The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 244, Ed. 2 Sunday, February 8, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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MAGAZINE SECTION
PART
9 to 16
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OK LA IIOM
VOLUME XIV.
SIN DAY MORNING
SI SHAY MDllMMi
TEXT BOOKS
AND LEGISLATION
FITZSIMMONS TO FIGHT.
Discussion of Live Issue
Live Paper.
by
tMD EVENTS ACTIVE
Some Periinnei Things Said in
an Impertinent Manner on a
Living Issue That Will
Come Up Soon.
Special Dispatch to the Statu Capital.
Enid, Okla.. Feb. 7.—The Enid
Events, one ot the strong newspapers
of Oklahoma, has the following on the
te:tbook matter:
• The most important matter for the
consideration of the present legislature
—the matter of the most vital Interest
to the people and taxpayers of Okla-
homa—is that relating to free text
books.
There can be no dodging the question.
It. must be settled.
And the seventh legislative assem-
bly of Oklahoma will either close its
cession as men having done their duty
or wil close as men who sold the best j
interest of Oklahoma for the gold of (
the book trust.
A condition existing in Guthrie
which is instantly repugnant and the
people of Oklahoma will forever con-
demn the methods and men now engag-
ed in foisting the distates of an eastern
trust—without soul or sentiment, with-
out any interest in common with Okla-
homa—whose sole object, is ta sap the
doliars from the toiling masses—should
they prove successful.
The readers want facts.
We will give them*
The book trust now has a powerful
lobby at Guthrie, with from $25,000 to I
$50,000 in their possession for the pur-
nose of defeating any kind of free texi j
Jbpolt legislation.
' A querry:
HERO STUNT
WAS TOO HEAVY
NURSES NEW PRINCES
Hobson, Who Kissed Him-
self Into l;amc, Is Out.
A SICK LEAVE REVENUE
j Hero of the Merrimac Wanted to
i Have Leave in Order T hat
He Might Lecture for
Money-He Resigned."
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 7.—Tin- res-
ignation of Lieutenant Hobson will re-
lieve a rather embarrassing situation
at the navy department, and his super-
ior officers say it is the most sensible
thing that eccentric and brilliant
young man has ever done. As 1 have
told you several times, he has found
It difficult to reconcile his love of
notoriety, and his audition to pose as
a hero with his duties and the discip-
line of the service. Unfortunately a
promising young officer was ruined, so
far as his professional career is con-
cerned, by i lie glory lie gained during
t lie war. Sine
rvi
VINCKN/.INA STRIPP
BRADSTREEl'S
TRADE TALK
Good Condition for This
Time of the Year.
I ML SPRING TRADE
Predicted as Beginning Earlier
and Lasting Longer Than
Any Previous Season-
Raw Cotton.
New York, Feb. 7.— nrad.street's to-
days says:
Unfavorable weather conditions may
retard, but they ao not arrest trade
and industrial development, which
continue in exceptionally lull volume
for this season of the year. Spring
trade, as pointed out heretofore in
earlier and cf larger volume than iu
. . . , - . , . any previous year, and the remarkable
Viuccmina Stripp, the Italian peasant girl appointed to act as wet s;,.11(|lll,.ss of I(rirM is ,v that
nurse to Italy's new baby Princess has just completed her duties at -the | stability in present conditions is ox-
lioyal Palace, and is now preparing to return to her own rustic home
the incident of the land her husband and babe. The peasant woman carries a fortune with
Menimac he has not been willing t<'lher, as the result of her services to Royalty. This is the very first
)bey orders except when he has been
sent to represent the government at
expositions at Charleston and Buffalo
and at other places where ha could
show himself to the admiring popula< <
I He has been In constant demand a;
| public banquets and other gatherings
and is now under contract to deliv* r
la series of lectures. He has written
photograph of her ever published in nn American newspaper.
had
secretary of the navy.
Although every office at the depart-
ment who knows Hobson is confident-
that he was correctly quoted, and he
. , has not denied the interview, Secretary
1' In'H'ls hero that every night is en Muody „, overlook the act ol
a secret understanding with the UllC \ VICTIM
tarv of the navy. " I I CI I I
Of CIRCUMS1ANCES
The next bis pugilistic event promises to be a twenty round fight
between Bob Fitzsimmous and Tommy Ryan for the world s middle-
Great interest attaches I
■ gaged lor a lecture until the li °i j insubordination and the mityepresenta
i May, with a fee ot $100 a night andltj(m ,.oni.prnInK himself, but took car."
