The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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The Norman Transcript
J. J. BURKE, Editor.
VOLUMN XXI
A Live Republican Newspaper-Devoted to the Rest Interests of Norman and Cleveland County
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, JUNE 16, 1910
BURKE & BRIGHAM, Publishers
NUMBER 29
OKLAHOMA CITY
WINS CAPITAL
LOCATION VOTE CARRIES BY 30.-
000 AND OKLAHOMA CITY
GETS 40.000
HASKELL MOVES AT ONCE
Declares Oklahoma City is Now the
Real Capital of Oklahoma-
Guthrie Enjoins.
There were something like
160,000 votes polled in the capi-
tal removal election last Satur-
day, of which approximately
95,000 were favorable to locating
at present time and 65,000
against. Oklahoma City receiv-
ed about 100,000 votes, Guthrie
some 45,000 and Shawnee 15,000,
making Oklahoma City's majority
about 40,000.
The result on the amendment
to the constitution, permitting
consolidation of railroads, was
about 50,000 for to 100,000
against, defeating the measure
two to one.
Notwithstanding the many
published statements in the Ok-
lahoma City papers prior to the
election, and reiterated and re-
iterated by their speakers wher-
ever they spoke, it was not
meant to change the capital at
this time, merely to "prepare"
and get capital buildings erected
ready for the move AFTER 1913,
Gov. Haskell, on Sunday, even
before the real result of the
election was known, issued his
proclamation declaring Oklahoma
FOR NORMAN
MANY NEW RESIDENCES UNDER
CONSTRUCTION IN ALL PARTS
OF THE CITY
CONTRACTORS ARE ALL BUSY
New Additions Being Platted and Lots
Placed on the Market—Streets
Being Paved.
That Norman has a very bright
future is a fact conceded by all —
not only by those who live here,
but by traveling men and visitors
from other sections.
Norman is only 18 miles south
of Oklahoma City, the metropolis
of this great state, and within
the very near future, according
to reports, the construction gang
will be working on the in-j
terurban line south of Moore,
which means that when this road
is completed there will eventually
be a solid string of residences
from Oklahoma City ts Norman,
as is now almost the case on the 5
interurban uetween Dallas and'
Fort Worth. These interurban
lines are great rural developing;
enterprises, and we have been1
informed that the road from
Oklahoma City to Moore will
soon be ready for the cars, and
that the property between the
two points is being platted and
the lots placed on the market.
The same steps will be taken in
the disposition of property be-
tween Moore and Norman.
Carpenters and contractors in
T
stating that all state records and
state offices would be at once re-
moved from Guthrie to Oklaho-
ma City.
However, Guthrie anticipated
the Governor's action and at 6
o'clock Saturday evening went
before Judge Houston and se-
cured an injunction against Gov.
Haskell and all the state officers
prohibiting them from moving
any of the books or records from
Guthrie. Writs in the injunction
City to be tfie capital NOW, andi-N*0rman arc all busy, there be-
ing new residences under con-
struction in all parts of the city.
Besides, contracts will be let for
several new residences this sum-
mer. Vacant lots are becoming
very scarce in Norman and
several new additions are being
brought in and the lots placed
on the market.
The streets are being paved as
fast as the limited force can do j
the work -the report being to
the effect that the company
I
NEW TYPE OF WOMAN.
The eyes of the world are directed at the matured
women who are doing things. 1 he exclusive society wo-
man and she who has only good looks to recommend her
are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. We are living
in an intensely practical age. So rapidly are we living
that all forces are amalgamating, and evolving a type of
woman such as the world has never seen before. She is
not a fledgling, nor a merely pretty thing, but a woman
of gracious tact and wide sympathy, who has lived down
manv a bitter disappointment and crushed many a sorrow,
but who is imbued with the optimistic spirit of young
America; she knows that in order to do her best she must
look her best; she inspires old and young with her youth-
ful enthusiasm; she is sincerely interested in every hu-
mane question of the day; thus unconsciously does she
cultivate those endearing qualities of the heart, the daily
exhibition of which, in the course of years, imparts an at-
mosphere of soft, sweet femininity, and gives to a woman
when she reaches middle life that delightful subtle quali-
ty we call "charm. "—Delineator.
FISHIN'.
By P. D. Williams.
Supposin' fish don't bit _> at first.
What are you goin' to do?
Throw down your pole, chuck out your bait,
And say your fishin's through?
You bet you ain't; you're goin' to fish,
And fish, and fish, and wait;
Until you've catched a basket full,
Or used up all your bait.
Supposin' success don't come at first,
What are you goin' to do?
Throw up a sponge, and kick yourself,
And fret and growl, and stew?
You bet you ain't: you're goin' to bait,
And bait, and bai^eain.
