Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN DAILY INDEPENDENT.
VOL. 1.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1909.
NO. 23
Produces What Purports To Be Proof;
Showing He Was Former Fugitive;
From Justice—A Blurred Past-
COLLEGE OHUM PRODUCES PICTURE
Governor Asks People To Judge Such a
Man Before Making Conclusions and
Promises More Disclosures Soon.
Governor Haskell yesterday issu-
ed the following statements whcih
appeared in last night's Guthrie
Daily Leader. The Independent has
no evidence on hand to prove what
the governor says is true, hut prints
his statements as purely a matter of
news.
"Scott McReynolds, the special
Hearst agent, whom I had arrested
ten days ago for trying to buy false
affidavits is the same Scott McRey-
nolds, who as Hearst's representa-
tive traveled through Ohio and
Michigan, as I am advised, seeing
numerous parties to whom lots had
been scheduled by the townsite com-
mision at Muskogee, and attempted
to scare these witnesses by telling
them that because they had never
had a residence in Indian Territory
they had violated the law, and unless
they could throw the responsibility
on somebody else, they would be in
very serious trouble.
This same Scott McReynolds, to
whose defense the "special inter-
ests' ' attorney flew when 1 caused
his arrest—will these attorneys still
defend McReynolds when they know
his history?
This morning, Professor C.W. Bri-
les, superintendent of the public
schools, delivered to me a photo-
graph from the rogue's gallery of
Detroit, Michigan, endorsed on the
back of the photograph is the writ-
ten statement of W. D. Aston of
Greenville, Tennessee, a nephew of
Governor Bob Taylor.
The endorsement in Aston's hand-
writing says:
"You will recognize it is Scott Mc-
Reynolds. He served a term in De-
troit, Michigan, under the name of
Mark V311 Houghten, copy of 63,
from Rogue's Gallery, Detroit, Mich-
igan."
Aston, Professor Briles and Mc-
Reynolds attended college in North
Carolina about 1895 and the three
were well acquainted. Aston happen-
ed to be in Michigan while McRey-
nolds was serving time, obtained the
photograph and mailed it to Profes-
sor Briles, who has had the same in
his possession until he gave it to me
this morning.
McReynolds has also been forced
Harvard's New President
PROF. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who has been selected by the corporation
of Harvard university to succeed President Charles W. Eliot, is a member of
a famous Boston family, a graduate of Harvard and of the Harvard law school
and occupant of the chair of science of government at the university since
1900. Prof. Lowell, who is 52 years old, is the son of Augustus Lowell, found-
er of the Lowell institute of Boston, and brother of United States Circuit
Judge Francis Lowell and Percival Lowell, the astronomer. Last year Prof.
Lowell was elected president of the American Political association, to succeed
James Bryce, the British ambassador to Washington.
PROMISE NEW H
Ground Was Gone Over Yesterday—Prob-
able Site Selected East Side of Track
On Oommanche Street-
MAY BE COMPLETED BY JULY 1st
Matter Will Be Taken Up As Soon As
Directors Meet and Recomendations
Of Officials Doubtless Accepted.
(Continued on page 6.)
Oklahoma City, Okla., Jan. 2g.—(Special to Independent.)—
Hre, originating from a defective motor, started in the Daily Ok-
lahoman office here at about 10 o'clock this morning. The result
is that both the Oklahoman and the Times are out of commission,
the composing rooms are a total wreck, and a damage of at least
$60,000 done.
The Times will be issued on other presses here this afternoon
as usual; the Okahoman will not appear in the morning. The fire
was well started before it was discovered but the firemen did noble
work and soon had it under way, a strong wind opposing them
notwithstanding.
General Superintendent R. J. Par-
ker, Division Superintendent YV. K.
Etter, and Division Freight Agent
Hary Teasdale, all of the Santa Fe,
were in Norman yesterday and held
a conference with Mayor Millar re-
garding the depot question. They
went over the matter thoroughly and
assured the mayor that Norman
would get a new depot, which would
probably be completed by July 1
190Q.,
Some time ago the Independent
printed a news item which ^->^,1
that Norman would have to wait for
a new depot; that the matter had
been taken up by the directors of
the road in their regular meeting
without any action resulting, and
that the directors would not meet
again until June. What we stated
was true in all of the details. The
action of the officials yesterday was
nothing more than in the nature of
a promise. They will have to bring
the matter up before the directors at
their regular meeting and there defi-
nite action will no doubt be taken and
the recommendations of these offi-
cials followed.
\Vre have maintained all along that
Norman would get a new depot. But
our only contention was that Nor-
man must also wait until the com-
pany now got ready to build it. The
promises which were made yester-
day were the result of the constant
agitation of the division superinten-
dent, Mr. YV. K. Etter, who when the
directors met several weeks ago
made a strenuous effort to get some
action taken. Since then Mr. Etter
has been pressing the necessity of
the depot here and the trip down
here was the result of his constant
efforts. We maintain as we did in
the beginning, that the directors did
not thoroughly understand condi-
tions here or else they would have
acted long ago. Mr. Etter did under-
stand conditions and the action that
will doubtless be taken as soon as the
directors meet again is due almost
wholly to his recommendations and
his efforts.
In justice to Mayor Millar it might
well be stated that he, too, has been
very active in securing the depot.
(Continued on page 6.)
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1909, newspaper, January 29, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106705/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.