The Daily Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 203, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 18, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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The State Capital.
By the Mate Capital Printing Ca.
PRANK H UREER, Editor.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF OKLAHOMA.
[By BaMtantof lh U|l i tnr .]
WENESDAY, DECEMBER 1H, 189S.
CLEVELAND BRACES CP.
The supine action of this atlminis*
triticH iti All patriotic policies, exter*
nil and internal, brought such a Hood
of combination from the people that
it is little wonder that Mr. Cleveland
has at last been forced to revive,
th mgh perhaps incincerely, some of
that patriotism prevailing in the dem-
ocratic party when Mr. Monroe pro-
mulgated his famous doctrine. The
republicans in congress by resolutions
and speeches demanded an American
policy toward the dependent republics
of this continent.
Cleveland saw something had to be
done. He has done it. That it Is a case
of force will not deter the people from
appreciating that he worked up back-
bone enough to do it. He now de-
clares that the attempted seizure by
lireat Britain of a part of the Venezu-
elan boundary is a pure piece of hog-
gishness on the part of the British
lion. 4Ir says if lireat Britain can
steal this much land from a weak
power. whV^'ttn't it steal whatever it
wants from any other republic
unable to cope with it? lie
says that such action is contrary
to the Monroe doctrine anil the United
States will not stand it. He has asked
congress to immediately appropriate
money to send the American navy, ac
c 3inpanied by a surveying corps
survey the lines, determine what be
longs to Venezuela and that America
will protect it from all British en-
croachments.
Mr. Cleveland you have now done
something worthy of a name. With-
out this you would have gone down to
oblivion with nothing but a very poor
destiny as your rWord mark. You
prove that you are an American—when
you have to be. The people had to
growl, and Great Britain has got much
of our gold and tramped upon our neck
with most brazen abandon, but at last
you have concluded we have got
enough.
It is noticeable that every paper in
the United States of any worth which
has so far expressed an opinion, except
the Denver Republican and New York
World, have endorsed this message.
The people are singing the "Star
Spangled Banner"' and "My Country
"liis of Thee," all over the nation. The
papers in Great Britain are rampant
an<l the British government is scared
America is ready for a w ar with Eng-
land. 1 f this means war. lay on John
ny Bull, and damn be he who first
cries enough.
SOME ILLEGAL LIGHTS.
The Guthrie School Board seems to
be overloaded with lawyers. It has
si^ legal lights and their principal joy
seems to be to do illegal things. '1 hese
lawyers have got it into their heads
that the school board treasurer is a
judicial tribunal and the school board
a court of last resort. In their peti-
tion to the district court a short time
ago, $9,000 of warrants were left out
of the bonds, the debt certified to as
9U,000 less than it really was and the
declaration made in the petition to
the court that the money was on hand to
pay these $0,000 of warrants. The board
thereafter concluded the$0,000 of war-
rants were illegal and sent a resolu
tion to the treasurer, instructing him
to refuse to pay them and to use the
cash in the treasury to pay the war
rants drawn.
This would have been a nice thing
could it have been done. It was a nice
way to repudiate old debts and get
upon a cash basis, but why a board
with six lawyers on it could conclude
that it had the power to annul the
floating indebtedness of the board by
a mere resolution is beyond th
prehension of men \vlig know, at least,
as much law as necessary.
The treasurer would have been
business dolt to have obeyed any such
resolution. Neither he nor the school ]
board have any power to
gal any v> arrant issue*! by the board of
education. This can only be done by
a court ?n«l according to liw. The
law says warrants shall be paid in the
the payment of these warrants. This
would have brought the case upon it*
merits in a tribunal that has the power
to pas* ugon the legality or illegality
of these becurities. The school board
might resolve its wind out and the
warrants would still stand aguinst the
money already appropriated by the
board and by the law for their pay
nt and the treasurer would not dare,
if he had any regard for his official
ami personal security, to pay out for
auy other purpose the money on hand
for the payment of these warrants in
order of registration.
The treasurer of the school board,
the board itself failing to bring the
suit, has hail to enter a bill of inter
pleader in the district court in order
to test the validity of these warrants
and this case is now pending in ti
ourts.
The board, because the treasurer
would not recognize its power to
peal the law, heaped obliquay upon the
treasurer and cut his salary off. It alsc
sent an crder to the county treasurer
instrutfting him to pay no more school
board *uiida to the school board trcas
urer, Hewitt. This is another collos.
al piece of legal work, worthy these
six illegal lights. If they had turned
to article 4 of chapter 45, page 242 of
the Session Laws of 1805, they would
have found the following in relation
to school taxes in cities of the first
lass: "All taxes collected for th
benefit of the schools shall be placed
in the hands of the treasurer, subject
to the order of the board of education."
