The Lexington Leader
HARDIE & JENKS, Publishers.
LEXINGTON. OKLAHOMA
A gnat may annoy a giant, but after
all It's only a gnat.
When divorces are abolished all
matches will be safeties.
Some women should start a move-
ment to conserve the country'# hus-
bands.
Temperamental baseball players fig-
tire picturesquely In the percentage
columns.
Of course a canoe Is a perfectly safe
craft when It Is upside down In the
back yard.
What a woman can dress for de-
pends to a great extent upon whom
she dresses for.
Desldes Ajax defying the lightning
there are the fans on Lha bleachers
defying the sunshine.
Grown people as a rule do not be-
lleve fairy tales, unleBs they are print
ed In seed catalogues.
Still, If a baldheaded man does not
Jnlnd being Joked about It, why are
there so many toupooB?
What the Burbank school of wizards
Should now seek to evolve Is a hay
eating ultimate consumer.
Another tradition la exploded, The
majority of sweet girl graduates now-
adays can cook acceptably.
Surely It Is a gay world In which no-
body can propose universal peace
without raising a universal smlls.
Too bad the "swat the fly" slogan
■W&B not being flaunted wlien Noah
took up his residence In the ark.
Another thing besldea motorcycle
races that there's no use trying to gel
all worked up over Is fly swatting.
Unless cattle cease to disappear we
fear that man's canine teeth will be
gin to fall out presently from lack ol
use.
If amateur barefoot dancers could
only see their feet as others see them,
there would ba a Bpeedy ending to
the fad.
Chicago Is planning to make ltselt
a noiseless city. Hut the Windy City
will never be content to lead the
quiet life.
Anybody who hns been educated up
to the cabaret standard will know how
badly the orioles and thrushes Blng
these mornings.
A catcher has been suspended for
throwing dirt In an umpire's race. If
only mud slinging could be similarly
penalized in the bigger game of life!
STATE-WIDE
NEWS EVENTS
BILL GIVING GOVERNOR POWER
TO HEAR COMPLAINTS
IS PASSED.
EIGHT OTHER COMMITTEE BILLS
Why floes your neighbor's dog with
a passion for scratching up plants
choose the geraniums and spare the
dandelions?
Retaining the false whiskers of the
hlghwaymnn who got her purse, a
Chicago woman finds her courage but
meagerly rewarded. Men are deceiv-
ers ever!
A new boat in New York had as
sponsors fifty red-haired school girls.
The boat must have been launched
with vim enough to last two ordinary
lifetimes for vessels.
' A man who won't take part In a pa-
rade with a saBh on, or a banner In his
hands, when he gets a chance to do it,
if evidently not In sympathy with tha
modern Idea of publicity.
it is to be noted that the Russian
woman who was arrested In New York
for an Improper dance has returned
to Europe with n poor opinion of
American standards of art.
A hunter of big game In Africa cap-
tured a crocodile which had just swal-
lowed a buck. Evidently our flsh
stories are tamo beside the thrlHers
that come from the jungles.
Acts Fixing Number and Salaries of
8tatchouse Employes Included.
Other State Capita!
News.
The house of representatives passed
nine bills by the Maxey inevstlgatlng
commlttce. All of the bills were In-
tended to remedy conditions disclosed
bj the investigations.
The most Important, giving the gov-
ernor power to hoar complaints
against p'ibllc officers, to Bummon wit-
nesses and examine them under onth,
to punish for contempt, had a narrow
escape from defeat, geltlng by with
the bare constitutional majority of
fifty.
From remarks made by the speaker
and Mr. Smith, it was evident that
Governor Cruce, when testitying be-
fore the Investigating cemm'ttee, had
complained of his inability to enforce
the laws without power to Investigate
compialntB or enforce attendance of
witnesses.
The bill applies especially to state
officers of the executive branch.
The next bill passed requires all
public officers, under penalty of re-
moval, to give personal attention to
the detallB of their office. There was
some debate, In which it was called
to mind that Nr. Curtis had unsuc-
cessfully attempted to get such a bill
through tho legislature at the regular
session.
