Mr. Oscar Simpson has located at Hobart, Okla. for the practice of the law. After having graduated from the Lebanon Tennessee Law School he attended one year at the Kansas University Law School for the purpose of securing a clearer idea of the western practice.

Recent Lawyer Marriages.

Marriage is of a date prior to sin itself-the relic of paradise left to man-the smile of God still lingering and playing upon it. Married happiness is a thing of too fine a texture to be handled roughly. It is a sensitive plant, which will not bear even the touch of unkindness; a delicate flower, which indifference will chill, and suspicion blast. It must be watered by the showers of tender affection, expanded by the cheering glow of kindness, and guarded by the impregnable barrier of unshaken confidence.

On the 8th instant, Mr. Charles H. Woods, the ExAssistant Attorney General and prominent Guthrie lawyer was married to Miss Edith Scott, daughter of the Presbyterian minister, H. O. Scott, pastor of the church at Guthrie. After the wedding, Mr. Wood and wife departed from the city on an extended wedding tour and will not return until about September the 15th when they will establish their home in Guthrie.

On the 11th instant, Mr. Carey L. Burdick, a prominent attorney of Stillwater, Okla., and ex-county attorney of Payne county, was married to Miss Cora Cheney, a recent high school student of Guthrie.

Both of the above grooms are our friends, and we wish for them and their accomplished brides a sweet honeymoon, a happy life career, and serene sun set.

OKLAHOMA

LAW JOURNAL

VOL. 5.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY

D. H. FERNANDES, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.

THE ABUSE OF THE FLAG.

The Supreme Court of Nebraska has held the following act constitutional: "Any person who in any manner for exhibition or display, shall place, or cause to be placed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement, upon any flag, standard, color, or ensign, of the United States of America, or shall expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for sale, give color, standard, or ensign, upon which shall be printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design or drawing or any advertisement of any nature, or who shall expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for sale, give away, or have in possession for sale, or to give away, or for use for any purpose, any article or substance, being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle of merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted,.attached or otherwise placed, a representation of any such flag, standard, color, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish, the article, or substance on which so placed, x x x shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both in the discretion of the court."

OKLAHOMA ELECTION LAWS.

(Continued from page 61 of August Number.)

Sec. 24. The board of election commissioners shall cause the names of all candidates of their respective jurisdictions to be printed on one ballot, all nominations of any party or group of petitioners being placed in a column under the title and device of such party or petitioners as designated by them in their certificate or petition, or if none be designated, under some suitable title or device. The name of no candidate shall be printed in more than one place on such ballot, and in the event any candidate is nominated by more than one political party for the same office, such candidate may elect under which title and device his name shall be printed, and notify the board of election commissioners of his decision ten days prior to the time for printing such ballots, and should any such candidate fail to make such election, the board of election commissioners shall decide under which design and title of the parties nominating such candidate that the name of such candidate shall be printed. The ballots shall be of uniform size and of the same quality and color of paper, and sufficiently thick that the printing thereon cannot be distinguished from the back. All ballots prepared by the Territorial board of election commissioners shall be printed on red tinted paper and put up in blocks of one hundred each.

All the ballots prepared by the county board of election commissioners shall be printed on white paper. If the same device for designating candidates be selected by two parties or groups of petitioners, it shall be given to the one which first selected it, and a suitable device shall be selected for the other. The arrangement of the ballot shall, in general, conform as near as possible to plan and form set out in section two of this Act, and the device named and list of candidates of the Republican

party shall be placed in the first column on the left hand side of said ballot; and of the Democratic party in the second column, and of the Peoples party in the third column, of the Socialist party in the fourth column, of the Prohibition party in the fifth column, provided each of said parties have candidates to be voted for at such election. The list of candidates of any other party or group of petitioners shall be placed on the ballot in such order as the board of election commissioners shall designate. The candidates for township officers shall be printed at the foot of the respective columns on the county tickets, under the head, Township Officers, and any name written with pen or pencil upon said ballot shall cause it to be rejected as a mutilated ballot.

Sec. 25. In case of the death, removal or resignation of any candidate, after the printing of such ballots and before such election, it shall be lawful for the chairman of the Territorial, district or county political organization of which such candidate was a member to make a nomination to fill such vacancy and to provide the election board of each precinct in which each candidate is to be voted for, a number of pasters containing only the name of such candidate at least equal to the number of ballots provided each precinct, but no pasters shall be given to or received by any one except such election board and such chairman, and it shall be the duty of the polling clerks to put one of such pasters in a careful and proper manner, in the proper place, on each ticket before they shall sign their initials thereon.

Sec. 26. If the printer of such ballots, or any person employed in or about the printing of the same shall give, deliver or knowingly permit to be taken, any of said ballots by any person other than a member of the board of election commissioners, for which such ballots are being printed, or shall print or cause to be printed any ballot in any other form than the one prescribed by

this Act, or with any other name thereon, or with the names spelled, or the names or devices thereon arranged in any other way than that authorized and directed by said board of election commissioners, he shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding five years, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years.

Sec. 27. It shall be the duty of each county clerk to appear in person or by specially authorized deputy, bearing credentials given under the seal of the district court at the office of the Governor of the Territory, not more than fourteen nor less than ten days prior to each general election, and the Territorial Board of Election Commissioners shall thereupon deliver to said clerk fifteen ballots to every five voters and fraction thereof in each precinct of his county at the last general election, or if a new precinct has been established in said county, ten ballots for every five voters of the estimated vote as reported by the board of county commissioners: PROVIDEd, however, That if it shall be made to appear by the affidavit of such clerk that any precinct has so increased in population as to have fifty per cent more voters than at the last election, or at the time of the estimate by the board of county commissioners, the Territorial Board of Election Commissioners shall deliver to him three ballots for every voter so declared by him under oath resident in such precinct. The ballots shall in the presence of the clerk, be wrapped and tied in packages plainly marked, one for each precinct and securely sealed with wax, and the clerk shall give his receipt for the same, and for the safe sealing of such ballots such Board shall provide itself with a seal of such design as it may deem proper, but the same design shall not be used for two consecutive elections. The Territorial Board of Election Commissioners shall also provide and enclose in each of said