Shawnee Daily Herald. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 99, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SHAWNEE HKRALU WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1909.
MORNING EDITION
BUSINESS IS SENSITIVE
II goes only where il is invited and
slays only where il ;is well treated.
BANK OF COMMERCE OKLAHOMA
THESHAWNEE DAILY HERALD
BY THE STATE PUBLISHING CO.
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TELEPHONES—
Business Office, 278.
Editorial Office, 304.
Patrons will confer a favor upon u by never calling us
over the business office phone (278) after 7:30 p. m.
I'ee the editorial office phone No. 304 after that hour.
TO the people of oklahoma. •
' Shawnee announces Her candidacy for the Per-
■ manent Seat of Government of Oklahoma, subject
• to the will of th« people.
When the property owner is made afraid to rent his
property to bootleggers, the time of the open joint will
be short,
—T o
There are more public buildings now in (."Ursc of
construction in Shawnee than in any other city of
Oklahoma.
0
"The wish is father to the thought." Perhaps that
is why the Republican press sees in every move of the
Governor or the Attorney General some manifestation
of hostility.
0
Shawnee has every necessary foundation for a gr*at
growth within the next year except a fully unified set
of boosters. Let's get together and make the town take
its proper place.
0
Some of the counties of Oklahoma arc crying hard
times. Not so Pottawatomie. A three million dollar
cotton crop puts this county on "Easy Street." Bank
ere and merchants report trade conditions as good, and
collections the best in years.
0——
TO TRY PROHIBITION IN MISSOURI?
Undeterred by the cyclone experiences of Oklahoma,
Missouri is plunging into the midst of n campaign for
state-wide prohibition. The first step taken is tho pro-
mulgation of a constitutional amendment to be voted
on at the 1910 election. The proposed amendment is
as follows:
"The manufacture of intoxicating liquors shall be
and is hereby prohibited in this state except for medi-
cal, scientific and mechanical purposes. The sale of in-
toxicating liquors also shall be and is hereby prohibited
in the state except for medical, scientific and mechani-
cal purposes. The manufacture or sale of wine for
sacramental or religious purposes shall also be ex-
cepted."
Tho amendment is patterned after the Kansas pro-
hibitory constitutional amendment adopted in that
state over a quarter of a century ago.
NO NEED FOR APPREHENSION.
it is now reported that Caddo county has a grand
jury after the officials of that county for '"grafting;"
that the sheriff of Beckham county has been suspended
for the same reason; that one of the prominent county
officials of Northwestern Oklahoma lias been acquiring
wealth in ways that are more devious than honorable;
and bo on ad nauseam. On the face of it, things look
bad.
Yet we should not forget that the stage through
which we are now passing is common to all States just
recovering from the territorial stage. It takes time for
the people to take up their new duties of citizenship,
and to weed out the element that always prospers in a
territory—the element of lawlessness and dishonesty.
Our present condition in Oklahoma is a heritage from
previous years, and will pass with the men who have
kept tho power acquired at that time.
The observant man will indeed find a comfort in the
fact that tho reaction has come so early. Already the
mass of the people have become so wearv of the op-
pression of dishonesty in office that it is a practical
certainty that the criminals will be weeded ont, and
that the next election will sec a different kind of men
installed into office. We might properly be apprehen-
sive if lawlessness in and out of office were continuing
unpunished. But so long as we have the public spirit
and some public officials that insist that the conditions
shall not persist, we may rest assured that our society
and our government is capable of purifying itself.
The announcement that a new subsidiary company
will be organized by the Standard Oil Company for the
purpose of building an additional pipe line to care for
Oklahoma oil, marks the end of a great contest between
the State of Oklahoma and the most powerful monopoly
in existence .
Standard Oil has never fancied the supervision of
Oklahoma's Corporation Commission. This has been
the center about which the whole controversy has been
waged. The Prairie Oil and Gas Company, a subsi-
diary of the Standard, insisted that it had a right to
build a pipe line, acquire property in Oklahoma, and
extend its lines across the public roads, thus practically
exercising the right of eminent domain, though domes-
ticating and making itself fully amenable to the laws
of this State and the supervision of the Corporation
Commission. Attorney General West insisted that it
did not have such a right, and that before it could ex-
ercise the powers it wished to use, it must first place
itself in such a position that the oil producers of Okla-
homa would not be entirely at its mercy. When the
Prairie Company attempted to accomplish its end in
spite of the protest of the Attorney General, he ob-
tained an injunction preventing it, and though the sit-
uation was complicated by an unfortunate controversy
as to the relative powers of the two most important
.10 | brandies of the executive arm of the State government,
$4.00 | he made it impossible for the company to proceed with
2.00 | its plans. Finally, the company has decided that it is
100 better to comply with the law than to do without the
■40 business, and the present announcement is the result.
