The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 399, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 26, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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AtweutioD ol Oklahoma, at iii t,>eetiuf at
Unvurie, on Jan. 14.1S05.
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iuk strayed or atolen itock will be at the rate of
per bead for horses and mules, (0 cents
per head for cattle notice; where more than one
is deicribed imgly, Ul cants per head for each
description. On a lot of cattle where alt are
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ir (.' her person!, to he charged same .s above:
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aniens notified to sooner discontinue.
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June 2<>, 1&06,
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L( )CA L LODU E M E ETING S.
No. 157 - All members of No. 157 aio
requested to meet once more at the old
campground on first Saturday night in
July, 1906, for we have some important
business to transr.r!;. Pleass don't for-
get the night - Wm, Mensch, Hcc'y.
No. 211.—The members of 211 will
please take notice that cur lodge meets
in regular session Saturday, June 30 at
H p m, Every member should be pres-
ent, aa our June or local dues are due
and Bhould be paid, for you know that
three morthis in arrears deprives us of
the benefits of the lodge. — liy order of
J,8. England, Pres ;Fred A. Hush, See.
No. 551.—Our night of regular meet
ing has been obangbd to the last Satur
day night of each month. Please bear
in mind that on the last Saturday
uight in June every member is request
ed to be present and got the new pass-
word, and attend to other bu^inoKH
Joe Flickinger, Seo'y.
CAAL LANDS SCANDALS.
Washing-ton, June 22.—The Utah coal
land >s an dais a-* to become a subject
' • ■ . by the senate. Many
prominent Western politicians, at least
one senator and several railroads are
saij U> be Involved. It is "brtievd that
nums aggregating millions have been Di-
verted to corporations.
Agitation over the sale ol coal land.!
secured by Utah from the getferal gov-
ernment when admitted as a state has
been in progress for fifteen years. The
lands, about 4,000,000 acres in all, were
supposed at thetlme to be valuable only
for grazing and farming purposes. They
were found later to contain rich coal
deposi s. Nevertheless the state sold
them for ti.50 an acre; the price charg-
ed by the government for such land
ranges from 110 to 120 an acre.
The nomination by President P.oose-
velt of Hiram E. Booth to be United
States attorney for the district of Utah
has brought tills scandal to the direct
attention of the senate. Ills nomination
is now pending before the judiciary com-
mittee. Charges have been preferred
against liim. It is alleged tfhat Booth
was once removed from office because
of conduct disapproved by the govern-
ment. It is declared that he Is presi-
dent of the Carbon County Land com-
pany, a concern that the government
Hi-eks to prosecute In connection with
the coal land frauds. Carbon county la
the centre of the best coal fields ir. Uta!b.
It is also charged that Booth appeared
as counsel for Stanley R. Millner, who
organized the Carbon founty Land com-
priny. The chief Justice of the Utah
supreme court is among Uiose protest-
ing ngnlnst Booth's confirmation.
Conclusive Evidence.
The Judiciary committee has not yet
taken up the charges, and a full in
qulry may not be completed at this ses-
sion, but it is expected that a resolu-
tion will be introduced tills week call
ling upon the interior department and
the department of Justice for all the
reports submitted by special agents wtio
have Investigated the coal J~«8s scan
dal. It is naid that these reports will
show that conclusive evidence has been
secured by the department of Justice,
and preparations are being made to
prosecute all connected with the al-
leged frauds.
Mr. Booth came (here and testified be
fore the senate committee the Smoot
case, and his testimony was favorable
not only to Smoot* but to Ui£_ Mormon
church, although he is not a member of
the church. • Senator Smoot and Suth-
erland both strongly endorsed Booth for
the district attorneyship.
It is not believed that the president
knew of the charges against Booth when
:le sent his nomination In about ten
days ago, although, it Is asserted, he
was warned by an official of the de-
partment of Jusitce that prosecutions
were about to be instituted.
