The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 17, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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The Peoples Voice MORGAN MEN NOT CHOSEN
By JOHO S. ALLEN
NORMAN OKLAHOMA
NEW STATE NEWS.
United States Senator T. P. Gore ar-
rived home last week to rest the re-
mainder of the summer, having Just
completed a tour on chatauqua cir-
cuits.
The corner stone for Alva's new
$25,000 M. E. chrch was laid with cer-
emony last week. The address was
delivered by Dr. George H. Bradford
of Epworth University.
Cherokee has spent $200,000 In mu-
nicipal improvements this year, whlcn
Includes water works and sewers,
lighting plants, school buildings, parks,
etc.
The gas and electric plants of the
El Reno Gas and Electric copany were
sold last week to H. M. Bylesby &
Co., of Chicago, for a consideration
of $250,000. This is (he largest
amount ever involved In a single
transaction in El Reno.
The county commissioners of Co-
manche county have passed resolu-
tions authorizing the immediate pur-
chase of teams, camp and camp equip-
ment and tools for road work for the
establishment of a "convict camp"
and Instructing the county sheriff to
work those prisoners in the county
jail convicted of misdemeanors on
the public roads.
The provision of the game law pass-
ed by last legislature which allows
the game warden to draw warrants on
the game protection fund, without any
appropriation by the legislature, for
the payment of his assistants and ex-
penses was declared unconstitutional
by Judge A. H. Huston In the district
court at Guthrie.
Attorney General West has filed the
State's answer In the suits brought
in the Federal Court of the Eastern
Oklahoma District to enjoin all in-
terference on the part of the State
with the piping of natural gas out of
Oklahoma.
HARRIMAN POLICIES IN UNION
PACIFIC TO BE CONTINUED.
LOVETI ELECTED TD SUCCEED WUMIMIIN
Heads Executive Committee and Lo-
ree May be Chosen President
—Failure of Morgan Inter-
ests was Surprise.
Resolutions passed by the Comniis-
sioners provide for the immediate
commencement of the system of en-
forced convict labor on public roads
and the sentence of persons convict-
ed of misdemeanors in the future will
ccnsign them to the convict camp In-
stead of cells.
The Pioneer Telephone company has
perfected an appeal to the supremo
court upon the fine of $100 for con-
tempt imposed by the State Corpora-
tion Commission.
Unlese a meeting of the republican
state committee lis called in the im-
mediate future, acordlng to State Sen-
ator Brownlee of Kingfisher, a major-
ity of the state committee members
will act in the election of a new state
chairman.
New York.—-The continuance of the
Harriman policies in the management
of Union Pacific and the chain of
allied railroads was made certain,
when Robert S. Lovett, E. H. Harrrl-
man's personal counsel and close
friend, was elected to succeed Mr.
Harriman at the head of the execu-
tive committee of the Union Pacific
railroad.
To strengthen further the domi-
nance of the "Harriman idea" Jacob
H. Schiff and William Rockefeller—
both heavily interested in the Harri-
man enterprises—were elected direc-
tors in place of Mr. Harriman and
the late H. H. Rogers was chosen
to place on the executive committee.
The Union Pacific still remains
without a president, as Mr. Harriman
occupied this position also. It Is un-
derstood, however, that an operating
man—probably L. F. Loree, president
of the Deleware & Hudson, will be
elected to the place at the annual
meeting of the stockholders, to be
held on October 12. That election
will be dictated by the Harriman
Interests.
The office which Judge Lovett as-
sumed is the most important in the
sion of the Union Pacific.
Judge Lovett's close association
with Mr. Harriman makes him pecu-
liarly fitted to assume the responsi-
bilities of the position. He and Loree,
the slated candidate for the presiden
cy, share the honor of a close famil-
iarity with Mr. Harriir.an's plans and
dreams for the undeveloped territory
over which he had hoped to push the
ascendency of his railroad systems.
Wall street manifester more than
usual interest in Monday's election,
and in view of the rumors which went
tho rounds last week to the effect
that a memberr of J. P. Morgan &
company would be elected to the
Union Pacific board.
No such change developed and, as
It stands, the executive committee
remains, in the parlance of the street,
"a Kuhn, Loeb-Standard Oil board."
