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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
GOVERNOR SAYS ASSESSORS
SHOULD Be APPRAISERS
Special to the Daily Leader.

special 10 the DAILY Leader,
Oklahoma City. July 12-The path
OF the newly created county assessor
has not been strewn with roses. and
difficulties which faced him in the
first year OF his duties are reaching
X state board of equalization for so
Luton
Differences between the assessors
and the county boards Of equalization
were aired Wednesday in various
hearings given by the state board on
valuations from all parts of the state.
The Beckham county assessor had
a 80 l-3 per cent decrease In yalua-
tons to explain and he did 1t with
the assertion that the state board $
increase last year had pushed prop
erty so high that property was taxed
on value OF so per cent higher than
it would have brought at a voluntary
sale
Governor Cruce produced the rec
crd of school fund loans again here
and called the attention OF the asses
sor to instances where owners swore
10 high values for loan purposes. but
gave in their farms at much lower
figures for taxing purposes One
tact assessed for 81 500, the owner
had sworn to be worth $4,000 when
seeking a loan. other comparisons
were $4,000 and 5000 $3.50 and ST..
500.
we ought TO have some OF you as
SCISSORS for school land appraisers,
said the governor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
WILL
SELL SITE:
FOR $4,000
OFFER OF $4,000 MADE BY
CITY COMMISSIONERS
TURNED DOWN

The mayor and city commission
ers made formal tender of $4,000
to Geo. Latta yesterday for his
house and five acres of land adjoln-
ing Mineral Wells park north of the
river. Mr.. Latta promptly refused
the offer and made counter prop
osition to the commissioners of $4,-
GOO. This is much less than il has
teen generally thought Mr.. Latta
would take for the site.
The Latta proposition has been
turned over to the park commission
ers for action by that board. If the
park board decide to recommend the
purchase of the land the commits
sioners will close the deal mme-
diately At least that was the at
titude of the commissioners at their
meeting this morning
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
FORTUNES
IN ORCHARDS
OF M'|NT0SH
ANDY MOORMAN AND MON
ROE FELTON, HAVE BIG
PEACH CONTRACT

Andy Norman and Monroe FELTON,
expert peach packers, returned to
Mcintosh county last night after a
short visit with their families here
They have been 4R~the orchards ol
that county since the early peach
season opened last month
Mr.. Moorman is experimenting the
packing of the peaches on the 80
acre Mckinley place near Euiaula
So far this season fifteen cars OF
peaches of the Mamie Ross and
Wheeler variety have ben gathered
land shipped from that orchard The
Elberta peaches will be in condition
FER picking about the 2Sth OF this
month and he says that this orchard
of so acres, from which fifteen cars
cars have already been shipped will
produce not less than 20 cars of the
Elbertas.
THE crop this year." Mr.. Moor
man said lis bigger and better
than any ! have seen in the past ten
years The peach is large. has
splendid color and is exceptionally
ltcious. In the Mckinley orchard
Iol so acres the trees have been well
cared for and practically all Of the
fruit is in condition to ship There
I2re very few culs The orchard
averages 1873 trees to the acre and
they are all loaded TO the limit
never saw so many peaches TO a tree
IN my life Mckinley will make a
fortune out Of his trees this year.
From the ll,O40 bearing trees in his
Orchard he viii ship not less than a.
carloads this season. We have had
10 trouble in procuring plckers this
year. ! have had over seventy pick
ers continually with me this season.
Mr. Moorman says the people OF
that part of the state are strongly
AGAINST Oklahoma City and will vote
Tor Guthrie for the permanent seat
ot government next fall He also
says that section Is soldly Demo
cratic, and that all are for c. n
Haskell for senator
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
OKLAHOMA TO Be WELL
REPRESENTED At SALT LAKE

