The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HOBART REPUBLICAN,
VOLUME 10.
HOBART, KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912,
NUMBER
>. 82.
J 5th
PR06RESSIVES REFUSED
PLACE ON TICKET
Judge Oldfield Denies Writ Sought
Against State Hoard of Election
Case Will He Appealed.
PERJURY CHARGED INTERVENTION IS
AGAINST JIM HALE NOT IMPROBABLE
Judgo Oldfield in tee superior court ut
i special ses-iion held Friday evening fur
the purpose of hearing the arguments of
the parties in the ease of tho application
if u nuuib><rof would-be candidates for
presidential elector to compel the slate
election board to place their names on
the official ballots in November, denied
the writ Hull Moose leaders immedi-
ately announced they would appeal the
case to the supreme court Saturday.
Tne attorneys for the plaintiffs hased
their case on the claim that the con-
stitution of the state gives any elector
the right to become a non-partisan can-
didate for office without having been
voted on at any primary and that the
laws afterwards passed by the stato leg-
islature were invalid for the reason that
they prevent such men from becoming
candidates unless thev file within a cer-
tain time. They also argued that the
provision permitted them to have names
placed on the ballots for the general
election and that it made no provision
for primary ballots bearing the name of
such candidates. It was claimed that
the provision requiring all such petitions
to be filed forty days before the time of
the election means forty days before the
general election and does not refer to
the primary election, as it has been con-
strued. The constitutionality of the
laws providing for such filing was
questioned.
Attorney Davenport, representing the
attorney general's office and the state
election boaid, contended that the peti-
tions of the plaintiffs in the case did
not set forth a sufficient statement of
facts to constitute a cause for action;
that the defendants deny ever having
been offered petitions, but admit that
some papers alleged to be peuiiuus were
offered and refused; that the alleged pe-
tition* were offered after the legal tiling
urno expired and therefore could 1101 be
accepted; that the men were not in truth
non-partisans, out representatives of the
Progressive party, and that the action
was really brought by the managii g
committee of the Progressive party
the state.
A motion for a new trial was at once
offered and overruled. The plaintiffs
were given live days in which to prepare
a transcript of the case for an appeal to
the supreme court.
The attorneys for the plaintiffs [are
confident of securing a favorable decis-
ion from the supreme court, and say no
stone will be left unturned to provide a
full ticket of Progressives for Oklahoma
at the November election.
Procures License to Marry Thirteen
Y«ur-old Girl, Making Affidavit
that She Is Nineteen.
TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILWAY PROPOSED
That Lawton is to oe a station on the
tirst transcontinental railway line ever
constructed across the United States
from North to South and the tirst great
■cross country trunk line to visit Okla-
homa is promised in information which
has just come to the attention of the
Lawton Chamber of Commerce.
The proposed line is the Winnipeg,
Salina and Gulf, a proposition which
has been under consideration for the
past two years, but which is said to have
just begun to assume definite shape. In
fact, it is believed now that the "Mer-
idian tour" of automobiles which is to
visit Lawton Sept. 17 has a direct bear-
ing upon the promotion of the Winnipeg
to the Gulf railroad: in other words, that
the men who compose the automobile
party are out to make a preliminary sur-
vey of the route.
The Winnipeg, Salina and Gulf iscap
i tali zed at $30,000,(XX), and bonds have
already been issued for $29 997,000, upon
which the necessary finances are to be
obtained. The road is projected to run
from Winnipeg, Canada, to Aransas
Pass, Tei.
Jim Haiti of Mountaiu View was nr
rested Monday by Sheriff George W.
Daniel upon a complaint charging per-
jury and brought to this city and lodged
in the county jail.
Male came to Hobart last Saturday
and procured a license to marry Miss
Bernice Longan, tne thirteon-year old
■ laughter of J. P, Longan, making an
affidavit that the young lady was nine-
teen years of ago,
Tho father surmised that something
was wrong and telephoned in Monday
morning ordering the clerk not to issue
a license as he had not given his con.
sent to the marriage and the girl was
under age. Hut tho deed had already
lieen done and there was nothing left
for the father to do but to stop the mar-
riage; so he telephoned the sheriff's of-
fice for aid. It so happened that Sheriff
Daniel was already on his way to Mount-
Bin View when his services were sought,
but before he arrived the marriage cer-
emony had been performed and Hale
and his child wife had left town, the
marriage having occurred at 9 o'clock
in the forenoon.
