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THE PITTSBURG ENTERPRISE
VOL VI.
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NO. :w.
TRAIN PLUNGES
INTO RIVER
ROCK ISLAND TRAIN PLUNGES
INTO RAGING STREAM
SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED
A Dozen Are Injured and Engine and
Mail Car In Twenty Feet
of Water
Otayton, Kan.—Sixteen passengers
lost their lives and thirteen others suf
fered injuries in the wreck Friday
morning two miles east of this town
of the westbound Itock Island pussen
ger train No. 27. which was due in
Denver at 8:25 Friday morning from
Kansas City.
The known dead.
F. Piclienbaugh, Uoodland, Kan., en-
gineer.
A. V. Huffman, Kansas City, bag-
gageman.
J. W. Usher, Denver, conductor.
"William Mills, tireman, tloodland,
Kan.
Herman Mueler, Smith Center, Kan.
John Sloop, Boyle, Kan.
W. E. Shively, Agra, Kan.
Hilbert M. Yams, Fullerton, Neb.
Eight unidentified dead.
The injured:
(!. D. Bracken, lineman, tloodland,
Kan.; arm injured.
Mrs. H. F. Scott, Beniugs, Kan., right
arm broken.
Victor Engle, Birmingham, La.;
bruised and cut, but not serious.
Mrs. T. H. Evans, Langdon, Kan.;
bead cut.
John Zelgler, Stratton, Colo.; bead
•uid face cut.
D. Hughes, no address; side cut.
A. H. Avis, Blue ltapids, Kan.; left
leg broken.
Mrs. Anna Smith, Colorado Springs,
Colo.; head and chest cut. .
11. A. oiuitu, Colorado Springs. Colo.;
hand and wrist cut.
Henry Ahlers, Meta, Mo.; slight in-
juries.
Helen Benson, Colorado Springs,
Colo.; injuries slight.
Most of the dead and injured were
1n the smoker and one of the day
coaches.
The wreck was the result of a cloud-
burst which carried out over a thous-
and feet of track over what is normal
'ly almost a dry bed.
The train was running practically on
time and was proceeding on a straight
stretch of track. Evidently the first
intimation that the engineer had of
any danger came when lie realized that
the forward portion of the train was
running in water, which had spread
out over the tracks near the fill. Re-
versing his engine the speed of the
train was checked, but not enough to
prevent the engine, baggage car and
smoker going over into the depression.
The rear end of the smoker remain-
ed tilted on the earth bank and the
chair car ripped its way into the
smoker, smashing it to pieces and kill-
ing or injuring many of the passen-
gers.
To the coolness and quick wit of
ably damaged by the crash and several
passengers riding in this car were in-
jured. As near as can be learned
here tonight all of the passengers
killed were occupants of the smoker.
To the coolnes and quick wit of
Engineer Pickenbaugh, who lost his
life, is attributed the saving of the
lives of those who escaped, numbering
a hundred or more. It is certain that
he could have jumped and saved him-
self, but he remained at his post and
did everything possible to prevent the
train running into the ditch. Examina-
tion of the engine and air brakes show-
ed he had reversed the lever and set
the air in order to check the flight of
the train.
The train, running at full speed,
plunged into the gap, the engine and
mail car going down into twenty feet
of water and the chair car almost tel-
escoping the smoker ahead of it. Many
passengers in these two cars were in-
stantly killed.
DEATH STORY
IS CONFESSED
NURSE UNDER MURDERER CON-
FESSES IN FRISCO MYSTERY
BODY HAD BEEN BURIED
NEWS OF THE STATE
A Re/iew of the Important Happenings in Oklahoma
Condensed for Busy Readers Throughout the Country
COURT
GRINDING
STEADILY
Nurse, Physician and Lover of
Girl Arrested by the
Police
Dead
Several important Cases Decided
the Past Week
Until rie, Okla.—A much-tangled
leg.-1 controversy over a note for $5,-
416.6V in which William W. Bierce of
Oklahoma (Tty was one of the priti-
j cipals, was finally decided in Bierce's
ban !■ rancisco.— After two dajs and fnv<ir here In the supreme court. Vice-
nights (if silence, Marie Messerschmidt nil(,f Jugtlpe '| urner handed dow n the
the nurse held since last week in con- 1 opinion.
