Muskogee County Republican (Newspaper) - April 20, 1911, Council Hill, Oklahoma MUSKOGEE APRIL 20, 1911 NO. 42 tHE NEW CITY SEEMS UNABLE TO PULL AWAY FROM THE OLD BEATEN TRACK STATE BANKING Another of the Bank Under Oklahoma April 18.-^Tlie state banking department has taken charge of the Bank of Mountain Park and three of its officers are under arrest charged with accepting deposits when they knew the bank to be The accused officers R. H. vice J. Hill and D. C. The capital stock of the bank was The bank examiners in charge of the bank have made no but it is said that poor loans and bad management are responsible for the J. D. state bank stated today that the bank might be liquidated without any drain on the guarantee The three men arrested were arraigned before the county judge of Swanson county and were held to trial undr bonds of The Mountain Park bank is the second state banking to be taken in charge by the state banking department within two the other one being the Planters and of Oklahoma The banking board is pursuing the policy outlined by Governor that of weeding out mismanaged banks and prosecuting officials believed to be responsible in hopes of confidence in the bank guaranty law and stopping the rush of state banks to get under the protection of the national banking It is asserted despite denials of some of the state that a portion of the recent assessment of 1 per cent on stale banks which was left in the contributing banks be demanded by the banking board to take care of recent li is believed that little available casl is left in the old guaranty fund although the members of the banking board decline to give any informa tion as to the condition of the fund REPUBLICAN NEWS LETTER hould Chairman Harris is TiiE Way debts pile up under and therefore clean men democratic I be Selected for election j places According to figures recently compiled E. former who will guard tlie party s at air times and The amount ending state the warrant of Oklahoma is increased at a great The average amount of unpaid 6 per cent general fund state warrants for the year ending 30, was 60, and the interest on them of warrants fur the year November 80, 1910, was and the 47. The specific amount the year ending November 3U, 1910, and approximately more have been issued since It is also shown that the out standing unpaid warrants of townships and cities or towns aggregates f 10,153,500 or approximately 50 por cent of the tax levied for the support of these last in addition to of interest on municipal bonded The interest upon this indebtedness must be rais jd in cash and is puul upon presentation of coupons by the holders of bonds to the treasurers of the various The interest of the warrant amount to SUNDAY LAWS A Judge Says They be Amended or Oklahoma April Sunday laws are a declared Judge Henry M. the criminal court of appeals in reversing the conviction of Toe who was fined and In the county court of Stephens coun ty for acting as umpire at a on the The judge held tha Inasmuch as it was not shown that any admission was charged to the the law had not been violated man can gamble on and be fined only Fur man law should either be amended or Cheeves was convicted under law which prohibits gaming or lie sports on REPLIES TO THE MATTER? ON GOOD April 20.-Ok-ahoma's two Republican members f the present congress have been well taken care of the standing of the house through the recommendations of Congressman Mann of the republican floor Congressman Bird S. McGuire his old place on the Indian affairs notwithstanding that Ferris and are also on lhat and in addition | as plainly is the ranking the member of the department of I jon is based on tigures and and labor I Not on GAS TO Supply Will be Furnished From the Ardmore April 18.-Since tht supreme court of the United StateE has permitted the piping of natural gaa out of the a company com posed of Ardmore and Gainesville people 1b being organized to pipe gas from the Ardmore fields to The Ardmore field haB wells that 15,000, DOO feet of gas a day and no other gas well will be drilled until a mar ket is first Congressman T. Morgan retains his old place on the public committee and is also he national treasury c This from Mr. Mann shows the two stand well with the A Visitor Por several days this week Col. J. Shoenfelt Waa Dr. Arturo Marcari v. a distinguished diplomat of He is now president of the Caribbean De velopment Company witli headquarters at but he was connected with the Consular service at where he is very popular and his high standing in official circles gains him entrance even into the presi dent's He is an agreeable and broad-minded conversationalist and a great admirer of He speaks most encouragingly of his own and takes much pleas ure Id citing the rapid advance of the Cuba today has more schools than Of the former It has 4,700, while the army consists of only 4,000 90 per cent of Cuba's population can read and Muskogee Impressed him very fav He was much taken with its its paved Its clean its business buildings and Its ' The Doctor is a man of affairs and the object of his visit was to see and Oklahoma for and to make a personal Inspection of the om He started for home by way of New York and then he go to landing at Vera Hla million ii an Important Col. demand He is greatly pleased witli the appointment of former Governor Tom he nominated for the