Edmond Twice - A - Week Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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STATE CAPITAL LETTER
BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
Prohibition Looks to be a Sure Thing
The anti-prohibitionists made a final | was * reign to the election ordinance
attempt to defeat statewide pr.hlbi ( a* subject matter.
tioa by appealing to the canvassing
board not to certify to President
Roosevelt that prohibtion had carried
at the state election. The protest
was filed by Ledru Guthrie of Okla
On tbe e'-cond claim in his protect,
Shaffer called attention to the fact
that William H. Murray, president of
tbe convention, never issued a procla-
mation adjourning the convention sine
die. as was contemplated and provided
boma City upon the complaint ol for jn tj,e election ordinance.
Henry Shaffer, a liquor dealer at El
Reno, who has been one of the mos:
ladical opponents of prohibition in
Mie state When Guthrie first an-
nounced that he would file a prote-t,
be said that the complainant would
be tbe Citizens Ijeague of Oklahoma,
which conducted the campaign against
statewide prohibition, and championed
local option and high license. 1
B bevy, president of the league d*
cllned, however, to allow the leagus
to meddle in the matter.
The canvassing board did not com
in support of his assert} n that pro-
hibition failed of adoption in the last
election because it did not get a ma-
jority of the votes cast on the sub-
ject Shaffer aoeg not attack the
actual number of votes cast,' but ques-
tions the Integrity of the returns. The
canvassing board refused to accept
tbe abstracts of the vote as made by
county clerks, and demanded the pre-
cinct returns comjiosed of the poll
books, tally sheets, etc.. alleging that
on the constitution and on prohibition
the precinct boards should have re-
ported directly to the secretary of
ply with tbe request of Shaffer, and the territory, making the returns
according to Guthrie, the protest
be carried personally before the
l.'nited States attorney general lu
separate from the returns on tbe state
ticket, as provided in the enabling act.
The precinct boards, however, not
Washington, with the request that h> only sent their returns to the county
advise President Roosevelt not to pr
claim that prohibtion was adopted by
election commissioners, ignoring the
territ rial secretary, but did not sep-
tbe voters of the state. Failing there arate tbe returns on the constitution
it looks as if the protest would tall and on prohibition from the returns
to the ground-
Mr. Guthrie said tha* statehood
and tbe constitution would not be in-
volved or endangered in any way by
bis protest to the board, as it was
possible for President Roosevelt to de-
Best Country on Earth
The longer a man lives tbe m«-r#
convinced he become that everything
has its use. and that nothing in na-
ture is wasted," said William H. Mer-
ten, a practical farmer and commis-
sion dealer in fruits and vegetables,
who has watched intently for years
the development of the agricultural
and horticultural resources of Okla
homa.
"The cattlemen who came first to
Oklahoma, long bef re the country
was opened to settlement, honestly
believed that they were telling the
truth when they said that farming in
Oklahoma was impossible, and tbat a
farmer would starve to death trying
to live on the products of bis hus-
bandry. They talked of drouths, and
pointed to the red. sandy soil, so de-
ceptive to pers ns accustomed to the
dark loam of northern states, and who
first mistook the Oklahoma soil for a
poor quality of clay.
"The first few years after Okla-
homa was opened to settlement
seemed to prove that the cattlemen
were right. There were crop failures,
and while nobedy starved to death, a
good many were hungrier than they
had ever been back in the states.
Oklahoma was called a God-forsaken
country.
"But the truth was that the new-
settlers did not understand the rela-
tion of the climate to the soil .and
did not know how to cultivate their
crops under changed conditions. I am
convinced that when Ok!ah:rna was
made care was taken to make tbe
soil and the climate conform to each
other. Each succeeding year proves
BENNIE OWENS 8H0T
Noted Coach of Oklahoma Football
Team Aecidenta'ly Shot
NORMAN: While attempting to
catch a shot gun as It fell from a
buggy, in which hi a."Vd and John Bar- ;
bour, a local druggist, were hunting, I
Bennies Owens, football coach for Ok
lahoma university was shot under the
left arm and in the extreme left of his
b'.dy, and seriously, possibly fatally,
njured
He was driven to town immediately
jfter the accident and doctors were
summoned to attend hla Injuries. All
hopes of saving the arm have been
given up by the doctors and it is
now feared that the shot may prove
fatal.
