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Established 1893
VOLUME IV
SALLISAW OKLAHOMA FRIDAY JUNE 3 IOIO
NUMBER 3t
COUNTY NORUAL
OPENED HOMY
Attendance Large and In-
teract Good-Much Be-
ing Accomplished
The third annual summer nor
mal for the teachers of the coun-
ty began at the public school
building here Monday the at-
tendance at the opening excer--cisea
being between eighty and
ninety Many have come in
since the roll now showing one
hundred sixteen
Prof H L Nicholas super-
intendent of the school here is
conductor and as such called
the body to order and briefly
outlined the work to be done He
was pointed and positive in what
he had to say He is a stickler
to r discipline and bard study
without either of which no such
thing as a successful! school can
possibly be had and absolutely
requires his students to live up
to his requirements County
Superintendent Mersbon was
called upon next and made one
of hischaractertstic stimulating
soul inspiring addresses He is
justly proud of the work accom-
plished during his administra-
tive as are his teachers and
their pupils and patrons Pro-
fessors Miller and Beard in the
order named next made short
talks which were highly appre-
ciated Beard is superintendent
of the school at Vian and Miller
is monitor of the school here
Both are popular and excellent
teachers Prof Sallis superin-
tendent of schools at Clarksville
Ark who has assisted in the
normal here each year since
statehood and who is acting in
the same capacity this time de-
livered by request a short ad-
dress It was replete with no-
ble thought and sentiments and
captivated those who heard it He
is a splendid scholarly profound-
thinking gentlemen and adds
materially to the weight of the
teaching force engaged Prof
C L Rogers was called for but
refused to make a speech The
writer was also called upon but
did not attempt the impossible
(for us) We did manage how
ever to extend the courtesies
of our office and papers and to
give thanks for the privilege
of doing so and for the oppor
tunity to commend the work
done in the past The present
beginning is art auspicious one
and promises much Not a thing
has occurred so far to mar the
peaceof either the students or the
faculty We look for the accorn
plisbment of great things this
time with bright prospects for
their realization The enroll-
ment including the faculty is as
follows:
Faculty:— H L Nicholas con-
ductor J W Sallis J D Miller
J C Beard and 0 L Rogers in
structors
Mrs A P Johnson Satlisaw
Miss Maude Turner Hadley
Mr WH Buttram Brushy
J M Krumsiek Moffett
B F Oliver Maple
Mrs Ollie Starr Webber Falls
Miss Susan West Alma Ark
" FernStarbird
Miss Irene Murta Ft Smith "
" Iiene Rutledge ' “ " '
Bthel Spratt “ “
N ao m a Morrow Prairie
Grove Ark
Bessie Riddle Natural
Dam Ark
Ethel Comstock Union-
town Ark
Mabel ConstantVanBuren
Ark
Media Southerlan C a s
ville Ark
K VanMatre Morrilton
Ark
Grace Vestal Statler Ark
Georgia Atkins Knoxville
Ark
" Maude Atkins "
Ark
Mr W B Wall Greenwood
Miss
Public School Commence-
ment Exercises Good
and Well Attended
Our public school closed last
we3k the commencement exer-
cises taking place on Thursday
and Friday evenings- The pri-
mary department held the boards
the tlrst night and did splendid
work The little fellows showed
conclusively that they have had
excellent training during the
the year just closed Misses
Neil and Clinton teachers of ex
presslon and music respective-
ly had charge of the entertain-
ment the last evening The
large auditorium of our splendid
school building wad full to
overflowing both evenings and
those present responded liberal
ly when any one made a hit
which deserved cheering The
programs for each evening were
splendidly arranged and were
carried out as planned Misses
Nell and Clinton were happy at
the results of their efforts and
well may they be for all present
enjo)ed the entertainment Irn
mensely ' Superintendent Nlch
oltts and his splendid corps of iu
structors have worked unceas
Ingly to make our school oneof
the best In the state and have
succeeded In doing so They de
serve much credit for their
splendid and efficient service
and are receiving it The en
rollment this year exceeded that
of auy previous session and Is
very satisfactory to all concerned
Nearly all including Superlu
tendent Nicholas of the faculty
have been re elected and have ao
cepted their positions for next
term -
WASHINGTON NEWS
Vital News From The Na-
tional Capital
Washington May' 80— One
hundred and thirty-three mil-
lions of dollars!
