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The Oklahoma State Capital
By The State Capital Company.
FRANK H. GREER, EDITOR.
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THE EXTRA SESSION.
Governor Haskell'! tail for au extra session of
the legislature which convenes the state s lawmak-|
ers for. an indefinite time Thursday next, and which
will cost the taxpayers of the state not less than
one hundred thousand dollars, is nothing more or
less than an admission that—
Owing to faulty, neglectful and reckless adminis-
tration of affairs in Oklahoma it is thought nec-
essary'to call the legislature to remedy democratic
4 .10 mistakes and neglect,
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lOHJ-.lliN HECKh-Sb-MATIVliS—N. M. Shrfllelil bp "
till Auroiicy, U. S. Expraaa Building. Chicago; Tribune
BM&.. New York.
I'll id- ft the darkness—
Sunward, O. sunward!
H wih u i1"1 higk iiX' i —
'jnwatd. still onr.iid!
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is ahove us,
Rest is before us.
—II. 1
Ihnley■
At last it has came.
Signing baseball players isn't necessarily a sign
of spring.
Remarkable how (irmly
stand bv each other.
different state officials
Did you read the governor's call for the legisla-
ture * Was it not a hum-ding-erf
The constitutional convention was controlled byjaW htm lr, g<, ing {un a,ld
Governor Haskell. II<; had more to do with thojformmion about the negroes of the south.
The director of the census, Dr. E.
Dana Durand, visited Atlanta University
the other day and usked the students to
curate in-
Dr. Jesse
led hfm.
Jones of Hampton accompan-
It costs Massachusetts much money to
try to get rid of the pests that kill trees.
The state forester asks than an appro-
priation of $165,000 be made to be used
tliis ycor In suppressing the gypsy and
browntail moths, and that an appropri-
ation of $100,000 be made for handling
the elm leaf beetle.
provisions of the constitution than any one man,
at least he has assumed that responsibility.
The constitutional convention w U8 in sessio?i| T|le uveragw pouiuy population of tho
month after month and thev framed what the gov-iCanadian f.irm in iwi. when the nut
ernor's, and his One Time Friend Bryan, claim is,= -3,^^
the "best constitution ever written. 117.a22.ecs. The year before, the good
The first state legislature was in session six 'canadian hens laid 81,123,802 dozen or
months. It also, like the constitutional convention. <'ssa' valued al
was democratic—almost entirely so, and it was also
ruled and controlled by Governor Haskell.
The second legislature was in session sixty days.
Like the "Con Con" and the first state legislature,
it was decidedly democratic and it was under the
thumb of Governor Haskell.
Not a single one of these three democratic bodies,
which were ruled by the present governor, did that ®d,™rd1 fe seventh and aome di -
wuiui weii. ,> 1 b . tinguiahed subjects of hla watched the
which the governor now sajs should have been imeet of the Ci,ci,hll.e Hounds last month
done !as *ur t of the maater of the hunt—the
The democrats certainly had the power to dothe!^-™
very thing the governor now says lie wishes tnem there on her puny. After the meet, the
to do They had ample time had there not been lrlpn Wis had an afternoon with the
a desire for freak legislation, as well as appropria^re.,^5 rabhita,
tion legislation. —o—
But they did not do the, things the governor now For nMrl>" Ave years Pennsylvania
. | , , imri a law authorising medical In-
Hliys thoy slioultl hlive (tone. spectlon of schools in the rural districts,
During their sessions the governor (lid not insist but no action has been taken under this
that they do these tilings, but now desiring an ex-™"""™' now the advisory board of the
1 t U- 1 n ,,l laid hntii'limen department of health has decided
cuse, under cover of which he and his henchmen,that the |nspectlona musl be mflde anfl
may hide while thoy Spend the people's money 011 there will be examinations twice a year
a session which would not have been ™e««y todi"
the democrats and the governor done their duty, school in the rural districts of pennsyi-
they say a special session is necessary so that—
The fee and salary law may be corrected—a thing
wholly neglected by the first and second legislatures.
