The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-04-02
STRAY SHOTS FROM
TIE STATE CAPITAL.


Guthrie. Okla Mar 8I.-W. b An.
thony. the newly appointed private
secretary 10 the governor. assumed
the duties OF his position today
The criminal court OF appeals IN
stin engaged in the Interpretation Of
the liquor laws A new proposition
passed upon today was occasioned b.
an appeal from Pittsburgh county
wherein a jury found a defendant
guilty Of violating the liquor laws and
gave a verbal verdict to that effect
The sealed verdict vas not opened
for nine days and then IL was found
10 be a verdict Of not guilty The
jury was brought into court and test
fed that the verdict Of guilty was the
one intended to be rendered but thar
the other verdict was accidentally
sealed up The court held that the
sealed verdict was the one that GOV
erned and that a jury once dismissed
could not be re-conyened.
Loans we're made during the week
ending March ~ By state school land
commission amounting to $4,000 on
Oklahoma farming lands
Guthrie. Okla. April The state
board 81 normal regents have post
poned their meeting 10 April 7th al
which time about seventy teachers viii
be elected 70 positions in the new
schools provided for by the legisla
ture II appears that the board will
have plenty Of timber from which u
choose as about 1900 applications are
nov on file
Quite scramble Is now on for the
location of the secondary agricultural
schools II the ntA judicial district
the contest IS the warmest with Elk
City Erick. sayre. Lawton. Cheyenne
Helena and Hobart as contestants In
the Pan Handle district Gyman Good
we'll and Hooker are Am trying for
locations Chiekasha Is an aspirant
and over ia the FIRST district Pond
Greek. Broken ARROW and Chandle
have up their lightning rods
Will they pay without law suif
Is the question often asked 81 regard
20 the attitude of the coal. oil. and gas
companies toward TIE gross revenue
Law About 100000 have been paid
aud there Is perhaps $4,000 cine from
the different companies i gross rev
enue TAX IS a special tax imposed up-
on the production OF coal. oll and gas
by the legislature for the reason thar
those productions are taken from the
earth today and shipped out tomorrow
70 the value of millions 81 dollars.
leaving she resources Of the state that
much less and they 60 So quickly that
the assessor IF property never gets the
products for taxes The tax was fixed
by the frs Legislature At two per cent
of the gross revenue 81 the mine and
well during the year. The second leg
islature believing that the tax was
excessive. lowered ID to one.half Of one
per cent II Is now apparent that this
reasonable tax will be resisted BY
some Of the companies on the ground
that it IS double taxation This IS
a matter of great Importance 70 all the
people and Il appears that il IS the
only way in which tie oil Kings ana
slime Rarons can BE- made 20 beaF
their just proportion - the burden of
running the state government State
Auditor Trapp whose duty II ls to cul
ieet this tax Is determined 20 leave
nothing andune 70 bring about the col
lection of this tax and IL goes without
saying that he win have the support
of every officer ~ the administration
The criminal court Of appeals IS stili
busy Interpreting the devious Way OF
ne Biliaps bin An important deci
sion was handed down yesterday by
Justice Baker clearing another point
ii regard 20 Interstate shipments The
case decided was that Of Huston Hud
son. Of Love county. convicted a. Mari
eta for Transporting liquor
Huston was commissioned by bis
father and two neighbors to buy liquor
for them IN Texas AS he was Re-
turning with the liquor he was arrest
ed FOR transporting liquor into the
state Of Oklahoma and was convicted
Ii the lower court.
The decision Of the court Of appeals
Is that the interstate law was not yio-
lated hy Hudson and that the inter
state shipment was not completed un-
tn the liquor was delivered to the con-
slgners
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