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THE WEEKLY EXAMINER.
VOLUME XIV.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1908.—EIGHT PAGES.
NUMBER 3
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To Drive Inter-
Urban's First Spike
From Thursday's Daily.
Howard Sharp, the secretary of
the Commercial Club, was asked last
night how the arrngements for the
celebration of the beginning of track
laying on the interurban railway
were progressing. "I understand
that cars of steel rails have been
received," he said, " but the spikes
are not yet here although they are
on the way."
"Will it be a good spike— the one
that is to be first driven?" he was
asked.
"The spike is being prepared and
it will be on display a day or so be-
fore the celebration," was the re-
ply-
There is some rivalry for the dis-
tinction of driving the first spike.
Among the persons who have been
suggested are Mayor Beasley of Bar-
tlesville, Mayor Jones of Dewey, Joe
Bartles, president of the Dewey Com
mercial Club, Lee Phillips, president
of the Bartlesville Commercial Club,
Hon. Jos. J. Curl, president of the
Interurban Company and others. An-
other suggestion is that the mayors
of Bartlesville and Dewey both be
selected and that they alternate blows
on the "golden first spike."
The exact date of the celebration
can not be announced until all of
the material necessary to begin con-
struction is here. Mr. Place, of the
contracting construction firm, is out
of the city today and his opinion of
the time of commencing work could
not be had.
and wholesale houses take a half hol-
iday every Saturday afternoon, the
salesmen, clerks, proprietors and
helpers and laborers catching the
first trains for the beach and sea-
shore and there remaining until Sun-
day night.
Man, in a certain sense, when his
physical organization is considered,
is moulded somewhat along the lines
of an intricate piece of machinery.
The bearings require an adjustment
audi rest tit cerKnin periods—Vnd;
when that practice is not followed the
life or use of the machine as far as
the service to be exacted, becomes
impaired, and the best results are
not expected and cannot be obtained.
A healthy body and a healthy
mind will balance one witli the other
in a similarity to a finely adjusted
pair or scales. But when one falls
short in weight, the other loses by
sympathy, until in the end, both are
affected. Long hours are not conduc-
ive to a healthy mind or body. The
mechanic and the laborer, tlie sales-
man or clerk cannot do jifstice to
either himself or his employer, as
readily as when he is granted the res-
pite of a reasonable length of hours
demanded for service.
Governor Haskell's Address to People
of Oklahoma oil the Billups Liquor Law
Chessman Bound Over.
Ora Chessman, previously arrest-
ed by Sheriff Jordan, on the charge
of bootlegging but who broke jail
last Wednesday night and was capt-
ured nt his boarding house Thursday
morning, was taken before Justice
Ileaton yesterday afternoon.
He entered a plea of guilty to the
charge of jail breaking, and was
bound over to the CountV Court.
SEN. PORTER GOES TO SE-
CURE FUNDS FOR NEW R. R.
Senator S. M. Porter, of Caney,
left yesterday for New York, en
route to Paris to complete the deal
for the money to build his railroad
from Cherryvale to El Paso, Texas,
down into Arkansas.
The negotiations in this deal have
gone so far that there seems to be
no question of the success at last of
Senator Porter's dream. He left
with full confidence that nothing
can now happen to interfere with
the closing of the deal. All his tele-
grams and letters have ben satisfac-
tory and it now looks as if dirt
would be flying in a few weks.
It will be a great thing for this
county and especially for Independ-
ence. if Senator Porter gets his road
built this spring. It will be a good
thing for Senator Porter.—Independ-
ence Reporter.
Business Houses to Close Early.
From Wednesady's Daily.
The business men of Bartlesville
are but emulating the example >f
those in the larger cities by assist-
ing the early closng movement, to
aid their clerks and salesmen to ob-
tain rest and recreation and shorter
hours of labor.
It is hoped by this evening that
every store in the city will follow in
the adopition of the early-closing
movement.
The ancients divided the day of
twenty-four hours into thrcee equal
party: Eight hours were devoted to
rest, eight to devotions, while eight
was set apaft for labor. While the
mechanics and laborers of modern
times are not asking for eight hours
for devotions, yet experience has
amply demonstrated to their satisfac
tion as well as those whose have
made the problem a careful and close
study, that more nnd a better grade
of service is rendered employers
where employees labor eight or nine
hours than from ten to twelve.
