The Tahlequah Arrow, (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 62, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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TWENTY FOURTH YBAR.
~ LEQUAH OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2l
1910
NUMBER iVJ.
itor
LEGISLATURE TO
OKLAHi
SESSION LIMITED Tw
Governor Haskell Exp >
fare Demands That
u
vened In 01
Guthrie, Okla. Nov. 11T To meet at
Oklahoma City November '-M and | r •
vide for the immediate location of the
permanent stat - "apital of Oklahoma,
OovernbY Hh- ti isswd a proclama-
tion hore this afternoon convening the
new legislature.
The chief executive wade a * pedal
trip by automobile, hi* tir^t here since
June 20, visited his sou in law. l^eslit*
<1. Niblack. Sled his proclamation with
Assistant Secretary of State Leo Mt-yvr
and returned to Oklahoma City.
In the proclamation, the special sea ;
sion is limited to considering the cap !
ital location and the matter in detail
will be treated in the governor's mes
sage. Governor Haskell explains that |
the public welfare requires the session
to bo convened in Oklahoma City.
Governor Haskell issued a statement, i
"To the people of the state of Oklaho- I
ma,'' along with the message, intimat !
ing strongly that the purpose of the
legislation would be to ratify the state
capital bill voted on June 11.
The governor says ir part:
"I shall therefore assemble the state
legislature on Novemoer 23 and recom
mend to them the passage of a law in
all respects as adopted by the people
themselves, excepting only I suali rec-
ommend that they omit the sections of
that bill which made an appropriation
of six hunt red thousand dollars out of
the state treasury for the purchase of
land and the payment of expense as
that appropriation is unnecessary."
Governor Haskell has pledged all but
seven of a two-thirds majority of the
legist ure and is confident he cau con-
trol the required number when th * as
sembly conveues.
It was expected that Governor Has-
kell would call an extra session but not
anticipated that the legislature would
be called to convene at Oklahoma City.
Preparations are being made to resist
the legality of the call in the courts, it
being maintained that the seat of
From Monday's Dal y.
Frank Bl ind), of SliJ'.wdl is ill th
i Pairoui/.
. happy.
I Boiiug i
| uiijhr.
Normal Hot 1. 1!
mick depot GUTHRIE TO FIGHT BILL
ORDERED - —
Last Stand for Capital Location Will be Made
Before Legislature.
Local
Hut 13 2
i fair.
o,^t~.e LwieMoiu-.av^omission Decides In
— Favor of ommer-
cial Club
cotton tola*
R-eeipts
■d *-1.40
i *on t in tie
Elegant r.
at Normal
gate.
oiiis. good fare and sen id
Hotel. Call and invest
BOX CARS TO THE REAR
FORM COMBINE AGAINST OKLA.CITY
in
vote of the people
legislatuie
in Guthrie
It is stated that Attornej General
West has rendered an opinion that ex
pens.-M incurred at Oklahoma City by
Secretary of State Thomas P. Smith
are illegal The attorney general does
not si> whether tin* same decision
would apply to the other officers who
moved to Okl thoma City.
'Order Calls Eor Completion of The Telegrams Are Sent to Other Towns Which Are After Site Urging Them
New Strorture bV Jin. 15th [() liM Up
Tahlequah will have a new depot, of
br.ck, cement or other non combustible
material, modern in till respects, by
January 15, ir the order of the state
' corporation commission of data of No-
tiLAUSt
to HIGHER COURT
Washington, D. C., Nov, 19.—Elev-
en days after election, Joseph Atwater,
an Oklahoma negro, filed suit in the
supreme court of the United States an
appeal from the decision of the Okla-
homa courts which aefused to enjoin
the electiou offiicials of Oklahoma City
from denying him the right to vote on
November 8. The petition for the in-
for the injunction is based on the claim
that the "grandfather clause placed in
the Oklahoma constitution by the
amendment is invalidated because it
would deny the right to vote to a large
number of negroes in the state entirely
on account of color or previous con-
di ion of servitude.
' veniber 19 is
way company,
j This order is i
tiled Hgniust the
Sutton, Fred W
'Juuuiugham. as
snltant upon the suit,
Frisco by John W.!