A reduction of the maximum tax levy as allowed
ARBORICIDE.
A word nf grief to me erewMle:
"Wc have cut the oak down in our i#le.
And I said: "Ye have bereaven
Tho «*ong-t brush and the bee,
And the fisher-boy at sea
Of hi? sea-mark in the even;
And gourds of cooling shade, to lie
Within the sickle's sound;
For the hewn oak a century fair.
A wound In earth, an ache In air."
And I said: "No plHored height
With a Summer dias over,
Where a dryad fled her lover
Through the long arcade of light;
Nor 'neath Arcturus rolleth more.
Since the loud leaves are gone,
Uetween the shorn cliff and the shore,
Pan's organ antiphon.
Twas nameless envy fed
This blow at grandeur's head;
Some green reproach o'erdue,
Degenerate men! ye drew.
That for his too plain heavenliness our
Socrates ye slew."
—Lowle Imogen Guiney.
THE STATE PRESS ]
Most remarkable
referring to his Dear Friend Rryan—just at
time.
municipalities made.
And the devising of some means for additional pany for printing, sum,
indirect taxation to save the state levy from
In eighteen years the Territory 01
Oklahoma paid the State Capital Com
or an averag
"a lyric tenor or
the first rank"
H.Y.World. Dw-U
for the EDISON
We don't bear Friend Haskell! moireci tuximou tu —=|CraUc papers and orator.'' JwiVTaa
this'so high. _ _ ! long about republican extravagance
I The question is will the legislature confine itself and one of the Am acts of Governor
I to these three issues-wc think not. " 10 a " «« •
It listens well, but underneath is the sting:—Itj But if it ditl wo are of the opinion that the dem-| It shouW be remembered in this connec-
is needless anil will cost the taxpayers thousands ofiocrats would make as many serious mistakes, in the tion that the state capital had a mono,,,
dollars. ' bills they would pass, us in those they have enacted,^- T tX
I before and, consequently, the money will na\e been cost ot the territorial printing.
"Fool 'em—they are fools," is the motto of tho J vv asted. j According to a statement recently is-
present administration when dealing with the tax-: Bnt it j8 not the purpose of the governor to con-j1;Jha^u/democJu^ay" betnln
payers of the state. Cine tile matter of the session 10 these three points Lower they have paid the uuthrie u-ader
In,Hi to which he refers in his call. 5151.000 for printing and a like amount
. , 1 -.f Knth Vinn«jp«jl ot,lor printing concerns, or a grand
lie will cause to be read members of both houses ta, of WOU OO() for pr,nUng ln tw yws
a special message in which lie will make recommen-j what ttfen becomes of the charge of re-
dations-he intends that they be taken as orders— U«biican extravagance.
Ciaiions 111 J - , . Also, accoraing to the state auditor,
and he will open up the gates lor lawmakers in one in8tance the Leader company
charged for 10,000 copies of a circular,
when only between 1,000 and 2,000 were
delivered. It ml flit be Interesting
PINCHOT'S REMOVAL
Tlie removal of Aai. Pinchot from
office was the only course open to Pre
ldent Taft. The letter which the chief
forester sent to Senator Dolllver to bo
read in the senate was an act of fla-
grant Insubordination. After his reflec-
tions ilpon Mr. Taft he must have known
that his connection with the adininistra
tlon could no 'nnger be tolerated. No
government could be run under methods
so demoralizing to disci* line.—New York
World.
—o—
In dealing with the now Intolerable
Mr. Gilford Pinchot as common sense
and self-respect prescribe, the President
should have the unqualified approval and
support of all good citixens, no matter
what they think of the forester's past
public services.—>Tey York Sun.
Mr. Pinchot should have been removed
lie was contumacious, disrespectful and
indefensible in defying the president and
!e|ln handing ammultion to the Insurgent
senator from Iowa to be Used against
the president In the senate. Mr. Pin-
chot apparently can neither command
The dismissal of Glfford Pinchot from
the office of forester was made Inevitable
by y.
