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Moderation In Exercise.

Exercise which is well within he
powers of the body is salutary for all
and probably necessary for some. but
exercise by which those powers are
o%verstrained is too often not only the
precursor. but quite Enthusiastically the
cause. of serious illness or of bodily or
mental failure. "Why," inquired Sala-
din, SHOULD the weak display his 1nfe-
riority in the presence of the strongF
The question is as pertinent in u own
day as it was in that on which IL was
uttered.-London Hospital.
If a row threatens you don't let 1t 20
so far hat you become bitter II are
willing to hurt yourself in order to
hurt your enemy.-Atehison Globe.
, 1903-08-19
SECTION IL.

|. Insert in lieu of paragraph | Il new para
graplA&s follows:
l.. Judges of the court of errors and appeals,
justices of the supreme court, the chancellor,
the Vice-chancellors and the Judges of the cir
cult court and of the court of common pleas
shall be nominated by the governor and APP
pointed by him with the advice and consent
of the Senate; all persons now holding any
office in this paragraph named, except the
Judges of the court of errors and appeals as
heretofore existing, shall continue In the eX-
ercise of the duties OF their respective Offices
according to their respective commissions or
appointments; the judges OF the court OF
errors and appeals, except those first APP
pointed the Justices of the supreme court,
the chancellor and the vice-chancellors shall
hold their offices for the term of seven years,
and shall, Mt stated times, receive for their
services a compensation which shall not be
diminished during the term of their appoint
ments; and they shall hold no other Office
under the government of this state or the
United States; the judges of the court OF
errors and appeals first appointed h be
appointed one for three years, two for nVe
years and two for seven years; judges OF the
court of common pleas shall hold their offices
for the term of five years..
Strike out paragraph
, 1903-08-19
".

l. Insert in lieu of paragraph l a new para
graph as follows:
l. The court of chancery shall consist of Il
chancellor and such number of vice-chancel-
Tors as Shall be provided by law, each ofwhom
may exercise the jurisdiction of the court; the
court shall make rules governing the hearing
of causes and the practice of the court where
the same is not regulated by statute.
SECTION v.
|. At the end of paragraph l add the follow
ing:
The court may sit in divisions at the same
or different times and places.
Strike out paragraph ).
SECTION VI.
/. Insert in lieu of paragraphs | and , the
following:
. The court of common pleas shall be consti-
tuted and held in each county in such manner
as may be provided by law.
ARTICLE VII.
CIVIL OFFICERS.
r..su = =
, 1903-08-19
ARTICLE VI


l. Insert in lieu of Section II II new section,
as follows:
/. The court of errors and appeals shall con-
sist of a chief judge and four associate judges,
or any four of them.
?. In ease any judge of said court shall be
dlsquallled TO sit in any cause, or shall be UNI
able for the time being to discharge the dut es
of his Office. whereby the whole number OF
Judges capable of sitting shall be reduced be-
low four; the governor shall designate Il Justice
OF the supreme court, the chancellor or II vice
chancellor, to discharge such duties until the
disqualification or inability shall cease.
3. The secretary of state shall be the clerk of
this court.
4. When a writ of error shall be brought,
any Judicial opinion in the cause, in favor of
or against any error complained OF, shall be
assigned to the court i'll writing; when IL II APP
peal snail be taken from an order or decree of
the court of chancery, the chancellor or vice
chancellor making such decree or order shall
inform the court in writing of his reasons
therefor,
.. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
the supreme court by writ of error shall be
exclusively vested in the court of errors and
appeals; but any writ of error pending in the
supreme court at the time of the adoption of
this amendment shell be proceeded upon rs if
no change had taken place.
, 1903-08-19
ARTICLE V.
EXECUTIVE

l.. Insert in lieu of paragraph 10 II new para
graph, as follows:
III. Ihe governor, or person administering
the government, the chancellor and the attor-
n~ey-general, or two of them, of whom the gov
ernor, or the person administering the gov
rnmen shall be one, may remit fines and
forfetturesa and grant pardons after conviction,
in all cases except impeachment.
ARTICLE vi.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

The stories being printed in Denver
papers and supplemented from differ
ont points in Oklahoma to the effect
that the new proposed road known as
the Colorado Oklahoma and Texas is
backed by the Orient company are
stoutly denied by the executive offic-
ers Of that company Speaking Of
the reports yesterday Vice President
wv w. Sylvester Of the Orient said
There is absolutely no foundation for
such reports and so far as the Orient
.is concerned the project is absurd on
its face. Our line could nave no pos
sible interest in the line talked Of, at
least so far as lending it any assist
ance. The Orient is not ye, promoting
side lines"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

