The Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 7, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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tije wi:i:ki.v okt.uioma stati: < ai-ital, <;i tumi:, oklahoma, February i, ism.
The OtlatioiiKi Sin to f_,"
By Th« Stat# Capital Company.
FRANK H. QRCER, Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Dally by Carrier In City.
r>n« W' i It
Dn« month
Duo year c
Dally by Mall—Btrlctiy In Advance.
On* month
Three month* '
tlx
ling of this i lass. only one who In In
'good health and party Btanding has
thus far been squarely supplanted. anil
that is r Joneu of Arkansas Tiw irther
change • havo come about by a change
of party control in the legislature
Sucli a aeries of victories for the alt-
Iting senators over all aspirants for
bi wnt iy u ' i the Indian Territory •.tumid
kC city of OuDiiIp. Acked on Oklahoma when Oklahoma 1
the city
Sunday Edition.
One year by mall
Weakly.
IH* months
Onr year
I admit led,
$1.00 too big.
Til* separate
Ulan Territory
THE STATUS OF THE
STATEHOOD FIGHT
Tn talking the omnibus statehood bill
onto the appropriation bllln that aro
pending in the senate wish old BenaAor
Quay lias caused a dead look lu the sen
aic like they used to have In tho good
old summertime of his prime lu the
language of the flashily dres xl gentle-
«cnan who la clone to the green cloih
tablo and "closo to the cloth," likewise,
«4t la a "show down."
It ha* alwaya been a rule aud an
article of faith of tho republican party
Chat the majority should rule. That
lu what Senator Quay desires to have
done now. He Is certain of a majority
for the omnibus bill and he wants
only a chanco for that majority to be
jrecordod by a vote.
Opponent of tho statehood measure
Asucrl that the advooatea of the bill
Are obstructing legislation. The oh-
utructiou of legislation la all the other
■way. One rote will de< Ide the faie of
<he statehood bill one way of the other
And leave lit* senate free to dispose of
4he other pressing matters before that
body. It la a rebuke to tho good faith
©f the obstructionists, In their fight
against time to defeat statehood, that
(has been accomplished by the Pennsyl-
vania senator in attaching tho amend-
ment that he has to the appropriation
"bills in order that the vote will have
lo lie taken on the statehood bill to
the end that the appropriation bills
anay become laws.
Now that the angle or the game has
ibeen reached where a vote on the state-
hood measure must be taken in order
(to get the appropriation bill passed
there will bo an interesting interim
•while leaderB of tho opponents of state-
hood, who are obstructing legislation,
shall make up their mlnda to kill the
remaluder of*the session and should-
er the responsibility of the inevitable
extra session that will follow the fall-
uro to pass appropriation bills, or
•whether they will abide by the rule,
that is logical if not senatorial, that
the majority shall rule.
Of course if the statehood bill be
not. voted on this session it will die.
Tho work of the house In passing the
bill at the long session of this con-
gress will be nullified by the senate not
passing it before the fourth of March
next when this congress expires by
limitation.
Tho country will look on in consid-
erable concern to discover Just how de-
termined the minority in the senate
ere that there shall be no statehood
legislation this congress.
If they talk Ihe appropriation bills
to death lu order to avoid « vote on
the statehood amendment that goes
■with them It will be seen that they are
determined to defeat statehood nt the
■expense of becoming responsible for
the extra session of the fifty-eighth
congress which will speedily follow
the adjournment of this session.
The position and generalship of Sen-
ator Quay is based upon bis faith in
tho right of the territories to state-
hood at once. It is founded on the
theory that the majority shall rule
Any attempt on the part of tho op-
ponents of the measure to avoid a vote
that will disclose the sentiment of the Its
senate on this question after adequate
debate Is an attempt to defeat the ma-
jority rule; and its success will be fol-
lowed by the responsibility for the ex-
tra session that will come afterward.
them Americans by full rank wax urg- | THE NEW COUNTRY
i'd against the admission of the Da *kir* ito ..un 'orcc
k'>taa, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. AND IIS 1 ROCiRESS
lu ixs!t. What luTm has com* of ilia- j A homesteader In Kiowa county was
admlualUii'. Wiio now regrets that these n, Guthrie the other day talking about
great states are In the union? Who!the new countr> and prospect of things
would ,« tie could have any one "fjdown there, H will prove up on his
them return to the nwkward. Incon- farm next month. He has a house on
vc^lent and unomalo is condition of! the claim that st h I in a thousand heir peats, indicates Hint a senator-
'/©rrltorlesT Who would go back to tho Idollars. There lu an orchard and a hip is now becoming almost a life po-
barbarlam oti the frontier? barn one of tho big red kind—and the sitloii. When it is r- ailed that a sin-
WlthJn the continental limits-of the fences are all of live wires. It Is .vlgl^ election is for six years, the con-
union there is n , ro(.iu for territories, Jgood farm home. The claim adjoining 'rant between such election results and
and no need for wetnursing citizenship, (it was sold the other day for three those In the house, which has from a
Another thing: Then Is no reason ' thousand dollars, ami it liml but the fourth to a third of its members now
improvements on it. each term, becomes notable A good
The land (hat two years ago wns not i art of the members of the house have
counted, for more than the production I to tight for a renoiulnatlon every two
of one beef brute a your is now < on- years, and i erhap« a fight again at the
tid'-ied adequate to tin- .support of a |tolls.
luinily and the a< enroll ,im mi of a tank
account besides.