(tlser.
—o—
"Whatever Mr. Plr ' ot may have done
as forester, and too much credit caniw t
be given him for that service, he has
made hlmstlf impossible in this con-
troversy with Secretary Ballinger, his
now sings
While New York audiences are crowding to hear filezak
at $5.00 a seat, you, wherever you are, can hear him,
not only in one opera but in the principal tenor arias
from all the more prominent operas that he sings.
Ask your dealer to play for you Slezak s rendering
of "Celeste Aida," the most beautiful and best known
aria from Verdi's masterpiece.
Only on Amberol Records can you get Grand Opera
as it is meant to be played and as it is played at the
Metropolitan Opera House. And only on the Edison
Phonograph do you get Amberol Records.
ATTlKprolnewest Edison, is n wonderful musical In.
strument. with the horn concealed-built into
the cabit «t of this most beautiful piece of 'ur/dture. It comes lo
several finishes of Oak and Mahogany and the price is >200 00. It plays
both Edison Standard and Amberol Records.
Anv Edison dealer will be glad to play for you the Plozak Records on
the Amberola—hear tbein today. There are Edison dealers everywhere.
Edison Phonographs $12.50 to 1200 00 Edison Standard Records .35
Edison Amberol Records (play twice as long) J.SO
Edison Grand Opera Records - - ./5 and 1.00
Get complete catalogi from your dealer or from us.
National Phonograph Co., 75 Lakeside Avenue, Oraa«e, N. J.
HUMOROUS JINGLE J
Ki'iJIy ri'iuarkable—that thn governor should e.i-
I r •( the taxpayers of the state to believe the num-
erous. tilings he says.
There will be just as many disappointed demo-
crats in Oklahoma at the close of the special session
of the legislature as there are now.
Notwithstanding, the encronchuu nts of steamships
and gasolene-propelled craft there are still more than
ti6,000 sailing vessels 011 the high seas.
We wonder if taxes will double again next year
ns they did the second year under democratic rule,
as Governor Haskell says in his call for the leg-
islature.
Swimming is included in the curriculum of the
I.oudon public schools. Last year more than 32,000
children acquired the useful art or accomplishment
in the English city.
spread in any direction they may sec fit.
Every state institution will want money —
About every state department will want assist-
ance.
Yes, "even the governor will ask for additional
funds.
There will be 011 endeavor to crowd into a few
davs what should be the work of weeks.
The result will be that hundreds ol' thousands of
dollars will be expended.
The members of the legislature may remain in
session just about ns long as they desire and—
They will be able to take u> about anything they
may wish.
It will be a wann session and will be watched
closely to see if the governor's boast that he will
rule or ruin the members of the legislature who op-
r
1
I saw a hen go 'cross the Btreet,
With slow and stately tread;
She seemed to have an end ln view,
And never turned her head.
"Why goes that hen across the street?"
Inquired a passerby;
'I know she does It ev'ry day,
But not the reason why."
"You speak the truth," I made reply.
"She crosses ev'ry day,
And yet the garden over here
Is equal ev'ry way.
She will not stay where she belongs,
Though land siie lias to spare;
She must go on the other side
To see what's over there.
"Alas! My friend, It's just the same
With all the human race;
The hen won't stay where fhe belongs,
Though sh^'a a better place.
Tis naught for which she Is to blame,
She's learned it from the men;
appeal to the senate contrary to the Bd-|Tell mE whJ. men go 'cross the street
j THE CRiBBER J
this coniifctlon to note in passing thai |
tho Leader 1s owned by (/overnor Has-
kell's son-in-law. But of course that ha.-?
nothing to do with the great and exceed-
ing richness of the Leaders graft dur-
ing the past two years.(?) — The Apache
Week's Review.
vice of his department chkf and ln open
d.'-nancc of the president, being the eli- j
max. The president took the only course
opt n to him and his action will he ap-
proved. save by tho extreme partisans
of the deposed f"r< ster. — Boston Herald.
