ex-Governor Hoard, the dairy
governor of Wisconsin, has been invi-
ted. R. L. Bennett, perhaps the great-
est cotton expert in the United States,
is expected. C. L. Stoner, of Musko-
gee, a practical dairyman, will lecture.
These, and other lecturers, will assist
the faculty of the college during Short
Course Week.
Among fhe special features of the
course will be: A convention of dele-
gates from county boys' and girls clubs
of the state, January 16.
Lectures and demonstrations on cot-
ton culture.
Domestic science lectures anddemon-
stru o.i.-, each afternoon.
Instruction in the selection of fruit
trees, shade trees, etc.
Demonstrations in seed corn selec-
tion and discussion of the available sup-
ply of seed corn.
Lectures on economical feeding of
live stock.
State Bee-Keepers' convention.
Lectures and demonstrations on hog
cholera, black leg, and tuberculosis.
Lectures and demonstration on dairy
farming.
Lectures on the conversation of soil
moisture and dry land farming.
The college live stock, science labra-
tories and work shops will be open to
inspection during the week.
Morning, afternoon and night sess-
ions will be held each day. No fees are
charged. Room in Stillwater home?
will be reserved for all parties writing
in before January 10.
Sincerely yours,
J. H. CONNELL, President.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Na( Goodwin has an aptness for win-
ning wives, but can't hold 'em.
It is slid that many thousands of
cattle are starvio to death in Texas,
due to the long continued drouth.
Two aviators met their death on the
last day of 1910; Moisant at New Or-
leans, and Hoxsey at Los Angeles.
Ed, Howe, who has been editor of
the Atchison, (Kansas) Globe, for the
past 33 years, has retired to private
life.
Lieutenan Governor-elect McAlester
announces the appointment of J. E.
Duncan, of McAlester, as his private
secretary, and Mrs. L. K. Taylor of
Chickasha stenographer.
Ruth Camer on inveighs against the
ladies who bundle up their throats with
furs and then wear low shoes and thin
stockings, which naturally leads Wal-
ter Johnson to the conclusion that
Ruthie is not blest with shapely ankles.
Carl Morris, Oklahoma heavyweight,
says he won't go back to his engine
until he has whipped Jack Johnson.
Carl is a Shawnee boy, and served un-
der Col. Hoffman during the Spanish
American war, and also in the Philip-
pines.
Shawnee has succeeded in landing an
immense cotton mill; that will give em-
ployment to several hundred people.
It will be located on the former site of
the Big Four Packing plant. W. B.
Smith Whaley of Boston, is the pro-
moter.
A fashion note from out on the Cen-
tral Branch in Kansas: "Advices re-
garding the new spring styles are to
the effect that lines are to be straighter
than ever, and more tight-fitting, until
the garb'of our women looks more like
the swathing of a mummy. If the
style artists are not soon checked our
dressmakers will ' lose their job# in
favor of the tattoo artists."
When Hettie Leblanc was acquitted
she received bushels of mail. Some of
the letters were from theatrical man-
agers, who wished to engage her. One
of them offered her $500 a week, which
probably was more than she could earn
in any laundry. There were many of-
fers of marriage from young men who
seemed to be acting in good faith. It
is possible to understand the ordinary
kind of a fool, but the fool who wants
to mary a girl with llattie's record is
in a class by himself, and the fact that
he is numerous explains the discour-
aged appearance of the fool-killer.—
Emporia Gazette.
THE CURE OF STRIKES.
from Chlcaqo Daily Socialist.
Justice will cure strikes. That is the
only thing that will cure strikes. You
may pettifog agreements; you may
close the shop to scabs, or to union
men; you may legislate; you may have
public opinion for you or against you;
all avail nothing if there be not justice.
Justice, envenhanded. Justice that
awards to all the primal essentials of
life. Justice that succors the weak
and gives the strong power to serve-
to serve all not himself alone, or his
wife, or his children, or his class, or
his nation, or his race, but all.
The earth is for all. It is suffi-
cient for all. So is the air and the sun-
shine. There is enough grain to feed
all; enough wool and cotton to clothe
all; enough coal to warm all; enough
stone and brick and wood to house all.
Man, the collective man, the race is
strong. He masters the elements and
bends them to his bidding. They drive
his engines, his shops, his factories,
his railroads. They are his tireless
servants. Under his direction, his la-
bor, the joyous, well-rewarded labor of
all, he creates food and clothing and
homes for all. Enough for all.
