The Spencer News. (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 18, 1903 Page: 4 of 10
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GENERAL NEWS
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STOCKMAN TO FIGHT MERGER
Frsdarrn Will Hi(» War fot I'rae
k«l and lionni < ointon
j Denver, Colo.: A meeting of great
importance to the producer* of livestock
has been held at Denver, with repre-
tentative men present from a dozen
state* west of the Mississippi river *n re-
ifxmse to call made by President Jno.
W. Springer, of the National Livestock
association of the United States, who
presented the latest information con-
the ready money to jay when railed by
the l<auks of Chicago *xii» is the open-
ing wedge fur the $500,000,000 merger.
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION
I'mnatnra liiirhari* of a Pan Kill*
Thr»» %eammi.
Pmnucou, Fla. : A dtsastrona
explosion occurred on the battleship
Iowa while the vessel was at target
practice in the gulf. The forward port
19-inch gun bnrst from a premature «x-
r^mng the packing house merger j of a *1*11,12 feet of the |«eoe i"SS5?SinkXt tKSeut
scheme. outside the turret being demolished. . , , . * . ..
“It waadetermined,,' said Mr. Spring-, Three men ware killed and five injured, « . !’ ', . ‘ !' * . ,r“ '1“ru,K *
«t "to fight the packer* all along the « wo „riously. Kiete. first ebsas seiaan ;|
line, and to prevent (if at all ,awaihle, Purcell, orainary seaman; Perry, gun- J™th^ch™ b“S
the oomt«-mr?Hted merger for $500,000,-1 acre mate, were killed and firs* class “T P_.V* g
1100, Offers were made to organize a seaman, Gocht; ordinary scanifti, Tuet-
uew line of packing houses under pledge ; dell, Brown. Rothschild and Pnrrncker
from all the big cattle producers to were seriously injured,
stand by the new {tacking houses if i The men killed and injured were ou
have neaiWKi aftar the shot for the din- j
ner hour. The range had been set, and |
the Iowa was steaming along at a speed
of 12 knots an hour when th* officer in
charge of the 13-inch turret gave orders
to load and fire. The ;ime fus.* was set.
the pi.-ee charged, the bn cch closed and
the word gi ven to tire Following the
report of the gun there was n smother-
ed noise as the shell exploded midway !
in the gun and pieces of the burst gun f*ie fifty-eighth congress
and shell were! scattered broadcast 1 And iomc <*‘ «i*ive action will be taken
OKLAHOMA NEWS
QUAY IS NOT DONE
Relieve* Seme t.niu of Statehood Mejr be
f’a»*rtl it Veil fee*»ion
Washington ; “The statehood bill
Three great holes were torn through
the deck. The Massachusetts, six miles
distant whs signalled for aid, and one of
the cutters put off with a surgeon and
assistant surgeons. The injured men
were taken to the hospital and their in-
juries dressed. The dead were brought
to Pensacola. .Some claim the explos-
ion was caused by a defective shell,
upon it,” said Senator Quay. The Sena-
tor has just returned from a Flordia
trip and will remain in Washington
several days looking after personal and j
official business matters.
“I do not think that any definite plan
has been decided upon,” continued the
senator, “as to the form in which the
bill will be rendered, but I am confident
that the sentiment of congress is such
QUESTION OF BOND ISSUE
llridgeport Cs*« Will be Appealed to the
■Supreme Court
Guthrie: Under the Harrison act,
congress forbade tn unci poll tie* in Ok la
homa to incur an indebtedness in excess
of four per cent of their assessed valua-
tion. In 18518, this act wan repealed at
to towns having a population of 1,000 oi
more. The town of Bridgeport then
voted $22,500 in water works bonds,
which raised the municipal indebtedness
to about fifteen per cent of the assessed
valuation. Citizens enjoined the issu.
ance of the bonds, asserting that the arl
of congress was merely permission anc
the guu,
RAILROAD MERGER KILLED
! I tilled Stale* Court of Appeel* Knot’ll*
not authority, so long ns the laws oi
Oklahoma regulating municipal indebt-
edness remain unchanged, and that the
four per cent limit could not 1>* exceed-
ed until authorized by the Oklahoma
possible, The federal government only the second or gun deck at mess. Three
wait* another chance to prosecute j {deco* of the exploded gun, each weigh-
i be IHg Ilallruad r>«>nl Out
St. Pal'L: The United Htatcs court
THE FALL OF THE COAL BARON.