Salt Lake City, Utah. Jnly fa
Oklahoma will have large and
representative delegation at the
coming session of the National 1r
rigati0n congress- 10 be held in this
city September 80 to October 3, ac-
cording to advices received by Sec
retary Arthur Hooker. This Is the
twentieth session of this orsaniza-
tion which has done so much for the
upbuilding Of the west. OkIahomai
Is yitally interested In the question
OF irrigation Zip to the year 1910
nearly six thousand acres OF land
had ibeen brought under irrigation
IN the state at cost of nearly fifty
thousand dollars.
The Republic of Mexico. despite
the handicap OF Internal warfare. IS
showing a keen interest in the Ma
tional Irrigation congress. and that
country will have a delegation pres
ent at Salt Lake when the session IS
called TO order. DR.. T.. Mcqueen
Gray. foreign secretary of the con-
Sress, has been informed by the
lexican government that Pres ident
Madero viii in ,ue near future name
a delegation from that country
Dr. Gray is at present in Etirone
in behalf OF the National Irrigation
congress. and reports widespread in
terest in the work of irrigation and
that there VIII be large attend
ance OF foreign representatives. He
viii return TO this country lin time
TO reach salt Lake for thel skssion
OF the congress. .
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
IMPORTANT SUBJECT IS
WELL AND ABLY HANDLED
Al Closing Session Of National
Educators al Chicago
Meeting

Chicago, July l2--The meeting OF
the National Educational association
closed today with an able address
by Kate Upson Clark, of Brooklyn.
Her subject was: What May the
Public Expect in Dividends: Material.
Civic, Social from High Schools. She
said in part:
The transmission of high ideals
from generation to generation re-
quires enormous racial force and in
sight. Our public schools, are our
chief means for this purpose. TO at.
tain It. the child's mind must be
trained to see straight and think
clear"
"A class has arisen here that at
feet to despise our system of gov
ernment. The superiority of the
principles upon which it is founded
should be taught This involves
three main tenets; respect for our
constitution and laws. hatred or
caste and class. and the love of hon
est work. leading to selfsupport
We may expect OF every graduate
a good moral character. This should
surely be secured. The culture OF
the spirit and of some sort of pure
religion should also be urged.
Since the basis of nations pow
or is good health in its population.
every means should be employed to
Ienlfehten our youth regarding the
constitution of the body and the fund
amental laws of health. Our high
schools should yield us a strong and
temperate contingent
"They should bring into society
taste for good reading and love for
scholarship and good literature. They
should see the vulgarity in the pre-
vailing alteration of luxury, and
should be taught the genuine beauty
q. the simple life. No pains should
be spared to save them from the
ccwardly depression so often result.
ing from 'fll-lnck," and leading to
dissipation and even self-destructiun
The inevitableness Of trouble and the
Gnty OF bravery should be impressed
Il pom them.
Certain minor requirements should
be made of them. They
gnd sensible letter should have
should be able to write a presentable
quiet and refined manners in public:
and pleasant voices.
Above all. they should have the
spirit of progress.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12

The people of the state are
reading with unmiXed feelings of
surprise the letter of Mr.. Born. of
July Z, relative to the capital mat.
ter, and the carefully worded and
exact answer OF Gov Cruce on
July Q.
Two things are clear to begin
with:
First-Oklahoma City is not
and never has been liable for
anything in the capital matter.
Second-Some individuals
whose names are not known-in-
duced state officers to get up an
election and move the capital
under the pretense that Oklaho-
ma City was Offering sufficient
grounds and a sufficient building
fund for the capitol of the
state, lThbt later was formed
what was known as" The State
Capitol Building company, which
was not a corporation, could not
be a corporation or responsible
under our laws. and had no prop
erty or power to contract. That
it has not kept some agreements
made with you. That under its
name one hundred thousand dol
lars have been turned over to
you not as governor of Oklaho-
ma. but as trustee of that com
pany: and also as its trustee
deeds have been made to YOU for
six hundred and fifty acres of
land That YOU consented to re-
ceive the deeds for these lands
If men selected by you appraised
the lands.
The three questions which are
commonly asked in the state by
common people are these:
l. If the State Capitol Build
ing company fails to carry out
its last offer will not the $780,
600 YOU hold as its trustee go
back to that company? How can
1t go to the state if you have
deposited it as trustee for that
company Or if that company
demands back the 100000 from
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
SENATOR LQR|MER, ON
TRIAL, GROWS ELOQUENT
oBy Associated Press.)