That Is one Item in the history of
ihe new country. It is oue of tho things
that make a man think of changes thnt
are being wrought by tho pioneers of
Oklahoma.
The homesteader stated that spring
Is opening up down in the new country.
Hardens are being prepared for plant-
ing and the wheat fields—the unfailing
barometers of the changes of seasons
— are reaching up to the air that has
jail winter caressed them with a gentle
touch that was alraosr guiltless of a
breath of ice. The climate in the south
of Oklahoma is almost ideal. The
men and women who got claims there __
in the big lottery were even more lor-1
ti np'e than 1 id been though1 oefore THE TRIAL JUDGE
'"ti!!.?,1 ir^Sw ok la-, AND PRESS CENSORSHIP
homn yet. There are several In Kan- The liberty of the press in the great
h.ts. Hut tho average Oklahoma home- Htate uf Texas is almost nil
►deader has had a chance to build a yyny thing that Is published Is
better house than a sod one from the jtbel in the Lone Star state This is
suits of his first year s efforts In (partly legislature-made law and partly
is*ton of the lu-
givea us an opportunity
for :i long-neglected recognition of a
uutlonsl indebtedness.
Judge Moon, of Tenm
trodneed in the house
tlves a bill to create of the Indian
Territory a state to be called Jeffer-
as In-
esopta-
Tho project will Instantly arous
pride of every good man.
All America for all Americans
free and equal terms' Citizenship for
ail! Equal privileges for all!
THE "ANTI" BILLS
THAT ARE NOW DUE
It Is about time for the ant I pass bill
and Us old comrade, the measure to
Ht i e ih « manufacture and Kale of
pitciil medicines, to avnin enter the
legislature. These two bills ure nec-
essary to the very contlnuano of the
legislative on its time-honored lln
There Is little In the office of repre-
sentative which brings a continuing
strength to its occupant. With a sena-
tor the situation is different; he Is a
person of such extraordinary power
over the political situation that it
takes a very unusual combination of
circumstances to dislodge him when
once established. William Alden Smith
is thinking of making a contest against
Burrows two years hence, now that tho
Alger organisation In Michigan has be-
come ascendant with the death of Sen-
ator McMillan. Hut if Mr. Smith, or
any other man. should succeed In over-
throwing Mr. Burrows, it will be an
extraordinary victory.
THE STAI'E < Al«i 11 M.HS ST\M>.
Is the bill, passed by the house of rep-
res..-natives, admitting us state* the
territories of Arizona, Oslahoma and
New Mexico. He is laboring earnest-
ly to get the bill through the senate.
Others under the leadership of 8en-
a't 'r Beverldge, are lal>orlng Just a.*
earnestly, but with fewer apparent re-
sults,-to kill the bill, lioth sides, it
scorn* almost unnecessary to state, aie
actuated by motives of the highest pa-
triotism.
There are some men who become ab-
solutely wedded to an idea.# Senator
Cullom of Illinois is one of these. - , —-
lie thinks It would be right and
proper for ihe senate to ratify the Cu- tnut-made text books and
ban reciprocity treaty.
WH£ erUIre News Stand business
I of F. B. Llllle & Co.. which has
been handled at the Owl Drug
Store, has been removed to The
State Capital Book and Stationery
Store and hereafter all the News-
papers and Periodicals will b«
found at The State Capital News
Stand. We handle all the metro-
politan papers.
mlttme,
___ |and hearing them tell of the things
lis fairly made himself a pest about 'hat the horrid old teacher has done to
it. Day after day, he bobbed up and j mar their childish joy.s.
-uggefcted that inasmuch as the treaty ' His lot has been a lonely and discou-
nt utt be ratified by Jan. 81, It was time tented one. He has felt the superficial
to make a move. pangs of disappointment when the
Various senators smiled pityingly at j Sweet Thing smiled at the other fellow,
him. land he has believed the world to be
He would not bo supressed. 'i tell 'all dark and dismal and deserted of
conduct. I'."" • 7* " "
The anti pass bill is not seriously ex- : m'w (,,linli v- The agricultural p<< |court-made law. It Is ull the same In
pec ted to be passed. The man who ■"•Wlltles of Oklahoma aro something .j,e emj. an(j wj,en one 0f those por-
lotroduces It will probably have a ;l •■onstant revelation to the jol|j(i,| killings for which Texas ha« a
pocket full of passes and he will not ! Pol,ide even of Oklahoma. Ihe cap- j reputation fs pulled off the newspapers
eve,. hi. col- <,r '"<• P«P>r
leagues that he is in earnest lu his 'bings is - "
blow at the monster monopoly. :. r and tueir taiin unn. bullets artistically distributed through I Ij',.".'
The patent medicine bill will provide 1 iia' ' "•'intory of CJkla- i|x|— anatomy, Richard Roe Is In Jail •
for the 111 lug of tho formula of the;'"'™ " Ihe ,,rl.l.. oflhe people who for% Ume-
MUIT "III. re:«ry of il.e t.rrl- '* w?" a"!1 ""
tory; ..ml other II.Ii.kb will be required wll° h vc hNird ta"'
you," he argued abrllly to the leaders,
"this treaty must be ratified. Besides,
it we use up time it will put that In-
fernal statehood bill back some."
Go ahead." replied the leaders,
i move for an evecutive session,"
he said suddenly one morning.