. expenses, which wil bring him some- j , , . . , , .
thing like 1.1,000 or *12.000 in addition |'"«< thfi young «H'n should have no
to hia navy pay of *1 500 a year. "" "se '"r 4l "l lieuee In addition
Whenever Hobson has been Ordered . ' the formal orders whleh an- sen.
to dutr-he has applied for si, "leave. "> ordinary eases, Hobson reeetved
and it has been granted him again and registered letter, receipted for .mi ir
again .mill now, but the men,Hers of;1,ia hBnii- «n"<nieting him to pro
the naval committees in congress, who j at "n< e «° Bremerton, Wart., so
recently refused to recommend his re- (as to enter upon the performance ot hi-
tiremcnt on the ground of sickness be- duties on Saturday, Feb. 7. Hobson
cause a medical board pronounced him j telegraphed to friends in Washington
,, . . , . stmkI and well, have exprt -■ d the'that lie was under contract to lecture
, ,,, . th(> t)ood trust desire to | weight championship, and a purs* 01 $:o ooo. < -rest interest atmcncs >|llnjm| t|]at lh(,
secretary of the navy and asked to have his sick leave ex- !
i'efeat free "text book legislation? j to this bou', becausa of the fact that I«itz must train down considerably , ig (jeuj1qUent in his duty in permitting tended, but the secretary of t he nav\
u, cause Oklahoma is easy money. , ro qualify for the middleweight class. i Hobson to take the lecturp field, which Ideclined to extend it. and notified Mil
Because Oklahoma with about (10,000 * ; .s a great deal more trying to his sonis friends that he had forfeited ah,
school children paid $40,000 more fori j health thin the duties of his office Maim for consideration, and that a
her school books last year than did \ ing thousands of dollars, just for the s a j rVA^XAri Other officers have applied for per- .'urther attempt to evade the perm
Kansas with $160,000 school children. ' welfare of the people of Oklahoma? Is 1^ I II II I lllf mission to lecture, and their claims an.-e of his duty would be . on.i-ler
The book trust makes millions an- anyone «o foolish as tp think that the || i l/UVy S vm Ito such a privilege are quit* as strong 111 1 ' "l Insubordina
uually from the sale of text, books in j hired puppies of the book trust are ~ P
Oklahoma. barking because they care for the wel- ^ f) S HI/PC fi t t L
The book trust wants to defeat free . fare of the people of Oklahoma.' I |\ 8 j |VI 1 I r\
text book legislation because it desires Not much v> s m v/i n w vw
to drain the pocket books of the labor- Oklahoma's people know; they are
inx man of Oklahoma, struggling to the flower of Intelligence; the smartest f
educate his children, but who is irreat- j>eople of any state in the union, and
Iv imooverlshed bv the exorbitant, are notdeceived by the whinings of a
trices charged for books. temporarily humiliated octopus, which.
Ir is a well known fact that the while feigning humility is whetting
retail dealer makes nothing off of its coils for the purpose of crunching
books sold. No retail dealer makes the bones of its victims; which, while
the expense of handling school books ] pretending friendship, desires to gorge
anv season and all say they would wel- itself with the money which should be
come a frfe text book law. i kept to clothe and feed our little chll
How would free text book3 benefit. dren.
Oklahoma? ' We do not believe that the present
In this way. legislature will allow itself to l>
We will secure our school hooks for bought.
exactly what it costs to manufacture y,, believe in its integrity-
them. But if in the seventh legislative as-
For instance: Some books cost | sembly there is a man so mean, so
from 7S cents to $1.25 which can be j unpatriotic, as to sell his vote and
manufactured and purchased bv the voi,.P to the hired agents of the book
territory at from 20 to 35 cents. Others |trust octopus, hereafter whenever his
cost from 20 to GO cents which can be j nanie shall be mentioned in public, we
Brussels, Feb.
Ruldno, tie- Italian nni
chat'Re of iittempting to ussi
I p..lit November 1". by
-Imls at hlin while If was i«
the catln dral In re nft< t a(
deiin) In mnum v of tin* late
was opened today in tin
rourt.
Afte
bearing the witnesses and
for the prosecution, who a
xi-mplarv .si ntcitec, Counsel lti
o defend IMlldno. adopted
iivlroutnent
'm' Koyei w
manufactured from 5 to 20 cents.
There is but one feasible plan. The
echool district plan will not stiitj<-e. A
bill should he drafted, introduced ami
passed creating a school book com-
mission. empowered to purchase books
for every school in Oklahoma to he
furnisheii free to every scholar, but to
be kept in and be the property of the
school. The plan has been tried in
many slates and has everywhere proved
a success. There is already sufficient
monev In the school fund, derived from
school lands,, to equip every school in
Oklahoma with free school l)ooks and
1ho money from the rental of school
lands hereafter will maintain free text
iHjoks. Thus the books are procured
free of charge without a tax levy.
