The Geary Bulletin. (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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The Geary Bulletin
OEARY,
lltor,
OKLAHOMA
NEW STATE NOTES.
The big round bale cotton gin at
Bristow which was recently totally
destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt at
'•nee at the old site.
The county commissioners of Tulsa
county have authorised a bridge across
Snake creek, a stream in the sounlh-
ern part of the county near Bixby.
Oklahoma last year produced a short-
er crop of cotton than In any year
since the Industry became general, but
the crop probably yielded more money
than any previous one.
Mnrshall Evans of l’awhuska has
been suspended from office by Judge
J. J. Shea, before whom affidavits
were made to the effect that Evans
had been caught gambling.
The board of regenta for the state
normal schools last week elected M.
E. Gaskin of the Enid public Brhools
as teacher of atheletica In the South-
western Normal school at Weather-
ford.
With nn acreage in wheat a third
more than 1909. and with the coldest
winter experienced In years working
good with the soil, Oklahoma farmers
are anticipating the greatest crop of
wheat ever grown In the state.
The state board of agriculture Issu-
ed a cotton report last week showing
that to Jan. 1, 460,461 bales of cotton
had been ginned In Oklahoma and '
estimating that the season's crop
would not surpass 500,000 bales.
Railroad valuations of 72 of the 76
counties in Oklahoma show a total of
$182,049,932. The counties having uo
roads aro Beaver, Cimarron, Harper ’
and Roger Mills. Harmon, a new
county, has a road In process of con- ;
st ruction.
School officers to the number of per- ;
haps 400 are to be guests of Guthrie
this week, and extensive preparations
are being made for their entertainment
The state association of superinten-
dents and commissioners convenes Jan j
12 to 14th.
W. E. Ritchie, vice president, and
Thomas A. Hagler, assistant cashier
of the First National bank of Tulaa,
have handed in their resignations to
take effect Feb. 1. Their future plans
have not been announced.
George Smith, editor of the Chandler
Tribune, has resigned his office aa
chairman of the state democratic preas
bureau. It Is rumored that Smith will
have charge of the gubern&tlonal
campaign of Judge J. B. A. Robertson
of Chnndler.
The Oklahoma woman Suffragist as-
sociation has filed with the secretary
of state a petition containing SI,300
signatures asking for submission to
the voters at the next general section
the proposition of cutting out the word
'‘male*’ In the Oklahoma constitution.
In a letter to Mayor Mitchell of
Tulsa, Senator Thomas P. Gore an-
nounced that the government architect
has recommended that 1225,000 he ex-
pended In a public building for Tulaa.
He says that other cities In the New
state will also receive large appropria-
tions.
The report of State Game Warden
J. 8. Askew to the secretary of the
etafe for the month of December show
that 22.454 reslenta hunting licenses
nnd 5.665 permits were issued. Tulaa
loounty issued 736; Choctaw county
697; Sequoyah county 537; and Caddo
county 632.
The board of affairs is planning to
let the contract about February 15 for
the f 100.000 girl's Industrial school, at
Chlcknsha and for the two new build-
ings for the insane asylum, at Vlnita.
Governor Haskclll has offered a re
ward of |200 for the arrest of persons
guilty of dynamiting the store of a Pa-
den merchant and committing other
depredations In that section of Ok-
fuskee comity.
The department of the Interior Is
planning for the Immediate expendi-
ture of something like 160.000 of the
fund received from the sale of lots on
the new government addition to Law
ton on public Improvements on the
addition. Of this $35,000 1b to be spent
in building a ward school.
Broom corn last week sold on the
streets of Lawton at $240 per ton. Lo-
cal manufacturers who control the
broom making buUness In Lawton de-
clare that there was not enough broom
corn rateed in the country this year
to make two brooms to the family.
CRUELTIES IT ISVLUM
FOR NEW PEACE COURT
nr misses mein
LETTER READ IN SENATE
AROUSES PRESIDENT’S ANGER
MISS BARNARD CONDEMNS MAN-
AGEMENT IN REPORT TO GOV.
lEMMOS REMOVAL IF SUPEIIITENDEIT
State Commissioner Oaclares That the
"Crib” and Other Methods Used
in ' Obsolete Penitentiaries’’
are Used in the Asylum
Guthrie, Okla.—Demanding the re-
moval of Dr. A. T. Clark, superinten-
dent of the insane asylum at Norman,
and criticising with all the vehemence
at her command practices In the treat-
ment of iniuutes in the sanitarium.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner of
charitl.-s and corrections, Saturday
night sent her report to Governor Has-
kell following an Investigation of con-
ditions at the aByluni.
