The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 26, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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The Special Bargain Price on The Daily State Capital CwdnuedJoJufyJL^
-I Year $2.75; 6 Months $1.50; 4 Months $1.00
• - I rwi LfASWWH efMO '4
ft*V« WRK
lTterXliI3B:II IRTISH
For one
vear
advance for The I> iIV
State Carital by trail;
sii months ft.50; f ut
u.ontltH ft.00—uutil
July 1 at, 1908.
NUMBER 345
TUESDAY MORNING
MAY 26, 1908
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA,
TUESDAY MORNING,
VOLUME XIX
OKLAHOMA FLOOD
400 HOMES
. UNDER WATER
ENTIRE STAIE
FIBIi SWEPT
lars—Will be Many Days Before
Trains Will Run Regularly in
State
West Guthrie Flooded and Much Every Railroad Crippled for hours
Property Destroyed j by Storm
COTTONWOOD WAS WILD MANY BRIDGES ARE OUT
' Stopped Raining After Almost 40 Estimates of Damage Done Range
Hours of Downpour—Many Nar| From Four to Ten Million Dol
row Eescapes—Stream Recedes
Slowly—Police Kept Busy For
Hours—Had Humorous Side
Four hundred homes In Guthrie were A conservative estimate of the flood
flooded and many thousand, uf dollars damage in oklahoma places the loss at
of damage done to factories, streets, - ■
ft ridges and residences of the city by
the overflow of the Cottonwood Sunday
mornins. The Hooded district Includes
major portion of Guthrie between
Vest Lincoln and Washington avenues,
and Second and 12tll streets. The da:n-
ag. nslsted principally of water dam-
age to houses, furniture, machinery, and
merchandise, grain, etc., though a large
sum will he put to the account of th
storm for the bridges, streets and side
• walks, foundations, chimneys, etc., wasn-
ed nwav.
< No one Is absolutely ksown to ha\e
been drowned In Guthrie. An aged and
$4,000,000. While others who claim to
be posted on new state conditions are
vigorous in their contention that th«
amount will nearly reach $10,000,000.
There is not a railroad which has not
lost thousands and thousands upon thou-
sands of dollars through bridges dam-
aged or destroyed, tracks washed aw.ij
and traffic at a standstill.
ot, thotish a large , The Santa Fe, after hours of delay.
h°e put to he account of the mcceeded in getting a train out of this
pul . ^ dty, north, at ten o'clock yesterday
morning and late In the afternoon start
ed one south, with but little hope of get
ting passengers below Purcell. A bridg
Is out near Seward and from that plac
half wltted nT «
11th and Grant, was said yesterday to
1-ivf been drowned, and also to have
been resf.iad. ?he could not he found,
but It 1« thought that possibly she Is
at the home of some of her race being
cored for
The gas werks Is among the heaviest
local Individual losers, about $1500 of oil
having floated on the flood. The V. «.
Coyle Cotton Oil company Is another j
vis and two between Ralston and Still
water. There is also said to be one on
between Skedee and Cushing. With all
this It can easily be seen resumption ol
traffic is made under great difficulty. N
effort to resume, even in the slighter
manner, freight transportation, every vt
tentlon being given to getting pasaen
gers and mall through.
The Eastern Oklahoma railroad
i nn "thp vnw'inblf machinery I practically abandoned traffic owing
TZ hase'mJnt of' "* j lost bridges and damage to tracks, om
CRAW-DAD.
DIDN'T
even
nmmm
Tnenc.
tl"V
flSHIH' 'ROVML
Don't delay
this time. Get
in quick on the
Special Bargain
price on The
State Capital.
Continued to July (.