Try to comprehend the magni-
tude of this aum If you can and
then pause and reflect over the
fact that it is the amount--the
Senate has voted to spend on the
navy in a single year and in a
time of profound peace Then
consider that only 12 years ago
in 1898 the naval appropriation
was but $33003234 or one hun
dred millions less than the
amount appropriated for the
coming year
A fact iu connection with this
awful increase which the public
seldom hears is that every pen-
ny of this $100000000 which isto
be spent in excess of the amount
used in 1898 comes from the
people not from the rich but
largely from the working men
and women
It Is the ultimate consumer
who pays the battleship bills
who maintains an ever increaa
ing army of officeholders in
Washington and who meets the
one-hundred -and-one 1 extrava-
gances of the goverment He
does it by paying excessive
prices for the things he buys
The goverment raises practi-
cally all of its funds through the
customs bouses and the internal
revenue officers where taxes are
levied on things eaten worn or
used by the people When the
consumer purchases a protected
article— and practically all of the
nesessaries of life are protected
—he pays the real or natural
value of the article and in addi-
tion thereto the amount of the
tariff tax v
The more battleships con-
structed the greater the amount
the goverment must raise
through the tax on consumption
and the greater the cost of liv-
ing Thus it is not so strange that
under the Taft administration
which is - spending more than
twice the amount used by Cleve
land to run the goverment the
cost of living is 50 per cent
greater than under the Cleveland
administration
Whilo the bat coat and shirt of
the masses are taxed Hlmnst 71
per cent to build $11000000
battleships and keep an extrava-
gant goverment in spending
money Messrs Rockefeller Mor-
gen et al are not asked by the
federal goverment to pay any
tax whatever on their swollen
fortunes
Wealth escapes bearing its
just share of the burden of taxa-
tion because of the absence of a
federal income of inheritance
tax such as were long ago adopt-
ed by Great Brittiun Germany
France Japan Holland Aurtria
Denmnrk Switzerland Austral-
ia and New Zealand
A majority of both branches of
Congress were in favor of tack-
ing an income tax clause to the
new tariff law Such legislation
would now bo upon the statute
books had not President Taft and
Senator Aldrich defeated the
projest by substituting a corpor-
ation tax That the necessary
three fourths of the state lesls-
latures will not vote to amend
the constitution Is now practical
ly certain which means that an
Income tax can only be secured
at the hands of a Democratic ud
ministration
It Is estimated that In 1000 blio
cost of living was nearly 12 per
cent higher than it would have
been without tariff Hence cal
culating that the average family
consumed $41 worth of supplies
per annum its Increased pay
ment on account of the tariff was
$111 Of this $111 $1050 went
to the goverment In collections
and $0450 went to the trust in
high prices Of tills $0450 $025
was on woolens more than $1"
on other clothing $025 on furnl
(Continued on last page)
OFF FOR BLACKMON
Left
For San Franclaoo
Monday Night
John E Johnston 8heriff of
Sequoyah County in company
with W L Curtis County At-
torney left Monday night May
10 for San Francisco to await
the arrival of the fugitive Black-
mon who is now in charge of a
United States officer on board
steamship Sherman which sailed
from Manila May 14th and
which will arrive in San Francis-
co June 12th
The cablegram received from
the Governor-General of Manila
stated that W E Blackmon had
been arrested waived extradi-
tion and was Bent to San Francis-
co on Steamship Sherman and
notified the Sheriff of Sequoyah
County to take charge of him on
bis arrival
Mr Johnston no doubt de-
serves a good deal of credit for
the fight he has made and for
the success he has had in get-
ting this man Blackmon Every
paper in the country has talked
about it and praised the officer
for his bravery and the shrewd
work he has performed in the
case
It will be remembered that
Blackmon forgqd a number of
checks He also purchased a
ot of horses from his neighbors
and friends promised to pay
them mortgaged the horses and
After mortgaging the horses
took them and sold them But
that crime is not as bad as the
crime he committed against his
wife and children Think of it!