nection with tlit* death of Eva Swan | uict-ce |1U1| n note due ul the Mem
following the finding of the girl's body j pl|jB SlatP National bank. It was taken
beneath the cement flooring of the , U|) an(j pa|(| |,y p a. Porter ol
basement of a vucunt house, confessed | jiemplila, who deposited a check in
to tin police Sunday that she had j pay,lu,„lt ,|P in turn drew a draft on
knowledge of tlie operation performed j merce for the amount paid, and de
by Dr. James (’.rant upon Miss Swan pog|lo(j t|,js draft tu the Memphis
and that site attended the girl after (,ank, an(1 wag credited with it. When
the operation. Doctor Grant was tak- ,|raft arrived In Oklahoma City,
en into custody and later Paul Parker, n|Pr,.P refused lo honor It, on the
former Stanford athlete, who lived in grounds that Porter was indebted to
, the house where Miss Swan roomed, I j,inl, | |ie Tennessee bank then insti
Entire Membership of Illinois Legisla- waB arrested. i (uted suit against Bierce at Oklahoma
ture Will Probably Be Called i The nurse was induced to tell the j (>ity un,| obtained a judgment, and
Chicago, III.—The committee from j storv by her brother-in-law, August fueree, apealing, had this decision ol
the United States senate for the in- | jjOIllall „f Oakland, who visited her at ' ||1(. lower court reversed,
vestlgation of the election of l nited tjje pr|BO„ He showed her a pic- 1 p |s held that the note was paid by
Mine Owners and Miners Signed Pres States Senator William Lorimer of ture of her dead mother, pleading Porter, regardless of the after develop
ent Agreement for Two Years ! Illinois is in session here The idle- w|th h,.r lo teU the police everything, menls.
| nation of Stale Representative t hailes impressing upon her that this would Another opinion by Vice-Chief Jus
A. White, democratic member of the | jje her mother’s wish. The young wo- dee Turner affirmed Hie holding of
Illinois legislature, who swore that j man (a|n|e(| an(| upon her recovery he- ; District Judge Poe in Hie Tulsa park
he paid $1,000 by Minority Leader caniP hysterical. When she was quiet- case. Here Chauneery A. Owen, et
tCopyrigbL^llHM
ALL MINERS NOW WORKING
MINES ARE REOPENED AND NO
MEN ARE IDLE
McAlester, Okla.—The coal miners
resumed work in this field Tuesday
morning Between forty and fifty
Lee O'Neil Browne to vote for Lori-
_______„ _________ . , ed she told the entire story to detec-1 a|.t sued to keep the city of Tula®
mines opened and about 5,000 miners mer for senator, is the principal basis t|ves. j front selling part of a park tract to the
of file charges into which Hie commit Following Hie confession. Doctor Tulsa Vitrified Brick company, and
tee is to inquire. Grant was led from his cell and had their suit thrown out on a de
All the witnesses who were examin- bmuuht into the desk sergeant's office niurrer filed by Hie city. This ruling
ed at the two trials of Minority Lead- j w|,ere Miss Messerschmidt was seated. ! was affirmed by the supreme court, it
er Browne may be asked to repeat j sight of ills nurse. Doctor Grant being held that there is nothing its
their slories before the committee. In ^ away from the jailers and ran Tulsa's charter or the law to pre-
addition it is expected that the great ] a|01Jg n,p prison corridors. He was vent the city from making such dis
chased by policemen and forcibly re- position of the property in question
went lo work. More will come in front
day to day and by next week more
than twice add perhaps three times
this ^lumber will he at work.