j This is a great victory for the State, and is especially
_ E | a vindication of Attorney General West. He has been
most severely criticised by many interested in the oil
business, on the ground that his action in preventing
| the building of the Prairie Company's pipe line was a
fatal blow to the industry. The producers wanted pipe
lines at any cost, and believed it was better to overlook
what might be a technical violation of the law for the
;ake of the great benefit to be gained by their construc-
tion. The Attorney General has insisted that no mate-
rial advantage would be lost by the delay, but that the
company, which needs to buy tho oil just as much as
the producers need to sell it, would eventually take
the steps necessary to secure the business, and that
then the producers would have the pipe lines needed,
under the conditions so much better than if the Prai-
rie's plans were carried out that all the loss might re-
sult from the delay would be many times compensated
for.
His first claim is fully sustained, and there is no
dubt that in time the producers will fully admit the
second. This pipe line will be operated strictly under
the laws of this State, which effectually prevent the
abuses most prominent in the oil field. Discrimination
in service or rates will he impossible, and the increased
capacity furnished will ho available for the building
up the oil district as a whole. The contention that the
Standard Oil Company is too great to be adequately
controlled by the State of Oklahoma has been fully
disproved, and it will he easier in the future to make
our laws apply to refractory corporations because of the
precedent established in this case.
OKLAHOMA BREVITIES
Pawnee is to have a new institu-
tion, the Buffalo Park Sanitarium, es-
tablished by Dr. Moore.
Several Oklahomans drew farms at
Aberdeen. The lottery habit once
formed is hard to overcome.
There Is a moral In the fact that a
Cherokee, Oklahoma, man went In-
sane over the Cook-Peary contro-
versy.
The Manchester Journal can not
understand why deaf people will in-
sist upon walking on the railroad
track.
Everybody is waiting with patience
to learn the inwardness and outward-
ness of that Oklahoma City bank fail-
ure.
Kay county's coursing events last
i-ek satisfied dog owners that they
have at last found an ideal coursing
country.
Ed Cray, whose printing office is
next door to the bank, says: "The
prime essential to a successful bank-
ing business is honest business, not
politics.
Of course it doesn't signify but the
Oklahoma townships which want to
become Cook county would better
wait until Mount McKinley's summit
gives up its secret.
.Don't people often sit on your |
feet? If you are nervous', people say
it is a fooi idea, and should be whip-
ped out of you, therefore, many of
them sit on your feet purposely, to
say nothing of those who jar your
bed without knowing It down near
Wyandotte, lately, a man killed three
of his kin in one afternoon. He had
been nervous for years, and unable
to sleep. People said his inability to
sleep was all a notion, so they sat on
his feet, and drove him crazy."—
Drake Watson.
FROM OTHER CRIBS.
That 23-yearold New Jersey hus-
band who ran away from bis 63-year-
old bride is probably still making
good time.
It is getting time for Cook to use
a few of those polar dashes in his
interviews and lectures. His equnam-
lty isn't human.
TIME-
Wilbur D Nesbit
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PERHAPS THERE'S ANOTHER WAY AS GOOD.
That the constitution needs amendment in some par-
ticulars in order to encourage the building of railroads
in Oklahoma is being urged by many people over the
entire State. Chief among the supporters of the idea
of amendment are the officers of the Oklahoma Central
Railway Company, who are trying to take advantage
of the present feeling and secure the initiation of a
special amendment which will serve some special pur-
poses of their company. Chairman Jack Love of the
Corporation Commission in a recent interview calls at-
tention to the important fact that in order to secure
the repeal of the section which seems to be the most
obnoxious to the railway people, it is not necessary to
invoke the aid of the initiative. At the last session of
tho legislature a proposal was framed, to be submitted
at the general election in 1010, which effectually draws
the teeth of tho objectionable section.
It is not the attention at this time to discuss the
merits or demerits of the Oklahoma Central proposal,
but it is worth while to observe that this company has
not been wholly ingenuous in its presentation of the
matter. The impression fostered by the representatives
of the company is that in order to secure the repeal of
the section, the only means available arc those offered
by the initiative.
It may bo that mature investigation will develop the
fact that the initiated provision is sufficiently superior
to the one submitted by the legislature to pay for the
great expense incident to the call of a special election.
It does not appear at first blush, however, and tl.ost
who are pushing the initiation of the setter would do
well to put the whole truth before the people when thf
ask them to sign the petitions.
O
A PECULIAR SITUATION.
