The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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GUARANTY LAW FACES CRISIS
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JTurTjLT/^ ^f the sl*teenth °> December, In the year
yet a touch nf .i r iere was a sprightly freshness In the air,
as in toe net h^°I' t0„°' f°r Flance- even ,ta """hern parts,
favored wltogh^M°°d °',n°U"n' whore """ ^ene is laid, Is
e-irly months nf ,1 "* pleasant warm breezes until the
,™ th® ne,w ye"- Shops were closed, the tools
they had faZn f ih°ernaker and the carpenter lay where
they had fallen from the hand of the owner or where they had
way" from th ^ BUt eW* S"Uare °f R°"™ a ^
ot «< Z massi™ portal of the cathedral to the cloisters
burst outward Z" r0nBCd' and every wlndow threatened to
Point of vantaee In ,h , ? !i° heada aml shoulders seeking a
a little wav cW In/ str®ets the royal archers had difficulty in keeping
Mo orZtee Towd^T6 o 0ften to threaten aa<> sometimes to prod
toward. masses. Something of unusual nature was evidently
and^sounded long and oV^ulT'r™ ^ °' ^he'>"'
.tr fo^e "rw^rX'r '°t ' "
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and sharp implements like the t .. 4 hung smokinS firebrands,
In 8°me fashlon cloyen hoof or spiked tall. Close
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pressing on toe heels of this boisterous
crew came a long bearded patriarch,
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DanleS^TsSn T^we™ V/etolS' E^1
Messiah. Shepherds followed them, playing upon bagpipe,
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lustily:
"Doune from heaven, from heaven so hie.
Of angels there came a great companle.
With mirthe and Joy and great solemnity*
They sange terly, terlow:
Bo mere!! the eheppards ther pipes can
blow."
Queerest of all was the manner in which these
various personages were accoutered. Balaam
&PO/?r/tL Of /fOJ/tVYCATf/fWAL 4>
AN EHTft'ACrr FOR DJNNt'R DUR1HG THE
TJTO OAYJ flAV
wore a flowing gown of richest silk, borrowed
from the bishop. Oil Ills feet were long pointed-
toed shoes of doeskin, turned up and fastened to
the knees with fine chains. His neck was en-
circled with a piece of costly lace, and to give a
touch of the Oriental, a turban was wound about
his fifteenth-century hat; and about the turban
was festooned a necklace borrowed for the occa-
sion from the goodwife.
The shepherds were attired quite as sump-
tuously. Thoy wore slashed doublets and gor-
geous colored trunks, and the pipes upon which
they played were of the latest fashion in French
instrumentation. But the magi, who Journeyed
In the shepherds' company, far outshone their
pastoral companions. Beneath their gowns they
gleamed resplendent In bright armor. From top
to toe were they encased In mall, and, since they
could find no camels in Rouen, they rode on
donkeys, that groaned beneath the burden. Each
magus was accompanied by a page.
J03£PSf AA/O MAXY AKR/yj: AT BFmLCJiSfl ■* .
some 10.000 verses, and had rehearsed the actors
in their parts, so that all was in readiness. On
the morning of the twenty-fourth the play would
begin, in the market place of the city, and by
the grace of God it would be finished by even-
ing of the day following. Let all attend! The
crier then made proclamation for the mayor that
all shops save those of the victualers should be
closed on those two days. Citizens need have no
fear at leaving their houses unguarded, for spe-
cial troops of the archers would patrol the city,
and furthermore the gates of the town would be
closed against either Ingress or egress. Let all
attend!
Now let us turn our attention to the market
place. It is a large square In the center of Rouen,
into which the principal thoroughfares of the
city debouch. On all of Its four sides.is confu-
sion. Along one entire dimension Is being erect-
ed a row of private boxes for the mayor and
other dignitaries of the town, and for such of the
clergy as are not Impersonating parts in the mys-
tery. The two abutting sides are given over to
the victualers, whose booths will feed the hungry
throngs during the entre'actes of the play. And
the fourth side, that facing the private boxes, is
many broad, grinning
like the head of St.
George's dragon. Its
Jaws opened cavernous-
ly when proper levers
were put in operation at
the back, and from Its
eyes and throat issued
flames and gusts of
smoke, from braziers
filled with pitch and
blown upon with bellows.