She declares that the crib, straight
Jacket, straps, chains amt other meth-
ods used in "obsolete penitentiaries’*
to punish criminals were tsed in the
asylum.
-Miss Barnard makes public a letter
she wrote to Superintendent Clark a
year ago in which she found that
helpless aud insane sielc patients were
shut up in coffin shaped cribs, or tied
with straps nnd chains end placed in
cold bare rooms with no blankets and
clothing, but the bars doors upon
which they might beat out thiir
bruins.
She says that Clark promised some
reforms, and later she found condi-
tions only slightly improved, and the
cribs not abolished.
The commissioner gays that she
visited the institution on November 2
and found one patient shut in a bare
room with hands and arms slapped
down with chains and no blanket to
lie on, and shut in a cell for four
days. Another was locked in a coffin
shaped crib.
She declares that the patients were
not given warm water in which to
bathe, therefore they begged net to
be compelled to take baths, and a
bad odor greets the visitor as a result.
She alleges that ona woman had
bruises on her body caused by being
beaten by a guard.
Mies Barnard says she found four-
teen idiots In one cell rating off the
floor. She makes the unusual state-
ment that it la difficult to obtain
facta concerning the condition of the
institution, as the sanitarium is built
on level ground and the management
can see anyone apptoaehing and put
things in shape.
The commissioner has ordered the
abolishment of all corporal punish-
ment, use of straight Jackets only on
the orders of the physician, and In-
stallation of graduate nurses in each
ward and improvements generally In
the management.
Ten Go to 8tats Prison
Oklahoma City.—What Is said to be
the largest Individual consignment of
prisoners for the penitentiary ever
taken from Oklahoma county to the
state prison occurred Saturday when
Sheriff M. C. Blnlon and guards left
for McAlester with ten. The terms
of the convicts range from two to live
years
Mississippi Frozen Over
Bl. Louis, Mo—With tbe exception
of a few places the Mississippi river
la frozen over from St. Paul, Minn.,
to Grand Tower, III., for the first time
in years. Ice In the St. Louis harbor
Is from one to five feet in thickness
and all river crafts are Ice-locked.
Preposition Submitted to Nations by
Secretary Knox
Washlugton—With a view of mak-
ing International arbitration Judicial
in fact, ns well as in theory, Secre-
tary Knox baa addressed a circular
note to the powers, proposing that the
Jurisdiction of the international prize
court, authorized in 1907 by the Hague
peace conference, be extended so ax
to make it a court of arbitral Jus-
tice. This note was dated Oct. 18,
1909. No responses have been re-
ceived. A statement explaining the
note's contents and the reasons the
proposnl was made, was given out
Wednesday by Secretary Knox.
In his statement. Secretary Knox
explains his reason for suggesting
that the Jurisdiction of the prize
court ho extended. He says;
"The advantage of Investing the
prize court with the functions of a
court of arbitral justice needs no arg-
ument, because it is obviously easier
to utilize an existing body than to
create a new institution, and as the
judges of the prize court must races-
sarily be versed in International law,
they could well be entrusted with any
question susceptible of arbitration.
The proiKJsltion has the great advan-
tage of providing the nations with a
permanent court of arbitration Tor
the peaceful settlement of controver-
sies in times of peace; whereas the
prize court, as such, presupposes a
state of war, for without war the cap-
ture of property is Illegal.
‘‘Utilizing the method of composi-
tion of the piize court by thus in-
vesting it with the jurisdiction nnd
functions of a court of arbitral Jus-
tice would constitute tills latter trib-
unal. and the world would thus have
for tlio states freely consenting to
and aocepting the proposition, tne
international Judiciary to adjudge
cases arising In peace, as well aa con-
troversies springing from war.
“The court would thus be perma-
nently constituted and would In real-
ity ue permanent; obviating the de-
lay involved in the creation of a tem-
porary tribunal, and developing inter-
national law by a series of carefully
considered precedents by iudges care-
fully chosen and acting under a sense
of Judicial responsibility."
Hoffman Gets Judgship
Guthrie. Okla.—Roy Hoffman of
Chandler has resigned the chairman-
ship of the state board of affairs anil
was appointed judge of the court of
the Tenth Judicial district, to succeed
J. B. A. Robertson of Chandler, who
resigned to enter upon his guberna-
torial campaign. John j. Oerlach, a
prominent democrat of Woodward, has
been offered the place vacated by
Hoffman.
Lawton Gets Lot Money
Washington.—About $10,000 in taxes
will be turned over to Comanche
county, ns the result of an order is-
sued by the Interior department Wed-
nesday. The mopey represents 3 1-2
per cent tax on 1.000 lots in north
Lawton recently sold by the govern-
ment and assessed at $280,000. The
Lawton land office has been mado
custodian of the money.