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s.
that it will be impossible to delay legis-
lation on the subject through another
session. Oh, yes: I am aware that the
oppom nts of the omnibus bill have an
j idea thar it will not be revived in a
formidable manner, but these gentle- j legislature. The injunction was dis
men have missed their calculations be-j solved by Judge Gillette, and the cas<-
fore, and there is no guarantee that was filed in the Oklahoma supreme
they will not lie disappointed ngain. I court upon appeal.
would not be surjirised to find a seuiti- —_ _r“ _•
ment in favor of legislation of this! AN EXPENSIVE LEGISLA I UKt
character that will result in the adojv rh* i am Session H *••«•«• <!<*< I cl»® previous
rion of some generahy acceptable plan o»o by Nearly 97,000
for disposing of the subject without I Guthrie* The expense of the la*t
much of a tight at the next session.” j legislative assembly amounted to $36.
Senator Quay refused to discuss any j $88.88, more than $7,000 in excess of the
of the compromise propositions that | assembly of 1901. The difference be-
w*re considered and rejected during the j tween the last two assemblies was dm
c losing days of the last congress. It is mostly to clerk hire, that of 1003 being
known that when the bill was side- | ubont $0,000 greater than 1901. Th.
tracked in the senate it was With u ten- amount paid out for printing laws ami
I .ativo understanding that it wonld be [journals was abkut- $1,200 greater than
revived at the next session in some com- j.joi. The expense of the last tiv-
promise form. assemblies was: Third assembly, 1893,
The plan generally discussed is fr* a ,$17,5.10.62: fourth. 185)7, $551,109.
| nuiCR of Arizona. and New Mexico, a- fifth, 1899, $25,078.98; sixth, J9U1, $•/.».
one state and the Indian Territory and ' ;ia; .eventh, 1903, $36,888 8s. Codify-
i Oklahoma as another, A compromise jag laws cost $1,500; printing laws and
bill along those lines, wonld have boon \ journals in session. $10,200; investigat-
i passed, it is believed, had Marc Smith. j„K Fort Supply reservation, $350, and
! the Arizona deieggte to congress, uot ■ the investigating committee, $205.
opposed the proposition. It is expected
WHEN you have been “divinely appointed" to th>s sort of firing
- severely treated by the Coal Strike Cormmetien
that this opposition will lie partly with-
drawn, and that some compromise un as-
nre w ill be offered that will be accept-
able to all concerned and make a final
disposition oi the territories possible.
ONLY OFFICERS MAY GO
QUEENAN’S CASE UP
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Much i)i»ap|iointin«nl l uiinml A uioiig th*
Militiamen in Oklahoma
) Guthrie: The opinion by Attorney
General J. C. Robberts prohibiting this
use of any part of the $10,030 world’s
„ : fair appropriation for the payment of
fflfi-.Mnr'Irrer Appeal* To Tho
l ni.ed state* Supreme Court i the ^USes of three companies of
Guthrie: Attorney General J. r Oklahoma militia to St. Louis caused
Robberts has been notified by the United j disappointment to persons who hope*)
States attorney to appear before the j to see Oklahoma strongly represented ai
United States supreme court, to repre- t the dedicatory ceremonies and believed
sent Oklahoma in the appeal of B. P. the militia wonld be the most aftrac
Queenan, convicted of wife-murder in ! th'© feature. The expenses wonld have
Oklahoma City and sentenced to t amounted to about $ ’,500. Attorney
be hanged.
Queenm: s attorney tritdlo show-hat
! ffce code of criminal procedure under
which he was convicted was invalid for $150 a year,
the reason ‘hat the bill did not bear the
: signature of the president and speaker
! of the legislature, but the Oklahoma
. supreme court sustained the law. The
appeal now before the United States
! snprerre court is based largely on the
| fact that Thomas Harper, a member of
General Robberts said that liis decision
would not interfere with staff officers;
each had a contingent expense fund of
BUT HERE IS A WAY OUT
Movement for i’opulai- Stibirription to
l*ay KipriiM-it of Troop* to M. Lou it
Guthrie: Oklahoma is patriotic, if
nothing else, and among her most pa-
th© jury that convicted Qneenan, once triotic Citizens are her bankers. As soon
served a leiiD in the Nebraska penitenti- a* fh© w-ord wrent out to the press that
: there was no appropriation of any kind
j to transport a battalion of the Oklaho-
ma national guard to St. Louis for the
world’s fair dedication, and that the
taking of the troops would Jiave to be
abandoned, immediately there coni-
ory for felony.
