New State Tribune (Newspaper) - September 30, 1909, Muskogee, Oklahoma SUCCESSOR TO THE MUSKOGEE WEEKLY TIMES THE MUSKOGEE mm yeah oklahoma september 30,1909. number 19. the State Examiner Filed His Report Last Tuesday at Guthrie and We Publish in Full the Comments of Mr. Taylor Just as They Were Filed With Report HIGH COMPLIMENT TO SECRETARY CASSIDY State Examiner Taylor EIsT complete report of vast amount of work done by the School Land department in over nineteen Farm Loan Land Leasing Land Appraising It is a high compliment to Mr. the able Out of many thousands of items and several hundred bank a bare half dozen errors are Every cent is accounted and yet some newspapers garble the report or misconstrue It. Simply determined to mislead their The Tribune simply prints Mr. Taylor's comments on his every word in so our readers can form their own Read for The of whether the school land board should pay the expense out of the earnings or whether the legislature should make an appropriation by adding the expenses to state taxes an that the legal committees of both the and second state legislatures have considered and decided against the opinion of Mr. and held that the state constitution intended the School Land Department expenses should be paid out of its earnings instead of taxing the people for but at any whether Mr. Taylor is correct or whether the fourteen of the state legislature are it would not make dhe cent difference in the The question has Secretary Land Board conducted the business honestly 7. Mr. Taylor says That's the meat In the Read it. Taylor's Sept. 25, 1<09. To A. State Examiner and Acting orders from we hive made a thorough examination oi all the records and accounts of the Land Department of this from 16th, 1907. to June 30th, 1S09, as to the investments of the permanent school viz. The farm state bonds formerly and the county bonds purchased and alt collected by the Department from said which you personally examined and furnished the and Information as contained in this and herewith submit the In the Lease Division we found an excellent system of accounting and neatly arid accurately There were but very few and to which In each instance we called the attention of the bookkeeper or some of the assistants ami they at once proceeded to make proper In the Loan Division we found the same neatness and with but few errors which we treated the same as in the Lease We have read all the minutes of the meetings of the Commissioners during the period covered by this report and recommend In nil minutes of the meetings of said Board be immediately recorded in r bound signed by the chairman and attested by the Sec Pages No. 1 to No. is a arranged by of all the Farm Loans that have been made dur Ins the period covered by this report Page No. 59 is a of paid and cancelled Farm Page No. is n list of Farm Loans at the close of this showing the balances due to the borrowers on said Pages No. 61 and No. 62 is a list showing total Loans and County by that have been made during the period covered by this Pages to No. 09, is an exhibit of showing balances in same as per verified statements on June 30th, 1909, the outstanding balances as shown by the department arid the securities held against said Your attention is called to the following contained in said pages above First Guaranty papers and bond relating to this are by and in the name of the First National First State same irregularity as in the Wewoka Deposit is In excess of the The City State Bank of Deposit 16400.00. No Bond Columbia Bank & Trust Oklahoma 1165,000.00, has as part of its securities ot school District which are illegal for this also of Creek County which appear to be drawn in excess of the deducting either of the above amounts there is not sufficient security to cover Pages No. 70 to No. 76, was the condition of Applicants Deposit as shown by the records In the Department at the close of this applicant for a Farm Loan is required to Deposit with the Department to defray the expenses of Postage Pages No. 77 to No. 85 show the conditions of of the Funds and in the both Lease and Loan Page 86 is a Recapitulation of Pages No. 77 The records of the Department show that the on this Due to all The School And Public Building to the amount rof 60" has been charged siid as expenses for maintaining the We find no constitutional Authority whereby the commissioners can use the School and Public Building Funds for the purpose of paying the expenses of the we do find specific provisions in the Constitution whereby Public Funds shall not be spent ex- K. A. and In- cept in pursuance of an appropriation by on page No. 8 is a Recapitulation of Depositories at the close of June 30th, 1909 as Shown -on pages No. 63 to No. 69 Pages 87 to No. 89, inclusive la an exhibit of the number and amount iof the Rental notes In the hands of the of the Lease at the close of this by series and