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THE PITTSBURG ENTERPRISE
VOL. YU.
IMTTsm no. OKIiA., THI KSPAY. AUGUST 24, 1011.
NO. 33.
STRIKE IS ON
in emo
MEN TIE UP ALL RAILROAD LINES
COMPLETELY
CONGRESSMAN THMfcS F. K0H0P~| EXECUTIVE IS
PROBING DEEP
ARMY IS ON THE MOVE
Practically a State of War Prevails,
and Grave Fears Felt That Blood-
shed Will Follow the Going
Out of Railway Employes
Number of railway employes, 500,•
000.
Number of union employes expected
to go out ;.t once, 125,000,
Daily losses lu wages to employes,
*125,000.
Daily loss in traffic receipts to com-
panies, estimated at $325,000. or 50
per cent of usual receipts.
Total railroad mileage lu United
Kingdom, 24,000.
Capital' invested in English rail-
roads, $t,575,000,000.
There are fifteen companies iu Eng-
land and Wales, five in Scotland and
seven in Ireland.
London—The great railway war is
on. An order calling out all the union
employes of the railroads of Great
Britain, in numbers betweeu 125,000
and 150,000, but involving a total of
500,000 men, was issued Thursday aft-
ernoon, after all attempts to avert It
bad failed.
“War has been declared, and war it
will be," was the slogan of the union
leaders.
No sooner had the strike order been
Issued than the war office began or-
dering soldiers under way to protect
property of the railroads and to help
them run their trains. A number of
railroad employes had gone out earlier
In the day without orders from the
general union, and it was estimated
that when the order became effective
fully 100,000 men were out.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
soldiers, practically the entire home
army, were under m'archlitg orders
Thursday. Three thousand troops
with 52,000 rounds of ammunition and
twelve powerful machine guns wore
brought into London. All of the mil-
itary preparations for the strike had
been made.
Not only were soldiers moved to
London, but there was activity in all
the military stations and soldiers were
on the move to all centers where a
railroad strike might precipitate vio-
lence or cut off the nation's food sup-
ply.
GOVERNOR LEE CRUGE WANTS
FACTS NOT MUCKRAKING
Press Day at State Fair
Oklahoma City.—Announcement has
Jjust been made that Saturday, Sep-
tember 30, will be Press Day at the
Oklahoma State Fair. While the latch
string will be out every day of the big
exposition for the publishers, Secre-
tary I. S. Mahan says that he wants
a big reunion of the nten who makes
the newspapers of Oklahoma, on the
special dn.v set aside for them.
In selecting Saturday, Mr. Mahan,
says that he believes that day will
afford the greatest number an appor-
tunity to come to Oklahoma City. Most
of the publishers, especially the week-
lies, get out their papers on Thurs-
day, and the Secretary of the fair
wants them to leave at once for Okla-
homa City, so lhat they can reach the
fair grounds early Saturday morning.
While a program has not been out-
courtesy will be extended the publish-
ers. It Is proposed to make them have
tile time of their lives.
Socialist Secretary Resigns
Milwaukee, Wis.—J. Mahlen Barnes,
secretary of the national socialist par-
ty, has resigned. Mr. Barnes' action
followed an attack on his personal
character by a lawyer and a preacher
in Chicago.
Nominated for congress by the Democrats In s district considered safe-
ly Republican, Thomas F. Konup of Kewaunee, Wis., was elected last autumn
by a plurality of five votes. He represents the Ninth district. Mr. Konop
was born In Kewaunee county in 1879, and has been a school teacher and a
lawyer He married Madge L. Nolan in 1905. and has one daughter and three
TWO MORE AVIATORS
PRESIDENT TAFT VETOES
LOSE LIVES AT CHICAGO ARIZONA-NCiW MEXICO BILL
- -- - - ■ - --—■■ -jy-t»~. * — . —
Johnstone Drowned in Lake Michigan Returns Measure With Message De-
and Badger Killed Beneath Ma-
chine in Fall on the Feld
Chicago.—Two aviators, William R.
Badger of Pittsburg and St. Croix
Johnstone, of Chicago, both young
men, lost their lives at the Interna-
tional aviation meet here. In dying
both revealed the frailly of the craft
In which two score more aviators were
curving and gliding about in the air,
with scarcely a pause for the deaths
of their contemporaries.
