The Messenger. (Drummond, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Turkey is ze'tin*; so accus-omed t<
political n;ji«aTili that a little mat
ter in the seismic line does sot worn
it at alL
Steel billets hare been reduced *1*
a tod daring the last six months, this
b*-ing one of the bargains offered that
the women bares t rushed after.
here are more bones than erer b
in the United States and they ar
th aof moety. Whldi shows wfu
ger who paid
The telephone in the
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those
English suffragettes
are cotSn-e-f
most
be kep« busy by hi
as bands
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want
to know where the
tr wires
had
their
change of under*
locking
aad
when
e the can-openers an
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the children of Parii
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birds
and beasts are like.
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the Parisian school for
the biin
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taught by the use of a &
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of stuffed animals
Give Her
the Vote
.
M oman Needs
Broadening Influ-
ence of Ballot
By EEX1 ELAUME. M. P-
mm* Uii. ml bnna rarteaMi P-rtj
$7,000,000.00 WAS
SOM APPROPRIATED
GOVERNOR HASKELL SAYS HE
WILL MAKE A CUT.
i*WS. six a
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'MAS pars tuts
As to ti* cvjci«::. an that firing wanna saf&agy
Sbe is era*"a to ibe fat'.aries aoi fTri: .s a; t re^at;
poverty a drawing bet oat of her bocae as 1 :::ting her onto
the ifnfs fttfT day. The ssrsggk- to lirt is* her oal k«
Ti* m her boare a&i thinks :-f r.v;:..nz else be-
ago. JSmET,
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can
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tal in fccr
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us a prefer condition :or
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The ieuj encore who will serve
hangiiitg birds on toast inspires more
confidence than the chef who makes a
specialty of alligator steaks.
Illinois is considering a bill to "label
married men." doubtless because it Is
apparent that married men don't need
any label.
Women who wear high beeied shoes
cannot collect damages if tbey fall
and hart themselves while stepping off
a street car. This bit of information
comes straight from a court in New-
ark. X. J.
Liliren.
lore with r-ros
rsu tr-an
id less with
dereose*!. n
Tbe rice she breeds
As all events it win oe lar Jess
the mother's brains were exe
We wart o Krng her core ociii-de her bouse. It is one of the lest
tr^aMsa in faror of woman sifrtge to say that it will do so.
Maternity no more interferes with a woman taxing an interest in
public a5sirs than it would interfere in ber taking an interest in r i-wms.
It is no more trouble to record a rote than it is to go to the market for a
pound of batter, which is probably a rery likely tiling for her to do in
any case. And then yon see. if die's rightdown sick—if she's lavin' in her
bed— then she can neither record her rote nor get the pound of batter—so
there you are!
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Both Houses in Harmony.
Tfee Oklahoma senate has tflsfinntd
the actios of the house in locating the
East Side insane asylum at Vinita.
East Side preparatory school at Clare
more, deaf school at Sulphur and girls
industrial school at Chickasha. and
passed other bills locating a norcral
school at Ada. a technical and manu-
facturing school for young men at
Tulsa, acd industrial and arts school
. j for ageroes at Boley, state rescue
_ home at Guthrie, and deaf, blind and
Wou'd Like to Keep Tata! Amount crpt4E s.vqoi fCr negro chilirea at
Taft. Ciict Graham, president pro
tem cf the senate, asd Campbell R-s-
| sell, authors of the New Jerusalem
tills for an ideal capital city, around
j which the state institutions are to he
; grouped, both fought the building pro-
gram. declaring it sounded the death
Guthrie—Appropriation MF.s tad knell of the New Jerusalem scheme
the right of way'at the final session but were beaten nearly *hree to one
in both bosses of the legislature. Tne The Claremore Vinita ind Sulphur
most retiaieble coEpils'km of total ap-1 tills deal only with the question of
imijiinir i by members of the legis- location and carry no appropria'lons.
latare shows a total of $*,Sl~.4sl. ax Of the other institutions, the girls' in
though officLal figures may slightly in-
crease this.
