The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-27

is Oklahoma are still to be found,
the list OF Office holders who owed
their advance to following Colonel
Roosevelt mp San Juan nil is now
a very short one, while formerly they
could have been numbered by the
scores. ranging in importance nom
the governor of Oklahoma down TO
policemen and court bailins
There are four Rough Riders no,u-
ing political positions in Guthrie.
charles h. Hunter is clerk of the
United States district. Chris Madsen
and David Hadden are deputy Uniteu
states n.arshals and W. H. Mitchell
is chief Of police. The two OF these,
however. who have the best jobs
will continue 10 hold them regardless
of the vagarics of politics. Hunter
holds his job at the pleasure -,
Judge John II. Cotteral, who presidcs
over the United States courts for
this district. and as COttcrals IS a
life Job II is probable that HIS CLERK
will hold on for a number Of years.
Madscn was recently placed on the
civil service list. which iusurcs the
permanency of his job. lie has alb
uudant qualifications for his job out.
side Of his Rough Rider cXpencsv,.
having won a reputation la the early
DAYS as fearless pursuer OF bad
men, and in more recent years as an
especially capable office man.
The only other Rough Rider now
holding a position Of real importan.~
I'm Oklahoma is Lieutenant Ernest
Stecker, Indian agent for the Kiows
and Comanche tribes, with head
quarters at Anadarko. He was re-
Gently under fire, but seems TO have
come ont on top. $ +. Adams Of
Atoka is said 20 be slated for the
lob as yet. \. w Renner is United
; States commissioner at Okeene, ana
there are a few other members Of
the regiment holding postoffices and
! minor political jobs.
Probably the best known OF the
, Rough Rders who have been conspic-
. uous In Oklahoma politics Is Ex-Gov-
ernor Frank Frantz, who was sue
| cessively postmaster at Enid, Usage
) Indian agent and governor of Okla
, homa. lie was the Republican nom'
: nee for governor at the first state
. election. but was defeated by an over
2 wheln ing majority. Then he mar
' rowly escaped becoming governor OF
Porto Rico. Charges of very seri
: Gus character had been filed agains'
the incumbent OF that office, and
: President Roosevelt had decided upor
{ Frantz as his successor. But wher
the Porto Rican governor reacne'
u Washington he was able to explain
It matters to the entire satisfaction o
l. his chief and the proposed chang
was never made. Frantz is now de
voting his time to a big Texas lant
- deal and claims to be making money
Ben Colbert, the Chickasaw lndial
~ United States marshal for the South
u ern district of Indian Territory an
- resigned under fire, has quit polite
and devotes himself to raising blood
! ed hogs. S. A. McGinnis, formerl
a law clerk in the Dawes commii
sion, has returned TO the practice {
law Ira Hin, who was feders
court clerk in territorial days, na
gone into the banking business. Wi
liam Bailey of Wynnewood, forme
deputy marshal; Lon MuXlow
- Guthrie, former court crier and dep
~ sheriff: Bill" Sims of Vinita, a.
=, other court crier: Theodore Stidhal
~ of Muskogce, indian policeman, IN
Joe Randolph, postmaster at Wauk
-, mis-, have all returned to private lif
-, Lieutenant Palmer, a prominel
So member of the Oklahoma contingen
is now with the Seventh cavalry,
S. A. Captain Robert Hutson
Guthrie was another Oklahoma Roul
Re. Rider who entered the regular arm
iat after the war and was killed in Il
rp Philippines, as has Robert Howe
of Paul's Valley, who accidental
wn shot himself with a revolver and di
irs from the wound two weeks late
DIe Paul Stewart was killed four yea
nj. ago at PawneC.
Tom Mix divises his time oetwer
, punching cattle and travelling ",
w. Wild West show. He has won {
nod reputation OF Deing the handsome
IN cowpuncher in Oklahoma, and ma
nts such a hil with Eleanor Glyn, Z
. English novelist, when she met hi
in the East recently, that she dec
ed to make him the hero of her nc
novel w. u. Amarene has also be