Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 170, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol. 2—No. 170
Leader
"FEARLhSS AND ik<Ub"
Exclusive f rated I'reis Service.
(JKLAUO.UA CITY, OKI.A.. WEDNESDAY. MAKCU ]. IVJ'J
PRICE TWO CENTS
IT OVER
HEPBURN TO BE SORRY'-GOVERNOM
TOLL OF STORM;
TRAIN IS LOST
There is always more than
one way of killing a cat.
The farmers have been sep-
arated from their wheat at
very low prices. As a result
many of the farmers have
asked congress to pass a law
guaranteeing a minimum price
for wheat, corn and cotton, the
three farm staples. I "T"".,,.., j
But the speculators and mill- Havoc Wrought With Tele-'
mg interests, who now. havi j phone Poles and Wires—
possession of the wheat, have| pue| Supp|y Depleted.
boosted the price ot wheat so ____
that the congressmen opposing ! Sania t'e train No. 442, which left!
the guarantee .plan are using I Guthrie Tuesday at 5:20 [I. m.. was I
the argument that there is noUocated "somewhery between Kail-;
further need ot' a -uaranteod ,ani1 K,,i" buekln* ,he
drifts.
price.
Farmers should not be de-
ceived by these maneuvers.
They should write to Senator
Harreld and to their congress-
men and impress upon them
the necessity of enacting into
law the guaranty plan. The
"Spring Has Came
Oh! What a Shock
The "lost train" cun not bo extri-
cated until'Thursday, although snow
plows are working desperately, ac-
cording to the Kansas City dlsptclier
of the Santa Fe road.
At least eix persons in Oklahoma
City sustained serious injuries dur-
the storm Tuesday and Wednesday.
t'l'Op ol 1922 is comilljc Oil, und Ambulances were kept busy hurry-
w ithout the guaranty the farm-( vurj0u8 parts of the city in
ers will find, when they mar-
ket the crop, that they will
again be offered a price that
will be way below the cost of
production
I response to calls.
W. H. Gardner, 29 West D, Cofiiol
Hill, while in his back yard, slipped
and fell, fracturing his hip. He was
taken to tl*e Rolator hospital.
Mrs. Josephine Davis, 210 West
Seventeenth street, is in the St. An-
thony hospital with a broken hip,
sustained when she fell on h down-
town street.
Henry Dykster, a school boy at
Capitol Hill, while playing at school
Tuesday afternoon, fell and suffered
a compound fracture of the right
wrist. He is in the University hos-
pital.
Helen Rickson.
Commission is superior to state «t 1521 Euclid avenue, fell 011 the
commissions on state raii rates, sidewalk and broke the bones in her
There seems very little left for 1
our sacred corporation com
mission to do.
To what extent the well be-
ing of the people depends on
political action, and especially
on NATIONAL political action,
is well shown by the press dis-
patches from Washington of
just one day:
The supreme court holds
that the Interstate Commerce
"With gentle winds blowing
•hi' fragrant fields ol' prnifle
I'lowers, spring arrived at Okla-
homa t it) da the southern
route Tuesday morning, which
is March 1,
"Patches of green grafts and
kiddies tailing off their shoes as
soon a> they were out of the
sight of mother helped older
ones to the realization that sum-
mer was coming.
"Fed by the melting siio^s in
the faraway mountains on the
edge of the great plains, the
Niortli Canadian rlfer was begin-
ning to rise.
"It was just a wee bit cold In
the earl) morning, but by noon
the asphalt had begun to creep.
The sale of cold drinks and Ice
cream cones was picking up.
"The flappers wore their new
spring suits. h very body was
happy. The unemployed were no
longer suffering and they hoped
the work on city improvements
would begin soon.
"The birds were still singing.**
The man picked himself from
the snowdrift, reached for his
hat, and realized that the little
birds had been singing. . lie had
slipped on tho sidewalk oil North
liroadway and he had kissed a
brick with his forehead.
It was all a dream.
l or spring came to Oklahoma
City on Tuesday, Marclf 1, 1D2S,
with cold winds blowing off
snowdrifts the thermometer
hovering around the It degree
mark. The streets were slip-
per.*, street car service was
nearly impaired. The Western
League Indians, reported here
i rr the opening of spring prac-
tice, had to stay Indoors.