on the state election Ill Logan county the republic ans have selected Fred L. as the republican member of the Mr. Wenner is as sistant secretary of the republican state was private secretary to Governors Jenkins and and he compiled all the statistics there were used by the republicans in the 1910 In it would have been impossible to have made the campaign without the statistics that lie from the records of the democratic state indictment of the democratic party in as it appears in tho last republican state was drawn by KNOCKS FOli Oklahoma April the democratic papers of Oklahoma have been full of written by William E. Curtis of the Chicago relative to in which he alluded to as tho Mr. Curtis came to and wrote a series of When he got through the Chicago in bis articles closed the with the following appearing in tho Daily Herald of March 31, 1911, as unanimous decision of federal Circuit Court of Appeals in the Oklahoma mte cases is a severe The 2-cent rate is That the republicans of Muskogee county are really and truly interested in the welfare of their party and their county is shown in tho number of replies to the editorial in the Republican last asking for the opinion of our people as to where the trouble is and what ought to be It is absolutely impossible to to publish letters but we have read them all very carefully and submit them having those which seem to be especially Nearly every writer called attention to the fact that we must begin right now and get ready for the next All are agreed thai we need more interest and that we need a more effective and closer is nothing bitter in the no Following are some of the letters received up to this time TELLS REPUBLICANS TO CHOOSE BEST MEX. April 20.- James chairman of the etate central is writing the members of the committee and other leading throughout the stale them to select only their best and cleanest men for places on the County election boards of the state He insists that the republicans have been making and will continue to make a campaign for clean and honest of constitutional now realizes that to reform in haste is to regret at Its bank guaranty tern has been upheld as but it appears that bankers are metaphorically rushing to Washington for authority to under the banking The treasury Department believes that the guaranty system is a failure in are not tho only troubles of Kven tho things it put into its organic law to make them court proof are being challenged as contrary to the federal Many of its citizens must be wondering if anything under them is solid and Another year or and they will be if perhaps also than they are and we had better do a lot of lam willing to do my part and I think the farmers of tha county will do theirs if the Muskogee office seekers will give them a 1 am with you Yours for the Ft. Gibson An Easter Egg guest carried home as a souvenir of I the joyful occasion a tiny nest filled entertained miniature eggs on which sat ' a very tiny Miss Sadie her Sunday school the begin department of the East was the subject 3aptiBt Sunday at an of debate between the Oklahoma egg hunt on last Saturday | and the Muskogee High The little folks who the chase after eggs Virginia irace Evelyn Dorothy Gerry Zoble Mable Beatrice John Ellison Harvey Charles BUI Max Ernest Delbert Kenneth Elmo Walter Scot Albert Jet and Earl After all the hidden eggs had been the little tots were invited the dining on a spread tempting things to consisting principally of and Twenty-two sat at tne table and did justice to Miss The decorations were appropriate and very Before leaving for home a vote of tendered MlM tbe teams at tho Theater last Friday The home team took the affirmative and the visitors the The Muskogee Henry James Frymier and Reed proved more than a match for Lawrence Eldrick Gartside and Handwell the Oklahoma While ors were being won by the home students at the boys who went to Enid gaining a victory over the High School boys of that The subject was the only sides were Enid taking the and the The winners at Enid were Herbert Walter Towner and Alvin A delegation of Elks went to Tulsa last night to In the tion of the new club in that Pait Ruler Political Education Ft. April 20.1011 Editor You are exactly right when you there is something wrong wrh us 1 have u few ideas as to what the trouble is and gladly give you the benefit of my observation and In the first it no use to talk to the fellows who do not read it. We need more copies uf the Muskogee County Republican in the 1 very republican ought be a subscriber xor ancl in he ought to send it at his own expense to some democrat who can and will read it. Now another We might just as well make up our minds that we must spend some time and When even the candidates themselves will not put up a to run the there is no use Republicanism means good That means something to every Since we must pay for what we I figure that money spent in a republican campaign is a mighty good in this part ot the county at to distribute get letters to their voters and keep them We must meet them in this or keep losing Once no one soems to pay any attention to the republican party until he wants an I never help to nominate a man or sign his petition for appointment until I have some evidence lhat he had done something tor his before he wanted something There are a few men in the county who never were candidates