The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 282, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 21, 1909 Page: 1 of 14
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VOLUME XX.
SUNDAY MORNING,
GUTHJUE, OKLAHOia MARCH 21, 1909
SUNDfl 1MORNING,
NUMBER 282
1,050,000 ACRES OF LAI
TO LEASE A YEAii
12 MBS. SALES
CM III KADE
BOARD WILL MAKE RULING
NEXT THURSDAY WHICH
WILL BE SWEEPING
WEST PART MOST EFFECTED
Delay in Sale of Lands Owing lu
Work Involved in Making
Proper Lists- Vast Tract of
Land Which Is Not Held Under
the "Preference Right" Clause.
It has been practically decided
that the state of Oklahoma will
lease over a million acres of school
land which under the recently en-
acted school land sale law will be
sold and upon which there is no
preference right claim. In round
numbers there are one million and
fifty thousand acres of this land,
the major part of which is located
in counties on the western part of
the state.
The state school land depart-
ment has made no official ruling
in regard to the re-leasing of this
great tract of land, but it is ex-
pected that, at the conclusion of
the session of the board, next
Thursday, an official announce-
ment will be made along the lines
stated in the foregoing paragraph.
The recent legislature provided for
the sale of the Bchonl lands and the
land department of Oklahoma Is pre-
paring to carry out the provisions of
the act with the greatest possible dis-
patch, but it will take at leapt six
months to conclude arrangements and
there will of necessity follow, prac-
tically, aperiod of six months longer
delay before the lands have been ac-
tually placed on the market.
The 1,000,000 acres, which will be
leased, is practically all locted in the
western part of the state because of
Its peculiar location and condition but
little of it have ever been occupied
other than a grazing ground, regard-
less of the fact that hundreds of thou-
sands of acres is excellent farm land.
None of it has ever been under lease
to an extent that there are any who
have what is known as preference
rights.
As a result of this and the fact that
there will be almost, if not quite, a
year pass before there Is a sale if
the state is to get any benefit It must
be from the leasing of the land. Th«
school land department can see no
reason why the leases should not be
made and a saving made or the rental
mohey, notwithstanding the fact of
the the sale law Leases will be made
subject, of course to the sale of the
land before the expiration of the lease.
It is expected by the residents of
these counties that the sale of 1,050,-
000 acres of state land will attract
thousands of settlers to the western
part of the state, as under the law it
is intended to Bell in small tracts
thus encouraging actual farming set-
tlers instead of stockmen.
BLOW COLDWATER BANK
Robbers Escape in Rain With
$2,000.
ENID, Okla., March 20.—Robbers blew
up the safe in the Hank of Coldwuter,
at Coldwater, thirty miles northwest of
Enid, early today and escaped with
$2,000. A heavy rain storm aided In con-
cealing the operations of the robbers.
BIG ATHLETIC MEET
Cream of Middle West Amateurs
In It.
CHICAGO, 111., March 20,—The cream
of the amateur athletes of the middle
west are to be seen at their best In the
Central A. A. U. Indoor championships
at the Chicago A. A. tonight. The entry
list is a record breaker in point of
nmnbers. Leading colleges and univer-
sities, including Chicago, Wisconsin, Illi-
nois, Norte Dame, Dp Pauw and Purdue,
have sent their best performers, as have
also the leading athletic clubs of this
section.
Smock
AN APPEAL IS MADE
Supreme Court to Decide Justice
SCENES^-: INTERNATIONAL AUTO RACES
v"' ON BEACH COURSE A T DA YTONA. FLA.
Automobllists everywhere are interest-
r ~ .. , led in the four day racing even which
of Corporations Contention -\egln, Ilt Daytlm;l lif„ch, Florlda
Question of Issuance of Deed Is March 23. tome of th
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r
tors
Tl .p mees—and I hern will hb the p'-nrtlce spins and some of the cars
s of them—include the Mini)eai>o. i speeding along ihe wonderful cnn.l
"llp- ,hc two-mile-a-mlnute, the Sir | course. The Daytona meet being tl«
I!* the international first of Importance since the Savannah
to Be Determined - A Right of the Xr town^^T! ' ™ nt in which ims ^nZ
l_r-\„l-°trer„town!fa- cycle ia.es. Thls Illustration shows the table In tho last few months, will lie
1 visitors automobiles lined up to watch j productive of many new records.
