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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

and the school will be located and
equipped in time for the next school
year.
The legislature made apr priations
for new buildings at the state univer-
sity, the Southwestern state normal
school. the A. a. NJ. college. and for
the co,orei agricultural and normal
university al Langston.
All of our state scho Is have opened
with q mucA larger attendance than
ever before, and the outlook is more
promising than ever in the history of
any OF these schools
We are putting the law fr cOmpul
sory attendance in the public schools
i'm operation as far as we can, and VIII
soon have Gre escapes on all OF pur
larger school buildings The Quito k
for our school system rs good, We eN
poet 10 start al least two more normal
sch0 ls and have trem ready for next
year. We entertain fond hopes that
we con make this the leading state ln
! the Union In agricultural education
| In many of the new counties we have
laid Off large districts to conform tc
| the idea of the consolidated districts
and in the Id counties IL is our par
pose TO consolidate the small dis
tricts, and before our administration
is over we expect to have a fine system
Of consolidated rural schools in Oper
All throughout the state.
one thing / want 10 call on all o
our people TO do and dat is to cult
vate state pride and state patriotism
There are at present hundreds Of OK
/ tlghoma students attending schools out
/ side of ar state ! think / am With
/ In The bounds OF truth when ! say tha
the schools attended by these stu
/ dents are vastly inferior to our Okla
/ homa schools. Our State university
our A. g. NJ. and our State Norma
scho Is, and our high sCheo,s are a
good as any IN q United States on
rural district schools are superior 4
these in mcst sattes. There are man,
advantage for O. student TO atten
school in his own state, and / thin
our pc pie are making a very sad mis-
4 -ake 10 patrouize outside schools, an
K kespedally when these schools are no
as good as our own. Let us stand b
ar owa institutions and make Okls
4 homa good ana beautiful, and stron
and great.
On this the first anniversary Of on
, Statehood Day | congratulate the pee
, pie Of our great state on the progres
we have made and pledge myself 10 d
! an wit5in my power TO make the iutur
greater than the past
r Respectfully.
e. D. CAMERON
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

time upon which Admiral Byng was
executed an March ~ 1856.
Another equally famous case was
dlat OF Admiral Prince FransesC0 Care.
ciola vino was hanged aboard Lord
Nelson's ship ln the Bay OF Naples on
the 29th of Juno 1893 after uhc Eng
lish admiralty court had sigualei Nel-
son not to sit upon the princes case.
IN MissOusi tRO men, Kaiser and
llcnzle. We're rescued from the gallOws
by three minutes. They had been sen.
fenced 10 die for the murder of r ".
Brown. "a wealthy Oklahoma stockmau.
but Or was afterwards proved that they
were moi guilty uae death party was
on the scanotl when Goyernor stones
messenger stopped the execution.
Another famous case when a re-.
prieve came 100 lave was that OF Geo
William Gordon lhe Jamaira preacher
who was executed on October "a. 1865
by Governor Edward Frye OF Jamaica
up-n a charge of treason Gordon was
hanged in spite of a writ issued by a
jamaican judge The execution re.
suited In The resignation OF the Eng
lish cabinet from Office and IN the re-.
tirement OF Governor Frye from poll
tics.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

