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Remember, Mr. Voter, You Can Vole Against the Capital Bill and Yet Signify Shawnee Your Favorite Town When the Question Finally Comes lip tor Settlement
A I L
EDITION
The Shawnee Daily Herald, i
SSOCIATEO
PRESS NEWS
VOLUME XIV
Morning Edition
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA. SUNDAY. JUNE 5, 1910.
TWELVE PAGES
NUMBER 283,
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Shawnee is
Unchanged
SUBMISSION OF OPTIONS NOT
TO BE TAKEN AS RE-
CESSION.
STATE CANNOT ACCEPT THEM
SUCH IS THE UELIEF OF LEG.* L
AUTHORITIES OF SHAWNEE
AND GUTHRIE.
HASKELL BRAND PROPOSITION GOOD
Wires Mayor Stearns That Various
of the Offers Made Are Ideal
for State.
"Permit us to say that we shall
bold the foregoing proposition ,.s
binding upon us as any proposition
can bp maue under your proclama-
tion. but Shawnee has in 110 wise it-
ceded from the opinion expressed in
The Shawnee Herald of May 20tn.
!W# still believe that your request i(
without legal warrant, will have u->
legal effect and will be binding
neither upon the slaLe nor the cities
named as candidates."
With their conclusion couched in
the above words, expressing the same
opinion. Shawnee has held since fie
governor's unexpected stand upon
the capital proposition, business an-i
professional men of Snawnee extend-
ed lo the chief executive the most
favorable proposition yet made to
the state, as per that officer's call f""
option:-', "that all the people of V
nate may know what they are do-
ing.'
Following his receipt of the pr > )•
osltlon, Governor Haskell di.-patch-,1
b telegram to Ma\oi Frank !
St urns, declaring that the proposi-
tion was backed by responsible men
and that certa-'n of the proposition
would effect an adequate capital for
the state of Oklahoma, free of co. i
lo ibe taxpayers.
The executive's message t" the
mayor is as follow., verbatim.
Durant, OUla., .lull-' t. 1910,
Hon. F P. Stearns. Mayor. Shawne
Okla.
Shawnee's proposition just fi" •
«'d mi. Will be ready for publica-
tion Monday morning. Report w !!
lie verbatim copy of proposition*
Statement that I believe guarantors
are entirely responsible linaneinlly for
iheir proopsillon and that certain "I
a our propositions would produce a-,
adequate capltol building for me
. >a;e fiee of any cost to th- ia\
pavers these with other comments
k'on can teach me at Outhric; nun
<iay morning. C N. HASKh.L.1..
The paragraph quoted above con-
stituted the conclusion of the docu-
ment dispatched to the governoi i'i
Kridav. which Oklahoma City papers
ai-sumfd to lie a recession on the part
(if Shawnee from the stand previous-
ly laken on tne capital question,
.lust what there is in the following
document to provoke such concltulon
i noi altogether clear, since the men
who arc behind the proposition say
therein repoaledl; that it 13 their
belief that the state has no lego
ground upon which to accept ,
However, the signatures speak for
themselves as to the good faith of
the parties thereto.
The attitude taken by Shawnee
Is not dissimilar to that laken by
Guthrie. . .
Following is ihe proposition sub-
mitted to the governor:
Governor Chas. N. Haskell,
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
tjear Sir:
We. the undersigned officers of
the city of Shawnee, Officers anil Di-
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce,
Hell Estate Exchange, and Devel-
opment Company of the City of
6),awnee, having bad under serious
consideration your proposition of a
k]ate date addressed to the State
Capita: Committees representing
Guthrie, Shawnee a.id Oklahoma
City respectively, beg leave to sub-
mit. to you herewith our reply to-
gether with propositions covering the
selection of a state capital site or
sites at or adjacent to Shawne.