There is no way whereby the board
an prevent the county treasurer from
turning this money over to the school
board treasurer. They might keep
him from turning it over to F. \V
Hewitt, but they would first have to
impeach Hewitt and throw him out of
office. In this case it is the school
board which needs impeaching for its
lack of legal sense.
What a beautiful school board we
would have if all twelve of them were
lawyers instead of only six!
IIkiu* Ahi.wAUDT, a foreigner who
couldn't talk a word of English, came
to America to lecture against the
Jews. He had less than 200 at his first
lecture in New York, and many of
these hissed him. The Jew in this
country lias most admirable comme
cial traits, lie succeeds, and d
by economy, energy, shrewdness and
advertising. America has its own id
of the Jew and it don't want any for
eign disturbance of it.
Buadr.n and Rogers are doing
sight of preliminary skirmishing,
is hoped they will get down to solid
business soon. The people want
hear this debate.
SEGER SALAD.
Skokk, Washita Co., Dec. 18.—There
is not very much wheat put in th"
year owing to the quantity of seed
The country is building up fast, tin
peoples are still pouring iu in great
droves.
We have a few more claims in the
county vacant yet.
Schools and churches have spread all
over the land.
We have fine society here.
Oilr turkeys are fat and ready.
Some are killing hogs.
Farmers have commenced to plow
f jr their next crop,
Mr. Harry Vawn, of Seger, while
reaching over the front of his wagon
was kicked on the jaw, breaking th
jaw in pieces. His physhian said h
recovery was doubtful.
We need some more girls out here
so many marrying have about run ou
Auction sale of holiday goods Satur
day, Monday and Tuesday, at the I."
tie Victor Commission House.
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LAWYERS.
Edward M. Dawson,
[Late Chief Clerk. Department of the
Interior.]
Attorney*. Counsellor atLaw
Practices In the courta of the Dis-
trict of Culuuib.a, Court of Claim*, the
Executive I> -partment* and Con^rc^s.
Special attfutiou given to Land and
Indian Buaiueaa before the Interior
Department.
Bargains!
J. W. WILSON.
Attorney-at-Law.
Gahnrtvii.i.k, Logan Co., Okla., De
is.—As this is the last issue before
Christmas, we beg to submit our be
wishes for a merry Christmas to all
readers of Thk State Capital, and
all non readers as well.
Merchants all around us are putti
in a stock of holiday goods, anticipat
ing a gootl holiday trade.
v'orn is offered here at IS cents per
bushel.
C. C. Phillips visited the territorial
capital one day this week.
Ed Blizzard hauled a load of cotton
to Choctaw City, Thursday.
We understand that our school house
will close on next Friday for a week's
vacation.
Some of the neighbors gathered at
the school house last Saturday to ceil
and daub it. This being done, the ap-
pearance of the building is much im-
proved, as well as insuring greater
comfort to the teacher and pupils.
An ageut of Jasper Sipes, of Okla
liomii City, met the school board of
this district Saturday and submitted a
ptop.jsjfTxm furnish the school with
nvwxhmrf apparati, but on account of
insufficiency of funds, the board did
I not buy. it is thought possible to get
| up a supper and thus get desks at
leelare il!e- least. We beg to submit a proposition
—that is, organize a small company
and give a literary entertainment of
some sort, charging admission fees.
A dance was given l y Mr. Hums
Wednesday evening, at which all en
«.||MIU« BUM ;> 0 •'
er Legislators Take tint Capital ICei
nioval CJuarantee Before the Governor.
Jkkkkiison City, Mo., Dec. 18.—Hop-
scntative Hothwell and Senator Yea-
r, of Pettis county, were before Oov.
St^one yesterday with the Sedalia bond
to guarantee the erection of the vari-
state buildings at Sedalia in the
event the capital removal resolution
arries as u constitutional amend-
ment. The bond stood, according to
Hothwell and Venter, as equivalent
to &r 00,000, which sum is $103,000 less
than the present value of the capitol,
armory building, supreme court build-
ing ami mansion, according to the cash
estimate fixed by Architects Hell and
Itner. The face value of the bond is
81,000,000. A further bond of $200,01)0
will be required to cover the 8103,000
and to bring the total guarantee to a
legal value (.f 9001,000
Killed at a < routing.