Washington, July u IA specific
denial of all the charges was made
today by senator Lorimer in con.
tinuing his speech in the senate. He
bitterly criticised both President
Taft and col. Roosevelt. At one
point in his speech he became dra-
matte, throwing UP his hands and
turning his face upward he cried.
Let Him judge who shall he the
final Judge, whether it is correct or
not to do unto others as you would
have them do unto you. BY that
simple rule | have lived all of my
lie and by that rule shall / die,
though all the world, including the
senate, may condemn me-"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
GOV. CRUCES LETTER TO MR. BORN
And Some Pertinent Questions Arising From the View Point of the
Executive--Who is Responsible?

the banks how can the banks re-
fuse to turn 1t over to the com
pany, or how can you as trustee
for the company, prevent the
banks so turning ii over? The
real owner. OF course, is the
company and you cannot repre-
sent any other person or the
state.
2 You have taken the deeds to
the real estate as trustee for
that company, and under our law
that puts the real title to that
land in the company, not in YOU
or anyone else. II the company
refuses to carry out its present
offer. as il refused to carry out
its other offers what can YOU do
with that land? You are trus-
tee and must obey the orders OF
your principal which under the
deed is that company.
What could the state do about
that land? II is no party to the
deeds and You are not acting as
trustee for the state.
,. A full page map of the vicin-
ity OF the proposed capitol site
and the townships north and
east has been printed and sent
over the state This map indi-
Gates that the tracts proposed to
he given are in about forty diff
ferent tracts widely scattered.
running from forty acres down to
two lots. all several miles from
town and generally several miles
from the capitol. in what is only
farming or grazing lands. Smith
Chambers. OF Tonkawa. after in
vestigation has written descrip-
tions of this land and declared
that it was generally rough,
broken land, unfit for build
ings or for cultivation, and the
toughest parts of the tracts in
which it was located
Several papers have published
photographs of it showing the
same sort of land as described.
Have your men appraised the
land by tracts showing the fair,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12

cash value of those tracts? If
so would you not do well TO let
the people OF the state know what
that fair cash value is. To guess
what land will be worth in the
future il the capitol is built at
the point proposed and II popu-
lation can be forced in the di-
rection OF those tracts is not ap-
praisement. nor can those lands
be sold to build the capitol. II
they cannot be sold now the
fair thing is to tell the people
their present fair cash value.
and that they cannot now be sold
at any price
Here are some simple quei
tions:
/. Can the state Capitol Build
ing company he prevented by
law from reclaiming that one
hundred thousand dollars any
time II wishes to as matters now
stand?
2. Has anyone except the
State Capitol Building company
any legal title or right to that
land as matters now are: if so.
who except yourself holding as its
trustee?
3. Has the state at present
any right. title or interest in or
to that money or that land?
I. what is the present fair cash
value of the $50 acres of lands:
and at what price can it now be
sold? Could it be now sold for
over fifty thousand dollars?
.. In how many different tracts
is the land divided. how many
miles from the capitol site are
they generally. and in what di-
rection; are they smooth, choice
tracts for townsite purposes, or
are they generally too far from
town for such purposes, and
rough parts of the quarter sec
tions to which they belong?
These questions are often ask
ed and to YOU acting as trustee
we can apply for exact. clear in
formation.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
REGISTER
FOR BOND
ELECTION

CITY Attorney D. NJ Tibbets has
given the commissioners an opinion
with reference TO the proposition OF
qualifications of those entiii5,1' 70
vote in the bond election He holds
tnat none but property taxpayers
can vote in the bond election. He
also holds that while it is not abso-
lstely necessary 70 register for par
ticipation i'm this election, vet 1t
would be well TO do so for fear OF
some future contingency that might
arise touching the legality Of the
bonds after they have been carried.
To be on the safe side. he advises alt
who are qualified 10 register imme.
dlately. II will be absolutely neces-
sary for YOU to register before you
can vote al the August primaries and
as YOU must be registered TO be able
to vote at that election il would be
Well 70 do so Immediately aud thus
be on the safe side for the bond elec-
ton.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
HOT WEATHER
DANGEROUS
TO BABY
SOME TIMELY HINTS TO
MOTHER ON CARE
OF INFANT