The custom is becoming more com-
mon every year for factories and
mercantile establishments to grant
thoir employees shorter hours. In
the New England stales, especially
in the snminer months, the retail
HE WILL NOMINATE BRYAN.
The Choice of the Nebraska Delega-
tion Has Fallen on I. J. Difan.
Ignatius J. Dunn has been select-
ed by the Nebraska delegation to
the national Democratic convention
in Denver to nominate William Jen-
nings Bryan for President. Mr.
Dunn is one of the four delegates a!
large selected by the Nebraska con-
vention. He is city attorney of Oma-
ha and has been identified with
Democratic politics in his home state
for twelve years. He is a strong sup
porter of Mr. Bryan, a brililar: o>-
ator Slid an attorney of high stand-
ing in Omaha. During the internal
dissensions which have rent the Dem-
ocratic party from time to time he
has ma. aged to strike a hippy medi-
um and now represents a united
party in Nebraska. Unassuming and
of a quiet disposition, Dunn is neve'
theless considered equal to the occa-
sion for which he has ben selected.
He has a well rounded, clear voice
and will be able to make himself
heard in all parts of the big ai'd'tor-
ium.
Condition of State Banks.
Guthrie, Okla., March 27.—State
Bank Commisisoner Smock today is-
sued a consolidated statement of the
condition of the state banks at the
close of business February 20, which
shows an increase in individual de-
posits of $048,874.50 to December
11, the date of the iast statement.
The statement covered 13 days of the
operation of the state guarantee law,
but much of the increase probably
can be traced to that law. The total
of individual deposits in the 467 banks
is $71,477,282.11; loans and dis-
counts, $12,511,439..23, an increase
of $891,734.66; surplus fund; $578,-
892.--, a decrease of 70,558.11, cash
in banks, $2,014,214.95, a decrase of
$269,293.80, an increase of $1,592,-
144. 81. The number of banks has
been increased by two since the last
statement and the average reserve
from 445 to 10 per cent. The cash
reserve is 11 per cent.
Land Leases Against Buyers.
Muskogee, Okla., March 27.—There
has been raised in the federal court
here the question of whether the inno-
cent purchaser of land must submit to
leases made on the land prior to the
purchase. This is one of the most im-
portant questions of litigation that
has arisen in the Creek nation for a
long time because of valuable oil
lands in the Creek and Cherokee na-
tions being involved.
The suit is that of Albert W. Shu It- I
is versus D. A. McDougal et al., and I
involves a piece of land which lias
been developed and has valuable oil j
wells upon it. It is worth about
$100,000. The plaintiff in the eusc
took a lease upon the land. A short i
time after McDougal purchased the |
land and got a deed to it. lie did not I
know there was a lease on it. It had
not been recorded. Hut it was a de-
partmental lease and approved by I
the secretary of the interior. Mc-
Dougal took possession of the land
and developed the oil wells. Now the j
owners of the lease have come into
court and demanded that they be giv-
en p issession of the land. The land
was nllotted to an Indian child who
died before the selection was made.
TO THE PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA
AND TO THE PUBLIC OFFIC-
ERS, whose duty it is to enforce
the laws of the state, in every
county, city, or community, we
hereby call your attention to the
lature for the purpose of carrying
statewide prohibition into complete
and practical effect.
It is not your privilege nor mine,
to waste time discussing the question
as to whether we would have drawn
this code of laws exactly as they
are.
There are questions upon which
most people differ and any law of
great extent or consequence is invar-
iably framed to meet the approval of
at least a majority of the ligislativc
body, but this code is now the law of
the State of Oklahoma and is entitled
to the support of all our citizens and
most emphatically of the public of-
ficers who have assumed the resposi-
bility and taken their oath to enforce
the laws, and we have the utmost con-
fidence that faithful service will be
rendered by all such officers.
no excuse whatever for violating the
law. f
Remember this is not a beverage
dispensary, as these people and pa-
pers would have you believe.
It is n^t a barrel of whisky with
the head knocked in and a tin-cup
hanging conveniently near, but it does
mean liquors put up under stay,- sup-
ervision in sealed packages and plac-
ed on the shelf in the local agency,
stamped with consecutive numbers,
and sold only upon the written pre-
scription of a reputable physician,
based upon a personal diagnosis of
the patient's condition and for every
package according to its number, the
local agent must return to the state
agent the receipt of the purchaser and
the physician's certificate.
