The Harrison Gazette. The Gotebo Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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the gotebo gazette.
A. H Sthwaut, Editer u< Proprietor.
TELEPHONE,
NO. «4.
Published Every Friday at Gotebo.
Oklahoma.
Entered as Second Class Matter Id the
Kstoffice at Harrison, O. T., Decem-
r6, 1901.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1907.
PITTSBURG MOTTO
ILLUSTRATED
A STAR."
"HITCH YOUR WAGON TO
The city council should have a speci-
al census of Gotebo taken, and if the
population exceeds a thousand people
bonds shpuld be issued and water
works put in.
The past month has been a record
one for crime. This has been especially
noticeable in Oklahoma, usually a law-
abiding commonwealth. The failure
to properly punish violators of law is
responsible to a large extent fortbe in-
crease in crime.
Kiowa has before it the unpleasant
duty of furnishing funds to pay the ex-
penses of several murder trials in the
uear future, nearly all of which were
committed by men who were unlawfully
carrying concealed weapons. Some day
the public will wake 'ip to the fact that
it is cheaper to prosecute a man for
unlawfully bearing arms than murder.
W. D. Haywood was declared not
guilty of the murder of ex-Governor
Frank Steunenberg, of Idaho, by the
trial jury at Boise Sunday morning.
The law has held Haywood to be guilt-
less, and though public opinion is not
unanimous In endorsing the conclnsion
of the jury, it is better, perhaps, even
thoueh he might have been guilty, that
he should be freed than to have been
convicted on anything less than the most
convincing evidence.
Gotebo has neglected to take advan-
tage of several opportunities in the past
vear or too, but in failing to put in a
creamery and ice plant, as contemplat-
ed last winter, the biggist mistake of
ail was made. No industry will do so
much for a town and the country sur-
rounding it as the dairy industry, and
this industry will never be developed
until a creamery is established. The
shipping of cream from this point has
reached respectable proportions in the
past yeay or so, but it will never devel-
op to great importance until dairymen
can deal at first hand with creamery.
The creamery plant itself is the only
stimulus needed to make this vicinity a
great dairy district. It is time Gotebo
made a move.
DOWNHEARTED?
HAYWOOD IS FREE
THE JURY ACQUITS HIM AFTER
TWENTY-ONE HOURS.
Did Not Believe Orchard's Story and
Considered the Judges Instruc-
tions Favorable to the Prison
ner—Bail for Moyer.
The republican state convention
which assembled at Tulsa yesterday
will mark out the political lines along
which (he party will follow in the com-
ing campaign. Little doubt exists that
the convention will emphatically
declare against the proposed constitu
tion and suggest that every effort bt
made to defeat its adoption. The evils
of the document over-balance the bene-
fits to be derived from statehood, accor-
ding to republican ideas, and the party
has no other course but to antagonize
it. A state ticket will probably be no-
minated, an anomaly rn-.ide necessary
by existing couditious. The action of
the convention will be watched with in
terest by the whole state and will have
a far reaching influence on the politi-
cal history of Oklahoma.
The people of Oklahoma, barring
possible legal interference, will have the
privilege of voting on the proposed con-
stitution and a full set of state and
county officials September 17. Mam-
consider that the constitution as drafted
is the best that human wisdom could
devise and will vote to adopt the instru-
ment on the merit they see in it; others
will vote for it who contend that while
full of errors it is better to accept it and
statehood than to continue under a ter-
ritorial form of government; there are
others who condemn the instrument as
a patchwork of incompetent ideas, more
legislative than constitutional in its na-
ture and embodying provivions fatal to
the industrial development of the pro-
posed state and detrimental to personal
progress. This class will work and vote
against its adoption. The latter class
is expected to be in the minority, but
if the evils claimed to be present in the
document can be shown up in the prop-
er light it is a question whether the con-
stitution will carry. If not, the majority
for the adoption of the constitution will
be large. The amended instrument is
now published and a< !hf time is short,
its defect*, if it ha* *nv, should be
shown :jp
These twelve men acquitted Hay-
wood.
Thomas B. Gess, real estate.
Finley McBean, rancher.
Samuel D. Gilman, farmer.
Daniel Clark, farmer.
George Powell, rancher.
O. V. Sebern, farmer.
H. F. Messecar, farmer.
Lee Scivener, farmer.
J. A. Robertson, farmer.
Levi Smith, carpenter.
A. P. Burns, retired rancher.
Samuel F. Russell, farmer.
Boise, July 28.—Into the bright sun-
light of a beautiful Sabbath morning,
into the stillness of a city drowsy with
the lazy slumber of a summer Sunday,
William D. Haywood, defendant in one
of the most noted trials involving con-
spiracy and murder that this country
has ever known, walked today a free
man, acquitted of the murder of former
Governor Frank Steunenberg.
The probability of a verdict of ac-
quittal in the case of the
. that Haywood had been acquitted, Or-
chard said:
"Well, I have done my duty. I have
told the truth. I could do no more. 1
am ready to take any punishment that
may be meted out to me for my crime
and the sooner it comes the better."
Inquiring among the jurors after their
dismissal revealed some of the elements
entering into their decision. Samuel D.
| Gilman, the last man to be won over to
the defense, declared that a majority
of the men seemed convinced that the
general tone of the court's instructions
indicated that the defendant should be
freed, and many seemed to doubt the
truthfulness of Orchard's confession.
Moyer Granted $25,000 Bail.
