Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 20, 1897 Page: 2 of 10
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The State Capital.
V the State Capital Printing: Co.
PRANK H. GREER, Editor.
SATURDAY, VKit. >0, 1890.
THltOTILE 'Hit: EXTORTION-
The insurance companies have got
their backs up at the anti-trust law
passed by the house and threaten to
cancel all policies in Oklahoma. \\c
hope this legislature will work some
insurance reforms. The insurance
pool has its fangs on Oklahoma and
bucks the people like a vampire.
Kxpensive waterworks, strong* paid
lire departments—nothing will avail
to get justice. In Kansas towns no
better protected by water works and
lire companies than the larger towns
in oklahom t. tlu* rate is from 1 to
per cent. Here it is 2:. to 10 per cent!
There is no insurance competition in
Oklahoma.
The rates are tixed by a trust. If
this legislature has any regard for its
pretentions, it will kill this insurance
trust.
Hut it won't do it. Already the
agents are on hand with well tilled
satchels. The bill will gyrate from
one house to the other and finally die.
if this legislature wants to immor-
talize itself, let it introduce in Okla-
homa—the tii* t s*ate in the union to
have it — the Swiss insurance law.
There every property owner, if he de-
sires. can list his property with the
assessor for insurance as well us for
taxation. When his property is as-
sessed for insurance, the property is
insured the moment it goes on the as-
sessment roll for the amount of the
assessment. The premium is paid to
the county treasurer as an "insurance
ta\." There is a state board of insur-
ance commissioners and a state adjust-
er. The board of county commissioners
must audit all claims and issue a war-
rant on the state insurance fund. The
adjuster then goes over the work of
the county commissioners and the
claim cannot be paid until audited also
by the state insurance commissioners.
In Switzerland people get insurance
for one-fourth of 1 per cent. So they
would in Oklahoma under the same
plan. If this legislature did not pass
another law, but applied to Oklahoma
the Swiss insurance law, it would have
conferred a blessing which would keep
in Oklahoma hundreds of thousands of
dollars, throttled a monstrous extor-
tion, and saved to the people an im-
mense amount of money, ltesides, it
would have initiated a reform which
would rapidly spread to every state in
this country.
•Gentlemen, kick out into ihe back
alley the insurance tramps with their
little satchels full of "stuff"—and do
something for the people! You claim
to be trust-killers, (iet out your meat
ax and g<> after the insurance trust?
Pass a law on the Swiss insurance
plan.
.a. toi'ulist "euuvatoir
uul'ncel*.
In the contest between B. F. Bray
and Miss Olive Stubbletield for the
office of county superintendent of Lin-
coln county, the supreme court re-
fused the writ of ouster prayed for by
Bray, leaving Miss Stubbletield to hold
over two years. This case presents
some remarkable peculiarities.
Miss Stubbiefleld was elected to the
otlice in 1894 and is the present incum-
bent. She was renominated on the
republican ticket in 1S9#3 and was de-
feated by 11. F. Bray, who ran on the
fusion ticket, by 217 votes. At the ex-
piration of her term she refused to
surrender the office to Mr. Bray, upon
the ground that he was disqualified
from taking th^ office by reason of uot
being the holder of a first-grade cer-
tificate. The present suit was brought
by Mr. Bray to oust Miss Stubbiefleld
from the office and to recover posses-
sion for himself.
In August the democratic central
committee of Lincoln county served
notice on Mr. Bray that, as a condition
to remaining on the ticket, he would
be required to qualify for the office by
procuring a first-grade certificate. On
the 28th and 29th days of August,
18(. 0, he attended the county teachers'
examination in Pottawatomie county
and attempted to take the examina-
tion. and in about a week after the
examination «T. ft. .lacobs handed him
what purported to be a first-grade cer-
tificate which Mr. Jacobs had obtained
from N. S. Mounts, a populist editor
in Tecumseh. Mr. Mounts testified
that to his best knowledge and belief
he received this document from Mr. J.