The local agency cannot become a
booze joint.
Imprisonment stares him in the
face, for even permitting the pack-
age to he opened or used on the
premises of for parting with a pack
age in any other method than detail-
ed in the law. There will be no ex-
cuse hereafter for the one charged
Anything short of a complete dis- j with violation of the liquor law to
charge of official duty would not only | plead that he had obtained the li-
disappoint me, but would work a j quor because of sickness in his fam-
great disappointment in the minds ily, (unless he has obtained it from
of the people of our state. We now | the agency and upon the written pre-
have the detail law fully sufficient to
carry statewide prohibition into ef-
) feet.
The people declared for statewide
prohibition, not in theory, but*'in
fact and as long as that is the will of
scription of the physician.)
As to the conduct of the physician,
the public need not fear that he will
violate the law.
The physician will first read the law
carefully, and having read it, there
our own people, they are entitled to i is no probability of his violating it
its faithful application. ! Xo stronger proof of the strict
I fully realize that every obstacle j propriety and efficiency of this new-
possible will be thrown in your way. I code of laws can be found, than the
The claim is made that prohibition j attitude of the Guthie State Capital,
is a fad and incapable of practical j —The persistent enemy of prohibi-
enforcement. This might be true if j tion and given to reckless and un-
impractical means were applied, but ; truthful criticisms of every individ-
remember Oklahoma's law is practi- ual and every law working for pro-
cal. ! hibition principles.
The methods of those opposed to | Their publication last Sunday ptu-
prohibition are ingenious indeed. Ev
er since election day they have stud-
ied to devise every possible way to
make prohibition unsatisfactory to
the people of the state, to the end that
an early amendment to the constitu-
tion might be adopted setting prohib-
ition aside.
When they fought the adoption of
state-wide prohibition last summer,
they told us that prohibition would
destroy the prosperity of our people
and our growing towns. In short
they tried to convince us that to be
porting to give the provisions of the
law, were deliberately untruthful in
practically every particular.
Notwithstanding they have alluring
inviting advertisements to buy whisky
by mail from foreign houses on four
other pages of their paper, they ed-
itorially deplore the fact that the
state is about to engage in the whisky
business.
Considering the fact that the State
Capital has had its every possible
virtue on the bargain counter for
sale at advertising rates, this pre
nothing in the course of a year, the
state would not lose a total of Fifteen
Thousand Dollars.
The complaint that the state is de-
grading itself and degrading its wo-
men and children by putting these
medicinal sales of liquor under its
own control and direction, is a sad-
den awakening of pretended morality
when it comes from a class of news-
papers of individuals, who, in the late
election were so unmindful of the mor
als of the state that they bitterly
fought the adoption of prohibition.
Remembering their attitude at that
time, I warn you that they are utter-
ly unfit to advise we who are engag-
ed in fighting for practical enforce-
ment of prohibition and the elevation
of moral conditions today, and I
therefore, appeal to every public offi-
cer of the state, (its counties and
municipalities), and to every good cit-
izen of the state, to join hands in
the enforcement of a law which is
bound to disprove the time worn state-
ment "that prohibition does not pro-
hibit;" that is bound to elevae the
morals, the intellect, and the pros-
perity of our people.
Let us all stand together to prove
by our acts and by the conditions to
prevail in the grand State of Okla-
homa, that our state may be noted
for its deeds rather than for its
empty words.
C. N. HASKELL,
Governor.
prosperous we must engage in a los- [ tended sorrow about the state engag-
ing business;—that our money for an ing in the whisky business is proper-
asset that we would destroy as soon ly understood as insincere and ridi-
as we purchased it.
Time has already demonstrated the
falacy of all such arguments. Today
those same people are fighting the ad-
option and enforcement of practical
laws.
They want the law to be so of-
fensive—so extreme, as to be distaste
ful to fhe average moral minded citi-
zen of the State.
They recognize that public senti-
ment among the best people of the
state considers that in certain cases
of illness, liquors are deemed a nec-
essary medicinal quality.
They recognize that many of out-
best citizens would resort to any
means to secure such medicine when
they believed that members of their
family were suffering pain and pos-
sibly death for want of it.
They believe that a code of laws
that didn't provide for these neces-
sities, would breed violations of law
in the obtaining of liquor and the
commission of perjury, is necessary,
in their own defense thereafter.
