Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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OKLAHOMA UTATK UOURTEK.
Oklahoma State Register
Published Every Thursday by
THE OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY
J. M. DOLPH, Pres. JOHN GOl-OBH- Sec.
Established Dec. 17,1890. Inc., Dec. 17,1903
Entered at the P«tofflce at " 8eC°nd
Subscription Price per Year, 11.0*1
Thirsday, February 2", 1909-
JOHN GOLOBIE, EDITOR.
CASH CADE AND OFFICE.
A wave of good intentioned badinage is go-
ing the rounds of Republican newspapers,
placing various leaders of the party in various
federal offices, and among the names most
graciously mentioned is that of National Com-
mitteeman Cade. Federal offices must be filled,
and it is good policy to fill them with good men,
but when a man has accepted a federal appoint-
ment in a state it somehow destroys him for
an elective office. Cash Cade has never shown
an itch for office. Would it not be wise to hold
him as one of the forces to carry the state at
the next election? If there is a man who can
be said to have given his services for the good
of the party it is Cash Cade. W hen Oklahoma
was a territory it might have been well to have
appointed Cash Cade to some office, but what
appointive office can pay him now what he
makes in private business, and what office could
add to his political reputation or standing as a
private citizen? He has worn long and well-
he has worn better than any man who has been
so long and conspicuously in politics in Okla-
homa. His has been a growth of honest work
for the party. There is nothing against him
personally or politically. His name stands as
well with the voters and the party workers as
it did ten or twenty years ago. This is a unique
distinction in Oklahoma politics. Hei is & ^ig
man in Oklahoma. Why kill him off with a
federal office? Why not keep him as an asset
for winning the state to Republicanism? There
are not enough like him in the party that it
can afford to do without him.
Oklahoma City joints should be prosecuted
by the restaurant keepers. They do say you
can walk into two or three places there and not
only get'"mixed" drinks and a "schooner," but
pickled tripe, hot roast beef sandwiches and a
dill pickle on the side. And greater luxury
than all, you can display your good fortune in
the reflection of your radiant countenance in
the old bar mirror. Oklahoma City is enjoy-,
ing more than its share of happiness. Some-
one should stop it for envy. - ;
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN.
Last week we gave utterance to some spec-
ulations on Lincoln's place in history. The
celebration of Washington's birthday on the
22nd suggests another idea.
That the day was not celebrated with halt
the warmth that Lincoln's birthday was, is. not
due to the difference in distance of time between
the two heroic figures. It is often remarked
that men are more tied by their faults than vir-
tues, and it is possible that we are more tied by
our misfortunes than by our fortunes. The
ascendency of Lincoln over Washington in the
affections of the people is, and will continue to
be, in that his limitations were greater. The
struggle for successs has more romance than
success. In a sense we never succeed. No
man is what he would be, and so he who seems
most hampered on the road creates greatest
sympathy, as there are more men who can un-
derstand the shortcomings of life than its im-
perial successes.
The Father of His Country was born the
first gentleman, favored by nature with a gra-
cious personality, polished manners, the train-
ing of a cavalier, who was always sure of him-
self. As pity is akin to love, the ordinary man
can admire such a self-assured man but not love.
He represents none of his hidden shortcomings,
he consoles none of his smothered griefs. As
for Lincoln—no man that ever breathed but
finds some part of him in some part of Lincoln.
He wasn't all that we are not, and then he was
so much that we wish to be.
Omar Benedict warns Oklahomans against
buying the master pieces of such masters as
Corot, Millet, Bougereau, as there are concerns
manufacturing fake imitations. Mr. Benedict
shows he is familiar in all the art galleries of
the world and a connoisseur of their master-
pieces, and in an editorial opinion assures his
readers it is folly for them to risk their judg-
ment of "old masters" or "antique" fakes.
GERONIMO.
Poor old Geronimo, now that he is dead, the
"civilized" papers are writing abusive articles
about him, because he was not civilized. This
is the same spirit that makes civilized man
throw a rock at a bird, and use and abuse with-
out reason all living creatures, because they do
not belong to his specie, and are not "civilized."
But from the standpoint of Geronimo what
might not be written of "civilized" man's cru-
elty and destruction.