Way Suit.
mous beach road are crowded with visi-
the
OUTLOOK BLACK OKLAHOMA HAS THEM
WEALTHY "EXILE"
WHO KILLED A
WIFE BEATER
J. ARMSTRONG
HALONEP.
urt yesterday tho
Oeek Land and Improvement company
filed an appeal from the decision of tho
Wagner county court.
A. C. Davis is the defendant In error.
Davis at one time purchased a tract STRIKE
of land from James and Maria Jeffer-
son whiich containew 14) acres, as he al- | Aoitntnrc Talk
legcs, and that the people from whom • 8 iai0rS AalK
he purchased the tract paid to one
Bruckner the sum of $270 fo a deed,
and that l&ruckner refused to execute
the deed.
In tho lower court Davis was given
tho decision and judgment returned in
his favor. Now the Cheek Land and I —•
Investment company who It Is alleged held I PARIS, March 20.—The outlook today
an Interest in the land has appealed the In the strike situation is blacker than tion bank of Pond Creek into a state
Tor damages alleged to have been done The lnat,,nS "KItaiors, .ire talk- >>ank yesterday, Oklahoma now has 600
to her land liy reason of the Denver, lns as " endorsement, yesterday by tho : banks in operation.
Wichita and Memphis railroad company, chamber of deputies of tho government s first bank to inverted was the
traversing the same. Ella Adklnson portion might fan the flames „f the ores •Vatlon"1 ,Kink of Kelfer, convert
through her father, J. M. Adklnson, was ant movement Into a veritable ml. I
given a Judgment aguiiist the ratio: d tatnary explosion. " ! Ther<
company tn the county court of I!og, j \ntl-Republican organs profess tn | atateho
county tn May 1908. | believe ,ho beginning of the end of tho ,
Republic Is in sight.
* HAILE
if Situation
Might Develop Into Revolution
—Disruption of Republic Even!
Mentioned — Bankruptcy In-
evitable, They Say.
Conversion of First National of
Pond Creek Completes Even
Hundred — First to Change
Charter Was First National of
Keifer.
Mcalester is grateful
The amount sued for
By the converting of the First Na-
J the«Kelfer State bank,
has been 54 conversions
the value of a strip of land 25 feet wide. The .government may win a semhlance
The railroad company has now taJcen«ex- of victory, but a bitter war with th
ceptlons to the ruling of the lower , ourt proletralat has begun and It' Is houn.l to
and in tho supreme court has filed an end In tho bankruptcy „f the present re-
an appeal. «•< .«
Klmo.
Appears
DECIDE THE CAEJSE
BE IHE COH
A NEW TENOR
in '' The Dream
Gerontius.''
of
Chamber of Commerce Addresses
Letter to Katy Traffic Manager
Assuring Benefits from Rate
Reduction Will Over-Balance
K. C.'s Opposition.
i SAIL 20 YEARS
HOOSEVEU to
STEAMSHIP HAMBURG TO
CARRY EX-PRESIDENT TO
AFRICAN JUNGLES
WILL BE GONE FULL YEAR
Accompanied by His Son. Kermit,
Will See No Other Member of
Sis Family Until Reaching
hartoum, for Six Months—To
Be Month on Water.
Objective point of expedition-
British East Africa.
Probable duration- of trip—One
year.
Object of expedition—Sclenfltlc
research, collecting specimens
and hunting.
Patron of expedition—The Smith-
sonian institution, Washington.
Personnel— Theodore Roosevelt,
Kerinlt Roosevelt, official pho-
tographer; j. Alden Loring, fleld
naturalist of tho National Mu-
u
SECOND DEGREE MURDER
SENTIENCE WILL BE
APPEALED
MOVE TO SET IT ASIDE
Defendants Are Apparently Not
Worried and Women Contvol
Emotions — Sensational Polit-
ical War Not Ended by Agree-
ment of Jury so Rapidly.