Owens and Barbour left this city for
the ponds across the river and were 1
on their way home when Owens was
shot. Their bird dog had been fol- i
lowing the buggy and Ju«t before
crossing the river the buggy was
stopped to allow the dog to Jump in
As the dog jumped he struck a gun
lying by the side of Owens and it
started sliding to the ground. Owens
grabbed for it and caught the barrel
just as'the hammer struck the iron
step on the side. The jar on the step
exploded the gun, the charge taking
effect in Owens' arm and side.
WHAT IS PE-RU-NA?
on tbe s'ate ticket.
Shaffer asserts that this procedure
makes doubtful the integrity of the
vote on prohibition, as there is no ! more and more the truth of what 1
evidence that irregularities may not say-
have occurred v.hen the returns went .
clare that prohibition, submitted as h in possession of persons not author-
separate proposition, bad not carried,
and at the same time issue his pro-
clamati n announcing that the consti-
tution had been adopted and • that
Oklahoma was a state.
In his protest Shaffer alleged that
ized to receive and canvass them
Lawyers who have made a close
study of the prohibition question In
Oklahoma assert that the first and
second allegations are immaterial, as
they would not afiect the validity of
the prohibition ordinance was neve: prohibition even it they were true,
passed by the constitutional conven- As to the third contention, there
tion, that the convention is still in seems to be no tribunal before which
session and that prohibition never re-
ceived a majority of the votes cast
on the question On the first Shaf-
fer says that, as a separate prop si-
tion, prohibition never passed in the
convention. It appeared only as a
the question could be raised. The
Rev. E. M. Sweet, secretary of the
Federation of Churches in Indian Ter
ritorv, and one of the managers of
the prohibition campaign^ declares
that the records show that statewide
part of the election ordinance. The- prohibition was adopted as a separate
"For instance, there were more
good farmers at work in Oklahoma
last season than ever before, 'lhe
season was the dryest and the meet
inhospitable for crops that we have
had since the early StO's. Despite this
fact, men who had learned the secret
of crop-raising did better than they
had in mo* favorable years.
Heretofore, the first vegetable in
Oklahoma to succumb to drouth was
the tomato. In dry seasons the to-
mato was put cut of business in July.
Last season, canning factories were
established at Guthrie and elsewhere
in the territory by an experienced
grower of vegetables. He contracted
with farmers to grow so many acres
latter was a law, which the conven pr position by the constutional con- of tomatoes, and told them how to
tion was authorized by congress to vention, and then adopted as a ;<art
enact. The prohibition ordinance of the election ordinance
Some of Asp's Arguments Against the Constitution
There has been much curi sity in
Oklahoma as to tbe contents of the
brief against the constitution filed by
Henry A. E. Asp with the United
States attorney general, in Washing-
ton, and which Mr. Bonaparte is said
to have examined with great care.
The brief has been printed in pamph-
let form, and a number of copies have
become public.
Mr. Asp's main argument was that
the constitution was not republican in
form, because of the provisions of the
initiative and referendum, and there-
fore was in violation of the statehood
enabling act. Mr. Asp held that to be
republican in form, a state govern-
republic, and which has been ex-
pressly guaranteed to every state by
the federal constitution.
"If this should become the funda-
mental and permanent law- of our
state and should be held to be re-
publican in form and in harmony
with the spirit of our institutions, then
the convention, or perhaps s me fu-
ture convention, or the people, in the
exercises of the power of amendment,
under the initiative and referendum,
would have the power to entirely sup
ersede one of the co-ordinate branches
of our government.