"Mr. President," almost whispered
Quay, so gentle and kindly was he,
t he statehood bill has tho right of way
In this sentfte. It cannot be dispatched
until It Is voted on. I must refuse."
"Oh, well," said Senator Cullorn,
petulantly, "we might as well see how
It stands. I insist on my motion."
They took a vote. Gladly, almost
vociferously, tho Quay men recorded
themselves against the motion. When
the tally clerks had counted up. it was
fouud that the motion had been defeat-
ed by It) votes. Quay had 37 and the
otheri 27.
That," said Senator Quay
the light that alone could pierce the
dark recesses of his life.
If he forget the desolation of his life
when he met. tho fellows at the cornet-
club where tho steward wore a white
apron and Jacket and was dextrous and
obliging the vacuum nono the less
was there in his heart.
Hat her pity and cuddle and cherish
the bachelor. He is the miserable ever
present type of the Dlsappalnted. He
Is a warning to all boys that they may
be hotter than he i- lie should be paid
a bonus for what he suffers—not taxed
for what he regrets.
JUST AN ADVERTISEMENT
THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL
about where the husband would be tor-
tured with the view of them. It was
aiso niggardly of tho caller not to
leave a few whole cigars now and then
for the delectation of the husband.
Perhaps this injured man denied him-
self cigars and smoked a pipe, that hi3
wife might have pin money, and to
allow him to be tantalized with the
odor of good cigars was certainly cruel
on iter ,.art Taken altogether, the
evlden- e should be sufficient to insure
the hu-band a separation. No com-
promise short of an entire Ihjx of clear
Havanas should be accepted by him.
Out In Colorado the fellows who are
fighting 'ho oleo product will have a
law cna 'ed that provides for the dis-
play of a sign on -each dining room
butter Ihh which will say: 'This is
Not Butter." In most cases the sign
will prove an added Impetus to the
man with his fpet under the table
to try to find It. It can't be worse, you
know.
It is announced that In the Colorado
legislature tlifro is an endless array of
eight-hour measures for the purpose
of confusing the colons. This eight-
hour business is a good thing. It would
be perfect if somebody \vt>uld invent
a scheme whereby tho old man whose
name makes the checks good could
accomplish all his labor in eight hours.
A French novel is called a "mor-
nl ntirage." It Is probably one of
those neurotic things that the high
school girl reads when she should be
delving Into the lessons that are sup-
posed to make her worthy of becoming
cook and housekeeper for the noble
youth who meets her at the corper nt
4:15 each evening.
wearing of whiskers. The Boers are
said to be recruits for the republican
party, but there Is a similarity In the
climate of Oklahoma aud Kansas and
It is not forgotten what the whiskered
element in Kansas politics did to the
republican party there a few year®
ago.
It is announced that the pair of
George Washington's pants that aro
owned in Illinois will be exhibited at
tho St. Louis exposition. There Is no
room to overlook anything that may
inspire patriotism in these troublous
times.
The house has passed a bill to In
crease the salaries of federal Judges.
The Judges should be remembered in
these prosperous times when the cap-
tains of industry are waiting for a
chanco to ue vindicated in court.
The statesman who wants the stats
to protect the quail and doves is clos-
er to the interests of the poopio than
Is the fellow who has an idea of re-
forming human nature all at onco by
act of the legislature.
There Is something in tffeama.
Guthrie man the other night drea
The Pittsburg kisser has been caught
and severely beaten. Tha>t is serving
him right: but It will surely be a dis-
appolntment to the women who liavs
been thrilling with the danger of being
caught and kissed.
The decision of the Minnesota su-
preme court that a man must live up
to his advertisement, should it l o
generally carried into effj-ct, might
make trouble for others thorn the cir-
cus people.
A fond Guthrie parent has been try-
ling to convinco a hopeful son that
!there are various ways of getting along
! but walking is hard to beat. He has
eded In his efforts up to date.
of the story of progress ami
1 Y AHIII MAI ncfl,rtol l"'f"ro c""rt at,"r havln(! I thought"Bithered In the flname mm- i Aml'may' he not"i "^"" ome ! «*• «" for nKle elate to be made s. I.-;' is l W>lnK to ratore Forest
BY AGU1NALDU „y the judge Ilot l0 pub-|S,,ee rl and bold an indignation gj} p^ple wre. troubled "on"™? I'.'f Oklahoma_an.l the Indian Territory. | Park. after J^Wr.^l. te.ngsj.p
en ord
The communication of Aguinaldo for jiish It.
creating a land bank In Man lln
of the man who makes llnsment and
pink pills a^id such truck. The meas-:ment* ———
ure will be iu the Interest of the com-
mon people nil right enough aud the INSULAR CONDITIONS
promoter of It will have a chance to
make some burning remarks for the
edification of the hearers who have
time to listen.
