Edmond Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1907 Page: 6 of 10
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Republicans
Name Ticket
CONSTITUTION IS DENOUNCED
AND PLEDGES MADE TO
AMEND IT
TULSA: Tho republican state con-
vention adjourned Friday at 2 p. in.
after nominating a full state ticket,
electing a state central comml|ttee
and chairman, and adopting a plat-
form which denounces the constitu-
tion, but pledges the people that the
republican party will amend It in the
event of its adoption. The following
ticket was nominated:
Governor — Prank FrmnU, Enid,
Ok! a.
Lieutenant Governor—N. G. Turk,
Checotah, I. T.
Secretary of State—Thomas N. Rob-
nett. Ardmore, I, T.
Attorney General—S. II. Held, El
ilooo, Okla.
Corporation Commissioner — .John
Jensen, Perry, Okla.; Daniel Crafton,
Shawnee, Okla.; P. J. Dore, Westville,
I. T.
Mine Inspector-«-David Halstead of
Pittsburg county.
State Auditor—J. E. Dyche of Law-1
ton, Okla.
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction—Calvin Ballard of South
McAlester.
State Examiner and Inspector—J.
S. Fischer of Texhoma, Okla.
l^abor Commissioner—A. D. murlin,
Oklahoma City.
Insurai^e Commissioner—Michael
Burke, Perry, Okla.
Commissioner of Charities and Cor-
rections—Hazel Tomilnson, Frederick,
Okla.
Clerk of the Supreme Court—J. W.
Speaks, Chickasha, I. T.
Supreme Court Judges—John K.
Thomas, Muskogee, I. T., former fed-
eral judge; W. B. Johnson, Ardmore,
I. T.; John B. Cotteral, Guthrie, Qkla.;
Frank E. Gillette, Anadarko, 6kla.;
W. W. S. Snoddy of Alva, Okla.
Chairman of State Central Commit-
tee—Charles • E. Hunter, Oklahoma
City.
The convention was perhaps the
biggest political convention that will
over be held in Oklahoma. In addi-
tion (to the 1,576 delegates, there
were three thousand spectators from
nil portions of tho state. Tulsa en-
tertained the convention admirably,
the sessions being held in a huge tent
provided for the purpose.
ft. E. Campbell of South McAlester
was temporary chairman and Geo. A.
Murphy of Muskogee permanent
chairman of the convention. E. J.
Costello of Oklahoma county and J.
S. Fischer of Texas county were
elected secretaries. The committee
on resolutions, as well as all other
committees, consisted of one member
of each delegation selectea by the
delegation.
Governor Frantz was easily in con-
trol of the convention, and at differ-
ent opportunities tho convention
seemed to cutdo itself In Frantz dem-
onstrations. The nomination of Frantz
was made by Attorney Parmenter of
Lawton, who is one of the most elo-
quent of Oklahoma lawyers.
The platform contained in sub-
stance the following:
A tribute to the republicans of the
new state, their zealousness and de-
votion to party interests and ar. eu-
logy of the past leaders of the great
party from Lincoln dowu to the pres-
ent date. The constitution as pro-
posed by the democratic constitution-
al convention wap denounced and at-
tention was called to various defects
in this document in the following
language: "We denounce the Infa-
mous greedy partisan spirit which
actuated the democratic majority in
the constitutional convention, domi-
nated by the slippery and treacherous
boss, their nominee for governor."
After laborious effort they have suh-
mltted an instrument which denies
to each citizen equal rights with every
other citizen, deprived the minority
of their Just proportion of represent*
tlon; unfairly discriminates In favor
of one locality against another, in-
creases the burdens of taxation with-
out compensating benefits; discour-
ages Industrial and commercial de-
velopment; lessens the demand for la-
bor and decreases wages; antagonizes
capital and depreciates investment;
repudiates public obligation; destroys
public credit and has already brought
a blight upon the fair fame and credit
of the proposerd new state. I.N the
interest of corrupt townslte promot-
ers and county seat boosters, it wan-
tonly and needlessly butchered the
county boundaries and obliterated ex-
isting municipalities in disregard of
the wishes of the inhabitants and
over their determined objections.
