Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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OKLAHOMA.
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GENERAL NEW8 NOTES
SOUTHS MUST MIT
NEW SENATORS NOT TO BE GIVEN
SEATS.
BOHEimaRS CH ONLY FILL IMCIES
Legislature Cannot Elect Senator Un-
til December 15—Officials at Wash-
ington Take Issue With Governor
Haskell.
WASHINGTON: (Special.) After
a thorough consideration of the prop-
osition the best posted officials around
the United States senate are of the
opinion that the two senators from the
new state of Oklahoma will not be
given their Beats on the strength of
the appointments made by Governor
Haskell, but must wait until they
are regularly elected by the legisla-
ture.
The Oklahoma legislature cannot
elect senators until about December
15. CongresB will convene on Decem-
ber 1. Governor Haskell, proceeding
on the theory that Oklahoma was en-
titled to two senators just as soon as
it became a Btate, and with a view ot
having the two senators here to be
seated on the opening day of congress,
app9inted Owen and Gore, the demo-
cratic nominees.
The governor treated the question
aB if there existed two vacancies. Of-
ficials connected with the senate take
issue with the governor on that point.
They claim that there are no vacancies
as Oklahoma never had any senators,
and that a vacancy can only come af-
ter Bome one has been In the office.
If Owen and Gore present their cre-
dentials given by the governor in pur-
suance of hlB action on appointing 1 dians."
them the credentials will be rejected
by the senate, so the officials claim.
MU8T REDUCE COAL RATES
Oklahoma Railroads Will Be Ordered
To Observe Arkansas Schedules
GUTHRIE: The corporation com-
mission has set a hearing for January
3, when an order will be issued
putting the Arkansas rate for transpor-
tation of coal into effect, unless the
railroads can show good reason why
such rates would be Impracticable.
The recent administration took the
matter up with the interstate com-
merce commissk/n under a statute re-
quiring that the transportation rates
in the territory should not be higher
than the rate in adjacent states. Rates
were reduced on some commodities,
but Attorney General West, counsel
for the corporation commission, claims
that the coal rates are still consider-
ably higher than in Arkansas.
The commission also decided to call
upon the same railroads to provide
better depot -facilities where present
accommodations are inadequate.
INDIANS HAVE BEEN ROBBED
Senator Curtis 8ays Red Men Have
Been Defrauded of $300,000
TOPEKA, Kan.: Senator Charles
Curtis, who was here on his way to
Washington to report on his recent in
vestigation of alleged frauds against
the Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona In-
dians, said:
"The Klckapoo Indians in Oklahoma
have been robbed of between |250,000
and $300,000 worth of real estate.
The parties who did the robbing have
never claimed to have paid more than
$80,000 for this land and as a matter
of fact the Indians never received
more than $40,000 for it. The money
—what little there was of it—was de-
posited in banks for the Indians and
through forgery and various other
methods it was drawn out by the peo-
ple who ostensibly paid it to the In-
Plve children of Thomas W. Zuver,
at Pleasantvllle, Pa., were cremated
and the father, mother and one child
were seriously burned when their
home was destroyed by Are. The cause
of the fire is supposed to have been a
heavy pressure of gas.
At New York, Justice Wyatt, in the
court of special sessions, held Wil-
liam R. Hearst for the grand jury on
a charge of criminal libel, preferred by
William Astor Chandler. Mr. Hearst
furnished bail.
The village of Chain, Iowa, a small
town near the Missouri line, was en-
tirely wiped out by fire. Only one
building remained.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker has been
endorsed by the republican clubs ot
Ohio for re-election to the United
States senate and for the nomination
for president.
Judge K. M. Landls, in the United
States district court at Chicago re-
fused to sign the bill of exceptions pre-
pared by the attorneys for the Stan
dard Oil company in an appeal by
which the company seeks to have set
asiue a fine of $29,240,000 recently
levied against it.
