Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 18, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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Baldwin Studio, 110 Oklahoma Ave.
We wish to call the attention of the citizens of Guthrie and surrounding country
to the fact that we have opened a studio in this city and come prepared to give the
public the benefit of the best grade of work ever turned out in Oklahoma. Our ap-
paratus is all of the very latest and we refer to our past work in your city as to the
merit of our photographs. We respectfully invite all to call and inspect our samples.
We will further add that any prices made in your city will be duplicated by us.
Yours Respectfully,
Baldwin Studio
110 Oklahoma Avenue,
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
NO POLITICS,
secure than by the system of burgular ity of their members are desirous of
| alarms just put in. once more getting within the fold, the
I It is historv that, sooner or later, belligerents will be left with a small
I expert burglars tine some way to over- following, which is expected^ to event-
Flvnn Declined to Discuss Politics ! come and new mechanical device in- ually force them to disband. Those en-
1 vented for the purpose of limiting the tering the organization will be forced
While at the Capital.
CALLED ON HIS FRIENDS.
111. I. IHlle and Ollin
rive The Pre^ldent'i
Ho Marked l>. a <
i Expected to A
lie! urn Will
hiring of
the Knit 111 ul.
Washington, Sept. 13—[Special from
The Statb Capital Bureau, 010 Four-
teenth St. N. W.]—The announce-
ment that the president would return
to the city the latter part of last week
had the effect of bringingOklahomans
here in force. Ex-Delegate D. T.
Flynn, of Guthrie, spent the early
part of the week here but declined ab-
solutely to di&cuss political questions,
stating that he was now a private cit-
izen and not in public life. He called
on many of his old friends holding
positions under the present adminis-
tration but it was noticed that when
he entered the interior departmen t he
carefully avoided the otliee of S cre-
tary Bliss, and was quickly lost behind
the large screen just outside the door
of the office of Assistant Commissioner
Ryan, who is a warm personal friend
of his. Mr. Flynn stated emphatically
on his entrance that he was not there
on a political mission and his conver-
sation throughout demonstrated the
sincerity of his profession, for not
once during the entire conversation
did Flynn allude to the land offices in
the territory.
The arri/al of John I. Dille and a
large retinue of fjllowers has been
daily anticipated but up to the pres-
ent writing they have failed to put in
an appearance. The president's re-
turn, however, will insure their pres-
ence here and a lively tight is expect-
ed in the next few days.
TREASURES PROTECTED.
operations of their profession, and any jto sever all connections with the pre-
vaults now built would probably be sent one. A separate jurisdiction for
obsolete and comparatively easy for a : the teriitory, which was before re-
first-class cracksman to open within fused because of lack of members, will
ten or fifteen years. With the com- j be granted, as the membership has
paratively inexpensive system of burg- | since increased. A bait will be held
lars larms it is absolutely impossible out to the old members bv an offer to
for an attempt to tamper with the exempt them from the relief assest-
vaults to proceed for the fraction of a i ments.
second without spreading an alarm I
that would iinmedia ely bring an army NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES.
of guards and policemen to the very
spot threatened.
OKLAHOMA IS FIRST
Condition of Her Cotton Crop Kankn Uer
Niiiety- H*e.
Washington, Sept 13—[Special. |
The returns of cotton to the depart-
ment of agricnlture indicate an aver-
age condition of 7^.3 on September 1,
as compared with -80.9 on August 1, a
decline of 8.6 points. The average
condition September 1, 18U6, was 64.2
BANKS THRIVING,
Bank Examiner Pugh Makes His Re-
port of Oklahoma Banks.
RESERVE
PER CENT
Forty-nine State and Private Hank* Kim
ti Kemarkitlrle Increase in l>e| OHllH
— Flrnt Statement Kver Made
In Oklahoma.
Hank Examiner John Pugh has filed
with Gov. Barnes a statement of the
financial condition of the state and
The Knrollment the Largent In the Ills
tory of the School.
