Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN DAILY INDEPENDENT.
VOL. 1.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909.
NO. 34
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CONSOLIDATION OF RAIL-
ROADS TO BE PERMITTED
A JOINT RESOLUTION
NOW IN LEGISLATURE
Been Chief Objection Raised By the
Railroads Against Road Build-
ing Since Statehood.
STATE NOT READY FOE LAW YET
SEEMS Ta BE THE SENTIMENT.
Address Before State Hardware and Implement Men at Okla
homa City Yesterday Offers Weight to Argument That
Salvation of Country's Farmers Rests Upon More
Than Merely Crop Raising.
THAT THING ABOVE ALL ELSE THE DAIRY
BUSINESS-MAKE MONEY THE YEAR AROUND
BILL PASSED BY SENATE KILL
ED IN HOUSE YESTERDAY. .
ATTEMPT TO REPEAL «
COUNTY DIVISION LAVf
Would Have Taken Away From Peo-
ple Right of Exercising Self-i (
Government.
Fight Started Several Months Ago
By State Federation of Com-
mercial Clubs.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 11.—From the
expresions of sentiment at the public
Itearing granted.by the senate legal
advisory committe on Senator Brown
lee's proposed joint resolution amend
ing the- constiution of the state by
striking out section 9 of article 9,
which forbids the consolidation of
railroads in the state, the indications
are that the committee will recom-
mend the resolution for adoption.
The right on this provision of the
constitution was started some weeks
ago by the federation of commercial
clubs which maintained that it would
put a stop to the systems of build-
ing a new road as an independent
proposition and then selling it to one
of the great trunk lines, under which
nearly all of the railroad mileage in
Oklahoma has been built, and quot-
ed many prominent railroad officials
in support of the contention that
practically no new railroad building
would be done in Oklahoma while
<hat provision remained in the con-
stitution.
Norman Must Have a Creamery—Business Men Willing To Subscribe
$2,000 Toward It—Something Ought To Be Done To Make
Farmers Realize Importance of the Project.
In order that he may pay cash
for his purchases, the farmer will
be educated by members of the re-
tail hardware and implement leaders'
asociation along the lines of diversi-
fied farming and dairying, if the ad-
vice of W. L. Harlan, Little Rock,
secretary and treasurer of the Ar-
kansas association, is heeded. Harlan
NEW BANKING BILL.
Provides for Changes in the State
Banking Board.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 11.—A bill that
aneets the demands of some of the
bankers of the state for representa-
tion upon the state banking board
and also cuts the lieutenant governor
off the board, was introduced in the
house yesterday by Representative
Acton.
The bill provides that the state
banking board shall be composed of
ihe governor, who is ex-officio chair-
man, the state auditor, state treasur-
er, state .bank commissioner and three
bankers of at least five years success-
ful experience no more than two of
whom shall be trom the same poli-
Sical party and who shall be appoint-
ed by the governor. Another change
from the present law is the addition
f the bank commissioner to the
board. The three bankers who are
not state elective officers shall re-
ceive $5 a day for each day of actu-
al service on the board and travel-
ing and hotel expenses.
and several members of the Oklaho-
ma organization addresed the session
of the retail hardware dealers' con-
vention at the fair grounds Wednes-
day, urging the advisability of the
plan.
"The farmer who raises cotton,
corn, or any other crop exclusively,
CONTINUEDON PAGE FIVE.
LET PEOPLE SAY WHETHEK THEY
WANT ONE OR TWO COUNTIES
More .Than .Three .Votes Against
Measure to One For It Shows
Strength of Opposition.
Plans for New Building Are Here-=-If Accepted, Bids Will Be
Advertised for in a Short Time. Things Begin To Look
More Favorable; Result of Meeting This After-
noon Anxiously Awaited.
UNPARALLEB BUILDING BOOM WILL BEGIN
MOMENT WORK STARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY
A Hundred Persons Ready To Build Homes But Are Holding Back
Until They Know What Is Going to be Done at the University-
Lack of Confidence Due To Long Delay.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 11.—The house
today killed the bill by Thomas, pass-
ed by the senate, repealing the law
pased by the clast legislature vitaliz-
ing the constitutional provision for
the method of dividing counties or
creating new counties out of old coun
ties. The Thomas bill as passed by the
senate would have fixed county lines
as they now stand and have made
further division of counties impossi-
ble. A majority of the members of
the house were opposed to taking
away this constitutional privilege
from the people and adopted the mo-
tion by Durant of Bryan county to
indefinitely postpone the bill, sixty-
seven to twenty-three.
All members from county seat's of
counties where division schemes are
now contemplated favored the pass-
age of the senate bill and fought
hard for two hours against Durant's
motion to kill the bill.
Durant, in speaking to his mo-
tion, declared that the legislature
should be careful not to take away
from the people of the state the right
to form new counties, characterizing
such action as an abridgment of the
people's rights to exercise self-gov-
ernmetit in their local affairs. "I come
from a large county and the county
seat of the county and selfish interest
would lead me to favor the Thomas
bill, but I believe that the people in
oth^.r parts of my county who may
desire at some time to detach them-
selves from Bryan county should
iipve the right to do so if they de-
The Board of Regents of the Uni-
versity are in session this afternoon.
The plans for the new University
building have arrived and are being
considered by the Regents. Nothing
has been done as yet that can be
given to the public. The Regents
will continue in session until tomor-
row. By the time we issue another
paper something will have been done
that can be given out. There is lit-
tle doubt but what one set of plans
will b^ accepted. In the event that
they are, the architects will be ask-
ed to prepare specifications for bids
and such bids will no doubt be ad-
vertised for at once and work on the
building begun inside of a month
or so.
The people of Norman are exceed-
ingly interested in the new Univer-
sity building. The moment work
starts on it work will also start on
more than a hundred new buildings
for resident purposes to accommo-
date the enormous increase of stu-
dents at the University that is bound
to come next year. In fact the whole
future of Norman pivots around the
prospects of the new University
building. When work on it begins
confidence in the future of the city
will at once spring to unlimited
bounds and a greater Norman as-
sured in every way.
The people of Norman are anx-
iously awaiting the result of the meet-
ing of the regents today.
CRYSTAL ANNIVERSARY.
.On Friday evening, February. 5th,
the Coterie celebrated the fifteenth
aniveri^ary of their organization with
a most delightful banquet, which
was given at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. D. R. Boyd; a home "whose
doors stand ever hospitably open,
bidding all welcome."
The evening itself was an ideal
one; clear, cloudless, salubrious, and
it seemed as if even that fickle god-
dess known as ..Oklahoma weather"
was imbued with the spirit of the oc-
casion and deigned to lend her most
gracious smile.
The great, roomy hall, beautiful
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1909, newspaper, February 11, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106716/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.