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EIGHTEEENTH YEAR, NO.
51
GUTHRIE, 0 K L A.,
THURSDAY, MARCH 10,
1910
*1.00 PER
AX.
Philadelphia Strike May Become Nation-
wide by Sympathy of Other
Labor Orgnizations.
Philadelphia, March 9.—Promise of
help from without and development of
strength in its own field which appear-
ed to take even its most confident lead-
ers by surprise, injected new life into
the Philadelphia general sympathetic
strike movement today.
A labor campaign which yesterday
gave sign of waning force received its
strongest impetus today from the ac-
tion of the state federation of Labor
convention in Newcastle in declaring
that a state-wide and even nationwide
tie-up of industry would not be too
great a price to pay if necessary to in-
sure success to the local cause.
Added to this came the revelation
that the union labor movement in sym-
pathy with the striking employees of
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company
was strong enough to invade what was
supposed to be a citadel of the oppos-
ing forces and open up an admittedly
wide breach.
The success of the strike leaders in
inducing something over 1,000 employ-
ees o ftbe Baldwin locomotive works to
walk out this afternoon, following the
.early morning session of possibly as
many more, was the most striking de-
velopment o fthe day in the local situa-
tion. This alone was enough to cause
the committee of ten, in charge of the
general strike to regard this as their
most successful day.
To the threat of a country-wide
strike if the local traction heads did
not agree to arbitration the company
officials made curt response, announc-
ing they had said their last word on
arbitration and that if the widespread
strike depended on their yielding to
arbitration demand the strike would
have to come.
An important ascession to the ranks
o fthe strikers was announced tonight
from Camden, N. J., where 1,500 car-
penters went out, about the same num-
ber quit work at surburban points
along the Pennsylvania railroad main
line, and the men declared that it nec-
essary 2,500 more carpenters would be
called out in Montgomery county, next
adjacent to Philadelphia, tomorrow.
At Trenton, N. J., the employees of
the Trenton Street Railway company
struck tonight. They ask a wage scale
of 23 cents an hour and a shortening of
the working hours. The men recently
receiving an increase from 18 1-2 to
20 cents an hour.
Resolutions adopted by the associa-
tion's directors say exaggerated re-
ports of the seriousness of conditions
in this city have been widely circulated
and ask the press of the city to make
the facts known.
What outbreaks have occured have
been sporadic, have been mostly in the
outlying districts, and have been easily
handled by the local police, say the re-
solutions. It is declared that Philadel-
phia is anything but excited over the
conditions and that except for the
printed reports, "the majority of the
citizens would be ignorant that any-
thing but normal conditions prevailed."
The associations protest is given
point by the fact, apparently to (very
one on the scene, that so far as busi-
ness. amusement and residence dis-
tricts are concerned, there is scarcely
an indication that a great labor war is
in progress within the municipal lim-
its.
Tonight street cars are running un-
molested and well filled throughout
the central and residence sections, and
the streets thronged all day with shop-
pers, men, women and children, as usu-
al.
Determination to stand its ground
is «xpressed by the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company, not only through its
announcement that it has said its last
word on arbitration, but through its
ofTer, made today .of $50 reward for
information on which an arrest can be
made tor terrorizing families of the
motormen and conductors of its lines.
The company declares a systematic
effort is under way to frighten the wo-
men of its employees' families by cir-
culating false reports of injury to the
heads of the individual homes and to
keep wives and children in a state of
terror for fear harm will come to the
men who have remained at work. For
day the strike leaders have been plan-
ning a monster outdoor demonstration
inaid of the sympathetic walk-out, be-
ing convinced if one were permitted,
its size and enthusiasm would work
wonders for their cause. Today in
pursuance of this idea, they announced
tomorrow afternoon a giant mass meet-
ing would be held in the Philadelphia
baseball park.
When Director of Public Safety Clay
heard of this, he promptly announced
that the gathering would not be per-
mitted.
