Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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Wants to know If Ills Aotlons In the
Case arc Legal.
Oklahoma City, March 31.—Gov.
truce has asked the Attorney Gen-
eral's olllce for an opinion covering
tile legality of his receiving tlu
$100,000 forfeit money from the slate
Capitol Development Company and
deeds to 650 acres of land in the
northeastern part of town, and re-
lieving the iCty of Oklahoma from
further obligation in the much talk-
ed of "free state capitol" project.
Gov. Cruce wants to know whether
what has been done up to date is le-
gal hnd whether he has legal right
to acecpt the money and land in
trust, and to expend the cash sub-
ject to ratification of the legislature.
An opinion will be rendered week
lifter next, as soon as Attorney Gen-
eral "West returns to his home.
Judge C. B. Stuart has been re-
quested by the governor to supervise
the drawing of a contract between
himselt and promoters of the de-
velopment company, outlining what
Is to be done with the money, with
the understanding that neither he
us a citizen, or Governor of tlie
State is to be bound in any way, and
that if the legislature declines to
ratify the proposition as submitted
by citizens of Oklahoma City, then
the town and not the state is loser.
The $100,000 in cash is "said to be
available fro mthe recent sale of
bonds, which the people voted to pay
the company's forfeit to the state.
Deeds to the 650 acres of land are
also said to be in proper form, and
that the citizens are only waiting
completion of formalities to make de-
livery to the Governor.
It is the general belief among
people here, and this is based upon
representations made to them dur-
ing the bond election campaign that
the state is to spend the $100,000 in
erection of a state house and that
the legislature will appropriate
$1,000,000.00 or more to complete
the job. The 650 acres of land is
scattered in small areas, some of
them more than six miles from the
proposed building location.
FOI'K SEW SKNATOKS WILL TAKE
OFFICE
I pper Branch of Congress will have
a Membership of Miietj-Six.
Washington, March 31.—Four Sen-
ators from the two new states of
Arizona and New Mexico will this
week enlarge the membership of the
upper branch of Congress to ninety-
Bix. The new men. all lawyers, are
Marcus Autelius Smith of '1 ucson
and Henry F. Ashurst of Prescott.
Arizona, democrats, who will be
sworn in at the bar of the senate
toworrow afternoon and Thomas
Benton Catron of Santa Fe and Al-
bert Bacon Fall of Three Rivers, N.
M„ republicans, who may not arrive
from New Mexico in time for in-
stallation tomorrow. Senatohs-Elect
Smith anad Catron have already
served as delegates in Congress. Mr.
Fall*was an Associate Justice of the
Territorial Supreme Court under
President Cleveland but differed with
his party during that regime and
since has been an active republican
Mr, Ashurst has been a state sena-
tor. He is 36 years old.
These four new senators will
change the political strength ot tlie
senate to consists of fifty-one re-
publicans and forty-three democrats.
One Senatorship from Colorado is
vacant and the death of Senator
Taylor today created a Tenneccee
vacancy. The new members will
draw lots to determine which shall
serve the long and short terms. Un-
der this legislative lottery two of
the senators will serve until 1917, 'one
until 1915 and the fourth until 1913.
Upsets things
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The Old Order In New York Undergoes a Great Change—People Regain
Their Rights—Some of the Methods by Which William J. Gaynor Has
Ended the Rule of "the System" and Established Honest Government.
The People Have Come to Love Him and Speak of Him ,as a Second
Lincoln—A Mayor Who Is Doing Big Things In a Quiet Way.
GRAFT (MAIM.IS AT FORT SILL
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
Construction of New Army i'ost in
Oklahoma discussed In Congress
Washington, March 28.—The house
committee on expenditures in the
war department is considering investi
gation of the construction of Fort
Bill, Okla., charges against the con-
struction quartermaster. Captain d.
L. Stone, have been laid before the
committee by A. b. Champli , former-
ly quartermaster's clerk at the post.
