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THE LEADER GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MARpH .2k 10U
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Guthrie Daily Leader
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VuLUME 17.
EIGHT PAGES.
GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MARCH 21. 1001
EIGHT PAGES.
NUMBER 00
PURSUED
"THELMA" INCITED
HER TO KILL
STEEL TRUST
BIG GRAFT
OLIPIIANT MEETS
DISTINGUISHED EDUCA-
TORS ARRIVE TO-MORROW
WOULD HAVE
MORE WAR
NO APPROVAL
)B MOB
"
I H A.
J-JtlJC
Sheriff Captures
Murderer
Strange Defense of Woman
0 Who Murdered Her
Husband
THEY WANTED TO
HANG HIM AT PERRY
Safely Boards Santa Fe
Train; Lands Prisoner
In Federal Jail
$!oooooooo
In
In all probability one of tho mur-
derers of Albert Batomnn. of Red
Rock. Is now In the federal Jail In
this city At any rate the Unltod
States authorities are confident that
he la the right man. LuBt night
Sheriff Foster of Perry arrived on
the night train with his prisoner hav
ing lied from that city to efcupo mob
violence a groat mob having followed
liim from the place where tho prisoner
was capturttf.
Information was received at tho of-
fice of the United States marshnl and
tt" United Status attorney that ono
of the murderers had been captured
by Sheriff Foster nt the home of a
man named Heathorlngton- twenty
miles east of Jletl Rock at tho little
town of Morrison and ItluiC a mpb
made up of ournged citizens from
Pawnee Rod Rock and Morrlsdn
Serlpps-MeRao I'rftes Amu
Tacoma Wash. March 2;. In the
superior court of Skagit county Mario
Gorellt Uit famous novelist will be
drawn into n murder esse and Indi-
rectly charged with Inspiring the hor
ribly tiead of Jennie Corsaso who
the night ot December 14 1000 tdipt
and killed William Qorsas- li hus-
band for which crlrao she is now be-
ing trlod.
When the officers of the law reach-
ed tho dorsngo home after t-e' trag-
edy ono of the first objects that mot
tholr oyos wbb a copy of Corelll's nov
el "Tholmn" opon on a table in a
room adjoining the room In which the
dead man lay with a bullet hole
through his bond slain whllo he stapt.
On the slight foundation afforded by
(tho open novel the attorneys for tho
dofonse have built up their caso.
"Thelma" like the most of Miss Cor-
elll's novels ahouudB with murder
suicides and vJolont deaths and her
attorneys put up the defense that one
particular passage In the novel which
Mrs. Gorsage had been reading Just
prior to the killing aroused within
her nn uncontrollable foar .amounting
to Insanity and prompted her to take
the awful step she did.
ThlB passage Is on pRge77 of the
novel and the book lay open at this
page when found.
. Oorsago according to the testimony
of all who know him waB a surly and
altogother unlov.iblo character harsh
and exacting toward' Ids "wife and
ready with a curso or blow ospeclally
whon in liquor. According to wit-
ROCKEFELLER SELLING
IRON BUSINESS
His Appointment to Man
gum Land Office Stirs-
Perry Republicans
United States Corporation
Now Has Entire Control
Of Steel Trade
Special to Daily Leader.
Perry Okla March II. The an-
polntmcmt of John A. Oliphant of this
city to be register of tlte land office
at Mangum. Oreer county meets with
no approval wnatever except lb a
limited way. It Is believed that the
nominations of Trotter for receiver
at 'lie same office and 01lphant(ls
ma. . a division of honor between
Governor Karnes and Congressman
Ftyiin-
International Sunday School
Workers to do the
Capital City
were In rapid pursuit of tho sheriff -hujiSos who hilyo .tqatiflod In tho trial
and his prisoner. Sheriff Foster ar- now bolng hqlunt Mount Vernon Do-
rlvcd at Porry late yostarday ovaning
ahead of tho mob and put his man in
thf county Ja" He was communi-
cated with at once and Instructed to
run his man out of town to a point
couth on the railroad stop the night
train nnd bring his prlsonor to this
city When train time arrived tho
mob had been In Pei ry some time and
had searched thf Jail and fnllod to
find the man thc wanted. Thoy an-
ticipated that the sheriff would run
him tit for when the tra.n rollod In
the whole mob wa at the depot to
Fre that he did not get on thore
acting ugly and making all manner of
threats of what thay would do.