A man leaving his wife sick in
bed with 108 degrees of fever
with three small children leav-
ng them without a dollar to live
on and then leaving in company
with a disreputable woman
Stop and consider the injustice
le has done his wife and child-
ren He has betrayed and dis-
gtafced tbfem for life He has
disgraced his little children and
also disgraced and abnsed his
good wife How can one have
sympatbvand pity upon a man
ike him when he robs bis own
wife and children of their good
n a me and places them in disgrace?
The good people of Sallisaw have
never let a man of his caliber get
away It is not only a credit to
the town but a credit to Sequoy-
ah County and Mr Johnston to
bring the fugitive back It shows
that he cannot get away from
Sallisaw and Sequoyah County
as long as John E Johnston is
Sheriff of the county
Mr Johnston lias done wonder-
ful things in securing Blackmon
more than people have any ideaof
And in fact more than will ever
be known Mr Johnston is a
wonder in his profession
No doubt when Blackmon left
n company with this disreputa-
ble woman be thought he was
in his glory — riding around on
(lie trains stoppingat fine hotels
eating and drinking the best in
the land while his poor wife and
children were struggling for ex-
istence Stop and carefully consider
what Blackmon has done— what
he has done to his friends by
robbing them the way he did he
did not doit by shrewdness but
did it ly deliberately stealing
the confidence of the people who
were his friends This is not to
be considered as much as the
way he treated his wife and
children It Is the most serious
thing a man can do A man
could not put enough stress on a
case of tills kind God Almighty
could uot let a man like Black-
mon go around having a good
time unpunished
Think of a man leaving a sick
wife without any means and
taking a disreputable woman and
going away leaving her and child-
ren for good Wasn’t he smart
when lie wrote a postal card to
his little boy saying "Kid you
will never see me again" Wasn’t
he smart when he wrote a postal
card to the Manager of the Sing
er Sewing Machine Company
saying "Pete I have betrayed
you Take charge of my bust
ness and do the best you can
Catch me if you can"
The woman he had with him
wrote a letter saying she had
"thrown her socks up and was
wearing silks and satins and
stopping at a $350 a day hotel
and eating and drinking the best
In the land Sh said Marble
City would not know her that
she bad just taken a salt water
bath and was feeling fine and
that the baby (meaning Black-
mon) was- asleep while here
Blackmon’s wife and three child-
ren were fighting for existence
This disreputable character
also said that she was having a
fine time and mentioned the fine
time she was going to have when
she sailed on the steamer for Ma-
nila And at the same time she ex-
pressed her love (?) for her hus-
band Wasn't it brave andsmart
of Blackmon to do as he did?
When he left Sallisaw bethought
that the people were too ignorant
to catch a man like him But
John E Johnston was just a little
bit smarter and made up his
mind that a man like Blackmon
could never escape from Se-
quoyah County aa long aa he ia
sheriff He has spent a good
deal of his own money and has
done a great deal of detective
work in order to get the man
who robbed the people and hia
wife and children of everything
they had also the good name
they possess
Praises for John E Johnston
for getting Blackmon He de-
serves all the credit and is en-
titled to the highest of praises
that we can give him Citizen
Delinquent Personal Tax
County Treasurer N Pate ha®
made out and turned over to the
office of the sheriff the warrants
for delinquent personal taxes and
the same will be collected at
once It is not pleasant for Mr
Johnston and his deputies to
levy on the property of the de
llnquentsbut the law is manda
tory and must be complied with
Those who have not paid would
better do so and avoid extra
costs -
School Cloaea at Dwight
Mission
The school at Dwight Mission
near Marble City olosed
Wednesday evening a number
from berejittending the final ex-
ercises They were Supt Mer
shoo Professors Miller Sallis
and Fortenberry Mr and Mrs
Ahrens Misses Rhodes Bag-
gess Van Meter Crow Nor-
wood Fortenberry and Irwin
’ The exercises were pronounc
ed moBt excellent especially the
rendition of Hiawatha
Supt Scbaub and his assis-
tants Misses Sweeny and East
man have done most excellent
work this year In preparing
for the production of Hiawa-
tha they sent to far-away Dakota
and secured Indian costumes for
the occassion Those from here
who attended were delighted with
the entertainment and say that
they were well paid for their
time and efforts in going
Gruce Men Organizing
At a meeting of Cruce men
here Monday night it was decid-
ed to organize and place club
