Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma State Register
THIRTEENTH YEAll NO. 38.
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1904.
$1.00 PER YE 2.1
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SPECIAL LEGISLATION
FOR THE STATE CAPITAL
be given a liberal patro. a.
Prof Jayne will doubtless accept the
proposition offered and accept the date
offered for the concert recital.
Mrs. Ardery will give a recital in
Perry, Wednesday, September, 26.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
COUNTY TREASURER
SEELEYS RECORD
The Guthrie National Bank reportid
September 1, $115.33 interest on daily
balances for the month of August.
This makes a total of $1023.35 interest
which has been placed to the credit of
Oklahoma Celebration
at St. Louis Expositio
~ Frank Greer is crying on the streets that he must have a legis-
lature elected for the special purpose of voting large appropna-
=ons for him or the State Capital plant cannot live.
He appeals to the supposed self-interest of the citizens of
jthrie, irrespective of politics, and the republican party of the
whole territory, on the ground he has been the chief beneficiary
to both.
Let us see !
Why cannot the State Capital live?
Is it because it did not get money enough from the republican
•.arty and the territorial and county treasuries in the years past?
No!
Is it that the editor did not get enough money to put him on
his feet after the fire, whose origin has never been explained ?
Ilis own testimony bears witness that no man in the histoiy
of the United States had such lavish generosity heaped upon him,
when in distress, as the citizens of Guthrie and the territorial of-
ficers of the republican party tendered him. Even rival newspa-
pers whom he had crushed for years came to his rescue.
Having received ample means to put up and equip the most
palatial printing plant in the West, why is it that he cannot get
business to do ?
Because he has outlived the tenture of his graft,
Because for years the republican party was organized for no |
other purpose than that of furnishing printing supplies for the
State Capital at any price it chose to charge, until it has destroyed
the ability of republicans to elect countv tickets in 21 out of 23
counties and the printing now goes elsewhere.
Because in those days when the State Capital had its own way
in political jobbery, it never pretended to figure on public supplies
but presented lump sums, and repeatedly got paid two and three
times-and four for the same work. The contrast between those
prices and the commercial figures furnished now that business
concerns get the work at commercially-competitive prices is so
outrageous, no county officers dares to purchase anything from it
at present prices without first having figures from other firms.
Because the business managers of the State Capital were po-
litical grafters and cannot learn and do not know how to figure on
public stationery 011 commercial prices, as can be proven by the
present three Logan county tax roll blankfbooks costing Si37. and
an outside firm offered to furnish them tor S40.
But because, over and above all, Frank Greer killed the city of
Guthrie at a critical moment in its history, by betraying the trust
reposed in him and others to secure the Frisco road that after-
ward went to Oklahoma City, by demanding a sum of money from
the Frisco for himself and not offering a bonus to the company.
If anyone doubts this statement let him go to the district
court house and see a judgment there against Frank Greer and
others for balances on leases on coal lands along the proposed
line.
Frank Greer and others asked the Frisco as much as $400,000
to come to Guthrie.
Frisco officials told the Guthrie representatives to go to hell,
and went to Oklahoma City.
Guthrie at that time had gone down to 9,000 population, fol-
lowing the hard times of 1893 and '94 and Oklahoma City down to
6,000. Business houses went under at Oklahoma City, and its rich
men went broke. Guthrie was holding its own.
Guthrie entrusted Frank Greer and others with $1,500, Si,000
given by the county and S500 by the city to secure the Frisco, and
the agents sold the cit'zens out.
Henry Overholser and C. G. Jones went to St. Louis on their
own expense and secured the the Frisco and made Oklahoma
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Oklahoma celebrated its achievemenis in induarial and social
' Logan county during the eleven months progress at the World's Exposition in St. Louis Monday by an
| Charles Seeley has been county treas- ."Oklahoma City Day" and Tuesday by. an "Oklahoma Day."