Complaint was discharged March
20, after complaining to Secretary
of War Stimson ot alleged undue
friendliness between Captain Stone
and the contractors. Captain Stone,
after investigating the charges, first
made to Major B. F. Cheatham,
quartermasters' department, formally
accused Champlin of irregularities,
including selling liquor on the mili-
tary reservation. The record of
this case was put Into the proceed-
ings when Champlin appenred be-
fore the committee today. Represen-
tative Speer's cross examination in-
dicated hiB conviction that Champ-
lin's charges were inspired by ani-
mus and desire to leave Fort Sill.
NEW YOKKEUS used to smile sit
farmers with an air of indul-
gent superiority, but they are
not doing nearly so uiuch of it
now since they have become well ac-
quainted with Mayor William J. Gay-"
nor. lie is the first farmer chief ex-
ecutive the city has ever bad, or at
least the only one It has had Tor a
hundred years or more, and be has
given the people a new view of the
possibilities of city life and of thecapa
bllities of the man from the country.
Before him the city hall was occu-
pied in turn by merchants, lawyers and
politicians, who differed from each oth-
er only In name. They were either
born in the city or had lived there so
long that they had lost all of their In
dlviduality and become typical "Noo
Yawkers." They talked In the same
way, wore the same fashionable
clothes and could be counted on to say
the right thing on all oceuslons. And
that was all.
Mr. Gaynor, on the other baud, Is the
most unconventional man with whom
New York has been Intimately asso-
ciated for generations, lie brought
with him the fresh air of the wide out
of doors, along with a distinctive and
decided personality. He was born and
brought up on a farm, has always liv
ed on a farm, for most of the year at
least, and is proud of the fact that he
is a good farmer. He believes that a
spade Is a spade and a thief a thief,
uo matter what his name or position.
He does big things in a quiet way
without fuss or foolishness, and, what
is even more uovel, he does them with-
out any thought of future reward be-
has done, he has brought the city's
government back to Jeffersoniau sim
pliclty.
In former days the door to the may-
or's office was a portal through which
only the mighty might pass. Now it is
open to every citizen. The weak and
(he poor and the oppressed are as wel-
come as the rich. Mr. Gaynor sees
three or four times as many people at
his office every day as were received
by his predecessor. No one who has
a reasonable excuse for seeing him is
denied admittance, and no one goes
away unsatisfied. To those with com-
plaints of injustice—and there were
many of them at first, but their num-
ber is constantly decreasing under the
general correction of abuses—the may-
or inclines a sympathetic ear, and such
action as is needed Is taken in the vlg
orous Gaynor fashion. •
The complaint of two peaceable citi-
zens who bad been roughly handled by
special officers without any reason led
to an investigation which developed
the fact that there were 4,000 special
policemen in New York who, though
armed with full police powers, were
employed by firms and corporations.
They naturally took orders from those
who paid them their wages without re-
gard to the rights of the people with
whom they interfered. Frequently
they went beyond the law. The result
of this discovery was that by the may-
or's order all of these special officers
were Immediately stripped of their au-
thority.
Early one morning as a merchant
was walking downtown to open his
store be said something that annoyed
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( AYALIER1 TO COME. NO MORE
yond the satisfaction which comes
from a work well done. His judg-
ments are based on what be believes
to be right, and only that. He is such
an unusual mayor that New Yorkers
didn't quite.know what to think of him
at first, but since they have had an
opportuufty to watch and study him
they have come to love him, in much
the snnie way that Lincoln was loved.
He is often spoken of, in fact, as a sec-
ond emancipator, and not without rea-
son, for, to a much greater extent than
even the most optimistic citizen dared
hope for up to a year or two ago, he
has freed New York from the fetters
of "The System."
He doesn't look n great deal like Lin-
coln—this spare, quiet, gray man of
medium height—but he's of Llncolnlan
stature in other ways. He makes the
same appeal to the popular Imagina-
tion, nnd he stands for the same thing
that Llncolu typified—trust in the Al-
mighty nnd In the Almighty's people
And he has a whole lot of old fashion
ed notions, of the kind that go with
rag carpets and husking bees and bar
vest home festivals.