You t.ay In your proclamation tha::
# "I have no interest to serve
except that before Ihe election Is
held on June 11th the people may
l.ncw what capilal sites, it any, vo-j
or any of you de3ire to offer apd
the price that the state will have lo
advance to acquire each or any of
said sites. It is understood that any
silo offered should contain practi-
cally Two Thousand acres and should
foe within five miles of your town
and should bo In such contiguous
form as to be suitable for a Capital
City, and of such suitable topogra-
phy that after the state has selected
ltd building lots and ground, the en-
tire remainder of the Two Thous-
and acres will be suitable for p at-
ting into lots aud blocks that the
state may sell the ame to leim-
burse whatever money the land ma}
rust and the remainder to be used
for erecting the necessary state
buildings. Of course 1 cannot r?-
guire any of you to make any sucii
tender to the state, tout. I do not
deem it a sensible or practical busi-
iuo*s method for me to sit idly bj
until after this election may have
heen held and then in the event the
Capital location is settled in favor
t i' any one of your candidate cities
that the slate should then be em-
barrassed by the difficulty of finding
suitable ground within five miles (if
?our city and be further embarrassed
by prices, that in my judgment,
! might be fixed above the fair \alue
of the land. I, therefore, ask each
and every one of your candidate
cities to secure proper legal options
I upon such tracts of land aggregating
substantially Two Thousand acres ir
I a body and within the five mile lini-
I It of your city, each of you offer-
in! one or more of such quantities
of land as may be so adjacent to
your city, having ihe papers drawn
in such legal form as our Attorney
Ger.cral may assure me will binil the
owners of such lands at stipulated
definite prices to convey the same
to the state under the provisions of
this proposed State Capital bill au-1
giving the Btate reasonable time ar-
ter Juno lttli to accept m-v such
tract of land in case Ihe pending bill
is passed by the people. Options 'or
tracts of six hundred forty acres or
more will be received. I will state
that it is in your own hands to mak^
jour offer or offers of one or more
iocalities so adjacent to your city in
such form and at such price and
under such conditions as you see fit;
.that having your said propositons In
hand by June 4tli 1 will publish them
Widely so that the people of the state
may knwo just what their opportun-
ities will be in obtaining such Two
Thousand Acre Capital Site and what
price the state will have to advant e
lor the original purchase. This *''11
avoid any uncertainty for the future
and the people who have a right to
decide this question win konw in a t
var.ee just what they are undertak-
ing.
You also say: "1 am not presuni
ing to advise ..ie people how to vo-°
—that Is the personal privilege of
erv citizen of the state and any ef-
fort in the past to dictate litis im-
portant question to uur people w.is
unwarranted presumption upon tli-i
part of any ttjho sought to dictate.
This proclamation was issued
several days a;o and the sentiment
last quoted does you credit, but the
Daily Oklahoma, which Is recognized
as ihe official mouthpiece of thos
supporting the 1 - ..better bill quoted
you Oil Tuesday morning as saying.
"The capital measure is an impt.r
taut issue at uiis time. I believe in
It and when the lists of options a.-1
furnished me the several candi-
dates :md are ..ublishetl, the i>e >-
pie will have an opportunity to Judge
as to the fairness of the bill. All
good citizens should '.\atn the capi-
tal issue .. tiled now. It Is not '•>
I me lo dictate as to what Candida1'
for the . apital the people shall f.
vor. hilt I am unequivocally in favi-
of every voter voting in the affirm i
tive on the first of the two question!
—Shall the Capital be located?"
This being your latest uncontra-
dicted declaration, we are forced
the conclusion that you have abac-
doned vour former position in whi h
you said: "1 am not presuming ■
advise the people 'now to vote—tint
Is the personal privilege or every cit-
izen r.f the slate and any effort in
ihe past to dietate this Import 'lit
I question to our people was 1111WH-
! ranted presumption upon ihe part or
I anv who sought to dictate" and tin'
I you now consider, it your duty, as
; well as your privilege, to advise th?