Death in both cases was due to un-
explained accidents, probably the re-
sults of unsuspected defects in the
mechanism of the machines, and was
in no way enused by carelessness nor
daring He Cannot Approve the
Vicious Recall Provision
Washington.—becturlng it is his duty
to disapprove the judicial recall clause
of the Arizona constitution, and assert-
ing that "an untrammeled judiciary Is
the corner-stone o! a good govern-
ment,” President Taft sent to the house
of representatives his expected veto
message on the resclutluu admitting
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood.
“I return herewith, without my up
MEIER IS EIRST WITNESS
Hearing of Charge* Preferred by D*
posed Professors it Under Way
and Will Continue Umtl They
are Thoroughly Probed
Oklahoma City—Airing of the
rhurgeR Hgainst the state hoard of
education was commenced Thursday '
afternoon In a ptibli*: heading b« loro !
Governor I'ruce. l)r. Henry Meier, |
deposed by the board an head of the
department of German at the state
p*Mversity, who is now employed in
same department at Vanderbilt
university, Nashville, Tenti., was the
only witness examined at the lir^t
session. His direct examination was
concluded just before adjournment.
He will bb subjected to cross-examiua-
tion when the hearing is resumed.
It is not expected that any of the
other witnesses will take up an much
time as did Meier, as he is the chief
witness for the prosecution. It was
he who made the investigations and
obtained the affidavits ou which the 1
opponents of the hoard are relying
primarily in the hearing. Meier testi-
fied iu regard to hia own dismissal,
without a hearing and without
charges, and also related the result of
his investigations in regard to Lynn
Glover, now president of the Tonkawa
preparatory school, and Paris Pern-
well, selected financial agent of the
state university to succeed NY. W.
Williams.
Governor Cruce had stated at the
beginning of the hearing that this is
not to be a “muckraking proposition"
and that ho woun1 n*»t consider
charges against the character of any
employe of a state school unless it
could bo shown that members of the
board knew of conditions at the time
*.x; ointment was made. Meiers
testimony was calculated to s$iOw that
such knowledge was inthe possession
of some members of the board in
both of those cases.
The hearing was opened with a
statement from Governor Cruce, in
which lie announced that he would
not be bound by technical rules of
evidence, but would try to get at the
facts in any manner possible, so far
as they affect members of the board.
103*181 ACRES OF STATE
LAND ARE AS YET UNSOLD
Total of 168.354 Acre* In Public Build*
ing Tracts Have Been Disposed
of—Statement In Detail
Oklahoma City—Johu H. Williams,
secretary to the school land commis-
sioners, lias prepared a detailed state-
ment in regard to the condition of pub-
lic building lands and the public build
ing fund, showing that the original
number of acres was 271,636.57, of
i which 168,354.28 have been sold, leav-
ing 103,281.73 still unsold. The land
sold was appraised at $2,610,598.80 and
the improvements on it at $1,034,*
284.54. The laud was sold for $3,104,*
880.70, an increase of $493,781.70 over
the appraisement. The initial pay-
ment ou the land sold amounted to
$163.6s7.69. and $26,503.37 has been
received so far on the tlrst InstaP-
tnent of the deferred payment, leaving
$2,914,189.64 still due.
There will be 70,314.35 acres of pub-
lic building land included in the next
sale, appraised at $1,376,388.57 and
with improvements appraised at $547,1
396 97. There are still 32.967.37 acres
not sold and not included in the next
sale, which are appraised at
712.60.
TWO ARE DEAD
ONE IS INJURED
SCHOOL DISTRICT FEUD ENDS
IN PITCHED BATTLE
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED
Inefficiency of Ownership Certificate
Questioned by One Contestant,
Words Follow, and the Quar-
rel Ends Fatally
Chuk.iKliu, Okia.—As the result of
a school district fend iu McClain coun-
ty iu the Washington school district
twenty miles east of Chickasba, Will
Aury and Tom McClendon, two school
olficerB and wealthy intermarried cit-
Izcns of that section are dead and Dr.
J. H. Colby of Purcell, Okia., is under
arrest. Colby was wounded iu the
$2(!l shooting scrape which occured there.