For besides Judge Lovett, Jacob H.
Schiff and William Rockefeller, the
members and H. C. Frick of Pitts-
burg, Marvin Hougitt, president of
the Chicgo & Northwestern, and
Frank A. Vanderlip of the National
City Bank, New York.
The failure of the Morgan interests
to gain a place on the reconstructed
board was a surprise to Wall street.
SERIAL
STORY
TRe
Wizard
By
L. Frank Baum
Atoka public schools opened last
week with an enrollment of 502.
Prof. E. T. McArthur is superintend-
ent.
G. R. Riley of Shawnee Is a first
cousin of Commander Robert E. Peary
and has been in the past closely as.
Eociated with him. He has a large
collection of relics of Peary's former
Arctic expeditions, presented to him
by his relative.
In order to raise money to help pay
off the debt of the new Christian
Church at Beaver City, the young men
of the Sunday school organized last
spring and have cultivated fifty acres
of broomcorn, the proceeds of the
entirfe crop to be turned into th
church treasury.
The residence of Mrs. E. C. Jones,
librarian of the Carnegie library, was
burned at Ardmpre during the past
week, and but little more than the
frame of the house was saved.
Judge Harry Huston in the District
Court at Guthrie has denied the peti-
tion of State Game Warden Askew of
Chickasha for a writ of mandamus to
compel State Auditor Trapp to pay
warrants on the State for game pro-
tection fund.
Attorney General West will not
bring suit against Lieut. Governor Bel-
lamy for return of the money he has
received from the state banking board
as its chairman, but will allow tho
matter to be tested in tho mandamus
suit which Mr. Bellamv filed in uie
Lagon county superior court.
An Increase of $4'>,000 over the
freight and ticket receipts of the Santa
Fe and Katy railroads at Bartlesville
for the month of August and over
the month of August of last year is
the statement made by 11. T. Winn,
joint agent for the two railroads.
The state department of labor is
Bending out a circular letter accom-
panied by a copy of the child labor
law to all the U^torles, workshops
and bakeries in the state, calling at-
tention to the provisions of the law,
and announcing that they intend to
enforce the law to the letter.
Muskogee freeholders will vote upon
the charter for the commission form
of government for that city on, of
before the ninth day of November, tMi
year.
Twelve Men Entombed in Ruins.
Pittsburg.—One man was killed,
nine others seriously injured, while
several more received cuts and
bruises, when the walls of the Blanck
Transfer & Storage company build-
ing here, recently destroyed by fire,
collapsed, demolishing two adjoining
buildings and burying more than a
dozen men in the ruins. Policemen
and firemen worked until late Monday
evening before all of the men had
been removed from the debris.
17 Per Cent Own Homes.
Coffeyville, Kan.—Eugene V. Debs
addressed 5,000 Socialists at the an-
nual picnic held by the Montgomery
members of the party. Debs said that
50 years ago there were no tramps
in America, and only 17 per cent of
the people today own their own
homes.
Germans Oppose Prohibition Law.
El Reno, Okla.—Resolutions were
adopted during the semi-annual ses-
sion of the German-American Society
of Oklahoma here favoring n resub-
mission of the prohibition ordinance
of the state constitutional and declar-
ing that the Germans of Oklahoma de-
sire to he unfettered by political ties,
asserting their independence of the
administration of the state govern-
ment with respect to prohibition. The
resolutions followed as a result of an
address recently delivered by Gover-
nor Haskell to tho Germans in which
he called upon the ministers of their
churches to join him in nn appeal
to President Taft for the prohibition i
of the issuance of internal revenue :
licenses in Oklahoma.
Will Stop Boxing Matches.
Little Rock, Ark—Following a per-
sonal complaint of the wife of Gov. j
Donaghy, there will be no more so- j
called boxing matches in Arkansas
If the Bherlffs of the various counties
obey the orders of Gov. Donaghy to
carry out the law against glove con-
tests.
Tobacco Pool Faces Death.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—More than 40,000
farmers of Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio who raised hurley tobacco and
pooled It with the Burley Tobacco
society In the 1906 ad 1907 crops,
are drawn Into a suit filed in the fed-
eral courts In Covington, Ky. Tho
proceedings were brought under tho
Sherman anti-trust act, and involve
alleged damages of $130,528.48, and if
the suit Is successful, approximately
$4,000,000 and the life of the tobacco
society are gone.
