The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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Uhe OKLAHOMA
Oflieial
Paper
of the
FARMER AND LABORER
The City
ot
Sapulpa
"Organization is the Spirit of f*he Age"
VOL. No. OS.
>AIVJLPA, OKLAHOMA. FKl I >.\Y . ••) V LY IS
$I.<X> PER YEA]
10 BE Y01CD
Til IT Will b'i Six at the
Special Election to be
Held on August Fifth
ONE INITIATED MEASURE
T he Main Question Will be the
Kepeal of the Famous Art-
icle 9, Section 9
WOMAN GETS A PLUM
Appointed Receiver of Moneys
in the California Land Office
at a Big Salary
San Francisco. July 17. With the
affixing of President Wilson's signa-
ture Mrs. Grace rankin of Sonoma,
Cay., will receive a democratic plum
worth $4,600 yearly and at the same
time become the first woman receiv
er o:' a United States land office. The
senate has confirmed her appoint
ment according to telegraphic ad-
vices.
RAILWAYS MUST SETTLE
Cost* in the Rate Cases MustBe
Returned to State? Says
Federal Court
IMO KILLED
A COUPLE
TARTLY TRIES 1(1 HOLD
it is now considered practically
certain that only one of the various
initiated questions, petitions for
which are supposed to be in circu-
lation will be voted on at the spec
ial election on August 5. The only
questions which will appear on the
oallot will be those referred by the
legislature and one initiated bill—
the repeal of section 18 of the new
mining law
The state board of affairs on the
recommendation of Secretary Ben W.
Riley of the ^tate election board, has
awarded the contract for the printing
of the ballots tally sheets and other
printed matter to bo used in the elec-
tion, but only one of the varfous
initiated questions appear on the of-
ficial copy for the ballot.
Only six questions will be voted on
including tin rr ed amendment
to Art lx, section 'J of the constitu-
tion; a new provision for the distri
button of school taxes providing that
s4-taool located in counties in which
no pubMc service corporation oper-
ates may share In the proceeds of
the school tax collected from such
corporations; the amendment pro-
viding for an additions! levy of tax-
es to be made by the legislature in
achool districts where the present
levy is insufficient and the amend-
ment, backed by Senator Campbell
Russell and the People's Power
league, providing for reducing the
size of the board of agriculture
from eleven to five members.
U is possible that some of the pe-
'titions now in circulation could be
completed and filed in time to be
printed on a special ballot, but this
is not considered probable In view
of the fact that the election will oc-
. ur in twenty days. According to ad
vices received in official circles many
of the backers of the different peti-
tions have ceased activity in the
work ot securing signatures preferr-
ing to held their questions until the
next general state election. This
plan would give the supporters of
the different propositions an oppor-
tunity to make a campaign in the
interest of the adoption of tlieir pro-
position s. whi«h is not possible be-
fore the spcial election.
The F"inter ^ Publishing company
of Oklahoma City received the con-
tract for printing the ballots and
other printed supplies. The contract
price is $T 47, which it is said, was
the lowest hid submitted. The bids
it is said, ranged from that amount
to $2,600. The delivery of the bal-
lots to Secretary Ben \V. Riley of
the state election board for distrib-
ution throughout the state is to be
started not later than Saturday.
Lodge at Henryetta Tonight
A long distance telephone message
from Henryetta this morning from
C. O. Hlleman announced that
new lodge of Moose would be Insti-
tuted aUthat place this evening. He
said there would be 100 charter mem
bers and that Okmulgee's degree
team would put on the work. Sever-
al Sapulpans also left on the after
noon train to take part in the ex
ercises.
Bridge Party
Miss Charlotte Oonley will enter-
tain the members of the G. ID. I),
club at bridge tomorrow morning,
from eight to eleven in honor of the
Misses Nell and Mary Gorman of
Oklahoma City and Miss Clarice
Whiting of St. l/3uls
Washing ton, J u In 17. Formal de
crees of the supreme court in the
Minnesota and Missouri rate case-
have been issued to the federal
courts of these states. Railroads are
ordered to reimburse the state gov
ernmeats for the cost of litigation.
Missouri will collect $15,262 from the
Burlington, which was the principal
Missouri case, $10,90u being spent
for printing records. Minnesota will
collect $14,000 from the Northwest
ern.
One night passed and there was
no holdup*—at least that was the
statement made at the city hall this
morning.
