Bartlesville Daily Enterprise. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 7, 1912 Page: 1 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 22 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
TWICE THE
BARTLESVILLE
CIRCULATION
OF ALL OTHER
NEWSPAPER8
:: ...".
p r k a
EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATE]!)
REPORT
TWICE TH;E
BARTLESVILLE
CIRCULATION
OF ALL OTHER
NEWSPAPERS
VOLUME VIII.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
SCHOOLS 10 OPEN :
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR
OPENING OF SCHOOLS MONDAY
!♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
MISS LILY SMITH, WHO
WILL TRY TO SWIM ♦
♦ THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
REBELS 1
Ml HME III fllPllS
STUDENTS WILL BE SUBJECTED
TO RIGID MEDICAL TEST.
New High School Principal Engaged
—Improvements Made—List of
Teachers.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of the Bartlesville public
schools Monday, September 9 when
the work of enrolling will begin in
the four grade schools and the high
school. Actual work will not begin
for a few days after the opening as
it is expected that many preliminary
matters will have to be disposed of
before the classes will begin work in
earnest.
The opening of the Bartlesville |
schools this year will witness many in
novations and improvements that will
place the schools of Bartlesville on a
plane with any in the state. Super-
intendent Wenner has been working
industriously during the summer
months that the schools may open
with every advantage, from the point
of equipment and class of instruction.
An idea that Superintendent
Wenner, wth the assistance of the
board of education has introduced in-
to the schools this year, is a medical
examination that will be given every
pupil in the city, from the first grade
to the members of the Senior class
In the high school. While this custom
is in vogue in many of the large
cities, it has never been introduced in
Oklahoma and Bartlesville is the first
city in the state to take this advanced
move which the board of education
bellpvef will be condusive to better
health in the schools and a better un-
derstanding between the pupils and
the teachers. During the first two
weeks of school, physicians, under
the direction of Dr. Somerville. city
superintendent of health, will subject
every student in this city to a rigid
health examination. The result of
this examination will be given to the
teachers in the form of a report
"We not only intend to determine
the health of the pupils," said Super
intendent Wenner, In speaking of the
new idea, "but we will also pass upon
the mental condition of the pupils.
The condition of the student's mentali
ty will be made known to the teach-
ers. If a boy or girl fails to do good
work, we will know whether it is due
to the natural dullness of the pupil,
or to shirking on the student's part."
This examination will take some time
but the physicians will complete the
work as soon as possible.
Superintendent Wenner announced
yesterday that a new man had been
engaged to fill the position of high
school principal made vacant by W. L.
Harrington who was elected to the
position last year by the board of
education. Walter E. Gordon, is the
new head of the faculty, and comes
highly recommended. He is a gradu-
ate of Indiana university.and has been
an istructor in that institution. This
summer he has been attending Chica-
go university. Mr. Gordon's home is in
Elkhart, Ind. The engaging of a new
principal followed the failure of Mr.
Harrington to make any report, or to
inform either Supt. Wenner or any
of the school board members as to
whether he would return this year to
fill the position to which he had been
elected. Upon investigation it was
learned that Mr. Harrington had no
intention of returning to Bartlesville,
and had applied for a position in sev-
eral other schools. This was learned
when heads of other high schools
wrote here for recommendations of
Mr Harringotn. The recommenda-
tions were refused. Mr. Harrington
was elected principal of the Bartles-
ville High school at the close of the
last school term after he had come
here in the middle of the school year.
The principal'8 salary was advanced
from a trifle over $1,000 to $1,600
which was to have been paid Mr
Harrington. Walter E. Gordon, the
new prinoipal will receive $1,200.
The school buildings have all been
put in Bhape for the opening. Every
seat and desk In the city schools have
been scrubbed and the buildings have
been given a general cleaning. New
chemical apparatus for Ihe high
school is expected to arrive in a few
days when the new chemical labora-
tory will be installed.
>
London, Sept. 7.—Miss Lily Smith,
London's champion woman swimmer,
will shortly try to swim the English
channel. Miss Smith recently went
from Dover to Ramsgate, a distance
of nearly twenty miles, in six and
half hours. Captain Webb in 1875
took eight and a half hours to swim
the same course. Wolffe in 1906
made it in the same time as Miss
Smith.
