The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 40

THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN, SUNDAY, 'AFRIU .17, 1932. City's First Hotel Was Near the Public Pump' Lawyers Given How a Territorial Qovernor Was Handed a Raw Deal by Roosevelt WHEN THhKh WAb DAJNUJNLr lJNMLJc. iviUJi Blame for Ills Of the Country Jenkins Given Little I Chance, But Later Exonerated. GOV. WILLIAM M.

JENKINS became territorial governor April 15. 1901. Contract for care of Oklahoma Insane between the territory nd the privately owned Oklahoma Sanitarium company at Norman was to eolre June 15. 1901. On May 31.

1901, Governor Jenkins. advertising for Am. TbW from I lilt I Hill KS Local Attorney Calls Upon Profession -to Take Up 'Battle, Carry On. TO THE EDITOR: Lest some of the statements in this article might be misunderstood, let me say in the beginning, that the writer graduated from a school of law of one of the western universities more than 20 years ago and that he has since that time been actively engaged in the practice of law. No member of the bar has a higher regard for the general integrity and standard of citizenship of the lawyers than I have.

What I have to say here Is written in the spirit of constructive criticism and a patriotic desire to right the conditions that now exist. I charge that the lawyers are to blame for the crisis that is now upon us. They made this country. They wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution of the United States. Not only that, they wrote the constitution of every state in, the union.

They have formulated and passed every law. They laid in America the foundation principles of the most beautiful government ever conceived in the mind of man a free government "of the people, by the people and for the people." It was they who said "Give me liberty or give me death!" It was their decree that said "all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain bid was fri rath, who ch an- HVaK 'SH HUOam i ntorial natlents nually, provided Dr. John Thrradglll would sell to him (McElrathi his hares of stock, to be paid lor from profits of Threadglll refused to sell on such basis, saying that profits from tht Institution receiving only $175 a ycai for each patient would not enable Me-Elrath to pay for the stock. McEl-rath dropped out and on May 31. 1901 tract with the Oklahoma Santt company on a basis of $200 for each patient, stipulating sugar, butter and milk should erved regularly to all territorial 'if fifth territorial governor of 1 inalienable rignis, uiai among uiesc are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights. MU virture ivos taken in 1910 tn the governments are- instituted among on the territorial Pom or's n.f rr, Guthr-j. ncoln rouiily. who had v.v, .,.,,,) 3m. r-: if.

banker nnd was turned over to the the peare. aked Jon- ihen h- favored Z'-k friends whose political Services the cnt which was refused. Mulh-ill have sup- governor thus sought to reward. I eon Czolgo oi th fa of the Clnlev death resulting that fait Knos-vrU governor nls friends is suggest- destructive of these ends, On September 6 irs. Radebaiujrh'sHouse Was Here When Run Was Made in 1S89.

ET us step backward 43 years id Thro- malnrd firm and raid that he would itl by the fact that the only Knownl and' 'o'tli- 1 H. siven out was at double the price September 14. 2:15 a. dore Roosevelt was sworn dent at 3:30 p. m.

Merri. I tmnuflli Mm iW" F8ovs plaved voxeiz by ele-1 apparently did not satisfy the pair. lor u. In "the i SeJ inT'hlm1 and he hid an pOVERNOR Jenkins says that what) ers, particularly the anli-Iiarnr ment. saw their chance.

It was perrd around that the stock from these modernistic day the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." The great ship of state is about to go on the rocks. She is now floundering in the shallow waters. WHEN a grafter announces for a public office, the lawyers know It. but they do not' always make it known to the people. Some lawyers will betray the people by campaigning in his'behair.

Others will sit down tn shameful silence, thus consenting tn wrone. The lawyers can stop ill hotels picrcinp the city skyline town appointment. ne said was. On recommendation of lIor.ee 'I told them that it was anlm-Speed and M. A.

Lowe. Roosevelt n- cot ff( ftf the comnariv Oklahoma Sanitarium company wa owned by territorial politicians. MERRICK went 'to and about October 10 filed Oklahoma City's first hotel lifting pointed rhompsonB ea. svlurn baugh. and one of the men who rods with Quantrcll ln Lawrence.

Kan. would come over from El Reno, and when he was properly liquored up would tell some hair-raising tales el that daylight massacre. Tlic Dalton brothers arc thought have picketed their horses in th front yard of the old hotel while ther se and dugout. Mrs. Rade- charges with E.