Through this smoke sal-
lied out the devil and
his aides, to drag in the
souls of the lost; and
the agonized screams of
the damned, punctuated
by the roar of cannon,
the crashing of stones In the thunder barrel and
the shrieking of pipes, was calculated to instil into
the most obdurate heart a wholesome fear of what
the hereafter might have in store for the unre-
pentent.
The final spectacle of the stage the carpenters
were erecting was paradise. High placed above
everything else, it dominated all the scene. Its
occupants, God the Father, God the Son and the
blessed angels, were hoisted up into it by mechan-
ical lifts, and when the angels wished to descend,
as for Instance on the night of the nativity, over
the fields near Bethlehem, they did so suspended
on ropes. It was hard being God or an angel, for
there was little chance to get down and stretch
ones legs. With these heavenly characters abode
four others—Peace, Mercy, Justice and Truth, in
imitation of Aristotle's four cardinal virtues.
Such were, in the main, the "mansions" and
the characters for which the carpenters had to
prov* J~ — * *•- • • • -
stre
for these artisans.
SEVERAL BANKS HAVE REFUSED
TO PAY THE LAST LEVY.
Bankers Believe the Supreme Court
Will Declare the Entire Scheme
Illegal and Will Knock
It Out.
G-uthrie, Okla.—The Oklahoma bank
guaranty law is now facing a very s^1**
ious crisis, as the result of a refus.il of
twenty or more state banks to pay the
last assessment levied upon them by
the state banking board for the re-
plenishing of the guaranty fund. Thb
"insurgents" until very recently in-
cluded some of the banks which have
had heavy state deposits and have
been very close to the state adminis-
tration. They were finally Induced to
pay when the matter was put on a po-
litical basis and they were told that it
would hurt the administration and
cripple the whole guaranty system If
they continued to refuse.
The bankers who are refusing to
pay are doing so in the belief that the
United States supreme court, which
I has the matter under consideration,
I will declare the guaranty law void. If
I it should uphold the law they would
of course have to pay, but if the law
I is knocked out they do not want any
more money than they have already
paid in tied up in the guaranty fund.
They have no hope of getting back
more than a very small part of what
they have already contributed. There
has never been a statement .made re-
garding the condition of the guaranty
fund since the failure of the Columbia
Bank and Trust company, but it is be-
lieved that the balance at the present
time is very small.
The best the banks could do in case
the law is knocked out would be to ob-
tain a pro rata distribution of what
funds and assets there might be on
hand. An effort would probably be
made to get the legislature to .refund
to them the money which they have
paid into the guaranty fund, but in
opposition to that he argument would
be advanced that the state did not gst
the money which they paid in and did
not profit by it, so that he state should
not properly he asked to pay it back.
Both sides are playing a waiting
game at the present time. The state
banking board .might force the recalcl-
tiant bankers to pay their assessment
but does not like to stir up any agita-
tion, as many bankers who have paid
are very sore on the subject, while the
bankers themselves will not enjoin the
collection of the assessment so long
as the banking board takes no steps
to enforce it. None of the extra as-
sessment made for the benefit of the
Columbia bank has ever been refunded
to the banks, although they are still
allowed to carry it is an asset, listing
it as a loan to the banking board. The
feeling is very general even among
bankers who have been nominally sup.
porting the law that it makes the con-
servative banker pay for the mistakes
of the reckless one, and that Is where
It hurts.
OKLAHOMA NEWS
Paid Back Their Money.
Guthrie, Okla.—The Enid, Ochiltree
and Western railroad, which was to
run west from Enid, Okla., to Ochil-
tree, Tex., and from which Enid citi-
zens expected so mucn, has joined the
long list of deceased transportation
propositions, but has established a
unique record in one respect. Promi-
nent business men of Enid, who in-
vested in the proposition, this week re-
ceived checks from $100 to $500 each
from B. B. Tallmadge, the promoter of
the road, who originally hailed flam
New York, covering the amounts which
they had contributed. Tallmadge is
said to have spent $10,000 to $12,000 o(
his own money In backing the projcct
and about $3,000 was raised in Enid,
but the proposed line failed to ma.
terialize, on account of the unfavor.
able condition of the money imarket,
and the inability to modify the re.
strictive laws of the state in regard to
railroad ibullding.