AZ the general election of 1902 Lo-
gan county voted to have established
a county high school Tne action OF the
Logan county voters was followed a
short time afterwards by the voters
of old Woods county. and today these
two county high schools are Che only
two in the now state. The agitation
TOR n county oigh school here was be-
gun by ". s. Calvert. then county sup
erintendcut and II was principally
through his EFFORTS that tho school
was established
Thc school was opened in Scptem-
per. 1903. In the Central school build
ing and in the basement of the Chris.
tian church There the school was
continued until December. 1904, when
il was moved into the present building,
a magnificent structure located I'm the
north part OF the city at the end OF
Vine street. 10 is a three story struc.
ture, built of white pressed brick, and
contains sixteen class rooms, a library
ana auditorium A picture Of the build.
Ing appears elsewhere In this issue.
The Logan county high school is
under the direct control of a board of
directors consisting OF six members
and the county superintendent The
present board consist OF the following
Pres Neil Humphrey, county supeHn
tenient. vice-presiicnt. Or c s. Pet
! ~. secretary. Joe II. Norris, treasurer
| J Frank LauX, ID. j. W. Duke, FL
ward Baskins. and w A. Kelley.
Tine school is supported by the coun
| ty. Tuition in all departments is alb
solutely free to all pupils whose homes
are in Logan county a separate
/ school Is provided for colorod pupils
| at the Lincoln school building. There
are two townships not represented IN
the school this year
The enrolment In 1904 was 3S1
| In 190i-5 II was 800: for whites only
TIE number of colo-ed pupils enrolle,
was not kept on the regular recorC
and we failed to find 1t when the data
for this article was being collected
The enrolment for 1866 was AZ
for 1867 II was sos; this year II i
so far 456, which Is fourteen NOR
than It was at this time last year
The facult, at this time consist
Of twenty members. all of wnOm a.,
trained teachers and all graduates o
prominent colleges and universities
and normal schools all over She coun
try Chas. n Roberts IS the prlncipa
OF the school He Is a graduate O
the Kansas State Normal at Fort Scot
and attended the State University a
Lawrence. HE has ben actively er
gagged in teaching Ia Oklahoma 70
tae past eleven years. He was cit
superintendent Of schools at Kingiisl
er for i've years AMI held the chair q
History ana Ciyics in the Centra
State Normal at Edmond for six years
which position he resigned t0 accep
the principalship Of the Logan count
digh school last September. Georg
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
RECALLS REPRIEVES
THAT CAME TOO LATE

The manner ia which William John
son was snaichcI from the jaws of
death recalls the fact that more than
once and In several historical cases.
Lagc reprieyoa come 100 late.
one of the saddcst deaths n iho
kind which ever occurred Was tho nX
ocution of Sam Davis in Tennessee by
General DOdgc's command on the 27th
OF NOvomber 1868. Davis had been
convicted OF being a spy and was eX.
ecuted about the very hour which Gen.
eral Dodge had determined % interfere
In the young mans behalf
= later case was that ~ William
Fluthcer. who was banged on April
8. 1902. in 81 Louis when his life
might have been saved had Gov Dock
cry not neglected 20 read the dOcu
ments
A faniOns case of reprieye coming
too late was when the message OF the
admiralty failed 10 reach the ship in
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
NJ. {. HOSPITAL
IS ENLARGING

The Oklahoma Meth dist Hospital
Is having splendid success IN Ulo care
of the sick from the city and over the
state Since the change ln manage
mcnt thcro have been cared for 600
medical an. surgical cases In thc hos
pital; and the nurses have been sent
ont 30 give assistance no fify others
While many OF these patients nave
come from Guthrie and vicinity there
mas been "a continual increase in mum
Der from almost an parts Of the state
More than one hundred of these. or
about one in every four have boon per
sons whose lives were in jeopardy anG
who wu.d not have lived had they
not had srch treatment AS This insu
tuition was able 10 give rlem There
has been very many more cured who
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

AS state superintendent of public
instruction ] want to congratulate you
on getting out a souvenir edition on
Statehood Day The 18th day of No
Rember should ever with the people of
Oklahoma be placed close up 10 the
4th day of July TIE 4th day OF jury
is a monument to the day that marked
our National independence. The 18th
day OF November is a monument TO the
day on which we gained our l-cal indc-
pendence and became a sovereign
state I'm the great American Union. It
is fitting and proper that you commem-
crate this day by sending a beautiful
and instructive edition of your paper
over the state that can be kept by our
people as a souvenir and a mement5 Of
this great day.
We have now had statehood for one
year, and It has been histOry-making
year for our state Every departm
OF the state government has been in
fine running order for several months.
Our swaddling bands have been ut
grow nand we are by no means baby.
The Department of Education was per
maps the hardest in the state TO organ
iZe, as we started in with Al new coun-
ties in which there had never been a
public school outside of the incorpo
rated towns and the people lad NIT
been blest with county and district
organization We had to do founda'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

