The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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The Peoples Voice
BY J NO. S. ALLAN
NORKAN.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA state notes
The population of El Reno, accord-
ing to a report of recent census tak-
tn is 9,556.
Last week Muskogee voted $550,000
for water works and storm sewer
bonds. The issue won by a vote of
five to one.
State Bank Commissioner Smock
has approved the certificate of incor-
poration of the First State Dank at
Pryor Creek. The stock of the new
institution is $10,000.
The state conference of the Epworth
League, under whose auspices the
Epworth assembly is conducted, held
its annual meeting at the assembly
grounds at Guthrie last week.
Governor Haskell has Issued a re-
quisition upon Governor Hoch of
Kansas for the return of Isaac R.
Compton, wanted in Pottawatomie
county on a charge of criminal as-
sault.
Hank Commissioner Smock has is-
nied a call for a statement of the con-
dition of all state banks at the close
of business on July 15. The comp-
troller of the currency has also called
for a statement from national banks
of the same date.
Beginning on July 20, and continu-
ing from day to day thereafter until
completed, Lieut. Stockcr, Indian
agent to the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache Indians, will pay to the vari-
ous individual Indians of these tribes
$275,000, which will average nearly
$100 to each man, woman and child.
After thirty-one years of married
life in peace and harmony and bring-
ing up nine children, Stephen W. Cha-
tham, of Comanche county, has filed
suit for divorce from his wife, Elian
Chatham. Chatham complains on ac-
count of abandonment.
The vote in the Woods county elec-
tion to decide whether three town-
ships should be cut off the southeast
corner of Woods and added to Major
county, resulted in a very decisive
vote against the proposition. The
vote stopd 42 for and 135 against.
Charles Brush, aged 39 years, was
instantly killed sixteen miles south-
east of Alva when lightning struck
a wagon in which he was sitting. His
father and brother, who were in the
seat with him escaped unhurt. Both
horses hitched to the wagon were
killed.
PUTTING ON THE LID
Topeka Must Be Either Wide Open or
Closed Tight
TOPEKA: Warrants were issued
from the Topeka police court for the
arrest of twenty-one owners, sales-
men and- employes of cigar stores, con-
fectionery stores, livery stables, gar- j
ages, drug stores, flouring mills and a
morning newspaper upon the charge
of violating the city ordinance which
forbids labor on Sunday.
The information was sworn to by
the owners and managers of Topeka
theaters, whose show houses were re-
cently closed by the city under the
provisions of the same ordinance. The
supreme court sustained the ordi
nance after successive appeals front
the police and Shawnee county dis-
trict courts. The arrests are the op-
ening guns of the theater managers to
either hermetically seal the Topeka
lid or leave everything wide open.
Tour newspaper reporters employed
on the Topeka Daily Capita], a morn-
ing newspaper, were among those ar
rested. The information was based
upon the fact that they aid in issuing
a Monday morning newspaper which
is made up on Sunday night.
The theater people are collecting
evidence of violations of the ordi-
nance, and the city and county offi-
cials, who at first refused (o issue war-
rants for the arrest of breakers of
the law, have decided to cause the
arrest of all against whom there is
sufficient, evidence. Sunday baseball
will also be tabooed. The Topeka
club of the Western association usual-
ly has a large attendance at the
Sunday games and if the determina-
tion of the theater people to push the
fight to baseball is carried out the
Sunday games scheduled for this city
may have to be transferred to some
ot her.
IS. TO IESI
STEVE ADAMS ACQUITTED
GOVERNMENT TO EXPERIMENT
WITH AIRSHIPS
EXPliIT congressional appropriation
Uses of the Balloon to be Tested by
War Department During the Next
Two Months—Cocts to be Paid from
Ordnance Fund
GOVERNOR BALLON1NG a
WASHINGTON: With the arrival
of Captain Thomas S. Baldwin's diri-
gible balloon at Fort Meyer this week
there will be inaugurated the first se-
ries of aeronautical tests held under
the patronage of the government.
When proposals for bids were adver-
tised by the war department last Jan-
uary for a dirigible -alioon this Was
the first recognition by any branch
of the government of the importance
of aeronautics, and the part that air-
ships will probably play iu future
wars.
The tests of both heavler-than-alr
machines and dirigible balloons dur-
ing the next two months will com-
mand the attention of aeronauts
throughout the world. Their import-
ance, however, will center principally
in whether or not the results will
convince congress of the necessity for
funds to carry on experiments.
