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Indiahoma Champion
INDIAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA
News of the World
Briefly Fold
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Mo«t lm(jor|j>.it Event* ol Iht P st Week
Boiled Down for the Busy Readeri
WASHINGTON
Congress celebrated Decoration Pay
by passing .he annual pensions bill,
after fifteen minutes' consideration.
The measure carried $ 165,162,500, an
increase of almost $13,000,000 over
the amount appropriated by the house.
Speaker CVmp Clark, candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi-
nation, will nle his petition as a can-
didate for the democratic congression-
al nomination from the Ninth Miss-
ouri district before June 6.
Congressman Joseph E. Ransilell
and Robert B. Broussard, of Louisiana,
were elected by the fate legislature
to the United States senate. Mr. Rans-
dell succeeds Senator Foster whose
term expires in 1913, and Mr. Brous-
sard will fill the term beginning 1915
now held by Senator Thornton.
Washington.—The light on the nav-
al appropriation bill broke in the
house when Representative Roberts
of Massachusetts moved for two new
battleships to cost :>ot more than
$6,000,000 each. The democratic
caucus voted down the battleship pro-
gram.
DOMESTIC.
George Miller, New York, charged
with burglary, was taken captive by
the police after a long chase In the
course of which he suffered five brok-
en toes and a fracturcd nose.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the acid plant, of the American Chem-
ical company, at Montgomery, Ala.
The loss is estimated at $100,000, cov-
ered by insurance.
O. L. Holberg, 40 years old, was ar-
rested at Mobile, Ala., on a suspicion
of being one of the ment who robbed
the New Orleans and Northeastern
train at Hattiesburg, Miss., of more
than $200,000. recently.
That the United States government
Is interested in the Industrial Work-
ers of the World situation at San
Diego was indicated by the presence
of secret agents of the department of
Justice. While they declined to state
why they were in San Diego they are
supposed to be investigating general
conditions.
In response to a request from Peru
that the United States send a well
qualified official to take charge of the
sanitary Improvement work at Iquitos
for which $1,000,000 ha sbeen appro-
priated, the public health and marine
hospital service has selected j^r. Geo.
Converse, who has been engaged in
public health work in San Francisco.
Dr. Converse has been granted a two
years leave of absi ,-iCe and will leave
for South America in about two weeks.
Because the eight battleships of the
Atlantic fleet, which were to have
come to Annapolis to take aboard the
midshipmen for a cruise have been
sent to the neighborhood of Cuba, the
cruiser California has been ordered to
Annapolis to convey the midshipmen
to Pensacola, where they will be trans-
ferred to the Atlantic fleet and given
a bit of service in Cuban waters.
While pitching hay F. W. Crenshaw
of Winthrop, Ark., fell on a pitchfork
and received injuries which caused his
death within ten minutes. Three
tines of the fork penetrated his chest,
one reaching the heart. Neighbors
found Crenshaw in a dying condition.
It is believed he either lost his bal-
ance or was attacked with diziness
while standing on his wagon pitch-
ing hay into his barn
Rising from his seat in the church
In Savannah, (5a„ where his brother's
funeral was being held, kissing his
aunt and sister tenderly, Samuel Bran-
non a well known young farmer living
near Acree, Ga., walked outdoors and
blew out his brains In the church yard.
Since the death of his brother, John
Brannon, Samuel Brannon has been
overcome with grief. Funeral prepara-
tions were hastily made and the two
brothers were buried side by side.
Isaac Cohn, a Memphis, Tenn., mer-
chant, Is probably fatally injured as
the result of an attack made on him
In his store in the business district In
broad daylight. The police say rob-
bery was the motive for the attack.
John's throat was cut and his skull
fractured. He lapsed into uncon-
sciousness shortly after being dis-
covered by two negroes, whom the
police held as suspacU.
Urey Woodson, for eighteen years a
member of the democratic national
committee from Kentucky has been
succeeded by John C. Mayo.
Mayor Cottrlll, Seattle, vetoed the
council bill known as the "anti-red
flag" ordinance. It was passed be-
cause of the red flflag demonstration
on May day.
Mrs. Daisy Ople Grace, formerly of
Philadelphia, Indicted at Atlanta, Ga.,
for shooting her husband, Eugene H,
Grace, with Intent to murder, and
who was released from the county
Jail on a $5,000 bond, will remain at
the home oi her former*"nurse, Mrs.
Lena Wilson, until her trial, probably
the latter part of June.
Governor Harmon of Ohio appoint-
ed former Governor Andrew L. Har-
ris of Eaton, his predecessor, to rep-
resent Ohio on the national com-
mittee to ane.nge for the celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg. The commission
will meet in Washington two days,
beginning May 27.