Daniel, immediately upon his arrival,
took up the trail of the couple, who ap-
parently were trying to make their es-
cape, and followed them to the residence
of Ben Ferguson, nine miles southeast
of Mountain View, in the garret of whose
house Hale was found and taken into
custody at four o'clock in the afternoon.
He was brought to this city in the even-
ing and lodged in the county jail.
Longan lodged a complaint against
Hale Tuesday morning before Justice of
the Peace Jesse Phillips, charging per-
jury in making a false affidavit to pro-
cure the marriage license referred to
above. Hale was arraigned and entered
a plea of not guilty, but being unable
to (jive bail was remanded to prison.
FALSE STATEMENTS
ARE CHARGED
STRANGER VIEWS jSCHOOL ELECTION
THE MAGIC CITY I IS SET ASIDE
Situutiun In Mexico Grown .More
Serious Ah Time Passes President
Reluctant to Act.
Jim Hale Secures License to Marry III
j Year-Old Girl Gives Age Ai 1 -
Father Notifies Sheriff.
Compliments I'm Upon Our Achiev-
m«nts Hobart booster Hives a Few
Statistics hut Strikes a Knot.
Judge Tolberl Grants an Injunction
Restraining Officers from Extend-
ing Levy on Tax Rolls.
ANOTHER ELECTION
HAS BEEN CALLED
People will be Given Another Chance to
Vote on the School Question.
Date, September 18.
Therf> are a few men in this country
who would rather keep a jug and a skel-
eton in their closets than to keep neither.
LOW RATES
"QUICK SERVICE
H. A — B. G.JONES
ft -- BANK eioo HOBARf OKLAi
The Hoard of Education met Saturday
afternoon and addressed the following
resolutions to the excise board:
"Be it resolved by the Hoard of Educa-
tion of the city of Hobart, Okla.:
"That as the school election Held on the
24th of August, 1912, for the purpose of
voting an additional 2 12 mills was de-
clared null and void by the District
Court, we therefo'e ask your honorable
body to call an election to submit to the
qualified voters in School District No.
One, Kiowa county, Okla., the question
as to whether or not the school levy for
general purposes shall be increased from
5 to 7 1-2 mills on the dollar on ad valo
rem basis."
It so happened that the excise board
was in session at the time the board of
education met. and as soon as the latter
had formulated a plan of action the
matter was submitted to the former.
The excise board made quick work of
it by calling another election for the re-
submission of the question of voting the
two and one-half mills for the schools to
the voters, Sept. 18 being the date set
for the election.
Beverly, Maes. Sept. 7. Although
President Taft will not intervene in
Mexico without the fullest deliberation
upon astop that would moan war, his
friends declared tonight that interven
tions is nearer than it has been since th*
first Amerioan troops were rushed to the
border oighteen months ago.
It can be stated on tho highest au
thority, however, that should the Presi
lent decide that intervention is the only
course open to him, he will call Con-
gress in special session and demand of
it the authority to send the American
army across the border. Under no oir-
cuuistances, he has told his friends,
would he do an unfriendly act against
Mexico without consulting Congress.
Friends of tho President realize that
he would give the order to invade Mexi-
co only with the greatest reluctance.
They are aware that it already has been
charged by Senators that the President
might send the army across the line,
make himself a 'war President" and
rely upon that to bring victory to him
self and the Republican party in Novem-
bar. Mr. Taft has said that such a
statement is utterly without foundation
and declared to his advisers that it
would be hard to conceive of a President
who would use his office to throw hi6
country into a war, which experts have
predicted could not end in less than two
years: that would cost millions; that
would mean the sacrifice of thousands of
lives and ruin for years tocome the basis
of this Nation's friendship with the
Centraland South American Republics.
The President today authorized Gen
Leonard Wood, chief of staff, U, 8. A.,
to dispatch two more regiments of cav-
airy to the Texas border. The regi-
ments will be sent from Fort Kiley,
Kan., and Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo. So
far as the President was mforoitd there
wil! be no immediate need for more
troops in Texas, but conditions along the
border have grown worse in the last few
weeks.
