The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 130, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 30, 1908 Page: 1 of 12
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Kate Barnard Makes Startling
Report of Lansing Pen
PRISONERS ARE PUNISHED
Dungeon feature Especially Arous
es Ire of Commissioner of Char-
ities and She Will Make Con-
, plete Report to Governor Has
kell
Thai the cooviotfl of Oklahoma il
* Kansas penitentiary at i ..a using are h<"
Jng insufficiently fed, and housed in cells
Insufficiently ventilated and .-learned, ana
* are tubjectad the "water cure," the
dungeon and the thumb screw, iw the dec-
laration of Ml s Kate Bernard, commis-
sioner of charities, who ha.i returned
from Kanwis, where she made a tour of
Inspection of the Lansing and ljeavei-
worth penal institutions. Mlsa Bernard
si.c nt fin entire day at Lansing, thorough-
ly investigating everyfeature <>f the pris-
oner^' welfare. There a re 53R Oklahoma
convicts in the confines of the Kauris
prison, and during her stay she heard
many harrowing tales from the prisoners,
who notwithstanding the efforts of the
guards not to leave Miss Bernard alone
with any prisoner, were induced by her
to talk of their conditions, which m
M. inv instances they did with tears flow-
In* freely and often rendering utter-
ances Incoherent.
Miss Bernard visited the dungeon, 01
"dark hole," and found a lfl year old boy
from Oklahoma leaning against the •vail,
hi. hnndp chained at the wrtotH ami de-
pended high albove hie head his toes
l.nr'ty touching the floor. It Is "J"'™*
Iba- each rrlnoner T"-°duce ,hr<">
nT cosl cnoh J.V. without (all. Each vein
i„ 22 inched in diameter. nw. ssl r.tlnB the
miner to lie either on his back or ni- .
In digging i> This boy, who had
there onlv « few days, and had ne
ll"i„ •> ™m ****■•'. lnj?iu::
the required three cars that day, had h -en
TheS
without <««l"«' ° th;lt „,e
morning at b o «w< *
PURE HOD WIL-
EY ENUSTEI
FOB BATTLE
Former Opponents of tiov-
ernnienlal Action and liiie
Now Strong Toward Re-
forms and Triumph oi
Good load
(Southern Press.)
Washington, Aug. i9.—"if 1 should leave
the government service, 1 would continue
to fight, as a private citizen, in the oauss
of pure lood. 1 am enlisted In the war
and do not Intend to lay di>wn my hiiih
until a victory—full, complete and p-o -
manent has been won. 1 believe suc.i i
situation la already in sight, and i at
within a very short time 1 can lean init k
In my chair and nay to myself that
struggle which I began twenty years ago
RE IS DOT TAM DOG"
This l what Dr. Harvey
chief of the bureau of chemistry '>• He
department of agriculture, and « ■ man
Wild has hail more to do ti..... .a..}'..'"
else toward purifying the things olio puts
Into one's stomach, said today, lie - d
just returned from o meeting o
pure food Officials of the states at M
Inac Island. Mich., and was enthuslakUc.
over the manner in which W campaign
against deleterious materials In food
slufTs had been indorsed.
■■The tide is Hewing strongly In the
direction of reform." Dr. Wiley con-
tinued. "One of the most gratming !• _
tures too, Is that expression, of ap-
proval are coming In from sources
have heretofore been bitterly antago-
"'"rORMBR OPl'ON KNTS WKAKKN.
"The lutluences formerly
against me now franKly confess a ni,
were in the wrong ami I was in the rUh.
on this question. The largMtfo^.upPl V
nouse in Chicago, employing oyer 400
sales agents throughout the country,
told mo the same thing.