The quail season in Oklahoma does
not begin until the 15th of November,
neverthless hunters are out with
their guns and dogs and have com-
menced the slaughter of birds. Of
sourse such law violators are of tho
pot shot school.
It is strange that nothing new in
the argument line against the protec-
tive tariff has appeared since the
campaign of 1846—Des Moines Capi-
tal. That may be true, says an Okla-
homa editor, nor has there been any-
thing ntw said against other forms
of larceny since the decalogue for-
bade It.
If Hunter, convicted of murdering
Sheriff Garrison o£ Oklahoma county,
and sentenced to hang, did the re-
markable thing in the Garfield county
jail where is confined of writing to
Sheriff Campbell for some barbecue
beef instead of writing the pardon
board for his freedom. He should
have made good on an insanity de-
fense.
It it is against the peace and dig-
nity of the great state of Oklahoma
for a colored porter to enter a white
Santa Fe waiting room in the per-
formance of his duty as a porter, a
Pawnee editor demands information
as to what sort of an offense it is
for a Santa Fe colored ported to en-
ter a white passenger coach, stand-
ing in front of said waiting room.
Thirty-six hundred and thirty-five
dollars is the record made by Dr. R.
C. Pippin, from forty-seven acres of
alfalfa this year, raised on ihs farm
in the Wild Horse botton, south of
Pond Creek. The Doctor cleared up
his alaflfa crop one day last week and
the above sum is what it netted him.
He marketed 134 tons of hay at $9
per ton, a total of $1,200; he had one
seed crop of 131 bushels, sold for $9
per bushel, a total of $1,190, and he
sold the threshing straw to the al-
falfa meal mill for $250, a grand to-
tal of $2,635. This has not been a
good hay year, the dry weather cut-
ting down the yield.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Card playing is more foolish thar
wicked.
Very few people can tell the dif-
ference between a joke, an inBult and
a complaint.
A woman's idea of economy is for
her husband to quit smoking, so she
can pay more for her hats. x
Mr. Taft's advice to Texas boys to
"stick to the farm" is good, better in
fact than his advice to Winona to
stick to Aldrich and Cannon.
Hallowe en passed off with the
usual damage to fences, out houses,
walks and hitching posts. But then,
were you never a boy yourself? ,
And yet Texas has done nothing up
to date to express her state pride in
Jack Johnson, the champion of the
world, who is a citizen of that com-
monwealth.
The Kansas City Journal asks.
"What's a republican?" What's the
use of the Journal raising a fool ques-
tion like this when the Journal knows
the answer so well? A republican is
a congressman who minds Joe Can-
non and Senator Aldrich and speaks
kindly of President Taft.
Whatever may be in the story of a
congressional combine of republican
insurgents and democrats, the two
elements appear to have actually fus-
ed on the North Dakota senatorship.
Secretary Dickinson is making a
noise like willingness to be sent to
the senate by the Tennessee demo-
crats, though he says his place in
the Taft cabinet will not permit him
to scramble for the toga.
One of tho most fundamental principles set forth in
tho Gospel, and at the same time one of the most con-
tested of all the beliefs of the Christian faith is the
principle that force is not a proper method to use,
cither for a good or bad cause. The injunction "Re-
sist not evil" is at the foundation of a great part of the
teachings of the New Testament; while men who hive
denied the value of tho Gospel as a rule of life have
uniformly insisted that to take such a command se-
riously is a confession of weakness and impossible under
normal conditions.
We who live in Oklahoma find the positions of the
two classes strangely reversed. The prohibition ques-
tion is fundamentally, if not wholly, a moral question.
Yet we find the supporters of the prohibition, who are
to a very large extent believers in the Gospel, strenu-
ously supporting the doctrine of force in dealing with
the liquor problem, while the other people, who claim
that the way to get anything done is to compel it to
be done, make the welkin ring with their protests that
you can not compel people to do right.
To the individual who is interested in the working
out of principles in human life, and who has fallowed
tho long discussion of centuries as to the validity of the
principle of non-resistance, the Oklahoma situation of- _
fcrs unusual opportunities for observation—provided of i mother! or advise with her, and with
course his judgment is not blinded by prejudice. out thinking, would sit on her
Our idea of a perfectly polite man
is one who practices it as carefullj
when he buys as when he sells.
"For years the people have been
trying; to prove that, as they express
it, I don't amount to a whoop in hell.
And they have finally succeeded."—
Parson Twine.
Don't cultivate the habit of making
excuses. Don't offer apolgies. If you
become clever you will soon be malt-
ing: excuses instead of doing things
you should do.
Ever occur to you that your ene-
mies occasionally are pretty good
fellows? They suddenly let you alone.
