Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

0 CANNOT VOTE FOR WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN IN NOVEMBER UNLESS VOU REGISTER THIS WEEK BE SURE AND REGISTER WITH YOUR PRECINCT tNSPECTOR BRING IN YOUR NEIGHBOR ADVERTISING Is not casting pearls before swine, but adveitis- ing wiil enable you to buy pearls of great price if you keep it upi. MUSKOGEE TflES-OEMOCRAT TKLEORArniO KEPORTS BY THE SEE IT TS THE TIMKH-DEMOCRAT FIRST. VOLUME XIV. IfUBKOOEA, OK JlIiY 22 H)OH. JUBILEE WEEK IS THE BIG NOISE (CoiitlnucHi on pnge Ave.) LESS iSSIlllS Okluhoma Day of the big of Kettlnfj Inside to spend al of RoHtrlctloiM July Hundreds visit the park ed briRht and clour ami onrlyjand turn back and an effort Is be- mornlng saw vast throng on Uiel'nK to have the chijrge re- Htrccts wliloli ts still gnming larger.

Other cities and towns, as well as tlic precincts are well represented today, and weather- stained famicrs and their families having arisen long liefore day had begun to dawn to come to Muskogee to spend a day at the big event. The set program of the day began promptly at 2:30 o'clock, after GoverDor HaskelJ and other dignitaries of the state had been driven in carriages to Convention Hall, 'headed by the MuBkogee Military I band which played stirring airs along the way. Thousands of throats shouted a welcome home to chief executive of the baby stale and an ovation was tendered him all along 'the line o( march, and again when he arose to speak In the big auditorium, after Chairman Trumbo had Introduced hlni In a most pleasant speech. The governor held the closest attention of ihls audience and was almost constantly Interrupted wKh cheers. It Washington, July to the United States from all countries, iiartirularly RuKsta and Japan, showed a marked falling off for the month of June, as compared witli the same month of 1907, according to flMlures made public today by the bureau of Immigration naturalization.

was one of the happiest off Immigration aggregated his life and will long be pleasantly 3, 497 compared with 1 54,734 In remembered by all who had decrease of 79 per cent. The good fortune to hear his masterly number of Immlgra TAX RATE IS UP TONIGHT The tax rate for the city for the year ending June 30, 1909. will be fixed at a meeting of council to be held Ihls evening. Kor the past ten days Mayor Bennett and Councilman ChcsnuK have been at work on the budget and today they completed their work and will be In a position to make a complete report of the estlmaled cost of operating each city department to council tonight. It Is CFtlmiited that the city levy proper will be In (ho neighborhood of 15 nillli ami that itio total levy for all purpo-'es will be nearly 30 mills.

M'MUKH 2.VJ, TOO Hereafter tK crat will not Vc copy for disploy ads t. 10 a. and no ad. of 70 inches after address. After governor had finished E.

D. Cameron state superintendent of schools, J. P. Connors, president of the slate board of agriculture, J. H.

Connell, president of the A. M. college at Stillwater, and H. E. P.

Stanford, candidate, for the Republican for' congress Ih 'this 'Wttre. dpiioDg the other speakers rJMVSterly addresses were idellviefed by ieach making the AfternoSn a moat profitable as well as moat one, The thousands, of vlsltora In the city, Wdll general, 'afad tW -BfibW- people, are c6mt Of Ihe ciitirge of ten Immigrants from Russia was 6,202. compared with 32,112 In 1907, a decrease of SI per cent, while that of Japan amounted to 960. a decrease of 1,2 64 as compared with 1907. The total number of debarred for varloius reasons was 5 4 3, compared with 1,311 In a decrease of 59 per cent.

The total Immigration from all countries for the six months ending with June last was compared with 743,952 In 1907, a-decrease of .74 per cent. from KussiB agSireg compared with 132.185. In. 1907, a decrease of 74 per cent. The number of debarred from air iiountrles was 3.779, compared with 5,962 In PROGRAM: Tomorrow will be "Homesevjkers" Day" of the Removal of Restrictions July Jubilee now in full blafet at' Pioneer Park, corner of Fourth and Court streets.

Visitors from a distance In large numbers are expected as the railroads have made an especial effort to sell tickets to Aluskogee for this day, and have made very low rates to excursionists. An address of welcome to the strangers will be Dr. Leo E. Bennett, mayor of the city, who is chairman of the day, at Convention Hall, at 2:30 p. m.

Addresses will ato be made by Represfintatlves Seott of Lawton, K. L. Fulton of Oklahoma Clly and Charles D. Carter of Ardmore, Senator Robert L. Owen of Muskogee, and others.

