The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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The Norman Transcript
J. J. BURKE, Editor.
A Live Republican Newspaper-Devoted to the Best Interests of Norman and Cleveland County.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1912.
R. A. BRIGHAM, Publisher.
NUMBER 9
AT
COURT HOUSE
DELEGATES
FOR TAFT
* NEW PETITION FILED IN THE ES- CORPS OF SURVEYORS NOW WOR K- REPUBLICAN CONVENTK)N HELD
, ATE OF JANE SATTLR- ING BETWEEN MOORE AND COALGATE. TUESDAY. JAN.
LEE | nORMAN. 23. 1912.
BUT ONE MARRIAGE LIliENSE NEW CIIMPANT IS STARTEII JIM HARRIS IN CONTROL
A List of New Cases Filed in the Dis-
trict Court Tbis Week-
Court News.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Jas. Francis King, 27, Arapa-,
hoe, and Miss Wynne Lee Una- j
say, 21, Norman.
COUNTY COURT j
January Bills (colored) h a s t
tiled his petition to be appointed
guardian of the estate of Jonas
Norris, who is now in the asy-
lum B. F. Wolf is attorney for
the petitioner. I
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams filed |
her petition to probate the will|
of Jane Satterlee, deceased. This j
makes the third petition filed in j
this case and the first hearing
will be held on January 31st. .
W. Barbour has been appointed
administrator of the estate,
pending hearing and decision. j
A petition was filed this week |
for the appointment of guardian |
for Jno. Bryant of near Lexing-1
ton, who has been adjudged in-1
sane. Steve Hutchins is peti-
tioner.
If the Norman Light, Pow-
er and Fuel company (or what-^
ever its name may be) means
business, it is worthy of every
consideration. The Transcript
always favor home men and
home institutions. However,
if it is organized solely to put
a "crimp" into the endeavors
of other railway companies to
secure a franchise and right
of way into and through the
city, it is worthy no considera-
tion at the hands of the city
council or citizens.
IS
FIGHT FIERCE "COCKED OAT"
FOR FOOTHOLD, BRYAN LETTER
THE DEMOCRATS COMMENCE TO SAID I HERE OUGHT TO BE SOME
BEMEAN AND INSuLT EACH DIGNIFIED WAY TO KNOCK
OTHER. MR. BRYAN OUT.
ml NKHr"lfNEflTI[9 HtMIN wins! <in wiihTmiesis
SANTA EE
GOOD ROADS
WILL CO-OPERATE WITH CITIZENS
FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PUB
LIC HIGHWAYS
DISTRICT COURT
E. L. Cartwright has filed suit
against John R. Smith for $6,-
•293 50.
Wm. Wewers vs H. M. Helfey
and Anne Florence Helfey. Suit
on note for $1000.
Farmers National Bank vs
J. W. Lowelling. Suit on note
for $37.50 with interest from
Jan. 3, 1912. ,
F. J. McGinley has filed suit
against H. L. Sanderson and
Dora Sanderson for judgment on
note for $51.72. .
William H. Appleby vs Luis
Appleby is title of a divorce suit
filed this week. Abandonment
is alleged in the petition. The
couple were married June 4,
1910, and separated Dec. 27,
1910. No children were born to
the union.
The Brittian Lumber, Co. lias
filed suit against School District
No. 40 of Cleveland county for
$119.12 with interest and cost of
sui:. The petition alleges that
the plaintiff sold to H. Hughes a
bill of lumber to repair a school
building in Noble and that the
said Hughes accepted the lum-
ber and made the necessary re-
pairs, but that the bill remains
unpaid. Wherefore plaintiff
prays for judgment against the
dependent for $119.12 with 6 per
cent interest from Nov. 25, 1910
and $50 attorney's fee.
C. A. Herrington has filed suit
against Roland Hughes, Leta L>.
Hughes and John G. Lindsay for
$548 20 with interest at 10 per
cent from this date and an at-
torney's fee of $68.15. The
petition alleges that the defend-
ants, Roland Hughes and Leta E
Hughes, gave their note for
$681.50 payable to the plaintiff
and security executed a certain
real estate mortgage; that John
G. Lindsay claims some right,
title or interest in the said real
estate as a result of a mortgage.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for a
judgment against the defendants
for the sum in question and a
decree foreclosing said mortgage
and ordering the real estate sold
and the proceeds applied to the
payment of the note.
Koeake Farm Sells for $16,000.
The Transcript learns that Mrs
F. J. Koepke has sold her fine
farm in the Ten Mile Flat, one
of the best farms in that locality,
to Mrs. Martha Ibbotson for
$16,000. This farm was man-
aged for many years by Oscar
Haynes and is regarded as a fine
place—a fine alfalfa farm.