Gulf Company Takes Appeal.
Tulsa, Okla.—The Gulf Pipe Line
company has appealed to the supreme
court from the order of the district
court of Tulsa county dissolving thn
temporary Injunction obtained by that
company against the Pawnee-Tulsa Pe-
troleum company and others, to pre-
vent the drilling of an oil well imme-
diately adjacent to the Gulf company's
Watkins pumping station. The Gul'
company bought the land for Its pump-
ing station subject to an existing oil
lease and that preparations for drill,
ing a well at a point where it would
damage the pumping station property
are intended to effect that result.
Reversed a Conviction.
Guthrie, Okla.—The criminal coun
of appeals reversed the manslaughtel
convictions against Tom Birdwell, sen.
tetneed to ten years imprisonment, and
Blake Allen, sentenced to two years,
for the killing of Jim Goodson in Pon.
totoc county prior to statehood. Th«
revearsal was based on the fact that
the evidence of an 11-year-old girl, who
was one of the principal witnesses fot
the prosecution.
was not properly ad>
Southern Surety Company.
Insurance Commissioner Miles Lasa-
ter has just concluded an exhaustive
examination of the Southern Surety
company, of Muskogee, Okla. His re*
port has not been .made public but it
provide""an{rlthe1"elght,IdayaI«icceed^ngeUie11"moii> 1 '8 thSt th° affalrs of ^
-e^svr8 ™ -,=- xzzsxsz
tations as to its financial condition
mitted, as it was not shown that sh«
fully understood the natnre of an oath,
as required by the Arkansas laws In
force in Indian territory at the tlms
of the killing.
Claim of West Denied by Court.
Guthrie, Okla.—Attorney General
West's suit to prevent the state board
of affairs accepting 500 volumes of the
Oklahoma code of laws, recently com-
pleted by Judges Brownlee, Thomas
and Hayes, and now being printed by
Stephens & Co., of Columbia, Mo., was
dismissed in the district court here.
The court held against the attorney
general's contention that, there being
no appropriation to pay for the code.
It could not be accepted by the state,
and that it had no legal standing,
since the time alloted by the legisla-
ture for completing It was long since
Pdst.
Mrs. Bird McGuIre Weds.
Pawnee, Okla.—Mrs. Bird McGulre,
divorced wife of the Oklahoma con-
gress,man from the First district, was
married here to George D. Lemott, a
former star football player for the
Haskell Indian school at Lawrence,
Kansas. Lemott Is an attache of the
Osage Indian agency, and Is a membei
of the Pawnee city council.
allotted for the stage. In all, this structure com- place was"le„,%,'a3,t ™arket n°w at work on an examination of the ' Guthri" 0^°" PhilMps-
passes some 10,000 square feet; but this Bmall gentry the ronert In J . Waf ed wlth tha Western and Southern Fire Insurance Is-snert". r,,n . ernor Haskell has
space for the time represents two countries, Pal- some yards of the stae^ fr^nt h * h"' W'thl!l eomPan? °f Shawnee, Okla, which' sentenced In ten '° Be"e Phl"1"8'
estlne and Italy-to say nothing of two realms thickly witLtraw and here on ? TX™* was I,censed ab° t four .months ago to Zt P. r/™ Imprisonment
imt tr ho lnontoii with an munh r nnry^non,, i v. 11 ' the ground sat thou- Commlc^innpr t ncntm. u . a Bay Guymon at Snvder in
of and ^rather below" ATT ,r°nt ^ . IT* 05' -™led by the
" , a.na urather below "is level of the stage was
filled with crowds parading back and forth. Alto-
gether it was a glorious and eager gathering.
The learned doctor whose midnight toil had
prepared the doggerel, and whose weeks of labor
had rehearsed the players In their parts, appeared
ln a short Prologue. After exhorting his
talnty—paradise and hell.
On Its extreme left is Nazareth, and the house
of Joseph and Mary. In fact, the house is all
there Is to the town, except a sign board in-
scribed with the name of the place. Next Is
Bethlehem, typified by an inn and a stable, and
Just beyond Bethlehem lies a "mansion," or cur-
tained off square. At the appropriate moment
the screen here will bo withdrawn, disclosing to
that he expects to tmake as many ex*
aminations as possible of domestic
companies before his retirement from
office.