A third bill Imposes strict regula-
tions around the printing and distrib-
uting of hunting licenses, the object-
being to guarantee against the state
being defrauded by the sale of licenses
not regularly issued and accounted for.
The six other bills plainly fix the num-
ber of employes of various state de-
partments, Including the attorney-gen-
oral, corporation commission, Bchool
land office, makes tha specific appro-
priations necessary to pay the salary
of such employes and prohibits the
hiring of others for regular work out
of contingent funds.
The Durant resolution to appoint a
committee of three to draft resolu-
tions in behalf of Section 18 of the
coal mining bill, which tha miners
have referred, was defeated after
some debate In which all the argu-
ments pro and con "undershots" were
threshed over or about tha llfth time
this season.
SPIDER BITE FATAL.
Poisonous Insect Causes Death of In-
fant Near Tulsa.
Tulsa.—The 7-months-old Infant son
of John Harlaw, living northeast of
Tulsa, died from the effect of a spid-
er blta received about a week ago,
all attempts to counteract the eefc^ly
work of the Insect being futile. It Is
thought that the spider which bit the
was one of the red-hacked variety.
JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT.
ROBBED POSTOFFICE.
Voung Men Plead Guilty te Looting
One at George.
Chester Wells, Graduate of Wisconsin
University In Charge.
Chester Wells, Freeport, 111., who
graduates from the four years course
In Journalism at th« University of
Wisconsin this month, has been ap-
pointed by the state university to or-
ganize a department of journalism aad
develop the publicity work at that in-
stitution. He will enter upon his new
duties in September.
Mr. Wells had practical newspaper
experience before entering the univer-
sity as city editor, advertising man-
ager, and assistant business manager
of the Freeport (111.) Standard.
At the university he has beeh man-
aging editor of the Daily Cardinal, ed-
itor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Maga-
zine, and editor of the Badger.
SITE COMMITTEE CHOSEN.
Judge Jesse Dunn and Miss Gall Sipes
to Locate Oklahoma Building.
The site for the Oklahoma build-
ing at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
at San Francisco will be selected tills
summer by Justice Jesse J. Dunn of
the Biipreme court, whose home Is at
Alva, and Miss Gail Johnson Slpes, an
Oklahoma City girl who was born in
1889 and came to Oklahoma City the
same year, who will represent the
commission at the selection of this
site.
A very elaborate ceremony Is al-
ways conducted in the selection of
various state sites and in which case
of other states lias been selected by
the governor, with the members of
the commission. The Oklahoma com-
mission has adopted this means as a
matter of saving expense, as Miss
Slpes is living In California and Jus-
tice Dunn Intends to spend the Bum-
mer there.
DEMOCRATIC DAY AT THE FAIR
Young Politicians Want the Faithful
to Gather October 1.
W. B. Richards, state president of
the young men's league of democratic
clubs of Oklahoma, announces the se-
lection of Wednesday, October 1st, as
Democratic Day at the Oklahoma
State Fair, by the state organization
of younger democrats. A program
composed of speeches by democratic
leaders of national and statewide rep-
utation, and music is being arranged,
which Is to be conducted under the
auspices of the young men's organiza-
tion. At least one of the democratic
candidates for the presidential cam-
paign last fall is expected to be pres-
ent and address the meeting.
Sulphur.—Charles Petti and J. Jeter,
both young boys, pleaded guilty to
robbing the postoffice at George, a
small town In the western part of Oar-j Mill and Elevator company, charging
Short Weight Artist Nabbed.
Guthrie.—Five warrants have been
issued for the arrest of Paul McNeal,
formerly vice president of the Guthrie
IS
CRITICIZED
PRIVATE CHARACTER EXCEL-
LENT: OFFICIAL CONDUCT
NOT APPROVED.
LAST OF THE MAXEY REPORTS
Poor Advisers and Allowing Appoin-
tees to Violate Laws Charged—
Hit Whole Administration
Reviewed.