I
*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•[
♦ PKF.SIRENT OF THE ♦
> RAILROAD CONDUCTORS ♦
♦ WHO DEMAND MORE PAY. ♦
>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
HUMAN 100L COESI
#♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦!
♦ MISS CARTER SHOWS
LITTLE CHILDREN HOW
♦ TO I'SE TOOTHBRUSHES.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
J. P.
1 TELL II ALL
FINANCIER WILL TESTIFY BE-
FORE INVESTIGATING COM.
Will Be Questioned A boat Connection
Between Contributions and Leg-
islation in Congress.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 7.—'When
J. Pierpont Morgan takes the stand
before the senate committee investi-
gating the campaign contributions, he
will be questioned not only about the
contributions of 1904 and 1908 but
about any possible connection be-
tween the contributions in the period
from 1900 to 1912 to any legislation in
congress. This was learned today be-
fore the conference between Chair
man Clapp and Senator Pomerene at
which the plans for the resumption
of the hearing will be arrainged.
SEND ANONYMOUS LETTERS AND
MAY ATTACK AMERICAN TOWNS.
SITUATION GRAVE, SAYS TAFT
MORE TROOPS ARE ORDERED TO
PROCEED TO BORDER.
U. S. Troops In Battle With Mexican
"Rebs"—Federal Government Asks
Uncle Sam For Favors.
El Paso, Sept. 7.—The Mexican re-
bels, anticipating that Mexico might
ask to transport troops through tin
United States have sent, anonymous
letters to officials in various border
towns, saying that if the Mexican
troops were permitted to move along
the Sonora-Arlzona line, au attack
would be made on American towns,
from Chihuahua through to the Unit-
ed States.'
Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 7.—Mexican
rebels crossed the boundary and weri
engaged by United States soldiers at
the Lang ranch, fifty miles east of
Douglas, according to a report re-
ceived here last night.
Fourteen American troopers held
back 25 rebels, killing five and wouni"
proval of the order. Troops will b-
ed. The rebels are believed to be ir
command of Inez Salzaar.
Beverly, Mass., Sept. 7.—President
Taft this afternoon authorized Gen-
eral Wood by telephone to dispatch
immediately two more regiments tt
the Mexican border. The president
considers the situation grave.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 7.—'Th<
war department is preparing to dis
patch two more regiments of caval-
ry to the Mexican border. Genera
Wood today asked the president's ap
taken from Fort Riley and Darns
taken from Fort Riley and D. A. Rub-
sell, one regiment will go from each
Mexico City, Sept. 7.—For the sec
ond time the United States govern-
ment will be asked to authorize th<
transportation of the Mexican federa
troops over American territory. The
war department desires to move ttu
expedition from El Paso to Nogales
against the Sonora rebels.
CHICAGOAN OPERATED ON FOR
PAINS IN STOMACH.
IS POCKET KNIVES IN HIM
ALSO NAILS, KNIFE BLADES,
SCREWS IND SILVER DOLLAR.
John Martlner Swallowed These Art!-
< les On a Wager— Won the Bet,
But Oh, What Pains!
Chicago, Sept. 7.—Physicians oper-
1 attng on John Martiner at the county
! hospital today for "terriblp pains" in
the stomach, found nineteen pocket
i knives, seventeen nails, five knife
I blades, a dozen screws and a sliver
; dollar.
Martlner, known as a "human tool
j chest," had swallowed the articles on
a wager.
FKEORA
i OIL HOLDS OF TRAIN
BARNSDALL COMPANY BRINGS IN
BIG GUSHER NEAR DEWEY.
OVER 1,000 BARRELS A DAY
OIL SPREADS OVER TRACK AND
DELAYS SANTA FE TRAIN.
CRIMINAL TERM MONDAY
Cedar Rapids, la., Sept. 7.—A. B.