"The mayor's proclamation directs
that no meetings be held during the
strike on the highways or on proper-
ty adjacent to the highways.
"The proclamation will be enforced,"
said Mr. Clay.
On the labor side the day was an ac-
tive one and the leaders declared to-
night they were more than satisfied
with the result of their work since
morning. Besides the successful effort
to induce some additional hundreds of
men at the Baldwin Locomotive plant
to walk out, bringing the number of
men on strike at the big plant up to
the neighborhood of 2,000, the com-
mittee of ten announced there had
been many other accessions to tne
ranks of the sympathetic strikers.
C. O. Pratt, the car men's leader,
said tonight the effort to bring out ev-
ery union workingman in Philadelphia
will be pushed to the limit, and de-
clared he expected greata results from
the union organizers from various
cities expected to b gin arriving here
within the next few hours under in-
structions from the national labor
leaders.
A complication, due to the strike of
the horseshoeis, developtd today. It
was precipitated by the action of the
striking horseshoeis in writing to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Animals, demanding that all horses
not properly shod, be kept, off the
streets. The reply of the association
has not been received So many horse-
shoers are on strike that they feel
the city's equines are suffering.
The unsettled minds of thousands of
the city's workers regarding the gen-
eral strike is indicated by the many re-
ports both of men quiting work in va-
rious establishments and of men who
had walked out returning to work in
others.
The in and out flow was so extend-
ed and fluctuating as to tax the ability
of computors to keep track of It. One
plant that had a definite story to tell,
was the great Cramp shipyards which
employs thousands of men. Officials
of the Cramp's reported sixty rivet
boys, who walked out yesterday, re-
turned to work today. The manage-
ment declared these were the only
employees to strike and that no fur-
ther trouble was expected.
It is announced tonight the com-
mittee of ten had granted permission
for the men working on the improve-
ments at the Philadelphia National
league's park, to go back to work and
complete the job. Work, it was stated
would be resumed tomorrow.
Regarding the walkout at Baldwin's
Vice-President and General Manager
A. V. Johnson declared today that
while more more than 1,000 men went
out at the plant today, 12,000 men still
were working.
"We have four months' contracts on
hand," said Mr. Johnson, and in no
case will the works be shut down."
Mr. Johnson thought the general
strike movement would gradually
spend itself, "although it does appear
that there is something of a battle on
between capital and labor." he admitt-
ed.
DARLINGTON KOR MASONIC HOME
Washington, D. C. March 9.—Within
the next ten days the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Oklahoma will have full
possession of the Darlington Indian
property, recently turned over to the
Masons by act of Congress. H. L. Mul-
drow of Tishomingo closed the deal
for the Masons. The purchase price
was $76,000 of which $25,000 was paid
last week. Mr. Muldrow before leav-
ing lor Oklahoma, today declared that
the work of converting the property
into an asylum for infirm Masons
and orphans would begin within the
next two weeks.
LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH
ONE WEEKS' ( ELEItlt \T10N DEDI-'Street, from he had rented
Western Union to Inaugurate a new
Service known as Night Letters
at Nominal Rates.
Announcement is made by the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company that it
shortly will be prepared to handle
long night messages at the rates cus-
tomarily charged for ten word day
messages.
It appears that the Western Union
has a large unemployed mileage of
wire at night which is not earning
anything. These wires must be main-
tained in any event to take care of tha
regular day business and it is appar-
ently the idea of the new interests in
the telegraph company to let the pub-
lic have the benefit of them. The an«
nouncement states that "a special
Night Letter Service will be establish-
ed as soon as practicable. The charge
for this service will be the standard
day rate for ten words, for the trans-
mission of fifty words or less, and one-
fifth of such standard day rate will ba
charged for each additional ten words
or less."
To be taken at these rates "Night
Letters" must be written in plain En-
glish language, that is to say, code
words or communications written in
foreign languages will not be accepted.