"There are hut three chief sources of
opp.-sltlon that remain. These are the
dried fruit Industry of Callforn a.
molasses .nnnufaeturers l.,u^ana and
thc whnle.ale 1-lnuor Dealers tusoc.t
DOS
CAWFK
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Mayor Will Now tie Required McAkslerS ,, 0l l„)W wowot
to Execute Bonds Accord- state*... gui.-iuaquvuMM
iny to Declcion oi Court m haeg and cecil lyon
All Judges Concurring
The supremo court today rendered '
decision In the case of the Stat. or UU1>-
x rel, the Manhattan Consturu. -
mpany against Mayor Barnes of
et r|, in the matter o the
gallty of the recent city bond '•
the construction of iho convention ha.i.
The opinion by Justice lhive.s that '
bonds were regular and legally valid was
unanimously concurred In by the entile
ourt.
Pursuant to this reclslon, the mayot
vlll he required to execute the bon-H.
lis failure to do so being the original
ause for the institution of the suit.
In the matter of the Injunction against
the hoard of county commissioners <>t
Washita county, restraining them from
issuing bonds for the construction of a
county court h.nise. Justice Kane -
pinion, unanimously concurred by the
court, was to the effect that In as much
as the relief asked was of a purely «n-
Junct ionarv nature, the court being a
tribunal of last resort, was not the prop-
er body in which to institute proceedings
of, this nat ' " 1to"
Lyon Comments on Perfect Har-
mony Existing in State—Poll
of Voters May
paign Speakers
)rmsby Mel I
cal situation
tughly goti
Assure 0am-
lonal republic
nil
nd cle
state
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missed, r
CONTINUED ON PAGF. ?, COU'WN I.
EOF I
HURT 31 THE
Thus Refugee of Colorado Flood
Describes beenes of Devastation
Along Cimarron River
(Associated Press.)
Denver, Colo., Aug. 29.—The long de-
layed Colorado and Southern train bear-
ing refugees from the district of Folsom,
N. M., flooded by the Cimarron river,
pulled Into Denver depot shortly after 11
o'clock this morning and tired and hung-
ry passengers hastened to the hotels.
Among the passencr.s were Frank I").
Jones, a real ■, ate agent o? "B«tllas. Tex-
as; J F. Green and F. L. Klgney of Fort
Worth. These, along with hundreds «f
other passengers, were held up by the
flood until about 17 miles from Folsom
with bridged washed out on both sides
of them, for 24 hours.
"The scene at Folsom simply can't he
described," said Mr. Jones. "I never
,ou. «„eh a picture of waste and desola
Musko
gove
about
w ho
II a
decision yester-
The supreme court
day awarding the laurels of v'c,"r^. :''t
over nor Haskell In the Haak.-ll-West
oil emitroglio is a bombshell in the camP
,, the Insurgents encamped around
Tulsa. The cry "save hlmeell
in" ran be pas .ci down the in-
surgent line, and timorous ones have
run for cover lige rats tor their retreat
v. lien the terrier Is on the scent.
And the Tulh.o plat form will hear the
I^ki'll brand. And those who think the
governor will be Inclined toward mercy
*„ this hour of Victory simply don t
know the Oklahoma executive
There will he harmony now—gr - t
miantltle* of harmony, but of a sullon
kind such aK the strrmger t et|on aUvay.
inflict, upon the weaker-bound to bro.k
oat again in insurrection as soon as
vanquished regain their breath
The Bryan chances In Oklahoma l«
,ne oblect alwve all others of aem
"" solicitude at -his hour Hone,
this sentiment will force Charles
to come an.l take his nourishment " '!
„f the gubernatorial hard and the ha.id
won't bo sugar coated eltwer.
And the spectacle of their once clourh-
tv champion safely tnmf.l will 'all to nd.l
n pleasant sensation to tho eretwhlle m-
""Sfrtme hand-th. governor's good
right will hang limp and swollen Mo -
dav night from the assaults of cingr^ u-
lating ones who will swarm around him,
fawning for his favor.
But that kind of harmony Is the kina
that makes the big medicine for tho >p-
noMltfou. These same lnsurRonts w.io
re now routed completely will return to
heir native ballwlcke and the sting cr
••feat will rankle, and the arbitrary At-
titude of the governor and his victorious
i*t help halm the bruises and
the
icratlc
ineclal to tho Stato t-aplta.1-)
1 Okla. Aug. ^.-Hundreds
of suits are to be brought to .e'ear th>.