"The governor's Btrength lies In hip
excellent private character; his weak-
ness in his unfaltering reliance upon
the advice of his personal friends,
when nearly everybody in the state,
except himself, is convinced that many
of his advisors, some In responsible
public positions by his appointment,
are concerned only with personal
profiting out of the public treasury."
Thus does the general Investigat-
ing committee of the house of repre-
sentatives, in a unanimous report, last
of the long series of the Investigations
made by the committee, summarize its
opinion of Governor Lee Cruce.
The most carefully prepared of all
the reports made by the committae,
based upon matters the committee has
been probing ever since it came Into
existence more than four months ago,
and including as evidence the testi-
mony and statements of Governor
Cruce himself during a ten hours' sit
ADOLPH C. MILLER
1)
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Mr. Miller, who has beer made as-
sistant secretary of the interior, Is a
Callfornlan by birth and has held pro-
fessorships In the universities of Har-
vard, Cornell. California and Chicago.
He will have general supervision of
the bureau of education, the national
ting before the committee, it is ury j parks, the Government Hospital for
questionably the most remarkable ai
a public document of all the reports ol
the committee.
Citizen Versus Official.
As a citizen and as the highest offi
clal of the state the governor received
mingled praiBe and severest censure
"A man of the highest private integ
rity," says the committee: "an official
who has not measured up to the anti-
cipations of the people, and many ol
whose acts cannot but be harshly crit-
icisad."
The report makes no recommenda-
tions and stands rather as an analysis
of Governor Cruce and his official nctB,
as seen through the eyes of the leglB
lature, than an Indictment. The com-
the Insane and Howard university.
CURRENCY BILLS INTRODUCED
G. 0. P. Leader Declares Plan to Be
"More Democratic Waste."—
Present Bank Notes
To Be Retired.
Washington. — The administration
currency bill was launched in the
troubled seas of legislative consider-
ation when it was introduced in tha
senate by Senator Robert L. Owen of
Oklahoma, and in the house by Repre-
sentative Glass, the banking and cur-
rency committee chairmen. The house
mittee removes the one point on which j Immediately referred the measure to
most talk of impeachment was based | the banking and currency committee
alleged violation of the nepotism laws,
when It Btates that the circumstances
surrounding fhe employment of the
and preparations were made for the
committee to begin its deliberations.
Several changes had been made in
governor's brother as attorney for the the bill as lha result of the numerous
banking board were not such as con
stitute an illegal act on the part ol
the governor.
Severe criticism Is meted out to the
transactions by which Attorney C. B
Stuart was engaged by the gcvernot
conferences in which President Wil-
son, democrats of the house and sen-
ate committees, treasury department
officials and committees of bankers
took part. The changes embodied
some of the suggestions made by
to defend the grandfather clause those interested in the legislation,
eases. The committee callB tha ex However, despite earnest appeals
penditure of the $15,000 appropriated that the federal reserve board to con-
ty the legislature as a melon cutting trol the proposed new currency sys-
by the lawyers to whom It was paid tem be increased and that the bank-
Tbe governor 1b given credit fot ; ers be given representation, no change
paying the strictest personal attention in this provision was made. The
to the duties of his office, 1 board will consist of seven men to be
The report was adopted by the 1 appointed by the president. In the
house by a viva voce vote.
His Politics Came High.
Concerning the governor's cam
paigns, the report says:
"We find that the governor spent
tbout $40,000 In his first campaign to
secure the nomination for governor
and a considerable sum after his nom-i i«_i  >
, ' ... ,  , „ e minates the proposed limit of $500,-
ination. In his second campaign for ,  
senate Senator Cummins contemplates
proposing an amendment which would
make the board an elective body.
Re-inserted in the bill was the orig-
inal proposition for retiring the pres-
ent bank notes within twenty years
and the substitution of additional fed-
eral reserve notes for them. This
vln county, following a hearing here
before United States Commissioner
Nicholson, and were bound over to
the United States district court under
bonds of $1,000 each.
