Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma State Register.
SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. s
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY/MARCH HUMS.
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The Greatest Trouble With the People is They do Not Inform Themselves Who Serves orWho Robs them and Let their Friends " ,-t Slaughtered
Lincoln County Business Men Make an
Appeal to? the Sale of the School Lands,
Tuesday morning, without any noti-
fication, a parade of three hundred
and fifty "or four hundred men
marched from the Santa Fe depot up
Oklahoma avenue, then to Harrison a
block, and back to Oklahoma avenue,
and then on east to Broad and south
to the state house, where they swarm-
ed into the building at all the doors.
Someone notified Governor Haskell
that probably an attack was being
made for. the purpose of carrying
away the capital, and he, not knowing
whether they would take it to a place
that wuold suit him, came to the big
west entrance to prevent it. He was
there informed that the formidable
marching phalanx was a delegation of
the business men of Lincoln county,
come to urge the legislature to sell
the school lands of that county. The
governor was more than pleased at
such a happy termination of affairs,
and then and there shook hands with
all of them and welcomed them into
the state house.
While there was a good proportion
of lessees in the delegation, it was
composed mainly of business men of
Chandler, Stroud, Wellston, Luther,
Warwick, Prague and other cities. The
movement was initiated by the county
commissioners of Lincoln county call-
ing a mass meeting to arrange such
an excursion. The organization came
by way of the Fort Smith & Western,
Katy and Frisco-Rock Island roads.
These business men of , Lincoln
county are interested in the sale of
the school lands because one-fifth of
the county lands belong to the state
and are exempt from taxation. This
Is a serious hinderance to road and
bridge, municipal improvements and
court and official expenses. The un-
certainty of tenure holds back such
farm improvements as would be made
under home ownership, lessens the
annual production of crops and there-
by injures the business of the mer-
chants of the cities generally. It goes
farther. It does not provide sufficient
revenue so that as many months term
of district schools can be held as in
other counties, without private sub-
scription.
There are five townships in Lincoln
county almost solidly school lands.
These are what are called the indem-
nity lands, taken in lieu of sections
of school lands lost in the Osage Na-
tion, where Sections 16 and 36 were
DEMOCRATS WON <>\ A RECOUNT.
A Republican Member of Oklahoma
Legislature Unseated.
held by tlie Indians and taken by al-
lotment.
The delegation was allowed to fill
the galleries of the senate, and just
before adjournment for noon, 1:30
o'clock was set to give a hearing in
the open senate to such speakers as
were to talk for the delegation. At
the appointed hour President John-
son presided and Introduced the ora-
tors. Col. Roy Hoffman made the first
address, an eloquent effort, and was
followed by Governor Haskell, who
made one of his characteristic argu-
ments for the sale of the school lands.
A state is not rich whose treasury is
full of money," was the basis of his
argument, "but one whose citizens are
prosperous and contented, living in
their own homes. Only such can sing
that old song so dear to every Ameri-
can heart, "Home, sweet home, there
is no place like home." No man
against the sale of the school lands
can answer the governor's argument
why the lands should be sold.
Rev. Cloud, of Wellston, member of
the constitutional convention, and Edi-
tor Smith, of the Chandler Tribune,
followed in convincing arguments.
^'ooa' '-a'io[ ^scuss
to the Sherman LawProposed by tne President
From the state house the excursion-
ists marched to the city hall, where
Col. Hoffman, Rev. Cloud and Mr.
Smith again addressed the members.
Following came cries for Speaker
Murray, who promised the delegation
that the lands would surely be sold
but that the details of the sale were
so intricate that they had to have
time on the subject. The Speaker
talked right out in his characteristic
way and explained many of the diffi-
culties in the way. The Speaker is
strong for the sale but serious in the
matter of justice to all parties. Chair-
man Fisher, of the committee on
school and public lands, was called
for, and made promise of forwarding
the bill just as fast as it could be
pushed; and Speaker Pro Tem Ellis
renewed his old allegiance to the in-
terests of the lessees.
in the recount of ballots at Chero-
kee for Alfalfa county, W. H. H. Al-
len, the Republican member of the
legislature, was unseated. Murley,
the Democratic contestant, was de-
clared to be elected by a majority of
122.