M. Bull, county superintendent of that
county. Mr. Bull and the two mem-
bers of the county board of examiners
testified that Mr. Bray took the county
examination in question and that the
board of county examiners after the
examination went through his papers
aud graded them and gave him an
average standiug of 40 per cent,
which was below the required average
for any kind of a certificate, and
that they unanimously voted not to
Issue him a certificate of any kind
Mr. Bull, the county superintendent,
also testified that he never issued the
certificate in question and that he did
not think the signature to tjie docu-
ment is his signature, although he is
not certain, and testified positively
that none of the handwriting in the
body of the instrument is his writing,
though he may have signed up some
blunks and left them in his office, and
if it is his signature it is one of the
blanks that had been stolen from his
office without his knowledge or con-
sent.
In the latter part of October Miss
I Stubbiefleld applied to Mr. Bull for
I Mr. Bray's grades and received a writ-
ten statement from him giving the
grades which he actually made and
which averaged 40 per cent, and a
further statement that he had issued
no certificate to Mr. Bray. Following
the publication of this statement, Mr.
Bray and his friends called on Mr. Bull
and Mr. Bray, Mr. U. P. Martin and
Mr. J. R. Jacobs, who were with him,
all testified that Mr. Bull admitted the
genuineness of this certificate and ex-
pressed his readiness and willingness
to make a statement that he had
issued it and that he did make a state-
ment to them in writing to that effect,
which they produced, and the genuine-
ness of which Mr. Bull also denies in
his testimony and also denies having
made such admissions. Mr. \V. II.
French of Chandler, and Mr. M. E.
Ferguson of Clifton, both testified to
admissions that Mr. Bull made tend-
ing to show that he did in fact issue
the certificate in question. In addi-
tion to this a large number of experts
on penmanship were examined whose
testimony present the usual conflict of
opiuion with regard to whether the
eertiflca'e in question and other ques-
tioned documents were in Mr. Bull's
handwriting.
Mr. Bray's original < xamination
papers which he tiled with the board
of examiners at Tecumseh in response
to the questions asked him were
offered in evidence and disclose
a startling condition of affairs
in Pottawatomie county if the board
of examiners in fact issued this certifi-
cate. It appears that Mr. Bray did
not answer enough of th#.* questions
propounded to him to entitled hiiu to
a standing that would warrant the is-
suance of a certificate if all of his an-
swers had been correct. His ortho-
graphy presents mutilations of the
King's Fuglish that are startlingly
original. The following are some of
the specimens of his orthography:
"Critisize," "Enliten." "suplyed,"
"gasses," "seaks," "foren," "partain*,"
"writen," "transfur," "oslien."
In geogiaphy he ran the St. Law-f
rence river into the Gulf of Mexico; H
locate ihe Amazon in Africa: the Nile
in South America; the Thames in
Europe and emptied it into the Medi-
terranean sea; did not know where the
Ganges, Danube, Congo, Irrawaddi,
Rhine and Rhone rivers are; and his
examination papers on other branches
upon which he was required to take
this examination present the same
striking deficiencies. The principal
question involved in the ease is wheth-
er the statute requiring the incumbent
of the county superintendent's office
to be the holder of a first-grade certi-
ficate is valid, and, if so, whether it
applies to elected candidates or only
those appointed by the board of county
commissioners to till vacancies; and,
second, whether the certificate in ques-
tion of Pottawatomie county possesses
any validity. The parties all seem to
concede that some funny business has
been going on in Pottawatomie
county, and Judge Dale on the
hearing remarked that the trans-
actions down there certainly ought to
form a basis for an investigation by
the Pottawatomie coanty grand jury.
Bray is the veriest ignoramas. He
not only spells it "constitushen," but
is as dense in all other branches as in
orthography. To have had such ig-
norance presiding over the schools of
Lincoln county would have disgrac-
ed education and discredited the ter-
ritory. The action of the supreme
court prvsents ignorance and fraud
from preying upon the educational
standing and interest of Oklahoma.