TO CELEBRATE OPENING,
Big Demonstrations at Both Hobart
and Lawton.
The announcement of a government
Burgeon that dirty money Is not dan
gerous on account of harboring germs
is a relief. For we all had made up
our minds to take the chance.
A minister in Philadelphia was re-
buked for adding to his clerical occu-
pation the side Issue of raising onlom
for sale. He was warned the lattei
business wus not In good odor In the
ministry.
Hobart.—Both Hobart and Lawton
are planning big celebrations for
August 6, which will be the twelfth
anniversary of the opening of the
Kiowa and Comanche country to set-
tlement. That opening included what
are now Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo,
Tillman and Cotton counties and parts
ol Grady, Stephens and Jefferson.
Concerning Ihe report that a Chi-
cago man slapped his wife with a
beefsteak, It certainly seems Improb-
able that ho would reaort to so cost-
ly an Implement of domestic disci-
pline.
The press dispatch stating that a
famous aviator has died a natural
death makes one wonder what la a
natural death for an aviator.
If people wore sensible shoes, think
of the chiropodists who would be
thrown out of work. Wearers of
foolish footgear have their uses.
A Chlc&goan was done out of $1,200
by two Englishmen on a "sure thing"
£«me. This record-breaking happen-
ing naturally was given Qrst-pajt
jploce. . _ ~ v „ .
him with causing to used false weights
in the mill, which It Is allege^, under-
weighed by several pounds each sack
of mill products turned out by tho
company.
McMurray Loses His Rakeoff.
Senator Gore and Pat J. Hurley, na-
tional attorney for the Choctaws, both
are receiving congratulations on their
successful fight against the McMur-
ray grab. Hurley it was who success-
fully combated the arguments of Mc-
Murray and his allies before the sen-
ate Indian affairs committee when the
hearings were conducted on the Gore
amendment. It is declared in Wash-
ington that'McMurray is making open
threats of returning to Oklahoma to
begin a campaign to get the official
scalps of both Gore and Hurley.
Fire At Vinita Refinery.
Vinita.—The destruction by Are of
six tanlte at the Milliken oil refinery,
with a total loss of $13,000 heavily in-
sured, is the third serious Iobb by fire
sustained by the company. The sec-
ond fire was the most disastrous. The
refinery was rebuilt after it on a more
substantial basis and the company Is
contemplating the expenditure of $1,-
000,000 In additional improvements.
There were thirty tanks on the tract
where the lightning struck which
caused the latest fire.
TrICounty Road Meet.
Waurika.—Between thirty and forty
good roads enthusiasts went to Dun-
can to attend the Tri-County Meridian
road meeting held In that city. The
delegation from Jefferson county was
made up of representatives from the
towns of Waurika, Ryan, Sugden, Ad-
dington and Terrell, led by County
Commissioners Christian and Tyons.
Jefferson county citizens have taken
up the proposition of constructing
this highway seriously and it is pro-
posed to do the work allotted to this
county at ones.
Indian Bill Is Passed.
Washington—The general Indian
appropriation bill, which sets aside
more than a million and one-half dol-
lars for the various tribes In Okla-
homa, was passed by the senate as
reported from the conference commit-
tee. The measure as agreed to retains
the provision nullifying the McMur-
ray contracts with individual members
of the rive Civilized Tribes and when
(he house acts on the measure it also
Is expected to take no exception to
this provision.
Shot at Squirrel and Killed Wife.
McAlester,—In a Justice court here,
Robt. Moore, charged with the murder
of his wife, near Tannehill last week,
was bound over without bail to await
the action of the grand jury, Moore
claims to have killed Ills wife acci-
dentally while shooting at a squirrel,
with a .22 caliber rifle.
Murder In Tulsa Gaming House.