people of this stale that "ihe capital
measure is an ir.portant issue «;
ihis lime.' You say you believe in it
"and all good citizens should want
the capital issue settled now" anil
'hat your prcs .it position is clearly
defined in your quoted ntteranre t-.t
Tuesday morning's Oklahoman \vh- n
you said: "I am unequivocally ir
favor of every voter voting in too
affirmative on the first nr Ihe Hvi
questions—Shall the Capital be lo-
cated ?"*
At a time when the citizens of
Shawnee believed that you would
not use the prestige of your high of-
fice either for or against the pen T-
ing bill, and when we hoped from
your utterances and attitude on oUkm*
questions of like importance to the
people of the state that the votes
and taxpayers of Oklahoma would
bo left free to decide the material fu-
tures of the Oklahoma City bill on its
merits the organizations which wo
represent, after a careful considera-
tion of the bill, decided that Shawnee
could not afford to go before the peo-
ple of this state championing the
adoption of a bill making a direct and
immediate appropriation of $600,000 of
the taxpayers' money from the gen-
oral revenues of the state for the pur-
chase of real estate 011 which no op-
tion had been obtained, aud the selec-
tion of which was to be left to the
judgment of three men, constituting a
commission not yet appointed. We
saw in the bill nc provision that would
conserve the interests and rights of
the pooplc of the state while the op-
portunities for the abuse of the peo-
ple's trust were so many and so mani-
fest that after solemn reflection we
decided to forego every selfish ambi-
tion and join tho taxpayers of the
state in a determined effort to defeat
this bill. We were not influenced in
this position by the attitude of Guth-
rie or of any other city which Had a
right by reason of location and pro-
gressive spirit to entertain an ambi-
tion to become the capital of this
great state.
Your proclamation then which
called for options to lie offered by the
cities named in the Oklahoma City bill
as candidates for the capital came as
a surprise. The taxpayers of tho state
had with one accord risen in indignant
opposition to those features of the bill
which opened wide the doors of the
state treasury to the grasping hands
of Oklahoma City's real estate pro-
moters. One of the strongest argu-
ments used against the bill was that
it provided for the purchase by the
state of 110 definite minimum amount
of land and fixed no minimum or maxi-
mum price at which this land should
be acquired.
Your proclamation calling for op-
tions came as a life preserver to the
already defeated champions of this
bill, who were clutching at straws in
the hope of saving themselves from
the waves of indignation raised in
every p^rt of the state Raainst its
unfair and unsafe provisions. Our
committee, acting under competent
legal advice, declined at the time to
assist you in rescuing from merited
■ Ml
jacent to one of the most thriving
and enterprising cities In the stat«>
without the cxpendlt'ire of a dolla
and that the la** mated in con-
nection with the ,vr
with relation to
and the enjoyment
itles that they wl
than sufficient mone
out cost to tne taxp
building thai will bi
of the buildings used
pose by any of the
states.
We shall vote against t
only for the seasons stated
for the reason that under
sions of the bill submitted
e so situated
>ad facilities
iniclpal u' l-
for more
>ulld, with-
a capltol
% superior
"iat pur-
% hborlng
1, not
\ nut
V *ovl-
peo-
pie of this state have had no chance
to weigh t he proposition which . on
propose to submit and to vote intel-
ligently upon the same. If shawnee
were a candidate under the provi-
sions of the bill and should have
within one vote of as many as Okla-
homa City and neither secured a
majority, our citizens would be com-
pelled to put tip a $100,000 bond and
file a petition containing five thou-
?and Individual verified signatures
within twenty days before a second
election could be called. This is a
physical impossibility for any candi-
date named by th bill, and was
meant to exclude all contestants af-
ter the first election and io locate
the capital under a plurality vote.
Your connection with the framing of
the bill and your annouueed support
of its provisions leads 11s to believ<>
1 hat your option proposition wa;, not
submitted In good faith and that, it
will not be carried out In spirit or
in letter. We hope we are mistaken.
We wish wc were, ami as .in evidence
of that feeling we are submitting the
foregoing propositions under the term;*
of your proclamation. These proposi-
tions will remain open until after the
year 1913, unless the people, by af-
firmative action ou the New Jeru-
salem hill or some other fair meas-
ure, see fit to amend the eonstlru
Hon and permanently locate the eapi-
ENDEAVOR OF CHINESE TO COL
LET TAXES ON FISHING
VESSELS CAUSES TROUBLE.
MANCHURIA TAKING
Chinese Gunboats Have Made Ons
Attack On the Fishermen,
Firing on ooat.
13.\ Associated Press.
