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Oklahoma State Register
Published Every Thursday hy
oklahoma hunting company.
\v V
I. M DOLPH. Pres
stabllshed I>t*c 17, IM'0.
JOHN GOI OPIK. Sev.
Inc., Dec. 17. IStOS.
■ t*r«d at the Po toftl.e Ml Uuthrle. Oklahoma as tim-oiid
Class Mall Matter.
Subscription Price per Year, #1.0(1
THURSDAY, APRIL. IX 1811
JOHN GOLOBIE. EDITOR.
I AMI VET, WiVIJi.
The Tulsa World Is bound, In Its blindness, not to
be correct on the school land question. In a conclud-
ing paragraph, In rebutal to the State Register's stric-
tures on Its attitude, It sajs:
"Nor does tills defender of the school land
syndicate have a word of explanation to offer
$ as to the terms of the new law which permits
any person, natural or artificial, to purchase as
■', many acres of this land as he or it can pay
' for. Such a provision, Instead of abolishing a
tenantry system fasteus such a system on the
state forever."
Now then, even that is not correct. The only lands
that call be bought In greater quantities than 100 acre
tracts are the grazing lands In Western Oklahoma, In
which for years the lessees have had a "preference"
right given them by the Department of the Interior,
and afterwards by the school land department of Ok-
lahoma. to rent more than 160 acres. Tills privilege
was given the lessees in that part of the territory be-
cause it could not be leased in less quantities, being
only fit for grazing. These ranches have been In the
course of twenty years Improved in such wise hy the
renters that a single quarter, detached, would
today be destructive to lessees and not worth purch-
asing by outside buyers. These nre not. strictly speak-
ing agricultural lands today. Some localities in what
constituted old Woodward county and the three coun-
ties In No Man's Land nre sand dunes that a dozen
sections do not grow a spear of grass and would not
feed a Jackrabblt. This character of land the Tulsa World
editor can buy from the state a hundred years from
now in section tracts.
As to the World quoting only the extreme^ hypothe-
tical Illustration of the loss of the money from the
sale of the lands, while even such far-fetched contin-
gency would prove more beneficial to the state than
perpetual tennant tilling of a part of its soil, it is not
quite fair to quote an intellectual proposition hard
of comprehension by the everyday mind and leave out
the more obvious argument In the editorial that any-
one could grasp. i 1'.'-.
Th<; Beglstei1 lias been at this job of proselyting pub-
lic opinion In favor of the sale of the school lands for
some ten or twelve years, and is sincere In Its convic-
tion that it is much better for the state that they
should be sold than even the lessees: and the Regis-
ter, has never been financially benefitted by Its policy)
either. Its only reward has been the ethical pleasure
of knowing it was right, and tome day its pet hobby
would win. ar.-1 that It could say, "I told you so."
It may be a poor reason to live for, this pursuit of
a poliiTy of right for right's sake, thoughlall idealists live
toC It. yet the greatest pleasure the editor of the Reg-
ister ever had In the lftst ten years has been the
knowledge that the school land lessees of Oklahoma
sincerely believed in him and that his policy of the
sale of school lands, while It made home-owners out
of the time-serving "serfs" of the state, benefitted the
state equally by giving it sturdy, independent farmer*
as cititens in place of discouraged, dissatisfied, dis-
rupting. destroyed and destroying subject and syeo-
rupting, destroyed and destroying subjects and syco-
phantes of every political machine that came into power
in the state. . >• , •
There is no tow necessitating the naming of an offi-
cial city newspaper, and no provision that the ordi-
nances must be printed in a dally newspaper in order
to be legal. The statute reads that ordinances can
be published in any newspaper of general circulation
in the city, and if none such is printed in the city then
any such printed in «the rounty. and if none such is
printed In the county then they shall be posted up In
public p'aces, or circulated on handbills.
IDEALISM \OT AMRCHV.
For the ostenslb'y 'n'ce little woman" Emma Gold-
man. who lectured the other day in Wichita, is said to
be. and the sincere wish she displays in the welfare
of the downtrodden, she should change the term that
stand? for her teachings from that of Anarchy to that
of Idealism. Not the destruction of law and order but
the perfection of law and order is the ultimate goal of
society. She dreams a dream of conditions when there
will be no one ruling anyone, but each Individual will
rule himself. This Is also the dream of the "Individu-
alist" in his philosophy of society, who hopes for a
time when every cog in the structure will be perfect,
and the whole will run in harmony.
