The Taloga Times. (Taloga, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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TALOGA TIMES
BUVKLBB S Dl'NX04'l Ids Pri
TALOOA
OK La
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TERRITORY TOPICS
Machnery Arrived — The machinery
for Blackwell's new well has arrived
and is being put In p’ace
Wheat Looking Fine — The fifth
enow of the season is falling over Cus-
ter county today The snow is six
inches deep Wheat never looked bet-
ter The temperature is eighteen
above
Gunners to Meet — President J A
Taylor of Wvnnewood I T of the
National dinners' Association has
sent out notices for a meeting for the
district composing Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory to be held at Shaw-
nee January l5 The Oklahoma State
Horticultural Society will be in ses-
sion at Shawnee also on that date
and joint sessions of the associations
will be held
To Stop Shipment — A' F Cham-
berlain member of the United States
Indian police at Vinita I T has re-
ceived instructions to examine and
report all deer turkey quail and
prairie chicken offered for sale or
shipment at the railway stations
throughout the territory It Is the In-
tention of the government to stop
the wholesale slaughter and shipment
of game
Good Roads Convention — The com-
mittee which is arranging for tjie
good roads convention to be held at
Muskogee January 20 and 2 has
sent telegrams to President Roose-
velt and General Nelson A Miles in-
viting them to attend the convention
Arrangements are being made for re-
duced rates on the railroads
Severe Cold — Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory are experiencing zero
weather At Vinita I T many
buildings were damaged and tele-
graph and telephone wires snapped
putting the service out of commis-
sion The roof of a large wholesale
grocery house gave way and let the
ice and snow in on the stock
Refused to Testify — C A McNabb
who was Oklahoma's commissioner
to the world's fair was committed to
the county jail at Oklahoma City be-
cause he refused to answer certain
questions while his deposition was
being taken in the probate court in
a lawsuit Unless be relents and
agrees to answer he must stand com-
mitted to jail until District Judge
Bnrwell returns from Guthrie where
he is attending supreme court
Has Made Report — Secretary Tom
Morns of the territorial livestock
sanitary commission has made pub-
lic bis report for the quarter ending
December 31 1904 It shows that
14059 eattle 11391 hogs 214 sheep
and 43 goats were slaughtered for
consumption duriDg the quarter and
that 14 cattle and 10 hogs bad been
rejected During the past year the
commission inspectors have rejected
200 head of cattle as being unfit to be
sold to consumers
Feeds Its Own Prisoners — The re-
port of Leo Bennett United States
marshal for the Western district
shows that prisoners In the Muskogee
jail are fed by the direct system now
in use for 5 cents a meal and in
some eases as low as 10 cents a day
4'uder the contract plan formerly in
use the cost was five limes as great
In outside towns however where
there are fewer prisoners and better
contracts can be closed the govern-
imnt loses money under the present
system
Deep Mystery Surrounds - Deep I tax' WhiCh amoun'9 " une Pfr cnt I ' nt against Dr t E Dailey c harg-
ystery surrounds the murder of !jf ‘he value of each merchant's stock ing Din with murder 'Ho Is alleged
ftvoxf AsaIa jfeltA Im 1 1 1 f 1 m
mystery
John Brewer a well known farmer
living one mile southwest of Afelvln
who was shot In Ills home by some
tinknown person Brewer's wife who
was in the house at the time says
that her husband gut up and went to
the door and that some one fired the
fatal shot from the doorway George
IhincaD a young man who was study-
ing at the Brewer home was suspect-
ed and was arrested and lodged in
Muskogee jail Two ehotgUDB were
found in the house and the officers be-
lieve it to be impossible that Brewer
was shot from outside the bouse
For Rhodes Scholarship — The
qualifying examination of those per-
sons In Oklahoma who desire to be-
come candidates for the "Rhodes
Scholarship” will be held at the uni-
versity in Norman Tuesday and Wed-
nesday January IT and 18 This ex-
amination is jot competitive but
qualifying and is merely intended to
give assurance 'that every scholar is
able to pass the first examination
mblrh the university demands of all
candidates for the B A degree The
Khrjcie scholars will be selected
therefore only from candidates who
have successfully passed the examina-
tion one scholar being chosen from
each state and territory to which
scholarships are assigned
I Received Gold Medal — The com-
pany which will develop the marble
quarries at Marblo City Is now set-
ting up machinery and will soon he
ready to send out this product In large
ouant'ties The people of Marble City
are rejoicing over the fiet that their
irarMu took a gold medal at the
world's fair for qunlity and they
claim to have mines which will pro-
duce as much as those of Vermont
The Vermont marble quarries are em-
ploying 2000 men and last year sold
over $4000000 worth of marble The
people of Marble City expect to equal
this record
Received Request— Secretary Tho-
