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Proposed Amendment No. 10.

That the following is hereby pro- posed as an amendment to the Consti- tuition of the State of Arkansas, and the same being submitted to the elec- tors of the State for approval or re- jection at the n ext general election for senators and representatives, if ma- jority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendment the same shall become a part of the Con- stitution of the State of Arkansas, to- wit:
 That section one, article five, of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 1. The legislative powers of this State shall be vested in Gen. eral Assembly, which shall consist of the Senate and House of Representa- tives, but the people, of each munich pality, each county and of the State, reserve to themselves power to pro- pose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly. The first power reserved by the people is the Initsa- tive, and not more than 8 per cent of t',.. legal voters shall be required to propose any measure s by such peti- ton, and every such petition shall in- clude the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the Secretary of State not less than four months before the elec- tion at which they are to be voted up- on.
 "The second power is Referendum, and it may be o1dered (except as to
 laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety) Ieither by the petition signed by per cent of the legal vot- CTS or by the legislative assembly as other bills are enacted. Referendum petitions shall be sfled with the Sec- retary of State notsmore than ninety days after the f1nak adjournment of the session of the legislative assembly which passed the bill Non which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the Governor shall not ex- tend to measures referred to the peo- pie. All elections on measures re- ferred to the people of the State shall be had at the biennial regular gener- al elections, except when the legisla- tive assembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the people shall take effect and be- come law when it is Approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall be, Be it Enacfed by the Peo- pie of the State of Arkansas This section shall not be fonstrued to de prive any member 1f the legislative assembly of the right to introduce any measure. The wholF number of votes cast for the office q Governor at the regular election la$t preceding the filing of any petition for the Initiative or for the Referendum shall be the basis on which the number of legal
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Proposed Amendment to the Constitu.
 tion of the State of Arkansas.

Notice is hereby given that the fol- lowing joint resolution, proposing an was passed by the General Assembly, at it's regular session of 1909, and that the same vii, be submitted to the electors of the State at the next gen. eral election to be held Monday, Sep tember 12, 1910, for adoption or rejec-
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DIR. c. D. SMITH VETERINARY SURGEON AND

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 Hospital 323 Pine, first building south of Hicks Ice Factory. Residence 1907 w. 9th, ave. tele. rhone Qong distance) 109. Buggies and Automobiles washed
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
COMET ON EXHIBITION
Observers Afforded Fine View
of Celestial Visitor
Last Night

After having fooled all astronomers
as to when and how it would appear,
l!alley's comet Wednesday night gave
the per9le of the Western Hemisphere
The gre est view Of celestial wonders
yet known to man. The comet APP
reared at a trifle after $3.50 o'clock,
ABOUT forty million miles nearer the
zenith of the heavens than had been
predicted, the famous nebula extend
irg almost direct from west TO east
exactly opposite Of two nights before.
To the layman it appeared to be
Inlly fifty feet in length--astronomi-
cal calculation being almost a million
miles to our estimated foot.
Last nights visitor Travelled rapid
ly, the best vision being just at 9:lo
o clock, one hour later, it had trayers-
ed through space far enough to pre-.
vent the naked eye to observe.
The appearance of the comet with
the tail extending in an opposite dl-
rection to that expected, gives rise
to agreement with the recent astron'
omical prediction that Halley's com
ct will make world history by being
seen In both east and west at the
same time, the rays from the great
celestial body being such as to shoot
across the worlds skies in PLAIN
vision OF the naked eye.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
STATE HONOR INVOLVED
Adoption of Capital Removal Bill
Would Violate Solemn Pledge
DECISIONS CITED AS PRECEDENTs
Committee Of Lawyers Show Up the Fal
lacies and Misleading Contentious Set
Forth By Oklahoma City Bar Asso-
ciation---Legal Status Of States
Obligation Clearly Presented

