The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-21

dSeneht OF the Sanltar1um at Norman
but he failed to convince any one that
there was any fraud. He did, however,
convince people that he belonged to that
prehistoric class OF animals that are
known by their bray, and such another
one has not been heard again till this
fraud cry of Secretary Thoburn's belch-
forth. Had the know-it-all knocker sue
ceeded in his efforts, the world would
know nothing Of the religion of Christ
today; but would take Secretary Tho
burns cry: Il did not know it was so
and therefore it cant be- We are sat
isfed had We consulted and shown to
Solomon ThOburn our process and per
mitted il to have gone forth as one of
the benefits derived from maintaining an
Agricultural Institute in Oklahoma and to
have let it go forth as an additional ex-
cuse for paying a salary to Secretary
Thoburn that he would have given US
as line a testimonial as his limited mind
could nave devised. OF course his mar
row contracted vision has never passed
beyond the insignificant row of bricks
called the Agricultural College to that
stately and handsome structure called
the Territorial Normal School at Alva.
All of the scholastic wisdom of this ter
ritory lies in the eastern part OF the ter
ritory and within her educational institu
tons in that part of the territory as the
past efforts of the faculties in that part
would have you believe. Take into con-
sideration for one moment the howl put
up by the said Honorable Secretary, to
wit: This awful company at Alva even
goes so far in its fraud as to try to get
the people to look at what they have to
sell. PrepOsterous, is ii not? 4 ranker
fake never came down the pike than this
howl Of Thoburns with the cause Of com
plant being that the Oklahoma Dairy
Supply Company insisted on getting men
to look at their proposition before buy
ing If that is not an evidence Of lesiti-
mate business. especially when backed
by the local business firm referred to
in Thoburn's statements, to-wit: The Alva
National Bank, whose officers know the
members of the Oklahoma Supply Com
pany We did not want to sell anything
without showing what we had to sell
as Mr. Thoburn truly says Again he
SAYS that it is impossible that any pro-
cess or substance should make milk
all into butter In his own language the
weight of the butter produced
never approaches a 1.-THE of the weight
Of the milk" Poor, ignorant man in
charge of the Territorial Institution TO
help the farmers by new and better pro-
cesses. He is mistaken. Our proposition
is that whatever the weight of the milk
used. there is as much butter as there
-.
ideas on dairying?
Our process is recognized by the United
States government, and is a standard ar
ticle of commerce under its laws, for i'm
port, export, and domestic use. And We
back up our proposition by the best men
of Alya who have seen il and Secretary
Thoburn's only way to get away from our
reference is to make sighting remarks
about the business firms of Alva for say
ing they know a thing can be done for
they have seen II; and poor Thoburn has
not seen it and does not know where
he is at Has he ever written to this COM
pany, or any member. or any business
man of Alva. to ascertain whether this
was really something beyond the Secre-
tary's experiments or knowledge. or made
any inquiry for the benefits of the dairy
men OF Oklahoma? Or is it a fact that
he Just proceeded TO knock and did
not even know what law he thought was
being violated but thought there ought
to be a law dug up from the time Of
Queen Elizabeth to punish US for not tell
ing him first We have been advised by
Col. Snoddy and son and by Cowgirl and
Dunn. the leading attorneys of western
Oklahoma that we have a good cause
of action for libel in the articles referred
TO. but we would rather have the oppOr-
tJInity of answering through the columns
of this paper the malicious articles re-
ferred TO- than to have judgment
against a man not worth the gracious
laws Of Oklahoma allows him to keep,
whether he be right or wrong.
Further in this same line. the writer
of the articles referred TO is mistaken
about our not using the United States
mails for we do use the mails. Post
master Douglas of the Alva postoffice.
having his attention called to the mat
ter and particularly to the free adver-
Using done by Thoburn or the CORES
pondent. knowing the members Of this
COMPANY. ltllltl4dArlr AdlitA upon 10 ACA
an explanation of the business we We're
doing through the United States mails.
We gave him samples of our literature
sent through the mails taking a returned
circular from the postoffice box. to insure
genuineness. showed him our proposition
was to make butter just as we said we
could. Postmaster Douglass saw the In
gradients. the process used, tasted the
butter and pronounced it good. Further
he said in his knowledge Of butter. that
it was butter. and made just as we
claim we can make II. Postmaster Doug
las report to the department on this
matter viii be just as stated here. ana
ne gives It as his opinion that the
United states viii refuJe the charges
made against us as to using the mails for
fraudulent purposes.
OKLAHOMA DAIRY SUPPLY co.
CLEVELAND is QUOTED.