burn of the board of agriculture has
received a request from H P Gould Ozmun of El Reno lias received from
assistant pomologlst of the United Minnesota a greyhound which an-
States department of agriculture to swers to the name of Mary St Clair
co-operate with that department In and 1b believed to be the swiftest dog
securing a number of reporters who that ever stepped on Oklahoma soil
will agree through a period of several Mary St Clair la a Imlf sister to Oz-
years to record for comparison the
exact dates of blossoming and ripen-
ing of the leading commercial varie-
ties of apples peaches pears plums
and chprries in representative or-
chard locations
Plant Winter Wheat — At Granite
seven degrees below zero was record-
ed being the coldest it has been for 1 Railroad After Oil — The Santa Fe
several years About five Inches of railroad In figuring on drilling sev-
aleet and Ice cover the ground which eral w-ells for oil and gas on its prop
when it melts will put the ground In erty at Shawnee In order to provide
fine condition for plowing This will fuel for the oil-burning locomotives
insure a good start towards an ‘ lm- which run In on the Gulf line
mense wheat crop On account of from the South this being now the
the low price of cotton there will yet central division between Kansas City
be fall wheat sown on ground -that and the Gulf It is desired to light
would have been planted to cotton
otherwise
Made Full Confession — George
Duncan aged IS an Indian boy ar-
rested on the charge of murdering
John Brewer a farmer near Melvin Handle Mine Product — At South
has made a full confession He lived J -IcAIester I T Colonel William
with the Brewers and said he was in j “U8JJr an tola associates will in the
love with Mrs Brewer although she 8IrnK epend $05000 In the con-
Is old enough to be his mother Mrs ! 8ructon °f two large coal washing
Brewer also has been arrested as an ®nts to handle the product of their
accomplice She tried to shield the j ® "es’ ®ne e 'fueled on the
boy saying: "Some man called I near the Osage mines several
Brewer to the door and shot him" j es north of this city the other on
the Rock Island near llalleyville
Thirty Thousand Allotments i twenty miles east
Thirty thonsaad allotments have been 0n Serlou Char e
filed at the Cherokee land office and rned sateg brought
there yet remain to be filed aboit four prisoners to Vinita I T and
13W0 more and also what is known placed hcm jaj on c of
as fractions or small tracts of land eriminally assaulting Besv Beld-
due a great number of Cherokee to rldge nearly a month The -
complete allotments It Is be tiered oner8 are Robert F()remal) Frank
that the Cherokee allotment work will cursey MiIe8 Chastain aud
be practically competed when- the allaa Q w Canky The
commission is dissolved next Juno dPath or ife mprlsonmtnt
Dying of Consumption — Governor
Ferguson has granted a pardon to
Teacher Goes to St Louis — Terri-
torial Superintendent L W Baxter
announced that Prof T H lAidee
who has conducted the business de-
partment at the Central Normal
school at Edmond the past few years
had resigned and would accept a po-
sition as Instructor in thP business ! was at death's disir with consutup-
department at the McKinley high : tion and eouid only Jive a few days
school In St I Anils 1 longer
Glanders Among Horses — Dr L Ride in Procession — United
D Brown territorial veterinary sur- States Marshal It H Colbert of Aril-
geon returned from a trip to Shaw- more has been selected as one of the
nee where a few days ago he dis-l twenty nine Rough Riders who will
covered three horses sick with the act as an escort to President Roose-
glanders which he had to kill The j velt on inauguration clay Colbert
homes belonged to horse traders and
had been brought In
er point j American war
Said to Be Illegal— It is now claim- ! Chilocco Band to Go— The Chiluc-
ed that the county commissioners of j eo Indian school band of Oklahoma
Cleveland county have been in the i will probably lake part in the lnaug-
habit of allowing each commissioner 1 oral parade ai Washington on March
to build the bridges in his own dis- 4 Delegate McGuire Is arranging
trict It is said to tie Illegal but - for tlie transjMirtai lem of the band
whether the bridges cost more or less 1 and bos promises from local commit-
under that plan is not stated ' tee that their expi uses will be- borne
Collect Merchants' Tax — Tlie bile there
Chickasaw nation is preparing to en- j Charged With Murder — The fed-
force the collection of the merchants’ era! graud jury returned an Indict-
has been declared alld by United
States Judge Townsend
Drank Lemon ExtracL —
Baines of Dixie bas been
William
missing
since last week and searching parties prisoners Are Released — Three
are scouring the country trying to lo- i prisoners— W II Stevens Henry
cate him Raines drank a quantity I j0frman and Howard Bonlfe wue
of lemon extract before leaving I released from the federal jail at
home- Guthrie They were all sent up from
Mid-Winter Term — The mid-winter i Comanche county for selling whls-
term of the federal court convened at I k y to Indians and served their full
Paul’s Valley for the trial of civil 1 sentences
cases only Judge lionet Townsend is !
