The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 12, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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SATURDAY MORNING
, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA JUNE 12, 1909 EIGHT PAGES.
SATURDAY MORNING
NUMBER 42.
Officer Who Was Amoushed
OBJECT TO
TAX CHARGES
TRANSPORTATION AND TEL-
EGRAPH COMPANIES
COMMENCE SUIT
IN 'THE FEDERAL COURT.
Claim Made That Their Corpora-
tions Are Assessed at Full Valu-
ation, While Others at Only
About 63 Per Cent of Value —
No Go With Them.
On the ground that the properties of
their roads are taxed at their cash
■value and that that property of othei
corporations are only assessed at afbout
6H per cent of their value, writs for in-
junctions restraining the county treas-
urers of the various counties of Okla-
homa fnom collecting the last half ot
the taxes which are due July l«t, have
,been filed by the different railroads and
telegraph companies In the federal court
before Federal judge Cotterol yester-
day.
It is further alleged that the assess-
ment is illegal and contrary to section
21 of article 10. which is: There shall
be a State board of equalization, consist-
ing of the governor. State auditor, State
•treasurer, secretary' of State, attorney
general, state inspector and examiner,
and president of the board of agricul-
ture. The duty of said board will be to
Adjust and equalise? the valuation of rea
and personal property of the severa
conntF>s of the«State, and it shall per
form such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by Iurv and*.they shall assf
railroad and pubfts ^service corporation
property,'becuse* ft* was made by a board
not authorised to J> make such assess
tnent, and that a law passed by-the leg
dslnture which is
The governor*. State auditor. State
treasurer, attorney general, State ex-
tern! ner and inspector, president of the
•board of agriculture shall constitute the
boaitV-of assessors for'the purpose of f
•messing the property subject to taxation
under the law or all public service cor-
porations doing "but*noes in this StaU
Said board shall meal at the capital on
the first Tuesday1 In March, 1A0S. or
soon thereafter as practicable, for the
■purpose of making -the assessments of
such properties, and shall nssese said
properties ip the manner provided by
the constitution and laws of this State
taking into coneldenalon all rights, priv-
ilege?
and franchises connected there
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BRIDGE TAKES
I SPAN NUMBER TWO OF OIM
ARRON WAGON BRIDGE
IN RIVER.
FELL WITHOUT WARNING
Divorccd And Now Married
Three Men • Caught by Falling
Debris and Receive Serious In-
juries - Dead Weight Said to
Be the Cause - Accident Hap-
pened near Wirt, Five Miles
from City.
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PUT FLAGS (IN
ALL BUILDINGS I
PROCLAMATION WHICH RE-
CITES OUR BANNER
HISTORY.
ON TUESDAY, JUNE 15.
Youngest State in the Union Will
Observe Day with Fitting Ex-
ercises — Local Patriotic Socie-
ties Will Be in Charge of Cele-
bration.
jLdvr&rcl Ca.ll &.h.a.rv
Edward Callahan. Former Sheriff of Breathitt County, Famous for
Part He Played in Numer ous Feuds,. Who Was Mortally
Wounded From Ambush.
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MILITIA
ADJUTANT GENERAL CAN-
TON WORKING OUT
NEW PLAN.
NEW COMPANY AT TULSA.
Company "A" at Hobart Mus-
tered Out of Service—Many
Towns in State Desire to Raise
Companies—National Guard in
Good Condition.
RATES M GRAIN
MAY BE SHIPPED MIXED.
Corporation Commission Makes
an Important Ruling Amending
Order Number Forty-Five Reg-
ulates Capacity Car Charges—
May Use All Sacks is Desired.
As the result of a cap pulling off the
piling which was supporting the new
ste^l bridge across the Cimarron at the
station of Wirt, five miles west ot this
city, forty feet 01 tliaL stiuicturo now
11U6 in the bed of tliat river a mass of
twisted. sUiel tint r.ien :«ro seriously
lnj;iC*.4, Cj' t aught m • ttav \rt ocH aa
it nu.
Tin injured are:
Cliarlos Taylolr, rut about the'back and
shoulder.
urge Lawrence,-left knee cap frac-
tured .
Wilbur Cockrum, left foot mashed and
ut about the head and face.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION.