The messages will be taken any hour
up till midnight and transmitted at the
j company's convenience during the
| night for delivery the following morn-
j ing. For the present the new service
| is confined to Western Union offices in
I the United States. The tariff charged
for Night Letters are so low it is ex-
pected that the new service will be
largely availed of by business con-
cerns and others to quicken their cor-
respondence by using the telegraph in-
stead of the mails. A Night Letter
sent by telegraph will reach its desti
nation at the opening of business hours
the following morning, thus saving as
much as three or four days when long
distances are involved.
( AUNG THE METHODIST
CHUBCH.
The dedication of the new First
Methodist Episcopal Church, Guthrie,
Oklahoma, occurred Sunday, March
Oth, 1910.
The sermons were preached by
T. C. I lift", D. D., of Denver, Colo., and
Bishop Quayle.
The finances were managed by Dr.
11 iff.
The new building is one of the best
equipped for modern city church
work of any of the Southwest. On
account of cheapness of building and
labor, it only cost about fifty thous-
and dollars, but is easily worth six-
ty-five thousand dollars. Two thous-
and people by count, were inside the
building on dedication morning and
the responses to the call for sub-
scriptions came so readily and cheer-
fully that in a brief space of time a
sufficient amount of money, and bank-
able subscriptions were secured to
cover the entire fndebtedness with a
goodly margin for shrinkage.
Dr. lliff is certainly a prince of
church dedicators. lie not only raises
the money, but leaves the church in
such a delightful condition that every-
body feels glad that they had an op-
portunity to contribute. Dr. Iliff is
also a great preacher and his morning
sermon would be a credit to any Bish-
op of our church.
Bishop Quayle delivered one of his
masterful sermons on Sunday night,
from the text: "I will Build My
Church."There followed a week of
special services, lecture by Dr. Iliff, a
gKi'iierins of the young p-o"ls of the
city, organ recital, a concert, and a
banquet for the church members and
their families.
E. E. Fairchild, Pastor, came here
from Buffalo, New York, just three
years ago and began at once a cam-
paign for the new church. One year
ago the contract was let and work
commenced. During the three years
til" Sunday School has grown from an
average attendance of one hundred and
twenty-five to over three hundred with
an enrollment in all departments of
over five hundred. About three hund-
red have been added to the member-
ship of the church.
The benevolences have increased
t'ouriold and tne salary raised from
nfteeii hundred to two thousand and
house. Tne Sunday School has been
reorganized with tne following depart-
ments: Kindergarten, Primary, In-
termediate, Senior and Home Depart-
ment and Cradle Roll, with Superin-
tenuaui for each department. The
new building has forty different rooms.
The ground floor has two large rooms
for kindergarten and primary depart-
ments, wnich may be thrown together
for banquet purposes and will seat at
one time 500 persons. There is a
fuly equipped gymnasium with lockers
and shower bath, cloak and toilet
rooms for men and women and nur-
sery, fully equipped kitchen, reading
room and furnace room. The main
floor contains the auditorium and first
floor of the Sunday School room, pas-
tor's study, choir room, three large
vestibules and parlor. The parlor can
be thrown into the main auditorium
by opening sliding doors having a
seating capacity of about one hun-
dred. The auditorium has a large gal-
lery. The floor of the auditorium is
howled, pulpit in one corner and
choir and pipe-organ to the left, seat-
ing capacity in the choir, sixty. Both
the first and second floors of the Sun-
day School room are divided up around
the outer edge with class rooms, where
are other rooms over the pastor's
study, choir room and vestibule that
may be used for Sunday School class-
es The auditorium is separated from
the Sunday School room bj a large
door that goes up into the ceiling,
throwing the two rooms together, af-
fording a seating capacity of fifteen
hundred and thirty-five. The building
is of cream pressed brick trimmed
with white sand stone. The founda-
tions are of concrete. The floors are
supported by steel pillars on fourteen
inch steel beams and the roof trusses
are carriel up on steel girders and the
roof is of red tile. The ceiling is
plastered with water-proof pulp and
the decorating is of fliree coat interior
paint, which is both water-proof.