The class man is not just and, falling
justice, he fails all. With the labor of
all he creates wealth, makes money
and then keeps for himself what all
created.
This is not fair, nor just, nor decent.
There are two classes: One that
owns the earth, the factories, the shop,
the money, and a class that owns noth-
ing but naked bodies.
That is unjust, bitterly unjust.
Justice, real, practical justice, that
feeds, clothes, houses all; justice that •
walks among the workers and makes
much of them; that does not sulk in li-
braries; does not sit in judgment; does |
not condemn; justice that loves; human
justice, not class justice, will open the
treasures of the nature for all. It will
care for all.
Not charity, but justice, will give to
every man, every woman, every child
the opportunity to live, to live without
fear, to live joyously and happily.
Today there is class war. It is un-
necessary. There is enough for all.
For capitalist and for worker.
Tomorrow we realize this. We will
work together—make goods for use-
not for profit. Every one will get his
share. That is just, no more, no less.
Today we begin to feel the dawn of
tomorrow. That is why we strike.
That is why we fight.
Mankind is divided.
There is boss and worker. Back of
the boss is the owner, the rich man, the
millionaire. Back of the worker are
children—boys, girls, babies, pregnan
women.
It is unfair, inhuman, rotten, but it
is the beginning of something better.
Better for all. For the boss, the mill-
ionaire, for the worker and those who
are back of him
Today justice is a noise, the noise of
hunger; the noise of shame; the noise
of the outcast.
It is a loud noise, rancorous and
bitter.
It wi
is the
mob.
Tomorrow it will be a voice, vibrant
with consciousness. It will no longer
appeal. It will act. It will rebuild
the second structure. Will build on
justice, equity, brotherhood.
f
11 be heard, must be beard. It
cry of the disinherited, of the
PFRSONAL MlNTION.
Don G. Eggerman was in the city
Tuesday from Shawnee.
E. L. Kistler of Muskogee, was in
Guthrie this week, on legal business.
W. T. Field, marshal of the supreme
court, was in Oklahoma City yesterday
on business.
W. H. Wadsworth was up from
Chickasha Wednesday, attending to
some legal matters.
The capital has moved to Oklahoma
City for the present. Will be back
before the roses bloom again.
Mrs. Deerdolph and family of Kansas
City, Mo., who have been visiting her
sister, Mrs. W. T. Field, left for their
home Sunday evening.
Misses T. B. and Jessie McLean,
who have been visiting their uncle, W.
T. Field and family, left Saturday
evening for their home in EI Reno.
Miss Pearl Carpenter, who has spent
the holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. P. C. Carpenter, returned to Kan-
sas City, Saturday evening.
Mrs. Cora Diehl-llarvey, register of
deeds of Logan county, in 1892-93, is
in Guthrie from New York City. She
now travels for the National Commit-
tee of the Unemployed and Brother-
hood Welfare Association. This is an
organization for caring for the unem-
ployed.
TOM JENKINS
1 12 WEST OKLAHOMA AVENUE
BUY YOUR GOODSAT A
UNION STORE
WE HAVE
Union=Made Suits
Union-Made Shoes
Union=Made Hats
a nd
UNION-MADE
WORK CLOTHING
We have about 500 pairs Ladies
and Children's Shoes that we
are closing out at Manufacturer's
Cost. You had better save a few
dollars by buying your shoes
here while the sale lasts.
One Price to all, and that Price
the Very Lowest for Good,
Honest Merchandise.
TOM JENKINS
LINDWAI.L TAILOR
117 South First Street.
The man who treats you Right.
SUITS 3118.50
and
UPWARD
Why buy readymade clothing, when you can get
your Suit or Overcoat at these prsceeV
Satisfaction guaranteed. All of our CLOTHES
are UNION MADE.
Our Merchandise Is Better-And Cheaper.
punprn nrpA11Qr through the immense purchasing
UIILnl Lll ULUnUOL powerourbig syndicate of stores
we are able to buy direct from the biggest mills and manu-
facturers, saving fully 20 to 25 per cent on the prices of our
merchandise—consequently selling it ALWAYS FOR LESS.
BETTER, BECAUSE-
we insist on everything" complying
with our high standara of quality be-
fore it is accepted; hence you find only at this store mer-
chandise of the finest character; Wooloex Suits and Skirts,
American Lady, Warners, Nemo and Modart Corsets, Onyx
Hosiery, Queen Quality Shoes, etc.
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