• me t-> Indian lands In the Five 1
ilzed Tribes are being dismissed by the
ivernment attorneys. ,
A majority of these dismissals are .or
VO reasons, it has been found tnat
... government clerks sent out to ga ,e 1
data from the recording offices showie
th transfer1-, of Indian lands, made in.
« "■ wer^ wHtt-.o
Jpran?*ompared by stenographers.
Again, there are hundreds of men wh
i ov tnken deeds on land who knew -it
the time that they had no title and could
i -.no These men are requesting ' ■
dismissal of the suits against them u,
making a quitclaim deed to the land
Tod"' one man made „ultcln m de*1
to twetity-foiu allotments, which he
L i tbile when the allottee could
bought at a t hnt ,u.
not make a goon 11 ,' ., ,itti«
dl.l not want the land, had paid a lit e
down on it and was willing to to dismiss
the suits by quitclaiming.
Manv are following this piattice «
cause they do not want to stand a la a-
suit and Probably lose their cose,| .
have to pay the costs ^ hen a suit Is
dismissed now there are no costs.
Judge Frost, who Is In c^rge of tle
work of the government, said todiy^thM
1 Tile fact that so many are quitclaiming
land and declaring that they havei no in-
tention of rebuylng it as soon as the suns
are dismissed. Is having a dec!d"0 en i
,-in the land market. In most Instances
their willingness to dismiss tho suns •>
giving up the land Indlcat.s tli'y l*!!^
they have agreed to pay too much. F«v
of them have paid nny qonslderaoi
amount.
This has a tendency to weaken the i.inu
market. Added to this condition Is th«
vast amount of Indian land 'ii the nar-
ket, coupled with tho full-blo«.,i land ■>
fered for sale. resultlnR in good land he
Ing bought very cheaply, and an nhr i
lutely good title guaranteed.
Good land can be hougnt for less inon
ey now than ever before since the ai
lottees began to sell.
National Fair Opens for Thirteen-
th Successive Year and Bids
Fair to Eclipse all Former
Shows in Gize and Receipts
(Southern Press Ass adatlon.)
Toronto, Ont., Aug. 29—The Canadian
National Exhibition today, entered upon
its thirtieth successive 'ear by throw-
ing open its gates for the *™lt s
display of Canadian products and Indus-
trie-- in its history. As the only per-
manent national fair which has succeed-
, ,1 th-- Toronto exhibition is unique.
Prizes aggregating *['">00 *****
and hav" ,.tt reeled a magnificent display
of the resources of the Dominion which
mi t.. overflowing the great building*
erected for permanently housing the an-
nual show at a cost of over
Six hundred thousand people visited tne
fair last year and prospects are good ' 'r
breaking this record during the coming
two weeks Excursions will bring vis-
itors from all aver Canada and from
manv parts of the United States.
Not onlv is every section of Canada
represented in the exhibits, but nearlv
everv country In the world, by agency,
i not dire- tlv. In short, while the prize
list is open to the unlvers-. it Is yet
doubtful if there Is s- thoroughly na-
tional an exhibition anywhere In Its as-
1 Tlu'. growth of the exhibition has well
kept pace with the development of both
the cltv and the country, for
in 1 ks3, four years after the Inaugural,
the total receipts were $:•«.911: m 1*«<.
$•*7,247; in 1903. $162,065; last year the>
were no less than $203,265, showing an
increase of very nearly four times in
-ears. Again In 1S83 the total
tlon since I gazed at the ruins of Gal-
veston after it had been ravished by tne
tidal wave. The entire business ^strict
and a *reat portion of the residen -e
section was washed down the stream
and t!ie few business houses remaining
had water up to their second floors.