A bronze tablet marking the place
where in 1683 the first Catholic mass
was said on the Island of Manhattan,
was unveiled on the north entrance
stairs of the custom house, New York,
The tablet was erected by the Order
of the Alhambra, and the supreme
commander of the organization, Wil-
liam J. McMahon, officiated. William
Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of New
York, accepted the bronze in behalf
of tho United States.
The Alabama supreme court decid-
ed that liquor cannot be transported
from a wet county into a dry county
of that state. It as held that the pro-
vision of the Fuller prohibition act,
prohibiting carriers to receive and
transport prohibited liquor was not re-
pealed by the local option laws passed
by the legislature in 1911. The case
same up from Montgomery where the
Capitol Brewing and Ice company
tried to force the Western Railway of
Alabama to accept a shipment of beer
from Montgomery to Opelika, Ala.
The bady of U. S. Consul General
FranTc D. Hill of Minnesota, who was
killed by falling over the railing of
the stair case in the hotel where he
resided on May 23, was despatched to
Bremen. !t. will he taken on budl'd
the George Washington for transpor-
tation to the United States. A funeral
service was held in the hotel which
was attended by many of the late con-
sul ge.ieral's American and German
friends.
Insurrection and disorders In Cuba,
which threaten the life and property
of Americana and are believed by the
United States to be spreading be-
yond control of the Cuban govern-
ment, caused the Amer.oan govern-
ment to take pctive steps in prepara-
tion to cope with any situation which
may arise in the Island republic. Two
divisions of the Atlantic battleship
fleet were ordered to take on their
full quota of marines, making a total
of 1,300 in addition to the 700 now
enroute to Guantanamo, and ren-
dezous at Key West, ready to move
to Cuba at the instant their presence
is needed. A dozen warships will be
in the immediate vicinity of Cuba
within a few days.
J. Clifford Turpin, the aviator,
dashed irto the grand stand at the
Meadows, Seattle, Wash., in his first
effort at flight, killing one man and
injuring fifteen other persons. One
of the injured, a child, is dying. The
man and child who were fatally hurt
were taken to the County hospital,
where the man died without being
Identified. Tufpin and Phil Parmalee,
his partner, declared the accident was
caused by a spectator who ran across
the track in front of Turpin as he was
headed north preparatory to rising for
the first flight of the afternoon. The
aeroplane was traveling at 50 miles
an hour and Turpin tilted the right
wing in order to miss the man. He
was unable to right the machine in
time, and it swerved into the graud
stand.
Hundreds of women In Massachu-
setts are working to prevent the ex-
ecution of the death penalty on Mrs.
Lena Cusumano, Boston, who with
Harry Mascioti, is sentenced to die
In the electric chair during the week
of June 2, for the murder of Mrs. Cus-
umano's husband. If the death pen-
alty is inflicted, Mrs. Cusumano will
be the first woman in Massachusetts
to go to her death in the electric
chair.
Accompanied by his staff and sev-
eral state officials, Governor O. B.
Colquitt went to Galveston and par-
ticipated in the ceremonies attendant
upon the opening of the $2,000,000
concrete causeway, two miles long,
that joins Galveston island to the
mainland. A crowd estimated at
2,000 thronged the union depot to
greet the governor, who was almost
mobbed by the enthusiastic rush of a
crowd adorned with Colquitt buttons
and anxious to shafre hands. The gov-
ernor was rushed to his hotel In an
automobile and remained In his room
to rest after the fatigue of the Jour-
ney.
CAPITAL LELTER
GOVERNOR CRUCE IS SECURING
AMOUNT OF ROOM NEEDED
IN NEW CAPITOL BUILDING
BY
EACH OF THE STATE AND
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Data Gathered Will Be Used In Deter-
mining Size and Cost of Capitol
Building To Be Erected .n
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City—About three-quar-
ters of an acre of floor space has al-
ready been spoken for in Oklahoma s
new state capitol building and the
state board of affairs expects within
a few days to have figures which will
show how much space the various
state officers will require for their
present needs and how much will be
required for the future.
In order to estimate the amount of
TICK ERADICATION NOT TO
START BEFORE JULY FIRST
Court Holds Board of Agriculture Can-
not Hold Back $10,000 of Appro-
priation For Eradication.
Oklahoma City.—The demurrer to
the mandamus writ against the board
of agriculture, applied for by citizens
of Pottawatomie county, asking that
the board proceed with the tick eradi-
cation work in that county, v-*s over-
ruled by the superior court of that
county. President G. T Bryan of tho
board and Assistant Attorney General
R. E. Clish represented the board. The
full order of the court on the proposi-
tion will probably not be given for
several days, It only being indicated
what it might be.
In overruling the demurrer the court
took the position that the board
should proceed in Its discretion with
the worJi that had been started, but
left it with the board as to how to
proceed and to what extent that work
should be continued. The features of
the agreement between the president
of the board and the governor as to
the withholding of the $10,000 of the
appropriation did not enter into the
proceedings.