Under the Wrong Statute.
listeners to silence' he'dMcrltad"'for'ThemTriJIi'! 1 Kern and N- Standby 0f Ok- .Jury ,,mPane'ed here, District
the substance of what was about to be *ee COUnty• convicte<i of selling J"dse Armstrong gave special instruc-
. , aoout to be presented meat fmm an ® tions to investigate enmni„in . ......
~ governor
smne months ago. It is understood that
she Is to be married during the Christ,
mas holidays.
War on Cigarettes.
Durant, Okla.—In his charge to the
grand jury impaneled here, District
Joseph and
Mary, the surly Innkeeper bearing a lantern, to
designate that his part was played In the night.
King Herod, the Roman emperor, and lastly God
the Father, God the Son and a numerous band
of angels, who distributed amongst themselves
tho costliest of the albs, stoles, dalmaticas and
copes loaned for the occasion by the clergy of the
cathedral and the cloister of St. Maclou, Seventy-
eight of these principal actors there were in this
procession, and their attendant squires and the
lesser figures lu the drama numbered a hundred
and fifty more. By the time they had passed
from out the cathedral and arrived at the cloister
It was well on the way toward noon of this six-
teenth of December, 1473.
At Intervals during the course of the parade
the crier who headed it stopped and blew a
prolonged blast. The procession halted, and from
Its midst emerged a long-visaged man ln the
dress of a university doctor. In his hand he held
a fat scroll. Waving this aloft, he made procla.
jnation:
"Bllete! allete! Stlentlum h&beatts,
Et per Del fllium, p&cem faclatla."
And when he had finished his peroration in Latin
be announced in tho vernacular the purport of
making the welkin ring with the sound of song
and shrilling of the pipes. The field of the shep-
herds lies betwixt Bethlehem and Jerusalem, that
is to say, betwixt the inn and stable and the
house of Herod, which stands for the holy city.
The next few feet leap oceans, for at the side of
Herod's house stands the temple of Apollo in
Rome, the chamber of the Roman emperor and
the capitol, besides the haunt of the Sibyl, that
strange figure of medieval church lore, who, pa-
gan though she was, ranked with the Hebrew
prophets, and was celebrated in the greatest of
church songs, the "Dies Irae," along with David:
"Dies Irae, dies ilia,
Solvet saeclum in favitla.
Teste David cum Sibylla."
the mysterv As h« " ve <oeen given a new trial 7" UH UI eolations of.
to a convenient angle of the wall of Herod's house by the(.criminal court of appeals be-1 pe7s "Tvml ln!,!'i cigaret,e ■>*
whence he might advantageously be In position for " y Were "ider the lndIct"nents of this na-
prompting the actors, a deep lamentation broke Wr0"g SeC"0n °f the law' The>r were were returned by the last grand
out within hell. It was Adam grieving over the sad frosecute(1 under the meat inspection , 5'
and fallen state of man. law« and Judge Furman holds that1
Thus the play goes on for two days passing l*167 Sh°ll,<1 haV® been P™secutEd for | Woman'a Auxiliary President Hurt,
now to limbo, whence the prophets. Issue to foretell 1^° sep„arate off>nses und«r other sec-1 Ardmore, Okla.—Miss Irma Mat-
to mankind the coming salvation, to Nazareth to IT® e statutes. one being the thews. President of the Woman's State
Bethlehem and throughout the whole cycle of 'the fai"'re t0 burn tlle carcasses of an an- Auxiliary, was Injured here in a wreck
nativity, when Christ is born In Bethlehem hell "1 which had died of disease and the caused by a Rock Island passenger en-
redoubles Its efforts, and Lucifer rolls about the selling or disposing of such Klne runninS Into an open switch and
stnp'a In n ...>„i. mrpnea hiwinn. .. n.i
stage In a mighty orgy of blind fury. The Images I carcass-
fmm th .0,8 the ten,p,e at Rome fa" crashing J
pedestals, and, high above all, the an-
Adjoining the house of the Sibyl is limbo. So
close are they that during the course of the play
their Inmates can reach across the intervening
the fields of
hitting a switch engine. Miss Mat-
thews Is employed by the board of ag-
riculture.
