The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-10
BECAUSE OF FAcTlONAL FIGHT
BETWEEN TWO RIVAL TOWNS
FOR LOCATION OF SCHOOL.
So REPORTS MISS BARNARD
In the Mean Time County Judges
and Sheriffs over the state Are
Anxious to Dispose OF Juvenile De.
linquents on Their Hands.

Guthrie. Okla, Jan. Over one
hundred boys and girls under II years
of age, forced into regular schools OF
crime, herded. as they are now. in
Oklahoma iails with criminals of all
races and both sexes, and the juvenile
court law completely paralyzed and
rendered imperative, all owing to a
factional fight between two cnterpris
ing towns for the location Of the
state training school. are some OF
the conditions found by State Com
missioner of Charities and Correc.
tions Kate Barnard in her annual re-
port to the governor and Legislature,
the preliminary sheets OF which are
now in course of completiop.
Miss Barnard refers to the n, n
lie school authorized by the last 'eg.
islature TO be built between Ia lis
Valley and Wynnewood, but whi. ~
has not begun building, due to the
fact that the site has never been set.
/ tied.
"My office has been receiving a
flood of letters from the county
judges and sheriffs. asking what dis
position could be made of juvenile de.
linquents then in their hands. The
juvenile court law had gone into ef-
feet June !, and as this law forbids
he Imprisonment of boys and girls
in jails. the officers did not know what
TO do with those in their Gus i0dy.
After considerable CORE spondencc.
the attorney generals office handed
down an opinion that the law estab-
fishing the training school was not
in effect until the state had formal.
ly received deeds for the 100 acres
OF land specified in the bill. This
opinion. OF course. crushed every
hope and chance for the state to take
imme diate charge OF the boys and
girls needing correction.
Since then other complications
have come up. The land finally
agreed upon by the two towns and
selected by the board of control for
the school site was Indian land, of
which $50 acres was allotted land and
forty acres unallottod Restrictions
had % be removed from the Indian
owing to allotted land After some
delay this was done and the title pass
400 acres has not been secured as
stipulated in the establishing act the
proposition has been as completely
blocked as il was before the land was
secured.
1T was thought that this unallotted
forty acres could be easily secured
from the federal government, but the
days, weeks and months have passed
and still this land is not secured, and
Juvenile court law exist nine months
after the law is passed and the school
established on paper only, the one
no. in operation aul the other not
built.
However. the board has done one
thing 1t has appointed superinten-
dent, T.. B. Nelson OF Geronimo, who
has been making good use of his
joblcsa and salaryless time by visit
ing at his own expense various simi.
lar institutions, except that they are
in reality. in other states, to get
pointers how 10 handle the training
school when it shall have been con
structed
when the next ogi3lature meets"
says Miss Barnard relative somewhat
TO the same subject, Il shall ask that
the training school law be amended
so that provision is made for regu-
larly apprenticing boys over l6 years
OF age To ONE trade am opposed
To the turning back of boys on society
with only the fragments OF trade.
The tendency of the Jack of all
trades has little or no show of OBJ
tanning steady work or 10 command
living wages
Legislation to do away with The
professional guardian" so common
in counties having an Indian popula-
tion, and giving the commissioner of
charities ana corrections power to go
into the probate courts as the next
friend" OF all minor children under
guardianship, is also asked By Miss
Kate Barnard
Under regulations Of the depart
ment OF the interior, before state.
hood all full-blood Indian children OF
the five civilized tribes We're trea.ed
as orphans, whether their parents
were living or not, and guardians 9TH
er than full.blood Indians had to be