About four years ago reports were
sent out from Salt Lake City that ver-
ious corporations and railroads were
seeking to _ secure control of valuable
coal lands by improper methods. The
work was being done, it was alleged, in
the interest of the Denver and Rio
Orande, a Could line, or tbtf Rio Grande
Western, wtirh is a part <1? the Gould
system operating In portions of Utah.
One person may under the law ee-
eur.- hut 1C0 acres of coal lands. Agents
of the railroads are accused of obtain
Ing large tracts by misrepresentation.
Only a Drop in the Bucket.
Hut this is only a drop In the bucket
as compared with the greater fraud
dating back to the admission of Utah as
state Special Agent Sowers of the gen-
eral land office made the first investi-
gation, nnd his report condemns the
sale of the landb, but no attention was
paid to it. The department of Justice
subsequently sent out Its own agents
and found evidence on which to base
prosecutions. These were verified by
additional agents sent out by the in-
terior department.
J lie officials of the Utah Fuel company
•ire said to bo among those which the
department of Justice will prosecute.
The fuel company Is said to be an aux-
iliary of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road system. Sutherland, Van Cott &
Allison are general counsel for the Den-
ver & Rio Grande in Utah. Sutherland
is a senator from that state. Van Cott
was chief counsel for Senator Smoot
before t*x- senate committee.
The government was also after Stan-
ley B. Millner (since dead), who or-
ganized the Carbon Cuunty Land Com-
pany and had been purchasing large
quantities of coal lands In Eastern
Utah. His sons are said to lie con-
ducting the same business.
The Beginning of It.
About fhree months ago the two Utah
senators sought to have a man named
Thompson adointed registerer of the
land office in place of Major llobbs
who is said to be an efficient officer,
Secretary Hitchcock made a personal
appeal for Major Hobbs. The Presi
dent finally compomised by retaining
Major Hobbs a-id appointing Thompson
receiver of the land office.
The Utah senators then began urg-
ing the appointment of Booth to be
United States Attorney. In that posi-
tion t.o would be called upon to prose-
cute coal land frauds. Protests began
to pour in upon the Senate Judiciary
committee when the nomination was an-
nounced. Accordingly the Interior and
Justice departments will be called upon
for all the reports of special agent^bear
ing upon the subject of the coal lands
scandal.
Senator Sutherland declared to-day
that nothing but politics Is at the
bottom of the charges against Booth
and the agitation of the coal lands
matter.
A KISS FOR ANARCHY
New York, June 22.—Dancers, give
freed! Here is news for you. There
must be no more squeezing of partners
in the waltz. The United Professional
Masters of Dancing of America in con
vention assembled have decreed that
partners in this most seductive dance
must remain at arm's length from each
other.
The waltz wit" out a hug has now come
to take its place beside the cocktail
without whiskev.
There are one hundred and one of
these masters—note the magic, cryptic
number. Countless other teachers of
dancing are wild to join tlbeir associa-
tion, but the masters won't have 'em. To
Join the Kacred band one must not only
know perfectly how to dance and how to
teach dancing, but one must have the
very finest and noblest moral character
anybody who doubts the authority of
the masters to make the laws of danc-
ing can resolve the doubts by read in
in their prospectus these thoughts:
"The officers are pler| ed to admit
only bona fide teachers of established
practice and reputation. Such a so
ciety has long been desired and spoken
of by the profession, who felt that the
existing societies by no means repres
ented the bona fide professional teach
ers, and wtoich could not In any case
be accepted as reliable authorities upon
the temsichorean art.
"The society intended not only to be
tan organlition of material usefulness
to its members, but will also endeavor
to use its influence in creating a better
tone to the modern academy and ball
room, and generally seek to elevate the
art of dancing, giving It a better status
than it las heretofore enjoyed."
"Now, the wait," 3ald Mr. Meyer
Forst, speaking for the masters, "oug<!it
to be our very best dance, as it certainly
Is the most popular. But is it the best
dance? I defy anyone to say so today.
See how the young men and young wom-
en hug each other in the waltz? That
is all wrong. Suppose the music sltould
suddenly 3top, would we permit such
huggings? I should say not.