' If it could supersede or destroy the
legislative branch ol our co-ordinate
ment should be controlled by elected t^ivernment, it o.uld with equal force
representatives of the people in other
words, a legislature. To pr-ive his
assertion, he quoted the opinion of
eomo of the most eminent jurists and
statesmen that have lived in the
United States in the last century.
Mr. Asp declared that in effect,
whatever amendments were made by
the constitution, the initiative and re-
ferendum says that the people may
enact laws and amend the constitu-
tion independent of the legislature,
and the veto power of the governor
shall not extend to matters voted on
and reason destroy the executive
branch; and if the executive and leg-
islative branches could be super-
sized or destroyed in forming a basic
law for a state, then the same power
would exist for superseding and de-
stroying the judicial branch of the
government and vest the power of in-
terpreting our laws directly with the
people. Carried to its ultimate con-
clusion, it reserves to the people the
power to make the law, to administer
the law, and to interpret the law.
"And if this may be done by en-
by the people, in the conclusion of croachment. on established principles,
his brief be says: then we may have in each state, as
"It follows from these authorities was stated by Mr. Lute Pease, in his
that the proposed initiative and refer article on the Initiative and the Ite-
endum is not republican in frtrin, with ferendura, hereinbefore cited, 'A
in the meaning f section 4, article 4, ; peaceful resolution; a revolution that
of the constitution of the l.'nited bids fair to spread through the union;
States, and is inconsistent with our one which emasculates the state legis-
theory of government, and is wholly lature true,' and with equal right and j " become one of the richest and
Irreconcialble with the genius of our j force might emasculate the other and ' *""|| «♦ ♦ • ♦ >« "
free institutions, and the American the recognized departments of the
plan of government. The power government and overturn the entire
structure of our American govern-
ment. With the aversion exhibited by
the constitutional convention to the
cultivate, with, the stipulation tha'
if they failed, he would hire the later
and deduct the cost from the sale ol
the crop at the end of the season.
The result was that even in October
there is an abundance of fine toma-
toes, due entirely to the fact that they
were cultivated according to the re-
quirements of the Oklahoma soil and
climate. The yield was tremendous,
though the season was deficient by
fifty per cent over the average good
seasons.
",The canteloupe crop was further
proof of what I have said. Dry weath-
er bad always been disastrous to the
canteloupe fields. Growers who had
learned the peculiarities of soil and
climate in Oklahoma raised a bumper
crop this last dry season and as late
as the first of this month I knew
fields where the canteloupes had as
g'ood color and flavor as the best pro-
duct of Rocky Ford. The same story
could be told of watermelons. At
Lawrie one man cleared $700 on a ten-
acre tract planted to watermelons.
How many farmers make that much
on a farm of 160 acres?
"Peach orchards were no less an
object lesson. Near the little ti: wn of
Seward, Albert Ploeger owns 1,000 El-
berta peach trees which he cultivates
carefully, according to the require-
ments of natural conditions in Okla-
homa. He sold $3,900 worth of
peaches from his orchard. I know of
another orchard of 2,000 trees that
brought its owner not to exceed $100
for the crop. The difference was be-
tween knowing what to do, and doing
it.
"I am confident that Oklahoma is
not even on the threshhold ef the
genuine development of its resources.
WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS
Head of Natio"al Bureau of Forestry
Will Be at Muskogee
MUSKOGEE: Glfford Pinchott,
head of the national bureau cf for-
estry, has notified Chief Green Mc-
Curtain of the Choctaw nation that he
will appear at the meeting of the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress
in Muskogee and that he will be pre-
pared to answer any questions or ob-
jections which the Choctaws may ad-
vance relative to the proposed timber
reserve there covering nearly 3,000,-
000 acres of land.
This is likely to be an interesting
incident. Chief McCurtain has recom-
mended that the Choctaw legislature
pass a resolution opening this reserve.