CATTLE COMING IN
Saar Thousand Car* of T*i*« faille to he
Unloaded at Ital*(on
—and hav* anjayod this exquisite cinch for several cold months
at th* public's expense -
THEN, discover that Winter ha* passed, WOULDN'T IT
MAKE YOU HOT?
the Northern Security Company,
joining the company from voting stock of
the Northern Pacific or Great Northers
criminally the officers of the combine, iug over a ton. passed downward
a* was proposod for disobedience of the through the spar deck, falling upon the
injunction of the federal court at Chi- men at mess, instantly killing the three
•ago, and all the states stand ready to named. All of the men were horribly
supress any unlawful conspiracy against mutilated. The heavy missies after
interstate commerce. The stock pro- passing through the guu deck, continu- Railroad company, but allowing the re
iluoers have resolved to wage a relent- , ed down to the third deck, where they turn of such stock nt has been delivered
less war for free market and honest came in contact with the armored deck, to the holding company. The opinio.]
competition among packiug house the heavy steel bringing them to a stop, was unanimous all four judges concur-
plant* in each of these markets. thus saving the engineers and firemen mg but the opinion was written by
“It is well known that the recent wlio were at work below. Although Judge Thayer.
- $15,000,000 merger of small plants was the upper decks were covered with men, ! ------
done to take care of maturing notes the none were seriously injured. The office r-f Indian agent of the Sat
Ralston: The Santa Fe railroad (“©nwl the arrival of donation at Gov-
company will unload this month 4,000 i ©rnnr F erguson s office for raising the
cars of Tex.xs cattle at this place, on $8>000 necessary to transporting the
their way to the Kaw and Osage Jn- fro0!**- Banker M. L. Turner of Okla-
rhan pastures. The cattle will be driv- h°raa ( Ry> formerly territorial treas-
of appeals lias handed down a decision ; en across the Arkansas river. The rail- nrer< started a bankers donation with
in the suit of the United Stated against j read company will haul about 2.000 car IRn‘*, wa? *mni©dhit©ly followed by
ly, en- loads to the Otoe and Missouri regerva- Banker C. E. B.llingsley of Guthrie
several packers hod given for the small The explosion occurred just ns mess
concerns and which they did not have j had teen sounded. The firing was to
and Foxes will be abolished July 1. A
superintendent will succeed the agent.
tions. This will make a total of 6,000 with $150. They propose to raise the
car loads, or about 150,000 head of cat- ©nfhe amount by voluntary donations
tie. The freight will average $63 a car, froni 1 •klaboma Bankers. Charles K
a total of $37,800. Hunter offered $600 from Kiowa couu-
Before the Santa Fe built to this plane tv *lon<'- Jt uo" certain that Ok-
c&ttle for the Osage and Kaw pastures lahoma will be there.
were unloaded at Elgin, Kans and v barmen is to celebrate the~o,>ening of
driven in a quarantine chute to the res- the orient railroad to that place April
The W oods county editorial associ-
ation and the Woods county medical
association meets there at the same
’ time. A big time is expected.
ervation, which is south of tho qnaran- j .>.,
tine line. The Arkansas river is the
quarantine line between Pawnee comi-
ty and the Osage country.