Guthrto 2. Pittsburg 9.
Joplin 0, Enid 1.
Bartlesville DO. Hprtngfletd 4.
Muskogee 0. Webb City 7.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Houston 3, Oklahoma City 13.
Galveston 4, Rhrevwport 4 (thirteen in-
nings) .
Waco 7, Fort Wnth 0.
Ban Antonio-Dallas^ rain.
WESTERN LEAGUE
Pueblo 0, Wichita 2.
Denver 3, Topeka S.
pes Moines 6. Omaha 3.
Sioux City 1, Lincoln 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Chicago 1, New York 0.
St. Louis l, Philadelphia 2.
Detroit 0. Washington 1.
Cleveland 3, Boston I.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Kansas Cltv 4, Toledo 1.
Louisville fi. St. Paul 3.
Indianapolis 1, Milwaukee 0.
Columbus 4. Minneapolis 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 4, Chicago 2.
New York 3, Cincinnati fi.
•lphla 4. St. Louis 0.
By an act of the legislature of 1907-
1908 there was but one regiment of
Infantry of the Oklahoma National
Guard provided for the State of Okla-
homa. Owing to this arrangement.
General F. M. Canton, the adjutant
general, has been working to organ-
ize one-half of the regiment in the
eastern inirt of the State. Of the 12
companies, there are now four organ-
ised and equipped companies in the
Indian Territory side and at the ex-
amination held on June 10 officers
were examined from Tulsa, where Co.
"A" will be organized. The examin-
ing board was composed of General F.
M. Canton, Major E. H. Jayne, Ed-
mond, and Major J. C Ilerr, Chandler,
Okla. At this examination, the fol-
lowing applicants were examined and
passed. Mr. Charles F. Ro *er, first
lieutenant, Tulsa; Mr. Bruce FI. Mr-
Coy, eecond lieutenant. Tulsa; Ser-
geant Walter Veach, first lieutenant,
Durant; first sergeant, Wm. A. Wor-
ley, first lieutenant. Ardmore, and
Sergeant Albert B. Hayes, second lieu
The corporation commission today is-
sued an order amending order No. 46
covering rates on grain and grain pro-
ducts. The order provides that these
products may be shipped In mixed car
lots subject to certain regulations.
Orain, grain products and seeds may be
shipped all In sacks except one product
at car load rates minimum car weight
of 24,000. pounds, not more than 33 l-o
per cent of the shipment to be grain.
Kaffir corn, oata. rye, barley and wheat
may be shipped in mixed car lots sacked
or in bulk at highest rate and mlnimun
ight applicable to any commodity
shipped in the ear. Carriers are requir-
ed to route shipments so that the low-
est rates that can be made via any lint
or lines s.iall be applied except upon
written request of the shipper that
other route bo used. When a railroad
company can not furnish a car of th
capacity requested by the shipper an>
furnishes cars of large capacity the ca
parity of the car ordered by the shipper
shall govern.
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-vater.
himself by jumping int<
About seventy-five feet of the bridge
had been built and the steel was being
carried onto the structure to build an-
other span. It is supposed that the
weight of the structural iron caused the
cap to pull loose'letiing the end into the
river. There was not a moment's warn-
ing to the laborers that they could nave
time to flee
Carson was on,'extreme tforth enu
of the bridge when it gave away ana
threw him self clear of the falling wreek,
while the three Injured men were stand-
ing in the middle of the last span and
wore caught by the debris.
The crash was heard for a quarter or
a mile ard is Said to have sounded like
distant thunder. Cockrum and Taylor
wero knocked senseless by the falling
iron and had to be carried from the
wreck.
The bridge was to take the place of the
wooden structure which was carried
away by the high water several weeks
ago. and was designed by County Sur-
veyor Reeves. Contractor Sturglss was
in charge of the work. Men were busy
all day yesterday clearing the wreaked
structure and pulling the steel from the
rlvfr bed that the work of building might
be resumed as soon as possible.
NEW YORK, June 12.— Mrs. George
Oida Wagner, who on March 6, last, In
Paris, obtained a divorce from her hua-
band, who lives In BufTulo, was mar-
ried to Charles M. Daniels, t han j. Ion
swimmer of the world, at the Plaza.