Until success holds 0/1 your hook.
For grit is sure to win.
MM BUTE PIII.IIIMI.
FIIIIH DEATH AND PEHML
MARVIN BRANDENBURG'S TEAM GOV. HASKELL SAID TO HAVE
STRUCK AT THE MAIN ST. DECIDED ON CAPITAL COM-
SANTA FE CROSSING. MISSION.
BOTH HORSES ARE KILLED IIERRINli HAS WITHDRAWN
Mr. Brandenburg Escapes Willi a Few Stale Chairman Harris Files Peti-
Severe Bruises Wagon tions for Referendum on Elec-
Demolished. tion Laws.
While driving across the Santa! Herring has withdrawn as a
Fe railroad on Main street last candidate for the Democratic
Saturday afternoon, the wagon nomination for Governor, and
of Mr. Marvin Brandenburg was will throw his influence, and
| struck by the engine of a freight! what votes he can, to Cruce.
train and demolished, the two
| horses killed and Mr. Branden-
| burg himself given some very
.severe bruises. The wonder is
I that he was not killed instantly.
Mr. Brandenburg lives on the
Fred Delling place, five miles
north of town, and had come to
town to do some trading. The
team he was driving belonged to
Mr. Delling. He had left Mr?.
Brandenburg and little daughter
at McGinley's store and, with
| Mr. Delling'.. little boy in the
wagon with him, was going to
the Norman Milling Co. plant for
I ice preparatory to going home.
j Persons who saw him just before
1 he drove onto the track say he
| had his head turned towards the
| back of the wagon, as if looking
j for something. As he drove
onto the track a number of per-"
I sons yelled a warning, and that
seemed to confuse him, for he
I seemed to stop right on the
track. The little
what was coming
There was a report, too, that
Robertson had withdrawn, but
it has not been verified.
The Cruce-Murray-Robertson
forces are said to be "viewing
with alarm" the growing
strength of L. P. Ross. Ross, it
is said, has been "making medi-
cine" with the labor forces of
the State. Robertson also has
quite a following among the lab-
orites.
Republican State Chairman
Harris has filed petitions with
aoproximately 20,000 names with
Secretary Cross, asking a refer-
endum vote on the four election
laws passed by the last legisla-
ture.
The Haskell family is divided
on the capital question. Mrs.
Fiances Haskell-Niblack, wife
boy noticed 0f (he editor of the Guthrie
and sprang Leader, stood nobly by her hus-
were served on some ot the state unable toget a sufficient number]
officers in person, and on Gov. i0f hands, everybody having em-
Haskell and others by leaving j ployment at remunerative wages.
Property has a substantial
copies at their place of residence,
which is sufficient notice under
Oklahoma's laws. In the mean-
time, Secretary of State Bil
Cross had taken the state seal
value, and investors and home
builders realize that Norman is
one of the best small cities in the
state, ar.d that owing to location
to Ok)ahoma City, and Gov. Has- j an,j conditions property will al-
kell had also removed his seal
from his Guthrie headquarters—
so the seals are at Oklahoma City
and the records at Guthrie.
A large force of sheriff's depu-
ties are guarding the state offices
in Guthrie to prevent removal of
any*of the records. Gov. Has-: homes.
kell has declared he will call out Another thing that insures
the Oklahoma militia to enforce jvjorman's future is the excellent
ways have an increasing value.
Norman is one of the most de-
sirable cities in the state in which
to live, build a home and educate
the children. The people are
friendly, congenial and take
great pride in their home-like
his orders and arrest the sheriff
and deputies if they refuse to al-
low the records to be moved.
Norman and Cleveland county
went strong for Oklahoma City
farming country surrounding the
city, a soil unsurpassed anywhere
for fertility, producing bumper
crops of oats, wheat, corn, cot-
ton, fruit and all kinds of pro-
and for location. Norman s vote : (jucjs Those who are looking
was 468 for location, and o< I for a new location would do well
against, with about 25 for Guth- j t0 investigate Norman and Cleve-
rie, 10 for Shawnee and 490 tor han^ county before locating else-
Oklahoma City for capital. In \ where.
the country precincts the vote
was about in the same proportion.
Another Bootlegger Nabbed.
itiutiii ••• _• One Gibbs, a Hamburger steak
Wildcats Again Victorious. man drifted jn from shawnee a
The Norman Wildcats again; couple of weei<s ag0. Night
came out victorious over the i \yatch Saddier suspicioned that
Purcell 'Sanddiggers at Pur- j he was a bootlegger, and kept
cell, Sundayafternoon, defeating; hjs eye on him. Gibbs was pret-
ty slick, but Saturday evening
Dr. J. A. Davis' New Residence. 1
Dr. J. A. Davis let the con-
tract, yesterday, for a fine new
14-room residence, with all mod-
ern conveniences, to be built on
the 50x240-foot lot on Asp ave-
nue just north of G. Tjensvald's I
residence. Contractor Butter-
field will do the work and the
contract price is $3,765. The)
doctor figures that house and
lots and improvements will cost
him $5,000. He traded one of |
his residences on Gray street
for the lot, and Mr. Butterfield
takes in the other as part pay on
the price of the new one.