The mines were well cleaned up and
all are loading coal with few excep-
tions. There was a strike at Dow I majority. If not all, of the members
Tuesday morning before the work ac I <>f the Illinois legislature who voted
tually began and it is still on. The I for Senator Lorimer may be called
order from the officers of the Unl;t d V*1'" to declare tinder oath their rea-
s3\is foT so voting. The general ini
Mine Workers to the miners was to
go to work, but taht all men who had
turned to the office. He staggered and Owen was the original owner of the
almost sank to the floor when ho twenty-seven acres involved, and con
learned of the nurse’s collapse. tended that he sold it for park pur
In her story. Miss Messerschmidt ; poses only,
said that Paul P. Parker, a young man ' Other cases decided by opinions of
who had known Miss Swan for eight the vice-chief justice last week are
work un mittee which in a criminal trial would year8 jia(j visited the hospital on three as follows: K. A. Sneed, register of
be held not competent.
Bois City in Federal Court
Knid, Okla.—A case which promises
to develop even more sansuttonal dis
closures of methods employed through
the inuils to defraud than the recent
('. L. Jackson case, was begun in the
federal court this week, when J. K.
Stanley, A. J. Kline and H. A. Porter
were placed on trial for conspiracy
to defraud through the mails. The
case originates from a scheme alleged
to have been launched by Kline and
Stanley, (Juthrie real estate men, to
establish a towndte on the arid prai
ries of “No Man’s Land," fifty-seven
miles norm west of Texhoina and sell
lots to people in the east through the
medium of the mails. They called the
town Poise City and hundreds of peo
pie residing in the east bought lots,
is estimated that the defendants
leu red between $75,000 and $80,000
m the deal. Two hundred and fifty
witnesses are here to testify in the
ease.
Judge in Fight at Pryor
Muskogee, Okla.—-Judge A. C. Brew
der, county judge of Mayes county,
shot twice at J M. Hartley on a street
it Pryor Monday, missing him both
times. Hartley then knocked Judge
iirewster down with a heavy club be-
fore they could be separated. Neither
>f the shots struck Bartley und the
wounds inflicted on llrewster by Bart
ley are not believed to be dangerous.
It is not known just what led to the
altercation between Brewster and
Bartley, but it is believed that it was
i matter that had been up before the
jourt a short time ago relative to the
estate of a minor Indian. Hartley was
formerly a druggist, but more recently
has been a carpenter and contractor.
pression is that much testimony will
been working (luring the suspension bo declared admissible before the com-
should not be allowed to
til their cases had been investigated.
The minors demanded that the sup-
erintendent keep out the men who
have been working on some exten-
sions and on his refusal lo do so, they
all refused to work.
Twenty-five hundred miners in the
vicinity of Hartshorne returned to
work Tuesday after an idleness
starting March 21 when all the min-
ers of Hie McAlester district went out
on a strike demanding an increase in
the scale.
AH six of the mines operated by the
Roek Island Coal Mining company,
which are the largest in the district
and give employment to 1,500 men,
are in operation with about 80 per
cent of a full crew. All the mines
of the Halley-Ola company at Hailey-
The investigating committee, which
is a sub committee of the senate com-
mittee on privileges and elections, is
composed of (lie following senators:
’ Chairman, Julius C. Burrows, Mich-
igan, republican; Weldon H. Heyburn,
Idaho, republican; Robert J. Gamble.
South Dakota, republican; William B.
Dillingham, Vermont, republican,
whose place is to be taken by Morgan
G. liulkeley, Connecticut, republican;
James B. Frasier, Tennessee, demo
erat; Thomas H. Paynter, Kentucky,
democrat, and Jos. F. Johnston, Ala-
bama, democrat.
Politics Hurting Trade
Now York.— R. H. Dun & Co s. Week-
ly Review of Trade says: With crops
eggregating large in quantity and val-
ville opened with full crews. Three ue_ jn Bppe cf the reduced yield of
occasions to see the dying girl after deeds vs. Slate of Oklahoma, ex rel.
the operation. The police Immediate- Yoeman & Stuart, Comanche county,
ly took Parker Into custody and placed dismissed; Tribal Development com-
liirn in detinue at the city prison. He pany, et al. vs. White Bros., McClain
admitted the visits lo the hospital to county, dismissed, G. E. Rider vs. E.
see Miss Swan, but strongly denied A. Morgan, Marshall county, re-
anv responsibility for her condition, versed.