The cost of the tests to be made
at Fort Meyer will be paid from the
funds of the board of ordnance and
fortification. If Captain Baldwin's
balloon fulfills the requirements of
the specifications, he will receive $«,-
The trials of the dirigible bal-
loon will hardly excite as much inter-
est as those of the heavier-than-air
type of machine, in which the Wright
brothers and A. M. Herring will com-
pete in August.
Captain Baldwin's airship, being but
ninety feet long and twenty-four feet
In diameter, is very small in compar-
ison with those of Count Zeppelin and
other foreign aeronauts. It will only
carry two men. For this reason, if it
fulfills the requirements to sail five
miles out and back to the fort at a
minimum speed of eighteen miles an
hour, it will be only useful to the army
for experimental purposes, and for
reconnoitering in time of war.
EDITORS CANNOT TRADE
It doesn't look much like hard times
when a church raises $7,000 in a little
more than two hours. That's what
was done at the Methodist church at
i'hickasha and thereby the liquidation
of the entire debt of the church was
assured. The new church and ail its
equipments, including the $2,000 pipe
organ, are free from all Incumbrance.
An order has been secured from tile
corporation commission requiring the
Frisco Meteor to stop at Kellyville
and Depew when going west and the
fast mail to stop at, Bristow at all
limes. This greatly improves the con-
nections for these towns in both direc-
tions.
The potato yield in Pottawatomie
county this year nil! lie almost as
great as it was this past year, the
•floods having injured the crop very
little. Peaches, however, are not do-
ing as well. The crop Is short and
the fruit is far below par in size and
quality.
Two Crops of Corn
WAURIKA: From a thirty-acre
tract of corn J. D. Huffman, a pros-
Porous farmer residing near here, has !
gathered fifty bushels to the acre.
The corn was planted January ID and
was sufficiently matured for gather-
ing two weeks ago. Mr. Huffman is
now planting a second crop on the
tame land. The indications for an-
other fifty-bushel crop are good.
Building Site Bids opened
WASHINGTON: Bids for public
building sites at Chickasha and McAl-
ester, Okla., were opened at the treas-
ury Saturday. The limit of cost in
each place is $15,000. Out of eight
sites offered in McAlester, only the
Baptist church iocalion demanded the
full limit of the cost. The lowest
priced site offered was that of Minnie
L. Jackson, northwest corner Grand
avenue and Fifth street, $7,500. Sev-
eral sites offered in Chickasha call for
the limit of cost, including northwest
corner Fifth and Kansas avenue,
southeast corner Kansas avenue and
Fourth, corner Chlckesaa and Sixth
streets. John Patfenger offers north-
west corner Colorado avenue and
Fourth at $11,000, and Dennis O'Brien
offers southwest corner Colorado ave-
nue and Third at $10,000, the lowest
bids.
Run on Jim Crow Plan
GUTHRIE: In accordance with the
requirements of the law, Oklahoma's
state school for the deaf, temporary
quarters for which are now being pre-
pared at Sulphur, will be conducted
on the 'Jim Crow" plav., and the board
of regents at a meeting hero authoriz-
ed the superintendent to employ a ne-
gro teacher to tajie charge of the ne-
gro children, who will be housed in
a separate building. The board will
endeavor to locate all deaf and dumb
children in the state, white, black and
Indians, and give them the advan-
tages of an education.
County Board All Republican
MI'SKOGEE: The district court has
decided that T. R. Palmer, republican, I providing for the issuance of trip tick-
contesting the right of W. R. Harris, J eta or mileage to the value of $500
democrat, to a seat as county com- ' lu consideration of certain advertis-
missioner of Muskogee county, had lug space in the publication of the
won in the election by two votes. This ! magazine company. The contract
makes the board of commissioners re- j was alleged to be a violation of the
publican. Attorneys for Harris have [ Hepburn law.
appealed and asked for a supercedeas
bond in order that Harris may hold
over until the supreme court passes
on the case. In the meantime the lo-
cation of the state road and the agri-
cultural and mechanical college of
this district are to be decided.
Member of Miners' Federation Se-
sures Favorable Verdict
GRAND JUNCTION. COLO.: Steve
Adams, member of the Western Fed-
eration of Miners, was acquitted of
the murder of Arthur Collins. Adams'
alleged confession of the crime was
excluded as evidence by Judge Shack-
elford and eight witnesses testified
to an alibi for the accused man.
Collins, who was manager of the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride,
was shot through a window of his
office on the night of November 19,
1902, while playing cards with some
friends.