The celling of the auditorium is on
four arches, supported by eight pil-
lars and surmounted by a dome which
rises fifty feet from the auditorium.
The building is well lighted, even on
dark days and at night a flood of light
comes from the two hundred and five
Tunsten electric lights scattered over
the building. The windows of the au-
ditorium and Sunday School are of
stained art glass, made by the Ford
Glass Company, Minneapolis. The
principal figure In the auditorium:
"Christ in the midst of Doctors," an
eight-piece figure, "Christ, the Good
Shepherd," "Christ taking Leave of his
Mother," "The Holy Bible and the Ten
Commandments," "The Star of Beth-
leham," and the "Three Crosses on
Calvary," A bust of John Wesley, and
a bust figure of Francis E. Willard, a
life-size figure of Abraham Lincoln
"The Good Samaritan," and a life-size
figure of Christ, with outstretched
hands, saying "Come unto Me." A
beautiful $5,000 Estey Pipe Organ fills
the recess, which is made for it by car-
rying out the end of the church back
of the choir. The building of this
church makes a new epoch in church
work in Oklahoma and as almost every
where else the Methodist Chuch leads
in numbers and agressive evangelism
throughout this New State.
three
Mrs.
rooms lor the last tour year
Abele had b en his nurse.
Dr. Paul Auterbrldge, his physician
said tonight the cause of death was
enronic and acute Bright s disease.
The body was removed touight to the
home of Frank H. Piatt, iiis sou, and
will be taken ou Tuesday to Owego,
N. Y., th Senator's birthplace, where
it will be buried. Funeral services
will be held Wednesday at the Pres-
byterian Church in Owego.
The end was stariiingiy sudden. An
hour beforethe s nator died his two
sons Frank and Edward with their
families and his son, Harry, with the I
letter's daughter, Charlotte, and son, I
Sherman, had left the
National Government Files Suit | Put the
Standard Oil Out of Business J Trust.
Washington, March 9.—"Either the
Sherman ad siiouiu be repealed or it
snouid he euiorced in a manner to
maKe the people respect it."
W ith this declaration of its guiding
principle, the department of justice
touay iiled with tne supreme court of
tue United States a tuousand page
brief in support ot its petition that
"Standard Ull" be dissolved as iu
house, after ] violation of the Sherman anti-trust
their usual Sunday visit. The sella- J law. The brief will he the founda-
tor said at that t.me he felt very well tiou of tne government's oral argu-
and thought he would read the Sun- meent at the hearing of the case by
day papers. At three o'clock he was the supreme court next .Monday it
taken with a fainting fit and Dr. Au-
terbrldge was hurriedly tailed. The
family was notified and returned in
haste. Mr. Piatt recovered from his
last lapse, but sank into unconscious-
ness again at 3:30 and died fifteen
minutes later. The relatives were all
at the bedside.
On last Wednesday Senator Piatt
was at his office downtown. For sev-
eral years he had been in feeble health
and latterly the use of his legs had al-
most deserted him, but his condition
until today was not looked upon as
more serious than usual, although a
physician called upon him daily.
Thursday at breakfast the senator had
a momentary fainting spell, but ral-
lied quickly. A year ago his feeble-
ness was markedly accentuated and
his life was dispaired ot for a period,
but with remarkable vitality he recov-
ered and went about his business as
usual.
Dr. Auterbridge said tonight the
vitality of his patient was truly un-
usual.
In spite of his feebleness he took
an active interest in affairs and re-
fused to neglect his business until
the dictates of nature imposed a rest.
He was out of bed at seven o'clock ev-
ery morning and always early at his
office.
No pallbearers have yet been named.
In fact all the family are so prostra-
ted by the suddenness of the Senator's
death that they were unable to discuss
it in any manner for the public.
