The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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Larcv returns nave seemea to raver
lames Menetee for state treasurer I
over Dnnlop, hut the race is very I
close. Menefee's friends claim that
he has a i>luralily of about 500 over
Dnnlop, with all of the latter's strong-
i holds heard from.
I Later returns have materially in-
ceased West's plurality over Freeiing
j for the attorney generalship, the lat-
| est reports giving him about 2,000.
Gubernatorial Race is Claimed by Both
Candidates—Was Light Vote Every-
where—Looks Like West for Attor-
ney General.
OKLAHOMA CITY:
turns from 49 of the i
Greater Oklahoma hav<
a plurality of 1,541 In the gubernato-
rial contest.
The 2fi counties from which the vote
r>n governor has not been obtained are
Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Bryan,
Cherokee, Cimarron, Custer, Ellis,
Greer, Grant, Harper, Leflore, Major,
Mayes, McCurtain, Pontotoc, Pushma-
taha, Roger Mills, Seminole, Sequoyah
Texas, Tillman, Wagoner, Washita.
Woods and Woodward. Of these Al-
falfa, Beckham, Bryan Cherokee, El-
lis, Harper, leflore. Mayes, Sequoyah,
Complete re- j Woodward by a plurality that is ex-
> counties In ! peeled to reach at least 1,500. No fig-
glven Cruce ; ures have been secured front either
Woods or Woodward, these counties
being so large that it is impossible to
assemble the votes. Pontotoc gave
Cruce a majority of 4T.0 but the fig-
ures have not yet been reported.
A conservative estimate gives Cruce
a plurality of fiOO in Greer county,
100 in Grant, 75 in McCurtain, 25 in
Pushmataha, 200 in Wagoner, 1,000 in
Woods, 600 in Woodward and 450 in
Pontotoc, a total of 3,150. This added
to the lead of 1,541 votes he has in
the other 49 counties leaves 4,091
Seminole and Washita are known to I votes that Haskell must overcome
ACTIVE BUILDING CONTINUES
REGARDLESS OF UNSET-
TLED CONDITIONS
ORGANIZATION (IF COMPANIES CONTINUES
only
COL. ROY V. HOFFM AN, CHANDLER, O. T„
Who Claims His Nomination, but Who Is Running Close With T. P. Gore.
Colonel Roy Hoffman came to the i was appointed private secretary to
territory from Kansas eighteen years j Governor Renfrow, and Governor
ago. He took up his residence in names reappointed him. He was ap-
Guthrle at the opening and was given pointed assistant under Caleb R.
a position in the land office. He was Brooks, United States district attorney
admitted lo the bar and became known lor Oklahoma. He was later made
as an orator when assigned a toast commander of the Oklahoma militia,
at the first territorial bar banquet, with rank of colonel. He was lieuten-
Colonel Hoffman organized the Lead- ant of tihe Oklahoma volunteer lit-
er Printing Company in Guthrie and fantry regiment in the Spanish-Amer-
was the first editor of that paper. He ! ican war.
COL. ROBERT L. OW EN, MUSKOGEE, I. T„
An Easy Winner in the Senatorial Race In the Democratic Primaries.
Robert L. Owen of Muskogee is the j of Indian Territory in various suits
' candidate for United States sen- J against the United States government,
ator from the proposed state who has The most notable suit won by Mr.
Indian blood, being one-eighth Chero- j Owens was that of the Eastern Chero-
kee. He was born In Lynchburg, Va., ! kees against the court last year, in
which Mr. Owen's fee amounted to
$300,000, and in which he secured
judgment for $5,000,000 against the
United States government. He also
recovered for the Choctaws and Chick-
asaws in 1891 $2,991,450 and for the
Western Cherokees $824,000 in 1894.