The strikers of Chicago have voted ; urer- . Jointly they made a flattering front to the world, the exercises
., . , j , • This is a record no other Logan coun- , . .. . . . , . , , .
to continue the stock yards struggle. j ^ treasurer has made None ever 1 belng directly participated in by 23,000 people from Oklahoma
; turned over the interests on deposits to
Henry Watterson made a speech be- the county.
fore 500 democratic editors at a banquet i
in New York City, ^Parker. ^ R WQ Qp.g
The Claremore, I. T. Messenger WATCH SLOW
wants a meeting of the Republican ^ g Wood, the editor of the Mul-
press of the two territories on Septem- j,an Enterprise, has a watch that
ber 26, to confer on united efforts for nee(]3 fixjng. Because of its irregular -
statehood. j jty he has found himself on both sides
jt j* | of the council contest between Seeley
and Smith, His report of the conven-
tion is to the effect that about 1:20 by
The Department of Justics has direc-
ted United States District Attorney
Speed to prosecute 0. A Mitscher, re-
Ms watch he saw the drum corps march
opeeu „ v, j he left the ,and 0f-
moved Osage Indian Agent, for violat- ""J
... w * „„„ flee and went to the convention. When
ing a statute relating to the use of _
C A u 1 • „ reached there he heard someone place
funds belonging to Indians. . , , .
Seeley in nomination, and the next
thing he knew it was all over with.
Eight appealed cases from Greer ] Now, if it were not for the following
county were filed in the Supreme Court I in his paper his watch might be de-
to force the payment of iorefeiture of j pended on:
bonds amounting to several thousand "Accordingly, the Mulhall delegation
dollars.
The Rock Island and Pacific train
running out of Chicago was wrecked
near Princeton, 111., injuring over
thirty persons, many dying since.
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The south bound Wabash passenger
was wrecked near Moberly Mo., killing
| seven passengers ar.d injuring
| thirty others.
of five, who had now been joined by
H. W. Elliot and Dr. Hatfield, who
| just arrived from the train, stayed to
seethe end. About two o'clock the
din and Martial band having abated
j F. H. Greer was put in as chairman."
i Now then, the Santa Fe train comes
1 from Mulhall at 2:20 and -ounting the
time it took those gentlemen to walk
from the train, it can't be true that
over , the Seeley convention was over and
! "about two o'clock the din and martial
J band having abated," the Smith con-
In a parade of the National Conclave vention began.
i Knights Templar, seven miles long, in j is watc go r. 00 ® come
San Francisco, as Joseph Leath, of j as a
j Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knox-
■ ville, Tenn., stepped out of his carriage
j to give his seat to an overcome com-
rade, he dropped dead from sudden
heart failure.
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Republicans of Vermont elected their j
whole state ticket by larger majority , A c Titus> president of the Inter
than two years ago, and control of the
legislature.
man of a committee for Smith, he
should take it to a watchmaker and
have it fixed.
TO*l INVESTIGATE
CALIFORNIA ROADS
Col. R. B. Forest, prominent demo-
crat of El Reno, and former candidate
for nomination for congress, has come
out against Frank Mathews for Con-
gress.
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Territorial Good Roads Association,
left for California Tuesday to investi-
gate the oil process used in building
roads. He is a student of the question
of good roads and knows all that books
can teach the success attained in oil
process, but he desired to learn on the
ground the machinery and all the de-
tails. If from personal observation he
finds that the method is a success, ma-
chinery and material can easily be got-
ten in this territory for an experiment-
al road.
The National association will be un-
der the direction of its secretary, Col.
R. W. Richardson, builds sample mile
roads in each state, upon request, by
furnishing the machinery and supervis-
ion the state furnishing the material
an labor. It is now building a section
at Springfield, Missouri, and can, in
There was never a lasting love that turni gotten here.
and 10,000 from the outside. The exercises on Oklahoma City
Day were an address of welcome bv President Francis, and re-
sponse by Gov. Ferguson, Mayor Lee Van Winkle, C. Porter John-
son and the address of the day by John W. Noble, Secretary of
the Interior when Oklahoma was opened. The Apollo club of
sixty voices sang.
The young women chosen to represent the sixteen cities are
as follows;
Atlanta, Miss Susie May Pope; Cincinnatti, Miss Henrietta
Ginter; Chicago, Miss Grace B. Scott; Denver, Miss Maude Ash-
ton; Kansas City, Miss Nettie Campe Pemberton; Memphis, Miss
Caroline M. White; Minneapolis, Miss Helen Ladd; New York
City, Miss Nettie Hynes: New Orleans, Miss Yzonne Capdeville;
Phi'adelphia, Miss Elizabeth Channell; Havana, Cuba, M. Coralie
Barstic; Tokio, Japan, Miss Kita Muritu; Des Moines, Miss Ada
Myrick; San Francisco, Toronto and City of Mexico.