L0NGES1 OAIMt Of SEASON
Rut the Board in Perry is Seek- Nineteen Innings Played Be
| ing to Oust Him as Super-
intendent
Near Canadian and Escaped to
Muskogee Where He is Sought
By the Police
v Ik
Miners Imprisoned
Dulnth, Minn., July 17— Five min-
ers all murrled, with families are
imprisoned in Spruce mine No 1,
at Evelyn, Minn., as a result of at
rush of water during a severe rain
yesterday. It is believed that the
men are alive as ten companion*
were rescued.
Efforts to prevent the further!
flooding of the workings by bulk-
heading were hampered by a frantii
crowd of women and children wlioj
begged in a babble of tongues fo ;
news of the imprisoned men
Explosion in Quarry
Cold Springs, Okla.. .Inly IT. 1'he
result of a premature explosion <i .
two sticks of ni11o glycerine and)
dynamite in the quarv> o; a.moiiM
ment. company here, acob Matthew-,
aged 40, is dead, and Bill Harrel,
35, is thought to be fatally wounded.
One of his eyes was blown out and
his head badly shattered. The two
men were tamping a blast of dyna-
mite and It is supposed gave the
shot too much of a jar "When help
reached the men they were lying in
pools of blood 100 feet from the
place where the explosion occurred
Harrel has a wife and two children
and Matthews a wife and three chil-
dren.
C. E. Stallcop of Oes Moines, la.,
grand master of ceremonies and vice
president of the Yeomen society, will
j meet with the Sapulpa lodge in open
'session on Monday evening. July 21.
at Payne hall. The public is invited
Sub*
be for the Democr.it
M GET THE
.Muskogee. July 17. A negro
o.rly Wedesday morning entered
the farm house of J. Morrison, a
farmer living 'three miles north of
Canadian, and stabbed and clubbed
Morrison and Ills wife so severely
that Morrison will probably die, Is
being sought by local poMce. All
incoming trains from the south were
searched last night.
The negro was employed on a
railroad gang working near Canadian.
A few hours after midnight yester
day Morrison and his wife suddenly
awoke to find a negro standing be-
side the bed. He stabbed them both
several times and then beat them
Morrison has been unable to talk
Bince the assault and his wife is iu
such a condition that she cannot say
how the attack occurred.
\n motive for the crime is known. |
Uro after healing the couple into in uoad the Da;iv Democrat
| sensibility turned and fled. He is latest news
; 'bought to have boarded a train
Perry, Okla., July 17.—Tin- !.«>
J of education is now grappling with
| a problem in the matter of dispells
ling with the superintendent the com-
ing term.
The old board employed a number
of teachers including the election ot
superintendent A. C. Farley with
whom they contracted for a third
term. The present board composed
of four new members, with a maj-
ority opposed to Prof. Farley, are
seeking by means of economy and
retrenchment to annul the former
contract and to oust Farley by a r*•
solution to dispense with the office
of superintendent or combine it with
that of principal and electing Prof.
Robinson to fill the positloin at a
less salary than agreed upon in the
contract with Prof. Farley. The ac-
tion of the board will be contested
by Mr. Farley who claims that his
that his contract with the old board
Is good and that he expects to per-
form the service and to receive his
compensation.
s
bound for Muskof
negro quarter of i
ed thoroughly bu
found. His name
Last night the
could not be
>t known
Investigation Into the Frisco Rail-
way Deal is Now on l>y the
Government
SSPliPJN
PUT OUT IN i l(ISTJI(l{l
1W0 ROUNDS
tween Milwaukee and Colum-
bus 1 earns on Wednesday
Milwaukee. Jul> 17.—The louge
game staged thus far this season in
the larger '•••seball leagues was play-
ed Wedne.-da> afternoon by the •Mil-
waukee and Columbus teams of the
American association, which strug-
gled ID innings. Milwaukee won ti to
using four pitchers, It was the
longest game ever played in the as-
sociation and was full of thrills
throughout the three hours and 45
minutes it lasted, closing after 7:HO.
Jack Kerry pitched the whole game
for Columbus and although Milwau-
kee made 18 bits off him, he passed
only three men. He struck out only
two batters but kept the game undei
control in tight places.
Milwaukee made five of its runs
in the first nine innings, tying the
score with two runs* in the ninth.
Then another complete set of nine
innings was played without a run
Milwaukee winning in the last half
of the nineteenth with three singles
iu a row.
Killed fn Oil Field
Oil men report an accident in the
Morris field Wednesday afternoon,
which resulted in the instant killing
of a driller. Me was caught by a
cable and his bod> was cut In two.
UNCLE m
To (
t lJusy With Mexicai
Affairs, Backing Up De-
'mandot' Great Brittain
OTHER POWtRS ARE AT I
Belie! Exists That Europe is t
Test Monroe Doctrine—Mexi-
can Minister Called Home
Th" name
of - ti
11 n f o i tunate
ouWl
17.
ii pi i- f
luite
Quite a bunch of
to Tulsa next Sunday to attend the
big races of the wild autoists.