Everybody was happy, though,
for the snow promised a bumper
wheat crop and boosted the
chances for a fruit crop, and
helped kill off the boll weevils
who destroyed last year's cotton
crop* The unemployed were
given a little work shoveling
snow from walks.
And the groundhog sleeping in
Wheeler park zoo was vindi-
cated, for didn't he foretell it
all!
GAS CD. BLOWS Someone's Grandma
HOT AND GOLD
. AT SAME TIME
Is Poor on Figures NOT TELL TRUTH'
Have .vou lost a grandmother?
Mavbe the Leader's service de-
partment can help you to find
her If vou have.
I or someone's grandmother
has been touring the state In the
interest of the Oklahoma (ias A
Electric company.
Advertisements signed by Ok-
lahoma 6a* \ Electric company
managers, declaring that "a
motherly looking woman, digni-
fied in appearance,** hud appear-
ed at offices to protest the liiuh
gas bill, have appeared in towns
"served** by the Oklahoma < as A
Electric company. The remark-
able tiling about it is that the
grandmother had tile same ex-
perience in each of the offices iu
the different towns.
Clean Foozled.
It seems, from the advertise-
ment, that a smooth-tongued ad-
justment clerl. had the old lady
completely foozled after a short
conversation, and she actually
apologized for having protested.
Man Breaks Jaw.
j Mrs. Josephine Shanafelt is in the
Wesley hospital suffering from a fall
the supreme court holds While getting into a car. Her hip
MAYOR WARNS PUBLIC
TO CLEAN SIDEWALKS
"Ilave jour sidewalks cleaned and I Thousands (if jobs fur the unem-
put chains on'your automobiles." ployed of Oklahoma City an* opened
This warning from Mayor J. C. ■ up by this edict of tlie mayor.
Walton III be followed up by strict The unemployment committee in
arrest or all persons guilty of vlo- charge of Commissioner Mike Don- _ .
latlon of the city ordinance which j nelly will send workers io clean off. g|neer {ln(l appraiser, said to be
removal of snow from the sidwalks for citizens upon re-1 • —•
Attack Commission's Author-
ity, While Raise Is
Asked of It.
j Although tho Oklahoma Gaq &
1 IUectrlc company and tho Oklahoma
Natural Gas company a e attacking
i lie power and Jurisdiction of the
corporation commission over public
utility rates, in federal court, the
natural gas company was asking the
corporation commission "Wednesday
for gas rate increases in the towns
of Pryor and Poteau.
I That the members of certain cor-
poration commissions previous to the
! present one were even more friend-
I ly to the public utlliUes was an un-
expected revelation brought out by i
l> B. Richardson, attorney for the,
j Oklahoma Natural Oas company, j
which is seeking a higher rate in,
federal court.
i He declared that the recoils of the
commission show that Engineers i
have recommended that 20 per cent!
be allowed for leakage when the rate {
I of the company was set, while since j
| then the commission has refused to |
allow more than 30 per cent.
Attorneys for the gas company |
pTnky was ^he^orst'tr^ted^corpX ! J;™* ^E®VM"rcil h " That| NVhcther
t jon in the world. The poor stock- j ^' to t,ie 8hooUne WftS OVRr liquor, or
holders faced the loss of their nrop-
erty, and the company faced
ceivership if the high rate
allowed.
litanies Street Itailvvav
\Itli< urrh her monthly uas bill
was the clerk, with some
rapid-lire calculations which left
tin* poor old ladv helpless, per-
suaded her that she was getting
her gas at a cost of 12 cents a
day. The clerk added some fig-
ures on ancient i;as bills and an-
nounced that her total for some
warm winter before t ampbell
Kussell had put the public serv-
ic corporations on a pajiiic ba-
sis, was iM.'irSO.
Somebody's Grandma.
It was a telling blow and the
poor grandmother couldn't fig-
ure verj well, un.vwiiy. The nice
old simple soul forgot that the
vearly total would pay only two
bills like the monthly one she
protested and leave enough for
her light bill. She was bewild-
ered.
No she apologised.
So if you are not ashamed to
admit simple-mindedness In your
family, come and claim u grand-
mother.
Suggests That Governor Re-
sign—Robertson Says He
Won't—Fight Is Hot.