After the clerk of the court had
read the verdict, Adams was ordered
discharged. Adams immediately step-
ped to the jury box and shook hands
with each one of the jurors and thank-
ed them for finding liim not guilty.
He also thanked the members of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
are here, for their support < nd en-
couragement during his long impris-
onment and trial.
Adams left the court room with
William Easterly, another prominent
Federationist, and joined Mrs. Adams
at the hotel where she had been
staying during the trial.
No move was made to re-arrest
Adams on any of the other murder
charges growing out of the Colorado
labor troubles, and it is said he will
be permitted to go free as the auth-
orities are convinced of the impossi-
bility of securing a conviction in any
of these cases.
EL RENO BARBER KILLS
AND COMPANION
DEFENSE COST $189,589
United States Judge Would Make the
Newspaper Men Pay Cash
CHICAGO: "If it be lawful to make
the exchange of railroad transporta-
tion for advertising, then it would be
lawful to do the same in every trans-
action, and the railroad business
might lawfully become one of barter
and sale, limited only by the de-,
mand."
In a decision given by Judge C. C.
Kohlsaat in the United Stages circuit
court, from which the above is quot-
ed, the jurist enjoined the issuance of
transportation by the Chicago, Indian-
apolis & Louisville railway company
to the publishers of Munsey's maga-
zine in exchange for advertising.
The decision was rendered in a test
case in which the federal authorities
brought suit to prevent the carrying
out of a contract entered into in Jan-
uary. 1907. between the railroad com-
pany and Frank A. Munsey & Co.,
Federation Treasurer's Report Shows
Expense in Steunenberg Case
DENVER: The annual report of Er-
nest Mills, secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners,
which was submitted, to the conven-
tion here last week, shows that the
organization lost 5,000 members dur-
ing the past year. The total member-
ship January 1, this year, was 38,115.
The report shows total collections
by the local unions of $1,100,694, and
expenditures of $993,885. It shows
total receipts by the present organiz-
ation together with last year's bal-
ance in bank of $392,13:!, and expendi-
tures of $376,153. Of the latter amount
$189,589 was expended in the defense
of Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone and
Adams on murder charges.
Six new locals were organized dur-
i ing the year, and twenty-nine either
disbanded or affiliated with some oth-
er union.
EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE
j An Average of a Suicide a Day Sines
July 1st
PITTSBURG, PA.: Pittsburg and
vicinity are in the grasp of a suicide
; epidemic. Since the 1st of July 21
persons have ended their lives, while
I a dozen othe;s Unsuccessfully attempt-
"imimi ii#" mu ie w
ed in a conference culled by Public
, _ „ . > Safety Director Lang, a* wihch the
Husband Requested Sheriff to Go to
police and health superintendents pa;-
His Home and Arrest the Couple tlcipated. While the conference was
Warning the Officer What Might I called for the purpose of taking up the
Happen if he Did Not ' matter of trying to prevent persons
KL RENO: James Leusby shot and ITomniltting KuicW<>- DlrPotor Lang
killed his wife and W. T.' Woods in 1 sai'' thf,|"e vvas not lh" muIllc>"
pal authorities could do.
"When men and women hold life so
cheaply that they are indifferent to
the purposes they were put in this
world for," said Director Lang, "it is
a hard matter to convince them that
self-destruction is wrong. 1 believe it
II . s publicity were given suicides it
would have a tendency to check them.
I believe also if the evil of self-de-
struction was taken up by clergymen
it would aid greatly in disabusing ])er-
sons of the idea of destroying them-
selves.
"The sale of drugs and weapons we
may in some way control, but after all
it Is a moral question. Men and wo-
men must be taught by their church
that self-destruction is wrong."
ALL CAN BID ON BOOKS
New Text Book Commission Docs Not
Bar any Company
GUTHRIE: The state text-book cotu-
Luesby's home in this city Sunday
morning. Leusby is a barber and
for some months past has been
working in Claremore, making
weekly trips home, usually on Sun-
days, to visit Mrs. Luesby. Satur-
day night Leusby came to El Reno
as usual, but did not go home. He
stayed at the house of a friend and
in the morning about 6 o'clock went
to his home, where through the win-
dow he saw his wife and Woods.