CLOSE CJLL
FOR f!Vt
Mayor Smith and Party Havel
a Motor Experience in Vi- |
cinitv of Crowson
Washington,
ance with a. in-
states senate to investigate the facts I CarJ Morris Lays Ou
and circumstances concerning the!
purchase of the Chlpago and Eastern i
| Illinois railroad by the St. Louis andj
San Francisco railroad company and
the subsequent receiverships of both I
roads, the interstate commerce com-
mission has instituted a general in-J
quiry.
The investigation will develop th
general financial history corporate
apulpans will goj relationships, company and other in-
vestments, capitalization and indebt-
edness of the two roads and the sub-
sidiary and constituent companies.
It Is rumored that the government,
If certain wrecking charges are sus-
tained, may prosecute some of the
late Frisco officials.
Held Up in Tulsa By Negroes
One of the Parlies Captured
and Identified
Marty
Cutler in Second Round at
Clovis, New Mexics
It took only two rounds for Sa-
pulpa s Carl Morris to put the quiet-
us to Marty Cutler at Clovis. New
Mexico, on Wednesday afternoon.
e | There was quite a crowd at the ring
and Morris was the favorite from
the start, in the second round Mor
ris put his man down for the count
and was given the decision. It is
said that Mogis will go to the far
east.
Chief Jones has received word that
a man named Richards who claims
tills city as his home, was held up,
.-lugged .and robbed by two negroes
in that city, being relieved'of a lit
tie over one hundred dollars. The
case was reported to the police and
in a short time the officers gobbled
a negro named Marshall who has
been identified as one of the par-
ties.
THE FATHER
f K
I, i U
fl 1
A
Frisco Conductor Held Up on
Train .on Arkansas River
Bridge and is Robbed
A* telegram yesterday afternoon an-
nounced the death of a relative In
Omaha and Jast night Mrs. Nellie
Whittlesey and son. Charles Lee,
took a northbound train to attend
the funeral
Mayor Smith, Commissioner Wertz-
berg^r, Ira Cornelius, Al Morgan and!
A. P. Young left the city yesterday
afternoon in a car for the • vicinity
of Crowson, the object being to look
well in which the * parties are
interested. Everything went smooth-
ly on the trip until they had started
on the home drive. In a narrow
road and on a down grade the ear
which was being run slowly jammed
into a small stump In the center of
the highway and sprung an axle.
The party worked with it for awhile
but finding they could do nothing
towards making repairs pulled the
machine to the side of the road and
footed it to a •railway station and
caught the Governor from Muskogee
for home. This morning Wertzher-
ger and another party went to the
scene to* bring in the car. W«hen the
collision took place Mayor Smith
was hurled forward and struck the
glass iftiield with his face shattering
the thick glass. This and the axle
were the only injuries- to the car.
Had the machine been going at or
dinary speed 4he accident might have
proven serious
WAS IN COURL
When Miss Blossom Was Fined
For Wearing Slit Skirt—Vir-
ginians Called Prudes
lit WITNESS
GOT AWAY
Richmond, Va., July 17.— Miss Blos-
som Browning paid a $25 fine in
Judge CrutchficW'H court for wearing
a slit skirt and said she intended to
go to New York at once where peo-
ple are not ''pruddish." She was
charged with "Indecent exposure.''
The skirt, Blit knee high, held as
evidence, was restored to Miss
Browning on her promise to sew up
the slash or not t<o appear again in
the streets of Richmond without a
petticoat.
Miss Browning's lawyer argued
that the sale of the skirt by a licen-
sed department store permitted her
to wear It. Judge Crutchfield
plied that a city liccnse for the sale
of firearms did no* authorize murder.
The court after Inspection of the
skirt, fined the defendant, who paid,
hut snid that "Richmond w^s ■ an il-
liberal city." Judge Crutchfield's
court was packed with the most se-
lect audience It ever held.
When He Heard of Inez MulhoN
Wedding to an American
Dutchman
Conductor Brodie of this city bad
quite an experience in West Tulsa on
Wednesday. A couple of parties
hoarded a train in Tulsa and when
on the bridge over the Arkansas
they compelled the conductor and
one other member of the crew to
cough up. From Brodie they, it is
said, secured a watch and a small
amount of coin. When the west side
of the river was reached they drop-
ped off the train and as they did
so* Brodie grabbed his gun and took
several shots at the bandits but the\
got away.