Another plan Is io have all text
books manufactured by the territory,
the contract being let to a territina!
printer, and all books sold directly to
f!*- scholars of the terirtory at ten
per cent above the actual cost of manu-
facture. Even this measure would save
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the
people of Oklahoma and would enable
them to buy books at prices 75 per
rent below the present outrageous
prices charged by the soulless book
trust.
We favor the free text book plan.
.The books can be manufactured and
the supply maintained from the sur-
plus and reiUal of school lands and it
should be dono. At any rate, the book
trust should be banished from Okla-
homa.
But the book trust agents raise ob-
jections. They say the commission
might prove corrupt and boodle; they
make dire prophecies and with hands
holden in the atmosphere warn legls-
lA\irs against doing anything jo rash.
The book trust is the chief objector.
!* anyone so foolish as to believe
that the book trust is fighting free text
will help denominate him a.s a bribe
taker., who preferred the gold of a
bloodless corporation rather than the
well being of the boys and girls.of Ok-
lahoma. ...
There are no wor<Js perfumed with
more joyous remembrances than those
of boy and girl;—around them cluster
the rarest gems of a lifetime—boyish
and girlish hopes, aims, dreams and
ambitions-aided and matured by edu-
cation. And if there is any man who
deserves to sit Upon the red-hot cinders
of a sulphuric oven throughout the
endless .lavs of a never-ending eter-
nity-or who should be made to gnash
his teeth amid the blackened piles ol
starless choas where never yet a ray of
light has shown nor never shall— It
is that man who will do aught to bring
a tear of sorrow or disappointment to
the boy and girl struggling for an edu-
cation.
MINER STRIKLS
FABULOUS RICHES
Gold Mins Yields $10,000 in
Six Weeks-Near Douglas,
Arizona.
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 7.—Edward M.
Sturgess, a prospector from Mexico,
near Douglas. Ariz., reports a tremen-
dous gold strike In the Torres moun-
tains. about 40 miles from Cos. termin-
us of the Macoza railroad. He dalnn
to have taken out $10,00') of gold with-
in the la*t six weeks with a very crude
outfit. Samples of ore ar° said to run
,as high as 3.600 ounces to the too, with
Luolu* unceasingly, and intends spend-' a value of about $7:,000.
The South Carolina Negro
May Retain His Position
ATTITUDt OF CONGRESS
Not Disposed to Reject Presi-
dent's Nomination and no
Action May Be Taken at
the Present Session.
State Capital I'.u
Washington, F<
very good chance
leston S. C\. to e:
I . (.'ruin, a n- gn
port.
for the citizens of Uhar-
tcapt" having 1 (tu tor NV
), appointed collector of
This is through the committee on oom-
merce failing to take a vote ti til after
March I
In this event Mr. Crum's nomination
would ile, lar as this congr ss is
concerned, anil the president would have
to face the alternative of making a new
appointment.
lie (mild either appoint Doctor Crural
ovi r again "i i•'11 some white M 11
would lie acceptable to the ciitin >■
ntss community. In this wa\ the senetel
would avoid appearing to antagonist thai
president, and tin |m-nl ti would \ t<
have the humiliation of seeing his selec-
tion for the place rejected.
If this should come to t>a.«s. it is doubt-
ful wle ther tit. pn siilent would reap-
point Doctor ("rum. lie uoulil hlfve ;tii
opportunity naming some one • Ise, !
yet not be in the position of having been
forced to do ho by a senate composed
largely of his own party
it was diflnltBlv announce.i today that
the president will under no eir. umstances
withdraw the nomination <>r Doctor ('rum
while under tin This stilt, lie nt was ad-
mitted by Senator Depew <>t New fork, a
nv mber of the commerce committee. The
president wo id be ni'«tltled to have Doe-
tor ("rum confirmed. At the sumo time, he
is conscious of the criticism the appoint-
ment has provoked, hut Insists that he
has not b« n at '11 radical In showing
favors to the South Carolina in gro.
The COinnieM e committee at tin pros, nt
Hand eight to eight The committee It
composed of ten republicans and six dem-
or rath The i publicans are Prye of Maine
Klklns of We-t Virginia, Nelson of Mln-
ntsota. (l.ibinger of New Hampshire,
Penrose of Pennsylvania, Hanna of Ohio,
Mason of Illinois, Depew of New York,
Jon en of Nevada, and Perkins of Cali-
fornia. The democrats are Vest of Mis-
sonri. r.errv of Arkansas, Turner of
Washington Martin of Virginia.
for sometime to come. Tha
current reports l'roin the dry goods
rade aro among the most cheerful ever
.■(•corded at. this seasou of the year.