Governor .1. It. \. Itobertsoii de-l
cllaed i" accept the raigvitloa « f|
• ouiity Vttornej James Hepburn thatl
in- resign from "in.. If he would
me the state from being humlllatcd|
by the governor's indictment.
Mllepbiiru cant i^et me out of nf«|
flee. I'm governor aid I'm gaiaf t«>|
i.. governor Hli the w;n." tm |«v<
ernor said, "and I'm not throuirli|
with Hepburn jet. lie i« going to I
-orr) lie ever tangled with me bc-|
lore I get through with hlm.n
SOLUTION EXPECTED
IN TAYLOR MYSTERY
j suit in solution of the William Des- .. . , , ,, , , ,
'II mond Taylor murder ease, was tho us l,r"vlously believed, over Taylor'.
~is not' statement of officials here today. reported rescue of a young woman,
{ Taylor was slain by dope or whis- > from the dope habit, was uot stated
„ key pedlers, it if believed now. j today.
Au affidavit by a high-priced en
A statement said to have
| made to authorities by Mrs.
been
John
commands th
sidewalk?.
As to chains on automobiles,"
that the grain laws of North was fractured.
the mayor, "it is criminal necligenc
' to drive without them, and if apy pe-
; gas expert, was read. This man, he ""PP. housekeeper for one of six
quest. Those wanting to employ men declared has made appraisals for men now under arrest on bootleR-
aaid call the federal-State Employment, most nt thB ^ corporations in Kinjt chaws, placed tho blame on
Authoriiles
| Walnut 1115.
Effort to have
additional men em-
Dakota, enacted by the farm- All aged negro, whose name is not [ deBtrlaniI .ar(, Injured by heedless | ployed by the department of public
ers ot' that state through the known,v latwi) 'uewi!?i CV0"inB ltl', driving witbouuJiaifis in ib
x- x t ueur the Witt clothing store aftd
Nonpartisan League, are un- bl.oke hll) jttW
Constitutional. this means The northbound passenger train
that grain grading laws must running from Guthrie to Kiowa, Kan-
be passed in Washington. Kas' ,vas 0ed "i> somewhere in a
The federal court indues at' SI1"w<lrirt- acco''d'nK to San,a Ke of-i
ine leuerdi conn, jua es at flclal„ Wednesday. Several heavy
Oklahoma City hold that they cU(S between Guthrie and Kiowa are ;
have jurisdiction over the gas drifted full of snow and in one of;
rates of the various cities in these cuts the train is stuck, rail- J
Oklahoma. Contracts between load ' ™ slat, <1- A" "'her tmins
the cities and the gas company "fr^v """J'tes' u.'t.. Santa i-'e trains Hotel Owner Uses Shotgun
y.0 into the discard, as well as coming in Wednesday were 25 min-
the rulings of the corporation utes late.
commission. | 12 Above. j
* . | The weather bureau predicts clear-1 1* XI*1
this \v,eatliworks to ,c|e;i r off the down town
drivers will be arrested and streets would be made by Mayor
prosecuted to the limit/; Walton, ho announced Wednesday.
PRESSMEN ON STRIKE
IN NEW YORK CITY
Also State Courts.
1 NEW YORK. 'March 1.—Strike of
-union pressmen on morning new spa -
Ipers here, became effective last
' night. H was announced today.
America.
lie testified that the average leak-1
age was 35 per cent of the amount I
which eutereil the .ines in America |
and that the leakage of the Ok'h-
honia Natural lines «as 2u percent. |
A large part of the blame for the [
leakage was placed by these gentle-'
men upon the street railway com- [
panles of TulBa -m'J Sapulpa. lie
told how the current from the power <
lines of these public service cor-1
porations escaped fo the pipes of the
Oklahoma Natural (las company, ^
and set up a chemical reaction 01 •
[CyPT GRANTED bumm dhil
INDEPENDENCE? PRDIUIJ1L1IEST0N
Washington Is Puzzled Over! Vessels To Leavs for Bremen,
George's Statement.