The trouble grew eut of a school
The total amount of rent collected ! feud and lawsuit over possession of
from the public building lands Is *992, «» «c» of ground upon which the
905.03. The expense baa l...... *«»,- achoolhoua* of that oommnnltr atta.
473 04, and the amount of money re F. W. Loder originally owned the
turned $1,477.05. leaving the net re- laud ami guve a certificate before
celpts from the rents $854,954.94. The statehood to the district, relinquish-
interest collected from deferred pay ! i»g bis claim to the land and donutlng
merits has amounted lo $«4,662.61. , H to the school. H. B. Glencoe pur-
There Is $3,846.50 of Interest now past chased the hind and refused to recog-
due and $139,207.4(5 that will be duo
and payable during the next twelve
months.
Studies Training Schools
Oklahoma City—K. B. Nelson, su-
perintendent of th e slate training
; school at Pauls Valley, has been sent
' east by lie* slate hoard of education
| lo study the training schools of other
! states and will visit Chicago, New
ltize the certificate as a title or own-
ership. He mortgaged the land for a
considerable amount, the deed show-
ing the entire acreage Including tlm
land where the school house Btood. Dr.
.1 II. Colby of Purcell purchased the
mortgage and recently took possession
of the land. He refused to acknowl-
edge any right of the Washington
school district to the land and at-
tempted to build a house on the aere
of land held by the community aB
York and other of the large cltlea of school property. The Judge of the dls-
Uie country before returning. triot court of McClain county enjoined
| Colby from building the house and
again issued an injunction against his
fencing the school land. **
No deed Is held by the school di-
rectors for the property, but the
court has ruled that the land shall be
Made Money at 2c
Oklahoma City.—That the M. K. & T.
proval,' says the president, “house joint 1 railroad derived a greater revenue
resolution No. 14, 'to admit the terri- | from its passenger business in Okia-
tories of New Mexico and Arizona as homa while the 2-ceut rate was in ef-
states into the union on an equal foot- feet here Ilian It did In Texas with «
lack of responsibility of the aviators, ing with the original states.' I 3-cent rate, Missouri with a rate of
Badger, a wealthy youth, came to his “If I sign this joint resolution, I do 2'2 cents and Kansas with a 2-cent
death In a pit in the aviation field, not see how I can escape responsibility rate, is shown In an exhibit filed with
There had been a flaw In one of the for the judicial recall of the Arizona the corporation commission liy the
wings of the propeller of the Baldwin constitution.
machine he drove. Centrifugal force | "This provision of the Arizona con*
Rule Is Flexible
Oklahoma City- The county clerk of
I Woods county notified the state auili-
j tor's office that the county coinrais-
’sionvvtf “'”t co>i»*t V-had made wu
1 order directing him to apportion tm»
$4,0u0,00(i increase made by the state
board of equalization on the valuation
| of Woods county over all classes of
j property except money and credits,
I without regard to the Increases or de-
1 creases in the various classes made
ay the state board. He was advised
that the commissioners hud authority
to apportion tho Increase only within
'ho class for which the increase was
! made and could not change the total
I for each class fixed by the state
! board.
by 'lie district. Several suits are
penning in the case In tho district
court of McClain comity.
Dr. Colby rebuilt tho fence around
the school property Friday night und
Saturday morning the nows of this
spread. Members of the school
board, atneng them Autry and McClen-
don, with many of the patrons of the
district, went to the school property
to demand redress from Colby. Colby
was there with a loaded shotgun.
A fight ensued in which Will Autry
and Tom McClendon received injuries
of such a nature as to result in their
death. Autry died almost Instantly.
Both were intermarried cltlens and
wealthy innd owners of that commu-
nity.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
GATHERING AT CAPITAL
Quarantine Line To Be Moved Up
Oklahoma City—That more of Okla-
homa will be placed above the federal
quarantine line this year than in any
previous year since the work of tick
extermination was started, is the
opinion of Frank Ikard, superinten-
dent of live stock inspection for the
state board of agriculture, who was
In Shaw-nee for a conference with
the county inspectors In Pottawat-
omie county in regard to the work
now being done in that county. Two
townships have already been placed
above the federal line and the clean-
up work is now going on over about
half of the county, with very satis-
factory results.
Rice Crop Ruined
Pekin—Five hundred persons are
homeless and 3,000,000 more are men-
aced with starvation as a result of
terrific floods that have been raging
for two days iu the province of Anhui.