Has obtained?
II is stated in the argument tha,
the condition in the Enabling Act
was not made part of our constitu
ton and therefore not binding upon
The people of the state. Is this state
ment true?
It is provided in Section of the
Enabling Act as follows:
'The capital of said state shall
temporarily be at the City of Guth,
ne, in the present Territory Of Okla
homa and shall not be changed there
from previous TO Ammo Domini Nine
teen Hundred and Thirteen, but said
capital shall, after. said year, be To-
Gated sby the electors of said state at
an election to be provided for by the
legislature. Provided, however, that
the legislature of said state except
as shall be necessary for the conyen-
lent transaction of the public busi-
ness of the state at said capital shall
not appropriate any public moneys OF
the state for the erection OF build
iugs for capital purposes during such
period
Under this provision three things
are stated as conditions:
A. The capital may not be located
rrior to 1918
B. After 1919 the capital must be
located at an election TO be provided
70 by the legislature.
c. No money can be appropriated
fer capital building prior to 1913.
The bill in question admittedly
violates all three of these conditions,
and It is asserted that this may be
legally done. We assert that all these
three conditions are legally as well as
morally binding.
Shall Accept Enabling Act
Section 90 of the Enabling Act is az
follows
"Convoution shall accept enabling
act-That the constitutional conyen.
Continued on Page Eight
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
LOGAN COUNTY INSTITUTE
Prospects Encouraging orLarge
Attendance at Summer
Session

Unusually good attendance is ex
pected at the Logan county normal In
slitute, the first sessions of which
viii be held at Central school build
ing next Monday County Superin
tendent Humphrey has sent out com
plete announcements Those who ex.
pect to teach in the public schools,
eighth grade pupils who failed in ex-
amnations and graduates of high
schools are to be students.
Members OF district school boards
ministers, school officers, reporters
aud parents are asked to visit the In,
stitute.
A list of boarding houses and Of To-
cetons OF furnished rooms has been
sent out The only fees are $l.70 for
enrollmenI, 30 cents for course OF
study and 81 for examination. An
agents must pay fee and be pledged
not TO interrupt the teacher-pupils.
Following will be the faculty for the
institute:
w. s. Calvert. conductor; former
county superintendent, rural teacher,
and principal of county high school;
now superintendent Of Guthrie city
schools.
w. s, Jamison, physics, agriculture,
composition and vocal music; grad
uate Campbell college and Universi-
~ OF Kansas; teacher in Oklahoma
Central State normal,
f. w. Wenner, Perry, spelling, geo
sraphy, 4, thods, housekeeping, agri-
culture; graduate Heidelberg college
Chic; former superintendent Of
schools at Bellaire, Martins Ferry
and Lakeside; now superintendent ol
schools at Perry.
Miss Margaret Doolittle. grammar
aud arithmetic; graduate Winfield
nigh school and Edmond normal;
teacher in rural schools and Logan
county high school; now assistant to
county superintendent.
Miss Marguerite Byrne, drawing, do
mestic science. primary methods; edu
Gated at Convent academy Davenport
iowa, Normal school of Kansas and
Greeley, Colo, normal.
The institute Is to run from May
81 to June "a.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
LESLIE ?. ROSS FILES
Resubmissionist Candidate for
Governor on Demo
cratic Ticket

Leslie j, Ross, OF Lawton, the re-
snomlssionst candidate for governor
VI the Democratic ticket, today filed
ais application for place on the pri-
mary ballot.
Jacob c. Roberts, Of Enid, filed as
q Republican candidate for judge OF
the Twentyfoulth district.
Patrick II. Wlmpey, Republican,
Falryiew, filed as u candidate for sen.
aior from the Second district.
The following candidates for repre-
aentatiyeB fled
Paul b. Mason, Republican, Paw
huslka, Usage county; w. N. Goodwin
Republican, Stratford, Garyin county
walter W. Breedloye, Democrat. Fair
land, ottawa county; J. T. Sneed
Democrat, Joiner, Carter county. +
NJ Mowdy, Democrat, CoaIgate, Ca
county.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26

Oh, yes!
Oklahoma Citys chamber Of com.
merce rcsoluted for Arkansas river
improvement
Quite recently, too,
Same day, or within forty-eight
hours, Traffic Johnston was re-elect-
I'd by the traffic boald as managing
head.
Johnson agrees to be good-until
after June II.
The Oklahoman Of today contains
inis threat OF Johnstons, signed by
that Individual:
Editor The Daily Oklahoman: So
ras as this section Of the country Is
concerned | have for the past sis
,ears been fighting. almost alone, the
scandal of our nation, viz. the uhjus
tifiable appropriations by congress loF
II You believe am right. just say as
bors and useless waterways | am
heaitily In favor OF Improvement oil
81 necessary harbors and meritorl
Gus waterways.
This wholly without reference 70
locality and, hence, without any mar
zee toward Tulsa and Muskogee.
"If you think am wrong in flgnt..
ing tllls s.afl and frarr, 20 ahead
ard lambast me all YOU want to. but
II YOU be lleye | am right, just say as
i:tfie as You can on the subject untli
otter June lith. when expect to have
my inning
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26