It is in the southern part of Mexico
however, that the President has learned
of intolerable conditions affecting Ameri-
cans. There the Madero Government,
according to the Washington informa-
tion, is unable to cope with the revolu-
tionists and there seems little prospect
that the situation will ihiprove. The
President within the last few days has
commuuicated a demand that President
Madero be more active in the protection
of Americans. He is hopeful that this
reminder, meant for the ears of the
Mexican President and for the Mexican
Foreign Office, as well, will be fruitful
in results in both Southern and Northern
Mexico. The situation south of the
Mexican capital is regarded as parti-
cularly dangerous to American interven-
tion than their brothers in the north.
The only favorable plan for protecting
Americans in tho south, Mr. Taft has
been told would be to send troops to
some Gulf port of Mexico.
■I Saturday afternoon Jim llnleof Moun-
tain View went to the office of tho coun
I ty court clerk and demanded a marriage
license for himself and Miss Bernice
J-ongan, daughter of .1. IV Longan, also
of Mountain View, giving his age as 23
j and that of bin intended bride as 19.
Since they were of marriageable age,
ateordiiig to the statements of the appli
oftnt, the license were issued.
■ Hale had brought with him a state-
ment purporting to give the consent of
tho girl's father to the marriage, but
tlfb document was irregular, not hnving
been acknowledged before a notary
publio or other officer having a seal.
Hut since they were both of legal age,
according to the statements of Halo and
the purported consent document, the
clerk issued the license any way, be
cause no consent, if the statements were
true, was required. So Hale received
his license and went his way rejoicing.
Monday moruing J. P. Langan, father
of the young lady,suspecting an attempt
at marriage was being made, called up
the clerk's office by phone and notilied
that officer not to issue a license for his
daughter's marriage as she ws only l.'l
years of age and that he had not given
bis consent. Whereupon the clerk told
him the fact of his having issued the li-
cense Saturday and that Hale had given
her age as Id.
The father then communicated these
facts tfi^the sheriff's office and asked
that some one be sent there at once and
arrest Hale for attempting to abduct his
daughter.
The sheriff was already on his way to
Mountain View on other businoss when
the request was made; so Hale is likely
to find himself in serious trouble before
he is aware of it, provided the state-
ments of Longan are true.
'Hobart teems to be a pretty good
town " .suggested a visitor who blew in
froui Iowa a few dnys ago. "You people
down hero hnv« accomplished about as
much in the few years of your existence
iih the average town in the older sections
of the country has done in half a con
tury."
The Hobart booster pricked up his
ears like a called dog ami began to re-
count the things we have really done,
not even waiting for the visitor to finish
his eulogistic statement.
' That we have," said the booster,
When Hobart was founded eleven years
ago there wasn't a thing here but a de-
pot, a post office and a cow pasture.
Now look at the town just b month over
eleven years old 11,(100 population; $50,-
000city hall; waterworks with direct antf
standpipe pressure; storm and sanitary
sewerage; tine electric lightsystem. with
white way; telephone service with 24
rural lines; a paid lire department; free
mail delivery: sixty miles of cement
walk; seventeen blocks of asphalt pave-
ment: finest passHiiger depot in the
state; six church buildings with eight
organizations: newly built and equipped
city hospital; one brass band: modern
opera house with seating capacity of
1200: two live daily and weekly news
papers; new Carnegie library: five rural
mail routes: all lodges: 8100,000 cotton-
sead oil mill; 400- barrel Hour mill with
six branch elevators; $20,000 alfalfa mill,
capacity 40 tons; $60,000 cotton oom-
press; two ice plants, with creamery, ice
cream and bottling works in connection;
three elevators: four wholesale arid pro-
duce houses: four banks; four cotton
gins: two steam laundries; one brick
I plant, 25,000 per day capacity: two
j machine and boiler shops: one planing
| mill; threeoil companies: three auto
liveries: and all the mercantile fioutis
cnur llinnn linnnni jwhlch£°to make up a busy city in a
duMc WOOD ALCOHOL Srow,DK and developing new country."