The following young ladies represent |Oklahoma and Indian
Territories:
Alva, Miss Leo Musseller; Guthrie, Miss Hedwig Braun;
Enid, Miss Francis Fleming; Lawton, Miss Bessie Campbell; Ard-
more, I. T., Miss Floy Mullen; Muscogee, I. T., Miss Tooka
Turner; Perry, Miss Pearl Woolsey; Tulsa, I. T., Miss Nita Mar-
shal; Shawnee, Miss Edith McKay; South McAlester, I. T., Miss
bessie E. Brown; Vinita, I. T., Miss Fay Trott; Oklahoma'City,
Misses Miram Richardson. Neva Haines, Katheryne Harrel, Alice
Kirkpatrick, Bettie Loo Sims and Naomi Phillips.
Among the guests at Festival Hall were Governor Franklin
Murphy, of New Jersey and one hundred of the leading manufact-
urers of Newkirk, N. J., who are going from the World's Fair di-
rect to Oklahoma City, on a visit to the Southwest.
On Oklahoma Dav, Tuesday, the address of welcome was
made by President Francis, responded to by Governor Ferguson.
Miss Carrie Williams, of this city, sang a selection and Freeman
E. Miller, of Stillwater, read an original poem. The Chilocco In-
dian band furnished music. Col. Roy V, Hoffman made the form-
al address for Oklahoma and Chief Pleasant Porter for the Indian
Territory. After these exercises there was a parade to the Terrace
of States, where the statues of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
were crowned by young women from both territories.
The following young ladies were maids of honor; Oklahoma :
Misses Leo Musseller, Alva ; Pearl Rhodes, Guthrie ; Edith Mc-
Kay, Shawnee; Bessie Campbell, Lawton ; Louise Hauser, Esther
Parker. Indian Territory : Mabel, Bagley, Vinita; Mae Williams,
Purcell; Gertrude Adams, Muscogee ; Luetta N ish, Fort Gibson ;
Ada Brueninger; Berth Johnson.
In the afternoon a car of Guthrie watermelons was served to
immense crowds and a reception was given in the evening at the
Oklahoma building.
The following poem was read by Freeman E. Miller :
TIIYT'S THAI'
Most of the misery of married life
comes from the conflict between natur-
5 al selection and social acceptation.
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Even grief is a sweet sorrow.
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NORMAN CITIZENS
ARE NOT h06ISH
On account of the rumor that the Ok-
lahoma insane asylum is to be moved
from Norman, where it has been since
the asylum was establish'd, the citi-
zens have organized into a fighting
committee and will protest to the finish
any effort to carry out the proposed
plan. At the last session of the terri-
torial legislature a bill was passed re-
moving the asylum to Fort Supply,
with the provision that a railroad should
be built there first. It is now announ-
ced that the railroad will be built; in
fact a charter has been applied for and
sufficient funds, it is said, have been
pledged, to build the road. Should the
asylum be removed from Norman it
would almost paralyze that town com-
mercially. Hence the citizens will make
the fight of their lives for its retention.
—State Capital.
also not spend a copper in keeping it
here.
The tax payers of Norman hold the
same virtue with the rest of the terri-
| was not cemented by a deep wound,
to to
I If a girl marries too young its too
I bad; if too old, it's worse.
is to to
' The secret of love is the same mys-
| tery in man as in zoophyte.
to to to
When one sees a summer girl one
W. R. Goit, who furnished the sewer
pipe for Guthrie, has helped Col. Rich-
ardson organize several good road asso-
ciations and states that the material
out of which roads can be built has been
so extended that burnt gumbo makes
one of the best roads in districts where
it is found.
When A. C. Titus returns from Cali-
tory—that the territory should take j flirt,
care of its insane at absolute cost, let
the institution go where it may.
As far as the commercial interests of
Norman being ruined by the removal,
the author of the above squib knew it
was absolutely false.