Leusby was armed with a revolver
and when he was prevented from ef-
iecting entrance to tae room in
which were his witc ^nd Woods he
fired through the door. The first shot
struck Woods and he fell to the
floor. Leusby then forced the door
and fired two shots Into Woods's body.
in the meantime Mrs. Luesby had
escaped. Luesby then started away,
but, seeing his wife returning, wait-
ed until she had entered the house. _ iiit ,tAl„,,u
then stepped to the door and hot j rnission in session here, did not bar
her. Hie ball penetrated her heart
PROHI. NATIONAL TICKET
Nominees for President and Vice-
President are Named
COLUMBUS, O.: For president, Eu-
gene Chafin, Chicago: for vice-presi-
dent. Aaron S. Watkins, Ada, Ohio.
With the above national ticket nom-
inated the prohibition convention com-
pleted its labors. Both candidates
were named by acclamation, but the
full indorsement of the convention,
however, was not gl\*?n io Mr. Chafin
until after three ballots had been
taken.
The Rev. William B. Palmore, of St.
Louis, who brought up the end of the
presidential ballot, was nominated for
killing her instantly.
Woods was dead when neighbors
attracted by the shots, ran to the.
house. Leusby walked down town
and gave himself up to the officers.
He was not in the lest excited and
calmly told of the whole affair, do-
daring that the "unwritten law'
would acquit him of the deed. It
seems that Luesby lias known of the
itimacy between his wife and Woods
for several months and it is said
had repeatedly cautioned his wife
about associating with Woods. He is
ilso said to have told Woods that
ir lie ever caught him in the house
he would kill him.
Saturday night he went to Sheriff
Chambers and wanted the latter to
go to his house and arres; Mrs. Lues-
by and Woods if found there. The
officer is sai : t<> have put rtm off
until Sunday, it is reported that
Luesby told the officer that if he
waited until then he could take the
coroner with him.
TRAGEDY AT MUSKOGEE
Husband Kills Man Who Was Calling
on His Wife
MUSKOGEE: After telephoning to
the police station, declaring that a
man was at home with his wife, and
asking that an officer he sent inime-
diatelv, Walter W. Stewart, foimer
real estate dealer here, beat the offi-
cers to the house, entered, fired four
times at R. W. Crawford, a cornet
player in the Star Airdome here, and
killed him.
the American Book company from
submitting bids as was done by the
old commission, as constituted before
its legality was denied by the state
supreme court. The new commission
has decided to receive all bids and let
the contracts to companies that can
furnish the best books for the least
money. The American Book company
has a number of representatives ou
the ground.
Fifty book companies are represent-
ed here by agents. The commission
will give tlfe representatives hearings
on each class of books, beginning with
spelling and writing books, and going
through tiie lists. At the close of tbe
hearings, which will probably contin-
ue through the week, the bids wilt
then be considered.
MEDFORD HAS COUNTY SEAT
Pond Creek Peacefully Surrenders th
F> .-cords and Furniture
GUTHRIE: The first removal of a
county seat in the history of the new
state, from Pond Creek to Medford,
has been accomplished without blood-
shed and without even a disorderly
event.
Two car loads of records and furni-
ture were loaded up at Pond Creek
and the county officials hurried off
with them to the new shire town.
Medford. Pond Creek, even after the
supreme court of Oklahoma had ruled
that the election which resulted in
Medford winning tiie permanent loca-
tion was legal, still entertained hopes
of winning, having sent Its attorney,
vice-president, but despite the urging j aPPearod and Stewart calmly turned
W. A. I.edbetter. to Washington to
Later an officer who had answered I file an appeal before the supreme
the first call from the police station. I court of the United States.
of his friends he persistently de-
clined. Prof. Aaron S, Watkins, of
Ohio, was the next candidate put up
and was nominated by acclamation.
TO REGAIN SCHOOL LANDS
Cars and Depot Burn
BEGGS: Fifteen cars, two or
which were loaded with oil, and the
Frisco depot, were burned here Tues-
day. The fire started from the acci-
dental touching of a match to the oil
oil covered surface of one of the cars.
TEACHERS MUST BE HEALTHY
To Operate Bank in Oklahoma
ST. LOUIS: The Commonwealth
Trust company has announced that
it will create a national bank to op-
erate mainly in Oklahoma and Tex-
as, where the trust company's presi-
dent, Thomas Randolph, has many
friends and interests. The new insti-
tution will be known as the Common-
wealth National Bank and will have
a capital of $2,000,000 and surplus of
$1,00,000.
Asserted That Kansas Has Been De
frauded of Thousands of Acres
TOPEKA: An effort to regain pos-
session of thousands of acres of pub-
lic school lands which have been sold
Pure Food Law Enforcement
over his gun and went to the station
without speaking.