Charley Thomaa" Is tho name giv-
en by th prlsonor. He says his ago
la twenty years and that ho was born
m Edwards county Kansas Is of
slight build smooth shavon faco and
light hair. Tho man was drossod In
brown overalls and dark coat and
vest sell worn. Ho wore patent
leather shoes. Over his loft oyo was n
bandnga covering a wound supposed
o havo been Inflicted by Batoman in
the Red Rock storo robbery.
Sheriff Foster had traced Thomas
from Red Hock to Morrison and to
the home of his friend. Hoathorlngtou.
II appoarod horo and asked for tho I
roan but was told that thore was no
stub ono In tho houso. Tho shorlff
Insisted that ho was socreted thoro
and soon found him hid In tho loft.
When arrested Thomas de-dared that
bis wounds were sustained in a light
with highway robbors while crossing
the Otoe reservation. That he had
lioen robbed of all his money but was
permitted to koep the six shooter nnd
belt with cartridges which was takon
from hlra Ho failed to oxplaln why
he was htddlng and Is Identlflod as tho
one who woro tho mother hubbard
drese at the tlmo of the robbery at
Red Rock. Thomas' story is not be-
lieved In by tho Unltod States at-
torney and authorlUoJi who aro con-
fident ho Is the right man. Ho was
cxamlnod by tho Unltod Statos nt-
tornoy this morning but kept' a close
mouth except roboarslng this' same
story.
cqmpar 14 witnessed sovoral stormy
soen ht w"jtuQ wife and her hus
band. Sho had sovoral time left him
vowing nevor to return and according
to the nccusod woman herself on the
morning of tho murder he had while
drunk and abusive threatened her
life nnd told her that If she ever left
him again phe would never be seen
again bj- human eyes alive or dead
'lhe defensu puts up the plea that af-
ter Corsage went to sleep that night
Mrs. Gorsnge sat down to read Miss
CWelU's novel. Her heart was full
of the wrongs she had suffered nnd as
ane turned the pages of the book tho
following words burned into hor
brain:
"Thua it Ib Mon Cher Brrfngton
this gentloman namod Guldmar hnd a
most lowly wlfo a mysterious lady
with an ovldont secret. The beauti-
ful ono wnB nover seon in church or
in any town or. village; sho was mot
somotlmoa on tho hills by rivors In
vnlloys carrying hor child In hor
arms. Tho pooplo grew afraid of hor
but now boo what happens: Sudden-
ly sho appoars no moro. Some ouo
vonturoB to ask this Minslour Quid-
mar: 'What has become of madam?'
Hi answer Is brlof. 'She Is dead.'
Satisfactory so far but not quite; for
madam bolng dead thon what has be-
come of tho corpse of madam? It was
nnver Been no coffin was ordered and
apparently It was never burled nien!
What follows? The good people of
Boaekop draw tho only conclusion
possible monsieur who Is said to
have a terrific temper killed madam
and made away wjih her bod Yolla."
It was nfter reading this passage
tho defonse contends that Mrs. Gor-
sago flrod with fl sudden dtermlna
tlon rose from her seat went to the
place whore her husband kept hln r
volvor took It and going to the door
whuro ho sloRt placed the muzzle of
the weapon close to his hand and
flrod.
Mrs. dorsago Is a truo trontlors-
woman and Ib said to havo Cherokee
Dlood In hoy -.veins. From hor oarllost
girlhood sho has boon trained in tho
use ot firearms and it Is claimed sho
Is tho best shot In Skagit county.
Scrlpps-McRao Pross A&s'n.
..New York March 21. Another big
etrldo in the advance of tho United
States Steel corporation was an-
nounced today when J. Plerpont Mor-
kgan made public the fact that It had
absorbed all tho Interests of John D.
Rockefeller In the Iron business in-
cluding mines railways and lake
transportation lines. This will cause
nn Increase of $100000000 In the capi-
tal stock of the big corporation.
The Interests In question .include
the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron
mines which concern has a capital
s ock of t30000.000 of which ?80887-
448.97 1b outstanding. It waa Incorpor-
ated under the laws of Now Jorsey In
1808 to acquire and pporato iron mlnee
in the Mlsseba range Minnesota. The
c.pnnany owrif bxtqaslvo properties In
uiih TOgion aim leases lamo u u
mines to tho Qarneglo Steel comnany
and other large 'stool manufacturers.