Dr. and Mrs. Davis and Miss!
Emma will certainly have a
beautiful home when completed.
out of the back end of the wagon l)and his fight for Guthrie,
jjust a second belore it was
struck. He hit running and kept
j on running, making a safe get-
I away.
I The engine hit the wagon and
team squarely, throwing one of
■ the horses to the west of the
railroad, where he died a few
minutes afterwards. The tire . . ,
from one of the front wheels of declared that the petitions ask-
awaiting his trial for murdering: the wagon got attached to the ,r!F.a resubmission of the pro-
Chauffer Rose near Norman other horse in some way, and hibitory law must be recognized
some weeks ago, escaped from tire and horse became tangled Secretary Cross and Gov.
the county jail there, Monday I in one of the wheels of the tend- Haskell, and the question will
night, but was recaptured Tues- er and were dragged to a point undoubtedly be resubmitted at
j day at Marietta, eighteen miles; south of the depot before the 'he November election. The
i south of Ardmore. He made no engine could be stopped. The 1 woman sulferage amendment
Fries Escapes; Recaptured.
Leon Fries, in jail at Ardmore
and spurred him on to greater
efforts. "Go after 'em," was
her constant cry, and if they
beat the "old man" finally no
one will rejoice more than Mrs.
Niblack.
The state supreme courts has
REPUBLICAN MEETING
W. N. Rice for Superintendent
Prof. W. N. Rice, one of the
best known educators of the
State, has filed his application
with the county election board,
for the Republican nomination
for superintendent of public in-1 ... .. „ ... , .
struction for Cleveland county, publicans are c-dially invited to
He is at present city superinten-
dent of the Lexington schools.
There will be a Republican
county convention and mass
meeting at the court bouse in
Norman on Saturday, June 18,
1010, at 2 o'clock p. m. All Re-
fight, but gave up ii stantly when
the officers rearrested him. He
had walked from Ardmore to
Marietta during the night.
lie was engaged in washing
the windows of the jail in charge
of a guard. The guard's at-
tention was called to another
also be submitted, and may-
be three or four more.
animal was dead.
Mr. Brandenburg was thrown
up into the air and came down
right next to the track. A severe
wound on the head rendered him
unconscious, which was really
fortunate, for he lay where he
fell almost against the rail, until
part of the jail for a few minutes, the train passed. Had he been I ris will control
and when he returned Fries was [conscious and moved to get out
gone. He had broken out the;0f the way he would have un- i
sash and crawled out, and, ming- doubtedly been cut to pieces. \ • .v r.0 . , ,„;n v,„
ling with the crowds, made a, After the train passed he was, ! j
—1 as as
n r „ , , dressed. Later he was carried M '
MARRIED Cook-Leffler. the Cottage Home, where he
Mr. Roy Cook and Miss Ida j remained until Tuesday before j
Leffler were united in marriage he was able to go home.
The State Republican conven-
tion is held in Guthrie today
(Thursday). Returns from coun-
ty conventions over the state in-
dicate that State Chairman Har-
The trial of Haskell for frauds
Everywhere he is recognized as
an educator of high degree, and
a man of splendid executive abil-
ity and high character. That he
is eminently fit for the position is
conceded by everyone.
Thos. B. Ferguson 5
The governor, it is said, will
appoint his capital commission
at the parsonage of the Catholic | wounds consisted of serious cuts 1 oda.v or tomorrow. Those who
church, last Sundav evening at i and contusions on his head and pretend to know say it will be
o'clock, Rev. Father Metter | many severe bruises on his legs Tate Brady, of Tulsa; Boone Wil-
them in a 7-inning game by
score of 20 to 7. The "Wild-
cats" were in batting trim, and
knocked three of Purcell's
pitchers out of the box.
—E. E. Foreman, of the State
Investment company, in company
with a party of friends, drove
down to Noble in their automo-
bile on Tuesday and had a fair
chance of viewing crop condi-
tions. Mr. Forei. an states that
Mr. Saddler caught him with
the goods and captured him and
twenty-one pints of Kansas City
bug-juice in a room at the Arline
hotel. Six bootleggers, pals of
Gibbs, tried to warn him that
the officer was after him, but
Saddler got to him before them,
lie now languisheth in the coun-
ty bastile.