But when will that time be? Not when half of the
human Industry is engaged in the manufacture and
maintenance of instrumentalities of destruction. Not
'when peace is attained by war.
book.
You nevi
to Hades,
erty. Sorr.
on a
f the
r the
THF TALI'E OF t
What's the value of a book?
Some send you to heaven:
a start to fortune; some t<
cess; some to disgrace.
Tom Johnson bought a book from a "butch,
train more to relieve himself of the pertinacity
vendor than a desire to read, and forever af
tread of his life was changed.
The book was Henry George's "Social Problems,"
nd it changed Tom Johnson from a millionaire
franchise gr bbe>,. and manipulator of public utilities
exploiter of the .people's right*, to a student aid de-
fender of the people's welfare.
Tou can never tell what a single book, or a sing'.e
sentence In a book will do. though your uncouth utili-
tarian sets small stock by then
SOME MAJORITY SHOItn'OMIWUH
That majorit is are not always their own best
friends has nowhen been better i lustrated than in t..e
defeat of .Merrlam and the election of Carter Harrison
for mayor of Chicago. How was It that with the record
this professor of the Chicago University left us member
of the city council, and Ills expert knowledge cf muni-
cipal betterment—having nom.nated liini for mayor by
so large a majority, t .<• voters then de eated hlni for
election? , y
It Is a shortcoming In C-.e majority, for which the
citlz lis ol Chicago will ( out line to suffer until "they
become wiser and better clt.'zens themselves.
The Mangum Star speaks of "another good rain"
falling there, which shows that the western part of
the state has b en as fortunate as the Eastern.
For an unwashed democrat, here Is an unpp.rddnub'e
paragraph. The woodward Democrat says:
"Guthrie has under consideration a plan
to build a municipal bath house If there is
a town In the state that Is in need of a bath
it probably Is Guthrie."
The owners of that fire-trap factory in New York,
where so many lives were lost, and those of the Penn-
sylvania mines may excuse themselves In the-fact that
cyclones In Kansas and Oklahoma have also be< n de-
structive of life.
HOES IT PAY TO tlJVEIMISKf
Does It pay? Is there after all anything in all
this talk about value of advertising? Isn't the money
spent In publicity thrown away? Will not the repu-
tation of a concern sustain it and will not the returns
be just the same whether you advertise or not? The
Independence Reporter nsks the questions and pro-
ceeds to answer them correctly:
To be sure much depends upon conditions and
tho length of time you uive for the experiment. A
business house may drop its advertising for a month
and not realize the effect. But let it do so for a yenr
and something wijl happen. Even let it curtail its
advertising for a year and the results are n'oticable.
The people will trade with the store that is most talk-
ed about.
There is a subtle influence in advertising. The
merchant who looks after his advertising as he should
will find in making his announcements that he needs
this and that to spruce up his store. He does not
notice it until h • begins to telling the people what he
has for them. The statement that a store has noth-
to advertise Is an expression of weakness and an
evidence of decay.
Does advertising really pay? Most assuredly it
does. Some months ago an Eastern concern was of-
fered $1,000,000 for Its name. Why? Because that
name through advertising Is known all over the land.
How long do you suppose people would continue
stopping at Grand Canyon, spending their money to
see that nature-wonder, if it were not for the public-
ity given it? Not very long. It would be forgotten
in a few years. And yet It Is one of the wonders of
the world. In these days you cannot make anything
go anywhere without PUbJMty Even the public at-
tention of some families js dependent upon adver-
tising.
As an Illustration take the MRmmoth Cave, A
line or two in an obsrure comer of the news ctfl-
unins, a short time ago conveyed the information that
the fact that the revenue from it had dwindled to
almost nothing. "" ■>- r
Twenty-five years ago every school *>oy knew
about the Mammouth Cave. The trip of no foreign
tourist was comp'ete without a viert to this great
natural wonder. Few Americans felt that they kne-sf
their own country unless they had seen it. Magazines
contained illustrated articles about it. Popular es
cursions were run to it even from as far away as
Cleveland, Mammoth Cave and Niagara Falls shared
the honqrs of being two of the greatest sights in
America.
Yet nobody hears of Mammoth Cave. Doubtless
there are many who do not know where it is or have
an idea what it is like. The Yellowstone Park, the
Grand Canyon of the Co'orado. and the big trees in
California are pictured in . periodlca's and countless
pamphlets and their beauties and grandeur are known
everywhere. Thousands journey from afar to se°
them ever?" year. Niagara Falls has kept its interest
and popularity. Why. then, should Mammoth Cave have
dropped out of sight, when it is as wonderful as any
of these other attractions?