The party who wrote the article must
be an inmate of the asylum or a knock-
er against a progressive city.—Norman
People's Voice.
wonders if a female dolphin doesn't1 fornia, one of the experimental roads
MRS. ARDERY'S
CONCERT TOUR
Perry Republican: Mrs. Harry Ar-
dery, of Guthrie, has opened a Board-
ing School and Home for young ladies
and will teach music, art and elocution
and the languages. She has a western
Why such an article as the above , reputation as a vocalist and with the
should be sent out from Norman is I assistence of a violinist, reader and pi-
more than we can understand. There anjst will give a series of entertain-
has been no citizens organized to fight; ments in the cities of the territory this
the removal nor will there be any. j fan she has written Prof. Jayne
If such an organization exists it must garding a local band benefit to be given
be from parties directly interested in here in the near future. We hope that
the asylum. the arrangements can be made to have
While rhe people of Norman will not her and her corps of artists appear in
throw a straw in the way to keep this Perry as we know the entertainment
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If "bad money" burned in the hand,
most of the churches would be in con-
tinuous conflagration.
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When a woman makes up her mind
to be an oid man's darling rather than
a young man's slave, she usually be-
comes both.
Some persons go ail their lives wear-
ing the cheapest friendships and the
dearest clothes.
"Princes cannot be beggers" does
not apply to foreign noblemen in search
of American wives.
$ & W
A pretty girl in a prayer meeting is
as dangerous as dynamite in a glass
factory.
WWW
There is one good thing about lln
wicked, they are never led astray.
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When a woman is so economical in
dress her husband entertains her with
discriptions of other women's toilets,
to be built will probably be Vine street
out to the county high school.
OPENING OF
ST.JOSEPHS ACADEMY
At nine o'clock Tuesday morning,
September 6, the students at this insti-
tution resumed their studies. The
former students and also many new ap-
plications are coming in daily, so that
the attendance promises to be large.
Prof. Richardson, of this city, has spent
several days at the Academy during
the past week and has all the pianos in
excellent tune.
institution from being moved, they will would be appreciated by our people an] saves.
STRAUGHENS DATES
The following dates have been set
for addresses to be delivered by Mr.
Straughen the populist candidate for
-Ongress: In Cleveland county, Sep-
tember 5, 6 and 7; at Lawton Ji p. m.,
September 8th; at Walter, 8 D. m.,
September 8th; at Leger September
•'Ih; at other Greer county points, Sep-
tember 10th; at Hobart, September 12;
at Anadarko, September 13th; at El
she costs him m ire money than she Reno, September 14th; at Enid Septem-
ber 15th; at Jefferson September 16th.
O, ye who frame the sovereign law,
And heal the hurts of ocean isles
Till hid are savage tooth and claw
And Peace above the battle smiles,—
If Justice reigns and Mercy clings,
What think ye, Masters, of these things?
The Father of the Waters greets
Imperial sisters proud and great,
And nation mighty nation meets
At festal boards of lordlv state;
But one—one only,— maketh moan;
Denied the Star, she weeps alone!
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I he cycles flv on eagled wings:
A hurd ed years have run their quest
Since he who bought and sold witn kings
An empire added to the West,
And all his regions rulers are
Save her alone who mourns the Star
The wildness in a moment died;
A garden bloomed and fruited full
Across the plains and valleys wide
At touch of hands invincible;
But mute she stands where deserts were:
The banner holds no Star for her!
The race heaps high its conxuered spoil;
The braggart heirs of all men do,
Assemble where the Triumphs toil
In marshaled columns for review;
And she, the Starless, at your call
Brings trophies thtt surpass them all!
Are not her laurels rich and rare?
Her apt attainments great with grace?
You crown her here and everywhere
Save where she pleads for power and place;
The world amazed her praises rings:
What think ye, Masters, of these things?
She wonders wrought with wonderous hands:
Her cities crowd the teeming plains,
And church and school exalt the lands
With all of mankind's greater gains;—
The last of all the waste, she brings
The triumphs of her million kings!
A million white and black and red.
Whose treble toils misunderstand
Build happy homes and fondly wed
The desert place with joyous good,
And at your feet, uncrowned, unblest,
Kneel for the knighthood of their quest!
Thralled in her chains, this fairest one
Of all the realms that greatly found
Rich largess on the barrens dun,
Pleads from her fetters, vassal-bound;
And still the Star before her swings;
What think ye, Masters, of these things?
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