MANY IMS LOST INM
WHERE FLOODS SWEPT COUNTRY
AND STOPS ALL BUSINESS1
But Meger Reports Received at Dallas--City
in Darkness and Railroad Traffic at Stand-
still-Power House Under Water and Hund-
reds of Homes Deserted by People Who|
Flee for Their Lives
(Associated Press)
trous floods in its known history •Ai—ia*ad With the three whol|
th.t th. d.tn.g. which will T.x*P-cifio b -S fiva
:;:'Ar.n,rca::Ht^:rrr Tho,.r;;t "th. br,da. w.nt .a
" kTrn.n,t1r.he.f.ctncFr^lro.d s.rvic. of th. city i. arippM. th. pow-
p^C-^-V f t °f W.U, Th. .l.ctric lighting punt .I |
into th. million..
Drowned and Homeless
at Oklahoma City
hundred hales of cotton being '""dly
tlam.igi'd and ai'tual damage to building*
etc., will run tho amount possibly up to-
wards tin- l'i.000 mark at least.
STORES UNDER WATER.
A dof n West Sido business houses,
grocery stores, furniture stores, etc., "ii
"SVi'st Noble were all flooded and will av-
erage a loss to stock, buildings, etc., of
possibly sr.oo. The damages to the rail-
road trackage and bridges In Guthrie
will he inconsiderable. The damage to
the citizens of tho Hooded district, pro-
tvably fifty blocks at least In extent, is
hard to estimate. Only three or four
h«-js s were torn from their founda-
tions,
clals fear they will be,nnable to do any
thing before tomorrow evening.
The Denver, Enid and Gulf is in equal
ly as unpleasant condition, and it J
thought n<> freight or passenger trafll
ran be rosumed before Wednesday
ening.
THE M. K. AND T.
The M. K. and T. on many of its di
visions has been badly crippled.
trains can 1m? pushed through from Falli
and passengers who were there, expect
ing to reach Guthrie Saturday have befln
taken back to Kansas City and will l
forwarded over the Santa Fe, which now
has an open line into this city. It is
heir bridges on the M. K. and T
have been destroyed between Oklahoma,
City and Bartlesville.
The Fort Smith and Western Is said
to have almost two miles of track wash
ed out as well as many bridges and tho
date traffic will be resumed is said to
be indefinite.
The Frisco has had equally a disas-
trous experience and traffic Is In wretch-
ed condition.
CUT OFF FROM WORLD.
The city of Guthrie for many hours a menace
was practically isolated from the world.
Telephone lines were either entirely de-
Stroyedgor In such condition that it was
found almost impossible to get service
and the telegraph companies were in al-
most a wretched condition.
Reports from the storm swept district
Indicate that the property loss will he
enormous, particularly to farmers, who
have bottom land crops. They will In
hundreds of Instances, be forced to re
plant both corn and cotton. The hill
HARRY K. THAW
IS DANGEROUS
re torn irom men ,
was overturned, foundation. I said their brldges on th.
iisdermined under many, steps, porches, '
fences, barns, outhouses, etc., suffered
most, the current and driftwood that
floated through the streets tearing them
off and carrying them away.
Most of the flooded homes wore aban-
doned by their owners before the situa-
tion became dangerou^ Others remain-
ed until they had to be carried away in
boats. All have practically returned by
tills time and are busily engaged in
cleaning up, spading out the two or three
Inches of mud left by the receding wa-
ters. etc., in several of the lower lo-
calities the houses are still uninhabitable
and In several Instances are standing In
waWr deep enough to drown a man.
The rainfall which caused the flood
commenced Friday afternoon at 5:45 and
fell almost without interruption until
Sunday morning at four o'clock. The
amount of rain that fell In the thirty-
six hours approximates <5 74 Inches, as
iejorted by <J. W. Derrick, co-operative
observer for the weather department.
and official rain measurer for Outhrl
WAS A CAMPING GROUND.
The people of Guthrie, when they had
learned that despite the flood that c
ered so much of their city, no one had j
been drowned, made the edges of flood- i
districts almost camping grouns all
day Sunday. Thousands thronged the
side of tho mighty Cottonwood all day,
watching the canoes and boats shooting (
through the residence and business j
utreets of lower Guthrie with all ,ho In- l
ti-rest of a small boy at the circus. |.