The water has washed out 235,000
acres of rice and there is no hope of
an autumn crop. This is the worst
agricultural disaster that China ever
has suffered.
broke the propeller, upset the delicate
equilibrium of the machine and Badger
dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the
pit, his neck being broken.
Johnstone fell 500 feet under his en-
gine and was drowned in Lake Michi-
gan as the result of an equally unsus-
pected defect. Caught under the heavy
engine in the Moisant monoplane, he
was carried deep into the lake
To Dismiss Indictments
San Francisco.—The district court
of appeals of the First district Issued
a peremptory writ of mandamus to
compel Superior Judge William P. Law-
ler to dismiss indictments pending
against Patrick Calhoun, Thornwell
Mullalay, Tirey L. Ford and William
M. Abbott, charged wfth bribing the
Reuf-Schmitz supervisors in connec-
tion with the United Railroads trolley
franchise.
Married a Day; Elopes
Hammond. Ind.—After having been
married but a day to Paul Possln of
j Chicago Heights, Miss Rutli Gilmore
| of Rennsaeler, Ind., 17, met her girl-
! hood sweetheart, Gossie Brown of
| Renssaeler, 18 years old, and eloped
with 1dm. PosBin is 48 years old. a
stitution, in its application to county
and state judges, seems to me so per-
nicious in its effects, so restrictive of
independence to the judiciary, so likely
to subject the rights of the individual
to the possible tyranny of a popular
majority, and therefore to be so in-
jurious to the cause of free govern-
ment, that I must disapprove a consti-
tution containing it."
The president in vigorous language
condemns any legislation that would
place restrictions upon the Judiciary,
declaring that the majority cannot al-
line. The exhibit was a part of sta-
tistics compiled by the road for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, and
was filed in connection with the pro-
posed order of the commission regulat-
ing grain and hay rate.
Commission Asks More Information
Oklahoma City—The corporation
commission of Okianoina has issued a
j cilation to all railroads of Oklahoma
| to appear before it and give evidence
| regarding their physical valuations,
j the figures to he used in the annual
; report of the commission. Officials
______ , , , , . , ,, .. , of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe line
ways be trusted to decide questions of . , ’ . . .
___ , ,, ,, , v , . i were before the commission recently
moment for all the people, and asserts
, „ , , , , , but owing to changes under way in the
that the recall is pernicious in its of- ,, ; ,
. ........ , . , , . ; roadbed, they were unable to give
the ii'nllciarv Hk l m el,eju ®nc® "''the desired information. They were
the judiciary.Jikely to subject the right | agked by ,he commigBlon to ,ubmlf
Worms Damage Cotton
Oklahoma City—Letters have been
received by the board of agriculture
from Canute announcing the appear-
ance there of a worm resembling in
a general way the army worm, which ~~~
. , . , .1 De egaton* From M Parts of the
is playing havoc wilh the cotton. „ J _______
Samples of the pest which were sent
in will be forwarded to tho state ento-
mologist at Stillwater for expert ad-
vice as to best stops to take in its
extermination.
Ardmore Eond Issue
Country Arrive in Oklahoma City
For National Encampment
Oklahoma City.—Delegates to the
eighth annual encampment of the
United Spanish war veterans to the
number of 1,000 strong entered Okla-
homa City on a peaceful invasion Sat-
. , urdav night und Sunday, and at the
resolution! »«• ™ T "“V t
, ,, , riving it is indicated that double that
calling for a bond issue of $50,000 to , ... . , , . . ,,
number will have registered by Mon-
day night. As Is ever the case, the
gates of the metropolis of the state
have been swung wide In welcome to
the guests all of whom are pleased
supplement the water supply with a
system of deep wel't.
Lankford Begins Suit
of the individual to the tyranny of a
popular majority, and injurious to the
cause of free government.''
data before October 1.
Oklahoma City—Suit has been com- over their selection of Oklahoma City
menced in tho district court by J. D. j us the 1911 convention city.
Lankford, state bank commissioner, Sunday night hundreds of the vlsl-
agttinst Dr. J. M. Posteilo to collect tors attended the reception at the
$2,000, the par value of twenty shares I.ee-Huckins, tendered by Mrs. Ida
1 of stock in the Planters and Mechanics t M. Galloway, president of the gener-
I bank, held by the latter. • il Auxiliary, and members of her
--; staff.