The answer is obvious It has not been adver-
tised.
An editorial In the Oklakcman deems the demand of
the Epworth I'niversitv a little impudent, which mak-
es the proposition that if it is give'i title in fee sin. p?e
to the ground it occupies it will remain. 1: was this
university upon whK h the Sbartel-Classen edition was
boomed and made the beginning of their lortunes eight
years ago. and now the campus is worth over a mil-
lion dollars— and it makes a difference.
A few days ago. after i
ed out its financial distr
l'ege. Enid has had a t
Enid stralght-
ttle
k. as thoui
re. It was
at the rate
■ own
if a r
See the Wonderfully Wonderful
WONDER WASHER
DEMONSTRATED
MONDAY, APRIL 17th
We take ihe Streaks out of dirty Shirts in Less
than a Minute and do more work and better work
with less wcrk than you ever saw before
THE DEMONSTRATOR
From the Factory will he here and Lower the World's
Record for Fast and Easy Washing
GUTHRIE HARDWARE CO.
COR. FIRST ? OKLA, AVE.
TOUCHF8 THEIR TENDER SPOT
Mcst Men Have Weakness for Ueinfl
Photographed on Horseback, Says
Observant Photographer.
A young man went o.tt with a cam.
era one morr. i,g not long f£o and!
took seven s: shcts of early mora-1
lug horsehae iMi*. lie sent proofs,
of the pietu that t;no. ! out we.I to
the men photoprapi "d and j
every one t men sent him -in or- i
tier to finis:. a few of the pictures j
"Of course they did." said a more
experienced amateur photographei
nheti be hesrd about it. "A man will
always buy a picture of himself on a
horse—unless he's an unusually foor
rider and looks bad on a horse. No
matter how modest a man is, you
catch him at the one time when you
may appeal to his vanity, when he's
mounted on a good riding horse."
SO.VK HISTORY ON ONE OF THH
(iHEATEST COUNTY SEAT
KI llDS l\ h t\SAS THAT
>Y1LL INTEREST M IN Y
OKLAHOM ANS.
Heckling the Waiter.
The switchman shuffled into the lit
tie all-night restaurant in the yards
and setting down his lantern, strao-
died a stool and rested two black-shirt
ed aims on the counter.
A streak of inky black ran fron
hit forehead to the corner of hi
mouth, and his hands bore simi a
oi'y, b ack stains.
"Cup o Java. Tommy." he saic
rhea as tht- waiter leisurely waddlec
John Bishop, In C'leo Chieftain,
gives some dramatic inside history cfn
the famous Stevens county seat fued,
in which Colonel Wood was killed by
Brennen, in which many citizens now
living in Oklahoma figured. After
years of attempt Brennen was last
week turned over by the courts, on
extradition papers, to Kansas to be
tried for the murder. The C'leo Chief-
tain has the following:
"iohn Wesley Bishop tells all about
the ki'ling of Sam Wood by Jim Bren-
nen in the last issue of the Cleo
Chieftain. J. Wesley says that Judge
Botkin should have been strung up
for the crime, along with . Jim Bren-
nen. J. Wesley seems rather preju-
diced.—Enid Events.
"Editor F. Everett Purcell is mis-
taken in regard to our position in
the Brennen matter. In the first
instance we did not so much us inti-
mate that either Judge Botkin or
Brennen "should have been strung
up for the crime.' We never advo-
cated the stringing up' of any one
In our life. We are upt in favor of
banging or any other-form of capital
towhrd tie coffee urn he sent a re punishment for any crime and we
rnaik alter l.im. woiild abolis.i it if we could. We do
"Pou t huiry. Tommy," he said, "1. believe, however, that when an indi-
wsnt it Tuesday night, an' this is only v'dual commits such a crime as Bren-
Saturdav " The waiter grinned and !h'!i ''''L.'Y', 'U be brought to
" trial, convicted and sent to the penl-
•lymmed «he heavy chipped cup bef0itiu.nuaiy !or uie rest of his natura
him. life. In our write-up we said that it
"Want a doughnut?" he asked, look- was our belief, and hundreds of oth-
ing about for one of those hunger de- ers section of Kansas shared
it. that Judge Botkin was behind the
. I whole dark plot and that Brennen
\\ hat s a oougcsut ? demanded the was s.mply a tool. As to prejudice,
switchman, setting town the coffee F. Everett, there is not a particle o.
cup and blowing heavily upon It. :'t in us on the Brennen matter and
"Whv. a s nker " explained the wait- f0.u'd" ' he. We had no relatives.