The official returns made to the
state election board gave Allen a plu-
rality of thirty-seven. In Helena
township there were sixty-six more
ballots than the actual number of
votes cast. Allen has been sitting in
the legislature ever since its organize;
tion.
Most of the delegation returned
home late in the afternoon, but their
representatives remained and were
given hearings before the school land
committees of the two houses, where
the details of the bills were gone
over.
The delegation left feeling that this
was one of the most successful move-
ments in the sale of the school lands.
| could furnish just as good service in
i transfers without the cost of rental.
! The Pioneer company was repre-
! sented by W. G. Shipley of New York
j city, one of the leading telephone at-
jtorneys of the East, and Henry Asp,
of Guthrie.
I
I 1,0WE 11 ( 01 IMS SUSTAINED
I\ PACKERS' I!Kit V 11: C \SES.
to Kansas City Brokers, Wlio
Were Also Fined and Sen-
tenced to Jail.
PIONEER PAYS BEI,!,
$50,000 PHOYE HE XT A I,.
Telephone Expert Asserts $17 a Year
is Profitable Blanket Bate.
J. 11. Kelse.v, managing sales direc-
tor of the Kellogg Swith Board and
Supply Company, in testifying before
the corporation commission in the
Enid telephone hearing, drove home a
bar for the commission by asserting
that the Pioneer Telephone and Tele-
graph Company in Enid can pay ex-
penses and put into a reserve fund
$4 a year on each telephone at an an-
nual rate of $17. Mr. Kelsey is one
of the leading telephone experts of
the United States.
The citizens of Enid are asking for
a rate of $18 on residence telephones
and $24 on business telephones. The
rate suggsted by Mr. Kelsey is a blan-
ke rate.
It developed during the hearing that
the Pioneer company has been paying
the Bell company $f,0,000 for trans-
mitting and receiving messages trans-
ferred from one line to the other,
when the fact was brought out in the
face of this that other companies
The proceedings by the government
against the Armour Packing Company,
Swift and Company, Morris and Com-
pany, and the Cudahy Packing Com-
pany, all of them operating in Kan-
sas City, Ivas., under which the com-
panies were each fined $15,000 by the
United States circuit court for the
western district of Missouri, on the
charge of receiving rebates contrary
to the provisions of the Elkins act, was
decided by the supreme court of the
United States adversely to those com-
panies. The court's opinion was an-
nounced by Justice Day who held that
the Elkins act is applicable to trans-
portation anywhere and that an of-
fense is not confined to the initial
point He also held it applicable
alike to shipper and carrier.
The decision of the lower courts in
the complimentary case against the
Chicago, Burlington ,-nd Quincy Rail-
way Company, holding that company
responsible for granting the rebates
to the packers and finding that com-
pany for the offense was also affirmed.
Justice Brewer dissented from the
view of the court on the ground that
the decision would work a violation of
contract, "which," he said, "shocks his
senses of justice."
The chief justice anil Justice Pack-
ham concurred in Justice Brewer's
decision. They also held the Missou-
ri court to be without jurisdiction.
WILLIAM T. H0RNADAY.
The "nature faking" discussion has brought William T. Hornaday from
his lair to dispute John Burroughs' statement that animals do not reason.
Mr. Hornaday probably knows as uiticb about wild animals as any man living,
For the past eleven years lie lias been director of the New York zoological
park. Always an enthusiastic zoologist; he has traveled in Europe, Asia, North
and South America and the islands of the seas in search of material. He Is
an authority on taxidermy and lias published several valuable books about
wild animals. Mr. Ilornaday Is a native of Indiana
SAY IIA It KIM A \ LOOTED
r: 'v. OK $41),000,000.