NASHVILLE, T"nn„ March Sl.-Oullty
murder In the second degree with
punishment at twenty years Imprison-
ment a ; th,. penalty, was ihc verdict
of the Jury this morning, In the triai
of ('ol- Duncan B. Cooper and his son
Robin Cooper, charged with the murder
of fomer .Senator K. \V. Cnrmuck.
The jury yesterday acquitted John D.
Sharpe, co-defendant.
Immediately the defense moved to sei
aside the verdict, l e«nuse of the dls-
agn emet of yesterday, and asked tho
cot rt to ileelare it a. mistrial.
Judge Hart v%111 listen to arguments on
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CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.
IB MEET HI SJN MBD
RAN ANTONIO. Tex., March 20—The
biennial convention and reunion of the
Grand International division, Brother-
hood of Locomotive Engineers, and of
tho Ladles' Auxiliary, will be held in
this city during the first three day* o.
next week. More than 2,000 visitors
from all parts of the United States, Can-
ada and Mexico are expected and the
local members of the brotherhood are
making elaborate plans for their recep-
tion and entertainment. The^conventlon
headquarters will be at the Menger hotel.
Welcoming addresses by Governor
Campbell, Mayor Callaghan and others
will ^occupy the initial session. Busi-
ness sessions will be held morning and
afternoon of the second day, with a re-
ception and ball In the evening. The
latter will constitute one of the principal
features of tho entertainment pr- ,rram.
The concluding business session will be
held Wednesday morning, and a trolley
ride about the city and suburbs In plan-
ned for the afternoon. Following the close
of the convention many of the delegates
will take a trip to Mexico.
NEW YORK, March 20.—Pof the Im-
portant tenor roll in "The Dream of
Gerontius," which th?; Oratorio society
will perform tonight at Carnegie hall,
there will be a new English singer, M.
Gervase Elwes, who is making his first and volum
8CRANTON, PA., March 20.—Vour
hundred delegates and more than twice
that number of visitors, IncludlnK promi-
nent officers and members of the United
Mine Workers in other states, openin;
of the convention Tuesday which is to
decide what rouTse the miners shal' take
In view of the refusal of the coal oper-
ator* to grant their demands. The con-
vention represents tho whole of the an-
thracite district.
The air is filled wlh rumors regnrding
the probable action of the convention,
but in reality the course that will be
token Is as problematical as at any time
since It became known that the wage
ogreement was not likely to be renewed
without a struggle. What the outcome
will be no one can with any certainlty
predict.
There is undoubtedly a strong peace
party among the officers and leaders of
the organization. Few of the leaders
appear to believe that a strike at the
present time would stand any chance of
success and they are using their utmost
endeavors to Induce the convention to
come to some terms with tho operator,
and delay the threatened fight at least
until a more opportune time. But wheth-
er the peace party |8 strong enough ;u
overcome the radical element which is
loudly talking strike 1* not at all cer-
tain.
I American trip to appear on this oc(
at the Oratorio society's com-
ma nee of Bach's 'Passion Ac.
• St. Matthew," on April S. Mr.
ig< the title part of "Oeronr-
is" last September at the music ft- ti-
ll in Worcester, England, and made a
Jry favorable Impression by his voree
id musical Intelligence.
MCALESTER, Okla., March 20.—The
following letter has been addressed by
the McAlester Chamber of Commerce to
C. Halle, vice president and traffic man-
ager of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway company, relative to the con-
troversy M'lsing over the announcement
that the Katy would make a freight rate
of $1.10 to OklahomaOpoints from Gal-
veston and Texas City:
"Dear Sir:—Noting from the dally
press that continued and Increased pres-
sure is being brought io bear upon your
railroad to withdraw the reduced rates
from Texas City and Galveston to potnta
in Oklahoma which you announeea
cently, and realizing that the Interests
opposing this reduction are concentrated
and well organized, while tho various
commercial organization and shippers of
Oklahoma, though greater in number
of business, are not so com-
SCIENTIST WHO WILL STUDY FLIES
WHILE ROOSEVELT HUNTS LI0NT
! si
ing per
i cording
Elwes
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* WEATHER.
