The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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The Norman Transcript.
J. J. BURKE, Editor
VOLUME XXIV
A Live Republican Newspaper—Devoted to the Best Interests of Norman and Cleveland County.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1913.
J. D. WOMACK. Publisher
NUMBER 34
Will II
RESULT IN WAR
WITH JAPAN
PROBABLY ON EAST SlOt
A Member of the Committee Says
There is Where tne Interur-
ban May Run.
"A turn in interurban mat-
ters, which makes it not only
possible but probable that the
road will come down on the east
side of the Santa Fe and estab-
EXTREMELY TICKLISH SITUATION !ish its terminals on the Runyan „
BECAUSE OF CALIFORNIA'S COrner or thereabouts, has de- i
ANTI-JAPANESE MOVE. !veloped. Mr. Shartel mid other t
linni nnniin inn oriioiTiiir railroacl nien were here on*
JAPAN I liOUl) AND SENSITIVE Wednesday. A survey has been ♦
made, crossing the Santa Fe at *
Feeling Very .litter Against the the town of Moore- and anot'\er ♦
United States -Any Day May one is now in progress. I he ♦
See Hostilities. eastsiders are very active and ♦
enthusiastic, while the west- ♦
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* * ly passive. o
♦ That the situation grows ♦ "The fact is that the west- ♦
siders think they have the road ♦
cinched; that it is bound
♦ more and more critical is ♦
♦ evidenced by the fact that ♦
♦ Secretary of State Bryan
♦ is now on his way to Cali-
♦ fornia to confer with Gov.
♦ Johnson and the legislature
♦ in an effort to come to
♦ some amicable solution of
♦ the problem. This action
♦ is unprecedented in the his-
♦ tory of •the country.
♦ But the Californians are
♦ stiff-necked. They say:
♦ "War? Well, let it come.
♦ California and the other
♦ Pacific Slope states would
♦ have to bear the brunt of
♦ it, but conditions are intol-
♦ erable and we cannot long- ♦
♦ er endure them. If war is ♦
♦ the only solution, let it ♦
♦ come. It is certain the agi- ♦
♦ tation against the Japanese ♦
♦ is to continue and become ♦
♦ more and more bitter, and ♦
♦ war will be the final out-
♦ come anyway."
Tn the meantime. Japa-
nese authorities are unani-
mous in declaring there
will be no war, nos matter
what California may do.
But—well, Japanese trick-
ery is so thoroughly under-
stood that their declara-
tions of amity are taken
♦ with many grains of salt.
♦ Their history has been that
♦ they hold out one hand in
is bound to
come down on their side of the
town. Never was there a great-
er mistake. If they continue to
be inactive, and refuse to give
the committee a square deal on
I terminal grounds and right of
way the road will certainly I ♦
come into town two or three !♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
blocks east of the railroad and
(make their terminals on the 'great American commonwealth I
'corner of Peters avenue and jof California.
East Comanche."
DON'T BE A GROUCH.
Don't be a grouch; kind words and smiles are best;
None but the pessimist need be oppressed
By constant gloom and doubt of all mankind;
Blessings and sorrows are oftimes combined.
Don't grumble if the plans on which you dote
Go oft awry. Just paus and note
That sunshine follows storms in every case,
And after winter, spring-smiles lighten Nature's face.
Don't be a grouch. You're, not of Fate the only
victim left;
While health is yours, you're not of hope bereft.
And out of dire disaster, if you choose,
May make a winning, where you thought to lose,
Be brave; keep cool your head and steel your nerve
To meet reverses. Let your judgment serve
To turn the lessons of the past to good account;
Stop sliding down and strive your best to mount.
There's always sun behind the darkest cloud,
There's often joy in the most somber crowd;
Life's cares are but the trials set to place
A due restraint upon gay pleasure's pace.
Look up, not down! Face trouble like a man ;
Press on; don't tarry with the halting clan~
Don't rail at thorns when rosep line your couch.
Just think that all is best. Don't be a grouch!
REPUDIATES FORMER ACTION
City Council Allows Salary of Ed
Mays- Contract Let For Paving
on West Main Street.
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♦ What amounted to a repudi-
v ation of the former action of
♦ the city council in the matter of
♦ the removal of Night Watch
♦ Mays was enacted at the meet-
♦ ing of the council on Tuesday
♦ night when, by a vote of 5 to 2
♦ the April salary account of Mr. i
Mays was allowed,
TWENTY-FOUR
TEAKS AliO
LAST TUESDAY
OKLAHOMA WAS OPENED TO SET-
TLEMENT BY PRESIDENT
HARRISON.
♦ ;iviays was allowed, amounting ...