Directors Cliarec Financier With Los-
ing in Stock Gambling This Sum
Belonging to the Boaril,
New Y'ork World.
Charges that E. H. Harriman ha.-
caused a loss to the stockholders of
the Union Paci(i£ railroad of over $40,-
000,000 by his stock speculations with
the funds of that corporation have
been filed with the board of directors.
A formal demand was made that suit
be brought against him and the other
directors of the system who have been
parties to his speculations to recover
the sums lost to the company through
these illegal transactions.
The papers were served upon Alex-
ander Miller, secretary of the Union
Pacific railroad, by a representative of
Leonard M. Woolstein, a lawyer of 49
Wall street, on behalf of Lewis A.
Stowe and Henry R. Buck, of Hart-
ford, Conn.; William A. Arnold, of
Willimantic, Conn., and Albert C.
Bates, of East Granby, Conn., all
stockholders of record.
The action Is preliminary to a suit
to be instituted by a powerful group
of stockholders to force Mr. Harriman
to disgorge the profits he and his as-
sociates have made in stock market
operations with Union Pacific funds,
and through the unloading of a large
amount of securities of other corpora-
tions upon the company's treasury, at
prices far above their present value.
The action is designated to forestall
lie plan of the Union Pacific executive
ommittee to segregate these securi-
ties under a holding company, which
is now being formed for the purpose.
"S1'1,E\KID," SAYS EVELYN
TIIAW OF HER V1.L0W \M i.
Confirms The World's News That Shi-
is to Receive $.">0,000 ltown and
$i;>,000 a Year From
the Thaws.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has sued
Harry K. Thaw for an annulment of
their marriage, lias admitted that the
terms of financial settlement made up-
on her by the latter, as given in the
New York World, are correct. She is
to receive a lump sum of $50,000 and
an annuity of $15,000.
Mrs. Thaw, smiling and radiant as a
June bride, was seen as she was leav-
ing the office of her attorney, Daniel
O'Reilly.
"Was the article regarding your
suit and the monetary consideration
you are to receive, published in the
World, correct?" she was asked.
"Yes, it was all right," was the re-
ply; "and I have no complaint to
make about it."
"Then the financial arrangement
made by your husband for your fu-
ture is satisfactory to you?"
"Yes," said the young woman with
some enthusiasm, "I am perfectly sat-
isfied. It is splendid."
(NEW PRESIDENT OK STATE
UNVERSITY SOUGHT EOK
C. B. Ames, an Oklahoma City at-
torney, had a chance to become the
head of the state university at Nor-
man. but he turned it down because
he was unwilling to forsake his legal
practice.
* did not become knpwn until re-
cently that Attorney Ames had been
offered the position by State Superin-
tendent Cameron. The other members
of the state educational board were
favorable to Mr. Ames. His name was
brought up informally and he was
notified. He informed Superintendent
Cameron over the telephone that he
would not accept the position and
later reiterated refusal in a letter.
The probable successor of Dr. Boyd,
the present head of the state univer-
sity, is exciting no little interest in
aducational circles. There are sev-
eral applicants, two of whom are
from outside the state. The most
prominently mentioned candidate in
Oklahoma is Dr. E. T. Bynum of Ok-
lahoma City. Two other candidates
are Dr. Aley, instructor in mathemat-
ics at the Indiana state university,
and recent Democratic candidate for
state superintendent, and Prof. Tur-
ner, well known in the Nebraska edu-
cational field.
It has not been definitely decided
that the state board ofeducation will
| name the presidents of the university
j and state normal schools, according
j to Superintendent Cameron.
| "I would rather the prerogative,
given us by the recent opinion of At-
j torney General West, was not exer-
i cised," said Superintendent Cameron.
I "I am in favor of allowing the regents
to select the head of the school."
The matter will be definitely settled
at a meeting of the board to be held
here Saturday.