The water in tlw; river began dropping i
Sunday about two o'clock In the At- |
ternoon, and by last night haul fallen
several feet.
CISTERNS FILLED WITH MUD.
Wells and cisterns in all the flooded j I
district and In a useless condition fror '
the mud nnd muddy water tnat they wl
be practically useless for days. As a r<
suit there |i a wn.trs famine threater
in* for those whose wells and clstert
were flooded. They must either ha^
nf«r hauled to them or use that
neighbors, and as In several in-
Today Last Day of First^
Oklahoma Legislative Session
Much Left Undone Alter Long and Eventful Argument--
W'ill Aejourn Sine Die
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN
:ifoiNVESitIGATE
INDIAN CLAIMS
Oklahoma Natives May Receive
Additional Funds—Tonkawa s
are Asking; Allowance of Money
-—Not This Year
Judge Refuses to Give His His Lib
erty—Effort Will be Made to
Place liim inPrivate Asylum
(Associated Pross)
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 25. Harry
K. Thaw, according to the decision
handed down by Justice Moreshauser,
this morning, Is insane and should not
be released from the asylum for lun-
atics. The opinion wa handed down
early thl morning in answer to the
habeas corpus proceedings filed for re-
lease of the noted Inmate of the Mat-
teawan institution.
The justice declares his release
would be a travestry upon Justice, and
to whoever might for the
moment Inflame his diseased mind
Justice Dowlin, who ordered him In-
carcerated is upheld in the decision,
and commended for the action to take
the chance of harm from one who h
been so proflnently before the people,
and who may hold mailce in his in
sane mind against those who hav
worked so hard to keep him from be
ing at liberty.
The attorneys for Thaw made for-
mal application to place the young
man in some other than Matteawan
asylum, explaining that he has means
sufficient to keep him in a private In-
stitution, and can furnish bond not to
release him without authority of the
courX's order.
A stipulation agreement with the
district attorney will force Thaw to
i remain in the Jail at Poughkeepsie un-
til such time as a decision can be had
as to moving him from the asylum at
Matteawan.
FLOOD
CAST UP
DEAD
Once again has the treacherous, Cim-
rron east up out 0f it* raging depths the
lorrlble remnants of an unfortunate hu-
iian being, over whose corpse the waters
•f the stream "had long gloated and tnen
tired. .
oine workmen were striving with ail
iir might Sunday to save the new coun-
bridge over the Cimarron about live
les out from Guthrie on the road to
ascent City. Every minute the angry
river rlumr down torrents of drift, fallen
nants of houses and fences,
throwing all against the big bridge with
wild fury The workmen were warding
,ff this drift and preventing its accumuia-
ion against the side of the bridge.
Along with the .re- >...<! Jrlftlnij: «««
flu all v rami' a ru tv in(llslinRUl liable ob-
..■Ct "all,,,,! thre- feet 1 Oil*.
♦r„u e.l the .■.ivn'sitv of the brl.lne-n
tender* "Ml v, !th their long hooks they
COAL DEALERS
WANfLAW
I
Telegram Tells of Strong Resolu-
tions Which Were Passed by
Oklahoma Retail Coal Dealers
Association
Oklahoma Retail Coal Dealers asso-
ciation meet In 7th annual session at
the Chamber of Commerce rooms in
this morning at 10
(Associated Press.)
Oklahoma City. Mey 25-Blx T-^soe.
are dead, from four to five hundred are
homeless, thousands of acres of low-
lands ore inundated, hundred, of houses
are washed away or damaged, ral road
ami Wgon bridges re gone over a large
area o fthe southern part of the stat..
several rallroa bridges are damaged, and
the tracks of nearly every railroad com-
[>anv operating in the state are el'h"
washed away entirely or disarranged In
visited by the Jearlest
ruins And most dl3aatrou« of floods.
dead are:
William Lindley, Anadarko.