The intense hot weather of the
past week in Guthrie and the discour.
aging reports from the weather de-
partment which indicates that there
will be no relief for the next month.
las once more aroused parents to the
necessity of taking unusual and ex-
Il eme care OF their babies n order
that they may survive the first or
second summers and grow up to be
healthy, lively youngsters.
Through nexperience aud gno-
rance on the part of young mothers,
each year many young lives are
snuffed out 1
The chief danger to babies in the
summer time lies in the milk. All
health authorities agree that milk
given babies should be kept cold and
given fresh. Parents are also ad-
vsed not to purchase the tube nurs-
ing bottles, but to procure bottles
" tn nipples fitting close to the top.
Care should be taken to rinse them
often in boiling water in which bak-
ing soda has been dissolved. About a
tcaspoonful OF soda 10 n quart of
water il is said will make a suitable
|rnsing preparation.
Health Bulletin
The health department OF Chicago
has issued bulletin on the care OF
babies, claiming that the deaths OF
$500 babies a year in that city alone
could be avoided by proper care. The
Ibulletin contain a list of "don'ts" for
PARENTS and local physicians have
also made suggestions. Following is
q list OF suggested things not TO do:
Don't rock the baby.
Don't feed it every time 1t cries.
Don't take it up every time it cries
Don't let relatives or visitors pinch
or poke or boo at it to make it no
tice them o. laugh.
Don't le, the children of the neigh
hOrhood visit and kiss II.
Don't let flies get TO the baby or
its food.
Use Sanitary Clothing
Don't put clothing on the baby
that hinders the motions of the arms
and legs
Don't dress your baby to make a
show of him-dress him 10 keep him
comfortable and happy.
Don't sleep with the baby-Iet him
sleep alone and where fresh air from
an open window can reach him.
Don't give medicine without a doc
tors order
Don't let the milk grow warm.
Don't feed the baby milk more
than twelve hours old.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
divided IN OPINION AS
TO BATH HOUSE LOCATION

The matter of the bath house To-
cation seems to be undetermined
yet. Mr.. Upham is outspoken in his
choice of Mineral Wells park. DR..
Petty wants it elsewhere and Mr.
Clark has not expressed a positive
choice. The city commissioners are
also divided as to the location.
Commissioner Ciothier is in favor Of
locating it at Highland park.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
AMERICANS
VICTORIOUS
AGAIN
WIN ALL HONORS IN THE
OLYMPIC GAMES
TODAY
By Associated Press.)

Stockholm. July 12-The American
athletes continued harvesting their
crop of laurels today. All three plac-
es In the final hundred and ten
metere contests were won by Ameri-
cans. Kelly, of the University of
South California, won first; James
Wendell, of New York, won the sec
ond: Hawkins. of the Multonomah, oi
California, third Time fifteen and
one-tenth seconds. The Vermont men
won the first in the broad ump. The
Americans broke two Olympic rec
ords today-the four hundred metre
and the broad jump.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
ARTICLES OF I'M FTFsIN
PARCHMENT ADOPTED

Washington. July 12-The house Of
j representatives. adopted, by vote of
222 to L. articles OF impeachment
against Judge Robert w Archibald OF
the United States commerce court.
Representative Farr. of Pennsylvania
cast the single vote against the bill
Of impeachment.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
cAlLpREN's HOME MEETING

Oklahoma City. Okla July 12-You
ore hereby informed of the time OF
the adjourned annual meeting of the
Oklahoma Children's Home Society,
which will be held Monday, July 10Th.
1912. at 10 a. m. in the Lee-iuckin
hotel, this city. On arriving ask
hotel clerk for the number of the
room where the meeting is to be held.
Truly yours-in Christian work
Noah B. Wickham, Supt.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
AT THE gultg.

The opening engagement of the
Ward Sisters at the Elite was greet.
Ell by a large audience. The ME
chanical Doua was the most clever
act ever shown on a Gnthrle vauda-
vile stage, while the clog and toe
dancing of the girls was execution.
ally good They wilt occupy the
boards at the Elite tonight aud 10.
morrow night.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
Another Roar from T. r.

announcer NOdT TTOfN u ~
New York, July r2.-Theodore
Roosevelt further discusses the
seating of contested delegations in
the republican national convention
at Chicago in an editorial entitled
Thou shalt Not Steal which ap-
pears in the current issue of the
Outlook. He says in part:
"The American people are en-
titled to know that the charge oi
stealing the Chicago convention OF
1912 is more than campaign recrim
nation and that the frauds com
planned of are much more serious
than the mere repetition of loose
practices which might have found
unfortunate precedents in some pre-
vious conventions of both parties.
"shaIi Fraud Votes Ruler"
seriously and literally, President
Taft's denomination was stolen for
him, from the American people, and
the ratification or rejection of that
nomination raises the critical issues
whether votes or fraud shall deter
mine the selecting of American
presidents.
President Taft was renominated
by majority of barely ~ votes,
and two of these were publicly raped
at the last moment from Massa-
chusetts. If, therefore, more than
1s or u of his votes were demon
strably fraudulent, all claim to an
honest majority disappears. The
demonstration can be made as to
many more than this number with
out touching on a single honestly
debatable case.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
TOO, TOO, BAD
[Ry Assnciated Press.

