Oklahoma State Register
(HJtKST I'Al'Klt PIUMSIIKII 10 VlinolSI.Y l> OKLAHOMA
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 48.
PLACES SKltVH K tHOU! I'AKTl 1'01 ITU S, KIIIIMI OK SI IIOOI. I. tMtl.KSSKS.
GUTHR1K OK.I.A.. MARCH 31, 1921.
$1.50 Per Year
SHORTHORN SALE
SUCCESS STATE SALE
HERE NEXT YEAR
The second annual sale of the |   
Shorthorn Breeders Association of B( RROl (ill, S0TE1)
Mass Meeting of Workers at the Chicago Stockyards
NATURALIST, DIES ON
TRAIN SI'KKIMMJ HOME
liiirlaiI to lie llcld on 84th \niihersary
iii Ills Birth.
Ixjgan county held in the pavilion at
the Fair Grounds Inst Friday was
pronounced success in every way and
the Shorthorn breeders of the coun-
ty are already planning to hold a
flUite sale here nejt year. I  
Col. Heriff stated that it was the i'oughkeepsie, N. Y. .March 29.—The
best sale he had attended this year j bot|y of John Burroughs, naturalist of
and was strong in his praise of all of wor'd renown, died suddenly this
the arrangements and of the sale pav- corning on a passetiger train near
filion. Many visiting stock men Kingsville, Oi^o, liet^ tonight in his
agreed with him that it was a bet- home by the banks of the Hudson
ter arranged pavilion than that at Ok- River a few miles north of this city,
lahoma City or Wichita and this fact Tehre, where Burroughs had lived
coupled with the excellet railway j since 1878  the body will remain until
connections, the hourly interruban "Saturday afternoon, when a private
service at the door of the pavilion funeral will be held The body will be
and the growing importance of Lo-
gon county as a live stock center
makes Guthrie an ideal location for
a state sale.
Riddiug Lively.
The sale oned promtly at one
taken to Roxbury, in the Catskill
•Mountains, and buried Sunday, the
eighty-fourth anniversary of his birth,
near the spot where he was born.
Hoped to IHe in His Home.
The great naturalist and author of
o'clock and the bidding was spirited j outdoor books had hoped to return to
from the start not a single one of the h'8 country home, Riverby, to die. and
45 animals offered dragging in tho I last words, uttered a few seconds
81A|p | before death unexpectedly claimed him
The average for male animals was. were: "How far are we from home?"
$115, for females $130 which was con-1 Burroughs had spent the winter in
siderable above the average at any California and was returning front
county or district sale held this year, there. About five weeks ago he un
The majority of the animals were ] derwent an operation for a presternal
sold to remain in Logan county, two
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twpioni .
rowoiM foi LW0OR
"i must pav , Glvr
THE WdD ^ OU3
DEBT ! RETURNED
SOLDIERS
WORK
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■ago packing houses in the district "tuick «>f ii
in wages. Insert. President John Fitzpstrlck of 11•«
lug i t 'J.j.uuo empt-
ies hml disbanded, in prol
Sunday nui
ter two bifc pn
Spt'UlO'l
I hleagi
I* ('deration
M IIOOI, BOARD HAS V
VERY LIVELY SESSION
KNOWN YOl'Nw
PEOPLE M \ IIR\
(OMMIMTY SINUS
GROW IN INTERKS1
W III
IMPEACHMENT OF GOV-
ERNOR DEMAND OF IN-
VESTIGATE COMMITTEE
club boys made purchases and sev-
eral herds were started .
J. E. Douglass bought some of the
best animals sold as a foundation for
n herd and it is understood he con-
templates building up a fine show
herd which will be a credit to th§
county and the state
The animals consigned by J. L.
Parker, of Seward brought the high-
est prices the six averaging over
$200 each.
The attendance at the sale was
abscess. Serious heart and kidney
complications set in, and he became
so weak that he decided he must
hurry East if his wish to die at home
was to be "realized.