If the early bird catches the worm, then a
belated worm has a right to save its life.
THE CRIME OF WRITING POETRY.
If your boy writes verse don't kick him for
it, following an ancient prejudice, it is a sign
that he has a decent language capacity—and
language, you know, is the chief distinction be-
tween man and the beasts. The celebration of
Washington's birthday draws renewed atten-
tion that that dignified gentleman wrote poetry
in his youth, and most execrable poetry at that,
whei\ the pul .< i of h a olescence ran warm
and humid.
Language is as much a fine art as music,
sculpture or painting—it should be the greatest
of the fine arts. Tne man who has more than
one way of saying the same thing is more apt to
say it intelligently than he who has to struggle
with his words as the Titans with worlds in
piling them upon each other to reach the Olymp-
us of their desire. All the great thinkers of the
world wrote verse, or could have done so, when
young. That is the reason they were able to
clothe thought in immortal expression. The
music in language is the tou h of passion—of
high achievement.
Too often it is nowadays, that your profess-
sional man is no more feeling-cultured, soul-
cultured, language-cultured than your garbage
man, and the world has all but lost the pleasure
•—and the reverence—for the "learned" profes-
sions, whose chief instrument—language—is
not learned.
The combined efforts of all Oklahoma con-
gressmen were used in postponing final pay-
ments on homesteads in the Big Pasture.
There are more number of homes involved in
Oklahoma school land lessees and yet it is
thought they should be given no consideration
whatever.
Russian thistle—"tumble weeds"—in a re-
cent storm, chased across the prairies of Kan-
sas, breaking down fences and submerging
farm houses out of sight, until they were a
menace to life. They bounded like waves in a
stormy sea—mountain high. They have had
no foothold in Oklahoma as yet, although there
are some here. They should be guarded against
as a pestilence.
LOW RATES to tlie PACIFIC COAST
March 1st to April 30th, 1909
S25 t0 Principal CALIFORNIA Points
Proportionately low to OREGON and WASI NQTON
Special Through Tourist Sleeper, March 1st
For Principal CALIFORNIA Points Including the BUTTE VALLEY, Write Today
for particulars and Reservations.
J. S. McNALLY, D. P. A., Oklahoma City
AMERICAN'S AMI THE FRENCH
LEGION OF HONOR.'
President Roosevelt was "agreeably sur-
prised" that the people along the road to and
from his trip to dedicate the birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln, were as enthusiastically in-
terested in him at the end of his term as Presi-
dent as when he first entered upon his duties.
And congress must be as "disagreeably" sur-
prised.
With the death of Benoit Coristandt Coque-
lin, the great French actor, all the old school of
actors have passed away. Sara Bernhardt is
but a young girl in comparison.
A Guthrie daily stole an editorial—"Knock-
ing Teeth Out of Old Saws"—and the Newkirk
Republican News Journal reprinted it and
gave the paper credit for it. You can knock
out all the teeth of all the old saws, but you
cannot knock out this old snag: "Thou shalt
not steal."
Paris, Feh. 9.—Two plain, unas-
suming American boys appear in j
France, beat the French at tehir own
game—and the French put their name
on the great Napol;on's "Golden
Book."
It is impossible to drscribe French
pride and jealousy in niotor-aero-
planing as a French invention at the
I moment Wilbur Wright arrived to in-
stantly destroy them. Yet these
Frenchmen have shov-r. an enthusi-
asm and brotherly love whose fitting
seal is to eh the nomination of Orville
an" Wilbur Wright to the Legicn of
Honor.
Tt is an act in the style of Napoleon,
who took up men, tried them—and re-
waried them according ti) results at-
tained. Had not Robe.U Fulton's
steahboat sunk incontinently in the
Seine, the American conqueror of the
water would have had his name at the
beginning of the golden book—as the
America i conquerors of the air have
theirs at its end.
We Want Your Trade
I he lit timer Grocery Company
Phone 8,
Corner 6th and N cble Ave.
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR IS COMING
THE BREEDING OF THE RACE.