With no regard for economy or the
burdens of taxation, it provides for a
large number of small counties, many
of which do not contain a sufficient
amount of taxable property to pro-
vide sufficient revenue to meet their
ordinary expenses. It authorizes pri-
vate property to be taken by private
individuals for private uses without
the consent o fthelr owners, yet de-
prives the governor of power in case
of insurrection or rebellion to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus. "The
platform pledges the hearty co-opera-
tion of the republican party in the
correction of the evils by amend-
ment, mentlonel In the foregoing par-
agraph. They declared against the
employment of children of tender
years in mines or factories; favors
recognition to organized labor; pays
tribute to Governor Frank Frantz and
endorses his administration; prom-
ises protection against combintaions
with the new state; agrees to favor
the enactment and enforcement of
such legislation as will compel all
railway, express and transportation
companies doing business within the
limits of the new state to carry the
freight and passenger traffic at rates
which will be reasonable and just to
the shipper; it favors the use of a
portion of the public land fund in the
redemption of arid lands in Oklaho-
ma; declares its opposition to any
system which fosters a condition of
tenantry and withholds vast areas
from the burden of taxation; favors
the sale by the first legislature of
the public lands donated to the state
upon long time and easy payments;
demands laws for the (control and
safe investment of the permanent
school fund, such laws as will pre-
vent the accumulation of large sums
of money in the treasury. Prohibition
is favored where demanded by the
people.
The removal of all restrictions is
favored and laws giving to the mem-
bers of the Indian tribes of this state
all the rights and privileges of other
American citizens will be asked of
congress. Post roads for rural mall
service are favored. An endorsement
of the work of the Hon. Bird S. Mc-
Gulre and Hon. T. B. Ferguson: a
pledge to the people in the big pasture
that state representatives in congress
will use every endeavor to secure an
extension of their payments.
UNITED STATES COURT AT CHI-
CAGO SCORES STANDARD
OIL COMPANY
FINED S2S.400.DOO.Dfi FDR DEBATES
Largest Fine In History of American
Criminal Jurisprudence—Appeal
Is Taken by Standard Oil—
If Convicted Again Fine
Will Bs (38,400,000
CHICAGO: Judge Kenesaw 11
Landls Saturday in the United States
district court fined the Standard Oil
company of Indiana $29,400,000 for
violation of the law against accepting
rebates from railroads.
The fine is the largest ever as-
sessed against any lndlvldi^al or any
corporation in the history of Ameri-
can criminal jurisprudence arid is
slightly more than 131 times as great
as the amount received by tb com-
pany through its rebating operations.
The case will be carried to the high-
er courts by the defendant compay.
Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil
company an additional fine amount-
ing to (88,400.000 may be levied
against the company if 1', is found
guilty on trial. There are in these
seven ldlctmets a total of 4,422
couts, and the maximum fine in each
count would be (20,000.
The penalty imposed upon the
company is the maximum permitted
under the law and it was announced
at the end of a long opinion in which
the methods and practices of the
Standard Oil company -were merci-
lessly scored. The judge in fact, de-
clared in his opinion that the offi-
cials of the Standard Oil company
who were responsible for the prac-
tices of which the corporation was
found guilty were no better th*n
counterfeiters and thieves.