There is some alarm felt among
Appropriation Dcwn t
Three and Cne-ba'f Mil-
lion, if Possitle.
dustrial school gets SK r'/K«0; Ada nor-
mal, SIM.technical school. }-" •
; 00©; negro industrial school, $~T,OGO,
cessful towns in the public btxili- acd rescue home. Ils.004.
n if ing fight and others interested in the; Graham declared thai the lerisla-
apprctpriatioas, when Gorernor Hai- tare kad already passed appropriations
Another Ohio maa has in rented an
aeroplane, but a horse Is required to
start it. In Indiana Pegasus does bis
own flying
Why should Germany complain
about this rush of farmers to the cities
after working so desperately to build
Itself up as the factory of the world?
Musical
Comedies
Are
Popular
By JOBS CtllG.
Mi
In trading one ball player for an-
other sometimes it would look like a
square deal for one side or the other
to throw in a water hoy or a bat car
rier.
A "soft" winter may not be good for
certain lines of business, but it is com-
fortable for the poor. Don't forget that
when the wea'ber strikes you as too
moddy and mild.
The oar recently rode through the
streets of St Petersburg without being
encased in boiler-plate. They are cer-
tainly making some progress in
Russia
Philadelphia doctor says fresh eggs
hare a medicinal ralue in the cure of
stomach troubles. Suppose well now
continue to pay drug store prices for
'em, only more so.
The public delights in mtisk-al comedy.
And why does it delight in musi. ai come-
dy? Simply because in one performance,
lasting the better part of three hoars, it is
given unlimited variety of amusement
Musical comedy, as exem pi tiled in "The
Circus Girl," and a hundred other pieces
equally popular, contains much in little
It is the rentable multum in parro of the
theater. It is made up of the varied spices
that give life its zest.
In the olden days of the English drama,
our tragic poets gave us alternate scenes
of tragedy and comedy in order that an
audience might be not too overwhelmingly depressed; in order that the
burden of horror and death might be lightened by glimpses of the brighter
side of life. We do better nowadays. We give something of everything in
a single performance—music, dancing, singing, humor, spectacle, beauti-
fal scenery and costames, with here and there a touch of the serious to
emphasize the comic by way of contrast. Is it any wonder that everybody,
those who go to the theater regnlarly aad those that go but seldom, seek
the form of entertainmeat that looks at life throagh rose-colored glasses?
Despite the dictum of Shakespeare, we do not always want to see our-
selves reflected in the mirror of nature. Truth is all very trell on the
stage, bnt it must be a modified truth, the truth that brightens and en-
livens, instead of the truth that forces us back upon the dreary round of
actual ii/e thai confronts us too often outside the theater.
It is. therefore, because musical comedy spells variety; because it
spells humor and color and sweetness and light that it has reached it3
present universal popularity. There may be more art in other phases
of theatrical entertainment: it may be that musical comedy, as somebody
once pertinently said, is nothing more nor less than degenerate comic
opera, but the fact remains that it pleases because it compresses so much
within the afternoon's or evening's traffic of the stage. It is a sort of
glorlned vaudeville, a welding together into one coherent whole of the
elements that give a vaadev;i.e entertainment. :s hanm It o?er3 a
maximum of enjoyment at a minimum
of expense, and it emphasizes the fact
that what somctioies costs the least is
fre^uentlv worth the most.
Reasons
for
Being
Honest
IrLL reiLfff.
est nun a be who n«# a&*w
tber bis. hftta sat he V/res hla
tr void* be 'Awno lie- tm ,
; with rt.-.rj'-H- To m rel-gwwts for ©stward appearance is a frataL
- reI;r--,« vsi of fear k a of eTjnStiforn la tbr God we worship.