Injuncv.cn In irrigation Row
Publicity Agreed Upon Oklahoma City—Secretary Ben Hen-
Washington—The senate without | ncssey of the stale hoard of agricul
division or discussion agreed to the ; ture lias been served with notice of
conference report on the campaign j injunction proceedings in the Gay,
publicity bill and the report was pro Hardin and Berry irrigation cases
sented to the house, action being de- from Olustee, in which an order was
Terred until sometime later. The asked to enjoin him from making any
widower and has three children. He measure then will be ready for the i final order in regard to the water
had only known the girl a week and president’s signature. The bill as : rights asked in those cases. The case
says it was a case of love at first sight agreed to by the conferees includes was dismissed iu the lower court, but
Amusement Park Burned
Cincinnati, O.—Fire which is thought
to have originated from a pan of
grease in the kitchen of the club house
at Chester Park, rn amusement resort,
destroyed many amusement buildings
and spread rapidly to two lumber
yards adjoining. Loss $175,000.
Incendiary Burns Horses
Dodge City, Kan.—While Jot McCar-
ty, a farmer living three miles nortli
of here, was in Dodge City to attend a
circus unknown parties drove seven
head of his horses from the pasture
into his barn and set fire to the struc-
ture. All the horses were burned to
death, while the barn was a total loss.
tha senate amendment extending the
requirement for publicity of campaign
expenses to primary and special elec-
tions and nominating conventions as nection with it.
well as to general elections. The
amendment limits candidates for sen
atnr to a campaign expenditure of
will be appealed and the whole ques- j
tion of the determination of water
rights may be threshed out in con-
Requisition Issued For Pub,;e Ownership
Oklahoma ( Ity A requisition has Washington.—Senator I/tFollette
been Issued on Governor Colquitt of introduced a resolution for the owner-
Texas for W. A. Savage, wanted in . ship of railways, docks and terminals
Grady county on a charge of obtain- ; jn Alaska by the government of tho
ing money under false pretenses, j territory, these utilities to be In
Savage Is charged with defrauding charge of a board of public works ap-
Bob Boswell out of $2a on a worthless i pointed by the presideu* Ho an-
cbeck on the Amarillo Bank and Trust 1 pounced he would speak on the reso-
company of Amarillo, Texas. He is i ]lltjon Monday. Senator LaFollette’s
now under arrest at Sun Antonio, ntcasure bears on the Controller Bay
Tex. J and Alaska railroad incident that has
v--; figured In various ways before con-
gress, In connection with the alleged
attempt of Guggenheim interests to
First Cotton at Hugo
West In St. Paul
$10,000 and candidates for represen 1 Oklahoma City—Attorney General
tatives to $5,000.
Blacksmith Arrested
Columbia, Mo.—Ed Brooks, a black
smith and suspect war arrested and is
In the Boone county jail to await trial
on a charge of sending threatening
letters to J. W. Brockman, wealthy
farmer, in an endeavor to extort
$10,000.
Charles West is in St. Paul to attend
a meeting of the committee recently
named at a conference of the attor-
ney general of the state now involved
iu litigation over tho two-cent pas-
senger fare. This committee is to
agree on a uniform plan of action for
all of the states concerned, so that
they can render mutual assistance
and support In these cases.
Hugo, Okia. Hugo received her first acqU|re a monoooly In *bat section
bale of 1911 cotton Monday, brought in 1
by S. C. Conder, who brought the first
bale last year one week later. Tho
bale weighed 400 pounds and sold for
Hogs Average 212!/2 Pounds
Red Rock, Okia.-The best carload
of hogs seen in Noble county this yeur
was brought in by Sam Carpenter and
sold to W. T. Donahoe. There were
seventy-six head, averaging 2121i
pounds in weighL
in cents a pound
Five Perish; Loss $1,000,000
Frankfort, Germany.—The Opel
Sewing machine and bicycle factory
at Husselheiin was destroyed by fire
early Sunday morning. Five person*
perished In the flames and many were
injured. Loss more than $1,000,000.
President Signs Publicity Bill
Washington.—The campaign pub-
licity bill was signed by President
TafL
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