Harretson of this city, president of
he Order of Railway Conductors, Is I
epresentlng that organization in the | Large Number of Felony Cases Have
•.onferences following the demand of j Been Sel For Triul.
conductors and trainmen on fifteen |
•ailroads in the southeastern terrl- Wjth all of the crjmjnal cases set
ory for an increase in wages and for trial in the district court, Judge
Setter working conditions. Arbitra- Hudson win return to Bartlesville
ion may result and a strike may be
xverted. Two thousand men are af-
Monday morning from his home in
Pawhuska, to open the criminal term
fected. Demand is made for an in-|0f court. The list of felony cases set
rease in wages ranging from 15 to
?0 per cent. Among the railroads In-
'olved are the Southern railway, the
VIobile and Ohio, the Central of Geor-
for trial Is the largest in Bome time,
including two murder oases.
Judge Hudson adjourned, court this
morning, having, completed the work
ia, the New Orleans, Mobile and Chi- of heariag moti0ns and demurrers.
Judge Hudson has made no statement
as to whether or not he would sit. In
the trial of the case of the Union Na-
tional bank against the Commerce
Trust company and the Oklahoma
state banking board, wherein the de-
fendants seek to remove him because
of his close associations with attor-
neys for the prosecution.
New York, Sept. 7.—Miss Theora
Carter, founder and president of the
Society of Good Cheer, lias presented
tootlbrushes to hundreds of East Side
children and is Instructing them In
the use of this very important article
of cleanliness. Miss Carter was born
in Seattle and was educated at the
University of Washington. She is
fostering a movement to establish
branches of her society in the larger
cities of the country. "FigureB show
that 92 per cent of the children of the
United States are not taught to care
for their teeth," said Miss Carter,
"and it is this evil with lis consequent
diseases that we are fighting,"
Largest Well Ever Completed In the
Cherokee Nation—Located on
Cornelius House Farm.
What 1b said to be the largest oil
I well ever drilled in the Cherokee na-
tion was brought in yesterday near
Dewey by the Barnsdall Oil company.
The well ia making about sixty bar-
rels an hour or more than one thous-
and barrels of crude oil every day.
This large well is quite near the
Santa Fe railroad tracks and yester-
day when the well was brought in the
oil poured from the well and flooded
the tracks, delaying a north-bound
Santa Fe train for two hours. The
people on board the train greatly en-
joyed the novelty of seeing the well
shut in, which was accomplished only
after considerable difficulty. It took
about two hours to shut in this gush-
>ago, the Tennessee Central, the At-
antlc Coast Line, the Atlantic Sea-
board Air Line, tte New Orleans and
"treat Northern and the Queen and
Crescent, which also controls the Cln-
ilnnati Southern and the Alabama
Ireat Southern.
HELD FOR NORSE STEALING
Bill Brown An Indian, Was Arrested
At Ramona.
Bill Brown, an Indian, was brought
to the county jail today on the charge
of horse stealing. He was arrested at
Ramona yesterday.
Brown is charged with stealing a
horse from L. Rlnehart and another
from D. E. Barker, farmers residing
southwest of Bartlesville. That was
three weeks ago. The farmers trail-
ed him about the country, finally lo-
cating him at Ramona, He was taken
Into custody by Mr. Rinehart.
LOST HER SLIPPER ON A CAR.
Seven Men Couldn't Aid a SI. Louis
Young Woman In Distress.
St. Louis. Sept. 7.—When a pretty
young woman, clad In pink from her
dainty pumpB to her hat, entered a
Lansdowne street car in East St
Louis this morning seven men got ur
and offered her seats. She chose onr
and as she Bat down the car lurched
and she tumbled heavily into the seat
The heel of one slipper caught in s
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ FORSBREY. DESPERATE ♦
♦ CRIMINAL WHO ESCAPED ♦
♦ FROM NEW YORK TOMBS. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
■lat of the floor and the shoe flew in-
o the air. There was a rush of those
'.even men for the slipper. The re-
ult was a jam in the aisle. In the
•nidst of it the young woman arose
ind started for the shoe which lay a
'ew feet away with the men pushing
ind shoving each other in a vain at-
empt to get it.
1WELL TAKEN TO
THE COUNTY JAIL
ARRAIGNED LAST NIGHT AND
HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
Arrest Follows Mysterious Death of
Vernlce Beard.—Hearing Set
For September 1#.
