Johnston County Capital-Democrat (Tishomingo, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1910 Page: 2 of 12
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JDHISTfil COURT! ClPITMMSCrJT
EDWIN L LLCAS Eutoc
TISHOMINGO ow"' V
OKLAHOMA HAPPENING
Tho people of Mangum hare just
Voted S5000 In bonds for sewer and
water works extensions and a city
ball
Civil service examination will be
held July 23 for rural carriers at Jef-
ferson Kingfisher and Wagoner
Okla
The free state employment bureau
provided by the last legislature was
opened here with H C Moodv as superintendent-
Shawnee is mighty proud of its fine
new auditorium and convention ball
Those who have seen It say it is truly
a magnificent structure
The contract for Oklahoma City's
new million dollar cotton mill pas
been let and work will begin in a
few days on the grading and exca-
vating Gage a thriving town of Ellis coun-
ty is soon to have a water system
and an electric light system Twelve
car loads of pipe will be used in in-
stalling the water system
Enid's first interurhan railway a
short line from that city to North
Enid a distance of four miles seems
to be an assured success work having
been started on the construction
As a result of a spree on diluted
alcohol three Mexicans are dead at
Marietta Two were men and one a
woman A negro who was out with
them is still alive but is in a critical
condition
The Oklahoma State Fair at Okla-
homa City this year promises to be the
best in its history according to plans
of the association There will be rep-
resentatlve exhibits from every county
in the state
Arden Carver of Pryor Creek met a
horrible death while cutting oats The
team hitched to the binder became
frightened and ran throwing Carver
in front of the machinery He was
dragged fifty yards
By order of the city commission
Tulsa is to have a sane Fourth of July
The commission enacted an ordinance
prohibiting under threat of arrest and
fine the shooting of firecrackers or
other explosives on the Fourth
Palrfai ty an overwhelming major-
ity voted bonds for water works and
sewerage The next enterprising move
is to pave Main street A telephone
franchise was also granted to R E
Sperry
I The Sapulpa Morning American has
been sold to a stock company Senator
Clarence Davis will be editor of the
paper succeeding James Dennis
Hynn The company will be re-oran-ized
and the capital stock incorpor-
ated I Rogers county is coming along fine-
ly with its farming Reports to the
board of agriculture show that it last
year raised nearly a million bushels
of Kaffir corn Everything except
cotton increased and hay poultry ani-
mals for slaughter and cow peas were
doubled
On the theory that the federal cen-
sus will show Comanche county to
have a population exceeding 30000
and the city of Lawton to contain
more than 8000 people four candi-
dates have filed notice with the county
election board of their candidacy for
the office of superior court judge to
be created there
Rolling stock for the street railway
at Chickasha has arrived and has been
placed in the car barns on Nineteenth
street Steel for six blocks has been
delayed and the managers announce
that the line will not be in openation
until July 15
Irrigation appears to be an unqual-
ified success in Harper county Along
a ditch from Englewood Kansas
southwest through Harper it is re-
ported to the board of agriculture that
the wheat is vastly more promising
than in dry sod fields adjoining It is
estimated the yield will le fifty bush-
els per acre against twenty in near-
by fields
Alice Wilson an aunt of Senator
Robert L Owen drew the first check
in the big Cherokee payment which
began at Tahlequah last week Five
thousand persons were here to draw
their money This is the heaviest pay-
ment ever made there Hundreds
slept the night before intbe square
around the capltoi building where
payment is being made to get a good
position in line
Owing to the fact that the Rock Is-
land company failed to deposit money
to meet the expense of the proposed
election at Lawton to grant additional
trackage right-of-way In the city the
election was not held
Enid is arranlng a big Fourth of
July celebration the plans being un-
der the supervision of the chamber of
commerce The plans include every-
thing in the way of speeches by prom-
inent men bsseball games fireworks
greased pig races horse races aitd a
genuine old-fashioned Fourth
SESSION HAS
BEACHED END
SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS TAKE AD-
JOURNMENT IN USUAL ORDER
PRESIDENT IS PLEASED
Practically All Matters of Legislation
Have Been Signed by Chief Exec-
utive — Receives Congratula-
tions From Cabinet
Washington D C— The sixty-first
congress adjourned at II o’clock Sat-
urday night and President Taft has
signed practically all matters of leg-
islation that had been placed before
him He received congratulation
from ble cabinet and members of both
branches of congress upon the success-
