Volume 9 , Issue 39

1905 - News At The Capital

Charters Granted... "Here is an article that appeared in The Oklahoman, dated September 1, 1905, pg. 2, headlines: News At the Capital.

"Territorial charters were granted today as follows: The Western Coal & Lumber Company of Oklahoma City, with $25,000 capital stock. The incorporators are John L. Hicks, Loyd Hicks and L. G. Russell."

Simon's Opinion... "Attorney General Simons last evening rendered an opinion to the effect that the $5,000 appropriation, made by the last legislature for the purpose of making a topographical map of Oklahoma, can be drawn upon to defray the expenses of making the map of the district, inundated by the Deep Fork and other streams in eastern Oklahoma. Auditor Baxter will now draw warrants on this fund."

Many Grains to Ear... "Secretary Tom Morris has in his office today samples of corn, grown on his farm in the cottonwood river bottom, three miles south of Guthrie. The ears are very large and according to Mr. Morris average twelve hundred grains to the ear. He claims this is a "beater" in Oklahoma."

Want Surplus Land Open... Ardmore, I. T., Aug. 31, 1905 -- "The republican club at Overbrook has memorialized the president and congress asking that the surplus lands in Indian Territory be purchased and opened for settlement by bona fide settlers according to the homestead laws now in force. The resolutions complain of high rents paid the white "grafters," and of the lack of schools."

Will Investigate Asylum... "The charges filed with the governor relative to the alleged brutal treatment of James Brownlee, an aged inmate of the insane asylum from Lincoln county, will result in another investigation of that institution in the near future. There have been numerous investigations made in the past, and practically all of them have proven that the charges were ungrounded. The governor, however, is anxious to probe all such matters to the bottom. It is claimed that asylum attendants choked Brownlee with a towel until his tongue protruded."

Street Car Company Sued... "Col. C. R. Buckner, attorney for the heirs of Mrs. Mary Bausch, who was killed underneath a Springer avenue car here last week, today commenced an action in the district court against the street car company, asking $10,000 for the death of the woman. Conductor Reid and Motorman Stevenson have been held to the grand jury under bond on a charge of manslaughter in the second degree."

Jaw Almost Severed... "Otte Zimmermann, telegrapher for the Johnston Commission company here, returned today from a hunting trip in the southern part of the county, and says that James Wallace, a farmer, met with a serious accident, while shaving during an electrical storm. Wallace had the razor posed against his cheek ready for a downward stroke, when the lightning struck near the house and so frightened the farmer that the razor descended with great force and almost severed his jaw. Zimmerman was in the house at the time, having taken refuge from the storm."

Cancelled His Date... "Governor Tom Ferguson has cancelled his date to speak at the old soldiers' reunion at Baxter Springs, Kansas, on september 1, for the reason that Territorial Secretary Grimes is also out of the territory at present, and the law provides that both the governor and the secretary may not be absent from the territory at the same time. Although a telegram came from Secretary Grimes that he would arrive home last evening, yet he did not get in until eight hours after the train departed, which would have carried Ferguson to Kansas. This would have left the territory without a governor for that length of time, and to avoid such a contingency the governor decided to stay at home."

Comes Under Thoburn Law... "Governor Ferguson today forwarded to C. A. Hullet of Thorns, Tex., a copy of the quarantine law, passed through the last legislature by the efforts of Secretary Thoburn, to prevent cottonseed coming into Oklahoma from boll weevil infected districts. Hullett desired to move to Oklahoma, but the railroad agent refused to load his bed quilts and mattresses because they were stuffed with cotton, and possibly would contain boll weevils."

May Investigate White... "According to Secretary Tom Morris of the Oklahoma Live Stock Sanitary board, no decision has as yet been made by the board as to what preceeding to take against Dr. White of Pawhuska, who impersonated himself as an officer and ordered some glandered horoses killed at Newkirk, last Tuesday. It is generally believed by the board members that White is mentally unbalanced."

Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 31, 1905... "As a result of the charges, filed against William T. Judkins of Kiowa county, the Oklahoma Live Stock Sanitary commission today dismissed Judkins fromthe Service of the board as a territorial cattle inspector. he was appointed last spring, from Kiowa county, after the legislature had authorized the appointment of four additional inspectors. When asked today regarding the dismissal of Judkins, Governor ferguson said the prinicpal charge against the inspector was that he refused to obey the orders of the board. No successor to Judkins has as yet been named."
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