Miss Kate, Barnard and President Roosevelt
are of one mind regarding the future of the
race. They both a.gree that the children are the
men and women of the future and that if the
American nation is to hold supremacy in af-
fairs of the world, the new crop must be
brought into existence under the most fortui-
tus circumstances and reared under conditions
most congenial to their growth. The President
has sent a strong message to congress for a
commission for the preservation of child life,
and Miss Barnard has had passed a child labor
law that will lift the labor burden from their
limbs that has heretofore crushed many before
they were able to conceive the road of life
fairly.
In many respects man has heretofore taken
more care in the rearing of domestic animals,
because he could see their immediate money
value, than he has his children. The science of
the age says that the race can be lifted in the
same way as the quality of corn or breed of
cattle—by natural selection of the seed and by
congenial conditions under which it shall
grow.
State Superintendent E. D. Camer-
on has been notified by Governor J.
B. Sanders of Louisiana that he will
be in attendance at the country life
convention in Guthrie on March 10th.
Louisiana is showing much interest
in Superintendent Cameron's project
to organize the leading educators of
the South and Southwest into a sub-
commission to co-operate with the
Roosevelt country life commission.
Governor Sanders Will be accompanied
by T. H. Harris, state superintendent
j of public instruction of Louisiana, and
' fifteen other leading educators of that
' state. Howard A. Gass, superintend-
ent of public instruction of Missouri;
Geo. B. Cook of Arkansas, superin-
| tendent of public instruction, and the
i state superintendents from Texas,
' Kansas and N^w .Mexico will also be
| in attendance at the meeting. An
| elaborate program is being arranged
i for the event, which has the hearty
j support of Governor Haskell and the
; state board of education.
I'. ALl'-MM OF
OKLAHOMA BANQUET
OKLAHOMA NOT SO DAD.
Kansas' legislature is being forced by pub-
lic sentiment to pass a public utilities, a rail-
road valuation and a bank guaranty law. One
of the policies of President-elect Taft will be
government control of corporations and a val-
uation of railroad property for their ultimate
regulation.
Some Oklahomans are ma 1e to feel by out-
side pressure that thev should back track on
this fight of controlling public utilities. Okla-
homa has not gone so far as New York and
some New England states. People who think
Oklahoma's laws and attitude are inimical to
capital simply take for ,granted the necessary
noise it took to adjust affairs in the format:on
of a state, and do not post themselves on the
advance the older "safe and sane" states have
made.
The legislature is fast disanoointinc those
who thought it wasn't going to do anything.
Guthrie has never, since its first days, im-
proved as it is improving now. It will be, if it
keeps on, some day known as the 'City Beauti-
ful."
"How can Roosevelt, so turbulent, so ap-
preciate the pacific qualities of Taft?V asks the
reader of the sketch the President has made of
the life of the coming President in the '"In-
augural Souvenir."
I By the election of the following offi-
• cers the Oklahoma alumni of the Kan-
! sas University was perfected here:
P. W. Cress of Perry, president; vice
presidents: Angelo C. Scptt. Okla-
homa City; Frank A. Post, Guthrie;
Horace g. McKeever, Enid; Clarence
J. Hind man. Tulsa; James Q. Louthan
Porn a City, and Myron White, Musko-
gee: secfetary, E. F. Shinn, Guthrie;
treasurer. C. E. Cassity, Okmulgee.
The directors are Harry W. McLaugh-
1 1. Pawhuska; Laurence L. Cowley,
Perry; James W. Mayberry, Oklaho-
ma City; William H. Zwick, Oklaho-
ma City; Clarence Davis, Bristow;
John H. Kane, Bartlesville; Ralph E.
Campbell, Muskogee; Fred H. Kellogg,
McAlester; George S. Carter, Shaw-
nee: James E. D.vche, Chickasha.
The elaborate banquet given at the
Hotel lone was an event of more than
; passing moment. The long tables
were decorated in the K. U. colors,
crimson and blue, the color scheme
being carried out with penants and
other decorations throughout the
large dining room, which was in gala
attire for the evening. The elaborate
eight course dinner was begun at 7
o'clock with one hundred alumni
members seated with Chief Justice J.
J. Dunn presiding as toastmaster and
with "Uncle Jimmy" Green, dean of
the law department of the university,
who delivered the principal address
during the evening, as the guest of
honor.
