The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-06-29

capital. restraining him from re-
moving the capital to oklahoma City.
"Why!" said he, "-, -!
-" for Gov. Haskell has a vocab-
ulary that would put Capt. Kidd in
the primer class. \ minister of the
gospel once got up in his pulpit on
a Sunday morning and said he had
ben reliably informed that Haskell
was the swearingest governor in
America.
In the dull, dead hour of the night,
when virtue sleeps and vice walks
abroad in the land" and all that
sort of stuff, someone, the governors
secretary, some say, went to Guthrie
and swiped the great seal of the state,
and brought it to oklahoma City.
Said the governor:
Some men follow the flag. l fol-
low the seal"
Gov. Haskell is an informal man
and, therefore, he wasn't particular
about getting formal returns.
1.-THE boys say Oklahoma City has
won. Me for Oklahoma City" said
Haskell.
And he came.
Alas! Poor MahOney.
Sheriff Mahoney meandered in a
short time later. Mahoney is a Lo-
gan county official; Guthrie is the
county seat of Logan county. Ma
honey went to the Lee hotel. The
governor was standing on the balcony
overlooking the lobby.
81 have some papers for you, gov
ernor," said Mahoney, and he hand
ed Haskell the injunction papers.
Haskell snatched them, threw
them from the balcony to the lobby
and turned upon Mahoney.
Get out of here" said the COVER
nor.
Mahoney didn't.
Get out of here" said the COVER
nor. eff you are in sight in rs mih-
utes from now l will have you thrown
into the guardhouse."
Mahoney got.
Maybe it wasn't a red-faced and
boiling sheriff who beat it! There
had been a very choice assortment
of words passed and the governor
were such that no real lively Okla d.
homa sheriff let's pass without draw
ing his shooting irons. But Maho-
ney never touched his hip apocket,
Bystanders say that it was because
| the governor was the governor.
Blanl>Cty Blank!
do you consider that you have
been served GOVERNOR" asked a
newspaper man, when Mahoney had
| disappeared.
Served" The governor was at
his best. Served! / don't let any
blankety, blankety blank from an
inferior court serve papers on me-"
The governor doesn't like Guthrie
he doesn't hesitate to say so. His
dislike was increased during the ex-
citing hours that the returns were
being received there.
Jane Haskell, his daughter, who
has just graduated TO long dresses,
appeared on the streets of Guthrie
at that critical hour.
'Rah for Oklahoma City," said
she. She was stoned and Missed
from the streets. She hurried to the
depot and took a train for Oklahoma
City. She remained here a day and
then announced that she was going
to return to Guthrie.
it isn't safe for you to go back there"
"The very idea," said she. do you
know that every stitch of clothes l
have here are on me! I'm going back
to Guthrie to get my clothes"
And she went.
But the triumph of Oklahoma CITY
and Haskell couldn't last forever
Heck Thomas, deputy United States
marshal, tried the subpoena game on
Haskell again. The governor snatch
ed from his hands.
This is not Mahoney," said
Thomas.
This is the governor of Oklaho-
ma, l would have you know" re-
turned Haskell, and Thomas retreat
ed.
The Tanning of Haskell.
Next came Fighting Chris Madsen
of Guthrie, deputy United States mar
shall He served Haskell with papers
in the formers office in Oklahoma
City, and the governor had very lit
tie to say.
Guthrie followed this with a Sec
ond victory in the courts, when Judge
Huston, on the district bench, held
that the Enabling Act imposed a valid
and unbreakable condition that the
capital should remain at Guthrie un-
til 1913.
This brings the capital fight square
ly before the state supreme court,
where Attorney General West will
apply for writ of prohibition and
an order setting aside the decision of
the lower court.