for nay who have done their After this f am for those fellows any one else the loafer at any stage of the Now wo must quit this wishy-washy notion that we can catch more flies with molasses and that of As it the democrats wo are It looks to me sometimes that they are We We've just got to A Voice From April 17, 1911 j. like the Republican better every One trouble with us is lhat there isn't enough of us We are Two of neighbors took a notion last year to quit One of them out at the last minute and made his mark under the same old He is good at making his He his name that That is why he a good I keep talking and If it was not for the I could not keep up my If we keep up the tight 3(j5 days every we will Yours for 1912, Indiana F. S. Do not pay any attention to the name of this The town isn't whatever you say of its HARRY BLAKE CHIEF OF Honest Count or R. F. April 19, KUl Editor 1 very much interested in your editorial last week on political conditions in this county and calling for I do not think there is any kick coming on us We go to the polls and After this we are going to have those said votes counted or there will be use in the precinct for some tar and if you city fellows will back us upas you ought and uot show the white feather like you did the last this taing will come out all A Farmer No Monkey Dear Mr. 1 take pleasure in making what I think is an answer to your It is no use to try and get democrats to vote anything but the democratic 2nd. Let us understand now and forever the democratic party is Fight it. 3ra. Let us do less talking and more 4th. Let's don't wait until the eleventh hour and then try to The democrats arc right 5tli. Get our own vote let I he other fellows Get busy now and keep at it until election Yours Frank need speak right the Short But Xo the Oklahoma April 1911 Editor My answer to your question is up J. T. The Republican congratulates Mr. R. S. Gate upon his promotion to the position of chief clerk at the Indian and U. S. Superintendent Dana H. Kelsey is to be congratulated also upon being able to the services of such a courteous and is faithful In and general knowledge of ia with the dally routine Indian affairs will enable him to which makes enter upon hla a Gate ia a to department and his selection augurs well for the increased of the U. a. Indian if such were And in this connection the Republican desires at this time say that every division at the U. S. Agency and also at the gives evidence of effective training and every employe from Harry Blake is chief of Harry will make We feel that way and dare say it against The writer knew Harry Blake before Muskogee ever saw him and can speak with some degree of Years ago in his younger days and perhaps in his less settled he was a printer on the Rock Springs Daily owned and edited by the present managing editor of the He did his duty then and sometimes more than he was really called upon to After the Chinese riot a military post was established at Rock and often there were troublesome It was a wide open western coal camp with all the attachments in a free-for-all community and naturally there were many clashes and physical differences often arose between the boys in blue and the All nations were represented from a Chinaman up to an One and we do remember showed up at the cases in a disfigured condition that his own would not have known His appearance indicated that he had passed through a threshing machine and had wound up his adventure by running up against a buzz He was modestly reticent and kept sticking As well as editor the writer was justice of the peace and police judge and in due time the marshal made his Investigation developed a praiseworthy act on Harry's part that won him the respect of ail and a place on the Miner ao long as he wanted to hold it. Five intoxicated soldiers insulted a defenseless women on the within Harry's hearing and the range of his He licked the five of them and the last blow struck by him had as much steam behind it as the This 13 only one incident of heroism in Harrys eventful life and we give it to our readers to show the kind of metal the now chief is made of. Muskogee can trust this now and while congratulating him upon stepping up another rung on the of we would say to him as an old friend solicitous for his welfare and the good of this shun evil know no politics and no be fair to be bat always keep be haman and never no matter what influences may be brought to in short be Harry the on all occasions and all things will go Introduce some discipline and order all ' louchy men to the encourage quiet and effective get after the thieves and burglars ana the hold Make a record in exterminating the teal Chasing illicit liquor sellers and making grand stand plays is a waste of time and obnoxious to There has been too much following the shadow in the past and letting the substance Sensational arrests do harm Raise above petty things by holding it completely under police Empty jails make the best record for u Discipline and a high standard of efficiency accomplish this Cheyenne once had a Jeff He was a terror to They went around the city when going east or Let it be known that Muskogee has a Harry the of whose name will cause the and not to enter within our from the start Having been chief law tot M w. and Mr. father of Mr. Dan H. U. 8. arrived in from the and will spend n 4Mr