"When we left Folsom, 17 of the -i
missing persons were accounted for. Sev-
enteen dead bodies were found at vari-
ous points down the river, some of them
nri mib-s below Folsom. The principal
merchant of the town, D. It. Wegnor.
was drowned and his body has not vet
been recovered. The hody o! his wife
ron mi 18 mHos down the stream i 34 years. Again 10
end that of his daughtetr a mile below amount of money year it
that point. ,onverg(, a ,h0rt 4U- i was cMs" *'ipon°' 45,oiw), something like
" SI.000,000 having been paid out In prue
nan ran
Diplomatic Affairs Subject
Forenoon Conference Between
President Roosevelt and Japan-
ese Ambassador
Oyster Bay. Aug.. 29.-Baron Kogo
Takahira, the Japanese ambassador to
the United States was tho most im-
portant visitor to President Roosevelt
at Sagamore Hill today. Tho Baron
came on the morning train and re-
mained' with the president until noon,
He said that ho had come t" *'■
the president on a diplomatic mis-
sion and as a result a number of
changes of minor importance may bo
expected shortly. Just what these
•hanges arc to be the Ambassador
did not care to say. Their announce-
ment, he said would be made In
Washington soon. Baron Takahira
said that the sailors and officers of
tine American Atliuitlc battleship
(leet would receive a royal welcome
when they reached Japan In October.
The assistant secretary of the de-
partment of agriculture W. M. Hayes
and Herbert Myrlek, editor of the Ag-
riculturalist were received bv th
president after he had talked with th
Japanese ambassador. They talk with
him on matters connected with Ml
Roosevelt's plan of uplifting th
farmer of the country
'Islon,
mil
(ioiit urn
Lie party here and preparations w.-ra
made f"r a poll of the state to deierm'v.
the chanccs Mr carrying tho coming eh■
tlon. „ - ... «
National Committeeman ( eell A '•
of Texas, a member of the exer-utive
committee was present at the conferen •«
and was much Impressed by the narmony
v11..wn by the republicans of this state
in getting together for the coming cam-
' Th. national committee will await the
result of th, poll of the state which w 11
he taken within the next two weeks an t
It It shows a reasonable chance or carry-
tne the state they will sent some of tho
best • ampuign speakers In the country In
un endeavor to land Oklahoma safely in
the republican column.
tance above Folsom and without a non-
(1f warning and while most v f the res-
idents of tho town wore In bed Thurs-
dav night a huge wall of water crashed
s, nd tumbled down such , a stream from
mountains and united In an Im
me nee mountain o? force as It swept
the village.
monev since the exhibition started. P
gressive as these figures are. It is «
worthy of note that each year, ex-
perhaps one or two, has resulted n
net profit over and above all expendit
it'll
great skv sage
FOR THREE NATIONS
(Southern Press Association.!
Columbus, ()., Aug. 25—Three nation.,
thr United States, Panada and France,
have entries In today's Intern.,tlnnal "al-
bion race. The King Edwar.l, an aerial
craft of 80,000 cubic feet, represents :he
Aerial club of Canada The French bul-
,n Is the Vllle de IHeppc, In charg
ilain Augusto Muel'er.
HASKELL SUSTAINED
BY SUPREME COURT
SHOE CUIIDEBS
(Special to the Stale Capital )
Muskogee, Okla.. Aug. -9. A merry
war Is on between tho Muskogee ship-
pers and the M. K ft T. rallroa,l. h,v
cause Hie latter, without nollce, moved
the freight division maintained .it Mns-
koge,' for years, to Wagoner, without
giving the peopl. of Muskogee an Inti-
mation Of what was going on Or a chance
to protest.
The row Is all the more hitter because
Clifford I,. Jackson is general attorney
for the Katy In oklahoma, anil also prci-
Ident of the commercial club at Mus-
K<>r many years Muskogee was know.!
BK a "Katy town." the M. K. A T. was
the onlv railroad there until six vcars
ago H got Hocks of ground from .he
cltv was allowed to occupy and k. ,'P
streets ■ losed, and was favored In every
T|,e road did two million dollars worth
of business at litis point annually. It
was the l.est lino t" Kansas City, St.
i,ouis and Texas.