During a delay in a railway station
at Chicago yesterday he seemed ner
vous and depressed, hut as soon as
his train started his spirit brightened
according to his physician and bio-
grapher, Dr. Clara iBarrus. She ac-
compained the naturalist from Call* |
fornia and was talking to him when
he suddenly feel dead in his Pullman
car compartment at 2 o'clock this
large and previous to the opening
there were many visitors who came t« ■ morning.
see the stock among them being many i His mind was
women of the city and county and 2->! said
members of the I.ions club, who came ; ing. Burroughs granddaughter. Ur<
from their luncheon in a body. «"ia Burroughs, and Dr. Harms' two
   I li u' Talks. j nieces were in the party on tho
Col. Ed Heriff. the auctioneer made train. I „A Monk Ta„
a brief address preceding the open-] 1 At dusk this evening a hearse con-1
ing rf the sale in which he outlined j veyed the remains along the winding
the advantages to the indivdual and roads that lead through the ruggel
to ' the entire community of hills where Mr. Burroughs devoted
breeding and growing pure bred years of study to birds and trees and
live stock V 1 Waltc. of Douglass, flowers Surrounding his home, where
how he had started and develop | the body was placed, were the elms
clear to the end, she
and death came without warn
In spite of the storm Sunday a large
audience attended the community
sing and sung with real old time
ferver under the leadership of Prof.
Meften.
They began with "America," and
took a turn at "Smiles," then went
down the "Long Long Trail", and
swung into the fine new song,
"America, the Beautiful," followed by
"Come, Thou Almighty King," and
"Silent Night," "Old Folks at Home,
"Old Black Joe," followed by "Li'l
Liza Jane." and closing with "The
Little Brown Church in the Dale,"
and "The Star Spangled Banner."
W. E. Corn, special community
worker made a short talk telling of
the many good things planned for
Guthrie and I^ogan county and urging
| everybody to come out to the sings
and all a the). Community meeting.
The feature of the occassion how-
ever was the chorus from the Capi-
tal Hill School, under the direction
of Mrs. Altman and other members
embracing the "Nightingale Song,"
"Mary, Pal O' Mine," with Miss
Frances McGinley as the soloist; "Ok-
lahoma," with (Mabel Nehr, Ruth Hill
and Marjorie Harris as the soloists;
with Bruce Mur-
phy, Dayle Dye, Lee Worthington
and Stanley West as solois; two re-
citals. "•Coming of the Spring,"
Christine Smith, and '"Pledge of Loy-
alty," Bruce Murphy.
At a meeting held in the mayor's
office in which members of the school
board participated Wednesday morn-
ing to consider the ruling of City At-
torney Lamond which would have Bhut
two off the board a .near riot resulted
and for a time it looked as though
it would be necessary to call on the
police or the fire department to re-
store things to normalcy. After the
time for filing had expired Lamond
had ruled that the terms of Bruce and
Hansford had expired as well as those
of Dodd, and Dibbeus, making five to
elect instead of three.
This would have shut Bruce and
Hansford out by snap judgment as it
was too late for them to file, hence the
meeting and the commotion.
Mayor Hartinan however, ruled
against the city attorney and ordered
the ballots printed for the election of
three members only and everything
is lovely once more.
>1 VI \ l> V
MU RSDVY FEAST
OBSERVER AT TEMPLE
The usual Maundy Thursday feast
and ceremony of extinguishing the
tapero was observed at Masonic Tem-
ple last Thursday night conducted
by the officers of Guthrie chapter
No. 1 Knights of Rose Croix, Scottish
Rit
told
ed his famous Shorthon herd. Mr.1 and maples lie loved, while overhead
W'aite had raised a hull that took 1st I a few birds which returned north
•u Wichita and Dallas and had a na-1 ward early were heralding the spring
tional reputation. O. B. Action of [ time.
Lovell, president of the association
and W. B- Combs, of Mulhall, man-
ager of the sale made brief talks and
County Agent Wiley told of the work of Kingfisher, for several terms
of his department and the develop- member of the fTerril
stock interests of i well know* in Guthrie died at Mus-
ANOTHElt l'MINEER PASSES A« \Y
Dr. F. U Winkler, pioneer resident
>f Kingfisher, for several terms a
1 member of the /Territorial Senate and
ment of the live
his department. He
Detuiler of Mulhall township, a club
bov, who bought a cow and calf and
last years sale for  1S0. had won $61
in premiums on the calf and recent-
ly refused $150 for It. iHe also has a
second calf, a bull and a very fine
specimen to show this year. ^
The visitors at the sale were al
well pleased with the seating arrange-
ments and the stockmen loud in their
praises of the Chamber of Commerce
f ir the gift of the seats to be used
permanently for live stock sales.
Ilaliquet Precedes Sale.
On Thursday evening preceding the
sale the members of the Shorthoi n
Breeders Association and all visltip-
stockmen and buyers were the guests
at the Hotel lone of the Guthrie
told of Vernon1 kogee Sunday aged 70 years.
Chamber of Commerce
at one of the
most elaborate banquet ever held la
I he city, the menue, the service, the
decorations and ail arrangements be-
ing superior to anything furnished
in the state, in fact many
of the .isf-
ors stated that it was far superior to
:tie banqeut of the State Association
at the Chamber of Commerce at Ok
lahoma City where every member waf
required lo pay I''1 a plate.