Victoria. B. C.. June I.—China and
■'upan have dispatched war vessels
to the Gulf of Pcchili because of a
disagreement between the nations
over control of several hundred fish-
ing vessels from the gulf, aecor !•
lng lo news received by the steam
er Empress or India, today
SI* hundred fishing Junks and
schooners are operated In Chines
about half of them sailing from
South Manchurian ports, and China
Insists on collecting taxes from the.
'essoin, regarding Ihe Gulf of I1,.
chili as lerritorlal waters.
Japan Insists that China eann it.
interfere with the fishermen, holding
ihe Gulf of Peehill as high seas.
The M«nchurlan viceroy has taken a
strong attitude on the question
againsi Japan. China ser nut 011
May 11 with two guuhoata and sev-
erai converted cruisers to seize those
vessels whose owners refused to pav
taxes and five were liied upon and
1 heir crews arrested Japanese men
of war and torpedo boats were
promptly dlspat'nod to protect th*
, fishermen against Ihe Chinese w r-
j (ships and the Incident seemed III;.
Ital In some other city prior to that
to Involve hoth governments in se-
rious complications.
lime.
1 In conclusion permit us lo say that;
we shall hold the foregoing proposl-l,,. llM
i-i would care to sanction t n anv wa\
tions as binding upon us as ny pro-| ,u ,
pew ition can be made under your pro.- or 'h« ■' '« "l'p Kenerall,
lelamatloii. but Shawnee has in :iOi''°s", nt of ',h,<' ,"'1< for ovei
1 wise receded from the opinion ex-!' y thirteen ac res of ground
pressed lu the Shawnee Herald of '7. *^residence district of then-
May 20, We still believe that yo.i ( '■ °" Guthrie aud close 10 Its busl
request is without legal warrant, wllli"]1** ('prn^,i* have always been at the
have 110 legal effect, and will be disposal of the territory or the stat
The above is a map of Shawnee and vicinity, showing the several sections of school land embodied
in the various propositions made t o the state by Shawnee's Chamber of Commerce and Development
Company. Section 28. as indicated in black, i6 the geographical center of the State of Oklahoma, accord-
ing to the government report just recently Issuea.
defeat the legislative deformity known the provisions of the bill, we offer
as tl-p Oklahoma City bill. Our news-|tc the tate, ft cm . the three Sections
papers pointed out Uie fallacy of your of ,«""ni,on s<h"01 designated
on the plat as state school land ami
proposed remedy to cure its defects.
,r, . , „ I lying adjacent to the city limits of
The Idea that the governor of the | shawnee, viz: Section Sixteen (16), T.
j state conic interfere to amend the pro
1 visions of the initiated bill which wa,
so weak in its fundamental structure
that it was staggering toward defeat.
! was a revelation to every lawyer in
ihe state: but knowing of your past
accomplishments in promotion enter-
prises and modern statecraft, tho peo
pie of Oklahoma have come to feel an
almost superstitutious awe of your
magic power. Many personal admir
ers of yours have written to our com-
mittee about your wonderful success
in revising legislation and urged us to
believe that if you are preserved to us
until this bill can be put in operation
that all tho taxpayers' objections to
the same can lie removed by procla-
mation.!