Neither of the bills will h route a various branches in the Philippine I Kot a chance at the Imprisonment foi
law and there will no harm done. Iarchipelago, upon a capital of $100,- printing things on a writ of habeas
was a good law made by the i OOO.OOQ. to be furnished by the United j . orpus the other day and the editor
sixth legislature that might be classed J States, which was transmitted to eon- |was released.
with these, li has bwn a dead let-j gross by the secretary of war, h re- The opinion of tho supreme court Is
tor. however. c.. r since a few days girded .i an important contribute n !(,f interest In this matter because i'
after It went on the statu'e hooka. That the pending discussion, and it Is hoped I shows what was supposed to be gener-
anti-cigarette law. It should towards legislation, in spite of tli3 °"~|a!ly known to all lawyers and judges,
have been enforced. It did not strike jsentially chimerical character of the The court said-
at liberties of the people In the man-. j roject Itself. No one expects that ..If the constitution guarantees a
ner thnt the auti-pass law or the on- congress wlH put up the money or the public trial, is it in the power of the
eror.s conditions on port is planters credit lor any such bank as Aguinaldo Lourt to ma.K,. jt a private trial?
would do. For men have been able to wants. Devices for reviving the Indus-j ..jf not> tj1Pn where Is the power of
ride on passes. And men hav-e been tries of the atchlpelago, will bo of theu^^ OOUrt to prohibit publication or to
benefited by the ppllc«tlon of por.ia i \m,.r|, an designing, not of Philippine.1 re„ulre or enforce thereafter alienee on
plaatera. 1 here havs been no beneflta Agulnaldos communliatlon. now- lhns„ lvh„ mav witneys „IKi hear the
to the small boy Tn h a eonaumptlon of ever, serves ihe useful purpose of em- Inge" if there s m> power on
the dead v eoffln u.vl •> lu !4l K tl>.- "hi. I! Oov Taft nnd lh„ , of lh„ to llrPV„nt 8pw.
And after all. the freai bill. ar. not i:i, Wilr departinent anlhorlUea .-:tn- , from rellra„|„K evidence, by.
10 bad. They afford relaxation from . .rtl. l-nt!y In.p.es.- upon eongresa ,hp 8„me logle the eour; has no author-
the grind of really important Ihlngs to the darkness of economic etindi- :,,v . , u,.,.,,,,. duki|, ,t|0n 0f the tes-
and If member, are serious of It they tiona there , pr"01" a I'""1"-111™ ot me tes
smile, they are not framed up for great! Me paints a very high bla.1; pie- ..Th5' ,lUon a(.oor(, wlth
disappointments or great victories in ture sald ,al ot lh, «ov gonlu, aml al)|rlt of our fror ln8tl.
. , 'rnnient. ho is no* in Washington. ,mj0 which is Intended to guaran-
aeieomed -and yet ll Is ul: true Think of the m,bllcllv In the nr.i.eedlBcs of our
when they appear on the and wlJe, „f war. of 10U.U00 deaths from ;l 1 d f. , froedom ,he
fellows'" t^ere"wliV be Tmi "and 'mi'lar^ ' °J ."W- XeTC or ^h ,r?hun
r 11 a nit t h e m **'%'"* ' i' ; l . conslstetu with truth and de-
ring about tnem. j elation of the currency, and you have! v
■ ■ ! materials for a distressing condition. c
TUC CITIIITIAM Tt""e ar'' W"3t 1,8 '""S hl"
HE SITUATION ;d . Hon. the mournful herahl, of the been."id", such claim must
Tha"8 And Is aup^rt. If any there be, in
South Carolina Is today conspicuous ' -Aguinaldo s communication is char ^nXrr'^Thl^h^S
before the eyes of the whole country j actensib of :he Malay nun I. He goe« t,ie power. This impo-
by reason of two recent Incidents- imo ihe minutest detail providing".!,.- < ',ln ,i™ IS'
The nomination of Dr. Crum. colored, j sad a. es of al« the officers . f hU banks 4vIs on® of our (onstltutlon, guarant-
for collector of customs at Cfyuicsion. . \n to the p «.-•••■ or me uif,er;. h PUbllcitjrt ail trial a.-
with the sequel of bn al resistance to'l-.as h'.v brau« lies divide' up into class- :is rlie 'ree^om BP of
•onflrmatlon; and the murder of ies, vith the finest specifi. itlons. press.
.... editor of a leadiug newspaper by i in the closing paragraph of the "We take it tliat the learned judge,
the Sato lieutenant governor of the (communication lie speaks of questions j exercised the authority in this In-
state, an <
The periodical resurrec tion of Wilkei
Booth, this time at Enid. Oklahoma has
smu uvww. may re- jalso gone into history. The tale Is told, .
move the lingering doubts in the minds !and the people who read the eastern jthat lie was attending a church lair, jnoi
of the men lu this chamber who would ' papers have had their thrill, the corres-1 Next morning he awoke to discov-et
refuse to carry out that solemn pledge \ pondents who sent the stories have 'hat his wife had been through hi: Irlends of the president are said to
the re- I p°< kots and removed every piece ol" be at vyork like beavers to have his
started i money therefrom. talary ra'sed from $5t>,000 to $100,000
and the world wags along as before.'! > yw r. They insist, that their own
ia|1 And In order thnt there may be no I The Enid Events tells the last chapter, 'A Mississippi grand jury has Indict- .jalarb , should be raised also.
mistake In my attitude. . beg to an-; a6 foltows: : luVn^'to'tte tour ! In Mis-mrl 1. is announced that a,
vk() i diversity of opinion whether this is : railroads have voluntarily furnished
• i r (Ud'iboina t-> do ''',i",,anon 19 .P", ?'newspapers rofuso to carry out that solemn pledge • pondents who sent the stories
■m their horl/on i ^ ' u!' ! i f.01 j of (be republican national platform : spent their checks that came by t
, al home in this city with six t|,at j i,ave tho votes to do what I de- turn mail. Enid has a cemetery st
" HI 111. I.nlloiti u rt lulii'ti 11 v il i < I H hn 1 >'il ttirjiiKrh . .....