MADE UNUSUAL REQUEST.
Jack Wolfe Had His Fears And Want-
ed to Be Locked Up.
Jack Wolfe made an unusual re-
quest when he entered police head-
quarters this afternoon and asked to
be locked up.
"What have you been doing," asked
the desk sergeant.
"Nothing at all," replied Wolfe, "but
I am afraid I will lap up a few elixirs
of mirth and then it wouldn't be nec-
essary for me to make the request
would get thrown In."
Wolfe was accommodated. He was
booked as a plain drunk.
( Continued on Pago Three)
MAN IS HEAVILY FINEO
AY. K. Patton Pleaded Guilty to As.
sault Charge.
W. K. Patton entered a plea of
"guilty" to the charge of assault be-
fore Justice of Peace Hull this morn
ing and was fined $100. County At-
torney Ray was present and recom-
mended the fine.
Recently Patton run amuck at the
race track and stabbed L. A. Caldwell
in the left wrist with a knife. Another
man was also slightly injured. Patton
was drunk at the time. He is em-
ployed as an oil well worker.
kLYNQL
CLAIMS $208 TAKEN IN RAID.
01:lahoman Appeals From Court Or-
dpr Confiscating Money.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 7—Jerry
Miller, claiming to be the owner of
$208 captured by deputy sheriffs in
raid on a Shawnee gambling house,
and Judge W. N. Maben, former dis-
trict judge, to whom he assigned his
claim, have appealed to the supreme
court from the order of the county
court of Pottawatomie county confis-
cating the money and directing that
it be turned into the county treasury.
The money, including $167 in cash
and two checks for $16 and $25 re-
spectively, was on the crap table
when the officers made the raid and
the identical money was kept and
produced at the trial.
RAGE TROUBLE
IN
A lively scramble is now on to se-
cure leases in the locality of this well
It Is located on the Cornelius House
farm and comprises twenty acres at
a point about three and a half miles
north of Bartlesville, This is not In
new territory but not many wells
have been drilled in that locality 'of
late. The well is being watched with
much Interest by the oil men In thla
field. •
NEGRO PREACHER IS ALMOST
BEATEN TO DEATH.
Made Insulting Remarks About White
Women—Arrested Negroes for
Alleged Assault
SIDEWALKS MUSI 8! BlilLT
Property Owners Must
city m
Do Work or
Cummings, Ga., Sept. 7.—Race trou-
ble was precipitated here today fol
lowing the arrest of two negroes,
charged with assaulting a white wo-
man. Grant Smith, a negro preacher,
is alleged to have made insulting re-
marks about the white women of Cum
mings. The preacher was beaten al-
most to death by a mob of whites be-
fore officers locked him up in the
court house vault.
New York, Sept. 7 —Reynolds Fors-
brey, accounted one of the most des-
perate men in the country and held
H. H. Howell was arraigned before
Tustice of Peace Hackett last night
:>n the charge of manslaughter in
connection with the death of Vernice
leard. and held for a preliminary
hearing on September 19. Howell's
bond was fixed at $2,500, which he
was unable to furnish and he was
taken to the county jail. Two women
Inmates of the house at the time of
the tragedy were also locked up in
the county jail on charges of vag-
rancy.
Beard was fatally injured in a fall
from the second story window of the
Oklah Flats late Wednesday night,
his death following the next day.
Howell maintains Beard jumped from
the window, but officers believe he
was struck and hurled through the
window. Howell" was proprfetor of
the Oklah Flats.
NEWS FROM HORSE PLAGUE.
No New Cases Reported Yesterday in
Northwest Kansas.
Topeka. Kas.. Sept 7 —The first j
good news from the horse plague in j
western Kansas appeared today with
word from eight counties of the north I
west that no new cases had appeared
there yesterday. "A change of feed-
taking the horses off the pasture and
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*
CONGRESSMAN GEORGE ♦
♦ OF NEW YORK WHO IS ♦
♦ ILL FROM OVERWORK. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
COMPROMISE WAS EXPENSIVE
Cost Wisconsin Man $1,000,000 to Get
Lady Friend Out of Trouble.