Now. Governor Haskell, these Shaw-
nee organizations are made up of hard-
headed business men who have yet
to be convinced that you have the
power or the authority to so amend
this bill that the state could take a
legal option under its provisions, but
subject to the restrictions of the bill
and conditioned only thai you shall
make good your boast that "So long
as I am governor I will not have
board that will buy a single acre of
land nor build buildings that roquire
the taxpayers to put up a single dol-
lar of money." We are going to make
you, and through you the state, the
following propositions:
Proposition number one:—Under
your stipulations and tho provisions
of the bill Shawnee offers to the
taxpayers of the state, guaranteed by
the undersigned, a fee simple title
to two thousand acres of land lying
in one contiguous body and adjacent
to Shawnee whenever the state is
legally qualified to contract for land
for capital purposes. This land ad-
joins the present townsite of Shaw-
nee; is adjacent to the sites selected
for the $500,000.00 Catholic Univer-
sity and the $500,000.00 Baptist Uni-
versity, lately located here and under
construction. Shawnee will give this
two thousand acres of land to the
state of Oklahoma for capital pur-
poses absolutely without cost to the
tapayers or the state. This tract is
one of the most beautiful landscapes
in Oklahoma, lays high and sightly,
has excellent drainage and absolutely
no waste land. It is within three-
fourths of a mile of the main line of
the Santa Fe railroad, one and one-
half miles from the Rock Island main
line and two miles from the main lino
of the Katy railroad: it is located
on the Shawnee Belt line and is within
one-half mile of the Shawnee-Okla-
homa City lnt.rurban line The
present street car system of Shaw-
nee runs within nineteen hundred
feet of this location. The city water
system of Shawnee has already b3cn
extended to within nineteen hundred
feet of this location. Sewerage, gas,
electric and telephone service arc al-
ready established within the same
distance. The titles to this land are
perfect and the ability of the under-
signed to transfer the same to the
slate is unquestioned since a large
part of the area to be contributed
either owned directly by tho state
or by tho parties signing this obli-
gation
ti N„ R. t K., two miles north of
the preseni city limits: Section Six-
teen (16). T. 10 N., K. 4 E.. adjoining
the city limits on the east, and Sec-
tion Thirty-six (36), T. 11 N.. R. 3
R.. adjoiniug the city limits on the
northwest. Any of these Sections
would offer a sufficient and avail-
able site for the capital and we
guarantee their transfer to the slate,
whenever the latter is in position to
make a legal contract, without one
cent of expense to the taxpayers, and
we guarantee a prompt reimburse-
ment of the school fund for the value
of these lands at their state appraise-
ment.
Proposition number three:—Shaw-
nee guarantees to the taxpayers of
the Mate, and offers a& an available
capital site, the six hundred and forty
(640) acres comprised in Section
Thirty-six (36), T. 11 N„ R. 3 E.,
lying adjacent to and adjoining the
present, townsite limits on the north-
west and possessing all the railroad
advantages and proximity to public
utilities named in proposition one.
This is a school Section and has been
appraised by that. Department, and
Shawnee offers this Section free of
cost to the state for capital purposes
and guarantees the reimbursement of
the school land fund in the amount
of the appraised value of the land
as soon as the state can legally ac-
cept an option or enter into a con-
tract for the permanent location of
the capital.
Proposition number four:—Lying
contiguous and adjacent to the town-
site limits of Shawnee the state owns
eleven aud one-half Sections of in-
demnity School lands. These lands
are In one body and constitute the
very cream of sightly locations on
tho high ground northwest of this
city. This land lies within one mile
of the main line of the Rock Island
railroad, two miles of the main line
of the Katy, two miles of the main
line of the Santa Fe and one-half
mile of the Shawnee-Oklahoma City
Interurban road now building, and
lies north, west and east of the
geographical center of the state as
fixed by the United States survey
and record.-d in Washington, D. C.
Part or all of this land is available
as a capital location district. It is
within two miles of the preseut lim-
its of the city of Shawnee, lying north
and west of th - city almost adjoin-
ing the beautiful sites of the Catholic
and Baptist Universities and can be
utilized und. r this bill or under the
provisions of the NTew Jerusalem bill,
which will probably be before the
voters at the regular election.
The accompanying plat sets mi
and identifies these propositions stif I
poses to appropriate from the Reu-
eral revenues of ihe state for th
purchase of laud, shall be appro-
priated or expended, and belies o
thai if you have power to call for
and accept options, thereby amend
ing the bill in one ci its weakest
parts, you have also the power and
the disposition to eliminate the ap-
propriation of this money.
Again—Shawnee would gladly do-
nate ("Our thousand acres for caplfil
purposes, possessing all the advan-
tages of proposition uumber one i!
we were not limited iu our offer
by your proclamation and by the
terms of the bill which you Insist
shall pass.