Edmond, Okla., Sept. 13,-[Special i Pr,vate bankso( Oklahoma at the close
correspondence.] The school opened | of t>usln<-'ss July 23, 18117, which shows
on Tuesday Sept. 7th, with 132 pupils jthe 0klahom<* *>">« in a thriving eon-
enrolled ' dition. Of the forty-nine banks
On Saturday the enrollment had Itwent* l,aTe becn examined and in
reached 175 pupils. This is much each ease the reserve has been found
more than 100 per cent better than t0 be far in excess of that required by
! law. The minimum cash reserve al-
I,
the enrollment for any similar period
in the history of the school. These *owe(* ^.v ^aw *s ^ Per cent—the
pupils average up better than those of j actua^ cas^ reserve July 23 was 5J per
and the average condition on Septem- 1 any forraer period. They are all in- !cent- Practically all these deposits
ber 1, for the last ten days is 79.2.
There has been a market decline in
almost all the states of principal pro-
duction, the decline in Georgia being
15 points, in Arkansas 13, in Louisiana
12, in Texas, Alabama and South Caro-
lina 8; in Tennessee 7; in Mississsippi
and North Carolina 2 points.
The only exception to the rule is
Oklahoma, where the condition shows
an improvement of 9 points The
drouth that so long prevailed through-
out the greater portion of the cotton
belt has been followed in many im-
telligent looking young ladies and ; owned by farmers and business
gentlemen from 1-8 years old and up- j men- Examiner I'ush says the depos
ward, there being scarcely any child- I 'tB 'iave increated 25 per cent, in the
ren at all among the enrollment re- 'as'< *w0 mont"ls- which goes to show
ferred to. ",e farmers and business men are
. , , i . | getting on a cash basis and are enjoy-
rhe model school department has fn(f bank account8. This ie a remark-
also been organized with Miss Woos- able showing for so young a territory,
ter, of Salina, Kas., in charge. ! where everything has been taken out
She comes strongly recommend
want. Pawnee ought to be the mar-
ket for every bale of cotton in the
county. The buyers can afford to pay
so nearly railroad prices that no
farmer need go to Perry or elsewhere.
We expect in a few days to see our
streets filled with wagons loaded with
cotton which will be sold here. Every
dollar received for Pawnee county
products should be kept at home, and
spent with the merchants who adver-
tise and who pay taxes to help sup-
port the county.
DID NOT HAVE POWER
Territorial Board of Equalization are Not
Authorised to call Witnessed.
Judge MeAtee's opinion in the
tax case which was brought ! v Logan
county to test the validity of the raise
of the territorial board of equalization,
in part is as follows:
''Those boards arc not authorized to
call witnesses or take testimony, and
can have no knowledge of the facts
which would enable them to set aside
the total sum of values as thus ascer-
tained and to substitute a new assess-
ment and valuation of all the property
in the territory, and if they increase
the aggregate amount of property in
the territory, for the purpose of taxa-
tion, they must do so without any in-
formation furnished to them by any
method prescribed by law and must
undertake to say, upon their own con-
jecture and without evidence, that the
individual taxpayers of the territory
have sworn falsely in making out
their lists and returning them to the
local assessors, and that the local
assessors have individually and re- j Dwvl<1 mewingand l>. K. Dudley Disagree
spectfully swore falsely in making out j Over the Use of a Doubletree.
their returns. In order to do this they j n. E. Dudley was shot and probably
As a powerful, invigorating tonic,
Dr. Pierce'* Favorite Prescription im-
parts strength to the whole system
and to the womb and its appendages
in particular. For over-worked, "run-
down," "worn-out," debilitated teach-
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seam-
stresses, "shop girls," housekeepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble women
generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription is the greatest earthly boon,
being unequaled as an appetizing cor-
dial and restorative tonic.