Df.nison, Tex., Dec. 18. —Last night
nt a late hour while Leeper (colored),
wife and daughter Martha were at
mpting to cross the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway, track a freight
gine struck the carriage, killing
Mrs. Leeper and daughter.
TKLKGKAPIIIC IIRKVITIE9.
At Pond Creek, Ok., Will McNeill
shot and killed S. P. Marshall, who
had been Indicted for undue intimacy
with Mrs. McNeill.
Miss Maud Crowther, who is charged
with embezzling $1,300 while postmis-
tress ut Fort Riley, Ivan., was arrested
at Kansas City, Mo.
Hishop Millspaugh has issued a cir-
cular letter to members of the Episco-
pal church in Kansas asking for con-
tributions for missionary work in New
York city.
Secretary Morton has issued an
order requiring a quarantine of IK)
days on all South American cattle for
this country, ami 15 days on all swine
and sheep.
A complaint has been laid beforo
congress that the news sent from Cuba
in regard to the insurrection is highly
colored in the interest of the Spauish
government.
Fifteen thousand workmen are
thrown out of work in New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City on account
of the tuilors' strike, and the number
may reach 20,000.
United States Consul Panfield, at
Cairo, Kgypt, in a letter to the state
department calls attention to the en-
croachment of Egypt upon this coun-
try as a producer of cotton.
The Southwestern Winter Wheat
Millers' association has appointed a
delegate to urge upon congress the
necessary legislation to enable Amer-
ican iniliers to get their products into
Central and South American markets.
Adjt-Oen. Fox, of Kansas, has asked
the government to balance the books
on the 810,000 charged against the
state for missing property that cannot
be found since Fox took charge of the
ottice, and therefore cannot be ac-
counted for.
Articles for the light between Fitz-
siinmons and Malier have been formal-
ly signed by both parties. The tight
will be pulled off February 14, 1890, for
a purse of 810,000 and the champion-
ship belt. Both men will train neal
El Paso. Tex.
Wanteii—A man who has had a
thorough, practical knowledge of
C. M. BARNES. C. M. MARTIN
Barnes & Martin,
Attorney-At-L a/w.
Practice in all Court and an d Office.
Oftice—Entrance 2nd floor Schnell
Building Okla., Ave., Between
Division and 1st Street.
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Boys' Mats and Caps
Frink & Hisself
Has commenced giving regu-
lar dinners—You can get a 50c
dinner for 25 cts. Spring chicken
and oysters on orders.
Opposite Postoffice.
Open Day and Night.
GAME OF ALL KINDS IN SEASON.
BRANCH OFFICE OF THE
American Detective, Information And
Collecting Agency.
Office—Soward Building Harrison Ave
We undertake investigation of crimes
capture and extradition of criminals,
leiritmate preparation of civil and
criminal evidence, investigation of
habits of employes, recovery of stolen
or lost property, location of missing
persons and fleeing debtors, collection
of debts, securing of commercial and
other information in any part of the
country. We operate throughout the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Special skilled operatives furnished.
Consult us.
Special Bargains
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Neckwear
Do you need a cheap ledger, cash
book or journal? (Jet them, home
made, of Thk State Capital
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VVc arc determined to sell more goods this month than ever before It will
pay you to investigate the bargains we give this month. See the goods, lhe
prices will suit the closest trader on earth.
Levy's Be?© 3r£ive.
Chandler ■ Mail ■ Stage.
HUGH H. McCRARY. Prop.
Leaves Guthrie Every Morning at 7 O'clock
Headquarters at Hotel Dally—Packages and Express
Should be left there.
First ClasN J^ivery in Connection.
lie In
M. L. TURNER, President.
GEO. E. BILLINGSLEY, Cashier.
Capitol Nationaj Bank
The Largest National Bank in Oklahoma Territory.
Capital and Undivided Profits, $100,000.00
The Century for The Coming Year.
THE CENTURY MAGAZINE celebrates its quarter-eenteu-
nial in its November issue with an "Anniversary Num-
n honor of the occasion it dons a new dress of type,
w headings, etc., and it appears in a new and artistic
order of registration. The moment j joyed themselves heartily. This is the
the treasurer pa:d a warrant out of second party at the home of Mr. Burns,
the order of registration, he would be *"d an/Jt,h, r is *>ut l'hrl t-
. , , , 111 us night.
liable to a suit upon his bond for dam , . . ...
1 , , Davis, of eowboy fame, did the jaw-
ages, by those whose warrants had bono act at the sc hool house last Sab-
been illc<*.ly <VUcriininatt>d against bath aud Sabbath night.
It is creditable to the business judg Preaching and baptizing at the Cole
ment .« U-. school board treasure, school h«use last Sabbath.