They beleive that beginning with
cases which the majority of the pub-
lic would consider excusable, that the
violations of law would gradually be-
come so common as to render the
whole plan of prohibition unpopular
with our peopl
culous.
This legislature in adopting this
code of laws, keeps strictly within
the provisions of the constitution in
providing for the dispensary in towns
of two thousand population or more,
and, again, realizing that often thick-
ly settled communities are so remote
from these large towns as to make
such dispensary wholly inconvenient
and impractical to .their patronage in
eases of necessity and therefore the
legislature seeking the convenience
alike of all communities of the state
and mindful of the right of the people
to govern themselves, has provided
that at the next November election,
without further trouble or expense of
a petition, the question of dispensar-
ies in smaller towns, may be voted up-
on by the people, and the people there
by permitted to settle the dispensary
question by their own votes.
In the meantime, that election be-
ing seven months in the future, the
operation of the dispensaries in the
large towns will give the voters a
chance to observe the operations of
the dispensararv and thereby from
practical experience to decide wheth-
er or not they desire o continuance
there of, and to have the dispensaries
established where the distance is so
great that convenience requires them
In our Constitution, provision was in the smaller towns.
made for a dispensary system for We believe that if a dispensary is
medicinal purposes.
1'his was the act of our people
themselves at the election last Sep-
tember, and the legislature have
strictly acted within their duty in
making provision for n dispensnrv
for medicinal purposes.
The same individuals who fought
for free whisky before the election
and the same newspapers that they
paid to aid them in that fight, are
found today wildly criticizing this
new code of laws.
Is there any better evidence of the
real merit of these laws than that
they displease that class of people
ami papers'?
a proper eonvonience in a town of
two thousand people, it is a proper
convenience for the people of smaller
communities, living great distances
from the large towns. But this
question the people will settle for
themselves at the next election.
I notice another newspaper pub-
lishes the statement that the state will
have to sell One Million Eight Hun-
dred Thousands Dollars worth of li-
quor in order to cover the total ex-
pense of conducting the business.
This, again, is a false statement.
If the total sales throughout the
state in the course of a year amounts
to Fifty Thousand Dollars, the State
Our dispensary provides for liquor will not lose one cent, and,
whero needed in sickness and leaves Again, if the sale were absolutely
WANT STATE TO TAKE
CREEK-SEMINOLE SCHOOL
A committee of prominent colored
citizens of Boley, Okla., appeared
before the educational committee
last night representing the Creek-
Seminole institute at that place.
They wished the school, which diaws
its pupils from the better class of
negroes .11 the Creek and Seminole
nations, to be made a state institu-
tion.
Boley is probably the largest town
in the United States with a purely
negro population. It is in Okfuskee
county on the Fort Smith & West-
ern and numbers amom; its citizens
many negroes « really hL'i
ter and intellectual ability. The
town is run entirely by the negroes,
from station agent to mayor, and it
is one of the gest governed and most
peaeuble towns n that part of the
state. Its citzens are on the whole,
well-to-do people. They maintain
t'.o bai ks and several lor^e ceres
one of \ h ch does a lar,'sr traie
than any store in a town of similar
size in ti al section the state.
The town lat a puiic school sys-
tem that is ill-looked aftar, ana tic
Cieek-Semr.n .'e instit xNj b partially
* 'pported b; the iowd of-Eol ,,
though its j i lis are drawa fr-im :i
ra<ius of a l.i ndred miles around.
In the .?ree'«-Semin„ e institute the
ideas of l!oo| er T. Wa hi.igton, one
of the grea' st negroes ti: e-->r liv-
e.l are followed in mi.iy of the stud-
ies, the into • on of ti • faculty being
to turn out its scholn.u with an abil-
ity to earn an honest living as well
as to live intelligently. "We teach
our pupils practical ideas a well as
theories," recently said the colored
president of the university, a man
who will range well with many white I
instructors, and who has the highest !
regards of the white leaders in elu- j
cational affairs in the east side of the
state.
The school now has 227 pupils at- j
tending. With an appropriation
from the state this number could be j
doubled, and the state would not lose
thereby.
Those making up the committee
from Boley who so ably presented
the need of their institution to the |
committee last night were J. C. Left-
witch,, M. A. Wade, E. 1'. Blakemore,
M. J. Jones. James Burnett. Colnell
Smith, 11. Taylor, T. B. Armstrong.