Thompklns Cheek, Shawnee.
W. It. Hallers, wife and child, Fr**d
eT4nown man. directed body found
floating on Cimarron river near Guth-
* Near. Davenport both the Frlscb' and
AN AUTOMATIC
DIVORCE IS ASKED
K.r.y trft<-ks are washed out. Near
Reno eiftot hundred feet of the CboraMM
track font. On tho Rants n®**'!
Guthrie tho tracks were damaged but!
ThO Rook Island!
lines near Apache and neat PVwt <'obb|
hav.) been damaged In the dislocating"
of bridge vents. The tracks of the
VVIi hlta Falls and Northwestern In the
Hlg Pasture are unsafe and trains are|
ftolayed Tkk OhMtS Central
practically abandoned its service.
Along the valleys of the North and
South Canadian rivers the ('i-ron.|
the Arkansas, the Washita and Ked riv-
,.,s. thousands of acr^s of growing crops
heve been tlamaged and many homes
washed away.
The rains have been the moat severs
and the waters the highest In recent?
mats. Some of the oldest settlers av^r
they have never before seen anything
to equal it in Oklahoma-
iked the obj
foaming ye
id d
is fell
The bod
thing Ilk
had th
trunk
it up from
nd thus did
long dead come
ot a body, it was
ian- far too long
„nawed and torn—
the lower part of the
two legs down to the
minder had either been
. man had met his death.
•klahoma City
'clock.
After passing strong resolutions,
opies of which were wired to Haskell
.nd Murray, urging ttie passage of
senate bill No. 229, which provides
for destination weights on coal, the
ting adjourned to June 8th, Okla-
homa City, pending the legislation
now before the HotiHe.
Copy of Telegram
Governor Haskell: The Oklahoma
Retail Coal Dealers association in an
nual session today at Oklahoma City
with attendance of 236 members ?ep-
resenting 685 retail coal merchants
und 872 steam plants earnestly urge
the immediate passage of Senate Bill
No. 229. This we ask in the interest
if the 1,500,000 people In the state of
THE HOUSE WAS
REAL BUIS^
Washington, May
ssed
resolution asking th
The senate has
of the Inter
or to inv
•stlgat
e the cialms
of the Tonka
wa Indians of <
klahoma and
to r port at
the next
ies« lor
Another rc
solution
nils o
n the jecTe-
tary of the
treasury
to tra
ismlt ;o t'.io
senate a stt
tement o
the
amounts due
tho Creek.
'hen- < • •
Choct
iws, v '.ilcka-
saws and S«
mln«des o
n .Tun
> 38, 183* and
the amounts
added to
and dl
sbursed since
Today is the last day of the l< ng ses-
sion of the first legislature of the state
of Oklahoma Tor five months and ten
diiya now. It has made Guthrie t.ie
r nter of attention from the peoplw
the representatives >102, the last seven-
teen days of tho session. All are packing
and getting 1" readiness to hie them
selves back to their constituents as soon
session adjourns. In a day or *o
will know some of them no
im. the pople and money "f <}uthri
outside' tali's' which were oontemp'atln* more.
,lki who wanted to know ' xactly what and w
mh t kin.I <f lsws would be made. Th •' i„st formalities will be Is Indefinite
vmK... ,s.|r
pay-check today. The senators will "-' -
CONTINUED UN PAGE 2, COLUMN I,
BHYAN HAS A
Clarence Darrow Telia What he
Says "Billy" Said to Him—A
Most Remarkable Statement
(International f^lws Service.)
Toledo, O., May 26.—"I was talking with
Mr.#Bryan an<f he came out tlatly and
said ho considered Mayor Whltlock of
Toledo the most likely running mate he
could And. Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleve-
land has all he can do Just at this time
in "his own bailiwick and Oovernor John-
son of Minnesota Is entirely out of the
n, because he Is located too far
Mayor Whitlock Is now a national
figure and his record would make him a
rrong man on the ticket."