—o—■
There can he only one opinion that Mr.
Pinchot has become Imi .--seihle n* an
official of the Taft administration, and
ti.at his Immediate separation from the
public service was required M the ' x-
iconcifs of the situation.—Sprlngfleld
Republican.
And l'H explain the hen."
Teachtr—What Is an ocean?
Johnny- A body of water necessitating
battleships.
—o—
teacher was telling a class at school
last Sunday about the deluge, remark-
ing
"And then it rained for forty days and
fcrty nights."
Then a little boy asked: "Were the
farmers satisiled then, miss?"
The teacher was describing the dolphin
and its habits.
"And, children," she said impressively,
"a single dolphin will have 2,000 olf-
spring."
Goodness!" gasped a little girl in the
buck row. "And how about married
ones'"
—o—
"Isn't stillness the same as silence?"
asked the little girl next door.
"No. indeed." explains the little girl
next door to her. "Silence is when thero
isn't anybody at all In the parlor, and
stillness Is what you don't hear when
your big sister and her beau are there."
STRANGE NEWS STORITS
Governor Haskell's entire call for the special ses-
sion is devoted to making apologies for high taxes] pose him can be made effective as a tin eat.
which he actually assumes can be blamed on past
democratic neglect.
The Florida Times-Union remarks enthusiastically
that "in Florida you want to live forever/' We did
not suppose that wanting could be more acute in
Florida than it is elsewhere.
Most remarkable. Not a single announced candi-
date for state offices has stated that he will make
liis race for the nomination on the proposition of
supporting the Haskell administration.
Can it be possible that the son-in-law was to blame
for the governor having turned down the claim of
Roy Oaks for appointment, it is rumored in ad-
ministration circles that such was the case.
A real admission that the democratic party has
burdened the people with taxes and a clear case
of attempting to "hedge" after having gone done
It—is the governor's call for an extra session of the
iegislature.
Will there be an independent democratic legisla-
tor in either house?
The people of tho state hope so—they desire pro-
tection. There arc many democrats in the state
who feel that thero are honest democrats in Oklaho-
ma's legislature—but the members will have to
prove that they deserve confidince and are not un-
der the control of Governor. Haskell, who boasts
that he will make them do what he wishes.
Grecrsburg, Ind., has a new industry;
ln the City Hall. The Council at its lust
session granted C. E. St. John the use
of the City Hall basement for one year
for the purpose of raining mushrooms.
—o—
As the state pays two cents apiece for
tlie birds. Escanaba, Mich., lads put
whiskey soaked crumbs in places where
th*1 sparrows collect. T.:e birds cat the
'dope" and become intoxicated and
able to walk or fly, ln which condition
thty are easily picked up by the hunter
Hundreds of sparrows are being bags*
In this manner.
~o—
A candidate for an aldermanic seat in
Paris announces his program on the
llllhoards about town as follows:
1 The candidate has no political opin-
ions-
2. lie w ill have one after his elect ion,
and it will be that of his electors.
3. He *111 respect his Hectors wish
In order to be s\ire of that, his voting
GOING UP
The skyscraper school building is not likely to
bi ninny years behind the skyscraper office building
in New York. Already that city is building school
hollies eight stories high, and in Chicago, where
four stories is still the limit.
School Architect Perkins expects to see ten-story
seliool buildings within twenty years. But after
that, say thirty years after. Mr. Perkins says, the
temptation to save ground space by using air space
for school purposes will be overcome through the de-
vel>>| nicut of transportation which will permit ihe
moving of the schools out into the country.
"We will shoot the children out through
pneiimntie tubes every morning." he says,
"into fields, groves and parks to school, and in
t!i" evi ninlt we will shoot them back again."
lie may be right
Stranger things than he predicts have happened.
Revolutionary. Socialist. Radical
Progressist. Conservative.