by Page 90 is the acreage of the Public as shown by the records of the Respectfully C. J. Depot State Examiner and i IV puts Sept. 27th, 1909. I have this day examined the within report and hereby approve and further I personally have examined everything pertaining to Farm I personally examined applications as to neighbors of and that they were properly sworn i examined the reports of appraiser and find that they were in double the or of of said I examined every note as to proper amount and signatures and find they were properly executed and all drawing k I examined every mortgage as to security and proper I noted abstract with approval af Department Records show all paid to June 30th, 1909 except twenty-four of which eighteen were not due until the month of 1909. A. State Examiner and YOUR PICTURE The Tribune has not yet received the names of all of the winners In tlw contests run with of papers in the We would like to have a picture of winner sent 80 as to reach us not later than Monday it is our desire to run u group of pictures in the of next Thursday and we hope that none of the winners will be LAWMAKERS J Hence Court Can't Restrain Ledbetter's Claim in Brief TAYLOR ELECTION LAW ISSUE + STATE FAIR * NEW STATE TRIBUNE PREMIUMS + The New State Tribune announces to all those who receive pre- on the following list that it will duplicate ail first premiums + + received by exhibitors in cash and will give one year's subscription ta the Tribune free to those who secure second premiums as set forth in the official pamphlet of premiums by the State Fair This otter Is made for the purpose of further encouraging the people * of Oklahoma to display their The Tribune desires to encourage the ladies of Oklahoma and feels that they cln speak volumes for our state by a liberal display of their No. 176. CANNED Under this head are twenty premiums Lot No. 168. * ETC. * Under this head there are twenty-one premiums + 4' Lot m. 173. * ' PLAIN * Under this head there are twenty-one + Lot No. 177. + * Under this head there are premiums + Lot No. 175. 1 + KNITTING AND CROCHET WORK + Under this head there are twenty-two premiums * Wle hope to see every number competed for and announce that * 4- the above offered by the New Tribune in * to by the State Fair Association or by other 4 4. ' 4 + + * + SENATOR 8TRAIN A We are reliably informed that Senator Strain will be a candidate for corporation senator was chairman of the senate oil and gas committee in the First and Second Is the well known author of Oil and will doubtless be opposed by the He says he licked them before the legislature and will lick them worse before the The senator is strong with the and conservative business having been a farmer most all his He is an agressive democrat of the Bryan JAMES WILL BE OCTOBER 6 Big Brained and Big Boned Kentucky Congressman to Speak Here Wednesday BANQUET WEDNESDAY NIGHT The following letter concerning Democratic Day at the Oklahoma State Fair explains Sept. 27Lh, 1909. Dear October 6th has been set aside as Democratic Day at the State and prominent Democrats from all over the state will be in Democratic Ollie Congressman from Kentucky will address the crowd from Grand Stand at the Fair Grounds at 10 o'clock a. m. A grand banquet will be at Convention Hall at 8 o'clock p. at which toasts will be responded to by Senator Gore and distinguished holding It becomes my pleasant privilege of extending to you a personal invitation to attend this The seating capacity of the hall is six and It wRl be necessary for the committee to know every man that will be as applications for seats will run far ahead of what can possibly be The price of tickets to the banquet will be one dollar each and your ticket will be reserved until 12 o'clock noon of October 5th. If you desire to use you will please send the one dollar to Rol editor of the to the time mentioned otherwise the ticket will bfe disposed of and some other man given a I earnestly hope that as a Democratic you will be at this great | meeting and help give tire inspiration that is to carry our next campaign to a successful With best I Respectfully G. A. Democratic Press Sept. 2X. the qualified electors of Oklahoma constitute one branch of the state legislature and are by virtue of the Initiate e and referendum not under the jurisdiction of the in matters pertaining to the or repealing of is held by Judge W. A. Ledbetter of Oklahoma In a brief in the supreme court questioning the authority of that tribunal to pass upon the case wherein Joseph chairman of. the state republican central seeks to compel secretary of state to officially receive petitions demanding the repeal of the Taylor election Judge Ledbetter holds also that the plaintiffs have not complied with the and referendum law in that they dumped the office of the secretary of state 1,604 of the pamphlets circulated among and ignored the governor and his