The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 18, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 14.—No. 234.
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1909.
OPPOSE OKLAHOMA CUTS SELFISH
STATE CAPITAL SCHEME.
(From the Daily Oklahoman of August 18, 1905, Just four years ago
today.)
The Indiahoma Farmers' union ot the Educational and Co-Opera-
tlve Union of America has succeeded In landing Shawnee as terri-
torial headquarters,
A proposition was made tne local Chamber of Commerce by ue
union, but the demands, although not great, were entirely unfavor-
able, and had they been accepted would have proven very unsatls<
factory to Oklahoma City Interests. The reason for turning down
the proposition of locating the headquarters here was because the
Chamber of Commerce and Traffic association did not care to place
the union in competition with Oklahoma City jobbers and retail
dealers, and at the same time pay out annually about $1,000 In sup-
porting the competition.
The union demanded Inducements to locate here in the form of a
free use of a suite of four furnished rooms and after the co-opera-
tion of the Traffic association in securing rates, it Is understood,
with which pioneer jobbers and retailers could not compete. Had
the union's proposition been such as to place it on an equal basis
with other dealers, the headquarters would have been welcome.
As tne commercial center of the two territories, OKLAHOMA
CITY BELIEVES IN PROTECTING THE JOBBING AND RETAIL
INTERESTS AT ANY COST.
Campbell Russell, the "home, of
the senate." took a round at grafters
—state capital grafters, state Institu-
tion grafters and all kinds of graft-
ers—incidental to his explanation of
the "New Jerusalem" bill that he is
Initiating, and especially attacked the
Oklahoma City state capital scheme,
■which he characterized as the mos:
stupendous graft the state has ever
known, In a speech before a large
audience In the superior court room
last night.
Senator Russell was In good trim
and Instructed and amused the audi-
ence for almost two nours. His ob-
servations on state matters In gen-
eral and the state legislature In par
tlcular were searching, and put In a
quaint and homely way that made his
meaning plain to the most casual lis-
tener. His great fund of pointed
stories and telling Illustrations was
drawn upon freely, the address being
one of the most remarkable ever
' heard here.
The speaker declared that the cap-
ital question had been legally sub-
mitted to the people and that the
"New Jerusalem" Idea had been like-
wise approved, but that the house had
refused to pass the bill demanded by
the people. .
Oklahoma City, he said, was trying
to use Shawnee and Guthrie as a
cloak behind which to pull off a pri-
vate graft, showing its many ridicu-
lous features. The proposition, that
If a second election was desired the
City getting the second highest num-
ber of votes should be mude to put
up a bond of 1100,000 to cover the
cost, Mr. Russell characterized as
foolish. "I never yet saw a race
where the slow horse was handl
capped In the second heat," said he.
Taking up the "New Jerusalem" bill
he Is Initiating, he discussed It at
length, showing its fairness, the im-
possibility of graft under its terms
and other strong points, which pro-
vide for all contingencies. The bill
Is as safety guarded against graft, he
asserted, as the postofflce department,
"and that Is why it has not had a
bunch of boosters behind it," he re-
marked.
Scoring the "state Institution ring"
of the legislature, Incidental to his
discussion of the objection to his bill,
that most of the state institutions
have been located, Mr. Russell caus-
tically exposed the methods by which
legislators traded votes, forgetting the
interests of the people at large In
trying to serve felflsh Interests.
"The active people rule In Okla-
homa," was Mr. Russell's expression,
and he gave instances where the
rights of the people were disregarded
because they had failed to express
their desires, while those who would
plunder made a great showing. "A
few people go to Guthrie and ask fpr
something, and they represent public
sentiment te their section; perhaps
a dozen come, and then public senti-
ment is unanimous."
Mr. Russell stated that the great
danger of the capital proposition of
Oklahoma City was that it might be
put at a special election. If such was
the case, he said, perhaps not over
a third of the vote would be cast and
the majority of these would be taken
to the polls by Oklahoma City work-
ers. "It Is my business to wake you
up," said he, "and put you among the
active people who rule In Oklahoma.'
"It Is up to us to decide," he con-
tinued, "whether the intiative and
referendum are for use or only cheap
campaign dope."
A large portion of the people, said
Mr. Russell, who have forced them-
selves to the surface In Oklahoma
politics are those who believe polit-
ical positions are for the purpose oF
private graft. He ended wiih an In
vltatlon to all who desired to help
him with his Initiative petitions.