It owns tho Duluth Mlssabo and
Northern railway F. F. Gate of New-
York president extending from Du-
luth to Iron Mountain Minn. and em-
bracing about 130 miles of road.
The Lake Suporlor Consolidated
Iron mines has no direct mortgage In
debtedness of its own but the Duluth
MIsBabe and Northern railway has a
bonded debt consisting of $1100000
-rst mortgage 0 per cent bonds due
in 1022; $2251000 consolidated mort-
gage 6 per cent bonds due in 1023
and $2014000 second mortgage 6 per
cent bonds due In 1918. This absorp-
tion had been rumored since the reor-
ganization of the Carnegie company
1 Is a move of gigantic Importance to
vessel men and one that has been
watched with anxiety. By the consoli-
dation the fleet of the United States
Stool company is increased to 112
vessels.
Conjoctuio Is rhe among vessel
owners as to the future policy. The
largo (loot now controlled by the steol
combination will not carry thp total
output of the mlnos and as tho fifty-
six ships" during tho last year trans-
ported only 6.C00.000 tons ol ore
whllo the requirements wore 0000000
tons about 8000000 tons will have to
bo carriod by outside vessels.
The great steel company's steam-
ers will be- Inadequate to carry the
supplies of ore but whether the trust
will give competing lines a chance to
carry the cargoes Is a question to
which vessel men are anxiously
awaiting an answer
In tho plants ot the trust last year
probably four-fifths of the stock ly
Mr. Rockefeller owns mare Unite
Superior ore property than several ot
the vother large steel companies put
together and the Dili' h. Mlasahe and
Northern railway It jne of the most
profitable of the ore roads in the Lake
Superior region.
Tho mines of the Lako Superior
company are at the keao. of Lake
Superior and nearly all n'B In the
MiBsftbe range. Rockefeller entered
thlBj territory ten years ago. Tho
MdffltU sUvrted in to develop the
country near the holdings of tho Min-
nesota I. -on company In the 'SO's. To
get the ore to the lake the Merrills
had to Invest heavily to construct a
railroad. Thoy spent considerable
money in the construction of the Du-
luth Mlssnbe and NortheAi and then
ran short ot funds during the panic.
Roohofeller made them n loan which
the Merrltts were unable to'toeet when
It fall due. Rockefeller then took the
entire plant and there Is a suit still
pending in the United Stntos court for
$800000 which tho Merritta claim Ib
owed them by Rockefeller on that
transaction
Rockefeller started In at once to
develop hib interests bought more
mining property completed the tail-
way and formed the Lake Superior
Iron company He then began to
build boats and organized the Besse-
meie Steamship company in which he
owned all the stock except two shaics
Meantime he had become interested In
the Aemrican Steel Barge company
which was then building whalebacks
The company also built and operated
a plant and dry dock nt West Su;er!-
oi When the shipyard trust waa
formed the property O fthe steel barpc
company was divided Rockefelle:
takl-ig all the boata under his mort
gage while the shipyard and dry dock
passed Into the shin yard trust
Rockefeller receiving stock as hit
compensation.
The "whalebacks" were then con-
solidated with the Bessemer Stoam-
shlp company making a total floet of
twenty-ftvo stoamors nnd thirty-one
barges by far the lurgost iloot on the
lake uhdor ono owuorshlp.
Gives $45oooooo
For Sea Craft
Outhrlo will 'be visited tomorrow
(Friday) evening with a party of Sun
day school workers of worlfi wide
reputation. The members of the par-
ty are Mr. Marion Lawrence inter-
national general secretary; l'rzi. II.
M. Hamlll D. D International field
ecretary; Mrs. II. M. Hamlll. primary
worker; the Rev. B. V'. Spllman Bap-
tist Sunday school worker and Prof.
tu. O. Hxl-ell leader of song. They are
making a grand trans-continental
Sunday school tour which Is under the
auspices ot Uie International Execu-
tive committee and Is personally di-
rected by the International secretaries
Mr. Mnrlon Lawrence and Prof. II. Jjf.
hamlll. The tour Involves about 13-
000 miles ot travel by each mambor
of the party and requires throo
months to complete itopening Feb
ruary 17. 1001 at Rfc-hmoiid Va. and
closing May 1 1801. at Topeka Kas.