GARFIELD MAN MAY WIN IN OHIO
Washington, March 8.—While neces-
sity may be the mother of invention,
political necessity is certainly the fa-
ther of political compromise. Many
examples may be cited When Hugh-
es was first nominated for governor of
New York all the losses were against
him, but they were compelled to ac-
cept hiiii as a matter of political ne-
cessity. The same was true when he
was - nominated the second time. When
Hearst forced himself upon the demo-
cratic party as a candidate for gov-
ernor he was aided by Charles F. Mur-
phy, leader of Tammany hall, whom
Hearst had abused more roundly than
almost any other man. Not often, how-
ever, do the democrats knuckle down
to anything of that kind. Usually
they prefer to nominate the man they
don't want, and win.
That statement is preliminary to the
situation in Ohio. The Taft republi-
cans are in absolute control of Ohio
but it is quite probable that
will nominate an anti-Taft man for
governor
bears the names of Attorney General
tvlckersham and Frank B. Kellogg,
Charles B. Morrison and Cordenlo A.
Severance, as special assistants.
One of the two thick volumes of the
brief is devoted to an analysis of testi-
mony taken iu the circuit court of the
United States for the eastern district
of Alissouri, which decreed that "Stan-
dard Oil be dissolved." It represents
years of governmental investigation
of the oil business.
The government declares this shows
the rebates and discriminatory rates
received by the Standard Oil combina-
tion not only during its formative
period, but duriug the last ten years,
whereby the Standard was enabled to
bring large part of the concerns in-
to the combination and to crush out
and eliminate from the field of com-
petition the principal part of the bal-
ance.
It is claimed by the government
that it shows "a system ot lowering
the prices, where competitors are do-
ing business, below the cost of pro-
duct, while keeping up or raising the
prices in other parts of the country
until the competitor is either elimi-
nated or his business brought within
a compass so that the Standard Oil
can control it; or of obtaining secret
information as to competitive business
largely through bribing railway em-
ployees, and using that secret infor-
mation to procure countermanding of
orders of independents and to facili-
tate ,tbv system of price cutting and
oppression, of the use of so-called
bogus independent companies whose
operators predatory and oppressive,
principally used to drive out competi-
tion, and various other means."
"We do not wish to be understood
as discouraging enterprise," says the
government, "or as taking a position
against legitimate competition, but if
the Sherman act means anything in
this country, it means a monopoly ac-
quired by such methods of competi-
tion as this. Unless it is enforced the
small corporation or individual who
wishes to engage in business will
have absolutely no opportunity at all.
"In many districts the Standard Oil
company has an absolute monopoly.
We mean by absolute monopoly that
in those districts it does all of the
competitor. Pit q ally this is tha
case throughout t .e Hock Mountain
country aiuj most of the Pacific coast
states, 'i lie percentage of independent
business turoughout the entire south-
ern states is very small."
In the second volume is a so-called
summary ot tacts and a brief of tha
the law.
Here, too, repeated statements are
made as to the attitude ot the govern-
ment towaru organized business. It
is urged that it tne intent is clear to
monopolize any part of the commerce
of tile United States, the scheme is
void iu whatever form the action is
taken.
"The oft-repeati"d argument that
this construction ot the law prevents
the formation of partnerships and tha
legitimate consolidation of business
nterprise," says tile government, "is
fallacious, for the reason that such
construction has no application whera
an enterprise is formed with honest
and legitimate intent to pursue a law-
ful business not go beyond the bounds
of legitimate combination or directly
or substantially suppress competition.
But whenever that acquisition is a
mere cloak to cover the intention of
monopolizing comerce or for the pur-
pose of using it as a weapon to strike
down competition, it Is illegal. It fol-
lows from this that the acquisition of
the same property might under some
circumstances be legal while under
other circumstances it would be ille-
gal."
The brief replies to the argument
of the Standard Oil counsel that the
corporations which entered into tha
organization in 1899 were not at that
time competing with each other.
"If they were not competing," says
the government, "it was because ot
an unlawful agreement in the form of
a trust or during the liquidation per-
iod, because of the consipracy of tha
Individual stockholders. We have
seen this trust was void. Certainly
the conspiracy between the stockhold-
ers of these subsidiary corporations
was directly inhibited by the Sherman
act.