Pahntag and A. B. :
residents of Tah'e
Books Received
By the Library
been
j The following new books have
! received by the Carnegie Library:
"Beacon Lights of History," fifteen
' volumes; "Young Folks Bookshelf,'
ten volumes; "African Trails and
"History of tho Telephone," one vol-
ume each, the latter book being
donation by the publishing house of
McClurg.
quah, who recited in their complaint
the inadequate and inconvenient facili-
ties ■*forded the traveling pnblic by the
use of box cars as a depot since May 32;
that the company had a monopoly of
all business for a wide area of country,
including the town of Tahlequah; that
the business of the company at this
point averaged between ttu and twelve
thousand dollars per month during the
dull months and prayed that the road
be ordered to build a depot in keeping
with its business and the public n .ids.
To this complaint the Frisco made
no answer, but admitted that a depot
was a necessity aud submitted plaus
which were objected to by Mayor Adair
and Attorney King.
The order recites at length the opin-
ion of the commission on the different
points in the complaint, therein psying
the city well deserved praise. To quote
from the order:
"Iu view of the fact that Tahlequah
is one of the principal cities of the
northwest part of the state, the defend
ant has all the business of that section
of the country; that the Northeastern
Normal and other schools are situated
there, that the people of Tahlequah are
among the most progressive in the state,
having modern and up to date build-
ings a good light plant a splendid sys-
tem of water works which is furnished
by springs with an inexhaustible sup-
ply of the purest water, and are now
putting in up to date sewerage system,
it certainly is not unreasonable to re-
to build a
Out lirie. Okla , Nov. '31. To abandon*
any further legal obstructionary tactics
and fight the thing out iti the special
legislative session at Oklahoma City
I was the decision of the Guthrie chain-
ib«*jtdb> i|]h i.sior.u , ij r < f ootinuorce litto this attemoon af-
ter a seveial hours couferelice. The
first will be inadt to prevent a two-
thirds vote of the legislature approving
Governor Haskell's action in calling
the legislature outside of the stale cap-
ital; the second tight will be to defeat
Oklahoma City by combining other
cities against her.
That the legislature could not be en-
joined from assembling at Okiahoma
City under the "for the public peace
and safety" clause of the constitution
was the verdict of the legal defense
committee, as announced by Judge A.
C. G Bierer. The plans formulated by
the chamber of commerce were kept
secret, the session being executive. It
is known however, that a powerful leg-
islative committee was appointed, steps
taken for raising a campaign fund and
authoiily given to put into immediate
operation the plan of making an alli-
ance with Muskogee, Shawnee. Enid,
El Reno, Tulsa, Ada and other cities
against Oklahoma City. Telegrams to
these cities went out tonight.
Guthrie counts on Muskogee as her
chief ally and cannot understand au in-
terview given out at Oklahoma City by
Clarence B. Douglas, secretary of the
Muskogee commercial club, saying that
his city will "commit no such folly as
making a political fight for the state
capital.
Bitterest condemnation of Governor
Haskell was heard at the chamber of
commerce meeting. Former Chief Jus-
tice Frank Dale, head of the supreme
courf from 1893 to 1898, a democrat,
said that Governor Haskell intended
his election proclamation as a defiance
! to the supreme court, and to further
the Putnam City scheme.
quire the railroad company
RECOVERS HER
BOY BY FLIGHT
ESCAPES RELATIVES
Mrs. Delia Brown Ar
rives at Home On
Last Saturday.
ASIDE
THE
\V f <
And
Takes
Another
Weapon
Bearing in her arms her infant child,
which had been taken from her months
ago by her husband and until last week
in the possession of her husband's
brother in southeast Missouri, Mrs.
Delia Brown stepped from a Frisco
train here Saturday, ending a hurried
escape from Missouri to Oklahoma and
home.
Mrs. Brown, nee Smith, is the daugh-
ter of a prosperous farmer of this sec-
tion and was married to Dero Brown
several years ago. two children being
born of the union—the elder a girl, the
second a boy. After the birth of the
boy the Browns separated, the husband
taking with hiui the baby boy to his
relatives in Missouri.