WHOLESALE LAW VIOLATION
DRAWING TO A CLOSE
CHOCTAW REACHES OUT
:
SCHOOL BOOK AGENTS
TERRILL’S NEW EFFORTS
0**r 3,000 Corporation* In Illinois Ifav*
Palled to Comply with Anti-Trust Law
SpRisonJELD. III.: Attorney Gener-
al Hamlin, certified to the State's At-
torney Dineen of Cook county, the
Work ol D*w«* ( ammi^ion Will l.r Com- I Kot k •»*»'“< *-*»•««* « stt,ita Ir Hoad Id
pteUHt hy July loot Kan»a*
Washington: Reports from the. Hutchinson, Kans.: The Hock I»-
Dawes commission to the secretary of jliUjd Railroad company, it is reportec
the interior that the commission is 0,1 Rood authority, has leased from th*
« iwi *• . - . , drawing to a close and that before very Santa Fe railway the use of the Hutch
na,.,es c. -------corporations which have «,onj, th„ aflrairg of the rtve ciTi{jze(] ; mson A Southern from Anthony, Kans-
failed to comply with the provis- tribes will be in such shape that nothing , a?i- to Hutchinson, and will make thu
ions of the Illinois anti trust act, will be left for the commissioners lo do. f place the terminus of the Choctaw rail-
recently upheld by the supreme The allotment work in the Creek, Uher-! road. Eventually a north and south
court, requiring an annual affidavit to oke* and Seminole nations has been 'line of railroad will be built from her*
the effect that corporations have not practically completed and the com mis- j to Bolville, Re politic county, in th*
entered into a pool trust or combine. sion has opened offices at Atoka, in the northern jiart of the state, thus connect-
Accompaning the list of names is a Cherokee nation, ami at Tishomingo, in inK wieh th© 1-dand main lint
letter of instruction from the attorney the Chickasaw nation, and will proceed with Denver. As soon as the round-
general requiring the state's attorney with allotments in those nations. I? the 1 *nd terminals are completed it ii
to proceed according to the anti-trust estimates of interior department officials understood this town will become a di
law. The act of the attorney general will prove correct the commission will have vision point on the main 1 ne of th*
be followed by the furnishing of the list} finished ita work bv July I. 1904. There Kock Gland to K! 1 aso.___
of delinquent corporations to the sever- are several matters, such ns the claims I «•*•«» hy hi* !>og
al state attorneys of the state with in- of the freshmen and the Mismwormi Mfskooee: John Palmer who live*
■traction* to proceed against such de- Choctaws, now pending before the *t Okmulgee was bound and robbed ic
aim ivoovvi lot* enurt of c’aim* which must be settled the country a tew miles from town and
penalty providedI by. and which will prolong the tenure of leH tn a ravine to die. He was found
The penalty fixed by stature is $K> per offi^ allowing for postponement*. two later by a ** arching jierty. He
. Y* have been *|he courts and other delays, the com - wa*1 almost dead when found. Th*
uC»rpqu£Et .or over six months, they are j mnjsum ca t hardily expect to prolong «eo«d»mg party was lea to him by hu
ach uab*c to a aae o* tight or teDlltM existence much beyond the date two dogts, which had refused to ieav*
A I.*r*e Number of 1‘ubllsher* Send Tl»e Oklahoma Cei.Tl.-t" Make. Anoth.r
AC<*nt» into Oklahoma Trial for Liberty
Guthrie: The refusal of Governor Guthrie: Information reached the
Ferguson to approve the Cummins attorney general’s offices that the case
school text book bill favoring the mo- of Ira N. Terrill w ill be heard in the
noply of the school text book business ^ »ited States circuit court at leaven-
in Oklahoma by tho American Book worth, Kansas. April 20. Assistant At-
companv. is bringing agents of school torne-v General Charles H. Woods, will
text book publishers into Oklahoma to ' *"©I’resej1* feretory as Attorney
compete for the business. This is the ! <len.eral, Roberts will be ui Washing-
first tune in five or six years Chat com- | J5?1. 1 ie Joni QQecuan. tho
petiter» of the Amerieau Boob company i a ,.oma Gify alleged wife murderer,
have been ab* to get a foothold in Ok ltrn11 19 a I,fc prisoner for murtler.
lahoma. A represi-ntative of Ginn &
Co., reached here to day, prepared to
___ murtler.
He is the ex-Oklahoma legislator, the
first victim of the crimes act of which
he was the author. He seeks his re-
SE'SS
& Co., of Topeka, are alleged to be de-
sirious of employing an Oklahoman to
represent their interest*. If the com-
which the letter maintains the con-
viction is illegal.
Another territorial convict also has a
thousand dollars.
{given.
him when he wrm left by the robber*.
1
|Mtnie* do not !K>oi. the scramble for I . ternronal eot,y,ct also has a
bn«ine«.« will be livelv ^ school dis hear,u» at ^avenworth in tho same
tare of money. There is no Jaw re- ?d but for five years for that crime He
quiring uniformity, as did the law of has already served thai time for the
!897, under wfiich the American Book maintenance of the Oklahoma convicts
company held its last contract. . at Lansing, Kansas.
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Harmon, J. William. The Spencer News. (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 18, 1903, newspaper, April 18, 1903; Spencer, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc925206/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.