♦ | to $•">((. Those voting for the al- ()N | Ht 2'2NI) OF APRIL '89
♦ lowance ot the bill were: Dr. J.
♦ A- I^jvis, L Levy, Harry Lind- Very Few of the Persons Who Made
♦ I say, J. M. Moomau and Oscar the Run Now Reside
Here.
anfl mil
i 1 uesday last was therefore
Acting Mayor Lindsay vetoed r"-h anniversary of the
the allowance of the bill, and j op?n''i£-
upon a vote to override his veto
the five voted "aye" and the
J. M. Moomau and Oscai
o Holland.
« Against—C. A. Richard:
+ Floyd Westervelt.
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two voted "no." Five being
more than two-thirds of the sev-
en, Mr. Mayes claims the bill
has been allowed, but others
think there should have been
Looking forward, twenty-
lour years looks like a long
time; looking backward, it
seems as if it were but yester-
day.
There are numerous present
residents of Norman who are
six. Attorney J. B. Dudley con- "89ers," came here during 1889,
tends that the mayor has no i but very few who made the run
HOLLAND STOCK SOLD.
^ iim\. HIV 11 ti > liu liu 11 i < 111L LIIU ruil
^ ^ I authority to veto an allowance into the country on April 22nd
of a bill, and, this bill being —real "22nd-ers"—remain with
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There is nobody here in Purchased by Sanger Bros., of
The Transcript gets the above I Washington in official life oi j Dallas, Tex., Friends of
information from a member of !^e government or in tire active1 J. R. Holland-
the committee on right of wav |life of the army and navy who
and terminal grounds It gives pretends to deprecate the de- 1 Ve , K; Holland stock of dry .... —lwl fJ<
it for what it is worth There !gree and intensity of Japan's re- g0.0, • bloot.s and shoes, etc., J block on Main street v\
is undoubtedly a great deal of sentment toward what it deems at bankrupt sale by E. K. ! Arline hotel was let
truth in it If thp weaf«iHoro (this thrpp-fold reflection nnmi Himes, trustee, on Mondav. was (Cleveland-Trinidad <>n>
continue
non-progr
tain they «m 1W(C mC iUau. — — —-
the time has come when it is
Japanese matter cannot be over- absolutely necessary that the that Sanger Bros, are warm
stated. dignity, the importance and the , ti lends, of Mr. Holland, and will
It is a striking fact that the quality of its citizenship should Probably turn the stock over to
most peace-loving and peace* be asserted and established fim '° make a sale and endea-
seeking administration of the am°ng the nations of the world. j™r get upon his feet again.
century is confronted j Expert of the navy and of the , , he 11 anscript sincerely trusts
p most sprinii'j army are united in the opinion H may not be long before he re-
properly allowed, Mr. Mays will]us Talking with E. P. Ingle,
get his money. Bills allowing one of them, the only present
H. L. Sadler pay for extra work, j Normanites he could recall of
and $25 to H. L. Sanderson, the the thousand Or more who were
new night watch, were also al- on the townsite of Norman that
lowed. day are: D. L. Larsh, Sebe
The contract for paving the Howery, W.T. Mayfield, W. H.
t>ck on Main street west of the Seawell, Hi Downing and TI. G.
the! Cook There may be a few
but nearly all the rest of
moved
mated, makes a total cost of This train consisted of eleven
not to exceed 2.15 per square coaches every one of them load-
quarter „ ^
with the most serious menace army are united in the opinion -
of international trouble that any that the aggressive tone of Ja- P"P?rates and gets back into the
-- - — — incident is stimulat-> mess narness.
yard. Work will begin on the
paving immediately.
Largest Graduating Class.
of the United States navy and
army for war with any nation.
♦ friendship and amity,
♦ while they stab you with
♦ the other.
Maybe a Masonic Temple
Are we on the verge of a war
with Japan?
y The situation is extremely
critical and an overt act by eith-
president and cabinet have had pan in, ."
within that period ed and inspired by Japan's con-
President Wilson is devouring ce pt.ion-°f.th? .. ^preparedness j
eagerly everything he(can read
or hear concerning the* Japanese
situation.
There is not a department"of
th government just no\(- that
does not hold this to be the
most imminent and most press-
ing question before the Ameri-
can government and the Ameri-
can people.
President Wilson's ,0.
which he urged in the interests
1 lie University of Oklahoma
d, and was held at the bridge
near Purcell until high noon, ar-
riving at Norman about 12:30.
Very few got off at Norman,
Oklahoma City being the objec-
tive point of the great majority.