FATAL QUARREL
have nothing ipon which to act except
the "abstract" of the "assessment
rolls," which have been transmitted
to the auditor of the territory, and
must do so without any statutory au-
thority except the above provisions,
which authorise them to examine the
various county assessments and to
"equalize" the same.
fatally wounded late Saturday after-
noon by David Blessing, on the lat-
ter's farm, seven miles west of the
city. The trouble grew out of the use
of certain tools by Dudley belonging
to Blessing, which Dudley claimed
had been leased to him one year ago.
(Juele Samuel Hah HI* Vaults Safe Against
ilobbers.
Washington, Sept. 13. — [Special
from The Static Capital's Bureau, 610
Fourteenth Street, N. W. | — The
eleven vaults and four safes which
protect the vast sums of money in the
treasury department are hardly the
kind of "cribs" the ordinary cracks-
man would attempt to rife Hedged
in by combination time locks and spe-
ed by Prof. Greenwood, of Kan'
sas City, pr. aident of the National As-
sociation o: Teachers. Her depart-
ment at present contains thirty pupils
representing the two first grades of
portant sections by excessive rains, | the primary d partment. Other grades
which have done great damage to the ; will be added as the needs of the
crop.
Rust and shedding are reported from
hundreds o* counties and the state-
ment "no top crop" is very frequent.
The average of the states are as fol-
lows: Virginia 00; North Carolina 95;
South Carolina 85; Georgia 80: Florida
Hi): Alabama SO; Mississippi 81, Louis-
iana TI; Texas 70; Arkansas 77; Ten-
nessee 77; Missouri 81; Indian terri-
tory 03; Oklahoma 95.
STAR ROUTE CHANGES.
County PostntVee Services InereaHed and
fclMtahllMlied.
Washington, Sept. 13.—[Special.—
The postotiice department has ordered
the following change in the star route
service in Oklahoma territory:
Route 54114, Marena to Yates. From
October 1, 1307, increase service to six
times a week. Multe schedule daily
school require. Counting the model
school, there are now over 200 pupils
in actual attendance at the Normal
school. Of-course the good crops have
had much to ao with this large at-
tendance.
But it must not be f rgotten that
President Murdaugh's c aseless efforts
and indefatigable energy, supple-
mented by the efficient services of an
enthusiastic and competent corps of
instructors in his 'faculty, have been
the prime causes of the unprecedented
prosperity of the sohool through "the
hard times" of the pa^t two years, as
well as the good times ..f the present.
I'rof. Umholtz another new mem-
ber of the faculty, isdilling the chair
of English very acceptably The
workmen are %usily employed finish-
ing up the north wing of the buildiag.
Already the increased attendance re-
minds us that we need more ample ac-
commodations. and by the 1st of No-
vember we hope to be able to occupy
our new quarters in the north wing
. j i i niiicn a "frit. acucu uic uony, ^i"«' i"- o mc m'i tu wiuu
cial watchmen, compassed round b> j except Sunday, same hours as at pre-1 It is confidently believed that by that
walls of steel and concrete, they do j 8ent. |4 sept*(. 7| time our enrollment will range from
not offer a tempting field for even the | The following poctotfice has deen es-
most skillf
the jimmy
,empuug neiu lor eveu uie 1 tie luiiuwiujf pt.*jioiui:e iiu*> uecu us-
ul or sanguine knight of tablished in Indian territory:
,.. . ... , Ungles. Chocttw Nation, special
8U11, given sufficient time, from*u,1t.rK0D, rou,.e 1SSOOOi , £s. >s.
any mechanical contrivance must yield
to another in skilled hands, and the j
officials have recently installed a sys- J
tem of burglar alarms that would
.make the treasurers of the nation safe
if they were only guarded by sheet
iron cases.
This system, now covering all the
vaults ol the treasurer's office, as well
as those of the register and comptrol- i
ler, provides for a series of jackets j
lining the safes an«l vaults connected '
on one general circuit, as well as con- 1
necting each vault on a separate cir- j
cuit. These jackets are complete j
121 aug. 97.]