Testimony of John D. Rockefeller,
it is claimed by the government, was
to the effect that after the trust dis-
solution was ordered in 1892, each of
the corporations as controlled by its
own stockholders, engaged In its own
branch of the business of purchas-
ing, refining transporting and selling
oil, and that they were each compet-
ing with the other.
Even assuming, the government
says, that there was a purchase of
property previous to 1899, it is main-
tained that it is well settled law that
where property is acquired for the
purpose of suppressing competition,
the acquisition is void In support of
this statement the government quotes
at length from an opinion rendered
business and has eliminated every | by President Taft, then a judge.
reported in a fair way to recover.
The woman came here a few days
THREE ldgrsoaced ("'perany®)
ago from Oklahoma City and has two
1 sisters rt siding at 24 West Main street,
who were summoned by telephone and
. The anti-Taft man will be [came at once. She had secured a pos-
James Rudolph Garfield whom 1'uft!ition with the Pioneer Telephone Co.,
for some reason unknown to the gen- and had worked but one day.
eral public, let out of the cabinet in j can he learned for the at-
ord;r to give Ballinger a place. Gar- tempt at suicide as she refuses to
field was a Roosevelt man, a member j niake any statement save that she
of the tennis cabinet and one of the j d0es not want to die.
Intense conversationalists of the i
Roosevelt administration, being hand j MURDOCH AIDS MAIL CLEKKS
in glove with Gilford Pinchot in an .
effort to save everything the govern- I Washington, D. C., March 5.—To-
ment owned in the way of public j day the railway mail clerks won their
lands. Since the dismissal of Pinchot, | fight for traveling expenses, in the
Garfield has even gone to the extent house, Victor Mnurdock opened the
ball with a speech pronouncing a
high encomium on the whole service,
and pleading with all the members of
congress to give unanimous support
the present situation in Ohio. The fact i tQ the provision in the bill, in as much
that Nick Ixjngworth is a son-in-law
of Roosevelt does not make him an
anti-Taft man. Ixjngworth is being
boomed for governor of Ohio, by
Taft's friends because he is very
friendly with the president and be-
longs to what is known as the Taft
crowd in Ohio. More than that, it is
of saying something in favor of him.
"Nicholas Ixjngworth is a Taft man
and Jim Garfield is an anti-Taft man,"
is the way an anti-Taft man spoke of
believed he might swing some of the
Roosevelt strength into line in Ohio
if he were at the head of the ticket.
But the talk of Longworth is not
satisfactorily to anti-Taft men in
Ohio. They seem to think they-have
the Taft republicans in a tight hole,
and they are determined to push them
to the wall. The Taft republicans in
Ohio, like other organized republi-
cans, are willing to yield if it will in-
sure a republican victory. They would
much rather support an anti-Taft re-
publican for governor of Ohio and el-
ect him than to see Judson Harmon
elected.
That being the situation in Ohio, it
would not be surprising to see Gar-
field made the candidate for governor
of that state. He certainly would
bring to his support a large number of
independent voters and admirers of
Roosevelt, who have be n a little off-
ish since the Baiilnger-Pinchot row
began.
THOMAS C.
I'LATT DEAD IN NEW
YORK.
New York, March 6.—Thomas Col-
lier Piatt, formerly United States sen-
ator from New York and for many
years a national figure in Republi-
can politics died at 3:45 o'clock this
afternoon In the apartment of Mr. and
Mrs. Gustay Abele on West Eleventh
TELEPHONE GIRL SEEKS SUICIDE
El Reno, Okla.. March 9,<-Miss Ves-
ta Burkey, 21 years old, attempted
suicide in a rooming house here t dav
by shooting herself with a 38-calibre
Colt's revolver. The bullet was fired in-
to her body below the heart and strik-
ing a rib ranged down around, coming
out at her back and passed through
the bed clothing burrving itself in the
floor. The report of the revolver ar-
oused other persons in the rooming
house who rushed to her assistance
and summoned medical aid. She was
taken to the El Reno hospital and Is
SENATOR GORE KNOWS VOICES
All the Ninety-One Eellow Members
the Oklnliomati Salutes by Kame
Washington, March 6.—Senator
Thomas P. Gore, the blind orator front
Oklahoma, was walking through the
marble room of the Senate yesterday,
k'aning lightly on the arm of a page.