Should the board decide to make the
appointments it is practically certain
that no changes will be made at
Weatherford and Alva. The respec-
tive presidents of these institutions,
| Sharp and Ross, are new appointees.
President Butcher of the Central Nor-
mal at Edmond, although a Republi-
can, has made such an enviable record
j that there is a possibility of his re-
) maintng in his position, members of
the board say.
Superintendent Cameron said that
the names of the members of the uni-
formy text book commission probably
will be annonnced Saturday.
OFFICERS CAPTURED BY ST A lilt.
Hank Bandits, Led 11} Notorious Cher-
okee Yet at Liberty.
Surrounded by the party of bandits
who recently robbed the bank at Hy-
dro. Kas., robbed of their guns and
horses, and set out afoot to make their
way back to the settlements, a posse
of deputy United States marshals,
headed by Monroe Staggs. met defeat
In their first bold effort to apprehend
the bandits, who are led by Henry
Starr. Accomranylng Staggs were
Joe Daniels, Ross Flanlgan and A B.
Cullock of Ochelata, and Albert Cun-
ningham of Bartlesville.
Washington, March 18.—A confer-
ence of far reaching importance to
labor began here today. Participat-
ing are President Gompers and the
members of the executive officers of
the International Trades I'nions of
America, who met pursuant to a call
issued by President Gompers to con-
sider the consequences of the recent
injunction decision of the supreme
court of the United States, affecting
labor organizations with particular to
the Danbury Hat cases in which that
court substantially held that labor or-
ganizations were to bo considered
trusts as much as organizations of
capital.
After calling attention to the signi-
ficance of the decisions, Mr. Gompers
stated that the conference was for the
purpose of "taking such action as
the importance and merits of the sub-
ject dealt with may be considered and
be determined as setting forth the po-
sitions and demands of labor." The
court's rulings, he pointed out, were
binding upon all labor organizations
until changed or modified by congres-
sional action.
The object of the conference, there-
fore, was to consider the proposed
PRIEST KILLER SLASHES
IN DASH FOR LIFE.
Denver Assassin Desperate!) Tried to
Get Out of Jail.
An attempt was made by Guiseppe
Alia, the condemned murderer of
Father Leo Heinrlchs, the Denver
priest, to escape from the county jail
where he has been under heavy guard
day and night. He made use of a ra-
zor blade, with which he slashed the
neck of a "trusty" who was cleaing
his cell, and then made a rush to get
away.
The "trusty," despite his cut, rushed
after him and pinioned him and he
was quickly overpowered with the
help of Deputy Warden Carpen.
When returned to the jail after his
conviction. Alia was stripped of ev-
erything and a complete new outfit
was given him except his socks, which
were turned inside out, examined and
returned to him. He was then placed
in the cell for the condemned, which
had been thoroughly swept and
cleaned and supplied with new bed-
ding. This cell had been occupied by
an Italian named Bernati. who ac-
companied Alia to Denver from New
Y'ork, and has been held since the as-
sassination of Father Leo as a sus-
pect and possible witness. After Al-
ia's conviction Bernati was removed
to another part of the jail and the cell
he had occupied was then made ready
for the condemned man. Bernati was
released from jail, and as he passed
Alia s cell he spoke to the condemned
man in Italian. It is surmised that
Bernati may have left the. razor con-
cealed in the bowl of the water closet
in the cell and told Alia where to
look for it when he passed out.
The "trusty" has a wound two and
a half inches long on his neck, but as
the jugular vein is not severed he will
SKELETON IS IDENTIFIED
AS THAT OK JOHN SI'AllKX
amendments to the Sherman anti-trust
ait which are being drafted with a
view of exempting labor organizations
from their obligations to the public,
but rather to prevent any Injustice
being done through the operation of
law to organizations of laboring men,
particularly through injunction. It
is desired to so frame the proposed
changes In the Sherman law as to
meet the requirements of the supreme
court's decisions. The proposed
amendments are the result of recent
conferences at the White House be-
tween President Roosevelt and others
and it is hoped to secure remedial leg-
islation along these lines at this ses-
sion of congress.
