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(Contlnapd one.i_matters, and then'ths band incidentcaftie u)k BOttf became angry and a cmwiiiR match fcdtbwed. Canton bad« gun, which be always carries. He say* he dltfnot fry to 'Use it afld had no thought of so doing. That While the row was going.on. Jim Brooks, the proprietor'of the Ho.val hotel, where the governor stops, came op with.a porter, and the two of them ejected him from the hotel affd -stationed a nolleeman at the doer.'to keep him from returning. fr*». Haskell interferes.Brooks states that he heard swears ing and a disturbance going on at the Haskell apartments and rushed upstairs... There he found (General 1* I I O • ,• 4 •• v I ■■■ # * ^ k* A* k4 r VB w •lt;3aiMon _Ih a narrow hallway with Mrs. Hgakei! in front of him and struggling with him pleading. Go i th» awav. general, go aWay.” That be- ,hind Mrs. Haskell was the governor struggling -vigorously -tn gst J?X his wife to General Canton as tne general was trying to get to him. Brooks interfered, as stated, andCanton Wp*ejected.Many Sterte*.There are of course all sorts of stories flying about thick and fast Certainly the Incident in the Haskell apartments was very acrimonious. It la said that Canton called Haskell a double crpsser ’and applied various other epithets. And mo*t people who know the governor are-i^adyto believe that he renlied in kind, with interest. • The Impression is ?enera' however, that had' not MrR. Haskell been present, one or toe jther of the two men would have^General Cantotf’s fesigna-tinn was formally filed this.(I™,rhe gpyernor has not yet acted uponThe Incident has gWn Guthrie a hr 111 of excitement that, has ne\erieon equaled since statehood.
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Muskogee Times Democrat
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Sat, Apr 09, 1910
Page 9
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