Later he gave the police a detailed ac-1 ----
count of his acquaintance with Miss Gas Association After Pipe Line
Swan. | Tulsa, Okie..—E. R. Perry, president
Miss Messerschmidt said she was of ,|ie Oklahoma Oil and Gas Pro
not present at the operation which jUPers association, Wednesday filed
was performed, she said, on. April 16 wm, Die secretary of Interior, specific
of this year at the office of Dr. Grant. c[,arKeg against the oil pipe line com
Following tlie operation Miss Swan re- panies operating ill Hie mid-continent
turned to work at Hie office where she alleging a combination 111 re-
was employed. She was forced to ruint of trade. A similar complaint
leave her work on April 20 because of wag „|g() died with Attorney Genera
illness ami went lo Dr. Grant. She wicket-sham, asking that the depart-
was placed in bed in the small hospital men, 0f justice investigate the rela
ward maintained by the doctor. There tionehitj of the companies. The deparl-
of the MIlby * Dow company's mines Xat with polities becoming ^ re™ln?? f;'r len,day9' h"r condl; ment of .he interior is urged to inves
..... ... spring witrai, wun pouiit s ue onitiig . prnHimllv heenmine worse, until .......huruu with u view of con
at Dow remain idle because of the BO intense an(j uncertain as to make
refusal of the union miners lo go to enterprise timid, and with the rail-
work. The miners charge that the j roads and shippers engaged in a dispute
company has employed men in viola- over rates, the business outlook is mix-
tion of an agreement. j Pd, trade reaction being very plain in
An era of good feeling and good some important directions, while at
business began Tuesday. Practically ! the same lime there are streaks of pro
all of the miners who had left the gress and activity. It 1b, as a whole, a
district have returned and the mines waiting situation with little to encour-
tlon gradually becoming worse, until ,jKate the charges with a view of con
death brought relief. j serving the interests of the Indians
According to Miss Messerschmidt, 1 w|1() |liUP royalty rights; to make pub
the girl died during (he night while
alone. She was found dead in bed in
the morning.
end of the week.
Another Heavyweight Battle
i tions' now doubtful or unsettled, be-
j come more clearly defined.
Over Niagara Falls in Steel Barrel
Niagara Falls, Ont.—Bobby Leech,
. .... , , . , , , , „ ,, of Niagara Falls, Ont., went through
b,* ™_ntn? ful‘ capacity by the age^speculanve enterprise until condl ,he thunderln(? whir|pnol rapids In a
steel barrel Saturday afternoon, hav-
ing started from Maid of the Mist
landing. He drifted about in the whirl-
pool fifty-five minutes before friends
i■auglil his barrel and pulled it ashore.
The currents swept him fiercely on
over the route five times traveled by
Graham in a similar manner; once by
Margaret Wagenfuhrer on September
6. 1910, and by pretty Maud Willard on
September 7, 1910, when she went to
death in a barrel that drifted about in
the pool for five hours.
Boston. Mass.—Jack Johnson, the Prominent Arkansans In Pistol Duel
champion heavyweight, agreed Wed- \ Little Hock, Ark.—-W. R. Griffith, a
nesday lo meet Sam Langford at a lo- I prominent citizen, was shot and fatal
cal newspaper office to arrange for a lly wounded Friday by Richard John-
battle. The announcement came as a
sequel to a sharp discussion between
the two men at the Armory Athletic
club. Johnson signified his willing-
ness to meet Langford for a purse of
$20,000.
son, a well known young man. Griffith
was formerly deputy state treasurer.
The tragedy is a sequel to a shooting
affray between the two men four
months ago in which Johnson was se
riotisly wounded.