1. Armed with a
. ing weather by Wednesday night or i double-barreled shotgun. W. Tate
The ruling in the gas cases Thursday morning with little or no J urady Tulsa hotel owner and land-
is based on the 14th amend- change ..f temperature. The lowest ] lorJ ^reatene(I two wo,knlej, who
ment to the constitution pro- temperature registered at^the local '
viflino- lh.it 1,,, nmnorfo I , station was 12 above shortly before o U cut °'r «er\ui. trom soini
\ lClmg tnat no piopert.s can be sun(jown< At 7 o'clock the tempera- his houses because the gas bill had
taken without due process Ot ture was up to 13, where it remained Il0t been paid.
la\\. during the night. A range of from 8j publlc feeling is running high here
This IS a nice point, and to J6 is anticipated for Wednesday \ ^ ^ 0klahoma Nalurill Gas
should be remembered by the u ^.ag 8nowlng at Dodge City and j company, and some citizens have re-
Wichita with a temperature hovering ; fused to pay their bills, alleging
near zero. that the rates are excessive.
TO THE MINERS OF DISTRICT 21
farmers and workers of Okla-
homa. Their poverty and de-
flation is not protected by this
The coldest March weather in the
registered at FT Paso Wednesday
night when the temperature went
down to lti above. At Abilene the
amendment, it has all been history ot southwestern Texas was
done with due process of law.
In other words they have been
skinned in a legal way. To thermometer registered 10 above
change this, they must get the The snow extended as far south
law making and law interpret-]
ing power into their own hands. I
Even this is to be made more I
difficult, if the powers that be
Brady owns a string of houses in
a certain block near the central dis-
trict of Tulsa, and when the work-
men came to cut off service, told
them to stay off his property, lie
had previously secured a restrain-
ing order preventing the company
from cutting off service.
Brady only paid a j>ortion of the
last month's bill.
workmen left, threatening to
police free
trapped dog
centrah Texas. At Amarillo the teni-
| perature was down to 2 above aid
weather was reported at
orpus Christi.
a rise in temperature is shown inL; fa| arrested.
;he northwest, where the thermom-1
, ., - . . i eter rose front 26 below to 22 at
have their way. A recent Havre, Montana, ami at Sheridan.
meeting at Washington of the Wyoming, from 20 to 12 below dur-
American Bar Association be- ms the past twenty-four hours.
came very much alarmed over. , Kw ,)wl,h* Kei>ort*'( •
.1 ^ f . it,1 • . , , . 1 So far 110 deaths from cold weather
the fact that blight working- hftve been reported ill the state. Live
men and some "furreigners" stock is suffering in range sections,
in large numbers are passing according to cattlemen arriving In
the bar examinations. stock yards today, a faiiof from
One of the speakers brought'
out the fact that the future they point out.
judges had to be drawn fl'onn Wholesale coal dealers ill the city
this source of supplv, and as declared Wednesday that telephone
one of the mi>'in« tn limit tlif'and 'elegraph wires being down in
one Ol tne means to limit th. thi, westBrn ,lf tlie Btate. it
supply ol lawyers, and inct- u-as impossible to tell whether peo-
dently to make it tiext to im- pie wert* suffering from a lack of
possible for a workingman to ,,ut ,hat jt was generally sup-
enter the sacred precincts of that th' continued cold
t'1f Ja*t! Pr",®88'on' advo- supplies in the smaller towns of the ' bristling and terror-stricken,
cated that a two-years college stute. u was rumored that there
course be added to the present The heaviest loss caused b.v the j dea,] body under the house,
requirement of a three-year storm is reported by the Southwest officers were called.
law ronrsp I,p|1 Telephone company, which de- Hosey and Kemp answered
^ clares that several hundred tele- call, and Hosey crawled under
phone poles are down, many of house with his gun in one hand
WASHINGTON, March 1.—Uncer-
tainty was expressed here today over
the full meaning of Premelr Lloyd
George's announcement in the Eng-
lish house of parliament concerning
1 changes In iti<- relations of tho Brit-
ish government to Egypt.