, . . : i friends or acquaintances on eith -r
er; don t you know hat a *nker . of ^ steveng co„nty COIltrover.
, sy. We were not personally acquaint-
"Why don't you call things what ed with either Judge Botkin or Col.
ttey are?'" the switchman asked j Wood. We saw t'ol. Wooi twice, oiwe
"Suppose I was to call this hashhouse Syracuse. Kans., in 1888, and in
.... . ., Topeka during a session of the legis-
. restaurant, like you do on the s.gn , ,ature jn ,g^ He had a 8hort g,pg
Then fce lifted tbe cup again and ^ and one of his shoes was built up
on?e more set it down with a scowl. : with a heavy sole to equalize the dif-
"Tha:' been near the fire." he said, ference. When he warked on a board
Tbe waiter grinned I floor he ma<ie <l,llte 11 racket and ev-
,.c, ,v_ v,„w evry body knew "Old Sain" was com-
1 put 1 'n tte M 0 ing. Brennen heard that old shoe
you? he inquired The switchman strike the floor on the rid day ol
abook hit bead. |june. 1891, as his victim was coming
"Net in there with them eggs lik out of the church at Hugoton and it
the ones I bad for breakfast." he said. *'a.s, the si«nal }° «<* mid-v- We saw
•W-, -i.h ,h. Bo,kin ,wlc,> after the. killing of Col.
WE! lfce ma,ter wllh ,h# Wood. He yas quite a large man with
tpff the waiter asked, bis volc« re- plenty of yhiskers and. looked every
•olvlag tsell into a growl. "Wasn't inch the bulldozer that he was. Judge
they fresh?" Botkin was a Republican, while Col.
"Net so awfallv." confessed the cui- ^°°d was a I'opullst, and both of
..tv,.. «■.« -. . *,„!« cc tki. them were 1 "'on soldiers. 1'olitlcal-
tC!P( T Tuf T *8SD t 50 6*816 88 lull i., n, „ , . , ... ,
} were against ( ol. Wood and
; alnker. f r-.nttanee. an they wasn t so fought his party as hard as we have
| fresh as you. Tommy.'' | fought Democrats In Oklahoma, but
"Them wsf yard eggs! ' lamented didn't want to see the old fellow
the waiter Indignantly "You don't
know a fresh egg when you see one."
The switchman considered.
' Maybe you're right," he said; "may-
murdered. We hang to a Republican
as long us there Is a button or a
i string to < iing to, but we must le-
| sert them when they go us far wrong
as Botkin did. W"e do not seek to
te so l is been eating at this joint asperse the memory of Theodsius llot-
ik the wind blow:
sas. in Dighton, a box car
night, and Sunday it was
>ma, 54 miles away, on a
bad been born instead of
by the gentle Kansas zyph-
URs. JOHN BUNTING'S FrVERAL
The remains of Mrs. John Buenting are to be bur-
ted in Summit View Cemetery Friday afternoon at
i o'clock from the family reaklence, SIC North Second
Street Mrs Buenting was a pioneer of the city, much
loved by all who her. and leave* a large family
of ons and daughter* to moc.-n her Voac. acune who are
prominent in the bnaineas and social life of this city.
for eight months now. an' maybe I
ain't up to these new-fangled things
like fresh eggs So they was fresh
yard eggs! Well. I declare!"
"Oh leave him alone," said another
railroad msn, who had come in while
the dialogue was In progress, "lies
an orphan, Sam, an he ain t just right
up here, either." He tapped his
farshead with a grimy finger.