Woman Defeats Jail Deliver^
Fredonia, Kan.—Courage on the part
of Mrs. C. P. Lopeman, wife of Deputy
Sheriff Lopeman, prevented a Jail de-
livery here Tuesday. Mrs. Lopeman
Others were carried I from her home near the jail saw two
Into the raging stream with the wreck- | negro prisoners climb through a cell
•ge, and it was many hours befeye
tbelr bodies could be recovered.
Aeroplanes to Rise Two Miles
New York.—The offer of a special
Indian Policeman Killed
Marlow, Okla.—Thos. Lee, a Chick-
asaw Indian and a member of Hie po-
lice force of the Chickasaw Nation,
To Tour United States Against War
Washington. I). 0.—Dr. Karl Lieb
knecht, social democratic member of
the German reichstag, is coming to
America in October to tell us about an
ti-militarism, a movement spreading
window from which the bars had been ranldlv in Eurone Thp hnttle aeainst "'"‘g " " "l“c” ”*
Th. „ *1,1 _a „„„ aplul> ln *,'ur°Pe lne Dame against Marlmv wag arrPgted and taken to Jail
sawed. The head of a third was pro |a being waged with as muoh
truding. She rushed into the house, „
. fierceness and determination as anv
got a gun, and. running toward the , , , ., .
jail, fired one shot. The prisoner in baUI° ,n war- LlebknWh (recently
the window changed his mind and i spent 18 months in prison because the
crawled back. The noise of the shot> government of the kaiser objected to
lie the findings of Special inspector
Clark McKercher, who conducted, last
winter, an investigation of conditions
in the Held.
Suicides Because Sued for Divorce
Sayre, Okla.—Worried over culmln
ating matrimonial difficulties, J. V
Kready, one of (lie pioneers of Sayre
blew his brains out with an automata
revolver near his home Wednesday,
the day for the hearing of a divorce
petition recently filed by his wife. The
body was found by his daughter, lie
had told her of his intention lo put
tin end to his troubles. The first wife
of Kready killed herself here about
four years ago. He was married again
to Daisy Trimble, who sued for divorce
anti a share in his estate to the amount
of $10,000.
Santa Fe Fined for Act of Agent
Guthrie, Okla.—The corporation
commission Monday fined the Santa
Fe $600 for Hie action of ils agent at
New Charter at McAlester
McAlester, Okla.—The first election
under a new charter providing for a
-ommission form of government was
held here Tuesday. An effort was
made to keep the election out of poli-
ties. Leading citizens nominated a
ticket composed of republicans and
democrats. The democrats and repub
Beans each nominated straight party
tickets, the latter being withdrawn
Saturday. The democrats elected their
whole ticket, majorities ranging from
69 to 115. Pete Hanraty, defeated
candidate for chief mine inspector,
was elected Mayor. H. F. Shrelner
and Wallace Bond commissioners. Ne-
groes were not allowed lo vote.
was shot and killed on Main street: Alvard on the night of March 9, 1910.
here Saturday. Charles Harris, a
larmer living a few miles northeast of
at Duncan Lee was about 40 years
old and leaves a family. Harris is
about the same age and married.
15,000 prize to Ihe aviator who will rise
ten thousand feet at the coming inter- j al-ougP(j the nighbors who pursued and j his book which calls war murder.
national meet to be held here in the
closing fortnight of October has
brought, news to the Aero Club of
America that continental airmen and
army officers are considering it with
the closest attention. The aviators
will rise dressed for Arctic cold. They
will wear a snug suit of leather lined
with fur and a helmet like that of a
diver with small breathing holes over
the forehead and around the sides of
the face. The front will be closed by
a concave glass which will allow free
observation. The ears will be left ex-
oosed to catch the clatter of the motor.
captured the two who had run away.