rolls in each of the four drug
stores where all who favor the
candidacy of Mr Cruce for gov
ernor and who desire to go on
record as such can do so Those
so inclined will confer a favor on
the committee who prepared the
rolls by signing up as soon as is
convenient In order that a per-
manent organization may be per
fected
Annual School Meeting
Our annual school meeting
takes place next Tuesday at the
public school building and al
ready there is considerable in-
terest manifested We Indulge
the hope that many will attend
and take part in the proceedings
as all are vitally interested We
want to see a good all round
broadminded school man elected
to succeed Mr Warshauer who
refuses to permit the use of his
name for re election and to see
a sufficient tax voted to maintain
the present high standard of our
school No stingy picayuish
penny wise and pound foolish man
or one who can not see any good
In anybody who does not happen
to belong to the circle or coterie
of intereste to which he caters
is properly fitted to fill this po
sitlon It requires a man who
can rise above personal and
selfish Interests and aot for the
welfare of alt Let us have a
well attended quiet good hu
tnored meeting laying aside any
prejudices or ill feelings we may
have against Individuals and do
only those things which wil
build up not tear down our
school
DEUOCRATS RALLY
-TO PARTY CAUSB
Signers Are Secured imnr
Suffrage Riatrictlon
Amendment Petition
BY W F KERB IN OKLAHOMA
"That the sentiment of demo-
crats of Oklahoma is largely
with us in the effort to restrict '
the voting franchise in the elimi-
nation of ignorant negroes wm
evidenced by the fact that it ra
quiredbut thirty-three days to
secure the names of 42000 dess-
ocrats to our petitions asking
the submission of a suffrage re-
striction amendment’’ said Fred
P Branson chairman of the
state democratlo committee
Sunday upon his return from
Guthrie
The time required for the so
curing of these names was s re
cord-breaker in Oklahoma Tan -thousand
dollars in cash and ft?t
month’s work were required to
complete the petition filed by
the Sons of Washington asking '
a resubmission of the prohibition
question Twelve thousand dol
lara and six months were re
quired to get the necessary
number of names on the petition -asking
the submission of a pro
posed amendment to the oonstl
tution affecting railroad oon
struotion It required sixty
days to get the names that ap-
peared on the petition asking
that the state capital be perman
ently located
LEADERS HERB
Democrats from all over Okla-
homa swarmed into Oklahoma
City Sunday and Chairman Bran
son weary of a task that has re-
quired no small amount of ener-
gy but cheerfully over hla re
markable aooompliahment re
ceived the plaudits and oongrat
ulatlonsof the assembled lead-
ers and followers in the cause
"I am convinced the Oklahoma
democrats are almost unit for
the suffrage restriction meas-
ure" continued Chairman Bran-
son' "When other petitions
were circulated they were placed
before all the people regardless
of politios and the task iu any
case was not easy We applied
largely to Democrats and while
a few republicans signed the pe-
tition the time limit is remarka-
ble considering that it required
the name of one out of every
three voting democrats in the
state We feel encouraged and
look for a great victory The
Democrats are with us"
Oklahoma county led the list of
petitioners and Muskogee came
second the former furnishing
3000 names and the latter about -2700
Pontotoc was third and
Bryan Pittsburg Carter and
Atoka followed closely Those '
who circulated the petitions re-
port little democratic opposition
to the measure Eveu in couu- '
ties of small negro population
democrats were eager to sign-
Why lie Stopped Short
An exchange says: "In Indi-
anapolis they tell a story on a
certain attorney to explain why
he quit drinking so suddenly
suys last week’s Interior He
had patronized one saloon with
great liberality for yeara Lately
the proprietorof the place bought
house and lot and he employed
another lawyer to examine the
abstfact for him The steady
patron the Interior goes on to
say when he heard It went after
the saloonkeeper roughshod de-
manding to know why business
fuvors weren’t exchanged when
there was opportunity Why
did the saloonkeeper turn away
from hts own customer and glvs
business to a tuna who never
bought anything of him— nor of
anv other saloonkeeper? The
saloonkeeper was amazed at the
complaint he thought the expla-
nation ought to be plain enough!
'When I've got business’ he said
with child-like frankness 'I want
It done by a sober lawyer' Sud-
denly the attorney too concluded
It was all plain enough hie
friends say he hasn't touched
liquor since"— Muskogee Phoe-
nix Willoughby Jenkine who
been elck has recovered
hat