The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1903 Page: 3 of 12
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THE CHANDLER NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1903.
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HERBERT C. BRUNT, Prop.
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HERBERT C. BRUNT,
PARNELL, : : : OKLAHOMA.
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The Messenger Errupts.
The Stroud Messenger last week
contained an attack upon Messrs.
Amberg and Dennis, the republican
members of the board of county-
commissioners. This is about the
first reference the Messenger has
made to any affairs of the county
since it made a similar attack upon
the republican commissioners, about
three years ago. Though professed-
ly a republican paper the Messenger
confines its criticisms mainly to re-
publican officials, and it is silent
even in regard to them except when
it thinks it has been slighted. It has
no words of praise for their good | ^
work, no commendation for
the thousands of dollars the
board saved the county. It had no
criticism for any of the acts of ex-
travagance of the preceding fusion
board that any one will be able to
recall.
The occasion which causcd our es-
teemed contemporary to lay aside
the shears and take up his pencil for
a rroaient was the same this time as
caused the similar
years ago—namely,
the county were in the county seat,
and so, as a matter of course, they
obtained a general circulation, which
they have since retained, in all parts
of the county. The other papers
started since then in other towns have
been local in character, and have
not made pretence of having or at-
taining a general county circulation.
There are now eleven papers in this
county. To publish in all would be
impossible, and yet most of them
have just as strong claims as the
Messenger can present, some of them
stronger. Ninety-five per cent of
the people of the county approve, we
believe, the action of all the boards
in selecting a county seat paper in
preference to a local paper with
limited circulation situated on one
side of the county.
The Messenger says that it as-
sured the voters that Amberg and
Dennis were good men. If it did so
it certainly told the truth then, and
it should be ashamed of the futile at-
tempt it has made to prejudice its
readers against these officialsbecause
outburst three ! ^cy showed more consideration for
that the county interest the tax payersthan for
TALK OF AN EXTRA StSSION.
the wishes of one who expects so
much and deserves so little as does
commissioners had seen fit to desig
nate as official paper The Chandler
News instead of the Stroud Messen- j the Messenger man.
ger. He tries to make it appear.that j
Territorial Legislature May Have to be
Called Together to Straighten
out the Tangles.
Guthrie, Ok., March 24.—Gov-
ernor Ferguson said today that he
might call the legislature in extra
session next week, probably Monday,
to correct the township assessor law,
making it operative January 1, 1904,
instead of at once ; to change the oil
inspection law by making the salary
of the territorial inspector large
enough to repay him adequately for
his work; re-enact the quarantine
bill, if the legislature would leave
the Indian reservation pastures be-
low the line, in accordance with the
wishes of the Secretary of the Inter-
ior department. John Dillon refuses
to qualify as oil inspector and no
other person is willing to accept the
position at its present small salary.
"The township assessor law is the
only question that is causing serious
trouble," said Governor Ferguson,
"and while I believe it can be en-
forced as it now stands, yet it will
involve the different counties in great
expense. Records and other docu-
ments must be printed immediately
and I am told that in some counties
the expense for all purposes would
reach $4,000. The commissioners
of Woodward county who were here
today said the change .would cost
their county $3,500. I dislike call-
ing the legislature in extra session
and would not do so if I believed
that the members would attempt to
enact other legislation, or prolong
the session. I have not decided def-
initely what I shall do."
John W. Shartel, representing the
commissioners of Oklahoma county,
was here today and informed Gov-
ernor Ferguson there was not time
enough to assess property in Okla-
homa City by May 1. Mr. Shartel
favored an extra session of the legis-
lature. In several counties the county
assessors are threatening to bring
suit for damages if ousted from of-
fice. They qualified last January
for a two years' term and have been
assessing and listing property since
March 1. Governor Ferguson dis-
cussed the advisability of an extra
session with Attorney General Rob-
berts early this afternoon. The lat-
ter was opposed to an extra session,
not believing it necessary. The
conference was adjourned until 4 :30
o'clock, when it was proposed to
reach a final conclusion. Speaker
William Bowles has given assurance
that he would resist any attempt to
prolong the extra session, which
would not last longer than one day.
President Alexander has expressed
himself in a similar way.
Attorney General Roberts holds
that the county assessors are now
out of office and the legislature can-
not reinstate them except by re-en-
acting the county assesor law. If
this should be done, the township
assessor law would then have to be
amended, re-enacted and made effec-
tive January 1, 1904 There is a
question whether the legislature could
appropriate money for the expenses
of the extra session. If this appro-
priation could not be made congress
would be called upon for a deficiency
appropriation. Attorney General Rob-
berts is not disturbed by the state-
ment that the county assessors may
begin mandamus proceedings to hold
their offices, thereby delaying the ter-
ritorial assessment and tangling up
the financial affairs of the territory.
He recommends that the new law be
enforced and that if litigation should
then follow, the legislature could
then be called in extra session and
defects cured.
ha doesn't care on his account—that
it is only that he wants the people of
Stroud to read the commissioners'
proceedings. Yet he did not com-
plain last yetir or the year before
about the matter. To be consistent
he should then have urged that the
fusion board designate the Stroud
Star as official paper.
The law in regard to an official
paper evidenly contemplated the se-
lection of one paper of general cir-
culation. For the first six or seven
years the only papers published in
CURES WHUtfc All tlSt fAHS.
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In tine. Hold Y y Uruirjiists
Get your chattel mortgage blanks
at this office.
Some desirable offices in Frazier
building for rent after April 1.
L. W. Chipley, brother of our F.
K. and L. B. Chipley, was in Chand-
ler last week. He is a salesman for
the Dittman Shoe Co., of St. Louis.
The man who ran over the old
lady and four small boys, on Manvel
avenue, Saturday, was all right, he
was running to the O. K. Grocery
Store.
The W. C. T. U. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Clark, North Allison
Ave., on Tuesday afternoon, March
31st. Topic: "Whatthe F.fty-Sev-
enth congress has given us in reform
legislation."
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1903, newspaper, March 26, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117662/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.