Stockholm, July Nicholson, of
the Missouri university. fell at next
TO the last hurdle in the hundred and
TIN meter race,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
la Toilette HITS THIRD
TERMER IN BURNING WORDS
Lindsey VIII Not Head PFohlbI.
tlonIsts---T. R. Again Raps
M. Tail
(Hv Associated Press.)

Washington, D. c July l2-Uhlteu
States Senator La Follette's leading
editorial in the current number OF
La Follette's Weekly says:
BRYAN in Drawing Tammany ana
the trusts to rescue the Democratic
Earty at Baltimore was towering
figure OF moral power and patriotic de
votion to civic righteousness.
Roosevelt at Chicago backed by
trust money, organizing fake con
tests to secure his own nomination
vas most striking example OF mis-
directed power and of unworthy am
b!tion. Roosevelt offered no reason
for third party save his own over.
mastering craving for third term,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
Lindsey viii Not Accept.

Enid, OKLA, July FL am not
political prohibitionist,' said Judge
Ben Lindsey of Denver here when
asked why he did not accept the
Prohibition party's offer of the
presidential nomination.
Il have always been aligned with
the progressive element OF the
democratic party" continued Judge
Lindsey, but | do not believe VIII
son can ever effect the reforms
which the progressive party de-
mands, nor do believe the prohl-
bition party is an effective instru-
ment. | believe the progressive
party can accomplish the most po-
litical good"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12
TO VOTE TO DUST LoRlMER
Try Associa ted Press.l

Washington, July 12-A vote will
30 taken on the Lorimer case Mon
day.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-12

y VI. Carter. commissioner OF
public safety. has returned from a
business trip to Oklahoma City.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-21
BITS OF NEWS

Grand Central railroad, Eng
land, today posted notice. that on
Sunday it will suspend all opera
ton until the end of the miners
strike because of the impossibility
of getting coal.
II denounce these gentlemen
washington B. Thomas, head of
the Sugar Trust and JohnE. Par
sons, for years attorney for the
trust and the most distinguished
lay Presbyterian in N. Y. ) as hav-
ing robbed, as having robbed, l
say, and as having robbed merci-
lessly and shamelessly." Federal
District Attorney Wise, at Sugar
Trust trial.
We gather that Wise thinks
Thomas and Parsons stole some.
ones money.
Infant teachers get raise. -
The Tribune.
We did not know there were
any Infant teachers" in Chicago,
but since there are, by all means
let them have their raise.
And, talking about infant teach
ers, the Examiner calls them
''kindergartners, which suggests
a new kind to go with the latest
Partisan Observation-Disclosures
dress.
Treasure trove of Melish Vlido,
king of tribe of Servian gypsies,
was robbed of $4,000 in gold
coin, near St. Louis yesterday.
We we labored under the delu-
sion that gypsies were poor peo7
pie!
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-21

Yes indeed. Certainly.

Yes indeed. Certainly. When
woman gets equal rights with
man, she'll have as much right to
start cult, hire a temple and
keep a lot of good-looking. men,
as men have to do the same thing
now. But we don't think she'll
be that foolish. Keeping one
is expensive enough.
No, we haven't heard anything
more about that investigation as
to where Millionaire Swift got his
death blow. The coroner isn't
neutrality-suspicious..
So Mayor Harrison is going to
make speeches. 1t would do more
good if he'd clean the street. We
don't have TO walk on his oratory,
but we do on the streets.
It's very careless of the N. Y.
Central not to advertise in Willie
Hearst's newspapers. Willie IS
in politics and needs the money.
Why does congress want to in
vestigate the baseball trust?
doesn't the Washiuoton c11tb