Colonel Owen is a life member of the
Elks and a thirty-second degree Mason
He has been prominent as a demo-
cratic organizer, served . in various
democratic national conventions, was
a member of the democratic national
congressional committee and member
Territory. For the last seventeen ! of the national committee from 1896
] years he has represented the Indians to 1900.
over 800, if the vote is in proportion ] M. E. Trapp has a lead of six thou-
to the incomplete returns received [ sand for state auditor over Gus Ivey
from these counties. j in the 28 counties officially received
The official returns in the United j at democratic headquarters, and it is
States senator race have been cutting believed that he is safe.
and was educated at Washington and
Lee university. He was principal
j teacher of the Cherokee Orphan asy-
lum from 1879 to 1880, and secretary
, of the Cherokee board of education
from 1881 to 1884. He began the prac-
tice of law In 1880, and was editor of
the Indian Chieftain at Vinita in 1884.
! He was Indian agent to the five tribes
in 1882-84 and organized the first na-
tional bank establishment in Indian
Territory at Muskogee, August 1, 1890.
Mr. Owen was secretary of the first
bar association organized in Indian
down Hoffman's lead over Gore for
the Oklahoma side, and friends of the
Lawton man were confidently predict-
ing Tuesday night that he would win
In the 28 counties that had been
received officially by the state com-
W. H. 11. Campbell appears easily
elected clerk of the supreme court, his
plurality at the present time being
2,186.
For corporation commissioner the
returns seem to favor Callahan, Pitt-
have gone for Haskell but the vote is
not yet canvassed and no definite fig-
ures can be secured.
Cruce has carried Greer county by
approximately 600 votes Grantt by
about 100, McCurtain by less than ii
hundred, Pushmataha by 125. Wagoner
mittee Gore had 17,505 votes against man and Pulian, though several of the
16,026 for Hoffman. Furman has also candidates are running close with
made some gains with Owen on the [good chances to win.
Indian Territory side, but the Mus- j Peter Hanraty is an easy winner
kogee man's lead is believed to be so j for chief mine insi>ector, and Taylor
great that it cannot be overcome. has a good lead for state examiner
eighteen counties. He has 420 in j Hoffman, however, claims he is an | and insector.
Washita county, 85 in Seminole and easy victor and that he has sufficient [ E. D. Cameron seems to have de-
150 in Bryan, which leaves 3,836 to . information from the other counties | feated R. L. Knie for superintendent
be met out of the remaining fifteen I to insure his nomination by a sub- j of public instruction by about 5,000.
counties. Cherokee, Leflore and Se- stantial plurality. It Is generally be-[ The race is close between Burke
quoyah are all known to have gone lleved that practically all of Gore's J and McComb for insurance comniis-
for Haskell by heavy majorities, but ; trength has been received and that j sloner and between Menefee and Dun
1. || , ,f lino, Ulll ,11111^1,1 II ti . I U V
a s majority and Woods and in none of these will his plurality run i Hoffman is the
| lop for state treasurer.
TIE VOTE B! COUNTIES.
Adair ....
Alfalfa ...
Atoka
Beaver ...
Beckham
Blaine ..
Bryan
'Canadian
Caddo ...
Carter
Cherokee .
Choctaw .
Cimarron .
Cleveland
Cole ...
Comanche
Ortlg ...
Creek ...
Custer ...
Delaware .
Dewey .,.
Ellis ....
GOVERNOR
Cruce. Haskell. Do vie
903
:,463
758
900
1,590
910
569
258
229
357
369
400
142
Garvin ...
I Grady
! Grant ...
j Greer ....
I Garfield .
Harper ..
J Haskell ..
[ Hughes ..
Jackson .,
i Jefferson .
Johnston .
Kay
Kingfisher
Kiowa ...
1 La'imer .
| leflore ..
j I <ove ...
I "Lincoln .
I l-ogan . . .
; Marshall .
Major
Mayes ...
I McClain ..
McCurtain
McIntosh .
j Murray ..
! Musk, gee
Noble
,702
825
116
1 Nowata
.. 530
120
175
,207
993
152
"Okfuskee
. 210
620
Oklahoma ...
. . 2,302
267
623
Okmulgee ...
.. 371
552
102
551
281
156
Osage
639
271
1G9
Ottawa
.. 324
540
76
278
699
35
Pawnee
.. 170
434
220
G89
1,289
75
Payne
412
521
104
665
1.127
56
Pittsburg ... .
.. 849
1,665
117
156
303
59
Pontotoc ... .
055
175
1,069
6(1
51
331
131
Pottawatomie .