Miss Stubbletield is splendidly quali-
fied. The people of Lincoln county
may thank justice that the instead of
Bray will superintend their schools
for the next two years.
the judiciary. A dispatch, on the turn tion, but they evidently ate less for a
is the Keaton case, says: | few days.
'Flynn was surprised to find that . ,.
many of the republicans and others of : of the bull.ant laws passed by
Oklahoma who nave been most active ( this legislature is one cutting the sal
in ur^inig him to do his utmost to hold J ary Gf county commissioner down to
up Keaton's nomination have tiled
with the committee papers indorsing
him for confirmation in the most ap-
pealing terms. 1 lynu was almost par-
alyzed with surprise at the evidence of
duplicity and treachery with whjch
the members of the judiciary commit-
tee confronted him. Several of the
republican territorial committeemen
are on record in the senate with in-
dorsements from Keaton and three of
the candidates for Keaton's place have
tiled papers asking the committee to
DIAkl ft flTOTlblt nport on his nomi-
nation. A number of the indorsers
are men who have been overwhelming
Flynn with evidence of Keaton's unfit-
ness to be judge The senate commit-
tee was disgusted and substintially
notified Flynn that they would report
Keaton's name to the senate with a
favorable recommendation. The feel-
ing of disgust is so marked that sug-
gestions will be made to McKinley by
men like Senator Piatt to ignore the
republicans of the territory and ap-
point carpet-baggers to the federal
offices."
a year. The bill limits the ses
sions to twenty regulardays and eight
special days at a day. A nice class
of men can be found to fill the com-
missioner's office at this price! Aud this
the most important office in the coun-
ty. The board levies all the taxes,
pays out all the money collected and
supervises every fiscal affair of the
county—and this populist legislature
puts all these vast interests in the
hands of men who wiil work for $84 a
year* Verily, economy with a popu-
list means destruction.
more " mi'ti a l" iwsiness.
The supreme court Friday passed
another set of resolutions eulogistic of j
ex-Judge Scott. Just what caused
this new outburst is not explained.
This is the third set passed for him.
These are exceedingly fulsome You
would think to read them that Black-
stone, Story, Kent or Marshall had
just departed from the Oklahoma
bench.
The State Capital has nothing
against ex-Judge Scott. But we hate
to see the supreme court make itself
the laughing stock for the
country. Such resolutions are
badly out of place in a
judicial tribunal. Courts of
weight and dignity resolve about dead
associates, but never about live ones.
The resolutions passed Friday would
The senate has passed the bill pro-
viding for time and places for trial in
Oklahoma cases arising under the con-
stitution and laws of the United
States. Terras of district court are to
be held; First district, at Guthrie; Sec-
ond district, at El Ileno; Third, okla-
homa City: Fourth, Perry; Fifth, King-
fisher.
Why do you hear nothing of "Initia-
tive and Referendum" in this legisla-
ture.' 11 was a plank in the populist
territorial platform. Are the mem-
bers afraid to give the people a whack
at the laws they construct? They
would come out like a glass jar from a
tornado.
Shawnee News: Guthrie is fortu-
nate in having the best newspapers in
the territory, but it is not in the na-
ture of an accident. Those papers are
liberally patronized and thus enabled
to do efficient service for that city.
Attorney John Shartel left last
night for Newkirk to attend court.
A. A. Byers returned to Newkirk
last night to attend court.
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qubeil hel'uiilivans.
There are a lot of republicans in Ok-
lahoma who can be "worked" on any
occassion, by the opposition. Serious
charges were filed against Judge Kea-
ton. His confirmation was held up.
Iiut he began to "work" republicans
who practiced at his bar. Lawyers
seem to have a great "hankerin' for
the favor of the court. As if an attor-
ney out of the court's special favor
cannot get justice for his clients! This
is true, however, in Oklahoma. That
courts will thus subborn the lawyers
at the bar, proves their unfitness for
A SCHOOL FRAUD.