, ,, , , , As mentioned some time ago, a peti-
that he did not allow the sehojl board | tion was circulated praying for the
to repeal the law as far as it relateH to 1 admission of a part of the Kirkapoo
his duties as treasurer—duties he has ! country into this school district—just
given a large bond as a guarantee that - "OUgh U. make it of lawful di.uen
sions. I his was presented to Super-
he will perform exactly according to jntendent I'mholt/. but he refused to
the requirements of the law. ' join it, for some good reason of his
If the school board conceived that own. There is now some strong talk
the tu.000 Of warrants are illegal, or yf plying the matter before the coun-
ty commissioners to have the validity
containing less equity than their face, L,f tbe superintendent's objections
we should think six lawyers would tested, whien, in flew of the facts ii
i,v.• . nough to have found a I the case, we believe would be th
sensible ai^d legal way to stop the pay
ment. The school board should have!
proper course to persue.
A. L. Moore has been properly
* * ol ti
stalled as treasurer of this school dis-
etitfoncd for an injunction against J trict.
handling and manufacturing butter.
Address, .lolin A. Rogers, care Statk
Capital Printing Company.
Attention. MiihIcIhiih.
Now is the time to have your pianos
anil organs tuned and repaired for the
winter festivities, by your home tuner.
Prices are reasonable to suit the times
and worn warranted second to none
Bring in your old, laid aside violins
and guitars ami have them repaired,
adjusted and put in first-class order.
Your guitar can bo tunedd to concert
pitch, no more bridges pulled off. the
tone greatly improved and made bet-
ter iu in every way by my applying
the latest improvements. New musi-
cal goods furnished at the very lowest
prices obtainable. Call or write. Or-
ders can be left with C. \V. White, the
jeweler.
PUOF. 0 v. Kickaiwron,
•jo". Washington Avenue.
The undersigned Guthrie merchants
hereby give notice that they reserve
the right to investigate the validity of
the purchases of those holding the
greatest number of tickets in the 87'.
New Home sewing machine which they
propose to donate to the party holdiug
the largest number of tickets March
2, 1HM. It is our desire to award this
machine honestly anil to actual pur-
chasers of merchandise from the fol-
lowing firms only.
Kamhky Nuothkhs,
A .1. Sl'KMiRI.,
Welcome (Jhockky,
II. L. CtuiKs.
fakgt'iiabson it Morris,
c. r. rk.nkko,
KlSKNSCHMIDT A WECKEL
•Ionx Schmidt,
D. W. Stearns,
Steam Lacnukv.
To Whom It May Concern
Notice is hereby gi'-en that tbe Cra-
vens Mercantile Co. has this day filed
petition for lloMM to retail spirituous,
vinous or malt liquors in Guthrie, Lo-
gan county, Oklahoma, and that un-
less objection be filed by the toth day
of December, A. I). 181)5, said petition
will be granted.
R. KMM K FT Sikwaiit.
|skai.| County Clerk.
Hut before doing so, look over rny stock of Jewelry
suitable for Christmas Presents. The finest stock at
the Lowest figures to select from.
WHIT
r." Ttie Jeweler
t ■ Oklahoma Ave.
the best goods.
Pateronize Home Industry and Manu
facture.
And keep your money at home, as we j
spend all we make at home. Ask your .
grocer for the West Guthrie Roller (
Mill Corn Meal, Kalllr Corn Flour ami
Meal. We guarantee our goods to be
pure, no mixture. It your grocer don't
handle our goods, call up'phone No.
and we will see that you get our goods j
We have the only complete corn outfit
in Guthrie; we clean and scour the
corn before grinding and make the
meal ai)d flour on it purifier, the only
one for corn goods iu the city; we also
make all kinds of feed—such as corn
and kattir corn chop, wheat and corn
bran—and make you close figures on
large lots, and mix it for you if so tie-
sired. We make a specialty of ex-
change and custom work and pay the
highest price for corn of all kinds.
We also handle the celebrated Tarlton
Mill Co s Health* Big T and O. K.
Hours, manufactured at home.
Reapeotfolly,
West Guthrie Roller Mill.
For Christmas and New Year holi-
days the Santa Fe Route will sell ex-
cursion tickets at the rate of one and
one-third fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale Dec 24, 25 and 31, 1895,
.in 1 .1.in 1. I-",. Good to return iu-
eludipg .Ian. 1 s'.tr,.— L K. Hi unit
Agent.
GUTHRIE
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Steers
Chickens, old
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Turkeys....*
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Butter
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