Clarence Darrow of Chicago, who Is
ere on a lecturing trip, made the fore-
oing statement. He has been a friend of
k J. iiryan for years. Newspaper
readers will recall him as counsel for
M< yer, Haywood and Pettlbons of the
Western Federation of Miners, who were
t rle.l for the assassination of e* Governor
Stetjnenberg of Idatio. Some years be-
fore. Mr Darrow had represented the
United Mine Workers of America in the
arbitration of the anthracite strike be-
■)■■ h " r-'-y
CCTNTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.
Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Retail Deale
Association,
Bolt, Secy.
Farmer Wants His Wife if She is
Good, but Says Desires Divorce
to Act if She is not
(Special to the State Capital)
• Lawton, May 26 An okW,..ma farmer
glvea a con.ert to recon. illation with hi.
wife from whom he is divorced upon
condition that at tlm« "
cauaea trouble the divorce la
but to thl. contract the court, of Ok-
lahoma will not become a p i ■
nian Who de.lree a kitlrt "
reactive divorce writ, Is P■ D. Plilell. a
prominent farmer of the Indiahoma
neighborhood wlw la. winter wa grant-
ed a separation from hi« wife by th.
district court. He haa now been Krant-
ed*an annulment of the writ and -tt the
same time tiled a request "f the oourt
i hat If hi. wife becomes trouble.')
divorce ehaii itnmedaltely l.ecome
1„ To (hi. latter condldthm the oourt
failed to give him an annulment
desired character.
BRYAN SAYS
m
DIVORCE
Son-in-law of Nebraskan Said to
Have Written to Correct False
Report—Is Painting
the
State Board of Agriculture
Will Expend Fund lor Ben
efit ol Cyclone Sulierers
MILK3 COWS—IS 104
(International News Service.)
mil 1
Ind.,
(International News Service.)
Paris, May 26. - William H. Leavlt
vtlst son-in-law of W. J Bryan, wit
his shirt sleeves rolled up and palette i
hand, welcomed a reporter to his Latl
quarter study and invited hlni to lnsp«-
tii<* head of an apostle which lie was Juet
cormnt-nrlng on a hu#e canvasg of f.
"Last Supper."
This, tho artist declared to be his grea
est work.
"Thdt la. If my friends and eager re-
porters will (Hve me i chance tti gain
the concentration of mind necessary for
such an unrVertaking. It seenis thai 1
have been Interviewed regularly every
.•ek concerning an Impending divorce,
be Anal and most eloquent denial that I
in give |s to show you a letter recently
•reived from Mr. Bryan."
Here l.eavltt, from the recesses of a
urttUned alcove, produced a grip sa< k
i«nd t"herefrom extracted- hi« father-in-
law's letter and showed the correspondent
a lin* where he had t Aon pleasure con-
sist-ntlv in --irrectIn| th" rep< rt
Th.- grip contained ln umerable clip ■
pings from American newepapers, show-
ing that the dl!>cus«lon of the divorce
story had received due prominence In the
press during the last five years
"If the pr°"B public realize the
content* of th^se letters from my wife."
said Mr. Leavltt, a h< unearthed * pack-
et tied *vith blue ribbon, "they would
reasa their idle gossip I wish they had
never Parted this repoTt. whteh only
ines annoyance to such a sweet lady
« j . , i,~r~ 11 xDeot to Join tier at Lincoln, where she
fcur western ountlt • and in buying them Uh h#f father Hn ioon as the
-reds, farming implements, etc In or<\m- m 8url)er- is eomplsted. Probably Uiat
l#.ih t they my grow their next season's La«t Sup per c< mp
crcps. 1WMI -J
Jackson v:
Fannie l«ot«, wife
farmer residing font mile* ea.
celebrated her 104th blrthda
mllkltiK 2 i «s ,hen llrlv'nK
her ht)Hbund In a road wagon t<> I
She climbed In and out of th.' w
with the activity of a schoolgirl.