STATE CAPITAL LETTE1
BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
A
USE OF SCHOOL
MONEY FOR CROPS
Other members of the state school
board have joined with Governor Has-
kell In a request that may result to the
greatest advantage to all lines of busi-
ness in the state, and enable the farm-
ers to market their cptton. The treas-
urer of the United States will be asked
to send to the state at the earliest
possible moment the five million dol-
lar school fund, or to much of It as
may bo used at this time by the 6tate.
The fund will be deposited in sucti
banks as show themselves to be sol-
vent, and offer the most desirable rate
of interest, and in amounts dependent
upon the assets of the bank. Banks
that cannot give ample security for
deposits will be unable to borrow any
of the money. All banks that wish
to bid for any pqrtion of the fund
should address the chairman of the
board of land commissioners at Guth-
rie, naming the amount desired, the
interest to be paid, and what security
the bank can give for the safety ot
the deposit.
Two workmen were killed and a
building was blown to atoms at Pinole,
Cal., by an explosion of 500 pounds ot
gelatine at the E. I. DuPont-de Ne-
mour Powder Company's plant near
that place. The cause of the explosion
is unknown. The damage will amount
to $8,000.
That twenty of the memorandum
notes discounted by the Chlcapo Na-
tional Bank, representing the sjm of
$1,840,000, remained unpaid when the
bank suspended in December, 1905,
and that many of the notes declared
by the defense to have been paid at
maturity were not paid but simply re-
newed, were facts brought out in the
trial of John R. Walsh, charged with
misappropriation of the bank's funds.
MAY UTILIZE SCHOOL FUND
Bill to Relieve Money Shortage Pre-
pared for Oklahoma LegislatuiM
GUTHRIE: C. G. Jones of Okla-
homa City Is preparing a bill for in-
troduction into the Oklahoma legisla-
ture at the coming session which, 11
passed, will relieve the financial stress
so far as the new state is concerned,
by putting $5,000,000 into circulation.
Mr. Jones is republican representative
from Oklahoma county.
Mr. Jones says of the bill:
"By the terms of the proposed emer-
gency act the $5,000,000, known as the
Indian Territory school fund, now on
deposit in the treasury department at
Washington, and of which only the
accured interest may be used, will be
placed at the disposal of the state
treasurer, who will be authorized by
law to draw upon this amount for such
loans as he may make. These, how-
ever, are limited to a certain amount,
but may be made to bankers, corpora-
tions and individuals, provided the se-
curity is real estate or first class col-
lateral."
TWO-CENT FARES CONFUSING
Depositors in the various banks ot
Oklahoma City, beginning this week,
can draw $25 against their account
with the bank, instead of $15, a^ here-
tofore.
CURTIS WILL KILL THE BILL.
Thinks Klckapoo Evidence Will Pre-
vent Removal of Restrictions.
OKLAHOMA CITY: The investiga-
tion into the alleged Kickapoo Indian
land frauds which has been in pro-
gress in Shawnee for the past week
is concluded. Senator Curtis of Kan-
sas passed through this city en route
to his home in Topeka.
"The testimony that has been
brought out in this investigation con-
vinces me more than ever that restric-
tions upon 'the sale of Indian lands
should not be removed," said the sen-
ator. "I am unalterably opposed to the
removal ot restrictions, and should
any bill to that effoct oe introduced
in congress 1 shall oppose it by read-
ing the testimony which we have just
secured. 1 think that will be suffi-
ciently strong to defeat any such
measure.
"I can not see that Frank A. Thack-
ery, present Indian agent, was in any
way connected with the alleged frauds.
Mr. Thackery opposed the Indians go-
ing to Mexico and urged the president
to veto the bill. Had his recommenda-
tions been carried out, 1 am of the
opinion that this trouble would not
have occurred."
Reduced Rates Is Held Strictly In-
trastate
OKLAHOMA OITY: Local railroad
representatives say there will be much
confusion among travelers over the
adoption of the 2-cent fare. According
to the constitution, it can only be
charged intrastate; that although Mis-
souri and Kansas have the same rate
In effect, a through ticket at the 2-cent
rate cannot be purchased from Okla-
homa City to Kansas or Missouri
points.