! Common goods note exceptional ac-
tivity and strength but other lines of
spring trado are busy. Iron and stool
is active for this season, lumber pro-
duction and demand are brisk, and
I hardware is in heavy demand. The
j progress is being made In spite of some
Idrawbacks, but these very shortcom-
j ings are evidence merely of suporahun*
The trial of Gengfo | dant prosperity. For instance, the no-
tic i -. 'ti earlier in the week by the
western railways that they would bo
forced to refuse numerous classes of
heavy freight, such an grain, Hour,
iron, iron ore and lumber, and that,
in fact they could only take perishable
and quick moving merchandise Is evi-
tD'fice that the railroad facilities, a>
frequently noted before, havo nol ex
panded so quickly or in jus great pro
I rtino as lias the volume of buslne
< it' red. In the iron and steel ti •
'lie fuel situation is really but i
in owing to the congestion in
tr isporlation between the coal re;
and c msuming points. The late r
mild weather has certainly brougl.
about an improvement iu the coal si
n. Cold weather was responsil>!
or lower prices in butter and eggs in
January and some hogs product* also
declined, but cereals remained steady
and textiles nearly all advanced, as did
several kinds of iron and steel copper
tin and naval stores offsetting the low-
er movement in quotations of country
produce, coal and cole, petroleum,
hides and some grades of leather. Ow-
ing to steadiness of the large major-
II \ of prices, the n^t movement of
pri • as a whole was only very slight-
i downward, less than one per cent,
decline being noted for the month of
i i . ,fv. (.ilef among the staples
j.showing strength is raw cotton
Wheat, including flour, exports, for
the week ending February 5. aggregate
:: '.165,916 bushels, against 4,42b,650 last
, week. 1,800,457 in this week a year ago,
i and 1.997,816 in 1801.
j Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate
j 1 i!.565,538 bushels against 170,146,64"
i last, season, and 120,823,459 in 1900.
THE KAISER
ACCEPTS II
Monroe Doctrine Is Recog-
nized by Germany.
FAVORS AMERICAN WAY
There Will Not Be Any Trouble
About Venezuela Over the
Monroe Doctrine With
William.
expc
agai:
aggregate 2,400,316
,045,999 last week,
169,145 a year ago and 4.171,440 in 1901.
For the fiscal year exports aro 22,-
801,016 bushels, against 22.031,130 last
seasou and 119,566,794 iu 1901.
Business failures for the week end-
ing with February 5, number 208,
against 2::« last week. 247 in the like
week in 1902, 250 iu 1901, 231 in IDOO
and 195 in 1899.
DI N'S REI'OHT
Trans-Atlant i
RICHMOND r HOBSON
i government.
as those of Lieutenant Hobson. Fur-
thermore, llobson's public spee.hes
and newspaper interviews concerning
foreign and naval policy of th. govern-
ment and his criticisms of the par-
simony of congress in making appro- «
priations for naval purposes have evok- i d<
ed much criticism The secretary of
the navy has been compelled to call ,
him down several times and to caution
him to avoid such subjects.
Finally the situation became so acute
that Hobson was ordered to duty at
the new navy yard on Puget Sound.
When he saw the announcement he
gave a very discreet interview to the
Nothing further was heard from the
-oung man until iiis resignation arriv !
d In the malls yesterda>. and it wil!
ie accepted very promptly, so that h«
au continue his lectures and run foi 1
■ongress in Alabama, as lie d«.-;re,s to
Richmond Pearson Hobson on the
lecture platform now for a busin< . 11 >•
will be in Guthrie March 9 at which
time lie will deliver his talk on "The
United .States as a World Power." The
lecture will be worth listening to.
Not because Mr Hobson knows any
. remarkable number of things abou'
^ « bM U h. I, a «mt
Georgia. Mallory of Florida Senators ,vv. i,,m,
iltrS inr"r« oT"of rejigs I'? ' .h" "ho,.'ld n°t obey 'h" orders, but |
ft i- unml natiim Tltia maliiui th.
bliouid continue hiu lecture tour, as he 1
Continued uii Pa
^Continued gu i'uaa ici«v«i
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 244, Ed. 2 Sunday, February 8, 1903, newspaper, February 8, 1903; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc124988/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.