Now the city proposes t
withdrawing Its business fi
S, T. and directing It over the ot.n.r
roads. , !tU
* -rangeinents have been made with
Midland Valley lo litlns freight W
less than carload lots direct to Muagok-e
with lite same dispatch tlmt carload
lots have heretofore been delivered
A similar arrangement has been mi '
with the Frisco for the delivery ot freight
from Kansas City to Muskogee In I"
than car load lol*. Tie Frls.o has he. i
asked by the commercial ■ luh, and ■"
re«iuest backed up bv a threat from t'''
corporation commission, to put on a m-v
through train from Muskogee to tt. I.on'.
uiili St. l-<ouis Pullman's, leaving wu
kogc.. at r, o'clock In the afternoon in.
making St. I^uls at « o ' ioek the mx
^ retalh
om the
california marksmen
IN BIG TOURNAMENT
(Southern Press \Mm-latton
lan Francisco, Aug. Som- of the
„ marksmen of th- Paeltic roast are
..red In the golden jubilee tourna-
nt 'of the Han Francisco ^chnetzen
lereln. commenced today and lasting
through the coming week. Th<* clu > *
lest and most prominent soc ety of
•k shots In the west participated hr
i-r;,rr;frr:s
!; rfilaod te defrav the expense. <f tlw
tournament, half of which will bo dls-
tributed In prize
Tt
uld take
TiO
Durkin Proves Important
Factor in Washington
Gubernatorial Contest
('SI.MJ pOlltpOSSV)
Wpokane, Wash.. Aug. I*.—Since .Inm-
ilo Durkin of Spokane, advocate or
universal personal liberty," htched his
little red wagon to a star and formally
declared himself a candidate for governor
of Washington, th« rest of ilia near
statesmen In the oommonwealth havo
standing around like a lot ..f deck
nuus. watching the wheels bur.r.
Jlninilc was an overnight entry, ti'it
he is playing the alar of destiny game
with such a dash ami v!k": th it el-
era I of tho other twelve candidates nn.v
be kept bu y packing Ice on tholr cr.i-
lilunu to counteract the rauld ccrobra-
ml
hands,
tlon needed to remain within yelling
distance until September 8, the date
the first primary election in \\ ashlngt
under the new law.
Durkln'a republican opponents are:
Gov. Albert E. Meade, (Incumbent) Bel-
llngham: Col. William R. Rldpath, Bp. -
kane; .Tohn I> Atkinson, Wenatcheo;
.1 W. Robinson, Olympla; ex-tlov. Henry
McBride, Seattle; Oscar H. Nell, pub-
lisher, Bell-Ingham; Robert B. Brown,
Heat tie; Samuel U. OoagTovc, Pomeroy,
the otiter demoorttlc candidates, John
raittis.m . Colfax; A. J. Splawn, front-
Plant Industry Agent Who Has
Instructed Oklahoma Farmers
Allies Himself With Green City
and Crescent
(Special to the Stato Capital.)
Muskogee, okla.. Aug. 29—William
Pambevg, stato agent of plant industry
in the United States agricultural de-
partment, who ban been In Southern
oklahoma for a year, has accepted a po-
sition as general agricultural and Indus-
trial agent f r the Queen City and
Crescent Railroad, running between
New OrlonitH and Cincinnati.
The work of Mr. Bamberg" has be«n
Important the state. He has made
, . « ■ M \"lm<o-e nnd flTOltt
there worked in a dozen of the southern
counties, especially those bordering ~~
MIMA
sun It IN
WESISP8WER
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 6.
•clallj
v... Red River.
Ho has endeavored to Instill govern-
ment ideas Into the farmers "f the coun-
ties and to give them the benefit of half
a century of experimenting and practi-
cal knowledge that the government has
uc<iulr«d In uch lines.