Many Rumors Afloat Concerning the First Delegates Elected in the United
Extension —Snm ething in- Stales ... iHtrucM for R«-
jng goon Nomination of the President.
The first convention in the
United States held for the pur
pose of selecting delegates to
the National Republican conven-
tion in 1912 was held at Coalgate,
Okla.. on Tuesday last, it being
I the convention of the Fourth
| congressional district of Oklaho-
jma. J. A. Ramsey of Ardmore
j and C. W. Miller of Hugo were
! elected delegates and instructed
| to vote in the Chicago convention
| for the re nomination of Presi-
} dent Taft. State Chairman Jas.
I Harris was unanimously endors-
ied for national committeeman,
to succeed Cash Cade, who has
I declined re-election.
Before the convention there
was a great deal of talk in the
Okiahoman and other Democra
, tic papers that there would be
| determined opposition to Presi-
dent Taft in this convention,
but, as usual with statements in
these papers, the "wish was
father to the thought." It failed
to materalize, the vote being 118
to 32 to instruct, and was then
made unanimous. Mr. Harris
won by the same vote, and his
endorsement was afterwards
made unanimous.
As the Transcript has before
remarked, it favors the build-
ing of the Interurban, but
does not favor Norman giving
a big bonus to any comoany
building it. Norman offers
as great benefits to an inter-
urban as any interurban can
offer Norman. Their inter-
ests are mutual, and the ben-
efits would be mutual. Right
of way through the streets
and a franchise would be
about all any company should
require. The patronage that
a city of 4000 could give in
freight and passenger traffic
is not to be lightly regarded.
REMARKABLE NEWSPAPER OFFER.
More rumors of interurban ex-
tension are in the air and there
seems to be "something doing,"
or will be something soon. There
is said to be a big force of men,
teams and grading implements
near Moore ready and anxious to
get onto the work between here
and Moore; just waiting for the
word. A corps of surveyors
are now running lines between
Norman and Moore, with proba-
bilities that they will come into
Norman through the park and
bring the line down Webster
avenue past the Arline hotel.
The idea, as the Transcript gets
it, is to make a "loop" around
the University and cross the
Santa Fe on the east extension
of Boyd street and then bring
the road through the Miller-
Classen addition on Classen
boulevard, crossing the Santa
Fe again near the residence of
John Franing to a connection
with the ma'n line. Of course
this chiefly conjecture.
But a new feature of interur-
ban and electric railroad activ-
Three Newspapers for the Price of
One—Read and Come In
And Subscribe.
To increase its list of subscrib-
ers and assist in collecting what
is due from present subscribers,
The Norman Transcript has
made arrangements to send its
subscribers THREE NEWSPA-
PERS for the price ok one,
They are:
The Norman Transcript.
The Kansas City Weekly Star
The Oklahoma FarmJournU.
Thus you get the local news
(and The Transcript sure gives
it), the general news 'and the
Star is considered one of the
best, and 1912 is sure going to
be a year Of big events), and
the farm news (and the Oklaho-
ma Farm Journal is recognized
as the best in the west.)
Proposition: The three pa-
pers will be sent one year to all
who pay arrears and one year
in advance to The Transcript.
Those already paid can get the
three by advancing their Tran-
script subscription one year.
Will send any of the papers
anywhere in the United States.
Good Roads Mean Increased Prosper-
ity and Happiness tor the
Farmer.
The Atchison Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway company will co-
operate with good roads associa-
tions in any feasible plan for the
improvement of the high-ways
in the territory through which
its lines are operated. The Santa
Fe always has been ready to re-
spond to every organized move-
ment for good roads, because
good roads are next to good
crops in the railroad man's traf
fic calculations. Good roads mean
bigger and better crops, for the
farmer who hauls his produce to
market over good roads has more
time to devote to his crops than
he would have if the roads were
bad. The bigger the crops, the
heavier the railroad traffic.
Transportation being all that the
railroad has to sell, the Santa
Fe looks with favor upon any
movement that tends to increase
traffic, as a business proposition
pure and simple. The Santa Fe,
therefore, is friendly to the good
roads move • ent, viewing the
situation from the standpoint of
the dollar.
•But there is another viewpoint
from which the Santa Fe sees
the case. The system of rail-
road owned by the Santa Fe
operates in 12 states, embracing
a great emp:re from the (Treat
Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico on
the south and the Pacafic ocean
on the west. It is an agricul-
tural territory, generally, most
of the states being in the course
of development. The Santa r e
is for anything that builds up
and beautifies the lands travers-
ed by its lines, and no communi-
ty car. turn out a better adver-
tisement of its progressiveness
and civic pride than a system of
good roads.