"Our association is bound to stamp
out that style of waltzing. Only the
other evening In my academy a young
lady was waltzing in like that, her head
almost on her partner's Shoulder. As
soon as the music stopped I stepped up
tnd threw my arm around her neck.
" 'Oh, Mr. Forst!' she exclaimed.
'Oh, Mr. Forst!' I said mockingly
after her. 'Why do you say that now?
Simply because the music flrns stopped?
What difference does that make? If I
am not to hug you when there is no
music, I should not hug you when there
is music. That Is not tlie way to waltz.
"Then why waltz at nil?" asked the
reporter.
"Poetry of motion." the master re-
plied. "It is a lamentable fj< t tl^it most
of the pre -nt styles of dancing as we
we fhem in the average ballroom arc a
degradation to the art and must be at-
tributed to the nii.-guld' 1 action of
teachers,"
The masters will remain In session
all of this week.
"What new dance have ydu?" the re-
porter heedlessly asked Mr." Forst.
"There Is not one new dance in all
the world," replied the master. The oth-
er one 'hundred masteOi nodded vigor-
ously in animation.
PRRDONFOR BURTON'
Washington, June 22.—An effort will
be n ide t-. old In a pardon for J. K.
.Burton. Since Burton resigned his
seat in the senate some of his ex-col-
leagues have quietly 'discussed t" e ad-
visability of asking President Roose-
velt to set aside thesentence under which
he must pay a fine of $2,300 and serve
six months in the Iron county jail.
These senators believed that Burton
has suffered enough already and that
the ends of justice Slave been fully met.
The belief is expressed that had he been
able to do so Judge Vandeventer would
not have imposed the term In jail and
that the sentence would have been only
a fine. The statute Burton violated pro-
vides that upon conviction the offender
s*all be both fined and Imprisoned. It
has been suggested that possibly an un-
derstanding with the president may be
reached by which Burton will withdraw
his motion for a rehearlafc now pending
before the supreme court, and that part
of the sentence relating to imprison-
ment will he set aside.
A member of congress said today he
believed that this arrangement would re-
ceive the approval of the attorney gen-
eral, Mr. Moody. Any application for a
pardon would be referred by the presi-
dent to the attorney general. Since the
supreme court affirmed file sentence of
the district court in the Burton case,
members of He Kansas delegation have
received letters from influential poli-
ticians and others in Kansas asking
them to use their influence to have the
sentence set aside. Some of these let-
ters will be submitted to the president.
None of those interested in the Bur-
ton case has received any intimation
from Mr. Roosevelt as to how lie would
take the suggestion tint he pardon Bur-
ton. So far the president has shown
no disposition to interfere in the pro-
cesses of the courts in government
prosecutions. The only hope in the Bur-
ton case is that the president will take
the view that sufficient punishment has
been meted out to Burton in his en-
forced resignation from the senate and
the enforcement of the statute which
forever renders him incapable of hold-
ing any office of public tru.3t. It is rec-
ognized by Burton's friends that it will
be a waste of effort to apply for on un-
conditional part' n, which would res-
tore to Horn all (he lights of citizen-
ship.
reflections of a bachelor.
(From the New York Press.'
Ii s simply irresistible the way moon-
light all seems to get on a girl'3 lips.
A man must have a queer fiuaucial
sense to lead a double life with two fani-
:('S.
It would seem very queer to have some
relatives you were really glad to have
come on a visit to you.
No man can be a good husband un-
less he praises tho things his wife gives
him to eat, even If lie can't eat them.
if a woman owned a house on Ihe
ocean she would want to go to a board-
ing house in the mountains so as fo tell
them abut it.
FREE BARBECUE BV No. 401"
On July 4th, at Womaok, 1. T., a
grand good time is assured. There
will bo base Fnil, horse-racing, bronoho
riding,—everything that goes to make
a llrstclass Fourth of July celebration.
Everybody is invited to come and help
us celebrate. Committor on arrange-
ments: W. P. MoLlride, Henry Free
ny, J, B Edwnrda,
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