\\ IJ —The elector will kindly scrat ii
out thn*r political opinions with which
he disagrees.
ro THE POINT*"
We often say:
Put they wft-n do.
Remember that
GOVERNOR BLAMES THE DEMCCKATS
The governor says that-"Tlv present laws fixing,•
the fees and salaries of most of our county and
other public officials were passed by the Oklahoma
territorial legislature, several y^urs before the state
was organized."
The governor seems to have forgotten that since
statehood democratic politicians and lawmakers
have created nioro salaries and effices than the com-
bined seventeen years of territorial legislatures.
However, that is not to the point.
If those laws weue faulty, why is it that the gov-
ernor did not discover the fault during the first h> ' ' y <*■
or second legislaturef He bad over a year and a, A lucky man iB one who can hav
half in which to make the discovery. |hls rascality overlooked ns a mUtalte.
We might also ask,—Why did a legislature.
which was so democratic that republicans were hard
to find.—indefinitely postpone consideration of just
such a bill which the governor now calls an extra
session for?
Democrats voted unanimously against considera-
tion of a fee and salary measure.
Who then is to blame for the failure to make this
change ?
Governor Haskell and bis Ale Too Democrats.
They can't fool me. '
get-rich-quidi
an who sells.
Official estimates of India's cotton crop for the
season of 1909-10, received in Washington from Con-
sul Stewart of Madras, indicate an increase of 10 per
cent, as compared v.ith the yield last year. The
land under cultivation up to October 1 amounted to
18,722,000 acres.
—O—
"I don't really enjoy the Christmas
Spirit except in receiving."—Ren Davis.
—o—
You can occasionally beat a Kansas
law, but you taut beat the laws
Nature.
—o--
The man who always thinks he i*
always all right is nearly always
w rong.
f OKLAHOMA NOTES ]
The big live stock show at Enid didn't
y—probably because It was the biggest
thing "f Ks 1 ind ever unchrtaken In the
Southwest—and there is now outstand-
ing $7000 in premiums?
he burg cf Keystone is said to pos-
sess tbe most extensive newspaper
graveyard of ary town of similar popu-
lation In the state. Its newest grave Is
that of til* Oklahoma Way. Starvation
wag the route traveled.
—o—
The town of Wagoner, the home of
some mighty good men and true, had its
treasury enriched to the extent of
$1 .oic.no In fines collected through the
medium of the police court the past six
months.
- o—
r.lencoe has set an excellent example
for other places A young fellow and
he hailed from Tulsa—was pulled off a
trriln there by n deputy sheriff for using
profp.no and inrleeent language, and was
taken to Stillwater and fined.
Liquor shipments into the numerous
thirsty towns of the state have fallen
off greatly since "John Doe" and ' Rich-
ard Roe" consignment - have been nlaced
In the outlaw class. It is only a • bo< 7! <
fighter who Is bold enough to have his
TV me emblazoned on a package plainly
labeled WHISKEY
FOR CHRISTMAS
Every one likes pictures
of tlle Pcrson3 ani1 things
that he is interested in.
And anybody can make
good pictures with a
Kodak.
Kodaks and
Cameras from
$100.00 at the
Brownie
Mail Orders Solicited,
cets a catalogue.
/k
A Postcard
Post
Guthrie
Off ce Drug Store
Oklahoma.
There is always something to gossip
bout, even if you have to go as far
a<k as Henry VIII.
What h 's become of the old fashloneJ
man who said the "north end of a south
wind Is always cold?"
—o—
"I was very ambitious when young;
I but nil I try to do now is to get through
I the day."—-IJarson Twine.
good guns
good cigars
and
good tobacco
With the right kind of men behind them, are the prime
factors, in securing, and ihen sustaining good goveri ment.
You will find the goods, and a sample of the newest and
best thing out, in the "Camel Brand", of five cent cigars. At
OLSMIT
COME AND SEE US
Cor Harrison Ave. & Kirst Street.
Guthrie, PHONE 198 Oklahoma.
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