This offer is being mad« in pood
faith, for while we question your
right lo .^o amend the bill that a
legal option can be called for or ac-
cepted by the state, if this bill be-
comes a law we stand ready to guar-
antee to the peoplp of tins state
capital site adjacent to this city and
adjoining the geographical center ot
l.he state without, the expenditure of
one dollar of their money and we
submit iha' with the location and
successful financing of he Rl^ Four
Packing plant, to cost three million
dollars; of the Catholic University.
to cost five hundred thousand dol-
lars; of the Baptist University, to
cost five hundred thousand dollars-
a cotton mill to OOflt throe hundred
thousand dollars, and other indus-
tries all of which have been locate
in Shawnee within the past six
months and bonuses for which hav-i
been raised and paid for by the
sale of town lots, that Shawnee ts
as able and capable of financing t!io
state capital proposition as any city
In the slate, and that Shawnee can
locate the capital five miles nearer
to the city proper than can Okla-
homa City, and that, the property of-
fered is more available
binding neither upon the state nor
the eities niamed as candidates.
Very respectfully yours.
FRANK P. STEARNS.
Ala vor of the City of Shawnee,
A O. MARTIN,
if.* City Clerk.
',a i w. rubey;
J* President Shawnee Chamber
of Commerce.
v WM. DEM LAND,
Secretary Shawnee Chamber
of Commerce.
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Directors of Shawnee Chamber
of Commerce.
GEO. E. M'KINNIS,
President Shawnee
Estate Exchange.
WM. DEM LAND.
Secretary Shawnee
Estate Exchange
.T M. AYDELOTTE.
Pies. Shawnee Development Co.
c. W. cook,
Sec'y. Shawnee Development Co.
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Real
Real
SENTIMENT OF THE CAPITAL
CITY MUCH THE SAME AS
SHAWNEE'S BELIEF.
Guthrie, Okla.. June 3, 15)10
Honorable C. N Haskell,
Governor of Oklahoma,
Guthrie. Oklahoma.
Sir; "*'H,
We beg leave to acknowledge
receipt of your communication of re-
cent date, asking this committee, on
behalf of the City of Guthrie, to sub
mit. options to you upon tracts of
real estate within five miles of the
City of Guthrie for the location of u
capitol building and other state In
stit.utions, under State Question Num
ber One, Initiative Pe'ition Number
7, to be submitted to the people of;
for resi-j the State of Oklahoma at a special |
dence and business purposes and
will sell for morq money per front
foot than the land to be offered by
either of our nominal competitors
for tho final location of the capitr.l.
We have objected strenuously to
the appropriation of $000.000.000 or
tho taxpayers' money for the purpose
of purchasing land. We have ob-
jected seriously to the provisions of
the bill which hands this money ove-
.cKt-pocket commission, io lie
:.ppointed by the Governor by and
with tho consent of tho heneficiarie.-
and without apprising the citizens
of this state of how little land tbev
intended to purchase; where said
land would be located: and what tlj >
cost would tie to the people. You
have seen fit to offer to amend th'
bill by demanding the submission
of options upon the laud and Jt
scribing their location in relation 'o
the limits of the cities that were
made candidates by the bill. We
fear that you have noi the power #o
so amend the bnl. We hope vou
have, and that whether our propo«l-
y xi
ficlently and we pledge the hono
and good faith of this city that, any'tions are accepted or not that
of these propositions when legally J will be enabled to safeguard
accepted by the state, shall not co.
the taxpayers one cent Any of these
sites will furnish sufficient land for
the <apital and enough deslrabl'
lots at a low figure to furnish the
necessary money to build the capi-
lol without one dollar of expense to
the taxpayers We make ihe stipu-
lation in making th^se offers tha
election called by you on June 11.
1910.
Replying thereto we desire to . ay
thiat, having carefully examined the
bill or proposed law embodied In the
state question initiative petition be
fore mentioned, we find there is no
provision therein under wheh the gov-
ernor of the state or any other per-
son has authority to receive any op-
tions on land or to make any binding
contract relating thereto. As the
status of this bill at this time is the
same as that of a legislative measure
In final passage, it cannot be amend-
ed or changed, but must either be de-
feated or become a -law exactly as
proposed in the pniitlon under which
It was Initiated. Therefore, there l>e-
for capltol purposes; also that with
In the past two years the citizens of
Guthrie have erected therefor for the
free use of the *tate a teniporaiv
capitol building, which is a com-
modious and fireproof struct hit. with
suitable vaults for the safe keeping
ot records, and together with the
] paving ami parking about it. cost
I the city $200,000. This land, with all
of the Improvements and the build-
ing. worth fully half a million doN
la. s, (k at ihe disposal of the stat*
for >h|| time to come, together with
the magnificent park of one hundred
acres coming up to within two blocks
Of the same. Guthrie will be glad
to deed all this to the Mate, with-
out any expense to the taxpayers of
OK lahoma, whenever any perron is
authorized by law to receive the
jrfame, «nd to submit proposals upon
| this land, and any additional land
'bat the sta e ma\ need for capltol
j purposes, whenever the legislature
or the people have taken action to
authorize the asking or receiving of
'proposals from ihe various cities of
tho state.
