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The Norman Transcript.
J. J. BURKE, Editor.
VOLUMN XX
A Live Republican Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interests of Norman and Cleveland County
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBER 11, 1909
BURKE & BRIGHAM, Publishers
NUMBER 51
WILL LAY
CORNER STONE
OF THE NEW $200,000 UNIVER-
SITY ADMINISTRATION
BUILDING.
FIRST STATE'S
NEW HOI
THE BANK'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEET AND MAKE PRELIMINERY
ARRANGEMENTS.
ON TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1904 WORK TO BEGIN MARCH 1ST
Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Okl?.- Will Be a Three-Story Structure.
homa Will Have Charge ol Cere-
monies. at 10 o'clock a. m.
On Monday night, Nov. 15,
1909, at the regular meeting of
Norman Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
arrangements will be made for
the corner stone ceremonies to
to be held on Tuesday. It is
important that every member
be present at this meetiifb as, in
addition to making these ar-
rangements, the Grand Officers
will be present and there will be
work in one or more degrees.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1G, Masons
will convene at the hall at 9
o'clock a. m., to attend the
corner stone ceremonies. Let
there be a full attendance.
Frank Carder, W. M.
John G. Lindsay, Secy.
Elaborate arrangements are
being made for the ceremonies
in connection with the laying of
the Corner Stone of the new
Administration Building of the
State University of Oklahoma,
which will be held under the
auspices of the Grand Lodge of
the A. F. & A. M. of Oklahoma
at 10:30 a. m. on Tuesday, Nov.
16, 1909. This building is to be
the finest in every respect of
any building ever before erected
in Oklahoma for educational pur-
poses, is to cost in the neighbor-
hood of $200,000, and in every
way be complete and perfect.
It is meet that its corner stone
be perfectly and appropriately
laid.
President Evans has given
out the following statement con-
cerning the ceremonies:
"Judge Henry M. Furman has
been appointed by the Grand
Master of the A. F. & A. M. of
Oklahoma to take charge of the
exercises in laying the corner
stone of the new building at the
University. The Governor and
other state officials will be here
and will, it is expected, make
addresses after the close of the
ceremonies. The Masons will
meet at their local lodge rooms
and march out to the campus,
accompanied by other organiza-
tions and citizens of the town,
so as to reach the campus at
10:30 a. m. The Regents and
Faculty of the University will
meet the procession at the en-
trance to the campus and con-
duct them to the place where
the ceremonies are to take place.
"The laying of this corner
stone marks the beginning, not
only of the new building now in
course of construction, but of
the extensive building schemes
25x140 Feet, and Built of Re-
inforced Concrete.
At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the First State Baqk
last Friday night, preliminary
arrangements were made for the
construction of one of the finest
bank buildings in the state to be
built on the present site of the |
institution, corner of Main street
and Peters avenue. The new}
building will cost in the neigh- J
borhood of $25,000, will be three-
stories in heighth, 25x140 feet,
and built of reinforced concrete, |
and fire proof in every respect.
The first floor will be taken up
by the bank with office rooms in
the rear. The second floor will
be fitted up for office rooms,
while the third floor will prob-
ably be given over to a large
commodious hail for lodge and
other purposes.
Actual building work will com-
mence about March 1st. The
building will be modern in every
detail, and the foundation and
walls will be made strong enough
to hold two or three more stories
should the growth of the city
demand them. I
gjilww .«j
new structure. •
HOME OF NOBLE STATE BANK-NOBLE, OKLA.
BIG REVIVAL
LOGAN
IS SANE
NORMAN HAS GOOD CHANCE
SECURING THE MUCH COVET-
ED INSTITUTION.
SEVERAL TRACTS AVAILABLE
LOCAL MARKETS *
Corrected up to 12 o'clock,
M., Thursday, Nov. 4, '09.
OF | Hogs, per cwt $6.75
COTTON
Lint Cotton $12.00 to $14.00
Seed Cotton $4.00 to 4.95
WEST SIOE
PROPERTY CHANGING HANDS AT
GOOD PRICES ON WEST MAIN
STREET
LOOMING UP FOR BUSINESS
CITIZENS ARE WELL PLEASED HE IS ALSO JOHN D. H0LLINGS-
WITH DR. GRANDSTAFF AND WORTH. FORMERLY OF TEN-
SINGER MR. PUGH NESSEE.
MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED JUDGE MCMILLAN DECIDES
Founda ion Being Laid For Much and Attorneys For Bob Logan Have Hard
Lasting Good Special Music at Case -They Will Appeal From
Each Service. the Decision.
The big union meeting at thej After hearing all the testimony
tabernacle cAiducted by Dr. in the habeus corpus case of Bob
Frank Grandstaff and his singer, I Logan, who it was charged is
Mr. Pugh, is progressing nicely j John 1). Hollingsworth, isafugi-
and is well attended. The citi- tive from justice from Tennessee,
zens are more than pleased with land in addition thereto is insane,
the manner in which Dr. Grand- Judge McMillan decided, Tues-
staff handles his subjects and j day, that he was John D. Hol-
are congratulating themselves lingsworth, that he was sane,
on being so fortunate in secur- and that he ought to be returned
ing his services. He preaches to the Tennessee authorities to
the square-told truth, but every j answer to the indictment.
word is from the bible. He is j The identification by parties
calm and has just enough enthu- j from Tennessee was so complete
siasm about him to make hisser- j that Messrs. Williams and Dud-
mons interesting. | ley, Logan's attorneys, did not
Special music at each meeting \ attempt to dispute the fact that
by Mr. Pugh is interesting as j Logan was really John D. Hol-
well as inspiring and adds con-1 lingsworth, wanted in Cannon
siderable spice to the services. | county, Tenn., for two murders,
The meetings have now been that of a man named Higgins in
in progress one week, and are 1897 and a man named Webb in
i advertised to run till the 8th of 1898. After these murders, it
j December, and while there is no | seems, Hollingsworth escaped
big excitement expected, yet it is and came to Oklahoma, taking
! hoped that the foundation will be' the name of Logan. It is said
laid for much and lasting good, several parties met him here and
Everybody is cordially invited '■ knew he was Hollingsworth, but
Laying of the University Corner
Stone.
—Call and get prices on
paper at Lindsay's.
Sam Ambrister, Jr.,
COTON SEED
( Corrected by Jas. A. Mascho.) Always Has Been a Desirable Resi
Per Ton $27.00 dence Part of the City, and Get-
ting Better.
and urged
ings.
to' attend the meet-
GRA1N
(Corrected by Norman Milling & Grain
Company.)
Wheat, No. 2, per bn. 1.00
Com, white No. 2, per bu. 51
Corn, mixed, No. 2 per bu. ....
wall | The committee having the
j Baptist college matter in charge,
i consisting of John E. Miller, E.
has J g Johnson, S. P. Render, C. M.
purchased the lot on Boyd ave- Griesmer, S. S. Buchanan, J. F.
nue and Chatauqua street, (on Denison and J. J. Burke report-
the corner west of the L. W. j ed to a meeting of the Commercial I °ats' Na 2' per
Cole house) from D. R. Boyd, club Saturday night that they j
for $1500, and will build a fine^ound an enthusiastic spirit of I
residence. The lot is 90x260, jC0.0perati0n existing in Norman POULTRY & PRODUCE
and one of the most desirable I concerning the undertaking, and j (Corrected by L. B. Durkee)
building spots in town. | that any one of several adequate, ! Spring chick, under 2 lbs. in
-Giles Rowntree was here desirable and acceptable sites boosters, each
the past week from Ashland, I could be secured at a price with-1 5^,'"L1
Kas. where he is manager on aim the reach of the people of
14,000-acre mule ^nd cattle | Norman. Owing to the short
ranch for Young Bros., and do-! time given the committee, it was
ing well. The ranch has about! impossible to fully close up any
300 acres in cultivation, 40 of! proposition, and it was suggested
which is in alfalfa, and some | that further time could be secur-
1500 head of cattle and 200 head j ed by conferring with the Bap-
of mules and horses are kept on i tists at their meeting in Chick-
it. | asha this week. Messrs. John
„. . „ , ; E. Millar, J. S. Buchanan and E.
Clarice C. Williams, who b Cralle were appointed such
spent the summer in Colorado j committee.
with his family, has accepted a , ^HE Transcript understands
position as book-keeper tor the tjiat (.^e convention at Chickasha
\\ mans Mercantile Co., and his , looked with favor on the idea of
family will probably return from ; iocating the school here, and that
Colorado next month. John | further time will be given to for-
urray is also now connected mu[ate our proposition. In the
with the same firm, whose busi- j nieantime, there will be several
assuming great committees of Baptists here at
I the corner stone laying, coming
a ' to "spy out the land" and learn
West Main street,
railroad to the Arline
looming up from a
Notes Polittcal and Personal.