, I "That's a pretty good catalogue of en-
Lawrence Ivy started upon a course Uprises for a new town." ventured the
Wednesday evening that might have I vls'^or> But how about your schools? I
An injunction was granted Friday af-
ternoon by Judge Tulbcrt, setting aside
the
Two
purpose
LAWRENCE IVY DRINKS
xiol levy of two undone half mills
it a special election August 24.
suits, having tho same general
nd been tiled and both were
disposed of as one ease.
Tlii' order restraining the county clerk
from extending the levy on the tax rolls
was made permanent. So now the ques
tion is definitely disposed of so far as
the recent election and the levy it car-
ried with it are concerned,
According to the judgment of the
court there was no legal election.
What steps, if any. will be taken to
supplement the school fund to maintain
our sohools for a period of nine months,
remains to be seen.
However.it is generally conceded that
another election will be called and the
question voted on again.
If it should be, there is no doubt as
to the outcome. The proposition will
carry two to one. The reason it failed
to get a large majority before was every-
body took it for granted that it would
carry without effort? so many who were
in favor of the levy remained away from
the polls. The next time they will be
on hand in full force.
LIQUOR IS SAFE
WHILE IN TRANSIT
A Person la Not Guilty of Conveying
While Taking Booze from Depot
to His Home.
terminated more seriously th&n it did. j observed you did not mention them in
During the afternoon he imbibed rather ! your ''s^
freely of the juice of the forbidden fruit | "Schools? Did I overlook that? Well,
and was, in consequence, under its in-j sir, we have three modern brick school
fluence, else he would not,perhaps, have i buildings, as tine as can be found in the
CORPORATION COMMISSION
6RANTS A HEARING
NOVEL MUNICIPAL SIGHTS
Tulsa, Sept. 7. —Visitors to the spcond
annual Durbar and Fair at Tulsa the
week of Sept. 16 will be shown one of
the greatest known examples of western
progrtss.
Municipalities that send representa-
tives to the Durbar will find many inter-
esting things. They will see a modern
municipal waterworks plant which fur-
nishes the city clear, sparkling water
from the river that is made pure without
chemical treatment. They will rid« over
45 miles of paved streets. They will lock
in any direction and see countless rows
of oil derricks that mark the world's
greatest oil and gas fields.
All this they will witness in addition
Oklahoma City. Sept. 6.—A proposed
order has just been issued by the Corpo-
ration Commissi n.upon which evidence
is to be heard Sept. 18 requiring rail
roads to tile official copies of their time
cards, showing the movement of both
freight and passenger trains.
Complaint was received from the peo-
ple of Hobart against the city of Hobart
operating the waterworks, alleging dis-
crimination in prices and treatment.
Some water users are on a flat rate,
others get their service through meters,
some folks pay when they want to, oth
ers are cut off when delinquent, and
taken the chances with which he
given credit.
Heing somewhat intoxicated,as stated,
he went to a drug store and purchased
a quantity of wood alcohol. And since
it has an agreeable odor and a name
somewhat significant, he concluded to
round out his spree by the wood alcohol
route, drinking enough of it to make
him a maniac for awhilo.
He was arrested upon a charge of
drunkenness and locked in the county
jail. But it was soou discovered that
there was something else the matter
with him than a mere drunk; so the
oounty physician was summoned, and
finding out the cause of Ivy's dilemma
administered to his needs. By heroic
treatment he was brought around all
right, but his case was rather serious.
W. 0. W. ENCANMPMENT
oir wiv vvuw uii n ugu uciiuijurtiL, auu
some don't pay at all, the complaint al- celebration.
Our local W. U. W. team will leave
Hobart next Tuesday to attend the great
Woodmen of the World Uniform Rank
encampment to be held in Muskogee
September 11, 12, 13 and 14.
The team here has been doing prac
tice work for several weeks and expect
to capture some of the prizes to be given
for excellence in team work.
This encampment promises rare en
tertainment for all visitors. The floral
automobile parade alone will be worth
going to see, if it is carried out as adver-
tised.
A number of Hobart people will visit
the eastside metropolis (luring this big
leges.
An effort was made by the Republican
to find out who the complainants in the
case are. but without success.