AMUSKMENT FEATURES. At the ball park twenty shows of every Imaglnablo nature wUl entertain tbe visitors in-the afternoon and evening, and the air8hip Roosevelt." will make two flights during the day: At all the Are companies' tn the city wlH make an illuminated run from the Katy tracks to Fourth and Broadway. Grand night illumination. GOV. HASKELL IS HOME TODAY Ml'NKOOKE TO IJE ONE Muskogee Is progrpsslng so rapidly OF TIIK (IREAT CITIES OF THE cantlnue to HOVTHWEST, AND 1 AM PROUD The governor (he star visitor London, JiMy 2 2.

sporLs this mornlne fbcKaij wlili the running broad Jttftip. Thi- Americans were rather In the draw In the two httndred niptpi- llai race having but one man, Hamilton, In the ilrst heat. The final In the four hundred meter iiurdle rare was won by C. J. Pncon, the Irish A.

C. Harry L. WUlmon, of the NSw York A. BRYM PROUD OFOKLAHOMA July J. Bryan evidently feels pretty confident of carrying Oklahoma.

In a letter to SeiEreiary of Slate Bill Cross thanking falm for congratulations HI.on Ills nomination, Mr. llryan says In part: "If all states wore as loyal as Oklahoma I rotild sure as to (he outcome of ihr rotnlnK el hoino. Tli'il reason OF ITS (JUIT AND THE OF ITH CITIZENS" SAID (M)V. CHARIiES N. HAHKELL.

AVHO AKRIVEI) HOME THIS was taken. MORNINO TO TAKK PART IN THE JIIIILKE CELFimATION. "When 1 was here less than two months ago," continued the governor, "I osUod you to get bu.iy of the day, and from the time that he stepped from the train at 10 o'clock this morning every minute He will leave for Outhrfe this evening. "How about the location df the stale road, will It go west towards Okmulgee or south to Porum?" the governttf was asked. H)H reply was chararterlstlc and shows how Muskogee stands with und bring the hnat home, and In executive.

short time you raise $12,000 and now on my next visit the boat Is "You fellows have token this ronrt nuitler so inucli to lienrt, and UNCLE SAM'S FIELD DAY IN OLD LONDON SCHOOL LAND OUESTION A PUZZLER 000 of the fund has been disposed of In this way, but It is only a drop In the bucket compared with the demand for farm loans at 5 per cent Interest. Only a few farmers in each county have succeeded in get- Guthrle, July the national campaign, the overabad- owlng Issue in the Oklahoma election next fail will be the question of Belling school lands. Upon the ballots will be submitted thevquestion: Shall the school lands of Oklahoma ting these loans the others are be sold according to the terms of the (compelled to pay 8 and 10 per cent Murray bill? Yes or No. This Is to the loan companies, an Issue that is vital to every voter Opponents of creating a big caslP In the stale, for it means the dis- fund also claim that loan companieaV posal of an area valued at something now borrowing money deposited over 130.000,000. by the stale in various banks on Already a stale-wide movement has been started to defeat the bill at the polls by a number of the rep- rtaentative cttieena of Western Oklahoma, headed by George Wbite- hural of Sayre, who was Democratic caucus leader In the 'house of the last legislature.

A meeting baa been called for Oklahoma City, on August 15, to organize the move- mentr- The opponents of the sale of the school lands claim that most of the vcters on the east side of the state will vote against the Murray bill is to be subinitttal to a referendum vote. They claim that attempts to dispose of Ibe $5,0 00,000 cash fund to the state by 6ongres8 have proven the wisdom of tlieir contentions that the school wealth should remain lands and not be converted into money; The Intention was to loan a large part. of. the to farmers. on securUieiu which the state Is realizing but 4 per cent, thus defeating the very pi-rpose of the farm loan department of the stale.

It is also urged that the expense of employing to pass upon klties, 'atid clerks to attend to the business of loaning the money to the farmers, eats up a goodly portion of the Interest received by the state upon the school monev thus loaned. The friends of the Murray bljl wo will have to bnlld two roads for yon and ran one cast and west, and tlio other nortii and WOK IIIA aiiHW This means that Muskogee coun-i ty Is to have two state roads. "How about the A. and M. college?" ho was next asked.

"You fellows have got Conners, Connell and Cameron here with you today, and if between us all we fail to land that college for the by night we, ought to be was his answer. When asked about his versy with Attorney General West as to the authority of the Standarit or any other oil or gas company, or the Prairie company from piping oil or gas out of the state by lay- I- ig mains, tlie governor gave out the following prepared statement: attorney general Is the law officer for the executive do- apartment, without any power of au- tliorlty to begin any suit. If the attorney general should he adTlsQd that there are any violations ot law, it 1B hia duty to report facta to the governor, and bring the suit only after the governor Up to date, In every case tbe attorney general iiBked slon to bring a suit the has Issued the order; but in many- InBtanccB-the brought Bufts without Vnaultlng governor nothing them In the "The cases hrottght) prevent' ttMiBi the pine der tit; the the first- case, the being absent, the another, "attorney to, fepjrtsest state: and bring The sitlon of the In pita Is based on the protons of" constftuions and laws ot OXlaiboiaii, Y' which plade the authority in the of the ernor. "The two cases staftikl by the toroey general agalairt' the Oil and Gas while th goverflor was attendito(( the On the left le of Ralph Roise. In the 'shot putttiigf America for rylng, the bnaky.