I Charlie Howard, deputy reve-
| nue collector of Oklahoma, will,
from the jt js saj(jj be transferred to Leav-
Hotel, is | enworth and become chief clerk,
business j jje has been the deputy in Okla-1
standpoint, numerous lots chang-, homa for sixteen years,
ing hands, new stores being es-1
5° ) tablished, new business houses
40; being erected and projected, and
{quite a little interest being taken.
And why not? West Norman
were afraid to notifiy the officers,
thinking Logan such a vindictive
man that, should he be acquitted
of the murders, he would later
"get even" with them. Finally,
however, some of tHt relatives
of the murdered men found
where he was and sent after
him.
Failing to break down the
identification, Logan's lawyers
_ ., , _ . , . , . I claimed he was insane, and
I resident I at t arrived at his j should be sent to the asylum
>me in YVHshincton vesterdav. 1 rather than back to Tennessee.
To this end they put numerous
witnesses on the stand, experts
proportions.
Mitch McDaniel will have
which has been devised by : sale of his personal property on j of our advantages at first hand.
Messrs Shepley, Rutan and Cool-! Nov. 17th, and within ten days | It looks good.
idge, the architects employed by ! thereafter expects to leave for j „
the Regents of the University his claim in Cimmaron county, j
for this purpose. This scheme He ships a carload of horses, cat- A marriage of two of Nor-
provides for the location, style, tie and other property to Texline | man's best known and most pop
and size of all buildings to be
erected within the next twenty
or thirty years and when com-
pleted will give Oklahoma one
of the best arranged and most
comprehensive and harmonious
as well as artistic educational
plants in the country. This
should make every citizen of
WARNING!
and from there drives twenty- ular young people will, it is said
three miles across the country. } take place about Christmas, and
He has 160 acres up there, and ! they will live up on Peters
expects to purchase 160 more, j avenue.
J-m 1 3 Sl)0t- dUzet!' I —Cards are out announcing
Cleveland county is sorry to lose marriaee 0f Miss Dorothy
"lm- ' | Porter, daughter of Dr. J. W.
—Boss Lindsay, secretary of j Porter, and Mr. Grover Jeseee,
. , ,, c . ., , j the Norman Retailer's Associa-! of Guthrie, which will take place
Norman proud of the tact that. ^on anj seeretary of the Com-; at the Threadgill hotel in Okla-
the University is located here merc;a| Club, has moved his of-;homa City on Monday, Nov.
and should inspire a keen desire i jjce t0 the Commercial Club 22, 1909. The bride is one of
to work together tor the good 01 rooms> where all meetings of Norman's most charming young
the institution. It is earnestly j organizations will be held ladies. Mr. Jessee is assistant e«rro " 1 aw KnnrkeH flirt
hoped that the people of Norman hereafter. While the two organ- j reporter of the supreme court of. 1
and surrounding country will izations have not consolidated, Oklahoma, and a young man ofj fhe Supreme Court of Oklaho-
manifest their interest in an they have agreed to use the sterling qualities and bright ma handed down a decision yes-
event which means so much to same rooms in order to cut down ; promise. terday, knocking out the lax
I expenses. No change in the date J _w u Atkerson , <• Noble lerret law, declaring it was
"f meetings will be made ! * j 1 Atkerson, ot JNobie,; unconstltUtional insofar as it ap-
1 meetings win De maae. returned last week from Pleas- plie(1 to proper, v before State-
— Divorce cases filed in dis-'anton, Kas., where he attendeci .hood, before 1907. The case on
trict court on Friday last_were a reunion of the 5th Kansas which the decision was rendered
Turkeys, per
Eggs, per dozen
Green, per lb.
Dry
Furs
7C
..at their value
..at their value
Thomas Benton Murdock.