HOME FOR INDIGENT COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AT BLN'GHAMTON,
N. V.
The Cornmpri'tal Travelers' assoclat'on was permanently organized und r 'ts
charter at KlnRhamton, N. Y., March 26, 1892, and the Hrst annual convention
held tn Rochester In October, of the same year, a committee was selected to choose
a site [or a home. The laying of the corner-stone of the home took place October
9, ISM, before 1S.000 people. Many thousands of dollars have already been expend-
ed in the building and grounds, and JIM,COO Is still wanted and Is now being raised
The building will bo a huge structure. It will contain 300,000 cubic feet. It will hav
173 on the long side of the I. and 95 on the other. Its five stories will be crowned
lth a tower. The style Is a. blending of Parisian and ^tenaisBance types.
tio for a town meeting, but by the su-
preme court are ridiculous. The prin-
cipal pastime of the democratic su-
preme court of Oklahoma has been to
furnish whitewash for its members.
It would appear that, some day, Okla-
homa ought to get a court which knew
more than to be guilty of fulsome eu-
logy of the live members or ox-mem-
bers Court* can be pardoned Cor
praising dead colleagues; but they
ought to let the live ones stand on their
record, without the resoluted opinion
of the court about the granduer of Site
record!.
run school land per cai'ija.
The last distribution of school land
money proves the great importance of
this branch of our territorial govern-
ment. The semi-annual disbursement
in January of this year was £.'>.'i,505.!>ti.
This is a per capita of til) ceut* for
each child of school age—or J1.30 a
year. The distribution is gradually
enlarging. ISy a proper rental of
thtsfce school lauds it can be increased
in a short time to almost enough to
run the schools of Oklahoma.
The legislature, it is hoped, will
protect this great school interest by a
law dealing justly with all parties.
The lobby so far is composed entirely
of lessees.itsh jald not bi forgotten
ihat the children need to be looked
after, as well as the lessees. There
should be no unfair advantages given
on either side.
Ok a lot of twenty yearling and two
year old steers now being fed at the
Oklahoma experiment station, eleven
were dehorned in November, the oth-
ers having been dehorned previously.
Three days later the dehorned steers
were found to have lost an average of
over eleven pounds each in weight,
while those previously dehorned show-
ed an average gain of fifteen pounds
each. One week later the freshly de-
horned steers showed a gain of thirty
pounds each: the other nine a gain of
twenty-one pounds. The apparent
loss from the dehorning for the ten
days was about sixteen pounds each.
No one of the dehorned steers seemed
to show any ill effects from the opera-
Money Belonging; to Colored Schools Be.
lug Misapplied.
The colored people of this territory
are being daily robbed out of at least
three-fourths of the school money
which justly belongs to them by the
several county superintendents and
school directors of this territory, who
seem to have entered irataa cod®*"— -v
lorthe put*"--—^e c°l°r'
eli people out of thoitfsehoo) fund The
county commi-.sioners lev..' annually
one mill tax for the support of the
separate schools, and a two mills tax
for the support of the general schools.
The several school directors most in-
variably use the separate county fund
for the support of the colored school
and the general fund for the white
school. They put all money they re-
ceive from the territorial school lands
and special district taxes into the gen-
eral fund for the use and benefit of the
white schools and thereby defraud the
colored people out of the money which
is paid from their own pockets. This
is simply a highway robbery and mis-
application of the law, perpetrated by
the various school directors and san-
tioned by q,uite a number of the coun-
ty superintendents.
It is earnestly hoped that our legis-
lature will give this matter their
earliest attention and stop this whole-
sale fraud. Hy amending separate
school law (article 8. general section
5864, sub. section 3) with the proviso,
"that ail moneys, from any and every
source, whether from the county, ter-
ritory or district, belonging to any
district where there are separate
schools, shall, when received by the
district treasurer, constitute a general
fund to be used equally for the benefit
of both the white and colored schools
indiscriminately.''