.« it thit rt--er-:ij • m «/)t
keil announced that he would try to
cut the total appropriations to three
and one-half millions.
Of amounts appropriated, oca mil-
lion six hundred and fifty thousand
dot'-ZTS are for deficiencies, one millicn
six hundred and fifty thousand for
public buildings and two millions for
schools. The largest remaining item
is the general appropriation bill car-
rying over nine hundred thousand.
Governor Haskell sent nominations
for code commissioners to the senat"
for confirmation. They are Jean P
Day, Poteau: John M. Hayes, Hobart,
and S. H. Harris of Oklahoma City.
Democrats: John B. Thomas of Mus-
kogee. and Judge Brownlee of King
fisher. Republicans.
Among bills finally passed at the
final session, were the placing of a
aggregating (4.M0.M, and that the
establishment of these seven ins'i'u-
tions would cost the state $500/j«W
more.
The bouse passed the deficiency ap
prcpriation bill from the senate. The
$3,000 alk-wed the goTernor's office
for delegates to national gatherings
was stricken out and items addrd al-
lowing the state examiner $12.518 for
work done under bonse bill No. 1;
*11.2£-i to the r. P. 3. at Tonkawa,
and S47.4'«w for interest on bo^ds, at
ready paid, to protect the state treas-
urer. Attorney General West's ap-
propriation was left at K.MO as it
came from the senate.
As a preliminary to the public build'
ing question the senate passed finally
th3 bill by Redwine. authorizing the
penalty for robbing at minimum of issuance of debenture bonds on the
five years: allowing county superin-
tendents $150 for expenses and on«
notes and mortgages taken oc public
building lands when sold- in order to
dollar for each school rtsited: Gilmer furnish funds which shall be imrre
bill for organization domestic mutual
hail companies.
Haskell Signed Banking B<M.
Gorernor Haskell has signed Rod- pablic.
die's second banking bill, intended to
remodel the bill passed by the first
legislature. The most important fea-
ture i3 the minimum limit passed on
the capital of new banks. In towns
of 300 or less the minimum capital un-
der the new act is $10,000: $15,000
from 500 to 1,500; $25,000, from 1.500
to 6,000; $50,000, from 6.000 to 20.000:
$100,000 minimum in all cities orer
"0 000
diateiy available for the construction
of pablic buildings. There are 3l5.£<*)
acres of the public buildings lands to
be sold, which at an average cf $15
per acre will bring $5.000,« 0 for the
Bank Guarantee EiM to Governor.
Final agreement has been reached
ed on the Roddie banking bill wfcen
the conference report on that bill *ai
adopted by both houses of the legis-
lature, and the bill is ready for the
governor's signature.
Several provisions of the bill which
were especially desired by the state
bankers are stricken out by the con-
Of the guaranty fund, under the act {en?nce report> icchldiRg lhe provision
„ per cent must be invested :n st^te .. . . OC€ratine undtr -te
bonds, warrants and other such col-
lateral and 25 per cent be kept In
that banks operating under the guar-
anty fund need give no further se-
curity for deposits of public funds.
cash on hand by the state banking ard ,he provis5on that held
board. The state is made responsible by s.ate baEks wiJhin tfae gute m;uK
for rewards offered by the state bank ^ jn {niarantee<i banks. Both tbese
ing board for defaulting bankers and tect e^« were „Hrke«
a penalty is provided for officers of house The hoase pr0Tisi0a Ibat
out in the
any bank advertising that deposits are
guaranteed by the state.
Good Roads Bill in New Form.
The senate has passed finally a
good roads biD. but in somewhat dif-
ferent form from the way in which it
came from the house. The salient fea-
tures of it are that all section lines
per cent of the guarantee funds is to
te lnrested In state warrants, or such
securities as required for for other
state funds, the other 25 p?r cent to
be deposited as the banking board
sees fit, also remains
Man has found various reasons for be-
ing bones?. A mac may be legally bonest.
rles out his contracts according to law. He
e.sher fears or r^p .if the law or both.