ful passage of most of his pet meas-
ures The last measure signed was a Joint
resolution to authorize the secretary
of war to loan tents to the Appala-
chian exposition to be held at Knox-
ville Tenn in September which Air
Taft expects to attend
President Taft arrived at the capitol
about 10 o'clock with Various mem-
bers of the cabinet They went to tht
president's room where the chief ex-
ecutive stood by to act upon more
important bills coming to him from
the two houses
The closing procedure was of the
usual order The gavel of the presid-
ing officers fell at approximately the
agreed hour and the first regular ses-
sion of the sixty-first congress was
at an end
Speaker Cannon in a statement from
the rostrum just before the house ad-
journed declared he had nothing to
apologize for as a member f the
bouse or as speaker and be presum-
ed each member could say the same
thing
The speaker paid most attention to
the legislative work accomplished re-
ferring only incidentally to the fight
which had been made on the rules of
the bouse The reform of the rules
be said had resulted in little advan-
tage The speaker declared that the
congress Just ended had done more
and better work than any congress of
which he had been a member during
his thirty-five years of service in the
house After recounting the legie uiion
enacted the speaker said:
“This work of legislation has gone
on quietly but effectively while those
who view congress from a distance
have been assuming that the house
was doing nothing but changing its
rules The changes of rules have con-
tributed to the pleasure and perhaps
the power of some individuals in the
house but the current of leglsletion
itself has moved on as usual wiib
little disturbance on account of a few
new methods and with little advan-
tage therefrom
"I do not think the work of a con-
gress should be measured by the vol-
ume of business but by the character
of the legislation and the care taken
in its consideration Measured by
that standard the sixty first congress
will take a high place In the record
of legislation There have been how-
ever more than 6000 of the 27000
bills considered and reported from
committees and about 300 public laws
enacted in this session as against
400 public laws for the entire sixtieth
congress I can commend the entire
membership of the house for Indus-
try and Intelligence In their legisla-
tive work of this sesssion"
The speaker told of the passage ol
the postal savings bank oill and con-
tinued: “In my judgment this Is the best
illustration of party legislation we
have bad in many years and it fully
Justifies the necessity for party ac-
tion In a great legislative body
The speaker then detailed other leg-
islation which bad been enacted
“The appropriations" he said
“have been large but not nearly as
large as demanded by the people who
were agitating over the development
of the various departments of the
government There bag not been s
single appropriation bill that has not
been Increased by a non-partisan vote
In the house over the report of the
committee"
Fail to Reach Agreement
Kansas City— President Thomas L
Lewis of the United Mine Workers of
America and James Elliott of Mus-kog-e
Okla representing the South-
western Coal Operators' association
adjourned their conference Saturday
night without having reached an agree-
ment upon which the miners would re-
turn to work
Piedmont Woman Found Murdered
Piedmont Okla— Mrs M J Miller
was found dead in her home She was
bound to s bedstead and marks on her
throat indiated she met ceath by
strangling arter a criminal asssnlt
bad been committed
Airship Passenger Service Proposed
SL Louis— A regular airship passen-
ger service between SL Louis Chicago
and Kansas City will bo attempted
within two montha if the plans of Al-
bert Von Hoffman inventor do not
meet with a set back For a year bo
has been secretly constructing an air-
ship modeled on the lines of that of
Count Zeppelin but lighter and with
greater capacit for passengers Von
Hoffman la the inventor of tbo process
of welding steel rails now used by
oracticsliy all strong car companies
OKLAHOMA NEWS
Interesting Items of the New State Told
In Few Words For Our Busy Readers as
ELECTION LAW 18 OPERATIVE
Supreme Court Hande Down Impor-
tant Decision
Guthrie Okla — A decision of two-
fold value was handed down by the
state supreme court here Associate
Justice Williams writing the opinion
The court upholds Secretary of State
Bill Cross In overruling the protests
filed against the “grandfather clause"
Initiative petitions by the socialists
and the three aged negro voters of
Guthrie and in passing upon the case
before them found that the 1910 ini-
tiative and referendum law became
effective when it was signed by Gov-
ernor Haskell last March and Is now
the governing law over elections held
under the initiative and referendum
The significance of this decision of
the court that the 1907-1908 initiative