FARMERS HOLDING
GRAIN FOR A RAISE
LAST SEASON'S CROP STILL UN-
SOLD AMOUNT8 TO 2'/a
MILLION
NEGROES THREATEN WHITE MEN
MCALESTER SESSION POSTPONED
GUTHRIE: Mrs. Mlary Alverson
«f Blackwell, grand matron of the
Oklahoma Eastern Star ledges, I
sending out notification that the Ok-
lahoma Grand Chapter will not m'
at McAlester In August In joint ses-
sion with the Indian Territory Grand
Chapter Tor the purpose of mergiti
the two into one chapter, as originally
wan intended. In all probability no
action will be taken $long thi^tlne
until tho Oklahoma Grand Chapter
meets In Guthrie In February. '
The matter of merging with the In
dian Territory chapter was discussed
at Enid, where the Oklahoma chapter
met last February, and it was recom
mended that such merger be consum-
mated when statehood shall be effect-
ive. The delay In obtaining sta''
hood, therefore, causes the issuance
of the notification by the grand ma-
tron. The Indian Territory chapter
will meet in August in McAlester in
annual session.
ELEVEN CENTS IS MINIMUM
MUSKOGEE: "Unless the farmers
of the eastern half of the new state
get more than eleven cents for their
cotton this year, the majority of them
will be driven out of the cotton busi-
ness," is the rather startling state-
ment made by a prominent cotton
grower who has spent some twenty
years farming in Indian Territory.
His course of reasoning follows:
At any time prior to 1900 If one
had asked any cotton grower in the
eastern part of the new state what it
I cost to grow an acre of cotton he
would have said an average of (10.
! If one makes a calculation this year
he must add (7 per acre making the
jcost now (17 instead of (10. In for-
mer days when nine cents was a good
I price for cotton the cost was (10 to
j produce It. In addition to the cost
of producing the cotton, one must
i c nalder that the price of every farm
Implement, of seed and of transpor-
J tat Ion ha3 advanced from 15 to 50
per cent. This brings the farmer to
the realization that cotton must bring
ifrom 12 to 15 cents If he gets any
I proflL
Charging As.',iult Upon Colored Girt
They Surround Marshal's Office
MUSKOGEE: Claiming that one
of the w.hite employes of a local gro-
cery store crimially assaulted Annie
Alen, a negro girl, an angry mob
of two hundred negroes blocked one
of the streets here and hung about
the United States marshal's office,
threatening violence.
The girl claims the crime was
committed in the grocery store. A.
L. Pemberton, Carl Pemberton, Joe
Lasley, W. B. Newby, T. J. Bradley
ad Walker Martin, members of the
firm and employes, are held in the
United States jail white an investi-
gation. Is being made. One of the
employes of the company said that
angry negroes were ^hanging about
his home and asked that he be locked
in jail for safety. There is no evi-
dece to idicate that the crime was
committed in the grocery store.
The girl who is fourteen years old,
Is in a serious condition. She will be
taken to the Jail to identify if pos-
sible one of the prisoners.
GUTHRIE: The fact that all indi-
cations point to higher grain markets
than usual during the ensuing year
makes of Important Interest the fact
that the farmers of Oklahoma held
over from last season grain amount-
ing to (2,536,956, or a total of over
800,000 bushels.
These figures are obtained from tie
report of the Oklahoma state board
of equalization and were turned into
the board by the various assessors
throughout Oklahoma. Instructions
were given them ahead of time to be
exact In obtaining tlielr data in this
connection, and the figures are con-
sidered reliable. The assessed val-
uation of this grain amounts to (634,•'
i!39, or one-fourth the actual vlue, the
basis on whloh practically all Okla-
homa property Is assessed. This fact
must be taken into consideration In
giving the following assessed valua-
tion of all grain by counties.
Woods county leads with a total
of (119,637 worth of grain carried over
from last season and Kay county is*
second with (77,615. The other coun-
ties have grain on hand as follows: '.
Beaver, (4,129; Blaine, (36,964 ;J
Caddo, (30,515; Canadian, (23,004;
Ctevelnd, (3,439; Comanohe, (6,702;j
Custer. (28,518; Day, (965; Dewey,'
(15,698; Garfield, (48,635; Grant, (63,-
967; Greer, (3,493; Kingfisher, (21,-
959; Kiowa, (1,752; Lincoln, (11,498;j
Logan, (16,275; Noble, (25,559; Okla-'
lxoma, (13,550; Pawnee, (34,507; i
ayne, (10,655; Pottawatomie, (316; j
Roger Mills, (483; Washita, (8,812;'
Woodward, (15,600.