Many of your troubles originate with
your friends, as you will find if you
investigate carefully.
Ain't it awful. Mabel," Nowith-
standing the vigilance of her grand-
children, a California widow of TI
succeeded in eloping with and marry-
ing a kid of 75.
Heavy St. Lou's contributors to
the expense of that steamboat jaunt
down the big river must be suspect-
ing that they bought a gild brick.
Our politicians haves no monopoly
on sizzling personalities. Gen. Estra-
da, boss of the Nicaraguan revolu-
tion, says he's after President Ze-
laya's job because he "destroys so-
ciety and menaces civilization."
Br'er Charlie Bryan says Br'er
William will enter the senatorial
race, if allowed to write the state
platform, but Governor Shallenberger
is inclined to do the platform-writ-
ing himself. Maybe also the running
for senator.
length;
li rilled
n the tablets of timt
riving and strugelin
ins a I
I till they d
of the great and ti
There's
Thrmicrh ac<
KntreK ha
tight for ti
crets of life,
tlis that
led befoi
Ha\ |
Yet after ti
rk that
Tht
Until at the last this
hid
There's always a tombston
Humanity stniggl
pla
It labors for silve
And when it ha
Must leave all il
The ships ma
still ma
The throng
hop
But this is ti
Th«
Fair ladi.
They smiled
port
with
nd throusli
Content
CinCINrlATL
Over 100 it*lias of Iraa react abowa la Mr M
1o6m. Low pricca will avpriaa r>+-
Call
We wun to bring to jour aot.lt*
'he fact that now . 'he tiryiv p'ars
that Monument order if you wlsl '1
to be finished and erected thl aeas<«4
If you pla.e the order with us. ye*
tre certain to secure the best Q04l! >
■tone, iuperb workmanship, and
moat beautiful of designs.
An examination of stock solict'ed
Pott. County
Monument Works
BUGLA88 A COLLINS, Prop.
II! N. Bell St. Phono i '
/
V
Isn't the purchase of the Wabash
railroad properties by the steel trust
a case for the department of justice*'
However, perhaps the $27,000,000 in-
volved is too small an amount for the
attorney general to bother with.
If Loeb properly states his position
he's bound to have some confessed
grafters on his staff in order to catch
the unconfessed grafters thereon,
even if he does jolt Judge Holt a bit.
The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad has no doubt that
prosperity "has came"—it's planning
to spend $85,000,000 in betterments.
Quite a convenient brand of argu
ment, that.
But where are they now? This we learn
from the belle
And the mystering blade and the fop: I
The whole of life's story these few words
will tell —
There's always a tombstone on top.
'Tis limned In the glittering bauble of
fame,
'Tis breathed in the sigh of defeat,
'Tis clicked In the dice that are thrown
in the game,
'Tis one in fair play or deceit:
The ruah and the struggle, the deed and
the dream
Must all at one tense moment stop.
No matter what else in this world there
may seem.
There's hlways a tombstone on top.
Dental Parlors
1WKa E. MAIN ST., OVER HICKEY
BROS., PHONE 1154.
Gold Crowns TH
Porcelain Cro. \/l 1(1
Bridge Work I U Ww
Set Teeth t ••••
Upper and Lower Teeth, both... 10.9#
Very best Set of Teeth made .
Upper aud Lower, both of the
best Teeth
Gold Fillings $100 up
811ver Fillings .... p A f\
Cleaning hill'
Extracting. VvU
All Work Guaranteed.
Painless Extracting.
It must have surprised a great
many to learn that the Greek navy
was big enough to pull off a revolt
for reform, with thirty officers in-
volved.
Palace ot Sweets
Fine Home Made Candles, Ice Cream
and Fancy Fruits, Cigars and
Tobaccos.
G. t. U. HORANY, New Properletcr
DRS. WILSON & GALLAHER
SPECIALISTS
Ey*\ Ear, Nose and Throat
Ir4 Floor Mammoth Bulldlnc
Rooms 113-114. Phone 7*4
SHAWNEE, OKLA.
Somehow we can't get worked up
over the assertion of scientists that
the Martians are in trouble. If there
are any inhabitants of Mars, and
they're anything like those of the old
earth, they're always in trouble.
Not the least surprising of recent j
news items was the statement of |
Bishop Spaulding of Utah, that so j
long as Utah had woman suffrage it,
would have polygamy, and that it is
the women, not the men, who want
it.
Undismayed.
Tried to the breaking point of his
endurance, the man arises from his
desk, grasps the book agent by the
collar, rushes him to the door and
heads him for the street, planting a
well-directed kick upon the place de-
signed and provided by nature to re-
ceive kicks. With a howl of pain he
seizes his foot in both hands.