and that the plaintiffs are not in accord with the law When they seek to repeal the entire part ot which was made effective when only specific sections were The following statement was given out by Judge Ledbetter Judge Ledbetter's The supreme court is without jurisdiction to control the conduct of the secretary of state in the discharge of duties imposed upon him in connection with the initiative and referendum provisions of the constitution because such duties are In support of this Mr. Ledbetter quotes constitutional provisions to show that the legislative power of the state of Oklahoma Is vested in two one being the and the other body being composed of all of the qualified electors of the This he represents the supreme legislative of the and Is Independent of the governor's Many authorities are their Hp insists that this principle is absolutely essential to the Independence of the and that it has been recognized from the foundation of the government to the present wherever the powers of cited in support of the contention that the courts are without power to control the conduct of the senators and or the officers of the senate and house in the discharge of government are distributed into different He cites from many as well as the supreme court of the United showing that If the courts have the power to send their writs into bodies and control the conduct of their members or officers while they are enacting such bodies and their officers would be reduced to a of dependence and subserviency to the will of the which would destroy the legislative power of the CREDIT TO COOK At the meeting of the constitutional convention at Sulphur last the following timely were presented by Mr. Royal Theodore once President of the United at the expense of this National had equipped and manned a certain with great waste of time and was christened and placed in charge of same one Commander E. And at the of this acting under orders of the said Theodore then executive of the said E. Peary sailed for the Arctic for the purpose of apprehending one Vorth axis or and at or near the same Dr. at his own nnd upon his own unaided equipped and sailed with a modest fishing smack for the same goal and objection point of International and It was the sole and prime object of Peary and the Roosevelt to discover and lake in charge the said Hole or and return it to the said Theodore who to substitute Its use with of the making politicians be good with the the earth lo rotato him with and It In fur from our purpose to impugn I he motives or minimize the achievements of the mild Peary and Ills gallant It Is the sense of this body notwithstanding the fact the undertakings of the did Peary were commendable and the of- achievements are Dr. Cook just beat him to and it Is Therefore That in view of American principle and that the victor should belong l-he it Is ordered and ordained that to Dr. Cook shall all glory be If he found said pole to be personal he Is entitled to proper transfer or bin of and has the inalienable right to cany same with him wherever he inny and if he found it attached to the or hod since ho Is hereby authorized to exercise the necessary surgical skill to detach said pole in either case and to do with same as he deems YOAKUM AND HIS GOOD ROAD PARTY Members Did Not Wear Plug Hats and Spade Tail Coats But they Advertised Our Great State as Only Thoroughbred Oklahomans Know How to Do CHAPMAN RESIGNS JOB AS 8ECRETARY. Sept. 27,-W, L. Chapman today handed In his formal resignation to the corporation E. L. who has been acting since Chapman was dismissed by Chairman Jack Love of the July 24, will be to the Chapman's resignation closes a disagreeable He was dismissed by Mr. Love for taking money from railroads for copies of commission Chapman claimed that he has been authorized to to this by Commissioner J. J. and the latter approved tire OTHER GOSSIP OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL THE BIG STATE PAIR IS ON Began to be Biggest and Best ever Held in the Southwest ' FIRST IS OKLAHOMA CITY DAY The big gates to the Oklahoma State Pair swung open yesterday and the first day's crowd was entirely satisfactory to the management and tin* men in are greatly pleased with the Yesterday was Oklahoma City day and practically every store ami every business house In the closed up In honor of the The grounds have been greatly Improved and beautified aDd made more convenient In every The displays are rapidly rounding into shape and bid fair to by far eclipse anything of the character ever seen The the tirst day was great indeed and it promises to grow bigger with each succeeding day until tLe Next week we have various State Days and these days will bring big crowds from all parts of the state and from other Democratic Day will likely be one of the banner days of the which is iio out to the go every day you can get off and see to it your employes have a chance to help boost along un enterprise has done for Oklahoma and Oklahoma City and which will do much Free Deafness A remarkable offer by one of the ear specialists in this who? will send two free to prove his ability to cure Head Address D. G M. 109 12th Ma D. C. Sept. 29.