The officers and committn of the
Chamber of Commerce and Manager
Bcardtn of the Hotel are all to he
(Continued on page 8.)
He served in the Territorial legis-
lature 11 years, was a civil war ve-
teran and prominet in the G. A. R.
HEREFORD SALE NEXT
BOOSTERS IT WORK
A flying trip of 170 miles in the
interest of another big live stock
sale for Logan county was made
Monday A. N.'Dressen, Fred Walker,
Frank Wildon, and County Agent
Wiley drove to the Hereford Farm
of W. P. Hodgden and Sons, north-
west of "Waukomis, in Garfied coun-
ty.
Hodgden and Sons have one of the
best herds of llerefords in Oklahoma,
composed of over 300 head of regis
tered animals. They have consigned
7 heads to the Logan county Here-
ford sale at Guthrie May 12 and the
above Logan county Hereford sale
committee are very proud of this
consignment, as they realize that
this will bring into this county some
very fine stock.
'Preparations are going forward
rapidly for pushing this sale, and the ,
committee feels safe in predicting
a great sale of great cattle.
The county Shorthorn sale being I
good all beynnd expectations the
1 Hereford Breeders are very much en-
couraged.
BRUCE RETURNS FROM TRIP
Grand Secretary Bruce of the
State I. O. O F. is home after a tea
days absence and again on duty at
State 1 O. O. F. is home after a ten
city. During his absence he offic-
ially visited lodges at Muskogee, Howe
alvin and McAlester a:id attended
the State Conclave of tho order at
Tulsa last Friday and Saturday. This
meeting was one of the biggest held
in the State's history and very sue-
The following excellent program was
carried out Rev. Geo O. Nichols, act-
ing as toastmaster:
To the Supreme Council—F. A.
Derr, 33d, Hon.
To the Grand Commander—Chas.
I C. Smith, 32d.
| ITo the Consistory of Your Allegi-
ance—Fred W Green. 32d.
I To the Grand Lodge of the State —
O. W. Featheringill, 32d.
j To the Memory of the Brethren of
the Degrees Whose labors Here Be-
low Have Ceased During the "resent
(Masonic year in Silence.
| To all Masons and Masonic Bodies
! of the Rite and Degrees over the
cessful he reports. He also spent one j of ^ Kanh H(mors and
day at the Texas Odd Fellows Home | to ^ Worthy. „eaUh t0 the
at Corsicana and four days as th" j g Comfort t0 the Needy, and
guest of the Grand Lodge of Texas iSuccol, tn tj]e Oppressed, Everywhere
John A. Callan, 32d.
Ceremony of Extinguishing the Tapers
( Wise Master—J. W. Bickell, K. C.
By a vote of 27 to 16. practically! genjor Warden_H P Cooki 32d.
a pure partisan vote, Lieutenant
Governor Trapp was relieved of im-
peachment charges by the State Sen-
in session at Waco.
TRWT IMPEACHMENT WASHED
M VJ. W.Y \ J. Mi l s PRESIDENT
iri.SA ( II OIHER OF COMMERCE
The many Guthrie friends of Maj
Alva J. Niles will be pleased to know
of die highstanding and esteem in
which he is held by ills new neighbors
in the city of Tulsa where he has
recently been elected president of
their chamber of commerce and whose
picture adorns the front cover of their
monthly magazine, The "Tulsa Spirit,"
and in its sketch of Major Niles the
magazine says-
A veteran of three wars, a bank
president, a successful business man.
with a statewide influence, a happy I
home, a charming family and Presi- j
dent of the Tulsa Chamber of Com- j
merce at the age of thirty-eight, is the J
phenomenal record of President Alva |
J. Niles, recently unanimously elected j
to the latter position by the Board of ;
Directors.
Paul M- Carey and Miss Gladys1 President Niles' Military career be-
Caldwell, of this city were married 1,8 " volunteer in the Spanish1
I American War, where he had the uni-
que distinction of being the youngest
I enlisted man in the service. In 1906,
, at the age of twenty-four, he was ap-
1 pointed Adjutant-General for Oklaho-
I ma Territory, which position he held
I until statehood, being the youngest
j adjutant general in the United States.
! During li)0ti and PJ07 he served on
the advisory committee to Secretary
of War William Howard Taft in mat-
ters connected with the National
Guard of the United States, and was
a director of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation and a member of the executive
committee of the National Guard Asso-
ciation of the United States. The
Dick National Guard Uiw is largely a
product of his brain, he being closely
associated with United States Senator
Charles Dick, of Ohio, when the Na-
tional Guard laws were revised.