and referendum election law has been
superceded by that of 1910 (Senate
Bill No 126 by Senator Taylor) will
be appreciated when It la recalled
that the new provides the special bal-
lot for the grandfather clause" and
further that the republicans have re-
cently filed two referendum petitions
against the 1910 law which the
court now finds to have gone into
effect three months ago
The necessity of deciding whether
the 1907-1908 or 1910 law prevailed
relative to elections under the ini-
tiative end referendum was due to the
fact that the question before the court
hinged directly on that point The
protestants against the -“grandfather
clause” petitions contended thgt no-
tices were served contrary to the
1907-1908 law The secretary of state
set up the defense that they were
served in accordance with the 1910
taw and it w-as up to the court to de-
cide which law now prevails
MAY TAKE FEDERAL LANDS
Attorney General Prepares to Fils on
210000 Acres in Oklahoma
Guthrie Okls— Having received an
unfavorable reply from the depart-
ment of the Interior to the Oklahoma
claim for 210000 acres additional of
federal public lands or script Instead
under an old act of congress grant-
ing this much land to every new state
for Its agricultural colleges Attorney
General West Is preparing to file for
the state of Oklahoma on every acre
of unappropriated government land In
the state and contest In the courts
to make hts filings good
The department of the Interior
takes the stand that under the enab-
ling act Oklahoma was given 400000
acres of land for agricultural and
mechanical schools and thinks that
the state is asking for more is unrea-
sonable The department also takes
the position that the 400000 acres
given in the enabling act was in lieu
of the 210000 acres now claimed
Mangum Votes Bonds
Mangum Okla — The taxpayers of
Mangum voted to Issue bonds for
$20000 for sewer extension $40000
for waterworks extension and $2" 000
for building a city hall Only tax-
payers and property owners were
permitted votes In the election The
propostion carried six to one
Train Kills Mexican at Durant
Durant Okla — While attempt irg to
board a Katy freight train here Ra-
mundo Morales a Mexican was In-
stantly killed Morales was about 22
years old and was en route from St
Louis to" McGregor Texas
Unidentified Body Found In River
Yukon Okla — An unidentified man
eupposed to be a resident of Okla-
homa City was found dead in a liver
about eight miles east of Yukon
Tuesday morning
Farmer Meets Horrible Death
Pryor Okla — Arden Carver aged
fifty-two a prominent and highly re-
spected farmer living south of th!s
city met a horrible death while cut-
ting oats His team became frighten-
ed throwing him in front of the bin-
der dragging him some fifty yards
cutting and crushing him Death re-
sulted almost Instantly
Fatally Injured In Runaway
Sapulpa Okla — Bradley Cqx 14
years old was perhaps fatally In-
jured in a runaway accidenL A team
of bones he was driving ran away
and in crossing a railrcad track the
wagon tongue broke The boy was
hurled from the wagon and part of
the tongue penetrated his throat
passing through to the root of his
mouth He cannot recover
Million Dollar Incroaao for Comanche
' Guthrie Okla— An increase of over
one million dollars in the value of
farm products raised in Comanche
county in 1909 over the value of crops
raised during the previous year Is
the big showing made by that county
In the assessors' returns on agricul-
tural statistics just received and com-
piled by the state board of agricul-
ture The farm crops of Comanche
county last year brought $3899281 as
compared with $2887414 for 1901
VOTE ON GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
Governor leeuea Proclamation Calling
Election on August 2
Oklahoma City Okla — Governor
Haskell has Issued a proclamation call-
ing for a vote on the “grandfather
clause” on August J the same day on
which state primaries are to be held
This proclamation follows close on the
heels of a decision of Supreme Court
Justice Williams Wednesday in
which he overruled the objections filed
by Jim Harris to the initiative peti-
tion The ballot title baa been pre-
pared by Attorney General West and
certified to by Secretary of State Bill
Cross and will be submitted to Will
Linn secretary of the state election
board to be placed upon the ballot
The “grandfather clause” Is a con-
stitutional amendment Initiated by a
petition of 42440 voters asking that
an educational test be required of all
voters
Republicans are up in arms and de-
clare they will continue to fight the
proposition Just the method they in-
tend to use is not'known It is claimed
by republican leaders if they do not
succeed in defeating the proposition
before election that they will defeat
it at the general election
GREAT DEMAND FOR LABORERS
All Records for Shipping Farm Handl
Broken During Past Week
Oklahoma City — All records foi
shipping of farm labor were broken