In the two years that he has occu-
pied the city hail he has done so many
things which New Yorkers had come
to regard as Impossible that the tell
Ing of them would make a story as
long as the moral law, which com-
parison, it may be said, is no mere fig-
ure of speech. For one thing, and per-
fcaps It Is really the biggest thing be
liiia will Live for Son and sing only
in Europe.
Rome. March 28.—Una Cavalieri,
beauty, operu singer and divorced
wife of "Sheriff Bob" Chandler, is
through with America.. She said so
today. It is too cold for her, and
besides she has a son whom she
wants to guard from temptation. „
Even the persuasion of no less
a personage than J. I'ierpont Morgan,
who took her sightseeing about this
city while urging her to return to
the cast of the Metropolitan Opera
House, in which he is greatly inter-
ested, failed to shake her determina-
tion.
The noted financier, who is here
winding up his annual winter vaca-
tion, saw the diva on several occas-
ions and she has been conspicuous in
his big luvuriously appointed car
more than once, but she told him she
had made up her mind not to go back
to America to sing.
"My son will soon be 18 and he
graduates from a Roman military
school this sring," sair the singer to-
day. "Because of that and my de-
sire to make him happy in the fu-
ture. I have positively refused all
'offers to return to America.
"One short year ago I believed
that art alone was worth living for.
Then I came here to see my boy. His
daily visits have given me a new pur-
pose in life. Hereafter I intend to
make a home for him and shield him
from the privations and temptations
that I suffered when a girl in Rome.
"Hereafter when I sing, it will be
In Europe. I will have a home where
I can be constantly with my son.
This would be impossible in America
where the people are cold and un-
sympathetic. My art. my lffe and
my fortune will hereafter contribute
only to my son's happiness.''
(Ill la th Talented Wlf* of tha Ala*
bama Congressman.
Mrs Oscar \V. t'nderwood. wife of
the Alabama statesman who is a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency, is the daughttf of
Joseph II Woodward, president of the
Woodward Iron company of Blrmlng
ham.
Mrs. Underwood Is almost as much
of a personage as her husband in
Washington The two are unusually
chummy, not only in their diversions
but In the more serious business o(
their lives She has spent every coil
gr sslonal season In Washington and
is always a standpatter when It comes
to enduring the torrid heat of a Wash
liigtOD summer In order to be with Mr
Underwood.
Faddy femininity cannot Include
Mrs. Underwood in its ranks. She
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WISCONSIN SOCIALISTS LOST
MRS. OSCA11 W. CNDIRWOOD.
even confesses that she personally has
a borroi of women's clubs.
It may be mentioned that Mrs. Un
derwood Is uncommonly well read
Psychology and philosophy are her fa
vorite subjects, but she also has a
wholesome feminine fondness for a
good novel. She Is widely traveled
and has the peculiar culture that is
characteristic of the cosmopolite com
bined with the traditional charm uf
the southern woman.
One of Mrs Underwood's pleasant ac-
complishments is her singing. She pos
Besses a mezzo soprano voice of unusu-
al range and sweetness which has been
cultivated with care.
A I'HIL 10, sir FOlt CLAIM III.I Mil
The officials of the local laud of-
fice have everything in readiness lop
the filing on April 10, on the claims
that were staked off on March 1 I oa
the Navajo Irrigation site of l.JOO
acres along the North Fork of tha
Red River, in Kiowa and Jackson
Counties. The land lies on botli sid-
es of the river and Is as a lula
rough and perhaps sandy. j
The Interior Department at Wash-
ington gave notice of the opening of
this land to settlement about two
months ago, commanding that no
person go 011 the tract to select and
stake off claims until March 11 ami
that no filings be made thereon uu-
til April 10. The run for the claims
was pulled off from the country ad-
jacent to the site on March 11 and
the filings will occur in Guthrie at
the government land office.