The Itinerary Includes forty-one cities
in the following states and territories
which are named In the order to be
visited: Virginia. North Carolina
South Carolina Georgia. Florida Ala-
bama. Louisiana. Mississippi Arkan-
sas Oklahoma Texas New Mexico.
Arizona Southern California North-
ern California Utah Colorado njul
Kansas. They will arrive at Outhrlo
on the afternoon train and w.ll bo ii
the city during Friday evening going
south nt 10:10 to Fort Worth. Texas.
They will hold here a grand union
Sunday school rally .which yill open
In the First Presbyterian church nt
7:30 o clock with a half hour song
sorvlce load by Prof. lixcell and fol-
lowed by addresses by different mem-
bers ot the party. Kvery person In-
terested In Sunday school work and
every lover of good mimic- and of the
church and all church and Sunday
sohool people of our city should bo
present Friday evening- Tlwtj will
be seats and accommodations for ev-
erybody and Prof. Excel! and the
other members of the purty will parti-
cipate In the entire meeting. Come
everybody.
CONSIDERS SUBMARINE
FLEET IN THE PLAN
To Be Ready ar Monent's
Notice to Assist Su
premacy
PRETORIA CONSULSHIP.
I Scripps-McRao Press Ass-n.
Washlnaton D. C March 21. The
president Is In no hurry tv appoint
the consul to Pretoria which place
Adelbert Hay aooh will resign. The
president Ib In no hu-ry because the
consul will have to be accredited to
Great Britain. This appointment will
be tike first recognition by the United
Htaits that the Boer republic Is wiped
out
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR-
SHIP DISCUSSED.
Special to Dally Leader
Washington D. C March 21. In
the .conference held yesterday be-
tween the president and some of his
advisers un Oklahoma affairs the ap-
pointment of a successor to Governor
Barnes wbb discussed Indirectly but
nothing definite came of It and tho
president being advised that tho
governor was expected in Washington
Iho subject was left open for tho
present.
Boripps-McRae Press Ass'n.
New Y tk March II. A Ixindon
cable says:
Great Britain la to prepare for war
with any other nation or with all the
other nations ot the earth and be
ready at a moment a uotk-o to assert
her boasted supremacy on the pin is
heralded In the ostlmatos made v
lie this afternoon by the admiralty.
The largest sum ever cpprnprlnted by
tho English parliament $-15000000. Is
nskod for the construction of thirty-
tui'oo new war vessels and part of tho
money is to be expended on the con-
struction Of a submarine fleet. '
According to the explanations made
by Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster par-
liamentary secretary to tho admiralty
tho jiew navy is to bo manned by 154
57 B mon. ot whom 118025 are to bu on
tho active IIbL 98060 on tho royal
uavnl reserve list and 7t00 on the
royal fleet reserve list.
"It Is the purposo" said Mr Arnold-
Forster "to maintain tho navy In a
condition to enrry on a successful war
should one arise. The admiralty
nohls no oxaggorated notions as to
the value of submarine boats but wo
have collected a great deal of Infor-
mation on the subject which It pro-
posed to use to the full value."
No one pretends to be Ignorant of
what England Is really doing In re-
gard to the cieatlon ot a submarine
fleet. That the government Is not
waiting for an appropriation for
building such boats is known tu near-
ly everybody but recently an an-
nouncement came from unofficial
sources that six submarine vessels
were in course of construction and no
denial from official sourcua luta beon
made. The announcement was really
a "feeler" of public opinion and ne It
met with apparent approval thw build-
ing has proceeded In ad van -o of tho
provision of tho necessary- menb
MOB AND MILITARY CLASH
Scrlpps-McRae Press Ass'n.
Marseilles March 21. Striking
dock laborers with women and child-
ren attempted to push the military
guarding nou-unlonlsts off the quays
today. Iho cavalry charged the mob
u?lng sabres when aHtsullfd Many
strikers. Including women were
wounded and captured
SPURLOCK LOT SOLD.
000000 tons ot iron ore were re-
quired. With the addition of the $150000000 ENOUGH.
Rockefeller Interests these figures ' icrlppa-MoRno Press Ass'n.
-m im .woiia.1 vroativ it had been Washington D. C March 21
-The
Please attend our Grand Millinery
Opening Thursday Friday and 8at.
urday of this-week. At the samo time
wo will show Suits Waists Dress
Goods Trimmings and Laces. - Music
v Lehrer'e orchestra. GRAND
LEADER. " t'''- '
Tho FiBku6MeVlrigprSTiSuaty
evening March 26.