(Copyright, by the Bobba-Merrlll Co.)
(Copyright by L. Frank Baum 4c W. W.
Denslow.)
SYNOPSIS.
Dorothy lived in Kanias with Aunt Em
and I'ni'if Henry. A cyclone lifted their
home Into tiu1 air. Dorothy falling asleep
Amidst the excitement. A crash awakenuil
.ler. The house had landed in a country
of marvelous beauty. Groups of queer
little people greeted her to the Land of
Munchktns. The house had killed their
enemy, the wicked witch of East. Dor-
othy took the witch's silver shoes. She
started for tiie Emerald City to find the
Wizard of Oz, who. she was promised,
might find a way to send her back to
Kansas.
CHAPTER III.—Continued.
While Dorothy was looking earnest-
ly into the queer painted face of the
Scarecrow, she was surprised to see
one of the eyes slowly wink at her.
She thought she must have been mis-
taken, at first, for none of the scare-
crows in Kansas ever wink; but pres-
ently the figure nodded its head to her
In a friendly way. Then she climbed
down from the fence and walked up to
It, while Toto ran around the pole
and barked.
"Good day," said the Scarecrow, in
a rather husky voice.
"Did you speak?" asked the girl, in
wonder.
"Certainly," answered the Scare-
crow; "how do you do?"
"I'm pretty well, thank you," re-
plied Dorothy, politely; "how do
you do?"
"I'm not feeling well," said the
Scarecrow, with a smile, "for it Is
very tedious being perched up here
night and day to scare away crows."
"Can't you get down?" asked Dor-
othy.
"No, for this pole is stuck up my
back. If you will please take away
the pole I shall be greatly obliged to
you."
Dorothy reached up both arms and
lifted the figure off the pole; for, being
stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
"Thank you very much," said the
Scarecrow, when he had been set
down on the ground. "I feel like
new man."
Dorothy was puzzled at this, for It
sounded queer to hear a stuffed man
speak, and to see him bow and walk
along beside her.
"Who are you?" asked the Scare-
crow, when he had stretched himself
and yawned, "and where are you go-
ing?"
"My name is Dorothy," said the girl,
"and I am going to the Emerald City,
matter, for I can't feel It. But I do
not want people to call me a fool, and
if my head stays stuffed with straw in-
stead of with brains, as yours is, how
am I ever to know anything?"
"I understand how you feel," said
the little girl, who was truly sorry for
him. "If you will come with me I'll
ask Oz to do all be can for you."
"Thank you," he answered, grate-
fully.
They walked back to the road, Dor-
othy helped him over the fence, and
they started along the path of yellow
brick for the Emerald City.
Toto did not like this addition to the
party, at first. He smelled around the
stuffed man as if he suspected there
might be a nest of rats in the straw,
and he often growled in an unfriendly
way at the Scarecrow.
"Don't mind Toto," said Dorothy to
her new friend; "he never bites."
"Oh, I'm not afraid," . replied the
Scarecrow, "he can't hurt the straw.
Do let nie carry that basket for you.
I shall not mind it, for I can't get
tired. I'll tall you a secret," ha con-
tinued, as he walked along; "there is
only one thing in the world I am
afraid of."
"What is that?" asked Dorothy;
'the Munclikln farmer who made
you ?"
"No," answered the Scarecrow; "It's
a lighted match."
The Scarecrow.
to ask the great Oz to send me back
to Kansas."
"Where is tho Emerald City?" he in-
quired; "and who is Oz?"
"Why, don't you know?" she re-
turned, in surprise.
"No, indeed; 1 don't know anything.
You see, I am stutfed, so I have no
brains at all," he answered, sadly.
"Oh," Bald Dorothy; "I'm awfully
sorry for you."
"Do you think," he asked, "if I go
to the Emerald City with you, that the
great Oz would give me some brains?"
"I cannot tell," she returned; "but
you may come with me, If you like. If
Oz will not give you any brains you
will be no worse off than you are
now."
"That is true," said the Scarecrow.