A good road in front of a farm
means good fences, well culti-
vated fields, high grade stock,
nice house and barn, orchard,
etc. These things go together.
Good roads everywhere mean
good farms everywhere and that
spells increased prosperity and
J. D. Ballard rays His Respects to
Mr. Wilson, < r. Murray and
Senator Gore.
Text of the Letter of the Governor of
New Jersey that Raised a
Political Rumpus.
The "harmony" that exists
between the Democratic factions
in Oklahoma is something fierce.
The differences of opinion be-
tween the adherents of Gov.
Woodrow Wilson, Gov. Harmon
and Champ Clark is a case in
point. Letters are l>eing sent
broad ast over the State by Will-
iam H. Murray of Tishomingo,
president of the constitutional
convention, urging his friends
to support Woodrow Wilson's
candidacy for the Liemocr-'tic
Presidential nomination. Mur-
ray states that he has a personal
interest in the nomination of
Wilson and expresses the opin-
ion that he is the only Democrat-
ic candidate that can secure the
independent vote and carry the
support of the LaFollette Repub-
licans and the Bryan Democrats.
He declares that Harmon's
nomination would leave the
party just where Judge Parker
left it.
Dr. J. D. Ballard, Assistant
State Auditor, a Clark supporter
who received one of the letters,
addressed an open reply to Mur-
ray. Ballard's letter says in
part:
"During the campaign of 1910
you seemed to possess a fair un-
derstanding of the dominant
traits of the average Western
voter and your denunciation of
'electric light towns,' 'grafters'
and 'political shysters' promised
for a time to win, but for some
reason the blessed proletariat
refused to take you seriously, at
least in sufficient number to out-
vote the ungenerous classes you
so heroically and vehemently de-
nounced. And now you ask your
sturdy and horny-handed fol
lowers, who went down with
vou, to rally around a personage
who, if frigidity were trumps,
could give an iceberg cards and
spades and yet triumphantly get
off with the stakes.
"By birth, breeding and educa-
tion he is all the Western home-
maker is not, and his point
Norman, Okla., Jan. 20, '12.
Editor Transcript:
What was the text of the let-
ter Gov. Woodrow Wilson wrote
about Bryan? I've heard dif-
ferent versions and would like
to know; and know you are post-
ed. Democrat.
The letter in question was
written under somewhat peculiar
circumstances. A. H. Joline, a
New Yo-k railroad man, made
an address in 1907 d tprecating
the fight being made on rail-
roads and denouncing Mr. Bryan
for his position against railroads
and corporations. He furnished
a copy of the speech to Gov.
Wilson, then president of Prince-
ton University, and the latter
wrote the following:
Princeton, N. J.
April 29, 1907,
My Dear Mr. Joline:
Thank you very much for
sending me your address at
Parsons, Kans., before the
Board of Directors of ftie
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company. 1 have
read it with relish and entire
agreement. Would that we
could do something at once
dignified and effective to
knock Mr. Bryan once and for
all into a cocked hat.
Cordially yours,
Woodrow Wilson.
The worst feature of the Let-
ter, in the opinion of many close
observers, is not his reference
to Mr. Bryan, which is bad
enough, but his saying that the
sentiments expressed by Mr.
Joline met with his "entire
agreement." The Joline speech
was a bitter arraignment of the
enemies of railroads and corpor-
ations and to have it meet with
the "entire agreement" of a
prominent candidate for the
Democratic nomination for pres-
ident was indeed something
worthy of discussion.
spells increabeu ,.
happiness for the farmer and his view is as far removed iron,
family, and increased prosperity j theirs as is the profession o^ hn-:
for the country at large. | ishing off snobs of the monocle
type from theirs of pushing the
L/c* 11 uliu ticv-iMv. " | cWiy W 1ICIC in
ity has arisen in an attempt by | Come in and see us.
local parties to secure a 21-year j This proposition ends March
franchise and right of way j ^ 1912.
through streets and alleys ot
Norman for a company to supply uarrjp(j_Kina Lindsay
light, power and fuel, and to lay r,ed King-L ndsay.