This condition Is bad enough, but |nounce rl^it here that when the proper - poor old man George's body
hleve- fHSi8: !lime nrr,VPa- 1 3ha" hold this senate })een buried by the couny. He
.ton Judge became chesty some time in continuous session night and day imagined himself Wilkes Booth atone
ago and threw a Houston newspaper j unt11 this bill comes to a vote or a time and possessed of a great fortune!' :
editor Into prison for contempt of court [ time for voting." at another, has sunk to rest beneath
because he published the evidence in a ■ The leaders were stunned. The lies' thf> breathless clod. Requlesmt In
the real dawn of reform in that state j Ipa .. -s to the legislators so iar It
.r just a Illy white sort of a joke. is probably right that they bo forced
I to furnish them from this on.
Senator Nelson spoke three days In |
. „ . I meeting. . [ng his Identity. "Mystery Still Un-
But the supreme court of the state | The cold fact confronted them tha: solved." says a contemporary, and
ere beaten for the time being.
they
If these territories are disappointed in | the questio:
| their desires they will know exactly
a: whose door to lay tlTe blame.
hat does a century-old
nd where can a few
1 to set out?
The "antr-bills will
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
"And as has been well said, when It
claimed that this right has In any
Some surprise was occasioned recent-
ly by the news that an inspector ot
the United States bureau of animal in-
i The announcement that a forgetful
, operator caused another wreck brings I ;• Ti-
to memory the old truth that men are]horn,
j not much account, after all. unle
i they have better men to tell them hi
j and keep-reminding them.
bout the time summer quits lin-
.i he lap of winter in Ok la-
winder begins to hang onto the
jhem < / the white and bluo vlolet-col-
ored drapery of spring.
'Many people will believe to their dy-
j jng (jay that 1). E. George was no other
ctatl: M TunoiTiuc Ithan the slayer of Abraham Lincoln.';
bi A 1 c AU 1 HUru 1 Ico I Xo one in Enid seriously believed that
AND FEDERAL LAW !George was Wilkes Booth. The • >i
: concerning him was published for t he
purpose of advertising Enid. Nothing
more. It serves Its purpose. None are
so Illy versed In history fact as to be- | Notice that MIts Alice Roosevelt wi
n 'lTJai 'rnnr't^in* MftVaachusetts'on*tile i"?ve lha! WUkes Booth was not killed ;,..en(j th« Mardl Gras carnival at New . Ul .joubt that may have bet
charge of cruelty in killing cattle tin- ,n ,lie vlr8ln,a barn the ' ni,i' Orleans. IV she takes In the whole, for. , -d as to the duke being
.barge of t rueity in.Kl ling ca states government. None-not any. . . vv ,htl w!n havc learncd that Xev
I h ?? I ^ !Lth lLi/ Th! ( It was a story made up for the pur- , or|, js n0 thP wholc ti,lng in th-
with the foot-and-mouth disease. The | of advertising the city, says the .vav 0f j-'rench balls.
Events. And there is a probability tha'
there Is truth in the dlognosls of the Ir |p ann0unced that. Jan Tillman
tase as given by that eminently truth- j wju ^torpose a plea of self defense I••
ful journal. p ^ trial for tne murder of Gonzales.
It was a shame to maks the old man |lfl waa probably forced to shoot In
so notorious in his peace of death— prcVent the latter from look
the peace that he wooed in vain and ; iu ,i1P eye
found only at the hazard of drinkin;
much booze and poison. Rut it wa In the request of China and Mexico
a good starter lo the study of hlstor> r- relie from their financial system < Tll„ sn,i,1(.st thlng in thc annals of
a thing which has been needing an an admission that silver is ,.• a , ,ilta „ tlie Urawll)I „f vvilllam J.
impetus for a long time. i; l-elven form or money any mor |irvan to serve on a juri He will not
The Enid Booth was not Booth at rhe Immortal sleksteen to one hp . |'ai,|e t0 talk th«re
inspector, as jt appeared, refused to
pay the flns Imposed by the court and
was confined In jail in consequence.
The imprisonment of an authorized
representative of the agricultural de-
partment under circumstances which
made it his duty to kill cattle natural-
ly led to the Intervention of tlie de-
partment, and the unusual spectacle
was presented of representatives of
the law departments of the national
and state governments, respectively,
appearing, the one to oppose and the
other to support the Imprisonment of
a notional official by the order of a
announcement that a
rl tias caught a duke will re-
loubt that may have hereto-
con-
When a committee of senators at-
tempt to "'p things their wishes should
be gratified. Otherwise other people
are threatened with seeing things.
A Kansas man who has been fined
for kissfng a fourteen-year-old girl
has decided that plucking unripe fruit
is evidently under a legal ban.
STATEHOOD THEORY
OF A CHICAGO PAPER
Chicago is said to oppose statehood
for the territories. This is probably
In part true. But there Is one Chicago
newspaper that is in line for state-
hood for the territories-sill of them.