"You see," he continued, confidential
ly, "I don't mind my legs and arms
After a few hours the road began to
be rough, and the walking grew so
difficult that the Scrarecrow often
stumbled over the yellow briclc, which
were here very uneven. Sometimes,
indeed, they were broken or missing
altogether, leaving holes that Toto
jumped across and Dorothy walked
around. As for the Scarecrow, having
no brains he walked straight ahead,
and so stepped into the holes and fell
at full length on the hard bricks. It
never hurt him, however, and Dorothy
would pick him up and set him upon
his feet again, while he joined her in
laughing merrily at his own mishap.
The farms were not nearly so well
cared for here as they were farther
back. There were fewer houses and
fewer fruit trees, and the farther they
went the more dismal and lonesome
the country became.
At noon they sat down beside the
roadside, near a little brook, and Doro
thy opened her basket and got out
some bread. She offered a piece to
the Scarecrow, but he refused.
"I am never hungry," he said; "and
it Is a lucky thing I am not. For my
mouth is only painted, and if I should
cut a hole in it so I could eat, the
straw I am stuffed with would come
out, and that would spoil the shape of
my head."
Dorothy saw at once that this was
true, so she only nodded and went on
eating her bread.
"Tell me something about yourself,
and the country you came from," said
the Scarecrow, when she had finished
her dinner. So she told him all about
Kansas, and how gray everything was
there, and how the cyclone had carried
her to this queer land of Oz. The
Scarecrow listened carefully, and said:
"I cannot understand why you
should wish to leave this beautiful
country and go back to the dry, gray
place you call Kansas."
"That Is because you have no
brains," answered the girl. "No mat-
ter how dreary and gray our homes
are, we people of flesh and blood
would rather live there than in any
other country, be it ever so beautiful.
There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it,"
he said. "If your heads were stuffed
with straw, like mine, you would prob-
ably all live in the beautiful places,
and then Kansas would have no people
at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that
you have brains."
"Won't you tell me a story, while
we are resting?" asked the child.
The Scarecrow looked at her re-
proachfully, and answered:
"My life has been so short that I
really know nothing whatever. I was
only made day before yesterday. What
happened in the world before that
time is all unknown to me. Luckily,
when tho farmer made my head, one
of the first things he did was to paint
my ears, so that I heard what was go-
ing on. There was another Munchkln
with him, and the first thing I heard
was the farmer saying:
"'How do you like those ears?'
" 'They aren't straight,' answered
the other.
"'Never mind,' said the farmer;
'they are pars just the same,' which
was true enough.
"Now I'll make the eyes,' said the
farmer. So he painted my right eye,
and as soon as It was finished 1 found
myself looking at him and at every-
thing around me with a great deal of
curiosity, for this was my first glimpse
of the world.
"'That's a rather pretty eye,' re-
marked the Munchkln who was watch-
ing the farmer; 'blue paint Is just the
color for eyes.'
"'I think I'll make the other a little
bigger,' said the farmer; and when the
second eye was done I could see much
better than before. Then he made my
nose and my mouth; but 1 did not
speak, because at that time I didn't
know what a mouth was for. I had
the fun of watching them make my
felt very proud, for I thought I was
just as good a man as anyone.
'This fellow will scare the crows
fast enough,' said the farmer; 'ha
looks just like a man.'
" 'Why, he is a man,' said the oth-
er, and I quite agreed with him. The
farmer carried me under his arm to
the cornfield, and set me up on a
tall stick, where you found me. He
and his friend soon after walked away
and left me alone.
I did not like to be deserted this
way; so I tried to walk after them, but
my feet would not touch the ground,
and I was forced to stay on that pole.
It was a lonely life to lead, for I had
nothing to think of, having been made
such a little while before. Many crows
and other birds flew into the cornfield,
but as so^n as they saw me they flew
away again, thinking I was a Munch-
kln; and this pleased me and made me
feel that I was quite an important
person. By and by an old crow flew
near me, and after looking at me
carefully he pcrched upon my shoul-
der and said:
" 'I wonder if that farmer thought
to fool me in this clumsy manner. Any
crow of sense could see that you are
only stuffed with straw.' Then he
hopped down at my feet and ate all
the corn he wanted. The other birds,
seeing he was not harmed by me,
came to eat the corn, too, so in a
short time there was a great flock of
them about me.