Pu hmataha ..
Roger Mills
. . 1,282
1,906
381
763
1,229
163
Rogers
.. 315
1,003
43
316
296
69
Seminole ....
Sequoyah ...
170
159
Stephens ... .
.. 1,043
940
118
765
1.483
147
Texas
451
619
528
Tillman ... .
596
884
Tulsa
Wagoner ... .
* Washington .
.. 774
920
361
152
794
516
56
Washita ..
Woods
417
21'9
887
426
47
Woodward ..
404
2.347
60
Totals ....
. .35,477
33,936
9,267
186
84
633
♦Incomplete.
For state commissioner of charities
Miss Kate Bernard of Oklahoma City
had no opposition and Charles Daugh-
erty, a union labor printer of that
cltv, received the nomination fo*
state laboor commissioner practically
without opposition, although the
name of .1. S. Murray, who had pre-
viously withdrawn, apeare-1 on the bal-
lot in some places.
W. M. Cross was nominateed secre-
tary of state without opposition.
The vote was 40,000 to 50,000 less
than It was expected to poll, the farm-
ers "having been busy in their fields
and the business men apparently in-
different as to the result.
Uncertainty of Statehood Has Not
Affected Filing of Charters and
Other Preliminaries — Rock
Island. Santa re aivi
Others Improving
GUTHRIE: Despite the fact of un-
settled conditions in the two terri-
tories and the uncertainty of imme-
diate statehood, the building of new-
railroads and the organization of
companies for sucn purposes continue
and a number of the new lines are
now oeing surveyed while actual con-
struction on others is progressing.
The Chicago, Rock Island Pacific
company is making rxtensive improve-
ments in Oklahoma at the present
time. The main line from Caldwell,
Kan., to Chickasha lias recently been
reballasted, and information c :mes
from division headquarters that the
Mangum-Chickasha branch wil be bal-
lasted with rock, the work to begin
immediately. The Rock Island at El
Reno is putting in a twenty-four stall
brick roundhouse, a shops buildings
jaxl05 feet, a steel water tank and
a 75-foot turntable, and at Waurika
is building an eleven stall roundhouse.
A number of new sidetracks are also
being built at different points. Ma-
teria! is being unloaded at Ardmore
for the construction of the branch line
to Waurika.
One of the most important railroad
operations in the southwest of recent
years was the transfer, recently, of
the Denver, Enid & Gulf between
3uthrie and Kiowa, Kan., to the East-
ern Oklahoma division of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe. A deed lias
been recorded at Medicine lx>dge,
Kan., during the past week. The
Eastern Oklahoma division is now-
composed of lines in Oklahoma as
follows: Newkirk to Cushing; Guth- j
rle to Cushing; Seward to Cashion:
Pauls Valley to Lindsay; Cushing via j
Shawnee to Pauls Valley; Davis to j
Scullen; the Denver, Enid & Gulf,
Guthrie to Kiowa, Kan., a total of
464 miles. It is understood that an
attempt is being made, after consoli-
dating all the Santa Fe lines in Okla-
homa under the Eastern
name, to establish permanent head-
quarters in Oklahoma for their opera-
tion, instead of operating them as at
the present time from the Santa Fe
headquarters at Topeka. Kan.
The St. Louis, Bartlesville & Pa-
cific road, chartered to run to .loplin
of $50,000, including the right cf way
for about twe-ity-flve miles, or from
the Verdigris river to the Osage na-
tion border. The company agrees t
give the city credit at the rate of $600
a mile for right of way on its bonus,
a total credit of $:t ,o00 and leaving
but $15,000 to be paid in cash. Tin*
city also agrees to give twenty acres
of land for shops.
Headquarters have been establish
ed in Shawnee by Chief Engineer
Phillips of the St. Louis & San Fran-
cisco, and the surveying has com-
menced on that road from Shawnee
to Weleetka, and another from Shaw
nee to Okmulgee. The east and west
line of the Frisco, known at! the Ozark
& Cherokee Central, now extends from
Favetteville, Ark., to Okmulgee viu
Muskogee. The extension from Ok
mulgee to Shawnee will give a direct
line to the Friscj from Shawnee east
to the main line from St. Louis Into
Texas.