presiding sod Judge Dickinson will
continue the term
a Woods county farmer got back last
j week from Copenhagen Denmark
Has Not Been Found — Up to the where ho went to' visit his old home
present writing the farmed In Okla- I He brought a slster back with him
horn a who burned bis cotton to gel! Kay County Fair — The Kay
clear of the surplus has not been I County Fair association at their an-
found The surplus is very largely In j ua twltin ewklrk elected S
th® minds of the speculators gporc of Kildure president and
- Mad at Trust— A farmer near Ok- j Harry Tompson secretary :
arche got mad at the broom com trust j Blfl 'Wheat Crop — Woods county
for putting prices down and he went
to work and made all bis torn Into
brooms and sold them In the sur-
rounding towns
Are Flocking Back— Men whq were
starved out of Cleveland two years
ago in trying to make a living out of
their trade are flocking back at-
tracted by tbe town oil well prosper-
ity :
Body Frozen Stiff — The body of
a white man was found frozen stiff
in the woods near Coretta He was
a young man perhaps 22 yearr of
age The evening before he called
at the Btatlon at Coretta to wofm
Tho agent being busy did nut pay
much attention to him but remem-
bered him speaking of relatives In the
Voridgrls bottom near Coretta He
left the- station and nothing was
heard of him fcntll his dt-d body was
found When oitud the body had
very little clothing about It Nothing
can be learned of the man's identity
except that he gave his name at the
station as Osborn
Received Fine Greyhound — John
mun'8 Miss Ringling the winner of
first money In the Oklahoma City
' coursing event two weeks ago and Is
supposed to be even faster than Miss
Ringling Both hounds will be taken
to Winfield Kansas to take part In
' the coursing event to be pulled off
there January 26 and 20
and heat the big new roundhouse
Just completed and the shop plant
which is now under construction
Work on the wells will begin in a
short time
Adolph Fontrey colored who was
sentenced from Logan county for for-
gery The governor took tins action
on account of a letter from the pris-
on physician saying that Fontrey
to have itcrfortm-d a criminal opera-
turn on Edith Grubbs of Wagoner
Hr' Dailey is a prominent physician
°f Muskogee
has had five snows this winter sn
undoubted Indication of a record-
breaking wheat crop
Bank Changes Hands— J C Fish-
er has sold his Interest in the Farm-
ers and Merchants bank at Okeene
to local capitalists
Skimming Station— Bain Wood pro-
poses to put up a skimming station at
Goltrv In Wood county —
GOVERNOR ADVISES
EXECUTIVE MESSAGE TO EIGHTH
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
LOBBYISTS DENOUNCED IN STROKC TERMS
Many Changes in Laws Recommended
—The Depository Question Taken
Up— A Memorial to Congress la
Suggested
The governor's message dealt at
length with needed legislation In near-
ly every department but perhaps the
most striking feature was his criti-
cism of "lobbies”
"The purification of politics" be
says "is not an trridescent dream
only aa long as the people permit It to
be so" He advocates making an ex-
ample of all who attempt by dishon-
orable means to Influence legislation
In part the message says:
"Self-government Is one of the
things most highly cherished by every
liberty-loving Amerlcan-cltizen Tho
people of Oklahoma want statehood
The people of Indian Territory want
statehood A bill now pending in the
senate of the United States offers
what Is wanted by both territories
The bill should receive favorable ac-
tion It would be proper for this as-
sembly to pass at once a joint resolu-
tion asking that statehood be con-
ferred through the bill now pending
in the senate
"There were 358 Oklahoma prison-
ers in the Kansas penitentiary on the
30th of November 1904 The number
Is constantly changing some being re-
leased upon expiration of sentence
while others are being sent from time
to time from the counties of the ter-
ritory Kansas haB for several years
been keeping the Oklahoma prisoners-
The original contract with that
state stipulated that the price should
be thirty-five cents per day for each
prisoner In the year 1903 the Kan-
sas authorities notified the territory
that the existing contract could no
longer be maintained claiming that
the state was entitled to more com-
pensation for keeping our prisoners