' Officer Saddler is "making
good" and bootleggers andcrim:
S. S. Denison for Co. Treasurer.
Mr. S. S. Denison, of Lexing-
ton, will be a candidate at the
primaries for the nomination for | tlemen
county treasurer. A str light,! J. B. Di dley, Chairman,
honorable, competent man and Ed H. Bijkke, Secretary,
excellent citizen. That he will
be a strong candidate in theelec-j
tion is certain, for he possesses
attend.
EjX-Gov.
and Hon. John Fields will be officiating. The groom is a son and all over his body. liams, of Lehigh; Col. C. B.
with us and address the conven- "f Mr. J. W. Cook, of this city. Opinions differ as to the warn- Douglas, of Muskogee. The
■ ■ ' " and is one of Norman's most ing given by the engineer, some salary of each, under the bill, is
' . , . „ .„ popular and enterprising young saying he tooted his whistle and $6,000 per annum.
At night Gov. lerguson will men His bride, a daughter of rang the bell long before he got
deliver an address on the issues'Mrs. C. O. Leffler, is a most to the crossing, while others say _pr, « front Fvnns
of the day at the court room at charming young lady and will the first whistle was given just , :h. ifnto T Tni wr<>it v will
8 o'clock, and probably Mr. make Roy an excellent helpmate, as the engine struck the wagon, gnend several weeks in England
l-v u 11 1 ' i. They left Sunday evening on The tram was rutin ng very r" I j weens in ungianu,
* .elds ttdl also speak lthe 6y;30 train for Oklahoma rapidly, however, as was evi- Scotland and France this sum-
Come out and hear these sen. cay, and after a short honey- deneed by the fact that, handi- S pI™
moon will be "at home" to their capped as the engine was by the I' international educa
friends in Norman. body of the big horse attached ^" meeting and from there to
The Transcript extends its to the wheels of the tender, it Scotland to Vlslt h,s raother' an(1
most hearty congratulations and could not be stopped for several
best wishes.
crops in that section are growing jnajs had better look a little out.
almost by leaps and bounds. He
has a very interestiny story to| " ~ ~
tell about the fine fruit in that | -Hi Downing, Luster Vowell,
s ctien, and especially about the ' Sebe Howry and M. C. Runyan
mullberv crop—one tree bearing took the capital city by s torm
enough fruit to supply dozens of; IW lay, and remained ov> . • s-
laniiiies. The Nobis cmintrv ig, ..erday to see thai the ctiebra-
mire all right. ' tion earn* off in proper «tyl .
Two More New Automobiles.
Two more new automobiles
were added to the list in Nor-
man last week—Carl Giles and
Miss Alice Brittain being the
hundred feet.
It is understood that suit for
damages will be brought at once
by Mr. Brandenburg.
Cleveland Co. Institute In Session.
Married: At Purcell, last
fit°hfmqforthfpotiitLnth0rOUghly Wavnoka.^Okla.. and Mi.'sllffie
fit him for the position. To(,ii Norman. The bride is a
I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
—J. F. (Fred) Perry, former- 'feel, of this citv, and a most
ly of this town, is Republican charming a 1 0 accomplished
candidate for representative in young lady, fhe groom is one
Garvin county. Fred has been of Wayn ka' prominent and purchasers. Both machines arc
•in business at Wynnewood for j popular youn men. I he wed-130-horse power "Regals." and
several years, and in every walk ding was quite a surprise to Mr. j certainly show up with the best
of life has "made good." Here's j and Mi . 'l'eel, the young couple! of 'em. The Howard - Pickard
hopin', Fred. If his old dad, 1 keepi"., th'ir man la re a si re Motor Car Co., agents for the
Col. Henry erry, was still alive until Sundav morning. They j Regal and Ford machines, made
he would sure get into the fight : will make their home at Way- the sales. Norman now boasts eron addr. .sod t1
for his non. | ook«. I of fittesn fln« «u ornobil«*. | victors yesterda.v
will then take in the sights of
Paris and other European capi-
tals. He leaves here the latter
part of June.
-Prof, and Mrs. Henry Meier,
Miss Julia Meier, Miss Olive
beeper and Prof. Voss left Mon-
day afternoon for Oklahoma City
The Cleveland County Teach- from which place they started
ers' Institute is now in session on the Meier European trip,
at the High School building with i They left for St. Louis in a
an enrollment of 126. Ralph C. special Pullman car over the
Hardie is conductor and O. H. Frisco, Monday night. The party
Aiken and Mb Edith Hennett has special cars over every line
instructors. State Supt. Cam- of road on which they travel,
■ teachers and i and special accommodations on
afternoon 1 avery steamar
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