KILLED A
Mrs, G. C. Brown of East Main
street killed a huge centipede in her
house Monday night. The pest meas
ured six inches long by an one Inch
across and had been In the house for
several days. It Is thought that it
was carried in with stove wood and
eluded capture by lurking in dark
corners.
CAT IN THE BAG
Just a word about buying "a cat In the poke." We do not be-
lieve It to be thi hotter part Df wisdom to buy anything without
first seeing It. This Is especially true of town lots, fruit farms, etc.
Better buy Shawnee real estate and see what you are gotting.
If you have Idle money waiting Investment, you are Invited to
open an account at this bank.
BANK OF COMMERCE
Enid, Okla., Aug. 18.—"In appeal-
ing to the people to sign a petition
addressed "to President Taft asking
that the federal government ceas'
granting federal permits to sell liq-
uors In tl\e state In order that the
state government may effectively en-
force the prohibitory law, the gov-
ernor has overstepped the bounds
and merely directed attention to the
weakness of his administration and
his faith in his power to fool the
people," says Pete Drummond, editor-
owner of the Enid Dally Eagle.
"That Taft has little, If any, power
to regulate the permit business Is
well known. And to blame the pres-
ident for the notorious violation of
the prohibitory law of this state In
Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Sapulpa, and
even In the governor's home tuwn,
Muskogee, Is asking the public mind
to accept a very far-fetched propo-
sition.
"All over the state prohibitionists
who were deluded Into the voting
for the gpvernor are bewailing the
evident fact that the liquor laws are
riot enforced and' efforts to enforce
them are seldom made where there
Is an apparent sentiment 'in favor of
permitting the laws to be violated.
Non-enforcement of the law stands
out most forcibly In the record of
yie administration. It has even been
reported numerous times that enforce-
ment officers have been discharged
for doing their duty.
"If the governor had called on the
attorney genera] to enforce the liq-
our laws of this state the people
m'ght have had some faith In his sin-
cerity. His petition to Taft Is as
plain a piece of political buncome as
we have seen and can be Interpreted
in but one way—as an acknowledge-
ment that in spite of the drastic laws
at Its command the administration
has signally failed to prevent open
selling of liquor In Oklahoma."
ACRES LAND
OKLAHOMA WEATHER.
Cooler tonight and continued fair.
Maximum average temperature In the
state yesterday 109.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 18.—"Repre
sentative business and professlona
men from forty states and territories
sitting as delegates in the Spokam
convention, expressed themselve:
heartily In favejr of the plan I adv >
cated for the appointment of a pres
Idential commission to combine and
utilize the existing agencies In the
several government departments as a
preliminary step toward a solution of
the conservation and reclamation
problems presented In this country."
George Eames Barstow of Texas,
president of the seventeenth session
of the National Irrigation congress,
said this in the course of an inter-
view, dealing with a continent-wide
scheme to save the forests, store the
floods, reclaim the deserts and make
homes on the land. He added:
"We have reasons to believe that
the nation at large Is in full sympa
thy with the progress that has been
made since the organization of this
congress, sixteen years ago, but there
is much more work to be done. In
fact, I may say that the work of re-
clamation and conservation is yet In
Its infancy. This becomes apparent
when we realize that more than 80,
000,000 acres of overflowed and
swamp lands may be reclaimed with
proper drainage, also that there are
40,000,000 acres capable of reclama
tlon by Irrigation.
"The Improvement of our c&.ials.
rivers, lakes and harbors would be
of untold benefit to the nation in In-
creased transportation facilities, while
good roads and national highways, for
the lack of which the loss to the farm
area alone 1b more than $500,000,00"
a year, would add millions to our
wealth. Another vital question Is the
protection, restoration and conserva
ion of our forest lands, which, unde<
roper care, could be made to yield
• ood and lumber supplies Indefinite
y. We have a great work before u
nd now Is the time to begin In ear
lest."
IS DEAD
Tulsa. Okia., Aug. 18.—Cashier R
P. Wedding of the Kiefer bank, win
was shot by robbers, the same mei
killing Marshal .Swlnford, died at a
hospital here last night. The body
will be shipped to his old home at
Whltevllle, Ky.
FINAL ACTION DEFERRED.
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 18.—Judge W.
