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OKLAHOMA. 



rested on the charge of receiving deposits win 

 bank was known to be instil v. 



The Oklahoma Bankers' Association was organ- 

 Lied in June. 



ail roads. are about 800 miles ,.f rail- 



way. TriM-o"f: 



(iuthrie is under const met ion. It will give closer 

 .and will open coal fields 



of great richness. The Kansas. Oklahoma Central, 

 and Southwestern has been chartered. 



School Lands, Th.- commissioner's report for 

 r U v, m . : : .-: I v .-, i ... !., total vm 



s $888,638.01. and notes on hand amount 



iBvlABft. There are in the '.In- 



dian*, under the .are of 5 agencies. The Tonka- 

 was. Pawncca. Sac : : as. P<.ttawatomies. 

 Shawnees. Kiekapoos and Cheyennes, and Arapa- 

 hoes who have taken their land in severally and 

 had the remainder to throw open to settlement, are 

 making the greatest progress. A large majority of 

 them h\e on their allotments and have engag* 

 farm 



High Waters. Floods in the Cimarron, Cotton- 

 wood, a ml other streams caused great loss of life 

 ami property in April. 



Mecisj ( ,,p> right. In March Judge Dale, 



in the District Court, rendered a decision without 



precedent in th State* It was in a case 



brought by the Territory against the State Capital 



Print. my for print ing and s llingst,: 



which t he Territory had copyrighted. Judge Dale 



(ioVernmcnt is not a "person ' i 



"citi/en " in any sen**, and that no one bu p r- 



sonsor citizens are entitled to hold copyright ; that 



a State government is not an institution organi/.ed 



rofit out of anything arising from its BOTer- 



; that th- the people, and any 



citizen has a proprietary interest in them and can 



publish them if he sees fit. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature was in 

 session from Jan. 17 to Man h U. .1. W.Johnson 

 was President of the Council and William Garrison 

 president pro Urn. .1. < . T usley was Speaker of 



The election laws were radically changed, and 

 are described as being in their present form t In- 

 most intricate in the United States. The anti- 

 fusion provision of the former law is repealed. 



A new fee and salary law was made, prescribing 

 salaries and percentages of fees to oflicials. 



d bill made large reductions, but the bill as 

 passed isdcscriU-d as not having materially l.-.\ 

 the compensation of officials, even if it did Hot raise 

 : as in some instances a reduction of salary 

 was accompanied by an increase in the percentage 

 s to be retained by the official. The fees of 

 -> iti criminal cases were fixed at $1 a day 

 and 5 cents a mile. 



- mo-t important acts was a banking 



neat ing a banking board, providing for the 



n of banks, fixing the liability ,f stoek- 



int of assets, provid- 



-oceedings in cases of insolvent banks, 



exempting tmnk .tehment and execution. 



and cn-ating the office of ,ank examiner with 

 power to compel retort*. Tin- affairs of every bank 

 are to be examined at leant once a year, and the 

 examiner is to be appointed by the banking Wrd. 

 It was provided that all school j , u ld 



be insured on the Swiss plan by Territorial assess- 



An act Was passed to establish a normal school 

 at Alva in the western f^irt of the Territor. 

 one establishing a normal n-h.-.l for < -olorcd youth 

 at Langston, 20 miles northeast ..f (nithrie. in- 

 habited exclusively by negroes. The town gives 



40 acres of land and the Territory appro] 

 $5,000 for the building. The Institution will re- 

 ceive a part of the Federal fund for agricultural 



An act for providing separate schools for the 



white and raees make- it compulsory on 



school boa: th.th for the same liiim- 



berof inoiith^ in the year, and to divide the school 



money in proportion to the number of j.upils of 



each race. This law was declared void by Judge 



n in April on the ground that Certain of its 



were irreconcilable. 



usury law that w;i> repealed in 188 

 bad; the only penalty for taking ..... re tl. 

 percent, i* forfeiture of interest. 



An act was passed making a change in the gov- 

 ernment of citio of the first class. 



A long r a schooll.ook bill resulted in 



the substitution for the original bill of one provid- 

 ing that no text-books in u>e in the public schools 

 d within the yean: and that the 

 superintendent of instruction shall contract for 

 >uch bonks, provided the publishers agree to sell 

 them at the lowest ; -.vhich i hey are sold 



anywhere in the I'nitcd States. 



I IK a| i bills aggregated $282,000, 



-.vhi h was $100,000 more than had been appropri- 

 ated by any preceding Legislature. Bofl 

 follows: Care of the insane for t\vo years-. i; 



and for their commitment, if !,<!( < i ; f. .r care of 



iimit- 

 nienl : for 'the Agricultural College, $5,000, and 



$1,000 for the regents .f that coll. 



In all, 08 bills were passed. Among th.-e not 



mentioned above \\en-: 



ulating the practice (.f pharm 



I'p.v [ding for the burial of honorably di-ch. 

 t'nion and Confeih-rate soldiers and sail' 



Inquiring cotton sales to be i at cotton 



gins. 



iiibitingthe practices of Indian medicine men. 



it ing a board of health, and regulating the 

 practice of medicine. 



Ifemining penalties due on delinquent tav 

 ,md providing that no penalty shall al 

 until the second Monday of March. 1 

 which '2 per cent, shall be added each month. 



liaising the standard for teachers' cert ilicates 10 

 per cent. 



Kstablishing an irrigation law. 

 Taxing hind- -ranted in aid of public instidr 

 Permitting cattle to come int.. the Tcrritoi 

 feeding without 



Providing that any person or company that shall 

 build a water reservoir and maintain it fnuu April 

 1 to Dec. 1 shall have a reduction of taxes at the 

 rate of $8 for the first acre so covered. $4 for the 

 second, ami $1 for each acre additional the reduc- 

 tion to be for a period not longer than three . 



Providing that all section lin- "d public 



highways, and prescribing t he widt h. I 



.-'grown on all mads that arc more tl, 



fcO within IT. feet of the middle. 



Providing for uniformity of mar i de- 



fining the manner of contracting them. This 



Makes it necessary to procure licenses : and 



marriage under the ages of eighteen for males and 



fifteen f..r females is prohibited, un!' .rt on 



application directs otherwise. Where an Indian 



;;<re than one wife he \\\\\^\ s.-Ject one and re- 



nounce the other-. Marriages |,,i \veen whites and 



- are forbidden. 



. iding that, taxes must be paid in money, and 

 not in Territorial, town, or other warrai 



Providing for a Territorial live-stock commission. 



on-e the quarantine and sanitary la\\>. inspect 



cattle, shipping pens, and cars, anil register all 