The last Oklahoma legislature was
asked to pass a measure, exempting
from taxation whatever grain and
cotton might be held over by the
farmers from one season to the next,
as an inducement to hold farm pro-
ducts for a higher price rather than
to sell when a market was low. The
attempt to secure such legislation
failed.
From the fact that the counties
having the largest amount of grain
left over, are those in the wheat belt
it might be taken that more wheat
than any other grain was held, also
because last season the farmers were
not satisfied with the ruling marke.
Those who held over their wheat crop
will profit greatly as a result.
AANTA FE PASSENGER GOE®
INTO DITCH NEAR RED
ROCK, OKLA-
ENGINEER MACK IS SCALDED ID DEATH
TROLLEY LINE TO THE GULF
Clinton experienced a five days'
drouth following the action of the city
council in raising the saloon license
from (1,000 to (3,000 a year. The sa-
loons all ult business. The city dads
then repented and the license was
reduced to (1.000 a year, and three
ialoons have opened under the new
dispensation.
REWARD FOR MURDERERS
Territorial, County and City Authori-
ties Determine to Catch Fiends
Oklahoma Territory will offer a re-
ward for the arrest and conviction of
the man or men guilty of the murder
In Oklahoma City last Wednesday
night of Wilbur Gunreth, and of the
killing in Chickasha, a week ago. of
J. H. Crawford of Tuttle, I. T.
The territorial officials are of the
opinion that both crimes are the
work of the same gang arrd are de-
termined that the jierpetrator* shall
be brought to justice.
Rewards will also be offered by
the city and couty authorities. Gun-
reth and Crawford were both brutally
murdered and their ears severed from
their heads. Crawford was found In
a box car and the finding of an ear
gave a clue to the loctaion of Gtin-
reth's body.
Big Company Formed to Construct
Huge Electric Line
GUTHRIE: Far the purpose of
building an electric line between Min-
neapolis, Min.n., and the gulf, double
tracked, a company 'has been char-
tered with $50,000,000 capital stock
under the name of the Minneapolis,
Kansas City & Gulf Railway com-
pany, with headquarters at Minneapo-
lis. The proposed route is via Des
Moines, Kansas City, Wichita, Guth-
rie, Oklahoma City, Waco, Houston
and Galveston with branch lines con-
necting Tcpeka, Omaha St. Joseph
and Lawrence Kan.
"Phe twain line, as routed, runs di-
rect from Minneapolis and St. Paul
to Des Moine®, Iowa, then on a bee-
line to Kansas City, and to Wichita
via Ottawa, Kan. From Wichita
southward it, will pass through Ponca
City, Guthrie amd Oklahoma City, to
Dallas, thence south to Galveston,
where connection wll be made with
gulf steamship lines.
The stock of the company is in the
hands of th# Northwestern Securities
consjmny of Minneapolis, which is act-
ing a.s ibe fiscal agent for the com-
pany. C. B. Hotme, former president
e! the Chicago City railway, is cheir-
m, n of the board of directors.
THEY WORK FOR GUESS
That estimate of 150,000,000 bush-
els of corn for Oklahoma Territory
this year will reuire more than the
usual amount cf rain In August to
mate f oiL
Fund:, for Paying Federal Official*'
Salaries Entirety Exhausted
GUTHRIE: A letter was received
at the office of Governor Frank
Frantz from R. J. Trace well, comp-
troller of r,he national treasury, to the
effect, that no funds are in existence
fcr paying salaries of federal officiate
in Oklahoma Territory after June 30,
1907, tlfce end of the fiscal year. Con-
gress in the general approprtalloo
bill mode appropriation for the fed-
eral officials in Oklahoma Territory
only until that lime, believing that
Statehood ten would be effective.