tion work AMI build from the beginning
but we have had hand of splendid
and willing workers through mt the
state. feel like congratulating the
state OF Oklahoma on its splendid and
consecrated army of school teachers
and especially on having county and
city superintendents who equal in tact,
intelligence and devotion to duty to
any like number of scnool offices in
the world. And with your kind perm e.
sion | want to t'.ank the school teach
ers and superintendent of the state
for their help and fTbearance in the
work Throughout this entire Iear.
We have met with many difficulties.
but ! think we have accomplished a
great deal In our department consider
ing the disorganized condition Ia the
beginning OF the year
The task for us was 10 extend the
system in peraton IN Oklahoma Ter
ritoTy over inc entire state. We nave
done that in the short space of a years
tille We have laid off the Al new
counties into approximately 400 dis
tricts and have built perhaps. 20Ot
school houses and think that we have
enrolled 100, 600 children In our sch OILS
who have never entered public schoo
before.
We have established two schools for
agricultural and industrial education
We have established and equipped a
department Of agriculture, horticulture
and stock feeding in each r. our state
normal schools We have established
and equipped and made very strnng
a department OF domestic science anf
domestic art IN each of our state nor
mails We are putting manual training
agriculture, horticulture, stock feeding
domestic science and domestic art IN
all OF our rural schools as well as II
the cities.
We have established a school O
mines and located 90 al WilburtOn h
1he very heart OF the mining regicl
re the state.
We have started a school for th'
blind and II Is now In operation il
Fort Gibson
We have founded "a school for al
destitute orphan children in the state
The school r white orphans is locate
at Pryor Creek and is now in opera
tion. Provision is mode for room 70
room for c-.ored children, 10 be locate
In Logan county
We have greatly improved TIE stat
school for the deaf located tempOi
arily at Sulphur. and have introduce
the department OF domestic science an
domestic art.
We have lrganized and provided ia
a geological commission and a partii
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
100000 CHILDREN HAVE
BEEN DRAWN INTO SCHOOLS

geological survey of the state has
already been made and the minerals.
oil. and building stone OF the state
haze been located Prof Chas. n.
Gould of The Oklahoma university was
elected state ge lOgist and has been 2t
work through the summer He reports
Iat very few states In the Union has
as many kinds of minerals ana as many
minerals Of a kind as are found In Ok
lah0ma He says we have six billion
tons OF coal. one hundred billion tons
Of glass sand, ne hundred twenty
three billion tons of gypsum, enough
salt water going to waste to make
2U00 tons Of salt per day and three
billion tons of rock asphalt, fifty
million barrels of oil were produced
last year with the oil field just being
touched. with hundreds gas wells
yielding all th eway up to fifty milli N
cubic feet of gas daily He reports
ineXAaustible deposits of granite mar
BILE. gahbno. limestone. sandstone, Port
lard cement rock and all kinds OF
clays, not TO mention the zinc, iron,
lead noyaculite. tripoli and volcanic
ash These are Just some of our
minerals and materials tlat have been
located and outlined and extend from
our western border to our eastern line
We have under way the l-catiUn OF
a state Industrial school for girls. The
beard of control has been appointed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
@ O @ q O @ @ @ @ O @ @ o @ @ {
MAGNIFICENT NEW BUILDING.
State University Planning for Great
Work.
Enrolment This Year Very Large
School Ranks With the Best
IN tho Country.
Respectfully.
r.. ID. CAMERON.
state Superintendent

