The Guthrie Daily Star (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE GUTHRIE DAILY STAR
NINTH YEAR.
GUTFpT'
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[A. TIIl'RSDAY MORNING. MARCH 28, 1912.
NUMBER 15.
TAFT W NNER
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Test Power of Jurisdiction
in Sweeping "Dry" Decision
Guggenheim Select-
ed as National
Committeeman
Colorado Springs, March 27 (Spl.)
—The Colorado Republican State con-
vention held here today was dominat#
ed by iVt men and as a result 8 del-
egates at large to the National con-
vention were elected and instructed
to vote for Wm. Howard Taft. Reso-
lutions endorseing Taft's administra-
tion and pledging support for the
nomination were 'passed. The first
4est vote for temporary chairman re-
sulted in 866 for Taft and 242 for Col.
Roosevelt. Never after that was
there any doubt about th outcome.
Roosevelt forces were in a hopeless
minority and a report they submitted
was voted down in a hurry. The
Roosevelt men however made a game
light on the floor of the convention.
Guggenheim E'ected
Senator Guggenheim, a Taft man
through and through, was nuanimous-
ly chosen as National Committeeman
from Colorado.
SIMON GUGGENHEIM,
United 8t*te* Senator from Colorado.
\VTho was Yesterday as selected a3
National Committeeman from Colo-
rado by the Republican State con-
vention in session at Colorado Springs
Muskogee, March 27 (Spl.)—To
test the power of jurisdiction of the
Federal court in the matter Chas.
Webb, who was arested shortly after
the Federal statute for bidding the
shipping of liquor into the old In-
dian Territory had been declared to
be sti'l in force by the United States
i court of appeals tit St. Louis last Jan-
uary went into jail voluntarily today.
Web had been arrested by Federal
officers at Vinita as he was receiving
17 gallons of liquor from Jop'.in, Mo.i
Webb's attorneys will issue a habeas
corpus writ which will bring up the
question of the Federal court juris-
diction in the case. Webb's defense
will be that the Cherokee Nation, in
whose territory he was arrested, has
ceased to exist, that the affairs ot the
civilized tribs to all practical pur-
poses has been closed and that east-
ern Oklahoma is Indian Territory no |
longer. The case, it is said, will be
carried to the United States Supreme
court on the question of whethr the
Federal courts or the State courts ,
have jurisdiction in the matter.
TRY TO
MURDER
MAYOR
GREATEST CHS
WELL III STATE THE
FLY O'ER ALL
OF Clll EXCEPT TREASURY
C. C. Clothier, Commissioner of Public
Utilities; Adler Refuses to Quit the
Treasurership
After several days of consideration 1 refused to give up the books, records
during which time almost every bus-' and monies of his office, notwithstanil
lness man in the city called and eith- j Ins the request made to him in a let-
er entered' a 'protest or a boost for or ; ter from Mayor .Nissley that he turn
Ardmore, Qkla., March 27 (Spl.)—
What is said to be the greatest gas
* well in Oklahoma was brought in yes-
Rock Island, 111., \larch27.—Result- terday in the Santa Fe field adjoin-
ing from an attempt on the part of ing Oil City, and was tested today. It
Mayor Schriver to enforce the law was found to produce 22 million feet
strictly against disorderly saloons i of gas every twenty-four hours and
and chop suey joints, disorder and is a stronger well even than that
riots have broken out in Rock Island brought in a year ago by Sings and
in which one man has already been Ledbetter in the same field.
NTO HIS STORE
killed and a number wounded. John
Looney, publisher of a weekly paper,
has made several attacks on Mayor
Schriver aud is accused of having in-
cited the riots and demonstrations city,
against the police. Wednesday the Another
police .were attacked and in order to
save themselves were forced to fire
into the crowd, killing one and wound
ing several others.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at the city hall this morning to as-
sassinate Mayor Schriver.
An unknown person fired a rifle
bullet through the window of the May
ads office from the roof of a building
several blocks away. The bullet
missed Schriver and buried itself in
th© wall.