Tulsa.—Sooth Stringer well known
man about town, was Bliit und killed
In a local gambling house. Grover
.Chance U under arrest.
nomination we find from the evidence
that a large sum was collected and
expended In Jiis behalf by his friends
and managers. •
"Ws find that R. W. Diclt, warden
of the penitentiary, raised a consider-
able sum of money to be expended In
tha governor's behalf; that a note
for $4,500 was executed to the Capitol
Hill National bank by John R. Wil-
liams, secretary of the school land de-
partment, John Doolin, game warden,
R. W. Dick, warden of the McAlester
penitentiary, Lon Frame, member of
the board of affairs, and the money
expended for campaign purposes. That
John R. Williams was his authorized
political manager at this time. Other
gums were raised by R. W. Dick
"We find that the warden of the
ranite reformatory, whose removal
hase been recommended by the legis
lature hertofore, on account of gross
neglect of duty and Incompetency, is
still retained by the governor, and
that conditions there maintained were
of long standing, and to some extent
nt least well known to him. The law
had placed the governor In a very com-
manding and responsible position with
reference to this Institution. He was
chairman of the board of prlsan con-
trol. He knew or should have known,
in our judgment, that the manage-
ment of that institution was a disgrace
to this state, and we repeat that a
proper administration of the board
of prison control, of which the gover-
nor is chairman, would have resulted
in .the removal of the warden long
before the findings of this committee
and the assembling of the legislature.
"We make this observation In con-
nection with the collection of cam-
paign funds, that R W. Dick was con
tinued by Governor Cruce as warden
of the penitentiary; John B. Doolin
was appointed game warden; John H.
Williams was appointed secretary of
the school land department; Dr. J. C.
Mahr also raised some money to be
expended In the governor's behalf.
Dr. Mahr was continued by the gover-
nor, commissioner of public health.
Lon M. Frame was appointed a mem-
ber of the board of affairs.
I
REDUCTION WILL TAKE PLACB
Or\ RAILROADS IN OKLA-
HOMA AT ONCE
000,000 In reserve notes contained in
the bill as originally made public. In
replacing the bank notes the govern-
ment 2 per cent bonds, upon which
they are now issued, would be refund-
ed by 3 per cent bonds without the
circulation privilege.
Chairman Glass made preparations
for the speedy consideration of the
bilj by the house committee. He se-
cured the passage through the house
of two resolutions to facilitate the
work. One, providing for the print-
ing and distribution of 25,000 copies
of the new bill; and the other, which
was passed after a partisan discus-
sion, provided $5,000 for the payment
of experts to be employed by tha
committee.
Republican Leader Mann declared
the latter resolution probably would
lead to "more democratic waste." He
pointed out that the money trust com-
mittee in the last congress began Its
piobe on a $25,000 appropriation, but
that before the committee concluded
Its work, $50,000 had been expended.
ANY KIND OF STAMPS.
WES1 MAKES AN AGREEMENT
By Which the Hook Injunction Is Set
Aside Until a Final Determina-
tion of the Cass
Is Had.
For the next six months, at least,
railroad passenger charges In Okla-
homa on the linger railroad systems,
will be only two cents per mile. This
Is the result of an agreement by Attor-
ney General West, representing the
corporation commission and the state
ol Oklahoma, and the attorneys for
the railroads.
A stipulation was entered Into that
pending final settlement of the Okla-
homa rate case in the supreme court
of the United States, some time after
January 1, 1914, the railroads will
charge only the fare allowed by the
Oklahoma constitution, from the en-
forcement of which the state was en-
Joined by Judge Hook of the federal
court, in 1910.
Attorneys J. R. Cottingham and S.
T. Bledsoe signed the stipulation oa
behalf of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific, the St. Louis & San Fran-
cisco, the Missouri, Kansas &. Texa 
and the Kansas City Southern.
Midland Valley Exempt.
The Midland Valley line originally
was granted an injunction, but later
was exempted from the operation of
the law by the state corporation com-
mission.
The Signed Stipulation.