Assistant Attorney General Gieh
WRIGHT IS DEAD
INVENTOR OF AEROPLANE SUC-
CUMBS TO TYPHOID
FAMED THE WORLD OVER
HIS DEATH KEENLY FELT IN AV|.
ATION CIRCLES
Invention of Aeroplane Was Success-
tul Realization of Dream—First
Flight Made at Kitty Hawk,
N. C., 1902—Other News
floor space which will be required in , t
Cruce1 said that until the full order of
is made he will not take
the new building. Governor
called upon the state board of affairs j the court
to furnish the figures showing about any action, but It is the n tentlon to
how big a capitol building Oklahoma appea from ^/gone date's
will need. The state board of affairs. ! at- far as it has gone
In turn, called upon each of the state
departments to furnish an estimate of
the amount of floor space it will re-
quire, both for the present and for the
future.
The final estimates have been hand-
ed in to the state board. Some of the
figures are conservative and some are
progressive, to use the language of
Eugene Morris, a member of the board.
Some were based on actual measure-
ments and the estimates are calcu-
lated down to a fine point, while others
are approximate.
For instance, it was estimated in the
fish and game warden's office that
4,000 feet of floor space would be re-
quired by that department. The attor-
ney general's office asks 5,483 feet ex-
acty. Insurance Commissioner Bal-
lard also estimates that his department
will require 2,032 feet of floor space—
no more, no less.
No estimate has been made of the
amount of floor space required for leg-
iclative nails. This is a matter which
will be threshed out later. But the
departments which furnished their es-
timates to the state board of affairs,
are as follows: State examiner and
inspector, 3,000 feet; State election
board, 1,200 feet; attorney general,
5,489; state reporter, 336; department
of health, 1,600; banking department,
1,400; clerk of the supreme court, 20,-
000; agricultural department, 60,000;
corporation commission, 10,000; de-
partment of charities and corrections,
1,200; supreme court, 4,056; printing
department, 2,000; board of public
affairs, 1,540; land office, 12,000; fire
marshal, 800; board of education,
3,000; fish and game warden, 4,000;
auditor, 2,500; insurance commis-
sioner, 2.032; department of high-
ways, 2,000.
These figures together with those
to be furnished by other departments
which have not yet reported will be
used by Governor Cruce in preparing
estimates and plans for the capitol
building.
The state's
position was that the matter of
whether the board should or should
not be compelled to do such work was
not such as to come within the ju-
risdiction of a court, and that it lay
with the board itself.
President Bryan of the hot rd stated
that while he would rely on what
action the attorney general advised,
that as it would only be one month
until the next year's appropriation
would be available, it may be that in
any event wohk might not be started
until the first of July.
One Paroled
Oklahoma City.—Governor Cruce
granted a parole to Walter Scribner
a tenyear sentence for grand larceny
from McCurtain county. Scribner
pleaded guilty to horsestealing and
was sentenced to the penitentiary
Nov. 29, 1910. The pjarole was
granted on the recommendation of
Judge Armstrong - of the court of
criminal appeals who as a district
Judge sentenced Scribner. W. A.
Coleman, whose horse Scribner stole,
also recommended the parole. Scrib-
ner gave evidence which led to the ar-
rest and conviction of a band of horse-
thieves in the Red River country.
EAST SIDE ENTHUSIASTIC
State Highway Engineer Goit Returns
From Long Trip
Oklahoma City—There is unbounded
enthusiasm in the eastern portion of
the state over the good roads move-
ment, according to W. R. Goit, state
highway engineer, who returned after
a four weeks' trip ove 'hf .ection of
the state. A number of road district
committees have been formed and con-
struction work is under way at this
time. Mr. Goit surveyed the extreme
end of the east and west state high-
way following the Cherokee and Ir-
ving trails from Muskogee tp the Ar-
kansas line, via Tahlequah, Still well
and Westville. Colonel Suggs, state
highway commissioner, accompanied
by Engineer Goit, Walter S. Gilbert
and Clark Hudson, will attend the
state highway convention to be held
at Atoka, June 10. A special train will
be run from Denison to Atoka.
Dayton, Ohio.—Following a slight
rally, during which he took some nou-
rishment, Wilbur Wright, "noted avia-
tor and inventor, died Thursday from
typhoid fever.
Wright, with his brother Orville,
■was one of the pioneers in the inven-
tion and handling of aeroplanes. He
has been seen in aeroplane exhibits
and cross-country flights over the U. S.
and his inventions have assisted
materially in perfecting air-ships.
Wright was born near Milville,
Indiana, April 16, 1867. His education
ended after four years spent in Rich-
mond, Indiana and Dayton, Ohio high
schools. Wright was unmaried. He
worked for five years at Dayton on
flying machines, with his brother Or-
ville, In a bicycle shop, before the
world knew of his experiments.