The little one was stricken with ty-
phoid fever a few weeks ago and the
mother notified to come. She went and
assisted in nursing, as only a mother
can, her youngest born back to healtlu-
but with returning came the dreaded
thought of separation. But she deter-
mined to tiee with the child to Okla-
homa and fortune favored, her desirt
i w.isaooouiplished.
I Securing the services of a team when
Ha'(' \ her husband's relatives happened to be
Dale, "or that the democratic party of temporarily absent from the hi nue aud
material, which costs the company less' oklahoma will shoulder the odium in- , J ,.lotllil.,, 8he the
maintain, less insurance, and"when the | volved ... its successfu. culmination. , w««h
life of .he same is considered with r« uilee through the cold Fovember
rrfLV"""" A NEW FLAG IS - - •«;«
in me enu. _ _ „ where she took a train tor home, tear
The commission then orders the plans t - -
for the depot to be submitted to them j
| by the fifth day of December aud the |
Emblem
"I do not believe that this palpable
modern, up to da e depot out of brick ( j0^ can pUne,\ off successfully,
or cement, or some non conbustible
building to be completed, weather per-
mitting, by January 15th, 1911.
Copyright !•'
, br C. E Z.mmcrman C0.--N0. 24
Cpid recognizes another factor- one ji
higher potentialy--and realizes that in his affairs there must
be money. Why don't you start to save now; so you will be ready
when cupid calls.
First National BanK
Tahlequah, OKla.
Capital ■ ■ 5o,000.00
Surplus ■ 5o,000.00
OFFICERS
W. W. HASTINGS, President D. 0. SCOTT, Cashier
D. W. WILSON, Vice President J. ROB'T WYLY, Asst. Cash.
DIES
BADLY NEEDED ful of b'jiug detained at every stop.
| Mrs. Brown was employed as an op-
erator 111 the Pioneer telephone office
is last summer aud makes her home with
i her pareuts ten miles south of the city.
Brown is an enlisted man in the 7th
cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kas.
on Capitol Buildiu
Worn to Tatters.
Astopova, Nov. 16.—Count Tolstoy
died Sunday morning. The end had
been r rseen before midnight. Repeat-
ed attacks of heart failure had so re
duced the vitality of the aged patient,
already at low ebb as a result of the
meutal and physical strain of the past
week, that the physicians and members
of the family saw that the end was
near.
The patient himself appeared to real-
ize this.
He seemed to be chocking but was
grasp His daughter's hand and said able
toher:
"Now the end has come, that is all' -
Following the usual custom where its
officials occupy a building the federal
goverment some months ago furnished
, and ordered the display ou the old
I Cherokee capitol of the United .Slates
' flag, with the instructions that the
same be continuously displayed aud
that wheu the ti ig furnished was worn
that it would be replaced by a new
one. Judging from the appearance of
the national emblem, worn to tatters
aud about half missing, the govern-
ment would better indicate its dignity
and protection by furnishing the new
one. The present one is likely to be
mistaken for the unremoved evidence
of a Halloween prsnk. Besides it
would look better.
Board at the Normal Hotel.
Ross Heads the List.
Bruce Ross, of this city, who was
outfielder in the Joplin team of the
Western baseball association, pennant
wiuners for 1910, carried off the baiting
honors according to the official ayer-
ages just published. Ross heads the
list with .377, playing 70 games with
47 runs, 86 hits and 20 stolen bases.
Crippen To Hang.
London, Nov. 21 —Dr. II H. Crippen
must die ou the gallows Wednesday
for the murder of his wife, Belle El-
more Crippen. His last hope of escape
was swept away today when Home
Secretary Winston Churchill held in-
effective tho petition praying com-
mutation of Crippen's death sentence.
Wheu Crippen was informed of the
home secretary's action, holding that he
had a fair trial and that the evidence
was of proper r.ature, he said: " I will
soon be with my father.''
Barrister Arthur Newton, repre-
senting Crippen, was informed that the
sentence of the court would ha carried
out and that the American would go to
his doom on Wednesday. There were
20,000 names on the petition and after
it was presented many more persona
came forward declared Mr. Newton,
volunteeriug to sign it.
Eat turkey at the Normal Hotel and
be thankful.
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