President Niles came to Tulsa in
14 and engaged in the oil business
until troops were called for to the
Mexican border, in 191G. He organized
and financed "C" Company, Tulsa's
pioneer military unit, and as Com-
manding Officer took the troops to the
border, remaining there until we en-
tered the great war. He again tend-
ered his services to the President of
the United States, was commissioned
a Major, and as Inspector General
served at Camp Travis until he was
transferred to France, where he was
made Inspector General of a Division
and where he remained in active ser-
vice until the Armistice was signed,
being on the firing line on Armistice
Day.
Meet Major Alva J Niles, the pa-
triotic, youthful volunteer, the chief
executive of the Oklahoma National
Guard, the commanding officer of
the Oklahoma troops on the Mexican
border, the Inspector General on the
firing line of France, the successful
business man and banker, and Presi-
dent of the Tulsa Charrfber of Com-
merce.
Monday at the home of Mr. and Mr at
N. E. Wallace, 417 Fast Noble avenue,
the Rev. Lehew Jr., officiating .The
bride and groom were attended by Miss
Iona Wallace and Mr. Roinaine E.
Beyer of Crescent, only the imme-
diate family being present.
•Both the bride and groom attend -
ed the Logan county high school and \
have hosts of friends who extend j
congratulations and best wishes.
(Mrs. Carey has been credit man-
ager of the Lutz 'Dry Goods Company
for the past two years and Mr. Carey
is connected with the First National
bank as asistant cashier. Mr .and
Mrs. Carey will be at home to their
friends at 005 East Warner avenue.
S. OFFICERS
GUTHRIE MAN NAMED
The State Sunday School conven-
tion at Norman elected the following
officers last Thursday before adjourn-)
ing:
President <\ W. Shannon, Norman;
vice presidents. Doctor Donnell, J. E.
Nissley, Guthrie; E. A Pemberton,
Kingfisher; W. W. Childers, Tipton;
Masons with a large attendance.] V\-. w. Osgood, Muskogee; J. It. Ilick
man Durant; C. N. Schlegel. Tulsa
and I). IT. Meek, Enid.
W- .M. Baker, Tulsa, was chosen
as International executive commit-
teeman ,and J. B. Hickman, Durant
as alternate. Andrew Kingkade of
Oklahoma City was elected treasurer
land C.
cording
Boss Hume,
jecretary.
Anadarko
im-
I Junior Warden—J. F. Pieratt, 32d.
I Orator—C. W. Wright, K. C. C. H.
j Treasurer—D C. Campbell, 32d.
' Secretary—C. D. Ixmg, K. C. C. H.
| Master of ceremoiies—J. I. love-
less 32d.
I On Sunday afternoon the ceremony
, of relighting the tapers was observed
I at 2.30 followed by a special Easter
program of great interest for the
public at 3 o'clock conducted by Rev.
and that was found insufficient. ( f ^ callan and Rev. Geo. O. Nichols
Chief Justice Harirson held that the, ^ ^ jn o( ,)r 0
acts complained of came within the ^ hM.
jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice j * * 
In the final vote two democrats, C|TY FEDERATION MEETING.
voted against Trapp and two repub-1
licans in his favor.
ate last Friday.
/There were nine articles of
peachment and the demurrer of his
attorneys was sustained to eight of
them on the grounds that the acts
alleged were those of a private citi-
zen and not official acts-
One article was really considered
corvn PIONEER DIES.
?A. W. Lawson, one of the pioneer
settlers of I gan county died at his
home west of the city last Saturday
after an illness of three weeks.
Funeral services were held at the
Episcopal church at 2 o'clock Mon-
day interment being made in the
family cemetery west of the city.
The deceased leaves a widow and
one daughter, Miss Bernice
NEWSPAPERS DO THE III SINKS*
S. A. Scribner living in northeast
Guthrie pulled his tomato plants
through the freezes of Sunday and
Monday nights by covering them with
newspapers, raised above the plants
and weighted down at the edges with
dirt.
His method sems to be the only
one that worked. Now is the time
to subscribe.
At the musical program giveu for
the entertainment of the District
Federation of Woman s club at Enid
last week numbers were given by
Guthrie people as follows; Mesdames
Robert Merten and W. F Bickford,
The cold raw weather of the past eratlon will be addressed by President Mises Ruby Woolf and Esther Bruce
week has been favorable to the green ; Qf the Chamber of Com-'and Mr. Carl 'laggart.
bugs and they are doing much dam- j morret and \y. E. Corn, community j The federation will meet in Guth-
age to wheat and oats aga.n. , worker. i rie next year.