Stewart laid a smooth trap In his
effort to learn the truth of the sus-
picions he held against his wife. He
announced that lie would leave town
that night. His wife accompanied him
to the train. He boarded and was
still on the train when it started
away.
"I walked home with Mrs. Hlte,"
Mrs. Stewart says in ceiling ()f the
shooting. While she was there, Mr.
Crawford came.
"He came in the parlor and sat
down. Soon Mrs. Hite left and Craw-
ford said he guessed he would stay
a little while. 1 was sitting in one
chair and ho was in another one. We
Mr. Ledbetter found one of the su-
preme justices and filed his papers
with him.
The county records have also been
I moved from Lehigh to Coalgate in
| Coal county, the latter town winning
J by sixty-six votes in the recent elec-
j tion.
Governor Broadens Robdeau's Parole
! GUTHRIE: Governor Haskell lias
I made a change in the condition of the
j parole granted on July I] to Mitchell
Robdeau by Acting Governor Bellamy
giilng Robdeau permission to go to
his home in Nebraska, to the coal
fields in Kansas or to any other place
where lie can secure honorable em-
ployment.
WASHINGTON: .Medical experts of
the department of agriculture began
' preparations for making a wide1""-"!"1 1 husband
Pasture Payments May be Postponed
LAWTON: All payments on Big
I asture lands may be postponed by
the payment of the four per cent in-
terest as payments Tall due, accord-
ing to private dlspaU hes received
her© from the land office department.
No Instructions, however, have yet
teen received in the local land office.
Shot by His Father-in-Law
BARTLESVILLE: Patrolman Har-
ry Craft, while on the farm of his
father-in-law, Ben Courtney, near the
Osage-Cherokee line, west of the city,
waB shot and dangerously wounded by
Courtney arter the two had quarreled
over family affairs. Courtney was ar-
rested.
Superintendent Fairchild Would Elim-
inatc the Tubercular
TOPEKA: E. T. Fairchild. state su-
perintendent of public instruction j warfare on Patent medicines and pro-
has taken up the fight of the state ! Prletar>' articles. A test case, result-
durlng recent years is to be made by board of health to eliminate teachers ; 'lom "le seizure of a large stock
from the ' of medical and toilet preparations
from a Washington department store,
:o every ' u"' decide the success or failure of
county superintendent in the state to | movc,meent. I he goods seized
every city superintendent, and to'all were malnly the Produces of a well
boards of education, a letter declaring i known manufacturer of "beautifying"
that teachers so afflicted shall not he ! preparations. This concern has en-
tolerated in the school rooms, be- I ®aKed attorneys t° flght t:lie case and
cause their presence Is a constant i wi" have ,he assistance of manj other
menace to the health of the children j si,ni!ar companies.
The state board of health lu inves-
tigating the matter recently found Alle9ed Horsethief Escapes from Jail
I that educated persons from the east, i NORMAN: Charged with horse
heard a footstep on the porch and
Mr. Crawford said, Til bet that Is
pread I About that time my
the state of Kansas. j afflicted with tuberculosis
Evidence has been secured of fraud, schools of Kansas.
collusion and swindling on the part of ^'r' fairchild has sent
| land speculators In getting possession
of valuable school lands at $1.25 per
acre. State Accountant .1. C. Gaf-
ford has unearthed sufficient evidencn
of this crooked work to cause many
who hold such land titles to disgorge..
Governor lloch will order the attor-
ney general to proceed to the Imme-
diate recovery of these lands follow-
ing Acountant Gafford's report. In
I tact, in Governor lioch's last message j upo" fln'iill>? thelr lungs affected, came
to the legislature, he strongly advo- 1 wts( to drier climates for relief
cated this movement. I arriving here quite a number
I seek positions as school teachers, find-
ing that a good source of livelihood.
Orders issued by the postoffice de-
partment provide for an additional
clerk in the postoffices at Blackwell,
El Keno and Tulsa.
Getting Ready for Cattle Shipments
BARTI.ESVILE: In order to ac-
commodate the shippers of cattle from
this point the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad company Is construct-
ing additional shipping pens near its
tracks just outside the city. One firm
of cattle dealers, Ledbetter & White,
will this year have 7,000 head of cat-
tle to ship out of their Osage nation
pasture. Heretofore they huve been
compelled to drive their cattle to El-
The county recorus have been re- | P'". Kan , a distance of 25 miles, In
moved from Lehigh to Coalgate. The ! order to get sufficient facilities for
latter won by CO votes in the recent I loading.
election.