Washington, July 17.—German
ha added its demand on the Unite
States to either intervene in Mex
cin affairs or enforce the Monrc
doctrine to the letter. This adde
to the demand of Great Brittain ha
complicated affairs and political ci
ties are more or less excited ove
the recent events. It Is given oi*
that President Wilson will take
decided stand in favor of the Monro;
doctrii and that something will d
velop out of the orinary before ti
close of the present week. The pta
ment given out by the press th .
Ambassador Wilson has been siw
moned to Washington immediate
is confirmed as he is expected i
arrive just as soon as vessel a«
rail can bring him here. The opil
ion is growing in political clrcll
that something must be done ai*
that very quickly or the Monroe p-|
Icy Will have ceased to have any <|
feet in foreign circles. This aft J
noon it was reported that Spal
l • I
j France and Ttaliy had followed Eip
| land in its demand. Whether ti
j h true or not the state departme
refused to state but as represen
ti^s have asked for eonferenc
I within the past twenty-four honj
• gives color to the story. There
those who believe that the Europe
nations urged on by Japan are at^
ions to test the Monroe doctrine a
that the present time was the ti:
to test it. It is believed that
government is really beginning to
the necessity for intervention
that the keeping of an enorm
army near the border all of this
weather has been with the Idea
intervention. Said Minority I^eat
Man, the administration will be
ed to show its hand within the n
ten days.
SLOCliM LOR
THE PRESENI
Man Spirited a Woman Witness
in Murder Case to Texas and
is in Custody
Hobart, July 17.—Curley Fisher of
Wichita Falls, Texas, was brought
to Hobart from Snyder last night
and placed in jail on a charge of
carrying a revolver and for suspen-
sion of evidence. The charges were
.made by County Attorney James
Griffith. It Is charged that at mid-
night Tuesday Fisher stole out Mrs.
Maggie Lonnergan, the main witness
In the trials of Ed Funston and e.Iss
Clark of Wichita Falls, who were
to l>e tried Wednesday for perjury
in connection with the Huber mur-
der trial heje in May.
Mrs. Lonnereaii has been staying
at the home of the county attorney
and all efforts of Fisher to see her
had been prevented by office ft*, l^te
Monday Mrs. Lonnergan met Fisher
at a church and planned the flight
She slept with a sister of the county
attorney but so uletly did she leave
that#her absence was not discovered
until morning. The pair drove to
Snyder and from there Mrs. Lonner
gan went to Texas. Other arrests of
Wichita Falls parties are expected
New York, July 17.—"Have not
been so mad in a hundred yeaws. Do
not expect forgiveness until the next
century, indefensible chip of the old
block. You have given us a pretty
rough deal but nevertheless I hum
bly and fervently pray God's bless-
ings upon you and yours forever.
Pater."
This is the message that John E.
Milholland sent by cable to his beau
tlful daughter, Mrs. Eugen Bolsse-
vntn, who until last Friday was Miss
Inez Milholland. And the tenor of
this cablegram Illustrates precisely
Mr. Milholland'g frame of mind.
"By Jove," he exclaimed, brand
ishlng his fist and smiling Indulgent
ly. "'I don't know whether to be an
gry or not. I could have spanked
her when I received the cablegram
telling us that she had married. The
news created havoc In our nicely r.r
ranged peace of mind. But then l
recalled that Mrs. Milholland and I
were married Just as quickly and
unexpectedly. By Jove I could spank
her and kiss her and consider both
Justifiable."
The Milholland wedding has stir
red Oociety as no other wedding in
years
From Engine Caq
to SI 5,COO Job and
EnormojS Power I Is to Succeed Moore as the Frl
( j co Agent—Moore Goes to |
City of Tulsa
W. A. Moore of this city has
selected as the successor of Tii
Agent Craig who resigned some ti
ago. Mr Moore is to be succeed^
temporarily at least by E. R. Slocl
Just when the changes are to t|
place Is not stated, but the date|
believed to be about the first
August.
A Bunch of Suspects
Last night the police rounded
a .bunch of young fellows for
ing a racket. In the bunch are
eral parties suspected of engafl
in the holdup of the Mttle gamef
' draw mentioned in yesterday's |
! sue. It has been determined that]
J crime of robbery had been
Albany, July 17.—ChftrlM .1. ('base, ted and if it can be shown th«t |
railroad ugineer of the New York parties under suspicion are
Central, was not startled when he
learned that Governor Sulzer had ap-
pointed him a member of the Public
Service commission for the second
they will be prosecuted, vigorous!
Miss Sarah Bell, daughter o
superintendent of the gasoline
of Kiefer is In the city a gue
district at a salary of $15,000 a year Miss Slyvta Jones.
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