A. baugh's boarding house. md apnointing Ferguson, attached the memorandum suitable persons, and that I had some friends 1 would like to have an Secretary Hitchcock telegraphed to Ferguson at Watonga to appear In tarv of the interior, alleging that jpnkins i Jenkins secretly owned stock in the Roosevelt Oklahoma Sanitarium company, to which Goi which he had let contract for keep-' bled his No one now seems to know when it as built. It was here some time before ic opening, Aorfl 22. 3889.

Probably snack before rid stopped in ior rrected some time early in 1883, CAprAM SUMMRS AND HIS WFB TOOK SUNDA STYLiE- Mrs. Radebaugh's boarding house, Oklahoma City's first liotel, and a vieio of the city in April, 1889. The drawings illustrate some the scenes made during the life of the first hotel. Washington at once. Ferguson went ing territorial insane late crookedness in public office as it cannot be consummated without them.

Some lawyer always knows. Most law tarv Hitchcock, and the hearing versa Hon lhat he has been placed a false liaht before the public, nnd Oklahoma sanitai Some old timers say it stood at hat is now the corner of California id Santa Fc avenues facing the old Later. In a letter to Jcnl guson said: "I was appointed as your In race of a bid from McElrath who had bid $115. Secretary Hitchcock ent a copy to Governor Jenkins, and Jenkins wrote a defense, denied he owned stock, directly or indirectly, but admitted that when he let the contract he asked the directors to reserve Santa Fe depot. Others insist it was Oklahoma histories have perpetuated Excerpts from the memorandum: "Governor Jenkins of Oklahoma Is hereby removed because of his im- memorandum: Jenkins of Oklahoma Is )ed because of his un about a biocK north or mat point, yers have ceased to iae a rum, jut.

actively patriotic interest in governmental affairs, and the majority of those who do. arc serving their personal political interests, or advancing the cause of some politician, who will do their bidding. Every lawyer, worthy without being a candidate, or even knowing that I was being urged until Mrs. Radebaugh's boarding houss nourished successfully for many months after the run. But finally it fell on evil days.

Gamblers played and drank ln its old dining room while upstairs painted ladies leaned out of its two narrow windows and smiled at the men dawdling about on tht wooden sidewalks. Other and finer hotels sprang up about It and one dar its old walls came down to make way for a bigger and better building and Its former glory went Into the dtnt heap under the rush of a young sot stoop looked north instead of Tiic old pictures which show Washington. My instructions were to of the name, knows that the mind ot the two-story frame building do not Summers and Slckford used to play poker by the light of a candle on the dining table, while some of the others had a drink from a bottle that had come all the way from Purccll. Indian Territory, from the old sandbar saloon that stood in the center of the South Canadian river. Frank James is supposed to have is based purely upon his i indicate either position or loca- boys drifting block of $10,000 worth of stock to be sold to men whom he knew In i mn order that he might be sure the in- tltution was In good hands, if it was! to have care of territorial patients, P' My report to the secretary ne ln" through, and there was one pack of greasy cards in all the territory.

A old He pack which, it is said, belonged cited an incident, to clinch his I cnth legislature investigated and you were vindicated ln the report. When Secretary Hitchcock visited Oklahoma wc talked the matter over. I told him no engineer is. nor possioiy cuum ui, capable of coping with the affairs of a great government. Any lawyer, regardless of his political affiliations, will tell you confidentially, that the above statement is true.

No corporation ever violated an antitrust law or formulated a conspiracy in restraint of trade without at least one lawyer knowing before hand what In tht governor's explanation of the affair he says he told the promoters at the time they desired him growing city. 1th Mrs. Radc stopped far lection. He pointed out that an old crooked path used to run from Its apged easterly across the Santa lmiwtnt. rontrart- that i had felt the same wav in regard to the some friends whom I would like to matter and returned to Washington before the president.

Fe- tracks to the shaped house, north and east or the depot. This path -led to Captain Summer's residence, and one evening he and several other folks left Mrs; Radebaugh's boarding house after a gay evening, I I am sure he did so. but nothing was probably wrote thp papers. No boot- Secretary have interested in the company. which I owed political obligation: which I would not be able to pay bj an appointment or anything of tha kind.