--Noth-iiig hSB created stir In ton than tho visit of F. Yoakum's party made up of leading farmers and farm experts from Oklahoma and as a Oklahoma has again The four Oklahoma members of the party were a revelation to the people In Washington who have never been farther west than Harper's Ferry and her her her her laws were advertised ns only an knows how The Oklahomans and the other were hot wearing plug hats and frock such as affected by Morgan of tho second Oklahoma congressional district whose constituents will still have to live in because Uncle Dick voted with Cannon and in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of purchasing lumber with which to build a but they wore broad-brimmed hats from beneath which beamed faces fairly brimming over with health and As the party pulled out the union depot the a Washington newspaper man fellows from Oklahoma aren't dressed up like a bunch of by they are every of them and U anyone ever tried to sell them a he would have to wait until they were on the way to the cemetery in a rough There were nine members of and until October 3 they will be the guests of B. F. chairman of the executive board of the Rock railroad the object of the trip being to inspect the very best roads of the east in an effort to stimulate similar results In the where in localities the public roads are in a deplorable The Itinerary includes an automobile tour of the highways of New New New Rhode Connecticut and and it is believed will result in much good in While in Washington the the of the officers of the Public Roads division of of Agriculture at a luncheon at the New their stay hero talks on road building and road maintenance were given by Vernon chief engineer In tho Roads division of the Department of W. chief highway engineer of who by the way is the highest salaried road man in the United States and who was enthusiastic over the and other officials of the Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Wilson welcomed the tourists to the national capital and everyone left here thoroughly Imbued with the spirit of good The present tour is not a in the usually accepted meaning of the word but instead it is a campaign of education ami all foolishness is It's an out and out business Mr. Yoakum feeling that good roads would help the freight business of the southwest and also considerably cut down the cost of highway The members of the party J. P. president state board of Freeman R. president of the 3. J. Oklahoma associate editor of the Union and Clark Oklahoma City representative of the Oklahoma Good Roads C. A. Ark. President of the M. F. secretary of the J. F. president of the union of J. JN. W. of Oouk C J 77 I ton aro scattered to the four points af a newspaperman had a flying machine or could be shot from place to place through the yawning mouth ot a he conW nut all tho departments In a week's steady Starting nt the War and Navy a feK low has a chase umpteen blocks through the Whito House grounds the treasury department and then walk about through the ing to man he Is looking if you think there little news item up at the Interior you hike up the burning climbing the moss-grown stone steW which are In altitude about the summit of Pike's yim that the sixteenth assistant to twenty-first assistant interior has gone to a ball out telling the nineteenth to tell the to ask third assistant if the ant has asked the first private to told the give the keeper instructions to ten assistant captain of the item you were be found at the across salaaming like a presence of a coffee your hat three In begin the long ascent fll to find that sent to toth a trip dian has left for the day round oi golf with cm to the Department of in it bony build it's no wonder all the big of the country get Now let it be known right and tion and now that the various departments of Dr. Cook at N. Y. | Uncle Sam's government In The Oklahoma club la honor of the first of the North was organised at last week and telegrams of THE Si TAK Columbia Bank 4 Closes wm BiPi STATEMENTS fM The affairs or the and Trust with deposits are today In the of which ors dollar dollar on ' | There was no undue the condition ef which have the banking eral the House association session from and frequent the state banking Had the to secure in the hank would Have their that it is likely the tank again when financiers totei pay bank tta more sufficient to all Its State Governor A. V. and the state hanking board were ia session from & ing until 3 when It state oi the bank Bank the State Banking to consider the Bank and Trust lack specific information tall renders It to make an exact m