BY OSCAU AMERIM.KK Although early reports from Icon-
ic vou believe that the Leader should have allowed Alex ion stated that the English protec-
Xl*\ -,1 \ i, <ri wt Dorchv to rot in jail without saying a 'orate over E ypt had been termin-
llowat and Augu. ti. .Ited, the text of the announcement
W'Ol'd about it, is made by George was declared to-
Then say SO. . day to leave some doubt In the minds
II vou believe that the Leader should have ignored the of observers here, relative to its full
heroic struggle of ten thousand miners against the infamous ilgnlficance.
neiuu Miush^ v Although the Egyptian government
Kansas Slave l^aw, 'may work out its own preddems, ac-
Theil say SO. ., . ... cording to the new policy, George
If vou believe the Leader should have remained silent wniie doclared that pendinr the passage
Cnvernor Allen President Lewis and the coal operators of the of an indemnity act, England would
/ * • * *1.,. 4.. ,. lu-ivpsit men in the American maintain martial law. which was es-
southwest assassinated the two bra\esl men in int American labl|ghed „a# an |n8trument of KOV.
labor movement, ernment" for Effyptian ministers en-
Then say SO. trusted with the handling of various
If vou hclieve that the Dean and Reliance cases were any- measures mad. necessary "by war
thine lint contemptible political swindles concocted by Lewis, conditions.
iiiuij" , i j * .* ...r\ ,.f Inmost men ' new policy provides tor se-
Dalrymple, Steele and company to Ret nd ol honest men. rmity of f communi.
Then SJiy so. « . . cations in Egypt; defense of Esypt
If vou believe that a hundred per cent organized district, against all foreign aggression; pro-
composed of tried and trie old fighters, should be ousted from tectum of minorities, and the virtual
the l". M. W. of A. without trial or hearing.
Then say so.
If you believe that the Leader should have kept mum on
the outrageous fact that the recent convention was packed b.v
paj roll guards, pap suckers, salary leeches and dead local dele
li Robertson think; the indiet-H
m< nt of i governor will bring dis
i (mi a state. I surest that ho
r< ign. ' was the caustic comment ofl
( oimty Attorney .lames Hepburn of]
Okraul Wednesday upon the gov-]
•mor s irantir denunciation ol hin
j«nd the Okniulsee citizens.
"I don t think the governor Is any
more entitled to added solicitude on
■ our part for his well being than any
private cltizeu being investigated by
I a grand jury.
• Th< governor didn't toll the truthl
hi his letters to me and the publicj
.•nd I don't believe the public is 1
ing fooled any."
"Tho governor is just going WilllJ
that's all." added Hepburn.
Would Save State's Name.
Governor .1. It. A. Robertson wamal
"to protect the people of the state
preparing to j from tin disgrace ot having an in-
dicted governor," be sayi, and foi
covering from ;< severe attack of in- thi reason he brands James Hep-
fluensa .Mi'! nervoui breakdown, burn, county attorney, who Is re-
For .. time her physicians feared she sponsible for the airing of the most
dh ceful candal in state lii.story,
• d« pot crazed v, ith ,-toleu
power." Hepburn is charged with
"intimidajim tin grand jury" an<
resorting to "hypocritical cutnoa
i fiage." The govt rnor wants to ap«
pear before th«* jury in the role oi
i«> prevent lirpburn from ' nialicious-
ly distorting the facts and the lu*f
behind the closed doors of a grand
To which Hepburn replies: "Th«|
placc for Jim Robertson to look mol
in the eye is iu the court room and|
not in the grand jury room."
"Governor Usurps Judiciary/*
Hepburn defied the governor to «
his worst, lie defied the governor!
' hiiru-l
iiu' statement lie accuses the gov-f
ernor of arrovatin;. to himself thcT
rights of the judiciary. I
Thai the county attorney will not!
I" unit Un overuor to use intinn-4
dating tact ie> towards the. grand juryi
now n t < ivin evidence as to thaT
overnoi < onn<«tion v. ith the loot)
in -ti the depositors in state banks,
is evident.
That the county attorney is uol
| concerned with the consequences ol
Muskogee churches are busy which have been broken off by the a searchlight in the other.
ill an attempt to extend the beavj wind and snow. About 30 per it was nothing but a white bull
Milo law* fn tho eln<?ino- nl' rent of the 1,ne8 operating outside dog. entangled ill some telephone
... 4 c j .! . " . - the city were out of commission, of- wires, he found. 1'he poor beast had
theaters on ouildaj. It IS llie , fieials of the company stated. been there for hours and was nearl
one day of rest for the work-i Telegraph wires were down in starved. The dog was-so grateful t
gates who delivered one-fourth of the vote in favor of denying
the Kansas miners a trial by a jury of their peers,
Then say so.