GREEN IIUOS NOISE.
The city Federation of Women's
clubs will hold their annual election
at the Carnegie Library Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 at 3 o'clock the fed-
GL'TlIRiE TALENT AT ENID.
GUTHRIE 4-1 HI. WINS. WILL
ENTER NATONAL CONTEST
Miss Mildred Davis, daughter of
Dr. and iMrs Bay Davis, of this city
won the highest honor in the piano
contest at the District Musical con-
test at St. I^ouis last Thursday, her
competitors being men
age.
Miss Davis Is a musician of rare
abilty and Guthrie is proud of her
achievements. She will compete in
the National contest to be held in
New York City in June.
FORMER GUTHRIE WOMAN
DIES IN h\NS\S CITf
News was received here Monday
of the death of Mrs. J. M. Furnas,
for many years a resident of Guth
rie, Sunday evening at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Hamil in
Kansas City 'Mi88S')uri Two weeks
ago Mrs. Furnas hud a bad fall
which hastened her death. Her
daughters. Mrs. W. E. Snyder of
Belle Plains. Iowa and iMrs. iMina E.
Henry of Oklahoma City were with
her. 'Hurial was at her old home in
Relle Plains, Iowa.
fj. Charges that Governor Robertson
1 received money from various pri-
• sources in return for misues of
1 . towers as governor, is contained
ir. e report of the investigating
co. ttee of the house of repres-
ent.  s filed late Wednesday after-
| iiooi. -
. ports Ordered Printed.
1 .No action on the report was taken
Wednesday. It was not read, but up-
on motion of R. II. Matthews, of Mc-
Alester, chairman of the investigating
j committee, the report was ordered to
be printed in the journals of the
! day.
The report is in twelve main subdl-
I visions which are in substance as
| follows:
I 1. That the governor attempted
to intimidate members of the legis-
lature in the conduct of their official
duty by a statement quoted in an
Oklahoma City newspaper on Feb-
ruary 7 which said that unless mem-
bers from Cleveland county desisted
from attacks upon him, he would re-
fuse financial help to the University
of Oklahoma, which is located in that
county.
2 That the private account of the
governor in the American National
Bank of Oklahoma City showed de
posits aggregating $40,173,27 during
the period from January 3 1919 to
March 14, 1921. That there were il-
legal transactions masked by trans-
fers of property which resulted in
the payments of these sums to the
governor.
Clemency lo Convicts Mentioned.
3. That the governor was guilty of
unwarranted exeroise of executive
clemency to convicts.
4 rrhat for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 1919 the governor in
his sworn income tax report to tht
state aduitor reported only his in-
| come of $4,"i00 salary from the state
while he received $111,098.56 addition-
al during the year.
That the governor employed
persons at state expense to oppose
the initiative proposal of Campbell
Russell last year for the creation of
a state board of pardons and paroles.
Allegation of False Testimony.
The report says, "your committee
finds a great deal of rumor and some
evidence that the governor's methods
and procedure in executive clemency
to convicted persons resuled in large
efforts by certain attorneys receiving
good fees in pressing cases and re-
cti ving clemency for convicted crim-
inals able to pay sums of money os-
tensibly as attorneys' fees." The re-
port charges that the governor testi-
fied falsely to the investigating com-
mittee of the special session of the
legislature last spring concerning
clemency given to Hickman Willis,
sentenced for manslaughter, from Car-
ter county
.7 The report says, "your commit-
too finds that the administration and
conditions existing in the hghway de-
partment largely due to neglect on
the purt of the governor. That the
mismanagement and loss of funds In
the account carried by the highway
department in the joint name of J. B.
A. Robertson, governor, and Henry
Wood, highway commissioner is, diu 
mature I largely to his wilful violation of the
I provision of chapter 23S. session laws
of 1915. If the provision of this stat-
ue had been adhered to instead of
violated, the odium which now floats
in the public mind of this common-
wealth would not have existed.
In named Attorneys Utacked.
8. The report says. "We call atten-
tion again to the fact th:it there is
about $2,400 due the federal truck ac-
count which is fully shown in our re-
port on the highway department. This
matter should have speedy attention."
9. The report says, "we request
the house to call to the attention of
the govern, r and the at' rney general
the fact that .1. T. Thompson, chief
clerk of the highway department, has
mis-appropriated and converted tn his
use during the time he was chief clork,
vurlous and sundry amounts of
money "
(Continued on page 8 >
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