John G. Edwards of Memphis,
Tenn , is in charge of a crew survey
Ing the proposed line of the Kansas
Clly, Lawton & Pacific, which was
chartered to build from Kansas City
lo San Angelo, Tex., diminishing the
distance between Kansas City and
the coast 190 miles via Carlsbad and
El Paso. The proposed route through
the territories is from Muskogee via
Weleetka, Wewoka, Wynnewood and
Lawton.
A statement was made during the
week by W. O. Barnhardt, right of
way man lor the Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient, that the construction work
will be pushed rapidly on the Orient
feeder from Sentinel, in Washita
county, southerst into Lawton, cross-
ing the extension and will parallel the
Rock Island road on the west side
of Lawton and through the Fort Sill
military reservation, following Medi
cine creek past Saddle mountain to
Hobart and Sentinel. The charter al3o
calls for an extension later from Law
ton east to Sulphur, 1. T. On the
main line of the Orient in Oklahoma
trains have been in operation for se-,
eral weeks int3 Clinton and the wor:.
of construction southward into Texas
Is rapidly nearing completion.
William Kenefiek of Kansas City,
who has built the Missouri, Oklahoma
& Gulf from Wagoner. I. '1'., south to
Dustin, I. T„ operating seventy-five
miles, has secured the necessary fi-
nancial backing to complete the road
j south to Denlson, Texas, 128 miles
j from Dustin to the Red river. The
Oklahoma oriS'naI Intention was to extend the
road later southward from Deni3. ii
into Mexico and northward to Kansa
City.
Secretary Henry J. Hildebrand < T
the Great Eastern & Western railro'u
has filed with Charles H. Filson, svk-
etary of Oklahoma, an amended ehai
Mo., via Ponca City, Pawhuska and ter 'he name to the Coalgate
Bartlesville, is now being surveyed if „Western' 11 was rhar"?'-ed origi
and expects to have the work com-® in ,S!,S to build west from .Mill
"reek, 1. T., to a connection with the
| main line of the Colorado, Santa Fe &
pleted by July 1. It is planned to di-
vide the road at Pawhuska, one line
west to Pohd Creek, the other south
and Guthrie toward the Texas border.
If this r;ad is built it will mean the
abandonment of the road recently or-
ganized by Senator Porter and W. R.
Stubbs of Kansas, to build southwest
from Caney, Kan., through Pawhuska
Stillwater and Guthrie.
The present plans of the St. Iyiuis,
Bartlesville & Pacific is to have an
eastern terminus at Webb City, Mo ,
and the western at Pond Creek, on the
main line of the Rock Island, a dis-
Gulf. The right of way was secured
as far back as 1903 between Mill
Creek and the Santa Fe, passing
through a very wealthy mineral sec
tion of the Chickasaw nation. Secro
tary Hildebrand states it is the Inten
tion to proceed with the road's con
struction, but under the new name
building westward fiom Coalgate, ou
the Choctaw, Oklahoma &■ Gulf and
Frisco.
Another phase of race sueide
which it would be well if certain
tance <f 150 miles. It is proposed, authorities would study! s evidenced
however, to extend the line later. The J by the poor young mother of 26 years
Con.-.ierclal club of Bartlesvlle has of Altus, who went insane at the birth
agreed to give the company a bonus , f her fifth child.
First Philippine Legislature
GUTHRIE: Governor Frantz has
received a copy of the proclamation
just issued by the governor generai
of the Philippines, calling a general
election on July 30, 1907, to elect rep-
resentatives for a general Philippine
assembly, w'hich will hold its first
session in October . Tills will be the
DISCUSS WAYS TO FIGHT
OKLAHOMA CITY: Twenty live
representatives of the new counties
in the territory met at the Lee hotel
and discussed ways and means tor
carrying on the injunction light
against the submission of the con-
Htltution, with the county boundaries
us they are now fixed. Each of the
fourteen new counties was repre
sented at the meeting, which was
called merely for the purpose of din
cusBlng the best manner in which to
iralse funds to carry on the fight.