If you believe that .John Lewis, who adjourned the Indian-
Howiim of a number of dogs' apolis convention three times in order to drag in enough votes
frightened an entire neighborhood for a 1*0.11 call to defeat a two-thirds standing vote in favor ol
Tuesday night. They congregated giving the men of Kansas a hearing, is not afraid of a fair
and square airing of the Kansas trouble,
Then say so.
And last but not least, if you believe that the officials of
District 21 should spend your money on the eve of a strike,
when thousands of your kind are already on the verge of star-
vation and at the beginning of a political campaign which will
decide whether workers or shirkers shall run 1 hi>. state, in
was a hiring Ihe attorneys of Governor Robertson to throw the
Police Leader at the mercy of a capitalist court.
Then say so.
Say it, men. Say it like men. Say it loud enough that all
nd may know where you stand.
Canine Neighbors Howl Till
Help Arrives.
round a house on East Second street,
and with lugubrious howls, and
mournful growls, and whining and
barking, attracted a large crowd.
There was some object under the
foundation about which they were ex-
cited. A few brave pups would ven-
tbe
handling of Kgyptian foreign affairs I Mfwiran I ahnrPr Cllts HIS
by Great Britain practically a ".t. MeXICan LclDOItl UU15 mo
tinned -protectorate Throat at Wheatland.
Another clause in the declaration
says England "is prepared to make ■ unidentified Mexican entered
an agreement with the Egyptian gov- KrjM O depot at Wheatland short-
ernment" when "a favorable oppor- ], before noon Tuesday and slashed
tunity arises." [ his th
bank cashier
slays himself
Warrant Had Been Issued
Charging Embezzlement.
Hamburg and Holland.
GALVESTON, Texas, March 1.—
Regular sailings of shipping board
steamers from Galveston to JJremen,
Germany, will begin 011 March 15.
This service was formerly in the
hands of tho North German Lloyd.
Steamers will leave for llremeu on
the 15th and COth oi each month.
Arrangements are also being made
for a sailing every three weeks to
Hamburg and Rotterdam.
The routing of ocean traffic to Ger-
many acd Holland via Galveston, is
a mater in. help to Texas and Okla-
homa, not only for the lower freight
rates obtainable on these routes, but
also the passenger traffic that ellm- disgrace which the truth may brin,
inates the high railroad rates going "P<Jn the heads of the governor ant
to New York or other eastern ports his official family i* also evident,
for embarkation to European ports. Public With Hepburn.
r ..pinion 1 with Hepburn iu|
his fight for the depositors and
-n reportsfroiul
.all over the state.
, Reply int to thi overnoi • frantid
• ' illation ii"p: mrii outlined thel
• "lit 11 in., ni t" the present|
situation. Hi told of how Judgej
Christopher went to Oklahoma City
after having overruled a motion tu
quash proceedings before the gran<l
j jury.
"< hri 11 <ph' 1 v.. ut to Oklahoma
m< I 'rill' : re.-1 iii ; and
breakfast w ith him. I do not
• 1 ■ 1 I r.. img fed our
do Know
at with a razor, dyinj '• '••• that Freeling exacted from Judgd
' 1 1 )lu 1 promi • that he wouldl
\. I I. v) ' IN t< r«'t 11 ru to Okmulgee and discharge!
Wheatland to act coroner in th< ij,, ^rand jury."
case. Judge Not in Hanger.
Despondency over losing his foot Discussing the events followifl
in an accident and later operations ( hristopher's action which the govJ
in which h< lost hi le ar< given as ernor characterized as "mob act:on,'T
the only reasons for the suicide. The | Hepburn savs;
body will i" brought i" Oklahoma thank you for the high corapli-l
City Wednesday, where an attempt ment which you paid me in yourl
i minute
v i 11 be 111a
1 identify it.