On the 4th of August 1903 a contract
was entered Into between the territory
of Oklahoma and the state of Kansas
That contract stipulated that the ter-
ritory should pnv forty cents per day
for each prisoner The contract ex-
pires on the 24th of January 1905
"Oklahoma In prohibited by congres-
sional restrict ions from erecting a
penitentiary What may be accom-
plished with the state of Kansas rela-
tive to a renewal of the contract Is
not known at this time There has
been a change of administration In
thnt state and what will be the policy
of the new administration concerning
the contract with Oklahoma Is not
known If the contract cannot le re-
lieved the territory Is powerless to
act The prisoners cannot be removed
at this time as there Is no place to
take them and -the territory is pro-
hibited by congress from making the
necessary provision In the way of
buildings It is to lie hotted how-
ever that fhe con I met with Kansas
raft be extended until some other
provision can be made for caring for
the prisoners of the territory
"The problem of territorial deposi-
tories la a hard one to solve Viewed
from anv standpoint It is difficult to
reach a conclusion as to what Is best
In 19f't the legislature enacted a do
pository law That law provides that
the treasurer shall make a contract
(the contract to receive the approval
of the governor) with a hank or banks
in the territory The law provides
also that governmental bonds surety
Isold territorial general fond war-
rants and munlclnal bonds should be
required as security
"Shortly after the anpmva! of the
depository act in April 1901 a con-
tract was made with tho' Capitol Na-
tional bank designating it as tlie solo
depository of the territory tor one
year front the first day of May 1901
"At the beginning of the present
territorial administration which was
on the loth of Decemlier 1901 there
was deposited In the Capitol National
lisnk the sum of $!7i!9t975 In terri-
torial funds
‘Almiit this time (the latter part of
1901) there were additional sums de-
posited In this bank amounting In all
lo $1:7312040 This was money for
which the territorial administration
was responsible although it was not
territorial money It came Into the
custody of the school land office from
applicants for school lauds In tbe
counties which had been opened for
settolmi'ht during the summer of 1901
Karh bidder for school land was re-
quired to deposit the amount of his
hid and as there were frequently nu-
merous applicants for the same tract
of land the deposits were enormous
Of the $0731204(5 whlrh had been de-
posited during the competitive bid-
ding In the fall of 1901 the sum of
$17031332 was returned to unsuccess-
ful bidders and the balanre passed to
the credit of the fund to which the
lands belonged The amount of money
including territorial money and money
hid on school lands whieb was depos-
ited In the Capitol National bank dnr-
Inc the hitter part of 1901 ws enor-
mous probably at one time betwcun
$900000 and $uoonu0 After the
$17081322 had been returned Li the
unsuccessful bidders and the-balance
had passed into the custody of the ter-
ritorial treasurer it increased the
territorial deposit until on the 3otb
day of Aprl) J302 there was In the I
depository the sum of $00289547 ID
Capitol National bank contained all of
this money having been designated
as the territorial depository in April
1901 At the expirtaiou of the orig-
inal depository contract it was not
deemed beBt to keep such large
amounts in one bank consequently
additional contracts were made witb
other banks aB depositories the Capi-
tol National hank being continued as
one of tbe depositories
"The legislator who can devise an
absolutely safe depository law and
ways and means to comply with it
would be a public benefactor not only
to the territory but 'o tbe states as
well where this matter Is still an un-
solved problem At bit It is an ex-
periment attended by dangers - If
surety funds are taken and a loss oc-
curs tbe companies almost invariably
resist payment if the amount of the
liability la large
If territorial warrants or the mu-
nicipal securities are taken there is
always some danger of the loss of the
securities
“On the 31st dny of May 1901 &
contract was entered Into by the gov-
ernor of the territory and the Oklaho-
ma Sanitarium company the contract