The above named proviso was the
spirit and intention of tne law, as it
now stands, which was made by the
second legislature of Oklahoma. I
was a member of the committee on
education which recommendad the
present law. DaniklJ. \Vai.i.ack,
Ex-Representative 2'Jd District.
To School Teachebs—Do you want
monthly report cards, l.'ic per doz; and
reward of merit cards, beautifully
ithographed or embossed, over 100
different designs, at from 20 to 50
cents per package of 25 cards. We
Keep these, and all school supplies, in
stock ready for you. Addres Statu
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CHICK ASA WS FILE PROTESTS
Objection!* to the Choctaw Treaty Are
•Set Forth l y the Chlckaitau h.
Washington. Feb. 15—[Special |.—
Half of the Chickasaw delegation has
gone home and the pending negotia-
tions with the Choctavvs have been
suspended. They filed a memorial in
the senate today through Senator
Jones of Arkansas, in which they set
forth their objections to the Choctaw
agreement. Their greatest objection
to the treaty, they stale, is the mode
of conveyance to the l'nited States of
the lands of the nation. They fear
that should the Chickasaw and Cnoc-
taw nations voluntarily convey the fee
title to their lands to the l'nited States
it would be claimed by the railroad
companies in the nation that the title
in the alternate sections heretofore
granted would inure to themselves,
the result of which would be to cause
Jong litigation between the railroads
claiming the permit i and such allotees
as had selected allotments upon the
alternate sections embraced in the
grants and, perhaps, in the end, cause
the allottees to lose their homes.
They admit that thebedangers may b?
imaginary, but they prefer that tha
title should remain in the Indian peo-
ple of the two nations until the al-
lotmtnts are completed. They sny
that they are ready to join with the
Choctaws in an agreement by which
the lands of the nations may be al-
lotted and such other changes made in
the system of government as the situa-
tion requires. They are ready to
agree to the allotment of all
the public domain belonging to the
Choctaw and Chickasaw people equally
between their own citizens, frcedmen
excepted, and excepting such as may
be found necessary for specific uses,
providing the fee title remain in the
respective tribes until the allotments
ire completed, and provided that the
United States guarantees to the Chick-
asaw nation its claims against the
United States for arrears of interest
on its trust funds. They offer to 'lease
the town lots in the different towns
for an annual ground rental, but think
they ought to be allowed to designate
the towns to be so leased. They are
willing t,o agree that the revenues
from all mineral!* should be held in
trnst by the United States for the
benefit of the Choetaws and Chicka-
saw citizens. They are willing that
the United States should collect all
royalties growing out of mineral
land's, town lots and limber lands and
hold the same in trust! The memorial
ifrsigned by all the commissioners of
the Obickasaw nation
of the bill say that, if they can secure
consideration for it, they can pass it
through the house without the prom-
ised aid of the senate. In either event,
it seems probable that the free homes
bill will become a law this congress.
If you feel drowsy, dull, languid,
inexpressibly tired or debilitated: if
you've no appetite and frequent head-
aches or dizziness, a furred or coated
tongue—it proves that ycu are bilious.
In that case von should use Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant l'ellets. They are anti-bili-
ous granules, which act in a prompt
and natural way without griping.
HAINER IN WASHINGTON.
He I>i<l Some Valuable \V' rk lor Guthrie
While There.
City Attorney llainer was in Wash-
ington last week before the interior
department looking* after the Pale of
unclaimed lots and the residue comio^
to the city. The commissioner of the
land office was ordered to re-audit the
accouuts and the city, after a liberal
allowance of S8i u for seiling- 107 lots—
at three days' auction—will get SJ.000
as its share under the townsite law.
The charges were so unreasonable on
their face that a re-auditing may save
several hundred of this >30n to the city
It was lucky llainer w s there when
he was. Otherwise the city would
have been wholly unrepresented
in the llacsom Payne case. The.
solicitor general did not know the
government was a party or had an
interest, and did not intend to appear.