All the different lines in Texas und-
er control of the Rock Island manage
ment are being consolidated with the
Chicago, Rosk Island and Gulf says
a Topeka dispatch They include the
Chicago, Rock Island and Mexico the
Chicago, Rock Island and Texas, and
the Choctaw Oklahoma and Texas.
The transfer deal has been worked
cut by General Attorney NJ A. Low,
of the Rock Island system. assisted
10y Assistant General Attorney Las
sitter. Of Texas. Mr. Lassiter is now
making a tour of the lines carrying out
the details of the transfer
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

An Arkansas City dispatch says;
The first train over the santa Fe's
new Oklahoma line, the Eastern Ok
lahoma, was brought in last night.
This line has not yet been transferred
from the construction company to the
railroad company, but tho transfer will
be made in about two weeks. The
line makes an easy way for the Santa
Fe to haul its heavy trains into Texas
It passes through the richest past OF
Oklahoma and should be paying
proposition from the start.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

The following new directors of the
st. Louis and San Francisco road We're
elected at a meeting in New York;
w. II. Moore, J H. Moore, w B. Leeds,
Daniel G, Reid and Francis L. Hine.
They take the places of r. c. Kerens,
j. S. Ford, T. C Henderson, c w.
Hilard and H. H Porter The new
directors are prominently Identified
with the Rock Island company with
which the St Louis and San Francisco
road recently entered into close rela-
tons.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

After Mr. Whiting had made a state
ment and given the numbers of the
nine quarters Of land d critical exam
ination of the papers was made The
writing on the applications and the
writing on the relinquishments was
compared The papers now on file
and a part of the records in the school
land office contained enough evidence
of irregularities to convince the gov
ernor that Mr.. Houston should not re.
main in office.
But the transaction involving the
nine quarters in which Whiting was
interested was only a minor matter.
There were others" One large tract
of land in which e. d. Parks, q broth
er-in-law of Houston's, figured as les
see was a very interesting incident.
The application for this tract OF land
was made in a very fine hand-appar-
antly the writing of a lady When
Mr. Houston was asked about It he
said that it was Parks writing and
signature. When the REIMBURSEMENT
was made lhe signature was in a
masculine and-apparantly in the
hand writing of Mr. Parks.
But there were incidents too mum
erous to mention in which the papers
in the school land office shcw that
one man made the application and
then signed the relinQuishment when
sale was made According to tbs
school land Office records that one mar
that dealer in school laads-was the
most numerous man in Oklahoma
His penmanship appears as an apph
cant, again it appears as a witness
and again 1t appears as "relinquish
err"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

ton gave me a list of the vacant lands
in the Comanche aud sent me there to
examine and report each piece sep
arately and to mark all such descrip
tions to .. J Houston, personal"
continued to do so until nearly com
pleted the task when he put me TO
other work returned to Guthrie
about January / 1902, anu l then no
ticed the vacant list as issued by the
office failed to show more than TWEEN
ty of the sixty-six That is, more than
40 tracts we're missing from the list,
and | remember also that the tracts
which reported as gooG were not on
the list left my papers at Ponca
City and ! think | stu have num-
bers of the lands as J, } Houston call
ed them off 20 me, but from memory
here are eight quarter sections in one
townships
Ne a of l6, T 8 n, R II w; n
w a of 16. T r II W; S e 4 of
16, T N, R II W; S w "A Of 16, 7
8 n, r IL W; w a of g. T n, r
IN W; S E a of 9, T N. r II w;
n E a of q, T 8 n, r II w; e
a of q. II 8 y, r II w.
The above eight tracts of land are
parts of lands which were not leased
lat the public bidding, nor did they
appear on the vacant list l reported
them as good as the average Of school
land of the country. know the same
method was used By Mr. Houston in
the Wichita country
Respectfully,
Johr s. McFadyen.
My address will be Ft Cobb.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26
Gives Reasons on
houston Matter