Suffrage Petition Filed
Guthrie, Okla.—For the purpose of
initiating a proposed amendment to
the constitution of the state, giving
the women of Oklahoma the ballot,
a committee representing the suffrage
movement, Thursday filed with the
sec retary of state petitions containing
38,543 names.
SECRET!!! IIL51I IIS CHEF ICCIKI
Taft Gives Own Statement of Cbm In
Letter of Dismissal—Forester ,
Net Distressed at Pres-
ident's Action
Washington.—Gifford Plnchot, chief
forester and intimate friend of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Friday, was dismissed
from the service of the United States
by President Taft for Inaubordlnsr
tion. Associate Forester Overton W.
Price and Assistant Law Officer Alex-
ander C. Shaw, Pinchot’s Immediate
assistants In the forestry bureau, fol-
lowed their chief out of government
employ.
Thoroughly indignant over the ac-
tion of Mr. Plnchot in inducing Sen-
ator Dolllver to read a letter from >
him in the senate Thursday, Presi- I
dent Taft would listen to no advice
that the forester’s violation of exec-1
utive orders be overlooked pending
the inquiry soon to be undertaken by
congress. He declared the dignity of
the office he had been chosen by the i
people to fill was being attacked and
he would be unfaithful to his trust
if he submitted longer.
Mr. Taft undoubtedly realizes fully
what the dismissal of Forester Pln-
chot means in a political way. He
has been convinced for some time that
the socalled “iusurgenta” and other
critics of his administration had en-
listed the services of Mr. Pinchot ,
and practically were defying him to
se parate Pinchot from his office. Tho
latter’s letter few here doubt, was
written with the direct purpose of
putting It squarely up to the Pres-
ident.”
The president sought to avoid the
threatened war as long as he could,
but declared that patience had ceased
to be a virtue. He picked up the
gauge of battle thrown down by Mr.
Pinchot by the hand of Senator Dol-
Iiver in the senate, and with the ad-
ministration supporters Is ready for
the fray, which is certain to ensue.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
Pinchot’s immediate superior, It ap-
pears, was one of the forester's chief
accusers. He teld President Taft
thnt he had advised Mr. Pinchot not
In send the letter to Senator Dolllver;
that Plnchot had told htm he had
such a letter in mind, and “could in-
duce Senator Dolllver” to read It on
the very day that President Taft’s
special message transmitting the at-
torney general's exoneration of Sec-
retary Ballinger, was to be presented
to the senate.
It was this story of Pinchot’s ap-
parently calculated insubordinatlhn
that aroused the president to the
keenest resentment
Mr. Taft accuaed Plnchot of having
taken his stand against Secretary Bal-
linger wholly upon the evidence ad-
vanced by L. R. Glavis and without
regard to the evidence on the other
side, qn file In the Interior depart-
ment. The letter directing Secretary
Wilson to dismiss the forester forth-
with, was carefully framed during the
afternoon sitting of the cabinet and
was revised several times before fin-
ally being made public. It Is the pres-
ident's own statement of the case.
Mr. Pinchot received the president’s
letter and Secretary Wilson’s per-
emptory note of dismissal; but noth-
ing about hla demeanor indicated he
was surprised or distressed by either.
Ask Uncle Sam as Guardian
Washington.—A petition signed by
15.000 fullblooded members of the
Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cher-
okee Indian tribes has been prepared
for presentation to congress and the
president, asking United States to
continue as guardian of Indiana.
The petition prays that citizenship
bo withheld from them on the ground
thnt they are not prepared to accept
the responsibilities ns citizens of the
United States, and should not at this
time be subjected to dangers that
might result.
Enfaula Harjo, headman and four
others as Joint council of the four
tribes called, accompanied by hla In-
terpreter, James L. Gray, are here to
urge the cooperation of the Okla-
homa congressional delegation in the
matter.
Similar action was taken by the
fr.llblooda last year, and It la said
waa Instrumental in defeating the
"Owen-Carter bill” winding up the
affairs of the Five Civilised Tribes.
Fire at Otustee
Olustce, Okla.—Miller's studio, the
Palace barber shop, Fea's grocery
store and the stock of Vahles racket
store were destroyed in n fire which
threatened the business part of this
city Saturday night
The fire was discovered at mid-
night and had gained contddcraDle
headway before much work was done
on it. The fire department, with the
assistance of citizens, succeeded In
preventing the flames spreading to
others parts of town. The loss will
run up Into the thousands.
Two Firemen Injured
Bartlesville. Okla.—Two firemen are
m a precarious condition and the big
Boston store is almost a total loss
as tho result of Are here which was
discovered at an early hour Sunday
morning. The loss Is estimated at
$30,000, with considerable Insurance.