The ceremony was performed by the Itcv.
Thomas R. Sllcer In the presence of six-
teen relatives and friends of the prin-
cipals.
Mr*. Frank H Goodyear, of Bufra'o,
mother of Mrs. Daniels, gav;> a diniv r
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OIL AND GAS COMPANIES HIT
Will Be Assessed at Four Times
Their Net Earnings for Last
party for the wedding guests imwtflai
after the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels
left for Tupper Lake, In the Adiron-
dack v.
ho father of Mrs. Daniels was presi-
dent of the Buffalo and Susquehanna
Railroad company and of the Goody
iiber company, or Buffalo. \
dels has lived at the Plaza for seve
hths. She first met Mr. Daniels
the Olyr
stont.
Equalization
The State Board
has adopted a new system of assess-
ing gas and oil companies. In a
number "of cases it seemed to the
board that tiie earnings of the com-
panies were out of all proportion to
the valuation of their property as
returned to the board. In those cases
it was decided to assess the companies
at four times their net earnings for
last year The companies to which
that rub was applied were the Barnes
Pipe Lino Company, Bartlesville Gas
and Oil Company, Bellevue Gas and
Oil Company, Dequesne Oil and Gas
Company, Indian Territory Illuminat-
ing Oil Company and Minnetonka Oil
Company These companies will be
^ven another hearing today and an
opportunity to show cause, If any,
why this plan should not be adopted.
Flag Day is to be observed through-
out Oklahoma next Tuesday and ap-
propriate exercises will be held by The
different patriotic societies.
Governor Haskell yesterday issued a
proclamation calling on the people <>f
the State to jv member the day 132
years) ago
The governor's proclamation fol-*
lows:
PROCLAMATION.
Nearly 132 years ago the Continen-
tal Congress adopted as the flag of
our country, the Stars and Stripes.
At that time there were 13 States in
the Union, and it was fittingly pro-
vided that on the field of the flag
should be a star for each of the states
then composing the Federal Union.
By a later enactment the Congress
rovided that upon the anniversary of
the nation's birth, next succeeding the
admission of each new State Intrt the
Union, a new star should be added to
the flag From the original field of
13 stars, the admission of new states
under the provisions above re-
Amount Added to the Common1 f""r^ < ■« „ a„d th, ^ < th.
I Hug t<> 46 in number, thus recording
School Fund $556,409.84 In- magnificent growth and develop-
surancce Department Collected| ment of our nation.
$88,424.30 Now Have in State'
Year — Big Corporations Will STATE EXAMINER AND IN-
Be Affected Most Their Names. SPECTOE MAKES HIS
REPORT.
RECEIPTS WERE $1,208707.90.
Funds $1,364180.22—All Funds.
therefore. In h
long establish!
That the total income of the Stat-
from October 31, 1908, the date of th<
last examination, to April 30. 1909
was J 1,208,707.90 is the showing mad
by the State Examiner and Inspecto
iition of the
th.
observam
Oklahoma,
thrc
•rdance with
I recommend
ut the State
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as
Flag Dt
being th«
ury of
the adoption of this emblem by the
Continental Congress, and recommend
that the flag be displayed on all pub-
lic and private buildings throughout
the confines of our State, and that
suitable exercises be held to teach and
commemorate its history.
In testimony whereof. I have here-
unto set my hand, and caused the
great seal of the State of Oklahoma
to be hereunto affixed, this tenth day
of June, in the year of our Lord on.=
thousand, nine hundred and nine, and
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Phila .
Brooklyn 1, Pittsburg
lost Opportunities are
Never Advertised in the
Lost and Found Columns.
But what you have lost an
soi>k to recovcr, or which you
have; fonml and sock to return,
can be loeated in the classified
columns of the State Capital.
Your one great, life's oppor-
tunity may he found in these
busy little columns.
Read Them Use Them.
They Work Both Ways.
a result of hi:
of the Stat
Considerably moi
TAKEN TO MUSKOGEE
Wanted on the charge of breaking
postoftlce and robbing th
United States AAnr
terday morning 1- ft for Muskog
with his prlsoi
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NEGRO ATTACKED
MUSKOGEE, Okla.
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negro finalhl
fund,
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