Should a person Start from here to
St. Louis, a ticket must be bought to
the last station on the line within Okla-
homa. Another .ticket must then be
purchased to the first town within the
state of Missouri, and then another
from that place to St. Louis, or the
point of destination, within the state.
WILL NOT CHANGE REWARD
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, the wealthy
Milwaukee woman who confessed to
various burglaries and larcenies In
Chicago in which a negro man was
her ally, was taken to the state peni-
tentiary at Joliet to commence her
sentence of from one to twenty years
for burglary.
J. H. Fowlkes, a Doniphan, Mo.,
farmer, was murdered and robbed of
$1,000 in a box car. His head was
beaten to a pulp and the car, in which
his household goods were being moved
from Doniphan to New Berne, Tenn.,
was set on fire.
One of the first bills which will be
introduced when t'he sixtieth congress
convenes in two weeks, and which
covers an Important and vital prob-
lem of legislation, has been prepared
by Senator McCumber, of North Da-
kota, after consultation with the pres-
ident It provides for the federal "in-
corporation, control, and government
of associations organized to carry on
business entering Into, or becoming a
part of interstate commerce."
Frantz's Offer of $300 for Arrest oi
Escaped Murderer Stands
GUTHRIE: Geovernor Haskell has
stated that he would not alter the
offer of reward, made by Governor
Frantz, for the arrest of G. Saunders,
charged with murder. Saunders es-
caped from the Meeker jail and 1b at
large. Governor Frantr as one of his
last official acts offered a reward oi
$300 for the arrest of the fugitive.
Mr. Haskell received a telephone
message from a Lincoln county officer,
inquiring if the offer was still good.
"I take It for granted that Governor
Frantz investigated the case before he
issued the (proclamation," he said
• The offer will stand."
First, because she is a friend of the
sailor, but also because she gave near-
ly half a million dollars toward the
Young Men's Christian Association
home ill Brooklyn, 5,000 enlisted men
of the navy presented Miss Helen
Gould with a silver loving cup last
week. The Y. M. C. A. buildings and
furnishings cost $900,000 and the funds
were furnished equally by Miss Gould
and Mrs. Russell Sage.
8ERVING TWO MA8TER8
Oklahoma 8treet Railway Tries to
Obey Law and Gets into Trouble
OKLAHOMA CITY: City Attorney
T. G. Chambers has been instructed
by the city council to at once Institute
suit against the Oklahoma City Street
railway company to compel the com-
pany to grant policemen, firemen and
mall carriers ffee transportation
about the city. When the state con-
stitution went into effect the company
took advantage of the provision prohi-
biting the granting of passes to public
officials and since then have collected
fares from these officials. The fran-
chise granted the company levt^ral
years ago specifically provides that
firemen* policemen and mall carriers
shall be carried free ot charge.
On account of the financial depres-
sion the Rock Island will diicentinue
a number of its trains in different p*rt
of the stats.
James S. Haslam, manager and con-
fidential man for Edey, Brown & San-
derson, bankers and brokers at No. 2
Wall Street, New York, has been ar
rested on a charge of stealing a $500
check from his employers. A member
of the firm said that thefts aggregat
ing $20,000 will be charged against
HaBlam.
Mrs. William T. Hedges killed her-
self and her two sons, William, aged
11, and Butler T., aged 6, by asphyx-
iation at her home 1n Newtonville,
Kansas. All cracks in the doors and
windows had been plugged and the gas
turned on.
At Nashville, Tenn., Chancellor
Stout rendered a devlslon revoking the
license of the Standard Oil company to
do business in Tennessee. Illegal die
crimination was alleged against the
company. The defendant will appeal.
Nine-tenths of the people of Mobile,
Ala., are against prohibition, and the
passage of the Carmichael statutory
prohibition bill has caused open
threats of secession from the state,
and the declaration that the law "will
not be observed In this cosmopolitan
town, that "has been wet since it was
discovered by the French, centuries
ago."