A. Ledbetter's appeal to the supreme
court to check further proceedings
on the capital petition hearing In the
lower court was accomplished last
night when Justices Kane and Dunn
deferred final action on the applica-
tion for a writ of prohibition until
September 1. The question before
the justices was whether two su-
preme Justices could Issue a writ.
The final decision 1s withheld until
a quorum of the court is present.
THE NEWS WANT ADS
DR. G. M. TAVMAN
...DENTIST...
Office over Shawnee National Bank
PHONE qa
10 VOTE ON
COUNTY SEAT
Nowata, Okla., Aug. 18.—The coun-
ty seat election between Delaware
and this city Is to be held today, and
the oil districts will be the control-
ling factor In the selection of a per-
manent county seat of government.
Delaware Is situated In the exact cen-
ter of the county, Nowata six miles
further south. Nowata has been a
station since 1889. and became a city
In 1906, getting under the wire in the
federal census of 1907 with a few
less than 2,500, Delaware at that time
having less than 150 people. Dela
ware Is surrounded by oil wells and
now claims a population ot 1,400,
with Lenapah, six miles further north,
with a total population of l.GOO. No-
wata claims C.500 population and It
Is conceded the oil city has at least
5,600.
West and northwest of this city
are the famed Hogshooter gas fields,
the greatest In the world; this side
of the gas fields being a new oil field
that surrounds the city, save a little
southern strip, with oil and gas, while
between this city and Wann, the
northwest corner city on the line of
the M„ K. & T. railroad, aro the
grazing lands of the full-blood Chero
kees.
So rapid has been the growth of
the county that no one knows its pop
illation nor political complexion.
South Coffeyville, up on the Kansas
lino. Is another growing city of the
county, and has never previously
been considered In county affairs.
Between It and Lenapah is a place
known as Goose Creek, where black
freedmen of the Cherokee Indians
have their allotments, and the popula
tlon Is dense. What the blacks will
do in the county seat contest is prob
lematlcal, although in the past theli
votes have favored Nowata.
Delaware must have two-thirds of
he votes cast under the law, as the
line for a majority vote remova
lapsed last May.
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Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 18.—Al-
though no definite date Is set for the
hearing of Haskell's motion to quash
the indictments against him and five
others on cnarges of town lot con-
spiracy, Norman R. Haskell, the gov-
ernor's son and one of Haskell's at-
torneys, says the motion will likely
be argued at Ardmore during the
October term of the federal court at
that place.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
LITTLE PLAYMATE.
Purcell, Okla., Aug. 18.—While
playing with a 22 caliber rifle last
night Redford Brown, aged 14, acci-
dentally shot his little girl playmate,
Ina Adams, aged 10, In the mouth.
The bullet pierced the girl's cheek,
but the wound is not considered ser-
ious.
Murderers Reported Surrounded.
. .Tulsa, Okia., Aug. 18.—The sheriff
Is now Investigating a report chat
posses have located, near Glen Pool,
the two desperadoes who murdered
Marshal Swineford and Cashier Wed
ding In an attempted Kiefer bank
robbery. A hard battle Is expected
If the murderers are overtaken.
THE NEWS, 10c PER WEEK.
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GET LAID
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 18.—So num-
erous are becoming the inquiries rela-
tive to Oklahoma's school land sale,
from 200 to 500 letters a day from all
parts of the world, that Sales Super-
intendent John N. Shepler has pro-
pared the following form letter and
has had printed several thousand cop-
ies which are forwarded iu reply to
requests for information:
"The sales department is verifying
the title to every tract to be sold by
checking it with the original patents
issued by the secretary of the interior
to insure absolute correctness.
"A pamphlet is being prepared for
free distribution, igiving a description
of each tract by counties and town-
ships, showing the appraised value,
topography, soil, etc., and full details
and Information regarding sale, but
this pamphlet cannot be completed
by the printer for at least sixty days.
"After this pamphlet is completed
and the advertising placed in the
newspapers, fully sixty days must
elapse before the actual date of sale,
to give time to Investigate the lands.
"This will necessarily place the
date of actual sale about November.
"The 'New College Lands' con*ain
1,050,000 acres, that are unleased and
without 'preference right.' These
lands lay in Major, Woods. Custer,
Dewey, Woodward, Harper, Roger
Mills, Ellis, Cimarron, Texas and
Beaver counties.