CalUornUn foes, almost'Bture a new i ord iroA Photo the rigfit rihows who won discus championship In a pouring rain using the discus provided by the English officials. His own discus, brought from America, was declared illegal. He hurled the discus 134 feet 2 inches. DEMOCRATS. If yon don't know where to register, phone No.

headquarters at and streets. STANDARD OIL WINS Chicago July the unani- i oplul begins with a brief mous opinion of the United Stales circuit court of appeals the famous case of the government against the Standard Oil company of Indiana. In which the fatter wiis fined Iwonty- of ihe manner In wlilch the case hrought from the district court o': appeals. "There are one hundred and BIXIV- nlne asslgnim nts of error. talUuK nine million two hundred and forty up sixty-seven pagei of printed rer- prodnce to town to be.

shipped to chaniH shliiiiliif? the uuuutry, oi the househohUr who ships his fur- nltuie. Well' III I meant by the interstate coiiiiinrce law to be guilty of haviiif; a merely litM thsy look, the word are depending on the influence of thousand dollars by Judge Landls'ord in view conclualon to la'il''' agent as 'which we haw come It Is unnere3- respect, sary to review many of these a.s- shipper uii 1 earrler stand on dlfferf 'Ut Mrc Ttie carrier IH re- thc land lessees to carry in the district court, must be re- bill. They claim that the svsi.in tried. of tenantrj in the slate must be The decision, which was concur- slgnments man, was delivered here today byljects In the order'stated. Slopped.

red in by Judges Baker and Sea "We sUall lake up GrosBoup, who wrote the opinion. The concluding sentence the opinion reads: THE WEATHER, Judgment of the fair dealings In commerce Tonight and Thursday partly is reversed- and the (through uniformity, ont to put manded with Instructions to grant a iBtructions in the way of commerce. ifluired by a parale provlsloii of I the law to eslablltth and The commerce act rates and forbidden to was Intended to promote and not collect, form the shipper restrain erade and commerce or less than Buch established and published rate. cloudy. accotdaace wltj new and proceed Inlgurely the farmer who brings his "Before conviction there must be allthe facts upon which Qie or (Continued 9I1 lust Guthrie, July pure food commission has decided to go after the alleged creamery trust of Oklahoma.

Notice was given that on August 1 the pure food and drug laws would be put in effect apd strictly enforced. One of these VIRGINIA HARNED WANTS rREEDOli New York, July was learned here yesterday that B. H. Both- cm, the actor, had been sued for divorce by his wife, Virginia Harned Wicks Sothern. The action was brought In the state of Nevada on the ground Jncompallbillly.

According to statements made by Mrs. to friends in New York lust night, frequent disagreementb about the work of 'her husband and herself on the.stage brought about the Kiiit. Tlie pajiers were served up- ni. Mr Sothern yesterday tn Reno, V. Jteiii; has been his home for s( nie Sothern also lived In recently for a suiflclent pfrlod 111 establlsli a leKal residence there 'or 1 purpose of bringing the suit.

asks tor no alimony, be- ci.use Keveral years ago her husband settled on her a life Income of OOOa'yeur and Kuve her a house at Weiit Slxty-iiliUh ulreet. laws prohibits dlscrintlnaUon la Rorcbase- price of aqjr con by the aatne company in dll communities after dlftereneea, transportation chargfla allojirq Coipplalnts have reaoUed the pn food -commlssioD that Ipne of the jcreamery companies ot the trying to run out Indepesdenti creameries by paying 22 cents cream in communitiea where It strong competition and paying 16 cents elsewhere. The slon called a meeting of all creamery men to meet with tll9 pure food commission and the board of agriculture at on August 10 to discuss ler and consider means of ing the conditions in this branch of industry. The appointment of chief dairy inspector will be made at that time. Charles Bellamy, of Lawton, wd O.

Capps. of were appointed pure food and drug inspectors yesterday and tjtiey will begin their duties shortly after Au-; gust 1, making a preliminary round of the stuto. They Will report to the commission at Stillwater, on August 10. SEVERS ELUSHED WITH BAD BOOze Guihrle, July thousaaJ gallons of intoxicants were Into the seWer opposite tlje That Oklahoma made hit at tholgtate dispensary yesterday by 8tat9 A sight a letter written by C. Day, chair- of thirsty had a chance man of the Denver rueeptlon of any of the waste It- PRAISE FROM DENVER That Oklahoma made hit at the cun veuxlou cau rwullly J)e Agent' neon Irom the following oxtrncl from lurge crowd gathered to see the 3 ijuor, as It was ail dumped into a huge funnel which was placed the mouth of the At one time several barrels and casks of heer.

whisky and "tIn-toip'V elder niittee to his sister, Mrs, Ada Holmes, .10 livet at 3 IC Lawrence street, this city: "Oklahoma was indeed well represented, and 1 note with pleasure bur coming out was In a whirlwind opened and their style and she got more attention and running in one strei towj advertising than any other three Cottonwood, river states. That governor of yours la er. The liquor spilleq) triia'j all there and of a booster 1 tiaband goods ot for'Mb'state." ooosier 1 tian.