"My toe! My toe!" he cries. "It Is
broken!"
Suavely the book agent turns, deft-
ly removes the offending volume from
a capacious pocket In the rear of his
trousers, and says:
"Permit me to call your attention to
'Dr. Healem's Family Compendium of
Cures for Everything.' I am now sell-
ing the few remaining sample copies
at half price. On page 38 you will
find in simple terms full directions for
first aid to broken bones of all sorts."
DAVIDSON & CASE LBR, CO.
High Class Building Material
CORNER 9th AND BEARD STREET
Telephone 16. Residence 385 Red
Glasses Fitted.
DR. J. S. CARTER
Specialist Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Office Rooms 2 and 3, Chrisney Bldg.
Shawnee Okla.
Res. Phone ZS. Office Phone :< •
Dr. C. C. Youmans
DENTIST
Roebuck Bldg Main ft Brot4wi,
SHAWNEE, OKLA.
Attorney General Wickersham isn't
a talkative man, but Judge Holt
loosened his tongue when he released
those indicted sugar trust magnates
under the statutes of limitation, and , . , ,
the result was an almost Roosevelt- • PaPered face. If you look at a ther-
That Kind of a Man.
"What kind of a man is Jabber?"
asks the person with the bath-sponge
beard.
"Why, he's this kind of a man," re-
plies the individual with the sand-
We have long wished to ask the
Ladies' Home Journal this question:
Suppose a woman should be alone in
a house with a man to whom she is
not related, and must at once go out
on the street in a gown which she
can not possibly fasten herself.
Would it be better to ask the man to
hook her up, or go out with her dress
gaping j
El Reno, Nov. 2.—Jo, the valuable
'The last time I was in Emporia. 1 trailer recently «hipped to polic
was invited to old Hill White's house headquarters in this city from Lock
to dinner. Mrs. White was ill. with {wood Kennel in Lexington. Ky„ has
ian noise.
Norman E. Mack sidesteps the idea
that he's playing a presidential fav-
orite—says the game is entirely too
young to begin discarding and trying
to draw a winner.
VALUABLE DOG MISSING.
mometer and found that it registered
ten degrees cooler than you thought
It should, and you grew comfortable
from that impression, Jabbers would
come around and explain to you that
the thermometer was out of order."
inflammatory rheumatism, and I was
not permitted to see her until old
Bill went up stairs to arrange a visit
to her room. The least jar convulsed
her with pain, and\ when w went up
a stairway, we walked softly. After
1 had been in Mrs White's room a
while, her little girl came in from
school. The little girl climbed up on
the bed. and sat on her mother's feet.
....I still remember how the mother
cringed with pain. Every little while
Easy for Him.
"Do you think your congressman
can explain his vote on the tariff bill
to the satisfaction of his constitu-
ents?" asks the visitor.
"Syre," responds the native, con-
fidently. "Why, he can come home at
is. up.I anil the police are searching thTee in the morning and make his
for hliii. The hound was recently se-I W|(e believe his reasons for missing
cured by Chief of Police McCarty for 1 ]ast car "
the purpose of tracing criminals and
is considered a highly valuable ani-
mal. A reward of $100 for the return
of the animal to headquarters has
been offered.
Lid and Handle.
"I'm going east," said the man at
the Gary (Ind.) depot. "I understand
that the lid is off at Atlantic City."
, | "Why leave home?" asked his fel-
n house cleaning give the beds'cltUen „Th(1 handle ,g on at
liberal dose of turpentine and in- Gary."
after the child had been sent out of sure freedom from vernira in bottles, j Here he cast a portentous wink at a
the room, she would run back and j- an<j 25c. Wirfs Paint and Glass Co. , Jug which had Just arrived by express
climb up on the bed. to love her .. . . ....
K Everything in Paints and Oils.
2-1 wk /
OR. THEO. P. BRIN6HURST
Dentist
3rd Floor Mammoth B'id'g.
Phone 628
RELIANCE
IRON WORKS
Phone 26S. IZS N. S« <
■team, Qaa and Gasoline Englnu
overhauled. All kinds of bollerwom
and machinery repairs promptly at
landed to.
When In need of this kind ot *,
Kindly five us n call.
J. C. WILKINSON
N
SHAWNEE TRANSFER CP
Geaeral Storage. Cratlug and Pa
I lag. All wagons at low prliea. M«-
IS| a specialty Batlsfactioa Guarm
tsed. Office phone 124, Residues.
114. Mice 281 Boutb TTnloe
WALKER A WICHAftT
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