Governor Sends Troops
Springfield, 111., March 27.—(Spl.)
—Governor Deneen today ordered the
The well is the property of the Id-
aho Oil & Gas Company. The com-
pany is composed of Idaho capital-
ists and Dr. S. W. Skillers of this
Judge Huston of the district court
In chambers yesterday heard argu-
ments In the application of the char-,
ter form school board for a writ of
mandamus against the old school
board to force them to give up their
offices. Judge Huston has taken the
matter under advisement and will
j proably render a decision before the
i end of the week.
In the meantime, the old board is
holding tenaciously on to their offices
| It is likely that an appeal will be ta-
ken no matter which way the case iri
; decided.
oil well was brought in
yesterday by W. M Babcock in the
same field. The test will be made
this week.
T GET 100
PROBING ALLEGED
POOL OF LOIS BY
against one man or another. Mayor
Nissi'ey and Commissioner Carter yes-
terday announced the appointment of
C. C. Clothier as Commissioner of
Public Utilities.
The first meeting of the board of
three commissioners will probably be
held Friday. Mr. Clothier is under a I
bond jn the sum of $10,000, which he
is making| As soon as it is approv- |
ed each man wil' take charge of his
department and the machinery of the
city will move along smoothly.
Clothier is a man eminently qua'l-
fied for the position to which he has
been appointed. He has been a resi-
lent of Guthrie for several years dui
i ing which time he has been secretary
of the Guthrie Gas Company. He has
i retired from that position and just
as soon as his bond is approved 'will
| take up his duties with the city.
In speaking of the apointment May-
! or Nissley said: "We have considered
carefully the selection of a man who
is competent and has the best inter-
J ests of the city at heart. We hope
that Mr. C'othier will be a valuable,
acquisition to the city."
Adler Still Holds
Felix Ad'er city treasurer under the
the off ;e ove,' to Tom Jenkins, the
treasurer under the; commission form.
It is now ce-taln that the commis-
sioners wi'l be without the funds of
the city until the Supreme court de-
cides the cat* of Jenkins agaliut Ad-
ler, which is now pending.
>|er( TUesd") llnd Friday
The commissioners yesterday pass-
ed a resolution making their date of
meting on exery Tuesday and Friday
at 10 o'clock a. m. to conduct regular
business and at any time at the call
of the Mayor for special business.
Porter Appointed
Among other things done by the
commissioners yesterday was the ap-
pointment of A. E. Porter as street
commissioner. Mr. Porter takes the
place formerly held by Mr. William-
son, as street commissioner and W.
W. McMllan as street sprinkler. All
apointments in the poll.es department
were approved. The personal! of the
police department Is as folows and
will remain this way permanently:
day men, A Redman, John L>angfitt,
U. W. Vampner, desk sergeant; night
j men, Andy Morgan, Oslando Kyle,
John Langfltt and G. R. McFetridge,
aldermanic form of government has desk sergeant.
T
Sheriff Bart W. Murphy has put a ;
pair of blood hounds on the trail of
pa-rtfes who Tuesday night or early I
Wednesday morning broke into the j
Smith Grocery Store at 501 Sast Ok- Pntire Slxth regiment of the Illinois
lahoma avenue, securing about $10u National Guard to proceed to Rock
worth of meat, tomatoes, lard, tobac- ; '3'an(i to assist in keeping order,
co and chewing gum. The thieves, j
or thief, it seems took a horse belong-
ing to Mr. Smith and used it to carry
away the stolen merchandise. The
horse was then turned loose, being
found Wednesday morning in the east
part of town. The thieves forced an
entrance thuorg'n the back door and-
took their time in ransacking the
store. They were after only merchar, |
dise as the cash drawer was untouch- j Norman, Okla., March 27 (Spl.)—
At 2:30 o'clock Wednesday no word
The sheriff has several clues anil had been heard from the jury in the
the dogs have followed trails farj CoHby-Stovall murder case. The Jury
enough to make Mr. Murphy almost went out at 1 o'clock Tuesday, after
sure of his ground. It is probabl«
that arrests will result within the
next two or three days.