That is the Chicago Examiner. W
all. The people will know all over the
United States, however that Enid has
state tribunal. The issue wan not long a ceinetery now, and that was what
in doubt. Justice Brown, sitting in the' tjiey jia,j jjeen advertised as not pos-
I nlted States circuit court at Boston, i sesgjng.
disc barged the inspector from custody, ' —.
holding that the act of congress appro- ^rvr,f -T rt,TIirTipicii
printing money lor the extermination MODERN ESTH L 1 ICIbM
of the foot-and-mouth disease embod- AND MICROBES
ied authority for the extinction of in-
fected cattle; that the killing was done | It is easy to find indications that we
by the inspector under proper insirue-jare becoming aai enervated and lux-
been forgotten.
Notice that the sultan of Morocco
has crushed the rebellion that has
been menacing his peace of mind and
piece of property. The sultan is a fit-
ting strenuous example of the modern
strenuous life.
If the statehood bill holds up the
postofflce appropriation bill to the ex-
tent of discontinuing the thail service
it will be remembered that the senate
tions as a federal officer, and that the urlous race.
state court had no jurisdiction In the , Things that were good enough for had amide warning of Ihe Impending
t.a3Pp the last generation are not good catastrophe.
II seems odd that this ruling was re-1enough nbw. ^ j Qf (wo rallllon pen|lle chlrngl
lieutenant governor oi t tie ,, omnium, a-i-m ne spea.v- oi que:-, i.mis - ; l"" •• - - „mmnnwi hv thp Of the two million people in
ofticer bound by solemn oath which wre t me from the retired life stance, did it. as he believed in. ■ ne In--j quired to He made by a court, but; This observation ^ re are but few who hav
i on,i . v.wiik* t ha iu.i i ..n.inri ,w,l t<. iab,i ..v . r .... 11 crest of the due administration of things sometimes happen that way. {demand which various legislatures ar (
'Pt. . , t : ... I t flnrl n ..f A f
to respect and execute the laws, uot that I undertook to lead over
to Ignore or break them. impiiscnmeut, which to my
On every side, within the state boun- havo not deviated from in any of my
daries, it seems to be understood that iactions, but the contemplation of so
the murderer shall not be hanged, and much bitterness weighing upon this i nMiao „ n nf r««hfs nnd
that the negro shall not be installed '-"'If- «hnnste<l by nun, th® FlghU and
In the . .'tieciorshin berl« s Ills and misfortunes, compels; liberties of the citizen.
>ne to emerge from my ostracism to ! "And. even If there wns a conflict
The negro is by all odds the more re- form wh u { hoilovo to w mv dutv here between the authority and dignity
table citizen of the two; his hands I |n pre8entlni; thirt modest plan'in or- of the court, that should yield to the
diir that tho honorable civil cotnmis plain letter of the constitution.
si on may Intercede and request the; "We accordingly hold that the court
support of congress before the govern- had no power to prohibit the publiea-
meut of the mother country. 1 do so Hon of the testimony of the witnesses
v m n.M 'he law; but the argument of conven-j The election of J. P. Clarke of Ar-|makiug for new carpets, desks and doubted trie superior ability ot Cattet^
tanv of mv i^nce can have no weight as against
are uusoiled with the blood of a fellow
man; his mission In the world has
_ been saving life, not taking it; his most
Hearst's paper. The Examiner In an bitter sutagouists have t.ecn able to
editorial addressed to the congress a*, make no suecessful assaul' on blsj-n [l o i;onv-l(.t|on that this will iu
Washington says; character; his endorsement i. ; ' nie.•:• •< dry * lie tears ci this p
The territorial form of government - credit at the banks; be Is . ivillsed ti u |U)1U tiu, ^overuuientB
kansas .o succeed Jam?s K. Jones in!chairs, escepially carpets. In North
safeguards of the constitution ! the senate, recalled o the Southern Carolina wars a carpet which had been
hlch wa. Instituted by 'our fathers j members the famous ,-peech of Gov. | used for twenty^ years J>y one^Jeglsla-
Jeff Davis, who stumped the tdote for
(iarke and agains'L Jones. He was at-
ta.kmg Jones all along the line, ap 1
In telling of one of the committees of
which Seneator Jones is a member,
aid "I notice, ladies and gentlemen.
in the list of miscellaneous expenses of
the committee in its published report
of last month an item of $12 for castor
Is a.crude device planned In the firs! bearing nnd considerst
ot his I
years of the republic when back of the white neighbvi . his family n. vcr trb i , a' |OVln« mother, and confiding'in : relator is ord- re 1 barged.
Atlantic coast states was a vast wilder- ",rce its way to the front by waging t,1(1 au,i laudable purjioses which
, yea1
ng for the pro
in the case and thai h,is a. t in punish- j oil—for castor oil, 1 say. What In the
iug the relator for contempt for violat- world they need so much castor oil for
lug that order w k without Jurlsdie- no one ^uows. Why, that is enough
ion and was cr.jjSP^uently void. Thej,.^^ 0jj to move the previous ques-
tion in the senate of the United Stat?
lementa
i party
by the admission o
is one that nature put upon
msulting him—that his
pwn, aud that a part of his
tttne from Africa. Yet If to-
morrow. casting politics aside, the po-
sitions of the negro and the late lieu-
tenant governor was transposed, and
It was Crum who had committed a bru-
tal murder, aud Tillman who wa$
trial before the senat
points <U> the probability
j and a few frontier settlements. It pulgsr warfare upon th
was adequate for semiclvillted condl- in
tions. when the scattered pioneers were j H
too busy felling forests and fighting In • liis
dians to bother much about the form I hi in without
of government they lived under. Ne* -
essarily the central government was
obliged to regard the few i eople In
those regions as wards of the nation
and treat them as such.