There is no death. There are
no dead; no writing for the res-
urrection. Every death is a res-
urrection, in that it releases the
spirit from the body. If there
was a Christ, and there was, and
if he said anything while on
earth, and he did, he said to
Mary at the grave of Lazarus,
"Whosoever liveth and believ-
eth in me shall never die." So,
my young friends, live the life
home in Washington yesterday,
having made a 13,000-mile
"swing 'round the circle." Ev-
has the University with all that I erywhere he was met by large
that institution promises in the j enthusiastic crowds, and the trip
way of building up the princi-1 has been a most successful one
pal residence portion of the city; j from every standpoint.
and, besides, a very goodly por-; The u. S. supreme court hand-
ti°n of the trade of Norman now ed down a decision, Monday, de-
comes into town via. West Mam nying that 13,000 Chickasaw and the prosecution, claimed I/igan
street, rhe only wonder is that j Qhoctaw claimants had any right \ was feigning, and brought nu-
property has ever gone begging |-0 any 0f the lands of the Chicka- merous experts to prove it. While
on that street, or been held at|saws an,| Choctaws. The suit examining him several of these
in insanity and persons acquaint-
ed with Logan, and made out
quite a strong case of eccentri-
cities and wildness. However,
Messrs. W. J. Jackson and Co.
Attorney Graham, attorneys for
such nominal prices. It looks was instituted some years ago by
like good stuff, and stuff ; j g Fleming, charging that the
that should rapidly grow in val- ]ists from which the land was
ue- , awarded was fraudulent and that
We all realize that an exten- these l.'i,000 claimants had been
sive building boom is going on ieft off, when in truth and in
in the vicinity of the University, fact they were entitled to a share
experts set traps for Ix>gan into
which he readily fell, proving
conclusively that his mental fac-
ulties were pretty good; so good
that the court had no difficulty
in arriving at a decision.
As told on the witness stand,
and vacant lots and acre proper-! jn the land. By this decision the ' the murders of Higgins and
ty being rapidly snatched up at 113)000 -hold the sack."
advanced prices, and, of course, |
as that vicinity grows so will all j Bert Chandler, member of the
the city grow, and West Main ] State Board of Affairs, has found i
Webb were brutal in the extreme,
and the man who committed
them worthy of little considera-
street lots will become valuable ! a deplorable condition at the
for business purposes. [state orphans' home at Pryor
The new establishments locat-! Creek, 150 inmates being crowd-
KnJSTZSVSS!- * *• Krocery~ ed into rooms hardly large enough
It is said Logan's attorneys
will take an appeal from Judge
McMillan's decision, and, failing
I there, will fight extradition.
beyond the grave. Live the life I - 8 ■■ . ..
that gives you the courage to
look the world squarely
face and say, I am every
man ought to be and nothing a
man ought not to be. I am a
man. -Thomas Benton Murdock
to the young men of Kansas.
*lv in the'in>? establishment of Fischer & {nard should have given her at- j Logan js' 01
erything a Vlncent- This last fim is build- tendon to the Orphans' Home bad health' a,
nothing a!ing an 80x25 concrete building instead of the pen. If the con- fie was carrit
. the Brittain | state ol immoral it;, and unclean- ■ an(j are ma|ijng a great fight for
Lumber Co., and the big plumb- j liness. He says: Kate Her- [ their client.
or claims to be, in
ind not able to walk.
, ,, , . -1 , ,, - . , , ,, I ixc wa. carried into court by the
one door east of the Hotel Agnes dition at the pen is hard, the 0fhcers and lies on his cot in the
and the Brittain Lumber Co. is convicts orought trouble upon county jail unable to move,
building office buildings and mak- themselves, but the inmates of
ing extensive improvements on the Pryor Creek "home" are inj
its lots east of Hotel Arline. Mr. no way responsible for their situ- \ Rev. R. E. L. Morgan Returned.
S. I. Higgins recently purchased ation." j ReV. R. E. L. Morgan has
the Linduff lots near the corner rfhe Democratic press of the \ been returned to Norman as
to!Santa Fe and Mainland will Jstate held up their hands in holy i pastor of the M. E. Church
Be sure your laundry goes . p..
the old reliable Norman Steam ' bund upon them, and Dr. Davis, horror at conditions in the pene-, South for another year, which
Laundry. Represe n t a t i v e s : | W'K) purchased the btansel Pr0P- tentiary of Kansas, declaring it1 is most acceptable to his pansh-
Monnett, Hutchinson Haun afid ertY^• has opened a meat market was all because that state had a ioners and the community.
Jim Dorland. therein. Other buildings with Republican administration. Won- Rev. T. F. Brewer had the
Patronize Home Industries. businesses are also projected - - -
over the
der what they think of conditions high honor of being selected as
in the Texas penetentiary, where I one of the ministerial delegates
a Democratic committee has
them as the laying of the corner
store of this new building, and
attend these meetings."
Beautiful Roses in November.