Couldn't help getting a cold never
ciiros.lt; but carrying homo a bottle of
Ballard's. Horehound Syrup and using
It us.. directed will euro tho worst
Irkrn"d''otcpuBh or cold. Prico 25 anil
GO conta.
'f'r'iillIlfe&tOo1J' andc Wheeler. &
Son.
taken for granted by vessel owners in -tate department believes at the out-
Chiecso carrying the Iron trade that sine w minions .. .. u. pu lu-
when a steel trust was formed the! nether should demand aa Indemnity
Rockefeller Interests would be in-f"ni Ohlnp In case n agreement
eluded and it was believed when an the United States will suggest the
boat line Is based on the actual cost j wle matter be referred to the
feller lines and snips on the great " court arnitration.
Iakee would not go Into the combina-
Mnn 1m mud lllte.lv. but IirOljaljlV WOUKl -
bo taken over later Uiat Rockefeller!
P)CIF$YNCI THE ISLAND
Manila! March 81 An Hollo dls-
was iioiuinB uv iui u. ..- . . . - . .
In oontrol the i "-'" -;" """T. "? ' 7
moet 'poolfled. Philippines -cdmmhv
the teel trust was
a i ib ... niinfl It- i1f1 nnt tuir.
mlt so large a competitor as the Lake wUwihB4.
Suporlor company to remain outside. "' "yy ' v "" "
Tho capitalization of the Rockefeller jTf) WilJ.1BT .jaiMuiA Asnoiu
formed the property o.' the steel barge Laauye jiromo-Qniulne removes tlt catite
of tho vosgols. -"--"-" "
E'Jgurlng the value of each of ton I They will never be able to make
vessels botween ?100000 and ?200000 Mi. IVatt undorstand why all -the
Uio capitalization aggregate more foati-vfB and gold lace were necessary
than ift.000.000. Tile Consolidated at tho Induction Into offlco ot Asslst-
I Iron mine controlled Qthe extent otlanl Seeretary ot War Sanger.
NOT YET SETTLED.
Scrippw Mt-Rae Pick Ahh'ii
New York Man h Ji The attempt
to arrange a muti h ik- between the
Abbott 2 0'i'. "i"1 Horalma 2:00
for $50000 a hM.- rilll today as the
owners John HcannHI and Thomas
Lawson could not nnn- regarding the
number or beau Scanned offerr to
race the Abbott HRaluNt anv horse in
the world for $fiMioo a side best
three In five heaU
When children have earache satu-
rate a piece of cotton with Ballard's
Snow Liniment and place It in the
oar. It will stop the pain quickly
Price 26 anil 50 cents.
F. B. Llllle & Co. and Wheelor &
Son.
Scott Cooper Bought It and Will Erect
a Twe Story Business Block.
W. M. Spurlock baa sold his Hast
Oklahoma avenue lot to Scott Cooper
who will commence at once the erec-
tion ot a two story battues block BO
by 80 feet.
Mr Cooper has sold his brick yard
to II. A. Bones of Iowa who v. ill op-
erate It In the future. Mr. Bones lias
ordered new machinery for It aud will
soon be pr!ared to manufacture a
fine line of bnitdlng brick T:.e plant
will he nlari.-c1
Hon. John A. Oliphant la the only
name nmong the Sixth legislative as-
sembly whose reputation as a rising
statesman appears to have reached
Washington In a sprouting condition.
NO CHANGE IN WAR APCT.
Scrlpps-McRae Press Ass'n.
Teln Tsin March 21 The situation
Is unchanged this morning. British
for la strengthened by the Austral-
ian and British troops on the lines of
communication aro being brought in-
to the dispute British troops In the
settlement also are under arras.
HOG MARKET BOOMING
S rlpi McRae Press Ace'n-
Kansas Cty Mo. March 31. Hogs
Uni lied the top price of eight years
today $0. Toj price. Chicago $6.12;
Omaha $8.
1.25 Kid Gloves for only 76c
THE FA.IR Saturday.
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Prpf. Lehrer'e orchestra will furnish
music during. oui Grand Millinery
Opening commencing tomorrow and
lasting till Saturday nlgM. GRANQ
(LEADER.
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