The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-25
OKLAHOMA CITY MAKES A
MOVE IN STATE CAPITAL
MATTER
ALLEGED THAT 100000
AND DEEDS ARE PUT Up
Said That Work VIII Be Begun
as Soon as The Plans are
Completed"
snecial to the Daily Leader.


Oklahoma City, Okla May 25-One
hundred thousand dollars recently
voted In city bond issue and deeds
to about 400 acres Of land in tract
scattered to the northeast compris-
ine the so-called Capitol addition,
were delivered 10 Gov Cruce today by
the state Capitol Building company Of
Oklahoma City and as soon as posi-
hle work on the building is TO begin.
The site is to be that accepted by the
last legislature
The building company still holds
IN escrow deeds TO between 2j0 ana
500 acres OF land which is to be pur-
chased outright and delivered 10 the
state as soon as the building company
is able 10 realize upon notes which
some donors gave in place OF land.
Contract Is Executed
Following delivery Of the money and
deeds, contract was executed be-
tween Lee Cruce, as an individual
and the State Capitol Building com
pany. through G. F. Colcord, presi-
dent whereby the former becomes
trustee for the latter and agrees to
begin expenditure Of the cash as soon
as plans may be secured and other
preliminaries completed
II is provided that when the legis
lature meets GOV. Cruce is 10 submit
the entire transaction TO the law-mak
ers for ratification or rejection. II
the legislature does the former then
the State Capitol Building company
is relieved of its obligation TO pay 70
the state $1,000,000 for the much taiN-
ed OF free capitol building. If not
then the building company and Okla
homa City is loser to the extent 81
500, 600 cash. In that case deeds 10
the property are to be returned by
the state. In the latter event GOV.
Grace SAYS the building company
would still be due its 100000 BOND
t. the state, in failure to carry out
the first agreement
None OF the deeds delivered today
show correction OF the defects point
ed out by the title attorneys OF the
school land department and the attot-
ney generals office. GOV. CruCe said
however that before he would subm..
the proposition to the legislature at
all the abstracts would have to pass
muster in both departments
The Parker-Howe fftyJhYe acres is
in a class by itself since the title
thereto being involved in litigation
was unQualifiedly rejected by both the
land Office and the attorney general IS
department.
When the legislature accepted the
northeast site. which embraces the
ParkerHowe tract, a bond totalinS
$500. 900 was executed by oklahoma
City people as a guarantee of the title,
If there arises any question as TO the
Present status Of the bond Gov. Cruce
says that before the abstract will be
submitted to the legislature under
the new arrangement he will require
the building company to place the
title to this acreage in as good cOnd
tion as it was when the Legislature. a
wear and a half ago agreed TO the
northeast site.
Acts In Private Capacity
According to the governor he acted
in a private capacity in becoming
trustee for the building company and
he is not to be held liable in any
event, neither is the state, under
terms of the contract. The governor
saws that he will recommend to the
legislature that the present proposi-
tion is as good as the one the legisla
ture accepted.
Details of the work are to be
handled by the state board of affairs
which is also the state capitol com
mission, the first work being to on.
tain plans. which viii consume, it is
thought, six weeks or two months.
There is no settled idea how much
of a building will be necessary 10
meet the states needs. but the cost
viii not be less than 81 100000 The
governor says that all embroidery
and show will be eliminated and the
cost ordinarily placed in frlls ex
rended for necessities. Some states
have anywhere from 100000 to $3.50
COO i'm domes and Ornamentation.
Mississippi completed its S1.000,00
Luildins in thirteen months. while itl
took Illinois twenty-One years to build
its capitol. The state of Oklahoma
win soon begin paying rent for offices
here. which. on the present basis.
amounts to nearly $4,000 a year.
Governor Cruce. as trustee for the
building company deposited the 500.
coo in three Oklahoma City banks
and required the purchase of state
warrants TO that amount.