It Is not known whether the govern-
ment will sen ! another agent to take
the place, but If not there will be a
strong demand mode by the farmers
of the section Interested f r a man to
carry out tho ideas and five further In-
struction.
PASSES A* A!
Home of Famous Cherokee Was
For Years Mecca of Youths of
Great Nation
(Special to til" VUtl Capital )
iseenger business aw'
and give it to the Frisc
At present the only di
from Muskogee to Guthi
H- T. But tnls Hno fom
(Associated Tress.)
VI ,,.1 Vila 29.—'"The *ntlr«
pt. Paul. Mlnu., Aug. -
Vnitoa States army wouM be needert ta
a>sure traveleis in the Yellow,! ..... «-
bold UP a hundred lh..u ,..l men n«l«
reautred The main road
long and It takes the *tig«
rounds .
Brii
W
Infield S. Kdgeily
ding the ih-pa
essed himself
l• isi Monday
ni
Dako
omlng The M
i,v putting th.
Western at 1
lime than th«
showing her tei
the Katy had
d hotel, bo
O. & d. n
DEAF MUTES MEET
AT WATERLOO, IND
High Tribunal Flatlv Conies
to All'y lieneral s Power
to initiate Legal Action
Except at Instance oi Chief
Executive
The state supreme court today render-
ed decision In the llaskoll-W est c >n-
trovemy relative t«. the Prah-ie Oil and
(las injunction, forbidding the oil com-
pany the use of the public domain for
laving their pipe lines, filed recently bv
the attorney general In the district court
df Logan county, before Judge Huston.
Tho declfon favors the governor's in-
tention throughout
The governor's right, vested In the
state constitution, to properly enforce
the laws of tho state is cited as u-
thorlty for him to appear In suits .n
any and all courts within or foreign to
the state in all action* brought by the
state or In the name of the shite
sign 1
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.
Sallisaw, Okla..
citizen of Sequoya
the oldest in the
,i rn, ; fullSbloodedCheiWWPM
st his h" me a mile south of Sallisaw
Childers came to this section of ;he
state from Georgia more than forty
years ago. He had the distinction of
being the first fullbloofl Cherokee ever
appointed In what was formerly known
as the Cherokee nation. Me held the
position under President Grant. At t n
time he resided nn the old Fort Smith
and Tahlequah stage llnr. where he kept
utile store and poatotllee ww w w'1
known as "ChtMera' SkawS." H«re • j
stage made Its first stop after leaving
Fort Sndth on Its westward lourney.
Childers chswed tobacco all his af
nnd waa not averse to taking a drink
of llouor when he could get It. He
whs twice manied. each time ehoosin-,
„ Cherokee belle His second wife sur-
vives him
l>urlng the latter days of the old In-
dian's eventful Ufa he found pleasure
an.l .atufnetion in telling tho.e of tne
-vounwer generation of the Cherokee!
o1' hlH ^xperlonepe In tl.e parly davfl.
lie Wf a flu nt talkemln the rherokae
l ..K<ieKe and hi. home w . a meet* for
young men and women on long winter
ovenlngi.
Detroit Clergymen to
Lead the Fight Against
Sunday Basebah Games
Wa
( ssaJd poj«i obhv)
Detroit, Mich.. Aug 23.-1
county riroult cburt riday reft.ee,
petition of Proeeeut.tr Yerkes to
dam,.. Polio. Oomml'-loner ^
Smith to prevent Sunday gam«e ■
at the ground# of tho local America ■ P',,lnt
ic, theatree
wllco depa.
:o deal wit
The game
league baseball club. F .ur of the JutU--
aittlng en banc took the ground that to
take the action a* outlined by tl.e pros.-
eeutor would Involve the oourt It.
■upervlalon at Sunday itveet car traf-
,lo trat com-
t one of the
the quest! 'n
mftiHln order to||
before the Detroit pollre e.nirl. A coin.
Detroit l. been Me
brtnBt„, tl.e Sunda. ball game,
tu the attention of the proaecutori.
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