Senator Root passed him and dropped
a cheerful greeting. "Good morning
Root," said Gore, without the slight-
est hesitation.
Gore has a remarkable faculty for
recalling voices, just as he is able to
memorize statistics. There are ninety
one members of the Senate, in addi-
tion to himself, and he knows tha
voice of every one of them. He re-
sponds to salutation from his collea-
gues by calling them by name, and it
is seldom that he makes a mistake.
HANK LOSSES MADE GOOD
as one objection would destroy it.
Others followed In the same v in,
and there was no objection in the pro-
visions, so that they remain in the
bill and will become a law. It car-
ries $250,000 for traveling expanses,
and is experimental to the extent of j Showing that over two million dol-
trying out the plan next December. hars' worth of the assets of the de-
The clerks hai-e been agitating the | funct Columbia Bank & Trust com-
Commissioner Young Issues State-
ment of Columbia Hank Affairs.
measure for years, and now that it
has been started, there is no doubt
anywhere that it will be in future ap-
propriation bills, where it will be fully
developed.
MAYBRAY MEN BREAK DOWN
Time Associates of Alleged "King of
Swindlers" Confess.
Council Bluffs, la., March 9.—Plead-
ing guilty to a charge of conspiracy
to defraud in connection with the wide
spread swindling operations charged
against John C. Maybray and eighty-
odd other defendants In the United Sta-
tes District court late this afternoon,
Bert R Shores, Win S. Harris and F.
N. Marsh threw themselves on the
mercy of the court. Sentence was de-
ferred. Early i nthe day these three
men had been arraigned with thirteen
o fthelr defendants and pleaded not
guilty.
Marsh said he had talked th? matter
pany of Oklahotna City have been
liquidated, and there still remains ov-
er a million dollars which is mora
than sufficient to pay all remaining
claims, including the guaranty fund,
A. M. Young, state bank commissioner
has issued a statement of the affairs
of the defunct bank. The statement
is practically the same which will be
filed with the district court of this
court of Oklahoma County this week.
Mr. Young states that although tha
assets in hand are more than the out-
standing liabilities, there will be ma-
terial loss in liquidating them, which
loss he estimates at $230,000. The
commissioner says this can only be
made good by the private property of
W. L. Norton, which is appraised at
over $."00,000. The amount borrowed
from the state guaranty fund Is $606,-
607.28, and is yet unpaid, together
with other approved llabilitl s of $133-
804.15.
The claims of various surety com-
panies which were on bond for de-
over with Shoes and Harris and that ^ posits of the state and county have
they had decided to plead guilty and i been refused payment, and the ques-
"take our medicine.'
Marsh also declared he would not
turn government witness, but It is b -
lleve^ Hprrls and Shores will do so.
Marsh Is an all-around athlete and
has been a wrestling promoter In Se-
attle. Shores is also a Seattle man
and Harris gives Spokane as his home.
Marsh and Harris were charged with
having "steered" J. C. Kayanaugh now
living in Muskogee, Okla., against a
$24,000 wrestling match. Kavanaugh
formerly lived in Davenport, Iowa
tlon is pending In the supn me court.
These amount to $210,000. Othec mis-
cellaneous claims refused run tha
total of disputed claims to $222,447.60.
A notable feature of the statement
is the fact that the expenses of tha
administration since September 27
have been only $3,651.27. This includ-
es all attorneys fees, clerk hire and
other expenses, and is considered re-
markable for the amount of work
which has been done and the property
handled. _ „
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