The Watonga Republican. Governor
Ferguson's paper, devotes one and one
half columrs os Interesting reading
matter on the retiremeLr Of J. J. Hous-
ton as secretary of the school land
leasing board The article is in de-
Tense of the governors published
statement that j. J, Houston was re-
moved from Office and is as fellows:
Last spring Il was reported that
there had been some shady work in
connection with the leasing of school
land in the new country. The name
of Vernon Whiting was suggested as
one Of the persons who knew some
thing about the deal Mr. Whiting
was sent for and at first did not re-
spond, but finally went to Guthrie and
made statement He said that he
(Whiting) had been with certain other
persons interested in nine tracts of
school land and gave the numbers Of
said land, He said that he became
a partner in this land deal by furnish
ing money to one who was in the COM
bination, and that he had realized a
profit on the land Mr. Whiting stated
that while he was only in the deal
by furnishing money to one of the
parties (not knowing at the time who
composed this real estate firm,) he af-
terwards learned the whole secret, and
that for his furnishing the money to
pay one-third of the rentals, he re-
ceived one-half of one-third Of the
profits He said that there we're three
persons implicated in this particular
land deal There We're many other
deals, however. in which he had no
part. and of which he knew nothing
only in a general way. But he said
that the one in which he was inter
ested had nine quarter sections of
school land They paid the rental on
the land and held six quarters about
six months and sold them for sixteen
hundred dollars. He further said that
the remaining three quarters we're
held until the spring of 1903 and sold
for $1,000 Mr. Whiting also stated
that one-third of the profits on the
sale of these school quarters was sent
by one of the firm to ]. J. Houston
secretary of the school land oiftce at
that time, and according to Mr.. Whit
ing a contingent of the school land
real estate deal which had headquart
ers in the new country
When Mr.. Houston was asked If he
had ever received money from a rep
resentatiye of this combination as his
share of the proceeds, he replied that
ne had received money on several oc
casions from the person named but
that he had returned it. When asked
why the money had been sent him he
replied that he did not know unless II
was because the person who sent II
had made so much money off of the
school lands in which ne had beer
dealing that he felt good over it ant
wanted the secretary to share his good
fortune. However, a day or two iatel
Mr. Houston modified his statement
hy saying that he had changed his
mind as to why the money was sen
him He said that in his iudgmen
the money was sent to deceive Whit
ing. Mr. Whiting was in the deal
having furnished a portion of th'
money TO pay rentals.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26
Inside Of the office.

The conclusions, which led TO Hous-
toms retirement were based upon
things revealed in the office rather
than upon any statements made by
Whiting or any other person Much
hot air has been indulged in about
Writings or Houston's other accusers
failing to appear before the board on
June &c, when the investigation al
ready made was to be reported and
Houston was heard. Whiting was
not asked to appear on that date. No
other person was asked 10 appear The
records had spoken Cor themselves.
Houston made a long defense but did
hot clear himself or explain what the
records revealed. He could not eX-
plain The trouble was not in hand
Hing the money that came into the
office Il was the outside work in
this case. A letter from John McFad-
yec. gho was employed as school land
Inspector. viii explain something. Mr..
McFadyens letter IS only one incident
but IS somewhat plain and needs no
lexplanation The quarter sections re-
ferred 10 in the letter are the same in
some instances as the quarters In the
deal reported by Whiting An extract
from the letter is as follows:
1T. Cobb, Okla, June 25 1908.
Governor T. b. Ferguson, Guthrie. OK
Dear Sir; began work as special
agent October /. 1901, and was kept IN
the office during October while the
cnice was receiving bids on she land IN
the Wichita country. Bids having clos
ed on October for lands in the Co
manche. about November 1, Mr. Hous
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

John 4. MeFadyen.
Ny address will be Ft Cobb
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RAILROAD NEWS
AND PERSONALS

Lawton's Commercial club has de-
oided to take up the question of freight
rates with the Rock Island and Frisco
roads il is claimed that all the little
towns around in that country have
the advantage Of Lawton in this mat
ter.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

The gap in the Santa Fe between
Kaw City and Rslston is to be closed
next Saturday. BY October 1 trains
probably will be running from New
kirk to Pauls Valley.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

Call on a. G.. Jones for Notary work.
III West Harrison Ave. Phone. 654.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-26

From an Ferries. Steamboats, and Ocean
Steamers Walk short block % Elevated Raii.
way and take 18th Ave 10 seth street
from which Hotel Is one minute Walk
10 Minutes 10 principal tbeaters andshoys
w. Johnson Quinn, Propr.
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