Oklahoma Hcuvlnnn.
VVASHifc'<iTo.5, Sept. 13.—[Spe-eial]—
The following pensions were grante d
today for Oklahoma and Indian terri-
tory: Indian territory, original wid-
ows etc., Lehiza Bathinger, (mother)
Loco. William Triplet of Talequah.,
has been granted a pension.
OKLAHOMA A. 0. U. W.
Supreme Officers Deelde to Glre the Ter
rltory a Separate Jurisdiction.
Sr. Louis, Mo. Sept. 13.—^Special.
20(1 to 250 in the Tiirmal school proper.
OUNKRVBIi.
DISTRICT COURT GRIST.
of the earth in from four to eight
years.
In addition to the state and private
banks there are tive national banks
not included in this report, with a cap-
ital stock of a quarter million dollars.
The deposits in these banks in May
last were nearly #600,000; 843,800 un-
divided profits and surplus, and $'J70,-
000 loans.
The report is as follows:
tBWIVRCEH.
Loans and tliseo-unts |l,09M7O
Overdrafts by Holvent rustorners 70.514 1I5
Other t*orwls. stock and script 100,573 fW
Expense** and tales paid 50,2"J5 tin
Real estate at present ca h martcet
value and furniture and tixtur*
Cash and sight encfeange
Other resources.
TotaJ.
202,39* HO
TH.TTifi dU
30,1125 01
12 M
U ABILITIES.
Capita) stock paid in $ R13.35S 70
Surplus futwi on hand and undivid-
ed prolits 165,847 01
Certificates of deposit iii 129 M
Deposits subject to draft by other
banks, individuals and Olivers 1.3H5.020 S3
Bills payable .... 15,938 24
Total
#2,294, m f>4
safes or vaults would turn in an alarm jofficers
to the central watch itation of the de-1
partment, as well as to the office of
an electric protective company on
Fifteenth street northwest Such an
alarm would not only indicate that
the vaults were be'ng tampered with,
but would indicate the exact position
of the threatened danger to Uncle
Sam's millions. Should any of the
wires be cut an alarm would immedi-
ately indicate such action and its lo-
cation.
These precautions are essentially for
the protection of the treasury at night.
During1 the day time a force of com-
petent and reliable watchmen are on
guard. This number has recently
been increased, a larger force being
. deemed necessary.
The government could easily have
spent hundreds of thousands of dol ars
in building vault coverings, with every
burglar proof improvement, and still
have rendered their contents less
TAX CASK REHEARING.
Attorney Gener I Advlacn thn (lollectlon
Pending s Final Settlement.
Attorney General Cunningham has
advised the county attorneys of the
territory to proceed with the collec-
tion of taxes regardless of the deeision
of the supreme court handed down
recently. He will not drop the caie,
but will proceed at once to file a mo-
tion for a rehearing of the raised
assessed valuation by the territorial
board of equalization. In reply to a
letter from the county attorney of
Woods county Mr. Cunningham gave
the following advice:
"Jesse J. Dunn, County Attorney
Woods County, Alva, O. T.
"Sir—Replying t« your communica-
tion of September 4, 1897, coucerning
the question as to whether or not the
recent decisions of the supreme court
upon what is known as the tax cases,
effects the levy and collection of as-
sessments in your county as far as the
41 per cent raise which the board of
equalization made in your county, you
are advised that motions for a new
trial have been made in each of these
cases, and they now occupy exactly
the same position as the case of Wal-
lace vs. liullen, which holds exactly
the opposite doctrine as in these ca.ses,
and that the court at some future time
will hare to declare what the law is.