NOTICE
NEWS WANT ADS PAY WELL
"The lands in each county will Ixl
sold at public auction af tho door ot
the county court room of the county
seat.
"The terms are a cash payment of
5 per cent of tho purchase price of
the land, except where the land sella
for less than $1,000, In which caBS
the purchase price may be paid iu
forty annual payments with Interest
at the rate of 5 per cent, provided
that after nve years tho purchaser
may pay any or all deferred pay.
ments:
"Purchaser Is not compelled to re-
sldo on land, but must make sub-
stantial Improvements thereon.
"Said 'New College Lands' are
classified Into three classes: agricul-
tural and grazing A, and grazing B.
Grazing B has less than twenty acres
agricultural land to the quarter seo-
tion and one purchaser may buy as
much of said class as two sections.
Grazing A class has more than twen-
ty acres to the quarter and one pur-
chaser may buy one section of such
class. The agricultural class must be
sold In quarter section tracts to a
purchaser.
"On all leased land the lessee has
a preference right to take the land
at the highest bid, should the lessee
elect not to take the land at the high-
est bid the purchaser must pay the
lessee the value of all improvements.
"The detail work Is so great and
the proposition so important that the
date of actual sale may not be reach-
ed until about November and may be
later. Your name has been added to
our mailing list and you will receive
all information Issued, so a second
Inquiry is not necessary, unless yon
change your postofflce address. Yours
very truly,
"JNO. M. SHKLPBR,
"Superintendent Sales Dept."
"ED. O. CASSIDY,
"Secretary to Commissioner."
This is to notify all those who
have bought advertising space in
Labor Day Souvenir Program
to make up your card or advertise-
ment at once, as we want to start
the composition this week. I may
call on you any time, so have on
file.
J. A.- HOLLAND,
Labor Day Committee's Authorized
Representative.
PRISONER ALMOST ESCAPES.
Ada, Okla., Aug. 18.—A prisoner,
held In jail here, made an attempt to
break jail. By aid of a mop handle,
a piece of screen and a looking glass,
he managed to fish Into his cell a
shotgun from an adjoining guard
room. Lowery Lee, a guard, while
passing the cell of Scribner about 9
o'clock Saturday night, was held up
at the point of the shotgun. Another
prisoner being held on a minor of-
fense In the runaround was also held
up and made to relieve Lee of his
gun. This secured, the armed prisos-
j er demanded keys to his cell, but
| Lee denied having them and said
'they were on a desk In the guard
room. The other prisoner was made
! to go In search of the much wanted
; keys, but failing to find them, re-
turned empty-handed. Lee then said
he could find them If the prlsonei
could let him. So, having obtained
permission, and having once got the
steel sides of the cell between him-
self and the prisoner, Lee bolted for
; liberty and spread the alarm.
NEWS WANT ADS PAY WELL.
NEflf HARNISS SHOP
AT
UP-TO DJTE HOE SHOP
NO 4 WEST MA N
New work a spec-laity. Re-
miring of all kinds prompt-
ly attenH"H to. Charges
reasonable.
Give us a trial, we call for
and deliver harness.
All new and modern ma-
chinery.
Schafer a d Vantrfss.
One door west of the CJnion Savings Bank on Main Street, where all
cars stop, you will find the
Up-To-Da^e Shoe vShop
The liphtninp repairs, the most modern machinery. I have in opera-
tion the new Champion and Landis Stitchers which do j?ood work and
keep them hot so we can hit the ball. Always ready for you. Men's %
soles sewed 75c, Ladies' 1-2 soles sewed .r0c, we make a specialty of
cementing 1-2 soles on turned shoes. We promptly call for and de-
liver your work to all parts of the city. 1 buv and sell Men's second
hand shoes, bring them to us. Harness shop in connection.
Phone 184 4 W. Main M. Va.rv Tress Prop, and Mgr.
ARE THE PEOPLE i
We Gtaran'ee Satisfaction and Prompt
OEliveiy
If you have any clothing that needs cleaning and
pressing give us a trial and you will call on us
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again for you will be more than pleased.
We serve one and all alike.
Cash or C. O D. to one and all.
All kinds of Sanitary Cleaning, Dyeing and i'ressing
We Gall for and Deliver III Work
Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works
122 INorth Bell St., Shawnee, Okla
Phone 225
j Remember our New Process is Sanitary
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