In Oklahoma City during the past
week when over 600 men were sent
to various parts of the state to help
harvest Oklahoma's bumper crops
The demand though not as heavy as
last week will probably continue
through the summer Local employ-
ment bureaus report huvy business
with prospects that it will be larget
than ever when the late alfalfa and
corn crops are ready for the farmet
to market
The plea from the farmers for help
which has been handled so capably
by the employment bureaus was never
so strong as this year and the sup-
ply of men was never so good This is
explained partly bv the great influx
of settlers who have come to the
state during the past year Farids
that formerly contained 300 acres have
been cut and sold into half in order
to give others s chance the small
but productive farm Idea gaining fa-
vor This has had an effect on the farm
help problem Usually the farmer
owing to the size of his crops has
had a hard time to get sufficient help
it has been left to spoil because of
the shortage This year it Is estl
mated not one acre will be left un-
touched through lack of lalfrers
Banker Must Serve Prison Term j
Guthrie Okla — According to a man-
date from the federal court of appeals
at St Louis Charles Billingsley mnst
within thirty days begin hjs seven j
year prison sentence at Leavenworth (
Kansas Billingsley was president of
the defunct Capital National bank
which failed at Guthrie six years ago
Ho was charged with wrecking the
bank and was convicted on one of fif-
teen counts for making false entries
in addition to the prison sentence he
suffered the loss of his private fortune
amounting to $200000 tie was con-
victed three years ago but the case
has still been draging along in the
higher courts
East Sees Opportunities in Oklahoma
Guthrie Okla — Frank Field acting
secretary of the state hoard of agri-
culture states that his board is being
flooded with Inquiries from farmers
and Immigration bureaus relative to
the opportunities for farmers in Ok-
lahoma Mr Field believes tha the
ensuing year wilt witness a flood ol
Immigration to Oklahoma never
equaled in the history of the state
Oklahoma Team Playing Classy Gams
Oklahoma City — 'ite Oklahoma
City baseball club in the Texas
league is back at home for s series
of sixteen games Beginning on the
22nd Waro plays three games then
comes Galveston tor three followed
by Houston San Antonio and Shreve-
port The team then goes to Texas
for s series of three games each
with Fort Worth and Dallas return-
ing borne July 12 The class of bail
the ‘‘Indians'’ have been putting up
on their last trip shows that they
are la the race to w'n and the fans
are rejoicing over the chance to see
the boys in action at home unco
more
Employment Bureau Opened at Enid
Outbrle Okla — The branch free
employment bureau located st Enid
by the special session of tbo legisla-
ture has been opened there with H
C Moody in charge The bureau
which Is intended primarily to look
after tbs demand for harvest hands
In tho wheat belt is started s little
late to do any good along that lino
for this year tbo demand bu been
pretty well supplied so far from the
offices hero and at Oklahoma City-
GORE CHARGES
BRIBE ATTEMPT
OKLAHOMA 8ENATOR TELLS OF
50000 OFFER MADE HIM
STATEMENT IS SURPRISE
Declares Other Oklahoma Member of
House Was Similarly Approached
in Effort to Secure Influence
In Coal Lands Matter '
Washington D C — An almost un-
precedented scene took place in the
senate chamber Friday when United
States Senator Thomas P Gore of
Oklahoma arose in his place and dra-
matically declared that he had been
offered $25000' and later $50000 by
the agents of J Frank McMurrsy of
McAlester to prevent action upon bis
bill aimed at the destruction of the
McMurray contracts with the people
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
involving fees aggregating three mil-
lion dollars or more
The contracts are with individual
Indians and aa drawn require the
Choctawa and Chickasawa to pay the
McAlester attorney 10 per cent of
all the moneys received by them upon
the settlement of their estate
Senator Gore stated that he Intro-
duced his bill on May 4th that on
May 5th the committee authorized a
TOM P GORE
favorable report and that on the fol-
lowing day he was approached in his
office by a fellow townsman who
stated that he was interested in the
McMurray contracts that there was a
big fee In it that the fee would be
big enough for two that it would be
worth $25000 if he (Senator Gore)
would telephone Senator Hughes of
Colorado who had been authorized to
report the measure and ask him not
to report the bill “Indeed” said the
agent "if you lay down on McMurray
1 can get you $30000”
Another United States senator and
a member of the house are also in-
terested in these contracts said Sen-
ator Gore as clincher
The Lawton senator spurnec the of-
fer and at once confided in the Ok-
lahoma delegation as to what had