"These cases are not binding upon
anybody, and will • ot be binding upon
anybody except the parties thereto,
- but will make it necessary for the
In the case of the 1 errifry vs. Gus j court, at its convenience, to take up
Lowe, James McNea!. liabe Adams, J the whole question and finally declare
Mack Bryan and Win. Anderson, in-j what the law on the subject is.
and the off cers decided to play a game dietment for inciting- riot, the defend- 44 You are advised to proceed with
of freeze-out without these people. ( ants plead not guilty. Case set for the collection of your taxes without
Lx-Uov. Riddle, of Kansas, was au- • trial Sept. 21. ■ reference to these decisions.
thorized to go to Oklahoma and organ- ( In the case of the Territory vs. Tom ! Very respectfully yours,
'HaHI'KK S. CtJNNINGfUAM,
"It cannot be assumed, as was done together with the farm. Blessing* had
in Wallace vs. Cullen, that because , . . .. ., . . , , ,
, 4 / been in this city Saturday and had
the power to raise the amount of pro- | J J
perty in the territory is not denied to drank freely and when he returned
the territorial board of equalization home he found Dudley using a double-
that the board therefore, has the au- lreu belonging to him. He commenced
thority to make such raise and to par-
ticipate 'n the fixing of values of pro
perty in the territory. No such power
can be nresumed in its favor. All the
courts have determined that the power
in such a board must be strictly con-
strued, and that it can exercise no au-
thority but that which is plainly to be
found in the language of the statutes
Large Number <*l frlMoner* Arraign id
and CaaeM « et For Trial.
.Tames W. Hughes was admitted to
practice law upon recommendation of
a committee consisting of J. W. Scot-
horn, II. B. Huston and John U. Cot-
•teral, aopointed to examine him.
In the case of Wm Boyer vs. W. J.
Benner, judgment was given nlaintiff
Qjii the sum of 81,402.94 and $50 for at-
torney fees and costs with decree of
•ford losure as prayed.
Inthe case of th* Territory vs. John
Gray, the defendant withdrew plea of
not guilty, heretofore entered, and
entered plea of guilty of burglary in
lie was sentenced
of the A. O. (J. W. and the ! to be confined in the territorial peni-
graud lodge of Missouri lodge ad journ- \ t*'Btiary at Lansing, Ivan., for a per-
, c iod of two years.
e Saturday. I In the ease of the Territory vs. John
The most important business, and Jenkins, indictment for adultrv, the
that for which the supreme ofticers ' murrer to indictment was sustained,
primarily met, was the disposition to anc* ^eave f0veD to refer the cause to
electrieal conductors and the slightest j .
attempt to tamper which any of the | The special meeting of the .supreme j the second degr
. , . . , . A . _ j the grand jury.
be made of the recalcitrant Oklahoma ln the caM. 1)f the Territory vs. John
members. The Oklahoma members
were formerly under the Texas juris
diction, but organized a separate lodge
in defiance of the wishes of the su-
preme ollicers, for which offense they
were suspended. A number of them
are now clamoring for reinstatement,
bu- some of them are Btill belligerent,
Jenkins, indictment for shooting with
intent to kill, the defendant plead not
guilty. Case set for trial Sept. 15.
In the case of the Territory vs. Al-
fred Mitchell, indicted for grand lar-
ceny, the defendant plead not guilty.
The case was set for trial Sept. 22.
In the case of the
ize legal bodies. The present organi- I Patton, burglary, defendant pl'-ad not 1
zation will be ignored, and as a major- j guilty. Case set for tr.al Sept. 14.
"Attorney General."
GOVERNOR WILL I5K PRESENT
Will M|ieak at I'awnee SfptemliHr 18 -
Haittjuet and llull in HIm Honor.
Pawnee Times-Democrat: A letter
from .Governor C M. Barnes announces
that he will be in Pawnee on next
Wednesday, September 15. Arrange-
ments are being perfected for a grand
ball and banquet to be given in his
honor. He will be accompanied by
I Territorial Treasurer F. M. Thompson
and Territorial Hank Examiner Pugh.