The coming of statehood on tna
sixteenth Of November. 1907. involved
a change i'm the various educational
institutions If the state. They entered
upon their career not only as state
institutions instead Of territorial ones,
but as having a much larger fell
consequent upon the Joining If Indian
Territory with Oklahoma te.I,tory i'm
statenOUd,
The university Is already beginning
tc feel the helpful influence OF this
change Early in the year the COVER
nor appointed eight regents OF the
state university. an Of whom are well
known men In public life I'm the state
anI all of whom enjoyed the priyi-
leges OF college education T0e fol
owing are the names of the men ap
pointed:
Hon Lee Cruce. president Of the
board, ArdmOre; Hon. w. y. ROWsey
secretary OF the bOari, MuskOgee ;
Hon A. j. Rittenhouse. Chandler;
Dr. j. NJ Gordon Weatherfora; Rev
~ L. Linebaugh, Oklahoma City.
Hon J. G Pratt. Oklaloma City. Hon
Flowers Nelson Tulsa, Hon. j. +
Hickam. Perkins
Al the close Of the last school veal
Some changes were maze In the facui
| ~. the Rev. A Grant Evans being ap
pointed president a great majority
Of the former faculty, was. however
retained so that the continuity OF the
life of the Institution was well pro
vldel for. The opening OF the present
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16

CK AHOAA JUSTLY PROUD OF HER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE
MADE SUCH A CL OWING RECORD DURING FIRST YEAR

school year the first since statehood,
has been most auspicious. The at.
tendance 0uring the first month was
larger than for q similar period in
amy previous year on amount OF the
destruction OF the main building by
fire last December the university is
considerably crowded at the present
time AS soon as the new builing
is completed il is reasonably certain
that there will be very rapid growth
in the attendance.
The university at present consists
of the following schools: The College
of Arts and Sciences. the School of
Ainos. the School of Fine Arts the
School of Applied Science. the School
of Medicine, the School OF Pharmacy
and the Preparatory school. II is
the plan of the Regents to adj TO
these In the immediate future a
School of Laws Teachers College,
and courses in Municipal ana SAM
tary Engineering, in Forestry i'm
Journalism. ami i'm other subjects that
will be of immediate service IN pre-
pairing men to do the work of which
the state stands i'm pressing need
The engineering departments of the
university are especially strongly
equipped No institution in the South
west has a better electrical equipment
than the university The president Of
the Carnegie foundation, who recently
visited the university, took occasion
, to say that it maintained and had a
right to the highest rank among
the colleges and universities Of the
South and West, because il has made
its entrance requirements and It's ne.
quirements for promotion and graJua
ton as rigid and high as those OF any
| institution in the country
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
BANKERS TO MEET IN SHAWNEE

Shawnee. Okla, Nov 16.-Claude
Rorer. cashier of the Bank of Com
merce, returned yesterday from Guth.
rie. where he attended a meeting of
the executive committee of Group No
3 of the Oklahoma Bankers assocla'
ton.
The meeting was for the purpose of
selecting a meeting place for the next
session of the association.
Shawnee was unanimously decided
upon and the meeting viii be held
here December 10 next.
This group comprises the bankers
from ten of the counties in the north.
eastern part of the state, in which
there are 1873 state and n national
banks, and It is believed there will be
good attendance.
The meeting will be entertained un,
der the auspices OF the Shawnee
Clearing House association.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
CONSTABLE RUSSELL ACQUITTED

COrdeu. NOV III b. Russell, a
constable from the southeast part OF
the county who was on trial here the
past week for shooting one Bailey
Rhile. az Russell claimed. he was
avoiding arrest, was acquitted by the
jury
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
WILL BE CANDIDATE,
Announcement OF C. c. Jones, Repubi-
can, for Governor.

Oklahoma city. Nov. &c. c.
Jones. Republican, former Mayor Of
This city and now member of the
State legislature has announced
that ne would DC a candidate for Gov
ernor at the next election.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-03-24
AS TO DOGS.
They Must Not Run at Large on the
Streets Unless They Are Sc
curely Muzzled.