"I felt sad at this, for it showed I
was not Buch a good Scarecrow after
all; but the old crow comforted me,
saying: if you only had brains in your
head you would be as good a man as
any of them, and a better man than
some of them. Brains are the only
things worth having in this world, no
matter whether one is a crow or a
man.'
"After the crows had gone I thought
this over, and decided I would try
hard to get some brains. By good
luck, you came along and pulled me
off the stake, and from what you say
I am sure the great Oz will give me
brains as soon as we get to the Emer-
ald City."
"I hope so," said Dorothy, earnestly,
"since you seem anxious to have
them."
"Oh, yes; I am anxious," returned
the Scarecrow. "It is such an uncom-
fortable feeling to know one is a fool."
"Well," said the girl, "let us go."
And she handed the basket to the
Scarecrow.
There were no fences at all by the
roadside now, and the land was rough
and untitled. Towards evening they
came to a great forest, where the trees
grew so big and close together that
their branches met over the road of
yellow brick. It was almost dark un-
der the trees, for the branches shut
out the daylight; but the travelers did
not stop, and went on Into the forest.
"If this road goes In, it must come
out," said the Scarecrow, "and as the
WHY NOT?
One of the preachers has asked the
members of his congregation to bring
their canary birds to church. Why
not try to save some of the parrots?
CUTICURA CURED HIM.
Eczema Cameron Legs and Ankles-
Could Not Wear Shoes Becauso
Of Bad Scaling and Itching.
"I have been successfully cured of
dry eczema. I was inspecting the re-
moval of noxious weeds from the edge
of a river and was constantly in the
dust from the weeds. At night I
cleansed my limbs but felt a prickly
sensation. I paid no attention to it
for two years but I noticed a scum,
on my legs like fish scales. I did not
attend to it until it came to be too
Itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were all
sore and scabby and I could not wear
shoes. I had to use carpet and felt
slippers for weeks. I got a cake of
the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. In less than ten days I
could put on my boots and in less than
three weeks I was free from the con-
founded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss,
Chief of Police, Morris, Manitoba, Mar.
20, 1907, and Sept. 24, 1908."
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The Scarecrow Looked at
proachfully.
Emerald City is at the other end of
the road, we must go wherever It
leads us."
"Any one would know that," said
Dorothy.
"Certainly; that is why I know it,"
returned the Scarecrow. "If it re-
quired brains to figure It out, I never
should have said it."
After an hour or so the light faded
away, and they found themselves
stumbling along in the darkness. Dor-
othy could not see at all, but Toto
could, for some dogs see very well in
the dark; and the Scarecrow de-
clared he could see as well as by day.
So she took hold of his arm, and man-
aged to get along fairly well.
"If you see any house, or any place
where wo can pass the night," she
said, "you must tell me; for it is very
uncomfortable walking in the dark."
Soon after the Scarecrow stopped.
"I see a little cottage at the right
of us," he said, "built of logs and
branches. Shall we go there?"
"Yes, indeed," answered the child.
"I am all tired out."
So the Scarecrow led her through
the trees until they reached the cot-
tage, and Dorothy entered and found
a bed of dried leaves In one corner.
She lay down at once, and with Toto
beside her soon fell Into a sound sleep.
The Scarecrow, who was never tired,
stood up in another corner and waited
patiently until morning came.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Apples apples
everywhere,
& no indigestion
WRIGLEY S k
PEPS a N GUM
prevents it
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PEPSIN CUM1
and body being stuffed, becauso I can
not get hurl. If any one treads on my I body and my arms and legs; and when
toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn't | tlioy fastened on my head, at IomL I
At the Museum.
"On this platform, ladies and gents,"
said the lecturer, "you see Sig.
Pankey, the legless wonder, or human
stump, who was reduced to the condi-
tion in which you behold him by a
shark in the Indian ocean 14 years
ago. Sig. Pankey, as you see, has no
legs whatever, and his principal and
only occupation nowadays, ladies and
gents, is eating his head off. Proceed
ing to the next platform, 1 call your
attention to the Egyptian mummy,
supposed to be that of Kamvsws tU«
Great."
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