The rate question has been the cause
of no small amount of friction and
worry for a long time, and since the flat
rate and the meter system have been in
operation the conditions have not im-
proved and much dissatisfaction prevails
among water users.
At the hearing the question will pro-
tothe ten day and night pageants, the j bably be thoroughly investigated and if
55 free Durbar attractions, the Indus- j discriminations are practiced the same
tr'al Fair, the airship meet. etc. I will be ordered discontinued
The delegation from Hobart has a
large quantity of descriptive literature
of this city and Kiowa county which
they will distribute while gone. The
object is to let the outside world know
we arc still on the map and that Kiowa
county is one of the best places in the
state in which to live.
state, and are the pride of the city."
"How many teachers do you employ?"
"Twenty four."
"How long are your school terms?-'
The puzzled booster scratched his
head and lookea from side to sike for as-
sistance, but as none was forthcoming
he braced himself against the wall,
while beads of perspiration formed upon
his brow, and boldly stated:
"We have always maintained a nine
months' term until this year, but when
the question of voting the necessary two
and one-half mills levy was submitted
to the people for ratification—"
"I :*ee," said the visitor, 'they voted it
down. "
' No, sir, they didn't," shouted the in-
dignant booster. ' Thev said nine months
wasn't enough, and they had the elec
tion declared null and void so they
could gat a chance to vote a 12 months'
term. You see, sir, we are in favor of
educating our children, even if it does
come high.'
A person cannot be convicted of il-
legally conveying intoxicating liquorB
where evidence shows that tho liquors
in question is an interstate shipment,
and is being conveyed from a railroad
depot to the home of the consignee.
The court of criminal appeals in an
opinion handed down Thursday reiter-
ated its holding in the case of the state
against Roy Gastineau, from Dewey
county, decided several weeks ago, that
under the decisions of the supreme court
of the United States, such shipments of
liquor are not subject to the laws of the
state until they reach the home or place
of business of the consignee and a per-
son cannot be convicted of conveying
such shipments of liquor from the depot
to the home or place of business of the
consignee.
The opinion was rendered in the case
of A. H. Sheppard, convicted in the
county court of Washita county. The
judgment of the lower court is reversed
and the cause remanded.
OATE FOR HEARING
HAS BEEN SET
The action filed by William M. Ball in
the district court to restrain the county-
clerk from extendingon the tax rolls the
two and one half mills levy voted at the
school election in this districton August
24, will be heard Friday at 2 p. m. in this
city before Judge Tolbert.
The plaintiff had arranged to go to
Watonga today (Thursday) to secure
immediate action upon the matter and
telephoned to the Judge in relation
thereto. The latter found he could be
here tomorrow, and arrangements were
made for the hearing at that time.
REPORT MADE AS
TO SCHOOL FUNDS
REV. BREWER'S MOTHER DIES
Sam T. Combs received a telegram
from Kansas City Monday afternoon
that his brother Bob had died at 2:30 p.
m. in that city. The former left Tues-
day morning to attend the funeral. The
deceased had visited Hobart and had a
number of friends here.
Rev. E. R. Brewer, pas:or of the First
M. E, church, received a telegram from
Fairmount. 111.. Saturday morning at
8:30. announcing that his mother, Mrs.
Maria Brewer, had died at 5:35 Friday
night. Mrs. Brewer was nearly eighty
years old. Rev. Brewer will not be able
to attend the funeral.
The state examiner and inspector has
completed an examination of the state-
ment of the condition of the funds of
tbe school land department at the close
of business June 29. as submitted to Gov.
Cruce.
Tbe examination shows the amount of
common school funds invested in public
building warrants, farm land mortgages
and in bank deposits is $5,1^2 710. The
interest and earnings accounts show to-
tal receipts of 11,173,751. This has been
invested as shown in the detailed state-
ment. leaving a balance on band of
$loi>,914, deposited in 41 banks.
Tbe amount to the credit of the vari-
ous funds in the sales division is 8408,724
deposited in 56 banks. In the leasing
department the balance on hand is
$333,919, deposited in 74 banks.
As a general thing, when a man gets
up in the world where he doesn't have
to falsify his income, his wife has gotten
to where she feels like fibbing about her
age.
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