The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-17
1915 JOB TO MOVE
/. !: STATE CAPITOL
Gov. Haskill Il Having Strenuous
Time, But He's Determined To
Camp in Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA. Ok, June l7.-on the
: door of the sleeping apartment q
Charles N. Haskell IN the Lee hotel Il
sign, Governors Once" Haskell
Is governor--also be favored Okla
hofna City during the recent vigorous
campaign that brought the state cap
ltal TO Oklahoma City by majority
OF about $4,000. The newspapermen
told the governor that Oklahoma City
had won, when the drift Of voting indi-
Gated that result. He Immediately
came to Oklahoma City and brought
the capital with him.
In the meantime, however, an In
junction had been granted against the
governor, at the instance OF citizens OF
Guthrie, the one-year-trlal capital, re-
strxining him from removing the cap
ital TO Oklahoma City.
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 secc-
rotary, some say, went TO Guthrie and
swiped the great seal OF the state, and
brought it 10 Oklahoma City. Said
the governor:
Some men follow the flag. follow
the seal"
Gov. Haskell is an informal man and.
therefore, he wasn't particular about
getting formal returns.
THE boys say Oklahoma City has
won. Me for Oklahoma City," said
Haskell.
And he came. --
Sheriff Mahoney meandered In a
short time later. Mahoney is q Logan.
county official; Guthrie is the county
seat OF Logan county Mahoney went
TO the Lee hotel. The governor was
standing on the balcony, overlooking
the lobby.
einor." said Mshoney. and he handed
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 governor.
Mahcney didn't.
Get out Of here" said the governor.
IF you are In sight Is minutes from
now will have you thrown into the
guardhouse."
Mahoney got.
Maybe II wasn't a red-faced and
boiling sheriff who beat II. There had
been a very choice assortment III
words passed and the governors were
sach that no real lively Oklahoma
sheriff let's pass without drawing his
shooting irons, But Mahoney never
touched his hip pocket. Bystanders
say that II was because the governor
was the governor.
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 in
ferior court serve papers on me-
ignoring the Injunction, Haskell and
other state officials. are installing
themselves In temporary quarters,
pending the erection OF a million-dol-
ar capitol building.
The governor doesn't like Guthrie
he doesn't hesitate TO say SO. His
dislike was Increased during the ex-
sitting hours that the returns were
oeing received there.
Jane Haskell. his daughter. who has
Just graduated to long dresses. ap-
peared on the streets of Guthrie at
that critical hour. essea
~Rah for Oklahoma City," said she.
She. was stoned and Kissed from the
streets. She hurried to the depot and
took train for Oklahoma City. She
remained here day and then an
nonnced that she was going to return
to Guthrie
why" 1t was suggested. maybe 1t
isn't safe for you to go back there"
The very idea," said she. do you
know that every stitch of clothes /
have here are on me! I'm going back
to Guthrie to get my clothes"
And she went.