No briefs for defendant1* had been
filed 2?rd the case was eallled for trial.
The MoUPni Way
^0^^i!&.^dt^^ualiy° what
wis" fBfmerly done in the crudest
uastnaer and disagreeably as well. To
claanse the system ao4 break up colds
headaches and fevers without un-
pleasant after effects, use the delight-
ful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of
tfigs. Manufactured by California
Fig Syrup Company.
AS A RIDER.
Free Home* May Come as a Part of The
Civil Appropriation IS1II.
Washington, Ifeb. is.— fSpecial-1
Interest in the free homes bill has
been temporarily transferred from the
house to the senate;; since Senator Car-
ter, of Montana, offered it as an
amendment to the sundry civil bill.
The measure was carried in the senate
by so decisive a majority that there if
not the least doubt as to its being at-
tached as a rider on the appropriation
bill. It will then go back to the
house for a conference. While the
bill has many friends in the lower
branch, it is well known that Speaker
Reed does not regard it with, much
favor. The extent of the figliA that
will develop over the question of eon-
currenco will depend on ihe men
whom he appoints on the confer-
ence committee on the part of the
house. The expenditures oi this con
gress have so far exceeded the limits
of practical economy that the watch-
dogs, who regard the free homes bill
as an act of extravagan'. legislation,
wiil probably make a vigorous effort
to squeeze the homesteaders to pay for
the lands they occupy.
On the free homes side in the house
is the venerable ex-Speaker (ialusha
A, Grow, of Pennsylvania, who is the
father of the original homestead hill.
His resolution fixir.g a day for the con-
sideration of the bill is now pending
before the ccwmi'ASP on rules. V
Mr, Hainer made a brief showing to
the solicitor general that £>e case in-
volved th1? ralidity of patenVto north
half of Batt Guthrie. The solicitor
general then took part in tile ease.
Mr. llainer "a* admitted to {WMtice
before the supreme court, and after
consultation the case was postponed
to October.
This show the necessity of the city
looking after and assuming control of
these cases where the people are so
gravely involved.
Mr. Hainer on his *tnrn called on
Major McKinley and had a nice con
versation with him. He expressed
yreat interest in Oklahoma matters.
He called on Herbert Walcott, at
Cleveland, who went with him to see
McKinley and Hanna. Walcott will
be remembered as a brother of Senator
Walcott and was a member of the
Guthrie Daily News staff 'iro the early
days. He is presiuent < f* die famous
Tippecanoe club and a candidate fur
state senator of the Cleveland district
THE ONLY True Illix.-l Purifier
■prominently in the publi* eye to-
day is I IJa.^wfore
(M I) WORK FOR GUTHRIE
A tltl/eu Con*mentis the Work oL Attor
ney flakier in the Interest ol Uuthrle.
EmTon The State Capitai.: The
residentaof East Guthrie owe much
to City Attorney li. T. Hainer who by
the merest chance possibly, voluntar-
ily performed for them a service that
will result in saving to them their
real estate holdings, and in many
casos homes in that quartes of Guth-
rie. Apparently the settlers and land
owners have unwittingly permitted
the case pending in the United States
supreme court to rest wiAhout notice
or attention. Mr. Hainer being in
Washington in attendance upon that
court in other city matters, incident-
ally or accidentally learned that a de-
cision was soon to be handed down in
the East Guthrie cases against the
first settlers, and, that the city had no
representative there to look after the
ease, thereby permitting a decision to
the first settlers-by default of non-ap-
pearance or non-action, he at once ap-
peared on behalf of the city and con-
tinued the case until next October,
thereby granting to the people time
to get a move on themselves and look
after this all-important and vital mat-
ter to almost all of them. Such timely
service freely given is worthy of much
praise to Mr. llainer, and I for one
wish to thank him. A, Citizen.
Sell four dozen eggs, and for the
products you can gel the Weekly State
Capital I year.
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Greer, Frank H. Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 20, 1897, newspaper, February 20, 1897; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc275387/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.