L. L. Dolphin, D. ,1. Lurner.—Guth-
rie Capital.
WEATHER PROFIT DEVOE
PREDICTS A COLD APRIL
April will enter with a storm over j
the Gulf of Mexico, 1st to 2nd cold j
wave, 3rd to 4th, equally, 5th to 6th |
pleasant. On the 7th a -form will j
advance from the Pacific coast, cans
ing warm showery weather, Sth to I
9th, cloudy with rain, 10th to 12th.
warm wave. On the 13th a great
storm will advance from the Paci-
fic coast, 14th to 15th, heavy rains.
This storm will turn warm, too much
rain danger of floods, 16th to 17th,
cloudy, 18th to 19th, heavy rains,
20th to 22nd. cold wave, 25th to 26th
pleasant, 27th to 28th, cold and
cloudy, 29th to 30th, great storm ad-
vancing from the Pacific coast.
The Bartlesville
Of Near Future
It is indeed and encouraging out-
look for Bartlesville in an industrial
way the building of the Interurban
line from this city to Dewey, and it
not only opens up a new residence
locality, but will also be the means
of factories in time being located
in the Eastern district.
Whatever ground there may have
been for complaint of inability here-
tofore to secure cheap factory sites
in the city proper, and to the west,
will be removed by the factory su-
burbs of the east. Lands will be
cheaper, railroad facilities just as
good, and Bartlesville will be the
rallying point and advantages will
accure to the retail trade of Bartles-
ville, almost if not quite the same
degree as if the factories were locat-
ed in the city limits.
Some people think the effect up-
on local real estate conditions would
be detrimental, but we do not believe
this will be the case, or at least it
has never pi- n so,, in other cities
likewise built r building under the
same conditions.
We believe in the long rnn it will
be a distinct advantage to Bartles-
ville to have the factory centcrs sep-
arated somewhat from the city prop-
er .
In time Bartlesville will expand
and meet the suburbs. The inter-
mdiate spaces will fill up with dwel-
lings and small trading places.
The building of the St. Louis, Bar
tlesville &i Pacific railroad, giving us
an east and west outlet, removal of
restrictions on land adjacent to this
city, with cheap fuel in our natural
gas will bring its factories by the
-core within the next five years. So
it's well to look at the Bartlesville
of the future, more than Bartlesville
of the present, only keep forging
ahead to make the future materialize
as we all wish to see it.
Two Terms of Declining Prices,
r .. t^' ."'ail 3i \ lo——Wl.
Wall street has had a £>ar mar-
ket for more than two years, for
the big est average price of railroad
stocks were touched in January 22,
1900. During that year the market
flustuated widely and twice the aver-
age price approached closely to tho
high quotation of January 22, but
it never crossed it, and the process
of financial demoralization was at
work all the time, while since Decem-
ber of that year, there has ben a stady
dclino in prices interrupted only by
occasional rallies. The next great
movement in the stock market must
inevitably be in the other direction.
Some time or other the market will
start on an upward swing, interrupt-
ed with occasional breaks, thus revers-
the experience of the past two
years, when the tendency has been
steadily downward with occasional
sharp rallies. Just when this change
will take place no one can say with
complete confidence that he is right
his judgment. It may well be
that the low averages reached last
November represents the bottom of
tli bear movement, but that will de-
pend in large measure upon how the
country acts under the political and
crop developements of the next few
months.
WILL PROSECUTE
APPEALED CASES.
Guthrie, Okla., April 1.—Attorney
General West today announced the
appointment of Judge William A.
Ledbetter of Ardmore as special couu
sel to the department of justice to
have complete charge of the prose-
cution of the appeal cases from form-
er Indian Territory. Judge Ledbet-
ter will assume his new duties at
once.
From the dockets of the United
States appeals court of Indian Ter-
ritory the state inherited n complex
amount of cases. The great volume
of business that daily is handled by
the attorney general and his assist-
ants precludes either of them giving
sufficient time to prosecute this par-
ticular class of litigation.
Judge Ledbetter is one of the most
prominent lawyers in the east sido
"f the state, lie was a member of
the constitutional convention.
New \ ork, April 1.—\V. J. Bryan
has accepted an invitation to attend
the National Democratic club ban-
quet in honor of the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson on April 13. Sena-
tor Robert L. Owens of Oklahoma is
to be one of the speakers.
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