Mr«. I.ota attributes her lonK Ufa to
temperate llvinK nnd iter refusal to
wear u I'orset She weighs 118 pounds,
and has good eyesight.
$20.000—PLATT PARK
(State Capitil Bur«au.)
Race Horse Speed Mantaincd alJ
Day in Effort to Clean Calend
of Important Bills
The house Is passing bills at race horss
seed snd with no attempt to conslded
them minutely, in a last grand aitempl
4 an the rulundor of important legist
Uiiion before Speaker Murray's gavel re^
sounds for ths last time tonight or rathe
tomorrow nwrelifi ■
After some dHttOUlty eui%sed by the un-|
expeoisdiy deteruilned opposition, t
bill iplMt horse racing, by 8mith,
Delaware was |«UroSded through yeatarl
day Afternoon. The measure Is stnng«#ntl
the placing of .1 bet of any sU|
upon a horse ra^e, a. felony.
Heducing tl*e Hash test f< r eli fror
• ' to ics do tret i J
passed by the house yesterday. dt«0Mf
to greatly benefit t^e oil industry thJ
stats T s Oklahoma statutes are ret
pia . 1 :i 1 i intended *0 as t<> provide fot
,, ipp.dntnient of uu Inspector In eaa"
junty.
Other Mils passed <>n toll call, amon
tem house bills which will be dated bac|
Saturday when they should *av
pa-ihed the senate were, t*he commltte
Mrs substitute establishing 10 p« r cent
legal rate of Interest with a gt.-uter rat|
i|ng tround fo'" *lvl1 ttrtlon-
Hawkins bill appropriating 112.000 for t*J
r 'l' ntlng an,! -.«p|
niles H bill bv Tlllotson, defining and pre
scribing p«naltles for false ewwrlng; t
gon A..I .it bill regulating the organisation
I- -nial Insurance companies, a commltte
st'.tute providing for the final
aulshment of lan.b. held by corpord
ns contrary to the constitutional proj
tenatoi Stafford's bll.
,i w..'jrh(, ..f coal the standard
irr-n' • ' 1 r ',zl"K ' '■
on, ,-i to appoint U-mporar
vislo
the
auditor yesterday drew a
%ant of ten thousand dollars <■
state treasurer nnd turned same over
to the treasurer of the state hoard
of agriculture, to be expended in he-
half of the oyclone sufferers of Dctv-
e\. Kills. MsJorit and Woodward (•"un-
ties The money is spent In accord-
ance with the bill passed and signed
by the governor a few days ago. At-
torney General West holds that tho
h. nrd of agriculture has control of the
expending of the relief appropriation.
The mbney will he used in relieving
the temporary necessities of the |
f the teirltic - yelotiH that swept the I
Senator Wynn
lllages to 1
uermlttlng
patlon i
pol-atlor
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3| COLUMN
More Rural Routes and Mail
Carriers That in Eight State^
Orr Oklahoma District Which is Truly Remarkable-- lt:|
Conyressman Leads all in United States For Success
(State Capitsl Bureau.)
Washington, May -There are more
rural routes and rural carriers In (on-
gressman Hird McQulre's district In «'kla-
homa than In tfoe states and territories
of Artsona, Idaho. Montana. Nevada. New
Mexico. Rhode Island. Utah and \\y mint
combined. States having a smaller num-
ber of rurol routes than this one con-
gresalonal district -f ten counties in Ok
lahoma gie. Colorado. Delaware, Floilda.
Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New
ti ampshlre. Oregon, ilhodt U "
ftporl ' t«S fourth as«i«tant i
• r general made today shows
.v • there were rural mall rc
..oatlon In the state of OlUalwm
s heskles those named libov
r'ruial routes than this are, Arka<
California. Connecticut, Kentueg
Masyland. Mn# ehusetta,
,p|. New Jen
Ui.a South
ley. Nort
iMkkota.
i. ,u .i « u'J
Vermont.
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