At its meeting on Wednesday
night. city council decided to give no
ticc that the ordinance of the city Of
Newhcrry in relation to dogs will be
strictly enforced. The ordinance is as
follows:
See. ~. General Ordinances, page
|35 of the printed Laws, Charter and
Ordinances Of the Town of New
berry,. 1T shall be unlawful for any
dog to nm at large in the streets Of
the Town Of Ncwb2Ty unless such
do" is securely muzzlcd, and any dog
found %rnnnin" at large without such
muzzle shall be impounlcd five days,
and unless the owner shall claim said
dog and pay into the treasury Of the
Town Of Ncwbcrry n fine Of five dol
lars said dog shall be killed. Any own
er or owners Of a dog or dogs who
shall permit them to run at large IN
violation of the provisions of this
section shall upon conviction There
| for be fined not more than five dol
lars or to be imprisoned for not more
than thirty days for each offence.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-03-24

We observe i'm the Record Of Rock
Hill I'm advertisement Signed by the
local members of the committee ut
the board of trustees Of Winthrop
college. aSkin" for bids for the site
for The model school. and That all bids
be submitted to ill.,. president Of th'
college NOT lalrr than April 18th. 1t
will be recalled that at the session Of
the legislature for 1907 an %approrria.
ton Of twenty Thousand dollars was
made for the erection Of This model
school: ten Thousand of the arprn-
pria,ion being available in 1907 AMI
ten Thousand in zoos.
nnrim" the last session Of the lee
iSlaturc an Act vas passed to appro-
pirate Iorty-ci"ht thousand dollars
more t" Winthrop for tn. purpose Of
erecting Il new domitory. We OPP
posed the bill on the ground that one
building a year is about rs many rs
the State could we'll afford to erect at
any one Of the State institutions of
higher learning. The statement was
also made that the board had not yet
decided where to erect the model
school. and that while ten Thousand
dollars Of the appropriation was
available in 1907. and had already
been drawn from the Stat, treasury,
that no steps had yet been taken for
In" erection Of the building.
We simply desire to call attention
to this official notice. which indicates
that even yet the site for thc model
school has not been agreed upon. and
the board seems 10 nave considerable
troruhlr in securing land in Rock Hill
,for the erection Of this model school.
and the landscape gardener states
that il should not be built upon the
land which is now owned bv the col
lcGc. Ii would seem that Winthrop
college has SO increased the value of
real estate in the city ofRock Hill that
it is impossible to secure any more
land with which the proper and nee,
cSSarv expansion of the institution
may be made.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-03-24
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.

/ spent four days very pleasantly
III Washington last week. The main
purpose Of my visit was to have Il
conference with the post Office de-
partm2nt in regard to certain postal
matters and Incidentally | was sup
posed to represent The Ncwbcrry
chamber Of commerce before the com
mittrc on public buildings. which had
SET apart several hearings for the
week at the request of Congressman
Lever. 1t "a thought that il might
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-03-24

The Florence Times desires to know
why the Clemson board should seek
to establish the experimental station
near the city Of Charleston rather
tnan ON the lands OF the industrial
school in that county. If the State
is [" hulld up another Industrial and
t~cchmulnwiraI school in thc eastern
part OF the State at I%rrorrnct. We see
no reason why there should not be CO.
operation on the part Of the board of
Clemson college. It was our impress
sion that the school at Florence, how
ever, was to be rather Il rcromatory
than q higher institution Of learning.
We are inclined to think that the
appropriation Of ten thousand dollars,
(which was made by The last l~egisla-
lure for this school. was the result of
the large appropriations which were
made 10 thr other State institutions
rather than as an endorsement Of a
plan to establish an industrial. school.
II seemed that the ways and means
committee VAS inclined to put in the
appropriation bill everything that
was asked. and those members who
HAD Opposed some OF The large appro-
priati"ns. when this one WAS suggest
cd. felt that it was useless tn con-
iinur opposition. and ii will b. re-
called that the appropriation bill
Went lhIDu"h both hpusrS withuut