Man Blown 300 Feet in Air.
Atoka, Okla.—Wallace Ilavnes w.* s
blown 300 feet in the air and killed,
t* . ropes above, .
Palestine, chant majestically the he case now Pen<Nng at Oklaho-
praises of the Creator and proclaim the "Pax in fla Clty on aPPl,cation of J. H. Per.
| for a receiver8hip for the West- ouu m ine a|r
^m ,red„r.khT.embhoeuCOrrTy °: s-qulrjwe; ^e"emp:ror.IndrRere0d ^ -
with a front strongly grated. It serves to hold
the materialized souls of such of the worthy de-
parted as dwelt on earth during the old dispensa-
tion. Here will reside, during the two days of
the representation, the prophets, the patriarchs
and a select few of the pagans. Their lot Is not
an unhappy one—they live only ln unsatisfied
;.*e a French 7«ZZ?e ITJZlT ? ^
atTase He" iTTh?' EV,dently hn ls ' whTm the^" A' ^ "C",re Pa"y "plo"«' w"lle Haynes wVsTn
ease. He is reading a scroll nf tho qik„ih..~ whom the case was brought imo ,uD- ♦ _ . as ,n
t , readinB a scon of the Sibylline
writings wherein he finds a distinct prophecy to
in IWhtoh Messlah 18 to be born In Palestine
In Bethlehem of Judea. More and more disturbed
w r°"?!S;.aad aa h® pacos the floor of his cham-
—-T— • —:—"• 1111 unnappy one—tney live only ln unsatisfied ber hA 1.7 ui nis cham-
the celebration. It was to be a great mystery hope. They may well be content with their fate comnanleH hv doBKerel French, ao-
play In honor of the nativity of the Savior, "In- when they look upon their neighbors to the right Is T?adv T V gesticulations. The sun
at the end of the row of spectacles. For here Is' th.Tarket^ IZ,"eT l.""9 ""J*8 '° the WeBt ot
hell-mouth. Of all the grotesque and impressive end aw,r, . a.C6J?r! '.lls "onolORue comes to an
spectacles of the mystery play, hell-mouth took
precedence. The most skillful carpenters and
mechanicians were employed In Its fabrication.
and the art of the most expensive painter was
none too good for Its adornment When complet-
ed. hell-mouth stood 12 or 16 feet high, and as
carnaclon et natlvlte de nostre saulveur et re-
dempteur Jesucbrlst." The sheriffs of the town,
the clergy of the cathedral and St. Maclou, many
of the rich burghers and the bishop himself had
given of tbelr time and money without stint. In
order that the dear townspeople might refresh
their souls with a spectacle of boly events. >nd
he. the doctor, had composed a mystery play of
end. With a sudden Inspiration, he falls to his
rk I8 "" worships a figure of the virgin that ml-
raculously appears on the wall. Satan and his
to Us W ° j'1' "alV0, °nd th9 Crowd n«s stiffly
to Its feet and wends Its way back to the homes
" V't hL' be 'b6 C'!f' mU°h m°Ved hy the spec-
tacle It has been a witness of for two whole days.
ease was brought, has dis-
qualified himself.
New Depot at Sallsaw.
The corporation commission has
issued an order requiring the Iron
Mountain railroad to build a new depct
at Sallsaw, the plant to bs submitt d
to the commission by January 10 and
the depot completed by March 15
The company had offered to repair the
old depot, which was built 18 years
'go, but the commission held that It
vas so old that It would be Imprac-
1 cable and that the loca'Ion should be
handed so that the tracks wculd not
n between the depot and the town.
the building. The cause is not known.
Oil Concerns In Fight.
Tulsa, Okla.—A damage suit for
$500,000 has been filed here by the
Uncle Saim Oil company of Oklahoma
against the Uncle Sam Oil company
of Arizona and Kansas for alleged in-
Juries because the defendants had re-
ceived private mall orders and tele-
grams Intended for the plaintiff. The
Oklahoma company asked for an In-
function restraining the defendant
company from doing business in Ok-
lahoma under Its present name and re-
straining It from selling any of Its
oroperty while the suit t8 pending.
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