"If you don't like what we got here
you know what you can do!" shouted
the now thoroughly aroused waiter;
"we ain't anxious for your trade "
"1 always though that." the switch-
Kan said reflectively "Ever.vtltne 1
cone la this place 1 think I'm gettin'
treated like I ain t wanted! It's a
•fcame to impose on a Jfller becausa
bet little, an".give him atakerfe baked
last March an' corfee with suwduat
CoatiD In it."—New York Times
kin now that he has gone to that un-
discovered country We are endeav-
oring to give a faithful recital of IiIh
reprehensible conduct when he "sat
In judgment on the lives and the es-
tates of the people" of Southwest
Kansas and the part he played In the
troubles leading up to the killing of
Col. Wood. The Impartial historian
In speaking of Nero declares that "tie
was the vilest monarch that ever
lived." There Is no other way to stale
it The Judge on the bench, the peace
offlt ers Hi d the prosecutor who favor
tho lawless element In every way fiey
can. nre worse than horse thieves. In
our judgment. Hurt, of Wichita. Is
worse than Callahan, and wi Ik Nafls-
ger, the banker. Both of these fel-
lows should have had double the pun-
ishment meted out to Callahan, it up
pears that Callahan and his gang had
their rendesvous In WlrhltA with the
full knowledge and under tho protec-
tion o CfhJst Jfurt. TUey felt secure
with a high up *ra«ijU Ss their friend
and In collusion with them Ho It
yas with the killers in Judge Botkin's
district. They felt that they had a
powerful friend at court, one who
would stand by them in any emergen-
cy and they were bold in their opera-
tions. When the dead bodies of Sher-
iff Cross, Hubbard, Eaton and Wilcox
were brought back into Stevens coun-
ty for burial the parties who were
bringing them came through Hugotun
and Sam Kobinson, Chamberlain and
their gang stopped them and identi-
fied the bodies to the citizens of Hu-
goton as the men they had shot to
death at the hay stacks In No Jlans
I.and. They did it in the same spirit
that a party of nimrods would exhibit
the tropies of a hunt. At that time
there was no state that claimed juris-
diction over No Mans i^and and Rob-
ison and his band who did the killing
were assured that no presecution
would follow and they were resting
easy on that score. They boasted
about it openly and above board and
told everybody who cared to listen to
them just how it was done. But when
"Old Sam" Wood prevailed on the au-
thonities at Washington to take hold
of the matter, these cold-blooded as-
sassins quit shouting it from the
housetops and began to talk in a whis-
per. Sam Robison and an English-
man by the name Noble got ail ink-
ling of what was coming and wled to
Colorado. A United States Marshal,,
came up from the Northern District
of Texas with warrants for Chamber-
lain, the Cooks, O'Conner, Freese anil
one or two others and took them to
Paris Texas, to answer in a United
States Court for the "Hay Meadow
Masacre." Col. Wood went to Paris. •
Texas, to aid in the prosecution and
Judge Botkin went to aid his friends.'
the defendants. Think of a district
judge going to the assistance of a
bunch of assassins! He didn't stay
long in Paris. There was -something
happened there that sent him out of"
town in a hurry. The old soldiers,'
the Blue and the Gray, held a joint
reunion and there was much gooO >
feeling until Judge Theodosius Bot-
kin was introduced for a speech. He
was drunk as usual and had a couple
of big six shooters on his person and
he felt his importance imineiiseiyj..1
Those who had preceded him had
complimented the leaders on betu-"
sides of the Civil War controversy.
Botkin took exception to this. He
said lhat he did not propose to throw-
any boquets at the enemies of his.
country; that he called them rebels
in '61 and that he called them rebels,
yet and he emphasized it all by ut-
tering a terrible oath and consigninf
Jeff Davis. I^ee, Jackson, Longstreet,
and all the Southern leaders to the
infernal regions. It was very bad.
taste, and extremely dangerous, to
make such a speech to that audience.
Its effects were tremendous and cre-
ated a tumult right there. He had
not proceeded for with his tirade
when n TexaB long horn who had
"fit" under the stars and bars raised
up and shook his fist at the speaker
and shouted, "You're a Hah, suh." As
the speech progressed "liah. suh" and
"damn llah, suh" were re-echoed all
over that hall and finally the old
Confeds made a rush for the stage to
get the speaker. Jesse J. Dunn, who
Is now a member of the supreme
court of Oklahoma, and who was In
Paris, Texas, its a witness, helped get
Botkin out the back way and assisted
In spiriting him out of town. Jesse J.
was assisted by an ex-Confederate
who was taken prisoner by Botkin
during the war and had received kind
treatment at his hands. This old vet-
eran who wore the gray did a noble
net ai l undoubtedly saved Botkin's
life. The ex-Confederate soldiers who
heard Botkin were so enraged that It
Is sitld they emplayed a tough negro
to kill llotkin on sight and promised
blm Immunity from punishment, but
the negro never got the chance, for
Botkin never showed up In Paris.
Texas, again. Judge Jesse J. Dunn
had the misfortune to live In Stevens
county and witnessed som« stirring
scenes; he was with the cow boys
thai went to Minneapolis more than
L'o years ago to operate street cars
during a strike and got pelted with
clubs and stones, but we'll venture
the Botkin episode at Paris. Texas,
was the most exciting performance ho
ever took part In."
ihildyi
fOR FLE
en Cry
FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
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