happened between himself and his
Lawton townsman Senator LaFol-
lette was also Informed as to what
had taken place
To say the senate was thunder-
struck at the revelations is putting it
mildly Senator Burton of Ohio who
was filibustering on the Appalachian
forest reserve bill was put in eclipse
and for hours dignified United States
senators were found inquiring and
wondering who the other senator and
member of the house could be Their
curiosity still continues as Senator
Gore refused to Indulge in names but
be added that the wey for an Investi-
gation was now open and that he was
prepared for all eventualities
“I speak from personal knowledge"
aid he sententlously
The three sensational speeches
made by Gore Friday were the cul-
mination of the fight he has made to
prevent the confirmation of the con-
tracts made years ago by the tribal
legislature of the Choctaw and Chick-
asaw Indians with Mansfield McMur-
ray & Cornish That contract made
the firm the agents of the tribe to
sell the tribal lands for ten per cent
of the money received from such sale
Hut the president was the guardian
of the Indians and the contract could
not be valid until the president had
Ignod it as approved President
Roosevelt very flatly turned down the
contract
McMurray bought out his partners
and the business is now In the name
of J F McMurray though several
others are said to be Interested Fail-
ing to get bis tribal contracts approv-
ed McMurray secured contracts with
the Indians privately that authorized
him to sell their lands for the ten
per cent fee That too needed the
approval of the president and the
matter was submittal to President
Taft and Sec Ballinger months ago
Recently Senator Gore came to tbs
conclusion that they would attempt to
work through tho approval of the
contracts after the adjournment of
congress On May 4th ha Introduced
the bill which provided that: "That
from and after the passage of fids set
no contract affecting tho tribal money
or property of any Indian tribe shall
have any validity until the same shall
ba approved by tbo congress of tits
United States and any contract made
In violation of this set shall be void:
Provided that this shall not sffect
any existing contract made and ap-
proved In accordance with law"
GETTING RICH RAPIDLY ENOUGH
“Ho doesn't believe in trusts"'
“Ho doesn't need to lie owns
lummer resort hotel”
SKIN HUMOR 25 YEARS
“Cutlcurs did wonders for me For
twenty-five years 1 suffered agony
from a terrible humor completely cov-
ering my head neck and shoulders so
even to my wife 1 became an object
of dread At large expense 1 consult-
ed the most able doctors far and near
Their treatment was of no avail nor
was that of the Hospital during
six months' efforts 1 suffered'' oa
and concluded there was no help for
me this side of the grave Then I
heard of some one who bad been cured
by Cutlcura Remedies and thought
that a trial could do no harm In a
surprisingly short time I was com-
pletely cured 8 P Keyes 147 Con-
gress St Boston Mass Oct 12 ’09"
Face Covered with Pimples
"I congratulate Cutlcura upon my
peedy recovery from pimples which
covered my face 1 used Cutlcura Soap
Ointment and Resolvent for ten days
and my face cleared and I am perfect-
ly well I had tried doctors for sev-
eral months but got no results Wm J
Sadller 1614 Susquehanna Avs Phila-
delphia May 1 1909”
Ho Gets "Commercial Extra"
“Don't you touch that sprig of cel-
ery V commanded Mrs Heckpen
“Why not" asked Mr Heckpen
“Ain't it good?"
"Good’ Certainly It's good— It's the
beat there la I'm keeping that for tho
canary" a)y
Horrible Thought
“Hut wby do you think we are In
imminent danger of a war with Eng-
land?" “Ain't Alfred Austin just as likely
as not to write a poem on the occasion
of Roosevelt's visit?"
TAKE A FOOT-BATH TO-NIGHT ‘
After dissolving one or two Allen's Font-
Tabs (Antiseptic tablets for ths foot-bath)
In the water It will take out all soreness
smarting and tenderness remove foot-
otlors anil freshen the feet Allen’s Foot-
Tabs Instantly relieve weariness and-
sweating or Inflamed feet and hot nerv-
ousness of the feet at niaht Then for
eonifort throughout the day shake Allen’s
Foot-Ease the antiseptic powder Into your
shoes Bold everywhere 5c Avoid sub-
stitutes Samples of Allen's Foot-Tabs -mallei)
FHKK or our regular else sent by
mall for 2S Address Allan 8 Olmsted
Leltoy N T
He patient with everyone but above
all with yourself I mean do not be
disturbed because of your imperfec-
tions and always rise bravely from a-
fall — Francis de Sales
A torn Jacket Is soon mended but
bard words bruise the heart of a
child-— Iaongfeilow
BEAUTY!
The Discriminating
Woman Demands
FRECKELEATER on ber-
totlel table It Is a face
cream so exquisite so
effective that It has be-
come a necessity It is
beauty fur your asking
Tee sties— 60c and Ids
All Dealers
Baker-Wheeler Mfg Co Dallas Tex
PREVENTION
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