Within its proposed area there are
over 1.000 Indian allotments on which
Indians are living and where they
have had their homes for half a cen-
tury. Most of these are in the val-
leys of the myriad rivers that traverse
the eastern half of the Choctaw na-
ti n and their little farms are actually
not in timber land, but are completely
surrounded by it on the hillsides and
mountains. It' the allotments of these
Indians are cancelled there will not be
enough land left in the Choctaw na-
tion for them to take on anything
like decent land.
$1,000,000 FOR THESE iNDIANS
Cheyennes and Arapahoes to Be Re-
lieved of Guardianship
EL RENO: The United States In-
dian agent at Darlington has received
informaticn from the department of
the interior that a number of Chey-
enne and Arapaho Indians will in a
short time receive patents to their
lands and be relieved from the gov-
ernment guardianship.
This is the first time in the history
of government relations with the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes that they
have been given the right to manage
their own affairs and not be restrained
by the goverment. In all there are
157. They are all educated Indians.
Two of them are Emil and Peter Kau-
ser, the famous Indian athletes of Car-
lyle and Haskell Indian schoolu.
The next important event in connec-
tion w.th these Indians will be the dis-
tribution some lime this year of the
$1,000,000 trust fund among them.
A Buffalo paper says the vacation
habit undoubtedly makes America bet-
ter. That may be true on the whole,
but doesn't it encourage otherwise
truthful persons to magnify three-
inch fish into three-feet monsters
when they come back with a coat of
tan thick enough to hide thei?
blushes?
Is it a Catarrh Remedy, or a
Tonic, or is it Both?
Some people call Pemna a ^real
tonic. Others refer to Peruita as a
great catarrh remedy.
Which of these people are rightl
Is it more proper to call Peruna a ca-
tarrh remedy than to call it a tonic?
Our reply is, that Peruna is both a
tonic and a catarrh remedy. Indeed,
there can be no effectual catarrh rem-
edy that is not also a tonic.
In order to thoroughly relieve any
case of catarrh, a remedy must not
only have a specific action on the mu*
cous membranes affected by the ca-
tarrh, but it must have a general tonic
action on the nervous system.
Catarrh, even in persons who are
otherwise strong, is a weakened con-
dition of some mucous membrane.
There must be something to strength-
en the circulation, to give tone to the
arteries, and to raise the vital forcea
Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the
world has attracted so much attention
from medical writers as HYDRASTIS
CANADENSIS. The wonderful effi-
cacy of this herb has been recognized
many years, and is growing in its hold
upon the medical profession. When
joined with CUBEBS and COPAIBA a
trio of medical agents is formed in Pe-
runa which constitutes a specific rem-
edy for catarrh that in the present
state of medical progress cannot be
improved upon. This action, rein-
forced by such renowned tonics as
C0LLINS0NIA CANADENSIS, COR-
YDALIS FORMOSA and CEDR0N
SEED, ought to make this compound
an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its
stages and locations in the body.
From a theoretical standpoint, there-
fore, Peruna is beyond criticism. The
use of Peruna, confirms this opinion-
Numberless testimonials from every
quarter of the earth furnish ample
evidence that this judgment is not
over enthusiastic. When practical ex-
perience confirms a well-grounded the-
ory the result is a truth that cannot be
shaken.
SICK HEADACHE
Positively cured by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dis-
tress from Dyspepsia, In-
digestion aiulToo Hearty
Eating. A perfect rem-
edy for Dizziness, Nau-
sea, Drowsiness, Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Coat-
ed Tongue, Pain in the
Side, TORPID LIVER.
They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable.
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
Genuine Must Bear
Fac-Simile Signature
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
CARTERS
ITTLE
IVER
PILLS.