Commissioners of 'agriculture ot
several states held their ninth annual
convention at Columbia, S. C., last
week. Agricultural workers from all
over the south were in attendance.
The program included many papers ot
great interest to southern farmers.
John Baker, live stock sanitary com-
missioner of Kansas, has announced
that the "open season," the time in
which southern cattle will be admitted
Into Kansas, will begin on December 1
and close January $1, l$08.
HA8KELL AND
THE PRESIDENCY
Governor C. N. Haskell has not said
publicly that he Intends being a can-
didate for the democratic nomination
for president of the United States in
1912, or four years later. Nor is any-
body quoting him as having made any
statement of this kind. Yet there is
reason for believing that it is not
outBide the range of possibilities that
all his plans are leading in that direc-
tion. A number ot his close friends
saying, at the proper time and
place, and where the statement will
have effect, that Haskeil will be a
candidate for the nomination. Haskell
has entered no denial of what these
friends are saying. There is no par-
ticular reason why he should. If time
and fortune should bring this honor
within any man's reach, it does not
lie within the bounds of human nature
for him to offer obstacles to it.
One of Governor Haskell's friends
said lately that Haskell was In a posi-
tion of peculiar advantage to promote
a presidential boom. He is the gov-
ernor of a state that has gone far
afield in its constitution to meet and
overcome the dangers that have arisen
in the United States in the last quar-
ter of a century against good govern-
ment. Every state in the Union is
watching Oklahoma to see what it
may be able to do with its constitu-
tion. If the latter should achieve
what ltB builders hope for it, other
states would quickly adopt such of its
provisions as were adapted to their
needs.
Governor Haskell was the master
builder In the construction of the con-
stitution. It became the campaign
platform of his party, ana elected him
governor of the new state. He is bet-
ter equipped possibly than any other
man to interpret and enforce its pro-
visions, whether they be good or bad.
The legislature that will enact the
laws that will give expression to the
constitution is friendly to Governor
Haskell, and he should be able to havt
its full assistance in working out the
problems of state government.
If his administration should be suc-
cessful, he would become a national
character, because of the publicity
that would come to him in the news-
papers and magazines, and there
would be a demand for him as a pub-
lic lecturer, that even from a purely
mercenary side would make him a
rich man.
Governor Haskell shoujd be able to
stay in the limelight for another rea-
son. He was the champion of prohi-
bition, and made this movement vic-
torious in the constitutional conven-
tion; it won him the friendship ana
support of prohibltln leaders through-
out the United States. Many persons
believe that by the lime the presiden-
tial campaign of 1912 comes round,
prohibition will be a national question,
and that the candidate for the presi-
dency that gets the support of the
prohibition forces will defeat the can-
didate that fails to gbt It. This is an
asset not beyond the possible reach
of a governor of such a state%as Okla-
homa.
Another thing favorable to Haskell,
In the opinion of these friends who
are quietly starting his presidential
boom, 1b that the growing power oi
the west will soon claim a presiden-
tial nomination. Oklahoma lies on
the dividing line between the south
and the north. A presidential nomi-
nee from this state ought to be satis-
fatory to the "solid south," and at the
same time able to command a support
in the north that would be withheld
from a nominee out of "Dixie."
No man can clearly foresee the fu-
ture, and Governor Haskell may never
get within reach of the democratic
presidential nomination, but he has
active friends who believe that he win
prove himself eligible and they are
working now in Oklahoma, slowly ana
carefully building fences for him. -
In territorial days the members oi
the board of agriculture were elected
by the qualified farmers* county insti-
tutes. It is said that a plan is under
way to secure leglslttUon whereby its
members may be appointed by the
governor of the state. It was assumed
in earlier days that inasmuch as the
board of agriculture was employed in
work that directly concerned the
farmers, the latter should have most
to say in choosing the board.
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ALL BANKS MUST
BE CHARTERED
The appointment of Herbert H.