bomed communities, tho people OF Ok
l9homa City demanded a halt when
their realty grafters were trying to
sell additions ten or fifteen miles
out from the city limits.
One bank is already Of the past
/, carried wads of "fine paper" too.
Banking. however. at times takes
money rownlot statesmen were call
O., in. There were maI,y conferences,
and finally. out of Ardmore land
came an inspiration and the result
CT the LABOR is the bill to remove the
state seat OF government.
There is nothing strange about the
leal estate men holding the meetings
tc raise money. To the town loi
coterie It is sink or swim PROPOSE
Iion--ihoy have reached the, tethel
end unless the people of this state
will Immediately let them get hold
of 100000 "as a starter"
With that amount, friendly cap
] itol commission, and run OF COW pas
tures for townlot carving. hope, peace
ard prosperity would again shine 70
| the motley combination.
To prevent the success OF thes'
scmI.business-semi-political adyentui
ssrs. tine taxpayers haEe only 70 80 z
'ltie nolls on the nth day of June AM
4 yute NO
That SOFT of a vote will knoc'
,sat 100000 starter In the hea
land save the taxpayers from stariin
Il s4.OO0,010 loot scheme.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
: GANG IS DESPERATE

The Leader has previously asserted
the big business men. those who are
suund financially and morally are not
overly ambitious to have the Ledbet-
ter capital removal monstrosity meas
ure carry, and splendid proof of that
is found in the call of Thursday, May
eG, first page of Oklahoman, to a
ineeting.
The call is signed by "Grlstmill'
Jones, as chairman of executive COM
mittee for state capital removal: and
by L. D. Kight, head of the real es-
trte exchange.
The town lot men will respond
They want the seat of government at
Cnce. for does not the Oklahoman, is.
sue ofThdrsday. May 26, 1910, say:
Ey and by, when skyscraper building
uoes out cf fashion, II Is not going to
be so easy matter to sell townot
ts*
There, II you please, is the lactea
fMid found IN the old town lot gourd
Town lots are not selling as readi
" as they did In the Canadian bot
IONS farm country.
Some men who expected fifty II
/. ,ory s,<,se.apala ten or fiftecr fni'e'
outside OF Oklahoma City on IT,
"lotsv purchased are now farlHnl
their lots in the hope 81 selling OF
mem enough cabbage to reeoup then
far their cabhage-head Investments.
Like al other cvergrofn and oye'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
GRANT COUNTY SOIL
VERITADLE GOLD MIlE
Statistics Show Remarkable
Gains In Crop Yields
Last Year

That Bryan county Is destined 10
he one OF the leading agricultural
counties In tho state IL shown By the
1893 agricultural statistics received
uom that county today by the Okla.
aoma state board Of agriculture. The
county made a great advancement Ia
agriculture lust year, there being sub.
stantial increased yields In all crops
raised over the previous year.
Corn ia king In the county; last
years yield being 1,ll3,083 bushels
as compared with S02.2S7 bushels the
previous Year The big increase in
cotton production from Ass bales to
2,7l4 bales Is shown by the report,
while the principal cotton growing
counties show q big decrease last
year, according TO both state aud Fed
eral reports The report shows that
3G3 more farms were titled in 1903
than In 1903. with an increased acre.
age In cultivation of 81 ,9G2 acres. The
acreage planted IN sorghum last year
T'yas All acres, as compared with z04
Ing profitable crop and the acreage
ng ap rOfitable crop and the acreage
last year more than doubled that OF
1908. Last years OATS crop was 1885,
GC1 bushels as compared with l39,5UJ
tushels the previous year. Brooa
corn growing Is proving successful al.
thought Il is known as a western crop
Hhe broom corn raised last year
brought s3,21G us compared with $al0
for the previous year Hay sold for
St3,962 In 1909 and $i,g77 in 1908.
lFonltry produce last year brought
sl0,G24 as compared with SS,733 the
year before. Eggs brought sl1.079 ia
1909 and st0,Sl4 in 1908. Live stoca
statistics show there 10 be 42S more
horses, 29S more mules and 4S3 more
mllk cows than In 1908 Animals
sold for slaughter last year brought
siS5.15s as compared with S93.5G4 the
lrreyious year.
Grant County Takes The Cake"
Grant county's agricultural statis-
ties, received by the board of agrl-
culture todag, shows II to be the ban
her agricultural county OF the state,
unless Garfield county's report shows
d much greater advancement over the
remarkable gains IN Yields made last
year In Grant county
The county taFad 2,5STT02 bushels
of corn last year, an increase OF S2b'
SRI bushels over the previous year
and makes the county fifth in rank
among the corn producing counties
y The county raised l,740,4l2 bushels O
+ wheat last year. gain OF 2Sl,5SS bust
as over the 1898 crop and places
this county second in wheat produc
ton.
b The oats yield last year was 1,iO3'
4 ,b1 bushels, which makes 1t the ban
ner county, as no other county ma
Z, year raised as muck as 100000
= Bushels.
Continued on Page Five
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
OKLAHOMA WAS THERE
Youngest State Had Good At
tendance at St. Louis
Charities Meet