JURY IN MURDER
E STILL OUI
A steady rain which started about
\ 1:30 yesterday afternoon and has con-
l tlnued ever since had added 1.45 inch-
es of precipitation by 10 o'clock last j
night, making the total for March 3.4
The ghost of Che Gore-Hamon probe inches and bringing the total for the
E IS
is seen in an order from Washington
to the local officials of the land of-
fice that no payments on ilots in the
North addition to the city of Lawton
be accepted until' the 'probe of the al-
leged pool between Senator Gore and
Jake L. Hamon and others is finished
at Washington. Gore and Hamon to-
gether have about $100,000 worth of
lots tied up which they cannot turn.
About 20 others in Lawton have a
large sum of money tied up in this
manner. No payments on the lots
have been accepted for more than a
year.
year up to normal, despite the fact
that .10 inches fell during January.
According to J. P. Slaughter, sec- I
tion director of the United States j
Weather Bureau Service of Oklaho-
ma City too much rain could not fall j
In Oklahoma during the next three
months. The soil in his opinion is
wet enough for a short distance down
but the subsoil is ftill dry and has
been since 1909. He believes that 20
inches more rain between now and
June not too much at a time twould be
They immediately doubled their ac-
tivities und as a result the outlook
for baseball in Guthrie is indeed good
the best thing that could happen to .... , . .
. 1 hey still need some more money but
FOR BASEBALL MULHALL WELL
The committee now busy soliciting The committee soliciting for the
subscriptions for the maintenance ot Mulhall oil we^l project met with en-
a baseball team in Guthrie was offic- j couragement from most of the bus-
ially notified yesterday by wireless Iness men and citizens they visited
that the present rainy weather would ; yesterday, and now lack but a little
not continue every day this summer ' over $500 of having enough to start
the wrork of sending the drill on down
Oklahoma. The rains are general.
Miss Glenn Marr served a six
o'clock dinner Tuesday evening at her
home on East Grand in honor of
Miss Daisy Upton. After spending a
few dayB with Mrs. J. W. Marr, 411
E. Grand, she then returned to her
hoime in Perry.
many hours of closing argument by
Che attorneys.
Arguments for the state were made
by Ben Franklin of Purcell; Wayne
Wadlington of Purcell; Judge N. E.
Sharp, Norman Prosecuting Attorney
Wallace of McClain county, Attorneys
Carr and Thompson of Pauls Valley
For the defense W. I Cvuce, Ard-
more; Cook of PJurcell; J B. Dud-
ley, Norman; Ben Williams.
CL01HES IN PILLOW CASE UNO ONLY
STILLWATER GIRLS RUN AWAY
E TO JOIN SROW; HELD HERE
it looks now as though they can raise
this.
Word was received from Leuttke,
an old Guthrie favorite, to the effect
that he had three good men for the
Guthrie team—a pitcher, shortstop
and outfielder. He says the outfie'd-
! er is the fastest man that will play
in the Oklahoma league.
Saulker, formerly the local mana-
ger for the street car company, writes
j from Texas that he is next
i good men, a pitcher and
250 feet below the present 1750 foot
level. One of the Ponca oil men who
visited Mulhall this Week and inspect-
ed the well and the drillings express-
ed his belief that oil would surely
be found at a depth of from 1900 to
2000 feet and the dri'lers are anx-
ious to start work at once.
While teh amount- still to be raised
in Guthrie is comparatively small yet
there are not a large number yet to
be seen and every citizen should be
ready to do his part when the com-
mittee cal's upon him today. Large
to two amounts are not asked of anyone but
catcher, | if each person will help a Utile the
16 YEAR OLD LAD KILLS MAN WHO
Their clothes packed in pillow cas- noon the girls planned to leave home
es, dressed in their regular school out j Sunday night while at church. They
j fits with less than $2.00 between them I thought they would join a show com-
Agnes Litton and Alyana McVey, two pany here and accordingly left Still-
whom Guthrie can have if they want i oil field in Logan county will be test-
them. ed at once.