The Transcript makes its
best bow to Mrs. M. E. Dorrance
Men Wanted to Clear Land.
Men wanted to clear land in
McLain county near Blanchard,
15 miles south-west of Norman. .
Good wages paid for good men ; ers> both in the men
with sharp axes. Apply to L. men s departments are
found over 100 convicts have
been murdered during the past
three years by brutal guards,
and stories of brutality by keep-
and wo-
incon-
was from Oklahoma county,
where the ferrets has dug out!
about $50,000,000 worth of prop- j
erty they said had not been list- J county
ed. Pittman will appeal the week."
is that the decision will stand
and that the law is dead.
Mrs. Myrtle Byers vs. Elmer; Cavalry, of which Col. Powell
Byers, and Mrs. Stella Courtney Clayton was colonel during the
vs. O. A. Courtney. In the first war. There were about forty
for a beautiful boquet of beauti- case the charge is cruelty and old veterans in attendance, and
ful, perfect roses, equal, we are abuse. She asks that her maid- Comrade Atkerson reports a very
certain, to anything ever nro- I en name of Myrtle Carter be re- interesting and enjoyable meet-
duced in California or any other} stored to her. The couple were ing. The next reunion will be
country. They came to perfec-1 married only about six months, held in Topeka in October, 1910
tion in her yard in this city, I In the Courtney case the charge The 5th Kansas had a fine record
without any hothouse or other j is cruel treatment, and the peti-; during the war and took part in j
artificial cultivation, and, too, tion sets forth that the marriage many important engagements. Mrs. Arthur Ilearsum left
was given little water. Here it j took place in September, 1905, Mr. Atkerson himself was a j for Yates Center, Kas., the first
is, the middle of November, and I and a divorce was granted in guard at the trial and execution of the week to visit her father,
to have loses blooming so per- 1905, a remarriage taking place; of the Lincoln conspirators, and She will be joined there by Mr.
fectly is certainly a fine showing 1 in January, 1909. She charges also at the execution of Capt. | Hearsum, and they expect toJo-
for our delightful climate—and i that Courtney was much more Wirz of Andersonville prison, i cate somewhere in Kansas,
for Mrs. Dorrance's ability as a. abusive during die second mar-1 and his reminisences of war j daughter, Miss Olive
J. Edwards on premises or at ceivable! Gross immorality, the
Norman. L. J. Edwards. committee finds, exists in every
pen in that great state, and
from Oklahoma to the general
conference.
Will Enlarge Norman Ice Plant.
Messrs. Larsh & Render made
a contract Monday for additional
machinery which will increase
the capacity of the Norman ice
plant twenty-five per cent. The
were
.graft permeates every depart-,MJiality of he output by this
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McDaniel ment. And this in the great plant the past season was such
from their MtClain Democratic State of Texas! that the demand was much
greater than they could supply,
I and they propose to get ready
over
farm the first of the
C. has done well this
case, but the general impression season, having a good crop and
getting good prices.
Mrs. O'Reilly and
re from Chicago
Mrs. Robert Aniol and Mr. and
for it another year.
Rea ! They also closed contract for
will: the machinery for a 35-ton plant
rose culturist.
1 riage than the first.
times are very interesting.
I is also at Yates Center.
Cake Sale.
Saturday Nov. (>th at Mr.
„.;ii m Lindsay's drug store. You . .1
. , ,,, . tnuaren {jmj dressed chicken, homemade I at Lawton, which will cost them
are here from Chicago visiting | bread an(] cakea> for sa|e by the j in the neighborhood of $35,000.
■ i u/;ii iu-. rvRcM i ladies of the Home Mission So-j
Mrs. W ill Synnott. Mrs. O Reil- • ■ p.m„ ..j ullv v,„,r Hnin t > v
ly is the mother of Ed O'Reilly, Slety; Come andbuyyourdain _Jas A Cowan was here
who recently
Norman bound from San Anton-. , - .
Her! io to Washington on horseback, ! property is advancing apprecia-
Dufriend, carrying a message to President D. L. McCreary made a trip bly in Moore and vicinity and
r Ot \(1 () rielllV • " „ , , i • ' <• Jdo. vyu axi *> iiwv
passed through tlei^ ^h'Sdi,.1: Chrm oTcom fn'm Moor® L1,1 a"enda"oe at
7rom San Anton- HARDii., t nrm. ot Oom. county court, luesday. He says
Taft.
i to Purcell, Tuesday.
i many inquiries being made.
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