The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-05-15

The Governor Is limited hereafter
to 100000 a year in deficiency appro.
priations.
Final completion OF the improve
ments OF the State Capitol grounds
were taken care OF with direct ap
preparation of s132,29O50 to complete
walks, drives. ETC.: authorizing the
state hoard Of affairs to condemn the
necessary land for enlarging the cap
itol grounds and widening and paving
Lincoln Boulevard leading to the front
OF the Capitol. the cost tc be divided
between the state and abutting prop
erty owners.
Movement for an appropriate state
war memorial ended In the creation.
OF the necessary commission, but viii
only $4,000 to conduct its affairs an
build the monument. Along the same
line was an appropriation Of $4,000
to establish state cemetery Of 800
acres in which may be Lurisi with
out charge soldiers, sailors. h.arincs,
militiamen, former state officials and
wives OF same. army nurses and their
husbands.
The state hail Insurance department
was created to engage In a general
line Of hail insurance for crops. Coun-
| ty clerks will act as agents and prem
iums will run up to 3 per cent. The
practice of dentistry with a system Of
examinations is to be regulated along
the lines of the practice of medicine.
The State Supreme Court is divided
into two divisions and decisions of
either are final II unanimous, other
wise to be reconsidered by the entire
court.
Corporation commissioner is given
jurisdiction over railway-highway
crossings.
The attorney general is authorized
to compel counties to pay expenses Of
persons now in the insane asylum,
and another law provides for collect
ing expenses Of such inmates from
their estates. or in the case of ineigent
persons. relatives who arc respcnsible
for putting them in the asylum may
be assessed up to 5000 per year.
New Crimes.
No well regulated Legislature would
quit and 60 home without increasing
the "Verboten" list providing a vari-
ETY. of new felonies and misdemeanors.
Still working under the enthusiasm of
the war, the session passed laws for
bidding the use of the American flag
in advertising or tearing down or de-
facing same with 800 gne and pro-
hibiting with $1,000 fine display
OF the red flag or any similar disloyal
emblem. Also. as a result OF govern.
ment activities during the war, the
Legislature felt 1t necessary to pro-
hibit traffic in narcotics, attaching a
fine up to $1,000 with Imprisonment
up to seven years for violation.
For the purpose Of enforcing vag-
rancy laws vagrant is now defined
| as a person who Is idle, one who goes
around offering to tell fortunes or do
tricks. inhabits house Of prostitu.
tion. either as an inmate, dance caller
or barkeeper, a gambler or one who
begs on the street exhibiting physical
disabilities.
| Stealing an automobile is now a
felony with five to twenty years i'm
prisonment; practicing law without
having been admitted to the bar gets
you in bad up to $500 or 30 days; 1t
is q misdemeanor to traffic in fictic-
tious real estate titles; you are pro-
hibited from transporting nitroglycerin
| and similar explosives within one-half
mile of town; II you are not bond
ed officer you are forbidden to levy
attachments; bridge and highway con-
tractors are forbidden to engage In
price pooling or similar practices.
Newspaper Laws. {.
There were just three new laws Of
interest to newspaper men. The most
important was the one requiring the
county assessor to publish complete
list Of personal property assessments
before June the first each year; the
publications to be divided in sections
by taxation districts and run In the
local paper in each district. Another
law provides that legal publications
which are run in weeklies instead of
dailies may be run each Thursday in
stead OF every day. The fee for the
entire series Of legal publications is
raised to $l.00 for first insertions and
rs cents for subsequent insertions. per
square. Delinquent tax lists will be
assessed at 25 cents for farm descrip-
tions and Is cents for city lots.
| Salaries.
After protracted discussion all dur
/ ing the session, a numbe- of the state