The Hat of federal offtciaJ* affect-
ed includes Governor Franiti, Terri-
torial Secretary Charles H. Risen,
Thutted States Ma/rehal John Aberna-
ttiy, rutted Steles Attorney John Bm
bry,
More Than a Score of Passenger*
Are More or Less Seriously In-
jured—Wreck Was Caused
by the Derailment of
the Tender
RED ROCK: Engineer Carl Mack
of Arkansas City was scalded so bad
ly that he died in a few hours aftei
having been removed from beneath
hlj engine, his fireman, Jack Kant
xer of Arkansas City, was so badly
injured that he may die, and more
than a score of passengers were more
or less seriously Injured as the result
of a derailment of northbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 116 at 10:IE
c'c'ock Thursday morning near Black
bear, a few miles south of here, while
traveling at the estimated rate of fif
ty miles an hour in an effort to mak«
up lost time.
The wreck was caused by the de-
railment of the tender which sent tho
baggage car, the chair car and twa
day coaches tumbling down the em-
bankment, following the engine, leav
ing only the Pullman sleeper on the
tracks.
Relief trains were immediately dis-
patched and the wrecker was sent tc
the scene from Arkansas City. Orders
were immediately given for all othei
trains on the division to be routec
around Guthrie.
With the arrival of the relief train,
I the Injured and surviving passenger*
j were immediately placed on board
| and hurried to Arkansas City, where
the more seriously injured wers
placed in the railroad hospital. Engi.
I neer Mack died shortly after reaching
I that place.
Following is the list of the injured
j passengers furnished by the officials
i of the road:
I D. H. Atkins, jSdill water, bruised
| hip and shoulder.
| W. R. McBride employe, Oklahoma
} City, left leg and hip bruised.
H. C. Bradshow, Bliss, arm hurt.
J. W. Mason, I'erry, hurt In back
between shoulders and head.
I T. J. Clark, Guthrie, head hurt,
j E. H. Hadlock, Oklahoma City, fin-
| gers cut.
George L. Raughman, Lexington,
i scratches.
Mrs. O. F. Smith, Wellington, Kas.,
! shoulder sprained.
O. F. Smith, Wellington, Kas., hip
, bruised.
Mrs. A. Eletz, Arkansas City, head
: and shoulder hurt.
Modelive Gosline, Chellow, elbow
' hurt.
j Robert H. Wood, shoulder hurt.
James Verword, Oklahoma. City,
; Internal injuries.
"Bud" Goes, Oklahoma City, hip
J injured badly.
Maud Goes, Oklahoma City,
I shoulder hurt.
Charles Cole, back hurt.
i Bessie Sisford. cut on side of head.
Isaac Johnson, Perkins, seriously,
right shoulder.
j Mrs. B. W. Vizan, Bradford, 111.,
I back injured.
James O. Brook, Perry, shoulder in
! jured.
Oscar Siverney, Winfield, Kas.,
j bruised shoulders.
U. H. Memastinez, Anadarko
i bruises.
Benyl Owen, Denver, Colo., should
er injured.
Mrs. H. J. Robinson, Oklahoma
City nervous shock.
C. J. Koutzer, fireman', Arkansas
City, scalded left leg and right ankle
Mary Myers, Enid, ankle hurt.
J. M. McConllff, Edmond, foot
hurt.
J. A. Crows, Covington, Okla., ey
hurt.
M. E. Rankin, Perking, head and
shoulders injured.
| TJ. C. Mack, Arkansas City, engl-
j neer, seriously scalded.
New Railroad for Frederick
FREDERICK: The indications are
that Frederick will get its third rail
road within the coming (twelve
eighteen months. The Chamber
Commerce has received a bonus prop
ositlon from W. H. Bockman of Chi
cago, who is representing a line ot
road from Wellington, Texa«, Into
Oklahoma. He proposes to have the
road traverse Greer and Jackson coun-
ties on thin side of Red river. Hia
proposition is looked upon with favor
by local citizens.
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