SULPHt'R. March 1. "Sulci'
was the verdict of the coroner's
quest into the death of Charles
Ryan, cashier of the Hank of Cc
raerce, which closed here Febru
EL RENO BANK
CLOSES AGAIN
animal when li
ers. It is the one day in the ninny parts of the State, especially his rescuer that H
week on which the worker the northwestern portion around rid himself of
should determine how h" and Woodwartl
q!v■fh«'ilPeniih«,dn;;>: EMBEZZLEMENT ALLEGED LOWER FREIGHT RATES
.. ' ' ' * * j j* I i' Embezzlement was the chare up- Qj\| qoai ARE DEMANDED
times seven days, the boss die- on ,-t j bo «i 1:. wa« held UUHL
tates how he must spend his I for trial in district court Wedue - WXBHINGTON. March 1. Demand
time. Surely in a democracy day, after preliminary hearing in the for t.j',r<,f, s „„ ,,1 ,
like ours, the worker should be , justic court of T. r. Donnell. i becoming -troll « r daily, it de
the one to determine how he js rha,-'(i t,! 1 ,i0 emi ezzled ,iared bet. Wednesday Reqin-i
•inrl his fnmilv shall snerul ti^ from lhe Gallion Irion Works (-or ruts was made a in, by person
and his iamil\ snail spena tf.ls K Manllfarlllrin!r oompain He was ...ppcann the i„t. 1.-1ate eon
one day a week the boss does formerl' State mant i;''r of thn com- nu<n < coram 1 • don. which 1. oiu;-
N. 011 know where we stand.
We believe the I'nited Mine Workers ol America are
best and bravest body ol union men that ever walked in shoe
leather.
We believe that, with some honorable exceptions, you are
A warrant charging erabcz -..ement
had been issued for Ryan, and Sher-
iff Henry Parks tailed to cm\ 't
the ul)on ;!,n' previo'i. ly bavin,; lie
him. Sheriff Parks found Rya 1 with
a bullet wounJ in his head. He die i
on the way to a hospital.
• nt th .r I aide by niyj
'■> 1 \■ it•: the people od
• 'k-:. . un" . : " ; our judge J
t. c.tndor com-f
1 . to pie. 1 not guilty to thol
charge. I
I
EL RENO, March 1 For the ec- some of the best citizens ol' Okmul-|
ond time in the past month the Com- gee county, and there never was
mercial Bank ol El Reno at J ■ 1 hristopber was n|
doors Tu< sday. This institution is a danger of life or limb. The people
i.,.i ham! 1 of okmulgee county, without regard!
r|
■
1 m: . \..i hai his • t uty lay I
irilj ived by the united action ol not to the people but to those who|
not controL
1 uauv.
into tho freight rati situation.
' ild hardly oflicered by the mo-t contemptible, cowaidly, lazy and inefti-
tient scl of pap sucking parasites that ever tried to pollute a
body of honest working men.
The Leader is with >ou and for >ou and it will fight with
you men and any other set of im-n who earnestly desire to clean
out the stinking stable in your union.
Now, let's hear from you.
We are-not afraid of jour verdict.
We know you are with u^. Therefore, speak up. Say it
with letter-- and with resolutions.
Hut. above all. say it with money and subscriptions. For
there are blood* days before your Leader. And we cannot
'■ifiht for you with empty cartridge pouches.
JURY FREES WILLIAMS
FROM SHOOTING CHARGE
pledged
Reports
inteii' it) kill Floyd
tol Hill in a quarrel,
s returned late Tues-
The jury acquitted Charles A. Wil
liams, 60 >
assault wit
Heatty of •'
The verdict
day night.
Williams pleaded elf-defense,
clarlng that Beatty threw a bricli
him and broke hi l.t -es,
witness substantiated this te
mouy
s. who in mass meeting
stand behind the bank,
ihow, however, that there
funds, with insufficient collections to
meet the drain.
Mrs. A. K. Gault, who last April
became mayor of St. Peter and the
'• first, woman in Minnesota to become
- chief executive ot a municipality,
now aspires to a seat in Congress.
! Shu has announced her Intention to
t | become a candidate for the Dcmo-
r | cratic nomination in the Third con-
- gres donal district in the coming pri-
maries, 1
1 placed him in power."
3
bars, governor, for my action
I beli.\ed WUoI
I
again abrogating yourself, the rights
11 ju.i . iary. Ii will be timei
' eiiotiuli it r you, as the executive of-l
I
m.111 \\ heu l apply t-) you loi a|
| pardon.
Med When None rursued.
|
'was held, largely attcuded; that a
• it 01 ] arade w;r; conducted, ctc.,
i t' on'Juued en Pasa Three.) _ ,
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