The stock was delivered to ever heard of it again. i barrel of mash; up i had suffered prepared Hitchcock believed yi i great injustice." ithout first consulting his law orse for the wear, and got the far side of the railroad tracks because of the darkness. Qot the Flyrod Fever Yet? This May Help Heat You Up ANOTHER old timer contradicts this. He fixed its location by its proximity to the town pump. He says the boarding house sat on Grand Governor Jenkins and Chief Justice John Burford.

then left for a bear hunt In Indian territory, returning November 11. While they were away the pot boiled over. The Sanitarium company. In self defense, revealed Its stockholders. They were Henry Asp.

Santa Fc railroad attorney; James R. Cottlngham, Ttnek Island railroad attorney, secretary of the Sanitarium company: J. C. Robb, mayor of Kingfisher, treasurer: H. H.

Watklns. Enid, president; Charles E. Blllingslcy. president of the Capital National bank. Guthrie: C.

S. Jobes. president of the American National bank, Kansas City, Dr. F. Winkler.

Norman, president of the rompany. and F. H. Thwlng of Oklahoma City. WHEN Governor Jenkins returned to Guthrie November 11 from the bear hunt and took Inventory of the situation, he looked for help, only to find practically every Republican territorial politician, except Horace Speed, federal attorney, and Thomp-on B.

Ferguson, editor of the Waton-a. Republican, was a receptive candidate to fill his (Jenkins) shoes and receiving the appointment. Jenkins took the train for Kansas. November 14. So look for help and In Kansas enllstcti the aid of Congressman Charles Curtis, now vice-president, and of M.

A. Lowe, general so about a citv ock from the pump. Now that town pump has been definitely located by a military report made the next day after the opening. This source of the early city's water supply was located in the center of yer, or at least deeming in nis own mind whom he would employ if and when he gets caught. Men and women of the bar, if we had all been doing, all of the time, our full duty, this distressing time known as "depression" could not have come upon us.

If we had been doing even a fair part of our professional and public duty, Al Capone his kind could not have run the gamut of law violations with immunity. The violators of law could not have built up great fortunes from the traffic of wares and they would not now be in a position to corrupt public officials or to make their conviction practically Impossible. Without our active or tacit consent the multi-millionaires could not have wrenched this government from the hands of the more humble citizens of this country. We lawyers are to blame for the millions upon millions of dollars that have been taken from the public treasury for the benefit of the railroads and banking institutions at a time when street at the place wh-re citv traffic makes a half turn north off Main commander of a quartered in barracks on hill north east of the city, is authority, both for the existence of the town pump. second day after the licitor for the Rock Island railroad.

nd the three wasnmgton. TF Mrs. Radcbaugh depended town pump for her water supply it NOW, we have a duty and no one else will. imwim iu suppose Her boarding house was closer than California ave- ON November 28. President Roosevelt said to Curtis: "I have examined the charges gainst Governor Jenkins carefully, nd I do not believe that he has been personally dishonest.

I acquit him of that. The letting of the contract for form it. As a great the uncertainty of i situation to describe the house itself. arc the only people in America who understand enough of the structure of this great ship of state to know how to get her anoat again on peaceful waters. The politicians, the engineers, the m-afters.

the law-violators don't i unable to continue him 1 know how to do it. The grasping day. Dennis T. Flyn On the Oklahoma Kress, received a summons ln Guthrie, directing him to appear in Washing It was a two-story frame building, weather boarded up the sides to hut out the cold wind, with a front and back stoop, two windows upstairs and no window on the front side and a brick chimney coming out of the middle of a steep pitched roof. Downstairs was the dining room and kitchen, while the upstairs was nothing but bedrooms.

Bath rooms were unknown in those days. Among her guests who stopped overnight before Oklahoma Citv was formally opened to occupancy was greed of the great barons oi business will not permit them to do it. No group of people other than the lawyers have had the training to fit them for the task. In seckinsr to rehabilitate this gov ton, and Flynn left for the capital. ernment.

Mr. Lawyer, I move you that believing that Roosevelt had the Dresident of cverv countv bar sociation, the president of every state Dar and tne president ot tnc American Bar association, by and with the advice and approval oi tne Doara oj governors or executive committee, immediately appoint a committee oi lawyers for the purpose of ascertaining speedily, what specifically is Assistant United States Marshal George Thornton. This young deputv used to drop in now and then on the lookout for "boomers." He would sit at the same table with Oklahoma City's first actual resident Samuel Crocker, one of Captain Payne's lieutenants, when that ad- Grady Russell (left) and Lon Gibbons with part of their catch. The small picture (inset) is incidental music. companions.