Conditions were primitive; primitive
methods were used to mset them.
But long tdnce we passed from all
«uch primitive conditions; long since
we became a great, civilised, well In-
formed people, accustomed to self-
government and restraint. There is
no frontier In tills country, there are
no backwoods and no pathless wilder-
nesses. The American system, the
American idea and the American pub-
lic are Just as effective In any eo-callei
territory as In the oldest state. Civili-
sation is not of any one regiou; it is
universal within onr borders.
It is time. then, to have done with
the backwoods idea of this nation and
the foundling asylum policy toward the
people of territories.
If they aro not Just as well fitted for
•elf-government as any other Ameri-
. canti, our whole Idea of independent. In-
telligent self-governing American
community Is a failure, and we had bet-
' ter give It up.
What is the harm that can come
from this act of plain and obvious Jus-
tice? What is it supposed that these
people will do when they enter the
union? Start a revolution or attack
' the constitution, or become riotous?
Then what is it?
Every possible objection to making
THli SENTORSHIP
A LIFETIME PLACE
Tlie most significant result of tho
senatorial electkms this year is that,
except where politics of the state have
suffered an overturn, the old members
j have in almost all cases been reelect-
everything t.(j. Of fite thirty senators of the class
that Crum whose tcnu cxpiros March 3, only live
would be hart god and Tillman given tho | have thus far given place to other men
key to the $1,100 office. ,>f the same political faith, and these
President Roosevelt has been very are In circumstances which explain
hatshly criticised for "forcing the race awa; the force of the exception.
issue'' through Cram's nomination. It ' Mr. Vest of Missouri makes way for
has not occurred to his critics, possibly, Mr. Stone, also a democrat, because the
that tho race iasue. If there is such a former's health Is so severely lmpair-
thing, was forced by his republican I ed that he has with great difficulty
predecessors, all of whom made more been able to keep up his work as sen- ,
appointments of negroes to office than jator for some months, and has for sev- 1
he. and certainly never spproached him < ral years been so frail as to make It
lu the quality of their appointees. 'seem Improbable that his life would
If the Old Guard of republicanism, as j long be spared. Senator Mason, repub-
vvas once called, could come back and li« an. of Illinois, gives place to Albert
compare his sdministration with the j J. Hopkins. Hut Mason's estrangement
others, they would reproach him rather from his party has been such as to
IS NOT PROPER
a graceful and gentle way to I
tell the trial judge that "there are
' ii^rs The Te\;uc trial judge l.a no THE BACHELOR TAX
doubt a high regard for the pla .
hidds. and his motives may have be
above reproach. But he u ok his little
court too seriously and lie did no:
consider the rights of the peoph
the premises.
The fellows who fratn# the constitu-
tion on the lines of freedom of sp<
and of the press did uot contemplate
the censorship that was attempted by
the trial judge in his excess of precau-
tion.
ture after another. This parti' ular
(in both senses of the word) body of
lawmakers seems to be the first to
consider itself too good to put its feet
on such a carpet.
"There are microbes in it," said a
democratic senator, unwilling to l^an
too heavily on the aesthetic argument.
"Bah," said a republican, "ir tnere are,
they are only democratic microbes."
Arkansas is having the same trouble
over a carpet. There the Sybaritic
tendencies of the present generation
were, however, neatly unmasked Af-
ter exhausting the microbe argument,
one senator moved that the carpet be
given to the Old Ladles Home of Little
I Rock. Thus the true purpose stands
revealed.
If microbes are really at the bottom
of the matter they would be just as
harmful to the old ladies as to the
legislators. Tho simple fact was that
a carpet not good enough for the pres-
ent generation (the legislature), would
be accepted gratefully by the repre-
sentatives of the elder generation (the
Inmates of the home).
A member of the Kansas legislature
goes the limit when he advocates the
passage of a bill pending there to tax
bachelors of more thau thirty years
the sum of $50 a year because they are
bachelors.
There are arguments offered In sup-
port of the measure that might at first
blush seem tenable. But the whole
matter viewed in the broad light of
Oklahoma progresslveness. Is puerile.
The man who has reached the age
of thirty without having been married
is an object for public charity, not of
The whole world of-
He is an j fers no more pitiful spectacle than the
old man. He was thought to be near- I disappointed, dissipated old young man J J,hlch jd obviously not his name, since
ing tho shadow of the valley a wf Ti "! I nothing unconventional could be ex
POOR OLD QUAY
QUITS THE CEMETERY
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay Is al- ' PuhU« ,
most seventy years of age.
A St. liouis newspaper tells of a
divorce case: At least the charm of
novelty should make a recently filed
petition for divorce worthy of public
attention. The petition is that of a
gentlemen we will call Mr. Brown,
onsldering race prejudice too len-
iently, and deferring to it beyond logi-
cal bouuds than with going to the other
extreme.