Negro Gets Reprieve
8HAWNEK: Will Johnson, the ne-
gro convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Mary Cuppy and sentenced to be
hanged last Friday, was granted a
reprieve by Governor Haskell until
September IS. Johnson s case was ap-
pealed to the supreme court and the j *
reprieve is to allow the prosecution I "
of that appeal.
While bathing in the Washita river
at Anadarko Tony Toplej. the nine-
year old son of O. M. Topley, a real
estate broker, was drowned.
Enforce the Billups Booze Bill
COFEYV1LLE. KAN.: Sheriff Riley
and three deputies from Nowata, Ok-
lahoma. after confiscating ten barrels
of beer for evidence rrd arresting the
proprietors, set tin and completely
destroyed a roadhou >â– and saloon
which was erected just over the Okla-
homa llni- a few days ago. The action
by the sheriff was taken in response
lo his Instructions to carry out the
stealing and Incarcerated in tlie jail
at Norman where he was taken June |
8 from Okmulgee by Sheriff I. B. Sale,
William II. Rich broke jail here and
so far has made his escape good.
The sheriff has offered a reward ot
$25 for Information leading to his re-
capture. Rich is 18 veras oid and
I weighs 145 pounds.
No Prosecutions of Oil Company
GUTHRIE: Governor Haskell said
that no suits against Ihe Prairie Oil
and Has company would lie prosecut-
ed before the contemplated proceed-
ings had been examined in his office
He .-aid that after a thorough Inves
being violated, he would advise prose-
ligation if it were shewn the law wai
cutlon, but not before. The govern-
application of the new Billups liquor ! or did not stale what steps he would
law of Oklahoma, which orders that j take to prevent the prosecution of the
all saloons or places of the sort shall I rase filed in th Logan county court
be destroyed upon discovery. ] last w«ek.
husband broke the door open, the
screen being latched. Mr. Crawforu
started to run through the double
doors Into the dining room and my
husband shot him. J]e shot four
times."
Of the four shot: fired by Stewart
three took effect. One passed through
the chest just above tho heart, ami
the other two were in the head, very
close together. Stewart has refused to
talk of the shooting.
Defense Says Meadows is Alive
OKLAHOMA CITY: Declaring that
they would show that James Meadows
was alive and explain the mystery of
| his disappearance, the attorneys Tor
the defense In the (rial of Mrs. LI la
Meadows, charged with killing her
husband, made the statement thai
Meadows left on his own account,
that he is yet alive and that lie did
not like Ihe life his wire was leading,
which was one of the reason* why
he left home.
Governor Haskell has appointed
Thad Kice, of Hitchcock, a member
of the stale board of agriculture to
succeed .1. II. Roetzel, of Watonga, re-
signed. Rico represented Blaine
county iu the constitutional conven-
tion.
Petitions on Sale of School Lards
GUTHRIE: Petitions containing
more than the 22,000 names required
by law have been received by Ihe
commmittee having iu charge the ini-
tiating uf a bill for the sale of th*
school lands, and will be formally filed
with the secretary of state. While
the law regulating ihe proceeding for
the operation of the Initiative and ref
erendum allows protests ugalnst the
sufficiency of any such petition, and
an appeal to the supreme court in
case the secretary's decision is un-
satisfactory to the protestors, there Is
no probability of any delays of that,
sort In this case, and as soon aa the
bullot title is formulated by Ihe attor
nev general the governor will Issue
his proclamation calling for a vole on
the question and announcing the date
when the vote will be taken.
Stigler Remains County Seat
MUSKOGEE: Oil the official count
Stigler won the county sent election
in Haskell county by HI votes over
Keota and Whitefield, Stigler Is ;
within six miles of the geographical j
center of the county and under the i
constitution It requires 00 per cent
of the votes cast In au election to
move such a county seat. The vote j
stood: Stigler 1.274; Keota, 1,134;
Whitefield, 627. Whitefield and Ke-
, against Hi
j company
ota combined lacked .'II of gettlpw
per cent of all the votes cast,
LABOR LEADERS FOR CONTEMPT
Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell Must
Cesre Boycott
\\ VSlil.NGTON: President Gomp-
| ers. Secretary Morrison and iohn
â– Mitchell, of the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor.
: have been cited to answer, on Sop-
. tember 8, next, a charge of contempt
j lu violating a court Injunction forbid-
ding them from continuing a boycott
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