Sapulpa, Okla., March -27 (Spl.)—j
Harry Johnson, a 16 year old boy, is
in jail here awaiting a preliminary
hearing on a charge of killing A. W.
Pickett, well to do farmer of Bris-
tow, where the tragedy occurred on
Monday.
The encounter was the result of a
line fence fued which had been run-
ning for years. The Pickett and the
Johnson farms adjoin and from a dis-
tance Johnson saw Pickett working
on the fence. Greatly enraged the
elder Johnson and his son, Harry,
took their guns an dstarted for the
spot. Mrs. Pickett from a window
•saw what was going on. Grabbing
her husband's gun she raced across
work and gave him the weapon. She
had been with her husband but a lit-
tle time when the Johnsons came up.
The elder Johnson came up and made
a hostile remark to Pickett. The lat-
ter replied by drawing a gun. John-
son knocked the weapon aside and
Pickett quickly raised his gun and
brought it down with tremendous
force on the old man's skull. The
elder Johnson nttered a stifled cry
and fell unconscious to the ground
where he lay as one dead.
Angered because he supposed that
his father had been killed and fright-
ened at th acts of violence I'd year
old Harry brought his gun to his
shoulder, took quick aim and fired,
young girls of Stillwater, the latter
a daughter of one of t'he most prom-
inent hardware dealers and wealthiest l
men in that portion of the state, ar-
rived in Guthrie yesterday morning.
They were runaways. They had
left their parents and their homes
with the intention of never returning.
water Wednesday morning. Upon
arriving itn Guthrie Whey immediately
went to the Royal Hotel where they I
hoped to find members of the show |
so they could ask for a position. They
did not find them however and im-
mediately started out the Santa Fe
track. They had no idea of where
T
ETO
BE RE ISSUED BY COMMISSIONERS
Since the change of government in j
They wantd to join Che Margy South they were going but just wanted to Guthrie from thfe,
Stock Comany which is playing here bide for a few days. After they 'had commission form
a'dermanic to the 1
it now develops
this week and which was in Stillwa-
ter last week.
The runaways abruphly changed
they minds about leaving home when
they were found by Police John Lang-
fitt yesterday afternoon shortly after
r.oon received a phone call from Still-
water to keep an eye out for' t)he two
young girls.
walked out about four miles they de- that it m re than likely that the $100-
cided to return and it was while they i 000 issue of park bonds will be re-ls-;
were walking up the track to the de- i sued by the commissioners before the.
pot that Langfltt saw them. money can be realized on them.
The girls were both perfectly will- I In talking of the matter'yesterday
ing to return home and say that they Mayor Nissley stated that he thought
will not run away again. -vuUl®t this was he case as he had not
They are both neat and bright look-
ing and Just seemed so full of life
until the commission form scrap is
settled.
The Viaduct Bends
Mayor Nissley is in receipt of a tel-
egram from a representative of the
Santa Fe railroad stating that he
knows of a number of contractors
who will take the viaduct bond issue
if awarded the contract for the build-
ing of the city's part of the viaduct,
"eard from the bond buyers who have j It is more than likely that theso
purchased them. The issue has been bonds will have to be re-issued by
the field to the spot where he was at killing Pickett.
that they wanted to "tear loose." How j approved but the bond company hard- the commissioners. Every effort will
As a result both are now safely at <,ver_ tj,e episode of yesterday certain-' ly knows who to turn the money over be made by the new officers of tho
their homes in Stillwater. ]y resulted In putting a dampner om to as long as the treasurership matter city to get things in shape to float
According to their own story told any more such ideas which might remains as it now is It Is nrobable both issues and get the money at the
at the Police Station yesterday after- come into their heads. | that the bond matter will lie dormant 1 earliest possible moment.
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Hornaday, W. H. The Guthrie Daily Star (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1912, newspaper, March 28, 1912; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc275779/m1/1/?q=%22Hornaday%2C%20W.%20H.%22: accessed May 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.