The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-17

II is great To be young; Oklahoma is
young and these are glorious days
down i'm the infant state. Also must
cal comedy is enjoyable when present
ed on the stage. i'm spite of the same
old jokes and the same old gags but
when good comic opera. original. ma
tive and refreshing. is given i'm real
life il is worth watching Down in
Oklahoma they are serving up i'm real
earnest delightful slices of comic opera
setting and plot.
The present entertainment Is afford
ed 10y the effort To definitely locate the
state capital Guthrie has been hold
SO dear 10 the heart of the true okla
homan as excitement and change.
When conditions remain stationary for
two or three days the inhabitants be-
gin TO fear the grand young state has
gone To seed. BY referendum the ques-
tion of permanent location of the state
capital has been submitted to the peo-
pie and the vote has naturally moved
the state capital 10 oklahoma City.
Possibly next year il would go TO
Shawnee, another claimant. after Ok
lahoma City has had its whack at IL.
i'm order to keep the thing from taking
root anywhere, but this time oklahoma
City has a big majority.
But naturally Guthrie is peeved.
when the daughter Of Governor Has
kell ventured on the streets of Guth-
RE 10 cheer the reports showing that
Oklahoma City was forging ahead the
gallantry of the gentlemen Of Guthrie
was dissipated to the four winds and
they so far forgot themselves as to
hurl jeers and Kisses and stones and
brick bats. fermented eggs and ripe
cabbages at her. Prominent Guthrie
citizens rushed TO the district court
and secured an injunction restraining
the state officials from removing the
state offices to Oklahoma City for the
present. In their extremity they turn
ed for relief TO that wonderful Oklaho-
ma constitution, which contains prac-
tically everything desirable and unde-
sirable, and after careful study they
| found relief i'm a clause establishing
the state capital at Guthrie until 1913.
But the capital has been moved.
The great seal Of the great state of
| oklahoma was secretly distracted
from the office Of the secretary of
state and rushed under cover of night
! by automobile to Oklahoma City. Gov
ernor Haskell announces his intention
/ TO disregard the injunction. He and
other state officers have opened up
offices i'm an oklahoma City hotel. a
proclamation declaring oklahoma City
the official seat of government is ex-
| pected. And thus are the courts and
! the officials Of the state concerned in
q nice little comic opera middle. II
only remains for Oklahoma City to
expand so rapidly as to absorb Gu
thrie or vice versa to settle the diff
| culties and work the plot out TO a hap
py conclusion. provided Shawnee does
not mix I'm i'm the meantime, i'm which
| case it would have TO be absorbed too
Sometime Oklahoma is going &c
| grow up. Just at present. though, il
/ has all the refreshing characteristics
! the enthusiasm and the seriousness
over comic affairs. that we find so de-
| lightful- i'm others. But in the mean
! time 1t is serving a very useful and
| important purpose i'm the great feder-
! alton OF states: it is tightening the
strain of the serious season and Civ
ing us a chance to relax our minds.