A i*£ii may be .-.ooe^t because be fears
God. In that ease he complies with h s
j'izgaLvos :o an extent that in his judg-
ment will appease Lis deity. He is honest
be -a". he fears God'i wrath or be may
f ar v-th saw aad God. Either fjrm of
hocesry :s beceSilii to $*>:-iefy a&d in ei'Her
esse Use man wins the coo&ience of the
besaaee world, bot in neither case is be
adaoKBtally booew. Tbe isan wb fear? the law ocly will not hesitate
ds 'ijwt "v which ut-'. wmmz. f->r which be can escape punishment
of Int£ of w «a3« of ■'.stakes of the law. The
: -s bnot bwiasie bt lean God's p5iiLdta#«st pJKse- a shi-eriag
-K « s mc is uraMt with bk own acts. If be coaid be conrineed
it God bid fXK Uisj to Li mlfe&wds it *«ii iHarae i_ateir nes&ore
rtcn-n; fr - Lira aa*2 be «'/di pwfcaiSy btcome * rascaL A truly
Msm and deals fairiy with his
I t«s that it «hoaA be so. In
herbocd of maa. So
Statue of Sequoyah.
Governor Haskell has signed the
shall be public hiehways. and that the Landrum senate resolution appropria:-
coanty commissioner can establish in? j- „oo for a statute of Sequoyah,
roads along other !ines. It makes the tbe famous Cherokee chieftain, to be
township the unit for working and piaced in the Hall of Fame at Wash-
n:&inta:n;ng roads, and gives the town- ington. Senator Landrum ar.rounc->d
sbi? board authority to levy a tax after the bn, was si?Tied that be
rot exceeding i- mills, for road and would recommend United States Sen-
bridge purposes. It also requires the ator Robert u 0wen and Congressman
township board to fix a road duty of Charles D. Carter, and ar.othe-. as
not less than four nor more than six t0 select a ?cu!l> or
days each year on each man between !ook after placing statue in th?
the ages of 21 and 50 years.
Statutory hall.
Only Taxpayers Cou'd Vote.
Another of the election propositions
passed the senate, the resolution by
Taylor submitting to tbe people an
amendment to the constitution permit-
ting the legislature to require a $1.50
poll tax as a requisite to voting, and
to impose such other restrictions on
suffrage a* are not in violation of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
tion.
Call Election When Dernanded.
The house passed the bill by Frank-
lin. Billups and Taylor that authorizes
the governor to call a special election
to vote on the measure which is ini-
tiated by the people or which is sub-
mitted by the term of the referendum.
The bill was passed by a straight r*r-
ty rote of 61 to 31. all the Republi-
cans opposing the measure.
Creates A New District.
Gorernor Haskell approved house
bill 452. which rearranges the Elerenth
aad Twenty-first judicial districts and
creates a new judicial district to be
known as the Twenty-fourth district.
The new district is comp- ed of
Washington and Osage counties and
the Judge is to be appointed by Gorer-
nor Haskell These counties were tak-
en out of the Twenty-first district ard
another county is taken from that
district and added to the Eleventh,
making the latter district Include Lo
gar.. Kingfisher and Payne counties
The original Twenty-first district is
ieh with but two counties. Tulsa and
Pa •nee-
No Torrens Land Bill.
Senator Allen's joint resolution for
the submission of the Torrens land
system to the people again was killed
in the senate, the vote standing 14 for
and 15 against.
Governor Signs Tax Ferret Bill.
Governor Haskell has sisned the
Blair bill, amending the tax ferret law
The bill makes 15 per cent the mini-
mum commission that may be allowed
by counties for collection of back tax-
es, and such collections shall extend
only to taxes incurred since state-
hood.
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Messenger, D. E. The Messenger. (Drummond, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1909, newspaper, March 18, 1909; Drummond, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc235108/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.