Smock by Governor C. N. Haskell to
bs state bank commissioner, ha3 been
generally commended, despite the tact
that partisanship might insist that ail
of Governor Haskell's appointees
should be democrats. Mr. Smock was
territorial bank commissioner under
Governor Frank Frantz. Primarily,
the wish of Governor Haskell was that
in changing from one form of govern-
ment to another, there should be as
little friction as possible to disturo
financial conditions.
Mr. Smock has shown himself to be
a conservative, painstaking official.
He is at work now on a plan whereby
the private banks of Indian Territory
may be brought under the laws of Ok-
lahoma. Private banks in Indian Ter-
ritory have had no more supervision
by public authorities than have mer-
cantile - establishments, which was
none at all. Many of them are with-
out charters, and others have char-
ters issued by clerks of district courts.
The safety of the private banks in In-
dian Territory has depended solely on
the honesty of their officers. And it
may be said that the failures have
been surprisingly few. , Mr. Smock
will not move hastily, as he does not
wish to disturb state finances. All
private banks without charters will t>e
required at once to take out state
charters. He believes that in six
months or a year all the private ana,
state banks will be on a uniform baBis.
DISPENSARIES A8
POLITICAL MACHINE
An attempt may be made to prevent
the establishment of state dispensaries
by the Btate legislature for the sale oi
liquor. .The constitution gives the
legislature permission to provide for
dispensaries, but the provision is not
mandatory. Opposition to dispensar-
ies will come from at least two
sources: Radical prohibitionists who
are opposed to the sale or manufac-
ture of liquors for any purpose, and
who belicwe that its use is not essen-
tial in medicine; and men who suspect
that there would be great danger ot
a political machine that would be con-
trolled by the liquor interests. Witn
5-120-6f3p Tnos J Cross 167
from 75 to possibly 200 dispensaries
in the different towns and counties,
this fear may not be unfounded. The
utmost precaution of the appointive
power in naming dispensers would
not guarantee that the right kind oi
men would be placed in charge. The
tendency constantly would be for the
liquor interests to encroach more and
more upon the management of the
dispensaries. Even if Governor Has-
kell should succeed in checkmating
all these possible dangers, the time
might come when a less successful
governor would be in office.
A member of the legislature saia"
lately that he would like to see tiie
sale of liquor prohibited entirely in
(Oklahoma. He was confident that
persons who wished to~ use whisky
would buy it regularly in outside
states. There is nothing to prevent
a person buying liquor in Missouri ana
having it shipped into Oklahoma for
his personal use.
NEW IN8ANE
BOARD APPOINTED
As speedily as possible, Governor
Haskell will make provision for the
care of all insane citiaens by the state.
The sanitarium at Norman, where Ok-
lahoma has kept its patients, is lull
to overflowing and unible to care for
patients from Indian Territory, where
there are many awaiting admission.
Governor Haskell has notified all the
new counties that the board of com-
missioners has authority to create in-
debtedness for the care of insane per-
sons until such time as they may be
cared for by the state. He has ap-
pointed C. L. Long of Muskogee and
Robert Dunlop of Ponca City to be
members of the board of trustees ot
the state asylum. Both are capable
business men. Governor Haskell, ex-
officio, is the third member of the-
board. The new members have been
Instructed to study the situation care-
fully and report what should be and
what may be done. Governor Haskell
will take no action in using the build-
ings at Fort Supply until the -boara
has made Its recommendations.
Gas has been struck at Bristow at a
distance of 2,733 feet. The well will
be drilled deeper in the nopes of in-
creasing the flow.
WILD CAT IN8URANCE
MU8T GO, SAY8 McCOMB
T. J. McComb, state commissioner
of insurance, is getting ready to purge
the new state of all Insurance compa-
nies whose resources are inadequate
for the protection of policy holders,
and whose business methods are loose.
He 1b not only thoroughly familiar
with the insurance business, but has
personal knowledge of practically all
companies that operate along "wild
cat" lines. He will notify each com-
pany whose solvency he questions that
it must make a showing that will sat-
isfy him that it is able to meet Its
obligations, and that it gives ample
protection to Its policy bolder*. Com-
panies that fail to makf
will be forced out ol the st
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