Toasts were answered by the fol-
lowing: A. Pi. Huston. Fred Kellogg
'91, J, E. Dyche '92, Gertrude Chap-
man Cowley '98, Clarence Davis '99,
Slliyl Dunn Warden '01, C. E. Cassity
'02. J. C. Marr.
It is better for the American fleet to go
around the world on a frolic than a fi,<?ht. Re-
member the "ships that passed in a night" of
Rojestvenski.
What's the use of riling up brother against
brother in a capital location fight? Except for
the city that might get it, the present location
is the best and most economical in the state.
"OKLAHOM A LADY" I'll tNGED
TO "OKLAHOMA TOPICS."
The ' Oklahoma Lady," which was
published at Ardmore by Mrs. Sturgis,
has been purhcased by Mrs. Blanche
Lucas and Ham P. Bee, and will be
published hereafter bi-montlily at
Guthrie. The name will be changed
to "Oklahoma Topics," and the paper
will be non-partisan. Mrs. Lucas Is
owner anil manager of tho Oklahomt
press clipping bureau.
Nursery Stock in Bargain Lots
The following bargain lots should be ordered by number. We pay
(lie freight to any It. R. station in the United States, and guarantee sat-
isfaction and arrival in good condition on all shipments on these offers,
lilch w•' hop? will encourage the extensive planting of commercial
sorts. No discounts or additional stock on these BARGAIN OFFERS.
They are GENUINE BARGAIN'S. Jio limit on these bargain lots. Order
one or more lots, as may be desired. These lots are aU NICE, CLEAN
STOCK, TKl'E TO NAME and FREE FROM DISEASE.