D. L. Larsh, T. R. Wagoner and
At the regular meeting of
Norman Lodge A. F. & A. M.,
on Monday night, the question
Pat Berry, Theatre Owner,
Pat Berry purchased the Or-
pheum theatre from J. N. Nes-
bitt this (Thursday) afternoon.
He will make numerous improv-
ments, and run firstclass pic-
tures- "
melt l- L nh ?°m™ence;: Mr. Ingle were among those
?1 « bfthm tLbth'+^eJargest who stop d ,(t Norma*
tnti™pffi n:ory of the insti-, They found quite a large
Bachelor of Art"';'/W?eiV.e i f population already here, many
the e fifteen and 0 I having come in from the river,
ol nurses, numbering six, wi
sooners.
ti , (.1 r- i . —r i neering corps was surveying the
of erecting a Masonic Temple ment
was discussed, and it was the |
unanimous opinion that steps
lookl'ng towards such a move-
ment should be taken. There
not forget the Orpheum when the School of Medicine. A large
you want an hour's entertain-: class will graduate in Law, and
'an equally
Pharmacv.
large number in
iSS rsa
er nation may bring about hos- of a peaceable solution that Cal- was -in'excellent attendaiil-^nf Sun<la-V' Monday and Tuesday
tidies. . . iformas should eliminate the ^ were, what we term the worst
this opinion is not from an
alarmist standpoint, but from
the most unprejudced view.
It all depends on California.
After declaring the Japanese
"ineligible to citizenship," the
legislature now contemplates a
Roy Bah eat "Making Good."
Main street as the train came in.
Messrs. Larsh and Wagoner
settled on land on the west side,
A Delightful Rain. - ^h afterwards became part
jot the city and a part of what
is now the site of the Univer-
i sity.
Mr. Ingle staked a lot on the
rom its land law seen s to Ivivp "1UMia'suc speecnes were made, j ■ , f"_" '"Ti,"' nappy as when alile to mention corner of Santa Fe street and
s 11 r r ed t his sen si ti v^e "i n d i r i -i t a 11 was thoi^ht a ^10-000 invest- ^ Seat^rsllndfini;, ?u~ 80me Noi'nia boV who is mak- Main, which he still owns. And
ble people. Judging from infer- £ ™^time™1 thC pr0per i^osphere with " couds of j SuJso^M '''Tm R'r i' ir' P' T" ^ "P
mation coming from private and A comn^ttee consisting of R dust' R"f w" •' -- ^ Mr. and Mrs. R. north half a mile and discover-
ollicial sources Japan is arous- y Downinc F K .mri
wureuauora, el ed toward this country as it has p ' „i' ' Himes and
law declaring that aliens (for- not been before, and the United J, ' t ()ntions ^nossX'e""-^'
eigtiers who neglect or refuse to States, between the resolute ,i,i,> n,/- '
i , take out naturalization papers) states rights spirit of Califor- v,'.,-,,,.,,'. i',?irr, «,• i
■ X!i0thv° ""'r |Stote .f.r/ "*• thing like 175 member., and, In
together completely shuts out than it has been nt any time «',ch, ;
the -lapane.se. ,„e pu,po.se aince the civil iC^mSrThfp"Si
pJaiw w'l i . Back °t the present Japan to be taken soon too, wo under-
Pies dent Wilson has ad- controversy remains the fact stand. to organize a Knights
dressed a note to the people of of international knowledge and Templar organization. The
( ahlornia, its legislature and acceptance that Japan is one of membership in all these orga-
governor, saying: ,the proudest, the vainest and nizations are among the best
n I vp f iZS nrntp" nations on and wealthiest in the communi-
. v(e1/ i-spectful protest earth; that it is inspired to ty, and there is no question that
against discrimination in this enormous self confidence by its the project will be a success
case, not only because 1 deem successive and splendid victo-
it my duty to do so as the chief ries, first over the vast num-
executive of the nation, but al- erical superiority of China and
and the more readily, because ; later by its amazing victory
I Relieve the people and the leg- over the gigantic power of the
isiative authorities of California J Russian empire. It is remem-
will generously respond the mo- bered that Japan carries in bit-
dust. But we have to have i b.i.' * • ■ ",vr ;— ::—,'r*
such davs tn annnoniof^ fi, caiyeat, who is now a wire- ed that no one was on the claim
usually fine weS ™ leSS operator and electrician at He settled down on it, and the
—the kind we arp h■,vintr n w the. ,lava' academy at Anna- i next day was offered $100 for
Wednesday morning about i P°lis' Md' He went from the.his right—and came very near
SSneTrSan^ lHng F"iVersity to a New York elec- accepting the offer. But he did
keeninu un most of n,0 ri-,, tnc engineering college, and not, and afterwards sold the ma-
maS „ r nrt Ua 'from thei'e to Annapolis, and jor part of it for several thous-
fruit and flower and grass anil! !?"s J^'^ected himself in his pro- and dollars. He still owns some
grain feel good fession to such an extent that he 65 acres of it.