Shoots Paramour; Then Hangs Self
Cleveland, Ohio—B. W. Gates, a
prosperous business man of Detroit,
hanged himself in the county jail here
Thursday after being arrested for tho
shooting of Mrs. Fred Singer, who had
Would Set Aside $2,000,000 Will Sued Circus Because Didn’t See Clown
New York.—Suit to set aside the Enid, Okla.—Because he "was forced
will of John Wallace, a former stock | to sit in a seat In which he could not been with him to a road itouse on the
exchange member, who left an estate J jjpg,. jjje j0]<Pg 0f the clowns," County outskirts of Cleveland the night he-
valued at $2,000,000 was begun Mon--I AUorney H. G. MeKeever Instituted
day in the name of hi. son Allen Wnl. for $600 the Sells Ploto
lure, a great grandson of Commodore
Vanderbilt, who received only $750,000 jcompany. When MeKeever
ns his inheritance. It is believed at to get the seats he had pur-
the time he executed the will the elder chased for himself and wife an eat
Wallace was of unsound mind. On j ploye of the show insulted him. Me-
the application of his wife Allen Wal-
lace was adjudged as Incomp.tent
several months ago.
Keever relented when the ease came
to trial and it. was dismissed at the
cost of the circus.
fore.
Reward for Shepherd Murderers
Newkirk, Okla—On a petition signed
by many citizens of this place Gover-
nor Haskell has offered a reward of
$800 for the apprehension and deliv-
ery to Ihe sheriff of Kay county the
person or persons committing ths
murder of the Shepherd brothers.
The three-eent rate was to go back
into force at midnight, and the agent,
disregarding the order of the commis-
sion, requiring the ticket window
open before triin time, kept the win-
dow shut until ten minutes to train
time, and after Hie time Hmt tickets
could have been sold, ills desire to
save the line the difference between
the two-cent and three-eent rate tick
ets occasioned Ihe fine for contempt.
Refuse All but Individual Contracts
Checotah, Okla.—Iron-clad uniform
romal contracts were prepared lately
by an association of landlords in Mc-
Intosh county to be used >n renting
their lands .next year, but at the re-
cent farmers’ convention which was
held here, such contracts were turned
down absolutely by the renting farm-
ers. All members of Hie fanners or-
ganization have decided to sign only
such contracts that may fit thalr in
dividual cases.
Oklahomans Get Premiums
Cheyenne, Okla.—Seven persons
from Roger Mills county this week
were grunted premiums on exhibits
at Ihe Texas Oklahoma fair at Cana
dian, Texas. T. C. Moore got pre-
miums on eighteen farm products, F.
A. Beaver or milo maize, J. O. GnutB
on oats and w’heat, Mrs. A. X. Brace
>n parsnips, Mrs. Jack Neeley on an
pies, James I’orter on peaches and
Mrs. h A. Beaviu on Barred Plymouth
Rock chickens.
Eldorado to Have Water Works
Eldorado, Okla—At a recent election
bonds were votd for the installation of
i water system. Only six votes were
cast against the proposition. The trus
ees w ill advertise for bids ami award
i contract for the installation of the
system at once.
Infant Swallows Rusty Screw
Tulsa, Okla.—As a result of swal
lowing a rusty screw, over one inch
long, the seven-month-old child of Mrs.
George iiautman of this city is at the
point of death. The screw is lodged
in the intestines and an operation
probably will he made in an effort to
save the youngster's life.
$10,000 Fire at Springer
Ardmore, Okla.—Flames Saturday
destroyed the postoftice at Springer,
together with a blacksmith shop, gen-
eral merchandise store of Sellers and
company and the Woodmen of the
World, Masonic and Odd Fellows hail,
located over the Seller and company
store. For a time the entire business
section of the town was threatened
with destruction. The total loss is
about $10,000, with insurance for
about half that amount.
High Broom Corn Price
Elk City. Okla.—Elk City broom
corn buyers claim Hie distinction of
having paid more for that product this
year than the buyers of any other town
in the atate. 11 « I...... P ‘"1
was $117 a ton.
Haskell Honors Arkansas Requisition
Oklahoma City, Okla. — Governor
Haskell Thursday honored a requisi-
tion from Arkansas, for Chnrles Kil-
gore, who is under arrest at Hugo,
charged with disposing of mortgaged
property In Little Klver county, Ar-
kansas.
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