tracks in said city. The com- Last Thursday afternoon at 5
pany is known as the Norman o clock, at St. Joseph s Catholic
Electric Light and Power Co. I church, occurred the marriage of
The matter was submitted to the | Mr. J antes F. King, °> Ampa-
city council Tuesday night and;ho, Okla., and Miss Winnie
CllV council Iueaua.v uigim ..y, ----
referred to a committee for in- Lindsay, also of Arapaho, Hev
vestigation and report. The Mgr. Metter officiating. Only
Transcript understands that Dr. I the close friends and relatives of
M. T. J. Capshaw and Mr. J. C. | couple witnessed the ceremony.
Tonas are among the promoters The groom is assistant county
of "he new company, with other I treasurer of Custer county and
prominent citizens taking stock. |one of the leading and most pop-
We also understand they have ular officials in that county,
assurances that eastern capital - His bride is a daughter of Mr
ists will take hold of the matter ; and Mrs. J. C. Lindsay, of this
and push it if a franchise can be ! city, and grew into womanhood
obtained; will build an indepen- in Norman. She is a most
dent interurban to Oklahoma charming young ladv and has
City if the Classen-Shartel peo-1 hosts of friends in Norman who
pie do not wish to make the ex-; wish her and her husband much
tension of their road from Moore , happiness and prosperity.
soutjjj 1 Mr. and Mrs. King are now
And so goes the rumors. It i "at home" at Arapahoe,
is reasonably certain that some-!
thing will be done soon. Nor-; —Call and see these salads at
( Continued to fourth page.) 1 Barbours's Big Salad Sale.
terestingly of his experience in
California, and how the corpor-
ations, the big newspapers, the
railroads and the "interests
exploit the people and the peo-
ple in turn exploit the tourists
and strangers. For instance,
you will never see anything in
California papers about how the
wind blows, but it does blow;
] nor of earthquake shocks, but
they have them; nor of killing
frosts, destroying big orchards,
but they certainly do come; nor
i of the thermometer getting down
F)elow freezing but it certainly
j gets there. They tell of ' 'flower
parades" on January 1st, and
do have them, with spectators
shivering in thsir shoes in even
their warmest clothing; and of
the thermometer ranging at 50
degrees when it is below zero
elsewhere; but that condition is
unusual, of great amounts of
work, but little about the large
number of people to do it. , r ruu am
In fact. Mr. Goodrich is not in and shruljs
love with that country, a " 1 - ■
Gores and Murrays could not
thaw out the atmosphere sur-
rounding him sufficiently to con-
vince the man from the forks of
the creek that Wilson .stands for
the principles so heroically fought
for by Wm. J. Bryan since 1896,
and the more essential elements
of which have been absorbed
and assimilated by our friends,
the enemy. Brought forth and
nurtured politically by the rank-
est of all plutocratic organs,
named by that sheet as a candi-
date for President i n 1912 before
he was nominated for the Gov-
ernorship of New Jersey ' two
and a half years ago, he now re-
pudiates its sponsorship in an ef-
fort to still-hunt for Western
votes and outrivals the monster
of dramatic story which turned
upon and destroyed its creator.
Now. wouldn't that jar you?
Co!. Bob Ewing a Benedict.
Col. Bob Ewing, steward of
the Supply state institution for
the insane, surprised his scores
of Norman friends by dropping
in on them accompanied by his
bride. The couple were married
at Woodward, Okla., on Tues-
day, Jan. 16, 1912, and were as
"still as a mouse" about the
happy event until their arrival
in Norman. The Transcript ex
tends to Mr. and Mrs. Bob its
heartiest congratulations and
best wishes.
Mr. Ewing is another Norman
boy who is "making good" in
the world, and probably 110
young man in Cleveland coun-
ty is as popular and enjoys as
many friends as our friend Bob.
His bride was formerly Miss
Ada Arnold, of Woodward, and
is a most charming young lady.
New Fruiting Mulberry Tre« .
Fruit and shade trees, plants
in good assortment.
All . ailli OIII uua 111
love with that country, a nd j Catalogue free. Noble Nurseries,
thinks that everybody should ; Nobje Qkla. 9-tf
stay away from it. Tourists are I
stay
"worked" to a frazzle and are
lucky if they escape with enough
to return to their eastern homes.
—The First National Bank is
1 now a "U. S. Depository.
Notice Court of Honor.
Meets first and third Thursday
; nights of each month at M.W. A.
hall R. C. Hobbs. Recorder J.
I F. Linduff, Chancellor.
Ne« Boiler Fixtures Went Astray.
Some bonehead of a shipping-
clerk billed the new boiler fix-
tures for the west side school
house from Kansas City to Cleve-
land, Norman county, Okla.,
instead of "Norman, Cleveland
I county," and they were lost for
several days, finally being located
at Cleveland, Okla. It took lotss
i of telegraphing to locate, but
rhey have now arrived and be-
' ing put in. The children will be
out of school two weeks, but
will probably make up the time
on Saturdays and at close of
' terra
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