Oklahoma certainly is blessed ''t- !u°n t0 !)<? Placed in charge; Ex-sheriff Hi Downing com-
of the wireless machinery of a nianded a troup of about 100
year of our Lord, 1913.
Rushing Work on Ditch
battleship.
New Faculty Members Slated.
Max Fischer, superintendent
of the work on the ditch, thinks
it will be ready for business and
opened clear to the river by
from across the river, six miles
west of Norman. Of those 100
he recalls only W. I. Polk and
•John Keck as present residents.
Mr. Downing settled on a fine
"Ten Mile Flat,"
Here on Monday, April 28th.
Doctor C. E. Hammer
New Orleans for instruction in claim in the
bacteriology and Dr. L. B. Nice .which he still owns. He was
Saturdav -it furthest un i " i l10w ^arvard Medical School afterwards elected sheriff of
a urday at fuithest, and may- |()r professor ot physiology, will Cleveland eountv
hoped'iTwill do^thp husfnpsffor :!>e apP°intments recommended H. G. Cook made the "run"
which it is built so ti ". !" S-jate hoard ot education from the eastern border of the
News comes that at 8:30 a. m. community will not be reouired ' ^''esident Brooks of the uni- county, and settled on a claim
oil Monday. April 28th. the S vZ S morj tod,^ to'^
thirteenth annual trade excur- ther completion. The' cost of! Dr H,mm. h. ^
ment the matter is frankly pre- ter remembrance the controver- 11?" ^ Oklahoma City 'seweraging Norman has ex- (|emons rto n Hp J ' f ? 1 P.
sented to them as a question of Isies two years ago over the iChamber of Commerce will pay ceeded all legitimate bounds: u)- tncdif'ili.' -it TullV! resldent.su 1)1 ,tho ^ou"t-v as
Norman an hour's visit, arriv- has been a hole into which . .uinic.al ™liu"e z'1 Tulane among those who made the run.
ing 011 their special train. The thousands of dollars have been'i t' ■ fW- .* t ' r Si There were no celebrtling
crowd of boosters is made up of carelessly dumped. ' 'a rTu' ,"r. V ceremonies in Norman on this
the prominent business men of ^ ' lsiana-Anti-tuberculosis league 22nd, except that the bells rang
the metropolis, and should be Tv . ,. j?n , e. SxTWer^?e, an ^'ater an(j the whistles blew at High
and will be given a roval wel- ,,, " Je,, three! Joard of New Orleans and has i Noon> making everyone think
come by our people. ' "ld dalfhter of Mr. and Mrs.! specialized in Pasteur work in 'there was a lfire of niammoth
1 earl Durkee died on Sunday,, the Charity hospital of New ! proportions. Really, the day
Grover Fulkerson -md fnm ' er an '"'less of a week or j 1 fans. should be more appropriately
•i r ei rulkerson and lam- moie. Funeral services were 'celebrated The "89ers" oucht
- u.ovx..«.i- lly, formerly of the Denver held on Monday Elder Fair Dr. Nice has been an instruc if , c , u ou^nt
interest and,nates against the quality of its neighborhood, have returned to childs officiating The svmin tor in phvsiologv in the Hir- L "w / banquet in honor ot
i in astute and victorious nennle as rwei..n,i on,,,,.,. i.i tU .irH mpa-1.1 ^ . the 22nd-ers, and give them
* ' ' • ,7 w Wi i rtlll-C til
sented to them as a question of j sies two years ago over the
national policy and of national question of admitting Japanese
hpnor. If they have ignored children to the public chools of
this point of view, it is, I am , San Francisco; that it remem-
sure because they did not rea- j bers with sensitive bitterness
lize what and how much was in-, the nature and conclusion of
volved. | the late discussion over its oc-
'inat the situation is critical;cupancy of a harbor on Magda-
is set forth in the following re- lena Bay and now the latest
sume of the matter from Wash- land most aggravating of all af-
injfton: j fronts is that which discrimi
The degree of
concern that is felt in off
„. . . 1 • , • 1 •' T B , ' *"lte ,CIUI11™ <-o cmius oiiiciating. i ne svmna-; l°r in pnysi
Iicial .astute and victorious people as Cleveland county after a three thy of the communitv goes out vard Medica
■ the ineligible to citizenshp in the months' stay at Stockton, Tex. to the bereaved parents. i —The Tn
\aid Medical school. ja ijjg. blow-out before thev
•anscript, $1 a year.'all gone.
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