to remnin In force for a period of four
years front the 15th day of June 1901
and terminating on the 15th day of
June 1905 provided however that in
the event the territory should arrange
for an asylum and he prepared to
take the matter under Its direct su-
pervision the contract with the sani-
tarium company should terminate
otherwise it should remain in force
until June 1905
"The seventh legislative assembly
enacted a law locating the asylum on
the military reservation at Fort Sup-
ply this reservation having been ten-
dered to tbe territory by the federal
government for the purposes of an In-
sane asylum - The act of the seventh
assembly however contained a pro-
vision to the effoct that It should not
be in force until a railway steam or
eleetrle should be built to ForL Sup-
ply No sueh railway has yet been
built consequently the contract en-
tered Into with the Oklahoma Sani-
tarium company la still In force
"Tho existing contract provides
that the territory shall pay the sum
of $200 per annum for each patient
for board lodging medical treatment
and all the attention accorded a pa-
tient in an institution of this char-
acter “The territory does not control the
sanitarium management and baa
nothing to do with its business trans-
actions Tbe onlv authority that the
territory esn exercise ds that of a con-
tractor The company contracted
with the territory to perform certain
things The territory can only re-
quire that those things be done and
beyond the fulfilment of the contract
has no jurisdiction over the business
affairs of the institution
"On the 15th of December 1904
there were confined in tbe asylum 434
patients I’atlents are going to and
from the asylum nlmort all of the
time It is worthy of note however
that th number Is constantly increas-
ing notwithstanding the changes
"Tho legislative 'lobby bas been
the center of attraction In many of
the atates tor several years The
term as used In this connection does
not refer to the citizen who appears
before a legislative assembly to repre-
aent some cause and explain his re-
quest but makes no attempt to use
unlawful lnriiiciicea It applies to
those who have personal schemes to
promote and resort to almost all mao-
ncr of unlawful expedients In an at-
tempt to attain the desired results
"The people of the country have
watched with increasing interest the
war which has been going on against
corruption in public affairs and they
bail with delight that movement
which appears to be the - advance
guard of a new era in Amerlcao poli-
tics and government
"For years It has been the custom
of designing persons to attend the ses-
sions of legislative assemblies and at-
tempt to secure legislation through
means tlint are a menace to good gov-
ernment and a disgrace to civiliza-
tion The day has come when an
'example should he made of all who
attempt unlawful Influences In tbe
legislation and administration of the
public affairs of the country as well
as those who allow themselves to be
Influenced
“To allow these wrongs to go un-
punished wnnld be to continue to
strike a vita blow at a government by
the peoplp Just so long as question-
able transactions are permitted the
young men of the country will form
wrong ideas In regard to politics pub-
lic 'men and public affairs Allow
these unlawful practices to continue
and the young men will be educated
In the belief that success In public life
only contemplates the end to be at-
tained and not the means employed to
reach IL
“'The purification of politics la an
irridescent dream only as long as the
people permit It to be a d? The pub-
lic mind all over the country Is active-
ly engaged in analyzing the problem
of reform In civic affairs A healthy
sentiment Is rrystalizing and out of
it will come higher Ideals purer poli-
tics and I tetter government Oklaho-
ma never behind in any enterprise
should take her lawful position in the
march of progress anil give tbe
world an exatrede worthy of Imitation
Ity teaching all would be corrupters'
of public aervlce that any attempt at
wrong doing will meet a merited re-
buke by an application of the utmost
rigor of the law
"The legislature will be sustained
by public sentiment as well ax by tbe
territory In taking steps to protect
itself against any unlawful outside lv '
flueuc
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