The stipulation entered into between
the attorney general and the railroads
is as follows;
"First, The provisions of the tem-
porary Injunction heretofore granted
In this cause, temporarily enjoining
tho defendants, and each of them,
from enforcing, or attempting to en-
force, as against complainant the pro-
vision of section thirty-seven (37) of
article IX of the constitution of th 
state of Oklahoma, requiring the com-
plainant to demand or receive no mor&
than t^vo cents per mile for tirst-clasa
passenger tranportatlon for each peB-
senger between points within the state
of Oklahoma, on the portion of com-
plainant's line of railroad operated
within said state, may be set aside by
tho court upon the following condi-
tions;
"'(a) All provisions of said tem-
porary injunction in regard to col-
lection of charges for transportation
of freight shall remain in full forca
and effect until final decree In th 
Jnal trial of this cause o nits merits;
"(b) The court is to retain tha-
question of any refunds to be mad®
on account of passenger fares which
complainant has charged since said
temporary injunction has been in
force In excess of two cents per milo
for each passenger in the state of
Oklahoma, until the final trial of this
cause on the merits, which question
of refunds to be made, If any, shall
be covered by and included in th 
final decree of the court.
"(e) The final trial of this cause
shall not be bad, nor shall any evi-
dence be taken herein before a com-
missioner, master, or otherwise, prior
to the first day of January, A. I). 1914,
except upon agreement of the parties
hereto, and this cauBe shall be as-
signed for trial at any time after the
first day of January, A. D. 1914, to-
suit the convenience of the court, giv-
ing the parties reasonable time tc
prepare and produce their evidence;
"(d) In conideratlon of the above,
the complainant will re-establish a sys-
tem of two-cent fares on its lines ol
railroad between points within th6
state of Oklahoma for business traB-
acted wholly within the state of Okla-
homa as soon as new tariffs can con-
veniently be prepared in due course
of business, and maintain such rate
of two cents for passenger fares with-
in the state cf Oklahoma until final
decree on the trial of this cause or.
the merits, the parties hereto agreeing
to abide the judgment of the court
in that regard, subject to appeal by
either party, as provided by law.
Redeeming Refund Slips.
The question of the railroads re
deeming the refund slips issued since
the injunction was granted, for thy'
difference in fare at two and three
cents per mile, will not be taken
up until the case Is called on ltt
merits, after January 1, 1914. Unless
Parcels Post and Others Interchange-
able After July 1.
Washington—Farcel post stamps
will be valid on all classes of mail on
and after July 1, and ordinary stamps,
Including commemorative Issues, will
be good for postage on parcel post ,  
packages, under an order issued by « agreement is reached to the con-
t. « ♦  • r\ , f wts-tnr l n  • /-> rr II rrl /i/l no PflrtQlf.
•It"
t
Postmaster General Burleson
Mr. {lurleson explained that the
parcel post stamps was designed for
use temporarily only, tc determine the
amount of revenue derived from the
parcel post.
Child Desertion Charged To Pair.
Berkeley. Cal.—Harry 1. Diggs, for-
mere state architect, the postpone-
ment of whose joint trial with F. Drew
Caminetti on an Indictment charging
violation of the Mann white slave
act, was one of the causes of the resig-
nation of United States Attorney John
L McNab, was arrested here on a
bench warrant issued In Sacramento.
Dlggs nnd Caminetti were charged In
a new indictment with child desertion.
Caminetti was arrested and released
on $2,500 bail.
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•i i
trary, it now is regarded as certaiiJ 
that the rebates will be ordered shouK|P
the two-cent fare law finally be up
held, ns rebntea have been ordered by
the supreme court of the United States
In the Minnesota case.
History of Case.
The first shot in the legal battle to
force the railroads of the state to
grant a two-cent rate was In January,
1910, when an injunction was granted
by Judge Hook, sitting for Judgi
J. H. Cotterall of the western district
of Oklahoma, to the Santa Fe, M., K,
Si T., Kansas City Southern and Mid-
land Valley railroads restraining the
state officials from enforcing tbe rati
law.
A similar Injunction was granted tt
the Rock Island and Frisco rallroadi
on June 8, 1910. The Iron Mountain
was not granted an Injunction.