That residents Of certain sections
of the city must' build sldewaika' is
set forth In notice's being sent but
from the city clerk's office, directing
tot the work proceed within ten
days from the date of mailing the no-
tice. Where sidewalks are missing In
the districts named, owners of the
property are directed to construct
them at once. The districts specified
are from Fifth north to the city lim-
its; Osage east to Shawnee, and Arm-
strong first addition.
Unless the work is done by the
owners of property, the city will pro-
ceed to do the work, letting the con-
tract to the lowest bidder. Cement
or brick will be used, and the expense
will be charged up against the prop-
erty. There are many sidewalks
missing in the districts mentioned.
The absence of these walks has oc-
casioned much complaint from rail-
dents in these sections. A city ordi-
nance requlreB the building of side-
walks at a given time.
HENRY GEORGE.
Washington. D. C., Sept. 7.—Nathan
Allen, a retired merchant of Kenosha,
Wis., today paid the government $100,-
000 to compromise the civil liability
in the smuggling case of New York
three years ago which involved Mrs.
H. D. Jenkins In an alleged attempt | £xlgts jn Southern Nebraska—But -It
to escape paying duties on $1,0001 Don,t ^ules.
worth of jewels. j
HORSE DISEASE RAVA6ES
WITH PRATER ON HIS LIPS;
Children See Father Burn to Death
While Pinned Under Auto.
Paulina. Ia., Sept 7.—With a pray-
er on his lips Rev. H. Grefe, a Luth-
eran pastor of Germantown was burn
ed to death before his children today
while pinned under an automobile.
Llrscln, Neb.. Sept. 7.—State Vet-
rfnarian Boostom returned today
from a tour of the state with reports
of the ravages of a horse disease
which he diagnosed as meningitis. It
exists in practically all of southern
Nebraska. Mules are exempt
the disease.
from
The blaze started from a lantern
which the rescuers used following the
wreck of Rev. Grefe's machine while
speeding on a highway near here.
"BUGS" RAYMOND DEAO
Well Known Base Ball Player Found
Dead in Chicago.
Washington, Sept. 7.-
giving them cleaji feed and pure wat-1 Henry George Jr.. of New
Notice to Paving Tax Payers.
Under the paving law. paving tax
on which installments were due Sep-
tember 1, 1912, is now in default and
subject to a penalty of 13 per cent. On
September 15th it Is obligatory on me
to return the unpaid assessments
to the County Treasurer as delin-
quent and the law provides that he
shall sell the property the same as for
delinquent taxes.
As It will not require all the time
from September 1st to September 15
to make up the delinquent list to cer-
Chlcago Sept. 7,-Arthur. better Hfy to the County Treasurer, I have
known in the baseball world as decided to receive payments without
-Represents- -Bugs". Raymond, a former pitcher penalty until Tuesday, September!*.
York is suf- for the New York Nationals. wasP'2. this being the latest possible
in the Tombs on two charges of mur-
der, escaped by breaking out of a cell
and scaling the outer wall. A gen-|.
eral alarm has been sent out for his' j
capture. A previous attempt of Fors-
brey to escape was frustrated. On that
occasion he had partly sawed through
the bars of his cell when he was sur-
prised by a keeper.
or has done much good," said State I Coring from a nervous breakdown, due ] found dead in a down-town hotel to-j
date.
Livestock Commissioner Mercer.
WEATHER
New Orleans, Sept 7.—Oklahoma— problem are
Generally fair tonight and Sunday. I for his illness.
to overwork. As soon as his condi- day. The coroner said death was due
tion permits he will be removed to a | to heart disease, aggravated by ex-
mountain resort in his home state to|cessive heat.
recuperate. Mr. George's labors In | ——
completing his committee report ou G. F. Garrison has resigned his po-
the District of Columbia's taxation sition as clerk at the Right Way to
i to be responsible .take up his studies in the business col
liege here.
W. W. JONES, Cltv Cl«rk.
Feed Prices
rn fhon $1.65. o*t . bu.
45c, Mill Run $1.25
at store
Osage Trading Co. Phone 129
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Leach, J. S. Bartlesville Daily Enterprise. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 7, 1912, newspaper, September 7, 1912; Bartlesville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc140963/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.