Pastor Thwarts Elopement
lawton: Discovering In his
daughters possession a letter contain-
ing allowed details f a contemplati-d
elopement with p. d. Pevehouse, a
married man, who travels for the
Dawson and Suler Produce company,
the Rev. C. M. Barnes thwarted the
Plans of Miss Elsie Barnes, 17 years
old and handsome. The young lady
remains in her father's house, while
I 1 \ ehouse has disappeared. Pevehouse
left the city, according to prearranje-
- ut, but the giii did not meet him.
Lawton May Vote Bonds
LAW ION: I lit* mayor and council
have been petitioned by the board of
| education to call an election for the
| purpose of voting bonds In the sum of
: $25,000, out of the proceeds of which
I to construct a brick school building
| in the Fifth ward. The building site
1 is situated on famous claim No. 2,
drawn In the opening or 1901 by Miss
Mattle neal of Wichita, Kan., and the
building will be the first permanent
public building c nstructed on the ad-
dition formed by that tract.
! LAWTON: That some designing
individuals with a grudge against the
Frisco Railroad company, purposely
and maliciously threw open the switch
in the yards of the Oklahoma City &
Western tit Altus about four weeks
; ago, seeking revenge through the tali
ing of lives of employes of the com-
pany. has become practically estab-
lished by secret service men employ-
ed by the company to make Investi-
gations. Since the derailing of the
; train and (he killing of the engineer
mi April, (feteetlves have several times
1 iound thlf same switch thrown open,
PUSHING WORK ON ORIENT
Track Laying to Begin in Short Time
—Material for Construction
ALTUS: There is great activity in
the Orient yards west of town. Ma-
terial has been arriving daily for the
past week for the laying of the tics
and rails for the extension of the road
to Clinton, thus completing the main
line from Kansas City to the gulf.
Work on the laying of ties and rails
Is expected to begin within a few
weeks and it will then he but a matter
of a short time until cars will be run-
ning.
A large bunch of men are busy un-
loading the material as fast as it ar-
rives over the Frisco and it is already-
scattered from the tool house to the
extreme north end of town. Engineer
Smith, who came in this week to see
how the work is progressing, says it is
only a matter of waiting notv until the
construction truln conies before work
on laying the ties and rails will begin.
Choctaw county—Cruce 634, Doyle
100, Haskell 1043.
WASHINGTON 'Forty agents of
the pure food bureau of the agrlcul
turul department are now In the field
spotting adulterated and mlsbranded
foods. Products suspected of being
adulterated are the first to be exam-
ined, and later samples of all other
foodstuffs are gathered up for analy-
sis.
The government laboratories are de-
voting much of their time analyzing
products sent In by state boards. Sev-
eral states have pure food laws, and
Che officers empowered to «nforce
them are working In conjunction with
<he government authorities. If Is the
AMBASSADOR TO OKLAHOMA
James Bryce, England's Representa
tive in U. S„ Will Tour New Stats
GUTHRIE: Although fhe exact
Itinerary is not yet known, It Ls
learned that James Bryce, British am-
bassador to the United States, will
make a trip over Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory between June 13-18,
traveling as the guest of A. J. David
son, president of the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad.
He will be the kuest of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Owen at dinner in
Muskogee on June 14 and will be in
Guthrie on the afternoon and evening
of June 17. It Is as > know he will be
i ni Enid, where Governor Frank Frantz
has been invited to join the party.
It is known that Mr. Bryce is keen-
ly interested In the proposed consti-
tution of Oklahoma, and citizens In
the new state familiar with public
[questions have been invited to meet
him. He desires to obtain the views
or leading men on the questions im-
portant to communities just entering
statehood. During the constitutional
convention Mr. Bryce requested that
copy of the constitution be sent to
him.
SUCKLES WOLF AT BREAST
Mrs- J. R. Bectal, Indian Territory
Woman, Rears Captured Cub
MUSKOGEE: The debt that the
human race owes to the she wolf for
suckling Romulus and Remus has
been repaid. An Indian Teiritorv
woman has suckled a cub wolf at her
breast and reared it to the husky age
of law meat, and young chicken kill
Ing. This woman Is Mrs. It. ,|. [t,,c.
tal who lives four miles south of Mus-
leasee.
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