Gr; wrong with this government, and hav FISHING wasn't worth a darn around Altus. It seldom is. al yeiuuier made expeditions aero; border in search of free homes. ing discovered that, let the committee make recommendations as to whai is the quickest and most effective route out of this "slough of In the selection of tne several mem though Rov Mann. Harry Wlmberly and others insist there will be good fishing at the Lugert dam in May this year! fe Captain Summer an Sunday dinner in styh trued wording ot the explanation wnt to Hitchcock, still had hopes of clearing up the situation, and he thought his hopes had been realized when he was notified that President Roosevelt was to give him a personal hearing.

I went Into the anteroom of his pfftre: he wouldn't give me a chance to say hardly a word." says Governor Jenkins, after a lapse of 30 years and some of the rancor has lessened. "He did all the talking, and said ho would not continue me in office. He was rude ln his conversation, and I could not help but contrast his demeanor with what McKlnley's would have been under the same circumstances. When he had about finished talking, he started toward the door of his private office. I stopped him and told him that it was a serious matter to me.

and wanted to be heard at least. hurriedly told him that I could produce good men who would entirely ex-nerat me, If given an opportunity. He replied that If men came before him and condoned my action he would Jose faith in such men. He went Into i miu mm 1 bers of this committee, guard jealously Anvway some of the good lisner-nen in the Jackson county metropolis ranted fish for dinner, in fact wanted your own personal prejudices and in- table such celebrities enough fish to last into the next week. Stone of Kansas, Congressman Weav they pued a car inree weens a5o permlt the committee to be neither ultra -conservative nor radical; but sit like judges should sit and pulled out for Mexico.

Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo they pushed south 75 miles on the main highway the jeweler, and Lon Gibbins, the outdoor advertising magnate in Altus, took to the water a little farther "Wc were down there three and a half days and caught 400 pounds of bass," said Mann. "Every, time we threw 'out a fly we hooked a bass not Just now and then, but every time." That's his story and he sticks to It. He brought back some photographic evidence, enough to show that' somebody, somehow caught some fish. Plenty of fish. In the meantime, that is.

for the next several months, the Altus fishermen say they will be content with a catfish so out of Lake Altus. although they vow there are bass in the lake. They dislike to have to travel nearly 1,000 miles for a mess of bass, but they say it is worth it to fish ln a hole where the bass consider a loose boot string as a lure. impartially ana let us have men on this committee who will honestly, fearlessly, intelligently, patriotically and in the fear of the creat Judee, in white goicn; Lorine Temple, upper right, and er oi xowa, senator springer. Colonel Bill McClure.

Klckapoo cattle baron, and others whose presence in Oklahoma City prior to the opening day afterward led to many misunderstandings and numerous law suits. After supper was over and the dishes had been washed Mrs. Radcbaugh danced with the others to the from Laredo to Monterrey puuca west awavs, stopping at a likely looking spot on the Loraso river, pitched Wilma Johnson, left, Grace Pazourcck, center Agnes Florcr, loiccr right. camp, feasted on hog and bread for Who sees and knows all, go about the business of devising and putting into FDMOND. April lu.

(Special. waded into the river. Swls-s-h-h-h! Roy Mar action plans mat win bring this gov ernment back to the people. black tune of an, old accordion and It is i Lawyers, if any of you can devise Queens! Looking for a King! King! King! And the kings had better watch their step at Central State Teachers college, for they are outnumbered two to one at the state institution. aintained, whether on good author- i i the extent of the college Bronse Book contest recently and the right to the preference position in the college annual She hails from Yukon, Okla.

Miss Pazourcck wUl reign at the annual Central college May festival and will have attendants Ut Misses Agnes Florer. Wilma Johnson, and Lorine Temple, all of Edmond; runnersup in the Bronze Boo race. be said, that fly sat down gently wiuun a ioot oi the other bank, and gee whiz! there was a bass a-hold of it Just like that! The bass did wait until the Xly hit the water, but not any longer, so Ray a better plan, or extend this one, invite you to do so. J. L.

EMERICK, Oklahoma City. Bunky played this accordion while standing outside and leaning in at had example of this Broncho pulchritude Is arrived in Washington relative the door as there wasn't room fori Miss Grace Pazourcck, who the annual Central mm.