President Gompers today stated that
matters of importance to every union
man would be discussed and an effort
made to formulate plans to offset the
rulings of the various courts regard-
ing injunctions and boycotts.
There are one hundred and seven-
teen national and international trade
unions in America and practically all
of them were represented by one or
more delegates at today's meeting.
The conference, which was held be-
hind closed doors, will continue sev-
eral days.
18.1 billiard title by a score of 500 to
423.
The game marked the retirement of
Jacob Schaeffer, the wizard of the cue,
who for thirty-five years has been a
champion, off and on, at all styles of
billiards. He has won and held more
titles than any other man in his time.
Despite poor health, which has greatly
handicapped him in his matches in rel
cent years, the Wizard has hung on
by sheer grit when younger players
were striving to take his honors
away from him.
The discovery of a headless skele-
ton nineteen miles southwest of El
Reno in a secluded ravine of the
South Canadian river unravels one of
the deepest mysteries of central Okla-
homa. The skeleton has been identi-
fied as that of John Sparks, a young
married farmer who disappeared the
llth of January, 11)07. A search for
him was carried on for months, and it
was finally decided that he had left
the country because of divorce pro-
ceedings instituted against him by his
wife.
The skeleton was found partially
covered with earth and leaves. The
head was missing and a long search
has so far failed to reveal it. The of-
ficers of El Reno county have the mat-
ter in charge and a party is busy try-
ing to find the head. Foul play of the
worst nature is suspected, and there
may be very sensational developments
before the matter is ended.
SCIIA EKE It IIETIIIES
BILLIARD I'll tMPlON.
Jake Schaeffer, of Chicago, defeated
Willie Hoppe of New York, for the
BEHIND THE THRONE.
Saturday Evening Post.
Senator T. P. Gore, the new repre-
sentative of Oklahoma in the upper
house at Washington, is beginning to
learn that the wheels of national leg-
islation, though they may grind ex-
ceeding fine, turn just about as slowly
as the turners dare to turn them, and
that the quality of the flour produced
depends a good deal on who it is that
brings the grist to the mill.
"However," said Mr. Gore recently,
"1 have one optimistic colleague
among the newcomers. This new sen-
ator went home the other day, and
was thrusting out his chest among his
constituents.
" 'Do you find it hard,' somebody
asked him, 'to push through the legis-
lation you desire?' v
" Not at all; not at all,' was the an-
swer. 'When Aldrich and 1 agree on a
bill we can always pass it.' "
GOVERNMENT SALE
OK FAltMS MAY 1.
i United States to Place 2135 Tracts on
| Market on Ten Year Payments.
The government will place on the
market on May 1st 2135 farms and will
, allow purchasers ten years to pay for
| them. The area of the farms will
j range from ten to loo acres, and they
\ are made available by completion and
'development of the irrigation project
, in the West.
In Nevada, in connection with the
Truckee-Carson project, 1000 farms of
eighty acres each can be taken up with
an entry fee of and $3 an acre an-
nually for ten years.
in Oregon 200 farms will be availa-
ble on the Umatilla project of from ten
to twenty acres eaoh. These lands
will cost from $600 tj $1200.
In South Dakota 175 farms will be
available in tracts of eight acres, and
in Wyoming 200 on the North Platte
project and 2uU on the Shoshone pro-
ject, costing front' $600 to $1200.
Residence on and cultivation of
the farms will be required of the pur-
chasers. and every means will be tak-
en to guard against speculators pur-
chasing them.
Director Newell f the reclamation
service and Chief Statistician Blanch-
ard are preparing for Secretary Gar-
field a report In which he is advised
that the lands are ready, and that May
1st will be the appropriate date to put
them on the market.
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