Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 9, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 1.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.
NO. 6.
SLEUTHING THE SLEUTH
Lauranti the Magician, Played Many
Amusing Tricks on Curious People at
Opera House Last Night.
DID MANY MYSTERIOUS THINGS
Kept Spectators Guessing for Two Solid
Hours and Many of Them are Guess-
ing Yet—A Good Entertainment.
Laurant, the great magician,
appeared at the opera house
last night to a largejprowd,jind
foi more than two hours] pro-
ceededed to do mysterious
things, much to the amusement
and interest of his spectators.
We cannot enumerate [all the
strange Itbings which he did.
Suffice it to relate some of the
jokes, we may call them, gotten
off on interested i and curious
people who helped the magician
out at several times.
Lloyd Curtis loaned the pro-
fessor his watch. Lloyd's watch
is ordinarily thought to be a
pretty good one, but when the
professor found that it had run
down and undertook to wind it,
it made a noise like a saw7 mill.
During a card trick, Rev. Wil-
lis was asked to take a card,
but politely refused for fear his
hands would be contaminated.
Some wine was passed out to
the spectators. Miss Euline
Capshaw was one who drank
some of it. Then the professor
broke the bottle out of which
the wine had been poured and a
guinea pig was found in it.
Once the professor failed to
get a card, a queen, to raise up.
He called for help and Leonard
Clifton responded. The card
promptly appeared. That means
that Leonard has some influence
over the queens of the town,
anyway.
Chas. Steele was found to
have a rabbit up his back, un-
der his coat, and seemed to look
WHO Mf
SHAOn
[WON THE
mil i is
Lower House of the Legislature Takes
Quick Action Upon Governor Has-
kell's Emergency Recomenchtioa.
LIMIT EXTENDED TO APRIL 19TH
Thirty Days Additional Time Will be
Allowed Before Warrants Will be Is-
sued—Final Passage Monday.
somewhat sheepish when the
professor reached up and took
it away from him.
Of course, all the above wTere
merely tricks played upon the
people named, yet no one has
been able to see how they were
done.
Better Pay For Militia.
Adjutant General Frank M.
Canton, of the Oklahoma Na-1
tional Guard, will make a stren- ■
uous effort to get the present I
legislature to increase the pay 1
of the members of the guard
while on duty. At present the:
government furnishes all the',
equipment and pays the sol-<
diers regular army pay while on
duty at encampments, but there
is no appropriation from the
state to pay them while on state
duty, although there is a law
covering the matter. Yet the
pay is not enough to encourage
first class men to join the mili-
tia, and hence the guard is held
down to a second class condi-
tion.
A movement is on foot to es-
tablish a company here in Nor-
man, but unless better pay is
provided by the legislature such
a company had just as well not
be started, because the expe-
rience has not been satisfactory
in towns of this size. The class
of boys who should be interest-
ed in a militia simply will not
join under present conditions.
A Joke on Some One
In conversation with some of
Norman's hog buyers yesterda}'
evening we learned that a farm-
er brought in a load of shoates,
averaging in weight G3£ lbs.
The pigs were purchased by
hog buyer but when they went
to the stock pens to unload the
first pig out of the wagon was a
male weighing only about 50
lbs. The hog buyer noticed
that the pig was a male and in-
formed the farmer that he would
have to dock it 80 lbs on that
account. It was not reported
to us how many male pigs were
in the wagon or how much diff-
erence farmer owed buyer when
pigs were unloaded, and the
dock substracted from the total
weight of the load of pigs. The
incident reminded us of a story
told by S. A. Ambrister of this
city who a number of years ago
sent a party to Texas to pick up
a car load of stock hogs. The
buyer went to the black land
belt in the state and a farmer
came in with a big thin hog in
his wagon, drove on the scales
and then to pen to unload and
came back to weigh wagon and
found out that the wagon weigh-
ed 15 lbs more with hog out of
it than in it, by reason of the
mud it had picked up while un-
loading hog at the stock pens.
The lower house of Oklaho-
ma's second legislature yester-
day passed to its third reading
Governor Haskell's special rev-
enue bill, deferring the payment
uf January taxes, without a dis-
senting vote. It will be finally
passed Monday and sent to the
senate Monday afternoon. Sen-
timent among the members
j seems to be unanimous in favor
I of it, though there are some dif-
j ferences as to the length of the
j extension that ought to be al-
j lowed. From present indica-
tions the time will be extended
to the third Monday in April,
with thirty days.additional time
before tax warrants are issued.
This legislation is brought up
upon the recommendation of the
j governor in his message to the
legislature. It will be in the
form of an emergency measure,
and will be one of the very few
such laws passed by the present
legislature, as the emergency
feature of the last legislature
i doesn't seem to be very much in
j favor. This law is enacted prin-
■ cipally to allow investigations
j to be made where excessive
j taxation is charged. It is a
good law and the legislature is
rising to the call of duty by tak-
ing the action which is now be-
ing taken.
Dr- Gehring Married-
Dr. N. J. Gehring, formerly
of this city, but now conducting
a sanitarium at Oklahoma City,
was married on New Year's day
to one of the trained nurses em-
ployed in.the sanitarium.
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 9, 1909, newspaper, January 9, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106688/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.