Wright's first, flight in a gliding ma-
chine was at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in
1902. In 1904 he made his first flight
in a motor propelled machine.
Washington, May 30.—In govern-
ment circles, especially in the signal
corps of the army, profound sorrow
was expressed at the news of the
death of Wilbur Wright. His con-
nection with the government in the
early days of aeroplane development
was particularly close. It was Wilbar
Wright who negotiated the first con-
tract with the war department for
an aeroplane. That was in February,
1908.
Prior to the Issuance of specifica-
tions for the first keavier-than-air fly-
ing machine, Wilbur Wright was a
frequent visitor to the army signal
corps headquarters. Duri.'g those
visits Brigadier General James Allen,
chief signal officer of the army, said
that there never was a time when
Wilbur Wright showed any doubt of
his ability to do exactly what he had
undertaken.
Hold Up Warrants
Oklahoma City.—Until a change is
made in the policy of administrating
the affairs of the State University
hospital, formerly the Rolater hospi-
tal which was taken over by the state
State Auditor Leo Meyer will refuse
payment on warrants aggregating
about $1,000 for the salaries o fphy-
siclans who are employed at the hos-
pital. According to Auditor Meyer,
none but physicians employed in the
institution upnder orders from the
dean are permitted to practice in the
hospital. "This is a state institution,"
says Meyer, "and patients should be
permitted to have any physician they
choose. I am going to hold up these
warrants until some change is made."
Could Not Pay Ferret
Oklahoma City.—The county com-
missioners of Beaver county were
without authority to pay a tax ferret
fifteen per cent of the amount of cer-
tificates of error which he caused to
be placed upon the tax rolls of that
county, according to the contentions
of County Attorney Spohn who holds
a view different from that of the
county commissioners who allowed
the claim. Tax ferret G. W. Field,
put in his claim to the board of coun-
ty commissioners who ordered it paid.
The county attorney held up the ac-
tion in the district court and Judge
Loufburrow held that they had no
authority to pay the bill. The com-
missioners have now appealed to the
supreme court.
Interest In Road Bill
Oklahoma City—The State highway
department is receiving a large num-
ber of letters from citizens interested
in good roads work inquiring about
the road improvement district bill
which is now before the supreme court
for a decision .s to Its constitution-
ality.
Granted Charter
Oklahoma City.—Secretary of State
Ben F. Harrison granted a charter to
the Haskell County Musical associa
tion of Stigler. The association has
no capital. The incorporators are
Emma Patterson of Hoylt, S. J. Oslln,
W. C. Cole and John H. Hardin of
Stigler.
Bank Assessments
Oklahoma City.—The method of as.
sessing the property of a bank is out-
lined by Attorney General West in an
opinion to County Attorney E. W.
Fagan of Sulphur. The attorney gen-
eral holds that the property of a bank
is to be assessed acocrding to the
net value of its capital, surplus and
undivided profits as they existed Jan-
uary 1. "eDpreciative paper and un-
earned interest," are elements among
others to be considered In determin
Ing what the net value is. The value
of the bank's loans or the good will
value of the stock is to be considered
in determining the depreciation. "If
tha net value of the bank is not equal
to the book value of its capital, sur-
plus and undivided profits, such facts
should be imemidately reported to
'his office," the attorney general says,
in conclusion.
€^1
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN,
President of Princeton University
Who was recently installed as head of
that institution with much ceremony.
CAPT. ROSTRON HONORED.
Act of Rescuing Titanic Passengers
Brings Its Reward
New York—Captain Arthur H. Uos-
tron, commander of tho Cunard liner
Carpathia, the ship that sped to the
rescue of the passengers of the sink-
ing Titanic, was presented with a
handsome silver loving cup by a com-
mittee of Titanic survivors, who board-
ed the liner on her arrival in New
York. Gold, silver and bronze medals,
together with a framed set of en-
grossed resolutions, were presented to
the officers and entire crew.
Files Exceptions
Oklahoma City. The state board of
equalization lias filed exceptions to
the report of R. M. Campbell on the
appeal of the gas pipe line companies,
which was filed in the supreme court.
Assembly Dissolved
Washington—The fifty-fourth
eral assembly of the United Presby
terian church has been dissolved. Tin
next general assembly will meet at
Atlanta at the same time as the gen-
eral assembly of the southern Presby-
terian church and tho general assem-
bly of tho Presbyterian church of
North America and II is b< Sieved prob-
able that a union of the three denom-
inations will be effected at that time.
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Soule, J. S. Indiahoma Champion (Indiahoma, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1912, newspaper, June 6, 1912; Indiahoma, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc167617/m1/2/: accessed May 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.