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* WASHINGTON, March
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•f* Forecast for Oklahoma' Fair
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day; warmer In the east.
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pactly organized at this time we wish
to advise that we consider the rates you
have announced as only fair equitable
and Just to the peoplo of Oklahoma and
that they are permanently entitled to
the advantage; In rate their geogr&phica1
proximity to the Gulf of Mexico en-
titles them to and that, should your
road, in order to appease tho Intrasta
now apparently fighting you, succumb
to the pressure being brought to bear
and withdraw the rate you have an-
nounced, thereby doing great Injustice
to the people of Oklahoma, you will not
only lose the great prestige your recent
action has already given you with ship-
pers of every class, both large and small,
throughout Oklahoma, but you will, by
such action, prove yourself unworthy o.
their support and patronage, and such
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 7.
John Armstrong Chaloner, who ahot
end killed John Glllard on hla estato
near Charlottesville, Ya., while Giliard,
v;s beating Mrs. Giliard, Is the former j
buaband of Amelie Rives and a brother I
of William Astor Chanler, former lieu-
tenant governor of New York. He is
an exile In Virginia, having fied from
Nev York several years a'ter h.tvl^g
be..-n Incarcerated in (in nsyium for tho
li -one. His case is one of the most por.
flexing the court* have had to consider
In many years, and the control of a largj
fortune depends upon the United
St tics court s pending Inquiry Into his
•unity. He was held blameless in the |
ki ling of Glllard.
TWO EXECUTIONS AND TWO TRIALS THIS WEEK
trial of architect hudto,«.
HARRISBURG, March 20.—Capitol
Vrchltect Huston will be put on trial
Tuesday on a charge of oonspiracy In-
volving alleged fraud of $17,783.70 in bills
for netalHc fnrnlturs. in thl« action,
besides Huston are Congressman Cus-
■011, Rynder, Mathues, Bhnmulcer and
l-'rank Irvine, traveling auditor, who
made the measurements of tho mrtai
casing.
MICHAEL80N ON TRIAL.
NEW YORK, March 20.—-Alexander
MichMlson, partner of Flsohor-Haneon,
will be up for trial Tuesday in the su-
premo court. He was indleted Jointly
with Klscher-Hansen and charges h*vo
also boenlal d before the grlovanco com-
mittee of the Bar ussl. 'atlvn, seeklutf
his dismissal from Uio bar.
LAST HANGING IN NEW JERSEY.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J . March 20.—
The last hanging In the state of New
Jersey will be consummated Tuesday
v hen Frederick Lang will swing from the
'laJlows for the murder of Katie Gordon
in P'seatawnytown. Tho gallows haa
been abolished in New Jersey by law,
death by electricity taking its place, but
i*ng was sentf;oej before this law went
Into cffoct.
QUICKLY TRIED NEGRO.
Richmond. Va., March 20.—Aurollus
Christian will be electrocuted In the stat®
penitentiary today. He was the negro
who assaulted and murdered Mis'? Mary
Dobhs in Botetourt county, and was
taken from Crifton Forge to Flncastle.
Thr e lawyers wers assigned to him. He
confessed to them, and repeated It in
court. Tho court heard three wl'.naaeB
us to ttxne and place.
w
UAt+JtMtmr
James Rlcalton of South Orange, N. J.,
noted seienlitBt and1 expert photr^ra-
AtCACTOM
explorers and huntei
rill
In
Mr. HI-
r> where
hopes
pho-
pher, who has traveled all over the
world taking new photographs and study-
ing faunal subjects, has sailed for Af-
rloa to photograph and study the fly
that causes tho fatal sleeping sickness. , through tho Hunso-Japane.se war and ha
Thta inioct is the icravol rai'imcu to At- j peoatratwi to lha twwt u£ Xlij«L
calton
Thei dor,> Roosevelt intends to
beaste that the former pres-
to bring down with his rifle.
to graph shows Rlcalton standing undei
he arm of a Manchurian giant He Wenl
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 282, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 21, 1909, newspaper, March 21, 1909; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127069/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.