Lot No. 1, for $8.50
Lot No. 2, for $5.00
100 Peach,2 to 3 feet one year from bud
10 Chamption 10 Carman 50 Elberta
10 Capt. Ede 10 Crosby 10 Heath
Cling
5 Early Richmond Cherry, 2 years
Lot No. 8, for $4.50
100 Apple, 1 year, 1 to 2 feet
20 Ben Davis 20 Gano 20 Jonathan
20 Winesap 20 Yellow Transparent
Lot No. 4, for $7.00
50 Cherry, 2 years, 3 to 4 feet first class
30 Early Richmond 20 Montmorency
10 Stayman Wine Sap Apple, 1 year, 2
to 3 feet
Lot No. 5, for $8.00
100 Apple, select, 1 year, 3 to 4 feet
40 Gano 40 Jonathan 20 Wine Sap
10 Early Richmond Cherries, 2 years,
3 to 4 feet
Lot No. 6, for $0.00
200 Peach, 2 to 3 ft., 1 year from bud
100 Elberta 20 Capt. Ede 20 Heath
Cling
20 Carman 20 Gold Dust 20 Stump
the W
10 Yellow Transparent Apple, 1 year,
2 to 3 feet
Lot No. 7, for $14.50
50 Kleffer Pear, 2 years, 5 to ? feet
50 Garber Pear/2 years, 5 to 7 feet
10 Early Richmond Cherry, 4 to 5 feet
Lot No. 8, for $12.00
100 Bartlett Pear, 1 year, 2 to 3 feet, on
French Imported Stocks
60 Cal]for*la Privet, 2 years, 2 to 3 ft.
Order any of the above by number
Lot No. 9, for $15.00
200 Apple, 1 years, 2 to 3 feet, first claca
50 Wine Sap 40 Gano 20 York Imp
20 Ben Davis 20 Yellow Transparent
50 Jonathan
Lot No. 10, for $22.00
500 Peach, 2 to 3 feet. Best commercial
340tS Elberta 40 Heath Cllno 40
Champion
* 40 Carman 40 Crosby
20 Early Richmond Cherry, 2 years, 3
to 4 feet
Lot No. 11, for $15.00
120 Peach, first class, 3 to 5 feet
5 Alexander 10 Carman 10 Capt. Ed
5 Alexander 10 Carman 10 Capt. Edo
10 Heath Cling 10 Crosby 10 Smock
10 Matthews' B. 65 Elberta
10 Kleffer Pear, 5 to 8 feet, extra select
10 Plum, 3 to 4 feet. 5 Wlckson and 8
10 Cherry,k3 to 4 feet, Early Richmond
20 Early Harvest Blackberry
10 Concord Grape, 2 years, No. 1
10 Pockllngton Grape, 2 years. No. 1
10 Russian Mulberry, 4 to 5 fe.t
2 Orange Oulnce, 3 to 4 feet
1 New England Mulberry
Lot No. 12, for $20.00
100 Apple, first-class, 1 year, 3 to 4 feet,
selection of varieties, not less than
10 of a sort
100 Peach, first-class, 4 to 5 feet, your
selection of varieties, not less thar>
10 of a sort „ A
10 Japan Plum, 4 to 6 feet, first-class,
your selection of varieties
10 Kleffer Pear, 2 years, 5 to 6 feet
10 Cherry, 2 years, select, 4 to 5 feet,
your selection of varieties
Lot No. 13, for $29.50
200 Kleffer Pear, extra .elect, 5 to 6 ft.
100 Elberta Peach, 4 to 5 fe.t
Address all orders to
New Haven Nurseries. Dept. K New Haven. Mo.
Send at once for Descriptive List.
W. R. Poison Transfer Co.
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
Will do your work promptly.Satisfaction guaranteed.
AVENGES HIS DAUGHTER'S Itl'IN.
El Reno.—A story of love misplaced
ended here this afternoon in the death
of Walter Hubbard, 23 years old, a
favorite with the younger set of El
Reno. Hubbard was hot and killed
by E. D. Steenrod, a mail carrier.
Steenrod immediately surrendered to
the police saying that the murdered
man had ruined his daughter.
Walking quietly into a ijew build-
ing where Hubbard was at work,
Steenrod drew his pistol and comman-
ed all the workmen except Hubbard
to stand aside. Divining Steenrod's
intentions Hubbard started to run, but
themail carrier follower!, shooting as
he ran. Hubbard fell mortally wound-
ed. Five shots were fire',1.
Fearing an attack by Hubbard's
companions, Steenrod re-loaded his
weapon and threatened any one who
ventured to molest him. 'Then he
walked calmly to th« Jail and surren-
dered.
Both Steenrod and the murdered
man's father are officials in the Chris-
tian church of El Reno.
Misses Marguerite Dolde, Anna Ewing,
Blanche Tidball, Viola Buell, Augusta
Houghton, May Seaman, Miss Hager,
Jennie Berry Ditter, May Hirschi, Lil-
lian Rohrer, Rena Richardson, Rosie
Metzler and the Misses Peck.
First published in State Register
Feb. 18. 1909.
Report
Of the condition of the Bank of
Navina at Navina, in the State
of Oklahoma, at the close of
business Feb. 5, 1909.
Resources.
Loans and Discounts $22,638 90
Overdrafts secured and
unsecured,grain 195.11
Furniture and Fixtures 1,400.00
Due from banks 17,676.77
Cash in bank 1,058.92
STATE Gl'AKANTEES DEPOSITS
In reply to an inquiry from State
Bank Commissioner Young as to
whether a printed notice used by a
bank stating that the deposits in that
bank are guaranteed by the state con-
stituted a violation of the law which
makes it a felony for a bank to post
false notices. Attorney General West,
in an opinion, stated that it does not.
He expressed the opinion that the
state does guarantee deposits, although
it Is a limited guarantee, being respon-
sible for making assessments and pre-
serving tho fund, and that it is not
Improper to state that the state reallj
stands behind deposits in banks.
MISS HAGAK'S KKCITAL.
A large and appreciative audience
attended the recital given by Miss
Janle Hager's pupils. Those partlcl
T>ating In the excellent program were
Total $42,969.70
Liabilities.
Capital Stock Paid iti $5,000.00
Surplus Fund 1,250.00
Undivided Profits, Less
Expenses and Taxes
Paid 1,472.37
Individual Deposits Sub-
ject to Check 30,688.33
Demand Certificates of
Deposit 4,559.00
Total $42,969.70
State of Oklahoma )
County of Kingfisher j ss"
I, L. J. Stark, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief, so help me God.
L. J. STARK, Cas'.tier.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 15th day of Feb. 1909.
seal, E. L- Welch
Notary Public.
Commission expires May 7, 1910.
Correct- attest:
S. W. Ilogan
N. M. Hog
L.J. Stark
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