Boise, July 29.—Judge Wood in the
district court this afternoon ordered
Charles H. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, and a
co-defendent with William D. Haywood
yesterday acquitted of the murder of
former Governor Steunenberg, admit
ted to bail in the §um of $25,000. It
was announced that the bond would be
ready some time tonight. Cash bail,
may be given.
The trial of George A. Petti bone one
of the alleged conspirators, was set for
Tuesday, October 1. No application
for bond was made in behalf of Petti-
bone, the efforts of counsel having been
fruitless in this respect.
The decision of the state to continue
the prosecution of the men now under
arrest and the statement that Jack
Simpkins, the fugitive from justice, in-
secretarv-1 cl'cte^ with them, is almost within the
Shoots Officer.
Constable John Haukins, of Lone
Wolf, was shot and seriously wounded
while attempting to arrest two men
Cotton Thirty Days Lata.
Oklahoma Citv, Okla., July 30.—
"Cotton in Oklahoma is thirty days late,
but in good convention at the present,
and a woman who were thought to be i said Albert R. Kirk, a local cotton ('ea'
susspicious characters. j er today. "Cotton, like corn, woul .
After the shooting the men fled, but i be considerably benefitted by
a little
the woman was arrested and the men
captured later by the sheriffs forces.
Variable winds have
the past week.
been prevalent
rain, but the crop outlook has vastly
improved during the past thirty days.
Rain would be of great benefit to the
cotton crop.
treasurer and acknowledged leader of
the Western Federation of Miners had
been freely predicted since yesterday
when Judge Fremont Wood read his
charge, which was regarded as strongly
favoring the defense in its interpreta-
tion of the laws of conspiracy circum-
stantial evidence, and the corroboration
of an accomplice who confesses.
It was also freely predicted that in
the event of Haywood's acquittal the
reach of the law and may be arrested
at any time, came as a surprise to
counsel for the defense, who confident-
ly expected that Moyer and Pettibone
would be released.
PLEASANT VIEW GREETINGS.
Mr. Gossett, was in Hobart last week
He is having very poor health, but
hope when the weather gets cooler,
that he will improve. There has been
state would abandon the prosecution of j a Kreat dea1 of sickness in this com-
his associates, Charles H. Moyer, the ! raunit>' duriD« th" last three weeks-
president of the Federation and George ; Russell Pever's father and sister are
A. Pettibone, of Denver. Statements visiting here now, but they think Bart-
from counsel and from Governor Good- | Iett< Kans . is 8ood enough for them,
ing issued today dispel this view of the 1 Mrs. Limbocker, weut to Hobart
situation. | Tuesday. Edgar is putting up hay on
Governor Gooding said: j Mrs. Cranfield's place this week.
"The verdict is a great surprise to j Mr McKinney, and Russell I'ever
me, and I believe to all citizens of Ida- made hay last week.
ho who have heard or read the evidence ;
in the case. I have done my duty; I '
have no regret as to any action I have
taken, and my conscience is clear.
."As long as God gives me strength I !
shall continue my efforts for govern-
ment by law and for organized society, j
The state will continue a vigorous pros-
ecution of Moyer and Pettibone and
Adams and of Simpkins when appre- j
hepded. There will lie neither hesita-
tion nor retreat."
Application will be made to Judge
Wood tomorrow morning to admit
Moyer and Petty bone to bail, and it
was said tonight that in the case of
Moyer, against whom the state is ad-
mitted to have its weakest case, a fa-
vorable consideration would not be
unexpected.
Not the least interesting of the com-
ments made upon the verdict today was
that of Harry Orchard, the self-con-
fessed murderer of (lovernor Steunen-
' berg and the witness upon whom the
state chiefly relied to pp ve its claim of
1 a sinister conspiracy against the West-
ern Federation of Miners
• When told at the <7ate |*n:.ten'i ry
An Object of Pity.
'pHE woman who tries to make butter by the
old system of cream handling during the
summer months is an object of pity, but not,
perhaps, deserving of pity. The cream separator
has worked a wonderful change in the dairy in-
dustry, permitting milk fresh-drawn from the
cows to be skimmed, or seperated, making
churning an easy matter and saving 50 per cent,
more of the cream.
THE SHARPLESS TU-
BULAR is the best separator
made and combines effective-
ness with simplicity. Its few
working parts make it easy
to clean, easy to keep in or-
der and cuts the repair bill
down to nothing. Its many
advantages will be gladly
shown to you by
0. II. Minton & Bro.
Hardware and Implement Dealers.
Summer Footwear
Newt Gossett will tell yon about
prayer meeting Sunday night if you
will ask him.
Mr. Janzen is repairing their house
on the inside this week. Mr. Hart is
doing the work for him.
Bert Smith and family spent Sunday
at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins were in Hobart
two days last week.
Socialist Co vention.
A mass convention of the socialists of
Kiowa County, Okla., is hereby called
to meet at the court house in Hobart,
Okla., on Saturday, August 24, 1907,
for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for representatives and the
various county officers of KiAva county,
to re-organize the party and transact
such other business as may properly-
come before the said convention. All
class-conscious socialists are invited.
By order of committee.
J. M. Pilc.hkr, Organizer.
Gotebo should emulate the action of
C'<K>pert<in and build a creamery at this
point.
FOOT COMFORT during the Summer
months is something to be eagerly
sought. It is not hard to find when one
understands shoe construction. Com-
fort is only one of the many desirable
features found in the
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