The run did not prove as spectac-
ular as those in the early days of
Oklahoma, but nevertheless all ot
the 240 farms were staked off. Thai
old custom of staking claims was lis.
vogue, with signs showing the data
and hour the entrymen settled on!
the tracts Several towusite boosters
will attempt to establish towns and
for the best tracts of land there ara
several contestants so that the ruslf
for filing will no doubt exceed tha
rush for the claims. The land was
withheld from original entry in laol
for an irrigation project, which later
was held by the government to ba
not feasible.
JUDGE SLAIN IN HIS COURT.
a policeman and was arrested on a
charge of spitting 011 the sidewalk and
dragged off to court. Not only was he
denied bail, but the police refused to
allow him to communicate with his
clerks <*r send them the keys to the
store. When his case finally was reaehr
ed he was dismissed In short order,
but it was nearly noon before he got
to his store, where sixteen clerks were
waiting around outside of the locked
doorRNiiot knowing what had happen
ed. As a consenn^nce of this and otli
er similar Injustices, which were
brought to the mayor's attention, the
police were instructed that instead 01
making arrests for minor offenses. In
cases where the defendant could 0
tablish his Identity and res.dence the
must merely serve him with a sum
mons. directing liini to appear in couri
at a reasonable hour the next da>
The working out of this system show
ed a decrease last year of 00.000 ui
less arrests for trivial causes.
These are merely illustrations of tie
simple, but effective, methods throur
which Mayor Gaynor is re-establish
lng the rights of the citizen, which li
holds to be paramount and sacred, «
long as he keeps within tlie law, air
eveu when he goes beyond the law in
has certain rights which must be re
spected. Tbe people have learned tba:
under his administration every citizen
will get a square deal—nothing more
uid nothing le n, no matter what bis
tatlon. 1
Hailing in Milwaukee Won over Sei-
del by 17,000 Voles.
Milwaukee, April 2.—With a flood
of nonpartisan ballots Milwaukee
voters today swept from office the
city's widely known Socialist ad-
ministration, installed a nonpartis-
an mayor, board of aldermen and
county board of supervisors and prob
ably eliminated every national poli-
tical party from participation in fu-
ture municipal elections in the state
of Wisconsin.
For as a result of the nonpartisan
victory in the city of Milwaukee, the
state legislature at a special session
soon to be convened, is expected to
pass a distinctly nonpartisan city
election statute. The Socialists de-
feated such a measure at the last
session of the legislature, but todays
rout was said practically to have
killed Socialist strength in the state
general assembly.
Nearly complete returns from the
lid precints in the city show that
Dr. Gerhard A. Hading, the nonpar-
tisan candidate for mayor defeated
Mayor Emil Seidel, the Socialist in-
cumbent. by a majority of about
seventeen thousand.
At a late hour tonight the tatals
at hand indicated that the next eoun
eli will be composed of twenty-three
nonpartisan aldermen and nine So-
cialist aldermen. The present, coun-
cil is composed of twenty Socialists
and fourteen nonpartisan members.
The next council will be larger
through a recent reaportionment and
the creation of two new wards in the
city.
T'.ie Late Thornton L* Massi* Was Man
of Iron Nerve and Great Strength.
The late Judge Thornton L. Massle.
who was murdered while presiding
over a trii:l at Hlllsvllle, \'a., was a
tall man, splendidly built and had iron
nerve Early in his life he lost his left
hand in a gunning accident. Ills re
murkahle strength was shown when he
pulled a heavy man from a swift moun
lain stream by the collar of his coat
lie was fording the stream in 11 car
riage when the wbiflletree became 1111
fastened and floated away. The coach
man sprang for it, but lost his balance
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was killed and passengers were in-
jured early yesterday morning when
a bridge across Hoss Creek, six mil-
es north of here, gave away undar
train No. 3 of the ■ Frisco, on tho
Iron Mountain railroad track. The
coaches plunged into the creek.
The name of the mail clerk has
not yet been ascertained and de-
tails o fthe wreck are meager as
help was slow in reaching the scene
of the disaster owing to the swollen
condition of the streams.
Heavy rains has undermined the
support of a trestle across Hoss
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creek and another stood on end
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