! astronomical department was an ad-
dition to this depot. While the depart
ment OF charts has grown to such ad-
with 1T the department of Instruments s
This last has grown with the immense
| increase in the naval service to large
! dimensions. Today It is divided be-
| tween two sets of employees. one ot
which has the care of the nautical In
struments and the other of the chron-
<ometers and the time service These
two departments OF the Observatory
employ from five to six officers, who
were given this work as an alternate to
their sea duty. The former department
takes charge OF the purchase. lnspec-
tion. and care OF all the nautical in
struments belonging to the navy, and
at the present time It handles upward
of $4,000 worth of navigation inpie-
ments" every year.
The Time Service Established.
Not day goes by but some Wash
ingtonian sets his watch by the time
ball. aud yet he seldom gives thought
to the astronomer who finds noon for
him This is the work of the Naval
Observatory. and is done by a sister de-
partment of the Bureau OF Instruments.
clock, regulated by the transit OF
stars on almost every clear night, is at
tached by vast network of telegraphic
wires TO thousands of other clocks all
over the country. The Western Union
wires alone connect it with over 80. 600
timepieces.
Hardly had Morse finished the first
telegraph line between Washington and
Baltimore. when he had. by the use Of
two chronometers. determined the diff
ference in their longitude DR.. John
Locke, of Cincinnati, an ex-naval officer.
perfected an instrument for automatic
ally delivering time signals by tele-
graph generous appropriation of
Congress enabled him to build a fine
clock with ehronomatic attachment, and
on December Z. 1S49. this clock was
placed in the Naval Observatory. where
il still stands.
The necessity of giving the time of
mean noon to the navigators and sea-
men In New York soon gave improved
methods of distributing time by cleo
tricity- This was done by dropping a
time ball from some prominent tower
Later on. when the fire alarm service
was set up in Washington, the wires
connecting this service with the OBJ
servatory suggested TO the officers that
the fire alarm tower could be used to
Of the city. The advantages of this
plan were at once recognized and the
Observatory bought a plant. and August.
1865. the fire bells struck the time daily
at a M. noon, and 6 p. m. At that
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

Hill, which may be looked upon as the
beginning of the Naval Observatory. OBJ
serYations were made here with a small
telescope. and strict record kept of
them from 1880 until 1912. This was the
first working observatory in the United
States, and the records, which were af
terward published. made up the first
volume of American ASTRONOMERS.
Well fitted by a course of study at
Paris and the University of Virginia,
Lieutenant Gilliss began his career as
an astronomer in this building. The
training stood by him when the Secre-
tary of the Navy sent him on his tour
OF observation. At the time there were
very few astronomical facilities in the
United States, and Lieutenant GilHs was
Obliged to confne his observations TO
Greenwich AS a result. the Naval oh
serVatory'S constitution is almost The
same as that Of the English institution.
September. 1874, should always be
memorable as the date on which Lieu
tenant Gillis reported that the Naval
Observatory, consisting Of only one
building, was ready to be occupied. and
that the instruments were adjusted.
Lieut. Matthew F. Maury, L. S. y. who
was previously assigned 10 the charge
of the depot of charts and instruments
on Capitol Hill. was directed TO re-
move ali its material TO the new build
ing The order virtually made him su
perintendent. and he was shortly after
ward confirmed in that position.
Lieutenant GilIis received the order
to turn over the building to Lieutenant
Maury with great deal of chagrin. He
had done much in creating the Naval
Observatory. and he confidently exDected
TO be placed in charge. Prof. Bache Of
fered him position on the Coast sur
yey. and he accepted
The First staff.
October, 1874, the following officers
were assigned TO duty at the Naval OBJ
servatory. forming its first staff: Lieut..
B. F. Sands, its superintendent from
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

fiction and has several thousand vol
umes. Besides these two there is the
Post Graduate library devoted eatireIr
to literature. which was established in
1889, and the Prep" library. composed
of boz books.
Next comes the library of the Catho-
lie University. near Rrookland The Ii
brary OF Columbian University easily
ranks third, and is very complete on all
subjects.
One of the best, largest. and least
known Libraries in the city is that of
the Scottish Rite Order. 1t has MANY
rare books. and is especially rich in folk
lore.
Two Valuable Collections.
William r. Smith. in charge of the
Botanical Gardens for many years. has
what is considered the very finest Burns
library in the United States. 1t includes
all the best and rarest editions of
Burns works. together with some OF the
Scottish poets manuscript
1t is said that Bobbie himself had a
library for which he paid $3.50. The
titles OF the books which composed IL
are known. and Mr. Smith has bought
nearly all of them. Thus he has not
only Burns library. but library OF
Burns. He is very proud OF his coliec-
s'on OF books. and only his nearest
friends are allowed TO see it. At his
death 1t is to go to Pittsburg. where Mr..
Carnegie, an old friend OF Mr.. Smith. is
to house II in becoming fashion.
DR.. Swan NJ. Burnet, the well-known
oculist. owns one of the very finest Ii
braries in the world in its way. Every
volume is of vest pocket size, but bound
like an edition de luxe. They are prints
of all the classic authors in every age.
OF which the doctor is very fond. This
little library is considered a gem.