While Guthrie would, of course,
like to lie the permanent capitol of
ihe state, the people of our city
would not want to be the benefi-
ciarl®s under a measure ho coupled
with dishonor, so devoid of any pro-
tee'lon of the Interests of the tax*
payers. ?f) manifestly unfair to other
citics of the state, shutting out, as
i1 does, all but three from competing
for the high honor of being the capl-
fll ol the state, and contemplating
the location of all the f.tate instUn-
ions at the capial to the del rlmen",
of many other communities. There-
fore we feel ii our duty to respect-
fully der-line to entertain your pro-
position in any way, or by any action
of ours to recognize the proposed bill
a^ one proper to be put upon the
statuio books of the state.
Very respectfully submitted.
CAPITOL LOCATION CAM-
PAIGN COMMITTEE OF
H'THRIE.
■I J. O ROURKE,
Chairman.
f'RED I.. WENM'JR
Secretary.
i C. Girss,
. w , W. M. M'COV.
"wfe A. I.. tOCKRl'i.l .
!®!| TKl.l, W. WAuTO.V,
iJ0R' *'• M BARNES,
Members of Committee,
I
Proposition number two:—Underinot oue dollar of the jaoo.iioo.fjij,
the terms of your proclamation, anal which the Oklahome City bill pro and in the center of
FISHING FOR
EVIDENCE IN FISHERIES BIIL
WEALTHY FISH DEALERS TELL
WHAT THEY KNOW BEFORE
GRAND JURY.
here he-
iug no provisions lu ihe bill or anvils Associated lJr ^
aiithorily lo receive or accept options Springfield. Ill June
or make any contract, any options| John Dixon of IVorki
submitted would I).- null and void. I.enini of l'c l;ln
and Hie bill, should I: receive a lu.l ic-iified licl.'iv ; .
majority of votes, would l.e in fullloounty grand Jury thl<
force and elfeet, with iis immediate nardin; tii.- liuli Mil
appropriation of 1800.000 from the! hill) in which l.emm i
general fund of ihe sate !r9Mury.j<,u which Ulx h i I
with practically no re-:rl lions n to Si : e-< Attorney Bi.r.,
rights of the people as you sugget- " expenditure, and Its many other |, for Hntsln.wi ai I
In the event that the hill Sho;;.' .obnoxious feature rive- point \vn .. i , Wi
carry. We have gone Into ibis ma The bill, which is In c p n viol* ion ] evidence to
tor st length in order to show ili -lof bo h Ihe letter and the spirit of:, „lhion of m. > j,. payment
people of this stale ibat. with „ 'he Enabling X. t. i< so vicious a < cer.aln inc ' im-
proper amount of deliberation an I measure, so detrimental to ihe bo-
th. cxarcls* of that business s«nv Interests of lh taxpayer, ami the. ||n> \ i Dearmin of Dawitt Mo
to which you appeal, they can s. jcMxrar- genemlly of ihe star an 1 formerly „f Shitu'n cm r tli>
cure magnificent capital grounds u so leplete with opportunities for ; a" ,,,nruac-hiu^ in:: . ,i . ..
the geographical center of the sta- - and corruption, tin' neither tills com-, ter. Dulcie Wlni'iU'md. -i> Cla i la
1.—After
ad Henry
fish deiler*,
v Sangamon
afternoon re-
he 'jaclipoi"
r. I'ibuted and
he c;;ilrc ed,
left hurried1
uther Illinois
will fl-h for
Iblo. the
population, ad Imlitee nor the citizens of (lulllrie1 Vlviau Logan, of Dew ill Mo
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