The governor and party will on the
following day attend the Old Settlers
association meeting to be held on the
Coulson homestead near Blackburn,
where Mr. Barnes will deliver an ad-
dress. A large turnout should, and
no doubt, will greet him.
The Old Settlers association was or-
ganized two years ago and is now a
settled institution. Its nature is
clearly defined by its name while its
purpose is a commendable one indeed,
cementing together, as it does, in one
bond of perpetual friendship, those
who patiently endured the hardships
leading up to and after the opening in
order that they might secure for them-
selves a home. Though the associa-
tion has met with many obstacles in
the way of its growth, the rapid
strides made this year preclude all
doubts, if there were any, to its be-
coming one of the staid institutions of
Pawnee county. Its members are to
be congratulated on having secured
the governor's presence among them
on the 16th inst.
EVENT IN PAWNEE'S HISTORY
First llale of Cotton Will He Ginned and
Marketed Thin W'eek.
Pawnee Times-Democrat: Pawnee
will begin her career as a cotton mar-
ket next week. D. E. Evans has made
arrangements to have the first bale of
the season ginned on Tuesday. This
will be an event in the history of
Pawnee and the occasion might be
taken advantage of by our citizens.
We have plenty of ready-tongued
speakers, who would feel an inspira-
tion if they could stand upon the first,
bale of cotton ginned and marketed
in the town. The cotton industry is I
here to stay. It always brings the
cash, and that is what the farmers'
cursing the renter, and one word fol-
lowed another until Blessing went to
the house and secured a 38-calibre re-
volver and returning to within a few
feet of Dudley shot him, the ball en-
tering the left side just below the
heart. A farmer passing in a carriage,
saw the shooting and took the wound-
ed man to a neighbors and came to
town and notified the sheriff. Sheriff
llinehart and Deputy Cha3. Lanx
started at once for the scene of the
shooting When they arrived a large
crowd had gathered about Blessing's
house and threats of lynching were
freely made. Sheriff Rinehart, how-
ever, quieted the crowd and brought
him to the county jail, where he is
now confined to await the action of
the grand jury.
*pudley's wound will in all probabil-
ity result in his death. He is a bache-
lor, 37 years of age, and came to Okla-
homa about one year ago from Linns-
burg, Kans , and leased Blessing's
farm, living with the owner and his
wife on the farm. Blessing is a Ger-
man and came t'1 Oklahoma about six
years ago. He is of a very quarrel-
some nature and recently instituted
divorce proceedings agaiust his wife
in the district court.
Oklahoma Globe: The Chamgain
(111.) Dai'y Gazette of the 2nd con-
tained several columns descriptive of
Oklahoma and its crops, based on in-
terviews with President Morrow, of
the Agricultural college, who was
visiting back there. He also lectured
to an audience which filled a large
opera house, on "Oklahoma," and had
his reputation for truth and varacity
not been well established in that com-
munity they would have considered
him a gilt-edge prevaricator. Mr.
Morrow can always be depended upon
to put in good licks for Oklahoma at
any time and in any place.
Times-Journal; Messrs. Jones and
Overholser returned from St. Louis
last night. They have nothing to say
on Sapulpa matters, but tneir aetious
do not indicate that they are at all
discouraged. Another trip east will
have to be made, which will extend to
New York.
The Wyandotte Mining company
was incorporated today to prospect
for minerals and oil at Wyandotte, 0.
T., and Guthrie. The capital stock of
the company is $700,000. D. T. Flynn,
W. C. Renfrow, W. E. Rowsey, I). A.
Harvey, J. C. Hunt, J. M. and L. B-
liawough are incorporators.
C. T. Tallifero, one of Perrv's lead-
ing colored politicians, was here Sat-
urday and called on Governor Barnes
and talked the patronage of that
county over with him.
Rich red blood i the foun-
dation of good health. That is why
Hood's Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH.
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