Oklahoma was largely represented
at the convention of associated char-
ties at S. Louis last week and TINS
week The state made a great climD
in standing in the national organlza-
ton, getting four of the Important
committee places instead OF one as
heretofore.
II. Huson, assistant commissioner
of charities and corrections, returned
last night from the big meeting He
said sixteen Oklahoma delegates at
tended.
Miss Kate Barnard was chosen re-
porter for Oklahoma and assigned to
the section OF supervision and admin.
istration. II. Huson was appointed
to the section Of occupational stan
dards. DR.. J. II. Sleeper Of Claremore
was appointed to the section OF law
breakers, and Dr. VIM. Fowler Of Al
derson was put In the section OF
health and sanitation.
1t is the duty Of the sections to form
ulate the program for the next annual
meeting, which Will be in Boston,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
PEOPLE ARE NOT FOOLED

On any event, before you commit
Yourself beyond redemption please
secure copy OF Senator Burtons
'iews on this subject as embodied in
Senate Report 527, Part 3, TO accom-.
Lany II, Il. Goose. April IA. 29lO. Sin
verely yours,
-. w. JOHNSTON"
What sort Of help" viii Tulsa and
Muskoeee get on the Arkansas river
froieet2
The hosgishness OF the crew man.
aeing the state capital removal
scheme has been long known: John
sion being so angry because he can
not wage war on other cities nnVii
the townlot looters ox-wagon the cap
itol down to their Canadian bottom
wheat farm, he Just had to let people
Fnow what he Intends to do, Just as
soon as the real estate loot ex'
chequer Is heplenished.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
BOOST OIL PRODUCTION
Effort to Induce Waters-Pierce
Company to Use Okla
homa Product

In a letter to George D. Getty OF
Los Angeles, Cal, Attorney General
West gives out the information that
he is trying to induce the Waters
Fierce Oil company to buy its oil in
Oklahoma so far as Oklahoma is able
to supply it, This, course will, il
adopted, he thinks, result in a great
increase, in Oklahoma oil production.
Mr.. West claims in the letter
which was in response to an inquiry
as to the status of the oil business
end the legal phrase of the situation
that the Waters-Pierce company prac
tcally admitted defeat at Enid in try
ing to secure postponement to nex'
Jsnuary.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
WILL IuUsE MEMORIAL DAY

Closing of stores for the afternoon
OF Memorial day will be brought
about by agreement. Secretary Ray
son OF the Chamber OF Commerce an
nounces the following as having agre-
ed to close at " m. for the day.
r. C. Peterson, Chas +. Eisen'
schmidt, James A. Milne. A. o. Far
auharson F. o. I.utz D. G Co, J. J.
abt Il. glUsn's D. q 70 Monarch D
G. Co, NJ. Behr, Tom jenkins and Ed
Fcntam
The formal meeting in connection
with memorial observances will be Al
the Fist N .E. church at 100 Mon
day afternoon.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
Mr.. J. j. O'Rourb. Chairman state
Capitol Location Committee:

Mr. j. j. O'Rourk. Chairman state
Capitol Location Committee
We have had referred to us, by
your committee and yourself, for an.
swer, an article published in the Times
OF Oklahoma City, under date May
n, and entitled Lawyers Urge Citi-
zens to Vote the Capital"
The article in question purports to
deal with the legal phase involved
and decisions of courts arc cited and
quoted from for the purpose of dem
cnstrating that the capital of the state
may be lawfully located. The author.
tiles cited are as follows:
Escanaba VS.. Chicago, II Otto, G7S.
Bolin vs.. Nebraska, 17G U. s., SO.
In Escanaba VS.. Chicago it is held
that the state OF Illinois may auth
orize the city of Chicago to construct
BRIDGES, with suitable draws to per-
llit the passage of vessels across the
Chicago river, a navigable stream, be.
cause congress has not seen fit to
Emit tie power of the state in this
respect. In the opinion it is said
Congress may interfere and re-
move the obstruction
And
II the power of the state and that
Ct the federal government come in
Conflict, the latter must control and
the former yield. This necessarily
follows from the position given by the
constitution to legislation in pussu-
ance of II, as the supreme law of the
land
And further in the same opinion in
discussing the limitation Of powers
of the state in the control OF their
internal affairs it is said
Whatever the limitation upon her
powers as a government whilst In
territorial condition, whether from
The ordinance of 1887 OF the legisla
ton Of congress, it ceased to have
operative force, except as voluntarily
adopted by her, after she became a
state OF the union"
The foregoing excerpts show:
First. That ii state passes a
law conflicting with a law of con
gress upon the same subject, the state
law must fall; and,
Second. That state may voun
tarily surrender q right which ordin
arily belongs to it, and that such sur
tender is binding upon state.
The Nebraska Case
Bolin VS.. Nebraska is case where
in it is held that state may prose
cute felonies by information instead
Of by indictment, and that there Is
nothing in the federal constitution
which prevents state from SO doing
An examination OF the cases cited and
relied upon will clearly show thai
tley do not support the contention o.
lie parties.
The question for consideration Isl
May congress impose condition IL
relation to the capital location, which
II agreed to, becomes binding obi
cation, or may the people accept
condition and then at will repudiat'
the condition under which statehood
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
TO CONFER DIPLOMAS
First Graduates From Okla
homa Secondary School
OF Agriculture

President J. r. Connors OF the state
board OF agriculture will be IN Tish.
omingo tomorrow to confer diplomas
on the first graduates from an Okla.
homa secondary school Of agriculture.
The graduating class from the Murray
school consists OF four people. That
three young men will go back to the
farms and the young lady will take
up domestic science teaching In pub
lie schools. This is not only the first
class from the Murray scnool bur
from any Oklahoma district school
and one Of the few from any schoo
OF the sort In the country
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
MORE CAPITAL STOCK
Muskogee Concern Makes In
crease From 81, 500, 900
to So 900, 900

The Mnskogee Gas and Electric
company has Increased its capital
sock from s1,5O0.000 to s4,O00,0Oo,
This increase Is on account OF the
building Of the electric railroads aboD'
Muskogee and Of extension OF the
electric power business The direct
ers filing the notice In the secretary
OF states office, with $1,000 in fees
are II. T.. Hoagland, w X. Emerson
and Isaac Milkswitch.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
cor NEGRO, WOMAN ESCAPES

County Attorney J. w. Reece OF
saltwater reached the city this morris
ing from Edmonton, Canada, where
he attempted TO secure extradition
of James Chapman. colored, and Sarah
Matthews, white. on charge OF muir
derng Mrs. Matthews husband. He
has secured the papers for the negro
but has not succeeded as to Mrs.
Matthews. II the courts do not give
her up Reece will try TO have her de
ported.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
TO OPPOSE AMENDMENT
National Labor Organizer VIII
Make Canvass OF
State

Frank Hamilton of Denver, general
organizer for the American Fedora
tion OF Labor, reached the city last
night to take the place Of President
Samuel Gompers in tour of the state,
Mr.. Gompery lad planned speaking
tour in opposition to the proposed
amendment Of article 8 Of the con
stitutlon, relating to railroads, but he
has been III recently and has gone
into retirement for awhile Mr.. Ham
ilton, travelling with J. Luther Lang
ston. viii fill the dates Labor anc
farm unions generally are opposir>
the amendment.