CARTERS
ITTLE
I VER
PILLS.
which reserves to the people the right
to pr pose and enact laws Indepen-
dent of Ihe legislature is destructive
of a representative government. This constitution of the I'nited Slates and
is legislation by the electors directly,
without the intervention of the rep-
resentative persons chosen by the
people, and is revolutionary in its
charter. It entirely effaces all the
familiar landmarks of a representa-
Its attitude towards ihe national gov-
ernment and its established depart-
ments, and the vote of confidence
given to these unpatriotic men by the
people of Oklahoma at the recent elec^
tion, we may regret in the future to
five form of government, which was lie sown here the seeds of dissolu-
secured to us by the fathers of cur tion."
More Rigid Game Law to be Demanded
The first legislature will be asked
to enact a more rigid game law than
the one now in operation in Okla-
homa. The new law as proposer! will
hardly make any greater change than
to limit the number of <juali a single
hunter may kill in a day. As the law
now stands, there is r.o restriction on
the number tint «Kjr be killed. De-
spite this fs:t, ttowever, the other fea-
tures of tha law afford such protec-
tion to quail that they are increasing
enormously in numbers year after j
year. It is possible that a closed sea- j
son on prairie chickens for three or
four years, may be asked for. This
fine bird may still be found in great
numbers in western Oklahoma, but
the annual slaughter is terrific and
in a few years prairie chickens may
become as scarce in Oklahoma as buf-
falo.
most productive states in the union,
Every day people of Oklahoma learn
more and more about the inexhausti-
ble and valuable natural resources of
their state. The town of Shawnee
lately did a lot of asphalt paving, at a
cost of about $2,27 a square yard, us-
ing foreign asphalt. Citizens grew
curious to know whether or not a bet-
ter or less costly asphalt could not
have been found closer at home. A
committee was appointed by the local
Chamber ot Commerce to investigate
the asphalt used in paving streets at
Ardmore, the asphalt being found in
enormous deposits in the adjacent hills
in the Chickasaw nation. In reporting
on what the committee found, Mayor
Frank Stearns of Shawnee said:
"We saw paved streets that had
been used more than a year, and they
were superior in every way to our
streets that had been paved with for-
eign asphalt. A feature of the Ard-
more product Is that it becomes hard-
er, smoother, and glazed by wear.
Merely by pounding the asphalt to-
gether, repairs ran be made in the
streets.
SOLD HIS WAR BONNET
Chief Geronimo Gets $100 for Old
Head Gear
COLLINSVILLE: During the Indian
pow-wow here old Chief Geronimo was
the chief attraction. The war depart-
ment had permitted him to attend the
festivities. He made several ad-
dresses, all ol which would seem to
convey the impression that he is a
convert to the Christian religion.
The attendance has been large and
a great many white people have at-
tended the celebration. Chief Spy-
buck, the most, has furnished the en-
tertainment for ten Indian tribes.
Eighteen head of fat cattle were
killed in one day, the slaughter taking
place in the presence of white people.
Robert W. Bells of Washington, D.
C., bought the old^yar bonnet that
Geronimo wore In his last battle with
General Miles, paying the old chief
$100 for the buckskin and feathers.
He says the bonnet will be given tc>
the Smithsonian Institution.
The dealer who is also a. sportsman scoots
U. M- C. Ammunition h:rr,s 'f and pushes It
in his store. Ho knov.-? and so do you If
you've tried U. M. C. Sure-fire, uniform
hard shooting
Game Laws Free
Union Metallic Cartridge
Company,
BRIDGEPORT, CONN
Agency. 313 Broadway, N. Y,
Alfonso may visit South Amorica.
Is that a sign the baby is crying
Bights 1
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mCOMFORT
on stormy days
by wearing a
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Clean - Light
Durable
Guaranteed
Waterproof
^ $309 Eveiynherd
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SEND US COON,
Miuk. Foaauin and other
fara. hiilea, rooti, etc. We
charge no rornrojsalon
We aland expreaa chargn
on ahipmeuta of (ur
amooutinf to $10 or more
Write f^r tag*, price llsta.
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