He has left in office uegroes whom he
fouud there, and who appeared to be
doing c (editable work; but he has
avoided making appointments in
places, and of a sort, which would in-
volve unpleasant contact between
blacks and whites; in every way he has
tried to make peace lu the South—uot
to stir up strife there.
make the substitution of another man
the tiling to be expected. Simon of
Oregon will doubtless give place to an-
other republican. If there Is any settle-
ment of the contest Ho was an acci-
dental choice at the time of his elec-
tion. on account of conditions growing
out of a prolonged deadlock McLaurln
of South Carolina will be followed by
another democrat, for much the same
reasons that Mason gives way to Hop-
kins
Of the twenty-six senators remaiu-
nionths nco. A Washington eorresinm-
dent facetiously tells of his recovery;
When Matthew Stanley Quay came
back to the senate, after an unsym-
pathetic refusal by that body to l>e-
lleve the governor of Pennsylvania
could do what the constitution forbids,
he walked feebly down the aisle to be
sworn in. Next day he left for Flor-
ida to "rest and recuperate."
"Poor old Quay," said his colleagues,
who remembered him as a debonair
person of abounding vitality. ' 'Why
he has one foot In the grave already."
I^ast summer, greatly to the aston-
jsingle disillusionment. If he is an
pected of a Brown, and recites that
egotist who Is superior to form and to I £ecaU8e on numerous occasions
convention then he Is also a mauer for | I<)Untj (.jgar stumps ornamenting his
... . . , , , j furniture when he came home from his
1 he bachelor who has reached the age ' Work. and his wife did not give a sat-
limit prescribed in the proposed Kan- |8fnctory explanation therefor, he asks
sas law should be pensioned—not tax- a lefal separation. He alleges that his
ed. He has troubles enough of his ! Wjfe claimed to have smoked the cigars
own. poor devil. His punishment is herself, but as she Inconsistently
great, and the state should com
through with succor, not impose a pen-
alty. He has never had the pleasure
of standing off the man who collects
house rent: and has not known the joy
>f dumping his pay check into the lap
Ishmont of all beholders. Quay ga.vly of the angel of his home; he has not
pul.ed that foot out of the grave 4e; walked the floor on zero nghts
has not been near a ceyietery sir. e. with the Little Angel Child and listen-
To prove it. he has established him- ed to the peaceful breathing of a lov-
self as boss of the senate for the time j ing spouse; he has not taste<: the bliss
Harrison to be mayor. He is supposed
to be the only man among them who
knows how.
President Casfro Is a very busy
man. In addition to standing off Ger-
many he is endeavoring to keep an
eye on the insurgents of his patriotic
republic and raise revenue to buy
powder.
Since the particulars of the gunnery
of the Germans have become known a
certain negligence Is 'noted In the at-
titude of congress not. preparing for
an increase in the strength of onr
navy. 1
It is announced that the name of the
murderer of Goebel is definitely
known. It took a leng time to get
the man located and the people have
forgotten the story of Ihe fight by now.
There Is a good situation now open
for a successful compromiser. The
Venezuelan difficulty and statehood
legislation are the best sort of oppor-
tunities for a great pacificator.
Notice a fashion note about 'pretty
silk skirts." The design on the bills
that the c heck for them draws is also
a work of art. There is a law of com-
pensation.
Xo. Chauncey, the black leg vaccine
for which the legislature Is going to
make an appropriation Is not for the
use of black sheep.
Well, a sewer Is an odorous subject
at ciose quarters any time. Why worry
about things that are made to smell
if they do smell?
The small boy will spend the greater
part *of his life learning that all the
other people in the world can not do
his duty for him.
The suggestion of a loan made by
Aguinaldo is an indication that he is
not merely a warrior but a statesman
as well.
British army officers will not take
exception to the decision of a Missouri
court that the mule is a treacherous
animal.
Notice that a Colorado legislator has
"sounded the slogan of economy."
Something familiar about that expres-
sion.
A St. Tx>u1s man has filed a petition
for divorce in which he alleges that lila
wife set apart an aggregato of eleven
In the organization of a union among
the school teachers of a Kansas county
is a threatened wisdom trust.
The evils that are alleged to be sure
to follow the granting of suffrage to
women in the western states
failed to materialize. Also the good.
If Southwest Oklahoma Is to be peo-
pled by Boers It might he well to pass
a law of some kind in relation to the
A Kansas courtship lasted about 15
minutes. No Kansas divorce can hope
to attain that speed.
The approach of ground hog day
makes the suspense of the coal consum-
er something awful.
Careful Investigation 'has shown the
coal shortage in the East to be due tq
shortage of coal.
It is not easy to be a fool in order
to be happy, but the result Is easier
that wa$\
The boy's home in New York -will be
very popular if bathing be made op-
tional.
The next disarmament movement of
the czar should Include South Carolina.
It has been the latter day Irish pol-
icy to put home rule ou ice.
fused to smoke before him he would
not accept this explanation. Even had
this been true. It would scarcely have
been satisfactory, for a man does not
like to have his wife smoke—It is too
expensive. Mr. Brown was then led
to believe that some one else, some ■
gentleman friend of his wife's had '
smoked the cigars, and he was justly
incenst*d. It was. to say the least,.
thoughtless of both the wife and her Nearly 3° yenrs experience. |
CANCERS, TUMORS, Pile Tumors, any disease
of the Rectum, All Abnormal Growths, and RUP-
Tl'RE, are treated 011 a STRICT GUARANTEE
of Ct RE, OR NO PAY. No Cutting, No Pain
ADDRESS, with stamp for reply, or call oa
lo dr. w. h. gunn,
beiue. The medium ot his boss-ship ot buying shoes for the children and oiler to leave thc slumps oi tijars Strictly up-to-date in methods J 603 E. Harrison Ave.. Guthrie, Oka.
Pay When Cured
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