The two firemen are Charley Lane
end Fred London. They were picked
up by other members of the depart-
ment after they had fallen exhausted
from labeling smoke.
Muskogee ie Registry Town
Washington.—Figures furnished by
the postofflee department show that
Muskogee ranks sixtieth among post-
offices doing the largeat registry bus-
iness in the United States. During
the past year a total of 42,897 pieces
were registered. Although a decrease
of 1.070 below last year’s business is
shown no other city in Oklahoma ap-
proaches Muskogee's registry busi-
ness.
State Sues Two Railroads
Guthrie, Okla.—8ults for amounts
aggregating $350,000 were filed In No-
wata and Bartlesville Tuesday, by
State Enforcement Attorney John
Hays, against the Iron Mountain and
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
roads. They charge that the rail-
roads have violated a provision of
the prohibition law which forbids a
railroad company using its freight
depot as a storage house for liquors.
Tbe suit at Nowata Is filed against
the Iron Mountain and that at Bate
iesvtUe against tha M. K. A T.
hi VISIT MOST OPPORTUNE
Another Day's Delay and tha Result
Would Hava Bean Unfortunate
—For tha Physician.
A lady was very solicitous about her
health. Every trifle made her uneasy,
and the doctor was called imme-
diately.
The doctor was a skillful man, and
consequently had a large practice. It
waa very disagreeable to him to be so
often called away from hla other cases
for nothing, and he resolved to take an
opportunity of letting the Indy see
this. One day the lady obaerved n red
spot on her hand, and at once sent
for the doctor. He came, looked at
her hand, and raid:
“You did well to send for me early.”
The lady looked alarmed and asked:
"Is It dangerous, then?”
"Certainly not,” replied the doctor.
"To-morrow the spot would have dis-
appeared, and I should have lost my
fee for this visit”
A BURNING ERUPTION FROM
HEAD TO FEET
"Four yeara ago I suffered severely
with a terrible eczema, being a inass
of 6ores from head to feet and for six
weeks confined to my bed. During
that time I suffered continual tor-
ture from itching and burning. After
being given up by my doctor I was ad-
vised to try Cutlcura Remedies. After
the first bath with Cutlcura Soap and
application of Cutlcura Ointment I en-
joyed the first good sleep during my
entire illness. I also used Cuticura
Resolvent and tbe treatment was con-
tinued for about three weeks. At the
end of that time 1 was able to be
about the house, entirely cured, and
have felt no ill effects since. I would
advise any person suffering from any
form of skin trouble to try tho Cutl-
cura Remedies as I know what they
did for me. Mrs. Edward Nenning,
1112 Salina St., Watertown, N. Y.,
Apr. 11, 1909.”
NERVE.
Fuzzy Frank—Lady, kin I have a
drink o’ water?
Lady—Certainly; there’s the turn*
bier and there’s the pump.
Fuzzy Frank (Insinuatingly)—An’
now if you will please work de handle
for a few minutes?
Her Bright New Cook.
Mrs. Blank prided herself on her
ability to train her servants, and she
had just been bragging about tbe
treasure she had In her new colored
cook when the following dialogue oc-
curred:
"Now, Amaranth, I'll come out and
fry the chicken, but I want you to
have It all ready for me. Dress it
carefully and be sure to singe off
every hair.”
"Yas'm."
“Then cut It up just as I showed
you the other day. Do you remem-
ber?"
"Yas’m."
"Wash and drain It well. You un-
derstand?”
"Yas'm." Then, as an afterthought,
"Shall I kill it?"—The Circle.
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See that Coffee was
Doing tha Mischief.
A lady tells of a bad case of coffee
poisoning and tells it In a way so sim-
ple and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it
“I had neuralgic headaches for 12
years,” she Bays, “and suffered untold
agony. When I first began to have
them I weighed 140 pounds, but they
brought me down to 110. I went
to many doctors and they gave me
only temigtrary relief. So I suffered
on, till one day a' woman doctor told
me to use Postum. She said I looked
like I was coffee poisoned.
“So I began to drink Postum and 1
gained 16 pounds in the first few
weeks and continued to gain, but not
bo fast as st first. My headaches be-
gan to leave me after I had used
Postum about two weeks — long
enough to get the coffee poison out of
my system.
“Since I began to use Postum I can
gladly say that I never know what a
neuralgic headache is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
made me well. Before I used Postum
I never went out alone; I would get
bewildered and would not know which
way to turn. Now I go ulone and my
head Is as clear as a bell. My brain
and nerves are stronger than they
have been for years.”
Read tbe little book, “The Road to
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